NEWSOF THE WEEK. —The forest fires continue in the country around Memphis. Many gin hones have been burned in the dis- tricts of Mississippi and Arkansas, bor- dering on the river, been destroyed, and communication with the St. louis is now Forest City, Arkansas, Steamers have ceased to run on the river at night, owing to a dense smoke, which prevails from Vicksburg to a distance of about G00 miles northward, A wind storm prevailed on the 19th, which, it 18 feared, must have caused the des- truction of many dwellings of planters, especially in Arkansas, but days must elapse before anything can be learned. Prayers for rain were offered in nearly all the 20th. —Two freight trains collided ou the Cairo, Vincennes and Chicago Rail road, near Vienna, Illinois, on the afternoon of the 20th, The two engines and eight cars were smashed. Daniel Collard and Frank Barton, the engi- neers, Richard Walker, a brakeman, and a fireman named Killed. — ACOD York, was down the laces In New he 21st, by falling at his warel Jouse. D. Weleh, a traveling or Chicago seed taken to Waukegan, Illinois, on 1 1 gone outd nad GUUCK The snow si of ad on t elevator shaft W. Wh remains of san 1 sale were house, pariLy for ind two hundred Hugh I’. Dunn, a dry goods of Augusta, Georgia, died from injuries received by being tl from his wagon the day before, il well known “Infirm {uated about three miles west of Findl Ohio, caught fire on ternoon t 22st. All the f(r: buildings in the vicinity were destroy- ed, and the same eévenin ] thirty thousand barrel tanks of oil caught The well and tanks are owned by Duke & Myers, and they have po in fiatzka, has been arres:ed the charge of killing his Gilman, aged 11 years, NaS boat | the merc hant 1 the 21st Of wk yards from shore, rown ~The oO as ary No. 1, ay, of il surance. — August in Chicago on step-son, Max The boy came home on the even the 21st, after a three months’ sence, and Hatzka whipped him with a strap which had a buckle on it, The boy was found dead in his s bed on the morning of the 22d, and his face and body are covered with marks of strap. The boy’s mother is dead, dead body of Miss Priscill: fund on the 20th in the woods op tl Indiana of the Wabash river, near Allendale, Illinois, Hex was terribly lacerated. The last. seen in the company er, his wife Alice and Simon Mull Millers claim to have no Knowl- the man ner of ng th oy were all t i 3. Mille i. “Jerry, shot PUK side irl girl was + ' wie gir oo drunk ol a0 n arrests a notorious rot plano Stargis, igh, was a OD piayer In dance Dak., or 1 * ts £f vie nti taik ol present to the slayer.” ] keeper 41000 : {4 ee, allack MH. an ex-convict 3 in Hopkins- , Kentucky, ot evening of the L, and his money demanded. Sig to give 1 p | his money, the im dead, and then escaped. A despatch from Anna says the forest fires are still nity. The hu 19th scattered them over a territory than formerly, and be almost impossible to cheek them, Several farm buildings bave been burned. Bridges, trees and telegraph poles on the lines of both the Illinois Oentral and Mobile and Ohio Railroads have been burned and traffic is consid. erably delayed. It is stated woods are oo fire for a radius of fifty miles In every direction from Cairo, but no damage 15 reported beyond the burning of 8 few fences and some un- gathered corn. The smoke from the burning forest is very dense and inter- rupts naviagation on the river to a great extent, Thesky at Memphis and St. Louis continued obscured on the 22d by smoke from the forest fires in the country south and west of those cities, These flres are especially destruc- tive in the region between Memphis and Birmingham, Alabama. Henry Koch, fifty years old, an in- mate of the Lancaster county, Penna., prison, awaiting trial on the charge of obtaining money on false ppetences, committed suicide on the 22d by hang- ing himself. ~—Gilbert Carter, aged 77 years, his wife, an invalid, about the same age, and Mrs. John Pepper, housekeeper, were asphyxiated in their sleeping rooms mn their home in Hudson, New York, on the evening of the 2Zlst, by gas from a coal stove, There are but slight hopes of their recovery. ~ A plece of gas pipe, ten inches long, plugged with bard wood and with a partly burned fuse inserted In & vent hole, was found among the leaves in the yard of Governor Ogiesby’s house, in Springfield, Illinois, on the 2lat, The police tested the supposed bomb by throwing it into a fire, and discov- ered that it was empty. A gas-pipe bomb, six inches in length and of the usual description. was found on the doorstep of Upited States Marshal Marsh's house, In Chicago. It was turned over to the police. A bomb was found on the evening of the 22d, in the Times office at Cincinnati, It was under a type-writer case, and consisted of a four inch piece of gas pipe plugged at both ends, and with fuse attached, How it got there Is unknown. ~The official returns of the vote of Ohio for Governor were on the 22d, given out from the Secretary of State's He- raging inds on i wi ! wi v i the @ office in Columbus: Foraker, can, received 356,937 votes; Powell, Democrat, 333,205; Seitz Union-Labor, } 24,712; Sharp, Prohibition, 29,700, Foraker’s plurality, 23,732. The total vote cast was 746,636. -—The local election In Rhode Island, was held on 2 There was no choice for Mayor, the | vote for that office standing: Robbins, | 4237; McNally, 3112: Miller, 1244; | Blodgett, 288. A majority is required | to elect, and another ¢ slection must be | called within ten days, and then also a majority will be required to elect. The Common Council stands: Republicans, 29: Democrats, 11. Aldermen—Re- publicans, 8; Democrats, 2. —A telegram from Plainfield, Indi- ana, says a most startling report was received irom Fisher's Station, a small village 18 miles northeast of there, on the morning of the 22d, say- ing that since the opening of a natural gas well at that place a few days ago, there had been a perceptible settlement of the earth of several inches, and that the whole population of the village and surrounding country are terrified be- yond description. —Major A. M. Way, the defaulting secretary of the Empire Bullding Loan | | Association, in New Brunswick, New | Jersey, was arrested in Brooklyn, on {the 22d. All over $2058 of the asso- { elation’s claim The total | Providence, the 2 is outlawed. { loss of the association through Way's about $19,000. Memphis, of in that Deeare, tl n the bot y destr | defaleation 1s — A des 38¢e, 8 avs atch from the ravages ! 10 abate Arkausas, n | bo’ the pi been almos | ing the pas { has been ¢ lense Lh it has for | eral ment section. in Sur wed du SMOKe 86V- day town | part and { is sti} zh 4 | CEL Li i $1 ti es | the people. Okalona, | great damag ' Okalona ! jes 1 e belr ere | wl } Wiici 3 { bottoms ar | of cattle w cane belt fires are bu the Illinois river in the vicinit: have les of fence dings of v burned irinker, and In his days and and It 1s suppos when he wintered In the burned, For- woods along ually been est in the oupin creek, | and destroyed thou and mii | bui | was dri and some Evans o alue, } to asieep, ‘ores ires have ain broken out in the country around West Vig gin a. The Hames | have approached to wi a quarter o le of the city on the vortieat de. | and there has been much destructic { fences, hay and other crops | dense pall of smi has ure sun for several There has po rain in that for ses ne Was {| AL t Charleston, i & ml of obsc Ke d LAYS, section nths, — William Meye and attemg zed nd daughter, in i ie y 10 the i to give any ns. Mrs, Myers At v KT % iL was An who ' i? "rr Reser ing rendered to Jobn ass ntana onious 1t oman, Was Frederick, o'cl upot taker Mary and the morn by a mob, He e was inn it, and that ored man, named Hall, had i cemmitted the crime. Bigus was strung | up to the limb of atree and three pistol | shots were fired into his body. Henry | Gettys, of Lambertville, on the 23d shot and killed Charles Kitchen, at New Hope, Ducks county, Penna. It is as serted that Kitchen was too intimate with Gettys’ wife, Annie Davis, a young woman who left her home in Wilkesbarre some months ago, was { found dying in a house of evil repute in that city on the evening of the 224. She made an ante-mortem declaration, in which she accused a physician criminal malpractice, No names are given, but it is understood that several arrests are to be made, ~The fire In the Calumet and Hecla mine, near Marquette, Michigan, is reported to have spread siong three levels from No. 1 shaft to No. 2, which contain the Hecla main engine, Two blocks of stores in Park Hill, Ontario, owned by Lovett & Gardner, were burned on the 234. l.oss $20,000, —Two men and iy iris were as- phyxiated in the ded@rating shop of James Drown, In ast Liverpool, Obio, on the evening®wf the 23d. A broken pipe let gas mto the room in large quantities and the Inmales were overcome before they could escape, James Amelias and Ela Hill may die, The others will recover, — ty illiam KH, Dorsey, colored, has been arrested in New Yerk for the theit of the ten thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds fromm Mr. Morgan, the banker, on the evening of the 19th, Dorsey was captured on Sixth Avenue on the afterpoon of the 2341. Several of the diamonds and $400 in cash were found upon hum. Dorsey was assisted in disposing of some of the diamonds by Thotmas Tucker, also colored, and the latter 181m custody, The diswonds were stolen from an upper room while the Morgan family were at difiner, the thief prying open closet doors until he came across the box containing the jeweln, ~1t was reported in Mempins, Ten nessee, on the 23d, that the steamer Charles P. Choutean was burned in the morning near Vicksburg, Bhe vad over 6000 bales of cotton on board. Seven race horses on board were burnéd and two colored deck hands y perished. " ab it t one ock on v . il, and lynched asserted that he { another col ne of OCT — While examining a natural regulator in Beaver, I’a., on the 23d, Henry Camp, James H. Cunningham and HH. P. Brown were dangerously injured by an explosion, One of them ! struck a match to see the guage, un- conscious of a leak, and it ignited the gas which had accumulated in the reg- ister, —Mrs, Green, mother of George Green, one of the alleged train robbers now in jail in Tuscon, Arizona, says her son will turn State's evidence, and that if he did not some of the others would, Mrs. Green says the robbers had a secret cave in the mountains, north of El Paso, Texas, where they hid their plunder, and another in Ari- zona. The latter was discovered by detectives, —The body of D., W. Kline was found in the mountains near Mercerss burg, Penna., on the 23d, by two hunters. From appearance it had been laylog where found for about s'x weeks, He lived jin London, but about two monthslago had a quarrel with his wife and left home. -—4 { team containing Patrick D. Gorman, William and Charies Hannon and Joseph I.. Burke, was dnven through the safety gates at the Boston | and Albany crossing at West Newton, | Massachusetts, on the afternoon of the | 24th, Ten feet of the gate was broken {off. The team gained tue track, and | the horse, becoming uncontrollable, turned and followed the rails, and the pants were quickly train, which erushed the vel killing the Fu © and its occu by a rear of wagon overtaken i in) into the iicle, fry 1 Ud ram ii Hicago say {atervie ww 1st, publisl a movement througi fy LN til leg + Vv an is Muanich, rinany Urpos £* suming direction of t undertaking. It is hints when the pt matuured, dynamite throwin rurated 7 gantic Te . a ac of to be Ju who will be America for of i ue d tl t w ia gl YOAars of age, and a son of the IRoyal Theatre, German bu ereck has ; tres ns a of the merican. and member is an A wo inches and teen inches In at both ends, with a tton protruding, Was , on the sidewalk at iiroad ferry in Jers A iceman then threw it ii! be rnalist and His wife A plece of gas pipe about t ameter fift . pol ) and the river. _ To-day it it and examined, a hoax, —James T. Cook was shi Benjamin ing were Kilie smback and ( adly inju lished an wrecked, ~The train on econd section of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and | Dayton Railroad ran into the Orst sec- at Anna Station, twenty miles | south of Lima, Olio, on the morning of the 24th. The fireman of one of the | sections was Killed, and twenty freight {| cars and both engines were wrecked, The loss is placed at $60,000, «There was a riot on Bedford av- enue, Pittsburg, on the evening of the | 24th, between ‘‘the notorious Owl | gang’’ and about twenty-five Italians, a freight tion I'he fighting began in a saloon kept by an Italian, and stones, pistols and knives were used, Two men were shot and twelve or fifteen others cut and bruised, but no one was killed, - Lena Wolfcale, 28 years old, died on the 24th, at her home in XY oungs- town, Ohio, from the effects of a dose | of morphine. It is said she was disap- | pointed in love, Frank Feicht, ex- street commissioner of Dayton, Ohlo, attempted suicide on the 24th, by cutt- ing an artery in his left wrist, and is in a critical condition. He had been on a drunken spree. «Within the last few dass, accord- ing to a telegram from Cleveland, | Ohlo, the Dee Line Hallroad has built | twenty- ~five freight cars equipped with | the Westinghouse air-brake. On the 25th an experiment was made between Cleveland and Berea, Speed all the way from four to twenty-five miles an hour was made, and the long train was checked at all the degrees, Generally the stops were made in from five to twenty seconds, Several times the train was brought to a standstill from a twenty-mile rate in balf a dozen car- lengths, ‘The brake differs from that of a passenger brake in having the chamber and valve Joined together, in- stead of being placed on opposite sides of the car, ~L. K. Shaw, a farmer living near Romeo, Michigan, was found dead In the woods on the 26th. On the 23d he bad sold $000 worth of wheat in Ro- meo, and had been missing since that time. ~ While u vessel wus being loaded with coal at Baltimore on the 25th, the chain which held the cars broke and three conl hoppers fell from the pier to tha vessel's donk Patrick Morean was Jured ivan Roberts, of Drifton, one of the strikers who found employment im Shaft No, 1 of the Busquebiannua Coal Company, at Nanticoke, a week was on the 25th struck and kil trip car going up the shaft, Ile was years of age and leaves a wile eight children. Susan White and Carmedy was run over and killed while walking on the railroad track at Fiteh- burg, Massachusetts, on the 254. 4 oF ago, 3 —Three cars of a freight train on the Georgia Pacific Rallroad ran off the track fifty-seven miles east of Co- lumbus on the 25th, and fell from a trestle bridge into a small stream, Four railroad hands and a negro who was stealing a ride sustained severe In- juries. One of them, the conductor, disk, is not expected to recover. —Two freight trains on the Balti- more and Ohlo Railroad collided near Pittsburg, on the moruing of the 25th, Both trains were almost completely demolished. Three men were killed and flve injured, two dangerously. There appears to have been no orders as to which train was to lay over ab Finleyville for the other to pass. The trains were running at a high rate of speed, The company claims that the telegraph operator at Finleyville failed to deliver orders. There was a collision between freight trains on the and Lewisburg branch of the He Railro vad, near Milton, Penna. , o J The lent happened 18 uel 1din AOCH ne tha SN ng the ye! sol, f VEY Prom reular was Commissioner New York, annound rates on dressed eT eu ¢ fr on ng meats to take om Chi fago to New York, beef, een iressedd 8 Alen] a few fe ov D1 At matier iL BOT to g who complain i $11 iil 1 A TATY a a —— Signs of a Mild Winter. The husks on the corn are thinner, the golden rod is yellower, and the lichens are darker in color this year than usual-—all of which are signs of a mild winter. These will go for noth- ing. however, if the goose i opaque instead of clear. a Adamascobite 18 the name of a mineral found only in the State of Missourn, It is remarkabie for its cutting power, With a fine edge, steel is cut by il very rapidly, the sharpness of the stone being in no respect diminished, ——————— —— —————— THE MARKETS. PROVISIONS Beef city T8208 Bl. ove covnnnssne HAMS. ooctvevein svnner POE MeMB. cco cosvnvonbineisy Prine Mess DOW, ..ov0ee. 08 BOER SORE. Lous vu sannswm= Shoulders sauoked. ... .. GOIN BRIL, sevevriussnnens Sacked Deel. ooo. vihoinimmene= Lard Western DIS, .. coos Lard 1008, cuesv.s FLOU Ree West, and Pa #0P.... vou. 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The butler grinned at! ed th he door. “You're Master Gerald, snough nen als but la} perl it SKY ald Eger im as he open- for the said i . brought his bride home last night, “The deuce he did!” said Gerald gloomily. *‘What sort of a one is it- eh, jutts?’’ “A stunner, too late wedding, “Master answered » gir.” the man confidentially; “only nineteen, At that moment another servant threw open the foiding doors leading in- to the drawing-room, and revealed Mr, Clarethiorne, looking provokingly young and healthy, with a tal slight girl by his side, dressed in wine-colorod velvet, relieved by the flash of diamonds and the creamy folds of rich old point lace, As she turned to welcome her grandson «how ridiculous the idea seeped! Gerald Egerton started back He was looking full into the radiant depths of Barbara Wynyard’s eyes, One smile — one scornful flashing smile of haughty triumph—and then they met as strangers, though the hot blood boiled up into Gerald's cheeks as if his veins were running molten fire, “What are you writing, dear?’ Mr, Clarethorne asked his young wife that night, as she closed and locked a clasp- ed book zt her desk. “Nothing.” she answered bright smile, But, underneath bitterness of heart a year written these words: “1 am revenged on Gi on Gerald Egerton!" Conquer ‘thyself, self, Till thou hast done tnat, thou art a slave: for it is almost as well for thee to be in subjec- with a the entry made in ago, she had tion to another's appetite as thy own. IAPR IST UREA WHY hey PLEROVLI PHILO A Well Fxplains the Sq Floating Kunown kg SW Essay ferns ange would be as tho had ing and ter enwrapped the earth, remark ¢ g x wl ahi i Ceased sh ual win iq 3 £1 what meant by the rds eat a great er of bugs As for thieves, plenty them among the feathered class, They steal chickens, pull up corn and wheat, steal bright-colored ribbons, and a; casional piece of ing jewalr: carelessly near open window, " after all, that is no worse than mem be: of our own race do, and while human thief makes no reparation bird-thief helps to keep the earth being depopulated; so what mattis chick or two or a diamond ring is of no use to the rest of the yas thing and cl The AUCH numt there are spat KI 3 wil ths ¢ 4 tos VISA CUT vO Bee LD Vik of disposition waracter ds by them. . Shy, bla thrush; the , impudent wien y, prying blue-jay; the boldaess | hawk, <r proud, warlike bearing quiet The fellow feotly at LE think him the only going to in comfortable opposition, He don’t like .t you sparrow 18 one of English sparrow--what a a foreigner who Is 8 here that native bind, in Epile upon i can lump it three binds whic! not belong: here, He was brough! this country fifteen years ago, durimg craze that made people fancy that « seed-eating bird would rid us of sect pests, This was done against the ad- vice of well-informed persons, and now the invincibie little birds have over the entire couulry, and can jaugh Jegislatures and ornithological Lies, hie 1%. one vs 1 188s 0 to @a run at “in oe OMAMA man, Inspecting a New Y ork cemetery. “Well, welll Goba crema tory here, I see.” Gotham man, mated here, sir,” “Then what is that Duteh bake gven forty"! “That, sir, isthe Most mansoleam.”’ “Bodies are not Cig.
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