-On the evening of the 2d, prepar- atory to replacing the rails on a section of the Manitoba Rallroad, near An. oka, Minnesota, a gang of men drew every alternate spike, On the 34, when a work train, containing seventy men, went along the road at a spesd of 20 miles an hour, the rails spread, the train ran off the track and the men were thrown off the cars, John Griflin, of St, Paul, was killed, and six others were dangerously injared, two of whom-—John Burke and Ole Forest—are not expected to recover, Two freight trains on the Afr Line Railroad collided, near Willimantic, Connecticut, on the morning of the 4th, Conductor Stebbins was killed and Brakeman Cheney was badly in- jured. —Despite the protests of Yale students and graduates the historic fence, which has been thelr lounging place ' for years, is doomed, the cor- poration deciding that it must be re- moved to make room for a new recita- Lion hall, — James Cooley, a letter carrier em- ployed in the Allegheny 1’ost Office, was arrested on the 4th, charged’ with robbing the mails, He was captured with decoy letters in his pockets, men In the employ of the Pierce Company at Ottawa, Ontarlo, attempted to run the rapids at Head — . $ when their boat upset and t umber were drowned. - John Owsley, his wife and four chiidren were taken violently ill on the 8d, at their home in Windsor, Missouri, ind it was discovered that strychnine had been placed in the coffee. The 12- year-old negro servant girl denied that coffee, She was forced to drink, and died in half an hour. she confessed she had done the Ing, and said she was forced to negroes, whose names she gave, PoOIsoL- it by The condition. Chas, Schreeves, a hard- ware merchant in Murray, Iowa, killed of the 3d. Mears's objections to Shreeves paying attention to his sister. port, Ohio, on the morning of the 4th, four men got into a fight about two disreputable women, and during its progress one of the women, Gertie Williams, drew a revolver and fatally wounded Samuel Waters, and also lodged two bullets in the body of Cornelius Waters, The women were arrested, During a fnOght between Jeremiah Shea and Patrick Green iii Green to the former fell with him. Shea was not died in a short time. —Frederick Fowler and Ferguson, two members of a gang of counterfeiters who have been working in the vicinity of Chattanooga, Ten- nesseee, have been arrested, It is esti- mated that upwards of $15000 counterfeit coin is now In eirculation there, besides a large number of 85 silver certificates, -—A storm which visited the vicinity of Milton, North Carolina, on the even- ing of the 24, did a great deal of age. [Large plantations recently planted tobacco and com were stroyed, and bucketsful of hail stones as large as guinea eggs could be gath- ered, Since the storm the weather ha been 80 cold that the hail able of de- by fires. A furious storm swept over Washington county, Arkansas, on the 2d, causing a heavy loss of property. In one hamlet twelve houses were de- stroyed. badly injured, and it was rumored that in the interior seven persons were Killed. The report of however, has not been confirmed, of the 4th, D. Porter, a son of ex-Gov- ernor Porter, wag shot and killed by Alexander B. White, Commercial Bank. Porter bad accos- ted White and made a motion as if to draw his pistol. Kennedy Porter, another son of the ex- His wounds Edmunds had shot Porter and stot him three times, are severe, gome months ago. shot and killed “*Budd’ Trail inp Mid- dlebrook, Maryland, on the 4th, There was a feeling of jealousy two men ou account of a widow who Butte, Montana, by a land slide, were taken out alive on the morning of the 6th. ‘The only person killed was I’at- rick Harrington. 14 miles Thirty line of the Omaha Railroad, from La Crosse, .Wisconsin, ings and the post-oflice have been de- stroyed. tion on the Gth, Cleveland for President .of the United States, —A train from gang of Italian trackmen on the New York City and Northern Westchester, New York. killing Joseph Treasey and Paulaginto and badly mjuring Rafael Omarch and Joseph Romana, The walls of the Land and River Improve- ment Company’s hotel in Superior, Wisconsin, fell on the 6th, burying five men and injurying as many more, and O. M, all children, were drowned. —Jleports from the western part Massachusetts show that excessive heat places, At St. Johnsbury, Vermont, a ings, At Littleton, New Lightning spire of the town hall ing the building and a dwellings owned by Frank Heywood. Tbe Town Hall vicinity, t was built In 1770, and was thoroughly repaired a few years ago, It lature of Vermont met. The loss on the hall is $5000. During a severe storm the evening of the 6th lightning struck and destroyed farm house of Stephen Clemens, ear Keene, New Hampshire, A tele. gram from Ottawa, Outario, says the on the 6th, by the storm was wide-spread, Great damage was to the crops, roots peeping forth being literally blown out of the Young apple orchards In nearly every locality In district were destroyed, The loss will not, it is thought, fall short of $300,000, De- sides three persons already reported killed, a large number were seriously ured. A brick school house on done Just the 13d ii} in 20 children were buried the ruins, Some of thém were fatally injured and one escaped without painful wounds, — A despatch from St, Joling, New. tive forest fires the uth shore Bay. ! Colliers nin houses, at Placentia dwelling of the railway officials, al ilarbor Grace Junction seven houses, aud at Seal seven houses have been burned, JAttle Bay North, twenty-six fami- have been burned out, nothing being saved, and one woman and two FTRging on of " At AL i » il - Thomas Rowlands, a liquor seller in Charlestown, Massachusetts, quar- elled with his wife on the Tih on unt of jealousy, and shot her dead. then s! died in a Walter A. Spicer, a mas Chicago, shot himself in n the evening of the Oth, trouble between AC ot himself, and hort time. painter In the temple o There had wife and himself, been The Democratic National Conven- St. Louis concluded its labors 1 7th by the adoption of a platform and the nomination of Allen G. Thur man, of Ohio, for Vice 'resident of the United States, Mr. Thurman was nominated on the first ballot, and the mination was made upanimous amid outburst of enthusiast which re #=d that evoked by ths renomination of Cleveland the day before. The plat- form adopted, among other things, re- affirms the tariff utterences of the plat form of 1584, as Interpreted by the President's Message, Supplemental Tariff blll now pending in the House, expressing sympathy for Home wT. the well. Harrison Garrett, His yacht, in which he and The body of Agatha Peterson, Wisconsin, three weeks ago, was found in the Wisconsin river on the 5th. Sbe 18 supposed to have been thrown off the bridge. driver on one of the city teams in Chel. sea, Massachuselts, was found near Chelsea bridge on the 31, His skull was fractured and it is thought he was murdered. Two freight wrecks occurred on the morning of the 6th on the Pensyl- vania Railroad, near Pittsburg, which stopped passenger travel for over tlhiree hours. About the same time freight telescoped preceding rections, destroy. A construction engine on the Cleveland and Maboning Valley Railroad was ing of the Oth, and wrecked, Schofield and John killed, ~The safe of Lewis & Kearns grain buyers at Albany, Illinois, was robbed on the 3d of $1200 belonging to the firm. The safe was in the jewelry store of E. F. Schneider, who claimed that he had $600 in money and valu. ables taken, He was arrested on the 4th for the robbery. -A despatch from the City of Mexico says a railway accident oc. curred on the evening of the 4th, just outside of T co, In which many lives were Jost, A construction train was derailed near a bridge by a8 cow and a donkey which were on the track. The train crashed through the bridge and went down an embank. ment, do far as known 18 persons were killed and 41 injured. ~Three of the four men who were buried in the St. Lawrence mine in Harry except Mr. Garrett, | near Harrisburg, on the 8th, Wilson {| Zaarfoss Is not expected to recover. | The boiler of an engine on the farm of | Edwin Mickley, at Maple Grove, Lebigh { ing of the BiLh, and immediately there { followed an explosion of 125 pounds of | A nanise and a quantity of powder, stored in the engine house, Mickley's { barn, erected at a cost of 85000, was Window panes | half a mile distant were broken. i completely wrecked, | New York, on the Sth, the earth caved Michael Mingo. They were both killed, of five entered a car on the inclined railway on the Campadian side dunn the absetice of the attendant, The ca descended at a terrific rate of speed and was dashed to pleces at the bottom of the decline, Mrs, Santana, it is fear- ed, is fatally injured, and her daughter was badly cut under the chin. The others of the party escaped unhurt. Charles Murphy, a young (sherman, 38 years of age, was drowned on the falls at Louisville, Kentucky, on the morn- ing of the Sth, by being drawn by the current mto the whirlpool under the Table Rock. It is supposed he was dragged into the rapids by =» large fish making a sudden plunge in the net, ~ An ineffectual attempt was made to rob a train near Delhi, a few miles west of Cinclunati, on the evening of the 8th. The robbers were five in number. During the melee Josenh : " | Ketcham, baggage master, was shot five times, and James Boyd, engineer, yas beaten into insensibility, ~The Commissioners of Allegheny county, Penna., were on the 8th noti- fied by County Controller Spear that there was a deficit of $15,850 in the accounts of ex-Sheriff Joseph Gray, | who retired from office a few months ago, Colonel Gray has been unable to { attend to his dutles for several months, on account of sickness, and the Com- { missioners state that **he does not deny that there might be a deficiency arising from unbalanced books.’”’ At his ree quest an expert 13 now at work on the | accounts, -The monthly crop report for the Menphis district, which embraces West | Tenvessee, North Mississippi, North Arkansas and North Alabama, says of | the condition of the ecdtton, that not- | withstanding the season 18 full two healthy and growing well, and favorable condition In ted, late, and im about the same condition, -~Col, W. H. Webster, Treasurer of his accounts $33,000. deputy, is also short $1000, ssn et Rt sn BENATE, In the United States Senate on the 4th, the bill to repeal all pre-emption and timber culture laws was reported | and placed the calendar, House bill to make inauguration day a public holiday in the District of Columbia wis passed, calendar were passed, among them the | following: House bill appropriating $100,000 for a public building in Mon- roe, Louisiana (amended by reducing the amount to §75,000); Senate bill ap propriating $100,000 for a public build ing al Waterbury, Counecticut; Hot bill autborizing he retirement Alfred Pleasonton with the rank Colonel, with an amendment reducing the grade to that of Major; Senate bills appropriating $75,000 each for public buildings in Na a, New Hampshire, and- Altoona, Peunpa.; Senate bill for the retirement of Malor General Averill with the rank of Major; House bill appropriating $60,000 for a public building at Hoboken, New Jersey; Senate bill appropriating 860,000 for a public building at Beno, Nevada, The { House bill to prevent the employment of alien labor on public bulldings and | works was discussed, pending which the Senate adjourned, In the U Was dar locreasi: pension of the widow of leintzelman, The Diplomatic priation bill was conside ments were agreed to, trans the grade of “Envoys Extraordinar: and Ministers Plenipotentiary” “Ministers Resident” Belgi Netharlands, Sweden and Norway and Venezuela, without change sRlAry ($75 : inserting an t “Minis aesdent and 8 at a salary of §770 y the grade of Consul on 156 of of f reported and placed ee to 3100 per mont on the calen- ¥ i 3 b dered. ir in LH te (seneral Paraguay nee of U. 8. he 64 ¢ =n $3 Sénale on ia, an executive session was held immediately after the reading of the journal, In a few minutes the doors were reopened, and a message Was ved from the President, vetoing a bill peasioning a widow, on the ground that the death of the husband (for which the pension was allowed) had nothing to do with the military service, but was the re- sult of suicide. The message was re- ferred to the Committee on Pensions, The consideration of the Diplomatic Appropriation bill was resumed and the bill was passed, the salary of the Minister Resident in Paraguay being Conference reports rect for a public gan. Senate bill for the purchase of a site | for a building for the Supreme Court | Senate blll providing that the number | of appointments from graduates of the in the { lower grades of the line and engineer { corps of the navy and the marine corps i shall not be less than 20 in each year— corps and one to the marine corps, and that appointees shall be admitted Lo the | Academy only between the ages of 16 {and 21 years. Ope hundred and six- teen pension bills, 64 of them being | Heuse bills, were takon from the calen- darand passed, Among them were bills increasing the pensions of the widows of Major General Thomas Kilby Smith to $75; of Major General Heintzelman to $100, apd of Drigadier General | Schimmelfennig to 850, and giving a of Commodore Truxton. Senate bill appropriating $125,000 for a public vullding at Salt Lake City, Utah, was | passed, Adjourned, In the U. 8, Senate on the Tih, Mr, | Morgan, of Alabama, offered a pre. amble and resolutions declaring that | the Fisheries treaty had been duly ne- otiated and is lawful and valid, Mr, “ance moved to refer them to the Committee on Foreign Relations, Mr. Morgan then, notwithstanding a point of order raised by Mr. Sherman and a ruling of the Chair that he must con- fine himself to speaking on the ques tion of the point of order, resd from printed ships a speech which he had made in secret session on the Treaty. When he had finished, the resolutions went over without action, and the Sen- ate adjourned, Inthe U. 8, House of Nepresenta- tives on the 8th, Mr. Dingley, from the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Com- mitlee, reported back his resolution, which was adopted, ealling u the Secretary of tha Treasnry for informa. —— A ———————————— States portd are required to pay less tils in pursue their voyage by way of the St, pursue thelr voyage by way Ontario, to American ports, whether additional legislation is ne. | the Treasury to impose additional tolls Ste, Marie and St. Clair Flats Canal against vessels bound to American ports, Committee of the Whole, and the salt paragraph was disposed of, all amend- ments being rejected. eration of the flax paragraph the Com- {held for the consideration of private pension bills, Adjourned, HOUSE, In the House, on the 4th, bills were Introduced by Mr. Lee, of Virginia, to { prevent food adulteration; by Mr, Inter-State Commerce law; and by Mr, gration. Mr, Bound, of Pennsylvania, directing the Committee on tion of the Drazllian Government { Imposing an export duty coffee nearly equal to the duty formerly jm- «1 by the United States that odity and in aiding British capi- tallsts to establish flour mills in Brazil while maintaining an excessive duty on American flour. The Senate bill mak. ing inauguration day a legal holliday in the District of Columbia, and the Senate bill to prevent obstructions and injuri- deposits in the harbor of New York (the latter with amendments’ were passed, Mr, Mills moved that ti rules be suspended be set apart for the consideration of bills reportel by the Committees Public Lands, Military, Pacific roads, Territories and commerce, Cannon, of Illinois, tried t« amendment setling apart a day for t on On Ous ? Hall. Al eral 8, but could not s recognition. A vole was taken o is's resolution, and, as the Republl- abstained from voting, It stood 07 d—no quorum, Mr, Mills then with- drew the resoltition. Messrs. Mckhkin- iey and Reed inquired whether It was not in order to suspend the rules and set apart days for goneral pension legis. lation. The Chair replied that the reg- ular order was Mr, Mills’s motion i Quite an uproar followed, and the Speaker pro tempore put Mr, Mills's motion and began to count upon a di- vision, bul the result was no quorum as before, Mr. Mills then, after a call of the House, withdrew the motion, and simply moved @ go into Commitlee of the Whole on the Tariff bill, No quo. rum voted, and he moved to adjourn, which was agreed to. pension bill a 1316 =i 1 Mr. ) In the House on the Sth, the resolu. } accepting the . + ¥ n to attend celebration of Washi inauguration in New York It J was reported adversely from Ul : : bos ¢ } Lous Li OInInIe DOIG Ing centennial aml lientown ih a recomme notwithstand. veto, The Tarifl ill was considered in Committee of the Whole, and, 16th line of the nll having been reached, the commitiee were received from the President returning without his approval bills for the erection of a public building at Bar Harbor, Maine, and for the purchase of addit'onal ground for building at Council Bluffs, Iowa, A conference report on the bill relative to postal crimes was {agreed to. Adjourned, In the House, the 6Lh, Senate amendment to the bill for a public building at Monroe, Lousiana, reduc- ing the appropriation from $100,000 to $75,000, was occurred In. The Tariff | bill was considered in committee of the whole, The Senate amendments to the Indian Appropriation bill were referred to a committee of conference. Ad- journed, In the House on the 7th, reports on the bills for public buildings at Bridge. i= jent’s 3 wie Foe, Messages i Lue ou gan, were agreed to. The House then the Tariff bill, After disposing of the lumber section of the bill the commit- | tee rose. Mr, Holman from the Public | Lands Committee, reported a substi. { tute for the Senate Land Grant For- | feiture Lill, The House then adjourned, A Chapter on Taste, | Taste is tue power lo perceive the | beautsful, Experience is needed for { this, and, therefore, the formation of | taste is not only waried, but gradual, | Noone would be content to adhere to fcases it would be but an imperfect | childish judgment, for In most cases it would be but an Imperfect one. In he period of youth all is novelty and the estimate for everything is naturally exaggerated, A young man goes to the theatre for the first time: the actors are by no means talented, the scenic arrangement are anything but realistic but it 1s of no consequence, ihe youth is enchanted-it is a new world to him and he is, therefore, so carried away that he is absolutely incapable of form. ing a sound judgment; itis not th. his taste is bad, butit Is simply un. formed. ‘ But besides experience, cultivation is required. To acquire a good style in composition, and, therefore, to thoroughly appreciate the best writers, it is by no means snffizient to have written a great deal, experience is not enough here; there must be a ¢wrefol study of the best authors, and this study will be a great assistance to the acquirement of a sound literary taste, Sroaos--Was it not disgraceful, the way In wkich Smaggs snored In church to-day? : Stuggs--I should think it was, Why be woke us all up A BLIGHT IMPROVEMENT NOTED, BUT HIS CONDITION ONE OF EXTREME PROSTRATION. WasmNaron, D, C,, June Sth, that the General's mind had remained with little or no pain, and, for time being, his condition was slightly The organic diseases from suffers, however, remain He was more or less de- he unylelding. lently, though, for he was too weak for not recognize the and refused to take any medicine or nourishment, About & o'clock this cleared, and he The hypodermically. moraping his readily teok medicine was Each of the His rallies has been but gether, the case 18 a most desperate one, recelved from high sources, it is believed that the end is At 10.30 A. M.,, the General was rest- ing easily, with no especial change his physical condition. His mind perfectly clear thismorning. He asked i8 mace two or three characteristic comments on the information given in reply. Jupe 4, 12, 10 A. M,.—General Sheri- dan’s cough has increased somewhat since the last report, and this has made him restless and nervous, Ilis pulse is rather quicker, but good strength, and bis respiration is rather more quent v in the | two hours, takes his nourishment with and relishes it, of fre- ¥ reguiarit R. M. O'REILLY ' BYRNE, ARROW, 10 very deci- or the worse in General tid ¥ t ¥ 4} 3 y fitton during the day, 34 3 $ita x » iV «2 HIOUS Lave nol There bh Deen en 18 Deen not seem able to rally. A —.———— Arbitration in English Mines, Mr. Thomas Burt, M. P.. Philadelphia Fress, an interesting account of the mines of the Newcastle coal region in which he th de- scribes the effects of arbitration there: or two or three years-—commenc- itralion was tried. In no than five 0 the general rate of is fewer % ¥ 3 rkine wie of working nberiand were referres The market was « still falling, the demands change came, therefore, The Were rime PRALUL ito arbi- lepressed for in every case from 1 decisions, as DEAT Y AlWays ithout ex- lie employers, expe he wi they i r award of tl ted, yet, w yally acceplexl and car- After wards when a further reduction of wages was demanded the coalowners refused to arbitrate, A strike or lox weeks’ duration ensued, disastrous results which This was Two years ried the & umpire, K~ out of several with the usually follow such conflicts, towards the end of 15877. later—in 1870—a sliding scale, adjust- Ing wages ou the basis of prices, was established. That system, twice modifled in th nterval, tinued in operation from 1879 the end of 18806, Notice was then given by the coal-owners to terminate, or as they said, to modify the scale with a view to a reduction of wages, Fifteen per cent. reduction was manded; this was altered to 124 per cent, A general strike followed. After great, and probably lasting, Injury to a trade already bad enough, after once COnL- or . £ i 10 the end compelled workmen at of seventeen to accept the terms. Another sliding scale was established, In November of last year, the miners, in their turn, notice to terminate it, and it ended with the year 1887, In the foregoing statement I have myseif to a bare 1 have tried to avoid and instructive, sincerely wished to settle their differ- ences amicably. There was at all on the part of There was a opinion be- sentatives of the miners, frank interchange of what I have staled; arbitration dis. carded, sliding scales abolished; After many years of labor and thought the only survival committee, The facts 1 have detailed are dis. error to use them a8 an argument against arbitration. Arbitration was not itself a failure; In some respects, notably in the readiness of thousands of workmen to accept an adverse de- oision-it was a great success, The chief drawback was in not having a permanent board of conciliation and arbitration. This caused needless fric- tion and delay, and had much to do with the abandonment--the foolish and mischievous abandonment-of ar- bitration by the employers, This is likewise true, in some cases, in thus country; but where a permanent State Court of Reconciliation and Are bitration is established, as in Massa chusetts, the result is very satisfactory. Fortune Husrer--Now, darling, say yesor no. I've only fifteen min utes in which to cateh the train, Helress— Better eateh your train, then. You are not going to catch me, | i REMINISCENCES OF DICKENS, His Composing Mood An Example of His Love of Mischief, standing when a One day Millie and 1 were balcony of Dickens eame sauntering by, On 1 4 attitude, d to his heart, and as he . our house the other thrown out aloft, “Tis my lady! tis my upon that “Which of us do vou intend to be Juliet to your Romeo?’ inquired Millie. “Whichever you choose, my litt ' he answered. touching bis he Next morning fis pa le ‘ Ah sed, thi we were there again as he 18 i How his ideas, and interruption, He was weaving wag bored Ly trouble did youd, Was and Arn use. It saved him the of being obliged to recognize me, l composing 1 1. BOmMeLines, altogether pleased hi Lim + Seeing him then, the Sphinx, it was the amount of which he was capab ample, We were on ing, having been am i INiBCII EY } ce which Dich mily Pew, | on two gcse as he enjos where } He “gap ror Be LE MWC RIIRE | paper, wii 18 doing {er our caper: t gleam on the All ab On demon of miscl to take possession g DIS arm ar y : £1 ita « «ents that ntended to wild waves overwhelmed vs, “Think!” i, mouthing “Think of the sation Wwe Think of the road shall create! r which we are about to tread tread, but he crie Ge! i exactly lo 23 rey “ si him t & me go, struggled desperately to free myself, “let vour mind dwell on ti The where will icribed the fate of the lovely e column vividly Emma a fit of } v — Growned by Dickens in dementiall Don’t struggle bird! you are power such a Kile as The last gli Was now gone, and cle the dark mystery of the args ater, very b very cold, an ve all coming very rapidly Tit horrie $4 poor uttie claws of G88 In Le ACK nearer plash screamed out: “Oh! my dress: only silk dress w He was not softe; ’ 18 aor 1 3 1 ¥ ths tragic appeal, Hut « dashed my ing nonsensically and panti exertions to hold me, and : pressed laughter. Then I g: shriek, “Mrs. Dickens! help me!—make Mr, Dickens let me go. The waves are uj to my knees!” “Charles!” Mrs. Dickens called in frantic accents, “‘How can you be 80 silly? You will both be carried off by the waves (then falling from pathos W “Dress! shouted Dickens with scorn. “*Talk not to me of dress! When is enshrouding us ir vanities? Am I not immolating a brand new pair of patent leathers still unpaid fort Perish such low born thoughts? Ibn this hour of abandonment to the voice of destiny, shall we be held back by the puerilities of si'ken raiment? Shal leather or prunella (whatever that may be) stop the bolt of fate!” The sudden parenthetical change from high flown rant back again to ordinary accents was most ridiculous, Here I succeeded In struggling oul of his grasp, and fled to my friends, al most crying with vexalion, my only silk dress clinging round my saturated limbs, and leaving a watery track as I stumbled on. Mrs, Cleveland's Taste in Jowelry. It would appear as though each am Jewels have rarely been worn i gems that have been hndden away for veare are agait brought out into the sunl Jewel ers attribute this bit of good luck to the fair mistress of the White House, wh confesses to have a decided penchant for jewels. Mrs Cleveland's taste in clines in the direction of diamonds, anc she not alone values them as ornaments but values the limpid stones for their inherent beauty, and takes pride in # collection of unset diamonds,” She ha had made a small cabinet provided witl tiny nests, in which, wrapped separate ly in bits of cotton, each gem properly classified, are ber cherished gems, 1 is stated on authority that Murs, Cleve land’s collection of diamonds, mounte and unmounted, estimate a value of more than §50,000. The sets are most ly her husband's gifts, but the separat: stones ure of her own selection, and shy is a connoiseur on the subject. yt RO.
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