SI0RMS ON THE LAKES. VESSELS LEAVING CHICAGO OBLIGED TO PUT BACK ON ACCOUNT OF THE IIEAVY BEA, Cricaao, Getober 2,—The severest storm that the lake has known this year put in at this port last night with all sails flying and Jack Xrost’s admiral in command. Despatches from points on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior yesterday announced that a fearful gale was blowing, and that vessels unshel- tered would have a hard time last night. At Holland, Michigan, the Australia went ashore, and the crew deserted the R. N. Rice a few miles below that point, The gale set in here about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. All vessels leaving port were compelled to put back on ac- count of the heavy sea that was run- ning. The officer at the signal office Lake Ene. storm was felt in Chicago this morning after 6 o'clock, when the rain began to fall, doubly disagreeable by the low tempera ture. It was almost at the freezing point; in fact, there were traces of snow at 7 o'clock. gun to break away about 11 o'clock. SANILAC, Mich., Oct. 2.—A terrible storm bas been raging here since last night. At 7 o'clock last night the life saving crew from Sand Beach started out, and at 11 P. M. they rescued a crew of six men and ono the barge St. Clair, They were seen nearing this place at 7 worning, and everything was made ready for their help. As the boat passed the end of the dock the captain rounded ber up to come up to the dock, Just as he did so a high breaker struck the boat, turn. ing her completely over. Everyone ex- pected to see her right again, but she failed to do so. The eutire crew be- longing to the boat reached shore, tow- ing two of the other crew with them. The remainder, four men and one wo- man, were drowned near the shore, The names of the lost are: Captain C, H. Jones, of Bay City. Henry Anderson, of Australia, George McFarlane, of Cleveland. Lorus Ferta, of Bay City. Julia Greawreath, of Sebwaing, cook. The rescued are Maurice McKenna, of Bay City, and John Rise of Detroit. i NEWS OF THE WEEK, — A passenger train and a freight train on the Pennsylvania Railroad ran into each other on the 1st at Harrison, New Jersey. George Skeem, engineer of the passenger train, and his fireman, saved themselves by jumping, but sus- tained severe injuries, No passenger was injured. A brakeman 1s missing and supposed to be killed. An oil tank on the freight train caught fire, and all the oil tanks and several grain lumber cars were burned, ger engine and tender were also des- troyed. A freight train on the Texas and Pacific Railroad ran off the track at Merville, Louisiana, on the evening f the 20th ult. engineer, was killed. A passenger train on the Wabash Railroad was wrecked near Mexico, Missouri, on the morning of the 1st, Three persons were badly, but not fatally injured. rumor that a rail had been removed by parties baving unsettled claims against the company. An Investigation isbeing made, ~The debt statement issued at the Treasury Department on the 1st, showed that the decrease of the public debt during the month of September amounted to $12,247,026. Total cash in the Treasury, §636,376,287, wiD,& ~During the temporary absence of GG. T. Williams and his wifes from their home in Parsons, Kansas, on the svening of the 30th ult, a burning lamp fell into a crib upon a sleeping baby. Georgia Williams, 9 years old, who was in the house by herself, se- cured a blanket from an adjoining room, pulled the baby from the blazing crib and smothered the fire, The girl and baby were not serfously burned. near Wilkesbarre, continues, The rumbling of the earth and the snapping of timbers in the siope can be plainly heard, and threatens considerable damage, — Advices from Panama say during Lhe trial trip of a large ron mud-carry- ing steamer on September 18th safety valve blew out and an explosion followed, causing a loss of six lives, ~A telegram from Sanitac, Michi gan, says a terrible storm raged there on the evening of the Ist. On the morning of the 2a the barge St, Clair was wrecked and four men and one woman were drowned, The Austra- lia went ashore at Holland, Michigan. News was received in Duluth that the schooner Brandon had been lost, that the schoorer Jennie was adrift, and that the Regina is wateriogged. The schooner Forester, of Port Huron, par. ted ber lines at Grindstone City, on the evening of the 1st, and went to pleces No lives were lost, Snow fell for several hours on the between White Haven and Wilkes. barre, Pennsylvania. and trains on the Central Railroad arriving at Wilkes- barre bad over half an inch of snow on their tops. A telegram from Ishpe. ming, Michigan, on the 2d says snow fell for six hours, Reports from =n mumbér of pointe in the Upper Penin- sula show that the storm Is general, ~Ann Scanlan, 45 years of age, being drunk, in Hoboken, N. J,, on the 24, cut her son's head with a bowl, and attacked her husband with an axe. Later, while her husband was asleep, she tried to stab him in the stomach, but a thick bed quilt saved him, She was (loally ar George Bryson and a woman claiming to be his wife walk to Helena, gn several wee , from nneapolis, oy $2500 the woman had A short time ago fr a On skull yson is under arrest, — During September there was a net increase of $23,477,123 iu the circula- tion and a net decrease of $1,703,707 n the money and bullion in ¢he Trea sury. ‘The total money and bullion in the Treasury is $579,580,700, and the | total circulation $1,384,340,280, 2d, but no deaths, The total casesto date number 2828, and the deaths, 204 Eighteen cases of yellow fever are now under treatment at Decatur, Alabama, prove fatal, According to the estimates made by the Finance Committee, the Senate { Tariff bill provides for a total reduce | proximately “as follows: | 759,000; free list, $0,500,000; tobacco | (internal revenue), | hol, In the arts, $7,000,000; other re- i ductions, mn customs, $8,000,000, —-A light snow fell at Newburgh, ivew York, on the afternoon of the 3d. There was a heavy fall in the Mohawk {| Valley. Snow fell to the depth of six inches during the evening of the 24, at Thedford and Strathroy, and to the { depth of three inches at Zurich, All | the places are In Western Outario. At the time the report was sent snow was | still failing. Pickaway county, Obio, was visited by a heavy hailstorm on the evening of {the 2d. The standing corn was | stripped, and the apple crop, | promised to be abundant, was almost wholly destroyed, A telegram in that section was badly damaged by frost on the evening of the 30th ult, i —~William ilollaran, New York, iand John H. Larkins, of Newark, were killed by a traln near Mon- mouth Junction, New Jersey, on the evening of the 2d. ham, conductor on a of Baltimore and Mills, Maryland, and received Injuries which caused his death, A passenger train on the New York® Central Rail- road left the track at Byron Station, New York. The cars damaged. No person was killed, bat one man was badly injured. A freight train and an express train on the Le- i high Valley Railroad collided near Packerton, on the 34, and both en- gines and three (freight cars were i smashed. Thomas Foree, (ireman of the passenger train, was fatally | jured, { =—Mrs. Pfaffenberger strangled her two chilaren, aged four and two years, and then killed herself, in Blue Springs, Nebraska, on the evening of the 2d. She left a letter to her husband, who frie iii felt herself becoming crazy, and, seeing no future fer her children, had resolved to kill them and he -—The Richmond mond, Virginia, = 3d in the presence 20,000 people, Mrs. Governor Lee s-i ihe machinery in motion, There was a fine parade previous to the ceremonies, ~ Nelson Colbert, colored, shot and wolf cposition at Rick- opened on the the Columbia Street Car line, in Washington, D. C,, on the evening of the 34. Colbert demanded pay for working as a hostler, and Wen- zel told him to apply to the superinten- dent, stables of 2 oH ville on the numbered 73, and the deaths six. ‘was Mrs. C, D, Davis, a nurse from | Philadelphia. Four new cases of yellow | fever and two deaths were reported in Decatur, Alabama, on the 34, of the Saguenay, Quebec, is to the ef- fect that the whole population of that | The fisheries this season have failed and the crops also turned out badly, —The stage from Florence, Arizona, tc Casa Grande, was stopped at Dry who took the Wells-Fargo box and registered mail pouch, robbers escaped, —The banking house of Shanklin & Austin, in Trenton, Missouri, the oldest bank in northern Missouri, has closed its doors, was the failure of the Traders’ Bank, i of Chicago. treasure The | Atlantic Railroad, with a gang i fatally, injured, and about 30 others were more or less cnt and bruised, A | work train on the New York Central rallroad was telescoped near Jordan, | New York, on the morning of the 4th, i by an engine. Willlam Peck was fatal- { ly and a dozen other men severely in- ijured, A man, named Clarke, em- | ployed by the Thomson-Iouston Elee- | tric Company, in Chicago, was killed jon the 3d, by a shock from an electric | light wire he was testing. Antonio | Ketmos was killed on the 4th, by the | blowing out of a plate in a boller at the Chicago Coal Company's shaft in Streator, 1llinots, ~Seventy-five new cases of yellow | fever and one death were reported on {the 4th in Jacksonville. There were no new cases of yellow fever at Jack- son, Mississippi, on the 4tu, ~A boller exploded in the house of Ezra W. Chapin, in Chapinville, North- boro, Massachusetts, on the 4th, caus. ing damage estimated at $25,000, The family being In the back part of the house escaped injury. ~Three similar packages, addressed to three ladles, arrived in Gait, Ontario, on the evening of the 34, and were delivered on the morning of the 4th, Mrs, Cherry “was the first to get her package,” and she gave its contents, six chocolate drops, to her three e¢hil- dren, Soon after eating the drops all the children were seized with convule sions, and one of them died. Another is in a critical condition, ~John Miller and Alfred Gross aged tively 14 and 15 years, were shot killed at Hyndman, Penna., on the bth, by the accidental d of a shot gun in the hands of Albert Lobb, As several miners were descending a shaft, of the Kiogston Coal Company, flkesbarre, Penna., on the morn- Jeet fell and struck Richard miner, killing him instantly, He was { about 35 years old, and leaves a family, 12 capsized sail boat, containing the | kosh, Wisconsin, on the 5th. The boat was seen on the evening of the 4th with two persons In it, but it is believed all of were Mrs, county, Phillips, Maryland, {i children of Dorchester Wicomico river. fair at Penna , on ia boat in the {an agricultural Berks county, the Oth, a | a panic. David Levan, aged 60 years, verely injured. were also hurt, Three persons drank | cumulated gases in a new water works in Cleve- the Oth, The tunnel is lighted by elec- spark from one the gases, it recover. of ignited 18 —The body of Mary Dollinger, aged about 20 years, the wife of a farmer pear Lancaster, Penna,, was found on | the Litttle Conestoga creek. ihe ap- roundings indicated murder. In a quarrel over a will in ’ittsburg, on the Leahy shot and fatally wounded his brother-in-law, Aaron Bean, a negro, was killed by a mob near Jasper, Texas, on the 3d. He was caught in an at- tempt to assanit the young daughter of John lee. Glovanuni B Dendero sur- rendered lumself to the police in Boston on the 5th, stating that he had killed a relative named Glovanni Dendero, the hamlet of in May last. Ie says he will return to Italy without a requisition. ie iid ~It is sald that the entire popula- the brink of starvation, Mayor Smith, of St. Paul, Minnesota, has received prominent citizens, urging that steps It the townships, ~n the morning of the 5th the dead body of Philip W. Strense, an advertis. ing agent, was found leaning against a lamp-post in Pittsburg, It is supposed he commitied suicide by swallowing poison. On the afternoon of the Sth Frank Carnahan, of Salsburg, Penna. shot himself through the head in a Allegheny City. He lived long enough to say, ‘‘I am sick and couldn’t help it." : Fifty-two new cases of yellow fever and six deaths were reported in Jack. sonville, on the Sth, There were three new cases of yellow fever at Decatur, Alabama, on the 5th, Just as a Heading Rallroad train left Kutztown on the evening of the 4th, four men seized Daniel Geist, a wealthy farmer, who was seated in a car in which there were 8a number of other passengers, bound Lim with a rifled his pockets, then jumped from a train and escaped. Geist was #0 quickly that the passengers were not aware of the crime until the men had escaped. The pected to find a large amouut of money on Geist, but they secured only $18. 50th CONGRESS.~Firat Sesgion SENATE, In the United States Senate on the 1st, the House blll to forfeit certain lands granted to the Norihern Hallroad Company was reported with | amendments and placed on the calen- i dar, A message was received from the the Chinese Exclusion bill, and sub. | subject, It was read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Senate | The unfinished Lusiness, | the Northern Pacific Railroad, was | and Plumb. On motion of Mr. Dolph, ‘then he offered the Senate bill asa | substitute for the House bill, the ob- | with an amendment, | on his motion, the bill went over as | unfinished business, After an execu- | tive session the Senate adjourned. Inthe U, 8, Senate on the 24, Mr, Call's resolution instructing the Come mittee on Epideinic Diseases to con | sider and report at this session addi. { tional legisiation to prevent the im- portation of contagious or infectious diseases from foreign countries on the coast and boundaries of the United States was taken up, and, after discus. sion, referred to that committees, The conference report on the Deliciency bill was presented by Mr, Hale, After dis. cussion the Senate insisted in its dis. agreement to the items still in contro- versey, A conference report on the Joint resolution in ald of the yellow fever sufferers was agreed to, Mr. Jones, of Nevada, offered a resolution, which: was referred, requesting the President to negotiate treaties with Great Britain and Mexico for the ex- clusion of Chinese laborers from the North American Continent. The Com- mittee on Civil Service Reform was authorized to sit during the recess, Adjourned, Inthe U. 8. Senate on the 34, Mr, Allison, from the Committee on ¥Fi- nance, reported the substitute for the House Tariff bill, and it was placed on the calendar In the UU, 8, Senate on the 4th, the Sena'e bili to regulate the allotment of {lands in severally to Indians was re. | ported and placed on the calendar, Mr, | Hale's resolution in regard to the Benet circular was adopted after dis. { cussion. Senale bill classification of post-oflices, and amen- A CHAT WITH BLOXDIN, He Cares Now More for Money Than | for Glory. | pay me I would cross ze gloire “If zey would Niagara again, but for s J EU Bi adjust the salaries wus passed, amended | eTact on July 1st, 1880, 80 a8 to 10 session were presented and ordered printed. After an execulive the Senate adjourned, HOUSE, : In the House on the lst, a number | of bills and resolutions were Introduced under the call of States and referred. | his approvel of the Chinese Exclusion the Committee on Foreign Mr. Dunn moved to suspened the rules the Nicaragua Canal Company. The | reading of the bill having been Baished a second was demanded, As the point of no quorum would have been raised, | Mr. Donn withdrew Lis motion. Simi- | lar objection was made in the cases of other bills, and the House adjourned, the 21, Mr. Me- Kentucky, was elected The Benate bill In the House, on Creery, of ] Speaker pro tempore, Of course only one man in the world could have made that remark, and al- though it is a distinetion to have done what no other man of wowan born in all the ages has ever done, Jean Fran. cois Blondin seems to have in ure survived himself, When prime he walked A eas. in his in- narrow swirling he American and Canadian shores to make new entries some amendments, Mr. Burnes, Missouri, 1 nted the conference re | port on the int resolution in aid of the yellow fever sufferers, Mr, Kilgore, of Texas, raised the point of order that the resolution was not properly in con ference. The polut was over-ruled, and the report was agreed to. Mr, Milken introduced a resolution granting a month's extra pay to House and Senate employes. ending a vole the House adjourned. In the House on the 34, the confer- ence report the General bill was presented, Pending di the House adjourned, In the House, on the 4th, Mr, Duan, of Arkansas, asked Immediate consid- was passed with the On Pefiency CUSSION the Nicaragua Canal’ Company, Mr. Washington, of Tennessee, i jected, The conference report on the General Delicieney bill was taken up and rejected, In order to enable the Conference Committee to change the ob- investigation of the Washingt duct job, so as to enlarge the scope of the inquiry. Adjourned, Inthe U. 8. House of Representa- tives on the Senate bill to in- corporate the Nicaragua Canal Com- pany was taken up and considered in the Commillee of the Whole. An amendment offered by Mr, Culberson ts ih LE ON in this act shall be held or construed in any manner to involve United States any pecuniary obligation whatever, other than In respect to the payment of tolls,” Upon the question of reporting the bill he House no quorum voted and the commitiee rose, A concurrent resolution was agreed to for the appointment of a select joint commillee of (hres Senators and three lepresentatives investigate the work done oz the Washington ague- duct tunnel. A bill was reported and referred to the Committee of the ! Whole, appropriating $188 250 for com- pleting the improvement the fr iu to $ WO nd dredging of the St, Clair Flats ship canal. After tion of private pension bills the House adjourned, a The Writer as he Writes, When yo aut the sigh { the blank sheet of paper gives you an appetite instead of depriv- ing you of You long to be at work and cover it with ink marks, A new writer not only enjoys writing, but re. writing also; I have known who will copy out a piece, over and over again, until the page appears without an erasure. That is not a bad thing by way of practice, and would no doubt be advocated by the printers, But it is not Likely to be Kept up more than two or three years, After that the writer knows what be is going to write before he wriles it he has learned the art of putting the contents of his mind direct- | ly on the paper; besides, he has not the just begin 10 be an hor | of his work. He is more apt to put it then, to do it as rapidly as he can. { And by and by it will be irksome to him todo it at all, and he will wish that vacation, during which he could lie on his back and do nothing. i | worse than the beginning. An apathy, { a paralysis, settles upon the worker; he | wishes he had taken up butchering or | liquor selling for a living. Every day | that he postpones the completion of his | task it appears more hopeless; his mind | Is gloomy, his conscience oppressed; hie { haunts his study, ut effects no more than a ghost might; he draws pictures on scraps of paper, reads books that do not interest him, or even plans out work that can only be executed at some mdefinite future opportunity; at last his final moment of grace expires, and he sits down in desperation and plunges his pen into the inkstand. The work goes on, and then he wonders how he could have imagined any difficulty. The word “Finis’ is written, and he experiences an uplifting of the spirit. Thackeray, according to all accounts, was subject to distresstul periods of this kind; but he declaers, in one of his es- says, that after finishing a given book it was his custom always to begin another before going to bed-in the mood of reactionary lighthedrtedness following upon his depression, ct c—— «Walter Olney's of i old Trade Mark, by Kyrie Daly, Trade Dol lar, purchased by him at the i ks boo Met ah ar Suasdny Now when returns to America after decades | exhibits the even more Startling nerve of tripping blithely on the tight | iope with 65 years on his back, a sparse gathering of Coney Island visitors look with Janguid I est at the doughty funambulist he ints ie before the Sea Beach pa- much the same «ins There is ance between 1 aloft Lis Blondin who treads clad in Light nting tou on aerial %£ an f hia youth, te regulated or i lost my chai cident Ix tu 80 long as my center Jravity is right, I teil that by my shoulders and my bal- There is a sense of being which asst as it should be.” In carrying a over your back, are you im as to who it is, or do you have a person who is train- ed or specially qualified to be carried? 1 don’t suppose you find who covet the trip.” “Ol, yes. There are plenty who are ling to take it. I would CAITY one as another i has nerve, nie it ine is I8 ITEeS person on 1iffarent jierens many as soon if he showing any trace of i advise them not to go. Although their legs are run through straps they could slip Verugo, and fall backward, The mast sways somewhat, and a person subject at ail | to vertigo will show it when he gets up | there. 1 generally carry over my son, though his wife is decidedly opposed to bis taking the trip. But it is perfectly safe. 1am not as dangerous as a bob. “When vou crossed Niagara did find the rush of the water below “No. For a fortnight before I eross- | E they had no unpleasant effect on me. | It has been a little annoying here at! asked me if 1 felt the height. 1 would as lief walk a rope at one height as an- | The difliculty is in stretching a | rope securely at such great height.” “Have you ever changed your method at all?” “No. My method is the outcome of experience rather than theory. 1 be- gan walking when a child, There is such a thing as agenius for rope walk- ing as there is for everything else, I think I have it,” said Blondin modest- ly. **Now my son, though he can get over a rope, is not a rope walker, He is a good all-round athlete, but he has no decided talent for the profession, and would rather go over a tight rope on my back than on his feet.” Assi si The Lady Boarder. “Not another morsel,’ exclaimed the new lady boarder, after eating enough for six able bodied coal heavers, “Not another morsel. Really, I don't know what will become of me; no appetite at all, you know, As my last landlady said, I don’t eat enough to keep a bind alive.” The boarders sald nothing, but they all wondering whether the bird she to was an ostrich or Sine bad’s roc, 515 Those who excel will succesd. Lanohter ia tha daviisht of the snl ————— THE LITTLE GOOSE Gift. taising Geese in the Suburbs of New York City, rising ground that slopes » shallow and Duyvil, and Hu Ison, titel “oiiiiie Spuyten % rire i +8 § overiooking the waters of the with its busy craft on the west, flock of noon uot long ago wasdriving a g sider before her with a long switch, Her disorderly tresses blowing in the fresh breeze that came up from the shore looked like a mass of golden flax, waving and g ening in the warm August sunhght. geese themselves were rather and mournful looking ot, of the class chioose though, to be ’ 1 [ : a dejected At least they were not artist would ce an elfect o , they were rid Hey ran Ww and cessantly, The 11 self a mossy attentive ni Re] Ue uninviting com and there am charges wilh a n¢ reluctant Lien 1 yom “Last Come First Served , when Emma Abbot backwoods of 1ilinois, an appointment 1 read an adverti a teacher wanted The town was and there was only little Emma to get the “i SEI in the 1 ton i 1 miles away, for brave and that was ff, however, on Us journey sevenlee: one way only to find when sl tion that eleven girls had got there in advance of h Foolsore and weary she crossed the threshold of the yi in which the } applic: were sifting. A was © amining one of them, and as she ed all looked up. They were surprised as she gasped hed her destina- 3 + i Tox nan 13 3 litte umped up fr “And you first served, vy h g Ae man J exclaimed. Last come place,” seat and have it. time!’ Pall sha +3 iR Colonel Don Morrison Louis, was a He was an excesdingly It is said & nowy stag party home with him and room. Several members of the party suggested that, as the hour was late, 1t would be wiser to disperse, and the group stood on the front steps discus- sing the proposilien, Likely as pot,’ said one of the party, ‘your wife don’t fancy this intrusion at this hour of the night.’ ‘Gentlemen,’ said Morrison. sternly, ‘1*d have you understand, once for ail, that in his own house Colonel J. L. DD. Morrison is Caeser.” But just at that moment a feminine voice—cold aud meaniogful-—came down from an upper window: ‘Gentlemen,’ sald this voice, ‘go home to your wives; I'll take care of Coser!” The Coming Goeat Showman. The small boy who has a mania for picking up things and labeling them and putting them away in a cupboard has been at It again. The other day his little sister ran a piece of splinter so deep into her hand that the family had to send for the doctor to get it out. Theoperation was carried on with closed doors so far as the children were but they were all huddled just outside listening at the keyhole, Presently they heard some- bod ! “Thank goodness, It is out at last!” The museum enthusiast opened the door rushed in. “Don't waste it! Don't waste It! And it is now in his museum labeled “No. 0i1—Piece of a tree taken out of my sister’s hand, The stains are veal blood.”