WATT STORES A CLOUD-BURST IN PATERSON, NEW | JERSEY. A RAPID RISE IN THE LEHIGH RIVER . PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 14.—A ter- rific cloud burst occurred here this morning. Sireels were washed out, cellars flooded and the sewers choked so that the water spurted out of the manholes to the height of 10 feet. On Hamburgh avenue the sidewalks were washed away and a woman was swept several blocks toward the river before she was rescued by three men. In some places the water in the streets was four feet deep. Passaic City had a similiar experience. EasTON, Pa, Aug. 14.—A rain storm here to-night was the most vio- lent ever seen in this section. Within two hours the water in the Lehigh river rose eight feet. Two bridges and a dam op the Clinton branch of Lehigh Valley Railroad, and all War- | ren county bridges between Phillips- burg and Stewartsville, bave been swept away. The banks of the Morris Canal have broken in two places. The | damage to the streets in this place will | amount to about $2000. i Lock HAVER, Pa., Aug. 14.—A de | structive bail storm passed over part of | this county this afternoon, accompans i fed Ly au u 1 electric disturbance. | One house in this city was struck bv | lightning, but the inmates were not | geriously injured. At Woolrich hail stones as large as | hens’ eggs fell, doing great damage to | Crops. i BETHLEHEM, T'a., Aug. 14.—An ex- | tremely severe rain storm early this morning was followed by a heavy thun- | der storm this evening. Reports from i the country tell of great damage to | cornu, The I river here is rising at ihe rate of two feel per hour, and | the lowlands are inundated. A serious Jandslide d on the Lehigh and Susquebanna Railroad, at Treichler’s | station to-night. The tracks are block- aded for about ZU yards. Passenger | trans are held ou both sides, and it will be morning before trafic resumed. A freight train just passed over the mountain when the slide occurred. No one was injured as | far 4s can be learned NEW YORK, Aug. struck the building used as an office by the Ordnance Board, at Beach, near Saudy Hook, this morn- | ing, totally consuming the structure and its contents, Private Thomas Thorpe, acting as watchman, was in | upper part of the building at the time and barely escaped with his life, He was obliged to flee down a burning stairway in his bare feet, but sustained no injury thereircm, Thorpe gave the | alarm to the detachment, who | were breakfasting at the quarters, | a quarter of a mile off, all of whom responded at once, as did also Captain J. B. Ayre,who commands | the detachment, and Lieutenant W.W, | Gibson, but, as there 18 no apparatus for such emergencies, all hands were | obliged by and view the des. truction of the building, which was but | a mers shell,and dry as tinder. The bullding contained a number of valua- ble instruments used in Various ways | ng ordnance, all of which, to- | with the detachment records, were destroyed. The value of the pullding and its contents is estimated | at $10,000, | 3 3 tio) JAUIRG gecurrte an safely | 13 oe 14. — Lightning | Ocean | the Pa to stand S for Lest gether i | i A RATLS0AD CRASH. | [WO TRAINS COME TOGETHER MOORESTOWN. PERSON KILLED, BUT SEVERAL | INJURED, | MOORESTOWN, N.J., August 12, — | A railroad accident occured here this morning, in which two engines crashed i together, damaging both to a consider- | able extent, breaking up one of the | passenger coaches, and resulting in | injuries to a number of the passengers, pone of which, however, Were of a fatal character. The second section of the west-bound | train from the seashore. Beach Haven and Tuckerton, due at East Moores | town at 9 o'clock, Was, under the | schedule, obliged to go on the siding | there, in order to allow the Long | ranch express to Pass, Engineer Enos Reed and his conductor, Elam A. Gross, had only a few minutes before | been referring tothe “meet” at Moores- | town, and the conductor supposed, of course, be would take the siding. But | instead of doing 80, Engineer Reed | palied the throttle and started for West | Moorestown. The engine had hardly | passed the Chester avenue road cross- ig when Conductor Gross pulled | sharply on the bell rope. | Noticing that the | slacken its speed, he again gave the en- gineer the bell, at the same time pull- ing on the cord that operates the air brake. By this time the engineer was doing his best to stop the train, which had just stopped when the Long Branch exprees came dashing around the curve that obstructs the view al that point. A collision was inevitable, Eugineer Reed tried to start his train back, but seeing that he had no time, both be aud his fireman, willlam Em. mons, jumped for their lives, Both escaped unhurt. Before they could turn around the crash came, and both engines were locked together, The forward car on he east-bound train reared in the alr and then settled down on the ralls, while the tank was driven half way 4 car on the west-bound tender was knocked all out of shape. Amid the crashing of glass the affrighted rs slowly crawled out of the cars, while a few re. mained in their seats, as if too much frightened to move. A report that the boilers were about to burst caused a momentary stampede, but the scare was soon allayed by the state. went that both bollers were all right, and thet there was no further Sanger trom that quarter, Both grees were | aos aideruiily dan aged wud one or Two NO i train did not car platforms sroushed. This was the extent of the damage to the rolling stock The passengers immediately received the attention of the citizens who had been attracted to the scene hy the crash, and who came in crowds to see the wreck. There were quite a num- ber of passenger Who recelved slight injuries in the shape of cuts from broken glass and bruises from belong thrown from their seats. These were promptly looked after by the citizens. Dr. J. C. Stroud and Dr, F. G. Stroud which they of Phil- the were assisted by Dr. Willlams, WAS 4 passenger on THE INJURED, } The injured ones, with a few excep- which are as Richard 8. Ridgeway, Assistant Prosecutor of the Pleas of Camden, H. B. Smith, Philadelphia, head cul Maria N. Robinson, Germantown, also suffering head Her Mrs. Roberts, Philadelphia, pjured and teeth knocked out. nfant child also had Its head ent. Edward Mason, Camden, baggage master, bruised about the body. Bertie Balm, Camden, head cut and bruised, Jack ankle, John Uuston, about the shoulders, Herbert Wiley, wrenched. C, H. Cranme broken glass. Frank Gowle, Camden, thrown dow, slightly bruised. The Injured passengers were des- patched to thelr destination as soon as could be cleared away, and on the g crew travel was 1 i Huston, engineer, Spr ained engineer, bruised Camden, hip r, Manahawkin, cut by part of the wreckin resumed. The east-bound Lrain was of Conductor John Clark, of Camden, and **Jack’ Huston was the engineer. with the time-table, he making for East Moorestown, where he should have met the other } when the accuient occurred, | which Huston did all in his power | avert. and, when he saw that a collision his being SAVE loud in charge | Lo the chances of scalded to death to f whom were of and took post in his praise. Engineer lead was very much over the affair, and said: °° have thinking aboul. The freeman shoveling in coal, and somehow 1 1 would make for West Moores. { realize that the fault is mine, rope, and Casl { i been { ! | | i { was | town. I stopped as soon as I could.” Conductor Gross’s version of the the same. An | be {instituted by will at once NEWS OF THE W EEK. *_Martin Burke, the Cronin suspect, | in custody at Chicago, Was on the 13th Carlson, ge in which Dr, as the man who the owners of the cotta Cronin was murdered, iliams.”? Caroline Knop, aged 15 years, Was shot and instantly killed on the 11th at her home, Dear Canton, Ohio, bY Harry Smith, aged 13, who claimed that he did not Know that the revolver which he used was loaded. The Hollis brothers, who of the murder of Mra Gillis and her two daughters, in MMe- Dowell county, West Virginia, on the Oth, wore captured by a vigilance committee, hung up by the heels {0 the limb of a tree, and then shot to death. —John Wainans, of North Second street, Philadelphia, a brakeman on the New Jersey Central Rallroad, was struck and fatally injured on the 132th by an overhead bridge near Rosello, | He was taken to Elizabeth. Miss Alma Bender, of Chicago, was struck by a train and fatally mmjured at Wheaton, 11l., on the 1ith, while attempting to drive across the tracks in a buggy. Her compagion Michael Graf, of Wheaton, was seriously injured, William Rott, ot Evans Falls, was killed at Tunk- hannock, Penna, on the 12th, during a drunken quarrel with Jesse Phelps by being struck on the head with a monkey wrench, — Harry See, a farmer of St. Joseph, on the after- of the 12th in his Douse, with two bullet wounds in his body. It is believed that he was shot in self. defence by his wife, Who was cut and bruised and bore many mwarks of ill usage. She refused to Say anything about the matter, Warrants were issued on the 12th for Amel Goch, a farmer in Kent county, Michigan, and his hired man, Charles Brailey, for stealing a quantity of wheat, On the evening of the 12th Deputy Sher. iff P. J. Sinclair, and his brother, D. A. Sinclair, went to the farm to arrest the men, As they drove up to the house a shot was fired through the door from the inside, and D. A. Sin- clair fell mortally wounded and after- wards died, The deputy sheriff re- turned the fire, killing the hired man, Goch escaped. ~The totler in Thomas Anderson & Co.'s stove factory, at Dawson, Kentucky, exploded on the 12th. James Jackson was killed, Laton Men ser and Dennis Purdy were fatally in jured, and four others seriously Iin- jured. — An epidemic of diptheria has bro- gen out at Aubnrn, New York, whats, within three weeks, 21 cases and 1 deaths have been reported. An “infernal machine,” contain- ing dynamite, was left at the office of D. L. Baxter, of the Louisville, Ken- tucky, Leader, on the 19th, but the machine failed to ex because the percussion matohes did not ignite. It is wapposed it was intended to blow up Mr. Baxter and the Leader ofice, A GPs Ch noon Mt, Washiugton ered with snow to the depth of an inch and a half, and that the guests ‘ine dulged in a lively game snow-balling.” from that three negro men, —A despatch Alabama, says while under the delusion that they would pass through the fire unharmed, walked Into the cupola of an iron furnace Bear Dease-~ mer, and perished, They were per- suaded to do so by an old negro, Tobias Jackson, who proclanns fel the prophet.” —Two men entered a broker's office in New York on the 13th, and while one of them levelled a pistol at the broker’s head the other secured a sum was lying on the counter, afver which both ran off, Aid was summoned and one of the robbers was captured. —A despatch from Reading, Pa., says that on the evenlug of the 12th, 15 tramps boarded a Philadelphia and Reading Railroad coal train, near Reading, cut it into three parts, and after seizing the brakeman, robbed the rear caboose and escaped, ~All of the western trains entering Kansas City. Missourl, on the 13th, were delayed as the result of the flood of the previous day. The roadbed of the Santa Fe Railrood was seriously damaged for a distance of ten miles out of Topeka. The Union Pacific tracks were also submerged, and the bridges on the Southern and Santa Fe were swept away. Al Leavenworth the Missouri Pacific tracks were blocked by the wreck of a large lee house, and landslides at other points were reported. Nearly 20 miles of the track of the Burlington and Missouri, near Tecumseh, will have to be rebuilt, The losses at Publio, Colorado, by the recent floods are estimated at between 75.000 and $100,000, On the West Cliff branch of the Rio Grande Rallroad seven bridges, miles, were carried away. A storm, accompanied high wind and clouds of sand, but rain, Was reported at New Mexico, on the 13th. struck and killed and stunned several persons. —Superior Judge Ww san Diego, California, Ww back and seriously 13th, by W. § whom a judicial been given by Vierce. rel in a Cincinnati police station, on the evening of the 13th, Ww. W. Haines was shot and fatally wounded by Turn- | key Taylor Herbert C. P. Sever, Superintendent of the Kansas City | Coal and Coke Company shot at from ambush and killed ou the 14th at Carbon Hill, Walker county, | Alabama. Some Lime since he em- ployed several officers to stop moon- shiners from selling “mountain dew” to the miners, shiners shot him. known detective tucky, was shot early on the moming of the 14th by Taylor Herbert, turnkey at the jail Hanes had been drin an old quarrel, Clendennin, Bunt Hanes, a well —Ex-Judge David 5S, Terry was shot and killed in a rallway dining room al Lathrop, California, on the morning of he 14th, by Deputy U. 8. Marshal Nagle, who was dela guard fo the U. 5. Supreme struck Judge Fle repeat the blow wh ing Terry instantly. had been feared a Marshal was detal Court, An — —————— ———————————— {— Justice, Nagle was arrested and Just jee Field proceeded to san Francisco. Chief of Tennessee, was shot and fatally wound- od on the 14th by negroes in the vicin- ity of the jail. They were the vicinity, su would be made oner, and when discove were fired upon. fire with the above result, James Connelly and Donald were engine on the 14:n:. at the South Omaha, Nebraska, stock yards. James MeLarkey was buried by a cave-in in the Hammond Colliery, Penna., on the 14th, narrowly escaped the same fate. Hawkes, ag shot and fatally wounded on the 13th, at St. John, New Brunswick, where he was visiting, by James 12 years old. Bennett found a loaded revolver, and was playing with it when the other boy appeare 1, whereupon he pointed the weapon at Hawkes and fired. J. W. Ackerma of Rathway, New Jersey, shot and probably fatally wounded his son-in-law, J. H. Thotp, on the evemng of the 14th. This is said to have been Ackerman’s second attempt to kill Thorp, and resulted from family differences. During a disturb ance at a ball following a wedding at Covington, Kentucky. on the morning of the 15th, Harry Terlan, aged 21 years, was struck In the head by a wo- man with a beer glass and fatally in- jured. Antonio Brenio, an Italian, who was stabbed with a paper file by Joseph Denova, on the 4th inst., was found dead in Aan outhouse on the evening of the 14th at Patterson, N. J. The weapon Was found to have penetrated the spleen. Denova has not been W hended. Frank Willer, lector of Internal Revenue ‘Tallahassee Division, Was shot and killed near Westville, Holmes county, Florida, by John Brownell. an filleit distiller. Willer had gone to the house with a Deputy M arrest A Brownell, who jumped from the win- dow and oi A PT rers and a of newly rors at ing of the Owen Willie 0, fatally es 148h by Fred Loshman dur- over a debt of $2. Lcsb- was on the 15th taken from tie Th mpehii wv, SAYS that (he s ommit of man {11 ard lynel al. J. 1. Duplechein, « Trust. A————— A pleture memory brings to me 1 100K across the years and see Myself beside my mother's knee, and restrain { know again and pain. I feel her gentle h My selfish moods and A child's sense of wrong But wiser now a man grey grown My childhood’s needs are better Known, My mother's chastening love 1 own. Grey grown, but In our Father's sight A child still groping for the light To read his word and ways aright. and ; [ bow myself beneath his hi panned, That pain itself for good was { trust but cannot understian { fondly dream it needs must be That, as my mother dealt with me So with His children dealeth He. 1 wait and trust theend will prove That here and there below above The chastening heals the palin Is love! Jous G., WHITTIER, _-—_— THE EMPEROR'S PROCLA MATION. though magnificent apartment, from which the light of day has been resolutely shut out, a pale, wasted woman, clad in deepest mourn- ing, weeps and prays. It is the Em- oress of Austria, the once proud and envied Maria-Theresla ! Her woman's courage has failed her utterly at the thought of retain the reins of government in her widowed and she has just ins sted on her proclaimed Emperor, rity into In a gloomy ing hands, gon Joseph being that she may transfer all aul his hands, 11. was therefore proclaimed Joseph 7605, his mother, Emperor of Austria inl although retaining the title of at least for a time-—abant Empress, having- toned | the cares of the E The voung Emporer fe al pire. it the time to in practice the h he had longed ut his boy- sen] Joseph, be now come, for him 0 put some of the many reforms in con- through Arch in vain for He taxes dreamt of the or and i Ww URE the power of determi f i hoo en, as ie had si redressing Wrongs. ghed * would lower the aula himself, by i 10 repro- “ of tho jamation dav he tion all He wanls % bys iv 2 rl x QOOU, and As he could gad t his capital. 3 1 = 3 14 i the glass he hard and is o himself “Because 1 am at her ques f te “Io not be afraid « r distress?’ thou what 1 never to “Where to 4 Sei Yow | | “ And what is that? “The clothes of my mother!” “Then you are very poor?’ “Eo poor that we are al our straits for a bit of bre 3. “And money, what w i “Then, or joes not racie | ) an we must die We shall gone before us, and we shall blood for sd of your wounds, ife dis. when you have spent this you?" You # vecone OF Work a of my * go to where father is shed your your country, you di w wess allows your aor *? FA father was and child to die of hun “And iid the Kmperor eagerly. “He throughout tl was always expecting edgement of his services, but died une noticed, and we shall soon follow him.” “Why did you not apply to the Em- press? She 18 always disposed to grant pensions to those who deserve them.” “Pensions, sir, are for those who have influential friends at court, and know how to play the hypocrite, We are untitled, and my mother would never consent to the meanness of pretending to sentiments we do not feel,” “Why not apply to the Emperor?”’ “Yes, to get a refusal,’’ sald the poor girl; "they say he is proud and naughty, and refuses all petitions. n “jie repulses every petition that comes to him through a third party; but do you know that from twelve 10 two every day his cabinet is opened to all, and he does justice himself to all who come to him in person?” “So they say, but no one believes it, The guards are not likely to let anyone in the palace but the rich or titled, and no one else would try to get an inter- view with the Emperor.”’ +s that all the confidence they have in their Emperor? Do they not believe in his good intentions, his kind heart?" “His heart!” interrupted the young girl, “they say be has none; that he cares only for himself; that he has often peen cruel to his mother, Good and kind x8 she is, he takes pleasure in her youl a soldier?” = served ie some acknowl an officer, and wo Seven Years War, was tears. They even say that he refuses mother. ’”’ “Only those that were obtained by false representations, so as wo rectify abuses which were weighing on the exchequer, ’”’ “Ah! that was Ins excuse. He only wants to heap up money, They say he's a miser,”’ “He a miser! Has he not given up | his share of his father’s inheritence, 80 as to lessen the taxes of the people?” “It has been sald, I know. But how can one believe it of a prince 50 avarici- ous and incapable of generous actions?’ Joseph could hardly remain master of himself, and for a moment his eyes flashed fire. But a sad smile shone from them, as he said: “My child, they have deceived you, and greatly wron the Emperor; if you only knew him, you would do him justice, Go home at once, the statement you have iG make, and at twelve o'clock come 10 the palace. The guard will conduct you to me, and I will make sure that your letter reaches the Emperor. Rest assured he will do you justice,” The girl gave her benefactor a look of gratitude, but tears choked her utter- ance when she tried to speak, “your mothers ill,”’ he said, “and in need of care; do not sell Here twelve gold pieces her. Meet mn ually at the palace at twelve with tions he pursued Ins way! are wii +411 * n will advance W @ O'CLOCK. sad Poor Joseph! what such good intentions { people was heartless, cruel, miser It would Emperol believed them oO ly and unjust! follow i vy take too} to the throu morning's He a5, and returned rouna. BAW iW after mid-day. iow iL Ww my 1} ould rejoice my heart,’ he tito see that girl already wail And as it the entere The pass unrecognized, able was tae 1 ¥ Was Hous hie 1 #3 s H i alt 4 * + fs 4 CAL gale, genie ' disguise, he ant ante-cii thanks to his WAS ch the atic AEE eption-room + Servants, he tle 1 he litle Px As soon he rushed up i stition was as sl " Ah!" *‘you have your word; be afraidy ou were IDAKing sec I was righ one 1 FC a1 jad any ni AVS Tn ntion essing, and then ie yor other. $ gk #34 ed 1 cannol grand. i 1 i must show you sy have slandere he f the unfortu- Iwi me in p v » bean ® Emperor, hat ttends to the petitions « (Give me your paper, f iad and then I will naie. in myself; you will find is i Majesty's chamber, you my name.” So saying, Joseph gave a nod of en- couragement, and door. In a few minutes the ante- cham! their way the girl became alarmed a in such a crowd, till a 1 i 10 §3 $ Wil w or and the young finding herself servant appeared to her, and toid her he sha f he id take her to the Emperor. him through a number of apartments, each more splen iid than the which : last, tail they came to one in officers were assembled. minute, miss,” sald the tsywhile 1 tell his Majesty And almost immediately the young girl found herself in the cabinet of Joseph II. A man in military uni- form was looking oul of the window, qd 45 she entered, saying, with a kind voice: “You wish to see the Emperor; here Iam.” The poor girl uttered a cry, and fell on her knees pale and weeping, as she recognized her benefactor, It was surely he, with thal same sywpathizing voice: and she had dared to tell him that the Emperor was cruel and unjust! Joseph broke the silence, for he pitied her confusion, *‘Rise my child; 1 have read your petition,” he said, “and am convinced that you are telling we the truth, 1am glad to beable to set right an involuntary omission of the Empress, who thought your father had left no family behind him. In future your mother will receive a pension equal to his pay, which will be transferred to you on her death, And now rise from your knees; we should only kneel to God.’ “I canpot rise, sir, until you have granted we a full pardon for all the sad things I have said of you in my igno- rance.”’ “They are already forgiven and for- gotten. Go home to your mother, and carry her my good wishes, But stay you asked to know my name, that you mig remember it In your prayers. 1 and must use it Pi young mab, here." but turne Joseph.’! It must be the spur of the momént that makes time go 80 fast, i emma et The Worn Out Potato. lad warns ‘‘elderiy men of the bachelor crew’! that if they insist upon commit- ting matrimony late in life *“their babes will be elderly, elderly, too.” That is just what has happened to the poor po- tato. For lack of frequent healthy crossing the entire vitality of the race has been slowly dissipated; the entire stock has grown old together, and we stand now face to face with the awful possibility of a potatoless universe. But why can’t we go back to the tountain- head once more, and start afresh with brand new potatoes from their nal forest? Aye, there’s the rub, as Ham- We can’t ive r Noir y iy knows where the potato comes from; native forest itself The wild potato seems as extinet discove is dead. aboriginal our day the wide world over as dode or the deinotherium. This i with lant foods, Nobody can trace neest a ti th I the way important p with certainty Of of Indian of the fact rich sto or of wheat 1 primitive corn, ! plantail The slant lays by these al for its banana, wheneve $ v 16 i# rs awn use, either as seed Or man, greeay Talis its 8; : its native type altogether. grubbed up all th id them on the we merely Lie & Wi ol and ate spot, Or ieN encroached 1 ana SR OeT Ipon t { rowded ing groun as far fils 0h 3 £ l fead t ms: and fences are buffalo in the Far West, does nol appear; but what is cer- potato itsell joes not now appear either. We unt of the primitive stock, 0 that with to ubers hem ou $e 313 a is that the wild % vend irs have ’t go back to it to Cross it own degenerate des endants anew its barbaric 1 1 ] t or the ash-iea Cal or from Ji ved yy the suc ulent Kidney. A ee ——————— aa Tobacco Producing Co try. a Russi up Laat » «3 , wo tobacco exhibits al Among H Paris Exposition, that from Russia i8 one of the most interesting. Russia 18 a much larger tobacco produci gry than is generally supposed; and, al- though for a greater part of very infer- jor quality, there are several provinces in the south, and bordering upon the Biack Sea, that raise some of very falr quality suited to the manufacture of cigarettes, and the prices are at present reasonable. The object of the display will more particularly be to open up a trade in the Western markets. Every source from which an improvement in cheaper cigarettes may pe derived is worth the attention of our makers. The ordinary run of our cheaper cigarettes is far from satisfactory; and quantities of the imported Egyptian are decidedly nauseous, As with most things, a larger demand produces inferior quality, until a commodity is commercially ruined by {ts own SUCCESS, 1 ng coun- A sm——— Perseverance. Let no man admit to himself that he has been baffled In anything while he has health and strength for another at “Up and at it again!” 1s the The feeble
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