SIOGHS AND FLOODS HEAVY RAINS IN PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE WASHOUTS ON THE WILMINGTON AND NORTHERN RAILROAD. WiLamiNaroN, Del, Sept. 17.-A heavy storm of thunder snd lightning in upper New Castle and Chester coun ties, with a fall of rain almwcst ¢qual to a cloud burst, did great damage last uight along the line of the Wilmington and Northern Railroad and Laaden- burg Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Ratlroad. No trains have been above Coatesville on the Wilmington and Northern Railroad from here to- day. The viaduct bridge near Coates. ville, Pe., is badly damaged. The upper Iibernia bridge is washed entirely away. Mexico bridge, pear Birdsboro, is seriously damaged, and it is feared that rains to-night will carry it away. Another bridge at Wilkinson's siding is gone. At Waynesburg Junction, 45 miles from Wilmington, 50 feet of the roadbed has been washed away. No trains south have been run farther than Springfield, 22 miles from Reading. Traffic from Springfield south to Coatesville, a distance of 19 miles, has been shut off to-day. In this distance there are many bridges crossing the Brandywine, and the heavy rain this afternoon will probably cause further damage, In places where the roadbed has been washed away the cuts are 80 deep that trestles will have to be built. On the Landenburg branch of the Baltimore and Ohio no trains have ar- rived in this city to-day. There is a washout at Brandywine Springs nearly 100 feet in length, and passengers had to be transferred around the cul. There were a number of landslides in deep cuts, which were cleared away this morning. No freight can be hauled before to-morrow or later. The pienic grounds at Drandywine Springs bave been washed as if a torrent of water swept through them. Itis the most disastrous storm on this line since 1873. Many county bridges have been carried away in the northern part of the county. McKEgsroRT, PA., Sept. 17.—The heavest rain fell in years was experi- enced at this place to-day. Streets were turned into rivers, Cellers and first floors of many public and private buildings were flooded. Two houses were overturned, while a number in process of erection were so badly dam- aged 1t is believed they will have to be reconstructed from the foundation up. Several of the streets are impassable, The tracks or the Baltimore and Ohio, Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston, and Belle Vernon Railroads were washed | out,and in several places obstructed by heavy landslides, So far as learned no lives were lost, rorrstownN, Pa, Sept. 17.—The heavy shower of last night and tre- mendous downpour of to«day in the Schuylkill Valley have caused a flood in ail the adjacent streams, The Schuylkill river is high and still rising. ‘I'he Manatawny, Sprogell and Sana- toga creeks are greatly swollen, and French creek and Pigeon creek, in Chester county, are rushing torrents, A Philadeiphian who drove over to day found it impossible to cross Pigeon creek, and returned to town. Damages to bridges, telephone and telegraph wires and private property are reported from points in the Valley. PLAINFIELD, N. J., Sept. 17.—This sity was visited Ly another flood this svening. Between 6 and 7 o'clock the water in Green brook rose four feet carrying away the bridge on Somerset street, which bad been weakened by the flood of a few weeks ago. Cedar brook has overflowed its banks, and residents of Tenth street are greatly alarmed. Although the Feltville dam is pro- nounced safe, timid people fear that it may break, and greal uneasiness ex- ists. Life ropes have been placed across Somerset street, TERRIBLE LAND SLIDE. SEVEN DWELLINGS DEMOLISHED IN QUEBEC. SEVERAL DEAD BODIES TAKEN OUT— BETWEEN TWENTY AND THIRTY LIVES SUPPOSED TO BE LOST. QUEBEC, Sept. 19.—To-night severa’ thousand tons of rock slid from Cape Diamond, at the end of Dufferin Te:- race, to Champlain street, 300 feet | below, demolishing In its course seven dwellings, Up to midnight six bodies have been taken frum the ruins, vz: Thomas Farrell and two of his children; also two children named Durkee sod one unknown child. Farrell's mother-in-law, Mrs, Allen, and Ler husband are still in the ruins, About 25 persons bave been removed from the cebris badly lujured. Some have broken arms and legs, and others are badly erushed and mutilated, It is supposed that at least 50 per- gona are yet under the ruins, **B' Battery, the fire brigade, the police force are on the ground render. ing valuable assistance. All the wounded removed from the ruins were conveyed to the Marine and Fisheries Deparsment, where medical men and clergymen looked after them. The debris covers the road in a solid mass some 300 feet in length and from 15 to 25 feet high. It is impossible to say at present how many are dead and wounded. Every one is working herolcally and under difficulties, us the night is in- tensely dark and the electric light wires have been prostrated. -Two cyclone disturbances ars re- ported from the West Indies, one gouth-south west of Havana and the other south-south-east of Cabs, The first snow of the season at Laramie, Ww Joming, and Leadville, Colorado, teil on the morning of the 14th, Speak well, even to a bad man, Whisky 18 easily rectified, mistakes Le DOWN AN EMBANKMENT. ONE PERSON KILLED AND A NUMBER INJURED, SEVERAL FATALLY. WicHiTA, Kansas, Sept. 19,—The east-bound St. Louls and San Fran- cisco passenger train was derailed near Leon, Butler county, yesterday, by the spreading of the rails, Three passen- ger coaches left the track while the train was going thirty miles an hour and rolled down al10-foot embankment, The coaches were not well filled, and thus the loss of life was not so great as it otherwise would have been. R. M. Bemis was Instantly killed, being thrown through the roof of the car. lsaac Dean, of this city, was fatally Injured, having his breast erushed in by a car timber. Mrs. Matseka, also of this city, was fatally crushed by the weight of the car. Mrs, John Mitchell, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, had one arm and one leg broken; Mrs. R. A. Hodges, of Ar- kansas City, had an arm and several ribs broken, and may die; HR. IL. Lathrop, of Kansas City, had his right leg broken in two places and received internal injuries. About ten more were slightly injured, —————————— NEWS OF THE WEEK. —Frederick Doty, aged 18 years, was taken in an unconscious condition in a cab to the New York Hospital, on the morning of the 15th, and died soon after, Three young men were with him, Frank Washborne, Thomas L, Spier and Albert L. Liell. Douy’s father is a dealer in rubber goods on Park Row. The young men had all veen drinking together. According to the story of his companions Doty fell and struck his head agalust the curb. stone. An autopsy showed that Doty died from intercranial hemorrhage, caused either by a blow or fall. A mystery surrounds the case, which the police and Coroner are endeavoring to clear away. —During a game of cards in Pitts. burg on the evening of the 14th Giov- anoi Franchello stabbed his brother Michele to death, Luther Wallace shot and killed Lulu Smith, a servant in the Central Hotel in California, | Missouri, on the 14th, and then shot | himself, —A Chicago and Western express | train from Pittsburg oa the 10th | passed at full speed through three open switches on to a siding, at Colliers, West Virginia, and dashed into several | gondolas. The was wrecked, | and thrown down an embankment The baggage car was thrown cross. the smoker was thrown partiy down the | bank. Engineer Barney Bannon Fireman John ©O'Bey, both of Pitts. burg, stood by the engine until it went over, being thrown into some bushes; | and escaped with slight injuries, The | passengers and trainmen in the smoker i and baggage car also escaped with a | few slizht Infuries — The stage between rorest Hill and | Auburn, in California, was stopped on | the morning of the 16th by one masked man, who demanded the treasare box, It was given him and he rode away, ~The Nicely brothers, confined In jail at Somerset, Pa, under sentence | of death for the murder of Farmer | Umburger, on the 16th overpowered the sheriff, and, when a deputy sheriff went to his assistance, one of the brothers, with the sheriff’s revolver, | shot the deputy, and both made good their escape. The depuly’s wound is a serious one. The fugitives were sub- sequently captured, —W. Q. Campbell, accompanied bya dog, made a safe passage through the rapids below Niagara Falls on the 15th, Both the man and dog wore cork life preservers, Campbell Is about 21 years of age, ~Frank Amos, a prominent citizen of Morgan county, was murdered at his home, on the 16th, vy Mrs, llam- ton, his niece who literally hacked his face and head to pleces with a butcher knife, which she had carried for weeks avowedly for that purpose, Amos was picking berries In a field with his wile when the attack was made, She and a man who was passing on the road were attracted by his cries, and reached him only in time to see him breathe his last and to see Mrs. Hamton and her daughter run away, The murder grew out of a lawsuit, in which the testi. mory of Amos threw the costs on Mrs, Hawmton, While some laborers in the stone guarries near Vancouver, British Col- Ie is fatally wounded. i engines i vith chisels on the morniog of the 16th, a terrible explosion occurred, killing Patrick Morgan and Patrick Delaney, Four other men were fear- fully burned. A milk wagon driven by a young mau named Holmstrom, and containing five persons, was stiuck by an engine ata railroad crossing in Chicago on the evening of the 15th, One of the men, William Densell, was killed; the others escaped with slight bruises, «Charles Friese, assistant engineer in the ice~house of Ruppert’s brewery in New York, was killed on the éven- ing of the 15th. While at bis post he noticed that a bolt which held in piace a huge erank arm, weighing a ton, had become loose. ln sttempting Lo adjust it he lost his footing and fell, striking with his feet the lever which started the machinery, fell into a shallow pit into which the crank dips and in which it fits exactly, The machinery de- scended and crushed the engineer. Frederick Krohn and Frank Smith, of Fremont, Wisconsin, were drowned on the 14th while fishing. The upper story of a new two-story brick bullding in the outskirts of Chicago was blown down on the afternoon of the 17th, dangerously, if not fatally, mjuving John Robelal and John Kohl. John Zuintbal and his ten children left Boone, Iowa, In 8 wagon about September 1st for Milwaukee, They were ten days on the road, aud on are riving in Milwaukee nine of the child. ren were taken with diphtheria, six dying within six days. They contracted the disease on the road, «Nineteen herds of caitle are quarantined in Chester county, Penna, , Lon account of pleuro-poeumonia. ~ Another suppcsed jellow fever Health authorities on the 18th. on the Atlas Line steamer Alvo, from Costa ities. He was taken sick when two days out, and on arriving at Brooklyn he went to the Charities Department and complained of having chills and pains in the back. He was gent to the county hospital. Dr. Arnold is of opinion that it isa genu- ine case of yellow fever. suspicious case of sickness on board, has been fined $100 in Brooklyn for making an affidavit that there was no sickness on board during the trip. — An explosion of gas in Neilson’s shaft, at Shamokin, Penna., on the 17th, burned Alexander Crow, John Tocas, John Murphy and William Cal- vin, the Orst two named fatally. The explosion was caused by Tocas, who was ignorant of the presence of the gas, —A large dam at Springton Forge, eight miles above Coatesville, Penna., burst on the evening of the 17th, owing to the heavy rains, and on the morning of the 18th the Brandywine creek had arisen toan alarming height. Hundreds of flelds were a dreary wasle of water. Many farmers and thelr families left their houses during the night and remained on the neighbor- ing hills, The Wilmington and North- ern Railroad is not yet open between Reading and Wilmington. Many miles of fences have been carried away, and, on a number of farms, everything not in buildings was carried away. The damage amounts to many thou- sands of dollars, At one time the Brandywine creek was eighteen feet above its usual height. Ohlo, on the 18th, was two and a haif hours in passing 4 given point, and the over 20 000, Sire John C, along the street with horse slipped and fell, his horse and while another his in staff struck him about the The Monarch of Persia some Big Guns, Inspects The Shah left Craigs:de, Rothbury, where he had been the guest of Lord Armstrong since the previous evening, at noon, and traveled by special train to Newcastle, arriving on the Tyne at 1 o'clock. On arrival the Shah was taken to the Elswick factory of Messrs, Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. The weather was fine and the streets were crowded. After luncheon the Shah and suite inspected the Elswick works, His Majesty's attention was first drawn to various portions of the large sixty- eight-ton ordinance, such as trunnions and breech rings, as well as to the six- mech cannon in progress of construction, Then he saw a monster 105-ton gun, at which he grew still more interested. He asked how far a (8-ton gun could throw its projectile, and he was told twelve and a half miles, and he lifted his hands with a gesture of astonish- ment, “What were such guns for?” was what he wished to know. One of the new quick firing six-inch guns next attracted his Imperial Ma- jesty’s attention, who had it trained and the breech-block thrown open to how it was worked. He looked down the bore at the rifling, and asked what such a gun would do. 860 “Fire seven to nine shots a minute, and go through thirteen inches of iron at 2,000 yards,” wis Whereupon the Si examined it over most carefully. Then he and his Grand Vizier and suite looked intently at the almost fini 25-ton which about and run to and froon a crane as if ' the answer. wah all sing ing gun, was 1 BW it were a popgul i pan's hand, vy iooked at Llu and who, with i i iit LE — A train of seven cars going son ing of the 16th, wreck Passengers were Two wreck. The njured rescued, caught lire with diff persons were Henry Oliver, of Union, New York and 13 persons were injured, fatally, the 10th convicted at May's Landing, tantic City, and was sentenced to two years in the Stale prison. ~The dead bodies of a man and were found on the morning of the 19th in a nursery at Windror, Ontario, the woman baving been shot forehead, two hours before, two They had been sitting A revol- empty chambers, jay the ver, with it out, convulsively, with both hands. age, and the woman about 20, Their clothes contained only three in money, but papers found on the man indicated that he was Silas Dins- wife. —While a loaded wagon containing a party of five was crossing a ford nea: Purcellsville, Virginia, on the morn. ing of the 10th, the stream being swol jen, the horses became unmanageable, and the wagon was swept some distance. Miss Susie Cator, of Georgetown, District of Comumbia, and Missy Elia Atwell, of Alexandria, jumped into the water and were drowned, The reat of the party reached shore, Awaler spout burst over Cerro Gordo, Mex'co on the 8th, causing several deaths, Live stock was swept away and hous: s destroyed, The exact number of deaths and the extent of the damage done are not known. The recent wet and win ly weather has done great damage to the late peach crop In New Jersey, in Hunterdon county alone the loss 18 es- timated at $100,000, ~Herrick Lopez, aged 13 years, was stabbed to death by Joseph Debarron, a boy in his ninth year, in a» quarrel, pear Wareham, Mass, on the evening of the 18th. A vocket-knife was the weapon, The Coroner's jury in New York on the 19th found Christian Deghle guilty of the murder of Fred erick Gesswein, whom he sbot on the 13th inst. The accused was commits ted to the Tombs to await the action of the Grand Jary. Deyhie is said to be in the last stage of consumption, and it is believed he will not live to be brought to trial. W. M, Delemere, a former railroad man, was shot and Killed in Atlanta, Georgia, early on the morning of the 19th, while attempting to get into a box car to steal a ride, He was shot by Watchman Elbndge, who asserts that Delemere drew a pis- tol on him, ~A freight train on the Mexican Central Raliroad was derailed pear Lagos on the 10th, Ten men were killed and three injured. It is sup posed that the train was wrecked by robbers, Frank Haussen and an un- known man who was in the with him were killed in Chicago on evening of the 18th by being struck by a train, Merritt Wright, a contractor of Canton, Penna, was Killed on the evening of the 18h by the caving io of a sand bank, ~The first snow eof the season at Newburg, New York, fell on the after. noon of the 10th, Snow began falling on Mount Washing on the morning of the 10th, and by night was several inches The summits peer the Crawford House are white. Geese, Would Not Supply The momentous uct now gpon the world that in year of the reign ¢ f Ptolemy phus, of the 1« wrote a letter stating § supply twelve King's festival, the world has been Ghee yal hat geese Ww anted for the Of uo on a irrefragable historical evidence as that which tells us that the Pharaoh of Joseph's time imprisoned his chief b chief baker for small offence. It this way. The State the royal geese was duly pigeon-holed, and, after the lapse of years, perhaps, was disposed of as waste papyrus. It fell into the hands of the undertakers, who used it along with a lot of similar material in making the carlonnage headcase for a mummy. * ler and probably as an comes about in called Tell Gurob at this day) which of the Exodus, season's excavations In the Fayoum, plaster over all, was soaked in water, and the papyri of which It was com- posed became separated without in jury to the original writing, about great many other far more inter esting facts in connection with every- day life and affairs of the Egyptians of that epoch, For there are lots of mum- mies and quite a crop of Ptolemaic documents, and many of them will soon be in the actual custody of the British Museu: authorities. Consid. ering the progress that has been made in Egyptology during the present cen- tury, and the abundance of fresh ma- terial that Jas been brought to light of recent years, the next generation may be able to learn as much about Egyp- tian antiquities as the present one can about Grecian or Roman, From records previously recovered it appears to be established that mgean Greeks visited Egypt quite 4800 years ago. During his last season’s explora- tions Mr. Petrie exhumed at lilabun some pottery of that period stamped with alphabetical characters which are neither bieroglyphic nor hieratic, There is nothing to show that these two facts are in any way connected, But he exhumed at Tell Gurob a quantity of pottery of undoubted Cypriote and Mycenmn types, and which belongs to a period somewhat anterior to the Exo- dus, These, curiously enough, are in- alsed with characters of A very similar — —— description, early Greek or Phaenician, Sheuld this conjecture prove to be well confounded it wiil lead to some very startling con- clusions. It has generally been accepted that the Homeric epics were preserved by oral tradition and edited, if not added to, at a later period. discoveries of Mr. Petrie have been reduced to writing at blind Homer's own dictation. -——_—- The Effects of Tight Clothing. Now that rational ideas as to dress have acquired a definite place in public esteem, it may be imagined that the practice of tight lacing and customs of a like nature, if known at all, are not what they used to be. A case of sud- den death lately reported from Birm- ingham proves that it too early to indulge in such illusory ideas, The deceased, servant girl of excitable temperament, died suddenly in an epi leptoid fit, and the evidence given be fore the coroner respecting her attributed the fatal issue to asphyxia, due in a great measure to the both neck and waist constricted by her clothing, the former by a tight collar, the latter by a belt worn under the stays, We have certainly those very conditions is still a 1 oe death i “ $e fact that were unnaturally yuld lead us to expect the Jig ve sit seizure, consequences There 18 no « whose {ree vatviant moveineni hampered by a tight § "gu f «x $3 iL COU WI 1860-Prices-1880., There is a wide field omparing the articles as sold in New York, present quotations, September, opened by « prices | leading { 20 years ago, with 18 On the 13th of i sold at 1358. 1868, goid If prices are compared it 1 that refined sugar oresent cost, RB. being Have. double, lard ee q- ii a ainst G4 ae. now; . 12 505 butter, 40 a 48¢c,, for the | grades, | against 17 a 20e. to-day. Refined petroleam in barrels was 30 a 32§¢. per gallon in 1869, but pow it is 73 aie. Ly a pork, $27 a 30 against §12 a we ht it wns 20 years ago. In spices the reduction is great, for then a heavy duty was imposed, while now they are duty free. Reader, look at the price of tea in 1860, as comparéd with the present invoice cost, and note the tre- mendous reduction, from 80a 90c. to 15a 2). for low grade Japan, It is needless to specify further with both | price lists before you. We live in an | era of cheap food; of better food now han formerly. It comes to the cone sumer in better style and condition, Luxuries that only the rich could afford lin 1860 are now so plenty and cheap that the masses can use then daily, Steam, snd electricity, as applied to machinery and transportation, have reduced the cost of production. Twenty years ago you will note the difference of fully tour cents per pound between the cost of raw sugar and refined, while to-day it is about one cent, and before the trust was formed two-thirds of a cent per pound, and this is due to the use of the centrifugal machioe, which enables the refiner to accomplish in one day's work which 20 years ago required two weeks, Note the differ ence jn the cost of cannsd goods and their character: A few staple articles were accessible in 1860 at high cost, viz., $240 per dozen for No 3 tomatoes, which to-day sell at 85 and 90 cents; corn, in two-pound cans, $3.50 and $3.75, which bas gone beg- ging this season at 50 and 90 cents per dozen. We are a busy people, but we earn more money and live better than ever before in the history of the country. The Royal Society, London, has ap pointed a ons pecounts of the volcanic catastro- phe at Krakatoa and the severa’ phenomena which alterded it, CONVERSING BY TELEGRAPH. An Operator Says He Does Not Hear the Click of {ie Instrument. “Do 1 hear the elick of my instru ment?” said a telegraph operator whe asked what was the sensation of receiv- ing a message and writing il out at the “Well, I 5 the make a Pose 1 Co message game time, else I could not take the sound does not impression on my ear. In never conscions of the fact is a click, I do not associate the actual dot or dash with a letter. To me itis the letter itself. So when 1 am ‘receiv- ing’ it is precisely the same as if some one was talking to me “Most of the messages come along so rapidly, you know, that they It Is not pre cisely as if you were talking to me here, but rather as if you sat in one corner of a room and spoke to me. This isso true that, when a question is asked, an operator fancies that he A y but noticeable fact, 1 am that there make a running conversation, hears the of the voice at the end of the sentence. This prevents one from | the terrible for I often get When NEWSPAPEr acc come by thing, me oranhic graphi gen, cident I feel as if some one it Perh who to me. nto one Chinese Rush Goods. The city of Ningpo is the centre of gr] the large internal and foreign trade in rash goods, such as hats, matting, etc. The magnitude of the trade may be es- timated from 144 million hats, one and a quarter mil- #3 thea Tauot {he fact 1 4 al last year lion mats and about 8000 rolls of mat- ting were exported. The Commissioner of Customs in his report from Ningpo describes the method of culti- sation, The roots of the plants are pulled up from last year's field, divided into small portions, and replanted in a flooded field, at intervals of foot. This is done in Septembe Octover. The fields must be fally manured and abundant ale supply is necessary, and weeds must 1 cleared away. The rushes are harvested in June and July; it is essential that this should be done in fine weather, that they may be dry in three days of cutting. If they dry too slowly they are apt to change color, while if they remain too long in the sun they pet scorched apd bent. Rain, when § are only partially dry, spoils them al- together. An average worker can make four hats of good quality, 12 in, 3 braid, a day; working carelessly and weaving loosely, the quantity can be doubled. But in the rush trade, as in the straw braid trade of Northem China, fraudulent practices have crept in and greatly injured it. The work is hastily and loosely done, and the home market is flooded with inferior and in some cases unsalable goods, At pres. ent every hat in every bele has 10 be examined, and every yard in every roll of matting, greatly to the injury of the trade, Yonah LAS about plentis- T We 0 ley Expervmental researches on rabies gonducted by M. P. Gibier 10 prove that birds may contract the disease and that they recover spon y. An incombustible paper, and inks and colors not affected by fire, have been invented. Ata trial some speci Jus were Sunignd oa ears ing pottery furnace hours, : unchanged, :
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