NEWS OF THE WEEK. — Eight men charged with counter- felting were arrested by Upiled States officers in Paoli, Indiana, on the 4th. George B. Lawton, of East Orange, New Jersey, was arrested on the after- noon of the Sth and lodged in the Es- sex county jail in default of $48,000 bail. Iie was sole executor of the es- tate of Jane Mull, of Newark, who died in 1879, leaving bequests amount- ing to $193,000 to ber eight children, It is charged that Lawton, falling to pay the bequests, disappeared, return- ing to Orange only a few months ago. The amount of his bail is the sum which Jennie Mull Allaine, one of the heirs, claim as her share of the estate, ~Carrle II, aged 18 years, has been arrested in Topeka, Kansas, for theft. Four weeks ago she got a clerk- ship In Halmon & Co.’s milinery and fancy goods store, and since then she has not only robbed them repeatedly, but has carried away with her three wagon loads of goods worth $2000, which were found in her room and identified by the firm. A year ago she clerked a week or two for Derpheimer & Lewis, and in the search on Satur- day several hundred dollars’ worth of goods that she had taken from them were found. — Secret Service officers on the Gih captured Isaac Reynolds, Jobn Lucas and J. M. MeBnide, counterfeiters, near lndianapolis, Arter the capture, Luca's house was searched, and mould and $140 mn spurious coin were found. The gang has been making $10 “‘gold”’ coins, and a number of them have been put into circulation in Indianapolis Cny and Johnson County, McBride made a full confession, saying that they had ben engaged in the business for several months and bad got rid of a large amount of the stuff in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Illinois. The names of several other members of the gang have been secured. —In the Circuit Court at Frerdick, Maryland, on the Tth, Joba Ogle, who bad secured $150 by means of forged checks, was sentended to ihe penitentiary for 15 years, — A heavy rain storm at Falls, Vermont, on the evening (th, caused in the to rise so rapidly that a large the abutment the Vermont the toll bridge gave way, siding the river aud severing commun between Vermont and New shire. A few small bridges i streams are reported carried away and orhier damage done by high water, - A severe {rost at on the evening the 6th, kilied most kinds of vegetation. Thin ice formed on standing water in exposed places, Ballows of the the streams oF Li Of 4 jurlington, Towa, ol — A despatch from Ishpeming, Mich- igan, says that typhold fever is epi- demic np 4 number of upper Peninsular towns, notably at Negaunee and Iron- wood, there being nearly 100 in each of these cities, The Board of Health is making an gation. Cases tat late imnvesti- McAndress farm, pear St. Dakota exploded on the the 7th, killing Edward owner of the machine, Willias engineer, and Charles Frazer fatally injuring R. P. Daly, At Mount Vernon, Indiana, oun the Tih, George T. Rice, the aeronaut with Wallace's circus, made an As he descended over the came entangled In the ropes, wasdrag- ged through the water and drowned. This was Rice's 100th ascension. Connecticut on the Tth voted on a pro- hibitory amendment to her State Con- stitution and defeated it Ly a majority of about three to one. The new secret baliot law had its first trial and worked well, —= An opera house, In course of erection at Lansford, Penna, suddenly collapsed on the Tth, burying six workmen under the debris, They were all badiy burt, three of them it 1s feared fatally, The cause of the disaster is unknown. —A steam pipe in the Galaxy Flour Mills in Minneappolis burst on the evening of the 5th, suffocating Frank Banks, engineer, and Joseph Evans, fireman, ~The Florénce and Casa Grande, Arizona, stage was robbed on the 24 by two Mexicans, Ad the mall was taken, Officers are in pursuit, Early on the morning of the 6th two masked men attempted to rob the express train on the Knoxville branch of the Louis. ville and Nashville road. They got on the front platform and tried to force the door. A fight ensued with the baggage acd express men and the rob- bers were routed, one of them being wounded, Barglers blew open a sale Thomas, ASCenRIOn., Cleveland, Ohio, on the evening of the 6th, and stole $1800 worth of watches, rings and stones and $55 in cash, —fenry Ialstein, Uookkesper for Nicol, the tailor, iu New York, bas been arrested ou a charge of embez- zling $400. It is sail that he swindled the firm out of $2500. — Peter Baker, a colored rough, shot and killed Andrew Glenn, # white tough, in a quarrel In a saloon at Owensboro, Kentucky, on the 6th. —A terrible prairie fire threatened Estherville, Iowa, on the 6th, The town was saved, but a number of farm houses with a quantity of grain and hay were destroyed. Four buildings in Swan Lake were consumed, ~Charles F. Oris, 28 years of age, who lived wish his mother, Mrs, Mary King, in tue third story of a building in Buffalo, on the morning of the 8th, murdered the old lady by shooting her as she lay sleeping in bed, and then committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Hoe left a note saying: “+1 should prefer cremation, if possible. # # & | am tired of living, and that is enough, Mother could not get along without me, #0 I ended her suf- fering also.” The surroundings wndi cated tbat Orrie, after cutting his throat, sat down In an easy chair and smoked a cigarette while his life blood was flowing out, For some time there lias been a feud Datween the boys live ing 00 the west banks of the Missis- sippi river <u Brainerd, Minnesota, and tie west side Boys “declared a war of extermination” against the others, Armed with small Dbreech-londing titles, the little ruldians. sheltered by an old saw mill, cpened fire on the east sliders across the slream, The east sliders, though armed only with toy pistols, stood their ground until four rifle shots were fired at them, the last wounding Bert Tracy, aged 9 years in the groin, and inflicting = wound which is believed to bs mortal, The attacking pirty then dispersed. Their age range from 10 to 12 years. At Barton, Ohlo, on the afternoon of the 7th. John Devaaly, Jr, shot and shightlv wounded Miss Lulu William- son, sand then committed suicide, In Skagit county, Washington Territory, on the evening of the GL, a young scn of Henry Kimble taking some pheas- ants to market was robbed by au Indian of the fowls, Ilis father, near- ing the boy's cries, went to the rescue, and gave the Inaian a basting, The latter returned about midnight, with several other Indians. and opened fire on Kimb'e’s house, Kimble, aided by a friend named George Lester, returned the fire, killing one of the ussallanis and wounding another. The rest of the Indians have ben captured. — Charles Eldmann, 40 years of age, a lineman employed by the Manhattan Eleetric Light Company in New York, was killed on the afternoon of the Sih while repairing a wire on Grand street. He received a shock from a wire which came In contact with his body, and which rendered him senseless, causing him to fall across a string of wires and then to the street, landing on his head and crushing in Ins skull He dled a few minutes afterward, The ypole which he ascended is twenty feet high, and has two cross arms on which a number of wires were strung, Eid mann reached over to roll Insulation around a naked wire, and In doing so his shirt was pulled up aud a portion of his back was laid bare. When he resumed 1s sitting ure a live naked wire ied his back and the « The wire bu 1 his body. , and people a piece of portion ol si post Was 8 somnamo Ol $27 A He used the firm's money in is own account, This 8 suid to be bis third He to have been ounce worth **lost 18 leaving a “shortage’’ scCcounts, specul tions on b delalcation is reported Ky 6) and t $100.0 wid Lo have i A m the rade.” hid 3 t oof PEAT OX 3 ihe CHRRI0T of the in Wash reviewed graud pr hits Templar 100K pace { Sth, and was ident Harrison and Grand Mas. : There were nearly lifteen il men in Penns he largest deiegalion, { the parade ing tion, on Le phe, the SESSION Ul rand Encamp were, begun. Myron M. Parser delivered an addre of welcome on the part © nittee, and introdt ser Douglass, who hits in bebalf of the city. Crrand Maste nent 3 s f th £ Fal iced Wel com? COmm is rOtned addresses thie and this Lhe The lowa delegales excluded from the Encampment, ~The people of town 14 miles east ana, resolved to have a dis play” on the evening of the Tih. To provide a grand torch a Gi-foot 4-inch pipe was laid from the mouth of a powerfully Bowing well, a 4-footl elbow wing attached, and standing with the pozzle upright, Just when the toréh was appiled this end was pushed side- ways on the ground, and the unmense pressure hurled the sixty feet of pipe around among the spectators, several of whom were caught, Rev. C. War- mon was burned to death, and several others were severely mmjured. One of the latier, John Hogue, is not expected to recover, +1 : pounded, closed exerciser, Jerome, a small Hokomo, Indi- of teas well —On the evening of the 7th, on the Carbon Cut-off Road being built wes of Laramie, Wyoming. 8 work train containing about 15 graders collided with a couple of cars stand ng on the track. A man pamed Diamond was instantly killed and William Penn fa- tally injured. Patrick King had an arm broken, The graders saul the accident was the result of the carelessness of the tralomen, and, procuring a rope, went after the train crew with the intention of Jyunch- ing them, Lut the latter escaped. ~Dr. W. B. Madden, a prominent physician, was killed on the Yih at Johnstown, Penna., by an express train while trying to cross the lrack near the depot. — Heavy rains have prevailed at Quebec for several days, and there are fears of apother landslide from Cape Diamond. Small portions of rock have been falling at intervals for two days, An immense jicce of rock fell from the cliff at Levis a few days ago, de- molishing part of a dwelling, but no lives were lost. Six inches of snow fell at Bay St. Pau’, Quebec, on the 4th, Typhoid fever 1» epidemis at Aurora, West Virginia, and It is sald the country for miles around is infected. svThete is scarcely a family without one or more of 1:8 members prostrated with the disease, aud in some localities there are scarcely enough well persons to nurse the sick.” ~A freight train on the Missouri Pacific Railway stopped near Astoria, Kansas, for slight repairs on the 8th. The stop was made on an mecline and when the engine started off suddenly the train broke In two, The rear pari started down grade and crashed into a West-bound passenger traln,” The ea. boose sud one freight car were pitched ap over the passenger engine and caught fire, ©. P. Orwan, Mayor of the town of Horace, wis asleep in the caboose and was burned to death. The people In the passenger train had all been warned in time and left the train. —Some weeks ago the town of La- fayette, Ohio, passed a prohibition ordinance and cjosed all the saloons. A few days ago a saloon Keeper of Lima went to Lafayette and opened a place there, He was informed by a committee that **his business was not required there,’ but he continued, and the town officials sought to stop him by an injunction. The Judge, how- ever. declded in his favor. Early on the morning of the Oth the saloon was bombarded by a crowd of several hun- dred persons, supplied with stones and gledge-hammers. * The doors and win- dows were broken and the crowd rushed in. The bar was battered down, mirrors broken, the heads of barrels knocked in and the contents wasted, The place was almost torn down and everything ruined.” — The steamship City of New York, while entering New York bay on the evening of the Oth, stuck in the mud ia Gedney’s channel, and was still aground at 1 o'clock on the morning of the 10th, All taken off on the 10th by tugs, but it may be necessary to lighten her before she can be floated, —The mall earrier on the route from FLeaksville, Mississippi, to the Line, was robbed of two pouches by two men on the Oth, a ——— The Musiclans, C—O foe strings of my heart were strung by plea sure, And 1 laughed when the musie fell on my ear: For he and mirth played a joyful measure, Aud they played so loud that I could not hear The wailing and moaning of souls A weary, The strains of sorrow thit sighed ond: The notes of my heart fang blithe and cheery, And 1 heard no other sound, Mirth and pleasure, the music brothers, Plaved louder and louder in joyful glee, times a discord ard by others, only the rythm wa Louder and louder a The hands of those b strain, Pain, the musician, the soul refiner, Hestrung the strings of my quivering heart : And the alr that he played was a plaintive minor, Bo sad that the tear drops were forced to start, Each note was an echo of awful anguish, As shrill as solemn, os sad as slow, And my soul for a season seemed 1 languish And faint with its weight 0” "we, With skillful hands that wen uneven weory, This master of music played sess 6 rain; And between the bars of 1ge miserere He drew up the strings ot hy heart again And I was filled with a vague strange wonder To see that they did nol break in two; “They are drawn so tight they will snap asun der” 1 thought, but instead they grew, In the hands of the Master, firmer and stronger, And I could hear y air, Now my by 1 on the sti ears were deafened mirth no erie and despair i kind to others: ind grew broad, time in the Eastern Penitentiary horse stealing, Lh shot and fatally wounded "a. No causze can be assigned for murderous act, but it is believed that Sluppey was temporarily insane, — (raorge Moss, a machinest, went to his home in Wilkesbarre, Pa. evening of the 10th, and shot his wife been sent the Mayor ts weit? up to jail a few days ago by , in default peace, He had threatening bis wile On Lue i and made her life 10h he = cured 1 miserable HOW SUE TOOK THE ENGINE TO THE JUNCTION. | IAB 1 taxe me cusioms the e reporis se at Key been taken the disease. Yeral 4 1 3 age i: +. on Lhe Yeare, evening from the effects of a shot Newall Moreland, a 1 The two, with =a named Hoover, were pulling nu Y ork hill Oth and camp Abou! o'clock, onthe morning A 34 ind WAS s On the the 108 1 § 2 11 rls what bD Ought awakened by was a wild animal ia and, st gun, he bad wau- ed a t Schtoeide dered from the camp. ~The boiler of IANO have caused the a quarry near Buf. won of the 9th, Jol burned and Law fence badly th eyes, rd was COotnmiL the even fanght i Ang, more believe th sional thinks, the make the mercury soluble, common gold plates, host silver or copy ter into their con must also be Iu Cas in er, galvanic mouth juices, For this reason the ubstitution of silicon plates is advised, Where they have been tried they have given eminent satisfaction and proved to be entirely free from the object found in the othe: Common use, action thle to under the influence of foods and drinks, 10S plates in He Cot There. tener’s acquaintance whose memory is a good deal hike his trousers pockel—a receptable for all sorts of odds and pertinacity, but in more or less pictur esque disorder, Things pop up now and then in an odd way, The other night this little boy undertook to say his prayers before going to bed. He began all right “Now | lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep, 11 | should Here he ‘got stuck’ for a moment, and seemed to be groping around for the re. mainder of the lines, And then, all at once, he steamed ahead: “if 1 should ohanes to full below Demosthenes or Cleero, I pray the Lord my soul to take!” - Socrates designates beauty as short. lived tyranny: Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Domi. tian said that nothing was nore grate ful: Aristotle affirtoed that beauty was Vetter than sll the recommendations in the world; Homer, thatit was a glori- ous gift of nature; and Ovid, alluding to him, calls it afavor bestowed by the gods, . pen window in hie ion, when she Baw 3 wns the leave the little the lot within calling distance, who 14 legraph station nd run across toward When he Lie shionte d. WAS “Where is Dennis, Sune. They have the Junetion for the 14 gent from cnane No. 5 i Express has broken down.” “Dennis, has gone to the woods,” ex- claimed Sue, “what a pity. What ghall wo do? Is there no one who can run it down?” “Not a soul, Even John who used to fire, is up in the country,” replied the operator, “Then I'll do it.” exclaimed Sue. “You, gasped” the operator, but he talked to empty air. Sue had thrown aside her apron and seezed her hat, and five minutes later was 10 the locomotive shed lighting the fire under the boiler. She watched breathlessly ns the steam guage showed the increasing pressure, | and with a trembling hand she slowly opened the throttle, and the engine obedient to her will, moved out on to the main line. It must be explained that the little station of Redfern, was the end of a | short branch extending five miles from {the Junction. There were two stops between and train's ran four times a | day between, the points. Joe had sent [for the extra engine thinking Dennis thie fireman could bring it, and Bae knew that Joe's reputation with the [ralirond company depended upon the becanse No on a delivery of the engine, at the Junction, to help the disabled express, “What are you going to do Bue,” ex- claimed the frightened operator, as the engine moved past the station Sue did not answer; she did not see her mother's terrified look from the door of the house, or the bewildered face of the people ut the station. She had her eye on the road, the lever while the other grasped the bell With a second’s pause to nerve herself for effort, she opened the throt- dos. 3 one hand was on and rong 3 ’ . mands, seemed almost to for- ward down the line, “Ding dong, ding dong,” sounded the bell, People hastened to their dows at the this time, farmers in the fields doped to look, little children in the roma-way Bpring Wili~ sound, at stared at the flying engine, a young girl with set face and eyes fix ed upon the distant line of rail, ringing the bell and holding the lever hair was blowing 1 , while her idly away from her tion of the engine, which was doing best. One station reached and passed. station master and the t wonder, on in stupid and she was on of sight be fore the N realized wiho Sweet wil the turned slec Py eyes the engine. along the roadside, fiel ra ir thing which seemed The horses started, an ¢ . h along the length of grazing ; 1 effort te 3 LL i} (AAY § 8B i y ; | forirey iV perniorm it honeht it was a daring fer 14 | over the ag was pr heard of he Joe d d not his way; but Sue not =ay | gyvery wor i | every glanoo Abont | night from his last trip, and age in her lap. “The railroad company | salary Sue,” he said; | a week later, he one laid a pack- as raised my the express in on time. | not have done it but for you, and that we should eall a testimonial.” Sue opened the package, and found a tiny watch, the one thing above all others she had desired. She was over- joyed, and thanked Joe again and again. Suddenly she stopped inher wild dance about the room, and said gravely.” “Bat the engine, Joe? She behaved as wellas I. I am going to give her a testimonial too.” No. 5 runs regularly now between Redfern and the Junetion, and on the front, at each side, are two silk flags, which are a great addition fo its beauty, and which the engine itself seems to enjoy. Sue put them there “as a testimonial,” she Ey “40 the faithful service per- formed by No. 5, when it made a five mile run in five minutes.” A Boy's Composition on Girls: “Girls are very stuck up and dignified in their manner and behaveyouror, They make fun of boys, and then turn around and love them, 1 don't belave they ever killed a cat or anything. They look out every nite and say, ‘Oh, aint the moon lovely!" Thir is one thing 1 have not told, and that is they always now their lessons bettern boys’ as os se - i —— THE FLOWER GARDEN, A WINDOW GARDEN, In a recent number of Harper's Bazay Miss Bue (iibbouns, tell’'s he nde her window-garde: It eam : nteresting to al! those rs in thu rranged so yw slid window-garden ped to countrs four fect de pth, at A mor The bracket thie the pi which slimy covered their « Xper crews, tl extra two bh cotta or bre wiih O another, a1 dark background affords them as closely as p the color will only there, not in so J found in nearly all parts of the cou lief the gible, 1 lid masses pi bey much as one may desire. It is better, especially in a northern: exposure, to have the plants in pots, In place of filling the box with earth, keeping a sufficient number under the best conditions plenty of sunlight and moisture-—to have the box full of blos soms. To insure constant blooms and large fine heads, give the pots one good soaking every week with ammonis water, using one teaspoonful to every two quarts of water; the effect is mag enl. Strong constant blooming is also best secured by planting in pots below the usual size; the four-inch sige 1s very good. When large pots are used, the growth inclines to leafage, not blos L MEAN tO take an int'rest in my fel ler<oritters, some of ‘em, that is; bat } don't want to poke my nose through the crack of a door before "tis opened, eign APO In twenty years the sales of single Jackages of patent medicines in Great ritain have increased from G6 O61 637 to 18,457,000, wom on ae He is a great simpleton who imagine: that the chief power of wealth is to sup ply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
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