Tha Ringing In (loil'i Arret "
Out yonder In the moonlight, wherein Gcd's
i Acre llei,
Oo sngels wslklng to nd fro, singing their
lullabies j
(Their radiant wings are folded and their
eyes are bended low,
At they sing amonv the beds whereon the
(lowers delight to grow !
"Sleep, ob, lleepl
The Shepherd guardeth his sheep I
Fast speedcth the night away,
Hoon Cometh the glorious day;
Pleep, weary ones while ye may
Sleep, oh, Bleep I "
The flowers within tiod's Aere srs'thst fair
and wondrous sight,
And hear the nnge's singing to the. sleepers
through the night;
And, lo! throughout the hours of dny
those gentle Dowers prolong
The lllil'ic of the ungels in Ihut tender
slumber song:
'Sleep, oh, sleep!
The Shepherd loreth Ills sheep !
II" Unit guardcth Ills lloek the best
limb folded tlieluto His loving brrnslj
Si, sleep ye, now, nnd take your rest
S eep, oh, sleep!"
From angel and from llower the years have
le;irnei that soothing snug.
And with Its heavenly music speed the days
and nights along ;
So. through all time, w hoso flight the Shep
herd's vigils glorify,
Hod's Acre slumliereth in the grace of Hint
sweet lulliiliyl
'Sleep, uh, sleep !
The shepherd loveth His shee
Fast speedeth the night away,
Soon cometh the glorious dav ;
Sleep, weary ones, while ye may
sleep, oh, sleep !"
-Eugene Field, In l.udleV Home Journal.
HE LACKED COURAGE.
!IV 1'HWAItll . VAN ZII.K.
Erasing Kobinson, M. Iiatl do-
elded to commit suicldo. Ho lint
rencliod this determination with con.
siileiublo reluctnticc. Doing n limn of
great mental ntnl physical powers ho
foil more vividly, poilinris, tlmn
wenkor men that detestation of death
that It more or less prevalent among
mortals mid forms one of tlin front est
mysteries of this queer world. Wo
nil know that wo must dlo. Nature
ordains that we should pnsg awny.
Why, then, do we dread tho ordeal?
Nature decrees Hint we must ont and
drink, sleep and lovo, nnd wo tlinnk
the goddess for so doing, but whon
alio tolls us all men must die we shud
der nnd revolt. Why is tills? Count,
less generations liavo nttompted to
solvo the problem, but It still remains
unanswered.
lint to our story I Tills tnnn Hob
iiiHon had boon a vory sunuesgful sur
geon, llo hud cut nnd slashed bis
way into fnino and fortune, and by
lopping off limbs and performing lap
arotomy, tracheotomy and various
other otomlcs had built up a metro,
politnu reputation that paid him a
largo incono every year. Neverthe
less, bo bad, ns was said before, de
cided to blow his famous and very
lucrative bruins out.
When Erastus Kobinson mado up
bis mind to do anything that tiling
was prnctically done. Ho possessed a
will of iron, nnd he knew that It was
a shame, to lung at its scat with a
shooting-iron. Hut the doctor had
been crossed in love and his scientific
acumen assured him that his heart was
broken. Now there U only one roa
onablo and appropriate courso for n
man with a fractured hoart to pursue
The, earthly life having lost all its
charms lie must, of necessity, try
some other realm. As there is no
.marriage or giving in marriage in tho
other world, be who has bcon jiltod
here is certain to find rest and possibly
recreation in tho land boyond the
gravo. So, at least, thought Erustus
Kobinson, and ono morning, aftor a
sleuploss night, ho, like Johnny, got
his gun, a thirty-two caliber rovolvor,
and having locked the front door of
lils ollico and dismissed ills houso-
fceeper, proparod to porfoi-m the most
interesting, if not the most fatal, sur
gical operation iu his career.
Dr. HoMnsoii had miulo hit way
In his profession in largo part owing
to his wonderful nerve. Ills col
leagues nnd patients had never known
lii baud to tremble nor his eye to
flinch at any crisis, and, liko a socioty
bell, he always gave the cut direct.
But as ho stood up that day aud loaned
. against his dosk his baud, as it graspod
the instrument of death, shook so
violently that ho could not placo it
against bis temple. As a conscientious
surgeon ho did not wish to make a
bungling job of his absolutely faro
well appearance in the line of heroio
ti'oatmont. and so ho replacod the re
volver ou tho dosk, and, seating hint
self in an armchair, lit a cigar and
began a process of cerebration that
resulted In the couoluslon that ho
could not blow out his brains without
the aid of somo one lest Interestsd In
the result of the operation thau ho was
himself.
The outcome of bis cogitations was
bls: bo walked to the telephone
called up the central ofllce and asked I
for a messenger-boy the oldest and
most cxperlonnedHhnt could be spared.
Then he returned to his scat, resumed
his cigar and nearly fainted away.
An unsuccessful oil oil at suicide is
apt to agitate the nervous system, but
when you combine It with tho exhaus
tion of vitality pertaining to the de
livery of a message over a telephone
wlro tho combination Is certain to bo
extremely enervating. Erustus Kobln
son, M. )., strong man though bo
was, felt keenly tho debilitating
effects of trying to reach both tho
future lifo and a messenger-boy with.
In tho brief spneo of ten minutes.
After nwliilo tlin suicidal smoker
grew so nervous that ho was obliged
to throw aside his wood nnd walk up
and down tho ollico with faltering
step. Ouco ho grasped tlin pistol in a
frenzied w-ny, and tho messenger boy
had nearly lost his job. but Robinson's
baud was still too unsteady to do the
work required. A ring at tlio door
bell restored the broken-hearted man
for a moment to lit senses.
"I.'omo in," ho said to tho tint formed
youth who stood before Mm. Tho
messenger was n boy of about 10
years of nge, whoso faco boro that
peculiar expression that Is known to
slung as "tough."
Locking tho door again, tho doctor
ushered tho youngster Into his olllce.
"Have you got much pluck P" ho
asked the boy, seating himself nnd
lighting a fresh cigar.
"Well, dey calls mo 'Nervy Polo,'
sir. Don't dat go?"
"That's promising. Iid you ever
kilt n man ?"
The nicssengnr-boy looked rnthor
startled, but only for a moment. I'lion
ho nusworcd t
"Naw J but I sot'vod t'reo months ou
da Island. I stnnsliod a old chap in
do Jaw fur callin' mo a 'dago.' IV yo
see?"
"That's not bad. Do you want to
make some monoy?"
"W-o-l-l hear mo shout Hut I
don't want no tnoro o' do Island. Do
boodle's got to bo big to catch 'Nervy
role' if do coppers Is on do lay. See?"
"Oh I you needn't worry," returned
tho doctor, Inking up tho revolvor and
examining tho cartridges. "Tho point
is Just hero, my boy. 1 Intended to
kill myself, but I find that too much
smoking has injured my norves. 1
can't feel certain that I shall do the
not with what tho newspapers call
neatness and dispatch. Now, I've left
a nolo on tho dosk hero saying that 1
linvo blown my brains out. I want
you to do tho docd. I'll givo you two
hundred dollars in cash if you'll kill
me. When you'vo put tho ball Into
my head, pluce tho pistol in my bund.
Then tako this key and leave tho houso
by tho buck way. Thero's no ono
boro, nnd tho shot will not be heard
Hero's tho monoy. Have you got the
sand?"
Tho faco of tho vouth was a study
Amazement, cupidity, four, wore coni'
bined In tho picture. Ho glnucod at
tho doctor, guzod longingly at tho
money hold out to hlra, look the crisp
bills In his hand, carefully placed thorn
In bis pockot, sliuddorod as ills oyos
rested on the rovolvor. Thou a hum
orous gloam came into his cyos, and
his Coltlo countonance seamed to light
with an intelligence it had not shown
beforo.
"Look ahore, boss," he said. "I've
do dust, but I niu't got tho sand.
Sco?" Then he bolted for the door,
unlockod it and was gone.
F.rnstus Kobinson, M. I)., is still
alive, ilo was so amazed at seolug a
mossoiiger boy run that Ufa took on n
ploasuuter aspect than it had worn
for somo timo, mid he roplncod his
revolver In its drnwor. -Onco A
Wook.
lloiniince of a Shipwreck.
Quito a romiineo is connectod with
tho loss of tho ship Franklin, which
was wreckod on Capo Cod, Mass., in
1810, with CO pooplo nbourd. She
was discovered oarly In the morning
by Benjamin F. Klch, a youth of 18,
who was out hunting for ducks. Ho
gavo the ularin and the neighbors
most of them seafaring men gathorcd
to tho rescue. A whulo bout was
quickly manned and launchod through
tho surf, under command of young
Uich's father. It fetohod a boatload
of the unfortunates ashore, but the
elder Rich was disabled on tho trip
nnd the boy took command for a toe
ond ctlbrt. Most of the people were
suvod, but a number wcro lost. In
the strugglo for lifo tlioro were tome
pitiful scenes. One woman, clasping
her baby to hor breast, clung to be
laying pin that was fixed in tho tide
of the vessol, when a brutal tailor
forced looso her grasp in order to pre
serve himself. She wus drowned
but young Rich got the baby. It was
purpla with cold, ltt little hands fat
teuiiig tbomtolvot iu the bluo cloth of
his shirt as be carried it to land, but
It was revived and llvod.
There It a dash of humor evou In
tragedy sometimes. In this case
fat woman, who weighed about 200
pounds, bad embraced the bowsprit
and refused lo let go, to that the had
to bo dragged off by the hoolt into Hit
water and then pulled Into the boat.
SuhsccjHcnt developments proved that
the ship was wrecked deliberately for
tho purpose of recovering Insurance
A fow dnys later young ICIch found a
satchel on tho bench containing lotion
from tho owners, addressed to the
cnptalti of the vessel and suggesting
to 111 ill that It would not bo a bnd
schemo to lose the old craft. It wat
how n afterward that the captain de
liberately ran her ashore. The ownert
brought suit for $18u,0U0 against tho
Insurance coinimtiles, but at the Inst
momoint alio papers which Klcli bud
found wore exhibited in evidence and
ho case was thrown out of court nt
once. I lie government did not give
medals for lifo saving In Ihoso days,
but Kich got ono from tho Iliiiiiano
.Society of Massachusetts. Ho Is now
superintendent of tho life saving d:.
ti let which includes tho Eastern Slioru
of Virginia. f Washington Stnr.
Weighing a Miiliiirnjiih.
Tho ancient annuul ceremony of
"Tnlnbbarniu," or weighing tho
Maharajah of Trnvniicoro ngnlnst an
equivalent weight of gold, bat coma
round allaln. It appears to liavo been
conducted this year with great pomp
and ceremony, for the present Ma-
iiirajuli it a Hindu of tho orthodox
type, who aspires to keep up tho tra
ditions of his houso. Somo months
beforo tho ceremony tho (iovornment
purchased, through Its commercial
agent at Alloppcy, about two thousand
pounds' weight of pure gold, tho
greater pnrt of which was converted
Into coins for this purpose. After
presenting an elephant anil of
ferings to tho shrine, tlin Mn-
liaralah onterod tho building pre
pared for tho occasion, and having
completed tho preliminary ceremonies,
mounted ono of tho scales, Tho sword
and the shield woro laid in bis lap; In
tho other sldo of tho tcalo gold coins,
struck for tho occasion, woro placed
by the first and second princes, till It
touched the ground nnd the Maharajah
roso Iu tho air, the priest iiiouuwhile
chanting Vcdio hymns. Volleys wcro
llrod, tho band played, and tho troops
prcsontod arms. The Maharajah wor
shipped at tho slirlno, and tlion wont
to tho palaco. Subsequently tho
Dowuii and other olllclnls distributed
tho coins from the Fort gates to ubout
llftocn thousand Ilrulimlus. f London
News.
The Largest Existing flower.
Iu Mlndinac, tho farthest southeast-
oi-ii island in tho l'lillliplne group,
upon one of its mountains, tho vol
canic Apo, a party of botanical and
ethnographical explorers found rc
contly, at a height of 2,600 foot above
the son level, a colossal flowor. Tho
discoverer, Dr. Aloxundnr Schadon-
borg could tcnrcoly believe bit eyes
whon ho saw amid '.he low-growing
bushes tho immense budt of tills
flowor growing like gigantic cnbbngo
hoads. Hut ho wns still moro aston
ished when ho found a specimen in
full bloom, a llvo-potaled flowor nearly
a yard In diamator, at large at a car-
rlngo wheol, in fuct.
This enormous blossom was borne
on a tort of vine crooplng on the
ground. Tho natlvo who accompan
ied Dr. Schadonbcrg culled it "1 lo."
Tho party hud no scale by which.-tho
woight of the flower could be ascer
tained, but tlioy improvised a twing
ing tcalo, using their boxos and speci
mens as weights. Woighiug those
whon opportunity served, it was
found that a single flowor weighed
over twenty-two pounds. It wns im
possible to transport the fresh llower,
so tho travellers photographed it, aud
dried a number of lit leaves by tho
boat of a fire. fl'oarton's Weekly.
The Chluese I'ig.
Tho Chinese pig, according to the
roport of the British consul at Kiting
chow, is not the least important per
tonnge in the Chinese empire. Ho it
tho rout payer of Hainan, and it cou
soquoutly reared iu every homo with
the greatest caro. As many at 1000
tleek porkers are sometimes tout to
Hong Kong in ono steamer; evon the
dignified French mail boats competing
for this traffic. It mutt not be tup
posed, writes Consul Purkor, that
these plgt are ill-treatod or that they
wallow together indiscriminately iu
wild filth and disorder. On the con.
trary a pig cargo it pcrhapt cloanor
than a human cargo of Chluete cool
lot, tuoh as in the old dayi of tho
Macao barracoont used alto, in fact,
to be called in the local or Cantonese
slang chu-ttal," or "pigs."
fPicayune, ' ' .
SOLDIERS' COLUMN.1
PEACH TEEB CREEK.
Bow the 18th N. T. Indapsndsnt Battery
Hsds It Hot for Hood's Rebels.
Although as to,
numbers engaged
on the Union side,
It wss a small af
fair compared
with tho battle of
Atlanta, which
was fought two
dnys later, still it
was or sutllclent
Importance fo r
r.the time being to
occupy all tho
. leisure momenta
. of those who were
'In It," and to re-
MwiPfltniii n lilncn In
i
tho memories of
- -Vthc survivors dur
ing all tho after years of their lives.
Tho battle-ground, tho valley or ravine
in front, the rise, the timber to tho
right ond rear, tho fight over the guns,
the flanking on nor right and rear, are
nil brought beforo inn again. Not
withstanding this was so many years
ngo, I seem to have n better recollec
tion of the doings of that afternoon
than of other afternoons since then.
The battory was f'apt. Dundy's lllt.h
N. Y. Independent L. A. Tho full
battery of six guns was present. Soma
of the Infantry proceeded tho bnttery
in locating n line of battle and putting
tip slight breastworks, in Case Hood
should tako the offensive.
After crossing reach Treo Creek in
tho morning, wo were waiting in col
umn all tho forenoon. An ominous
tilnr.ee reigned. About noon nn Or
derly camn dashing up to ths Captain,
and gavo him directions to go into bnt
tery on tho line-of battle on a distant
bill, and to move with all haste.
Immediately comes the order: "At
tention I Drivers, mount I Cannonceis,'
mount I Forward, march ! Trot I
Oallop I"
Then tho drivers yell ond lnsh their
horses and they break into a fall run;
tho wheels bound nlong over ditches,
logs, stumps nnd stones that would
tenr n farm wagon all to pieces. Tho
ennnonoers nro bounding up six Inches
Iroin their seats, nnd hanging on for
dear life; for a fall under tlin wheels
would bo worso than n rebel bullet.
Vp the long hill wo go, down another
one, across n ravine, then up ngain to
another elevation, tho horses never
slacking their speed until wo arrive at
the ground where wo are to go into
bnttery seemingly in utter confusion,
but wo aro on the ground in flvo
minutes nficr starting. In ono niiintto
more tho guns are unlimbercd and run
forward, tho limbers turned round,
the guns loaded and run into tho em
brasures, each gun, each limber, and
ench caisson in its proper place. In
live minutes more our pickets aro
driven in aud the battlo is on.
I was n cannoneer of the left gun of
the left section. The section was com
manded by Lieut. McUurrin. Tho
guns that wcro enptured and re
captured were tho right section. The
guns that turned the cross tire on the
robs were the middle section. Our
gunucr. C'orp'l Lynch, wns killed nt
tho start, and Lieut. McGurrin took
bit pluce. AH the nppenrances in
dicated that wo had business on our
hands. In fact, we had been warned
for two or three days that Hood had'
superseded Johnston, and to look out
for him, ns he wns likely to strike;
hard at some unexpected point, and it,
so happened that tho Second Division'
of the Twentieth Corps wat tho placo
selected to make tho assault.
They flanked us on tho right; they
killed off our men and enptured two
of our guns; but it was a repetition of
tho experiment of tho fellow who bit
off moro than he could chew. They
did not hold the ground nor tho guns.
After the action coniniencod my per
sonal observation extended but little'
beyond our own gun. The smoke en
veloped ut to that we could neither
tee to the right nor to the left. Bo
tides, we wore pretty busily nccupiod
with "our own knitting," without tak
ing observations. The flro of our sec
tion wat to tho front, and if anybody
escaped the stream of fire from the
guns I think they would bo soared to
death by tho noise we made. My own
cars ached at if they would burst from
the continual roar of the guns. Thoy
drowned every other sound. I heard no
infantry-tiring at all, though thay were
firing rapidly liko ourselves. We
fired our guns just at rapidly as five
men, drilled to movo as machinery, and
commanded by an expert, could do it.
Throo shots a minuto from each gun,
rolling out in one continuous roar,
which made the ground shake and
tremble, and this without any cessa
tion for two hours. The rango wat'
point-blank, and we kept the guns nil
tho time depressed, firing alternately j
double canister and short-fuse shell
The canister would tweep the ground,
mowing twatht through the advancing;
columns like a tornado of fire. Thel
shell would cut down trees, take off1
bark and limba, then burst in front of
the rebel ranks, hurling doath and de-l
ttruction around. We would occasion-'
ally fire t olid shot, which would cut
down trees, ricochet over the hoads of
one line and plow through tho ground,
throwing dirt over the next line, then
bound and roll along, diminishing in
velocity, until it would kill two or
three soldiers a mite to the rear, when
its force wat almost spent. And what
is most remarkable, that in all this
two hours of musketry and artillery
tome etcaped unscathed,
It wat a hot afternoon, being the
30th of July, 1804, and after the battle
wat over our pantaloons and shirts
were dripping with perspiration, and
our facet were to smeared with pow
der and tweat that we resembled dar
'"Kim
kies more than white people, and wa
were to exhausted that we could hard
ly stand up.
We lost that day 18 men In killed
and wounded, about half the men that
were at the guns. One's lifo wst inj
danger anywhero In that neck of woods'
that afternoon. A man was at tafo at
tho front at in the rear. One of our
wounded men wat killed while being
taken to the rear.
I wat sent to tho rear for water to
twab the gun. When I arrived at a
certain point I thought I could see a
depression In the ground tnat might
contain water. I asked tome infantry
men who weio lying on their faces (I
lupposo gnnrding our right rear) if
there was nny wnto out thore. Thoy
replied: "Don't go out there A msn
was killed going across tliero only a
moment ago." I remarked that kill
ing wns the order of business Just
then, and 1 must havo somo water, to
I ducked my head nnd started. Tho
bullets commenced whistling past my
ears, but they miscalculated. I did
not stand in ono place a great length
of time. In fact, if I had been timed,
It would have been shown that I mado
a splendid record of speed. I found
somo muddy water, scooped up some,
nnd tho bullets "zipped" past my head
again as I returned.
All earthly things have an end, nnd
this bnttlo did also. It seemed to mo
that we were loading nnd firing for
two hours Just ns fast ns we could work
the guns: per lisps it was not so long.
After we had ceased firing, and the
smoko hud cleared away from our gun
n group of us stood resting on the
left wheel. A wreath of smoke rose
fiom n treo about 200 yards to out
right front, mid a bullet came from a
sharpshooter's gun, crashed into the
hub of tho wheel we had .'lolil of, nnd
three buckshnt glanced on the tire
nnd spattered lead upon us. It was a
pretty good shot. We hastily loaded
our gun with solid shot. ran it forward,
aimed nnd lired. It cut the treo in two
nb ut 10 feet nbove the ground. Wo
were too tired to go and see what be
came of the red, but he did not molest
us nny more. F. M. Lkk, in National
Tribune.
Eight Year Old Soldier.
John W. Messick diod nt Evnns
ville, Ind., a few days ago. after a
brief illness. Ho was probably tho
youngost person who enlistened in tho
I'nion army during tlin rebellion, join
ing Company A, Forty-second Indiana,
infantry at tho ago of 8 years and
terving three years at a drummer boy
when he wat honorably discharged.
THE NATIONAL GAME,
Tnii.Aoei.rniA won the series from Bos
ton. Chimin, of Cleveland, is the League's best
run getter.
Cleveland has won the majority of ber
extra-inning games.
Res i it, Hutchinmo and Buftlnton are to
gether having an off-year.
This Is Chicago's worst season since the
League wns organized in IhTO.
Wfi.ch has bpnn releaswd by the Balti
more. HhtHi will take Welch's place.
Phtis BnowsiNO has a batting average of
.SI.- with Ciiioinniiti, nnd .:J1U for the whole
seaiioii.
Rrinrs and Harrington have been rein
stated ly the Cincinnati Club, Mullane has
b?en released.
Ewi.vo, of New York, is not a successful
flrst-oaseiuan. If is weakness causus a lack
of vontidence to every man who throws to
liiin.
'fug Boston team won by its superior work
Iu the pitcher's position, its remarkable Meld
ing and developuiHnt ot team work at crit
ical stages ot the t-ontast.
Wash's fon! base play is a model t
copy iroin. He faces every kind of a bull,
aud no Otu' ot an err.?r deters hitn a jiij
uieiit. This is true ball playing.
MlM.IOAN leads the bitting for the Wash
ington, noy the base stoaling. and Radford
t he base on ball', while Richardson leads the
country at second base and short stop.
tiOKK has beon released and Outfielder
Newman, of tho defunct Minnoaooli West
ern league team.signe 1 by the New Yorxt.
Newman bat a batting avrago of .3.Y).
Ol-tvI'Xdkr Joa Kkm.y has been signed
by ton fittsourg Cluo. Klly was purchase!
from the Omnba Cluo. He will play eeutre
tleld and John Corkhili will be released.
Kkspk, th ) veteran pitcher, was given the
usual ten day.' noticj of his release by the
ffaila lelphia Clul, On what grounds the
club decided to dispense with Kerne's service
1 not known.
Th bent record thus far in box work this
season is that of fitcher Young, of tbe
Cleveland team, in disposing of his batting
adversaries witoout a single earned run to
their credit in a ixteen-iuuiug game.
The present New York team is a whole
sermon against expensive teams. It draw
g.V.1,000 from the ouiD treasury, and u one of
trie bitt-rest Uistppointnienu ever placed
u i. on the ttald. There ia not even tho exouse
nt nnrd luek" or aecidont to lift tho team
out ot its disgrace.
Thb Brooklyn team deservasfullyasmuoh
honor as the champions. Manager Ward
did not have ths benelitot a oluti as expert
tnced as the Bostons, and started with some
what ot an experhmmtal ttuun. His success
is little short o( wonderful, aud his player
are entitled to hold the name ot Ward'
Wonders,
Th first season of the Nationtl League
championship .las oioaeJ. The Bostons won
with comparative ea.se, althoujn uo t tbe
last two weeks either Brooklyn or Philadel
phia had a possible chance. The following
is the order ut the Huisli: Boston, 7i)8;
Brooklyn, Mi; Philadelphia, tM; Cincin
nati, SM7; Cleveland, 551; Pittsburgh, eViT;
Washington.' 411; Chicago, 43; rit. Louis,
4JS, .New York, 410; Louisville, 3U0; ttalti
luoi e, -M7.
. .
Queen Car.ilav Oflur a t'rlae.
On of the most interesting prizes
offered at tho Ked Cross exhibition
now being held at Lei pale Is that
given by tjueen Curola of isaxony for
the best scheme for providing modi
clues, nourishment, and protection,
for tho wounded during and Imme
diately aftor a battlo. Every exhibit
in the Lelpslo exhibition has to
undergo the test of actual use before
receiving a prize. Queen Carols has
always taken a great interest in tho
lied Cross Knights, and it was the
late Minister of War for Saxony wh6
first suggested that this exhibition
should be beldL t ' t
The bicycle fever has invaded
Sweden. A club of ladies has beon
organized thore, and they are reported
a eutUuslasUo. . ...... .
PENNSYLVANIA PICKINGS.
SOUS XKPORTsVWT
HAPFBHXirO
Of Interact to Dw-llera la the Keyttsae
State.
ON ItOO'M AND WII.H t.'IIKRIttKS.
IIOW IMI'OHTKIl II.MI.IIOAn I.AnolIKRS ARB
r.iRi'rn to srnsiKT.
The imported laborers who have been
rhniiorlng all the week for the (2,000 da
them for work on the Reading, Lancaster
and Baltimore railroad, started for Molina
vlllcnnd Adiiinstowu. Their condition it
wretched. They aro almost without cloth
ing and for days have been subsisting on
roots and wild cherries. The Direetor of
the Poor gave them some food, and about
dozen have secured transortalioii to New
York. A und of police has been guarding
tho bridges over tlin Schuylkill to prevent
the horde from entering Reading. Nothing
has been heard for somo dnys from Con
tractor Warren, who left last'week for New
York to secure money from the syndicate
widen undertook to float the bonds in Kns
lund from which tho money to build the
toad Is to l)e,ri-alizeil.
TWO Iir.ATH W.WINTS SIONED.
'iov. 1'iittison signed the death warrants of
William F. Keek of Lehigh county ami
Henry Ihivis of Philadelphia. They will be
executed on Tbu-sdny, Heptombor 8.
At 1'nloti township, Huntingdon county,
Thomas r'rew's ham, two horses, wagons,
etc., was burned by incendiaries. Iahis,
several thousand dollars; no Insurance.
LioiiTxixo struck nnd killed John Raln
ev, aged Id. of 1'nrdoe, Mercer county,
while standing by a stack of bay which was
destroyed.
Oarmkl Kytii. while suffering from a
temporary lit of insanity, jumped from a
second-story window of the Nixon house,
Butler, and ran down street into a barn
where he shot himself, dying immediately.
Thomas Whitk, aged 18, was sentenced by
Judge lughrnm, of tireenn county, to five
years in the penitentiary for the killing of
.loli ii Mellenry, iu Center township.
Chwii.ks Hkiukokr. nl .V) years, while
setting in a swing at l'billiMhurg, fell a dis
tance of two feet, breaking his buck, which
caused paraly-is. He is not ex pectcd to re
cover. Viu.iam I. Wai.i.vk, ns guardian for
Krederica J. Smith, of New Cnstle. has sued
the Pittsburg & Western road for MO.ODO
damages, alleging that the gross carelessness
of the road in August, lKXti, was responsible
for the dentil nf Miss Smith's brother and
permanent injury to herself.
Tup citizens of Dunn's sta'lon, Washing
ton county, ore greatly excited over thestrik
ing of iiu iminciise gas well near that place.
Tho well penetrated tliesimd yesterday even
ing nnd immediately began gassing heavily.
A little more drilling developed it into one
of the largest gussers in the state, the test
showing a pressuro of 2.V) pounds to the
minute. Tbe well is owned by the Carnegie
company.
IiKn ruts In a well caused typhoid fever
and killed the wife and daughter of Ira
White, at Washington, lust week.
(Ikorok Hawmoxo, 21 years of age, and
bis father, John Hammond, aged 41, wore
killed ot tli Wheeler mines, near Union
town, by a fall of slate.
KnWAim St. Clair (dnnoNS, manager of
the oimm'u houso at Shenandoah, was killed
by falling down collar steps.
Kmr boasts of a population of I5,SI7, ac
cording to the directory just published.
Thirty turkeys and 10 chickens were
slaughtered by a mink in two nights on
John Kline's farm nt Ttilpehockon.
Thk following was the prize essay of a
little Bethlehem girl: "A sheep has two
eyes, two ears, a nose, a mouth, a head, four
feet and a tongue. He also has wool, skin,
ilesh, a tail nnd bones."
TiiKnn Is a peculiar disease among the cat
tin in some counties in this state, which ha
thus far hallled the skill of cattle men. Tbe
first synitums is the drying up of the milk,
and filially the animal becomes blind and
dies in great agony. A number of steers
have also died from this disease.
A rr.w davs ago a young woman In Well.1-
noro was seized witn a ut or cougiiing, aim
she was choked by something In her throat,
which slie finally coughed up and found
that the article that she had coughed up
wns a common pin heavily coated with
rust. The most remarkable part of the in
cident is that the young lady has no recol
lection of ever swallowing a pin.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Yicllow Fevib prevails in Honduras.
Thc iron ore trade still remains stagnant
There are fears of a cholora epidemio ia
Europe. .
Thk oils wells lo this country supply 130
000 barrels a day. .
HansArrKR all telegraphing la Spain will
be done by military operator.
There were no less than five staj rob
beries in Montana during June.
The next President of the United States
will receive about 7,000,000 votes.
The pack ot canned lobsters is expected to
fall oil titty per ceut. compared, with hut
season.
A TUNKKr. to cost 11,000,009 baa been
started at Ltuviville, Col ,, to drain th mut
ing camps.
James Mum., of Louisville, Ky bled)
to death from a hole in hu tongue about thai
sixe of a piu.
Thk chiefsof the Arapahoe and Cheyenne
Indians refuse to accept the beof isue trout
the Govjrnmont.
Thk embezzlements of tho first six monha
of the present year amounted tot the large
sum ot 13,803,814. v
Reliif boats provided and provisioned
by tbe State, have left How Orleans for the
flooded ditrict of the State.
Dkouts famine in Northern Mexico and
Southwest Texas looms up as one of the
great calamities ot the year.
Advices from nearly all business centres
show a gradual growth in court luuce, though
Dot in the volume of business done.
Tbk Governments of Germany and Aus
tria are acting in concert in tbe adoption of
measures to prevent uaolera from entenu
their countries.
TJnitjcd States cavalry to th number of
four bundred are encamped near Douglas
Wyoming, presumably to Uk a hand iu tUe .
rustler trouble.
. H. L. Lincks, of Huron, South Dakota
Vice-President of the National Aliianoe,
succeeds Ik L. Polk, deosaaed, as Pruideut
ot the organuialiion.
The estate of the late Father Molllnger of
Pittsburg, worth tSOO.CHW, and supposed to
bav been given to the curoh. is outlined by
a poor cousin living in Haw York.
Tbinos are going to be lively la th Bar.
ing 8ea this suwou. Th migrating ber do
are uow near the passes la the olosad aas
aud ths oruiaars are following thorn.
Mabbui In quantity ha been discovered)
In buatex Couuty, Mew Jersey, aoar rjtitu
hop, it is the hrst rind of oonsequena is
tbe State. Th ledge ara estimated to u
worth l"0.0oo.