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- " COOD-BY.
yhe velvety-bloom on tht rose is gone,
"jie sweetness of love is over;
jjje shadow falls on the crimson day
Aiid the dusky, dewy clover.
Good-by, dear heart, gcod-by,
jlje Sumn er of love is gone so soon,
The hummer of love together;
For lovers must part in the Autumn tide,
Love dies in tho wintry weather.
Cood-ly. dear heart, good-by.
Hearts break when the blush of the rose isgone,
Hearts break when the Summer is over,
And only the wind ani the falling leaves
May echo the smg of th? lover.
Good-by, dear heart, good-by.
Oh.' tiettT the long, sweet s'umber of death,
Than th? breaking of hearts asun !er:
Chi better than life with an aching heart
Is the sleep of the dumb dead, yonder.
Gcod-by, dear heart, good-by.
yetr.aps 1, too, shall rest ere long,
la the dumber of death low-lying;
'Bat tnc ' you this, dmr one, my heart
Would love j'ou even in dying."
Good-by, dear heart, good-by.
Frank Leslie's.
THE SNAKE OHAEMEE.
IJX ANNIE" R. NOXO.V,
I (I nit pretend to account for it, you
kno.iv, or to offer any excuses, such s in
herent madncjstf'or taint in the blood, but
IiftiipJy say i- I would say that I have
a! k f gray hair in a bad place on. my
head and a moe on my neck that I am
irresistibly drawn toward tropic.il snakes,
anil hive alcaisni,' in the direction of
fakirs and snug'.eis. My iriend Har
court U as mu ;li drawn the other Wav;
but I s.viar I had no notion of the prob
abl'MMiVct on him the day I drew him into
a little cio-s street or court, vhera " a
number of very fat, well-preserved boai
wc re lolling in the obscurity of a dark
pdjis ( asc on a pile of semi-white blan-
Harcourt,' something of a dreamer
gerte'a'Iy, followed me in my searching
aft i wonders, as amiably as a collie,
-with only an understanding in a tacit
sort of way. that I wa; not to introduce
him to women who would fanpv it an
-incumbent benevolence to pull hi n out
aud make Lim talk.
1 h ardly think he knew where we were
until I forcibly plucked h:m out of the
unit- trieted glaic of a July day to the
fraud ily-papered passage way to the
museum.
"Harcourt, I have some loyely speci
men, to show yoa mottled boas and
cobras, and a.i awfully swell kind of
snake charmer done up in the true Ori
ental flimsies red coif, bracelets of
ciiiin.s, and all that. The Kajah is a
suake you shoald know. Upon my life,
I think he begins to know me."
With the lct intentions in the world,
I gave Harcourt a little push, and he
stumbled- against the cage with a dull
thump on the glass, which roused
V I'a.ah," and, rearing his head very sen
sibly, he gazed straight into our eyes.
As ale and limp as a live man could ever
become, my friend shrank back and
seeined suddenly bjreft of his legs. I
steadied him up, and really thought on
the: '.moment that the ministerial Har
court had imbibed an extra glass of .forr.e
spirited American drink. Jle asked me
Jo take him- in the air. He was pitiably
wtak and as ghastly as if he had seen his
grandmother's ghost in a camera obseuia.
ThVstrong, rohicking breeze brought
him round, and almo t iuitc himself he
led ti e way to one of the liltle wayside
parks so refreshingly frequent in the
large cities of this country.
l-'c laid his hat on the" park seat and
nervously wiped his forehead, while I
tried to entice a pigeon from the gravel
ith plum cake, seeming not to notice his
stra:1i;eagitation.
- He reverted to the affair uppermost in
my mind himself in hi ; painfully straight
forward way:.
Don't laugh, Strahan, when I tell you
that I am a s ave to an all pervading
dominant honor. I caunot look at snakes,
alih iiigh once I really believed that
nature intended to inspire admiration in
"-king a. brown and green boa. And
women of the tropics were once my ado:
a ion, "w.th the.r brown velvety skins,
black eyes and gra-eful movements."
lie shuddered. Now I can never see
the one without being reminded of the
ether."
"There are pages in my life, Strahan,
which you do not know; but you do
know that I was one of her Majesty's
-Fo. t Cuards in India and that I sold my
tom siission on account of fever to De
hand, of the Hawkhurst Blues, and left
before my time. I was a wild fellow in
those days. A few hours before my dc
j arturc, while returning from a ' tiger
huut in which I and my followers were
shame fuliy outwitted, I ran across the tent
of a snake 'charmer a villainously dirty
old Hindu, who with horrible yells and
imprecations made the twilight hideous
by cudgeling lvs daughter, as he swore
she as,w hile she asseverated, with lifted
aims to 'Allah,' that she was simply his
slave. I iuterferrcd, of course. We had
a free fight, leaving the old fakir hors de
combat, and? I bore off the child Zobeide
one of the loveliest creatures even then
that 1 had ever seen, and as wild as aha wk.
"It was lucky that I had been fully
prepared to quit the country. As it was,
the boys of my mess begged me to have
nothing to do with Parsee, Hindu or
Arab women, to leave this dark-eyed
houri behind. Seeing me obdurate. Cap
tain Bellamy said:
" .'Do as you will, Harcourt; but you
may regret the day you did so foolish a
thing. Kindly remember that I warned
you.'
"And how often I have!
''But then it was with a glow of ex
ultation I admitted to myself the entire
ownership of everything- so untainted and
f-o beautiful as Zobeide. She was as de
licious to my tenses as a pomegranate
blossom, and was gratitude itself. Poor,
Carved, Unloved little thing! She
twined about me like a vine." Again
that convulsive shudder.
"Vou recognize the old routine the
manner of disnosinr? of such cases? Mv
maiden aunt consented to chaperon my
protegee. Into her hand? I gave Zobeide
lor a year, stipulating that she be taught
a'l Christian graces. And so I left her
X( tapestries, French verbs and tb.2
piano.
"I c m'es T thought very little about
her. The only life r etween me and raj
cstavs was severed by the death, while
bunting, of my cousin, the young Fa rl
of FavisharrJ and I was brought to
realize my position by my solicitor. I
could give my wife "a position which
would seem desirable in English eyes;
I entertained some extravagant notions
about the new life at the hall and the
new Lady Favisham whom I would
introduce to my people. The most daz
zling beauty on the walls of the old pict
ure gallery would, I felt, pale brs'de
the charms of the last Lady Harcourt,
Countess of Favisham. 1
"Yet- how shall I describe my first
meeting with her? I heard her light foot
in the corridor, and the iustl3 of hei
silken gown. ! The morning sunshine
flooded the room, the odor of loses from
their tall green vases for a moment
turned me faint. "Was it a fancy that
the old musty incense, of the jungle
where the boa lies coiled, entered the
rcom with her, emitted by her white
garments? I
"She glided toward me, scarcely
making a sound, and my senses seemed
bound by a spell.
''There were no forbidden airs of
hauteur. She coiled her arms about me,
and slid her dusky cheek along until it
lay against mine; yet it was cool.
4 'I was very; nearly overcome when my
aunt entered the room, bringing a cur
rent of fresh air with her. "s she not
lovely, your little Indian ravage?' point
ing to Zobeide, who seemed to drift
not walk over the floor to the piano,
from which she eTbked such quaint
minor chords (hat I begged her to come
and talk to me instead of playing.
"From that hour my soul passed out
of. my body to J the keeping or th's girl.
She spoke to me care singly, soothingly
as a child. Wh-rn wcried of my cravings
for he.- kisses anel caresses, she would
shut herself up for hours in her own
apa tments, or would gallop away over
the downs on her black horse Selim, an
Arabian I had given her.;
"We had married in London one day'
and began life in an irresponsible, Un
English way, as my aunt had sard. But
were always together. If we gave no
b ills, that was a mere matter of taste. I
had once had a passion for such diver
sions, but it had died in me, as had most
passions except for my child-wife. 7c
beide seemed to revel in the county ball
at first and to gloat on the homage and
admiration she received. But very soon
she tired of that soit of thing, and even of
her rides with Selim, the great splendid
rooms, the library and the picture gal
lery, the lakes, the swaus, and the elm
shaded avenues, with snowy statues
gleaming ghostly in the moonl ght.
4 he wearied of the homacre of
men
anci t:ic cnvioui
amazement of women
awe struck by her beauty long ago. She
locked hersc'f up more often in her own
wing, and always laughingly refused to
admit me. I cannot see why I did not
marvel at this, but lh:s was no . more
strange thanrthat Igaveuphunting, wh ch
hael been a passionate fancy of mine be
fore. My aunt had laid her hand on
mvbrow savinsr:
"'How changed you are, Henry"
" 'Xoa ense!"' I replied. 'It "is you
who are altered. Where is Zob2ide?'
" 'Always that' question!' she mur
mured, in a tone of distress.
"Once she pulled me into her own
chamber, saying, in a way calculated to
startle me but it did no to
" 'My dear boy, I want to speak to
you. .I must speak now with you. "Why
do you allow dlady Favisham to amuse
herself daily with a brood of detestable
snakes?' . . . j
" 'Does she?' I asked, listlessly. 'My
good soul, why should I interfere if the
child really does amuse herself? Don't
worry about Zobeide, dear; I don't?'
" 'No, poor! boy! I wish you did!'
"Strancre! Il passed this conversation
off as if it had related to the flannels of
the rheumatic- tenants. Yet ordinarily I
should have been partrlyzed with horror
at the idea of my wife juggling with
snakes. It sets my teeth on edge now
only to think of it. and it would have
made my hair stand on end had Ibe?nin
my right mind.
"I was insane all that horrible sum
mer, when a snake charmer ruled at Fav
isham Hall, the scat of a loyal and hot
blooded race, of which I was the last and
the least worthy.
"Vet any one who knew Lady Har
court at that time would not have won
dered at her autocracv, lam sure. Even
the servants ;were tinctured with the
poisonous atmospere, and only my aunt,
who constantly went abroad, was able to
shake off the leaden pall which had set
tled down upbn us at the Hall.
"Suddenly,! in obedience to the wishes
of my physi ian. I made rea ly to run
over to my shooting box in Scotl md. I
was stubbornly firm about taking my
wife with ra?j although she demurred
and even wept when I presented the tour
to her. I carried my point, and we were
away just ten days.
"Lady Harcourt stipulateel that her
wing of the Hall wras to rema;n undis
turbed eluring her absence. But she ex
pected fully to be back withinr'a week.
My aunt had gone to Rugby.
"I will try and describe our coming
home as intelligently as possible.
"I hael noticeel with wor.derful elation
that my head !was clear and my whole
mind more coherent during our absence,
as if some terrible influence had been
wanting to sway and blacken my life.
"On the contrary, my wife, although
so young and lo vely, with all the world
to fall at her feet, seemed strangely ill at
case during our trip, and grew so ner
vous near ng: home that she actually
leaped from the carriage as it drew up
before the Hall. She had coiled herself
up in it without a word, although I
talked incc-santly of the rains and hop;.
"Perkins, the butler, gravely met us,
saying, 'Dinner waits, my Lord, like a
theatrical call-boy. But my wife sprang
out and rushed off to her own apartments
with her wraps on her arms, humming a
little strain of a Hindoo song which she
knew made me particularly unhappy.
"I threw myself in a deep chair and
broke the seal of two or three letters,
running over ther contents in the irreat
banqviet room, where the tall wax lights
flared in their sconces, trying to be pa
tient until Lady Harcourt came. The
flowers wilted in .their blue and gold
vases, the clock ticked on ominously ;
still Lady Harcourt did not appear. I
think a sort of pa -nly sis must have seized
me; yet I remember that I felt satisfied
that the end had come. I knew by some
strange foresight that the curta'n had
fallen on the tragic l lle comedy Ihad
played at the old Hall, with the wrman
whom society had declared would one day
shocK or turtle every one, I knew that
1 1 should r.tver lift my head again to fine
her great black eyes glowing from be
j hind the tea urn.: I hid not been un
j happy w'th Zobeide, but I question that
j I w as in a state to know the quality of
, thehapp'ness sh-gave me. I had grown
to think the thoughts she gave me; that
was all. :
"I simply told Celeste, my lady's
maid, that I would goto her apartments;
but Celeste, with the desire probably to
save me a detested sight, ran up the pol
ished stairs, her little slippers making
a loud noise in the silent house.
''With a shriek Celeste stageretl half
way down the sta'r1, her face like chalk,
her eyes wildly staring. -
"Oh, monsieur 1 don't go in, j if you
value your life!"!
"I pushed her aside,1 and entered Lady
Hrrrcourt's boudoir, hung with the pale
green silk curtains' hc had chosen be
cause it would remind her of the jungle
where we first met. The'old overpower
ing indefinable odor met me at the thresh
old, but I stepped across her. tiger-skin
rug and felt every vein in my body con
gealing with horror. ; ' ;
"My wife's little gray silk bonnet and
scarf lay on the floor near the sofa where
she reclined, her: hair, unbound,! stream
ing in disorder; over the mossy green
carpet. ) She was quite dead, but had,
perhaps, breathed her last only a moment
before I found her. 1 I :
"On the bosom which had pillowed
my head so often lay the head of a mon
ster boa. Hi loathsome body wrapped
tightly about the luckless" girl had
s jucezed her to : death. In a fervor of
gladness over her return or madness
from hunger he hnil killed the woman
who fonelled him when not with me.
"I managed to retain my senses some
how, and left the room so permeated
with poison. Down stairs once more, I
breathed freer than for many days. I
leaned out of ths window and locked at
the old stars which had twinkled through
every hour of my miserable misspent life.
I realized all at once how base and in
active I hael become, a dreamer; but was
I to blame? !
"The old butler kindly led me to my
room, begging me to diiak of the glass
he forced to my lips, saying that all
should be done well. ;
"I drank, and, throwing myself on the
bed, I lost my mind in a dreary and
dreadful maze which melted into a long
sleep. I knew in that sleep that the py
thon had been strangled and the rumor
given forth that Lady Harcourt had
fallen dead from heart disease.
"The end of it all came, of course, and
I went through it properly, I heard after
wards; but I think my body had acted
without soul for once. -1
"I went to Switzerland a place hap
pily free from snakes, where I recovered
my olel mental poise, and got back to a
point where I could reflect upon all that
fearful time which seemed a sort of heaven
to me while it lasteel my strange irre
sponsible life with Zobeide, a charmer of
serpents, a ruler of men ! i
'Now you know, Strahan, why I do
not care to look on such sights. ! It un
nerves me to look on a boa more than to
meet a wild beast face to face.'1 Lijtpin
cott. Signal Service Work.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
duties of the United States Signal Ser
vice' Department are, for those in the
minor branches, exa ting, and the salar
ies paid quite i small, there are a great
number of applications constantly com
ing in. The assistant observers, or
privates as they are ranked, only get
$1,000 p?r year from the New York sta
tion. At all other stations east of the
Missouri, except Boston, I hiladelph'a,
New Orleans, Chicago and Jacksonville,
the pay is $30 per month. The ser
geants of the highest rank provided for
in the service get only about $20 per
month more. j
To secure a place in the service on ap
plication to the Chief Signal Oilice at his
headquarters in Washington is the first
step. A prompt answer may be expe. ted,
which will state whether or not any men
are wanted in the service. "If there are
vacancks blanks- will accompany this
rc-pmse, on which .the applicant must
fill out the answers; to a lot of ques
tions that constitute a preliminary exam
ination. ' If this paper is satisfactory the
applicant is referred to Washington or
the nearest large signal service station
to his home, where a more thorough exami
nation follows. This being satisfactorily
passed, th'j applicant is enlisted and as
signed to a station, where he is, broken
in to the work of the service.
The necessarj- qualifications, as shown
by the examination, are first, quickness
in figures with the accompaniment of ac
curacy.; The highest mathemaiiis are
not requisite, plain arithmetic being all
that is necessary. The other branches
touched upon are grammar, geography,
history, penmanship, anel spelling. The
history is United States and the geogra
phy local, but very thorough. Self-reliance
is looked for. and a man is expected
tc be able to take charge of a station
when he has had a little experience. In
the service his education-is supposed to
continue. He is expected to j gain a
knowledge of astronomy, on which there
is no preliminary examination, and to
keep up with the development of new
theories antl meteorological methods.
JTew York Sun.
The Cause of Diphtheria.
Some light appears to hive been
thrown at last upon the origin of those
mysterious cases of diphtheria which oc
cur every nowand then without any ap
parent possibility of infection. Just as
Dr. Klein has demonstrated that a slight
disease in a cow may cause an epidemic
of scarlatina among those who drink her
milk, so Dr. George Turner, in a report
just published by the London Local Gov
ernment Board, has producetl some con
siderable basis for the conclusions that
fowls, cats, sheep and other animals are
liable to diphtheria, and they may often
communicate it. Every one who haa
kept poultry is familiar with the infec
tious disease known as the "gapes," so
called from the constant gaping of -4he
animal affected by it. This is caused by
animal parasite; but Dr. Turner j tells us
that very similar symptoms may be pro
duced by fowl diphtheria, and ! he ad
duces several instances ia which the
birds seem to have given the infection to
human beings. I Many a supposed out
break of "fi-apes," the report says, may
have been a far more terrible enemy, and
iiiive produced fatal epidemics. On the
other nand, chi'dien are believed to have
repeatedly given diphtheria to domestic.
C..ts. -
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Eactrn and Mi!f11 States
Jat Gould, the noted New York financisr,
has saik-d for Europe
Geoboe J. Kelly, a Boston Globe report
er, was choked to death by a piece, of m ?at
lodging in his throat while eating his suppjr
in a Cambridge (Mass.) restaurant.
A vein of coal worth $1,000,000 has just
been found in South Wilkesbarre, Perm., at
a distance of 1,100 feet below the surface, ths
deepest shaft in Pennsylvania.
David Scott, one o? the best known men
in the New York jwipjr trade, has fled to Can
ada after robbing the firm of which he was a
member, and others, of over ?IO0,00J.
Tho3Ias Wallace, a 'convict in the peni
tentiary at Caldwell, N. J., was s-hot dead
by a guard while trying to escape.
Rev. Charles A. Derby, of England, has
been finally chosen to succeed the lata Henry
Ward Eeecher as pastor of Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn.
Sonth and ?ct.
W. II. Reynolds, an Ohio editor, w&3
shot and killed in Orange Township by James
Mason, brother of D. C. Mason, Avho was
plaintiff in a libel suit against Reynolds. The
murderer was arrested. .
Charleston, S. C' has been celebrating
its recovery from th3 earthquake disaster
of a little over a year ago. .Since that time
the city has been practically rebuilt.
Antoxio Ixfaxtes, an aeronaut, fell 503
feet by the collapse of a balloon at St. Louis,
and was instantly killed.
The Thu d National Bank, of St. Paul,
Minn., has suspended.
Mag Sherman, a colored woman, was
shot dead in couit, at Airmount, Miss., by
Sell Boyle, a young white man, against
whom she had made a charge of assault.
ATLagro, Ind., the Rev. Andrew Luce, a
Presbyterian minister, swooned away and
died while the Rev. Mr: Kanouse was offer
ing prayer. v
The guests at a merry-making in George
C. Kings house, near La-nar, La were all
taken violently sick after sup;er. Six whito
persons Sve men and one woman and ona
colored man diid, and many omers, at lasu
accounts, were dangerously id.
Naval Surgeon George Arthur fell
from a train near Sa'emy Va. , ani was in
stantly kil ed. He was on his way from
Washington to Shelby vil'o, Tcna., to to mar
ried. Three little grandchildren of T. S. Oliver
were turned to death id Faulkner County,
Ark. The little ones were alone in a build
ing at the time.
Three of the condemned Chicago An
archists Spies, Fielden and Schwab after
ths refusal of i he United States Supreme
Court to grant a writ of error, signed a peti
tion to Governor Oglesb3r, bagg ng him to
commute their sentence of death.
A band of masked men stopped an express
train near Grand Junction, Col., for over an
hour, and robbed the passengers.
Washington.
President Cleveland has been selected
as arbitrator to decide a boundary dispute
between Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
Commander D. B. Harmony, Chief of the
National Bureau of Yards ani Docks, says in
his annual report that the e timates for the
next year which were submitted by the com
mandants of the different navy yards and
stations aggregated $5,045,782, but after ex
amination at the bureau this figure has been
relu.el to l,7;0,7Ka
The receipts ol the Government; for Octo
ber amounted to $31,803,1.72, and the expjn
ditures to $12,474,, 65 J, being an excess of
receipts of $l.,y28,520. :
The President has received a notable depu
tation from Great Rritain, who desire his
co-operation in securing a treaty tetween
that country and the Un.'t?d States which
shall provide for the amicable seltlemeut of
disputes by arbitration. Ten members of
the British Parlia-ment were in the deputa
tion. The President promised his co-operation
in the plan for arbitration as a means
of setti ng international disputes.
Commissioner of Agriculture Cole
man asserts that Brooklyn, New York, and
Baltimore have for forty years been plague
spots from which pleuro pneumonia in cattle
has been spread throughout the country.
During October fhe public debt was de
crease! $li;,833,0!r, leaving the total debt,
less cash in the Treasury, at $1.23s,0!'.2,701.
Net cash in the Treasury, $55,758,7 J 1.
The United States Supreme Court unani
mously denied the petition of the condemned
Chicago Anarchists for a writ of error.
An attempt was made the other night
either to kill or maim Chief Justice Waite,
of the United States Supreme Court, cr to
perpetrate a silly hoax, by sending to his
residence a small box containing what seemed
to be an infernal machine. It was sent
t; rough the postofBce.
A Washington special says the following
changes wid probably occur in the near
future: Secretary Lamar to succeed the late
Justice Woods on tho United States Supreme
Court bench; Postmaster-General Vilas' to
succeed Mr. Lamar as Secretary of tho In
terior, and Don M. Dickinson, of JVJichigan,
to become Postmaster-Oeneral.
Foreign.
The appeal of Editor William O'Brien, the
Irish Home Rule leader, against the sent3nce
of three months' imprisonment impos d on
him by the Mitchellstown court, has been re
fused and the sentence of the lower court
confirmed. Mr. O'Brien was convicted of
using seditious language, under the Crimes
act, at a National League meeting at
Mitchellstown. There was a fierce struggle
in e-ourt between the people and the polica
guarding Mr. O'Brien. ,
De Lesseps, projector of the Panama
Canal, says the great ditch will be formally
opened on February 3, 18'JJ.
A violent storm has done an immense
amount of damage to shipping along the
coasts of Great Britain and France.
The town of Kluzin. in Minsk, Russia, has
been totally destroyed by fire. Three hundred
and fifty houses w?re burned and many lives
were lost.
The Irish Frison Board at Dublin directed
that Mr. O'Brien must wear the priso-o. uni
form and be treated in every way as an
ordinary prisoner.
Another Nihilist plot has been discovered
in St. Petersburg, and numerous arrests have
been made,
YELLOW FEVER
San ford, Fla. Quarantined and No
Trains Kunning Into the
Stations.
Two deaths from fever under suspicious
circumstances in Sanf ord induced the Duval
County Board of Health to send Dr. Daniel,
a yellow fever expert, down there on a
special train to ascertain the facts and report
them. Dr. Daniel returned and made official
report to th3 Board of Health, in which he
said that no reliable diagnosiscould be ob
tained, but added: "There is "undoubtedly
room for grave apprehension, under all the
circumstances, and I am very sure tho au
thorities of Sanford are so impressed in
regird to the matter themselves." ' ,
Preferring to err on the safe side, the
Duval County Board of Health has declared
a rigid qiarantine against Sanford. Trains
will not be allowed to run into the latter
city, but will stop some miles out and be met
there by trains from Sanford bringing the
mails and through passengers. Through
ijasseuger-s will not be allowed to come to
Jacksonville, but will be transferred at the
junction outside of the city limits to the
roads leading north. Sanford is 125 miles
200 miles bv
river. Thrie are no fears of a spread of the t
oisease.
BL0W1N TO PILCES.
Explosion oT a Giant Powder Maja
zinc Four SI n Killed,
Nearly 1,000 pounds of forcit?, an explo
sive something like dynamite, store 1 away in
the cartridge room of the American Forcite
Powder Company at McCainsville, near Lake
Hopatcong, N. J., went off a few days
sine?, killing four person and blowing
the whole building to bitJ. Tli3 men who
were killed were workmen engaged in
packing away eartridg33. They are Henry
Todd, John Fancher, Fre lerick McDde and
Philip Myer.r, all marrie L The .'causj
of the exp!osion is, unknown, as nous
of those who were in the building
are alive. The superintend ?nt had left
the budling oaly a mouient before tin
exp"osiori. The works of t be company were
close to the lake and near the station of that
name, and were erected only a few mo iths ago
aft.-r tho explosion of July 7, 18Si, when ten
men were killed and proper tv worth thousands
of dollars was destroyed. Whm the company
rebuilt its factory it scattered the buildings
over Inore territory, so that if one blew up
the rest would not necei-aril v go up with it.
. Every object in die vicinity cf the cart
ridge building is utterly demolished, and a
great ho'e in the ground ten feet deep is all
there is to show, that the building ever
existed. The ground was literally strewn
with tine bronzed splinters, ani noth
ing was left of the four men
who were in the building but little pieces of
charred flesh scattered here and there for
hundreds of yards around. The explosion
shook the whole surrounding country, and
people ran out of their houses miles away in
the belief that there hal been an earthquake
The American Forcite t'ompiny's works
at . Hpatcong are extensive, , consisting of
over fifty buildings, sat erel over 40 a:res
of ground. The woks employ, when ran to
their full capacity, about 1"0 men, and pro
fluce dady 2J,00 pounds of forcite.
For the last month, however, they
have on!y been running at aboat
one-third of their enpa aty, the daily product
being about six thousand poun i i of powder..
At the time of tho explosion there were
only about Kfty men employed. Only
a small amount of forcite is kept
stored at the works, the greater
part of it being sent away as soon as manu
factured. The maaaines in which the forcite
that is kept on hand is stored are situated a
mile aud a half or two miles from the milts.
The engine which furnished the power for
the exploded packing house was hurled into
the air a considerable distance, and in its do
scent it crashed through the roof of the
nitro-glycerine separating house, about 150
fo.-t distant. It caused no explosion.
Superintendent Nibelins was in this build
ing, and he had a narrow escape.
He was struck by a piece of flying tim
ber, but was not seriously hurt.
Some men at work in the glycerine washing;
house, about sixty feet distant, were knocked
seDse'.ess by the shock, and one end of the
building was shattered. John Rogers and
Alono Love, who worked in another pack
ing house, were slightly hurt about the head.
Tais part of Morris county has become one
of the greatest powder manufacturing centers
in the country, and within a year aud a half
twenty men have lost their lives in explo
fiions at th rl liferent works. .
RIOTING NEGRO STRIKERS.
Four White Men Shot Down and Fur
ther Trouble Feared.
The labor troubles in the sugar district of
Louisiana, culminated in a serious riot on
the Lacassaigne plantation in Terrebonne
parish. The negro laborers on the planta
tion struck and refused to go to work unless
their demands for higher wages were grant
ed. The white laborers about twenty-five in
number, continued at work. The manager
of th? plantation telegraphed to New Orleans
for men to take the place of the strikers, and
forty-five white men Were employed and
sent to the plantation.
The Lacassaigne place is about eight miles
from the Morgan railroad and sixty miles
from New Orleans. Tt e roadside is border
ed with underbrush. As the new laborers
were on their way to the plantation they
w re attacked by the strikers ambushed
alonqj the road, and four of the new men
were shot down and wounded. The others
scattered, leaving the strikers in possession
of the field. Appeals were made to the
Governer for troops to protect those who
may desire to work, and Company C, Louisi
ana artillery, has been ordered to the scene.
Tiie situation is regarded as critical, but as
the troops reached the plantat.on it is not
likely that any more trouble will ensue at
that partidular spot - , '
At present over ten thousand negro labor
ers are on strike. The white men working
on the sugar plantations, holding that the
demands were unjust, refused to join them.
As the negroes are in a large majority every
where throughout the sugar district, anrl as
they are determined neitner to work them
se ves at present prices nor allow others to
work, further trouble is looked for. The
piaLters aie determined to introduce new
labor and f orca the strikers to leave their
places, and for this purpose a large number
of warrants have been taken out. Several
compa ies of the state militia, aggregating
probablj six hundred men, are under arms
at the principal points throughout the dis
trict, and will go to the assistance of the
Sheriff's officers if they are resisted when
serving the warrants.
A BRAVE WOMAN.
She Cuts Into aBurning Building and
Saves a Child.
A few nights ago a negro family living
near the residence of George W. Cox, at
Columbia, S. C, went away to a revival
meeting, locking their sick child in their
Cabin. During their absence the cabin
caught fire. Mrs. Cox d scovered the flames
and knowing that the sick child was inside
she rushed to the rescue without waiting to
summon assistance. With an axe she broke
open the door, entered the burning cabin
and seized the almost suffocating child. On
making her exit a part of the bui. ding f-II
upon her and knoe-ked her down, but she
shielded the child from the fire by wrapping
her clothing around it. The brave woman
was being burned to death when her hus-
band arrived and rescued her from the
flame?, but she was so badly burnt that her
life .ttlespaired of. The child was uninjured.
MARKETS.
Baltimore Flour City Mills", extra , ?3.O0
n$&63; Wheat -Southern Fultz, 8ta2ets;
Corn Southern White, 48a49cts, Yellow, 4'i
50 cts. ; Oats Southern and Pen. syivania
25a37cts. ; Rve Maryland and Pennsylvania
59aG0cts. ; Hav Marvlaud and Pennsylvania
i:i 50a$1450; Straw Wheat, 7.50a$-8; ButU-r,
Eastern Creamery, 26a27cts., near-by receipts
19a20cts : Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream. IZ'Z
al3cts., Western, 12al24'cts. ; Egs 21a22;
Cattle $2;50a4.00; Sw ino ti.'Gcts. ;
Sheep and Lamb 2'a4J cts; Toixxceo
Leaf Inferior, la2.50, Good Common, : 5-J:i
$4 50, Middling, 5a$ti.0tf Good to line ned, 7u-'-A
Fancy, 10a$12.
New York Flour Southern Common to
fair extra, 3.25a$4.O0; Wheat No. 1 Whit T3
aXiets. ; Rye State. 54a5: Corn Southern
Yellow, 51a52cts. ; Oats White State, .ZVCA
cts. ; Butter State, 17a2C cts. ; Cheese State,
lOalOcts.; Eggs 19a20 cts.
Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania,
fancy, 3.50a$4; Wheat Pennsylvania and
Southern Red, 82aS3 cts ; Ryo Pemisy i vauia
57a5S cts.; Corn Southern Yellow, 5La-2 cts.
Oats 3Ga37 cts.; Butter State, lAid'J ct
Cheese N. Y. Factory, 11a 12 cts.; Eggs -State,
l'al8 cts.
A GAS0LINEH0RR0R.
A FF.ABFUJj AND FATA I IlXrLO
SIOX IX ST. LOUIS.
The 'Victims Killed While Asleep in
Their Beds in the Dead of Night
ApiM-tlling Scenes-A
Young Lady'sTh rill
ing" F.xericucc
and Ftecapc.
A flash, followed by a dull roar mid then
the cr;.h of walls, convulsed the centre of
St. I mis, and a horrible calamity had le
f alien three familie-f? while they were
wrapiied iu s!unil.-er. An explosion of gas
oline in the rear of the cellar of Michael
Newman"! grocery storo, 13 South Fourteenth
street, Lad lifted the two-story building from
the foundation ami dropped it beck again in
a mass, beneath which were buried over a
dozen persons They were Michael Newman ;
aged 52 years; Mrs. Annie Newman, aged 40
years; Miss Mamie Newman, aged IS years;
John Newman, agl 1G years; Nellie
Newman, a;ed 15 years; Kate Newman,
aged 11 years; Eddie Newman, n;red 13 years
Charles Devere, Mrs. Charles Devere, Miss
Hattie .Brown, of Columbus, Ky. ; Charles
Fifferd, Miss 1 bit tie Bryant, Mrs Beasley.
The explosion 1 ad scarcely wrecked tho
plae-? before the swept through tho ruins.
Aid was quieklv on the rcene i ut in taich
confusion that the horror seemed to increase
with their efforts to re ievo the iiupriM.nd
victims. The1 people if the neighboring!,
dumbfounded, ran atcut the streets seeking
friends, demanding explanations or moaning
from bruises. The (hones that had burst out
among the ruins banded the efforts of the
firemen who had beun the first - systematic
wo.de and for. a few minutes bid fair to
s read to nd aing pnperty.
Beams ar.d wnhs impeded progress ami
threatening walls en either side overhimg
ready to crush the jrallant u n who press!
to the spot where calls for hdp directed
them. Tho roof was soon removed and in
the debris were revealed the mangled forms
of the grocery i nan'., family.
Two girls, Newman's daughters, were first
removed. Mamie was still alive, but man
gled from the timbers and charred by fire,
was be ond t!:e hope of recovery. Her sister
Nellie moaned pit ously for her sister. For
the half hem r that these two had been im-
erisolied their efferts had been to draw ne r
each other when they saw that escaj)e was
impossible. Neither can survive. The rest
of the Newman, family were dead. Some
sat upright and others were doubled In their
beds. They had evidently been killed while
they were asleep.
In the same building, over storeroom No.O,
lived Charles Devere, a traveling salesman,
and his wife. Visiting them was Miss Hattie
Brown. She was badly injured but miracu
lously escaped death.
She found herself buried beneath heavy
tioibers and snw on one side a wall of fire,
while clashing timbers and other missiles
flow about her head. She heard tho scr. nuts
of those in the adjoining buildings, and as
she realized her situation nlmcst fainted.
But nerved to a desjK-iate struggle by the
groans of the dying she essa3od " 'to' escae.
She was firmly pinned by a beam across her
thigh and an iron rod over one ankle. An
she twisted and truggled.the fire was blown
towards her until her long black tresses were
scorched and the tderof burning flesh al
most suffocated her. Just as she sank back
in despair the ruins settled and the timbers,
were raised from her limbs.
Miss Brown then sprang to her feet, and,
staggering, made her way blindly through
the ruins. She fell several times and finally
exhaus;ed stumbled headlong into (he yard,
'where she lay unconscious. She soon recov
ered her senses, however, ai;d ran to a
neighbors house, where she was given a skirt
and some clothing. She then went out in
the street to kern tho fate of her friends.
Over storeroom No. 11 reided Mrs. Bryant
with her daughter, Miss Pattv. Wit i ti em
wrere two boarders, Charles Fifferd and Mih.
Peasley. The last named was so deep in the
debris that search for her was given up until
others were removed. Charles Fifferd was
taken out alive but died. Miss Bryant's in
juries are not dangerous. An unknown
man cf 40 years, was found in the debris and
removed to the morgue.
Besides those injured in this building
many person in (he ne ghborhood were more
or less cut and bruised by (lying splinters or
bricks. For several blocs on either side of
the streets the concussion shattered the win
dows, and in the immediate vicinity, n the
opposite side of the way, the front r- ,f the
buildings were crushed in by the t- rrible
exp'osion, and scarcely a window or a door
remains. Walls 'cracked, floors gave way"
and plaster fell in almost every house within
a radius of 100 yards, and on the 'heads of
the sleeping residents, startling them and
causing a mad rush and flight to tho stre-et.
The ambulance s rvice was excellent,
bringing skilled attendants. As thesuff rers
were removed from the debris they were
taken to the disxensar3 With daylight
c nne the word th it all the victims had been
removed.
The corrected li:-tof the dead and wounded
i ; eight dead and three wounded seriously.
Six others reported missing, have been
found either uninjured or slightly hurt.
"stage sparks.
B'.ffalo Bill's Will West Show has
close 1 its successful London Season.
"The Railroad of Love"' is the jeculiar ti
tle of Mr. Aigust-in Daly's latest comedy.
Ilma Di Mi rska, the distinguished Hun
garian singer, has arrive 1 in New York from
Eu: ope.
Makv Amjersos has closed a' contrail
with Henry Abbey to make a tour ef th ;
United States and Australia in 18SS and
lStf'.
ThE Booth Barrett combination during its
thrc weeks' engagmi: nt in Chi:ago drew
over ?75,00'J, a figure never before known in
tto history of the drama in this country.
A roxcEKT compauy composed of sorn'
artists, w ith Miss Uessie Gilbert,the cornetist,
has been organized for a tour through th
principal towns and cities of New Englan 1.
The first day's advance sale for Mr. Irv
ing's "Fansf at the Star Theatre in New
York, is said to have retched $ 16,0 JO, the
largesS sale of the kind known in America
save Bernhardt's '2 i,70i in Boston).
Mrs. Potter, the social. star who hai
turned professional actress, opened recently
in New York to a bouse pat ke i with 'iociety
people," The tickets for the opening night
were sold at auction, and realized large
prices.
Crestox Clabk is the latest and newest
melancholy Dane. He is a son of John S.
ClarKlt nephew of Edwin Booth, and a grand
son of Junius Brutus Booth. He made hi3
debut in Richmond, and appears to have
scored a hit.
A nsw tenor his miie his appearance in
Berlin, who is said to posses the much cov
eted C sharp. He was a su?casfut animal
painter, bat one day be discovered "that he
possessed a voice, and now sings under th;
stage name of Ricardo.
No co?;cert company appears to ho con
sidered complete this season ualess its mem
bership includes a violin player of the gijnt'.er
sex. Sig. Campanini is to introduce as onu
of his company of artists Signorina Metaura
Toricelli, of whom all possible complimentary
statements are being made.
Tca has made her American debut, at
Chickering Hail, New York, and the verdict
is that she is a great vjoliniste fcr a little
girl. Boetel, the German tenor, hai made
his Amesican debut ut the Thalia I heater in
New York, and the verdict i that he is a
great singer of the Wachtel school.
SUGAR OR DYNAMITE.
The Mysterious Box Chief Jiisii e
.Waite Itcceivcd Through
the Mail.
A t'iisat Ion was cnaU-d in Wnhint ? -a
by the report that Chcif JuMi't' Wai'e. ;"
tlt Supreme Court had reevhed a d vi um
bomb, with nn intimation that n fit sinoi al
lot hat w hieh Uf !th. victims of the t la. .
Haymarket massacre- ws awaiting tl.- ( 'l '. i"
Just t as soon as the M-nteiicl An.u ! t '
should liar.g. l.urid parti ulars of tin
p rted affair were piven, and the m
startling predictions were induced b !!.
few who N'came cognizant of the tu i r.
The worry among the friends f the ( f
Ju-tioe was treat, and, as n on p. si t!
Chief Justice's houst was l-s il at mt- r
vals until near midnight by anxious 1 1 n n '.
and iniiuiiiiig representatives f th"
To many the Ch ef Justice laugh.il al ut t!
niTair, claiming that t' e article h. r c, n , I
was neither a bomb nor what he thought
message of death. Nevertheless, a p.u k i
had Won received by the Chad Ju?.-.
through the mail. It was n n ka a: :
five inches siuare and neatly wraj 1 m
brown pnjcr,nud b-g 1 1 d y addi essed to-a'!,i' f
Justice Wait'." TiiejH.stui.uk Win"Wn S
ington." Tho Chief Ju-ti. e unwrap--I t!
njH-r and found inside a com in n g io e I .
In coming through the mail it had ! u
jainuicd in among other pacl.ai s and bun
dies, and the lid had become lH.s-nd. Ti i ll
Chief J ust iiH had no In mble in i.j'iiin .-, H"r
was any force us d in doing s i. 1 1 1 -1. 1 "
found what lookil bUe tin infernal m i l in
There is a coil if wire wh ch lead tow!, it
sembles a hammer, and near by is wl.ut s,.Pi..
call dynamite, but which th-Chief
thinks is brow it sugar, d'lniv is uml' ul ! -i ! v
guniMwder in the lv. d'hc i h I. i wa
inline- liately put away in a secure place, u:. l
the coil of wire taken nt, so no dam a. an
le done, even if it is an infernal in e l iu .
To n reporter the Chief Justitesiid that !
had not reccivisl a bomb, for he did not con
sider the loX as su h. It was some h" ax, 1.
thought something to create a sens.tiou
He had not received any let ter.. incv aje o,
wdnl froni.any anarchist, nor did lie ep-ct
any. Ho seenied to t reat t he w hole uiait. r
nsfa joke, and did not care to di . cuss li e
subject.
POSTAL TELEGRAPHY.
Its Increase of Ortire-Hohloi s t be Pi in
cipnl Argiim ill auaiiii li.
Congressman llei lert of Alabama, speak
ing of the proposition to establish a i n i,
nieiit telegraph sys em said : "I am le t m
favor of it. In the lu st place am oppo.e.l
to increasing the power of the ( io i -i una-n!
1 know ;liat on first th. night th" peop.. will
say 'give us a postal telegraph,' but alt' a
the subject has been discussed in 'mui
and I believe it will come up inthehou, .
this winter and t he count ry is made aw oo
of the immense power it will give the patty
iu control, I don's believe the people will !
Ilia IlliriV to adopt the -Scheme. e had
better put up a while longer w it h I he pre , :,t
evilnndeinlo.avortolind.il remedy than 1
adopt a measure that, nn .' in the end pioe
a greater monopoly. . There would ! no
comix tition, Jay iould could le-l om- i -with
the Jovernuieiil , and he would be ,i . ed
to sell out at n reasonable price.
"If we establish a postal t legraj-hil would
create at least 7..om more oflioe holder-, an I
in less than two years the number w d b
double. Just imagine w hat a (ore- I nat
wouldgivo the party in power!
"Then,- again, suppo.se the ( he. a rnmm!
should take too telegraph, tie- m-M :! p
wiMild be to control t he r.diroad'. It lh;.
policy in Franco that, prevents that icpu' li
from Ix-ing a republic in the true un-iimn .-.
of tho word. Tho policy of I he be. vi -n no-ni.
controlling tho telegraphs, railroads, sub-id
lizing tho ojM-rn houses, preachers, art, A ,
is'tho legacy loft tho French people by bom .
IV. Wo must k ep our individuality, a ad
to do that wo must guard against every
ineroa'io of power in the Jovernmeut. 'lb"
subject w ill lie an interesting one this winter
and will provoke a great deal ib .-.cu .-i "a.
Much can bo s id on both side,.;.
BIG FIRE IN NASHVILLE
A boss of Over $fr0,K0 Sustained
Fatal Injur! m.
About 1 o'clock Friday m iming W'eal. lev
Cc Warren's furniture store, at N.a !iali. ,
'jVnn., caught lire and t o entire L! k front
Bink alley, south to the Wet. an rmi
budding was shxi burning. Th- We-.;, m
Union oilice escaped w ithoiit liui.-h dam a
The following are the losses: Weakley A.
Warren, stock M, insured for o.Vo;
Atwell fc Suead, lurnitum d.-ah rs, sb. U
$1 7,00i , insuranc' l",ou); Webb, St. en
cc Co., hardware, stck ...'o,,''hi, in- mv. I ,r
$;;s,()(M). The bu Iding K-cupi-l by W.-akh-y
& Warren 1-olongeil to Judge J. M l a ;m d
tho W. W. 1'ito estate and win valued i.t.
$-J;,(Kn, with oi insurar.ce; the buil In...
oc-iipieil by Atwell Hioad was owned b,
B. F. Wil.sn, ?1.",(HKJ, and insured b r
f 10 (nX); tlint of Webb, Stev-nsm A '. u -O.vneil
by E. W. Colo, ?J,0 o, and lull v n:
sare-1. 'Hie total aggregates a b u I ..o...(u
on botis s, insured for f-l-'S.O"": b.ek
f brJ.0), insured for a' out j :,i .
Ihe walls of 1 he building ad joining ll;v,k
abov fell, find a number of thh were m
jure;l. Among the wowrid.il are a s -u - t
J. 15. Moore, about l- years of a.;-, i".
f.ku'1 is terribly crush. -d, so that, b- will ii ;
and William Stewart , a sign pander, !,
left l g is b-wlly fractured. U!i-rs a v I
lieved to bo covered by the debris wh. - a
workmen an removing. Tho t -.ra;-h
wires in nearly a 1 directions w eje burie-d,
and over a hundred telephone wlr--,.!
'stroyed. "
HURLED FROM A BALLOON,
The Ilajf Kxplodo and the Aeronaut
Fall I'ioii His Hack.
Anton Infantes, an aeronaut, had a ti tiling
experience at an exhibition of th-"I'all r
rompon,"' g ven at a suburban station on tl
West End NYrr ow-Cauge Bailroad, n-ar
.t. Ixuis. One of the ft-atun-s of tin- -!,. .v
w as to te a balloon tiscciision with tit;'.-.
lcrformaneo by Infanbs. The ball' on a
cended atout one hundred fi t and tl..-ti
iasseI over the show-grounds. When about
a block from where the ascent was m a ! H
became unmanageable and tipi-d txm- '-i e
and Ijegan falling at a rapid rate. Infante
i licld to the iar, and would j.robably h i .
j male a safe decent but for an cxpio-i.,;i
j which tore the bag.
j The balloon was about thirty feet trnn
! th j ground when the explosion occurred and
tae aoro.'.aut fell on his back on a st ak
' which protruded from the ground ab,, ,t
' twelve inches. Infantes was uni-on-ei ,
1 wdiea the attaches of the show reach's I 1... ..
land was bleeding prof usdy from the i,,-.-;
and mouth. Infantes was given restorative-,
! anl on regaining consciousness utb-red m -thing
in the Portugese tongue which uol... I v
present could undorstan 1. His injui i. s at e
serious, but not considered fatal. lie say-
that the explosion was du? to th?f.act tl, tt
the balloon w-as uot projerly in 11 a ted.