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ft PLEDGED TO TRUTH AND JUSTICE, $ j : : 11-4- E. !W. FATJCETTE, Editor and Proprietor. Termii 01. SO ft Teur, la AinnM. VOL. I. MILTON, jNV C, AUGUST 6, ' 188b. NO. 52. NEWS SUMMARY s 1 . EMtern aad MidCle States.- HUBERT O. THOirPSO- Vam if t!h Nw York Countj Democracy, ex-Commissioner of Public Works, and for rears a prominent figure in Metropolitan politic, sras found dead in bed a few days since. He aa thirty seven years old, and his death wax caused by cerebral apoplexy. 'Tj The exeat Boston xxM-k-nackin Wahli&h- xnent of John P. Squire & Son has discharged au wujjwci a us acuon is unoerstooa to mean war on the Kniehta of Labor. Mr- Squire said in an interriew be conld not eon. tinue business with employes who are liable to strike at any time when ordered to do so A surposcD attempt has. been! made to blow up the Brazilian Prince. Don Ano-nrtn Leopoldo, grandson of Emperor Ioml Pedro, with a dynamite bomb. The Prmce is making a tour of this country, and the allied bomb was discovered on "board a steamer from Coney Island, to which he had been; taken on an excursion. ; j i A BiTTKB fight is waging in New York City between the Knights of Labor and the Cigarmakers' Progressive Local Assembly, doiu wortingmen s oodles. , . j V TT T T V T TTWMr tinnVt-J.n.T ri t the American Baptist Publication Society, of ;THE HILTON ADVERTISES. A FIRST-CLASS DEMOCRATIC' WEEK. LY NEWSPAPER. S Pases, 4JS Columns. DEVOTED TO TfTJB IRTXRXSTS OF KXLTOH Airs suBRorirsnro couhtbt. TERMS. OF 8UBSOHIPTION I One Year,1 - .- ' Clx Months, . . Invariably in advance. ll.W LOO BPECIMEN COPIES FREE. Address Advertising rates very favorable. THE ADVERTISER, DR. JAS. A. HURDLE, DENTIST ANDERSON'S ST0RE,N.C. Will practice in CASWELL COUNTY, N. X., ana aa joining counties. Calls by mail : and otherwise promptly attended to. DAVID JONES, MERCHANT TAILOR Main Street, (Opposite the Arlington Hotel) DANVILLE, VIRGINIA. PETER E. FRANCIS, Watch to ill Jeweler Advertiser Building, THIS COiyCTMN IS FOB fctfoisE FOB TEX SALE 07 Leaf Tobacco AND HEADQUARTERS FOB TOBACCO FERTILIZERS. CAPSIZED Hi A SQUALL. A Schooner Containing a Pleasure Party OTerturned. All Six Ladies on Board and One Gentleman Drowned. THE Pacific Guan FOR TOBACCO, Well-known to the most of you, kept on hand all the time, and for sale in any quan- titles yon may wish to purchase, single bag or car-load lots, AT BOTTOM PRICES THE Has just received a large stock of CLOCKS, WATCHES, And All Kinds of Jewelry, For which he paid cash, and can sell very low. When you need anything in my line call on me. All repairing guaranteed. - - - : i ' ' ' ORGANIZED X832. Anchor Brand i FERTILIZER MANUFACTURED BY THX SOUTHERN FERTILIZING CO., IN mCBMOKD, Is also well known throughout this entire sec tion, and stands high for making Fine Yellow Tobacco. Is also kept on band all the time and sold in quantities to suit purchasers 100 lb. Backs, 200 lb. Sacks; alsojnlcar-load lots, at prices as low as you couia ass: ior an estab lishedlFertilizer. 100 lb. Backs specially pre pared for PLANT-BEDS. sTorance Compaq RICHMOND. Assets, 5550,000 You win also find at nun Minora INSURES AGAINST FIRE AND LIGHTNING. This old company, now more than half a century in successful operation, has paid HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS On losses to citizens of North Carolina. Is sues a very simple and concise policy, free of petty restrictions and liberal iu its terms and conditions. , W. L. COWARDIN, President W H. MCCARTHY, Secretary. t6e D. !. HINES, IMstriot: Agent, MILTON, N. C. LIVERY STABLE ! FARMER'S FRIEND FERTILIZER, Which I have sold one year only, but can give you & certificate of nearly every man that I sold to last year of satisfactory results from it Some of our best farmers used it, and wUl certify that it acted as well as any Fer tilizers they used last year. J. ft TINSLEY & CO'S W, B. McGAIN, PROPRIETOR ' Buggies, Phaetons and all kinds of Turnouts for Hire. FAST HORSES. I keep a number of Is also to be found at win mmn b I guess the first car-load shipped to this State is now in store at Wilson's. Call and get a pamphlet with certificates of those who have used it. It is put up in 50 and 200 lb. Sacks, and has taken a high stand wherever it has been used. DRDHIERS' HACKS Tor the convenience of Commercial Travel I ers who wish transportation through the country. ' MR. J. B. BROOKS will always be found gft tbe stable ready to attend to the wants of tnstomers. I strive to please. You will see that I am selling two of ; the Oldest Fertilizers made in the United States, and well established; also two comparatively new FertUizers, which stand high as far as known to the planter. You are respectfully invited to call and examine my stock and prices when you are ready to purchase. ; Come and see me with your tobacco when voa are ready to market it. I don't think any market hJj given more entire and more eeneral satisfaction than the Milton market during the entire winter. Don't forget j Details of a calamitous accident by which six ladies and one gentleman lost their lives are given by the New York papers as fol lows: It was on Tuesday morning last that the schooner Sarah Craig left Spruce street wharf in Philadelphia carrying one of the merriest parties that ever left the old Quaker City. The party had been made up for a trip of ten days and intended to visit Cape May, Atlantic City, Long Branch, Bay Ridge and Coney Island. It consisted of the venerable wife of T. Hood Stevens, the President of an insurance company, aged fifty-five years, her two daughters, Mrs. Cora E. Astcons and Miss Mamie Stevens: Miss Emma Merritt and her sister, Rebecca Merritt; Miss Maud E. Ret tew, Chester Clarke, the chief telegraph operator of the Pennsylvania Railway in Philadelphia; Z. W. Jordan, F.W. Hall, Mar cius Bulkley and Alfred Potter. With the exception 01 juts. Stevens, all were young Deo rile. Two other Ladies wem rn firmrrT but afterward left the schooner owing to sea sickness. A colored cook and a colored waiter assisted Capt. Edward C. Ruland and his crew of two men in pro viding for the comforts of the tourists. With a gentle sea and mild breezes the cruise was one long delight. Cape May and Aiiannc uizy were Dotn visited. The schooner left the latter place for New York Friday morning at daybreak. All day the sicy -was oiue, tna water glassy and the sun bright. Tne sky began to grow gray at about six o'clock. The dark Navesink Highlands were half a mile away. It looked like rain. The ladies and gentlemen Sat down to sapper on deck under the cool shadow of the biz white mainsail and jib. Just then a black cloud appeared in the sky and a few drops of rain splashed on the deck. Carttain Ruland requested the ladies to go into the cabin, and they laughingly tripped down the companion way, f oflowed by their four es corts, who were laden with chairs. The rest of the story can better be told in the lan guage of Mr. Jordan, one of the survivors: "We had hardly got below," he said, "when a puff of wind struck the vessel and shook her badly. Captain Ruland fastened his rudder wheel with a pin and ran forward to let down the 31b. I he jib stuck fast and couldn't be brought down. Mr. Potter, Mr. Hall and Mr. Bulkley ran up on deck to help pull down the jib. Just then a second burst of wind struck the yacht and threw her over on her side. Tha sea came swirling into the cabin. A sudden movement of the water threw me into the companionway and I was dragged out by Mr. Potter. The ladies and Mr. Clark were behind and all means of escape was cut off, as the deck sank under the surface. The sea washed over the vessel in perfect breakers. I saw all the men hanging on to the side, up to their waists in water. The air was full of hailstones. Many of them were two inches in diameter. One -of them gave me a black eye. We had to ha'ig on with all our strength and ke?p our heads down to keep the hail from tearing our eyes out. I l"My God! I hope to never live such an hour again. We could hear the ladies crying heads agaiast the walls. I would have given a thousand lives for an axe to cut' a hole and let them out. Their prayers and moans al most drove us insane as" we drifted along helpless to save them and waiting for death ourselves." But the thing that almost froze my heart was a white hand and arm that were stretched out of a deadlight under the water. It was one of the 3oun2 ladies appealing for help. I crawled over and took hold of the hand. It clung to mine, but I could do nothing but cry. As the young lady's cries became weaker I took a ring from her finger as gen tly as I could. Then the hand and arm sank back and I heard an awful wail. I. have the ring in my pocket. "We took one of the fenders from the side of the schooner and tried to break a hole through the vessel and save our friends, but it was all in vain. Twice I was washed into the sea and twice I clambered on the wreck. In the distance we could see two tugs and we tried to signal them. At last the yawl of pilot boat No. 5 appeared with two men in it They asked us to get into their boat but we refused, for we could still hear the ladies beegirtg for their lives inside of the vessel. What we wanted was an axe or a tug to tow us into shallow water, where we could get at our friends. The mate of our boat, Mr. Ferguson, was sent with the yawl to ask one of the tug-boats to help us. Then we hoisted a coat on an oar and waved it. Soon the little tug William Cramp came up to us. The Captain of th9 tug asked us to come on board, but we all said we could not leave the schooner while there were living per sons in her. .The Cramp threw us a line and we fastened it to the traveler. We were towed for a few minutes toward shore and then the line tore away the traveler and a portion of the bulwark with it. The storm was so furious that the tug was driven off, but she managed to pick up one of the stewards and one of the crew, who were in the water. Then the big tug B. T. Haviland dashed up to us and threw us a hawser. Captain Ruland tried to pass the line to us but was jerked into the sea. Then we were all dragged on board of the Cramp with lines. The sea was so high that the Captain of the Cramp asked to fret under the lee. of the bic tuz to- keep from beine swamped. As the two tucs annroached we Jumped from the cramp to tne navuana. By this time tne screams 01 ineiacues nan ceased and we could hear nothing but the howling of the wind and waves. All night we towed the wreck against the tide, and in the morning we grounded her at the Govern ment dock on SSandy iloos. Captain Gully, of tbe tug liaviiana, aovo for the bodies and recovered six. The seventh was found the next day. All were taken to Philadelphia and buried by their gnef- stneken relatives. Thx international chess tournament in London resulted in a tie for first place be tween Blackburn and Burn. Mackenzie, lha chief American representative, was aichth among the thirteen contestants. Fraxcis W.Rasraxi, a naturalized Amer ican citizen, was arrested at Eagle PasSfTexas, by Mexicans on the charge of being a horse thief, conveyed to Mexican territory and shot. The American Consul telegraphed the facts to Secretary Bayard, stating at the same time mat the reported outrages upon American citizens on the IUo Grande and in M-3xiro were not eiaggerated. LATER NEWS. Lxxtdxr Moodt, a desperado, was taken from the Seymour (Ind.) jail and lynched for assaulting a ten-year-old girL Txkt of a train went through a bridge into the Wabash river at Blufftoo, Ind. Three railroad employes and a tramp were killed, Thx Senate confLrmed the nominations of George A. Jencks to be Solicitor-General and of John B. Redman to be Collector of Inter nal Revenue for the district of Maine. Additiosil appointments to the British Cabinet are as follows: Attorney General. Philadelphia, with an assistant bookkeeper's Sir R. E. Webster; Lord Chamberlain, Earl help, has embezzled 130,000. Charges of conspiracy to 'obtain his office have been preferred against Ilollin M. Squire,the New York Commission! r of Public t V. A i 2 LIU 1 i a tester ut txiuirv u puousu m wnicn ne Dargainea wiin jo. a. .r lynn, a contractor, to practically put bis office in Flvnn's hands in consideration of that indi vidual's procuring enough votes in the Board of Aldermen of 1SS4 to secure hi appoint mew. f Connecticut Prohibitionists in-State Con vention at Hartford nominated a complete ticket, headed by Rev. 8. B. Forbes for Gov ernor. Full Congressional and Senatorial tickets will also be placed in the field, j GkxaT, activity prevails in th? iron and steel industries. The production qt pg iron and steel rails has largely increased the past About 3,000 New York cigarmakers quit work rather than leave their union and obey agreement has been made between I many bosses and the Knights of Labor I to compel all cigarmakers to join the K. of L. organi zation, ft I Thx Vermont Greenbackers have nomina ted a State ticket with T. B. Smith for Got ernor at its haad. ' DESTBUCTITE STOBHS. Great Destruction of. Property East and West. in Ohio Laid Waste, Many Lives Lost. and South and West. VI- Two cattle herders were struckqt hj1 light ning near Andrew Station, Net;, add in stantly killed. i; Coloxel W. H. Boltox, Superintendent of ISecond Class Matter at the Chfcari Post- omce, ana eigner Btewarc nave Deen or rested on a charge of conspiracy and embez zlement. The1 amount involved may reach siuo,uuu. ; DrRiso the past fiscal year the. postofDce appointments made numbered 22,747 an in crease of 13,200. The total number of post- omces 13 Oj,oi4. Si nas been convicted at Usage Mission Of kill ing his father, mother, brother find sister. Ohio and Wisconsin Prohibitionist have just held State Conventions and '-made full nominations. 'J j The Georgia Democratic State Convention at Atlanta nominated General Gordon for Governor. The old State House officers were nominated for their respective positions, and Cleveland's administration was indorsed. A witness at the trial of the Chicago An archists testified that he saw Editor Spies, one of the eight prisoners, light tha fuse of the bomb thrown with such deadly effect at the police during the Haymarket riot.! The witness also testified that Schnaubert, another prisoner, threw the explosive. A I Mr. Jacobs, ex-Mayor of Louville, has resigned as Minister to the UniteJ States of Colombia. ti ! Y Pl Dallas dispatch says that,'the war 5irit against Mexico is rampant throughout exas, extending to the most remote i ham lets.' A score of volunteer companies have been organized. 1 of La thorn; Judge Advocate-General, Right Hon. W. T. Marriott Gebxaxt has been secretly training car rier pigeons in France for war tmnuMi General Boulanger, the French Secretary of War. has ordered an inquiry. A. ISAPTIST church at Heading, Fenn., was wrecked by a dynamite explosion. Aboct 20,000 Knights of Labor met In New York the other night and protested against the conspiracy laws. The speakers advised political action and a political boy cott of all officeholders opposed to justice for labor. Governor I RELAXP, of Texas, has been in communication with Secretary Bayard and the American Consul at Eagle Pass concern' Lag the arrest and execution of Francisco Ras ures, a naturalized American, by Mexicans. There is much excitement on the border on account of this and othsr outrages by Mexi cans, and many young men in Texas are en rolling for war. Miss Jasx McArtbcr lost her life in a heroio effort to save a family from drowning on the Upper Sun River. Montana. Miss McArthur succeeded in rescuing three of the party, but was caught in a fatal embrace by the fourth person she tried to save, and they went down together. Thx Senate rejected the nomination of James C. Mathews, the colored man of Al bany. N. Y., who was nominated to be Re corder of Deeds in place of Fred. Douglass. Twenty-seven Senators voted against and fif ,' teen for confirmation, Fourth Auditor Shel ley, of the Treasury Department, and Mr. Tinan, for Surveyor of Customs at San rw cisco, were confirmed. Abbe Franz Liszt, the great pianist and composer, is dead in his seventy-sixtn year. More new Tory appointments: Secretary of State for India, Sir Richard As&heton Cross; Lord Privy SeaL Earl Cadogan; Col onial Secretary, the Right Hon. Edward Stanhope; President of the Board of Trade, the Right Hon. Edward Stanley; Lord Ad vocate, the Right Hon. J. H, A. Macdonald; Solicitor-General for Scotland, Mr. J. P. Bannerman-Robertson; Master of the Horse, Duke of Portland. CHOP PKOSPECTS. A fierce storm attended with loss of lift and great destruction of property has visited portions of the East and West. Particulan are given in dispatches as follows: - A Lima (Ohio) telegram says: This morn ing a terrible wind storm passed over this section of the country. AUentown and Vaaghnsville, near here, were almost wiped out of existence. The rain poured down In -torrents, and tbe shrieks of the wounded war heartrending. There was absolutely no help to be given, people fearing almost to move. It is reported that but few houses remain standing in either of the towns. A wrecking party with several physicians has left here for AUentown and auxhns ville with medicine and surgical Instru ments to relieve the unfortunates who are buried in the debris. The messenger reports both towns completely wrecked. He says that a family named Bowler, consisting of nusoand, wife ana two daughters. 1) PROMINENT PEOPLE. i when yon go to market. With thanks to my friends and patrons fox their liberal fully, patronage, 1 am yours respect- Charges Very Moderate, i X.. H. "ECUTSTT. The health of ex-President Arthur is now said to be considerably improved. Mrs. Margaret Vax Cott, the evange list, is making a tour of the "White Mountains and holding occasional meetings. Cleveland is the first American Presi dent to whom Prince Bismarck has sent a personal letter and a photograph. Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, is a total abstainer from intoxicating drinks, but is a great smoker of twenty -live-cent cigars. Ex-Go ve rno R Moses, of North Carolina who is now an inmate of the Massachusetts Penitentiary, is said to be in a failing condi uon. Senator Hearst, tozether with another California millionaire, have recently pur chased 350.000 acres of land in Northern Mexico. Francis Murphy, the temperance agita tor, savs that he has administered the pledge to 60.000 Dersons since last September. He la Washington. The Senate has confirmed the nominations of J. S. Ha gar. Collector of Customs at San Francisco, and Israel Lawton, Siiteriiitend ent of the Mint in that city. The President has nominated Charjes M. Thomas, of Kentucky, to be Associate Jus tice oC the SupremejCourtof Dakota: Nathan D. Bates, of CosSJeCticut. to be Marshal for the District of Connecticut; Ezra Balrd, to be Marshal for Idaho; Dupont GiierryJ to be Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. v ? Senator Blair, from the Uommittee on Education and Labor, has submittstl a favor able report to the Senate from thai majority of the committee, on a joint resolution pro posing that an amendment to tlcoj Oo Destitu tion in relation to alcoholic liquort and 'other poisonous beverages be submitted' to the leg islatures of the States for ratification, j The amendment provides that from arid after the year 11HKJ tha manufacture and sIa and im- Eortation o' distilled alcoholic intoxicating quors except for medicinal; rpchahicaL chemi:al and scientific purposes aiid fdr use in the mis, t-ball cease. j Prince Fcshimi, a high Japanese tary, has called upon the President. TnE Senate on the 27th rejected thelnom inations of Internal Revenue Collector .Han Ion, of Indiana, and PostmasterRosette, at Dekalb, 11L; also the nomination if a Terri torial Judge in Washington Tettitorr, . A large number of nominations were- con firmed. j AnnmoxAL nominations bvMbe Presi dent: George A. Jenks, of Pennsylvania, to be Solicitcr-General; Jamei 1 Matn?w, 10 v. pnctfictir t Klhcott Citv. M4. : Bnadi?v M. The it. as to be Receiver of rmuii-; iipneys at East Saginaw, iirn ; ihoma ix uavia, to be Receiver of Public Moneys, at Laacoin, Neb. $ Foreign. 'A Riniors conflicts have tikeA place at Amsterdam, Hoi and. between too poflolsce and th? police and troops, ansixfg from the nrohibitijn of popaiar games rn oapaav. Ilednccd Estimate or the Probable Yield Damage by Drought. A report prepared for the Chicago Far trier's Kexiew, indicates that the prolonged drought will have a very serious effect upon all the late crops. The spring wheat outlook has been in nowise improved .and tbe average condition of the crop has declined since July 1, when it was expected that the probable to tal wheat yield of the United States would not exceed a round total of 4J0.00O.0O0 bush els. The tenor of the latter reports Indicate that this estimate will have to be reduced by from ten to fifteen million bushels. The re ports from Nebraka,Iowa, Wisconsin, Minne sota and Dakota do not indicate an average of six to ten bushels to the acre, with many fieldi entirely ruined. Corn is reported very uneven in Michigan, Illinois Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska ; and, while looking clean, is in need of rain, and a shortage in the yield is threatened; In Minnesota corn is looking well, but is beginning to feel tbe effect of the drought. The oat crop will fall short of an average yield in Wisnsin and Minnesota and three-fourths 01 aa average in Illinois, Michan and Iowa. The pastures in all tbe Bouthwesxern States aro reported as ihort and In large sec tions ruined by the drought. iigni- MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC scries The rioters ere:tei barricades, an X were tired upon by the police. Ten persons were re ported Slliea ana mauy wuuuuow j Later retort from the starving people or TAhr&dor state that a thousand Arctic bears. driven into the settlements by hunger, are devastating tha country and nave eaten tne food remaining. The Indians 'are eating their dead companions. Tne population, In dians and all, or the region nor n 01 ran-i-wich Bayis estimated at between ' 10, 00O and 15,000. These people are all likely to teriih of starvation. ;S 1 . Lord Salisbtjrt. the new British Prime Minister, has met with considers tie difijculty in forming a new Cabinet. 1 i Chinese piratea captured a Lhjtcn steam- ship, and killed the Captain. ct mate and engineer. The Captains wiXeand the re mainder of the ship's crew werdmade pris oners by the pirates, who demand $25,CO) ransom. Theodore TnoMAS is conducting a of tununcrnight concerts in Chicago. The National Siengerfest held recently at Milw aukee was an immense success. John S. Clarke, the comedian, has de cided to abandon his projected American tour. An Australian actor named Henry E. Wal ton is going to make a starring tour of this couutry. Mr. Frederick de Bellktillx wUl be the principal actor in Miss Coghlan s support next season, t Mr. Rubinstein gave to various London charities (l,-Vxi of the proceeds of his fare well concert In that city. Mis Ltnsdalk, a you?g American ac tress who recently made her debut with Miss Genevieve Ward in F.ngland, is said to give great promt-. Miss Genetievx Ward will arrive-in this country about the 1st of September. She wUl then begin rehearsals for The Queen s Favorite. M. Sardou is engaged In writing a new spectacular play for Sarah Bernhardt and Oojuelji, the great Frenrh Comedian, to be produced on their return to Paris, after thir American lours in is. Miss Macd Bancs, daughter of General N. P. Bankt, who has b,ea studjin for tlw stage for several years, will make her debut soon at Portsm-rath, N..IL It U said that she will enter upon a theatrical career much a gains t her f atber's w Uhcs. Lord Rothschild tried to induce Sars sate. the Spanish v.olinlit, to play at a musi cal entrtain:nent in his London house r cently, LuS tha musician's terjis were so hi gh that even ths modem Crosu deride 1 to dis pense with hi services. Sara&ate dislikes so much t exhibit himieif at private entertain ments that he asks the mo it exorbitant price raiher than give a blunt rtfusaL' killed outright by being crushed by the fall ing of their home, and that three mem bers of the family of Jesse Lazarus were killed. They were struck by a heavy timber, dashing out their brains. A livery stable, in which were some fifteen horses, was blown to the ground and all the animals perished. All communication is cut off save by special messenger. Intense ex citement prevails and a meeting has Jeea , called at tbe Mayor's office to adopt some means of relief for the Ill-fated towns. . At Lewis Centre, Ohio, a house was blown down and five lives kt. Many houses were blown down or unroofed at Marion and Delaware. At Columbus the streets were all flooded, and many houses unroofed and more or lets .damaged. The building of the Co lamb us rolling mOL on the west side, was entirely demoluhed, and several meo in jured. There were tw-ntv-iflve or thirty men at work in the mill at the time, and all were more or less nun A Boston (Mass.) dispatch says: Not for years has lightning cauiod such destrntion and loss of life and property as occurred this morning. For hours the heavens were a Many and bolts Tcould be seen running down la forked ladders in all directions. There was net so much damage done in this city as throughout New England. A house and barn on Madison avenue, in the -Brighton district, was struck, and now lies fiat on the ground. The four families in the house were removed, but several horses were burned to death. In Somerville, Mass,, a stable and blacksmith shop attracted a fiery bolt and burst into flames. Mr. B. F. Pack ard, of Attleboro, was wakened out of a sound sleep by a vivid Cash, and lumped froaa his bed in fright. Another Hash followed instantly and he fall dead, hU body being terribly disfig ured. The house wa set afire, and is a total loss. At Randolph tta lightning struck the bouse of Mrs. lUley. She was in bed with her three children, and the bolt in running around the bed set the clothes on fire. Gathering the three" children Into her arms, she ran Into the street, and her home was laid in a&hes before her eyes. George G. Deans bouse at Taunton was strucx, the floors ripped up and the plasterinr scattered In all directions. At Norton a bolt entered, a stable, and the flames quickly spread to several adjoining dwtW lings. The Inmates barely escaped with their lives, but the buildings and contents are a total loss. Oliver lutnams cottage at Leominster was a total wreck. Three other small fires were caused by the lightning in that neighborhood. Two houses and a barn at Stoughton were struck and en tirely burned up. The occupants were pros trated. Two barns were consumed with their contents at Mansfield. At North Hatfield lightning struck: and killed Arthur G.Harris, a young farmer, and his horses were killed. Lightning struck a iargestock barn at Ara wam belonging to 11 en-dale Smith, a rich tobacco dealer, and the building was burned with its contents. At Uxbridge, Henry An thony, a hostler, and two valuable horses were killed. Tbe storm wg equally severe In Connect icut. In East Hartford two large barns were struck and burned with heavy lose. In We then field a vigorous cyclone tore up large tree and prostrated the growing crops. The loss to the tobacco and corn rrofm is esti mated at raJ,tti In South Windsor two barns and a tobacco shed, belonging to Wil lard G. JJurnham, were struck and burned. In Portsmouth James Sanford s house and barn were struck and consumed. In Valley Falls, R. L. John Kiropaon was struck by lightning and fatally burned. An Albany (N. V.) dispatch says: In the country surrounling Albany, especially northwest and north, many head of live stock were prostrated by heavy electric storms during the night. Trees were shiv ered to splinters and farming imple ments destroyed. Lightning struck the wall filled barns of Charles D. Miller and Garrett Van Vrsnken, near Monirville, and both were entirely consumed. At 'Eagle Bridge about twenty farms were consumed and acres of crops leveled. The damage in that vicin ity amounts to f 00,000. From Corning. Canajoharie and other towns In New York came similar reports of tbe sVrm s destructive work. At Ccney Lland. which was crowded with visitors, the storm raged with unprecedented fury. The wind broke the Lamps and tore the tent covering of the ampitheatre at Man cattan riearn. Tne peopte unoer n. w were listening to Gilmore s concert, fled La alarm, but none were injured. Five mea were stunned by lightning at the Grove House, in Sheepshead Bay village. NEWSY GLEANINGS. The latest comet Is traveling at tha rate of OfrJ.OUJ miles an hour. The Central Nw York hop crop Is re ported a total f allure. Our government loses $1,000,000 a year la the smuggling of opium, This years Cxliforn'a wine prod art is es timated at S,0UJ,(X)J gallons. A direct cable between this eocntryanl Brazil il to be Laid daring the fall. About 60,000 barrels of oil are rroduced daily by ths wells of Pcnnsjlvaaia. Vermont proposes to e-stabli-h a State In stitution for the criminalif insane. Cholera is spree ling with great rapidity and deadliness Ln Southern Japan, The mh of American travelers to Erypt Is unpne-xlnt?d. Tboamai of consump tives go t Luxor for te pure air. Tux soar-birds of New Jersey are now pro tected by a statute which forbids ths capture or wounding of ths feathered bipeda The re wall which Chicago Is building for tbe prote-ijn of tbe lake front of L-nooia I'ark will be nearly two milss La Length aal cost KOJ.0JQ. , still at work in Ohio.