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D*»TINY.'moment, th e young man reluctantljr left

t h s heiress and proceeded to seek, out his

deserted and till then; forgotten, be­-

trothed. Hp found hqr seated near thpentrance to the grpunds, having w ith her.

*# old lady whom sho had prevailedupon

to remain with her u ntil her recreant

lover made his appearance. Bhe was v ery

-qtriet, and as they passed near the largelantern at the gateway leading fro m the

Sqene ofthe festivity, James noticed that

she was deathly p ale and th a t th ere was

an ominous glitter in h er j et b lack eyes.

The evening was aWonderful one* The

stars shone brightly, the moonwas at the

fu ll, and a cool breeze musically rustled

the leaves and fanned th e brows o f thqmoody lovers-as they silently w ended

th eir way tow ard the hom e of Mary,which was near b y . ' A tla s t Jambs' broke

th e irksome silenPC w ith the query; •

“How have you ,enjoyed yourself this

evening, Mary?”,

be

tion. for Isaw you were .enjoying your­-self immensely. - .Tou dbubttess forind

Miss B urton a v ery entertaining com­-

panion.” . '•77-u 7;<-7 7 :7 7. -.'.’7

.“ 1. d id ,” r ep lie d ,James.“ She gave

m e a very cordial invitation to call on

h er to-morrow afternoon or evenirig.”“DO you in ten d doing so?” asked

Mary, in a scarcely audible voice.

“I do,” was t>o qurfreply. ' •

“Then,” said th e young girl,“you

p eed never call on me again, We will

henceforth he as stran gers.' H ere is your

rin g.” A n d before the dumbfounded

Jam es could reply sbe hu rriedly drew

their engagement rin g from h er finger,thru st it in to his hands, and , as they had

arrived at her fath er’s g ate, ran u p the

graveledw alk and in to the bouse w ithout

a word of parting.

“Little spitfire,” said James to himself.

“The idea of acting in th is w ay j u s t be­-

cause I conversed -with Miss Burto n (sh ort time.” .

where h ad passed somany pleasant happy

hqurs, b y oneo f Mary’* younger sisters,

and,

in * short time M ary made h er ap -

pCaranCe. ’, She was ss b« g h t arid cheeryas ever and apparently harbored no ill-

feeling because of bis p as t conduct, b ut

when h e drew forth tho engagement rin g

she h ad so lon g worn, an d attempted to

place it upon her finger an d again

gain h er consent to; be his w ifo, she

drew b ack w ith a quick, proud move­-

m ent and said: -»

“No, Jmhes, Is h all always bo a friend,

tp; yop, b ut neveryour wife. Y ou have

shown plainly th q t yog d id ript lave me

Os you ought; and I feel i t is b est wo

should henceforth meet merely as friends

and; neighbors;-I w ill own that I have

felt very badly over the way—tho way

you have used me. Bu t time heals all

w ounds.”

‘(Yes, time and John Graves,” said

James angrily, as he seized his h at.“I

have heard ofhis coming here, an d if you -care more for that lo ut than tor m e all I

have to say i s : Marry Mte*’’

Thus speaking, he flpunced out of the"'

.

.snappedwithjustanger andindignation

But the storm in her bosom subsided as

rapidly as it b ad arisen, and in a, low,

heartfelt voice, sl^f aai j/ ‘‘Tbrink God

fo r iny narrow escape,'” - ’. Jolm Graves, whom Jam es Monroe had

denominated“ a lout,” w as a young far­-

mer living about tflroe miles fro m Mr.

Murdock’s. H e was a steady, upright

young man, not given to“puttin g on

airs,” bu t honest and tru e to h is friends

as the needle to the pole. H e had; a

large farm bequeathed h im by h is father,

Which h e cultivated to th e very b est ad­-

vantage. •In fact,: he w as considered the

best farm er near Barnesville. 'H is mother

and a m aiden .sister attended to th o house-'

hold duties, whilp .ho' 'rin J tw o“ hired

men” Were constantly employedi n bring­-ing his broad acres into the h ighest state

o f productiveness. ’ Hint5 the followingautumn, Mary Murdock jnarriedi And

at about the same time. Jmogene Burton

Was lead to th e altar b y 4‘a gentleman of

New Y ork. ”-—TanTcu Blade.im

FLOODS I HEW JERSEY .AN AMERICAN PBINOESS.

U k V A N A« *w E I C A I *

twaw *1® bathed in silvar ra te...

Ww iatha parohed fields stretched np their

NET7 YORE STATE NEWS.

.,V5,‘

M is a G w e n doli n e C al d w ell is li n .np

throats in vain:

Woe to the land whosa unplacVedSars haveM»ny Cities and Villages Dam*

aged by Raging Waters.

g a g e d to P r inco M urat. h o n . h e n r y c . Howe, ex-Member of As-

semby fo r the First District, of O s w^

C ounty, died a t his hometo Pulton," Oswteo

C ounty, a few days ago. Re

p f extensive practice a n d prominenti nS ta t .politics. ...

g gT h e recent, rep o rt o f the engagement in

Pari* 0* Miss Gwendoline Caldwell, of Nov/

Y ork city, t o Prin c e Murat, a grandson of

Marshal Murat, wh o was one o f tho officers

of Napoleon I., has been confirmed by a cable

dispatch fro m Miss Caldwell.

Miss Caldw ell is- y ery wofl know n in Now

Y ork city, say s th e Sun,for h er gifts to Ho­-

m an Catholic enterprises. S h e contribute 1

WwiJ.

i j m nn > A Y , a u g u s t i o, t m

Seven Bams Burst, arid Sweep

Away Houses and Bridges.Know you not, wise one, with what thank-

'" ‘ ' T h e depot o f the New York and Hudson

R iv er R ailroad Com pany at Yorktown wa»-

broken into durin g the n igh t and robbed of

$500 in cash an d severa l express packages.

O ne of th e packages contained property

valued a t $200. I t is e stimated th a t th e bootysecured by th e'burg lars am ounted to $1000.

T here was no clef/ to the thieves.

(s j r i o v s p a c t s ,

'"

‘ leas toil '

You pour your love out on a desert soilf '

Still wars the heart ifthis be tm tb o r no—.

W h atthe priests say—th at Qodhaswilled it

SO,

Imprisonment frir d eb t ia still tb e l w

' Bth, Maine. ■.-i

t ifrmbljtii^ 0b^»» boMtt .bf-,.#

(fence of w-oreu gorostalkt-t 'i 'Afive-year-old cbiid in Monson, Ate.,

Ss said; td speak thr^e languages.

: Four-fifths of all the soda-water appa

|te tu tin ; the w orld i s manufactured iB

7 J A business 0man of Cincinnati,-Ohio.,

• (places a b ox of ice under liis desk toKeeri

ihimcQol. - ; ' 7,

T ' 7 '

. ifhe w ord Chautauqua . is the corrupt•taon of an Endian phrase , signifying a

'^ ‘fo g^y p la c e,^ , ‘ V' • 7 :

' A Philadelphia barber says .that tho

W eptera man’s skin is the;m ost irritated

b f any' he* fihayes—-they shave very close­-

ly-"■ V ';:

-Duke K arl in Bayern, Germany, viflio

i s Aft i ^ f s g '^e d / 0did>i|ti jlM.iJiqr-*form ed ' th e thousandth operation for

cataract/'--; J -.'7 ’ *.-‘ -'[7

-

T he flood gates were lifted durin g the la te

heavy ra in in New Jersey , and,’since tha

Johnstow n disaster w as fresh in th e minds

of.ali, i t would be hard to gauge tho amount

of ter r or that existed to some p ar t s of th at

S ta te ,for a fe w hours. The stream s were

already runnin g full, and. a succession of

deluging showers to th e afternoon an d

evening Caused them to overflow. T he rain ­

f all Was especially heavy on tho Orangemountains, an d the result, was t h at cities

like New ark, Plainfielda n d Elizabeth on th e

low lan d w hich received tho m ountain’s

streams suffered from floods. Bridges, dams

and houses w ere washed aw ay, trains stalled,

and o ther damage done.

T he greatest flogd Plainfield, N. J., has

ever know n followed th is heavy dow npour

of ra in , and wash-outs an d broken dams

were the re mit. A t 4 o’clock Codington'sdam, o n Stony Brook, ga v e way, and th e

large body of water th u s freed carried

a way Codington's icehouse and threa tene d

the Green Valley Mills with destruction.

The damage along tho courseof this stream

was heavy, for m any b arn s and other build­-

ings w e re washed away.

At 4:80 o’clock the gre at dam at Feltvillo

gave w ay , ahd the rush of the w ate r down

th e v alle y proved too much for th e little

Green, Brook, so th at th e torrent divided an d

p art of i t m ade i ts w ay to Cedar Brook. This

brook flows th ro u gh the choicest resident

p ortion of Plainfield, and tho elegant houses

there we re badly damaged. An a re a in th e

town covering th ree square miles was e ntire ­

ly submerged.A t B:40 Tier’s dam to Green Brook gave

way, p re cip ita ting a gr eat body of w ater

throu gh the c enter of the town. This lirook

divides the tw o counties of Som ersei an d

Union, a n d where it run s throu gh th e town

is b uilt entirely over. When the w ater, in a

great torrent, rushed dow n the stream a n d

found its way blocked b y buildingsi t turned

in to th e street. Somerset street became a

ra gin g flood, an d w here the brook w as

bridged the s tre et was washed out badly.

Many sm all wooden buildings w ere washed

aw ay an d demolished.

S ev eral houses situated along the brook

were flooded an d the inhabitants compelledto"move to sh ort order. Frencho’s mifi and

ra qria ge fa otory were thre atene d w ith des­-

truction.All th e cellars an d first floors of

the store s in-Somerset s tree t were flooded aud

th e d a m a ge to p rop erty was great.houses w ere oecupi

and the greatest

Most of tho fi c pied when tho

w ater came ru sh in g down, t

alarm p rev ailed among toe occupants, who

felt s ure th a t th e fate o f th e people o f Jo h n s­-

town w as ab o ut to o vertake them . The

screams-of the women could be h eard above

the, noise of the torrents, an d scones such as

have nev er been witnessed iu that p ar t of the

c ountry before were enacted.

So far as know n, at lea st seven dam s wore

c arrie d away. T he last one to go w as th at

near Cadmus’s mill below Plainfield. T he

millwa s rep orte d to be wrecked.

Bloomfield, N.J.,

especially i ts business

Centre, is a wrehk from th e grea t flood. The

second riv er dam. a t F ritz Mill, h e arth e Dela-

L ac k aw an na a n d Western Railroad

...ha s given way a n d th o la n d for tw o

miles aroifnd w a s submerged, S tore s a n d

residences were flooded an d thousands of dol­-

lars’ w orth of p rop erty destroyed. Jo hn P.

Scberflf, druggist,-lost. $3000 w orth of drugs

and ot h er articles: R ob ert M. Stiles, feed

merchant, is also a h eavy loser, w h ile nearlyaU on th e north side o f Glenwood avenue

have los t from $500 up w ard each. Ono or

tiro lives were re p orte d lost.

The b reak in g o f Fritz’s Dam on P arrow

Brook, ne a r Orange, flooded a nd e ntirely de­-

stroyed Eppley’s P ark , which w as re centlylaid out a t a cost of$40,000, The damage t o

Essex. County, w ill am o u nt to over $100,000.R eports froin Morris C ounty in timate d t h at

even gr eater damage has b een done thero.

Tho w orst effects oft h e storm wero felt in

th e Orange Mountains, however, a n d in toe

tovVns ana; Villages lying a t th eir eastern

base. All the ponds an d brooks on the

m ountains contained m oro w ater than

usual at th is time of the y ear be­-

cause of the unprecedented ra in s of

to o past-few weeks. Tilis downpour

overflowed thorn and aton e timo early in th e

evening disasters were feare d to Milburn,

Maplewood,Wyoming a n d South Orange, as

the reserv oir o f the OrangflteVater Works

was nhusimlly fnB, and i t w as feared i t would

burst. In this reservoir tho w aters of several

m ountain stream s are damm ed up fo r fu turo

use, as drink w ater in Orange, E as t Orange,West Orange an d South Orange. I t is .880

feet ab ov ohigh w ater m ark,

and ab out tw o

miles an d , a half west of S outh Orange, th e

elevation of whioh is ab out 175 feet.

ware,

P to"

In S outh Orange several buildings, includ­-

ing th e postoffice, were c arried a way , a n d

350 b a rrels o f flour wero washed o ut

of one storehouse. I n Orange Volleytoe W ater was up to th e second-storywindows, and g re a t damage has b een done

to th e stock i n th e num erous h a t factorios

there; People wore compelled to padcUearound on,planks and to swim to order to

reach p laces of safety on h ig h ground.

Rutherford, N . J.,

wa s floodedb a dly a n d

large portio n s o f thre e of toe prom inent

Streets Were w ashed out entirely.S ev eral prom inent streets at C ailsta dt,

N. J., w ere turn ed into mfll-races an d will be

.impassibleuntil repaired-Largo p ortion s of

toe Sidewalks w ere carried away. Passaic

also cam o to for h e r share of the clouilourst.

At Hackensack many of th e pro mine nt

. thoroughfares w ere entirely w ashed o ut an d

made impassable; The H ackensack Riv er

had ris en considerably an d m any of toe cel­-

lars in the lower portion of the town wero

flooded.

,

,—Bora. ReadGqodq.le, in liippiwofy-

Of New York city’s seven Senators, one

fVan Cott) has resign-:»t to become Postm as­-

t er; two (Btadler and Cantor) are candidates

fo r Secretary of S tate; oue (Langbein) is Cl

candidate for a Justiceship, an dthre e (Mur-

phy, Ives and Grady; a re candidates fur re-

election to th e Senate.

. BY THOMAS BUBKB.

JamesMonroe and Mary Murdppk' were

^ ^th o r for years an d as fh eir p ar en t

were fast friends and near neighbors it

seemed, the most natural thing-in the

w orld th at thoy should w ed. They were

the children o f farmers an d from School

days,up h ad attended th e country merry­-

makings together, Mo :<‘husking” or.

“paringbee” or“ mito society” was com­-

plete unless James and flfaiy were there.

James Mottrose was a tall, blue-eyed

young man of five and tweniy, w ith lig h t

; htrir and a ligh t mustache,, Which latter

! all' th e g irls voted,“jus t too cute for'

•anything.!’ As a tru thful chronicler, -we

mu st add he was quite conceited and

rath er inclined to flirt. [ . - :

: »M« 7Murdock was a brunette,acharm ­

in g iittle black-eyed m is sp^

ip , thou gh

generally light-hearted, gay and laugh­-in g , had ignore than once shown th at it

was hardly safe to trespass too far upon

h er go odnature. Her age was tweniy.One evening in July there was an* ice

[ cream festival in Payne’s Woods near the

[ village of Barnesville an d also near ttie

homes of the two betrothed lovers, and,,

of course, they were in attendance, i t

was - a m erry gathering. •*Besides ice

cream, cake, candy, peanuts and lem on-.

ade were offered for sale, all for fhebeUefit

o f the church.

Thb mefiy making was-a t i t s heig h t

w hen a sudden hush fell onthe assem­-

blage and all eyes were riveted on a gen-,

tlempn and. lady who wepe flowly makingth eir way toward the head', dispenser Of

iee cleam. ' The gehtlernan "was bowingrigh t and left, and smiling w ith great ur-

bwrity^ thereby displaying a" w h ite and

glistening set of false teeth tp much ad­-

vantage. Evidently he was on the , best

of ternis w ith himself, and as a natural

consequence w ith all t h e world.' Whyshpriidn’t Josiah Hurfcom, J . P

.,

tlio

.wealthiest man in the neighborhood, be

pngppd-terms With h im self.-.-I * *

e a

B ut i t was the young lady who attract­-

ed the lion’s share of attention. She

was, perhaps, twenty-five years'o f age,

v ery tell, w ith dark b lu e eyes, andjhairdenominated auburn b y h er friends, and

re d b y her enemies, of w hich last i t may

be said she h ad h er full complement. H er

form was simply perfection. ' Wh en I

ad d that she was rich i n her own, right,

end the pfospeelive heiress to ariothcr

large fortune, I have, perhaps, said

enough to convince the reader th at fier

lin es had fallen in vbry pleasant places.H er name w as Imogene Burfon/ and she

w as ona visit to h er uncle. Squire H ur-

tom..^ S h e^h ad ttre d o f Saratoga, she

h a d tired fJf Newport, th e 'White Moun­-

tains, aiw B ar Harbor, en d therefore in a

audden freak had le ftthA Ktter place for

"BaLieaviile,m ^ving.t'kefejus l jm tn&e for

th e lawn festival. , ,After'gazing w ith some degree of in -

terest on the, to her, unusual and ainas-

ing-scene, sh e seated herself at a small

tab le to partake of the. cream and c&ke

h er uneleh ad provided, 1

She-h ad ju s t d ain tly raised the spoon

to h er lips w hen a blonde yonng m an de­-

posited a glass o f lemonade in h er lapan d fell prone upon th e grass at h er

side. 7

..

, a lad fourteen

y ears old, fell th irty feet from an apple tree,

in Rochester, and his body was impaled on

t h e sharp p oin t of a w eath er vane, whicb

h a d been tak e n fr<<m t.ff a barn and was o l

th e ground.

A n dr ew B oo nk es . se l

I t costs the S t/it ab o ut $0uuu .-a i. week to

r u n th e Com missary's D epartm ent a t the

Peekskill S ta te Camp. Besides this are tha

cost of transp orta tion of troops, the pay for

th e service giv en and incidental expenses.

T he bills for tw o weeks* m tais am o u nt to

ab o ut $11,out).MISS GWENDOLINE CAIVDWELL.

»A fan ner living near Etaporia, Kan,,

»wns ah orse eighteenhands an d oneinch

thigh.; it-is five years old and lb'w ell

Ipropbrtioned. .

'• The h otte st w eather ever known in the

(United States was felt a t Phoenix, Ari­-

zona, in June, 1883,whenth e thermome­-

te r m arked 11,9 degrees.

A Wheeling (W,JTa.) harbor has a te-

:«or that h e has t i p constantly for the

llaat twenty-five years, and i t does b etter

Iw ork now than i t ever did.

Charles liiesse, of Hamburg, B erks

County, Penn.,

has designed * grouping

.pithe forty-tw o stam in the national dag

'io that they make, a six pointed star,

j Prom every S tate in th e Union but

itwo, there have been sent to President

|Harrison photographs of babies named,

{after him, until now the collecttte forms

ia big pile. '

: ’One of th e interesting exhibits 'in. the

crystal department of the French Expo-

. sition is an enormous glass bubble, cap*able of holding nine casks of w in e

..

ft

htis neverbeen equaled in thp history oi

glassblowing.„

The J a g used to drape the casket ol

President Lincoln, is iUcased and h b ig s in

the private oftce, o fthe 'Secrfelreyp iWar,

General Drum took care of th e flag after

the rites h ad been conducted and took if

to ,’Washington.

In a certain-' town in Ohio, where

[screens are not allowed to be used' in

isaloons, a b ig 'fat man is hired by one of

Ithe morn enterprising saloon keepers to

ptand in h is door all th e timo. He ob-

,streets the view very effectually. '

( I t hi said of the San Carlo' Teatro, at

[Naples, Italy, th a t when th ey t wish to

present M ount Vesuvius as the scenp-in a

p la y they simply remove the rear portion

•of the theatre, and lo and behold, the

(perpetually flaming and smoking volcano

fis revealed to the sig h t of the audience!

• I n looking throu gh a lo t, of second

h an d books in a store in Parkersburg,

W- V a,, Seaman"

Cuifiimngs came across.

A book w hich h a d been stolen from him

fi x Philadelphia tw enty year* ago/ Ho

valued i t very h ighly, a i hia. fattier p re­

sented i t to him? when he Was t quite

young, H e feels quite jub ilan t over tbo

reeCvCry.• •

-,v /

_• The Egyptians haye always he?nAec-

ognized for their ability in th e manufac-

• w e of perfumes, b ut duo credit whs

(never giyen there before a vnso ttratairi-

5ng Some' E gyptian ointment, was opened* f the museiun p t Alnwick. ThC pey-

jfume ft contained* Btill h ad a piingentnd or, al thou gh i t wa|__inpro--tbuii-three'.thousand years old

.-, . ^

h fa.W aIliw e,6f Summerville,bhio,was

■nuttin g up an old dfete tb at belonged-toflier, mother, Who died-a 'couple ofyedrs

Sago? wfaen-dhe -acissow camb upon some-

Wring hard . Upon examination' i t wps

soun d to b e a tw enty dollar bill folded

And sewed in a hem.-Mrs. Wallace is not:

In theb est of circumstances and the find

was a very finely one.

$800,000 tow ard the fund to b uild the pro-

goseaCatholic University of America, now

eta g b uilt in Washington. H er sister fol­-

lowed this gift np with a donation of $50,<w

for h e r s h are ofto e Caldwell estate.

Onand after Novem ber 1, 1892, autom atic

couplers a re to be used on all locomotives a n d

fre igh t cars t o operation in the S ta te wliicb

are owned by th e companies op eratin g rail­-

roa d s within th e State. Neglect to comply

w ith the provi ions of this ac t is to be fol­-

lowed in every easeby a fine of $5U0.

D e e r are unusually plenty in the b ig

w oods in th e north ern p ar t of th e State, »mi

th e sportsmen visiting th ere speak enthusias­-

tic a lly of th e prospect fo r fine hunting. ;

T h e new dire c tory census gives Syracuse a

population of 90,000.

S ara to g a is to have a n electric railroad

r e r s a re eT he coming Am erican Princess is p etite in

figure a n d no t so noticeable in social ga th er­-

ings ns h er sister, Miss Linda. She is fond

of trav e l, an d has sp e n t a good deal of time

to Europe. When m this c o u ntry she lives

d urin g th e sum mer a t too Caldwell villa at

N ewport. S h e is a t present in Paris with

h er sister an d Miss Donnelly, a relative, who

alway s accompanies them m th eir travels.

Miss Caldwell’s m other w as a Kentuckybelle of th e Breckinridgefamily. Her fa th er

w as the son of an E nglish theatric al m ana ­

g er, who m ade a fortu ne to building gashouses to Chicago, S t. Louis a n d Mobile.

He. did not see.mto realize that h e had

spent neatly the entire evening in Miss

Burton’s company, neglecting h is be­-

tro th ed to such an extent that even„

_dullesttookcognizanceofandcomment,

ed upondt, ■ * * -.7

On the followingafternoon after m ak­-

in g a more than usually' elaborate toilet

Jam ef presented himself a fth e dbrir of

.SquireHurtom ’s starin g w hito house and

inquired—of-the trim m aid of all work

Vvlio answered tho summons of th e bell,

if Miss Burton w as in. Th e maid repliedin the affirmative, u sh ered him in to the

“best room”w here he found the heiress

deeply absorbed i p the latest societynovel. She closed the hook at once, ana

risin g from her seat greeted him very

warndy. '

They w ere soon conversing as amica­-

b ly and apparently as intim ately as

friends pf long standing.

When at the end of ho'urs~(tvKich'

.A.G. R e n x v ick h a nged himself to his b ain

to Cuba. M r. R enwick had been to th a

merc an tile business th ere th irty -eigh t yea rs.

N o reason c a n be giv en for his a c t except

p oor health.

.snappedTunneling the Hudson at Nevr Tort.THE NATIONAL GAME.

.snappedWhy local capital fights so sh y of the

Hudson river tunnel ia not easily ex­-

plained. D irect communication between

New York city and th e railways termi­-

nating at Jersey City; N . J . , is bound to

be h ad sooner or later, and w h y no!

sooner? The passage b y ferries is expen­-sive and subject to Texatious delays, and

the H udson river bars three-fourths of

the railroads of th e .United States from

entering the metropolis. Consider tiie

enormous amount of traffic and w hat its

transhipmeritmeans.-D ew itt 0 . Haskin

conceived the idea of a tunnel u n der the

nvet,

A company .was.-formed and i t

'was decided tdn jiu ld ' two parallel tun-i

nsls, each 5000 feet long, 18 feet highand 16 feet w id e/ About 2000 feet of

tbe north and 580 feet of the south tun­-

nel were completed un d er thpriver and

then the money gave out. The working'

shafts at both shore ends are complete

and the Works are abundantly supplied

w ith machinery. T he Company has leg­-islative authority to condemn such real

estate :as i t needs for terminal facilities

both in Hew York and Jersey C ity. In

Jersey C ity the term inus will be in close

proximity to the great trurik lines center­-

in g there. On the New York sid e the

tunnel w ill Come to th e surface a t Mor­-

ton street, and the traqks will jby. easy

gradients reach Broadkriy only 16 feet

below th e streiet level.' The 'terminals

___________________________erect, s-will eover̂ JO;Ot]OsquarefcetinNew..,JB» • .A« w' Ate*

York an d a larger area ir i'Jer s e y City,The Brooklyn bridge co st. $18,COO,000,and itS'-passenger trafficexceeds 30,000,-

000, :and -its; earnings $850i(000 a year,

while at the. same time ttie E as t river

ferries carry more passengers* than before

i t was opened. The distance across the

Hudson a t the tunnel site is thre e and a

half times that across th e East river at

ttie B ridge site. The terminus on the

New York side, will tap street railwaysthat w ill carry 240,000,000 passengers

arineally-A simple statement of these facts has

been sufficient to secure enough English

capital to complete the w ork. Some 63,-

000,000 has already been expended.T his w illb e represented b y a-portion of

th e share capitol of $10,000,000. The

tonnel company is to issue a total of $2,-

750,000 in .bonds, redeemable in. 1939,

,-|-and—Hecursd as a first mortgage.—J5wOrUaiit Picayune,

• Du n l a p is said to b e for sale by P ittsb urg .by rgB a s eb al l has b e c o m e a f i x t ure i n Au s ­

trali a .T h e decomposed and p artly devoured body

of a m an w as found in a dense piece of wood

a few miles nor th ofS arato ga. The body w as

supposed to be th at of th e missing M arshall

William s.

,of B oston, leads the League in

sacrifice hitting.

K e ll v

D u r yea, of C incinnati, s till leads the

Association p itc h ers.

Th e Boston club h as alre ad y cleared ex­-

penseson th e season. A t Albany Jam es Gra ce and Jam es O’Me-

lia quarreled. Florence Quinlan interfere d .

Grace stabbed Q uinlan to the groin. H a

died to a s ho rt time. G ra ce was arrested.

J u d g e G e o r g e P. A n d re w s of th e New

Y ork S upreme Court an d Mrs. Catherine M.

Y an Auken, dau ghter of the la te C K. G ar­-

rison, w ere m arrie d re c ently in London. T he

cerem ony was p erform ed to B elgrave ChapeL

W ill ia m S h ub e c k a n d George B ennett,

o f Kingston, w e nt fishing. Be n nett p a rtlyloaded a shot gun and w hile the ram ro d w as

to the b arre l the w eapon was accidentally

discharged. Shubeck w as sta n din g ab o ut

tw e nty fe e tfro m Bennett. The ra mro d s tru ck

his stomach a n d passed th ro u gh his body,

one end projec ting out of his back nearly a

foot. L ater on ducturs pulled out the ra m ­

rod .Shubeck may recover.

W i lliam K irb y w as acc identally drow ned

a t S c h u yler Falls, C linton C ounty.

N a t u r a l g a s has been stru ck on th a

p rop erty of th e Lion brew ery in Buffalo

with a pressure of UXX) pounds to the square

inch. Some time a go gas w as found a t

L an g ’s b re w ery , and this Induced drilling on

th e p rop erty o f tho L ion brew ery, with th e

re su l t stated. The success atte n din g t he

drilling ofth e s e wells h a s caused considerable

s tir, and a movem ent is on foot to p ut dow n

w ells to other p arts of th e city.

M iss C a r ri e D e ck er, of F a yetteville,

was stru ck b y a train ne ar there H er b ack

w as broken an d she died in an hour

F ir e a t I th ac a resulted in a loss to G. W .

In galls & Co., shoes, of $10,000, L. A. B ar­-

re tt dry and fancy goods, $10,000; loss of

building, $3000; Trod well, photograph gal­-

lery , $3000. All insured; causeunknown.

D u r in g a storm a t C enter C ambridge

,

„. .

. Du bin g ast rm t r en t r ridge

ligh tnin g s truck the fa rm house of S *W .W right, occupied by E Brownell and his

_______

fa m ily . The only d au gh ter of Mr. Brownoll-

ab on t ten y ears old, w as in sta ntly killed.

E igh t or nino persons in th e bouse were pros­-

t ra te d by the bolt. T h e honse was b a dly

s h a ttere d,

b n t did not tak e fire. A colt a n d

a hog tha t ho d taken re fu ge under a tr e e

n e a r th e honse wero k illed by th e lightning.

The

R o c hester and Honeoye Valley Rail­-

ro a d Company, ru n nin g betw een Rochester

an d Honooyo Falls, h as been an thonz ed b y

th e Railroad Commissioners to tacreaso i t s

c ap ital stock fro m $320,000to $500,000

J . C. Ow e n ’ s saw mill and lumber y a rd

an d S tew art & Son’s warehouse in L av inia

wore burned. Tbe fire starte d in tbp mill. •S ev eral th o u sa n d feet o f lumber were con­-

sum ed, beside a lot of v aluable machinery.T h e warehouse contained abont 7000 bushels

of grain.

Ha r t f o r d, Conn., is tryin g to sup p ort an

am ateur baseball league.

Ev e r yP ittsbur g p layer c au gh t drinking

will have to p a y a fine of $50.

C ol u m b u s h a s released C a t c h e r Peoplesan d signed Rudolph Kemmler.

T h e B o s to n club has-purchased th e release

of S hortsto p S m ith , of P ittsburg .When at the end of two ho'urs~(tvKich'

.seemed b ut as tw o m inutes to the—infat­-

u ated James) he aroseto tak e his depar­-ture ho Was warmly inv ited to call again.H e did .so.on the v ery nex t day, w hen he

was, treated with greater kindness i f pos

sible Qian on h is former v isit.' They

played several games of croquet together

tacboj was the envy'and. despair o f allth o

young m en of Batnesville.' Even the

gray-haired old minister was. visibly: dis­-

concerted at the sudden an d unexpected

appearance ofso punch style and eleganceand lost his, place in the chapter b e was

reading, fo r be i t know n, M s s B urton al­-

ways made i t d p o in t to arrive late at

qhrirch as. well, as a t all othbrpublic gath ­

erings. . . ■ -

tak e a b oat ride on ' Lily Po n d , a sinall

la k e in th a neighborhood, noted fo r its

w hite an d fragrant water lilies. H o also

took h er or itr id in g hehiud his span, of

blood b ay horses, an d on one occasion

escorted h er p)church w here the heiress

created an immense sensation as she sweptdown the central trifle in. h er trailin g ,

rustling siMen gowUi w hite he WifliMrid,

___________________________erect, silktilefnhand,andcurle d-mus-willA A U a —

.A MA u A M AA*AAh ‘ A ! 1At ..,J

,Gu mbe r t , o f th e Chicago team, is the

champion h o m e-run ner of the season.

K eb f e,

o f New York,l ea d s t h e L ea g ue

pi t c h e r s s t i ll , o n t h e n u mb e r u f s trik e u ut s .

In the H aw aiian Islands th ey are so far

advanced ns to use the double umpire sys­-tem.

Bo s t o n p aid S t. P aul $2500 for P itch er

Sow ders’s release a n d received $1000 fro m

Pittsb urg .

Thr ee triple p la y s have b een recorded in

tho official statis tic s —rone each by Cleveland,

Washington a n d Chicago.g

It is a rem ark ab le .fac t th at Boston has

never been quite .r i g h t at s h ort field since

George W r ig h t left t h e club.

B o s ton re c e ntly led the L eagne in the

total of bases, a v e rage 378, w ith New York

only a m arg inal p o in t behind.

Th e sum of $7500 and S hortsto p Quinn,

w as the offer m ade b y the B ostons for Ulass-

coek, o f th e In dia n ap olis club.

S enato r G orman of Maryland, h a s a

Eassion fo r baseball, and once played second

ase on th e N a tiona ls, of Washington.

,

J o h n I r u i n , b r oth er of Arth ur Irwin ,

Captain an d sh ortsto p of the Washingtons,h as replaced S w eeny at t h ir d base to th at

team

.Chi c a g o up to lat e date h ad m ade the

•eatestn u mb e r of double p lay s, sixty-nine;ioston sixty-four, a n d Indianapolis third ,

w ith sixty-one.

IS

I t was James Monroe wfle h ad been

drafted in as a w aiter for a short period,an d who h ad unluckily-ptumblcd over a

ch air standing in th e shadow ofa tree.

Of course Miss ljurto n was angry, not

{hat her splendid satin dress was irre-

trievably*ruined, but a t th e awkardness

of the Whole affair. To have a,y ou n g

m an fling ,a glasp of-lem onade on her

dress and then fall at h er feet as if sueirigfor pardon 'o r h er hand, 'and that too,

before a whole grove full of laughing

strangers w as very mortifying to .Jhe.-ci

Jfririd anduaffipmed ImOjbBe.James aros,e. to . his feet With a scarlet

face and commenced stammering his

apologies. A t first she greeted all his

.explanations w ith a c u ff“i t is of np

consequence, sir,” an d a superciliouselevatioU Of the eyebrows, when snddenlyi t oec'urred to h er-th at as the young m an

rias of fair appearaneo h e 'nrigbt possibly;be the. mbans of relieving her of h er

ennui., ,

The

b reak in g o f the S o u thern L eaguethrew a h o s t o f p la y e rs on th e mark e t and

most of th e m h a v e been signed.by the I nte r ­

national a n d W e s tern clubs.

In less thanW o weeks i t was whispered,abont by the gossips that James Monroe

an d Mary Murdock had quarreled, that

the engagementwas-broken, an d that

h e was“keeping steady company w ith

th at stuck-up, red-iiaired city g ir l at

Squire H urtom’s.”

And i t m ust b e said i t was all tru e;

James h ad become infatuated w ith the

fair Impgeno and danced perp etual -at­-

tention up o n her. H er d ain ty .ways, her

.Jhe.-ci

*

,-|-and—Hecursd

above all tho th ou ght th a t she w as al­-

ready wealthy arid destined at no distant:

d ay -to become sti ll more so, w rou gh t

qtich havoc' in,the h eart o f the unsophis­-tic atedj o u th t h at h e resolved r it the

firs t favorable ■opportunity, to use a

phrase m uch in vogue in those p arts, to

“pop.the question.” \

Accordingly ono pleasant afternoon

w hen he mid Im ogene were; seated,on a

rustic bench in the very grove w here was

h eld the memorable ice-cream festival,h e

,

after much unwonted -stammering/-

in the m ost dram atic mannerimaginable—and Was greeted w ith a lou d and rin g ­

in g peel o f laughter. H e h ad never

h eard Miss B urton laugh before, and' the

sound, however birdlike, or. flutelike j i e

m igh t h ave considered i t under other

oircumstances, was, just at that moment

far from pleasant t o hi®* .

4‘Marry'you,”

J he said/w hen she could

fu lly control her risibility.“ Marry a

farmer? An d I suppose you w ould ex­-

p ec t m® to juilk the cows, and sweep,

an d cook an d wash, as d a all t h e goodhouse-wives Of Barnesville and vicinity.

N o,

Mr. Monroe, t h e idea is impracticab le , and, I Will ad d , u tterly impossible;for I am engaged to a gentleman m Now

‘

and am fo b e mara ed early m tho

fall. , 1 h ave enjoyed your company very

parich in deed.,

V on have.helped to re

lieve the tedium of this beautiful thoughmonotonous place, and for t h at I am

tru ly thank fu l; b u t such a th in g os be­-

coming your wife, has never once entered

m y M ad. You ittust learn forg et me

I leave for Bo'ston' t'obnerrow morning

an d you, doubtless wilj. exemplify the

truth of the ..qW eJ^^^J ^r if ao f—Jiight,;

-"VWii; *."'1.1 ' 1

e ar^ s p m calTttie good, a^% d.^:^ ,Eay c

^

tbinghTa littIeT>lriCK%eagiju u W8T6 6ffgag|id^ri^'Wim7wTmto“you'

quarreled,' ptoSirinsMYhVCf^poof“Tne"

Return to your allegiance. Marry her,

: she will make you a good wife, and youwill both Uve to larigh* over yonr sillymisunderstanding, Arid at’me.” .

With these Words Miss Burton arose,

arid swiftly aridM!en%gMcd frotaflthe

grove,’leaving James Monroe dumb

founded and crestfallen, arid yet with a

secret feeling in his heart that he, bad

beerirightly served,After the flrst tanklings of his

wounded self-love bad died out, herbe­-

thoughthim ofMLmBurton’s advio* arid

crdle® s* .Hu Mnsdoek homestead, He

was ushered into tlw femiUsr prior

Ra m s e y, th e new S t. Louis pitcher, is onlytwenty -four y ears old. He h a s a record of

fifty strik eou ts to thr ee consecutive games,

a na o f seventeenin a single ga m e .Pit c h e r Wh i t n e y

’

s c o n tra c t with Buffalo

is rath e r a p e c uliar oue H e cannotb e re­-

served a t tb e end o f th e season a n d m ust not

be pitched m o re th a n twice a week.

Bu r d o ck, th s ex-Bostonian, ne v er did b et­-

ter w ork to his life, b oth in b atting and field­-

in g than he is now doing fo r New Haven,

rind b e is also h an d lin g the t eam skilfuUy.

S tran go T hings In Alaska!

O’Br ie n , th o Cleveland tw irle r, whose

m ystifying curves have b een a source of

worriment to th e heavy b a ts m en o f the

League, Is a p ro teg e of Tim Keefe, o f the

Now Yorks.-iitthefe'Sre SOm any strange things in

Alaska,’* says the'efiscavererof-the Muir

glacier,“ that h aye not yet corn'd to the

know ledge pf th e public-that, otto'■who

has seen them hesitates where to begin.

Elephant rem ains are found-a ll over the.

great valley of the Yukons As a m atter'

of fact, th ey are found everywherethroughout the great w estern slope of

Alaska, Dana imd Sir Charles L y le

startled tho world by announcing th at

hairy frozen elephants .w ere found

wedged among tho Siberian icebergs.

But-Scarcely anybody know s th at

throughout Alaska arc the remains, of

countless thousands o f mastodons, V ou

Handling Hay in the Metropolis.The c ity of N ew York consumes-daily

about,.1500 tons of hay. The handlingof hay in th is city busies fully .10,000

meri. ‘ The tool of the hay h an d le r is a

hook form ed like the freight handler’s

hook b u t shorter. A bale' of h ay weighsfrom 100 to 250 pounds. Th ere is a

special knac k in handling "it, an d often a

Small m an w ith skill is b etter for the

work than a strong man who has not

thoroughlylearned the trick . Ordinarilytwo m en handle a bale. They thrust

their hooks mt.o opposite en flsan d ontha

outward •side o f the bale, til t i t inw ard,

then .w itb th® ^ of their knees lift it.

clear o f the floor of the cm and-carry It

tp the o^en dobrway w hich looks out on

th e w aithg dray. Here an in telligent look­-

in g p air of great iron hooks is read y to

take hbtd. The hooks aro controlled bya single rope an d an ingenious mechan­-

ism in th e lo ftby which * bale may be

stopped b y a single jerk of "the rope, at

any p om t m the descent Or ascent.

,,

A single bale of dam p bay i n a car

may m ake the whole carload musty and

almost worthless. Twenty-four hours’

exposure to sun and wind m ay .dry out

to e delightful d ead green, oftim othy and

r ot i t of its flavor. The owners of great

raping stables buy only th e best timothyand th at known to havo been carefullycured Such hay easily b rin g s $ 2 0 a ton

Wholesalp at ordinary times, While inferior

timothy, sells as low as $1-4 an d clover

h ay $2 or $3 lower. The retailer

expects to m ake about 15 cents per

hundred On hay.—New YorhSiar,_■---Bguriit-wkjehre*.-tongues''~

^Ai.-qorresnoi'<Tl‘”^Sn*«v rfl*<vl ^i*. J»nap

viyfdly 'tSesefiSirwatig'-produced,b y ejting jaw fish: ‘ ‘Th® Wholefish waal

there, Ms head arid shining blue eyes his

tail and fins, but at a touch the ghappcame apart, and iny in thin slices upon

the bones, a miracle,of the carver s art.

I took *chop stick full. The flrst taste

of caviare and, onions is an event in ri

lifetime, the unknown olive aridphngeritfarlic have made episodes in every career,

ut to close the jaws on a slice o f cold,raw fUh, and have the clammy, rubher-

like flesh quiver and slip undsfthe teeth

ha* a horror peculiarly its own. The

tepte of its being something lately dead,

something empteey, is sickening. One

fae almostto overflowing, arid

mwaUtothowrnish.”

Ge n e r a l Ar t h u r Di x w e l l , o f Boston, is

perhaps th e most rem ark able baseball en­-

thu siast ta tho country. He h as retired with

a fortune fro m ac tive business and spendsevery a fte rno o n a t a ball game.

The p r etty villageof Ridgewood P ark fore d

badly. Tho finest ,streets ip the to w n were

to te fly ruin ed b y th e torre n ts. C ellars w ere

•flooded an d great holes an d ditches m ade fa

several priv ate gardens. T he storm , on t h e

whole, w as the heaviest, t h a t has visited those|

points fo r twelve! yew s.

L andslides a n d washouts occurred on ne ar­-

ly all th e m afa railroads to New Jerse y and

toe m ovement, of trains w as stopped.

every gamN o young p lay er to either t h e L eague or

Association h a s m a de the “firs t year” record

th at H olliday h as this season. The Cin­-

c in na ti C lub made no mistake when i t in­-

vested big money m this young player.Th e New York s have sig ne d -Pitcher

O’D ay, la te of the Washingtons, and Lyons,w ho played in th e outfield with th e dis­-

banded J er s ey C ity club. F ielders T ieraan

an d S lattery , of t h e New York s, are on th e

sick list.

Se c r e t a r y Ru s k and U nite d S tates Sen­-

ator Kenna, ofWe s t Virginia, w ere p re sen t

a t a re c ent gam e between th e New York s

an d th e W as h in gton s in the N atio nal Capi­-tal. The head of tho A gric u ltu ral D ep art­-

m e nt fre quently a tten d s games.

In . fact she reSolved to commence a

flirtation jv ith h im then and there, and

so when h e h ad,

for t h u fifth time ex-

p ldned hoW the whole th in g happened,and bemoaned h is stupidity, and awk­-

wardness, glancing th e yyhile {Pjth r ue ,:

ful.eyes.at h er .discolored dress, she h eld

out her w hite bejeweled'hand with great

frankness and .Smiled *on him most

sweetly.

7 James; thbrigh 'liigh ly delighted, was

somewhat taken aback at this sudden

ph aiig ahf fr o nt,

bu fi a 'h i , tS flas tlfeady-been Arid, was rath er iUclihed to flirt'

hiini'etf, and %as flaftcred ’a t her' appar­-ent interest in h im

,

h e mado no audible

comments on her changedbehavior. *T skm g a seat a t the tab le he entered

mto an anim ated conversation w ith her,

m th e courseof pflrieh shhartiessly gave

h im to understand that shb •vvas very sad

and very unhappy^ and th a t she desired,

above all things, a frien d who; w ould

sooth her when sad, rejoice w ith h er

when, merry,, and be tru e to her till

death, If f ' . / ' '- il"

.

_3msn Burton looked, tenderly at James

as's h e uttered the abovege«timpn+-nnd

Softly sighed W hit w onder the young

m an s heart b eat Violently, and his braiil

in a w hirl?— JSPas-ng^-he-^iobnoh

TWO M0NAR0HS MEET.Cl o v er four feet nine and a half inches to

h e ight has been cut a t N orth Chatham, Col­-

u mb ia C ounty. The w e t weather caused a

re m ark able growth of grass.

A G ran d B ri ti s h N ava l R ev i ew i n

H o n o r o f E m p ero r W illi a m .

can dig them out and find them, bn th e

surface everywhere. I saw hundreds ,of

them , possibly, on my last trip , and I am

how anxiously trying to get rip there to

complete my investigations. . So th ick

lin the ground, decided that thero w ere

isome kind o f great .mole that burrows in

[the Soil. T h is is the story given m e.. I

icolleete&a lo t of. remains. T3he collect­-

in g pf elephant tusks every surmner^rs a

regular business ffiberia? JU*^ overs

Behring Sea. We have ju st as many of

. them on the Alaska side as they eVCr h a d

in Siberia. Ages ago great herd s of elc

, phants rpam ea over -these shores. P er-

ihaps they existed. dPwn to ricotoparatlye-.

j l y recent date, too,"for'th e hairy bridles ‘^and well-preserved bones werp'-evidences

' iof that.”

,

The arriv al of the Emp ero r William , of

Gerifiany, a tPortem outh, E ngland, w as m ade

theoccasipn fpr one ofth e grandest, if no t the

grandest; naval parades th e World h a s ever

known. According top ro gram m e the Prince

of .W ales a tnoonw entoutsidethe S olentm his

yacht, t h e Osborne, to aw ait ih e arriv al of

th e German-irioririrch on b o ar d th e imperialy acht Hohenzollern. T he w eath er waa su­

perb. . Ontsido th o G erm an squadron w as

Sighted, aiid t h e great: E nglish m en-of-w ar

took up th eir positions.: As th e O sborne approached th e Hohenzol-

leril th e Prince o fWales signaled his greetingsto th e Kaise r, to which th e la tter responded.The Osborfie th e n accompaniedth e Hohenzol-

lem w ith her esc ort throu gh the lines of w ar

vessels drawn up in parade to receive her.

Every vessel, both German mid English, was

iu holiday attire, arid the spectacle, as the

German fleet steamed slowly through the

nan-ow nisle left between the gaylyvaeckedwarships—tho-flowerof the-British navy—-was imposing to the extreme. -

As the imperial yacht passed each shipShe was saluted by lotid huzzas from the ire's

spread Put upon the yards orrangedupon the

deck, foliowpd by the booming of the ship’s■---Bguriit-wkjehre*.-tongues of flame*

--% m "undagato-u^--thJ^oi^&Olleni'w as-

hidden by tiie smoko, T^ion-other voices took

.hfii the w‘‘teT'»Sjjp.bu*zos »ud. other cannon

.osoriiea rorai "tKmAwottrgreebngs: •»,

*niro'ugh~ttiisr gantlet- ef firo -and-smoko

the-Hohenzoitern-passed* with the iron­-

clads Deutschland, Kaiser, Preusserand Friedrich dor Grosso. and tho

frigate . Zioteh to her wake. A t

Trinity H er the Kaiser disembarked arid

proceededtb Osborne,, where he was em­-braced by his grandmother, the Queen. The

Emperordtaea with the Queen a t Osborne

thatevening. •-•

ThespeotaoJaattracted to tiie shore oftheSp-lonthuridreds of thousands of people; While

the water wa* literally covered w ith everyconceivable form Of cr a ft 'bearing tight-seers, tuostofwhieli,** did all oftheWar ves­-

sels and thetrtorathmticliMrsssrvtog atax-

.curtiori steamers, displayed thtG erin aa flag.

Th e onion c rop of Oran ge C onnty is look­-

ing very promising. T h e low prices of l a s t

y e a r greatly discouraged growers. The a cre ­

a ge is not as Is rg e as in p o st seasons.

a farm er, living fo ur

m iles from Ithaca, w as fa ta lly stung b y

bees. T he physician w ho atten d ed h in t

counted over a hundred stings on his face.

J a m e s G. Te r r y, a well known citizen o f

C ottland, drowned him self in Skaneateles

L ak e a few days ago. He hired a b o a t,

row ed to the m iddle of tbe lake and jumpedin to the water. His lifeless body was picked

up th irty m inutes later. Mr. T erry w as

flftv-eigbt y ears of age an d had hern in vfery*

p o or health for some time.

Ja me s

Co ffe e

Ja c k s o n Gr a v e s,

,

livin g nrar S a v a nnah,

w hile intoxicated, atte mp ted to cross th a

We s t Shore tra ck s in th a t village a n d w aa

in sta n tly killed by a passing train .

Tw e n t y - e ig h t firms o f hay m erchants t o

LJtew York c ity haY B ferm ^da H a y EXchanire-.r'rm—-------; f, t

c ity a nd its v icinity e very ye a r is ab o ut

% > i s tho u gh t th a t tho bus!*

'•uess-CQuid bo m ore-advantageously done i f

there was an exchange.

A s a sample ofth e expenses o f a ball team

it m a y be s tated tii a t Cleveland’s 1883 team,to which we re M cCormick, Dunlap, Glass­-

cock, Bushong, D aily aridother stars, cost for

salaries less th an $16,000, arid the present

team , to w hich th ere are n o stars, costs

$31,000.

Pr o f e s s o r J . H . Pa r s o n s w h o h as ju st

beari chosen prin c ip al of the h ig h school of

Augusta, Me., and who was formerly prin c i­-

pal o f the Pittsfield Academy, w as the crack

p itc h er a t B ates CoHege in 187S, ’70 a n d 'SO,

to xvhieh y e a rs B ates won the college c h a m ­

pionship.In fielding Comiskoy leads th e Association

first basem en, M cPhee the second basem an.

K app a ’s a v e ra ge is th e host a t third base.

Hollandlea d s a t s h ort. H o rnu n gto le ft field

is above a ll Competitors. C orkhill easily leads

among the c entre fielders, an d Ddwie, of

B altimore, th e ri gh t fielders.

,

*A^Realistic Shootin Gallery.

/ m t h b l

Won. Loit. PcretnUwe

Boston...50

.Now.York.....,wjp;P hilade lphia v 41

C lev elan d . .b e a re r

, .

Indianapolis.......Pitteburg...........W ashington......

3 7 * ’BriTr.io

44. 87

•wi t* ftrtw *

33 49 .40 3

32 49 : .895

25 48 .343

LEAGUE RECORD.

Icvtsswws—- .V—

rv.-r*

-hristdOratiftTheiregSHSf w b dfn ’f b e whole

TBsemblage stood i i f awe whose praisesh ad b eeifS o ldudlvand:

b y h oruuA c, -•'he dougbqrsquiro.'. — 'The good people, Of Barnesville and

~ early risers were necessa-

coflscquentiy the festi-

Abrupt en d at a far earlier

boric than Miss Birton ’s aceustomed b ed ­

time. . * •v. .-

* ./»

Lfow ehorf tt»a etenirig has seemed,Mr. Monroe,^-she said, as she gave Mta

b et hand at parting,“an d j have you to

thank foe i t,

w i l l you ac t call on. me

to-morrow afternoon or evening? Some-

thing tolb me we sie to h# Ae best cf

friends. /, Will yori oemel^ *7:

' "l A | l b e M i e d to-d o so,” said

JitttiAt Iq sflreH urto m up at th at

W terefin-tt-’piUiftedTjvmgler

Irhares, rabbits ana othof gamo

•»j\w *« including foxes) run about fob th e

iamn*emqntofthe sportsman;.: . . Thi) pthefc*fl®»tJetnan, who had a dog with

Mm, took a shot and rOllcd over a rab-

a

to ri plic

t ■aa 11*!6 ddg.jumped the barrier

And leaped into the jungle -to retrieve

jthppainted bunny. ' *,

St. Louis;.........Brooklyn.. . . . . .Baltimore .A th le tic ...-,...

Cfackmati....;.K*BMsOity....Cohrinhns......

Louisv ille..-,..

Won;lout. Pwcentaae

58 s o ■ .6 59

55 3 0 .0 55

49 35 .688

45 34 .5 70

46 - -4 0 .---.5 3 5

34 50 .4 0 5

83 56 -.875

20 0 7 .3 3 0

IATION RECORD.W a tk i n s G le n S t orm

-S w ep t .

A terrib le storm sw ept a narrow b elt fat

W a tk in s v alley . W atk in s Glen was coto-

p lo tely .swept o fbridgea, staircases a n d p a th ^

ar id -thA wreck struck the iron bridge, riven

F rank lin s tr eet arid sw ep t i t fro m i t s abut­-

m e nt s down stream ab o ut f o u r blookA

w h ere i t lodged.

r O h i» Vfliri Quest, •., <

Thls epectacles up on Ut forehead,aV ctqier

fAadm 'u hk S uU «M % of

t wir t111 ' *'

|4<Gr M ) ^ ( m U«h «l u M« o m to t Mk« Mm<

i in Juttrr^ —AT«wTtrk MmML‘

About 160,000,000 gallons o f ‘

water go t e

watte eveiy dayover the Croton dam. This

overflow would more than meet tee require-ritehtaol Hew York city, . but i t cannot be

conveyed there owing to the smaUnew oftee

■ItidIqcwduot.

lodged.The lower half of the village Was floods*

by tee water thu s dammed up, arid peoplehad to be taken from th e second-stor? wiw

dowsof several houses. Thsdaanags will t e

several thoasarid doliars. Yks itmpotttT

bridge oftee W orteertC tetral ltailMadwsa

wrecked. Great damagewee done at Goal

F ein t and tee railroad traaks.were bleoksd-,

GmtoT alarm

Mticio ’"'

is reused in

_rrlMe ravag**throughout (he country, and

low -lyin g districts, by ttMn

m ortality increase* to^unto!