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up the Hackensack River , don 't she? Perhaps she 'll g ive you the black lace cap and the old gold beads for a wed- ding present , \ she added , satiricallv. \Well , Poll y, I g ive it up. Since you have systematicall y determined to ignore all the nice peop le yo u k n ow and invi t e 'the rag, tag and bobtail of creation— \ She stopped suddenl y. T here was a faint scent of dried lav- ender leaves in the room—a mouselike footfall on the carpet. \Is . my new niece , Paulina , here?\ said a soft voice. \Oh! and this is one of her bridesmaids? Happy to meet W inter longing ^ • My heart i3 like the swallow. Whe a irfnte scours the p lain , It soars to seek the gol den shore s of Souther i seas again; It longs to live where myrf l as bloom , ant roses n ever die , . . And-where the sungod like a king walks o ' ei the azure sky. Ob , there tho heavens wear no clouds , nt l ^: darkening shadows sweep The slo p in g headlands of the bay, tfaecrysta j of the deep; j Ani birds are gay the whole year throug h , ; singing from elm and palm; ! And , rich ¦with myrrh and frankincense , th< air is sweet as balm. Oh , woul d go on ea ger wings and seek that fairyland , And like a child once more Fd build my castle s i n the s a n d ; Fd quaff of f ancy ' s m agic bowl and dream the dreams again That once were mine in by-gone days , with- in the groves of S pain. . There l ife will grow as bright and g lad as youth w as wont to be , And joy an d bliss will bless my home beside a Southern sea . Where all my well-loved myrtles blo ai n , my roses never die , And sunshine g ilds eternally the azure of tfae sk y! —Eugene Davi? . in Boston Transcri pt ^ WEDDI TO \ PEESENTS. BT HELEN FORRE ST GRAVES. (^ \ T ^ / ^^ H ' P ° ll y ' d ° haTC a ^^ *C_rn§t t T F\ ben of white rose- S fP k^S Silpvi? ' pi buds and carna- JS ir ^ t r B i **M l * ons *° ^ e m » nied W 4vj fe^ _ fed _ ' und er—do!\ ^^^ '' T S iS g* ^ JUary Nellis rose • eagerly with kin- dJing eyes grasping her cousin ' s shoulder . — as she spoke. Paulina Wiaton laug hed a derisive laug h. \And a veil of Brussels lace , \ said she , \ and a pearl necklace and a few such inexpensive fads? Do you think I' m made of money, Mate?\ \But one is only married once in one ' s lifetime , and the floral bells are so lovely 1\ i \And they cost so much , Mate , and ¦we have got to be economical , \ smiled the bnde-slect \Louie Lane had one/ 1 \Louie Lane ' s father is rich , and she married a bank president. \ \You are going to man ^A lawyer. He may be Chief Justice of the United States some day, \ persisted Mary. ~. , Paulina laug hed again. \ W hen he is , \ said she , \ we 'll have . the floral bell. But it was onl y last May that Richard h ung ontjij s ' si gn , s *\ 2».iu J iufc j W u v ^ OduseioF T it Law , \ and he hasn ' t been able to make his office rent y e t , whatever the future may have instore for bim. \ \And you ' ve onl y asked two brides- maids, \ \Two is enoug h , \ gravel y spoke Polly. \Richard g ives each of them a little locket , you know , and you and Rosamond Orton are the onl y friends we love well enoug h to do that for with our limited means. \ \Limi ted means—l imited means!\ e mp hatically repeated Mary. \I' m s i ck of hearing economy the whole time , and noth in g but economy 1\ ••We must beg in as we mean to go on , Slate , \ said cheerful Paulina. \But Mrs. Ellington said that if Kate and Nellie were asked to be bridesmaids , she would have g iven you a silver kettle for five o ' clock teas. \ \Very possibly; but how would that correspond with my other surround- ings?\ . \I never saw such a p rosaic thing as you are in all my life!\ said Marr . \Would you have me go crazy simp ly because I' m going to be married?\ mis- chievousl y retorted Paulina. \If ever one is to launch out into ex- travagance , \ maintained Mary, \it would be on an occasion like this. Of course the house is to be full of com- pany P \It i a easy to fill our littTe house , \ Hud composed Paulina. \With Uncle and Aunt Oiton in the front chamber , and Rosamond in the hall bed room , and Cousin Hi gg ins in the upper ro om— \ \That . wi ggy old man ! You surel y aren 't going to have him in the bouse?' 1 — ^ - ^ _ ^ \He w as very good to papa when he ^r as a l >5 y$ ^ 5aid Paulina ; \ and he has Eent me a barrel of app les \ from the old farm every year since I was a child , be- cause of the ( H' in my name—Paulina Hi gg ins Winton , you know. It -would have broken his heart not to ask him down for the wedding. \ \Well , let it break , I say !\ cried Mary. \Why his clothes must have been made in the year one! And you never asked . Jud ge Lacey and his wife and the g irls!\ \No , \ assented Paulina. \I f they want to attend my wedding, they are amp ly able to engage rooms at a hotel. Cousin Hi gg ins couldn ' t do that. \ \But they would have sent you such an elegant wedding present , '' breathed , ; Mary. \They gave Lulu Hempsted a dinner set of Royal Worcester! And now you 'll get nothing at all!\ \This isn 't an affair of sale and bar- ter , \ said Paulina , with spirit. \There ' s the Falklands—your moth- er ' s cousins—in Philadel p hia. You 'il ask them , surely ? They ' re such elegant peop le , and sure to give you something -nice. And there ' s the back extension room y et. \ - \That was reserved for Richard' s Aunt Eunice. She came yesterday. \ \That stuffy old woman I saw warm - ing her hands over the parlor fire?—in a d yed alpaca gown , a black lace cap with three Ted popp ies in it , and a string ' of gold beads around her neck?' 1 Paulina colored. * * - \She is not rich , \ said she; A ' tut she \ ^ fa-Richar d' s onl y living relative—his X J tihe r ' s aunt. \ \O b , \ said Mary, \I seem to remem- b e r now 1 Lives in an old manor house , X m! ^ with rate and blue mould , you , my dear , I am sure. It' s very kind of Richard' s engaged wife to invite me here , isn 't it?—an old woman like me , that has almost forgotten how to behave in company. For I' m eig hty years old , and though you 'd hardl y believe it , I was young and gay once. I' ve scld the manor house , subject onl y to my life- lease , and my husband lost all his Southern slaves when President Xincola sent out the e m anci p ation proclamation ; but I' ve my string of gold beads left yet , and Paulina shall have that to wear at her wedding—Aunt Eunice ' s pres- e nt. \ There was a second' s silence. Mary flushed a mischievous g lance over Aunt Eunice ' s head at her friend , ere Paulina answered : • •Dear Aunt Eunice , it is very kind of you , but I couldn 't think of taking them from you. \ \B ut you must , my dear , \ insisted the old lady with a gentle chuckle. \It' sJ b ad luck to come to a wedding and brim i no present. And those gold beads will be the very thing for your white neck. I shan ' t grud ge them to you , dear. Nothing is too good for Richard' s bride , the sweet-natured g irl who has asked her old aunt all the way from Hackensack to her bridal. I'll clasp them around your neck myself when you have your wedding dress on. \ \Thank you , Aunt Eunice , \ said Paulina , smiling, while Mary si gnaled to her sl y l y, behind the old lad y ' s back. \There! Didn ' t I tell you so? Cousin Hi gg ins and the old aunt Rag-tag Hail ! What a wedding you 'll have ! Oh , there ' s no use hop ing for a floral bell now. That sort of thing would be quite out of p lace , as I p lainly see. \ one has known of them until now. Thej are for Richard' s wife!\ And so , with a diamond necklac s sparkling around her neck like a tin] rivulet of li g ht , Paulina was married. Down in the pretty, nnpretendins li ttle dining-room , the table was sei with a service of rare Haviland ware , decorated with deep blue corn flowers and borders of dull gold. \Oh , \ cried Paulina , rap turousl y, \ what beauties !\ \Eh?\ said the bridegroom. \Where did these come trom?\ \Out of the Pound Sweet barrel , \ said Cousin Hi gg ins , rubbing his hands. \They ' r e my g ift , children. I' ve a lit- tle money, and I choose to invest it so. I knew Polly liked nice china—all women do! And I' m g lad you ' re pleased , Poll y. You ' ve done a kind deed to the stup id old cousin from the country. \ \Oh!\ murmured Paulina , \did ever bride have so happy a wedding day be- fore?\ \Did ever man have so sweet a bride?\ p lay full y retorted Richard , stoop ing to kiss her brow. \Well , 11 said Mary Nellis , afterward , in- describing the affair to the Miss F alklands , \th ere hasn 't been a marriage this season that has made such u sensa - tion as Poll y Winton ' s. All the papers took it up and echoed it from one side of the continent to the other ; every one was talking of it. Polly has sent the diamonds to the bank for safe keeping —until , as she says , she can 'live up to them. ' But they ' re using the beautiful china every day. And old Aunt Eunice is rich , after all; aud Cousin Hi gg ins has gone back to the farm where the bi g app les grow. Oh , you never heard such a romance in your life ! Mrs. Richard Graham is quite the fashion now , and the Ellingtons are so angr* to think they didn 't go to the wedding. Of course P oll y has struck them off her visiting list. She says she shall visit none but her very dear friends. \ \Paulina was always ecceutric / Vaaid Miss Falkland. —Saturday Ni g ht. Compass P l ants Several different countries , A mer i ca , Asia Minor , Tartary, Madagascar and Australia , have shrubs which are ,, local- l y, at least , known as \ compass p lants. \ The compass p lant of the United State3 is t ff e common \ rosin weed\ of our Western praries , which has the long leaves near the ground ^ et in a vertical position in such a way as to always pre- sent the ' ed ges to the . north and south. This peculiar propensity of the rosin weed is attributed to the? fact that both the upper and lower /surfaces of the leaves demand an equal share of li g ht , something which can be- said of few known p lants , the upper s urfaces us- uall y being much more sensitive to-both li g ht and heat than the loJwer. This d emand for a share of old Stol' s attention c auses the leaves to stand i o Hthe manner nen tioned above. Tne compass p lant of ' Asia Minor , i nown all along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, and as fart east as Arabia rod Persia , is mentioned in the Bible , where the prop het refers t& \that sense- less thing which is mor o ; sta bl e than man , ihasmuch as it alwa y s pointeth ia the one direction. \ It is an annual shrub , much resembling our wild or false indi go , bu i with all the branches trranged along its stem on the north side. It is of the greatest value to travelers of those regions , who use it with as much assurance of being car- ried ari g ht as does the seaman his nariner ' s compass constructed on the latest scientific p rinci p les. The compass p lant of the Tartars is lot what would be called ;a plant in the strict sense of the word , being a low , j reep ing p lant of no value ^ hatever as a feed for horses and on J y mad e use of by shep herd s with large flocks of sheep and joats. From the time when the first i talk pushes itsel f throug h the ground ill of its creep ing propensities are exer- sised in one direction—to the north. Baker , Hains and Laufbarrow all tell wonderful stories how whole armies have ¦scaped utter destruction through some ihrewd General dismounting his horse to strikeihis flint in order to see what lirection the little compass grass was j reeping ^ remo u nting and leading off ia the satest ' dhection. The compass p lant of Madagascar is a l owering lichen , growing onl y on a species of fir tree , aud always on the j asfc side. - . Curious scientists who have t ransp lanted this wonderful lichen ia ;he great botanical gardens of Europe say it changes; its position to the north side of trees as soon as it has become icclimated. Australia ' s-com pass p l ant is a double a rkspur , on which two colors of flowers rrow , red on the north and blue on the iouth. As a compass it is perfectly •eliable. —St. Louis Republic. Careless Tfitli Their Glasses. \T he cost of spectacles and g l asses , \ lai d an old optician on Broadway, \is l omething enormous. A greater pro- p ortion of peop le every year wear j lasses. \When a man buys his first pair of g lasses he imag ines he is done with it. Bfe will have some excuse and thinks it iece3sary to g ive it when he comes in before six weeks and gets another pair. Be will break one g lass , perhaps , or both , or mislay them , or get them torn iff in a crowd , or the cord wears out find they drop off of their own accord. He thinks that is a rare accident , but ifter he has used gl a s se s a year o r two u e will find that if he goes about much six pairs a year will be a low average. I have customers who come here for g lasses twice that often every year , and some as frequentl y as two or three times i sing le month. In nine cases out of ten the cause is simply carelessness. \ —New York Herald. A French Riddle. Take away my first letter , • Take away my second letter , Take away my third letter , Take away all my letters , And I remain what I was before— Tfc* Postman , , \Did she g ive you the old gold beads?\ said Richard Graham , when he came that evening. \Bless the dear aunty ! it was all she had. But she ' s ri g ht. She and Uucle Harwood were rich once , thoug h you 'd never think it. And I' ve always heard what a beauty she was when the century was young ! You didn ' t refuse them , Poll y, I hope?\ \Refuse them!\ echoed Paulina. * 'No , certainly not. \ \That' s my own darling, \ said Rich- ard. \I know they ' re old-fashioned things , but I would n ' t have Aunt Eunice ' s feeling hurt for the world. \ \Oh , \ cried MaryNellis , impatiently, \ what geese you and Polly are! I'd risk-her feelings I Onl y to think that I' ve been looking forward all these years to Poll y ' s wedding, and it' a going to be such a two-pence half-penny affair , after all!\ Richar d laug hed . (C t Cnlt » n~ ' ,A U ~ Hit « *« * _ <• a nUa J \Well , \ said he , \if we ' re su ited , who else , has anj ri g ht to find fault? And when we have our silver wedding, Poll y and I , I'll show you a floral bull and a set of diamonds and all the pretty things that my little g irl deserves. Onl y wait. \ \Hump h!\ said the sconful Mary. \I may wait forever for that. \ The day of the wedding came. Cou- sin Hi ggins brushed up bis well-worn suit to a nicety, tied his exuberant lawn cravat in a Beau Brummel knot , and put on the tarnished pearl stud that had had been his father ' s before him. \I couldn 't do much for the young peop le , \ said he , \ but they 'll find that barrel o ' Pound Sweets that came by express this mormn ' as good an article to pass round at dinner time—or break- fast , the fashionable folks call it , don 't they?—as they make nowadays. \ And old Mrs. Graham exchanged the black lace cap with the three popp ies for a white lace barbe of priceless old Point de Venise , fastened b y p ins whi c h Mary Nellis said \looked like real peail beads , but which , of course , couldn 't be. \ \I don 't attend a wedding every day, \ said Aunt Eunice Graham , comp lacentl y. The Orton s had sent an etching of \The Angelus. \ The Ellingtons gave nothing at all. The Falklands , of Phil- adel p hia , dispatched a five dollar pocket handkerchief b y mail. The Luceys sent a p lush photograph album. Mary Nel- li e ' s g ift was a pretty lunch set of double dami s k linen. \Since you like useful thing3 so well , \ said she , milfciou s l y. And Paulina was innocentl y p leased with all the offerin g s. \Every one is so kind , \ said she. \Ah , but think what you mi ght have had , \ si g hed Mary, \if onl y you had stood under a floral bell and asked the ri g ht sort of peop le!\ At the last moment there was a delay. \Don 't let Poll y get married till I come , \ called out Cousin Higg ins. « 'I' ve been down stairs a-seein ' to the ope n in ' of that bar 'l o ' Po a nd Sweets. They ' ve all come in fust-rate order ; and now I' ve got to wash my hands. Sorry to keep folks waitin ' b u t '' —bustling into the room— \I' m ready now. Go ahead , p arson!\ \Stop a minute , \ said Aunt Eunice , moving forward , in her gentle , old-lad y way; and then they saw that the gold beads were gone from her skinny throat. \I have to clasp my present around Richard' s wife ' s neck first. \ Something flashed across the sunshine , white and brilliant , like a g litter of dew- drops. \Diamonds 1\ gasped Mary Nellis , in a hysterical whisper. \Oa , I' m not dreaming, am 1?\ \The little gold cases do ^ ery well to keep them in , \ said AuutEuoico ,quietl y. \Nobod y would think of stealing a string of old-fashioned gold beads; but diamonds are quite another thing. I' ve saved all my income for forty years , and matched , the3g, stones one b K one f : Jj» miD B Y PAIITE. Lon g Island Cit $ Torn Up . l by a Terrific Exp losion . ¦j- The Scene , a Tunnel Shaft in a P opulousj Block, THE L ABOR WORLD RAILWA Y BUILDING A terri ble explosion of dynamite occurred in Lon g Island' City, N. fY. , at eight o ' clock a few mornin g s ago , by (which fire parsons lost their lives and soihe - twenty or thirty persons were severely injure! The acci- dent occurred in the works o£ the Long Isl- and and New York. Tunnel Company, ' at Jackson au d-Vernon avenues. The workin g men employe! by this corpoy- ation have be s n engaged there for a con- si derable time drivin g headings under the surface an I have used 'great quantities of the powerful ex plosives -Jo prosecuting their work. . ; , \ . . ' . V ' \ : - & ¦: ' ' ' \ ¦ : \ \ - X k There h ave been several minor explosions of dynamite at the plies. Buildings have been shaken and wind o w glass shattered , but uo one until this oc c asion b s cat u e a vic- tim to the accidents, % - ¦ ' • The pushin g of the R eadings has been prosecuted with vigor ' ; !jfce3B . ntly and great quantities of dynamifc s ' liive be 9 n k e pt near the works in order to eajn q m ' z j t ime ia the blastin g . . • .V .; R e sidents of the nei ghbor i iooi have pro- tasted a g ainst the apparent carelessness of t he company, and hav a appealed to the au- thor ities , but with no - M s ct. Th s re were nearly a hundred men rt who bad been em- ployed in th s tunnel about an hour when an alarm cameoC a premature exolo s iou. There was a panic at once , but before any one had time to sa y e . hims elf the earth shook with the explosion of dynamite and the surface of the ground in the vicinity of t ho tunnel rose in the ^ air , sc a tteriu ? th s fr agments of the unfortunate persons noar an d th s debris of the tunnel in every direc- tion . ' < The flames from the ' exp los ion set fire to the large four-story brick buildin g adjoin- ing the tunnel an 1 shattered every \ pane of glass in houses for blocks about. The dead were: Mai - y Graden , aee d nine- teen , Lon s : Island Cit •: E l ward Hopkins , Peter Roeco , Mrs . Pet er Rocco, Henry O'Bri en , aged thirty-three , clerk , Lon g Island Cit f . ¦ W hen the explosion occurred ail the work- men were in tie tunnel, - . exce p t Eocc j , who was placed in charg a of the dynamite at the he ad of th * tunnel. \ He was blown, to p iece?. None of the men in the tunnel were injured. The cupola of St. Mary ' s Roman C atholic Church on Vernon avenue and Fi fth street was smashed into p ieces b y the concussion. : : Wor k on the tunnel has been progressing about two month s. The city, it is said , has been warned time and again of the danger attending tho work , bujno action was taken for the protection of the residents of the nei ghborhoo 1 against a disaster of this character. . ¦ The fire , wh ich at first set the brick build- ing ablaze , soon extended to the ad joining ones , whos e walls had been warped and cra c u ed by the force of the exp losiou , and they are now ia imminent danger of falling. The tenants ara supposed to have escaped with safety . - In the . building which was nearest the tunnel was t he postoffic e . When the shock occurre l tons of debris fell . in ' this pa i' b of fie structure and co m pletely buried the mails. They were at once removed to No, 89 Borden avenue , where a temporary office was established. Huadred s of peop le , attracte d to the placa by the explosion , aide! the firemen in rescuing tUo wouaded. Wagons of all kinds were used in conveying the maimed peop le to the i r h omes and to 8t , Jo h n ' s Hosp ital. All o f the doct o rs in tu 9 city hastened to t he sc s ne. The great iron industries of Pennsylvania and Ohio are booming. Colobado h as 200 labor organi zations , with ab out 15 , 700 members. Railroad emp loye s , to the number oi 24 , 743 , have their homes in Kansas. A co-opera ti ve boarding-house foi workin g women is talked of in Boston. The g iass factories in. the Pittsburg di& tr ict are enjoying an unprece dented season of prosperity. Employes in t he various mills about Williamstown , have had their wages in- creased seven per cent. Machinists and nearly all the great rail- w ay companies in this country have come to an agreement on the apprenticeship ques- tion . The p late-glass manufacturers claim that the preient producing capacity of the eight large factories is about fifty per cent, g ' reatei t han the annual demand. The builders of brid ges and elevate d rail- roads have so much wor k on ha nd that their ord ers will probably keep all the structural m ills busy through the winter and spring. The dem an 1 for all kinds o£ farming im- p lements an d machinery is very heavy, and there is a rush of orders at all the small foun d ries and the machine shops of the New En gland and Middle States. A movement is on foot in Southern citie3 to or ganize the wives , daug hters , sisters and sweet hearts pf union men into auxiliary un ions for the purpose of attending to the boycott end of the labor movement. Shop girls in Boston now have a \ noon res t , \ than ks to Edward Everett.Hale , where t hey can get not only a good inid-day lunch , b ut find also a p iano , easy-chairs , a men ding- basket , eta It is con ducted by the Lend - a- Hand Club. Telephone 'iris in Belgium aye going to have a hard time of it. The lines having been acquired by the Government , opera- tors muse now pass an examination , and the qualification is a th oroug h know ledge of French , Flemish , German , English and geo graph y. • • Italt has at present \ 682 ' co-aperativ a dairies , forming a National organization. T he y h ave broug ht a bout a progressive im- provement in the making of cheese an d contributed largely in ameliorating the con dition of the workmen and working women en gaged in that industry. Several labor organizations of San Fran- cisco , CaL , have forme d the San Francisco Equitable Co-operative Society, with a cap ital of $100 , 000 , divided into 40 , 000 s hares at$2.50eaoh. Itsobjecfc is to manu- factu r e , purchase an d sell groceries and general merchandise. The society proposes to deal direc tly with the factories and f armers , thus providing a higher profit for the producer an d a lower price for. the con- s umer . Abou t 4100 Miles of New Line Built Durin g 1892. Statistics collected b y the Eng ineer i ng News show that not far from 4100 miles of new railway line were built In the United States during the calendar year of 189 3 . This br in gs the total-railway mileage of t he U nited States up to 174.600 miles , or a bout forty-five , per ' cent. o £ the ; total railway . mileage ' . of • the world . The \ l ongest . line ^ construc ted was the Pacific extens ion ;bf i ;he ; St. Paul , Min. neapolis an d ^ Manitoba ; rRailrpad to JPuget Soun d , 553 mile K compl e ting another trans- continen tal route. ; /NoTaijroad was; built id five States: but on s tmle ^ as ibuilt in Kan- sas , arid t he - gr ^ te s tftniil«ge/ - was buill; in NEW YORE STATE NEWS POUR CREMATED PLEASURE PARTY DR0W N ED Work of the S tate Botanist. In his annual re port State Botanist Charles H Pec k says that the whole number of spo - cies re presenteiby the specimens added to the her barium during the year is 338, Of t h ese , twenty-four are represented b y con- tributed specimens and 314 by collections of the botan ist. Of the specimens new to the her barium , ei ghty-one in all , seventy-two were collect ed by Air. Peck . Of thirty of these he found no satisfactory descri p tion , an d therefore describes them as new . These are a ll fungi . Then he says: \That there is j ^ growing demand for a better knowledge of our fung i , especially of those o f economic importance is plainly evi- dent. With this kno wledge the fear of being p oisoned b y the bad wouli no longer pre- v ent the use of the good- . Th irty-six p lates , quartoin size , oh whic h ara rapresented flfty- nine edible species in natural size and color , have been prepared , and four p lates show¦ ing the three poisonous species. . Of the fifty- n ine edible species illustrated , forty at lea st have been used as food by myself , and thus provei to my.own satisfaction to be good and safe. T he more I experiment in this direction the more firmly I am convinced that the number of r eally poisonous or dan- gerous species of mushrooms is very small. \ Relative to the World's Fair exhibit the botanist says: \Inasmuch as the herbarium i s es p eciall y rich in s pecimens of fungi , I have thou g ht it most ap propriate to make an exhi bit of these plants , an d chiefly of those hiving an economical importance either by reason of their useful or their noxious character. \ General Herfclmer ' s Grave. Action is to be taken by the Oneida His- torical Society, at UMca , toward improving the ground , an d securing a monument to mark the site where tho body of General Herkiiner lies buried. This is a matter wh ich concerns every patriotic individual , for General H e rkimer won the pivotal battle of the R9volution. His body now lies in a pasture , in the town of Danu be , midway between Little Falls and Indian Cast le. General I tems . The froz e n body o? a man was found in a field near RexEord Fiats. He was an un- known , supposedl y i nsane person , who had been rattling windows , chasing cattle and ju tt ing many other strange antics at night for a day previous. The Bo ard of Supervisors of Chemtmg Coun ty have sold to Compton and Hulburt the grounds former ly used b y the State and county agricultural fairs for $25 , 003. The State Boar d of World' s Fair Mana- gers have determined to ask the next Leg is- lature for an additional appropriation of 1300 , 000. Ice is e i ght inc hes thick in the Hudsou above the State dam. . ' \' ' Nine horses were burned in a fire on the Port Orange mill pier , Albany. Charles Patnodb , a frei ght conductor , was caug ht between two cars and killed at Rou s e ' s Point s S tate Engi n eer Sohenck will make a preliminary survey with a view of enlarging the Quarantine Island. Mrs. Thomas Chapman Bsoadalbin of Amsterdam , was so overcome by grief at the loss o f her threa children within a year that she committe d suicide. L. W. Rogerson , of Horseheads , was found dead in the street? in Elmira a few days since. A case of smal l-pox has been discovered in the f amil y of E ben Burbank , on Green Islan d , Troy. George Tafle , of Schen e ctady, a Now York Central brakeinan , fell under a train at Rome and was killed. Three Italians , going from Bainbridge to their shanties , were run into by a coal train. Two were killed and the other was fatall y injured. General Por ter has desi gnated a Board of Examination to inquire into the moral character , capa city or general fitness forthe State militar y service of such offic a rs as may be sent before it by orders from head- quarter s. A wes t bound freight train jumped the track near the junction of the New York Central and West Shore trac ks near Fair- port. George S heppard , dropped to flag trains , was struck by a passenger train and killed durin g the blinding snowstorm. Seymour Knickerbocker , twelve years old , was drowned while skating above the dam at Fort E lward. He and a companion were skatin g when the ice gave way. A p ole was handed to the lads , but Knickerbocker did not seize it and sank. His companion grasped the pole and was saved. They Were Enveloped in. Fla tne a W iiile Trying to i&tin&uishaFire. Everett , Mass., has been visited by a most disastrous conflagration. The loss of prop- erty, is about f50 , 00 5 , and four men , em- p loyed by the West End Street Railway Company, were burned to death. Abou t 6:57 o ' cloc k a fire broke out in the boiler room in the basement. John Clark , Luke G l ennao , George Wal l ace and Josep h McGinnis at on ; e b ega n, passing wate r in pails , and tried to extinguish the flames , but w ithout effect; and inside of fifteen minutes the blaz9 ha d spread to a room over the en- g ine ro o m , wh ich was filled with tanks con- taining oil. The t anks at once i gnite:!. The flames sprea d over the entire rear end of tfc a buildin? , envelop ing tho man. They wore seen no \ more an i were burned alive. A Yach t Capsized by aJ S ndden Squall in Austra lian Waters. A sa d accident occurred at Sidney, New South Wal es , a few days ago , to a party of m errymaker? , resultin g in the death of ten o f them. The owner of a yacht made up a party of his friends to tak e a sail. All went well until the mouth of the harbor was reached. . Here a severe squall struck\ . . . the yacht , and before , any prep a ra ti on v could be made to - .meet it the vessel ca p siz i ' . r The squall passed away qui ckly, and \ vessels in the nei gfiborhoo t bore down to the upturned craft. They V ucceed in p icking up thirt s en ps - rsons who wer e s t rugg l i n g in t h e w a ter , : but tea of the p arty were not seen flft $ r the yaoht turned over , : , ; ' ¦ :•> ' ¦/. : ¦ ¦;.:¦ \ ¦ - ¦:• ' . ¦ . . .;. ' -). ' .v - - / THE NEWS EPITOMI ZED FAMINE IN FI N L A N D Eas tern and Middle States. Mrs . Diana Dou tt , aged 103 years , nine m onths and fifteen days , died a few days ago , at the home of her son , Bainbrid ge Douty, in Charlton , Mass. The famous case of Father Mcffiynn , of St. Stephen ' s Church , New Yorlc C ity, has finally been decided by the restoration to him of authority to perform his priestl y functi ons. All the Hu dson Cou nty (N. J.) ballot box stuffers serving terms. -in the State prison have been liberated , t h e Court o f Pardons havin , r paroled thirty-two and par- d on e d one , John A. W helan. Christmas dinners and trees for the ben- e fit of the poor warmed up New York' s cele- bration of the festal da y . Nearly 20 , 000 poor child ren recei ved Christmas presents in Ma dison Square Garden. Hesry C. Varnum killed his wife and daug hter and seriously wounded his mother- in- law in Worcester , Mass. , an d then com- mitted suicide. . River traffic at Pittsbur g has been sus- pended. The Hudson River south from Poug hkeepsie was closed for navi gation. Suffering among the poor ' in New York C ity increased ou account of the dearth of coal. The , charities department has 2500 app lications for fuel on i ts books. Joseph Karge , Professor of Continental Languages and Literature in the College of N ew Jersey at Princeton, died on a ferry- b oat whi c h was cros si ng to Ne w \ Yor k City. H e was born iu tho Grand Duch y of Po s en , on Ju l y 3 , 1823. South an d West. The snow storm a fter prevailing over thb Pa cific Northwest for forty-eight hours ceased. Sdow fel l to a depth of twenty- four inches. A wreck occurre d on the Santa Fe Road near Colorado S pring? , Col ., in which many people were injured , two fatally . E. S. Cobser , of Minnea polis , Minn., faile d for $1 , 000 , 000 , in consequence of wheat speculation; the real esta te firm of w hich he is head also suspender!. General Frederick T. Dent , a distin- guished Union soldier and brother-in-law of General U. S. Grant , died a few days ago at D eliver , Co l. General Dent was born in Missour i in 18:20. He was appointed to West Point from that State iu 1839. Ano ther convict who partook of the poi- soned food at Helena , Ar k., has died at the penn itentiary at Little Rock , mak ing a total of nine deaths. Four persons were found dead in their rooms at the Colored Home . for the Aged , Baltimore , Ai d. Two old women , Fannie War d and Maria J ones , were asp h yxiated by coal gad. Two colored children were also found dead . Fire d estroyed every business house in Snow Hill , Ala. , exce pt oue . The total loss is $2 n , 000. Two men lost their lives at an incendiary fire w h;ch burned two Milwaukee (tVi?.) tannerie s and caused a loss of 5233 , 030. The official st atement of California ' s vote shows that one Harrison aud eight Cleveland el ectors were chosen . The vote in favor of the direcb election of United States Senators by the people was enorniou» , 187 , 958 voting for and only 13 , 312 against. Five woo den stores on Broad street , Cam- den , S. C , wer e burned. A sno wstorm pre- va iling at the time probably saved a large portion of tho town from being burned. The Str aits of Mackinac are froz e n over Trains in Kansas were seriousl y delayed by snow , an d bitterly cold weather prevailed throug hout the entire West. A blizzard struck Virginia and South Carolina , and for the first time iu fifteen ye a r s h ouseto p s were cov e re d w i t h a t hi n coating of snow and sleot. Washington. General John W. Fos ter , Secretary ol State , decided to resign that position and accept the appointment as special counsel for the United States in the Bering Sea ar- bitration. : The Secre tary of War issued a general ord er announcing a r s nevw l of the agree- m ent between the Federal Government and M exico , whereby the troops of the two coun- tr ies may cross over the territory of the other in pursuit of savage hostile Indians. The .Postmaster-General has issued the annual c ircular prescribing the telegraph rates to be paid for the transmission of G overnment messages during th9 fiscal ye ar ending June 30 , 1893. The rates are the same us those which the Western Union Company objected to. T he claims of that company for t ele g rap h servic a rendered d ur i n g th e past t h rae ye a rs h av e uot been settle d. Chief Drummond , of the Secret Service division , has cautioned his agents to exercise the closest possible scrutiny to prevent any counter feiting of the Columbian souvenir co ins. The Spanish Minister to Washington , S e nor Dupuy De Lome , has been recalled. Forei g n, Cholera has ap peared on th9 Austrian frontier as well as in Hambur g. Michael Davi tt , the Home Rule agita- tor , was unseate d as a Member of the Brit- ish Parliament, ¦ ¦ ; ; The fact has just been ma de public that; during the Treforfc Ministry, $2 , 000 , 080 were embezzled in the Austrian Department of E ducation and Public Instruction. The Coroner ' s inquest on the body of De- t ective Synott , killed in the Dublin (Ireland) exp losion , failed to g ive any clew to the perpetrators o f the outrage. Ten thousand troops have been mobilized to suppress the spreading rebellion in the Argentine province of Corriente?. Cholera is said to be makin g steady progress in Hamburg, Germany; \ The Red Star - steamshi p Noordland wa s to wed into Queeristown , Ire l en d , with a bro ken shaft , by the Ohio. The rebels in the province of Corrientes , Argent ine Republic , have defeated the pro- vincial troops in a number ^ of skirmishes , and have seized the towns of Mercedes and Cas- eros an d the railway lines of the district. It is Feare d That Whole Communi- t ies Have Perished. The famine in North Finland is increas- ing, and there is a movement in Sweden to renew the subscriptions o ° last year for the aid o f the starving Finlauders. A lthough the famine is rag ing in Russian territory, yet the Finns , on account of t heir old at- tachment to Sweden , - look to tho Swedes rather than to the Russians for assistance 1 . Many vil lages ' ara snowbound , an d it is feared that the sufferings o£ the peop le are intense , a s they have no means of breaking t hrough the great drifts on account of the w eakness of themselves and of their cattle. It is feared that whole communities have perished , as nothing has been heard from t hem for a number of days. T Ow ing to the hardiness of the Finns ifc is ho p ed , h owever , that the famine h as not been so destructive of life as many . a ppre- hen d. It is believed that the survivors will abandon the country by wholesale during the coming sprin g and summer and remove to some part of Nort h America where they w ill have a better chance to maintain them- selves. an official statement p lac as the area p l anted to wheat in Franc; , for tha 1893 or op, ; at 17 , 450 , 000 aores , an J.the crop 3 J 0 . - i77 , 00J - bushels. There were 8 , 991 , 030 acres devoted to rye and the crop w » 3 W , O7a , O0O bus he ls , BRIGANDS BOB A TRAIN. ; Booty Amounting to $20 v Q00 Taken . by Kussian Thiejre s . : The other evening a body of brigands sue- r ; ceeded by the use of si gnals in stopping a : well- filled passenger train at a point about mi dway between Warsaw and Kowal , in ¦: ' ;¦ Po land. The train was then boarded by. a number /J of t he gang, all 61 whom were heavily f . armed . Other brigands guarded the doorsy ^ of the coaches. . . ' z \ - - Beginning ac the forward end of the trab fi the bri gands went throug h each coach' w jjjlth revolvers in the ir hands and ordered the ^ passengers ^ men and women , to deliver their v aluables and money to them. \ They evan forced the married women to give up their wedding rings . - ¦ ' .; Not t&e s lightestattempt atre a stance was - , made , an i i t is estimated that tho p lun der , i secured by the robbers amounted to $30 , - • . ' coo. . . ; Ast hebrigands were l eaving thetrain they reliev ed the train hands of their watches ¦ ' ¦ ¦¦ ' ' . and then bade them adieu , s pr i ng i ng to : ; the ground and disappearing in the dark- '' ¦ ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ / ¦ ness. ¦ ' . ¦ ¦ ¦:• . . ¦ ' ¦ ' . ; r . , - ¦¦ - ' , ¦ - ' . _ ¦ ¦ ¦ - . : P ~ : . ^4 MURDERED BI BOYS. : ^ Tw o Farmers Shot Dead in a Quarrel -| Over a Roa d. * v ^ Renewal of an old feud over the location ; ^ of a coun try road near Snowhomisb , Wash- ' . ing to n , resulted in the murder of two well- < to-do farmers named Foul ks and Smith by \ s two boys , fourteen and fifteen years of age , : ; named \ John Lau gston and Robinson. v \ . - •;; T he road runs through the farm of young ¦ / - ¦ ¦ - . : Ro bi nson ' s father , but he fenced it up. * ' Fou lks and Smith started to tear down the ; ; ; fence when old man Robinson appeared and ' _ , a fight ensued ' _ . ^ 3? * ? : ' '^ Y oung L angston and Robioson , who had - r ^ been huntin g\ , appeared on th o scene armed - \ :• ¦>' with Winchesters and . fire d , killin g; Smith ' and Fou lks instantly. Old man Robinson - ^ was s erious l y i n j ured in thefi ght. The bpyf ; : t urrendered to the Sheriff . . . . • ' ¦ • . ¦ ' • ¦ ¦ The most remar k a bl e . derelict , mentioned ;. ¦ ;; ; . in the recor ds of the hydrographic office has . :. been si ghted a s ;am nine hundred miles east . ¦ o t D jrmu la . after a lap.?© of 103 days. She \ - r \ ; is tho record breaker of derelicts. She has been an ocean wanderer for 635 days , and \ , has averagei somewhat more than ei ght miles a d ay, coming over five thousand mile s, . .. ' . Gus tave Zimmerman , of the New Yortt ^ In dependent Schuetz a n Corps , who won first ' _, ; priz e ia a target contest at Wiesbaden a few ~ - -i days ago has ac h ieved another triumph at ; - Frankfort on tho Main , where he took -tbV - \ first priz9 for rapid target shooting, boat- ; : tug all the crack German riflemen. : ; t The ballet girl-is very bandy with - • ¦ her loot. —Galveston News. : ~ ; THE MARKETS . :V ^ Late W holesale Prices of Country > Produce Quoted in New York. ; - : \\ - 52 BEANS AND PEAS; V Beans—Marrow , 1893 , choice$2 32} £ @$2 35 ¦ ¦: Medium , 1 892 . choice.... 195 @ — • . Pea , 189a , choice ,. 1 93 @ 195 \ Red kidney, 1892 , choice. 2 55 @ 2 70 : ' ¦; ! Re d kidney, poor to fair — @ — / S Lima , CaL , per bush.... 305 (S j 210 . : ' : Green peas , 1S93 , per bW..... 1 75 @ 1 7% ^ BDTTER.. ) . . ¦ ' Cr eamery—St. &Penn , 'extr a 27 @ 29 , ¦ ¦ - ¦ ' , . St. & Penn M firsts....... 2 3 @ 26 s Western , firsts.... 28 @ '8 0 ' : Western , seconds....... 85 ® 27 * Western , thirds 20 @ 28 v ~ Stat e da iry—half tubs, and pa i ls , extras 26 @ 27 Half tubs and pails , lsts. 28 @ 2% Half tu bs and pails , 2ds. 20 @ 23 - : W g lsh tubs , extras 25 @ 2f i V Welsh tubs , l sts 23 @ 24 . ^ v Welsh tubs , 2ds 20 @- 23 . ¦:¦ ¦ ¦;- Western—Ini . creamery, lsts 23 @ 25 . W ; Im. creamery, 2ds .. . 19 @ 21 ¦ W. Im. cream ery, 3:1s... — @ — V > Western Factory, fresh , firsts 19 @ 21 '; : . • W. Factory, seconds.... 16 @ 16 ^ -v- W.Factory aD d dairy, 3 ds 15 @ lo #C ; . CHEESE . . . :' i / : State factory—Ful l cream , \* . - ' v white , fancy ... It @ ll>i . ' Fu l l cream . colore d . fancy 11 @ 11 ^ ;- ¦ ' Fu ll cream , goo d to prime 10 J£ a 10 ^ \ .?' Part skims , choice 7 @ l ' % ¦¦ - ¦? . , ' Part skims ,good to prime 5 @ 0> b * ' > Part skims , comm on.... 3 @ 4\ ^ , ' Full skims , ' 1 @ '1 $ 1 E GGS. ~ - - ^ State an d Penn—Fresh 3V @ 32 : > - : Western— Fresh , fancy..,.. 31 @ -i . V Hv Limed—Stats , .,,,.. 25 @ ~ T- i FRUITS AND BERJ . . \ \ -FRESH. - '\ • ; ;. 'i A pp les—Red sorts , bbl.., - ,. 3 00 @ 4 00 ' . ' ¦:¦ £ Baldwin , per bbl.,... 150 -@ 300 ; v ' ( J reenin s ; per bbl..... \ .. 200 @ 4 00 7 S Gra p es , up r i ver , De l., 51 b. — @ ' — - i ; W . N. Y., Catawba , 5 l b. 10 @ 16 : W. N. Y. , Concord , 5 lb. 10 @ , U - ^ Cranberries , Caps Co d , bbl . 8 00 @10 0 0 ;>: , ¦ H0P3. - ' ¦ ; ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦• : v .: ; * > State—1892 , fa ir to choice... 18 @ 28 ^ .. 1 . 1891. prime 21. @ 22 . : 189 1 , common to good.. 16 _@ . 20 .. •: • Old odds 5 @¦ • - '»> .; ; £ LIVE POULTRY. ; \ :;; ; : j - ^ Fowls—Jersey, State , Penn. 12- ¦ • •<g ' • .. - — ¦ ' ' ' ¦ . - ¦>' « * Western , per l b.. . . 11 ^ ® 13 \ r P S pring Chickens, loca l , lb.... ' . 9 @ \ ; 9 ^ ' , '® Western per lb 8} £@ : , 9 ; : : & j| Roosters , old , per lb........ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ . - i - ¦@ ¦ ¦]¦ ; ' - 7 ; k?Ss| Turkeys , per lb........... ... . 12 ; @ : S(8 . » ^ Ducks-N; J., N. Y., Penn; , '} ^^ i ^ M per pair.............. 70 @ 100 ^ % ^ Western, psr pair.;...;.. . ¦ . 70 @ ; r l 85j ^^ Geese , Western , per pair .... 1 37 @. A : 6 &c J i C 5 Pi geons , per pair............ 25 \® ' ' - ; 30 ^ ; ^ : DRESSED POULTRY—ICE PACKED. ; \. V i : \^ | Turkeys—Young, per lb.... _ 11 @ 13 } £ I*? Chick ens— P hila . , per lb..... — @ ¦ ¦ — ¦> . , W} Western , scalded........ 9@ 1 C _ A* S5 Fow ls—St. and Penn., per lb — @ —- -S vS C^ Western , scal ded . 9 @ ? 9 ^# f Ducks—Western , per l b .... 8 @ ; W * gp Eastern e r lb .......... - ¦ —; ; @ \ ; > ~ ?3f| S pring, L. I., per l b.... — @ Z- rr f t S x.^ Gesse—Western , per lb ....,. ' 7 @ ; / l0 ^ ; i§ S Squa bs—Dark , per doz..j ^ — .@ 15C> ;r - 4Kgf ¦ •; Li ght , per doz. ; ......;; . — .@ 25) ^ % ^ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ • ' . - ' : - . ' VEGETABLES. - ';; ' . ^ \ ; %/: , ' v S y ^ Potatoes—State ,psr bbl ..... 212 @; 2 87 ^ 11 Jersey, prim? , per bbl.., JJ 13 @ %:$i{ ^ : ?(f% Jersey, inferior , per bbl. 12 > @ 175: ' S . 3 I L. I., in bulk , per bbl.. 2 5 0 -% 2 75: -^ Cabbagejj . I., per 1 00 5 0) @ 8 , 0.) ^ K$ Onions-!Eastern ,yel low , bbl. 225 @.2 . 50 . \ T ^ Eastern , reJ , per bbl.... — . @ 225> - v ^ | o t a te , per bb ' l ;. 2 25 @ -2 oQ/ ^ j g g Squa sh—Marrow ,per b arre l , 203 @ jj ' 2i' : ^^i S weet potatoes , Va., par bbl. — ( ® : ^~ - ' ^S 3 | South Jersey, per bbl.... 3 00 @ 4 5U ;V{ -^ Celery, near by . doz . bunche3 100 :@ - .I-59 ¦ ' ' ; SS § i . . grain , e tc. • ' . ' :;¦¦;;, : ' \ ' :¦ ¦ ;¦:. ' ' ^ ' - : Wk j Flour—C ity Mil l Extra..... 415 ©4 25 ; ^ Patents ;... ..;......... , 4 35 V@.A ^M M W heat-No. 2 Red.......... ¦ . ' ¦ 78 &@ r -7?. iK ^ Rye-State.......v........ - ; - ^ -: @ • ^ - ^ 11 Barl ey—Two-rowed State... - -r- @ ' . :— . & ; i;M Corn-Ungrade d Mixed..... : ; 49 ## 53 ' 4W M Oats-No. 2 White.......... 4tK @ : ^X ? M M ixed Western........v 36 .@ : ^ 'MM Hay-Good, to Choice....... 65 - ¦ @ ; t. & V 4 S i| Straw-Lon g Ry e 6J @ < H5 ^ | M Lar d—City Steam ^ 0.000010. 33 ^ 0 ^ LIVE STOOK. * ;' :-?.i ^ f|§ | Beeves ^ City dress a d 6 @ ' : ' -H ' ¥ 0 8 Mi lch Cows , com. to good:. .20 00 @45 0 3f g§§ Calves , City dres ^ el 8 @' i ^ i ^ S heep, per 10D lbs 4 00 @{52 ' 5*M §| Lambs , per lb - . W <& B^ M Hogs-L ive , per 100 lbs.;.... 650 @ ^ O0j:§g§ | ' Pressed ,,., \ ? ^ pljj| ' \ \ * 'WSk
