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A Terrific Explosion.

PorrsvHIE, Pa, August g. A
large boiler which formerly belonged
to O carnel-back locomotive engine,
now in use in the shops of the Lehigh
Coal and Navigation Company, at
Lansford, Pa, exploded with terrific
force at about noon to day The
shops employ four hundred hands,
and forty machinists are employed in
the building in which the boiler is
situated. Fifteen men were injured,
one killed, and two others arc expect
ed to die. The boiler was put in
fifteen years ago, when the shops were
built, and has been CONDEMNED several
times.
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Berkeley Springs.

Mr.. j b. Snodgrass, is the guest
of of Mr.. III. III. Boyd, of Fruit Hill.
Mrs. Jno. Il. Boyd, son and
daughter, who have been visiting at
Fruit Hill, returned home Tuesday.
Judge Jno. Havermill is building
a barn for Mr.. Weiss, on the old
Zellers farm.
Mr.. George Lamon and lsdy, Of
Bound Brook, N. j., registered at
the b. S. Hotel, Wednesday evening,
and left Thursday morning for Rom
ney, w. Va. They are travelling in
their carriage, having spent about
two weeks on the road thus far.
On Sunday last we experienced
the hardest rain we have had for n
number of years, it was accompanied
by wind, thunder and lightning.
Mr.. G w, Cross house was struck
by lightning, but no damage was
done.
In q match game of billiards at
the b. S. Hotel, last Saturday, of
800 points, Mr.. Myers, of Pittsbu.g
defeated Mr.. Barry, of Baltimore.
] understand they will have another
round in about 2 weeks.
Mr.. w. III. Kantner of Marinsburg,
was in town this week. SouATER
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Mr. PowderIY Decllnes.

Master Workman Powderly has
written a letter to afriend in Wilkes
barre. in which he states that under
no circumstances will he allow his
name to be used MS q candidate for
Congress in the twelfth district of
Pennsylvania. He says lie is tired
of seeing his name used in connec-
tion with politics. He is satisfied
with his present work, and would
not be in Congress among q lot Of
politicians"
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TfEden Epead.

New YORK, August Samuel j !.
Tilden died peacefully at Graystone
this morning at $40 o'clock. There
were present with him DR.. Charles
u. Summons and Samuel Swift, ana
his niece, Miss Gould. His death
was entirely unexpected, and was
caused by failure OF the heart fol-
lowing an acute attack OF diaraua
and nausea Paralysis and bodily
infrmities incident to old age had
reduced Mr. TiIden to u skeleton.
and his last days were marked by
extreme feebleness.
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Bayard Endorses himself.

WAsHINaToN, August Evidently
the president and the State Depart
ment are anxious for the Democratic
House to endorse at least one Of their
actions, and taking the Cutting case
asone likely to be easiest indorsed,
Mr.. Bayard has gone to the trouble oil
writing out the endorsement himself
which he wants from his house.
There is much comment here to night
over the fact. Very few members Of
the Foreign Affairs Committee know
Secretary Bayard's handwriting, and
hence they did not recognize that the
resolutions offered by Mr.. Grain, Of
Texas, were really astate Department
document
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A New u. n. Senator for Cali
fOrnia.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Aug. Both
houses OF the Legislature met at one
O'Clock today and Immediately pro-
ceeded to elect United States SEN
ator to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Senator Miller, and A.
p. Williams who was nominated at
the republican caucus a few hours
before, was nominated, and received
a majority Of the votes in both
houses. The democrats nominated
Senator Hearst. The vote OF both
houses stood: Williams 10, Hearst
"a. Mr.. Williams is a prominent
merchant ofSan Francisco and chair
man of the republican State central
committee $1,000
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Typhoid Fever Epidemic.

PITTSBURGH, Pa August 8. --Twenty
seven new cases Of typhoid fever on
the South Side have been reported
to the Board of Health since Sunday
Ten of the sisters of st. Joseph
convent, attached to st MichaePs
church, are at st. Francis hospital,
having been taken there at various
times during the week The mother
Superior fell i'll also and was taken to
the hospital, Saturday. 1t is thought
that they are affected with typhoid
fever, though only one case is serious
There are forty-fve nuns at the
convent, who came from Johnstown
and other places to attend the annual
retreat Rev Father Frederick, Of
Cincinnati, a former pastor Of the
church, has been attending to there
spiritual wants. He is ofthe opinion
that the nuns have been overworked.
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snow storms I'm August.

MOUNT WASHINGTON, N. H., August
ga northwest wind, blowing at
the rate Of sixty miles an hour, set in
at nightfall yesterday. Snow began
to fall at 2:30 this morning and at
$50 the ground was covered to a
depth of one and half inches. The
wind is blowing eighty miles an hour
and windows are thickly covered with
frost.
ROME, N. Y, August Sat Ado
o'clock this morning snow began fall
ing here. the fall lasting about five
minutes The weather is extremely
cold for this season Of the year.
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NO17.


Lacon Ills.) boys are fined 81
each If found guilty Of swearing.
The Java coffee crop is this sen
son reported nearly failure
Able List, the pianist. died Mt.
Bayreuth, Germany.
Friday last, was the hottest day
of the season in New York.
A calf entered the parlor Of Il.
Bloomington woman, stole d Bibles
and ate it.
Two Thousand and forty Of the.
1887 Pennsylvania postoffices ara
in the hands OF the Democrats.
Within seven months time $500
manuscripts were sent TO an Eas-
tern publishing house in answer to a.
request for prize stories.
Next year is 10 witness union OF
the capitals of South Australia, VIC
toria, New South Wales and Deems
land, by continuous line or rail.
way, LEGO miles long.
An Iowa journalist has increased
the circulation Of his paper by peri
odically presenting each subscriber
with check good at any local drug
store, for glass OF soda water.
A Randolph On. Y.) printer made
the words ssbeloved wife, read
"colored wifen in death notice. and
the connection caused by the blum
der can be better imagined than dcs-
cribed
Probably the largest city on record
is Henderson, N. G. 1t was intend
cd to extend the limits 900 yards in
each direction from the depot, but the
printer made the bill read 1000
miles. and the bill passed the legis-
lature without tho error being MOTTO
ed.
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state News.

The Parnell Relief Fund Club of
Parkersburg, has forwarded to Mr..
Parnell $3.50 80. Mayor Chancel-
Tor is treasurer of the club, which
has been in existence but short
time.
Misses Lily jackson aud Pauline
Hockaday, two we'll known young
ladies' of Parkersburg, have started
for Webster Springs, intending to
drive overland from Clarkesburg, a
distance Of 100 miles. They will DE
in the mountains about two weeks.
At the Monroe county Democrat
ic convention held at Union last Sat
urday, the delegates chosen to the
Third District Democratic Congress-
ional convention, were instructed to
vote solid for Major j. w. Harris.
There were no instructions given for
Senator.
Flora Chinn, loose woman Of
Huntington, sentenced to n term in
Jail, was permitted, under escort Of
an officer, to 90 to her home to
change her clothes. The officer
waited outside, and while there was
shot at four times by the fair but
frail Flora. She got an additional
dose for her pistol practice.
John G. Cox, working near Muir
raysyille, got full Of booze and pro-
ceeded to the junk boat Of rapid
young widow named Sueen Starkey,
who had been receiving most kind
~ his attentions. This time she met
him with revolver and made bad
flesh wound in his side with it. lie
is now in jail and Susan is claiming
the laws protection against having
her domicilc invaded.
The General Managerof the G. III.
v. q T.. road has autographed for
ALT Burnett, Of the Eureka Detec-
tive Agency of Charleston, to go to
the Hooking Valley to protect the
roads property in case a threatened
strike by the miners takes place.
Mr.. Burnett went, accompanied by
u. S. Marshal Elem RAIDER, Charles
Blakemore, George Ritter, jr., and
Wat Roy. They were reinforced by
four others at Poca, two at Pt.
Pleasant, and two at Nc Arther,
Ohio.
Jacob Nine, of Preston county,
who eloped with his fiftecn-year old
niece, Miss LETTERS, has been arrest
ed together with the girl. The
warrants were sworn out by the in
jured wife, and placed in the hands
Of officers who traced the guilty pair
to hut in a deserted part Of Harri
son county, Nine having paid $500
for the property. on which he was
intending to build. They were each
fined $40 and costs, the bill for the
two amounting to 1888, which Nine
paid. The girl broke down when
her father appeared on the scene
and so did Nine, who is an arrant
coward. He was so limp, that he
could not stand up when Mr. Jeffrs
appeared, and he has not yet had the
nerve to face his wife. He said he
would have left the State with the
girl only he thought nothing could
be done to him. As it is his punish
ment is inadequate to the crime.
The girl worked at his house, and it
was there he ruined her.
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Miss RosE CLEVELAND, has gone to
Chicago to edit periodical known
as Literary life. The publishers
are sharp enough to know the
value of having the sister Of i
President as their editor. They
are accordingly humoring her in a.
variety of caprices md whims in
which they would never think OF III.
dslging . more humble author.
They permit herto expunec her name
from their title-page after they had
prepared an elaborate engraving at
considerable expense. They also
give her discretion in eliminating ad-
yertisements which do not please her
fastidious taste. Whether their par
tial surrender OF the business de-
partment to continual dictation, and
especially the dictation of q woman.
will pay, Is matter Of some doubt
The indications are that Miss Cleve-
land, worthy lady as she is, is too
much Of pedant to be success rs
an editor
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MADE BY THE PENNSYLVANIA ROAD
WITH SENATOR DAVIS ROADS.
Baltimore Sun.
The Piedmont x Cumberland
Railway Company, an auxiliary Of
the West Virginia Central, has issu-
ed $650,000 mortgage percent.
bonds to pay the cost of construc-
ton and equipment. The road is to
be thirty .one miles long, connect
ing with the West Virginia Central
at Piedmont and running to Cum
berland. The feature of public in
terest in connection with the an
nouncement of this loan is the fact
that contract has been made with
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
under which at least one-half of all
the traffic of the West Virginia Cen
and Piedmont Il Cumberland roads
must be given to the Pennsylvania
road. The Pennsylvania agrees to
set aside five percent. of the gross
receipts from freight traffic as a
guarantee of the interest of the new
loan. The covenant is signed by
Henry G. Davis, President of the
West Virginia Central Stephen b.
Elkins, President Of the Piedmont
& Cumberland, and George b. Rob
berts, President Of the Pennsylva-
MIA. BY this agreement the West
Virginia Central will become an inn
portant feeder Of the Pennsylvania
system at Cumberland.
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There were one hundred and sew
enty business failures in the United
States and twenty-five in Canada the
past week.
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OF 2,763 postmasters in Ohio. ;
456 appointments we're made during
the fiscal year ending June 30. In
Indiadia there are 2 ,229 postmasters,
l,164 ofwhom were appointed dur
Ing the same time.
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a century plant that for fourteen
years has been in the Boston pub.
lie garden is in bloom. The plant
is not large, but the flower stock
rises fifteen feet into the air and
bears four clusters Of yellow bios
SONS.
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>,Terrifo hail and wind storms
Thursday passed over Sharon and
the western part Of Lycoming Val
ley; Pa, doing great damage.
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The democratic convention OF
Georgia have nominated Gen. Johu
3. Gordon for Governor
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Am Important Agreement.

MADE BY THE PENNSYLVANIA ROAD
WITH SENATOR DAVIS ROADS.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-05-08
A Story to Tell Foreigners.

81 suppose you never heard OF burning
snow for fuel. did you?' said Il man who
is in Omaha talking up iron-works. as he
leaned across the corner OF the bar at the
Paxton the other night and chewed re-
fectively on piece OF lemon rind he had
fished out OF the bottom of glass. well,
it's fact. live in Pittsburgh, you know.
and in the winter, when it gets mighty cold
and seems to me it gets colder there at
the same degree Of temperature than any
other place have ever been-but. as was
saving, when it gets mighty cold there and
there's a heavy fall of snow, you can see
poor people out all over the city with
baskets the next day, gathering blocks OF
snow to burn. You see there's so much
coal smoke from the great iron furnaces in
Pittsburgh that when the snow reaches the
ground it's almost black. and there IS really
more coal sinders than snow. 1t burns al
most as well as soft coal, and a great deal
of suffering among the poor is thus pre-
vented. That's another great argument
in favor OF iron-works.' And he called for
another piece OF lemon in the bottom of a
glass.-Omaha Bee.
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BRUINS HATE.
why . Grim Grizzly Eyes His Owner
With Spiteful Disgust.

why . Grim Grizzly Eyes His Owner
With Spiteful Disgust.
A day or two ago was taken to see
= taxidermist here who sells his wares
to residents to ornament their houses
and to strangers who are visiting
Washington. He told me that one
gentleman in Chicago was putting
every beast native to the United States
in his house i'm the form of the furs,
lined and mounted. Upon the .taxider-
mist's floor was a grizzly bears robe,
the bears head and eyes being pre-
served, but not his lower jaw. whereby
the robe was worth only half as much
as if the whole head had been retained
with the skull. He asked fifty dollars
for this grizzly bears fur, and asked
one hundred for black bears fur on
which the whole head was in relief
He had live bear in cage in his
working-raom. and told me that he had
killed its associate three weeks ago.
Said he: Il wanted the skin, and shot
one of the bears with rifle. From
that time to this the other bear has
done nothing but go up and down the
cage, and he looks at me and knows /
killed his companion. He has been in
q state of excitement ever since that
time, and, though he will take food
from me, he never forgets what did.
Cath, in Cincinnati Enquirer.
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WOMAN'S NE MORY.
How . wife Exerted 1t to Her Husband.
Discontinue.

How . Wife Exerted 1t to Her Husband'.
Discontinue.
Men are not always thou ghtful, though
they think they are. Women do not for
get.
my dearest wife," he wrote to her from
New York; there am, all alone, away up
in little bit Of a stuffy room on the top
floor OF New York hotel. OF course, be-
ing alone. l have no need for any thing
more stylish, but if You could only see it
as | sit in this cheerless way writing to
you." etc. She was at home in San Fran
cisco, surrounded by all the associations
of the far-off husband, and she was touched,
and said to herself: poor fellow! how i
pity him."
Time passed. Two years had flown by, and
he went East again, and took her with him.
They stopped at the same hotel, and had
elegant apartments. of course. He was
out on business and she, having nothing
to do, sat soliloquizing.
This was the hotel, she said sentiment
ally to herself, .he staid at that time he
was so lonely in New York. I'll go and
look at the little cubby-hole he occupied
two years ago." and she rang the bell
lis 222 vacant"
81 don't know. I'll ask
'Will you just say merely wish to look
into it for moment"
The servant came back and asked her to
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-05-08
WORK AND SLEEP.
Sleeplessness and Loss of Appetite Fol
lowed by Weakness and Insanity.

Sleeplessness and Loss of Appetite Fol
lowed by Weakness and Insanity.
The restoration of energy, which sleep
alone can afford. il necessary for the
maintenance of nervous vlgor, and
whereas the mu SECULAR system. If over
taxed, at last refuses to work, the brain
under similar circu instances too fire.
auently refuses to rest. The sufferer,
instead of trying to remove or lessen
the cause of his sleeplessness. comforts
himself with the hope that it will soon
disappear. or else has recourse to alco-
hol, morphia, the bromides, choral,
etc. Valuable and necessary rs these
remedies often are, refer especially
to the drugs,) there can be no question
rs to the mischief which attends their
frequent use. and there is much reason
to fear that their employment in the
absence of any medical authority
is largely on the increase. Many
Of the proprietary articles sold
by druggists. and in great demand at
the present day, owe their efficacy to
one or more of these powerful drugs.
MOI Il lew uedtls HAVE ueeH Sauseu W
their use. and i'm still larger number
of cases they have helped to produce
the fatal result. Sleeplessness is al
most always accompanied by indiges-
ton in some one or other of its protean
forms, and the two conditions react
upon and aggravate each other. 1t
rest can not be obtained, and if the vital
machine can not be supplied with due
amount of fuel. and, moreover, fails to
utilize that which is supplied. mental
and bodily collapse can not be far dis
tant. The details of the downward
process vary, but the result is much the
same in all eases. Sleeplessness and
loss of appetite are followed by loss of
flesh and strength, nervous irritability
alternating with depression, palpita-
ton and other arrangements of the
heart. especially at night. and many Of
those symptoms grouped together under
the old term "hypochondriasis." When
this stage has been reached 1.-The border
lands Of insanity are within measura-
BILE distance. even if they have not al
ready been reached.-F0rtnightiy Re-
rieU.
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Advantages of Arctic Chimes.

Little Johnny Gunwad was sitting by
the window with his head on his hand and
an expression upon his face showing that
he was in deep thought, when his mamma
suddenly interrupted him by saying:
What are you thinking of, Johnny,
what makes you SO quiet?"
Il was thinking" said Johnny, what a
picnic it must be to live up in Greenland"
ITO live in Greenland" said his mother,
in surprise, why, what under the sun ever
put that idea into your head"
We'll" replied Johnny, my teacher
told us to-day that i'm Greenland the days
are three months long. and I was thinking
what a snap it would be when Saturday
came around and there wouldn't be any
school for three months. "-Peck's Sun.
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A Draurhtsman's Defect.

Zone of the queerest cases | ever heard
Of" said the story-teller in the smoking
car, lis down in our town. There's man
there who has peculiar defect. | know
him well. He's draughtsman, and an ac-
eomplished man. He can draw any thing
he is asked to draw, with solitary exoep-
ton, and do as good job Of it as any man
in the country. But that one exception
lost him his situation his wife, his friends
and his reputation. and now it is killing
him. Isn't it stranger"
very But what is it that he can't
draw
"a sober breath. Chicago Herald
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A Rational Change.

'.Arkansaw," exclaimed an ardent man
"why it is the best State in the Union. a
State above all others in resources and the
exactness with which the criminal laws ~
enforced
81 am astonished to hear Won speak SO
well Of the State" some one replied.
"Why so?'
Because, several years ago, during an
exciting campaign in Indiana, you avowed
that there was no such thing as justice in
Arkansaw, a State where man carried his
life in his hand"
THAT is very true, my dear sir, but
was politician them
"And what are you now"
"a land agent "-Irkansaw Traveller.
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A Durable Substance.

Cork leather, as produced in France,
is claimed to possess some special adj
vantages as compared with the natural
skins. In its production thin sheets or
pieces of cork are covered on both
sides with an extremely thin india-rub-
Der skin. with any ordinary textile
fabric outside of all, the whole becon-
ing thus sort of homogeneous texture
or tissue; and although the cork sheets,
in their normal state. are readily per-
meable by water. friable and brittle.
and possessed of very little strength or
cohesion. having only the positive quail
tiles of lightness and non-conduction Of
heat, vet, when subjected to-the treat
ment in question, the product is very
supple, and exhibits great strength in
resisting tensile strain. While also
still retaining its comparative lightness
and impenetrability to heat, it is rem
dered both waterproof and impermea-
BILE to moisture. The external appear
ance Of the material varies according
to the nature of the textile substance
used in combination with the cork.-N
Y. SuM
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A NOBLE DOG.
One Creature of an Abused Kind ThAe
Earned More than Its Salt.
birmingham (Ala,1 Age,t

One Creature of an Abused Kind That
Earned More than Its Salt.
birmingham (Ala-) Age.I
J. E. Walter, the master of train services
of the Louisville g. Nashville railroad, has
dog he values highly. The dog is a New
foundland, and has been raised by his
owner from a small puppy. Mr.. Walter
has little girl who is fond Of the animal,
and the affection between the two is inter-
esting. A few mornings since the little
girl was left in the room alone by large
fire in the crate. She went too near the
blaze and the dog opened the door AMI en-.
tered. He went to her and began to pull
her away by catching her clothing in his
teeth. The two companions played about
the room for some time, until the little
girl grew tired and sleepy. She went too
near the fire again, and the dog could not
get her away. He pulled at her clothes
for some time, but could not arouse
her. He then hurried to her mothers room
and began to act strangely by rubbing
against her hand and catching her dress,
pulling her toward the door. She caressed
him and told him to go away and find little
Nellie. He made strange whining noise
with his mouth, and then slowly walked
back to where the little one was sleeping.
The fire was growing hotter and the little
one was sleeping, unconscious of her great
danger. The dog made another attemps
to arouse her and failed. He then crouched
down beside her, between her and the fire,
taking care to protect her well. Mrs.
Walter entered the room a few minutes
later and found the noble dog in this posi-
ton whining and crying, while the hair
was being singed from his back. Little
Nellie was sleeping sweetly.