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i THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1886 EIGHT PAGES. CAPE COD'S SANDS. Fanlkner and Tom Cannon, has formed a combination to exhibit throughout the West They will mve an exhibition of spar UNCLE SOLON CHASE. BLINDED BY POWDER CSOCKEE AT HIS HOME. jke Puritan Can Still Defeat the Mayflower.

cakes soap, 9 brush holders, 1 soap dlshs Mrs. O. Mann, ft. East BrooKline Boston, linen for bandages; H. A.

Hallett, 68Vs Cambridge street, Boston, reading matter; Mrs. O. V. Roberts, Elinors street Chelsea, 1 Va bushels peart. BERNARD SINGER MURDERED.

The Conflicting Stories Told by His Widow, Bridget, Ends Finally in Her Being Arrested for tho Terrible Crime. New York. August John Freeman of Newton, L. L. was awakened early this morning by a loud knock on the door of his room in tbe hotel at Ridgewood Park.

Going to the window, he saw standing on the stoop a woman, a boy and a girL He asked them who they were. "It is me." tbe woman replied. "There are three men over at the house, and I am afraid they are killing Barney." Tbe constable recognized the voice as that of Mrs. Bernard Singer. He found Mrs.

Singer standing in a shed in tbe rear of the dwelling. "Where is Barney?" he asked. "In the house." was the reolv. river or bay for $500 a aide, the stakes to the winner. The match will take place Monday morning.

September 13. The forv feu money has aire idy been deposited aud the whole stakes will he deposited at the Times office, Philadelphia, tomorrow. Pierson is tlie holder of the Police Gazette championship of the world medal, and is further backed by some gentlemen of this city, who are anxious to wager rom S'60 upwards ou his winning the contest Butler is the much talked of swimmer who claims the championship of the world, but who has twice been defeated by Pierson. Sept. 6 Woid Suit Sergeant Walsh.

To 1ht Editor of The Globe: In answer to the offer of $1500 from the Revere Beach Hotel proprietors, for a sword contest at Oak Island September 9, permit me to state that I have an important engagement at the War Department, Washington, D. which will prevent me being a contestant on that date. If, however, Monday, September would suit the hotel proprietors. I am ready to meet Duncan C. Koss or any other swordsman.

An early reply will meet my immediate attention, as I intend sending my horses to Baltimore, Wednesday. Seuukant Charlks Walsh. Late United States Cavalry. John Bertram's Ooen Race. Captain John Bertram and Joseph Golden have arranged for a sweepstake sailing race for boats under twenty feet over all to take place at City Point Saturday, September 4.

Entry $5 with $10 added. Entries to be made at the Nautilus House, foot of street. They have also made arrangements for a mosquito race to occur Saturday, September 1 1. There will be two classes: First, for boats from 13 to 15 feet, and the second for boats under 13 feet. Prizes will be sriven in each class of $10 and $5.

There will be a large number of entries. English Po'loists Quite Pleased. Newport, R. August 29. The English polo team leave here tomorrow for New York and sail for Europe Saturday.

They intend making a rapid trip through New York State as far as Niagara Falls. The team has decided to sell thoir ponies here. Hon. T. K.

Lawley. son of the Earl of Durham, and a member of the team, was seriously injured in the right hand during the play yesterday. The team express great gratification at their reception during the international contest. too much for them, and forty-eight years later, in 1850, Chatham harbor had moved four miles farther south, the beach joining Memomy beaoh on the southwest, and entirely closing up in front of the town. The lighthouse on wheels could be moved no farther without falling into the sea.

and accordingly the chase of the recreant harbor was giveu up and the lights were transformed into sea lights. The old beach, which was thon a half-mile from shore.and a quarter of a mile across, finally disappeared and gave Place to the little strip of sand now existing where there was formerly deep water. In April. 1851, long to be remembered by sailors, Actnt of the Great Storm which visited the coast, the same which washed away Minot's lighthouse, the old beach broke through, two miles northeast of the lights, but the harbor thus formed was of little use for shipping on account of the shallow water. In November.

1870, a fierce storm made another opening directly in front of the lighthouses, and although it has since closed up. the effects at the time were most wonderful. The heavy seas rushing through the breach directly upon the coast, in the course of a few years washed away 300 feet of the mainland. As tho water became more and more greedy in its encroachments, buildings were moved away, and rlnully the lighthouses themselves bad to be stripped and abandoned, and new ones, now existing, were built farther back. Ou the 15th of December.

1878, the old south light fell into the sea. and just three months later to a day, the north light also tumbled ruins, in which condition they now remain. Professor Agassiz always claimed that the upper surface of Cape Cod was made from glacial deposits, and about the time of tbe storm mentioned his theories received a wonderful demonstration. There was disclosed by the washing away of the mainland the remains of an old peat swamp, l'etrilied After the Lapse of Agea. There was discovered perfectly preserved in the peat footprints of a woman and five children, who had apparently gone down to the water.

At least the prints were supposed from their size aud shape to have been made by a woman whose feet had never been encased in shoes of any kind, and the age in which she and bor children lived is placed before that of the American Indian. Footprints of an immense, unimal were found of a type now extinct and a tree of the race of maples, in a perfect state of preservation. The trunk was thirty feet long and two feet in diameter. How long it had lain there is not known, but many hundreds if not thousands of years must have elapsed since it shaded the prehistoric inhabitants of Chatham. A large piece of the wood is in the poession of Captain George Eldridge of that town.and is exhibited to the curious.

But "familiarity breeds contempt," and the good people of Caue Cod do not seem to care a straw if they are being washed away bv piecemeal. The old peninsula will last during their day at all events, and perhaps some 5000 years longer. What Will become of it in the future may not bo correctly foretold, but appearances indicate that it is on the way to Georges banks. Whether when Massachusetts shall be finally bereft of this queer-shaped appendage, an island built from the ruins will rise out of the water from the mountains of sand farther east, is a question which time alone must solve. BURNING OF THE DANIEL DREW.

ring and wrestling on Saturday and Monday A nights at the Zoo Theatre, Indianapolis. xsoian will givo JlOO to any man that can best him in six rounds. Cannon and Faulkner will also give $100 to any man they cannot throw in a wrestling match. Cannon to take the heavy-weight and Faulkner the middle-weight OSTRICH EGGS ANDP1PES. 1 i Some of the Curious Exhibits to he Seen in the Shop Windows The Longfellow Pipe and the Zulu Warrior.

Any one who keeps his eyes open can learn a good deal, especially if he keeps them directed toward the shoD windows of the principal buslneg) streets of a great city. Shop windows aud showcases contain nearly the materials which make up the world's fairs and industrial expositions, and they are to be seen at all times and without admission fee. A section of this permanent exhibition, whHch is just now of more than ordinary interest, is contained in the windows of a mineralogist aud dealer in precious stones and curios on Tremont street. In the midst of an attractive array of Brazilian agates, Burmese amber, set stones, antique earthenware, ivory carvings from India and rases from Japan, is to lie found a large and elaborately carved pipe, which was to have been THE LONGFELLOW PIPE, presented to the poet Longfellow, but which was not finished until after his death. A German residing in Illinois, and named Hermann, was the artist who designed and carved the bowl, employing for the purpose red Indian pipestone.

such as Longfellow referred to in his poem of which poem the carver is supposed to have drawn the inspiration for his task. As "Gitche Mauito, the mighty," descended On the Mountain of the prairie. On the preat Ked Pipeitone Quarry, so descended Mr. Hermann, and From the red stone of the quarry With his hmid He broke a fragment. Moulded it into a pi pentad, Shaped and fashioned it with figures; From the margin of the river Took a long reed for a pipestem.

With Its dark green leaves upon it. The bowl of the pipe is five inches long, and it is carved to represent the face of an Indian with closed eyes, surrounded by leaves and ferns. The pipe has a long stem of wood, covered with the bark and trimmed with feathers. Another exhibit in this section of the permanent world's fair of Boston is a collection of ostrich eggs, each of which is covered with pictures executed by native South African artists. SOUTH AFRICAX ART.

Upon one of the eggs pictures of various animals and birds are drawn in a style showing no influence of foreign or civilized tuition. The figures are shaded with scratches in the surface of the egg shell, filled in with some black substance. The scratches in the drawings are crude and painfully regular, allowing only a guess at the creature intended to be represented. No attempt is made at grouping or systematic arrangement of the pictures in any way, but each seems to have been drawn wherever room was found for another etligy. This decoration was the worn of a Bushman, belonging to one of the savage tribes in the remote interior of Africa.

The illustrations upon another of the eggashow the influence of a civilization a stage further advanced than that of the preceding. Alternating with groups of strange flowers strangely colored are figures of natives of South Africa painted in crude colors and in more or less stiff and artificial altitudes. A Zulu warrior, who would be recognizable from his shield and spears without the title lettered underneath, stands in a photograph-gallery pose upon one side, while a Malay lruitseller. in an eccentric suit of clothes, stands upon ihe other. The pictures executed in colors are from the hands of Kaffirs, semi-civilized natives, who live in the vicinity of the t-outh African towns.

A salesman In the store was asked regarding the various exhibits. "The ostrich eggs," he said, "were sent to us from South Africa with an invoice of ostrich feathers. We are selling them at $5 50 each, though plain eggs, without pictures, generally sell at only $1 60. The Longfellow pipe is marked at $25, and experts say it is by no means dear at that price, in view of the auality of the workmanship." Was the Murder Done in New Haven, August 29. Coroner Mix.

speaking of the Wallingford shoe-box mystery, said today that he would soon have something sensational to disclose in regard to the case. The opinion generally entertained here is that the victim was murdered in New York or Boston, and that the remains were placed where they were found to put the investigators oil the scent. mi m) NT -nw a His First Speech in the Maine Canvass. Hoeing Cera as Compared With tlie Work of 50 Years Ago. How the Great Greenb acker Looks and Acts.

Bangor. August 29. Poor old "Uncle" Solon Chase is again on the stump, travelling around among the little country towns under the management of the Republican State Committee, dealing out his homely proverbs and wise old saws, trying, as he says, to "set the people a-thinking." The Republicans think he is helping the causo of Bodwell, and perhaps he thinks so too; but his talk will apply as well to the Democratic as the Republican sido, and is far mere savory to the Prohibitionists than to either. After finishing haying and cutting; his early grain, he trimmed up those streaked whiskers of his, put on that long broadcloth frock coat that first did service when he repre sented his town in the Legislature of '63, greased up his boots, crawled into a biled shirt and paper collar, hauled down a soft white felt hat from the hook, where it has hung since last year, and was ready for the camoaign. He made "his first speech in Brewer Town Hall.

The audience was small four or five women and forty or nfty men people who had come to see him as a curiosity of politics, just as they would go to see Steve Brodieorany other crank. They went to kili an hour's time aud listen to a man who was once famous, but who subsided quicker than he came up. The working people, those who had any sympathy for him, crowded down to the front, while the novelty-seekers and the wealthy mill men occupied the back seats, so they could run out in case the old man bored them. He camo on time, entering the hall and Taking Off His Overcoat as he walked down tbe aisle. Look at him now as he stands there by the table and try and think whom he resembles.if you can.

He is a man about 5 feet 8 inches in height with broad, stooping shoulders, long arms and groat wide, sun-tanned, wrinkled hands that tell of years of hard labor. His waist is slim, so his big vest lies in wrinkles over the remains of an atrophied abdomen, and his slightly-bowed legs stood firm and muscular inside a pair of tight old-fashioned trousers. Now look at his face. A long, thin, hooked nose, a wide mouth, big ears, small eyes, stowed away under overhanging, bushy eyebrows. arW his picture is complete.

No, it isn't. You have forzotten bis forehead. Ho has got the most forehead of any man on the stump this year. It begins at his eyebrows and extends in one rolling plane of shining baldness clear to tho nape of his neck. Save his whiskers aud two little tufts over each enr, he is as bald as a pumpkin, if you can't find any person he resembles, think of the pictures you have seen of Socrates, only take off that little snub nose and put on an aqualine one, and you have boion unaso.

Now he begins to talk. Does he tell of the tariff and currency? Not a bii of it Ho begins by saying he has just threshed 260 bushels of oats his barn at Turner, and his lungs are full of dust and spills, making him hoarse, or "stulled up," as he puts it. He tells the poople about his farm way back in Turner, where he works and earns an honest living. Ho wantn a high tariff on canned sweet corn, and he wants every man iu the country to eat canned sweet corn three times a day for every day ln the year. Why? Because he has ten acres of sweet corn growing on his farm this year, and all of it is going to the canning factory, so he want3 to sell it at a good price.

From this he draws an argument to show that every man wants to get the highest price lor what he has to sell, and so pleads for the workingmeu to hold up the price of labor. "You men Ked to Have Tenr Work Protected," says he; "and all the more now since machinery has come in to do your work for you. Perhaps you don't know what a change there has been since I was a boy and worked on a farm. Then I usod to get up at 4 o'clock and shoulder my hoe and go out in the field and hoe corn until sunset, and I felt mighty proud if I izot over half an acre in that time. It was hone and muscle, hone aud muscle, grit your teeth and sweat all the time then.

How is it now? Well, I'll tell you. This year when it come time for me to hoe my ten acres of sweet coru 1 just harnessed up the old mare, put my horse hoe in the cart aud took my little fourteen-year-old grandson along with me. Arter we had bin 'round three or four times, so the old mare could get the liang o' what was wanted, my grandson took hold o' that horse hoe handles and let tlie old mare go it. There they went a nipping up weeds and mellowing the ground and hoeing the com at the rati of an acre an hour while I was out at the fnrder eend o' the lot. lying down under a tree and praising God.

That's the way I hoe corn, now." He brought bis wide hands together at this point, making a roar like a plank dropped on a barn floor. "You all know," continued he, "or pretty much o' all o' you know how hard I worked for the Greenback party. 1 laid awake nights and studied out a plan by which I could convince people that greenbacks were legal tender. I guess I studied pretty nigh three weeks, off an' on. Just as I had tbe whole thing in my head and was ahout to give it to the people, the United States Court stole my itleo by making a decision declaring tliem legal tenders.

The decision was not put in my language, it was more nice and grammatical, you know, with bie-ger words than I can handle without a crowbar, but the idee was there, and it was my idee, the hul of it. "That encouraged me lots. When nine or ten United States judges, all getting big pay $10,000 a year, or something like it when all them nice people think just as you do, you feel kinder good. 1 said to myself, ef I can think out a scbemo like that I ought to go out and talk to tbe people and tell them what a beautiful idee the greenback idee is. So I started out and went from town to town, talking in schoolhouses and churches and barns and troves, where-ever I could get a chance.

Telling My Idee. I had purty good success. Y'ou can't deny that Ef it hadn't a bin fur the Greenback party, Dr. Garcelon and General Plaisted would never have been govenors of Maine. I thought my idee was going to spread all over the country.

I had 'em sure. Just as I was feeling good over having converted the Democrats to Greonbackors. the Democrats sidetracked the GroeuOack party, and it has been sidetracked ever since. "I thought I w'as working for greenback-ism, when 1 was workinglfor the Democrats all tbe time. As for me, I don't like a man who will sneak from one party to another by joining a third party.

L'f he wants to go over, let him whop over all to once, and not dodge around. I'll warrant there are lota of good Republicans and good Greenback-ers in the Democratic party today who can't tell how they got there to save their lives. That's why I don't like any Prohibition party. I'm a temperance man, and always have been, and ef I knowed the new party was a working for temperance I'd go with them but I think they aro using tlie new party as ladder to lean up agin the Democratic barn, so they can crawl in through the gahlo window and lay there on the bay and laugh at us as we pass by." With such homely expressions as the above he entertained the people for three-quarters of an hour, and closed by saying be had the advantage of learned speakers, because he could tell all he knew in a short time. Uncle Solon is growing old, his talk is rambling and disconnected, and much of the fire he had when he used to parade "them steers" through the State, has gone never to come back, but he is by far the honestest and most sincere speaker for the Bodwell side that has yet appeared in the State.

His popularity, which lasted but a low years, was owing to bis orignal aud quaint way of putting things together, and his success was largely due to general discontent to Republican misrule and the consequent hard times. Had ho lived loOO years ago. he mislit have led a crusado to tho Holy Land, and become a second Peter the Hermit. As it is, he elected two Democrats to the chief magistracy of Maine, the only two that have ruled at for more than thirty years. An honest, illiterate old farmer, prating on everyday topics that apply to nothing in particular and everything in general, Solon Chase is head and shoulders above the otlice-seokers and olhce-hold-ers who now use him as a tool.

Soldiers' Homo Contributions. The following contributions were received at the Soldiers' Home last week: Mrf. Einlline E. Arnold. East oruervtlle.crack.

eri and fruit: L. K. Curtl, Washington avouun, Choliea. 21 love brown breml; Mm. K.

M. Crane. Medflt ld, readinic matter; Y. M. V.

Cbeliea. rcudiua nmtter; rBiik I. Pratt Mad-ford, reading mutte-j A friend, lu quart baked bean. love browu bread; Colonel torttir, Gardner lreet. Chnlaea.

buiibel prar; frltsud, 2 bushels applet; Mm. A. Youne.W Mow. street. Cliele.t)nket penrn; H.

Ko. 8 combs, 8 bur brushes, 'i tooth brushes, -J nsJl crushes, sltaviug uius aud bruabes, Drifting Away to Build Up the Georges. Pnof of froYiBcettwn's Post-Adamite Formation. Failure of a Lighthouse on Wheels to Keep Up the Race. Cape Con, August 28.

"God didn't create Provincetown." This remarkable declaration was made by an aged resident of Cape Cod. as he sat upon a trunk on the platform of the Wellfieet 'depot and expounded bis pet theories to a group of attentive listeners. "Do you know." said he. hitching up his trousers and squaring himself for along discussion on his favorite topic, "this world is more than 0000 years old, 'n I can prove it" Here he waited unti ignorance of his auditors upon so vital a question had been demonstrated by silence, and then proceeded to enlighten them. "Y'ou see, God n.ade Truro and Wellfieet; when he made the rest of the earth, but there wa'n't no Provincetown then.

It all washed there afterwards from tho upper towns, every bit of it How do I know it? Why, in the hull town you can't find a stone as big as your fist In Truro, now, there are rocks, big ones, too; but Provincetown is not in' but sand. So you see it must have washed there by the water." The aged philosopher waved his forefinger ln the air. by way of intimating that he had reached the point of his argument, lowered his voice almost to a whisper, and, with the air ot one imparting a profound secret, made the startling announcement. "My friends, all that sand couldn't have been washed there in no 6000 years." We may accopt the old man's deductions in regard to the earth's age or not, as we choose, but that he was correct iu his view of Prerlnfetenrn'i Poat-Adamlte Origin there can be no reasonable doubt The original Cape Cod must have terminated with the highlandsof the peninsula, about where the Highland light now stands, some five and a half miles back of the present tip end of he cape. The ocean is responsible for a great deal of change in the coast lilies of continents, but in no spot in the perpetual warfare between water and shore is tho onslaught of the waves more successful, or the encroachments more rapid than on the peninsula of Capo Cod.

This long arm, built at the elbow and wrist, extending into the sea from the southern line of Massachusetts, as if it would sweep all the treasures of the deep into her lap, is so pronounced a feature in the outline of the old Bay State, that a New Englander would not recognize bis home were tlie peninsula omitted from the map. Yet from the nature of the soil and the ocean currents, it is being gradually swept away, and in all probability at a tinie not remote, geologically speaking. Cape, Cod will become a thing of the past A notable and recent illustration bf the great chan-ges in progress, was the shifting of the sands near Provincetown last spring, by which was revealed the wreck of the old English war ship, Somerset, that so annoyed our forefathers during the Revolution, until she was finally stranded on a bar off the cape in 1778. In the course of years the sands piled higher and hitrher about the remains of the vessel until it was Entirely Buried From Sight and forgotten. For nearly a ceniry it thus lay the bar upon which it was wrecked became a part of the mainland, and the Somerset's grave was lost.

Last May. in another freak of winds and the sands were lifted and washed away nntil the timbers of the old frigate projected above the beach. Curious people that went to the aid of the ocean, and by the combined action of shovels and waves the ancient wreck again appeared to view, like a ghost of the past, to gaze about for a moment on the present and then slowly sank again from sight However, during the few weeks ttiat the wreck was visible, relio hunters made good use of the time, and from far and near, with axes and knives, chopped and hacked and carried away until there is hardly a State in the Union which has not a chip or board an ignoble end for one of England's most famous men-of-war. The following description of the vessel was obtained from England, at tho time of the discovery, by a resident of Provincetown admiralty, N. 8: I VSth Slav, 1888.

Sir In reply to your letter of the 14th Instant, asking for iuformaiion respecting the British man-of-war "Somerset," which was wrecked off Cape Cod In 1773, 1 am eommauded by my Lord's CoinmUsionai 8 of the Admiralty to Inform you as follows, The "Somerset," third rate, eSxty-tour guns, was laid down to build Iu Hlslajesty's dockyard at Chatham on Sth May.1748, launched on 18th July.1748, and fitted as a puard ship. She appears to liuve betm employed as a guard ship iu home tervioe until 1774. except durmjr tue time she was under repairs at Chatham, apparently between 17B8 and 1770. She left Eoglaud la October, 1774, for the North American station. She returned to England ln 1776, and appears to have been fitted again as a guard ship.

She left Eu gland ln March, 1777, ana was lost on Cape Cod ou the 2d or 3d of November, 1778. I am, sir, your obedient servant. EVAN MACOUkOOB. In a similar manner the Wreck of War Ship was revealed at Orleans, further up the cape, about ten years ago. This, frorA its position, size and general appearance, is supposed to have been all that wa3 left of a vessel that was sent with supplies little colony at Plymouth in 1620.

The cause of such sudden and remarkable changes the coast of Cape Cod may be found partly in the sandy nature of the soil and partly in the fierce ocean currents or undertow. The heavy ocean swell striking the back of the peninsula at its greatest projection, about eleven miles nortn of Chatham lights, forms two great currents, diverging lrom that point Many tales have been told of this undertow, and many lives have been lost through ignoranc of Its nature. Its eifect upon the cape has been wonderful. It is estimated that at, least five feet of mam land are washed away each year along the whole length of the peninsula. A part is carried along the coast to Provincetown.

but by far tho greater portion is deposited on Georges Banks. In fact, the whole peninsula seems bound for Georges Banks, and has made such good progress that in the northern part of the banks lies a pile of sand titty miles long and over S00 feet high, all apparently washed from Cape Cod. and many captain can testify to anchoring, in 120 feet of water and swinging off into 600. During cne storm last winter the Nhore Had Keen to such an extent that fully ten feet of main land for many miles was swept into the sea. A change, directly opposite, though not so great, is taking place on the inside coast the shores of Massachusetts bay.

Sand from Plymouth and the benches farther south is swept down and forms new land along the Cape. In Truro, thirty years ago, the harbor was excellent, and from forty to sixty sailing vessels belonged in the town. Today an expert seaman could with difficulty get out of the harbor with a common sail-boat, aud only the old wharves remain to show the rising generation the facilities of the past. The harbor is gradually riiling up. North Truro is now protected iiy dykes built hv the State.

The sea, breaking through the narrow neck of land, washed sand into Provincetown harbor at such a rate that to save the harbor this device was necessary. Perhaps the greatest change has taken place at Chatham, which is located at the elbow of the great, arm, like peninsula. Here it was that Cbauiplaiue lauded aud set up his cmss. Were the great explorer to visit the place today it is doubtful it he would recognize the surroundings. Where his vessel entered the harbor, ecapinicthe shoals "by th mercy of a Divine Providence." there is now no entrance; its lands have been joined to the mainlands and sand bars have been raised from the then deep water.

It is difficult for a resident of Chatham to realize that where thelongsandy beach now lies in front of the town, in former years there were More than Three Fathoms of Water at low tide; that vessels were launched from a long wharf, scarcely a vestige of which now remains, or that during the war of 1312 a United States frigate was chased into the harbor by a British man-of-war. When Champlain entered the still waters in front of Chatham in 1606. between two strips of beach, the harbor was live miles northeast of the present site of the Chatham lights. So rapidly did the sea change the location of the beaches that ln 1750 the harbor had advanced southward about four miles. In 1808, when the first lights were located at this point.it had moved to tho south another mile, and from that time the change was so rapid that a light located so as to guard the harbor one year would be ent'rely out of range the next Therefore the principal light was placed on wheels, the people thinking that by pushing the house along from time to time they could keep up with the rapid changes.

The idea was ingenious, but the sea was A Terrific Explosion in a Chicago MilL One Fersoi Killed and Several Otiiers EeeeiYi Fatal Injuries. The Shock Causes a Panic in a Church Ten Miles Away. Chicago, August 29. As James Duhn stock was wending his way through the rain in Archer road this morning, a lightning bolt shot out of the black northern sky, seeming to have selected him for tbe target of iu wrath. Tho blinding sensation was instantly followed by a withering crash, and he fell to tho ground stunned.

At the Brighton drug store, more than a mile away, the tall clock fell to tbe floor and was smashed into fragments among the debris from the shelves. Its battered hands marked tbe time 9.20. Two hundred yards west of where Duhnstock lay a community of houses was in ruins, splinters and flames entombing the dead and dying, while ten miles distant, in tlie heart of Chicago, French glass windows wero strewn over the sidewalks in pulverized pieces. Mystified men. women and childreu ran hither and thither, wondering if this was a new Pompeii without a Vesuvius, aud widely speculating on tho causes and results of the shock that had swept along the lake shore.

Not until two hours later was it learned that the dynamite magazine of Rati in Rand had exploited, causing great havoc and desolation. The dead and wounded, as near as can be ascertained, are: Alias Carrie Ahemworth, killed instantly. Peter Kean. a farmer, ribs broken and fearfully burned. John Guhl, teamster for tho Oriental Powder Company, ribs fractured and right leg broken in two places, internal wounds.

Airs. Guhl. skull crushed. Mrs. Eliza Devtne, right log crushed to a jelly and breast transfixed by a strip of glass.

When theirst shock of the magazine explosion reached the Jesuit Church of the Holy Family, at One Hundred and Twenty-eighth street and Bluo Island avenue, rive miles distant lo o'clock mass was going on 'n the basement of the edifice. The rafters shook and the building trembled like an aspen leaf. There wero between 1000 and 1200 people at the services. Rev. Fr.

Legae was tbe celebrant. The worshippers got upon the benches and made an indiscriminate plunge for the staircase aud windows. Tho latter were knocked out, casings and all. The utmost confusion prevailed; men fell in heaps over fainting women and children. To get into the grounds adjoining the church basement was an uphill movement, and in the excitement many were knocked down and trampled under foot Father Legae's admonition to the congregation to remain seated was drowned in the passionate appeals of help from crushed women and children.

Just at this time Rev. Father Cough lin, tho parish priest, made his appearance at one of tbe windows through which the frantio crowd was surging. The presence of the Driest had a good effect, but just as the congregation were taking their seats some one cried "Fire." The cry was taken up by hundreds, and was heard across the street at the engine house. he mar-thai ordered his men out, and when tbe lire-men made their appearance, hose in hand, everything assumed an indescribable state of confusion. Men howled, women screamed and children screeched.

By a sudden impulse the entire congregation rushed for the irou-screenod windows. The wire protectors were snapped asunder like so many threads, and for a time thn firemen and unconscious women and children were the sole occupants of the sacred edifice. A large bronze statue iu the dome of the church was destroyed and fell down through the skylight. All the transom windows in the corridor of Saint Ignatius College twere shattered and a great seam opened in tho west wall of that building. Strange to relate notwithstanding the panio no one was seriously hurt.

Tbe exploded magazine contained it is estimated 140,000 pounds of powder and half as much dynamite. In tho neighboring ten storehouses was 50O.OU0 pounds of dynamite and twice as much powder. Notone of tlie eleven buildings had a lightning rod or conductor. SWORDSMAN RENFREW MISSING. Ills Armor and Trappiugs Fonnd in the "Woods Krar Oak Island.

Where is Robert Renfrew? is a question that his friends are trying in vain to solve. Thursday last, at the picnic of the Boston Caledonian Club at Oak Island grove, one of the contestants in the mounted sword contests was Robert Renfrew of Boston, an ex-soldier in the Scottish Greys, and now a baker on Prince street, in Boston. Ren frew retired from the contest after the second charge, and with the loss of tbe end of his thumb. Where he now is cannot be ascertained. His trappings, armor and helmet were found in the woods at Oak Island grove on Friday morning, but there was no clew to his whereabouts.

Many people think that he is keeping away because he does not like to be taunted with, his defeat after he had stated to them thaehe was sure of winning. Others think that while laboring under a temporary fit of insanity he made away with himself. They think that any man in his right mind would not be foolish enough to leave his armor, trapings, worth nearly $100, in the woods. QUARRELS OF Ml LLI OWN AIRES. It Costs Itobert Garrett $10,000 to Save His Portico from Henry Janes.

Baltimore, August 28. The long legal contest between President Robert Garrett of the Baltimore and Ohio raiiroad and his next-door wealthy neighbor, Henry over the grand brown stone mausoleum-fashioned portico in front of the new mansion of the millionaire railroad magnate, having been won by the latter, he is now reconstructing the celebrated portico. Mr. Janes objected to the portico principally on the ground that it shut out the view through his parlor windows of the Washington monument at the other end of the square. He sued for an injunction to prevent Air.

Garrett from constructing it aud he won his case. Mr. Garrett, how-over, went on and finished the $25,000 portico and bad the Garrett coat-of-arms emblazoned on the front of it. He then carried the case to the Court of Appeals and stated that he would beat Mr. Janes' little game if it cost him a million.

Mr. Garrett won the second and final trial and Air. Janes had to submit. Tbe trial cost Mr. Garrett about $10,000, which make his portico a rather expensive ornament Although the magnificent house was only finished last winter Air.

Garrett is having many changes and improvements made in it Since the time he first thought1 ot building this elegant home he has almost constantly kept an architect employed preparing model designs of improving the structure, and particularly tho decorative work. SOUTH BOSTON. Yesterday morning, while Arnold Mol- dener of 77 Dover street was bathing in the public bath-house, foot of street, the closet in which he had left his clothes was broken into and a gold hunting case watch, a gold chain and a dlamand ring, all valued at $200, were stolen. The second anniversary of the Usher Club of St Augustine's Church was celebrated by a dinner yesterday afternoon at AlcElroy's Seaside House. John J.

Ken-neally presided. An oration was delivered by Philip A. Jackson. John J. Milhken acted as toast-master.

Tho "City of Boston" was responded to by Councilman W'il-liam S. AloNary of Ward IB. "The Catholic Church." by Rev. D. O'Callagban; "Tho Usher Club." by Robert Quilty; "Tho Ladies." by Patrick H.

Dillon; "St Augus tine l.yceum," Dy J. Carroll. Kev. 1). O'Callaertian.

oaBLor of St. Aucustinn'H Church, and John Farley were guest About thirty attended. Hobart Wood Co. Fail for $180,000. San Francisco.

August 29. Hobart Wood wholesale boot and shoe man ufacturers, have assigned to W. IL Chick-ering of the law firm of Olney, Chickeriuu Thomas. The liabilities are estimated at and assets 91O0.00O. About one-half of the farm's indebtedness is in lie ton.

whore their paper is held for 83,000. Tho balance Js chietly in this city, the heaviest local creditors being the Chinese shoe firm of Hue Kail Co. Tbe failure is attributed by the firm to the tightness of the uoston money market Downs' Flowers Cost Forty Cents. "There is one thing I desire to speak about," said Rev. W.

W. Downs to his congregation in Bumstead Hall, yesterday forenoon. "That is in relation to our pulpit floral decorations. There are those who say that if we really are in such financial straits it is unwise for us to indulge in such useless decorations, line oi our orothers gathers the flowers and arranges them with brains aud taste, and the result you see before you. The total cost of the decoration today is just forty cents." Ready for tlie World After De Beats Ccnrtmy Wednesday.

frying to Arrange a Meeting Between Frazier and Gilniore. chassf.t. August Aubrey the yvht Puritan arrived here rroc" x' i. Iroul me ruwun xinu iuiiv 1,111 ztcs. and is at ms auiet on Margin met.

Liked freely on matters concerning the races and the prospect for the coming cup races. He thought 4l the recent trial races had no way showed the comparative merits If the Mayflower and Puritan, although ho entirely satisfied at the action of the 'eoBunittoeo'f tlie New lork Yacht Club in choosing the Mayflower to defend the America's trophy. He states that in the 0 trials won by the Mayflower tlie and conditions wore exactly same in eacn. and in neither ILje was there the Puritan's wind. still believes that the Puritan can defeat hpr siller ai i'.

ht he apparently desires to hive ail opportunity to sustain his opinion. He considers the Mayflower a good boat. Specially in a rouvsh sea nnd light wind Tut thinks that with a yood stiff gale a trial Ltween tlie two boats would only prove a Tfuetitiou ot the result of the Alarok-bead race. In reference to the cup races be stated tlmt he considered the cups fe. and tliat there wes, he thought, no.

'anger ot its going across the big pond tliis ye.ir. On ber.ig asked if he expected to le on the Mayflower in the cup races, he staled that he probi.bly should not. He has creat faith in Captain Stone, and considers him a first-class skipper. He states that the report that he did not sail the Puritan on tlie iiibt trial race is a mistake, as be sailed her iu each race. SCVL-EKS O.V THE THAMES.

Arrangement of the Different Event, and the Prizes Offered. The irrcat international swecpstako tcullers' match which is to be contested over the Thames course in England on Monday aud Tuesday, if brought to a successful ending, will take its place in the history of aquatics as the Breatest sculling event ever contested. Th- field starters embraces William heiich. the world's champion: Ncal JJattersnn, his companion from the Antinodes: George .1. Perkins, George Buie.irof England, and the three Americans.

John Teenier. Wallace Koss and George W. I.ee. The total amount of prizes for which the men are to row will amount to 2000, and it is to be divided up as follows: $1200 to the first man. iMOOtothe second.

$112 10s. each to the third and fourth, and 50 each to the losers iu the first or trial heats. The trial beats for Monday are to ba over three ditlerent courses, and are to be laid out each three and one-quarter nifles in length, and contested as follows: The first heat, from Battersea to Hammersmith, Jieal Matterson and Wallace Koss; second heat, from Hammersmith to Kew. deorge J. Perkins and John Teemer; tiiira heat, Irom ivew to Ham mersmith.

Wi Ilium Bench, the world champion, and George W. I.ee. George Bui ear, who it seems is the only remaining roller the race, is to row tho fourth heat over one of the above-named courses against time ami it wouid appear tliat in order that this sculler have a place in the beets of Tuesday he will be obliged to row a faster pare than does the speediest loser in any of tue first three heat s. The drawing of the men for the heats has placed them, with fie exception of the pining of l.ee ngaiaist Beach, in such order as to guarantee fair racing. Lee, in nil probability, is doomed to defeat, but Itc9 and Teemer will w.itch tho contest with tho great Australian in the closest manner, and no doubt, one or the other of these two will row on the heat.

If permitted by the management, in close proximity to tlie Newark man. It will be the first opportunitity that lms been afforded Teemer or Ross to judge with uy degree of accurateness the ability of Beach as a Fculler, aud as I.ee is tlie very best of lonn and considers himself boated to perlection, be sboutd tax the powers for a distance of even a better man than the Australian is thought to be. Neal Mathewson is no Blow in tlie opinion of Hanlan, and if be is as good a sculler as the ex-champion says he is. Koss will have to be in his best fettle tooutrow the second Australian, am! tlie only real contest in the trial heats of Monday will be the one in which they row from Battersea to Hammersmith. Teemer should have an ordinary practice spiu in his go in the second heat with Perkins, nnd it would seem that the summing tip ot tomorrow's heats wouid place Ross the possible winner of the first heat, Teemer and Beach sure winners of the teioud and third heats.

Matterson. even if beaten by Koss. will row so fast that Bubear in his race against time will be beaten probably by several seconds, and the trial heats of Tuesday will be rowed by Beach, Teemer, Ross and Matterson. tho disposition of the men in beats to be decidod bv a drawing ou Monday evening. The two winners of the limits ot Tuesday will row the full championship course, from Putney to Mortlake, on ednesday, to decide the ownership of the grand prizes of 6000 to 82000.

Out of the four men that are to row in the two heats of Tuesday it would be useless at this writing to conjecture who are to be the contestants in Wednesday's championship Contest, but it is certain to be either Teenier or Koss for America and Beach or Matter-son for Australia. Monday's trial heat will furnish a partial key to a conundrum the like of which the aquatic people of the world have not had placed before them for solution. WILL, 8UBPRISE PEOPLE "WET. Uaslaa Intends to Challenze Beach After Beating Courtney Wcdnendajr. New York, August Hanlan and Courtney are training very indus triously at Rockaway for their race on Wednesday next.

At the beaoh every one netting on Courtney. In JNew lork the odds are two to one on Hanlan. The latter, vho is storping at the Seaside House, asked The Globe correspondent today to give the tmblic a few facts concerning the assertion of St. John, the hacker of Gaudaur, that the course at Lake Quinsigamond was liort, else Hanlan could not have made the recerd that he did. Hanlan said: "Mr.

bt John was down herj a few days ago, and appeared very friendly before going to Lngland. 1 then offered to bet him $1000 that the oourse I rowed over at Lake Quin-sigamond was as long as I represented it to oe, I offered to bet bun looo that I could inake the satne time on any other lake or BtiU body of water that i to name, and I also ottered to bet him $1000 that Gaudaur could not make that same time, all which oilers he refused. 1 think that settles the matter as between St. John and me. I am wiuniiig the coming race, after which I shall go to England and get ou a match with Beach who.

I know. I can easily beat in my present condition. I intend to surprise some poople yet." CILUOBE-FSAZIEB. tlm McCarty Tr, lag to a Match Between the Light-Weight. Professor Tim McCarty, the mentor of the Crib Club, and of whom it can in all fairness be said that he has proved the jmancial support of more pugilists and has "fought about more meetings for purses between them than bus any other professor iSri i countr'- making arrangements f'i ot sPort during- the coming nt tliat wiil furnish umuse-withoutstint KentIemany Pieties these entertainments is than on Uhu is 1,0 lef" BI affa'r T.

meeting between Harry Gllrnore of said to be tne cleverest light- 1119 ty. ho is without a peer in ln United Stales at his "Ht-i3a pounds. iM.w 's '(imbed big willingness to it i a scientific contest of ton founds, as the gentlemen finri tlie wllicu amount to elect Tb8 arrangements for lit complete. Within he-Jit expected, completed 2 day. when both men will tfaIniD for the event.

After the gating between Frazier and Gilmore has with the gentlemen connected taent McCarty in the enter into negotiotious with rain A 'nnn. Godfrey. Ashton and and Tommy 'Zwe'ighut Dle Murphy aud other" of tno The World's Chamoion Swimmer. wiLMntOTON, DeU August Phn? 0t thi and Dennis F. Butler of fouadelphia.

have been matched to swim five-mile coarse in the Delaware The constable passed through the kitchen iu iuo iiiuu tttB.iu laiiberu with him. He stopped at the threshold horrified. On the floor, three feet from the bed, was Singer. His knees were drawn up to his body. and the top of his head was pounded to a jelly.

The nncarneted floor and the bed were covered witn blood. The man bad been dead some hours. Returning to the back room the constable found Mrs. Singer surrounded by her four children, John 14, Mary 12, Joseph and Annie 3 years old. He asked the woman who it was who killed her husband.

She said that she did not know. She knew nothing about it until she got up to milk the cows and stumbled over the body. Then turningto her sou she said, "Come along, Johnnie; we mustgoout and milk the cow and get ready for the morning's work. If we don't hurry we won't have anything to eat" Sh showed no feeling whatever and appeared wholly unconcerned. The four children, who slept in a room adjoining, said they had heard no noise during the night.

To the coroner the woman repeated her second story to the effect that she was asleep all the time and knew nothing about the deed. The coroner then ordered the constable to arrest the woman, and she was takon to the Queen's county jail to await the action of the inquest The murdered man was about 45 years old. He had lived in Ridgewood with his wife for seventeen years, where ho was engaged in the milk business. Both he aud his wife were hard drinkers and had frequent quarrels. About a year ago they separated and the four childreu were placed in St Joseph's Home.

eix months ago a reconciliation was effected and the family was reunited. After a few weeks of peace, drinking and fighting was resumed. Prom the- neighbors it was learned that Singer came home about 0 o'clock last night He was evidently under the influence of liquor, and a lively row took place in the yard. It is quite evident that tbe victim was struck while in bed, and that as he got out of bed he was felled to the floor and the bloody work finished. The strange part of the matter is that the woman, when she called tho constable, said three men were beating her husband, and alterwards declared that the first intimation she had was when she awoke in the morning.

Mrs. Singer said tonight: "I was awakened about 4 o'clock this morning by a noise. I immediately got ud. and I found niv husband kneeling at the side of the bed as though saying his prayers. I spoke to him and he did not answer.

I then discovered that he was dead. I was so frightened that I screamed and woke up my four children. Without saying a word I hurried olf to Constable Freeman's house, about a block away, and told him that burglars were in my house and had killed my husband. I hurried back to the house with my son Johnnie. The constable followed right alter me.

I then discovered that S18 SO had been stolen from the top of the Flvelf. Coroner O'Con- nell then arrived and accused me oi murdering my husband. The next thing I knew I was placed under arrest, by order of Coroner O'Connell and taken by an officer to this jail." "Dili you see the burglars?" "I did not." DRIVEN HOME BY THE FOG. Thousands at tbe Beach Hate "Very Pleasant liar Spoiled. Many thousand persons visited Revere beach yesterday while tbe sun was shining.

but when the fog and mist came rolling in from tho sea in the early evening, the crowded trains and horse cars told the story of the people seeking warmer quarters at home. At the Point of Pines there was a multitude of people ajniost as large as on a Sunday during the musical festival. Frederick N. Innes made his last appearance there this season, and the very line concert by Baldwin's Cadet band was duly enjoyed by tno large numbers present. This week will be the closing week of the pyrorama, and it is to be devoted to a children's festival.

Every day attractions that will delight the hearts of the little ones will be given, and every child on entering the grounds will be presented with a ticket which will entitle the holder to enjoy, free, one of the many attractions ottered. At Oak Island grove during the day Higgins' military band discoursed music to the thousands who visited this resort during that time. The officers of the Caledonian club came down to see Manager Folsom during the day, and mutual congratulations over the success of their recent picnic were exchanged. At Crescent beach a vc ry large number of persons were present during the day and enjoyed the music by the Lynn Cadet band. All the hotels, restaurants and chowder pavilions did a rushing business, and the proprietors are consequently happy.

MR. BLAINE'S QUICK RIDE. Prominent Arrivals at the Poland Spring House. Maine. Poland 29.

Poland Spring House will remain open until October first Many engar ntents are already made for September, anil appearances indicate that the boom which set in so early in the season will show no abatement up to tho close. The orchestra, under the leadership of Professor Richardson, continues one of the many attractive features, the music hall being crowded at the morning and evening concerts. Among recent arrivals are the following; S. W. Borcok, New York; Stanlev T.

Pul-leu, Portland: J. W. Tabor. Portland; Eben D. Jordan, Boston E.

S. Good-by. New York: T. S. Steele and wife and child, Hartford; C.

W. Horton and wife, Philadelphia; S. M. Mitchell and wife, Philadelphia; D. II Coolidge, P.

E. Tucker. Boston I. IL Bailey, New York: Georco B. Clano.

Boston E. H. Bright. Bos ton General V. D.

Grover and family. Virginia: Hon. Benjamin Dean, Mrs. Asa S. Portis, J.

IL Sweetzer, Miss J. E. Sweetzer, Boston. Charles Nevins of the Poland Spring House, the crack driver of Maine, drove Mr. Blaine with a four-in-hand to Lewiston, eleven miles, in just fifty-five minutes, on Friday last Mr.

Blaine said it was one of the quickest and best rides of his lite. Personal Observations. Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus A.

Page are passing a few days at Saratoga. Mrs. B. PL Ticknorgave a small germ an Saturday for lier daughters at her house at Marblehead Neck. Mr.

aud Mrs. H. M. Ticknor are passing a few days at South Lancaster with Senator and Mrs. IL S.

ourse. Hon. John Fitzpatrick, commissioner of public works of fsew Orleans, is in town. Mr. Fitzpatrick called on Mayor O'Brien yesterday.

He is stopping with friends at Cambridge. Cacouna, Canada's old fashionable resort, is just as lively as ever. Leading families are well represented. Last week a concert by Albert De Seve, the violinist, was very much enjoyed. Mr.

Do Seve is a native of Montreal. Sergeant illiam G. Bird and M. Cole of the Boston Lancers have gone on their annual fishing trip to the Raugeley Lakes, and on Tuesday will visit the latter's home at Athens, where they will be joined by Captain H. D.

Andrews of the Lancers. William A. Blossom, head usher at the Boston Museum, gave a dinner at his residence at the Highlands Saturday to his associates. Nat Akarman, Allen Holland, William Hart. Arthur Outhank.

Harry Sullivan. J. T. Barrlugton. The occasion was much enjoyed.

Captain J. W. Rose, secretary of the Charlestown Artillery Veteran Association, aud wile have been spending the mouth of August at Nahant Comrade Rose caught near Maoiis Garden last week, with a pole and line, a rock cod weighing six pounds, the largest ever caught near the share with pole and line, old iishermen say. Professor T. Townsend and John O.

Bishop of Boston are having a good time with their new yacht tho Metric, at Edgar town. A large "arty, including James Paine, Mr. Deedy, John Gilchrist and several ladies were enjoying a sail with them the whole day. when the Mabel of the South Boston club gave motion for a chase. The Metric soon overtook her and crossed hor bow amid groat excitement Mrs.

C.H. Washburn took part in an entertainment at Saratoga on Tuesday evening. Her assistance was flatteringly announced by the Haratogian.which said she brilliant society amateur reader. Many good judges much prefer her style and method to Mrs. Potter's, and her magnetic hold upon her audience is remarkable." And after the entertainment the same paper said: "She fuily realized the expectations of all by her very brilliant rendering," both of the selections promised and of the encores which were insinted upon.

ibeacon. Corman Will Wrestle Fontaine. New Bedford. August 29. James Gorman of Central Falls, R.

has accepted the challenge of Calyx Fontaine of this city to wrestle catch-as-catch-cau for $100, and the match will come off here September 9. In the last match between the same men they wrestled one hour without a fall. Turf Gossip. The entries for the grand circuit races, hich ill commence at Mystic Park September 14, will close this evening at 11 p. m.

Jock Bowen has his brown gelding Ben Almont entered for the 2.33 class race on the first day of the meeting at Hampden Park. With Judge Davis. Charley Hilton, Judge Lindsey, Kitefoot, W. K. and Bessio Sheridan the 2.21 class at Springfield, the race ought to be very interesting.

The coming week all of the fastest horses will be at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, and on tho following week they will make their appearance upon the track at Springfield. The Wheeling. West State fair will open on September and continue for rive davs. There are to be fourteen races during the five days, and will be distributed in purses. The meeting at Charter Oak Park will begin on Tuesday and continue for four days.

The track is in fine condition and very fast The horses entered are as a rule all good ones in their classes, and it will be a great wonder if some of the records don't get smashed. E. Bass has his chestnut gelding T. G. entered for the 2.27 class at Springfield on the second day of the meeting there.

This horse will be remembered as having made a good showing tho first of lie season at Mvstic Park. He has also shown up to good advantage around the circuit. Sylvia M. is entered in the 2.25 class as usual at Hampden Park, and it is almost a certainty that she will get a corner of the purse. She is a great trotter on the home stretch, and can get there in grand style, when many another good trotter would fail.

Fred Reynolds will occupy his usual position behind the mare. C. T. Kenyon has bis bay gelding William Arthur entered for the 2.17 race at Springfield, and he is very liable to get some of the nurse if he is started, as he is a good one. Ha won a very good race at Mystic Park early iu the season.

In that race the slightest break would have lost him a heat and perhaps the race, as Windsor M. and De Barry, the other contestants in the race, were barely a length behind him at the finish of any of the heats. James Golden will put the bay gelding De Barry through in the 2.19 race at Hampden Park on the third day of the meeting there. De Barry is very fast, hut seems to have had rather bad luck on the grand circuit. He has taken a corner out of the majority of horses, however, and it is thought that now.

as he gets nearer home, he will come to the front and do something good that will make his many admirers feel proud of him. The handsome bay mare Bonita, which attracted so much attention while she was at Mystic Park, is entered for the 2.17 race at Hampuen Park. She is a good one, but there are also a number of good ones pitted against her, such as Spoft'ord. who gave Oliver X. a good race a few days ago, and who, it is thought by some of the knowing ones, will show up well for the $10,000 purse at Hartford; Arab, who has won a number of good races, and Belle who has also proved herself to be a good one in her class.

The Syracuse Driving Park Association will hold a fall meetinur on Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Septem. her 7, 8, 9 and 10. Two thousand rive hundred dollars will be given in premiums aud there will be the following races: 3.00, 2.27, 2.37, 2.32, 2.45 2.29, pacing, 2.40, free-for-all and a running race. In addition to the purses $100 additional will be given to the horse making the fastest time during the meeting, providing be beats the fastest record ever made upon the track, which is 2.26V4.

The Hudson River Driving Association will hold a meeting at their park, beginning September 13 and continuing for live days. he following is a list of the eyents which will take plate: Tuesday, September 14, 3.oo class, purse 3000, ana 2.29 eiass, purse $000. Wednesday, September 15, 2.45 class, purse $500; 2.33 class, purse $500, and tbree-year-old stake, which closed March 1, with five entries, Thursday, September 16, 2.38 class, purse $500; 2.26 class, purse $000, aud four-year-old stake, which closed March 1, with seven entries. Friday. September 17, 2.23 class, purse $600 2.20 class, purse $1000; entries closed March 1, with Oaisy Dale, Tariff and Walnut; and a five-year-old stake, closed March 1, with nine entries.

In addition to all this there wiil be an exhibition of horses, aud prizes will be offered for the best stallion with four ot his get; best stallion for speed in harness or to saddle; best gentleman's road bor-te to top wagon; best pair of road horses to top wagon best brood mares, carriage horses, geldings. Hilies. mares with colt at foot, etc. Sporting Briefs. M.

P. A woman certainly has a right to compete in an athletic contest 11 she desires. Thomas Aitken will now have an opportunity to accept Brown's challenge for a foot race. A. J.

M. The distance run at the Turner sports at Spy Pond last Monday was announced as 220 yards, and the time was stated to tie 24 seconds for the winner, A. J. Matthey. Adair, the well-anown athlete, who accompanied Mace and Goss when they came to this country together, recently walked from Brighton to London, in 13 hours 25 minutes.

William Coogan and William Mitchell won a three-legged dash of 100 yards against William Bigley and Dana Landers on the Boston Common. Friday nifc'ht. by 3V2 yards; time, 14Va seconds. James Landers wasreleree. Mr.

Vanderbilt has secured Captain Henry Morrison, formerly of the ocean steamer Ohio, as the sailing master of the Alva. His initial cruise will probably include a run across tiie Atlantic and up tue straits to the Grecian archipelago. Jack Dolan passed several hours at Thk Globk oflice Saturday, waiting in vain for Crahn to put iu an appearance and accept his challenge for a bout with the gloves for a r.minin nf li 11 71 i vpi dolhirs. He finally concluded that Crahn did not want to fight, and withdrew his deposit. A air-rhiv seventy-two hours military walking contest will begin at Patersou.

N. August 30. The contest will be open to the National Guardsmen of the United States. Each contestant is to carry thirty and one-halt pounds of clothing, ammuni tion, musket, etc. mere are aireaoy sixteen entries.

Six New York companies will be represented. Tb first t.lcnic of the South Boston Crib Club will be held at Aoollo Garden. Thurs day a'ternoon and evening, September Tlnrims ll.B Hnv thrn will lie athletic SPOrtS of ull kinds, in which members of the ciub and invited guests will participate, liiere will also be a club swinging match for a gold medal and the championship of New England, presented by the president of the club, Thomas F. Drohan. All entries to be made with the secretary, Thomas Quin.

The middle-weight champion, Peter Nolan. accompaad by Mike Smith. Jae3 The Famous Steamer Lies a Blackened Wreck at the Bottom of the Hudson The Loss $150,003 to $200,000. Kingston, N. August 29.

The handsome steamer Daniel Drew of the Albany day lino, well known to all travellers upon the Hudson, caught fire at her moorings, at Kingston Point, this afternoon, and was burned to the water's edge. Her blackenod hull lies at the bottom of the river. She was held in reserve and had been quartered here for three months. She was finely fitted throughout and was fully prepared to make a trip nt an hour's notice. Two watchmen wore kept upon hor constantly.

The place where the boat was moored is owned by the Delaware Hudson Canal Company.which has a small engine house for the purpose of unloadiug canal boats laden with coal. Fire was discovered in this engiue bouse about 3 o'clock. Spreading rapidly it soon extended to the steamer. Albert Foster, an old river captain, who was one of the atchmen on board, endeavored to extinguish the fire with buckets, but without success. A strong wind blew directly over the vessel, fanning every spark into a blaze, and Foster was obliged to jump overboard to escape the flames.

The fire department of this city responded to an alarm but was unable to render much assistance. Just after the fire broke out a futile attempt was made by tbe crew of the steam yacht Charles A. Schultz to pull the Drew from the dock. Thousands of people lined the banks of the river on both sides and gazed on the burning vessel. In less than three hours she was a total wreck, sinking about 6.30 o'clock.

The tire is supposed to have originated in some greasy waste by spontaneous combustion. The loss is estimated from $160,000 to $200,000. The insurance is unknown. The place where the vessel lay has been the winter quarters of the steamer Mary Powell for many years. It is a small island a short distance from the shore.

The Drew, which was one of the largest and swiftest passenger steamboats on the Hudson river, was built by Thomas Collyer of New York in 18(50. FLOWERS FOR HIS DYING SISTER. A r.ad Works All Dav at a Water 1'rough to Buy a Bouquet. A twelvo-year-old boy, residing near Boston, was absent from home lastSaturday from early in the morning till late in the evening. When he arrived home he hastened to the bedside of his sick sister, who was in the last stages of consumption, and handed her a handsome bouquet of natural flowers.

His mother, who had become alarmed at bis long and unusual absence, asked him, rather impatiently, where he had been all day. The boy with tears streaming down his cheeks, replied "Mother, I thought sister would like to have some flowers, bo I went down to the watering trough this morning and have unchecked horses for men and women all day long. Most of them gave me money, and when I thought I had enough I went to the flower store and bought this bouquet." "Haven't you had anything to eat?" asked his mot hor. "No; I couldn't spare the time to eat when I thought how pleased poor sister would be when I brought home the bouquet." The consumptive, with difficulty, expressed hei thanks, and the mother said: "My eon, may God bless every one who gave you money today, and may every little boy who has a sick sister remember her as yon have yours." The consumptive died yesterday. OLD WILLIAM WHEILDON.

lie was a Prluter aud -the Bunker Hill Aurora 4-1 "Years. In old Concord the venerable journalist, William W. Wheildon, owns a handsome estate on the main street Mr. Wheildon was an apprentice to Nathaniel Green, and in 1820 helped print the first copy of the Statesman in Boston. In May, 1827, Mr.

heildon began the publication of the Bunkor Hill Aurora, a weekly paper, in Charlestown, and continued its publication for forty-four years, when ill heaitb obliged him to discontinue issuing it Mr. Wheildon is the author of several volumes, mostly of a historical character, including a memoir of Solomon Wil-lard. architect and superintendent of the Bunker Hill monument; "Curiositie of History." "Paul P.evere's Signal Lanterns," and "Tbe Seige and Evacuation of Boston and Charlestown." Mr. Wheildon is in remarkably good health. Alluding to the Concord Public Library, presented ln 1873 to the town by "William Munroe, Mr.

Wheildon said the other oav: "1 think that the generous gift of Mr. Munroe has had the effect to remind or suggest to others that they can leav a lasting monument behind them by presenting to their native or adopted town a public library. Grovener Tarbell of Lincoln, Kodney allace at Fitohburg and Hon. E. 8.

Converse at Maiden are examples of this movement The beautiful structures erected by these gentlemen will remind the old and young of these beneficent men." Used the Same Silver Trowel. WATERBtntr, August 29. The corner-stone of St. Mary's parochial school, on Colo street was laid this afternoon. Bishop McMahon officiated, assisted by Iiov.

Fathers Mulcahey, Duggan, Trainor. Murphy and others. Five thousand persons were present. The silver trowel used by the bishop was the same used a year ago at tho corner-stone laying of the Church of the Sacred Heart An address was made by Father Harty of Hartford, formorly of this city. Died After a Surgical Ooeration.

New Haven, August 29. Stiles 1. Beach, who was Injured about the head by tbe explosion of a piece of gas-pipe last Monday, died today after an unsuccessful attempt to relieve him by a surgical operation. This evening- "Prince Karl.".