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I A. HAVRON, Publisher. WOMAN’S WAGES. ' Dr. Talmagre on “The Despotism of the Needle.” r Th*» Blessing of Honorable Industry and the Misery of Idleness—The Mistake of Parents —Equal Pay for Kqual , . Work—Woman's Oppressors. llyllitf P The gubject of a recent se-mon by Dr. Taljnage was: “The Despotism of the Needle or a Discourse on Women’s \Va»es.” He took his text from Ecclesiastes iv., 1: “So 1 returned and considered all the op pressions that are done under the sun, and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter: and on the side of the>r oppressors there was power.” Following is the sermon woman’s toil. ' 'K? * \ ery long ago the needle was busy. It was considered honorable for women to toil in olden time.. Alexander the Great’ stood in his palace showing garments made by hi& own mother. The finest tapestries at Bayeux were made by the Queen of William the Conqueror. Au gustus, the Emperor, would not wear any garments except those that were fashioned by some meyiber of his Royal family. Bo let the toiler everywhere he respected! The needle has slain more than the sword. When the gcwiost'-muohidi" whs jfihented some thought that ’invention*-would al leviate woman’s toil and put an end to the despotism of the needle. But*ad!- While thqgewing-mqehine h:\Sbeen bless ing* to well-to-do families in many cases, it has added to the stab of the needlb' the crush of the wheel, and multitudes of women, notwithstanding' (he reinforce ment of the sewing-ni&ckifip, eatr only* make, work hard us they will, between two dollars and three d liars ppr week. NO HAPPINESS IN IDLENESS. The most unhappy women in our. com munities to-day are those who iiev no en gagements to call hem tip in tb ruing; who, once having riseu and' breakfasted, lounge through.the (lull forenoon in slip pers down at the he >1 and with disheveled hair, reading Ouida’s fast novel, and who, havind dragg'd through a wretched fore noon and tak n their afternoon sleep, and having passed an hour and a half at their toilet* pick up their .card-case aad -go out to make calls, and who past. thAr eveftitigs waiting for somebody to come in and break up the monotony. . AralaSla Btiiart never was imprisoned in 30 dark a dun geon as that. . | There is no happiness in an idle woman. It may bo with hand, it may he with brain, it may be with foot; but work she must, or be wretched for ever.’ The little girls of our families must be started with that idea. The curse of our American society is that our young women are taught that the lirst, second, (bird, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, fiUtjetb, thousandth thing in their life is to get somebody to take dag-el of them. Instead of that the first lesson should be how, under God, they may take cure of themselves. -The simple fact is that a majority of them do have to take care of themselves, and that, too, #ii|er. having through the false notions t>f their parents wasted the in they ought to have learned how successfully to maintain themselves. We noV declare tho inhumanity, cruelty and out rage of that father and mother their daughters into womautibod, having" given them no facility, for earning tlsajc, livelihood. Madame.De'Wt.-j.et ii‘ not these writings that 1 am proud oT* Cut the fact that I have facility in ten occupa tions, in any one of’vfcAh l ctlklH 'make a livelihood.” t You say you have a fortune to leave* them. O, man and woman, have you not learned that, like vuUur36,4i#o fl ft|fm'ks,Tile' eagles, riches have wings and fly away? Though you should be successful in leav ing a comnetencv behind you, tftp trickery of executors may swamp it in a MSISU: or some officials in our churches may get up a mining company and,* orphans to put their a, hcfe in Colorado, and if by the most skillful machinery the sunken money can not be brought up again, prove to them that it was eternally decreed tlyit that was the way they were to lose it, and that it went in the most orthodox and heavenly style. Oh! the damnable schemes thgt- professed Christians will engage in until God puts His fingers- into the collar of the hypo crite’s robe and rips it clear down to the bottom! You havifno right; because you are well oil, to conclude that your children are going to be as well off. A man died, leaving a large fortune. His son fell dead in a Philadelphia grog,-step. Has olji com rades came in an<|( jsajfij! as* jjtliey beitt over his corpse: “ What is the matter with you, Boggsey?” The surgeon standing over him said: “ HusM| lsptte is dead!” “Ah, he is dead !” thevaijJa^.yteomd3p)ovg t let us go and take a drink to the memory o poor Boggsey.” THE CtUME OF PARENTS. Have you nothing better than money to leave your children? If you have not, but send your daughters into the world with empty brain unskilled band, you are guilty of assassination, homicide, regicide, infanticide. There ire women Jtqjjing in our cities, toiling for two and three dollars per week, who were the daughters of mer chant princes. These suffering ones now would be glad to have the crumbs that once fell from their father’s table. That worn-out, broken shoe thgt sjbe wears is the lineal descendant of the dollar gaiters in which her mother walked, and that worn and faded calico had ancestry of magnificent brocade that swept Broad way clean without any expense to the Street Commissioners. Though you live in an elegant residence and fare sumptu ously every day, let your daughters feel it is a disgrace to them not to know how to work. 1 denounce the idea prevalent in society that though our young women may embroider slippers and crochet, and make mats for lamps to stand in without dis grace, the idea of doing any thiug for a livelihood is dishonorable. It is a shame for a young woman belong ing to a lai-ge family to be'inefficient when the father toils his life away for her sup port. It is a shame for a daughter to lie idle while her mother toils at. the wash tub. It is’ as honorable to sweep houses, make beds or trim hats as it is to twist a watch-chain. As far as I can understand, the line of respectability lies between that which is useful and that which is useless. If women do that which is of no value, their work is bcmorable. If they do prac tical w<#k, it Is dishonorable. That our young women may escape the censure of doing dishonorable work, I shall particu larize. You may knit a tidy for. the back of an arm-chair, but by no means make the money wherewith to buy the chair. You may with delicate brush beautify a mantel ornament, but (die, rather than earn enough to buy a marble mantel. You may learn artistic music until you can squall Italian, but never sing “Ortonville” or “Old Hundred.” Do nothing practical if you would in the eyes of refined society preserve your respectability. I scout these finical notions.. I tell you a woman no more than a man has a right to occupy a place in this world unless she pays-a rent,for it. In the course ;of a life time you consume whole harvests and dpoves of cattle, and every day you live you breathe forty hogsheads.qf gpoij. pure air. You must by some kind of usefultiess pay for all this. Our race was the last thing created—the birds and fishes on the fourth day, the cattle and .lizards on the fifth day and man on the sixth day. If geologists are right, the earth was a mill ion of years in possessi'dh of the insects, beasts and birds before our race came up on it. In one sense we were innovators. The cattle, the lizards and the hawks had pre-emption right. The question is not ,what we are to do with the lizards and summer insects, but what the lizards and summer insects are to do with us. NATURE SAYS “PAY.” If we w-ant a place in this world we must earn it. The partridge makes its own nest I before it occupies it. The lark, by its ; morning soug, earns its breakfast before it I eats it, and the Bible gives an intimation that the first duty of an idler is to starve wheu it isays that if he “will not work neither shall he eat.” Idleness ruins the health, find very soon nature says: “This mam has refused to pay M 3 rent; out with him!” Society is to be reconstructed on tho subject of woman’s toil. A vast ma jority of those who would have woman in dustrious shut her up to a few- kinds of werk. My judgment in this matter is that | a wpman has a right to do anything she I Vaa do Well. Thore should be no depart ! inent of merchandise, "mechanism, art or j science barred against her. If Miss Hos ! filer has genius for sculpture, give her a chisel. If Rosa Bonheur has a fondness for delineating animals, let her make “The Horse Fair.’.’ If will study astronomy, let her moUut the starry lad der. If Lydia w-ill be a merchant, let her 'Sell purple. If Luoretia Mott will preach ' the Gospel, let her thiill with her womanly | eloquence the Quaker meeting-house, p. It is said if woman is given- such oppor | tunities she will occupy places that might Ibe taken by inau. 1 say if she have more I skill and adaptedness for any position 1 than a man has, let her have it. She has j as muohVright to her bread, to her apparel and to her home as men nave. But it is said that her nature is so delicate that she 'is unfitted for exhausting toil. I ask, in the name of all past history, what toil 'on earth is more severe, exhausting and tre mendous than that toil of the-needle to which ‘for she has teen-subjected? The battering-ram, the sword, the car biuj, the have made such. haYoc as the needlp I woul * living sepulchers,-in which women/' have* for ages been buried, might be opened, and ethat some.* resurrection trumpet might bring up these living corpses to the fresh air and sunlight. Go with me and I will show you a woman who, by hardest toil, supports her children, her drunken, 'hus band, her old father and mother, pays her house rent, always has wholesome food on the table, and when she can get som9 neighbo on the Sabbath to come in and take care of her family, appears in church w-ith hat and cloak that are far from indi cating the toil to which she is subjected. Such a woman as that has body and soul enough to tit her for any position. She could stand beside the majority of your salesmen and dispose of iriorfe gobds. She could go into your wheelwright; shops and teat one-half of your workmen at making carriages. We talk about woman as -though we had resigned to her all the light work and ourselves had shouldered the heavier. But the day of judgment, which will re veal the sufferings of the stake and inqui sition, will marshal before the throne of God and the hierarchs of Heaven the mar tyrs of wash-tub and needle. Now, I say if there be any preference in occupation let woman have it. (jod knows her trials are the severest. By her accter sensitive ness to misfortune, by her hour of anguish, I demand that no one hedge up her path way to a livelihood. Oh, the meanness, the despicability, of- men who tegrudge a woman the right'to work Anywhere in any hpnorable calling! EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK. • I go still further, and say that woman should have equal compensation with men. By what prim iple of justice is it that women, in many of our cities, get only two-thirds as much pay as men, and in many cases only half? ’Here is the gigantic injustice—that for work equally well ( -if not better, done woman receives far less compensation than man. Start' with the National Government: Women clerks in Washington City get nine hun dred dollars for doing that, for which men get one thousand eight hundred dollars. The wheel of oppression is rolling over the necks of thousands of women who are at this moinent in despair about what they are to do. Many of the largest mercan tile establishments of our city are acces sory to these abominations, and from their large establishments there are scores of souls being pitched off into death, and* their employers know it. Is there a God? TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, THURSDAY, JUNE 31. 1885. Will there be a judgment? I tell you, if God rises up to redress women’s wrongs many of our large establishments will be swallowed up quicker than a South American earthquake ever took down a city. God will catch these oppressors be tween the two millstones of His wrath and grind them to powder. Whyisit that a female Principal in .a school gets only $825 for doing work fty tYhfch a male Principal gets $1,(150? I hear frdtft Htl this land the wail of womanhood, Man has nothing to answer to that wail hut flatteries. He says she is an angel. She is not. She knows she is not. She is a human being, who gets hungry when she has no food and cold when she has no lire. Give her no more flatteries; give her jus tice. There are sixty -five thousand sewing*! girls in New York and Brooklyn. Across? the sunlight comes their death-groan. Its is not such a cry as comes from those who are suddenly hurled out of life, hut a slow, grinding, horrible wasting away. Gather them before you and look mto their faces —pinched, ghastly, hunger-struck! Look, at their fingers—needle-picked and blood tipped ! See that premature stoop in the shoulders! Hear that dry, hacking, mer ciless cough. At a large meeting of these women, held in a hall in Philadelphia, grand speeches were delivered; but a needle-woman took the stand, threw aside her faded shawl, and with her shriveled arm burled a very thunderbolt of eloquence, speaking out the horrors of her own experience. Stand at the corner of' a street in New York at six or seven o’clock in the morning, as the women go to their work. Many of them had no breakfast except the crumbs that were left over from the night before or the crumbs they chew on their way through the street. Here they coine! The work ing girls of New York and Brooklyn! These engaged in beadwork, these in flow er-making, in millinery, paper-box mak ing, but most overworked of all and least compensated, the sewing women. Why * do they not take the city cars on their way up? They can not afford the five cents! If, concluding to deny herself something else, she gets into the car, give her a seat! You want to see how Latimer and Ridley appeared in the fire! Look at that woman and behold a more horrible martyrdom, a hotter fire, a more agonizing death ! Ask that'Woman how much she gets for her work, and she will tell you six ceuts for making coarse shirts and finds her own. thread! MERCILESS VILLAINS. Years ago one Babbath night in the ves tibule of this church, after service, a woman fell in convulsions. The doctor said she needed medicine not so much as something to eat. As she began to revive, in her de lirium she said, gaspingly: “Eight ceuts! eight cents! I wish 1 could get-it done! I ain so tired I I wish 1 could get some sleep, but I must get it done! Eight cents! eight cents!” We found afterward that she was making garments for eight cents apiece and that she could but three of them in a day. Hear it! Three times eight are twenty-four. Hear it, men and women who have comfortable homes! Borne of -the worst villains of our cities are the em ployers of these women. They beat them down.to the last penny and try to cheat them out of that. The woman must de posit one or two dollars before she gets the garments to work on. When the work is done it is sharply inspected, the most in significant flaws picked out and the wages refused and sometimes the one dollar de posited not given back. . A STALWART FRIEND. The Roman’s Protective Union'reports a case where one of these poor souls, find ing a place where she could get more wagsi, resolved.to change employers and went to get her pay for work done. The employer says: “I hear you are goinjg to leave me?” “Yes,” she said, “aud 1 have -come to get what you owe me.” He made no answer. She said: “Are you not go ing to pay me?” “Yes,” be said, “I w ill pay you,” aud he kicked her down stairs. Oh, that Woman’s Protective Union, 19 Clinton Place, New York! The blessings of Heaven be on it for the merciful and divine work it is doing in the defense of toiling womanhood. What tragedies of suffering are presented to them day by day! A paragraph from their report: “ ‘Can you make Mr. Jones pay me? He owes me for three weeks at $2.50 a week, and I can’t ge* any thing, and my child is very sick.’ 1 Tbe speaker, a young woman lately widowed, burst into a fldod of tears as she spoke. She was bidden to coine the next afternoon and repeat her story to the ■attorney at the usual weekly hearing of frauds and impositions. Means were found by which Mr. Jones was induced to pay the $7.50.” Another paragraph from their report: “A fortnight had parsed when she mod estly hinted a desire to know how much her services were worth. ‘Oh, my dear,! he replied,‘you are getting to be one of the most valuable hands iq the trade; you will always get tbh very best price. Ten dollars a week you will be able to earn very easi ly'.' And the girl’s fingers flew on with her work at a marvelous rate. The picture of ten dollars a week had almost turned her •• y head. A few nights later, while crossing the ferry, she overheard the name of her employer in the conversation of girls who stood near: ‘What, John Snipes? Why, he don’t pay. Look out for him every time. He’ll keep you on trial, as he calls it, for weeks, and.,then he’ll let you go and get some other -fool.’ And thus Jane Smith gained her'warning against the swindler. But the Union held him in the toils of the law until he paid the worth of eacn of those days of ‘trial. ”’ Another paragraph: “Her mortification may be imagined when told that one of the two five-dollar bills which she had just re ceived for her work was counterfeit. Bat her mortification was swallowei up in in dignation when her employer denied hav ing pa’fd her the money aud insultingly asked her to prove it.” When the Protect ive Union had placed this matter in the courts the Judge said: “You will pay Eleanor the amount of her claim, and also the costs of the court. ” THE BALLOT WO REMEDY. How are these evils to be eradicated? Borne say: “Give women the ballot.” What effoct such ballot might have on oth er questions I am not here to discuss; but what would be the effect of female suffrage on women’s wages? I do not be lieve that women will ever get justice by woman’s ballot. Indeed, women oppose women as much as men do. Do not women, as much as men, beat down to the lowest figure the woman who sews for them? Are not women as sharp as men on washer-women, milliners and mantua rnakers? If a woman asks one dollar for her work, does not her female employer ask her if she will not take ninety cents? You say: “Only ten cents difference,” but that is sometimes the difference between Heaven and hell. Women have often less commiseration for women than men. If a woman steps aside from the path of recti tude man may forgive, woman never! Woman will'never get justice done her from woman’s ballot; neither will she get it from man’s ballot. How then? God will rise up for her. God has more resources than we know of. The flaming sword that hung at Eden’s gate when woman was driven out will cleave with its terrible edge her oppressors. But there is something for women to do. Let young people prepare to excel in spheres of work and they will be able aft er awhile to get larger wages. If it be shown that a woman cau in a store sell more goods in a year than a man she will soon be able not only to ask, but to demand more wages, and to demand them success fully. ' Unskilled and incompetent labor must take what is given; skilled and com petent labor will eventually make its own standard. Admitting that the law of sup ply and demand regulates these things, I contend that the demand for skilled la ter is very great and the supply very small. Start with the idea that work is honorable, and that you can do" s'ouie one thing tetter than any body else. Resolve that, God helping, you will take care of yourself. If you are, after awhile, called into another relation, you will all the better be qualified for it by your spirit of self-reliance; or if you are called to stay as you are you can be happy and self-supporting. Poets are fond of talking about man as an oak, and woman as the vine that climbs it; but 1 have seen many a tree fall that not only went down itself, but took all the vines with it. 1 can tell you of something stronger than an oak td ciiw.b on, and that is the throne of the Great Jehovah. Single or affianced, that woman is strong who leans on God and does her best. The needle may break, the factory band may slip, the wages may fail, but over every good woman’s head there are spread the two great, gentle, stupendous Wings of the Almighty. A SHARP CONTRAST. Many of you will go single-handed through life, and you will have to choojse between two characters. Young woman, I am sure you' will turn your back upon the useless, giggling, irresponsible nonentity which society igriomiuiously acknowledges to be a woman, and ask God to make you a bumble, active, earnest Christian. What will-become of that womanly disciple of the world? She is more thoughtful of the attitude she strikes upon the carpet than how she will look upon more worried about her freckles thau her sins; more interested in her app;nAHh<*i in her redemption. The dying actress whose’life, had been vicious said: “The scene clos<s; 'lvakv the curtain.” Gener ally the tragedy comes ty-st.ajyl ,th,e . faroe afterward; bpt in bpjr life it was first The' farce of a wretched life and then the trag edy of a wretched, eternity. Compare the life and death ot\ su'Rh’ A.' one with-that Christian aunt that' was ont| a blessmg to your household. I do not Aow that she wg* ever offered ,the . hand inlnarriage. She lived single thAt, untrannSeled, she might be everybody’s blessing. Whenever the sick were to be visited or the poor to be provided with bread she went with a blessing. She could pray or sing “Rock of Ages” for any sick pauper who asked her. As she got older there were days when she was a little j sharp; but for the most part auntie was a j sunbeam—just the one for Christmas eve. She knew tetter thau any one j else how to fix things."- Her every prayer, as God heard it, was full of everybody who had trouble. The brightest thiugs in all the house dropped from her fingers. *he had peculiar no tions, but the grandest notion she ever had was to make you happy. She dressed well—aunt e always dressed well; but her highest adornment was that of a meek and quiet spirit, w-hicb, in the sight of God, is of great price. 'When she died you all.gatb*jred lovipgly about her, and as you carried her out fo rest the Sun day-school class almost covered the coffin with japonicas; and the poor people stckidi at the alley l , with their aprons to their eyes', sobbing bitterly, and the man of the world said with Solomon: “ Her price was above rubies:” aud Jesus, as unto the maiden of Judea, commanded: “1 say unto thee, arise!” A Killing Passion Strong Mu 01*1 Age. IBoston Beacon.] The Comtesse de Castiglione, the most beautiful .woman of her day, and whose forthcoming memoirs promise the world a sensation, has shared with others-of her sex a profound passion for diamo ,ds. She wears them irow. wheu you?ii and beauty are long since passed, covering her dresses with them, fastening them in her hair, on her shoes, and oven wearing them around her ankles. This latter place, however, must be vastly unbecoming, ,bqt the eccen tric TVmntess has reached an age when she oares more for precious genfs than for the -symmetry of her extremities and the dash-, ions -of the day. If .the, : gold and be gemmed anklets of Eastern houris would look well on Western beauties, they would have been a tooted long «.-<>.■ • Fashion and Parisian jewelers gave us tangles, but they have not yet. ventured'to ■' introduce the barbaric anklets so w iff ul woman shall cry for them. RUSSIA’S IRELAND. A Counterpart to England’s Trouble, in the Baltic Provinces. Oppressed Tenantry Who Resort to Blood shed to Avenge their Wrongs. London, June 7. —The Russian Govern ment finds itself confronted by a new trouble on its northern borders. The peas ant tenantry of the Baltic provinces have long complained of their treatment at the hands of the landlords and agents and have lately taken the law into their own hands and resorted to many acts of vio lence, often including murder. The griev ances alleged are not unlike those which have long agitated Ireland. The peas ants complain of the absenteeism of the laudlords, who never visit their estates, but spend the income derived from them in luxurious living in St. Petersburg and other cities. Not being on the ground,they do not see the losses suffered by the tenants by failing crops, etc., but insist on the full amount of the rent being turned in by the agent whether the farms are productive or not. If the rent is not forth coming evictions promptly follow, and the peasant, being black-listed among all the agents, is unable to get another holding, and is often left to starve. The authority of the Village Assembly, which was form erly relied on by the peasants to guard their rights, is now set at naught, and the gendarmes override its decisions at will. Under the circumstances the Russian peasants of the Baltic Provinces have ta ken to the same forms of vengeance form erly employed by their Irish prototypes, and shots at landlords and agents are be coming common. The frequency of these agrarian outrages has now attracted the serious attention of the Government, and the severest measures of repression have been resolved upon. The Lightning's Gigantic Toy. W ashincjt'on,' June 7.—Lightning again struck the Washington Monument on Fri day night, and a subsequent examination has developed some perceptible injury. The monument having been stripped of every vestige of staging, the only way to examine the exterior of the structure was to train a powerful telescope on the pyramidal crown, which is five hundred feet from the base, and has a height of fifty-five feet in twelve courses of marble, not includ ing the cap-stone. The telescopic nation showed that the cap-stone had been shattered at the north-east point of its base, removing a piece of the marble prob ably loui' inches in height and thickness in the shape of a pyramid. The last course of stone, which is only seven inches in thickness, showed on the north side a distinct vertical- crack; beginning at the shattered part of the cap-stone and extending four feet four inches, the width of that stone. Through the telescope it was deter mined that the fracture was less than an inch in width, widening very little to ward the bottom;'so that the riven part projected over the next course on the east side half an inch, and on the north side three-fourths of an inch. Standing near the base of the monument no fracture or damage can be discovered by the naked eye. Nor could any other injury be found by the telescopic examination exteriorly save what has been described. Runaway Accident, v, Shei.byville, Ind., June 7. —A sad acci dent occurred just this side of Waldron, eight miies east of here, to-day, u#>ich re sulted in the death of Mrs. Bijah Castro and the fatal injury of her little daughter. Mrs/* Castro and her two children, a son and daughter, ‘’both small, were riding in a buggy- drawn ; by a span, of horses. The latter became frightened at something and started to run away. Mrs. Casto threw both the children out of the buggy and then jumped out herself, strik ing on some stones and crushing her skull. The little boy escaped with some severe bruises, being the first one thrown out be fore the horses had attained much speed, but the little girl on striking the ground re ceived injuries which are expected to prove fatal before morning. Place Him in the Patent Office. Washington, June". —The following is i copy of an application recently received from a local office-seeker: “Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar —Dear Sir: In trying Experiments I Placed A Duck under a Spout and worked the Pump vigorously Half an Hour. No Drop of the Fluid entered Penetrated His Featherrv Armsr. I Next wrote A Poli tician who Could Help me to A Position By A word or the Scracll of a Pen the Duck and the PoW#cian are Imprevious. In Con sidering jy Application For Employment I Hnpe you will Not Be A Duck Nor A Politician.” - : Archbishop’s Denunciation. Paris, June 6.—Cardinal Guibert, Arch bishop of Paris, has issued a manifesto to the clergy of his diocese in which he de nounces the profanation of the Pantheon. For the third time, he says, an impious ■philosophy, which denies our religion and national traditions, has ravished a church from the patron saint of Paris. He directs that special services in reveration he held to-morrow throughout the diocese. . The cleric.il demonstration threatens to lead to n counter demonstration on the phrt of the Communists. " * Distress in India. ■ London, June 7:— The earthquake shocks at Serinagur and other points in the Vale of Cashmere continue at intervals, aver aging three hours in length. Whole vil lages have been engulfed and terrible sub terranean noises are heard, driving the people frantic with fear. The hotrors of approaching famine are added to other re sults of the disaster, as many thousand bushels of grain in storage have been swal lowed up' in'the chasms which are cou stantly opening. VOL 11. NO. 15. DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENTS. Terrible Waterspout in Mexico, With Loss, of Life, Disasttous Storms of Wind and Hall in Various Sections. El Paso, Texas, June 8. —Yesterday a water spout burst in the mountains, about eight leagues east of Lagos, Mexico, near the dividing line between the Btates of Guanajuato and Jalisco. The effects were most deplorable. Immense quantities of water swept down the mountains with irresistible force towards the well populated plains and valleys be low, and left desolation and ruin in their wake.. There are already one hundred .lives reported lost, and it is leared that the list muy be swelled still larger when all the details are known. A great many houses were swept away. Steps have been taken in Lagos among the wealthy manufactur ing classes to. alleviate the pressing wants of many who’escaped from the valleys, but lost everything. , . Owatonna, Minn., June 8. —Yestevdav morning a severe hai! and wind-storm passed through this city, hail-stones as large as hen’s eggs covering the ground. Fruit trees were damaged, as were also corn and garden produce. Every skylight in the city was demolished. Some store fronts were benten in. Milwaukee, Wis., June B.—Special tele grams to the Sentinel indicate that the damage from yesterday’s wind and hail storm, which s\wept across the entire State from, west to east, was very serious, and has resulted in great loss to farmers by damage to crops and fruit. In Vernon County the storm appears to have assumed the .nature of a cyclone. All buildings in the little village of Victory were demol ished, including two small warehouses, a church, hotel and school-hotiße. Across the Mississipui River, in Minnesota, the village of New Albin was also almost to tally wiped out of existence. Dubuque, la., Juneß.—Sunday a torna do, with a heavy rain and hail-storm, struck us from the west. The school house was picked up and smashed to atoms, The St. Paul Company’s warehouse, oper ated by McMichaelßros., with fifteen hun dred bushels of grain, was blown over on the rail-oad track. Erickson & Sartt’s lumber was blown ull over town. Lumber was through windows, some going through dwellings. About twenty barns were demolished. Gladstone Crushed. London, Juneti. —lu the division upon the adoption of the Budget in the House of Commons, to-night, the Government was defeated by a vote of 2<>l to 252. When the figures of the vote was announced there was a remarkable scene. Mr. Gladstone, •who had. teen leaning hack in his seat with a calm ngid cynicul smile on his face, suddenly started up, became quite pale, and clutched with nervous grip the rail of the seat before him. The House w-as in wild confusion, the member* of the opposition yelled, stamped and waved their hats and handkerchiefs. Some of the more excited statesmen., tore off their cravats aud flour ished them in the air, while the shouts from the floor w< re re-echoed by cheers in the galleries. Ir is certain that the Gov ernment defeaj to-night .will result in the immediate resignation of Mr. Gladstone. Driven to Death l>y Rheumatism. PeortA,” liji,., June B.—The body of •Julius Cornelius, a fanner, aged about thirty-three years, was’found yesterday hanging by the neck to a tree on his father’s firm in Limestone Township, this couniy, both feet touching the ground and with the *" knees bent, showed that he had pdr*srstt>d ting suicide with great determinancy. The body w as in a terribly swollen and decom posed condition, and the Coroner decided that it had been hanging since last Friday. Deceased was a sufferer from rheumatism, and it is believed that pain drove him to the act. An Kxtra Supply of'Tramps. Ckntkalia, 111., June B.—For a week or so a number of tramps have teen at work picking berries here, as usual at this sea son. Some of them, more saving than the others, had kept the money earned. * Yes terday the industrious members of the fra ternity were eornered by their fellow ‘tramps, who, with oaths and threats, se cured all the money in the crowd. A team ster, named Myers, was also robbed of $950. A nuinter of the tramps have been arrest ed aud the Citf Jail is full to overflowing. . A Two-Legged Pig. BrcYurs, ()., June B.—Mr. Emanuel Al- brought to town this week a mon strosity in the shape of a two-legged pig. The pig is a perfect one. except that it is entirety d stituteof hind legs, and walks around balancing itself on its front legs. It is a real curiosity, and attracts consid erable attention. Fire in an Asylum. Williamsburg, Va., June B.— The build ings of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, at this place, were destroyed by fire. Loss, sl2f>,ooo. One female patibht perished in the flames, and another wandered away and was drowned.. < Two Child ed. Cairo. 111.. June B.—Near Villa Ridge, 111., on Thursday night, a colored woman named Ada Hackney locked her two boys, aged seven and nine years, up iu her house and " went to n dance. While away the house-and two boys burned up. ( hoi* ra in Afghanistan. London. June B.—Cholera has made i* anpearace among'*the laborers on I e Quetta Kailway. and also at Rindfi. earn ing the dispersal of the commissariat camp. Fiance and Ohina Agreed. Shanghai. June B.— The disputed points having been a reed to. the formal treaty ol negee between France aud’ Chiua will h* signed Wednesday, _
