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Several roving Mormon prtmeners, %o were recentlj arrested in Georgia it, charge of vagrancy, propose to make feet case of their indictment, and have wet furnished with funds from Utah o defray the expenses^ th* trial. y 1 s . ... I Ik W appeal, lor separatum Jrq|n lev. J.H. Boyd, at Toronto, Mrs. Boyd tates that he was savage, cruel, vio- ently tempered; and that during family >rayers lie would crawl across the room >n bis knees, keeping the prayer goiiig Ml the tim», and box his children's ears for suppose! inattention. Lieutenav? Danenhower has retufrn- ^)d home ̂ froni his lecture tour with j $7,000 in profits and with one ©ye still ; slosed. Danenhower's visual trouble i was caused by his severe arctic experi- ) 2ne§, l)Ut it is a fact that most of the (lecturers, foreign and domestic, who ravage the west, have one eye, shut ! when they get back to New York. Lizzie Booker, of Louisville, arose i from a bed on which she had been j prostrated with fever, and said: "I I shall be dead in twenty-four hours. I have a few friends whom I desire to ' see, and I am going out now to visit them. Then I shall return and lie down on my death conch." Her mother would not consent, but she let the girl go from room to room about the house in her delirium to bid her friends good­ bye. The girl gave minute directions as to her funeral, and returned to her bed', and at 10 o'clock the next morning she died. A rose farm is a new Georgia indus­ try. Two gardeners in the vicinity of Savannah planted three acres in rose trees. This year they have sold 22,000 trees to parties in the North, and had orders for 30,000, which they could not fill. The trees meet with a ready sale at from $10 to $20 per 100. Over half a million trees are annually imported into this country from France, England and Holland, and the Savannah News says it has been demonstrated that .Georgia has a Better climate for the cultivation of rose trees than -that in the South of France. (D. C.) police Court, recently rendered a decision of interest tovitriol-tlirowers A woman was on trial for throwing about half a pint of vitriol in a man's face. It nearly destroyed one eye (the only one that he had), destroyed the heanng in one ear, and .frightfully burned the flesh on his face, neck and breast. According to the woman's story, the man had seduefed her, under promise of marriage, and then an­ nounced bis intention of marrying an­ other woman, and told her whom lio had betrayed that she could send her infant to a charitable institution. Judge Snell held that this circumstance so fax mitigated her offense, that instead of sentencing her absolutely to a term of imprisonment, he made the sentence $500 fine or six months in jal, but un­ der the poor convict's act she can get her release in thirty days, t In 1882, 477 persons met death on the railroads in New York State, of which number only 16 were passen gers, 141 employes, and 320 others. This proves that only one passenger out of every 4,168,223 was killed, and that 104,836,763 miles were traveled at a cosV of a single life. The injured foot up 1,124. This total mas made up of 116 passengers, 072 employes and 336 other persons. These statistics are exclusive of the fatalities and injuries inflicted on the elevated railroads. On this system 17 were killed and 134 in­ jured in the course of the year. Fatal consequences to the number of 147 are recorded on the lines of the"New York, Lake Erie and Western railroad, which operates 1,072 mileB of rail (reduced to jingle track). The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, which killed the next higest number of pas­ sengers. 135, has in operation 2,334 miles of rail. The deaths resulting on the other railroads of the State are in each case under 25. Twelve of the 50 railroads have no death-roll at all. mo**** from Catatn£t§f« Pt0 ** Up 1*0,000. tw i-- Fiorida.. Georgia... Illinois... •x U Kentucky .....Ill A large item in the expense of main­ taining a sleeping-car is the washing bill. The Pullman • Company's entire outfit includes 50,000 sheets, 46,000 pillow slips, 13,000 blankets, 16,000 hand towels, and 6,000 roller towels. A car is entirely emptied and cleaned as soon as it reaches its destination, and the linen is sent straight to the laundry. The Wagner Company's total equip­ ments 4,000 woolen blankets, 13,851 linen sheets, 12,202 pillow slips, 5,740 hand towels, and 2,347 roller towels. The expense of keeping the Wagner Company's bedding clean is $30,000 a year; the Pullman Company's is larger From the reported remarks of a hand­ some young lady employed as receiv­ ing clerk in a telegraph office: "Upon my word, it doesn't seem to me that the men who do business have brains enough to keep them out of the poor Iiouhp, if they had to work for other pt'ople. You've no idea how difficult it i* to staiko just the right sort of de­ meanor in a place like this. The man- tgt'r t( lli us that we must be nico and Mlti»blt% Mid never curt or saucy. That* all very well, but we soon find that it won t do to obey those orders too fully. It don't take more than half n smile, or »u*o than a word sweetly spoken, to oxoiie insulting familiarity in n good many customers. I get mad enough twenty times a day to strike my fist right through that wicket into their *illy, aggravating, mawkish faces." Thk current number of the German magazine Da helm contains a note on the origin of the word "album." The writer points out that in the middle ages the parchment in common use was of two kinds--the Spanish-Italian and the-v German-French -- and that the main difference between these varieties lay in the method offclieir preparation. The German-French could be written upon on both sides, while of the Spanish- Italian only the inner service was avail­ able. The smooth white side of this latter was called album, to distinguish it from the stained exterior; and as the Spanish - Italian parchment, being stouter and eheaper than the other, was generally used for volumes intended as repositories for scraps And literary col­ lections, the meaning of the word pltram broadened eot -into its modem signification. * * • CHARLjcr GREBsr, of West Virginia, 4oved, or thought he loved, Ella Fos- jfcer. The parents objected, which made jDharley very sure that he loved Ella pnd could never'think of living without tier. He got two friends to steal her out of the house one night and roust put a preacher. When it came to the point, however, Charley weakened be- jfore the awful consummation, and said |ie didn't believe he'd marry for a month pr so. The fellows who purloined the girl were too smart to get married themselves, and not being willing to phoulder the responsibility of their jBhare of the fun, quietly covered the recalcitrant bridegroom with their re­ volvers, when he went through the oeremoney as cheerfully as men gen­ erally do nowadays. The old folkiTat koine pocketed what little aversion Ibey may have had for the young man IB# fee pair. irith a-blaw|eye.^ *• Governor Murry, of Utah, was re­ cently interviewed by a reporter in Now York, and gave at length his views ol the Mormon problem. He describes the Mormon Church as a "hierachy within a Republic," a "combination to defy the laws of the United States," aad a "conspiracy which led to a rebel­ lion at.one time and still defeats the plain will of Congress and the Presi­ dent and the adjudication of the Su­ preme Court." He represents that the Mormon Church is aggressively defiant, aiming at the establishment of a polyg­ amic empire which shall supplant the government itself, and he declares the establishment of a hostile sovereignity is the chief danger, exceeding the evil of polygamy itself. He describes the common-school system of Salt Lake City as under the complete domination of Mormons, the school-house being almost invariably contiguous to the ward meeting-house. Having complete control of the Legislature and the schools of the Territory, the Mormon Church is prepared for a collision which Gov. Murray pronounces inevitable, al­ though he says that the Mormon leaders are using strategy in \>rder to delay the conflict, thus gaining time for the augmentation of their resources. It ap­ pears that by immigration alone the Mormon population has increased more than 2,800 during the present year- Time will not remedy the Mormon evil, says Gov. Murray, and he recom­ mends that Congress either repeal its laws against polygamy in the Territory or assume control of the Territorial Government and destroy the iniquity of polygamy. If the monogamous Leg­ islature appointed under the Edmunds act, but virtually controlled by the Mormon hior^rcliy, fails to repeal laws regarding the establishment of religion and to enact measures forbidding polyg­ amy, Congress should abolish the Leg­ islature itself, Gov. Murray thinks, and establish a Legislative Council in its place, consisting of three or five mem­ bers, appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. His repre­ sentation of the power and purpose of the organised and hostile sovereignty ia Utah, now strong and growing every year, will certainly produce a deep im­ pression upon the public mind. - * A' Story About Hawthorne. A charming story of Hawthorne was told to. Mr. Conway by an _ intimate friend of the novelist. One wintry day Hawthorne received at his office notifi­ cation that his services would no longer be required. With heawness of heart he repaired to his humble home. His young wife recognizes the change and stands watching for the silence to be broken. At length he falters, "I am removed from office." Then she leaves the room; she returns with fuel and kindles a bright fire with her own hands; next she brings pen, paper, ink. and sets them before him. Then she touches the sad man on the shoulder, and, as he turns to the' beaming face, says, "Now you can write your book.' The cloud cleared away. The lo-t office looked like a cage from which he had escaped. "The Scarlet Letter" was written, and a marvelous success rewarded the author and his stout­ hearted wife. 1 * • The Deadly American Humorist* The victory was won, but General Wolfe lay dying on tho Heights of Abraham. Hearing the shouts of the soldiers, "They fly! they fly!" tho General stood on his elbow and anxiously asked, "Who flv?" "Hoss fly," replied the sergeant near by, and Wolfe, recognizing the forerunner ex the American paragrapher, was glad to lie down and die before the batch of 1883 along.--Burlington Hawk- The year 1883 can lay claim to tbe black fiag for tbe number of its distressing disas­ ters. It will take its place in history *s the most disastrous, perhaps, of any recorded in history; and the loss of life, considering'the fact that the world has been in a state of pedbe and the destroying forces of war quies­ cent, places a blaok mark against it in the calendar of time. Wreck by sea and land. Are, food and gaunt plagued have seemingly Joined forces against the human race, and headed horror upon horror's head. 8torms, unparalleled In violence and frequency, have swept the earth. Cyclones have torn through peaceful f.elds and pleasant valleys, and be fore their electric force man and his works have melted like snow before the furnace blast. Hurricanes at sea have sent gallant ships staggering to destruction, fcteam has offered its full quota of victims, * ho might truthfully be called sacrifices upon the altar of progress. Hie earth itself has trembled, as if in alarm at the times which have come up­ on us, and in it* trembling we find horror culminating, islands rising and falling, as if the solid land wag the sport of the waters, and tidal waves sweeping inland have carried destruction with them, and laid miles of once smiling country waste. Choiera has sprung from its lair in the far East and added its tens of thousands of victims to the sickening death roll. The mere juggling of words can­ not express the full meaning of the year's disasters, and where language fails we will have to call figures to our aid. The follow­ ing will serve to show the victims that have been claimed by grim disaster as its own. Only well-defined happenings, wherein the loss of life has been ten or more, are included In this list; Sinking of a ferryboat In Germany gr. Capsizing of a ferryboat in North Carolina 19 Loss of the bark Star of the West 16 Australian mine flooded 12 Floods on the rivers Rhine and Danube.. 1M Loss of the steamer Cimbria 00 Loss of the City of Brussels Is Mine explosion in Illinois lo Lobs of ship Empire 16 Milwaukee hotel lire #0 Powder mill explosion in Holland. ; AO Railroad accident in California 15 Giant powder explosion at San Francisco. SO Burning of a circus iu Poland NO Railroad collision in Italy §3 Boiler explosion in California It Railroad accident in West Virginia 12 Two steamers wrecked on the Welsh coast 45 Loss of the Ansonia, coast of Tripoli 10 Panic in a Bombay factory JSC Sinking of the steamer Tacoma, Oregon coast IS Loss of the James Gray, English coast.... 2-1 Wreck of the Kenmore Castle, Bay of Bis­ cay i>2 Foundering of a steamer off Harwich, Eng. i»6 Sinking of the brig Zutt, Atlantic ocean.. 10 Fishing boats lost at Yarmouth, England. n Mine flooded at Braldwood, 111 1 Floods In the West and Southwest (Feb.1. to Church panic in New York iw Two vessels collide on the Scotch coast,., 14 Loss of the V. S. steamer Aahuelot 11 8inking of a steamer in the Bospborus... 2*2 Loss of steamer Yazoo, Mississippi rivet. 16 Burnlngof a boarding-house In Dakota., ai Shipwreck off Holyhead. England £i. ' 123 Powder factory explosion near Paris... Floods in Russia and Poland 35 FIoodB in Mexico 40 Tornado in Georgia, Mississippi and Ar­ kansas : |oo Loss of steamer Grappler, Pacific coast... to Cyclone in Illinois ana Wisconsin. 75 Steamboat boiler explosion,San FranciSM 18 Drowned at Brownsville, Minn ...i June floods .i*. v " 58 Tornadoes in Indiana and Texas .. '28 Baltimore pier disaster n English fishing fleeta #73 Powder explosion near Constantinople.... 150 Church panic at Sunderland, Eng too Floods in Kansas and Nebraska 31 Loss of ship Wataray off Portland, Eng... 35 Railway collision in Montana 18 Accident at a steamer launching in Glas­ gow Flood at London, Ontario Fire in a Hungarian town Cyclone in Minnesota and Dakota.... Mine explosion in Sicily Earthquake in the Island of Ischl*,. Railroad accident in New York Sinking of a boat at Myereville, Miss..... Loss of a bark off Dover, Eng Railroad accident in Montana, Mine accident in England. Collision in the English Channel Earthquakes in the Island of Java 100,0( 0 Loas of tbe steamer Ludwig. 70 - Burning of a factory at Cincinnati. 11 Railway accident in Germany. • ••• 40 Loss of a ship in the English Channel..,. 4 Loss of bark Britannia off Halifax ..vv 13 Hurricane in the Bahama Islands 65 Mine explosion in Germany j- 15 Railroad accident in Roumanis, *1 450 Powder explosion at San Francisco .V 40 Floods in main " 48 Panic In a Jewish church in Rossis....... - 40 Earthquakes in Asia Minor Mine explosion in England Powder explosion at Kingston, Fa. Wrecks on the New England ooset....,t.fr Two mine explosions in Europe Modnt Ararat avslsnshe Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts. Michigan Minnesota Mississippi.... Nebraska...... Nevada New Hampshire... New • South Carolina.. ... 16'Tenaeseee ... TOiTexae w< W1 Arizona 90 Dakota 98 Idaho 4 Indian Territory 64 Montana 19 New Mexioo.. 37 .. -- Utah 10 .. SolWyoming 8 ..133!District of Colnmbla 3 .. 32 Alaska 3 SCanada 43 10 13 Total a.«,4»8 1081 ' fELO-DE-BE. || 1 A BmM* «r the S*lel4as «e lyUkear ' Jut Closed. The suicide mania has prevailed to an un­ usual extent during the year, and the record of self-murders is a long one. The causes that have led so many unfortunates to put a quietus upon their earthly career are more numerous than the letters of the alphabet but the chief one has been financ'al troubles. Poverty, hunger or the inability to obtain employment was the motive that Induced a large proportion of the long list of self-mur­ derers herewith recorded to Abruptly put an end to their existence. The Germans have furnished a large proportion of these--more, relatively, than any other nationality. The Scandinavians have also furnished a respect­ able percentage. The Americans Aid other English-speaking peoples seem less inelined to self-murder than any other nationalities. Among the curiosities of the suicides Of the year we note the following; A Maryland man killed himself because of grief for his first wife, although he had taken a second and entirely worthy one. A Kansas man drowned himself in a mill-pond, the 4am of which he had just built, because the water proved insufficient to turn the whsel. A Pennsylvania maiden drowned hqriself be­ cause her parents refused their consent for her to attend a ball. A Texas lawyer blew his brains out immediately after losing a case in court. A Baltimore woman poisoned her­ self because she could not take money from her husband's cash drawer. A California man killed himself becausc hie horse tafled to win a race. The table herewith appended Shows the number of cases of /eio-de-w re­ ported by telegraph in the United States and Canada during 1883. Of course this does not embrace all the suicides, hundreds having occurred, particularly in the Eastern, Middle and Southern States, no mention of which was ever made by telegraph. The only States unrepresented in the table are Nevada, Ore­ gon, Vermont, Idaho, Utah and Washington Territories: «New Jersey 30 la New York........... 108 14 North Carolina...... 8 14iOhio 188 lliPennxylvanla 104 1 Rhode Island 7 2 South Carolina. 10 CjTennessee 81 266;Texas 39 95|Virtiinia. Jk Lift of the Diftmgaiibed Dead of ***UAUT. ' 1. Leon Oambetta, eminent statesman of France. SUsha Allen, Hawaiian Minister at Washington. Josephine Meeker, survivor of the tfto massacre. Kllsa Hawthorne, only sister of Xathsniel Hawthorne. 1 Wm. H. Hooper, ex-Delegate In Con- gross from Utah. Bdward J. Hale, publisher, New York., 8. Dr. Warren Stone, eminent physician of New Orleans. Rev Titus Coan, noted mis- stonanr. 6. Jean Clesinger, famous French sculp­ tor. 7. Wm. A. Seaver, editor of Harper's " Drawer." Matthew F. Whittler, only broth­ er of the poet. 8. Judge Josephus (X Guild, leading oltlsen of Tennessee. 9. Thatcher Perkins, a noted Inventor. Win. B. Napton, ek-8upremo Judge of Mis­ souri. Gen. DevaMIn, an eminent oltlsen of France. M. C. Campbell, of the original Campbell minstrels. 10. Hon. Lot M. Morrill, ex-Senator aad ex-Governor of Maine. 12. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, of Lincoln assas­ sination memory. Clark Mills, the sculptor. 13. Ex-Congressman G. L. Fort, of Illinois. 14. J. H. Connolly, a well-known inventor, of Pittsburgh. 15. Nelson Ludington, a millionaire hanker of Chicago. Rev. 3. C. Talbot, Episcopal Bishop, of Indiana. 16. W. c. Pendleton, a prominent Vir­ ginian. 17. John W. Shaokelford, Congressman from North Carolina. 18. R. 8. Newbold, of Pennsylvania, ex- Minister to Mexico. 19. llenry Kip, Vice-President United States 150 _ 30 S'20 f.-K 36 8,Coo 25 ilO 14 12 30 18 25 Lake Chelmpalaceacctdenfc... Great Banks fishermen lost.. India cholera Lose of steamer Nsvatie Egyptian cholera Loss of ship Duncdeffrsfs Burning of Lake Como Theater Drowned by an accident in India. Earthquake in Persia Schooners wrecked is Lake Michigan. Steamer Holyhead, Irish Sea Savannah (Gia.) fire Whaling bark Lonlse. Arctic Ocean November cyclone. Colliery explosion in Lancashire. EnglsaA November gales on the lakes ana ooest... Bark Plormandonj Halifax, Nora Scotia.. Steamer Condor, English Channel Steamer Hymethus,English Channel..... Steamer Rome, Lake Geneva. Steamer Eclipse, Lake Ontario Bark Judith. Norwegian coast. . Schooner Busa, Gulf of Mexico Railroad collision in France Steamer Manistee Lake Superior 4.*^ Pilot boat. New York harbor. Gloucester fishing schooners Oyster Sloop, Cheasapeake Bay Steamer Arte, Bri lsh Coast • Steamer St. Augustine, Bay of Biscay^/ Ship Regina, Atlantic Ocean . pm. 27 162 150 23 60 JM0O 48 n^oo 40 47 83 800 v- 31 15 10 U 20 88 too 11 18 33 , 2° - r*18 . i- " via , ,=,18 .. J 85 10 70 10 , V21 : ,31 ..M8.050 MUBDEB8 II 1883. A Long and Ohaatty Catalogue of Bloody Deeds. The murder record of the year 1888 is a most frightful one. The columns of the press have been burdened with accounts of murders perpetrated for money, revolting outrages upon unprotected women, and deeds of vio­ lence committed upon the most tTival of pre­ texts. It would require whole columns to give even a bare recital of the murders that have occurred during the year, but some of them stand conspicuous for ghastly horror, such as the murder and cutting in pieces of her three children by an Insane mother in Milwaukee; a combat between desperadoes and citizens in Montana, resulting in the killing Of seven men and the subsequent hanging of ten of the outlaws ;the killing of Dr. Hugh Glenn, the richest farmer in California; the killing of Jim Elliott, the prae-flghter, by Jerry Dunn, in Chicago; the robbery of a train near Fort Smith, Ark., and murder of the conductor, the lour bandit? being after­ ward tr<ed and executed; an atfray between cattle herders in Mexico, in which six men were slain; the murder of his wife and two children by Charles Smith, of Delaware coun­ ty, Iowa, and suicide of the murderer; the killing of Walter Davis by Congressman Phil Thompson, at Harrod3burg, Ky.; an affray at Salida, Col., In which live men received their quietus: the slaying of N. S. Dukes, by the boy Nutt, at Unlontown. Fa.; the assassination of four county officials in Grand county. Col.; the murder of his wife, three children and himself, by Andrew White, of Dwight, 111.; the murder of the girls Rose Ambler at Stratford, Ct., Ada Atkinson at Oxford, lnd., and Zora Burns at Lincoln, 111.; the killing of his wife, three children and himself by an insane farmer at Newcomers town, Ohio; an election riot at Danville, Va., in which seven men were killed; the slaughter of George W. Williams, his wife and family at 'Waseon, Ohio; the murder and robbery of ft wealthy English­ man named Bothelmy, in the Indiaik Ter­ ritory. by a pretty girl named Nellie bailey, with whom he was journeying to Texas; the Slaying of his wife and daughter and sub- Sequent suicide of Henry MoGee, of In­ dependence, Mo.; a crime precisely similar by Samuel Harvey, of Swan ton, Ohio; the slaughter of the Maybee family on Long Island; the horrible massacre of four people at Laiconia, N. H.; the butchery of the millionaire farmer Crouch and three other persons, near Jackson, Mich., and the murder of her two children and suicide of Mrs. Rial), of Baltimore. The table given below shows the homicides com­ mitted iu the United States and Canada dur­ ing the year, as reported by telegraph, •very State and Territorial possession of the Government is represented in the ghastly With the solitary efxoeptte* of W - Alabama....... Arkansas ..&..4... California. Colorado.. Connecticut........ Delaware Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Iowa, Kansas.........4 ... Kentucky Louisiana Maine ; Maryland MoH-acliusetts Michigan. Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska New Hampshire West Virginia.. Wlaoonsin 30 Ari zona.. -Dakota.. Sjlndian Territory.... 41 Montana 34:New Mexico. 09'Wyoming 33 District of Columbia 12 Canada.. .. *j Total.........,*,..1,*08 IQNOB CASUALTIES. DoiXHtk liy Aoctdent In the United Status- A Sickening Record. While the forces of nature havo been busy all over the world in the work of slaying members of the human race by the huudreds and thousands, in this country myriads have fallen victims to man's own inventions and contrivances. While we have been visited by no such great catastrophes as the earth­ quakes of Java, Ischia, or Asia Minor, or the circus fire in Poland, yet it has been a year of unparalleled cruelty in the United States, as will be seen by a glance at the sickening record of deathB by accident which we print below. This list embraces all the accidental deaths reported by telegraph, but 4M not, of course, include all the accidental casual­ ties in the United States, by probably 20 per cent. It will bo perceived that the largest share of tho victims has been by drowning. The most of these lost their lives along our immense scacost, or 00 our numerous inland seas, though a large number were drowned while bathing in small lakes, rivers and brooks, the result largely of carelessness. Next to drowning, the railroads claim the largest number of victims. It will be a com­ fort to nervous people contemplating a ride upon the rail, to be told that passengers fur­ nished a very small percentage of the deaths by railrqd accident. Nineteen-twentleths of them were either employes of tho road (brakemen. firemen and engineers largely), reckless people who "thought they could drive across the track before the train got there," or heedless persons who "walked on the track." Fire and bursting boilers, it will be noted, have been aggravatingly de­ structive of human life, and not a few have died from accidental shooting; nearly all of these were the victims of fools who "knew the gun was not loaded." This ought to serve as a warning to every one who handles a gun. There are some curious causes of accidental death embraced in the appended list. For instance, five died in the country during tbe year from sheer fright, forty-one by the kick of a horse, two by the kick of a cow, nine were killed by falling icicles, thirty-three by falling trees, two by the explosion of a beer keg, five were choked to death by unmastlcated beef, seventeen were gored to death by vicious bulls, twenty-nine met their fate fooling with the remorseless buzz-saw, seven died from the effects of being stung by bees, three were killed by spider- bites, while one--a member of the Texas Legislature--died from the effects of a fly-bite. The catalogue of accidental deaths to the United States and Canada for the yaar is as follows: Accidental shooting. M9 Accidentally burned ; 4T7 Boiler explosion 890 Caving In of earth MS Crashed by machinery 40 Coal-mine explosion. -87 Bursting of emery wheel....*............... 14 Falling from a height........................ 834 Fright 6 Freezing GO Drowning • .3,929 Powder explosion.. 188 Kick of a horse.. *1 Poison 180 Railroad accident......... .............^4...1*907 Street-oar accident..., Suffocated by gas Runaway team. Sliiipinu; ou ice. Dynamite explosion. Kick of a cow Falling icicle ...v........... Scalded by hot water 1 Snow-slide Toy-pistol Explosion of beer-keg Gored to death by bull Accidental hanging. Choked to death by tough beef..... Sunstroke Failing derrick Locking accident '. Killed by agricultural machinery.. Gas explosion Kerosene explosion Fnllinif tree Nitro-glvcerlne Lightning Falling building... Tcrnado Buzz saw Elevator accident.. Doe bite........... Snake bite Bite of a fly Bee sting........... SDH Miscellaneous.. Total...... 33 53 173 9 * t 8 8 33 13 a IT 8 8 78 17 13 83 S3 20 194 87 43T 39 94 81 1 8 348 ....7,198 RAILROAD BUILDHTG. m A Marked Falling Off in Hallway tion Daring the Tear, During the year 1883 the number of miles of railroad constructed in the United States has been about 6,600, or more than half the number of miles built in 1883. Railroad con­ struction, like everything else in thisoountry, goes by waves. One of these indulations showed its crest in lM5fi, another in 1871, and the third, it is evident from the figures of construction, reached its top in J 883. Each of these waves has rolled higher than its pre­ decessors. In 1856 we built 8,847 miles; in 1871, 7,379; and in 18K2, 11,591. After the panic of 1857 the annual addition to the rail­ road system dropped to its lowest point la 1861, when but 651 miles of new road were built. After the panic of 1873 the bottom • V' ' : •" " - ' i- Express company. 80. Bx-Bx-Congressman Larrabee, of Wiscon­ sin. SI. Prince Frederick Charles, of Germany. J. C. Fargo, of the American Sxprees com­ pany 23. Gustave Dore, celebrated French painter. Ex-Congressman Charles Delano, of Massachusetts. Joshua Hutchinson, of th» celebrated "Hutchinson Family" of singers. Ann Eliza Bray, Enviish novelist. Sir Rich­ ard England, noted British General. Dr. George M. Beard, famous New York physi­ cian 24. George Judd, the oldest practicing law­ yer in Wisconsin. Judge Jathes Patrick, the oldest editor in Ohio. 28. Ex-Congressman Louis Pelye, of New York. Col. O. H. Irish, Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at Washington. 29. Alexander Oimltry, of Louisiana, ex Minister to Central America. rEHRPART. 7. Ex-Gov. Edmund J. Davis, of Texas. 8. Hon. C. B. Slocumb, author of the Ne­ braska liquor law. 9. Wm. E. Dodge, millionaire merchant and philanthropist of New York. 10. Charles R. Thorne, a well-known actor. 11.* Marshall Jewell, ex-Governor of Con­ necticut. 18. Ex-Gov. Edwin D. Morgan, of New York. 14. George W. Morrill, formerly a Major General in the army. Commander Francis Morris, of the navy. 15. Ex-Gov. William B. Smith, of Wiscon­ sin. Richard Wagner, the celebrated German composer. Meyer Magnus, German philan­ thropist 16. Dr. Hugh Glenn, of California, the larg­ est farmer in the world. Ex-Gov, Hempstead, of Iowa. 17. George Dawson, veteran journalist, of Albany, N. Y. 19. Samuel J. Medill, managing editor of £he Chicago Tribune, 20. Col. R. A. Packer, a very wealthy Penn- sylvanlan. 28. Fanny Drlscoll White, the Wisconsin poetess. * 26. Dr. John M. Duke, a prominent Louis­ ville physician. Hie widow of the late Gov. Jewell, of Connecticut. Belle Cook, the champion equestrienne. * 28. Hank Monk, tho Nevada stage-driver, made famous by Horace Greeley. MARCH. ' 1. Peter Cooper, millionaire philanthropist. r 2. Ex-Congressman Dudley M. Dubose, of .Georgia; Gen. James H. Simpson, a retired army officer, at St. Paul. ' 3. Gov. Alexander Hamilton Stephens, of Georgia. ' 7. Kx-Congressman John CrowelU of Cleve­ land, Ohio ' 9. Bishop Quintan, of the' Catholic diocese pf Mobile. t 10. Prince Gortschakoff, the famous Rus­ sian statesman. 14. Mrs. Mary Grove, aged 117, at Montreal, (Canada. ' 15. Mrs. Ellen Birmingham, of Louisville, Ky., aged 107. { 18. Karl Marx, founder of the Internation­ al society, at London, aged 85, ( 17. Ex-Congressman Carlton B. Curtis, of Erie, Pa. 20. Hon. Sir George Jesse 1, British states­ man. ; 25. Hon. Timothy O. Howe, Postmaster Gen­ eral 27. Ex-Congressman Charles Stetson, of Bangor, Mo. 28. Congressman Thomas Herndon, of Ala­ bama. John Brown, for many years the per­ sonal attendant of Queen Victoria. 29. Rev. Derwent Coleridge, a son of the poet Coleridge. Ex-Atty. Gen. Charles F. Gill, of Wisconsin. APRIL. 8. C. C. Trowbridge, a leading citizen of De­ troit. 5. Surgeon General Barnes, of the United States army. 9. Judge C. B. Lawreaee, distinguished Chicago lawyer. Dr. B. F. Crooker, of the Michigan university. 17. Dr. William Farr, the best-known statis­ tician in England. 18. Dr. E. B. Turnipseed, a distinguished South Carolina physician. 20. Ex-Congressman Roswell Hart, of Rochester, N. Y. Edward Nock, of Youngs- town, Ohio, the first man to puddle iron in the United States. Solomon S. Gray, of Natick, Mass., the original manufacturer of paper collars. 22. Suleiman Pasha, a famous Turkish General. Mrs. Stover, sister of the late Presi­ dent Johnson. 23. Col. Jack Hayes, of Mexican war fame. 24. Jules Bandeau, French novelist. Ex- Surgeon General Palmer, United States navy. 25. Eliza Pinkston, the notorious witness in the Hayes-Tllden Presidential contest. MAY. I. Dr. Henry Backus, the pioneer educator of idiots. John lJowen, of Wisconsin, a com­ rade of Davy Crockott. Hannah Burnslde (colored), the oldost woman in Arkansas, aged 112. 6. Rev. Josiah Hcnson (colored), the origi­ nal of Mrs. Stowe's "Uncle Tom." Louis Vlardot, eminent French author. II. Mrs. Hannah S. Grant, mother of ex- President Grant. Amasa Stone, the wealthi­ est man in Cleveland, Ohio. 28. Bx-Ooagreecman Glnery Twitched, of Misnaflmotli Gen. E. O. C. Ord, of the United mM army. 84. Ex-Gov. Thomas Bwann, of Maryland. 25. Geo. Fen wick Williams, of the British amy. 27. Montgomery Blair, of Maryland, Feet- master General under Lincoln. 28, Thomas Hoyne, a distinguished lawyer, ofCMoago. 81. Bdward Ridley, a leading dry-goods erchant, of New York. AUGUST.. 8. Milton H. Sanford, the well-known turf­ man. 14. Augustas M. Herrington, a dis­ tinguished Illinois lawyer. E. R. Hawn, a leading oltlsen of Indiana. George Mars ton, a prominent Massachusetts lawyer. 18. Robert Hewitt Brown, of Albion, N. Y., a prominent Mason and author. 18. J ere 8. Black, of Pennsylvania, one of the most prominent publlo men in tbe coun­ try. William Wirt Sykes, a well-known an­ ther. * 24. Count of Chambord, head of the rcyal bouse of France. Walter E. Pool, member of Coagrees from North Carolina. 27. B. M Pease. ex-Governor of Texas. SEPTEMBER. 2. Jackson Downer, ex-Associate Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. M. E. Cutts, member of Congress from Iowa. Ivan Tourganieff, the famous Russian novelist. 4. Marwood, England's professional hang­ man. 11. Henri Conscience, noted Belgian nov­ elist. Admiral Pierre, noted French naval officer. 12. Hugh J. Hastings, noted New York ed­ itor. Gen. T. S. Fauntleroy, former United States army officer. Thomas Green David­ son, ex-member of Congress front Louisiana. Pellis Manny, of MoUne, 111., inventor of the Manny reaper. Charles J. Foster, a New York journalist, 13. SI t, Richard Oolllnson, of the British navy. George H. Bangs, Superintendent of Plnkerton's Detective Agenoy. 14. Victor Le Franc, a Ufe Senator of France. 17. Junius Brutua Booth, the actor. 23. Dr. E. F. Hatfield, eminent Presbyteri­ an divine. 26. ( ol. George Ivnapp, senior proprietor of the St. Louts Republican.. 29. Diana Colphus, of London, Canada, aged 116 years. OCTOBER. 2. Judge Kidder, of the Dakota Supreme Court. 8. Rear Admiral Sands, of the navy. 8. Mrs. J. M. Hanning, last survivor of the Alamo massacre. 10. Surgeon General Charles H. Crane, of the United States army. 12. Col. Barnabas Burns, a prominent Ob loan. 14. Mrs. Boniface, a well-known actress. 20. Ex-Congressman Charles J. Albright, of Ohio. 21. Mrs. John Russell Young, wife of the American Minister to China. 22. Capt. Mayne Beid, the English novelist. 24. Jean Paul, distinguished French sur­ geon. 25. Rev. I. W. Pembroke, oldest Congrega­ tional minister in New Hampshire. 28. William Coffin, colored, at Plalnfleld N. J., aged 113. Margaret Mallor, at Brook- lyn.N. Y., aged 102. 29. G. N. Fox, of New York, formerly As­ sistant Secretary of the Navy. 31. Armistead Durt, ex-member of Con Cress from South Carolina. NOVKMBKB. 2. Frank B. Pond, of Ohio, author of the Pond liquor law. 6. William Swinburne, of Paterson, N. the pioneer locomotive builder. 6. Theodore F. Randolph, ex-United States Senator and ex-Governor of New Jersey. 9. Gen. Alchibiades de Blanc, a prominent jurist of Louisiana. 12. Ex-Gov. Natt Head, of New Hampshire. Admiral Creighton, of the navy. 14. Dr. J. Marion Sims, of New York, cele­ brated surgeon. 10. Gen. Augustus C. Dodge, ex-United States Senator from Iowa. 21. Com. John M. Berrien, of the navy. 22. John McKeon, an eminent New York lawyer. 28. Sojourner Truth, the noted oolored woman, aged 108. 27. At Briscoe, 111., John J. Simmona, aged 102. 28. Hon. William L. Greenly, a prominent citizen of Michigan. Lieut. George B. Carse, of the United States army. • ,?ftg^ ' A , * * ,, ->• coin. ftrv Edgar Jambs Svorr, of Cornell, killed two fifteen assnths old that weighed MM pounds • Da. W. H. McCov, of Goleoater .ti / county, haaheen appointed physician to Iks .. State prison at Chester. W ixLi am G. R transom, one «f tie fcosiil^ of Elgin, died of pneumonia. Ha resided in. Chicago about 1835. ASAMAna, 16 years old, was killed at Pwt* while playing base ball, hf being struck tqr • bat, which slipped from the haadi of another youth. A tramp at Nokomis attempted to ahoot b. Hovey, depot master, because the latter re­ fused to let the former sleep in the depot building. Johh D. Gilutt sold his famous stesr, & "Nels Morris," that was at the Chicago fH* isiiw stock show, to a Lincoln butcheg. ^$1$ mal weighs 2,850 ponnds. ^ ^ ^ A citizxs of Joliet, named Sullivan, knpt 91,750 in gold concealed in a stocking among V" > . - i some old clothes, but disoovered lately that his treasure had disappeared. - -* I • "i 4t.~v A stranger strolled into a gambling room ^ ^ a ; In Springfield, and won 1800 from the house - t at roulette. The dealer refused to pay the amount, and they came very near having • • -• dot in town. v • }*** A vkkt large, fat wolf wsdi killed near Batavla reoentty. There an more of them around there that have been killing sheep for sometime. This one had a trap attached to him, but he dragged it a mile and a half be­ fore he was killed. Thx remains of Dr. Levi Snulfx, a well- known resident .of Springfield, was takan to that city for burial the other day. He com­ mitted suicide at Jacksonville by taking ten grains of morphine. Domestic trouble was the cause. . ' Thx Rev. James Ttarbey, of XAnooln, cete. bra ted his silver jubilee as priest, the other day, surrounded by eight of his fellow priests, and in the presence of a vast congregation. The Rev. Father Hawley preached on the oc­ casion. The priests present presented 100 silver dollars. S I 31. James T. Rapier, ex-Oongressman from Alabama. Gen. A. P. Buell, U. 8. A. JtrsE. 5. James Flsk, Sr., father of the late Jim Fisk. Ex-Chief Justice Cuahing, of New Hampshire. 7. Charles C. Fulton, publisher of the Bal­ timore American. 14. Ex-8enator Eugene Casserly, of Califor­ nia. Ex-Gov. Charles J. Jenkins, of Georgia. A. C. Jordan, aged 107, of Chattanooga, Tenn. 18. Israel Washburn, ex-Governor of Maine. 14. Gen. Geo. W. Warren, a prominent Bostonlan. 17. Bishop Peek, of the M. E. church. 18. Lydia Plnkham, celebrated as a large patent medicine advertiser. 20. William Chambers, celebrated Scotch puHtelier. 21. William Mason, of Taunton, Mass., a noted inventor and locomotive builder. 23. Arbuckle, the famous cornetist. 25. Edoward Laboulaye, French priest, au­ thor and statesman. Philippe Heuscbling, a noted Belgian author. 28. Ex-Chief Justice Sharswood, of Pennsyl­ vania. 18. James W. Sheahan, one of the leading journalists of Chicago. Ex-Congressman Rooney, of Delaware. £0. Archbishop Wood, of Philadelphia. Gen. Charles Ewing, of Washington. Bishop Colenso, at Natal. South Africa. 21. Charles Backus, the well-known negro minstrel. 25. Dr. Frederick Knapp, a famous dentist, of New Orleans. 28. Stephen Anderson, IX. &, of Prince­ ton college, a noted educator. mr. 2. Rev. Thomas N. Burke, famous as a priest and lecturer. 4. Catholic Archbishop Puroell, of Cincin­ nati. Episcopal Bishop Pinckney, of Balti­ more. Catholic Bishop McMullen, of Daven­ port, Iowa. Lieut. Col. Francis N. Farquhar, of the Engineer Corps. 8. Ex-Congressman J. D. Baldwin, of Wor­ cester, Mass. Marie Von Eisner (Mile. Lilta), the prima donna. 11. Jesse H. Moore, Consul to Callao, South 29. Ex-Gov. William B. Stevenson, "of Virginia. ' 30. Prof. Tice, of St. Lonls, a well known weather prophet. DEoamnn. 1. Julius Payer, the Austrian Arctio es plorer. 9. G. B. Minot, a leading merchant of Bos­ ton. 4. Frederic Ives, a wealthy publisher o^ New Haven, Oonn. 6. John T. Donnelly, theatrical manager Philadelphia. 7. Alex. C. Joslyn, a well-known hotel man of New York, Boston and Cincinnati. 8. E. F. Bishop, a prominent nnd wealthy citizen of Connecticut. James Burns, a lead­ ing citizen of Detroit. 10. Mrs. J. A. Brown, of Milwaukee, a noted temperance lecturer. • IE. Mario, tbe celebrated Italian tenor. 13. Mrs. Christiancy, the divorced wife of ex-Senator Christiancy, of Michigan. 14. Jacob F. Krauss, of Boston, a distin­ guished Oriental scholar. ' 15. Dudley C. Haskell, member of Congress from Kansas. 17. E. A. ?opliocle*. Professor of Greek in Harvard college. Dr. T. S. Kirkbridge, distinguished Philadelphia physician. 21. Ex-Gov. lfalph Lowe, of Iowa. 24. Judge E. S. Williams, a prominent Chi­ cago lawyer. 25. Mrs. Gen. W. S. Rosecrans. 27. Gen. Thomas L. Kane, a prominent Peoasylvanian. The Origin of Earrings. • lit According to the Moslem creed the reason why every Mohammedan lady considers it her duty to wear earrings is attributable to the following curious legend: Sarah, tradition tells us, was so jealous of the preference shown by Abraham to Hagar that she took a solemn vow that she would give herself no rest until she had mutilated the fair face of her hated rival and bondmaid. Abraham, who had knowledge of his wife's intention, did his utmost to pacify his embittered spouse, but long in vain. At length, however, she re en ted, and decided to forego her plan of revenge. But how was she to fulfill the terms of the vow she had entered into? After mature reflection she saw her way out of the difficulty. Instead of disfiguring the lovely features of her bondmaid, she contented herself with boring a hole in each of the rosy lobes of her ears. The legend does not inform us whether Abraham afterward felt it incumbent upon him to mitigate the smart of these little wounds by the gift of a costly pair of earrings, or whether Hagar pro­ cured the trinkets for herself. The fact remains, however, that the Turkish women, all of whom wear earrings from their 7th year, derive the use of these jewels from Hagar, who is held in ven­ eration as the mother of Ishmael, the founder of their race.- -Deutsche Boman-Bibliothek. • ^ 'The Oldest Match Factory. At Jonkoping, Sweden, is the oldest and largest match factory in the world. It was established 100 years ago, and there are now to be seen specimens of the matches used at the beginning of the present century, consisting of big fagots of wood furnished with a handle and a tip to dip in a bath of sulphur. The wood from which the present kind of matches is made is taken from the adjacent forests, which are divided into fifty sections. Every year one section is cut and then replanted with young trees. The trees are hewn into planks in the forest and cut into slivers in the factory. The boxes are made of the outside of the trees. The factories are on the banks of lakes which are con­ nected by w ide canals. They have built a temple at Benares, in India, to a lot of sacred monkeys. , A R. Pabsoks brings suit against the oity at Chicago, claiming that his peace of miod and his wife's millinery business were Injured to the extent of $10,006 by the iiWiil of the Health department to remove a smaUfrax pa­ tient from the upper portion of the house ia whk^t the Parsons family lived and did busi­ ness. In the parlor of the hotel at Joliet, Geocge Freestune cut the throat of Mrs. Haycock with a knife. They were engaged to be married, but the woman was waiting for a divorce. Freestune'will give no reason for his action. He is a mold£r, while the victim was a cook in the hotel. The woman will .probably recover. ' Thk Middlefork Minute-Men, of Middlefork, Vermilion county, has been organised for the following purpose; "To shield ourselves from the depredations of thieves, robbers, counterfeiters, incendiaries, and other crimi­ nals, and to afford mutual aM In apprehend­ ing thieves and reclaiming stolen property." The Chicago Tribune says of the wood-pile 'charity for tramps in that city, that "the eooner It is put in good running order aad well supplied with saws, saw-bucks and slabs jthe sooner will the professional vagrants and 2tramps begin to disappear from the streets and the deserving poor get their deserts." Thk report of the State Fish commission for the ye&r ending Sept. £0 gives a more complete and satisfactory account of the work done in the distribution of native food >nd game fishes than was ever before made, tfheae fish have been collected with seines from pools and ponds along the Mississippi yiver, where they were stranded when tho pnnual overflow of that stream subsided. Of these 1,740,000, mostly pike, bass, and crop- pie, were secured during the year aad dis- jtributed to every stream ia tbe State crossed by a railroad with whioh a contract for transportation could be effected. In taking those - fish it is shown that at least live young flsh of different kinds, not desirable for planting in the interior streams, were taken for every one of the desirable kinds. These excluded flsh were all transferred to the nearest streams, SO that the work resulted in saving the lives of not less than 10,410,000 flsh that would other­ wise have perished by the drying up of the ponds where they were stranded. The native food fishes saved in this way were distributed to nearly a hundred different points in tho State, being the practical stooklng of about sixty streams capable of supporting them well and producing then in abundance!' Referring to the distribution of German carp, tbe report says that in November, 1882, two lots of 2,000 and 5,000 respectively were dis­ tributed in assignments of twenty to each applicant. Other distributions were also made in - the early months of 1803, and again in November last, the whole amount­ ing to upward of 12,000, for all of which the Commissioners took receipts showing tho ex«ct location, size, depth, and character of water of the ponds, so that the State novr has a complete record of all the private ponds within its borders In which carp has been planted, the number being upward of 3,000. 1 re Is >,.wW if \ H J - t l ; "Uncle Dick" Wehard Boners, who was killed ja the mM*: road accident at Gladstone, near Burlington, Iowa, was one of the oldest and best-known hotel men in the country and was very popu­ lar with his associates and the traveling pub­ lic. He was born iuFrome, Somersetshire* England, June 21, 1821, and, though in his 63d year, be was active and thorough in all of his business matters. He arrived in New Tork City from England July 9,18M, in his 13th year, and soon received his first hotel experience in Baggs' HoteWUtica, N. T. Jone 10, 1830, he arrived in Chicago, and was for some years a steward on the lake steamer^ running to Milwaukee, Grand Haven, and' Buffalo. His first hotel venture In CSricago was In connection with the old City Hotel, located ah the corner of Lake and State streets. He purchased the small tavern there at the time and made it a very popular hotel. In 136* ho bought out the Richmond bouse, which was located at the northwest corner of Michigan, avenue and South Water street, and under, his management it became the great resort of commercial men. Mr. Somers was a mem­ ber of the City Council from the First wart. in 1809-70. Early in 1879 he went to the Plan fc in ton house, Milwaukee, as steward, and remained there until Oct. 1 last, when he resigned to take the position he was holding at the time of his death--that of Superintendent of the Commissary department of the Chicago, llur. lington and Quiitcy railroad, having charge of the dining-cars, eating-houses and luaeh- countcrs on the line of that road batwee* Chicago and Denver. He leaves a wife and five children to mourn his loss. The dau^ h ers are Mrs. Ada SonMw* McWade and Mrs. Wm. T. Hall, of Chicago. is > v 1 m> The official bond of the Collector of < , , jpnty is for the sum of „