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iVM vm wtwm . • fV** % ? • ', «!<yVW 'IF A ». "" ': . - " . - ' f ' V . * ,'«* •* ' * *. •; ' ?*••$& * . i - I'"- V"-"' - j% ,4 $>'>• F An aaandment to the Mnfloe Appropri- •kfcmMU, Mtttae arid* #186,000 for fast-mail mrfiM, was ̂ reed to by the Senate Jan. 1& taM ttm In the Tariff Ml were considered, (tflu Boon, Mr. Anderson reported back the Maolotion calling tar certain information In regard to telegraph lines bnilt by the army. Mr. Robeson explained the provi­ sions of thiUmt itopMiltia bUi. The death of Hon. J. WTsSaddeford, of North Ckuolliias was announced, and the House ad- foamed out of respect to his memory. "J. Mr. Harrison reported a bill, in the Senate, Jan. 10, authorising the county of Yankton, Dakota, to iarae bonds, but Mr. Ghunrison nve notice that the scheme would be fought 6y three members of the Committee on Ter- rftoriea An advene report WM made on the MU to establish in Kansas a home for indi gent aoidier* and sailors. A joint resolution was passed for the purchase of •learn launches for use in the har­ bors of Mobile and Galveston. In the House, Mr. Moore, of Tennessee, introduced a Joint resolution proposing a constitutional amend- ment granting Congress power to provide by appropriate legislation for the legal ettforce- ment of the obligation of contracts entered t&to by any State in the Union. The remain­ der of the day was devoted, in committee «f the whole, to the private calendar. The Republicans of the House held a caucus and agreed to consider the Tariff bill Tuesday, Jan. 23, and that it shall have preference ^4|ver all other legislation, excepting tAe ap­ propriation bills, until brought to a vote. : The Postoffice Appropriation bill passed the Senate Jan. 30, with the provision for the reduction of letter postage to 2 cents mid the appropriation of $lNr»,000 for the oontinuanco of the existing special mail facilities between Boston, New York and Chicago. There wa6 unexpected opposition to the proposition to reduce postage to ttents on the part of both Senators Edmunds •ad Sherman. Their opposition did not #o so much to the reduction in Itself as to the principle of the en­ actment; of new legislation in appropriation bills : but the reduction was agreed to by the large vote of 40 to 15. The President sent to (be Senate the following nominations: iThomas M. Dawson, of Colorado, to be United States Consul atBaranquilla; John G. Thomas, of Colorado, to be Register of the tiand-Ollice, and Frederick J. Leonard, of "Colorado, to be Receiver of Public Moneys «tGunnison. Col.;George D.Perkins, of Iowa, to be United States Marshal of the Northern District of Iowa; M. D. O'Connell, of Iowa, to be United States Attorney of the Korthern District of Iowa; John P. Hoyt, of Washington Territory, to be Associate Jus- •Hee of the Territory of Washington. The House, in committee of the whole, con­ doned the day in debate on the Naval Ap- ;•expropriation bill r; ' Mr. Bayard presented a petition in the Senate, Jan. 22, for a law to prevent dis­ crimination by railways. Mr. Logan intro­ duced a bill requiring telegraph companies to receive and transmit dispatches from any Other line without favor. Mr. Piatt sub­ mitted an act for the extension of the free- delivery system in postoflicea The Tariff bill consumed the remainder of the session, toe chief debate being ou the lumber duty. In the House, Mr. Rosecrans introduced" a hill empowering journalistic writers to pro- mure copyrights and receive protection affc- 4ir the publication of articles A joint reso- • -tntion was passed appronriating $JIK>,000 for toe work of the Census Bureau Mr. Lima introduced a bill to grant pensions to the children of Kit Carson, now living in pover­ ty at Las Vegas. r - The tariff again formed the subject of dis­ cussion in the Senate, Jan 23. Mr. Mahone proposed a duty of #2 per tori upon iron- ore, but this ana successive propositions to make the rate 11,85 cents and 75 cents failed Jfotbrougi. Pending a vote on Jtr. Camden's •action to fix the duty actio cents per ton the Senate adjourned. In the House, Mr. Butter- «rorth introduced a bill for the appointment MRS. SYLVBHTKK BUBUUEB, wife of the manager of the |w» Thumb OoH^pjy, diedfrom lajmrioa wirtrtnad to thoNewfehU llliu A MUwauIn«'«apatoh Mystl*t am** «h* ar-4 ^ able to/fllt Vto to for ao many life I?' grai uuittnuimuuciB M iuvestlgUWi que - Hons relating to railroad or steamboat tariffs for passengers or freight Bills were ' *^r*eported to retire Bnfus Ingalls with the ;;.v ,tonk of Major General; to place Kepresenta- " * ftre Smalls on the retired list o£ tne navy, tad to send a special committee of three members to take testimony in the election l|ontest in the Fourth Alabama district In *, committee of the whole on the naval bill an ^Amendment was adopted for the gradual "pbolition of the pay corps of the navy. A resolution was offered in the Senate, i Si, that hereafter reciprocity treaties considered only in open session. The ! bill was taken up. A motion by Mr. oan to make the duty on pig and scrap l three-tenths oi a cent per pound was The rate on steel rails was fixed i-tenthsof a cent per pound The loose went into committee of the whole the Naval Appropriation bilL paragraph was adopted to provide r the completion of one of the double-tur- 1 monitors, either in a navy-yard or on proposals from ship-builders The bill was ' " Vjjepoited to the House, and the amendments Mffrere adopted in bulk, except the one pro- - - jridlng that Chiefs of Bureaus shall receive fw additional pay. TBSBAST. ' T HE Pennsylvania anthracite coal ' Jsompaniee have decided to suspend opera- ions the last three days in each week a til further notice Harvey Tavlor, of eld Spring^ N. Y., killed his wife and aother-in-law, and then committed suicide le was crazy. Aw ice bridge formed over Niagara Wis the other day, upon which many peo- le crossed During its formation it wrecked forty feet of the inclined railroad and turned "le ferryman's house on its side The louoester fishing schooner James A. Gar- eld lost six men to a terrible gate on 8& Peter's bank. F T HREE coal trains, consisting of sixty- ftfne cars, on the George's Creek and Cum- land railroad. West Virginia, while (le­ nding a grade ten miles from Cumber- id, started down at a terrific pace, finally umping the track and falling down a steep about 100 feet in height Sev- persons were instantly killed, and al received mortal injuries .ding's block at Nashua, K H., valued #50,0' 0, fell a prey to flames at midnight . .Charles Delano, formerly a member of Congress, died at Springfield, Mass. I; WILKESBARBE, Pa., was greatly ex­ ploited the other day by a small-sized earth­ quake The city is practically built above • < oal-mine, and the trouble grew out of the •#4nklng of some of the old workings. No- flbodv was hurt, but much damage was done Wo buildings, sidewalks and streets, and : more trouble is anticipated. THIS WK81V T HK weather throughout the West and Northwest on the 18th, 19th and 20th . of Jajiuary was intensely cold, the mercury ( in some sections ranging between twenty and thirty below. At Omaha some of the iipublic schools were cloied. I tail way traflic , was much impeded bjr snow accumulatinp- in the cuts, in some Instances trains being * , ^ abandoned A great snow-storm prevailed in Ontario during the same time . . . ̂ T HE Quincy House, one of the larg- est hotels in Quincy, 111., was almost entire- y destroyed by lire the other morning. Al­ though there were nearly HO people in the building when the lire was discovered, there 7 y • waus no loss of lite, owing to the promptness • • and rare presence of mind, of the clerks and employes. The loss is 1 , about $5o,000. f lames swept away ><v •-,* i - aWockof stores at Moorhead, Minn., caus- •X 1 tog a loss of $50,tW A loss of 5175,000 was entailed by the burning of Corbett and Mc- Leary's wlioiesale house, Portland, Ore.:.. • ' , . , Seven buildings were burned at Abilene, " Xan.. causing a ioss of $30,000 Tlue High School at Marengo, III, which cost#23,(Xi0, ~'Jt, ni1 destroyed by lire. " J A M ILWAUKEE dispatch of Jan. 2 0 says: ^Evidence accumulates against Hchel- 5> " x"" lsr, who, it is alleged, fired the Newhall , House. It has been ascertained that he , 1 socroted somo of his stock of liquors and " \ f removed seven sets of billiard balls "fj- "• 7 before the lire occurred. The prisoner was returned to the Milwaukee jail yesterdav, and no one is j>ennitt<id to eee him. An- ^ other l>ody has been token from the ftre ruius. making a total of forty-six. The ta« that On remains human bodiea Thta makes the tow of by the disaster not less thaa seventy-four. ™ action of Gen. ttiaa Qovernor of the Soldiers' Home, for not abtmTlytag with the request for aid at the NewhaUHoiue disaster, in refusing to send a steamer, is to be qaade a matter of offlcia investigation. Congressman Deuster has taken the neces­ sary steps wad fa assisted by Bsaator Lagan. A DISPATCH from Weeksville, Mon­ tana Territory, soys that a band of vigilantes proceeded to the settlement on the Thomp­ son river, and cleared the place of rougha. They then went forward to Sand Point Where they found two men, nicknamed "Dick, the Barber," and the other "Ohio « Sam.* These they seized and hanged on separate trees, A Carson (Nev.) telegram states that a band of mounted and masked men rode up to a store in Gold Mountain, a mining town near here, and ordered the proprietor to give up all his money. He refused and was at once shot dead by the leader. Two Creek TnrHmm who were standing near were also murdered in cold blood The road-agents then robbed the store of everything vialuable, and rode to Silver Peak, where they went to the principal store and pro­ ceeded to plunder it The propri­ etor and one of his clerks drew tneir revolvers and opened fire on the highway­ men, killing two of them. The tire was re­ turned. and the proprietor and his assistant fell ctead with millet-holes through their hearts. The road-agents cleaned the store out and made their escape unrecognized.... A San Francisco dispatch says it is now ascertained that the number of Chinamen killed by the giant- powder explosion was thirty At Montello Station, on the Central Pacific road, ltki miles west of Ogden. Utah, a band of mounted and masked men seized the section man, waited for the eastbound ex­ press. and upon its arrival side-tracked the engine. Their attack on the express-car was frustrated by the agent, and after about thirty shots had been exchanged the robbers fled No one was killed or injured.... The machine-shop and pattern-rooms of the Great Western Manufacturing Company at Leavenworth were burned, causing a loss of $"5,000. The workmen thrown out of em­ ployment number :i50 .. .A Deputy Sheriff has taken possession of the wholesale grocery- house of Fay it Conkey, of Chicago, against whom judgments have been ob­ tained for $218,1 M. Their total liabilities are believed to be $350.00U. E VIDENCE taken at the inquest on the victims of the disaster at Tehachapi, on the Southern Pacific railroad, goes to show that the smash-np was the result of an attempt to rob the train The supposition is that a gang of thieves let off the brakes, and thus started a part of the train on the do.vn-grade, in order to secure possession of the express-car..... Lena Zempirek, a Polish woman, residing at Milwaukee, butchered her three children-- all females--aged 3 years (i months, 1 year 8 months, and 4 months respectively, by stabbing, mutilating the bodies, and disem­ boweling them When asked what prompted the deed, she replied: "I read it in the book" Her features are stamped with the marks of insanity, and she wo* on the point of banging herself when discovered The iron and steel works of Houston A Hays, at Coshocton, Ohio, were completelv de­ stroyed by fire, the loss being $80,0t)O The two charges of murder against Frank James, the outlaw, were- withdrawn at Kan­ sas City, and bail in the '•Blue Cut" robbery case was fixed at $3,500, and he will doubt­ less be able to secure bondsmen. T HOMAS D ELANEY, who was night clerk of the ill-titoxred Newhall House, testi­ fied that he could have awakened the guests on the north side of the hotel, but was engaged in business he considered of more importance Charles Cobb, a des­ perado, shot and killed Sheriff Stone, near Udell station, Kan., and an armed party from Winfield went to the scene of the tragedy and hurig Cobb to the nearest tree. George B. Judd, the oldest practicing law­ yer in Wisconsin, died at Racine of pneumo­ nia With the thermometer marking 15 degrees below zero the lie v. C. £ Delp bap­ tized three persons in MITT creek, at Boches- ter, Ind THK SOOTH. T HE boiler in the Ledger Paper Mills at Elk ton, Md.,exploded, demolishing half the building, killing one man, and injuring eight others. One employe is missing Unfavor­ able weather caused the postponement of the New Orleans winter races until next season. E AILROAD men attempted to dry Hercules powder cartridges at Pine Hill, Ky., and an explosion ensued, sending three men fifty feet in the air, and leaving nothing but the four posts of the blacksmith shop stand­ ing. A fire at Washington," Ark., burned stores valued, with their contents, at$50,- •XX).... .Several business buildings at Cochran, Ga, were burned, tht todi amounting to 940,000. WASHINGTON. G EN. H AZEN, who takes care of the weather for this country, the successor of Old Probabilities, has been found guilty by a Washington court of neglecting to clean off his sidewalk, and with him were also convicted Gen. Baum, Attorney General Brewster and others. T HE House Agricultural Committee at Washington has agreed to report favora­ bly a bill to create nine Commissioners to investigate the movement of products to market, the cost of their transportation to the carrier and the charge made to the ship­ per. T HK Grand Jury at Washington re­ fused to indict William Dickson, foreman of the first star-ronte jury, for soliciting a bribe The annual dinner to the diplomat­ ic corps was given in grand style by Presi­ dent Arthur last week. GEN1CKAL. E X-S ENATOR S PENCER sailed from Halifax for Europe in the Polynesian Just before embarking he gave an interviewer a breezy story about his connection with the star-route cases, claming to have been the first to discover the frauds, which informa­ tion he communicated in confidence ro the Postmaster General, on condition that his name should never be randi public in con­ nection with the triala T HE National Board of Trade, at its session in Washington, adopted a resolution in favor of the abolition of all internal revenue taxes, except those on tobacco and spirituous and fermented liquor*. The board, after a lively discussion, adopted a resolution favoring the immediate abroga­ tion of the Hawaiian treaty. Arthur Pres­ ton (colored), aged til, was hanged at Belair, Md.. for murdering his mistress. Charles Shaw, a colored boy, was executed at Washington for killing his sister, a year ago. T HE Canadian Pacific Directors re­ port the sale of 940,000,000 of new stock to an international syndicate at ((0 per cent of the par value The Prince of Wales and suite will visit Canada the first week in March, and make a tour of the United Statea POLITICAL. B AIXOHKG for United States Senator in the Colorado Republican caucus was con­ tinued on Jan. 19 without result The last ballot yielded Pitkin 20 votes, Tabor 17, HaraUi 11, and Bowen 5. The Michigan Legislature balloted for Senator, Ferry receiving 52 votes and Stout 50, the remainder being scattered among a number of aspirants. In the Nebraska Legislature Thaver and Miilard had 10 votes each, and Morton 18. The fourth ballot for Senator in the Minne­ sota Legislature rave Windom 50, Wilson 83 and "scattering" the remainder. F BJENDS of temperance in Iowa, in view of the Supreme Court decision, will hold a State Convention at Des Moines Feb 7, to determine upon their future policy. I:i the Senatorial ballot at Lansing, Mich., Jam. 20, Ferry had 40 votes and Stout I* Twp ballots wen taken at 8b Baal, Kins., giving Windom 48 mdWQmtt b the contest at Lincoln, Neb.. Ulllard and J2T35: i aaae; Tw exoitemee* to Massaolra- oonstottesover the MMH reeortedto by the Mends of Senator Boar to aeoare hit re-election. Congressman Crapo reiterates his statement that fraud was employed, and Boar's friends have been aMe to make but a lame defento. Two BA&LOT8 were taken for United States H--jtor by the Nebraska Legislature, on Jan. 28, without any choice. The first ballot stood as follows: Stiokela, Anti-mo­ nopolist, p; Thayer, 15; Millard, 15; Cowln, 18; Saunders, IS; Brown, 9; Boyd, 9; Manderson, 7; Morton, 5. and 13 scatter­ ing. The second ballot differed but slightly from the first The Minnesota Legislature balloted once without a choice: Windom, 44; Wilson, ST>; Cole, lfi; Dunne! 1, 10; Hub- bard, 9: Kindred, 6; Farmer, 4; Davis, 5; Wakefield, 2; scattering, 5. The Republican caucus of the Colorado Legislature tried un­ successfully to agree upon a man for Sen­ ator. Pitkin led with 30 votes on the first bal­ lot, Tabor with 24 on the third, and Bowen led the field with t£i on the ninth, tenth and eleventh ballots. The Democrats of the New Jersey Legislature nominated Senator John B. McPherson for re-election on the first ballot The Republican caucus agreed to compliment George A Hobart by casting their votes for him. R ICHARD C OKE, Democrat, has been re-elected United States Senator from Texas by the unanimous vote of the Legisla­ ture. John. E. Kenna, Democrat, has been elected Senator from West Vir­ ginia, and Senator Plumb, Republican, has been re-elected from Kansaa The Leg­ islatures of Michigan, Minnesota and Ne­ braska again balloted for Senator without result on Jan. The Republican caucus of the Colorado Legislature balloted for Senator without effecting a nomination. T HE Legislatures of Michigan, Min­ nesota, Nebraska and Colorado continued their unsuccessful balloting for Senator on Jan. 34. The voting showed about the same multiplicity of opinions regarding the proper men to send to Washington as the preceding ballots. A W ASHINGTON correspondent is au­ thority for the statement that a Georgia gentleman called on President Arthur, the other day, to recommend a friend for an of­ fice in that State. During tne conversation he remarked to the President that the ap­ pointment of colored men to office in the bouth did not help the Republican party in that Miction. The President replica that he had observed the same thing. A eolorcdman got an office and appointed white men as deputies to run it for him The President said he had about reached the conclusion that in the future,he would appoint but few colored men to office, and that he should be careful in selecting the few to appoint, only those whose character for ability and integ­ rity was unquestioned. He was satisfied, he said, that the appointment of colored men tended to keep white men of standing out of the Republican party. FOREIG& 'Si' , ' - i t • PRINCE KRAPOTKINE sentenced at Lyons to five years' imprisonment and fined 2,000 francs for inciting to anarchy. A number of others received very heavy pen­ alties t he decision of the Judges causing a tumujtin the court-room In the Italian Senate, Depretis said emigration to South America had proved very successful, as labor­ ers found work there, but an exodus to North America was not to be recommended.... At Muiden, Holland, three explosions oc­ curred in the gunpowder manufactory, wrecking most of the houses in the town and damaging some in adjoining villages. The loss of life is placed at forty The Marquis of Hartington, the British'War Sec­ retary, in a speech in London, declared that home rule could never be permitted in Ire­ land, and scouted the idea that the Govern­ ment should find funds to establish a peas­ ant proprietary. O NE Farrell, an informer, has given evidence against several men at Dublin, charged with conspiracy to murder. He stated that an inside ring in the Fenian ursu tewtrvurM no -»V WHO aaww u vmu «m»v iMDOBCUUlkVlVU KW* ciety, who took it upon themselves to re­ move obnoxious officials. He detailed at­ tempts to murder ex-Secretary Forster, and pointed out the parties implicated in the assault on Juror field A Paris dispatch says that great excitement continues in France over the reported Legitimist rising in La Vendee. The Gov­ ernment will submit bills against the pre­ tenders to the throne, and modifying the press law, to the Chamber of Deputies. The names of the Orleans Princes have been stricken from the army list... .Eight persons were drowned by the foundering of tne ship Forwarts off Lisbon. M ATTERS political are not moving smoothly in France, and a feeling of de­ cided uneasiness prevails. The Bourse has already felt the effect of the unsettled oon- dition of affairs, ana a panic may occur at any time. The ex-Empress Eugenie arrived in Paris a few days ago, ostentatiously an­ nouncing that she ignores the republic and intends to display her sympathy with the cousin of her late husband.... Paul Gustave Dore, the famous French art­ ist, died in Paris, aged 51 rears. He was born in Strasburg. Recently he has been engaged on illustrations of Shakspeare.... Deaths from starvation have occurred in In- nisinurray Island, on the northwestern coast of Ireland i/i, DEFtmf- T HE ex-Empress Eugenie left Paris for London, after a sojourn of two days, a large crowd witnessing her departure and showing sympathy. President Grevy sent her a private message, intimating that her presence in Paris was not desirable... .O'Bri­ en, editor of United /i-rtntul, has iieen elected Member of Parliament from Mallow, County Cork, over the Government candidate, John Naish, by a majority of seventy-two.... The crew of a large schooner--seventeen in numl>er--lost on tha New Guinea coast, were slaughtered by the savage natives, their heads being distributed among the villages The central portion of Nicoleff, Russia, was consumed, and some persons perished in the tiames. leaving the heroic izlous. To him alone All Express Messenger's Fight with Nevada Bandits. ™ »dr JWfM, ifartlly letfcs. ̂|| [Ogden [Utih Tetag-am.1 III. attempt to rob the Central Pacifio train at Montello, Nov., at 1 o'clock yester­ day morning ̂was one of the boldest vent­ ures ever made, and waa not a failure be- oause the plans of the robben miscarried On the oontrary, their arrangements for car­ rying orlt their bold scheme were complete, like great mistake which they made was in tackling a train which carried one of the bravest men in the world With a less brave and determined man to deal with the at­ tempt would have proved successful, for the attack «M vigorous and persistent, and con­ tinued almost without intermission for three hours, until the baffled villains with­ drew from the scene, Ross wounded but victorious. is due the credit of having saved the ex­ press-oar and toe entire train. Mr. Roes has been in the employ of Wells, Fargo ft Ckx over sixteen years, and this Is the third unsuccessful attempt which has been made to rob toe treasure under his chartre. Eleven years ago, while holding his shotgun on the treasure ooach of the Montana line, he waa held up by a band of road agents, but killed several and got away from the rest of the crowd This last at­ tempt has seldom been equaled anywhere for the bravery and persistence of the rob­ bers and the stubbornness of the defense. Mr. Roes stated that the point selected by the robbers for their operations was one of the lonellestjplace8 on the line of the desert region in Nevada, in a sagebrush desert, the center of a section sixty miles in length, where there is no night telegraph station. eThe San Francisco and Ogden express trains pass at 1:35 o'clock am, at Tecoma, ten miles east of Montello. WeleftToano,westof Montello, on time, our train being in charge of Conductor Cassin. I checked the way­ bills received at that station, laid down and went to Bleep. The next thing which I was aware of a rap at the car door, as if an agent had called, and, supposing the train was at Tecoma, I got up and looked out, when a man pointed a gun at me and said: " 'Hop out, we are going through you.' "I jumped back and pulled the door to and hooked it They went over to the opposite side and said: " 'Open up the doors aild Jump out We are going to rob the train.' "I replied: 'Just wait till I get my boots on.' " 'Never mind your boots. Hon right out here, and we will get through with you, and then you can get your boots on.' "Again the men outside said: 'Open op, or we will burn you out and murder you.' "I then "rot In position and shot through the side of the car. Nothing was done for a •few minutes, until one of toe robbers asked: , " 'Ain't you going to open up the door and come outr' "I told them I was not coming out An­ other demand was made for me to 'hop out' I made no reply to that They then stationed one man at each corner of the car between me* and the baggage-car, and five shots were fired simultaneously from different quarters, all ranging toward the center of my car. Those were the shots that struck me--one on a finger, one on the hip, and one just below the breast, near the watch-pocket They then got up on the end of the car to uncouple the train, whereupon I fired two shots through the end of the car. At this time they heard No. ti, the west-bound ex­ press-train, coming. They backed our train up and went on the side-track, and sent two men down the road fio meet No. 2. When it came up I heard Conductor Clement ask Cas­ ein: ' What are you doing here? I want to speak to you.' The robbers aimed their guns at Clement's head and told him to pull out, and he did " The nearest telegraph station was thirty miles. The robbers then compelled the brakeman to uncouple the express, move it forward, and forced the engineer to run ahead, and back down to wrcck the express car, which was attempted three times with­ out sucoes^thp holes in the doors being guarded by TH^sfcubborn messenger. Sev­ eral attempts to burn the car were unsuc­ cessful owing to the scarcity of wood, and, after renewed attempts to lull him through the doors, the;,' mounted their horses and rode away. HORRIBLE EXPLOSldl A €a!ifoniia Powder Manufactory Bursts and Scatters Death and Destruction. 4<Owine to be a Lawsuit." We were sitting on the hotel steps at Franklin, Tenn., when a colored man came up and asked the time of day. A gentleman, whom everybody addressed as Major, gave the hour and added: "Say, Moses, I want a good stout man to move some fencing for me. I'll give yon a dollar to come up and work for me to-morrow." "Couldn't do it, sah. I'ze got to 'tend dat Peters lawsuit to-morror." " "Well, next day." "Next day de old man Brown has his lawsuit." "Then say Thursday." "Couldn't do it, sah. Dat's de day Mrs. Simpson am to be tried fur frow- in' an ax at Elder Barrow." "Well, will you agree to be on hand Friday?" "No, sah. On Friday I'ze gwine seb- en miles out to 'tend a lawsuit befo' Squiar' Marshall." "Can you come Saturday?" "Reckon not, Major. More'n likely de Taylor hog-killin' case will come off Saturday." "See here,Moses," said the Major as he dropped his feet and leaned forward, "can you spare me any one day next week?" "Can't promise fur sartin, sah, kase some of dese lawsuits may be disjourned ober, you know." He was only a fair sample of the race. Next day, as I rode out on the Spring­ field pike, I met five slashing fellows walking at a rate of six miles an hour. After dividing a plug of tobacco among them I asked: "Going to towiif" "Yes, sah." „ "Circus coming in to-day ?" "Beckon not, sah, but dar's gwine to be a lawsuit, an' we's pushin' right 'long fur front seats."--M. Quad. A KJEMTUCKY farmer lost four daugh­ ters i* OM day--by About Fifty Chinamen and One Can* casian Sent Flying to Eternity. S : ; " [Tel-gram from Berkeley, CaL] The mixing-house and six paoklng-houses of the giant-powder works at Point Clement, near West Berkeley, exploded at 4 this aft ernoon. The shocks of seven explosions were felt in this town. One white man, the foreman, named Conk, and between forty ahd fifty Chinese are known to have been blown to atoma. Nearly the entire plant was destroyed by fire, which began immediately after the explosion. The superintendent was thrown a long distance, but waa not hurt Physicians went down from Berkeley and West Berkeley The fire is still raging. A large magazine, contain­ ing over •JW tons, is still safe. About eight tons exploded. The dwelling-houses on the east side of the hill are safe, but all the glass is shattered. It is now knpwn that the number of Chi­ nese killed is not as great as at first reported. Not over thirty are missing. The fire is still raging, and more explosions are expected momentarily. The scene in the vicinity is terrible Bodies can be seen lj'ing near the mine of fire, but the men dare not rescue them for fear of their own lives. The as­ sistant superintendent is missing, and is supposed to be killed The superintendent was not at the works. A workman named Oscar Forguflskv was pulled from the ruins, soon after tne ex­ plosion, seriously hurt Seven Chinese have been taken from the debris, all badly hurt All the houses in a radius of half a mile are completely shattered. The doors and windows of the dwelling houses of the employes on the opi>osite hill were blown in and most of the occupants dashed to the fioor. Sheds aud barns were laid fiat The buildings of the Judson works, on the side of the hill where the blasting powder is manufactured, were thrown over, and the mill will probably have to be rebuilt The cause of the first explosion in the mixing house is yet un­ known. The other explosion followed in the space of two minutes. below a washed bank means the form- i«g of a great sand shoal. Theee shoals sometimes arise as if by enchantment. A steamer will ground across stream. She draws six or seven feet, yet in thir- ty-six hours there will form in the eddy mlow her keel a sand bank reaching to the water's surface. If she swings un­ evenly on this bank she is in constant danger of "breaking her back," as the river phrase goes. A bank formed in this manner around a steamer may sometimes keep her aground in her muddy fetters for months. The ice floating down from tho Mississippi's upper waters usually sinks with its muddy accumulation before it reaches Memphis, and an old steamboat Captain has told me that he has been astounded at apparently striking bottom on this mud ice where the lead showed several fathoms of water.--New York Pont. ! DEATH ON THE MIL Xaaj Killed or Bnraed to Death Railway Accident in California. Horrlbto Sa*nes Witnessed at tfia ' Place of tha Disaster; ! A fcetegiam " from Tehichipa, Cift, «^a: Shortly after midnight FHday night the overland express on the Sbuthern Pacific railroad Btopped near here to take on an ex­ tra engine to assist in pulling up a grade of 120 feet to the mile. While making the change by some means the train, consisting of express, mail and baggage cars, two sleepers, one coach and a smoker, became free and started to run full speed do\#n the grade. The air-brakes had been taken off, and the men who should have been tend ing hand-brakes were away from their pbsts, one attending to switch­ ing the extra engine, and the other relighting Ids extinguished lamp. The train gathered headway"quickly and was soon dashing down the grade at the rate of a mile a minute. At a sharp curve in the road the coach and smoker, which were ahead, broke their coupling and separated from the rest of the tram, making the turn safely. The sleeper and the mail, express and baggage cars were dashed against a high bank, then thrown back and rolled down a fifteen-foot embankment The lamps and stoves at once set fire to the wreck, which was instantly in a blaze. Harry Con­ nors, the news agent, who was sleeping in the baggage-car, was awakened by the move­ ment of the car. and aroused James Wood- hull, the bajgagemaster, just as the car made the jump. The roof o.J the car split open, throwing both men out severely bruised. Connors, while lying on the ground unable to render any assistance, saw the train entirely enveloped in flames, heard the shrieks of the dying victims, and saw them vainly endeavoring to struggle from the burning ruins. Porter Ashe and his wife occupied a lone drawing-room of one of the sleepers and were awakened by the crash. They succeeded in getting out without In­ jury, but or the sixteen other occupants of the' car not one is believed to have escaped In the meantime the occupants of the coach which kept on the down grade suc­ ceeded in stopping it, thus saving the lives of some forty occupants of that and the smoking-car. They immediately walked back to the scene of the accident, but found only the smoldering ruins of the train and the four who had escaped with their lives lying bruised and bleeding in the darkness, shivering in the piercing cold night air and rendering assistance to each other. Word was sent here at once and assistance soon arrived. As soon as possible medical attend­ ance was sent from Sumner and Bakersfield, and subsequently from Los Angelea Search for the dead soon showed twenty-one had perished. Eleven were burned beyond all recognition,only headless bodies and charred limbs being found Of the body of Mra Downey only the head and bust remained, and these were recognized by her jewelry. All the beetles aud uogiurciitn VreTo jucvL!aii;4t?\i up and put in coffins,. The wounded were removt a to the baggage-car, and, on the ar­ rival of a relief-train from Los Angeles, were sent to that ciry. Of the dead the colored porter, Wright, was crush d; Ex­ press Messenger Charles Pierson had his head shattered; five were burnt, but were re­ cognizable, viz.: Miss Mamie E. Squires, Mra H. O. Oliver, Mra Downev, M. Wethered and Mra James CasselL Two unknown, hut supposed to be discharged soldiers, were found dead, but were not burnt One other body, that of a large man, was found badly charred It is supposed to be the re­ mains of CoL Larrabee, ex-Congressman from Wisconsin. Gov. Downey says that Larrabee was on the train, and he lias been missing since the accident The remaining eleven are still unidentified The wounded are Mra Capt J. K. Brown snd daughter Ida, Lee Waterhouse, Mrs. A. L. Waterhouse and two children, John T. Cassell, ex-Gov. Thomas Downey, James Woodall, F. W. Dougherty, Mra P. C. Hatch, Mm It. Hatch, the maid of Mra Perter Ashe, R. C. R ms, Stephen Collin, J. W. Searls, and Capt T. H. Thatcher. The mail included One poudh of registered letters for St. Louis, Mo., and 1CK) small packages of registered letters for other places. Characteristics of the Mississippi. Now conceive the longest river in the world, with a current of four or five miles an hour, turned loose iu a valley of this alluvial soil. The immediate valley is, say, forty miles wide and 1,500 miles long, with vast areas of lowland, and little or no ascent until the distant upland regions are reached. To say that such a river will be muddy is a feeble phrase to express the fact about the Mississippi. Its waters are simply saturated with soil all the year round. Men who live on its banks say they can discover with the eye no difference from one month to another in the turbidness of its flood. , The swift current turned against a bank cuts it al a knife cleaves cheese. It has l>een known in spots to penetrate a solid bank thirty or forty feet in a day. Very often it will under­ mine an acre or two of land, which all at once will sink, while trees at the edge fifty feet high drop, roots first, until their tops disappear below the current. A part of the soil thus taken up falls at once to the bottom as soon as the cur­ rent slackens. Often a slowing of half a mils am hour at a point a mile or two ADDITIONAL NEWS. Two BALLOTS for Senator were taken at Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 25, Boyd, Democrat, receiving 33 votes and Millard, Republican, tH, the highest vote of his party. In the first ballot at Lan«ing, Ferry and Stout had 4» votes each. At 8t Paul. Windom had 5U supporters and Wilson 38. In the Colorado contest. Tabor led the field with 21 to Pit­ kin's 15. A P ARIS dispatch says the committee of the Chamber of Deputies*' on the bill against the pretenders agreed upon a prop­ osition excluding from French territory, Algiers aud the colonies all tie members of families having reigned in France, depriving them at political rights as citizens, declaring them inel igible for any office, and prevent­ ing them from belonging to the army. The re.solution of the committee further provides that transgressors of the proposed law shall be amenable to the correctional tribunals, and liable to from one to five years' imprisonment, after which they shall lie again expelled A Dublin dispatch says that Hcaly refuses to give bail, and will go to prison Flotow, the famous German composer, is dead T HE unrecognized dead victims of the Newhall House disaster were laid at rest at Milwaukee'with appropriate ceremoniea As befitted the solemn occasion, business was suspended Religious services were held in which clergymen of all denomina­ tions took part--Protestant, Roman Catholic atid Jewish. Thousands of people assem­ bled to pay the last tribute of respect, and at least '1,000 followed the cortege to the cemetery, where the charred remains of the victims Were interred in one grave.... The other night Frank James was permitted to attend the theater at Independence, oc­ cupying a box in company with Deputy Marshal Holland, the keeper of the jail. The next day, bv order of the Judge of the Crim­ inal Court, Mr. Holland was dismissed from office by the County Marshal There is now before the Nebraska Legislature a resolution which has alreadv passed the Legislatures oi Kansas, Iowa, Colorado and Wyoming, ask­ ing Congress to provide means of protection against the introduction of contagious dis­ eases among the herds. C HAKLES B BIODT, who played in the Cleveland base-ball team last season, and is now residing at Lansingburg, N. Y., intend* to go into the business of healing the sick, claiming to have that gift by being the sev­ enth son of the seventh son. I T is now stated by authority that Senator David Davis and Miss A. E. Barr will in March be married at Fayette ville, N. 0. The House of Representatives passed the Naval Appropriation bill, Jan. 2S, after re­ jecting an amendment to provide that chiefB of bureaus shall receive no additional pay and adopting a clause to give Asa Weeks fSO.OUO for the use of his torpedo invention. Tributes to the memory of Senator Hill were offered by Messrs Hammond, House, Hooker, Cox, when an adjournment was taken. The day having been set apart by the Senate for services in honor of the late Senator Hill, of Georgia, on motion of tteaator fpewa. tanadMUr aftar the reading of the )ownai, remarks eulogiatloaf the deceased were begun. At the conclu­ sion thereof the Senate adjourned, and the ReettbUmns resumed Utm caneus on the tariff, thirty Beriwtcn were In attendance. After oonskfanrahlf diacuaelon, the caucus adopted a reeoiuifcta providing for the dis­ cussion of the Tariff bill now pending fe| the Senate under the five-minute rule, and the pushing of it forward as eazfy as poeslble to a vote The Democratic Senators, to the number of twenty, also held a conference. The discussion was confined to the general policy to be pursued in regard to the pending Tariff MIL No attempt wa£ made to reach an agreement as to what ac­ tion should be taken touching any particular feature of the bill, or as to any amendments to be offered The general sentiment fa­ vored a curtailment, as far as possible, of speech-making, and the avoidance on the part of Democrats of filibustering or pur­ posely delating thepaasage of thebill. M OCEAN m The Oimbria Sent to the Bottom North Sea bj British Vessel. Three Hundred Parsona Xnovn to Have Foand. Watery ̂ Gtravea. The Yictims Nearly All Pramlan Artf- Miu Emigrating fa the United , Stales. '• f£*ble Dispatch from London.]; v The Hamburg-American steamship Cim- bria, disabled in collision, went to the bot­ tom of the North sea last Friday. Hundreds found watery graves The Cimbria left Hamburg with twenty-three cabin passen­ gers, 362 steerage (mainly German artisans), and a crew numbering 06. She grounded in the Elbe, but was taken off without damage and started on her voyage Thursday after­ noon. Friday morning, in a thick fog off Borkum, she came In collis­ ion with the steamer Sultan, and sustained such severe Injuries that it became apparent she must sink almost at once. The ofiicers did all in their power to rescue the imperiled passengera Without a moment's loss of time life-belts were dis­ tributed and the order given to lower the boata This, however, in consequence of the vessel keeling over on her side, was found to be very difficult on one side and absolutely impossible on the other. As the second officer was still engaged cutting the spars loose, so there should be as much driftwood as possible tor people to cling to when the inevitable foundering should oc­ cur, the vessel with a pi urge went down. He seized hold of a spar, but, as several other passengers clung to it, was obliged to let go, and swam to a boat This boat was subsequently picked up by the Theta. The second officer steered the Theta to Cue- haven. Seventeen other persons have been saved by the steamer Diamant, from the Wesscr light-house, making fifty-six thus far known to have been rescued The num­ ber of lives lost is estimated at fully 300. The passengers were mostly emigrants from Eastern Prussia Among them were six American Indians, who had been on exhibi­ tion iu Berlin for some time. A survivor makes the following statement: "The weather was clear and damp up to 1:15 o'clock," says the survivor, Ubut a heavy fog then set in, which continued and in­ creased in density. The engines of the Cimbria were kept at full speed until 1:80, and at half speed till 2, after which they were kept at slow speed About ten min­ utes past 2 the whistle of another steamer was heard and the engines of the Cimbria were stopped instantly. The Sultan's green light was not observed until she was only 150 feet off from the Cimbria The latter was struck abaft the bulkhead, on the port side, keeled over to starboard, and speedily sank" As soon as the Hamburg-American Com­ pany received intelligence of the dreadful biwy V»uk piOlnpi uieuBuivsH to W8? cue the shipwrecked passengera The steamer Hansa and four largest available vessels at Cuxhaven were dispatched to search for the missing boats. The West In­ dia steamer Bavaria also left during the night with similar object Up to 11 o'clock Sunday night nothing had been heard from the vessels out scouring the ocean. The steamer Sultan has arrived on the Elbe. The officers and crew absolutely re­ fuse to give any information concerning the collision. The Captain has submitted a statement to the British Consul, but this is inaccessible. The Sultan has a large hole in her bow seven feet above the water line. The Cimbria was an iron vessel, built at Greenock, Scotland, in 1807. She had six transverse, water-tight bulkheads, and three Iron decka Her length was 329V£ feet on the water-line, her breadth of beam forty feet two inchcs, her depth of hold thirty- three feet, and her gross measurement 2,964 tons The Cimbria is the third steamer lost by the Hamburg-American line within the last few yeara Survivors say the last moments of the sink­ ing Cimbria were terrible. The air was filled with the agonized shrieks of doomed passengera After the steamship had plunged to the bottom hundreds floated around for a short time until benumbed by the icy waters, and then sank to rise no mora They Bay that after having left the Cimbria their boat was capsized, and they sought shelter in the rigging of the fated steamship. They remained In this position ten hours, freez­ ing from cold, and expecting every moment to be their last The women and children on board the Cimbria were first placed in boata All of the survivors praise the conduct of the Cap­ tain and crew of the Cimbria, who never moved from their posts, and did everything in the power of man to save life until they themselves were ingulfed in the waves. They affirmed that while they were in the rigging the lights of the Sultan were clearly visible, and that their cries for help must have been heard on board the Sultan, which, instead of coming to their rescue, steamed away. A rising young German writer, Leo Haber- man, of Vienna wfill known for his excel­ lent description of Russian life, and the Bisters Romner, professional singers, and well known as the "Suabian Nightingales," who had recently been performing in Berlin, perished Berlin suffered severely by the disaster. Six families lost their bread­ winners A majority of the passengers were poor Prussian, Hungarian and Russian peas­ ants There were also on board fourteen French sailors, who had only taken passage at Havre. Of the women on board the Cam­ bria only three were saved The Sultan was seized aud her officers im­ prisoned by the German authorities at Ham- DUtg. _________ Chased by Coyotes. An Eastern Montana exchange gives the following: Major P. Russell, the sheep man, says that coyotes do not lwtlier sheep much in this country. They will, however, keep around the sheep at a distance and howl in the early morning and at night. The shepherd dogs he considers a great protection, «.s they will run the coyotes oft', although they cannot whip them. Recently, however, the order of things was re­ versed, aud a band of coyotes corraled a valuable shepherd dog and ran him off through the hills. The absence of the dog was afterwards, fortunately, soon .discovered, and herders, mounted on fleet and sure-footed horses, fol­ lowed in search. The dog was at length seflft at a distance, completely surround­ ed by about ten of the cunning coyotes, who were successfully driving the por«r, faithful creature away from the camp. At intervals the dog would attempt to break this cordon of wild herders and return to his charge, but the fierce ani­ mals, anticipating the movement, would close their ranks and present a snarling, unbroken row of shinning ivory. At the approach of the horse­ men the cowardly coyotes at once dropped their tails and disappeared almost as suddenly as if the earth had opened up and swallowed them. ANTHONY TROLLOPS wrote during his lifetime no 1CM than twenty-five novels. SISKHIN A Hi wavkee Xother, Whi a in £e- ligiotu Frensy, Murdea Timm Chil ren. The Babes Shockingly Mutilated, Being and Then JMe> : ̂: f fe tbowetaL sw -<- t" ' A terrible crime was committed in the city of Milwaukee a few days §go, a mother kill­ ing her three little children--the oldest * years, and the youngest 18 months--in a most brutal manner, literally cutting them " to pieces ahd completely disem­ boweling them. From a local paper we glean the following details of the blood-curdling honor: When the re­ porter reached the dingy apartment where ^ed«ed.^f« oommittedhe Beheld a terrible sight loft of the door stood a large low bed, and on the scanty, dirty bed-clothee lay the prostrate forms of three little oiria They were a ghastly group The UttlelJod-. tes were nude and cut up in a terrible man­ ner. The oldest girl had a large number of gashes made with a butcher-knife all over her little body. The arms of the seoond girl were out off near the shoulders, lite lower extremities hung to the body by +•!><** shreds of flesh, and the little body was com­ pletely disemboweled The small body of the babe was cut into six pieces, the head and extremities being completely sev­ ered from the trunk. Near the foot of the bed a voung woman, only partially* dressed, with disheveled hair, crouched oxv the floor, l.o d down by t*.vo strong men. Upon a table near by were the remnants of a frugal breakfast, and carelessly thrust among the cups and saucers lay an ugly-looking butcher-knife, blood dripping- from the blade, and a cooper's knife, or scraper, with two handles, also smeared all over with blood The butchery was horrible Blood dripped from the bed onto the uncar- peted floor, forming a large pooL The whole surroundings were exceedingly squal­ id Poverty and uncleanliness gave tho rooms a dreary look, which was not improved by the bitter cold atmosphere The young woman held down was the murderess Her hands were smeared with blood, and the front of her dress waa dyed in gore. A satanic smile played about her mouth and her whole ap­ pearance was that of an insane person. She was a fair-haired young person, and her features were not bad She is about five feet three inches high. Over her head was a bed-quilt and when she had been placed before the fire in the police station she told her story in broken German. When asked how she murdered the children she said she stabbed one in the breast and another in the shoulder. They cried but little, as she made quick work of the butchery. She smiled as' she pronounced the last words. The woman used a draw-shave and two small carving knivea With the former she shaved the children's bodies, and with the latter she stabbed and disemboweled them While their bodies were shockingly mutilated, their heads were untouched "When asked what had caused her to do the fearful deed, she replied, . "I read it in the book*" Her insanity is of religious form, and she thinks she has made a great sacrifice. She kept smoothing back her hair with her bloody hands, looked at the crimson stains, . and smiled Her eve« had a wild look. The sight was so terrible that the ofiicers turned away sick at heart Hacked and cut and stabbed and chopped legs and arms, horribly severed from the body, is the butchering described in the shortest way. The husband stated that ever since their arrival iu this country they had trouble, as there had been considerable sickness among the children. About Christmas time she had read something in a paper that seemed to have had a great effect on her. Since then Bhe has spent whole days looking at a small prayer book in her lap, cooking no food, and not even heating the room She is doubtless insane from worrying because the sickness of the children prevented her from attend­ ing church. How a Troubadour Was Tricked. ISome of the moat celebrated singers < in Arabia sing only for ladies, and will not perform unless they are aware that their efforts are not being merely. thrown away on mankind. Of course Moslem women can never be present, but they can and do throng adjacent terraces, courts and windows. An amusing trick was once played on one of these artists who was never known to exert himself for males only. When­ ever he was invited "out all the neigh­ boring posts of vantage were quickly- occupied, and if he perei§ved that there were ladies among his outside lmarers he always surpassed liiniself^Onth^ day in question, however, it was rain­ ing, and every one was obliged to stay indoors instead of spreading the guest carpets in the court. The tenor waa obstinately silent, and evidently very sulky. At length one of his friends, who knew his idiosyncrasy, went out of the room, and enveloping a broomhandle with a white veil and tear placed it in a neighboring window. Returning to the singer's side he jogged his elbow, and pointed out to him that a beautiful woman was watching him and waiting- to hear his voice. He briglitend up at once, and sang for hours, with many & side glance at the mysterious lady. When the party broke up, the inventor of the trick brought in his dummy, and presented it to the singer, saying: "Be­ hold, my uncle, the maiden to whom you have been singing." 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