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the Senate on IM. tb At lloaasMBa www bmbtjr aywut liUMlH III mwrtlus la minsls to the North- Dtstrtet and bold oourte at Peoria; the lukportattoa of foreigners on . partem labor, and to amend tin m tsgrthibtttng the Mlnrr of ngta- Mtenaiid the payments* money orders la spent in committee of tbe whole pneumonia bOI, In which certain members rateed the objection that tbe of oattta would be taken mm their own- , placed in tbe bands of Federal officers, 'otiaoa reported the bonded whisky ex- I MS from the majority of tbe Way* and pw t • 1,11 Oommtttoc. «-f Aftu two weeks' debate, the Senate, on IfNb. M, passed tbe McPhsrsoa banking bill by vote of 43 to 13. The text of the bill 1b printed Hr. Ransom offered a joint reeola- to appropriate fioo.ooo to relieve ratning B track of tbe raoent cyclone in the South- States. Mr. Yoorheea handed in a reso- instrootlng the Judiciary Commit- to report now much money has • paid into the Treasury for leases of lands " np the Indian Terltorv for grutaw purposes. >.•(?•*•§' : ^Lr. Harrison lntroduc«d a bill to pension all ' abled aoidiers who served honorably for six Mths in the war ef the rebellion, and to la­ the pensions of their widows. A trill to construction of additional steel lor the navy was laid before the Senate iy the presiding officer. In the dome of Rep- Iwi Mr. SQis, «f Louisiana, entered a tenlal of the charge that h© received a from star-soute contractors. Resolutions adopted calling on (he Secretary of to state the reason of delay rebates, and asking the Ju- Treasury to tying tobacco railroads i the organic law. i to resort whether the taxa* in Dakota does not conflict it revolution was A Joint uoed appropriating $90,000 for the distri- i of eeed along the inundated Ohio valley, lis were Introduced to prohibit aliens from nlng land; to authorize coinage under the •Mtrio system; to aid the common schools; to provide civil government for Alaska; to appro­ priate (809,010 for sufferers by tbe overflow of Che Mississippi; to establish an interstate rail- #ay transportation bureau; and to simplify procedure In pension claims. Some debate en- iaed on tbe pleuro-oneumonia bill. VJ BILLS war* formally reported to the F-'en- ite, on the 36th ult., to prohibit the mailing of ewspapers containing lottery advertisements, ®nd for the relief of Fitz John Porter, the latter ' lb ooaoe up Match 12. An adverse report was Wade on tbe bill to abolish tbe military reserva­ tion at Port Rloe. A joint resolution was passed expressing tbe appreciation by the nation •f the generosity of Great Britain in presenting tbe Alert for the Oreely relief «Kpediticn. A resolution was passed call­ ing upon the Secretary of the Navy for in­ formation regarding the progress of work on tbe Panama Canal. The bill to authoriae tbe con- HiuIIihi of additional steel vessels for the navy Jed to some debate. In the House, Mr. Cobb naked unanimous consent for tbe passage of tbe Joint resolution of thanks to Great Britain for jbegttt of the arctic steamship Alert, but Mr. objected. The pleuro-pneumonia k4 to the boor of adjournment, argued that the measure was full of efauur and issue boatitn ̂009 to erect • seven-story building. aoom THE Mardi Gnt display at New Or­ leans included a representation of the Semit­ ic races in twenty-one tableaux, by Hex; Fashions and Frills of the day, by tbe Pbunny Phorty Phellows, and pictures from the an­ cient history of Ireland, by the Mystic Krewe. An attack of hoodlums on the Merry Bight, dressed as minstrels, resulted in the fatal shooting of one of the latter and Injuries to several persons. At Galveston the Revelers of Naxos gave a pageant illustrating scenes from the Old Testament, and the streets were crowded with maskers-- The Red River is higher In Louisiana than It has been since 1848, flooding the country for a hundred miles. Boat* arriving at Sbreve- port are bringing people and stodt from the submerged region The Citizens' Military Company at Hot Springs, Ark., drove from that dty three gamblers who had previously been warned to leave. THE law is suspended at Hot Springs, Ark., and the Committee of fourteen, some of whom are under indictment for crimes In other States, control the city. Twenty per­ sons were driven out at the point of the bay­ onet in one day, and it is alleged that Editor Mose Harris must aim move By the con­ sent of nearly all tbe creditors,.the city of Helena, Ark., has compromised its debt of 13580,000 at SO per cent.... .A whale which was captured near Port Royal, 8. C., gave birth to a young one. ABOVE and below Shreveport, Ln, for a hundred miles, says a Southern dis­ patch, the country is & shallow sea. The planters lose heavily In fences, Mock, and horses, and the colored population are in great distress. WASHINGTON. COMMISSIONER LOSING is emphatic in the belief that there is nothing unhealthful in pork, and nothing connected with the in­ dustry tending in any wise to disease. These sentiments are embodied in an official report submitted lo the President The House Committee on Banking and Currency refused to consider Buckner's bill for the issue of Treasury notes, and ordered the McPherson bill reported as it passed the Senate... .A pe- atosMtSodaumge to British Boom «f Commons elected Arthur' Wellesley Peel Speaker. * Thx London polioe found a largo quantity of explosives under the Charing Cross Railway station, and a in the oMIt room a box tfcou l̂tt to oentalu dynamite. A statement was made la Ike House of Commons that an Infernal machine of American manufacture bad been found at the Paddington Railway station....Prince Krapotklne, the anarchist. Imprisoned after a trial In Southern Prance a year ago, Is to be banished from the republic. This clem­ ency Is the result of several influences. The Prince is a great scholar, and his health is very bad Russia and the Pope have some to an understanding, and a Ruralan Minister to the Vatican will be appointed. The polioe authorities of Paris are convinoed that the Irish revolutionists have made that city the headquarters In Europe for the perpetration of their dynainito schemes....C. A. Selmer, the Norwegian Minister of State, has been impeached, and sentenced to forfeit his plaoe and pay costs of 18,000. ADDITIONAL NEWS* Svvex seamen of the United State* steamer Michigan, now lying at Brie, hav* volunteered to go out with the Greely relM expedition, and have passed the requisite ex­ amination by surgeons. Repbksnsentivk Bbewer has been directed by the House Committee on Manu­ factures to report favorably his Ml to im­ pose a fine of not more than f 100, or punish­ ment by imprisonment for three months, on any person interfering In any way with a commercial traveler selling goods by sample. The Sheriff Jackson, Ohio hanged Luke and William Jones for the murder of Anderson Lackey. They were taken out of the front door of the jail to an inclosure sur­ rounding the scaffold. William Jonos strug­ gled until his limbs touched his brother's body. The English Government is abont to send to Washington a eourteous dispatch relative to the countenance and assistance given to dynamiters by American citizens. The clocks discovered In the London railway I provisions, and was in the ln- . ft mt of a ring now being formed to control the Jfattle trade. *' Bitxs war* Introduced la the Senate, on 5* 2"th alt., to improve the channel between Qalvestou and the Gulf of Mexico, and to Incor­ porate and aid the Yellowstone Park Railroad. A resolution was passed calling on the Secre­ tory of the Interior for information as to tbe JMowd lease of the Crow Reservation in Montana. Tlaa bill for the construction of #*« **»?el8 for the navy led to a hot debate. WK. Van Wyek asked Immediate consideration for a resolution directing the Postofflce Com- £dttee fa> Inquire whether at anv time the Western Union and the Baltimore and Ohio fUnraph Companies had negotiated for con­ solidation. Mr. Plumb offered the resolution, jd it was referred to the Postofiloe Committee, i bill to repeal tbe test oath which passed the te some lime ago, was passed by tbe House. House adopted a resolution directing the etary of the Treasury to state how much sney there Is in the vaults, and to report what < amount oan at present be applied in liquidation •• Of the public debt. Mr. Le Fevre offered a res- oiutlon directing the preparation of a bill to * Jrohlwt option trading in grain or provisions. • jifjnt Mr. Cox objected. , Mb. Isoaixs, of Kansas, Introduced a bOI k Itn the Senate on the 38th ult. to remove the ia- 5 ' junctions* secreoy from the members of the Fits "t John Porter court-martial. Tbe remainder of •ivl .^Ms^be sosstoa was spent cn tbe bill to authorize the *»nstrnctiaa of steel vessels for the navy. An ^amendment that the number of ships be reduced ' • • jfrom seven to four was defeated by 17 to S4. . an the House, two German-Americans, Messrs. , m , Oleaster and Guenther, roas, by unanimous per- mission, and delivered speeches which they be- At /iciii rillleye better express the true sentiments ;«€« the German people than did e contemptuous act of Prince Bismarck. r- of Iowa, was promptly i his feet to regret the speeches of the gentle- l from Wisconsin, and to nnte that a resolu- i adopted by members of the Reiehstagand ;a*®««ited by the inrevioua speakers should be .^pothered in that yielding pillow celled the /,x;JSCemmlttee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Kasson's prevailed. By a vote of 155 to 137 the eomonia bill ww passed. Eulogies ^ Representative Haskell wsie de- > : I h r e r e d b v s e v e r a l m e m b e r s . * -- '% XSSJ6 KI>X| In the matter of the explosion of the ',, ?%estLeisening coal-mine, at Union town. Pa., . .. i **® Coroner'" J'wy rendered a verdict cen- - '^/*:f #««ring the company and tbe Inspector for having an examination made daily for / ,nre-damp. The heirs of the nineteen victims f%fll now bring suits for damages. ...An ex- nation of the books shows that the em- element of Tllden G. Abbott, cashier of i Union Market Rational Bank of Water- rn, Mass., amounts to 900,000 8. Marks' relry store, at Troy, N. Y., was broken o by burglars, who made off with $80,000 fs^afrorth of goods. , ^A jcry at Syracnse, N. Y., convicted '.i-. itf'r8- Hoyt of murder in the first decree, and * -'!/ • ®°urt sentenced her to be banged April ' 18. Her crime was the murder of her invalid ' JU8i)&«d in order to secure a policy of insur- * •#»<« OB ^'8 Mf®- Two previous husbands and • tether had years before died under sus- lons circumstances after having willed Sir property to her, and there is a strong slief that they all died by her hands. Tbe •nrdqress is nearly 70 years old. There is Ittle sympathy for her in the community I , where she resides. ^ hra beer saloon at Boston, CoL B. * t - •?*' F°X' * we*Ithjr but dissolute New Torker, k >, , " ' fcnarried Hannah J. Blverett, an adventuress. U it*' 1 <><Both got drank after the ceremony, and all ,/jyWtors to the place were free to imbibe at the t; |brldegroom*B expense. L ; " A THRXE-BTORY frame house was L * *Wrned on Stanton street, in New York city. < iSComelius Van Riper, the occupant, and bis r f ,, g3.ttree children perished within tbe building, , and bis wife. Jumping from the third story. s _*> , vn », was killed instantaneously. ' . THK WEST, | /'l THE great spectacular dianut "Jal- fefiV1 'v' w^teh ran lor several weeks at Boston, mating a great furor, opens this week at I - McVicker s Theater, Chicago. The scene is |«, > * tohl in India, and the costumes and soenio * , * ffleotwU are of tbe most gorgeous description, f . La t *n addition to the rejruiar Boston Theater ' 77" * jompany, there is a large ballet corps, a mili- i' * " ̂ 1*** band- «»nd a legion of auxiliaries numbor- kjf < >' ' ̂ over 400 rereone. Thk I>00Ple of Omaha were startled *he otber ̂ /toy an explosion that shook the iVu't. ®nt,pecltJr* Buildings everywhere trembled &" J® «« to cause persons to run out of doors, [f*. \* f°on learn, a that Steele, Johnson St & - v if" 8 P®*ller-l-OUB«, a short distance south of ™ city, had exploded and killed 1/ yBiK cbrl8 Madstn- Jack Stltt, i ^ .» Abney* ttnd Melius. P.». ' lsone of them was over IT years o'd. They |' wen" bunting around the powder-bouse and p : 1 • J , ® 1 * b l < J l r n l o P J e t ' e « - T h e h e a d o f O n e w a s ofi' I blown off, another'^ legs were gone, one was c % i' *OUfl<J H arms torn away, and another's „ .» were scattered in every direction. immense hole in the earth was caused by AIV" the explosion, and tre:>s were blown into SK" fragments..•..At Toledo, Ohio. Robert fff' * Bailey (colored) was convicted of marrying ^ a white glrl contrary to the statute of 18W. ' and was sentenced to thrto months' imuri^on- Jf?' '-"J ment and (100 fine--the full penalty She Hebrew Relief Society of Milwaukee' re- % , Port* £0) Russian refugees near Bismarck in # ' ' a condition bordering on starvation and ftjsm ••kedness, and will endeavor to raise (5 0(0 - *' for their relief... .Harry Tuttle, one of'the , v men engaged in the recent affray with deputy marshals, was taken from the hospital at Spearflsh, D. T., while in a dying condition, ' and lynched. THE late defendants in the FMMA p "Ti Bond trial are ostracized in their homes in Christian Count?. Merchants and business tition asking Congress to authorize a ! stations are skid to have been made in the tion of statistics of divorce from the records of the several State's, signed by all the Judges and many prominent lawyers of Chicago, has been received at Washington. IT is announced from Washington that the Public Lands Committee of the House has voted to recommend the forfeiture of all the granted lands along that portion of the Northern Pacific Railroad which was not completed July 4, 1879, which was the limit of timo fixed by the act of Congress. The total area of the lands which would be included in such forfeiture is about 88,000,000 acres, and the value thereof is estimated from (2 to 13.23 per acre, or, in round figures, (80,000,- 000....Information comes from the White House that there has been no thought of re­ calling Minister Sargent from Berlin. POLITICAL. Leading Republicans in Nebraska decidedly favor Blaine for first cholee for the Presidency; Logan, Arthur, Edmunds, Conk- ling, Lincoln, Gen. Sherman, Harrison, and Grant coming next in the order mentioned. Secretary Lincoln is almost the unanimous choice for Vice President. GEN. JOHN B. HENDERSON returned to St. Louis last week from a trip of several weeks through the East. He thinks Arthur will carry New York and the other Middle States, Edmuuds most of the Eastern States, Blaine will have the support of the remainder of the Eastern States, and a good many dele­ gates from the South and West, also Pennsyl­ vania, in case that State don't go for Arthur. He looks on Sherman and Logan also as strong candidates. THE Copiah Investigating Committee adjourned sine die at New Orleans on the 27th ult., after examining 152 witnesses..... The Indiana Democratic State Convention will be held at Indianapolis. June 25. A bill has been introduced in the Iowa Senate to extend aid to farmers' pro­ tective associations engaged in contesting the legality of barbed-wire patents. THK WEEK'S FIRM RKCOBD. THE fire losses of the week, as re­ ported by telegraph, are as follows: Six large stores at Shelbyville, Tenn., loss (30,000; five buildings at Winamac, Ind., (15,000; three stores at Woodstock. III., (20,000; four residences at Pittsburgh, (10,000; fifty-two houses at Mayaguse, Porto Rico, (50,000; a woolen machinery mill at Worcester, Mass., (50,000; three tine residences in New Orleans, (30,000; street ear stables at Pittsburgh, SI",000; a business block at Cassviile, W. Va., (20,000; several shops in tbe Reformatory Prison at Ionia, Mich., (15,000; Union Hall Block, Jack­ son, Mich., $200,GOO; a warehouse at St. Paul, Minn., $125,000; a hotel, newspaper of­ fice, and five stores at Henrietta, Texa\ (26,000; a large clothing store at Corsicana, Texas, (50.000; a dry goods store at Green Bay, Wis., (10,000; the hoist house of the Cal­ umet Iron and Steel Works, South Chicago, 111., (30,000; two hotels at Denver, Col., (15,- 030; a hotel at Compton, Canada, (15,000; a United States, and in one of the valises was a copy of the New York Sun of Feb. 6. The police arrested three men and seized their stock of dynamite, on information that they intended to blow up the courts. Three United States Judges sitting en banc at Nashville, Tenn., have pronounced unconstitutional and void the Tennessee law which erected the State Railroad Commission. Tbe law Ml held to have attempted to regulate interstate commerce; and to have discrim­ inated against corporations In favor of indi­ viduals; and to have been directed against railroads alone, whereas It should have em­ braced within its provisions regula­ tions for all common carriers and to have been too indefinite. The court re­ fused to canvass tbe question of vested rights, x the reasons for the railroads' victory over the State being already numer­ ous enough. There is talk of a special ses­ sion Of tbe Legislature to frame a statute avoiding the legal pitfalls which await any attempt on the part of the people to protect themselves Ben Gillian was hanged at Bayboro, N. C., for killing Henry Carter with a elub. William Moore, a negro, was execut ed at Franklin, La., for the murder of a China­ man. Tbe Sheriff found, after the condemned man had been swung off, that bis feet touched the floor, and he was raised to the platform and the rope shortened M. T. Polk, the defaulting State Treasurer of Tennessee, died quite suddenly of heart disease at Nashville. President Arthur last week sent to Congress the report of the Civil Service Com­ mission. Tbe document admits that there have been several violations of the law in regard to political assessments, .but th< amount collected was not one-fourth at much as formerly. It is still possible, saj the Commissioners, to promise the spoils ol 100,000 ofHoes as rewards lot party victory* but the civil service act is a success, and has passed its most difficult point .The Ohio Republican State Convention has been called to meet at Columbus, on April 23...-..The Rhode Island Republican Convention will meet March 20 Itodney D. Wells, a rela­ tive of Cbauncey L Filley, has been appoint­ ed Postmaster of St. Louis. Bt the burning of Powers & Wright- man's chemical works, at Philadelphia, a lost of (1,000,003 was incurred. Hundreds of peo pie quitted their houses, anticipating an ex­ plosion of ohemlcals, and burning oil flowed in all directions through the streets, citizens being called on to extricate the fire engines and hose. Every fire company lri the city, save one. was on duty. New York dealers advanced the prioe of quinine, owing to the large amount of that article destroyed In Powers k Wrlghtman's establishment. Orbin A. Carpenter was last week removed from the jail at Lincoln to the jail at Petersburg, I1L, there to await trial for the murder of Zora Burns. The Lincoln County Board of Supervisors have employed a Pe­ tersburg lawyer to assist In the prosecution. Tm bill for the admission of Dakota into the Union was favorably reported In the Senate .1 s.00 . >.75 . 4.00 1.0* L08 .63 .43 clock manufactory at Louisville, Ky., on the 29th alt. Mr. Ransom reported back ad- (60,000; a flouring mill at Osceola,' Iowa, $20,000; general business houses at Greenville. S. C., (30,000; a brush factory at Toledo, Ohio, (15,000; a flouring mill at Nicholasvilie, Ky., (30,000; a store and resi­ dence at Harrisburg, Ohio, $20,000; tbe St. Charles Hotel and other buildings at Lin­ coln, Neb., 875,000; a portion of Hunter'a cotton mill, Philadelphia, (30,000; two hotels and other property at Duluth, Minn., (40,000; a wool warehouse at Boston, (80,000; Powers & Wrlghtman's chemical works, Phil­ adelphia, 1500,090; the Richmond (Va.) cedar works, §90,000; some shops at Falrbault, Minn., (10,000; a warehouse and contents at Paris, Ky., (20,0 0; a wagon factory at Racine, Wis., (36,100; manufacturing proper­ ty at Boston, (200,000; a flouring mill at Eldo­ rado, O., *20.000; tbe business section of Ire­ dell, Texas, (50,000; a carpet mill at Philadel­ phia, (25,000. GKNEKAL Hon. William H. Hunt, United States Minister to Russia, died of dropsy at St. Petersburg on the 27th of February. Mr. Hunt was a native of Louisiana, and came of a prominent family. When the war broke out he adhered to the Union and remained a steadfast supporter of the cause to the end. He was first brought into promi­ nence when he became the countol for Gov. Keliorg in his contest with MoEnery. He subsequently became a candidate for At­ torney General on the Republican ticket, and was electee and served one term. He was re-elected as Attorney General on the ticket with Packard, but was thrown out of office through the influence of the MacVeagh Commission, which overturned the Pack- ' ard Government and installed Nicholl while preparations were being made to seat Hayes in Washington. Hoon after this Mr. Hunt was apw lited a Judge of the Court of Claims at Washington, to fill a vacancy caused by death. Thoujrh this was a life po­ sition he resigned it on March 5, 11-81, to be­ come Secietary of the Navy, and received tbe appointment as Minister to St. Petersburg April 12, 1882. John Lowe, Secretary of the Cana­ dian Department of Agriculture, was ex­ amined by a special Parliamentary committee at Ottawa, and swore that the statistics is­ sued from Washington as to the immigration to the Llilted States irom Canr.da were in­ correct, and that American customs officers had been instructed to fraudulently aug­ ment the number or persons leaving the Do­ minion The steamer Norseman, on arriv­ ing at Boston from Liverpool, reported having steamed along a solid wall of ice for 110 miles. VOBEI6K. Bradlaugh and two thousand other sympathizers stood at tbe gate of a London prison to congratulate Pcote, the blasphemer, on his release James R. Partridge, for some years in the diplomatic service of the United States in South America, committed suicide at Alicante, Spain... .Russia has made propositions to Germany for a joint reduc­ tion of forces on the frontier Another dynamite explosion created consternation in the Victoria railway station. London, The explosion at the Victoria Bail* versely the joint resolution for an appropriation Of (600,000 for the cyclone sufferers in tbe South, the distress having been overstated. The bill for the construction of steel cruisers was passed by 38 to 13. Adjourned to March 8. The House of Representatives adopted a resolu­ tion asking the Secretary of the Treasury it ad­ ditional clerks are required for the tobacco rebate claims. A resolution was offered direct- tag tbe Committee on Public Lands to report whether the grant of the Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Canal Company is liable to for­ feiture. In committee of the whole it was resolved that Gen. Pleasonton he retired with the rank of Colonel. The postoffice appropria­ tion bill was reported. An evening session was held for the consideration of pension bills. ""THE MAEi^rr" * NEW YORK. liircvss Hous Fi.our--Superfine. Wheat--No. 2 Chicago... No. aRed..,, COHH--No. 2 Oats--Mixed 1*ork--Mess Laui>....^.. C'Hit: AdO. Bkkves--Choi no to Prime Steers. Fair to Good ^ Common t J Medium.... Fuhjb--Fancy White Winter Kx Good to Choice Hurtag Wheat--No. aSprtag No. ] Red Wlnler....... Cosm--No. 2 Oats--No. a Rre--No. 2 iii.. Hablbv--No. 3 Bumm--Choice Creamery....... Kg«k--Proah Pork --Mess .....17... La as MILWAUKKK. Whkat--No. t Corn--Ne. 3 Oats--No. 3 Rie-So. 2 Baixey--No. 2..... Pork--Mess Larp. ST. LOU 18. Whkat--No. 3 Red Corn--Mixed Oats--No. 3 Rte Pork--Mess Lard CINCINNATI Wheat--No. 3 Bed Cork Oath IiYK Pork--Mess Lard TOLEDO. Wheat -No. 2 Red Corm--No. 3 Oats~No. 3 DETROIT. Fwmt Wheat--No l White. Corn--No. 2 Oats--Mixed Pork--Mess .. INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat--No. 2 Red Corn--No. 2 Oats--Mixed EAST LIBERTY. CATttB--Best Fair Common OEeektok Dispateftul Juda» KeOrary rendered Mai <sersss fa the two suits tngiught by tfc* Washburn * Moen Company ijalnsl Walter aad J. B. Rhodes for the IMrlntwnsBtiespsoilveljref the reissued CtMmsand Kolley barbed wire patents. The dimes In these two eases ap­ ply to eight Iowia suits in aU, In which the ate Involved. Tbe decree on Gllddea reissued patent deolaret it Is Invalid and of no effect, because it Is tbe same invention desoribed la the original patent, and secured because the claim of the reissued patents was unlawfully expanded, aad tore was undue delay in applying for said reissue. Complainants' bill wss therefore dismissed and defendants have tbe right to recover their oosts. la tbe suit Involving the Kelley patent it was held that tbe fourth el aim of the re- Issued patent was Invalid for tbe same rea­ sons stated in the first esse, and tbe court found for the defendants upon the Issue of Infringement made in tbe pleadings. The same order was made concerning oosts sad dismissal of the bill. Tbe Washburn k Moen repreientatlves say tbe next fight will be on the original Glidden patent, flame of the Iowa cases are likely to be carried to the United States Su­ preme Court. J HISTORY or TBE LITIGATION. Plate cr unbarb#d wire had been In qnlfee gen­ eral use for fencing throughout the Weat foe some years before barbed whra began to be made In a small way under patents taken out as early as 1968 by Kelley and 1874 by GHdden,and otheKS not so well known. '"Between I860 ana 187$ there were fully thirty different patents granted to. various parties on barbed-wire fences. Bnt the business was in Its Infancy. Few realized what It was to become in halt-a-dosenyears. One of these few was Mr. Washburn, of Worcester. Mass.. He conceived the idea of buying up all the im­ portant patents and making a great monopoly. In February, 187ft, Washbura<fe Moen obtained their subsequently famous "reissues" of the Kelley and Glidden patents. The reissuing was ingenious. In this new form the patents con­ tained and claimed much more than the orig­ inals. Under these reissues the Worcester firm set up its so-called^broad claim " It held that the patents gave it control of the principle of a barbed-wire fence, no matter by what device the wire had been prepared. Having secured the patents, having bad them reissued with these new and sweeping claims, the next step wss to secure a decision from the courts sustaining them. This was not gained for several years. Meanwhile tho business bad grown enormously. Thriving wire factories had grown up everywhere in the Westsrn States, competing with the large Eastern establishments. The business was entirely free. Makers knew little abont the patents, cared less, snd were not interfered with. Bnt Washburn & Moen were quietly at work. In November. 1890, they gained their fsmous case in the United States Circuit Court at Chicago. Judges Dram- mond and Blodgett deciding that the re-is sued patents were valid.and in full force. The barb-wire business was brought to a short halt by-this decision. Every man In the conn- try making, selling, or using barb-wire was liable to suit for Infringement, and manufactur­ ers were liable to pay ruinous back royalties. In this state of affairs Mr. Washburn and his attor­ neys summoned the principal manufacturers of the country to meet them for a grand settle­ ment. They came together In Chicago in Feb­ ruary, 1881, three months after tbe decision. Washburn was In a position to dictate terms, and each maker took the best be could get. About forty firms were licensed to continue the business, each being limited as to the annual tonnage of its output and each being assessed a certain sum, lmger or smaller, for back dam­ ages. Mr. Washburn and his licensees at this same meeting fixed upon a certain prioe for wire, no licensee being allowed to undersell. The prioe of wire to consumers was advanoed by the monopoly about $40 above the recent cur­ rent price (raising the wholesale price from about 6 cents to about 8 cents per pound). Washburn «fc Moen's royalty was $16 per ton. Small makers were not licensed, and were all crushed out. Such, then, was the little monop­ oly which from February, 1881, to the present time has added somewhat more than $10,000,000 extra profit to the price of wire sold fanners In half-a-dosen Western and Northwestern States Iowa,'being much the largest consumer, felt the burden heaviest. The tenners of that State formed a "protective association." They set up an establishment In Des Moines for making id prepared themselves to igh the oourta. ipcStno Court of the U&fted States had Indirectly struck a blow at the mo­ nopoly by its decision on the subject of reissued patents in the celebrated case of "Miller vs. The Brass Company." In this case a new and valua­ ble doctrine was laid down. There had arisen among a certain class of Eastern capitalists a very corrupt and pernicious practice in this matter of patents. If this article or commodity began to come into the markets, they had a practice of rummaging among old and aban­ doned patents until they found something in some wise relating to the now popular com­ modity. Of course this old patent could be bought up for a song. They would then have it "reissued and so broadened and strengthened as to make It valuable and to give them a mo­ nopolising power over the commodity. It was to check this dangerous practice that the Su­ preme Court laid down in the case of "Miller vs. The Brass Company" a set of new and stringent rules governing the reissue of patents. The new doctrine threw a cloud over the Glid­ den and Kelley barbed-wire patents and the Chicago Drummond-Blodgett decision. It gave the Iowa farmers their basis for a case. Under the countenance of the Farmers* Association several other "moonshlning" facto­ ries arose and grew like mushrooms Into large business by their ability to undersell the mo- nopoUst*. Washburn & Moen entered suits and petitions against all these moonshiners. Instead of carrying the suits against the farmers through the courts the monopolists. It was charged, bought up the Des Moines manufac­ turer, woo was the agent for the Farmers' Asso­ ciation. The brunt of tho tight on the "broad claim" was borne by the Grinnell Wire Com­ pany. A decision was made by United States Judges McCrnry, Love, und Treat in the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Iowa in May, 1883, that tbe Kelley and Glidden reissued pat­ ents w< rein valid. This decision has now been affirmed In the Rhodes cases.] Til Mil Ml i-- Tremeadou forte of the Away Hugs Forest Trees Ground to Atoms. •u Kgim M iwiinipufc ui u "moonshine" wlre-and j tight the matte tBugh Meanwhile fceVhpc* A SOUTHERN TRAGEDY. <3 9.25 trt 9.50 <& ft. 50 ® 1.0# (<t 1.13'J (ft .03 <4 .4« W.OO ((C1M.0J •09)4« .10 A75 (<i 7.5) 5.7 i trfi C.5'» 6.35 <3 5.7. 6.25 <t 7.2% 5.80 & HO) 4.75 «t 5.«r. M & .'•>:« •W ('« 1.09 jva «# .si1* <a .34 .57 <(t .59 .('>? (<t .S3 .24 (0! .30 @ •» ' mou 018.2- .00S«S .o»fi .02 & .93 .92 .54 •»2 <$ .88 M (4 .5V .P9 (9 .60 17.76 (31H.26 #.50 & 10.00 1.09 & 1.10 .48 <$ .50 .38 ® .34 .58 (rt .59 18.<>o eri8.5» .09«*& .1*;* W. B. Cash, Son of the Noted Duelist, Mor­ tally Wounds Two Men. [Telegram from Cheraw, S. C.] ' Saturday of last week W. B. Cash, son of Col. K. B. Cash, the noted duelist, who killed "Col. Shannon a few years ago, came into town early in tbe day and rematnod until dark. Just before starting for borne be be­ came very boisterous, and was approaohed by Town Marshal Richards and requested to keep quiet. A difficulty ensued and they clinched, the Marshal using his olub freely on Cash's head und arms, but finally the Marshal i overj owercd and terribly beaten and kicked in the head and face by Cash. After the two men were separated Cash immediate­ ly left town. This afternoon about 3 o'clock Cash again came to town, and arter remaining about two hours walked up to Marshal Richards, who was fitting on a dry-goods box in front of a store. Passing by him a few paces Cash Sud­ denly wheeled round and without saying a word drew a 3*-oa!lber Smith & Wesson pis­ tol from h.s hip-pocket and tired three shots in rapid succession at the Marshal. The first shot parsed through tho left lunx of James Coward, an innocent bystander. The second ball took effect in hichards' left lun?, and, as he felL, Cash fired another shot, which missed its mark. He then ran to his horse, which was hitched at a convenient place, and In tbe excitement was termltted to escape. • Both man are mortally mounded. Hoos. >ee• • • • IJDt .49 .36 .66 18.00 .09 1.01 .53 .38 6.50 1.09 .54 .36 W.pj 1.00 .48 .31 6.50 6.75 " 5.00 6.76 4.75 <§ 1.08 (<S .61 # .87 # .66 C18.50 & .09'* & 1.06 .64 ¥* .»» fi.50 & 1.04 («" .63 «'• .38 <319.50 & 1.02 & .50 <S .85 & 7.5S <<»; 6.60 6.00 & T.7S 0 6.* Wmrnmrng of tke National Committal Hie Democratic National Committee mot at the Arlington Hotel, in Washington, on Fri­ day, Feb. fl. The follow!nf-named gentle­ men represented tho different Mates: a Alabama, H. C. Temple; Arkansas, John i. BumptCTj OaHfnriiia, James O.Farley; Colorado, SSSfifcSK; T. *. num; Senator Gall: i William Wilson: The first reports of the crest Southern cyclone were not in the least exaggerated. Later and fuller details more than confirm tbe first accounts, and settle, beyoad all doubt, that it is the greatest disaster that has ever happened In this country. The losa of life and destruction of property are •Imply appalling. In Alabama 810 people are known to bave been killed, and many wounded beyond the hope of recovery. In Georgia the fatalities are p'aced at £00, while many are mortally wounded. In South Caro­ lina 108 are known to have lost their lives, and In North Carolina tbe killed number be­ tween 76 snd 100. These figures show the loss of life to have been about SCO. Tte loss of property is Immense. Whole vUlsgei were swept entirely away and plantations and farms denuded of everything valuable. live stock in great number was slsughterod or maimed so that it will have to be killed. Much valuable timber was also blown down and splintered to the extent that it will be worthless. In Georgia the pecuniary loss Is estimated at $2,000,000, and in one portion of Alabama It Is said that $8,000,000 will not cover the damage. In South Carolina the dam­ age will foot up at least $1,000,000, and in North Carolina It Is estimated at $1,000,000. iuvuuii The storm blew, straight across the State of the convention May 21, and the proposition Alabama, forty mlles^ sweeping ev«ry thing It« to select Tm,sda^ T\in„ si w=0 o encountered to destruction. Whole towns were A DEATH-STftUWLE, k Biiw Itesnr-ths Overheard aad Are Deadly Affray on Combatants Fall Drowned. [Chattanooga (Tenn.) Dispatch]. A deadly affray occurred to-day on board tbe steamer J. C. Warner, between Penbook Lauding and Piney, between J. W. Watts, of Roane County, Tennessee, and Henry Wilson* residence unknown. The two belligerents while on deck engaged in a quarrel, and finally grasped each other. Then both drew knives and slashed away at each other until each had re­ ceived from r< ur to six terrible stabs. They finally clinched, and in the scuttle got near the guards. Wilson made a desperate effort to throw his antagonist overboard. Watts hung ou to him with a deathly gr p. They both went into the turbid waves closely em­ braced In a death struggle. They sank and ios» to the surface, each trying to stay above the water by holding the ether down. They were in u moment at the mercy of tbe billows which follow the bout, and sank to riss no mote ere the steamer could,be cheoked and a lifeboat Font to their rescue. Their bodies could not be regained. THE Princess Louise at a recent wedding wore a muff and boa made of skunk fur. literally obliterated, the houses being brushed away like chaff. Houses, fenoes, cattle, all were blended in an indescribable mass of objects with­ out a moment's warning. Ten villages fell victims to the fury of the blast, juid hundreds of farm houses were swept away. Horses, cows, mules, and wagons were strewn through the woods for miles. The same scenes of death and devasta­ tion followed in the wake of the tornado In its entire course through Georgia and the Carolines. Almost Incredible stories are told illustrative of its destructive power. Thousand of acres of forests were swept away like chaff. Railroad oars loaded with freight were lifted from the tracks, hurled hundreds of yards, and wrecked. Many instanoes are reported where parents and children were lifted frtyn their homes by the storm, carried high in the air, and landed on ground again without sustaining any injury. A little boy in the Cahaba valley, Georgia, had bis soalp blown from his head. A lady near Cartersvllle, Ga., saw the storm coming, and ran with ber children Into the oellsr, crouching and trembling with fear. The house was blown from its foundation and torn to atoms, leaving the mother and her little ones comparatively unharmed. Tbe mother's arm was broken, and one of the children bad a finger torn off. A Cave Spring (Ga.) man relates the fol­ lowing: I noticed the funnel-shaped cloud. Mack as Ink, long before It reached* Cave Spring The small end of the funnel was dancing along the earth, drawing into Its fatal vacuum everything In its path. I saw houses lifted bodily from their foundations, carried along for yards, and the* crushed like egg-shells. In a few moments the beautiful village would have been a mass Of ruins, but when a few miles away Its course was changed and we were saved. Jarvey Henderson, of Heard County, Oeorgla, when the storm approached, took refuge in a well. While lying on his faoe in the bottom of the well a fence-rail was hurled into tbe well with great force by the wind- The rail came down endways, one end striking Henderson In the back, and going through him impaled the victim to the earth aad killed him almost in­ stantly. In Talbot County, Oeorgla, a little girl named Annie Green, while drawing a pail of water from a well, was struok on the head with a large hailstone and sustained a frasture of the skull While lying on the ground, apparently dead, tbe wind picked ber up and after carrying her nearly fifty yards landed her helpless form in a thicket, where she remained until rescued by her par­ ents. In Harris County,'Georgia, hail fell In pieces of about five Inches in circumference in many curious shapes. In Baldwin County, hail fell as large as goose-eggs, and In Warren County It was so heavy as to form drifts two feet deep. Hogs weighing 150 to 200 pounds were blown Into a yard from neighboring plantations; On the Georgia Pacific Rstlr^ad a fence-rail was driven squarely through a cross- tie. At Davisboronxb, Ga, the contents of stores were scattered in the woods for miles. At another place a large iron safe was carried many yards. One man Was found 200 yards from where the cyclone struck him. He was dead. At one place a child was carried off by the wind, and its body has not yet been recovered. At Leeds, Ala, John Few, a negro who was killed, was carried by the velocity of the wind 300 yards, and when picked up was in a perfect­ ly nude state, his clothes having been torn from him by his body coming in contact with various obstacles in the way. Mrs. Bass, wife of a prominent Leeds merchant, while fleeing before the storm to take refuge in a house, was struck in the back by a pebble with such foroe that the mlselle passed through her clothing and imbedded it­ self deeply in her flesh. The pebble wascut out by a physician, and the probabilities are that she will get well. The scene around Leeds is described as awfuL Houses just completed were blown away, and not even a brick left where the houses stood. Horses, mules, and cows were killed, and in some Instances fence-rails were driven clear through their bodies. Two horses were seen to sail away in the air, and have not since been seen. William Fitzgerald and Mlsa Annl3 Hodges, while returning home from a social call, near Ladlga. Ala., were overtaken by the tornado, and tbe horse, buggy, Fitzgerald, and the young lady blown nearly 2 0 yarus, and when picked up werb horribly mangled and dis­ figured. Near Greenspori, Ala., a small dwell­ ing-house was blown nearly half a mile before the angrv elements and twisted into fragments. A boy who attended a water-tank near Leeds was blown 200 yards, and ever since has been a raving maniac. In Johnson County, N. C., D H. Jones' family ] were all injured and his house blown hundreds I of yards. His daughter fled as the bouse gave way. leaving her infant asleep iu a crib. AU of the house save the ground floor was wrecked. The little child was found asleep unin­ jured, though the railing of the crib was carried 200 yards. A wagon was blown some distance and lodged in a tree-to p. In Harnett County, North Carolina, a mother and child were blown into a swamp and killed In the same swamp a baby was found half dead with cold and it soon died. The wounds of tho dead in this locality are described as most hor­ rible. Heads were crushed flat, immense splint­ ers driven through bodies, others were Impaled on broken trees, forced into plies of logs, or had their Intestines torn out John Dalkln, near Rockingham, N. C., was found dead with a piece of splintered timber as large as a man's leg piercing bis abdomen. McDonald's saw aad grist mills were scattered like chaff, the mill-stones even being taken up and carried several yards. A carriage­ way or slip, composed of two large sills, 12x14 inches ana abont thirty feet long, and pinned together, was taken up aad carried across the pond, with a carriage which was on it. A light- wood log, 2 feet in diameter and 20 feet long, was caught up from the ground and carried several feet. Birds and poultry were stripped of their feathers and killed. Cows, hogs, cats, and even rata and mice, were destroyed. A young lady,, when the house began to rock, ran out, snd instantly killed by being pierced through by a fence rail. The scene of the disaster about Rockingham is said by those who witnessed It to bave been worse than battlefield. After the wind had passed the rain fell in torrents; when tbe rain had nearly ceased hailstones of extraordinary size fell in great quantities. Morses, lhules, and cattle ere killed by scores. In Union County, South Carolina, tbe main current of the storm was not more than fifty feet wide. The track looked like the bed of a river or creek, se completely was everything removed from It. A stump of five feet in diameter, not over two feet high, was blown up by the roots snd carried hundreds of yards. Hundreds of smaller stumps were torn up by the roots and timbr was twisted in sun rising manner. In Kdgefleld Conpty, 8. C., the hardest and most elastic swamp-oaks and hickories were snapped and twisted as If they had been only old field pine. Everything mi colored by the soil; even the freshly broken trunks of the trees looked as if the turbid waters of some great freshet had sur­ rounded them, and in many placcs, although but little rain fell, the earth was swept bare and leaves, underbrush, and driftwc.od were rafted OT lodged against obstructions as it a veritable freshet, had swept over Uie highest hills. A tiinlcr-cart and wagon loaded with cotton were hurled, broken badly, hundreds of feet into the woods, and some of the bales of cotton more than a hundred yards from each other. Houses were so utterly de­ molished that the timbers that remained on the places where the foundations once were can be of little use for reconstruction, as many impor­ tant parts have been blown so far that if found they could not !>e identified. The furniture is in the same condition. All through the path of the cyclone the ne- rroes have been the greatest sufferers, and many «ad cases of destitution are reported among them. Strkkt-car drivers in Memphis are petition tug against Sunday travel. sisslppi, Mn HaiTM ; Mtssoarî WlUUm W. ArBMtrong: Oreron. Senator faster; Pennsylvania, V. F,. Peblet- Rhode Island, Abner J. Baraaby; South Carotins, F. W. Daw- Mvx " "Mil the committee bed been celled lo order, tho proposition to admit to the next convention delegates from the Territories was considered, and itwas resolved that each Territory be advised to send two delegates to the convention, tho question of admission to be determined by tbe convention. The ques­ tion of the proper date for holding the con­ vention was then taken up, and a wide diver­ sity of opinion on the subject was exhibited, the members favorlngr dates from the latter part of May to Aug. 5. By a vote of 21 to 17, the committee rejected the motion to hold HTOhlBM an.) Telegram' to CMss-- nsQr News.1 Although it has been nearly two months slues tho termination of tbe trial, public Interest in the abated. Tbe mystery Is people wonder whether tbf .iftllttr will ever be brought to Jugtioe. Am fs well known, the Jury has tesa eondeHawf to scathing terms for aoqtuttlng Moat and Clement!, vj y. Pettis, Tbe since efflgy, ir per- a few weeks public Jurors themselves hayekhd the trial. Tboylavi been pres- IT costs pa per hour to Hgfct Iowa's Dftpltol. to select Tuesday, June 24, was agreed to--23 to 15. The committee then heard speeches in sup­ port of the claims of the various cities as the place for holding the convention. F. X. Ward spoke for Baltimore, Judge Foilett for Cincinnati, Carter Harrison for Chicago, A. S. Willis for Louisville, Senator Vest for St. Louis, and Representative Adams for Sara­ toga. About two hours was occupied In hearing these gentlemen, and the first ballot was not taken until 4:80. It resulted as fol­ lows: Chicago.... lSlLouisville. 8 St. Louis 14 Cincinnati 1 Saratoga 51 Louisville was withdrawn and another bal­ lot taken, with the following result: Chicago 19!Saratoga.. $ St . Louis 171 The third ballot was taken immediately, and resulted In the selection of Chicago as the plaoe for holding the convention, the vote being: Chicago ..21|St Louis 17 Tho committee then reconsidered the vote by which June 24 was fixed as the time for holding tbe convention, and agreed upon July 8 next instesd. The following eall was presented by the Executive Committee and agreed upon: The National Democratic Committee having met in the city of Washington on the 22d of Feb­ ruary, 1884, has appointed Tuesday, the 8th day of July next, at noon, as the time, and chosen the city of Chicago as the place, for holding the National Democratic Convention. Each State Is entitled to representation therein equal to double its number of Senators and Representa­ tives in the Congress of the United States. The Democrats of each organised Territory and the District of Columbia are invited to send two delegates, snbject to the decision of the conven­ tion as to their admission. All democratic citi­ zens of the United States, Irrespective of their past political associations and differences, who can unite with us In an effort for pure, economi­ cal, and constitutional government, are cordially Invited to join In sending delegates to the con­ vention. The call is signed by all the members of the N atlonal Democratic Committee. On motion of Mr. MoHenry, of Kentucky, it was re­ solved that the next meeting of the commit­ tee should be held at the Palmer House, Chi- oago, on July 7 next. j THE GREENBACK^!*, „t; Call for a National Convention. The following call for the National Green back-Labor Convention has been issued by the Executive Committee: The National Convention of the National Greenback-Labor party to nominate candidates (or President and Vice President of tbe United States, to be voted for at the coming Presiden­ ts al election, will be held in the city of Indian­ apolis, Ind., Wednesday, the mh of May, 1884. B ach State is entitled to four delegates and four alternates at large, each Congressional District to two delegates and two alternates, each Ter­ ritory to two delegates and two alternates, and the District of Columbla to two delegates and t wo alternates. Therefore, all who are In accord with the views set forth in the platform of said farty in ikho are respectfully requested to meet n convention in their several States, Territories, and districts on or before May 1,1884, and seleot delegates and alternates to said convention. Jesse Habpeb, Chairman. Lee Crandall, Secretary. The following are the names of the com­ mittee appointed to assist the Chairman and Secretary in arranging details for the Nar tional Convention: H. Z. Leonard, Chair­ man, Logansport, Ind; John M. Potter, Sec­ retary, Lansing, Mioh.; B. W. Ferlinde, Treasurer, Elizabeth. N. J.; Charles Jenkins, Belolt, Ohio, and W. 8. Kenworthy, Oska- tooea, Iowa. Indiana State Convention. The Indiana State Convention of the Na. tional Greenback party was held at Indian­ apolis on Friday, Feb. 22, with representa- 1 tives present from all the Congressional dis- j tricts. I The convention was called to order by H. ' Z. Leonard, Chairman of the State Central Committee, ltichurd Gregg, of Aurora, was made temporary Chairman, and W. H. Lee, of Biuffton, temporary Secretary. Upon re­ port of the Committee on Nominations, John S. Bender, of Marshall County, was made permanent Chairman, and T. V. Gifford, of I Kokorno, Secretary. A platform of twenty- I three resolutions was adopted, setting forth, j among other things-- | That many of tho evils aiislng out of a false I financial system and from great monopolies ! still continue to exist, and that it is impossible to reoeive through either of the dominant par­ ties the needed reform: that the power to create money belongs exclusively to the Government, and all money Issued by It, whether metallic or paper, should be a full legal tender for tbe pay­ ment of all debts, public or private; that tn« national bonds are an absorbent of the products of labor, giving a class of non-rroducers the ability to become millionaires at the expense of the producer, and therefore should be paid as they become due; that all rights and privileges given to national banks to issue mon­ ey should be withdrawn and full legal-tender money substituted therefor; opposing all com­ binations, discriminations, ana the granting of rebates by oommon carriers; opposing impor­ tation ot Chinese or other servile labor; that prison copvict labor shall never come In com­ petition With free labor by the contract system; favoring an income tax; taxing money and property alike; that all Mexican sol­ diers and Union soldiers of the late war should be pensioned; exempting homesteads "" ,000 from that it . monu- siroii, uf KBIWW • II Prohibiting the issuance and acceptance of rauro»d passes to or by officers; fordng the election of all civil officers by direct vote, and removal from offioe for cause by a two-thirds vote of the electors; tbe public domain must be reserved for actual settlers; demanding the prohibition of aliens from acquiring or holding title to lands In the United States; forcing the re­ duction of salaries of oounty and State officers at least one-half; forcing the re­ peal ol the coal-oil law; condemning the last Legislature as cowardly and treacherous lu not submitting the prohibitory amendments, and demanding a constitutional amendment pro­ hibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicat­ ing liquors. The foilowlmg ticket was placed in nomiua- tlon: Governor, H. Z. Leonard. Logan sport; Lieu­ tenant Governor, John 15. Milroy, Delphi; Rec- r. ftnry of State, F. T. Waring, Bluffton; Treas­ urer of 8tate. Thompson Smith, of Wayne County; Auditor, Joseph H. lioblnson, of l:ut- nam County; Attorney General, John O. Green, of Floyd Countv; Superintendent of Public In­ struction, Dr. R 8. Boyd, of Wayne._ BRIEFS. A car-load of Mormon oouverts left Chat­ tanooga last week for Utah. Baron N<>ki>i;nsk.tol.d Is understood to be contemplating, as his next adventure, a voy­ age to the south pole. Evbry communion Sunday Mrs. Annie Gordon, of Biuflton, 8. C., walk* four mllrt lo church. She is 111. Is California, they say, if a man buys water he can bave the land thrown in. ttOonsM 1 •ale in this oounty, and as enco was known tho crowd beaime so infuri- ated that troubie was onlyaiolded by the Juror's hasly departure. The faet that some of the Jurors havS apologised for their ver- oo'ywves to toteoMfy fetter feel- lug toward him. One of them I* resorted as tbat be would give thousand^of dol­ lars if he had never had anything to do with the- ease. He talks about tbe trial con­ stantly, and looks ten yean oMer than ho dkl since be sat in the jury box. Another one weeps a .great deal of the tbaa, can't sleep at night, and seems sorely aAieted in body snd mind because tbe verdiee Was not received with favor. The juror, Peter L. Davenport, looks much older since the trial, ana had almost become a hermit, rarely leav­ ing his bousfe, atod avoiding people as much as possible. But the greatest misfortune has befallen Boone Isaacs. He wasfAuMfed to a> handsome and accomplished l«dy ot this county, but she has discarded him sluoe tho verdict, and be refuses to bs oomfortodT Mr. Bond has succeeded in getting the names of the five jurors who voted at fir$t for convie- tion, but were subsequently Induced to vote for acquittal, and is after there with a (harp stick. In fact, all of them bave trodden a thorny path since the trial. Judge Jesse J. Phllllpa, who tried the case,, has not escaped the storm of public indigna­ tion. He has been banged in efflgy at Pana, Taylorville, and Vandalia, and has received numerous threatening letters from all parts of the country. It Is said that hiS connection with the case will probably Injure his politi­ cal aspirations in the future. The late defendants, Montgomery, Pettis, and dementi, have been practically ostra­ cised since their return to their home in Christian County. Resolutions declaring that their names be dropped from the roll of decent society have been pafesed, and merchants and business men have re­ fused to have any dealings with them. In retaliation Montgomery and his friends bave threatened their persecu­ tors with terrible punishment. It is olalmed that the dastardly attempt a few nlgbt* ago to wreck a passenger ttmln, on which were several hundred people returning home to> Taytorvflle from Pana, where 'ah Entertain­ ment had been given for the benefit of Miss Bond, wss tbe work of tbe late "defendants or their friends. The Wabash Railroad Com­ pany has offered a big reward for the appre­ hension of the would-be wreckers, and it is hoped they will be captured. SHOCKING ACCIDENT A lira in Hew York Cmum the tfeatli of Five People. £ A.****- (New York Dispatch.] All re which broke out in the three-story frame building, 326 Stanton street, caused the death of Cornelius Van Riper and hia family, consisting of bis wife snd three children. Mr. Van Blper and his three children were suffocated and burned to death. His wife, Rebecca, jumped from the third-story window to the side­ walk and was Instantly killed. Olio cause of the lire is unknown. Tbe tire was discovered by a policeman, who, after calling for assistance, kicked in the door and made a rush for the stairs, shouting at the top of his voice to rouse the sleeping tenants. A con­ fused jumble of shrieks and stamping over­ head answered him. But the dense smoke drove him back just as the door on tbe second Boor was opened, and a young woman ran past him in her night- clothes. The policeman was compelled to seek the open air to save his own life. As he reached the street in a half-dozen des­ perate jumps ho sprang over the prostrate body of Mrs. Rebecca Van Hiper. The fire was extinguished after two hours. When the firemen made their way to the rooms of the Van Ripers, after. the fire had been extin­ guished, a sickening sight awaited them. They found the entire family, save the mother, burned to death. Ihc family had evidently been hdlf suHocated before they were aroused to find escape from an awful death cut off. The bodies were r» all found in different places, showing' that the unfortunates rushed Wild­ ly and blindly around the rooms in their efforts to escape. In the rear room was found Jennie, aged 19, with her night-clothes burned off. Her arms and hands were terri­ bly burned. Hie skin from the bands and arms of the boy, Albert, aged 7, bung in shreds, and his left arm was raised across his face. He was found doubled up in a corner, and one side of his body was very badly burned. Frankey, aged 2, charred and black­ ened, was found near his father's body in the front room. The face and head of Van Riper presented a shocking appearance, tho features being scarcely recognizable. SOUTH CAROLIffi CUBIOSITOS. Children of a Centenarian Dispute for tho Privilege of Burying Tlielr Mother--A Very Old Hat. [Telegram from Columbia, S. C.l A colored woman named Sarah Lever died recently a few miles above Columbia In the 106th year of her age. She was onee the slave of John Lever, of this city. She left a long line of great-great-grandchildren, and several of her own children are living. Be­ tween these latter arose a dispute a-s to the possession of the centenarian's remains, two parties to the quarrel wishing to inter them near their respective homes. Tho body was kept for three days, awaiting the settlement of the rival claims. A trial Justice was finally appealed to, and his decision gave the corpse to the eldest daughter. John Adams, of Ooonee County, has been wearing the same hat for forty-live year*-- two or three years less than half his lifetime, it is of fur and home-made. He worked two months in the field to pay for it. He has a churn thirty-two years old, in which be claims to have made an average of one pound of butter a day during that time. He ,hSP* filly 19 years of age, tbe mother of which he kept until she was S3 yea s old. He has been out of home-raised meat only onee sinse bo began keeping house sixty »wars ago, but has never been out of whisky. A sow belonging to W. D. Hyatt, of Pleas­ ant Valley, Lancaster County, gave birth to a black lamb recently, together with a Utter of six pigs. It has the head, ears, wool, and general appearance of a sheep, bnt makes a noise like a pig. A Hussive Sheet of FIim % Many singular incidents snd scoidents aM miraculous escapes arc reported in connec­ tion with tho recent cyclone, says a Columbia (8. C.) dispatch. A reliable gentleman of Aiken County, who suffered severe losses, says the roof of his barn was taken off and* the dry foddor caught up in the whirlwind, and as it was being carried round and round a sheet of lightning passing through ignited the fodder, and for a distance of one mile the cloud appeared to be a massive sheet of Hame. He describes this scene as grand be­ yond conception. He narrowly escaped be­ ing caught up in the fiery element, his face being badly burned. Martin Mingo, a colored man of Midway, weighing 200 pounds, was blown 800 yards. At the edge of a swamp be caught a small bush and held on until the storm was over* His overcoat was blown four miles. I Mennonitks in Nebraska occupy threeipp- tire counties, are good farmers and hard workers, and so economical that their pros­ perity is remarkable. Fcbrcart will not again have fiveFridimk as It has this year, until 1914. SliS • ,