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THE ECHO circulates Ln every State in the Union. With a sup ply of News and Job Type, a Hoe Cylinder Power Press, and a Gordon Job Press, we are pre pared to execute any style of Job Printing and Book Work, from a Visiting Card to a Testament, at rices to suit the times. The natronage of the public solicited. C ive us a trial. Office Southwes f arner Bay Lane and Jeffbrson > treet, Savannah, Ga. NEWS OF THE WEEK. AL no Ur THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle States. Henry \ jllard, president of the recentb completed Northern Pacific railroad. lias re signed the presidency of that corpiration an< has given up for the l-em tit of his < rediton the magnificent dwelling house which he erecting in New York. Mr. Villard dur the past ten years by his rai:r« a* operations had built up a cnlossa fortune, and a year ago was estimated to b* worth ss.o,hi, (>ne of his counsel state that his financial fall is due to his having too freely lent his name and credit to the Oregon and Transcontinental company. At a meeting of the Northern Pacific director.* 1,1 New \ ork, Mr. \ ilard's resig nation was received ami accepted, resolutions of sympathy for him in his finan eial misfortunes and the resultant sieknes were passed. ami as he had served without salary during the three years that he wa* president of the road, the sum of SSP.tJW was y< ted to him. Mr. \ il’ard's career as a railroad king, though com paratively short. has ben remark able In a few years he had acquired con »rol of an immense railroad and other inter esis and money to the extent of many millions was put into his hands by capitalists for investment without theslightest security Ihe dwelling of J. V. Garver, near Duke < entre. Penn., wa, burned, and Mr. Garver's four children, aged from one tu six years penshed in the flames. M hen the AV estern cold wave struck New England and the Middle States the ther mometer dropped to extraordinarily low figures in many place-, particularly in Vermont. At Innbridge. Vt.. the mercury fell to 40 degree, b-low zero: Rovalston. 30 degrees; Newbury, 35 degrees. Alice Major ard Sarah Marsden, two highly connected and cultured young ladies were drowned while skat ing on the Susque hanna river, near Forty Fort, Penn. The total catch of mackerel by the New England fleet last year was 225JW5 barrels, a dem a-e of 1 ..>2, L* barrels over the previous year's catch. Dr. Edward Lasker, a distinguished Ger man statesman wh > ha I been on a visit to this country since last Mav. died suddenly in Aew York a few da\ s since of heart diseas-*. N ew York City has a funded debt of SU2 - 540.000. ’ A ( Hinaman was fenn 1 murdered in his laundry in New York, having re vive I four teen stab wounds. The victim's brother ami two other UMiamon wen- arreste I on susni non. * Mayor Marti**'. of Boston, in his animal message sat s the citv's debt is $4'1.544.123 an increase of nearly si.sOOJ‘ooduring the year'. Samuel Brower, a farmer seventy years 01-I. hanged himself in a fit of insanity at his home near Farmingdale, N. J. .. \ , -Meadville. Penn., destroyed the ' ulJoni block, containing a fine opera-house, large stores, offices and lodge rooms. The losses will aggregate about *5200,000. Great damage to properly has t<e n done along tie* At'antic coast by the recent severe storm. The Ne v Jersey and Losg Island c ast sintered heavily. \ essels were *:riven ash* re, piirs wi led away, and buildings at the summer resorts were carried out to sea. The iamage at Coney Island. Long Branch and Atlantic city alone will aggregate more than fjo.ooo. Boarding houses, stores dwellings, bath-houses, and other bu ildiims at Atlantic City were washed awav and caiiied to sea. The whole amount of damage done a’ong the Atlantic coa t it is be.ieved will aggregate more thansl.ooo.ooJ. Smallpox has been rapidly spreading at Girdrdville, Penn., and the ’publie schools have been closed. Governor Waller in his annual message to the Connecticut legis'ature disa; proves of biennial sessions. The State debt IS *4 272- 100. ■ ’ ’ South and West. Governor St-ineman i reside 1 at a meet ing of capitalists in San Francisco to make arrangements f*r holding a world's fair in that - ity in is* 7, The meeting represented <: n i,* o *.* i»>. It was resolve Ito provide a gfiarnntee fun 1 of 51,0h),0 ->, an I to jeti tion Congress and the Slate legislature for appropriations. James Cri mmidy colored was hangel at. Eastman, Ga . if the murder of a young white man named Mitchell. As Crummidv was about to lie led to execution, he cutin's throat with a pocket knife. In t llls condi tion he was carried to the gallows an 1 hanged. There are at present !: cotton mills in the South, having 1.1;.' sptn-1 le- and 24,- S.'l lo >ms. Et>w aito He* tor color-d . was hange-l in the jail yard at Bat *n B uge. La . ior the murder *.f I hin-an Ui lam- in De . emtn-r, P" by stabbing him m the back. Lector abo murdered bis -t- pfa her. He mu le a <i- ,[<er;ite struggl ■ on the gtiliow-, grasping the rope and uttering t< rrific scr ams. an 1 it w i-,*ti'.y with t ie aid of several spectators that hi was finally --;T > hi'* 1. L *’Ll> w-a'h*sucii as has not been fet in v-.:rs has preic le I all .ver the West and Northwest, mid many ea-**s of persons fre *.:- rg to death have been reported. In Dakota the weather ha- been the coldest ever known, th th rm. mi ter at Jamest >wa falling to forty-eight de ree- b ow zero. At ether points in the We t the th : nujinetfr fell t o the following figures lielow zero: B smarek, Da k■ ta. 1 (irnaha. Neb.. 31; Duliupte. lowa. ■ 2; I 'i*tr<'it, :4>; t 'liieago. 27; t iaeumati, 25; St. le'Ui.s. 2*. < kveland, 'I; Chattanooga. Tenn.. 2. Ihe rewjy-bii It lark theatre, of Cleve land. < >hic has b n destroy.* ! toy tire, and a total h*ssof s,'so,hi-.i sustained A ithe at Belleville. 111., thirteen miles from St. Louis, destroyed the Convent of the Ini': a mate Com eption and was atteu ied '■■J! a teriib'e destrttetion of human life, 'l l flames originated in a furnace m the bisemeifl and spread with tearful rapiditv. Tl • *.• w. re al- >ut sixty p ipils in the convent, a 1 girl,, from eight years t*> adult age, and nlxmt twenty fiv-* of them p rished in the llaiiK-s. Ix-side Hie s.ster superior and three t her si'ters. A Hoy an 1 a girl named Hines, six an I seven years ol I. were frozen to death in their l*ed tit hide] en len.-e. low a. Fot r J.ris. tiers lost their lives ii afire which burmsi down the jail at Jerseyville, 111. 4 iiiiiiE tiumers got lost on a prairie in the Indian I'. rri'ory. an 1 we e frozen to death. I'm* Democrats having ;*. ma - ritv in the <'l > legislature, there wa a determ ne I struggle to sc ure the caucus nomi nation ' for I nite 1 States Senator to succeed Mr. I'ciribtoa. The fight was be'we. n Senator i’endleto i and ex Cou gress-i auH B. 1 avm*. o; < leveland, with General Durbin Ward .is a comproiuisi* can didate. Mr. l a;, m* w ;.s successful, however, on the first bail .rec *n ing forty-eight votes to seventeen for Ward, fifteen for Pendleton and two scattering. John J Dunn, a contra- t>r and two workmen were kil ed by falling fifty feet from a o-alTnld at Milwaukee Wi<. A cremation society has I-e n organized i:i New < trleans. Governor McLane's inauguration at Aniiai olis. Md , wa-of a simple character, and the inaugural a Idress to the legislature was conspicuous for its brevity. Flames destroyed the coojier shops and boiler sh<q>- of the Minnesota State jieniten tiary at Stillwater, causing a damage cf about E D Atchison, a desperate character itn t risonedin the Monter y (Va. ja 1 for stab bing a man, was taken from confinement by a crowd, hanged and then riddled with bul"- Jet- An entire family of negroes—William Croons and wife and six children--were burned t > death on a plantation in Lenoir county, N. C. Washington Peeresentati ve Bi.and has had an inter view with Mr. Burchard, director of the United States mint, in regard to the number of trade dollars in riren ation. Mr. Burch ard exprewi the opinion that between five and six millions of the coin were out and in the hands of tradesmen and the people gener ally,instead of being in the possession of specu laVjrs, The remainder of ?->5,<S) 1,000 original ly c-oned are thought to have tieen exported or remeited. Mr. Bland says it is questionable whether the (government, having issued the trade dollar with the stamp of the govern ment upon it, could not be required to take it tor goyerameat dues at its mmioal value. HARDEN BROS. & GRIFFIN, Publishers and Proprietors. VOL. V. NO. 9. SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1884. WHOLE NUMBER 217. - The I nited States consul at Cairo reports . the numbered deaths from cholera in Egypt last summer at between 6.5,00 ’ and 70,000. In many parts of the interior entire communi tii-s have disappeared. In the case of the New Orleans National bank against the New Orleans postmaster Judge Pardee, of the Unite I States circuit court, has decided that the latter has no right to interfere w.th the deliverance of the former's mail. It was .barged that the bank «as acting as agent for, an I receiving the mail of the Louisiana Lottery comnany; and the postmaster, acting under orders from Washington, refus'd to deliver the bank’s mail, whereupon that institution got out an injunction. The motion to dissolve this in unction was argued bv Attorney-General Brewster in nerson at New Orleans. The court d< c ded in favor of the bank, decreeing that it was entitled to the full and free use o'? the mails, and furiher ordered that the mo tion to dissolve the injunction lie denied. Last year the various Unitsd States mints coined 101.600,248 gold and silver pieces worth $60,092,749. The House committee on pensions proposes to reduce the nuniter of agencies where funds are disbursed from eighteen to ten or twelve, at the most prominent commercial centers. After serving eighteen years as clerk of the House committee on appropriations, v oloncl Robert J. Stevenhas been nomiua ted by the President as United States con-ul at Palermo. Other nominations bv the President are: J. A. Le< nard, consul-general a ! Calcutta; Boliver J. Pridgen, consul at 1 -I’tiras Negros: Oscar Malmros, of Minne sota, consul at- Leith: Frank H. Mason con sul at Marseilles; John L. Haine. of Wiscon sin, consul at Cognac; George Gifford, consul at Basle. The Senate confirmed the following nomi nations: George R. Sago, of Ohio, tobe Uni- ■ district judge, southern district of Ohm: William A. Woods, of Indiana, to be. I nited States district judge for the district <>f Indiana; James R. Hallowell, of Kansas, 1 nited States district attorney for the dis trict of Kan-as ; William J. Gal braith. of Montana, to' be a.so cate .justice of the supreme court of Montana: A. W. Sheldon, of Mnrylan I, to :>e a sociate justice of the supreme court of Arizona: Andrew Mason, of New York to lie superintendent of the I nite hStates a-sav "flic-- at New Aork; B. T. Martin, of New ’S ork, to be melter and refiner of the United States as ay office at New York: Frank F. Claussen, of Louisiana. t > be melter and re f»ier of the United States mint at New Or ient) -. The report of the acting secretary < f the 1 nit.-d States Senate for the fiscal vear et d‘*d June .’0 last, contains the following statistics: For malting paste 450 pounds of iionr were consumed. The packing b<»xes I for the transmission of seeds, etc., to Sena te's constituents cost soii. The exjienses of special and select committees, cover- | ing the several investigations and junk eting parties, amounted to $15,991.61, This moulded the par of clerks and I ■tenographers for these committees. The I hire of carriages cost •’211.50. There were ! bought during the year from the Independ ent Ice company •’< hl, 140 pounds of ice. which - cost s-j..>:>).70, In July, 1882, the consumption . of i<- was 13..50n jtounds. whi e in August it I ''j ls hut 03.700. For washing towels, $438.22 tnis expendel. Among the jiecu'iar pur chases was a bottle of arnica, three dozen shoe brush sets, at $3O per dozen; one dozen Italian cosmetics, one half dozen Lubiu’spow der. two dozen bottles of ginger. Toone firm alone $3'19.67 was pai l for soap. Mu. Stevenson, of the United States Geo logic d survey, rep »rts the discovery in Ari vnnn nf several ancipnt a->vn ni )r t eKfT differing in some inspects from any he had b"tore examined. • A Washington dispatch says that Mr. Morrison, chairman of the ways and means committee, has completed his tariff bill. “It is not, as has been supjtosed, a bill of three thousand items. No bill of three thousan 1 items will be presente Iby Mr. Morrison to the ways and means committee, and that committee will rejiort no such bill to the House. There is reason to lielieve that the bill will not be more than one hundred printed lines in length. It will pronose, in short, what is known as a horizontal reduc tion <>f an average from twenty to twenty five per cent, in the whole tariff list. It will eonta'n be-ide, provisions t > coirect some of ■he crudities of the existing tariff, and wdl propose some al litions to the free list.’’ Forexffn, Moke than thirty arrests have been made : in st. Peter-burg of persons s'.ispe te I to be i uni liia'ed in the murder of Lieutenant-Col- ! on ■! Budeikin. A nihilist proclamation cir- I ciliated in St. Petersburg announces that sitdeikin was c mdemned to I>e executed bv the nihilist executive committee. A Vienna dispatch says that the latest version of the alleged recent hunting acci dent to the czar of Russia is that he wa- at tacked by six nihilists, fired upon and wounded in the shudder, the would-be as sassins making good their es ape through the deep snow. Two of the nihilists who took ] art at St. Petersburg in the murder of Lieutenant- C ion I Suleikin have died of injuries re reived. Germany and Russia are combining for protecti'n against the plots of the socialists , anil niliili-ts, a conference lasting two davs I having tak< n place at Fr.edrichsruhe tietween i Brine - I i-marck and ITin e Orloff, the Rus- I sian ambassa l<>r t > Paris. The French government will assist in the I rcp'auting of the vineyards in France with i cuttings from American vines. '1 he Egyptian ministry has resigned on ac- I count of England’s attitude toward Egypt. < hunt Tolstoi, Russia-i minister of the interior, has been sentenced to death by the nihilists. Two thousand steel workers in London struck against a redm tion of wages A dispatch to th • London 'rum's from Baris say-: • Statistics show that the prohi- I bi:ion of the imjiortation of pork from i America seriously curtails the fool supply • of France, and, as in such prohibition the i imp its from other countries fell off’, it is evident that there is no other source where ; from the demand can lie supplied. Parlia- i ment has undertaken a heavy responsibility | in advising the prohibition." '1 HE French press bitterly attack England \ f r abandoning the large si-etion of country known as the Soudan to El Mahdi, the False I Prophet, Two thousand Annamites attacked a ! I ren- h ]Hist, which was held by fifty ma lines After several hairs' hard fighting the enemy retire 1, with the loss of 100 in killt d and wounded. I>i HING a fire near Hanoi, in Tonquin, th" French artillery magazine was blown up and a large ouan’ity of shells mid munitions for th<* French fleet was desiroyed. Several French artillerymen and ten auxilliaries were wounded. Sixty thousand Italians tsxik part in a pilgrimage to the tomb of the late King Vic tor Emanuel at Rome. A YEAR’S COINAGE. The following is a statement of the coinage execute lat the mints of the United States during the calendar year ISS3, cents omitted; I h’mxnination. I'ieces. Vulur. Double eagles 1,240.001 $24,H*0.04u Eagles 251'.540 2.595,400 Had eagles ; ‘2:<,s‘.‘S 1,047,990 Time dollars ;qo 2,520 Quarter eagles 9«o 4,900 Dollars 10,540 10,540 Total gold l.x'd.ssO $29,241,990 Standard dollars .. 2b,470,039 *28,470,039 Half dollars 9,030 4.519 Quarter dollars.... 15,439 3,859 1 imes 7,675,712 "67,571 Total silver.... 36,170,229 $29,245,989 ' Five cents 22,969,421 $1,148,471 I Throe cents 10,609 318 One cent 45,598,109 455,981 Total minor.... 68,578,1:39 $1,604,770 Total coinage.. 106,604,248 $60,092,749 Only nine of the thirty-eight States have regular sessions of their legislatures this win ter—Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, i New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, lowa, Ken tucky and Mississippi. D. J. Burke, of Shoal River, Jackson county, Fla., is the father of thirty five boys and lour girls. He married five time*. LATER_NEWS. Some twenty men were shoveling snow in i ft deep railroad out near Brinton. Penn., I when they were run into by a train, two of their number instantly killed, a third fatally injured and four others badly hurt. Two colossal mortgages have just been re corded. The Buffalo, New York it Philadel phia Bailroad company has mortgaged its property to a Philadelphia trust company for $35,0D0,000, and the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad company to a New York trust company for $50,(0 1,000. At a meeting of the joint executive com I mittee of the trunk lino railroads and their i Western Connections. hell in New York, the j Enst-boun 1 rates were restored. In Walker county. Ala., on the Georgia i Pacific railroad, a drunken negro shot and I killed a railroad contractor named Pope, j The colored railroad hands at once banged the murderer to the nearest tree. M. At aterman it Co.. San Francisco, grain dealers, have failed for about sl,s<ki,o.m. A crowd of ‘‘rustlers''at Seven Rivers, N. M., without provocation fired into a gang of nine Mexican laborers, killing four of them. Dvrixi; the first three months under the new tariff law the value of dutiable mer chandise imported wa< Si:K,:Sio,MB. asagainst $141.012.!i4) during the same jieri d in the preeerliug year. The duties collected were $50,725, 2.0, asagainst $51,203,78!, of which sugar yielded $13,557.4.’*, as against $15,417,- 523. mid wool $1.42,1,222, as against s v oo, 125- The California c> >ngre-sional delegation ha- united with all of the Pacific coa t dele gation for the purpose of pre, aring new leg islation for the restriction of Chinese emi gration. It is claimed that there are mam ways of evading the pre ent law. The United States has filed in the court of claims a counter claim against the Union Pacific Railroad eompanv for s*,'•■.'2,till for alleged indebtedness to the United States, in cluding five p r cent, of the earnings of the roal. Secretary Chandler gave a dinner to President Arthur. The oth r guests were the secretaries of state, war. the treasury and the intern r, the po-tmaster-general, the ; attorney general. Speaker Carlisle, the chief- ' justice. Lieu tenant -General Sheridan, Al- j miral Porter, Vice-Admiral Rowen, Senator Edmui <ls. Associate Justic.* Wyliie, George ' Bancroft and Henry Steers. At REI.IA.V Schol.l, a prominent Parisian journalist, a-id Count Albert de Dion, a gav anil festive Fren -li nobleman, have fought a duel, in which the former was wounded in the side. Eight persons were killed or injure 1 at a fire m the barracks of Braga. Portugal. J.AII.K COX-KISSIOVAI. MAVS. Senate. Mr. Dawes introduced a bill providing for ;e.*.d !sk graph company under the direction of the postoffice department.... Mr. Voorhees in troduced a bill to equalize the bounties of soldiers. He said this bill was a copy of the one passed by Congress nine years ago, and vetoed by President Grant on the ground that it would take more money out of the treasury th in the public interests would warrant. But there was so much said now about surplus revenue and abundance of money, Mr. Voorhees added, that he would re introdiv e the bill. In connection with the bill he presented a resolution, which was agreed to, calling for information from the secretary of war as to the amount that would lie required to equalize the bounties... .Con sideration ot the new rules was continued. House. Mr. King introduced a joint resolution for the appropriation of $l.ooo.(Jt)0. in a'-< «rd ane with the urgent request of the Missis sippi river commission, f< r the improvement of that river... .Mr. Springer offered a r< so lution authorizing the committee on exjendi tures in the del artnient of justice in making the investigation re piire I by the rules to tend for persons and pajiers. Adopted CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Hurd era, Hangings. Suicides, Kail road Disasters and I.vsses by fire in ISM. According to revis d statistic-, the whole number of murders committed in the United States in I'Bl was l,(i‘.i7, a.aiust 1,! 7 in ; ss 2, and 1.265 in ] »]. The causes were as follows: Liquor. 196; jealousy, 218; self-de fence, lii; quarrels, 623: insanity,‘>7; infanti cide. 30; j atricide, 7; matricide, 3; fratri cide. 1*1: resisting arre-t, 86; killed by thieves and highwaymen, l-tl; thieves and highway men killed. >0: unknown, 183; criminal out rage. 6; duels, 5: by poison, 21. t ine hundred and seven hangings occurred in the United States last year, against 121 in I' - '".' and (mi in 18M. By States they were a follows: 1 linois, 3; District of Columbia. 1: Pennsylvania, 3; .Massachusetts, 1; New Vi rk. *">; Vermont. 1 : New Jirsey. 2: Mon tana. 2; Ohio. 4; Indiana. 2; California. 1; Texas, 7: Marylan I. 3; Arkan-as, 16; New Mexico. 2; Indian Territory. 2: Alabama 3; Georgia. 13; North Carolina. 5; South Caro lina, 7; Virginia 7; Missouri, 2; Mississippi, 3_; Florida. 1; ixmisiana, (5; Tennessee, 2; Kentucky, 3. (if this number 54 were whites, 51 colored all hanged in the South', 1 Indian, 1 Mexican and 1 Chinaman. There w ere 727 suicides in the United States in 188.3. of which the causes were: Melan choly. 215; unknown, r>: business losses, 28; liquor, 66; insanity, 1* 8; domestic infelicity, 72; ill-health. 40; disappointed love, 64. Hailreal disasters in the United Sta’es reached the numlier of 775 in I>Bagainst 820 in 18S-_>, and 1,040 in 18.81. The whole number injure I were 1,116, against 1,115 in 1882, and 527 in I*Bl. Total losses by fire in the United States last tear were: $41,564,750. Following is the loss bv months: January. $5,116,000: February, $2.-0 3.000; March. $2,042,000; April, 82.080- 000; May, $-’,661,000; June, $2,322,0 0; July, $3,901,000; August, $4,360,000; September, $2.6(0.0<0: October, $ ! ,570,000; November, $736,000; December, $3,35.3,750. INFECTED CATTLE. Kcport ol the Commission—lts Keo oin mendat ions. Judge French, assistant secretary of the treasury, has transmitted to the House the report of the cattle commission. The com mission recommends that the national gov ernment shall prevent the shipment north ward out of the area infected wiih Texas fever of all cattle whatever, excepting from the beginning of November to the begin ning of March. Attention is invited by the assistant secretary to the recom mendation of the commission, that the secretary of the treasury shall be em powered to order the slaughter ami ;afe disposal of all imported herds that may lie found t > be infected on arrival in the United States, or that may develop a <lan terous contagious disease during a quaran tine: that he be also empowered t > have all ruminants (other than cattle) and all swine impjrtel into the United States subjected to inqac ion by veterinary surgeons, and, if m cessary to prevent the spread of contagious disease, slaughtered or submitted to quaran tine until they shall be considered disin fectcd;-and that an appropriation of $1,500,: 000 snail be made to defray the expense of preventing a further spread of the lung plague among cattle in this country, and of rtampujg out the plague now existing. ONWARD AJVD UPWARD. BURNED TO DEATH. Terrible Fire in a Convent in Illinois, Many of the Inmates Perishing in the Fiamest At 11 o clock at night fire wa? discovered in the Convent of the Immaculate Concep tion at Belleville, 111., the capital of SU Clair county, fourteen miles from St. Louis. Ihe alarm was first given by the Watchman at Harrison's machine works, and Mr. James .Stout, of the City foun dry, was about the first man attracted to the scene. When he reached the place the windows of the third floor pre sented a horrible spectacle. There, in their night-clothes, suddenly aroused from their s.umbers, stood in despair a large number of tern fie 1 inmates. There was no chance of rescue, and the only alternative Was the dreadful leap. Boon afterward vol umes of smoke were seen to spread through out the building, followed bi loud explos ions. and then a tew took the desiierate chances of hurling themselves through the windows, Mary Campbell was the first to try the leap, but when her body was lifted up from the icy pavement she was in a dying condition, having sustained horrible injuries. By this tome the alarm had spread through the city, and hundreds of men appeared and consulted as to what was the best c urse of action. The fire engine had not yet arrived, and the flames were spreading rapidly and at many of -the windows were to be seen figta-e-, of women cad in their night gar ments, some of them leaning out and scream ing for assistance, others trying frant.cally to ojien the sashes, which seemed to be beyond their [lower. Hundreds of men were ready to rush into the place to rescue ihe inmates, but the doors were all locked and go solidly constructed that all ordi nary attempts to break them in were lutue. At last James Stout procured a ponderous bar, with which, a dozen men using it as a battering-ram, an entrance was effected. A rush was made up stairs and many of the inmates were led through the blinding smoke to the gn mid in safety. But to the horror of the rescuers it was discovered that in accord ance with a rule of the convent the bedrooms had all tieeu locked, and a number of them still remained so. ihe battering ram was brought io bear upon those door also, but they, too. proved of stout and unyielding ma terial. and the gallant band were obliged to abandon a large numtier of the unfortunate inmates to their fate Among those wno ound themselves locked up m the burning building waj a young girl named Daisy Eberle, who finally managed to cra "l through the windows of the third floor and find a perilous position on the cornice over the main doorway. She there remained along time shrieking for succor. At liwt th.- confined flame and smoke burst iromthe windows around her and she was hurled to the ground below, but her fall was broken by two men who stood with outstretched arms to receive her She was not seriously hurt. Her escape was most miraculous. By this time the fire department had reached the scene, bat it was immediately discovered that while their engines were able to send water to the top of the budding, a four-story brick structure, consisting of a main building and two long womb reach I? “ ie story. A number of women on the top floor were seen rushing to and from the wnidows.gesticulating wildly and stretch ing forth their arms in mute appeals far help. 1 hey broke the windows with their hands and -ried lor assistance. The convent was a very fashionable edu cational institution, young ladies from va rious parts in Southern Illinois, St. Louis, and foreign countriei being among its stu dents Almost all the unfortunates at the wind, iw s were young ladies and here and there among them were seen the sisters he roically striving to keep the panic-strick en from dashing themselves upon the frozen ground bolow. The lady superior was seen to move alternately between three rooms on the third floor, at the win dows of which seven voung ladies were standing. The fire was rauidly approach ing them, but she could be seen pa-sing from group to group and exhorting them to re main where they were. Suddenly a flame shot into one of the rooms, and two voung ladies occupying it were seen to fall* back from the window. At the same moment Bister Jerome darted from the next window, followed by the occupants of the room, three in number. As they did so a crash was heard, and that room"also became filled with flames, and the floor collapsed immediately a terward. Sh i'tiv after these horrible occurrences Emil J. Kohl and two others appeared men the scene with a long ladder, which, after some hard work, was placed against the front of the building. It reached to the second floor and two men ascended it. By means of a smaller ladder Which they held in position the third floor wa< reached and a number of the sisters and Ixiarders were res cued. Sister Moderate about this time was found lying ujioii the ground on the south side of the building, dead. About this time, on the south side of the main building, two ladies not known to the rescuers, were saved from the top of a veranda, even with the second floor. They had leaped from the story above, and in their fall on the roof were stunned, and when discovered were nearlv frozen. A short ladder was found, but it would not reach them. At this juncture the men took the lad ler, and, resting it on the projection of the porch, managed to secure it, and the ladies wi re rescued. The flames were then rapidly spreading through the entire building, and in spite of the efforts of the filemen the in terior of the building was soon consumed. Nothing was left for the firemen to do except to save the walls. The wall on the west side was,however.doomed,and it soon fell carrying down with it blazing timbers and fragments and burying with its debris the bodies of many young ladies. On the fourth floor pu pil boarders with three of the sisters slept On the third floor the remaining sisters slept, and on the second, or the floor above the ba-ement, what are termed “orphans” and “half-orphans 'slept. On this second floor Ihe inmates escaped and were saved. The sister superior, three or four other sisters, and about twentv-five pupils, ranging from eight ytars to adult age, lost their lives. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. There are 343 music halls in London. Henry Irving is playing a two weeks’ en gagement in Chicago. The Press Ciub, of Buffalo, gave Mlle. Rhea, the actress, a reception. It is thought that Mr. Irving will carry home “golden” opinions of America. Herr Joachim, the violinist, is coming to America to give a hundred concerts. Bartley Campbell, the playwright, is in poor health, the result of overwork and bus iiiess anxiety. Beethoven became deaf in 1801, blind in 1823, and died in 1827, after composing 137 different works. Sir George Macfarran was obliged to dictate his late musical composition, ‘‘King David,” being blind. The opera season of four weeks cost New York upward of $750,100, of which Patti got about ten per cent. Albert Berg has written a history of the American stage, which is in press, and will shortly make its appearance. “Oik Nation’s Pets” is the title given a new comic opera, the music by J. H. Sullivan, the libretto by W. R. Watts. Mme. Samary, of the Theatre Francais, ) Paris, has declined an offer of $160,000 for a two years’ professional tour in the United States. The name of the play which Gi Ibert ba written for Mary Anderson is “Comedy and Tragedy.” A great success is anticipated for it. Henry Irving, says a rumor, thinks of building a theatre in New York, and putting Joseph Hatton, the London journalist to manage it. It is said that Gobbaerte (who spells him self backward—Streabbogj.the noted German composer, purposely introduces slight mis takes in some of his compositions, in order to enjoy the frenzied eagerness with which his musical "friends” point them out to him. j SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. Senate- ! Upon the reopening of the session the Sen i Ate, in Committee of the whole, resume ! con jjMderation of the new rules and adopted all {except those on appropriations and standing 'committees, which were reserved.. .Mr. Gib son submitted a joint resolution for the im mediate appropriation of #1,000,000 to be ex ipended in the preservation, repair ami con struction of certain works for the improve ment of the Mississippi, under the dire tion { of the secretary of war, and in accordance with the recommendations of the Mississippi i river commission. Four messages were received from the —One transmitting a letter from the secretary of war recommending the ssle ■ pf the site of the military post of Fort’Sulli . ’an, Maine; another transmitting a com- Minicatioii from the secretary of the interior submitting the draft of a bill providing for the allotment of hinds in severalty to certain tr;bes of Indians; a third transmitting another communication from the secre tary of the interior submitting the draft 1 cf a bill to allow Indian homestead en tries without payment of fees, and present ing the matter for the consideration of Con -OVS, and a fourth transmitting for the in formation of Congress pajiers showing ope rations at the South Pass of the Mississippi river to December, 1883, ail 1 setting forth I tbs necessity for further appropriations of ttb work.... Mr. Hale’s resolution directing | the secretary of the navy to report the origi nal cost of all vessels f. >tmd on the naval reg . iaterfor 1883 was passed. Mr. Miller, of New York, introduced a bill i f»r the maintenance and support of marine hospitals.... Bills were paste 1 for the relief of the parents of Lieutenant Schwatka and to authorize the First National bank of Fort B orth, Texas, to increase its c apital stock ....Mr. Anthony offered the following reso Ihtion, which, in the Hugged ion of Mr. Vnn JyCk, Went over till the next day: “That the Committee on foreign relations be in structed to taquire into the eX|ediency of such legislation as shall enable the Executive to protect our interests against these govern ments which have prohibited or restrained the importation of healthful meats from the I nited States The report of the com mittee on rules was further considered. Hoiiw. At the reopening of the House session, a resolution promised by Mr. Heed was "adopted, requesting the heads of departments to furnish the facts relating to the distribution o: c.rculars in the departments asking con tributions for political purposes.... Mr. Townshend offered a resolution, which was Adopted, requesting the President to fiirnish information relating to the ex Crltsion of American hog products from b«r many ond France.... Six hundred and seven ty bills and resolutions were introduced among them being th • following: To amend the. Chine*’ emigration act; granting peu sions to all L nited States s >ldiers and sailors m the late war who served thirty days or Mjr-re in any engagement therein, and to the widows of ail soldiers deceased: reducing the pay department of the army; to prohibit the mailing of letters or circulars con cerning lotteries, or newspapers, jie n<}Kiicals or other publications cqntanang lottery advertisements, and to pflbvide a penalty for the violation of this Mrt' granting pensions to soldiers and sailors of the late war who served for three Sihs, and who are unable by reason of cal disability to earn a subsistence, or are sixty-five t ears of age; to classify ands of the United States as agricul , mineral, timber and grazing urn Is; to aboiYsh the internal revenue tax on tobacco; to prevent undue contraction of paper circu lation; to prohibit the issue of treasury andi I tprik note- of a less denomination than #loa >A message from the President was received? transmitting the report of the Missis-ippl river Improvements and recommending the early passage of a bill continuing the work of improvementA large batch of bills and resolutions Was introdu -ed, among them l»aing the following: Topreventthe u-eof the I lilted [States mails in advertising injurious med.cines: to abolish the duty on Bible, trace chains, plows and other articles: to reduce the salaries of heals of departments; giving to Congress power to t>ass uniform laws regulating marriage and divorce in the States and Territories; giving letter-car riers and clerks thirty day's leave of ab sence in tach year; to' distribute a portion of the surplus revenues among the States; to place coal, sa't and wood on the freelist: to establish a bureau of labor sta tistics; to establish a railroad commission to regulate commerce among the States; to re peal the iron-clad oath; to establish a depart ment of industry. Under the < all of States, Mr. Itobinson (N. Y.i intro duced a re-olu’ion calling on the secretary of state for information as to'whether our ministers obey the law of March 27, l"i;7. which forbids them from appearing in public in court dress and requires them t<> wear the ordinary apparel of an American citizen. Mr. Peach proposed the following amendments to the Constitution: 1. Uniform laws vn the subject of marriage and divorce; 2. Giving the President power to veto one or more items in an ap; ropriation bill; 3. Creating a statute of limitations to a ! l claims against the United States; 4. The credit money and profierty of the United State, not to be loaned or be given to private cors porations; 5. Prohibiting the granting of ex clusive privileges and forbidding legislation on appropriation bills. Mr. Deuster i\Vis. i also t roposed a constitutional amendment prohibiting Congress or the State legislatures from enacting any law prohibiting or abridg ing the manufacture or sale of any article of merchandise comjiosed in part or in whole of any product of the soil; and Mr. Sumner. ('Vis. i a constitutional amendment limiting the veto power of the President by providing that a measure may be passed over his veto by a majority vote. A resolution offered by Mr. Kasson direct ing the committee on foreign affairs toil miPe into the facts in regard to the prohibition of the introduction of certain food products of the United States into certain foreign coun tries, and report what action should be taken to secure the observance of our treaties with »uch countries and protect the rights of our citizens in respect thereto, was adop ted. Another similar resolution offered by Mr. Deuster was referred to the commit tee on commerce . .Mr. Slocum, from the committee on military affairs, reported a bill for the relief of General Fitz John Porter, re storing him to his rank in the army... Mr. Slocum reported from the committee on ship building and ship-owning interests the Dingley shipping bill as unanimously agreed to by the committee.... Upon motion of Mr. Ochiltree resolutions of respect to the memory of Herr 1 Asker, th>* German statesman who died suddenly in New York, were passed.. Mr. Bagley introduced a bill appropriating #150.000 for the Bartholdi statue pedestal fund. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. Indiana had 14,925 deaths last year, j lowa’s new capital cost over $2,000,000. i Church music is not difficult to a choir. Dio Lewis says: “More sunshine, ladies.” Cocoanut culture is being tried in Florida. Over 75,000 Canadians are engaged in the lumber business. A New York florist claims to sell 20,000 rosebuds every day. There is one lawyer- for every 700 people in the United States. The orange crops of Florida are now worth over $1,500,000. Talmage’s church has 2,969 members, or 414 more than Beecher's. i India ink, according to Chinese writers, was invented 2,967 B. C. Mobile is trying to run off the tramps by inflicting heavy penalties. A farmer in Clinton, S. C. Mr. Fielder, a i bachelor, is 103 years old. A New York liquor seller shows the ap propriate sign of “A Horn.” Kainit (potash salts) is dug from beds 300 1,200 feet below the surfacb. At the great \ anderbilt ball in New York $30,000 was spent for flowers. Cocoanuts, as well as pineapples and oranges are grown in Florida One Chicago firm slaughtered 1,020,000 hogs and 251,000 cattle last year. Paper powder-barrels and paper carriage tops are made at Lansingburgh, N. Y. Wisconsin reports 13,406 marriages, 12,- 344 births, and 4,684 deaths during 188-3. It cost Kentucky last year to provide for •131 deaf mutes, $67,011.88, over 1500 each. THE INVENTOR'S WIFE It’s easy to talk of the patience of Job Humph! Job hail nothin’to try him: Ef he’d been married to 'Bijah Brown, folks wouldn't have dared come nigh him. Trials indeed! Now I’ll tell you what—ef you want to be sick of your life, Jest come and change places with me a spell for I'm an inventor’s wife. And sech inventions! I’m never sure, when I takeup my coffee-pot, That ’Bi_ah hain't ben “improvin’ ” it, and it mayn’t go off like a shot hy> d.dn’t he make me a cradle once that would keep itself a-rockin’; And didn tit pitch the baby out, and wasn’ his head bruised shockin'? And there was his “Patent Peeler,” too—a wonderful thing. I'll say; But it hed one fault—it never stopped till the apple was peeled away. As for locks, an I clocks, and mowin’ ma chines. and reapers, and all sech trash, hy, ’Bi'ah's invented heapsof'em, but they don’t bring in no cash. Law! that don't worry him—not at all; he's the aggravatin’est man— He’ll set in his little workshop there, and whistle and think and plan, Inventin’a Jew’s-harp to go by steam, ora new-fangled powder horn, V> hile the children's goin’ barefoot to school, and the weeds is chokin’ our corn. IV hen ’Bijah and me kep’ company he wam't like this, you know; Our folks all thought he was dreadful smart —but that was years ago. He was handsome as any pictur then, and he had such a glib, bright way— I never thought that a time would come when I’d rue my weddin' day; But when I've been forced to chop the wood, and tend to the farm beside, And look at 'Bijah a-settin there, I’ve jest dropped down and cried. We lost the hull of our turnip crop while he was inventin' a gun. But I counted it one of my marcies when it bu'st before 'two”. done. So he turned it into a burglar alarm.” It ought to give thieves a fright— Twould scare an honest man out of his wits, ef he sot It off at night. Sometimes I wonder ef ’Bijah's crazy, he does sech cur'ous things. Ilev I told you about his bedstead yit? Twas full of wheels and springs; It he I a key to wind it up, and a clock face at the head; All you did was to turn them handc, and at any hour you said, That bed got up and shook itself, and bounced you on the floor, And then shet up, jest like a box, so you couldn't s'eep any more. Wa'al, 'Bijah he fixed it all complete, and he sot it at half-past five, But he hadn’t more'n got into it when—dear me! sakes alive! Them wheels began to whiz and whirr! I heerd a fearful snap, And there was that bedstead, with ’Bijah in side, shet up jest like a trap! I screamed, of course, but ’twa’nt no use. Then I worked that hull long night A-trying to open the pasky thing. At last 1 got in a fright: I couldn’t hear his voice inside, and I thought he might be dym'; So I took a crowbar and smashed it in. There was 'Bijah, peacefully lyin’, Inventin' a way to git out agin. That was all very well to say, But I don't b’lieve he'd have found it out if I’d left him in all day. Now, sence I've told you my s-tory, do you wonder I'm tired of my life! Or think it strange I often wish I warn't an inventor's wife? —E- T. Corbett, in Harper's Bazar. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Among the oldest of smokers— Chimneys. ‘'l shall husband my resources,” said the rich woman when she married a poor i clerk.— rchant- Traveler. When the palm of your hand itches it I is a sign that you are going to get some money—when you earn it. A miss is not as good as a mile, for a I miss has only two feet, while a mile has I 5,280. Shoot the maxim maker.—Mer : chant-Traveler. Yu will observe this: Satan never offers to go into partnership with a bizzy man, but yu will often see him offer to jine the lazy, and furnish all the capital beside. —Josh, Billing*. When uncle came to dinner he always said grace before meat, and the little truthseeker of five years asked, ‘‘Papa, why don't you go to sleep and talk be fore you eat, same as uncle does?” The composer who writes a song en titled “ What’s the Size of Your Father's Boot?” should follow it with a dirge called, “He Has No Music in His Sole.” Thus, he will be enabled to make both ends meet.— Siftings. “So you are married at last. Charlie. I hear that your wife is a very energetic woman and keeps things stirred up. Of course you married her for love?” “ No,” said the husband, bracing up, “ I married her to cure iny dyspepsia. ” “Ma,” said a thoughtful boy, “I don’t think that Solomon was so rich as they say he was.” “Why, my dear?” “Be cause the Bible says he slept with his fathers, and if he had been so rich he would have had a bed of his own.”— London Society. “Oh, papa, dear, I wish you’d come home. I’m really afraid mamma has taken a drop too much.” “Gracious heavens, child, what do you mean’’’ “That new' homcepathic medicine, you know. I’m afraid I’ve given her seven drops instead of six.”— Punch. “Sonny, is your mother at home?” asked the minister, addressing the little boy who was standing at the door. “Yes, she’s at home,”Was the reply, ‘fcbut I guess she doesn’t want to see you. I heard her just tell pa that she hated fools, and that she never saw a man yet who wasn’t a fool.” A Wonderful Swim. Captain Haultain, thirty-two years old, weighing 196 pounds, was washed over board at night in a terrific gale off the coast of New Zealand. He had on at the time a heavy overcoat, high sea boots, two pairs of trousers and four shirts. Encumbered as he was, he swam for half an hour in the darkess in the wake of his ship. No boat was put out for him. He swam out of his overcoat and dived out of his boots. In waves thirty feet high he swam ashore, a dis tance of three miles. 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