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Newspaper Page TextCitamtott mptugr T 0L. XXVIlI—>0 58 COLUMBUS. GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 9. 1886 PRICE FIVE CENTS WASHINGTON WAIFS. Cninieudfr Truxton rxpuios the forfeit Nrvy Yerd /ffalr. Pidmiililtli BilnUi ilr Umign In the Rout* * * ll* U (•iittl Du—The W*/» end Merna («nmilt (■ Uiailti iba iigiim el Klee Men-appoint' mfii'i Kte, Washington, Marcl 8 —Tbe su prenae court ( f th United S ates to day denied the motion of N N Royal to give preference over all othir cases to the fruit ccwirn fir or the state or federal counts oi Virginia, involvlrg the question of the constitutionality of the coupon laws. A NOMINATION The president sent to the senate the nouiiation of Samuel EWheatiy, of their district of Columbia, to be com mieslonericf tfc» District of Columbia, vice James B Edmonds, term a pired. THE RICE TARIFF. Civil Servict- Commissioner Tren- holm appeared before the ways and means committee to-day to expris his yiewB upon the sections of the Morrison taiifl bill touching rice. He said that the riuy on rice import ed into the Pacific state.: was paid by the Chinese It borers who were the consumers and was almost the only tax paid by the Chinese, Trenholm told of the ill sheets on rice planta tions in this country resulting from disuse during tLe war, and said tha' if the production should be checked at this time it would be d fflenit, cr almost impossible, to re establish s:urces of supply within a long period. The land was tit lor no other purposeand the labor ing people would drift away and could not be recalled. Secretary F d- ger had made a ruling assimilalirg broken rice meal under the name ui granulated rice, and that ruling had the effect of increasing the importa tion of that class of rice from eleven million pounds to two hundred and seventy five millions, and the prices had fallen from four ;o two cents per pound. The law should contain a provision against the introduction of any rice at a rate of duty that was not inter, d-rd to be applied to it. If it was the intention to let in this rice at a lower rate of duty.it would b- better to state it specially in the tariff and not leave the rate to be fixed by unsettled treasury rul ings. Almost the entire cost of.rlce production was in the labor—nlheiy cents on the dollar, he should say. Trenholm told of a planter who had abandoned his plantation because he found that a cross road store keeper was selling east India rice to hie la borers Trenholm admitted that h- htsd the free trade idea generally, but eaid that if the protective system were maintained, then he should re gard the tariff on rice as a m c -salty, protection enhanced the cost of all labor and this country could not com pete in rice culture with A iatic nations with their cheap labor without including rice in the list of Imported articles. In answer to Hewitt, h» said there should be a uniform duty on rice and another to oover rice fl ur. Hewitt pointed out that that was the present law in effrot. The d fflculty teemed to be in the interproiluotion of the law—the dlsorimira ion between rid- fl ur and broken rice. Trenholm suggested that rice might be graded by its 113 to be determined by ire Biz;. Representative D bble, of Bouth Carolina, discussed the matter from a laborer's point of view, saying that the labor employed in rice culture formed an appreciable part of the country’s laboring population, and was entitled to consideration at the bands of the committee. Representative G.y, of Louisiana, spoke oi th; excessive cost of! arvesi labor on rice plantations in his state as compart d with the cheap East In - dian lsbor. He said that it had be- come the practice for European ex porters to break up whole grains d rice so as to take advantage of the low tariff on that grade in this coun try. Morrison, representing the rice dealers, said that the brewers con sumed the broken rice to the extent of several million bushels per month aud that the production of this coun try wae too small to supply the de mand. It had been shown that south ern dealers bought foreign broken rice, mixed it with their whole grain and sent it to the west for sale. R;oe was a necessity in brewing light col ored bjers 0 ir native oarley was too dark in color for the purpose Nearly all broken rice was used in breweries and not one respectable grocer In New York could be found who would state that broken rice was •old by them for food. Louie Schwab said that one brew ing firm in the weet need an amount of broken rioe equal to the entire pro duction of this country. B F James, of a firm of New York, •aid the production was too small to meet the brewers' demands. T 8 Wilkinson, a Louisiana planter and miller, denied thai L >uislsna dealers mixed foreign broken rice with the home product. He deolared that there was an opportunity for baud. Imported broken rice was fit for food ana two-thirds of the Lou c n * cro P tkis year wae very little better than broken rice. WHO WHEATLY IS. Samuel E Wneatly, who was to- n*y appointed commissioner of the ~ ls *rlot of Columbia, vice James B Edward*, re a member of a promi nent lumbir firm of the district. He was born in Georgetown and has lived there all bis life. He has al ways been an unoompromts!cur dem ocrat The evening papers publish expressions of their own opinion and that of prominent ci Iz us which are emphatic in approval of Wheatly’- appointment as th-y were recently in disapproval oi Matthews, the New York colored ma r, to iucoeedFc:d Douglass as r gisier of deeds ANOTHER APPOINTMENT. The president »ls ■ to day appoint ed Major Wm Ludlow, of the corps engineers, United 8 ales army, lo be engineer commissioner of the D.s- triot (f Columbia vice M'j*r Girrett J Lyilecker MsJ:>r Lrdlow has a” ixcelleut rrcord as an er-glcetr < fli • car aud has had charge of imporiati public improvement in various parts of the oountry. He was engineer secretary or the light house board for several years, and while holding that poeition in 1883, congress passed a special act granting h m leave of ab serce whhout pay in order that he m ght accept an offer to tafce charge of the water works it Pnlladelphia, and be has Just been relieved fr m the duties if that poeition. His ap pointment is also likely to be a popu lar one. THE NORFOLK NAVY YARD The secretary of the navy, iu reply to the resolution of Boutelle, adopted January 221, to-day transmitted io the house a letter from Commodore Truxton, commandant of the Norfolk navy yard, in which he says: ‘ In reply to your letter transmit ting to me the resolution passed by the house of representatives, asking if certain allegations were true in reference to the adminisration at this navy yard of which I am commandant, have been received Iu answer to the first statement I d( sire to say there never were any honorable inscriptions npon any can non captured by the United States and plac d in this yard obliterated by my order Iu fact no such oblit eration has at any time taken plao* Exposure from weather aud time had somewhat obliterated the in- icriptiocs placed thereon, but they were renewed by my order last June and are now plainly visible.” Then follows a list of the guns and of the inscriptions on them. “Second-The dry dock wn never destroyed. I was partially damaged by the United States forces when they evacuated the yard in 1861, and also by the confederates wuun they evacuated the yard iu 1862, but i» □ either esse did the damage exceed the destruction of cannon and ad jacent masonry. The original structure remained Intact bb it ap pears to-day, aud therefore the dry dock never waB rebuilt. The only inscription that was ever authoriz-o to be placed on the dry dock, or ever was on the dry dock, is still there I is as foliov s: “Commenced first of December, 1827, Job Qilncy Adams, president of the Uuued 8.ales; S imnel L Southard, secretary of the navy; au thorized by the nineteenth cougris., opened the 17.h ot June 1833; An drew Jackson, president of tL«. United Slate-; Levi Woodbury, seoretary oi the navy; L.ammi Baldwin, en gineer.” “Therefore the tablet referred to by the resolution never having been on the dry doek, was not removed Oa a pumping engine wbioh is In cated in the briok building some 1150 feet distant from the dry dock a pla e containing the inscription, "Built by Messrs Woodruff & Beach, Machin ists and Engineers, Hartford, Conn,’ was removed and in Us plaoe another was substituted, inscribed thereon, ‘D'Stroyed by the rebels in 1861; re built by thi United States govern- meat in 1863; J W Livingstone, oom- maudan ; W H Lyons, superintend entof machinery.’ “I searched the records in this office in vain for the authority for the re moval of the original plate and the substitution of the otber and coulo not fled that the change was mad-.- by any authority whatever. I there fore had it removed. Since the re moval of the pla e referred to Lyons has applied for it, stating that as be had erected it on his own responsibil ity and bought and paid for it at bl own expense, therefore it was his private property.” Third- Lyons was not superlnten dent of machinery at the time of the removal of the plt’e, he having been removed by me for reasons hereinaf ter stated on the 25.b day of April. 1885. The plate was removed some time after in May, hence hs was not removed by me for protesting against the removal of the plate referred to. He was removed by me on aooount of bis bitti r partisanship, his abso late political sway for a number of years in the steam engineers depart ment at this yard, and his antago nistic and overbearing dispo- •ition to any one who differed with him politically or otherwise created a feeling of dia- eontent among the,master workmen and the workmen to each an extent that it was almost impossible to get good work of any kind done in that department. His personal character was generally obiectionable, he hav ing previously been held to bail by the United States commissioner to answer before the Uuited States grand jury, who found a true bill against him, for having smuggled from the Spanish ship Payora Dalaoe ona cigars while that vesstl was un dergoing repairs in the dry dock in this yard. I never consid ered that Lyons had faith fully served the United States government Dr many years as the resolutions allege. On the oontrary, I always doubted his loyalty to ms government at the time of its great est need. He published the following card to the ci'z-us ot N <rli)lk In June. 1861, which appeared in the D i.y B n it at that tlun : “•To the public: I, William H Lyons, bavi g been uiarg-’d with di»loyalty to the 8 1 e.n C ufed eraey, proclaim myself is >od « southerner as any man in the lou'ti and am d-dug as much us any man iu the e< ulh. and aui doing as mush to destroy the invaders as any man in tl e field, and if any me wi 1 o.ime to the Atlantic iron works I will show them my works, which are more than worr’B ami will do »!1 in my power to pro mote the Independence of thesouth- ern slates [Signed] ‘Wm H Lyon, •Foreman Atlantic Iron Works.’ ‘ The sentiment contained in the following letter (Joes not show much eithfulness to the United 8 ales government, us the resolutions ah lego.” Commander Truxton then men tions that the board of fil lers was se lected by S-crotary Whitney to super vise and conduct an > xicnination of the candidates for the position made vacant by the removal of Lyon, that full notice rfiLie : x ruination was given and six mechauiesatieuded and were examined The board reported that Thos M Bj.rr, of Baltlm ire, wa ttle b r at man for the place aud he was appointed to the position of mas ter machinist by the secretary of the navy The commodore continue-: “The i fflctency and the superior work now turned out oi that Bhop j istifles the change made. A short time after taking charge of (his yard a general discharge was ordered hy the d> part- ment at Washington, a.- s ated, by a lack of appropriation, which oaused all the shops to close, with the excep tion of the engineer’s department, where the boiler- of the United States steamer Alliance were being made. At the commencement of the new fiscal ye.tr the fund being available, work was resumed. Toe impression having gone abroad that this Davy yard was a political asylum for de cayed politicians, I ordered the board of i ffleers to examine ail applicant! who claimed they were skilled w rkmen, bo as to ascertain (heir fl ness for th--p isitions they sought. The report of that board was conclusive as to the merits of applicants who were employed or re jeot;d according to the report, as the records on fils in this yard prove The mannor of ascertaining the qualifications of applicants has had a wn-fold effect. It has increased the -fflolenoy of the men, and while bad workmanship was the reptra- tioa of the yard, bv means of the a’< ove examination good work manship is now its reputation among naval ( Ulcers. Commodore Truxton then goes on to say that out of 559 men emp oyed in the navy yard at the time of the adip lion of the resolution and the date nr the reports, 338 had been appointed by the previous adminis tration, and a ru-J rity or the men were too yrung to have taken part in the late war; 67 men were union soldiers and tailors, of whom 40 wer - appointed ,by Truxton, and 35 were oolored men. Colored m e i of equal ■kill have bean given equal opportu nity for employment, and not to the commodore’s knowledge wae any euoh right accorded by the previous administration; 13 out 30 calkers wsre frvedmen, and when the fotce was reduced no discrimination on ac count of color was made.” I.i regard to the letter from Cjd- grsstmau Brady, in which the latter names fifteen ex-union soldiers and sailors whom he knew personally and bad been discharged from the yard, Trexton answered in each in dividual case Throe of the meD named are still employed in the yap*. The remaining twelve were discharg ed for iuifflciency, objectionable habits, lack ol employment, lack of iunds; one because he tailed on civil service examination for the position ol fireman; one for causes aufli dentto himself us commandant, and three because of offensive partisanship, and as it was his determination to rid the yard of yolitios it wue necessary to remove tnese three men. Two appointments to take two of the above places were in the confederate service, but bad superior meohanicn skill to the others. O ie was a son of a Uuited 8 ates naval officer and or.e was an ex United States naval (ffl- oer. The others were loo young at the time of the rebellion to have akea any part in the strife. • In conclusion, I respectfully Biy that I have always to the best of my judgment prevented politics from being the controlling element in this yard during my administration ” DEATH OF SENATOR MILLER Senator John F Miller, of Califor nia, whose dea n caused the early adjournment of congress to-day, has been sick all the winter from a com plication of diseaa's, but his death was mainly due to an old wound in the head received in battle during the late war. He was colonel of an In dian regiment, became brigadier-gen eral and was breveted major-general after the battle of Nashville. Death ef .Hr*. ■•/■oer. *m<*J •• Utica, N Y, March 8 —Mary Bteecker, relict of Governor Horatio Btymour, died at the residence of Mrs Roacoe Conkling a‘. 8:30 to-day. Tke late governor removed Mis Seymour from his oountry home to Mrs Conk- ling’s on account of her illness and while attending her was attacked with his fatal illness. It is said that Teacyson’s clothes do not fl b : m. That’s wT-.af makes LL r: cent poetry fee so unoomiortablB, GOING INTO POLITICS. Tire Min is Heigh s «( L b r Trying to Form a Party. Labor *ElUMIon» of Ike D.-.g-BIrlbr* null Knniore ol Sirlkie-P o|r»> uf the oyrot. Asalusl Ihc Uould ■»•(«■*, BIO. Speolkl tc Erqnlrer-Bnn Et Louis March 8.—The strike of a part of the knights of 1-hor on the Q uld southwisleru system of rail ways Saturday was followed ye-, er day at vurioue points aloi g tbe lines by a geneial suspension of work ( f all knights employed in any position by the railroads until the number reached between 8000 and 10,000, an.) included shopmen, switchmen, train men, brakemen and firemen. Philadelphia, Marc! 8 —Grand Master Workman Powderly, the head of the Knights of labor organ ization, who is in this city attending a meeting oi the g- usral .x cutive board, said to-night to a reporter o< the tvsocialed press, that ho had re ceived no summon to settle the diffi culties between the strlkeis aud tht- G uld eys eui of roads west. Pow derly s.ud there is no significance in the ftc: that so many strikes are now in progreisiu the United StateB by tbe amniblies ot knights of labor. “It is a coincidence merely,” said he, “andthire is no concer.ed action contemplated by the order, as has been suggested, the strikes being ine oidental, and I thiuk chiefly owing to the fret that this is just the begin ning of tbe spring trade and the opening of a period of prosperity in business.” THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR. Chicago, March 8-A number of business men representing tbe 7 h, 8.h and 9 h wards of this city assem Died yesterday for the purpose of or ganizing a mixed assembly or knigh s of labor. The chairman said that at the request of a number ofbusinois men and others who were suffering from the results of too poor compen sation that labor received, it has bern decided that the business men should make common c- U» with the labor ing class on whom they relied for support by thoroughly organia ng and co-operating with the working people in their various !o.a itics A committee appointed at a fl rm er meeting to secure a charter reported that the request bad been granted by tbe distric as sembly and the charter would oe is- sued to them s me time during the present week. The cxeout.ivo com mittee of tbe state assembly of the knights of labor Saturday adopted a memorial to the aenatr.aud house of reprisiotativeM at Washington ask ing that liberal appropr'aiiot s of surplus revenues be made for the construction of public works. Tbe Henne iln canal proj ct is endorse • us an undertaking of national im portance. Tbe memorial has been adopted by sixteen assemblies in this s’u'e and eight in eleven ot! e. states. A knignts of labor del gate told the tinners and cornice makers yesterday that the knigh's of labor numbered 20 000 to 30 000 iu Chicago, ano 850,- 000 hi tbe Uuited B ates and Canada. The tinners aud cornice makers de oided to beoome knights of labor, GOING INTO POLITICS Decatur III, Marco 8 —The ac tion of the knights of labor of this seotlon iu forming a new political party is a trading much attention. They declare in tt air platform : “We have formed a new national political party, to be known as the united labor party of America, for the pur pose of organizing and directing the great political power of the industrial masses as a political organ zition, and we will oast our ballots for no one who will not pledge himself to stand firmly by our principles.” They call upon all voters to unite in the eff rt to emancipate the wage- woikers of the country !rom the iron band of tbe capitalists. T.iey declare that the alarming development and aggressions ot great capitalists and corporations, unless checked, will in evitably lca 1 to the pauperz-.tlon and hopeless degradation of the toil ing masses. A STRIKE AT AN END. St Louis, M .rch 8 — A special from Ban Antonio, Texas, to the Pott-Dispatch states that the local differences between the knights of tabor and their employers on the Bouthern Pacific railway have been settled and that the strike there Is at an end. TO BE ORDERED TO QUIT WORK. St Louis, Maroh 8 —A special from S(dalta. Mo, to tbe Poet-Dis patch, says the central committee of the knights if labor will order that, after to-day, all members of that or ganization employed upon passen ger trains of tbe Missouri Pacific railway shall cease work, but mail oars must not be interferred with. Notice was posted at the Missouri Pacific railway depot this morning announcing the suspension of all brakemen and conductors on the B L uis and Kansas and Lawrence and Kansas branch of that road. FOUR THOUSAND QUIT W..RK New York, March 8 - Four thou sand members of tbe united order of American joiners and the amalga mated sooiety of carpenters and Joiners stopped work here to-day. The Journeymen complain of row wages paid at the rate ol |2 per day of ten hours, the rate for first-class workmen being (3 50, which very few receive on tbe idea that they are not fl:at-cla3s. The sUikirs mow , demand that the average 1 wages paid to Journeymen shall be $3.50 per day of niue hours each for five days and eight hours Satur day. 8 x hundred shops are sflioted by this mo veins at aud at noon 86 borers had ngrted to the demands as I resi tiled. The men in these shopa will at once resume work. The men are co. iident of carrying their point, ~s nearly all the larger shops have given in. Abcu' 1200 men ’(Burned work today. STOPPED V. ORK Cumberland, March 8 — The miners ail stopped work this morn ing iuiln Cumberland c ml regions AN THER STRIKE Pittsburg, Pa, MarcoS—An ox- 'enstve strike of tbe coal mines of federation N. 8, comprising several coal districts of the east, was inaugu rated today for the uniform scale of wagoe wbioh wus adopted at '.1 e con vention h; Cumberland, Fobiuarj 19. The idle is Irwin 60 cents, C-ear- tield 50 cents, Meyertdale nod Gar ret. 40 cents, Apaohontas 75 cents, Elk G irdeu and G eorge’s Creek 50 cents, involving a general advance if 10 oenis per ton. Iu the district there art 10,000 min n. A 11 o’clock this morn it g dispatches received from Maryland regions reportfd that all the mu ere, numbering nearly 50C0 men, were rut. Nothing ha; been received as yet from other points. Secretary I) ivb, of the miners’ amal gamated r.ssoc'ation, says: “The men miy not c me out to a man at the start, but the feeling is sufficiently strung to cause the strike to become general in a few days. Theyarecoo- flient of suouess in the end, and are encouraged by the statement that many ot the Meyersdale operator!are willing to concede that advance. The present is regarded is belrg a very opportune time to ask for an advance, as this is the month in which the coal companies make most of their contracts Notwithstanding miners in this district are indifferently or ganized, the lenders arc very sanguine as to their ability to gaiu tbe advance asked. Tbe present 1s especially notev o thy as being the first general demand by all the d.sirlo e competing in the eastern market f->r an advance of wages, also as the first effort to carry out the principle laid down by >he Joint convention of operators and miners at Columbus Ohio, in tbs es- tabiishtr o it of relatively uniform rat-, s in competing districts. FORTY NINTH CONGRESS A Sbor* la Baih lloa«««—Nana- ior Hill«r*a Otam laaoaae*4. Baffin* Bmuirer-thm.. Washington, March 8 —Toe speaker laid * efore the house the ere- deuiisls of Thomas R Hudd, mem ber-elect from tbe ti h district of Wisconsin, to fid the vacancy caused by the deith of J lsepti Butrin, aud Hudd appeared anil took tbe oath of flflee U -der the call of states a number d bills were introduced anil referred among them one by B nneit, of North Carolina, repealing the civil service law, auil by Green, of North Carolina, defining pure win's and providing for the tuxntion of oertain compounded beverages. Henley, of California, off-red for reference, a resolution or the ap pointment of a special committee to it quire into the alleged evasions of the Thurman act by tbe Ualon Pa cific railroad company, and to de termine whether by rasa >n of any violation of the provisions of that act the corporate rights, powers and franchises of the company have be come forfeited R »g in, from the committee > f commerce reported back tbe inter* state commerce. Placed on the cal endar. At the expiration of the morning hour, the death of Senator Miller, of Calafornia, was announced and tbe cause adjourned ■as ati. Vance offered aresolu’ion dlreoting the committee on civil service reform to report forthwith the bill before hem providing for the repeal of the civil service law. The resolution, a' Mr Vance’s request, was for ti e pres ent laid on tiie table. He suld in woul 1 soon take an opportunity to a Idres* the senate on the subject mat ter of the resolution. The morning business havlcg been dispo.ed of, Bowen, of Colorado, at 1 o’clock obtained unanimous consent to address the senate on the subject of his bill to provide a naw basis for the circulation of uational banks, and be proceeded to speak upon bis bill and upon the silver question generally. Bowen concluded a* 3:20, Btanford then announced the death of his colleague, Miller, of Califor nia, and out of respect to his memory moved an adjournment. The motion was agreed to and the senate forth with sdj Turned. Debate upon the controversy be tween the senate and the president did not begin to day, as wasexpeoted. Edmunds bas a bail cold and is too hoarse to speak a 8800.000 Fire, Speolul to Enqalrer-Ban. Jersey City N J, March 8 —Fire broke out at tbe long dock about 2:20 o'clock tills morning among a quan- I tlty of jute sto.ed upon the pier of the Monarch steamship company, I thought to have been oaused by spon* taneous combustion. The flames were discovered by Nathaniel Fal- leck, engaged in arranging the elec tric light on the pier. Falleck sum* moned three watchmen on the pier, and they tried to extinguish tbe oluze. F.^dicg It beyond conir-rl, an alarm was sent out, quickly fol lowed by aseooijd alarm aud a gen* eral call brluvir g the entire city fire department to tlie scene. The ferry boat S:n quehanua was lying in one of tbe slips with s‘,aiu up and the deck bauds got out a lire of hose and did good work with the E-ie com pany's fire boat* D n Juan, V mhtiu* ten ami Buffalo. Th; P mnsyiva-da railroad’s steam lugs Parsdmous, America, Uuole Alio and Young Amerba and ihe Cen tal roil- riad’s tug B yone also re sponded to the alarm and soon had stream upon the fire. Two steam ship-, the Erypilan Mnna r ch aud the Lydian Monarch, were lying ulong-ide tin; c mpany’s p er. Too Egyptian M march was marly loaded anu was to have sailed for Lmdon to-.day. B :e wus toweil into mid stream alter being eligibly scorched about the bows. The Lydian Mon arch was no' qui'eso fortunate. The 11.tries destroyed htr riggb g, three iife boats aud a greater portion of the wood work on Lor main deck. A large shed was totally destroyed with a largo quantity of Jute, tobacco, woolen goods and of e. European freight, The flrry houses and Erie railv. ay pi smger depot were not damaged, although at limes in great dai ger. The fire spread from the burning «hed on the dock lo a building used for the collection ot milk freights. The mi'k depot ai'J Inlng coueibed of a long open shed. Two trains of t ars load d with milk stood beside it Oce train remained intact. The other, co: s sting of five cars, was destroyed The Iobb can’t be asoer* talned definitely, owing to the d-- struction of tbe steamship oompauy’s bonks and pr.pers. The damage to th Lydian Monarch is estimated at $20 000. The loss od the wharf aud shed is $70,000 R mgh estimates on the quantity of freight lost bring the aggregate up to about $800,000, but may exoeetl that sum The fire is still smi uldering among the piles of freight. KincUud, By ArglO'American n&blQfl, Lcndon, Marc! 8. -Theaunnur ce* merit is made that G'aJstone is suf fering from a si-vcre o rid couple 1 with statements that the physicians don’t look upon his ailment as serious and that his throat is riot bfl cted. It has Ueeu ascertained, however, that GlhdstoDe is cm fined to his room and that he has spent allhlstime since Baturd ty in bed Ministers who have beer; r< quirt'd by emergencies uf thes'a'e’e business to call upon the premltr have been reoeived by him in his b‘-d room. H" attends to hla necessary correstioniie ioo by dictat ing from hi- couch A TERRIFIC EXPLOSI N. The boiler of th; m. Rifl men ex ploded in Cardifl harbor this morn ing The vessel end crew, consisllng of nix persons, were blown to atoms. The cyiender of the engine struck a passim. Italian strip, a quarter of a oitl distant, ami killed tbe pitot. HENDERSON S SUCCESSOR. Malcmi Wood, now chief constable of M'lnobes’er, will succeed Sir Ed mund Henderson c.s c.r:ef commis sioner of the metropolitan police force. !f;w Orleana to tbe Knonlrer-Saael New Orleans Mnroh 8—The first race to- day w*a for beaten horses, all ag»s, to carry 100 pounds six fur longs. It re.-oHeU in a dead heat be* i ween D ; ck VVat'B aud J H Fjnton, Lida L finishing third, Hop Sing, Centennial, Leonidas, Nellie Glen- non and Alamo also lan. Time, 1:22$ (Second, selling race, seven furlongs, Hu Bex won, Amanda Braoon 21, Hibernia 3 i. Time, l:88jj Third race, selling allowance, one and onn-six-senth miles, Rio Grande won, L?gou 2d, Breve; 3J. Time, 2$ Fourth race, handicap, ail ages 1$ rnilec. Kiotia won, B zz rd 2d, Bee* tbrnbrook 31. Time, 2:21$ W other threatening aud track heavy. Tbo New OiltAHi Gar>lT«L fjpbolal to JTrqtilr®r»ftun. New Orleans, March 8—The carnival season was inaugurated here to-day by the arrival of R*x, who was received with military and civil honors. The prooassion moved through the city from the depot of the Illinois: Central railroad to the head of Canal street, where his maj esty and suite accompanied by a mili tary i.ic;rt and a large number of prominent clfz ns embarked on the royal flotilla for the exposition grounds amidst the booming of can* non, the blowing of steam whistles and the shouts of tho multitude. Tha formal reception will take plaoe In music hall. Ii/lMln la * Blue. Syoolal U Enqnirer-Bnn Pittsburg, Pa Ms-oh 8 —Reed's coal works, near Dunbar, Pa , iu the Connellsville legion, was tbe scene of a terrible explosion of gas this after noon abou 3 o’olock. At tbe time of the explosion 16 men were at work, 11 have been taken out badly burned. Ti e other* era still in the mine, and are believed to be dead. Tbe men taken out are seriously in|ured, but tbe physicians are of the opinion that some of them m.»y recover. Connellsville, Pa, March 8 — The explosion to*day in tbe Union inle mine was caused by u firs damp. Two miners were killed outright and twelve were injured, four or five of whom will die. Ten men efrcapsi uoinjuitd.

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