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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.