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In actual business handled, London is the chief commercial city of the world Liverpool second, and New York a good third. In !"<.> the val ic of imports and exports at London was $1,114,000,000; at New York, $73::,000,000. By instructive parallel columns the Toro:.to G l- show that while the United State* debt bus diminished from • O ',15!,211 in 1857 to $1.2,4,728,15 in 10, ti e (Jana linn debt has steadily risen fr m -;J ,'l 1',051 to ; -.81,514,5-/2. Lrof. Felix Adler, in a recent address, slid that ti.erc wire 9,000 children 1 f both -exes between the ng'sof ci_ht and fi teen years, at w irk in factories in New York city, iie c! tinis that th • laws for preventing child labor are inadequate and the attempts to enforce compu.sorj education a c ridiculous. A short time ago a cargo of 1 8 tons of pig iron from 1 irmingham, Alabama, was shipped from Charleston, South ( arolina, to New York. This was the first cargo of j ig iron ever shipped from Charles n, and is the beginning of a trade which promises to be one of the mo t important in the South. Melinite, anew explosive with which tho French military authorities are ex perimenting, fs said to have ten times the power of nitro glycerine, anrl 100 times that of gunpowder. General Boulanger, the French Minister of War, has decided on the immediate manu facture of 210,000 melinito projectiles. Through the clloits of the Minnesota Osh commission Duluth is to have a United States fish hatchery which will be the largest and best one in tho world. The main structure is to be TO by 100 feet. It will be able to produce 500,000- 000 fish each year. This is a pretty big fish story, but Duluth is quite able that way. There is nothing so fluctuating as com merce. It was not so many years ago that Newport competed with New York for the commerce of America; to-day it is a more pleasure resort Charleston once held in its hand the commerce of tho Gulf. There are cities on the Gulf coast of Florida that once ranked high in tho commercial world, but to-day are dead, their names never even heard. Counterfeit notes to the value of $48,- 519 have been discovered by Treasury officers among the National bank notes 6ont to the Department for redemption since tho establishment of the Redemp tion Agency in IST!. What security has the ordinary citizens against cleverly executed counterfeits when ne rly SI,OOO worth of them annually run the gauntlet of the officers of tho National banks without detection? The three hundred active building so cieties of Philadelphia are ctrrving mortgages on real estate to the amount of $50,000,000. These mortgages are being paid off in monthly sums, rang ing from $5 to $ 0 monthly. Three fourths of these mortgages are on small houses, worth from SM)O to $ ,0, 0, and the occupants, instead of paying rent, arc paying olf the mortgages, and will event ually own their own houses at a cost but little more than they would have paid for rent. Tho Duke of Sutherland, w’ho wa9 re cently in Washington, owns very largo tracts of land in this countrv, ngg: elat ing, it is said, 425,000 acres. His posses sions in Great Britain cover 1,338,543 acres, jiolding an income of $lO-*,333. lie also has §1,500,000 invested in a Scotch rai.road. He is the owner of Dunrobin Castle, Loch Inver House, House of Tongue, Tarbet Ilou=e and Castle l.eod, all ia Scotland, and Stafford House, Trentham Hall, Lillcshall Hall and Chic dcu, iu England. Iu the town of Jackson, Tcnn., there is a shabby looking house occupied by colored people, one of tho rooms of which was until recently embellished with paper representing real estate now worth more than $2,080,000. The fout sides were covered with land grants be longing to one of the volumes of the Land Office for West Tenn ssce, that has been missing since the war. Air. John W. A ates, Register of the Ta and Office, has carefully gathered up these valuable documents and will soon have them in shape for future reference and preserva tion. The modus operaudi of a progressive donkey party is thus described by tho Springfield (Mass.) I ion: You cut a big silhouette of a tailless donkey out of cloth or paper and fasten it to the Wall. Inch of the guests receives a cambric tail and a pin, and is then blind folded and placed iu a coiner opposite the donkey. After whirling around three times he starts oat to pin the tail to the donkey. Where er ire strikes the wall, there h > must p a tlm tail. The resu t generally is a still tat. e-s donkey surround.d with a gala yof tails and lots of fun. An exchange gives the estimated wealth of the riche-t members of the L nited States Senate as follows: Leiand Stanford, Califc ruia Y 00 003 Henry B. Parse, Oa o 1-g n o 0 Joseph E. Brown. Georgia m.oOJ George Hearst, Cali ernia 10,0'V O Poa Cameron, Pennsylvania 5.00 A OOO Thomss W. . aimer, Michigan.... 4, .oao Thomas AI. no- c*u, Cole* a*!-,* 3 f: ■ * o'o Phi-etus Sawyer, Wi eon- a * q John Sherman, Ohio o H*vo Eugene Hale, Maine 1,750,000 Wil iam M. Stewart, Nevada 1,50 ! , \k) Randall L. Gibs.',:, i.or.is.a ia.... 1,400’0c0 Johns uS. Camden, V,. \ irgima.. 1, 0 JohuP. Jones. Nevada ..." LOoOYOO John R, McPherson, No-r Jersey, jgo ; (Jqq James B. Eu tis, Louisiana 1,103,000 Francis B. S oesrbri* .Mi iiljraa. 1,000,000 Dw.ght M. Sab ne, M;mi6sc;a.... tvO OJJ Praston B. Phrmb. Kansas 800,000 George G. Vest Missouri §OO qqq William Mahone, A irgiaia 750 000 THE MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSYTH. GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1887.—EIGHT PAGES. The uses of honey are many and ever increasing, and as people become more and more acquainted with the various purposes to which the product of the labors of the honey bees can be put the greater will be the demand for it. But perhaps one of th: newe t ways in which honey is empl ye 1 is recorded in an ac count gien in a scientific periodical in Italy, wherein is described an Italian meth and of preserving bodies in a soft and flexible condition for several months, and by tint means enabling them to he dissect, and without the least danger to the preparator or the anat omist. The world's b'ind are computed to number about 1,000,000, or about one s'ghtless person to every 1,400 inhabi tants. In Austria one person in everv 1,7:5 is blind; in Sweden, one in everv 1,418; in I ranee, one in every 1,191; in Prussia, one in every 1,111; in Eng land, one in every 1,037. The propor tion is the greatest in Egypt, where, in Cairo, there is one blind person to every twenty inhabitants; while in New Zea land it falls to one in every 3,550 in habitants. Germany has the greatest number of institutes for the blind, thirty-five; I ngland has sixteen; France, thirteen; Austria Hungary, ten; Italy, nine; Belgium, six; Australia, two; while Ameri a, Asia and Africa together are said to possess only six. Of over 52,000,000 bushels of grain shipped from the port of New r York in 1880, not one bushel was carried by an American vessel. The New York Herald has published the following table show ing the number of vessels and the amount of grain carried, with the na tionality of tho carriers: Nationality. No of vessels. Bushels. American Austrian 24 772,037 British 743 82,929,2 6 Belgian 76 4,631,9:30 Danish... 27 1,062. £BO Dutch 51 1,522,63!) French 65 2,405,612 German 183 4,580,278 Italian 61 2,192,882 Norwegian 5 118,403 Portuguese 19 441,991. Spanish 33 1,724,302 Swedish 2 91,114 Totals 1,279 52,503,373 Tho Whalemen's Shipping List pub lishes the forty-third annual review of the whale fish ry of the United States for the last year The total number of ves sels of all classes engaged in the busi ness is 121, of which nineteen hail from San Francisco, and all engaged in right whaling. The decrease of tonnage dur ing the year was. 827 tons. The present tonnage of the entire fleet is 28,291, of which 6, ;00 tons are now in eastern ports, and over a third of this tonnage is offered for sale. The North I acilic fleet comp: isel thirty-eight vessels. The tot xl catch yielded about 20,000 barrels of oil and 0. ,00 ) pounds of whalebone. —.fiio Arctic fleet took 1515 whales, against 222 in 82. The season was an un profitable one. Imports for 188(3 were: Sperm oil, 23,312 barrels; wh.ale oil, 23,240 barrels; whalebone, 352,490 pounds. Exports were: Sperm oil, 118 barrels; whale oil, 18,253 barrels; whalebone, 184,511 pounds. Stock in the United States, January 1, 1887: Sperm oil, 18,210 barrels; whale oil, 9,- barrels; whalebone, 322,900p0und5. The average price of whale oil during the year was :3 cents; sperm oil, cents; whalebone, $2.73. The Cheshire and Lancashire (Eng land) form rs have just established a co operative society, and for convenience have open and their first p ace of business at Warrington. Tim idea originated with Air. .John White, agent for Lord Winmarleigh, Sir Gilbert Greenall, Colonel Blackburne and other large landowners in Lancashire. Mr. AYhite convened a meeting of farmers, and as a result of the conference it was decided to reach the consumer directly without the intervention of the middleman, and thus secure a better ret irn for their capital investing in stockfeeding. The farmers expressed the opinion that they were not making anything like reasonable profits from tneir produce, while the middle men were notoriously prosperous. The association has taken commodious prem ises in Warrington, where, in addition to retail stores, accommodation will be found for the corn exchange, which is now held in the open street. Th's will be formed on the first floor, which will bo nicely fitted up and well-lighted. A third obi ct has been the formation of a farmers’ club, not a mere debating society, but a social club, where farmers may obtain refreshments, read the newspapers and enjoy social intercourse. Bottling Tear?. Tears are cons dered so rrecious in Persia that they bottle them up. When there is a funeral someone goes round among th ■ mourners nd presents each wth asp >nge to weep in and the spong ■ is afterward squeezed into a bottle, "if tue and etas and was a j enurious relative—a tight old si onge that it •• as difficult to squeeze any money out of when alive—it is likewise difficult to s jueeze any tears out of the family sponges at h's funera . It must be touching to see the master of cere monies at a funeral, moving along in front of the mourners’ bench, and ask ing each one in a whisper -4 Have you shed?’ Bottled tears are supposed by the Persians to have great healing pow ers, hence their collection. Ttvo Remarkable Families. A girl working in one of the Biddeford mills is the thirty second c did cf the same father and m other. and 23 of her br til; rs and si ter- still live, and write to her e cry w ek. She receives more letters than any woman in Biddeford. —Bi id for i ( M* . o.ra / Mr. J. M. Lovelace’s infant daughter is his twentieth ch id, -he is a very vromi-ing young ltdy. and on her birth day fir. i.ove a <• made the resolution that lie would n w.r from that time buy anything, however small, exerpt for cash, lie has fourteen children living.— Lome (t?a.) Bul.etin. INTO THE RIYER, .4 TRAIN GOES DOWN WITH A TRESTLE. A Singular Accident on the Iron Mountain and South, ru Knilrcad. The Texas bound train of the Iron Mountain railroad, which left St. Louis Saturday night, was precipitated into the creek by the bridge giving way two and a half miles south of Victoria, Missouri. The engine and all the passenger coaches went down together. Only the sleeper was left on the track. The accident while not being at all un usual in regard to fatal casualties, proves to have been quite remarkable in respect to the several circumstances which at tended it. It occurred at Victoria, a lit tle after 10 o'clock, and was occasioned by the giving way under the train of the trestle which crosses Joachim creek, at that point. The train was the Texas ex press and consisted of baggage, express and mail cars, a smoker, two passenger coaches and four sleepers, carrying about 130 passengers. A heavy rain had fallen all day and the creek was much swollen. At Hematite, the first station this side of the trestle, the engineer received orders to run cautiously, as the rain had been heavy and the creek was out of its banks. Engineer Kelly says he ran slowly beyond that point, anil both he and his fireman, Wm, Hach, watched the track very close ly. As he approached the track, Kelly observed that the track was entirely straight and level, showing nothing wrong, and he went on without the slighest fear or hesitation, but when his engine reached about the middle of the trestle, he felt the whole structure sink ing beneath him. In an instant he opened the valves op ened the valves operating tho air brakes the full width, and brought the train to so quick a stop that the front end of one the cars was crushed in by the sudden shock. This saved the coaches, but the baggage, mail, express and smoking cars went into the raging torrent below, car rying with them all the men on board. Engineer Kelly-and Fireman Hach went down with the engine, and were sub merged in the flood. Kelly, in his strug gle to free himself, found that one of his feet was held fast, but at the same in stant, and just as he realized that he must drown, the engine turned over, his foot was released, and he came to the surface. Seizing a passin log, he clung to it desperately and was swept d'ownthe torrent and lodged against tree 150 yards below. With scarcely strength enough to move, he clasped his legs and arms around the limb of the tree, became unconscious and was not restored until two or three hours after he had been taken from llie tree, when he found him self kindly cared for in a house in Vic toria. His face and head were severely cut, two of his toes cut from one of his feet, and he is very badly bruised in various parts of the body. He will re cover. Fireman Hach was carried about 500 yards down stream, lodged in a mass of brush or drift and was rescued soon after the flood subsided. He is a good deal bruised, but not seriously hurt. The postal car was swept away some distance, and as the water rushed through it from end to end, the mail was literally washed out, and is now scattered over miles of territory, or embedded in the mud of the creek. It is regarded as almost a total loss; the whole of it being completely soaked, and the addresses of the letters being obliterated. The postal clerks, McCullough, Shaffer and Ryan, were badly bruised and almost drowned, and being stripped for work, they lost their clothes, gold watches and $250 in money, which were carried away by the flood. The smoker, which is said to have con tained some twenty persons, was swept down about 300 feet below tlie trestle, and its occupants are believed to have been saved. They succeeded in getting outside the car, and Clung to its top un til rescued. There is some doubt about the baggage man and express messenger being saved, but a late dispatch from the w T reck says that none of the train men were lost. A special train was sent out conveying physicians and medical sup plies. The train returned and brought a number of passengers and train men who didn’t care to wait at the wreck until the trestle was repaired. SHOWING HIS GRATITUDE. An Umbrella Menders’ Good Fortune—Heir to Thousands. Charles H. Ilciser, an umbrella-mender of Pittsburgh, Pa., who occupies a third story back room in a squalid lodging house there, has received a letter saying that he is one of the heirs to a fortune of $225,000, left by a cousin in Australia, William Tutge. The other heirs are a sister, "ho lives in Germany, and a brother, who is inspector of police in Hamburg. When an orphan, Tutge was taken in by Charles H. Heiscr, Sr., a gamekeeper for Emperor William at Hartzburg, Germany, and educated with his two s ns. Mr. Tutge has taken this way of showing his gratitude. The Pittsburg Heiser was the private dispatch carrier aud personal attendant of Presi dent Lincoln during the late war. He also served in the Franco-Prussian war and had two horses shot dead under him at Gravelotte. Since living in Pittsburg Heiser has been attacked with a lung complaint and he became so poor that he was compelled to pawn a gold watch pre sented to him by Abraham Lincoln. Gen. Phil Sheridan, it is said, is endeav oring to get a pension for Heiser. A STRANGE WILE. Edward Kuehl, of Omaha, Neb., 69 years old, was found lying dead in a bed at 319 South Tenth street. Kuehl was a well known eccentric character about Omaha, He was a shoemaker by trade, but made a great deal of money by tell ing fortunes. In his will he directs that John Baumer take charge of the remains and see that his body is cremated, and all his expenses and debts paid, and then thait the residue be offered to the Fran ciscan Sisters. His ashes he desired placed over a certain bar in the city, where he was accustomed to drink. It is thought that the money and property will amount to $3,000. Mr. Baumer will take the body to Buffalo and have it cremated at once. KILLED IIIS WIFE. James F. Goodman, a wealthy citizen of Huntsville. Mo., bad a dispute with his wife Sunday night about a piece of real estate he had presented to bis little son. Goodman kicked his wife out of bed and then brained her with a boot jack. The child witnessed the killing. Goodman went to the barn, severed an artery in his arm. and hanged himself to u rafter. The dead woman was good - xns’ third wife, and the boy to whom 'he property had been presented was the eon of a former wife , ATTEMPTED MURDER. An Assault Made Fpon Dr. Koifer, of Savannah, Georgia. Dr. E. J. Keifer, a well known propri etor of a drug store on Stewart and West Broad streets, Savannah, Ga., was shot by a youDg man named Thomas Fogarty. On Friday young Fogarty went into L>r. Keifer's drug store, and being refused some articles, commenced a violent tirade -'gainst Mrs. Keifer, and used in her presence and applied to her some most obscene language. Monday morning the mayor fined Fogarty $lO. It appears that after the police court case had been disposed of. young Fogarty armed himself with a revolver and laid in " ait for Dr. Keifer. About 11:25 o'clock he saw the latter leaving his store in com pany with Mr. L. Nolan and Mr. C. G. Faliigant, and approaching the druggist from behind a fence, on the north side of Stewart street, Fogarty fired. lie was within a few feet of the druggist when he commenced his attempt at assassina tion. The first shot struck him under and behind the left ear, and came out of his mouth The next one struck him on ihe fleshy portion of his right arm as he weeded about to see who shot him. An other bullet entered his back and in the fleshy part by the right thigh, and an other one penetrated liis right leg. The five shots were discharged with remarkable rapidity. Four of them took effect. The first shot was tired when the youthful assassin was only a few feet away from his victim, and the flesh was burned, in such close proximity was the pistol held to the head. As soon as he emptied his revolver aud before the af frighted spectators could do anything, Fogarty ran away down Sims street, and was last seen going across Springfield plantation. Dr. Keifer fell in the street, being un armed, and only a few feet from his store door. It is thought he will come through sa r ely, as the wounds are not considered necessarily fatal, The attempt to murder him is a most dastardly one. Fogarty w'as still at large at last accounts. WILL PROBABLY REBEL. Newfoundland Greatly Excited Over the Bait Bill. Advices from Newfoundland show that in their ultimatum to the British govern ment in forwarding the bait bill for the imperial assent, the legislature of that colony is determined not to be trampled upon by the queen or by any in authority under her. The text of the address of the legislature of Newfoundland to the imperial government shows that the island is giu.tly excited. It says in effect that Newfoundland will not submit to the situation. The address goes on to say: “We must decline respectfully to accept the view that the French or any other for eign power has a status to or consultative claim iu the control or disposition of our property, and we humbly demur to any recognition of their pretentions in this respect. We acknowledge no authority but that of the impend government, and their rights of their domain are wisely limited by our constitutional jiowers, which secures for us the free exercise of our instructed intelligence in the manage ment of our local affairs.” The same advices state that tho colony is on the verge of an open rebellion, and that little encouragement would be re ji£fc.d to cause a genera! uprising against the’ yoke of British connection, which, they claim, bears heavily upon them. Private dispatches state that a strong sentiment favoring annexation to the United States is spreading throughout the province, which is likely to give serious trouble unless the British government yields in granting the demand the pro visional government is now making. A SOCIALIST MEETING, They Grow Quito Excited In Discussing Their Views. There was a large meeting of socialists at west Twelfth street, Quinerhall, Chi cago Sunday afternoon, to discuss a measure pending in the Illinois legisla ture known as Merritt’s bill to punish the authors of inflammatory, incendiary speeches or writings. After an address by a newspaper man named Buchanan, denouncing capitalists, the press and the military, a resolution was adopted pro testing against the bill. Then some very radical speeches were delivered in Eng ■ ish, German :nd Bohemian. Editor Ourrliu, of the Arbeiter Zeitung, advised his hearers to procure arms and carry them. Holmes, the English chairman, declared the socialists had the right to preach treason and the overthrow of so ciety, and the constituted authorities. Sooner than see the bill pass, he would take arms in hand and preach revolution. He was against the bill as an American citizen, as a socialist and as an anarchist. If necessary they should all become de termined rebels, and preach downright revolution. Currlin and Holmes were widely cheered by the crowd, which in cluded a number of women. DESPERATE PRISONERS. They Threaten to Kill Any One Who En tered 'I heir Cell. George Watson and Arthur Greene, desperate Welch mountain thieves, con fined in Lancaster county Pa., prison, became rebelious Tuesday morning and threatened to brain any person who en tered their cells, with big oak sticks which they broke from a carpet loom. Keeper Burkholder thrust a pistol into the cell to intimidate them, when they knocked the weapon from his hand and secured it. They have since held pos session of the cell, threatening to shoot any person who comes near, and all at tempts to dislodge them have failed. An effort will be made to starve them out. FIGHTING AGAINST ODDS. Alex Crawford, a negro murderer, was taken from jail at Winona, Miss., by an immense crowd of enraged citizens Mon day and was hanged from a trestle on the railrood near the town. He made a des perate fight in his cell against the crowd, being armed with a broomstick, which he wielded with effect, but was finally overpowered. He died game, refusing to make anv declaration. His victim was Vic Loggias, a prominent merchant of Winona, whom he killed on the even ing of February 23th. PETROLEOI IN AMBAMA. Information has been received of the discovery of petroleum off at ance’s station Ala., thirty miles below B rrning ham on the Alabama Great Souther i rail road. Oil was found at the depth of fifty feet and a steady stream is flowing to the surface through a two inch pipe. Indi catio. s of oil were found in the same lo cality about one year ago, but no boring was done until recently. Much excite ment is caused by the news. BEECHER DIES, THE GREAT PREACHER QUIETLY PASSES .411.41'. Tlio I.nsl Scpnts-lleartffll K egret—Letter* of Condolence, Arc. Henry Ward Beecher died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock. He began to sink slowly after midnight, and the watchers at his bedside soon saw that the end was near. Mr. Beecher passed quietly away while asleep. He never recovered consciousness after paralysis stupified his mind. He died in the presence of his family. Present at the bedside were Col. H. Beecher, his wife, his daughters Hattie and Bessie, and John Henry Ward Beecher, Miss Edith Beecher, W. C. Beecher and wife. Rev. Samuel Scoville. Mrs. Scoville, eldest daughter of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher; Miss Scoville,who has just come from the Pacific slope; Miss Bullard, Rev. 3. B. Halliday and wife. Deacon S V. White, E A. Seacomb, one of the trustees of Plymouth church, and Major J. B. Pond. In accordance with the wish of Mr. Beecher no crape was found on the door, but, instead, a wreath of beautiful flowers hung over the bell knob. This bulletin was issued: “The ser vices at the house will be confined abso lutely to relatives,without any exception, it being manifest that any selection out side the circle would be impossible, the being too small to hold even a small por tion of his nearest friends.” The interment will be ia Greenwood cemetery. In accordance with an agree ment made years ago between Mr. Beecher and Dr. Hall that whoever died first the other should officiate at the fu neral, Dr. C. C. Hall will perform the ceremony. Dr. Searle has prepared the following statement : “Mr. Beecher failed decidedly after 3 a. m. His breath was more labored and slow, and his pulse gradu ally grew weaker. The family was aroused about 4, and all gathered around his bedside. It soon became evident, however, that immediate dissolution was not to be looked for. It stole on him steadily and stealthily. It was not till 8:30 that lie could be said to be dying. At 9 his pulse became feeble, and flickering, but it remained percepti ble until a few minutes before breathing ceased This occurred at 9:30. There was no struggle; he breathed his last quietly.” The news of Mr. Beecher’s death spread very quickly to all parts of the city, and Brooklyn may be said to be a city of mourning. Even those who did not, concur with him, had no hesitation in expressing their deep regret at his death. Asa mark of respect to his mem ory, the flags on public buildings werw placed at half mast, and Mayor AVhitney had the city halt bell tolled half an hour, commencing at ten this morning. At the same time boys were selling their extras on the street, announcing the death of the great divine. Quincy Ward, the sculptor, is expected to take a cast of his face, for a statue al ready provided for by his staunch and old friend, H, W. Sage, of Ithica. The statue will ornament Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Telegrams of inquiry and condolence were sent to the house on Hicks street during the past few days by the following, among others: Dr. Parker, of the City of Temple, Loudon; Miss Ellon Terry, Lon don; George William Curtis, Rev. Lyman Bramstokcr, H. AY. Sage. Henry R. Har ris, Francis Murphy and Clinton B. Fisk. The following is a telegram sent to Mrs. Beecher by President Cleveland: “Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C , March 8. —Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher: Accept my heartfelt sympathy iu this hour of your bereavement, with the hope that comfort may be vouchsafed from the heavenly source you know so well. “Grover Cleveland.” IRISH SYMPATHY. The aldermen of Brooklyn held a special meeting Tuesday and passed resolutions providing for draping the city buildings and closing the public offices on the day of the funeral. The municipal council of the Irish National League met and unanimously adopted resolution of regret. PATH OF THE CYCLONE. It £trikea Monroe, Gn, nnil Does Mach . Damage. A small cyclone struck Monroe, Ga.,on Tuesday evening, doing some damage. People ran from their houses and saw a rapidly revolving funnel shaped cloud flying from southwest to northeast. In five minutes it was many miles away, ris ing upward. It descended right in the midst of the town,blowing down a frame house of Mr. C. G. Nowell and tearing off the tin roof of the store belonging to B. S. Walker and occupied by A. S. Nowell & Cos. Houses in the immediate track of the cyclone were not touched or shaken. It seemed to have come straight down from above, blew over the house and tore off the roof, and then as cended again. A buggy was lifted from the ground and its wheels sent spinning around in the air in a rapid rate, and then placed back on the ground just a few feet from where it was struck. A horse was standing hitched to a post with a saddle on. The saddle was blown from his back, breaking the girth. .HE APPROPRIATION BILLS. A statement of the footings of the ap propriation bills passed at the last session of Congress has been completed by the clerks of the Senate and the House com mittee on appropriations. It is as follows: Agricultural, $1,026,730; army, $23.724,- 718: diplomatic and consular, $1,429,924; District of Columbia, $4,265,890,1ndian5, $4,226,897; legislature, $20,702,221; military academy, $419,936: navy, $25,- 753,165; pensions, $76,252,500; post office, $55,694,650; sundry civil, $22,- 382.490; Mexican pension deficiency, $6,900,000; puoiic printing deficiency, $107,000; miscellaneous appropriations, estimated, $3,500,000. Total of actual appropriations, $247,387,144. The river and harbor bill, which was not signed, appropriated $9,913,600. and the defic iency which did not pass, though it was agreed upon in conference, carried an ap propriation of $4,275,023. A SOUTHERN VESSEL WRECKED. A dispatch from Camden N. J., says : It is feared that a steamer bound for a northern port has been wrecked off the New Jersey coast during the storm of Thursday last. The ocean beach between Barnegat inlet and Seaside park is strewn with wreckage. Southern fruits and early vegetables in cratec, and barrels are washing ashore in the surf, and are being picked up by the beachcombers. This afternoon nearly twenty barrels of green cabbage were cast upon the sands. As yet nothing has been *aved that gives the slightest indication of the name of the vessel. No bodies have been found. A FATAL BLOCKADE. I RIGHTFUL FALLS FROM THE NEW YORK ELEVATED lIOAV. Men Walking on the Tracks J*lmken OIT to Their DenlU bv 'losing Trains. A fire occurred in New York City at 5 o'clock Thursday morning in the store of Nieholl, the tailor, in the Bowery, and caused a loss of between $50,000 and S6O - Trains on the elevated roads were blocked .by the flames. A blockade oc curred all the way down to South Ferry and and oa the down track up to Seven teenth street, A number of passengers left one train at Seventeenth street and started to walk along the narrow foot path at the side of the track to the sta tion at Eleventh stieet. While doing so the blockade was relieved and trains began to start. Their motion shook the pathway to such an extent that a number of passengers were thrown down to the street. Three of these were instantly killed and seven others badly injured. Soon after the tire occurred the down track was blocked with trains from Ninth to Fifty-second streets. All the .trains were crowded with people. Alongside the track is a platform Uvo feet and a half v\ide, used by trackmen. Above fourteenth street it L not provided with a hand rail. One of the passengers, named Patrick Matthews, on the train which was blockaded between stations, grew impatient of waiting, and opeuvj the gate on the car platform, sipped down to the platform beside tlm track and started to walk to Fourteenth street He was followed by many others, until there was a continuous line of men in single file in close order on this platform, headed by Mathews. When Mathews had nearly reached Fourteenth street, the blockade was broken, and t l >e trains started up, one after another. The shak ing of the track and noise and rush of the cars apparently frightened Mathews, be cause he turned and dashed for the car platform. The man next behind did the same, but Mathews' hold apparently broke, and lie toppled back upon the man behind him, and both fell backward into the street. The commotion created on the platform by this occurrence, frightened and demoralized others close to them. Some came in collision and fell, while others in panic jumped from the platform to the street below, and still others hurriedly scrambled upon passing cars. The shouts and screams outside communicated the panic to pas sengers inside the cars and many women fainted. The trains were stopped, and everybody remaining on the platform "as taken on board the cars. The men fell or leaped to the street, about twenty feet below, and struck up on the surface car track or stone pave ment. Four were killed outright, their skulls being crushed in each instance. 'J he other six were seriously hurt. One has since died in the hospital, and an other is reported dying. it is supposed several others made the leap, but were not so seriously hurt but that they could take care of themselves. The fire which was the primary cause of the accident, burned out Nieoll’s tailoring establishment, and a couple of small houses adjoining, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. Mathews was one of the men killed. All were clerks or laboring men who were belated on their way to busi ness. “THEY MURDERED HER.” Exciting Scenes Over the Dead Body of an Anarchist’s Wife. There was a remarkable scene Tuesday afternoon at the bier of dead wife of An archist Neebe in Chicago. While the room was filled with sympathizers of both sexes, a blonde little woman bent over the coffin and burst into loud lamenta tions. With clasped hands and stream ing eyes she shrieked: “They murdered her! She was murdered by those hang men. Grinnell and Gary were her exe cutioners. She, in her coffin; her hus band in jail. Both victims of capitalistic bloodhounds.” The people present became highly wrought up, and during the remainder of the day, in the death chamber, there was no cessation of curses aga nst those hang men. Before evening a copy of the Arbeiter Zeitung arrived, containing an article declaring that Mrs. Neebe had died from a broken heart, caused by the conviction of her husband. The article concluded as follows: “She and our friend, Oscar Xeebe, are victims of a capitalistic band of conspira tors, known as the Citizens’ association, and of their tools—Grinnell and Gary— they, in conjunction with an odious, ly ing press, serving the enemies of the people, have murdered a brave woman, and made children, not of age, orphans. They will reap the curse of the present and the contempt of coming generations.' 7 The sidewalk in front of Xeebee’s house was crowded with excited people. A committee has been formed to make arrangements for the funeral, and they decided to postpone it, and make it the occasion of a socialistic demonstration. A DETERMINED OFFICER. k Crowd of Kottjfht Endeavor to Detain a Prisoner. A special to the Atlanta Constitution from Chattanooga. Tenn., says: Sheriff Connor, of this county, returned Monday from Asheville, X. C., in charge of one Goodlake, wanted here for felonious as sault. The sehriff had a thrilling exper ience. Goodlake’s friends made a des perate effort to rescue the prisoner, and at one time the constabulary and better citizens of Asheville came near having a riot with roughs who were Goodlake's friends. Sheriff Connor was arrested on a warrant charging him with forgery, de laying him one day. Then an effort was made to further delay him by securing a writ of habeas corpus, which he eluded by taking the place of the fireman on the engine, on the train on which he had placed his prisoner. As fireman, he avoided the writ until within six miles of the Tennessee line, when he was discov ered by one of Goodlake’s friends, all of whom remained in the train. The plucky sheriff then ran forwaid to the cow catchc-r where he rode until the tra n reached the Tennessee line, his prisoner in the meantime being in charge of a deputy who refused to give the prisoner up until ordered by his superior, The affair created excitement in Xorth Caro lina. Goodlake's friends declare they will prosecute Connor. The prisoner is now here to await his trial. MAN.MMi OOlMi TO EUROPE. Secretary Nlanning has arranged to make a trip to Europe for his health. He left Washington Thursday for Xew York and will take a steamer from there next week. He will be accompanied by his wife and family and Treasurer Jordan. The latter is now in Xew York, but will return to Washington prior to bis departure for Europe. LIGHTS OUT. The sentry challenged at the open gate, 54 ho passed him by, bo -ause the hour* waa late. “Halt! Wiio goo; there:' “A fjrictlfl!” •‘All's well.'’ “A friend, cli chap!" a friend's farewell, And I ha l paiwd the gat , And then the lon la t notes were shed, The o hoing call's last notes were it ad; And sounded sadly, as 1 stood without, Those last sad n tos of nil: Lights Out! Lights Out! farewell, companion;! Wo lave silo by side 4\ atche.l history's lengthened sha lows past ils glide. And worn tho searl t, laughed at, paid, And buried com; ados lowly laid. And let the long years glide; And toil and hard hip have we known, And 101 l wed whole xi;-* i'ag ha 1 gone lut a'.i th.* e.-h ■- a:i w>:hi ; un lah i • Lights (JHa Aud never moro*for me shall red From bright revolvers - ii.ihe ambling ash Of life is hope's fruition inti The withered fritg '-.-hi- -and they all Are sleeping.' Fa-t away The fabrics , 'f our live- do ay. The robe- of uigh' a: out me lay, And the air wb spared, ns I stood without, Thos- hist sad notes of all: Lights Out! Lights Out! / lEo • orl;, in the Week. \ NTH AND POINT. A chest protector—The baggage mas ter The tailor hopes to succceff Iv attention to business.— Siftings. A lands!id •is a movement in real es tnte that cannot be called a boom Picayune. A u Fsquimo cats eight pounds oi meat at a meal. It must be a picnic to run a butcher shop in that country. Dame ill* Freeze. Mrs. Grundy tells the New Voik Mail and Express that they do not call theni dudes any more—simply “young society Darwins. ’ Not i v : v one is h ippy who mi\ ’lie proverb. The man who has st pped on a tack knows this full wJ^H — l> sUt / Cos iri- r. n -1 in \ . ’ . i.'i-.v■ u i L) • -yi'jjp y y 1 :i .' ' if the man carries the engaged. If the woman orries tliew bundles they are married. —Ntio llaten ' Ncic*. > acauley objected to dogs as a check to < onversation. but . omc people wouldn’t lnve anything left to talk about if their dogs were taken away. Texas Siftings. Prospective l odger “And there is a fire in the room?” Landlady: “No, but there is the most beautiful picture of an Italian sunset you ever saw.” —San Fran cisco Call. The “self-made” man who boasts of how much smarter he has been than other men, did not quite finish the job. He forgot to give himself manners. Oil City Blizzard. When men look sad and sigh, “Alas," And from eomj anions !ly, hi very may eas s ’tis A lass that makes tli an sigh. Met ehaiit-'l rarcler. A Sioux Indian bears the name of “The -man - who ran >o - fast -that-the wind-was-left-behind.’’ It is believed he participated in the strategic move on Washington at the iir t battle of Bull Run. Xoi ritt’oirn JI ru'd. “Is lie accomplished?” w as asked con cerning a nobleman now honoring soci ety. “I should think he wa-,” was the answer. ‘He got fifty dollars out of old Skinflint, who never lends a cent.” -New York Mat! and Fij r x< Mrs. A.: ‘ you have anew ser vant girl:” Ms. li.: “tes, 1 make it a point to get a ne-v one every month. “But that must be very inconvenint. "r “Yes, but there is noth ng going n in this town that 1 don’t kn w ali about it.” —Texas Sftings. Commanding Officer— “i ring your company up.” Captain ju-t tak-n back into the army)— ‘ Well, I'll go and talk to the boys and ate if they’ll come.” “Great stars! Where have you been sin c you left the army?” • Been com manding a regiment of militia.” —Omaha World. “What < an be the matter with Arthur, dear? He mopes so, he n.u>t lx* sick.” “I don’t think it is as serious as that, mamma. It's his whiskers.” “His whiskers! Why the boy hasn’t got any.” ‘That is Uit it, mamma, j'e wishes he aad them, don't you know.” —Town Topics. “.My dear,” said the husband to the wife before the gla-s, “I'm ashamed to see you put all that red s'u:l onjßligf cheeks. " “' h, don't woriy she replied sweetly. “It matches tifl color on your nose admit ably, at and mony is what make? the mar: ingcAJ tion ideal.” —Washington C, dir. Woman to tramp;—“You might saw a little wood for that nice dinner.” Tramp (reproachfully —“Madam, you ought not to throw temptation in 'the way of a poor man. Woman—“Temp tation:’ Tjamp “Ye s , madam. If I were to saw some woo l the chances are I would carry oil the saw. I'm an honest man now, and I want to -‘ay so.”—Har per's Bazar. Omaha Bach—‘AVeil, now, u-t tell me what ; omfort you've trained by get ting married:” Young hu-band —“ How <’o you fu-t.n your - si, ndr-r- when the buttons come off, as they generally do in about a week " “I use wire hooks usu ally.” “Yes: and where do get the wire:’ “Well, i generally have a time hunting lor a piece, I must admit. I got the last off my whi-k bro mi.” Yes, and ( spoilt the broom.” u-t so; but what better off are you';’ “Me! W hy, I’ve not a wife, and she always has about a biishel of hair pins on hand.” —Omaha World. Strengths of ! aoil. The food eaten supplies the body with either warmth or stre x h Mo-t arti cles vie and both to a greater or less extent, out sone have war th only an 1 no strength. The first column of the fol lowing table gives the numb r of grains of strength yielded by < ae i o n 1 of the substance named; the second, the warmth: Strength. Warmth. Beer or pot ter l 315 Parsnips 13 435 Potatoes 2f 170 Skimmed milk of 351 Xew milk 35 378 Price 70 2,750 Bacon Is 4,200 Fresh pork 1 us 3,100 Corn meal 125 2,8 0 Fresh fish 1:0 980 Oat meai 140 975 Fresh beef 172 2,300 Cheddar cheese 310 2,500 Skim-milk cheese 300 2,350