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TIE PAULDING NEW ERA
Dallas, geouoia.
That the roller-skating mania Is run
ning out is shown by the great decline in
the price of boxwood, of which the skate-
wheels are mode. Last yeur this wood
commanded from (30 to (40 a ton, but
now it can bo had for (18, and is likely
to go lower.
The statement is mudo that all the
Varied machinery of Great Britain, now
operated by steam-power, is capable of
performing more work, and hence of cre
ating more products than could bo pro
duced by the labor of 400,000,000 able-
bodied men, a greater number than all
the able-bodied men on the earth.
A London paper prints a very witty
letter from one of its fair readers anent
nn unfair discrimination which custom
has decreed against married women nnd
in favor of their husbands. She asks
very pertinently why, when a woman
marries, she should bo compelled to pub
licly exhibit the badge of servitude
known as "Mrs.” Blank, while her hus
band is allowed to go scott free as simple
“Mr.,’’without any outward and distin
guishing mark of his new, and of course,
improved condition. “If it is necessary,”
she says, “that the wife should bo label
ed ‘Sold,’why should not the husband
also bear the red ticket?” The title of
“Mr.” is entirely too comprehensive.
There is no danger-signal in it to catch
the eye of the unwary, nnd a young mar
ried man can do a great deal of mischief
if he be so inclined.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
There ure now twenty-four chaplains
in the United Slates navy. Their salary
during the first five years after thcirffip-
pointment is (2,500 when at sea nnd
(3,000 when on shore duty. After the
expiration of five years the salary A
(2,800 whilo on sea duty and (3,300
while on shoro duty. They are appointed
by tho President on recommendation.
A report on the progress of tho leper
Settlement at Molokai, one of the Sand
wich islands, states tlint tho settlement
opened in January, 1800, with 131 lep
ers, of whom 103 were males and thirty
eight females. Up to November lust
there were admitted 4,101 lepers, of
whom 1,085 wero males and 1,110 fe
males. Tho largest muster roll from tho
foundation of the settlement was in
August, 1884, nt which date it stood at
841, comprising 513 males nnd 331 fe
males. Thero is a biennial appropriation
of (100,000 for tho maintenance utul cure
of the sufferers.
“Mandolins ure the latest craze,” said
n dealer in music to a New York Sun re
porter. “They were brought to public
notice several years ago by the traveling
company of Spanish students, but they
did not bocorne popular until this winter.
Pianos are neglected and banjos are
tossed aside, and young ladies now wca
out their lingers on these shrill noted
guitars. They aro more like guitars than
anything else I know of. The body is
mado of wood, and is the shape of a
pumpkin'cut in half. It has four
strings, nnd has frets like a guitar. The
fret-board is short. A mandolin is played
with a thumb-piece, and is a romantic
and roally inimical instrument. We aro
having a big sale of them. It is easy to
learn to play on them.”
The city of Mexico, for a number of
months past, lias been nfliictcd with a
scourge of mosquitoes. These insects
prevailed to such nn extent tlint they
have been n constant theme of discussion,
and have, in a number of instances,
caused sickness, and, it is said, even
death, by their poisonous bites. Official
bulletins have been issued by the director
of statistics, Dr. Penafiel, as to their
habits, natural history, etc. Singularly,
says Science, the species, which is a large
one, lias not been known, or has not at
tracted attention before the past year;
and fears are entertained that the pest is
of recent introduction. The varying
abundance of different kinds of iusects
during different years renders such a
view improbable; yet it is significant that
the present species is new to science,
never having been described by entomo
logists.
Mackerel Fishing.
. ;kcrel fishing begins in March,
generally, said a retired Gloucester
(Mass.) skipper to a Boston Globe repre
sentative. “Nobody knows what the
mackerel do during the winter, for n >-
body has yet been able to follow ’em. Tho
last that is seen of ’em in the fall they nro
here in Massachusetts bay, and then they
turn up again in the spring off Cape
Henry or llutteras. In March they aro
oil Chesapeake bay; in April they are oil
tlie mouth of tho Delaware; in May you
find ’em oil Long Island and after that
through the summer you cun find ’em
most anywhere north of Cupo Cod nnd
tlie Georges. After the first of October
they nre all somewhere between Capo Cod
and Portland nnd the last of November
they disappear altogether.
“How we catch ’em? It always used
to be by hand lines, but now they use
tlie purse seine. The seine is 1,000 or
1,200 feet, long and is weighted to go
down about 100 feet. They take tho
seine, and it weighs about a ton, and pay
it out from a largo row boat, having ono
end fastened to a dory. The upper edge
of tho seine is buoyed, and the idea is
to make a circuit nnd surround a school
of the fish. There are rings on the lower
side of the seine, like a purse-string, you
know, and they pull on that and close it
up. Meanwhile the cook, who stays
aboard the schooner, brings her around,
and if tlie catch has been successful
they just keep closing up on the
seine and bailing out the fish with
a sort of scoop-net, a barrel at
a time, witli tho aid of a falls.
They split ’em open nnd dress ’em and
wash ’em in two or three waters, and then
they salt ’em in barrels, or if they want
to bring ’em in fresh they put ’em on ice.
Most of ’eqj nro salted on board, though.
After they are landed they are sorted and
packed again for the market. The crew
is generally about fifteen men, and they
are paid oh shares.
“This all seems very simple nnd easy,
nnd it is so sometimes, but it’s different
in stormy weather. Then again, you
can’t over rely on mackerel. Sometimes
they will dive and there won’t lie one
left in the seine; and sometimes for days
together they won't school—just like va
cation at the schools on shoro. They use
barrels of bait—porgies ground up first
and clams—to bring ’em together and
keep ’em together, and sometimes, with
good luck, they’ll get 100 or 200 barrels
in three or four hours.”
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES.
DiiimsC. Wilco(, a New York million
aire broker anil manWacturcr. committed
suicide the other day by (booting himself.
He had lost heavily by speeiRat.on, and had
long suffered from physical troubles.
An engine collided'with a milk wagon on
a railway crossing at Lancaster, Penn.,
resulting in probably fatal injuries to three
men.
Eioht of tho bakers who have been boy
cotting Mrs. Gray’s bakery in New York
by parading in front of her place and re
questing people by circulars not to purchase
In her store were arretted, and four of them
lined for disorderly dbnduct. Since the boy
cotting began Mrs. Gray's business has
largely inci eased, and she has received con
tributions in money amounting to over 8*00.
Tho lioycottors announce their determina
tion to keop up the light.
Chaki.es H. Reilly, another of tho New
York ex-aldermen, was arrested on the 14th,
charged with selling his Aote lor the Broad
way railroad franchise. He gave bail in the
sum or $25,000.
The strike on tlie Gould system of rail
roads and tho subsequent f ailure of all at
tempts at nrb.tratiou have led to an ani
mated nnd pointeiiuorresp indeuce between
Mr. T. V. Powderlytho lent of the Knights
of Labor order, and Mr. Jay Gould. Mr,
Powilerly has declared Avar unon Jay Gould
as “the master monopolist of tlie age,” and tho
latter having invoked the protection of tho
law, the battle will b*. fought in tho courts if
possible. *
Mr. Powderly has issue 1 niircular from
Philadelphia calling upon the Knights of
Lnbor throughout tne country for funds to
help sustain the strike on the Gould system
of railroads in the Southwest,
The drivers nnd cur conductors of the
Ihird Avenue railroad, the leading hoive-
car company in Npw York, struck on the
Kith because tho company refused to dis
charge some of its employes upon the demand
of the strikers. The company determined to
insist the demands 4tt their employes, and the
ears thereupon censed running.
Anderson II. Jones, a colored man
who went to Liboria six months ago from
Missouri, writes borne from Brewcrsviiie,
a village fifteen miles from Monrovia,
giving some account of the country. Ho
says that there arc no horses, no mules
and no oxen in the whole settlement. All
the farmwork is done with tlie hoe. tlie
rake and the axe. He says: “I have
been nil over the settlement, and I found
the largest number of people in a suffer
ing condition for something to cat and
for clothes to wear. Thero isn't any
doctor in this settlement—the settlement
is too poor to support one. Calico is
twenty-five cents per yard. A common
laborer, Avlien he can get any Avork to do,
is paid tAventy-live cents a day. Pickled
pork is twenty-five cents per pound;
shoulder meat twenty-five cents per
pound. All the flour and meat used here
is irhported from England and America.
Corn meal is ten cents per quart, tom-
ittemdr- TW- • • b -v T -
the settlors, have to make money here is
by raising and selling coffee. It will
take a newcomer like myself from five to
six years to get a coffee farm in trim for
selling coffee. The public schools are
poor. Thero is a class of people over hero
who do not want the true condition of
things Avrittcn back borne.”
American Fables,
THR THIEF’S APPEAL.
A Thief who had been Convicted of
Stealing a Hog sought to Lesson his Of
fense by suying:
“While it is True, your Honor, that I
Stole the Ilog, you must take his Condi
tion into Consideration. Ho was very
Poor in Flesh.”
“While that is true,” replied his Hon
or, “I must also Consider the Fact that
you probably liked Lean Bacon better
than Fat. I shall give you two years at
Jackson.”
Moral: Such a thing never Happened,
of course. The Thief’s Lawyer would
have cleared him on tliut very point.
THE SAILOR AND TOE SITARK.
• A Sailor who fell Overboard in a liar
bor where many Sharks Avere swimming
about and avus Rescued without a Scratch,
turned to the Fish and Returned Thanks
for the great courtesy sIioavu him.
“Oh, as to that,” replied a shark who
came swimming near, “you owe us noth
ing. We happened to be busy just then
on a dead l.orse. We’ll sec you later.”
Moral: Don’t feel too grateful too the
Hangman until you are out of a Hanging
State.
SOUTH AND WEST.
William Helms, a Wisconsin farmer,
shot at two officer* who wero about to take
him into custody hdSause he had become in
sane, but mis6e<l his aim and killed his Avife.
At a large meeting of St Louis citizens on
the 13th resolutions Avere adopted favoring
tho adjustment of tlie • railroad strike by
means of arbitration, and a committee Avas
appointed to tuke steps in thnt direction.
A project is under way to ro-.daim about
a million acres of land in California by
lowering Tulare lako to nearly fifteen feet
below its presoift level.
A burglar entered the sleeping room of
Mr. P. Kendall, at Dockland, Ohio. Hedreiv
a pistol, but Mr. Kendall Avas too quick for
him, and tho intruder fell dead nt tho first
lire. •’
Five strikers, among them C. L. Graham,
master ivorkman of a Knights of Labor
assembly, havo^been arrested at Little Rock,
Ark., by the" national authorities on the
charge of impeding and disturbing the ad
ministration of justice in tho United States
circuit court.
The sheriff’s deputies Avho fired into a
crowd at Rt. LouiNNWero held responsible for
tho net by tho coroner's jury.
Later report) put tho number of killed bv
,tho tornado iu Minnesota nt over sevouty-
tlve, and tho injured at more than 200.
Baptiste Fhy, a railway engineer at East
St. Louis, Ill., refused to join iu the strike.
A number of ipen demanded a premiss of his
wife that ho should join tho strikers, but she
said it Avonid bo useless to give such n prom
ise, as he had determined to continue at work.
The men left, declaring that Ft y should quit
work or suffer the come pieuces. During the
night, while Fry avqs absent his house, AA-as
set on fire, and his wife and tlve-wecks-old
baby had a narrow escape from being burned i
to death. Coal oil had been poured over the
sido of the house in Avhich the occupants
slept.
KEWSY GLEANINGS. .
Ceylon now claims to grow the finest tea
in the world.
There is a movement to make two States
out of Kansas.
. A cremation society is being organized at
NeAvark, N. J.
At a drum tap 9,009,090 soldiers could take
arms iu Kurope.
A new English dictionary U coming out
Avith 210,09) Avords.
Edward Atkinson says that a man can
live comfortably on (300 a year in Boston.
It is estimated that 5,009 persons were
converted by Joner and Small in Cincin
nati.
The not increase of (hi Motbo li t church
South for tlie last year is sai i to bo about
50,009.
Last year the expanses of In lin exceeded
the revenues by *15,090,000, owiug mainly to
tho Avar iu Burmah.
| One Bible house, Avhich has lieen estab
lished sinco 1714, lias distributed no fewer
than 0,350,0 H) Bibies.
The refuse Avater of tho paper mil's is
saved in England, and tho AA-aste fiber is
manufactured by tho use cf alum cake.
General Master Workman Powderly
gets (1,500-a year for devoting his entire
attention to the interests of the’Knights of
Labor.
George Rttuton of Perthshire, Scotland,
who has just died at the age of 101 years, is
said to have been tlie aide it Free Mas ju in
Europe.
There are no less than seventy-five Aztec
ruins in the Salt river valley, California, be
side the old canals and /waterways of the
Aztec jieople.
The French minister of war has cut short
the beard controversy by issuing a peremp
tory order for all soldiers and officers to raise
boards immediately.
Of the 50,295 persons who emigrated from
Ireland in 1885, no lass than 40,855 came to
the United States, Avhile Australia received
only 3,80T, Canada 2,IT0 and New Zealand
429.
Sugar cultivation has been initiated in
Southern Florida. Over 209 acres have been
prepared for tho planting of the caue near
Kissimmee City, where a sugar factory will
be ereet-’d.
A Galesburg (Ill.) cow aa’os struck by a
railway locomotive and l b •own Ugh iu the
air. She landed on her fest aud resumed her
peaceful occupation of eating gras-s as if
nothing had happened.
Ex-Minister Wallace is in favor of
changing tho name of our country from
“United States” to “America.” The latter
is the passport for citizous of this country in
Europe, Avaere the name ‘'United States” is
seldom used.
THE TERRIBLE CYCLONE.
SEVESTr-I^OVR PEOPLE KILLER
AMD S13 INJVUED.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
I THE BURGLAR AND THE IIOTJ8EIIOLDER.
A Burglar who had Ransacked u house
i without Profit entered the Bedroom of
the Owner and Indignantly Enquired.
“What sort of a man are you that your
i Silver is the cheapest plate, your Watch
out of order and your Wallet entirely
! empty? Do you imagine that my time is
: of no Account, that 1 must Fool it away
I iu this Manner?”
“Alas!” replied the Householder, “the
fault is not my own. Tlie holder of a
j chattel Mortgage just cleaned me Out to-
l day.”
| “Ah! I beg a thousand pardons. No
man should have his house robbed twice
in twenty-four hours. Mv Brethern
• »V avW..Y %, T-Wiicut-.-o
Moral: Give the Burglar the Preference
in such Matters.—Detroit Dree Press.
Birmingham, England, still makes
flint-lock muskets for use in the in
terior of Africa, Avhere percussion caps
or any form of fixed ammunition would
often be impossible to obtain, while
powder can ahvays be made aud flints
picked up in the desert.
WASHINGTON.
Second Comptroller Maynard has dis
allowed the claims of the Globe Mutual In
surance company, St. Louis, and tAventy-
four other insurance companies, amounting
in the aggregate to (94,873, for losses under
policies taken by them upon steamboats em
ployed in the government service in trans
porting troops aud supplies for the use of the
army during the civil war in 1881-2.
While the Senate was in executive session
on the 12th messages were read from the
President sending m anew the nominations
of fifty-three persons who had not lieen con
firmed. These nominations Avere originally i
made in place of suspended officials. As the
terms of those officials had since expired, the
President sent in the nominations anew “to
fill vacancies caused by the expiration of
terms.”
Additional nominations made by the
President on the 12th comprised a number
of collectors of customs and United States
Senator Howell E, Jackson, of Tennessee, us
circuit judge in the Tennessee aud Uliio dis
trict. Senator Jackson Avas immediately
confirmed by the Senate.
An explosion on a small river steamer at
the island of Tumaeo, Central America, killed
fifteen persons aad injured tAventy-tAvo more.
In the British house of commons Lord
Randolph Churchill mado a long address, at
tacking Premier Gladstone's plan for Irish
home rule.
The Senate on the 13th confirmed the fol-
loAving nominations: John O. McClernand,
to be a monitor of the board of registration
and election in Utah: J. H. Oberly, of Illi
nois, to be a civil service commissioner; Chas.
Lyman, of Connecticut, to be a civil servn e
commissioner; J.-A. Berry, to be postmaster
at Oswego, N. Y., nnd .1.19. Corcoran, to be
postmaster at Rome, N. Y.
Tiie House committee on military affairs
lias agreed to report favorably a bill to es
tablish six signal stations in the West India
islands to give notice of the approach of cy
clones.
Additional postmasters nominated by tlie
President: James P. Given at Camden, N.
Y.; Francis G. Boswell nt Phelps, N. Y.;
James F. Robertson nt Culpeper, Vn.; Fre
derick A. Ross at Tus.-umbia, Ala.; Philip B.
Spencer at NeAvport, Ky. ; W. H. Camp at
uucune uenti'e, lotva; joiiu csnnAv at a uu
Wert, Ohio: Jacob P. Kerlin at Warren, Ill.;
William B Bock at Tekamnh, Neb.; H. C.
“riley at Dell Rapids. Dak.
Rumors have been abundant lately ot the
approaching marriage of the President to a
Miss Folsom, of Buffalo. The lady is described
as young and handsome, and is the daughter
of the Avtdow of President Cleveland's former
laiv partner.
John R Owens, the comedian, hns en
tirely regained his health.
Patti has come down from 85,090 to $2,000
a night for n London season, and Italian
opera is to ho resumed in that city.
Francis Scott ICf.y, who wrote “The
Star Spangled Banner," is t;u have a $15,000
monument m Baltimore. The State av.11 erect
it.
Hue. Clara Schumann, despite her
sixty-six years, still retain) her physical
powers and is regarded as one of the finest
pianists in Europe.
Miss Tellif. De Russ an of Noav York
lias made a brilliant success as A'dina 'in the
revival of Donizetti’s “Elisir d'Amoro" by
the Boston Ideals in the West.
Rubinstein, the pianist nnd composer, has
declined a $100,009 offer to come to A morica,
because he is afraid of seasickness. His first
experience avus enough for him.
“Hamlet” has beon performed in London
to a houseful of deaf mutes, pantomime aud
tho conventional signs by hands aud lingers
being the mediums employed.
Mary Anderson is computed to be Avorth
$500,000, which is said to be safely invested
in real estate, gns stocks and railway shares,
both in England and America. She expects
to clear this year $50,090,
Miss Van Zandt, the American singer,
has been so successful in her St. Petersburg
engagement that, she hns decided to remain
(here for the present and has cancelled some
of her other engagements.
Although Queen Victoria gave strict
o”dors that no reporters should he admitted
to the circus performance re-eut!y given at
Windsor castle an enterprising journalist
got in disguised as a groom.
The memory of Ponchielli, tho dead com
poser, is still honored by his countrymen. At
a recent presentation of “I,a Giooonda,” at
Palermo, tin theatre Avas draped in mourning
and the artists Avore crape on their arms.
Edward ScovEL,the American tenor,who
has made his debut Avtth Carl Rosa’s com
pany in England and scored a success, has
been singing for several years in Italian
opera in Europe, where ho Avas regarded" as
one of the best of artists.
The churches of Philadelphia are said to
f >ay less for music than do any others iu the
arge cities of the country. The average for
the 802 churches is about (300 a year, unci a
majorty of tho choirs do not cost that
amount. The carses are very few where or
ganists aro paid $1,000 or more, orsolo singers
more than $500 or $809.
PULLING THE ALDERMEN.
FOREIGN.
Cholera lias appeared at Brindisi, Italy.
Nine persons AA-ere killed and a number in
jured nt Ajaccio, the capital of Corsica, by
the collapse aud fall of a mansion.
Eleven -More Ncaa- City Fathers of 1881. :
Indicted mid Placed Under Arrest. |
ElcA-en more of the Noav York nldernmnic
board of 1884 have been indicted by the
grand jury and arrested. The warrants j
charged the indicted aldermen Avith accept- !
ing bribes for voting for the Broadway rail
road franchise. The names of the person 8
arrested are: Thomas Cleary, Michael Duffy
Louis Wandel, Rudolph A. Fullgraff, Arthu’
J. McQuade, Thomas Shicls, Patrick Farley,
Henry L. Snyles, John O'Neil, Francis Me-
Calie, and Frederick Finck.
The men AA-ere arrested by detoctiA-es under
tho direction of Police Inspector Byrnes nnd
were imprisoned at p dice headquarters. Im
mediately upon their arrival at headquarters,
the aldermen sent messengers to their friends
informing them of their arrests nnd urging
upon them the necessity of securing bonds- j
men.
Tlie prisoners Avithout an exception ex
pressed indignation at their arrests. They
Avere served with warrants at their houses.
After waiting a short time in Inspector 1
Byrnes’ office, tho prisoners were taken to the 1
dint! is t aUe.i i.eyn office, wneru they gave |
bail in the sum of $25,000 each and AA-ere re- •
leased pen ling trial. This makes seveuteen !
members of tho aldermauic boar 1 of 1881
Avho have Loeu indicted.
Georgia claims to have a man who
‘•(in drink three gallons of buttermilk nt 1
mo sitting without repentance. Make .
it whisky, and Kentucky will “see” her j
rad go one better, if it requite) a funeral
or so to settle the question,
Awfal Irenes of Distress 41)4 Hull'erliig—
Notes by an Eye-Witness.
The scene in St. Benedict Hospital, St.
Cloud, Minn., alter the storm, was heartrend
ing. Mon, women and children lay in broken
shaps, bathed in tbeir own blood and faces
blackened and grimy, and arms and legs brok
en, and Fcalps torn and bodies lacerated. The
scone at the engine hou e was more horrible.
Eighteen lifeless bodies were stretched on the
U air in two rows, draped in sheets and blank
ets, while around and among them moved men
Avith lanterns uncovering faces, trying to rec
ognize in the distorted faois soma familiar
One n which they might trace relationship,
lln bodies presented a terrible spectacle. The
cinthoi they had warn Avere tern into shreds,
their faces Avere blrck with oust, and gravel
avas ground into ilieir chocks, while tlieajalps
Avere torn and b ood still flowed from gaping
wounds and covered tin floor. fcikulls were
crushed, eyes tor( from their sockets and!
tongues protruded from botweou lips that
Were crm.Jy Cut and mnli'ated.
STORY OF AN EYK-AVITNEBS.
“My QoJ, ills it cyclone ! B in for vonr
lives !" I cried to several men Avith avIioiii I Avas
ta king in fiontof the’pestolfice,’’ sa d an eye
witness of lh.< UAvfiil disaster Avhich bifid St.
C oml aud “Sr.uk r.apid-." Hardlv had avc
sought shelter in our places of fancied security
Av.ien the si. r:n bnist in ah iis fury, and in an
liDredib v short space of lime tho pretty toAvn
of Sauk Rapids Avas tli picture of desolation
Avhich you see. Two oi tlie poor fel.oAvs r anted
were killed by falling timbers it most «• soon
a< they Avere'indoors, and 1, us you see. aviII
bear the mark of toy experience to my dying
day”—pointing to tho baiidugeil arm which lie
o.irrled in a sling
“Fortunately as it turned out I did not have
timo to g.-t under cover myself, nnd thus es
caped being crushed beneath a roof, a late
which happened to Aery many. I saw, too, ttie
cyclone from its beginning until its ruthless
Avork avis accomplished. The awful grammar
of the sigh’ I aha I never loiget. It is impos-
Hib.t. to say how many people were killed or in
jured. As soon as the storm hud passed I
sraggere j to niy boarding place,which strange
ly enough was lefi. I am sure that, no
less than thirty people were l.il.cd, whi c the
injured will number many score more. Tho
eastern portion of tho town is in ruins.”
Speaking of theapproaoh of tho cyclone, lie
says : “Twisting and twirling it citnio down
toward the doomed town. Mothers with
blanched faces hastily snatched up their babes
and anuelit protection in convenient collars.
Husbands and fathers rail to their homes, fear
ful for their wives and children. Do n s were
locked, windoAva closed, and families crowded
into cramped cellars. In noaily every case
within the cyclone’s path precautions tvero in
vain. Liko a huge black funnel, seeking
to gulp down every-thing within its reach,
tlie death-doxling cloud came sAvooping
down. A’4 32 it had struck tlie southwestern
portion of St. Cioud. Like smoav beneath tho
sun’s rays the houses in its path molted away.
Some Avore lilted bodily with their contents
high into the air and dashed into kindling-
wood upon tho ground. Others, Avitli stouter
frame, Avere crushed like'Ro much cardboard.
Stilloihers, more massive in construction, AA-ere
twist d and Avrcuclied.
The sky Avas almost black Avith living timbers
which were whirled liko straAvs through the
air. Occasionally 'vas seen an animal hurled
along Avith irresistible force. Occasionally
tlie semblance of a human form, bruised al
most beyond recognition, formed a part of the
living debris. Tall and sturdy trees Avere
hoisted out of tho ground like so many reeds
and sent flying like chaff through the air!
Above all the confusion roso tho roar and
sAvirl of the storm. For twelvo minutes tho Avork
of devastation raged. Then all was quiet
quiet save for tho groans and moaning of the
AA-ouuded and (lying. There wero others Avho
made neither sign nor sound. Lying under
heavy beams, buried In rnbbish, choked cellars
lying lifeless iu the roadways, where they had
been thrown.
Here beneath the edge of a broken roof a
mother was lying with her left arm thrown
proteotingly around the mangled form of a lit
tle child. Both were dead. There a man
with the hardy vigor of liis manhood so re
cently snatched from him was lying beside the
boulder against which hia life had been
dashed out! Principally the fatalities were
occasioned by the crashing in of tlie heavy
timbers of the houses upon the heads of the
unhappy occupants. At this writing twenty
have been recovered, and every additional
search discloses another victim.
The talo from Sauk Rapids is tlie same.
Almost in a thought tho jieene of desolation
was shifted from one town to another, and
both were in ruins—fourteen bodies have been
discovered in Sank Rapids, and that the tale of
woe is not yet ended. Upon the streetsof both
towns children are seekiug their pirents, and
imrents their children. Dreading tiie rvorst
but eager to learn the truth, they search each
ruin with wild-eyed fervor. Fathers and
m ithers with loved ones missing and almost
bereft of reason, run from sobbing knot, to
kaos of Avorkers, hoping against hope that
'here may yet he such a thing aa rescue.
Strong hands and brave hearts aro lending all
tlie aid they can.
An accurate account of the killed and injured
bv the cyclone is as follows : Sr. Cloud, killed
21, injured 80 ; Sauk Rapids. killed 37, injured
100 ; Rice’s Station, killed 12. injured 21 ; ad
jacent county, killed 3, injured 12. Total
killed 74, injured 213.
OCEAN PERILS.
Seventeen Dn.vs Adrift iu the Open Sen—A
Wreck with 4-rent how of Life.
The American schooner Ida Francis, which
sailed recently from Pensacola, Fla., for
New York, was dismasted when seventy-
miles southeast of Delaware Break
water. Her cabin was filled with water and
tho provisions were mostly destroyed. The
schooner drifted, water-logged and in a help
less condition, for seventeen days. The captain
and his wife and child took refuge abaft the
cabin, and they, as well as th3 crew, suffered
cued at the end of the seventeen days, all on
board were in a greatly exhausted condition.
They have been landed in Loudon. Tho
second mate, whose leg is broken, has been
11 iced in a hospital.
Tiie New Zealand coasting steamer Taiaroa
has been wrecked between Wellington and
Christchurch. New Zealand. A heavy gale
prevailed at the time aud the sea was very
rough. Th ee boats were launched, but each
was speedily < aj sized. Twenty-nine pei*sons
were drowned. Only two patsougers were
saved.