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CURRENT TOPICS.
There are no old ladies’ bonnets this
winter.
The Mormon arsenal has just turned out
20,000 new muskets.
The Rev. Mr. Spurgeon smokes and
he is not ashamed of it.
Mr. Blaine has eight gold-headed canes
as mementoes of his canvass.
Josh Billings suffers from catarrh. It
Is not known how he spells it.
A Fonda (N. Y.) woman committed sui
cide rather than dress a turkey.
The Spanish treaty will, apparently, not
begin to treat for many moons.
A number of Western farmers are trying
to organize a gigantic potato pool.
The Corcoran Art Gallery in AVashing
ton has an annual income of SOO,OOO.
Rerihen, Mich., farmers are feeding
their wheat to stock, having no better out
let.
P. T. Barnum says that the receipts of
his show for the season of 1884 were $1,400,-
000.
Miss Lucy Stone believes there will
some day be a woman President of the
United States.
Four thousand iron workers of Milan,
Italy, will shortly be discharged because
of no business.
Stanley, the Path-flnder of the Dark
Continent, is now about the biggest
American abroad.
All space for exhibitors at New Orleans
has been taken, and 700 applicants are yet
to be provided for.
Miss Payne, a granddaughter of George
Peabody, has been declared to be the hand
somest woman in Boston.
The Tichborne claimant has been engag
ed to appear at an entertainment in Edin
burgh for one week for £2OO.
There are thirty-nine professors and in
structors in Princeton College and 519 un
dergraduates in various departments.
Worth, of Paris, will furnish a bridal
oufit for a lady for $20,000, but she must
expect everything will be very common.
Unemployed workmen at Turin the other
day smashed the windows of the Mayor
because he refused to receive a deputation.
Mexico appears likely to greet the New
Year with another revolution. The aver
age greaser would much rather fight than
work.
A Cuban light-house was lately sur
rounded by such a cloud of red insects that
mariners reported the light at a distance as
being red.
Hoops and bustles will be all the fashion
again next spring, and six fashionable
women will once more manage to occupy
all the room in a street car.
It is the man who sees no possible hope
of getting there who is now calmly assur
ing the public that he has no idea of enter
ing upon Congressional life again.
Experiment at certain school centers of
London have proved that a penny is suffi
cient to pay all expenses for a substantial
and nutritious dinner for school children.
President Arthur’s son is said to be
over six feet in height and weighs only
about 135 pounds. He can hardly be called a
‘•chip of the old block;” he is only a splin
ter.
•The reason women, as a class, don’t
smoko is because they can’t keep their
mouths shut long enough to prevent a
cigar from going out, says an old married
man.
Forty-five seconds for a message from
New York to London and answer is what
was done by the new Mackay-Bennett
cable the other day, the first direct mes
sage.
Currier’s band, of Cincinnati, fifty
pieces, have the award to play for the
•World's Exposition at New Orleans during
its continuance, for which they receive
$52,400.
Mrs. J. W. Schultz, wife of a miller and
farmer at Thornburg, la., while her husband
was out doing the chores the other morn
ing, killed her two children and herself
with a razor.
FoAjr masked burglars got into an office
in Cleveland, a few nights ago, and, after
pinioning the watchman and blowing open
the safe, found, much to their surprise, only
sixteen cents.
“A novel election bet” is the way the
New York papers speak of a bet the pro
ceeds of which go to the Bartholdi pedes
tal fund. The novelty is in giving any
thing to the pedestal.
TnF. wife of a Baltimore millionaire has
; packed her little satchel and skipped with
a street car conductor, and now she can
ride up and down the line without paying
a blessed cent of fare.
' Mrs. Susan Howlett, a venerable and
respected lady of Amelia County, Va.,
aged eighty-three years, has recently cut
,ljer third set of teeth and regained her eye
sight lo a wonderful extent.
TiiE'number of persons killed in India
last year amounted to 22,905, while as many
as 17,478 cattle were destroyed—in both
cases principally by snakes, but also by
tigers, wolves and leopards.
There is on exhibition in a window on
School street, Boston, a squash which girts
7xfi 1-2 feet and weighs 166 pounds. It was
grown in Nova Scotia, and the owner of it
last year raised one that turned the scales
at 299 pounds.
Boston postoffice authorities have in
operation, experimentally, a machine for
cancelling and postmarking letters. In a
recent .trial letters were put through the
mAchiife at the rate of one hundred and
fifty per minute.
Buffalo printers have been notified that
after January 3 the price of composition
will be thirty-two cents per thousand cms,
instead of thirty-five, as now, and that the
advertisements will be set by the week. A
Strike is expected.
Hon. Hugh o?Brjen, Mayor-elect •
Boston, js the first person ever chosen ti
that office who was born outside of New
JSngland. O’Brien is a native of Ireland.
RiM. Moore, who raeeutlv took *
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1884.*
•CHARRED CORPSES.
Appalling Loss of Life in the
Burned Children’s Home.
'welve Uodies Already Itoeovered—Several
Children Still Missing.
New York, December 19.—The Brooklyn
Eagle extra states that the Fire Marshal
reports twelve bodies found up to 8 o’clock
this morning among the ruins of the
burned St. John’s Home for Children. The
workmen are still searching in the debris.
The utmost excitement prevails in the vi
cinity of the Asylum. The bodies fouud
are so charred and blackened that identifi
cation is almost impossible. It is believed
most of the children who perished were in
the ill-fated Josephine’s ward. Men en
gaged in excavating the ruins of the laun
dry found the remains of nine boys and
two grown persons. Who the adults were
is not ascertained yet. The Sisters are
unwilling to be interviewed, but it is plain
to be seen that their list of inmates
rescued does not come up to the full num
ber. This is explained by the statement
that children may have been cared for in
private houses, and will turn up. The fact
is that last night only one child was admit
ted to be missing, and this morning a dozen
bodies have been found. These facts tell
their own ghastly story with a positive
ness that is appalling.
A Graveyard in a Garret.
New York, December 19. —An anony
mous correspondent wrote to the Sanitary
headquarters that there was a small grave
yard in the loft of the house No. 11 West
Third street; that heaps of moldering human
skulls and bones had been there for years,
and no one knew anything about them.
The writer asks the authorities
to find out how they got there. Investiga
tion revealed the story to be true,
and the matter was turned over to the po
lice. A visit to the loft showed the place
filled with skeletons and human bones in all
states of moldiness. All sorts of rumors
are rife regarding the manner in which the
bones came into the lolt, but none can be
traced to any reliable source. The bones
were sent to the morgue, and the police are
endeavoring to clear away the mystery
surrounding them
Michigan Poor-house Burned.
Detroit, December 19.—The Lapeer
County Poor-house burned last night at 10
o’clock. Thirty-seven inmates were turned
out in their night clothes. An insane wo
man named Bertha Rockwell dashed back
into the building and was burned to death,
only the bones remaining to show
where she perished. Another woman
ran two miles through deep snow be
fore she coulCt be recaptured. She is badly
frozen, but may recover The thermometer
at the time was below zero. The building,
furniture, clothes aud stock of provisions
were burned. The loss to the county is
over $6,000. The inmates are scattered
among farmers.
Steamer's Rough Voyage.
London, December 19—The steamer Ox
enholme, from New York for Liverpool,
arrived at Queenstown harbor on her beam
ends. She experienced terrific weather,
and lost many head of cattle. The steamer
is still on.her beam ends. The heads and
legs of dead and living cattle are seen pro
truding through the cattle pens and hang
ing over the side of the vessel. The upper
deck of tho steamer is a confused mass of
dead and living cattle. Many carcasses
were thrown overboard and washed ashore.
The Oxenholme was towed ashore to pre
vent her sinking. Only five head of cattle
remain alive. Terrible weather is reported
off the coast.
Across the Continent Afoot.
Mitchell, Ind., December 19. — Adrian
Hitt, who walked from New York to San
Francisco, California —a distance of 4,147
miles —in ninety-eight days, left here this
morning on his return from San Francisco
to New York, on a wager of $4,000
that he hoofs it through in
ninety days, leaving there October 16,
and is due at destination January 12. Ho
is a little footsore, but otherwise' in good
condition. He reports a perilous trip in a
portion of Colorado on account of wild
beasts. He carries twenty pounds of lug
gage to hold him down to his work on the
route.
Ejecting Squatters from the National Park.
Ft. Keogh, Mont., December 19.—The
Superintendent of the Yellowstone Na
tional Park recently notified various
squatters and settlers within the confines
of the park to move, and they failing to do
so, last Tuesday, aided hy a squad of po
lice and assistants, hp burned several
ranches near the border line of Gallatin
County, and ejected the intruders. One
mountaineer, known as Buckskin Joe, for
showing fight, was arrested and sent to
Wyoming for trial.
Failed Grocer Charged With Forgery.
Lancaster, Pa., December 19. — Joseph
Herzog, a grocer of this city, who failed
recently, was arrested this afternoon
charged with forgery. Tho aggregate
amount of his forgeries, on banks in this
city and individuals, is said to amount to
$87,000. He was committed to jail. Herzog
says he followed the practice nearly ten
years. He never allowed a note to go to
protest, but paid it with another forgery.
The losses of the banks of tho city will be
very large.
Frightful Explosion.
.Tackso-, Mich., December 19.—The
boiler of Plummer’s planing-mill exploded
at three o’clock this afternoon, and two
men were killed—Alfred Keyportand Fred
Miller. Kevport’s body was frightfully
mangled. Four others were badly injured,
and may die. The mill was Mown to frag
ments, and many houses in the vicinity
were shattered. A flue was blown entirely
through a house one hundred yards away.
The explosion shook the entire city, build
ings being rocked a mile from the scene.
The Plumbers’ Luck.
Bridgeport, Conn., December 19. — An
err'-osion in a small building in the yard of
the Union Metallic Cartridge Company
blew Peter Burns, an employe, into atoms
aud the building to splinters! It is suppos
that Burns dropped a pan of fulminate or
stepped on a piece. Two plumbers left the
building two minutes before the explosion.
ORPHANS BURNED OUT.
Several Persons Injured in Kscaping From
the Building, One Sister Probably
Fatally.
New York, December 18.AThe Catholic
Male Orphan Asylum, at St. Marks and
Albany avenues, Brooklyn, burned this
afternoon and it is feared some children
perished in the flames. Sisters in charge
think all escaped, but cannot tell until the
roster of the boys is called. The little fel
lows are now scattered about in care of
residents of the neighborhood. The fire
started in the drying-room which
adjoined the southern end of the
main building. This drying-room
also contained boilers and heating ap
paratus, with dormitory on third floor, in
which there were sixty orphans suffering
from various complaints. Sister Mary
Josephine, who was in the dormitory at
the time the fire broke out, made a heroic
effort to save the little ones. She re
mained in the room until absolutely driven
out by the flames, and then ran to a win
dew, where she stood upon the cornice un
til Fireman McGroarty, from the roof of
the building, swung his coat to her.
The Sister caught the coat, but when
McGroarty tried to pull her from
her perilous position. 9 she lost her
grasp, and Tell to the ground. She struck
upon her shoulder and head. She was con
veyed to St. Catherine’s Hospital in an un
conscious condition. Joseph Ryan, a boy,
tried to descend by a ladder from the same
floor (third), and got within eight feet of
the ground, when the ladder parted. He
received severe injuries. John McGrath,
eight years old, jumped from the third
story, and was badly injured. Mother
Dechautel and Sister Anthony were in the
office when the fire was discovered. They
at once gave the alarm, and proceeded to
get the youngsters out of the building.
There were 785 orphans in the main
building, which is also known as the St.
John’s Home. They were told to leave the
Home and seek shelter in any neighboring
house until called for. There was great
excitement among the inmates. Hundreds
of little fellows ran out into the falling
snow, hatless and coatless. The flames
spread with great rapidity, and the build
ings were almost completely destroyed.
The asylum and grounds occupied an en
tire block. The asylum buildingwas2lobylso
feet, three stories, with mansard roof, and
constructed of blue stone. At nine o’clock
the charred walls remained. It could not
be learned definitely to-night whether any
lives were lost, but the best is hoped for.
The building destroyed was valued at $200,-
000; insured.
The Nicaragua Canal Treaty.
New York, December 18. —The Tribune
publishes the full text of the proposed
Nicaragua treaty. It provides that the
caual shall be built by the United States
and owned by them ami tbo republic uf
Nicaragua. The United States agrees to
protect the integrity of Nicaragua’s terri
tory. The United States may build the
canal along any route it chooses, and se
lect the ports of entrance. They may use
all or any part of Lake Nicaragua, or of
any waters in Nicaragua. They may build
a railway and telegraph line in connection
with the canal. A strip of territory two
and a half miles wide is granted along the
route of the canal to the United States ab
solutely. No customs dues shall be levied
by Nicaragua on the commerce of the
canal. The management of the canal shall
be by six managers, three appointed by
each Government. Revenue from the canal
after payingthe expenses goes one-third to
Nicaragua and two-thirds to the United
States. The United States disowns any in
tention to impair the indepenedenceof Nic
aragua. Any question between the two
Governments shall be abitrated. The
United States will use its good offices, if
desired, to secure a union of the five Cen
tral American Republics under one Re
publican Government. The United States'
agrees to loan Nicaragua $4,000,000 to per
fect its railway, telegraph and navigation
system.
Missing With $1,000,000.
Vienna, December 18.—The Bourse was
unsettled to-day in consequence of the
disappearance of Lucius Jauner, Director of
the Securities Department of the Lower
Austrian Discount, and the dis
covery of a deficit of 2,-
059,960 florins, (about $1,000,000. At
the last examination of the bank’s assets,
No vend at 18, everything was right. A re
ward of 2,000 florins is offered for the cap
ture of Jauner. It is rumored that he has
committed suicide. Heinrich Kuffiler,
broker, is arrested for suspected com
plicity with Jauner. The latter had dis
counted bad bills of Kuffller’s to the amount
of 1,000,000 florins.
Coal Discovered in Manitoba.
St. Paul, Minn., December 18.—A mag
nificent seam of coal has been discovered
at Crowfoot Crossing, 800 miles west of
AVinnipeg, Manitoba, on tho Canadian
Pacific Railroad. Experienced men were
employed by the company, and a seam
fourteen feet thick has been disclosed 185
feet below the surface of the ground. Sev
eral boxes of the coal have arrived at
AVinnipeg and were pronounced excellent
snecimens of the anthracite varietv. It is
thought that the coalfields just discovered
will rival those of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Counterfeit Plates Found.
Milwaukee, December 19.—The Secret
Service officers to-day found a number of
plates for printing counterfeit currency
buried in the woods near Sailors, AA Tnuke
sha County. Three counterfeiters were ar
rested in Chicago some time ago, and on
them was found a map showing where the
plates were buried. After weeks of search
ing the place was located. \A T hen the coun
terfeiters were arrested they had about
SIO,OOO ot spurious notes in their possession.
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Another Robber Out of the Way.
St. Louis, December 18. —Francis AVhite
sides, a negro, atta eked a white man on
Eighth and Spruce streets this evening,
and tried to rob him. A desperate en
counter resulted, and the negro was shot
through the abdomen, receiving a latal
wound. The stranger ran away and has
not been found yet. The negro was a hard
case.
A Murderer Sentenced.
Mattoon, lll..December 18.—At Charles
ton to-day the jury in the Chapman mur
der ease found the prisoner guilty and sen
tenced him to suffer the death penalty.
Chapman murdered Nicholas Hubbart at
AV urn bolt, this county, August 17, 1884.
Hubbart was a well-to-do bachelor farmer.
The object of the murder was robbery.
LOSS OF LIFE
At the World’s Exposition, Now
Orleans.
Full of An Immense Iron Building, Killing
One Man, Mortally Wounding Another
and Severely Injuring a Third.
New Orleans, December 21.—Three
hundred feet of the iron frame-work of a
large hotel being erected west of the main
Exposition building fell with a terrible
crash to-day. Frank Green, colored, of
Nashville, was instantly killed, Albert-
Freeze, Michigan, mortally injured and
James Carroll, Chicago, severely injured
internally. Ritter & Connolly, of
Pittsburgh, were the contractors.
The foreman in charge of the
building, Mr. Miller said it was the most
narrow escape from death he had ever
witnessed in his life on the part of the forty
odd workmen who were on the building.
Most of the men were at work inside the
building. Those on top were Frank Green,
the dead man; James Carroll, Albert
Freese, Louis R. Curtis and N.
Slemmervitz. The distance these
men fell was sixty and forty-five
feet. Freese was at the greatest
height, and Green, killed, was just next
him. Miller attributes the accident to
weakness of foundations, and to the insuf
ficiency of the supporting ropes. He stat
ed also that posts temporarily put up near
the middle of the building were not driven
far enough, and that with the very heavy
weather lately experienced and the strong
wind blowing for the past two days, the
building was unable to stand, be
ing top-heavy with iron and timber.
He had observed that the build
ing had gone out of plumb from
east to west abouth two feet, and he had
just attempted to remedy that defect by
having an extra tension put on the main
stays or ropes, when the structure swayed,
and with a crash came down. There was
a moderate attendance at the Exposition
to-day. Divine service was held in Music
Hall, with a sacred concert by the Mexi
can Band.
Explosion of Oil Tanks.
New York, December 21. —An explosion
in Pratt’s astral oil works in the east
ern part of Brooklyn, called out the whole
fire department of that city. The first ex
plosion commingled the flame of one oil
tank with the gases of a second tank,
and a second explosion followed almost
immediately. These two explosions made
free ten thousand barrels of oil, and all
this flaming mass catching on to the river
of melted snow, was carried into every
nook and cranny of the works. The result
was that all the buildings and tanks at the
werks. HfiDtirc a ls»rga brick buildine in
which the canning is dono, were destroyed,
besides the long docks on the creek. The
loss will reach between $500,000 and
$600,000.
Charley Ross Found Again.
Rochester, Pa., December 21.—Officer
Isaac Lazarus has captured a boy who is
supposed to be the originul Charley Ross.
A lad about fifteen years of age went into
the real'estate office of Hurst & Moody,
this morning, and applied for a
situation, but as he could or would
not give information concerning
himself, or where he came from, until ques
tioned by a detective, he was taken in
charge by Officer Lazarus, who afterward
heard his true history, which s Corres
ponded with that of the lost Charley Ross
that the officer has taken him home ,Sd
telegraphed to Mr. Ross to come on imme
diately and identify his lost boy.
Foreign Notes.
London, December 21. —London is again
worked up. A fire occurred in the Widsor
Railway Station, and afterward [some
wheels and were found of the
usual pattern.
A ruptured is possible between Ger
many anl France concerning the
rights of Ae International Association
on the which all the Powers are
willing to accord except France. The mas
sacres of Christians in Macedonia art de
died. Jose Reute, Spanish historian, and
M. Rounet, French dramatist and man
ager, are dead. English opinion is that the
U. S. Senate will not impair the National
faith by confirming the Nicaraguan treaty.
The Orphan Asylum Fire.
New York, December 21. —The searchers
for bodies in the ruins of the St. John Or
phan Asylum, Brooklyn, resumed their
labors this morning. Almost all the ashes,
brick and rubbish, were removed during
the day, but no more bodies found. Twen
ty bodies are all “accounted for” in the
ruins. There are still twenty orphans
missing, but they are believed to have es
caped.
Attacked the Court-house.
Traverse, Dakota, December 21.—An
armed mob of one hundred drunken men
attacked the court-house on Saturday, de
stroyed many records and other public
property, and carried away the safe.
Suicide Because His Wife Was Dying.
Chicago, December 21. —This afternoon
Policeman Mackowski, being informed
that his wife, who was ill, could not recov
er, went out and killed himself. His wife
expired a few minutes later.
A Reduction of Legal-Tenders.
Washington, December 21.—There has
been a reduction of the legal-tenders in the
U. S. Treasury of $19,000,000 since last
August, chiefly accounted for by their pay
ment from the Sub-Treasury of New York
to the Clearing-house during the scarcity
of gold.
Kellogg will Contest.
New Orleans, December 21.—Kellogg
has served on Gay a notice of contest of
election in the Third Congress District,
charging bribery, corruption, violence, in
timidation and falsification of election re
turns.
Died from Intemperance.
Dayton, 0., December 21.—Mrs. Lizzie
Weber drank a nearly quart of whisky be
fore she went to bed last night, and was
found dead in bed this morning.
The Work of Masked Men.
Wheeling, W. Va., December 21. —Six
masked men into the residence of
Henry IVorkenour, bound the inmates and
stole $4,000.
XuVIIL CONGRESS.
Second Session.
Washington, December 17.—Senate.—
Numerous remonstrances against the ratifica
tion of the Spanish treaty were received. A
resolution was introduced favoring an ap
propriation of $300,000 to defray the ex
penses attending the sending of exhibits to
the proposed Exhibition of American arts
and manufacturers to be held in London in
1896. The bill authorizing the suspen
sion of the exercise of extra-territorial
authority of the United States in Tunis, up
on the establishment by the French Republic
of courts there, was passed. A bill was
passed providing that actual settlors on lands
in Colorado subject to preemption, on the
reservation of the Ute Indians, be entitled to
purchase such land, not exceeding 160 acres,
under the preemption laws. The naval bill
was passed substantially as it came from the
committee.
House.—A bill was introduced regulating
and classifying the salaries of clerks in all
first-class postoffices. Referred. The House
then resumed consideration of the inter
state Commerce hill, the pending question
being on the motion to table a motion to re
consider the vote by which the House
yesterday adopted the amendment pro
viding that any person having pur
chased a ticket to be conveyed
from one State to another shall receive the
same treatment, etc. Amendment tabled.
Mr. Crisp ottered an amendment providing
that nothing in this act shall be so construed
as to prevent any railroad company from
providing separate accommodations for
white and colored persons. Mr.
Breckenridge offered as a substitute for Mr.
Crisp’s amendment, an amendment providing
that nothing in this act shall be construed
to deny to railroads the right to provide sep
arate accommodations for passengers as they
may deem best for the public comfort and
safety , and that nothing in the act shall be
understood ns relating to tho transportation
between points wholly within the limit of one
State. Mr, Hreekenridge's amendment was
adopted as a.substitute for Mr. Crisp’s
amendment, and Mr. Crisp’s amendment, as
so amended, agreed to. Mr. Mills offered an
amendment prohibiting any railroad com
pany from charging or receiving from any
person w t lio is to be conveyed from one State
or Territory to another, aiiy sum exceeding
three cents for one mile for the distance to
be truveled. The amendment was adopted.
Washington, December 18.—Senate. —
Among tho memorials presented was one by
Mr. Hoar, from tho Woman’s Suff rage Asso
ciation of Pennsylvania, protesting against
the admission of Dakota on a consitution
made by men alone and denying the suffrage
rights of women. Mr. Hoar, in presenting it
said that while he favored woman suffrage
he thought it unwise, in the present tem
per of ( engross, for the advocates of that
cause to oppose the admission of a new
State on the grounds set forth, because when
the Territories of Wyoming and Washington
shall call for admission the exercise of suf
frage by women in those territories may be
advanced as an argument against their ad
mission.
House.— lmmediately after reading the
journal the House resumed consideration of
the inter-State commerce bill, the pending
question being on the motion to table the
motion to reconsider the vote by which the
House yesterday adopted Mr. Goff's ameud-, (
nt Ihot i*» U*© /if
passengers railroad companies shall make no
discrimination on account of race or color.
Washington, December 19. Senate.— A
bill was passed making the 4th of March, the
Presidential inauguration, a legal holiday in
the District. Bills were introduced and re
ferred : To transfer the U. S. Barracks at
New Orleans, and the Louisiana State Agri
cultural College for educational purposes;
also to authorize the building of a shell road
from Baton Rouge, La., to the National
Cemetery. To provide for the erec
tion of a public building at Stillwater,
Minn., at an expenditure of ?100,000. The Sen
ate passed a bill to accept and ratify the
treaty made in 1880 with the Shoshone. Han
cock r.nd Sheepeater tribes of Indians on the
Fort Hall and Lemhi reservations in Idaho
for the sale of a portion of their lands. Mr.
Allison, from the Committee on Appropria
tions, reported favorably the House resolu-
Mution providing that when the two houses
adjourn on Saturday it be to Monday, Jan
uary 5. On Mr. Hale's suggestion it was laid
on the table for the present. •
House.— A bill was passed authorizing the
construction of a bridge across the Missis
sippi River at Rock Island. The inter-State
commerce bill was taken up. A motion was
lost in reference to rebate and drawback:
also an amendment prohibiting the issuing
of free passes was voted down. Recess was
taken until 8 p. m. for consideration of the
pension bills. The House, at the evening
Session, passed eighteen pension bills and
adjourned until to-morrow.
Washington, December 20.— Senate.— The
Senate went into secret session on the pro
posed surveying expedition to Nicaragua.
After which Mr. Hoar moved to take up the
House resolution providing for an adjourn
ment from to-day until January 5. Aftercon
siderable debute ft vote was taken—yeas, 8:
nays, 25. This vote developed the fact that
there was no quorum, whereupon the Senate
adjourned till Monday.
House.—' The House resumed consideration
of the inter-State commerce bill. Mr. Hender
son da.) moved to strike out ttie section pro
hibiting railroad companies from charging
greater compensation for transporting
freight a shorter than a longer distance. He
believed the section was deadly to the inter
est of the part of country he represented—
the great agricultural interests. The amend
ment was rejected. A bill was passed
making temporary provision for the sup
port of the navy for the month of January.
>n motion of Mr. Hopkins, the Senate joint
resolution was passed declaring Christmas
and New Year’s days holidays for all per
diem Government employes. The house
then adjourned until Wednesday, December
.’4. Though there is no definite agreement
that no business shall be transacted'Wednos
day, there is a taeid understanding to that
effect, and it is also understood that con
-ecutive adjournments shall be taken for
three business days at a time until Jan
uary 5. •
Natural Gas Explosions.
Pittsburgh, December 21. —Natural gas
bas been playing sad havoc at different
places in Western Pennsylvania within the
past twenty-four hours, reports of explo
sions. attended with fatal and serious re
sults, having been received from Butler and
Washington, while in the city a building on
Magee street, occupied by H. Studt
as a grocery store, was completely demol
ishe d this evening by an explosion, which
terribly frightened the residents of that
part ot the city, and damaged property to
the extent of $2,000. At AVashingtou, Pa.,
the residence of AA’m. Rabe was partly
wrecked, and Rabe, his wife and child in
jured so badly that all died. Mrs. Rabe
arose during the night and went into the
cellar with a lighted candle, when the ex
plosion took place.
A Post special says the excitement at
AVashington is intense, as many people
living there have natural gas in their
houses. An explosion at Butler, Pa., oc
curred about one o’clock this morning, and
came very nearly ending in a horrible dis
aster.
Janner, the Embezzler Suicides.
Vienna, December 20. —Janner, the em
bezzler of near a million dollars, shot him
self at the village of Kierling, a short dis
tance west of this city. Only twenty-four
florins were found on his body.
YOL I.—NO. 43.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS .
Judge H. Kent McCay, of the United
States District Court of Atlanta, Ga.,
whose mind has become deranged, arrived
in Baltimore a few evenings ago, and was
taken to the residence of his brother, Prof.
Charles McCay. That night during the
terrible snowstorm the Judge was picked
up by the police and taken to the station
house. He was found sitting in the bitter
cold on the steps of the Baltimore and Ohio
Rai'road Building. It has been ascertained
the Judge evaded his watchers and escaped
from home. He sold his valuable gold
watch for $1 and bought a bottle of whisky.
As the Judge is a strictly temperate man,
this latter act is very singular. The police
turned him over to his brother, and he was
taken to Philadelphia, where he was placed
in an asylum. It is said by a relative of
Judge McCay that his condition was
caused by domestic troubles. Twenty-five
years ago he and his wife adopted two lit-:
tie twin sisters. They were bright, inter
esting girls, and the Judge educated and
brought them up to be refined, beautiful
young ladies. They married, and, after
rather unhappy experiences, both died
long ago. One left eight children and the
other one. The Judge took them all to his
home in Atlanta, cared for them, and
placed those of them who were old enough
at school. The death of their mothers was
a hard blow to him.
The Legislatures of Georgia and North
Carolina are both moving to establish tech
nological schools.
South Carolina now' has p stock law
which does away with the necessity of
fences around farms. It is said to be work
ing an incalculable saving in timber and'
trouble.
A movement is afoot to create a State
Department of Public Works in South Car
olina which shall have charge of build
ings. canals and railroads, as well as dirt
roads and pikes.
Maj. W. F. Howell, brother of Mrs.
Jefferson Davis, died in the County Hos
pital in San Francisco in a destitute condi
tion.
The Georgia Senate closed a sitting by
singing the “Sweet By and By” a few days
ago.
The Georgia Legislature has passed, by
a vote of one hundred and one to five, the
act to authorize the Governor to issue State
bonds to the amount of $3,455,135, with
which to fund tho public debt, falling due
in 1885 and 1886.
Atlanta, Ga., is excited over finding
two kegs of powder concealed under a.
school building.
A disease, not cholera, is prevailing
among the swine in the vicinity of Win
chester, Tenn. Hundreds of hogs have died
from it.
The time between New York and Knox
ville has been reduced to twenty-five
hours and fifty-five minutes.
Hereafter telephone companies in Ala
bama will be taxed $2 on every SIOO re
ceipts. Also two per cent, on the gross in
come of sleeping car companies doing
business in the State. The license for
cockpits is raised from $25 to $250. Drum
mers are taxed $lO, to be paid in one county
only.
The bill introduced in the South Caro
lina Senate to repeal the law which ex
empt all manufactories in that State from
taxation for the period of ten years was
defeated by one majority.
There are now in the Georgia Insane
Asylum 1,259 patients, aud buildings are to
be erected which will increase the accom
modations to 1,500. A yearly expense of
SIBO,OOO is required.
A beautiful young Mexican girl is
seen on the streets of New Orleans with
her national head covering, the mantilla,
and a great bunch of crimson roses, and
the society men have gone wild about
her. &
Anthony Walker, colored, was sen-B
tenced to be hanged January 23, at Mar
shall, Tex., for the murder of Wm. Henry,
white. Walker appealed for charity to his
wife and six children, passed a hat around
th» court-room himself, and collected $6,
Charles Lynch, a brakeman on the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, while attempt
ing to brake a train near Wolfe’s Summit,
W. Va., slipped and fell, and was fatally
mangled by the train passing over him.
Guenther Schnelle, who was trial in
Wheeling for several days, on the charge
of murdering Dr. Guenther S. Chuckhardt,
his supposed father, in March, 1883, was
fdund guilty of voluntary manslaughter,
and sentenced to five years in the Peniten
tiary, On the first trial he got a life sen
tence.
Five stores and the greater part of the
stock of goods were destrpyed by fire at
Newport, Ark., a few nights ago. Loss
$60,000, divided as follows; .Wolf & Gold
man, $16,000, insured for $10,000; Cowson &
Saftin, $3,000, insured- for $1,500; AV. H.
Bogart, loss not given, insifued for $7,400.
James Conner and Pleasapt McNutt, of In
dependence County, and Mrs. Devons and
another lady and.cbild, name unknown, of
Jackson County, who had been trading,
were asleep in the rooms over AVolf &
Goldman’s, and were burned to death. The
charred remains were found in the after
noon. " *• -W
At Greenville, Tex,, the other night,
Samuel Easel] called on his wife and plead
ed with her to take him back, after having
deserted her with a negro woman. Mrs.
Easell refused to recognized her husband,
whereupon he called his little six-year
old daughter to his side, shot the child in
the head, killing her, aud then blew his
own brains out.
Dr. Charles Spencer, of Saddy, Tenn.,
went into his dispensary, and, feeling un
well, took what he supposed to be Indian
hemp. Instead it was the fluid extract, a
deadly poison. By strenuous efforts his
life was saved, but he had a close call.
A Texan says refrigerating cars and re
frigerating slaughter-houses axe the fac
tories that are going to encourage hog
raising to an mormous extent on the
praires of AV estern Texas.