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T. A. HAVRQN, Publisher. 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. ——- ♦ ♦ ■ 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.