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CURRENT TOPICS.
Bitlx is now grown in twenty of our
States.
Queen Victoria’s private fortune is only
$80,000,000.
The Washington monument now weighs
81,120 tons.
Chili is the most prosperous country ip
South America.
Paris holds her next World’s Exhibition
five years hence.
Rinkturating is a new word; it means
skating in a rink.
A New Haven advertisement for a hus
band brought 200 responses.
Opium and sawdust enter largely into the
ingredients of the cigarette.
Mrs. Astor has the furniture formerly
in Eugenie’s boudoir at the Tuileries.
Miss Alice M. Bacon, anfAmerican girl,
has recently won success as a pianist in
Berlin.
Among the Esquimaux you can buy a
sealskin sacque for two iron hoops and a
ten-penny nail.
A London bank has issued an order for
bidding clerks whose income is less than
$750 a year to marry.
It is said that there are fully 800 females
in the United States who are masquerad
ing in masculine garments.
V yoming ranchmen are complying with
the Government’s order, and removing their
fences from the public domain.
A York County (Pa.) grocer swore out
a warrant against his wife for pouring a
gallon of molasses over his head.
Bartley Campbell, in five years has
made a profit of $250,000 out of his plays.
He began life as a newspaper reporter.
The Niagara Park Commission sav that
Goat Island is worth $1,400,000, and will
recommend that New York pay that sum
for it.
In an interior county of Pennsylvania is
an unfortunate infant named George Win
field Scott Hancock Garfield Pattison
Y erks.
A traveling Illinois thief, unaware that
his wife had gone to housekeeping in Elgin,
broke in at night and carried off a lot of
his own jewelry.
The most idiotic wager of the campaign
was made at Bridgeport, Conn., the loser
being compelled to shave off his whiskers,
hair and eyebrows.
The Queen of Madagascar is a beautiful
girl of nineteen, who is married to her Prime
Minister, aged sixty-nine, who is also the
husbapd'of her mother.
Madame Bachmatieff, formerly Miss
Beale, of Washington, and now wife of the
Russian charge d’affairs in Greece, has be
come a convert to the Greek Church.
The Brooklyn Orphan Asylum destroyed
by fire the other night, does not seem to
.have had a single fire-escape. The penalty
for this neglect was paid by a score of lives
there.
At Oskaloosa, lowa, there is a spring of
water which will tan skins either with the
fur off or on, in from twenty-four to forty
eight hours, according to the size of the
hides.
Cincinnati steamboat owners and the
Board of Trade of that city protest against
the passage of the bill pending in Congress
granting the right to light rivers by elec
tricity.
Enough liquor was consumed in tire at
Britain last year to make a lake a mi le long,
a mile wide and thirty-five feet deep.
What a lake of fire that would make if
lighted. •
The position of 'Chaplain to the United
States Senate has become a shameful sine
cure. The prayers are usually said in the
presence of a beggarly army of empty
benches. *
A member of the Vermont legislature
charges $lO for signing a certificate of
the benefits of a cough medicine or corn
cure, and has managed to rake in about S2OO
this winter.
It is estimated by the New York World
that the Vanderbilts have altogether
dropped $50,000,000 in Wall street specula
tions. Still they had enough left to pay for
a good Christmas dinner.
Harrisburg, Pa., is forming an associa
tion for insurance against losses by theft,
to be called the Pennsylvania Protective
Society. A robbed member is reimbursed
by assessments on others.
Girl grape-pickers in California vine
yards are tempting Providence by putting
their names and addresses in the boxes
which are shipped east. Their idea is
doubtless to catch a husband.
Sergeant Bates, who was fond of car
rying the banner into former hostile terri--
tory, is in destitute circumstances, and his
sabre, being unattached to his patriotic
hips, has been seized for debt.
A Boston girl is going to marry Prof.
Edmunds, of Cambridge Observatorv, who
was one of the devisers of zone standard
time. She will probably set the hour for
his arrival home every evening.
White gauze veils are now quite fashion
able for evening wear on every kind of
hats, at the opera or theater. They pro
duce a very pleasing effect and make the
plainest woman’s face look soft and pretty.
A half ounce of ground quassia steeped
in a pint of vinegar (a small teaspoonful of
the decoction to be drunk in a little water
every time the thirst comes on) affords, it
is alleged, a certain cure for the alcoholic
habit.
A market-woman of Peoria, HI., avoids
paying an election bet because she had read
of the Rhvlock performances. She was to
wheel a man round the public square, but
declares there was nothing in the bond
about, wheeling his clothes, and that he will
bfeve to go without them or not at all.
Sister Mart Josephine, the nun who
fiad charge of the sick children in the
burned orphan asylum. Brooklyn, and who
lost her life in trying to save those under
her charge, is a heroine indeed. But if the
building had been supplyed with fire-es
capes, no d<Aibt her life and her heroism
would have been spared to a world that
needs them,
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31.1884.
SPAIN TREMBLES
From Two Severe Shocks of Earth
quake.
A Number of Persons Killed and Much
Property Damaged.
Madrid, December 20.—Two slight
shocks of earthquake were experienced in
this locality yesterday. The shocks were
felt at Gibraltar, and severely in the south
ern provinces. They caused great alarm
among the people of Grenada. At
Malaga two persons were killed by
falling walls. Many towns are reported to
have suffered from the earthquake. Sev-
houses, including the telegraph station
at \ elez, Province of Malaga, vverebadly
injured. The terrified inhabitants encamp
ed in the outskirts of the town dur
ing the night. Many persons were injured
at Loja, M'otrie and Albania. The con
vent at Seville was partly destroyed. An
official was killed at Velez, and several
persons killed elsewhere. At Madrid one
person was killed, and several injured.
The village of Albanuzles was nearly de
stroyed. The cities of Seville and Grenada
were not much damaged.
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Oil Tank Explosion.
Elmira, N. Y., December 2ti. — A large
oil tank belonging to the United Pipe
Lines located at West Junction, five miles
west of this city, exploded this morning.
The force of the explosion was so great that
many buildings in this city were percepti
bly shaken. Several buildings in the vicin
ity of the tank were wrecked. The tank
contained 30,000 barrels of oil at the
time of the explosion. The oil im
mediately took fire and every thing within
reach of the flames was quickly consumed.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Depot, a thousand feet away, was badly
damaged by the force of the explosion, as
well as the Erie Depot, hundred feet
away. A house 250 feet from the track was
completely wrecked. Windows and doors
were blown in and every rafter
broken; two ladies who were in
the house escaped without injury. On
investigation it was found that no one was
seriously injured. Several cars which were
waiting to lie loaded with oil were burned.
The Northern Central Railroad track was
cover ed with burning oil, which consumed
the ties and warped the rails out of shape.
The second tank, near the scene of the ex
plosion, was melted by the intense heat,
and the oil it contained also burned.
Naval Officers’ Mileage Claims.
Washington, December 26. —Congress
will be called upon to appropriate $500,000
to pay the mileage claims of naval officers
already allowed by the Second Comptroller
and Fourth: Auditor of the Treasury under
the Court of Claims decision allowing of
ficers mileage for travel in Europe
when on Government business, in
stead of actual traveling expenses form
erly allowed. The claims have accumu
lated with unexpected rapidity. "Some are
on journeys performed more than forty
years ago by officers since retired, and the
amounts vary from SIOO to the claim of (
Rear Admiral Howell, which amounts to ;
$4,200. About four hundred of these claims j
have already been allowed, and a number
are passed upon every week.
Naval Yards to Suspend Work.
Washington, December 26.—Owing to
the failure of Congress to pass a naval ap
propriation bill, Secretary Chandler is pre
paring an erder for the closing of all the
navy-yards and the suspension of all work
on the evening of December 31,
under arrangements that will
provide for a reopening and resumption of
work as soon after the reassembling of
Congress, on January 6, as provision is
made for the maintenance of the navy. As
has been the case in similar instances in the
past, there will be a general suspension of <
workmen, with a view to their re-employ- i
ment as soon possible, and those whose j
services are absolutely indispensable will be
allowed to continue and rely upon Congress
to reimburse them.
Wilmot-Travare Difficulty.
Fargo, Dak., December26.--A Wilmot
dispatch iu reference to the County-seat
trouble says: “Colonel Free, of the Govern
or’s staff, visited Wilmot and Travare
(not Traverse), to-day. His report is un
derstood to be in favor of Wilmot.
Writs are out for the arrest of
members of the Canvassing Board.
Cummings, of Travare, claiming to be
Sheriff, was chased three miles, and escap
ed across the river. Interviews with par
ties in Fargo, from Roberts County, are as
conflicting as the first report received from
the scene of trouble. An examination is
now in progress before a U. S. Commis
sioner in this city.
Present Treasury Assets.
Washington, December 26.—The Treas
ury excess of assets over demand liabilities
to-day exceeded $137,000,000, but Secretary
McCulloch has no intention of making a
bond call at present, as the interest on the
four-per-cants and on the Pacific Railroad
bonds, payable in January, will take over
$9,000,000/ The carrying over of $8,000,000
in pension warrants, from November last
to December, is likely to prevent avery
marked decrease in the public debt for the
present month.
Woman’s Body Found in the Woods.
Mount Carmel, Pa., December 26.—The
body of Mrs. John Carroll, of Green Ridge,
was found to-day in the woods, about a
mile from her house, bearing marks of vio
lence. She was missed from her home last
night, and it is believed was assaulted by
unknown parties, and left in the woods,
where she froze to death.
■
Outrage by Bandits-
Madrid, December 26.—Bandits entered
the Catholic Church and the house of the
priest at Cortelos, Galicia, for the purpose
of pillage. Failing to get money, they tied
the priest in a straw stack and burned him
to death.
Still Another.
Vienna, December 26.—Josef denari,
Manager of the Discount Bank of Carniolo,
at Labacb, defaulter for 70,600 florins, kill
ed himself in the bank to-day, when about
to be arrested.
Death of a Veteran of 1812, Aged 104.
Syracuse, N. Y., December 26.—Thomas
Van Valin, aged 104 years and eleven
months, died yesterday. He was a pen
sioner of the wax' of 1812
FRANCO-CHINESE WAR.
Threatened Attack on the French Foreesin
Tonquin—Courbet Blockading Formosa,
Sick, and Hopeless of Success,
London, December 25.—A dispatch from
Shanghai says 85,000 Chinese troops,
under Li Hung Chang, are massed at
Pei-Ho. The works at Port Arthur,
Gulf of Pe-Chi-Li, built by German ar
tillery officers, make the strongest fortress
in North China. The works are mounted
with heavy Gatling and Nordenfeld guns.
Entrance to the port is guarded with torpe
does. The Chinese have warned the
French that they intend to make an attack.
Letters from the French fleet at Kelung
state that Admiral Courbet is ill and wor
ried over the forced inaction. It is feared
he can not continue operations. The block
ade is without results. Mortality among
the troops is increasing.
Disastrous Collision.
New York, December 25.—500 n after
noon to-day the English merchant shjp
Lornty, of Liverpool, lying off the Battery,
was sunk by the steamship Cornwall. The
latter vessel was making for sea at the
time of the collision, while the Lornty was
at anchor. For some unexplained reason
when the Cornwall approached the
other vessel the helm would not
work properly, and she ran straight into
the Lornty while going at the rate of six
knots an hour. The vessel began to sink
rapidly, and within ten minutes only
a small portion of her starboard was
visible above water. The crew, thirty
two in all, climbed on the Cornwall
and were thus saved, but all their cloth
ing and other property was lost. The
I»rnty was built in Liverpool and was of
1,845 tons burthen. Captain Stannus com
manded her, but teas absent at the time of
the collision. The wrecked vessel was
loaded with petroleum, and was to sail for
Calcutta to-morrow. The loss is about
£30,000. Many of those who witnessed the
wreck lay all the blame on the Cornwall’s
officers.
Ladies at Columbia University.
Washington, December 25. —Columbia
University has decided to admit women to
the study of medicine. This action was
taken in response to the request of the Fac
ulty of the medical department. Four
ladies who have been attending the lec
tures, having matriculated at the
opening of the session, are now
regularly admitted as students, and will be
entitled to diplomas upon completing the
three years’ course. The Faculty has de
layed action hitherto on account of the
lack of suitable accommodations for ladies,
but this has been waived by the parties
directly interested, in the nope that by
next term better quarters will be provided,
probably in the main building.
A Steamboat Burned.
Belmont, Mo., December 25. —The steam
er Vint Shinkle sunk by being caught in an
ice-gorge one mile above here in the middle
of the river. After partly sinking she turned
over on her side and caught fire in the deck
room and burned entirely up. She had about
four hundred tons of merchandise aboard,
nearly all consigned to Memphis, which will
be a total loss. She had twenty passengers
aboard, eight of them being ladies, all of
whom, including the entire crew, succeed
ed in reaching the shore over the ice with
the loss of their baggage. There was
nothing saved from the steamer; not even
the money in the safe was taken out. The
insurance is about $15,000.
Six Lives Lost at Sea.
Halifax, December 26.--The Govern
ment steamer Lansdowne, from Sable
Island, brings intelligence of another dis
aster on one of the outstretching sand bars,
involving the loss of six lives. The French
brig A. S. H., from St. Pierre, Miq., bound
to Boston with a cargo of fish, struck on
the north side, two miles from the main
station, Friday afternoon. Four men
were washed away and lost, and two
others were drowned in attempting to
reach the shore during the night. The
sole survivor reached here by the Lans
downe.
A Novel Wager.
Washington, December 25. —Some days
ago a novel wager was made between Paul
Hines, the base ball player, and a well
known gentleman. Mr. Hines was the
champion center-fielder of the country,
and by the rules of the wager he "is
to catch a ball thrown from one of
the windows of the Washington Monu
ment, which are over 535 feet from the
ground. The ball is to be thrown from
the window by Superintendent McLaugh
lin, and Hines, who is to stand some dis
tance out, is to catch it when thrown.
Counterfeiter Arrested.'
Memphis, Tenn., December 25.—Miles
Ogle, a noted counterfeiter, was arrested
here to-day by M. G. Bauer, of the United
States Secret Service. Three thousand
dollars in ten-dollar counterfeit on the
Third National Bank of Cincinnati was
found on his person. Ogle has already
served terms in the penitentiaries of New
York, Ohio and Pennsylvania for counter
feiting. He was discharged from the latter
in July, 1883, since which time he has been
following his old trade.
Using Coal Oil for Kindling.
Cleveland, 0., December 25.—The wife
of Michael Sheister, living just south of
the city, attempted to start her fire -with
coal oil this morning. An explosion was
the result. The woman’s clothing took fire
and were burned from her person. She
was frightfully burned, pieces of flesh
peeling off her hands, limbs, face and back.
Her injuries are dangerous, and she will
probably die.
Death Caused by a Shock.
Albany, N. Y., December 25.—Frank
Chandler, of East Albany, a Boston and
Albany Railroad employe, was injured at
Pittsfield Yesterday. He was brought
home, and his daughter, Emma, aged
eighteen, expired very suddenly. The at
tending physicians say death was caused
by the shock received upon hearing of the
accident to her father.
Blockaded by Snow.
Portland, Ore., December 25.—The
heavy snow-storms in Oregon along the
Columbia River have caused a blockade of
trains, and many passengers are snow
bound and have to be provided with food
brought on sleds from Hood River and Cas
cade Locks. No Eastern mails have ar
rived at Portland since December 15,
XLVHL CONGRESS.
Second Session.
Washington, December 20.—Senate.—The
Senate went Into secret session on the pro
posed surveying expedition to Nicaragua.
After which M r. Hoar moved to take up the
House resolution providing for an adjourn
ment from to-day until January 5. After con
siderable debate a 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 (la.) moved to strike out the section pro
hibiting railroad companies from charging
?re a ter compensation for transporting
reight 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
»ort of the navy for the month of January.
On 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
24. Though there is no definite agreement
that no business shall be transacted Wednes
day, there is a taeld understanding to that
effect, and it is also understood that con
secutive adjournments shall be taken for
three business days at a time until Jan
uary 5.
Washington, December 22.—Senate.—A
bill was introduced to establish an additional
land district in Dakota. The bill was called
up providing that a commission examine
Into the liquor traffic. It was a bill al
ready passod four times by the Senate, but
not acted on by the House. The motion was
opposed, but the bill was taken up and pass
ed—yeas, 24; nays. 16. Mr. Hale, from the
Committee on Appropriations, reported
with amendments the House bill “making
temporal provision for the naval service” —
the thirty-one day bill. Mr. Hale explained,
the Senate Committee had amended that bill
by substituting for It tlie provisions of the
regular annual appropriation bill for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, pre
cisely as the House passed it at last
session, but modified it so as to cover only
the remaining half of the fiscal year,
amendments formerly inserted by the
Senate relating to monitors and steel cruis
ers being stricken out. The bill, he said, so
far as the amounts went, stood precisely on
the basis which the House passed the origi
nal appropriation for the year. In that, Mr.
Hale added, the Senate maintained its atti
tude In considering this year's propositions,
and not those of former years. He said he
would call the bill up to-morrow in executive
session.
House— Not In session.
’ Washington, December 23.— Senate.— Mr.
Jonas presented a memorial of the Joint com
mercial associations of New Orleans, pro
testing against the ratification of the Spanish
treaty. Mr. Vest submitted a concurrent
resolution providing that Congressional
speeches shall be printed as delivered, with
the exception of verbal amendments, and
when speeches are withheld for revision for
more than one week the speech shall be print
ed as delivered. Referred. Mr. Hale called up
the naval appropriation bill as reported yes
terday by him from the Committee on Ap
propriation, and it passed. Mr. Morgan, from
the Committee on Public Lands, reported fav-
Of-ablj a substitute for the bill to forfeit lands
granted the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and
Vicksburg Railroad Company. Mr. Van
Wyck moved to make a special order for
January 9 next the bill heretofore reported
from the Judicary Committee declaring sub
ject to State taxation lands granted “to aid
in the construction of railroad and telegraph
lines from the Missouri River to the Pacific
Ocean,” and to which lands the companies
were to become entitled upon the payment
of the cost of surveying. Agreed to. Execu
tive session. Adjourned.
House.—Not in session.
Washington, December 24. Senate.
After disposing with the morning business,
the Senate went into executive session.
When the doors re-opened the Chair an
nouned his signature to the concurrent reso
lution providing for the iWliday recess. Ad
journed until January 5.
House. —About fifty member^Aver^present
when Speaker Carlyle called the House to
order. Mr. Randall called up the adjourn
ment resolution, and moved concurrence in
the Senate amendment,which provides that a
recess shall begin to-day and last
until January 5, ’BS. Agreed to.
The Speaker announced the following
Committee on Assignments; FJections, Mr.
Sunth, of Iowa; Military Affairs. Connelly;
Public Lands, Campbell, of Ohio; Territories,
Hill; Education and Labor, O’Ferrall; Revis
ion of Garrison; Expenditures of
Treasury Mlepartment, Wallace; Printing,
watton; Pensions, Bounty and Back Pay,
Wallace; Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, English,
journed until January 5.
Naval Officers’ Mileage Claims.
Washington, December 26.—Congress
will be called upon to appropriate $500,000
to pay the mileage claims of naval officers
already allowed by the Second Comptroller
and Fourth Auditor of the Treasury under
the Court of Claims decision allowing of
ficers mileage for travel in Europe
when on -Government business, in
stead of actual traveling expenses form
erly allowed. The claims have accumu
lated with unexpected rapidity. Some are
on journeys performed more than forty
years ago by officers since retired, and the
amounts vary from SIOO to the claim of
Rear Admiral Howell, which amounts to
$4,200. About four hundred of these claims
have already been allowed, and a number
are passed upon every week.
Naval Yards to Suspend Work.
Washington, December 26.—Owing to
the failure of Congress to pass a naval ap
propriation bill, Secretary Chandler is pre
paring an order for the closing of all the
navy-yards and the suspension of all work
on the evening of December 31,
under arrangements |that will
provide for a reopening and resumption of
work as soon after the reassembling of
Congress, on January 5, as provision is
made for the maintenance of the navy. As
has been the case in similar instances in the
past, there will be a general suspension of
workmen, with a view to their re-employ -
inent as soon possible, and those whose
services are absolutely indispensable will be
allowed to continue and rely upon Congress
to reimburse them.
Present Treasury Assets.
Washington, December 26.—The Treas
ury excess of assets over demand liabilities
to-day exceeded $3<T7,000,000, but Secretary
McCulloch has no intention of making a
bond call at present, as the interest on the
four-per-cents and on the Pacific Railroad
bonds, payable in January, will take over
$9,000,000. The carrying over of $8,000,000
in pension warrants, from November last
to December, is likely to prevent avery
Marked decrease in the public debt for the
present month.
Woman’s Body Found in the Woods.
Mount Carmel, Pa., December 26.—The
body of Mrs. John Carroll, of Green Ridge,
was found to-day in the woods, about a
mile from her house, bearing marks of vio
lence. She was missed from her home last
night, and it is believed was assaulted by
unknown parties, and left ia the woodfc
where she froze to death
DESTRUCTIVE FLAMES.
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A Hotel and Opera-house Des
troyed by Firp.
Three Lives Lost—The “Beggar Student”
Opera Company Lose All their Effects.
Racine, Wis., December 28.— About one
o’clock this morning an explosion startled
the sixty guests of the Blake Hotel, and
the cry of “Fire” was raised. The guests
hurried out of the burning building amid
great confusion and excitement. Nearly all
were in their night clothes. By the time
the fire department arrived the beautiful
hotel and Opera-house, next door, were
burning fiercely, and no attempt
was made to save them, but the
attention of the firemen was directed to
wards saving adjoining property. It was
thought that all the inmates of the hotel
escaped, but upon investigation it was
found that Mr. and Mrs. Russell P. Glover,
of the “Beggar Student” Opera Com
pany, and the housekeeper, Mrs. S. A. Pat
rick, were consumed in the flames. The
members of the Opera Company lost
their personal effects, including nearly all
their clothes, of the total value of about
$6,000. Mrs. K. R. Doud, wife of Ex-Mayor
Doud, who occupied apartments in the
hotel, .ost $5,000 worth of jewels, pictures,
books, etc., among the latter being a mag
nificent collection of Dante’s works. Mrs.
Doud escaped in her night clothes. Among
the other losers by the tire are Vilas,
druggist: Wood Brothers, hardware;
Lena Johnson, cafe; Montgomery
& Long, barbers; Rausch, variety
store, and Duffy, saloon. The total loss is
about $150,000; insurance about SBO,OOO. The
Opera-house, which was an exceedingly
handsome structure, six stories high, and
measuring ninety by one hundred feet, was
built in 1881 by a stock company, at a cost
of $102,000. It was fitted throughout in fine
style, and was said to be one of the hand
somest places of amusement in the West.
The members of the opera company have
been tendered a benefit by the managers
of the Opera-house. The origin of the tire
is unknown.
Attempt to Blow Up a Mill Office.
Springfield, Mass., December 28.—An
attempt was made to blow up the office of
the Plunket Woolen Company at Hinsdale
to-day. A sack containing an explosive
was put under the building. The force of
the explosion spent itself mainly laterally.
The building was slightly damaged. It is
said some employes have a g-udge against
the superintendent, Sunderhoff, who was
shot recently. There is much excitement.
John Baldwin Dead.
Cleveland, 0., December 28.—John
Baldwin, founder of the Baldwin Uni
versity at Berea, 0., died to-day, aged
ninety-five years. When ninety years of
age Baldwin went to Louisiana, purchased
a plantation, established a college for
colored people and built up the town of
Baldwin, where he died.
Decreased Revenue Collections.
Washington, December 28. —The Inter
nal Revenue collections for the
five months of the fiscal year were $47,322,-
190, a decrease of $3,995,736 from the pre
vious fiscal year.
For Selling Liquor on Sunday.
New York, December 28.—About one
hundred New York saloon-keepers were
arrested to-day for violation of the excise
law against selling liquor on Sunday.
XLVIII. CONGRESS.
Second Session.
Washington, December 22.— Senate.—A
bill was introduced to establish an additional
land district in Dakota. The bill was called
up providing that a commission examine
into the liquor traffic. It was a bill al
ready passed four times by the Senate, but
not acted on by the House. The motion was
opposed, but the bill was taken up and pass
ed—yeas, 24; nays, 16. Mr. Hale, from the
Committee on Appropriations, reported
with amendments the House bill “making
temporal provision for the naval service’’—
the thirty-one day bill. Mr. Hale explained,
the Senate Committee had amended that bill
by substituting for it the provisions of the
regular annual appropriation bill for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, pre
cisely as the House passed it at last
session, but modified it so as to cover only
the remaining half of the fiscal year,
amendments formerly inserted by the
Senate relating to monitors and steel cruis
ers being stricken out. The bill, he said, so
far as the amounts went, stood precisely on
the basis which the House passed the origi
nal appropriation for the year. In that, Mr.
Hale added, the Senate maiutained its atti
tude in considering this year's propositions,
and not those of former years. He said he
would call the bill up to-morrow in executive
session.
House—Not in session.
Washington, December 23 Senate.— Mr.
Jonas presented a memorial of the joint com
mercial associations of New Orleans, pro
testing against the ratification of the Spanish
treatv. Mr. Vest submitted a concurrent
resolution providing that Congressional
speecWs shall be printed as delivered, with
the exception of verbal amendments, and
vM speeches are withheld for revision for.
more than one week the speech shall be print
ed as delivered. Referred. Mr. Hale called up
the naval appropriation bill as reported yes
terday by him from the Committee on Ap
propriation, and it passed. Mr. Morgan, from
the Committee on Public bands, reported fav
orably a substitute for the bill to forfeit lands
granted the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and
Vicksburg Railroad Company. Mr. Van
Wyck moved to make a special order for
January 9 next the hill heretofore reported
from the Judicary Committee declaring sub
ject to State taxation lands granted “to aid
in the construction of railroad and telegraph
lines from the Missouri River to the Pacific
Ocean,” and to which lands the companies
were to become entitled upon the payment
of the cost of surveying. Agreed to. Execu
tive session. Adjourned.
House.—Not in session.
Washington, December 24. Senate.
After disposing with the morning business,
the Senate went into executive session.
When the doors re-opened the Chair an
nouncd his signature to the concurrent reso
lution providing for the holiday recess. Ad
journed until January 5.
House.— About fifty members were present
when Speaker Carlyle called the House to
order. Mr. Randall called up the adjourn
ment resolution, and moved concurrence in
the Senate amendment,which provides that a
recess shall begin to-day and last
until January 5, 'BS. Agreed to.
The Speaker announced the tollowing
Committee on Assignments: Elections, Mr.
Sunth, of Iowa; Military Affairs. Connelly;
Puhlic Lands. Campbell, of Oho; Territories,
Hill: Education and Labor, OTerrall: Revis
ion of Laws, Garrison: Expenditures or
Treasury Department, Wallace; _ Printing,
Bratton; Pensions, Bounty and Back Par,
Wallace; Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, tnghan.
Adjouraed until January 6.
YOL 1.-NO. 44.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
DfffE Haas was killed by Dennis Boyd
at Willow Chute, La., whom he had ejected
from his store for disorderly conduct. ,»
Caliborne Nicholson, colored, Char
lotte, N. C., murdered his father with a
club, beating his head into a black and
bloody mass.
Curtis Halkinson, stock raiser, Dallas,
Texas, sold 5,000 head of average cattle to
Knight, of the Pan Handle Railroad, for
$150,000 cash.
At Abbeville, 8. C., John C. Ferguson
murdered Arthur W. Benedict ia a quarrel
over a bill.
Tobacco is North Carolina’s best crop.
They make as much as SSOO or S6OO to the
acre.
The South Carolina Legislature Is grap
pling with a bill to repeal the lien law, as
was the Alabama Legislature a while back.
The House has passed the repeal bill, but
the Senate will reject it. It is popular in
both Alabama and South Carolina.
During an altercation the other morning
between Andrew Diffy, master mechanic
of the Houston, East and West Texas
Railroad, and his son, the father was shot
through the head and mortally wounded.
His wife and son were trying to persuade
him to remain at] home’to prevent him
from getting drunk, which resulted in a
quarrel with the above result.
The South is no longer reduced to the
necessity of blowing her own trumpet,
says the Atlanta Constitution. Within
the past decade she has made herself felt
in so many great lines of commerce and in
dustry that she cannot be ignored even by
unfriendly sections and countries.
Snow fell all over North Alabama the
other day/
It is unlawful to gamble anywhere in tb»
State of Georgia.
Joaquin Miller and Buffalo Bill are
great chums, and Joaquin rode In Bill's
procesh at New Orleans, where Joaquin
continues to sojourn.
The new Baltimore City Hall has been
built at a cost of nearly $250,000 lees than
the sum appropriated for its construction
Will wonders never cease?
General D. H. Hill has moved to
con, Ga., to pass the rest of his days.
A posse of officers went to the house of
Anderson Johnson at Allapaha, Ga., a few
days ago, to arrest him. They surrounded
the house, but admittance was refused, and
they were told that Anderson was not in.
Some one walked across the floor, and di
rectly the door was opened and one of the
young men went into the house, while the
others remained outside to intercept An
derson if he should attempt to escape. After
a fruitless search was made a fire was built
in the hearth, and as it blazed up a scuffling
noise was heard up the chimney; soot be
gan falling, and finally a negro came
down, and Anderson Johnson became the
prisoner of the officers. He had gone up
the chimney to hide, and was smoked out.
The prevalence of rabies among dogs in
Georgia extends so late in the season as to
excite comment. In the neighborhood of
Hinesville, half a dozen mad animals have
been killed within a few weeks. One had
to be shot three times, while it held the
trousers leg of its owner between its teeth,
before it relinquished its grip in death. The
supposition is that the present prevalence
of rabies is due to the killing of some hogs
affected with cholera, the meat of which
the dogs ate.
The fearful results of the freight train
collision at Careyville, Tenn., the other
morning, are showing themselves. Tom
Conner, the engineer, who had a leg broken,
had it amputated and died from the effects
of it, leaving a young wife and child.
Fireman N. P. Phillips had his leg cut off,
and is not expected to live.
John Weems, one of the wealthiest farm
ers of Henry County, Ga.JagedJ seventy
seven, in receiving Miss Helen Walker, of
Austin, Texas, aged tweaty-flve, who was
coming to visit his grown daughter, greet
ed her with “Christmas gift.” The lady
replied that she stood alone in the world,
when W eems claimed her as his prize, and
a convenient Magistrate bound the fetters.
The old man alternately wept and laughed
over his strange good fortune.
A*nxgro boy twelve years old, at Hamp
ton, Ga., attempting to fire a dollar and a
half gun, a few days ago, exploded it. A
piece of iron was driven into his forehead,
crushing the bone and making an aperture
of half an inch in the bone, from which a
quantity of brain exiled. Dr. Folsom ex
tracted a spicula of bone half an inch long
and a quarter wide. The boy walked a
mile after the accident, and next morning
was able to eat his rations.
W. W. Sible, a painter in the employ of
Mr. George Lias, was on a swinging scaf
fold at the roof of Trinity Lutheran Church,
Hagerstown, Md., while the stay rope was
held below by George Calvert, and the lat
ter accidentally allowed the rope to slip,
thereby dropping the scaffold. Mr. Bible’s
only hope was to grasp at the cornioe of
the roef. This he did and there remained
suspended fifty-five feet above the ground
for seven minutes, until the scaffold was
brought to his relief.
A terrible cyclone passed near Macon,
Ga.,the other afternoon, demolishing every
thing in its path. About four o’clock m
large funnel-shaped cloud was seen near
ing the city. As it grew nearer and darker
the people became paralysed with fear. The
scene was one never to he forgotten. Men
rushed home from their business, and wo
men and children shrieked for help- The
city grew dark, nd it seemed fer a fete
moments that darkness had begun. Sud
denly a report like distant thunder rent
the air. It passe4 around toward the
southeast and disappeared. Meager re
ports indicate a terrible storm at tho farm
or Mr. David Birdsong, five miles from
Macon. Five houses were totally demolish
ed. His dwelling was damaged to a great
extent. Lives were reported lost in Johns
County and at points in the track of the
cyclone. The cloud was accompanied &y
bard rain and lightning.