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T. A. NAVROM, Publisher. 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. « » 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. 1 * 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.