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T. A. HAVRON, Publisher, THE STOSH34&®. Disastrous EfFects of. a Clouckßurit at Xenia, O. L. * A LITTLE BROOK BECOMES A MIOH (V, RAGING RIYLK, Sweeping lUvery Thing Movable Before It. Hundreds of Housrk Wreeked and Whole Families Drowned—-Thrilling Incidents and Many Narrow Escapes—The Miami Valley Visited by a Wind gtorin, Doing Great Damage, Xenia, Ohio, Way 13.—The bright May sun el' this morning shone on a desolate and stricken Xenia. After a night of dark ness and terror it is grateful have light and sun, but what an awful scene they reveal! Homes laid waste and property swept away, and, worse than afl, the wholesale destruction of life. About ei-rtit o’clock last night a mighty rain, wind and electric storm came tip, which con tinued with unabated fury for l'uliy three hours.' The wind came in a continual gale, with a continual gust which woulddowntrees, loosen shutters and do other damage. The rain fell in sheets, w hile the sky was livid with wave after wave of electricity, and the mutterings of the thunder were hoarse and continuous. Most families were huddled to gether in fright, for no one knew at what moment the storm might prove to be a cy- i clone. Tsut few persons dreamed that a flood ] was coming which would sweep away part of j thotown and drown many souls. About ten o’clock the fire-belis rang out their wild alarm, but no great number of peo- j pie responded to the call, as they thought it > was only a tire, anil that it could not do much j uarm in such a rain and storm. But directly ! the second alarm came, and brought out the whole town. The streets were dark and the rain was coming down in torrents, but ii was soon learned what the trouble was—that Shawnee creek, a heretofore harmless little stream, had become mad, and was out of its ! banks and sweeping every thing lie fore it. Men rushed in the darkness to the scene, anxious to do what they could. The waters had completely submerged the district along the Shawnee from the place above where it enters the east end of j town to its exit. For a distance of front one hundred to two hundred yards on each side of Water street, clear down to Detroit street, Was completely under. Standing on the banks of this mighty stream in the rain and darkness it was an appailftig situation. There was no light, and above the roar of the angry w aters came the cry for help from frightened and in many instances drowning people. ' Men rushed frantically from the shore into the the waters; others ran in other dl- I rections for ropes, ladders, lights and boats toiassist with. The situation was at once horrifying and frightful in the extreme. The little stream that runs through the town, | called Shawnee creek, never known to do any harm before, which follows abed laid our j for it between stone walls six feet high and ten feet wide, had become a veritable river, sweeping along in many places two squares wide and fronfflfteen to thirty feet deep. The gas works had been submerged and every where was darkness, while the serpams of people in the w ater were must piteous and I heart-rending. The first thing to do was to l get lights, and this was partially accomplish ed by building great bonfires in the streets I adjacent to the flood. Then, with J ropes, floats, ladders and such o her , things as could be obtained, the work ! of saving lives began, and the number of | People rescued in this way would probably ; reach one hundred. From one house, w hich | had torn loose and floated down two squares, i tour or five young men r scued ihe family of Aaron Ferguson, ub o people in all. They , had no more titan got safely out until the house went to pieces. At other points along Ihe line ot the flood, more than a mile In dis ta: ce, like scene’s were enacted. But while th good work of rescuing was f oing ofijn n\ poor souls were going down I iciieatli the angry waters—how many God [ only knew, lit Barr's bottom a low, narrow tract of land along the creek-the scene w as terrible, and here the destruction to life and property was greatest. Of more than twenty houses only four or 11 ve withstood the flood, the vest being swep dewn and wreeked Rgainst the Cincinnati pike bridge, a massive structure. At this point later on several bodies were recovered from the debris. At the Main-street bridge—two squares further — the terrible tide had fairly piled the debris of j tujned houses in an. awful mass, among which several dead bodies were found this! morning. Orrin Morris, wife and seven children lived in ft lilt If* frame house on Second street. It was raised from its moor ings and floated toward the bridge. Cries came from it. and a’ man was seen at a Window with a Tight. When it struck and mashed, partly sinking, the light went out and all was still* Mr. Morris and his family bad mot their awful fate. From the shore there was no way to reach it hem, and 1 here was no wav for them to escape. Afterward two of his little girls were rescued alive, Cl nging to debris down the creek, but the father and mother and live children were lost. From ton o’clock until daylight such scenes • s here described were witnessed, and when morning came eight bodies had been recov ered. By this time the waters had subsided, snd the work of taking out the bodies of the dead began in earnest. In the course of two ■ours twenty-one had been recovered, and at this hour we hear of four more being found some ndles down the stream, where it joins the Little Miami river, and there are still some eight or ten missing. The greatest cause of the destruction of life and property in Xenia was a small culvert, w here the little stream passed under a high embankment of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St boni“ railroad in the east end of town. The culvert would not allow the vast amount of water, that ivas falling to pass through, and it gathered in a vast lake 'agftinst the embankment, which suddenly gave way, and let rite water into the town like an avulanche, running in waves *eti and twenty feet high. Two more bodies bave been found, ant? the total loss of life will not full below thirty souls. The radroads in all directions are so washed out that travel will not be resumed for sev eral days, and the town is full of travelers anxious to get out. While George Thompson was trying to get his mother and grandmother, Mrs. Dr. Crum, across Water street, through the stream, they eanu near being swept away bv Uiecur-. rent. George, w-hile holding tip Mrs. Crum, fell, but soon recovered, himself, and man aged to get them all out. George Witnter had a miraculous escape. He was attempting-to, cross tb«“ Snriugfleid bridge when tne bank gave way under him and he was hurled dow'tt into the rsging wa ters of the Shawnee. He wit* swept down be low the Cincinnati pike, where he managed to catch onto a tree and climbed to a place of Safes-. He ca n,.d to a passei -by and told him se was an Xenian. but would not give his name uutll he was rescued for fear word would reach his parents. Harry Arnold made a narrow escape lrotn Crowning. He had been working at the toene of destruction this side of the depot, and knowing that hfs father’r family would be uneasy started to bross the bridge on tbe bpriiigtielu tfack to go and tell them he wus snip. As he ste pea oh the bank it caved in with him, and he fell into the raging tor* rent beneath. His long rubber coat was ,£o wrapped around him that it was almost impossible to help himself. He crowded against the side wall, and with al most superhuman effort managed togetbff Ins coat. He called for help and some one to bring him a’rope. But before he got a rope "emm ~ne came to his rescue, and he threw up ms coat, which just reached to the top of the bvQl< By that meanS lie was drawn out of his unpleasant quarters. Harry says he 'bought his last hour had come, sure. I lie list of the dead 1s as follows: Mrs. Nellie Anderson and sister, Lydia Casey (colored), both Widows past sixty years of age; lived in burr s Bottoms. Mrs. Samuel Corchoran and two sons, aged about twelve and twenty-five years, widow and sons of the late Samuel Corchoran, better known as “Sam Patch;’’ lived just across the creek, on King street, in the bottoms near the depot. Mat Evans (colored), day laborer, wife and child, lived on the creek just west of White man street. The child is missing. Orrin Mor ris. white, laborer, wife and five Children, three girls and two boys, the oldest a girl fifteen years of age, and the youngest a babe of ten months, lived on West Second street, near the creek. Stephen Donton, colored, la borer, lived in Barr’s Bottoms. William Powell, cart driver for Sam Clark, wife and six or eight children, lived on De troit street, between the north and south forks of Shawnee. One child escaped from the house, as did Henry Rrnzelton, son-in law. Powell and two children were found this morning, the rest missing. Lewis Ander son and wife, colored, lived in Barr s Bot toms: Mr. Anderson is missing. Mrs. lid Lindsay, lived on the foot of the creek, near the depot; Mr, Powell and two children. The incidents of an exciting nature are almost beyi nd description. A lineman was standing on an embankment, and before he could realize his danger he was in the flood and swept a mile by the raging waters. A telegraph operator got into the water, and after floating some distance he caught onto a tree. A house came down in the flood and S ink the tree he was perched on. He climed on the house and started down with the cur rent until he came across another tree. lie clinched It, und remained thereuntil he was rescued several hours later. M. E. J. Smith, of Pittsburgh, worked no bly all night assisting the Buttering. A lady went into a house to help another, and soon advised the woman to leave. She refused, and the lady who was there to help rushed, out and was caught in the deluge. Mr. Smith caught her, and, after she was nulled ashore, she vhs nearly dead from exhaustion. He drew a flask from his pocket and poured a good, stiff slug of whisky down her throat, thereby bringing her to and saving her life. A man’s wife called to her husband that she thought waler wus running into the cellar o£ their hou e. The husband lighted a lanui and started to go down to the cellar, but in an instant the water was up to his chin in the room where he and his wife had been sleeping. When it was learned that the gasworks had been disabled.and rendered useless andthq elect tie wires were down, Ihe citizen.- gath ered wood and started bonfires to enable them to see how to carry ou the work of res cuing the sufferers. Joe Walton is one of the unheralded heroes wh o risked his life more than once by taking a boat and r> sou;tig people. He took the Fer guson family of nine people out of the waters, and landed them safely on the shore, immediately after which their house tumbled ! to pieces as though it were a shell. Hamilton, 0., May 13.—The wind and thun der storm which passed over Butler County Wednesday night cut off Hamilton from all telegraph, telephone, railroad and mail communication with the outside world except Cincinnati Reports from the surrounding country come in slowly and are very meager. Four barns were struck by lightning, and the buildings and contents were lost. Several bridges in this vicinity were carried away. Two rail road bridges on the C„ R. & C. and two I bridges on the C., 11. & I). were carried away, i No trains are running on the C., R. & 0. orC., HAI). The loss to grain, trees houses, etc., j in Butler County is very heavy. In this city' the Schwab brewery and Kahn ! stove foundry were submerged. The Meth odist church and public school at Seven j Mile were badly wrecked. Throughout the I oouittry th 're are reports of houses un roofed. The barn of Isaac Dick at I Millville was destroyed by fire, to < gether with alt the implements and con sents. It was the finest barn in the county; i insured fors2,KM. The barn and contents of ! Samuel Dalzell, in the western part of the j county, were also struck by lightning and de- I stroyed: loss unknown. A number of flue groves have been laid waste, and small losses I innumerable go to make up an aggregate j that will fall not far short of SIOO,OOO. Dayton. 0., May 13.—At 8:20 last night a sharp thunder storm eante up, and rain al most immediately fell in torrents, alternated with bail, the hailstones ranging in size from a hazel-nut to an almond, and were gath ered in as great curiosities. Reports cßine in gradually of disasters near the center of town and matters grew serious, but about lfo’clock tbe message cam to the center of news that W olf creek levee, which protects Miami City tor West Daytont, had broken, and Kemp few n, as it is called, being the lower part of Miami < 'ity, was swept away. People hurried to the scene only to find that the dis -1 aster was more man was told. Some six hundred feet of the levee had been broken by the sudden torrent which came rushing down Wolf creek, and 150 acres of that part of the city were e vered with water. In Kemptown terrible distress occurred. A score or more houses with their sleeping oc cupants were swept away from their founda tions and overturned, or lodged against walls, or carried into the Miami and borne away, no one knows where. That portion of the city was aroused, and th entire male population that dare et age In the business, were gioping meir way through the flooded district carrying out the distressed and shrieking women and children to places of safety. It was In vain to telephone for aid to the east side of the Miami, lor it was apparently impossible, and at least high ly dangerou3*to attempt to reach the scene with horses and carriages. There was not much to do but wait for dawn. To add to the distress tho electric light works were flooded, and all portions ot the city, lighted by electricity, inelud’ii- Kemptown. were in total darkness. Flashes of lightning afforded the only light for the : distressed and rescuers. To-day thou sands of people ar visiting the spot and ! wonder that anv of the unfortunates escaped alive. In almost all the houses in that part of town the water rose to the height of a bed or even a table In one beautiful little one story cottage, a man. and wife lay asleep. Awakened by the rush of water and the shrieks of neighbors, the husband rose to find himself and wife in a floating house and no means of escape. Tho water rose higher every minute, and the only way to air and safety was through the roof. With a p€*n-kn*t‘s* hr cut tho ceil- I lng 'above him, while standing on his floating ' bed. Through a hole in the ceiling be clara ! bered into the attic and drew his wife alter l him. Then he cut his way to the roof, and ! there the coup,.) sat in the driving storm mi il da light brought r '.'et. being powei h -s to do anything but pray The house was caught by a wall about two blocks from its Inunda tion, or it would undoubtedly have been cur i riedtothe Miami and lost. It is the chiet I point of curiosity today. Aibany 0., May 13.—a tornado parsed through Columbia' Township. Meigs County, about five m 'i*i from Uii* place, lart night, i carrying death and <l*-' • Don with it. Mrs, V •rgarytt* McC’.ot is agud, was instantly kill d:, a - her - nephew, i lfatli man Me< oman. up-u twiny-one Lizz*“ MeOonma aas se)> u, *f Injured. Ijiit will probably reoovqr The bouse in wh eh tV»« m.j. VYvyYfcgiea wer** kiiicU eiiUrofy de molWfCd and -r> nrerert Ibto kindling-wood \ stone luantebpii < e weighing nearly two hundred pounds*. w*. earned tv distance of fifty yards ¥WeVv*hoju goods were* ar rlcd f H'-tjrWii'nTl/thso miles. Many Woust"' fL*"itghoir* the county were wrecked or psrt.iS 'lt f»* Lepw . X ’Of'-Mny 1 ;! -The storm e htvw iiu” from Hid southwest in mad tury. tsy “nt- will tiff'lloL». V' iViltv some off wo rooting others and till.ug the air with au in- TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA.. FRIDAY, MAY 21. 1886. describable mass of flying folinge, awningik bricks and roofs of houses with a crash and wild rushing noise that was most ap palling. The first building struck was the old Lebanon tannery, on Main street, tbe roof of which was torn off and scattered It jumped next to the Lebanon House, three squares to the northwest, tearing off the tin roof, which lies in a huge ball on Broadway. From this point it went down Broadway blowing down beautiful shade trees on both sides ol the street, and unroofing many libuSes oh the east side. When it reacte d Davis & Greely’s mill it jumped down in the bol’ow by the reservoir and struck a frame dwelling, completely levelingtt to the ground* The house was occupied by two colored fami lies, consisting of four grown persons, two young men and two little children. Strange to say, every one escaped, the two young men, Ed. Grimes and Jim Johnson, being blown from the room upstairs, where they were asleep, a distance of more thun a hun dred yards against the bank of the reser voir. The Union school-house and many other buildings in town were damaged. Cincinnati, May 13.—The storm reached Cincinnati about 10 o’clock, and was violent, consisting of rain, wind and hail. The rain fell in torrents, and the streets were deluged with water. There was less of hail than in the morning, but it fell with great force. The damage, however, is incon siderable. The suburbs report slight damage. Reports come of damages by the storm from Middletown, Piqua, Wilmington, Washington, C. H.. Albany. Greenville, Mari etta, Lancaster and other Ohio points. I.ATEIt FROM THE STORM. Xenia, 0., May 14.—T0-day the work of clearing away the debris of the Wednesday night flood has progressed with considerable effect. Large gangs of men are at work in the stream, cleaning out the lumber, household goods, etc., with which it is filled, working waist-deep in the muddy water. The remains of the destroyed houses are being carted back to the lots from whence they came, and where houses were not swept from their foundations, but only flooded, the people have been busy shoveling out the mud and sand that cover the carpets a foot deep. On East Water street several dwellings containing tine fur niture were flooded badly, the rich carpets and costly household goods being utterly ruined, silverware floated away, flue stoves demolished and elegantly papered walls ruined. Many of the residents of the flooded part of the city arc making arrangements to move to higher parts of the city as soon as possible. The homeless who are without friends or rela tives here, and who are principally colored people, are being taken care of at the skat ing rink. where the committees are at work distributing food and clothing, large quanti ties of which have been handed in by kindly disposed people. The word from the country is growi ig worse all the time. Houses on nearly all the roads leading to tbe town have sutfered severe damage, and many houses and barnsihave been utterly destroyed. On the road leading to the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home, the houses are all damaged, the plank walks a thing of the past, and the timbers block up the road badly and have damaged the bridges. The oflice of the Xenia Manufac turing Company lies against the railroad bridge on the road to the Home, as well a* great masses of timbers, planks. The bridges all over the county, with few exceptions, are gone, and great holes washed in the road beds. Houses, fences and trees, on the Cooley farm (Goe’s Station), occupied by John P. Lesourd, late of the Cincinnati horse mar kets, were swept entirely away. The family escaped by being in the cellar. The orchard on this place yielded an income of about S7OO a year. Near this place the mills of the Miami Powder Company are located, and they are damaged badly, materials ruined and houses floated away. The loss will be very heavy. The fences 1 etween Yellow Springs and Clifton are about all gone, and most of the orchards, barns and out buildings destroyed and houses unroofed. At Beaverstown, several miles west of Xenia, the United Presbyterian Church was destroyed, and the usual number of barns, fences, etc., as well as a number of valuable horses killed, which was also the case in many places east of town. The damage to cornfields was such that they will all have to be replanted. Morris, who with his wife and five children was drowned, was warned by a neighbor in time to have escaped with his family, but laughed at the idea of danger. But a few moments afterwards they were all in watery gravgs. Dayton. 0., May 14.—The losses by the storms and floods of Wednesday night in the nine counties ot Greene, Clarke, Madison, Miami, Darke, Preble, Montgomery, Butler ana Warren are estimated to foot up $10,000,- 000. Edw. Morehouse, a Narrow-guage conduc tor. anxious about his mother, who lives in Xenia, walked from here there to-day anil back again, because b rca on of the fallen timber, debris and wreckage, no one can even ride horseback, and the streams are swollen and the bridges are gone. At Trebeln station, while being ferried aeressthe Little Miami river, lie and the oarsrnau discovered a living boy child in a drifted tree top, and rescued the child, who had an arm and leg hrokeu. He had drifted four miles down Shawnee creek from Xenia into the Little Miami. Hurriedly they started in a buggy with the child, but it died before they got to Xenia. Many incidents of the disaster are related now. In the angle formed by the railroad and Detroit street the house of the Stoker family tottered dangerously, and lusty calls drew the crowd around it. Planks would not reach, but soon a ladder was brought from the wrecked fire truck and the family rescued. Scarcely had the last member landed safely when the house turned over, and a moment after went to pieces. The crowd looked at it in astonishment, and a stampede followed the crashing of a portion of Brad ley’s flax mill which stood nearby. In Bar’s Bottom, a stretch of lowland north of the railroad, was a scene of terriblt de struction. Of the fifteen or twenty houses that occupied the flat, only two or three could be seen, the rest having gone with the tide. Here a man dashed into the water, reached a floating house just as it turned over, but, nothing daunted, he crept in and came out with a babe. A sudden crash sent the house in nieces and he struck for the shor* with his precious burden when he disappeared be neath a mass of debris. Wbe he reappeared be was hurling through theejlvert and called out, “1 have lost th baby; catch it; it is right down there; I can’t reach it.” A few rods be low he reacht d land, bur the baby was not found until next day. It was dead. Six others went down in this bottom, three in the same house that the baby was taken from. .As terrible as the scene was along Detroit and Water streets and Bar’s Bottom, the mad sweep of Ihe waters was worse below. West Shawnee had caved out the railroad bank, and the leaping waters vied with East Shawnee in the work of destrueti n. Nearly two hundred homes were overturned and de molished west ot the railroad, and the cur rent quickly covered i ( s track of devas tation by sweeping evety trace of the buildings and covering the foundations with sediment. Several hundred yards below ii eh <>f the debris was stopped by the M itn -toot bridge, and an indication of the de-tru -tion is given by the piled-up mass. At this bridge most of the live- were lost. Those who were able to hang to a plr.uk. or the house that remained fir and supported its inmates to this point, went to pieces here, and iliev were either dashed to pieces or relentlessly held under to drown; or, it they were spared thjs terri ble fate by sut nb.ng sooner, they were buried under the debris.' At this place lodged the house of Orrin Morris, wife a,.d seven children. The house came for '.wo squares with terrible rapidity on *o ts fate, anil just before the crash came, Morris appeared nt the window w-ith a lii^'D *. The crash iiu balanced him. au.l as the nouse turned and twirteU'- snd all life d ssppeared, and the house wont to pieces, the family of nine went down Next i.ir seven were found dead an l t*o appeared al'e. Ono. « |epiid of 8, bed been washed a: here a few rdf’s bdlow; the oilier, a lad of made a gHilant swim of a Bril pod aught die abutment of the last •bridge, tie «mti he could not And a piece of timber to catch hold ol so he smana for thff shore. All XT 11 CONUUESS. First Session, Washington, May 12.—Senate.—A concur rent resolution was presented by Mr. Mitchell of Oregon, for a modification of the Chinese treaty. Consideration of the Inter-State com merce bill was resumed, and a number of amendments proposed and rejected, one by Mr. Edmunds was adopted restoring to the long and short haul clause the words struck out by Mr. Camden's amendment. The bill was then passed—yeas 47, nays 4. Those voting in the negative were Messrs. Brown, Colquitt, Morgan and Ran som. The bankruptcy hill gave way to the pension bill, which remains the unfinished business for 2 o’clock to-morrow. At 6:47 p. m. the Senate adjourned. House —An invitation from the Grand Army of the Republic to attend Decoration Day ceremonies at Arlington wns referred; also, an invitat on from the Fifth Army Corps of the Army of the Potomac to visit the battle-grounds of South Mountain and Antietam oh the 17th and lHth inst. A bill was reported from the Judiciary Committee extending tbe jurisdiction of the court of claims-over claims for the use of patents and patented inventions by the United States; also a bill to simplify the plead ings and procedure in criminal case,s in the Courts of the United States and the Dist ict of Columbia. The joint resolution providing an indemnity to certain Chinese for losses sustained in Wyoming Territory was called up and debated until the morning hour expired. The army appropriation bill was de bated and finally passed. Attention being called to the absence in the record of the word “arch,” in the language of Mr. Wheeler yes terday characterizing F,. M Stanton as an “arch-conspirator.” the House ordered a cor rection to be made. Mr. Wheeler admitted he had -truck the word out because it had stirred up some feeling. The consular and diplomatic bill was taken up. A motion to reduce the increased appropriation for a steam launch at Constantinople from SI,BOO to SI,OOO was lost—yeas 58, nays 87. Mr. Morri son, who made the motion, said he would not raise the point of no quorum. Pending further discussion the House adjourned, 5 p. m. Washington, May 13. - Senate.— Bills on the calendar were taken up in regular order and a number passed. The tir-t annual re port of the Commissioner of tbe Labor Bu reau was received from the Secretary of the Interior. The bill to give military tele graphers in i lie late war a certificate ot hon orable discharge and rank was recommitted to the Military Committee. Blair’s general service pension bill was called up and de bited by Messrs. Blair, Berry and Logan, Senator Vest having tbe floor for to-morrow. House.—A resolution was adopted calling upou the President for information in regard to seizure of the Adams in Canadian waters. Debate on the < hinesa indemnity joint resolu tion was resumed. The morning hour ex pired before a vote could betaken and the measure wa- relegated to its place ott the calendar. The diplomatic and consular ap propria ion hill was taken up aiul missed. The bill to create u Department of Agriculture was then taken up and considered. Pending further discussion the House adjourned. Washington, May 14.— Senate.— A petition was presented from lowa for the abolition ot “the American House of Lords.” -Mr. Frye’s bill was favorably reported, limiting the prtvi egos of foreign vessels in the ports of the United States to the privileges accorded American vessels in foreign ports. Mr. Hoar's resolution was agreed to. requ ring that the committee, when reporting the river and harbor bill, to state the tacts that show the national imp rtance of the sev eral pieces ot work, and why each item of appropriation Is advisable. At 2 o’clock the Senate took up the Mexican pension bill. After considerable debate without action the Senate went into executive session, and alter an hour and a half were opened, and the Senate adjnur^n. Hot si:. The t<fflfl!ri up the bill mak• ng't lu JDcpart ment of executive department, and spent the day on the private calendar. Washington, May 15.— Senate.— No ses sion. _ House.. The House passed the bill estab tishin a sub-treasury at Louisville. The dis cussion over this bill led into a prolonged de bate upon the silver question. The House then discussed Mr. Holman's bill for a com mission to visit the Indian Territory, and the evening was devoted to eulogies upon the late Michf*3 Hahn, of Louisiana Washington. May 17.—Sun \te.— The Ship ping was passed, with the Fay bill as an amentjlient. This latter limits the privileges accord#! to foreign,vessels in our ports to the privileges given our ships in foreign •ports. The Pension lull was debated as the regular order, but was not presented at the executive session. Mrs. Thompson was con firmed a- postmaster at Louisville. House. —Numerous bills were introduced in the House under the call of States. The urgent deficiency bill was pa-sed. The rules were suspended, and the ">tli and sth of June were sit apart for the consideration of measures from the Pacific Railroad Commit tee A Senate bill providing for the study in public schools of the Territories and the District of Columbia of the effects ot alco holic drinks and narcotics was passed. Washington. May 18. —Senate.—The Senate worked on the calendar until "o’clock, when Senator Coke spoke at length on the labor nr bP ration bill. The pension bill was Jhe regu lar order. Rouse —The House devoted the-day tt> the ocean subsidy Clause ot the post-office bill. Foreign Notes. Count Herbert Bismarck has been ap pointed Secretary of State for Foreign Af fairs. The Orangemen of Lurgaii, County Ar magh, Ireland, ere enrolling themselves in military association organized for the put pose of resisting home rule government. It is stated that in tbe event of an Ulster rebellion, a Loyalist expedition will be ready to march oil Dublin, leaving strong garrisons iti Ulster and an army of observa tion on tbe Shannon. The O’Donoghite has abated tbe rents of his Gleutlesk estates in jJonuty Kerry fifty per cent A farmer named Qu'gley, of Knoc.k jaiues, neat Tulia, County Uiare, Ireland, was shot while sitting at bis fireside. He had recently taken a boycotted grazing farm. Sir Thomas Krskine May, who was re cently elevated to tbe peerage with the title of Baron Farnborough, is dead. Twom'inning mills in Lara,County Mon aghan. Ireland, have been closed owing to depression i‘ business. One thou-apd per sons have been thrown out of employ ment. Mme. Bouctcault has donated *30.000t0 the Pastern Institute. The Pi pe has consented co be godfather of Queen Christina's child. M. Pasteur will receive a diploma of honor from the Soeiete San veleurs de La Seine on May 30. The British yacht Galatea, which is to eomoete in the races tit American waters for the American cup. has started on her voyage io New York The Chinese Government is opposed to curtailing the power o. the Pope’s nominee for Nine to at Pekin, and rlo*s not desire the French Government to have exclusive control o' all missions in China. A FOOLISH OLD FARMER. How He Went Round With Thousand of Dollars in His Hand, Trying to buy a Wife. Hartford, Conn., May 18.—Last fall Chauncey B. Winship, a bard listed old farmer of Wethersfield, lost his wife. He is seventy-six years of age, but within a week after his wife’s death, lie began to look for a second wife. He had real estate valued at $5,000 and SIO,OOO in bank, and hoped to buy a woman of some sort. He first wrote an advertisement for a wife, but it appeared as one for a housekeeper. Twenty-five women answered at once. He ranged them in a room and made the cir cuit with a roll of Hills. $2,000, in his hand, and stoppiing in front of each, said: “I’ll give you this to marry me, to marry me right now.” All refused, most of them never having seen him before. He kept up a hot hunt for a wife for about a month, proposing to over forty women from six teen to sixty-sev.en years of age His offer was $2 000 to each, and he raised it to meet the appearance of each, going as high as SIO,OOO. At. length he married Mrs. Pnenm danee, giving her $6,000 cash, and trans ferring propertv valued at $5,000 without consideration. ’The children then filed a petition for a conservator. Most of the women were in court to-day and a crowd of Weafhersfield farmers. It was shown that since the petition was filed Winship had threatened to start for New York and jump overboard on the way; that he had nought laudanum and got the bottle to his lips: that he had threatened to kill his sons who live on the place, and had assaulted Charles, threatening to brain him with a spade. The Attorney for Winship confined his efforts to showing that Winship knew enough to begin planting his farm this spring. The ease for the petitioners was rested at 4 : if) p. in., and at 5 the court ad journed to Wednesday. AN ANARCHIST’S STORY. Twenty Bombs Prepared for Use at the Chicago Meeting, But Only One Thrown. Cleveland, 0., May 18.— A sensational tale was spun by William Weber to-day. Weber formerly lived here, hut is now a resident of Chicago. He is an Anarchist, and is here to collect funds for the relief of wounded rioters in Chicago. Said be: “After the trouble at McCormick’s works on Monday afternoon, a special meeting of our club was called. Spies called the meeting to order, and a committee con sisting of Parsons and two others, was appointed to draw up a, manifesto. This was the one headed, ‘Revenge I Workingmen to arms!’ The advisabili ty of using dynamite if the police inter fered with any other meetings was dis cussed, and it was decided that twenty bombs should be prepared for the next Tuesday. Five hundred ballots were dis tributed, twenty of which contained a skull and cross-bones.’* 1 know that tbe twenty men received their bombs. ‘To arms V was the signal for tbe throwing of the bombs. The meeting was almost through, Tuesday night, when the police ordered the Anarchists to disperse, and it is presumed that the other nineteen men had started for home, or were injured by the discharge ftf the police revolvers, which immediately followed the throwing of tho first bomb.” DYNAMITE IN ONTARIO. Outrages Perpetrated Because of Enforc ing the Liquor Law. Orangeville, Ont., May 18.—Two more dynamite explosions occurred here last night—one at the office another at the residence of Police Magistrate Monroe. The office was completely wrecked and adjoining property was somewhat dam aged. The house was badly damaged, but fortunately no lives were lost. The indig nation of the citizens is very great, as this is the third and most destructive explosion since the initiation of tho Scott act. Tho cause of the outrageis the action of Magis trate Monroe in strictly enforcing the tem perance law. Although large rewards have been offered for information regard ing the perpetration of the first two explo sions, no one has been arrested in connec tion w itb the crime. Siaitment by Hugh M. Brooks. Hr. Lons, May 18.—Hugh M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, whose trial was begun to day for the. murder of C. Arthur Preller, at the Southern Hotel, this city, April 5, IHS5 f makes a partial confession, which fore shadows It is line of defense which will ba upon the “murderer by imprudence” the ory. He makes a statement that he ad ministered chloroform to Preller in order to perform a surgical operation, and that his patient died ou his hands. Horrified at the result he went on a spree and became crazed with drink. The prisoner, however, is unable to account for the loss of the dead mail’s moustache and the word. “Traitor.” Terriblafeoiler Explosion. Kitt.an May 18.—One of the boilers at the rolling-mill exploded with terrific force at about 1 o’clock this morn ing, shaking nearly all of the buildings in the town and awakening the residents, who rushed from their houses in terror, many of them not waiting to dress them selves. Instinct took them to the mill, and when they reached there they found the boiler-house in ruins. It is rumored that six tramps were buried beneat h the debris. Sol Wallace, on duty at'the time, was severely burned.but will likely recover. On the Trail of the Morris Robbers. Joliet, 111., May 18. — It is considered certain that the men who robbed the ex press company on the Rock Island railroad, some time ago, and murdered Kellogg Nichols, tbe messenger, will soon be in custody. The fugitives have been located in a small village not far from here, and have been fully by Orrin A. Euston. a farmer living in Kendall County, a few miles from. Morris, where they took bn akfa-t on the {Sunday after the crimej was committed. - -♦ ♦- Guiteau’s Counsel Comes to Grief. Nfw York, May 18.— Charles H. Reed, formerly attorney for the State in Chicago and subsequently chief counsel for Charles J. Gniteau. the assassin of President Otr field, w as arrested here to-day and to-night occupies a col in Ludiow-street jail n d«t fault ot hail, charged by Campbell & Col with the embezzlement of $1,700. No fur ther facts are obtainable to-night. , Textile Manufacturers Combine. Philadelphia. May 18. — An association of textile manufacturers, repuesenting $150,000,000 capital, has iu this city. The object is a combination of inter ests regarding labor. V()E III.—NO. 13. SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANtNGS. CtJtRENCE KF.iFßu.a convict employed in a coal shaft at Birmingham, Ala., escaped by climbing a wirev'able one and one-half inches in diameter and 204 feet long, ex tending from the bottom of the shaft to tbe ground. A Baltimore housewife found a living frog in a bottle of chow chow the other day. He was too big to get out through the neck of the bottle and ruusj; have grown considerably during his confinement in his air-tight prison. This story i» vouched for by a Baltimore newspaper. David Bell, of Palleter’s Mills, N. C., found a very small pearl in an oyster seven years ago. He wrapped it in a paper and laid it in a trunk, and the New Berne Jour nal saysJhat it has grown from the size of a BB shot to the size of a small marble. During the. seven years it has not been wet. % At Salisbury, N. C., Franklin Gaston, a colored man convicted of criminal assault upon a lady, has been sentenced to be hanged on the 2d of July. Hon. I). T. Patterson, son-in-law of «*• President Johnson, and an ex-U. S. Sen* ator, has been appointed postmaster at Home, Green County, Tenn., with a salary of $l4O a year. R' Jas. Cartwright, who has been crazy on the subject of religion for some days, shot and killed his friend Bud Johnson, Wood' berry, Ga.. a few days since. He declared that he was commanded by God to do the deed. He is in jail at Greenville. Chari.es Lataei., a shoemaker, killed John Kelb, a saddle-maker, by stabbing him through the heart, at Brandonville, W. Va. The cause of the fray is not known- A non.eh explosion on the MeCrurrt farm, where C. L>. Robbins is drilling for gas, three miles from Wheeling, W. Va., blew John Rarr 13T» feet, killing him. He leaves a wife and four children. Mrs. Marr Hears, of Walton County, Ga., has a rolling pin which has been in constant use for 170 years. It is as good a* new'. Roxifi Cox, of South Carolina, eloped with her lover, Goldsmith Long, and was married in a graveyard. Miss Roxie onght to sing, “I want but little here below, but want that little Long." A Georgia man, who has just died at ninety-seven, could lift a barrel contain ing thirty gallons of whisky and drink from the bung-hole, and handle a 450- pound bale of cotton as if it were a baby. A can of dynamite exploded at a quarry near Strawberry Plains. Tenn., fatally in juring two laborers, Lafayette Smith and Wesley Moulden. Atlanta, Ua., is the third largest snuff market in the world. Lomloi^comes first, New York next and Atlanta third. Loril lard sold 308,000 pounds of snuff in that city last year, and other makers about 150,000 pounds. One house there sold 06,000 pounds. In Macon Lorillard sold 175,000 pounds. A young lady, whose home was destroyed bv fire' during the visit of Sherman’s army to Columbia. S. C., took a survey of the ruins a day or two after the conflagration in hope of finding some little relic to re mind her of the trials through which she had passed. She searched for a long time in vain among the smoldering debris. At last her eyes fell upon a small piece of pa per, which she picked up. It proved to be a remnant of John Howard Payne’s song of ‘‘Home, Sweet Home,’’ and the only • words untouched by the flames were "There is no place like home." August K. Kiuchenstien, postmaster at Lavender Hill, Baltimore County, Md., was arrested a few days ago and held in $2,500 bail. Special Agent Henderson, of the post-office department, states that Kilcben stein has been guilty of various irregular ities in the past three or four years, and that his accounts are about $2,700 out of the wav.' A little child of James Barker, seven miles from Chattanooga, Tenn., was left tied in its chair before the fireplace while the mother went out to t*lk with her hus band, who was working at the woodpile. While there Mrs. Barker heard something fall in the house and said: “Did the baby fail?" They did not hear the child cry, and overlooked the matter. When tjje mother returned she was horrified to find the child overturned and its head all aflame as it lay tied to the Chair, and its face buried in the coals. The child was actually burning alive. Its hands and face were blackened and charred, and it lived only a short time after it was extricated from the flames. The sight was heartrending, and the mother is wild with grief. A dog belonging to Mr. A. J. Hall, a farmer living near Cabott, near Little Rock, Ark., went mad recently, and among the animals which it wounded in its wan derings about the farm was a milk cow. The cow showed no si gas of being affected by the wound, and it was thought that hy drophobia would not result. The otjier day, however, the aninWf ‘ Wfcttu'sßowiHg the symptoms of Lhivskeaded disease,' -and at the same time the farmer’s two little children, who half been nourished with the cow’s injjk, exhibited similar symptom*, and on the Uth weye.in a critical condition suffering the most' terrible agonies. The other of the family were also ill, but their syjnptoms axe not so alarming a£ those of th"e.children* and some hope is ex pressed tbal they may recover. The resid'emswof John Newhart, near Roekport, \V.. .was struck by lightning the other eTemnf ‘ The fluid rah down fhp chimney tbrohh’T* dne end of the Bottsdi tearing the entu<s-enii^out of the building. No one was hurt .in the dwelling. Henry and Wallace Newttfert.* sons iff ‘John N<*w hart. were close by tbs house .atthfl time, and were filled to the- ground by the shock. Both voting men wWc liarity* 'lnjured, and at iast accounts w*qa-iu acdangerous con ditla#- * *v; if A TERR'S lk hail storm occurred a few days ago in the noTtli-w-est part of Arkan sas The datttage In Kulton and adjacent 4> - great and the town of Salem was bad \"shbten up. No lives, so far as known, are lost. Cr »ps w r ere destroyed , and house> fences a u.f forests w ere leveled j t>v the wind, •