Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1884 — Page 2

tube UemocraticSentinc l RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. Mr. Van Wyck introduced a bill in the Senate, Dec. 15, to reduoe by one-half the freight rates on the Union and Central Pacific roads. Petitions were presented for a constitutional amendment granting suffrage to women, and to permit colonies of families to lay out villages on public lands. There was considerable discussion on Mr. Anthony's resolution concerning the proscription of American meats in Europe. Mr. Logan favored open retaliation; Messrs. Vest and Ingalls thought a thorough system of inspection by the Government would have a salutary effect, while Mr. McPherson explained the system of slaughtering.' American cattle at British ports. The report of the committee appointed in February, 1883, to examine the work of improvement along the M ssissippi river was presented to the Senate. The system in use between St. Paul and the mouth of the Illinois is commended as adequate, and should, according to the views of the committee, be pushed to completion. The committee recommend that suitable appropriations be made; that the right of the Government to mate ial found on blrs and islands be distinctly declared; that control be retained over reclaimed lands; and that persons interfering with the channel or any Government work be properly punished! In the House of Representatives, bills were reported for the retirement of Alfred Pleasanton as Major General, appropriating $1,000,000 to olose the gaps of the levees of the Mississippi, and to make all public roods and highways jwst routes. Mr. Townshend introduced a bill to authorize the President, during the recess of Coneress, to prohibit imports injurious to the public health, by way of retaliation. There was a spirited debate on the bill appropriating $1,000,000 to continue Mississippi river improvements. A bill restoring to the public domain the lands granted to the Iron Mountain railroad, because the route diverged from the contemplated line, was passed by the Senate Jan. 16. Mr. Miller introduced a bill to provide means to extirpate pleuro-pneumonia. During the consideration of the joint rules Mr. Frye charged that any person can walk into the Congressional restaurant and purchase whisky by the cup. An order was therefore passed excluding intoxicating liquors from the Capitol restaurant. At the executive session Col. Robert Murray was confirmed as Surgeon General. Mr. Iloar called up his bill providing lor the counting of the electoral vote, being the same as that passed bv the Senate of the Forty-seventh Congress. It was again passed without debate. In the House bills were introduced appropriating $1,000,(100 to improve the Erie canal and maintain it free to commerce, and to authorize the construction of a ship canal around Niagara Falla Resolutions were passed authorizing a bill to appropriate the sum necessary to pay claims for rebate on tobacco; calling lorareport of the earnings of each United States Marshal, Attorney, and Clerk for the past ten years, and permitting students from Guatemala and Nicaragua to receive instruction at West Point without expense to the Government. After a long discussion, the House and Senate bills appropriating $i, 000,000 for improvements on the Mississippi river were reported irom the committee of the whole. A memorial from William Pitt Kellogg, asking an investigation of the charges brought against him in connection with the Texas and Pacific land grant, was presented in the Senate Jan. 17. Petitions were presented for an appropriation of $500,000 to improve the entrance to Columbia river, and for the Appointment of a commi sion on the liquor traffic, bills were introduced to establish a board of interstate commerce and to secure reasonable rates of transportation over railroads aided by the Government. The executive session was devoted to the Mexican treaty. The House, by a vote of 215 to 64, passed the Senate bill appropriating $1,000,000 for continuing the improvement of the Mississippi. A communication was received tendering the Marine hospital at Erie to the Government for a home for soldiers and sailors. A bill was reported to grant a pension to the surviving grandchild of Thomas Jefferson. Secretary Folger reported to the Houso that within the past eighteen months the issue of gold certificates .was $107,000 000, and during three years the value of silver certificates put out was $119,740,000. The Senate received a message from the President, Jan. 18, recommending that a relief expedition be dispatched for the Greely party, and asking that immediate action be tajken in the matter. A bill waft favorably reported to carry out the supplemental treaty with China, by prohibiting the traffic in opium between the two countries. In executive session the Mexican treaty failed for lack of one vote. The Senate in executive session rejected the Mexican treaty. A motion was made to reoonsider, pending which the Senate adjourned until Monday, 21st. In the House, Mr. Bayne introduced a bill for a public building at Allegheny City. The remainder of the day was consumed in debate on the Fitz John Porter bill in committee of the whole. Msssrs. Slocum and Lyman spoke In favor of and Mr. Steele in opposition to the bill. The House of Representatives devoted its session on Jan. 19 to debate on the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter. Messrs. Slocum and McAdoo made speeches in favor of the measure, while Messrs. Cutcheon, Brown and lay lor opposed it. The feature of the debate was a remark made bv Gen. Slocum. He charged President Garfield with having introduced the claim, and ironically referred to the military wisdom of the members, which provoked hisses and great confusion. Mr. Cutcheon said Porter's action could be explained only by his hatred of Gen. Pope, and made the point that not even cowardice could be alleged . as an excuse for inaction. The Senate was not in session. ■

EASTERN.

Godfred Eistenberger, a guest in Carsten’s hotel, at Elizabeth, N. J., shot dead a waiter named Beuhler, who entered his room with a lighted candle. James Egan, ex-Speaker of the New Jersey House, has been sentenced to a month in the penitentiary and SSOO fine for attempting to bribe an Assemblyman at the last session of the Legislature. Edward Tappan, in prison at Hunter’s Point, L. 1., for the Townsend outrage, confessed that his brother, John B. Tappan, on the evening of Nov. 17 last, killed Mrs. and Anna Maybee by strangling them to death on the barn i.’oor, then assaulted Mr. Maybee and robbed the premises. Another appalling marine disaster is reported. The steamer City of Columbus, bound from Boston to Savannah, with eightytwo first-class and twenty-two steerage pas' sengers, was wrecked on-a ledge of rocks off the Island of Martha’s Vineyard, at a point thirty miles directly south of New Bedford, Mass. All the boats were swamped. Many pqfsons left the vessel in various descriptions of floating devices, but all lost their lives save seventeen. About 130 lives were lost. Three men were killed by an explosion in a dynamite factory at Allentown, Pa., and three small buildings were destroyed. By the explosion of a boiler in the shoe factory of E. Y. & E. Wallace, at Rochester, N. H., four men were killed and six injured. The engineer had weighted down the safety-valve with a brick. A portion of the boiler went through the base of a chimney ninety feet high, which toppled over upon the factory. Two persons were killed by a bursting boiler at Hunter’s Point, L. I. A special Treasury officer in New York seized a mail package from Amsterdam which contained diamonds valued at $20,000. The Arm of Williams & Guion, New York, has been dissolved because of the financial embarrassment of Wm. H. Oulon,

who made an assignment, and has liabilities approaching $2,000,000. Other members of the house, or the company itself, are not involved, and a new firm has been organized under the name of Guion & Co. It is stated that Wm. H. Guin has no assets.

WESTERN.

Amelia Olsen, an attractive young seamstress of Chicago, was the victim of an outrage by unknown persons, her corpse being found at a lonely spot on the prairie. She had evidently been strangled with a cord and conveyed to a snow-bank. Her money and Jewelry were left by the murders. A bronze statue of the late Oliver P. Morton, over eight fset in beight, for which $12,500 was raised by popular subscrip tlon, was formally unveiled at Indianapolis. After paying expenses and taxes, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad earned last year $8,216,859. Eight men were horribly scalded by the explosion of a boiler in a grist-mill at Columbia, Mo. John Elfers was hanged in Washington Territory. He killed a man who would not pay a pebt of 50 cents. Leroy Donovan, supposed to be a son of the Mormon Bishop John D. Lee, was hanged at Rawlins, Wyoming, for killing a barber of Rock Springs, named William Leighton. Thirty-nine Indian children, twentyseven of whom were girls, reached Milwaukee in charge of Father Malo. The boys will be placed in Eastern institutions and the females in the House of the Good Shepherd, at Milwaukee. Near Ouray, Col., Mike Cuddihie and his wife, who had been arrested for the murder of Rose Matthews, a little gifl whom they had recently taken from a home in Denver, were taken from tho officers by vigilants and hanged. The child's body was found covered with knife-wounds, a leg had been broken, her skull was crushed in, and her limbs had been frozen.

SOUTHERN.

At Weatherford, Tex., the west-bound Texas Pacific passenger train was wrecked by a broken rail. Thirty passengers were injured, some very seriously. A bill has gone through the Texas Senate to punish fence-cutting by imprisonment for two to five years. In a row at Dallas, Miss., one man was killed, two mortally hurt, and several others seriously injured. The first Jewish temple at Memphis, erected at a cost of $40,000, was dedicated. An elevated road, adapted both to passengers and freight, is to be constructed along the levee at New Orleans within two years.

WASHINGTON.

The annual report of the Agricultural Department at Washington puts tho corn crop of Illinois at 8,151,463 acres, yielding 203,786,600 bushels, being an averago of twenty-live bushels per acre. Illinois is the banner State, no other having as large an acreage or producing as many bushels. The next highest is lowa, which has 666,621 acres, though Kansas, tvlilch has 478,473 acres, has a larger number of bushels than lowa, her total being 172,800,000, against lowa's 169,639,000. Illinois has almost oneeighth of the total corn acreage of the entire country, and over one-eighth of the total yield, the yield running 23.10 bushels per acre, which is above the average. It is, however, a curious fact that the New England States have a higher number of bushels per acre than Illinois. The bill of Representative Townshend for the adopt.on of retaliatory measures against France and Germany was defeated in the House Committee on Commeroe. C. P. Huntington made his appearance at Washington before the House Committee on Public Lands, in behalf of the California and Oregon railroad, as the.representative of a company which always performed its contracts within the specified time, and argued against the forfeiture of the land grant. The Garfield Memorial church at Washington was dedicated last Sunday. The corner-stone of the new church was laid on tho first anniversary of the assassination of tho late President. The dedicatory sermon was preached by President Pendleton, of Bethany College. Ex-Gov. Bishop, of Ohio, also spoke. Piesident Arthur, Secretary Frelinghuysen, and several prominent public men were present. C. P. Huntington, before leaving Washington for New York, revealed to an interviewer some of the intentions of the Southern Pacific monopolists. He virtually threatens that if Congress forfeits tho old Texas Pacific land-grant he and his associates will, by protracted litigation, prevent the people from settling on the lands for the next twenty years, even if tho railroad does not, by Its peculiar methods, suocoed in securing a favorable decision. Huntington distinctly stated that thero is nothing in the recently published letters which he wants to take back or apologize for. Ho declares that he will not take any hand in the fight against the bills to regulate interstate commerce. The House Committee on Pacific Railroads has decided to report a bill compelling all subsidized lines to pay the cost of surveying and selecting lands given in aid of construction.

POLITICAL.

The Democratic members of the Texas Legislature, in session at Austin, were interviewed upon political topics. One-half of them were in ‘favor ot’Thurman for President, and nearly all expressed themselves in favor of a radical revision of the tariff. Senator-elect Payne, of Ohio, after receiving congratulations from a largo number of his party friends, gave a banquet in Columbus to about 200 members of the Legislature and State officials. He delivered a long speech, In which ho discussed the tariff, the civil service, and other political topics. Hon. F. W. Rockwell, Republican, has been elected to Congress from the Twelfth district of Massachusetts, to succeed Gov. Robinson. The lowa Republican State committee, at its meeting in Lies, Moines, decided to hold two State conventions. The first, to choose delegates to the National convention, will be held May 7. The Kansas Republican State Cen-

tral committee will meet at Topeka on Feb. 6 to call a State convention to select delegates to the National convention At Chicago. The Indiana Republican State Central committee has ordered the holding of a. convention in Indianapolis for nominating four delegates from the Btate at large to the - National convention, April 17 being fixed upon as the date. The State convention for the nomination of a ticket will be held at Indianapolis June 19. Judge E. K. Wilson has been elected United States Senator from Maryland, to succeed James B. Groome. Some of the Democratic members of the Appropriations Committee, says a Washington telegram, are opposed to voting money at this session for completing the new cruisers and the dispatch-boat now in course of construction. The reason alleged is that John Roach, who is doing the work, is likely to make extravagant charges for extras, which may be allowed by Secretary Chandler, who is said to be on too friendly terms with him. Speaker Carlisle was entertained by the Commonwealth olub, at Philadelphia. Congressmen Randall, Morrison, Curtin and many other prominent Democrats were present.

BUSINESS TROUBLES.

The commercial failures were neither so numerous nor heavy the past week as during the previous seven days. Following embrace the business collapses of note reported by telegraph: Neßbit & Co., cotton. Savannah, Ga... .$ 100,000 S. B. Beshore, groceries, Marion, Ind.. 9,0(4) J. 11. Yellman, hemp, Lexßgton, Ky... 30,000 • Duncan A. Grant, laces. New York 63,000 H. F. Burchard, fine stock, New York... 50,000 H. <fc B. Dessoir, furniture. New York.. 35,000 J. C. Hauge, boots and shoes, Aberdeen, Dakota 10,000 P. W. Gerhard, agricultural implements, Austin, Texas 20,000 Isaac & Samuel-, clothing, New York... 35,000 Bloch <fc Co., printers, Cincinnati 40,000 Thomas, Puryear & Docomb, hardware, Evansville, Ind 30,000 Kelly, Gilchrist & Co., hardware, San Francisco 90,000 Chas. Hudson, general store, Waunakee, Wls 10,000 Waterman <fc Co., grain, San Francisco. 1,000,000 Buckley <fe Co, dry goods, Utica, N. Y.. 200,000 Johnson Ac Austin, wool. New York.... 75,000 James Besland, dry g ods. New York.. 50,000 Hyde & Turcotte, fancy goods, Montreal 30,000 J. Bluhm, dry goods, Columbus. Miss.. 50,000 i Samuel Bitter, banker. Wapakoneta, Ohio 80,000 J-, E. Tepil, clothing, Lancaster, Ohio.. 10,000 J. Sell, general merchant, Farmerville, La 12,000 W. P. & A Parsons, builders. New York 637,000 E. W. Coleman & Co., grain brokers, Newtfork 300,000 J. M. Wilier it Co., grain brokers, New York 100,000 Henry, Cotten Ac Co., groceries, Peoria, 11l 50,000 Mis. Davis, millinery, Columbus,Ohio. 35,000 S. Hogan, jewelry, Cleveland Ohio 30,000

MISCELLANEOUS. There is a steady decrease in the number of whaling vessels sailing from Atlantic ports. The last year proved an unprofitable season. The Austrian Minister of Commerce has approved of a scheme for a monthly line of steamers between Trieste und New York. The Southern Pacific read has arranged for a direct line of steamers between Trieste and New Orleans. Mr. Robert Harris has been elected President of the Northern Pacfflc Railroad company. Mr. Harris has for some years been President of the New York, Lake Erie & Western railroad, and is a man of great capacity and energy. While the failures last week were more numerous than in any week since resumption commenced, they were almost wheHy confined to small truders. Sharp shocks of earthquake were felt last week at Contoeook, N. H., and Wilmington and Beaufort, N. C. An unsuccessful attempt was made by grave-robbers to steal the remains of the Right Rev. V. Whelan, late Bishop of the diocese of Wheeling, W. Va. Messrs. John and William Redmond, members of Mr. Parnell’s Parliamentary party, who have been in Australia foe nearly & year organizing Land leagues, are now on a speech-making tour through the United States. They repudiate the dynamite policy of the Irish extremists, and say that nearly all the people of Ireland have the greatest confidence in Mr. Parnell.

FOREIGN.

The unusual activity and arrival of stores at Woolwich arsenal gives rise to the belief that England intends to dispatch reenforcements to Egypt. At Newcastle, Mr. Chamberlain said the Government had determined to bestow upon Ireland the same rights and privileges enjoyed by England and Scotland. The police of Dublin refused to permit Mr. Biggar, M. P., to speak at a dinner given him by the Nationalists. “Chinese” Gordon is to be allowed to retain his commission in the British army, t otwlthstanding his departure for the Congo country in the service of the King of the Belgians. Egyptian insurgents have cut off the retreat of the garrisons in Sennaar, and, by sunken boats, have made the Nile impassable below Duen. Farmers plowed fifty acres of Parnell’s land. One hundred and sixty plow# were in use. Monsignor Cesare, a church dignitary at Rome, was murdered in bed and his room plundered. 1 The immigrants into the United States from the principal foreign countries during the past year numbered 560.196. The Chinese havo suspended the work of obstructing the Canton river, on account of a protest by the British Government. The King of Spain has accepted the resignation of the Ministry, and has called on Canovas del Castillo to form a new cabinet. It is officially announced that the Khedive of Egypt has not the slightest intention of resigning. The depressed state of the money market, owing to the Tonquin excitement, has caused several Chinese bankers to commit suicide. The police of St. Petersburg discovered a secret printing office, and arrested eighteen persons connected therewith. The retreat of the Egyptian troops and Europeans at Khartoum has been cut off, and Berbu is also beleaguered and massacres are imminent. Geo. Gordon goes to Khar*

toum with full power* to arrange a settlement. Miss Hogarth has taken measures to prevent the publication in England of Charles Dickens’ letters to his solicitor. Lord Lytton’s biography of his father finds little favor, on account of Its high price. The new Spanish ministry has been announced. Canovas del Castillo has been selected as President of the Council, who says that the programme cf the Government will be based on liberal lines, and that he will constantly endeavor to keep free from lntertemational politics.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Washington telegram: The House Committee on Public Lands have agreed to recommend the passage of a bill declaring the lands granted to the Texas Pacific u-ilroad forfeited for breach of the contract on which they were donated, restoring the lands to the public domain for sale and settlement, and protecting the rights of settlers. The report contains a scathing denunciation of the methods adopted by C. P. Huntington and his associates to secure their ends, and several of the celebrated letters to “Friend Colton ” are quoted by the committee to show how the Southern Pacific labored to prevent the Texas Pacific from securing the aid desired. Following are the week’s record of fires where a loss of SIO,OOO and upward wa3 entailed; Losses. Quarryville, Pa., tobacco warehouse $ 25,000 St. Paul, Minn., hide and fur store 75,000 Memphis, Tenn.,two stores 20,000 Green Bay, Wis., Klaus block 25,000 Savery, Kan., two hotels 30,000 Batavia, N. Y., harvester works ' 50,000 La Crosse, Wis., two stores 10,090 Neosho, Mo., eight business houses 60,000 Kenney, 111., hardware store 20,000 Fond du Lac, Wis., Empire Brewery 35,000 Clinton, Mass., soap factory 20,000 Providence, R. L, woolen mill 29,000 Pittsburgh, Pa., steamboat 20,000 Fayette, Mo., a block of scores 75,000 Eau Claire, Wis., clothing store 45,000 Suwanee, Fla., hotel 125,000 Las Vegas, N. M., h0te1.... 300,000 New York city, an office building 200,000 Canastota, N. Y., stores 75,000 Providence, R. L, bank building 100,000 Washington, Kansas, opera house 20,009 Lockport, N. Y., pap ;r-board mill 60,000 Newark, N. J., steel works 30,000 Junction City, Kansas, two stores 2'\ooo Portersville, Ind., flour mill 10,000 Toledo, 0., cornice works 10,000 Lelpsic, 0., twelve shops and stores 35,000 Lucknow, Ont., grist mill 12,000 Newburg, N. Y. woolen mill 60,000 Paducah, Ky., St. Charles hotel 30,000 Toronto, Canada, Presbyterian church .. 40,000 Chicago, Schneider’s candle factory 150,000 Memphis, Tenn., busimss block 45,000 Hot Springs, Ark., two stores 15,000 Cincinnati, a manufacturing block so,ooo Corfu, N. Y., canning factory..; 10,000 Low 11, Mich., twenty small stores 25,900 Minden, La., 1.150 bales of cotton 53,000 Racine, Wis., drug store 10,000 Minneola, Texas, thirteen stores 41,000 Clio, Mich., several storei 35,000 Elgin, 111., school building 15,000 St. Paul, Minn., Holt & Faar’s store 20,000 Jay Gould is said to contemplate another exhibition of the contents of his huge tin box, to allay public distrust as to his standing. It is believed to hold $30,000,000 in Western Union, $15,000,000 In Missouri Pacific, $20,C00,000 in Texas Pacific, apd a large amount of Wabash and Union Pacific. By a railway accident on the Wabash road near Macon, Mo,, six passengers were seriously injured. Highwaymen robbed the stage between Wickenberg and Prescott, Arizona, rifling the letters in the mail-pouohes. Some orange groves in the vicinity of Mobile were touched by frost, but no one will admit that his trees were killed. Several petitions were presented in the Senate, Jan. 21, asking an investigation of the divorce legislation of the respective States, and others praying for a law to give ex-prisoners of war the benefit of the public lands. In secret session a resolution to discuss the Mexican treaty with open doors was deteated. Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill to amend the act granting lauds to the Union and Central Pacific roads, and to secure to the United States the indebtedness of the companies, Mr. Morgan offert d a resolution, which was agreed to, that the Committee on Foreign Relations inquire into the subject of settlements in the valley of the Congo river, Africa, and report such action as is necessary in turtherance of our commerce. A bill was passed permitting retired army officers to hold civil office in the Territories. There was a lengthy debate on the bill to establish civil government in Alaska. The House suspended the rules and passed Mr. Holman’s resolutions declarln g that all forfeited laud grants should at once be taken by the Government; that all laws tending to dispose of public lands In blocks should be repealed and speculation suppressed; that all agricultural lands should be reserved for actual homesteaders; that the Committee on Public Lands should at once report bills covering the above sentiments and enacting them into laws, such measures to have precedence in debate over all save revenue and appropriation bills. The vote passing these resolutions was 251 to 18. The House also passed, under a suspension of the rules, a bill repealing the law prescribing the iron-clad oath. Mr. Davis introduced a bill to appropriate $50,000 forthe erection of a building in Chicago for the use of appraisers. Bills were introduced to make the fees of attorneys in pension cases $lO, and to authorize the extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio road to Fortress Monroe.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. BEEVES f. $5.00 @7.0") UOOH 5.50 & 0.25 I'T.ouit—Superfine 3.50 @ 6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Chicago 98 @ 1.00 No. 2 Red 1.03 @ 1.08 Corn—No. 2 61 @ .62^ Oats—No. 2. 39 @ .42 Pork—Mess 11.25 @14.75 Lard u 9 @ .09 Vt, CHICAGO. Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers.. 6.50 @7.25 Common to Pair. 6.25 @6.75 Medium to Fair 5.50 @ 6.25 EIOCIS 6.50 @ 6.25 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex 5.25 @5.75 Good to Choice Winter.. 5.00 @ 5.5 i Wheat—No. 2 Spring 90 @ .'.i<>!6 No. 2 Red Winter....... .96 @ .99 Corn—No. 2 52 @ .53 OArs—No. 2 32 @ .3216 LYE—iso. 2 56 & .57 * HALLEY—No 2 58 @ .50 P.uttEl.—Choico Creamery 33 @ .35 Egor—Fresh 26 @ .26 Port—Mess u.oo @14.50 Lard üßJi@ .ÜB% MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2, 87 @ .80 Corn—No. 2 52 @ .53 Oats—No. 2 :i2 @ .33 Rye—No. 2 55 @ .57 11ARI.EY—No 2 57 @ .58 Pore—Mess u. 25 @14.75 Lard 8.50 @ u.oo Si. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 >jd 1.02 @ 1.00 Corn—Mixed 47 @ .48 Oats—No. 2 33 @ .04 Rye ; 50 @ .54 Pork—Moss 14.n0 & 15.00 Lard 08'£i9 .08% CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Rod. 1.00. @ i.ni Corn 52 @ .53 Oats 32 @ .00 Rye 56 @ .58 1 Pork—Mess 14.50 @15.60 Lard usJAft .09 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Bed 90 @I.OO Corn—No 2 .51 @' .02 Oats-No. 2 33 & .34 DETROIT. Flour, 6.00 @ 6.75 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.0 l @'1.03 Corn—No. 2 52 @ .53 Oats—Mixed— 37 @ .38 Pork—Mess 15.25 @16.60 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 90 @ .98 Corn—No. 2 46 @ .47 Oats—.nixed 34 @ .35 EAST LIBERTY, PA. CATTTE—Best... (1.00 @ 7.00 Fair 5.50 @ 6.00 Common 5.00 @ 6.00 Hoos 6.00 <OS <1.75 Sheep 4.75 & 5.23

IN A SEA OF FLAMES.

yarning Oil Envelops s Train on a Pennsylvania Railroad. Three Persons Cremated, and Thirty Others Badly Injured. [Bradford (Pa.) Dispatch,} One of those disasters peculiar to the oil country shocked the people of Bradford today. An entire passenger train on the Bradford, Borwell and Kinzua Narrow-Gauge railroad was destroyed by fire. The train ran through a river of oil which had escaped from a burst tank on the steep hill and coursed down over thi snow and into the bed of the track, down which it ran for fully half a mile. The grade at that point, which was very steep, allowed this great leeway. The train consisted of an express car and passenger coach, both well filled with passengers. The engineer was not aware of the dangerous ground his train was traversing. The moment tho oil came in contact with the furnace of the engine it ignited and at once enveloped the" entire train in a mass of flame. The engineer, Patrick Sexton, applied the air-brake and reversed the engine. The halt was very brief. The track for over 600 feet ahead was a roaing sea of flame. Great clouds of dense black smoke ascended heavenward. The engineer opened wide the throttle, and away thundered the train through a sea of smoke, flame, and oil. The speed attained was terrible, and acted as a huge fan to the conflagration. The engineer saw a sharp curve ahead, and, quickly reversing his engine, with his fireman, Mike Walsh, jumped into the snowbank which lined both sides of the road. Both were terribly burned. The entire train was derailed and thrown down ah embankment. In the fire-hemmed coach the scene beggared description. Locked in and helpless in a furnace of fire, traveling at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, their anguish knew no bounds. Men of nerve lost their heads, women fell to the floor in a swoon, and the cries and lamentations of little children were heartrending. There was a dash through doors and windows and through the sweeping flames, which cooked the-flesh and singed the hair on the faces and heads of the imprisoned passengers. In the dash for liberty it was everybody for themselves, and men in their desperation jumped from the speeding train and fell prostrate to the ground, burned and mangled. So intense was the heat that one minute after the train entered the sea of fire every window was cracked. Two-thirds of the passengers jumped through the narrow windows, the inajorlty escaping with severe burns, while (the lucky few escaped without a scratch. Three persons, all of them women, were found burned to death, and about thirty more or less seriously Injured. Some of the injured will in all probability die. Several of the persons extricated from the wreck have their limbs charred so badly that they will have to be amputated.

GEN. SHERMAN.

Is He a Presidential Candidate? [Washington Special to Chicago Tribune.] There is considerable excitement among politicians here consequent upon a credited rumor that Senator John Sherman and exSpeaker Keifer had concluded an alliance to press Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman for the Republican Presidential nomination. Gen. Sherman Is on the ground,and, although never allied with Republican politics, has been taken down badly with the Presidential disease, in spite of previous protestations, that under no circumstances would he become a candidate. Rumor has it that overtures have already been made to ex-Senator Conkllng to favor Gen. Sherman’s nomjnation, and that Congressman Beli'ord was the embassador, but the latter statement is discredited. Congressman Belford did have certain conferences with ex-Senator Conkling, the supposed object of which tvas to effect a reconciliation between Conkling and President Arthur, in which mission he has not so far succeeded.

FINANCIAL LEGISLATION.

John Sherman’s Currency Bill. At the meeting of the Senate Finance Committee, says a Washington dispatch, Mr. Sherman proposed an important amendment to his own bill, designed to meet the objection that the measure would base the amount of circulation upon a fluctuating standard. He proposed to authorize the Secretary to issue national bank notes up to 90 per cent, of the face value of 3 per cent, bonds deposited as security for circulation. Where higher-rate bonds were deposited he proposed to compute the interest above 3 per cent, and allow a circulation to the amount of 90 per cent, of the aggregate interest over 3 per cent, for the whole time such bonds have to run. Thus, 4 per cent, bonds, having twenty-three years to run, on being deposited as security for circulation, would entitle the bank depositing them to receive currency at the rate of 110.70 for each 100 bond deposited, that being 90 per cent, of the face value and 90 per cent, additional for all excess of Interest over 3 per cent.

THE TEXAS-PACIFIC GRANT.

A Bill for Its Forfeiture to Be Reported. A Washington special says: The House Public Lands Committee has made good it 8 promise to report an early forfeiture of the Texas Pacific and other land-grants. To-day the committee considered the arguments which have been made and unanimously voted to forfeit the grant of the Texas Pacific. The bill will be prepared at once. The determination of the Public Lands Committee to proceed with these land-grant roads as rapidly as possible was illustrated by the fact that it has been decided in all the important hearings hereafter to give to each oase but one hour on each side to the lawyers for argument. This will be considered a great hardship. The railroad men say that it is in fact an announcement that the committee is organized to convict.

Pleuro-Pnenmonia. [Washington Telegram.]

The live-stock dealers, through Representative Hatch, have submitted to the House a petition asking legislation to protect their interests. The memorialists ask Congress to provide means for tho extinction of the dis. lease of picuro-pnerumonla. This, they say, can only be done by the slaughter of all Injected cattle. The estimated expepse of such a measure is $1,500,900. Not more than $500,000 need be immediately available. The mo,mortal further recommends the removing of 'the prejudice of foreign customers by a rigid jeystem of Inspsction for all meat products [for export, the expense of such inspection to jbe borne by the exporter. Statos whoso Legislatures are now in session are asked to take immediate steps in the direction of co-opera-tion.

Fitz John Porter’s Case.

Representatives Steele and Cutoheon, of the Committee on Military Affairs, havo submitted the views*of the minority on the Fltz John Porter bill. They state that the bill sets aside the judgment of the highest military tribunal ever organized in this country, thereby conflicting with the very spirit of the Constitution. It would have the effect of saying that the judgment of the court ttes either corrupt or founded on mistaken evidence, though that evldeuce was taken when the events were fresh In the minds of the witnesses. Tat people of London, it is said, pay $7,600,000 every year for water sold as mil k

APPALLING DISASTER.

The Stanch Steamer City of Colambus Wrecked on the Bay State Coast. A Terrible Hurricane and Pitiless Seas Drive Her or to Destruction. Over One Hundred Persons Supposed! to Have Gone to the Bottom. Tho steamship City of Columbus, bouufii from Boston to Savannah, with fifty-nine-first-class and twenty-two steerage passengers and a crew of forty-five, struek a rock and sunk off the coast of Martha's Vineyard,. Mass. One hundred and four lives were lost. Only twenty-two persons were saved. The ill-fated vessel struck on the outside of Devil’s Bridge buoy at 3:30 in the morning, the wind at the time blowing a gale. The vessel immediately filled an<L keeled over, the water breaking in and flooding the port-side saloon. All the excepting a few women and children, came on deck, nearly all wearing life-preservers. All the boats were cleared away, but wereImmediately swamped. A majority of thepassengers were washed overboard and drowned. Seven left the vessel on a liferaft and about forty more took to the rigging. At 10:30 a. m. the Gayhead lifeboat put off and took seven persons. Another lifeboat put off between 12 aud 1 o'clock. The revenue cutter Dexter came along about 12:30 p. m., and sent off two buats. Twenty-one persons, oneof whom is dead, wore placed aboard the Dexter, and, after all persons had been taken from the vessel, the Dexter proceeded to New Bedford. Three persons died after going aboard the revenue cutter. The total number saved was twenty-three. Five dead bodies were recovered and 119 souls are unaccounted for. Capt. Wright, the commander of the lost steamer, says he passed Cross Rip lightshipat 12 o’clock, and continued by east and west, With a strong breeze west by southwest. “After passing Nobska, the course being west southwest,” he says, "I stepped into my room to warm myself, as it was very cold. Everything was working well. After being belov a short time I heard the second mate,, who was In the pilot-house with the mate, sing out to the quartermaster to port helm. I jumped out of my room, thinking we had? come across some vessel bound down, the souud. I then cried out ‘hard aport,’ not knowing but it was a vessel, and in the moonlight I saw the buoy on Devil's bridge on the port, about two points forward of the beam and about 300 yards distant. The vessel .immediately struck. 1 ordered the enginereversed, and she backed about twice her length. The steamer immediately stopped, and 1 ordered the jib hoisted and endeavored to head her to tho north, but she filled forward and listed over to port, so that her planks were about four feet under water. I went aft and told the passengers to keep coot and get life-preservers. 1 next told the officers on the deck to get the boats ready. Thesteamer settled down aft and righted. It ■ was blowing very hard, and a heavy sea was running. We launched on the port side. No. 6 boat, xvhioh immediately cap sized. The sea was breaking over the--6tearaer’B deck, and her stern being entirely under the water, we were forced to go upon the top house. I staid there awhile, but we were finally obliged to take to the rigging. The mate, second mate, the chief engineer, and fourth engineer took to a raft. 1 think the steamer struck on a lone roek. The Captain is positive he struck outside the buoy, and inbacking drifted inside.” Officers of tho cutter Dexter furnished thefollowing statement: About 12:30 o’clock we sighted a vessel ashore on a reef near Gayhead. The wind was blowing a gale, and a terrible sea was running. As we approached, we saw the vessel was a steamer, and that the waves were breaking over her. We anchored on her starboard quarter, two or three hundred yards away. Tho cutter’sboat was at once lowered and mannedwith five men in charge of Lieut. Rhodes, who brought oil seven men. A return trip was made and one man brought tothe vessel. Lieut. Kennedy was then dispatched in the gig, with four men, and took off four or five men. Meanwhile the lifeboat transferred several men to the cutter, and at length the rigging was cleared of survivors. The vessel sank in about four fathoms of water, and the railing of her bow was the only portion of her hull visible. We found men in the fore and main tops and rigging. It was impossible to row over to the rigging, as the boats would have been pounded tt> pieces. The men in the rigging were forced to jump into the sea, and we caught them a& they arose to the surface and pulled them into the boats. Some of the men could not swim, but nearly every one in the rigging wassaved. Eugene McGarry jumped from the rigging, Lieut. Rhodes jumped for him, but tho boat was lifted fifteen feet on the crest of a wave, and it was necessary to go to the 6tarboard to avoid being crushed. McGarry was not seen afterward. At nearly the same instant McGarry’s brother was pulled into the boat. Capt. Wright was among tho last to leave theship. Two men were frozen so stiff that they were unable to relinquish their hold on the rigging. They were at length the only persons remaining on the 6tenmer except the Captain. Lieut. Rhodes asked him to jump, but he shouted, “Save those men first.” “They are frozen,” was the Lieutenant’s answer. The Captain then .jumped, and, although he could not swim a stroke, he was roscued by Lieut. Kennedy. Lieut. Rhodes performed a heroic act, which elicits hearty commendation. Twomen hung in the rigging, unable to move from exhaustion. The officer determined to 6ave them at the peril of his life. Returning to the cutter, he usked Capt. Gabriclsen to give him, a man to steer, that he might swim to the wreck and rescuo the unfortunate men. The Captain granted the request, and Lieut. Rhodes was placed on the boat. But on nearing the steamer it was found k. would be folly,to attempt to go alongside. Lieut. Rhodes refused to -abandon the attempt, and sang out to the men in the life-boat to take him to the wreok. Lieut. Rhodes boarded the life-boat, and, tying a rope about him, waited until within about thirty feot of the vessel, when he sprang into the sea. Rhodes had nearly readied the wreck when he was struek by a piece Of timber, and sank. He was pulled aboard the boat and taken to the cutter. His leg was found to be cut, but after changing his clothing, as the sea was smoother, he determined to make a last attempt. He again set out tor tho wreck, and this time the men were reached. One was hanging by the feet and arms through the ratlins, bead down. Lieut. Rhodes put -a bcw-line about him, when he murmured: “For God’s sake, don’t touch me.” ,Thc man, who was found to be Mr. Richardson, was placed in a boat, but died before reaching the cutter. About S4OO was found in a wallet in hid pocket. The second tnan, the last person removed from the wreck, was in the ratlins in the weathor-rigging, and, although breathing when placed in the boat, also expired before reaching the cutter. All the rescued give the highest praise to the officers of the revenue cutter for the bravery manifested in saving them from the wreck. The City of Columbus was one of the finest vessels on the coast. She was valued at $300,600, and insured for $250,000.

FASHIONS FOR LADIES.

Prayer books arc worn iu the haud-ii bound in’velvet. Simple and artistic 5-o'clock-tea costumes may be purchased for SIOO. They should not be worn more than twice. A tasteful ball costume or point lace over Bandle-light-on-the-l'rog-|H)ud colored silk tnny be gotten up at a cost of from S7OO to |too. Of course a lady of fushion will not tppear in the same ball dress a second time. Diamonds are still worn us much as ever an state occasions—by pawnbrokers’ wives. The back hair is still worn over the chair or on tbe bureau at night.