Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1885 — Page 7

THE YEAR’S RECORD.

A Brief Abstract and Chronicle of the Busy World’s Doings for 1884. A Retrospective Glance Into Every Quarter of the Habitable Globe. lieview of the Important Political and Other Occurrences of the Tear. CHRONOLOGY OF 1884. JANUARY. The 3d, 4th, and sth days of the first month of the year were noud for the coldest weather ever experienced In the Northwest. The frigid wave extenued itself over nearly the entire North American Continent. The more notable events of the month are as herewith recorded: The Egyptian Ministry resigned, because of the advice given the Khedive by England in relation to the Soudan rebellion. The Spanish Ministry resigned, and a new Cabinet was formed. Henry B. Payne and E. K. Wilson elected United States Senators from Ohio and Maryland. A statue of the late Gov. O. P. Morton unveiled at Indianapolis. James Nutt acquitted of the murder of N. L. Dukes, at Union town, Pa. William B. Allison re-elected U. S. Senator from lowa. Fred Douglass married to a white woman at Washington. Orrin A. Carpenter indicted for the murder of Zora Burns, at Lincoln, 111. Vignaux defeats Schaefer for the billiard championship of the world, at Paris. The National House of Representatives voted to abolish the iron-clad oath. The Sherman resolution of inquiry into the Danville massacre and Copiah murder passed by the Senate.

FEBRUARY. The bill to restore Gen. Fitz-John Porter to the army passed the National House. Mr. Morrison introduces his new tariff bill in the House. British Parliament meets. Mr. Bradlaugh excluded from the House of Commons. The Egyptian forces in the Soudan meet w ith serious reverses. A horrible massacre took place in Tonquin; one priest, twenty-two catechists, and 215 Christians were put to death, and 108 mission houses were destroyed. The Texas Legislature met in extra session. J. C. S. Blackburn elected United States Senator from Kentucky. Gen. W. T. Sherman placed on the retired list of the army. England dispatches re-enforce-ments to Egypt. Bloody affray between rival factions of gamblers at Hot Springs, Ark. The mysterious murder of Mr. and Mrs. Willson, an aged and wealthy couple, near Chicago. The Lasker sympathy resolutions returned by Bismarck to the German Minister at Washington. A negro family murdered near Cincinnati, and their bodies sold to a medical college. The McPherson bank circulation bill passes the United States Senate. The people of Hot Springs, Ark., banish about thirty undesirable citizens.

MARCH. The Egyptian rebels defeated by Gen. Graham's rear. The Supreme Court of the • United States affirmed the constitutionality Of the legal tender act of 1878. The British Government presented to the United States, for the use of the Greely relief expedition, the steamer Alert. Treaty of pea<» between Chili and Peru ratified. The desperado, Frank Ran de, makes a murderous assault upon the officers of the Joliet Penitentiary. A bust of the poet Longfellow unveiled in London. New York enacts a law prohibiting the making of contracts for the labor of convicts in the State prisons. lowa enacts a law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of liquors in the State. A man named Glasscock, in Fauquier County, Va.. murders his wife and three children, and commits suicide. The Governor of California calls an extra session of the State Legislature. Excitement over the outbreak among Kansas cattle herds of a malady resembling the foot and mouth disease. Frank Rande the noted desperado, commits suicide in the Joliet Prison. Completion of the first railway line connecting the American cities with the City of Mexico. Matthew Arnold sails for England. Excitement in the West growing out of gold discoveries in the, ■Coeur d’Alene regions. Ben Thompson and* King Fisher, two noted desperadoes, killed in a theater at San Antonio, Tex. Gov. Glick calls an extra session of the Kansas Legislature. The French defeat the Chinese in Tonquin and capture Bac-Ninh. Orrin A. Carpenter acquitted at Petersburg, 111., for the murder of Zora Burns. David J. Brewer, cf Kansas, appointed Judge of the Eighth Federal Circuit, to succeed Judge McCrary. Sections of Kentucky, Ohio, and South Carolina devastated by cyclones. Sevei e earthquake shocks at San Francisco. Minister Sargent ordered from Berlin to St. Petersburg, but declines the latter mission. Bloody riots in the city of Cincinnati, in which nearly fifty people are killed.

APRIL. The British troops withdrawn from Egypt. The Ohio Legislature enacts a liquor law providing for graded saloon licenses. The British Cabinet formally decided against establishing a protectorate over Egypt. John Jay Knox resigns the Comptrollership of the Treasury. The Queen of Tahiti makes a tour across the continent. Spanish troops in Ouba attack a band of forty-two insurgents and kill thirty of them. Pope Leo issues an •encyclical letter denouncing secret societies, and attributing all the troubles of Italy to Masonry. Severe earthquake shocks in England Frank James, the nandit, acquitted by the United States jury at Huntsville, Ala. The New York Assembly, by a vote of •60 to 63, defeated a constitutional amendment to prohibit the manufacture or sale of liquor. Forest fires in the Catskill Mountain region of New York and the Blue Mountains •of Pennsylvania wrought vast damage. MAY. Congress votes an appropriation of 81,000,•000 for the New Orleans Exposition, places Gen. Grant on the retired list, and kills the Morrison tariff bill An attempt in tne British House of Commons to censure the Gladstone ministry for not taking measures to rescue Gen. Gordon failed by a vote of 375 to 303. Two thousand men, women, and children, many of them refugees from Khar<toom, massacred by Arabs in Shendy. The failure of the Grants produces a great sensation in the financial world. Rev. Dr. Worthington, ■of Detroit, elected Bishop of Nebraska. A statue of Martin Luther unveiled at Washington. National congress of Wool-growers .at Chicago. The British House of Commons rejected the bill for a tunnel under the English Channel to France by a vote of 222 to 84. The Methodist General Conterence, in session at Philadelphia, elected as Bishops Bev. W. X. Ninde, J. M. Walden, and W. F. Maflahen. The Greeley relief expedition sails on its errand of mercy. The American * Forestry Congress met at Washington. Four men attempted to rob a bank at Medicine Lodge, Kan., and when the officials refused to deliver up the funds, shot the Cashier, George Geppert, dead, and fatally wounded the President, E. W. Payne; the robbers were ■caught and lynched. James R. Keene, one ■of the boldest speculators on the New York Stock Exchange, failed. Charley Ford, who, with his brother, killed the bandit Jesse James, committed suicide by shooting hlmeelf through the heart. The National Greenback Convention met at Indianapolis on the .29th. and nominated for President Gen. B. JUNE. Congress passed bills reducing the postage on newspapers and prohibiting Chinese subjects from importing opium into the United States. A treaty of peace between France and Annam signed. The Republican National Convention was held at Chicago, opening on the 3d. John B. Henderson, of Missouri, was chosen Permanent Chairman On the 6th, James G. Blaine, of Maine, was nominated for President on the fourth ballot, and John A. Logan, of Illinois, for Vice President, without opposition. The ballots

for President were as follows: 1. Whole number of votes cast, 818; necessary to a choice, 410; for James G. Blaine, of Maine, 334 S; for Chester A. Arthur, of New York. 278: for George F. Edmunds, of Vermont, 93; for John A. Logan, of Illinois, 63)4; for Johff Sherman, of' Ohio, 30; for Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut, 13: for Robert T. Lincoln, of Illlno.s, 4; for William T. Sherman, of Missouri, 2. 2. Whole number of votes cast, 818; necessary to a choice, 410; Blaine, 349; Arthur, 278. Edmunds, 85; Logan, 61; Sherman, 28; Hawley, 13;Lincoln, 4; William T. Sherman, 2. 3. Who e number of votes cast, 819; necessary to a choice, 410; Blaine, 375; Arthur, 274; Edmunds, 69; Logan, 53; Sherman, 25; Hawley, 13; Lincoln, 8; William T. Sherman, 2. 4. Whole number of votes cast, 813; necessary to a choice, 407; Blaine, 541; Arthur, 207; Edmunds, 41; Logan. 7; Hawley, 15; Lincoln, 2. The nomination was then made unanimous. An attack on French troops by Chinese troops at Lang-son, in violation of the treaty, provoked a demand from France for a heavy war indemnity. The cholera made its appearance in France, ipany deaths ocenring at Toulon and Marseilles. The Pan-Presbyterian Council was held at Belfast, Ireland. General Iglesias resigned constitutional the act of the Legislature making it felony to keep a gambling house. Emperor William laid the foundation of the new German Parliament buildings at Berlin. Samuel J. Tilden wrote a letter (June 11) formally declining a nomination for the Presidency. Ex-Senator 8. C. Pomeroy, of Kansas, nominated for President of the United States by the American (Anti-Secret Society) party. Heavy rains in California damaged the wheat crop 25 per cent. Capt. Andrews, 93 years of age, completed his walk from South Carolina to Massachusetts, arriving in Boston in good condition.

JULY. The Democratic National Convention was held at Chicago, opening on the Bth. W. F. Vilas, of Wisconsin, was chosen Permanent Chairman. On the 11th, Grover Cleveland, of New York, was nominated for President on the second ballot, and Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, for Vice President, without opposition. The ballots for President were as follows: First—Whole number of votes cast, 820; necessary to a choice, 547; for Grover Cleveland, of New York, 392; for Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware. 168; for Allan G. Thurman, of Ohio, 88; for Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania, 78; for Joseph E. McDonald, of Indiana, 56; for John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, 27; for Roswell P. Flower, of New York, 4; for George Hoadly, of Ohio, 3; for Samuel J. Ti.den, of New York, 1; for Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, 1. Second—Whole number of votes cast, 820; necessary to a choice, 547; Cleveland, 684; Bayard, 8154; Thurman, 4; Randal, 4; McDonald, 1; Hendricks, 4554. The nomination was then made unanimous. The National Prohibition Convention met in Pittsburgh on the 28d, and nominated for. President, ex-Governor St. John, of Kansas, and for Vice-President William Daniel, of Maryland. Congress adjourned on the 7th of month. The President vetoed the Fitz-John Porter bill. It was passed over his veto by the House, but the Senate sustained the veto. The President nominated John A Kasson to be Minister to Germany, Alphonso Taft to be Minister to Russia, John M. Francis to be Minister to Austria, Lewis Richmond to be Minister Resident to Portugal; Ward McAllister, Jr., to be United States Judge of Alaska; and John Jarrett to be Comissioner of Labor. The Bartholdi statue was formally presented to the United States, Ministei Morton receiving it in Paris. News of the rescue of Lieutenant A. W. Greely, the arctic explorer, and a number of his party by the relief expedition under command of Capt. Schley Cholera raged at Toulon and other cities in France, many persons falling victims to the epidemic. Serious anti-Jewish riots in Algiers. Gen. Porflrio Diaz elected President of Mexico without opposition. France demanded an indemnity of 25,0,000,000 francs from China for the Langson affair. Premier Ferry ordered Admiral Courbet to seize the Chinese arsenal at the Presidency of Peru, and ordered a general election. General Diaz was elected President of Mexico. The Supreme Court of Tennessee declared Foucheon and hold it as security until the indemnity was paid. The Greely relief expedition returns from the arctic regions with Lieut. Greely and six of his surviving fellow-explorers. Seventeen others of the expedition perished from starvation, and one was lost while bunting seals. The corpses of twelve of the party were brought back, the remains of the other five having been swept out to sea by the winds. Greely and his surviving associates would have perished in foity eight hours but for the relief expedition. They won the honor of reaching the farthest known point to the northward. China makes preparations for war with France. Twenty horse-thieves hanged by cowboys in Montana. Eon Rafael Zalvidary Lazo, President of the Republic of San Salvador, arrived at New York. Mr. D. L. Moody, the American evangelist, arrived in New York from London. Dr. Barnard, of Nashville, discovers a new comet. Near Chesterton, Md„ 2,000 men engaged in a riot at a negro camp-meeting, in which one person was killed, ten fatally injured, and a number of others seriously cut. The President removes Gen. James Longstreet from the Marshalship of Georgia. The National Prohibition Convention, after a two days’ session at Pittsburgh (June 23-24), nominated John P. St. John, of Kansas, for President, and William Daniel, of Maryland, for Vice President. The Virginia Court of Appeals declared unconstitutional the act of the Legislature prohibiting school superintendents from taking part in uolitics.

AUGUST. The corner-stone of the pedestal for Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe’s Island, New York Harbor. An earthquake occurred in thirteen of the United States. The shock was felt from Richmond, Virginia, to Portland, Maine, and from the Atlantic coast to Ohio. Both houses of the Parliament of Holland met in joint congress and passed, by a vote of 97 to 3, a bill naming Queen Emma regent during the minority of the Princess Wilhelmina. The British House of Commons passed the Irish Constabulary bill, and voted a credit of £390,000 for an expedition to relieve General Gordon. Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, returned to England, having completed the work of establishing satisfactory trading stations along the Congo River from its mouth to Stanley Pool, 1,400 miles by river. State elections in Kentucky and Arkansas result in favor of the Democracy. China refuses to accede to the demands of France. Queen Victoria commissioned Earl Northbrook to proceed to Egypt and report on the condition of affairs in that unfortunate country. Utah county elections result in the success of the Mormon tickets all over the Territory. Capt. Payne and his band of invaders expelled from the Indian Territory by United States soldiers. Severe earthquake shocks along the East Atlantic coast. Cowboys in Montana make another raid on the horse-thieves with whom that country is infested, and lyneh twenty-eight of them. Admiral Lespes, with five vessels of the French squadron, bomjiarded and captured the town of Keluag, on of cannibalism in connection with the Greely ,expedition cauSb a sensation in the country. Hanlan, the oarsman, defeated in Australia by Beach, for time in years. Robert Bonner pays W,. H. Vanderbilt 840,000 and becomes the owner of Maud S. Excitement among stockmen in the West over the outbreak of pie unopneumonia at several points. The United States steamship Tallapoosa, with 140 officers and men on board, sunk off Martha’s Vineyard, by co lision with the schoonef James S. Lowell. The lives of all but four persons were saved; The French fleet bombarded the Chinese port of Foo Chow, and the Chinese fleet at the place was captured. China formally declared war on France on the 25th of August. Antl-Jewlah riots re ported in Western Russia. SEPTEMBER. * The Czar pardons a large number of Nihilists. Conference of the German, Russian, and Austrian Emperors in Poland. The Republican- Presidential candidate brings suit for libel against the Indianapolis Sentinel. The cholera causes great destruction of life in the Italian cities. Capt. Ellsworth nominated for President by the American Political Alliance. Severe earthquake shocks were felt in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana on the 19th of the month. EX-Senator James W. Nesmith, of Oregon, placed in an insane asylum. Judge Gresham of Indiana appointed • • •

Secretary of the Treasury. From the outbreak of the cholera in Italy to Sept, 30, 13,320 persons were attacked and 0,580 died. An election in Arkansas for Governor and other State officers resulted in the success of the Democratic ticket by more than 40,000 majority. The Vermont election resulted favorably to the Republicans by 20,000 majority. A German gunboat, in the name of the German Empire, takes possession of the west coast of Africa, between the 11th and 36th degrees south latitude, except Walrisch Bay.

OCTOBER. Elections were held in Ohio. West Virginia, and Georgia, the Republicans carrying Ohio, and the Democrats the othqr two State*. Gen. Wm. A. Throop, a prominent dltizen of Detroit, committed sujel*e by ihootlng himself through the headj Near Sulhvan, lad., a Shot was fired into the railway car occupied by Gov. John P. St, John, the Prohibition candidate for President. The Governor -of Kansas issued a proclamation prohibiting the introduction of Jersey cattle. As a national convention of “Drummers,” at Louisville, Joseph Mulbatton was nominated for President of the United States, and Z. T. Colter, of Ohio, for Vice President, The pacing horse Johnston made a mile in 2:06)4, at Chicago. Gon. Valentine Baker restored to his rank in the British army. Rumors of the early marriage of President Arthur. John McCullough, the eminent tragedian, loses his mind and breaks down while playing upon the stage of McVicker’s Theater, Chicago. The Mexican war veterans held their annual reunion at St. Louis. The Russian Government closed the University of Kieff for a year, and arrested 168 students because of their Nihilistic connections. The contest for the ba=e of the United States ended in favor of the Providence Club. The British Government annexes the southern shores of New Guinea and the adjacent islands. Hon. Justin S. Morrill re-elected United States Senator from Vermont. Nathaniel Mitchell, lynched at LaCrosse, Wis., for the murder of Frank A. Burton, President of a Republican marching club. William H. Vanderbilt gives #500,000 as a building fund to the New York College of Physlans and Surgeons. Arthur Orton, the "Tichborne claimant,” released from prison. The Pope affirms eight new cardinals. Sir Moses Monteflore, the Hebrew philanthropist, celebrated his 100th birthday on the 24th ot the month. The Ohio Supreme Court declared the Scott liquor tax statute unconstitutional. Great popular demonstration in London in favor of the abolition of the House of Lords. Col. Stewart and his party massacred by Arabs in the Soudan. Liberals successful at the Parliamentary election in Holland. William Jones, who attempted to kill Guiteau, the assassin, acquitted at Washington, A political riot at New Iberia, La., resulted in the killing of eighteen men.

NOVEMBER. The most important event of the month was the Presidential election, which occurred on the 4th, after one of the hottest political campaigns In the history of the country. Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candidate, was elected President of the United States for four years, beginning on the 4th of March next, receiving 2X9 electoral votes, against 182 cast for James G. Blaine, the candidate of the Republican party. The excitement did not subside with the closing of the polls, as is usual, but was maintained for several days on account of the closeness of the vote in New York, many Republicans claiming that the official count of the vote of that State would elect Mr. Blaine. The canvass of the votes, which was not completed until two weeks after the balloting, showed a small plurality for Mr. Cleveland in New York. All parties at once conceded that he was elected, and the political excitement, which had been wrought up to a high pitch, at once abated. The Republicans were greatly incensed at the part played by Gov. John P. St. John, the Prohibitionist candidate for President, in the canvass, and the cold water leader was hanged in effigy in various parts of the country. Other notable occurrences of the month were as recorded below: The crofters on the island of Skye in an almost open state of rebellion against the landed proprietors. Cholera raged in Paris, carrying off many victims, and causing an exodus of those who could conveniently leave. Hugh McCulloch appointed Secretary of the Treasury. Earthquake shocks in New Hampshire and Canada. The National Monument at Washington reached a height greater than any structure in the world. The mare Maud S. beat all records by trotting a mile in l:09)£ at Lexington, Kentucky. The Legislature of Jamaica voted solidly against annexation to Canada. General W. 8. Harney, the veteran soldier, causes a sensation by marrying his housekeeper. Indians make a raid into Presidio Cqunty, Texas, and murder a number ot settlers. An exploring party in British Northwest Territory discover a lake of immense size, abounding in fish. Joseph E. Brown re-elected Senator from Georgia. M. H. De Young, of the San Francisco Chronicle, shot by Adolph Spreckels.

DECEMBER. Congress assembled in annual session on Monday, the first day of the month. The World’s Exposition at New Orleans was opened on the 16th, to continue until the Ist of June. The electors chosen by the people on Nov. 4 met at the various State capitals Dec. 3, and cast their votes for President and Vice President. James L. Pugh reelected United States Senator from Alabama. Fight between Americans and Mexicans over a copper mine in Sonora, several being killed on both sides. Gen. Porfirlo Diaz enters upon his second term as President of the Republic of Mexico. Deadly affray between Diggs and Watkins, editors of rival newspapers at Vienna, Mo., in which Diggs is killed. Official announcement made of the complete cessation of cholera in France. Mr. Gladstone introduces his redistribution bill in the British House of Commons. A coolie riot in the Island of Trinidad; the coolies fired upon and fifty of them wounded. The French Parliament enacts a law abolishing public executions inthatcountry. The British Parliament passes a new suffrage bill, conferring franchise on 2,000,000 citizens. The Georgia Legislature passed a resolution authorizing the Clerk of the House to employ women to perform clerical work. A railway train stopped and the passengers robbed by bandits near Little Rock, Ark. The great national monument was practically completed on the 6th of the month. Wade Hampton re-elected U. 8. Senator from South Carolina. Attempt to blow up London bridge with dynamite. Severe earthquake shocks startle the people of New Hampshire.

EXECUTIONS.

The Work of the Hangman in 1884. During the past year 135 felons expiated their crimes on the gallows in the United Statesand Canada, againstl46in 1883, and 114 in 1882. Of the hangings this year the Southern States contributed 97, or a little more than three-fourths. There were chirty-three executions in the Northern States and Territories, and four in Canada. Arkansas and Louisiana head the list, with fifteen victims each, Georgia coming next, with fourteen. The record Is ns follows: Alabama 9North Carolina 6 Arkansas 16j0h10....« 8 California 4 Pennsylvania 9 Florida 1 South Carolina 6 Georgia . 14 Tennessee 3 Illinois 4 Texas 5 Indiana 1 Vinrinia 1 Kentucky 4 West Virginia 1 Louisiana. 15 Idaho 1 Maryland 2 Indian Territory.... 1 Mississippi B!Utah 1 Missouri 7jCanada 4 New Jersey 1 New York..;-....,,., a” *1 •(’T0ta1.;....

JUDGE LYNCH.

The Year’s Victims of Mob Vengeance. During the year 1884, the large number of 180 men were lyniched in the United States and Territories. Tne number last year was 175, and in 1882 the victims of mob law numbered 57. Following is the record: Alabama fi.Oregon 3 Arkansas ViPennsylvanta 2 Colorado. 13 Tennessee 5 Georgia 3 Texas 12 Illinois 1 Virginia.; 2 Indiana 2 West Virginia 2 lowa 1 Wisconsin.... 8 Louisiana.. fl New Mexic0......... 1 Maryland 1 Utah 1 Mississippi 14 Washington Ter..... 1 North Cttolina...... q, T0ta1..... 180

A YEAR’S DISASTERS.

Record of the Notable Mishaps Involving the Destruction of Human Life. A Ghastly Catalogue of Accidents by Flood and Field, on Land and Water.

Sinking Ships, Colliding Trains, and Exploding Mines the Chief Causes of Death. JANUARY. The long chapter of the year’s disasters involving the destruction of human life opened on the 2d day of January, when twenty-seven men were killed by a railway collision at Toronto, Canada. The other accidents during January which we have thought worth recording are as follows: Thirty-two nuns and pupils In the Roman Catholic Convent at Belleville, 111., burned to death. Seven men kllied and twelve injured by an explosion of fire-damp in the Ferfay coal mine at Arras, France. Two hundred Chinese lost by the wreck of the steamer Huai Tuen, frcm Shanghai for Hong Kong. Railway train caught fire from oil on the track, near Bradford, Pa., and eight persons fataliy burned. Eleven lives lost in a coal-pit at Cwmamma, Wales, by the breaking of a cage rope. Steamer City of Columbus, from Boston for Savannah, wrecked in Vineyard Sound; one hundred lives lost. A family of eight persons burned to death in Lenoir County, North Catalina- Bark Emma and ten lives lost on the New Jersey coast. Ten men killed by a colliery explosion in France, and a dozen by a similar accident in England. Ten men drowned by the upsetting of a raft at Carthage, Tenn. Loss of three Gloucester fishing schooners, with fifty-six men. Fifty-nine lives lost by an explosion in a Colorado miqfo. The ship Simla, with twenty souls, lost in the English Channel, and a steamer goes down on the Welsh coast—the loss of life two disasters numbering thirty-six.

FEBRUARY. Thirty-five people drowned by the breaking of the ioe at Thesis, Austria. Six children burned to death at Crockett, Texas. Forty natives killed in Wen, Africa by an explosion of gunpowder. A cyclone sweeps over Georgia, Mississippi, and the Carolinas, killing upward of 400 people and destroying a vast amount of property. Ten lives lost by the foundering of the bark Ada Barton, off St, John, N. B. Six person* killed and eight wounded by the fall of a railroad train through a bridge near Indianapolis. Ind. Gasoline explosion in a store in Alliance, Ohio; eight persons killed. News from Corunna, Spain, of the s nking of a Spanish vessel and the loss of n ncteon men. Fifty fishermen on tho Caspian Sea carried out on the ice and drowned. The floods in the Ohio River this month were the worst ever known. At Cincinnati the water was over seventy feet deep. Among the disastrous incidents was the fall of a largo board-ing-house in Cincinnati, killing fourteen of tho inmates. Nineteen miners killed by a fire-damp explosion four tnlies from Uniontown, Pa. Seventeen passengers killed by the explosion of the boiler of the steamer Kotsai, from Hong Kong for Macao.

MARCH. One hundred and fifty four lives lost by an explosion in a colliery at Pocahontas, Va. Thirteen people buried by a snow avalanche in Utah. Fifteen people killed by a similar accident in Colorado. Tho ship Bombay founders at sea, and tho crew of nineteen perish. APRIL. The town of Oakville, Ind., destroyed by a cyclone, and five persons killed. Storms in Alabama, Georgia und Pennsylvania cause great destruction of property und kill some twenty people. Five men killed at Port Arthur, Canada, by an explosion of dynamite. Thirteen lives lost by the burning of a steamer on the Chattahoochee River, In Georgia. Loss of the steamer Daniel Steinmann off Halifax; 124 people drowned. Seven persons killed by a railway accident at Cisco, Tex. Eight men lose their lives by a railroad accident at Scranton, Pa. Five children burned to death at Gadsden, Ala. Many people killed and maimed by a fire and panic in a theater at Bucharest. Fifteen lives lost by tho wreck of the Danish bark Alba, in the Shetland Islands. Five persons drowned while boating in the Hudson River, near Sing Sing. Collision in mid-ocean between steamer State of Florida and bark Ponema. Both vessels lost and 135 persons drowned. More than forty persons killed by the falling of a train of cars into the river near Ciudad Real, Spain. French banker Paquebot run down and sunk by Norwegian bark Venus; twelve men drowned. Fourteen inmates of Van Buren County Poor House, near Hartford, Mich., burned to death. Explosion of powder magazine of San Antonio, near Havana; twentyone persons killed and many wounded. Extensive forest fires in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, burning several villages and many square miles of timber land; a number of persons perished in the flames. MAY. Five men killed at Waterford, N. Y., by the explosion of a bleacher in a straw-board mJIL The French brig Senorine foundered off the great banks of Newfoundland, the crew and passengers, numbering sixty two, perishing. The British ship Syria wrecked on the Fiji Islands; seventy passengers, all coolies, were drowned. By collision between freight and gravel trains on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, near Connellsville, Pa., fourteen laborers were killed. Several shocks of earthquake throughout the peninsula of Cyz-lous, Asia Minor, several villages were damaged; many houses were destroyed; and 200 persons killed. Nineteen lives lost by the foundering of the ship Alantine off the Magdalen Islands. The bottom of the ferry boat at St. Alberts, P. Q., broke through, causing the drowning of seven persons. By the explosion of a boiler in the Whitney Marble Works at Gouverneur, N. Y., seven men were killed. Ten women were blown to pieces and two others wounded by an explosion of dynamite at a factory in Ayrshire, Scotland. Five persons killed by a boiler explosion at Dubuque, lowa.

JUNE. Eleven men drowned In a flood, caused by a cloud-burst, in cainp on Frenchman's Creek, Colorado. Schooner Six Brothers and fourteen men lost off Newfoundland. Eleven men drowned at Thompson’s Falls, Montana. News from Greenland of the loss of the Danish brig Elena and ten of her crew. Two Americans and twelve Mexicans killed in a railroad accident in New Laredo. Several persons fatally Injured by the wrecking of a train on the Burlington and Missouri Ballroad. Deaths from lightning reported in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Twentyfive persons killed by the breaking ot an engine axle on the Manchester and Sheffield Hallway, England. Forty persons overwhelmed and. frowned by a water-spout in Russian Turkestan. Fourteen men killed by the premature explosion of a blast • near Tampico, Mexico.' Thirty people killed by the explosion of a powder-mill in Italy. Abridge across the river Vistula, in Germany, upon .which many people were standing, was swept away by a flood and twenty off them wore drowned. . Six Italians drowned at Somers, ?N. Y., by’the upsetting Of a boat. JULY. Steamer Amsterdam, of Netherlands and American Navigation Company’s line, wrecked on Sable Island in a fog; three passengers lost. Twenty * four miners killed by a colliery explosion in British Columbia. Ten persons drowned by the foundering of a schooner off Beck’s Beach, N. J. Twenty passengers killed and forty seriously Injured by a railway accident near Manchester, England. Five men killed by the explosion of a locomotive boiler at White Haven, Pa. Lightning struck the farm-house Of Nathan Miller, near Maryville, Kam. killing his four daughters while asleep. 4 AUGUST. Steamer City of Merida burned at Havana; no lives lost. Transfer steamer

Belmont sunk m a storm near Evantville, Ind.; sixteen lives lost. Seventeen men suffocated in an underground canal at Braye, France. Seven colder* burned to death in a mine at Shamokin, Pa. Five people latally poisoned at Shelbyville, Ind., by eating biscuit in which arsenic bad bean put by mistake. A gale on the Newfoundland coast causes considerable loss of life. Seven men ki led by an explosion in a coal-pit at Paisley. Scotland. Ten men belonging to Orton's Circus perish in a burning sleeping-car near Greeley, Col.

SEPTEMRER. Destructive fire in Cleveland, Ohio. Nine persons killed in an accident on the Mexican Central Railroad. Distillery explosion, Pekin, Ill.—several killed. A rapid rise in the Eau Claire and Chippewa rivers, destroying over $4,006,000 worth of property. News from China that the province of Kiang-See had been inundated, and seventy thousand lives lost: Fifty-two lives lost by the sinking of the British gunboat Wasp, off Tory Island. Seven persons killed and much property destroyed by a cyclone in Allegany County, ,N. Y. Twenty lives lost by a fire in a sulphur mine in Sicily.

OCTOBER. Sixty persons killed by a railroad accident in India. Over 300 lives lost by a hurricane m Iceland. Ten soldiers burned to death in a fire at the royal palaeo at Copenhagen. At Esseg, Austria, fourteen children, while playing in aboaton the river Drave,capsized it and all were drowned. Ten men drowned at Chicago by the washing away, during a gale, of a hut in which they were lodging. Ex. Gov. Moses sentenced to three months in the Detroit Penitentiary for forgery. Five men killed by a powder mill explosion at Cumminsville, Ontario. Twenty-seven persons killed and 400 injured by a cyclone in Catania, on the island of Sicily. The Japanese cities ot Yokohama and Toklo were visited by a terrible typhoon; in the latter city 8,000 houses were wholly or partially destroyed; twenty people were kllied; the loss of life at sea was appalling. Six men killed by a boiler explosion at Beltrami, Minn. A storm on the coast of Lower California wrecks a steamer and seven sailing craft, the loss of life reaching nearly 100. Eighteen men suffocated in a coal mine at Youngstown, Ohio. Sixteen persons trampled to death during a panic in a Glasgow theater, caused by a cry of fire. Several vessels wrecked and many Ilves lost by a hurricane in the Bahama Islands.

NOVEMBER. Nine persons slain by a boiler explosion in a New Orleans sugar house. Six mon die at Sunbury, Ont., front eating pork affected with trlohimv. A railway train goes through a bridge at Hempstead, Texas, drowning twelve passengers and wounding forty. Seventeen lives lost by the sinking of the American ship Andrew Johnson, off the coast of Brazil. Nine mon drowned by the capsizing of “a boat near Halifax, N. 8. Several persons killed by a boiler explosion on an Alabama River steamer. An unknown disease, supposed to be caused by a long drought and tho consequent drying up of the springs and brooks, carrio's otf many people in Southwest Virginia. Twenty persons drowned by the sinking of the steamer Durango, in tho English Channel. Seven men killed by a boiler explosion »vt Elizabethtown, Ky. Eight men killed by a railway collision at Henning’s Station, Tenn. DECEMBER. A vessel founders in tho China sea, and sixty Chinese find a watery grave. The schooner Mary Joseph wrecked oir St. Johns, N. F., and tho passengers and crew, thirteen in number, drowned. Four schooners, with all on board, lost on the Newfoundland coast. Six men killed by a gas explosion in a mine at Shamokin, I’a. A conflagration at Trenton, Pa., causes the death of six persons. Five people lose their lives in a similar way at Newport, Ark. An orphan asylum in Brooklyn, N. Y., burned, and twenty-five children cremated. Thirty negro oystcrinon drowned in tho Rappahannock Kiver, in Virginia, during a gale. Seventy-five men.killed by a colliery explosion in South Hungary.

Stories of the Proctor.

A certain ungraduate, who held an open scholarship at a hard-working college, and for whom a brilliant career was predicted, had the misfortune to be detected in a billiard room after 9 o'clock at night. Now it happened that the proctor knew his captive as a student of great promise, and was unwilling to subject him to the degradation of a fine; on the other hand, he could not consent to defraud the university. After a few minutes’ reflection a delicate compromise suggested itself. He conversed affably for some time, and then inquired, with much apparent interest: “By the way, Mr. Princeps, have you subscribed to the Charity Organization Society?” “No, I have not.” “Well, let me recommend you to do so. lam a member of the committee, and shall be happy to receive your subscription at once, if it is convenient to you.” “May I ask what is the usual donaiton ?”

“Ten shillings—l am much obliged to you. Good-morning Mr. Princeps.” The other legend runs as follows: A famous young orator was returning one night from the Union Debating Society, and solacing himself with a pipe on his way home. Meeting a proctor within a few yards of the union, and suspecting that uncompromising zeal had led his foe to lie in ambush till the close of the debate—an unpardonable atrocity in the eyes of undergraduates—he determined to be even with him. So, having given up his name and college, and made the usual appointment, he spent the rest of the evening in making a round of the public houses, and returned to his room with his pockets nearly bursting, and a smile of triumph on his brow. Next morning he called upon his captor, bearing in his hand a fat calico bag tied up with red tape. • ' “Mr. Spouter, I think?”

Spouter bows assent. “Ah! vou were smoking in the corn market last night, Mr. Spouter. I must trouble you for ten shillings. Spouter unties his bag and out rushes a torrent of halfpence. _i “Will you oblige me by counting them, sir? I can only make 239,” Spouter left Oxford next morning, and did not return till the following term.— Cassell’s Magazine. t It is now five years since S. N. Silyer, of Auburn, Me., began eating only one meal a day. He spends an hour in eating,, but eats no more than he would if he had tiie other two mgals daily. He is twenty-five pounds heavier, and is able to endure more than when- he ate, three times a day. He nevrt lias tt' cold. “It is a problem of perfect asshnilation of food,” says he. “Twothirds of the food eaten by a person ordinarily is wasted.” Mr. Silver’s wife, too, has eaten but one meal a day for three years, and she is in perfect health. He says that fifteen or twenty of his acquaintances have adopted his system. It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.-PMiip Brooks.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

; —Lloyd H. Swan has been appointed postmaster at Wandana. ’ —W. B. Warren, a leading citizen of Terre Haute, dropped dead on the sidewalk, from apoplexy. —A span of horses rained at S4OO, belonging to Sam Studebaker, were killed by a train at South Bend. —The Michigan City Enterprise, one of the oldest papers in La Porte County, has suspended publication. —Nathan Gross, who has been a clothier at Evansville for thirty years, filed an assignment to secure liabilities of $60,000. —Prof. David S. Jordan, aged 34, has been chosen President of the Indiana State University to succeed Dr. Moss, who resigned some weeks since. —Dunk Graves, a prosperous farmer, who labored under the impression that ruin threatened the nation because of Cleveland's (election, hauged himself at Falmouth. —A movement has been set on foot in Indianapolis for organizing a State Hotel Association. Representatives of six of the leading city hotels have effected a temporary organization, with C. C. Charron, Esq., as Chairman.

—Miss Anna Miller, a young violinist of (Logansport, of wonderful skill and genius 'as a musician, has found a patron in a 'wealthy and titled lady from Germany, who inether recently at Grand Rapids, Mich., (who has proposed to take her to Europe, iand give her the best musical instruction that can be procured. —Little George Seifert, of South Bend, found his father’s revolver in a bureau drawer, and amused his younger brother by ♦ showing him how it operated. The ball passed into tho forehead of the younger brother, above one of tho temples. Fortunately it did not penetrate the skull, but passed uuder the scalp across to the other side of the head, where it was cut out. It was a close call for the young man.

—John Strange has caused considerable excitement by an alleged exposure of one Mrs. Walling’s (formerly Miss Annie Stewart) spiritual seances at Terre Haute. He seized the spirit’s hand, and he'd on to it, notwithstanding the emphatic “Let go” uttered by the spirit. Some one, in attempting to turn out the gas, turned it the wrong way, and exposed Mrs. Walling to plain . view as the Spirit, her clothing being placed 'on n chair to imitate what was supposed to pe her sitting there. The seance terminajted somewhat abruptly. —The annual report ofjthe condition of |the State Blind has been submitted. The value of its real estate and personal property is $373,772.01. During the year $27,003 was received for current support, and $90(1 fortiustees’ salaries. Of this $23,073 was expended for repairs. There was received $1,992; expended $1,845.36. An appropriation of $29,000 is asked for. During the year 120 pupils wore in attendance. The Superintendent reports all departments in a highly satisfactory condition. A plea is mode for more accommodations, present facilities being inadequate.

-—An analysis of the vote cast in Indiana at the last election shows the following results: Total vote cast for President, Cleveland, 244,894; Blaine, 238,447; Butler, 8,794; St. John. 3,007; total, 495,142. The vote for Governor was: Gray, Democrat, 245,140; Calkins, Republican, 237,748; Leonard, Greenback, 8,338; Dwiggins, Prohibition, 3,866; total, 495,092, Cleveland less than Gray, 216; St. John less than Dwiggins, 859; Blaine more than Calkins, 699; Butler more th in Leonard, 456. The above shows that many Prohibitionists voted for Blaine and Dwiggins, that a few voted for St. John and Gray, but that none voted for Cleveland or for St. John and Calkins. The .total increase of votes The Republican plurality for President in 1880 was 6.642. The Democratic plurality for President in 1884 is 6,447. Democratic gun over 1880 is 19,372; Republican gain over 1880, 6,283; Greenback loss since 1880, 4,092.

—The report of the Hon. James H. Rice, Auditor of State, for the year ending Oct. 31, 1884, has been submitted to the Governor. The receipts during the yeas, including $503,927 on hand Nov. 1, 1883, were $3,953,105; warrants drawn on the Treasury in the same time, $3,521,899; balance on hand, $131,206. Among the expenditures, the more important were: Tuition fund, $1,910,366; new State House, $423,921; general expenses, $1,495,680. The incoming Legislature will have to provide for an outstanding indebtedness of (J 57.500 which will leave a cash balance of 825.924 in the Treasury Oct. 31, 1885. If •t should be determined that an additional j oan be necessary to complete the improve\hehts under contract, the amount required would be about $415,009, which, added to -the present loan, would make $1,000,000. .'he Auditor suggests that the law anthorizng the temporary loan be amended so as ,o enable the officers to take up bonds at my time when a lower rate of interest may >o secured. It is recommended that the aws in relation to the public printing be ■hanged so that, aside from a financial re-->ort of the Treasurer and Auditor of State, the reports be printed biennially, which can foe done at a cost of $32,000. The debt | mounts to $4,876,608, of which all but f 5607,825 is due to the school fund of the o(j —The William J. Wise will case, which has been on trial at Vincennes the past 'twenty-two days, terminated by the jury returning a verdict sustaining the will. The estate is valued at $500,000. The costs will be SBB,OOO. —Prof. J. C. Bedpath, Vice President of the Depauw University, h(is been offered the Presidency of the Indiana State University. H - -Andrew May, a venentble citizen of Indianapolis, was fvund dead in his buggy 1 . 4