Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 6, Number 43, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 22 January 1885 — Page 2

yappanct ®cchlg Jlcuih % vrPANEE. NEWS OF THE WEEK BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. XLVlllth CONGRESS. Second Session. Monday, Jan. IS. —Among the petitions Jireseute.l to the Senata was oue from Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, praying Congress to see that the votes cast for her at t*ke late Presidential election be counted. A long debate was engaged in as to whether Joffersou Davis had organized at Washington before the war a conspiracy against the I'linni. The House bill to prevent the unlawful occupancy of public lands was reported favorable: A joint resolution providing for the meeting of Itoth Houses in joint convention February 11 to count the Electoral vote was presented. In the House bills w ere introduced: To establish a Soldiers’Home iu California: to transfer one of the llreely relief vessels to the revenue service; to provide for the l>etter protection of the Northern and Northwestern frontier, ami to facilitate commerce and diminish expenses of exchange between the States. TvksdaY, Jan. h’l.— lu the Senate a resolution was passed calling hjH>n the , Secretary of War for i ertaiu documents i required to settle the controversy lietweeu General Sherman and Jtfferson Davis. Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill to authorize the President to place the name of General Cralit on the retired list. A House bill was passetl to repeal the laws governing pre-emption, desert lands and timber culture, and to amend the Homestead law. In the House a bill was passed limiting the time for the presentation of Ismuty and back-pay claims to three years from the passage of this act: of all other claims, except pensions, to six years: and providing that claims hereafter arisiug must be presented within six years from the time they originate. The announcement of the death of Schuyler Colfax was followed by an adjournment. Wednesday, Jan. 14.—The Senate, by a vote of to passed a bill to permit the appointment of General Grant to the retired list of the army. Au appropriation was made for the expense of messengers to lowa and Oregon to secure missing electoral returns. After a lo -g sjiet eh l>y Mr. Van Wyck on the Inter-State Commerce bill, an adjournment was ordered in respect to the memory of Schuyler Colfax. Iu the House a bill was passetl appropriating $1,7)00 to send special messengers to lowa aud Oregon to secure duplicate certificates of the . electoral vote of those States, which are ■ required by law. The Chinese Indemnity Euud hill, which also passed, authorizes the President to refund to the-Chinese Government $583,403 in coin. Mr. Weller introduced a bill to refund the bonded debt of the United States at 2b per cent, aud to reduce taxation on the circulating banknote currency. Thursday, Jan. 15.—1n the Senate Mr. Miller introduced a bill to increase the pension of the widow of Geueral George H. Thomas to SI,OOO per annum, lu executive session Mr. Morgau spoke in support of the treaty with Nicaragua. The House refused to concur in the Senate amendments to the six-months Naval Appropriation bill. The McPherson Funding bill, to enable National banks to secure ten per cent, additional circulation, wa# killed for the ’ session by adjourning for a caucus. Friday, Jan. 10.—Mr. Beck introduced n bill iu the-Senate to adjust the claims of any State for expenses incurred in the defense of the Uuited States, and Mr. Sabin introduced a measure for the relief of settlers under the Homestead law, extending the time oue year in which they may complete their titles. A long debate on the Inter-State Commerce bill followed. In the House a petition was presented iu favor of the Mexican Pension hill, signed by 1,800 persons. The Indian Appropriation bill, setting aside $.5,(104, lit;, was reported. A resolution to call up the bill passed by the Semite for the retirement of General Grant was defeated in the Committee on Military Affairs. Peusioa hills were considered at the evening session. FROM WASHINGTON. The exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing-houses iu the Uuited States during the week , ended on the (ith aggregated $774,480,200, against -s7Bti.OSt,:tU the previous week. As compared with the corresponding period of 1884, the falling- off amounts to $270,141,.Yd. Ex-President Hayes’ portrait was received bn the 15th at the White House, and would be hung iu the main corridor. The death of Hear-Admiral Powell occurred at Washington on the lilth. The annual report of the Department of Agriculture at Washington shows that the om production of the country last year was 1,706,000,000 bushels. Os wheat there w as 51:1,000,000 bushels, aud of oats 581,0001,OHI bushels. These are the largest aggregates ever recorded. There were 482 business failures in the United States and Canada during the seven days ended on the loth, against 470 the previous seven days. The distribution was ns follows: Middle States, 81; New England States, 52; Western, 100; Southern, 100; Pacific States and Territories, 57; Canada, 37. THE EAST. It was reported ou the 12th that a number of workmen while digging at Braddocks, Pa., on the 12th, near the scene of Braddork’s defeat, unearthed a chest containing several hundred thousand dollars iu gold. Duri.no 1881 there wer# :;20,50>) steerage passeugers aud 50,500 cabin passengers landed in New York City. * The other day Peter Houser and Thomas Purvis were instantly killed by the explosion of a boiler in a saw-mill opposite Williamsport, Pa., aud several others were severely injured. The Church of Gospel Temperance has been organized at Pittsburgh, and Francis Murphy, the temperance apostle, will lie called as its regular pastor. In the Slade Mill at Fall River, Mass., a fire on the 12tli caused a loss of -Joo.OOO. At Pittston, Pa., thrsje of the largest collieries of the Lehigh Coal Company shut flown on the l2th, and six hundred men ami two hundred boys were throw n out of employment. The other morning a four-ton distilling vessel in the soda-ash works near Syracuse, N. Y., exploded, the great iron tank ascending seventy-live feet and then crashing through the roof, wrecking machinery, etc., and causing a lossjof $75,000. Twelve men were wounded, several of them seriously. The Governor of New Jersey has issued a proclamation conveying a warning that pleuro-pneumou'a exists among the cattle in that State, and ordering a’l diseased cattle to be quarantined. During a quarrel a few evenings ago ■bout, the distribution of l>eer at a wedding at Camden,j N. J., George Zant, the bridegroom, was fatally shot by his brother John. Caftaia Isaiah Rvxde’rs, of New- York City, who figured prominently in politics for nearly fifty years, and was widely knowu ns “the war horse of the Democracy,’’ (licit suddenly at his residence on the night of the Util. In the Somerset (Pa.) chemical works, five hundred pounds of dynamite recently exploded, causing the burning to death of two men. All the houses in the town were shaken, and w indow-glass was shattered in residences half a mile from the scene. The failure is announced of J. B. Gregg & Son, of Binghamton, N..Y., boot and shoe manufacturers, lor $120,000. ■ Prof. Benjamin Sii.i.Ucan, of Yale College, died at Harfford, Conn., on the 14th.

Chester Darby, of Cortiaud, N. Y.J ■proprietor of a steam flouring-mill, failed recently w ith $117,000 liabilities. Barber Nichols, aged one hundred years, died ou the 15th at l.ockport, N. Y. Oliver Bros. & Phillips-, leading iron manufacturers of Pittsburgh, Pa., failed on the 15th for $5,000,000. The mills employed four thousand hands, and the payroll was over $250,000 a month. The other day Al>el Kiotharn, over eighty years of age. was burned to death in his home in New York City. The bauking firm of John .1. Cisco A Cos., of New York, failed ou the 15th for over $2,500,000. Four liOdies of infants were found buried under a bridge iu Franklin, Pa., a few wavs ago. They were in tough-boxes and one was but recently buried. The Maine County Commissioners- recently voted to aliolish the system_of workshops connected with the county jails. This action would doubtless lend to tile abolishment of the system in all the Maine prisons. Cuts in the price of passenger tickets across the Atlantic were being made on l‘ the 15tli, and the emigrant rate from New York to Chicago' had been reduced from thirteen dollars to eight dollars. The execution of George Traviss occurred on the 15th at -Wellsboro, Pa., for murdering a woman iu 188.1, aaid cremating her eoppso in au attempt to conceal t e crime. On the 15th the American Protective Tariff Association, the object of w hich is to secure and maintain protection to American labor and American industries, was organized iu New York City. A statement wi.s made by William Gates, eighteen-years old, ou the lilth, at Warren, N. Y., that Mrs. Druse killed her husband December 17 last, and buried the remains. The woman compelled Gates to assist in the tragedy, and both-w ere placed ill custody. A gas tank exploded in the oil-works at Point Breeze, Pa., a few days ago, and four employes were fatally injured. According to reports on the lilth to Urail*trert's the general commercial situation throughout the country was slightly improving, but the industrial outlook, owing to strikes East ami West) was considered discouraging. WEST AND SOUTH. On the 1:1th Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of South Bend, Ind., arrived at Mankato, Minn., w alked three-fourths of a mile to the Omaha depot in an atmosphere thirty degrees below zero, aud withal five minutes thereafter expired from heart-disease. He was born in New- York city iu 182:1. He served seven terms in Congress, was three times elected Speaker of the House, and lieeame Vice-President iu 1800. Since retiring to private life he had spent much time in the lecture-field. Ex-Treasurer Heed, of Wilmington, 0., was on the lilth said to be short $1.5,001 in his accounts. On the morning of the I.lth striking employes (mostly Poles) of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works at South Bend, liul., assembled at the works aud permitted no person to enter, maiming those who made the attempt. Several persons were wounded by the rioters, and great excitement prevailed. The Veteran Guards, G. A. K., turned out and stopped the riot. More trouble was expected. The death of Governor Hale, of Wytiming Territory, occurred on the evening of the lilth at Cheyenne, at the age of for-ty-eight years. A boiler exploded the other morning iu a saw-mill at Sinithfield, 0., killing three men and mortally wouiMiug two others. At Leadville, Col., George Waiter attempted suicide recently, claiming in a letter that he desired to explore the other would. In Alabama the recent cyclone caused great destruction of property in Hale, Perry, Bibb,’ Chilton, Macon and Green counties. The path of the storm was half a mile wide. Five persons lost their lives and numerous horses and cattle were killed.

While intoxicated English sailors boarded a British bark the other day at Portland, Ore., and a fight arose between the crew aboard aud the intruders, marlinspikes ami hand-spikes beiiig . used w ith deadly effect. Three men were fatally wounded ami several others were badly injured. W. W. O'Brien, of Chicago, the noted criminal lawyer, diet! on the 13th, of peritonitis, in his fifty-first year. A motion in the Illinois House of Representatives on the 11th to proceed to the election of a Speaker anti Clerk was promptly declared by Speaker Haines to be out of order, he claiming to be the presiding officer. A loug argument by Mr. Liuegar was followed by an adjournment to the 11th. Chicago scalpers were on the 11th selling round-trip tickets to New Orleans for sl2, while the regular rate was S2O. Great suffering and loss of stock on the north ami south sides of the Red River, in Louisiaua, caused by floods from recent rains, was reported on the 14th. At least five thousand head of stock were lost. The dedication of the new capitol building at Bismarck, 1). TANARUS., occurred ou the evening of the 14th. At Charleston, S. 0., two colored men were crushed to ileath a few days ago by the caving in of a pile of fertilizers at the works of Wilcox, Gibbs & Cos. •' After several months of idleness work was on the 14th resumed l>y fo9r tobacco factories at Lynchburg, Ya., and others were preparing to start, giving employment to two tuoiisaml colored laborers. „Tiie other night w hile intoxicated Lewis ami Harry Priest Brothers, were killed by a train near Delaware, (>. On the evening of the 14th the remains of Hon. Schuyler Colfax, v. hi.’.ietl suddenly at Mankato, Minn., arrived at South Bend, lml., ami were escorted to his late residence by numerous sorrowing friends. A,shortage of $10,o:m was discovered ci the 14th in the accounts oi Thomas H. Graham, cashier of the Baltimore & Ohio works at Mount Clare, 11% He was missing. The Wurwick County (Va.) Gralnl Jury on the 14th found indictments against nineteen office-holders of that county for fraud. As the. Grand'Jury was still in session it was thought that other indictim-iits would follow. An insolvent banker of Augusta, (la., George P. Curry, was found guilty of farceuy ou the Mitli anti sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Curry is worth s.HM,01 HI. , a The Nevada Legislature oil the I Ith reelected John P. Join s (Hep.) to the. Unite!) States Senate. * The Legislature of Wisconsin ne t at Madison on tile 14th. Edward S. Miner was chosen President of the Senate anil Hiram O. Fairchild Speaker of the lions*. The West Virginia Legislature convened on the 14th at Wheeling. George K. Price was elected President of the Senate ami B. F. Dennis Speaker of the House. A joint resolution was proposed in the lmliana Legislature ou the 14th fixing the terms of all county officers at four years, and making them ineligible for more than one term at a time. In the Michigan Senate bills were introduced ou the 15th to amend the Constitution „so as to prohibit the traffic in liquor, and to re-establish capital punishment for murder. J.n Eastern Texas heavy rajus hail on the 15th washed out ruilroad tracks, seriously impeding travel. The death of Judge J. W. Dunlop, of Kansas City, from wounds received by the accidental discharge of a pistol, occurred ou the !7>th. While intoxicated Michael Maney, n farmer of Saxton Station, Mo., started home the other night, but took the wrong track, got bewildered, and, lying down, was frozen to deu li. The inauguration of Governor Hughes, of Arkansas, took place on the 15th. A settlement was recently established by four Mormon elders near Spartansburg, S. C., ami twenty-three Indian converts from York County had been taken there.

The death of Thomas Farrell, aged one hundred and eleven years, occurred ou the I.sth at St. Paul, Minn. Charlotte Hook, aged forty-five, hanged herself recently at Baltimore, w hen about to bo arrested for spending $:!00 belonging to another which w as left iu her care. On the 15th the bodies of two young men, Thomas Haiveyand Sauiuel Knox, were found in Brush Pond, G-reene County, Ind., where they had been drowned New Year’s Day. w hile out hunting. A stock dealer named Sanui- 1 . Williams was murdered the other night by a highwavjl in nearHetl Key, Ind. The assassin flettr, itliout securing the .fI.iMXI his victim pwcsscd. The other night Mrs. Mary McCoy and her infant child were l unit'd to death near Winfield. W. V;. lx Chicago the spt eial G anti Jury concluded its uin stigaliou of the Eighteenth Ward election fraud oil the lilth, kind voted to indict Mack in, Gallagher, Shields, llansbrtnigh, Sullivan. Bieltl anil Gleason, Mat-kin was also indicted separately for perjury in sw ai ing Unit he did, not- order the bogus tickets. In the Indiana Senate a bill was introduced ou tlic lilth prohibiting aliens from bolding real estate. The store of F. W. Thornton, at Lafayettoville,. N. C.. valued at sUs,ooti, was destroyed by a recent lire. I.asT October a three-hundred pound hog, ovt tied ty Farmer Buchanan, at Rosette. 111., was accidentally buried under a straw-rick. The animal was .'unearthed alive on the Kith, anti found to weigh but twentv-tive bounds, I lit had increased its avoirdupois materially since its discovery. Throughout the entire West snow- tell heavily during the ten hours ended on the evening of the litth, reaching as far South as Northern Texas. Railway traffic was greatly impeded. The execution of William' Felix ll?nry (colored) occurred on the Kith at Kdwardsville. 111., for murdering two negroes in 18811, Weight Leroy was hanged at San Francisco for choking Nicholas Skerret ter deat h. On the St. Paul Road a passenger train was ditched the other night near Storm Lake, la. One coach was turned over, and several persons were injured. A resolution was adopted bv the Ohio Legislature on tile l'lith- for a joint committee to inquire into the cause of the strike in the Hocking Valley, and report on the condition of affairs w ithin a month. G. W. Muri-uy, for circulating false reports against the character of a young lady at Amerieus, Ga.,was taken from his house the other night by a of young men, stripped to the waist and given thirty-nine lashes with a cowhide. By the bursting of au engine-boiler at Laclede, Mo., a few mornings ago four men were probably fatally scalded. Martin Dei. Escobel, a tobacco manufacturer of New Orleans, failed recently for $214,000. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. T.he Spanish city of Alhama was again shaken by earthquake on the 11th just ns King Alfonso amt suite were leaving the place. Mexican soldiers stntioued at Ensenada mutinied the other night, murdered their Captain, his wife ami several other persons, ami lied with arms and ammunition. They were reported to be making for Uuited States territory. In Italy vast tracts of land were inundated on the l.lth by the overflow of the River Tiber. The stream had risen fortyfeet ami Rome was threatened. Official records ou the 14th placed the number of killed by the recent earthquake gi the Province of Grenada, Spaiu, at ISO, and the number injured at 1,480. In the French) Chamber of Deputies on the 14th Prime Minister Ferry said that the Government had decided ou the iniitieijiato and complete occupation of Tonquin as the only means to settle the Chinese difficulty. A statement was made ou the 14th by Superintendent Mallon, of the Dublin police, that Feuiauisui was rampant iu all the mining towns ami manufacturing centers of England. In Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Newcastle and Liverpool this form of lawlessness was at its worst-. A eew nights ago Police Commissioner Riimpff was killed at Frankfort-on-the-Main in front of his own house. It was believed that the murder was the work of Anarchists. It is saitl that a bed of salt ninety feet deep has been discovered at Bothw ell, tint. In a coal mine in France an explosion on the 1.5t1i buried forty-eight men. The bodies of twenty-eight of them had been brought to the surface. Advices of the I.sth state that civil war hint broken out in the United States of Colombia. A battle was fought at Tunja, the result being the defeat of the Federal forces, aud the killing of their commander, General Moutisfar. Outbreaks of a desperate character had also occurred in Santander aud Boyaea. The revolutionists seek to overturn the liberaPState Governments as a preliminary to an effort to displace President Nunez. At Lyons, France, au Anarchist plot was unearthed oif the 15th which contemplated the seizure by night of arms and the immediate proclamation of a revolution.

LATER. r At 4:25 o’clock on tho morning of tha I?th a detached waul of tho Eastern Illinois Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee was totally destroyed by fire. The building was occupied by forty-five patients, six attendants and one night watchman. Seventeen patients wero missing, and up to five o’clock iu the evening thirteen bodies had been taken from tho ruins, burned beyond recognition. P Amos (Henderson’s banking-house at Lancaster, I’a., oue of the oldest iu tho country, failed on the 17th. The funeral services over the remains of the late ex-Vice President Colfax took place at South Bend, Ind., on the 17th. Edmund About, the French journalist and novelist, died on the 17th iu Paris, aged fifty-seven yenis. Further shocks of earthquake were experienced on the 12th at Granada aud Canillas, Spain, ami Malaga was suffering from the severest sm w-stonn since 1801. . Railroads all over the country were blockaded by snow on the ISth and telegraph wires were down everywhere. A rill was introduced! into the Legislature of Dakota on the 17t.h to remove tho Capital from Bismarck to Pierre. Dispatcher of the 17th from Texas continued to report great loss to cattle ami sheep by the severe cold weather iu various parts. Tiie bouse of Ahial Ketcham, at Huntington, R. 1., was destroyed by fire on the 17tli, ami Mr. Ketcham and his wife, au aged couple, perished iu the flumes. Ten miles of telegraph poles in tho vicinity of Cincinnati wfere destroyed by a wind-storm on the 17th. The packet Admiral Moorsom and the ship Santa Anna collided near Holyhead, ou the British coast, a few nights ago, and the former vessel was lost, with twentytwo lives. The residence of a Mr. Phillips, at Mobile, Ala., was burned by au iueontliary on the 17th, anti Mr. Phillips, liis wife aud daughter perished in the flames. ■ K i.agkN fu htii, the capital of the Province of Corinthin, in Austria, was visited by an nvahiiieho on the 18th, which wrecked several buildings and killed twenty of the inhabitants. Many others were injured and rendered homeless. A hurricane which swept over Steubenville, 0., the other night caused damage estimated at .$250,(Mi1. The First Presbyterian Church was oj complete wreck. In the United States Senate on the 17th Mr. Slater’s amendment tolfce Inter-State Commerce bill prohibiting higher rates for short than for longer hauls was defeated by a vote of 11 to 32. In tho House, in Committee of the Whole, a long debate took place on the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill, after which the measure was passed.

THE FIRE AT KANKAKEE, ILL. Destruction of *4 AYing of the Pastern Illinois Insane Asylum—Many Inmates Darned to Deatli. Kvnkakkk, 111.. .lan. ID. — At 4 :3<J O'clock yesterday morning the south infirmary. a detached ward ol the Eastern Illinois Hospital for the Insane, was discovered to tv on lire. The dames igniting in the furnace-loom had got a good start behire tlit*v were noticed. The woodwork ot the building being of Southern pine burned vert rapidly. The building was occupied by forty-live patients, si\ attendants amt one night-watchman. Seven I ecu patients are missing; thirteen bodies have (veil recovered. They are burned beyond recognition. All ol' the patients were infirm and incurable. The .lieu-ridden ones were rescued first. and those who were aide to help themselves did not realize flic danger, and were the'ones who perished. Tlte attendants lost all their personal effects, and many narrowly escaped. There were no facilities for putting out tin* lire, the State hot having uiade any appropriation for that purpose. The follow ing i erished. Henry Brown. Kock Island; II W. Ileldeii. nai**slmrgt George Itcnnett. Morris; Joseph Collvrt, Chicago; Orlando Kllis, Poiitiae; .). W. Galloway. Macoupin; Thomas Hickey. Springtlcld; Matthew Hague. I lieliaiiee; T. Haeloier. Stephenson County; Thomas Hereley. I liieago; John Johnson, YermiH on; Ma InuTJordan. t'liieago; .1 Natiian, t liieago; A. Ituiiyai'd. Winnebago County; t’. Slvbt/, Ctiicago: .1. W . T\ U-l, I h.cag'o; I . Weymouth, Pul uaiu t‘ounty. The building was a two-story- stone and brick, with tin wood ahoiit it 'except the Homs and stairways. It was completed last August at a cost of It was heated by hot-air furnaces. When tfie Humes broke out Attendants Brow n and Loss and wife were sleeping on the seimml floor, and Attendants Reid and Wtuiums and Fireman La Barge on the first tloor. It was l;i degrees below zero when the watchman discovered smoke issuing front the tloor immediately above the furnace. He awoke the attendants. Tim smoke at once was drawn through the hotair tines and along the halls and stairways to all parts of the building. Tlte tire spread so rapidly that all efforts to save tlte building in the absence of a tire alarm to summon help, and for want of facilities to quench the tlames, were in vain. Attenertut- W, A. lieid began dragging and carrying out patients as soon as the alarm was given. Many of tlte patients, chid in their night clothing only, nisht and from the bitter cold air Imck into the building. Reid, at the risk of his own life, struggled on nutil twenty -one of Ihejw eiitythree patients in his department were rescued, when he .became exhausted and was carried to bed. On the second floor Attendants Bose and wife heard the alarm and escaped down the stairway just before it fell. Attendant Brown, sleeping on the same floor, was awakened by the smoke and attempted to save a patient in an adjoining room and failed, and. sliding down a sheet from his window, jumped to the ground. Superintend! lit 1!. S. Devfey reached the scene, and w ith ladders climbed to the seeond story windows, smashed the windows, and was able to rescue several patients thereby. Almost all the patients refused to co-operate in the efforts Iving made to save them, ami were only rescued by being dragged from the tlames and held from returning; A marvelous eseaiv was that of an inmate who fell w ith the second tloor. struck the burning debris above tiie furnace, and bounded through a window to the ground uninjured. The remains of the bodies of twelve patients have been taken from the ruins, burned to fragments. They can be identified only by the-location in w hich they were found. The bodies of tilt* dead thus identified were at the coroner’s puniest yesterday afternoon. Night Watchman Cobbs, who discovered the tlames, testitied that he registered a report of his calls every half hour. The register showed lie visited the furnace-room at :: :T0 oVbvk and found it all right. At -l :10 o'clock he discovered the lire. The floor immediately above the furnace liad been frequently noticed by tlrs attendants slee|>iug there to tv uncomfortably hot. The furnace was roofed by sheet-iron, two layers of brick laid in mortar, with a space of but siv inches between them and the pine joists. The remains' of the bodies, with one exeeppon, did not aggregate a sufficient quantity of charred fragments to lilt it man's hat. Tin- entire remains of ten were spread on a small table two feet square.

BURIED BY AN AVALANCHE. A Portion of Kiagonfurt, Austria, Over\vhelinMl by an Kaornious Snow-Slide— Twenty-Five Corpses Found and Many Persons Still Missing. New Youk, ‘Jan. UK —A London cablegram to the Journal, dated .laimary IT, says: Dispatches (from the continent;describe an enormous snow-slide in the mountainous province of Corinthia, in Austria, wh'ch overwhelmed in an instant the IMirtion -of the city of Klagenfiirt which lies under the Alpine foothills. The snowfall has been unusually heavy t-liis winter, but no danger was anticipated until the middle W last week, when slight eartluiuake shocks were reported at various points in the Carnic Alps. Thee there was anxiety in Klagenfurt, not merely because the eartluiuake might visit them, but because a. slight vibration of the mountains would start an avalanche that might wreck the old historic town. This morning, when the worshipers were on their w ay to the cathedral, a heavy rumbling was heard far up the mountains. A glance upward from tin-city, saw the snow-clad snrfaee in billowy motion, and in less than, three minutes the avalanche came with a crash and roar upon the outskirts of the town, burying some houses thirty feet deep in snow, and sweeping lighter structures la-tore it like straw. Parties of men nt once rushed to the rescue of the overwhelmed citizens. On the upper* slo|>e it was found that many habitations had been utterly swept away. Twentylive corpses were discovered, some of them stripped of every particle of clothing and horribly mangled. Nearly a hundred persons were found to be suffering from contused wounds or crushed and helpless under beams and snow. Lower down the work of digging out the snow-imprisoned victims was begun and carried on with vigor. Many were rescued. On the upm-r slope a little child was found unhurt, though imprisoned under a heap of debris which had been stopped from descending to the valley by a bowlder. Its parents and their dwelling had been swept away. Funeral of Schuyler Colfax. Sot lit 15r.Ni>, Ind.. Jan. It*. —Shortly after eight o'clock Saturday morning the Colfax residence here was thrown open to give the friends of the late Mr. Colfax an opportunity to view the remains as they lay in state. At two o'clock the body was borne to the Deformed Church, where Dev. N. D. Williamson. Mr. Colfax's former pastor, conducted the funeral services. The seats in the auditorium were nearly all neon pied by members of the Legislature and of the various societies of which tne deceased was a member. After an eloquent sermon the procession, the largest ever seen in the city, took its way to the City Cemetery, where the remains were interred. Cattle Dying of Hunger and Thirst. Sr. Loris, Mo., Jan. It*. —Dispatches from Texas continue to report great loss of cattle and sheep by the late cold' weather on many ranges in the northern and westerly part of the State. <treat numbers of cattle have drifted southward till stopped by wire fencing running many miles east and west, and are now dying by hundreds, and even thousands, from hunger, thirst and cold. The loss is chiefly on ranges which had suffered from drought, grass and water being scarce and the cattle in poor condition. It is estimated that ten per cent, of the cattle and twenty per cent, of the sheep have perished. The Panama Canal. Nkw Youk, Jan. it). —Nathaniel McKay, formerly one of the leading shipbuilders of the country, has recently visited Panama, lie reports that the Panama Canal is propressing amazingly and that in Jive years it will be completed. Laborers are being inqiorted in large numbers from the West Indies and- a quantity of machinery is being brought from Scotland to assist in digging the canal after it has reached water level. The deo|iest cut is between two and three hundred feet. The earth excavated has to l>e carried milea away. It will probably cost 5100,000,000 to complete the canal. Mr. McKay thinks that the De Lesscps people will have to charge of the cities along the line.

A MUSICAL ENTERPRISE. Arrangements for a Grand Opera Festival In Chicago, fuller the Dlreetorship of Fnergetic and Public-Spirited Citiaens — The Distinguished and Talented Artists fen gaged-Other Attractions. Chicago, jtiii. i:..-In answer to a very general demand for grand opera at jiopular prices, and with a view at the same time of producing the inspired works of the masters with greater perfection and grandeur than has heretofore obtained in our country, the Opera Festival Association of Chicago las been eiilisting id its Board of Directors many of our most energetic and public-spirited citizens. I bey have arranged to have the Exposition Building for the first festival, w hich w ill be on April ti • I Faster Monday), and last two weeks. An auditorium with a seating capacity of eight thousand will he erected, a large stage and a handsomely decorated procenium built. The room w ill he heated and comfortable scats furnished; a grand promenade and salon for refreshment and social intercourse between acts w ill lie elegantly lifted up. and ladies and gents’ dressing-rooms prepared, so that the charm of elaborate toilets may in- indulged in by tlie lair sex. The association has contracted w ith Colonel .1. H. Mapleson for his entire troupe, which will not only include I‘atti, Scalchi, Nevada. Cardinclli, the famous tenor, and the great baritone. DeAna. SerUilini, the famous basso, but also, by special contract. Mine. Futsh-Madi and the celebrated tenor, Gianini. Mine. I’atti will emphasize the event by making her last appearance before our people prior to her final departure f->r Europe- and will signalize her farewell with her first appearance as Elsa ih Wagner's favorite work. “Lohengrin.’’ A feature of the festival will he the grand local chorus of two hundred fresh voices, already drilling under Mr. Craft's direction, in addition to the sixty now in the troupe. The orchestra will als> be increased to 100 musicians, under Signor Arditi's direction, and all the stage auxiliaries will be upon a proportionate scale. The repertory will comprise "Lohengrin,” “Faust,” “Aida," “L Atricaine." “Huguenots,'’ “Martha,” “Semiramide,'' “UPuritani,” “11 Trovatore,” “l>er Freischutz. ’ “Traviata" and “Mirella" for the novelty, thus embracing works from the Herman, Italian and French schools. The prices will be the same as the May festival. SI. 8“ and $2.50, and in anticipation of large excursion parties from distant cities excursion rates will be secured on the railroads, thus enabling strangers to throng the city and contribute to a grand gala carnival of song. The building itself w ill be made an attractive feature, by means of the grand promenade richly decorated, and the salon w here works of art (sculpture and painting) w ill contest with foliage plants and flowers tor tlte attention. Large mirrors beautifully draped w ill reflect the beauty of fair women and gallant men, and the European style of leaving the scats between acts will be cn rc'jcl. A large number of private boxes ftiul proscenium Inixes w ill accommodate those who desire to be somewhat exclusive, and a driveway into the building has been planned. Mr. Ferd. W. Beck, the public-spirited citizen, is president of the Association, and the following gentlemen are associated with him on the Board of Directors: William lVini Nixolt, Louis Wahl, t-eorge Schneider, -lohn It. Walsh, A. A. Sprague. Eugene Carey, C. L. Hutchinson, George F. 1 larding. S. G. Pratt is the Musical and General Director for the Association.* With these energetic men to manage ,the affairs Iff the festival, and such names as Joseph Medill, N. K. Fairbank and C. M. Henderson to bead the list of guarantors, tin* prospects are indeed extraordinary for Chicago's first grand opera festival. THE REAGAN BILL. Some of tiie Interesting Points io the InterState Commerce Hill as It Passed the House. Washington, -lan. 14.- The Reagan Inter-State Commerce hill, at, passed by the House, contains live provisions which were not in the original draft. The first amendment provides that any jierson having purchased a ticket to be conveyed from one State to another, and having paid the its quired fare, shall receive thu same treatment and equal facilities and accommodations as are furnished to all other persons holding the same class of tickets, without discrimination, but railroads may provide separate accommodations for passengers as they may deem tiest for the public comfort ami safety, or which in their judgment relates to transportation between points wholly within one State, providing that no discrimination is made on account of race or color, and that furnishing separate aeenmmodations with equal facilities and equal comforts at the same charges shall not bt considered a discrimination. Railroads' art prohibited from charging more for a short than for a longer haul upon the same continuous line of road. This provision is made to apply to the oil pipe lines. it is made the duty of railroad companies to post a copy of changes in their schedules of raft in at least two places at every depot tiv days Instore it goes into effect, and withit fifteen days after posting to file a copy ot tfie changes with the Clerk of the Unitec States Circuit Court of each district throng! which the road passes. Circuit and District Courts are empowered, u|sm application ot any person, firm, railroad, or other corporation or association alleging undue or unjust discrimination against a ]ierson in violatior of this act, to issue a mandamus Com manding the offender to furnish facilities for transportation for the par ty applying for tiie writ, upon such terms as may seem just and projier to the court in order to preventjmnjust diseriminatior against the complainant. Tin* proceedings are to Ih* as in other eases of mandamus, and in eases of urgent necessity or involving the transmutation of perishable goods. The writs of alternate mandamus may t>< made returnable forthwith, but no writ ol peremptory mahdamus shall issue until tin relator shall have given security to pay the do fondant proper legal charges for the services required to be performed. The remedy bj niaiHtamiw is made cumulative, and is not to exclude or interfere with other .remedies provided in’ the act. No cause brought under the act in a State Court of competent jurisdiction may be removed to any United States Court. The following is an analysis of the vot< by which the bill was passed in the House to-day: Yeas —Demm’iats, 128; Republicans, tits; total, 101. Nays- -Democrats, JO: Republicans, 40; total, 75. Fatal Explosion. Somkkskt. Pa., Jan. 15. — The Somerset chemical works, two miles cast of this place, where nitroglycerine and all grades of high explosives arc manufactured, was the scene of a terrible explosion vest i\la> afternoon.. Five men Were at work in ti e packing-house, when dynamite ignited from a red-hot poker which one ol the men was using in 'boring a hole in the door. In a second th( whole building was in tlames, and tin men with their clothing on fire started tc run. They were but a short distance from the building when live hundred pounds ol dynamite, packed ready for shipment, exploded. Two of the men were found ahold sixty rods away burned t< a crisp. State Pension Agent Proposed. Washington, Jan. 15.—The House Committee on Pensions on Tuesday consul. **d with Commissioner of Pensions Clark concerning the advisability of having on • Pension Agent in each State to attend to the claims of soldiers and be the medium of the department's work in the State. The Commissioner thought the id**a was a good one, in view of the large number of letters the department was requested to write to Congressmen in regard to the claims of their constituents. Much delay in the business of the department was occasioned by several members calling up the same case. Law and Order Convention. Nkw Voiik, Jan. It!.—The Citizens' Law and Order League of the United States, organized to secure a better enforcement of the laws existing in the several States for the restriction of the liquor traffic, will hold its third annual meeting in the city of New York on the 23d and 23d of Et*l>ruary, 1885. The 22d day of February falls npon Sunday, and the officers of the league request all clergymen throughout the country to address their congregations upon that day upon the. subject of a better enforcement of the restrictions placed by law npon the liquor traffic. All Law and Order leagues are requested to hold a public meeting on Monday, the 23d day of February.

A SUDDEN CALL. Drath of F-A-Vh-e-President Colfax—While Among; Strangers He Receives a Sudden Call from the Grim Reaper—lie Dies Suddenly of lleait Disease In a Depot at Mankato, Minn.—The News at Ills Home lu scut h Head Brief Biographical Sketch. MiNNKAeoi.is, Minn., Jafi. 15.—Ex-Vice-President Schuyler CtjlfdX dropped dead at the Omaha depot in Mankato, Minn., at 10:30 yesterday morning. Mr. Colfax arrived on the Milwaukee l!o;ul from tii*j East ut ten o'clock, and walked to the Omaha deimt, a distance of three fourths of a mite, witli the thermometer 30 degrees below zero. After arriving at the depot lie lived only atiout five minutes. It is siqqsised that the extreme cold, the subsequent heat and the over-exertion caused the stoppage of the flow of blood to the heart. Tiie remains were taken in charge by the odd Fellows and now lie in wait at Dr. Harrington's residence. Every attention is being paid the remains. Word lias been sent to the family of the deceased.' The President lias been notified, amt orders are now awaited for. Later details of the sad occurrence state that there was nothing in Mr. Colfax's manner when la* entered the depotto attract the attention of the other oeeupants of the room Frank S. Strunk, of Lake Crystal, and Frank P. Band and Fred If. Leighton, of Minneapolis. They noticed that lie was breathing hard, tint thought nothing of it, considering that a fast walk was the cause, lie lookid out of the window and at a limp on the wall, and then seated liims *lf upon a hem h in the room, crossing one leg over the knee of flu* other. Aland five minutes alter lie entered the room Mr. Strunk noticed his leg dtdp from the knew ujmiu which it was resting, and that hjs tact* was growing pale. The gentleman in the room hastened to his assistance, thinking that the sudden change of temperature had caused him to faint; tint he gave only one gasp and was dead. He had not spoken after entering the room, his last words being those of thanks to the baggageman who had directed him to the waiting room. No one knew the identity of the man who had passed away .so suddenly until a letter was noticed in his pocket directed to “lion. Schuyler Colfax. South Bend." Ollier letters found upon his person left no doubt that the body was that of Mr. Cotlax. Coroner Paddock was notified, and during the afternoon held an inquest. The •jury summoned consisted of It. D. Hibbard, J. F. Magher, J. W. llocrr, \V. 1,. Coon, S. F. Barney and \Y. D. Cole, and after examining four witnesses the jury rendered a verdict in accordance with tin* above facts. Mr. Colfax was en route to Huron. D. TANARUS., oil business connected with Odd-Fellowship, of which be was a prominent member. Soi tii 15kmi, Ind., Jail. 14.—The news of the deatli of Mr. Colfax created the greatest sorrow in this city, where he passed his life from boyhood, and where lie was so highly honored and respected. He left here Monday morning at seven o'clock. A note from him to a friend said he was compelled to leave that morning to fill engagements in Northern lowa which were made months ago. It would* seem that Mr. Colfax had a premonition of death. On Saturday lie said: “I have appointed Mr. George \Y. Matthews my executor." When asked it he expected to pass aw ay soon, lie replied: “1 am liable to drop dead any moment.'’ His remains will reach here Thursday lit ruing. A delegation of citizens will go from here to Chicago to receive them. Mrs. Colfax is completely prostrated. Telegrams of consolation are pouring in upon her from every part of the country. Schuyler Colfax was boru in New York City, March 23, ISCSI, lu IS#! the family moved to Indiana, and settled in New Carlisle. St. Joseph County. In IS4I they moved to South Bend, where'Schuyler was appointed Deputy Auditor, and began the study of the hfw. tu 1845 he established the Nt. josrpli Valley Zc f/tstir. In I.GB lie was sent as a delegate to the Wing Convention at Philadelphia, in which body he was elected Secretary, Ih ISSII lie was a member ot the Indiana State Constitutional Convention: in 1.-51 lio ran for Congress. l>ut was defeated; in fiSK lie was a delegate to and Secretary of the Whig National Convention at Baltimore. Two years later lit* was elected to Congress; and subsequently is* elected-for six successive terms. In 1803 he was chosen Speaker ot the House, and re-chosen in 18*15 and again in IStiT. In May, ISOS, lie was nominated for Vice-Presi-dent by tin* Itcpuhlican National Convention, on the ticket witli Grant, and was inaugurated Vice-President March 4, 1809. Since that time he has not held a public* office.

HAVOC BY THE WINDS. The Cyclone Which Swept Alabama of l : nprecidentel Violence—Few Lives l-ost, but a Vast Amount of Property destroy el. V Ecfaci.A, Ala., Jan. 14.—The storm of Sunday night last was almost unprecedented in severity. The storm arose about nine in the evening, and was accompanied by vivid lightning and heavy peals of thunder, llale. Perry, 15ihl>, Chilton, Macon and (ireon Counties ail suffered great destruction of prop-rty-Thc storm crossed the Louisville it Nashville Railroad, fifty miles north of Montgomery. Near Calera. on the same road, a freight train was blown off the track and ditched, the engine overthrown, and ears damaged considerably, but fortunately no lives were lost in the wreck. The cyclone's path was half a mile wide, and traces of destructiveness are left on every side. Three men were killed at tho camp ground in Macon County. Trees, fences and houses were swept away like chaff. Among the debris of one house demolished near Calera the dead body of a man was found so terribly mangled as to render recognition impossible. Another man, name unknown, was killed near the Cahaba ltiver in the western part of the State. Forests were laid waste, trees several feet in diameter being torn in splinters. Wherever the cyclone struck the railroads the track was strewn with trees, telegraph poles and wires. In many places wagon travel is stopped. Houses several miles from the path of the storm were made to tremble as if moved by the upheaval of an earthquake. On several large plantations stock was killed and houses razed to the ground. In (ireen County cotton bales were blown hundreds of feet in the air, and near Kutaw a house was struck by lightning and burned to tlic ground. The cyclone's career was one of unabated fury and destruction. The people of Alabama have suffered le>ss of property to the amount of thousands of dollars, besides loss of human life. Thousands of Bills Destroyed. Coi.i.ixsvii.t.K, 111., Jan. 14.—At an early hour yesterday morning lire broke out in the L. C. Moore bell-factory at this place. It is supposed the tire was started by a match thrown on tho floor by a young man who roomed in 'he build :.g. When tho tire-engine an' . 1 it was discovered to be useless, as the pi|>e was choked up with ice, and the factory was totally destroyed. Loss about-410,000; no insurance. The bell factory burned was the, oldest and most extensive in tie- I’uited States, and fifteen thousand dozen bells were destroyed. The business was cstablisi.--1 in 1840, and for the past seven or eight years had been run by O. 15. VYD. ,>n. Blown Into the Air. Sykaoisk, x. Y„ Jan. 14.—Yesterday morning early a '.urge distiHing vessel at the Salvay Process soda-ash works, font miles west of here, exploded with terrific force. Building.; in the city were shaken, and many persons were awakened from sleep. The vesst 1 was of iron and weighed four tons. It was blown at least seventy-live feet in the air, and came crashing .through the roof of the main building, in which about fifty men were at work. Many of these were injured by falling debris, ami several were scalded when the vessel exploited. No deaths are reported. The damage is estimated at about 840,000. Phelan’s Recovery Assured by Surgeon Mack. New York, Jan. 14.— Surgeon Mack, of the Chambers Street Hospital, said last night that the recovery of Captain Phelan was assured. A sensation is coming among the dynamite leaders, and Captain Phelan says lie will make a statement, backed by official papers, that will drive O'Donovan Rossa out of the dynamite business and end his career as an Irish agitator. Strict police protection is maintained ove>- th' wounded utan day and night

CONTRACTORS. Growth or Their Operations mil Nature or Their Work. To many people the word contractor presents the idea of a person combining the salient characteristics of a political “boss" and the custodian of a trust fund: a man whose pockets are lined with money gotten by ways that are dark and tricks that arc by no means vain ;ts iar as accomplishing the gathering iti Hi shekels is concerned. But so far from being a social outcast and a moral excrescence on the community, the contractor is an extremely active and important factor in modern civilization, for he has a hand in nearly every, work of public or private importance that is undertaken. He is essentially a modern institution. Among the ancients lie appears in but one restricted sphere. Tho i* interesting oil despots, whose sole cod and aim in life was to squeeze the last penny out of their subjects, u-ed to farm out the revenues, delegating the squeezing process to that ilm* of their beloved and trusted subjects who would pay the most for the contract. Further than this,, however. tin' system does not seem to have tw'en applied. There is no record of the’ letting of contracts for brick-work on the Tower of Babel. Noah did not ad. vertise for proposals to build the Ark. And we have every reason for believing that the stoic which went into the Great Pyramid was ‘•l>oi>ght in open market," for. if furnished by contract, it would have been a bigger job than tin’ Philad dphia citv buildings. Hating front the tirst building of railroads in England, when the elder Brasscy and his compeers On the continent laid tiic foundations of their colossal fortunes, the modern contract system has ilo>*’opetl until now everything, from | lifting up a country school-house or furnishing the inmates of the city's charitable institutions with Thanksgiving dinn as. up t > balding a twenty, niill'on-do'lar State House which threatens to slide down hill into the river, is done by contract. Some well equipped journals devote their columns entirely to tlie discussing and advertising of contracts, and e\ cry daily has its corner reserved for the latter. In this country contracting received a great stimulus during the civil war, when the major portion of three billions of dollars went out of the Government Treasury into the pockets of a host of army contractors. There are three great classes of American contractors —tho-e engaged upon internal improvements, those il*>ing railroad and municipal work, and Indian contractors. The tirst class includes a number of firms th •oughout the country who are eng'g il in improving the National waterways. Their prosperin' 11 actuates with the varying proportions of the River and Harbor bill. To the second class our railroads and city improvements owe their existenc *. The typical contractor is the jolly, largelimbed Irishman who lias himself swung the pick and handled the shovel. In the city he is something of a politician and has a ‘•cousin’’ or two in or near tiie City Hall, who givesh’m “pointers’’ on coming jobs, and lets him into the ring. On railroad Work he must make himself "solid" with the engiu'eer in charge, for his fate is entirely in the latter's hands. By means of his estimates of work upon which all bids are base 1. it is in the power of the engineer to make or break the contractor. A liberal estimate makes glad the heart and fat the pocket-book of the contractor. while with a close or scant estimate the completion of the contract leaves him on the ragged edge of bankruptcy. The labor employed varies in nationality. Tp to IS7O Ireland furnished nearly all of jt. Since then Italians and Hungarians in the East. Swedes in the West and Clfnese upon the Pacitic coast have largely supplanted Patrick. —A. Y. Tribune. MUSIC-BOXES. Popular Air* Coneoaletl in Common Ar.tl- ** <*l*** Which Bring Fancy Prices* "Tiie demand for fine music-boxes is greatly on the increase in this country,’’ said a salesman. "During the last four years,, we have doubled each year o*.i the sales of the preceding one. Perhaps Patti’s famous music box, which w:>. manufactured for her at a cost of !?20,000. set the craze going. 1 know that no matter how expensive an instrument we import there is sale for it. Novelties in music-boxes are being constantly turned out by skilled workmen. Tncy are all made in Switzerland, either at St. Croix or Geneva. They find there way to America, of every quality and price, from fifty cents to S-. 000. A Chicago brewer bought one from us not long ago which would play sixty-four tunes. He paid $1,300. I sold one to a La Crosse (Wiv.) man for )?1.200; it played, twenty-four airs. Os course the expense of an instrument can be greatly increased or decreased, the same as a piano, by its case. "How long will one of those instruments last if kept constantly in motion?’’ asked the reporter. ••Oh, a lifetime, with proper care. They arc just like a watch. If a portion of the mechanism wears out it can be replaced. ■•The demand is greatest for boxes ranging in price from $73 to $300; more, however, at SJOO than $73. There is something very fast mating in a mime-box. Frequently people come ill from some inland .town with the intention of buying a music-box which will cost SJO or SIOO. When they listen to the different installment they are noi satisfied with anything cheap, and invariably one running up into the hundreds in price.’’ "What arc the airs which most of these boxes are arranged to produce?’’ "Those made for our trade nearly all play operatic airs or tunes popular in America. This box, however, turns out two German airs," He held lip, as he spoke, a large beer mug of-clear i'.it-glasi. It would hold about a quar. of liquid, and was provided with a gla*s e-.ivi r like a sirupplteher. It was designed for a tankard from which b -or could be poured into smaller glasses. The action of lifting it and pouring out the beer would set Hie music concealed in the transparent bottom free. A wine bottle construct ed in the same manner was seeu. Little revolving ebony cigar-holders, ornamented with hammered brass, served as another device for the easing of musical machinery. They wpre likewise provided with two >Jnall cruets for cognac or cordial, and! two tiuv glasses. Other cigar-holders Were in the form of brass cannon, which, as they Wt-le I oil’ times, tired the cigars from their receptacle. Bouquet-hold-ers containing bunches of artificial (lowers arc arranged to perforip the same fp.it. In fact, it seems as if there is scarcely anything nianuf ictured for household use dr ornament Vhieh may not be m " ,*d for a music box.—(7t'ieio(o iVi trs. —“Johnnie, you have been lighting?’’ gravely inquired Mrs. 0 Jarphlv.. "No. mam," promptly answered llie lie:r of the Jarplilys. “John Sehermeriiorn, how dare you tell me an untruth!" exclaimed his mother. "Where did you get that black jjve, sir?" "I trailed an other boy two front teeth and a broken pose for it." replied Johnnie, as lie trofkcd the wood-pile. IHUsbnrijh Chronicle. An ambitions Boston lady pa and :i publisher $lO,OOll to bring gut lior nmol.

THE SCIENCE OF TRAVEI.INQJ Th* Gangers of Hurrying—Fast Train* th* Most Fatiguing. Hurry to or from trains should in all ease? lx? avoided. It is dangerous t®> the healthy habitual traveler as well as, tiie invalid. Matty a one has suffered! permanent dilatation of the heart ini hurrying to. catch a train; many a one has dropped down dead from the same cause. * Hurrying in catching trains tends to weakness of the nervous system, to indigestion and to heart disease, to say bottling of the risk of catching cold from sitting down in a carriage heated, in eases where the person has to walk quickly instead of riding. To r a large number of different kinds of comp laiftts change of air and seen© is prescribed for patients; and long journeys have to bo made in railway carriages; it behooves the invalid, therefore. to look well after his comforts in traveling, and not to neglect tho slightest precaution to make the journey easy. Let him not—or, rather, I should say let her not, for ladies are more apt to err in this way thau gentlemen—let her not. then, fidget and worry herself & week beforehand, thinking of the journey, the perils of the road, including the fatigue. (}nce on board and started, invalids never fail to be quite astonished at the strength they possess, and at “how well they bear the journey.’* This is very pleasant, but l am sorry to tell them that their strength, in nin© eases out of ten, is more apparent than real, and is due to the concussing action on the brain, of which I have already spoken. For railway traveling lia.s a numbing—l had almost said a narcotising—effect upon the senses. From this semi-lethargy the pati*at av, nkes next day. but it is very agreeable while it does last. There is as much difference between the method of traveling adopted by these people/and that of nrost commercial men as there is between the flight of a hive bee and that of a blue-ooitlo fly. Those people who have business in the city, but go home every night to the country to dine and to sleep, have only themselves to blame if they do not derive more benefit from that mode of life than staying constantly in town. To one not accustomed to railway journeys, the noise, the rattle, and dust are very fatiguing, but your constant traveler soon gets over this. “When I have to make a journey of fifty miles by railway,” said a wellknown author to me the other day, “I always go first-class for cheapness sake.” The explanation is this: Did this gentleman travel third-class, he would be incapacitated for clear, steady brain-work next day, and would thus be out of pocket far more than the difference between the two fares. Tho jolting of a railway carriage over th© smoothest road tends to concuss th© brain, to stupefy, to stultify it, and a period of rest must ensue before it is again tit for brilliant mental labor. Brain-workers, like my friend the author, not much used to traveling, would naturally bo more cognizant of this than others. And invalids would feel it, too: therefore I say that the latter can not travel over-carefully as regards their comforts, when they travel at all. It is often, if not always, a matter of moment for tiie invalid to get over th© journey as quickly as possible. Fast trains,"however, are certainly the most fatiguing, so if time can be spared the invalid should adopt the slower method of progression.— Cassell's Family Magazine. _ N ‘ A Warm Wave. “Well, I’ll be shot if this isn’t a snifter!" he said, as he entered a street car which was occupied solely by two women. “Haven’t seen it as cold for twentyfive years.” lie continued as he stamped up and down the aisle and rubbed his ears. The women paid him no attention, and suddenly he paused and blurted out: "How *n earth some folkses’ ears and feet can stand this weather, exposed as t.bev are, is more’ll 1 can see. I should think a day like this would carry oft half the female sex.” No reply was made, but one of th© ladies arose and opened the rear door of the car and the two took seats clos© to it anil began to fan themselves with' newspapers. The old fellow watched 1 them for about a minute and then bolted* through tin* front door and dropped to the ground and called to the driver : "Keep my old five cents and be hanged to you, but I won’t ride in & ear with no sich cranks if I lose my whole twenty-four toes!’!— Detroit Free Tress. • Almost a Native, “Are you a native of the State?” asked til# Judge of the United States Court, addressing a fat man who had been summoned to testify in a case of • illicit distilling. “Mostly. Jeilge.” “I mean wen* you born in this State?’* “I undeistand." I wa’n't born here, but l am mighty nigh a native.” “Came here when you were qmt© voting. I suppose?” "No, sir, ain’t been here but about ten var.” “How old are you?” j'Fifty. "Then liow is it that you are very nearly a native of the State?” ‘‘\Vell, when I come here I only weighed about a hundred pounds. Now I weigh two forty, so you see one hundred anil forty pounds of me are native while only one hundred pounds coma from Missoury.”— Arkansaw Traveler . THE MARKETS. New York, January It. LIVE STOCK-Cattle *3 60 © 6 73 Stiecp 3 85 © 5 76 I loirs. 4 SO © 4 90 FLOUR—Good to choice 8 15 & 5 75 Fatonts 6UO © OO WHEAT—No. 2 lied >< No. 2 Spring W © 04t4 CORN.... <*"•>© 6354 OATS—Western Mixed 3544® 3S RYE 6ft © 68 l POHK—Mess 13 60 ©l3 25 LARD—Steam 7 30 © 7 25 CHEESE 5 © 1154 WOOL—Domestic 24 © 36 CHICAGO. BEEVES—Extra J 6 75 ©6 85 ! 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