Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Jason?. , e. R MARSHALL, - - POBiam-

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TW S4ST. Fifty-two tumors, varying in size from a walnut to a turnip, were removed from the body of A. J. Adams, at St. Vincent's Hospital, Erie. One hundred tumors yet remain to be extracted. Mr, Adams attributes this super&bundauce of swelling to the bite of a squirrel received when he was ahoy. The tow-boat Burton, at tbe mercy of ; -a strong: current, struck Neville Island, nine miles below.Pittsburg-h, throwing the fire from under the boilers and igniting- the craft. The crew of twenty-one became panlcstricken and jumped overboard. Robert Martin, aged 53, and James B. Graves, 65 years, were hanged at Newark, N. J., for murder. Martin’s crime was the murder of his wife, being drunk at the time be committed the deed. Graves had always been regarded as a crank, and the little boys called him "Monkey Graves.” He had frequent quarrels With Eddie Soden, aged 13 years, and repeatedly threatened to kill him. On the night of Dec. 20, 1881, Eddie started out to perform his duties as a lamplighter. Graves stealthily followed, and. while the boy was mounted on a lamp-post, shot him down from behind. He was convicted Jiui. 19, 1882, of murder In the first degree. His defense was insanity. Dr. Spitka, the medical expert who testified for Guiteau, assisted by six other doctors, examined onto Graves’ ease. They certified that he was insane. The Court of Pardons refused to commute the sentence. The autopsy, made by County Physician Hewlett, Dr. Spitka and • twelve other doctors, showed that Graves was insane. Signs of insanity more numerous and intense than are found in lunatics who die in insane asylums were discovered. AH the doctors were agreed that a lunatic had been hanged. The Directors of the Northern Pacific road held a meeting in New York last week. A letter was read from Henry Villard resigning the Presidency of the company because of nervous prostration fmd in deference to the interests of the stodkholders. i The resignation was accepted,' and a special election was ordered to choose a_ successor. The Directors voted Mr. Villard $10,006 per annum for his services. Vioe President Oakes reported the line in firstclass order exoept 100 miles near the junction west of Helena. Villard is a total financial wreck. He has made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors to Wm. Endicott, Jr., of Boston, and Horace White, of Hew York. After all his debts are canceled, he desires that the residue be turned over to his wife.... Robert A. Murray, who was engaged in loaning money in Boston, has fled with $40,000 or more belonging to men who misplaced their confidence in him. THE WEST. The Gould system of railroads is about to establish a telegraph school at St. Louis, with a view not only to educating curators, but of selecting pupils from the acclimated people along the southwestern lines... .Gen. Grant hasforfeited bis-Mexican submarine cable concession. A. GANG of thieves in Columbus, Ohio, arranged with the depot policeman to rob a Bee-Line train at a point nino miles outside the city. The officer kept the authorities fully informed, and steered the whole party into the hands of the police. Charles Stevens, a murderer, has been pardon from the Missouri penitentiary by Gov. Crittenden. Stevens while in prison made presents of fancy knicknacks of his Own manufacture to the Governor’s daughter, who died recently. The child, on her death-bed asked her father to pardon Stevens, and the latter complied with her wishes.... When dementi, one of the persons acquitted in the Emma Bond case, went to Irving, near Hilsboro, 111., he was given ten minutes to leave the place. He soon made the fact apparent that 'Be could have got along with less time James Williams, a burglar confined in the jail at Ottumwa, lowa, killed Turnkey Manning with a revolver, and made his escape. For murdering a saloon keeper at Wieserdty, Idaho, Charles Deitzler, a barber, was summarily suspended from the limb of a tree. Four prisoners were suffocated in a burning jail at Jerseyvllle, 111., their names being Wall Dunsdan, James Gregg, Emile Kahler and August Schultz. The courthouse was burned at tbe same time....A train was wrecked at Charlestown, Southern Indiana, on a spur of the Ohio and Mississippi, running from Vernon to Louisville. A 6core of people were hurt, including me timbers of the Yale College Glee club. The Catholic convent at Belleville, HI., took fire from the furnace, i and iD an hour was' reduced to ashes.- Sixty- pupils made desperate efforts to escape, some of them leaping from the windows. Tweptyseven young women perished in the flames. The building was a five story brick structure, valued at about s7<fffloo..".. Mary V. Young, the* seventeenth wife of the deceased Mormon prophet, died at Halt Lake City. Sixteen wHjbws stilt- tag to mourn Brigham’s death.... A Police* Justice in San Francisco acquitted Sox of" the murder of McLaughlin, the millionaire.

THE SOUTH.' By the sinking of a ■Government steamboat near Opossum Point, on the Mississippi, three men were drowned Simon Cameron and a party of friends are at Hot Springs, Ark., and Intend tovigit Mejtioo next moYtth. W. Irving Landell arrived at Eexington, Ky., a few days ago witli a brother 12 years old and only sl. He gave the money to a boarding house to feed the boy, went to work as a brakeman himself, without getting 4my food* and, after thirty-six hours' labor 'ln rigorous weather, died of hunger and exposure. Valmak Rector, a negro, was hanged at Baton Rouge for the murder of Duncan Williams. The condemned man refused to remain on the scaffold, and screamed and begged for life until he was bound, TJho Sheriff: at Eastman, Ga., on opening the cell ' floor of a colored murderer named James Cruminidy, about to be hanged,-was attacked with a knife. The doomed man then made himself unconscious by hacking his ttaroatHe was taken to the scaffold on a stretcher, and supported until the drop fell. The New Orleans Times-Denwcrat’s expedition makes Its report of its adventures In the Florida Everglades. Myriads of alligators, fish, leeches, and poisonous bugs were enconnteied, and the region is set down aa utterly irreclaimable, and, even if it could Be drained, is worthless for any purpose of cultivation. They found saw-grass ten to twelve feet high und very dense, the edges of the blades being sharp on one side and serrated on the other. No Indians were seen by thee.Apedlt 0n... .Themdidtttffnt Charleston, B. C., stood at 13 degrees above "zero on the 6th of, January, being the coldest weather experienced in that fit'.' in IS" years. x a There appears to, be a general sentijsent in Congress in favpr of retaliatory legislation <*«*«* Kofc France. RepKm the West especially say^Gm BWIO9 pTOullcpn tnl tuv 1 lalBU ey ,are diseased and unhealthy. [Son intimates that (every

member of Congress will have an opportunlty to gb“on record on the tariff iSSde.' It is, lu fact, his intention to put the matter so squarely that there will be little chance lotdodging. Following is tbe statement of the public debt, issued on the Ist inst.: Interest-bearing debt. Four and one-half per cents $ 850,000.000 Fourper cents 787.632,750 Three per cents 274,937,850 Refunding certificates 315.150 Navy pension fund H,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt $1,276,885,150 Matured debt $ 10.138,795 Legal-tender notes. 845,739.6' 6 Certificates of deposit j 14,300,000 Gold and silver certificates.......... 200,930,531 Fractional currency 6,989.423 Total without interest $ 669,219,055 Total debt (principal) $1,861,243,600 Total interest- 12,172,323 Total cash in treasury 375,374.200 Debt, less cash in treasury 1,498,011,723 Decrease during Dermbrr 11,743,337 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1883. 58,049,483 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaid .....$ 1,930,22) Debt on which interest has ceased.. 15.t38,794 Interest thereon 336,198 Gold and sliver certificates.......... *200,980,531 U. S. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 14,650,000 Total $ 375,374,200 Available assets— Cash m treasury $ 375,374,200 Bonds issued to Pacific rail way companies, interest payable by United States— Principal outstanding $ 04,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid.l,9 s v.y.. Interest paid by United States Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service $ 17,631,893 By cash payments, 6 per cent, net earnings 656,198 Balance Of interest paid by United .States 40.935.000 The decrease in the public debt during December amounted to $11,713,337. The decrease since June 30, 1883, was $58,049,483. POLITICAL. Mr. Hodgson was not permitted to take the oath in the Maryland Senate, his being a minister ut the time of election rendering him ineligible. Mrs. Logan is credited with a neat political triumph at President Arthur's New Year’s reception. Noticing that the wife of Register Bruee, a , colored lady, -was almost igdored by her sex! she quietly escorted her along the line and introduced her to each of the ladies assisting the President. GENERAL. The resignation of Henry Villard as President of the Northern Pacific road was presented to the directors last week. The failures in the United States for the past year numbered 9,184, with liabilities of $173,000,000. The yeui- 1878 developed 10,478 insolvents. Commercial failures: C. A. Constant & Co., retail dry-goods, Chicago, liabilities $165,000; Jeffords, Bailey & Co., lounge manufacturers, Jamestown, N. Y., liabilities $100" 000; F. J. Conklin & Co., hats Binghamton, N. Y.; William Carroll & Co., New York city, liabilities $170,000; H. E.Mann, dry-good,s St. Paul, liabilities $50,000: Ullman & Lamb, plantation supplies, Natchez, Miss., liabilities $29,000k Eager, Bartlett & Co., woolen goods, -Boston, liabilities $80,000; Gillies & Bro., teas and spices, New York, liabilities S7S,LTfO; Delos ■ £ Pratt, furniture, Toledo, liabilities $80,606; A. M. Church, jeweler, Chicago, liabilities $10,000; J. A. Anderson, clothing, Atlanta, Ga., liabilities $35,000; John D. -Leslie, grain,—Elkhart, — Ind., liabilities $30(000; Thomas S. Henard, notions, Cincinnati, liabilities $75,000; Reis Bros. SiCo., fancy groceries, Cincinnati, liabilities $600,000; Isaac Reis, wholesale cigars, Cincinnati, liabilities $300,000; C. W, Savage & Sons, general merchants, Miles City, Mont., liabilities, 8100,000; Jacob Jacobs, fancy goods, Nashville, Tenn., liabilities $40,000; H. E. Duelling, hardware, Shelbyville, IU-. liabilities 810,000; J. E. Musselwhite, notions, Peoria, 111., liabilities $20,000; Landrum & Butler, dry goods, Augusta, Ga., liabilities $38,000; Gillison & Donaldson, hardware, Minneapolis, Minn., liabilities $15,000; A. J. Defossez, operatic manager, New Orleans, liabilities $75,000. Last week was noticeable for an enonmous number of failures, the score exceeding all previous records in recent years. In amount of liabilities, happily, the reports tell a much more encouraging story. Jan. 3,4, 5, and G were four of ’the coldest days experienced in the North west in many years, the thermometer ranging from 2 to 40 degrees below zero. “Young Mrs. Winthrop” lias proved a great attraction at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, and will be played for another week. It is an American drama, strongly constructed, and clean and pure from beginning to ending, and the cast of characters is one .of exceptional strength. David H. Bates, Vice President of the Western Union Telegraph company, resigned, to accept the management of the Baltimore and Ohio lines. v {;■

FOREIGN. Large crowds attended the Orange and Nationalist gatherings at Dromore, Ireland, New Year’s day. Numerous soldiery and police prevented a-collision between the factions, B@f not without bayoneting two men, wounding them mortally,; jfcordsGeorge and Claude Hamilton and Caledoh addressed the Orangemen, while T. D. and O’Brien were the principal speakers at the Nationalist meeting. The Orangemen attacked the Nationalists, but cavalry and infantry charged the combatants and wounded a number of the Orange party. Infantry with fixed bayonets escorted the Nationalists out of harm’s reach.... New Year’s was memorable for crashes in the English coal and iron trade, something much like a panic Mkving mado its unwelcome appearance. Four great failures were announced, the total liabilities being over *8,000,000 A Jesuitic missionary, while preaching in Vienna .denounced the workingmen for their immorality. This led to the pulpit being stoned, and in the rush to escape several persons were injured... .China, after a bluff which deceived nearly all the world except the Frenchmen, is now making abject overtures for peace at any price.

Touching the recent to the Czar a Vienna paper says that while returning from a hunt with his suite, six persons wero noticed ahead of the Czar's party on the road, who stood aside, when so ordered by the Imperial escort, but that as the Czar’s sledge passed three shots were fired at him, one bullet lodging in his shoulder. The assassins escaped in a dense wood near at hand, pursued by officers, , but the —Chase was fruitless. One of the pursuing party has not yet turned up.... An account of tbemurderof Informed Carey, published in Dublin by United Ireland, shows that there was no struggle, O’Donnell deliberately killing his man. The United States Consul General at Cairo reports the deaths by the cholera epidemic at from 65.0Q0 to 70,000. A member of the International Tribunal says there : are still from one to three fatal cases ; each * day. ! . ..The youth" -Currieu,— who f some - time ago" evinced a disposition te - kill Premier Ferry,' has been sentenced at Paris to three months’ imprisoujoent.... The Rothschilds are reported to have offered France 4S0:t)00,0oO francs for the state railroads, ancTif the tender is accepted the contemplated .loan of 400,000.000 frajice Will be. unnecessary.., .The Khedive has cut down 4ps own wages 10 per cent, oai applied tftc samo economical principle to the income at Egyptian court. A cable dispatch says the excitement in St. Petersburg over the assassination of Lieut. 001. Sudeikin was greatly intensified

by the final reports of the detectives and Burgeons who were deputed to make special Investigations into the causes of Sudeikin’s death. The official report stated that Lieut. Col. Sudeikln, who was at the time of his death chief of the Department of,. -Military Governorship of St. Petersburg, was tortured until ho made certaiu disclosures, and then killed to prevent his Informing the 1 Government that the NihiliEfs possessed the extorted information .... Marquis Tseng, Chinese Embassador to France,;baa not held communication with the Froncli Government since the capture of Sontay. The menaces of the press in regard to indemnity for tbe invasion of Tonquin wHI not deter China from continuing to assert her rtghte.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The Standard Oil company secured transportation from the Lake sAore ut less rates' than any other firm or company could, and thereby crushed arrivals in business. A rival firm brought suit. The Judge of a ,lower court in Cleveland has just granted an injunction forbidding the railroad to extend terms to the Standard Oil company o„r any Other corporation or person which might not be granted to all patrons, rich or |>oor, great or small, 'PEo tiglit has only-fairly begun, as the kerosene monopoly will carry the litigation to the furthest point lu law, which is years and years ahead. . Judge Sawyer, of the United States Circuit court, rendered a decision at San ITuk ls.-o in the celebrated minirtg-debris case of Woodruff vs. Tho North Bloomfield Hydraulic Mining company, granting a perpetual inj«Htcti >n agai nst hydraulic mining, subject to modification if a practical plan shall be- devised for abating the nuisance. The east- involved the agricultural prosperity of the entire Sacramento Valley. The counties affected by the injunction are Butte, Nevada,“Placer, Yuba, Del Norte, Siskiyou, Trinity, and Sierra—especially the four first named. During the last six years hydraulic mining has practically stopped in these counties. Farming counties through which the*, rivers were Ailed with “slickeus,” as the debris is called, fought the miners in court and obtained temporary injunctions. The destructions which “silckens’’ has wrought on the fertile bottom lands is almost inconceivable. It filieWtheYuba, Feather and Sacramento rivers, raised their beds until higher than the surrounding land, flooding the country for miles, submerging Sacramento City und Marysville. Tills i's the most important decision ever rendered on the Pacific coast! The farmers are holding joyous demonstrations in different parts of California. In Vennor's almanac for 1884, opposite the first five days in January, ending ’ with the memorable cold day, is the following legend, which may be of interest: “New •Year’s mild; no snow; dust or mud in many sections —Waters quite open—Generally open weather in the United States—Local rains or snow and sleet flui ries. A great contrast to 1883 January." Weather prophets have seldom made breaks as bad as this for a starter. SeN-IMKNt iii Washington in favor of retaliatory legislation against Germany andrFranee is growing rapidly.., .The prominent candidates for Judge McCrary's place are Senator McMillan, of Minnesota, and' Judge Love, of lowa. ...Secretary Folger re-, ports the exhaustion of $1 and $2 notes ip the treasury reserve, and asks Congress for an appropriation to, print $4,000,000 of the former and $3,000,000 of the latter. A broken rail threw a passenger train down a five-foot embankment near Valparaiso, Neb., twenty persons being injured, six seriously. Taglioni, the ballet-master at the Royal theater, Berlin, a brother of the celebrated danse use, has just died, aged 70. Nearly 4,000 miles of railroads were constructed in Massachusetts last year, and the not earnings of all the lines amounted to $10,900,000.

Congress reassembled, after the holiday recess, on Monday, Jan. 7. In the Senate, Mr. Dolpli presented a petition for the forfeiture of the unearned land grant of the Oregon Central road. Bills were introduced for a navy-yard at Algers, La.; to bridge the Mississippi at Sibley. Mo.; and to give the Southern Kansas road right of way through Indian Territory. Mr. MiLler offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to the difficulties • n -ountered in the enforcement of the Chinese restriction act. The House of Representatives adapted a resolution calling on heads of departments for information j.nTegardjtothe distribution of circulars asking contributions for political purposes. Bills to the number of 670 were introduced, among them one to piaee the name of George W. Gettv on the retired list, with the rank of Major General; to appropriate $150,000 for a postoflice building at Los Angeles; to prevent the use of the mails to circulate advertisements of dangerous medicines or food; to make a reduction of 30 per cent, in fr ight and passenger rates on the Union and Centrid Pacific roads; to pension all soldiers or sail >rs who served thirty days in the war of the reli-llion; to provide for the acceptance of the Illinois and Michigan canal bv the Government, and to construct the Michigan and Mississippi canal; to prohibit imports from countries which unjustly disuriruinate against American products: to place molasses and sugar on the free list, and to erect public buildings at Fort Dodge and Winona. Mr. Townshend introduced a joint resolution requesting the President to invite the co-opera-tion of the Governments of the American Nations to secure the establishment of a customs union.

THE MARKET.

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DYING IN DREAD AGONY.

Fearful Railway Accident Near Toronto, Canada. Nearly Thirty Men Killed—Horrible Scenes of Suffering. [Toronto telegram.! Toronto, so long free from any heavy calamity, opens the new year with one of the worst in its record, by which twenty-nine persons were almost instantly killed and double that number badly or fatally wounded. The accident occurred in the vicinity of High Park, near the Dominion Bolt ami Iron Works, from the employes of which establishment the list of killed and wounded was taken. The dummy traiu which conveys the men to und from their work at the iron-works started with its usual load of between seventy and ninety persons, and had got as far us the place mentioned when it collided with an eastern freight train from Hamilton. The engine of the dummy train was shot back, telescoping the front of two cars, which composed the suburban train, ail'd killing instantly some fourteen of the occupants. Roth engines were at once overturned, the dummy tailing over the northern bank and the large engine on the* southern bank. The tubes on board burst and scalding water and steam were thrown over the men who hud ialien on the track from the telescoped cars. The dummy in falling had crushed the men on the northern side of the passenger car underneath it. Those were the person's who were killed outright. The sight was horrible in the extreme, gome of the men, with their legs crushed and burning, were unable to extricate themselves, and filled the air with rheir cries. At last .J. J. Mclntyre, one of the foremen in the works, came along and set to work extricating the bodies and the wounded. The conductor of thedmnmy Set out for Mimieo to stop all traffic and telegraph for a wrecking party, medical assistance, and an auxilliarycar from Toronto. When they arrived the scene had been gathering more hideous features. Many of the wounded had not been removed from the ear and were being consumed by the flames. Men were' lying in all directions, burnt, bruised, and bleeding. The men around the scene iaf the disaster had begun to busy themselves, and soon the dead were lying in a ear and ready to be seat down to the city. The doctors sent up on the auxiliary were Busy among the wounded and dying. The surroundings of the dying made the calamity appear even more frightful than it was. lambs scattered over the track, 'pools of blood and pieces of the bodies o-f the sufferers all told terrible tales of disaster and death. j Where the disaster occurred was on the bend of* a curie, and none of the pe; sons on either train could see the other till the/were too close to do anything to save their charge from a most terrible death. The bodies were soon put in the ears and taken down to the morgue, and those of the wounded and dying were transported to the hospital. The impetus of the freight train was so great that the engine actually mounted the truck of the dummy, which kept the rails and remained on a balance. To add to the horror of the scene, the boiler of the dummy exploded, and steam and baling water scalded and carried death or terrible injuries to the mangled and bleeding men. Then fire broke out and completed the sickening work of destruction. Keveral poor fellows, suffering untold agonies, with limbs and bodies burned to a crisp, piteously implored those near them to pour water upon their scatdod lhhbs or put an end to their sufThe wounded men bore tlieir sufferings with fortitude and patience, a lew groans being the only indication ofThelr intense agony. The scene at the morgue beggars description. There are fifteen bodies laid side by side In rows on opposite sides of the room. Mothers, sisters, fathers and brothers arete be seen passing from body to body and, With trembling hands, lifting the coverlets to gaze on the laces of the dead. Now and again a cry of anguish tells too plainly the discovery of some dear one carried off in the prime of manhood. One man, John Rowlett, died shortly after arriving at the hospital. When found among the debris he spoke cheerfully and asked to be allowed to walk. On looking down, he cried; “O, God !-my legs are off!” And so they wore—burned off. Of those killed eleven leave widows and •Children, Barber, the conductor of the freight train, was placed under arrest Immediately after the acoident; Kennedy, the engineer, disappeared, and it was rumored that he had fled into the woods near the scene of the collision, and had hanged himself. Search Is being made for him. The conduotor admitted that he had received orders at Hamilton to run to Queen’s wharf, Toronto, avoiding all regular trains. He looked at the time-table, but forgot that the suburban train was on the list. The Grand Trunk is likely to lose heavily by the accident, as it has been conclusively shown that it resulted through the carelessness of one of its employes. The conductor claimed that he had been overworked and had not had time tc rest. Prominent railway officials here say the rels tives of all those who were killed and injured can easily recover heavy damages, and it would not be surprising if the Grand Trunk was mulcted $2,000,000.

Presidential Postoffices.

[Washington dispatch.l Under the 'provision of the last Postoffice Appropriation bill, when the compensation of any postmaster of the fourth class reaches $250 for four consecutive quarters, exclusive Of commissions on his money-order business, he Is to be assigned to the Presidential grade. The following-named fourth-class offices have been placed on the list of Presidential offices, with the salaries of postmasters as stated :\ Lebanon, 111.. ... sl,ooo* Jonesboro, Tenn..sl,ooo GrayVillc, 111...... 1,000 Temple, Tea..... 1,400 WrightßGrove.Hl. 1,400 Brown wood, Tex. 1,400 Goodland, 111..... 1,000 Mazo Manie, Wis. 1,000 Manning, 10wa.... 1.000 Marshfield. Wis... 1,100 Adel. 10wa..... .. 1,000 Anaheim, Cal 1,100 Frankfort, Kan... 1,200 La Porte City, la.. 1,100 Ltndsborg. Kan... 1,100 Walnut. Ia 1 ( 000 Howard, Kan I,PO C»3sopolis, Mich.. 1,100 Harper, Kan 1,400 Morencia, Mich... 1,100 Carbondale, Kan.. I,000;Mound City, Mo.. 1,000 Crystal Falls. Mich 1,000, Billings, Montana. I,#o Pentwater, Mich.. I,lou Loudonville, 0.... 1,100 Kalkaska, Mich... l.iooilledford, Wis 1,200 Bangor. Mioh I*loo,Kentland, 1nd.... 1,000 Homer, Mich l.ionPennington, Ind.. 1,100 Howard Citv.Mich 1,100 Manson, la 1,100 Leslie, Mich 1,100, VaU, Ia 1,000 Little Falts, Minn. l,ooo:OsageMission,K’u 1,200 Perham, Minn.... l,oco;Glendale,M’nt’na. 1,000 Monroe City. Mo.. 1,000 Athens, Tenn 1,100 Huntsville, M 0... 1,100 Hillsboro, Tex.... 1,200 Albany, Mo 1.000 Lultnsr, Tex.. .... 1,200 California, M 0,... 1,100 Dardanelle, Ark.. 1,000 Madison, 0 1,000 RussetlvillJ, Ark.. 1,000 New Richmond,!). 1,000 Fort Davis, Tex... 1,000 Port Clinton, 0... l,000;Port Townsend, Morristown, Venn. 1,200| Washington 1.000

SMALL TALK.

Petroleum has been discovered in the Punjab, Hindostan. ’ A parson of Ottawa, Ont., resigned the other day because a brother clorgyman united In marriage a man and his deceased wife’s sister. Probably the wealthiest railroad conductor in America is employod on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia road. He is said to-be worth 550,080. * > A member ot-a Kentueky church offered the bodies’ Aid society *5 If R# rnetnl er* would meet and make a quilt without saying a frord. Two dozen of the ladies - met at the parsonage and in two hours the quilt was finished, but they all say they would not do such a thing again for 850. A son of George Glace, while out hunting two miles below Sel'nsgrove, Pa., at a place known as the “Narrows,” treed a squirrel, and, in enlarging the hole in order to secure the,game, came upon a baid Bubstanpe'which pro'ved"to be a silver watch. Cutt:«gTt»deeper. he succeeded In taking out eleven ofAhem. Some five, years ago a jewelry Store m Bunbury was robbed of a lot of watches, audit is supposed that this is pqrt the plunder.

A FIRE HORROR!

Banting of the Convent of the Immaculate Conception at Belleville, Hi. Twenty-seven Persons Engulfed by Smoke and Bioasted by Cruel Flames, [Belleville (HU telegram.] The lives of twenty-'Seven women were lost by the burning of the Immaculate Conception Convent at this place. Many others were iujured more or less severely by from the windows of the third or fourth story .50 the frozen ground beneath. It is not fnown exactly how the fire started. The first report was that it originated in the third story, which was used as a dormitory. An attempt was made by the Sisters to extinguish it, but without success. The latest and most probable theory is that it • broke out near the boiler in the basement. When it was fii-st discovered the floor übove was ablaze uml volumos of smoke were rolling up and filling the stairways, hails, and corridors of the boilding. By the time the sleeping inmates were thoroughly aroused all avenues of escape seemed to lie cut off by blinding smoke and l ames. Then a panic onsv.od, attended by scenes so heartrending -that even the imagination can acutely picture them. Forty or more of the pupils and teachers, iu Bp to of the terror and wild confus on, -sueceedod in getting out of the building unharmed, arftl were given shelter from the iey wind in neighboring bouses. Their companions were far less fortunate. Many remained in the dormitory, and, rendered helpless by fright, perished without making an attempt to escape. Others rushed to the windows, and, appalled at. the prospect of leaping to an almost certain death, drew back auii were either suffocated bv the thick smoke or died in the flames. Some, braver than the rest, jumped from the upper windows and were oituer killed or badly injured. Miss Mary Campfieli, a teacher, of East St. LoUis, leaped from the third story and died iu a few minutes. Another, whose name was not ascertained, climbed to the roof and either fell or was blown off. She was fatally iujured. • The fire spreajß with great rapidity, and the fire department was of little avail. The extreme cold retarded the work of the firemen, anti even if they could have reached the scene without delay they oohW have been of but little service iu rescuing the victims. There are no ladders in the fire department, and no provisions for such a deplorable emergency lmd heen made bv the managers of the convent. The unfortunate inmates were, therefore, unable to help- themselves, und those who- wore witnesses of the horrible holocaust were- powerleas to help them. The streets in the vicinity were thronged with people anxious to be of service. They eculd do nothing but stand am} look on or listen in silence to the appeals of terror-stricken parents rushing frantically around looking for their children or wailing over their supposed loss. Within an hour from the time the fire was discovered the famous Convent of the Immaculate Conception was reduced to ashes aha a few charred und broken walls. As soon )i£ possible .. the work •ot recovering the remains of victims was begun. The firemen poured water on the ruins until daybreak, so as to quench the embers and preserve In recognizable shape the bodies of the unfortunate women. Then volunteers were called for, and during the day a large force of men were at work in the ruins. It was a terrible sight. At times the searchers would flud two of three charred masses huddled together, seemingly seeking each other’s protection from the advancing flames. Two bodies were found in the rear part of the building; burned into an unrecognizable mass, but the majority were found beneath where the dormitory was situated. They 'Seemed to have sought shelter in this room when they recognized that escape was impossible. The flames beneath, eating away the supports, let - down tho floor with those upon it into tho seething vortex of Are and smoke. The pupil boarders and three Sisters slept on tho fourth floor; on the third floor the remaining Sisters slept, and on tho floor above the basement the orphans and halforphans slept. Those on this floor escaped. The following is a list of the killed, missing, and injured, as far as is known: The dead identified: Sister MaducdO, Sister Angella, Sister Edwina, Mother Superior Mary Jerome, Mary Campbell, Lizzie Isoh, Susie Weimar, Virgie Ileitizelman, Mary Manning, Mamie Pulse and Gertie Struuck. | Missing: , J Agnes Scaling, Mary Sealing, Martha Manteil, Laura Thompson, Miss L. Siinott, Lottie Pierson, Hilda Hammell, Mary Blen, Katie Urbana, Mary Bertels, Delphi Sehlernezauer, Josie Plouder, Mamie Bailey. Injured: Sister Monne/se, Sister Stylites, Sister Repartie, Sister Pasehales, Sister Daisy Ebberman, Fanny Briirke, Agues Schneider. The building and contents were valued at $75,000.

Other Ulay.es. Fires are reported for the week as follows: The court-house and jail at Jerseyville, 111., four prisoners pea-ishing in the flames, loss $20,000; an Oil raß»ery at Cleveland, Ohio, loss $15,000; a hotel at Clintonville, Wis., loss $15,000; Shultz's box factory and other property at Milwaukee, Wis., loss $15,000; halfdozen stores at Dalton, Ga., loss, $10,000; two mills at Scottdale, Pa., loss $22,000; a cotton warehouse at Atlanta, tin., loss $210,000; a furniture factory and hotel nt Hickman, Ky.; loss $30,000; an office building- at Peru, Ind., loSs $20,000; Hyman & Simons’ grist thill, Wabash, Ind., loss $10,000; Sher,man's shovel factory, Middloboro, Mass., loss $25,000; a furniture factory at Fairfield, lowa, loss $10,C00; two residences at Wheeling, W. Va., loss $15,000; several stores at Weatherford, Texas, loss $25,000; Tabor Opera house bloofc. Denver, damaged $20,000; Brunson & Co. T rubber belting, Chicago, loss’ $40,(00; Dean's tannery, Tecumseh, Mich., loss $15,000; the St. Nicholas hotel block, St. Louis. Mo., loss $200,000; a warehouse at Racine, Wis., loss $15,000; Weingarth’s dry goods store and other property at Pinckneyville, 111., loss $10,000; a block of buildings at Avoca, N. Y., loss *20,0C0; the Abademy of Music, Binghamton, N. Y., loss $12,0J0; Church's flour-mill. Union City, Pa., loss $25,000; the City grist-mill, Corry, Pa., loss sls QoO; Muehe’s hardware Sioie, PyersviUe, lowa, loss $15,000; several stores at Milan, Tenn loss $20,000; a dairy warehouse near Watertown, Wis., loss $10,000; Marston’s flouring mill, Amboy, 111., loss $10,000; a fertilizing Warehouse at Montreal, loss $30,0G0; a brick building at Louisville, Ky.. used for manufacturing purposes,loss $17,000; eight business houses at Carlinville. Mo., loss $25 000- a biook of ten stores on Fourth street St. Louis, Mo., loss $560,000; several railway coaches at New Albany. Ind., loss S3O 000; the Beaurivage French flat building ami a cracker battery, at Chicago, loss 8120,000- a church at Philadelphia, loss $10,000; two small stores at Cincinnati, loss SlO.oOO; a wagon-factory at Syracuse, N. Y., loss $40,000; mining property at Coketon, Pa., loss S3O 000: flvo stores at La Grange, Ind., loss $30'000! a fiber factory at Parkersburg, W. Va loss SlO 000; the Convent of the Notre Daiiie Sisters. Belleville, Hi., loss $100,030; a theater and a church at Cleveland. Ohio, loss $200,000,, r - _ fcfer ; A° dozen cows and a lkme horse feeding Ih a pasture near Glbuces or, Mass., were attacked by a Newftihndltmd dog. The lameness of the horse lef t him at the mercy of the flog The cows huddled together and seemed to commit- They then advanced in a body and covered the-retreat of the horse, keeping their beads lowered,and their horns presented to the Ao&unfll it gave up in pursuit. * prt crow belonging, to H. G. Heidt, of Columbia, a. GL, jumped uppn a shelf whew iis in&stejcV’ revoiyer lay, and began playing yfiih It. Tao rqyoiver was discharged, killing the crow. - - - - ' •’j Mbs. Achsa Bcb,tox, of Cwdon, N.tt, has just celebrated her 95th birthda>.

Some Remarkable Elopements.

Mary Gileam was the 21-vear-old daughter of a citizen of Arkansas, and Charles Stover was her “Borneo.’ 1 Mrs. Qileam declared that Stover’s intellectual bank account wasn’t half as long as Ms ears. So the young couple decided to elope. Mary was caught slipping out of the back gate, and her mother tried to hold her. A scuffle ensued and Mary was divested of some of Tier garments, so that one of Charlie’s friends had the presence of mind to throw a riding-skirt over her in the nick of time. Meanwhile Charlie and Mr. Gileam were having it tooth and naiL The former triumphed,/and, mounting a horse with liis fainting sweetheart in liis arms, rode at a furious gallop to the preacher's, tw;o miles away. At Topeka, Kan., Charles Chambers, aged 18, and Lucy Prescott, aged 13, eloped and got married, hut were separated after a honeymoon of two days. Louis Badgeiy and Josephine Howard, respectively, 15 and 14, ran away early last spring from Oswego county, N. Y. They soon found a preacher willing to marry them. The boy-bridegroom rewarded bim with a punched trade-dollar, but the good man had ridden six miles in the cold, and did not think that enough, so the sympathizing spectators raised bim a purse of fifty eehts. Joliu L. Stanhope eloped with the daughter of Gov. AY. T. Hamilton, of Maryland, and they ran till they reached a mountain 3,500 feet high, where they were married, though in a few weeks’ time she sued for a divorce. Miss Daniels was as determined to get married as Miss Prue in Congreve’s comedy of “Lovefor Love,” who declared “Ecod r it’s well they got me & husband, or I’d married the baker.” Miss Daniels was heir to a valuable estate at Lockport, N. Y., and fell in ioye with a sewitTg-rnaeliine agent, but he was arrested for theft, and she immediately fixed the grappling-iron of her affections on Mr. H. H. Sommers, and eloped with him, escaping through a cellar window and getting married before morning. ; Miss Veriey Olokey, of Washington, Pa., aged 23, and possessed of some means, elopect with John Miller, a colored waiter, some three years her jiinior. She had been adjudged a lunatic on account of her fondness for him. Mr. Joseph Markowitz, a Kussian pole r has lately come to New York and reduced the elopement business to something like a science. He and his w ife operate together, carrying on the elopement industry on a large scale. The husband would select a woman who had a little money laid up, and elope with her. Soon his rightful wife came along and made a terrible fuss, but be had managed to secure what money the duped woman had, and, of course, returned with his rightful wife, only to repeat the game on some unsuspecting victim.

Street Scenes in Lisbon.

Among the street scenes in lusbon may be noted two men carrying a bedstead and mattress slung upon a pole, a la Chinatown; a man driving a flock es turkeys; places at the publie fountains divided by classes —this side for gentlemen, this side for menials, etc.; the Praza do Comereio, or, as the English call it, “Black-Horse Square,” after the equestrian statute of Joseph I, which stands in tlio middle; the Passeio- Publico, with its marble basins, its trees, flowers and pretty girls; the cathedral, rebuilt since the groat earthquake of 1775; the palace of Ajuda. where the royal family (the population of Portugal is scarcely more than one-half that of the State of New York) usually dwells; and the theater San Carlos. The man-peasant wears a woolen nightcap for a head-dress, the female, nothing, The male, of the genteel class wears a shiny silk hat with a very narrow brim; the female, whatever maybe the fashion in Paris. The gentry wear French costumes, the peasants, black homespun woolen jackets and trousers. You meet English people at every tnrn. Most of the few industries which flourish in Portugal are in their hands; the wine -trade, the‘fruit trade, the shipping, the mining, and even the sardine fishery—in fact, since the Methuen treaty Portugal has become little more than a British province. It has nominally a ptoteiitive tariff, but really enjoys free trade, the entire coast and the frontiers being in possession of smugglers. What with the small population of tlie country, its almost ruined condition, ana its utter-depStidience upon England, its crown becomes a mockery, and both its “ancient" and “modern” nobility a careature. — Cor. Son Francisco Chronicle.

Live Stock in Europe.

The demand for meat in most of the countries in Europe becomes greater every year. Human population increases muoh faster than animals suitable for food. The purchasing power of the mechanics in most countries lias increased, and, as a consequence, they are better fed. Lalmrers have ascertained that the people of Great Britain and the United States consume more animal food than the inhabitants of any of the countries on the continent of Europe, and do more work in consequence. In several countries there is no hope of increasing the production of meat. The best breeds of animals are kept, the most judicious methods of feeding practiced, and large quantities of grain and oil-cake, obtained from abroad. All the laud available for producing grass and roots is now employed for those purposes. In several popular countries therfi has been a falling off in the production of live stock for the reason that more land is required every year’ for the extension of towns and tho raising of fruit and garden vegetables. In other countries there has been aa increase of moat-producing animals, bui it is not proportionate with the increase of human population. The population of Europe is now estimated at 294,000,’ 000. The number of cattle is pated to be 92,000,000, of ghedp 200, 000,000, and of swine 46,000.000. MENT.YI pleasures never cloy. Unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition,"approved by reflection and strengthened v by enjoyment, -Coltdkl. ~, j, j There are 50,000 postoffices in tha United States. ;