Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1884 — Page 2

The Republican. { RENSSELAER. INDIANA. a. R MARSHALL, - - Praam.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Mr. Vam Wtck introduced a bill in the Senate, Dea 15, to reduce by one-half the freight rates on the Union and Central Pacific roads. Petitions were presented for a constitutional amendment granting suffrage to womin, and to permit colonies of families to lay out villages on public lands. There was considerable discuss ion on Mr. Anthony's resolution concerning the proscription of American meats in Europe. Mr. Logan favored open retaliation; Messrs. Vest ana Ingalls thought a thorough system of Inspection by the Government would have a salutary effect, whhe Mr. McPherson explained the system ot slaughtering.' ‘ American cattle at British ports. The report of the committee appointed in February, 1883, to examine the work ot improvement along the Mississippi river was presented to the Senate. The System in use between St. Paul and the mouth of the Illinois is commended as adequate, and should, according to the views of the committee, be pushed to completion. The committee recommend that suitable appropriations be made; that the right of the Government to mate ial found on bars and islands be distinctly declared; that control be retained over reclaimed lands; snd that persons interfering with the channel or any Government work be properly punished. In the House of Representatives, bills were reported for the retirement of Alfred Plea-anton as Major General, approrriating sl,«M.6i» to dose the gaps of the levees of the Mississippi, and to make all public roads and highways post routes. Mr. Townshend introduced a bill to authorize the President, during the recess of Congress, to prohibit imports injurious to the public health, by way of retaliation. There was a spirited debate on the bill appropriating 11,000,100 to continue Mississippi riverimprovements.

A bill restoring to the public domain the lands granted to the Iron Mountain railroad, because the route diverged from the contemplated line, was passed by the Senate Jan. 16. Mr. Miller introduced a bill to provide means to extirpate pleuro-pneumonia. During the consideration of the joint Hiles Mr. Frye charged that any person can walk into the Congressional restaurant and purchase whisky by the cup. An order waa therefore passed excluding intoxicating liquors from the Capitol restaurant. At the executive session Col. Robert Murray was confirmed as Surgeon General. Mr. Hoar called up his bill providing for the counting of the electoral vote, being the same as that passed by the Senate of the Forty-seventh Congress. It was again passed without debate. In the House bills were introduced appropriating Jl.ixw.wo to improve the Erie canal and maintain it free to commerce, and to authorize the construction of a ship canal around Niagara Falls. Resolutions were passed authorizing a bill to appropriate the sum necessary to pay claims for rebate on tobacco; calhng for a report of the earnings of each United States Marshal, Attorney, and Clerk for the past ten years, ana permitting students from Guatemala and Nicaragua to receive instruction at West Point without expense to the Government After a long discussion, the House and Senate bills appropriating $1,000,000 for improvements on the Mississippi river were reported from the committee of the whole.A memorial from William Pitt Kellogg, asking an investigation of the charges brought against him in connection with the Texas and Pacific land grant, was presented in thp Senate Jan. 17. Petitions were presented for an appropriation of $500,070 to improve the entrance to Columbia river, hnd for the appointment of a commission on the liquor traffic, bills were introduced to establish a board of interstate commerce and to secure reasonable rates of transportation over railroads aided by the Government. The executive session was devoted to the Mexlt an treaty. The House, by a vote of 215 to 64, pass id the Senate bill appropriating $1,000,00(1 for continuing the improvement of the Mississippi. A communication was received tendering the Marine hospital at Erie to the Government for a home for soldiers and sailors. A bill was reported to grant a pension to the surviving grandchild of Thomas Jefferson. Secretary Folger reported to the House that within the past eighteen months issue of gold certificates was $107,000.0011, and during three years the value of silver certificates put out was $119,7*0.000. The Senate received a message from the President, Jan. 18, recommending that a relief expedition be dispatched for the Greely party, and asking that immediate action be taken in the matter. A bill was favorably reported to carry out the supplemental treaty with China, by prohibiting the traffic in opium between the two countries. In executive session the Mexican treaty failed for lack of one vote. The Senate in executive session rejected the Mexican treaty. A motion was made to reconsider, pending which the Senate adjourned until Monday, 21st. ‘ln the House, Mr. Bayne introduced a bill for a public building at Allegheny City. The remainder of the day was consumed in debate on the Fitz John Porter bill in committee of the whole. Messrs. Slocum and Lyman spoke In favor of and Mr. Steele in opposition to the bill.

THE EASTA horrible catastrophe is reported from the oil region. A stream of waste oil flowed across the track of a country railroad near Bradford, Pa. A crowded passenger train passed by. It is believed the fire-box ignited the oil and that a boiler explosion followed. Flames immediately enveloped the train. A panic and crush ensued. People were forced back into the cars by the flames at the doors, and hurt themselves badly in making an exit through the windows. Three woman were burned to death and fifteen persons seriously injured by wounds and burns. Charles P. Stickney, who was recently pardoned from the Massachusetts penitentiary for jn ■ A gentleman passing the house the other evening saw the upper stories in a blaze, and on entering found Mrs. Stickney dead and her husband in a very precarious condition. ; The funeral services over the remains Of Charles Delmonico were held in the Church Of St. Leo at New York, which was densely crowded. The body was placed in the Delmonico vault in the old St. Patrick's Cathedral. .. .James Egan, formerly Speaker of the Assembly of New Jersey, has been fined §SOO and sentenced to hard labor in the penitentiary for one month, for an. attempt to bribe Assemblyman Armitage..... Nine powdermills at Scranton, Pa., exploded. One man is known to have been killed, and the pecuniary loss is very heavy. On “The Devil's Bridge,” at Gay Head, on the Massachusetts coast, the steamer City of Columbus, from Boston for Savannah, was wrecked on the morning of Jan. 18. Of, the 145 souls on board, twenty-three are known to be saved, five are dead, and 119 are unaccounted for, and are supposed to have perished. The revenue cutter Dexter and two lifeboats were instrumental in saving many lives. One-third of the passengers and crew were women and children A story is current at New York that Jav Gould 105t§20,000,000 in speculation recently. ....The mixing house of the Vulcan Dynamite Works at Allentown, Pa., blew up. Three men were killed and mutilated, three. Others injured, and three buildings wrecked? ... .A boiler in the kitchen of Frank T. Sherwood at Hunter’s Point, L. 1., burst, killing Mr. Sherwood’s litt e boy, fatally injuring his brother, and blinding and burning Mrs. Suer wood A boiler explosion in E. Y. &. E. Wallace's shoe manufactory and tannery, at Rochester, N. H., killed four med and wounded seven, two fatally... .Edwurd Tappan, who was arrested on Long Island for connection with the Townsend outrages,-has- made a detailed confession of the murder of Mrs Mavlee and her daughter by his brother and himself. The former deliberately choked them to death in the stable-, then the house was searched and plundered. THE WEST. » Representative Follett, who will have charge of the pension bill when it reaches the House, is in favor of abclishing eighteen agencies scattered through the country, which are maintained at a.eost of *860,000 per year.

The general sentiment of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is understood to be in favor of providing for the allotment of lands in severalty to the Indians, and a bill for that purpose will probably be reported at an early day. According to the January reports to the Michigan Agricultural bureau, the wheat crop of the State was 23,1*7,135 bushels, of which 7,107,000 bushels still remain in the hands of the farmers. The people of Hillsboro, 111., have already subscribed s*oo for Miss Emma Bond, and propose to double the sum. Mr. Bond is confined to his bed by nervous prostration; his farm was heavily mortgaged to meet medical and legal expenses, and he will be compelled to leave it unless aided by the public. In the Governor’s Circle at Indianapolis, Ind., was unveiled a statue of the late Gov. O. P. Morton. The preceding ceremonies were held in the opera house, to which place thousands failed to gain admission, where fitting addresses were made by Gov. Porter, ex-Secretary Thompson and Senator McDonald. A terrible and mysterious murder was perpetrated in Chicago last week. Amelia Olsen, a respectable young girl, was waylaid at night in a lonely spot by some unknown ruffian, who, it is supposed, knocked het. senseless and then outraged her. - The poor girl was dragged some distance over the snow and left to perish, The frozen remains were discovered the following morning.... Jay Gould is said to have purchased a large water-front property at Port Oxford, Oregon. John Elfers was hanged in Washington Territory. He killed a man who would not pay a debt of r>o cents.... Leroy supposed to be a soil of the Mormon Bishop John D. Lee, was hanged at Rawlins, Wyoming, for killing a barber-of Rock Springs, named William Leighton. On account of a light yield in Florida, three firms in San Francisco combined and secured nearly the total crop of oranges in California"... .The boiler in Brink & Elkins' saw and grist mill, some distance from Columbia, Mo., exploded, scalding and maiming eight men. THE SOUTH. A steamship from Vera Cruz landed at New Orleans a party of Italian emigrants, wholly without money or goods, and charitable people sent them food at the police station. At Weatherford,Tex., the west-bound Texas Pacific passenger train was wrecked by a broken rail. Thirty passengers were injured, some very seriously. Agents of a New York firm are scouring the woods of Arkansas for black walnut trees, for which SI each is paid, the logs being shipped to New Orleans. . The Wool-Growers’ Association of Brown county, Tex., sent a memorial to the Legislature, stating that sheep-raisers have been warned to remove their flocks, on pain of death, and that one man had his herd killed by a mob of armed men. A great rain-storm prevailed for many hours in the Southern States last week. ... .A severe shock of earthquake was felt at Wilmington, N. C. WASHINGTON. Congressmen testify to having called for tea in a cup with a saucer, and having drank whisky as a result of that orderManagement so lax on the part of the res-taurant-keeper has excited the indignation of Congress in both houses assembled. Steps have therefore been taken to prohibit the sale of all kinds of intoxicants in the Capitol. Kansas wanted a railroad after the Union Pacific was built, and made vast grants to the Kansas Pacific. The Kansas Pacific was gobbled by the Union Pacific, and! Kansas sues for a forfeiture of the gifts. The case involves $14,000,000, and is now before the Supreme court of the United States. The Justices admit that the case is one of,, the most important which have overcome before them. For this reason and in an exceptional manner the court has advanced the case on its calendar, so that oral arguments will begin in a few‘ days... .The annual report of the agricultural department gives the corn crop of Illinois as 203,780,590 bushels, both the average and yield being the largest of any State. Kansas standi second in crop, but lowa has the second greatest acreage. The House Committee on Public lands last week listened to arguments relative to the land-grants of the Oregon Central railroad, which it is proposed to forfeit. The legal arguments having fallen to tho ground, the committee were favored with a pathetic appeal from C. P. Huntington himself, .who claimed that it was real mean in oar eat Government to forfeit the lands of opoor railroad company, evenif the law had not been complied with and no track had been laid. The committee listened quietly to the persuasive eloquence of the great letter-writer until it became evident that he was begging the question, and the admission was forced that the railroad attorneys were not prepared to meet any legal points whatever. POLITICAL. In the Ohio House of Representatives a Republican member, named Love, offered a resolution fora select committee of five to investigate the charges by leading that Henry B. Payne was elected Senator by the use of money. Various amendments were proposed, when the original resolution was defeated, members voting . withetokxs&wd Ac-party* -• ■.

A canvass of the Legislature of Texas, made for the purpose of ascertaining the preferences of the Democratic members for Presidential candidates, showed the following result: Out of twenty-eight Senators fourteen are in favor of the nomination of Thurman, six in favor of McDonald, two are for Tilden two have no choice, and Morrison, Wade Hampton, Coke and Weaver have one follower each. In the House out of eighty-five interviewed Thurman has 44, McDonald 14, Tilden 13, Morrison 4, Bayard 3, and Hancock Carlisle and Hendricks one each. This shows that Texas is in favor of Thurman. Nearly' all of those interviewed expressed themselves in favor of a revision of the tariff....H. B. Payne, the new Senator from Ohio, gave a public reception at Columbus, which was largely attended. At the banquet there were 250 guests, and the tables were loaded with delicacies. Neither Col. O. H. Payne nor John R. McLean was present, and John G. Thompson declined an invitation on the ground of illness... .Francis W. Rockwell (Rep.) has been elected to Congress from the Ma-sachusetts Twelfth district, to succeed Gov. Robinson. The lowa Republican State committee, at its meeting in Des Moines, decided to hold two State conventions. The first, to choose delegates to the National convention, will be held May 7... .The Kansas Republican State Central committee will meet at Topeka on Feb. 6 to call a State convention to select delegates to.the National convention at Chicago.... The Indiana Republican State Central committee has ordered the holding of a convention in Indianapolis for nominating four delegates from the State nt large to the National convention. April 17 being fixed upon as.the date. The State convention for. the nomination of a ticket will be held at Indianapolis on tho 19th of J uni’. ~. J . - ' .. T.. The Maryland legislature has elected Jtidge E. K. Wilson to the United States Senate, to succeed James B. Groome. DEATH RECORD. Charles H. Van Fossen, a wellknown Kansas City journalist; State Senator Pliny Hoagland, of Fort Wayne, Ind.; W. P-Rath-burn, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Chattanooga, Tenn.; John William Wallace. -President of the Pennsylvania Historical society; Dr. ,H. ,A. Dubois, leading physician of New Haren, Ct; Gen.

Fadejew, Russian Director of Roads and Canals; Hon. David Sankey, of New Castle, Del., father of the famous evangelist; Hon. Philip Phillips, ex-member of Congress from Alabama: Samuel Williamson, a leading citizen of Cleveland, Ohio; Abram French, for forty-five years a crockery; importer at Boston; Charles Delmonlco, famous restaurateur of New York; ex-Congressman 8. Bridges, Allentown, Pa.; Mrs. Valeria Stone, of Malden, Mass., who had distributed sl,500,000 in educational endowments; George Swarbrick, an eminent New Orleans merr chant; John Martin, of Alton, 111., aged 102 years; Ralph Sellew, a leading citizen of St. Louis, Mo.; Amos D. Loekwood, a leading cotton manufacturer of Providence, R. I.; Wm. G- Weed, a prominent lawyer and politician of Albany. THE WEEK’S FIKE RECORD. Flames swept away three warehouses in East street. New York, causing a loss of $230,000, the chief ‘sufferers being L. Waterbury & Co., rope manufacturers. Other fires are reported as follows: Proctor & Gamble’s soap and candle works, Cincinnati, loss $250,000; a business block at Prankfort, Ind., loss $75,000; the Centennial elevator, Monticello,lit, loss $T5,000; the Lake View hotel, Evansburg, Pa., loss $15,000; three business houses at Natchir toches, La., loss $75,000; the Clinton paper mill, Steubenville, Ohio, loss $50,000; several stores at Bay City, Mich., loss $22,000; the County jail at Columbus, Ohio, loss $15,000; S. Davis & Son's extensive * cigar factory, Montreal, Canada, loss $140,000; Powell’s music store, Phelpston, Ont., loss $50,000; two grocery stores at Paducah, Ky., loss $10,000; Kennon & Hill's store, Selma, Ala., loss $33,000; Lemon’s general store, Lucas, Ohio, loss $40,000; George Jess’ fine residence, Waupun, Wis., loss SIO,OOO Mrs. Bauer’s barns and forty-five fine dairy cows, near Elgin, 111., loss $10,000; the cooperand boiler shops in the State prison yards at Stillwater, Minn., loss $100,000; the Opera-house block at Meadville, Pa., loss $500,000; Smith, Winston & Co.’s coffin factory, New York city, loss $200,000; a portion of D. B. Fisk & Co.’s millinery store, Chicago, loss $30,000; fine business houses at Pittsburg, J£an., loss $21,000; a sawmill at Butler, Ky.. loss $13,000; several stqres and shops at Maysville, Ind., loss $20,000; a cotton warehouse at Jonesboro, Ga., loss $35,000; a hotel at Ashtabula, Ohio, loss $20,000; Moder’s brewery, Onalaska, Wis-, loss $20,000; three business houses at Blunt, Dak., loss $15,000; St.VincentOrphan asylum, Toledo, Ohio, loss $12,000; Edwards’ opera-house, Selma, Ala., loss $15,000; Schwier’s grist-mill, Batesville, Ind., loss $15,000; the Willowdale mills, Ipswich, Mass., loss $50,000; the main office of the Telephone Company, Boston, Mass., loss $40,000; Ludster’s farm machinery warehouse and other

property, Beloit, Wis., loss $12,000; four business houses at Trenton. Ga., loss $15,000; two shops in the penitentiary grounds at Nashville, Tenn., loss $15,000; the Southern Central railroad repair shops at Auburn. N. Y., loss $25,000; Knowles’ woolen mills, Newcastle, Del., loss $30,000; Hirsch & Griswold’s confectionery store, Peoria, HL, loss $15,000; a business block at Monticello, Ind., loss $21,000; the Tivoli theater, Pueblo, Colo., loss $15,000; Asmuth & Co.’s elevator,Milwaukee, Wis., loss $20,000; Backus & Hayes, hominymill, Indianapolis, loss $18,000; Bannon Bros., tile factory, Joliet; 111., loss $15,00Q; Stindis’ flouring-mill, New Martinsville, W. Va., loss $18,000; Swartz & Co.’s tannery, Elmira, N. Y., loss $26,000; John Zeller’s residence, Brazil, lud., loss $10,000; a Baptist church at Janesville, Wis 7, loss$T0,000; several stores at Tunnel Hill, Ga., loss $15,000; ten stores and several residences at Naples 111., loss $35,000; the Episcopal church at Middleport, N. Y./ loss $30,000; the Baptist church at Port Norris, N. J., loss $25,000; Clubertson & Blair’s store-house, Chicago, losß $20,000; a Baptist church at Janesville, Wis., loss $40,000; the business portion of Seligman, Mo., loss $30,000; the University building at Galesville, Wis.. loss $25,000; the female college building at JJolumbus, Ga., loss $60,00!); about a dozen business houses at Baird, Tex., loss $80,000; Herzler Bros.’ flouring mill at Akron, 0., loss $60,000; a .brewery at Pittston, fa., loss $30,000; a hotel at Sheffield, Pa., loss $15,000. A WEEK’S FAILURES. Failures: S. Hogan, jewelry, Cleveland, Ohio, liabilities $15,000; J. H. Yellman, hemp speculator, Lexington, Ky., liabilities $30,000; Duncan A. Grant, lace dealer, New York, liabilities $63,000; Block & Co., prihters, Cincinnati, Ohio, liabilities $40,000; P. W. Gerhard, agricultural implements, Austin, Tex., liabilities $20,000; J. C. Hauge, boots and shoes, Aberdeen, Dak., liabilities $10,000; Isaacs & Samuels, clothing, New York, liabilities $35,000; H. B. Dessoir, furniture, New York, liabilities $35,000; Charles Hudson, general merchant, Waunakee, Wis., liabilities $10,000; M. Waterman & Co., grain dealers, San Francisco, liabilities $1,000,000; Buckley & Co., dry-goods, Utica, N. Y., liabilities $200,000; James Bislnnd, dry-goods, New York, liabilities $50,000; Johnson & Austin, wool, New York, liabilities $75,000; Samuel Better, banker and grain merchant, Wapakoneta, 0., liabilities $80,000; Hyde & Turcotte, fancy goods, Montreal, liabilities $30,000; J. Bluhm, dry-goods, Columbus, Miss., liabilitiessso,ooo; John E.Tepil, clothing, Lancaster, O„ liabilities $10,000; Henry, Colton & Co., wholesale grocers, Peoria, 111., liabilities not stated; J. Sell, general store, Farmerville, La., liabilities $12,000: E. W. Coleman & Co., grain brokers, New York, liabilities $637,000; J. M. Fuller & Co., grain brokers, Now York, liabilities $106,000; W. P. & A. Parsons, builders, New York, liabilities $300,000; S. B. Ueshonc, groceries. Marion, Nd., liabilities $9,000; Mrs, A. E. Davis, millinery, Columbus, Ohio, liabilities $35,000; Nesbit & Co., cotton merchants, Savannah, Ga., liabilities $100,000; Kelly, Gilchrist & Co., liquor dealers, San Francisco, liabilities $90,000; Thomas, Puryear &Docomb, hardware dealers, Evansville, Ind.,-liabilities $30,000. GENERAL. ..JTeN be used in constructing the palace for the carnival at Montreal next month. The Governor General has accepted an invitation to be the guest of the city. Seventy-five trotting horses are entered for the races on the ice. Robert Harris, President of the New York, Lake Erie, and Western road, was unanimously elected President of the Northern Pacific line, and Thomas F. Oakes, of Boston, was chosen Vice President. This selection pleases the public interested in the securities of the road, and in Wall street it was looked upon with such favor that values immediately showed an upward tendency. FOREIGN. Karl Wager, one of the most pronounced of-the Berlin Socialists, has made some significant statements as to the spread of Communistic principles in Germany. Several newspapers have been established, and the burdens' of taxation are making new converts every day. The'only ground for discouragement to the Socialists is the stubborn refusal of Bismarck to sanction a revision of the German constitution on a more democratic basis Four thousand people committed suicide in Paris last year. In the Spanish Cortes, Castelar asserted that Alfonso's visit to Germany was imprudent, and accused the Sagasta Cabinet of being a tool of Germany and hostile to France. He was called to order fol- attacking Emperor WilliamA cipher letter from a Nihilist in London, who has been ii) communioation with some of the Irish extremists, advises a simultaneous attack upon the German and Russian Emperors The Mersey tunnel connecting Cheshire and Lancashire, England, has been completed: Cardinal Simeoni, the Papal Prime Minister, has made a number of declarations highly important to the Catholic Church in America. The most noticeable pointlieslna seeming l.beralization of the American branch, "to meet the exigencies of the times”—that is, there is to be “a broader study of the physical scierfces and a wider biblical exegesis.’’ The new programme thus foreshadowed will be unfolded to the American hierarchy, next November, at Baltimore.,...ln the Gamont colliery, in Wales, the breaking of a rope sent a cage to the bottom, killing ten men and a boy. | Boland, a journalist and speculator

of Brussels, who pretended to have bribed several French Deputies, has been fined two thousand francs and sentenced to three years' imprisonment lor obtaining money by false pretenses. Fifty acres of Parnell’s estate were plowed by farmers, who brought 160 plows and 320 horses..... King Alfonso accepted the res'gnatlon of the Spanish Cabinet, and intrusted Canovas del Castillo with the formation of a new Ministry Mgr. Cesare, a Idignitary of the Cathode church, was murdered in his bed at Rome, and his room plundered by the assassins..., .Great Britain has refused China permission to obstruct the Chinese rivers. ;The political situation of the heathen Chinee'is peculiar.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Gen. Gordon has gone to Khartoum with full power to settle affairs in Soudan. The retreat of the troops and Europeans is cut off, Bhe Arabs holding both sides of the river. The chief of the rebels refuses to negotiate w<sh the Egyptians, and the English fear, is a massacre of the garrisons of Khartoum, Sinkat,ahd other posts. The Khedive has no intention of resigning... .The situation of the Franco-Chinese' imbroglio is unchanged, except that Marquis Tseng repeats that China continues to adhere to her ultimatum, and will not declare war, but will defend Bach-Ninh... .The French Ministers who have examined into the question of excluding American |>ork are satisfied that the objections on the score of disease are practically groundless, and that other motives governed the action of Paul Bert and his supporters. ... .Several Chinese bankers are reported to' have committed suicide at Tonquin, owing to the unsettled political situation and the deplorable state of the money market..... The brother of Patrick O’Donnell is out. with a letter denying that the killing of Carey was deliberate, and affirming that the murder was committed in self-defense Parnell has advices to the effect that eighty nationalist members of Parliament will be returned at the coming election, which would be increased to ninety, if the franchise qualifications were lowered. A guard armed with rifles surrounds a vault In a cemetery near Wheeling, W. Va., where an attempt was recently made to steal the remains of the Catholic Bishop R. V. Whelan. C. P. Huntington, before leaving Washington for New York, revealed to an interviewer some of the intentions of the Southern Pacific monopolists. He virtually threatens that if Congress forfeits the old Texas Pacific land-grant he and his associates will, by protracted litigation, prevent the people from settling on the lands for the next twenty years, even if tho railroad does not, by its peculiar methods, succeed in securing a favorable decision. Huntington distinctly stated that there is nothing in, the recently published letters which he wants to take back or apologize for. He declares that he will not take any hand in the fight against the bills to regulate interstate commerce. Indianapolis telegram: “The Democrats of Indiana are using the names of D. W. Voorhees, William S. Holman and Isaac P. Gray in connection with the Governorship. It is said that the nomination is sought by Gen.M. D. Manson, Judge A. C. Dorney, Justice Niblack and Senator Bell. The Republicans are considering the claims of Commissioner Dudley and Postmaster General Gresham, while Gen. A. D. Streight is working hard for the chair.” ... A reception to Speaker Carlisle, by the Commonwealth club of Philadelphia, was attended by over 700 prominent, Democrats. During the day the distinguished Kentuckian was shown the manufacturing establishments. Mrs. Carlisle held a leveerat the Lafayette hotel.

A novellty in the way of lynchings is reported from Colorado. A little girl was found by a hunter crouched in an insensible condition beside a haystack, and a few hours later she (jlied. Investigation developed the -fact-tliat-the girl had been cruelly maltreated by Mike Cuddihee and his wife, her parents by adoption. A few nights subsequently a crowd of armed men stormed the hotel at Lake City where the inhuman couple were confined and strung them up on opposite sides of the road... .Miss Emily C, Hewett, of Philadelphia, a handsome and intelligent woman, who was visiting relatives at Keokuk, shot herself in the right temple with a revolver, after writing a farewell note. There is a division of opinion in the House Commerce Committee touching the re. tallatory policy. All the Members are agreed that America should- take a decided stand, but some are for peremptory prohibition, without alleging any invented reason. Should the theory be adopted that German dry goods are apt to poison the skin of the wearer Jt would necessitate the formation of a commission of Government experts, with all its attendant horrors. The House of Representatives devoted its session on Jan. 19 to debate on the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter. Messrs. Slocum and McAdoo made speeches in favor of the measure, while Messrs. Cutcheon, Brown and Taylor opposed it. The feature of the debate was a remark made by Gen. Slocum. He charged President Gartield with having introduced the claim, and ironically referred to the military wisdom of the members, which provoked hisses and great confusion. Mr. Cutcheon said Porter’s action could be explained only by his hatred of Gen. Pope, and made the point that not even cowardice could be alleged as a.jijsxcuse for inaction. The Senate was not Ln session. I.

THE MARKET.

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APPALLING DISASTER.

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

FASHIONS FOR LADIES.

Prayer books are worn in the hand if bound in velvet. Pimple and artistic 5-o’Clock-tca costumes may I e purchased for SIOO. They should not be worn more than twice. A thsteful ball costume of point lace over oand’e-light on the-frog-pond colored silk may be gotten up at a cost of ftom SSOO to. s>oo Of course a lady of fashion will not aj)p< ar in the samp ball drees a second time. ■_ Diamonds are still worn as much as ever on state occasions— by pawnbrokers’ wives. The back hair la still worn over the chair or on the bureau at night. .

IN A SEA OF FLAMES.

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

GEN. SHERMAN.

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

FINANCIAL LEGISLATION.

John Sherman’s Currency Bill. At the meeting of the Senate Finance Committee, says a Washington dispatch, Mr. Sherman proposed an important amendment to his own bill, designed to meet the objection that the measure would base the amount of circulation upon a fluctuating standard. He proposed to authorize the' Secretary to issue national bank notes up to 80 per cent, of the face value of 3 per cent, bonds deposited as security for circulation. Where higher-rate bonds were deposited he proposed to compute the interest above 3 per cent, and allow a circulation to the amount of 90 per cent, of the aggregate interest over 3 per cent, for the whole time such bonds have to run. Thus, 4 per cent, bonds, having twenty-three years to run, on being deposited as security for circulation, would entitle the bank depositing them to receive currency at the rate of 110.70 for each 100 bond deposited, that being 90 per cent, of the face value and 90 per cent, additional for all excess of interest over 3 per cent.

THE TEXAS-PACIFIC GRANT.

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

Pleuro-Pneumonia.

[Washington Telegram.} The live-stock dealers, through Representative Hatch, have submitted to the House a petition asking legislation to protect their interests. The memorialists ask Congress to provide means for the extinction of the dis. ease of pleuro-pneumonia. This, they say, can only be done by the slaughter of all infected cattle. The estimated expense of such a measure is $1,500,000. Not more than $500,000 need be immediately available. The memorial further recommends the removing of , the prejudice of foreign customers by a rigid system of inspection for all meat products for export, the expense of such inspection to be borne by the exporter. States whose Legislatures are now In session are asked to take Immediate steps in the direction of co-opera-tion. ; ,

Fitz John Porter’s Case.

Representatives Steele and Cutcheon, of the Committee on Military Affairs, have submitted the views of the minority on the Fits John Porter bill. They state that the bill sets aside the Judgment of the highest military tribunal ever organized in .this country, thereby conflicting with the very spirit of the Constitution. It would have the effect of saying that the Judgment of, the .court was either corrupt or founded on mistaken evidence, though that evidence was taken when the events were fresh in the minds <tf the witnesses. The people of London, ft is said, pay $7,500,000 every year for water sold as milk