Bloomington Telephone, Volume 7, Number 35, Bloomington, Monroe County, 12 January 1884 — Page 2

BloomingtotTi BLOOMINQTON, WALTER a BBADFUTE, - - Publisher. THE NEWS CONDENSED. Fibty-two tumors, varying in size from walnut to a turnip, were removed from the body of A. J. Adams, at St. Vincent! HnttMi$3$?- jOne hundred tumors yet remain to be extracted. Mr. Adams attributes this superabundance of swellings to the bite of a squirrel received when he was a boy. The tow-boat Burton, at the mercy of a strong current, struck Neville. Island, nine milee below Pittsburgh, throwing the Are from under the' boilers and igniting the craft. The crew of twenty-one became .panicstricken and jumped overboard. Robert Maktin, aged 63, and James , B. Graves. 65 years, were hanged at Newark, N. for murder. Martin's crime was the murder of his wife, being drunk at the time he committed the deed. Graves had always been regarded as a crank, and tie little boys called him "Monkey Graves. He had frequent quarrels with Eddjp 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 foUosred and, while the boy was mounted on a lamp-post, shot him down from behind. He was convicted, Jan. 19, 1882, of murder in the first degree. His defense was insanity. Br. Spitka, the medical expert who testified for Guiteau, assisted by six other doctors, examined into Graves' case. 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. All 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 Vfllard resigning the Presidency of the company because of nervous prostration and in deference to the interests of the stockholders. The resignation was accepted, and a special election was ordered to choose a successor. The. Directors voted. Mr. Vfllard S10.000 per annum for Ma services, vice President Oakes reported the line in flrstclass order except 100 miles ' near the junction west of Helena. Vfllard is a total Smmwifti wreck. He has made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors to Win. Endicott, Jr., of Boston, and Horace White, ' of New York. After all his debts are canceled, be desires that the residue be turned over to his wife. . . .Robert A. Murray, who was engaged in toaniar money in Boston, has fled with $40,000 or more belonging to men who misplaced their confidence in him. TBS WB9? A GANG of thieves in Columbus, Ohio, arranged with the depot policeman to rob a Bee-Line train at a point nine miles outside the city. , The officer kept the authorities fully informed, and steered the whole party into the hands of the police. It will be remembered that when the Crouch family was massacred near Jackson, Mich., Mrs. Hoicomb, a surviving daughter of the millionaire, was taken violently ill. For tills reason the Inquest was delayed and often adjourned. At last her testimony was taken at her home. The coincidence of her sudden filnees and the awful tragedy set peopie talking, and it was generally believed she could, if she would, tell enough about the murder of her lather and her sister to bring the real criminals to the scaffold. Mrs. Holcomb was found dead in her bedchamber a few mornings ago, having killed herself with poison..... Judge Krekel decided fn the United States court at Kansas City that iTank James should be turned over to bis bondsmen, asserting that the State tribunal, by first gaining possession of the criminal, had prior rights. . . . A broken rail threw a steeper and two passenger coaches of an Illinois Central train down a fifteen-loot embankment west of Fort Dodge, Iowa, one woman being killed and eight other persons seriously wounded. . . .The Huron mill-dam, located one mile from Houghton, Mich., gave way, wrecking two houses and destroying six lives. The trial of Montgomery, Pettis and dementi, for criminal assault upon Miss Emma Bond, was brought to a conclusion at nillaboro, 111., on the 2d inst., the jury rendering a verdict of not guilty, after several hours' deliberation. There was a good deal of dissatisfaction over the verdict in Christian county, particularly 1 in the neighborhood where the Bond family live, and some talk of organizing a mob to lynch the acquitted parties was indulged in. Mr. A. D. Bond, an uncle of the unfortunate gti'l, having tost his reason by the outrage and the prolonged excitement, hanged himself just before the conclusion of the trial. He was a highly respected citizen, and the event added greatly to the feeling against the prisoners. Chables 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 compled with her wishes..,. Waen Clementi, one of the persons acquitted in the Emma Lond case, went to Irving, near Hilsboro, 111., he was given ten minutes to leave the place.. He soon made the fact apparent that he could have got along with less time,., ..James Williams, a burglar confined in the jail at Ottumwa, Iowa, killed Turnkey Manning with a revolver, and made his escape. Fob murdering a .saloon keeper at Wieser City, Idaho, Charles Deltzler, a barber. ' was summarily suspended from the limb of a tree. - 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 to visit Mexico next month. W. Irving Lakdeix arrived at lies, ington, Kr, a few days ago with a brother 12 years old and only 91. He gave the money to a boarding house to feed the boy, went to work as a brakeman himself, without getting any food, and, after thirty-six hours' labor in rigorous weather, died of hunger and exposure. Yaucab Bectob, 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. The Sheriff at Eastman, Ga., on opening the cell door of a colored murderer named James Crummidy, about to be hanged, was attacked with a knife. The doomed man then made himself unconscious by hacking his throat. He was taken to the scaffold on a stretcher, and supported until the drop felL WASHINGTON. Thk Committee on Public Lands, says a Washington telegram, will proceed actively with its work. Chairman Cobb Bays that it is not yet decided whether hiB consolidated bill proposing a general forfeiture of unearned lands shall be reported, or whether it will be better to separate the subject into five different bills, lie thinks the latter course will be pursued; and that five bills, which will restore at least 50,000,000 of acres to the public domain, will be favorably reported early in the session..... 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tent of the committee to 1 he j Btor9B CGei bnient Four and one-half per cents. 860,000,000 737.63a.730 374,937,25(1 315.150 14,000,000 Jr our per centa Three per cents , Refunding certificates, Navy pension fund. . . Total interest-bearing debt $1,276,885,150 Matured debt. : ..$ 15,138,795 Legal-tender notes. 846,739.G'-'6 Certificates of deposit 14,500,000 Gold and silver certificates 200,930,531 Fractional currency 6,989,428 Total without interest $ 569,219,655 Total debt (principal) $1,861,243,600 Total interest 12.172,323 Total cash in treasury 375.371.200 Debt, less ah ittant-:V. 1.498,01 723 Decrease during De enur n 743 337 Decrease of debt since Juno 30,. Jj. 58,'o49'483 Current liabilities . rr. v . . Interesroue and unpaid..; ;jj ' 1,930223 Debt on which interest 'has ceased.. ls'iaga Interest thereon '836198 Gold and silver certificates 200,93o'5si V. 8. notes held for redemption of ' certificates of deposit......... K.auo.OOO 'm 875.374,200 Available assets Cash in treasury.... $ 375,374,200 Bonds issued to Pacific railway cjora-, panies, interest payable by United Prindwil outstanding $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid....,., i, Interest paid by United States. ...... 89,222,093 Interest repaid bv companies By transportation service...... $ 17,631 893 By cash payments, 8 pes. cehc, act earnings. 665J98 Balance of interest paid by United States 40.035.000 The decrease in the public debt during December amounted to $11,743,337. The decrease since June 30, 1883, was $58,049,483. There appears to be a general sentiment in Congress in favor of retaliatory legislation toward Germany and France. Representatives from the West especially say the people demand the passage' of laws excluding the adulterated wines and certain other manufactures from such countries as exclude American swine products on the false pretense that they are diseased and unhealthy. POUTICAX. Mb. Hodgson was not permitted to take the oath in the Maryland Senate, his being1 a minister at the time of election rendering him ineligible. GJSXKRAI. By- a collision; in. the . outskirts of Toronto, Ontario, between A suburban and & freight train, twenty-two persons were killed, four mortally wounded, and sixteen slightly injured. The conductor of the freight train has been arrested for running his train without orders. Appalling scenes occurred at the wreck, the boiler of the suburban train exploding, and fire also b -eaking out. Some of the victims were burnt or scalded to death, while others were horribly mutilated. Recent deaths: Napoleon Joseph Perche, Archbishop of the Kdpaan Catholic diocese of New; -Orleans; . Hon. John Proctor, one of the wealthiest citizens of Sew Hampshire; John JH. Scully of, New York, a lead ing Irish Nationalist; Joseph Longworth, a prominent citizen of Cincinnati;' George W. Lane, President of the New York Chamber of Commerce; Joseph D. Murphy, a well-known theatrical manaarer of Philadelphia; JRev. Francis Hawley, the'aged father of Senator Hawley, of Connecticut. . Commercial failures : C. A. Constant & Co., retail dry-goods, Chicago, liabilities $165,000; Jeffords, Bailey Ss Co., lounge manufacturers, Jamestown. N. Y liabilities $100000; F. J. Conklin & Co., hats Binghamton, N. Y.; William Carroll & Co., New York city, liabilities $170,000; H. E.JMar n, dry-good,s St. Paul, liabilities $50,000; lfllman & Lamb, plantation supplies, Natchez, Miss., liabilities $30,000; Eager, Bartlett &Co., woolen goods, Boston, liabilities $80,000; Gillies & Bro., teas and spices. New York, liabilities $75,000; Delos & Pratt, furniture, . Toledo, liabilities $30,000; 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. Renard, notions, Cincinnati, liabilities $75,000; Reis Bros. & Co., fancy groceries, Cincinnati, liabilities $600,000; Isaac Reis, wholesale cigars, Cincinnati, liabilities $300,000; C. W. Savage & Sons, general merchants. Miles City, Mont., liabilities, $100,000; Jacob Jacobs, fancy goods, Nashville, Tenn., liabilities $40,000; H. E. Duening, hardware, Shelbyville,' 111., liabilities $10,000; J. E. Musselwhite, notions, Peoria, 111., liabilities $20,000; Landrum & Butler, dry goods, Aumista, Ga., liabilities $38,000; Gillison & Donaldson, hardware, Minneapolis, Minn., liabilities $15,000; A. J. Defossez, operatic manager, New Orleans, liabilities $75,000. The Gould system of railroads is about to establish a telegraph school at St. Louis, with a view not only to educating operators, but of selecting pupils from the acclimated people along the southwestern lines Gen. Grant has forfeited his Mexican submarine cable concession. Last -week was noticeable for an enormous 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 6 were four of the coldest days experienced in the Northwest in many years, the thermometer ranging from 8 to 40 degrees below zero. 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, but not without bayoneting two men, wounding them mortally. Lords George and Claude Hamilton and Caledon addressed the Orangemen, while T. D. Sullivan 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 bayonefs 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 having made its unwelcome appearance. Pour great failures were announced, the total liabilities being over $8,000,000 A Jesuit 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. The official who was with Lieut. Col. Sudeikin at St. Petersburg at the time of his murder has died of his wounds, and the tragic occurrence has caused alarm at the palace, where the sentinels have been quintupled. It is Slated that four .ffthilists were engaged in the crime. A police spy named Jablonski has been arrested .... Minister Lowell has resigned the lord rectorship of St. Andrew's college. , Touching the recent "accident" to the Czar a Vienna paper says that while returning from a hunt with his suite, six per sons were 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 stodge passed three shqts were fired at him, one bullet lodging in his shoulder. The assassins escaped tax a dense wood hear at hand, pursued by officers, .but the chase was 'fruitless.- Cne of the pursuing party has . not ' vyot turned up,,.. All account of the murder of Informer Carey, published in Dublin by United Ireland, shows that there was no struggle, O'Donnell deliberately kilting his man. The United States Consul General

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J deatfl by tlio cholera 0 to TO,O00. A member of Wrnatiof U Tribunal says there are still f from or lo thieo fatal '-cases eafch d....The outli Ciirrieu, who EontoflgBgffh afro kill Premier Fer peed a disposition to its neon sentenced at Paris to three months' imprisonment.... The Rothschilds are reported to have offered Prance 430,000,000 francs for the state railroads, and if the tender is accepted the contemplated loan of 400,000,000 francs will be unnecessary.... The Khedive has cut down Ins own Tinges 10 per cent, and applied the same economical principle to the income of the hereditary Prince and the expenses of the Egyptian court. ADDITIONAL NEWS. Four prisoners were suffocated in a burning jail at Jerseyvjlle, IlL, their names being Wall Dunsdan, James Gregg, Eraile Knhlar and August Schultz. The courthouse was burned at the same time.... A train was "wrecked at Charlostown, Southern Indiana, on a spur of the Ohio and Mississippi, running from Vernon to Louisville. A score of people were hurt, including members of the Yale College Glee club. A cabxe dispatch says the excitement in St. Petersburg over the assassination of Liout. Col. Sudeikin was greatly intensified by the final roports of the detectives and surgeons who were deputed to make special investigations into the causes of Sudoikin's death. The official report stated that Lieut. Col. Sudeikin, who was at the time of his death chief of the Department of Military Governorship of St. Petersburg, was slowly tortured until he made certain disclosures, and then killed to prevent his informing the Government that the Nihilists possessed the extorted information.... Marquis Tseng, Chinese Embassador to France, has not he id communication with the French Government since the capture of Sontay. The menaces of the press in regard to indemnity for the invasion of Tonquin will not deter China from continuing to assert her rights. The New Orleans Times-Democrat H expedition makes its roport of its adventures in the Florida Everglades. Myriads of alligators, fish, leeches, and poisonous bugs were encountered, and the region is set down as 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 and very dense, the edges of the blades being sharp on one side and serrated on the other. No Indians were seen by the expedition. . . .The mercury at Charleston, S. C., stood at 13 degrees below zero on the 6th of January, being the coldest weather experienced in that city in 135 years. . The Catholic convent at Belleville, DU, took fire from ( the furnace, and in an hour was reduced to ashes. Sixty pupils made desperate efforts to escape, some of hem leaping from the windows. Twentyseven young women perished in the fiamest The building was a five story brick structure, valued at about $70,000. . . . Mary V. Young, the seventeenth wife of the deceased Mormon prophet, died at Salt Lake City. Sixteen widows still live to mourn Brig-ham's death A Police Justice in San Francisco acquitted Cox of the murder of McLaughlin, the millionaire. Mr. Morrison intimates that every member of Congress will have an opportunity to go on record on the tariff issue. It is, in fact, his intention to put the matter so squarely that there will be little chance for dodging. 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 ignored by her sex, she quietly escorted her along the line and introduced hor to each of the ladies assisting the President. Davu H. Bates, Yice President of the Western Union Telegraph company, resigned, to accept the management of the Baltimore and Ohio lines. A Decline in Oil. "Don't you think," remarked Mrs. Bullion, settling herself into a new Eastlake chair, "that after the mint of money we have spent in our viller, there is still something lacking?" "You are right about that," answered Mr. Bullion, "and I think I know what the trouble is. With all our fine furniture and brickback, and sich things, the walls are as bare as a saw-raUl. Now, maybe, you see where the lack comes in!" "Goodness gracious! so I do. Why, we've forgot all about the pictures. " " Jes' so. What we want is paintings oil paintings. I saw some advertised to-day for sale at auction, and it's mighty lucky we thought of it in time, fur these artist fellows are mighty high-toned about prices, you know." "But is tiiis a good time to buy?" "Couldn't be better, my dear. They are all painted in oil, the advertisement says so, and I see by another part of the paper that oil is cheaper than it has been for a year past. I'll rush down and grab the hull lot." Philadelphia Call THEMABKET. NEW YORK. Beeves $5.00 7.00 Hoos 5.50 6.50 Ft-o UK Superfine 3.75 6.80 Wheat No. 2 Chicago, 1.0$ 1.06J4 No. 2 Red 1.10 1.15)3 Corn No. 2 66 .es O TS No. 2,,..'. 40 .42 P)itK Mess 14.50 ($15,011 Laud 09' .oaji CHICAGO. Beeves Good to Fancy Steers. . 6.50 7.00 Common to Fair. 6.00 6.75 Medium to Fair 4.50 5.50 HOOS 5.00 6.50 Fl-oun -Fancy White Winter Ex 5.1.0 & 5.60 Good to Choice Winter.. 5.00 6.50 Wheat No. 2 Sprinc...- 94 t5 .95 No. 2 lied Winter. 93 1.01 CoilN No. 2 57 .58 OAT." No. 33 & ,34 KYi. No. 2 58 .59 BAHIEY No 2 61 & .63 R-jTTKft Choice Creamery 32 gl .35 Ewts Fresh, 25 (gt .26 Iork Mesa 13.75 ti14.25 . LABD 94 & .09 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 04 .95 COKN No. 2 57 (?) .58 Oatk No. 2 32 & .33 RVE No. 2 63 & .64 1JARI.EY No 2 61 .62 1J0U8 Mess 14.00 ($14.50 Laud 8.60 9,00 ST. LOUIR Wheat No. 2 Red. 94 ffl .95 CORN Mixed 48 .49 Oats No. 2 32 .33 Rye 54 .65 POEK Mess 14.25 14.75 Laud 08&S .09 CINCINNATL Wheat No. 2 Red 1.03 j.04 Corn 49 & .50 Oats,.., 33 & .34 Rye 60 .61 Pobk Mess 14.00 (314.50 Lard 08,v .09 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red 1.00 O 1.02 Corn .53 .64 OATS-No. 2 .32 & .83 DETROIT. Fnbxm 0.00 & 6.60 Wheat No. 1 White 1.00 & 1.02 SORN No. 2 49 m .51 ATS Mixed. 33 .34 PORK Mess 14.00 14.75 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. 2 Red. 98 .90 COIIN No. 3 44 & ,46 OATS xixed 31 .38 EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattte Beet 6.00 7.00 Fair 6.50 s 6.00 Common 6.00 & 6.00 Hogs i 6.25 & 6.75 Sheep , , 5.00 6.50

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f'A. Hecord of tha Great Conflagration- of $ V" Historv. A ' In 64, A. D., during the reign'of Nero, a terrible fire raged in Borne for eight days, destroying ten of the fourteen wards. The loss of life and destruction of property is not known. In 70, A. D., Jerusalem was taken by the Romans and a large part of it given to the torch, entailing an enormous destruction of life and property. In 1106 Venice, then a city of immense opulence, was almost wholly consumed by a fire, originating in accident or incendiarism. In 1212 the greater part of , London was burned. In 1666 what is known as the Great Fire of London raged in the city from Sept. 2 to 6, consuming 13,200 houses, with St. Paul's Church, 86 parish churches, 6 chapels, the Guild Hall, the Boyal Exchange, the Custom House, 52 companies' haH, many hospitals, libraries and other public edifices. The total destruction of property was estimated at $53,652,500. Six lives were lost, and 436 acres burnt over. In 1679 a fire in Boston burned all the warehouses, eighty dwellings, and vessels in the dock-yards; loss estimated at $1,000,000. In 1700 a large part of Edinburgh was burned ; loss unknown. In 1728 Copenhagen was nearly destroyed ; 1,650 houses burned. In 1736 a fire in St. Petersburg burned 2,000 houses. In 1739 a fire in Constantinople destroyed 12,000 houses, and 7.000 people perished. The same city suffered a conflagration in 174-5, lasting five days; and in 1750 a series of three appalling fires : one in January, consuming 10,000 houses; another in April, destroying property to the yalue of $5,000,000, according to one historian, and according to another, $15,000,000; and in the latter part of the year another, sweeping fully 10,000 houses mqre out of existence. It seemed as if Constantinople was doomed to utter annihilation. In 1751 a fire in Stockholm destroyed 1,000 houses; and another fire in the same city in 1759 burned 250 houses with a loss of $2,420,000. In 1752 a fire in Moscow swept away 18,000 houses, involving an immense loss. In 1758 Christiania suffered a loss of $1,250,000, by conflagration. In 1760 the Portsmouth (Eng.) dockyards were burned, with a loss of $2,000,000. In 1764 a fire in Konigsburg, Prussia, consumed the public buildings, with a loss of $3,000,000; and in 1769 the city was almost totally destroyed. In 1763 a fire in Smyrna destroyed 2,600 houses, wifh a loss of $1,000,000; in 1772 a fire in the same citv carried off 3,000 dwellings, and 3,000 to 4,000 shops, entailing a loss of $20,000,000; and in 1796 there were 4,000 shops, mosques, magazines, etc., burned. In 1776, six days after the British seized the city, a fire swept off all the west side of New York city, from Broadway to the river. In 1771 a fire in Constantinople burned 2,500 houses; another in 1778 burned 2,000 houses; in 17S2 there were 600 nouses burned in February, 7,000 in June, and on August 12, during a conflagration that lasted three days, 10,000 houses, 50 mosques, and 100 cornmills, with a loss of 100 lives. Two years later a fire, on March 13, destroyed two-thirds of Pera, the loveliest suburb of Constantinople, and on August 5 a fire in the main city, lasting twenty-six hours, burned 10,000 houses. In this same fire-scourged city, in 1791, between March and July, there were 32,000 houses burned, and about as many more in 1795; and in 1799 Pera was again swept with fire, with a loss of 13,000 houses, including many buildinga of great magnificence. In 1784 a fire -and explosion in the dock-yards, Brest, caused a loss of $5,000,000. But the greatest destruction of life and property by conflagrations of which the world has anything like accurate records, must be looked for within the current century. Of these the following is a partial list of instances in which the loss of property amounted to $3,000,000 and upward: Property Dates. Cities. Destroyed. 1802- Liverpopl $ 5,000,000 1803 Bombay 3,000,0110 1805 St. Thomas , 3ii,00it,000 1S08-Spanish Town 7,500,uuo 1812 Moscow, burned five days; 30,8w houses destroyed 150,000,000 1816 Constanttnople,li,0U0 dwellings. 3,000 shops 1820 Savannah , 4,000,000 1S-J2 Canton nearly destroyed 1828 Havana, 350 honses l-i3$ New York ("Great Fire"! 1.-.,ihio,OOU 1837 St Johns, N. B 5,000,000 1 38 Charleston, 1,15S buildings 3,ooo,000 181 Smvrna, 12,000 houses 1812 Hamburg, 4.219 buildings, 100 liv-s at 3n,ooo,ono 18t5 N w York, 35 persons killed 7,500,ouo 1845 Pifct-bumh, l.luo buildinc. .... io,ooo,iio 1815 Quebec, Mav'JH, 1,050 dwellings 3,750,ooo 18i0 St. Jc!jna. Newfoundland 5,o0o, m 1848 Constantinople, 2,500 bnildiugs I5,noo,ooo 1848 Alb'iny, N. Y., 60u houses. 3,o o.oco 18ltl St. LoiliS 3,0(10,000 is5i- St. L"uis, V.500 buildings 11,000,000 1851 Sr. Loul8, 5oo buildings. 3,ooo,000 1851 San Francisco, May 4 and 5, many lives lost. 10,Ooo,(i00 1851-San Fiancisco, June ' n.ooo.otO 18 2 -Montreal, 1,200 building 5,000,000 1801 Mendoza destroyed by .avthuuake and Are, 10,000 lives ' lost 186-St. Petersburg 5,000,000 1862 Troy, N. Y., nearly destroyed 18GJ - Valparaiso almost destroyed 18(51 - Novgorod, immense destruc tion of properly 1805 Constantinople, 2,so buildings burned , 1860 Yokohama, nearly des royed 1803 Calstadt, Sweden, all consumed but Bishop's residence, hospital, and jail; 10 lives lost 1850 Portland, Mo., half the city. . . . 11,000,000 1800 Quebec, 2,500 dwellings and 17 churches ,. 1870 Constantinople Pera snberb... 20,000,000 1871 ChicaKO, 250 lives lost, 17,480 buildings burned, on 2,124 acres lO-l.'On.oO 1871- -Pnri8, fired by the Commune... ieo,wio,O0 1872- -Boston '5,000,000 1873- Yeddo. 10,000 houses 1877 -Pittsburgh, caused by riot. 3,200,000 1877 St Johns, N. B.,l,05Odwelling8, 18 lives lost 12,500.000 From the above it appears that the five greatest fires on record, reckoned by destruction of property, are: Chicairo fire, of Oct. 8 and 0, 1871 $192,000,000 Paris fires, of May, 1861 100,000,000 Moscow ilre, of Se: 1. 14-19, 1812 XftO.ooo.ooo Boston iir, Nov. 9-10. 1372 75,ooo,000 London flro, Sept. 2-0, 1800 83,052,500 Hamburg Arc, May 5-7. I8i2 35,uou,000 Taking into account, with the fives of Paris and Chicago, the great Wisconsin and Michigan forest fires of 1871, in which it is estimated 1,000 human

and property u,uu wi amefl& n piaa t tin m ibuflfwratid'ns tfiat ar stndi gloomy preenuiganci Our Young Hero. Some years ago df gentleman from White county, Illinois, was returning from New York city to his home. While on an Qhjo steamer one evening quite a number of the passengers were scattered around the cabin stove, as it was in the winter time. They were, as is usually the custom on such occasions, telling of personal adventures with the Indians and elsewhere. Among the number was a young man who had been -.Almost - impatiently awaiting his "turn" to tell his exploits. The eventful time haAl coine and he began thus : "I was down in Florida some years ago during the time when the Indians were so troublesome and scalped and killed so many of the settleis. We were getting tired of it. So we formed a company of about fifty men, some-'of us quite young, however. We made an attack on a band of Indians about twice our number near the head waters of the Kissinee river. After considerable bushwhacking they began to get the best of our men, and one by one they fell till I, seeing no possible hope, turned and ran, and after some difficulty made good my escape. ' When I got back to the settlement I found that I was the only man that had lived to tell the dreadful story, all else being killed." At this period the passengers expressed considerable surprise. To strengthen it the narrator said: "That was one of the times you read about, too." One of the listeners, a man perhaps 50 years of age, was sitting opposite the hero, with his hat pulled down over his eyes. After the young man had finished the old man gave a yawn, and remarked : "Yes, this is a solid truth. I know it to be a fact, for I was there myself." "Well," said an attentive listener, "but he says every man was killed but himself. So how can that be?" "Oh, that is easy enough. Why I was killed, too," replied the old man. Upon this unexpected remark the young narrator, sprung to his feet very much excited, at the same time eyeing the intruder sternly and saying : "I hope you don't think I am lying?" "Oh, no, certainly not," replied the aged man, "and I hope you don't think I am." This remark settled our young hero; he left the cabin to be heard no more in exploits. .Evansville Argus'. Hot vs. Cold Water. Just at the moment when cold water cures, milk cures, whey cures, grape cures, and the Karlsbad or starvation cure, occupy the attention of those who, perhaps, are in great measure personally responsible for wanting any cure at all, a new one has sprung up in America, and has already found followers in England, says the London Daily News. The drinking of hot water was an old-fashioned practice among persons with impaired digestive organs. Hot water as a cosmetic has greatly advanced in favor during the present London season, while the practice of drinking water as near to boiling point as is humanly possible, has taken to itself a supplementary treatment in the United States. The probably apocryphal saying attributed to Diane de Poicters, that she o wed the preservation of her beauty to the use of cold water is gradually becoming discredited, and Phyllis no longer laves her lovely features in the cool translucent wave, but in the same almost hot. As, a few years since, we were enthusiastic about cold tubbing, most meritorious when the ice on the top is required to be broken with a bootjack, so is a kind of scalding propaganda in progress at the present moment, and those who clung most desperately to the gelid tub axe now quietly pushed into lukewarm if not hot water. Hicher Than titeat Britain. Statisticians have pronounced the United States to be not only potentially, but actually richer than the United Kingdom. Counting the houses, furniture, manufactures, railways, shipping, bullion, lands, cattle crops, investments and roads, it is estimated that there is a grand total in the United States of $49,770,000,000. Great Britain is credited with something less than $40,000,000,000, or nearly $10,000,000,000 less than the United States. The wealth per inhabitant in Great Britain is estimated at $1,160, and in the United States at $995. With regard to the remuneration of labor, assuming the produce of labor to be 100, in Great Britain 56 parts go to the laborer, 21 to capital, and 23 to Government. In the United States 72 parts go to labor, 24 to capital, and 5 to Government. Mercantile Mention. "Is this suit of clothes all wool?" anxiously inquired a customer in the clothing store of Horman Moses. "Mein friendt," said Herman, taking the customer off into a corner. "I'll tole you der truth. Some men in de cloding bizness would say dot it vos all wool ; but I'll be honest mit you, mein friendt, and tole you der truth. Dot suit of cloding ish not all wool. De thread dot it is sewed together mit ish all cotton or linen. Now I'm honest mit you, sure." He effected the sale. Fort Wayne Hoosier. Queer Bedfellows. "I should think," remarked Beegum to Podsnapper, who lived on the Austin street-car line, "that you would find the cars annoying, running so late into the the night as they do." "O, no, not in the least," replied Podsnapper; "in fact, Ave find them quite useful to promote regularity in our domestio habits." "How's that?" said Beegum. "Why, we all go to bed with the last car-driver, and get up with the first mule on the track." Texas Siftings. It is one of the sad conditions of life that experience is not transniisfibie. No man will learn from the suffering of another, he must suffer himself.

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arkablc Elopements,, in was the 21-year-old Of i itizen of Arkansas, ami Std r was her "jttomeo. ileani eclared that Stover's inStlectual baf account wasn't half as long as his 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 her 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 his fainting s weetheart-in -his arms, rode at a furious gallop to the preacher's, two miles A ToaaHsft, Kan., JDharles bers. aged UTand LucvwJBcott, d got jjnfifiea, but ter a Iibneifcioon of wfM 1MI Badgely.aldf JosepMie$i0ra, respectivelvi f&ibd 14, ran away early last spring from Oswego county, N. Y. They soon found preacher willing tojnarry them. .The boy-hridfigjon. raided himAith a punciieal trade-dollar, but the good man had ridden six miles in the cold, and did not think that enough, soothe sympathizing sjeicSitojfe'iVaised hnta purseof fifty cents. John L. Stanhope eloped with the daughter of Gov. W. T. Hamilton, of Maryland, and they ran till they reached a mountain 3,500 feat high, wlj'erethey were marriedj-though in a few weeks' time she sued fo" a divorce. Miss Grace Daniels was as determined to get married as Miss Prue, in CongreVe's comedy of "Love for Love," who declared "Ecod, it's well they got me a husband, of married the baker." Miss Daniels was heir to a valuable estate at Lockport, N. Y., and fell in lovewith? a sewing-machine agent, but he was arjiestedfQr. theft, and she immediately fixed the grappling-iron of her affections on Mr. H. H. Sommers, and eloped pfH$x him, escaping through a cellar window and getting married before morning. Ms Veney Clokey, of Washington, Ba. aged 23; and possessed of some means, eloped with John Miller, a colored waiter, some three years, her junior. She had been adjudged a baaaticjen accoiuitfof her,, fondness, for $imMWc. Joseph Markowta: a. Russian pole, has lately come to New York and reduced the elopemen. business to somefcing lik asient. Jfeandhis wife operate together, carrying on the elopement industry on a large scale. The husband fould seiedga woman who had a little inoney laid tip, and elopewith her! Soon his rightful wife came along and made a terrible fuss, but he had managed to secure what money the--duped woman had, and, of course, returned with his rightful wife, only torepeat the game on some unsuspecting victim. . .Street Scenes in Lisbon. Among the street scenes in Lisbon may be noted two men carrying a bedstead and mattress slung upon a pole, a la Chinatown ; a man driving a flock of turkeys ; places at the public fountains divided by classes this side for gentlemen, this side for menials, etc.; the Praza do Comercio, or, as the English call it, "Black-Horse Square," after theequestrian statute of Joseph I,' which stands in the middle; the Passeio Publico, with its marble basins, its trees, flowers and pretty girls ; the cathedral, rebuilt since the great earthquake of 1775; the palace of Ajuda, where the royal family (the population of Portugal is scarcely more than one-half that of the Stale 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 may be the fashion in Paris. The gentry wear French costumes, the peasants, black homespun woolen jackets and trousers. You meet English people at every turn. 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 protective tariff, but really enjoys free trade, the entire coast and the frontiers bting in possession of smugglers. What with the small population, of the country, its almost ruined condition, audits utter dependence upon England, its crown becomes a mockery, and both its "ancient" and "modern" nobility a carcature. Cor. San JVcwicusco Chronicle. Live Stock in Europe. The demand for meat in most of the countries in Europe becomes greater every year. Human population increases much faster than animals suitable for food. The purchasing power of the mechanics in most countries hasincreased, and, as a consequence, they are better fed. Lalorers 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. Ajll the land available for producing grass and roots is now employed for those purposes. In several popular countries there has been a falling off in the production of live stock for the reason that more land is required everyyear for the extension of towns and the raising of fruit and garden vegetable). In other countries there has been aa increase of meat-producing animals, but' 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 cose puted to be 92,000,000, of sheep 300,--000,000, and of swine 46,000,000. Mental pleasures never cloy. Unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved byTeflection and strengthened by enjoy ment. Colton. There are 50,000 postoffioes in the United States.

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