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DECEMBER 31, 1890. ^ NO. 20.^1 m sYj Hkc:) Vt'hc." - lie Holy j Halm age Hnon this; u.-ic in : HHBbk:::;x at m in ! HBi. 0 "And ! J-t togeth- i HHffii ?elhcr I in PalrsAfter a | ||||p our tfnts ; BKnd though f&Ba. variety cf} :!:: a HE||Sthe most of i jGHKir and a half jig' "\Ve detain | ffira||?50 much, of! accidentally [ ^Kjnday lunch- j this Lake; |||| that at any mr encampment; MR winter night ^Bthful. In this )Ught his last aHKnSsraHraiilfnns had banded |l|to crush this J banks of these \ Hheir carcasses, j \re more mia shua of whom Bcourses caught Hmpse, although d Palestine, and Bst stirring an<l ho!e foot ever KE MOSES' PLACE. L beautiful traciissed .him, and in le soul of the drlad been buried, tha fnnaral thp afc I-.Hd him. Eut God H away from any Ka but he has some Hd doe3 not jo lookBreat variety of can one especially iit bsition. lie mak?s B?. Moses has pass Joshua, the hero, e platform of history Rhe sges echo' with was a magnificent ways fought on the never fought unless g'ht. He got his mil House, although Joshrfreshei^rRRR t with a stone^fwiu R,andthe next leading: vu-a regiment ci ^whipped cowards, and the nexf battle Eagainst darkness, wheeling the sun 9e.nd the moon into his battalion, and fllihe last against the kin< o? terrors, HReath?five great victories. a^aeSor the most part, when trie genera] Hn army starts cut in a conflict h? Hd like' to have a small battle in SS^Br that he may get his courage up rally his troops and get them drill??nr trrpstf-r Lut, this first I staking of Joshua w;*s greatei .theleveling of Fort I'ulaski, 01 Sundering down of Gibraltar, o: rrertbrow of the Bastile. It was Crossing of the Jordan at the tim? ie spring freshet. The nt Lebanon had just been ff!?itin?. ^hey poured down into tire valirv, foe whole valley was a raging toi* So the Cp.iuanites stand on ont and they look across and see ua an(T the Israelites, and ihej 1 asdsay, "Aha! aha! they cannot ?b us in time?until the freshets it is impossible for them to reach I^Sut alter a mine uirv iuuh. Later and they see a movement in but of Joshua. They sar: "What's fetter dott ? Why, there must be fic amoDg these troops, and the* Ding to lly, or perhaps they are \ to try to'mareh across the'river ia,the chiefain, looks at his armories, "Forward, march!" and thev for the bank of the Jordan. THE PARTING OF JORDAN. ; mile ahead go two priests carryerlitterin? box four feet long and I feet wide. It is the ark of the aant. And they come down, and oner do they just touch the rim e water with their feet than by dmighty fiat Jordan parts. The |pf Joshua marches right on with Itting their feet wet over the but shells and pebbles, until thev ighe other bank. Then they lav fcthe oleanders and tamarisk; ows and pull themselves up u Ipirty cr forty feet high, and ^gained the "other bank, thei Iir shields and their cymbal; kthe praises of the God oi But no sooner have thej Ihe bank than the waters be gsh :.nd roar, and with a terrifcey break loo.^e from theii ftnchorfije. Out yonder thej Hped, thirtr miles of distance Ed. On this side the waters Bvards the sal; sea. 'and of the Lord (Jod i; |||y from Hie thus uplifted Rters perhaps uplifted half i ||| Almighty- hand is taker, ife waters rush down, ant ^unbelieving Israelites say Ivhat a misfortune! V?*hj se waters have staid part" perhaps we may want tc ^ord, w? are engaged in r l These Canaanites maj cr if we want to go back: pave been a more com If the Lord had partem kt us come through am ed to let us go back il ||d?" My. friends, G<h ggsion for a Christian's Bn i-c t V\ & t h n 1! f h? w u T ^^rrrTTTT-^UIU Ull o back is to die. The K that swing back tin Ul tll( Hi pass through now gfethystine and crys BLack to sror. Be* for the host t( H'S the corn maud In the distance of trees, and a; is j. city. It is i Ba.tr bo rs. ;i city v. 111 SEsn^ :__i * > -' ? \-*i i I... IU t-v sky. It is th< hands the n:oim kio. The c:iy wji: K' l'otupt-y, and i fcd by Herod lh< rrward capturei k but thi^i cam ?1 There shall hi Ho battering ram weapon o* wai Pi The horo o Bfcetiiiies taL( u Hl-ired la it, am Bid i'UT ih? in rail nc vtoiud ri:r Hue musical iu Sriuiiiv^t and make ;i great tl cf sweet harmony for the people. That was the only kind of weapon, .^even priests were to take these rude rustic musical instruments, and they were to <ro around the citv everr day for six days? once a day?and"then on the seventh dny they were to go around blowing these radejmusical iftslraments seven times, and then at the close of the seventh blowing of the ranis horn? 011 the seventh day the perora+;on of the whole scene was to bo a shout at which those great walls should tumble from capstone to l?ase. HOUND TIIE CITY'S WALL?. Th 5s*y<-u prlt-sts with tii<- rude musical instruments pass all round the citj vails en the first day, and a failure. Not so much as a niecf'of plaster i>roke loose from the walls; not so much as a I .7 nnt er. rniifh ?)< .1 nl !?(;?? :uu>euru ivcn, ;IUK .....v. x of mor:ar lost from its place. " I'here," say the unbelieving Israelites, "didn't I tell you so? Why, those ministers are fools. The idea of groins' around the city with those musical instruments, and expecting in that way to destroy it! Joshua has been spoiled; he thinks because he has overth-own and dehroved the spring- freshet he can overthrow the stone wall. Why, It is not philosophic Don't you see there is no relation between the blowing of these musical instruments and the knocking down (>f the wall? Itlsn'i philosophy." And I suppose there were many wiseacres who stood with their brows knit< -..1 frtr?fin<r?r nf th^riorhf tCVl (tliU 1/iiV lVUiiUgn v-fc. v*?w . >Q? hand to the forefinger of the left hand arguiny it ail out and.showing that it was not possible that such a cause co ilu produce such an effect. And I suppose that night in the encampment there was plenty of philosophy and caricature, and if Joshua had been nominated for any high military position he would not have got many votes. Joshua's stock was down. The second uay the priests blowing the musical instruments go around the city, and a failure. Third day, and a failure: fourth day, and a failure; fifth day, and a failure; sixth day, and a failure. The j seventh day comes", the climacteric day, I Joshua is up early in the mornin? and I examines the trooos, walks all around * ' ? ?i! Tl,< ftDOUE, 100K5 iili U1C <Ji tjr Ticiii. XUV. priests start to make the circuit of the city. They go all around once, all around twice, three times, four times, five times, six times, seren times, and [ a failure. I There is only one more thing1 to do. and that is to* utter a great shout. 1 I s*e the Israelitish army straightening [themselves up, filling-.their lungs for a i vociferation such as was never heard before and never heard after. Joshu? f?els that the hour has come, and he cries to his host, "Shout, for the Lord hath given you the city!" All the people begin to cry, "Down, Je-icbo down, Jericho !" And the long lineol solid masonry begins to quiver, and tc 1 move, and to rock. Stand from under j She falls ! Crash ! go the walls, the j temples, the towers, tne paiaces, tut j air blac^enej^i^lth?tt^ ilnst! m Thj AJvsrKa' of the victorious Isr^eTwIBffj ; * the groan of the conquered Cacaanite ; commingle, and Joshua standing ther ? in the debris of the trail hears a role 1 savins:, "There shall not any man b able to stand before thee all the da? > of thy life." ! ONLY P.AIIAB S HOUSE SPAliED. 1 Only one house spared. Who live there? Some great king? Xo. Som 1 woman distinguished tor g*eat kindl ' deeds? Xo. She had been conspicuou ; for her crimes. It is t he house oi; lit ; hab. Why was her house spared V 1>< " cause she had been a great sinner? X< [ UUO UCLUiljr ?ilC lCl'Ciuru, vaiiiwujm. ing to all the ages that there is mere ' for the chief ot sinners. The red cor of divine injunction reaching from he window to the ground, so that whe the peoplesaw that, red cord they kuei il was the divine indication theyshoul ' not disturb the premises, making u think of the divinecord of a Saviour' deliverance, the red cord of a Saviour kindness, the red cord of a Saviour ; mercy, the red cord of our rescui ' Mercy for the chief of sinners. Pi | your trust in that God, and no dainag 1 shall befall you. When our world sha ; be more terribly surrounded than xvv ' Jericho, even by the trumpets of th ! judgment day, and the hills and th I mountains, the metal bones and ribs c ' j nature shall break, they who hare ha Kahab's faith shall have Rahab's 'd< ! liveranc-e. I u-rrmt in tli? ftf Ofhf plow, And Heaven's last thunder shakes tl: earth below; Thou, undismayed, shah o'er the ruir t smile, ! And li?ht thy torch at Nature's funer; I pile. 1 But Joshua's troops may not ha! here. The command is, "Fortran ' march!" There is the city of Ai;i 1 must be taken. IIow shall ft be taken A scouting party comes back and say; "Joshua, we can do that without yoi it is going to be a very easy job; yo just stay here while we go and captur ? it." They march with a small reg L ment in front of the city. The men c ' Ai look at them and give one yell, an ' the Israelites run like reindeer. Th [ northern troops at Bull Iiun did nc make such rapid time as these Israe r ites with the Canaanites after then They never cut such a sorry figure a when they were on the retreat. Ani " body that" joes out in the battles of Go r with only half a force, instead of you ? taking the men of Ai. the men o'f A > will 'take you. Look at the church c God on the retreat. liornesian cann 1 bals ate up Munson, the missionary 1 "Fall l ack !" said a 2re*t many Chri: i tain people. "F dl !>?ck, O church c ' God! .Borneo will never be taker i Don't you see the liornesian cannibal : have eaten up Munson, the missicr ' aryV" Tyndall delivers his lecture a . I'tiMVjr.lf r nf onrt ? rrr^n Cll^, V. U1 ? V.4 0AVJ U4 VAiU^VH, ) many good people say : "Fail back i i church or God! Don't you see tlu ' Christian philosophy is going to I ; overcome by worldly philosophy ? Fa back!" Geology plunges its crowba i ir.to the mountains, ana there are : great many people vrho say : "bciei tilic investigation is g)ing to ove: i tnrow me .Mosaic account 01 ins ere; > tion. Full back I" Friends of th " church have never had any right t * fallback. ? JOSHUA IS CHAGRINED. Joshua labs on his luce in chagrin. 1 ' is the omy time you ever see tht bac of his head. Ii>- falls on his face an begins to whine, and he says: "01 Lord God, xr here!oi e hast thou at a > ; K?v?nrrht ; Iii* nvi?r Ti.rilaii ?<i '1. : liver us into the hand of the AiuoriU | to destroy us? Woup.l to (iocl we h;i I been content and dwelt onthe oth; isi<!e of Jordan 1 For th? Canaaniti i ; and all the inhabitant?of the land sha ! hear of a. and ?hali environ us rouri i and cut oil'our name from the earth 1 am very glad Joshua said th:i Before it seemed as If lie were a supe natural brius. and. therefore could m ?; be an example to us; but 1 Li mi he is 1! man, he is only a man. Just s:.; som -; times jo'.i find a man uncier severe o. ; position. or in a bad state of physic; .; fnalth, or worn out with overwork lyir . idown and sijhins; about everytbiu t being defeated. 1 am encouraged wb? . ;I hear this try of Joshua as he lies i i' the dust. God comes and rouses him. Ilo i' dots he rouse him? By ~ompiimentai -i apostrophe 'i ^so. lie sajs: "Get th< up. V.'ht-refore lie.sl thou t'.pon thy lace?" Joshua rises, and f. warrant you with a mortified look.b.vrt his old cotir age comes back. 'J'tx* l'act was that j was not his battle.--!f he had bwen ia i it he-would ha^'gone on to victory. Iff fathers"nfs trooos around him and :SviV7?.~^Sbw, let us <ro up and capture I the city of Ai; let us go up right away." They inarch on. lie puts the majority of the troops behind a ledge of rocks ; in t.V night, and then he sends comparatively small regiments up in front J of the city. The men of Ai come out i with a shout. The small regiments of ' Israelites in stra'atfem tall back and j iaU back, ami \rht-n all the men of Ai : have left the city and are in pursuit of these scattered, or yeeminsrly scattered. ' regiments Joshua stands on a rock?I i see his locks flying in the wind as he , points his spear toward the doomed ' city, and that is the signal. The men i rush out from behind the ro-ks and take the city, and it is put to the torch, and then these Israelites in the city j march down, and the flying regiments of Israelites return, and between these two waves of Israeiitish prowess the j men of Ai are destroyed, and the Isi raelites gain the victory. And while j I see the curling smoke of that dej stroyed city on the sky. and while I : hear" the huzza of the Israelites, and [the groan of the Cnnaanites, Joshua j henrs something louder than it all, { ringing and echoing through his soul, j "There shall not any man be able to | stand before thee all the days of thy j life." OX TO TIII-: CITY OF GIDEON*. ! But this is no place for the host of ! Joshua to stop, "Forward,. marcnr cries Joshua to the troops. There is the city of Gideon. It has put itself | under the protection of Joshua. They j sent word, "There are lire kings after ! us; they are going to destroy us; send j troops quick; send us help right away." j Joshua has a three days' inarch at more (than double quick. On the morning i | of the third day he is before the enemy. j There are two long lines of hattle. 1 j The battle opens with gr?at slaughter, i but the Canaanites soon discover some t thing. They say: "That is Joshua. | That is the man who conquered the :[splng freshet and knocked down the ' I stone wall and destroyed tiie city of Al. I There is no use lighting." And they > 1 sound a retreat, arid as they begin to i retreat Joshua and his host spring j upon them like a panther, pursuing ' them eyer the rocks; and as these j Canaanites with sprained ankles and ' j gashed foreheads retreat, the catapults j of the sky pour a volley of hailstones 1 into the valley, and all the artillery of L the heavens with bullets of iron pound ' the Canaanites against the ledges oi 1 Beth-horen. "Oh!" says Joshua, "this Is surely a ; victory." ;,I3ut do you not see the sun . is going down? Those Amorites yre > going to get away -after all. and then ; t hey will- come up some other time and ; bother us, and perhaps destroy us." ; .See, the sun is going down. Oh, for a TT lOTTgfeTVrrr?1 r r{ f. ?/C. i Jthis climate! What Is the matter wit .e [Joshua? Has he fallen in an apopiecti e I fit ? 2so. lie is in prayer. Look on e j when a good man makes the Lord hi ,s! ally. Joshua raises his l'ace,#radian j with prayer, and looks at the descend ! ing sun over ixiceon ana at, xne mm I crescent of the moon, for you know th j queen of the night, sometimes wi; linger around the palaces of the da] - i'ointing one hand at the descendin sun and the other at the faint crescen ~ of the moon, in the name of that Go who shaped the worlds and moves th ' worlds, he cries, "Sun, stand tnou sti ' upon Gideon; and thou moon, in th [ ralley of Ajalon." They halted. , But Joshua was not quite througl ! There was time for five funerals bf y i fore the sun of that prolonged day se' j Who will preach their funeral sermon v* j Massillon preached the funeral sermo over Louis XVI. Who will preach th funeral sermon of those five dead kings . kin? of Jerusalem, kin? of Ilebror I king of Jarmuth, king of Lachisl t" kingofLglon? Let it be by Joshu. What is Ms text? What shall be lh ,, epitaph put on the door of the tomb 1 "There shall not any man be able t : stand before thee all the davs of th e life'" ,f But before you fasten up the door (X want five more kings beheaded an j. thrust in?King Alcohol, King Fram King Lust, King Superstition, Kin Infidelity. Let them be beheaded an hurl them in. Then fasten up th ie door forever. "What shall the lnscrii tion and what shall the epitaph be is xor au t^nrisuaa pnuanuirupisis ui n ages are going to come and look at i il What shall tne inscription be ? "Thtfr shall not iny man be" able to stand b( It fore thee all"the days of thy life.'' 1. TIME FOIl JOSIIUA TO GO IIOME. it But it is time for Joshua to go horn* ? lie Is 110 years old. "Washington wen 5. down the Potomac, and at Mount Yei i; non closed his days. Wellington die u peacefully at Apsley House. Xo^ ? rrhere shall Joshua rest? Why, he i i- to have his greatest battle now." Afte a hundred and ten years he has to mee d a king who has more subjects than a e the present population of the earth, hi >t throne a pyramid of skulls, his parterr 1- the graveyards and the cemeteries o i- the world," his chariot the world' S hearse?the King of Terrors. But i r- this is Joshua's greatest battle, it i d joing to be Joshua's greatest victor] r ile gathers his friends around him an ^ gives his valedictory, and it is full o >f reminiscence. Young men tell wha i- they are going to do; old men tell wha ? they have done. And as you hav heard a grandfather or great-grand >f i father, seated bv the evening fire, tell o i- i Monmouth or Yorktown, and then'lil __ , y j Lilt; CiU'wUil in sluu. <iO tuuugii 11 nut i-1 musket, to tight and shovr how the ol t battles were won. so Joshua gather it his friends around his d\ing couch 0 and he tells them the story of what h it has been throi;srh, and as he lies then >e his white locks snowing down on hi 11 wrinkled forehead, I wonder if Go r j has kept his promise all the wa a: through. i-! As he lies-there he tells the story on< "-jlwo or three times?you have "hear 1 nonnl* :1 ?!nrir nr fhrp ie times over?and he answers: "I g o the way of all the earth and not on word of thr promise has failed, not on word thereof has failed; all has com [t j to pass, not one word thereof h;i kj failed." And then he turns to hi d | family as a dying parent will and say. :i: ! "i. noose now wnom you mu serve, lij li j God of Israel, or the God of thr Ann ti- j rites. As for me and my house w ?s wi[l serve tha Lord." A dying paren id cannot be reckless or thoughtless 1 .r regard to his children. Consent to pa: as w:th them forever at th-- door of tl" il tomb we cannot. l>y the cradle i d which their infancy was rocked, by tii bosom on which Uiey lirst lay, by tl: t.j blood of the covenant, by the lied c r-j Jushusi it shaJi not be. We will m )t | part, we cannot part. Jeh ivah Jirel a; <ve take thee at thy promise "i wi e-! be a God to thee and thy sued at'ts p-1 thee." ;d Dead, the old chieftain must be lai ig out. Handle him very gently; th; <g sacred body is over a hundred and t? n years: of age. Lay him out, stretch oi >-? : t ViAfft ! + S ? ^ /It-rr o'nn/l tV .w j i avjv likiu n amtu ^LLJ owv/u vi t parted Jordan. Close those lips whit w ; helped blow the blast at which t; :y t wails of .Jericho fell. fold the an :c 1 that lifted the spear toward the doou jideilyoi Ai. Fold it right over thy j I heart that exulted when the live kings j J fell. 13ut where shall we get the !>urnjished granite for headstone and the 1 footstone? 1 bethink myself now. I [ imagine that lor the head it shall be j j the sun that stood still upon Gideon, | j and for the foot the moon that stood still in the valley of Adjalon. Kill Howard KilUd. /' r i> I ?&?- ov?\V IT 1 Trill*-! j aril, better known all over Greenville: j County as liig Jlill" Howard, is dead.! j The revengeful mountain bullet has; j again got in its work, but this time the i victim appears to have received the! i wound face to face with the man who in- \ ! dieted it and there was no lurking in the j ! dark or behind bushes on the hillsides j j and a fatal blow by unknown persons, j : as is usuallv the case. j The particulars received here yester- i i day were very meagre, but the killing; ! of "Big Bill" occurred not far from I where lien Ross was shot to death and j j the slayer is the son of lien Ross' wid- j I ow. His name is deorge Center and fie j is well known, in the mountain sections ] of this county. There were no witnesses to the affair, but it is saiil that Sunday afternoon about 4 or 5 o'clock "Big Bill'"and ('outer met in the road in the neighborhood of where both lived. What passed between them is not known, but Big Bill was shot with a Remington riile, the ! l>nl! shattering the richt arm and eroincr : into the abdomen. Vhe wound caused I a constant llow of blood from the mouth I and Howard died some time yesterday. Late yesterday afternoon SherilT Gll|reath received" notice that Center was j ready to surrender liimself. The Sher| iff left shortly afterward and will prob- j ably return to-day with him. The scene I of the killing is twenty-live miles above {the city. Several rumors are current as to the cause of the killing, the principal one being that Howard informed on Center who was engaged in the "blockade" J whiskey business. Two of his stills have recently been destroyed by the government and he believed that Howard had something to do with directing the : revenue oilicers to the blockade stills. i Death is generally the informer's fate. News. Her Incomt and Hit. Charlotte, N. C\, Dee?mber,25 .? j The World's .San Francisco special in | regard to the marriage of MiSa Majgie I McDowell, of Charlotte, to Baron Yon ; j Maltzahn, of Berlin, Germany, in con! ncction with his alleged letter in reply j to the California joker's advertisement of rich American brides for European noblemen, has been the all-absorbing theme of conversation in social circles 1 here to-day. It is said the Baron declared that the cause of his resignation from the German ' army was his bride's refusal to lire . abroad. A circumstance by some i thought significant in this connection h ^j?a^ttLd_the World correspondent this c Evening by apeisou (juiieTuliiuui^f'n iii' 10 the McDowell lamdy. This information S iinl enAii nfl^r "Miss Mc.TiftK'fill'.c ! return from Europe the Baron In one ol 'I j his letters to her questioned her ven 0 J closely about her income aud said that U j it would be impossible lor .them to maiJ% rj if she was not wealthy. The storj j runs that J. B. McDowell, a brother ol t the Barone's auswer^fh'e letter, saying d that his sister's was $4,000 a e year tud that it would be necessary foi 11 the Baron to write at his earliest cone venience and declare what his income was. It is said the Baron replied as j*! follows: "You ask what my incomc is. That 0 i has never troubled me, and 1 have ncvq j er thought to ask my mother in what e kind ot financial condition she would .. I leave me m at her death. b I'rcaclied to h Jury. lj | Kansas City, Dec. IT.?A special 1 ! - i - - riM ? e irom uicnua, ixansas, savs: jlubjui j V in the case of Xellic Mayers, charged ? with robbing John Yost, and then throwy ing him while in a drunken stupor from a third story of a house of ill repute I had been out fifty-two "hours last night d' when Judge Balderson announced his 1, determination to have a verdict before g morning. . d lie did not reveal his plan, but at S a c m. took Rev. X. E. Harmon to the court )- house. 'The bailiff ushered the reverend 'i gentleman into the jury room. Mr II llarmon then commenced a religious t. service, the jury joining in the singing, e He then delivered an hour's discourse ;- upon the immortality of the soul, and after the closing prayer left the jury tc themselves. AVlien court opened the bailiff announced that the jury had art rived at a verdict. It was "guilty." > . One of tha jurors said the verdict was /-?/ ! aw +1.a 11f l?oll Af nffn** flm nl Acn (J JLCUUUCU VII LUC uiou wauttatti tuv/ vivo*. 7i of the religious service. s The defense will appeal the case, alr leging misconduct on the part of the ;t judge and his bailiff. Acc5d*nt to Col. Le* Hagood. | Columbia, S. C., Dec. 23.?Informar tion was received here yesterday of a very serious accident to Colonel Lee f llagood. Jt seems from the particulars obtained last night from our Sumter . correspondent that Colonel Ilasfood. j who lias been over at .Sumter for some r days past on insurance business, accit dentally shot himself in the left arm t with a pistol Monday night in his room at the.]ervev House. The ball fractured , both bones "above the wrist. Medical r assistance was summoned at once and t the wound was dressed. Yesterday morning upon re-examination it was (1 'found necessary to amputate his arm, ; Mr Hagood is now doing tolerably well, ' j Mrs. Ilagood and her son left for Sumg i ler yesterday evening. ! Tlio intpllinr*?r?r>#? nf this snrl til ' [ L'olonel Ilagood was a great shock to his , | friends in Columbia, but they have beer " j reassured by the information that re action had set in.?Columbia Register ! ' "T2ie Old Kt'liable." j Citaulkstox, Dec. 20.?The first an0 | nual report of Receiver Cliamberlain ol 0 i the South Carolina Railway was tiled in e the United States Court to-day. '1'he e j net earnings for the year are SySO.TUl 0 ! against s:iI2.0T I in lb^-bi*. an increase ol ! ^lb,Ub7. Tlie report is up to October | :n. iva>. ! The expense account shows a corres1,1' ponding decrease, notwithstanding tin 3" | fact that t!ie road has added material!) e j to its rolling stock and motive power. it 1 The receiver s^ys that the increase ii '> ! 11 it-* is n<iT dup csitt'ciullv to mil great increase in the crops but to tht lr" natural development of the countrj 11. and to its connections. IC j A Possible I-'loml at WIi* clinic, >f! AViikklixg, AV. Va. Dec. lb.?Tin )t! most territic snow storm l'or six year: ti, has been raging for 24 hours, and a"larg< 11 j amount of damage resulted. All tele ;r | graph communication was cut oil al I day yesterday. The city telephane, tel id | eirrapli and lire alarm systems are com it pletely wrecked, and railway traili< u ; gretly delayed. The loss is large, btree it; cars are not running and hack lines arf le j taking their place. w Little business ha: :h i been done. There are lively apprehen e 1 sious ol" a llood in the city. There is i ai; vast amount of snow about the headwa a-Iters, .... IX (J ALL'S SCHEME. j HE WILL CARRY HIS FiGHT 70 THE '; UNITED STATES SENATE. If lie is I)?f?ntc!(l for Ke-election lie will j Alle;ro that the Kansas House of K?p- j r?(eututlve>> is Illegally Constituted. j Toi-.ka, December. 20.?The Sena ! twial contest iu Kansas js at ibis time | attracting much attention, ou-;u^ to the [ prominence jf Senator Ingails. The j Times rcccntly gave an account of the preliminary steps bein^ taken for a contest to bs made in the United States Senate. ;An interview has ;?een had with a gentleman of national reputation,. who fully anil freely expressed hu> views i upon thissuhjest, and gave confirmatory evidence as to the conspiracy revealed by the Times. For political reasons his name will be withheld. lie is in a position to kn.-jTv absolutely the workings in the inner circles of politics. This gentleman said : "The struggle for the Senatorial succession to John. J. Ingalls bids fair to outrival in stubborn fighting, in persistent oflort, and in fertile expedients all ethers in the history of such elections. ' ' - A 1 -1 '1 - ->'1 Conot nr i.Ttiuiercu muuuu nuu mijjjjiu uu^ ^ubivi I Ingalls iti his ofl'ort at re-election are | sonic of the strongest and most active minds in the West, men who for a quarter of a century have so managed the politics ol the .State that Kansas had outstripped all other Northern States in piling up majorities for Republican candidates in Presidential years. And while Ingalls would not be their iirst choice in the event of an open field and : fair fight, they recognize that his rc-election means an extraordinary triumph for them and a continued supremacy in the management of their party. ;'The Kansas Legislature as now constituted consists of 40 Senators and 12S members of the House of Representatives, Classifying them politically there are 3S Republican Senators, l uemocrac, and there is one vacancy to be filled at a spccial election December 30. The racaucy in all probability will be filled by an Alliance man, instructed against the re-election of Ingalls, so that the Senate will stand 3S Republicans, 1 Democrat and 1 Alliance Senator. The House contains 01 Alliance, 0 Democratic and 28 Republican members'.. This ?ives an Alliance vote of 02, a Republican vole of GG aud a Democratic rote of 10. There is no doubt that four of the ten Democratic votes are for In^alls to the bitter end, and that the very great probabilities are that as against a distinctive Alliance candidate, all ten of the Demo- j cratic toics will be giTen 10 mgaus. i "The Alliauce people to bridge over; this difficulty could secure five of the Democratic votes by taking a candidate withstroj^Pemocrat^anteccdcBtvaT^ 1 questions, cx> range hiAiselfon the Democratic side of the chamber. Such a. selection would give them 97 votes, if they could hold - their men; but here one of their maiu ^ difficult'es w3uld occur. Their total 1 number of members is composed of mixed and diverse materials. Nearly > two-thirds hare heretofore been active 1 Republicans. .Seven of tbeii number are Knights of Labor and are free lances in " politics. ! "Again, the Republican leaders allege 1 that the House ofRepresentatives ought to contain under the plain term# of the Constitution. 144 mcmberj instead of ' 128, that nineteen counties are disfian' cltised by the legislative apportionment ' of 1885. This claim is based upon a provision of the Constitution of the State that declares that the number of Re[ presentatives and Senators shall be re?. ulatcd by la*-, but that it shall never , exceed 128 Representative* and 40 Senators. From and after the adoption of the amendment the House of Represcn tatives shall admit ?ne member from * .1. - a 1 l Or A ' eacn county in which hi iuiiso -ou n jui | rotes were cast at the next precediug general election, and each organized county in which less than 200 legal votes were cast at the next preceding general election shall be attached to and constitute a part sf the Representatives district of the couDty lying next adjacent to it on the east.' This amendment to the Constitution was adopted at the general election in 1873. "In the apportionment bill of 1SS5 no provision was made and no margin left far counties orangized after that time, the whole number of 123 members being , assigned to ceuuties then organized. It ! is now as?erted that the true construe linn of this amendment i?, that as the Con?titution expressly prevdes in an: oilier section tlwt each organized county shall have at least one ^Representative, that the first part ef the amemdment . was a direction to the Legislature in making an apportionment, and that the ' ?econci vras intended to giro'each of the | new counties a Representatiye in th? ! session of the Legislature succeeding its organization, and this rrithout reference i to the apportionment ia force at the tinin ' "Since. 1885 nineteen counties have : been - or^aniztd and are . now and hare been since 1885 exduded from representation on-the floor of the ; House. ' The matter was recently brought before the. Supreme Court of ' the State by an application for a mandamus against the board of State canvassers on behalf of a person electied to,the llousein one of the excluded counties to i compel the board to issue to him . a ccr; tificate of election as a member. of the . Ilouse. The Supreme Court; following /vl x7 /lAAiBiAn f y\ <*ro r\ < i Iia ' 3U1UV U1U WC^ISIUU i^lUOUU iv niKuu k.i*v writ.. This application was urged bj two of the strongest lawyers in the .Siate. and their, arguments are held by ' the public jreneralij to be conclusive ol " the question. "Another argument supporting .this proposition is founded on (.'hapter -37 of ; the General Statutes of Kansas, which requires that in all clectious by a joint convention of .both houses the person elected is .required to receive a majority ! ol all the members elected to the two houses. i lie claim win ne maae tuat each one of these persous receiving a | majority or plurality vote in the nine toon recently organized couuties su'c | members elected uceordiuu' to the meaning of th:s statute. "It is doubtful whether In^alls am" his legal friends really wanted the Courl ijto grant the writ or whether they di< 3: this solely lor the purpose of making thf - j record, believing that the Court woult ' i adhere .to its previous opinion. At a! ; eveats. thc\ have rai^rd ;i cjueatiou thai * | the Senate of the Uuited Stat?3 mai ~ j hare ultimately to decide, because theii l i theory is that if Ingalls is beaten by j ^ I XIU.U3C. 1111135 CULlSUlUcCU 5j on ill? ground than ;t!ie House not hav -jinjrbeen legally constituted, there wj: i | nojflectior. This question would be cie : i tertnined by the Senate at its called ses ' ?ick after the 4th da;v of ilarch next. i | "If the Senate should decide, as it is confidently believed by Ingalls and his advisers, that there was no election, the State Legislature having adjourned, and there being no session for two years, finvmmnr 1 Tntrmlivcr wnnlr! hnro t.lin power to appoint, and Senator Ingalls j would be appointed and hold until Janu- j ary. when the Legislature wouid i again be in session. If the legal theory j of this scheme is sound, there seem to be no escape far the Alliance men, unless they could so manage as to give thencandidate so large a vole that he w.,uld have a clear majority, admitting that every one of these disfranchised members would have voted for Ingalls if they had been admitted to their seats. This would requtire on Alliance candidate to C\*J t'AfoQ or?rl 4 hie ic AAnoi/loWi/'l ! iU^CJlVC ?'U vvitc, auu UiivJ vvu^ws,kvv. impossible. They have tills scheme to fall back on, if the}* do not succeed in getting the required 03 votes for logalls and a Legislature as at pressent composed. "It maj be said that if Ingall* doesn't receirc ninety-three votes ihe other side may contcston the same ground, but It must be recollected that while after the 4th ot March next the Senate " vrill be very close it will still be Republic*!," and in view of modern pvllucai action it would be strange indeed if the Republicans would so weaken themselves, but I do not care to discuss such probabilities,my effort being; to acquaint you with some of the schemes and political moremerits that are now going on in a State that has been so prolific of Senatorial sensations."?New York Times. a foul murder in norfolk. Shooting u.n Old Soldier to Death in the I'rcsance fbis Wife and Grandchildren. Xorfolk, Va.. Dec. 25.?There was a most brutal murder here to day shortly after 12 o'clock. A veteran of two wars, C. J. Caicutt, an Ex-Confederate and a brave soldier in tJiat war and the war of this country with Mexico, was the victim. Until very lately he was one of the most trusted members of the j police force and for the past few months ] he has been a private watchman on a! wharf of the Boston and Baltimore line j /\C 4l./\ AfflnnhnnlcJ 'Qn/1 Tronc- ] Ui II1U .-LJAVilOHUUlO UUU ?uiuvw a. J.UUU portation Company. At an early hour this morning a man named J. E. Brady, a fireman mploved by the Cotton Compress Association ofj this city, applied to Calcutt to arrest a man in the street who had been offensive to him. Calcutt replied that he had not seen the affair, and in addition, did ; not think his jurisdiction extended outi side of the wharf. Brady left but came back just as Calcutt was eating his dinner, which had been brought him by his wife and two little grandchildren, who remained to help cheer up >vhat would otherwise have been a lonely Christmas meal. While the meal was in progress and happ^jiu^hter^^^gg^^^c were going office Ct^R^vaseating^^plied a vile epiI th*> to him and called on another watch man of the wharf to. .arrest him, whicl. was refused. Brady then made at Cal: cutt, but the other watchman interfered and separated them. Calcutt went out. into the yard to.pul Brady .out,"so that his vile language could not be heard by his wife and little grandchildren Calcutt put his hand on Brady and the .latter jerked away, drew a pistol from his overcoat pocket and lired. the ball striking Calcutt in the eat and coming out on the other side of his head. Calcutt fell and death was almost instantaneous. Brady was at oncc arrested by those around and taken to the station house. The affair soon became noised about and Brady would have fared badly if the crowd that gathered could have gotton hold of him. The police authorities are strong enough, however, to prevent any summary proceedings, and the law will take its course, though there is great indignation. Illinois Senatorahlp. Chicago, Dec. 24.?Chairman "Long'-' Jones, of the Republican State central committee, gave notice to-night that the right of live Democratic State Senators-elect to sit in', the Legislature would be contested. This is the latest manoeuvre in the fight for the United States Senatorship from Illinois. The notices were withheld until the last moment allowed by law, the motive for the delay being, it ic nndorcl-orirl tn QtzniH cHrrincr lin thp Democrats to possible reprisals. State Senators upon whom notice was served are Xooman, of the First district; Caldwell, of the Thirty-ninth; Arnold, of the Fifteenth; Dawkins, of the Seventeenth, and Coppinger, of the Forty-first. General charges of bribing voters with money and promises of offices in the organization of the General Assembly are the main grounds for contests, except as to Dawkins, who is alleged to be ineligible because of foreign ' birth. With the contest against Mer: ritt, of Springfield, there is now a controversy raised as to an even half dozen Democratic seats and a pair of Republi: cans. The legislature is almost evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans on the joint ballot with three Farmers' Alliance men apparently holding the balance of power. The avowed candidates so far are ' (Jen. John M. Palmer, Democrat, and Chas. 'Ji. Farwell, Republican, who is the present incambent. The struggle promises to be fully as fierce as the one in which" the late Gen. John A. Logan defeated AVm. R. Morrison, now member of the interstate commerce commission. The >'?tv Associate Justice. "Washington", 'Dec. 23.?The President to-day nominated Henry B. Rrowr j of Michigan to be Associate" Justice o! ' the Supreme Caurt of the United States vice Samuel F. Miller deceased. Tn/lfYo I!r.> ?-n io linn.- ITnitpf] SfatP.f | District Judge for the third district ol I Michigan; also Col. Charles Sutherland : surgeon, to be Surgeon-General, witl ' rank of Brigadier-General, vice J. II : Baxter, deceased. i jrcll Into Molten Met?l. ; |. Pottsville, Pa., Dec. 30.?Wm. Mc .: Gonigle. a pit boss in the employ of tht i Pottsville v'Ujel works, met with a ter ril>l? accident. lie was moving1 aboul in thr discharge of his duties, when he : accidentally .slipped and fell Into a pii< ! of molten steel. Wben removed h< was in a pitiful- condition, bein<j ven j! badly burned from head to foot. II< '! cannot recover. x v An Explosion of Dynamite. / I i I'lTTsnriK', Dec. 21.?A special fron i W oorc \n JAia Vrjr I | >1 ?> . > <4.. oaj o. viwtuv -.1 v-. r; folk and Western Railroad ,ih Wayw r j County yesterday a gang^pf men hat . ! been at work on line biasing and sever II al sticks of dynamite were placed arounc j the lire t<j thaw out. In some manne " | they were exploded tearing everything t< 5: pieces in the immediate vicinity. Tw< * | men were killed, an Italian and a negro - i names unkno\vjtf&B|^^iers were in ) jured, several^^^HHnL ! ; . . - - - A GENERAL CANING. j Deserved Tributes to I>istia?uisIie?I 2!e- j preservatives. Columbia, S. C., Dec. 23.?The members of the General Assembly tendered a banquet to Senator-elect Irby this: evening. Previously he was presented with a handsome ebony gold headed cane in the parlor of the Grand Ontral tlotel. Among those present were: Messrs. j Earnest Gary and J. L. McLarin. Sen- j ator Evans, Lieutenant Governor Gary, j Attorney General Tope, Mr. J. Gary j Evans and Speaker Ira 15. Jones. By the way, the General Assembly buys Its gold-headed canes in Charier : ton, the Senator's cane being irofli-M.essrs. Carrington, Thomas & Co. Mr.! McLaurin, making tn*- piesentation j speech,said: * * Ti rv? nn/1 5>iri It IS wiia leeiiuso ui ^nuc ouu pleasure that your friends in the General Assembly, through me, propose to present yen a memento of your services as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Your rapid elevation to the highest office in the gift of the people of South Carolina is not only a com-1 pliment Loyour ability, but Is charac-1 teristic of the time?an age of steam and electricity. 1 By a single stride you have attained the position that heretofore was only j reached after the energies of youth were tamed and devitalized by age. You have not yet reached the meridian, of life. You liave the grandest opportunity that has ever befallen a citfzen of South Carolina?the opportunity of bringing to bear a manhood and brain untouched by the withering blight of age to the service of your people in the most august legislative body in the world. Our hopes and our prayers go with you. and we feel that South Carolina will never need to apologize for I her young representative in the United : States Senate, if the same nerve, the i same brain, the same tenacity of pur I pose and devotion to duty wmcn na ve heretofore characterized you Trill still enable you to expand and meet the requirements of every occasion. You are a fit type of the new era which is dawning all over this broad land, and in every way worthy to catch the mantle as it l'alls from the, statesman and soldier now wearing it, and who is a grand type of the past generation. Let the dead past bury its dead: Act! Act in the living present, Faith within and God overhead. Go to that Senate adorned by the statues of the noblest men this country or the world ever produced and the scene of the splendid triumphs of Clay, Webster and Calhoun, and we fear not that you will sustain the honor and glory "of the whole country. Mr. Irby replied: Gentlemen and friends: Permit me briefly to thank you l'or this testimonial of your high esteem and confidence. Were I nor profoundly grateful to you :ind to the General Assembly of I South Carolina, I would be unworthy [ of the high esteem and confidence you jhavj reposed in me. I At the beginning of the present sesIslon of the Legislature, "which will ever be memorable in the history of our State, the members of the House of Representatives, who are the reMg^lof the people. , elected me to presSj?*w8B ?? ' tions of that body. Subsequmnx^HI [: General Assembly, by a most flatter : ing vote, electe 1 me to the highest of1 lice within the gift of the people of this State. While presiding as Speaker my sol* " efforts have been to insure to eact i member a lair ana impartial present tion of any views he might desire tc bring to the consideration of the House i As your representative in Congress J promise unqualifiedly that the people j of South Carolina shall never have jus! , cause to say that I have been untrue tc ' the interests of the people of a State ' which I am proud to say is not only th( ; place of my nativity, but that o' m\ ancestors for over one hundred years. As the chairman of the Democratic 1 party of South Carolina permit mete indulge the hope that all political differences will be buried at once. Undei , our existing forms of government the majority must control and the rainori . ty must, submit. The hope of the ' South and nation is in the success ol the Democratic party. ! la spite of division the Democrac} of South Carolina has triumphed, anc ! must and will continue to be triunv 1 phant so long as intelligence, trutfc and virture are held in higher esteeir than ignorance, vice and corruption. ; Again thanking you for this toker 1 of esteem and friendship, and wishing each and every one of you a safe return home and a "merry Christmas, I bic ; you adieu. < The inscription on the cane ls:"18'J0 : The General Assembly of South Caro : lina to the lion. J. L. JM. iroy." Mr. J.Gary Evans was also present ed with a handsome cane by his friends through Representative Youmans. Representatives jjrazeale and Dowden, of Anderson, also came in for twc elegant gold-mounted native cane: from admiring friends.?News anc Courier. The Beauties of The Tariff. A practical illustration of the beauties , of the new tariff law was given to tin House recently says a Washington dis path in the shape* of a letter from tin Secretory oflhe Treasury, asking thai an appropriation of 625.000 be made ii order to enable the lighthouse board u pay duties upon imported articles usee in the establishment of lighthouses, anc nri TvlnV-li tliA frnvprmpilt has to lVlV dlltV ) .. t... _ . The secretary says the illuminating ap ? paratus used in lighthouses is not made [ in this country. "The duty on the parts," . he adds, "which are mostly of glass, b . 00 per cent, and 011 the parts made most ly of metal 45 per cent. The fourth or der apparatus, the ones which a re most ly used. cost. say. lO.OOOf. in France, oi say 82.000, the duty upon which will be 1 say. half that amount. Certain othei : articles needed in the establishment o: . lighthouses, and not made in this conn try. are aiso imported aim are suujeui u ! the duty under the new law." The sec ' retary adds: "Free entry on articles ioi , ported for government use is no longei i allowed, and the appropriation will hav< . to be made in order to enadle the gov eminent to pay duties to the govern ment." ' TJir<?e Trumps Lynclicil. ; Walla Walla. Wash.. Dt-e. 21.[ Xews has reachhere that three I tramps were lynched near'Huntington ? Oregon, on the Oregon short liuebi ; j railroadmen, t our tramps ooanseu? > Mreight train near Kry's". Idaho. The; r j were put off, but'afterwards got 011 tin jLferain and overpowered the brakemu '-j whom they threw under t!ie train, botl J 01 nis ieg-^ yt'iui; uiui\rn. iicu\ujj; sui.i after from injuries. The report say 1 ithe tramps were caught near Hunting -(ton and three of tlic-m were lynched e>; The fourth escaped. ij . Lynched l>r >'ejrrocs. I Jacksonville. Fla., Dec. 12.?Dai r "Williams, an. old negro, living eigh o miles from Quincy. Fla.. was lynched b; o negroes last night. Houses and out >; buildings of se^ygBMM^^Mj|ag:ent - ly been" burr?HHHB||^^9Rt h was the W LXDIXG UP THEIR WORK. \ Z jj THE MEETING OF THE LEGISLATURE Vjll nRAWING TO A CLOSE. PPjfj The Kud of the Session of 1890?A Sum- y^ijSm Kinry of Some of the Xevr 'La'ws of ?abli? w Importance and tVhut Was Done With Columbia, S. C., Dec. 22.?Special: ^ The Legislative session of 1890 may be said to have virtually ended. Tet \ tr.orrcw, together with the portion of Wednesday which tt,:-u- he eiiipfbyed will with busintat *%&. ! tme character, necessary to wind up j the work of the session. Already the nrocee linffs have lost much of their [interest. " . y! As has frequently happened in th? I past fourteen years, some of the most 1 important measures have undergone discussion in the last days of th? ses-? j sion. This is of course to be regretted, but it is sometimes unavoidable. This year there appears to have been unusual deliberation in Winging forward the more prominent measures. Thesa have, in some instances .aVteast, been rushed through with what must appear unseemly haste. Below is given j a summary of the most prominent l -viintuMothat-. hsvfi met their fate in VIAI?W v enactment or rejection. TIIE PHOSPHATE BILL. The new phosphate law carries out, : in some things at least, the ideas of ! Governor Tillman, as expressed in his j inaugural. For many years there have ~~j j been, among those interested in or ! familiar with the subject, differences of opinion as to the general plan on which the State should dispose of the phosphate territory. On one side it has been urged that the State, retaining ownership and control of all the territory* should let It to be mined in j any area or to any parties that should be" concluded best by the officials in control?each party digging the rock I to choose his owu field of operation!, I and to work for one year only. This ia --r ?L ~A 7/-\/3 4-Via ?/*an_ j ins outline 01 WiiaL is vaucu ujuo eral-righis" scheme. On the other 'M | hand many have thought it best for /; j the State to let out the territory in : large defined portions, for a long term of yer.rs. This "latter plan was that urged by the commissioners that reported to the Legislature three years ago, but whose report was summarily rejected in the House. Governor Tillman favors the "general rights" idea, though he appears to favor also the power, in the Commission, to let out j particular territory for a term longer than one year. This power was contained in "the House bill, -iju'c was stricken out in the Senate. The law, j generally stated, restores the "general i rights" plan, subject only to the rights which tne feiace may uavc given ou corporations. In this connection interest attaches to the fact that it is claimed for the State that the franchise of the Coosaw Mining Company expires - x in March. The termination of this franchise will open the most desirable territory to general operations. The Coosaw"Company, it is said, will claim that their charter confers a perpetual right to mine the. territory therein [ specified. A lively fight is expected.. ~ The new phosphate commissioz^flB^^g^H^ teonsist of the Governor, g| Beneral and the ComptroL?BHorney "r- ^ Executive, "by and with the consent ! of the Senate." THE RAILROAD LAW. k The new railroad law is substantially ' a re-enactment of the statute of 1882? 1 which, by the way, was almost entirely " repealed in 18b3. This new statute gives the Kailroad Commission th? r power to Ox rates for the carrying of - hnth frpforht-, and nassencrers. It eires general supervisory control of the~railroads, and is regarded a very stringent law. It carries out Governor Tillman's suggestions made in his inaugural. /An attempt to graft on the bill a provision for separate cars for the races was promptly defeated in the Housa? as was also the separate bill for th? same purpose. The bill to require mail trains to stop at every post-office station was killed in the Senate. OUTER IMPORTANT MEASURES. The constitutional amendment abolishing the county commissioners has been duly ratiSed. -No attempt nag ' been made to devise any new system. 1 Meantime the present system continuar _ * in force by operation of the existing L statutes. 1 The Senat>? refused to pass the joint resolution calling a constitutional conlr vention. The matter was not mooted - in the House. J The Act abolishing the Department 1 of Agriculture becomes a law. It transfers all the work of the Depart ment to the Clemson College. The Act to reduce the salaries of X State oflicers has passed both houses " ' and will, of course, be approved by the 5 Gov^-nor. Its provisions have been given in this correspondence. The Act to reorganize the Universi) ty, maices that institution to comprise > the south Carolina College here?a lifc1 erary and scientilic institution, with a law school annexed; Clemson College Citadel Academy, and Claflin Unirer- ? 5 sity. The Citidal remains under the > management of the iioard of Visitors? " and the effort to reorganize that board > was killed in the Senate. The College 1 here is to be reorganized on or after the ^ ^ j 1st Julv,lS91. The provision, in the , I original bill, requiring the President to [! be a minister o?-ihe..Gespel was killed, Mas was also an amendment requiring" I him to be a member in good standing, of some Christian Church. The House bill to limit working ' hours in cotton factories was killed in ; the Senate. ; The Act requiring the several coun- > . ties to pay the cost of maintaining patipnfs sent, bv the countv authorities. , to the lunatic asylum, was passed, to take effect on the 1st January, 1S92. I The bill authorizing the Governor to [ remove any sheriff who permits the lynching of a prisoner was continued } i till next session. Similar action was J taken on the bill to authorize certain "! of the State officers to designate an ofSr I cial newspaper in each county. Such, . also, was the fate of the bill to estab1 lish a college for women. The usual number of local measures | was passed. B A JSarr?om Tragedy. i I)axvillk, \~a.. Dec. 23?A shocking "! tragedy occurred here to-day. Edward , '! Knoch* a railroad man, an James Gra- I ; I vftt, a carpenter, were in a saloon, and i both under the iuiluence of liquor. They A j began to quarrel about some trilling \ i matter and Gravatt 'insulted Enoch, ' . when the latter knocked him down and ^ ; literally stamped him to deatlrwith his I heavy buots. GraVett's face was crush- in s j ed and he died almost immediately. _; Enoch was arrested. j Smokiujj a Pipeia lied. mk Xewakk.X. J., December tlie burning of a small house last ugj i Mrs. Annie McGuire. aged 50. andg I- granddaughter, aged 20, were bun| v aeatu. J*irs..Mc(juire-s nusoana^ ; by jumping from the second j dow. The fire is supposed to jS e j inated from MeGuire's habit^M a pipe iu bed.