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A RIDE TO DEATH.
Frlylitfnl Fall of Seventeen Horses
and lElders on a ICacenou-se*
The Australian papers give details of a !
dreadful accident in the Caulficld cup. 1
The race was a handicap of l,r>00 sovereigns.
and the distance one mile and a !
half. Forty-one* horses went to the !
post. One or more of the runners fellas
they came racing up the straight, and
no "fewer than seventeen horses and jock- |
eys were iD a few moments struggling on j
the ground, in a seemingly inextricable j
mass. The following extracts are taken '
from the Adelaide Adctrliscr:
' Suddenly a shout rent the air, a gap j
was male in the centre of the living ;
ranks as though a park of artillery had !
opened tire upon ihem; down went a j
cluster of horses?of horses and riders? I
" *?? i> r.n (nn nf tliom '111(1 i
uu vumi; viiiMio v 11 n'jj v.. .uv.., - ?
shrieks, yells and cries told of a sad disaster,
while another section of spectators |
who did not sec or could not realize the |
extent of the calamity, were singing out?
'Britisher wins; no, Marie Louise: no,
Grace Darling?Grace Darling.' Where
the horses and riders were heaped pellmell,
ready hands were quickly at work
to extricate the poor lads from their
dangerous position. No less than seven,
teen horses had been brought to earth, and
the scene while it lasted was a terrible .
one. Some say it was Tom 15rown, j
other Too-Too, and some again aver it |
was Claptrap who caused the disaster j
and was the first to comc down. It was j
pretty certain, however, that Sard i us j
was the sec ond or third horse to fall, i
poor Wyman pitching heavily on his j
head. Then fell Lord Exeter and his
rider. The unfortunate rider, Donald
Nicholson, was seen for a moment to !
struggle upon his feet, when crash into I
him came Prince Imperial with a shock '
that knocked the horse's teeth down his
own throat, and struck Nicolson lifeless
to the earth. On came Mozart, Despot,
Winchester, Kingship, falling over and
over their rider?,who were either thrown
out of the saddle, crushed beneath their j
weight, or kicked by the horses in their j
struggles to regain their feet. It was in j
this melee that the riders Cracknell, Wy- J
man, and McGrath sustained their scri- j
ous injuries. Nicholson was pulled out |
fmm hnnpath two horses a shapeless ;
mass, with features so pounded and urn- j
tilated as to be unrecognizable, and just,
enough life within him to breathe his j
last gasp. Yeomans had a most unfor- J
tunate escape with Welcome Jack.
'Thank God I am back again,' said the
crack horseman. 'I never bad a narrower
squeak in my life.' It appears
that he saw two horses down on the J
ground in front of him, and rising Welcome
Jack with both spurs in his sides,
he jumped him right over them, aud in
landing cannoned against other horses,
Welcome Jack going down on his nose,
but he ultimately shied away to the
right and cleared further danger."
"The placed horses had scarcely been
weighed in when a mclauaholv procession
of dead and wounded men was carried
to the jockey's room. The first to
be brought in was M'Grade, the rider of
Tom Brown, who appeared to be very
badly hurt, and then the lifeless body of
pcor iittle Nicholson appeared, and he
was succeeded by Cracknell, the rider of
Kingship, who was so severcl}r injured
that h-3 case seemed a hopeless one.
McGrath, who was on Prince Imperial,
and Wyman, the rider of Sardius, were j
oext, and tbev were both insensible.
"A brief examination revealed the fact j
that Nicholson had been dead for some !
minutes, ana that Cracknell had his j
breast bone broken, and had received i
other internal injuries, M'Grade had a
broken shoulder and nose, and was in- j
sensible: Wvman. who was on Sardius, !
sustained a fracture of the skull; |
McGrath. who rode Prince Imperial, was :
suffering from concussion of the brain;
Winchester's jockey, Iluxtable, was in- |
sensible, and had a nasty wound on his i
face; and Toomev, who rode Urara, who j
was killed, was very badly hurt indeed.
Moore, Ellis, Ivemy, Hutchens and Morrison
who were riding Lord Wilton,
Despot, Impulse, Country Boy aud
Sirocco respectively, escaped with a
severe shaking each, but Frahm and T.
Brown, who were on Claptrap and Too- j
Too and fell in front of all the others, J
escaped without a scratch, and the j
former won the last raceou Merrimu."
Cattle Raising on the Plains.
T. W. Chatlee, general manager of
the Hillsdale Land and Cattle Company,
Df Hillsdale, Wyoming Territory, who
was formerly a wholesale drygoods i
dealer in Boston, says: "Cattle raising j
is a money making business if a man |
?oes into it properiy, and knows whom j
he is dealing w;th. Xo man should go j
intn it inflf>n?nrlfill11V a.ud alone unless !
lie has a capital of at least $->0,000, and j
it would be well to hive double that
amount. In five years he will make ;
himself quite wealthy. The only way |
for a man with limited means to do, is!
to go into a stock company that lie,
knows is reliable and not organized by j
sharks. Our company has a capital of !
?250,000, and all of it has been taken [
but $10,000. When we first began, I !
sold shares to the amount of $130,000 i
to four men in less than half an hour, f
We have 04,000 acres of land fenced in ;
on the iine of the I'nion Pacific road. It !
is thirteen miles long and seven and one- j
half miles wide. Thirty miles of ditches j
irrigate 5,COO acres upon which hay is j
raised. We cut 400 tons this last sea i
sou, and in the course of a couple of |
years we shall have from :J,000 to 4,000
tons. Of course we can't begin to use it
all, but it is worth from $10 to $13 a
ton out there, so that it is profitable. It
required 50 miles of barbed wire to
feuce in our tract, but, in order that we
should have no trouble with the government
we have gates at every mile stone,
so that people can cross the laud if they
want to. Of the entire acreage we own
35.000 acres, and that includes control
of the .water privileges, so that, while
the remainder of the land is subject to
entry, no man wants it unless he can secure
irrigation, s:> he must treat with
us."'?Buffalo Courier.
Snakes in Her Stomach.
The wife of Lem Allen, a prominent
citizen of Churchill county, has been an
invalid for a long time. Occasionally her
sufferings were great, and recently her
ailments were most serious, such as to
cause her friends to almost lo3e hopes of
her surviving. While laboring under
the most accute pain, accompanied with i
symptoms ot lnimmmanon 01 me sioiu i
ach, the most heroic medicines were
used. After a time four snakes of the
water species .*ere taken from her. Uue
was quite three feet in length, another
about twenty inches, and two about
eight inches. The powerful medicines
used poisoned them, and evidently they
remained dead in the stomach some little
time. IIow they were taken into the
stomach and survived is a question.
For quite a while the lady seriously complained
of a peculiar sensation as if something
was creeping around within, little
tlrnking there was any reality in it.
Since the serpents were unwittingly
poisoned she has recovered rapidly, and
bids fair to soon enjoy her wonted health.
?Reno {Nee.) Gazette.
V
! A STARTLING PLOT.
i '
Alleged Scheme to Murder Twenty \
Prominent Californians.
Arrest of Several Members of a Socialistic
Organization.
A San Francisco dispatch gives the following
details of an alleged s-homo to assassinate
twenty prominent citizens of California:
A plot for the assassination of some of the J
most prominent men in this city came to j
' ! ?ln.-f tinifl <1 nr. v tllrt nnlinn !
n&uu uwiao iiniu u^v wuu j/v?*w r
obtained information of the existence of ail j
organization (--ailed the "Socialistic Revolu- !
tionary Association," which, it \va< assertoil, j
was composed of ultra-socialistic members. .
A close watch was kept 011 their movements, -j
and the police finally succeeded in obtaining ;
the mi nut .'S of one of their meetings held on 1
November 2o.
It was learned that the intention was to j
pub about twenty men out of the way by assassination,
incfuidng W. T. Coleman, Conpressman
W. W. Morrow. General \V. H. L.
Barnes, Mayor Bartlett, United States Judge
Lorenzo Sawyer, Leland Stanford, Charles 1
Crocker, Governor Stoneman and the principal
police officials. These names were put on J
a "proscriptive list" ami placed in the hands j
of the executive committee. The committee
were considering the bast means of accomE
fishing the murders when their work was
rought to a sudden termination by the dis- I
covery of their headquarters at 'JUO Montgomery
street.
Tne police arrested four men found in the
rooms. Thoir names are Juliu9 C. Koosher,
Henry Weiseman. Charles Mittelstadt, and
Oscar Eggers. The officers found in the
headquarters a complete laboratory for the
manufacture of infernal machines. The men
were taken to the city prison, where they
boldly asserted that they were dynamiters,
and that th9y proposed to get rid of the citizens
named and then raze Chinatown. The
Erisoners are also members of the German
ranch of the Anti Coolie league.
The leader of the band is Henry "Weisemnn
n Houfll'l'dtl fltlll ft phftlTlist- Hft W/1S
induced to join Coroner O'Donnell's Coolio
league, and finally becauia president of an
anti-coolie league. "My intention," he said,
' was merely to aid in enforcing what O'Donnell
told us was law against the Chinese.
He told us that tho State constitution prohibited
the Chine-:o from Jiving within
the limits of any incorporated
town or city in the State. We had
a meeting on the sand lot on Thanksgiving
Day and resolved that we would call on the
municipal authorities to enforco tho law or
resign their offices. The only thing that
troubled ino was that O'Donnell was always
saying that the Chinese were supplied with
superior weapons, and that they had armories
in Chinatown and wore drilling every
night with Wincester rifles supplied by Colonel
Bee, the Chinese consul.
Most of our people were workingmen, and
had no arms. I was afraid that when the
Chinese were ordered to go they would resist
and attack our people. We must have something
to meet them with, and I resolved to
experiment, and see if I could not invent a
superior weapon. I commenced my experiments
about twelve days ago, and bought
some dynamite. My idea was to mako
something that could be thrown like a
hind grenade. We experimented
at different times under the rocks near the
Cliff house, but the results were not satisfactory.
O'Donnell knew we were experimenting.1'
The prisoners hav* been charged with a
misdemeanor, in unlawfully storing giant
powder. The highest penalty for this is six
months' imprisonment, or a fine of ? 1,000.
Koosher is a Russian, aud speaks six languages.
Accoi?ding to his at >ry he was financially
ruined by frequmt assaults made on tho
nomA fft tlm TTnifaH anrl ant*?
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tied in New York city. He was appointed an i
agontby the Jewish Relief society, and visited j
Oregon and Washington Territory to take up j
land for his people. He asserts that Henry )
Villard, the railway magnate, assisted him j
in his labors. Ho recently camo to this city,
and identified himself with the Anti-Coolia
league, and the house in which the dynamite!
was found was occupied by him. Ho paid a (
monthly rental of $10.
Charles Mittelstadt is President of the
Third Ward Anti-Coolie Club and vice-president
of the German branch of the same organization.
In his room the detectives j
found 300 badges bearing the letters "D. A.
0. L." Oscar Eggers is a peddler by occupation.
He is a native of Germany, is about So
years of age and speaks very little English.
FIVE LIVES SACRIFICED.
An Insane ?Soth?r and T our Children
flurued to Death.
A dispatch from Olympia, Washington
Territory, says:
This morning, at Long Prairie, about '
eight miles l rom this place, a deplorable event j
occurred, news of which was received here '
to night. Mrs. Miner, a relative of Mr. David ;
Chambers, has for some time manifested 1
symptoms of insanity, and according to re- !
port, she last evening saturated papers with i
coal oil and distributed them around the ;
house, telling one of her children, in response '
n niifwt.imi. that she was wetting them with i
WW V. 1 ? 1 w
water.
Early this morning she mado a remark
that she was about to destroy the whole
family, and her husband, fearing that she
was about to attempt to take his life, proceeded
to put her out of the roam. On opening
the door he discovered that the house was ]
in flama*. Reaching the front door with one ;
of his children he found it locked and the key \
removed. Ho ran to tin back door and found j
it nailed up.
Hnally he and his little daughter sue- ;
ceeded in escaping through a window. Hoth
were badly burned. The unfortunate mother j
and her four other children were burned to
death. The survivors were taken to a neighbor's
residence for medical treatment,
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Skxatok Edmunds's wealth is estimated
at half a million.
Rev. I)n. T/.lmaoe's tabernacle in Brook- j
IV11% uuw jiiu.iiuaa.
Ex-Attorney-General Brewster has
resumed his law practice in Philadelphia.
The sultan of Turkey has ?>) wives, and
his personal expenses are per
year.
It is said that the emperor of Brazil has a
chronic complaint in the matter of disregard
of etiquette and court rules.
Mr. Packard, ex-governor of Louisiana,
has bought two farms in Marshall county,
la, and he is to make his home there.
The late Marshal Serrano saw during his
lifetime forty rebellions, eighty-four Spanish
ministries and a dozen chiei's of the government.
Should lie live till the :>d of January, Emperor
William will, on that day. celebrate
tho twenty-fifth anniversary of his accession
to the throne of Prussia.
General Longstrket lives on the top of
a high hill near Gainesville, Ga. His long
hair is white as snow, and his clothes hang
very loosely about him.
There is an ex-Vice-President alivo, it
seems, whom everybody has forgotten for
many years?David R. Atchison, ot Missouri,
wno, 111 was cnosen uy uie oenuio to mi
the place of Vice President William R. Kins;.
Seth Kinmax, the California hunter, who
presented unique chairs to President Buchanan,
Lincoln, Johnson and llayes, will next
spring honor President Cleveland in a similar
manner. The chair is to be made of elk
liorns, and is curiously and elaborately constructed.
Dir Pio Pick, tlio last Mexican governor
general of Upper California, returned to his
old quarters at Los Angeles soon after the
country was acquired by tin United States,
and has lived there from that day to this. He
has never been able to master a single sen.
tonce of the English language.
The domestic felicity of Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks
was a proverb in Indiana. At a wedding
ceremony at Shelbyville three years ago
the oiliciating clergyman, after" shaking
hands with the newly married couple, gave
them his benediction in these words: ''May
you always be as happy as Mr. and Mrs.
Hendricks are."
There are no less than four queens of
Spain now living?Isabella, mother of Che
late Alfonso Amelia, wife of ex-King Amedoo
of Savoy,mother of the present king of Italy,
who was itwo years king of Spain and re
signed in disgust; Christine,widow of the late
King Alfonso, and Mercedes, the present
I queen, five years old. I
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle State*.
James Mup.phy, a well-to-do expressman
of Williamsburg, N. Y., in a fit of jealousy
shot and probably fatally wounded his wife
and then inflicted a mortal wound upon
himself.
Since work began on the now New York
aqueduct in January, 1SS1, thirty-two employes
have be;-n killed and twenty-one injured.
Up to recent date the Grant monument
fund had reached $104,500.
Joseph Hanley's fivo children have died
within a week in Jersey City, N. J., of scarlet
fever.
Two largo coal mines near HazelCon,
Penn., have been flooded by the waters of a
rising creek, and an immense amount of
damage has been inflicted. One thousand
men and boys are thrown out of work.
Two hundred of the New York city gro- j
cers have voted unanimously not to have
anything more to do with oleomargarine, or
any kind of imitation butter, unless it is ,
colored so that it may be told from the |
genuine article.
The funeral of the late William H. Vanderbilt
was an unostentatious affair, the
remains being conveyed from the church in
New York to the family vault on Staten
Island. By the terms of the will six
children get ea;;h nearly & 1:2,000,000, the sons
Cornelius and William K. receive each about
$52,050,000, and the widow is left $500,000 in
cash, an annuity of $200,000 and the house
on Fifth avenue. About $1,200,000 goes to
charitable and other institutions.
A railway mortgage for $50,000,000 was
filed a few days since in New York.
Municipal elections in Boston and Worcester,
Mass., resulted in the re-election of
Mayor O'Brien (Democrat) in the formor city
by 8,597 majority, and the election of Samuel
Winslow (Republican) as mayor of the latter
city by 1,535 plurality. Worcester voted no
license by 4,522 nays to 3,0)5 yeas. Last year
the city gave 2,123 majority for license.
South and We?,
Joe Parkek, a colored man, died a few
days since at the county poorhouso, Dallas,
Texas, at the alleged age of 120 years.
John Alexander (colored) was hanged at
Stanton Plantation, La., for wife murder.
The Ohio supremo court reversed the decision
of tho lower court in the Cincinnati
contested election cases and ordered certificates
of election to be issued to four Democratic
senatorial candidates. This leaves the
Ohio-legislature Republican by three ma
jority on joint ballot.
A boiler explosion at theFurthe foundry,
Austin, Texas, killed Charles Jones, proprietor
of the works, and Lewis Preston, the engineer,
injured several other people, and demolished
the building.
On gala occasions when the average mortal
indulges in roast turkey two families of coal
diggers residing near Bellaire, Ohio, roast a
dog and eat it.
The propeller Oconto, with twenty-three
passengers and a crew of twenty-four, was
wrecked on Lake Huron during the recent
severe storm. All on board reached a desolate,
inaccessible island after great suffering.
Mayor Reed, of Louisville, Ky., has been
fined twenty dollars for fighting.
Mrs. Robert Smith an 1 her two children
were brutally murdered in Montgomery
county, Texas, by a nineteen-year-old mulatto
named Johnson.
B. Gratz Brown, ex-governor of Missouri,
ex-United States Senator, and candidate
for Vice-President on the ticket with Horace
Greeley in 1872, died on the 13th in St. Louis.
He was born in Lexington, Ky., in 1824, and
had oncebeen prominent in State and national
politics.
A committee of more than 5,000 citizens,
representing every county and town in Indiana,
has been forme I to obtain funds for
the erection of a monument to the late VicePresident
Hendricks.
A number of prisoners who attempted to
break jail at Meridian, Misa, were fired upon
by the jailer, and one of them was fatally
wounded.
Ernist A.twood and his newly-made
bride were drowned while attempting to
cross the Chattanooga river, near Tallulab,
Ga. They had been married the day before.
In anticipation of its soon becoming a
State tho Territory of Dakota has opened a
"legisalturo" at Huron.
The vote by which the Virginia legislature
elected John W. Daniel to succeed General
Mahone as United States Senator, was: Senate?Danie!,
2(5; Mahone, 8. House?Daniel,
70; Mahone,
The State of Texas has bought a large
plantation on which it will employ convicts.
aahfngton*
There are four Taylors in the present
House of Representatives.
The House committee on rules decided
by a nearly unanimous action, Mr. Randall
being tho principal objector, to report in
favor of making eight committees on appropriations,
instead of three committees,
nrifVi mnL-A nnnmnrint.iorw -in in t.lm
last session.
Additional postmasters nominated by the
President; Thomas A. Carr, at Thomaston, I
Me.; John A. Barry, at Oswego, N. Y.; IV.
W. Nichols, at Wellsville, N. Y.; John Foran,
at Lambertville, N. J.; Mary E.
Sifeonson, at East Orange, N. J.; John
G. Randall, at Doylestown, Penn.; George
Sch&U,atNorristown, Penn.; M. S. Longaker,
at Pottstown, Penn.; John Haviland, at
Phccnixville, Penn.; James H. Covington, nt
Eastois. Md.; W, R. Colston, at Martinsburg,
W. Vs.; Dtoaiel J. Slier.ran, at Ashtabula,
O.; thomas Hubbard, at Bellefontaice,
O,; Ringgold W. Meiley. at Lima, 0.
R. B. Gordon, jr., at St. Mary's 0.; James
W. Talbot, at Middleport, O.; W. C. Clark,al
Paducal). Ky.; Erastus R. McKinney, at
Lacon, 111.; Henry E. Wadsworth, at Laporte,
Ind.; Joseph Brelsford, at Onarga,
III.. A. Z. Weber, at Albia, la.; John I).
Smith, at Bedford, la.; A. C. Hutchinson,
at Burlington, la.; Clarence Snyder, at Puicine,
Wis.; Ransom Cutting, at Decatur,
Mich.; Angelo E. Tower, at Ionia, Mich.;
Charles R. vaunn, at St. Helena. Cal.
The correspondence of the .'tite department
with tin governments of Italy and
Austria concerning the appointment of Mr.
A. M. Keiley as minister to lirst one and
then the other country shows: That Ita'y
objected to Mr. Keilov on account of opinions
expressed yoars ago concerning that
government; that Mr. ICei ley's name was
thereupon withdrawn and he was appointed
minister to Aus'ria; that the
Austrian government refused to receive Mr.
Kie!ey because his wife is a Jewess; that Mr.
Bayard protested against such a reason as
untenable and as an infringement of the
principlo of religious liberty, and thnt no
other appointment to Austria had accordingly
been made.
A large number of nominations made by
the President since the close of the last Congress
have gone to tho Senate for action.
Foreign*
'The German minister of tho interior has
announced in the Reichstag that Germany
had not been invited to participate in the
Paris exposition of lSjiO.
The followers of Parnell, the Irish homo
rule leader, number eighty-six in the new
house of commons, and they hold the balance
of power between tho conservatives and liborals.
The most intensely cold weathor experienced
in five years, has just been prevailing
throughout England.
The Panama canal is declared in an official
statement to be under way two-thirds of its
entire length. There are now 12,000 laborers
employed on the big ditch, and it is proposed
to goud16 DQ&t numuer WlltJU tuo ui y aoaouu
begins.
In* a long and bloody engagement between
the Servians ancl Bulgarians the latter
were routed.
There are three Americans in the now
British house of commons.
Four persons?two men and two children
?were drowned by breaking through the
ice in Lake Chumplain at Philipsburg,
Canada.
BuRMAn's white elephant is dead. An
enormous crowd attended the funeral of the
sacred animal.
Many Irish tenants are refusing to pay
their landlords except at great reductions in
rents.
M. Pasteur, the now famous discoverer
of a cure for hydrophobia, daily receives telegrams
advising him of the departure of fresh
patients from all countries for Paris. Herr
Gener and son, owners of the largest hotel in
Prague, have been bitten by a mad dog, and
have gone to Paris. Five Poles, terribly
mutilated by a large hound known to have
been in a state of hydrophobia, are among
the latest of Pasteur's patients.
A liosiF. (Italy) dispatch says that up to
November 1, iu the Yicarate of Cochin China,
9 Catholic missionaries, 7 native priests, 60
catechists, 270 members of religious orders
end 34,000 Christians were massacred: 20)
parishes, 17 orphan asylums and 10 convents
were destroyed,and 225 churches were burned.
King Ferdinand, the titular ruler of Portugal,
is dead. He was recent during the minority
of his son,and many years ago created
a stir by marrying Miss Heusler, a young
ady of great beauty, and the daughter of a
Boston shoemaker.
LATER NEWS.
A big banquet was given on Staten Island
a few nights ago by Erastus Wyman in
honor of Roborfc Garrett, president of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and to celei?i.
j.I j v.n;i
urtttu nit; prupuseu uuimeutiuu ul uuuu iatr
road with Now York city by way of Staten
.Island. Tho four great States of New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland
I were represented by their governors or by
officers or ox-oflicers of high degree, and
many other prominent men were present.
At a meeting of tho Anti-Monopoly league
in New York Edwards Pierrepont, late minister
to England, presided, and the silvjr
question was exhaustively discussed. Speeches
in favor of unlimited silver coinage wero
made by Congressman A. J. Warner, of
Ohio, and others, and a series of resolution?
were adopted calling upon Congress to reium6
the coinage of tho standard silver dollar of
412 grains.
Frank Knocfi, of Woodmere, Mich., his
wife and two children were burned to cinders
by their dwelling catching fire at night.
Tiib Preside at has nominated Hon John
Bigelow to be assistant treasurer in New
York and General Franz Sigel to be pension
a^ent in that city. Both nominees are residents
of New York. Mr. Bigelow has served
as our minister to France, and as secretary
of state for New York.
Revolution is rampant again In Mexico.
Ex-President Gonzales is in the state of
Guanajuato with 8,000 men willing to support
him against the present administration.
Eleven Europ:ans employed by a trading
company have been murdered in Burmah by
native troop3.
The weather is so cold in the Balkans that
a number of Servian soldiers at the front
have been frozen to death.
MR. Uavid mills, town treasurer or
Milford, Conn., was gored to death in his
barn by a young Holstein bull.
Cremations are of quite frequent occurrence
at the new crematory on Long
Island. The other day the bodies of Dr.
Louis Lambert and his wife, of Jersey City,
N. J., were reduced to ashes.
Jacksonville, Fla., has been the victim
of a disastrous fire, much business property
being destroyed and the total loss being estimated
at ?450,000. One fireman was killed
and three others were injured.
The Dakota self-make "State legislature"
has elected two United States "Senators."
This action of Dakota in forming itself into a
State government is done to compel Congress
to either accept or reject the Territory as a
State.
The courts wore called upon to prevent an
announcement of the recent local election at
Atlanta, but Ihj judgo has dissolved the injunction
and sustained the constitutionality
of the Georgia prohibition law.
Sam Wilson (colore i) murdered a colore.1
woman and her two children at Laurel, Miss
Ho was captuivd and summarily lynched.
A repokt just mado to the treasury shows
that during the three years ended August 1,
Its!" tKa rtf PhinocO w)lf> left tiie
1 UU?/f IUC J1UUIU.4 VI. VUtMVU? .. ? ?
United States wa3 41,:)22, and the number
who arrived, 20,077.
Cholera is raging with great fatalitjr in
Hioga, Japan.
Much excitement lias been aroused in
Great Britain by the announcement that exPremier
Gladstone favors home rule for Irel
land, with an Irish parliament at Dublin.
Some of the English papers opposing this
scheme predict civil war.
There have been held in Canada 10i> indignant
meetings, 100 protests have been
made by the city councils, societies, etc., on
account of the government's action in hanging
Riel, the rebel leader.
COAL MINEJBXPL03I0N.
Four Miner* Fatally and Four
Itadl)' In tired.
A disastrous explosion of fire-damp occurred
the other morning at the Mill Creek
slope, situated at Mill Creek, a few mile3
from Wilkesbarre, Penn. Eight men were
cratrarnltr in imWI nnrl Crwornl nHii?ra Sli?rhtlv
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hurt, while a portion of the colliery was
badly wrecked. The fire-boss, Joseph Cleasby,
had, in accordance with the miuo law,
niad9 his tour of inspection through the mine
beforo the men wont to work,and found gas in
dangerous quantities in a portion of tlio
mine known as No. lti Lift. He therefore
posted a notice warning the men employed
111 this lift not to go in to work until he had
| cleared the gas out. This warning, for s Jine
reason unknown, was disregarded by a miner
named Peter Coffey, who, accompanied by
his laborer, a Hungarian named Peter Stone,
went into their chamber in this lift and went
to work. All the other miners employed
in the lift did not join. Had they done so
the loss of life would have been "frightful.
After posting the notice, C!ea$by obtained
the help of his assistant fiie boss, George
I Martin, and, entering the shaft, began the
' process of brushing out the gas. He was engaged
in this work when the gas in the chamber
in which Coffey and Sfone were at work
caught fire, it is supposed, from their
nalie.l lights, and an explosion, terrific in its
violence, shook the mine. fl lie concussion
was felt in workings a mile and a half distant.
and in the vicinity where it occurred
the results were terrible. All the men
working round about were thrown down or
dashed with great violence against the sides,
or rib, as it is called by miners. Doors, brattices
and woodwork were thrown down and
broken to atoms. The wildest consternation
prevailed, and from all parts of the
mine the men rushed to the slopo and were
hastily hoisted to the surface. Eight
men were seriously injured, and one
soon after died. The name of the
dead man was George Martin, the assistant
fire boss. His skull was fractured and saveral
ribs were broken. He and Cleasby were
foundcloso together buried under the debris.
Cioasby's skull was also fractnred, his arm
broken and his body covcred with cuts and
bruise?. He was noc expected to live till
morning.
Coffey and Stone wore found in their chamber.
Both men were terribly burned and
the flesh and skin hung from them in shreds.
Both were certain to die. Every particle of
Stone's clothing, except his bDOts, were
burnt off his body and the head and hands
were charred to the bone. The other injured
men, all of whom it is believed will ultimately
recover, are Nicholas Gray, aged
nineteen, head and body badly cut and
bruised; Samuel Morris, aged twenty six, arm
broken and back badly bruised; Joseph Tarduskey,
aged sixteen, cut and bruised; Anton
Farowski, Hungarian Jauorer, snouiuer
broken, body badly cut and bruised.
A reception* tendered to Mme. Modjeska
last Monday Dieht by the ladies of Cincinnati
in the parlors of the Burnet house, was
attended by over 1,00.) ladies and gentlemen,
including many prominent in social and ari
circles. Murat Ha'stead, Mayor Smith, oxMayor
Stevens, aud Mrs. Foraker, wife ol
Governor-elect Foraker, were among those
prosent.
There are no less than four queens of
Spain now living?Isabella, mother of the
late Alfonso Amelia,wife of ex-King Ainedeo
of S:ivoy,mother of the present king of Italy,
who was ttwo years king of Spain and resigned
in disgust; Christine,widow of the late
King Alfonso, and Mercedes, the present
queen, live years old.
THE YEAR 1886.
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Eclipses for 1S86.
There will be two eclipses this year?both of the
Sun.
1. The first is an annular or ring-form eclipse '
of the snn, March 5th,'at 5:10 o'clock evening.)
This eclipso is vlslole only for a short time at
Charleston anil Washington, by sunset; but will be
annular in the Pacific ocean on the equator.
2. The second, is a total eclipse of the snn, August
29th, mornin-r; visible only f<-.r a short period
by sunrise. Will be total in the Atlantic ocean and
near Western Africa.
Dior tin? Star?. j Evening Stars.
Venus, until February 18, Venus, after February IS
after Pen. 3. until Dec. 3,
Mars, not this year. Mars will sliinoall year.
Jupiter, after Oct.. 10. .Tup ter, until Uct. 10.
Saturn, after July 5. jSaturn, until July 5.
Mercury, Jan. S, May Mercury, March 22, July
6th, Sept. 2, Dec. 22. i 19, Nov. 13.
PI nits Brightest.
Mercury, ."anuary 8th, May 6th. September 2d,
December 22d. rising then just before the snn.
Also, March 22d, July 19th, November 13th, setting
then just after the sun. Venus, January 13th",
March 25th. Jupiter, March 21st.
The Four Seasons.
Winter begins December 21, 1SS3, and laste
seventy-nine days.
Spring begins March 20,1SSG, and lasts ninetythree
days.
Summer begins June 21, and la?ts ninety-foui
days.
Autumn begins September 22, and lasts eighty
nine days.
Winter begins December 21,1SS 5.
A "NORTHER'S" FURY.
Fifteen Vessels and Scores ol
Lives Lost at Panama.
The Scene of Devastation Describsd
by ail Eye-Witness,
The Pacific Mail steamer Acapulco, which
has arrived at New York from Aspinwall,
brings advicos which tell a terrible story of
disasters to shipping and the lo3a of life
caused by the hurricane of December 2.
When the gale bejran there were eighteen vessels
of all rigs und nationalities laying in
Navy bay at Aspinwall. At its cessation 011
December 4 only three of them had escaped
destruction and many lives had been lost.
Purssr Henry Emerson, of the Acapulco,
said to a reporter: "I was a witnjss of the
terrible norther that vhite 1 Aspinwall 0:1
December 2. The town had been partia'ly
rebuilt since its complete destruction by the
rebel Prestan, lately hangel, and commerce,
which had beon frightened away during
those troubles, had returned. Yes-els of all
kinds and many nations lay at anchor in Navy
bay on the morning which ushered in the
hurricane. Situated in the tropics, the barometer
acts imnerfectlv and a norther generally
comes in unannounced, exc -pt by a squall. I
At this season of the year the weather !
is always uncertain; but at that I
particular time there was nothing to in iicate
a storm which would induce a careful skip- |
per to put to sea. Navy bay is shaped some- i
thing like a horseshoe, the opening being I
toward the northwest, so it is impossible for j
a sailing vessel to leave if the wind and sea i
are fr.>m that quarter.
"At 2 P. M., ali hough the wind was not i
strong, a heavy rolling s?a set in. This in- |
creased to such an extent that at 4 o'clock I
all steam vessels were forced to slip their |
cables and go to sea. The first to attempt
this was a German steamer, and
so great wa3 the force of the
waves that she found it impossible
to get her head to the wind and drifted
sideways against the dock of the Royal Mail
Packet company, damaging it considerably.
After a time she sucveaded in liealingsoaward
aud passed out of danger. In the mean- I
time the fleet of sailing craft, were using
every exertion to keep from being
driven ashore. The first one to part her
cable was the little sloop Mark
Time, manned by two men. Then followed
the Norwegian bark Helden, British brig
Evelina. American brig Orto.'on fall hands
lost*, French bark Ocean, American bark
Veteran, British bark Duuglas Castle, Norwegian
bark Karnau, British bark Lynton,
Austrian bark Tigri, Norwegian bark
Blanche, Colombian brig Catalina, Colombian
brig Stella, American schooners Frank
Atwood, Aris and Rio Grande and sloop
\inrt- Timrt. It is remarkable that each
hour of tho galo was marked by the loss of a
ve.-sel.
"The loss of !ife is variously estimated and
not yet ascertained, few, however, placing it
bolow lifty and many above a hundred. The
thrilling scenes which took place during thj
storm would lill a book. On the afternoon
of Thursday three men were seen clinging to
a buoy not far from shore. It was impossible
to get them through the surf.
When night closed they were still there. In
tho morning they were gone. The most
heartrending incident of the storm was that
of the captain of tho bark Lynton. With
his wife and two children, one a babe in
arms, he was seen clinging to the wreck
of his vessel. The chief officer of a French
pteamer and four sailors volunteered to go
to their rescue. When near them an enormous
wave broke over their boat and the
mate was swept oir and drowned. Discouraged
tho men put back to their vessel, r.n I
tho chief engineer took the place of the ljst
mate. He snared the fate of his brother oflicer.
The boat's crew kept on and succeeded in
saving the woman and her babe. The lather
wa< drowned beiore assistance reacueu mm.
"The total loss is said to be not less than
$1,000,000, most of which is covered by insurance.
It it seven years since a ncrther
visited Colon, and it is fortunate that the intervals
are so long, else traffic with that port
would be greatly reduced. The schooner
Frank Atwoo.l, of New York, which was
lost, is notable as being the vessel on which
Boss Tweed effected his escape."
JBUJiJNLD TU JJJtlATJi
Thi tccn Per ons I ?*e tlieir Lives at
a Fire in England.
At Plymouth, England, a few days ago, a
tenement house on Love street, in a low and
squalid neighborhood, took fire and a terrible
calamity resulted.
The flames burned rapidly and fiercely, an<i
wh n at last subdued twelve calcined human
bodies were found among the ruins. Twc
others were missing, and in all probability
they, too, had been burned to death. One
'? ??inf i*v? wnp / JiIl'Nq,! 4--v V\*t
UIHU1 VUliaiU YiLUUl ?? UO VJUOUCU U / piV?*_VO 1/jr
jumping from a high window to the stieot;
Several of the occupants of the burninj
building, in their fright, ignored the iire-escapjs
and, throwing bedding to the pavement,
forty feet below, jumped from windows.
A number of these had logs and arms
broken by the fearful leap.
A harrowing incident of the calamity was
the appearance of a youth named Bickford,
who, with his little sister under one arm,
hung suspended from a window by the other
for some minutes until the flames surrounded
him and caused him to lose his hold and fall
to tlio ground. lie had both legs fractured.
The child was also severely injured.
The intensity of the flames gave the building
the appearauce of a furnace, out this did
not deter the firemen, many of whom entered
the house and by a heroic struggle succeeded
in rescuing several persons.
' -,-V ' - (V : ;, SUMMARY
OF CONGRESS.
Senate Sessions.
Fifth Day.?The chair laid bepore the
Senate a joint resolution of the legislature of
Connecticut urging Congress to pass, wis faout
unnecessary delay, a bill to provide for
the Presidential count,... Mr. Hoar, from the
committee on privileges and elections, reported
favorably an original bill providing
for the performance of the duties
of President in case of the death, resignation
or inability or both the President and VicePresident.
He said it was substantially the
same bill that had been acted on last year by
the Senate. The only addition of importance
is a provision for the repeal of sections
numbered from 147 to 130, inclusive, of the
revised statut?s. These provide for special
elections in case of vacancies in the office
of President and Vice-President. The effect
of their repeal is to continue the
successors to the presidency in office until
the next general election. The bill was
placed on the calendar for early action. Mr.
MePfierson introduced a bill to suspend the
coinage of the silver dollar After an executive
session the Senate received a message
from the President transmitting all the correspondence
relating to the appointment of
A. M. Keiley as minister to Italy and his
subsequent appointment as minister to Austria.
Sixth Day.?Mr. Edmunds introduced a
bill granting a pension to Mrs. Julia D.
I Grant, and another bill granting her the
franking privilege. Mr. Edmunds also favorably
reported the bill to relieve General
Alexander R. Lawton, of Georgia, of his po
1 litical disabilities. At Mr. Edmunds' request
the bill was immediately considered and
passed... Mr. Hoar discussed bis bill providing
for the presidential success on.... A discussion
took place on Mr. Frye's report providing
for a code of joint rules for both
houses of Congress. Among the rules adopted,
after considerable debate, was one prohibiting
the sale of intoxicating liquor in the capitol.
Seventh Day.?Discussion of Mr. Hoar's
providential succession bill was contiuued.
Mr. Maxey favorod, and Mr. Edmunds opposed
tho bill....Bills introduced: By Mr.
Teller?Providing for tho free and unlimited
coinage of the silver dollar. By Mr. PJumb
-?Extending the provisions of the bounty act
to soldiers discharged witbin two years
from the date of their enlistment on account
of disability incurred in the line of duty.
By Mr. Ingalls?Providing that on the representation
of two heads of departments U>
tho chief justice of the supreme court of
the United States, that the President is unable
to discharge the duties of his office, the
chief justice shall convene the court, and it
shall detirmine the nuestion of such alleged
inability. By Mr. Manderson?Providing l or
tin pensioning of all persons who served at
least one year during th3 war and were either
discharged after such term of service, upon
surgeon's certificates of disability as no
longerfit for military duty, or who, after
like term of service, were discharged with
re-enlistment clause stricken from their certificate
of discharge.
Eighth Day.?The feature c; TM Senate
011 the eighth was the debate between
I Messrs. JbJvnrrs ana .tcimunas u[,on toeamenament
of the latter to the Hoar presidential
succession bill. Mr. Edmunds desired tc
have the law left standing as it is now. Mr.
Evarts made an elaborate argument to
show that no member of either branch
of Congress was ati official of the government
in the sense of the word as employed
in the Constitution an:l that, thereI
fore, neither the president of the Senate nor
the speaker of the Housa would be eligible in
his opinion to succeed to the presidency
through the death or resignation of the
President and Vice-President. It was Mr.
Evarts' first address in the Senate, and he
was listened to attentively by all the Senators.
At the conclusion of the debate a vote
was taken upon Mr. Edmunds' amend#
ment, and it was lost by 21 yeas
to 37 nays ? not a party vote,
The bill was then put on final passage and
passed, without iivision, in the form reported
from committee.... Other business transacted
during the day was the swearing in of Mr.
Mitchell as Senator from Oregon, and debate
upcn Mr. Butler's resolution, Air. Butler calling
for a committee to inquire as to the alleged
organization of the Territory of Dakota into
a State and the alleged election of United
States Senators.
House Sessions.
Fifth Day.?Mr. Morrison, from the Committee
on Rules, submitted the report of that
committee on the proposed revision of the
rules, and it was ordered printed and laid
over until the next day, permission being
given Mr. Randall to submit a minority report.
Sixth Day.?Mr. Morrism called up the
report of the Committee on rules, and explained
the provisions of the proposed now
code of the rules for the House. The main
feature of the report is its distrioution or tne
labors of the appropriation committee
among various committees, thus stripping
the appropriation committee of much of its
power which it has heretofore wielded.
Messrs. Randall, Scott, Hammond and Cannon
opposed the report, and Messrs. Gibson,
Reed, Keagan and Willis spoke in its favor.
The debate closed for the day without
action.
Seventh Day?On motion of Mr. Norwood
a Seriate bill was passed removing the
political disabilities of Alexander R. Lawton,
of Georgia Discussion of the proposed
revision of the House rules was resumed.
The bill was discussed by Messrs.
Herbert, Hiscock, Randal), Holraan and
Blount, without action.
Eighth Day.?Mr. Dibble p.sked leave to
introduce a joint resolution proposing a constitutional
amendment. It provides that in
case of the removal from office, by duath,
resignation, or constitutional inability, both
of the President and Vice-President of the
United States, the office of President shall
devolve on the second Vice-President, who
shall be voted for in distinct ballots
at the same time and in like
manner and for the samo term as the President
and Vice-President, by electors appointed
by the several States. The second VicePresident
shall preside over the Senate
in the absence of the Vice-Piosi- i
dent, or in cas3 the office of Presi- |
dent shall devolve npon the VicePresident.
Mr. Randall said that be had a
like measure which he would like to go with
the proposition of the gentleman from Sou: h
Carolina. Upon objection by Mr. Tucker,
the resolution was laid aside in favor of the
report on the new House rules. The debate
lasted the rest of the day, and was closed in
a speech approving the proposed new rules
by Mr. RandalL
SENATORIAL CAUCUS.
Action of of (he Kepiililiian ' onatori
Upon Presidential Xeinitiations.
A Washington special says that "the Re"
publican Senators met in caucus at 11 A. M.
and continued in session until 2 o'clock. Senator
Sherman resigned his positiou as chairman
of the caucus and Senator Edmunds
was unanimously elected to the place. This
action was due to t tie fact tnat no senator i
has ever been chairman of the caucus and J
presiding officer of the Senate at the same 1
time, lha action of the caucus committee
in the arrangement of the chairmanships of
Senate committees, namely, in deciding to
tender to Senator Sewell that of the joint
committee of the library, and to Senator
Logan his old place on military affairs, was
ratitied; nearly all the time was devoted
to a discussion of the line of policy
to be adopted toward presidential
appointments. No formal action was taken
and nono was proposed. Senators expressed
their views lreely, and were found to be practically
unanimous against the adoption of
and genoral policy of opposition, but were
agreed upon the advi-ability of treating each
nomination upon its merits. Opinions were
expressed and generally assented to, that
good men appointed to otlice because
they were Democrats should be confirmed.
except in case; where their predecessors
were removed upon unfounded
charges brought for the purpose of making
pretexts for the creation of vacaneios. In
such cases it was urged that the nominations
should bo held up to give the removed otlieials
an opportunity for vindication. Senntors
who were present express the opinion that
iQis pian xor iiie pxouuo %yhi ^uveui tut?
course of the Republicans. The caucus ad?
journed without day."
Ph:tk Indian's are making an onslaught
on jack rabbits west of Humboldt, Nev. A
scoro or more of the red men, armed with
guns, are slaying the rabbits, which are almost
as large as fawns, by the dozen.
a clock that was removed for safety from
a house in Lexington at the time of the battle
there in 1775 has just been purchased by a
Boston man for ?113. It is in good running
order.
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mammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmrnI
COLLISION ON THE BAH :
One Train Plunges into Another
in Georgia.
Ten Persons Instantly Killed and
Many More Injured.
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At midnight the other night, on the Georgia
Pacific railroad, seventeen mile3 .from
Atlanta, the Georgia Pacific train was run
into by the East Tennessee train. Eleven
persons were killed instantly, and six seriously
wounded. Of the latter one died soon
after, and the death of another was expected.
The East Tennessee trains have the right of
way over the Georgia Pacific
track as far as Austell. The Georgia
Pacific train pulled out of the station at 10
o'clock p. >l . At 10.-45 the East Tennessee
train pulled out. The Georgia Pacific train
stopped at the water tank, and While taking
on water the East Tennessee train came up behind
and ran into the rear end of the Georgia
Pacific train. The Georgia Pacific train was
what is known as the night accommodation,
and was composed of stock cars and two coach*es.
The stock cai-s were nearest the locomotive,
and next was a coach divided into a
baggage car and smoking coach. The last
coacn was divided into apartments, one with
sleeping berths and tho other containing regular
seats for llrst-class passengers. The
Georgia Pacific train had barely stopped,
was running a little, so the conductor.
stated, when the East Tennessee
train came thundering along at
the rate of twenty-fivd or thirty miles an
hour. In the passenger coach of the Georgia
Pacific train some of the passengers were
sleeping and others were awake and talking.
Without warning there came a terrible crash,
and the scene was immediately transformed
into one of contusion, destruction, and
death. Souls were hurled into eternity,
and the air was filled with the gToans ,
of the wounded and dying. At one side of
the water tank there is a trestle, and the
rear end of the last coach of the Georgia Pacific
train was standing on the edge of the
trestle. When the East Tennessee locomotive
struck this coach it plowed its way through
as far Ss the dividing partition, splitting
the car in half. The shock moved the Georgia
Pacific train fifteen or twenty yards, and
when it stopped the escaping steam from the
East Tennessee locomotive filled the rear'
coach and immediately all the lamps were
extinguished, the darkness making the scene
more dreadful and appalling. News of the
accident was telegraphed back to Atlanta
and a special train sent oat. In the meantime
passengers and railroad hands who were
uuhurt removed the dead and wounded into
the baggage cars on tbo two trains, anawnen
the special train arrived they were sent on to
Atlanta.
The special train arrived in Atlanta early
the next morning, and the dead and woundea
passengers were placed temporarily in a
small house near the Georgia Pacific depot.
The dead were as follows:
Bernard Peyton, Birmingham, Ala., attorney
for the Georgia Pacific Railway company;
Nathan Stanley, Anniston, Ala.; J.
W. Pierce, San Angelo, Tex.; Jacob Banks,
Fairburn, Ga.: Mr* Mary Banks, wife of
Jacob Banks: B. Bright, Fairburn, Ga.; E.
T. Hull, Forest Station, Ga.; a two-year-old
child of B. Bright: two children, three and
six years of age. belonging to J. K Brown.
Of the wounded, who numbered ten, Mrs.
Bright died soon after the accident, and C.
W. Belton's death wai hourly expected. All
of the unfortunate victims had been scalded
by hot water and steam, and their faces and
hands were terribly burned.
Among the injured men was J. H. Sink, of
Salem, Ala., who told his exi erience.
'I was sitting," he said, "in the rear of the
sleeper, which was the last car on the Georgia
Pacific passenger train, when the east Tennessee
locomotive telescoped our car. There
was instantly a burst of scalding hct ateam,
which filled the car, and, as I afterward
learned, the floor wa3 flooded with scalding
water, causing terrible death to every one
who was thrown to the floor and rendered
helpless to get up."
Among the wounded iron brought to the
hospital were C. W. Bcitou, of Fort Worth,
Tex., a stock dealer and a partner of A. W.
? - - ^ ? - m 1 l.ill. J
.Frico, ot Jp orc concuo, iex., wuo was Kiueu
instantly. These gentlemen bad on the train
the famous mare Gypsy, which they had *
bought in Atlanta and were taking to Texas
in a box car. The car was totally wrecked,
but the mare cam-? down on her "feet in the
debris unhurt. This was one of the most remarkable
incidents of the accident
ROBERTJTOOMB?.
Dnath o! the IVoted lio'-rgiau?Sketch
of his C irccr.
A telegram from Washington, Ga., says
that General Rob&rt E. Toombs died at his
home there on the 15th after a Jong illness.
General Toombs was born in Washington,
Wilkes county, Ga., on fie 2d of July, 1810.
Ho graduated at Union college, Schenectady,
in 1828; studied law at the University ol
Virginia, and commenced practice in his
native place. In _ 18&> he sarved
under Genera! Winfiold Scott at ,
captain of volunteers in tke Creek war. In
1837 ho was elected to the Georgia legislature
and, with the exception of 1841, continued a
member until 1815. Ho was a member ot
Congress from 1845 to 1853, when he was
elected a member of the Unit< d States Senate,
and was re-elected for the term ending
I March 4. 1805.
He was a prominent member of the extreme
southern party, and after the election
of President Lincoln was 0:10 of the most
active in persuading; Georgia to secede. The
State of Georgia having passed its secession
ordinauce 011 January 1!), 1S(5I, General
Toombs withdrew from the Se late on the 23d
of tliat month, and on March 14 following he
wr.s expelled.
He was a member of the Confeierate congress
which met at Montgomery, Ala., was
subsequently for a short time secretary of
state of the Confederate States, and also
eervei as a brigaiiier-geueral in the Confederate
army.
THE 31 ARRETS.
V. NEW YORK. 50
Beef cattle, good to prime I w 9%
Calves, com'n to prime veali 5 @ 0%
Sheep 2 & 5
T?r'? 45* (ab 6X
Hngs?Live 5% (5 5%
Dressed, city 3%(? 4
Flour?Ex. St., good to fancy 3 75 (? 4 40
West, good to choice. 4 00 @ 5 75
Wheat?No. 2. ReU 94%@
Rye?State $%(?> 68
Barley?Four-rowed State... @ 85
Corn?Ungrad. West, mixed. 47 @ 50
Oats?White State .. 39 (3 41}?
Mixed Western 34,3?@ 37
Hay?Med. topr. Timothy.. 91 (3} 95
Straw?No. 1, Rye 80 (3 85
Lard?City Steam 6 35 @
Butter?State Creamery.... 27 ? 32
Dairy 18 (S 26
West Im. Creamery 18 @ 25
Factory 7 @ 13
Cheese?State factory 7 @ 9%
Skims ? 6 @ IX
Western 8 (3 9%
Eggs?State aud Penn 26 @ 28
BUFFALO.
Sheep?Good to Ciiuice 2 50 @ 4 00
Lam os?Westera 4 50 @ 5 75
Steers?Western 5 20 (5 5 40
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 3 (30 ? 3 65
Flour?C'y ground n. process 5 2-5 @ 6 50
Wheat??io. 1, Hard Dulutli 1
Cora?No. 2, Mixed New (a 41
Oats?No. 2, Mixed Westera 40 (<t>
Barley?Two-rowed Stato ? ($ ?
BOSTON.
Beof?Ex plate and family.. 10 50 @11 00
Kogs?Live 4 (dt> 4}?
Northern Dressed.... 5 (3 5j^
Fork?Ex. Prime, per bbl...l0 00 @11 00
Flour?Winter Wheat pat's.. 5 65 5 75
Corn?High Mixed 58 (5 60
Oats?Extra White 44 (d) 45
Rye?Stato 67 (a) 70
WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef?Extra quality G 00 @ G 25
Sheep?Live weight 3 O 4%
Lambs 4}^(6 6
Hogs?Northern, d. w 4%(g 5
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour?renn. ex family, good 4 25 @ 4 50
Wheat?No. 2. Red 90%$ 90^
Rye?State @ 75
Com?State Yellow 52 (? 53
Oats?Mixed 40 @ 41
Butter?Creamery Extra Pa. 20 @ 22
Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.- 114^/3 U