Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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p rr . Americau newspapers are said to have perceptibly allected election results in England. American women and American newspapers are the prettiest and most useful things iu the world. An extraordinary attempt now in progress to make an artificial crossing between wheat and rye is described by Charles Barnard in the January Century. The attempt is to make a new and standard cereal for breadstuffs. Mother Eve's daughters queen it over the whold world, of course, but South Africa is their own special corner of the earth. The exportations from that region last year wore vaiued at $37,300,000, and of that ^25,000,000 were paid fnr arHnips for women's adornment? ostrich feathers, diamonds and that sort of thing. St. Paul determined to have an ice ' palace during the present winter when it heard of the smallpox scourge in Montreal. The idea became popular at once and will probably be carried out. But in the meadtime Montreal is over its smallpox visitation, and declares its in"i ? tention of having an ice palace the same as usual. St. Paul tells Montreal to go ahead with the old thing, and is making preparations to beat the Canadian city in its own specialty. San Francisco claims to have a population of 323,000?a gain of 00,000 since the taking of the census of 1830. The claim may be an exaggeration, but the progress the city is actually making under adverse circumstances is really " wonderful. The completi >n of the over- j land roads took away an immense amount of trade from that city. Still, slie has gone along bui diug houses and making improvements and increasing in population as if nothing had happened. M. Levassear computes that at the commencement of the eighteenth century there were 9,500,000 Europeans who lived in vario is lands outside ol Europe. Including those people, the whole population of Europe was 1Sj,5Df?,000. At present there are 82,000,003 in other countries, but the population of Europe continues to increase rapidly, and is now 835,000,000. That is, it has nearly doubled since 1700, while the emigration from it is no .v nine times as large as it was at that time. Experts who, with pick and spade, have scratched the rough crust on the line of the Blue Hidge, in the county of Rockbridge, Virginia, report the discovery of most valuable veins of tin ore. This tin ore is large, and many tracts of land have lately been bonded to miners, but the best veins appear to be along the "waters of Irish creek, in the northeast ern corner of the county. The veins are generally less than a foot thick, but some are three or four feet thick, and the tin stone occurs in crystals, in nodules and in strings. A writer in the People's Health Journal tells of a debilitated patient who did not do at all well on beef tea, but was easily restored to health on a diet of bean soup. The only remarkable thing about this is that the patient ever expected to derive strength and nourishment from beef tea alone. Considering that we have upward of a hunlred thousand doctors, and that a very large proportion of them are fullv agreed that I - - W beef tea is almost valueless, except as a itimulant, it is surprising that people continue to look upon it as a food. To show how disastrously the manufacture of imitation butter and oleo oil from which it is manufactured in Europe aftects the dairy industry, the American Rural Ilom", gives a statement of the exports of imitation butter, oleo oil aud dairy products for the year ending June 30, 1884: Imitation ouiter.. i,a~n,nss ius. ?> jhi,ilv Oleo oil 37.785,1:,9 " 4,071,243 Dairy products.... 20,'528,371 " 3,750,771 Is it any wonder that the dairy business is prostrated when we see the exteut to which a fraudulent article is made to fill the place of a pure one. Those who are accustomed to sneor at mules will perhaps hear with surprise of the declaration of the Natchez. (Mis3.) Democrat, that "the mule is about the only product of the farm for which dealers will seek, and every good mule will command its market value on the spot where it is grown. We rarely hear of a native-raised horse that can be sold for more thau $200, and then only to some one that happens to fancy him; | but to good mules there is a fixed market value; $250 is no unusual price paid fur a fine mule, and in the cities of the West $000 and even $800 are paid fur a fancy team of mules." The cattle industry has reached a wonderful development iu this country wi:hin the last thirty yeais. In 1830 there were in round numbers about 17,778,000 head of cattle in the United States. Ten years later this number had been increased to 25,020,000. In 1870 there was a slight fall ng olT, the number counted being only 23,820,000. The loss was more th'in made good, how ever, in 1S80, when there was fo :n I to be in the country not less than 35,92>, - J 000 head of cattle. Commissioner Cole- i man estimates ti.at to day the number is not far from 45,000,000. It is difficult to appreciate the vast accumulation which this figure represents. The commisssoner says that if a column should be formed twelve animals deep, one end resting at New York city, i!s centre en* circling San Francisco, and its other j arm reaching back to Boston, such a column could contain about the number which now forms the basis of the cattle 1 industry of the United States. The value of these animals would not be les3 than $1,200,000,000. , Mrs. Garfield has recently defied the report print*;! in the newspapers that she was preparing a biography of her husband, but says that ever since hi9 death she has been collecting the material for such a work. A good authority states that it is not improbable that a biography will appear before very lonrj, written with Mrs. Garfield's authority ^ and for which she will supply many letters and important documents. Colonel Piockwell, it is also reported, will be the editor of the work. South America is more than double the size of the United States. The em_c D 1 o/w.ima r\ n tVin mnn finite fl.9 pire ui uiiit.ii ?vuij uu .? large as Australia. It is twenty-four times the size of England. The Argentine Republic is nearly as large as Europe, takiug Russia out. Bolivia and Venezuela are each twice the size of England. New Granada and Peru each as large as England and Scotland, Ecuador something less, Paraguay equal to Great Britain, Uruguay and Chili about the same, and the little known region of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego at least double the dimensions of Great Britain. British, French and Dutch Guiana a.e nearly as large as Great Britain. In connection with the report that an ex-United States consul to the Sandwich islands had formed a plan for the annexation of the islands to this country and the return of himself and King T'oioirnnn fn thp United states Senate. there is a story that the leaders of the Mormon church once attempted to purchase the islan.Is as a suitable point for the colonization of the Latter Day saints. Missionaries were, in fact, sent out there and made many converts who still remain faithful to that belief. One of the missionaries became wealthy and got possession of the whole island. He was afterward converted from Mormonism, and is at present premier of the kingdom. Dr. Tomlinson, a physician associated with the Chicago health board, ru Icly shatters many cherished maternal traditions concerning the care of babies. Saffron tea he proclaims to be worthless as water for the purpose of clearing the complexiou. If the cows are healthy and the fluid not tampered with, the milk of one cow is just as good as that of another, and a change involves no peril. Most infants are overfed, and gorging carries off half of them who die. "I don't count the superstitions," he adds, "which solemnly forbid the placing of three lights in a row in the same - - - * ii - _ 11 ; room with tlie baby, nor me anovwug the chiid to look in the mirror, for in either case before the year is out a little white coffin will lie in the front parlor. But surely it is a superstition "which fears to have a cat in the room with sleeping baby for fear it will jump into the crib when no one is looking and suck the innocent's breath. "What good do you suppose it would do a cat to draw into its lungs breath which a human being has just exhaled?" Passing from infantile ailments to superstitious cures for warts, Dr. Tomliuson utters an earnest warning against the practice of of pricking the excrescences with a pin or needle, because such growths when irritated are liable to start a cancer growing. Toombs' Exile. Probably the most picturesque chapter in an eventful life was General Toombs' escape from his home after the war. ilia wife detained the Federal guard atthe door while he escaped through the back yard. Taking to the woods he remained three days iu the country, but in constant communication with his family. Securing one of his carriage horses he rode through to Crawfordville to see Mr. Stephens. He was joined by Mr.Charles D. Irvine, of "Washington, a closc friend of the family, who accompanied him through his long exile,and was his faithful mi win si 1 wftvq While rid in? in a boat from Mobile to New Orleani, General Toombs 3pied a nun who was eyeing him closcly and suspiciously. Fsaring detection and imprionmcnt General Toombs called Mr. Irvine quietly from the deck of the steamer and said: "Charlie, that man knows who I am. We must get rid of hiin. If he informs on me we are lu3t. Shove him oil th?> boat." True to his friend, Mr. Irvine was preparing even for this emergency, when the "suspect" said: "I know that is General Toom*>s. You can't fool me; but you mistake me. I was under him in the war, and I would uot betray him for the world." And he did not. General Toombs sai'edto Cuba, thence to Paris, which he had visited before, and where he was joined by lfis "loving wife. Together they made the journey of the continent, and were preparing for an Eastern tour when the Amnesty act of 1307 suffered General Toombs to return . This he was til3 mere anxious to ! do on account of the illness of one of his daughters.?A-igiwtu {Ga.) Chronicles A Page from Baby's Diary. To day I saw papa sticking knife and fork into a chicken, an I the chicken never moved. So I took a fork near me and stuck it into kitten, lying on my lap; the naughty kitten sprang 011 the table and unset the gravy-dish over the cloth. Everybody jumped; some caught the kitten, some the dish, some wiped the cloth. I never saw so much excitement. I never ere ited so much excitement as rltrl VAUT U" I 111(11/ Mt.l'll U1U. >wn, 11 UllVj fixed that kitten on a chair ns they fixed me she never would have jumped on the table. Everything was taken away from me then, so 1 played with a button on my bib; the button came olT, and I, trying to find out how it taste.I, swallowed it. From that moment everybody left the tabic in a great hurry. Mamma took me up, turned me on her knees, face downward, and stuck a finger in my throat until I thought I should choke to death. After she hud half killed me she began to cry, and screamed: "Send for the dvictDr!" Everybody looked at me as if they expected me to do something; but I was so scared that I couldn't do anvthiug. Then the doctor came, and he'laughed, and as I couldn't laugh I cried. My mother asked ever so many questions of the doctor, but he only shook his head and smiled, saying it would be all right in the morning. I never heard any more about it, so I suppose I was all right in the morning.? Babyhood. zzrr ' ' * V - . - _ ;v ENTOMBED ALIVE. Terrible Disaster in a Pennsylvania Coal Mine, Many Miners Overwhelmed by ?, Suiden Cave-in, The disastrous cavo in of a coal mine at j Nanticoke, Punn., on Friday, the ISth of De cember, was followed by incessant worn. | for several days on the part of c. rescuing '' party, in the hope of finding the imprisoned I miners alive. Hut after midnight on Mun- ! day, December 22, the fate of the in.prisoned men seemed to havo been sealed. A dispatch dated 2 a. m. said: The fato of the imprisoned men at No. 1 slope seem3 now to havo been practically de terinined by the extensive cave-in lhat oo curred last evening at o'clock and drove | the force of rosouers before it in a wild and j terrible flight for their lives. The gangway is { now filled up with sand and culm a distance i of 2";0 feet, sixty l'eet more than it was when the work of rescue was started on Friday afternoon. In the face of this obstruction there is accumulated a largo body of black damp 1 that csn scarcely be removed short of thirty days. There is really no hope of 1 the men over being found alive. A council of the miners, composing the working forces, his just concluded its sitting, in whi.-h tlioy expressed their rirra belief that the men must j havo perished before this, the black damp that is now in the main gatigway having come over the incline froin the breasts in which they were. \Vhen this new calamity befell them the men in the rescuing p irty had only forty feet . of sand to work over. This had a pitch of forty-five de zrees, and although some small { quantities of the dirt camo down during the j shift, nothing so serious was expected. It I came with a terrilic rush, the fearful I gust of wind that preceded it extin I guisnod. all the lignts tne men carried, an;i leaving them in utter darkness. With a clasp on the man in front, the long continuous row followed tho leader to the foot of the air shaft. It was a pellmell rush for life. Foreman Warne and Lewis Morgan, and a workman named Absalom, were caught by the rushng debris, but by holding fast to the men in front t!i3y recovered their footing and fu\ally escaped For the first time Superintendent Morgan i has given up all hopes of saving tin mm. He has been on continuous duty since the fatal calamity, and up to to-night he felt confident that no less than twenty of th3 men would havo been taken out alive. The names of the persons whoso deaths are now deemed certain areas follows: Thomas Clifford, 14 years old; William Dehaney, 14 years old;lWilliam Elkie, 19 years old; Edward Hargraves, 2L years old; John Hawk, 3U years old; W. Jelgoshinski, 2o years old; Oliver Kivler, 27 years old; William Kivler, 17 years old; Frank Kivler, o2 years old; Maux Longolki, 17 years old; Abram Lewis, miner, 42 years old; | Andrew Lowe, 25 years old; Vincent Luke, i age not known: Edward Matthews. 20 years j oi l; August Mattle, 45 years old; Feter Mattle Wyose, age not known; Joseph Mc! Carthy, 24 years old; John Lowach, ago un( known; Abram Rutinski, age unknown; j Isaac Sarver, 28 years years old: John j 1 Sarver, 21 years old, John Shutt, 2? years old; Thomas Williams, 21 yeais old. At 22::JO o'clock this morning the mine ! offkia's decided to abandon work in tho air j fhaft on account of the cave in and tho presage of fire daniD. All attempts to cot the J missing out alive have now b.^en abandoned, | but the work through tho tunnel will be pushed steadily forward. It will probably bo ahout two weeks before the bodies of the missing men aro reached. ! The excitement around the mine is inde! scribable. Women and children who have I hardly closed their eyes since Friday aro J made nearly crazy by tho fresh calamity. : Screams and wails of anguish from the women rend the air, while the disheartened and exhausted miner* sit around the mouth of the mine in sullen despair. Crowds of people for miles around are coming to view the scsne of desolation. The town of Nanticoke is a place of universal mourning and lamentation. The loss to the company by the disaster 1 will reach $100,000 or more. | HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. | Great Excitomcnt 0;cr tlie Prospect In Great Britau. j The excitement throughout Great Britain on the subject of home rule and a parliament at Dublin for Ireland continues without abatement. Newspapers of all shades of opinion and politics are urging Mr. Gladstone to speak definitely in regard to hi plans. The late premier, in response to a telegram sent to him asking him for information with reference to tho Irish home-rule scheme which he has had under consideration for some time, replied: I "From my public declarations at Edinhiitvrh rosruar-hinor tho crrwnrnnmnf. nf Tre'al I you will easily see that 1 have no furti* ; communication to make." It will be remembered that in the speech re ferred to by Mr. Gladstone, which ho delivj ered on November 17, he said, in effect, in j reply to Mr. Parnell's suggestion to give loca ' self-government to Ireland, that when he | learns through a constitutional channel what 1 j the wishes of Ireland are he will give the'U ' attentivA consideration, but that he cannot f gain this knowledge until the new parliament meets. Mr. John O'Connor Power,nationalist member of parliament, in an interview, approved the scheme, which he said was a lair one and was based on the scheme of Mr. Butt, j the former Irish leader. Mr. Power did not j however, approve the proposition that the crown, as a guarantee, have a right to liomi{ nato a portion of tho members of tho Irish ! parliament. That proposition he characterzed as too absurd t'or sorions consideration. He added that Mr. Parnell's candid acceptance of the scheme would be necessary in j order to justify the government in introducing such a meai-ure. Mr. Macartney (conservative,) who was member for Tyrone in tho last parliament, declares that the adoption of any l'orm of home rule would be in direct violation of the constitution, under the provisions of which thousands of Englishmen ani Scotchmen have invested money in Ireland. To grant Ireland homo rule, he says, would be to betray the minority in Ireland, anl the ?1 .'?K kft Vlnl/1 ?'rtA?10l'KlQ fni? JMiglJMl [MTUpiC WWU1U UO 14V1V1 A go^vnoiwiu Aut the consequences. A Dublin dispatch says that Armagh, in the province of Ulster, was the scene of an immense loyalist demonstration. Several addresses were male by prominent loyalists, who opposed the home rule, doctrine. The meeting adopted a series of resolutions expressive of ths belief that the resort to home rule principles would be certain, sooner or later, to eventuate in acluat civil war, and further exhorted the loyalist party to go to the utmost ' length in resisting the e.'Forts of the homerule a lvocates. "The Ulster Orangeman are ready to conic to the front,*' one of the speakers, amid great applause said, "and when their service* are I wanted, G0,0UU men can readily bo put intc i t he field for active service in defenco of the j vause of loyalty to the government." DISALLOWING CLAIMS. j The Treasury Officers Itefias'iiff to Pay Some Accounts, j A Washington dispatch says that "tho now [ accounting officers of tho treasury have late' ly been sc. utinizing very closely all claims ! and accounts presented to them for settle' ment, and have undertaken to disallow many sums paid by disbursing officers, although the payments were made in accordance with established precedent. The comptroller appears to be opposed to lreo lunches and foreign travel at thy expense of the United State?. He disallowed one bill nf sii.li on for siihsistinnr tho House Aooropri ation committee while visiting the "Norfolk navy yard and othor places on the United States steamer Tallapoosa in March, 1S84, and charged Admiral Jouett with $4(JU expended by that officer in entertaining distinguished guests at the New Orleans exposition. Ho has also charged Surgeon John S. Billings, of tho army, with $1,."41X24 paid to him for 1(5,753 miles of travel at eight cents per mile as a delegate to the International Medical congre-s in London in August, 1SS1, and while traveling in England, 1< ranee, Germany and other Euro]>eau countries under orders from the war department. Other interesting ensss of disallowed vouchers might bo givon, but the fore? going will suffice as samples." NEWS SUMMARY. Dailern and ITTIddle State*. X fl5od or "water and quicksand Droiia through the roof of a coal mine at Nanticolce, Penn., blocking up all ways of egress. Most of the six hundred men and boys in the mine es:aped, but about thirty were entombed. Th ) disaster causes great excitement in the vicinity. Hiland Hill, governor of Vermont from 1858 to 1860, died a few days since at a son's house in Springfield, Mass., aged ninety years. Professor John C. Draper, M.D., L.L. D., the eminent scientist,died a few days ago at his home in New York, aged fifty years. Thk death of ex-Governor Hyland Hill, of Vermont, uas ueen iujiuwwu uy luo ud^v^oo of his gubernatorial predecessor, Ryland Fletcher, who died at Proctorsville in that State, on the 20th, agel eighty-six years. Nearly all the principal business houses in Tarentum. Ponn., havo been destroyed by fire. The total los3 is about $60,000. Ferdinand Ward, the swindling partner of Grant & Ward, is kicking a printing-press in Sing Sing prison. Sotilh and West. Richard D. Anderson, of Missouri, has been appointed timber depredation agent, and William C. Torrey, of Indiana,a special agent for swamp lands. The sensation at Detroit, Mich., is the discovery that Frank Knocli, his wit'o and two children, all of whose chaired bodies were found in th^ir burned dwel.ing at Wood mere, a suburb of Detroit, had been the victims ot' a foul murder. Suspicion resting upon two brothers of the murdered man, they and their mother were arrested. A fire in Chicago destroyed business property valued at Soo0,000. A crank heavily armed was arrested a few days since at Council Bluffs, Iowa. He stated that he was on his way to Washington to kill Cleveland. A crowd of masked men visitsd the jail at Rockingham, N. C., overpowered the jailer, and seizing John Lee, a prisoner charged with murder, hanged him to a tree. A boiler explosion at a distillery nenr Dayton, Ohio, resulted in the death of two men, and serious injuries to two others. TO a?hinerton> Trr-r. Wntico ivunmittm rn l.lhor hfl8 at JL II r> JLAWUOW | tainei great prominence in ih3 present Con- I gress, and more than 10j members expressed a desire to be appointed a member. Ferel?ru Christians are being massacred in Annam. Three hundred converts were killed in one fight by the natives. A Sr. Petersburg dispatch states that a terrible dynamite explosion has occurred in the Pleijuehin mine in Siberia. 1 he accounts are conflicting as regard* the number of persons killed, some placing the number at 400, while others place it as high as 1,000. A serious outbreak is reported to hava taken place in Corea. A Chinese squadron and American and Japanese men-of-war have left Shanghai for the Corean coast. Lieutenant Greei.y, of Arctic fame, lectured in London under the auspices or' the Royal Geographical society, and was warmly welcomed by many distinguished scientists. The Grand Orange lodge has adopted an address to the Orangemen of Great Britain and Ireland in opposition to the home rule plans of Parnell and in favor of imperial rule in Ireland. Peru has a civil war on it3 hands. Four revolutionists have been condemned to death at Warsaw and twenty more to various terms of imprisonment in Siberia. Cholera has invaded th9 province of Venice, Italy. Numerous deaths have o> curred and people are fleeing from the infected district. The four children bitten by a mad dog at Newark, N. J., and sent to Paris for treatment at public expense, arrived safely in the French capital, and ware at once taken to Dr Pasteur for treatment. The doctor, whise discovery for a hydrophobia cure has brought him patients from all parts of the world, treated the children by his method of inoculation, introducing the virus into the ?ystem without pain, and expressed himself as confident of the most successful results.LATKK NEWS. Nine coal collieries of the Pennsylvania railroad company in the vicinity of Pittston Penn., have suspended operations, throwing 1,400 men and boys out of work. The Grant National Monument fund has reached $111,500. The Congreijati >nal church at Stafford, Conn., has just bsen celebrating the 250th anniversary of its organization. Forty-two shoe factories at Brockton, Mass., which have been long silent, have again begun operations at the scale of wages demanded by the operatives. After an existence of nearly sixty-two years the Richmond (Va.) Whig has ceased publication. James Starling, while killing hogs in Chattooga county, Ga., fell into a caldron of scalding water, and though lifted out instantly was boiled to death. First Comptroller Durham has disallowed an item of $1,8^0 in the acounts of Norman J. Colman, coinmis5ion9r of agri. culture, on the ground that that amount was used in the purchase of seeds and labor and Illegally cimrgea w mt: ttjtjjjupnutiuii iur "laboratory." This case is exactly similar to that of Commissioner Loring, Mr. Colman's immediate predecessor in office, whose accounts for purchases made in the same way were also disallowed. Mr. Bigelow has been confirmed by the Sena'e as assistant treasurer at New York. The Senate civil service committee concluded to report favorably all three nomina* tions?Edgerton, Trenholm and Eaton?for civil service commissioners. On the last day of the House session prior to the holiday recess, 997 bills, li)G petitions and seven joint resolutions were introduced, although only eleven States were called. an attack was made on woricing miners near Monongahela City, Penn., by about seventy-five masked strikers, who fired numerous shots from guns and revolvers, without, however, wounding any of the workers. The epidemic of mad dogs which has prevailed recently in various sections of the country has reached New York and vicinity. Many caces of persons bitten by dogs have been reported, and all unmuzzled canines found roaming the streets of the metropolis are to bo killed. Aaron Shaw, an aged farmer, shot and fatally wounded his wife, from whom he had separated, and then inflicted a fatal wound upon himself. The tragedy occurred nearOwego, N. Y. The family of George V. Korell, of Clove* land, Ohio, partook of raw ham and were taken with trichinosis. The whole family, consisting of father, mother and several children, wero expected to die. Early Dawn, a famous trotter, va'.ued at $35,000, has bean poisonod at Lexington, Ky. Fernando Montalbo, editor of a Spanish paper at Laredo, Texas, was shot and killed by a young Mexican. France is to receive a war indemnity ol $2,000,000 f rom Madagascar. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Tn Paris, last year, there wero SO,270 births and 73,735 deaths. One of tho Faroo islands has bean swal- i lowed up by the sea. An agricultural school for girls has bene established in France. 1 An extensive system of railroads is shortly to be commenced in China. The total value of tho trade of India ex- , ceeds $2>0,00;),0jj annually. The Missouri Cremation society has 400 i members, twenty-five of whom are women. A ci .vzY quiitshown in Now York actually is put down in cold figures as worth $<3,000. Dm i ;ci the recent parliamentary elections j in En;; md. Queen Victoria showed her syra- ] pathy for the Tories in many ways. 1 V .-v.::. &&&$%, ?&*%* k WELCH UK HORROR An Explosion in a Colliery Causes Great Loss of Lite. Scores of M ners Killed and Many More Injured. A London dispatch says: What it was thought might turn out to bo one of the most disastrous calamities in the history of mining is reported from Pont-y-Pridd> Wales. A dispatch was received hero from that place announcing that a terrible oxplosion had occurred in a large colliery, situated near thu village from which the message was sent. Four hundred miners wero reported to be entombed in the ruins of the Ferndaie pit, spreading horror into thousands of hearts. Pont-y-Pridd is the centre of a large miivng district, thousands cf men earning thoir bread thero by daily toil beneath tho surface of the earth. The village is situated in Glamorgan county, Wales, on the Taf river, near Lanwitt, and is noted for coal and tin works, n which there are a number in its immoliaten ighborhoo.l. In addition to its famo :w> a mining district, tho Pont-y-Pndd is noted for its extensive chain and ca'jlo works, many a stout British ship owing her cables to tho work of the Welshmen of tho vicinity. A second dispatch from the scene of the disaster seated that twelve dead bodies had been taken out of the pit and thirty miners had been rescued, all the latter more or less injured. The remainder of those who were in the mine at the time of the explosion were believed to be safe. The explosion occurrbd in the upper of tho two seams. Thero were 7;}') men in the mine at the time of the explosion. The majority were in the lower seam, otherwise the dia'.h list would have baen much larger. At least fifty men were killed in tha upper seam and scores wero terribly burned. The injured wcrj carried to places of safety by their more fortunate companions who had X-N ?<v>? U 11 nut UUU1J UUI U. A la er dispatch states that .*>'20 mm had been rescued, s.ven of whom vvero so fearfully burned that they wore not expocted to live. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS, . .. Senftto Session*. JNinth Day.?Mr. Mitchell from the committee on pensions reported favorably, the bill granting a yearly pension of ?5,000 to the widow of General Grant. The bill was at once passed without debate....Debate occurred upon Mr. Butler's resolution of inquiry relating to the alleged organization of Dakota into a Stite. Mr. Vest argued the question of admission from a legal point of viow, and insisted that under the decisions of the United States supremo court in former cases of admission, the recent action in Dakota was revolutionary. Mr. Logan inquired if it was revolutionary for citizens of a Territory to get together and present their claims to ba admitted as a State, thoy taking care to provide in thiir now constitution that they should not be a State till Congress should approve their constitution. He thought it unfair for Senators to regard the action in Dakota as revolutionary. Until thay should set up as a State and undertake to perform the functioni of a State and the powers of statehood thoy were not revolutionists. Mr. Butler said hs had misapprehended what constituted a State if the election of Senators and judges was not exercising statehood. After further debate cnln'o.->f. wont nvAr The Sanate after more debate agreed to tho joint rulei Tenth Day.?Among the bilis reported favorably and placcd on the calendar were the following: By Mr. Edmunds, in reference to bigamy and polygamy in Utah. Mr. Edmunds said he would ask the Senate to take up this bill immediately after the holiday recess. By Mr. Hoar, an original bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States. Mr. Hoar said he would ask the Senate to take up this bill as soon as possible after the holiday recess.... Mr. Cullom introduced a bill providing for a commission, consisting of the secretaries of stare and war and the postmaster-general, to buy and acquire for tho government any etisting telegraph linos, with tho approval of the President.... Mr. \*e-.t offered a resolution rererring to the rejection of Mr. Keiley as United States minister because his wife is a Jewess, sustaining the position assumed by our government in the matter, and concluding as follows: "The constitution of the Uuited States provides that 'no religious test shall even be required as a qualification to any o?ice or public trust under the United States,' and whi'e sincerely anxious to maintain friendly relations with Austro-Hun^ary and all other governments, the people of the United States deny the right of any foreign government to assert against any citizen of this country, disqnaliflcation for office by reason of his religions belief or that of his family." Referred to committee on for^igu relations.... At 3:25 p. m. the Senate went into executive session, and when the doors were reopened, adjourned until Tuesday, Jan. 5, 18S0, at 12 o'clock noon. Honso Sessions# Ninth Day.?The House rerumed the consideration of the report of the coinmittea on rules. An amendment was offered by Mr. Hammond to strike out tho distribution feature of the report, and when tho House took a vote, the result was that the amendment was lost by 70 yeas to 22(3 nays. This was regarded as a test vote showing the favora- I ble feeling toward the report, and after debate it was adopted in toto ... Mr. Morrison's resolution for a holiday recess from December 27 to January 5 was adopted On motion of Mr. Matson, the Senate bill granting a pension to the widow of General Grant was taken up and passed, Mr. Price, of Wisconsin, alone vuting in the negative. Ten'tii Day.?Upon motiou of Mr. Morrison five select committees were appointed, as follows: On the election of President and Vice-President of the United States?To consist of thirteen members, to which shall be referred all propositions touchingthe election and tenure of office of President and VicoPresident, the count of the electoral vote,and the succession to the office of President. On reform in the civil service?To consist of thirteen members, to which shall be referred all propositions touching the civil service. On shipbuilding and shipowning interests?To consist of thirteen members, to which shall be referred all propositions relating to American shipbuilding and ship-owning interests, with authority to investigate the cause of the decline of the American foreign carrying trade. On alcoholic liquor traffic?to consist of eleven members. On ventilation and acous c 4.1. ~ l? II 4-U ~ AAnetef. r\f LIL'b Ul tuo 11U11 Ul UIIO UUU9V ^ vwuiHi.v v* seven members Mr. Findley nsk.vl unanimous consent for tho present consideration of the Senate presidential succession bill, but several members objected. Eleventh Day.?The States were called in alphabetical order for the introduction of bills. Among the bills were the following: To pension survivors of the American war; for the relief of Fitz- John Porter; to amend tho civil servicj act by th addition of sections calculated to equalizo the appointments in the civil service among the several t-tites; to suspend tho coinage of the standard silver dollar; to suspend the issue of patents to lauds which have been granted to aid in the construction of railroads until Congress otherwise directs; proposing a constitutional amendment in rogard to the election of President and VicePresident and members of Congress; appropriating $10,0 JO for tho erection at Indianapolis of a monument to the lata Vi -o-President Hendricks; proposing a constitutional amendment for tin election of Senators by the people: granting pensions to all soldiers who served thirty days in tho la to war; proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting polygamy in TTnifail Kfaf-.na- cwi.iltimer lands to llOllOl* ably discharged soldiers of Otlio late war; repealing tho timber culture, pre-emption and desert land act3. It was after 5 p. m., when tho State of Maine was reached on the call, and it was evident that the House would havo to remain in session un'il midnight to complete the call. At tho suggestion of Mr. Curtin it was ordered that when the House meets on January 5 the call shall be continued where it was left ofT, and then the House adjourned until January 5. During the day 1,01)5 bills were introduced. under me new law in Italy, any circus svhich does Lot fully perform every act promised in the printed programme, or whi..'h inisleads tho public bv mean> of pictures, is liable to a fine of i'500 fur each offense. ,. -.< ' \r r ' ~'' DfM ATBOCITB. A Company of Troops Ambuscaded in New Mexico. Fifteen Soldiers and Citizens Killed by the Savages. Particulars of a disastrous fight between a detachment of United States troops and a band of Apache Indians, in the vicinity of Silver Citv. N". M.. hnvA heon hrnnrht t.n F.l Paso, Texas, by passengers arriving from the West. The detachment uuder Lieutenant Fontaine, it is stated, were surprised at night, near Alma, N. M., by Indians who were secreted behind rocks and opened a murderous fire on the soldiers, accompanied by demoniac yells, which threw the detachment into confusion, and a desperate hand to hand encounter took place, in which Surgeon and Lieutenant T. J. Maddox, one sergeant and four men of Trcop C, Eighth cavalry, were killed, and Lieutenant Derosey C. Cabell and a sergeant were dangerously wounded. Beside these, seven or eight citizens met death at the hands of the fierce savages. A \vell-in{ormed gentleman just in from the scene of the Indian outrages says that everybody is leaving the country, and desolation and depopulation is visible everywhere; that even the cowboys are leaving, and that tho large ranches with their herds are left to the mercy of the savages. % These, however, are weil provided with ammunition and have their ranch residences strongly barricaded, and seem determined to maintain the war throughout the winter. Several families have reached El Paso from the district of Arizona and New Mexico infested by these bloodthirsty savages, and quite a number o? women and children have been sent to other towns for safety and protection. The remainder of Lieutenant Fontaine's command, which consisted all told of thirtyfive men, met dead bodies in numerous places along the line of their march, the result of the devilish work of the savages a few days previous. It is said General Crook is now in favor of employing bloodhounds as auxiliaries to the army in hunting down the savages, and ha? i'nmmnniciitoH tvif.h flu imp ilonorkmont I with the object of securing a sufficient numbar of dogs to aid the troops in tracking the inhuman Apaches to their lairs and exterminating them. The hop? that the Indians wou'd cease their relentless war on the approach of winter has proved a delusion, and tho government to successfully cope with them must largely increase its force in New Mexico and Arizona or see the most productive portions of these Territories laid waste and depopulatad. WHAT WARNEK WANT& A Congressman*# Plan to P. y ilie Public Debt Faster* A Washington special to the New York Herald says: Mr. Warner intends to introduce after the recess a joint resolution instructing the secretary of tho treasury to make a call of bonds whenever lie has a ccrtain amount of cash in hand, the sum to be named in the resolution. All*. Warner says that he intends in this joint resolution torecit: the exact condition of the treasury on New Years Day, and to require that oniy a certain limited amount of coin, be it gold or silver, shall thereafter bo held in the treasury to serve for the running expenses of the government and the resjrve for greenbacks. He means to require that this amount for all purposes shall not be so great as the | one hundred inilions now held in gold aj a greenback reserve fund, and his resolution will require lhat the amount held in the treasury slm 1 not at any time exceed the sum fixed in the resolution, and that all surplus which accumulates beyond this shall be used to call bonds without delay. Mr. Warner's joint resolution will be referred to a committee, perhaps to that cn ways and means, as it includes much more than silver, and when reported back to the House it wi 1 undoubtedly draw out a long and thorough debate, It will be seen that while it iocludes the silver question it covers much important ground besides. It attacks the greenback reserve fund, and asks Congress to instruct the Secretary to diminish that, and, in fact, no longer to keep it as a separate fund at all. Also, while the"question of a bond call has always hitherto teea left by Congress to.tna disjrjtion of the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Warner now seeks to have this matter regulated by Congress. The present demand of a good many of the silver men is for the unlimited coinage of silver. This is the policy which they oppose to the demand for the repeal of the Bland bilL A FAMILY^ FEUD. Fierce Duel Between Seven Men? Three Fatally Wounded. A sensational una sanguinary conmcu occurred a few days ago between two families in Clay county, Tenn./among whom a bitter vendetta is of long standing. As a result of the affair three men were mortally wounded and two quite seriously. Leary James, Budd Taylor and George Scarborough attended a school examination, and on their return home began drinking heavily. In their drunken Drgie they met a man named Stewart, who is related to a family named Coe, against whom the Taylors had a feud of long standing. They assaulted Stowart furiously, and would bavo teaten him nearly to death, had not three members of the Coe family come up at this moment. All the parties were armed to I the teeth, and a fierce battle with pistols enjue.l. The short range duels were very effective. James Taylor was shot through the bowels. Budd Taylor through both hips, Scarborough through the lungs and George Taylor was wounded in three places. The i^oes escaped unscathed. Two of the Taylori ind Scarborough were fatally injured. THE W0RI0FCMGRES3i Wliat ires Bern Done I'p to (lie Holiday Kccess. Since the present session of Congress began 728 bills and joint resolutions havo been introduced in the Senate, and seven, one of which originated in the House, have been passed by that body. Twelve hundred and forty-seven executive messages, containing about 1,80J nominations, have been sent by lha President to the Senate, and have been referred to the proper committees, but no nominations have baen confirmed. Two treaties?one relating to the boundary line between this country and Mexico, and the other providing for thu settlement of the claims "of certain American citizens against Venezuela?have been sent to the Senate for ratification. In all l.O'.'O bills an I joint resolutions ; ave been introduced to tbo lluiiso of Keuiesentalivos, and four, two of winch originated ill the fenate, h ivo been lossed." MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. A live owl was an oddity in an opera in London recently. 1 Stuart Robso.v, the actor, was once a congressional page. : Makv Anderson* lias been playing tj ' crowded houses in Boston. ' Wiliiklm.t, the pianist, is giving a series ' of concerts in St. Petersburg. < Miss Fanny Davenport has given hei j 500th representation of "Fedora." < "Nancy Lke," offered for $>0, ultimately 1 paid its composer, Mr. Maybrick, $^5,U0l). 1 Lawrence Barrett's present tour i& i proving the most successful he has ever > made. There are now about 400 traveling companies performing in the various sections ol the Union. ] Edwin* Booth and Signor Salvini will be 1 seen together as lago and Othello before the f close of the season. c Christine Nilsson has written an elabor- t ate work on vocal teaching and a proper method of singiug. . Edwin Booth has never seen but on? ma* j play Ham'.et, and that was his lather, when ho was himsalf.quite a lad. t ' ~7 ":r\' % .:'. THE HOflE DOCTOR. Dynpep.la. A most important part of the treatment of every ease of nervous dyspepsia is to seoure and enforce thorough rest. , The conditions existing being those of nervous irritatiou and exhaustion more or less profound, rest becomes one of the necessities of the case. To > often ncr .vou8 dyspepsia occurs in persons who are carrying heavy loads in the way of business cares, anxiety or grief, or who suffer exhaustion from some form of emotional disturbance, and ic is next to impossible to restore such persons to a normal condition healthwise without relief from the causes which have operated to produce the difficulty. While plenty of exercise should bo taken regularly each day, the intervals between exercise should be employed in more or less absolute rest. Lying out-of-doors, m a hammock or on a cot, for hours at a time, during pleasant weather, is a means for restoring nervous tone and vigor.?Lam of Life. Care of the Ears* "Picking the ears" is a most mischie\ons practice; in attempting to do this with hard substances an unlucky motion has many a time pierced the drum and made it as useless as a bursted rubber life preserver; nothing sharper or harder than the end of the tittle finger, with the nail pared ought ever to be introduced into the ear, unless by a physician. Persons are often seen endeavoring to remove the ''wax1' of the ear with the head of a pin; this ought never to be done; first, because it not only endangers the rupture of the ear by being pushed too far in, but if not so far, it may grate against the drum, excite inflammation, produce an ulcer which may finally eat all the parts away; second, ViarH cnVtafonnDQ Viat'a nfton tlinnA^ in Muivt auuavuuvvg mm < v vi wu mmmf and caused the necessity of painful, dangerous and expensive operations; third, the wax is manufactured by nature to guard the entrance from dust, insects and unmodified cold air, and when it has subserved its purpose it becomes dry, scaly and light, and in this condition is easily pushed outside by new1 formations of wax within.?Phrenological Journal. Restfcav Children. Mothers often complain that their children are wakeful and restless at night. They seem well during the day, J but, as soon as they go to bed and fall asleep, they moan, cry, grate the teeth, rub the nose, and roll and thrash nearly all night long. As a rule, such symptoms are thousrht to be caused by worms.and the unfortunate victims are freely purged with "wform medicines," with a view of curing their nocturnal "tantrums. " Now, in nine enses out of ten, the whole trouble is caused by indigestion and constipation. The child goes to bed with its stem ch full of indigestible food. The quality an 1 quantity of food it has taken during the day has been unfit lor its powers 01 digestion, ana therefore acts as a constant irritant to ita entire system. The irritation of ita stomach and bowels by indigestible food excites the brain aud spinal cord, and through these the whole system is kept ; in a state of excitement. ,(Hence, then, it is proverbial in early life that the stomach being delicate and susceptible to any disturbance, we should be most ' careful to select a proper diet, to consider the quality of fond that is supplied, to measure the capabilities of the digestive system, and to deal with them accordingly." Duck Farmers in China. One afternoon we went on a most interesting expedition up the river, and then turned aside into one of the many creeks to the village of Faa-tee, and thence onvrard in search of one of the great duck hatching establishments, where multitudinous eggs are artificially hatched. The first we came to was ? . -V 1 A. 1 1 J _ * closed, duc tne ooaimeu roiu us 01 another further on, so we landed and walked along narrow ridges between large flooded fields, in which lotus and water chestnuts are grown for the sake of their edible roots. Both are nice when cooked, but the collecting of* these in this deep mud must be truly detestable for the poor women engaged in it. Passing by amazing heaps of old eeg shells (for which even the Chinese seem to have as yet found no use) we reached the hatching house, in whicn many thousands of eggs are being gradually warmed in great baskets filled up with heated chaff, and placed on shelves of very open basket work, which are arranged in tiers all around the walls, . while on the ground arc placed earthenware stoves full of burning charcoal. Here the eggs are kept for a whole day ond nif/ht. the r>n<jitinn of thfi baskets with reference to the stoves being continually changed by attendants who reserve their apparel for use in a cooler atmosphere! After th's preliminary heating the eggs are removed to other baskets in another heated room, to which they are dexterously carried in cloths, cach containing about fifty eggs. No one but a neat-handed Chinaman could carry such a burden without a breakage . Here the eggs remain for about a fortnight, each egg being frequently moved from place to " place to equalize their share of heating. After this they are taken to a third room, where they are spread over wide shelves and covered with sheets of thick, warm cotton; at the end of another fortnight hundreds of little ducklings simultaneously break their shells, and by evening perhaps a couple of thousand fluffy little beauties are launched into life ami are forthwith fed with rice water. Duck farmers (who know precisely when great hatchiug is due) are in attendance to buy so many hundreds of these pretty infants, whom they at once carry oil to their respective farms, where there are already an immense number of ducks and geese of different ages, a'l in separate . lots. The geese, by the way, are not ' hatched artificially, owing to the thickness of their shells, consequently they are not so very numerous as ducks. Still, flocks numbering 600 or 800 are reared, and are provided with wattle sheives ou which to roost, as damp crround is considered injurious to the young birds. A very large goose market is held every morning iu Canton, which is supplied by geese boats, each of which brings 200 or o00 birds. As to the baby Sticks, they are fed on boiled rice, anci ifter a while are promoted to bran, magjots, and other delicacies, ;ill the day :omes when the owners of thy duck boats come to purchase the half grown birds and commence the process of letting them fatten themselves as aforesaid. This continues till they are ready for the narket and are either sold for immediate consumption or bought wholesale by the provision dealers, who split, salt, and hen dry them in the sun. Tho heart, jizzard and entrails are also dried and iold separately, and the bills, tongues md feet are pickled in brine.?Belgratia. Absolute stagnation does not exist inywhere in the ocean, not even at the jrcatest depths.