Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Henry W. Williams, president of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club, must be an enthusiast. Since and including 1880, he has ridden 13,578 miles. He took to bicycling' for his health, and it has made a well man of him. The tenth census, "like a wounded snake, drags its wearied length along.'' . Thirteen large volumes have been pub- j lished, and others arc going through the | prcs.% while a number of other reports i remain unpublished, including those by | J. R. Dodge, the statistician of the agricultural department, on fruits and orchards, sheep-husbandry and wool-grow, ing and hop culture. Lfprosy is declared by the Lansing (Iowa) Mirror to exist to a considerable extent among the colony 01 Scandinavians from Northern Norway, now settled near the village of Spring Grove, in Houston county, Minn. Doctors who have examined the subjects, who are in three or four different families (but are related), are said to have pronounced the malady undoubtedly leprosy. Most readers of Shakespeare arc aware that Juliet was a very sweet young maiden. The thrifty citizens of Verona take mercantile advantage of the fact. They sell "Juliet's tears." which are confections resembling liquid gum-drops, or brandy balls. The correct tribute to leave 011 Juliet's grave is a gold-paper heart and a dried rosebud, wrapped in a magnolia. The Veronese tradespeople take great stock in the popular reverence for the fair Juliet. Ex-President Arthur suffers from insomnia. Until recently he has been in a. 1 I- _ l _ r i ! i . i v . . . !/ me nnoit 01 trying to read niinscu to sleep when in bed. ''But not very long ago.*' says Harpers Weekly, "having; placed a pitcher of ice water beside liim on retiring, he awoke to find that he had unconciously upset the pitcher and emptied its chilling contents upon the bed." The incident has caused him to break the habit of reading in bed, lest some time he should upset an oil lamp in a similar manner. Joseph Arch, who commenced a movement in favor of elevating the condition of farm laborers in England some twenty years ago, has been elected to parliament ' from the northwestern district of Norfolk county. His opponent was Lord Henry Bentinck. The business of Mr. Arch was that of setting out and trimming hedges, but he obtained a national reputation as founder of the agricultural laborers' union. Farm laborers in this country are not elected to Congress, or even to State legislatures. A correspondent of the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal tells of a remarkable result of the use of steam as a disinfectant of ships. The vessel to be treated was made tight fore and aft. and the steam turned on for the requisite time. The hold was found to be in good condition after the cleansing, and the disinfectors entered the cabin. But they discovered that the fine furniture and cabin work had fallen apart and lay in a comprehensive heap on the floor. The steam had melted the glue. % A St. Louis hairdresser has invented an apparatus which, if adopted, would revolutionize railroad travel. His object is to overcome delay caused by stopping a train at various stations, and he J1 _ -11 A- -I f mienus 10 nave an irains speed on irorn terminus to terminus. At every intermediate station automatic machinery would remove the rear car, containing all those who wish to get off there, and another car, containing passengers who wished to join the train, would be substituted without decreasing the speed of the train. A Genoese gentleman has just disclosed the fact that he is in possession of tlic chains with which Columbus was bound after his discovery of America. The gentleman has owned the chains for j twenty years without telling. In 18Go, ' becoming aware that the chains were' in existence somewhere on this continent, he came hither and secured them. He was likely to have kept his possession of them a secret for a still longer time, ' but readinff so frcouentlv newsn.mor ? * i v ? r i? ; paragraphs regarding the celebration of the four hundreth anniversav of Colum- j bus's discovery,hi.s conscience reproached him, and he permitted the facts concerning the chains to become known. At a recent gathering of medical men in Philadelphia, Dr. W. S. Janney, late coroner of the city, made the startling statement that "no healthy man or woman ever' dies in this climate from cholera morbus."' He repeated the remark to the editor of the Medical and Sur'jieal Reporter, saying that the records of the coroner's office would substantiate his words. He explained that by ."healthy" he meant a person without or- j ganic diseases and of average strength and vitality. "Such a person," he said, ; "when dying with symptoms of cholera morbus, always dies from poisoning (usu- J ally arsenic), and the case is one of suicide or homicide." The ex-coroner lirst examined into these cases when a stout, healthy man of his acquaintance died after an illness of thirty-six hours with .symptoms of cholera morbus, lie had i been attended by four reputable physi- J cians, one of whom had signed the death certificate. Yet he instituted an investigation, and found enough arsenic in the deceased to kill a dozen men. He afterward met with five or six similar cases. Dr. Bartholow, in a conversation with the ; editor of the Reporter, said that he had not the least doubt of the correctness of 'Dr. Janney's assertion. Another promi. J cent'physician stated'his belief in these ricv-s. 1 An exchange remarks that there is a ' disposition on the part of some of our con- j temporaries to get up a scare about trichina?, and have probably succeeded in alarming any of their readers foolish enough to regard this sensationalism as enterprise. Nevertheless, the people continue to eat pork, and very few of them die of trichiniasis. It will be noticed that in all reports of such cases the names of the victims show them to have been German. The fact seems to be that trichina; cannot survive great heat. If pork is thoroughly cooked,as it always should be, Jt may be eaten without fear of contracting trichiniasis. It will be remembered that a novel feature of the New Orleans exposition was the exhibits which the colored people as a race were invited to offer for the purpose of showing their progress in industries, --1 --i- T>1, ? euucauon, an, uiu. iuu proved only fairly succcssful in the display then made, but it has borne valuable fruit in arousing interest in similar undertakings. As proof of this the New Orleans Times-Democrat says: "Excited by the exposition, Mississippi held a colored fair a few months ago, which was a thorough success; Tennessee has jus^ opened another at Nashville; South Carolina will soon follow suit, and it seems highly probable that every Southern State will, sooner or later, have its colored exposition." "\Vc agree with our Southern contemporary, says the New York Ilerald, that these are encouraging signs which betoken substantial benefits to the colored people Jand useful results to the community at large. It is curious to look over the educational records as given by the Congressmen, says the Washington correspondent of the Cleveland Leader. Bragg says he ti-oc ft lnwvnr* fimnlls. of South Carolina, was self-educated, and IIouIt, of Tennessee, educated himself while working at the cabinet makers' trade,and by reading by firelight at night. Judge Kelley got his education as a printer and proof-reader, and General Grosvcnor was trained in a country log school-house. Pulitzer, the New York editor, had a private tutor: Hepburn, of Iowa, was educated in the common schools and the printing office; Gates was self-educated, and Taulbee and Boutellc had private schools. One hundred and sixty four of the members of the present House have had collegiate or academic educations, and eighty put themselves down as having been trained at the common schools. The majority of collegiate-bred men come from small country colleges, academics and seminaries, and many of them states that they have grad" uatcd at some noted law school, such as Harvard, Ann Arbor or New York. Harvard has seven college graduates, Princeton, four; the University of Virginia, four; Bowdoin, two; Dartmouth, four; Union, three; Yale, two; Amherst, two; Brown, two: Ann Arbor, five; Jefferson, " 1-1-*- i- -~,1 iv.'O; r runKiiu, nvy, unu uumiiuiu umvi colleges one. "It is a fact well known to the medical profession,''said a prominent physician the other day. "that much less harm is done in New York by those diseases most feared by the public and the health board than by diseases which cause little alarm in the community. The so-called plagues are not likely to cause much havocin this latitude, particularly in a city where the sanitary regulations arc good. No scourge is so much feared as Asiatic cholera, yet the deaths from that disease in this city during the year of the greatest epidemic were less in number than the deaths from consumption last year. Yellow fever has killed fewer people in New York in this century than whooping cough has destroyed in a single year. Smallpox, which is causing so much J alarm at present, kills fewer persons here ' than does either measles, croup, or J whooping cough. The deaths from typus fever in this town has been for | Ill till Y Y taiv") 11UUUI UUO VA-IV/OV* from typhoid fever. These statements may be surprising to many residents of the city, but they can be easily substantia- ' ted by an examination of the death records, which arc about the only reliable ; records to be found in the health department. It would be well for the city, in my estimation, if the sanitary officers would spend more time in investigating those diseases which cause the greatest mortality. It would be well, also, if some of the newspapers would call attention to the facts instead of causing useless excitement in the public mind about improbable epidemics of cholera, yellow fever, or smallpox." ' >Vhy People lVere Buried. When men began to bury their dead they did so in the firm belief in another life, which lifc was regarded as the exact counterpart of this present one. The unsophisticated savage, holding that in that equal sky his faithful dog would bear him company, naturally enough had the dog in question killed and buried with him, in order that it mielit follow him to the happy hunting ground. Clearly, you can't hunt without your arrows and your tomahawk; so the flint weapons and the trusty bow accompanied their owner in his new resting place. The wooden haft, the deer sinew bowstring, the perishable articles of food and drink 1 s\rw i* M/./i rliiO'll'lxl ll'itllin t ll/? (l'ltim lia?V KMIi, -H.VV. UVV.M.V. tumulus: but the harder stone and earl hen ware articles have survived till now. to tell the story of that crude and simple early faith. Very crude and illogical. indeed, it was, however, for it is quite clear that the actual body of the dead man was thought of as persisting to live a sort of underground life within the barrow. A stone hut was constructed for its use; real weapons and implements were left by its side, and slaves and i wives were ruthlessly massacred, as still in Ashantee. in order that their bodies might accompany the corpse of the buried master in his subterranean dwelling. In all this we have clear evidence of a very inconsistent savage, materialistic belief, not indeed in the immortality of the soul", but in the continued underground life of the dead body.? VornhiU. SNOW AND WIND. A Blizzard and Cyclone Sweep Across Land and Water. Lives Lost, Vessels Wrecked and Property Damaged. The storm ot wind and snow wliich swept across the country a few days since will long be memorable in the annals of similar visita. tions. "While the damage done inland was heavy in many places, the disasters to shipping along the Atlantic coast wore particularly severe. From Maine to Carolina the coasts are strewn with the debris of shattered shipping. Lives?no one can tell how many?have been lost, stanch vessels have been cast ashore and destroyed in numbers almost unparalleled. Even the shelter of land locked havens has not served to avert disaster. Many craft met mishaps in New York harbor and the usually peaceful waters of Staten Island and Long Island sound were the scenes of serious marine disasters. From dispatches sent from prominent points of the country we gather the following details: "Washington. D. C.: Signal service officials here say the snow storm reported from various points during the past few days is the most extensive and severe that has occurred for ten years. Very cold weather and storms have prevailed not only in the West, North, Northeast and Northwest, but in the South the weather is uuprecedentedly severe. At Montgomery, Ala., it was only 8 degrees above zero, and all through Tennessee it was below zero. Freezing weather prevailed all through the Banana belt, and as far south as Tampa, Fla. The coldest weather reported is from Minnedoza, Manitoba, where the thermometer registered 50 degrees below zero. Pittsburg, Penn.: Reports from the surrounding towns are to the effect that the storm was the most severe in years. There is two feet of snow at Youngstown, Ohio, and travel was nearly stopped. All the collieries in the Mount Carmel region, which resumed work but recently, were compelled again to suspend by the heavy snow storm Iiiftli ctriif.k tlio mininrr Hist.ricts The SHOW is about two feet deep. The snow at Whitehaven is fourteen inches deep, and coal trains on the Lehigh Valley and Lehigh and Susquehanna roads were abandoned, Galveston, Texas: This is the coldest weather experienced in Texas in forty years. At Palestine the temperature touched zero, at Austin eight degrees above and at Galveston eleven degrees above. The oldest inhabitants say they never experienced such a blizzard. Thomas Jefferson, an oysterman, was frozen to death on the deck of his sloop. Mech damage has been done to cattle in the State. New Orleans, La.: The signal service office reports the mercury nineteen and a half above zero, being the lowest temperature recorded since the signal office was established here in 1872. Richmond, Va.: A heavy snow storm delayed trains and partly blockaded the roads. Fourteen inches fell in North Mountain, and six inches in Staunton. In Lynchburg the thermometer was fifteen degrees above and still falling. There was a snowfall there of five inches. Jacksonville, Fla.: The cold has been intense throughout Florida, the lowest point the thermometer reached here being 21 deS:ees above zero at the signal bureau. At cala, South Lake, Weir, Waldo and other places it was 17 degrees above. This is the nnlrlpsf. weather that has been felt here since the great freeze of Feb. I), l&ft, when all the orange trees throughout the State were killed. The oranges on the trees are frozen hard. Interviews with prominent orauge growers in various sections of the State reveal the fact that they think the trees are killed. Many others seem to think differently, but admit that the crop will be badly set back. Chicago, 111. The storm thoroughout the West has been extremely severe, and the weather the coldest ever experienced in many localities. In Nebraska no trains have run i'or threo days, business has been practically suspended, and at Omaha the mercury went down to 23 below zero. The snow is but from three to five inches deep on the eastern Montana ranges, and live stock generally is in good condition. At St. Vincent, Minn., the thermometer was forty-eight degrees below zero. On the Northern Pacific road a regular blizzard has been in progress. On the Omaha road the reports are that the snow is being blown so violently on the Nebraska division that orders have been issued to abandon the running of all trains until the wind ceases. In Inwa the blizzard raged all day and all trains were practically abandoned. A large number of members of the Legislature were blockaded and unable to reach Des Moines. St. Louis, Mo.: The thermometer dropped | to five degrees Deiow zero; wnn wma at thirty miles an hour; but little snow fell. Railroad travel has been obstructed in all directions. In Kansas the storm was the worst ever known. Boston, Mass.: Reports continue to come in from points alone the coast which show that the storm worked sad havoc among the shipping. The sixty-ton schooner Ranset, anchored off Hull, has disappeared. The crew went ashore. At Portsmouth, N. H., the schooner Josie, of Newburyport, went ashore in a bad position at Newcastle, and probably will be a total wreck. At Portland the three-masted schooner Gypjy Queen got adrift, and collided with the schooner Martha Lane, almost completel wrecking her. A fishing schooner went dow at the entrance to the harbor, the- crew escaping in boats. The fishing schooner Laughing Water drifted into the three- i masted schooner Emma and filled > and went down, the crew having been taken 1 off by the Emma. The three-masted schooner i Allen Greene, of Providence, from Boston to ; Baltimore, in ballast, was driven ashore in a thiok snow squall one mile west of the Point j Judith Life Saving station. The crew, seven | in all, were saved by the life-saving crew by | the use of the breeches buoy. Numerous i Dther wrecks were reported along the New i England and Long Island coast. Long Branch, N. J; The schooner Mary G. | Farr, of Philadelphia, caught fire at sea off | the New Jersey coast on Friday night, struck ! on a bar ten miles south of Long Branch in the height of the storm, and every soul on board was lost. The crew consisted of a captain, mate, cook and four seamen. The sloop Hurley, Captain Ansbro, and the sloop Snow Drift. Captain John Matthews, parted their cables and were completedly wrecked off Keyport, N. J. Many other sloops had ttieir rigging carrica away and were east ashore. New York, N. Y.: Dispatches received hero from the interior of the State and from Pennsylvania and New Jersey report that the storm was the fiercest felt in years and greatlv inlpeded travel and traffic. In this city the wind raged with unexampled fury, and snow fell heavily. Many reports of marine disasters in the surrounding waters were coived. . 100 SKATEBSjJOBMEBGED. A. Lake in Regent's Park, Ijondon, the Seene of an Accident. What might havo proved to havt* been a most serious accident,rivaling the disaster of 18ii7, occurred a few days ago in Regent's Park, London. The weather was delightful, though a thaw had set in, and the lakes in the parks were crowded with skaters who have had a "royal time" of it during the recent severe weather throughout Great Britain. As there was a prospect that the thaw would soon put an end to the sport, an unusual number of persons were enjoying ! t lionise! ws on the ice. Suddenly there was a series 01 louu. cracKing rej>ons, una uie | ire on one of the ponds gave way and ! at least 0110 hundred men, women and children wore submerged in the chilling water beneath. A cry of horror arose from the vast throng of people on the ice and in the neighborhood of the lakes, while those who were lucky enough to escape made a hasty scramblo i'or the shore. Tlie "life-savers" ami police, assisted by hundreds of volunteers, soon pulled the drenched pleasureseekers from amid the slabs of floating ice. Women and childreu naturally suf- ; feral the most from their involuntary j cold bath, but up to the present, thanks to tlie fact that tho water was not very deep, no ' serious results have been reported. Intonse j excitement provailed throughout London when the news of the accident was spread ! throughout the city, many recalling the fatal 15th of January, 18(57, when, in the same park, at least 200 people were suddenly submerged through the breaking of the ice, forty-one of whom were dro^nod. NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. Heavy freshete have done much damage in Maine and Northern Vermont. Total receipts to the Grant monument fund up to recent date were ?113,933.98. Governor Hill made an address at a banquet given in his honor at New York I by the Business Men's Democratic association of the metropolis. A great jam of ice and snow caused the Oswego river to overflow at Fulton, N. Y., and the rising waters flooded numerous manufactories and workingmen's homes. Some buildings were wrecked and many people thrown out of employment. The extensive mill buildings in Philadel phia, known as Arrott's mills anrl Heatty mills, occupied by a dozen firms engaged in the manufacture of hosiery, cotton and woolen yarns, have been destroyed by fire, entailing an estimated loss of $1,000,000. A railroad collision at Wilmington, DM., during the recent heavy snow storm, resulted in the instantaneous death of conductor Albert Jones, Brakeman Harry Ahrensand George W. Brinton, a telegraph operator, while three other train hands were fatally and four more seriously injured. Pittsburg has a new crematory in which natural gas is used for fuel. It is believed a corpse weighing 150 pounds will be wholly reduced to ashes in two hours. A great chess match for the world's championship and a purse of $4,000 is in progress at New York between W. H. Zuketort, of Europe, and W. Steinitz, of America, the best two players living. The steamship Hylton Castle, bound from New York for Rouen, France, with a cargo ' of grain, foundered off the Long Island coast j during the recent heavy storm. Mrs. Elizabeth Dubois (colored) died a few days since in Newburg, N. Y., at the advanced age of 110 years. She was once a slave in Ulster county, N. Y., and was emancipated in 1827. Fire totally destroyed a five-storv granite block in Boston, causing a loss of $100,000 in flour and canned goods. The New Jersey legislature is in session, both houses having a Republican majority. South and West. A big ice-palace is in course of erection at j St. Paul, Minn. A force of several hundred j men is at work. The foundation walls for I the central tower are to be five feet thick, j. - r 4... :maUaa. uiperixig iu iui i) luunca au wic iajja Fire has destroyed nearly all the business part of Cuba. Mo., burning down two blocks and causing aggregate losses of $50,(XX). Fifteen anti-Chinese agitators have been arraigned for trial at Seattle, "Washington Territory. Dispatches from many Western points report the thermometer as ranging from four to thirty degrees below to. Dr. Martin* White, of Battle Creek, Mich., during a fit of temporary insanity | killed his w4t'e and two children?girls 4 and ; 12 years old respectively?and then put an j end to his own existence. Hon. Benjamin Scott, mayor of Zanesville, Ohio, while attemntiug to save property from a burning building was struck by a ! heavy timber and killed. Five railroad lal>orers were drowned by ' the upsett ing of a small boat at Memphis j Tenn. Rev. Mr. Jaudine. of Kansas City. Mo., j who had been laboring under grave accusa- ; tions, committed suicide in St. Louis. A collision' beween two sections of a j railroad train near Wilhite's Station, Ala., i caused a bridge on which tho accident oc- j cnrred to collapse, and twenty-two cars were ! thrown into Flint river. The engineer ajid fireman (brothers) and a brakeniau were killed and two other railroad employes seriously injured. Conductor L. O. Harris swam across the freezing river to fiag a coming passenger train. The schooner Crissie "Wright, from Philadelphia bound for Savannah, was wrecked off | the North Carolina coast, and only one man i out of the crew of seven was saved, the rest being drowned or frozen to death. The steamer Alicia A. Wishburn. from Mobile for New York with cotton, has been burned at sea, the captain and crew escaping j in boats. Governor Foraker's inauguration as gov- j ernor of Ohio, at Columbus, comprised a civic procession to the State house and the deliverance of the inaugural in the rotunda of the capitol. Skati.vu has been indulged in upon the ponds of Florida, a scene never before witnessed. The loss to the State's orange crop during the recent freezing weather is estimated at $1,000,000. The loss to the vegetable crop is immense, some men having sixty and a hundred acres killed. The Republican majority in the Ohio lower legislature unseated nine Democrats from Cincinnati on the charge of fraud in their election, and substituted nine Republicans. The house was iu a continual uproar during the proceedings. A loss of $i)0,000 was incurred by th? i burning down of Frederick C. Vehmeyer's | flour warehouse, Chicago. Foiir firemen | were injured. A fire at Burlington, Iowa, destroyed tlie ; residence of Charles Buettner, a German nat- : uralist,who had the finest collection of birds, insects and animals west of New York anil the Smithsonian Institute. The collection burned included 00,(XX) insects. Washington. Mr. Fairchild, as acting secretary of the . treasury, has appointed Special Agents Mont-, gomery and Tingle a committee to act in conjunction with Deputy Collector Berry in i making a thorough examination of the cus; toms service at New York city. They are instructed to ascertain and report the number and connx*nsation of employes and the methods of doing business, and to suggest such | changes as will result in a reduction of ex- | I>enses and in a simplification of the business i methods. About 4,000 bills have already been intro- I duced in the House. I.v executive session of the Senate, Messrs. Eaton, Edgerton and Trenholm were confirmed as civil service commissioners, the latter two without opnosition, twelve Senators voting against Mr. Eaton. The Senate also j confirmed the nomination ot Benj. P. Jonas . l./t V/iTi- f'h'lnnnc (aj vvutxivi iJL LUowim av .lm The Senate on the 12th confirmed a large number of presidential postmasters and tie following: George A. J rules, assistant secretary of interior; llenry L. Muldrow, first assistant secretary of interior; Win. E. McLean, first deputy commissioner of pensions; Jos. Bartlett, second deputy commissioner of pensions; Robert B. Vance, assistant commissioner of patents; James W. Wlielpley, of New York, assistant treasurer of the United States; Win. E. Smith, of New York, assistant secretary of treasury; Conrad N. Jordan, of New Jersey, treasurer of the United States, and others. The ex]>enses of the funeral of General Grant, which were assumed by the govern- j merit, have not yet been paid. They amount only to $14, l"?s.7r?, although newspaper re- ! ports have fremiently estimated them as high as $f>0,U00. Tuo money was advanced by Stephen Merritt, a New York undertaker who had charge of the obsequies. Land. Commissioner Sparks refuses to recognize the claim of the Northern Pacific railroad to a $'io,000,(KX) land grant between Portland, Ore., and Puget sound. Foreign. Nihilists broke into the postofflce at Rostoff, Russia, and carried off 18,000 roubles. Owing to cold weather and a long-continued trade depression intense suffering prevh ils among the poorer classes in Glasgow and other Scottish towns. The situation in Burmah is said to be critical for the English. Two pretender to the deposed King Theebaw's throne are collecting formidable armies. The American exhibition, which was to have been oj?ened in London next May, has been postponed until 1S87. Advices from Aspinwall say that twentyone vessels were wrecked and sixty-live lives lust during the recent storm there. The he is an outcry against cats in Loudon, a boy having died from rabies caused by a tabby's bite. Germnuv has seized the Samoau islands iu - - * i : A : the Pacific ocean. The American ;ui". nruiMi consuls prole.,ted against the seizure. A nOA!:nf\o-ir<?i:sE at Grnvenlmrst, Canada, caught tiro < In ring the night, anil seventeen men lr d a narrow escape from death, all l?eing moi <>r ins* burned*and emnpelled "to flee iu a.v.:ii-nu<lf state, with the thermometer twenty degree-; below zero. i cm i rams. Amatitlan, in Central America, Visited by an Earthquake. More than One Hundred Successive Shocks During the Day, A Panama dispatch says that at 2 o'clock on the moraine of the 18th ult.. the inhabi" tants of the quiet little Spanish city of Amatitlan, twenty-four miles south by rail from Guatemala City, about five thousand souls iu all, were awakened by slight but frequent shocks of earthquake which continued all day until 5:22 p. sr.. when a very heavy shock was felt which so alarmed the people that they began to think of leaving their houses. At 5::jf> p. m. the heaviest shock came, throwing down many walls and houses already fissured by the earlier shocks. People were thrown down. The air was filled with dust from the fallen adobe houses. Shock followed upon shock. The frightened people rushed to the large plaza or square m front of the church of San Juan, and dragged the image of their guardian saint, "La Virgen del Rosario,'' outside the trembling walls of the church and erected a temporary shrine in the middle of the square, before which all prostrated themselves. No one thought of sleeping iu what remained of the houses that night, but resort was had to the square or open places where houses had been thrown down. One hundred and thirty-one shocks were felt the first day. principally from east to west, eighty-one of which occurred between 4 and ") ::;ii p. m. Had the severe shock occurred at ni^ht many persons would have been killed. v-Pj. - ..... . ?ll 4.1._ _1_..4. J 4.U.. mil/ as lb was, uu vi ci c un t,utj uien. ami me only casualty was a broken leg. The second day was nearly as bad as the first, and the shocks continued for some days sul>sequently. Amatitlan has been the scene of many disasters. It was destroyed by earthquakes iu 1830, which lasted from April 21 to Alay.'j. In 184(1 it was overflowed by the rising of the waters of the lake, and again in October. 1852, when the water gushed up iu the middle of the streets, and on the 24th of the month when, after eight days' duration, the waters subsided, " dead lish were found everywhere. the wat^r became unfit to drink and mail}* persons died of fevers. Then again it was destroyed by earthquakes in 18<?2. Lake Amatitlan is supposed by many to be the crater of an extinct volcano. An adjacent volcano, until recently quiet, seems to be seeking a new outlet through a hill called the Durazno, | lying back of the inactive volcano of Pecayo. j The volcanoes of Fuego. in Guatemala, and (xzalca. in Salvador, not faraway, which have long served as the safety valves of these restless regions, seem to have become stopped ! up lately, thereby causing much alarm to the people of Salvador, who say that there was a precisely similar occurrence before their last great earthquake, in 187:1. A Guayaquil dispatch says that volcanic disturbances have occurred in the last few days. There have l>een at different places showers of earth and ashes, accompanied by vnuiUHiKPc Tli/i I v i v/ilcjiim supposed to be in eruption. The real state j of tue innunl a in is unknown, owing to the \ interruption of the government telegraphs, j Slight shocks of earthquake have also been | felt. later mm: A cave-in" which occurred a few days ago at a mine near Red Lyon, Penn., buried a number of miners. Three dead bodies were recovered soon after the accident. The four Newark (N. J.) dog-bitten children who were sent to Paris at public expense for treatment by M. Pasteur, the hydrophobia expert, have returned home in apparent good health. Colonel Edmu.vd Richardson*, the most extensive cotton planter in the world, died suddenly a few days since in Jackson. Miss., aged sixty-eight years. The fortune left by him is estimated at between $5,000,000 and $0,000,000. C'olouel Richardson had 17,000 j acres of cotton under cultivation, and his flwrAw hnrvpst. wns 12.000 or 13.000 bales. Cattle perished by the thousand during the severe weather iu the Southwest and far West. Wen*zel Lapour. a-prisoner in the coun^ ty jail at Colfax, Neb., killed hLs jailer, sheriff Degman, who had held office only five i days. Lapour was takeu from jail by masked men and hanged. A boiler in the basement of a Catholic church at Indianajiolis exploded, destroying the edifice, one of the largest and finest iu the city, killing the engiueer and a little girl, and causing a pecuniary loss of $115,000. John* Sherman* has been re-elected to tLe United States Senate in joint session of the Ohio legislature, receiving eighty-four votes j to sixty-two for Allen G. Thurman. Fifteen* vessels were wrecked within the I scope of the operations of the Life-Saving service during the recent heavy storms. The crews of fourteen of them were rescued,while that of only one was lost. Farmers in "Wales are demanding a permanent reduction of twenty-five per cent, in rents, fixity or tenure and compensation for making improvements on their holdings. Severe snow-storuis have prevailed throughout Austria and Hungary, causing a suspension of railway travel and telegraphic communication. Much damage to projjerty has been done ! in England by a cyclone. Two persons were killed -at Weduesbury. Montreal has just had a half-million dollar fire, the property destroyed comprising sevoral houses occupied by numerous business firms. The Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooner Mabel Dillaway has been given up for lost. There were fifteen souls on board. A letter has been published charging members of the last Ohio legislature with taking bribes to vote for the election of Henry B. Payne to the United States Senate, and a joiut committee of investigation has been appointed by the present legislature. Several members so charged have brought suit for libel against a prominent Cincinnati paper. An* old farmer in Arkansas captured six convicts who had broken jail, and siuglei -i~.i *| fil? u.;H, IltlUUl'll lilttl I'IR'U lunil 111 luumu >11-., ...... himself and gnu bringing up the rear, to prison. Investigations made by the Chicago police are said to show a plot of Socialists to blow up public buildings with dynamite when "the great revolution" begins. A reception |\vas given to Senator-elect Sherman by the Ohio legislature at Columbus and he made an address from the Speaker's chair in theHou.se, after which lie was tendered a public reception, presided over by I Governor Fornker. in the Senate chamber. President Cleveland, on the 14th, gave | his first State dinner in honor of the cabinet. | Secretary Lamar lias decided agaiu>fc j the validity of the Bell telephone patent; of i March 7, lSTti. The case has excited great attention among telephoue companies. President Grevy has signed a decree granting amnesty to persons convicted of political offences since 1*70 and reducing tho Senteuces of many offenders against the common law. The German government states officially : that it has no intention of annexing tho Sa- | moan islands or of interfering with existing ; ; treaties between Samoa and America and j : England. j The Emperor William has formally opened the Prussian diet. Many Irish laborers have been thrown into a state of desperation by distress resulting "from long-continued privation, and threaten to help t hem-elves to food if they do not soon obtain assistant^',. SUMMARY _0F_ CONGRESS. Senate Sessions. Fourteenth Day.?Senator Wilson, of Iowa, reported favorably from the committee on postoffice and post roads, the bill introduced by him to prohibit the mailing of newspapers and other publications containing lottery advertisements Mr Eustis offered a resolution that the $U),000,()00 of bonds called in by the secretary of the treasury ? and payable on February 1, shall be paid in sdver dollars instead of gold coin, "such payment being in strict compliance with existing law and in aid of the financial policy established by legislation of Congress.'' Referred to the committee on finance... .The Edmunds bill for the suppression of polygamy was passed by thirty-eight yeas to seven nays. Fiftf.tcvth T)av?4 nunilipr nf rw?f,it:ir>n<i were presented, praying for the suspension of silver coinage....Mr. Harrison reported favorably an original bill to admit Dakota, and for the organization of the Territory of Lincoln. Mr. Butler reserved his right to submit a minority report, if. after perusal and consideration of the majority report, he should conclude to do so Mr. Morgan offered a resolution relating to the trustees provided for by the Utah bill to manage the property and affairs of the Mormon Church organization. The resolution sets forth that in the opinion of the Senate, it is not within the power of Congress to appoint officers of the United States to participate with the officers of any church or religious sect in the management of the affairs of such church or sect; and that it is a violation of the Constitution for the President to appoint any such officer under any law ? Mr. Manderson spoke on his bill to increase the efficiency of the infantry branch of the army Mr. Pugh spoke in favor of Mr. Beck's resolution 011 the silver question, after which the Senate went into executive session. Sixteenth Day.?Mr. Beck submitted for reference to the committee 011 linauce a substitute for Mr. Eustis' recent resolution, which, after a preamble similar to the preamble of Mr. Beck's former silver resolution, provides that the secretary of the treasury be directed, in all payments hereafter made of interest on the bonds and notes of the United States and in the purchase or payment of one per cent, of the entire debt of the United States for the sinking fund as now required by law, to pay out gold and silver coiu as nearly as possible in the same proportion in which gold coin anil certificates and silver coin anrl certificates were received during the preceding fiscal year for duties on imported goods....Mr. Pugli continued his remarks iu l'avor of Mr. Beck's silver resolution. and was followed in a similar strain by Mr. Vance Iu executive session about 100 nominations were confirmed. Seventeenth Day.?Senator Hawley presided over the Senate to-day iu the abseuce of Senator Sherman. He laid before the Senate a memorial of the "Colored North Americans," asking the establishment of national industrial schools in the States and Territories, "so as to give the colored youth a common-school education and a trade.'' It also asks for an appropriation for the establishment of the Garfield colony in Lower California Mr. Ingalls offered a resolution, which was laid over, that "the compulsory coinage of silver dollars directed by the law of February 28, 1878, should not be suspended till the aggregate reaches the sum of $500,000,000" Mr. Bowen offered a resolution which, at his request, was laid over for the present, directing tne committee on Indian affairs to inquire into the expediency of removing all the Indians in the United States to the Indian Territory west of tHe'State of Arkansas.... Mr. Coke called up Mr. Beck's silver resolution, and made an address against the suspension 1 of silver coinage A resolution offered by Mr. Edmunds was agreed to, authorizing the secretary of the Senate to pay the bilLs incurred iii the attendance of Senators at the funeral of the late Vice-President Hendricks ....In executive session a large number of nominations were confirmed. Eighteenth Day.?Mr. Sewell, from the committee on military affairs, reported favorably the bill introduced bv him earlv in the present session relating to the annual appropriation to provide arms and equipments for the militia. The bill provides that the $600,00<) annually appropriated shall be expended for ordnance anil ordnance stores, quartermaster's stores and camp eauipage, that no State shall be entitled to tne oeueflts of the appropriation unless the number of regularly enlisted men shall be at least one hundred men for each Senator and Representative to which such date is entitled in Congress... .Mr. Piatt presented a petition in the Senate from commercial travelers praying for legislation to relieve them of burdensome taxation....Messrs. Brown and Maxey made speeches in favor of the continuation of silver coiuago. House Sessions Fifteenth Day.?A large number of additional bills (*?50 in all) were introduced, among them being the following: By Mr. Oatcs, of Alabama?To prohibit aliens from acquiring title to or owning lands within the United States. By Mr. Townshend, of Illinois?Providing for the issue by the treasury of silver certificates iu denominations of one, two and five dollars each. This is an amendment of the silver act of 1H78, under which the ten-dollar certificates are now issued. Its object is to supply the need for additional small bills as a part of the circulating ni.\sliutn llv- \fv Pnvain Tllinnis?Tr> rp strict the ownership of real estate ill the Territories to American citizens. By Mr. "Weaver, of Iowa?To retire national bank notes and to prevent the fluctuation of the currency by the substitution therefor of treasury notes. Also. to provide for the issue of fractional paper currency. By Mr. Warner, of Ohio?For the issue of treasury certificates on deposited silver bullion. Also, directing the payment of tho surplus in the treasury in excess of $50,000,000 on the public debt. Sixteenth Day.?Mr. Reagan took the floor with a long sj>eech upon the financial question, advocating the double standard of value, condemning the national banking system, and arguing in favor of applyinga portion of the surplus in the treasury to gradual payment of the public debt. He combated the proposition to suspend the coinage of the silver dollar, maintaining that such a course would have the effect of making a few more millionaires and of adding largely to the army of tramps and paupers. Mr. Bland said that he had no doubt that the committee on coinage, weights and measures would report some measure on the silver question at an early day, and, if necessary, give weeks for discussion. He therefore "moved that the committee rise in order that the debate might be postponed until it came up in regular order. The motion was carried by a party vote of 7'J to Ti. The presidential succession bill was reDortpd favnmhlv ^ seventeenth Day.?Mr. Curtin declined the chairmanship of the committee on banking and currency, saying that he had intended stating his reasons to the House fot declining the honor, but that'upon the advice of friends and of the sentiment of the public journals of the country he concluded to olfer no reasons of his own. He was excused from acting, and the chairmanship then devolved upon Mr. Miller, of Texas....Mr. Hill, on behalf of the committees on Territories,called up and the House passed the Senate bill to legalize the election of a territorial legislative assembly of Wyoming. , Eighteenth Day.?Mr. Caldwell called up the Hoar Presidential Succession bill, saying that this measure was a temporary bridge thrown across a chasm to meet a public demand, and would !>e followed in due time by an enduring structure over which a long lino of Republican-Democratic Presidents might march in unbroken succession. Mr. McKinlev, of Ohio, gave notice of a substitute which he would offer for the bill. This sutatitute preserves the law of 1702, with the addition of a provision that for the purpose of having a speaker of the House of Representatives continually in office. Congress shall convene on the 4th of March next succeeding the election of Representatives to Congress, and whenever a vacancy exist*, either in the office of president pro temj?ore of the Senate or Speakerof the House, the President shall convene the House in which the vacancy exists, for the purpose of electing a presiding officer. Mr. C'oates, of North Carolina, favored the bill, while Mr. Adaim, of Illinois, regarded i t as dangerous. i-mrr,-(T7 r<T n i 1NJ&WSI trLLA:\L\lu>, Sixty vessels, worth $1,016,200, wore lost on tho lakes last year. There arc more colleges in Ohio than in France and Germany combined. Holland sent to this country during the past year $250,000 worth of flowering bulbs. Twenty-six Senators keep house in Washington; the others live in hotels and boarding houses. The agent of the Passamaquoddy Indian9 of Maine reports their number at 581, all farmers. I FROM TO MM." Schooners Wrecked at Nantucket and Near Beaufort, N. C. Fifteen Persons on Board the Vessels Lose Their Lives. The three-masted schooner J. B. Witherspoon, of Rockland, Me., Captain Anderson, from Surinam for Boston, with molasses and sugar, struck Miacomet Rip, on the south side of Nantucket island at 5 o'clock the other morning. It was blowing a fearful gale and the tremendous sea made a complete breach over the vessel. The life-saving crew on the south side of the island started for the scene with boats and apparatus. The sea was too high to launch the life-boat and the howitzer was loaded. When a ball and line was shot successfully over the vessel, the line was grasped by two of the crew, who tried to pull it aboard, a hawser with a running block and breeches-seat being attached. Before it reached the vessel the line parted and the hawser was hauled ashore. When the hawser parted it broke on board the vessel and one of the crew was drawn overboard by the weight of the hawser. The poor follow made vigorous attempts to save his life by swimming, but perished in a very few minutes, in sight of the large crowd on the shore... A second line was shot over the vessel but it parted as before. Aliforaft manned by five of the life-saving crew was then launched, but the raging sea flung it back like a feather, wittx a arencnea crew, une 01 tne merer was swept from the raft by one sea, and swept back by another, his comrades clutching him and saving him from death. A third ball was now .shot over the vessel, the line breaking as before. The day was fast drawing to a close. While this was going on two of the men in the rigging were seen to fall overboard, one of thew proving to be the captain, his body coming ashore later. In the evening another attempt was made with the howitzer, this time it being a success, for tho hawser was pulled aboard and secured. Soon afterward the mate, B. Berry, and Charles Wulff were landed. The mate's wife and live-year-old sou were drowned in the cabin. T'he second mate, Maurice Ryder, John Phillips, the cook, James Nichols and John MattLs were also drowned. Their bodies were picked up along the shore. The vessel and cargo will be a total loss. A few nights ago the schooner Crissie Wright, Thomas P. Clark, master, of Philadelphia, Penn., stranded near Shacklef<?d'? Point, N. G. The cargo and vessel are a total ' loss. Six men perished, only one sailor being saved. Tho bodies of the captain, mate ana one sailor were recovered frozen. The rescued sailor said: "Tho vessel experienced heavy weather in tho Gulf and sprung ? leak. We manned the pumps for thirty six hours, but it was impossible to free her. We steered uorth ami tho vessel sank immediately upon touching t lie beach, Friday night alxjut 12 o'clock. The men stayed in the rigging until Saturday, the wind blowing at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The thermometer registered from fifteen to twenty degrees below zero. Ice formed three inches thick on the salt water. Two men fell overlxjard when the vessel I struck. On Sunday the mixzenmast fell, carI ??? wifk I b TVia AfUftfO fAAV f/> rymg UUU uiau ?IUI I v. x uu uuucid uwn. w the jibs. Saturday night the mate died. Sunday morning the captain succumbed. Sunday night, al>out 8 o'clock, a sailor died. Sunday morning, about 9 o'clock, I was rescued. I had tasted neither food nor water, aud had endured intense cold, tied up in the flying-jib from Saturday morniug until rescued. I was only one hundred yards from the beach, and could see spectators upon the shore powerless to aid, not haviug boats nor any appliances to breast the high waves." POLYGAMY DOOMffiD. The United States Senate Passes the Edmunds Utah Bill. In the United States Senate on the 8th the Edmunds bill for the suppression of Mormonism, having been brought to a vote, was passed by thirty-eight yeas to seven nayB,as follows: Yeas,Messrs. Allison, Beck, Berry, Chace Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt, Conger, Cullom Dawes, Dolph,Edmunds,Eustis, Evarts,Frye, George, Harris, Harrison, Hawlev,' Ingalls, Jackson, Logan, McMillan, Manderson, Maxey, Mitchell, of Pennsylvania; Morrill, Palmer, Payne, Piatt, Pueh, Sawyer, Sherman, Spooner, Van Wyck, Walthall, Wilson, of Iowa; and Wilson, of Maryland?38. Nays ?Blair, Call, Gibson, Hampton, Hoar, Morgan and Vance?7. 1 D0 Dill IS SUUSUllllltlliy LLLt- wiutl ao nuou reported from committee. The only change of consequence is the addition of a section declaring marriages incestuous that are contracted between persons within, and not including, the fourth degree of consanguinity. The main features are as follows: It makes the lawful husband or wife of the person accused of bigamy, a competent witness, who may be compelled to testify without the consent of the wife or husband, as the case may be. An attachment may be issued for a -witness without previous subpoena when there is reasonable ground to believe that a subpoena would not be effective. Every marriage shall be certified to in writing by the persons concerned, including the priest. Women are prohibited from voting in the Territory. All laws recog nizing illegitimate children are annulled The Territorial laws providing that prosecutions for adultery can be begun only on the complaint of the husband or wife, are annulled. The Territorial laws creating and continuing the Mormon church corporation are annulled j and the President is to appoint?by and with the advice of the Senate?fourteen trustees to manage the prop- < erty and business of the corporation; ana the attorney-general is ordered to institute proceedings to forfeit and escheat all property acquired by the corporation in contravention of the United States laws, the escheated property to be then sold and the process devoted to common school purposes in the Territory; but no building is to be forfeited that is used exclusivelv for worship. * . . All emigration companies or. organizations created by the Territorial government are abolished, and the attorney-general is to take steps to have the Emigrating Fund company wound up. The existing election districts of Utah are abolished and new ones that will give the people equal representation are to be marked out. Marriages between persons within, and not including, the fourth degree of consanguinity * are declared incestuous. Adultery is pturiahable by imprisonment in the penetentiary,not exceeding three years. The office of district school superintendent is declared vacant and the court is directed to fill the vacancy. CALLED BACK TO LIFE A Wife, Pronounced Dead by Doctors, Revived by Her Husband. A Chicago dispatch tells this astonishing I story: Five weeks ago the wife of Charles P. Pruin, a dentist of this city, gave birth to a J child. This was followed by an attack of puerperal mania. They were living at Oak Park. As his wife rapidly grew worse Mr. Pruin consulted a city physician, who, after seeing the patient, recommended the U3e of anesthetics. The city doctor did not continue to handle the case, but an Oak Park i physician was called in. He also adopted the | same treatment, administering strong doses j of morphine. The lady was found to be rapidly sinking till on Sundav night she fell back on the pillow lifeless, Her breathing had ceased and the pulse was gone. The attending physician distinctly pronounced her dead. The husband was frantic, and rushing to the bedside of his wife put his ear to her heart. He thought he could detect, a faint throb. The physician again assured him that life was extinct, but in order to satisfy Mr. Pruin he called in another doctor of the village. He. too, made an examination, ami confirmed the report of his brother physician that his patient was dead. Still the husband would not be con vinccd. He placed Ins liana upon nis wue s chest an<l tried to produce nil artificial respiration. having long made a special study of the use ot' anesthetics in connection with his profession. He proceeded to work the aim back and forth, pressing his haud on tbe chest, thus producing an artificial movement. The two doctors remoastrated with him for committing what they deemed a profanation of the dead. He continued his efforts, and after a few minutes the patient began slowly to revive. She is now able to move around. The doctors confess that she wouid have died but for these extraordinary efforts at restoration.