Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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% * *v' ' ; ' # ?' i The pay of third and fourth class postmasters of the United States ranges all ihe way from $1,000 to forty-nine cents per year. The last named is the exact amount paid a North Carolina postmaster last year. The amount of capital invested in potteries in this country is now $8,000,000, and the value of last year's product was about the same. The jjrowth of the industry has been materially increas?d by the manufacture of jars and pots for decoration by young women with the art craze. Speaking of the use of alcoholic preparations in the treatment of cholera and kindred diseases the British Medical Journal says: "The superstitious value attached to alcohol in the treatment of disease is fast disappearing from enlightened medical circles, and the use of alcoholics in the great London hospitals is largely diminishing, with good results." It illustrates the sentiment by referring to the experience of the *Lon don temperance hospital, where alcohol , has been given in only three out of three ( thousand in-patient cases, with an average annual mortality of five per cent, during twelve years. The Korwatrians in Minnesota have in- I o troduced their peculiar snow shoes there. The shoes are made of strips of hard wood, about ten feet long and six inches wide, slightly turned up in front. They are fastened to the foot at about the middle of the shoe. The wearer slides over > the snow, not trying to lift the shoes,and carries a pole with which to keep his balance. After the big snows of the past winter these shoes were almost the only means of locomotion in Dodge county. It was not unusual to see something like half a cord of shoes piled in front of a > store, within which their wearers were shopping. Every minute of the day seventy human i beings are brought into existence and : sixty-seven are removed, says a writer, i The population of the world is steadily 1 increasing at the rate of three per minute, i of 4,320 per day, more than 1,500,000 < per year. Just think of the yearly in- 1 crease of man being equal to the entire ] population of the State of Iowa. Where i do they all go? The home of the hiiamn j race, so far as we are able to learn, was 1 in Asia, and from there all the nations have come. The rapid increase of population in the United States shows the ] *? " - i - - - ii,._ J 1_ tendency 01 tne racc 10 scatter anu sees new fields. "The Rebels' Rest" is the name of a house that stands in the wilderness of Sao Paulo, the most southern of the Brazilian provinces, and within a few ' miles of the house are a score or so of plantations held by men once citizens of the United States. These colonists went thither at the collapse of the Confederacy. They now number about GOO persons, and they still keep up their American manners and commercial customs. The leader of the little band, Robert t Burton, who was a civil engineer, recently saw Bedford Mackcy, the United ? 1 ?j. t>:? r< a? 0..1 t3LUlC? UUJJMU ill/ i\iy uiiium; uu oui, timj. assured him of the prosperity of the planters, who, however, often wish they were iu North America a<*ain. J i "William Guyton was a brakemau on - ' the Evansville and Terre Ilaute railway. , * I There was a collision in which he was ^ badly injured, but remembering that a j passenger train was due soon, he managed ( to extricate himself from the wreck, ?-ud- , vianrrlnrl ami llli'frlmrr spizftfl ft red fliio- : """ (J""* a? o and staggered up the track. Twice be , fell from exhaustion, but pluckily got up j and went on and flagged the train oOO ] yards from the place of danger. Then ] he fainted away and remained uncon- ( scious for two days. "When he recovered he w -s a cripple for life. He sent the doctor s bill to the railroad company and , payment was refused. Then he sued for $10,000. and a jury has just awarded him OS3 flnmio-pq nffpr four vnnrs of liti -yw, o gation. Articles of incorporation has been i sued at Springfield, 111., to the Transcontinental Aerial Navigation company at Chicago to establish aerial transportation lines, the capital stock being $150,000 and the incorporators Dr. Arthur Dc Bausatt, Eugene Marquerat, and Jules Lang. Mr. De Bausatt has lived in Chi cago for several years, and lias made a study of aerial navigation for over twenty-two years. Ilis ideal is to build an air ship, the length of which will be 174 feet. Its width is to be twenty-four feet and its height twenty-two feet. It is cxpected to prove by the vacuum theory that it is possible to navigate the air by the laws of gravitation, by overcoming the pressure of the atmosphere without the use of hydrogen or any other g is. The doctor is in receipt of a very flattering letter from the Smithsonian institute concerning his invention. At the recent convention of the National Agricultural and Dairy association in New York, a paper was read by . S.Sato, of Japan, 011 ;,The Past and Present of the Agrarian System in Japan." Mr. Sato described the land tenure and agriculture under the old feudal sjystem aud said that lands were now held . r^biefly in fee-simple by peasant proprie!*-*:' tors. The average of farms in Japan was one acre, as against l:J4 acres in the United States. The method of farming was to work a small piece of ground carefully and always up to its fullest capacity. The law of diminishing returns had apparently not been carried out. The same plot had yielded the same crop of rice for many years. Lately stock had been introduced, but only a few of the wealthiest classes ate flesh to any extent. The farmers lived on the cereals and fruits. Of the 37,000,000 inhabitants ISyOOO.OOO were engaged in agriculture. . . . Since Bismarck is after the poor Poles with a sharp stick, it may be of interest to know that there are in all 12,684,000 Poles, of whom 7,000,000 live in Russia, 3,230,000 in Austria and 2,454,000 in Prussia. There are only four students this year in the school of agriculture and horticulture connected with Harvard college. The instructors are so numerous that there is one for every pupil, and a few left over even then. The instruction is given by lectures and recitations and by practical exercises in the greenhouses, fields and laboratories. Hall's Journal of Health calls attention to the fact that this is the season for pneumonia. Anything that lowers the vitality of the system is conducive to the disease, and should be carefully avoided. Overwork, either physical or mental, has much to do with it, and this explains why so many business meil and brain workers fall victims to it. Sudden changes of the weather and draughts of all kinds are to be guarded against. In a word, live temperately, dress warml}-, avoid all imprudences, and pneumonia will keep away from you. New methods of imposing upon the trade are continually being discovered. Facticious strength are given to some things by the addition of strong acid; low grades are being mixed with high grades, and imitations of popular narfies are very common. The late new dodge is in ^he coffee trade. Every buyer likes to have a glossy bean, but of course as the beans grow old a part of this glossiness disappears, and the purchaser can tell that what is shown him has been gathered for a long time. Modern ingenuity cannot thus be put at fault. The coffee beans of an old stock are placcd in a revolving cylinder with a few drops of cotton-seed oil, and the cylinder is then set in motion. The small quantity of oil thus introduced restores the coffee to its original appearance, and the manipulator can sell his consignment for a cent more a pound than he did the day before. The fraud can be detected by putting a number of the beans into a'coffee cup and filling it with water. In a few minutes there will be a film of oil on the surface. "It is undoubtedly the opinion of most people," says the New York Evening Post> "that our fathers and grandfathers were much more deliberate in their whole mode of life than their descendants? that they (began their education later, ;hat they ripened more slowly, that they eached a great age. But this current minion is a delusion. which is totallv at variance "with the facts. The truth is ;hat the average American of the eigh;eenth century or the first part of the ainetecntli century learned his alphabet jarlier, started upon his career younger, ind if he did not live faster, certainly lied sooner, than the average American )f to-day. Nothing strikes one more forcibly in reading the biographies of uen who lived anywhere from fifty to 150 years ago than the infantile age at which they were encouraged, if not required, to commence study. 'lie was able to read the Bible corrcctly and fluently at four1 is a not uncommon statement about the subject of such a work, Started thus early on the road of learning 11 _ i ..1 ~ 11 jj [ne Doy was never oiierwum auvweu 10 i lag. If his parents planned for him a course at Yale or Harvard, he scarcely needed to reach his teens to become a Freshman. It is simply impossible at this day to conceive of a President's raising a lawyer to the highest judicial tribunal in the land at thirty-two; yet William Johnson, of South Carolina, had only reached that age when appointed judge of the supreme court by Jefferson in 1804, and Joseph Story, of Massachusetts, when associated with Johnson by MTnrlisnn in 1811. Rut eneh of these men had been in public life a number of years when he received his promotion. Each was graduated?Johnson at Princeton and Story at Harvard?before completing his nineteenth year; cach was ad- i mitted to the bar by the time he -was old enough to vote, and cach was elected cnpnVpr nf fhn lponslntnrr> l>pfnrr? lip \vn?c twenty-six. WORDS OF WISDOM. The soul is not poisoned by mers errors of the head, bat by evils of the heart. If you would not cease to love mankind, you must not cease to do them good. To things which you bear wiHi impatience you should accustom yourself, and by habit you will bear them well. It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage in this world I think; folks have to wait long- enough before it's brought to 'em. Contemplate thy powers; contemplate thy wants and thy connexions; j-o shall 'i v i* i.i. - . r tie -.1 k.. inou discover me uuucs ui me, ;uu undirected in all thy ways. There are hours in life when the most trifling cross takes the form of a calamity. Our tempers arc like an opera glass, which makes the object small or great, according to the end you look through. The same objects seen from three different points of view?the past, the present and the future?often exhibit differr.nf fnnos tr? nc lilff? thnso si<rn lwmls over shop doors which represent the faec. of a lion as we approach, of a man when we are in front, and of an ass when we have passed. The every-day cares and duties, which men call drudgery, arc the weights and counterpoises ol'the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon the wheels the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still. From tests made bv Dr. Fischer, the German chemist, it appears that in ordinary stoves not more than twenty per cent, of the fuel consumed is utilized in wnflptfjPg'the rooms. . ?? fc. . v, WllJUtfS rffilM A Heated Discussion in the Lower House of Congress. Southern Members Attacked by an Iowa Espresentative, A rather exciting debate occurred in the House on the 25th during consideration of the pensions appropriation bill. A "Washington dispatch gives the following particulars: la committee of the whole the House considered the pension appropriation bill. Mi*.n Townshend (111.) who had charge of the bill, explained its provisions. It appropriated, he said, 875,154,200, or about $15,fITHI (KMI mni'fl t.hnn wns cirri^r? bv the law for the current year. TLi< increase was occasioned by the accelerated work that was being done in the pension office, and for this work the commissioner of ]>ensions and his employes deserved commendation, and by the larger number of cases that were now being disposed of. Mr. Henderson (Iowa) went into an analysis of the negative vote on the bill to increase the pensions of soldiers'widows. The total vote in the negative, he said was M5. The total Democratic nuys were M. The total Republican nays were none. Ti e total nays from the South were <)4. I he total nays from the North were 2. Mr. Tillman (S. C.)?Considering that the Confederate States pay about one-third of the taxes to the Federal government for pensions and do not get back three cents of it: considering also that from the foundation of the I p-nvprnmpnt tn t.Vip nrosent time a month was considered a sufficient pension for widows, can the gentleman complain that Southern members are trying to restrain the necessarily large expenditures for pensions within the rules that prevailed heretofore. Mr. Henderson?I never was more grateful for an interruption. I arraign no gentleman on this floor for his vote; but I say this in reply to the gentleman: There is no section i of this country that before God is under deeper and more profound obligations to pay every dollar of its share of that debt than the Southern States. Was it a day of pleasure for us when our flags were unfurled and we inarched southward? Was it something we prayed for and desired when we turned our backs on home and faced toward death? For one. I fought for the South as well as the North, and that my friends did not do. I laid my lifo at his feet as much as I did to keep a roof over my own head. And nnw that we can meet here to LlUllipilIlg It uiillul 1UUU iU'Uft) l-ut3 \S\J1X~ stitution is thrown in our face as a shield to cover an almost solid vote against the Increase of pensons bill, and yet there is hardly a Constitution of tue United States to be found in that section. I statd here and now, as my conviction, that if these gentlemen respected the Constitution, as they say, they would not have control of this chamber. If they represented the Constitution instead of ballot-box stuffing and shot - guns they would not have control of the executive of the nation. (Applause on the Republican side and groans on the Democratic side.) You may groan, gentlemen, but you yourselves do know, and you boast of it, too, that you will control this government in spite of the Constitution. And I tell you here and now in this chamber that there are as grave crimes committed under forms of law and the constitution as there were when Sumter was tired upon. And for one I protest against sectional control of this country with the Constitution aosomieiy neieateu. mese are niy senuments,aud I say that the gauntlet was thrown down in that vote. In closing, I desire to say that I sincerely trust that no gentleman, e>p?<rially those "who were in the ranks against me, misinterprets me, for I would rather spend an eternity in hell with a Confederate than eternity in heaven with a Northern Copperhead. (Laughter and applause.) Mr. Kaudall (Penn.) desired to leave the arena of politics for a moment t^ assume the ground of history and truth. He was unwilling that the sun should go down without his expressing his recollection on this question. He had much experience on the appropriation committee, and this was the first time he had ever seen partisan politics and sectionalism thrus': into a debate on the pension appropriation b'll. He should, perhaps, haVu remained silent notwithstanding, except, whether intende I or not, there might go abroad through the country the stat3ment -4-1. 4. nn/1 *-> > Awn L/UUt LUC pai , auu IIIUI c j/u.1 K?v ? larly the Soathern element of that party, had in any way shown any hostility whatever to the payment of pensions. On the contrary, his experience hail shown that the Southern element had developed a wonderful disposition to pension Unionsoldiers or the widows of Union soldiers. He placed his experience against the impression carried by the speech of the gentleman from Iowa that there was on the Democratic side any hostility to the payment of what was justly due to those who were disabled in the war for the Union. Mr. Morrison (111.) said that for all the years of war and for ten years thereafter the ~ ' * 1 ' *- 1 ItepuDiicans nau control iu wo gu?vim..cuu in all its branches. Skilled alike in statesmanship and the display of patriotism, the Republican party had made ample provision for the payment of pensions to soldiers. Since his experience he did not recollect the name of a Southern man who had ever failed to vote to the last dollar what that party had provided by law should be paid to the soldier. The discussion upon the oue^tion of widows' pensions here ended, and the committee soon after rose. The debate throughout the day was marke l by much interest and some excitement, tho:igh good nature was preserved at all times. The chairman had much difficulty in keeping the committee in order, but succeeded well in hLs hard task, though at I times the confusion was so great that the voices of the speakers were drowned in applause and laughter. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Among the 102,000 shareholders of the Pnnnmn rnnnI nre 111.000 women. "No Man's Lwd," just south of the far corner of Kansas, has been seized by settlers. Sawdust burned to th6 windward saved inauy Florida orange groves from the biting frost. Ie 1SS.) the enormous total of 71.500,(XX) tons of copper was mined in the United States. The Pillsbury flouring mills, at Minneapolis, divided ?>5,900 surplus profits among 1,100 employes lost year. About sixty patents are issued every year to women inventors. Last year the" total number of patents issued was 22,000. Alabama coa1 is working its way into the Gulf and trans-Mississippi States, Mexico and the South American republics. It is in contemplation to divide London into ten municipalities, eac h to enjoy home rule and an independent civio identity. Lulu Hitrst, the Georgia girl, who ma/.lo many thousand doilars by exhibiting her alleged electric powers, is now a student in Shorter female college. According to the latest official figures the number of workingwomen in England and Wales is 7,700,545. They are employed in 280 different branches of work. A French physician claims to have found a case of l*spi ntaneous hydrophobia" in a uatient twentv-nine years of aire, who had neither been bitten nor scratched by any animal. Moody and Kan key are drawing such immense crowds in New Orleans that the "Washington Artillery hall, where they have their meetings, will not begin to hold the throngs. In* Clark county, Kan., during the late storm, a flock of sheep crowded together during the blizzard, and the snow melting for a while anil then freezing, fastened the entire flock together. MMaNMIlMHnpHaMMaiMMMai NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. Mrs. Waldo, wife of Professor Leonard "Waldo, of Yale college, fled from her sick chamber while delirious, and threw herself from the top of a high rock, killing herself almost instantly. A train running between Nunda and Rochester, N. Y., ran off the track, and the forward coach tipped over and was burned. Eighteen persons were more or less seriously injured. Four, men and a boy were crossing the Susquehanna river near Harrisburg, Penn., when their boat capsized and the four men were drowned. Mayor Grace, of New York, lectured in Boston a few nights apjo before an immense au.lience on "Irishmen in America." David "Wilson, an ex-flrcman of Pittsburg, Penn.. discouraged through jjoverty and lack of employment, killed his wife and mortal ly wounded himself. Hundreds of unemployed miners and their families are suffering for the necessaries of life at Ebervale, Penn. TriE employers in the Pennsylvania coke region have finally acceeded to the demands of tho strikers. The strike resulted in fatal collisions and numerous arrests, and the Hungarian workmen refused to return to work unless those of their number in jail were released. "Workmen have been attempting to recover the bodies of the twenty-six miners entombed alive by a sudden cave-in of a mine at Nanti gether?tbe men wno stooa m semea columns against each other for four years?I think that thos? who cast that negative vote are under as profound a moral and legal obligation as we are to pa}' that debt. The time has come when sectional lines should be drop >ed, and when sixty-four members of that side of the house said that twelve dollarc was too much to pay a widow, the sectional line was kept up and the bloody shirt was waved. Mr. Oat3s (Ala.) inquired whether the Southern members should not have the discretion to vote as their consciences dictated. Were they slaves and not permitted to use their discretion { Mr. Henderson?No, not slaves. I want all members on the floor to stand as equals. 1 concede their constitutional right to vote as they please. But there is more than one way of observing the Constitution and of ?i:? - <- 1-.. T>? ,i?., 4-i,? coke, Fenu., some time ago. it Has Deen proved almost beyond doubt that the men were not overwhelmed by the cave-in and flood, but found their way to the higher workings in the mine, where they met a lingering and horrible death bv starvation. The late Jolm B. (Sough's estate is estimated at less than ?75,000. South and West. Three masked highwaymen presented their weapons at the railroad agent at Montvale, Texas, and compelled him to deliver up the contents of the safe?$800. The price of cotton at New Orleans on the 19th reached the lowest point in thirty-eight years. The Chinese consul-general at San Francisco has presented claims against the United States already amounting to over $500,000 for damages inflicted upon his countrymen during the recent anti-Chinese riots on the Pacific coast. Ci-.ab.exce J. Sears, of Homer. 111., over eighty years old, had a dispute with his wife nnnn r?7im'rms matters. and becominc en raged, killed her with a saw. Prosecutions and convictions of Mormons for polygamy continue in the Utah courts. A Chinese maudarin interested in a large importing firm at San Francisco was refused permission to landed and return, to China. The steamer City of Mexico arrived at Key West, Fla., the other day, in charge of Lieutenant Elliott, lrom the United States steamer Galena. There were thirty filibusters on board the sxeamer. It was the intention to land t.ho filibusters at St. Andrews, but the United States consul at Panama interfered, and the City of Mexico was captured by the Galena and taken to Key West. A vire at St. Paul, Minn., destroyed a large dry goods store, causing an estimated loss of $200,000. Washington. The House committee on postofficis and post roads has unauimously agreed to report adversely all bills bofore it for the purchase or construction of telegraph lines by the government. Chairman* Bland, of the House committee on coinage, weights and measures, has prepared a minority report, signed by himself and two other' members, on the bill to provide for the free coinage of silver, which was reported adversely by a majority vote of the committee. The report strongly favors the free coinage of silver. Forty-seven ladies, representing twenty, three States of the Union, appeared before the House judiciary committee on the 20th, and delivered addresses in behalf of woman's rights. * "o Foreign. Mexico wants to be at jieaee with the United States, and therefore will make every effort, to find out whether the recent killing of Captain Crawford, of the United States army, by Mexican soldiers, while in pursuit of the Apaches, was accidental or intentional, and if the latter will punish tho offendei-s. A meeting of socialists in Hyde Park, London, was attended by 50,000 people and 4,0.10 policemen, but there was no dis virbauee. Yokohama, Japan, has suffered from a large fire, tha Win Isor hotel and adjoining buildings succumbing to tho Hames. United States (.'on sul General Denny, who was stopping at Yokohama on his way to Corea. was fti.iicrnri innm fivnn a second storv win dotv? but- received no injuries. LATER NEWS. Governor Abbett has sent to the New Jersey legislature a special message concerning the recent decision of the supreme court declaring the railroai tax of 1S34 unconstitutional. He said that the State would not suffer even if the legislature did not pass a law at this session, and he considered it useless to lengthen the session on that account. He suggested a passage or a Dili autuoriziug the governor, comptroller and treasurer to dispose of so much of the State's securities as may be necessary for the maintenance of the government, by reason of any deficiency that may occur ou account of the adverse decision of the supreme court, and declared himself to be firmly opposed to any direct State tax. It is estimated that 10.1,00.) tons of ice are stored in the 1?> ice houses along the Hudson. The schooner Indianola, engaged iu the gulf trade, Captain Bio am and a crew of six men on board, has bean given in as lost. A convention' of coal mine operators and miners, at a meeting iu Columbu-i, Ohio, "agreed, up m a scale of wages to go into e.Tect May 1 in five States. A boar.l of arbitration ti? settle all disputes was also appointed. . George A. Wakdner, city bookkeeper of the National Exchange bank, Milwaukee, shot uud mortally wounded Abbott Law rencc, the assistant cashier. Wardner is beieved to bo insane. The Senate in executive session has confirmed, among others, the following nominations: W. J. Black, of D.-laware, to be consul, Nuremberg; D. J. Partello. of District of Columbia, to be consul, Weisseldorff; Jas per Smith, of the District of Columbia, to bo consul, Newcastle-up m-Tyne, W. H. Parker, of District of Columbia, to be consul general, Coroa: Stephen A. Walker, attorney, s:nitliern district of New York. The President has sent the following nom illations to the Kenat;: Henderson M. Jacoway to l>e receiver of public monies at I)nrdaelle, Ark. Postmasters: Ferdinand Vandenveor, at Hamilton, Ohio; Jason K.Wright, at .Marinette, Wis.; John H. Shaffer, at Kankakee. III.: Henry l\ Grant, at Helena, Ark. Somcitor (tHN'kraIj Goodk asserts that the charges understood to have been filed against him before tin; Senate Judiciary committee are utterly fats:*. Ho says he had no connection, uirei'My or inuirecuy, wmi uu.) election frauds in Virginia or elsewhere, and indignantly denies that ho lias ever k en guilty of bribery or othyr corrupt practices. Tfik Rev. Hugh Stowvll Broivn, the celeI brated Baptist preacher, lias died in Kngland, at the age of sixty-three years. His greatest success \ras as a lecturer, and every Sunday afternoon he collected audiences of J,00:) or .'!,000 artisans. Ho had lectured in this country and Canada. A young commercial traveler on his bridal ! . ' 1 i.!?t?Kiu ,,f lour I'UIU'JU HUinai 0.0 uiu ^uiiuuft Monte Carlo, and committed suicide. Great commercial depression exists at Stockholm, Sweden, and numerous failures are announced. Lillie and Susie Lilly, twin sisters, aged six years, were caught by their clothing in the machinery of their father's mill at Shamokin Hill. Penn., and mangled to death. . C T niT/;iti TV nf Vow Vnrlr lUKS. i.nuflAo uuvuuu..., , attempted to throw a can of vitriol at her husband, but iu the struggle the liquid was spattered over her own face, and she was frightfully burned, losing her eyesight. The two had been living apart. A statement prepared by the United *? -x a. onA wn r?o-\ States treasurer soows uim> uuu 01 standard silver dollars coined-up to February 20, 51,637,889 were in circulation on that date. Sfrgeon-General Hamilton, of the United States marine hospital, says that we will probably bo able to keep America from cholera this summer, as we did last. A TERRIBLE MUTINY, Two 3Ialays Murder Five Sailors and Capture a. Ship. Captain Robei-t K. Clarke, of the ship Frank N. Thayer, on which two Manila seamen mutinied on Jan 2, and after killing several of the crew sst fire to the vessel, arrived in New York a few days ago and told the story of the mutiny. Captain Clarke said that all went well on his ship until the night of January 2. The vessel was then in the southea-st trade winds, sailing along rapidly in a smooth tea. It was a beautiful starlight night, and before retiring Captain Clarke had a chat with Mr. Holmes, the mate, whom he informed that they would not have to put into St. Helena, which was then some 700 miles distant. Abont midnight Captain Clarke heard some one calling him. He thought that the mate had had some ordinary trouble with one or two of the seamen,and he arose slowly and, still in his night dress, started up the forward companionway. When near the top he felt a knife slash' across his foreheaa while a hand seized him by the throat. Then he observed his assailant, who he now saw was one of th.^ Manila seamen. He struck the man a blow in the face. Then they grappled and the man gave him a stab in the arm, as struggling together they slipped gradually down the companionway. The captain l'elt his assailant's knife penetrate his left side and then turn partly round. Then the captain slipped in his own blood, which covered the steps, aurl fell back headlong into the cabin. His assailant hurried on deck, evidently having given him up for dead. Captain Clarka rose and staggered into the after cabin. He immediately . locked the door opening into the forward cabin. Mrs. Clarke, who had hvard the struggle, was now on her feet. In the dim light of the cabin she saw her husfcaftd stagger in completely covered with blood. She ran to him and putting her arms around him led him to the sofa. Then she rushed to the berth, and hurriedly taking one of the sheets, tore this into bandages, with which she quickly dressed his wounds. The captain rose, and, "taking a revolver, went to the after compauiouway and called out to the man at the wheel to close the outside companionway door. The latter replied that some one was in the way, and that he dared not obey the order. The captain then locked the lower door of the companionway. A moment later he heard a man floundering down the steps of the after companionway. He opened the door and cov ered the man with his revolver. "Oh, hide me," cried a terrified voice. The captain feared treachery and I locked the door on the man. who proved to be a white seaman named Hendricksen. The latter was then heard to enter the bathroom, where he locked himself in. The exhausted captain soon heard one of the cabin windows smashed in, and looking up he saw t.he treacherous faces of the two Manila seamen glaring down wickedly at him. He fired two shots, and the coolies disappeared. Captain Clarke and his wife were not then aware that the two Manila sailors were the only mutineers. These two men, it seems,ape-oached Mate Holmes and Second Mate avis at midnight, when the latter were nlimit t.r? the wnfc'liGS. and stabbed the two olficers, killing them instantly. One of them then went and called to tin captain, and after he. as he imaginged, had dispatched the latter, rejoined his comra le 011 deck. The two mutineers then barricaded the forecastle door on the outside, after which they murdered Malouoy, the sailor at the wheel: "Carpenter Booth,and A. Serian, a coolie sailor, all of whom happened to be on deck. Ah Say, the Chinese cook, was the oulj" other man on deck. The two murderers pressed the Chinaman into their service, ami forced him to cook for them. One sailor had hidden himself aloft. Four of the seamen who were barricaded in the forecastle had been wounded by the murderers, whom they had at first attempted to resist. But neither they nor the six able bodied men who were locked up with them dared'to sally forth. The murderers remained in possession ol the vessel all day Sunday. In the meantime Captain Clarke, with* his devote i wife and his little child by hi< side, lay apparently at the point of death. On Monday morning the captain felt much stronger. He went tc the bathroom, where he foun.1 Henclriesen, who said that the coolies were tiie only mutineers. The captain then de Oldod to make a sally. He had two revolver.: ;ind a horse pistol. He took a revolver himself and gave the pistol to Hendriksen. Th^r lie handed the other revolver to his wife "T finw two shots in that."' ha said to her iland if I am killed you give one of them tt our child aud put the other in yourself." The two murderers, with Ions poles t< which they had lashed knives, stood on deed ready t:> harpoon any one who came up fron the cabin. The captain saw one of. the viI lains and fired, wounding him. The ft llov immediately ran forward. Captain C'larki then burst through the forward cabii door, and at the fame time the im prisoned moa in the forecastle broki through the barricade, and the man who hat been hiding aloft came on deck. The woundot murderer then gave a wild yell, and. running to the side, plunged overboard. The othe villain jumped dowu the veutllating hatch While the captain and several of th sailors were " approaching this hatcl smoke Iwgan to pour up from it. l 11 wretch had fired the hemp in the cargo. Ii a moment he appeared springing out of th smoke. Then he glared wildly nlxmt him and giving a fiendish yell, ran to the side an plunged overboard. All attempts to quell the flames proved fu tile. The fire was soon in complete control o the Thayer. A small quantity of provision were stowed in the largest brat, nnd afte the wounded men had l>een placed in the hot torn Mrs. Clarke and her child and th uninjured men got in. The boat witl its seventeen occupants lay by the burr [ in* ship iiut.il the following morn i ing. Then they steered for St. Helena,whie I they reached on the following Sunday. Ca} j tain Clarke says that he cannot account fo t he mutiny. A DISASTROUS FIRE. Many Business Houses in Wilming ton, N. C., Destroyed. The steamer Bladen, plying between Wi mington, N. C., and Fayetteville, N. C. ( aught fire the other afternoon about o'clock just before reaching her wharf at tb f nner city, and owing to th ! inflammable nature of her cargc consisting of rosin, spirits of turpentine an cotton, was immediately enveloped in flame* The pilot headed her for the nearest avails ble wharf, and tho passengers succeeded i escaping, some by boats from adjoining vessels and others by jumping overboard, whei fliov wera nm'fiHr riwciiniJ The deserted steamer landed against th wharf of the New York and ~\\ ilmingto Steamship compauy, and the lire wasquickl communicated to the sheds anil warehouse thereon. All the wharves and sheds being sal urated with rosin and turnentino the sprea of the (ire was rapid.and utspite the efforts < the firemen became a disastrous conflagn tion. There was a gale of wind blowing .1 the lime from the southwest, and soon tL blocks on the waterfront were burniu furiously. At about eight oVlo.'k the fit was gotten under control, but not until l:ad destroyed a million dollars' worth ( property. Owing to sparks wafted by the high win numerous private dwellings caught lire an were burned to the ground. In addition block of small tenements, occupied by colore people, was completely swept away, a though nearly a mile distant from the mai fire. The general offices of tho Atlant Coastline were also destroyed, with nume ous valuable napers and records. The Froi street Methoaist church was included in tl 1 list of buildings burned, and is a total loss. [ 1EK WHEAT CROP. A Summary of Its Condition Throughout the West. The Outlook Considered Favorable in Most Sections. The following crop summary appears in the last Chicago Farmers' Review: Tha returns from the winter fields ara almost unuormiy good. They present ail outlook very nearly as favorable as those sent in early in 1885, when the prospect was exceptionally good for a large yield. The snow has entirely disappeared from the fields, enabling a very clear understanding as to the condition of the plant, and from nearly every county in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky and Kansas it is reported as looking strong and healthy. The utter disappearance of the snow covering is the only serious menace now threatening the growing grain, and with another general fall of snow the outlook could lior/lhr fhon ic in flio ro. uai U1J UV UVVUVA VUUU AO pi WWUWU 1U VUU 4 V* ports of the correspondents. A prolonged season of severe cold weather, with the fields still unprotected would, undoubtedly, cause damage which might completely change the tenor of the reports. The latest reports from California, Oregon and Washington Territory are generally more favorable than at the same time last year. Out of twenty counties of Kansas eighteen report the crop in good condition, while unfavorable returns are made from Ottawa and Wyandotte counties, where the plant shows injury from freezing while unprotected. With the exception of Howard and Hendricks counties, in Indiana, the outlook is reported to be very favorable. The reports from Ohio are uniformly favorable. In Southern Illinois two counties report a poor outlook, but the remaining counties make a very good showing. From Central Illinois the returns arc uniformly good. The returns from Kentucky and Missouri are generally of a flowing character, and in the former State the outlook is considered brighter for a good crop than before in many years. The Michigan reports do not indicate any larger yield than last. year, but the reports are generally favorable. In Tennessee the reports indicate an average outlook. Wlule it is not yet possible to give anything like positive data the average in all the States, with the possible exception of Michigan, will show a falling off as compared with last year. The exports indicate that the stocks of old 'wheat in Dakota, Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Teenessee, and Illinois are pretty well exhausted, while considerable wheat ia still held in farmer's hands in Minnesota, Iowa and Michigan. A MADMAN'S ACT. Firing a Pistol in the French Chamber of Deputies. t? xt- - m v. ?u 1? Ill Lilt? r 1BUIU tuuiiiuci ui ucjiuura, uv Versailles, the other afternoon, a strange man in one of the galleries arose excitedly drew a revolver and fired it twice and then coolly threw a letter toward M. Clemenceau. Th? man was seized and hurried out by the police. A flattened bullet was found at the feet of the president of the chamber. The excitement caused by the shooting lasted for a long time, and affected the deputies as much as it did the occupants of the galleries. Investigation showed thai both bullets were fired into the air, and nol at any pei-son on the. floor occupied by thf deputies. The letter which the prisoner cast at M. Clemenceau was found and delivered int< the custody of M. Floquet, president of the chamb ->r. When the prisoner was first seizec he exclaimed: UI have written to M. Clemenceau. H< knows what it means.'' This, of course. wa< not understood by those who heard it and ii ------ J . . -L-- tr_ added to tbe general consiernauuu. ne ami that he was a soldier who had been so ill treated by his superiors and ignorec by his brother officers of justice that bo re sorted to the desperate expedient of creating the sensation in the c hamber of deputies ii order to secure attention to his grievances He added that in no other way so well as tha he had chosen could he attract attention t< himself and to what he desired to toll th< public. He wished, he d?clnred, to have at i tention drawn to his trial, because at it he would add much to the information now possessed by the Frenvh peopl* about the surrender of Metz and the pres3nc< of German spies in the French army. He as sertcd that the letter which he threw towarc i II. Clemenceau contained an offer to giveth* government the names of the betrayers 01 i Metz. The culprit's name is given as Peron nier. He is undoubtedly insane. He servec in the French army in "the Fran;oGermai war. ; WAR BEGUN. ? : The Senate Calls for Papers?An Adverse Report. 1 In executive session of the Senate on the j :?:>d Mr. Edmunds reported a resolution from the committee of judiciary authorizing thai , committee to send for persons and papers 3 in the case of John Goode, Jr., of j Virginia, Solicitor general. Mr. Ed. : munds stated that charges of a very serioui 1 character had been preferred against Mr. - Goode relating to elections in Virginia, and r before the committee could report on the con ? firmation it would be necessary to send foi i persons and papers at Norfolk and elsewhere - nnH rwirliict an incmirv. The resolution was u adopted. I The committee on finance reported againsi 1 the continuation of McGraw, a collector oi ; internal revenue for West Virginia, and thai v report was also adopted. The cause of the re . jection of McGraw was the refusal of Secrel tary Manning to funiish the papers relating 1 to the suspension of McGraw's predecessor, e The Senate finance committee afterward ii agreed to report adversely on the cas* of Mc o Graw. 3 GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION. f Twenty Persons Injured, Three Fa * tally, in a Country Store. A powder explosion occurred in Winches 0 ter, Ky., the other afternoon, in which j 1 number of persons were injured, some fatal ly. Mary Willis' eating house and grocer l" store as crowded at the time b; li country people who came in to at * - A viAAn enm tend the county cuuru ai, u^u 1 party came into the store to buy powder, am while th? clerk was weighing it out a persoi present struck a mat?h to light a cigar. I portion of the ignited sulphur flew into th powder, which exploded and tore away almos the whole side of the room. About tweut; person were in the room at that moment ' nearly all oi' whom were more or less injure* ^ and three at least fatally. 4 PROMINENT PEOPLE. Representative Mills, of Texas, is th 0 fastest talker in Congress, delivering !il >, words a minute. d Dn. SchWenninger, Bismarck's physiciai is going to St. Petersburg to try and reduc t- the fat on the czar. ^ ^ ? T Awmrffnn TTXT d thomas .f. jjuvliex, ul jjcaui^irvu, -^.j 5- the oldest Baptist preacher in America, a ninety-four years of age and blind. General Pope, whose retirement is t 0 hand, says he will travel in Europe for a tin nr and then make his home in Chicago or Cii y cinnafi. kS t_ Mus. Polk, the widow of the ex-Presiden (j has not visited Washington for more tha )t- thirty years, or since she retired from tb j. White House. it / .Senator Van \v yck nas jom?u bougies ie man Hewitt in urging the extermination < g barking do.^s in Washington. Both sufft e l'rom insomnia. it Mr. Tilden, who is outliving his conspici )f ous party rivals, associates anil successor has gained twenty pounds in ilesh within tb d last twelvemonth. ^ The late George L. Lorillard made it a. point for a long time to give away about $40 J1 U0L> a year to persons of merit whom he kne1 r would be benefited by git'ts. c Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patrio r. now in his eighty-fourth year, is in exceller jf. health, and is at work upon the fourth vo ie ume of his memoirs. He writes from six t seven hours daily. *?? 1 A NEW UK ? Five New Steel-Armored Cruisers to be Built. Fifteen Million Dollars for 0o*~ struction Purposes. ; A Washington dispatch says that tb# House committee on naval affairs has nearly completed the bill for the improvement of the navy. Arguments have been made by the secretary of the navy, Admiral Par- \ ter and other prominent naval officer*, and the testimony given by all of them will accompany the report of the committee. The committee estimate that $15,000,000 will be a proper sum for this Congress to approypriate as a beginning, of which $7,500,,000 will be provided for in the bill vshortly to be reported, with the > / understanding that a like amount shall bo appropriated next year. It was ' < \ decided not to adopt the idea of the heaviest ironclad of England, as vessels of that site, so Admiral Porter told the committee, draw so much water that there are probably only two harbors on our whole Atlantic coast wmcn mey cou'u enter?rortiana, Me., <?m Port Royal, S. C. Admiral Porter said that England had more than one ironclad which, while it could not get into our harbors, could lay off Coney Island and utterly destroy Brooklyn, if not New York. To meet such , / vessels as this it would be best to provide for torpedo boats which make their attacks under * cover of darkness. The determination not to recommend the construction of vessels of the heaviest class was also influenced by the con sideration that such vessels have no other capacity than to tight?their movements are slow and speed is lost sight of. v Secretary Whitney, in his remarks to the' committee" favored the creation of a plant at one of tne navy yards sufficient to produce heavy ordnance, armor plates, steel shafts, etc. This idea the committee will, in all probability, adopt and recommend a liberal appropriation, say, perhaps, of $250,000, for this purpose. Five large vessels will be recommended to be constructed, one at a government yard, hereafter to be determined upon, and four to be given out by a. * i. 4- rru. a i iT private cuuwttt-t. jlu^du live vesseia are w uo from six to eight, thousand ton*,to,be heavily armored and equipped with the most power- , ful armament attainable. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. ' '* i'j ^ Senate Sessions. Forty-first Dav.?Mr. Manderson offered a resolution, which was. referred, di- V recting the secretaries of state and war to inquire into the murder of Captain Crawford by Mexicans last month, and to report what V.ft steps had been taken to punish the : v:-j murderers....Mr. Edmunds introduced t .1; a bill relating to the eighthour law. He saiathe bill related to letter . carriers, whose hours of labor were beyond p? human endurance. Referred....A resolu- > tion by Mr. Allison was adopted inquiring of the secretary of the treasury what amount of . Tjnited States notes had been redeemed under i the redemption act from J uly 1, 1879, to June [ iiu, looo... .jur. fastis cauea up nits resuiui tion of inquiry as to the refusal of the sub-' ) treasurer at NewOrleans to receive silverdol[ lars. An amendment by Mr. Teller, extend5 ine the inquiry so as to cover an alleged de; faication in the same office was agreed to and * the resolution passed....Mr. Dawes1 bill to 5 allot lands in severalty to Indians was discussed .... The educational bill came up, and Mr. Evarts took the floor in its favor. > Speeches were also made by Messrs. . 5 IngaUs, Morgan, Wilson and Harris.... 1 Mr. Edmunds, from the committee on thejudiciary, reported favorably bills to remove i the political disabilities of Alexander P. 5 Stewart of Mississippi, Thomas L. Rosser of" t Virginia, and Edward G. Butler, of Missouri. I The bills were at once passed. Forty-second Day.?Mr. Morgan intro1 daced a long preamble and resolutions con- . . cerning the attorney-general, and proposing r an inquiry whether certain offenses alleged i agaiust the attoi ney-general would call for his impeachment The resolutions were laid on t the table The bill appropriating $250,000 > for the erection of a monument to General > Grant in Washington was passed.... Mr. . Gray spoke in opposition to the Education ; bilL Mr. Plumb also opposed the bilL The j debate was continued by Messrs. Call, Mor- , 1:-' > gan, Blair and George. Executive session. 5 Forty-third Day.?A joint resolution was " passed authorizing the President to grant J permission to one or more officers of the army : to accept service for three years under the c government of Corea to instruct and drill its* troops, the officers not to receive pay from 1 the United States during their absence.... 3 Messrs. Blair and George spoke in favor of" the education bill. Executive session. Forty-fourth Day.?Bills were favorably . reported as fellows: By Mr. Edmunds, from the committee on judiciary?For the relief of ;he political d'sabdities of Robert H. Ander| iou, of Georgia. The bill was passed. By v : i Mr.. Hoar, from privileges and elections? , The bill fixing a day for the meeting ?>.' presidential electors Mr. Edmunds introduced 1 a bill providing ior the exclusion of adulter: at^d articles of food from imports....The i Senate took up Mr. Dawes' bill to provide land in severalty for the Indians, and passed it Mr. George concluded his spe.-ch in. favor of the education bill. 5 }''$ ? House Sessions. j Forty-fifth Day.?Mr. Hewitt (N. Y.) i called tip the joint resolution tendering thanks of Congress to Jo-eph Francis, as the ' inventor of life-saving appliances, and au' thoriziug the President to present him a gold ; medal. Passed....The House went into committee of the whole on the private calen i dar, Mr. Hatch (Mo.) in the chair. On the ; first bill on the calendar, a war claim, Mr. Scott (Penn.) offered a verbal amendment, 1 and proceeded to make a speech favoring silver suspension and a gold standard. He was followed by Mr. Geddes (O.) in a speech favoring silver coinage Shortly after the conclusion of Mr. Geddes' speech, the committee rose and the House passed a dozen private bills....At the night session . the House passed forty-four pension bills, and atl>:oO p. m. adjourned. Forty-sixth Day.?Mr. Weber, of New York, reported a bill to the House for the a ]>ermauent improvement of the Erie and I n^tvocrn /viiifils. and to secure the freedom' ,, of the same to the commerce of the \r United States. Mr. Ellsberry, of j. Ohio, reported a bill granting pen0 sions to all invalid soldiers or their widows j or children who are dependent on their daily j labor for support. Mr. Buchanan, of New . ^ Jersey, reported a bill for the relief of tiw 0 ! survivors of the exploring steamer Jeannette ^ ; and the widows and children of tho.se who Y | perished The bill forfeiting the unearned ' j land grant of the Atlantic and Pacific j I railroad company was taken up and passed.... The bill to annex the northern or "pan handle" )>ortion of Idaho to "Washington Territory was debated....The bill to loan exhibits to the New Orleans exposition was laid on the table by a large vote. l0 Mr. Morrison, from the committee on 5 ways ami means, reported a joint resolution directing the payment of the surplus inth? treasury on tne public debt. Mr. Hewitt ^ presented a minority report, Fop.tv-ehjhth Day.?Mr. Hewitt (X. Y.) - i 1 : I presented a memorial or i~; saving* uaua.. ui 1S New York Stat:', represented 1,105,0'*) depositors, asking for the repeal of the Bland silit ver aet. Referred Mr. Reagan (Texas) to from the committee on corammv. rei 1 ported a bill to incorporate the I Atlantic and Pacific (Captain Eads'i ship t . railway company. Referred to committee of n ' tin- whoi-.' The military academy and the l0 ! posto.iicc apt ropriatjon "bill v.-uv reported, j and referred to tlie committo of the whole, j The military academy bill appropriates V~.>7,p l S(fc*>, or sll4,:i7<) less thau the estimates )? j ....Mr. Townshead (Del.) in committee of jr | the whole explained the provisions of the penj sion appropriation bill, which appropriates l- ! $75,754,^)0. or about. $l5.0i)3,(rtH) more than " Vf tfnnrlniv/^n s? the lawror tne ciureiu > . iU>. ^uuv..-,. 10 (Iowa) analyzed the negative vote on the bill to iucrea-se the pensions o? soldiers' wida ows to ^1^ a month, which, he said, consisted of sixty-six Democrats,- all tv Southern members except two, and said that the men who cast tiiat vote were keeping ui> ? the sectional line. Messrs. Raudall and Morrison replied that Southern members had I never refused to vote for pensions for Union jq soldiers. After aa animated debate th<* House a ljourned. .