Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Edi on's patents have now become so numerous that they have a special series of index or reference numbers in the patent office, tha only case in which such separation from the general index has l?een thought necessary. Medical life in England is subject to ? increasing mortality. According to statistics the death rate among physicians Is higher than among other professional men or among men in fairly uuhcalthful Occupations. Contagious diseases of all ?orts cxcept smallpox arc dangerous to physicians. Two little Cleveland lads, whose father is in the work house and whose mother is dead, keep house alone, the elder doing the housework as well as the average housekeeper can do it. He says that before his mother died she taught him housework, saying that after she was dead she wanted him to take care of his father and little brother. The death of a sea captain recently was ascribed by medical authorities to blood poisoning, caused by his vessel carrying a cargo of nitrate of soda. The sailors were affected with what they callcd . rheumatism. The captain, being in the After cabin, suffered the full force of the evaporation of nitre. It is said that four captains in the employ of a leading eastern shipping firm have died w ithin a few yars from the same cause. The story of a strike, as told iu the results of the Hungarian riots in the coke region, is a dreary record. About ten lives were lost, and some twenty persons are probably injured for life. During the thirty days the conflict lasted the 12,000 men were idle who should have been earning $1.41 a day, a total of $507,600. Beyond this is about $15,000 owing for rents and provisions dur ing this period, and a loss by destruction of property not far from $150,000. The value of the hardware produced in the United States each year is now j^bout $60,000,000, nnd half of it is made in Connecticut. This does not include firearm?, agricultural implements, cut nails or ornamental ironwork. These, with other articles which may be regarded by some as belonging to the list of hardware, would swell the total to far above $100,000,000. The manufacturers of Englaud, France and Germany send as about $2,000,000 worth annually. A Leipzig physician estimates that in Western Europe the consumption of opium excecds from twenty t) thirty times any amount that could possibly be explained by therapeutic exigencies. Encouraged by this increase of numerical itrength, the opium eaters of the larger cities have begun to drop all 'masks aud call for a dose of their pet poison as they would for a glass of soda water. The doctor predicts that in twenty-five years every large town will have a public poison shop. . A comparison of ancient and modern cVi/rrr-a fVin l-mllffo A f I ?ja tUUUO SJUV n Oj Wliuv WHV w?**vvs; V* our far-reaching rifle? are continually getting smaller and lighter. The Spanish escopas of the seventeenth century fired balls weighing nearly three ounces; liie oldest donner-birchseu fired just five bullets to the pound. Against such pro- . jectiles the panoply of a mail-clad knight was, of course, as useless as a paper collar, but the continued attenuation of those projectiles may yet lead to the reintroduction of defensive armor. t ~ ' The Chronica Franco-Brazilira proves i n - i 1 e.? ,wi??i mat UlC lugai pi u visions iui i<uc giauuai abolishment of slavery have practically become dead-letter laws. Negro children arc bought and sold as before; many provincial papers announce slave Victiohs with the special promise of ''unconditional sales." There are Brazilian feaports where even a cargo of African contrabands could rely on the patronage of discreet customers, for in the great forest empire of the tropics, the nominal control of a civilized government goes band in hand with a good deal of feudal independence. Nature publishes an uncommonly large Btory about herring jumping out of the water when frightened. A correspondent fays h? has "observed whole shoals of this fish, in their anxiety to escape when pur-u.'d by whales, piled up above the surface of the sea to a height of from <-~ fnot An Ann fiopQcinn tVio IU1CC I.U M.\ ItVl. VII wuv VWUU.VU - fish formed a mass even with the top of the mast of a fishing boat, viz., about fifteen feet, and had part of this mass fallen into the boat it would doubtless have t>u:ik/' No doubt it would, and the narrator with it, if he had been there. It scct.m a great pity that the chemists and micioscopists should come in and destroy the long-time illusion that if a piece of ice looks absolutely clear to the j eye, it is necessarily pure and healthful, i Tt has boon demonstrated bv numberless experiments in this country and in Germany that bacteria, 01* germs of disease, can survive a temperature far below freezing point. In the ca?e of the Plymouth cpidemic of typhoid fever, which Dr. Edson, of the New York board of health, went into Pennsylvania to study, he discovered that the typhoid germs had been subjected to a temperature twenty degrees below zero for several months. This illustration alone, in Dr. Edson's opinion, is sufficient, to prove the necessity of guarding the purity of our ice supply. Another ease in point was that of several families in New York last summer who were seized with a fever which was diagnosed by a reputable physician as typhus. Investigation finally showed that all these families were served by the same iceman, and an examination of his ice revealed the presence of the doadly bacteria. Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, has become extremely popular in that country sirifR t.hn bfi.orinninor of hostilities. From ~ - 'O O the moment when he was called to Philippopolis h's prompt massing of troops ^ and placing them where needed for defense, his personal interest in all his soldiers and his efforts to provide for them ^ and their families at home have drawn out their hearts toward him; while his wise and courageous action when unexpectedly attacked in the rear, his sharing ^ the hardships as well as the dangers of i, the field ol' battle with his soldiers, and tl his carrying some of them in his own H carriage to the hospital at Sofia have sc- ^ . I t< J curea tor mm tne enthusiastic ana loving i confidence of his people. "Isn't he our n father?-' said, with a glowing face, one of r< the wounded ones who lay in hospital *< when visited by a stranger. J ? o ej Comparatively few States are repre- ir sented in the Senate by citizens born ? within their own borders. New York w gave Leland Stanford to California. a * ^ Teller to Colorado, Conger to Michigan, v, Van Wyck to Nebraska, Dolph to Ore gon and Pa3*ne to Ohio. Ohio gave ei Voorhees and Harrison to Indiana, Ali- ? son and Wilson to Iowa and Plumb to q Kansas. Kentucky gave Collom to Illi- P nois, Gibson to i Louisiana, Vest to Mis- o souri, Maxey to Texas and Call to Florida. ^ 3Iassachusetts gave Ingalls to Kansas v and Evarts to New York. Among the ^ States which send native-born citizens to fi the Senate are Delaware, Maine, Maryland. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, 8 North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia t< and West Virginia. Jones, of Florida, ^ Fair and Sewcll are Irishmen; Beck is a e , 1 -r ? -WT 1 _ . tl acoicnman, ana ones, or jNevaaa, is a Q Welshman. Nevada is the only State o q| represented by two aliens, namely, Jones, born in Wales, and Fair, born in Ireland, ti ti Ci "I never look at the figure on the dome d of the capital," said a Washingtonian the other day, "without feeling " sorry for the poor Goddess of Liberty. ^ Poor old lady, she's up there with little n< or no neck, and every time I look up her head looks as if It was sinking further* m and further down into her shoulders. I at remember the time when she was first bi placed there. The figure was sent for J* # " I c inspection before it was raised to its n< place, and the committee in charge came j* around to see it. Of course the neck gi was several feet in length, because the statue is nineteen feet hi"h, but, bein?j to Hi so near, the committee instantly protested ^ against the length, and what is worse In they actually ordered that several feet be ^ cut off of it. At first a protest was tr made against such a thing, but the com- ^ mittcc said the ncck was too long and it ca had to be cut off. It was done. When the artist heard of it it nearly killed him, ol and no wonder. Look at the goddess ^ any time you have a chance and see how re short her ncck is." ? 1 1 n S< An old miser named James Walker M died at his home in Uniontown, Ohio, w recently, possessed of a fortune of more ^ than $20,000 that is known of, and there is, perhaps, more to be discovered. He er was a bachelor, and one of the^vcry pecu- fe liar specimens of humanity. He lived U] in a little log hut, and in the summer 01 It season lived principally on clover and bran. He spent most of his time in winter in bed and ate raw corn meal to g, <iviirmcn r\ f fnnl flnno CIDTIP tf (I vu;u liiV VI AUV?I MVUAV w years ago, he walked to the bank in f8 Cadiz with coupons oa $13,000 govern- ir ment bonds which he had cashed, and a, then walked to Wheeling to deposit the fii amount. lie was dressed only in blue ai cotton pantaloons, brown muslin shirt S> and straw hat?not another garment, 0, and he walked the whole fortv miles ^ T barefooted. During the last two years ^ he has been very feeble, and a sister j*1 cared for him. He had apparently a c sound mind and was credited with be- t?v ing shrewd in business transactions. A ^ mistake of one cent in his cash and tax It receipts only two years ago caused him to walk twenty-two miles, back to the county a? treasurer's office, which was given him ^ by the treasurer out of his own pocket pi to avoid a controversy, but sure enough there was a mistake in the cash account ' vi Ti that night. He was a well-known charac- ^ ter throughout Belmont, Jefferson and p Harrison counties. q(] Scared. "I have had plenty of experiences cal- \ cu'ated to try a man's nerve," said a friend of mine yesterday. "I have 'sought the bubble reputation even at the ie cannon's mouth,' I led a relief party into j, a caved-in coal mine, i stayed in New Orleans all during the yellow fever epidem- w ic, but I never was so scared in all my 0j life, never felt so great a responsibility, ^ as on one day in a quiet country street * without another human b?ing in sight. It was this way: A friend of mine who gi lived there owned a $22,000 trotter, and w - - - - ? * t i. In he was taking him out w.tu only a natter ? on. lie forgot something and gave me ^ the halter while he ran back. He did not T return at once, and a sudden start given ol to the horse by a piece of pnpsr blowing M across the street made me realize my po- ?! sition. I had at the other end of a slen- t! der strap $22,000 worth of horseflesh be- 8 longing to another man. At any momerit a sudden noise might cause the ^ animal to break away from me and dash * * fnnnna nr 1 n 1)11 US t* 11 iw uv:ain u-um^ iuv ivuvw v. ... a ditch. Even the discovery of my presence might have that effect. I scarcely breathed, and the perspiration broke in A cold streams all over me. I could not take my eyes off the beast; I was fascinated by its face. Every time it liftc l a ^ foot or moved a muscle an involuntary shudder ran through my frame. My v friend was only gone a minute or two, S but it seemed an age. When he returned ? I fairly forced the halter into his hand. * 'Why. old fellow,' said he, 'you're as pale (] as a ghost.' "?C/ticago Ntws. h h Two Mormon women met on a street in J Salt Lake City the other day. ''Say," t said one of them, "is it true that Brother t Smitii Has married a second wiiec ? "Yes, it is true," was the answer. "Ilow do you know?" asked number one. ''I a can sec it in his first wife's face," said a number two. ^ i THI RAILSDAD STRIKE. 1 L Freight Train Tumbled into a at Ditch in Missouri. h* se fiews of a Prominent Knight of $ Labor Upon the Situation. ]* ly On the 23d ths great railroad strike on the lould system of railroads in the Southwest of ad assumed a most serious asp act, and areateued to extend to other roads. At edalia, Mo., E. K. Sibley, division suporinmdent of the Missouri Pacific, attempted 3 move a freight train. A large de- pj iil of polico was in the yards and M o resistance was offered until the train 3ach?d the city limits and Sheriff Murray ra >ok charge. The local police stepped off mi " frxrrr clinniflTo cfonrVDrl W] ic uuiu tiau a ivh ouvi ni-n u. The bell was rung and the train startod ?Jj ist with a full head of steam. About threa co liles from the city, -while going at the rato f twenty miles an hour, the engine and five ars were ditched and a half dozen other A ais wrecked and destroyed. The engineer nd fireman api>ear to have been on guard j,, nil jumped off before the engine left the ails. Au officer, one Mason, and a man who f ad volunteered to go along as a guard, were aught in the wreck and badly injured. Othrs who were on the tender and the 1st ars next to the engine were danger- da usly injured. The wounded were cu uickly carricd awav. At 0 P. M. some 2,000 m< ersons had walked from the city to the :ene of the wreck. The engine was lying ro n its ci.'ln in tliodit/'h hnrllvnamnortxl. There ATi . as little left of the cars except kind'ins by .'ood aud the freight. was a total loss. It Lc ,'as charged that striken or their sympa- co: hizer.s caused tho accident? but this they de- of ied. Vice-President Hoxie was at once in- m; armed by telegraph of what had occurred. as] At St. Louis an attempt was made to send La ut a f rieght train of twenty cars. Engineer sts itudy and Fireman Barrett were on the lo- th( o:notive. As it backed down from tho wc liops Barrett juinptd off and a detective x>k his place. There wore fifty police- [j ion in the yaid b-sids tie detecives in the employ of the ompany. Whilo the engine was being at- * v.hed some one pulled a pin in the middle u f the train and the engine started off with nly ten cars. As it backed up again the J irikers swarmed into the yards an 1 turned Pri ae switches and the engine and half the jp rain were run a half mile across on another by rack. Fins were again pulled out and the train Cli at into a half dozen se.tions. One of the wa etectives on top of a car saw a man about ' \ a nm nvi/1 r\Amfinn" n iWAlror of K't? r\ru j vai ? >? a, piUf auu j^ujutiu^ a tofvnvi aw u.o vj/ ead ordered him to 6top. The man sai l: Ai Shoot away," and walked deliberately be- ] veen the cars, pulled the pin and then es- ha ipecL By this time a crowd of a thousand ersons had congregated on T'ryon Avenue . 1 ridge, cheering the strikers and hooting the fj* ili The attempt was abandoned and no . rests werd made. AtAtchiuson, Kansas, 150 men, marked ' id otherwise disguised, went to the Central th< ranch shop, drove the fifteen watchmeu Sto ito the oil nouse, took possession of all the de< imaining engines and disabled them. The r\ ?xt morning a freight train came in from Cil iawathn. and ran down into the lower yards thi .'lowed by a great crowd of strikers. It was of jarded by a city marshal and a squad of police itil it reached the city limits. As soon as ie officers left it the strikers lmmed:ately >ok possession, set the brakes and stopped 1 ie train. The engine was "killed" (disabled) sea 1 the track, and the train hid to be hauled ric ick by a switch engine. The switch engine of as then "killed." The men who captured He ie train had been served with injunctions j ,r the United States marshal. nu One of the leading Knights of Labor at St. ur ouis tfas asked if all tho Knights were to be thi illed out. He replied: "I hope it will jver come to that The present fight is only gainst the railroads. \\ o will wait a couple gil : days, perhaps three or four, in the hope t,h( lat some way of escape from the conflict frc ay show itself, and then if the situation p]a imaius unchanged for the better every eight train on every road runuingout of St. ^ai ouis, and every freight train on every road be inning out of Chicago will be stopped. , mie t>.(KX) men now employed on roads sntering in Chicago will stop work. They ill have no brakemen, ho firemen, no ritchm?n, no yard helpers, no freight hand- 1 rs in the freight house, and with engineers noi id conductors alone they cannot more their eight We will leave the trackmen and ] lough men to ran the mall trains and a th< w accommodation trains, but not a wi heel of a single freight car can be turned y. itil the Knights of Labor, the great labor Hs ganization of the country, are recognized. r i is a matter of necessity to us. It ' e fail after calling out ths Knights on the -je] wxds centering in St. Louis and Chicago, Qf le order will b? extended to all Eastern and :s outhern roads, embracing the entire coun- | t, and if it comes to the worst, the strike 111 be made to embrace every large manuictory and every large business industry J i the country. Defeat means onslave | tent, and death is preferable. J 3n't mean to say that all the wrong in this j'lt ght has been on the side of the railroad )mpany and all the right on our side; not ift;l. To tell the truth, I think it was a rave mistake to order that strike against ' 12 Missouri Pacific without first laying an ir grievances before the company ana to >king that they be heard anu righted. pr hat was a serious mistake, almost an un- tei irdonable blunder, but the mistake once f lade, a.nd the matter having been carrio 1 so pr( ir. all issue having been' made against the nights of Labor, we caunot go 6ack on it, 5pr it_tight it put to the end.]' ten J.ne Jvnignts or i^aix?r issueu a repiy iu n ice-presiaent Hoxie of the Missouri Pacific. , was agreed, they say, to submit their ievances to the governors of Missouri and a,, ansas on the understanding that they would ' range a meeting between Mr Hoxie and ' emselves. They condemn the action of /V e governors in publishing Mr. Hoxie's * opositions before they were peritted to se3 them, and they repudiate tto'r ^ nclusions that the Missouri Pacific had not ,Ri olatel the agre?m?nt of March 15, 18S0. 1 ley say Mr. Hoxie simply wants trouble; at he is inciting it, and making an inuocent iblie pay the pric; of hu perfidy. How ug, they ask, will the public consent to let I nilfl on/1 TTn-rio fhnc rnlo r>r ruin Vel A MISTERY OF THE SEA. a L k Steamer With Twenty-Three Peo- 3 pie on Board Given up for Lost. the All hope for the steamship Rapidan, which ft New Yoi'k on February 2 for Port 1 imon, Costa Rica, has been given up. Hers undoubtedly one of those mysterious ] ises where a stanch ship sails out ce] ' harbor and is swallowed up l f some unknown fate. No passing Jo ?ssel sees the doomed ship struggling with own and tempest, no floating wreckage ives a clew to her fate, no dead bodies no ashed ashore come as messengers from the ] st craft. There seems to be an utter nu I da nvtMi'ltilofiAt? s\P fliA cKm O>1/1 nt*ar\*_ I CO\ JiJil'idU (luuiujiauvii vi. uuw ouip uuu v? v* j ?v< 3iiy and everything pertaining to her. ch; he" Rapidan sailed with a crew on ' twenty-two all told, one pas- 'j mger, a quantity of live stock ju.' iid some geueral cargo. She was go- i ig to Port Limon in Costa Rica, and from (jj, lere to Colon and Cartagena, in the United tates of Columbia. She was to have been J le pioneer ship of a new line which E. P. ?lia iennard, her owner, was to establish be- j veen T>orts on the Spanish main. The loss on ] ? io steamer and cargo is about $4.>,U0U. I ? ?? oix ORPHANED IN AN HOUR. g L Wife Dies Before Her Children on Seeing Her Husband's Corpse. A sad affair occurred to-day at Montou rsille, a lumber village twelve miles north of bis place. Sylvester Peusil, aged forty-two ears, a wealthy lumber merchant, was killed } rhile driving along the west bran.'h of the tli< iusquehana river. His hordes became fright- c ned and ran away, throwing Pensil into lie river among some loss, breaking his back n.l both le^s. He died, however, from 1 rowuinr. About an hour after the accident '0l is Lo iy was recovered ani conveve I to I ig late residence. His wif-i, Minnie St< 'ensil, aged forty years, not having list >een to'd of her bereavement, dropped j o the floor and expired in front of ve] he corpse of her husband and her three jja hriekiug children. Several friends and , leighbors who were in the house were so J errifled at the state of affairs that they fled, ,nd nobody entered to render the children ; issistance for some hours or more afterward, rhe affair cauiied great excitement in the Rf teighborbood. te1 'JEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. L The bark James Stafford, which arrived k i New York from Havre a few days since, id a most tempestuous voyage, and lost four amen overboard. Ant enormous mass of rock and earth be- , me detached iu a new railroad tunnel at * >ttsville, Peun., and overwhelmed a numir of workmen. Three men were killed or tally injured, and about a dozen more badhurt. The president of Mexico and the mikado s. Japan have each contributed $500 to the ! rant national monument fund, which has ached about $122,000. p n South and West. v Vice-President Hoxie, of the Missouri 1 icific railroad, declined the proposition of d aster-Workman Powderly, of the Knights T of/% nr?r?fn?? nrifVi a viaur fn O iJUWl J tv UVULUi HiVU I* TIO ?? WV u WWWIW- . siit of the strike on the Gould system of ? ilroads iu the Southwest. Governors Mar- b aduke, of Missouri, and Martin, of Kansas, G ith the labor commissioners of both States, 30 met iu Kansas City on the 20th, and ad- l'J sed that last years agreement between the [1 mpauy and the strikers be renewed. b The subject of foreign ownership of land S attracting much attention in the West. 10 man, a resident of London, is shown to K ra nearly 300,000 acres of choice land in linoLs, Kansas and Nebraska, much of bich is rented to a wretched class of tenants, j\ 0111 whom are extracted enormous rentals. " Rev. "Sam" Jones, the Southern revival- a -, lectured to four thousand girls the other ^ V in Chicago. He took occasion to ridile the "dude," and denounced many of the n sst cherished institutions of society. tl a proposition 01 tne missouri racinc nau- si ad company, addressed to the governors of 01 ifsouri and Kansas, was on the 22d rejected t< the executive board of the Knignis of P ibor at St. Louis, and the great strike was b, utinued. The rejection by the Knights c< Labor of the railroad's proposition was b; ide on the ground that it granted nothing ci <ed for by the strikers. The Knights of tl bor also issued an address to the public. is iting their position. The switchmen in all fc j railroad yards of Kansas City also quit sc >rk. in Furious snow storms, ice gorges and ods have caused considerable damage to ^ oparty and delay to travel in portions of f1' 3 West. A cyclone destroyed two churches 113 Williamsport, Ind, and damaged many B< ildings and barns. j* A.s Jailor Clarke entered a cell in the ison at Yazoo City, La., to give three neo convicts thair supper, he was disarmed the prisoners, who escaped into the yard. nrlrft ftf.tamntarl tn sfcnn trip rirnrlpn/1 ai\ hilt. is brained with a billet of wood ^ rffREK valuable blocks, including the m Bra-house, have bsen burned at Helena, 'k. th Both houses of the Kentucky legislature m ve pasted a bill making gambling a felony. *y \ street-car at lacrosse. Wis., fell twelve it over [a bridge. The horse was killed, 5 car crushed and five passengers seriously ired. JoVBrnor Ston'emak, of California, on . 5 ?3d appointed George Hearst United itjs Senator in place of John F. Miller m ?eased. [ he strike of the switchmen at Kansas at iy blocked traffic on nine railroads, and w ew many truckmen and other persons out employment. a= Washington. sh 'n the contest of Hard vs. Romeis for the C1( it in Congress from the tenth Ohio dist, the House committee decided, by a vote n eight to six, to report in favor of Mr. _ uneis, the sitting member. Secretary Bayard has received a coramicatiou from the consul-general of the 1,1 lited States at Berliu, in which he states pa it within the last few weeks not less than f0 irty to forty ca>es"of trichinosis have been covered in Zuttichan, a town in 81 esia, and vicinity. Similar cases, th i consul-general says, are reported mi time to time from other q] ices in Germany, showing that the theory tich led to the prohibition of American hog 111 5 received a sec-uacK uy itu.-u> wmcu cannot pt denied. jn rHE President lias signed the bill to in- cij ;ase the pensions of widows and dependent j atives of deceased soldiers and sailors. Brigadier-General Howard Las been minated as a major-general in the army, le: ;e General Pope, retired. to Kajor-Genbral, Schofield has accepted ta i command of the division of the Atlantic, ^ th hiadquarters at Governor's Island, N. , , foraierly in charge of the lata General incock. to ["he secretary of the treasury lias issued the in 9 hundred and thirty-fifth call for the re- he mption of bonds. The call is for $10,000,000 the threa per cent, loan of 1882, and notice ;iven that the principal and accrued inter- ki will be paid at the treasury in Washingi on May 1. additional nominations uy tne rresiaent: ilcom G. Barney, receiver of public ftE meys at Spokane Falls, Washington Ter- en ory; J. Richard Wiufleld, of Virginia, to bi: consul of the United States at San Jose, w sta Rica, and a number of presidential stmasters. ftr riiE Senate committee on public buildings a 1 d grounds authorized a favorable report dr be made on Senator Morrill's bill approiating $300,000 for the erection of an exision to the White House. * Secretary Manning was attacked and ^ ostrated by vertigo while in the treasury hi partment 011 the 2?d. In falling h? fa ained his ankle. He was taken homo, atded by doctors, and .soon recovered. tlj ?hk Senate committer! on the District of m lumbia voted to report adversely the no:n- , ^ .tion of James C. Matthews (colored), of mny, to succeed Frederick Dougla; as rederof deeds in the District. Thi; votes for te ifirmntion were cast by threa Republicans |j( galls, Pike and Palmer) an 1 one Demo* t (Brown), and the voto> against confir- w tion were cast by three Demo -rats (Black- be n, Vance and Harris) and one Republican Vt ddleberger). cc m Foreign. so tussiA is taking steps to thoroughly de of op the immense petroleum fields ou the ,u st coast of the Caspian sea. The Greek government has just negotiated oan of #1,01)0,000 in houdon. Sleve.v out of the twelve men on board ^ ! steamer Beda were lost by the vessel's in ludering in the Pacific ocean. . vv \x institution has leen opened in St. Pe- st sburg for the study and application of M. steur's method of curing hydrophobia. Emperor William. of Germany, has just " ebrnted his eighty-ninth birthday. h( \ "Warsaw dispatch says thatthe exodus of a ws from Russian Poland has attaiued ex- Ui tordiuary figures. During 18S5 no less than 150 left the country for America, to say thing of those who went elsewhere. 1 Riotoi'S anarchists have destroyed or ^ naged a great amount of property in eral Belgian towns. At Lige the military irged upon the rioters, aud many persons both sides were wounded. ["he first steamer lighted by electricity has R! it passed through the Suez canal. roh.v Bright is reported a convert to Mr. T idstone's scheme of Irish government. ? \ Nordenkkldt gun aboard the British T in-of-war Albatross buist, instantly kill- w ; two men and fatally injuring two ie?s. S'kws has'just been received of the re- S ining of hostilities between the French st opsin Mauagas ar ana tnenative "nova*. o French have been badlv defeated twice. P ?^ ? 6 PROMINENT PEOPLE. Smpekor William lias temporarily lost j use oi' his voice. Secretary Exmcorr does not spend mu-h l w ?ney in socie'y entertninmeut?. nt }om Pedro, emperor of Brazil, is to j* md a big fine ai ts academy at Rio. 1 a.top.-Gexerat. Pope, of the United ^ *tes army, has been put upon the retired Longfellow's son recently submitted to a ry elaborate tattoo decoration at Yoko- al ma. Sf Sekrt B. Cour.txet, the Delaware match ^ inufacturer, recently deceasea, JeavbW au ute worth $5,000,000. rHE Duke of Portland, with a million and a piarter annually from ground rents alone, o /be richest nobleman in Britain. . 1 BAD FOR BELGIUM. f Serious Disturbances Arising Out b of Labor Troubles. ? ? ? t< Ln Attempt to Blow Up a Bailway s Train with Dynamite. t ti o A Brussels (Belgium) dispatch of the 25th tl ays: Terrible labor troubles continue p hrougkout the country. Placards have been ? ost jd in Liege summoning workingmen to a (j leeting to-morrow, and concluding with the o r-ords: "Let each man bring a revolver. ^ "hen forward!" The authorities have forbid UJ en a public procession on Saturday in view a f the possibility of further labor troubles. c< l11 available troops have been ordered to old themselves in readiness for any em?r- ?, ency. f An attempt has been mad? to blow up a jj nil way train near Hassels. A package con- rr lining thirty-five dynamite cartridges had een placed on the rails, but was swept aside j v the cowcatcher without being exploded. vhile the engiue driver was examining the ^ ackage'it exploded and blew off three of his utcio. The st'.-ike at Liege has become almost gen- _ ral in that district. Continuous conflicts are r iking place between the strikers and the [vie guards. A large number of foreign A gitators have arrived in the disturbed dis*ict, and are urging the strikers to continue ieir resistance to the authorities.' Gangs of ^ ien made up of Anarchists and roughs of le worst descriptions are parading in the jj lburbs, creating disorder and perpetrating utrages Citizens aro waylaid and money ex- ^ >rted from them by threats of violence. ^ ostmen going their rounds are accompanied y guards of soldiers. Arrests of persons ? mcerned in the disturbances are being made ju y the wholesale. Many rioters have been iptured while sleeping in the fields, where ley had fallen while drunk. The town hall 01 occupied by civic guards. Strong rein>rcements of troops aro arriving at the ene of the riots and civic guards are hold- ** ig the pit mouths. The miner's strike has extended to 5harleroi. There the men demand twentyve per cent, increase in wages and, pend- jr ig tne granting of it, have quit work and J? jne to rioting. The gendarmes have so far ^ ;en successful in dispersing whatever mobs 1 at have collected. The striking miners at Liege attempted to ? >now general rioting last night, but were f erpowered by the police. j.a The troops stationed at Antwerp are held t0 ithin their barracks so as to be available ! ?r the suppression of any disturbances that BL av be created by unemployed workingmen. in; The city of Brussels was placarded during R< le night with calls issued by the Working- V< en's Federation for a great meeting of res orkingmen. m< LATER "NEWS S New York and Boston have just been an )ldiug big flower shows. Rare orchids and ^ S6? any floral novelties were exhibited. ^ Dr. W. M. Chastian was shot and killed inj Dexter, Kansas, by A. B. Elliott, to of I J Li 1 * ?.? f 01 nose aaugnier ne was paying aauresses jainst the father's wishes. wt The son of Mrs. Sarah McKenzie while ? ooting at a mark near Waverly, Ind., acientally killed his mother. A compromise was effected with the strik- it g switchmen at Kansas City on the 34th,id the men resumed work. ' &s The se .retary of the interior has decided pjj at the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad com- ad my has no right to certain lands in Cali- P? rnia, and has ordered that such lands? nouuting to 2,451,200 acres?be restored to wt e public domain. no Lieutenant Maus, who was with Captain ^ rawford, of the United States army, when e latter was killed by Mexican troops, re* I nti that Crawford was deliberately and Pr( teutionally assassinated. The Mexicans litn Crawford's party were mistaken for caj idians. or One Gabriel Duinont, who was Riel's lieunanf rlnrinnr ro"onf. voliolli^n in Mnm'. t "?.v.. ~ " 1uj ba, is said to be inciting Indians in Mon- wi na to join in au intended insurrection of Pa eir brethren in Canada. we p61 The Abj-*inian troops sent by King Juhn ?ei relieve the beleagnrod garrison at Kassala bil the Soudan have fought a battle with the Pei etile Af-ub1! near thi i place. The Arabs ^ ?re defeat cl, and 7>0 of their men were crc Lle.l . of Mas. Fhaxcke, a widow, residing near ^ jading, Penu., kindled a fire with coal oil, j id while so doing the flames spread to the (T< n, which exploded with terrific force. The ^ trning oil scattered over the body of the y(); man and upon her two children, aged nine cot id eleven years. Mi's. Francke jumped into pri J ?-J ? 1..^.,..^--] liun fnvi / '} ) i 1 - th? UISISIH HUU \\IU> U1UWI1CU, auu u?i v.?v *-? cv eu were fatally turned. < "William M. Smith, an ex-speaker of the (k iinois legislature, committed suicide at his ore nne in Lexington in that State by shooting mself through the head. He had been in ^ iling health. pr< The President has sent to Congress the on ird annual report of the civil service com- J issioners, accompanied by a message saying frt at "wherever this reform has gained a dei othold it lias steadily advauced in the esem of those charged with pub: administrative duties, while the i>eople KOi ho desire good government have constantly Tli ten confirmed in their high estimate of its a= pn iluo and efficiency.'' During the 5 ear the ye immission examined 7/10:2 persons?0,772 up ales and 8o0 females. The number of per- elS ns examined who have been apjx>inted to flee during the year is 1,870. There are j>o ore than 14.000 places subject to the ex- | Ai niuatioii. ^ Secretary Manning's sudden attack of w. iue-;s on the stops of the treasury depart- sp: ent ou the 2Jd, turned out to be worse than < a=? at first reported. . It was au apoplectic pn roke, and his relatives were summoned t^11 0:11 Albany to his bedside. It as reported on the 25tli that coi ; would probably resign and go abroad for oc: Jong rest; the cares of office undermined is health. Another report stated that he j.ej id expressed a desiro to resign, but the sh ro. i leut had previously refused to accept Pj' is resignation, and for tlio present the "crctary would retain his position. si( A remarkable duel, resulting from a dis- br ute over the relative merits of American Pr Cc ad French female doctors, has just been ^ night on the field of Waterloo, in Belgium, he coutestants were Miss Shelby, an Amerim, and Mine. Valsayre, a native of France, he weanons were swords, and Miss Shelby as slightly wounded in one ami. A The brig Georgina, of Liverpool, Nova cotia, eight men oil board, has been lo.->t at gj ll- ca The governors of Missouri and Texas issued , reclamations on the 35th relative to the so reat railroad strike. All persons were arned not to interfere with the resumption ^ f business by the railroad companies. aj el re "Steamno.vr Frank,"a Mode:-Indian uho ** as captured at the time r?t" the Modoc war *l id who isstill a prisoner of the United States, 13 attending, by permit of the government, , e Oak Grove*seminary in Maine. He now Jr ,11s himself Frank Modoc and is studying r the ministry. ? Fi Dr. Oliver "Wkxdicu. Hct.mks will go a} road April 21, with his daughter, Mrs. tii irgent. to be absent all summer Ilis lust sit to Europe was in 1835. tb Senators Sawyer, Ingulls and Saulsbury Si re going to Cuba as the guests of the com- $2 ined rail and steamship line which carries di be mails to Havana. _ $1 t SUMMARY OF CONGRESS Senate Sessions. Sixty-first Day.?Mr. Coke called up the ill to establish a national livestock highway nd to promote commerce in live stock boween the States. The bill sets apart for 311 years as such highway the public lands i range No. 41, along the east line of the tate of Colorado, it being a fractional ange, averaging about two miles in width, "he bill was passed.... Mr. Spooner coninued liin discussion in favor of the judiciary ommittee's report reeavdins the rizht of tie Senate to call upon the" President for apers in cases of removals from office. Mr. aulsbury (Del.) opposed the resolutions. Sixty-second Day.?Mr. Logan introuced a resolution providing for the holding f the Senate's executive sessions with open oors instead of in secret... .The urgent deciency bill was laid before the Senate, which, a motion of Mr. Allison, insisted on its mendments and agreed to a committee of [inference The chair laid before the Sente Mr. Logan's bill to increase the efficiency f the army. Mr Hale moved to strike out ae second section, which provides ir a future force of 30,000 ensted men in the . army.... he amendment was discussed without ction.... Messrs. Colquitt, of Georgia, and ackson, of Tennessee, spoke in opposition to 30 judiciary committee in regara to the atjrney general's refusing to furnish papers. Sixty-third Day.?The House bill grantlg a pension of $2,000 to General Hancock's ridow was passed Mr. Beck's resolution bating to the payment of certain duties in Din was, upon his motion, referred to the nance committee.... Mr. Logan's bill to inrease the army was then called up and Mr. [anderson spolie in its favor. He con* inded that the Ind:an? were still rutal savages and more troops were neaded. [r. Beck opposed and Mr. Logan supported lebill... Mr. Jacks:n continued his speech i opposition to the Edmunds resolution relave to the refusal of the President to furnish ipers regarding removals from office. Mr. eorge also spoke in oppposition to the resoition. Sixty-fourth Day.?The Logan bill to incase the efficiency of the army was disissed. Mr. Logan explained that under the ,030 regulation there were only 23.620 efctive men in the army, and under the proised increase to 30,000 there would prob)ly, owing to casualties, etc., be only about ' <xx) effective men. Mr. Teller on >sed the increase. Mr. Piatt (Conn.) vorecl the increase... .The Edmunds' rosoti :ns reported from the judi iary commite wire placed before the Senate, and Mr. organ (Ala.) spoke in opposition to the marity repo. t. The debate was continued by jnators Mitchell (Ore.) and Hoar (Mass.) in vor of the maiority report, and by Seuars'Gray and Harris against it. Sixty-fifth Day.?On motion of Mr. air th? Senate passed the House bill craut; a pension of $50 a month to the widow of ;ar Admiral Andrew A. Hanvoed Mr. )orhee i spoke in opposition to the Edmunds solutions concerning presidential appoint?ntw and Mr. Evarts in their favor. Mr. :11 also opposed the resolutions. uiuum; oc33iuiL9? :ixty-skvznth Day.?The bill changing officer on the retired list of the army was scussed without action....At the evening ?ion the House passed thirty pension bills, le last bill to be considered was that grantl a pension of $2,000 a year to the widow General W. S. Hancock. It was passed, ir votes being cast in opposition, but the Bvious question being demanded, the bill tut over. Sixty-eighth Day.?The limited debate the adverse report on the free coinage of ver bill was begun, and the floor was taken Mr. James (N. Y.) in opposition to the bill, was a question, he said, which business m ought to solve. Mr. Hemphill (S. C.) id that the question before Congress was to the best method of restoring gold and ver to a parity as mm;y metals, and he vocated, as a means to this end, the ap intmeut of a commission to secure an intertional bimetallic union. Mr. Bynum id.) a member of the committee on coinage, sights and measures, supported the mirity report, which favors the passage of d free coiuage bill. Mr. Stone (Mo.) pored any measure which would place ver on an equality with gold. Adjourned. 3ixtt-ninth Day.?Quite a sensation was oduced in the House when the chaplain de ted his opening prayer to an invocation to d to ri J the land of gamesters, whether in ixte, dice, chips, stocks, wheat, bucketshops boards of trade. The prayer, upon mon of Mr. Butterworth was ordered to be erted in the Record....The bill grant; a pension of $2,000 a year to the dow of General W. S. Hancock was ssed by a vote of yeas 169, nays 47 Bills >re passed increasing to $50 a month the nsions of the widows of Commodores Spi* and Fillebrown.... By a vote of % to 95 a 1 was passed granting a asion of $50 a month to 3 widow of Rear-Admiral Harwood.... \ Anderson (Kansas) introduced a bill sating a commission of arbitration in cases strikes on railroads ...Mr. Van Eaton 'ss.) introduced a bill prohibiting polygIV seventieth Day. ? Mr. Richardson, 5du.) on behalf of the committee on war ims, called up and the House parsed the ui th of July claims bill. The amount inIvei is $2oS,200.... The House went into nmittee of the whole on the Indian approation bill....Mr. Burnes (Mo.) submitted i conference report on the Urgent delicienbill, and it was agreed to. 3eventv-first Day. ? Mr. Anderson an.) asked uaanimous consent that an ler should be made allowing the committee labor to report for action at any time (not interfere with revenue or appropriation Is) legislation for the purpose of jviding for arbitration in strikes Milrnndi! Ho iifiiltwi nilf; it.<; lUlii VW?Ui AAV uavvw port ante by saying that the whole uthwe-it was without a wheel carrying light. There was no objection, and theorr was made.... The In lian appropriation 1 was passed without further amendment [reas, nays, 5....The postoftice approiation bill was taken up and the ueral debate limited to six hours, e bill appropriates $54,330,588 as ainst an estimate of $54,98T?,ltH>, and an apopriation of $53,700,1)90 for the ciu-rent or. Mr Burrows (Micb.) referred to the propriation for the transportation of forrn mails, and charged the postoflice depart>nt with nullifying the law of Congress ssed at the last session, which authorized the stmaster general to enter into contracts with nerican vessels for carrying the mails, at a te not exceeding fifty cents a nautical mile. ) also charged ttiat tne department naci intonly ana openly defied not only the irit but the letter of the civil service law. Seventy-second Day.?Tn his opening ayer the chaplain of the House besought <3 Lord to enable the educated an 1 intellint men and women of the land to compreud that in thi* republican country there uld be no privileged class, and in this demratic ape no aristocracy could be found. 3 prayed that God might forbid the rich and osperous from attempting to import and produce on our new soil the pomps and ows, the folly and fashions, the luxury and ide of other climes, leat the giant anarchy, ind through ignorance an'l rage, like sights Samson, goaded to madness by oppres>n, should put forth his strength and celeate his sell -murder in the ruin of his opessors, till chaos should come again msideration of the Hou<-c appropriation II was resumed. A FIGHT WITH BRIGANDS. n Englishman's Plucky Resistance in Sicily. Quite a sensation has bsen produced iu cily by a daring attempt by brigands to ipture the Hon. Victor Albert Nelson Hood, son of Lord Bridport. Mr. Hood is a godn of Queen Victoria, Lord Bridport is equery to the queen, and irough his mother succeeded to the dukedom Bronte, in Sicily, conferred on Admiral elson. The fief attached to the dukedom in udos tlu Castillo di Mauia?o. Mr. Hoo.l was I siding there when tho brigands, who, it is 'lieve l. hud plotted to take him a prisoner ! id hold him for a high ransom, made an at- ! ck in force upon the place. The servants wero brave and soon rallied in i jfence of their young master. A fierce ?ht easued, which resulted in the defeat id dispersal of tlio robbers, but only after an}' of them had been disabled by wounds. Dur of the brigands were taken prisoners id turned over to the custody of theauthori08. *???*? Henry Ward Beecher's earning? during e last forty years are estimated as follows; ilary as preacher, $320,000; lecture fees. >40,000; sundry publications, $100,000; wedng fees, $50,000; incidentals, $40,000; total, 100,000. ... | > F-'- * . ' ' ' r / ' .'-V':-,.' ~V ' - i*r-? :?" m mm iuhir ; ! A Crazy Man Throws a Petition Into Victoria's Carriage. The Incident Creates Much Excitement in London. Queen Victoria went in state the other afternoon to open the ceremony of laying tb# foundation of the new examination hall of the College of Surgeons, on the Thames-, embankment, London. She was accompanied by the Prince and Princes of Wales and other members of the royal - ?& family. The weather was clear and beautiful, and the people turned out in vast numbers along the route taken by the Queen. The shops and club buidingS WPPP wtfli floco on/1 cftHmmAtv at\A displayed an abundance of loyal mottoes. Tiie royal party was everywhere rooeived with the heartiest enthusiasm. The people rushed alongside the royal carriage during its progress, greeting her majesty everwherc with cheering. After her return from the cornerstone lay- ; ing the queen left Buckingham palace at 4:30 o'clock for a drive. She was accompanied by Princess Beatrice. They went in an open carriage to Hyde park, and everywhere were > cheered by crowds of people. Among the crowd was a man in shabby clothes aud wearing a slouch hat. He appeared to be much, agitated and elbowed his way to the edge of the asremblase. "When the royal turnout reached a point opposite him he throw something into the carriage. Great excitement followed the strange man's actions, and he..--', was quickly taken into custodv by the police ' and hurried from -the scene. It was learned " that the article was only a p'eoe of paper. When the quern noticed the man's action, she shrank back and was evidently startled. Princess Beatrice leaned forward apparently ior me purpose 01 smounng tne queen from any attack that might be made upon her. The prisoner offered no resistance to his arrest, and went without struggle to r , the police station. He said that he lived in King street, ami dete.-tive3 were at once do- * tailed to work up his history. The paper which he threw into the queen's carriage con* tained nothing more than a petition tor redress of a personal grievanci under which he believes he is unjustly suffering. The man is mentally deranged. The petition is written in a style peculiar to insane ; ;< persons, and contain 3d nothing alarming. < .m The man is about forty years of age; is of . low stature, slen lor build, sallow complexioa, and emaciated and careworn appearance. " The man, whose name is Charles Brown, v served for years in the army, and has since- ' been confined in insane asylums in England, and Ireland. In his petition, which is well written, he complains that he was robbed of* " his pension. He was held for an inquiry.' , _ THE CAUSE OF LABOR First Annual Report of the National; Commissioner. The first annual report of the Burean of - Labor has been submitted by the Com- '* missioner, Carroll D. Wright, to the Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Wright says that of factories, mines, etc., existing in the country, about 5 per cent were idle during 1885, and that 5 per cent more were idle a part of \ the year. In round numbers 1,000,000 were thrown out of employment, which means a loss to the consumptive power of the country of over |300,000,(K)U a year. The volume of business, however, has been fairly well oreserved. and prices have constantly fallen. There has also been a constant diminishing of profits and lowering of wages in general. On the whole, however, the commissioner is of the opinion that the volume of business of the country during the depressed period has been fairly satisfactory. The mechanical industries of the United States are earned on by steam and water ' power representing, in round numbers. 3?400, 000 horse-power, each horse-power equalling the muscular labor of six men. To do tu? work accomplished by power and power machinery in the mechanical industries would require men representing a population of' l?i.">00,000 in addition to the present population of the couutry of 65,000,000. The present cost of operating the railroads with ' steam power, in round numbers, is $503,000,- . 000 a year; but to carry on the same amount of work with men and horses would cost the country $ll,308,50u,000. These illustration* show tne straits to which the country would be brought if it undertook to perform its work in the old way. The apparent evils resulting from the introduction of machinery to a large extent have been offset by advantages gained. Prior to eachperiod of depression since 1S37 there has been a large increase in immigration, and following the inception of tbe depression a sharp falling off. Many instances might be given, be says, to illustrate tbe ill effects of the inopportune importation of foreign labor?the employment of Hungarians in mining districts the padrone system in some localities, anaother features, not only of foreign contract labor, but of tbe employment of foreign labor, which conies freely on a certain kind of solicitation. Considering suggested remedies for depressions, the commissioner says that a halt should be made in'freely granting lands to corporations. When immigration becomes a suojeet ul muuteiiieiifc ui eoutiac* ior u? purpose of displacing a higher grade of labor, the authority of law should be called in to preveut the continuance of the wrong. The effect that [the enactment of laws to stop speculation would have, if they coula be specificaliy applied. would be for the public good. A sound currency is demanded by labor in order that the laborer may know the value of his earnings at all times, and by the producer that he may calculate with reasonable accuracy the cost of production. Reform in the methods of distributing supplies would bring great relief to consumers. Co-oneva tion in its distributive t'onn is suggested as a ' J l i i* J' i '1 i.' l 1_ reuieay; out ivopwuuve uuiriuuuuu is umy a lialf measure. There is no contest between labor and capital, nor between the laborer and capitalist as such, but there is a contest between the latter as to tha " profits of capi'al and wages of lapor, or, in simple terms, a; to tho profits each shall receive for his respective investment, and this contest will continue so long as the purely wage system lasts. It is absurd to say "that the interests of capital and Jaoor lire mtujurui. xikjj urc loj m\jiw identical than the interests of the buyer and Feller. They are, however, reciprocal, and the intelligent comprehension of this reciprocal element can only l>e brought into tbe fullest play by the most complete organization, so that each party shall feel that he is an iutegralpart of the whole working establishment. A LEAKY WATW. SpYeval Persons Fatally Injured by a Natural Gas Explosion. By an explosion of natural gas at Murraysviile, Penn., the other afternoon, seven persons were injured, several of them fatally. The explosion was followed by a fire, which destroyed seven dwelling houses. Tho names of those fatally injured are: Mi's. Harry Taylor, William Taylor, Mrs. Taylor's father-in-law, and Nellie Hanken, a young girl about fourteen veal's of age. Or the others injured three were children of Mrs. Taylor. They were . j u..i quite seriously ourueu, uui mo puj muw said they would recover. The explosion was caused by a leak from a main. It seems that the Charliers Gas comO was making connections from the Mciams well, a '.'roarer'' just struck, to their main line. The heavy pressure caused a break in tho pipe, aaa the caa. escaping in iargo volumes, soon filled the air and the houses in the vicinity. Before tho break could be repaired the gas caught lire from a grate in the house 0/ Mi's. Taylor and almost instantly there was a terrific explosion. Flames shot up in all directions. Mrs. Taylor, with her three children, father-in-law and Miss Han1 ken,were seated on the ]>orch in front of ,n' - the bouse, xney wuro cu * civlto'j. ju the flames and terribly ourned. ! Immediately following the explosion the house took tire and quickly spread to the adjoining buildings, destroying seven of them in a short time. The Mc Williams weH caught fire also and is now burning fiercely, flames leaping fully 200 feet in the air. There was _ great excitement, as it was feared other well? La close proximity will be ignited. The lot* on the buildings destroyed was |8,000.