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A scientist has been making a careful
estimate of the many millions of birds in
America, and says that if even 5,000,000
were destroyed annually for the purpose
of obtaining ornaments for ladies'
bonnets, the loss -would not be pereeptiblv
noticed.
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The Chicago Railieay Aqe says that
during the year 1886, 8,010 miles of new
railroad were built in the United States.
More road was built in Kansas than in
any other State. Allowing thst the road
cost $20,000 per mile, the expenditures
(or construction las year were $1 GO, 000,000.
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A curious mistake has been made in
Mexico. The people of that country
have mistaken a Frenchman named
Thiers, who is visiting the Republic, for
the late President of France. The presiding
officer of the Mexican Chamber
made him au address ana a dinner was
given in his honor.
The carrier pigeon service in Paris is
now most carefully organized, and the
latest census shows that there are 2,500
trained birds, which can take dispatches
, in and out the capital in the roughest
* */ "weather. Some are taught to go to the
|T neighboring forts and towns, others to
distant parts of the provinces.
Some eighteen months ago an English
farmer successfully amputated one of
. the hind legs of a valuable and wellbred
shorthorn cow, the object being to
retain the cow for breeding purposes,
while a wooden leg was affixed to the
stump. The cow is now a mother, and
has a fine bull calf running by her side.
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General Grant was an excellent
draughtsman, but the only oil painting
be put his name to is a fiontier land?ao*\a
Tn/^inn Pmicuo V*n rrOi*a
Di-ajjg niiu Jiuuiuu u^uivcj >< uiv*i uv v
to ex-Secretary Borie. Mr. Borie's
nephew, who has become the owner of
the picture, has presented it to Mrs.
Grant. It is the only specimen of her
husband's art work in her possession.
' A Georgia paper publishes as truth the
story of a Marion county farmer who became
satisfied that he had a tapeworm.
So he carefully baited a little fishhook^
tied a short line to it, swallowed the
hook, and tied the line-to his buttonhole.
Then he waited for a bite. By
and by he thought he had one and
yanked the line; the hook caught in his
throat and bad to be dugout. He didn't
catch the worm.
Every nation, every city, every town,
every community is just what the people
make it. A live, progressive people -will
build up a prosperous town or city where
the natural conditions are even unfavorable,
while a careless, indolent population
will accomplish little, however
[ great the natural advantages of their localities
may be. An intelligent traveler
can form a correct opinion of the character
of the people of a town by passing
through it.
Queen Victoria has had no less than
thirty-seven grandchildren, and she also
has five great grandchildren. Her living
grandchildren are thirty-one in number
?viz.: Prince and Princess of Wales,
five; Duke and Duchess of Edinburg,
five; Duke and Duchess cf Connaught,
three; Duke and Duchess of Albany,
two; Imperial Prince and Princess of
Germany, six; Grand Duke and Ducbesa
of Ilesse Darmstadt, five; Prince and
Princess Christian, four; Prince and
Princess Henrv of Battenberer. one.
The Prussian army has a watch dog
battalion which is carefully trained for
service. Thes3 canine soldiers are intended
primarily te convey intelligence
from the advance posts to the main
army, and are taught to trot to and fro
with small portfolios of dispatches
around their necks. A part of their
duty is to warn the outposts of the approach
of enemies during the night, and
they are also trained to hunt up tho
wounded. Two dogs are attached to
*<?ach company of chasseurs. Now if
this principle could be extended a little
further and the whole business of settling
international disputes be delegated
to the dogs, what an advance toward
the millennium we should make.
Frank Weigman, who died in Cincinnati
recently, was born in 1781 in "Westphalia.
When a boy eighteen years old
he entered the English army, and subsequently
became a soldier of Frederick
II. of Prussia. He fought in the war
against Napoleon, and -was one of Blucher's
men at the battle of Waterloo, when
he received a sword thrust which marked
him for life. He came to America when I
he was ninety years old, and on the 2Gth
of last October he celebrated his lOoth
birthday. He was but four feet and a
few inches in height, and as spry and
active as a boy of sixteen. His hearing,
eyesight and appetite were excellent. He
left twenty-three grandchilren and eighteen
great-grandchildren. His brother
died some time ago in Germany at the
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age ox iuo,aou mswumei uicuut uiuci)nine.
Dr. Frank Hamilton, acknowledged to
be the most skillful specialist of his time
in the treatment of gunshot wounds, located
the bullet from Guiteau's pistol in
President Garfield's body at a point more
than a foot from that at which it was
actually found, according to a report Of
the autopsy given by an eye witness, and
now published for the first time. And
Dr. Hamilton had the testimony of the
electric induction balance to guide him,
and had also experimented upon a cadaver
at one of our mcdicnl colleges to dctermiue
the penetrative power and probable
coursiB of the ball after it entered tho
body. All of which shows, Frank Leslies
Kcw(q>a}>er sagely remarks, how little
doctors actually know of what is going
on inside of the human bod}*. It is no
discredit to them that they don't know
more; but those thatemploy them should
remember the limitations to which they
are necessarily subject.
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A Lightning Express Crashes Into
a Freight Train.
Many Persons, Wedged in the Ruins,
Eoasted to Death,
About 2:15 o'clock a. it. the other morning
as a Baltimore and Ohio freight train, east I
bound, was pulling up a grade of nine miles |
near the village of Republic, Ohio, the engine |
gave out, so the conductor, #W. J. Fletcher,
; says, and the train could go no further. The
j conductor, knowing that the limited express
| west was about due. grabbed a red lantern
and ran forward. He had not gone more
than twenty car lengths when he saw the express
coming. He sigualed it, but it was then
too late. It was impossible to stop the train.
In less time than it takes to say so,the two en
gines had como together with a terrible crasr
and telescope.!. \Y lieu the passenger engineei
saw the freight he shouted to the fireman:
"Jump! jump! jump!"and set the example
by jumping through tbe cab window. He
alighted in a snow bank, dislocating
his knee, but being otherwise uninjured.
The fireman, William Fredericks,
arose to jump, but was too late, and two iron
beams caught him at tbe hips, crushing him,
and holding him ten feet in the air, where he
was suspended three hours, when death came
to his relief.
Within five minutes after the collision the
wreck was on fire and the baggage and express
and the smoking car, which had been
completely telescoped, were enveloped in
flames. The scene now beggared description.
From tbe smoking car issued cries, groans,
and prayers. The passengers in the regular
coach were all thrown from their teats, more
or less injured. One young lady fell on a
stove and a man had his hand terribly burned
in rescuing hex*.
A bride and groom of two weeks were in ,
thecal*. The man was rendered insensible
by the shock. His bride did not leave ^im,
however, but grasping him by the feet
puuea aim irom me car, ana laus saved mm
from a horrible death. He recovered in a
short time, and they took the Pennsylvania
train for Detroit. .'
The two sleepers did not leave the track,
and wvre uncoupled at once and pushed back
from the fire. All of the rest of the passenger
train burned, and when daylight dawned
nothing was left of it but a lew hot wheels
and rods.
'1 hero were fourteen or fiftesn persons in
the smoking car, and all of them perished in
the flames and their bodies were burned to
unrecognizable masses. One man alone escaped
from the smoker. He was thrown
through the roof of the car into
the air. His spine was injured and
bis head badly burned. He had the appearance
of an Irish emigraut, and was delirious
when taken out. He could not give
his name, and, just before dying, beiug
asked where he lived, s-aid he had no home.
Among those who perished in the smoker
was a man named Joseph Postlethwaite,
aged fifty-seven, and his two sons, Spencer
and Henry, aged respectively eighteen and
eleven. He was on his way to Chillicothe,
Mo., near which place he had
a brother living. He came from Xew
Martinsville, Ya., where he had sold a farm.
He had the proceeds of the sa'e in his pocket,
and the money, amounting to $l,5t>0. was
burned. His wife and three small children,
who were in the other car, were saved, and
taken to the village of Republic. A correspondent
found the mother heartbroken and
bemoaning her terrible loss. The children
played artlessly around, not knowing what
nad befallen them.
When the passengers who had escared
from the rear cars came to their senses they
commenced at once to try to aid those imprisoned
in the burning baggage, express
and smoking cars. C. P. Bradley, of Washington,
was hanging out of a car window,
and was found to b-3 fastened by the legs so
that he could not be taken out In this
position he was burned by inches. He
gave his watch and papers to a bystander
and sent word to h's family. He was a
prominent Knight of Labor, and was on his
w?v t > the West to lecture. Nine charred
and burned bodies were taken f rom the debris 1
of the wreck, bat none of the others could be 1
identified.
The sight of these headless and limbless
trunks, blackened aud charred, was a horrible
one. A number of bones and pieces of
bodies found later in the wreck indicated 1
that several bodies were entirely destroyed,
and swell the list of killed to sixteen. A
number of persons were injured and about a
half dozen seriously.
The accident is the most fearful in loss of
life which has happen?! in Ohio since the
great Ashtabula disaster. The engines
of the two trains reared into the air
like a pair of enraged living monsters,
and then settled down up:m the track,
driven iuto each other until the clyiuders
touched. Ths force of the impact
jammed the baggage and mail car into the
tender of the fast line, the express car into
the baggage, and the smoker iuto th? express.
The passenger train was in charge
of Conductor Tom Haskett, Engineer
Lssu Fastman, and Fireman William
Frederick, and consisted of engine No. a
mail and baggage car, an express, a smoker, a
coach, and two sleepers The freight train was
in charge of Conductor Fletcher, Engineer
Kiler, and Fireman W. J. Cullison, and consisted
of engine No. 925 and sixteen and onehalf
loads and a few empty gondolas. The
smoker contained from twelve to fifteen passengers,
some of whom were immigrants.
All of these perished. The only relic found
of Joseph Postlethwaite, the man who was
killed with his two sons, was a half-melted i
medal. 1
KILLING A KEEPER
The Hippopotamus in a Paris Men- 1
a carle Kills a Man.
An exciting incident has just occurred at
the Paris Zoological Gardens, resulting in (
the death of one of the keepers. The 1
hippopotamus was observed to be acting in f
an unusual manner, and a keeper entered the \
cage to endeavor to discover the cause of the j
brute's evident uneasiness. He bad been in \
the cage but a moment or two when the
animal ap|>eared suddenly to go mad. (
Tbo keeper tried to escape, but befoie ,
he coutu roach the door of the cage ,
the animal attacked bini furiously.
Other assistants rushed to the rescue and endeavored
to beat back the iufuriated brute.
Their efforts were finally successful, but
when they drew their comrade from the cage
life was extinct.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Lawrence Barrett played Cassius, Mac
beth, etc., at 17. i
r emale pertormers nrst cook tne leroaie <
parts in plays during the reign of Charles II., | '
of England.
One enterprising firm controls fourteen I '
theatres in as many different cities of thy '
United States. '
The sales of tickets for the Patti season
of four concerts in the City of Mexico
amounted to nearly j>45,UOO.
Mlle. Schneider, who created the leading
roles in nearly all of Offenbach's operas, j
is rich and lives in retirement near Paris. *
New York has a new pianist who is making
a good deal of a stir, Adele Aus der Ohe,
a young German womau and a real pupil of
Listz.
Sir Arthur Sullivan, the composer,
imbibed his musical tastes from his fatter, i
who was royal bandmaster at Sandhurst.
Ho spent most of his boyhooi in his father's
bandroom.
It is stated that Strauss receives ?1,000 for
eacn waisz ne composes xrom a puonsner in
Germany, who buys every work he writes
and gives him an extra sum for every new
edition. "The Blue Danube"' has had twentysix
editions already.
The firstjpiano'which left Erard's manufacfactory,
liusi, is in the market. It was bequeathe
1 by tbe daughter au l heiress of
Garat, the singor, to M. Blavat, with instructions
to sell it for the benefit of tbe poor
at her native city.
C. W. Couldock, after fifty years upon
the stage, will retire some time in the spring.
Prior to doing so, however, he will be given
a benofit in New York, tn which, it is said,
Edwin Booth, Lawrence aud Wilson Barrett,
Joe Jefferson and Mine. Modjeska will appear.
georfie Hexschel, well known here formerly
as a singer and musician, is giving a
series of symphony concerts in L.-ndon,
which are described as one of the most attractive
features of the musical season in
that city both for novelty of productiou and
excellence of performance. I
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.
Samuel Smeltzer, of Red Lion, Penn.,
was taken from the grave just at the moment
of interment, at the request of his son, found
to be alive, and is recovering his health.
Horatio Potter, for thirty-five years
Bishop of tbe Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
New York, died a few days since at his
home in the Metropolis in his eighty-fifth
year.
During the past year the Gloucester
(Mass.) fishermen lost twenty-six vessels,
valued at $152,300. The number of lives lost
is lo7.
Fire- destroyed S. S. Messinger & Son's
large agricultural works at Empire City,
Peun., with five new dwellings and a farmhouse.
Loss about $50,000.
According to Bradstrecfs, the business
failures in 1S60 numbered 10,003, against
11,llti in 1S85. The liabilities jn 1SSG aggregated
$113,(300,000, against $ 110.100,000 in
18S5. The failures last year were divided
geographically as follows: New England,
i,o5o; miaaie otate-soouvuei u owica,
2,170; Western States, 3,450; Pacific States,
877; Territories, i>7.
John* Roach, the well known ship-builder,
is dying in New York of a cancer similar to
that which killed General Grant.
A train of six cars left the track at Mittineague,
Mass., the smoker and passenger
coach dashing ir.to two loaded freight cars
on a siding. One man was instantly killed
and eighteen were injured more or le3S
severely.
South and West.
Mp.s. Susan* Roman's, of Warren county,
Kentucky, after living to be 102 years old,
was burned to death the other day by her
clothes taking fire.
The official vote for Governor of Minnesota,
just published, shows the following:
A. R. McGill (Rep.), 107,0(J4; A. A. Amei
(D?m.), 104,4<>4; T. C. Childs (Proh.), lb,DOC.
It is estimated that 25,000 negroes have recently
left the hill country in Mississippi and
settled in the river bottom lands.
Two heavy shocks of earthquake, sufficiently
strong in many instance* to ro?k
house-, have been felt throughout Western
Maryland and in Pennsylvania towns bordering
ou Mason and Dixon's line.
Dr. A. A. Ames, late candidate for Governor
of Minnesota on the Democratic
ticket, appeared before Judge Corrie, of St.
raui, ou tue -itu ana tooK tne oatn oc ontce j
is Governor, it was understood that this i
proceeding was preliminary to contesting
the seat or Governor-elect McGill.
Washington.
Commissioner Coleman, of the Agricul
tural Bureau, complains that there has been
iereliction in the matter of lighting pleuropneumonia
at Chicago.
TriK public reception of President and
Mrs. Cleveland in the White House on New ?
years Day was largely attended. Mrs. |
Cleveland and the Cabinet ladies who helped i
n:r re-eive were elaborately* drosse I. The
ct eption room was handsomely decorated,
and tho Marine Baud played at interrals.
The President shook hauds with about
5,000 persons, including the Diplomatic I
Corps, Supreme Court Judges, Senators and j
Congressmen, Army and Navy officers, army
veterans and tho general public.
The President has approved the act for
ho relief of the survivors and relatives of j
fictims of the Jeanette expedition, the act j
X) modify the pcstal money order system,
md the act to extend the free delivery sys?m
of the Postoflice Department
The total receipts of the United States 1
luring December were $28,814. Oo; total j
jxpenditures, $18,48-1,714.85; excess of receipts,
$10,139,000. 80.
President Cleveland has recovered
from his rheumatic attack to such an extent
;hat he has been able to resume work steadily,
md to attend Cabinet meetings.
The President has commuted to five years'
mprisonment th3 death sentence of John W.
Parrott of Arkansas, convicted of murder .
md sentenced to be hanged on January 14.
The death of Colonel Julian McAllister,
ivho was the senior Colonel of Ordnance,
Dromotes Lieut-Colonel James M. Whittenore
to that position.
Foreisn.
The British steamer Dragoman, from Sarannah
to Liverpool, collided with and sank
in unknown vessel off Bardsey, England.
Fourteen persons were drowned.
A British sea captain has been convicted
it Yokohama, Japan, of mauslaughter for
eaving twenty-five passengers and six of his
lands to perish on his fouudering ship.
Ten miners were killed by the falling of a
:age in a Durham (England) coal mine.
The annual fair was in progres? at the
People's Park in Madras, India, when a fire ,
broke out, and in tho panic which ensued |
500 natives lost their lives.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, or uermany, uu.5 ueeu >
i soldier just eighty years. The arrival of ;
tbe eightieth anniversary has been elaborately
celebrated in Berlin,and the a^ed warrior
was the recipient of many congratulations
from all parts of Germany.
Mr. Gladstone, Cardinal Manning, the
Duke of Westminster, Canon Farrar, Professor
Tyndall, the Archbishop of Canterbury
and others have signed an appeal to the
English press not to publish the details of divorce
and criminal trials.
An alliance and definite treaty are stated
to have !?>een formed between Germany and
Russia.
Thirty-seven miners were killed by an
jxplosion in a coal mine at Mons. Beleium. i
A HEAVY EARTHQUAKE,
Western Maryland Shaken?The People
Desert Their Houses.
Between 2 and 3 o'clock the other morning
;he residents in Westminster and throughout
Western Maryland were rudely awakened
rom their slumbers by a violent earthquake,
rho houses rocked backward and forward and
many of the inmate?, believing them about
to tumble, grabbed up their children and in
their night robes rushed out upon the street,
only to meet their startled neighbors, who
stood in little groups,chattering with the cold,
and in terrified tones asking one another if it
was over. The thermometer was only 8 degrees
above zero, and the scanty clothing of
many rendered it impossible for them to remain
out of doors very long. One after another
ventured to return to their homes.
There they found everything topsy-turvy,
dishes of every description scattered over the
floor, and broken pieces of china mingled
with the shattered frames of pictures which
had been shaken from the walls.
Tbe first intimation of the first earthquake
shock were two terrific reports following in
quick succession. Immediately after these
reports the houses began to rock This lasted
for a minute or two, after which there was a
low rumbling sound Many people from the
country surrounding Westminster reported
that t heir experience had been similar to that
of tho town residents.
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BTI&UUA J3I A I-KiLLIN,
A Sleiffh Full of Young People Ruu
Into With Terrible Results.
At S o'clock p. m. the other evening a fast
express struck a sleigli containing about
twenty young people who wore crossing the
tra-k of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayno
and Chicago Railroad, two miles east of
Fort Wayne, Iud., en route to a country
residence for the purpose of attending a
dance. Miss Liz/ie )x*pper and Miss Tina
Minecker. aged seventeen, were instantly
killed. Miss Lottie Eix bad her right leg
broken. Miss Lizzie Kanning had several ribs
broken. Miss Lena Uai;:ljt had an arm
broken. Miss Emma Scliulnr, a leg broken;
Miss (Susta Heyne, her bale badly Injured;
Miss Lizi'ie W'eibke and Miss Belle Bishop,
badly bruised and suffering from nervous
prostration. The party was being driven
by Byron Westromb, who saw the train,
approaching rapidly, and was implored,
by the gentlemen to stop, but did nol;
linnH thorn Tim f*Antloi?o.? l'nrnnarl /*1lf linl*.
the ladies did not succeed in doing this. The
scene just after the accident was heartrending.
A relief train was promptly sent to
the s^one with a corps of surgeons, and tho
dead aud wounded were properly cared for.
joe jjemones, lifteenyears old, and black,
went down to the landing at JetTersonville,
Ky., to see a boat so out. As he stood looking
she blew her whistle viciously, and immediately
the boy lost the power of speech
and hasn't spoken since. J
A GHASTLY CRIME.
A Scvcnteen-Year-Old Boy Murders
His Employer.
Scattering the Dismembered Remains
Along the Wayside.
James E. Nowlin, a boy who was arrested
for killing his employer, George A. Codman,
a Somerville (Mass.) milkman, and scattering
the dismembered body along the highway
in two towns, has made full confession
of the crime. Nowlin says he killed young
Codman at 3 o'clock in the morning. The
deed was done in Codman's stable. He says
that he had bean thinking of it for somedays,
excited thereto by Codman's boastful way of
showing money, and expected to secure about
$(i00, with which he intended to leave that
part of the country. He slipped up behind
the victim and stabbed him in the side of the
neck with a butcher's knife. He severed un
artery aucl Codman fell to the floor aud died
almost instantly. He then put the bod}' under
a pung, covered it up and went on his
milk route, taking his brother with him.
He returned about 11 o'clock, put up bis
team ami went to dinuor. Alttr dinner h.i
went to the stable, cleaned lip the traces of
the crime as well as he could, and then deliberated
as to the disp sitiou of the body.
He finally decided to take it away in the
pung and se:-rete it somewhere until he
could safely get rid of it. He considered
the weight of the body, and to mako
it easier to handle and to hide the traces of
his ghastly load he concluded to dismember
it. Then he took an ax and first chopped off
the left log close to the body and then the
right arm. Thinking that with these members
gone he could easily liandlo what was
left, he placed the body aud the severed
parts in the back part of his pting and
covered it with the rubber horse blanket
which was subsequently found near the'body,
and also put the axe into the sleigh. Before
starting lie tidied things up in the stable, destroying
what he could of the marks left after
his rough modo of dissection. He concluded
then to secure the money for
which he had committed the crime,
and started off with the turnout and the
body for Codrnan's boarding house. He left
the team standing a few doors from the
house aud then went in, t3lling the landlord
that Codman was going away for an
indefinit3 time with a man and .had
sent him for his money and other things.
He was allowed to go up to Codman's room
to get articles ot apparel, and from tnere lie
carried off the desk containing about in
money and other articles of value. Ho returned
to the team and drove oil' tjward
Lexington.
After driving awhile he began to realize
the enormity of hi< crime and became 0)01*3
and more frightened as ho drove along, imagining
that all who saw him knew of th'i
dreadful burden he was carrying. His fears
worked so much upon him that when he
came to a lonely part of tho road and
was free from "observation he took the
body out of the puug and, half frenzied by
bis fear of detection, seized the axe and
chopped the head off and smashed the face
until he thought it would be unrecognizable.
Ho thon turew the head and an arm over
a wall, return d to the road, lifted the
body into tho pung and started o.T
again. After driving about a mile and a
half he again alighted and threw the boly
into some shrubbery, where it was niterward
found. Tho left leg he secreted in
some bushes near by. After depositing
tho body he took the rubber
blanket which had hidden the
remains in the pung and throw it, as he
thought, over the dismembered body, jumped
into the pung and drove ofF. The blanket,
however, fell short, of its mark and left tho
body exposed. His hideous mission occupied
him alxnit four hours.
James Edward Nowlin is a handsome
young man, little ovjr seventeen years old,
and is intelligent looking. Ho'is one of
four brothers who live in Somerville.
While nothing really bad is known of
the brothers, they have the reputation
of being hot-blooded and wild. The father
of the family, it is sts.ted, hanged himself in
the penitentiary iu the provinces. His departure
from Somerville a few years ago was
hastened by somewhat questionable acts.
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LAI VAi i\ l!i VY 0.
The Massachusetts Leg slature organized
with the selection of Ilalsey J. Boardman as
President of the Senat?,and Charles J. Noye;i
as Speaker of the House.
The fragments of a human body were
found strewn along the roadside in Lexington,
Mass. They were identified as the remains
of George A. Uodtnan, a Somerviilo
milkmau. Three othor milkmen were arrested,
charged with Codinao's murder, the
motive being robbery
Prominent Chicago shoe manufacturers
are being boycotted by the Kuights of Labor
for a'leged violation of contracts with the
Knights.
Mtss Kate Nicholson, of Maysville, Ky.,
twenty years old. wa; kneeling in front of
the fire tc say her prayers, when her clothing
took fire and she wa* fatally burned.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Thomas Moonlight to be Governor of
Wyoming, and T. A. Riley to be Postmaster
at Tic onderoga, N. Y.
The River and Harbor Appropriation bill,
as presented to the House by the Committee,
appropriates $7,158,2/0.
The death of the Marquis de Roys, a
wealthy Parisian, so affected the mind of his
beautiful widow that she committed suicidi;
by throwing herself out of a third-story window
of her residence.
Another American schooner has been
seized by the Canadians for alleged violation
of the revenue laws.
Fikty-six men arrested for resisting eviction
and rent collection in County Galway,
Ireland, last August, liave just been sentenced
to various terms of imprisonment
ranging from twelve to eighteen months.
Governor Bodwell, of Maiue, recommends
a prohibitory tariff on Canadian fish
in retaliation for the seizures of American
fishing vessels.
John* E. Grace, a carpenter, shot and
killed his wife in a Brockton (Mass.) hotel,
and then committed suicide.
A Fort Worth daily paper says about
4,000 families are destitute in the droughtstricken
region of Texas.
An explosion of natural gas at Youngstown,
Ohio, caused a fire with a damage es.
timated at S100,0t;0 and the supposed loss of
a human life.
Nominations by the President: Thomas
C. Manning, of Louisiana, Envoy Extra[
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to
| Mexico; Hugh A. Dinsmore, of Arkansas,
Minister Resident and Consul-Lfenerai to
Corea; Robert E. Culbrcth, of California,
Consul at Ap!a: Thomas Q. Bashaw, of
Missouri, Attorney for the Eastern Distric
of Missouri.
the"deadly"Eed.
Many Boys Killed or Injured While
Coasting.
The following is one day's record of accidents
in the East caused by coasting*
While three boys were coasting in "VVentworth,
Mass., their sled rau into a load of
lumber, and two of them weie instantly
killed and the othor so seriously injured that
he is not expected to live.
Twcnt" boys were coasting down South
Main street, Rutland, Vt, on a traverse
sled, when the sled struck the side of a bridge
at the foot of the bill, throwing the boys
head first into the stream. Cyril (See,
fifteen !.vears old, was fatally injured.
John Kingsley, twelve years old, was in*
1 ?uriil nrr?lablv die. I
i/eruaiiy lujiiieu auu ..... r ? ^
Thomas Shields, twelve years old, was picked
up unconscious. Tlie remaining seventeen
boys were more or less bruised, but none sori-.
ously hurt. I
John Knox and James Brooks, each aged
about teu years, were seriously, and it is
thought futally injured at Concord, N. H.,
by running into a coal team while coasting.
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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS,
Senate Sessions.
13th Day.?As soon as the journal had
been read in the Senate on the opening day
after the holiday recess Mr. Cullom announced
the death of Senator Logan, his colleague.
Afterspeakinga few words of eulogy, Senator
Cullom said that at an early day he should
introduce appropriate resolutions and speak
of the character and public services of his associate.
Out of respect for the memory of
Senator Logan, he moved that the Senate
should adjourn. Agreed to.
14th Day.?Mr. Mitchell, of Pennsylvania,
from the Committee on Pensions, reported
a bill grant ng a pension of $2,000 a
year to the widow of General John A.
Logan, and asked for its immediate consideration;
but, under objection of Mr. Coke,
the bill went over for a day?Among the
bills introduce! were the following: Mr.
Sherman?To provide that all persons on the
pension rolls for loss of limb or limbs shall be
entitled to receive arrears of pension from
the date of discharge or disability. By Mr.
Cadi?Providing that the Commissioner of
Agriculture shall establish in each of the
several States not less than one agricultural
experiment station and farm, for which purpose
he is authorizod to purchase not exceeding
200 acres of land in each State. The
sum of $1,000,000 is appropriated to carry
the act into effect. By Mr. Blair?To
appropriate $600,000 to promote the
Colored People's World's Exposition to be
held in Birmingham, Ala., from September
22, 1887, to January 31,18&8.... A number of
petitions wero presnted praying for an appropriation,
and in some cases asking the
definite sum of $100, to enable colored citizens
to emigrate to Liberia....Mr. Piatt opposed
the Conference report of the Interstate
Commerce bill.
]5th Day.?Mr. Manderson (Nebraska,)
brought before the Senate tbe case of the
claim against Mexico for the killing of Captain
Emmett Crawford by Mexican troops
in January, 18815, saying that a stronger and
more urgent demand for indemnity should
be made, and introducing a bill for the relief
of Captain Crawford's heir?. The bill
was referred.... The bill introduced on the
previous day pensioning Mrs. Logan was
passed, as' was a bill increasing tbe pension
of tbe widow of Francis P. Blair to 52,00 > a
year The Inter-State Commer e Dill was
discussed further... .Executive se.sion.
House Sessions.
16th Day.?There was quite a full attendance
of members on the opening day in the
House after the holiday recess. After the
Chaplain's prayer the Speaker laid before
the House a communication from the Hon. A
S. Hewitt, announcing that he has forwarded
to the Governor of the State of New
York his resignation as a Representative, to
take effect on January 1; laid on the table.
Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, offered a resolution
announcing the death of Senator
Logan, ami move 1 that the House should adjourn.
The motion was agreed to.
17th Day?The bill for the permanent improvement
of the Erie and Oswego Canals,
and to secure the freedom of the same to the
commerce of the United States was considered
in Committe3 of the Whole. Mr.
Weber (N. Y.) advocated its passage....
The Indian Appropriation bill was passed
without discussion or division. It appropriates
$5,115,OUO.... The Military Academy Appropriation
bill was then taken up, and
iifUltin n fin thfl
pa?ocu njtuiu a ijuai ici ui au uvu? , , , a uo
resignation of James W. Reid as Representative
in the Forty-ninth Congress from the
Fifth North Carolina District was received
and tabled.
18th Day.?The House resumed in Comxnittee
of the Whole the consideration of the
bill for the permanent improvement of the
Erie and Oswego Canals, and to securo the
freedom of the same to the commerce of the
United States. Mr. Weber (of New York)
concluded his argument in support of
the measure, urgiug that in a commercial
point of view the canals were national in
their character....The Pension Appropriation
bill, which appropriates $7f>,,.M7.r>0UJ below
the estimates, was passed with jut amend
ment or discussion The Naval Reorganization
bill was discussed
FEDERAL FINANCES,
Statement of the Condition of Uncle
Sam's Cash Roy.
The following is a recapitulation of the
National debt statement for December: I
Intercut Reariny Debt.
Bonds at 4 1-2 per cent $250,000,000 00
Hiinds at 4 per cent 7:17,781,8V) 00
Bonds ut 3 per cent 0:j,399,000 00
Refunding certi ficates at 4 per
cent 100,100 00
Navy pension fund at 3 per
cent 14,000,000 00
Pacific railroad l?onds at 0
per cent 64,023,512 00 j
Principal $l,130,4!>4,4fi2 00 I
Interest 11,838,720 00
Total $1,142, .'533,182 00
Debt on which interest has ceased sincc
maturity:
Principal $S,874,855 00
Interest 21J,330 00
Total $9,080,192 00
Debt. Hearing no Interest.
Old demand and legal tender
notes $340,738,341 00
Certificates of deposit 0,510,000 00
Gold certificates 5*7,215,005 00
Silver certificates 117,216,070 00
Fractional currency, less
$8,375,934, estimated as
lost or destroyed 6,953,702 00
-I Xfi74.ftfi4.31S oo
Total Debt.
Principal $1,714,033,035
Interest 12,050,057
Total $1,725,033,G'J3
Loss cash items
Available for
reduction of
the debt $011,002,554
Less reserve
held for redemption
of
United States
notes 100,000,000
341,902,504
Total debt less available cash
items $ 1,384,1 SI, 12$
Net cash in t he Treasury 42,100,032
Debt-, less cash in the Treasury,
January 1, 1887 $1,341,084,495
Debt, less cash in the Treasury,
December 1, 1SS0 1,351,342,098
Decrease debt during the
month $9,353,202
Cosh in the Treasury.
Available for reduction of
the public debt:
Gold held for gold certificates
actually outstanding
$97,215,005 00
Silver held forsilvercertificates
actually outstand
ing 117,^40,01 u uu
United States notes held
for certificates of deposit
actually outstanding .... 0,510,000 00
Cash held for matured debt
"and interest unpaid 20,924,912 00
Fractional currcncy 5,370 00
Total available lor reiluctiou
of the debt $241,902,564 00
Jifservn Fund.
Held for redemption of
United States notes, acts
Jan. 14, 1875. and July 12,
1SS2 100,000,000 00
Unavailable for reduction of
tlie debt:
Fractional silver
coin $25,000,9:55 00
Minor coin.. 131.422 00? 25,792,357 00
Certificates held as cash.... 35,024,230 00
Net cash balance on hand.. 42,190,032 00
Total cash in thcTreasury
as shown by Treasurer's
general account.. $444,915,791 00
The Russian Government has discovered
the existence of an extensive Nihilist organization,
the members of which are princi"
lovrra fnnts\riaa in Slf
p&Iljr wui wirou iu iuo *?ww ivo ...
Petersburg, in Moscow, and in Vladimir.
Many members of the. organization have been
arretted. ' J
The salaries r Uniied States
Senators for tb " amounted to
$384,<W7, and t! -ere and employes
to $334 ') was ex: j
pended for ne^ $50,000
for miscel.' 000 for J
special select c I
V
LOGAH'S FUNERAL
The Body Placed Temporarily in a
Tomb at Washington.
The funeral services over General Logan's
remains were held on the 31st in the United
States Senate Chamber at Washington. The
Senate Chamber had been prepared, as is us
uai on sucn occasions, uuairs were piacea
between the [Senators1 seats, and the small
areas in the rear were closely packed with
seats. There were few mourning draperies,
but the display of flowers was very large.
The clock over the southern entrance,save the
face, was covered with black, long streamers
hanging down nearly to the floor. The desk
of General Logan in the front row, near the
centre aisle, was wholly covered w ith black,
and the chair was festooned with crepe.
At 11:45 the army and navy officers entered,
followed by Masonic officers from
Chicago, the Governor of Illinois and his
staff, the diplomatic7"corps, all the members
of the United States Supreme Court except
Justice Woods, and members of the House.
The members of the diplomatic corps,
many of whom came in dress uniforms,
were ushered to seats upon the
right, and behind them came the representatives
of the Adminstration?Secretaries Bayard,
Endicott, "Whitney, and Attorney-General
Garland?who were placed in the front
row upon the right The President was not
able to be present, for, although in improved
health, his physician had counseled him not
to expose himself to the inclement weather.
The chair assigned to h'm was left vacant.
The seats reserved for the family of the
President were occupied by Mrs. Cleveland,
Mrs. Folsora, Mrs. Vilas, Mrs. Manning and
Mrs. Lamont.
At 12 o'clock, as the procession of mourners
entered the north door of the Chamber, every
occupant of a seat upon the floor rose to his
feet, Mrs. Logan, heavily veiled, was supported
by her son, John A. Lo^an, Jr.: Major
and Mrs. Tucker and their son, Lo^an Tucker;
Cornelius and James V. Logan, brothers of
the General; Miss Andrews, affianced of
John A. Logan. Jr? and Mary Brady, a
cherished friend of the family and for years
a member of the household, composed the
mourning procession.
Following the mourners came the funera]
procession, headed by the Rev. Dr. Newman,
the Rev. Dr. Butler, Chaplain of the
Senate: Bishop Andrews, of the Methodisl
Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Dr. 0. H.
Tiffany of Philadelphia. The honorary pall
bearers were General Sherman, Roscoe
fiannfnr Sfnn f/-** /} Pncfm q oh>r.
ouu'?4-vi U , m. WV. . .w.ww?
General Vilas, Gen. Lucius Faircnild, Mr.
C. H. Andrews, Col. Grant, Mr. M. D. Leggett,
Dr. McMillan, and General John C.
Black. They wore sashes of black, with
shoulder knots of black and white ribbon.
They formed in two lines as they came within
the bar, between which passed the pall
bearers of Grand Array men bearing the
cjffin. The Congressional Committee won
wide sashes of white. The honorary pal,
bearers and the committee were conducted
to seats on the left centre. Senator Shermat
and Speaker Carlisle occupied chairs at the
President's desk, and the clergy were at th?
desk of the Secretary.
The solemn services were begun by ths
reading of the 90th psalm by Bishop Andrew.
Dr. Butler read as the burial service
a portion of the 15th Corinthians, and prayei
was offered by Dr. Tiffany, and the funera:
sermon was delivered by Dr. Newman. Th<
silence of the great gathering was most im
pressive, broken as it was only by the un
controllable sobs of the widow, who leaned
as if for support and shelter toward her son,
in whose firm clasp her hand remainec
throughout the ceremony.
At the close of the funeral oration the benediction
was pronounced, and then the procession
reformed and filed out of the Senate
chamber. As the casket, preceded by the
pall bearers, was borne slowly down th<
steps of the eastern front, the Marine band
---J "? I V. Un fLul fcn
piayeu lutj ujrmu. .icaim, ...
Thee." Every head was uncovered ai
the coffin was placed in the hearse anc
the military came to a "present arms.'
Then the procession began its march
to Rock Creek Cemetery, four or five mile:
distant. At it3 head rode Lieutenant-Gen
eral Philip H. Sheridan iu full uniform. He
was followed by four members of his staff,
and the band of the Artillery, with mufflec
and crepe covered drums, playing a funera
march. The guns and caissons of the
batteries moved in double line, and
the dismounted artillery, with theii
red-lined cloaks thrown back, marched ir
platoons as infantry. The marines, headed
by their band and drum corps, carried armi
reversed, as did the militia organizations,
which came next The colors of all the organizations
were furled and draped it
black. The Grand Army Posts and
all uniformed delegations, with six
carriages containing the mourners, the
clergy and the pallbearers, preceded the
hearse. This was drawn by four spirited
black horses, covered almost entirely with
sombre trappings and oloths, and moved in
the centre of a nollow square formed by the
Grand Army escort. A long double line ol
carriages closed the procession.
The procession arrived at the cemeterv at
3:40, and after the coffin had been placed on
a bier at the entrance to the vault, Depart
ment Chaplain Swallow began to read the
burial service of the G. A. R. Surrounding the
casket stood members of the Cabinet, Senators
and Representatives, army officers of higb
rank, and gray-haired veterans of the war,
with uncovered heads. After the Chaplain
had finished, the Rev. Dr. Newman stepped
I forward and delivered the Lord's Prayer
concluding with the beneJiction. As the
pall bearers bore the casket into the vault c
trumpeter, standing at the entrance to the
tomb, broke the dead silence with "Taps'
(Lights out). The casket was ther
uncovered, and some of the dead
Senator's relatives and friends passed
throuch the entrance and took a last look al
ms ream res. 'men the cover was replaced
ami the case enclosing the casket fastened.
Meanwhile tho procession had started.
After the ceremonies at the tomb were
ver, arrangements were made to have a
guard of honor from the Soldiers' Home,
and later from the regular army, maintain s
watch over tho body until its final removal
to Iilinois.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The people of Paris eat 2,000,000 larks everj
year.
During the past year 647 duels have been
fought in Franoe.
A turkey hanging in a Chicago butchei
shop weighed 3'J 1-2 pounds.
The l.boo convicti in Sing Sing prison eaf
twenty-one barrels of flour daily.
Buffalo has natural gas now which ii
brought eighty-seven miles by pipe.%
New railroads to the length ot' 7,000 mile
| wei e built in the United States during the
past year.
The silver mills of Montana represent an
investment of $20,000,000, and her mining
machinery as much more.
f King kalakaua,of the Hawaiian Islands,
has gambled away $74,000 deposited by poor
people in the Postal Savings Bank.
I Granville, Mass., is the centre and heart
of the drum making business of the United
States. It turns out daily about 1,^00 drums.
Moke than lifty colored men hold clerkships
in the departments at Washington at
salaries rangiug from $1,000 to l,u00 per
year.
During the year 1880, American mills have
produced 1,:>50,000 tons of steel rails, valued
at $40,000,0 )0. The prospect for 1837 is said
to bo better.
Hyacinthe Boter, an aged basket maker
at Ottawa, Ont., has received notice that by
the death of an uncle in Fiance he is the sole
heir to $?,000,000.
During the past year 2>,00Q articles have
accumulated in the Dead Lotbei ornce. These
included all sorts of necessaries, from E^t^r
eggs to seer-sucker suits.
E. Cooper, of banta Barbara, has proved
that olive culture cau ba made to pay in California.
He has a grove of (3,0J0 trees which
yearly yield .')0,0'JJ bottles of excellent oil,
which ho sells for $1 a bottle.
The Pionk family, ia Liocolnton, N. C., is
long-lived. Joseph is now ninety-eight year
old; his sister, Mrs. Tethrow, is on? hundrec
years: and Mrs Weaver, another sister, L
one hundred and two yeai-s of age.
The Patriot's League, of Chicago, orga
nixed with the avowed purpose of combatinj
the efforts to spread Socialism and Anar
chism, has issued an addre s to the public
asking the co operation of all good citizen
in the movement.
An Eastern zoologist recently paid $500 to
four crown id pigeons. They are of a delicat
afceel blue color, are almost as large as tur
toys, and the crest is composed of a row o
* gray feathers standing upright.
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WEDD.HG BELLS.
~
The Secretary of the Interior
Takes a Wife.
1 *
Married Quietly in Georgia to a
Former Sweetheart,
Secretary Lamar was married the other
day in Macon, Ga., to Mrs. William S. Holt,
formerly Miss Henrietta Dean, by the Rev.
William Park, of Sandersville. The wedi
ding, says a Macon special tD the New York
Sun, has been looked for and various hours
had been fixeJ, but it is now known that the
parties did not really agree upon the date
until the day before the ceremony, when the
minister was telegraphed for and the license
Srocnred. Ten o'clock a. m. was named, and
le wedding partv restricted to the immediate
relatives. The first to arrive at the
Holt mansion was Mr. and Mrs. Virgin, ,
the latter tue daughter of Mrs. Holt.
Then came Secretary Lamar aud W. H.
Ross, with whom he has been stopping while
here. Then came Col. J. E. Jones and wife,
the latter a sister of Mrs. Holt, aod these
were followed by Dr. K. M. Patterson and
wife, the latter also a relative.
At the appointed hour tbe minister took
his position in the recess of a bar window in
the parlor, in which had assembled the family '
, Mrs. Holt, droned in ste?l gray silk and leaning
on the arm of Captain R. E. Pork, her
son-in-law, left the sitting-room fol->
lowed by Secretary Lamar and
Colonel Boss. Reaching the hallway
the quartet separated, the Secretary joining
Mrs. Holt, and the two walking with right
hands joined to a position in front of the
clergyman. The ceremony lasted only two
minutes, after which the minister ana the
bride's two daughters tendered congratnla'
tiona The wedding party then went to the
breakfast room. The bride presided over
the table with ease and grace. Champagne,
| fruit, and cake formed the principal part of
the breakfast. Friends dropped in during
[ the morning to tender congratulations, and
many telegrams of like import were received.
, At dinner, which was given at 2 p. m. , only
; the family and a few friends were present (
Secretary Lamar and bis bride left Macon
at r>:20 p. m. for Atlanta, where they rei
mained at the Governor's mansion with Governor
J. B. Gordon and fatuilv. They left
Atlanta the next morning for Oxford, Miss.,
to visit Mrs. J. B. Ross, a sister, and Mrs. A.
W. Mays, a daughter of tbe Secretary. They
i intended spending a few days in Oxford and
then starting for Washington.
Some very romantic stories have been put
[ into circulation with respect to the relacions
i which existed between the bridegroom, who
. is now 61, and his bride, wWo is 58. When
1 they were quite young, 42 years ago, I* Q.C.
[ Lamar, of Putnam County, Ga., then
i years of age, was a law student in
) the office of Absalom H. Chappell,
s of Macon, who was at that time one of the
leading lawyers of the South. He became "
i acqua:n'.e I a short time after she came here
with Miss Henrietta Dean, a beautiful and
> accomplished young lady of sixteen. It ha?
been a matter of common report that the
I bride and groom of the present came very " > : V
i near assuming that relation to each other
- soon after they met, and it is generally
believed at Macon that the marriage
I is tbe result of the attachment which
, began long years ago. The story gcee that
I vuey were eugaxuu, uou buoiucTiM?uigiv?oi9
quarrel, and parted iii anger. At this juncture,
it is said, another suitor for the lady's hand
appeared in the person of Win. S. Holt, also
> or this place, and that he obtained her
i consent to become his wife before Mr.
) Lamar was able to mase up the quarrel, and
I that, overwhelmed with grief, mortification
i and disappointment, he saw his lady lore
; made the wife of another from a seat on the
I bough of a tree near by. It is said that
' Secretary Lamar, in years gone by, has told
i this story himself; but be tnat as it may, he
) now denies it in most emphatic language. The
truth is that they were engaged for a short
) time, that the encasement was broken tome.
, time before Mr. Holt became a suitor to the
I lady, and that he never was in any sense Mr.
I Lamar's rival. The bride has a handsome
) home in Macon and a sure income of $10,0.10
I or $12,000 a year. No determination has been
' reached as to the future home of the couple,
i but the impression prevail; among intimate
1 friends that it will be in Washington.
! W' _______
I THE NATIONAL GAME
) Pittsburg ha3sixteen men signed for next
) season.
' Next season the trick will be to steal third
i base instead of second.
' A wmn a Innt* HmA HC
J XLf-mn UUIUIU^ VU ( ivug ?UMW y
Flint has again signed with the Chicago
champions.
; James O'Rourke, the lawyer ball player
i of the New York League Cluo, is reported to
. be worth some $13,000.
1 Is San Francisco the baseball fever is
1 spreading among the gentler sex, many of
i whom attend the exhibitions regularly.
1 The Olympic Clab, of Philadelphia, ae!
cording to the statement of the Call, was the
i .first team to play basebalL It was organ|
ized in 1S40.
! It is prophesied that the strife for the peni
nant in the International League will settle
. down to a contest between Syracuse, Newark
: and Rochester.
> The Brooklyns will make ah effort to secure
the services of Burdock, of Boston.
I The latter says that he would like to play
: third base for the New Yorks.
' Erastus "Wim.v.v, who is a baseball
manager as well as a man of extensive interests,
says that at least $2,500,000 is spent
t yearly in baseball in this country.
In order to keep in practice an Ishpeming
[ (Mich.) nine plajrs ball when the snow is two
i feet deep on the leveL The players use snow
shoes and a ball large enough not to get lost
in the snow. Very little sliding to Dases is
indulged in, however.
The defunct League members are Worcester,
Troy, Providence, Buffalo, Clsve,
iand, Cincinnati, Louisville, Milwaukee.
Tue American loses Pittsburg, Columbus,
Indianapolis, Washington and Richmond.
The loss o( Pittsburg, however, was a
greater loss than the Leugue felt in all their
* losses combined.
THE MARKETS.
i new york. 1
Beef cattle, good to prime... 7 @ 8.'$
Calves, com'n to prime
> .... 4}^ '?
LamEs fwM 4"
, B^-u?7. $f $
' Flour-Ex. St, good to fancy ? 00 @ 4 TO
West, good to choice > <0 &o ?
Wheat-No.'if Re<l ? f
Rye-State ?
. Barley-State......... ?
| Corn?Ungrad. Mixed 41^
1 Oats?White State *0 @ 41
Mixed Western #? ?
Hay?Med. to prime 5o @ N>
; Straw?No. 1, Rye *> @ ??
Lard-City Steam 6 @ 6 .J*
Butter-State Creamery.... -4 & -<j
Dairy -<' ? :? .
West. Im. Creamery ~'4 @ -?
Factory * ^4 @ ,
Cheese-State Factory 113
Skims |0Mf
western n ku. jEggs?State
and Penu ? (? 34
BUFFALO.
Sheep?Good to Choice 3 75 @4 00
Lambs?Western 5 00 5 73
Steel's?Western 4 40 @4 !K)
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 35 1 @ 4 45
Flour 4 75 @ 5 15
7'heat-No. 1 ?1 J?1J^
, -No. 2, Mixed - @ 44
Rn.fflv1' S- Mixed - &
Bai ley?feu?e -y ^
Beef-Good to eh??s *>
Hogs?Live r.
I Northern Dressy' * * J, ,
: Pork?Ex. Prime, ner bbl::\A ?A *
Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. ''. 't
Corn-High .Mixed U % ?
Oats?Extra White 42 {?. \.n,
- Rye?State 00 <&,
5 WATERTOW.V (MASS.) CATTLE MARKK.
- Beef-Dressed weight 0)4C<p. >y
, Sheen?Live weight 4\
s Lamts 5 ? ?
Hogs?Northern '% \
PHILADELPHIA
Flour?Penn.extra family... 2 75 @ 3 00
Wheat?No. Red 93 (6} 05
r Rye?State 57 <6} 58
0 Corn^-State Yellow 45 <ti} 48
'* Oats Mixod 37&@ 38
* Butter?Creamery Extra... 31 (g 32
Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. lg?i@ 13X