Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The San Francisco Argonaut s&)-& of oite | of its esteemed local contemporaries I that it "has not the courage to denounce the rising of the sun in the East because many of its readers live in the West.*' The importance of the fish trade is illustrated by the recent leases issued at Fulton Market, Xcxv York City, twelve stalls having been taken at $1,500 rent. A srrcat many fish must be sold to clear an j congress to provide lor uie purcnase uy the ?*overnmMit of the battlefields of abrogate rent of $15,000. Mrs. Polk, the widow of Jrancs KPolk, tenth President of the United States, is over eighty years of age, "but she is in good health and she possesses a memory of unimpaired vigor. She resides in the old Polk homestead at Nashville, Tenn., a large, roomy, t*.To-story buildin;; made of brick. A Swiss printer living in Indianapolis i9 going to establish snail culture in that section. Americans who have never been abroad usually revolt at the idea of eating "snails," but the fact is, says Frank Leslie's, that the European eseargot, which feeds upon the roots of grapevine?, is e real delicacy, and no more resembles the common snail than the toothsome lobster docs the spider-crab. Adelina Patti is in l.vrr forty-seventh year and Lilli Lelimann in her furty-lifth. P.ntVi nrr> sniwrbiV. and ininiO!HC * * ? C"""0 A - ' audiences arc spellbound by their voices. The fact, says the 3f?t<k<il Courier, ? a lesson to young vocalists who arc ambitious to be full fledged soloists in a few summers, and who expect to acquire before they are twenty-five what can alono come with long experience and normal development. Of the thirty-seven oleomargarine factories in this country eleven are in Chicago, and none is found east of that city by the internal revenue ofli< crs. In February 2,01 o, 779 pounds were made, taxed, and removed for sale, and only 38,100 pouuds were exported. "What would become of those factories, asks the New York Timfs, if an attempt should be made to sell every pound ol this great product to consumers for what it really is? A bill will be presented to the next o Lookout Mountain, Moccasin Bend, Chickamauga and Mission Ridge. l'or the purpose of establishing ami maintaining a national park, preserving so far as possible the outlines of the battlefields, and erecting suitable monuments to the memory of the fallen men, -with statues of the leadinggeneralsof the Union and Confederate armies alike. Mourning dinners are the latest ParisJan folly. Twelve young ladies, dressed in the deepest mourning and heavily veiled, compose the party. The dining room is draped in black; silver wreaths and tombstones take the place of pictures. The chairs are shaped like coffins set on end and hung with immortelles. Knives and forks have bones for handles, and ine cnampagne is serveu m tnuus. me dinner is oaten in silence to slow music. "What at first was a poor joke lias bccome a fashionable cra/e, that is IvotJy denounced from the pulpit as immoral and wicked. The meanest-man competition has begun again. So far California takes the lead. It is recorded that a merchant in Los Angeles observed a newsboy peering down info the grating in the sidewalk in front of his store one afternoon recently, and upon inquiry learned that the little chap had dropped a quarter into the place and was studying upon the best means of recovering his wealth. The merchant sent one of his clerks down into the cellar, recovered the coin and very coolly put it into his till. A policeofficer investigated the matter, and gave the boy twenty-five cents to replace the coin of which he had been plundered. K. America has its "professors of journalism," but England is said to be about to have a school where newspaper work tain well-known London journalist is to open a school in which pupils shall receive instruction "in the writing of paragraphs, reviewing, short-hand, special correspondence, war correspondence, leaders, sub-leaders, art and dramatic criticism, sub-editing, editing, etc." The New York Commercial adds wilh some sarcasm: Upon graduation pupils will be ready to take any position that may offer itself in the line of messenger boys, theatrical supernumeraries, aud street sweepers. Somebody who lias been investiga?i?g the subject, says that the chief effect of an earthquake on the ocean is the raising of a great sea wave, sometimes very large, as, for example, sixty feet high at Lisbon in 17G1, also eighty feet at Callao in 1724, and 200 feet at Lupatka in 17:17. These waves arc often more destructive on land than the actual shocks?the influx usually preceded by an outflow, wiling in for.f ?? ? ?-? - v.., ... .in i, a^i-> it ?urmng. '/ne of the most remarkable effects is the. distance to which these waves are propagated as "great waves," for example, right across the Pacific. Thus, mo^t large earthquakes on the east or wesr coast of the Pacific producc waves which arc recorded on the opposite coast about twenty-four hours after. It is asserted that, as to prediction of earthquakes, nothing certain is yet known, but in many cases there are noticeable changes in springs and wells preceding the event. One useful warning, however, remarked as 'obviously possible?namely, the report of an actual earthquake on one side of the Pacific could be at once telegraphed to j the other side, thus giving twenty-four j houre' notice of the probabie advent of i I Ijreat sea wave. j fc--.-.# > ?? TTTiT MgaW? TWENTY PEOPLE BURNER, j A 3Ii<lnlj?ht Fire in a Scanning New York Tenement. Men, Women and Children Rushing Through Blazing Halls. A fiire in th? crowded tenement quarter of Jfew York a few wights ago was of an unusually exciting and dramatic character, many people being bun>ed, although happily 110 lives were lost-. The following is the Sum'# graphic account-: T7:? .15 1 t. P JITT WlWir tiituitfgiit i** Levy's bakery in ttie basement of l'i Essex street. The Viasement is common to the two five-story tenements at 1- and 14 Essex * street. aiul the flames extended through the stairways and halls of each. About fifteen families live in mk4i house, and most of the members of the thirty families in both were asleep in their )>eds. E-cape was impossible by the halls and scairs. lint each front was covered with an ample lire eseapo. These were soon swarming with men.women.and children. All the people I in the house were Polish Jews, and their cries and exclamations, joined with those of the cxcited spectators in the adjoining houses and the street below, made indescribable consnsion. It was feared at our* 1 ime that many lives "would be lost. Hut the police and firemen worked gallantly and I lie lire escapes were soon cleared. Some few persons had managed to reach the roof, nn11 these., too. were brought down. A fireman said that several parents, in their excitement, deserbnl their sleeping children, and were found on the fire escapes, while the children were in bed when the firemen got in. Among the rest were about.a scoie who had been badly burned in attempting .to esca]*? through the halls. They were mostly burned about the faces and arms. The burne.l and blistered slcin. mid the smoke-begrimed faces and singed heads n of the sufferers were women ami children. Many of them were carried down bodily by the firemen, being unable to help themselves-. All were soon scattered about in the neighl?oring houses in Essex and in Hester streets, both hurt ami unhurt speedily disappearing from the si-em while the firemen fonglit-and subdued the flam?s. The ambulances then began to arrive. The work of gathering up the injured persons made so mueh further confusion that it was impossible to get all of the names. One (Jouvenieur Hospital ambulance t<>ok seven writhing and crying patient-; from a Hester street tenement. in which they had found shelter. It was soon back after another load. In the mean time Bellevue Hospital and Chambers street ambulances had each gathered up a number. The injured will number over twenty. No part of the house seemed to have been secure. Some of those hurt lived 011 every floor. The damage to the house was slight, and was confined princijially to the stairways and the adjoining floors. The ftouverneur Hospital gave she'ter and attendance to six women, four children and a baby in arms, two men and a hov. The street was crowd s! with excited countrymen of the people in peril, an I Captain Allaire, with all his reserves, had difficulty in keeping the front of the house clear enough for the firemen to work. There was no fire to lie seen by the crowd, but all sorts of i n mors of the horrors of the lire wen- in circulation in the street, and, borne out as they were by the hurrying ambulances, held the throng "to the spot." THE NATIONAL DEBT. Statement -ol' the Government's Assets and Liabilities. The induction of the public debt during March was tl2,80S.4?>7.71. Total cash in the Treasury. SM5.S.]17,0S?!.G1; priucijttl of the debt, interest *11,911,$59.01: ot?il debt, $1,708,207,.>18.64. The following tatement show the assets and liabilities of the Treasury: Assets. Gold coin Bullion ? ? Silver?Standard dollars ...$30!,r,7-?,372 Bullion 4,779,858 3fH!,4o2,:HO T'nited States notes. National bank notes *200, Trade dollars redeemed 3.S59,5?J4 Deposits in national bank depositories 1!}.91!?,717 Fractional currency redeemed... ?i,210 Interest. checks and coupons paid IS,WW Nat ional bank notes in process of re? lemption S5t> Interest on District of Columbia lmnds paid .f?,105 Assets not available?minor coin in mint for iwoiruicii Ijl-.OTifc Fractional sil ver coin ,('?! Total 'XI1 j LiitbiliHes. Gold certificates $ 1 3S.SU.'tyW5 Less amount on band :i!?,7,">7,(110 $(M,OK0li Silver certificates....Sii:{S.14:!,;j;iS I/oss amount on liaml ti.'il ]:;i,'.tt0.4S!> Certificates of deposit $7..V4.">,000 I>*ss amount on hand 410,<KKJ 7,185,000 Public T)?bt and Interest. I?it-ot ?-3t due and unpaid fc\U0;!.S<<) Accrucd interest S.OdiM'lS Matured debt G,!*S?,27.*i Interest on matured debt Iifc?,il7 Called Ixmds not matured and .......... V ... ..... . I Debt bearing no interest -VJ10 Interest on Pacific Railroad bonds iluc and unpaid Accrued interest on Pacific Hailroad bonds {#? ,:>' Reserve for redemption of United States notes, acts of 1875 and 1SS2 10o.t?Ni Fund held for redemption of notes of national iKtnkvfailed,'' "in liquidation'' and "reducing circulation" '>J, ltV?, 1 IS Fund held for redemption of national gold bank notes S^yliT.) Fivo jkt cenl fund for redemption of national bank notes *,$?:?,812 Post Office Department account... ."?.HT1.4!I7 Disbursing officers" balances 27,14*,11I Undistributed assets of failed national banks...., 927,414 Currency and minor colli redemp tion account 4'H) Fractional silver coin redemption account I t,sr-t> Redemption and exchange account i Treasurer's transfer checks and drafts outstanding 4.1SU,.;s*. Treasurer United Stabs iiger.t for pa\iuu interest on District of Columbia bonds I.*i'i,i.'i'2 Ha/oners, Net pold sKSl.!?:?.i,sJ7 Net silver 74,.r>21.741 Net United States notes ".'I,l.V.?,'.t."i7 Trade dollars redeemed National bank not?*s 2<> Deposits in national bank deposi lories II?,;>1**, Total Assets i.V^;.(hc.?.;i7 Liabilitios .?! ">,21?7,<N'?i Balan'HJ The following is a statement of t he 1'nitcd States currency outstanding on April I: (Mil demand notes/f-VT.-.V); United States notes, all issues, $34?i,r?s 1.016; oik* year notes of 1*1'.:!, two-year notes of ifjlfcj, $9,:t00; t woyear coupon notes of IXW?, $20,200; coiiiI*>und interest notes, $11*4,2ri0; fractional ur niicv, all issues, *15,iT.i4,4H5, making a t->t*d I fWK*, 3-?, 75U. The Queen of England lias twenty-two Jussengers constantly traveling back and forth with precious documents aud her royal behests tliat cannot be entrusted to the telegraph. While she was on the continent two of these messengers were continually skipping back and forth, one being always on tno road. Over ?2,400,000,000 is the estimated value of the he -ses, mules, cows, oxen and other cattle, sheep and swine in this country on the 1st of January, 1887. ? - ... - NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle Stales. Numerous New York followers of HenMost welcomed the Socialist leader with great warmth upon his return to the city Friday after serving a year's -sentence on Blackwell's Island. John Talbot, an expert safebreaker, who stole over $:j0!i,0<w worth of bonds and money in Philadelphia, and who had previously robbed a jeweller in Montreal of $8,000 worth of diamonds, has been captured in New York. The New York Senate unanimously passed resolutions condemning England's coercive measures toward Ireland. A special a?ext of the Treasury Department reports that he has succeeded in unoni'M<i'ncr ctiinontl.mc frnilHs in CilllIMVtinn with the California Redwood Company in Humltoldt County, Cal. Lands worth *.'1,000,D00 are involved." Thk central part of New* Hampshire lias been visited by an earthquake. Cattaix Boytox. the aquatic: adventurer, has been making a trij) down the ice-covered Hudson river in his rubber suit. A New York school-boy named Tscheulin was shot, in school by a "school-mate named Roill}' and probably fatally wounded. South and West. Lewis Stewart (colored) was hanged at Laurens, S. C? for wife murder. A pitched battle took place near Hemphill. Texas, between a company <>f State Rangers on one side and old 'Willis Conner and his three sons on the other. Three of the Conner family and a Ranger were killed.and two other Rangers were badly wounded. The Rangers, while hunting timber thieves, were attacked from ambush l?y tl>e Connet s. ] The steamship Saragossa, bound from Baltimore to Jamaica, foundered at sea, and her crew and two passengers were saved by the ship's boats, landed at. Bermuda and came thence to New York. More than 100 persons arc reported Starr ing in the drought-stricken jtcrtion of Texas. Two men were instantly killed and two fatally scalded bv the explosion of a saw-mil! boiler twenty miles from Columbia, S.C. a fihk lias destroyed a large number 01 houses at Clarksvillc, 'feiin., the kisses footing up SoU0,000. The Hotel Del Mont", at Monterey, C'al., has l?een destroyed liy fire. The :;<X) guests, mostly Eastern jteople. escaped in their night clothes. The total losses are estimated at fcl.OW.OOO. Ovkr ii,Oi)t) Chicago carpenters struck on Monday for eight hours a day and :> "> cents an hour. Mrs. AxGfs Cameron*, wife of the exUnited States Senator, made an unsuccessful attempt to drown herself at La Cross?, AVis. She had been suffering from mental aberration. Miss Catharine Wolffe. a New York lady of great wealth and exceeding lil>erality, is dead in her sixty-first year. She was the richest unmarried woman in the United States, and left an estate estimated at *'? ,OW.OOU. Women voted for the first time in Kuu-a* on Tuesday. i Captain T. 0. Relkridge. late commander of the United States war ship Omaha, I lias arrived at San Francisco, under suspen skin l?y Hear Admiral Chandler. While in Japan a group ol* Japanese were examining a shell Iire 1 from the Omaha in practice, when if suddenly exploded, killing lour and wounding seven. Captain Self ridge was immediately suspended and ordered to return to the United States and report to the Secretary of the Navy. Six miners were killed !?v an explosion, and twelve more who attempted to rescue them were sulfonated, -at Savanna. Indian Territory. Washington. r.eckii'ls <>1" the I'nite I States Tivu-ury for March were from customs. r$.V,.20S from internal revenue and for miscellaneous, making a total of ? 1fti. Expenditures during the sain? pn'iul were ^]2,04'.VE{~ for ordinary, ?t;,V;ii..Vjr toe Ijensions and $!,$11.$<I5 for interest. A xi'MBKR of the crack military organizations in the South are about to withdraw from the coming national drill at Washington <>n account of tin expected participation if colored troops. i Additional, Presidential jJOKtmasters ap pointed: J. Howard Taylor, Columbia, Dak.: tlureelhis Keene. Atlanta, 111.: Alexander A'. MeCafferty, Austin. Nov. The total redemption of trade ilollars, according to the latent, returns, amounts to about $4,000,1100. Tmk President lias appointed the following jiostma-stei-s: U. 1*. Miller, Angelica, N. Y.; WillnrdM. Baird, Ogdensburg, X. V.; William H. Price, New Jinm.-wick. X. J.; John Kennall, Passaic. N. J. rr..? o *_ r *i.? fr...vrt^ u..,. J^.i.i.,.1 i lit* ruxi view > *.?! I IK* Iivunuji ua? uo rn-u that national Imnk depositaries arc not inquired t?> redeem trade dollars under the <?; rent net. Foreign. M. Axtoixk. a delegate to the Herman ileielistog from Met*. has been expelled from Alsace-Lorraine. The motion of Mr. o'Connor, Home Hulc member, to adjourn tli<? debate on the Coercion bill in the British Mouse of Commons, was defeated by .%1 to 254. A motion to cIo->* 1 he debute was carried <:>?! toAVJ), and the tirst reading of the l>ill was agreed to without division. 31 r. f'arnell made a scathing breech against Coercion, and was supiiorled by Mr. Gladstone. A \ew Italian Cabinet has Iteon formed. Tub i-oof of a church at Linguaglossa, Sicily, fell suddenly during, the Sunday services, burying liK)~ jursons, forty of whom were killed or injured. A kheshkt carried away n mill-dam at t iiigvii^u, v. niiaua. jkti sujs nnr drowned. The Czar will not permit Itussia to participate ill llic J'aris Exhibition in because lie knows that the headquarters of the Nihilists have lieen transferred to the French capital. Advices from London state that the health of ox-Secretary Daniel Manning is improving. Rki'Eatkd earthquake shocks have occurred at Aden, Arabia. Josiah Caldwell, cnnqiuny promoter, of London, has failed. His liabilities arc enormous. J.Je failed once before for fctyWO.m. THEIR LAST RIDE. Two Cowboy Desperadoes Killed in Nebraska. Port-he last six months Auselmo, Custer County, Nel?., has been the rendezvous of cowboys coming l'rom the Western ranches. They would get drunk, make the citizen* dauee, and shoot into stores and private dwellings. The other day Hugh Fit zpa trick and Hilly Degan, from the C. O. D. ranch, rode into Anselmo, proceeded to "till uji," and rfwlo through the streets tiring their re vol vet's and yelling. On entering the billiard-hall Degan quarreled with Charles Murray ami shot him through the foot. A telegram was sent to Sheriff 1 Villi, at Broken How. tocoino and arrest them and 011 hisarrival. Fitzpatrick and IVga.irode oft' to the outside of town. After reloading their revolvers, however, they charged down the street as ln-fore. ()n reaching Humphrey Smith's hardware store Sheriff I'enn demanded their surrender and when they refused he and his jxwse shot their horses from nailer them. Still they would not surrendernnd I'enn and his posse fired at them, killing Fitzpatrick instantly, a ball Koing through liis heart, :ui?l jHMioaitin^ Ifc'gan's alNtoiiit.'ii ? ? that he live' only lif'lminutes. A SHOT AT THE CZAR. Fii'cd Upon llr an Officpp AVliile Walking in tlie Park. Advices received from St. Fetei*sburg fully confirm tho report that another attempt has been made upon tho life'of the Czar of Russia. It is learned that while the Czar was exercising in the park connected with the Gatscbina Falace, he was fired upon by an officer of the anny, the ball passing close to his person. The officer was immediately : seized and imprisoned. ; Scorpions have appeared in swarms in ' Ihirango, Mexico. The municipality offer to . pay a reward of one dollar for every 100 dead ones produced. Asa consequence, with- \ in two months they had to pay the promised reward on 30(200 of tits rejjtiles. ' YiU MEN LYNCHED. Taken From a South Carolina Jail and Hanged. Angry Citizens Avenge the Murder of a Little Boy, Five negroes were lynched at Yorkville, S. C., the other morning by armed white men. j A special front Yorkville gives the following particulars: About sunset on the evening of November 3(1 last cries of distress were heard in the field, ol! William E. Goo:le. Mrs. Goode, her little | daughter, and a negro boy hastened in th<9 direction of the cries. They found little John L Goode, a boy twelve y>ars old, lying in a water furrow insensible. His skull was crushed, his mouth ! knocked in, and his body almost beaten into a | jolly. He was carried'to his home, but died i at 9 o'clock that night. Circumstances pointed to Mose Lipscomb, Dan Roberts, Bailey Powdle, and Pint Thompson. all colored, as the guilty persons, and they wero committed to jail. Some of t hese negroes had been seen by the murdered bov stealing cotton from his father's Held, and, to prevent detection, they killed liiin, intending to throw the body into Broad Kiver. only a few- yards distant, but the approach of Ins mother thwarted their purpose, and they fled. Pint Thompson and Dan Pioberts made a confession and implicated a number of other - ~ 4-lw* oflniA Tl?OV CO i/"l f.liuv tVAI'iJ Jll-fclUC.I 111 HIV A .4V-tf . stealing a basket of cotton when the boy came upon them, and while some held him down, ot hers In'at hint to death with rocks and sticks. Hicy further confessed that there was a comI >i nation of about forty negroes in tlio county, who in ten tied to steal and had sworn to kill any oae who caught them stealing. Later, twenty more of the band were lodged in jail. A preliminary examination resulted in all being discharged except six of the principal criminals. Atthis examination it was clearly brought out that about fifty of the worst negroes in the country, under the leadership of au old mulatto, Giles Good, who has been implicated in several murders, were sworn to stand by each other, to resist arrest in every instance, and to kill every white man who caught or charged them with stealing. They called their organization 4-The Rising Star Lodge." One of the prisoner testified that he was induced to join the order bj* being told t hat they conld take or steal all the provisions llicy needed. Another said that the object of the club was to take whatever they wanted, and if detected to kill the person who detected them. .4.11 that was stolen was to lv taken to the boss man, who would distribute it among the members of the club, and every member was expected to contribute to the general store. Several members of the band were colored boys not over sixteen years of age. Others were gray-headed men. Several murders had lieen committed in Vorkville during the past few years which had always appeared a mystery, but every indication pointed to members of this gang as the ]X'rpetratoi-s. Some of them while on the stand confer*! to having attempted to murder ;i wnire nwu a iu\\ mfhfi ncioit' uiu murder of Uoode. Mose Lipscomb. Pan T??>1 ?vi*ts. ISailey I)owille, l'int Thompson. Giles Gnml, and John (Jood were committed 1o the York villi) jail for murder, (hi the night of Deccmlwr ]5 it was rumored that an attempt, would be made to lynch the prisoners, and the Sheriff railed out the Jenkins Kiflcs to euard the jail. The next night the SlierifT remove?l the prisoners, and started to take them to a railroad station twenty miles off. Shortly after his departure a hundred hojveinen roll- up to the jail and broke it. open, but the birds had flown. They ?'ave chase, but the guards took tlio prisoners through and eluded the lynching party. Two days were spent in the woods K-fore the prisoners were gotten safely 011 the train and brought here for safe keeping, Yorkville has always had the reputation of lxnng a very peaceable j county, but. a numltcr of men swore that those negroes should never have a trial. Tim (Criminal Court; for Yorkvillc convened there yesterday, and on Saturday a guard t-tok the six prisoners bark to stand th'ir trial, which was to have begun this week. It was believed that, as the prisoners were certain to bo hanged, they would not be molested, ami it is probable that nothing would have l*vn doue had not Mr. William E. (ioode, the father of the murdered lm\ Itecome a raving lunatic tuid Ikjcii sent to the lunatie asylum. It was further ascertained that the condition of Mrs. (iiMide's mind is but. little liette" than herhus i bawl's, and in a abort time she will very j,-robahly join Liiia ill the asylum. The honu of n happy. t*r<>s|>erous family liad lieen wiecked by the harrihle murder <?f the only sun. This caused the farmers ami friends <?f the stricken people to lfoinc infuriated. Last night, as there wiis no I bought of violence, the jail in which l lie prisoners wen- eonlined was unguarded, save by iron holts and doors. At midnight a liand of men b*gan assembling on horseback outside the village. Three hours later they began to ride toward tho sleeping village. .lust as the moon was sinking seventy horsemen gallojted down the deserted street to the jail and called to the Sheriff. They demanded the keys. The Sheriff asked them not to take any rush steps. Ho wis not keoded. They were prepared to use force, and in a few minutes axes and levers were at work. One door gave in after another, and at last they came to the cells of the doomed men. The iron doors were burst o|>en, and the murderers were seized. The prayers for mere}* uuu kuc DUUUI-> auu anw&c tuo JIOI^II* borhood. John Good was believed to be innocent and was released. Tho other five men were tied upon horses, and then the whole party mounted. A small crowd had gathered in tho neighborhood of tho jail, but the lynching party was not questioned. Tho men put their horses to a run, dashed out of tho town, and did not halt until a clump of woods u mile off was reached. Hero ropes were put around tho necks of tho live men, and then thrown ovor convenient limbs. The negroes begged for mercy and prayed and. yelled. They were utterly terrorstricken wnen their last moments arrived. Tho horse* were suddenly made to spring from under them. A volley of pistol shots was firod, and the mob melted uway in tho darkness. When tins sun rose tho bodies of (riles Goo 1, Han Eol?erts, Mose Lijiscomb, Bailey ] towdle and Pint Thompson were round by the Sheriff swinging in the air. OHOLERAJS_EAVAGES, Two Hundred Death* Daily in it South American City. A Bolivian newspaper says: ''The cholera has appeared in the province of Tarija, Ar gentine Republic, near the Bolivian frontier. Our authorities are doing their best to prevent it reaching here, and havo cut off all communication with Cnrutuha, where the disease is racing. Coruinha is a Brazilian town on the Bolivian frontier, from which i1 is sejKirated by a range of the Cordilleras." CorresjMHidence l'roin the Argentine Hepub lie; is sadly interesting. Tucuman has suf feivd t he worst, the death rate having reached :i?H) net* (lav. and almost, all these cases were sudden attacks Jolloived )>y sudden <leatb>. Tu Twuuiun tlx* oulv vehicles seen in the s{reels wero hearse.. in the charge of priests of the diffeivut orders. Tim families that went into the country found themselves compelle I l?y hunger to return. In tin; citv there* is uxeat poverty, and meat is selling readily at SI cents "jv.m- pound. Th?ru were not doctor* enough, although happily upward of fifty j practitioners Iimi arrival from ltueno* Ay res j at tlu?<<)i<l ?f January. Notwithstanding rlir* nctiritv displayed by these humanitarians and f the authorities, many bodies art- contiiiU'illv foundot'.'.sidft city, at the mercy >r dogs. ALARM IN MADE ID. ! Attempt to Jtlow l'p tiovcriuiifti? I Oil ires Willi tiiuipowilei'. > During a sitting of :!?; Chamber of Dopi: ( ties in Madrid a paiv'unent ca>i containing t ;un|vnvdi:r, within which was a metallic * artridge, with a fuse attached. was found in * the doorway of the President's Bureau. s Later a jietard w;is exploded in the vosti- r ?ulo adjoining the oflieesof the Ministry of I'inancf. Windows were broken by the eon- (> uission. Nobody was injure 1, but the two ? neid^w* have caused roaeli alarm in Madrid. * * A ... LATER NEWS, The Rho le Island State election on "Wednesday was unusually exciting on ac> count of the disaffection of a leading Repub> lican newspaper, the Providence Journal. Davis (Dem.) was reported on the morning after election day to have beaten Governor Wetmore (Rep.) by about l.OOO votes. Similar majorities were reported for the remainder of the Democratic State ticket. The Democrats also made gains in the Legislature. A large fire in Boston destroyed property valued at ?150,000. Wright & Pott ?r, State pnnters, were heavy losers. Ax equestrian statuo of General Albert Sidney Johnston was unveiled at New Orleans on the "?tli. the twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle of tShiloli and the death of the Confederate leader. Jefferson Davis was the a O onil'H" i.'L ihi; uaj . Five lives were lost by the capsizing of a ;,teamer in the CVur D'Alene River, Idaho. The Michigan Prohibitionists charge that numerous voters against the prohibition nmendment had been "colonized'' from Northern Ohio. Canada and Milwaukee. Hon. D. Wvatt Ajkex. a member of Con stc.m for five tonus, died a few days ago in Cokcsbiiry, S. C'.. aged fifty-nine. A Sax Francisco special sjys that the bark Eldorado, from Seattle. Washington Territory, has foundered, and all but two of 1 he crew of twelve are lost. Thirty-two cities of "Wisconsin have elected Mayors as follows: Thirteen Republicans, eleven Democrats, three Labor, four Citizens1, and one Independent. Ix response to the petition of Southern railroad companies, the Inter-State Commerce Commission has relieved them from I he operation of the long and short haul clause of the law for ninety days. The Pops insists that Dr. McGlvnn. the deposed New York priest, must come to Rome. rPr?- or-A-if lutimonanf. {nfnnf.rr l?nrmnl'c nt. M.IIT. 1^' J "" Aldershot, England, havelieen almost wholly destroyed by fire. Four indictments for assault with intent to kill his wife and daughter have been found against the Rev. Charles N. Ward at Englewoixl. N. J. Thk New Jersej- Legislature lias adjourned. Uexekai. T. W. Cox way, a prominent temperance advocate and Secretary of the State Temperance Leagucfepf New York, die<l suddenly a few evenings ago in Brooklyn, of heart disease. He was l?oni in England in 1SJK>. According to a decision of the United States Supreme Court many non-conforming National banks in New York City will be compiled to pay the city nearly ?>,000,000 in taxes. The City Marshal who collects these taxes will get for himself about ?<)5,000 hi fees. IJexry Bower & Sox. manufacturing chemists of Philadelphia, have failed for 5v?00,00(). Ix the United States Court at Richmond. Va.. Judge Bond ordered the discharge of William L. Royall, who was convicted a fewweeks ago of bringing suits against the inemlters of the I* rand Jury who had indicted ? -- - i *?. t ?]? 1...1a iu.i Illlll KM uarnurv. i> uuge jjuiui jit-tu mat iu was the right of every citizen of the United States to sue any one whenever he believes that he has been aggrieved; that this right is fundamental in its character, and no State c an deprive any citizen of it. Secretary Whitney has invited sealed proposals from the ship-builders of the United States for building live new war vessels. The President has api?ointed Benton J. Hall, of Iowa, to be Commissioner of Patents, vine M. V. Montgomery, r??i<ned. A prominent railroad official says that the Pennsylvania Company alone will save i'-W). (MM) yearly, owing to the altolition of the free pass system by the provisions of tho Interstate Commerce law. It is l>elieved that the President and Mrs. Cleveland have derided to accept an invitation to attend the annual encampment of the (irand Army of the Republic in St. Louis next September. At a recent Cabinet meeting important international questions, including the Canad lnji iisuery trouoie, ?fit? wiiMuenu. r.iiglaud is understood to sustain the position taken bv the Canadian authorities, and is in nowise disposed to make the concessions requested by "Ui- Government. Tliis question was coi^idere i bv the Cabinet, with a view to the advisability of suitable action by the President under th" provisions of the IMaliatory aH. A HUGE LAND RING, Forty-One Members Indicted For Fraud in California. A bombshell has been exploded in the camp of a fraudulent land survey contract ring, in California, the members which have grown rich in swindling the United States Government out of public hinds and money paid for surveys which wore never properly made. Tlio Federal Grand Jury at San Fraucisco liavo found thirty-three indictments for perjury and eight for conspiracy. It is generally understood that the charges include 0110 each against men who will be defendants in criminal actions, and who are said to be ringleaders in the scheme to rob lwl.h tlio Government and settlers; 30 against men who have been used by the ring, but who are said to have guilty knowledge of tho business and to have sworn fasely to affidavits and statcsments as to the time and place of making Held notes, and to personal appearances lwforo them as commissioners and notaries whose names are sul>scribed to contracts and assiirnmeut bonds. A Sun Francisco dispatch says that the importance of the action of the Grand Jury will he seen when it is stated that rumor whispers that indictments have lx>en found against the following persons: John A. Benson, ostensible head of the firm of Benson & Co., 011 two charges; William H. Norway and S. W. Forman, partners-in-chief in the concern, two each:' Theodore Reichart, former chief clerk in the .Surveyor-General's office and now Surveyor -General of the State, two: "Col- ; onol" J. 15. Wood, first lieutenant of Bunson and chief instructor for ignorant deputy surveyors, two; M. D. Hvde. : former partner of Benson, two : M. F. Roil I y. , sub-contractor, two; John McNee, former 1 and present partner of Benson, two, and a ' ho.st of small fry. It is asserted that the same influence which | enabled Benson & Co. to manipulate the . affairs of Hie Si 1 r vey or-GoneraI s office in California enabled tlicin to get. a p?ep ?t bids ' <>f other contractors, and to under-hid them by just enough to seen re contracts ] which gave t lwin a profit of from $l.ry>.0ii0 t< a year. The. fraud of which the indictimmts just found are the result have long bixm a public scandal, and tlte impending j trials throe!en to involve oven more promi ricfil :nrr: l!.nn those i?wnfiomy|. ? * ~ i i DECLARED ILLEGAL. I 1 I'lic Connecticut Supremo Court I Declares Against the Boycott. j The Connecticut Supremo Court lias handd down a decision in the celebrated New > Iaven boycott case of the State versus tilid- 'j Ion. The defendant and other memKirs of a trade union who wore employed by the C'arrington Publishing Co., t which controls the New Haven Courier, | truck and afterward boycotted the company f o cotujiel them to discharge lioninion employes. In the evidence beoro the lower court witnesses testified hat the object of the boycott was to compel ubuiission on the j>art of the company or tiin the business. Judgo C'ur|H?ntor delivered the opinion. Ho j: iecided agaim.t Walking Delegate Glidden * ml the latter must pay the flue imposed by t lie l<7wej court. * IB A MINING DISASTER. Six Miners Killed in Indian Territory by an Explosion. Thirteen More Men Suffocated in an Attempt at Eescue. A terrible explosion has occurred at Savanna, Indian Territory, in coal shaft No. 3, by which six miners were killed. A rescuing party was organized and sent down into the mine, but they were overpowered by gas and thirteen were suffocated bofore they could be taken out, making eighteen dead in all. The body of gas fired must have been immense, as the torrent of flame forced from the mouth of the slope was over a hundred feet in height anrl illuminated the whole country like an immense flash of lightning. It was followed with such a concussion as to startle everyone j for miles around, and people in the immediate j vicinity weiV severely shocked. The engine i house and lifting works, a structure more than 100 lone arid two stories hiirh. was I blown into splinters by the current driven out of the slope, and in a few* minute' was enveloped in flames. From the character of the building, and it being literally saturated with oil, it was not possible to save anything from the flames. There were six men in the mine at the moment of the explosion, which occurred at 1:10 o'clock. These men were all killed. Their names are as follows: Mile' Jarrett, Dave Tones, Hugh Dooley, \V illiam Barnes, Charles Parsons Beit Frcneh. The most distressing part of the accident is the suffocation of thirteen more.who were attempting, with others, to reach the fated men through the entries in No. 1. The following are their names: James Ward, .Tames MeGiunLss, Fred Batz, Tliomas Naven, Mike Kelly, Thomas Daniels. George Hill, Pat Glancy, Robert Miler. Pat Pagan, Jolm Williams. Peter Renald, William Hudson. The workings of the two mines run together far down in the mines, but these means \JL I't/uuxiuiiitttuuu iia>c no ci lktcu ?otended to or kept open or in order, although they famish the only means of escape from one mine to another, and now when they are needed it is impossible to get sufficient air through these old, disused entries to enable the men to prosecute the search. SPRING J3LECT10NS, Exciting Municipal Contests?Prohibition Defeat in Michigan. The spring elections this year were unusually interesting because in some of the cities Labor tickets were in the field, while in Michigan a Constitutional amendment forbidding the liquor traffic was to be voted upon. PROHIBITION LOST IX MICHIGAN. Later returns from Michigan were not so favorable to the Prohibitionists as the first reports indicated. The latest figures on the election placed the Republican plurality on the State ticket at about S.000, while on the prohibitory amendment the opposition majority was about 8,500. Prohibition was killed by the cities and towns. Detroit's adverse majority alono was enough to overcome the favorable vote of the entire State outside of the city. The Upper Peninsula, too. struck Prohibition a severe blow, giving 7,000 to !',000 against the amendment. HHODE ISLAND GOES DEMOCRATIC. For the first time' in twenty-five years Rhode Island has elected a Democratic "Governor. This result was brought about mainly by the bolt of the leading Republican paper of the State ? the Providence Journal. The results of the contest mav be summarized as follows: John W\ Davis (Dem.) is elected Governor by 973 majority. l nere is no eiecnon ior Lieuwnantrtiuvenior or Secretary of State. Ziba 0. Slocum(Dcm.) is elected Attorney-General by 2,518 majority. and J. G. Ferry (Deni.) General Treasurer by 2,?tK) majority. The majority against" the Woman Suffrage amendment is 15,123. In Providence the entire Democratic Assembly ticket is elected. The Senate stands, Republicans Jft, Democrats 12, and there was no election in five cases. The House will comprise 27 Republicans and .'?3 Democrats, with no elections in ten.districts. Whether the Republicans or the Democrats have a majority in the House and upon joint, ballot will depend upon the result in the fifteen districts in which second elections are to be held. The new election will also decide the fate of the Republican Lieutenant-Governor and Secretarv of State. The total vote cast (34,915) exceeds by more than 0,000 any previous Gubernatorial vote, and exceeds by 2.000 the vote cast in the last Presidential election. THE CINCINNATI ELECTION. The triangular fight for control of the city I onvernment, was a neculiar one. from the tact that the partisans of tha three tickets were confident of success for their respective leaders and because of the uncertaiutv of the strength of the labor element, which was well organized and hopeful. The result, as announced by the Election Board at 11 :30 l?. M. 011 the night of election day was: Stevenson (Laborl, 17,414: . Smith (ftep.), 17,4<M: Matson (Dem.) 11,090. The Democrats were completely routed, several of their strongest wards falling into the hands of the United Labor forces. The heavy Republican wards, notably the German ones."barely escaped the same late. At 1 a. St.. however, an error was found in the counting by which Smith (Rep.) was elected bv aoout- 509 votes. The rest of the Republican municipal ticket was also elected. the result i.n* chicago. In Chicago the municipal election was the most exciting ever hold, and resulted in the success of the entire Republican ticket over the United Labor ticket. The total vote for Mayor was: Roche, (Rep.) M.384; Nelson, (United Labor), 23.H08; Roche's majority, 38,070. In 1885 the figures were: Harrison, (Dem.) 43,352; Smith. (Rep.) 42.W7. All the rest of the Republican ticket, with two or three exceptions, was also successful. The Democrats almost solidly supported the Republicans l>ecause the Anarchists had come to the front and declared their determination and exi>ectation of electing the United Labor ticket. ELECTION'S ELSKW'HKHE. The election in Cleveland for municipal officers was ft surprise to the Republicans. Tlie eulire Democratic ticket, headed by B. D. Babcock, the caudidate for Mayor, was elect eil by about ,'1,000 majority, The Boanl of Aldermen is probably Democratic also. Mi'. Babcock is a prominent busiuess man. Two veal's ago the Republicans elected (George "\V. Gardner Mayor by upward of tf.WM). The Hartford "(Conn.) city election took place Mondav, half the Board of Aldermen and all the Common Council being chosen. The result was (i Kepublican Aldermen and 'i Democrats, and If Republican Cotwcibneu ( and lii Democrats. Counting those Alder- ( men who hold over, the city Government will, on joint lullot, have a Republican majority of 1-. i In the election at Toledo. Ohio, the chief ' issue was wheth-r the saloons should lie closed an Sunday. The Republicans nominated a member of t he Law and Order league, white the Democrats nominated a lilvral German. ]'h? fight resulted in a victory for the ( Kepublicans. by a majority of from oOOto til. At the Bridgeport d'oim.) municipal elec- | ion the Republicans re-elected their Mayor y ."'V) majority. Tli - <'it\ Council is Kepub- _ Iii Wisconsin the onlv State election was ' 'or Associate Judge of the Supreme L'ouif. Harlow S. Orton (Dent.) was re- i jlectcd without opjtosition. Millwaukee'-ounty 1 .oted on Judge of the Circuit and Judge >f the Superior I\?urt. The Democrats and iiepuhlicans placed a fusion ticket in the field . igninst the Lai tor party. The fir-ion ticket uisMtccessful l>y alnnit O.uo.t iiiujoril.v. The . L'llsor party elected abuiit one-balf the Alder . nen and one-third of the JSttix'fM'vors. Colonel William H. Martin, the Democratic , lominee, has lK*en elected to Congress from : IVxos. to fill tho unexpired term o? John II. j {eagan. J Michigan wolves have been killing' the leer in the Upper Peninsula in large nuin- I x>rs. The heavy snows greatly imjxxle the i novenients of the deer, while wolves hound J tlong easily on the crust, through which the I iharp hoofs of the deer cut. Gkob?e V. Cujj.ds of the Philadel- 1 ihia Ledger is still suffering much ^ rom the effects of hip fall upon the ice 1 ereral weeks afro. , ?v -v - A PITIFUL CASE. A I ouiiff Lady Shot Dead on the Kve of Her Wedding. Miss Carrie Sharp, of Shelby ville, Term., was accidentally shot and killed at her home the other night under peculiarly distressing circumstances. During the evening she was visited by Mr. A. H. Ruth, to whom she was to be married the next morning, and at 11 o'clock Mr. Ruth was preparing to leave, when Miss Sharp picked up a revolver, which her affianced had placed on an ottoman. She remarked that she was afraid of the weapon, and was in the act of handing it to bim, when the revolver, a self-cocking one, caught in the ' folds of her wrap and was discharged. The bullet entered Miss Sharp's heart, and she fell to the floor dead. The report of the pistol attracted the attention of the family of the dead girl, and rushing into the parlor a terrible sight met their gaze. Mr. Ruth was horror stricken, and for some time was unable to relate how his betrothed had met her fate. Miss Sharp was a graduate of ths Shelby* ville Female College, a beautiful and very popular young larlv. and liad been engaged to Mr. Ruth, a son of Mayor John W. Ruth, for a long time. She was buried in her wedding dress. __ A TRIPLE EXECUTION. Three Mnrdercrs Shot to Death in Cuba?Their Crime. Three murderers?two mulattoes and an Indian?were shot recently on the outskirts of Santiago <Ie Cuba, at a place made famous by the shooting of the crew of the Virginius. Two years ago they conspired to capture a train of pack mules laden with cocoa on a road near the city. The}- surprised the driver and his assistant. a mere lad. cut them down with ma<11ites, tied them to trees, and practiced shocking and revolting cruelties on their victims until they were dead. Later tliey sold the cocoa to a Spaniard from Catalonia for and divided the money between them. The mul?s they turned loose. The thro- men and the Spaniard wore arrested and brought to trial. The .veal thy Spaniard got oil witu ten years in t he chain gang, hut the murderers were condemned to death by shooting. A pardon was asked for and refused by the Quee? of Sp:tin. NEWSY GLEANINGS. During the year 1886 thirty-six telegraph offices -were opened in China. The New York Morgue receives 5,000-. bodies in the course of a year. Over three hundred new settlements in Dakota are applicants for postoffices. The Salvation Army is to begin work among the Indians in the Northwest. Canada's public debt is over f290,000,000. an increase of over ?5.000,000 the last fiscal year. A new potato disease has appeared in Louisiana, which threatens to destroy the en- , tire crop. Florida fruit men say that the strawberry crop this year will be nearly double that ot last year. Be.\-jamix Shurtleff bought a piece of land in Chicago in 1859 for $800. He sold it a few days ago for $105,000. . ', Eleven Alsatians have been sentenced to imprisonment for six months for wearing tri-colored ribbons in Berlin. TnE profits of the Chicago stock-yards are said to have reached the enormous sum of fiOO fW) Hnrmnr thp rmof, ten rp#rs It is said that not less than two million y pounds of dried sage leaves are used annually in the United States for various purposes. A thirty-two-foot spruce log was rccently sawed into boards in a Pugel Sound mill, and made t},400 feet of lumber without a knot. 1 " * MUSICAL ANDDRAMATIC.. ^ Henry Irvixg's income is estimated at * $3,500 a week. Edwin Booth will $ ICO,000 richer when the present season closes. The Indians at Vancouver, British Columbia, have a band of seventeen pieces. Edwin Booth has had one of the gi-eatest successes in the history of the legitimate drama in San Francisco. The Abbe Liszt wrote 1.132 compositions, of which 442 are transcriptioas of tne worksof other composers. Pauline Hall, Marie Jansen, and Isabel ujijuutu >/, lien t-viuic opcru stars, were singing in the chorus five years ago. John T. Raymond will soon appear in a new piny, "A Gold Mine." written by George H. Jessop and Brander 3Iatthews. Thk circus, with its drawing power of 7,000 or 8,000 daily or 45,000 a week, has hurt the business of all the theatres in New York. * Arthur Wallack will probably take tin* management of Wallack's in New York wlieu his father retires. It is uot unlikely that event will occur next season. Christink Nilsson said she would leave the stage for good after her latest matrimonial venture, but she has concluded to make just one more farewell torn- through America. * Mrss Mary Wickiiam. a talented 3-otmg American violinist, a pupil of Joachim, lias I 1 i.1.. ?1J >-? * -? - - 1 uuu uie gum jih.mui iur art ana science conferred upon her by the Duke of Saxe-CobureGotha. Mary Vax Zandt. the well-known singer, has so far recovered from her stroke of paralysis as to bo able to walk about with th? use of a cane. Her complete restoration is looked for soon. "Nellie Bly,'! a well-known newspaper correspondent, is the latest offering to the stage. Her real name is Miss Pink E. Cochrane, and she has long had an ardent desirw to lxvome an actress. Verdi is going to finish a comic opera tliafc he Ijegan flity years ago. While at work on it his furniture was seized 'for rent and be lost his wife and cliildreu?circumstances that put him into anything but a humor for comic- v opera. THE MARKETS. xew york. 14 Beef, good to prime T^'(3 * Calves, com'n to prime 9,l?@ 10 Sheep ~}'i@ * ' 1.3 nibs 'j Hogs?1 jve i 5J? Dressed 7Jj@ ?}? ? Flour --Ex. St., good to fauey "00 @4 00 West, good to choice :5 10 @ 3 tfo Wheat-No. lied 90?f? !1 Itye- State 57 <g 00 liarley?State 60 ((/> (V? Corn?Ungraded Mixed...*. 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