Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The annual losses bj fire in the United States amount to $120,000,000, and the consumption of cigars, cigarettes and smoking tobacco amounts to $206,000,000. Total destruction by fire, $326,000,* 000. Here is a good word for the women. An English statistician has discovered that the matried men live longer and live better lives than bachelors. Among every 1,000 bachelors there are thirtyeight criminals; among married men the ratio is only eighteen per 1,000. According to the mint reports, California has dropped to the third place among the States and Territories as a producer of precious metals. It still ranks first in the production of gold, but is away behind Colorado and Montana in the production of silver and in the total value of the output. There was not a dentist among the mourners at the funeral of Littleton h.V.^ rllnrl in ATfipvlanrl n. few d&VS l ajxiv, r? xjiv uivu a i* ? ago. He came into the world equipped with a set of teeth which lasted him until his exit from this mundane sphere. The years of his life were three score and ten. Mr. Payne was certainly an obstruction in . the path of dental science. Quoting from the Albany Journal that a Bridgeport woman is a believer in the blue glass theory, the New York Sun adds: " She ought to change and adopt the Blue Grass theory. In that blissful region all the girls are beautiful, and before they are twenty every one of them is married to the man she loves best. Bridgeport is dull and hopeless in comparison." "Sportsmen are catching many German rarr> nt a nond in Litchfield countv," r K _ - I says the New Haven News. "This tallies with other reports that the carp has j thrived in almost all the waters of the State where it has been placed. The carp is not gamesome, but properly prepared for the table can be made quite a delicacy, and promises ere long to be aD important addition to our list of food ?sh." Money is now abundant for speculation in railways and lands, but, adds the New York American, the supply must gradually diminish under the present prodigality. "When the pinch and cramp come, as they most assuredly will, then look out for the crash. The vast real es tatc speculations of 1830 were the cause of the smash-up of 1837. Likewise the breakdown of 1S57 was caused by the wild real estate speculation of 1855 and 1856. In many cities and in many sections the brake should be put on at once. I" . - I A New York railroad Man tells a Mail j and Express reporter thftt the mile a minute speed is a myth. Occasionally, he says, trains on a stretch of level track . -with an easy grade make a mile a minute, but the fastest express train in the United States, the New York and Philadelphia limited, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, averages 48 3-10 miles an hour. The average fast express of the United States reaches 36? miles an hour. The fastest train in the world is the "Flying Dutchman," which averages 59 1-8 miles an an hour,, between London and Bristol. The Minneapolis Tribune tells of a new feature in Baptist merrymakings: The young men distinguished themselves by the preparation of a supper at the church parlors, including ices, ice cream and charlotte russe. It was incumbent upon each young man to make with his own hands a cake, and as a result nearly thirty specimens of these culinary triumphs were set out before the throng in attendance. They were in all shapes and sizes, and some of them were tearstained and bore evidence of many weary hours of deep thought and anxiety. The men danced attendance as waiters at the tables and wore colors corresponding? orange-yellow, pink and blue. An exhibition of articles of food and cookery has been opened in Amsterdam, t7<v1lAn/1 i a 4- a fivfnn/1 flin ^ VV ^AIVUN* VUV t knowledge of the various vegetable and J animal kinds of nourishment provided by , nature for the benefit of man; to furnish by mutual comparison a stimulus to further improvement both in the cultivation and preparation of these articles, and at the same time to disprove in the most convincing way the prejudices which too often prevent or hamper the general introduction of useful means of nourishment. The idea is the introduction into Holland of articles which other countries manufacture and the Dutch people might use. The exhibition will remain open to September, and -we presume o-.ir conntrymen are represented in the body of visitors. The London Pall Mall Gazette at last announces the results of its competition in regard to the best novels. ""We did not," it says, "expressly limit the competition to English novels, but our readers have been patriotic, and hardly a single foreign book appear? in the lists.The result may be taken, therefore, as embodying the current opinion of the day on English novels and novelists: 1. The | best historical novel, Scott,'Ivanhoe.' 2. \ The best humorous novel,Dickens, 'Pickwick.' 3. The most imaginative romance, ! Rider Haggard, 'She.' 4. The best,'novel with a purpose,' Charles Reade, 'Never too Late to Mend.' 5. The best talc of seafaring life, 'Midshipman Easy,' 6. The best tale of country life, Geo. Eliot, 'Adam Bede.' 7. The be?t sensational novel, Wilkie Collins,'Woman in White.' 8. The best tale for boys, Defoe, 'Robinson Crusoe., 9. The best Irish novel, Lever, 'Charles O'Mallcy.' 10. The best Scotch novel, Scott, 'The Heart of Mid- , lothian.' 11. The best Eovel of all, 'Thackerav. 'Vanity Fair.' " *. /'V. MATTERS OF MOMENT. Interesting Occurrences in Various Quarters. A Town in Mexico Ruined By a Volcanic Eruption. A part\r of explorers sent out by Governor Torres to ascertain the existence of the volcano reported near Bavispe, Sonorn, in Mexico, have returned to Herniosillo. They report an active volcano fourteen miles southeast of Bavispe, in the Sierra Madre mountains. The party could not approach nearer than four miles of the mountain. The crater was pouring fourth an immense volume of smoke, fire, and lava, and boiling water was issuing from the side of the mountain. The lava, in vast waves, was slowly pouring down the mountain I intnthnnnnrnns whioh ar^heinjr filled. Boil ing water lias destroyed all vegetation in the valleys in the vicinity. Boulders weighing tons are hurled down from the crater. The exploring party says the noise proceeding from the mountain was most terrific? like a number of vast engines at work accompanied by sounds of thunder. The air was . dense' with smoke and cinders. The party had great difficulty in approaching within four miles of the mountain, owing to the great chasms made by the earthquake, and all the roads and trails are totally wiped out. The country is fearfully broken up. The entire surface of the earth presents a woe-begone appearance, and not a bird or living thing could be seen withiu ten miles of the volcano. The town of Bavispe is a complete ruin. The people have all moved out on the high plains, and are living in tents in mortal fear. There has been a constant tremor and continual series of shocks daily since the first earthquake shock. The other night quite a heavy snock was felt in Tucson, Arizona. Funeral of William A. Wheeler. The funeral of the late Wm. A. Wheeler was held at Malone, N, Y., in the Congregational Church. The business places of the town were all closed out of respect to his memory,and the body lay in state in the vestibule of the church during the forenoon. The school children and citizens generally viewed the familiar 'ace. The pall bearers were D. W. Lawrence, H. A. Taylor, C. G. Gleason, William A. Short, Thomas B. Kane, and J. J. Seaver. The church was draped with crape and national flags, and adorned with flowers in profusion. The Rev. C. S. Richardson conducted the services, assisted by the Rev. W. G. W. Lewis and the Rev. J. W. Ashworth. Among other selections the choir sang Mr. Wheeler's favorite hymn: "Come unto me when shadows darkly gather, WThen the sad heart is weary and distressed." The Rev. Mr. Richardson then spoke a eulogy upon the private and public character of the deceased. The body was escorted to the cemetery by the Twenty-seventh Separate VJUlfJUEl V. *UIJUIJ? piCOCUb ncio AUi. R. B. Hayes and his son. The Bodyke Evictions. The evictions at Bodyke, Ireland, continue. A tenant, McNamara, who was behind in his rent, defended his house, but the bailiffs broke a hole in the wall. Logs and boiling water were thrown through the hole at the evicting force. A policeman dashed through the opening made oy the bailiffs, and other officers followed him. A fight ensued, and the tenants were evicted, and afterward arrested. The bailiffs charge the tenants with having thrown vitriol upon them, but this is denied. A tenant named Murphy made a similar resistance. At a meeting of the Irish National League in Dublin the consensus of opinion of those present was that the course of Mr. Davitt in advising tenants to resist eviction was not wise. Timothy Harrington, Secretary of the League, announced that the Organizing Council would implore the tenants not to allow anything to drive them to violence, which wonld be to play into the enemy's hands. Fatal Boiler Explosion. A dispatch from Chester, Penn., states that the boiler of a locomotive of a freight engine on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway exploded, resulting in the killing and wounding of thirteen men. The station at Chester was completely demolished, being leveled to the ground, and a large bell was carried four squares oy tne iorce or mo expiusiou. ?iju utmost consternation and excitement prevailed among the people. The engineer escaped without injury and the fireman was slightly hurt, A group of painters who were at work upon the building were all injured, ana a number of carpenters who were nearby at work at the time were all hurt by being either scalded or struck by flying missiles. Assistance was at once rendered by the neighboring people and the injured conveyed to the drug stores and houses nearby. Millions of Sharks and Mackerel. A Norkfolk (Va.) dispatch says that Cap tain Steelman, of the scnooner Susan B. Ray' reports that on May 28, while off Cape Lookout, bound north, his vessel ran into an immense school of shnrks in seventeen fathoms of water. They were l,as thick as they possibly could be,' he says, and the school extended as far as the eye could reach. The schooner sailed through them for fully an hour, making only about three miles. After getting clear of the sharks she encountered a shoal of mackerel and sailed through them for four hours. Capt. Steelman says neneyer before saw mackerel in waters south of , Body's Island. ?rtt?Tn I r A itt\ Tin i ir i mr? I MUblUAL AJNJJ LUtAMATlU. Franchixi, the great Italian singer, is dead. The Emperor of Austria spends over $1,000,- ) 000 a year on the Vienna Opera House. Next season Joseph Jefferson will make aa extended tour in the South and Southwest. Tbe custom of giving oratorio performances in English cathedrals is fast spreading. ' Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll's eldest < daughter is said to have the purest and best i soprano voice in New York. , . I It is said that the famous Swedish tenor. Bjorksten, who has made such a success in Paris, is soon to come to this country. Miss Annie Pixley is looking for a thea- ' tre in New York in which to start a comedy ] company, with herself as stock star. Mrs. James Brown Potter is to appear in "Old Love Letters,'' at a performance in Loudon in Baron Rothschild's palatial mansion. Another young American violinist has been making a stir in Germany. This is Miss Campbell, who recently gave a concert at Gorbersdorf in Silesia. At the next concert of the London Musical society, a cantata by JtJeetnoven winch lias recently been discovered will be presented. It is said to be very beautiful. "The Pyramid,'' Mr. Puerner's new eomij opera, appears to have made a popular sue- \ cess at the Star Theatre, New Vork, where the audienc?s are large and enthusiastic. 1 When Adelina Patti first api?eared in London at the age of seventeen, Mr. Gye, the j manager, contracted with her for a five , years' engagement and agreed to pay her $000 each time that she sung. During her recent tour she received $5,000 a night. The Vaudeville Theatre, London, England, has been successful as a house of long runs. May 25 "Sophia" was played for the HOOth time. "The Two Roses"1 ran for 4H0 nights. "The School for Scandal" 400. "Our Boys" 1,362, and "Confusion" 457. This is making an average of over WO nights for the five plays, covering a j>eriod of nine years. A scene, not on the bills, took place in the Iksnlro ,v> too M U i i/uwiwt ... iu., uue niKiit rrcently, during trederiek Warded performance of "Richard III." In the wooing scene, where Richard gives his sword to Lady Anne, several of the cowboys in the audience shouted: "Kill him!" '"Stick him!" and one cattleman, more enthusiastic than the others, drew a pistol, and, pointing it at the tragedian, said: "Any man who would treat a woman like that ought to die!" He was disarmed at once and taken from the theatre. The Czar has an album with the pictures of all the Nihilists who have been implicated in plots against his life. When the last attempt was made he remarked that the album would soon be filled, as there were only a few more pages left. Millionaire Flood has recently inclosed his San Francisoo palace with a bronze fence which cost $30,000, and he is now adding two large bronze gates, each weighing 4,000 pounds, and which will cost $15,000 more. I NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. The General Executive Board of the Knights of Labor have ordered a boycott of Higgins's carpet factory, a New York establishment employing a large number of hands who are all members of the Order. Consequently the action of the General Executive Board has created much excitement among " ' ? t _t J a" i>ew i orK jvniencs ot i.huui , aau m ucnoun^ed by the Master Workman of District Assembly No. 126. The steamship Umbria has just beaten all previous records by making the passage from Queenstown to New York in sir days, four hours and twelve minutes. Bears killed in Maine woods last year numbered more than six hundred. Chiek-Justice Ulysses Merccr, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, died at the residence of his son in Wallingford, Penn., Monday, aged seventy-one years. The two rear cars of a train left the track at Pownal Station, Vt., and were wrecked. Twelve persons were injured more or less severely. Editor O'Brien has sailed from New York for England. The night previous to his departure prominent citizens of New York gave a banquet in his honor, and he was given $25,000 to help in the campaign in Ireland. After the banquet he was escorted to the steamer by the Sixty-ninth Regiment. South and West. By a collision of freight trains near Caler, Ala., Engineer Rowe. Fireman Burton, and a negro tramp were killed. The International Sunday School Convention, in session at Chicago, telegraphed its jubilee congratulations to Queen Victoria. Two Indians, executed publiclv in the Indian Territory for murder, were shot to death with revolvers. Yellow fever has been declared epidemic at Key West, Fla. Four masked men stopped a train near ut/vnfk Tatod on/1 ntnn^oiwl tho ay [>ress and mail cars, taking the registered etters from the latter. The passengers were not molested. Two officers, said to have belonged to the United States Army and Navy respectively, have committed suicide at Monte Carlo, the great European gambling place. Fourteen bandits captured by Mexican troops were summarily put to death. Ax omnibus lo ded with people returning from a picnic was overturned near Cincinnati, and all the occupants, forty in number, were thrown down an embankment. Six persons, most of them young ladies, were seriously injured. A quarrel between Professor Posey,Principal of the High School at Henderson, Ky., and Professor Clark, the General Superintendent of Public Schools, ended by the former shooting the latter twice, inflicting comparatively slight wounds. The quarrel took place in the High School, and created a panic among the pupils. Posey was arrested. The thirty-eighth annual convention of the American Medical Association has been in Qftoei'An of PKi^oo-n A band of seventeen Apache Indians have feme on the warpath in Arizona. Troops ave been sent after them. "Washington. From January 1 to June 1 this year 2,351 miles of railroad have been built in the United States, mostly in the West. This is the greatest milage ever recorded with the exception of the same period in 1862. t*r -tir . ?* ill it, VV . ?V, V^UK^UXVA."*, IUC IJlilllUXUXII c philanthropist of Washington, was suddenly stricken with paralysis in the left arm and leg Monday afternoon while at dinner. The redemption of trade dollars to datf amounts to about ?7,000,000, and Treasury officials think that few more are outstanding. There is talk of testing the legality of thf Inter-State Commission in the courts. Foreign. A dispatch from Binhdinh, Annam, sav.' the mandarins and 40,000 natives have submitted to the French Resident, pledging theit allegiance by kissing the earth according tc 1 the native custom. Queen KapiOLan*!, of the Sandwict Islands, has arrived in England from New jl vsi n Lawrence Donovan,the New York pressman who jumped off Brooklyn Bripge souk time ago, has iust leaped, from London Bridge into the Thames. He intends to jump off the Clifton Suspension Bridge, the highest in England. A fight broke out at a wedding neai Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, and seven persons including the groom, were killed. Michael Davitt, the Irish Home Rul< leader,in an address in the Bodyke district ol Ireland, where the wholesale evictions havi been taking place, urged the people to make the utmost resistance to eviction. The summer monsoon, which annuallj HfinnrctVio rninv coaoin in Tnriifl hfls nnrv>nrAn The crops of the country depend upon this yearly visitation. It is reported that hidden treasure to the value of ?95,000,000 sterling has been discovered in the palace of a deceased Vizier at Rabat, Morocco. The Sultan, it is said,has confiscated the treasure and is having it conveyed to the imperial coffers. A Calcutta dispatch says that rerananti of the steamer Sir John Lawrence have been picked up, and that she was undoubtedly lost ? ? mrnlnnA i-kflT fKo AAacf r?f TnHio T'hrt iu a, icvum tjvivuo vi*. kmc v-uho? w* ahu<>? ?wV steamer carried 730 passengers, the larger part of them' native ladies, and all the best families in Calcutta are in mourning for lost relatives or friends. LATER NEWS, the constitutional prohibitory amendment aas been defeated in the Massachusetts House ay a vote of 139 yeas to 74 nays?not the lecessary two-thirds. Mr James G. Blaine, accompanied by iis wife and two daughters, sailed on Wednesiay from New York for Europe. He will make a tour of Europe, and expects to be jone about a year. John Mannin, Marshal of Morehead, Ky., was badly wounded while trying to arrest John and William Logan, brothers. The posse accompanying Mannin killed both the Logans, Charles Spencer, one of the best known men in Dakota, has been indicted for cattle stealing. Secretary Fairchild has issued a circular in regard to contagious disease in which he says that the President has determined to establish, by means of the vessels of the revenue marine, a National patrol of tbe coast of the United States. Ax order has been issued by the War Department directing the dismissal, "without character," of W. H. Green, the only colored man that was ever admitted to the Signal Service. He was on duty at Rochester, N. Y., and it is stated that his record has been very unsatisfactory. Fifty-three miners were killed by the explosion in a Westphalia coal mine. Prof. Herrmann, the noted prestidigitatenr, died a few days ago in Carlsbad, Germany, at the age of sixty-six. A HEAVY UPHEAVAL. The Yosemitc Region Shaken by an Earthquake. An earthquake shook the greater portion of ixorwiern tamorma aim wrawni-itiauu w twoen 2 and 3 o'clock the other morning. One house near lieuova, Nevada, after the earthquake, was surrounded by cracks in the ground from an inch to afoot in width, and another shako equally as heavy would have destroyed every brick house in the town. At Sacramento houses were shaken until the windows rattled. In the Yosemite Valley the shock was distinctly felt. At Carson City, Nevada, pictures and plastering fell from the walls. A large amount of plastering was torn from the Supreme Court room in the Capitol building. The Hot Springs are reported dried up. Virginia City, Truckee, Marysville, Chico and Nevada City are a few of many other points affected by the shock. A rattsesnaxe was found In the mail pouch taken on the train at Morrow's Station, Ga., the other day, and he soon had full possession of the mail car. mi FATAL SHUTS. = A Farmer Kills Four People, and Then Shoots Himself. A Fight For a Dakota Claim Ends in a Terrible Tragedy. A frightful series of murders have just oc t\?i c? Uiurcu 111 DCUUIC V^UMIIUJ, Oil HUH O. Neilson came to the county in July, 187.1, and took up land south of Cavour and lived there three years. He was regarded as a law - abiding citizen, although of strong passions. He was of average intelligence and a hard worker. He wos one of the first Commissioners of Beadle county, and served three years. Five years ago, when it was announced that what are known to be the "Cameron Claims" were thrown oi)en to settlement, Neilson took up one of these claims. Mrs. Flora E. Shaw, a widow, with her sister, Miss Alice E. Lyman, from Geauga County, Ohio,came to Huron, Beadle County,in April, 1882, and immediately filed on the quarter section of land which Neilson had put some kind of a filing on, but it was reported that Neilson had land covered up under fictitious names, and they, seeing that Vio rUH nnt lit-a on Mia eln im hnilt; their house and moved into it. With Mrs. Sha w was her son Corvin, twenty-one years old. One or two yea:-s after this Neilson moved on to the land. The son Cerwin lived in fear of him and did liotliingtooirendhim. When the case came id for trial the Huron land officers decided in favor of Neilson. It was; then carried up to the Commissioner and finally to the Secretary of the Interior. both of whom gave the land to Mrs. Shaw. It was supposed tha t the case was ended. As Neilson did not Liave the premises the District Court was appealed to and. issued an order for him to vacate. This was disobeyed. The attorney for Mrs. Shaw got an order from Judge Spencer last week for Neilson to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt of court. When young Shaw attempted to work on the laud, Neilson took a Winchester rifle and threatened to shoot him if he did not leave, which he die!. The other morning E. C. Lyman, a brother of Mrs. Shaw, and Miss Lyman. Corwin Shaw, the two ladies, and J. A. Kelsey, a neighbor, went to the field to work. Lyman anclShaw began ploughing. The women remained at the edge of the field. Kolsev had been threatened with death by Neilson. When Corwin had ploughed across the field with Lyman just behind him, and had turned to make another furrow. Neilson came out with a Winchester rifle and shot ai Lvman. who dashed behind his horses and was not hit Lyman called to all: "Run for your lives." Corwin ran, but fell dead, shot through the heart, the ball entering hisback. Neilson fired at Kelsey, who also fell, shot through the right lung and one kidney, and Neilson supposed him dead. By this time the murderer had got up to the two women, who s topped and faced aim. Lyman says that Nei !son then came up to the women, talked to them, reloaded his gun and then deliberately ?hot each of them to death. When Miss Lyman was shot she was seen ty her brother to be .kneeling before Neilson pleading for her life, Ko lrnaw nn mow>v TTo nut". t.)iA mnwlp of the Winchester close to her face and .pulled the trigger. The ball entered her left temple. He then pulled out his knife and stabbed her in the nght breast. Neilson went 'home and said to his wife: "There's three less of them." Then ho went outside and shot himself .through the head, dying instantly. Kolsey diod in the evening. PANIC IN A CATHEDRAL. A Number of Mexican Women and Children Crushed to Death. A fatal panic occurred a few days; since in the Catholic Cathedral at Chihuahua,Mexico. A dispatch from that place gives the following particulars: The day was one set apart for floral offerings to the Virgin Maty, and at half-past five Af fli/v nKil/li?an nf tVia nif-.v fflnfflStin ally dressed and wreathed with flowers, were placing their floral gifts around the figure of the Holy Mother, which was drai?a in white gauze. A little boy in placing his flowers knocked one of the large candles against the figure and in an instant the alter was a mass ol: flames. The scene that followed baffles description. There were between four and five thousand people in the building, and nearly all were women and children. As soon as the flnme3 were seen every one made a rush for the doors and a frightful crush followed. Children were torn away from their mothers and trampled under foot. Handsomely dressed ladies were helped out completely disrobed and cut and bruised. Motners who had already reached the outside made frantic efforts 'to enter again to rescue th?ir children. The sights and sounds were frightful. Poor little children thrown down upon the cold stones and their little upturned faces /\nfc nf chmiA hv t.hft sham heels above them. The fire was put out almost as soon as it caught, and notning more than the drapery about thti figure of the Virgin Mary was consumed. 'Several prominent Mexican and American gentlemen hurried tD the doors as soon as they heard the cries, pushed tbo police aside and used every endeavor to quiet the people, but were only fortunate enough to rescue somo of those that fell near the doors. The casualties were two women and three children killed, and between twenty-five and thirty seriously injured and many more or less hurt. The incompetence of the police was palpable, and Uhe church, when seen the next morning, presented a sad testimony to the frenzied struggle of the night before. Handsome silk skirts and cotton shawls were found in shreds. Fans, shoes, hats and other articles of female apparel or adornme: it were strewn over the church, and, worse than all, here and there a dark spot on the stones showed where life b.loo 1 had been trampled out. LIGHTNING FREAKS. A flock of goes? was passing over Rock Creek, Cal., during ,1 recent storm when a thunder bolt sent si:: of them to the earth dead. Corn-emus Connor, aged sixteen, of Liberty, Ind., was killed by lightning while watching an approaching storm from the stable door. A large tree that stood 011 the edge of a pond near Nevin, Ind., was struck by lightning, when the water began sinking,and soon the pond was perfectly dry. Clark Newman, of Ocean Grove. was standing under a tree when lightning struck it and split it into bale sticks, but .Newman escaped with nothing but a lamed shoulder. Sheriff Joh.v H. Colli.vgwood's young horse Canonchet, valued at $1,500, sire Mambrino Hambletoniun,was struck by lightning and killed in the pasture at Hill's Grove, R. I. Lightning struck the home of Taylor Eastman, of Pikeville Section. N". C., and killed Eastman and his son, while his wife 1 -> WA..A ir? to11 ttliu UllUglllAT, miu rr VI ? iu i.uv were iti no wise injured. When lightning struck the chimney of the residence of George H. Anderson of Ocean Grove it divided into three parts, one of which struck the piano and drew every wire out of it, while another knocked the family about the dining room, and the third passed out of a window, shivering the fram> and sash into pieces). DISASTER AT A CIRCUS. Many Persona Burned and Many # n Dno t ll In the course of a circus performance at Neschen, Germany, the other evening a storm arose and a portion of the roof of the circus structure was blown off. The pendent lamps hanging from the roof were broken and the blazing petroleum poured down upon the heads of the people below. There were 2,000 spectators and a iearful panic arc.se. In the midst of the tumult some of the lightly built walls of the structure fell in arid the whole building immediately collapsed. A large number of persons were burned and man}' trampled to death, and 300 others were more or less injured. I WTTTTAW A WTTRPT.T1P ^ IT LUJJAIAJLU XXI n niinw His Deatn at Malone, N. Y., After a Lone Illness. William A. Wheeler died Saturday morning at his home in Malone, N. Y., after a long illness. His death was painless, and life went out so gradually and quietly that it was hard to mark the exact moment of its flight. Mr. Wheeler had no near relative in the world to minister to him during his illness or to watch by his side at death, but the rela tives of his deceased wife and friends, who have been bound to him from boyhood by the closest ties of affection, were grouped with his pastor and physician about him when the linal summons came. The following telegram from Tremont. Ohio, signed "R. B. Hayes," was received at Mr. Wheeler's home a few hours after his death. "Mrs. Haves and I have heard with deepest sorrow of ?ne death of our friend, Mr. Wheeler. I will attend the funeral with my son.'' William A. Wheeler, LL. D., ex-VicePresident, was born June 30, 1819, in Malone, Franklin county, N. Y. He entered the Uni versity or Vermont and aiterward commenced the study of law with Colonel Asa Hascall. He was made District-Attorney for Franklin county, and was its Superintendent of Schools. In the years of 1850 and 1851 Mr. Wheeler represented that county in the New York House of Assembly, and was a member of the Senate of New York in 1858 and 1859, and the President pro tem of that bodv. He was a member and the President of the New York Constitutional Convention in 1867 and 1868, and was elected a Refublican in Congress to the Thirty-seventh, 'orty-first, Forty-second, Forty-third, ana Forty fourth Congresses.' In the political complications which arose in Louisiana during the session of the Forty-third Congress Mr. Wheeler was conspicuous, he having been Chairman of the Special Committhe of the House of Representatives that visited Louisiana and finally adjusted the difficulties existing there on the basis of what is known as the "Wheeler vumpi uiuioc. m v uno, iuiu, iui, ri uccioi was unanimously nominated for the VicePi-esidency of the United States by the Republican National Convention at Cincinnati, on the ticket with Rutherford B. Hayes., After serving his term of four years, Mr. Wheeler returned to Malone, where, his health having given way, he lived quietly and in retirement until his death. He was one of the organizers of the Bank of Malone, and held the position of cashier and chief managing director. He was Trustee of the New York Railway Company. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Joaquin Miller is going to establish a literary colony at Fruit Valley, California. Governor Davis of Rhode island is enthusiastically interested in Sunday school work. Dr. H. T. Peck, professor of Latin and Greek in Columbia College, is barely thirty years of age. The widow of the late Henry Ward Beecher has taken up her residence with her daughter at Stamford, Conn. Colonel Fred Grant, besides inheriting his father's appearance, has also his inordinate love of a gooa cigar. Mary L. Barr, who is making a success of Scottish dialect stories, did not begin to compose until she was fifty-four. Senator-elect Pasco from Florida served in the Confederate Army,and he has a brother who was in the Union Army. Lord Lansdowne, the Governor-General of Canada, owns something like 95,000 acres in County Kerry, Ireland, alone. JohnD. ladberjf ann, of Philadelphia, has given $1,000,000 for a German hospital to be under the charge of Lutheran deaconesses. o Tn dl I OfcUKfclAKX JD.IL/lUUii JiOO U^iuva* wv ?v away with the practice of making military prisoners carry heavy logs for punishment. M. Chevreul, the French centenarian chemist, has a remarkably keen sense of smell, which extreme age has not in the least impaired Gen*eral Viscerext Taxni, the Japanese Minister of Agriculture, who is now visiting in this country, keeps two secretaries busy recording his observations. Editor O'Brien, the Irish Home Rule agitator, has a very peculiar delivery when speaking in public. He emits each word between his teeth as though biting it. Mas. Kate Chase Sfrague is growing wealthy by the advance in real estate values, having but recently been offered $150,000 for her Edgewood estate near Washington. S. V. White, member of Congress from Brooklyn, was once a wagon builder at Galesburg, 111., at eight cents an hour. His board then cost him seventy-five cents a week. He is now a millionaire. Harriet Hosmer, the sculptor, whose chisel earned her fame and fortune, lost a lot of money in Keely motor stock, and Anna Dickinson sunk in her dramatic experience 'the fortune she made as a lecturer. Mrs. Sarah Fisher Ames, whose bust of Lincoln occupies the post of honor at the Capitol of Washington, is still a fine-looking woman, and in her day was called the most beautiful American girl ever seen abroad. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Los Angeles, California, has a crematory "in full blast" amsterdam is to nave agreaiexnimuun ui food and cookery. The Department of Agriculture is about to issue a report on the English sparrow. There are more than 60,003 persons confined in the penal institutions of-the United States. Mr. Alexander, eighty-two years old, living at Athens, Ga., had his first tooth pulled last week. Jennie Wade, the only resident of Gettysburg killed during the battle, is to be honored with a monument. Comptroller Chapin, of New York, places the cost of the last session of the State Legislature at $!tO,'.W4. At a New England dairy show there is said to be on exhibition a machine which produces butter in two minutes. Experts state that the best modern siege gnus cost $97,000, and it costs $000 to shoot j one of them only once. The syndicate which is now about to 3e-. velop the telephone in China has. it is said, a ' backing of &i6,000,000. The receipts of the Brooklyn Bridge during . the foijr years it has been op.?n to the public have be.'n over $3,000,030. The immigration to California the post yi ar is reported in round numbers at 103,000 people, mostly in Southern California. A Delaware woman committed suicide by lying on her back in the bath-tub with her mouth open under the open faucet. The personal estate of the late J. D. Per- ? f-i? iL. ?1-1 trAHAAn nils, a prupucwi ui lijc tuicuiiucu ?? ui tw tershire sauce, amounted to nearly ?1,030,000. A marble firm at Matteawan, N. Y., has received from San Francisco a model of a monument which a ladv wishes placed over her husband's grave at W est Point, cut from a loaf of bread. The Berlin police photograph criminals in profile so as to show the left ear. The theory I is that the features of the face change, but I the ear does not, and also that no two persons ' have identical ears. DEATH IN THE QUARRY. Nine Lives Lost by a Premature Blast in Pennsylvania. A Similar Accident Results in Three Deaths in New York, As George Weiser was tamping a blast containing three kegs of powder at the Cambria Iron Company's quarries at Birmingham, Penn., Saturday afternoon, it prematurely exploded, and the fall of the rock caused thereby killed eight men outright and one other -was expected to die from the effects of his injuries. Their names are as follows? Clarence F. Stewart, the foreman; George Weiser, Emanuel Hodges, Alexander Myers, Jacob Tengfelt, John Roop, Harry Neil and Michael Wanike. The scene in and around the little town after the casuality was truly pitiable, wives almost crazed with grief running to and fro, wringing their hands and weeping for their husbands, whose mangled bodies lay in a little shanty waiting the arrival of the coroner. George Weiser, who was doing the tamping, was blown high into the air and fell in a hundred pieces. These were picked up and placed in a sheet, but nothing but tne ' head denoted that the remains were those of a human being. Two horses were killed by the falling stones, and several carts were completely buried by debris. The excitement of the people extends from Huntington to Altoona and in Tyron, three miles away from the scene of disaster. Groups of anxious people gathered on the streets with sorrowful countenances. A dispatch from Tyrone says: "Preparations had been mfliin rliirinc t.hp morninc for a big blast, six kegs of powder having been used in filling the holes. At noon the fuse was attached, lighted, and before the men returned from their dinners a partial explosion took place. Thinking that the powder had all been burned, the men went to work boring out, refiling and tamping the holes to get ready for another blast. Suddenly, and without warning, a thunderous boom was heard, and was immediately followed by the fall of a great mass of rock. Death and consternation wore the results. Headless and dismembered dead, horribly mangled and dying, and the shockingly wounded lay scattered about on top and beneath the rocks in the quarry. Assistance and medical aid were immediately summoned from this place, and the wounded were properly and promptly cared for. Tengfelt leaves a wife and six children; Stewart, a wife and two children; Weiser, a wife and one child; Myers, a wife and three children ;-Hodges, Neil and Wanike were all single." Three Lives Lost in New York. At accident occurred in Martin's cement quarries at Binnewaters, N. Y., Saturday morning, by which three men were killed ana three others were injured. Hugh Farrell. a survivor, gave this version of the affair: "We were operating steam drills in Martin's lower tunnel. I was with James Cullen, boss of the drill in the lower heading. Above us were Elmor Canfield and Norman Bell, who were running a steam drill there. About twenty miuutss after we ')egan to drill a sudden explosion occurred in the upper heading. I was knocked down by a piece of rock. Cullen was terribly shattered about the head and died in a few minutes. Canfield's head was blown to atoms, he being dead when found. Norman Bell lived only a few mo ments; he leaves a wife and two children. Cullen was a man of fifty with a wife and three children. Canfield was a young man lately married. I escaped with the loss of my little finger and a bruised face. Martin * Malice and Richard Miller, who were some distance away, received slight injuries." Farrell thinks the explosion was caused by the drill striking an unexploded dynamite cartridge in an old hole, The custom is to put off several blasts at nearly one time, and ine oniy way w kjiow u au nave expioaea is to count the reports. THE NATIONAL GAME. Detroit has the finest playing grounds in the country. Thompson, of Detroit, leads the League in two-base hits. Birmingham has taken the place of Mobile in the Southern League. The battery of a New York amateur club consists of a father and son. Many New York clergymen are regular visitors at the Polo Grounds. Sullivan, left-fielder of the Chicagos, dropped five fly balls in one game. A series of games is beine projected by me printers 01 duswju tuiu nun Thirty thousand people witnessed the three Philadelphia-Detroit games in the former city. The Cuban Giants are playing great ball this season. They are the best team of colored players ever formed. Welch, centre-fielder of St. Louis, is acquiring the reputation of being the most phenomenal fielder in the country. Ezba Sutton, the veteran Boston player, wants his release. He won't allow himself to be sold, but wants a straight release. Nearly all the heavy batters in the National League strike at the ball left-handed, while the reverse is the case with the American Association. Captain Anson, of the Chicagos, says that the official scorer in Chicago robbed him out of the first place in the batting list of the League last year. Knouff and left-handed Smith, the pitchers for whom there was such a fight last season, have thus far proved failures. Baltimore has both of them. The gross receipts of the National League Clubs last year' amounted to not less than $3130,000. It is estimated that the receipts for 1887 will amount to $400,000. Garfield, a son of the ex-President, pitches for the Oberlin (Ohio) College Club, and plays a good amateur game. Garfield was a great admirer of the sport, and was a regular attendant when a Representative in Congress. The Colored National Baseball League , seems to have melted down to three clubs. | The Gorhoms, of New York; lx>ra uaminores, of Baltimore, and the Pythians, of Philadelphia, are the only teams able to keep up, and they will arrange a schedule among themselves. Stagg and Dann,the Yale College battery, is a team of which any professional club may be proud. They are two of the finest players ou the diamond and hold the professional battel s down to a small percentage of hits. Stagg is a small, wiry young man, with plenty of nerve and good judgment. Pike, when a member of the Athletics,once tnnde six home runs in a game, five being made in live consecutive times at bat Harry Wright once made seven in one game. A remarkable game was played years ago by the Athletics, m which twenty-five home runs were scored, three players on the team making five runs each. the national league record. we n. Lost. Won. Lost. Detroit 21 9 Boston 21 10 Pittsburgh....12 15 New York.... 18 14 Philadelphia. .10 15 Indianapolis... 7 24 Chicago 13 15 | Washington. ..10 10 the american association. Won, Lost, TVon, Lost St. Louis 131 5 I Baltimore 21 13 Brooklyn 17 17 | Cincinnati.... 19 19 i Louisville 20 17 Athletic .18 17 n It 'V, I f'lavolnnrl _ . S i*(i I JUL V | _ eastern league. Won. Lost. iron. Lost. New Haven. ..12 16 I Hartford 10 9 Bridgeport....21 f? Watorbury.. .12 15 Danbury 10 18 j Springfield.... 4 15 southern league. Won. Lo>t. iron. Lost. Nashville 18 7 I Charleston.. .24 14 Memphis 19 11 I Savannah.... 4 20 New Orleans..18 12 | Birmingham. 0 4 the international league. Won. Jjost. H'on. Lost. Newark 18 5 Syracuse 7 14 Rochester 15 10 Binghamton.. 9 14 Toronto 13 11 Hamilton 12 14 Buffalo 19 9 Jersey City... 9 13 Oswego 3 19 Utica 4 17 the college league. iron. Lost. ITon. Lost. Harvard 3 1 I Princeton 2 4 Yale 5 0 J Columbia. 0 5 D. O. Mills, Whitelaw Reid's father-inlaw, has given $80,000 for the purpose of erecting a new building on the grounds of the Bellevue Hospital, New York, to be used as a training school for male nurses. , r . 7 - TUBNING OUT TENANTS, Warm Reception of Evicting Officers in Ireland. ; The evictions at Bodyke continue, says a Dublin dispatch. The tenants are offering all the opposition in their power to the Sheriff and his jjuard of police and troops and find various means to seriously annoy the officers. In some of the houses from which tbfr occupants were to be evicted cayenne pepper was burned, the fumes of which nearly choked, the bailiffs. Boiling water was also thrown, from the windows upon the evicting force. At two houses where evictions were effected; collisions occurred between the police and thepeople, and a number of arrests were made.. When the Sheriff's force arrived at the house of Tenant Lyddy and ordered tha family to leave a daughter of Mi*. Lyddy* threw an iron hoop at a bailiff who attempted to enter the door. The hoop missed the bailiff, but struck a police inspector. The girl was arrested. A brother of the girl wa? also arrested for inciting the crowd to violence; against the police. Another daughter of the tenant, who denounced the treatment her family were receiving, was struck by a policeman and felled to the ground. This maddened the crowdj and they advanced for the purpoM of attacking the officers. Michael Davitt, who was present at the eviction, pleaded with' the people not to use violence, nowever, and barely managed to avert a collision. After the Lyddy family had been evicted the police made an attack upon the house of a man named McNamara, which was strongly fortified. Crowbars were used and a hola was made through the wall. McNamara1! wife and children were in the house and cried piteously until Mr. Davitt shouted words of comfort to them. Mr. McNamara was arrested for pelting the bailiffs with dirt. Tha bailiffs smashed the furniture of the hoow out of pure malice. The force after leaving this house proceeded to that occupied by Tenant Hussy for the purpose of ejecting him. When "they readied his house they were received with a shower of boiling water, stones and bottles, and a swarm of bees were let loose upon, them The tenants only desisted frank pelting the bailiffs when the troops threatened to fire. The bailiffs demolished the wall and entered the house, but were repulsed bleeding. The eviction was only effected after a struggle of two hours and a half. The male defaa.ders of the house were arrested. . A meeting of the tenants was afterward held at which Michael Davitt repeated the advirA ho nrpviotislv cram trt nxriat-. eviVfrirm h? . every means, ana defied the government to: arrest him. AFTEBA STOBM, The 8 jrfaceofa South Carolina LakeCovered with Dead Fish. . t-'f* In the southern part of Georgetown, S. C., is a large sheet of fre6h water, known a? DawhoLake, widely celebrated for its great * quantity of excellent fish of many varietk*. About ten days ago a terrific stonh of several hours' duration passed over that section, doing greet damage to growing crops and beating large quantities of leaves and limbs of trees into the late. A few days after this storm the fish in the lake began to appear by thousands upon the surface of the water in a dying condition, the number increasing daily, until now the entire surface of use lakeis literally covered with dead fish. The water of this lake has always been of a whitish color, clear, soft, and pleasant to the taste, but immediately after the storm it became - as uiacK as mK ana Dicier as quinine, in which condition it has since continued. Alligators, : cooters, and water mocasin snakes were-seen leaving the lake in large numbers. It i? said that the fish would approach the shore struggling as if anxious to get on the land. " The i stench arising from the great mass of decern-' posed fish is sickening, and the buzzards are holding high carnival. This strange phenomenon is attracting great attention, and hundreds of persons are daily visiting the scene. Da who Lake is about two miles long,from 300 to 500 yards wide, and varies in depth from ? ten to thirty feet. "'J.. . *i ?*. 3d EDITOB O'BBIEN, Refusing to Attend the Demonstr?? tion in New York. The monster parade and meeting in New; York Saturday night in honor of Editor,^ O'Brien was conspicuous by, the Irish agita^ tor's absence. Mr. O'Brien refused to attend ' because the Chairman, Mr. McMackin, had. recently presided at a meeting addressed 1 the alleged "Number One" of the conspiracy to kill Cavendish and Burke in Inland, and a because the proposed resolutions favored Henry George's doctrine of abolishing private property in land. He made a statement saying that to participate in the. demonstration under the circumstances would injure the T?M, r>.?1/v ri? * UIU3C KJL JJUU UUIUC IbUIO. i/2.,?VUiJUUa George and other speakers severely criticised Mr. O'Brien for his refusal to appear. The' demonstration was gotten up unabr the aos- ' pices of the United Labor Party of the Metropolis. A CENTURY OF LIFE. The last of the Chesterfield, N. H., centenarians has just died in the person of' Mrs. Saphronia Pierce, who was in her 1024 year. Mrs. Betset Averill of New Preston, Conn., was 100 years of age on May 5. Sheis still in good health with all of her faculties excellently preserved. One of the spryest old gentlemen of Schoolcraft, Mich., is Godfrey Knight, who has. passed the century mark. He is exceedingly fond of sports, and is still a great singer. The Indian Chief Seranos, of San Jacinto, Cal., is thought to be 125 years old. The oldest resident of Philadelphia is Mrs. Rebecca Applegate, who is 104 years of age. Omaha has its centenarian in the person of Mrs. Aruba Douglas, who has iust celebrated her 101st birthday, and is as bright and aotive as a women of half her years. She recites lines committed to memory eighty-seven years ago with a perfection of voice and gesture that is simply wonderful John Preston died recently at Browntown, N. J., aged 105 years. When he was 105 years of age he walked eight miles a day and cut cord wood. He never retired witnou? a is glass of applejack. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. 23 Beef, good to prime 7 @ 8 Calves, com'n to prime 5^@ 7 Sheep 8>*@ 9% Lames 9 Hogs?Live 5^0 5)? Dressed 7 Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 75 d 4 85 "West, good to choice 3 85 @ 5 00 Wheat?No. 2, Red 99 @ 1 00 Rye?State ?v @ ? Barley?State 60 @ 75 . Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 47)?@ 48 Oats?White State 38 @ 39*f Mixed Western 33 @ 36 Hay?Med. to prime 80 @ 85 Straw?No. 1, Kye 60 @ 65 Lard-City Steam 7 12K@ 7 60 Butter?State Creamery.... 19 Dairy 14 @ 17 . " ? West. Im. Creamery 13 @ 14 Factoiy 10 @ 13J< Cheese?State Factory 10# Skims 7Jj@ Western $/4@ 10 Eggs?State aDd Penn 14 (g 14J? BUFFALO. Sheep?Good to Choice 4 10 @ 4 30 Lamps?Western 4 75 & 5 00 Steers?Western 4 30 (g 4 80 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 CO (g 5 00 T-Inn.- 4 75 & 5 15 W heat?No. 1.............. 93 @ 92?? Corn?No. 2, Mixed ? @ 4^, Oats?No. 2. Mixed 32 @ 32,*-f Barley?State *>4 ({J 65 BOSTON. Beef?Good to choice 11 @ Mi Hogs?Live 5)^@ ?. , Northern Dressed.... &J4? Pork?Ex. Prime,per bbl. ..12 00 @12 50 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 00 @ 5 15 Corn?High Mixed 31 @ 51& Oats?Extra White 40}^@ 41 Rye?State 00 @ 65 ^ WATERTOWJf (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef- Dressed weight 5K@ 7 Sheer>?Uve weight 4 @ 0 Lambs 5)?@ *1 Hogs? Northern ? @ 0j-? PHILADELPHIA. Flour? Penn.extra family... 3 75 @ 4 00 Wheat-No. 2. Red W%@ 07 . Corn?State Yellow 48 @ 48 Oats Mixei 335i@ 34 Rye-IStute ? @53 Butter?Creamery Extra... 17 @ 18 Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. ? Wii