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: THE GREAT STRIKE. Mining Operations Suspended in the Schuylkill Valley. Iron Furnaces Shut Down and Miners Seek Work Elsewhere. A Reading (Penn.j dispatch, relative to the great strike of thu heading Railroad Company's miners, gave the position of affairs on Wednesday as follows: The report .sent out this afternoon that the Merriaui, one of the Reading Company's collieries,which produces about 85,000 tons of coal a year, had gone into operation was incorrect. None of the company's collieries are iu operation, and only one or two individual collieries, and the lockout of miners is as complete as yesterday, aud the outlook is even more gloomy for all concerned. Leading Schuylkill valley people to-night say that there is every evidence that Mr. Corbin has made up his mind to let things take their course. When Mr. Corbin was in Reading several weeks ago he intimated that the company might un oad its coal property by sel.ing it to a syndicate that would enter into an agree- i ment to give the Reading Railroad Co. all the tonnage. The report that this step had been taken to-day was not believed by business men here, because no syndicate would , buy the mines with 20,000 of the company's miners on strike, and who would absolutely refuse to go to work as long as the coal they mined would be shipi>ed over the Reading lines. The labor leaders apprehend no sale or lease of coal lands, because that would not make matters any better so far a? settling the strike is concerned. The coal lands aud collieries arc now controlled by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, which belongs to tne Reading Railroad Company. The coal and iron company pays Ihe railroad company about $000,000 per month for tonnago when the mines are going. Now all this im menso revenuo is cut o.'T from the railroad company, which, the labor leaders claim, will not bo very cheerful news for the ~aaAiipif inc ITcnoil V liuitiers vi biiab iviii|Miij .looviiiti'tvo. In January the company handles nearly 3U0.000 tons of coal. Ibis month th j sh'pments will be next to nothing. The S4<X),o;io wastes which the company would have paid to the miri"-* for this month will also not be forthcoming. Th? result of the strike is being severely felt among the iron furnace men, and the Iron furnaoesat Kutztown, Lyons. Topton, leuiple, Columbia, Port Kennedy, Norristowu, and other points have either shut down or banked up, b.'in^ unaolo to pay from ?2 to $3 per ton more for eoa! and make iron at a profit These v furnaoe men will have trouble in keeping their contracts, whi(h are made for six i montha Individual colliery ownei? aro do- | injz noting lu <U1UU^UUI?U IUC1I IUI1IU1V No one will be pressed for tho payment of rent Everything is tSTug uCTio to con ciliate the men, because individual colliery owners havo not yet lost hope that their m ners will yet recei ve permission to go ill. Private operators look for a very long siege, and if they are compelled to be idle with the company, numerous disastrous financial wrecks are feared, because individual colliery owners cannot stand the loss as we 1 as the company can. The fires in the Chestnut Hill furnaces at Columbia,of which Jerome L. Boyer.of Reading, is manager, were banked to-day because their coal supply gave out. The mines in Maryland from which they obtained their ore have also stopped. This will throw out of employment several hundred hands. The fires in the Cordelia furnace near Columbia, of which Isaac McHose, of Reading, is proprietor, have also been banked. Car loads of Hungarians and Italians pass through Reading nearly every day from the coal regions. They are amone the most enthusiastic strikers, and. 8-eing no prospact of work ahead in the Schuylkill regions, they are either leaving for their native land or other Darts of the country. A SHOW BURNED. Prize Doss and Poultry Worth $75,i OOO Cremated Alive. Fire early Thursday morning destroyed the Fourteenth Regiment Armory at Columbus, Ohio, and all the arms, ammunition and accoutrements belonging to the organization together with the entire prop *rtv collected for the annual bench show of tiie Ohio Fanciers' Asociation, which included "what is claim ed to have been the finest and mosc valuable collection of small an mals ever gathered west of the Alleghanies. Or nn? hnndred flftv-two fine d028 Oil exhibition only three escaped, and of "3,000 specimens of fine poultry none was saved. Th<e loss *s are: On building, 52,.10), insured; military arms and equipments, $15,000; no insurance. The owners of the do^s estimate their lo?es at from 850,00) to $55,000, and ot' the poultry at $2J,000. Four of the five game birds destroyed had been sold at $50) ea.-h, and there were many more equa'.ly valuable. The three dogs that evaptxi were Paul Gladstone, the property of the Mt Washington Kennel Club, of Pittsburg; Royal Duke, be onging to Walter L. Ham ^ m I.J.I.I.:. 1 KTT melt, OI nua mu ynuov* uj B. 8. Seibert, of Columous. The first two were valued at $10,000 each, and tlie latter at $1,000. The A^oc:ated Fanciers of Philadelphia lost twenty-e ght out of twenty-nine do^s, valued at $l>,000; the Alta Kennel Club of Toledo lo9t ten dogs, valued at $4,"jOO; the Ifiettone Kennel Cmb of Dayton lost seven dogs, valued at $3,200, while various individual owners sustained losses ranging from $50 up to $0,0 0. Among the most note I of the dogs were: Sir Cnarles, a St. Bernard, belonging to R. J. Sawyer, of Michigan, valued at $2,50'.). Montrose, a St. Bernard, of the Alta Kennel, of Toledo, value;! at ?3,00:). Keystone and Lady Rook, English setters, of the Mount Washington Kennels, of Pittsburg, valued at $5,000 and $l,0i)0 respectively; Mac, an Irish setter, the property *of D. 1j. Carmiohael, of Chicago, valued at $3,000. Four other dogs lost were valued at $1,0J0 each. > r~ir A in TTTnrpT'M'Gl i.vWiVO VlUimo. Some Blizzard Fatalities?Freezing to Death 011 the Prairies. The deaths from the late blizzard oa the prairie districts of Iowa are being gradually made puMic, says a Dubuque dispatch. Byron Cleveland, of Manchester, Delaware County, has received information that his two sons, a^ei fifteen and sovonteen years, were frozen to deith during the 6torm., together with ninety head of catila Ihe bo3'8 were driving the cattle to water, about a inile fr >m the house, when the blizzard struck them, and their dead bodies have just been found. The cattle were frozen stiff. John 0!n >y was found in a snow drift near Marathon frozen dead. Mi83 Mae Henning and a boy namo-l Jutiiis,twelve years of age. started in a sleigh to attend a pa-ty in company with two young men. When the storm struck them they lo-st their way, and the young men deserted the lady and tb? boy and reac'ied a farm house in safety. The deserted pair remained out in the storm all night, an i in the morn ng they were found partially covered with sno-v. The young lady wi I lose both lo rs and the boy's hands and feet were bally fro'x.n. Ho was saved fromd-ath '>v th > iiravo girl, who wrapped hip* in rV> ~ '"* ' > ?"??? left them. THE PAUU'iJ rfALLROADS, Reports of the Special Commission ?A ^residential Message. Tho President lias scjiit to Congress a mes sage on the major.ty and minority reports of the Pacific Railroad Investigating Conim.ttea After reciting the objects for which the commission was appointed, he declare* th it these reports exhibit such tran< actions an I schemes connected with the construction of the aided mads and their management an I ?ugg< st the invention 01 suc h devices on the y . pari of those having them in charge for the apparent purpose of defeating any chance for the liovernment's i eimbursement, that any adjustment or plan of settlement should be pred.rated upon the substantial interests of the Government rather than anv forbear an**" of generosity deserved by the eonipaniea iuj Pres'dent further says that he believes that any proposition to brmg the subsidized Facilic railio.ds under the nubj< ctson of tbe Government, bo long as thr<= is hope of a 1 ettlament, should rejected. At Brunswick, Mo., J. C. Talmaze. eon of the iat? Manager of the Gould system, killed C. J. Tidd, a telegraph operator. Kxm r , THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Fastfru and Firk destroyed the Central Fire Station in Lowell, Ma-ss., and the Sixth Regiment Armory,with 20,000 rounds of ammunition. Loss, $1<X>,100. The Reading Railroad on Thursday mado fifteen seizures of household goods for rent due from strikers who live in the houses owned by the company. The number of victims by the railroad accident at Bradford, Mass., has been increased to thirteen. Harry Johnson, a prominent oil operator of New York city, committed suicide at Elmira, N. Y. A cake of ice, weiehing 2G0 pounds, fell on Moses Eckert, at Ulster, N. Y., crushing him to death. Steve Boyer, Samuel Boyer and Joseph Kollep, three rolling mill hands, were killed while crossing the railroad at Orangeville, Pa. General A. B. Underwood, twonty-two years Surveyor of the Port of Boston, is dead. The premature explosion of a charge of giant powder in an excavation for laying water pipes at Roxburv, Mass.. blew Robert Thompson forty feet into the air. killing him, and fatally injured Walter Grace and Peter Lyden. Tivn para inmrwvi a. trfxtf.lp fiffcr tent, hich near Pittsburgh, Penn., killing two trainmen. The Commissioners appointed to report a painless method of capital punishment have presented a hill to the New York Legislature providing for the U9e of electricity. The New York Court of Appeals has derided that hotel keepers may serve wine to their guests on Sundays. A lower Court had deciarud otherwise. Five people lost their lives at a fire which destroyed seven houses in Mount Carmel, Penn. Fotith nnrl W The feud which exists between the Hatfield and McCoy families in Pike county Ky., has resulted in the murder of ten persons. Masked men overpowerod the jailer at Macon, Ua., and taking oat Henry Burnoy, who had robbed J. M. Renehardt of $2,000, lynched him. a kire at Indianapolis, Indiana, destroyed property valued at *0'J(),000. TTT T"? 11T? - . A. - ? Al T? 1 ?Y. ii. tviL.L.iA;us, proprietor oi merarKer House, at Ankton. Ala., and a voung man named Evans 6hot each ot ier to death in the former's hotel. Two other men were wounded by the flying bu.lets. Evan3 was the aggressor. Fourteen men engaged in the recent train robberies in the Southwest have been captured in six different States. Fire in the heart of the wholesale section of Indianapolis destroyed houses and stocks of goods valued at i708,000, T\Co young inelical students of D?9 Moines, la., were convicted of robbing the grave of Mrs. Claflin and eentenced to six months' imprisonment Tws wife of Jarnee Cochran, of San Anton o, Texas, gave birth to twins who are exact duplicates of the famous Siamese twins, boin * joinod at the same vital spot by a strong 1 game.it, which allows each child free us?> of its limbs. Late reports place the number of victims by the great hli^za d in the Northwest at sixty three, with many se.-t.oas remote from teiegrapmc communication yet to oe neara from. Henry Lightfoot quarreled with his wife in Chattanooga. Tenn., and tor revenge put rxs.mic in the c.'etem and flour barrel, thereby poisoning bis wife, his two children and three boarders Crow Indians in Montana, having been told that their Government ration of beef is but one-fifth that allowed to the Sioux, are reported to be slaughtering many ranchmen's cattle. Twelve persons were injured, one fatally, by a railroad wreck at Willard. Kansas. Both branches of the Washington Territory Legislature have re-enacted the Woman Su.iragj Law, but exempted women from jury duty. Fr^kzivq weather has been reported from various parts of the Southwest. Several persons were frozen to death. Two Mexican murderers in jail at Caldwell, Texas, were shot dead by lynchers. United States SenatokWilson has been re-elected from Iowa. A young midshipman was knocked off the United Utates train.ng ship Portsmouth i n Hampton Roads, Va., and drowned. Two snovvplough engines collided at Hoskins, Ne ., killing Engineer Sawyer find iu. ui ing several other ruilro id employes. Thieves, at Mount Vernon,Oh^o, drugged, bound an l robbed Mrs. C-ewald of 8^,000. Mrs. Oswald was fatally froaen. E. C. Walthall was re-elected United , States Senator from Mississippi Washington. The ennual report of Public Printer Benedict has been sent to the senate. It urges a lar/c a))propriation for new machinery and equipments. This bankers and money-changers have lost confidence in ihe financial condition of Pe u. and are refusing to receive Government paper money. In consjquence great distress preva Is and disorders have occurred in the market place3 at Lima, ending in a regular panic. Gf.of.ob Walker, ex-Consul-General to France, died in Washington of pneumonia. The House Committee on Elections took up the consideration of the Thoebe-Carlisle conte-ted election muter and heard the arguments which the lawyer for Mr. Thoebo adduced in Kupjwrt of his client's case. Upon a bal'o~< being taken it was dec.nred that Mr. Carlis e was entited to his seat, the entire committee voting in the affirmative, save three Republicans, who were excused from voting. At a conference of Wool Growers and Wool Manufacturers in Washington, delegates from all parts of the Union attend ng. resolutions w.-rb adopte 1 favoring a wool tariff substantially the same as that of lb?>7. The general effect of this new schedule will be a slight increase in the tariff both on wool and woolen goods. General E. Ifc Bragg was confirmed by Vi? Konnfa as Minister to Mexico. W. H. Bigelow. of Ma no, was appointed Postmaster of the Senate. Speaker Carlisle was taken suddenly ill, a few days ago, with a co.igestive chill, an<l had to bo a^si ted to his t\K> n. '1 his was followed by a hi^h few,which brought on ar.other severe chill, und the Sp aker was uncon-tcious all night. H.s phvsician Fays that many days of re.^t must follow before he resumes h:s dutie-s. Tiie Senate conflrmeltho nomination of the Intei -Siate Comniece Commissioners. S cr^tart Fairchild gave a dinner to President and Mrs. C.eve.anJ and the Cabinet. Fowl en. Forty Russian 6ent nels on the frontier ti"vp heen frozen r.o <?'arn. A jubii.ee address of con-rratula'ion to Cu^en Victoria, signed bv 1,188,'XM woman of Great Britain, has just heen publish'*!. Ex-President Grew, of France, ha3 bad a second stroke of apo|>lexv. Prince Fkrdinanix of Rnlparia. made an address to his officers. declaring his intention to din in arms rather than submit to Russia's dictation. After an existence of six weeks the Harrison Government in Manitoba ha* resigned, an I the Liberals triumph. The Albion coal m:ne at Sfce'Hrton, N. 8., wa? wrecked by an explosion, and four miners kiiic:i. Orangemen attacked an Irish Lea cue meeting in Livedo >ol and wreckwl the hall in which it was held. B'li.r. Fightkh SALEHi.of Puebla, Mexico, attempted to iump over a hull and was iinp t'elonihe brut/s horns, dying instantly. Another fighter was seriously {jood. Scottish crofters resi-t-d the p>lice on the Island of Lewis, and routed th;in The Tor es hav-< snrren 1 ?r id t > th L'boral Unionists on th<> Iris'i Homfvru e question. Odd Fe'.low's Hall. Tnotnwn's auctionroom and a Japanese Btorw'urned at Mont roal, Canada. Loss ?1">0,0()0. T.ii. A.uencui Hh p J. T. Berry was burned in A".stral an waters, and eleven persons are missing, while fourteen wire Raved. *I\vENTY-Fivn million dollars was irabecri ?'d in London,Eng..in t-vo hours to build the Algoma brunch of the Canadian Pacific R. B. Custom may lead a man into many errors, but it justiiiea noue. A BLIZZARD'S WORK. TH. Host Terrible Storm Ever Known in the Northwest. Many Lives Lost, and Railroad Travel Entirely Stopped, The worst blizzard ever known haa been sweeping through the Northwest, causing heavy loss of human life and great pecuniary i damage, resulting from an almost complete i ?t?MVAn(<iAn A ftt. Pftlll ouopuuoiuu \JL lOiil VUU vt 14IMV. ? ? dispatch says: The storm proved to be of much greater severity than was at first supposed. It was general throughout Minnesota, Dakota, Montana, Wisconsin and Iowa, and railroad men Ray it has not been surpassed. The storm effects were most severe from the peculiar action of the wind and heavy snow drifts. The whole open country is one vast upheaved ocean, as if the white caps had frozen solid and the rough waves, snow-covered, caught up at their highest point. Every railroad in the Northwest is completely blockaded with passenger and freight trains strung all along the lines. Most of the trains are at stations where food can be procured, but it is reported that the Chicago express on the Milwaukee lin , duo here at seven o'clock in the morning, is stuck on toe open prairie ueiwetu duiuulls. i Branch line trains were all abandoned at junctional points las*, night, and there is no | predicting when they will be open. It is thoueht that some of tho lines will be closed for six weeks, and on top of this condit on of things it is feared the worst is to coma The wind is blowing hard on almost all lines to-day and the cuts are bsing filled in as fast as tney are pumped out The storm of yesterdny Is now raging in Iowa. It is also sweeping Idaho, with the thermometer at various points along the Northern Pacific 10 degrees btlow zero. The weather is so cold in Dakota and Montana today ttiat laborers caunot be induced to go to work, and the packing of the snow will render it itill more difficult of removal. Reports are current of lo^s of life in various towns wheie people were cauzht on the prairio. The Chicago roads have tried hard to keep their lines open, but the only train from the West to-day was on the Wisconsin Central Road, where five locomotives attache:! to two I coaches were enabled to force their way ' through, although the train was several hours late. The effects of the present storm in Omiha have been disastrous, says a dispatch from that place. FredEller, a clgarraakcr, wa3 found early this morning frozen to death within a block of his boarding house. Two school children, Wexell Beck and George Allen, started for their homes about three o'clock yesterday afternoon and have not been heard of since. A young woman caught out in the storm has also probably perished. A Bismarck {Dakota) special says; A stage left Washburn, a place fifty miles ,, northwest of here, yesterday morning for thin nit.u nnrl Rhmilrl have arrived here last I evening, but nothing baa j et been heard of it It is supposed that it is lost in tbo blizzard. A stage left for Winona this morning. Great fears are entertained for its safe arrival. The great blizzard evidently spent its fury here. The wind last night was about 40 miles per hour and the mercury 25 , degrees below. This morning it is o0 defrees below and the wind intensely cold. armers in town dare not venture out, their families hoping and praying tliey will not attempt to come home. Raymond, Dakota, sends the fo lowing report: Damage to live stock will be great, while reports of suffering and death arj constantly coming in. Two soils of William Driver were frozen to death within a few feet of their barn. Charles Heath is missing and J. H. Clapp has been discovered badly frozen, he having been out all night wandering upon the prairie. The elevator of Archer & Howe has gone down with 1&00J bushels of grain. Other minor casualties are reported. At Huron, Dakota, a number of children on their way uome trorri scaooi were cauKui> | out in the storm and were unable to find ( their way. Their parents spread the news that tbey had not reached their homes, and soon several search parties were organized. Each party consisted of from five to ten 1 men, ami in each party the men were all bound to each other by means of ropes around their waists. In this way they proceeded to I si arc h the whole town, and it was not until | late at night that the last missing child was tound and taken to ber home. William HL Jewell, a local Repubbcan politician and an extensive farmer, was found in the Court House at Hastings, Mich., with his arms and legs frozen solid, and died soon afterward. A Winnipeg (Manitoba) dispatch asserts that the storm extended throughout that entire regiou. At Pilot Moun I, Manitoba, the house of Theodore Preston, a farmer, caught fire and was entirely consumed. Mrs. Preston, Miss Preston, and a servant bov were badly frozen through being ex nosed to the blizzard and were found helpless in the stable. About 200 Lives Lost. The great Btorra which Bwept over the Northwest,blockading railroads iu five States, is over and the victims of its fury are being counted. The list is an appalling one. Next to this the worst blizzard that the Northwest ever experienced occurred on January 7, ? and 9, 1873. lu that storm seventy peoKle were frozen to death. In th s last lizzard the loss of life is reckoned at about 2.10. The Minneapolis Jov.rna.Vs list of fatalities shows 145 dead in Dakota, 12 in Minnesota! 0 in Iowa, 17 in Nebraska and 2 in Montana. Total, 182, besides 55 reported missing. IWTTQTn ATA MB TIT? AMA ITO lU.UkJXV.aXJ .O-LIX/ -U-LL-O. Ill n X iui A Beiu.in actor has juct made hiu five thousandth apparance in the same theatre. Exolish performances of Gilbert and Sullivan's operas are now a regular institution In Berlin. Booth and Barrett played to a little over fSO.OOO in their two weeks at the Academy of Music, New York. Planquette, the composer of "The Chimes of Normandy," has just completed a new opera, entitled "Nectarine." Mrs. Shaw, of New York, is w'nninc; fame and money a whistler. Her services are in great demand at private entertainments. The actress Lotta, is contemplating, with he aid of friends in New York city, the establishment of a home for orphan children there. It is a^id that Mr. Irving's profits rrom nis present tour in this country will reach *150,? (MX). His re-ei te for two weeks in Philadelphia were $4t),0"0. Dan Rice, the man who used to tret $l,f(X a week, the I ig<rest salary ever paid to any circus man in the world, is now said to b worth a few thousand dollars less than nothing. The "Violin Km?," Joachim, has tempo rarity lostthe us* of one of his fingers, and has gone to Amsterd im to see if tho famout mss'igp operator, Dr. Mezger, can restore it to its functions. A joky at Providence. R. L, returned fl vrrdictof $12.00(1 in the rase of Mme. Jamn whek, tho tragedienne, who su d to recovei dama es for personal injuria? sustained by falling down stairs in a hotel at Newport TnE 8touehton Musical Society has just celebrated its 101st birthday at Randolph, Ma?. It is one of the ollest musical organ izntions in the United States,, an l manv noted New England musicians have be'onged to it. It haa been decided to ?xhumn next sprins tho bod es of the Co ii|K>ser8 Gluck, Beeihrsi-An nnd Hrhnh<'rt- who are all burii'd in the 8 me churchyard in Vienna, and deposit them in a mausoleum which it now being built for them. Mme. Patti-Nicomki will take with her to South Am-ri a a wardrobe fi!lin<r fort v-three monster trunks. Her "Traviata" costumes alone cost Bhe has [ aid fl,S00for the transnortution of herself and baggage from Lisbon to La Plata. Word comes from F'o-enc of the d>ath of Rienoia Marianrvi B irl>ieri-N'"ni, who was famous thirty or forty ye -rs ago as an o->orntic sin.er, and was as reinarkuble for exceptional ugliness as for h^r artistic talent and splendid voice. In the height of her fa ne she married Count Nini, aud retired from the stao* Comptroller Durham, of Washington, has put in the Urgent Deficiency Bill a request for a lump sura of $5>S>,0.K), for the thirty-seven ajrrt u tural colleges and experi ental stations which have iteen waiting tor the first payment of the ?l.r?,OKJ a your. vote.! them by Congress in March, 1S37. j SUMMARY OF CONGRESS, Senate Proceedings. ' 19th Dat.?Resolutions were presented in favor of a constitutional amen Iment prohibiting the liquor traffic and advocating a World's Exposition in 1892.... Messrs. Sherman, Chandler, Hawley. Harris. fiaulsbury and Halo discussed the bill to credit and pay to the several States and Territories and the District o7 Columbia all moneys collected under the Direct Tax act of the 5th of August, 1861?the question being on a verbal amendment offered by Mr. Hoar when the bill was up some dnya ago....Mr. Riddle bercer moved that the Senate consider executive business. The motion was lost by a tie vote. It was understood that his purpose was to consider the nomination ol Mr. Lamar. Three Republicans voted with the Democrats in favor of the motion .... Mr. Vance spoke at length in favor of the i tariff and internal revenue reduction.... Mr. I Gray made a constitutional argument against j the Blair Educational bill, and Mr. Blair re- j plied briefly in defense of it. The matter went over as unfinished business. 20th Day.?Petition was presented urging that postal regulations be changed bo that trashy literature shall not go through the mails for 1 cent per pound, while school, law and religious books are taxed 8 cents per pound A memorial presented from tho K. of L. urging an investigation of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing... .Petitions presented from Atlanta, Ga., asking repeal of the alcohol tax Petition from Leadville, CoL, against the removal of the lead ore tax I ....Mr. Mitchell rose for a personal explana- j tion and denied that he used sharp practice | on Friday in order to get possession of the floor....Mr. Sherman presented a request from colored clergyman for an inquiry into the general progress of the colored race since 1865....Mr. Riddleberger moved that the Senate proceed to executive business and it wait agreed to without a division ? The fol? lowing bills were introduced and referred: To alter the regulations concerning the election of Congressional representatives in South Carolina; to appropriate $20 0)0 to the subtropical exposition at Jacksonville, Fla.; to require all Government securities, postage stamps, etc., to be printed on hand roller presses; also that the chief and oesistmt chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing be practical engravers and printers. 21st Day.?The Senate received the mar ioritv and niinoritv reports of the Pacific Railroad Commission, 'accompanied by a special message from tho President on that topic. On motion of Mr. Hoar, the mes a^e and reports were referred to a special committee of five A communication was received from the Postmaster at New York asking an investigation of the detention of foreign publications in the New York Custom House....A bill was reported from the Committee of Finance to reimburse the depositors of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Companv....Mr. Piatt asked an inquiry into the detention of mail matte'- for Senators, in the Washington Post Office The House bill, as to marks permissible on mail matter, was passed Messrs. Blair and Bowen spoko in support of the Blair Educational bill 22d Day.?Ml*. 8herman, from Committee r>n TTorpiim Relations. renortdd a bill to fix I the charge for passports at $ 1 (now $5), and the bill was passed.... The bill to settle and adjust the claim of any Stato for expanses incurred in defence of the United States was reported.... The following bills were introduced by Mr. Hoar: Fixing the salaries of tho justices of the United States District Court at $5,000; to establish a national art commission: and to provide for inquests under natonal authority Mr. Hale's resolution calling on tho Attorney-General for information concerning the appointment of Chariea R. Wcstbrook, as assist in'. DistrictAttorney for the Southern District of New York, was pnsied....The bill in relation to marriages between white men and Ind an women was passed. Mr. Butler moved to reconsider....The Senate voted to reiun 1 tho direct taxes of 18iil Mr. Hoar moved the appointment of a delegate to the International Prison Congress in 1890 at St. Petersburtr. House Proceedings. 17th Dai.?.ur. Hutch reported a bill to establish experimental agricultural stations ... .The bi 1 relating to marks permissible on second, third and fourth class mail matter was discussed by Messrs. Blount and Bingham and then passed.... The House then went into Committea of the Whole on the private calendar. 18th Day.?Mr. Whitthorne had passed a resolution for supplying proper accommodations to the various committees....Mr. McMillin asked for information conoerning the discrimination in tolls on the Wetland Canal against American vessels, and a resolution was peeked directing the President to bring the matter to the attent ion of the British authorities. ... Mr. Richardson reported a resolution, which was adopted, for the printing or extra oa ui tuu i i oomcuv a uiqo sage....Mr. Richardson offered a resolution for an inquiry into the great delay in the printing of the Government liecord. The matter was discussed at length by Messrs. Hopkins,Springer end Rogers The following bills were introduced: By Mr. Wheeler, appropriating ftWS.O )0 tor special coast defenses; by Mr. Pavson, granting to Illinois, all tlio public land in the State, as a swamp land indemnity; by Mr. Tarsney.to construct a government building In every city having a postmaster; by Mr. Landes, to reduce the surplus by payin r a bounty of 25 cents a bushel on wheat shipped to foreign countries; by Mr. Hovey, to pay soldiers of the late war 46 per cent on their pay to adjust the difference between the greenbacks in which they were pa;d and the gold in which the bills were redeemed: by Mr. Anderson, to investigate the effect of the Reading strike on traffic. ulth Day.?Owing to the illness of Speaker ] Carlisle, 8. S. Cox was elected Speaker pro 1 tem.... A special prayer was offered for the recovery of Speaker Carlisle?Jlr. Fbelan , reported a bill for a bridge across i the Mississippi Kiver at Memphis. Re- ! ferred to Committee of the Whole.... Mr. Bliss ^reported a bill to reimburse the State of ?iew York for duties paid on arms . in Mr. Wilkins called tip hs bank circulation bill and Messrs. Anderson and Weaver lillibusteriKl so as to prevent its consideration.... A bill was pnssed for the con- j Rtrnctio-1 of locks and dams on the Cumber- i land River. >0rn Day.?Mr. Stone reported a resolu tion asking for information as to what legislation is necessary for tha disposal of the publie timber Inn s bo a> to se tire the preservation of the natural forest lands at the heidwaters of navigable rivers, and put wit'iin roach of 6ettlcr.-? a legal means of providing themselves with timber for building and domestic purpo?=<. Adopted.... A memorial in regard to the Centcnni-il Celebration o( the settlement of the Northw-stern Territories was ordered printed....Mr Lvman submitted the minority report in the Tnoe!>e-Carlis!econtested election case The Agricultural Experiment Station Bill was passed . .Mr. Belmont asked an appropriation of $.">0,000 to enable the United States to be represented at the Melbourne (Australia) celebration in commemoration of the founding of New South Wales ....The Election Committee's report ou the case of Redstone, of California, was agreed to The House voted to consider the Wilkins Bankine Bill. ^ r?n a TV AILUttASIA'S UhAU, Awfnl Fate of Men. Women and 1 Children Caught in the Storm. Charles Gray, living near Tekamah, died from exposure in the recent storm. Ho walked all night between his bore s to keep from freezing, and was found half a mile from home, badly frozen, Edwin Record, living five miles from Norfo k. was found on the prairie dead. He had left his brother's house on foot, but had only gone one mile when overcome by th;j cold. Henry Keickhafer, living two miles from Foster, and his son lost thi-ir way in the storm and wondered two miles east, where uieir uomes were iouuu lyuiK "mo They had passed two houstB but a few rods away. Miss Louie Royce, a school tcachrr eight miles from P ainvjew, hud l.ut three pupils on the day of the stnrni. i- h j started ut two o'cloi k with the children tor a house about twenty rods distant,but lost her way. All iaiil down in the 6now and Miss Ko/ce wrapped up the little oties as best she rotiM. Early in the night one child d.ed. later a second one an-1 just as morning broke the third chil l succumbed to the ?o!d. Coyoe then manured to reach i house. Both her feet are badiy fro en and they will probably have to be amput ted. | A b- hool teacher and eight children ar6 reported from Neligh to have perished. hive men, named Stickle, broiuera, are repotted from the same pace to have i been fro en to deith: also an old 1 mm, named Glose, and a boy, named Miller. Mrs. Miller, the boy's mother, w is , also bndlv frozen and w.ll lose ooth leg*. 1- he tviiH returnin ; from the luneral of another boo when caught in the storm. NOMINEES CONFIRMED. Mr. Lamar Made Supreme Court Justice by a Small Majority. | Cabinet Nominations Unanimously Confirmed by the Senate, I Mr. L. Q. C. Lamar has been confirmed by the United States Senate in Executive Ses| eion as an Associate Justice of the Supreme | Court. The vote stood .'33 to 28, throe Republicans?Senators Stewart, of Nevada; Stan! ford, of California, and Riddleberger, of J Virginia?voting with the Democrats. There I were 8 Democrats paired with 8 Republicans, as follows?Blackburn, Eustis, Gibson, Hearst, Kenna, Pasco, Payne and Ransom. Those paired in the negative were Chandler, Jones, of Nevada; Mandersou, Morrill, Salu'n, Sawyer, Teller, and Wilson, of Iowa A Washington dispatch to the New York Herald gives the follow,ng particulars: Tne Senate went into executive session on Mr. Lamar's continuation immediately after j the conclusion of the morning hour. The i session lasted three hours. The scene pre- [ seated dining this time was a singular one, { inasmuch as not one Southern man raised | his voice in Mr. Lamar's defence, with the exception of Mr. Riddleberger, or Virginia, himself a Republican. Senator Edmunds was the first to speak. His argument was based mainly upon Mr. Lamar'8 age, which he regarded as too advanced to justify his nomination to the Supreme Bench and to his lack of legal training. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, followed Mr. Edmunds. He,too, declared that Mr Lamar lacked the tegal qualifications nocessary for the place. He sa:d in this connection that Mr. Lamar had not only never been a Imitted to practice before the body to which it was propoi^i to elevate him, but that he bad never enjoyed this privilege before the Supreme Court of his own State. ' liut waiving an tuese oojections?setting j them aside as having no direct bearing upon the case/' continued Mr. Sherman, "Mr. Lamar's political training, his rigid adher- i ence to tne doctrine of States' rights unfits him to deal with the great constitutional , questions which he will lie called to pass upon, an i this in itself ought to furnish sufficient ground for his rejection." Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, made the , mo6t aggressive speech of the day. His argument followed tiie line of theother Republicans who precede hiin, with the addition that Mr. Lamar's record as an original seces- | sionist was also touched upon and condemned as one of the strong reasons why he should not confirmed. Mr. Evarts, of New York, spoke at greater length than any of his Republican colleagues, 1 but his speech, like that of Mr. Hoar, of 1 Massachusetts, who followed him, presented | no new thoughts. Messrs. Wilson, of Iowa, Culloin, of Illi- 1 nois, and Ingalls, of Kansas, also spoke I briefly against confirmation. Senator Paine, of Ohio, was the only Democrat, either North or South, who uttered a word in Mr. Lamar's behalf. His remarks i were brief. He besan by referring to the fact that he had been instructed by the ' Democratic memliers of the Legislature of 1 Ohio to vote fi r Mr. Lamar, and concluded j 1 by saying that he should do so. Mr. I'ildleberger, of Virginia, gave as his 1 reason for supporting Mr. Lamar that more or less prejudice e .isted against the gentla- 1 man on account of his connection with the Southern Confederacy. Mr. Riddleberger gaid that no too naa joinea nis iorcunes whd the Confederacy and be felt that he could not without stultifying himself oppose Mr. Lamar's confirmation. i This closed the oratory of the day. The speeches were followed with the liveliest interest by all the members present Little or no newspaper read.ng or letter writing was indulged in, as is usually tho case. The speeches were, in the main, calm and temperate. When the final vote was taken it was announced that Mr. Lamar had been confirmed by a majority of four. Messrs. Dickinson and Vilas were also con- ! firmed as Postmaster-General and h'erretary ot the Interior respectively. PEOMINENT PEOPLE, M. de Lbs be ps will leave Paris for Pana- ' ma in March. i The Rev. Mr. Spurgeon recently preached his 2,000th sermon in London. I The King of Spain is seventeen months old and gets $1,000,000 a year. Major-General Alfred H. Terry, United States Army, is said to be hopelessly sick. ClemenceaU, the French political leader, was a physician, and he once lived in New \ York. John Wanam vker, of Philadelphia, car- , ries $(i00.000 l/'.e insurance and Chauncey Depew $500,000. The Marquis of Lome has determined upon a literary life, and has a Berial ready for an English maga zine. > Rev. T. Dkwitt Talmaoe succeeds Mr.j' Beecher as chnp'ain of the famous Brooklyn i Thirteenth Regiment Belva Lockwood has returned to Wash Ington, and is riding about the avenues of that city on a tricycle. She is coming North cn a lecture tour. Mils, James G. Blanx. Jr., is an enthusiastic amateur photographer, and is particularly successful with and fond of photo graphing flowers. Sebastian S. Marble, who. by the recent death of Governor Bod well, became the Governor of Maine, in his early life worked in the saw-mills and woods. Probably the oldest practising attorney in the United States is Sidney Barllett, of Bos- j ton. He was born in Plymouth, Miss., im 171*9, and still has a lucrative practice. Mr. William Rockefeller, the head of the Standard Oil Company, has had a very narrow escape from being killed by a pel buck deer at his country residence in Oonnec ticut A number of public men have written chapters for a lire of Oliver P. Morton, which is to be published by his son, and 1 -?- O 1 T among me writers are oeimi/oi a .Lugoiia Allison. I CTRC8 Field began life as a clerk in a New England store ana once worked for A. T. Stewart for the munificent salary of t-~>0 at year. He left the dry goods king's employ to sell newspapers. t j The Congressional Directory In its bio-1 ( graphical sketch of H. F. Finley, of Ken- -1 tui ky. nays that he "began life for himself ' wiibout an education sufficient to transact business, and penniless." Samuel Spencer, who has just been made President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad /. at a 6nlary of $25,00.) a year, was a rodman earning a scant salary only a few years ago. ; : He is not yet forty years old. j THE LABOR WORLD. The iron moulders have some 250 local' ' anions, with upward of Hi.OoO mem'-ers. Last year iw,uuu tons ox sm^p nuc built on the Clyde, asagain-t 172,000 in Secretary Litciiman savs there are.'KM.-/ 000 members of the K. of L. in good standTne Cambria Iron Company, of Johns town, Penn., will reduce wages ten per cent. There are 200,000 members of the Ancient Order of United Workmen in this country and Canada. A new rubber shoo factory is soon to be started in Nangatuck, Conn.,and will employ one thou and person*. Ihb National Granite Cutters' Union has now seventy branehe; with a total membership of about six thousand. Tins International Furniture Workors' Un.onhas now twenty-five branches, wittj a tota; mem lership or about 4,510. T;te Philadelphia and Chartros Gas Companies of Pittsburg have merged into one conijjany, with a capital of $18,IMK),OOJ. Tiik tanning of boa constrictor slum formg a branch of industry in Hamburg, iN. J. Th.-y are made into poeketbooks pr.ucipally. A year ago 1;*?0 nail machines were in operation at Pittsburg, making 1,000 kegs a day. Now the output is on.y fl\ e hundred > kegs. LiFB-Bif E plaster busts of August Spies are having a wide sale in-Chicago. 'I he bust is lrom a cast of his face taken afer death. Master impreKsions of the /aces of the e.te cuted Anarchists were taken by an unknown sculptor just before the funeral. LATER NEWS, Edward Coffey, under sentence of death at Pittsburgh, Pa, cut bis throat, inflicting a fatal wound. Coal baa gone up to $8 per ton in Philadelphia. Frank Fouckner, a Brooklyn (N. Y.) machinist, who had left his wife a few weeks since, returned the other day and shot her three timee, inflicting probably fatal wounds, after which he committed suicide. Fourteen Chinamen were drowned off Washington Territory while attempting to smugglo themselves into the United States. Frank M. Irwin, Register of Birminghan, Ala., is short in his accounts $10,000, and missinc. A passenger train near Coatesville, Iowa, was ditched and thirteen persons injured. A sled, with flfty-two passengers, collided with another sled in Kansas City, Mo., and seventeen people were injured. Receivers have been appointed at Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, for the Union Cattle Company, the largest concern of its kind in the West. Assets reported, *3,000,000; liabilities, $1,250,(KXX ' Mr. Lamar was sworn in as Justice of the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday, > and immediately thereafter took hit Beat upon the bench. This was the first time that the Supreme Court sat with a full bench since May 4, 1885. W. .T. Lane, an Irish memW of British Parliament, has been sentenced to a month's imprisonnnnt for inciting tenant to resist bailiffs. The German Reichstag voted to increase the army by 700,000 men. A convoy of Russian prisoners mutinied, and a desperate fight ensued. Ten soldiers and thirty-ono prisoners were killed. Twentyone prisoners escaped. During a fog off 8kerriee, Ireland, the Norwegian bark Freidis was ran down and sunk, thirteen of the crew being drowned. Thousands of people are starving in Turkey, and the Missionaries app >al for aid. Father Ryan was released from Limerick (Ireland) jiil tn the presence of 10,000 symDathizers. _________ CRUSHED BY SNOW, ; An CTerwetgtitca snea fans wnq Fatal Result. j A shocking disaster, by which three persons lost their lives and seven others wera badly wounded.occurred about seven o'clock J the other evening in Gardnerville, a email country hamlet in the Wallkill Valley,, ten miles south of Middletown, Y., At that hour twelve persons residing in the vicinity were congregated [n the country store kept there by John Everett Adjoining th? storehouse stood at 1 10-year-old and somewhat dilapidated hor-^j i shed and wagon house, heavily laden with the snow that had been falling on it alt ? * ? * ? rr?u- /? i I day yesteraay. jldb jjsxuwo hi m? owio i henrd the shed creaking and snapping under the superimposed burden, I Riid eleven of them, led by Mr. Everett, went j into the building and set to work propping up the roof with some timbers at hand. 1 Tney had barely begun the work when the heavy-timbered, old-fashioned roof, with all its weight of snow, fell down upon tnem with ' a sudden crash, and ten of the eleven were < caught under the wreck. The following men were instantly killed: David Kelly, blacksmith, leaves widow and two children; JonnJ. Tuthill, laborer, leaves i widow and seven childreu; Wi.li.un Wright, i laborer, leaves widow. The following were wounded: John Everett, merchaut, left leg broken, dangerous internal injuries; Edward Decker, right leg broken, shoulders and epine severely jammed and bruised; George Shoemaker, severely hurt internally: Hiram T. Manning, bruised about shoulders, arms and bead; Louis Stillwel^ George Kernick and William j House all suffered painful contusions and lacerated wounds. The escape of the eleventh person of the * party, a 17-year-old lad named Adelbert J Decker, was most wonderful. When the j crash came he was standing, with a 'antern i . in his hand, just at the entrance of the shed. The falling timbers smashed the lantern, leaving him uninjured and with the ring by : ] which he held it still in his grasp. j , It was two hours before the neighbors who i hurried to the scene suocee led in getting the I last victim out from under the wrecked building. The three dead men bad been | crushed to death almost insrantlv. and the , bodies were considerably mutilated. The disaster carries sorrow and mourning into 1 almost every family in the hamlet NEWSY GLEANINGS. The retail price of coal at Pasadena, CaL, | (a $25 a ton. I i The entire district of Columbia's debt is now $20,812,450. ; Sir Morrell Mackenzie has received j $65,000 up to date for attendance on the Crown Prince of Germany. St. Paki.. Minn., claims to have spent 1 f11,000.0)0 in building last year. iaaoa 1 JWaxutthS> Ji'IO muuuu twov vmuow 020 fires in Now York last year. ) A rxvof gasoline exploded in Xenia, Ohio, killing John Alexander, aged thi;teea It is state<l that tin Florida orange crop this season will not exceed 701,030 boxes. There are nineteen persons charged with murder confined in the New York Tombs. ! Natural gas, producing a flame ten feet ' high, has been struck at Seneca Falls, N. Y. i At Chambwsburg, Pa., Martin Kissinger, < while delirious from typhoid fever, killed , himself. There are nearly 6,000 porters engaged in carrying provisions to Henry M. Stanley > around the cataracts to Stanley Pool in ] Africa. Recruiting agencies have been , established at various points along the route, ] THE MARKETS. s new york. Beef', good to prime.. 0% 6^ : Calvee, common to prime.... 8 @ xl^ | S.:::::::::::::::::::::: kZ J* , Hoes?Live 5 50 @ 5 W) Dressed &K& JT Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 50 @ 4 <5 West, good to choice 3 00 (d) 5 10 Wheat? No. 2 Red ?:!^| 1 Rye?State 66 59 Barley?State 82 @ 85 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 0'/?<9 62 Oats?Whitn .state 8939% Mixed Western 8J @ 40 Hay?Mod. to prune 80 (<S 85 Btraw?No. 1. Rve W9 & 1W Lard?City Steam 7 55 @7 80 Butter?Suite Creamery.... 83 @ 34 Dairy 19 (# 28 West. Im. Creamery 18 tfs 25 Fartorv M (g 23 Cheese?State Factory 11 & 12)? , Skims ? @ 8 , Western T* oi.. J D _ 91 !? QSXli E/g^S?Oiai? auu i Dull ? vj, ?,M BUMAUX Steers?Western 3 25 @3 75 Sheep?Good to Choice 4 75 ($ 5 25 Lai ubs? Western 4 25 (tc (i 00 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 6 .>) (<3 5 55 Flour?Family 4 75 (cj 5 15 Wheat?No. 1 ? (flj 1*2 Corn?No. 2, Mixed 40 Oats?No. 2, Mixed ytf ?W,l<' Barloy? State U5 "(<? i?.i BOSTON. Beef?Good to choi<:e 7 7;'.i Hogs?Live 5'+.^ 6 Northern Dressed.... 0%rtl 7)^ Pork?Ex. Prim<?. ?er bbL.,17 (X) (#17 5') Flour?S >ring Wheat pat's.. 4 70 (j 4 05 Corn?High Mixed. Ml*? 65'< Oats?Extra White 45'^ -uiV &) ffb tiH WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLJ2 MA.iKKr. Beef- Dressed weigut < i<5 7% Sheen?Live weight 4l^r$ 5 Lamb 5 @ ft Hogs?Northern 7 @ 7% PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 75 (ft 3 Wheat?No. 2, llwl Hi @ !> Corn?State Yellow 5< 5-S t Oats Mixo 1 3 ]S, fl) <) Rve?f-tate 52^ d) 5S B;ittor?Creamerv Extr/i... 3 (<$ 3 Cboes??N. Y. Full Cretm.. 12 i UNCERTAINTIES. 8S Pink linen bonnrt, W Pink cotton gown, 99 Roees printed on it bH Hands burnt brown, SB 0, blithe were all the piping birds, and thfl'; HH golden belted bees, NO And blithe Bang she on the doorstep,with b&tj 69 apron full of pf as. i Sound of scythe and mowing, SB Where buttercups grow tall; ^9 * Sound of red kino lowing, HBj And early milkmaid's calL 99 OlVAAf wlik Xff U ttuu? W1D OUUg UU UW UW1OMTP) TT IMi W young peas in her lap. fiS And he came whistling up the lane, with th* 99 ribbons in his cap. "Ton railed me a bad penny Bfl That wouldn't be sent away? Hfl Bat here^ a good-bye to you, Jenny, EM For many and many a day. 9fl There's talk of canma an i killinj? 9B Nay, never turn so whitel S| And I've taken the King's shilling? Sfij I took it last night." H Oh, merry, merry piped the thrushes op is , H the cherry tree, H But dumb she sat on the doorstep, and ooft H through the gate went he. Km Scent of hay and summer; Red evening sky; H Noise of the fife and drummer; IB Men marching by. H Hie hay will be carrried presently, and tb? H cherries gathered all, A ?-11 "? -1 *? ? 1U1U VUCW1U 0IAUU9 JfOUVW U1 HW OUWU^ and the leaves begin to fall. Perhaps some evening after, With no more song of thrash, The lads will cease their laughter, And the maids their chatter hush; And word of blood and battle Will mix with the sound of the flatly And lowing of the catttle. And clink of the milking pall; t; And one will raid half fearful A list of names aloud; And a few will stagger fearfdl Out of the little crowd; And she, perhaps, ha'i doubting, Half knowing why she came, Will stand among them pouting, And liear, perh -pn, his name? ?? iu wwjp, |WI ua^n, a uvuu^ no sua nauuotv up the lane, tad wish one summer morning were all to do again. ?Macmillan. PITH AND_ POINT. Tea girls, this is leap year, bat it brell to look before you leap.?Binghamon Republican. Strange as it may apper, it is usually &. . * :old day for a man when he is 1'fired." D'stun Coi,ri*r. Vvnlnfinn Tiffllt Wit mftdfl ft. W11TI lorn makes whisky; whi ky makes a man Light in his hoots.?Boston Bulletin. ' My name? I. B. Smith." said a man it the hotel, whereupon the gentleman addressed remarked with a sweet smile: 4,So be I." Hardly a week passes but we are reminded ' that we are constant/y surrounded bv perils seen and kerosene. ' ?Brprririqfidd Union. Leap till the last armed male expires; Leap for your husbands and for sires; Leap for a chance to build the fires. Fair ones throughout the lancrl ?Oil C.ty Blizzard. A South Carolina paper tella of * farmer in that State who hat been at tht plow for sixty-eight years. It ia time to :all the old man to dinner.?Alia California. The young man who would waste time kissing a girl's hand would eat the brown naoer bag and leave the hot house grapes for some one else.?SomtT' oUle Journal. The Dew Harlem Police Magistrate? "What h your nanvef' Vagrant?"Thai shows you are a green hand at the business. All your predecessors knew ray name.?New York Mercury. A scientist declare* that the haic cartaifter death. Now, when you hear you* wife say that she's "made a pie that will make your hair curl," you'll know just what she means.?' Z He?"I declare, Miss Angelina, yoo treat me worse than your dog." She? "O, Mr. de Mogyns, now can you say so? I I'm sure I never make the slightest difference bet we . n you V?Pmai. "What is the most religious portion of foe body?" asked Maudie the other day. And no one guessing the answer, she i. .1.1 Kh.miikp it ia b* LUIU It; iUC wvm-^v ? ? tween two temples."?Jixiti Meaenger. Life is real, life is earnest. And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou buyest, dust tboa burnest, That was b oken of the cool. ?Nebraska Stale Journal. Ab soon as the German Crown Prince was "given np" by the docto s he began to grow better. This shows that the ioctow c:in eure a man if they only g? ibout it in the right waj.?Ohieago '1 imes. Mr. Taliafero, of Atlanta, Ga., says v.a Vi.io snlvr>d the nreblem of DOr 1 Uf?w iIVy uug . I petual motion. Ho, ho; the conceit of some men. As tho igh he was the only man in America with a tea year old boy. ?Burdette. An advertisement readit "Wanted, a young man to be partly out of doors and partly behind the counter," und a young lady ha9 written to ask: "What will bo the result when the dooi slams?"?00 (J it / Buzsurl. Ardently Obedient: Wife?"Is it true, ' hubby, that alcohol will take stains out of s.Ik?" Husband ?e-, dear." Wife ?"Well, pica e brrathe on these grease spots, there's a d..rliiig." He obeys and burns a hole in it. ? T?un Topic*. THE LEVEL HEADED POET. And thou art here again beau-ti-ful snowt With joy I hail thy coming, but before I write a poem >n thy pn? se. Til go -1 1 /iflPHiounlr lutfoi-e mv door. AHU tuvra vu wjv ? ?Bh-o i Courier. Father (who has given hi# consent)? "I hope, young man, tbHt you know the value of the pri/e you will get in my daughter?". "Younsr man? "Well?er ?no, air. I don't know the exact value; but as near as 1 can tind out it's in the neighborhood of $jU,000.?Neto York San. THET 8TILL no IT. Said Snrth to Jono?, toll me, I pray, The reison? if vou know it?why The doctors d > not lileultoday Thusr patients as in yeans gone by? Tlipy blt??d just as they u ?'d to do, Sai?l loiios, these curersof our ills, Not with their lancets it is iru?, For now they bleeil us with their bills. ?Bm'on Courier. A pupil in one of the pubi c schools of this city complied recently in tlie followini; manner with ft reijue-t to write a composition ou the sub a t of a phyisolo^ical lecture to wlu-h tho school had just listened: "The human body it made up of tlie bead, thontx and the abdomen. The head > ontaius the brains, when there is any The tboiax contains the heart and the lung*. The nhdomea contains the bowels, of whii h there ar? live, A, E, I, <), U, and sometimes and V."? adelpkia J ten.