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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.
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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
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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.