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THE TARIFF BILL. A TalK With a Member of the Ways and Means Committee. Proposed Changes in the Tariff ? O and Internal Revenue, A New York World Washington correspondent has <;-aestioned member of the House Committee on Ways and Means regarding the present eonditiec of the Tariff bilL j He replied: "The Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee have gotten that portion of tl?e bill that deals with rates abotffc completed, subject only to a final nevisioe. Wool is made free and put in the front of the bill. The duties on woolen and worsted manufactures are substantially reduced and the present difference in tbe classification between woolen and worsted goods is abolished. It is estimates, that the redaction of revenue from changes in | the woolen schedule will prabably fcb' from $J"-i/KKMKX) to $15,000,000. The ;present i tariff makes the duties on cfeempar woolen gwxlf much higher proportionately than on | the finer : fabrics, so that the poor ore taxed j out of all proportion to the wealthy. The i schedule that will be reported reverses this j ?ntirr)y and taxes finer fabrics higher in j proportion to value than the oheaper goods | usee by working men." ' What articles will be added "to the free j listf1 'Si-Jit, lumber and many chemical are put I upei: the free list. It is not yet known ] whether fish will be made free or not, as the commission is embarrassed by the pending negotiations with Great Britain. Tho necessity to obtain certain votes cf members fronrthose States which are large producers of cool and coke may prevent any 'reduction cm-coal." "How about the metals?" The metal schedule has not beec completed | and is now being revised by consultation i with tariff reformers who ?re acquainted with the production and manufacture of | metals. There will be substantial reductions on metals, though. Steel rails will probably be put as low as $10 or $ 11. The changes made in thiss hedule have been madegor the purpose of cheapening as far as possible all agricultural implements, tools and metals used in buildiag. The Democratic members from Virginia, West Virginia, Alabama and Pennsylvania. who otherwise will vote for the bill, urgently request the committee not to put iron o?>e on the tree list, and this 'influence may prevent it from beingdone. "The principles upon which the bill has been prepared nave been to permit the introduction as far as possible of raw material free and to reduce corresponding duties. on the manufactured propucts, to cheapen the taxation on all food and the necessaries of life, and to leave substantially untouched the duties on luxuries or the imported articles which are brought by iperaons of wealth. Few or no cnanzes have Been made in the schedules affecting imported cigars, tobacco, liquors, silks and such articles. "How much of a reduction of itariff will the bill produce?'' "The bill will be more moderate than the more decided revenue reformers would prefer, but it will be in the right direction, and it is thought will commend itself to the country by its conservatism. The reduction on sugar will be 20 per cent., or $11,000,000, and the entire reduction of tariff somewhere between $50,000,000 and $55,000,006, possibly $60(01.0,000. " The alterations in the Internal Revenue law will l>e very marked. The tax on manufactured tobacco, amounting to about $'20,000,000, will be abolished. The special license and the tax on the manufactures of stills will be repealed, and all fruit brandies made free. This will make an aggregate reduction of internal revenue of perha]? $30,0)0,000, so that if the bill passes thp entire reduction of revenue will be be tween #80,000/100 and $90,000,000. " As to the industries of the country which have been established under the present system and have now a protection no greatef than :?eems to be necessary to prevent them from being destroyed or badly crippled, the committee has made no changes in tne present duty. Afi to all the industries, the rule adopte l by the committee has been to remove from them as many obstructions caused by the present taiifT as was possible, and to give them as many advantages as possible, for the purpose of furnishing to the producers of raw material iu America a home market sufficient to take up all their product, BO that there might be an increase instead of decrease of material produced in this country. It is firmly believed that if the bill passes there will be a large decrease of imDortations on account of the additional ad vantages furnished by this bill, and that the price of wool, timber and other material produced in America will be increased and not diminished." FIRE IN ^HOSPITAL. Many Crippled Children in Danger? All Saved by Prompt Action. There was a fire the other evening in the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled Children, at Lexington avenue and Fortysecond street, New York, which threatened to end in great loss of life." The calamity was averted by the courage and nf the drv-f/irs nnH mii'sps in ph.ir^A of the little cripples and the ready help given | by the police, firemen, and many citizens attracted to tbs scene by the fire. The 185 children were all carried out in safety, and found shelter in a hotel and in several private houses in the neighborhood, whose occupants threw open their doers and were proud to have the fjrivilege ot Htol&ling and caring for th<? j ittle unfortunate. ' The only casualty was the suffocation of Mary Donnelly, the head cook of the hospital who, when the fire broke out, was asleep in her room on the top floor of the building, and who, apparently forgotten in the excitement, was suffocated by the clen^e smoke which filled the stairway, which r;as her only means of escape. ' FATAL SNOW SLIDES. Loss of Life on the Canadian Pacific Railroad. A "Winnipeg 'Manitoba) dispatch says that the latest reports from the mountains indicate that there has been great loss of life on the Canadian Pacific owing to snow slides. Strong chinook winds have been prevailing 1 for a week, and all along the line from Donald to Glacier snow has been coming down on the track in tremendous quantities. Near i Palliser station, British Columbia, several j men were caugut in a Miue. um y one ? iw t due out alive, and he was so badly bruised and injured that he is not expected to re- j cover. The mild w eather has put an effectual j stop to all through Canadian Pacific trains, and as the mountain streams are considerably swollen, it may be some time before j fcraftic is resumed. RICH IN YEARS, Although 90 years of age, the Hon. Fran- j cis Brinley, of Newport, R. I., is still a brilliant speaker. Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Bates, of Hanover, Mass., were bom on the same day and at the same hour, and are 92 years of age. They have been married sixty-two years. San Antonio boasts a citizen, a century old, who recently rode to a dog fight eighteen miles away, and was bright enough to pick out the winning dog. 1 here are yet living 3ot of the old mem- | bersof the Tippecanoe Club of Indianapolis, the average being 74 years and 2t days. Jas. Hubbard, of tbeclub, is in his 103d year. Wealthy John W. Jackson, of Chicago, | although over 80 years of age, has not lost J his gallantry,and he made Mrs. Sarah Golden i Mrs. Jackson recently. This is the third time j he has led a bride to the altar. Tom Murphy,of Enfield, N. H., is 90 years of age, and still cares for his old horse that he has driven for forty years. Murphy is straight as an arrow, and has a full head of dark brown hair, with scarcely a tinge of white. He has a full set of natural teeth that are remarkably even and white. He reads the finest print, and never uses elassea. I . 1 William Rejbo, of Pittsburg, Penn., the ' eccentric locator of oil and minerals by I means of divining rods, who was drowne 1 re- j ctntly on the New Jersey coast, left the j fcreat r j>art of his estate of i.iw) lor the ! benefit of student# lor the ministry, struggling churches and minions. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, ! Eastern and Middle States. A national anti saloon Republican con- j fcrence will be held in New York'Jity CP April IS and 19. Owing to the blinding blizzard, the engi- j neer of a fast freight on tho Oxmectarut : River Railroad dashed into a ga/ig of laborers at Holyoke, Mass., killing, 'Martin Oriflin, j Jaracs Kennedy and John Shea, and fatally i injefing Mike Connors. An engine on the Greenwich Railrcwd, near j Philadelphia, dashed into a carriage containing the Revs. Phillips Brooks, William N. J JicVickar. C. B. OoopoT and Miss McViekar, ! tossing the velrcde fifty feet, br.t the occu- j vrflvn IllVOfl pciiivo ??v.v Daniel Rev.se, Jr., was killed and Mat- I tliew Davis, -John McOlivwr, and Stephen \ Ward fatall" burned by & gas explosion at j Plymouth, f'enn. The Matftha flats in New York City were j destroyed <ty fire, renderirgsixteen families homeless. Several persons were rescued j from tke'fiames by firemen. Christian* Fieck, of 'Snowden, Penn., j murdered his wife witfc a shotgun in tho preseirs of his six littio children and then commuted suicide by sfeaflting himself in the mouth. He was a owner and was issane from poverty. The new $2."?,00G Directors' car of the Delaware and Hudson Company was blown np by the explosion of an experimental heater ft was supplied with, ?rd William Burt was ' fatally injured. The business bouses of Urling & Sons, Heeren Bros., and William Haslage &"Soiw, j were burned at Pittsburg, Penn., witfc a loss ; of*o00.000. Burning naphtha in the sewer ct Sing- | hamton, X. V., caused considerable damage to property and two men lost their lives. In Marhlchend,Mass. .diphtheria istopidemic j and twenty-eight persons have died time far. During a fire ?t Norwich, Conn., Fred W. Spicer, a fireman, -slipped on the ice and I struck his nose against the hydrant with such force as to break his neck. A heavy earthquake shock wts rfelt at many places icn Rhode Island and Massa- ' chusetts. Furniture was thrown down and ; window glass broken in Newport, El. I., and New Bedford, Mass., but no further 'damage j was done. Edward Wentwoth. of Sidney Centre, j Me., attempted to^kill his wife and thirteen j bmall children, when one of his sons grabbed [ the revolver and shot him dead. The Retail Grocers of the Unite! States will hold a pure food exhibition at Albany, N. Y., in June. The snow blockade made sad hswocmdth j cne live stock en route to i'-usiem ujuikcu from the West. The animals were made furious from hunger,and tore each other like wolves. Thousands of them perished. The steamship Alexandria has arrived in New York Harbor badly battered by a hurricane, which carried away the life-boats, the shrouds and the rigging. She was sixty days j at the mercy of the waves, and, added to ; this, small-pox broke out on board and many were taken ill wifcfc it Professor Asa Gray, the eminent botan- ! ist of Harvard CuQIege, died at his home in | Cambridge, Mass., at the age of seventy- i seven. The suits for eviction against the miners who are on a strike in tne Lehigh region, were decided in fsfl-or of the strikers, by Judge Woodward. Br the derailment of a train at Somerset, N. Y., two people were killed, and thirty more or less inj urea. The Paymaster of New York City lost a i satchel containing $223,000, but it was found ! by a stranger, who turned it over to the | authorities. Joseph W. LocnER,of New York City, j was convicted of stealing letters from the ! Postoffice, and when hie mother heard the sentence she fell dead. South nnd West. Charles Foster, of the Indian Territory . who lost his wife and child in the blizzard, j has hanged himself. An oil well yielding 5,000 barrels per day i has been opened at Carini, 111. James McKnight murdered Duke Cum- j mines at Purccll, Indian Territory, and, : after killing two of the posse that attempted to arrest him, was himself killed. The citizens of Logan County, West Virginia. have appealed to Governor Wilson, to send militia to disperse the rival forces of the Hatfields and McCoys. Business is suspended. * v A ?<</ihlanp u>no ft for murdering Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock, of j Santa Anna, Cal., whoss guest he wa-5. Maxwell, the Englishman soon to be hung at St. Louis, is attempting suicide by smok- i ing fifty cigarettes daily. Sixteen persons were injured,two of them j fatally, by the breakiug away of a street car, I operated by cable, on a down grade at St I Paul, Minn. Governor Wilson has sent two companies I of infantry to suppress the warring factions i of McCoy and Hatfield, the Logan County j (W. Va.) desperadoes. Patrick Murray, eighty years of age, committed suicide at Richmond, Va., oy ! tying a large stone around his neck and j jumping in the river. At Dawson, Ga., the house cf Mrs. Mary j Brown took fire and her two children were , roasted to death before her eyes, all attempts ; to rescue them being in vain. T? Mio TTinicV>; Mnnnfiiins TniUnn Terri- ! tory, masked robbers fatally burned an old I cattle dealer namei Williamson, while | torturing him in order to learn the hiding | place of his money. Indiana is to have a soldiers' monument which will be 350 feet high and will cost *300,000. | Speaker Carlisle and wife visited For- j tress Monroe and were received with a salute of seventeen guns. William Bowen, twenty years old, died j in great agony at Atlanta, (ia., of hydrophobia,brought on by a dog bite received two ' months ago. An* ice gorge swept down the Mississippi | River ana damaged property at St. Louis, i M ~ Knn /vin w mv CAvrjuv ui c?)"W|""w. Governor Wilson, of West Virgin's, of- j ficially announces that the famous HatfieldMcCoy war has ended and that there is no necessity of sending militia to suppress it. The shoe shop; in the Virginia State Penitentiary were burned, with a loss of $200,000. J The militia was called into requisition to j prevent a wholesale escape of convicts. The Supreme Court of California has j affirmed the decision in the famous Sharon- i Hill case, granting Sarah Althea Sharon a j divorce from the late Senator Sharon, and ' allowing large counsel fees. Washington. The House Committea on Elections by a ! party vote declared Mr. White (Republican) ineligible to represent Indiana in Congress, j Should the majority report be sustained, the House will bo Democratic by State delegations. The eclipse of the moon, a few nights ' a^o. was observed with varying success by ! tKulnndin^ oetrnnrtinoiS! nf t.ho /VMinf.rV Rear-Admiral Clark H. Wells (retired) died a few days since in Washington. He j was horn in Reading. Penn., in 1822. Thk President has nominated Commodore j Bancroft Gherardi to be a Rear Admiral, ! Capt. \V illiain E. Fitzhugh to lie a Commodore, and Commander Henry B. Robeson to be Captain. Thk Senate has confirmed as Postmasters: John H. Curry at Nashville and John W. Ross at Washington, and as Consul at Rio Grande do Sul, L. G. Bennington, of West Virginia. First CojtrroLi.er Durham has decided that p.T diem employes are the only class of t public employee who are entitled to extra compensation for work performed on legal holidays. Two more Cabinet dinners are to be ; given to the President and Mrs. Cleveland, ; which will close the series for this season. r urriKiu The Senate of Spain has decided to adopt in that country trial by jury. The village of Aisane, Italy, has been de- ' stroyed by fire, leaving tho inhabitants des- J titute. Two were kille i nnd many injured, j Four American prospectors in the Sierra , Mad re mountains, Mexico, were attacked by Indians and murdered. Hon. Joseph R. Cox, Home Rule member of the )>ritish Parliament, was sentenced in Dublin to four months' imprisonment at hard labo lor addressing proclaimed branches of the Irish National League. He appealed and was admitted to bail, but on leaving the rmaaamm t ?? courthouse wasre-arnttted on another charge of a similar character. All the phy6frft\ns of the Gertnan Crown Prince have met for consultation, and it is said an operandi will be performed on him. Father McFadde.v. of Gweedore, Ireland, was arrested for noldnig anti-landlord meetings a?>d sentenced to three months1 imprisonment. Father Stevens, another priest, has been arrested under the Coercion Act. Ah Fat, a Chinaman, was hung at Victoria, British Columbia., for the murder of a Chinese woman. An army officer committed suicide at St Petersburg, in orckc to avoid the necessity of assassinating the Czar. He belonged to a secret society \vhr.se object was to kill the Czsir, and he had been chosen by teallot for that purpose. Of ten persons injured at Matamzas, Cuba, ' - - 1 :i tin^A ji/ui V)y T/Iie expiUSK>'U Ui a uuna, tuivu iiuto uivu. Mr. Blan?, member of Parliament for South Armagh, Ireland, has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment for inciting tenants to resist the authorities. The sever. Nihilists who were sentencedrto death for an attempt on the Czart life have ;had their sentences coaamcted to various terms of imprisonment. Tblizzard in the east. 'High Snow Drifts ?3renffly Impede Traffic in Many Places. A heavy wind and snow -storm has visited New England and portions of the Middle States, crreatlv delavdinc the railroads in al most every direction. A Boston dispatch says: A very good imitation df a Western blizzard, if inriei'd it is not the genuine article, settled down on New England. In the northern and western sections it was accompanied by an ronusually iheavy snowfall, (hi the coast but little snow fell, but the wind during the <Sny blew a veritable gale. Boston Harbor ha? not been in such a dangerous condition since 187.1. The new 1,000-ton four-masted schooner Clara Goodwin, from Portsmouth to Baltimore, was caught in theico off Chatham, and <was- inking when the big tug Underwriter got hold of ;her and towed her back to Boston. There was a fleet of oO sail off Chatham., ;i?e bound. With the -southeast gale winch iprevailed the ice was piled up and they are firnily held. An unusual number of disasters are expected. The blizzard has been most-severely felt in New Hampshire and Maine. It is the worst -storm that lias liecotnown foryears. The rail roads were in a bad condition when this atorm came on. Snow was piled high on the sides of the tracks, and iww those 'track? are buried deep under drifts tbatwill take days to clear away. Through travel on the northern railroads was practically paralyzed. Dover, N. H., was blockaded with two feet of snow on the level and badly drifted. From Vermont and Maine similar reports to the foregoing were received. Trains were stopped by hu?e snow drifts, and the.telegraph and telephone wires were down in many directions. The iroads and streets about many of the towns and ^villages were .impassable. Along the Hudson the -severest sdow storm experienced in many years prevailed. When the snow ?fcorm subsided a regular blizzard begin, scattering the snow in all directions, blockading roads, stopping ferrios, and delaying travel. In Central New York and in portions of Pennsylvania the storm was also severe, and tl. I heavy fall of snow caused numerous block adee on the railroads. TUT1 T APftT? WnPTTl JL X1U U?LXfV/i.ll VV Kotghts of Labor favor government telegraphy. There is a boom in cotton factory bailding in North Carolina. Cigarmakers to the number of 1,200 are striking in New York City. Last year there were 383,404 cases of shoes shipped from Brockton, Mass., against 301,584 in 188<i William D. Hartupee is now preparing plans for the new window-class factory to be built at Grapeville, Penn. Several engineers on the Reading Railroad will be removed because they have failed to pass the color test examination. Of the 100 tons of zinc annually produced in the world, Missouri turns out twelve tons, and the Industry is only partly developed there. Pennsylvania Railroad coke shipments ments show an increase of 807,699 tons in 1S37 over the previous year. The total was 3,757,344 tons. J. J. McGarry, a Knight of Labor, got a verdict in St. Louie?, Mo., for $1,500 against the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company for malicious prosecution. A report from South California mills states that cotton operatives commence work at 5:30 in the morning, take forty minutes for dinner, and leave off at (?:30 p. h. The Sultan has requested Prince Bismarck to send a competent German to Asia Minor to instruct the natives in th?? better working of mines and forests and in uusbandry. The long strike of the shoemakers in Rochester, which has continued since November 1, has collapsed, the men having returned to work oil the maufacturers' terms. The National Tube Works, at McKeesport, Penn., completed a new plate mill for roiling sheets of iron over six feet wide, to be used in manufacturing twenty-four inch lap weld pipe, Taking six trades as a basis, the average pay of a skilled laborer in North Carolina is |1,G0 a day; unskilled, 65 cents; farm labor, without board, 55 cents, and with board 550 cents. There are a number of woolen mills and knitting factories in operation in Utah whore hosiery, mittens, leggings, ladies' knit skirts, and men's knit underwear are turned out in large quantities. At a conference between Carnegie, Phipps & Co., of the Homestead Steel Works, Pittsburg, renn., and a committee of the Amalgamate! Association, an amicable settlement of the wage question was effected. The Brotherhood of Carpenters of America originally (in 1-S81) had only twelve local unions, consisting of 2,042 members. On January 1,18!^, it numbered 353 local unions, located in 331 cities,with 41,721 enrolled members. The International Hatters' union is saia to be one of the best protective organizations in the world. There is a National Union in this country and one in Europe, and both are affiliated under the name of the International body. The Organizers of the 'Longshoremen's National l)istrict Assembly have received communications from nearly all the organizations ot that class of workers in the Unite! States, and all thus far heard from favor the The total iron output in the South last year was tons?an increase of SO per 'cent in two years, and represents one-eight of the total production of the United States. The total number of furnaces in blast January 1, 188S, was: Charcoal, 23; coke, 30, and anthracite, 1. A big petition which, when complete, will contain upward of 500,000 signature.^ asking for a Government telegraph service, is being prepared under the supervision of the General; Executive Board of the Knights of Labor. Mr. Fowderly expects to be able to take it to Washington and present it to Congress. The statistics from the Michigan Labor Bureau show many million dollars in mortgages on the farms of that State. In one county nearly half the farms aw mortgaged, the total reaching nearly one-fifth of the assessed value of all the farms in the county. It is said that other counties are in a much worse condition. On account of the agricultural depression in Great Britain farm laborers are not generally employed during the winter as they formerly were. As a consequence large numbers of them come to cities to obtain something to do. As the cities are crowded few of them succeed in obtaining employment and their condition becomes distressing. THREE ODD ACCIDENTS, wlujam Fry, of Iiushville, Ind.,a colored man who wore a corset tightly laced, fell while dancing and died soon afterward. George Swank, of Beaver Falls, Penn., ran at full speed against a clothes line that I caught him just under the nose, tearing out his upper teeth and splitting the face from j ear to ear. L. C. Baker,a brakeman on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railway, caught his foot in ' a frog just as a train approached. He could not extricate himself. His leg was crushed, and be died from shock. BIG BUILDINGS ABLffi Most Destructive Fire Known in Xew York in Years. Haifa Block of Business Houses On Broadway Destroyed. New York has been visited by one cf the roost disastrous conflagrations experienced in many years, and which destroyed property valued at from $1,500,003 to $2,000,000, situnfnrl nn RnmHiror hot.wApn Srwintr and Prince streets. Four big business houses, with their contents, were completely destroyed, and three more serioasly damaged. Thirty-two firms were buraed ?mt, one of which employed over two hundred girls, who will be thrown out of work for some time. The fire endangered the whole neighborhood. For hours torrents of water were poured on the burning buildings from twenty steam fire engines -and two water towers. Besides the brave firemen who manned them were seven hook and ladder companies called out with their trucks. Many brave deeds were performed, and there were numerous marrow escapes among the firemen, i;e vera I of whom were injured, but fortunately no fatal casualties occurred, although three victims had to be removed to the hospital. The following is a vivid description of the fire.: The ominous three-sixes alarm call was sounded for the first time^this morning since Chief McCabe used it on the Fourth of July a vearaso. It called every engine south of Fifty-ninth street in all of that part of the city lying betweenthe Battery and Central Park to Broadway between Prince and Spring streets, where a fire was ;then eating out tne heart of one of the busiest blocks in the city. The fire toroke out just before business was about to begin at 7 o'clock, and at 10 the walls were falling right and left, threatening life and spreading terror amongthe dense.crowds of spectators that had flocked down on their way to business attracted by the dense clouds of Bmoke that hovered over Broadway. Atthat hour the danger of further spread of the fire was over, however, and the worst was known. Seven five orsix-story buildings were involved in the wreck. Four were altogether destroyed: Nos. 547, 549, 551, and .553, and Nos. 545 and 655 were greatly damaged by water. The tire broke out with sudden and unexampled fury in John C. Rogers's fancy goods store in the basement of JNo. 551. I bis is cne northern half of a big double building numbered 549 and 551. Like most of the wrecked houses, it ertended to Mercer street, and had several tenants. The fire was no sooner discovered than the firemen had tackled it, but the streams of water they threw upon the buildings seemed rather to feed than to check the flames. In five minutes second and third alarms had been sent out, summoning reinforcements, and Chief Shay had assumed personal charge. But with engines posted in front and rear and throwing floods of water over the block, the flames ate their way right and left in the heart of it, as if no obstruction was offered to their progress. When Chief Shay ordered the sounding of the three-sixes emergency eall and signaled to the gatekeepers at the reservoir to opjn wide the water gates, it looked as if the west side of Broadway would be laid waste all the way from Spring to Prince street. But with the enormous accession of Are apparatus the firemen gained the upper hand. The weakened walls began to tumble, allowing the engines free play, and in three hours th*v were masters of the situation. In the h ur of victory, when the men's untiring woi k was crowned with sure success, the top of the front wall of No. 547, falling I mi?. in t.hp sf-rpAfc. nnftxnocfcedlv struck down Assistant Foreman Reilly, of Hook and Ladder Company No. 8, who had been foremost in the perilous work with his men. He was carried to St. Vincent's Hospital with a broken log, and otherwise very badly hurt. The firemen were hampered very greatly in their work by tie enormous network of electric wires stretched in front of the burning buildings. The danger of their presence was very great, as the current nad not been turned off at the Stanton Street headquarters. Word vas sent around to have them disconnected at once, but there was a long delay before the order was heeded. The iron wall of No. 551 fell outward in a solid body shortly after nine o'clock, and mowed the network of wires down before it. From out the tangled mass of debris bright sparks flew and flashes of lightning shot in thn descent, that were hailed with exclamations of delight bv the spectators, safe a block away, but with awe ny the firemen and police who knew tne aeauiy pern so ciose tu Dana. NEWSY GLEANINGS, A National Association of Lawyers is proposed. The fire loss in the United States in 1877 was $130,000,000. The Government estimates the cotton crop at 0,.'300,000 bales. Chicago reaper and mower manufacturers talk of forming a "trust." There has been 2,000 deaths from smallpox in Havana since May. One fireman was killed and four injured at a fire in Manistee, Mich. France is about to issue nickel-silver coinage to the amount of $14,000,000. During the past year S41 persons, among them 68 females, committed suicide in Vienna. Spain is organizing an expedition for Morocco, according to reports, to consist of 2o,00n men. Retorts from Rms'a indicate that the Czar is now showing marked favor toward the war party, gustave Olsev fell eighty-three feet at the Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) bridge, and was instantly killed. The Minnesota Farmers1 Association has passed resolutions demanding that oleomargarine makers be compelled to color their product pink. governor Martin, of Kansas, has appealed to the people of his State, asking assistance for those suffering in the southwestern part of the State. In* consequence of the closing of the Russian universities, large numbei-s of the students are leaving the country to take up their residence in Switzerland. As International Council of Women will be held in Washington on March -Jo, to celebrate the first woman's rights convention, which was held at Seneca .falls, N. Y., in 1848. Natural gas has now been found in about a dozen localities in central Iowa, within a radius of sixty miles of Des Moines. Each new find develops a.stronger flow and heavier pressure. During a conflict between the police and a party of peasants near Sweedon, Ireland, a woman was stabbed with a bayonet, a girl ,i?.i ? ?i?i, nn,i several other WUUIIUCU nriiii U, V.uv, - _ peasants seriously hurt Two peasants were arrested. An* engine on the Northern Pacific Road dashed into a herd of nearly a thousand antelope which had huddled together in a cut, near Mandan, Dak., the other day. A score of the animals were killed, and some of their carcasses were gathered up by the train men. Mrs. Miranda and daughter, the two lepI ers now in the Municipal Hospital at Phila| delphia, are to be sent to Brazil, and a movement has been starte I to raise money for the purpose. It is intended to charter a vessel if pas age cannot be procured on any regular pas-enger ship. Stephen* Rank, an old resident of IVaupun, Wis., met his death in a singular way. He wns ascending a ladder in his barn when he lost his footing and fell between the ro.iiKis, his chin catching on one ot them and holding him there until he slowly strangled to death. A Russian general has created a great sensation iu Europe by fnrnishing an elaborate I scheme for the construction of a railway I n.Mihnria tn the Pacific Ocean. It i9 IU1 VUgu ?J.wv. ? intended to go by the shortest possible cut from the Urals to.the Pacific Ocean. . The total cost of the road is estimated at $?0),000,000, which, it is believed, can be readily raised in Russia itself. Foil the season of 4887 the total production of corn in the United States was 1,450,, 00J,000 bushels, value |t>40,000,000; of wheat 456,000,000 bushels, value f3011000.000: of oats G5y,003,0JO bushels, value $"200,000,0J0. Leprosy is said to be afflicting many Scandinavian immigrants in northern Minnesota ind Dakota. It is brought from the old, sountry, and seems to spread but little here. SPMMABY OF CONBBBSS. Senate Proceedings. 28th Day.?The following bills were re; ported: To cancel certain land reservations i in Louisiana on account of live oak thereon; to establish a public park at Pozosa Spring, Col.; a constitutional amendment fixing a time for the meeting of Congress... .The bill to rduce letter postage to one cent was discussed bv Messrs. Hoar, Beck, Piatt and Sauls- j bury. ..Mr. Morgan made a lengthy argument , offrtinet f V?o IWIn/.aHon<11 Rill nnrl \fr Rlnin I replied in support of it....Mr. Plumb asked an investigation of the inefficient postal service in the South and West. 29th Day?The following bills were introduced: To establish a United States Land Court for the settlement of private land claims; to enforce the Chinese immigration restriction act; to permit prospecting and mining in any Indian reservation: to regulate the liquor traffic in the District of Columbia.... Mr. Dawes had passed a resolution asking information concerning the I Bale of lands of the Omaha Reservation ... The joint resolution was passed providing that th? term of office of the President j and of the Fiftieth Congress shall continue j until the :>Oth day of April. 188!), at noon: 1 that the Senators whose ?3risfcing term would I otherwise expire on the 4th ot March, 18811 | (and thereafter) shall continue in office until the :>0th of April; that the oOth of April at noon shall thereafter be substituted for the 4th of March as the commencement and teri initiation of theofficial term of the President, I Vir>A-President,. Senators and Reoresenta ! tives in Congress; and that the twelfth article of the amendments to the Constitution shall be amended by striking out the words "4th day of March" and substituting the words "oOth day of April at noon." 30th Day.?Mr. Coke -presented a memorial urging a reciprocity treaty with Mexico, I in order to prevent smuggling. It was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations....The bill to facilitate the settlement | and development of Alaska was reported i back adversely, as was also the bill to open j an overland route between Asiatic Russia , and the United States A resolution was j adopted directingthe Seoretary of the Navy to furnish a statement of changes made in original plans of certain vessels and why they were made.... The following bills were reported: To establish a United States Court in the Indian Territory: for an inspection of exported meats; to prohibit the importation of adulterated food and drink.; to increase pensions of veterans who have lo6t both hands .?The Senate then took up the resr+.Vta .Trtir1i/?inrt7 Pnm. rnittee to report legislation necessary to prevent United States Courts (managing railroads through receivers) from depriving creditors of their liens, and was addressed by Mr. Call. How*: Proee^H?e?. 28tti bay.?Mr. White introduced in t>?e House a bill for the pro *;ction and administration of the forests on the public lands; referred. It withdraws from survey, sale, entry and disposal the unsurveyed public lands, embracing natural forests and all public lands returned by the publie surveys as timber lands, and provides for the appointment of a Commissioner of Foreste,at a salary of $5,000 a year, and four assistant Commissioners, who shall have the oontrol of all the forest lands owned by the United States.... On motion of Mr. Burns, the Senate amendments to the Little Deficiency bill were concurred in.... The House proceeded to the consideration of private business. 2!)th Day.?The following bills were introduced: Authorizing the building of a bridge across the Missouri River, below St. Charles, Mo.; to prevent aliens from pre-empting Innrls nnri to nrovida for leasintr grazing lands for a perioJ of ten years; a bill placing salt on the free list; to inquire into I the expadiency of reducing the postage on seeds, bulbs, etc., and of reducing to 3 cents the fee for money orders for or less.... Public Printer Benedict sent a response to the resolution asking for information concerning affairs in his department, denying that he was in arrears with work and justifying the discharge of certain men....The Senate amendments to the Agricultural Station bill were concurred in....The Hewict Administrative Tariff Bill was referred to Ways and Means Committee?The following resolutions were presented: To abolish the oleomargarine tax; to pa}* a bounty on corn, wheat and flour exported; to prevent the creation of trusts: to make a survey for a continuous water-way from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River. 30th Day?Messrs. Cummings and Gallinger were added to the Committee of Inquiry into the Government Printing Office ....A bill was reportad authorizing the Treasury to invest the money held in trust for National Banks A resolution was offered to re meat the Inter-State Commerce Commission to investigate the Reading strike .... A bill was reported re juirin^ land-grant railroads to construct telegraph lines.. .A bill was adversely reported t > regulate the postal rates on second-clusi matter at carrier offices ....Bills were parsed changing the name of the port of Lamberton, N. J., to the port of Trenton, N. J.; rewarding Esquimaux natives of the Isiatic coast for hospitality to the ship-wreakei crew of the bark Napoleon ... .Mr. O'Neill introduced a bill to prohibit enlisted men from being engaged in any employment where they come into competition with civilians. 31st Day.?A memorial from the Woman's National Relief Association, asking that pensions be granted to those engaged in the Life Saving Sen-ice, was referred.... The Urgent Deficiency bill was reported and re-? -? ? ~e i.L. \vrl.i. a u:ii ierrea to uuinnuiui'e ul bite *?uuio...,a um extending a leave of absence of Government employees to thirty days was passed. A BLIZZARD ROMANCE, A Drnmmer Finds His Fntnre Bride in a Deep Snow Drift. There have come to light a few bright and | cheery pictures from the terrible blizzard | which has desolated the West, carrying death and suffering to thousands of homes, says the New York Sun. But a story with romantic variations comes from Sioux City, Iowa. In a rude log cabin , by the Cheyenne River a French Canadian j named Robeaun once lived a lawless life. He ! married a comely Indian maiden, and a rosy cheeked, brown-eyed girl was born to tnem, i and they named her Lillian. A band of vigilantes hanged the lawless ! Robeaun, and soon afterward his wife died, leaving the young girl alone in the world. A family at Chamberlain adopted Lillian, and she grew up a handsome and accomplished young woman. Just before the great blizzard came Miss Lillian was visiting friends at Huron, and on the day of the storm had 1 < gone a short distance in the country to see a , friend. i On January 11, Harry Oglebee, a St. Louis commercial traveler, arrived at i Huron. The day of the dreadful blizzard he found himself in the suburbs of Huron. Atter wandering about a half hour he found a woman in a deep snow drift. Rescuing her , from a possible grave, the two set out and i i ----- o fom hmtw where their wants | , OWU LUUUU c? 1U11U MWW.. W, were cared for. The young woman was Lil- j lian Eobenun. Sequel: The young people were quietly j married at a hotel in Sioux City on Monday , last. The handsome daughter of a once notorious outlaw became the happy bride of an | industrious commercial traveler, and the ; blizzard which brought ineradicable sorrow j to others brought them a gladness which can- 1 not be measured. ; < heelasTlullaby. A Mother Falls Dead "While Lulling Her Babies to Sleep. j Mrs. Julia Sophia Walter died at her home ; ; in San Francisco the other night under pecul- [ ( iar circumstances. She was a handsome, j < ? ?* vonrfi old. I ! vigorous woman, uui j ui? wi, , , j and the mother of two children, one a baby , and the other about four years old. Save for 1 their company she was alone at home in the j evening. She was busy with her household j > cares, and the children climbed about her i until shortly after S o'clock, when it canae | their bedtime. She tucked them in their ; cribs l>y the fire, ami kissing themgood-nijrht ] turned down the light that they might sle?p j the l etter. Going into the parlor adjoining she left the door ajar,and sitting at the piano 1 playe I for a time in a soft strain as a lullaby. | ( After a time the music ceased abruptly, and ( the elder child was aroused by a sound ( from the parlor like a heavy fall. Calling its niamrni repeatedly and receiving no reply, the little one arose, went into the parlor, 1 and there, by the piano, on the floor, just as I she had fallen from the stool, lay the motner, dead. Mr. Walker reached home within a few minutes' thereafter and was overwhelmed at the spectacle which greeted his entrance. His wife lay dead and his children were crying with fright. The Coroner was | informed, but, as death plainly resulted from heart diseas?, no inquest was held. Sanford Tajjner, a wealthy man of Al- ' beit Lea, Minn., was swindled out of $2^,000 bv ooofideooe men. Vi^Vrv'v .. - / '-v . MflMBnRmHBflHHMiHMMHI OUTLAWS RUN DOWN. A Daring Gang of Train Robbers in the Southwest Captured. Adventures of Detectives in Search of the Plunderers. News has been received to the effect that the gangs which had been committing the numerous train robberies in Arkansas and Texas had been broken up by the detectives and many of the robbers arrested. For the last two years or more there has been a regularly organized gang of train robbers operating successfully in the northern and eastern part of Texas and the southeastern part of Arkansas. Their last robbery was that of an express car on the &t Louis and Arkansas Railroad, near Genoa, Ark., in Dec. 1887. Pinkerfcon detective! finally captured one of the gang named Brock, and Brock declared that the leaders of the band were two Burrows, brothers, who were then at their old home near Vernon, Alabama. A SheiifTs posse surrounded a cabin, supposed to be that of the brothers, about daylight one morning. As the posse were about to enter tlie house their guide, one of the deputies, suddenly discovered that he had made a mistake, and that they were at the wrong house. They went on to the next house and after surrounding it, as they were just about ready to enter, the deputy discovered that he had again made a mistake, and that the house they were in search of was further on. It was now daylight and the detectives and the Sheriff were about to go back into the pines and wait until night before making any attempt to capture the Burrows, when a man was seen in the distance who was supposed to be one of the brothers and a rnn was made for him. He was captured, but he tamed out to b? a man named Thompson. A consultation was then held, ana it was concluded to go ahead, as there was danger of its becoming known that the Sheriff and detectives were after the Burrows brothers. They pushed on through the pine woods, and as the J Sheriff came suddenly into the clearing where Jim Burrow's house was located he was seen by a woman, who ran into the I bouse, as McGinn supposed, to give the alarm. A run wu made for the house, the Sheriff and McGinn going for the front and the two detectives for the rear. As they came near the cabin they saw a man plunge through the rear door with a pistol in hand. Firing was at ones commenced between this man and the detectives who were making a run for the rear door, * A ?Af fha ttmhfli* I UUb 4 UC luau iuw vuv , Detective McGinn had an opportunity of shooting this man with his Winchester, but just as he had drawn his Sun one of the posse called out to him not to toot; that he had Burrows. It was then discovered that the man who had been captured was not one of the Burrows brother* The man who escaped was Jim Burrowi An attempt was made to follow him through the timber, but it was impossible to trace him, although the detectives were satisfied that he had been wounded. The detectives surrounded the house of the father of the Burrows brothers. Tjie house was searched, but Rube was not found. His father stated that he had left home the day before and had gone to Kennedy, an adjoining town. The posse was then divided, and two of the detectives were sent to Kennedy to intercept Rube, but it was learned at Kennedy that previous to the arrival of the detectives a relative of Kube Burrows naa gone on norseoacs w Kennedy, and the word had reached Rube, and he had taken to the timber. The country was thoroughly scoured by the posse, but the boys had taken te the mountains, and, as the mountains of that part of the country are filled with "moonshiners," it was impossible to find them. The towns on the line of the railroads were telegraphed to and messages were sent out to all neighboring inland towns in order to hedge the boys in ana capture ihem before they left the country. They succeeded, however, in getting to the railroad, but as they boarded a train a party at the depot, who had heard that they were being searched for, told the conductor, and he telegraphed ahead to Montgomery to the Chief of Police that the Burrows boys were passengers on the train. Captain Montgomery, of t le Montgomery police force, was at tae depot on the arrival of the train and arrested them and took them to the police station. As they reached the foot of the stairs leading up into the station,they made a break for liberty, and Rube slipped ana ren into a ditch and was captured, but Jim, who is very fleet of foot, was distancing his pursuers when Captain Martin called on Neil Bray, a compositor ,to head him off. Jim drew a pistol and fired on Bray, shooting him through the body and mortally wounding him, and thus escaping. Burrows was finally traced to a cabin ten miles from Montgomery. Three of the posse surrounded the cabin and called on Burrows to surrender. Instead of doing so Burrows jumped through a window ana made for a swamp near by. The officers fired at him and wounded him. He dropped his hat and boots, and, turning, fired four shots at the officers, slightly wounding one of them. He escaped to the swamp, but at lost accounts the swamp was surrounded with men, and a pack of bloodhounds from a convict farm had entered it on Burrow's trail. MUSICAL AND DKAMATIO. Lester Wallace is writing his Recollections of the Stage. Rose Coghlan has left Wallack's, New York, and will be a star once more. Thomas B. Macdonough will revive BartIgy Campbell's "Siberia"' next season. Theodore Thomas w.is a fiddler at $'J a week in the old Broadway Theatre in the metropolis. The authorities at Madrid. Spain, have ordered every theatre unprovided with electric lights to be closed. The salary of the Rev. Lyman Abbott, temporary pastor of Plymouth Church, has been fixed at $0,500. The Duke of Sparta, son of the King and | Queen of Greece, is to marry a younger daughter of the Prince of Wales. Master Worrell, a nine-year-old prodigy, recently played the cornet before the crowned heads of the Vanderbilt family. Edward Harrigan says he pays 101 people every week, and that his salary list is larger than that of any other theatre man in New York. Mrs. Letitia McCult.ocgh, widow of John McCullough, tho tragedian, died reccutlv in Philadelphia. She leaves an estate worth foO.OJO. The opera is said to be having a hard time all over the world, but twenty-five new ones . were produced in Germany last year anil I thirty-five in Italy. Edwiv Booth's first appearance on the stage was with schoolfellows in Baltimore, a juvenile minstrel performance?admission one cent?giving him his opportunity. Frederick Warde is making an extensive - - - " ?J Jo i cour of tne largo ooutnerii cmes, mm ? , to be drawing big audiences everywhere. At j the close of his season in the South he goes to j San Francisco. Rudolph Aronsox has secured the American right of the next Gilbert and Sullivan opera, an opera on a Spanish subject, by Tito Mnttei; "La Valliere," bv Charles Lecocq, nnd "Nadgy," by Paul Chassaigne, { composer of ''Falka." Large returns are still the order of the | day from Messrs. Robson and Crane's investment in "The Henrietta," dividends being paid nightly nt the Union Square. Mr. i Howard's bright play shows no signs yet of I losing its popularity. The performances of the Irving Company \ In this country are regularly advertised in I the theatrical advertising columns of the London papers, just as though the company was appearing at its own Lyceum, instead of 4.000 or 5.000 miles away. Imre Kiralky has commenced active preparations for the big spectacle which he will produce at St. George, Staten Island, in June, and on which, it is said, 2,0. 0 men and women will l* employed, including Chevalier Blondin. the famous tight-rope artist, who bas been engaged. Mr. "VV. I. Bishop, the "mind reader," will give his entertainments for the next twelve months under the management of Mr. M. B. Leavitt. After his present California visit is finished he will make a tour of Southern cities and then go to Australia, where he will remain e ght months. LATER NEWS. At Gallitzen, Penn., four Poles were divid ing a can of blasting powder. Fire from e cigar exploded it and scattered the house ir fragments. Two men were fatally and all very seriously hurt The big dry goods store of Barnes, Hei> . gerer & Co., at Buffalo, N. Y., and several smaller stores adjoining were burned, with 9 loss of $1,500,000. Five hundred people art thrown out of employment Rev. Cornelius Berkly, a Baptist mio lster, seventy years old, was irozen to aeacs at Somerset, Penn., In a field near hi* house. The great coal miner's strike has been declared off, so far as the individual collieria are concerned, and they are resuming work in them. The town of Lee, Mass., has an epidemic of scarlet fever, and there have been seventeen deaths out of ninety cases. Nine hun:lred convicts at Sing Sing, N.Y.,. are locked in their cells in enforced idleness,| because the Legislature has not passed 1jbe, appropriations necessary to carry on th* prison industries. A bio cotton warehouse fire in Charleston, S. C., destroyed property to the value o$ $100,000. - / :; VEmza Randall, sentenced to be hanged for butchering her father with an ax, has^ naa ner pun:sameni coramucea to me -. prisonraent. John Donavin, while making repairs <n^ a cornice in Baltimore, MA, fell fifty fee| and was killed 8en*or Socza Rosa, Portuguese Minister to China, has been appointed Minister at Washington to succeed Senor Nogueiras,wlw recently died. During January the National [debt was re*duced $15,387,320. The total debt now It$1,700,191,452. When John Stumbaugh, of Logansport*. Ind., was sentenced to five years' imprison* ment for burglary, he threatened to Jdlt Judge Winfleld, who, thereupon, increased! the period of punishment to fourteen yearfc The Cashier of th > Trans-Caucasian Railway, in Russia, was murdered by two nihil" ists and robbed of 12,000 rabies. Mr. Cox, member of Parliament from County Clare, Ireland, has been sentenced to a month's imprisonment for inciting tenant*, to resist eviction. PBOMINENT PEOPLE* jcdge Kelley, father of the Hooee, was m jeweler. Senator Stewart of Nevada mined witlv a pick and shovel in California. It is officially reported that Queen Victor!* will go to Florence in the spring. Before starting out as a poet James Whitcomb Riley made a living as a sign painter. The oldest English surgeon, Mr. GeorgeSylvester, born March 10th, 1783, has justdied. Floagizr, the Standard Oil magnate, issaid to have given away $1,000,030 in charity during the last five years. t> tt it* i. J.2U& X1ULL. WUCV fT COD) UVYOI UU1 \JL VVOU) says there are but five Gentiles in the whole Legislature of the Territory. The wealthiest person of the African race north of Mason and Dixon's line is Dr. Jamea N. Gloucester, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Von Moltke is likely to live to a great ago. He leads a thoroughly domestic life, sees little company, talks rarely and plays- ? whist. The Crown Prince of Germany, strange tony, looks the picture of health, and is in excellent spirits. He can swallow food withoutdifficulty. Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, and Senator Davis, of Minnesota, look so nearly alikf that even their friends have hard work todistinguish them. The Duk9 of Cambridge, Commander-inChief of the British army, gets $33,000 a year, while all Count von Moltke of the German* army receives is $7,000. Sir Edwin Arnold has been the leading editorial writer on tee London Telegraph for twenty years. He is a great Oriental scholar ana a poet 01 ecu uigueou uui Ex-Govf.P.vor Algkr, of Michigan, itsaid to own over 100 square miles of forest' land near Alpena, bearing more than 500,000,000 of standing pine timber. Ex-President Grevt has been twice striken with apoplexy since the shameful antics of his son-in-law precipitated the scandal that induced France to demand a new President. President Cleveland recently remarked to a caller who expressed regret at not seeing Mrs. Cleveland: "The truth is, I don't see* much of her myself. If I see her once a day I consider mysalf pretty lucky." The most characteristic part of the personal adornment of Senator George, of Mississippi, is an old-fashioned, open-faced silver * * -1 4 u~ /linnai* TpKl'oh Hfl waccn, aDOUb us uig an a uu uipyv*, carries in his breeches pocket Lung upon the end of a shoe string. Theodore Tiltov Is living in a remote quarter of Paris, France, in by no means affluent circumstances. His dress is almost shabby, and with his hair banging about his shoulders he presents a peculiar appearance as he walks about the streets of the French capital. He does a little literary work now and then, but writes with no regularity. THE MARKETS. 5 new york. Beef, good to prime 8 @ 8% Calves, common to prime.... 9 Sheep 5 80 @ 6 25 ' Lambs 6 45 @ 7 50 < Hogs-Live 5 .50 @ 5 90 . Dressed 7 $ 8)f Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 40 @4 75 West, good to choice 2 90 @ 5 00 Wheat?No. 2 Red 89 @ 89V Rye?State 56 @ 58 Barley?State 82 @ 85 Horn?Ungraded Mixed.... 60 @ 61)^ Oats?White State 39l?<g| 41 Mixed Western 39 @ 40 Hay?Med. to prime 80 @ 85 Straw?No. 1, Rye 95 @ 1 00 Lard?City Steam 7 80 @ 7 85 Butter?State Creamery.... 33 @ 34 Dairy 28 @ 28 West Im. Creamery 24 @ 28 Factory 23 @ 24 Cheese?State Factory 12# Skims 9 @ 10 Western Eggs?State and Penn ? @ 24 BUFFALO. Steers?Western 3 25 @ 4 15 Sheep?Good to Choice 4 75 @ 5 50 Lambs?Western 4 50 & 6 58 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 35 @ 5 60 Flour?Family 4 75 @ 5 15 Wheat?No. 1 S9 @ 91}$ Corn?No. 2, Mixed 55 @ 55$$ Oats?No. *2, Mixed 3636% Barley?State. 88 (g S9 BO STOW. Beef?Good to choice. 8 <?) 8W Hogs?Live 5 6 _ _Northern Dressed.... Fork?Kx. rrtme, ]>er uuu.. i-t m tgiu 10 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 70 @ 4 85 Corn?High Mixed. Oats?Kxtra White 45}^@ 4fl}$ Rye?State 60 @ 55 WATERTOW.V (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef- Dressed weight 7 @ 7 Sheep?Live weight 4>?@ 4^ Lanibj ?3i@ 6^ Hogs?Northern 7 @ 7}$ PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 75 @ 3 S7U Wheat?No. 2, lied 893^@ Corn?State Yellow 57^@ 58>< Oats Mixel 39^0 40* Rye?State 52)J@ 53 Butter?Creamery Extra... ? @ 83 Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. 12%? 13 FL'KS AND SKIN'S. Black Bear 18 00 @23 00 Cubs and yearling 6 00 @15 00 Otter, each 7 00 @10 00 Ronvpiv milium 3 50 fa) 5 00 Mink*.'.".................... 40 @ 80 Red Fox 1 20 <? 1 75 Grey Fox 80 <? 1 00 Raccoon, each 70 @ 1 00 Skunk, black 90 @ 1 10 ^kunk, half-striped 60 @ 70 Skunk, striped 25 @ 30 Skunk, white 10 @ 1& Opossum, large, case 35 <? 40 Opossum, med.um and open. 18 @ 20 Muskrat, winter 16 @ 18 Mu-krat, fall 12 4p 15