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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
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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
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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 | ,
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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Beef?Good to choice. 8 <?) 8W
Hogs?Live 5 6
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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