Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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INFLUENZA'S WORK. The Prevailing Malady Finds ! Xcw Victims. Many More Localities Note Its Apppearance. La grippe, the prevailing epidemic, shows no signs of weariness, and still continues to claim victims. It was estimated a few days ago that in New York city alone there were 15,000 cases J of the influenza. "Within ten days fifteen j policemen had fallen victims to pneumonia | ind pulmonary diseases superinduced by the grip. Late telegrams from various other places bI C 4V1IU" Uij5 Boston, Mass: Deputy Huckins, of the State Prison, was taken with la grippe. The disease developed into congestion of the lungs and heart failure, and ne was not expected to live. Six other prison officers and about forty convicts were suffering with influenza. Athol, Mass: there were over three aundred cases. The leading physicians were ill, several schools were closed and the factories were running short-handed. Rochester, N. Y.: Four deaths from pneumonia have been reported at the office of the Registrar of Vital Statistics during yesterday and to-day, and in each case the physician was of the opinion that the illness had resulted from the Russian influenza. Portsmouth, N. H.: There are seventeen cases of la grippe at th^ Navy Yard here, among those afflicted being Commodore S. Kerritt and Constructor Hoover. The malady is spreading in this citv. Biddeford, Me.: W. A. Henderson, of Worcester, an Amherst student in the class ot J91, died at Saco to-day. aged twenty-one. He came here with the College Glee Club on New Year's Day, and was taken with la grippe, which developed into pneumonia. Washington: One hundred employes of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing are suffering from la grippe, and thirty presses are idle in conseauence. Chicago: Congressman Frank Lawler.who has been sick in bed with the influenza for a week, was able to be out yesterday for the first time, although he is yet weak and shows the effects of a hard struggle with the malady. Brockville, Ontario: The epidemic continues unabated here. The reopening of the schools has been postponed, owiug to so many teachers being ill. The business and editorial staffs of the Times are all down with the disease. Two deaths occurred here yesterday from influeuza. London, England: La grippe is rapidly spreading in this city, the cases numbering now over two thousand. Several phvsicians are down with the disease. Business houses are suffering for lack of help, many employes being on the sick list. Westland Marston, the poet and dramatist, has died of influenza. Mr. Maclntyre, the vocalist, is _ seriously ill with the disease. A omnber of" deaths from the prevailing ^idemic are reported both in Londor^aSd the provinces. "vl^tina: iifiicial-J^turns show that not less than 608$OO persons in the city and suburbs, amounting to forty-two per cent, of the population, have suffered from the influenza. Berlin: The Princess Bismarck has recovered from the influeuza. Dr. Doellinger and the Bavarian Ministers, Lutz and Feilitzcb. are getting better. Paris: In an interview with Mr. Pasteur, the French scientist, he was asked what he considered the best remedy for influenza. He remarked: "Let meu and women both quit smoking tobacco and smoke camphor instead, and they will probably escape the disease." NECROLOGICAL Prominent People "Who Died During the Past Year The past year has witnessed the loss of the following prominent persons: Allibone, Samuel A., author, at Lucerne, Rwitvorlnnfl Spnfpnilipr 2. flexed 73. Barnard, Rev. Frederick A. P., President Columbia College, at New York. April 27, aged 80. >?? Barnum, William H., ex-Senator United gtates, at Lime Rock, Conn., April 30, aged 70. Booth,Mary Louise,editor Harper's Bazar, at New York, March 5, aged 58. Bri^hh, John, statesman, at London, March Sapfed 7S. Browning, Bobert, British poet, d ed at Venice on December 12. Cabanel, Alexander, artist, at Paris, January 23, aged 65. Cameron,Simon,ex-Senator United States,at Lancaster, Penn., June 26, aged 90. Chevreul, Michael Eugene, chemist, at Paris, April 9, aged 102. Cook, George H., State geologist of New Jersey, at New Brunswick, September 22, aged 72. Cox, Samuel Sullivan, Congressman and ex-Minister to Turkey, at New York, September 10, aged 65. Dalton, John C., physiologist, at New York, February 12, aged 64. Davis, JelTerson, ex-President of the Confederate States, December 6, aged 81. De Veuster, Rev. J. Damien, missionary, at Kalawao, Hawaii, April 10, aged 49. Dupont, Henry, powder manufacturer, at | Wilmington, Delaware, August 8, aged 77. Ericsson, John, inventor, at New York, March 8, aged 86. Grady, Henry W., at Atlanta, Georgia, on December 23. Harney, William S., General United States Army, at Orlando, Florida, May 9, aged 88. Hart, "William B., State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, at Harrisburg, November 9, aged 47. i Hayes, Mrs. Lucy Webb, at Fremont, Ohio, June 20, aged 56. Hill, H. D., Confederate General, at Charlotte, North Carolina, September 24, aged B9. Loomis, Elias, astronomer, at New Haven, Conn., August 15, aged 78. MacMillan, Alexander K., editor, at New York, December 9, ajjed 63. Matthews, Honorable Stanley, Justice Supreme Court United States, at Washington, March 22, aged 65. Mitchell Maria, astronomer, at Lynn, Massachusetts, June 28, aged 70. Mott, Dr. Alexander 13., eminent physician, ?t Yonkers, New York, August 12, ?tged 64. Norquay, John, ex-Premier of Manitoba, at Wmuipeg, July 5. Pendleton, George H., statesman and diplomatist, at I^ussels, November 24, aged Remke, Amadeos A., Senior Bishop of the Moravian Church at Herrnhut, Germany, August 10, aged 71. Rice, Allen Thorndike, editor at New York, May 16, aged 39. Ricord, Dr. Philippe, surgeon, at Paris, October 22, aged 89, Rudolph, Prince Imperial of Austria, at Meyerling, January 30, aged 30. Shaw, Henry, philanthropist, at St. Louis, August 25, aged 90. Theresa, Christian Maria, Empress of Brazil, December 28, at Lisbon. Tupper. Martin Farquhar, poet, at London, noveniDer ay, ageu tv. Tyler, Mrs. John, widow of ex-President Tyler, at Richmond, July 10, aged 69. Wharton, Dr. Francis, Solicitor State Department, at Washington, February 32, aged Woolsey, Theodore D., ex-President of Yale College, at New Haven, Connecticut, July 1, aged 88. STARVED HIS WIFE. Horrible Brutality Brought to Light at an Inquest. A terrible tale of brutality was brought to light at the inquest on the body of Mrs. Eliza Holbrook, wife of James E. Holbrook, Justico of the Peace and a wealthy farmer of Peter boro, Canada. Mrs. Holbrook, who was seventy years of age and feeble, left her home, about two miles from Havelock, to go to a neighbor's house, and a few days afterward her body, scantily ciad, was found in a swamp about three miles from home. The evidence given at the inquest showed that Holbrook kept his wife liadly clothed and ill-fed, locking up the provisions from her, and that he beat ber shamefully. Tho verdict censured Holbrook, and when tho body of his wife wa* turned over to him he at first refused to bury it, but finally consented to do so when i he learned that otherwise it would be turned ! over to a medical college. The feeling against Holbrook was intense, and tbe people were i clamoring for bis prosecution. j THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Pock suicides in New* York city and a ! score of deaths in the vicinity are attributed I to the grio or maladies following it. The j Board of Health has admitted that the grip is epidemic,and has issued a bulletin cautioning everybody to be unusually careful in the I matter olf health. Tun two branches of the Massachusetts i Legislature met in joint convention at Boston, j and the oatli of office was administered to . Governor-elect Brackett and Lieutenant- | Governor-elect Hale. The down-town shops of the Edison Elec- | trio Illuminating Company in Pearl street, j New York city, have been burned, causing a j loss, estimated by the superiutendent, of i ?100,000 on property and machinery. Congressman Scott's Pennsylvania colliery at .Mount Carrael has suspended operations, throwing 1000 miners out of employment. A frightful boiler explosion occurred in a saw mill at Chillicothe, Me. William Hughes and John Runkle, employes of the mill, were instantly killed. The large iron firm of Cur tin & Co., near Bellefonte, Penn., has made an assignment. The liabilities are about $125,000; nominal assets, about ?50,000. The poet, George H. Baker, ex-Minister to I Turkey and Russia, died at his home in ! Philadelphia, aged 67 years. Mrs. Myra Kjhffin. wife of Dr. Arthur P. Kniffin, one of the best-known dentists of Trenton, N. J., was chloroformed by some one in the night. Her dead body was found on the bed in her room in the morning. The Pittsburg, McKeesport and Bellevernon Railroad has been sold to the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad Company for $1,400,000. The International Maritime Exhibition at Boston has closed, having been attended i by over 200,000 persons during the two ! months it was open to the public. Willis Gaylord, who swindJed F. A. Babcock, of New York city, out of $30,000 in a bond purchase on the sawdust plan, and who was to be extradited from Pennsylvania, committed suicide in his cell in the Philadelphia County Prison. A crazy Anarchist named S. M. Francken of Brooklyn, killed his wife, his three-year, sld child and then himself. A mail train on the Pennsylvania Rail- j road killed two men at Tyrone, one of them being the train dispatcher. The men were walking on the track wheu struck. At Ben's Creek, about twelve miles east of Johnstown, Penn., the same train struck and instantly killed two other men, supposed to be Hungarians in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad. A wrecking train fell through the iron Bridge over the creek north of Wellsboro, Penn., and Grant Milliken and Daniel Howird were killed. [ A freight train collided near East More- ' and. N. H., with a wild freight train. En- I jineer S. W. Slate and Fireman Gibsoo .were -p rillerl oil thf. looal-fwrwif and others were in- I ju??&, ?Tte" locomotives and a number of *ars were wrecked. A falling brick wall in the yard of the Long Island Railroad, at Long Island City, N. Y., killed three men and wounded three others. South and West. Judge Solders, at Cleveland, Ohio, sen*/enced Otto Leuth, the seventeen-year-old | Doy who was convicted of the murder of little Maggie Thompson, to be hanged at Columbus < >n April 16. A collision- of freight trains took place fiftteen miles east of Wichita, Kan. John j Ramsey, a brakeman, was instantly killed j ind Robert Coleman, au engineer,died within i :wo hours from the injuries receive!. A nortflbouxd passenger train and a j freight train eamo iuto collision near Kuox- j ville, Tenn. Fireman Walter Miller was killed, Fireman John Gamble fatally injured 1 md the baggagc-car, with its contents, ] burned. S. T. Kellogg and wife were killed near . Sedgwick Cit.v, Kan., by a runaway team. Four loggers ware burned to death at Bssbs's Camp, up the Teunessea River, ! seventy-five miles from Paducah, Kv., by i -heir cabin taking fire. It is suppose! thoy I were all intoxicated. j In a quarrel between miners at Blossburg, 1 A.la., Dan Green killed Alf Hall. Green j ;hen chased the unarmed miners who at- j tempted his arrest, firing on them all the j time. Several hunters arrived and riddled Breen with bullets. Three men were fatally hurt and six j jthers injured in a freight collision on the i Rock Island Road, near Malcolm, Iowa. Fire started in the Fannie Paddock ; Hospital, at Tacoma, Wash. The patients | were all saved. The excitement, however, j proved fatal to a number. A band of Mexican horse thieves am- | jushed a camping party, consisting of three ' nen, two women, and four children, in a : ;anon near Chihuahua, Texas, and shot and | iilled two of the men. A military guard was sent to arrest the Mexicans. One of the large thousand-barrel stills of | <tie napacna worKs ol me mauuaru s outar t Refinery, at Lima, Ohio, exploded with ter- | -ifio force. Ten men were severely injured. The Democrats of the two Houses of the Montana Legislature met in joint session, and on the first ballot \V. A. Clarke and Martin ! Maginnis were elected Democratic Senators from Montana by a vote of 37 eacb. Two street-car horses were killed and their heads nearly burned off in St. Louis by an electric wire. The wire burned through the flesh like a sharp knife and cut the jugular , vein. R. Deimel Brothers, the most extensive manufacturers of parlor furniture in Chi- ' cago, have failed. Liabilities over $300,000. | Washington. Whitelaw Reid, Minister to France, has obtained leave of absence and will visit this , country about the middle of February. Frank w. Parker, of Lswiston, Me., has | been appointed by the Comptroller of Cur- i rency Bank Examiner for the State of Maiue. The receipts of the United States during j the past six months were from customs, | $109,639,333; internal revenue, $68,521,632; j miscellaneous, $14,747,442; total, $192,898,- | 407.95. (Government expenditures in the same time were $175,615,277. During December the mints of the United [ States coined $1,616,048 gold, $3,172,003 silver, and $240,489 subsidiary coin, a total of $5,058,533. Robert (t. Blaine, brother of the Secretary of State, and who has for the past eight years b3en curator in ths Agricultural X)dBirtmeat. has received the appointment a-; 'eputy First Auditor o? the Treasury D partment. The collections of internal revenue for the first five months of the present fiscal year wero $50,173,9(52, or $5,085,227 more than the collections during tin corresponding period of the previous year. Associate Justice Brewer took hia place on the Supreme Court Bench. The President gave a state dinner in honoi of the Vice-President and Cabinet. Foreign. An American vessel has been seized by the Colombian gunboat La Popa. Thirty-two officers have been arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia, charged with being members of a secret society, the object of which is to abolish the aristocracy and establish a constitutional monarchy. The United States Squadron of Evolution has arrived at Taugier, Morocco. Seventy men were down with the influenza. The cases are reported as severe, and the disease was spreading. A collision occurred at San Pablo, on the Panama Railroad. A special train having on board A. L. Rives, the general superintendent of the road, ran into a freight train. The engineers of the two trains were mortally wounded, and Mr. Rives and six other persons were injured. Reports have been received at Shanghai that a force of the Clxiuese fought the natives nc-ar Takow, in the island of Formosa, and 100 of the Chinese and 400 ofthe Formosang were killed. A publii: reception was tcncreren tno Rev. Dr. T. DoWitt Taluiage and Mrs. Talmage at Constantinople by United States Minister Hirsch. The Russian Nihilist leader Pierre has been arrested at Warsaw. On hlj: person and | at bis lodgings the police founa pamphlets and letters involving a number of officers of the Imperial Guard in what is believed to be a desperate plot against the life of the Czar. A band of Yaqui Indians had an encounter recently with a regiment of Mexican cavalry at Guicherri, Senora, and several Indians were killed and wounded. Thomas Williams, a bricklayer of Montreal, Canada, cut his wife's throat with a razor. He then cut his own throat and died instantly. His wife is also dead. There has been a skirmish between Turks and Cretans in the island of Crete, in which many were killed and wounded. The revolution in Sau Salvador has been suppressed. rPrrr? TTVr.*-,* rnlwilran 111 pi*Afnt*so t.via largest structure in the Transvaal Republic, South Africa, lias been destroyed by fire. The loss is $500,000. The Australian Federation Conference will open at Melbourne P^ebruary 3. Delegates will be present from all the Australian colonies, Jscw Zealand and th3 Fiji Islands. Reports were received in London that the Portuguese had hauled down British flags on steamers in Africa; fighting was believed to be certain. Professor Wilhelm Conrad Heruanw Mceller, the German philologist, died at Goettingen. Floods are reported in the northwest portion of Queensland, Australia. A part of the town of Normanton is submerged, the water in many places being twenty feat deep. The floods cover an area of 300 miles. The Czar of Russia has called the attention of the Powers to the violation of the Treaty of Berlin by the present Bulgarian Government. Admiral Walker, of the United States squaurou <JI evuiuuuu, ujjuu uio uuiuug Gibraltar, was received by a guard of honor and visited the Deputy Governor. Another engagement has taken place between the insurgent natives of Zanzibar and the forces commanded by Major Wissmann, the German officer. After severe fighting Major Wissmann succeeded in capturing the enemy's fortified position near Saadani. Many of the natives were killed. Fifteen Germans were wounded. The Austrian ship Providenza, bound from Constantinople to Marseilles, foundered at sea in a heavy gale. All on board were lost. It has been learned that six ?f the crew of the English yacht Inva, which was wrecked on the Aceiteras rocks. Spain, were drowned. A magnificent public festival was given in honor of Albert Victor, son of the Prince of Wales, upon his arrival at Calcutta, India. The Dowager Empress Augusta, of Germany, died of influenza at Berlin, aged seventy-nine years. LATER NEWST Ex-United States Senator Elbridge G. Lapham, of New York, died at Canan daigua. At Hurricane Island, Me., David MorrisseyTag&l "fourteen years, and George Row ling, eleven years old, broke .through the ice and were drowned. Dr. Kniffin and Emma Purcell were arrested for the murder of Mrs. Kniffin, at Trenton, N. J. A telegram received at Denver, Col., from the Victoria mines, near Trinidad, says that a cave-in occurred at that mine and that five men were buried beneath the rock and earth. It was feared that the miners would be dead before they could be rescued. The Western Union telegraph office in St. Louis was set on fire by an electric wire and destroyed, Mrs. C. J. Loein", the sister of ex-Congressman Stone, of St. Louis, was found dead at her home. Her husband was arrested 011 suspicion of murder. Montana lias two sets of claimants for Senatorial honors?the Democrats witli certificates from the Governor and the Republicans with certificates from the Secrefary of State. The Senate Special Committee on the Quadro-Centennial of America's discovery imvp listened to arguments in favor of St. Louis, Chicago, Washington and New York as the best place to hold the World's Fair in 1893. Each city occupied a day in presenting its claims. The Navy Department has received the official report of Rear-Admiral Walker in regard to the cruise of the Squadron of Evolution from Boston to Libsou. The Admiral says that the vessels proved themselves to be excellent sea-boats, being easy and comfortable in all kinds of weather. A ship loaded with petroleum caught fire at Sunderland, England. The burning oil escaped from the ship, and, floating on tho tideway, set fire to three other vessels. A fireman fell overboard and was drowned. Br the bursting of a water spout in tho /vf Ynnlrinrr flfoino linWflrH of 100 persons were drowned, a number of boats wrecked and a large amount of property of various kinds was destroyed. Ax official Brazilian decree proclaims the separation of Church and State, religious liberty and equality, and continues life stipends granted under the monarchy. Eight persons were drowned at Lubeck, Germany, by breaking through the ice while skating. SHOULD CHEAPEN BKEAD, A Large Grain Ylclcl Reported for Last Year. According to the December report of the Department of Agriculture the reported area of corn, 78,310,051 acres, represents an increase of 2.5 per cent, over the acreagc of 1888. The wheat acreage, 88,123,859 acres, is 2.1 per ccnt. greater than the aggregate for 1888. Dairying and meat production have for years been encroaching upon wheatgrowing upon the eastern side of tbe great spring wneai belt, as former reports have shown. The acrcage of oats is placed at 27,462,316 acres, an increase of less than 2 per cent. The yield per acre of corn is very nearly twentv-seven bushels, or one and one-tenth bushel less than the product of 1879, and is the largest rate of yield since 1880. The largest yields are west of the Mississippi, Iowa taking the first rank in aggregate produced and yield per acre. 319,900,000 bushels ?39.5 per acre. The yield per acre of wheat is nearly 12.9 bushels, or one-tenth of a bushel greater that the November average of yield per acre. The variation from tha current expectation of the last six months is not over one per cent. The total product, as estimated, is 490,560,000 bushels. The product of oats is 751,515,000 bushels, at the rate of 27.4 bushels per acre. The aggregate of all cereals is about 314,500,000 bushels, or at least 53 bushels per capita. INDIANS UP IN ARMS. They Compel an Irrigation Company to Stop AVork. The Pueblo Indians of five villages in the northern part of Bernalillo County, N. M., are up in arms, and work on the big ditch constructing by the Rio Grande Irrigation and Colonization Company has been suspended owing to'their warlike demonstrations. I Sixty Indians appeared at the camp with their war paint on. They were on liorse| back and rode four abreast, all heavily armed. The commanding warrior ordered Engineer Wiggin to leavo witli his outfit immediately. They said tho schemes of the white men were of no uso to tlio Indian, and they wanted work stopped at once. The engineer pleaded with them, but they were stubborn and turned a deaf ear to all his entreaties. Seeing that it was useless to argue longer and fearing bloodshed, the engineer suspended work. He has telegraphed the situation to Governor Prince at Santa Fe. Besides the warriore on horseback, the liills were alive with Indians on foot with their rifles, and ready for any emergency. - ' Vv* -**cy-t-sr. - -?sr .- : railboabIteeests. Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Work Accomplished During the Past Year, In their report to Congress the members of the Interstate Commerce Commission state that since December 1,18S8, ninety-five cases and investigations have been begun before the Commission, in which 507 railroad companies have filed answers or have otherwise appeared. In the cases brought before the Commission during the year, 447 railroad companies have been notified of their pendencv and granted leave to intervene. The number of letters received in this division during the year, relating to official business, was 7862. 'i'he letters sent by the Commis -* * a?-- x 1 i.1 sioners ana oy ice secretary uuring me > t-ai amount to 9525. The Commissioners add: Publicity of rates is, in itself, a powerful factor in the correction of the evils of unjust discrimination, extortion, and unlawful preference. By this means a record, op?n to public inspection and criticism, is kept of . rates as they actually exist at the time. The shipper can see for himself what they are, and if there be a choice of routes for his shipments, as is frequently the case, he may make his choice intelligently, or he can see whether, in any respect, tney are such that he may feel it his duly to make complaint against them. The system bv which the tariffs of each company are filed separately in the office of the Commission, ana a careful index of them kept so that they are of easy access or reference, has been greatly extended, and it is but the work of a moment to produce ''hem for any necessary purpose, and to ascertain what the rates are from any point in the country to any other point. A careful sifting of the returns received and of such other evidence as was found available fixes the total railway mileage in the United States, on June 30, 1888, at 149,901.72. The whole number of corporations owning railroads is given at 1488. Of these 795 actually operate roads; ihe others are callsd in the report subsidiary roads, their lines being operated by other companies as lessees or otherwise. The amount of stocks is given at $3,804,408,055; of funded debt, $3,809, 216,365; and of current liabilities, $396,103, 311. This makes a total of $8,129,787,731, being $59,392 per mile of road. But this is for 130,883.53 miles of line only. The amount fnr nncc/intrpv corvirr* ic stntorl nfc SQ77.339 - 150, which was 30.40 per cent, of the whole; from freight service, $013,290,079, or 07.35 per cent, of the whole; other earnings, $19,991,391, cr 2.19 per cent, of the whole. The total earnings from operation were F910,621,220. Tho incomo from other iources, excluding credits sold, was $89,506, 171, making the total income for the year fci,000,214,091. Concerning the railway acDidonts tho report says: Personally concerned as every man is in the safety of travel, the subject of railroad accidents has always had the greatest popular interest. That tne facts are quite sufficient to warrant his interest may be seen from the following figui c? taken from the annual reports of the railroads of the country made to the Commission for the year ending June 30, 1888. There were reported for that ye?r deaths and injuries to persons as follows' Passengers killed 315 Passengers injured vj?* ? 2,138 Employes killed \ * 2,070 Employes injured .......... go, 148 Other persons killed ' 2,897 Other persons injured ' 3,002 Total persons killed.. . 5,2S2 Total persons injured 25,888 But tho reports do not cover th# total mileage of the country; only 35.per cent, of it. If the accident rate was tlw same on the roads not reporting, the total uumber killed was 5093, and the total injured 27,898. These arc the returns made by the railroad companies themselves, and thoy cannot well be suspected of exaggeration. 1 icy flioro r\*i fho nlluu1 hmvl nnvf ran* son to suppose that they aro not, in most rases, complete and prepared with pcriect good faith. ALL OVEB EUEOPE. i The Spread of Influenza AbroadMany Deaths Reported. The influenza, according to a cablegram, continues its ravages in Europe, abating in eome quarters and increasing in others. A malignant type has appeared ia many cities | on tho Continent and in London, which is causing widespread alarm. The London Daily News now admits that the epidemic is not a mere scare. It say9: "The plague is upon us and in the most dangerous for n." The reports from all parts of the Continent are very serions. The deaths in Paris for Thursday are reported at 423. The doctors of the Riviera are overworked attendee patients with influenza. Persons convalescent with pulmonary maladies are ready victims of the epidemic. Several telegraph ofilces have been closed in Amsterdam owiug to the empires being prostrated. All thj I schools in Hesse have Wen closed, and in many towns of Gerraary places or amusement have shut their doors. Tiio disease is abating at Frankfort and at Leipsic. Two hundred officials are ill with it at Wurzburg. In England, which was the last country to bo attacked, the cpidemlc is running rapidly through cit/ and country. Hatfield House, the cbodo of the Marquis of ?al\ bury, is a hospital. V/liib the ilarqun is tlowly recovering his cecrctaries havo all been taken down with the complaint, and coveral mem| bcr3 of tho household are ill. The newspaoer Drinting ofrices are decimated. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Gatap.re. the great Spanish tenor, has just died of influenza. "The Frince and the Pauper" will soon be produced at the Broadway Theatre, New York, The Academy of Music in Milwaukee has been sold for $65,000. It is the oldest theatre in the city. The late D. D. Lloyd's play, "The Sena- | tor." was produced iu Washington before a brilliant audience. Fire destroyed tho theatre at Zurich, Switzerland, during a performance. The audience escaped without injury. Four of the leading artists of tho Italian Opera Troupe at Chicago were unable to sing on account of an attack of the in uenza. It is said that the receipts of the principal London theatres have decreased from $a00 to $1000 a week since the opening of Barnum's show. Signor Rossr, the Italian tragedian, has froduced "Julius Caesar" at the National heatre in Rome on a most elaborate scale, and has been playing Brutus and Marc Antony on alternate "nights with great success. Carlotta Johannson, a niece of Christine Nillson, a daughter of the prima donna's sister, is said to have a remarkably fine soprano voice, and has been sent to Christiania, Norway, to finish her studies in singing. Neil Burgess and his manager are considering an offer of a London manager for a summer engagement of "The County Fair." They will hold the offer in abeyance pending the outcome of "The Old Homestead's" trip across the water. Edward Strauss, the brother of Johann, the famous waltz writer, is coming to this country with his orchestra. He is said to be a magnetic leader. Ho uses his bow for a baton or to scratch a note here and there just to show his men how it ought to be done. During a rehearsal of "Joan of Arc" by Sarah Bernhardt in Paris, the pyre used in the play became ignited from the surrounding fire. Mme. Bernhardt, who was 011 the pyre, received no injury from the fire, but fainted. Two scenes shifters were seriously burned by extinguishing the fire. JUSEI'H n uv m i'uc vi vug uivov domestic of men, carries with him on his trip a lovely group of his young children and grandchildren, in whose bright young faces one can traco the characteristic lineaments of the great actor. He himself is looking as young and vivacious as he did twenty years ago. Charles R. Pope, the tragedian and manager, is said to be the first actor who ever held a representative position under the Government. He is United States Consul at Toronto, Canada. An actor used to be Mayor of Leadville, and perhaps that is the nearest the profession has come to a government position. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. In the Senate. 35th Day.?The Senate reassembled aftei the holiday recess, with the Vice-President in the chair, and with less than a quorum oi Senators in the chamber... .Among thenu nierous petitions presented and referred were two from Kansas and Texas, the former urging the selection of Chicago and the lattei of St. Louis as the place for the World'! Fair of 1892.... A bill to increase the pay oi Army chaplains was reported back adverselj from the Committee on Military Affairs, and was indefinitely postponed Mr. Plumb introduced a bill to withhold for a time the contract for the Seal Islands from the Alaska Commercial Company... .Mr.Call introduced a resolution relating to the interests of this country in Cuba. 10th Day.?A number of billsjwere intro duced, among them one by Mr. J3eck to suspend the operations of the sinking fund; and one by Mr. Faulkner, providing that the World's Fair shall be held in Washington Mr. Morgan, in a two-hour speech, advocated the emigration of the American colored people to Africa....In executive session a Qumber of minor nominations sent in by the President were considered. 17th Day.?After a long debate, Mr. Ed munds's substitute for Mr. Voorhees's reso lution calling for information upon the. W. W. Dudley case was adopted.... Several ' dominations were received from the Presi| ient. ...In executive session two nominations "rere confirmed. In the House. 12th Day.?Mr. Carlisle offered a resolution authorizing the Speaker to admin-: ister the oath of office to Mr. Randall at his home in Washington. Adopted The Speaker laid before the House a co4|Vunilation from the Director of the Mint, recommending an increase in the salary of the Superintendent of the Philadelphia Mint.4 Referred.... Mr. Dockery offered a resolution' lirecting tha Superintendent of the Census to ascertain the number of farm mortgages In the United States. Referred Many bills were introduced in the call by States.... The Ways and Means Committee heard repcr sennatives of the silk and sugar industries. 13th Day.?Mr. McComas offered a resolution that the House resolve itself into com- i mittee of the whole for the consideration of the District of Columbia Appropriation bill.... A spirited debate followed regarding the rules of the House. Mr. Breckenridge raised the question of consideration against the resolution, and the Speaker ruled against him. The ruling was attacked ve- 1 hemently by Mr. Carlisle and other Demo- ] uiMiiiu iiicmuci a. 14th Day.?The Speaker laid before the House, for reference, a letter from the Secretary of War, inclosing a petition from cer j tain non-commissioned officers praying for an increase of pay... .The day's proceedings were almost wholly.devoted to consideration of the District of Columbia Appropriation bill, which was passed. A DOUBLE EPIDEMIC. . i People Suffering From Black. Tongue i and Diphtheria. Physicians sent by the county into the < mountain district along the Cheat River, W. Va., in which diphtheria was reported to be ( epidemic, tell horrible stories of suffering. The people were suffering from two diseases, .diphtheria and the more dreaded "black tongue." The latter had broken out in the last two weeks, and about thirty deaths had occurred. In the meantime a great many i children were suffering from diphtheria, and families were in want. The county had erected a temporary hospital and a large force of physicians and nurses were attend- i ing it. Even with this aid, many of the sick were not beine cared for properly. THE PUBLIC DEBT. Decrease for the First Half of th? j Current Fiscal Year. I < The monthly public debt statement, issued j from the Treasury Department at "Washing- , i _ _? ao 10Q A/10 ton, suov.-g n ue-jrease ot ?o,aa<o,uw u u? ; debt during December; and for the first half of the fiscal year, $23,693,710. The total debt, less cash in the Treasury on January I, 1889, was $1,134,062,258; and on January 1, 1890, it was $1,052,952,911; showing a reduotrion during the calendar year just closed of $81,109,317. During the previous calendar year the debt was reduced $91,538,144. PK0MINENT PEOPLE. "Buffalo Bill" is said to be worth $4,000,D00. Private Secretary Halford has taken to horseback riding. General Boulager denies that he intends to lecture ih America. Benjamin P. Butler's law practice is said to bring him in $100,000 a year. I Parnell, the Irish leader, says that the downfall of the Tories is at hand. Secretary Rusk has become a great friend of the new Chinese Minister. J udge Gresham was arrested in Chicago recently in mistake for an insane man. Senator Ingalls was attacked by RusI sian iufluenza at his home in Atchison, Kan. E. J. Phelps, formerly Minister to England, has returned to his duties at Yale College. Minister Wkitelaw Reid and wife, who spent Christmas in Rome, have returned t? I Paris. Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, is an honorary member of the New York Historical Society. Charlotte M. Yonge, the historical i writer, has written and published exactly 100 books. Chauncey M. Depew, the brilliant New Yorker, drinks no wine at a banquet when he is to make a speech. Frederick Douglass, Minister to Hayti, writes to his friends in Washington that h9 is socially tabooed at Port-au-Prince. President Carnot, of France, took advantage of New Year's Day to bestow a number of decorations upou foreigners. Mark Twain has spent about $100,000 in perfecting a type setting machine, and he is the principal owner of the company that will manufacture them. Ex-Secretary Bayard has accepted the invitation of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina to deliver the anniversary oration in Charleston on April 13. Congressman Bland, of Missouri, is ambitious to have one of the biggest orchards in the State. He is setting'out 30,000 apple trees on his farm this season. Joel Chandler Harris ("Uncle Remus':) was a typesetter on a Georgia country newspaper before he became an author. His first venture in verse was made in the days before the war /1t??-omr TT i *ivit> a r. 'Pntnis th? new UA11?<XVAU u.in.iiunu w?, .? _ Minister from Hayti to the United States, is a tall, well-proportioned man, with fair Caucasian features and a perfect knowledge of the English language. Speaker Reed has made a collection of newspaper pictures of himself and on his desk is a large pile of these cuts. He takes pleasure in showing to his friends how many different faces he turns to the public. Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, the English preacher, is suffering acutely from rheumatism. His throat is now attacked, and it is feared, even at the best, that his magnificent voice will be irreparably injured. Andrew Carveoie, the Pittsburg iron king, has authorized the officials of the Cambria Iron Company to draw upon him for funds to rebuild the Johnstown public library building, which was destroj'ed by the flood. The late Henry W. Grady was a rapid writer. At the time of the Charleston earthquake he did not reach the stricken city until 10 o'clock at night, but by 2 o'clock the next morning he had a report eight columns in length on file in the telegraph office. The Emperor of China since his marriage has become cranky and unreasonable. He is i restless under the control which his mother j seeks to exart over him, and lias now practi- I cally cut himsjlf off from everybody except- j inor his Prime Minister and a few courtiers. | Carl Schurz is spare, hump-shouldered j and curly-headed. He was once*the favorite i butt of every cartoonist, for during his one and sixty years he has played many parts, having been successively a prisoner at Berlin, a Minister at Madrid, an editor at St. Louis and a Senator at Washington, before the gray began to show on him. - . - > V- .' ?"* ' * *:*? ' ?' V*: *V & *' "budget of fun. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. A Parent's Advice?Had All He Wanted?He Was Not Sure?Had Got Her Consent?A Natural Conclusion, Etc. Now, John, my son, before you go Tako this advice to heart: Don't try to show off what you know So folks may think you're smart. Although the world is like a school, Where those who study rise, Remember that the silent fool Is oft considered wise. ?Boston Courier. HAD ALL HE WANTED. Jinks (solicitously)?"Blinks, stop a moment. That's a fearful cold you have. Are you taking anything for it?" Blinks (Hurrying on)?"Not in the hape of advice, Kiljordan." AN UNGRATEFUL COMPARISON. Lord Dufferly (on his first visit to New York)?"Who is that distinguishedlooking man we just passed? Why, he has the bearing of a Duke!" Mr. Fourhundred?"'Sh! Don't let him hear you! That's a captain of police!"?Puclc. A NATURAL CONCLUSION. Mr. Hardup?"Why don't you pay more attention to the cooking. You i know you can do first-rate cooking when you try." Mrs. Hardup?"I know I can, but whenever I get up any particular nice , iish you eat it all yourself."?Terre . Haute Express. CHARITY BEGINS NOT AT HOME. "And what's all this I hear, Barbara, 1 about your wanting to find some occu- ] pation?" \ ( i iTXT^11 ?/v? ?aa il'n oa /lull of Vinmn i "VYCU, JUU aCCj it O OU uuu ?v uvuiv) ancle. I've 110 brothers or sisters?and J papa's paralyzed?and mamma's going blind?so I want to be a hospital nurse." ?London Punch. 1 HE WAS NOT SURE. Guest?"I want something to eat." The waiter calls off a number of dishes, at the same time moving about his feet j uneasily. 1 Guest (observing this asks)?"Have you any corns?" ( "Waiter?"Don't know. I'll ask the cook."?Texas diftingi. HAD GOT HER CONSENT. Dick?"I intend to marry you whether or no. I know you love me. I ' shall not go until I get your consent." Miss Flirtte?"You have it." ' Dick?"Ah, I knew I should tri- 3 umph." Miss Flirtte?"Of course I meant my 1 consent to go."?Chicago Journal. i OP PARAMOUNT NECESSITY. ' Mr. Uncertain?"You keep a private yacht, don't you, Dubious?" Mr. Dubious?"Oh, yes." Mr. Uncertain?"Well, next to money, 1 what is the most important adjunct nec * -r .. ? essary to tne maintenance ox a uiuib ui that kind?" ( Mr. Dubious?"Credit."?Epoch. 1 A PAINTED BEAUTY. 1 He?"I got a letter from Cousin Tom \ to-day. He says he is engaged to Mollie i Jennings. Of course he paints his fu- ' ture bride in glowing colors and all that 1 sort of thing." She?"So far as that is concerned, Mollie is pretty expert at painting her6 .If in glowing colors."?Tene Eaute Ex- ' press. AFTER MANY YEARS. Old Professor?"Why, Mr. Barkins, glad to see you, I'm sure. How time does fly! Why, it seems to be only a few years ago that I gave you a sound thrashing." Barkins?"I remember it. I've always wanted to get even with you for that. Have a cigar, won't ycu?"?Munscy's Weekly. VEr.Y FRIGID. "Been having trouble?" asked one traveling man ul another. "Some." "Girl gone back on you?" "No, but her father has." "Dismissed YOU III a summary mauuci. Eh?" "No. In a wintry manner."?Merchant Traveler. SHE LOVED TO GROAN. Aunt Mary?"What a cold hearted world this is! I was so sick all night and not a soul in the house came to see what was the matter with me." Ella?"That's not it at all, auntie; we all heard your groaning, and we hadn't the heart to interrupt you. "VVe know how you do enjoy a good groaning, you know."?Boston Transcript. VERY TRUE. Teacher?"All things which can be 11 - X I seen througn are caueu. iruuspuicui,. Fanny, mention something which is transparent." Fanny?"A pane of glass." Teacher ? "Quite correct. Now, Fanny, mention some other object through which you can see." Fanny?4 A keyhole."? Texas Si/tings. VENTURED A SURMISE. ' Susie," said Willie to his sister, "what arc Blackfeet Indians?" "What are what?" "Blackfeet Indians." "I don't know, I'm sure." said Susie, 1 'what the expression can mean, unless those wicked traders have been selling the poor Indians some of the hoisery that is warranted not to fade."?Merchant Traveler. u-is TxspTRrxr;. ilia ri\?jo?iiivxj Manufacturer (to his ofilcc boy, who j persistently sets the clock backward iu the moruiug aud forward during the ! lunch hour)?"I can't understand w>iy I the clock is always behind when I arrive at the office and ahead when I le?ve ' it." Office Boy (innocently)?"I reckon it thinks it cugtt to hustle while you're ' here, sir."?Jewelers' Weekly. SAW EVIDENCES. He was a cruel brother. He happened in to the room to find his sister in tears but did not inquire as to ! the reason nor offer a tingle word of con- j dulence. - ^ ' 11 "Where is my overcoat?" was all h? said. "I think you are as hardhearted as yoa can be," she said, "not to realize that any one can have trouble." j "I realized it," he said. "As soon as i I came into the room I saw evidences of J 4 cry, sis."?Merchant Traveler. CONSIDERED EXTRAVAGANT. \ "Yes," said the old man with a sigh,' "Charles seems to be very devoted to ( you, Arabella, and he says he wants to ) marry you, but I'm afraid he'll never get on very well in this world." "Why, pa?" exclaimed Arabella in surprise. "What makes you think so?" "I don't think so, Arabella," returned her fond papa. "I know so. Charles told me to-day that he bought a new umbrella last week. What reckless extravagance that was. Why, I don't remem- % ber that I ever bought an umbrella in all m," life."?Somerville Journal. "all is not lost." The modern child is an analyst. The ' small boy was playing with the scissors, and his kindly old grandmother chided ; him ; "You mustn't play with the scissors, dear. I knew a little boy just like you who was playing with a pair of scissors just like that pair, and he put them in his eye, and he put his eye out, and he .-A never could see anything ever after." The child listened intently and said,' when she got through* "What was the matter with his other eye?"?San Francisco Chronicle. . a little maid with a broken arsf. A small girl fell and broke her arm two or three weeks ago. The fracture was reduced and all went well, the little mite proving herself a heroine under the pain. A.nd what pain a broken arm can give! . A But the tiresome part of the business, the growing together of the fractured ' parts, has tried her patience sorely. Theother day the family doctor explained to the little patient that the pain she suffered came from the knitting of the bone. "Knitting is it?" the child echoed;: "well I wish is would stop, for I can feel f-Vip nppfllps sfcirlcin** into me."?Pitt3iu.ro IT" , ? " ~ Dispatch. ^ GETTING EVEN "WITH HIS WIKE. The conductor of a Chicago car ap- : proached a hard-visaged woman and asked for her fare. "Go on with you, now, I've paid you. once," said the woman. "No, you haven't." "Yes, I have." "Give me a nickel, or I'll put you off."' "Do if you dare." The conductor stopped the car and put ber off. "Rather a hard thing to do," said one of the passengers, "but it served her*right, I suppose." "Oh," the conductor smilingly answered, "it wasn't hard for me to do, for* it isn't often that I have a chance to get. -j even with her. She is my wife."?Arlcan~ %aw Traveler. THE LADY WAS IN. "Is the ladv of the house in?" asked a man whose appearance indicated that he 4-Vi/>cn oKonrlrmorl onrl ^iqanllltA >YU3 UUC Ui tUVO^ ttwwuuwuvu mum persons who go around selling six papers, of cast-iron needles and a tin bodkin for . a quarter. . ?-""T. "Yes'n," replied the woman, whoopened the door far enough to thrust out a fiery red head, in which there gleamed a pair of snapping black'cyes. "Yes'm, I'm she, an' I ain't dressed to see comp'ny 1 neither, an' you'd better put right o' here'fore I douse ye with a dipper o' hotwater ! I don't want none o' yer old needles, nor furniture polish, nor family albums, nor writin' paper, nor trash o' nosort; an'next time you whang this door bell an' make the lady of the house take her hands from her bread dough an' w&sh 'em to come and find you at thfr door, it'll be the last time you'll ever wanter renew your acquaintance with this lady I Mind that!"?Detroit Fi-ee Press. The Governor's Joke. General Gordon, the Governor of Georgia, wrote to W. J. Arkell, the pubi:-i c T...1 ,1 ilSIlcr Ui <J u,wjo auu -L' / uho/ juboixv o, recently, and told him that he was very anxious to add some new features to his stock farm, particularly in the department of mutes, and said that if Arkell would be so friendly and obliging as to pick out a half dozen of this kiud of animal, of a gentle disposition and of feminine gender, that the Governor would feci himself under the deepest obligation. Gordon declared that he was ambitious to have the finest aud most numerous family of mules in America. Arkell was brought up on a farm, but he did not perceive the Gilbertiau humor concealed in the letter, and in all good faith proceeded to Bull's Head and opened negotiations for the kind of mules that Governor G<w? don had described. His simple and straightforward request called forth more uproarious hilarity among the horsemen than a circus and three good farce comedies could have produced in a month, and Mr. Arkell didn't quite sec where the joke cane in unru ne was givcu iu uuderstand by a horse dealer who had ternporarily got the better of his merriment that if the mule population had to depend on the system of breeding wickedly suggested by Governor Gordon the population would die cut with the present generation. At the present time Mr. Arkell is very busily cogitating a scheme for getting even with General Gordon.? New York Mail and Exprti*. Bogus "Broiled" Steaks. "Nearly everybody has a prejudice in favor of broiled steaks and fish, instead of fried," said a cook iu a restaurart, "but in many eating houses, even of the better class, the customers eat their 'broiled' steak or fish contentedly, and ' ' ' ' ' *1 1J ? 4. With a reUSIl wmcu tney wouiu rcjtviu and raise a row about if they knew how it had been prepared." He said that it is fried notwithstanding the straight, regular marks apparently made by the gridiron. Steaks and fish are more easily and quickly made ready for the table by frying than by broiling, and this is the reason for the imposition. When the steak or fish is put into the frying pan the cook sticks a poker into the red-hot coals. Bv the time the edible is cooked the poker is red hot. "The steak or fish," said the cook, "is then put on a plate, aud the hot iron laid across it, burning iu the parallel ^ marks such as would be made by a gridiron, and then the dish goes to the customer's table, masquerading as a 'broiled sirloin or 'porterhouse,' or 'a niccbroiled fresh mackerel,' or the like, as the order may require."?New York Journal. A