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CORN AND WHEAT STOCKS. The March floport of the Department of Agriculture. Plenty of Corn cn Hand, But a Small Supply of Wheat, The statistical report of the Department of Agriculture for March relates to the distribution ami consumption of corn and wheat. It makes the proportion of the corn crop in the hands of growers 45.9 per cent., or 070,0110,000 bushels, and of the wheat crop 31 per cent., or 150,000,000 bushels. The stock of corn on hand is the largest ever reported in March of the largest crop after the mildest winter. The average of eight annual returns is 077,000,000 bushels; that of last year, 787,000,000 bushels. The estimated consumption tc March 1 is 3,143,000,000 bushels, a figure only exceeded last year and in 1880. The proportion ot mer- 1 chantable corn of the crop of 1SS9 is S5.7 per cent., exceeded in recent years only by those of 1SS4 and 18Sfi. The average value of all corn December 1 was 2S.3 cents per bushel. The average March 1 was 'J7.9 cents for merchantable and 19.2 for unmerchantable, making an aggregate of value $35,000,000less than the December estimate. The wheat crop of 1889 was exceeded by the crops of 1SS0, 1882 and 1884. The average remainder in the hands of growers March 1 for ten years past has been 130,000,000 bushels. The average crop during this period was 450,000,000 bushels. Only in years having a product much below this average has the \r 1. folln,, l.olnw 130 000.000 iuai vii icuiaiuuv* - - _ , bushels, with the sole exception at' 1SSG, when a crop of 457,000,000 bushels followed one of 357,000,000. Most of the wheat in farmers^ hands is in States which have no surplus over consumption, or in those in which much the larger portion is consumed at home. The six spring wheat States have only 45,000,000 bushels, 18,000,000 of which will be required for spring seed, and the remainder is scarcely more than four months' consumption of their population. Ohio, Michigan, Indiana. Illinois, Missouri and Kansas, the only winter wheat States east of the Rocky Mountains contributing to commercial distribution, have only 60,000,000 bushels, half of which will be needed at home, and a part of the remainder is commercially unavailable at present prices. It is seen, therefore, that the available supply for exportation and for home distribution to July is small. The depleted farm reserves have been measurably filled, except in a few States, but it will require the presence of high prices to squeeze any considerable proportion of them into commercial distribution. FIPTT-FIEST CONGRESS. In the Senate. t C3d Day.?A number of private Wlls were passed.... Mr. Wilson introduced' a bill protVinf. ttip rharire of desertion asrainst I any soldier who served in the late war shall be no bar to his right to pension, when it can be reasonably shown that the disability on account of which he claims pension was incurred while performing actual service in the volunteer army In executive session the consideration of the "leakage" of secret session proceedings was coutinned. 54th Day.?Mr. Hale spoke against the Blair Educational bill, and Mr. Blair defended it The public building bills on the calendar having Been reached, the following were passed: For Sterling, 111.. S>">0,()00: Oakland, Cab, $300, <XW: Cheyenne, "W'yo., ?150,000; Chester. Penn.. $100,000: Helena, Mont., $4<Xi.00P. 55th Day.?Amongthe bills reported from j committees and placed on the calendar were | the following: For public buildings at Bridgeton. N. J., ?7.3,000; Baton Rouge, La., $100,000; Tauuton, Mass.. $75,000; Tacoma, $100,000; Seattle. ?100,000; Spokane Falls, $100,000, and Waila W'ulla, $20,000.... The bill appropriating $500,0CW for a public building at Salt Lake City, Utah, was taken up and passed... .Mr. Higgins spoke in favor or the Blair bill, and Mi*. Jones against it ....Mr. Sherman's Meat Inspection bill was discussed. 56th Day.?The credentials of Mr. Allison for his new term, beginning March 4, 1SV1, were presented and ordered to be placed on file Mr. Hoar called up his resolution for the exclusion from the Record of the sentences interpolated by Mr. Call in the report of his remarks in" the discussion with Mr. Chandler some weeks ago A lively debate followed, but there was no quorum to vote on the resolution.... Mr. Mitchell introduced a joiut resolution proposing au amendment to the Constitution providing for the election of Senators by the votes of qualified electors in the States, and said that he would at an early day address the Senate on the subject.. .Mr. Daniels introduced a bill to provide for the issue of JNat.'onal bank notes upon the deposit of silver ' bullion. 57th Day.?Progress was made with tiu Blair bill to the extent of fixing the day when : the final vote would be taken... .The Call in terpojations into the Utcort ware ordered tc De'cut out by a vote of 36 to 14... .Mr. Plumb introduced a resolution requirfcyp't'ae vote al secret sessions to be made public i lu the House. GOth Day.?The greater portion of the day was consumed in a discussion of a bill for the compulsory attendance of witnesses before registers and receivers of land offices, but nc action was taken.... A number of public buildings appropriation bills were passed. t?lst Day.?Mr. liaugeu, from the Com mittee on Elections, reported n resolution in the Alabama contested election case ol" Threat against Clark. The resolution,whicb was unanimously reported, declares Clark entitled to retain his "seat. It was adopts . .The Speaker laid before the House tbs genate bill referring to the Court of Claims the claim of W. E. Woodbridge for the u=? of his invention of projectile? for rifloU ''cannon. After some discussion tbo bii'l wo? defeated?yeas, 111; nays, 138.. ..Aboutfifty private pension bills were passed. 62d Day.?The greater pari of the day was consumed in a discussion of the bill providing for the compulsory attendance of witnesses before registers and receivers of land offices, which was passed A number of public buildings appropriation bills were reported faTorably from Committee of the Whole, but the? House found itself without a quorum, and so further action was postponed. 63d Day.?On motion of Mr. Owen the Senate resolution was concurred in providing that the Senate Committee on Immigration and the House Committe? on Immigration and Naturalization shall jointly investigate the workings of the various laws of the United States and the several States relative to immigration from foreign countries.... The resolution was so amended as to direct the Joint Committor to investigate the effect on Ameri can workingmen which is likely to follow th? purchase of American industries by foreign capitalists: also to report to Congress the official correspondence on the proposal to make Bedlow's Island, New York, an immigrant depot A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of War for information relative to the defective work on the Washington Aaueduct tuunel. and whether the contract ors are liable therefor. 64th Day.?Mr. Baker, from the Committee on Territories, reported tho bill for the admission of Wyoming. The House went into Committee of the Whole to consider the bill, despite objections by Mr. Springer, who said the bill had been callod up in violation of the agreement made in the Committee on Territories Several bills for public buildings, involving an appropriation of $1,845,000, were passed. 65th Day.?The Oklaho.na bill was discussed, and Mr. Stewart's motion prohibiting the introduction of intoxicating liquors into the Territory until otherwise provided oy law was agreed to. DIED UNDER THE LASH. Two Murdered Children and a Fugitive Mother." Mrs. Sarah Higgins, of Tefton, Ga., is a fugitive from justice, hounded by officers and haunted by the memory of her two dead children, barbarously lashed to death by her own hands. Becoming angered at the little ' _ ones for some offence she tied them aud began the punishment. One of tho children died while under the lash and the other was bo badly scourged that it died during the eight. The next morning the fiendish parent left the bouse and disappeared. j : . * . ^ ?rr "THEmiwslepitomizedT Eastern and Middle States. Challenges have beeu sent from New Toi k lo the Earl of Dunraven, owner of the v'alkyrie, by the owners of the Katrina and Shamrock for international yacht races in ins couutry in the coming summer. Grovkr Cleveland. Andrew Carnegie, ?etu Low. Henry E. Howland and Joseph H. Choato, at a public meeting in New Fork, spoke in favor oi extending that city's free circulating library system. Eight freight cars were thrown from the :rack near Carlisle, Penn., and wrecked. The funeral of ex-Governor English took place at New Haven, Conn. Many prominent people attended. Reuben Eise.vhart, foremen attheCain?ron Mine, Shamokin, Pcnn., which had oeen on tire for several days, was overcome ay black damp while in the mine, and died soon after being taken out. William Bucknell, the noted Philadelphia philanthropist, died of apoplexy at the tgd of seventy-nine years. He gave $142,000 to Bucknell College, about $525,000 to Baptist churches and missious, and probably ?500,000 more to charities of various kinds. The Belgian steamer De Ruyter, Captain Webster, from Antwerp for Boston, went tshore at Lighthouse Point Mass., in a thick snow storm. The crew of twenty-seven men got ashore safely. A notable auction sale of trofctsrs has just taken place in New York. Eighty-seven horses belonging fco L. J. Rose, of Los Angeles, Cal., brought $235,915. The stallion Alcazar sold for 525, S00, and the two-year :>ld Voodoo brougnt S--i,uuu. The town of Casey Hill Penn., has caved ill. The family of Thomas Kelly were injured by their house toppling over. Many other buildings were wrecked. The town was over an abandoned mine. The damage to property will reach $60,000. John' Pew, the founder of the hous9 of John Pew & Sons, the largest firm in the American fisheries, died at Gloucester, Mass., aged 82. A cold wave, with a temperature as low in places as twenty-five degrees below zero, prevailed iu New It ork State and New England. Mrs. Davis, convicted in New Jersey of a theft of which she was innocent, was par doned by Governor Abbett, but learned mai her husband, who worked for her pardon, had died the day before ber release. The schooner Blanche, which arrived at Gloucester, Mass., from Grand Banks, had on board Edward Fogarty and William Wilson, of the crew of the fishing schooner Nellie G. Thurston, who were picked up at sea in an open dory. a New York theatrical company left that city for Washington by special train the other morning, played at a matinee in the National Capital and returned to the metropolis in time for the regular evening performance. The Court of Inquiry appointed to examine into the charges against Commander Bowman H. McCalla, of the United States steamer Enterprise, began proceedings at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. At the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Railroad it was decided to issue four hundred thousand additional shares of capital stock. South and West. Raimund Holzhay, the notorious train robber, now in the penitentiary at Marquette, r'+r\ murrlw n fp]lr?W noil- I 1U1CU., 1U1 1UC, UiWU W kMU. WW ? vict and was shot and seriously wounded by the warden. An English syndicate has bought the F. TV. Wheeler & Co. shipyard and dry dock at Bay City, Mich., for $3,500,000. An explosion occured at the Armstrong furniture factory. Evansville, Ind., starting a blaze, in which three boys were burned to I death. The village of Liberty, Ky., has been consumed by fire. Loss $40,039; no insurance.^ The village had a population of 32.5. M A freight train was derailed near Cisc<^ Cal., and twenty-one beef cattle were killed, j The American wire, rod and nail mill of j Anderson, Ind., has been burned. The loss i will reach 5100,000. About 300 meu are j thrown out of employment. By the caving in of a sandbank several j railroad laborers were covered up near Pe- j tersburg, Va. Lewis Stewart and John j Dawson were taken out dead, and Archer j Griffin was got outaiive, but fatally injured. The private banking firm of Belloc i-'reres, j San Francisco, Cal., has made an assign- . inent and closed its doors. The Sheriff says 1 that the liabilities, as far as known, will j amount to $500,000. Felix Kempf, the first man legally eze- ; cuted in Kanawha County, W. Va., since th? State was organized, was hanged at Charleston in the presence <?f about 2000 people. J. C. McGregor, reading clerk of the ! Ohio State House of Representatives, died at ' Zauesvilie of diphtheria. Mrs. McGregoi died a week previous, immediately after the | death of four children, making six deaths in | the family within a little over two weeks. While trying to cross the river at John- ! son's Island, sixteen miles above Knoxville, < Tenn., three boys were drowned. They were : In a frail boat, Vbich capsized. Ths funeral of George H. Pendleton, late American Minister to Germany, was held in J Cincinnati, Ohio. James Mcl.vrosn, of Spirit i<ake. Minn., j accompanied by two daughters of James | Evans, while crossing the ice on East Oka- j boji Lake, drove into an air hole and were j drowned. The postoffice at Greenville. Texas, has j betui robbed of several thousand dollars. The j thieves succeeded in breaking open the mail > boxes of the First National Bank and other j firms, ana abstracted tae coa<.?ui<&. The warehouse of the B. C. Clark Crock- i ery Company at Kansas City, Mo., has been burned, with a loss of ?102,000. Chahi.es Williams and bis twelve-yearold son were found murdered in their bed at [ their home in Galena, Kan. Williams was ! blind and lost both arms in a mine accident. ! The Mississippi levee" were reported ! broken in Arkansas. 1 Ttts hous? of Charles Gibson ^colored) in Beaufort Couuty, S. C.. has been destroyed by fire. His wife and a child perished in the flames. Two trains collided near Inland, Neb., and Conductor Grant Norton and Brakeman Canada Miller were killed and eighteen cars were wrecked. The five story building in Cincinnati, Ohio, owned and occupied by Stern, Mayer & Co., has been completely gutted by fire. Los.about ?300,000. Bill Allen* and Witherford Trying, tw< colored men charged with the murder of Constable Belcher, were taken from the Mer cer County (W. Va.) jail, and shot to death. The Missouri Anti-Trust law has been pro nounced unconstitutional by Judge Dillon in the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis The United States steamer Iroauois ar rived at Port Townsend, Wash., uisabled, after beating against head winds nearly t'oui months. North Carolina has funded $11,000,OOOol the old State debt into new four per cents. There is now only $1,000,000 of Uie old ucdt outstanding. Washington. 7 >: #uD-oommitt/>e of the House "World's Fair emmittee had a conference with the Chicago delegation, and went orer part of the Faiir bill. The President seut to the Senate the following nominations: William M. Marine, to he Collector of Customs at Baltimore, William D. Burchinal, Surveyor of Customs at Baltimore; Milton G. Urner, Naval Officer of Customs at Baltimore; Cecil J. Karsner. Appraiser of Merchandise at Baltimore; Alfred C. Bar wick, Collector of Customs at Burlington, N. ?T., Edward C. Duncan. Collector of Customs at Beaufort-, N. C.; John F. Patty, Naval Officer of Customs at JSevt Orleans. The President has decided to appoint Lieu tenant Colonel William Smith, U. S. A., Paymaster General of the Army. A committee reported to the Pan-American Congress in favor of subsidized lines to ports of Mexico and of countries along the Caribbean S*?a. Kx-Congkessmak Taolbek, of Kentucky, who was shot by Correspondent Kincaid in the House wing of the Capitol a short time ago, is dead. Mr. Kincaid gave himself up for trial. Taulbee had assaulted Kincaid for publishing an article reflecting upon him in a Louisville paper. Kincaid met Taulbee soon after the assault, and the shooting then oocurred. Ths House Military Committee reported favorably the bill to reorganize the rtve ar- | tillery regiments of the army into seven. Attorney-General Miller has appointed Charles D. Baker to be Assistant Attorney for the Southern District of New York. A test was made of the new fire alarm apparatus in the White House and of the efficiency of the District Fire Department. Both were highly satisfactory. Foreign. j A dispatch from Melbourne, Australia, I says that Henry George was welcomed at the j Town Hall by the Mayor of the city. The Czar of Russia has received a threat: ening letter from a woman who signed heri self "Tchebrikova." The writer said that I -unless he modified his reactionary policy he j would meet the fate of Peter III., Paul I. ; and Alexander II. i The French and Dahomans have fought a j second battle in Africa, the natives being beaten with heavy loss. | Major Wissmann, the German officer, ! attacked and routed the Arabs in East Africa. Serious differences arose among the Portuguese officials at Mozambique. Four hundred imported soldiers from Goa, who are British subjects, refused to drill or dc military service. Dr. Raimondo Andceza Palacio wat elected President of the Venezuela Republic. . -o?4. j jtwfls si>&16(1 ioul idc jrui bugucdc iujiiio^ ' in London had failed in his negotiations for the settlement of the African territorial dispute, and that he would return to Lisbon immediately. Two thousand Socialists and Radicals in London protested in public meeting against the Siberian outrages. Severe shocks of earthquake occurred in the Government of Kntais, Asiatic Russia, by which three villages were destroyed. A demonstration of students was made at the graves of young Czech nobles at Walschau in Bohemia. The students were dispersed by the police and a number of them were arrested. The officers of the United States sauadron in full uniform attended a service in Naples in memory of the Duke of Aosta. Herr Vohsen, German Consul at Zanzibar, acting for the East Africa Company, has concluded a new treaty favorable to the Germans. The firm of Browne & Wingrove, London, melters and refiners and dealers in bullion iiova failed- Their liabilities are $1,500,- i ooa' ~ In an encounter at Elassona, Turkey, between the troops and a band of brigands, over twentyof the former were killed and six of the latter The brigands were dispersed. Heavy rains prevailed in the province of Murcia in Spain. The rivers overflowed their banks and did much damage to the surrounding country. A despatch from London stated that a frightful explosion had occurred in the ilorsa Colliery at Glamorgan, Wales. One hundred miners were entombed. As the mine was on fire, it was feared that all would perish. The Toronto City Council has invited the Women's Congress of the United states to hold their next meeting in that city. Herr von Tisza, the great Libera! statesman. of Hungary, resigned as Hungarian Prime Minister, and was succeeded by Count von Szapary. The Portuguese (Government dissolved the municipal Government of Lisbon, substituting for it temporarily a commission. LATER NEWS, The Larned State Bank, of Larned, Kan., bas suspended payment. The assets are $71.000, aad the liabilities ?33,000. Miller was instantly killed and ^Brred Westergren had his skull crushed by ^ho fall of a derrick at Ortonville, South Dakota. The Chicago, Burlington and Northern Railroad has been bought by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. David McGrew, pastor of the colored Baptist Church at Armstrong, Mo.; Andrew Begman, and Will Jackson, all colored, were run over by the Union Pacific train and killed. Six prisoners have escaped from the county jail at Eau Claire, Wis. They were all burglars. The trial in San Francisco of Mrs. Sarah Altbea Terry for resisting the United States Marshal has concluded. The jury failed to agree on a verdict. Colonel F. A. Seely, of Washington, and | Francis Forhes. of New York citv, have been | appointed delegates to the International Conference which is to bo held at Madrid, Span!. The President nominated John B. Weber, of Buffalo, to be Commissioner of Einigra- j tiou, and General J. R. O'Beirne, Assistant : Commissioner. Tex Cretan refugees have been sentenced to iifteen years' imprisonment at Retimo. Crete. The news has caused a sensation in Athens. Greece. Tue Opposition papers in Brazil condemn the recent decree establishing three banks in the Northern Provinces. Tliey say the carrying out o? the decree is likely to cause great confusion. The league which was formed in Portugal for the avowed purpose of assaulting the British Minister, has been abandoned. The anti-English feeling is subsiding. " LONG MOUBNED AS DEAD. A War Veteran Returns to His Fam- ' ily After Twenty-eight Years. Fritz Jabusch walked into the house of his j relatives In Oshkosh, Wis., a few days ago, * -*> 1? 4 I alter an aosence 01 nutnj years. The story he told was a most romantic one, for he had long been mourned as dead. In 1862 Mr. Jabuscn enlisted In the army and | went to the front. His relatives heard from him regularly until the summer of 1803, when his letters ceased, after a battle in which his regiment had been engaged. His parents, of CCMrse, supposed him to be dead. Jabusch now states that be was left for dead on the battle-field; was found by Con federate troops, placed in a hospital; when bo recovered was confined in Libby prison. Here he remained over a year, until exchanged, and he found himself on the Atlantic coast without money and hundreds of mile3 from home. He shipped on board a merchantman for the East Indies as a common seaman, and has followed the sea ever since. He has acquired a competence, sua J will settle down innis old home. CUBA AND ANNEXATION. ' A Havana Editor Imprisoned lor JbxpressiiiR His Views. The agitation in favor of the annexation ol Cuba by the United States has at last reached a crisis in the former country. The journals which have been openly and boldly advocating annexation, encouraged ap I parently by public sentiment and immunity from interference by the authorities, have received a warning which has checked their utterances. The Havana journal, La Tordo, which has been conspicuous for its vigorous denunciation of the Government and advocacy of independence or annexation, capped the climax recently by saying: "The Spanish Government by its disgraceful nnd ruinous administration of affairs in this island has done more than anything else to throw Cuba into the arms of the United States." The editor of the paper was arrested shortly afterward and put iu prison. Other journals are now more cautious, but agitation among the people is stronger than ever. The Pacific Mail Steamship Compauy reiceives a subsidy of $900,000 a year from the Pacific railroads for maintaining transcontinental rates of freight against the shippers of Oregon and -California. V;, , EIGHT VICTIMS OF FIRE. A Mother and Seven Children Perish in Their Own Home. The Deadly Blaze Baffles the Father at Every Point, Onezine Colerctte, the wealthiest farmer of the little village of St. Michel, about four miles fro,n Montreal, Quebec, awoke at halfpast four o'clock in the morning, and built a fire and filled a lantern lamp with oil, preparatory to visiting his barn and feeding and caring for his stock. He finished his chores about the house by five o'clock, and taking his lantern, went 'to the barn. He had fed his horses and cattle and was preparing to return when a terrific explosion broke on hia ears. Rushing to the door he saw his frame house one mass of flames. Then he remembered that he had set the kerosene can beside the stove while filling the lantern and that the stove when he left the house was begins ing to turn red hot. In a rear room off the kitchen on th? ground floor his wife was asleep when Onezinee left the house. In the upper story, which was reached by a stairway leading from the sleeping l-oom slept his seven children, the oldest thirteen years of age, and the youngest not quite three years old. He had au eighth child, a girl lifteen years old, but she was at the Sacred Heart Convent at Kanlt, Au Reonllefc. "VVLen be saw the flames Colerette dropped bis lantern and rushed toward the house. A< the door he was met by a burst of flames, which set fire to his scarf, and his hands, neck and whiskers were badly scorched before he could tear it off. Then he ran to the rear. Only smoke was coming out of this door, and into it Colerette dashed. He got as far as the door of the sleeping apartment, but here was a solid wall of flame. The floor was burning beneath his feet, the ceiling was burning over his head and the four walls oI the room in which he was were burning fiercely. To get to the stairway leading to the upper floor was utterly impossible unless he daslitd into the seething caldron of fire wherein he had last seen his wife. He could see the bed, but it was a mass of flames and empty. lie felt himself being overcome by tin smoke and heat and seeming to go mad, a< he now explains it, and not knowing what hj aid he made a rush for the door through which ho had entered. It was afire, but Colerette got through and out into the air. All his clothes were burning and he sank to the ground. The neighbors had now arrived, and while some of them dragged Coleretto out of the rpAfh nf the tono-nes of fire and extinguished tho flames which liad caught his clothes others ran for remedies. He was conveyed to a neighbor's house and medical aid waj summoned, Trat, though conscious, he was not expected to live. Perhaps a dozen people had arrived on the scene within five minutes after the explosion took place, but even then it was impossible to approach within twenty-five feet of the building. The ground around it seemed to be ablaze, and the men who dragged Colerette out of further danger were Badly singed. There was no fire apparatus in the village and the fire had to be allowed to burn itself out, the roof falling in twenty miautes after the fire began, and the wooden walls melting away ten minutes later. Then water from surrounding wells and snow were thrown on the pile, and by six o'clock the ruins were only smoking. The search for the bodies of the cremated persons had just beguu when two bodies charred beyond all recognition, but evident' ly muse m tuc uuu tocii-jcui -viu * auu uuo i of the boys, were found alongside the foundation outside of where the wall had been. They had probably fallen out of one of the j upper windows while the flames and smoke | from below hid them from the yiew of the | lookers on, and being helpless on the ground ! they had roasted to death outside the house. Later on the body of Mrs. C'olorette was | found. The limbs were entirely burned off. ' About 2 r. St. the searchers found a tiny log, | or the bones of one, with the flesh burned off. That was all that remained of eight persons. The remains found were removed to the baru, where they were placed in rough pine boxes to be buried. At the little village church at high mas3 Father Laporte, the parish cure, brought tears to the eyes of his hearers by his reference to the calamity, and the entire village went into mourning. Mrs. Colerette was forty-three years old. The children burned were four girls aud three boys. Besides his family Farmer Colerette lost about $4000. The village is entirely French. A FRAUD EXPOSED. ur?i a rnmnlpfft Counterfeiter's Outfit. A strange discovery has been made at Parkersburg. W. Va., resulting in the exposure of unexampled hypocrisy, greed and crime. Hiram Lewis lived miserably for yoais and was supposed to be so destitute that the City Council and cbaritablo ladies cams to his aid. Then Bishop Peterkin, who looked upon Lewis a? a $ort of living saint, bad hint removed to the .Sheltering Arms Hospital. A little later Lewis was a prisoner and the good Bishop and the entire town shocked. A j church elder, while packing Lewis's trunk, discovered several molds and dies for making counterfeit coin, and a search brought t-: j light a complete counterfeiter's outfit hidden away in various nooks. THE LABOR WORLD. I Ohio miners complain of dull times all i over the State. The Weekly Pay bill has been passed in ] the New Jersey House. Colored men have bean taken to Dana, j Wyo., to till the places of strikers. Many surgical-instrument makers are out of employment, as business is quite dull with their trade at present. A bureau of immigration is to be established in Minnesota, but the organizations of i thut State are opposed to it. About five hundred laboring men held a | mass meeting at Toledo, Ohio, in the interest I of the eight nour movement. A bill, making the counterfeiting of union I labels a criminal offense has been introduced : in the Legislature of Massachusetts. Coal has been discovered in the mountains up Deep Creek, Mont., and work will be vigorously pushed as soon as the weather settles. | The Sailors' and Firemen's Union, according to a statement by Secretary George W. Reid, has 5000 members in the port of New York. Boston capitalists have bought 3300 acrei j of land in Lexington County, S. C. Larg' pottery works for making white table war' will be erected there. All the moulders employed in foundriei represented in the Iron Founders' Associatiox struck at San Francisco. One thousand workmen were thrown out of work. The Typographical Union of Hartford, Conn., desires Congress to restore wages it j tho Government Printing Office to the rat* prevailing previous to March 5, 1877. Charters have been issued by the Ameri- j can Federation of Labor to tho Rubber j Workers' Union of Framingham, Mass., and the Hod Carriers of Martin's Ferry, Ohio. Within two weeks thirty-two charters | and supplies have been Issued new assembliei i from tue headquarters of the Knights of | T ?... lorn carl Jnrnl? Vin VP hf*PTl I Jjuuui aim oowub^wu ? reinstate i. General Master Powderly will address a public meeting of workingmon at Dover, j N. H., April 4. . The folio wiug evening he will speak at a demonstration of workers in j Faneuil Hall, Boston. It is rumored that the Strong Locoraotiv* Company will soon erect in the suburbs of Cincinnati one of the largest establishments for the manufacture of locomotives to ba found anywhere west of Dunkirk, N. Y. Ground is to be broken in Chicago soon for tho erection of two shops, respectively 1450 and 1500 feet in length for the manufacture of fire-proof steel cars. A company with a capital stock of $1,500,000 has been organized in that city. The Ship Carpenters' and Calkers' Union, of Buffalo, N. Y, object to Canadians coming there to take the places of native-born citizens. They claim that not less than $650,000 is taken to Canada yearly by workmen of that country^ ?{-w?: WITH COLONIAL FEATUEES Designs for a Low-Cost Cottage, Witt Full Descriptions. (Copyright by the Author.) That the so-called Queen Anne styls o! architecture will not long retain populaj favor is a very safe prediction. Its extremi popularity forbids its early decline. Everj tidal wave must recede. It will be a matter o1 congratulation, indeed, if the extravaganciei of tyro-designers do not bring this so-called style into positive disrepute. Already a noticeable number of clients instruct the architect not to give them Queen Anne exteriors. Such clients are pleased with Colonial features, as a rule, which is rePERSPECTTVE VIEW. garded as an indication that the Colonia iO nrrnxm'nflf in f a tr/~?T? M 6 This developing preference must gratify all people of good taste. The well-defined features of the Colonial style are of classic origin and cannot be "improved." When th? designer attempts something "striking" with it, he gets away from it entirely. The design given herewith is regarded as a fair example, the designer being limited tc low cost. The Colonial features may be said to be confined to the windows, but the windows are so truly Colonial that they dominate the whole exterior. The following is a somewhat detailed de 6cription of this design: Size of Structure: Front (width) 33 ft.; depth (side) 44 feet. f J azzzzte? | i "SIS , * 8 ppi-ii -r ?$^LsSf 1^ I FIRST FXOOB. Height of Stories: Cellar, 7 ft.; first story, ) ft.; second story, 8 ft. Materials for Exterior Walls: Founda tions, brick or stone; first story, clapboards ; ind shingles; second story, shingles; roof, shingles. Interior Finish: All rooms finished with white plaster and soft wood trim. All woodwork to be treated with wood-filler and finished with hard oil, showing natural colors. Exterior Colors: Entire body and gables painted a "Colonial" (medium shade of) yel- j low; all trim, sucli as water table, veranda and balcony rails, all mouldings, brackets, window and door frames, painted white. Outaide doors treated with wood-filler and k TV " ?&* OT| ^ I ' oasmatSi jno?pQ HIlLv acsSjE38Eti?aSa5s I BECONT) FLOOR. finished with oil, showing natural colors. Roof shingles, oiled. Accommodations: All the rooms and their sizes, the pantries and closets are shown by ; the plans given herewith. There is a cellar \ under the main house and the garret is { floored to provide storage room. If pre- I forr/vl linll m.iv hfl AnlflrrrpH hvl'noliimnrr ! the reception room. If preferred, the sitting j room may be used as a bedroom in which 1 case the reception room should be connected and be used as a dressing room. It is an easy matter to convert the smallest bedroom on the second floor into a bath room. Cost: In the vicinity of New York city, $2200. r. TV. Shoppell, Architect. A TRAIN WRECKEE Two Persons Fatally Hurt and Many More Injured. A train jumped the track one mile beyond Graham's Bridge, near Pembroke, Ontario, and was thrown down a twenty-five foot embankment. All the coaches, ineludiujj first class, second class, Pullman and dining, went completely over and lie with their wheels in the air. Two persons were fatally.. hurt and many others received serious injuries. The engine remained on the rails, but all the rest of the train was wrecked. There were about thirty passengers on the train. The accident was caused by the rails spreading. If it had occurred a mile west, at Muskrat Bridge, nothing could have saved the train from total destruction. Among the passengers was a convict in charge of a bailiff. He was chained to a seat and when the car turned over he hung in midair. He managed, after considerable effort, to free himself and then went to the assistance of his keeper and helped him from the wreck. A gentleman who saw the accident says the train wont over like a huge wave and snapped the telegraph poles like pipe stem?. Doctors arrived at the scene of the wreck from Cobden and Pembroke. HELPED BY LIGHTNING. It Enables Five Prisoners to Make Their Escape. During a thunderstorm the jail at Moulton, I Ala., was struck by lightning and a hole torn in the roof. The jailer neglected to repair ;iie unniage, aim :i ie*v iiignts auorwaru avo | prisoners escaped through the opening. They obtained a file somehow, filed out of their j cells, and, by cutting their blankets into strips, lowered themselves to the ground | from tho roof. If the roof had boon repaired ! in time they could not have escapedfrom tho | building after getting out of tho cells. One | colored man charged with murder refused to ! escape. He was the only prisoner left. The Congress of .San Salvador has issued a decree that a duty of $1 per quintal be imi posed on all coffee exported during tho year, the proceeds to be used in the reconstruction of the National Palace. Trouble has broke i cut in Oklahoma owing to alleged efforts to colonized the new territory with sufficient colored people to ena bie them to ruu the Territorial Government FATAL PlAILROAD WRECK. One Section of an Express Train Crashtij Into the Other. More Than a Score of Persons Killed or Injured, Six persons have been killed and about twenty injured in a railroad accident on the Lake Shore road at Bay View, nine miles from Buffalo, N. Y., by the Chicago Express breaking in two, and the two sections then coming into collision. The killed were: Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, of Rochester; Mrs. J. D. Baucus, Rome, N. Y., J. Swan, the colored porter; John W. Flynn, of Canton, Ohio, and John T. Power, of Pittsfield, Mass. The two sections of the wrecked train arrived at Buffalo about 4 o'clock in the morning with the dead and injured. The bodies were placed on trucks in the baggage room and the injured were removed to the hospitals or hotels. Pullman Conductor Fest said the steam coupling broke in pulling out of Dunkirk, leaving them without steam. When near West Hamburg he made the startling discovery that the train had broken. He pulled the air-brake cord and found that it would not work. He ran to the third car and found the air-brake there also useless. He was just turning the brakes when the crash cam?,. The first section bad, on finding that there had been a split, stopped, and the second sec;ion, going down grade, crashed into it. He troll^Tfnr t,h? nnrbp A.rtrl thAr TCAnf. in ami saw five persons pinned in the smoking room of the car Galena, and they helped them. Their escape was almost miraculous, as they got out with slight injuries. The collision jammed the Galena right under the passenger coach in the rear, which was thrown on top of it. Of those in the Ga lena two were killed, nine injured, and one unknown man escaped. One man was killed in the passenger coach, an Italian, name unknown, and J. Swan, the colored porter of the Galena, was thrown thirty feet into a ditch and killed. Both legs and arms were broken, his chest stove in and his head smashed. Porter "Waldron, (CQjored) of the Auburn, and Conductor Fest got out the axes and went to work to free the imprisoned passengers. The Galena was split into kindling wood, and nothing remained of it except the trucks and one side. The wreck started to take fire, when Porter Waldron dashed into the wreckage, and at much danger to himself succeeded in extinguishing two lamps in the sleeper which were flaring up ominously. But for this timely action a number of persons would have perished in the flames. One of the saddest incidents of the accident was that which befell Jos. D. Baucus, a bright young lawyer of Saratoga. A week ago Mr. Baucus was married to a handsome T? rtrvi a W V TVi a linnnv jrvuug jaui VI. xvwmVj * *. a auo couple had spent their honeymoon in the West and were returning home on the Galena. When the accident occurred the young lady was pinioned in the wreck. Her body was horribly bruised and her skull badly crushed. Her husband was injured about the legs and head. She was brought into a sleeper and the surgeons set about mending her wounds. Portions of the skull had to bs taken out. The bridegroom was stretched out on another seat, two doctors working over him. Every few minutes he jumped up to get a look at his wife. The doctors restrained him by keeping him constantly informed of her condition, but the suspense was too much for him. He jumped up and brushing the doctors aside, folded his arms about the dying woman's form. "She's cold," he cried in despair, and he glanced up for a look of disapproval from the physicians, who stood by. "No, she's living yet," answered one of the doctors. The devotion of the broken hearted husband was touching in the extreme. He refused to be led away, and clung to the side of his unconscious wife, kissing her bleeding lips and urging the doctors on to further efforts. But medical skill proved unavailing. The wife died as the train was slowly rolling into Buffalo. Mr. Baucus is completely prostrated. E. E. Stewart, of Rochester, with his wife and eighteen-months-o!d baby, was in the ilav coach when the crash came. Mr. Stewart was Instantly killed. The baby was uninjured. She was found prattling in the arms of her dead mother, and crying ''Mamma, mamma!" The ladies took her away and th? little child fell asleep. A DEED FOB $22,000,000. A Wealthy Pittsburgor Transfers His : Property to His Son. Ex-Judge Thomas A. Mellon, of Pittsburg, Fenn., aged and feoble, has filed a deed j with the Recorder transferring all his vast j real estate?$22,000,000?to his son, Andrew IV. Mellon. Judge Mellon owned property in almost every ward In Pittsburg and Alleghany. He is said to have had more than 1000 dwelling houses, besides a large amount of unimproved property. The transfer also includes considerable real estate in the far West. The personal property of Judge Mellon is divided among his other children. FRANC0-DAH0MAN WAR. " ? - *>?.;??? tn T.omn Witll I Jilllg v*ieyie Mtim-n His Female Warriors. It has been officially announced in Pari? j that the King of Dahomey, the West African Chief with whom France is now at war, accompanied by his female warriors, had retired to Lama, after remaining at Godomey four days and not daring to attack the French posts The rest of his army remained at Godomey, where it was erecting fortifications. During the the campaign 1000 Daho mans, including a female general, were killed. It was stated that the French captives taken by the Dahomans were safe at "Wbydah. " | prominent'"people, Dn. Knokr, of Germany, has made$l,* 000,000 out of anti-pyrine. John d. Rockefeller, Secretary Tracy and ex-Senator Piatt were schoolfellows. Joseph Biggar, the Irish Home Ruler, left the bulk of his estate to'his son Joseph. Cong-rkssman Axdersox, of Kansas, says T n man in A mor. j xuclx j ay ltouiu is tue ui mau ua *innv? i ica. William D. Ho wells, the novelist, is ! raid to shrink from having his portrait published. Annie Besant, the well-known English Socialist, will shortly make a visit to this country. Chief Jcstice Comets, of Delaware, i3 the possessor of 0 feet 8 inches of stature and a robust intellect. The Order of Commander of the Legion of Honor has been conferred by France upon Perry Belmont, of New York. Chauncey M. Depew is said to travel 500 miles on au average every week. Besides thi*, he takes an annual trip to Europe. Representative Reyburn, of Philadelphia, the successor of William D. Kelley iu Congress, is several times a millionaire. General Benjamin P. Butler is said to be able to quote the Bible more freely and I more accurately than any other man in pub- J lie life. Andrew Lang, the English criti?, seriously discusses the probability of coming to this * 1 ??Me norm.otipnt, home ia country anu uiamug u? New York. Emperor Wii.ltam has conferred upon Lawyer Charles Gibson, of Sr. Louis, the irraail cross of tha Prussian Order of the ltoyal Crown. Edward Burgess, the yacht designer, coutemp'ates delivering, at the National Museum at Washington, an illustrated leo ture on yachts and yachting. Corporal Tanner is said to bo making aD abundance of money in- Washington. He employs a force of twelve clerks and his practice is worth at least ?20,000 a year. Cuarles Emory Smith is the sixth Penqsylvanian in late years to be honored with the Russian mission, his predecessors having I been Messrs. Boker, Curtin, Cameron, Dallas aud Wilkins. Dr. Paul Niemeter, the famoqs lecturer and writer on hygiene, has died in Germany. He aided Miss Nightingale in the editing oi her "Notes on Nursing." He was born in Magdeburg, March 9, 1S32. \ POPULAB SCIENCE. Recent discoveries made by the use olj J the spectroscope show that all the 4 heavenly [bodies appear to be composed 1 of the same chemical elements. rV J The sustaining power of the Fort]^Aj bridge, in Scotland, may be imagined fl from the statement that each cantilever ^ would sustain six of the greatest ironclads. - J- : \ An Austrian meteorologist has ascertained by careful investigation that the moon has a influence on a magnetic needle, varying with its phrases and its declination. A geographical globe for the Shah of Persia is to show the different countries in precious stones. France will be indi-; cated by sapphires, England by rubies,: Russia by diamonds, and so on, while the! seas will be repsesented by emeralds. il ..<? Many salmon of the rivers of Finland . contain copper hooks of peculiar formlj It is now know that these hooks are used; '; in the north of Germany, and that sal-j mon of the Finnish rivers must descend' in winter to the Baltic coasts of Germany.) ^ A portable house of paper, lately con- i structed in Hamburg, for use as a resfnnnnnf Vina rrolla trifU An ifinA? 1 n lauiaut^ iioo noua niiu au impregnated against fire and an outerj one against moisture. The paper iff . fixed in readily-connected frames. The > dining-rooin is ninety feet long. i The international display of scientific , ; progress to be made this year include the Electrical and Industrial Exhibition ' , at Edingburgh and the Exhibition of Botany and Microscopy at Antwerp. At! the latter -will be celebrated the tercentenary of the compound microscope. ' In showing the commercial advantages, of opening up a sea route, through;, jM Yugor Strait to the great Siberian rivers, Captain A. Hovgaard directs attentioaj^H to the fact that the Kara Sea is the on|HH route to the North Pole still left untrieaS^W He elves pood reasons for exDectin<? sue o ? o ?r 9r :'4<Twm cess by this route. fl A florist in London has had the happy: thought of hanging trails of moss over - ). and around the electric lights in his window. Nothing could be more gracefully pretty than their soft environment. The! v green and yellow tints of the delicate! leaves form a lovely veil for the light,' yi which glimmers through them without being diminished. , The eruption of Krakatao, East Indies, . in 1883 destroyed all animal and vegetable life in the sea around it, and covered the coral reef of the shore under* ? a bed of ashes and pumice-stone oversixty feet thick. Nevertheless, a newj shore-reef is now forming on this volcanic * '-< layer, and has already attained the breadth of a metre. In a report on the Kolar gold field of" \ Southern India, B. Smith mentions thefinding of interesting remains of ancient mining, such as' old timbering, frag- " . ments of bones, an oil lamp and pieces; of earthenware. The fact that the old: miners, with their simple appliances^ % onn **nrt viS ICttWUCU uc^tuo vi ?uv VI wv avvk na through hard rock, astonishes him. i ;fl t ft Some of the cuueiusions of science--* would indeed be appalling but for their B practical harmlessness. Thus, the geol- M ogists assert that if the continents and* the bottom of the ocean were gnawed; V down to a uniform level, the whole world would be covered with wat?r"a mile deep, so much greater is the dc?- 9 pression of the ocean bed than the elevation of the existing land. It is remarked that the central portion of a brick for building purposes is of" V little value, and could be left hollow aa well as not where the material is an item to look out for, provided it makes no- M more work for those in the brickyards.' X They are to be -stood on one end, of' M course, to keep rats and other vermin . 9 from making use of the cavities in the I basement. fl The Typical Aunt. j Two elderly ladies, living alone on m Selden avenue, are very proud of a certain five-year-old nephew of theirs, and. Via dniirnt fn Visit them theV X VrJUVUUVWl JJ.W lose their individuality and are his devoted slaves while he remains in the \l house. . The.other day, when he returned horn* I from a morning call upon his relatives, he brought with him as souvenirs of hi* I visit a great paper bag filled with hickory ~ JI nuts, everyone of which had been neatly cracked by their aged fingers, and beside m these he bore a massive, old-fashioned fl solid silver teapot and a heavy cut glass B salt cellar which had happened to please V his infant fancy. He displayed his spoils I to his parents, and his father said to his vB mother after the inspection: "I believe ] those sisters of mine would climb up on H the roof and get down the top brick of I the chimney for the little imp if he hinted that he wanted it." The remark was intended for her ear^^H alcne, but Hopeful caught it neverthe^^B less, and as soon as be had bolted hisdm<^^H ner be put on bis hat, overcoat, tippet,^ I and leggins and started off up street. ? About an hour afterward one of the aunts rushed up to the house in a state of I great excitcment. As soon as she had M caught her breath she explained that "our little boy" had just been to their house, and with tears in his eyes begged for the top brick in the chimney, and J she and her sister feared that the dear child's mind had been affected. "Well, what did you do about it?" the M mother asked, as her tender eyes filled >vith moisture and she bit her lips till I they almost bled. 9 "Do about it? Why, the poor boy cried so for it, and we knew that he couldn't hurt himself with it, that we I opened the scuttle, pulled a ladder up on the roof, and sister went up and got it I for him. We didn't do anything wrong, did we?"?Detroit I'ribunt. Fijinj Fish. fl Tliere is no particular fish callcd the fl flying fish. The name is given to aLL j those fishes which have the pectoral fins] lm I so very large that by means of them they I > are sustained in short seeming flights in fl | the a'r. They are often met with in the H j tropics. At a recent meeting of the I Physiological Society in Berlin, Professor H Mocbius spoke on the movements of the H flying fish through the air. As a result H of a detailed investigation, the speaker, said he had proved that these fish do not H fly, siuce the anatomical arrangements of their fins and muscles ate not adapted toj I this purpose. What really occurs is when really frightened by the approach of a ship or an enemy, they shoot out of I the water, as do so many other fish, and H arc then carried along by the wind. H Upward of 500 horses have recently H been purchased in Australia by the agents fi I of the Indian Government.