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r TIE WEEKL JfH OHIO! TIMS. 1 9 Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture. Politics and the Current News of the Day. .?w. * ? ?~ -? ^ . ? ^ nlmbrr 17. > THE NEWS. Fred Mi-Masters, a stenographer, found in the New York Postollice $30,37.1, which he returned to the owner. All the meu on the Trans Ohio Division of the Baltimore and Ohio have, with exceptions, accepted the new insurance system. Matilda, the fourteen-year-old daughter of James Williams, put rough-on-rati in her parents1 tea and nearly killed them. Ministers Grant and Porter sailed from New York for Bremen. Small-pox is spreading at Nanticoke, Pa. The street-car strike in .Minneapolis is us far from settlement as ever. Trouble is apprehended. Edward E. Little, of Cass county, Michigan, a veteran of tho war of 1812, celebrated his one,bundredth^ *^,Vlay. A. W..Edeii8, a Boston real estate agent, was arrested on the charge of uttering forged deeds of land in Florida. Mrs. France Carmichael, charged with poisoning her bnsha^rdn BJDsflale, Mich., was acquitted. jggTrt- . Patrick Meftmmtiey switchman era/ ployed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, lost his life while saving that of a tenyear-old1 boy. Wm. Gould, a speculator .< in ?11 - *- ?T ? ,u v.., wui.uivwnj ouitiuo in X OTK. The ferryboat New Brunswick, plying between Now York and Jersey City, was do stroyed by firo. James Fields, of Butler, Pa., was shot and killed by his wife. The Great American Tea Company, in Nebraska City, Neb., is in the hands of the sheriff. Governor Francis, of Missouri, has respited John Matthews and Wm, Meker, the bald knobbers, sentenced to be hung. Francis Ebbs, tho colorod mistress of the late James M. Roman, of Louisville, lias boon awarded her lover's property. The challenge cup offered by General Payne, for an international yacht race, has been accepted. William Ryan,'tho notorious Missouri r.iin robber and associate of Jesse James, Las been reletised from tho Missouri penitentiary after Berving eleven yoars. Thomas Doiuinguez, a (Spaniard, nearly cut his wifes head off with a razor, and then cut bis own throat at their homo in Buffalo, N. Y. H. H. Angoll, of Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, committed suicide. Ellsworth White, an insane youth shot and futilly wounded Mrs. J. Kellogg as she was coming out of his mother's house, at Lock wood, N. Y. Tho church trial of M V IJ..?W 1 : ^ u. uusu uii tutu gi-s 01 immoral conduct at Lowville, N. Y., resulted in a verdict of guilty, and the clergyman was expelled from the Methodist ministry. Laura (Jranis, a soventoon-year old girl of , fiinghainton, N. Y., was deceived by a l>iga- j mist ami inado the victim of a mock mar- j riage. The Beet Sugar Company was incorporated at San Francisco, with a capital -of five millions, the Spreckles holding hulf the stock. The Grand Commnndury of ! Amoricn of tho Ancient and Illustrious | Knights of Malta held its fifth annual con- j vocation in Philadelphia. A striko is im- j minent in tho Western Pennsplvania coa[ regions. Ex-Governor John 8. Pillsbury, j of Minnesota, has given tho Minnesota Stale ; University $150,000. John W. Childs & I Co.'s tobacco factory at Lynchburg, Va., , burned. A bill permitting the sale of j pools at exhibitions or fairs or driving park j associations was defeated by tho Penusyl- ' vania House of Delegates. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers will seek to havo tho mills closed down in two nunths during the summer. A natural gas well was struck near | Ilellu Vernon, Pa., which yields forty-million , feet a day. Tho railroad coal miners in . the Pittsburg district havo accepted tho re- I diYition of two and n-half cents por ton in , wages. Captain H. C. Jones of tho j schooner Arthur of Mobilo from Bay Islands, i reports that^Rev. Henry Hobson, his wife and a young girl were murdered by Joseph j Bures at Iluatun. James Cunningham & Co., hardware dealers, of Mobile, Ala., made an assignment. Rock salt has been discovered in K ins is. The Minnesota legislature passe 1 a bill prohibiting tho sale of Chicago and Kansas dressed boef in that state. Pawnee Bill and his three thousand j boomers nro on borders of tho promised ^ land?Ok'ahoinn. General Charles K. Giuliani, ex-surveyor and ex-naval otlicer of | the port of Nt> n York, died at Lakewood, 1 N. J , o." pn< itr onin. Tho pilot boat Enoch Turlcy, of Ph iadolphin, has been given up , for loit, with the live pilots and tho six sea- J men on h >nrd. Tho Everest exploring party started from Winnipeg for tlio Arctic circle. David Lindsey, aged sixty years, of Bridgowater, , Michigan, fatally shot his son. Both were of intemperate hibits. A freight train was wrecked near Belleville, III., by the track linking into tho ground under the weight of the train. Ignutz Ilninitz, the swindler^ who was captured abroad, was brought back to Now York. T. f>\ I/ockwood, a enpi- j tallst of Minneapolis, committed suicide. ' Tho coal-handlors on tho docks nt Cleveland, O., are on a strike. Chnrles F. Hatch, president of the Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pacific Railroad Coin|>any, committed suicide in his office in Minneapolis. Tho Consbohocken Worstel Company, of Ptaila- i d-lphia, made an assignment. A number of buildings fiavo been destroyed by forest fires in Patrick county, Vu Hon. Caleb Boggedd, a noted West Virginia lawyer, is dead. A passenger train struck a farm wagon near Youngstown, O., completely demolishing it and instantly killing Mrs. David Cramer, 0110 of tho occupants. SHOT BY MOONSHINERS. Hcatli ol' One ol'tlie Men Who Aided in tlio Capture ol" a (>mig. |AA?.d, r ?!.-? -Bi ?1.~ u?nr|?n tf UilUtT, IHIU Ul blip iJIIIUtTB Willi, in company with Det etivo lijldwin, on April 2d, ottoinptH to arrest William Moron, tho moonshiner, ami was slict in tho cliin by tho desperado, died from tho effects of bis wound nt Tazewell Court-homo, Vn., on Sunday night. Ho ha I lieon taken to that place after being wounded. I)'tectivo Baldwin and Eugene llohinson, who fcero also wounded in the light with Moran, hnve re\ covered. They are now on the track of another gang that have been selling illicit whiskey in West Virginia And Virginia and defying tho law. Mercer county, W. Vn., n. d Tazewell county, especially around tho coal operations nt Cooper's and Flipping, have teen infested by moonshiners for soino time, and who have Iteen tho catiso of a ^ great deal of trouble about pay-day at tho minis Baldwin and his assistants have sent no less than forty moonshiners to jail and ponitentwry within tho last four weeks, and tho ? coal operators, as well as the citi/.uisof I oeahontns and Brain well, nro very much gratified over tin success Bildwin has mot with, especially in ridding this particular section of this class of despora loes and outlaws. THE SAMOAN DISASTER Particulars About the Wrecking-of Our Ships at Apia. Survivors) firing the Story of th< Groat Calnniity. Tho steamer Alameda arrived in San Francisco bringing advices from Apia, Samoa up to March 30. Tho steamer stopped at the Samoau capital and took off many of tho shipwrecked sailors. Among those who came upon the Alameda were Chief Cadet Robert 8tocker and Cadets Hibbs, Decker, Wells, Cloko, Sackland, LeJmoa nr;i? ? ~ * juiv, iii-.y <iuu i?gan, ana Dr. cordon, all of the Vondalia. Lioutonant Riploy came on tbo Alameda, with thirty men, bat stoppod off at HobolUlu.. Tbo hurricane which coat so many lives at Bamoa began about 2 o'clock on Saturday morning, March 10, and lasted until Sunday at a little after 5 o'clock in the morning. . The Eber, the German vessel, was the first to tie wrecked. She broke up in pieces in a few minutes, only one officer nnci four men being saved. Iler guns, which were of great weight, probably assisted in smashing her so quickly. Shortly afterward the Adler (German) also drifted on the same reef a little further westward. She was lifted high and dry, anil is now lying oil her port side high and dry, only a fow feet*of her side being under water at high tide. In all twenty men were lost from the Adler. The United States steamer Nipsic was the next on the list of casualties. It was observnblo from the shore that sho would not lie able to hold out, Sho was driftiug toward the reef, and at about nine o'clock she headed for tho shore and just touched the joints of the reef with her rudder, which was carried away, together with her stern post, but, by tho skillful management of the captain and officers they succeeded in beaching her on the sand. Great credit is due for the manner in which tho Nipsic was handled, for if sho had gone on the reef a larger number of lives would undoubtedly have been lost. As it is seven men were drowned, but all would have been saved if they had stuck to the ship. Early in the morning the Olga collided with the Nipsic, doing the latter considerable damage,carrying away her smokestack, steam launch, wliafeboat and part of her bulwarks. On account of the smokestack lx.ing broken off the furnaces would not draw to keep a full head of steam on. Excepting for this accident tho Nipsic, which had powerful engines, might have rode out the gale in safety. On Thursday morning tho Ninsic was sue cessrully floated out to her old anchorage. Her propeller is too much injured to be repaired in Samoa, and her rudder is gono. The Vaiulalia was the most unfortunate vessel of the United States Squadron. She drifted, al?out 0 o'clock, near to the Calliopo and the Olga came into collision with botli. The Calliope struck her with great force on the port, doing considerable damage. The Vandalia still continued drifting almost in company with the Calliope, but the latter vessel, having lost nearly all her anchors, put full steam on and went steadily out to sea. The captain of the Vandalia, seeing no hopo of saving his ship, headed her for the shore, and in endoavoring to roach tho sandy beach uufortuual^U', ? ""h,, ,'*"T ?amk boforoshe could beach, within about tifty yards from the stern of the Nipsic. The captain, paymaster, payclerk, lieutenant of marine*; nnd many men were washed overboard. Tho vessel was completely submerged, nnd all hands had to take to tho rigging, where thoy remained until tho Trenton was driven olongsido nbout 8 o'clock in tho night, when most of the oflleers and crow got on the Trenton,excepting Lieutenant Ripley, who jumped into the soa just before the mast gave wny, and with great difficulty swam to tlio shore. Ho then procured a wlialeboat, and, with the aid of Snmoans, got a lino out to tho wreck. Tho loss of lifo in tho Vandalia wero tho commander, three offlcors and thirty-nine seamen nnd marines. Tho Trenton, moan while, was gradually coming closer to tho land. She had licr bridge ports broken in, which left an opening, and tho sea came in great quantities through this opening and the haws? pipe- , getting into the flres. This was unfortunately fatal to the chances of saving tho Admiral i ship. '1 ho engineers wero unable to keep up steam. All hands were ordered to the pumps, whic'i were kept constantly going all (lay. About 3 o'clock the Trenton had drifted down toward the Olfja, which vessel was then about 500 yard j i rem cno reer. j?oi n snips tried to avoid toucuing, but n collison was inevitable. Tli j Olga'sbow struck t>o Trenton on the quarter, opening u largo breach and doing oth.i* dnmage, and the Olga's l?ow was smashed. After the vessels cleared each other tho Trenton drifted still further toward tho reef, and ono time held fairly well to her anchors; but at about 8 o'clock sho dropped down . just cloar of tho reef and on to Alio Vandalia. Tho Trenton's stern was aground. She was broadside on to the sunken vessel, and tho poor fellows who had been on the Vandalia's yard about twelve hours got on to the Trenton, lieing insisted by the Admiral's crew with lines and other contrivances. On Sunday morning boats were busily engaged all day in removing the men from tin shin to tho shore, which was accomplished without accident. All were removed before night. On Monday 2.r>0 Snmoans fromMntaufa's camp und tho men-of-war sailors were working hard all day saving property from tho Trenton, and several Samoans and sailors were also engaged working on the other ships ashore. No lives wore lost. Tho Trenton is a total wreck. Ono of the men was killed early in tho morning of Saturday by being crushed among the timber after tho collision, llis name was Joseph Hewlett, a colored man. Tho Olga, after slipping her cables and gettiug clear of tho Trenton, managed to make headway against the sea for a short time, and hopes were entertained that this vessel, ! the last left afloat in the harbor, would bo ' saved, but within half an hour she was run | into ono of the best positions for beaching iu ! the linrbrti The Ninsie is lif ted up with tho Vandalia's funnel. Her rudder owl stern post are gone, i propeller bent and twisted. The Trenton is hard anil fast on the reef, ller bottom is full of holes and filled with water up to her gun clock. The crews have boon working ton hours daily trying to save | some of tho rigging and personal effects and | stores. The Vandalia is totally lost. Noth; ing can be saved from her. Nearly every clay since the wrecks of tho Herman and American vessels bodies of the drowned are being washed up, greatly decomposed and unrecognizable. | Only forty of our dead sailors' bodies | have been found off Apia. Home of our ' officers and men attended the (lerrunn j memorial service, but not a German was ! present at (he American services. | Admiral Kimbcrly shows that the Trenton | could not have Wen saved, liccause the I badly constructed hawse-holes allowed water ; to pour in and ilood the engine-room, putting out. tho fires. Ho snvs tho Trenton had all steam on, but that her engines were not powerful enough to save her. On the 1 uesday following the disaster divert i roeoveml the safe of the Vnndalia, which contained $40,000. A rumor is current in Apia that the Ad j miral and Consuls are endeavoring to arrange matters between Matnufa and Tain nsese, so as to induce them to return to their homes until after the Hntnoan conference. There were some disgraceful scenes at Apia, it nupoars, after the terrible disaster in tin ! Iiarlxjr on March 1(3. Home of the men rescued from the Ameri can and (lorman war-vessels got dnink, ant 1 t here was a good deal of feeling against tie : German sailors on the part of our men. Captain Fritz, the senior German otflcor [ wliyn asked |p help to teetoro order, bpggtx to bo excused, raying ho was afraid the Americans would attack the German sailors. Ho further requested that the American * officers should take full charge. This was done and tho American sailors were not allowed to approach the lower part - of the town, where the Germans had tneir headquarters. The next great question was how Co get tho news of tlic disaster to America and Europe. Frauk Wilson was sent to Futuiln Island, whore ho boarded the steamer , Mariposa for Auckland, from whence he telegraphed the news. 1 no Calliope took on coal, and Thursday. March 10, after firing thirton guns as a salute to Admiral Kimberly, sailed for Sydney, i Order was generally restored in Apia in a few days. A large force of Samoaus sue- , coeded in hauling off the Nipeic. The Tren- A ton's sailors are temporarily quartered in 1 tents in the middle of tho town. The Van- | dalia's men ore quartered near tho American I Consulate The survivers of the German vessels ore quartered in tho German Trading 1 Company's warehouse. Most of tho merchant vessels in tho harbor at thettaveof theretorm belonged to the Ger (can fleet, wasTTSow&t to loave Trenton, his llog-ship. He said he considered faulty construction of tho Trenton's hawse-pipes as Indirectly the cause of her wreck. Within a few days of the storm a condition M of things resembling order had been brought Pl nlxmt. Tho marines and Mataafa's pouco * ' had been actively at work in this direction. M Tho Germans and Americans hekl mo- D? morial services at different dates for tho dead. At tho German service Admiral Kimberly aim omcr American omcors attended. 01 Only about ono-fourth of tlio bodies liavo ?'l boon recovered. Some of theso were badly mutilated. It was difficult to identify them, Jic cr even to tell tho nationality, and it was finally detenniued to bury all 'at one spot together. A body, thought to bo that of Captain Schooumakcr, was found up tho coast some miles distant from the immediate scene of the disaster. p TRIED TO BEHEAD HIS WIFE. Kl A Spaniard's moody Work?Murder E und Suicide, ar A fearful tragedy was enacted about th seven o'clock in tho morning at Buffalo, to N. Y., in a tonemont occupied by Tboin-.a ja Dominguez, a Sp miard, aged about thirty- gi eight years, his wifo Clarina and their two as littlo children Domingmz hail been out all he night. On his return ho attacked liis wifo ^ with a razor. Tlio house consisted of four to rooms, one lioing used for a kitchen or sitting room, while the other throe wore used pins bed-rooms. From their appearance after jn the crime, it would soom that a fearful struggle cusueil between the husband and tti wife, and that ho must have attacked her almost tho moment he entered tho kitchen bj from tho hall. The woman, it is thought, was standing at the stove cooking breakfast W| when ho sprang upon her with the razor and c,. ! gave tho lirst blow. She must have fought til desperately for her hands, arms, hea 1 and |U face were cut and slashed in many places, but I10 finally obtained tho mastery and ce almost cut her head from her body. th Tho fiend then dragged her down stairs ja nnd throw her out upon the pavement in tho th court, wliero she died, lie then wont back tw and into what may bo called tho front bedroom, from where he could see his wife Wl lying below, almost swimming in her blood. au Standing tliere. he. With the sanm rmmr. mil ? 1, o'oiifit .easily push T><-?Vi i fading close to the window. He must have died Almost instantly. Tlio murderer loft a letter, written iu Spanish, in which he accused his wife of in fidelity and said he had made up his mind to kill her. lie had lately boon in New York, A but returned home n few days ago. MORE APPOINTMENTS. LI th Chicago Gets a Postmaster?A New k? Solicitor of the Treasury. *"e The Presidout has inudo the following ap- W( pointmonts: W. P. Hepburn, of Ic^wa, to be solicitor of the Treasury; Win. 11. Whitotnan, of New w< Mexico, nssociate justice of the Supreme Court of tho Territory of New Mexico; Jos. ^ . * en A. Sexton, postmaster at Chicago, III. r? General Wm. P. Hepburn, who was ap- up pointed solicitor of the Treasury, represented the Kight district of Iowa in Congress for or several terms. lie was born in Columbiana w< county, Ohio, in 18&1, and liegan the study of co law in lti53. In lt>5?) ho was electo 1 prosecu- fe ting attorney of IMarshnll county, Iowa, nnd ju was subsequently elected chief clerk of the o? Iowa House of Representatives. He served Is in the Union army during the war, and at of ono time commanded tho Second Urigado ca ! cavalry division, Sixteenth Army Corps. Ho in I has always been an earnest Republican, and th j was recommended for the solicitorship by the sp I leading men of his party in the state. lo \i. iei.i. ? ! ... ? iui . ?? iiim'iii;iii wns iioiiiinauHi k? misoillce ai during the special session of tlio Senate, but tb i his nomination was not nctod upon. "*tr James A. Sexton, tlio new postmaster at Chicago, is a well known business man of that city, in which ho has lived for twenty i years or more. During the war ho served in j tho Union Army. Ho has been commauder | of tho Illinois department of tho G. A. R. j His business is that of an iron founder, and H I ho is a man of considerable moans. Ho has I always boon an active Republican, but has never baforo held any public ollico of promi| ueuce. His appointnio.it was urged by Sena- in tor Far well, tho Chicago member of tho n< House of Representatives, and various old soldier organisations. w THEIR PLUNDER FOUND. ^ dt Government Officials Charged With ^ Stealing, if The United States Grund Jury has found Ii 25 indictments against William llurnod, ex- ti Special Deputy Collector, II against Herbert F. Heocher, ex-Treasury Agent, 12 against p] Quincy A. Rrooks for stealing from tho ti Government. Records and accounts have j boon thoroughly overhauled nnd presented pj to the (.rand Jury by Government olliciuls j, sent out from Washington to PortTownsend, W. T., by tho department to make investigntions of tho many charges preferred by J(the press and public. 7( Tho records show that vessels havo been overcharged in ontranee and clearance, and ?> by this method vessels were swindled of j,' I small sums amounting to a few dollars each, jj, j which aggregate many thousands dollars per p year. In another part of tho records it was {( I I on ad that a payer was charged in some instances many hundred dollars more than j credited. Tho largest steal discovered was for duties paid on the cargo of the Kritisb bark Maderia, from Liverpool, last June. Duty to tho nmoun . of $7,('SS was paid, and the IJoverinont received $.'>,0-14. Alter this iiarnod was dismissed. Over $12,000 was found in various parts of his office, secreted I under thecarpets, in flower-pots, pigeon-holes I and other plnces The records of the dnily T | receipts during the latter part of Heocber'a ^ time are also missing from tho olllco. j - SACRIFICED HIS SON. . J C A Kolit;ioiis Maniac hi Georgia Offers ti llis Cliilds Idle to tlic Devil. Prince L ?w, a colored man, living on tho v Springfield Plantation, five miles out of h > Savannah,(Ja., killed his llve-yoaf-ol l son as a sacrifice to tho devil. Law Is crazjd on j( religion. A few days ago ho became con- i I voiced that it was Ins duty to kill some v member of Ids family, and hit drove his wife t from home and heat his child to-dealli on v tho doorstep with a piece of scantling. Law ( 1 was arrested uad is a raving maniac in jail. n ^ toiUB w. f^LlCK^r^s PKJUSUTU Thomas WtthorelWPWbner, of D?troit. the >*r Minister to Spain,Was born at Detroit, ich., Jan. 25, 1831; tras educated in the iblic schools, at Thompson's Academy at timer (now St. Chir), Mich., and at the tctaigan University ; is, and has .been a anuractarer and farmer; has servodWo the ?rd of Estimates of Dctriot and as State nator in 1879-80; was elected to the United ates Senate as a Republican, upon the ;hty-flrst joint ballot of the Legislature to cceed the Hon. Thomas W. Ferry, Kepub?n, aud took his seat Deo. 3, 1883. His Ua^L O lOUA fill Ui BUI T ?cc CApnou MMUU Of 10047. ROBBED THE JAIL Ivo Criminals Make a Successful Break from a Salem Institution. Five notorious criminals, Thomas W. ynn, Patrick J. llaaloy, Pelix Golding, I ward A. Den ni son, alias Elias Guthrie, id William Marlow made tbeir esoape from >e jail in Salem, Mass. Tbeir loader seems hare been M&rlow, who had gained the iter's good graces and had the run of the lard-room and the offioe. This morning, is customary on Suudays, services woro ild in tbo jail chapel, where all of the priiiers, unless excused, are supposed to stud. Ono hundred and live prisoners atnded the meeting, and, as usual, I ho night iitcliuian relocked the entrances to the jail oper, having previously tnade a thorough speution of tbe cells t > ascertain if any isoners remained behind, as Is sometimes o case. The mooting opened with singing, followod r pruyer and a sermon by Itev. Charles A. jwne, but wbile the reverend gentleman is trying to persuado tbe prisoners to acpt salvation, Marlow was at work liberaig his four companions, who escaped with in. From what can be learned the Ave tui were under the Inula in their respective lis, and as soon as Marlow gave the- signal ey crawled out and wore speedily out of il. before leaving the jail tue ineu entered o office, pried open tbe safe, took $200 s::d 'O 45-dtllhru -"-I 1 ,7".?w ami ctj'i'i Kjin inw.i me clothing which wo* bitugio^ from the ill. Their ?Kc.ipo wu not discovered uu.il THE EARTH CAVED IN. Freight Train Wrecked hjr tbe Col lapse of a. Coal Mine. _ A. bad wreck occurred on tbe Cairo Short ne, a mile from Bdleville, Mo., at 1.40 In e morning, the train being a freight, >und east, John Hawkins, oonductor, and itrick Tobin, engineer. Without any irning the ground begin to sink beneath e engine, and tbe engineer and flreman mped and esciped with a few bruises, le Walnut Valley Company's coal mine is underneath, and the ground had Bunk am six to eight feet for a distance of about feet in length by 10 feet in width. Tno gino and live Ik>x cars were still on the ils, but the thirteen other cart were piled > in confusion. From beneath the pile came agonizing h s, neighboring farmers and miners after arking two hours dux out from under the al ana debris Sam I'atton, a brake man, arfully bruised from bead to foot and inred internally. Brakeinan Pat Brown reived severe cutb^n the back, but not though? to b.i seriously injure.!. * Two the overturned coal cars with their loads .ughf flroand wero burned, tho hlazo iliumating tho sky for miles around. Twelve it cars loaded with coal were r 'duoed to linters and tho contents of one box-oar atlod with boots and shoes, boxes of egg8 id other merchandise were scattered along le track. The wreck was cleared and a ack built around the depression. WHY THE TRENTON SUNK. .cr Engines Wore at Fait, Not Her Hawttu Pipes, an Expert Hays. Naval Constructor Hicbborn, who is act" g chief of the construction Bureau, does >t credit the report that the flres of tho ronton were extinguished by tho floods of ater that came in through the hawse-pipi-s. e says that tho9e pipes, through which the ichor cables run, were placed on tho berth ick in order to allow tno heavy forward in to bo worked, flic jpfleofc-'-^e to make 10 vessel ride at anchor 'itiuilTeasily than they had lieen plnced on tho upper deck, i a heavy sea water would come through leui mid complaint had been made that they *pt the deck wet. Still, they were furnished ith rubber-packed bucklers which, ii apliod. woulil iniike tho pipes nearly wuterght, and Captain Hicuborn says it is enrely incredible that enough water should avo come through to extinguish the lires. ndoubtedly the cause of her wreck was isutliceent engino power. Tho English ship Calliope, which escaped y the bare margin of half a knot an hour > windward, bad 3,000 horsepower to 2,X) tons displacement. Tho Trenton bad ,100 horse-power, but her tounage was 3,X). This gave her about three-fourths of a orse-power per ton, while the English boat ad about one end one-fourth horsepower r ton, and the margin was just sufficient > save the vessel AKW1L LXFLUK/U1UIV 'ho Kvcrent I'artv leaves WinnipRfl FOP the fArNurtb, __ ^ A despatch from Vnhnepig, *L?o., says:? bo Everest exploring party bas left for th< irctic circle. Tbe party consists of five am s bonded by A. W. Everest, tlie wealth] roprietor of a largo slock farm. They g< roin hero to Calgary, tbenoe across tb< ountry to Edmonton, and ttasy will descent lie Muckenzio Itiver until tbe Arctic Ocwot i reached, and at tbe moutb of that rivoi liey intern 1 to bull I a tpsscI with which the] r.11 try to round Capo Barrow, a feat tba as i?een but rarely p Tforined. "Tlioy hrtvn deposited ttO.OOO with th< ludson Bay Company here, and thecompani i placing all Its resources at tbelr dbposal 'hoy are also taking an elaborate stock o rares to barter to the native*. They fen hey will meet with hostile Esquimaux inth Jcinity of Cape Barrow, nn<l are makini revisions for plaoating them by the* isans," . ' i il . ^ . in? i u > iiH SOUTHERN ITEMS. INTRRISTINQ NEWS COMPILED FROM MANY SOU ROE 4. ??A military company is to be formed al Middleboume, W. V?. The West Virginia Educational Assoc! ation will moot at Morgautowu July 9th. ?The recent hailstorm did great dnmngt to tho trucking interests about Norfolk, Va ?The Liberty, Va. woolen mill ha? beei sold to Mr. William H. McGhee for $17,000 ??In Swain county, N. C., Joe Pholix cu off the head of his throe yoar-old son in i temporary flt of insauity. The r.sidence of J. P. Fell, in Frank fort,Qreenbrior county, W. Va., was burner last week. The loss is $1,509. Roanoke, Va., it to hare a new open .house to cost $30,000. It has already beet leased for a terra of five years. ?For the three months ending April Is1 the dsshasuttuu of property by fir* in Nor folk. Va. amounts to f The Middle Island Tic Company, of W Va , will run one hundred thousand ties out of Middle Island Creek this spring. Andrew McDonoinrh. n rnnl miner ?i Slater, Fayette county, W. Vu., was caught by a fall of slate a few days ago ond badly injured. There havo been fifty casos of measles in Fleas mt District, Preston county, W. Vs. but only one deatli bus occurred from the disease so far. A procession of gipsies pnssod through Wheeling, W. Vo., on their way to Ohio, ond wore visited by a largo uumbcr ol curious citizeus. The proposition to subscrib?>eixty thousand dollars to the Weston and. Elk Rivei Railroad was enrriod in Braxton county, W. Va., by an overwhelming majority. ??A three-year-old Iwiy of Mr. Joseph Custer, residing near Murtinshurg, W. Va., while playing around a spring near the bouse, fell in and was drowned boforo being discovered. During a row at Ben wood, W. Va., Wil liain Littleton struck Joseph Smith with a coupling pin several times over the bead, and would have killed him had not a trainman gjno to his rescue. A hen belonging to Mr. Harness, of Moorefleld, W. Vn., laid a curiosity in the egg line. It consisted of two perfectly formed eggs, joined nt the snmll ouds by a cord about half an inch long. The dwelling of Wm. H. Meyers, near Vanclenisvlllo Htatinn, \V. Va , Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was destroyed by lire, caught from a defective ilue. As there is no insurance, the loss falls heavily ou Mr. Meyers, who is very poor. O. L. Ewing threw a largo quantity ol ponder in the lire-place of his house at Fayettevillo, W.Vo., thinking there was no lire burning. The powder ignite I, und he wus terribly burned about the fuce and head. A band of Fayette county, Fa., outlaws are commuting depredations in Preston county, W. Va., creating considerable ex citemont in tho neighborhood. The outlaws threaten vengeance on any 0110 who may inform on them. Tho Interstate Fencing Company has been incorporated at llagerstown, Md., Ir Messrs. P. M. Mishler, A. CarboLt, Alexander Hagner, Ojorgo. A. Davis und J. D. Main, cap! al stock $100,000. rains have rotted the March planting. The crop on the highlands escaped. A fourteen-year-old youth by the name of Coleiuun, was soverly Hogged no?r Pultorbod's Mill, in Bedford county, Va., a few dayt ago by a party of iimske i men. Ho wm playing the devoted to a young woman against bis parents' wishes. - Farmers at Nansomond, Va., report themselves financially ruined ; lately planted crops a total loss, fields covered with saml and mud, damage to barn and houses dread ful, bridges and fences gone, ami roads blockaded and impassable iu every direction. At four o'clock In tho afternoon tin dwelling housoof Mr. U.B. Taintor,u wealthy farmer near Quantico, Md., was completely destroyed by tire. The lire originated frott a spark flying on tho roof anil igniting thi cltin .Iuj Tj?onlu?.tMlllia.i..?..r?n?,.ei >>IMI It is reported fit ltockvillo, Mil., that tin asbestos mine three miles west of that plact will in a short time, bo rooponeil and oxtcu sirely worked by a compAny of Washingtoi capitalists, wlio have employed Mr. John 8 Bounce, of Georgetown, D. C., to manage it At a meeting of the board of countj commissioners for Allegany county, Md. tin following oiHcer8 were elected for the onsu log yoar. Treasurer, Dtfniel Taunan, col lectors, Jesse llobinctte, J'honms S, Kean John L. Porter, Daniel O'Honloy ant (Stephen Fuller. Active steps are being taken for the cole bration at Fayetteville, N. C., of the 2lst o Novemlier next, being the centennial mini versary of tho ratification by North Carolitu of tho federal constitution, a call havinj been issued for a mooting to take place ii that city to consider the matter. Mrs. P. L. Grasty, a well-known lady o Danville, Va., seperat. d from her husbam some time ago, was found in tier bouse alone kneeling by her bedside dead. An empt; bottle which had contained chloral was founi in an adjoining room. It is brliuvod she un intentionally look an overdose to indue sleep. The phosphate mill in Itileigh, N. C are to be enlarged and otherwise improve! as the company is crowded with order Eighty men nro omuloyed?GO at Cast Magu*, New Hanover county, where tl phosphate rock is quarried, and 2 ) at tl mills at Ilaleigb. Another largo cyclo.i crusher lias just boon placed in position. During tho recent gale, Portsmouth, nurrow island, near Ocracoko In lot, in N.'.C was submerged, drowning cattle, sheep an hogs. The water ros> to many feet in tli houses, and there was great destruction c | property. Tho inhabitants took to the house I tops, remaining thero until tho storm we over. Great suffering was experienced, bi j no lives were lost. Tho matter of a local option olection I Raleigh. N. C.,*next Juno, still hangs lir j Too Prohibitionists have asked for an e: | tension of time, within which to procul j names on the several petitions. Much 11101 i difficulty than was anticipate 1 has been oj j periencod in this respoct, but it is sti I thought a sufficient number of signatun will be obtained to justify the call. ?rA bod froignt wrecK occurred at tho F M. and P. Junction, a inilo westof Fuirmom W. Va. The "pick-up" ongino ff'JJ lay o tno switch at tho junction, mid while a tempting to hack ont > tho inaiu track, co tided with tho way train engine ti-25. Th caboose and two cars of tbo "pick up" wei piled on each other, and tho ongino of tb way train badly damaged. The track wi blocked for several hours. . ??At Salisbury, Md., flro broke out in tl cigar and liquor storo of Joseph Bonnet corner Mill and West Church, street., ar completely detroyod the building, along wii , the house adjoining. Th < origin of tho ff ' is unknown. The night?atchman firstga' ' the alarm, and stated that, he was first a 1 tracted by an explosion. When he wont j tiie door the whole place was ablaze. Tl house and stock are iusurod. 8 j ?A deplorable affair is reported fro , Transylvania county,?N. C. Six wlnto m r went to the home of Joali Henderson, j negro desperado, with tbe'intention of carr t ing Ijim into tho woods and sevorly punis ing him for some of his o(Tenses, The m< a ovorpowered him and w ro carrying hi j into the woods when they were fired upon I Henderson's friends who were Ferreted 1 ambush. By mistake tho negro was shot ai r /ell to the ground with a groan. Tl e men ran and two of them recoived hi ^ wounds. W. T. Blackwood wnssliot throuj u the shoulder and Will Johnson recoived tv pistol shots In bis leg. u FBOI ffASEIRGTOH. I ??-?- . t Happening's of Interest at th Capitol. , Governor Robinson Declines?Darr? by lho Contract Iiabor Ijnw?It? i liel'lorllio Men a( rinnioa. t ? Governor Robinson, of Massachusetts, or of t he commissioners to negotiate with tl j Cherokee Indians for the cessions of lunds i the Indian Territory to the United States k called on the President and informed hti i that ho could not possibly servo on tho con mission. Tho President acoep:ed Governc I llobinson's dccliuation with regret. Tho di - partsrvol th* ownmiwion to tbe Oberokt country will bo delayed by this declinatioi but steps have boon taken to till the vacanc I at once, so us to cause as little delay as poi (ible. ' Commissioner Taimtr n?k IiuIuIkoiic Commissioner Tanner, of tho I'ension IU reau, received during the llrst week in th 1 present month <10,871 loiters nn<l other plow of mail matter pertaining to tho business e ' his ollloe, and last week he received 09.0(1 pieces. Tho commissioner desires this far > made public as a general explanation of dc , lays in answering correspondence fror f llrand Army men and others having personc Interest in |>ension cases now ponding in th oflice. . IIo bespeaks tho indulgence of coi respondents until the present burden of th t work shnll have been disposed of. Tho Coir ' missioner is making every eiTort in hi power to expedite tho work of his olllco an to bring it up to date at tho earliest possibl ' day. narrctl by tlio Coutraot balxir haw. Assistant Secretary Tichener, of tho Treas i ury Department, sent a letter toT. O. ilagut i of New York, in responso to an inquiry fror tho latter for his vlows as to whether th the transfer by manufacturers from any foi 1 sign country to the United States of thel , plant, machinery, workmen or interest, o any |M>rtion of thotn, with a view to permn k nent settlement in tho United States, woiih in any way eonlliet with tho statutes relat ing to alien contract labor; and also whcthui machinery that had already used would b 1 entitled to freo entry. Colonel Tichune states jn reply that the law exempting per ' tonal etroets from enstom duty expressly pro vides that ''tins exemption shall not be eon itrned to include machinery or other article imported for any manufacturing establish nient or for sale." Tho alien contract labo 1 law, ho further states, will not (tormit of th ? | sntry of tho workman referred to. The Point Harrow Relief .Station. The plans of tlio Government for est iblisl ing tlie Point Barrow Succor Station foi whaling vessels, for which Congress npprc printed # 15,000, will prohahly bo settled till week. In a general way it is promised t< liny at San Francisco provisions, coal and i house already built, but which can bo take apart and put together again and trauspor them to Point Barrow, together with sucl man or men as ore wanted to take caro o for these various expenses is left, hnwevB? to the Revenue Marine Division, subject t the opproral of the Secretary of the Trent ury. ltoliel' for the Men at Samoa. Lieutenant John C. Wilson,of the Vandalit lias telegraphed to the Navy Departmen from Syndey that ho has clinrtere I th steamer Kockton lor tliojpurposeof transport ing the shipwrecked sailors to the Unito Kitties. The Kockton is duo in Sail Frai cisco on tho 10th of May. Department Notes. The following named post-office Inspectoi on mail depredations have liecti remove) Jamei K Alexander, Atlanta,'(laJames I Grilfin, Atlanta. Ga. nnd Itomiis F. Stnnr Chicago. Lewis l.#ewbcrger, of Indimii jmst-oflleo inspector in the money-order se vice, has resigned. Francis M. (lour, < Mississippi, and (leorge W. Deathernge, i St. Louis, post ollice inspeetor 011 ninUdopr dm ions, linve also resignod. Theodore Smith, of New York, a specii examiner in tlie post-ollic.', who resigned Ini Summer, has I.? !? reinstated. Tho commissions of the following-name postmasters who were nominated by Pros dent Cleveland and confirmed bv tho Sena i February 3S, 1SS9, woro signed by Presidet Harrison: Miss Mary S. Tliotiipkins, t Willlamston, Mich.; I/orov L. Brinkley, i t Eilonton, N. O., and Miss Delia M. Barrow at Hinsdale N. If. " Robert \V. Ross, of Illinois, tho record* * of the General Land Office, nnd Virgil I\ ? Hobbs, of Indiana, Chief of the Conte 1 Division in. the General Laud Office, hat resigned. ' Ten additional clerks, making twenty I ^ all, will I e detailed from the different divi ' ions in tho Post-ofllco Department to farii V applications ami other najssrs relating to n| 1 pointments. If this force is found to 1 - insulllciont to spccdly bring the work up i e date further details will bo made. i HE DROPPED LIKE A BAL io A Leap from a Famous High Uriel 10 Into tlio Kentucky Biver. Meredith Stanley, of Cinciiinuti, (J., a wc n known athlete anil bridge jumper, who h 'J challenged Brodio of New York, made t ie most remarkable leap on record. It was fr< ?f the famous high bridge on the (Jinoinna s* Southern Railroad over she Kentucky rive '8 The b'-iglit is S?J5 feet. Ho s.dectod a pla it where the water was twelve feet deep,attir in silk tights and slippers lo ipj l into tho a: in and doubling up his body like a ball, full j, water, and a uioinont later bounded to t k- surface, where lie was quickly seized i?y ro slstauts In a boat. lie coughed I>Ick> I a lit ro while, hut soon recovered and took the tru ( for Cincinnati. He says the fo.it is done U knowing how, anil hyperfect solf-confidoni JS He escaped without breaking the skin, u feels as well as ever. This bribge is the hi| , est in the world except one. t, ii. i- THE SAMOAN CONFERENCE. iie e Who Tlio Gorman and Rni(ligh Rr rcsentat Ives arc. /' j w "Tho Berlin Pout" says that the Hat Jo Conference will open on May I. The G t, man defecates are Count Herbert Bisinar i<J and Dr. Krauel, 1'rivy Councillor of Lof tion, of the Foreign Ollico. Count Herbi ro will preside. t. Kir E I ward Ii. Mnlot, British Ambassod l0 at Berlin, will represent England at 1 l,e Kainoau Conference. Ho will b? assist by two off! Mais from tho Foreign OIRoe. "The Cologne dazette" says: "The nor h nation of Mr. Sewall ns disbursing officer mi the Ainericin Commissioners to the Kamc a Confer nice, together with tho appointmi y. of Mr. Bates as a member of the Coium h sion, warrants the supposition that I it Washington Government does nov seriou in desire a I riondly settlement of the quest! >y coiicetning Kainoa." in ?? 1(1 l,e Mrs. J. F. Hart, of Brookline, Mass., v 1(| was so badly scalded in the accident on .h KantaFeand California Itailroail, near Jol Vo HI., died in tho hospital in Chicago^ 1 other wouudod ore rseovwiug. STRIKE POR FREEDOM. G Oh, slavo of the cup, say how long will you 2pi kneel; Tho yoke on your nock, tho chain on your Jicel, Tho stripes on your l>ack, tho dust on your d lip*, * And body nnd soul In tho darkest eclipse? Do you breathe tho free air, Is this a free land, Whore you kiss the red rod in tho Bacchanal's 10 hand? Will you oringo to the men who stAnd by the bowl, 11 When giving tho stripes without stars on tho I, soul? 11 Will you go to the altar of freedom, and then, ?r biko the craven, bow to tho merciless men Who'd ohuiu you and sell you as did Judas of ** When'SiM, for pieces of siTvor, bis Master ~ y sold? *" Will you Ik> a slave on American soil, And leave in saloons tho hard earnings of toil; Will you blot out the stars on tho flag of tho free l" And Ik> scourged by its stripes on tho suppliant ? knee? a 'i ?y mi your nocic neatu tno reet or the tyrant t) you fear, t Give your money and life to Gambrinus and i- boor? 11 No! Arise and be free in u land that is free! d Let your appetites drawn liko the swine in a tno son. e The spirits you drink aro the spirits of wine; i- Not chnnRed from tlio water ny wisdom diis vine; ,1 Hut liko demons of evil that entered the o swine. Now let your motto Ikj: "Freedom is mine!" ?O. H. lUiuucv, ?n National Advent*. WANAKXKRR ON"TKMI'KRANCK. Postmaster-General Wnnanmker recently made a very effective sjieocli in favor of ,J tein|>eranoo to his Sunday-school scholars in e Philadelphia. Among other things he said: "The man who will not sign a temperance r nlodge, though he does not. need it himself, to r help a weaker brother is not as much of a man ns he thinks himself to lie. Christ said: j 'Deny yoursolvec. Take up your cross and r follow Me.' Tliore is 110 need to lie drunk to r be under the influence of wine. The man who n tnkos only n little ami will not give it up Is r us much eontroled by it as If I10 was an habitual drunkard, lie is under the influy. enco because bo won't give it up. What's the reason you won't stand out for the n amendment? Because you like a glass of lieer. You sov: '1 want, to lie free to tnkn r an occasional drink if I fool liko it.' Isn't it 0 tlio influence of t ho glass of liwrf There aro thousands of men in thiH city who do not. Ret drunk. Thoy say: 'Wo have the right to drink it if wo want to; to sell it, to buy it or to givo it away.' l- "A man may not drink it atoll. but hemny ho under the influence of tho liquor spirit. Ho will say: 'I am a temperance man, hut I H am in business, and the liquor jieople deal 0 with me, so I won't soy anything against it.' ri Now, what influent is ho under? It's tho ? sanio with many a p< >1 it ician. He's afraid he 6 won't get votes, so he is silent on the liquor l, question. When a minister or a teacher ref fuses to speak out on this question ho 1* ruled ^houhI^^?,,_StC2^^er oo twth x it in tho harness of high nodB4? Jusf. AfttnA saloon koe)ier must answer for ovory glass of Ihiuor ho soils, so wo must nnswer for voting for liquor. It is simply a question of whether or not wo aro in favor of the saloon. It Isn't t a question of high license. Tho quibble that ,t prohihitioiv doesn't, prohibit has nothing to do l(, with it. Tho law against scaling does not t,_ prevent stealing. Tho samo power that puts 1 tho amendment on our Constitution wifiattend to tho enforcement of tho law. It is our duty to make it as difficult to got liquor as it is to get jsjison." ALCOHOLISM IN KIIANCE. .g i The consumption of alcohol in Franco has |. Iieen made the subject of a rojxirt drawn up l" by the French soiintorinl committee. J'Vom j.' this document it appears that since the inva,' sion of tho phylloxera spirits have been r'_ largely substituted for wino as a stimulant with tho French peo))le, tho spirits most used ,tf l>oing, moreover, no longer distilled from e_ wine, ns formerly, hut from |K?tatocs, plums. apples and pears. Tho alcohol thus obtained ,,1 is, it seems, extremely deleterious, and to its use is osrrilicd the doolorablo increase of suicide, criminality and insanity in districts v where these drinks are most in vogue. Inij pure alcohol, in fact, is known to lie inost detrimental to tho public health, and medical '? testimony proves that tho spirit, drinkers of 'j Paris and other districts in Fmnco not only suffer from nervous-and other diseases, hut that their children are linble to epilepsy, inS, Lunilv mill hvcldl-iu Nnrnmnilir whi.rn t.ha consumption of impure alcohol is very large, *r is noted, it appears, for the high death rate " of infanta, while the proportion of suicides st from driuK there constitutes fi'2 j?er cent, of ro the number. The senatorial committee strongly recommends the abolition of private distillation and the prohibition of the sale of ' all spirituous liquors which are dangerous to Rf health, and insists that all alcoholic products I** shall pass through rectifying establishments. ; This recommendation ought certainly not to 1? be neglected.?London Standard. A RISING TIDK KOK TEMPERANCE. There can I mi no question that, as the years f go on, there is a rising tido for temperance and for prohibition The numltcr of people who believe liquor selling n sin and a crime is on the increase, and so is the number who K? have resolved that it must lie stopped. The i saloon and the saloon keeper are regarded ,11. ) with ail increased abhorrence, and the business j is gradually passing into the hands of the j lowest class nearly all of them foreigners, bo | aud men who will never leave it except on. >m compulsion. And this compulsion mignt to | receive a new impulse at tbo niuniciiial elections now near at hand. Many of our cities " I can 1>? carried for prohibition, if the friends ? 1 of temjKrance will organize and put in the !_ j hard work that has secured a no vote in Oani' bridge, Komervillo and elsew'nere.?Congreho nationalist. as- ; " ..... tlu .?r?,Mn?n?n0?BU?u.?, k'n Tho saloon must have boys, or It ir.ost shut >y up shop. nii So"th Africa has n Woman's Christian . Temperance Union composed of natives. An Inebriate Homo for Women has recently l?een opened in tho north of Ixmdon. Mr. D. H. Burweil, of Allegheny City, Penn., recently did a week's campaigning for ' the amendment nt Erie, under tho auspices of the W. C. T. U. It is stated that 8000 persons signed tho pledge, nearly all of whom !P- were men and ooys. Pour hundred young , men signed after one meeting, an To throw a bomb, to set a house on Are, to er. wreck a railroad train, are inconsiderable . offenses compared to the deeds of the men who have introduced into millions of homes 5a- poverty, wretchedness, ignorance, crime and srt 1 death. How long, asks Ztoti's Herald, will a : Christian public tolerate such criminals lor I i''1-04"15, he I Miss Prances K. Willard and Miss Anna ,>d j Gordon left Chicago recently for a six weeks' : trip in the South, during which time they n|. will Attend the annual W. C. T. U. Convenof I tions and visit the leading cities in Georgia, Kin flouth Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Missismt sippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Indian lB_ Territory, returning by way of St. Louis the "arly "*?ysly Hev. Dr. Daniel Dorchester, in the Indeioa pendent, compares the cost of pauperism in 1 three cities and two largo towns at periods 1 twenty years Apart, the flint being a period 1 of prohibition and she second of license. He "h0 shows that In these Ave municipalities ih twenty years the increase in cost of pauper!?L ism under license average*! 4fiQ per cent, over ho . the cost under prohibition, the average increase in population being but 77 per cent.