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ESTABLISHED EST 18' INSANE IN A BOAT AT SEA. WHALERS, ADRIFT. BECOME DELIRI OUS FOR WANT OF FOOD. One Having aianirvc Tied by His Compan ion*?Terrible Suspense When Teasels Passed Within Sight but Failed to Hear Their Cries. The steamer Advance, of the United States and Brazil line, which arrived in Hew York recently, brought into port six shipwrecked whalers who had been found at sea in an open boat De cember 30, by Captain McNeil, of the British steamer County Clare. Their names are John P. Pararo. third mate; Alexander 6. Wood, boatsteerer; Man uel Hormen, Antonia Perrira, Law rence Irodrovener and Antonia'Manuel Lima, seamen. Alexander Wood, the boatsteerer, is a negro, born in Connec ticut, and is the only one who talks English fluently. His shipmates are Italians. He said that they had sailed on the whaling schooner Mary E. Sim mons, from New Bedford some months ago for the whaling grounds off the coast of south America. When about one hundred miles to the eastward of Pernambuco, on .November 29, a school of whales was sighted. The first and second mates lowered away, the former taking the third mates boat, his own having been stove in on a former occasion. In a short time both boats had made fast to a whale. From the deck of the schooner, the work of the two crews could be seen, and there being other whales in sight the third mate ordered the spare boat to be lowered. She was without water or provisions, and it was late in the af ternoon when a start was made. A big spouter was selected for capture by the third officer, and when near enough the boatsteerer sent his harpoon into the back of tho victim. He proved to be a fighting whale of tremendous size. At the first stroke of the harpoon he "sounded," or dived. Line was paid out and when he rose to the surface a strong pull was made to get alongside of him and the lance in the hands of the third officer was plunged into his aide. Then the whale "fluked" and lifted the boat, men and all, out of the water, When they came down the boat had been overturned and with great diu> culty it was righted. The whale was dead and lay on the surface a haamless mass of untried blubber, alongside which the men hauled their boat, which was stove and waterlogged. By this time it was nearly sunset and the schooner was nowhere to. be seen. Shortly before dark the sail of one of their own boats was seen and the wrecked men yelled and shouted to at tract attention. Their cries were not heard and night coming on all hands were obliged to sit on oars lashed across the boat's gunwale, with their legs dangling in the water. After dark the lifjbtn i*i ftpQ aohinnnrr fiPUhi >*? >?? plainly, biit too far'off to windward to allow a hail'to be heard. The next morning another schooner was sighted standing toward them, and a man's shirt was lashed to a boat-hoot and waved aloft. The schooner tacked three times within eight or ten miles of them, and at last squared away and was soon out of sight. >v*<iaknes3 from want of water and food and exposure, added to the disappointment when this schooner sailed away, made the men almost desperate. Shortly afterwards another vessel hove in sight and hope was renewed. Frantic waving of the signal on the boat-hook failed to at tract attention, and again a feeling of despair came over them. During the day seven sails were seen, and all passed on their way without noticing tho suffering men. When night again fell, seaman Lima had be come delirious and raved wildly. His shipmates were compelled to tie him with the boat's painter to prevent his jumping into tho^ea. All night the men were forced to listen to the rav ings of the delirious man, but as sea man Wood said, "it seemed to distract our minds from our own sufferings." The third day passed and ?tili no signs of help, and the men were tortured with thirst and hunger. On the morn ing of the fourth day, November 3, two more vessels passed by. At 11 A. M. a stearcer was made out coining directly towards them. She saw them at noon, and the six exhausted, starved and al most crazy seamen were taken on board the County Clare. Every kindness was shown them, but It was some time be fore they recovered their strength. They were taken into Pernambuco whence the American Consul sent them home on the Advance. The schooner Mary E..Simmons be longs to L. Snow & Son, of New Bed ford, at which port her men were ship Eed. When the Advance left Pernam uco the schooner was still at sea, prob ably engaged in a seach for the missing crew. The Italian bark Fiducio, which ar rived yesterday from Smyrna, had on board Captain Filippo and twelve men of the Park Pietro, abandoned at sea on November 12 off the Maderia Islands. Captain Filippo left Marseilles, bound for Bunos Ayers, October 22, with a general cargo. On November 12, when off Marderia. a terrific gale struck the bark, and all her canvass, was blown from the bolt ropes and several of the yards carried away. The ship com menced to leak, and the crew gave themsalves up for lost, when on the evening of that day the Fiducio hove in sight and a boat was got overboard. When they left the ship Captain Filip po said there was eight feet of water in the hold and she was fast sinking. The Fiducio lay by the wreck for two hours, when she went down. She was 524 tons register, built at Castollaniore, It aly, in 1870, and owned by Marizie & Co., of Genoa. Captain Filippo and crew will be ?ent home by the Italian Consul. U<ni.so> Swallowed Up by the Earth. SiiEXANDOAir, Pa., January 7? A cave occurred at Boston Bun, near Mahoney city, to-day, and a block of houses went down out.of sight. The families living in the houses made a narrow escape. The surface is still caving, and five more blocks are ex pected to go down. 79. ORJ A NARROW ESCAPE FOR AIKEN. Vonr Sfcoxaa Burned Down and two others Damttged by Fire. Aikek, January. 10.?-A serious fire took place here to-day on Main street. It occurred about 11.30 o'clock, when all the different congregations were at their respective churches. The bell at the town hall gave the first alarm, and very soon throngs of citizens crowded the streets. The fire took place in the store of W. J. Mosely, Sr., and soon spread rapidly. It appears that during yesterday s severe gale a portion of the chimney attached to Mosely's store was blown down. He did not know of this accident and last night built a fire as usual. Ia the night the fire must have caught and smouldered until to day and broke out at 11.30 A. M. The Aiken steam engine was out soon after the alarm of fire, but in consequence of the extreme severity of the weather was all frozen ud and could not get to work until the fire had been under way over "three-quarters of an hour. Our fire company and the citizens worked bravely, and it is tine to their exertions that at least cue-half of the business portion of the town was not burnt up. Help was asked from Augusta, and soon a special train brought over an engine and hose carriage with a full eompieraent of men. This aid arrived too late to be of much avail, but was dnly appreciated by our people, and in i the event of a general conflagration, which we feared, would have enabled us to save much property. The following stores were totally de Btroyed : . F.. B. Henderson, ? W. J. Moseley and John 2$. Heriot. The stores of Robt. Powell and C. K. Hen derson were damaged. The insurance on the property destroyed and damaged was ?38,400. The total loss will not exceed $20,000. The losses are only partial, on account of removal, on all except F. B. Henderson, ^Y. J. Moseley, Sr., Ii. W. Moseley and J. B. Heriot During the fire an explosion o? pow der in one of the stores injurld Jeff Ganey, colored, probably seriously, John Ganey, his brother, painfully, and Bradley Ott, white, slightly. "We nave had a narrow escape from a geueral conflagration. Too .muclr> praise cannbt be accorded to .Engineer Turnbull and the Aiken fire company and the citizens generally for their noble work to-day in'saving the town of Aiken from complete devastation. ' THE CIRCUS SALE. ? ? ? ? . Giles' Circus Sold Out In Monroe. Monroe, Ga., Jan. 7.?The sale of Giles' circus here brought to this little place many of the most: distinguish circus men in the country, among them A. J. Forepaugh. Louis Sells, ^V. \V. Cole and Jack Robinson. The circus started out from Chetopa, Kansas, in April, carrying a mortgage, and reach ing here in December was unable to carry tho load further, and the animals rM^re^m?ftd^ oi><??^B^oowi?ufflccfyTiYtrr no experienc#,in"handling animals, a?d their treatment of elephants, lions anj like animals was unique. At the sale the bidding was not livelj E. R. Camp bell, of Chicago, bought a 85,000 ele phant for'Sl,300. Forepaugh bought the two lions for S400. Campbell bought two camels for. $325. During the sale the elephant broke loose and scattered the crowd, knocking many peopledown. The big lion escaped from the box, but was whipped back by the keeper. The animals will be shipped to St. Louis to-night. _ A Thief In a Tight Place. Monday night Leander Smith planned to rob the store of Robert Pugh & Co, about nine miles from here. He climb ed to the roof, took off all his clothes and then tried to slip down the chim ney. In doing so he loosened a brick, which fell down into Mr. Pugh's cham ber underneath. Mrs. Pugh, alarmed, got up, and as the night was cold placed a match in the fireplace, which was filled with lightwood ready for kindling. Smith had in the meantime got half way down the chimney, and there he stuck fast. He was unable to get out. The harder he struggled the tighter he was wedged in. Smoke from the :3re underneath began to ascend which made the condition unbearable. Thoroughly alarmed, he yelled loudly for help. His cries brought the whole town out. A windlass was procured, and by daybreak, after enduring much suffering, he was pulled out and land ed in jail.?Wilmington Star. An Old Lady Burned to Death. . Mrs. J. P. Keller, mother of Judge Kel ler, or* New Orleans, was burned to death on Tuesday while sitting alone in her room. She was an invalid, sixty-eight, years of age, paralyzed in the left side and unable to - talk. :She was stirring the coal fire in' tho grate, when the basket fell out and the lire ignited her dress on /the right side.'. The flames quickly enveloped her person. Her left drm being useless she was unable to make even an elTort to extinguish the. fire, and, being unable to speak, could not call for help. She was found in the room with her lower limbs almost en tirely consumed, but still alive. The chair in which she had sat had been burned under her, and the aged lady was lying on the floor, when smell of burning flesh attracted the attention of people in the house. Notwithstand ing her age und tho terrible nature of her injuries, she lived seven hours after the accident. Wants his Confederate Bank. The clerk of the Virgina house of delegates has received a letter from W. Green, of London, under date Decem ber 21, in which the writer says : "Do me the- honor of informing me what steps I ought to take to obtain a reissue of the commission of honorary major granted me toward the close of the Confederate war by Messrs. Slidell and Mason, in consideration of the in vention of a projectile torpedo, and whether I may now claim the further recognition of the rank in tho United States army." The clerk of the house will reply to Mr. Green and refer him to the secre tary of war. A colored boy was frozen to death in Charleston las"t Saturday night. He had been on a drunk. l^GEBTJKGt, S. C, THTJI ELOPED WITH A MULATTO. A PRETTY CLEVELAND GIRL'S STRANGE INFATUATION. The Bride Elect Deceives the Preacher Who United Them?Clandestine Meet ings and Correspondence Which JLed to the Til-Starred Union. Clevelaito, 0., January 8.?Last Wednesday night Miss Ina Norton, only daughter of wealthy parents, was reported missing and to-day it has transpired that 3he eloped with Clar ence A. Barber, a mulatto, and formerly the family coachman. The couple have gone to Painesville, where Bar ber works. Mrs. and Miss Norton were at a card party at Miss English's resi dence, No. 162 Prospect street, la3t night. At 10 o'clock Miss Norton r ^.t. from the table, excused herself and said that she would have to go home. Noth ing was thought of the matter and the party broke up at midnight. Mrs. Nor ! ton soon Teached her home and was surprised to find that her daughter bad not returned. A hurried search proved fruitless, and the mother sent word to the police, and soon the whole city was being scoured. Thursday forenoon an uncle of Miss Norton found that Ina had eloped with Clarence A. Barber. Investigation proved that a marriage license had been issued to Barber and Mertis L Norton on Wednesday afternoon. The license had been procured by Andrew J,. Bragg, ? friend of Barber. Bragg was found in a barber shop on the pub-, lie square, and in respone to inquiries said: "Barber is a slender, good-looking mulatto; in fact he is a regular dude. I knew that he had been paying atten tion to Miss Norton for almost'two years. Before that time he had been a coachman and waiter in the .Norton household, and I suppose their ac quaintance commenced then. Last Wednesday afternoon he came to the shep and said he wanted me to procure a marriage license., I did so, and at 4 o'clock P. M. we walked to the corner of Huron and Sheriff streets, where Miss Norton was awaiting us. We proceed 2d to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Barber and Miss. Norton were married by the Rev. M^ Gassoway. I was the only witness. The girl was calm and collected and' j made the respons&in a firm tone. Leav ing the parsonage we walked a" short distance and separated, she going home" and we coining down town. That . night Barber unfolded his plans for the elopement. Miss Norton was at No. 162 Prospect street, and we were to meet her there at 10 o'clock. Procur-. ing a hack we drove to the rear of the house and waited. Soon she came fly ing towards us and sprang into Bar ber's arms. We jumped into a hack and drove to the depot, just barely making the night train for Painesville. 'im thp ,vav-*Lrv"7-' fViQ girl seemed to i bo absorbed completely* wjth ?Harber'^ and hugged and kissed him in- penecn transports. Once she started to write a note to her mother, hut, time being short, she gave it up and asked me if X! would not send a letter that night stat ing that she had eloped with Clarence, but that she was conscious of what" she was doing and was happy with him for a husband. We reached the train and got them seats, and thev left. Barber exercised freat care in getting the girl from the ouse, and from what I could see I think he likes her pretty well. You see this thing is not new to me. He has been coming up from Painesville about once a week and generally managed to see her. Besides they corresponded regularly. It was their intention to , have married on New Year's day, but it happened to come on Friday and they i regarded that as an ill-omened day and postponed it until Wednesday Barber is a good-looking negro, rather slender, tall and wear3 an eye-glass and a gold chain. He dressed in English style and has saved -$2,000 in anticipa tion of his marriage. Ina is a blonde, twenty-three years old, rather plump, of medium height and very pretty. She 1 has been reserved and was thought to be unromantic. Pastor Gassoway says of the couple ' that the lady was heavily veiled. "I did not suspect anything wrong or I . would have inquired her color, for I i have, since coming to the city, always refused to marry a couple of" opposite . color. When they were .married the lady, whose name.was Mertis I. Norton, left the house alone, and her husband, Clarence A. Barber, closed the. door when she went out, and turning to me said: 'That lady belongs to .a well known family in this city, and she is white.' I replied: Young man, you have deceived me, else I never would have married you; you have violated the law, and besides I do not approve of such unions.' Barber retorted;., 'I am an American cititizen. the lady is of age and I have a right to marry her if I desire','and walked out." - ? "Xot In Dat.Way Botis." A gay and sportive colored gentle man of 75 summers in this county, took a dreadful hankering after a dash ing dusky damsel#? eighteen winters, j lie pressed his suit, so to speak, and I won the affections' of his fair Desde-j mona. A clergyman was fo.uni who | was willing to tic up in ono knot the j destinies of this December and May couple. All things appeared lovely to this three score and iifteen years old expectant groom, until a younger suitor appeared upon the scene. The almost octogenarian hero of this inci dent took to the bines and to an apple tree, having previeusly equipped him self with a log chain, one end of which he was adjusting to his own neck, with apparent suicidal intent. Just then a good Samaritan came along and pro-j posed to the "man up a tree" to akin don his neck-breaking and permit him ?the good Samaritan?to substitute in lieu thereof a throat-cutting, at the sahie time brandishing a gleaming six-' inch blade. The chained lover declined j the proffered aid, remarking, "I mout be willin' to die for dat g;d, boss; but I not in de way you appears to contem plate.".?Chester Reporter. Two men froze to death in Mobile last Saturday. LSD AY,; JANUAKY 14, ] THE GRAND DISTRIBUTION. SpoakerXarllsle Awards the Commltteo Prizes at Last. "Washington, January 7.?The grand distribution of committee prizes took place to-day, and the House is now fully equipped for the work before it. Speaker Carlisle has exercised great earein his selections and his assign ments .-are well fseeived generally. There may be a few dissatisfied mem bers who are to-night making ugly faces at the Speaker, because he did not give them such prominence as they alone thought they deserved, but on the whole the make-up of the com mittees is commended on all sides. The South Carolina delegation appear high ly pleased, with their assignments, not withstanding the fact that they were disappointed in their reasonable expec tation that a State with so important a seaport as Charleston should be repre sented on the rivers and harbors com mitted; CpL Aiken occupies exactly the same position as during the last Congress, chairman of the educational committee and second place on the agricultural conirmttee. Mr. Dibble is promoted to the chalr iftansfeip of the committee on public buHdingsJand grounds, and thereby con trols the appointment of a clerk at six dollarS'per day. He is alao a member of the .commtttee on the election of President and Vice-President, and as such will have ample opportunity to help along his constitutional amend ment- providing for a second Vice president. i:.Mr. Hemphill's appointment on the committee on coluage, weights and measures was an agreeable surprise to his'colleagues, as well as a-deserved compliment to a promising and popu lar, young statesman. lie is also a mfimber of the committee ou the Dis trict.of Columbia, and therefore will be expected to devote two hours daily forbearing the grievouce of ci tizens. Mfc Dargan is assigned the fifth place on'the military committee, and hence forth'ranks as a general. If he had been given an opportunity to make his own selection he probably* would have chosen some other committee to >erve 6n|i.butvthe military committee will have control of two annual appropria tion bills, and is therefore one of the most important committees in the House. He is also a member of the c$"rnmittee in charge of the expendi tures in the interior department. jL'Mr. Tillman is assigned to.the sixth place ou the committee of Pacific rail ways, and, by the end of the session, may loom up as an expert on railroad law, as he. win probably have abund ant opportunities' in that direction. ge.also has a place on the committee jj charge of the expenditures of the State department. Mr. Tillman might bav;e been better pleased with differ ent assignments, but he is too good a Democrat to kick over; the traces, and thereforo-will work well in anyharness. ?Op J/erry, :the ? new member, fared particularly well. Ith not often that a beginner has two committees his first year. Nevertheless he is a moinber on the committee on war claims and also a member of the committee on Terri tories. Mr Smalls will divide honors with his colleague on the war claims com mittee. ' ".' FEARFUL FIRE. Death and Destruction la Louisville?Bur led In the Debris. Loursvill, Ky., Jan. 8.?Late this evening, during the.heavy snow storm which nas been raging here, the front and middle part of the large four story wharehouse, occupied by II. P. For wood & Co., Trabue & Co., J, B. Balms forth & Co., all cotton aud commission merchants, fell suddenly and overturn ing the stove, started a destructive fire. The building was filled with cot ton, tobacco, molasses and dry goods storage, and the flames spread all over the place instantly. The building is the center of a fine block of large whole sale houses,' and it looked for a time as If there was to be a conflagration, as the fire department was unable to get the flames on account of the wreck. They soon got to work, however, and kept the flames confined to the fallen building, and at 8 o'clock the fire was out. The third floor was stored with cotton and it was this that gave way, falling on the second floor, which in burn fejjf,' and then, after tottering a moment, the whole front and middle part of the building fell and blockad ed half of the street. There were eleven persons in the building when the third tloo-- fell. Peter Perkins, the porter heard the crash and gave warriing.to seren men on the second floor,, who es caped by jumping from a back window to a shed. A colored porter gave tho alarm on the first floor and started for the front door. It is thought he was caught, by the falling walls. .M. H. Wright, manager of.the place, and J.j B. Biilm'sforth, one ot the proprietors,: were in their office on the first floor and j started for the door, but they were caught in the building and crushed to death._ FOURTEEN CONVICTS ESCAPE. j They Tunnelled 0"t or the Mines in Ar-j kansas. Little Rock. Alt kansas, January ; 8.?Hews has reached here that sixteen penitentiary convicts employed in the mines at Cool Hill, this State, affected j their escape Wednesday. They tun helled for a distance of thirty-live feet, j "Work was commenced at tiie time of the strike which occurred three weeks j ago and continued until the tunnel was completed withouttheofficials discover ing it. Search was made through the; mines for the purpose of finding the passage, but it proved unsuccessful, | the convicts having so effectually clos-! ed it behind them, that not a traee is left. Two of the men.have been re captured. Blood hounds aud a posse1 are in pursuit of the others. For reasons perhaps dependent upon his shape, President Glev.eihnd has re solved on the frock coat for evening vecentions, and the swells are bestirring themselves to trade off their swallow tails and imitate the great Democratic reform leader. The Pitiful Fate of a Barnwell County Girl. Baenett, January 5.?On the even ing of Tuesday, December 29, near Wil liston, S. C at the residence of Robert L. Wade, two of his daughters, aged respectively sixteen and twenty-four, were married. The former to a young man named Addison, and the latter to Walter Stroud, a man about twenty five years of age, and by trade a black smith. Both couples bade their friends adieu and started for Vicksburg, Mis sissippi, where it was supposed they in tended to locate. They reached Thom son, Ga., the following day, Wednesday, where they halted and put up at the Knox House, and remained until Fri day, January 1, when they boarded train No. 1, and got off at Barnett with the expectation of finding accommoda tions. Failing to do so, after spending several hours, Addison and his wife returned to Thomson by fast train to spend the night, and Stroud and his wife went to Sharon on the Washing ton branch. Before separating, the baggage of the party, consisting of fiye trunks, was checked to Atlanta, and it was agreed between them that they would all meet the following morning at Barnett, and proceed westward by fast train. When Stroud and wife reached Sharon they stopped at the Edwards House, and the next morning Stroud informed his wife that he would run out to Barnett and meet the other couple and would re turn on the next train. He carried with him a small black valise, and when he arrived at Barnett purchased a ticket to Union Point and joined Ad dison and his wife and has not been heard of since, but it is supposed that he went to Atlanta, as the baggage be longing to himself and wife has been claimed there, and he was in possession of the checks. It was very hard for the lady to realize that she had been deserted by her husband after being married only a few days, and when she was enabled to view her position in its true light she wept bitterly, and remarked that she would prefer death to having to return to her parents' roof under such circumstances. She was left without a dollar and among strangers, but she has been kindly treated and will be furnished with the necessary means to return home. The father of these young la dies, R. L. Wade, is a respectable farm er, and the father of thirteen children. Walter Stroud is the son of the Rev. W. II. Stroud, a baptist minister, who has lived for some years in the vicinity of Williston, Aiken County, and is the father of ten children. He is poor, but respected where he is known. In 1875 he removed from Langley, S. C, to At lanta, Ga., where he located for awhile, but finally returned to Carolina. Walter Stroud returned his wife's trunk from Atlanta., by express to-day, and wrote her saying,: "I know I have treated you badly. I am strapped, and it is best that we should never.meet again." She left for homo by the fast train this evening. A Itice Thief Comes to Grief. Over the river in Brunswick New Year's eve, a colored preacher who had an engagement to hold a "Watchnight" meeting, got into a little trouble which not only forced him to forego his re ligious duties, but has since kept him confined to his bed with his lower ex tremities pretty well peppered with smalll shot. It happened in this wise: The overseer on the rice plantation of Col. Jno. W. Atkinson had reason to suspect that some one was robbing the barn where rice was stored, and set a watch for the thief New Year's eve. "The night was dark and the wind was still," when he saw a dark object emerge from under the barn, but there was nothing in its appearance that would even suggest a preacher in dis guise. The overseer cried stop! but his cry only lent wings to the flying feet of the luckless wight, and a mo ment later he was floundering in the grass with his bag of rice, both of his legs being filled with small shot from the overseer's gun. The watch meet ing was held, but the familiar voice of the preacher was not heard there.?Wil mington Star. A VERY STRANGE MARRIAGE. Wedded to n Dying Man, and a Few Hours Later Demanding His Property. Cleveland, Ohio. January 7.? Lewis H. Baker, a salesman employed by his uncle, A. II. Stone, wholesale glove dealer, was taken very sick, and the day before Christmas the Health Ollicer told him he could not recover. Maggie Norton, with whom Baker was acquainted, called at the Probate office that day and secured a marriage li cense, then conducted Justice B?hm to the room where Baker lay dying and asked Rohm to marry them, which he did. Baker was so weak that he could scarcely raise his hand to that of his bride. The Health Ollicer declares that Baker was t <o feeble to realize what, he was doing. That night Raker died, and the energetic Mrs. Baker went to A. II. Stone and demanded the keys to Baker's trunks. Stone refused to giva them up and told the woman that she would make nothing by marrying a dead man. She went away indignant, and h;is retained counsel. Baker was thirty-three years old, and recently came from Nottingham, N. Y. At the request of his brothers, A. A. Stone was l;o-dav appointed administrator of Raker's estate. Ho declares the wo man shall have none of the property. An Entire Family Insane Over Itellglon. DAKNVILLE, 111., January 7.?The surviving members of the family of the late Wolcott Allen, the wealthiest far mer in this section of the State at the time of his death, have just gone help lessly insane over religion. They arc all converts of a recent revival. George Allen, thirty-two years old, was ad judged insane yesterday, and his broth er, Heber Allen, thirty-four years old, was adjudged insane to-day. Each has a wife and two children. Their sister, Miss Mary Allen, twenty-four years old, will be tried for insanity to-mor row, and their mother, sixty-years old, is also pronounced demented. .886. PRIG A DESERTED BRIDE. E $1.50 PER AUSTUM. -OUE FROZEN COUNTRY. A TALE OF ICE FROM MAINE TO FLOR IDA. Snow Twenty Feet Deep In New York? Great Losa of Life and Damage to Stock? Rivers Gorged "With Ice and Cities Flooded. Chicago, January 11.?Eeports from the West and Northwest indicate that there is, as yet, no abatement of the cold snap. The mercury stood at fif teen to twenty-four degrees below zero throughout the State yesterday and last night Stauton, Va. January 11.?The thermometer registered six below zero this morning, zero at 6 thisevoning, and is. failing. There are immense snow drifts in the mountains^ render ing the roads impassable. Washington, January 11.?The sig nal office reports the minimum tem peratnre recorded here was 5.6 de grees above zero, and that point was reached this morning at 7 o'clock. This evening the themometer registered eleven degrees above zero. In the coun try outside of Washington snow is pill ed in drifts and the roads are almost impassable. Chattanooga, January 11.?The minimum temperature at the signal office this morning is seven degrees be low zero. It regisfered nine below in the lower portion of the city. Dis patches to the Times from the towns throughout east Tennessee, north Geor gia and north Alabama say last night was the coldest ever known. Stock is suffering greatly. Mobile, Ala., January 11.?The coldest wheather ever known here has prevailed since last Friday night. Near ly all day yesterday the mercury stood twenty-live degrees above zero, and this morning it registered twelve above. Agtjsta, Ga., January 11?This sec tion is experiencing the coldest weath er in fifty years. This morning at 7 o'clock the signal office reported the mercury six and three-tenths above zero, the mean temperature for three days, which is the lowest on record at the signal office here. The river is fill ed with fields of floating ice, and a gorge forming at the Charlotte, Colum bia and Augusta bridge will probably cause the river to freeze over to-night. Jacksonville, Fla., January 11.? This is the third day of the cold wave whose effects have been felt through out Florida. But little news has been received from the interior. The tem perature fell to fifteen at Fernandina Sunday, twenty at St. Augustine, and is reported to have fallen sixteen as far South as Tampa on the Gulf coast. The damage done is less than would be expected from such a freeze. Oranges remaining on the trees are frozen, and the lenon trees in Northern Florida are probably killed to the surface of the ground. Beyond losing their . leaves it is not believed orange trees are injured^even in the Northern part of the State. Cold weather in December prevented the sap from rising, conse quently the average is less than i% would have been. There are no signs yet of the weather moderating. Chicago, January 11.?The mcrcary dropped to sixteen degrees below zero during the night, and at 8 this morn ing registered seven degrees below, with very little wind stirring. The signal service ai the same hours re ported the temperature at Fargo four teen degrees below, at St. Paul twenty degrees, and at Des Moines twelve de grees below. The railways continue to encounter great difficulty in moving trains. Eastern and Southern trains due here twenty-four hours ago have not yet arrived. Syracuse, N. Y., January 11.?The ice in the Oswego river at Fulton be comes firmer and larger every hour, as immence quantities or ice areconstantly coming down the river. The water has risenmore than two feet since last night and is rising several inches per hour. The damage already done can not be estimated. Fully seventy-five families have been driven from their homes and others are constantly mov ing out. The families are poor and as fast as they are rescured are turned over to the poor authorities. All teams that are available are being used in re moving fiour and other goods from the mills and manufactories. Grain in the mills is wet. Should the water recede, the mills and factories will be filled with ice, and as many of them had large contracts on hand, the damage will be very great. Hundreds of people are thrown out of employment. Prof. iJoynton of this city was telegraphed for this morning, to consult with the authorities about removing the gorge. He visited the place and says that it cannot be done, as it is now two miles long and increasing. A BLOODY TRAGEDY. A Whole Family Found Doud With Tholr Throats Cut. Detkoit, MlCH, January 8.?A Spe cial to the News from Battle Creek, Mich., says : "Dr. Martin White, wife and two children were found in their house in that city this afternoon with their throats cut. The neighbors have not seen any of the family lately, and it is thought "they have beendeadsir.ee SundayTast. There are evidences of a fcer?ible struggle between the husband and wile, and the supposition is that Dr. White had Income insane and kill ed his family and then committed sui cide." _ Buying Wife and Children. Chicago, January 0.?Herman Veck sought a warrant to-day, saying that about six weeks ago Herman Junk haus came to board at his house, and Saturday midnight he caught Junk haus as he was leaving Mrs. Yeck's chamber. Junkhaus was arrested. He admitted that the husband's story was true, but said that on Saturday morn ing he and Veck entered into an agree ment by which the latter was to relin quish bis wife, child and household goods for $230. Junkhaus was to take the whole outfit and go West, but he did not succeed in raising theS250,and that was the reason Veck had him ar rested. Junkhaus says he has an agreement to this effect.