VOL. i.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1890.
NO. 3t),
; : , THE NEWS,
. Fannie Brown and Charles Burnslde hare
i been arrested 'at Topeka, Ks., charged with
,V murdering Robert Burnaide, the old father
"of Charles, and the husband of Fannie.
tAdelbert L;Brown, insurance and real estate
I.get of La Porte, lad., has skipped, leav-
-ing creditors to the amount ot $30,000.---.
Stephen Noland, who claimed to have had
1 divio visitations, died at Nicholasville, Ky.
... ITenny Graham, near; London, Ohio,
,-hot William Wood house, a -neighboring
farmer, and his wife, the trouble growing
rout of a law suit-; the double funeral of
iC Alls ton Shackelford, United States consul
o Nantes," France,, and . bis wife, who -died
vrlthln four days of each other, took place at
' the New York Church of the Redeemer.
;M. Mestenbeffer, foreman of the stone quar
ries at ChickUs; near Lancaster, Pa., was
killed by a blast prematurely exploding.
Dr. William II. Bradley, manager of the
weekly edition of the Philadelphia Press,
pleaded guilty to charges of embeselement,
and vvts sentenced to five years in the peni
tentiary. Max F. Eller, a Brooklyn law-
yer, attempted to commit suicide when ar-
. rested for swindling a dry goods merchant
bv means of forged mortgages, Mrs.
Warnecko shot Edwin Firth, a married man
at Troy, N. Y., whom she accused of wrong-
. ing her. Luoia .Zaretta, the Mexican
- midget, died on a snow-bound train in the
Sierras.- A swin Her and forger has done
up the banks and business men of Knoxville,
Tenn., for about 15,000. -The colonial ball
given in Richmond, was a grand affair, tho
r ladies impersonating their ancestors in band
some antique gowns. The National Build
ers Association adjourned at St. Paul to
meet next year in New York, and recom
; mended to all local bodies the system of pay
ing by the hour, though not committing the
: national association to tjhe eight-hour ques-
tlon. . " V"- " ' '
Ten sailors accused of fir Inn th) bark
nnie Harkness were dismissed by the
" lUnited States Commissioner in Philadelphia
whereupon Captain Amesbury,of the burned
Vessel swore that he would never again sil
(under the American flaj if that was Amer
ican justice Physioians in Philadelphia
juiade an examination of ' David Alexander,
.' who attempted to assassinate Bishop Whit-
aker, and pronounced him suffering from
treligious monomania with hoaiicidal , tendencies.-
-Henry Greuter, of York, Fa., was
found dead in bdd. -A bill introduced in
the Virginia Ilouse of Delegates to increase
1 the reutal of oyster beds from 23 cents to II
' per acre.' Mis. Cora' Scales Mortis, ; of
R ddsville, N. C, was acquitted of the ter
rible charge of murdering her husband.
; A loid of cinders .thrown into the Cone
mauh river caused an explosion that gave
' th9 nervous citizens of. Johnstown a terrible
scare. Fletcher P.tzingrr, aged nineteen
years, of I.idiunapdlis, a stuient at, Yale
. College, was killed, by his buggy boinj struct
by a railroal train. Tuo Unioa Bridge
Company, the .largest concern of the kind in
the world, will remove from Buffalo, N. Y.,
to Athene, Pa., The pjstofflca, the Crested
'Butte Bank and eievjn business houses at
' Create 1 Butte,' Col., were burned. Loss $50,-
000. A party of religious cranks on the
h ue river, near Kansad City, suck one an
other's blood for the relief of all ailments.
V.t-KrjjjyOri Azmaa was convicted and sen
tenced to be hanged at Indianapolis for the
murder of Bertha E.ff, his sweetheart.-
Fire at the ICittery navy yard, Portsmouth
'N. IL, did $100,000 damage to the inacdiue
vhops. A passenger train was wrtc.coi
jear Carmel, lad., and the cars took fire,
roar persons were burned to death and sv
. ral seriously Inj lr jd. The fourth annwil
tonVinton of tue National Association of
Builders and Contractors opened in St. Paul, .
ilinn. -The Rutgers Riverside Presby
terian Church, in New York city, costing
$100,000, was dedicated.- la a snowsllde at
Logansville, Cal two persons were killed. L
The hone of Fred Johnson, an old man
n South Bristol, was burned, and his wife
.erished. j-,
"VVra. MansSeld was stabbed and killed at'
Horse Cave, Ky., while trying to make peace
between Add:s Malone and hi brother. ;
.The Congregational Church at DanveraCen
tro Boston, was burned. Loss $33,003; in
surance W5.0U0. Dr. Staron shot and
killed Dudley Murphy at Colpwater, Ks.,the
trouble it is said, growing out of St iron's
familiarity with Mrs.1 AWph. Jacob
Shreiber, aged twenty-one years", s'.iot bis
rival, George Wisser, an! Miss Emma Fry
in front of the girl's house at Batesville,
Ark. . Sahreiber then committedjsuicide.
Treasurer A. R.Losley, of Scott county.Ks.,
is short in hU account-about $4,000. In
ti quarrel about a' girl at Gainr sville, Tex.,
Samuel Hopgood struck H. O. Blankenshipi
on the bead with a wagon deckyoke and
fractured h;s skull, --John B. Lollande,;
ronton factor at ' New Orleans has failed.;
Liabilities $531,000; .assets $541,000, -The
one thousand employes of thj Birmingham
rollin mill arJ on strike. Mrs. , Sarah:
Baiubrldge' Hayes, th last surviving child
of Commodore Balnbridge, died in New:
York. John- Watercheck, of New York,
while insane, threw bis child from a fifth
story window. The Jake Billow, compris
ing Seamen's District Assembly, K, of Ij
will dissert the order. Northern Iowa la)
beintc flooded with a fine imitation silver dol-j
Jar that has been in -circulation some time.;
Lee Miner, a cattle buyer of Tekomab,
N.b., while insane, scabbed Leander Scott
-Ths steamer Polynesian, from Liverpooil,
arrived at Halifax wlththe crew of the
French brigatiae Mathilda, abandoned at
gea..Iiy the premature explosion of a blast
on tue Sliauiokii), Sunbury and Lewisburg
Railroad, near Buobury, Pa., one man was
Instuitly killed and several others so badly
crushed that' they will die. Joseph Chap-
1-au, a raurderer at . Piattsburg, N- H., was
Biuleiict d to be executed ty elMtrioIty. -The
f xptilon f t a staudard OIl tiUat II ua
tci'i lVi;if, Ji. I., c usid 33.XWaaonge .
vn Aim in
Six Persons Killed and Twenty
Hurt on the Monon Route.
Crashed nnd Illcoriinsr Women nnd
Hays Burned Before: the Eyes of
Helpless Spectators In Indiana.
Passenger train No. .1, on the Louisville,
New Albany and Chicago Railway, known as
the Monon route, was wrecked at 7.50 o'clock
In the rooming, oao mile above Carmel, lad.,
a village Id miles north of Indianapolis. The
train was running at a rapid rate and was ap
proaching the long trestle across Wllkerson
creek, when the tender of the engine jumped
the track. The engineer reversed his engine,
but before the air brake could check the speed
of the train the locomotive and the baggage
car had cleared ths trestle, but the tour
coaches attached went over Into the creek.
The ladies' coach immediately caught Are,
and in an incredibly snort time was reduced
to asbep. ' ' -
Fortunatelv for the occupants of this coach.
train No. 2, which left Indianapolis for Chi
cago at 7.S0, bud Leen ordered to meet train
No. 1 at Carmel, and as soon as word of the
wreck was received the passengers hurried to
the scene and went earnestly to work rescu
ing the occupants of the burning car. A hor
rible scene met their eyes. In plain view bl
all were two boys and a woman. " All were
dead, but their bodies were being rapidly con
sumed. The arm of one projected through
the side of the onr and could to touched ty
those ou the outside, but the opening was not
large enough to draw tbe body througb. Im
mediately in front of tbe boy was a lady who
got on t he train at Frankfort, and ia as yet
unidentified. Her body was enveloped in
flames, but there was no possible way to get
her oat of tbe burning coach. Across from
tbis lad v was Mrs. Eu banks, of Broad Ripple,
Ind. iler head was horribly crushed. The
brakeman and a passenger ssiz! her by the
arms, nnd by a tiesperate effort pulled the
body through the window. Life was not yet
extinct, but she lived only a few minutes
atter being taken out. Another of the res
cued, but who has since died, was Mr. Darn
ing, of Sheridan. lie was pinioned to the
floor by tbe timbers and horribly crushed.
Some beroio men seized axes, and after a few
minutes' work cut away the timbers that
held the body, which was removed to the
north side of tbe track. There was no medi
cal aid present and the man died in a few
momenta. Buckets having been procured
from the farmhouses near by, the flames
were soon subdued and prevented from com
municating to the sleeper and oiher coacbes.
As soon as it was possible to do so a s area
was made for tbe dead. Tbe body of a woman
was soon found. It was burnt to a crisp.
The Old bam children were found side by side,
th heavy stove lying across their to lies.
L Tue fol.o wing ia a correct list of the killed:
Mrs. Ne:lie Eubank, Broad Ripple, burned
to death; C. O. Deming, Frannfort, Ind.,
bead crushed ; Mrs. D. S. U.dbam's two chil
dren, Sheridau, burned to death. Mrs. Marv
Hoover. Hortou, crushed to death ; Mrs. Hat
tie Hensley, Cycioue, crushed and burned.
InvestiKt'-iun reveals that the ai-cldent
was due to spreading of raiis about 151) feet
from the trestle. Trie section foreman, who
rc-aunei the scene half an hour atier tUe
wrect,expialned that the outside of the curve
ba t been too low, and be had elevated it one
Inch by shimming it up temporarily. Scone
had boon hauled there for the purpose of H
raising tbe Outside ot tue curve in tno usual
way, but he had not bad time to use tuem,
but considered it necessary to do SDraethinsr.
and the only thing to be done at the time
was to use the shims. The sole cause of the
accident was th condition of the track on
that curve, it being a sticky clay, destitute.
of ballast. ' .
A MANIAC'S DEED.
Throwing His !Ktl Son Oat of a
Fifth-Story Window.
John Yotooil, a raving madman, threw his
only child, a boy of five years, out of the
fifth-story of the tenement-house No. 121 Pitt
street, New York. Crushed and bleeding, the
child was taken to the hospital, and its doath
is expected any. moment. The father is a
Bohemian olgarmaker, 23 years old, and a
widower. He lived witbdiisaged mother and
sister at the place were the tragedy occur
red. He asked his mother to get him a drink of
water. Shedid not respond atonce, and a fit of
rageseizid bim.andthe old woman was called
ail manner of names, and finally he knocked
her down. Then he asked her again for some
water. , The mother scarcely left the room
when she was startled-by a crash of crlass and
a piercing scream of a child. Rushing into
tbe room she found her son stripped start
naked in the middle of the room, and yelling
like a madman, but the five-year-old boy who
was playing ou the floor- when she went to
get the water, was gone and there was a big
hole in the window. He raved like a maniac
when asked about tbe child, and said be was
'Christ, the gladiator.
Tbe child was picked np on tbe pavement
below moaning piteously. Persons about;
were horror-6tricken. Officers hurried up the
stairs and heard tbe madman's shrieks. : On
the floor was the naked madman. On top
of him, struggling fiercely, was John Boror
sky, who lives in an adjoining fl it He was
striving to bind the man with a rope He had
the upper band fortunately, jtsound with
ropes, he was caged in B.'llevue Hospital.
The maniac bad been out of work for some
time, and also Bad been suffering from the
Trip. . . ,; - ,. . -
BRAZIL HAS NO FLAG.
So Regular Standard Recognised
. Id tile Revolution.
Tbe steamer La Place, which left Rio oa
January 3d, arrived at New York. First
Mate Chase said that in Brazil all was run
ning as smoothly, apparently, as when the
Emperor ruled, but behind the calm exterior
there were small revolutions which were lia
ble to result in disastrous results.' There ia
so flag which is recognized throughout the
couutry. Tbe people of each province have
a flag of their own. In December last forty
sailors employed oa Brazilian men-of-war
went ashore and shouted 'Vive I'Emperor T'
and subsequently bad their throats out for
their enthusiasm. Mr. Chase related the fol
lowing incident. An English vessel was ia
port at Rio loading coffee and flying a Bra
zilian empire. fi2. Orders were Issued to poll
down the flag; but tbe coffee was loaded, and
tbe old flag floated until she was ready to leave
Bishop Crowther, of Africa, who is at pres
ent in Loudon, has had a remarkable his
tory. When a lad on the Benue River, ha
wars torn from bis mother's side by slavers
and, after months of misery on tbe coast,
wan shipped in a slave ship for America.
One of the most romantic incidents of his
life was when, a quarter ot 6 century after
his capture, an old woman rushed from a
crowd of natives to whowta was preachin
tkrmm hmr arms -around?' his. teck, and ls
f OBBd saa was h;i mofchw, '-.
. SOUTHERN ITEMS.
IXTEREHTINO NEWS COMPILED
FROM MANY SOURCES. .
.-A company to nunufacNire ice his been
organized at Charlestown, W. Va.
Five young couples intimate friends and
neighbor?, were married together in a Cath
olic Church, in Davies county, Ky.
A company with ample capital has been
organized at Newton, Catawba county, N,
C., for the erection of a first class hotel.
The 6Ufpension bridge connecting Fair
mount and Palatine has been purchased by
the county and tbe tolls have been abolished.
Valuable discoveries of gold has been
found on tbe laud of T, P. Braswell, in Nash
county, N. C. It is said to be in large quan
tities. ' r; ; ;u ... ..-;- t
Franklin, Pendleton county, W. Va.
proposes to erect a new . court-house ana'
clerk's office. Tbe building is to be of brick,
50 by (X) feet.
A former Marion county, W. Va., mau
now residing in Iowa has returned to a'Fair-
mount family a book that be barrowed over
forty years ago.
TheShepherdstown(W Va.) Bridge Com-
pany, is preparing to rebuild their bridge:
overthe Potomac wtiich was washed away
by the late flood. y
A child of D. W. D.ivis, of Morgansville,;
Doddridge county, W . Va. , was poisoned by!
eatiug poke root. Its life was saved with!
great difficulty. "' ,
Ellison Mounts who is to be hanged at,
Pikesvi le, Ky., for ins murder of Mis Alia
pba McCoy, has confessed the crime and
professed religion.
The exodus of colored people from Barn
well county, S. C. , iu consequence of the re-,
cent massacre, began. Forty families, about
2J0 persons in all, started for the Southwest.:
- The Sufq'iehanna Water Power an 1,
Paper Company have purchased all the pop-!
lar timber on tbe Nicicle farm, near Cono
wingo, Md., for converting into paper pulp.
R. M. Tony,, a constable of - Prestons
burg,' Ky., was murdered and bis wife fa-!
tally wuuudrd, it is believed by friends of
John Hall, who had been killed while resist
ing arrest,
A new town is to be established at the
mouth of the Big Sandy, in VV. Va., ou the
Norfolk and Western Rojd. It will be named
Kindall, in honor of tue president of that
company. ' . '
- Lewisburg, VV. Va., has voted $15,000
subscription to tbe capital stock of tbe pro
posed Rouceverte, Lewisburg and Coal Knob
Railroad. There were but two votes against
1 h j pi fn tsitloo. , , . ,
It is estimated that one hundred thou
s n i be as of land in Caldwell county, N.C.,
are owned by northern capitalists and that
h,tighsu and northern capitalists own about
fl.tv thousand in Burke connty.
W, R." "Wolfe brought from the moun
1 1 mis in the neighborhood of Frederick, Md.,
the scalp of a large fox, and received from
Magistrate Wilson a certificate on Frederick
county for fifty cents as a reward for the
same. -
-Robert Rulev. emp'oyed in tbe iron mines
abBuena Vista, Va., was instantly killed ia
t is mun shaft by beini; caught between the
ca ; and the casing timbers, bis bead being
crushel -Ik au eggshell. How the acciden
happened will uever be known, --
Andrew Dinner, a laborer, living near
Downville, Md., although sixty-eight years
of age, works on the Downs vale and Haters
town turnpike, walk 1 4 miles per Week in
going nnd returning from his work, and
breKS 20 perches ot stone in the same time.
Tbe large Jbarn on the "Sherwood For- j
est" plantation ot w. , xiart, aoous iour
miles from Fredericksburg, Va., was burned
together with twenty-one head of horses,
mules and colts, 400 barrels ot corn, 150 bush
els of peas and a large quantity of hay. Loss
46,000, and no insurance, r
Mr John A-Sboamaker, of Beaver Bun,
W. Va., while husking corn in new ground
where tome dead timuer was yet standing,
the bis b wind broke a tree about twenty feel
from the grounJ, and the top Iaiiiag ou Mr,
Shoemaker, i-roke one thigh and badly mash
ed the other on;. ;
Boys playing football in Lsxington, Va.,
go frightened a horse attached to a sewing
machine wagon that be ran away, thsowing
the vajon and driver over a rock wall, the
distance of several feet. Mr. Wright, tbe oc
cupant was painfully bruisid, and the wagon
badly broken.
The five-year-old child of Mr. -James
Iprucebank, "of Roanoke, Va., was badly
scalded by falling backward into a tub of
boiling water. The little fellow was playing,
when his fojt struck the side of tbe tub and
he fell in, scalding bis back and arm.
. Harry Hicks, a young newspaper carrier
of Norfolk, Va.-, was thrown from one of the
cars of the Suburban and City Railway Com
pany, run ovc-r and almost instantly killed.
A sudden turn of tbe cars caused him to lose
his balauc j while standing oo tbe step o. the
front platform. . ., . c ;, .
William Taliiaferro, a fifteen-year-old
son of Elward Taliiaferro, living in Jen
ning's Qap, N. C, shot and killed bis little
brother, eight years old. William, pointing
a loaded gun at bis brother in sport, it went
off accidentally, the shot taking effect in the
quid's breast and forehead, causing instam
ueatb. - . , ' .
Ezra M. Tboma, of Jefferson, Md., has
a three-quarter Percheron colt, which at the
age of nine month?, weighed 830 pounds, ar.d
a one-half Percheron coif, eight and a-half
months old, which weighs 750 pounds. They
were sired by the celebrated horse, "Cber
rie." '. ; ,
The West Virginia Centra; Railway is
recei vinga large number of drop-bottom gon
iloU cars for its eol, coke and lumber traf
fic from the South Baltimore Oar Works.
Tb new cars have a carrying capioifcy of 00,
0OU pounds eacb. and large - quantities of
freight are awaiting shipment on the lines of
the road. - . ,
Mr. Geisbert, of Creagerstown, Frede
rick conaty, Md., has in his possession a lot
of old !ank notes, hearing the dates 1770,
1773. mo, 1778 and 1779, and In spite of their
nge, they are well preserved. The whole
muonnt represented is $S5, several being ot
English denominations. ,
Mr. W. W. Fleming, of Frederick, Md.,
has amor" a lot of Continental, Indian and
late war re.ica. a piece of Baltimore's famous
City Hall bell. "Big Sam." He also has a
watch charm made of catalynite.a species of.
spotted clay found in Dakota, which is soft
w ben taken from the ground, but rapidly
hardens. , - . -
-A ;man by the name of Conway was
frozen to death iu Catawba county, N, C.
He was returning borne late in the evening
and while trying to cross a creek on a log
fell In, He experienced much difficulty ini
getting out of the stream, and after journeys
ing a short 'distance fell by the roadside,
where be was found stiff and cold.
John Howie was killed in a rather pecu
liar manner in C inarms county N.C Oscar
Galloway and W. Pharr were quarrelling
and Howie was standing near by. Walloi
way jerked a pistol from his pocket, intend-
ing ti kill Pharr, but Pharr caupht bol t of
it. The pistol, however, was dlsrf "red,
.iimthe oall struc'i llovie. Hod"! 1:1 a
f .- .v minutes.
While Dr. Ford was visiting some pa
tients in Wheeling, Wa,, he left bis team
standing while he went into the house.. In
the meantime two unknown men untied the
bore and drove away at a reckless speed,
colliding w th a lamp-post and wrecking the
vehicle. The horse was uninjured, and the
men succeeded in making their escape with
out being identified.
, -Whi3 J. P. Parrish, the yard coupler of
'cars at the Richmond & Dauville railroad,
at Durham, N.C., was coupling a long train a
few days ago, the cars out his body in two
pieces, part of the legs being on one side of
the rail and the trunk and other parts of the
limbs on the other. He lived a balfbour.
He begged tbe engineer, who flmt reached
him, to kill btm and end bis sufferings. '
Two ' small cbiPVen of John Estis, In
Moore county. N. U.'-vere returning froi
school, when the youngter one was attacked
by a mad-dog. Tbe Vicious canine made a
savage jump towards the child, but tbe el
der brother leaped forward with a stick in
his band and struck lb? do.f across the back,
which caused it to turn and attack bim. The
boy was bitten so badly that be died.
A dental and surgical instt ument manu
factory proposes tOBtartin Clark burg, W.
V. .ilk . p.nltlil nf 91JS ftflf I .K
Citizens would take $25,'00 In ock and de
note two acres of land. Iu return they agree
to employ not less than 150 bands for ten
years. A meeting was called, and quite an
amount subscribed. General Guff guarantee
ing ihi balance of stock and ih) land, pro
vided the company would charter under the
laws of the state.
Miss Am ia Curtis, of Grayson county,
Va., eighteen years old, add of excellent par
ents, bad been attending prayer meetingsand
entreating the prayers of tbe congregation
and preacher, whicn were accorded her. Last
Sunday she appeared deeply affected, and
att?r the services she went to a well in tbe
yard, removed the cover, and saying, "You
needn't pray any more," she plunged iuto the
water forty-five feet below. No reason, ex
cept melancholy, is assigned tor her suicide,
A dispatch from Atlanta, G a,, says it has
been ascertained that an Englishman named
Prof. Walter H. llussell.'who has been a
choir member at St. Luke's Catb dral there,
is really Prof. : Carl fJummers, whose mys
terious disappearance from Manchester, Va.,
five years ago created a sensation. He at
that time endeavored to create the impres
sion that be had been drowned. As soon as
be was recognized in Atlanta, the church
investigated tne matter . and be was dis
charged.
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES:
A boiler in tbe old Wisconsin Central
freight bouse( in Chicago, exploded killing
George W. Y iley, tbe night watchman. .
1 A wreck occurred on the Georgia Pacific
Railroad near Birmingham, Alabama. En.
gineer William Derry was kdied and several
others were badly injured.
John Farley and his three children perished
by tbe burning of their dwelling in Sc. John's,
Newfoundland. Farley lost bis life while
trying to save the children.
: Catarrhal pneumonia has developedjaraong
a herd of cattle at .Eden, Pa., and several
animals have already died. The state au
thorities have been notified. '
- By the bursting of a converter at the Illi
nois Steel Company's works, in -Chicago
Edward Johnson was killed and a number
of other workmen were injured, four Sdvnre
ly.. , ... .-. .
Thomas Rainey, one of tbe best known
ranchmen in Texas, died in Sun Antonio.
Immediately after bis death his aged father
committed suicide by shooting himself in
tbe Lead. v
Captain Georee H. Burr, of the I&r vul
schooner Nelson E. Newbury, was accidenX
ally drowned at Baltimore, Md. He and
two companions were in a small boat, which
overturned.
A telegram from Tacoma, Washington,
ays that at least tea men and thousands of
cattle and sheep perished in the blizzard
which began on the first of the year and
raged for a week.
A freight - train on the Reading Railroad
ran into a land si Id a near Sbamokiu, Pa.,
aud ten cars were thrown Into a creek. En
gineer Clark Hoffman was killed and Fire
inan Gensyl and Brakeman Startzsll were
badly injured.. . , 1
Elmer Freed, Silas Tracy, Charles Wilson
and Alexander Wbitmore, of Gladstone, Illi
nois, were drowned in a pond near Burling
ton. , They started for a dance, but their
team became unmanageable and backed the
wagon over the bank into the pond.
At the Etna Rolling Mill at New Castle,
Pa., one of tbe buggies containing a ball of
red bot iron was upset in a puddle of water
and an explosion took place, scattering the
molten metal. Three men; were terribly
burned, one ,of whom, George E. Cox is not
expected to recover. . .
By an explosion of natural gas from a main
atSewickley, Pa., Mrs. George Gibbs and
her daughter were terribly burned, and tbe
recover of the former is doubtful The la
dies were on their way home, carrying a
lantern, when gas which was esoaping from
a break in the main ignited, and they were
enveloped in flames. . -
a WEALTHY FISH.
It JInst llve Picked the Pocket of
. n Johnstown Victim r $10,180.
The town of Eldora, Iowa, comes to t'e
front wih a startling .fish, story that is
vouched for as true in every particular. . It
is recited that John : Webster with several
boon companions made a fishing excursion
down to the Iowa River. They cut boles in
tbe ice and speared a fine pike. -.
Cutting it open, tbey were much surprised
to find within a fat pocket-book containing
'5 iu gold, $15 in silver, $75 in bank-notes,,
$10,000 in bonds and a certificate of deposit
ou a bank of Johnstown, Pa., for $35. A slip
of paper was also fouud bearing a statement
that tbe book and contents belonged to John
J. Jones, of Johnstown, wbo was supposed to
bave perished ia the terrible flood.. There is
no doubt that the fish made its way to tbe
Iowa by traversing the famous Conemaugh
River in Pennsylvania into the Allegheny,
then to the Ohio, then to the Mississippi and
up into the Iowa River.
MORE CONSULS.
A Batch of Apuelntmenta Mde by the
Presldcut.
' Tbe Present sent to tbe Senate the follow
ing nominations: -
Augustine Heard, of Massachusetts, to be
minister resident and oonsul-genoral of the
United State to Corea.
Louis Gottsehalk, of California, consul at
Stuteart
John F. Winter, of Illinois, oonsel at Mann
beim. -' "
Richard Gunther, of Wisconsin, consul
general at the City of Mexico.
Tbomaa McDermoit, of Tennessee, consul
t Saint Thomas, West Indies.
George M. Pepper, of Ohio, consul at Milan.
Treasury S?muel Bf-iley, Jr., of Ohio, as
sistant trr-W'ortrof the Unit U t. i.?s at Gin-
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS,
Senate ftcaslons.
24th Day. The Senite passed a joint res
olution authorizing the legal representatives
of Real-Admiral Charles H. Baldwin to re
ceive a snuff box set in diamonds from the
Czar of Russia.
Mr. Evarts introduced a bill for tbe main
tenance of discipline among customs officers.
Tbe Senate resumed tbe consideration of
the bill that was discussed yesterday to re-"
quire the superintendent of the census to as
certain what percentage of tbe people own
it heir farms, the number of farms under
mortgage and the amount thereof.
After a long dlscnion the bill was recom
mitted to the census committee.
. Tbe Blair educational bill having been
reached on tbe calendar, Mr. Blair demand
ed its reading In fall, and the secretary pro
ceeded to read it. . v i
After some discussion it was arranged by
unanimous consent that tbe educational bill
be postponed till Monday week, and be then
jthe "unfinished business."
After a brief session for executive business
itbe Senate, at 4.35, adjourned. ...
25TH Dat. Mr. Vest presented the creden
tials of Wen. A. Clark and Martin Maginnia
as Senators elect from tbe State of Montana.
They were read and referred to the commit
tee on privileges and elections, !
Tbe Senate then proceeded to business on
the calendar and passed the following among
other bills:
To place Gen. George Stoneman on the re
tired list as colonel of infantry; to pay to
Major Wm. M. Maynadier, army paymaster,
$3,726aid by bim into the treasury in liqui
dation of a sum of which be was robbed by
bis clerk; appropriating $22,000 for improv
ing tbe revolutionary battle-field of Benning
ton, v.'.;:;,-., . . ,
. The Senate then took up the bill Inrodooed
by Mr. Bntler to provide for tbe emigration
iOf persons of color from the Southern States,
and Mr. Zngalls rose to make his speek.
As Mr. Inealls took his seat he was loudly
applauded. He bad spoken exactly two hours.
Without attempting any other business the
Senate, adjourned till Monday.
2Gth Day. The customs administrative
bill from the House was received and order
ed printed, and will be considered to-morrow
by the Finance Committee, to whom it was
referred.
Among ths bills reported from committees
and placed on the calendar was tbe follow
inr: Fixing the salaries of district judges of tbe
United States at $5,000.
Among the bills introduced and refer!
were the following!
By Mr. Hoar For the adjustment of ac
counts of laborers, workmen and meckanics
under the eight hour law.
Mr. Chandler's resolution calling on the
Attorney-General for the report of the
United States Marshal for the Northern Dis
trict of Mississippi, concerning tbe maltreat
ment of Henry J. Faunce, at Aberdeen, was
takn up. -
Mr. Chandler, Mr, Ingalls, Mr. Grorge,
Mr; Spooner, Mr. Hoar, Mr. Wilson, of Iowa,
and Mr. Raagan, took part in tbe discussion
which followed, and tbe resolution went over
till to-morrow.
After a session for the consideration of ex
ecutive business, the Sonate, at 4.30, ad
journed. -
27th Day. -Mr. Merrill introduced a bill
prepared by the Secretary of tbe Treasury
authorizing the issue of silver bullion ; referred.-----
, V .V.A-W:, . -
. On motion of Mr. Morrill, the bill to credit
and pay to the several states and territories
and tbe District of Columbia, all monies col
lected under the direct tax act of 1S01, was
taken from the calendar.
Mr. Vance oifered as an- amendment a
proposition to refund tbe cotton tax. Rejected-
-Yeas 15; nays S2. i
The bill was then passed Yeas 44; nays 7.
Tbe Senite resumed consideration of the
resolution of inquiry into tbe Aberdeen,
Miss .Incident, and after speeches by Messrs.
George, Spooner and Gray, tbe latter offered
sn amendmtnt calling bIro for tbe letters of
instruction m hich brought out the report of
tbe Marshal, and also as to whether in the as
sault Fanz had been deprived of any right
secured to bim by the constitution.
After a short c xecutive session the Senate
adjourned.
House Sessions.
24th Day. The House went into commit
tee of tbe whole, with Mr. Burrows, of Michi
gan, in tbe chair, anddisoossed at length the
Customs Administrative bill. Nothing of
imsortanoe was done. . '
. 25th Day. Ia tha House, Immediately
after the readiug ol the journal, the Houe
went into committee of tue wnole on the ad
minis.raii ve tariff bill. The committee having
Completed tbe consideration of the bill, Mr.
ttreoaiaridge (Ky.; moved toat it be reported
bacic to the House, with the recommendation
taat it be referred to the committee ou ways
and means. Loji IUK tj lz6. Tue commit
tee then rose and reported tue oill to tue Housa
favoraoiy, which passed it by a vote of X&J to
121, divgiimr, nearly on party Hues. Tbe
House then adjourned.
torn Iay. Among tbe bills introduced
and referred were the following:
By Mr. Barnes, of Georgia To refund the
cotton tax. .
By Mr. Struble, of Iowa For the appoint
ment of a Commissioner of Immigration ;
also, prohibiting intoxicating liquors being
taken from one state or territory to another,
in violation of the laws of the latter. '
Mr. Burrows,- of . Michigan For the erec
tion of a monument to Isabella of Spain.
Mr. McCreary, of Kentucky, offered a res
iolution recogoizing the Republic of Brazil;
referred.
j . The House in Committee of tbe Whole, pro
jCeeded to consider tbe bill appropriating
!$ 1,500,090 for the erection of three United
States prisons and for the imprisonmbnt of
-united States prisoners.
; The Committee rose and reported the bill
! favorably to the House, and it was passed
yeas, 117; nays, 104.
I A motion was made to reconsider the vote
(by which the bill was passed, and also one
to lay this motion on the table. On tbe latter
motion no quorum voted, and Mr. Holman,
of Indiana, having raised , this point, the
,'House without further aetion at 5.80 ad
journed. 27th Day The House rassed a bill pro
Tiding that, in cases of pension claims of de
pendent parents, It shall be necessary only to
shew that the parents are without other
means of sunnort other than manual lhr.
' Mr. Curamings, of N. Y., introduced a bill 4
uirecung tne becretary ot the Treasury to
Pay the United States and Brazil Steamship
. Co. for the transportation of mail from Juiy
.1st,-1885, to December 17ih, lbS9, at tbe rate
of $3,000 per round trip or lo.ttlo miles. Re
ferred. Tbe motion to reconsider the vote Ly which
the prison bill was passed, was laid on the
table by yeas 102, nays 112.
Mr. Darsey.of Nebraska, from tbe Com
mittee on Banking and Currency reported a
bill providing for the issue ot circulating
notes to national tanking associations.
The bill went over and the House ad
journed. '
Dr. Jolles, tbe Vienna scientist who clalmi
to h?e,ai8covered ths b-ieiilujot mflaoiizi,
has named it the "oiBbop b'nias," owia;
to a i-cu'.iar torui-'..-- of tbe mi-rcu-s j
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STATE OF TRADE.
Cold Weather Produce an ImprOfVcw
. General Movement la Staple.
Special telegrams to Bradstreet'a report
an Improved demand for staple goods, no
tably dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes,
rubber goods and clothing at Chicago, CR.
Louis, Kansas City and Omaha, due to solder
weather., caow DiocKaaes on tarn Mwnw
Pacific and other railways ou; the -Paoifia
coast for tea days past, with cootiauou
rains in that region for a month previous,
bave sarloasly checked general trade thsra.
There is only a fairly active orop move
ment in tbe South, continued decreased sMp
ments by planters being reported. . Lumber
at Western eeaters is slow. Prices of lira
faoi are reported higher at Kansas City oa
increase! demand, bat lower at Oaiaha and.
Nr.. Iiim on innrn.lncr rwinta. Tha vol
ume of general trade lor January at naany
points is not expected to equal that of Jan
nary, 1880. , At New Yor, tbe volume of
traiein. farm products this month exceeds
that in January, 188V, tbe movement of boot
had shoes about equaling that of a year
ago, with trade ia omer hoes reported ;e.
or unspcinea. ine movement ot gooae
generally is fair. Collections are moder
ately tlsfactory. .
Tne weekly report to BradttreeVt of avail
able grain stocks in the Umted States and
Canada, East of the Rocky Mountains shows
increases ot 2,815,925 Dusbels of Indian corn,
25,045 bushels of barley anl 0,450 bushels ot
rye; decreases of 1,310,456 bushels of wheat
and 284,547 biuue. of oats, as compared
with Ddceuiber 28, three weeks ago. Ex
ports of w float (aud fiur as wheat) nom the
United States aud Canada ports both OOasUt,
tuis ween aggregate l,80tf,50J bushels, acainsG
l,7ol8utf uusheisiast week and 1, Sill, t05
tiusnets in tbe third week of January, lo8..
Totd exports Juiy 1 last to date equat bJ,-20d,u-i7
bushels against 57,010,000 bushels in .
a ha portion of 1888-'6. , ,
Very beavy stocas of flour in New York,
estimated at iroin 800, 00 J to 1,000,000 barrel
and sacks with indifferent noma and foreign
inarxeu, depressed prices. Wheat option
weut off al- on mreuiar cables, navy
home maiittti and the weatuer favoring
winter wneat.
Indian corn has suffered depression from
free movement and light demand, but ral
lied on improved export request and lower
ocoan freights, closing Ja)o lower., Ojm
are up ao oa bruit juuie and foreign
deuiauu, aud firmer Western marxets. -New
York: exported 327,827 bushels this' week.
Increased luterestin hog products, notably
at the West, advanced porlc 255de per bar
rel, and lard la5 points per pound. Dressed
hogs are np Jc - ' -.; , '
,r; t m. t i m.i , .
iiw wv i.uij vu.'jv.
ed, tbougn on a smaller Volume of transac
tion in refined, and pricja remaiu about
steady. Tne week's advauoe in the prices of
punTee is uuout ic., tuere having been an
improved moveuMUB in private ouMnne a In
spuuulative lines trading ieli away.
WORK AND WORKERS.
. Indiana farmers are orgonUid,. and deal
with one store, allowing the cvner 10 per
cent, profit. "
Buffalo newsboys struck because the penny
evening papers ruisad their price from 50 u
60 cents per 100. v '
A bill to ihcrease ths day's hours of labor
and one to reduou them bave been intro
duced in the Massachusetts Legislature,
The Working Girl's Club of Jersey City
has classes in the : study of dress-making,
millinery, cooking, musio, dancing and
embroidery. ' ;
' In Chicago an ordinancs has been proposed
for the licensing of engineers. It pravide
that they shall be examined in tha trade,
anl must have habits of sobriety. .
New York Centralengineers get 33 cents
par hour, conductors 25 cents aud wtnea
16 cents. The switchmen demand 18 cat
per hour lor work over twelve hours per
day. .:
San Francisco molders get $150 for a ten
hour day. The union seal for nine hours is
$3 25. One firm tried to have them work
nioe hours for $3 15, but lost a fttriite, and
tbe ten-hour day was adopted. ' ,
- A concern in New Orleans which manu
factures large quantities of ice has oifered tj
furnish artificial ice t9 New Yorit, provided
tbe winter coutinnas to mild as to make the
natural ice crop a failure. , , ,
In England printers average $10 a week in
wages; in Germany they average $4.cJ a
week. In England the city laborer, not a
skilled workman, averages $4,50 a week ; in
France, $L2o; in Germany, $ I. .
Tbe colored laborers around Athens, Ga.,
bave struck. Tne white people have secured
no labor for the ensuing year on their farms,
and the situation is beginning to look squally
for them, as th negroes say tbey Have no
intention of going to work lor the whites.
roe central iraaea uouncu oi tv astern
Pennsylvania will send a special circular to
all local unions of American Flint Giasa
workers not yet represented in that body.
In the Ohio valley tbe dint glass workers are
among the strongest and best locals attached
to the Ohio Valley Trades Assembly,
A CRASH ON THE ERIE.
AnExpreM Dashee Into a Sleeper and
KIIIh Three Pcratai.
A collistou occurred oa the Erie railroad at
Owego, New York, at 12 o'clock F. M.
Train No. 12, an east-bound pasenger,was
standing in the station, and Train 14. th
Wells-Fargo express, also east-bound, bashed
Into the rear sleeper, wrecking it.
Xhree persons are reported killed.
. 'MARKETS. .
BaltmoUk -Flour City MRui.extra . $4. 3
a$4.50. Wheat Southern Fultz. 73aWJ;
Corn Southern White, Ma 10 els, allow
Sa37c. Oats Southern and Pennsylvania
i&aoicte. ; Rye Maryland & Pennsylvania
56a58ets, ; Hay Maryland aud Pennsylvania
12 50a$l3 00 ;btraw- W heat,7.50at3. 50 utter.
Eastern Creamery, ,ia28c.. near-by receipt
I0a20cts; Cheese-Eastern fcaucy Cream, io"i
all cbs.. Westerni 10al0 . cts; Eaga 14
al5; Tobacco Leaf Inferior, la3.o0i' Good
Common, 3 00a$4 00, Middling, $5a7.0O Good
to fine red,8a$; Fancy, 10a$ id.
New York Flour Southern Commnn .to
fair extra, $2.50aA85: Wheat Nol White
b7aS8; RveState57a60; Corn-Ho it wrn
euow,3tlda i. .Oats W h ite, S tatt'X; 1';'
eta. Butter towate. 15a22 cts. CheoM--,v!iu,
BalOH' eta. ; Eggs 17al7 eta.
1'HiutDKLPHiA Flour Peniyl v :
fancy, 4.25a4.7fij Wheatr-Pennsylvaia, a. .1
bouthern Red, S1K82; Rye femvy v?-
MaflOc : Cora-Soutttera Yellow, 3? ao ' 4 c t :,
Oats 4d8Xai ; Butter tita to. ;
Cheese JN. X. Factory, ttaUX cU. ' i j .
State, 15X&1I cts.
' CATTLE.
Baltimore ff, 4 5Ja4 75; She - : - f
aO 00, Hok-51 ? .--s5 C.
Mw V"us.Ei . . f -f5 75a7 COiT'
a 4 tV); Doc"i J J.; i i.U