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Devoted to the Advancement cr Reidsville and the : State at Larjre, VOL. XIII. REIDSVILLE, N; C; FHIDAY; MAY 25, 188?. NUMBER 0. SOUTHERN ITEMS. ril,;i.i:STIN(i NIJWS COMriLKD 1IIOM 31 ANY 'JOUUCK4. Virginia' ! " Mnly, h tn nitiir. dealer of , Miv-l do ul Iron heart tJLsease. W . i! '. 11 .it'' hi Ins settle 1 in Staunton, and 1 I' " . . . .... I,..,,!..... ,. I i HO til (run j jiniiVo Thomas McClellan ba l,ncon i of misappropriating fines In Norfolk mid st-nt'-in'M to jail for six months. In f-J'.s Danville had 5,000 Inhabitants, and ,,v c'.-si'kw 17,000; ten yearsago Lynchburg l,ril i.'.' and now numbers a population vl ' ' " I't'.-t killed all the early Vegetables, much oi t!! fruit, and injured seriously the wheat i ..i n mid oats in Wythevilie. The damage i , t;ro'it. -'." "' '! . .-i Vymoru Johnron, of Richmond, during n qi irrel with bis wife tried to cut her throat iUi a riiaor and woundod ber seriously. J was locked up. 1 ho Lexington Manufacturing Company tins secur -d tin contract for the erection of tin) now Masonic 'Temple at Hoanoke, which b to cost f :i0,000. (iov. Lee has refused to further respite i. A. Kidenour, condemned to death by bang ing on the 1st of Juno, in Winchester, for the murder of young BroyluB. Timber lands along the line of the Lynch burg ami Durham Railroad in Campbell and lla iftix counties, are in great demand and urn being Itought up by lumber dealers and Mtw-niill men. j Anna Gordon, colored, has boen arrested iu Richmond, charged with poisoning tuo r ilv nf Mr liVnnir W !hnrnlwrl;iinn on .A p. il ). She confesses to having adminis tered tho loison by putting it into thomeal ,f which the batter-bread was made that was the meuns of poisoning thirteen persons. In the suit for slander brought by Mayor T. J. Jarratt, of Petersburg, for, f 10,000 damages, against Mr. li. l"h B:irhaui, editor yii 1 proprietor of the hulcx Ai'al, of that city, thirjiiry, alt-T a trial of twodayb' dur m ion, rendered a verdiit of $100 damages ii in I !, I (ieorgo Berridge, Sr., a trucker and tinner, residing on the Deep Creek road, lour units from Portsmouth, went to his l. di ooin mid cut his throat from ear to ear. He ha ill !". was tired of living. Ho was sixty live years of ng, in good circumstances iTiVl Ins family ivl.-iUims happy. The k:iv mill of V. S. Smith, near Nupps lug, was entirely destroyed by the bursting t Ihn I'oilfi-. 'i he engineer, Capt. J'l. V. j lull, was instantly killed, lie was thirty live years of a, uu I leaves a wife and four children. : Tob Savage, another employe, was fa ally wounded. His attending physi cian says he cannot (lo-tsibly recover. The bo-ly of Mr. Kendall, formerly a pub lie school teacher in York county," was found -.in the school house at Smithville, a village in lh.it county. He lml committal siiini.lti by cutting his throat. Kend 1 ill w.is about tui ty-live year of age, a man of fine educa tion and goodf unily. Ho came to York Mime years ago f ro u Norfolk, and has a wife living, who hold-i u itosition in Wash ington. - i- Frank May, working at a sawmill near Fort Republic, was caught b the saw, i-;.i. ..... ..if i.i.. i..rt- i a... ii .v.1. . fered his side and cut his ho'wulfl. liver nn.l ! lungs and forced the heart from the left to the right side. Jle lived fourteen hours and MiilVred intense thirst. The water ho drank Unwed out at the wound in his side. lie us conscious until death. The diictorseon si'ler it most remarkable that death did not o. cur immediately. At tho commencement of Mirtha Wash i ijf 'ti lA-m i e College a grand musical treat mil he i;iveii those w ho at tend theexercises I'ref- Keiide s.iys the music, both vocal and mmi uuieiitnl will be the finest ever listened tout the college for a number of years, as t'lero are more line voices and better per lonners this year than ever liefore. The elocution par-Lof tho program will leof high oriier, as more than usual interest has been displayed by the scholars in preparation. iKxteusivo jifeparations are being made at nory an I Henry College for tho annual ! I nin.Mii-eiir'iit ex'.rcises of that institution. ylarg amphitheatre is lietiig erected, in iifuini' the main building in which the ex I hum's will be'held. A large number of dis ' ti.niii iiih I M-op:e have lieen inviud and an i.ifer. sdii program is promised to all who iit"iii. The amphitheatre will be used as a gymnasium, and theatrical hall during the session of the college A fiendish atbmpt was mmlo by some uu known jiartles'to burn the dwelling house on Maine street adjoining tho Shenandoah county bank, an I oeeupio l by Mr. II. li. t 'liapman, nt Woodstock. In order to effect then-devilish purjioses they saturated a lot ef clothing w.th coal oil, thrust them into nie of the lower rooms through a wiudow 'ill then fired tho intlanfmable mass. In a w niomciita the house was filled with a 'I 'Mse, stilling smoke, but fortunately the lire H i ; smothered out before much damage was done. j ..West Virgin la.- A Mack wolf was killed iu Harrison county i lew days ago. j - " M. iwk, of Berkeley county, lost about liiteeil :.levp by dogs. ' The business men of I'arkersburg are I i!iiU stops to form a permanent organiza tion. '-!. The amount of money received by the Stato '"r li'pior license during the past ten j'ears ia '' ins. 4,s. . I 'unstable -"John Watson,' of Pleasant '"ti'ity, had his 'pocket picked of over 100, '" i arkersbur Vrs n. II. T1 1 . I ulSr f.v nf I'fr. ! Pltvtcniit liai i-i. I " heir to 7."),tiiK) by the death of an aunt. Mi l'D-ihk.-eiwie, N. Y. f inner in Ijoiran conntv made a warn ' '1 t;- ,l,,n ... . i,.,t i... ....i.i ......... ..fF ..r ';-.-;i i, 'tiiu.U i l v feet hisrh. His funeral was larirel v "nmn man iir wuiu jiiiiiu ifiL V4 I'd. - i l -y. iv. Vjn afme works at the Camden oil re- I'MV 11 - " """" 1 , --"owing, aoout Uiteen or tweuiy nieu Marion county, Feter R. 'lllllflM,,,, ... i .-n j iir.-n.- 'i i. r - r i milt Kiueu liuaiiis liurns. inv- inw.i. . " orewery, uecause tue liiiivr u iil .. Y- . 1 . 1 . . . . "u nisti nun some liquor, lines ruihner, of Garrett county was Mii uuh Patrick Farley, when tiio lat , own insane. eeizeu:uiiuauu HLbei lnJi-i.l I : .-"..ll.: i tven insane. st niggle, threw him down a cliff te--t. till hnghim instantlv. i T!v parties arrested near Cairo. Ritclii- untv f"r a criminal assault on Mrs. Gor- 1-n. H'v 'lischarged on the preliminary x utum for want of evidence to convict nii .1 luem 'Int ti " I'uone opinion is very generally !,V(.. ' or at least some of them, are TMi ui.rl. ... .1.1: . . t Vi;r . I (1(.Uili ivanawna county, William ' and a man namcsl Sampler, whilst navM. a iTHKeman nanietl Jolni " 't w'ei. . lut.ter ttempU.l to defend him- I -iv a hilU;ht'fc. " lien Hiram Clendennin, , i ier of William, .fired four times at ''tvi.. '"'"illli. ile:it ;". . r - 'Ils K,!lsing in tho spiual "vfr ,i.. : .prevaiioa at Charleston an v.? , U1 UP of tlw steamer! Bob Henry, f,,r u?( "t18!" tow ,oaJd with go.Ls, ,U'M-. i ' K't V''f WT bout twenty-' t w iK.?i "t. H'ld when otQnwn v boiler exploded, kUling UwH H V him f'r V1:il s a some iwrsonal enemy shot KViss,'. i a, mult' Udimginjf to William J. T-n i . , ,I:iiin district, Mason county. i" ro nn W family riding nuire "IT-rs i-h'n Vtry "ystcrioubly. ! Mr. KeLster V J ruwaril the arrest of theier- ly, 11 reman, C. IL Brawley, .inn frank f koii, and Beriously injuring Pilot Morgan Stalnaker, Engineer Miltoa Hudnall. Iwek JLmd Iiillus Wells, II; li. lunebon, H. It. Hnyder, John Snyder. Bra-1 K.tmples. Lee Ivitt, Sam Idart, Lilly Cox, Henry Klyder, nil of whom are scalded ami received broken lionet The slightly injured are Captain Henry Whitaker, John Haines; cook, Pilot Ro era, 8. il. Samples. Th boat was built six .months ago and owned by Whitaker & Wilson. An attempt was tiu-de to burn ti e three story brick building, near the B. & O. depot, Martinsburg. occupied by A. Thomwon as a boarding house. The ICnsign Company, of Huntington, is now engaged ution an order for JiOO cars for the Mexican International , Railway. An additional order for 500 cars has been re ceived from the same road. Wellington' F. Rarger, Aged two years and three months, a son of W. II. Barger, of Martinsburg, was sitting ou tho front steps of his home, when he fell off, his head striking a stono. Congestion of the brain set in, and death resulted. Patrick King, track foreman on tho IB. ft O. road at Twenty-first Bridge, two miles east of Keyser, met with an accident that might be classed among the rarities. While using a hammer a small piece of Steele broke oil and penetrated bis throat, revering some small veins and barely missing the jugular vein. The wound bled profusely, but no eerious results are apprehended. A most dastardly attempt was mado re cently to wreck the engine, building and machinery at the mouth of the Gaston inin i near that place. The water was almost all drawn oft from the boiler, the water gauge plugged up and the glass filled so as to indi cate a suflicieut supply of water, the safety valve weighted and the pump disconnected. It was providentially discovered in season to prevent an explosion, which would have re sulted in great destruction of property and probable Toss of life. Mt. Morris and vicinity, on the Monon galia county line, is now in the fever heat of I the oil excitement. Parties have gathered ! in from various sections, and for some time tho place has been full to overflowing. Up-; erations have been going on at the various wells, ami new rigs have been erected. The Hukill well, which is near the Green county line, but in West Virginia, is producing a vast amount of gas and is said to be the lar gest producer of gas in the country, the noise of tho fluid being heard some two or lhree miles away as it escapes from confinement. Ufarvlaiul. Jotin liohan, who fell down a ravine near Dioomiiigton, "Garrett county, in a struggle with his sou in law, Patrick Foley, ha.s died. Dr. Win. V. G. Young, Biltimore, was sentenced to eighteen months iu the peniten tiary ror. bigamy in marrying Miss Aimee Carey while his first wife was living. Mrs. Henrietta Bowen, 05 years, wa lodged in the Worcester county jail for as saulting and beating a Miss Townsend, who lives near Berlin. Mrs. Bowen is thought to bo insane. Lewis Crum, an employee of the. firm of Wilcoxon & Markey, at Frederick, fell from a height of ab.mt twenty feet and broke bis right arm in two places and his left in one place, lie also sustained other serious in juries. Isaac Baker, colored, while passing down Hicrh stroef,. ( IheKtortown. struck Dlavl'llUy I et Peter Wilmer, also colored. Wilmer in return, kicked Baker in the stomach. Baker fell unconscious and died withi i fifteen min-nt-s. . The fire- in the Cat c tin mountains several days ago drove a large numlcr of snakes from the mountains.intothe low lands, many of them beine rattlesnakes. At least several j hundred of tho reptiles were killed while a largo number Is said to have escaped. The store of J. M Lynn & Bro.,at Cor dova, Talbot county, caught lire and was destroyed,-together with its contents. The insurance of the goods was $700. T ie 'ru ; store of J. Hall was also bin ned, but, m s of the goods were saved. Mr. N. J. Wagner, a highly respected and well-known farmer, was fatally hurt whila running a saw mill on his farm, about two miles south of Rockville. A living timiier struck , Mr. Wagner In tl:e ide, inflicting injuries from which ho died. Tho county commissioners of Cecil county have decided that the enlargement of their owers by the -legislature gives them au thority to do away with the present county road law, and they will notify all road com missioners that their services will not be needed after May 31. The family of Basil Helashmutt, living at Three Springs, while at tho breakfast-table wero taken seriously ill, and suffered until evening before they were relieved. It is supposed that they ate something of a poisonous nature, but it has been impossible to ascertain what it was that caused tho troubla The store of Mr. Arthur O wings, near Bristol, Anne Arundel county, was robbed, iiinl Alexander Gray was arrested on the charge of being implicated in th affair. Whilj going down the street to the magis trate's oflico Gray slipped away and ran. Several shots werejired, but he jumped into a creek and succeeded in gottiug across and disappeared. Oue of tho shots, it is thought took effect in his back as he ratu Charles Brown, colored, of Newmarket, was committed to jail to answer before tho next term of court for a murderous assault on Alice Davis and her husband, olore-1, also residents of Newmarket The assault was committed near the fair grounds, in this city on the eveniug of May 4th, ami white the parties were returning from Barnum's circus. Brown severely cut Davis and his wife with a razor. Airs. Charles Metzer, wife of car inspector Metzer, of the Cumberland Valiey Railroad, dropped dead at her residence in Hagerstow u Mrs. Metzer had- just opened the front don. to admit a visitor, when she fell lifeless to the floor. She was thirty-nine years of r.get and leaves a husband and seveu children. The cause of her death was paralysis of th j heart. Chcstertown was startled by an alarm of fire. -The fire was in the house of Wnu Gardner, on Calvert street, near the depot. Mr, Gardner saved all his iuruiture, but lost one hundred and twenty-eight dollars in money. The fire is thought to have been the act of incendiary, as Mi's. Gardner has had some dilliculty with a number of colored families in the neighborhood, and she says they threatened to barm her or burn her property. North Carolina. The nunt tobacco factory in" Lexington (b dougiug to the Edwin Holt heirs) was de stroyed by tire. - . There will be nineteen members of the graduating class at Chapel Hill, at the com mencement next month. A strong company, financially, principally of Monganton; have determined to erec; . large cotton factory at Round Knob. Governor Scales, in response to a requisi tion from Governor Lee, Virginia, oruered the rendition of Sandy A. Ragland, who is nowconfinedin jiil at Wcntworth. Rock ingham county, Ragland is wanted iu Danville on a charge of seduction. Among the most important business of the recent session of the grand lodge of Odd Fellows at Greensboro, was the inauguration of a movement to establish an Odd Fellow, orphan asylum in this state, to be conducte t under the direct supervision of the order. Rev. N. H. D. Wilson, a presiding elder of the; Methodist Episcopal church, died ot Franklinton. The event, although not tin looked for, has cast a deep gloom over tbo community, whert be was so well known and so highly esteemed. The Alumui Association of the University of jNorth Carolina, at Chapel Hill, have di termined to appropriately celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the charter of tho university by the general assembly which will occur next year. CABLE SPARKS. The Branlian Government has approved the bill abolishing slavery, and it is now a law. . " The anarchy which prevails along the Nile above Assouan has atopped Dr. Schilemann's researches. The King of Sweden was received with great ceremony on his arrival at Lisbon. The city is enfeU. - The Anglo-Danish exhibition at Kensing ton was formerly opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales. Admiral Sir William Hewett, commander of the channel fleet, died at Portsmouth, lie was 54 years old. Hundreds of Jewish and German bakers in East London have struck work on account of excessive hours of labor. - King Milan ban gone to Vienna to confer In reference to a settlement of the misunder standing between him and his wife, Queen Natalie. The Libera, Bucharest, announces tha Parliament will be dissolved in J uly, and tha" the elections for new members wild be held in -September. A volcanic eruption and a waterspout have occurred in New Poinerania, New Guinea, doing immense damage. Many natives and three Germans were killed. The government has refused to sanction the grant of 10.000 francs voted by the muni cipal council for the relief of the striking glass workers in the department of the Seine. The government has ordered that two modern 30-ton guns be mounted on the cen tral bastion facing the sea at Sheeriiess. Other measures of defense will bo adopted on the Thames. The Queen of Greece, it is expected, will soon pay a three months' visit to St. Peters burg. Her daughter, Princess Alexandria, will marry Grand Duke Paul, the czar's youngest brother. The Russian Count StrogonofT and his sister, Prircess Tacherbaotoff, with an es cort of 150 men, have been captured in Asia Minor by a tribe of Curd Nomads, wio de mand an immense ransom. A Russo-Swedish commission has been ap pointed to survey and define the boundary between Sweeden and Finlmd. The work will occupy three months. It is not expected to present any difficulty. A dispatch from Wcrsaw says that the managers of railways At Warsaw, Granica and Ivan-Gorod have received a military or der directing them to accumulate without delay on each liue 000,000 tons of coal. Emperor Francis Joseph' accompanied by all the members of the imperial family, the Austrian and Hungarian, ministers and for: eign diplomatic represenatives, was present at the unveiling of a monument to tha Em- press Maria Theresa. A grand banquet at tne palace iouowea. FATAL CASUALITIES John Donahue, fifteen years old was fatally kicked by a horse at East Greeubusb, N. Y. . David Marielta, a prominent citizen of VintoM, Iowa, was drowned in a washout near his homo. - -.-.'"'., Frank May was caught in a saw at Port Republic, Va., and nearly cut in two, causing his death. Roljert Claboert, a raftsman from Warren, Pa., . was " drowned in the Ohio River at Madison, lnd. . 1 William H. Willis, a- Galveston (Texas) merchant, .was killed by the accidental dis charge of a pistol. Mrs. Harriet F. Patch was killed in Dan bury, Conn., by drinking wood alcohol through mistake. Dan Stanford play fully pointed a pistol at Felix Jones, who was calling on Stanford's sister, in AtlantaGa. It went off killing Jones. May Grimm and John Schmidt were killed by an express train oni the Pennsylvania Rail road at Menlo I'ark, New York. Both were well dressed and respctable looking. Thomas Kehoe andj Minor McNamara, of Grcenbush, N. Y. , wetje seriously and perhaps fatally injured by thefir horse backing with them over a thirty five foot embaukmeut. A freight 'engine on- tho Baltimore and Ohio ltailroad burst its boiler near Cumber land, Maryland. S. A. Woodruff, the engi neer, and Kitz Miller fireman, were killed. Foremau Harry Grosseup, Amadeo Middle ton, Peter Grey aad Charles Robinson, of Camden, N. J., were badly injured at a tire, when a portion of a mansard roof fell upon them. Tho old, patched boiler of a wooden ware factory in Caro, Mich., exploded, killing Henry Howland and severely injuring Joseph 'Randall, Frank Riddle, Albert Riddle and T. AV. Wisner. A passenger train on the Southern Pacific Railroad jumped the track near Gila Bend, J Arizona. Mrs. Good, ot H,ngland, an emi grant passenger, was killed and several others were ilijured. '. An explosion in the Capitol Iron Wrorks, at Toiwka, Kansas, overturned a vat of melted lead and scattered the contents in all directions. A man named Ackerson was fatally burned, and died soon after. A train on tho Santa Fe Railway reached Fountain, Colorado, and had been standing but a few minutes when a freight train, the brakes of which had got loose, ran down from a side track, and a collision occurred. One car was loaded with naptha, which exploded, setting tho train on lire. Tho train men shored the uuiu juml cars back from the wreck, and were trying to save the depot, wlien the "flames reached a car load of jiowder, which exploded, demolishing the depot, several dwellings and a number of cars. Three persons, one woman and two men, were killed aud six injured. LOSSES BY FIRE; The candle factory of Fitzgerald & Co., of Chicago, was burned. Loss J bJ,0J0. The Austell buil.Ung, in Atlanta, Ga., was almost entirely destroyed by fire. Loss $45,000. The packing lioiua of the Dakota Packing nnd Provision Company in Huron was burned. Loss 30,000. The entire business portion of Goldendaly, WashingUm Territory, was swept away by fire. Loss $175,000. Fire in Black ville, S. C, destroyed twenty four stores and residences. The total loss is $54,5-0; insurance $J4,S20. The large feed mills of Charles F. Hummel, at Erie, i'a were totally destroyed.- Loss, $$,000; half covered by insurance. The works of L. Ilichardson, manufacturer of interior decorations and fine cabinet work, Cleveland, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. Fire destroyed Odd Fellows Hall, Good Templar's HafL Snyder's store. Fisher's book store, and Caff ortu and Kupple's law offices at Somerset, Fa. The fire is supposed to be th work of iueendiarie . The loss will probably reach $o0,fW(J fully insured. ONE PISTOL KILLS BOTH. A tragedy growiug out of a religious dif ficulty between Efward Wilman and his wife occurred a few miles from St. Charles, Mich. A desire by Mrs. Wilmiin some time agit to unite with tho Advent church met with such Sitronc onnosilion from her hus band tl-at she finally left him and returned to her fa titer's house. Sunday afternoon Wilman drove up to the house, and as soon as be met hor he shot hr through the breast sad un instaet later shot himself, through tbo heart. .' BLOWN TO ATOHS. Ternulo Explosion of Gun powder and Dynaniite. r Houses Damaged for 31 ilea Around Ono V'clims ltemains iutlicre;l in. a Bucket A terrific powder' and dynamite xplo-4on occurred at Twining's brown stone quarries at Stockton, nineteen niilog west of Trenton, N. J., killing James Wafer, the foreman, who Was literally blown into fragments, and severely injuring-. r tlw - following . named, persons: - i'- ' ' ' : James Dean and Thomas- Lawlor, black smiths; Thomas (Corcoran, 1 6tonecHttor, and James Brown, William Dills aud John Mc Closkey, engineers. ( Tito remains of Wafer were scattered all over tho neighborhood aud not a particle big ger than a marble could be found. Mr. Twin ing the proprietor of the quarries, told a re porter be bad just gathered up about a buck etful of his remains and given them to an undertaker to be buried at Lambertville Tbat is all that could be found. Crowds of people who visited the scene were busy pickiug up almost infinitesimal fragments of ilesh and bone and putting them into their pockets or wrapping thetu in handkerchiefs to exhibit as mementos. Mr. Twining supioses the catastrophe oc curred in this way: Wafer had gone into the magazine to get a supply of powder for blast ing and, opening a c.oi, let some Of it fall out. He stood on this with his feet, aud his shoes having big nails, created sparks, which com municated with the dynamite, causing the ex plion. There were ili) cans of powder, con taining 25 pounds each, and aiiout lOo pounds of dynamite The com buslibles wero stored in small frame houses, ten by fourteen, on a level with the ground. They were located within a few yards of tho quarries and the shops, where a. force of about. HO men, all told were working. Within -one hundred yards wis a large barn filled with feed mid hay, which was burned to the ground by the sheet of fire which reached it fr.mi the ex plosion. Fortunately there were no horse. inside. Tho blacksmith shop, stono cutters' sheds and other structures were blown down on tho workmen but fortunately caused no serious injury. Every house in the village was more or less damaged Floors wero torn up, ceilings fell down, windows, doors, and all framework were smashed and torn, while the furniture and household utensils were tumbled pro miscuously around in heaps, j There is not a whole light or pane of glass in the village of Stockton, and it contains'; a half dozen factories, three churches and about threa hui d ed stores and dwellings, i The village ot Ceutre Bridge, directly ! across the river, was similarly affected, and in a-direct line about one' mile distant, over in lennsylvania, a farmhouse owned by Thomas Idendricks, was shaken up and sus tained considerable damage, i The shock was plainly felt within a circuit of thirty miles, and people in Trenton, Lanibertville, New Brunswick, Bristol, Newton and other cities and towns heard the explosion plainly and thought it was an earthquake. Many lights of glass were smashed in Lambert ville, four miles distant. James Brown was thrown over his engine and a red hot etove was overturned upon a little daughter of William Moody, one of the villagers, i They were, however, but slightly injured. A shanty used for an Italian boarding house was completely wrecked. There were three stone steps leading to the magazine. These werehurl d in the air in different directions, one, weighing fully three hundred pounds, having been carried a quarter of a mile through fences, aud fall ing upon the gable end of a flour, mill. A hole seven feet deep by thirty feet in circumference was made by the concussion beneath the spot where the magazine was located. The grass in the ad jacent fields was scorched and burneL In fact, the quarries shops and village look as if they had been 6truck by a fearful cyclone, so great is the work of ruin and devastation. ; And the ghoulish sightseers who went there and picked up pieces of thigh bones and skull and charred flesh added more hor ror to the cata-trophe. Dr. Larrison, of Lamdertville, picked up the upper bp, hav ing a mustache, of the dead man. It is considered nearly a miracle that only one life was lost. Had the powder house been built of stone or brick instead of timber there would have been more fatalities. The foreman's assistant, Peter Kaufman, had a narrow escape as be had 'just left the magazine when the explosion occurred. Mrs. Cornelius Wilson, who lives within a quarter of a mile of the quarries, was stand ing in her door, when she was thrown down and rendered unconscious for some time. Twining's loss will amount to about $15,000 and that of the villagers to about KTi.OOO. Twininsr sirs he has been in. the quarry business for twenty years and this is the first serious accident that has occurred to him. I MICHIGAN'S LIQUOR LAW. Tbo Supreme durt IxkmL- Option Act tutional. Declares tho Unconsii- The Local Option law passed by tbo last Legislature of Michigan, and which within the last few days had gone into effect in thirty-six counties of Michigari, wasdec-dar d unconstitutional bv tbe Suprerbe Court with out a dissenting opinion. Thte point upon which the decision is based was, tbe constitu tion provides that no law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be expressed in the title. The object 'of "the. Local Option law, as passed, was clearly to prohibit tbe sale and manufacture of liquor. ; The title of the law was "An ac5 to regulate tho manu facture and sale of malt, brewed ; fermeuted, spirituous and vinous liquors in the several counties in the Stata.'" This defect in tbe title alone was declared fatal to the law, though there were others in the body of it ually unconstitutional. . Yhe fauU found, therefore, was not with the nrinciole of tbe liquor law. but to t! manner in which the Legislature undertook to accomplish its end. j DECOY. LETTERS ILLEGAL A Decision that Will Puzzle flic Pust - Office Inspectors. Judge Spier, in the United States District Court, in Macon, Gi, held that decoy letters sent out to catch postal officials are not such letters as the law contemplates when it pun ishes those who tamper th them. Tbe case arose out of the trial of Rudolph Dennicke, a route agent on the Central Railroad be tween Macon and Atlanta. The number of letters tampered with on that run was so large that a strict watch was instituted. A decoy letter addressed to an imaginary per son in Atlanta, was mailed ia Macon. At Barnes ville, half way along the route, a post- office inspector eutereu ttio car. arrested ! Dennicke and found the letter, with tbe seal broken, upon nis person. The trial of tbe case has excited much in terest. When the evidence was all in Judge Sjier ordered the jury to bring in a verdict of not guilty, as the bogus, character of the letter affected the entire proceeduig. This will break up a very common practice among (he Fast-Office detectives. FIFTIETH CONGRESS ' ' Senatr. "VXjaJXT. The Senate passed in an amended form Mr. Vest's resolution for an investigation of the cattle trust. The Senate pease t thirty -eight bills, mostly ot an unbu portaat character. , ... ' IuOth Dat. The pension appropriation Mil was taken up, the question beinjr on the amendment reiprted -by the committee on appropriations to Ftrike out the words "that in all psi M to w lows payment shall be rondo from tbo date of the tieath of the hu-iband," and to insert tint a'l payments which have been or which miy hereafter be granted under tlw geueral laws r-xalaling enMoiis tQ widows in eo qiiuee of death occurring from a cause which originated in 'thec.Ttricj since fourth of -j-ch, 18(1 shall commences from the date of the death of the Iins'UHL ' 'f ;' V "' j , , ; '"-" " . After considerable delude the amendment was agreed to. without division, and the bid was pass -d. ", ' li'Tni Dat. The Senate was not in session today. , ; ; 1C8TU Da'."" The 2?aate waa not in s.s i'.on to-day. i lOO-ru .Dat. Vr." Morrill, from fl mi- nvtteeon public buildings and grounds,: re ported the bill approbating 17..ri0 for making, the west end .-of t-h Rmitl sjnian building fire proof. Tut bill wa.siasaed,alter an explanation by Mr. Mori i I. Tbo Senile Uien pi'ocewWl to b.isiness on the calendar a nd p sel numerons bills The Senate bill for th erection of wtofllce buildings in towns and citii'S where the ost oflice . receijtbt for three years preceding have Exceeded 'three thousand dollars annu-i ally was reached on the calendar. A f ter consid ruble discussion, the bill went over witlwut final actiopj, ' ' V 110th Day. The flixir was accorded to tho committer on labor, and Mr. O'Neill, (Mo.) chairman of that committee, called up the bill to confine the s ile of the products of con vict labir to the State in which they aie pro duced. The uiijority aud minority reports were read nt length, and an hour was thus consumed. Mr. Cannon offered nn amendment pro hibiting the importation for commercial pur poses of all - goods,' wares or merchandise from any foreign country to the United States which in whole or iu part were manu factured or produced by convict labor, and prescribing penalties for the violation of this prohibition. Adopted. 1 he previous question was then ordered yeas 1H5, nays 41 on the engrossment and third readins of the bill the Housj adjourned. House. . 105th Day. The House met at 10 o'clock. and went into committee of the whole on the tariff bill. : Speeches aeainst the bill were then made by Messrs. Baker, Bound, Farqu- har, Bayne, Ryan, LAird and JJalzeli, ana in favor by Messrs. Weaver, Russell and Fitch. Evening Session, Speeches were made by Messrs. Montgomery, of Kentucky; Shively, of Indiana, and Mr. Clemmy, of North Car olina, in favor of the Mills bill, and by Mr. Wickham, of Ohio, in opposition to in. The House at 10.15 adjourned. 106th Day The House went into commit tee of the whole on the tariff bill. Messrs. Peters, Stewart, Anderson, Her mann, Felton, Spoone, Romeis, Sawyer and Nichols spoke against the bill, and Messrs. Breckinridge, Cox, Maish and Lane in favor of the measure. 107th Day The House went into commit tee of tho whole on the tariff bill. Messrs. Kinsley, Randall and Cheidle spoke against the bill and Mr. Breckneridge in favor of it. IOStii Day. The goueral debats on th tariff bill was closed with a speech in favor of protection by Mr. Reed, of Maine, and one in favor of tariff reform by Speaker Carlisle. 100th Day. Under the call of States the following bills were introduced: By Mr. Springtr, placing on the free' list articles of merchandise, the production of which may be controlled by trusts and com binations. By Mr. Brown, for a public building at Martinsville, Va. Mr. Hatch, from the committee on agricul ture, moved that the rules le suspoudo I and the bill passed to enlarge the powers and du ties of the Department of Agriculture, and to create an executive dejarttnent to bj known as the Department of Agriculture. After a brief debate the motion to suspe :d the rules and pass the bill was agrerd to yeas nays 13. - HOrn Day The following bills were taken from the calendar and passed: Senate bill to incorporate the National Academy of Dental Science; House bill ap propriating $120,000 for enlargement and re pairs of the public building at Atlanta; Senate bill to amend the law making annual appropriation to provide arms and equip ments for the militia, increasing the amount to $000,000; the Senate bill appropriating $40,000 for tho improvement and enlarge of the public building at Petersburg, Va. The Senate then adjourned. SAD ACCIDENT TO A BOY, Nearly Burned to Death "While ltcp i willing Winter in a Tableau A shocking accident occurre 1 at an exhibi tion given At Mr. Boj-d's private school at Montrose, N. J. A part of the programme was representation in tableau of the s asons. Jose Del Valle, a bright lad of fourteen 3'ears, represented winter and was clad in cotton to carry out tho illusion. H wore a big beard and mustadhe of the same material. ( After his apiearanee be was called before the, curtain by the applauding audience, which1 numbered over one bun ired persons. Iu bowing his thanks he incautiously ap proacfaed too near the fowtiigbts and his cos tume caught fire, In an instant he was oov'f en d from head to foot with the flames. The excitement was intense, and in their efforts to be!p the poor boy some of the spectators interfered with others who wero more cool headed. tl Finally a Sir. liaril, who also bad a son at the school, jumjied upon tbe stage and smoth ered the flan ics. Three doctors were almost immediately in attendance, hut beyond alle viating the pain of the sufferer they could do little or nothing. They found that his face, arms and legs were shockingly burned, and expressed the fear that he hail inhaled some of tbe names, in which event titeru was but little hope of his recovery. DEDICATION OF A CAPITOL. Imposing Military and Masonic Dis play at Austin Texas, The new Stata Capitol at Austin, Texas, was dedicated with imposing ceremonies. There was a grand military and Masonic di play. The Masonic Grand Lodge and tbe Grand Commindery of Knights Templar par ticipated. Among tbe most notable guests were Gen. Henrique Mexia, of Mexico, with a brilliant staff, especially delegated to represent Presi dent Diaz and tbe liepuUic of Mexico; Gen Santos Buenavidas, representing the Govern nor of N'oevo Leon; John V. Farwell and Colonel Abner Taylor, of Chicago, repre entiug the syndicate that buiJt the CapiboL ami Jeremiah Garrett and Mr. Aiken, large manufacturers of Manchester, Poland. Many noted guests from tbe South wer also present. . The grea. speech of the occasion was de livered by Temple Houston, youngest son of General Sam Houston, the famous Texas hero. He was delegated to accept the building in the name of the people of Texas. . As the young Senator rose, attired in tbe uniform a staff officer, slim of figure with smooth fa. en I abundant hair negligently dresHed.the striking resemblance to bis historic father thrilled tbe veterans and the great concourse of spectators. I THE GREAT FLOODS. Illinois Farmers Lose Nearly - Four Million Dollars. ; Great Snfferinc: in the Inundated Bottoms, bat tlic Worst lla Dii Done Tho Mlbdppl St ill Cover tho Terril wr, '-, ; f lmt the Waters Are Sabakltng-ThctxiNN U Estimated at v $3,000,000. , A siecial from Quincy, III, siy:--Th great flood jn tho Mississippi, wh'cb will bo remembered as without a precedent, in the destruction and suffering created, is Uowly abating and it is thought that the worst of the high water is passed. But tbo worst that could happen lias already occurred, hundreds of families being rendered , home less, and thousands of acres of growing crops rained, to say nothing of the loss entailed by demolished dwellings, wrecked fences and washouts. A trip through the submerged regions shows that the stories ot loss and suffering already published have not. been exagger ated in the least From the northern end ot Adams county to the southern end of Pike county the 1 n 1 on the Illiaois side of the river was protected by a system of levees, the region embracing 250,000 acres, the soil being the richest in the state. All the region is now one vast lake from six to ten feet in depth. Along the bluffs on the eastern edge, of the submerged district hundreds of fami lies are camped, living ia tents, huts and the open air. Before thedlood most of these people were well-to-do, prosperous farmers, but now they have little or nothing. Much sickness prevails among the unfortunates, but prompt measures have teen taken to al leviate their sufferings. The inundated regions are full of desola tion. Desjrted homesteads, with 'the water lapping the eaves, are the most frequent, us well as the most pathetic sight. But here aud there is a spark of life not yet extin guished by the all-destroying waters. While the vast majority of the inhabitans fled to the higher land a few were not grau'ed time to get away or misjudged tho character of the breaks in tho Itevee and determined to stay with their homes, and are now living in the trees or on the roofs. Every roof lias been turned into a place of refuse for live stock, poultry, &c, but numerous hous -s have been lifted from their foundations and carried away with the irresistible current or demolished entirely. In the Sny levee district, lielow Quincy, the situation is infinitely worse than in the regions to the north. The crevasse, which completed the inundation, opened at the up per end of the embankment and the pent up waters from the river poured over the vast tract of rich farming land, sweeping every thing before it. The torrent rushed down in a great wave several feet high with a fores which nothing could withstand. The towns of Fall Creek, Seehorn and Hulls are but mere islands and hundreds of refuges are huddled together in limited space. Four or Ave families are living in each of the rooms of the few houses above the water and are suffering intensely. " The damage to railroad property is enor mous and it will be three . weeks after the water subsides before trains can be running ou time. Quincy is cut off from railroad communic ition north, west and south. The Quincy and Carthage track is under water for a distance of several miles. The Quincy, AKon and St. Louis track is washed for miles, the bridges, are gone and telegraph poles down. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and the Wabash tracks at East Han nibal were washed out Saturday morning. On the west side of the river no attempt is made to run trains on any of the roads. Owing to the great confusion it'. is impos sible to obtain detailed losses, but the aggre gate will reach fully :5.000,00J from crops alone. Tbe damage to the levees, houses and railroads will approximate f(k,ii0(). Reports receive 1 record the drowning of Samuel Moore by the floods iu the Indian Grove levee district and of two children of Wm. Johnson in the Sny district. Two families living in tbe Sny district are unac counted for and no trace of thern can lo found. It is probable that fatalities will be recorded when all tbe facts regarding tha floods are fully known. Much sickness pre vails among the destitute people from the inundated districts but the relief committee of Quincy is reiiderlng every possible assis tance to those in distress. Trains on tbe western roads will bo resumed to-morrow and tbe damage to all the ro.vls in Ibis locality will be repiired as t;p;edily as possible. DEPARTMENTOFAGRICULTURI The IIous3 passes the bill for a New Kxecutivo Office ' In the House Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, from the Committee on Agriculture, moved that the rules be suspended a id the bill passed to enlarge tbe power and duti s of th ) Depart ment of agriculture and to create an execu tive department to be know j as tin Depart ment of Agriculture. Mr. Herbert of Alabama, nppo"il tbe pro vision of the bill transfering the weather service of tbe United Stales fciinal tk-rvico Bureau from the War Department to the new DeKirtment of Agriculture. The pur pose .of the measure was to dismis the pr-s-ent officers of the bureau and to provide for a new organization coinpo ei entire. y vt civilians. Mr, Blount, of OeorgiA, could see nothing in the bill which would benefit the farm rs or promote agriculture. Mr. Oates, of Alabama, assrte that tin. bill would not inerwe the agricultural to ductivenetuof the country n single hill of beans, bat would only create additional' offices for politician to fill. L The motion to suspmd tr e rul-H and pas the bill was agreed to yeas 2m, nay l- The bill creates anexeutive 'dejiarWnrit to be known as tho Deimrtmeirt of agrtcul ture.'under tbe supTvUion and control of a secretary of agriculture, and provi'le for tb- appointment of a first assistant secretary of agncuiture. It alio transf?i tff vnntii-r service of the United States Signal Servk-e Bureau from the War Department lo the Ik'partment of Agriculture. A FATAL EXPLOSION. Three lien Killed and Eleven Fatally Injured. Great exatement prevailed at Charleston, W. Va.. ov(tf- toe blowing up of the stMer Bob Henry, an Elk river packet Tha tat left for Big Sandy and hod two pui boats in tow loaded with goods for up country. There were about twenty-five people with tbe boat. At Ooeen Shoals the boiler exploddt instantly kiiling Lewis Keiijr, firwitin ; (X IP. Hrownly and Frank Dutiion ami fatally injur ing Pilot Morgan Stahlnaeker, Engineer Mil" ton HodnalL DeckhamU Billus. Wells, IL Jk Donnebou, IL V. Snyder, John Snyder, UiaJ Samples, Lee Jevitt, Ham Hart, Billy Cor Henry Snyder, all of whom are scalded ami received broken bones. Tbe slightly injured are CapC H3iry Whitaker,' John" Mains, cook; Pilot iigers and 8. H. riuni4e Tlie boat iru uisumi for f 1,500, an 1 wai built six months ago. The owners were Whitaker & WiLn. TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. ' All tl stroet-cr employes in ltiictiester, ) N. Y have struck for Km hours and more PJ- . be po&tofUce at AtUebnro. U , was en tered by burglars and about 1,'-V) in stamps taken. " . : . Two men were killed and others hurt ty an explosion in ti. li. Uackctts, chair factory Iltdadelphia. r T Joseph Kiehuh. cigar dealer, bkw bis brains out a his home iu Lottvuk Ky. Tho cause was business embarrassment. Thomas Wynne, aged 2ft, of Canton, Pa, was found dying from exhaustion and ex posure in a freight car at Cincinnati The large iron and niachibe works of the Belmont Iron tympany j in PhdndVlpbia were1' destroyed by lire, enuring les of t;o,tw. ).... Lnxt year there were 5,7ri saloon licensMt in 11itlaielJia, but under the tww law, ; out ot 3,-til aptlicaUons lonly wero granted. . . , , ; William Huliert ami Henry Cook, boys. becauso of the suffering iu their homos cauacd by drink. : " ' ' . , Horace Ellis, aged - eighteen, fell under a law in a mill la SI Iawreno couut v, N. Y. stkI his head was severed ! from his" body and j dropped" through aj h(4o Into the river .; ... .,;'' K; Jwlge Wallace of the United Stab Circuit V Court has docidtol that tint Church of Uie Holy I Trinity, New 'York, must iay !,' for imKrting its rector, tle Itev. Mr. War ren, from England, contrary to the endract labor act. rrauK-it Wooilmff: Co.',stel lucrchauU, New York, made an aviigiiuient. Cot A. Wilson Non i, s lieitor general ot Pennsylvania, died in Philaddphia. The iron manufacturers of tho Mahoning Valley have combimol lor mutual intertnt. The! steamer Atlantic, near Killanicy Out., picked up two mvu btidied to tliutr boat -dead.! -.;. ' " i' Peter Ka!, of San Francisco, shot the girl who rejected liis otfer of marriage and then killed himself. .;'. Chicflgo's Catholic ntdernien are bitterly denotihcul for not uprising Lliu location of saloons near the churches. (Jeoigo Thomas shot and killed Maggie Wise, 'a divorwl woman, in Cmciimall, and then committed suicide. ltevi. J. I. Hamilton, of the M. K. churrh, in the:viIlago of Uuy Shore, U I., va flneil flfteeij dollars for ittit.lareony. t Fire in a Chicago btible suffocated seventy horses, and two families living over tht stable! were nearly asphyxiated. Chicago church eoplo of all dciioiiiina tions tire uniting to force the city council U resign; becauso it failed to p'lxs au anli-saloou ordinance. Joha Silver & Co., wholesale and retail dry goods, of Halifax, N.S , have susju-ndmL Liabilities, $(V,000. ICnglish houses are the princi(al creditors. A woman in maleattiro attempted to kill P. J. Bolander, a Chicago real tate daler, on thestret, the two having lived together, but recently separated. Simjn Hamburg, of San Francisco, for swiudljing a man out of $10,000,, has been senteiieod to a line of f l'J,(W0, and In default to serve a day for every dollar of the amount. lteir J. Quinn.ohief bookkiier for Chris. (. Ilixon & Co.. of l'ittsbunr. lariro contrac tors and buillers, h;ts been missing for sev-. eral d iyii and it is suposod that ho has gone to Canada. An ex ami nation of bis accounts show aj shortage af f 15,000, Miss Mary Ingel, while standing on a bridge; over Fisbmg Creek, W. Va., play fully dropjted a small stone, intending to splash the waUjr over her companion,' Elmer Friend who wai imdiug over, washing his bands m the stream, but the stone,stricki:t;: him onjthe he-id, caused instant deaih. William George wsrf baagwi before day light, iii the jid at Columbus, Ohio. Tom bnes, of Dunlap, lowe, shot his wifo and then committed suicide. Fire Wpt several buildings at IlockTilU Centre, 1 I., doing $ 10,000 dimoge. The Htiprcme Court of Michigan fans de clared the local option law uncoustitulionnl. There! were 1G3 buuness failures in tbe United jSUtes and 30 in Canada tho ot week. v " A troiii from Bosfnn was df raileil at Nor wslk drawbridge, Connecticut, and tli is sengers made narrow escapes. Joseph! K. Andersonfcwbo was nominated for Governor of Tenne by the l'rohibl tionists, died at Knox vide. . Because her huibsnd Vame home intoxi cated sveral times, Mrs. Ida U. Wright of Fountain Green, III-, committed suicide. A planter named John II. Carey, at the Soldier's3 Home at Hampton. Va., drank a . ... .f A t.li.l m ...I .1 iwl frifrttfiM effects. ' ; j By an explosion of dynamite at the Tal mr mine. Jresranw. Michigan. Frederick Hamburg and Charles Sou Jberg were in stantly killed. Tbe greatest floo.J prevails along the Mis sissippi that has occurred sliu-e 1SI. Vast tracks of country areiuuii'Ibland imiiMMwe damage has been done. Ilio Droit ri ver at the city of Detroit U to be tunneled. The Blue Pudge Springs Ibte!, near Lynch burg, w as burned. Loni f.'W,XJ0. Dr. William J. Moore, a uoted Virginia physiciai,dMl at Norfolk, agod sixty-nin; years. - j .. Kdward Wilman, of St. diaries, Mich., killed bis wife for joining the Advent Church, j . Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis aivl ber thrro graml children Were smothered ia a burning house , in Cleveland, Ohio, Henry Ebert, convictorl of tbe murder of bis wife in Jersey City, has boon s;ntwioeJ so oe uangeu uiy i William Andrew, a saloon trori?Ur of Ashland, .sliot and kUled bis wife, and then cut hi own throat. f v Deputy Sheriff Shipa. of Knoxville, Teun. , was shot and killed by Hicks Martin. colored, whom be was attempting to arrest. a irnntiA mnniinient -has ln ereetel on tbe ot where General I lancock fH wwutnlod daring Pickett s charge at Gettysburg. ribert1 Smith, who, while inbixkail, wa locked np in the litUe jail at Cario, 111., fire to tlwj place and waa burned t death. Julius JlockwelL of Lenox, Mam., an ex-jud-of ithe-Mawacbttietts Suierior Onirt, died fnirt injuries received by Uiug thrown from his carriage. MARKETS. . 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