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t ; - ..c'.-.i; .'I (tl . ivl . it WHOLE NO. 601). te"4rElBB RICHMOND L IdWKET. : r: :-av:rv-r--;v-;:-- ' '.''. t: ' " 'f-'' ' - y:--v- . . : .,M;V t( ; . .. ,. , i ' . . ' ' ' : 1 1 :"Jl" -"---' i : j- .. . ' ' TT. V . . ' ' '- ' J : : r-j " 111 ', ; . ; : If. C. "WALL, Editor and Proprietor. - i! TO DEMOCRACY WS FIN QUIi FAITH. - " $1.50 per Year, In Advance. ' K ' t . - - ; . ' . " . ,,...;,.!. : !-r ' .--..-.,, 4 , 1 ' :,' - P -r , - : ; . ' v , - , - . h. . : ; ; V . r ' ' . V ' , yOL 1IL NO. 7. ROCKINGHAM, RICHMOND CO;, N, CM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1883. ' y f I Hi v MECKLENBURG IRON WORKS, CBEARLOTTB, O. MANUFACTURES ANT) KEEPS IN STOCK Steam Engine .and Boilers. Traction Engines. 43air Mills withTaxiable Friction Feed. ' . Wheat Mill Outfits. . ""5ifn MUs Portable. paratorg Tesliera and Horse Powers.. Reapers, Movers and Rakes i Steam and WatVr Pipes Brass Fittings, REPARS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. Address, y BURGESS WHOLK8JLLK RETAIL rrniiure Beddl&grMaiiressss, ChairsEtc. OH ARLOTTE, N. O a TDLL BTO0K Ol Cheap Bedsteads, Lounges, comNs of ali Knros Stock at Furaltare in saw bein bonh In tba r: ATTOKNBf S. FBiNKLIN MaNEIL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, rockincNam, n.c. win prectico in Bli nhmiiftrt. Boboson. Anaon and Jlooro ooantios. WALTER H. NEAL, j ATTORNEY AT LAW, l7 LAURINBURC, N. C. Jl MWuT vmotica in Biohmond and adjaeaut eonnuaa. Vnwopt ijMit-inii frin to all haBinetn. ra E PE OPLS ARB H W. PARKS Balls Dry Goods, Grocnrisa, Ehoas, etc., SO LOW that tha natives aMMtonUhad. Befaro buriag, call and aea RY GOODS, GBOCEftlRS. HATS, ,o)T3,. SHOES COTLEBY. MKAL. rLOUB, , MOLASSES, BAOON, SHIP STUFij .And almost everything needed by the people! : Unanre tooal udtnma balm buying. It will ba to jotir d ynumjta. , J. W. PARKS, lams )3U , . JUamlat, M. U, M SUES-HOUSE, ' EOCKINGHAM, N. C. Tbetabla will alwaja b aapplied with tha beat tha market aftotda. . ( . . ".") ;;' BATES; "' ' : Table board pTiaonth..................-........$l 60 Rnro'ith room. Der month lo v) f oardpar week, from. -..S 60 to 6 W Board pvinf, from.....T........ .....SI Wto uo Sinsle meals. M J. H. BABXES, Proprieto. ' janle 81 tf K MS THE 1UIXH SEA. V bt AiHMlral Sloorsom Collides with an . JkBricaa. Vessel Ureat JLossof I.'le. Ihe .lteamer Admiral Moorsom, plying be tween t)nbhn. and - Holyhead, collided wiih tho American ship Santa Clara, from -Liverpool for Not York, and was Bunk. The Santa Clara landed twelve of the sunken steamer's crew and two! of the passengers at Holyhead. 'i-Tic captain and crew of the Santa Clara did all iu their poorer to save the lives of thce aboard , tiie aeiildu" vessel, but a heavy sea was on at 'the tma of the collision and twelve of the crew and four passengers were drowned. The re mainder; of the crew and passengers of the1 iil ratjd packet not rescued by the Santa Clura were picked up by another Vessel and are sup posed to be safe. Mr. Kvart Elected.' Mr. William M. Evarts will represent ixew York in the United States Senate for six years -from March next, in place of Elbridg' O. LaphaWi After a contest for weeks, in which levi P. Morten was Mr. Evarts' chief oppo nent, the Bepublican legislative caucus nom inated Mr. Evarts for Senator. He was se ected by a very decisive vote, receiving 61 votes to 28 co-t for Morton and 3 for Chauncey M. Depew. A! ' I " . - " - V - " ' Edmond About, the novelist, journalist, dramatist and member of the Academy.; oi ' France, is dead. Abont's fame will rest upon bis amusing novels and his admirable novel ettes. j :- -'- . . TbefEnglish soldiers in the Esryptian desert are suffering terribly from thirst and fatigue. . ' More earthquake shocks have been felt in Spain, I The lieavy snowstorm and frost y con tinue ml Spain. In Malaga the most se vere snowstorm since 1861 prevails. The sugar caae crop has been destroyed and tho orange and olive groves have 3een damaged. The situation is most critical. ...... r -i The f ity of Klagenfnrt, capital of tho " provinceiiof Carintliia. in Southern Austria-, was visited by an avalanche, which wrecked several b undines and killed twenty of the in habitants. Many others were injured and rendered, homeless. All efforts to rescue the buried peasants have been futile. : A small village at the foot of the Sirsplnn Mouutaiii, in Switzerland, has been bailed nnder ten feet of snow by an avalanche, a, i , l-OlivOT Lrothers A Pliiilips, the great iron mannfacturers of .Pittsburg.- tf., have sns- pended payment. liabilities from ihroej to five millionk, .1 U ; i ' The old bankh-ig firm of John J. Cisco 4 Co., or New York, closed its door, witu lia bilities of; i2.500.0G0. an I asseis enough, it i claimed, to" pay in tulL rjufortiinate railroad iAiLEf-Slu ' JOHN WILKES, Manager, NICHOLS, DBALES IN ALL KBfDS OT Parlor and Chamber Soils, ALWAYS on hand. Xartlmn mvfcsU. Prompt atUatioa ctraa t orden LATEST NEWS. William flieinecke, the Elmira murderer, who escaped from Binghamton Jail, was cap tured hiding in a barn near Owego, N. Y. He submiied calmly and wari taken back to jail. In a quan-elat New Orleans one policeman hot and killed another.. The spinners of Fall Riveri Mass., have resopred not to strike ITiey will accept the reductious in prkes, , bill has been iniroduscd in the Daknt Legislature to remove the capital from Bis marck to Piem. Tho special Grand' Jury appointed" by the Cook County, II!., Criminal Court returned in dictments against a large number of persons charged witti having been engaged in the Chi- cated to death in the blazing ward of a lunatic asyium at Kankakee, lit. There wa3 absolutely no provision for extinguishing the fire. There were many narrow escapes and gallant rescnes. The corpses of tho victims were so charred that they could not be recognized. At West Attleborough, Mass., officers cap tured three "moonshiners" in an old i-hanty, together with the worm and other implements of whisky manufacture. : At a fire in Mobile, Ala., two women were burned to death. At Abraham EmSt's sawmiU, on the Leb anon arid Tremont Railroad, near Keller's Sta tion, Pa., a boiler exploded, killing three iucd , and injuring two others. The remains of five additional victims of the asylum fire at Kankakee, I1L, were recov ered from the ruins. The Indiana Legislature re-elected United States Senator Yoorhees. A Waba.h train struck a broken rail near Venice, UL; the Hinoker and baggage cats were . thrown into a cutch ana many people were in jured, one fatally. An incendiary fire completely destroyed the town of Hangham, near Hong Kong, in China, Many lives were lost. Fears are entertained that the steamer Charles Townsend Hook, which sailed from Saigon for Hong Kong, has been lost with 250 souls' aboard. A snow storm reaching from Northern Iowa to Northern Texas and from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Kansas City, Mo., has blocked trains on many roads and seriously delayed Ihe mails. ' Burglars with blackened faces broke into the house of Mr. Mellons, near the village of Chappaqua. N. Y. Mrs. Mellons threw ouo down stairs and the oiher beat her husband badly. The burglars fired at botm . The vil lage grocer was also robbed and fired at, prob abiy by the same men. Dr. M. F. Carver completed bis week's jork Saturday night and scored 60,000 l its at 9:44,-and at 9:50 re'ired with 60,016 to his credit. He made 60,000 hits out of 64,881 shot.-. His exploit caused little excitement even among sporting men. Five Kiowa Indians 'were found frozen to des th in Indian Territory. A young man undergoing imprisonment in the jail at Parkersburg, W. Va., claims to be a grandson of Thomas Campbell, the Scotch poet. There is another filibuster excitement at aetire measures to duxwver an alleged expedi- j won. It is learned that the agreement entered into between Corea and Japan strpnJutes ihat Corea shall pay an indemnity of 5uO,0CO taels, and that Japan shall place a permanent garri son of 1,500 soldiers at Deoul. The Corean Government has issued a proclamation absolv ing Japan from all blame or connection with "the recent disorders; -' Edmund Yates, editor of the London World, will undergo the four months' impris onment to which he was sentenced by the Conrt of Queen's Bench for libelling Lord Lonsdale. The Court of Appeal dismissed hiS" appeal against the sentence. After the conit had pronounced its decision Mr. Yates sur rendered to the officers, and was removed from the court room and placed in custody. The English troops suffer greatly from thirst in their march tbrongh.the desert to reach Khartoum. f The Chinese are afraid to carry out the war plans of the German officers in their ser vice because of the cost. 'The consideration of the Grant bill as it first came from the Senate, in which the Gen eral was named as the one to be retired, was thrown over in the House by filibustering. The situation appears -to be that the republi cans who wish to prevent the passage of tho Cist bill are numerous enough to; defeat that, while the democrats can easily kill the other measure, and between the two both will fall, at least until the time for a general suspension of the rules during the c osing days of the session. The indications now aro that neith- r - bin can obtain a two-thirds vote, and as mat ters now look few expect to see any Grant re tirement bill passed by this Congress. A biU was introduced in the House by rep resentative Blount, of Georgia, to compel the Secretary of the Treasury to collect the tax on all whisky in bonded'warehouses at the end of the three years bonded period; or, in otn .r words, V, annuls the recent action of the Treas ury Department. It was referred. A party of - emigrants, in attempting to ford Ouachita Bivor, near liockport, Arkansas, were washed off the ford, and three women and two children were drowned. They were Illinois people on their road to Texas. r A suspicious-looking box was found in the lobby of the Post-office, at Montreal. It was HEWS SPMMAB.Y Eastern and middle StAtea f. ' Cashier MjeUcM aiid Assistant-CasyB? Webb, , of tisa Merchants' bank, of Norwich, Conn, Were arrested forembeazling from the institution's funds. Both gave bonds tr answer, THTtlong struggle over a nomination foi the successor of Hon. Elbridge G-. JLapham as United States Senator froai New York ended by the Republican caucus awarding the prizo to William M. Evarts, whq receiTed sixty-one votes to tweny-eigfet for Oliver P Morton and three fcr Chauncey M. Depew. As tho Republicans have a majority in the New York legislature, the nomination of ilr Evarts was equivalent to an election. William M. Evart3 was elected United States Senator from New York by the State legislature, receiving nineteen votes in the senate and seventy-three in the assembly to thirteen votes in the senate and fifty-two in the assembly for Edward Cooper, the Demo cratic causus nominee.. " CONGEESSMAJT JONATHAW fACS was elected by the Rhode Island legislature to tBe United States Senate as successor to the late Senator Atathony. Or,tVER Bkotheks & Phillips, the sus pended Pittsburg iron firm, have made a statement to their creditors showing liabili ties, $1,50 V33. 93; assets, $2,319,853. An extension of five years is asked. Thb Connecticut legislature re-elected Hon. O. H. Piatt to the United States Senate. The Democratic nominee was W. U. Barnum, chairman of the Democratic National com mittee. Ujtdhs inKtmcHnnn tr.M Mvf,r rmu. flm t New Ynri? roMr:rzz-'l':y:':? S,,'. ,tnn tn.vM 1 i bo other night twelve gambling .uses in ! tho city were raided. i l HRBE right whales, known to -vnalemen a3 two cows and a cslf.V were captured the Ocner day off t51i lmg Island coast by the whalif g crews of two iiiBes. The whales were harpooned close to the shore, lui making a desperate tight for life towed the boats fully ten miles to sea before spouting blood. They are valued at nearly $4,000. A day or two subsequently another right whale was cap tured off the Long Island coast. It proved to be thejarg;est yet caught, being seventy feet loiiKalid nine feet broad. The bone if valued at 12,500. -The failure of the Jamestown fPenn.1 sav ings bank was followed by the discovery that its yv.uilgr cashier, I.-Ross Martin, had disap peared and was a defaulter to the tune of about &!5,0W. "When last seen Martin was headed for Canada. Sister Theresa, a niece of the Hon. James G-. Blaine, died a few days since in St. Mary s Catholic convent at "Wiikesbarre, Penn. Ex-Mayor Gunthek, of New York, once a prominent merchant and politician, is dead, i Thk boiler of a portable engine on Simon Benedict's farm in Groton, N. Y., exploded with terrific effect. Mr. Benedict and one son were fatally injured, a younger son was in stantly killed, and the engineer's body could not be found. Mount Washington, N. H.. has just had the coldest weather ever experienced there, tho thermometer registering fiity degress be low zero. A Mrs. E. 11. Gkkk.v, who is said to be the richest woman in America, had $'36,000,000 in first-class bonds and sef urities on deposit with the recently suspended New York bank ing house of John J. Cisco & Son. Mrs. Green called for her property, the other day, and upon tho assignee's refusing to give up $8'J0,'XK) woith of the securities claiming they must be held collateral for the loan of $300,000 made to her husband, the lady made quite a scene, bursting out crying, throwing herself upon the floor and refusing to be com forted or quieted. She finally left, threaten ing to appeal to the law. Philadelphia's famous old Liberty bell line of march big crowos cneereu tne revo j latdonary relic as it was conveyed toward the special train which carried it to the New Or leans f,xpositaon. South find West. Hos. Daniel, Vporheks was renominated to tbe United States Senate by the Demo cratic members of the Indiana legislature; The Democrats in tho Iuawna legislature have a majority on joint ballot. Large iron and bras3 mills in Ohio are agaia starting up, and reports, give a more favorable outlovk lor the metal trade than has existed in many months. Senator Vest has been re-elected to the United States Senate from Missouri. Mr. Voouheks was re-elected United" States Senator by tho Indiana legislature, receiving a majority of forty-five out of the 149 votes cast over ex-Governor Porter, the Republican candidate. Z. B. Vance was re-elected United States Senator from North Carolina, receiving l.JH votes. Tyre York, tho Republican nominee received twenty-five votes. Wilkinson CalIj has been re-elected United States Senator by the Florida legisla ture. Thkbe was a disgraceful fight over pos session of the speaker's gavel in the Illinois legislature. Speaker Haines resigned at 10 p. m., saying that it seemed both parties did not want him, and ho would have to assume his old position as the Independent party. Immediately ' there was a free fight for possession of the gavel, members hurling each other right and left in the effort to obtain the insignia of office. - An extraordinary scene of turmoil followed, and lasted for some time. Governor Scales' inauguration at Baleigh, N, C., was attended with an unusual civic and military display. During the wedding celebration of Colson Bainbridge, an Indian, near Webber's Falls, Indian Territory, he was killed by unknown parties, who fired through the window. Af ter his death "the firing became genernl, and three of the wedding party one man and twd Women were wounded. The Virginia fleet in search of depredators on the State's oyster beds ha3 made one haul of sixty-seven prisoners. Governor Cameron declares his determination to continue to make war upon the "oyster pirates'" so long as they continue their uniawiui practices. The announcement of J. Donald Canaer- on's re-election to the United States Senate was read by the clerks of both houses of the Pennsylvania legislature in joint session at tlarrisburg. The Colorado legislature has elected Henry M. Teller, secretary of the interior, as suc- Bessor to N. P. Hill of the United States Son ate. As C. E. Abbe, postmaster and United States land commissioner at Sarasota, Fla. , was walkina: along the street he was shot from behind and killed by two men, Who conveved their victim s body away in a boat Investigation is said to have resulted in the discovery or a secret assassmauon owiety, whose object was the removal by death m all persons objectionable to its members. Patrick Woods (colored), killed a - con stable at McComb City. Miss. Forty masked men took Woods out of jail and hanged nun. Tom Dttdging. an old hunter, was killed and eaten by wolves near Metropolitan, Mich. 'lhe h, niter killed thirteen ef tho fierce brutea before lie succumbed. A mas has just died in Chicago whose bones had become quite soft, except - the hips and knee joints. Wash! iifrton. . It is announced -that two colore compa uie3, the Monumental Gnprds of Baltimore and the Elliot Grays of New York, will be present at Washington during the Inaugural ceremonies. Rkpbesentative Johs D. Long, of Mass- arhiisotts, has been chosen by the managers of the Washington Monument commission to rend the address prepareil by Robert C. Win tiirop. of Massachusetts, which Mr, Winthrop had expected to deliver at the ceremony of dedication. Mr. Winthrop was the orator when the corner-stone was laid, and has re cently been very ill. Chief Jostick Waitb, of the United States supreme court, has gone to Florida for the beneht of has health. President Arthur sent to the' Senate the nomination of Carroll D. Wright, of Massa chusetts, to be commissioner of labor; Wil liam C. Hmmett, of New York, to be secre tary of the legation at Constantinople ; Emory spear, oi ueoreia, to be united states ais- net jud Georgia, i incD jnage ror tne southern aisxnci or News has been received that 400 settler" have taken possession of land in the Indian Territorv ijotitJfary to law, that Jthe number w steadily increasing, and that resistance to Federal authority is threatened. After a consultation between the President and sec retary of war orders were given to remove the settlers by United State troops. ' The Senate in executive session confirmed the following nominations: John Davis, of the District of Columbia to be judge of the United States court of claims: William JL Richardson to be chief justicfe of the United States eWurS of claims, and Samuel P. McCormick to be collector of internal reve nue for the district of West Virginia. A bjxx. has been introduced in the House to prohibit aliens and foreigners from acquiring or owning lands within the. United States. "Within four years twelve members of the House of Representatives eight Republicans and four Democrats have been promoted to the United States Senate. At a secret session of tha Rational tfoman SutTraM association, hold ia Washington, Elizabeth fcady Stanton, of New York, was chosen president, and Susan B. Anthony first vice-president. Thk wife of Justice Stanley Matthews, of J tna united btates supreme court, died a lew days since, j I Collections of internal revenue In the first six months of the fiscal year ending June 80, 1384, wore ?58,MS,6S, of which $34,CWi, 893 was from spirits, $12,732,399 from tobacco $9,570,492 from fermented liquors, and $151, SS2 from miscellaneous sources. The total receipts are $4,2ri, 78G less than they ware in the same period the previous year, Thk Senate Jkis confirmed ths nomination of Carroll Di iWrieht: Of Boston, to b corn- missioner of labor. , been ploed pn.tred hi States svfTfih list ol tne umcea 1-otc electoral returns of all the Btau-'.K both h mr .i,Jmesenrer. have been receive by the presidarii,he Senate. The returns from Oregon sand lwa were sent back for corroctijn, and have syice been received in proper lejial form. - -' " V Thk Houso comiuittee on tjhe public health fcas decided to recommend the appropriation of $:1),(h)0 for'th9 national' board of health and '$5C0,003 to be used at the discretion of W-i 'V isident in'rwvenfcing the spread of ' .a should it appose iu this country be- ice nest congress ttssemoie3. Furtheb nominations by the President: Henrv S. Biudekouer to le postmaster at Philadelphia; Stanford E. Chaillo. of Louis iana, to be a member of the national board of health?' Lucius H. Foote, of California, to be mtiiister-resident ana consul-general ol the United States at Corea : Nelson A. Dunning, of Micldcran, to be consul of the United, States at- Auckland; Andrew S. Drnjr, of New York, to be a iu'lgc of tho cwivl of commissioners of Ala oair.;t '..lahris; John F. Hirtranft to be col lec'or of customs for the district of Philadel phia; William A... Baldwin to, bo collector of customs for tho district of Newark, N. J. ; and William S.: Steele, of Peunsvlvania, to be coiner of the mint of Philadelphia. TflE .House: co.nmittea on postofflces and post l'dads adopted a resolution to recom mend to the : committee on appropriations that legislation he embodied in the postoffice appropriation biill providing for the reduction of postage on ile-.vspapei-s from two cents to one cent per pounX j Forelffrt. A railroad; traiu struck a broken rail near Venice, JH. ; the smokar and baggage, cars were thrown into a ditch and many peo ple were injured, one fatally. G reat suffering prevails amon" tho victims of the recent earthquakes throughout Spain. Native peasants engaged to accompany the l.ritish army niarvhing to Gordon's re lief aro deserting by hundreds. Thomas Pa nay was Jianged in Galway, Ireland, for j murdering liis sweetheart, 'j.-- yiif, T-?.,r-ic: ' FitI b- hA?" ey- Fresh earthquake shocks, resulting in sopie damage, have been felt- in Spain. Many more villages in Italy are reported as having been; devastated by snow avalan ches, and the Lavoc and slaughterare described as appaliing. ' At Frassino 140 persons were kided; tne Village or V atgrano was partly destroyed and a large number of persons lost heir lives: forty-two iersons wero killed at Deveii; the village of Rabnssa was almost completely buned under snow, and the vic tims thero were exmnted by the score. ; , i - An avalaii' -he of snow at Metoulles, France. crushed a churcn, m wmcn a number or per sons were worshiping. All were buried Under the snow, Jos were also twenty men who wero working in a marble quarry near By- - :. !!!.. aKiEirJAXT arid Russia have agreed upon measures for t.he extradition ef persons guilty ot violence or aEtcmptoa violence toward the members of the royal houses of both countries. PROMINENT PEOPLE. :f .! j Thk salary bf th-i emperor of Russia is said to be $Y21U,00-).. ' TmtODOiis Tilton expects to make his pormnneni liolna iu Paris. Leopold Von Ranke, the distinguished German historian, has completed his four score and ten yours. CoNGrtES3u'A i Townsend, of Illinois, who is described as "taiente'l, irritable and vain," was once a page boy in the House. Among the recent Presielouts neither Lin coln or Hayes smoked. Johnson, Grant, Gar field and Arthur did, and Cleveland will Sixtv-nine arm'v officers, including Gen erals Pope, Hancock, Augur, Drum and riew ton, will reach the retiring age during Mr. Cleveland's term of office. Gbover Cleveland will bo the fifth presi dent inaiururated on Wednesday. The others were J. nomas, d ertersoii, .anarew acKsoa. Millard Frilmoro and James Buchanan. John C Eno. the fusrutive New York bank Drosident. is ixroular in Quebec, visit ing the best people and giving fashionable dinners. Ha bus been made a member or the Merchants' club. Mb. Vaic 1 the "cattlo-kinu" of Nevada. began business twenty years ago with a cap ital of $50J. He paid $oU0 for a Durham cow and from tbat cow he has sola 44u,oou worm of high-bred calves. Mrs. Gsneeal Diaz, wife of the president of Mexico, is only twenty-five yeara old. She is a tan. saliow-compiexionea woman, siouuer in iisrure. with a lone. Roman nose, and a pointed under jaw. Prince Henry Maurice, who is to be- come the husband of Princess Beatrice, Queen ' Victoria's youngest daughter, is de scribed as "one of the most handsomest men of his age, which is twenty-six." Genebal Benjamin P. Butler haa Drought suit in the United States circuit court to eomoet Mr Stephen B. Elkins to make a deed conveying to the former 100,090 acres ol JNew Mexican land vaiuea at 5o,uw. Jonathan Chace, United States Senator elect from Rhode Island is a strict member of the Sooietv of .Friends. He never nomi nates a cadet . to West Point or Aunapolis, and he never votes for the military appropri ation bills. : ; Adjutant General Drum agrees with General O. H. Iloward in the opinion that desserters from the arm v ought to be brandecL General Drum says that during the last five Years 10.901 soldiers have deserted frecn th regular army, or nearly every other man.' BURIED BY AVALANCHES. Vlllage in Italy and Fiance Whelmed Vnder &mow Over- News has bean received that villages in the highlands of Piedmont and Savoy, Italy, were devastated by avalanches. Thiee villages In Piedmont, including the important village of Frassono, have been buried under avalanches from the PiedmOntese mountains; The town of Cbaumont in France, capital of the depart ment of Haute Maine, at the foot of the Vos ges mountains, is partly overwhelmed with snow, and many people there have been killed. Another fatal avalanche has occurred a.t Sparone, on tho Dora Boltea river, a few miles south or Irrea. Fifteen persons are known to be buried un der the snow at Sparone, and most of the other inhabitants are engaged in digging out the survivors.,' The villagers who have been made homeless are in great distress and - have snrjealed for relief from the royal treasury at Rome. Troops have been sont zrom nome to DYMMITE IN LONDON. THREE YE HIT 8EKIOUS EXPLOSIONS HOUSES OF PAULlAiMJBjNT DAMAGED. Tho Tower of I-onilon Partly Destroyed KxptoHlon at Westminster Hftll Treiaen tioiis Force ol the Shock Sixteen Vwitors at the Tower aid a Policeman nt the ' House of lrl lnjared lireat Ex-nitc jHent in Londonn An alarming explosion occurred at the Houses of Parliament on Saturday afternoou at 2 o'clock. Those buildings andtheGovern meut offices were severely shaken, ai'd coniid erable damage was done. ' - TTie report of the explosion was heard in Downing street, about throe-quarters of a mile distant. The explosion occurred close to the House .-Of Lords near Westminster Hall. The es plOBive Was placed in the Crypt under the build" Irfg. One policeman was hurt. The force Df tho Bhock was tremendous, and W4 it tA great distance. The amonnt of the damage done was very great- Anothor exploBion oor cur red at 2 o clock in the af terncon at Loudon Tower. The excitement increased with every moment and the city was filled with flying rumors. R-it.nrrlftv heirur the nsnal vinftinc dav at the ' Houses of Parliament, the buildings contained a great number of eigntscers at the time ol the explosions. , The first explosion ocurred in the crypt of Westminster Hall, The second took place In the strangers' gallery of tho House of Commons. Immediately before the first explosion a lady visitor, who was alone and abaux to cuter the buildings, beckoned to a policeman, and when he we.ht to her she called his attention to i package lying upon the steps outside the crypt. The policeman picked up the ptckage careless ly, not snspecting anything, tnd went with it but into Westminster Hall. le br.d no sooner reached the hall than' the p-;kage exploded. . The attack was made on that part of the f-. The atta .building k fisfe fille' .building known as the "Wine Tower." It was hliea with visitors s wo ume, ana mosi, t those who a-e known to nave iia- mnviner aVont at the titna of ",'K ;'4k' ?! The White Tower wag almost viW . the force of the expii,-v)n. and the roof was bloi clesr off the structure. The police, iihe numenrthey realized Uie na ture of the explosion, iffectuaily baned all egress from the Tower and grounds. Surgeons were promptly .summoned tr the ksii'tance of the wounded, who are how re ceiving all the attention practieabls. The houHes of Parliament, on the left bank of the Thames, and between the river and Westminster Abbey, occupy the site of cho old palace, which was burned Octobei 16th, 1834.. They cover an area of eight acres, and contain 1,100 apartments, one hundred staircases and two miles ol corridors. The foundation stone was laid April 27, 1840. The Honsc of Lords was opened in April, 1817. The House of Com mons, which occupies the site of old St.. fctephem's Hall, was opened February, 1852; it is sixty feet lone and forty-five feet wide. It is a more austere building than the House of Lords. Westminster HalL the other buildiDg re ported damaged, is 290 feet long, 110 high, asd 68 wide, and occupies the site of the old hall of the royal palace, where some of the early parliaments were'held. The highest law ' courts of Great Britain'are held in this hall. . Tbe Tower of London is the most celebrated citadel of Eugland and the oiily fortress in Loudon. It is of very ancient origin. It con tains a renowned collection of armor, and the regalia of English monarch. Among its most memorable spots are tbe traitors' gate, the bloody- tower, opposite :h gate, where the sons of King Edward the Fourth were murdered, and the white tower, con structed by WiHiam the Conqueror, and ex ternally remodelled by Wrou, but almost un changed' in the interior. This is the ! r which was dai iaged by the explosion. Tho Tower is three or four miles distant from tho Houses of Parliament. A later report Vie ; ; r: ' Three explosions oe- tv ml:- . and was followed in a few seconds by another explosion in the Stranger's gallery of the House of Commons. The third was in the Tower of London and shortly ' after the other two. Sixteen people were officially reported to have been in jured. JSone ot these is said to have sus tained mortal injuries. Tne attack was mado on ihat portion of the buil-ling known as tho "White lower. - lhe witors were movuig about in alt directions. '1 he structure was badly wrecked by the concussion. All the in jured percons were visitors. A large number of children were among the visitors at tho Tower at tho time of the explo sion, and many of these nttJo ones had their faces and hands lacerated by the broken giass and flying splinters. The most piteous sight in the large crowd of innocent prisoners de tained in the building by polioe orders was afforded by those weeping little people with their pale faces and bleeding hesdsand hands. lhe stories cf the mjuries to children roused the immense crowds of fi enzied people to a condition past restraiut. In tremendous vol umes of sound the crowd yelled frantically: Lynch the villains!" "Roast the fiends!" Colonel Majendie, Chief Inspector of Explo sives, said in an interview that the ingredients used were nitro-glyoerme compounds, precisely similar to thoso used in the previous outrages in London.. Tne explosion in the Tower was on the sec ond floor. Three floors weie entirely wrecked and the explosion damaged many hundred Stands of arms that were in the part of tho bonding employed as an arsenal. Mho damage done to wtstmmster nan is much greater than was at fiist suspected. The lobby of the House oi Commons was completely demolished, the force of the at tack being so great that a man 300 yards from the scene was knocked d-.wn. In the interior of the House of Commons and on its floor the only seat damaged by the concussion, curiously enough, was the seat usnally occupied by Mr. Gladstone. It was badly broken. A TALK WITH ONE OF THE INJURED. Edward Green, a civi: engineer, who was terribly injured by the explosion in the Houso of Commons and who was removed to the Westminster Hospital in Broad Sanctuary, near the Parliament buildings, the only accu rate account of the finding or the internal ma chine that exploded. Mr. Green said: "I was visiting the House of Commons on a aiiiht-seeintr trip ' with my wife and sister, who, by .the way, are both Irish women. As we were descending the stairway leading to the crypt, my wife noticed a roll which.iooked like clothing lying on one of tbe stone steps Smoke was issuing from the rolL My wife exclaimed, 'What a that? It looks ; like dynamite !' We were all frightened and rushed back yelling to the lirst policeman we saw. His name is Cole. lie seized the bundle and ran upstairs with it. meaning to carry it out ol the build ing. Just as he reached the top step leading into Uie ball be dropped the bundle, ami it ex ploded with tho most, terrible report 1 ever heard. Both the ladies who were with me were thrown to the ground and bruised. Thoy both fainted. I was hurled a dozeu feet and dashed violently to the stone floor. Some of my ribs aro broken and I am bruised in many places. Aiy clothing was torn to tatters. The latter received by the police authorities is behtved to be a very important document, In addition to other information, it says that St. Paul's Cathedral and the office of the Daily Telegraph are among the buudings which the dvnarmters threaten to blow up. It is now known tnat the infernal machines used to cause the disaster -were ignited by sulphuric acid, which worked through cotton wool and ate. awsy the cap beneath. The pro cess occupied twenty minutes, and this allowed the conspirator to escape oerore tne expiemior. to.K place. i The official estimates made by the Govern ment inspectors place the amount of the pecu niary damages wrought by the explosions in Westminster Hall, the House of Commons and the Tower at 7U,0W. All the indications show that the explosive posiessed the downward tendency peculiar to dynamite. Odors indicating t-ulphuric or nitiio acid, and unlike the smell of gunpow der. were noticeable after the explosion. At the Tower between 1,000 and 2,000 rifles are believed to have been destroyed. In the Couucil Chamber of the Tower -whole cases made of plate gla-s a quarter of an inch thick and containing armor were shattered. ne wall against which the dynamite was placed is sixtean feet thick, notwithstanding which the plastering on the opposite side'of the watl, for a radius of several feet, was shaken to the floor, leaviner. the stonework bare. An American ladr. who. with her father, was aishtseerne as the Tower when the shock oo- enrred, was overcome with fright and went into'hystericssJrsquenfly burBtmg into tears for some hours. , The two young women most seriously hurt, who were taken to hospital, are rapidly recovering. - xne ower pewu tu trhurif The nninjured visitors were de Ritil their names and addresses were taken, 'ihey wsrs allowed to depsrt after having spent three hofits practically as prisoners. -r ' James GhVrt Cunningham tfas -arrested on suspicion. He is charged, on suspicion, ol complicity in the explosion at tho Towi'i- of. Louden. The prisoner is about 58 years.-of age, of medium height, with dark hair and ejes, aud FalljiT. complexion. His cheek bones are high, and his upper lip con spicuously overhanging. His lace is clean shaves. In the street at a hasty .glance Re might be taken for German-American.. H has sharp- features and a sbniewaat inisel expression. He wore a dark suit of ?ioth, including an orercoat, and had on a deerotalk er's hat He smilingly surveyed the Court and the ciowd which had cong'-egatt:d to get a glimp; of the alleged dynamiter.-. He declared that he was an Englishman. THE DYNAMITE BCSINESS., Action in tne United ntfttes Senate and House and in the New "f ork S.nt 'Seiw- In the United States Senate Mr. I Bayard called np the resolution which ho introduced on'Saturday relative to the dynamite outrages in England, . He spoke in favor of the resolu tion. Mr. PdddlebeTger moved to refer the resolution. He could say that he received such information vith "profound sorrow," but he could not always say that he received it- with "indignation.'' A lengthy discussion followed, taken part in by leading members. Mr. Lapham moved to so amend the resolu tion as to cover the idea that the explosions imperilled the lives of innocent and unsuspect ing person," The resolution as amended was agreed to leas; 63; Ni s, 1; the negative Vote being Mr. Riddleberger's. In tha House Mr. Hewitt, of New York, offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of .State to inform the House whether the depart ment is in possession cf any information tending to connect any person or persons res ident in this country with attempts to destroy life and property within'the dominion of any foreign power with which we have treaties of peace aud amity. Mr. ?'orsl)eimer,of New"Ki7a; introduced the Edmunds bill frr V;i.e punu-hment of crimes 'I'jrsauuteu uy means oi explosive cooipoimas. in the New York State Senate Seiator Gil bert's anti-dyi.aniite measure was introduood It makes it a" criminal offepoe to make, sell or transport dynamite without a permit. NEWSPAPER POSTAGE Argument in ruror ol n KedttclVov -r-'ilie mattsr Before Congress, The question of a reduction in newspaper postage is now before Congress. The , New Yjrk Mail and Express discusses the matter editorially as follows : ; " " Before tho year 1874, postage on newspa pers and periodicals mail matter of the second-class was paid by the subscriber at the oflicaof delivery. Much of this postage was naver collected, and in 1874 the present law was passed, whit;h requires prepayment at the office of publication. As this change in the law came at a time when it was im possible for publishers to advance their rates to meet tho additional outlay, the postage has always boon practically a government tax upon publishers. !r'ince 1S4 the postage on letters and on transient newspapers and periodicals such as are sent by other: persons than publishers has been largely reduced, but on second class matter tho rate stands where it was put eleven years ago. In view of these facts, a meeting of news paper men in the West and Northvest was called at Detroit five weeks ago, and an that meeting, in which tho principal journals of Ohio, West Virginia, AY estern Pennsylvania, Indiana! Illinois, Wisconsin. Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Tennessee were represented, a memorial was adopted, urging 1 rn at ter to one lialf the present rates. The subject has been agitated ler several years. In April, laa, tne tiouse requested Postmaster-General Howe for information as to the weight, cost of carrying, and postage collected onsecoud-class mail matter, together with his opinion of the propriety of abolish ing the postage on such matter. Mr. Howe replied that, in ,his opinion, each abolition was both less.' ble and advisable, ine rotai revenue to th-j goveiTim-nt frora this source was only about $1,500,000 a year; or between three and four.- per e-er.t. of the total postal revenue. This amount tbe government could easily afford to loss. A " present, falling upon comparativolv small class or business men, it amounts, in many cases, to a taking away of the en! ire profits of a newspaper. Aside from ail these considerations and all that thes? pub;ihers aok.- i3 that the rate on seconJ-c'ass matter be-Teduced in a ratio commensurate witu the reduction on krst and. third-class matter it might well be ar gued tbat it is scarcely fair, in this land of libertv a:id intellectual-light, to put a special government tax upon a business which more than any o:ner teaas to tne eaue-auou oi uie noonlo. There are already several dub Dciore me Hou.e lookinz tn remedial legislation in the premises, it is n'wiy that tne iriendsor the proposed rem .-rion win uuire o.i some one or thoa- measures, and press lor an eariy con sideration of it. Su'.-h a consideration it cer tainly ouht to have. THE ICE CARNIVAL, Onenine Srcnes at ronHcal-'S itoit- sands of wjho:s. Thousands of sti angers were present dur ing the opening ceremonies of the ice carni val nt Montreal. On the Place D Amies a monster ice lion of exauiate sculpture had been constructed, which was unveiled. Dm' ing tho afternoon a boulevard on the ice was opened. There were two tracks for trotting horses and one for spectators. Tho best specimens or the Canadian ixmv yp4u exhibited. On tha island toboggan sleds were used hv manv t loss bv an ancient ti'appQi s camp added to the natural appearance o the scene. Toboggan slides in an pans uiui e.li mramtain were ouened. l'r-. he vision w.-is also made for children, Willie strancr vrnre heartilv Welcomed. On the Chamo de .Mars, wnat is e-aueu u. condora, rosembling an ol-l-fsshiono-1 caira, all - of ir waft constructed. It was sur- moimtl hv ficrurea of snow-shoes and l.y a rranner fifteen ivt. hiVh. holding a torch. In the afternoon a highly successful promenade mnmrt who held in ..tha Victoria Skating, whom iii 'he , eveninz a hoe-key match on skates took rlace. l he rink w as rrnwrlnd. mid t,!m liest local' mid OUt- side talent took part. At night the formal illumination of the Mount Koyal toljoggan slide took place. The governor-general nr- rivArl in t.hn nvp.riinfr. nud WilS accorded a hAnrtv ivrontirai At 8 o'riock tllO icO palace arm llliiminaterl Tvr. p.lfif tric licrllt. While the ion lion and i-oncioi a wero exhibited under the same conditions. The ice palace is a much much more massive structure this year than last; the major, axis hAino- liifl feet lono- nnd 120 feet in width. The; Wound nlan is elliptical in form, and on of thA ma-ior axis are t vo oblong towers, each thirty -eight feet high, with an entrance to tne ouuuiug. iux. a tibw . thin a- ' In this .year's palace are: the two round towers at each en.l rvf tlhn minor axis. With arched entrances. The main tower is flanked on one, aide with sinrrla towers about seventy feet InTieight, and ou the other with double towers rismsr to a heiaht or iorty anuiut faot. i-c.3T-tTviv it. is e.xiie.diiilv Kracotpl in olitlina. and its nroportions aro well bal anced. It is wonderfully beautiful in the day light, but it is not until evening that one sec-a to perfection tins enchanted castie ul nig sea-green united ice, when with the moon shining in the heavens above with that clear brilliancy seen only in extremely cold cotin trfes, and with the'eloetric illuminations gut tering through.itstowei-sau I turrets, it seems much more like th j marvelous imaginings of some opium S!it-1 dreamer than a real tangi ble thing, a hue cUss-ling gain. - Crop Report. The annual report of the Department of Ag riculture at Washington, now in press, makes the record of corn production for the year 1884 L 795,000,000 bushels, that of wheat nearly 613.000,000, and of oats, '683,OOQ,000.- These aggregates are the largest ever recorded. The Mt of vield is 25.8 bnshiels for corn, 13 for wheat and 27.4 for oats. vThft3 are the flsuxes SUMMARY OF CONGRESS Senate. The Sennte devoted the ' day to eulogies of the late Senator Anthony. His chair, in tire front row errt the riopijblican side of the chamber, was draped in Mstct Mr. Sher man presided. Immediately after tbe read ing of the journal Mr. AldrJeh delivered a speech commemorating the private' Virtues aud public services of his former colleague. Ho was f o'lowed by Messrs. Edmnuds.Bayard, Morrill, Pendleton, Hear, Garland, Ingalls, But'er, Hawley and Mandorson. A short seech by Mr. Shtrtlleld, Mr. Autiony's sue cesser, closed the cereJiunies. Mr. Plu -nb of er d a resohrtion crtllinsr upon the President to advise th Seriate' as to the" st.iLus of the unoccupied lands in the Indian Territory; and upon the suggestion of Mr K-jnr the matter wont over. . . .Mr. Colquitt presented the credentials, of Joseph E. Brown, r-ekcted Senator from Georgia.... Tho ei:tto reauned consideration of the Inter-Si arte CommeFce, L'ilL- which was dis cufsd by If r. U-jck and Mr. Maxey. Mr. Coke j-i!eM6il to1 a motion tc o into executive session . . ; A message from the President wai received transmitting information relating to the foreign commerce of Mexico, Central and South America, the Spanish West Indies, Hayti and San Itoiningo, and the share of th United Stat-s therein. Tlie considaration of the Inter-State Com merce biil was resumed, Messrs. Cook, Ma Pherson, Morgan and Harrison continuing the discussion.... A message was received from the House announin-r the death of John Hamilton Eviiw. Mr. Hampton offered nn appropriate resolution. Air. Frye and Mr. Butler also spoke, and the Senate ad-' journed out of respect, to the memory of Mr Evins. The' Okliihoria lands question was age''' discussed. The resolution of Mr. Vest i . Gallod up, which requests tho secretary of interior .to ascertain upon what terms Creek, Cherokee and Seminola Indiats surrender their remaining interests in thoso lands. Mr. Plumb offered a substitute, whir-' , .equested the President faiaieiKju-spjil;sCy'' yseiaaroipxo ueoiittuuu wn gvicn xr tribes as may be in possession ( more . &au enough to give each head a fai'".. 10 J acres, with a view to using sue. trplus land for actual settlers only. After (Xmssion the resolutions were referred to the cmmi tie on public lands. Home. Mr. Hitt, moved to suspend the rules and pas3 the Senate bill providing for tfcfo cxer t-Lse of the jurisdiction conferred on thd United States in places out of their territory and dominion. , After tlebate the motion was lost.... Mr, Cox introduced a bill to appropriate 350,000 for a nine hundred ton gunboat.... Mr. Phelps moved that the President be asked to f urnish information as id the impriscrfl nient of Cbas. A. Van Bockkelt at Port-au- llince, Hayti Mr. Townshend offered a resolution asking tbe President to send the House the con espondence on file in the de partments relating to tho Oklahoma lands in the Indian Territory, and information as to the condition of tho controversy, growing out of the rtttempted occupation of those lands. Mr. Oates, of Alabama, from the comroitr fee on public lands, reported a bill prohibit ing aliens and foreigners from acquiring titlo to and owning lands in the United States Tho House discussed tho Indian ap propriation bill. Mr. Ellis,, of Lou isiana, explained that tha bill ap propriated $.5,(K4,135. which sum was $1,868, 914 less than the estimates, an 1 $195,000 less than the sum appropriatod'fer the current year. Tbe new legislation in the bill provided i'or tha punishment of any person convicted of furnishing firearms to any Indian except those belonging to the civilized tribes in the ' Indian Temtory.and made more stringent the v.v against, the introduction of ardent spirit into the Indian country. The Agricultural Appropriation, bill was reported to tho House. It carries $516,'2'J0 which w about iik,uoj. less man wio wt nriation f or the current fiscal year. . ..Eulo- of Rhode Ialand. were delivered by Messrs. Chace and Spconer, of Rhode Island; Kelly, of Eeunsvlv.mia ; Poland, of Vermont : Morse, of Massachusetts, and Keifer, or Ohio, and then tho House, as an additional mark of respect to the deceased Senator, ad jouriifd. . f AUf. nuru oxierea a resoiueuHi wmuu mu wj a long debate. " It recited that the Blair Edu cational bill, and other bills appropriating mmey, which had originated in tho Senate, worsen the speaker's .tabio, ami directed eno judiciary committee to inquire into the ben- ate s power taj originate sucu uiiia. jjl. wmu said, in support of his resolution, that the question directly presented was wneeuer uuis appropriating money from the treasury were bills for raising revemuea, and he upheld the affirmative of tho proposition. .' A bid. for raising revenue included a bill appropriating money; for until the appropriation had been made' it was not revenue to the government. The resblutkfii was filially tabled. LATER NEWS A bill to punish "dynamiters" has been introduced in the New York senate. Tn rrrivnl of the old Liberty Bell from Philadelphia was made the occasion of a holi day in New Orleans. Jclierson uavis toon part in the reception ceremonies and made a speech. The New Orleans streets tnrougu which the train passed overflowed with spec tators, and at the Exposition grounds a large crowd gathered to witnesi the arrival of the bell. Several sharp earthquake shocks have "been felt in San Francisco. "While "wake" services were being held ver tho body of Delphia Cceke, a colored woman, at uyucuourg, a., mv- utv. corpse disarranged tho preparations for hor funeral that were going on by suddenly sit ting bolt upright iuhci- coffin. Vt last ac counts she. was alive and woll. ' The House wing of the capital has had a narrow escape from destruction by nre. Flames '.Tore discovered near the root, but were extinguished before they had mado much headway. Part of the roof was de stroyed. - The President has nominated Lommo..ore Samuel F. Franklin to be rear-adnurai. Victoriana Nievkz, an old Mexican ro-. siding in Carmen, Mexi, is worth severa' million dollars, and has just celebrated Lis golden wedding. In honor of that event he gave a grand, banquet and scattered i. in every direction, sending -$500,000 to tbe locust etten district m one lump, and con tributing $10,000 toward paying off the re public's debt James Gilbert Cunningham, tho man ar rested in London Tower soon after the dyna mite explosions, was committe-d for trial af ter exarnination. Ho is described as an Irish- American, about twenty-five years old. The London police considered.-his arrest very important. All the publio buildings m Lon don are j-fnarded by police and milit uy, and erwtai det.Mivei aro watchiiur ont-goin;: steamers, especially those d-tiued for Amer- At least 300 lives have been bxst Ihrough nt. enow avalanches e:i tbe Italian Anwrlcnn Shlpii'.na he bill introduced by Senator Frye to en courage the American meruuui. tHorizes the Postmaster-General to con rat-, with Khips of American registry to carry ve mails of the United States between any put t of the United States and any foreign port or -oe-tween ports of the Atlantic and P.icuiJ in which the vessel touches at a foreign port. The contract price is not to eiceed .1 per mile on the trip each way, and the term of contract is not to exceed four years. Lie ag gregate amount to be expended for snoli ser vice i not to exceed the groe revenues -f tlfe United States on mail matter sent to aud re ceived from foreign countries dnring trilcai rear iu wmcn sncu comrw , , - : chase or charter by trr-fjnil-ed Btef -foreign vessels or aa4 vetsn '--.!.; United. States mans may i laonuE paid j ioicsi- --r r- ofthemaa. Other vessels engaged I in such .u .ntc in irr of war arft td be eubjecv f t- i.'x'.Jii-i:- - BURNED AND SUFFOCATED. A Sttd Los rf Lifo in n. Blnzlnjr SmdkH ' AnXfttn la iiltnoia. - A terrlH eatastrophe occniTeil at Eankakoe. HI. Tho So-.ith Infirmary of the luinois East ern Hospital for the Iwano was burnod down and seventeen patients 'lost their lives. Ike fire gained great headway at ouee, and as th ' building was largely constructed of mharama ble Southern pine the devouring. flauiea made short work of it. There was' ubsoiately uo previeion made for extinguishing a Ine. The buikting destroved had two stones. It . was completed ta; t August. It was used a i an infirmary, with forty-ttvo msaBS inmates, twenty-throe on the first floor and twenty-two on the second. Tho tiro broke out near t'.u furnace. The furnace Hues carried; vo nines ol imoke into the second "lorj", m whi. b twi. jjfy tine patients -and turoe attenJunts voi domiciled. Tbe smoke eior.sclv tilled tne upper ponioa of the building be: ore. thoso on the lower story had been removed,; and cf tho twenty-four, porscnis on thci floor iiltuou met their death Ik-fore they -wtild be Beached. Mr. and Sirs. J. M. lioxo, attendant on the fatal tt-or, escaped by tho stairway m thoir night clothes. T!uy were, llu h.rt persona wb.oiv.sed this avonuo of egress ndlhc last, for a moment later the stairway led with a crash into tho eeorehiug n.astfof rlltunes whicb enveloped that portion of the bnddir.g. . Sov erel jwtients were rescued from the ui per flour by means of ladders raided to -the windowsu SuptTiiit -udeCt Dewy was the hrst to usoend, breaking out several wmdov.8 wnn iiw ri bands and assisting two pistientf . From a number of the window ; with tho Udders Buch dons3 t poured out as soon as the g" ; i that it was an impossibility ! , Thirty'- ' '" Sre ul ' ler'i-v ' "ou ...'Po.aepa. i . ... with their. . - i ' ., . .'. mg determined by t. as thoy were found. - : - !., W. U. Belden was the oi... . - , ,- enou'hof shape to bo laid um., lho head, hands and feet were entirely goiio, learing w blacliened and charred trunk. The legs and arms were drawn up as though the vicum hd died in agony. '' Many of Uie patients on tho first floor wtro removed ty main force, and as soon as thoy were liberated they ran bacic into Jhe burning building. In somo instances this fraarepeakd three or four times. " i The entiro remains of ton of tho victii.is -; wore spread on a lable two feet squat -. Friends arc nrriviug iu search of lost ones. Tho stenes on tlieir arrival aad view of tne clianod remains was very heartrending. . INCIDENTS. Among the incidents told of the disaster are the following : Whiio tbe flames were at theic height, Jack Coviic, an old sailor from Chicago, who was au inmate of the institution, mounted a ladder, which had bee n ranod to the north y dormitorv, in order to aromo the su-opeis. .S Tne undertaking seamed hopeless. DeuhoX clouds of smoke rolled out of the windows The west wing, whero the die was first seen, was a mass of lire, with the wind b owing the flames to the interior of the biuidii-g. Tho stairway and thi llotr of tna hall-hp d fallen. Coyne intrepidly went i)uoiish."tiie window at ' tho top of his ladder. He crawied aloity the floor and groped his way to the Iwdss and pressed their occupams down to tho floor and to the window, wlvcro breath ioL" air si,:Irj- cieutly revived them so that they could 4 down tho ladder unas;.i-ted. Coyne again 10-. . turned to the dot mitorj, where he picked hii wav to otter beds and rescue others in lhe same manner. Thus fonr Umcfl did l.e n-tutu, eatSi time earning a patient. With tbo foui ih the smoke proved too great for fvpn the brave como toKSerwb wcnT wliStoirt"" response. ; A patient named Holleham on being awak ened, made a rope out of his ; thiols and blankets, which he let out ot the: window .to the steps by the f-ide of iho burning wing; he then crawled down the ropo after; telling au other inmate to follow him. Ho reached tho steps safelv, but the second one let go his hold when part .way down, icll, rnd received se rious injuries. A third ouo looked at the flames, and then at the distancs beneath, and retreated from the window. He was not soon again, and is among the loHf, The patienU, as fast as tiiev wero taken from tho bmldinjr, were conducted to the neighboring detached wards, where the feeble and injured ones wero cared for and their wounds dressed and stiruu-,. hints administered. Jsearly all of the paaents saved their clothing, which the night before had been laid together by the tide of the-rr beds. In the excitement they hab not forget- . ten it, but takeu it in their hands as they wero told by the attendants to run for Me. - Ono or Iwo of the sick ones were ooitB!derab:y shocked, acd it is probable they will die from the effects. Tho rniaindr of the rescuod m said to be doing well. MUSICAL ANDDilAMATia Emma Abbott and her company are in California. , " Ju vESiLBiopera is coming into fashion In England, i . "A BuNci of Kkys" iss said to have rnada over $12,OU0 in fct. Louis y' -totly la 0110 week. ' '.-.. -:sfh Thk costumes of Frau M "1 to o tho finest over w oi n on i n 2iew Y.rk. J.?;-. " J... y The two oVIest aitijf , ' Mrs. ICeely, aged Tf-, ana " (. 1 agel bo, bot!uiwin Londv. LAURBJrcfi Frost, a Wash.- t : ist, has completed a now co. - i : faLmer, which is hi h y spoken fi C. H. Hoyt, the author of the ; ;: f- rTnvs and other popular pluys, fc. ; from the "All Sorts ' editorsnip ol tho Thk dean 6f orchestral lender?, and prob-. alilv tha oldest musician living. -Al. iur, re- Bontly celebracou nis euist uu lu-iuy uu-ieu-Baden. Mona harxl up professionals can now lie fouod on tha; Square, New lork, than ever known boforf, and reinforcements constantly arriving. !;'-.. .. At Leipsic a musical critic has been sen tenced to five davs imprisonment ror de scribing the leader ot an orchestra as a "viobn raper." -i Tub report that Stg. Salvmi wdl make an American tour next sen-son is confirmed by the fact that Big. Chizzola is engaging a com pany to support unit. Henby Gut Carleto, the author or "Victor Dnraud," is writing a new play for Irving. It is said to bo a mnio'trama, ana will present Irving as a lawyer. Ma. Lawbknce liAmiETT ii f aid. to have been long employed on a plav ot bis own, in tho construction of whica he ha3 boon largely aided by Mr. William D. Ilowalbv; . DsNtSR;'' tlio laioft drama by Alexandre Dumas, was. prod n-.t-d recently at the Theatre Franca is, Paris, in tho presence ij Preivient Gi-evy and a di.sUiigUL.hod audieiito. Cami'amixi, the retired tenor, -is farmer, miller, stock raiser, tile maker, nnd keeps busy at odd times m I'll!. no!n omur ju u di'ctive in'lu itriei. J-veiytiiij, g suscessful ho touchei AT SEW OlETiBASSS. Je-fl'erson Dnvi illake a t.M . comes the Liberty ltc V Over 40.0.:0 people turned out In S jj-jiu-ii- wi.icoiue Vii- Liberty Bell. ? Jej Lavis diove up in a bngsy, lctlingiry 'he having risen' Irom a Hick bod to iartv. Mayor Gmllotte introdace-?. V rt'eaurn and Notthcru Cvait.-f -.sr... .. Davis i-aid he cousidiired it f. lobe invited to partKtp i ' iO hi;.h Ihat h to join in it-. .'..' corao out Art''- ,.' ahich V;' . . . tr-,'";" -,; "I rr th 'iii' 'd 4. 1 9 V
Rockingham Post-Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.)
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Feb. 12, 1885, edition 1
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