LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCE!, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER l2. iss i ! t 1 1 t 1 a I 1 t t f v s r e I i t I t i' b d b r d c ti b P P ii S tl b E a' a W Lancaster Jntelligencer. WEDNESDAY EVENING NOV. 22, 1882, TMe llepressioB la Steel. The steel rail manufacturers are nota bly frank in the expression of their views upon the causes of the depression in tlieir industry. Mr. Carnegie, of the Edgar Thomson works, and Mr. Hunt, of the Bethlehem company, state the matter in a way to make it perfectly lucid to everybody why their prosperity has sud denly ceased. The productive capacity of the Bessemer rail manufactories has been vastly increased under the stimu lation of the large business offered them and the great profits which enabled them to develop their facilities for taking it. Now the business has fallen off because the railroads, their customers, are no looser flush with proceeds of their traffic and of loans easily made. As the rail mills have no customers but the rail roads, their business dwindles as rail road building and improving halts. The result has probably been foreseen by all of them. While the sun shone they all made their hay in harmony; now their harmony ceases ; when the orders for rails are not enough to go around, they are competitors against one another for them. Those who can manufacture cheapest get the orders. The western rail mills seem to beat a disadvantage, owing U the greal cost nf their raw ma- terialsl and they are the first to show themselves hurt. Pennsylvania milh show that they can afford to take order at forty dollars a ton, because they aro doing it ; they would not do it if they could not afford it. Mr. Carnegie says that the Edgar Thomson works will not make rails at a loss, and nobody will tind it hard to believe him. The other manufacturers are like unto him in this respect, and pi ices will have to get down towards thirty-fhv dollars before all the mills aic shut dawn. Of course they will never reach the lowest limit of cost. There will always be a large demand for steel rails, of course, and the mills that can afford to make them cheapest will get the orders for them, and those nian ufactuiers who cannot afford to make them in competition with their neigh bors, will have to look for some other employment for tlieir capital. There would seem to be an outlet for the superabundant manufacturing facili ties of the steel rail mills in the making of steel merchant bars, and no doubt this will be attempted. The Pennsylvania steel company,in anticipation of thepres eat cmergeucyjias, during the past year, erected a large mill for the manufacture of merchant steel. There seems to be no reason why many kinds of merchant iron may not be supplanted by steel .and as Bessemer steel can be made at less cost than iron, where it will do in stead of iron, it will supplant it Steel cannot be punched without injur ing its strength, and it therefore will only be able to take the place of iron to a limited extent, if at all. The depression in the steel manufac ture can hardly lis cousideied as any thing of a public calamity. The manu facturers who experience it can afford to bear the experience with equanimity in view of the fatness they have gathered about their financial ribs in their late era of gushing prosperity; while the de creased price of their commodity is a public advantage. Cheap steel and iron will lo conducive to the general prosper ity. The iron and steel workers will have to be content with less wages and less profits, and should be public-spirited enough not to complain at the lessening of the tax their smaller recompense! imposes upon the industry of the coun try. lx the exchange of letters between the governor-elect aud the chairman of his party in the late campaign, there is no exaggeration of the services .rendered by the party organization throughout the state. To its fidelity and integrity the best interests of the commonwealth owe the election of Mr. Pattison and his col leagues on the state ticket. The senti ment of reform would have been a mere shadow stalking through the campaign without the close and effective, albeit legitimate and honorable work, of the ' nartv organization in every district. This was necessary, not nly to bring out all anttlirtic ami liohptrtpupil t.ntv vo!p apatnetic ami uisnearteneu paitj ote, but to guard against and combat a wily and desperate enemy, equipped with money aud Hush with well-traiueu n.nplf.i of snivww. Thp lipninr:itift victory was owing mainly to the loyally of the Democracy, and the governor elect seems to appreciate this. T111: Pennsylvania railroad has taken a step too long delayed in establishing an excursion rate between this city and Philadelphia for single day round trips or from Saturday to Monday. It would have long ago found this policy to its profit as well as to the accommodation of the public. Hut the proposed reduc tion is too slight. The abatement of 09 cents iu consideration of the return of the ticket holder on the same day and without stop off privileges is not enough. The fare should be reduced to Scents per mile at the most on these tickets, making round trip tickets cost $2.7o. This is about the rate that the Heading railroad affords its local patrons and it finds its profit in increased traffic. Be sides, it is to be remembered that on nearly all of these tickets the catnpaa y is free from carrying baggage for the holders. Coupon tickets from this city, in books of fifty, are sold at the rate of about $2.77 for the round trip and the new excursion rate should have been fixed there. While we can commend the Penn sylvania railroad company for its first !tep in the direction of cheap rates, we must at the same time protest against the new rule communicated to baggage masters at stations, without due notice to the public, charging 25 cents for the first day and 10 cents for each ad ditional day storage on every pack age of baggage left at the station. No such arrangement should be put into operation without ade quate notice to the public : and, besides, the rate is unfair iu that it makes no distinction betw6eu a trunk as big as a store box and a hand-satchel. In our local columns is given an illustration of the way the new regulation works aud it is no more creditable to the company than it is convenient to the public. Tin: Vermont Appeal suggests Blaine and Brosius for a cyclone in 1S84. They would be excellent subjects for if. Ur.OTHKK BisO'ic- gets some compli ments for running ahead of Beaver. Rut Elliott was the man he was mainly con cerned to get ahead of. W. Hayes Gkiek's Columbia Herald starts on its seventeenth year vigorous and good looking. He has limit since 1SGP,, and it was never better and brighter. The first assistant postmaster general decides that "communications reproduced by heptograph are not mailables as circu lars when they convey information that ap pears from tho internal evidence to bo pei fonal to the receiver." It seems to the North American to bo "no more than right and just that tho Seuate of this commonwealth should be organ ized aud controlled by the Republican members of that body." It seems to most other peoplo that it should bo organized and controlled by tho auti-Riii", anti Cameron majority of that body. Tin: Queen " with beautilul emphai' a1; Windsor yesterday, decorated and thanked four hundred of the men who had served iu Egypt, and now it. is observed that some English cynics, while admittii.g that Tel-el-Kebir is a greater battle than Waterloo and Sir Garnet Wolseley a greater man than the Duke of Wellington, yet venture to contrast tho small number of soldiers recommended for distinction by the latter with the large number recom mended by the former. Tin: Refoinied church publication board continues to stimulate the application or literary effort to tho exposition of its ge nius and work. A $20"prize is now offered for the best tract on "The Work of Mis sions iu tho Reformed Church of the United States." The tract must not ex ceed 1,400 words iu length. The commit tee to whom niauussripts arc to be scut and who shall decide consists of Revs. J. O. Miller. 1). 1M York. Pa. : Theodore Appcl, D. D., Lancaster, Pa. ; W. II. II. Snydei, Elders W. II. Seibeit and Hud. F. Kclker, Hairisturg, Pa. Cami:i:on thinks he is not a fool, and Mitchell agiccs with him. This remark able concurrence of opinion is equalled by the agreement of our esteemed and lately wrangling local contemporaries, who har monize in their leading editorials of yes terday in declaring that as Thanks giving approaches the weather grows colder. As tho Examiner and Cameron's candidate for governor was beatcu by 10,202 and tho iVeie Era and Mitchell's by 312,048 we aro glad to know that all of t'acm can enjoy the prospective "ripening of turkeys and mince pie" over against the gladsome Thanksgiving season. Hauvakd college saw a largo sun spot yesterday, and "in the opinion of observ ers this goos far toward verifying the the ory that magnetic and electrical disturb ances and Hashing Northern lights arc primarily caused by solar phenomena.'' But the suu of Harvard will be spotted all over iu June next when the obnoxious R. P. B. rides to Cambridge to get his LL.D. in accordance with the time-honored cus tom of bestowing it on tho executive of tho commonwealth. The clever poet of the New York Sun prognosticates tho event in a delicious manner, as can be seen in tho northwest corner of the fourth page of to-day's Ixtgtj.iccxcer. PERSONAL.. Pnr.sii)i;xT Potter, of Union colics e, offers three prizes to students having the neatest and most attractive ro3tns Mi:. Urnr.cn.ur, of Ohio, a member of Congress, is reported to be extremely ill and his lecovcry is doubtful. Runoi.ru BlaXkexruro, oae of the Philadelphia centurions, has beeu eating a complimentary dinuer tendered to him by the committee ou frauds. Charles Loins, the Emperor of Aus tria's brother, has for tho fifth time been elected burgomaster of Arstellcn. His forester and the village bootmaker, aro members of the council. King of Italy, and for a couple of years i iL.UAUKHOi A'tV V AaVillllK VIOUUUl Jr iuu i King of Spain, is soon to marry the Prin- cessTherosa, a cousin of King Louis, of ,;. mAne i,nc iu. vMnwr sjnce 137c. , MnSi Frances Honosox Brnxirrr, tLe novelist, left Lancashue, England, when she was thirteen years old and settled in Tennessee. She is of square English form with fair brown hair, a long straight nose, a wide, well shaped mouth, and lirge, beautiful blue oyes, and lives iu Washing ton, the happy wife of Dr. Burnett. Pkof. William B. Halt., of this city, is conducting the music at the Delaware county teachers' institute at Media. The West Chester llepuUican in its report of the proceedings says : " Professor Hall conducted the exercises iu singing. The professor is quite a favorite with the teachers of Delaware county and with them he is sure of a welcome at all times. Asa leader of music at institutes the pro fessor is certainly without a peer." Rr.v. D. B. Sucnv has received a good send-off from tho people he has just left in this county, for his new field in Emporia, Kansas. The New Providence charge con tributed $75 towards his missionary work, and the Rohrerstown and Millersville churches have added $1G3 $30 of which was from ono individual. Mr. Shuoy labored successfully in tho New Provi dence charge for over six years, during which time the membership was doubled, the church property improved and the parsonage made a comfortable home. Anxif. Pixley, the sprightly little actress who is soon to appear in Lancas ter in her new role of Zara, the gipsy girl, upon oae occasion prevented a panic in a crowded theatre when the cry of " fire " had beeu raised, by stepping in front of the curtain and sieging a song in her most charming manner. It had the desired effect. The frighteued audience, many of whom had risou to their feet when the first dread alarm had been given, became convinced that there was no danger, and what might havo proved a dreadful catastrophe was averted by the quick wit of a plucky little woman. Trying to scale a City's Debt. The mayor and city councilmen of Eliz beth, Now Jersey, have joined in a circu lar urging the creditors of that city to ac cept tho proposition for a settlement on a bas'm of 50 per cent. The debt and inter est to July 1, 18S3, amount to 46.700,000 while the city valuation on whioh taxeB t can bo collected ia a little over $10,000,000. j POLITICAL POINTS. 1V. PATTISON TO THE OKMOCKACV. he Coiiimrmls ttio I'arty Organization Ceuerat Approval or bis Policies A .MoiU.sl Inauguration Acceptable The following correspondence is niado public : Pmi..iEi.niiA, Nov. 10, 1882. My 1)i:ai: Sik. As the returns of elec tion become fairly complete, 1 cannot ex amine them without feeling it my duty to express, through you, my extreme satis faction with the organization of the party in the last campaigu. The vote in tho Democratic counti ;s of tho state, as well as the general result, attests the excellence of tho party organization. I desire to thank through you the Democratic county chairmen and committeemen for their faithful aud beneficial services. To you as the head of the general orgaui.ation I extend ray personal congratulations' upon tho successful issue of tho campaign to which you so largely contributed by your intelligent direction and tireless energy. I cannot forget aud want publicly to thank tho intelligent and efficient gentlemen as sociatcd with you as your secretaries for their valuable contribution in achieving the victory. Relieve me, gratefully yours, Roirr. R. P.ttion W. I'. IIi:nsi:i., Esq. Lancasti.u, Pa., Nov. 18, 1riS2. My Dkaic Sir.. I am in receipt or your favor of tho 10th iust. iu which you kindly mako acknowledgment of tho sorvicos rendered by tho Democratic organization in tho lato campaign. Sincerely thaukiug you for tho generous manner in which you are pleased to refer to my pait therein, T willtakcgre.it pleasure in trii'smitting a copy of your leliei to each off. members of the state committee, aud its secretaries aul the chairmen of tho county commit tees. To them, to tho eminent, gentle men who so readily responded to their can and miuo for service in tho canvass, to tho Democratic press aud to the largo body of district committeemen and faith ful co workers who made the Democratic organization vigorous and kept it intact, much is due In view of tho results which the complete returns present you do uot exaggerate "their faithful aud beneficial services." The election ol all tho state nominees by lame pluralities, tho poll for yourself of US,000 more votes than were ever before cast for a Democratic candi data for governor and more than were ever before returned for the candidate of any party lor a stato office in Pennsyl vania, have not only viudicattd the wisdom ol the stato convention in its choice, but they have emphatically attested the fidelity of the paity to its nominees. Willi great personal regard I am, very truly yours, W.U. Hnx-sm.. Rout. E. P.vrrioo.N, Es:. A bKIKI'K IXACGUKATIOX. A Uencral Approval or a Jlotlost All'.it r. The Now York Herald, Wilmington, Del., Gazette and many other journals outside tho state commend Governor e'ect Pattisou's determination to have a modest inauguration. Tho Steelton Reporter say : " lie deserves to be congratulated for tho course he has resolved to pursue iu this connection, becauso it is right, and will do good m checking other extravagances in the handling of public money " The Nor ristown Iiegixler is of opinion thathis letter ' is an expression of his adherence to Dcmoeiatic principles, for it is more in unison with tho sound doctrines of Demo cratic government that everything like ostentation or heavv expenditure in the method of usheiiug a citi.3ii into public 1 - t i.-i 1 :..! Oiucc suoiuu uo avumeu. Astonishing Tilings lTCilittod. Philadelphia livening Telegraph, Kep. It will rather astoni h a good many peo ple to Sioa governor lofuse to travel dead head iu this stato ; but then a groat many astonishing things are happening in these times, and if we mistake uot Mr. Pattison will be tho occasion of numerous astonish ments before ho gets through with being governor. By tho way, that letter of the governor-elect discouraging a military demonstration and other Hail Columbia proceedings at his inauguration is a sensi ble document, which does credit to Mr. Pattisou's fine appreciation ot tho fitness of things. ........... Iu plain language Mr. Pattison regards the governorship as a sacred trust, and not as a matter of solf-glorification, aud thcro is everv assurance that ho will ad-" minister it as such a trust. TUK liXECUTIVK 1'ATKONAGK. Who is to tie Attorney Ucueral '.' Speculation is still rifo as to who will bo the appointees of the governor to his cabi net. It is now rumored that Malcolm llay has declined the offer of the secictaryship of stato ; that John R. Read has ceased to bo a candidate for attorney general, and that this appointment will go to L. C. Cassidy. Other names suggested aro those of Geo. M. Dallas, G. A. .lenl:s,Geo. P. Bacr, C. R. Bnokalew, R. P. Allen and Geo. A. Allen, cf Erie. All of this is mere conjecture. Tho governor elect seems to keep his own counsel. A corres pondent of tho Pittsburgh Post says : "I venture the prediction. Gov. Pattisou will listen attentively, deliberate wisely, keep his own counsels closely, aud decide for himself and by himself. Ho has great confidence in his own judgment, and so far it has certainly been a safe guide." Chiof Clerk Hits!; and S. Davis Page are spoken of for tho Micccssion of Patti son in the controller's office. David W. Sellers and others have given opinion that the councils elect the successor and that the new governor has no power to appoint. The Shriek cf Locality. A correspondent of tho Pittsburgh l'oti having written to it that "Mr. Pattison would do welt iu his important appoint ments to steer clear of tho feuds of Phila delphia politicians, by sclcctiug his actor, ucy general and secretary of the common wealth outside of tho city," that journal says : "The idea is not so unreasonable as it would seem, considering Philadelphia has the governor for four years ; but we care little about tho 'shrieks of locality,' in this matter, 'and have full confidence tho govcmor-elcct will act with wisdom. All the people ask is that his chief officers, like himself, shall represent progressive and reformatory ideas in state adminis tration rather than iu political factions. In this junction it seems to us personal friendships or. obligations should give way to the general good. There was nothing of a personal nature' in the great victory. It was a triumph of ideas, aud these ideas should be tho animating forces of the new administration illustrated ia its policy and appointments. The governor-elect has an extended field and abundant material to select from, and all ho needs is to apply to the work his best judgment, governed by the principles on which he was elected." OUK tl S. seriATOltS. Both Inclined to Sweet nariuouy. Times Interview with Cameron. "Then you are not ou the war path after Independent Ropublican scalps?" "Do you think I am a fool ?"' "No, I do not, senator ; but please say whether you are or not?" "I never attempt to catch up to a lie, especially McCiuio's lies. McClure thinks this is a good timo to destroy the Republi can party and he would gladly see tho breach in tho ranks mado so wide that the state would bo lost ia '34, but I predict Mr. McClnro and the gentleman ho trains with will be terribly disappointed." "Then you nave not sharpened scalpicg-knife ."' "I have no knife to sharpen." "May I call again, senator?" yoar ' Yes I am goiug to New York on Thursday and would bo pleased to havo you call when I am away." Your correspondent took the hint aud left Senator Cameron. Mitchell Acreos that Cameron I Not n fool. Time Interview Willi Mitchell. ' I take it that no Republican can bo so dull as to not uuderstaud tho force of the verdict iu Pennsylvania." " Not evon Camoron ?" "No ; Senator Cameron is not a fool. I greatly admire many of Mr. Camoron's qualities of both head and heart, and right hero let mo say that it was a source of much regret to mo that tho campaign was largely devoted to mere personal abuse of Senator Cameron. " I havo no quarrel with Senator Cam eron aud never had. Our personal rela tions havo always been or au agreoaoio nature. I differ with him radically on questious of party management aud methods, but 1 have no less respect lor him on that account. My quarrel had a deeper source than that lound in any ouo man, aud I was sorry to seo this personal warfare on Mr. Cameron. It belittled tho real issue." " You think, then, senator, that tho Iossou recently leceived will bo a wholo xomo ono and that tho party will como up smilingly togothor at tho next election ?" " Pennsylvania i.s a Republican stato. As I remarked, tho charge has never been made that tho Pennsylvania machiiio load ers arc fools. If they do not understand tho temper and heel tho protest of tho Republican party of tho stato now they would certainly ho liable to such au fcnpu tion. I think thoy appreciate tho situa tion aud that tho party will go into the next campaign roheved of odious boss ism." r w i s k N a r t: s r: A ra . The Ciiiiil-ioii ol thn Nebraska iiml Colo ruito Logmlutures. The attention of politicians of both parties is now being directed to the sena torial elections in Nebraska aud Colorado, whcio it is possible some unexpected de velopments may occur. Iu Ncbrasks forty members wcio chosen to tho legis lature as Anti -Monopolists. Many of tho men so elected arc Republicans, aud there fore it has been presumed they will act with the regular members of their party iu the choico of a United States senator. But the Anti-Monopolists wcro elected in opposition to Ropublican candidates, and aro under no obligation to them. Tho Anti Monopolists and Democrats combined will constitute a majority of tho Legislature. In order to defeat tho regular Republicans the Dem ocrats may form a coalition with the Anti Monopolists for tho election of a sen ator on an independent pi itl'orm, but it is quite probable that the Republicans will be able to obtaiu votes enough from mem bers of their own political faith, who have been elected as Anti Monopolists, to give them the choice. In Colorado the Re publicans will not havo a majority of over tbrco votes, and many Democrats aver that the final official couut will make the Legislature a tie. Tho bitter faction fight in tho Ropublican organization may result in a failure to elect a senator, in which event tho Democratic governor would mako the appointment. A Scene Mot oown In the IMU. In Boston tho audience at the farewell Nilsson concert on Saturday afternoon were treated to a little sceno not down in tho bills. Throughout the concert the freedom of Mmo. Nilssou's action on the stago had occasioned some surprise. This was increased when sho advanced alone to th'o footlights when the duet with Miss Glenn should have been sung, and said : " Lv.lies aud gentlemen, Miss Glenn has such a bad cold that she cannot sing in the duet. If you do not miud I will sing you a solo," and then in tho midst of the applause elicited by her charmingly naive manner, announced tho name of the selec tion, ' is This r. Dream?" Mr. Biroks ten, the young tenor, caused tho next sen sation. Ho was half through a serenade from Balfe when his nervousness, which was at all times painful to the listeners, apparently caused him to lose hi3 place. He stopped short, toro his music iu two pieces and dinging it on tho floor with tho impatient gesture of potulent child, stalked rapidly off tho stage. Tho surprised audienco laughed at first aud then ap plauded. After a time Biorksten re appeared, poiutcd to his throat, shrugged his shonl-Jors apologetically and sang Wil ling's ballad, " Soma Day," better than ho had sung anything there before. Don't Use Hlg Words. Iu promulgating you esoteric cogitations or articulating superficial sentimentalities and philosophical or psychological obser vations beware of platitudinous ponder osity. Let your conversation possess a clariticd conciseness, compacted compre hcnsiblcucss, coalcscent consistency, and a concatenated cogency. Es chew all conglomerations of llatu lent garrulity, jejuno bubblemqpt, and asinine affections. Let your extempo raneous descantings and unpremeditated oxpatations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rhodomontado or thrasonical bombast. Sodulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous pi olixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloqual verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity. Shun double outciidros. prurient jocosity, and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent. In other words talk plainly, naturally, sensibly, truthfully, purely. And don't use big words. Hoard or fardous. The stato board of pardons met yester day at llarrisburg and heard argument in tho case of David Mouat, convicted of altering election return.1) and sentenced to two years in the Eastern penitentiary, which he is now serving. His case was argued by W. W. Ker. Tho board hold tho case under advisement. The applica tion of Haines and Clement, of Philadel phia, convicted of conspiracy, was pre sented by Lyman D. Gilbert, but it was refused. Tiio pardons granted were York Wesley Uucy, rape, Adams county ; Bar ney O'Neill, voluntary manslaughter, Fayette county ; George Arthur, assault aud battery, and aggravated assault with intent tokill, Philadelphia. A number of pardons were refused and several held under advisement. Death of Prominent Men. Col. Wm. H. McMahon, chief appraiser at tho custom house iu New York, and tariff commissioner for the state of Now York, died suddenly yesterday morning of rheumatism of the heart, He had fin ished his portion of the tariff commission's report. James S. Harrison, president of the Erie county savings bank, and a promi nent vessel ownor, died yesterday iu Buffa lo, aged 03 years. Tames A. Cowardiu, founder aud senior editor of the Richmond (Virginia) Dis patch, died yesterday, in tho 73d year ot bis age. Charles J. Allen, a retired merchant of New Haven, formerly well known in bus iness circles, died yesterday at tho age of 38 years. m The Friendly rrost. There has boon light frost along tho Rio Grande, and the yellow fever cordon guards in Starr and Hidalgo counties, Texas, have been removed. No cases of the fever have been reported in New Mex ico for three days. IMKeane la Boston. Dinhtheria and other contagious dis- j eases being prevalent in Boston, the j health hoard of that city has forbidden public funerals in the cases of persons who I die of spch diseases. PUKSUED BY FLAMES. FACTORY Olltl.'S OKIVISN TO UGATH .So mo 1 lirlllliig SccncaThat Wero Witnessed U.iruig a i'liitli: Iu u lllio.lo Inland IVatli-: rui. The Callonder building iu Providence, It. I., which was destroyed by firo on Tuesday morniug was a regular death trap. It was owned by Amos C. Barstow. Tho lower lloors wen: occupied by Iho ProvUK-nce button conip.my, the Piovi dencu cigar works, ihe Providence saw works and other firms. The lLimos did not fasten upon these lloors, and tho loss of these firms is from water It was on tho third and fourth lloors that the havoc was wrought. A stairway, boginuiu. at tho stieet iu the front, of tho building, ran to tho top. Theru was no other iue.m.s of emptying tho builditig in a panic. Tho building was ol brick. ():i tho third lloor was the workshop of Charles T. Mclvin, dyer. His 1011ms opened out 0:1 tho stair way. On the lloor above wero tha firms of W. II. Robinson k Co.. in.muf.icturer-. of gold chains, and Jos. Urant it Co., jewel ers. Tho gold chain manufactory wa iu tho front part of tho building aud directly over the dyeing establishment. Grant's factory was in tho rear. The tiro started iu Melviu'.s plao. I'.io room was tilled v.-itStcoinpustible material. Tho woodwork was dry a;', tin-hu. A lighted match touc!:cd?lniosl auyvrhaic would havo started a conflagration. There wcro chemicals and' Cloth ? it Unrated with iiillammahle preparations. By somn means a can containing leu gallon.; of naphtha was overturned. Ig-caugnl lire, iho llamcs tqiraug upwarH and .seized upon everything near at hand.' Thoy ran over tho lloor aud this saturated cloths added to their fury. They c night the dry wood woik, ami an alarm had hardly been given bofoiu tlu- who!.-, .room was in a biazy. They rushed out. of the door aud caught upon Jh- ataii's. The air curien's swept theni upward, and in a moinon" in stait way was choked with smoke an I was a roaring tunnel or savage llanic It was 10:30 o'clock when tho occupants of tho fourth lloor of tho Caiiendcr build ing heard tho alarm. They wero lor the most part young gals. Rubin ;n A. Co. alone employ twonty, aud the firm's entire roll of employees numbered lorty. Wiicu tho smoko rushed up.tho stairway and into tho factory tharo wa a terrible panic. It is indescribable. A rush was made for the door, but smoko and fume drovo the frightened operatives back. As they realized their position the gave way to shrieks for salvation. The dames en croached upon them with friuhtfnl rapidity and drovo them to tho windows. Theie was no firo escape. Not a ladder was at. hand. The engines had not arrived. Ac tho end of tho building was an alley, 15 feet wide. The windows of Robiusoa's placo looked out upon this, .lust aoross tho alley was a smali wooden building, two stones su height. Ino suiugle root was 20 feet below the fourth story windows of the Calleraler building. The- operatives wero too. panic strickeu to wait for aid. The roarimr 11 mics wera too near them. It was death to remain bahind. Tho only hopa was to mako the leap from the win dows to tho frama huilriiiur. There was no method about it. Bat few of the frightened operatives had con trol of themselves. George CI irk. em ployed by Joseph Grant A; Co.. did his best to allay tha excitcmsnt and nearly lost his life in trying to stay the Uauie.-;. While he, with a lev companions, was fighting tho fire, the others rushed to the windows and threw themselves out. There was no time to think about it. Daring the first rush Miveral girls wero pushed out or lost their footing. They foil to the ground and wero either killed or badly in jured. It was a frightful scene for those who stood in the street. Bodies of men aud women whiilcd through the air as thick as saowllakes. Many of those who jumped succeeded in lauding upua tho roof of tho building across the alley. Hardly would they gain a footing whan others would fall upon thorn. In this w.y several operatives weio injured. One of the first to fall was Emma Gasett. The pressure of the panic-stricken crowd be hind her was so great that sho dropped in the alley batweea tho buildings. Her bodj whirled around in tho air and struck heavily. Sho died almost instantly. Bessie Cobb was auothsr unfortunate vi.; tim. She met her death in precisely the same manner. Both wore young girls. Mary McSorley missed tha roof. Her body was caught on a picket Tcnco aud terribly mutilated. Sho was taken to the hospital m a dying condition. 1 nomas Mann, foreman of Grant's jewelry shop, made tho leap, but failed to reach the roof. Ilantruci: the side of the buildiug and hi j body bounded oil to the ground. When ho was picked up it was found that both ankles wero broken aud that the shock to hi.", system was such that ho died. As soon as tha tiro me 11 arrived ou the scene they did what thoy could to save the lives of tho unfortunate operatives. But for tho most part tho frightened em ployees of tho chain and jewelry factories had been driven from tho windows and had either met with fatal injuries or had escapcdwith their lives to tho neighbor ing roof. Tho roof was covered witii hu man beings, many of them suffering from painful if not sarious injuiies. One man swung himsel f out of a window with, noth ng to support him but a telephone wire. Ho hung on like grim death It was an anxious and exciting time for those iu tho street. Everybody expect ed each instant to si-o him fall. But there ho hung, crying for help, wh'lo above all arose tho crackling of tho llamcs and tho shrieks and cries of the wounded. A lad der from a firo company's truck was raised. It was tho longest ou hand, but as it to touched tho wall of the building the crowd in tho street saw that it was too short. A groan went up, for tho man's strength was almost, exhausted. The wiro cut his hands. Just then a nimble footed fireman ran. -up, tho ladder. Ho reached the top andjAaught the man in his arms just as he Wfc "ready to drop to certain death. ' Tho injured persons were removed to tho hospital as rapidly as possible. It i.-. thought that at least ten ot them will die. Nearly all received, injuries of some sort, bat wero glad to esc.ipa with their lives at the cxpenso of broken limbs and bruised and burned faces. When the engines got to work the fire was soon out. ICII.L.SI IN XUE CO A I. ASIK&.S. A!lel to A Workman anil a Onven Hoy the in Last. By a fall of top coal at Logan colliery, near Ccntralia, John McNulty, a miner, aged, aged twenty-threo years, was in stantly killed. Michael Jtyan, a driver boy employed at Green Ridixo Mineral colliery Mtl Carmcl, was caught between mine cars just as they were about starting up the slope, and was so terribly crushed that ho died in a few minutrs. Tho col liery stopped for the remainder of tho day and will not resume until after the funeral. Ho was fifteen years of age and the only child of Richard Rvan a widower. Vl-'s Stones. Tha now lisii exchange at Boatou has gone oat of oewteuec. it having unani mously voted it i own dissolution yester day afternoon. Its action was mainly caused by the hostility of the retailers and fishermen. A telegram from Halifax gives a report that a company is to bo organized there for the exportation of fresh fish to Europe and American markets, and that 4!tho patent right or an invention whereby fish and meat can bo kept good for from four to eight weeks has been scoured." HIE DEFUKSSlOX IN STliKL. Thn o'.tnatlun foreiy Cininerclal aud Not l'olitlcai. A correspondent of the Herald went up to Alleutowa'to inquire about tho causes oftlio pie-sent depression in steel manu facturing. Mr. Alfred Hunt, tho presi dent, has the reputation of beiug ouo of the best iulornicd men on tho subject of steel xail manufacture in tho country. He was at first avorso to speaking on the sub ject, saying that some newspapers wore treating tho question from a political point of view, aud that ho did wish in any to contribute to such a pernicious and il logical controversy. Wliou. however, ho was assured that tho Herald had no purpose whatovi r other than to get at tho truth anil the facts Mr.uut spoke as follows : " Thcsituation is purely a commercial ono and by no means uncommon, how ever unexpected. It is truo that orders for steel rails h ivo fallen off and that we are making them faster than wo cau sell them. This i.s so because there is rot much road building. Tho piico has fallen below that at which rails can bo produced. Tho question is not profit, but cost of nroduetioa. We aro offerinc rails this morning at 10 per ton. Wo get moro money for rough puddled bars of iron than for steel rails. Of eoorrti, this canuot go ou indfiiiitcly, though perhaps we could stand it as well a ; anybody. In the na ture of business, however, anil without sentiment, one of two things mu-.t happen. Wo have cither to make up our mind.; logo on at a. Iosias long as possible or make sweeping xeduetions everywhere. Some of these reductions it will bo next to impos ablo to effect. Tho handling of a problem of this kind is not ao simple a matter as it may seem. It i.s a prevailing belief, I am aware, that tho .steel business i.s very re munerative ; but the fact is that the owners of the B s-.p.;ujr pit -uts, compos ing the company, have noi drawn out any profits worth talking about during the last ten years oxc;pt in ISS0 and 1SSI. Tiicso woie the onl tff' vearx-." excep tionable siicjt-' since 1S7-. 'Mi.-ro are eleven corporations ia tho company, each paying a royalty per ton to the pircut company, which ia tho owner of the patents. Great competition has uiis.m be tween tho members of the concern, whero co operation would naturally ba looked for. The uewspapsrs refer to the steel business as a mouopoly ; but the fact is that the bitterest rivalries exist among tho members of tho Bessemer company. This is a matter that of eon mo it would ba un desirable for rau to go into, but it is tho fact. The present dull ness of tiio mii-ket will, in my opin ion, affect the iron business generally. Wo of the Bethlehem company look forward to inevitable troubles, but wo havo no anxiety but that we bhall safely weather them by preparing at once. Wo produce fiom two thousind to three thousand tons of steel per week, and employ at our works and at our mines nearly three thousand. Wo do not apprehend any open trouble with our men, though reductions either of tho forco or in the number of hours or in tho wages will have to be made at once." Mr. Carnegie Vlawn. Andrew Carnegie, who is at tho head of tho steel industry in tho United States, in an interview on tho iron situation, said : Tho truth of the matter is, that we, tho Bessemer people, are b8twson the upper aud nether millstone in this country this year. Thoy aro lack of demand and over supply. This country. is not going to lay twelve thousand miles of railroad, this year as it did last year. If it were, there would 1)2 enough business to go around and ivo all the mills a share, but, as re tienehment appears to bo the order, Besse mer firms havo felt it necessary to make au active oennpetion for whatever of next year's ti ad a appeared in sight. That has been an innovation in tho Bessemer line. " What precipitated tho cudden drop in quotations, compelling tho West jrn mills to shut down V It was theScrantou mill. There was no preconcerted arrangement oti the part of E islcrn men to squee.o out the Western people, as appears to have luen covertly suggested. Vhen Mr. Clarke, tha owner of tho Scrauton mill, carao from -Europe" last week, ho found his mill without; moro than enough orders to last him a week. His coal aud ore roads and coal aud ore mines wero idle, aud thero was no market for tho product ol rails. 1I resolved to make a market, and quoted rails at $10 to $ lit, delivered in Chicago. He can't mako rails for $ 10, but ho loses less at $40 than ho would if he wero to let his mill lay idle. Ho did just what I would havo done. "Suppose vou had been running a mill in tho West?" 1 would havo shut down just, as they havo done at Chicago and St. Louis. Their plants will not produce as ours do, and they aro obliged to ship their fuel from Pennsylvania." " How about the Edgar Thomson works?" "That is au u.-.cttled question. Wo may shut dowu in January. We aro rntiniog now on next year's orders. More than that, wo aro oven anticipating a few orders which we have not yet received. Y'ou stato just as emphatically as you have a mind to that tho Edgar Thomson works will not run at a loss so long as the Carnegies have anything to do with them. We will havo months of a 3 10 market jot before auy change cau be expected. Tho shutting down of tho Western mills will not make prices any better here, but may koop them from going any lower. I do not an ticipate an iron panic, but I do say that unless tho cost of supplies and labor is re duced considerably, that a largo number of eastern mills will, of necessity, shut down for a fow months.' "What place in tho calculations of the steel man, in tho prc3ant emorgonoy, do tariff considerations occupy ?" "They do not enter in the matter at all. England could easily undersell us at $40 for a ton of rails if wo had fren trade. Rails arc worth in England $23, which with $3 for freight and insurance .and commission, would lay them down in Now York at 20. Beforo the tariff com niisssiou wc ioconimended a decreaso ou 'tho tariff on Bessemer from $23 per ton to a cent a pound or $22.40 per ton. That would protect us in any possible market. Before we began making rails in America, our roads thought it economy to buy Eng lish rails at $120 por ton We never sold but ono lot for moro than $30, and that was a good while ago. The Bassemer capacity of this country is far ahead of that of England. To'qpin up tho situation is to say that overproduction and a failure in tho demand aro the causes of the trouble, and the remedy doos not present itself at present. If the present difficulty did not result in lowering the cost of production then I can see no way of tiding over the trouble except by a general shut down of all the Resscmer mills ia tho country. ltocent dtnaittea 01 various KiuiU. A boiler on the Farwood plantation, in Poiaf Coupee pariah, iiouisitna, burst last Saturday morning; killing Camille Bour geois, and fatally injuring two colored men. Joyce aud Timothy Callahan were killed 1 yesterday lv the fall of a large stone iu a quarry at Y est yuincy, alass. Uotu leave largo families. Three tramps, stoaliug a ride on a mail car ou the Chicago & Northwestern rail road, were killed by a collision with a freight train, near Barraboo, Wisconsin, on Monday. S. Baker and W. Ransom, while repair ing a bleach tub in a paper mill at Elkhart, Indiana, TiieMlay ofteraoon, were fatally scalded by falling into the boiling liquid .Frank and Paul Joues both drunk, were drowued by tl-e up-ctting of a "dugout" in which they wcio trying to cross a bayou near Little Rock, on Monday. COLUMBIA NEWS. UVli KEGCUK Ci)KKEMOXUt:.M;i: Event Alone the Muuiclianna Un: (.1 Internit Iu and Arnuud trie ISorunii 1'lcked Up by the luti-Iti-peucer'ii ItejKirU-r Mrs. Richard Lollard, of Hartiaburg, is the guest of friends ou Siuond street. To-morrow evening tho " musicaV will bo held at Dr. J. Iv. Lineaweaver'soa Walnut street. Philip Nan was badly cut across his left hand yesterday by tho inNtroke o." a. hatchet while cutting wood. Mr. James Walsin had his hand badly out yostorday by falling upon a mil which was sticking in a board. John Houck was severely cut oa the head yesterday by falling upoa tho pave ment at R3ic.1r.Ta givwiry ito e. No services will bo held iu St. John's Lutheran church to-night, on aeeount of the new furnace not yet being in p ni tion. The Pennsylvania raihoad compau 1.1 tend building another track in the '.:.-t yards here. Tho surveyors for the wcrks are now in town. A 6-weeks' old daughter of Mr. ll.in McCauley died y stcrday on Locust stifrt. The funeral was held this afternoon .it 'J o'eloek. Tho Rev. R. .1. Hiimprici-, !" the M. E. church, preached tho funeral sermon. Complaint has bi"-:i made against Ephraim llauiaker, charged with coin mittiug a rape upon two little girls, th alleged crime having been commuted two moths ago. Ho has not yet beeu arrested. Tho ladies and gentlemen from this place who attended the party which was held last evening at the n-siduiico of 3Ir. David lrove, in ! n. i., v.. nt thero gay pnceioi: . mx carnages. They a delightful time. Marietta is uoted 111 a had lor its hospitality. The employes -f P-i:iil"-"s uou works .jfajij-ed work an h'-ur l-.-'o-e ih. proper lane yesterday luorniii;:. A xi clock canuot bo mistaken. Thj wedding anniversary of Mr. John Suouborger and wife was celebrated :if their residonce on Third street, Ia-.t i-vi:. iug. A largo number of fn-.-inis of Un happy couplo wero present. The Tdlr to Clunn T-iii!ii To-night thcG. A. R. Jaii .vul c!o:.e. The attendance throughout ha; :. :r, bivn what it was expected robe, k i, hop-.l that a large number of visitors will In present to-night. Everv thing will be dis posed of. Lot our peon!.- sh.w ;h it th.-.y appreciate tho efforts of the iJci. U'eKli post by attending to-night. At the Opora ll.iu.i. A good sized audienco was pren&iu at the performance of " Nick ofth.s Wo-kN " last night. Mr. Joseph Proctor, a; tin "Jibonainosay,'? proved his clami to Im ing a lino actor. On Nov 20 Mr. B. Laavitt's Oigantn miustrcls will appear iu tho opera hou-o. Lew Benedict is among tho :S actors who compose the troupe. The lle-ithcn Chinee-. A Chinaman named Hop Lee has sta. t od a lauudry oa Front stieef. near t'.i!-.--mau'.s barber shop. It was opened lot business this morning. Ho delected the trick of a Columbia punter, who at tempted to sell hi in an old sign for a oi-v one. John had ordered a now one. h-iw -ever, not an old ono icpainted aiidu-fiisid to bn imposed upon. AVanted Ills Wages. Two colored men who havo the contract for doing the whitewashing at the Stove Work, named William Brown and John Anderson, had suit entered :iga;:ist them this morning bci'orn 'Squiro Grier by Luke Recster, a colorod employee of their.;. io. refusal to pay wagon Juo him. The e.is.t wa3 discharged on prouiiso of th-jilefei'd-ants to pay Rtestcr what was due him. TIIK OLD MUST nib'. Obitii'try Note. Deatn f IWnry Watson Mrs. Mary Watson, vufe of tho laij Oliver Watson, died in Eden tiiwi.slup 0:1 Friday last, aged about 8i yeais. lli husband, who was at ono timo a promin ent member of the Masonic fraternity, was drowned some years ago atMcCall's ferry. Her father was the well known Jacob Barr, " Lame Jacob," as ho was famili u 'y called, who died some five or six ye.irsago aged nearly 100 years. Mrs. Watson leave.-: two sisters, both of whom are far advanced in life. Heath of llatltl Myers. David Myers, an old and highly es teemed farmer, died on Friday last at his honio in Eden township, aged 1 jean. Ho died in almost tho .saiu. locality i.: which he was born and pas-.ed tho greater part of his life. Ho was in easy o:rcum stances, and loaves a nuriier of children, of whom aro Abraham Myer- of Lancas ter, and Samuel and Jacob, of Kdn, all of whom are woll known and reputable citi zens. Sir. Myers was au active Demociai and never missed voting at an election until tho last one. 1IUHG1..1KS AnOVT. Thrco i'rtvate Residence Itrnkeu lulu. This morning when Mr. John F. Ronl, residing on Columbia avenuo mar tho city limits, was about leaving homo, !n looked for his overcoat aud fouud Lh.it somebody else had beeu then: and appro priated it. Further investigation showed that a front window had been broken open and that the thief h id entered aud taken from tho rack in the hall two over coats belonging to Mr. I 'sail 0:10 of tbem a heavy giey coa made by Got hart, and the other a black diagonal made !y 3Iyers & Rathfou. The thi'f consider atclyleft behind a bunch of keys which he found in Mr. Reed's pocket. He r- riedawaya lino photograph album, b.it left behind most of tho family pictures 1: contained. The residence of Miss Harriet i'arl or adjoining Mr. Reed's, was also broken open, the thief enteriugby a back window. Tho housa was ransacked, but nothing id' value appears to have been taken. The tesidence of Mrs. Crumb uili ad joining Mr. Reed's was also entei ed, and here the thief or thieves helped themselves to a liberal lunch, but disturbed nothing else so far as has been learned. Saia'l r Vokii. Fulton opera houso was packed to tho doors last night with an uudiuce gathered t witness Mr. M. B. Curtis in his famous delineation of the Hebrew commercial drummer in tho character comedy 4i S,im'! ot Poson." Mr. Curtis h.s n.nde th piece a great go by tho humor ha has in fused into tho title uart, and lk; aiidienco was kept in an almost continuous roar f laughter by the comical sayings :sd doings of tho shrewd and hippy yor.it; Jew, who is big-hearted and ho.icst a-.d fnll of business. As for the picci i'cl:' if is rather ciudo in construction, aud d s not grow after tho third rot, when these is Wrought out an effective c imax, !'.t from which point to the end of tho play there is a falling off in tho intcrc: t that requires hard work fioru Cnriis to coun teract. AH in all, however, tho audience seemed to enjoy tho parforman :o im mensely, and Mr. Curtis has certainly en trenched himself among the favorites of the community. i:-y Stan lver. Yesterday afternoon wh.ld a lad of :) years of age, son of Iguatz iCseiler, resid ing at 4G9 in Manor htrcot, while tiding 011 one of Ilerrs large wagons on his way to school foil off, tho whcols passing ovor his legs, breaking one and crushing both bad ly. Medical aid was summoned and the fractured limb dressed. The boy is doing as well as can be expected. 1 t.
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