LANCASTER DALLY INTELLIGENCE!! WEDNESDA . JANUARY 24. LSS3. Lancaster fntdltgrnrer. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. 24. 1883. Sound iai iff Views. Therfi was a tariff discussion in the Senate yesterday, during which nearh all the diverse ideas upon the question were put forward. It is one upon which opinions differ diametrically, and in all the shades between such total difference. Senater Maxey, of Texas, considered that the constitution gave no power te Cen grass te lay a protective duty of an kind, taking the ultra free trade pesi tien. Senater Brown, of Georgia, be lieved in a " tariff for revenue, with in cidental protection te American labor, . raising no mere than was absolutely nec essary te the economical administration ef the government ;" which he pio pie pio neunced the old and true Democratic doctrine en wliich the party alone could prosper. Senater Sherman was for a tariff te protect American against for eign cheap labor, but net te protect the American manufacturer. Senater Buy aid was in favor of protecting the man ufacturer of pig iron. The discussion took place upon a preposition te make the duty en foreign iron ere and the dress from burnt pyiites one dollar instead of fifty cents per ten, as in the bill. Sen aterBajard declared that he would put sulphuret of iron and pyrites en the fiee list because they entered into the man ufacture of fertilizers ; and that he would rather put iron ere. en the fief list than increase the duty en it because his ideas was the duties en the original elements of man ufactuie should be reduced as much as possible, se that the manufactures could afford te supply their goods in competition with these of foreign lands He declaied that he would vote upon the tariff question, acting upon the principle that the taxing pewcis are vested in Congress for the use of the Aineiican people as a people, and net for the use or benefit of any men or class of niMi en account of the occupations in whirh they might be engaged. We are in entire sjinpithy with Sen ater Bayard's views. Legislation en the tariff should be graded by the leg islators' sense of what is due te the prosperity of the country. We conceive that the taxing powers el Cengiess tant manufactures, without thecultiva tien of which we would net be an in dependent people. But the mining of ores is a business where protection is net demanded by the public geed. If the ores are valuable they will be nuiud without protection ; and if they are net sufficiently valuable te be se developed, their development may profitably await their growth in value. Senater Slier man did net speak sinceiely when he declared that he no longer proposed te protect American manufacturers, but was solely intent upon protect iDg American labor. He thought that would have a popular sound. But as the result of his voting te pi etect Ameiicm labor is the protection of the American manu facturer he will net be able te success fully posture beleie the country as the champion of the people and the foeel the capitalist, lie supposes the capitalist te have intelligence enough te understand this and te be content te get his vote while losing hK words ; and lit. supposes the people te be stupid enough te accept his words in full acquittal of deeds ; and s-e he will be pepul ir aU around. But that way of earning wn'er en both shoulders has been unsuccessfully tried se often that Mr. Sherman, tee, may be ex pected te come te grief in essaj ing it. Credit "fthere Due. The Democratic newspapers of the state de well te keep a watchful eje en the Legislature. They pledged the pub lic that a Democratic majeiity in either branch meant, reform, and it is theii function, with jealous care, te insist that this shall beiealied. With this view the Ixtem.igkxckr and its consistent contemporaries of the Demeciatic faith have insisted upon prompt attention te business at Harrisburg, upon the aboli tion of supertlueus offices, the reduction of salaries, frequent sessions of the Leg islature, and the rejection by members of free passes and ether allurements from attention te and prompt dispatch of business. While we have been glad te welcome eeu newly cenveited Re publican journals te a sense of the samQ self-evident prepositions Ave are net unmindful of the fact that the sudden virtue displajed by some of them is hypocritical and intended only for par tisan effect. We de net propose te listen in silence te the revilement of a Demo cratic Heuse without suggesting at least a comparison of the superiority of the present lower branch of the state Assem bly te any like body controlled by a Re publican majority for many years. It is true that the present Heuse has net yet fully satisfied public expectation. It. has filled one or two places which we be lieve could be dispensed with, its members have voted that the $100 worth of postage stamps given them by an old law were net supplanted by the later allowance of $e0 for stationery and in lieu of "all perquisites" and the hours fixed for sessions are net as extended is it i expedient and proper they should be. Fer these thit.gs the Democratic majority is responsible. But in comparison with the conduct of previous Republican Houses that of the Democratic majority shines most credit ably. In the matter of expediting busi ness, the committees were announced and ready this year en the 17th of Janu ary, notwithstanding the interruption of all public business by the inaucuratien ; in the last Heuse they were net an nounced until the 0th ; forty bills have been considered and reported from committees- ; twenty-five have been disposed of en first reading and ten have passed second reading, while it is only the 21th of the month. In the last Heuse the first bill reported from committee was en the 129th. Speaker Faunce's committees give general satisfaction for the fairness with which members of both parties were allotted ; it was quite the contrary with Speaker Hewitt's. While the sessions have net, in our opinion, as ye1, provided for as much work as they might, the ad- ditien of one hour te the Friday session and the prohibition of resolutions en that day change its proceedings from buncombe te business, and if the members attend they can practically make the Friday session one mere work ing day of the week. The very fact that the Democratic Heuse stepped te consider the postage allowance shows it te have a superior sense of the proprieties te Republican Houses, which have never even halted te consider whether or net the grab was unlawful Ne Republican Heuse has shown the virtue te resist the tempta tien te fill a dozen or mere supertlueus offices. The observer at Harrisburg will new see one Democratic employee of the Heuse doing the weik upon which three Republican office holders used te be employed; and instead of men draw ing SG per day from the state and absent ing themselves from their pests of duty with, and often without, a cheap hireling piexy te de their work, every man en the pay roll of the Heuse is at his pest and knows that he lias te stay there ; in some instances they are even requited te pay help out of their own pockets. Fer all of these things we aie dulj thankful : and the Heuse deserves re cognition for them. If it shall size up te the aeveier tests which it must meet in weightier matters of legislation aud in the appropriations the commonwealth will have reason te be satisfied with its first expeiience in nearly ten years of a Democratic Heuse. Gov. Path-ex has appointed Jehn P. Sensenderfer and Chas I. Eismiugei, of Philadelphia, sealera of weights and measures, and Win. II. Smith lecerdcr in the city of Philadelphia, te sucef ed Republican incumbents of these offices whose terms are net expired, but who, in the judgment of the governor, are subject te removal by the executive, aud he makes it by this act of appointing ethers in their places. Sensenderfer and Eisminger are des"rving Democrats . Smith is a Refenn Republican; all of them are men of ecel!e:.t character and ample qualifications ier the places te which they are lespecM very named. The Republican sealeis of weights and measures who are te be supplanted aie low grade and rapacious politicians and are accused of misdoing in their office. David II. Lane, who is new recorder, is a Republican politician el the Camei en anli-McManes faction and maintains that he exercises his office within the privileges of the act creating it. The prejudice in Philadelphia is against the office and its opportunities, rathei than against the man who fills it ; the demand is for its abolition rathei than ter a change of incumbents. Weie such offices as sealers of weights and measuies and recorder abolished throughout the state the Republican majority iu the Senate could hardly justify opposition te the gever nor's removal of their incumbents, but while they exist aud the holders of them are Republicans in commission the Republican majority of tne state Senate will probably refuse te assent te their remeal or te confirm their successors. A struggle is therefore impending be tween the appointing and confirming power which will involve some iutei eat ing questions and premises te develop exciting phases. . Tilt: judicial 3' committee of the Maine Hou-e will soeu lopert a bil! se establish, i.ig the death penalty for murder ia that state. Cexgkizs proposes te piehrbit the im pjrtatien of auultciated tea, and this an nouncement biings joy aud lelief te the votaries of the true cap that chcei sand don't inebriate. Accoiturxe te figures prepared s, Mr. MoPhersen, desk of the Heuse of Rep.es entatives, the i.ext Heuse will bj compos ed of 120 Republicans, 0 Readjustee, 2 Greenback Libermen, C Independents and li)2 Democrats. Only two members el the federal Senate weie in their place jesterday morning when the chaplain begau his prayer, but the religious portion of the daj's proceed ings went en as dec neusly as if there had been a full heus. Of the ethers some felt they were net in need of praycis, but most of them weie beyond its saving grace. Suicide is net uecessaiily an evidence of ph sical courage, bat that is a mighty bravej man in Philadelphia who has geiu about it by ceutiacting te dunk a quait e! Schuylkill water in ten minutes for six consecutive nights. The fellow is evidently seeking death with all its attendaut hor rors by uudei taking te put that combined essence of Hastiness into his stomach. Fcx at six below zero would seem te be rather a chilly sort of entertainment, but the people up at Montreal seem te have enjoyed it hugely at the opening of their winter carnival last night. The city is thronged with strangers, se much ee that there scarcely remains standing loom for guests iu the hotels, and what with the merry sleigh parade, the singing students, the beunie curlera and games aud sperls of every description, the Canadian capital is literally en fete, aud Jack Frest is for the nence transformed into the gayest seit of a sprite whose piesence our neigh bors ever the line are apparently making the most of. And new they aie charging plagiaiism against Mr. Cooper, the amiable chairman of the Republican stite committee and vci satire author of that ponderous volume en " Americau Politics." When the Stalwait field marshal first gave Lis mighty work te the public considerable spcculatienwas had as te the probable result of his course in betaking himself te the ranks of the " literary felleis " for whom the vcnerable chief of the clau Cameren long since cxpiessed unmitigated con tempt ; even new it is probable the aged Winnebago puts mere than half the blame for last fall's disastrous campaign upon Cooper 'h deviation toward pursuits that aie considered foreign te your prac tical pelitiei.m. Rut the most unkindest cut of all was t he suit instituted against him by Congressional Librarian Spofford, who charges that a considerable portion of AmeiieanPelitics"infiiriges upon bis own work known as " The American Almanac and Treasury of Facts," the complainant alleging that pages en pages of statistics and ether valuable maUer had been dex terously transferred by Mr. Cooper te adorn his own ambitious venture in the walks of literature, said transfer being in violation of the copyright law with which the congressional librarian had sought te protect his own volume. Cooper smilingly comes te the front, how ever, by showing that some one else bed copyrighted the same matter befera Spofford, which puts the librarian and himself iu the same beat, and se the court has declined te grant au injunction against the defendant. Ixtekest is given te a decision by a Bosten judge gianting the injunction of Theodere Themas te restiain another man from producing Gounod's new oratorio e1 "The Redemption," by reason of the tp- ccut quarrel between rival operatic mana gers in this city as te the right of oue of thetn te perform Gilbcit & Sullivan's "Ielauthe." Manager Rice claimed that having paid a rejalty te the authors for the purpose of producing the opera, irre spensible persjus were thereby lestrained from se ihiug. Managers Snyder & Grau, en the ether baud, said that as the score hid been published and could he pinch iscd at any muiic store the epeia wis public property, and theie was ue authority te restrain them liem singing it. Jiidjje Lewell, of Bosten, passing upon the disputed light of a manager te pie duce Gounod's composition, held that the publication of the hook with the sc :e ler pianos and marginal isetts does net giva the right te any our te produce, if be can, the erchestial accompaniments with tLe aid of the book. The erche-tial effects aiecoleied by the original composer only, and aie essentially his- property, and theie. fore any attempt te rcpioduce or imitate the orchestration, whether from memory or by any ether means is u ccss.aiily an iu- fiingement of the compose! s lights. The point decided in this judicial utterai-ce seems plainly analogous te the one disputed by peir-piiiug nianigeis iu this city lately, and miht readily be taken as a tct ler peiseus who having paid Gilbert & Sulli van for the light te sing their operas fed themselves aggiieved at the unwarranted performances of otheis. The recrut baggage agreement eutend into by the western reads, which provides that no piece of sample Kiggage weighing meic than 2.10 pound shall be carried in baggage cars after Match el, lS8e wn1 necessitate a revolution iu the baggage equipment of many wholesale houses and theatrical companies and adv.niee agents. Se far no official announcement has been made by eastern lines of a like regulation, though a gentleiraa connected with the baggage departri" -i of the Pennsylvania .system, who t. s seen upon the subjccf. 8 tid it is only a ij i -tien of thne when it will be done. i'v ground upon which the railroad an le l-Irs base their action limiting the weight of baggage is that the employees of the reads who are obliged te handla the p uidereustiuuks of commercial Uiwelcr. and the.itiic.il com panies, aie ficquently injured for hfe in attempting te lift them, and that whereas no humauc mei chant would ask an em ployee te de such prodigious work, se neither should railroad companies expect it from the men v-hem they hire. The carriage of sample and theatrical b.igg ige, much of which frequently weighs as hi;h as 730 pounds, is said by railroad officials t be the most unremuuerativu branch of their traffic. Ladies' Sarategas arc net ueany se ueavy as m my ei rue smaller tiunkft)f traveling salesmen an I theatri cal companies, as their contents usually consist of lighter aiticles of female use and apparel, such as hoiiuels, parasols, silks and the like, aud it would hed'flicult te put 200 pounds of such mater i.il into the laigest Saratoga ever made. Thi. in convenience in handling siiih tuinks is in their siz3 rather than their weight. PERSON Ai.. Kine Ai.roxse has received from Prince Leuis Ferdinand, of Bivari.i, a formal demand for the hand of the Infanta Marie Delia Paz. Pkiscess Lerisn today embaiks en beard et II. M. S. Dide, at Chailestewn, S. C, and starts ter Bermuda, to-meirow morning. Cu miles Delane, a prominent lawjer and citizen, and member of Congress from ISeS te 18G2, died at Northampton, Mass., yestciday. Dn. Geerge Miller Be urn, the well known physician and sp2C.a!ist in hypno tism and insanity, died in New Yeik yes terday. Butler has had a haakset in the refusal of the Massachuset ts Heuse by :i vote of 97 te 9.1 te print ten theusant! cxtia copies of his message. GrsTAVE DeitE, the famous painter and designer, died iu Paris ou Tuesday after a biief illness from inflammation of the threat. Congressman Anitur S. Hewitt is quite ill at his lesidence in New "i eik, aud does net knew when he will be able te re sume his congressional duties. Dr. Edward II. Knight, the author of "Kuight's American Mechanical Diction ary," and ether literary weiks, died ou Monday night at his home in Bellelon Bellelen taine, Ohie. Mr. Edwin Beeth appoaied last nitrht as King Lear for the first time during his engagement at the Resideuz theatre in Berlin. The performance was a splendid success. Mr Beeth being called before the cm tain IS times. SALviM.nccempanied by several friendt, arrived iu Philadelphia last evening from Baltimore, where he is playing an en gagement, and occupied a box at the Chestnut street opera house, where he witnessed the performance of his son as Remee in the play of "Remee and Juliet." Ex-Empress Eugenie, who is new in Paris, announces that she ignores the republic and cernrs te display her sympa thy with Prince Jereme in his incarcera tion. Her adherents claim that her pies pies ence means a demonstration in behalf of the name and family of Napeleon. Miss Margaret Mather is the new candidate for histrionic honors upon whom the critics have been let loose. The gen eral opinion of the mere discriminating of them is that she is tee ambitious for an amateur, essaying difficult roles with an assurance that her talents de net justify. D. McMullen. esq., of this city, will preside at the exercises of the normal literary society's twenty-sixth anniversary in the chapel of the Millersville state normal school, en next Friday evening. The ether "representatives " of the society for the occasion will be : Secretary, Miss Kate J. Kech, Carlisle, Pa., '70 ; essayist, Miss Alice Seager, Maytown, Pa., "81 ; normal oration, A. II. Wood ward, esq., Clearfield, Pa., '78 ; reader, Mrs. Sarah J. Wilmer, Baltimore. Md. ; anniversary orator, A. Frank Seltzer, esq., Lebanon, Pa. A MOTHER'S CRIME- SUE KILLS HER LITTLE CHILDKlsN. A l'oer Bebenuaa Weman Horribly Muti late Uer Little Girls and Trie te Strangle tteifull. The most horrible tragedy of its kind ever enacted in Milwaukee was the mur der Tuesday morning of three bright little children by their insane mother. Shortly beiere neon the police were notified of the murder, and half au hour after had the pitiable looking object that committed the deed at the station. The woman is a Bohemian, about twenty eight years of age, and lived with her husband en the West Side. The scenn of the murder is at 460 Sixr.ii street. With a carpenter's drawinc knife and two butcher kuives with blades about six inches long the thiee pretty children were killed. Passing through an alley fiein Sixth street and entering into a basement room in the rear of the building lloeded with water could be seen besmeared with bleed the thiee bodies. Ne mera shocking sight could be imagined. Women who forced themselves into the room upon some urgent pretext, but really te view the scene, upon the fiiat leek sud denly turned away and iltd. The names of the childien are Anna, Clara aud Helena CVpitek. The eldest lay en the bed staik naked, with thieestabs through the heart, made with a knife, and the body unsightly with bleed aud bruises. The ucxt lay a little dis'ance from the ether with the lower parr of the body horribly cut. Masses ei flesh were cut from the hips aud ab'lemen aud this body, tee. lay in clotted bleed. The youngest child, aged four months, lay at the back of the bed. It was a sweet child, as were the ether two. Frem this child both arms and legs wcie cut fiem the body. The eldest murdered uirl was live jeais old, the j-ccend one thiee jears. Mis. Kreddick, a weunti who live. in the yard back of the heuse says that she happened te no into the house wheie the niurdtrs weie committed. I here she net only saw thiee mimicied childien en the bed, but the woman heiself hanging t the knob et a deer, endeavoring te stian i;Ie beiself with a piece et cotton eleth. The viniter cut her deiu and asked hei why she had committed the ciime, te wliich shuieplied that people who live iu the world have gieat tumble ciwaj", but when dead their tumbles are ended. The knob of the deer te which she was hanging is only about thiee feet fienr the tloei . It seems that aftei committing the unnatural ci hire she dashed leveial pails ofwateiever the llntr te wash e If the bleed inaiks. She evidently had no de sire te hide the deed, but simply te have the place leek less ghastly after it was done. At. the station the woman, whose name is Cepnek, after she had been warmed she was nearly chilled m death by the riele, ; U.iviu scarcely any clothing en told her story in broke u B'iglish. Tne children, she said, cried hut little, as she made quick work of the buteheiy. As she said this she smiled with evident satisfaction. With the diawing knile she shaved the flesh oil' the children's bodies and with the butcher knife s'ie stabbed and disan -! hew eh d them. While their bodies weie I shockingly mutilated the heads were un- touched. When asked what hel caused her de m Jeaiful lead it iu a book."' deetl she replied " I ir..r msinitv i ni" tliH -. ......... .j ... : ( up about d e clock Tuesil.iv morning. She acicd rather queer. She began te get the breakfast and their took two prayer heiks and went up stairs aud commenced te pray. He asked her te huiry up the bieakfast. She said she ceulel net until she had t'riished reading the prajer book. He ate his breakfast nnd left the house for the shop at about C:0. The children weie .ill in bed and asleep when he left. IIe stated that ha niarucd his wife in Bohemia and cam) te this ceuutiy about three ye-ai sage. Ever since his arrival in i his country they have had trouble, as theie has been considerable sickness among the children In answer te a questieu as te whether Oi net his wife had ever shown any signs of insanity pluvieus te that morning hu le p'ltal that she had net, but. then lecellected that about Chii-itmas timeshu. read some- ' thing in a paper that seemed te have had , a giear etlect en her. Iu the German part of the city, where the deed was committed the greatest excitment peivailed. The woman was placed in a cell, wheie she can be watched te prevent her ceminictmg tuicide. Tuesday evening tiie husband who seems te be ci sized by the awful deed was placed uueler police suiveillance te peivent him from taking his own lite as he has thicatened te de. UKUn.Nl.U LIKE KITS rN A 1IULE. All AusrrulHftl n Aline Flooded slity Hours in the Witter lnen ty-t we llo.el. The Sydney (New Seuth Wales) Herald has the lollewing details of the disaster at the Australasian mine ou December 12 : The accident eeeurreel at 5:30 a. m., in the drift from Ne. 2 shaft, which unex pectedly broke iute the old workings of Ne. 1 shaft. The water rushed in with gieat foice and in a few minutes the lower levels weie lloeded nnd the water had liscu thirty feet in the shaft. The men employed at this point flsel for their lives along the drift te the station, where tweU e reached the cage and were heistod te the surface. Twenty-seven men in another part of the new workings wero unable te reach the shatt anil their euly hope was that they might be able te reach and ascend distant winzes leading te the upper level. The scene at the top of the shaft was pitiful, mothers, wives, children aud liiends being gatheied there, waiting almost without hope for news from below. The pumps, -throwing 44,000 gallons of water per hour, were at ence started, and all the miucis in the district assembled te lend assistance. The body of water was se great that the pumps lowered it very slewlj', and a diver was sent for te at tempt te penetrate the mine te learn the fate of these below, but the project was fennd impracticable. On the afternoon of the 13th the water was only bieast high in the drift where the men were supposed te be, aud an at tempt was made te reach them by wading, but the vitiated air seen drove back the releaf paity. Several similar attempts were made during the night, and about 7 o'clock en the merning of the 14th two t-earchers came up the shaft cheering and rcpeited that near winze Ne 11 they heard the werds: '-It's all right; we are all right." About G o'clock in the evening weid came up that the lest were found. The news spread like wildfire and the whole neighborhood flecked te the shaft. Tanks were improvised as carriages in which te raise the men te the surface, aud a half hour later Jehn Manley was brought up alive. He had been caught by going te warn his comrades of danger when he might have escaped. Soen four ethers weie breughtup.all greatly exhausted, but they are new in a fairway te recover. The cage rose again, when the terrible trnth ' religious fnm and she thinks she has ! K,,IutI lme 5,et "c'1 leamcei. madea gieatsaeiiiiee. She .ept binoeth ' Tbe Cei.ticfn story. i'ig back her haii with her bloody hands) Geerge Albeit Masen was relrasi'd fn.m and looked at the erunseu stains and the Albany penitentiary en the Gch ia smiled. Her eyes had a wild leek. , static, wheie he had sercd Fevenjctis The sight was se tenible that the eili j and eight months for counterfeiting. He curs turned away .sick at heart. Her bus- chi ns that he was wrongfully convicted band was notified of the ten ihiu deed by and has prepaied affidavits te be taken te tiie pelice. lie did net appear te leahze Washington. He is a British subject and the situation uutd driven te the Central ' represents thathe was employed in 1S74 station, where he was sin rounded by ' by Colonel Washuurne as a detective in policemen and uperteis. He gave his ! 'he United States secivt .service, although name as Jehn and his age ,i -52 j eais. He he did net take, the prc-ciibeel oath. He is about medium height, with a very j nearly lest his life while arresting a coun ceun dark, hciubhy bjatd. When queslie'ieu ! teifeiter named McCaity, ..t St. Leuis in hu began te tiemble and then burst into j 1873. He claims he was eli-chaigcd by teais. IIe said that he and his wife trot i Colonel Washbuiue because he demanded was learned that 22 men remaining in the mine had perished. The whole party had been caught in the drift, the water rising se high that only by clinging te the tim bers ceulel they keep their chins above it. One by one dui ing the sixty hours strug gle they die pped off exhausted and were drewued iu the flood, the strongest only beimr able te held en until relief came. The bodies were fennd scatteied about en the lloer of the drift. The victims were interred en the lGih, business being gen eially suspeiideil that day. A liberal sub sciiptien has been taken up ler the families of the deael miners. KH.L.KU rsv , iAsi;lii sia. A rtatlreacl M.iilnn Auent Shet Iiunu anil Kebbed W bile ou Uuty. Theie is considerable excitement in Fallsburgh, X. Y., ever a daring masked rebbeiy perpetrated Tuesday morning. Richard Shurter, station agent for the New Yerk, Outane & Western railroad, beaids at a hotel opposite the depot. About half-past e in the morning he went ever te the eiepet te build the liies. After letting them started he weut te a closet. W hen he leturued five minutes later he found a man iu the waiting room of the depot wearing a mask. When Shurter entered the deer the stianger demanded of him, ' Your money or your life." Shurter answered him : ' Take my life, then." The words had scarcely left his lips when the buiglar died. The shot took rttVct just above Shutter's heart and the ball ledged in his left lung. Shurter tell and the burglar knocked him senseless with a revolver aud took from his pockets about $200 which he wa cairiug these for safe-keeping. The villiau then tied. The shot was heard at the hotel, and seveial peiseus went te the depot and found Shurter lying iu a peel et bleed, appaiently dead. The party staited iu pursuit of the bur glar, but he has net yei, beiu captured. Slimier lingered until last eveuing when he died in great agony, lie was tweii'y- four years e'd and the son et a Methodist pieacher ef the New Yeik conference, re siding at Peekskill. Rt sielc being station agent he was the agent for Adams Ex press company. VLUMiiMl HUB'S A KAUfAMi.Ut.Xr. A Terrible Accident en a Maryland 'allreal j.vdu Ifecllcs 1'aUeu Kreut tbe Wreck. Onoefthe most Uniile taihe.id acci deuts that ever occurred in West Virginia happened en the Geeige's Cieek & Cum. bcilanel lailread, ruunhig fiem Cumber land te Lonaceuing, Taesday. Thiee coal trains, consisting of three locomotives, fifty-two hoppers auil seventeen gondolas, all leaded, staited from Cumberland about two o'clock Tue.-day afternoon. All wero coupled together oue engine in lrent, another iu the middle aud another in the reai this being the safest way te get down the giaetes this had weather. In going elewn the steep grades about ten miles fiem Cumbeilaud the tiaius became unmanageable and staited down fit a fear ful rate of spetel. On a trestle work the fient engine jumped the track, dragging all the cats and locomotives after it, and lolled down the steep hilt a hundred feet te the tiacks of the Eckhart branch of the Cumbeilancl & Pennsylvania raihead. Seven elead bodies were found iu the wrcc,c Each tiain consisted of a en- hicter, two biakeiiien ami fiieman and engineer in au nueen, net oneeiwnom I cur be found aiive. The names of th-r p ly aud made cnmplaix.t te Seeietary Biis tow concerning W.ishbniiieand abe cldnis that his airest and tonvie'ion were a put. of Washburnc's revenge. He wants dam ages for false imprisonment, asciiminal pieceedings against Wa-hburne aie out lawed. liuc,cci anil Kebbccl en a Jriiln. Jehn Shay, an Irishman, has arrived at New Yerk from St Leu's. lie reported te the pelice that en the train en the Eiie read, en which he was a passenger, a black whrsieereil man made uienels with hun aud gave biin Inanely te drink. Shav fell asleep, and when he aweke iu Jeisev City his vahse with $275, all his savings was geno, as well as his oveiceat. He was compelled te ask the pelice for lodgings for the night, while word was sent te his bi ether in Bosten of his- pught. He said he had lest his family, was in searcli of a fresh start in life, aud came te New Yerk te hnel it. Arrest el U'i meltny Cancer Doctors. Samuel Gast, of-Iowa, and his nephew, Divid Gast, of Ohie, travtliug cancer docteis, and James E. Haines, :i student of Risiug Sun, Maryland, have been ar rested at Chester the two first mentioned at Bellefonte, this state, aud the latter at his home en a coroner's wan ant ch.ng ing them with homicide iu having caused the death of Mis. James Armstrong, aged 7e years, of Delaware ceuntv, whom they treated for cancer. W. J. Perkins, of Chester, who harbored the trio of cancer electors, was also arrested ou the charge of being an accessory te the homicide. The entire party will be ledged in Media jail te await tiial. Criiklieti Under ;t Train. A shocking accident occurred at the railway crossing at Yerkcs station, Mont gomery county. Jeseph Humscher, a farm hantl iu the employ of Reger Greves, of Upper Previdence, was returning from the Yerkes creamery, where he had just delivered the milk. As he was driving across the railroad a frtight train came thundering elewn upon him. In au in stant a fatal accident had occurred. Air. Humscher and the herse which he was ("riving were killed and the carriage was wrecked. Mr. IIum3her was ground into an almost unrecegniz iblc mass. Singular Circumstances Attending Funeral Jeseph Hiscock, who has been tteubled with insomnia for some weeks, in Terente told his wife he was going iute a trance for three days and night", aud shortly af terward, te all appearances, he died. His body is kept iu warm room and carefully watched by his family until the time of the trance expires. The doctors pronounce the man dead. 1'uglllBt! fjBarrelinj; at Chicago. iireexpecreei pugrri.sis are net an in Chicago yet, but quarreling has already begun. James Elliett is looking for Harry Hill, ou account et sorae remaiks made by the latter in an interview reflecting en Elliett's courage. Elliett cxpiesses the opiuieu that Richard K. Fex does net propose te match Slade against Sullivan for a equate fight. lhe only Senater en Duty. When the Senate was called te order yesterday Mr. Butler, of Seuth Carolina, was the only senator present. The vice president said : ' The senator from Seuth Carolina will corce te order." and after the prayer was deliveicd Mr. Butler moved a call of the Senate. A quorum was shortly obtained. Killed ly an Exploding Kitchen Rangn Celia Gectze, a domestic, was killed in Chicago by the explosion of a kitchen range in which she had just built a fire The pipes leading te the het water tank wera frozen. Thn wsirfir in the water. front was cendensed into steam, and the explosion followed. . MRS M'CLELLAND'S BABY was it thl. cause or a riericii;E' .n Aiii;ry HuiibaiKt Who Wuutei a riej 'llirt-.ttenlris; II u 'Wile auil Kecelvli. HI Own liaatb AVauntl The trial of M.uy R. McClelland for the mm der of hei husti.uul, in French Cieek township, Venango county, is still iu piegicss at Franklin. Alerandcr MeCiel land, the murdered nitii, had a bad lepu tat ion, and when under the influence et ltqaer was a desperade of the wet .-tat Ou November S, he went home druiin from Oil City, utid abused all abou abeu abou the heu-e. Mrs McClelland, who had breii delivered of a girl bdy a few days previously, was still iu her bed, aid bt-cause the child was net a boy McClel land had threatened te kill it and its mother, aud Mrs. McClellaud, tepnteet herself, had hiddeu a reve'ver m her night dress, aud when McClelland ad auceel te cany out his tlueat she drew the revelier and fifed, the ball euteiing the rinht tye and causing instant death. Mrs. McCMIaud w.is aire-ttd, but was allowed te enter b lit for her apparauet at court. The sympathy of the e uniuu nicy wa-. with her. The only witti---- called was aamuei Wise, who r stilus wtiii the McClellands. He letiti d that Mj Clelland was in a gexl hum "r when he arnvetl home en the night of the minder and that he tlid net threaten the hie et his wife. This is a diieut contradict ion of a form r statement nude by him. (jse.it intciest is lelt iu the tii.il. Tilt. CI1AKI1Y If ALL. A Itrllliant Kcit lu tlie Amilcinj. rb!!aUellila The thiid annual e'taiity ball, which occulted at the Academy of Music, ia Philadelphia. Tuesday uight, was one of the most interesting social events el the season. The academy m-ver looked nioie biilliaut, the stage being utaguiii cently set with tin Oiteiiial scene in wLtch the most beautiful t topical lleweis we.e elispl.ived in profusion. The pdlais and the lacing el the b.ile-eny wete deeet.itid with evei greens, while the ftstoetti of raie flowers suspended between hanging b.is kcts in mess anel nd plants formed a most pieasmg accompaniment te a seeiu of meie than usual he.uity. The elaborate prelamine of d mces, te music furnished by Mai k H..setei'.s eieb.es tra, of the city, .surd P. S Gdniore's mili tary band, of New Yeik, was tin neon tinued with euthiuiasm by hti.alicds e! handsomely dressed ladies andtheiresc ils until early morning Among the many splendidly ibessed ladies who attracted special attention .tur ing the progress of the ball was Mr.-. Alfied II. Moere, of Seventeenth aid Spring Garden stieets, who was ie-pl.-iiii-ent with diamonds and lace. She weie t-e pairs of diamond bracelets, with clusters of diamonds at, the c'as s and a double stiiug of diamonds at emul the arm ; a pair of very huge and biilhatit callings ; magnificent coienet of rii ime'ids and a most, splendid necklace et diamonds that flashed like the from her head, neck and thieat. A pair of diamei.d buckles held the lace of her dress at the us ms. and a diarneud studded oeui'i hei 1 up her h tir iu a coil at the back of her head. Toe value of the diamonds worn by Mrs. Moeie was net less than S'J5,008, and the l.ice et which the dress was undo .va.wrth almost as much mere. A Uei.NCISEss UK KAT Mt'N. re:i Ateu Who Weili Nu.irly 5.00tl l'e.iriln Thne arc a number of veiy fat pi pie ar Bunnell's museum, Broadway and Ninth sticet, New Yeik. There are compel msr for prizes te he given te the heaviest, weight. It is in facta coegrosof obesity Among these who have enteied their avoirdupois aie Recinnia Feite-, of Camden. Indiana, whemakw. the scales balance at 300 peinds, fifteen of wliich aie credited te his feet ; Riil.aid .'amis, of W.ajnc county, () , who lefu-es te tell how hew much he weighs and whiha&c'ijMqucitly set visitors gucp.-i-.ig ; Francs Williams also et Ohie, who appc.it s te he biesder than he 's lenir, and Samuel M. Bishop, et" Petersburg, Va., who is only seventeen ye.ais of age, but who leeks as if he had been living ou the fat of the l.nd t-ince before the war. Theie aie four fat women il-e ou exhibition. It was esti mated last evening by n man who wen the prize at a recent he-yuessing at Bunnell's that the embiued weieht of the tens of humanity en exhibitieii is 4 87G pounds. As there ara ten con testants the average for each o:ie is fied at about 487. Mr. Geoige Starr, the man ager of the museum, was astonished last night when he received the following dis patch from Easten, Pa.: "Mr. Edw.ud Rudd ha left here for your museum. We had te put him in a freight car. He weighs 552 pounds, G ounces aud 4 pennyweight. IIe did net have his winter oietheu ou w hen this exact weight was taken. IIe em et a dozen quails a day for six months. If you cannot get him in through the front deer, heist him up te the seceud 11 ier the same sis you would a afe. Eisten takes great pride in its champion fat man. 1 1 is feet are each eighteen inches m length. Twe of them make a yard. Yeu had but ter make a contract te have him fed for a week.' NEWS MISUL'LLAY. Seme Late Itenni el Varied Interest. Immense crowds of visitors have arrived at Montreal from all points of the Domin ion aud the United States te witners the carnival. Housten Rays' ii en and steel works at Coshocton, O , have burned. Less, Sb'.l, -000 The works employed 100 men and were the principal manufactory of the town. Geerge Comedy, a biakeman ea the Eiie raihead, lell from the top of au east ward bound freight tn in, near Geshen, N. Y., and was beheaded. lie was un married and resided iu Matamuras, Pa. Relin Phelp", an operator in a photo copying house at Auburn, N. Y., com mstted suicide by takiug cyanide of pot ash, a powerful poison. The deed is as cribed te dissipation. H. II. Rudd, aged 73 years, and reported te be wealthy, residing en his farm in Walker county, Ga., about nine milts fiem Chattanooga, Tenn., was found dead in bed, having been murdered en Monday night. The Jury Wlieel. This morning Wm. Ellmakcr, of New Helland, and Israel G. Et b, of Warwick, the new juiy commissioners came te town and they met Judges Patter-en and Liv ingston in reerard te the lelillimr of tlm jury whcul. It was decided that the work should be done at once, and it is likely that the wheel will be filled by the latter end of next week, lhe names of men fiem dif ferent townships will be chosen te serve the same as though the wheel was being filled for the lirst time. The old names new in ic win nor. ee put uaci again, many had supposed. as A CJevc.nment f-nnter Fined St, 000. Geerge W. Hubley.ef Yerk, convicted of altering and raising pest effice money or ders for printing deue was yesterday sen tenced by Judge Butler of the United States district court, te pay a fine of $!,00i, and stand committed until the sontenee be complied with. Driving Accident Harrison B. Miller, residing en North Piince street, between Orange and Chest nut, while sleighing yesterday had an up set, was thrown out anel sustained a fracture of the small bone of hi3 leg. Dr. Atlee set the broken bone. A MAX DM! UK KUtttS Six TIiui'(l 1 'fc Kur et 'rwmy Iw.i Mrielit Frederick Church -trret. I. is Seln unis.. furrier, new m.sking and 137 has :ilni')r linidied a It i- si von feet m hull f-r in width, tluusai'd pn c-s nrj im.ark.tble robe, b ngtti and lour and a aud contains about six et the finest furs, of tweiit-:we d.llereut .uieties. I'tiodif I'tiedif I'tiodif lceui'pveivs ei fai are sewn toetherse as te mini h indseiue fiu-es, the varying sit .des i i tee fuis beitiir v-tiry happily elei ih d and e-'titi isted le the centre of the role s ti 1 1 et tineasfraelian. is the initial ,." iu brown beaver. Above tl. s I.- a ltptt m titatieii of the sun, the i,ii. b.-tn Kuninl by narrow stip's et golden eolertd turs. Uelew the initial is a lepre entitten of the moon, iu its first qu liter, and at pi eper intervals .tie pl.ued a number of stars Ou either siaeetthe centre tiute aie large disks m.tele tip ni uuuisicrable pieces et fur et every shade, Irem pure white te jet black. Beyond th se ate corner piece of pretty df.-tjit and suiiotiiiisme all is a border of itntipie design, composed el agreat vaiiety of tuts, among which the wild eat, the mink, the eeiti-y, ami the opossum are eiilhantly repiest nted. Mr. Seheuing is making theiebe te theorderef Mr. Samuel Neble. sieietai of the Woedstook iron eempauj mh the Anntsteti cotton factory, Calhoun count, Ala He has spent al ready about lout weeks of constant labor upon it and it will require at least another week te finish it scores of skins have b. en cut into shapely pieces aud seweel together stitch bv stitch by hand. It is doubtful whether there is in the whole ceuutiy ;i robe, te compare with it in value and heaut . I..IS KMilMt A I'tniilii Hettvi' l'eurr anil lir, t'ouxtruc t'euxtruc II. mi. Mes'ts. "di'tli-i & llaitmui, wholesale i.:eeeis Ne. 2:5 West Chestnut street, have had put m their ewteusive establisb teeut one el Se'iileie-l.er, Sehumiu & Ce.'s i..is engines. It is of seveu horse power and is intended te work the elevator which can n s weds te and from the sev eia! -tunes ei the budding. The elevator is neared te the engine by shafts and counter sh.iits of the usual construction. By iegesiius appliances, whieh it would take te much space te describe, the ele .iW-i cm be stepped at anv point in an instant .ted .ts ihi.-cieii changed up or down as in i b destnd. 1 1 - au automatic sirrangeuiciu tin Jev.l t tsthiowneut of ge tr and steps ei' its owuacceid as seen as it reaches ii her th low i or the upjier lloer. T.'sa engine is it m.ti vel of ingenuity. It is fed by two eiy sm ill gas burners, making scaiei'y enough heat te buru one's liri '!, susil jet its heavy , diiving wheel i veltes with tiuinei se velocity aud its piston wtiiks with the power of .1 loco motive. Uul'se steam engiut's the cj Un der has but one h ad. the ether end of it being entiiely open The power, which is applied te the closed e-nl el the cyliuder.is generated by a combination et buttling gas and co'.l a;r. ThM! is no heat about the engine except that caused by friction Iud. ed, se cold is it iu the engine room that a small 4ktci pipe leading into the engine for the purpose of keeping the cylinder eoel has te be wrapped with cloths during tins cld weather te keep it fiem liee'ing. The cost of gas for ruii- ning the engine will net exceed six cents I an hour and th v. at -r tax will be two j deil.ns a jtar. Beth the engine and ele - va'' r were put in e A. u. Weieuans, machinist, and aie ci editable alike te him, i t ll.e mien'er a-id te Miller Oi II irtman. It i-t tiie lirst el the kind that we knew of having lui-'s is'tieducd into this city, but it will no doubt be followed by ethers wheie oceiMJOTy and speed are wanted and heat is net. ;ilL IlKMMS) cas:--, C'. ia'tiseii I "Mi-.lil.Tli';; tlir IS (inlsilieii. Beioie Gov. Pattiseti, Attorney Geiicial Ca-sidj ami S ctctr.iy of State. Steugei was heaid ye.steid.i ,.t 4 p. iu. argument touching She mpiisiti. in el Gov. Critten den, of Minsiiuii, f.i Jehn B Dennis, form eily of this euuty, and new m the county j nl, who is ueciiM il in Sr. Leuis t.l" Iraud in i litauiiu"- t.venty lour mules from oue Giant. J. C. "lieAlaine-y and W. L. Hen s -1 appe.ued en beh-ilt of the requisition .mil te time th it it should he honored ; S. H. Reynolds and J. Hay Biewii argued that it should net be honeied because of the grade el HVne charged, because the n quinilieu se fertis the charge tee vaguely, and because it was accompanied wiih ue evidence that D nnis was ;t fugitive lrem justice. The governor and hu cabinet have net as yet aiiueunctd theii dei.isieu. The I.eaiing of Dennis en a habeas coi cei pus, which was fixed for 11 a m. today, li is be-'ii postponed until 4 p. m. Hl-iUllti'lKllOO!) NKiVS. J tfiilr AireiH Hie Cuuuly Line. Several creameries are te be erected in dill '10111 puts el Lebanon county. The Ri-adiug Gieeubackeis say they aie undecided as te whether fiiey will make anv nominations for the sjning campaign. Iu I'oUstewn, white coasting, a little ' girl receivi d a, gash in the tin eat tbree rnci.es long, Un; cut exieiiiuug back te i , the root et the toitgue, by her sled collid cellid i ing with another. ' The borough council of Yerk has just ' passed and lud published an ordiatice chaiigii.g the names of fifteen highways I h.mi stiei ts te aveuues. O.ie of them is t te be known heiea.ter as Gas avenue. A new daily piper, cided the Demo cratic Age,' iiiihV its liist appearance in Yeik Wednesday, v.heie it is published by Enwaid Stuck, fenutrly of the Oil City Derrick. Palatinate celh-ge, at Merstewn, Leba non ceuiiy, new- h is "2 names en the rolls while la..t jeir the number of students w.is 77. Thisi.nge deeiease is owing te then cent freublw between some of the studeirs mul the etlic'ss. 'the VSu'-t'irioiiVlUe t.Hrctmlen. J ihn Bdtiur, charged with the laiccny of several revolvers trem the stoie of J. M. S. Materse, el Mastersonville, and with the larceny 1,100 cigars from Jehn J. Theme, of the same place, had a heating before Aldjrrnan Spurrier this morning and wa held in $000 bail te an swer at cetut. Dr. J seph S. Theme, the father of thu man from whom the cigars worn stolen, bt-eame hail for Balmer who is charged with stealing them. Geeugs Feltz aud Ephraiin Brewer, chaiged with lcceivmg the stolen cigar .md being accessory te the larceny after the fact weie stlise given a hearing and weie held teauswerat court, Mr. Mas Mas tetpen becoming their bad. The case against Heward O. Clair, who is also eharged with receiving the stolen cigars and being a -cssery alter the fact, was continued for a further hearing. Samuel S. Fasnacl.t becoming his bail. ikf hmitii'H Ai.linTH Arrested. Jehn Murray and James Camel), both colored, v. he were of the party that as saulted and broke Ike SnTith's arm last week, weie arrested in Carlisle yesterday, as vagrants, and Chief of Pelice Bertz of Carlisle has n.tifh'd Aldeimau Spurrier of tlr facf. The alderman has sent word te Ot lisle te MM the prisenem and let him . knew when they can be hail, and he wi'lf send an officer after them. naltrtlit llrarints. Mary Unas, of Springville, who is charged with bigamy, aluUcry aud heing a common scold, waived a hearing before Alderman Barr this morning and gave bail for court.
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