4 hs pi a NEWS ~—Pafrick Kerley and Morris employes in the engineer's room of the Cuban Line steamer Saratoga, were arrested in New York, on the 14th, for desertion. On the 12th ten minutes before sailing time, they refused work, saying they were on strike. Ker- ley was held for trial and Doyle allowed to go on his own recognizance, -Mrs, Mary Silva, the you wile of a Portugese sailor, who is described as a “fine, well-educated fellow,” com- mitted suielde in Boston, on the 12th, They lived with the husband’s brother. OF THE WEEK to Tr Senge on a voyage, she was visite several times by a Portuguese whon she had known before marriage, and her sister-in-law threatened to inform the husband of the fact. Hence the suicide, —The failure was announced on the 14th, of Benjamin Calender & Co., wholesale hardware dealers of Boston. Liabilities $117,000; assets unknown. ~—1It is estimated that on January Ist, there were about 200,000 cattle and 25,- U00 sheep on the ranges north and south dius of ome hundred miles from Fort Keogh, Montana. Since that date, it is believed thousands of the animals bave perished for want of food and shelter, and thousands of them are stili dying. Reports from all parts of the Indian "Territory show that the stock have wintered well and are in fair con- dition. The winter has been mild, and it Is estimated that the losses of cattle this season wiil not exceed from two to foar per cenl. against ten to twenty in A830, — Two ' trains the: Chicago and Iowa Rallroad collided. on the morning of the 15th, ati ¥Waterman, Illinois, and two sleeping. cars were wrecked. An On a lez. AtiRobitison Creek, Illinois, on the 14h, the engine of an express tran on the Indianapolis and St. Louis Rail- oad became disabled, and the train stopped fora few minutes. A brake- man was sent back to flag freight train v0. 42, but was too late, and the engine crashed into . the sleeper, dewmolishi the rear end. The also wrecked, uninjured —A number of people:in a boarding Bouse, in Folveke, Massac Lis, were saken violently siek.on the afternoon the I4th, after dimner. Prompt 1 cai assistance placed all the patients out of danger, Jt is believed: the cause of the sickness.sy must in t ur, of wiich rye bread eaten by the sufferers was made. The family of F. S. Ami- den, in Hartford, ( ticut, were taken sick on the morning of the 15th before daylight. They had eaten corned beef and cabbage for supper. The beef hat! been eaten bef without bad rescit; the cabbage, which was bought from a reddler is nected. ig freight engine was The passengers escape 8 1 wedi- Was Le! ~ One lowa, on the 15th ting ia exists In taie impartation of cat- excevt according by the State Vele- —The Goveraer of issued a proclamation set pieuro-paeurnx and. prohibiting tle from that Lo rales prescribe rinary Surgeon. —Whree and « half inches of rain fell at Los Angeles, California, during the twenty-four heurs which efMled on the morning of dhe 15th. The storm was azcowpaniediby thunder and lighs- ning 1A. ’ forth that 1llinois, v “tat late, 4 » Binma Kelley, ‘9 years of age, was burneli to death in Wilmingt n, Dela- ware, an the 14th, by her clothes catch ing tirafrom a stove, Her mother was severesy burned 41 trying to gave her. —Joseph Smitk, a man who has served i several priseng, has been ar- rested for complicity in the recent rob- bing of &he post-office at Jersey ¢ ity. -—At the municipal.election in Phuil- adelpbia.cn the 15th Edwin H Fitler, Republica: ; was elected Mayor by 28... 293 majemity over G. Le B. Keim, Democrat; Henry «lay, lepublican Receiver of Taxes, by 7780.0ver ( harles Benton, Bemocrat, and Chas, F. Var. wick, Republican, Qity Selicitor, by 37,247 owen Geo. W. Arundel, Degno- crat. The aggregate vote for Mayor was 154.885. for Tax iRegasver, 1142 $83; and for City Solicitor, 185,467, The total Labor vote was 1664: the total Prohibition vote 680, 1n the five wards whieh voted for .or against Lig - wer ‘license’ the vote against license was very light, the vote for licanse pre walling by latgg majorities 1n all of tham. ~Willlam &. Wilson, & prominent lawyer of Lancaster, Pemna., com- mitted suicide on the morsdag ef the 15th. He is balleved to hase been in- sane. John Stewgr, 70 yeas of age, committed suleide by jumplae inte Lhe whirlpool rapie, from the railevay bridge Lelow Niagara Falle, ou the morning of the 15th. ~The three Hofiner children, burned by the upsetting of a stove and the ig. nition of a can of benzine in their fa. ther’s stare, in Detroit, on the aftet. noon of the 15th, died the same even. ing. Their father’s sacovery is doubt- fal, —The Grand Jury of Bowan county, Kentucky, bas indicted Henry », Logan, Merton McClury and “Lon'’ Rayburn, for conspiracy to kill Judge A. E. Cole, Colonel Z. T. Young and his son, “Allie’’ W. Young, now sounty Attorney. It l& sald the scheme to murder these meu was de. lected in this way: “A auspicious siaracter was seen lurking around the town and about the depot, whom the Sheriff arrested and placed under guard. He gave as his name James A. Harris, alias Pendlum, He after. wara confessed to his uncle that he aad been hired to assist in killing the above persons, haviag promised to se. sure four others to him, The wen were to recelve $100 cach for their nurderous work. Henry 8, an, he leader of the faction bearing Lis aame, hired Harris, The five would- 2¢ assassind were to have met on the i4th, at Heury Logan's, to complete arrangements. The plan agreed upon was to shoot their victims from the brush or through the windows of the hotel. If both these plans failed they were {0 fire the lLotel and shoot them as they ran out.” This atrocious plot is an outcome of the faction feuds Tk 4 { that have so Jong disgraced that seo- tion. Dr. E. R. Way, nearly 70 years of age, was shot dead bv wn unknown | assassin while about te ge to bed at bis residence near Helena, | the evening of the 12th. --On the 14th, at midnight, a man entered a saloon in Pittsburg and nsked the prop: allow him to stay all night, « r five dollars, He was drunk, an Keeper re fused, Hesald his ne vas Harry MeMunn, the fur ther who was rescued from the officers at Ravenna. He was subsequently arrested by a lective, lle is sald to answer scription of MeMunn, and arms isn a sling. A daisy 4 v8 Lh when the snow melted so rapidly week the water from towns slong tinois Central Railroad, following the natural slope the country, flowed eastward and stood mn district bounded by Grand Crossing, Stony Island, Pullman and South Chic completely inundating the greater part of that regwon. In South Chicago there | is a flood and considerable suffering has | been occasioned, ‘The worst trouble is in what is known as the Polish settle- ment. ¢ houses are flooded, and the suffering 1s { Hammick’s saw and goist mill on Charlten river, twenty miles west { Macon, Missouri, has beep washed away by a flood. The water is very high, and reportsefl further losses are anticipated A special despatch from Lyons, Michi- gan, says the Is gradually reced The river still flows through the village, The at- the gorge with dynamite ey i 3 Lo fert: 1 the Hoon des i the de atch from Chicazo sa 1s it of 14] ARO, ite Severe, the of £3! i wile ing. | business part of tempt was a I 1 the to break 3 fauure, ed In Virginia 15th, of the col the rallroad Was recelv » Nevada, on the Lie snow shieds anyor., Fou hands, were missing, thraa o en, three of Che tobacco factory of Davis Dun- lop, at Petersburg, Virginia, was evening of the 16th, as $250,000, covered OF insurance, — The steamship Wisconsin, from Liverpool for New York. went ashore, early on the morning of the 17 the bar (ilteen miles east of Fire | She floated at "2.40 P. was anchored off Sandv Hook. tire 1 3 wurned on the \ 1. Nf ¢ i 54. ang at bu Of — Early on the morn ug house of Dr. Brooklyn, New York, burglars. They met in t hallway Mrs. Kate Boot! attendance on Mrs, Taleo bound her, and carries of jewelry. the (reorge was entered -—James Richardson. i¥1 ched at Ded AN Tex a for having shot a denuty iri Wed, . On the ] avs fF saenrni yoston Corbett, the slayer of i S48 kes Booth, who adjourned the J House eof 15th, by mean declare i asylum. TO os $ ant ten . Representatives. a f tur OL EWO been LL ~The danger gorge at Lyons J ¥ } Ast, thoneh 2 sLougn 4h leep ; in the main Near Levant, L7th, John Benion., 134 Bagot, Will James McCormack we Julius no other 3 mines by a fall of M N Manion Tassel] kill walking along ta burn, New Jerse hes 1 : serious: lia ih were ~—Thomas M. Josep! irs Treasurer of the Fel ows of Te of 22 i 183 Ve. (dd deficit tha Grand Lodge, the entire Lodg he the mone age a T. 5 ng! will . ¢ Bosts on tue min all, the ine a 176 JU Was charge 7 he bene dciacies under the will are said aged ladies, Mail advices from Hava. na report that the kesd cashier of the Banco Industrial of that city disap- peared on January 20 An examina- tion of &'s books has davealed a defal- cation of $55 000, to be — A violent wind stom. with 4 maxi. mum velocity of 60 miles an hour, swept ower eastern Celorado on the morning ef the 17th before daylight, In Denver, windows were smashed chimneys and telegraph poles were elled and houses unrooted On Denver and Rio Grande Eailway, naar Colorado Springs, a train ¢f seven cars was blown from the track, and the mall car and its contents were burned. No person was injured. A trai was also blewn from the track near 3 rrison, and several parsons were injured, having a leg broken. Near Como, an express train was blown over & brid.e and svrecked, and nearly all the passer. gersgnd trainmer were severely injured, A freight train of twenty cars was blows from a side track and the Cars were badly damaged near Colorado Springs. All tralus arriving at Denver were delayed from dve to ten hours by | the ston, Great damage was done ev. *} | 1 one i | chusette, A telegram from Chicago | reports a lerrific wid storm, accom- { panied by driving sleet and snow | throughout the Nortliwest, | graphic communicat} and St. Paul was cut m— cessantly for a week. small particles of mud fell in the | country around Lincoln, Nebraska, ou | the afternoon of the 17th. It is Sup- posed that dust raised by a strong | wind storm two hundred miles west of | Lincoln was precipitated with the rain Everything on which the shower presented a splashed appearance from Lancaster, Penna. says it i8 estimated that $100, | DUO will be required to repair the dam done by Susquehanna Tidewater Canal, A severe carth- wis fell at Frederick i, on the evening of the was sufficient di lls and A telegram age ice to the town, Mis. 17th. The iplace plaste fv { y overiurn turni- ke tO storm pas edd thunder city and evening of the 18th, » o'clock lightening set fire to one of the large buildings on the American Cotton Docks at Tompkinsville, ~Liten Isiand, and at balf-past 11 o'cloek buildings Nos, 4. 5 and 11 bad been destroyed, with about 10.000 bales of The loss 1s estimated at § bol), UU, whieh is covered by insurance. A heavy New York on the ovel s neighbors hood i $ Add cotion. ~ Wilhe Weltinger, 7 years old, died Winfield, Long Is ind, on the 16th, of lod Kiaw, On the 14th he run- ning with a corn-cob it i8 hand and fell; the cob entered his end of it passed through his al was i 11 During a wind storm at Rochestes New York, on the 18th, two tele bridge were ble away two spans of i 14 aged 1 and di iss poles on the iron { wn dos t ’ Lie i reNe3ses river carried Aunie swept Three VEArs, OWE Crrahinm, into the torrent ther persons are supposed to be Jost OI8, on Lhe af iam Gandy, the ri gin Calp wound, he Pent ers iy . § ' injured; the eg VIVAL ii i } % At fy NAS No oue was | freight wan v ina HGR } OL tatleon de of rock in hold’s Station, 19th. The en were Lin ¥ 3 t broken up & Iatiroad Neenah ] L for $25 waght WY Williamn A and Rolmrt wkerton, of Pinkerton’s De. fective Agency The & communication published Felwuary & over the signature of Mayor Cieve- land, In which the latter is represented a8 saying: “And Pi _kerton's anny stand ready to charge at moment's notice, And what an army it js! Organiz»| bv a British penal conviet, it is now a power inthe land.” The summons i+ returnable Mareh 22, be fore the United States Circuit Court at Trenton. Hoes he i The store and dwelling of Albert BR. Foster, at Otsego, New York, were wrecked by an explosion of dynamite cartridges whieh lad been placed under the building, Another store, twenty feel distant, was badly dam- aged by dying tunbers, Three men were sleeping in Foster's building, but they escaped jury beyond a ter- rible shaking up, James McGuire was killed Alexander Long fatally injured by premature explosion of a blast in the William Penn Colliery, at Shenandoah, Pa,, on the 10th. A young woman Orme, who insisted upon steering a toboggan, on a slide in Chicago on the 15th, sent it over the side of the chute to the ground, thirty feet below. In and the Sees named Iattie | or delayed, —The flood In South caused by the swelling of the river, was augmented on the 18th by rain, filled. A violent thunder storm raged aged by lightning, A heavy rain for twenty-four hours bas caused a re. newal of the flood at Lyons, Michigan, A very heavy rain storm, with extra. ordinary electrical disturbance, pre- val at Bloomington, Illinois, on the evening of the 17th, and heavy hall fell in the neighboring country, The storm was felt throughcut Central Illinois, where it has ratved almost in. i | | ~The storm of the 18th was very | severe at Long Branch, The wind tore | damaged several cottages in course of | The high sea made in- ~Join Walters shot and killed bis | i bad arisen in the family, which caused i Walters to separate from his wife, At | a dance in Macon, Georgia, on the | morning of the 10th, a Aght occurred, in which Policeman Frank Thorpe, then off duty, struck James Bassett a fearful blow on the head, and then shot and killed Thomas Farrow, Farrow, had on a pair of brass knuckles when killed. Mis, Ogden, a woman of bad repute, was found dead in front of her house, at Peoria, Illinois, on the morn- ing of the 10th, In the house her son. Peter, lay in a drunken stupor, and all the furniture and It 1s supposed he Killed in a drunken stupor, STATE LEGISLATURE, ENATE. Lis mother The time of the Senate, on the even- ing of the 1Gth, onsumed the consideration of bills on first reading. In the House on the 10th, bills were reported favorably from committees as follows: the Judicary (reneral 1 1 Nias ¢ in From 1 Commitiee-~T0 Provide that two-thirds of a jury shali decide the verdict in Court trials; to Increase the salary of the Deputy Secretary of Internal Af fairs to bill to regulate sales by sample, making . such” sales a warranty of capital, From the Com mittee Ways and Means—To emt goods, carriages, we.lches, « from State Tax. In on the 17th were introduced as follows: By Mr. Metzger, imposing a penalty upon persons hiring « horses and vehicles who have not been assessed and jicensed as hvery stable keepers, Judiciary Special. | Als niring the crimi nal ¢ bill for service of subpoen cases of uittal be pi county. i al, Grady, he a $2000: Senate 11 “X- household SoC the Senate, ’ bills 11! Hd 0, in res) all nt? GR costs of prosecution ses and the defend 3, ete... in neq id the Judiciary Spec ' i yi ng 1 juisiti turn- highways nea: which toll By Mr. wing of hot atl of within any paid, Harlan, § Pees Or CiLy i dre se} upon ANG Lhedn from the nd prohiibi +} f in Lherelior the Secretary powes SHeDROr ra rr Of ways Reans, 8 Mine Febru. mposed as be paid to half AW, of 1885, that the nes inder thie act shal if Lhe Poor, and not Adjourned, GRESS - 2d EENATE, In the U. &, Senate, on the 14th, Mr. Morrill introduced a bill for the issue of subsidiary coin. Mr, Gibson offered nally CGruardians « ne prosecutor. i TIN Oth COUN SESSION questing the President to furnish copies of all correspondence relating to the arrest, trial and discharge of A. K. Cutting, an United States citizen, by the authorities of Mexico. On motion of Mr. Cameron, his bill to increase the naval establishment was taken up yeas, 37; nays, 17. Mr, Cameron ex- plained and advocated the bill, Sev eral amendments were adopted, Peng ing consideration, the Telinantepec biti came up as unfinished business, and Mr, Cameron moved its postponement for one day. The motion was Yost yeas, 24, nays, 28 and the Navil bill was laid aside. Pending debate, the Trade Doliar Redemption bill was re- ceived back from the House, amended. and it was referred to the Finance Committee, After a secret session the Senate adjourned. Inthe U. 5. Senate on the 15th, a conference was ordered on the Trade Dollar bill. Mr. Hoar offered a resoln. tion authorizing the sub-committee of the Commintee on Privileges and Elec- county (Texas) troubles, to inquire the Western District of Texas, or by his duputies, to interfere with or ob. struct the investigation, or to obstruct and intimidate witnesses, It was ob- jected to and went over. The Cameron biil to increase the naval establish. ment was taken up--yeas, 30; nays, 15, It was discussed until the expiration of the morning hour, when the Eads Tehuantepec bill came up as unfin- ished business, After a long debate, at the suggestion of Mr, Sherman, Mr. Vest, who has charge of the bill, con- sented to let it go over until the 17th for amendment. Adjourned. In the United States Senate on the 16th, the credentials of DaVid Turple, Senator-elect from Indiana, were pre- . | sented and referred to the Comm ton Privileges and Elections, { lution offered on the 15th by Hoar, directing the Committes Privileges and Elections to inquire whether the District Attorney or Mar- shall of the Western District of Texas has n attempting to ob the investigation orto midate witne f wie agreed to by a party vote, Stanford addressed the Senate in of an Industrial Co-operation Cameron bill to naval es lishment was passed, with amendments It provides for the construction 5 by tract, « a Cost, ities Mr. be struct * we Mr, favor i thi, inerease th Ale 1 (ay 1641 i exelin ceeding easel $15,000,000, v have a maximum { at least 20 knots per ur. Yor the armament the sun of §4 800,000 is appropriated, After mortem panegyrie the late Senator Pike, of New Hampshire, and the adopt of customary respect memory, the Senate adjourned, Inthe U bill *1o ext and foor and m cilitate the ¢ i WOR on ion the resolutions of to his NM, bepate on the roy te Het ro-1ret rpate Jig uro-puei ortation of cattle’ was placed on the calandar, ntroduggd by Mr. Whit. of a naval re- lary cruisers, officers and i# marine of Hale fo naval establishme i. It provides for vessels and torpedo harbor and river Aur armament, § ion of Mr. E Canal went 2X1 reported a A bill Luorn an creation bill de. 10+ I LALAD Was as imu iid (ayer Adjourned, : wafer. orde red on the I'rade Dollar Belmont, from the Commit tex] back a sub- lered ry ore on the 16h, a « 1 on Foreign Affairs, rep Retaliatory bill w glitute therefor, which ws; printed and recommitted. A bill was reported for the organization of the Territory of Alaska and referred to the Commitee of the Whole. A pew con. ference committee was appointed on the Northern Pacific Forfeiture bill The remainder of the session was de- voled to eulogies of the late Senator Logan, delivered by Messrs. Thomas, Henderson, of Ohio, MeKinley, Ran. dall, Cannon, Butterworth, Henderson, of lowa, Holman, Springe:, Adams, Rogers, Rowell, Danjel, Met ‘Omas, Wilson, Weaver, Cutcheon, Osborne and Andrews. The then adjourned. In the House on the 17th, the Presi $10,000 for a special distribution of seed in Texas was presented, and the qaes- tion being taken on the passage of the bill, it failed to pass over the veto, the yeas being 83, the nays 160. The con- ference report on the anti-Mormon hill was agreed to—vyeas, 202; nays, 40, The Diplomatic Appropriation bill was passed. The Sundry Civil bill was re- ported with the Senate amendments. Pending action the House adjourned In the House on the 18th, a confer- ence was ordered on the Senate amendments to the Invalid Pension | Appropriation ill, Mr. Townshend, | from the Committee on Appropriations, reported a bill appropriating $4,063. o ¥ 5 1 + other pensions, Referred to the Com- mittee of the Whole. Mr. affirmative, the 00, Adjourned, yeas being 142, the nays, In the House on | the 10th; the Depen- vete, was reported back from the Com. | mittee on Invalid Pensions with a | unanimous recommendation that the fom pass. On motion'of Mr. Bragg, of Wisconsion, the consideration of the bill was deferred 131 to 21-—until the 24th. The conference report on the Trade Dollar bill was to without debate or division. The bill now goes to the President. The Sundry Civil bill was considered, pending which the House adjourned, 1 { i i i | on A —— FANCY PIGVONS. Something About Thelr Chas and Value, worn out and si; ustion, iffer You say you can not permit you, Would you probably your of sught exha who st real reason, : The qu i try to answer, B privilege to tell vou that, in the stages of sleeplessness, a few wor seaside place Oile i mm home 1 return hat the cares a them could 1 Above all othe: e chang onan business? jest ¢ LO revd --- Misused Words, tat] 4a on the bias used for adn not « and Aco Cut bias, and not eat Allow should not be {ome me, and me, Bursted is correct, Almost, with a negative, is vidicu lous. ‘Almost nothing®’ is absurd. The burden of a song means the re frain or chorus, not its sense or mea; y § i 1 Lr 3 ISLICS 18 alwavs sin ial {0 see une Kips not elegant and is rare Bountiful applies to persons, not to ings, and has no reference to quantity, Affable only applies when speaking of the manner of superiors to inferiors. Methinks is formed by the impersonal verb think, meaning seem. and the dative me; and is literally rendered. It seems to me, Admire should not be followed wit the infinitive, Never say, as many do, “1 should admire to go with you," ete, This error is singularly fashionable Just now, Allude is now frequently misused when a thing is named spoken of or des. cribed. It should only be used when anything is hinted at it a playful man. ner, “Allusion is the by-play of lan- guage.”
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