NEWS OF THE WEEK. ~Juhn NS. Thomas, a miner at the Empire Collery, In Wilkesbarre, Penna., was fatally burned on the 23d by an explosion of gas. — John Bertinstrow, superintendent, John Eisenberg, foreman, and Jacob Spielman and John Afler, workmen in Carl Seitz's hat factory, in Newark, New Jersey, were arrested on the 23d, for defrauding Seitz ont of large sums of money by means of fraudulent pay rolls, Bertinstrow and Eisenberg pleaded not guilty, and the other two pleaded guilty. -Three shocks of earthquake oc- curred in the vicinity of Newburyport, Massachusetts, about midnight on the 22d. Houses four miles from town were violently shaken, -— Willie J. Hoack, aged 13 years, while coasting on an embankment of the Codorus creek, in York, Penna., on the 23d, ran into an air hole in the creek and was drowned, —The report that Findley D, Brown, Board of Trade operator in Chicago, was thrown out or fell from a third. story window, on the evening of the 21st was incorrect. He descended a fire escape and dropped from a height of twelve or fifteen feet on a pile of stones and planks, breaking his ankle, —S50 much suffering and death has been reported among teachers and pupils in Nebraska in tho late storm, that prominent people and papers have advoeated public contributions to he- roic teachers, and to aid those who have been crippled through losing limbs by freezing. To secure accu- rate data, the State Superintendent on the 24th issued a circular calling on all County Superintendents to forward at once names of teachers and pupils in their locality who perished in the storms, those who have since died from effects of exposure, and the names of teachers who performed heroic actions m saving and attempting to save the lives of their pupils, ~A telegram from Neche, Dakota, says the mercury went down to 60 below and the wind reached a velocity of 40 miles an hour there ou the even- ing of the 23d. It was still blowing on the 24th, and trains were ten heurs late. The storm reached Brainerd on the morning of the 24th. Snow was falling and the wind was blowing a gale. The heaviest snow storm of the season began at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the evening of the 231, and con- tinued all of the 24th, The roads are almost impassable. ~1t Is reported from Sun River, Montana, that ‘‘Nosey Smith” was hanged by vigilantes, It is said he went to Northwest Territory, two years ago, to escape hanging for shamefully abusing his two daughters, and going caught and hanged. While Mrs, Lester, between 40 and 50 years of age, was on her way home from a neigh- near Rome, New York, on the evening down and cut her throat, It is alleged that Guest and Mrs, Lester were inti- mate, and that he became jealous of her. A telegram from Belgrade, Mon- tana, says a German laborer, who was ill, was placed by a farmer Ina room without fire and wilfully neglected. After an unusually cold mght, man was found frozen to death. body was then removed to the wood- shed. where it was partially devoured by hogs. It is asserted by neighbors that the farmer allowed the man to freeze to avoid paying him a large sum due ss wages, --An explosion oecurred on the morning of the 24th, in shaft No. 5 of the Wellington colliery at Victoria, British Columbia. The hoisting gear was displaced and ropes were used to hoist up the men, of whom there were 200 In the mine. By 1 o'clock 65 men had been hauled up, and 1t Is believed, a8 there was no fire in the mine, that all were safe except perbapsa few In the. immediate vicinity of the explo- sion. —Of the nine bodies taken from the ruins of Barnaby’s boarding bouse, in Tower, Minnesota, three are still unidéntified. The verdict of the Coro- ner’s jury censures Barnaby for not pro better protection against fire catching from the stove In the bar- room, ~In the accident on the Delaware and Hudson Raliroad at Baxterville, near Salem, New York, on the 234, 18 persons were injured, Only one, David T. Owen, of Eagie Bridge, was dan~ gerously hurt, and hie may recover. The cause of the accident is not known. ~The Brown's Valley branch of the Manitoba Railroad, which has ‘been blockaded since December 20th, was opened to Wheeler, on the 24th, and on the 25th, a train load of fuel -~ An explosion of natural gas oe- curred on a street in Pittsburg, on the afternoon of the 24th, tearing up thirty feet of sidewalk and fatally injuri two young men named Best on ~The natural gas wains neat Lima, Ohio, burst on the 24th, and the citi- —When the wife of A, J. Ellis, liv. ng sa Kansas City, Missouri, woke up { on the morning of the 25th she found her twin bables, ona month old, dead by her side. They had been accident ally smothered during the night, —The residence of J. E. Taylor, in Chicago, was entered on the evening of the 24th by burglars, who carried away $3000 worth of jewelry, At the time of the robbery the family were down stairs at dinner, During the storm of the evening of the 234, the postoffice at Annapolis, Nova Scotia, was entered by burglars, who took all the registered letters and money packages, It 1s thought they made a big haul, Post. office Inspector MeDonald started to investigate the robbery, and is now snowed up at Windsor, Isame N. Stanley, who, while paying-teller of the National Bank of Commerce, in Uleveland, Obio, embezzled $100,000 of the bank’s funds in 1886, and lost the money in wheat speculations, was, on the 25th, sentenced to five years’ iwm- prisonment in the United States Dis- trict Court. Sanford Tanner, a wealthy citizen of Freeborn county, Minnesota, has been swindled out of $22,000 Ly a pretended detective, A few days age the swindler appeared to Tanner disguised as a woman, aud said he was looking for a person who robbed Tanner of $1000 some mouths ago, He speedily gained Tanner's confidences, and under the pretext of wishing to buy a farm he got from his victim $20,000 in securities and $2000 in cash and disappeared. —It is now thought that ninety lives were lost in the Wellington Collery ex- plogion, which ot¢curred at Victoria, British Columbia, on the 24ih. The bodies of twenty-nine miners were taken out on ths evening of the 24th, and about seventy more are still in the mine, About three-fourths of those still In the mine are Chinamen All possible means are being used to recover the bodies, the great. est obstacle being the after damp. --A despatch from Pottsville says work was resumed on the 25th at Brookside, Suffolk, Locust Spring and Keystone colleries of the Reading Company, and at. the Willlam Penn, an individual operation. The latter is working full handed, the others with a partial force, The Enterprise collery at Shamokin was also started. 1t is said that the reply of the miner's com- mittee to President Corbin’s manifesto 18 constructed by mauy of the miners as releasing them from obligations to sup- port the rairoad’s strike and many will gladly return to work. -A telegram from Brownwood, Texas, says City Marshal Butler and wife were kept up nearly all of the night of the 24th, by a sick child, About 3 A. M, both fell asleep with | the baby lying between them, When | they awoke the baby was gone. A search discovered it dead In . cistern, No servants were employed nd the only theory held is that one 0. ‘he par. { ents drowned the child in a it of som- pambulistn,. Whoever did the terrible { act carried the child through the house opened and closed two doors, and, af- ter putting it In the cistern, replaced the cistern cover and set the water bucket on top of it. The parents are | frantic. —The snow storm at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the night of the 24th, was i the worst known there for years, Rail. Way travel is again demoralized. The { harbors of North Sydney, Digby, Yar. mouth and Aonapolis were frozen solid for the first time in years ~ Reports from Reading tothe effect that the storm which previlled on the | 20th, was the worst experienced in that { section for several years, The snow j drifted 80 badly as to make the country | roads impassable. Trains on the Read- {ing Railroad and branched were all | Tate, the snow drifts in some places be- {ing 10 and 15 feet deep. Throughout | the coal regions nearly all the mines | Were closed down because of the storm. | Heavy snow also fell in New Y ork, | Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, {and passenger trains on pearly all Lhe i railroads were delayed, and in some | cases blockaded. Many freight trains {| were abandoned. A despatch from St, Paul, Minnesota, says the prolonged blockade of the smaller roads of the Northwest threatens to result in a fuel and provision famine in several loeali. ties. At Flandreau, Dakota, no trains have arnved since the 21st, and there 18 no coal for sale. Many families are without fuel, ~Tho foreman of the Carbon Lime stone Company quarries, about ten miles from Youngstown, Ohio, on the 206th, placed twenty sticks of dynamite on & stove in au shanty in which five Italians were lounging. An explosion occurred, killing one man and igjuring the others, two dangerously, ~Frank Kostler, uged 36 years, brakeman on the Pennsylvania Rall + road, was crushed to death while soup- Rug ours at Nanticoke, Penna., on the -An extensive and systematic steal. ing of cou! has been discovered at story thus: in a may be when ulations, died on the 26th, at Sarcoxie, Missouri, from the effects of exposure, ~A sult was un in Jefferson. ville, Indiana, on the 20.h, by State Attorney General Michuer, against David M. Allen, former steward of the South Indiana Prison. The afidavl: charges Allen with conspiracy with a number of manufacturers and business men In furnishing supplies to the prison and converting them to his own use. The amount that the State is said to have been defrauded oul of is $150,000, ~Three masked men entered the hut of Henry Merritts, a woodsman, in Henderson «township, Huntingdon county, Penna., on the 20th, and de- manded his money. He was bound and gagged, and failing to extort a confession his assailants held his bare feet to tne fire and otherwise maltrea. ted him. Finally Merrnitis became un conscious, Beneath the flooring the villains found a flour sack containing $1500, and this they took. Merritts had about $4000 altogether hidden about the building, ~Officials of Pike county, Kentneky, have applied two the Governor for troops to defend the people against the Hatfield gang. Troops were refused, but the people were given permission to arm themselves, The Sheriff o! Pike county has invaded West Virginia to capture the outlaws, but a West Virgima Sheriff is out with a posse to drive them back to Kentucky. -{), B. Hitchcock, a prominent farmer went to Santa Anna, Califor- nia, on the 23d with his wife, and ac- knowledged a deed to his property to a Fritz Anshlag. They returned home, Lut not having been seen thereafter neighbors instituted a search. Their dead bodies were found on the 26th a long distance from the house, It was thought that Anshlag murdered them to regain the money he had paid them for the land, A party was organiged, and Anshlag and his pariper, Antone Dyker, were lynched before the officers could interfere. ~A train on the Connecticut River Railroad dashed into a gang of men who were shovelling snow from the tracks near Holyoke, Massachusetts, on the evening of the 20th, killing Martin Griffin, James Kennedy and John Shee, and fatally injuring Michael Connors. The stow was blow- ing about so that nothing ceuld be seen a few feet cistant. A passenger train which left Troy, New York, on the evening of the 26Lh, mn into the rear of a freight train, near Williamstown, Massachusetts, early on the morning of the 27th, and Conductor P, Cudmore and Brakeman George Wheelock, of the freight were killed and three other brakemen severely injured. Asa grip car, with its accompanying car filled with passengers, was coming down St, Anthony Hill In Mioneopolis, Minne- sota, on the 27th, the gripman lost con- trol of the car and the gnp slipped from the cable. Thecars started down the hill and were only stopped by run- ning off the track, Twenly persons were injured, E. M. Sanders, fatally, Daniel Sullivan was killed and Edward and Daniel Callerty were severely, if not fatally, injured by a collision betwean coal cars in Jersey City, on the 27th. An express train on the Pennsylvania Railroad was thrown from the track Ly a broken frog, near Mount Joy, Penna. early on the morn. ing of the 27ch, The eugine and six cars left the track. Great excitement prevailed amoug the passengers, but nobody was hurt. a foree of American troops, who have been scounng the country southwesi of Chihuahua io quest of the alapula tra:n robbers, have come in with an. Other robber, making three captured, The despatol states that in the robbers’ possession were found four of the horses on which the bandits escaped sod quite a sum of money, some in the original Wells Fargo packages, James Burrows, who was arrested in Mont gomery, Alabama, on the 22d, is said to be the organizer, as well as leader, in many of the train robberies which have occurred for several years past. Ilis brother Heuben escaped arrest by killing his pursuer, and is now hiding in a swamp. —Miss Ettie Shattuck, a young school teacher, was 80 severely frozen in Holt county, Nebraska, daring the late blizzard, that she had on the 27th both her legs amputated, and It ia thought will hive. Os the night of the storm Miss Shattuck took reffige in a hey-stack, but was unable to burrow decp enough to prevent her legs from freezing ~An explosion of gas occurred on the 27th in the Nottingham Mine, at Plymouth, Penna., by which five men were burned and bruised, One of them, Daniel Reese, died on the even- ing of the 27th, and it was doubtful whether the others would survive. 650th CONGRESS. — First Session. | Friday, Tbe vote on the majority res ution resulted: Yeas, 140; pays, 6 No quorum voted, Mr, Crisp ther moved to adjourn. The Speaker pro tempore stated that he had made » mistake in enterta'ning the wotion to consider the motion of Mr, Hogg. The motion could not be enterfained until hie previous question onder which the House was now operating should have teen disposed of, The motion to ad fourn was agreed to-—yeas, 149; nays, 23a strict party vote, In the U. B, Benate on the 234, the Judiciary Committee reported a res olution, which was adopted, authoriz ing that committee to inquire nto the alleged participation of Federal officers in the suppression of colored votes at Jackson, Mississippl. Bills were re- ported for the admission of the State of Dakota and the organization of the Territory of Lincoln; to authorize the sale to alleps of certain mineral lands and to forfelt certain railroad grant lands, The House joint resolution for the participation of the United States in the Melbourne exhibitiou was re- ported and passed. Mr, ¥rye spoke at length upon the tariff, The Blair Ed- ucation blll was taken up, and Mr, Blair spoke on it for nearly an hour, After an executive session the Senate adjourned, While in secret session the Senate ratified a shipping treaty with Guatemala. In the United States Senate on the 24th, Mr. Voorhees introduced bills for the organization and admission of Montana as a State. Mr. Hoar called up Mr, Gorman’s motion, made some time ago, to reconsider the vole by which the Senate had ordered a special committee of five on Pacific Railroad matters, After debate the original resolution was modified by increasing the membership of the select commil- tee to 7, and as thus amended it was adopted—054 to 15. Mr. Palmer spoke in support of his bill to restrict imwi- gration, after which it was referred to the Commiltee on Foreign Relations, The Deficiency bill was copsidered, pending which the Senate adjourned. In the United States Senate on the 256th, Mr, Chandler's resolutions, ask. ing Joformation of the Navy De- partment, weére taken up. The Lrst, relating to purchases of plans snd specifications in foreign countries, was adopted. The second, in regard to the changes from the original plans 1g the construction of war vessels, was re- ferred. The third, calling for coples of contracts made for ships and ord. nance since March 4, 1855, was adopted, after being amended, on motion of Mr, Butler, so as to substitute 1880 for 1885. The Deficiency bill was passed, with amendments, snd goes back to the House, After an executive ses. sion the Senate adjourned, In the United States Senate on the 26th, the House bill to provide for ag- ricultural experiment stations was re. ported aud placed on the calendar, The bill increasing the pension for total deafness to $30 per month was passed. The calendar was proceeded with and the Undervaluastion bill reached, but its consideration was ob- jected to, Mr. Allison then gave notice that be would ask its consideration at an early day. The bill giving the widow of General John A. Logan a pension of §2000 a year was passed, after debate, by a voleof 66 t0 7. A similar bill was then passed increasing to $2000 a year the pension of the widow of General Frank P. Blair. The Educational bill was discussed, pend- ing which the Senate adjourned, Inthe U., 8, House of Representa. tives on the 27th, Mr, White, of New York, introduced a bill “for the pro- tection and administration of the for. ests on the public lands.” It was re- ferred. The Senate amendments to the Little Deficiency bill were concurred in. Pending consideration of the private calendar the House adjourned until Monday. HOUSE In the House on the 23d, the Thabe Carlisle case was called up, and the majority resolution declaring Mr. Car lisle entitled to his seat was adopted— yeas, 164: nays, 7. A number of bilis and resolutions were introduced under the call of States. A bill was reported amending the laws relating to navigna- tiun., Adjourned, In the House on the 24th, a bill was reported making bills of lading con- clusive evidence in certain cases, The bill conferring civil jurisdiction in the Indian Tertitory on United States Courts baving criminal jurisdiction was passed. Mr, Wheeler, of Ala bama, offered a resolution, which was world-wide fame of Mr. Geo Childs, the President of the Board, dall introduced a bill looking to the re- moval of Smith’s and Windmill Islands from the Dalaware river. Mr. Henderson, from the Judiciary Com reported a na! sections of the internal revenue wa, and it was placed on the House calendar. Mr, THE BEAUTY DOCTOR. He Gives Valuable Prescriptions for Preuty Women, An Arab poet tells us that a beauti- ful woman should have four things: Black-—Halr, eyebrows, eyelashes and pupil, White-5kin, teeth and globes of the aye, Red—Tongue, lips, gums, cheeks, Round-Head, neck, arms, ankles, waist, Loug—Rack, fingers, arms, limbs. Large-Forehead, eyes, lips. Narrow—Eyebrows, nose, lips, Fleshy—Cheeks, Himba, Small Ears, bust, hands, feet. We will not discuss the taste of this Arab poet, but I may remark that all the white, red, round and fleshy at- tributes required to form he plea of beauty are purely and simply the re- flection of physical health, Health alone can give youth, freshness and radiancy to the complexion, and bril- llaney to the eyes and an attractive ex- pression to the whole face, lll-heaith, on the contrary, dries and discolors the skin, produces wrinkles, makes the face yellow and spoils the color of the teeth, hair and najls, The celebrated Dr. won Feuchtersieben says that “health is nothing but beauty in the functions of life.” A French author (Balzac) once called ugliness ‘‘a gnef which lasted a life. time.” But he did not often know the all-powerful force of hygiene in the cultivation and preservation of physical beauty What is, perhaps, the greatest attribute of beauty is a beautiful skin. The skin should be white, smooth, soft and fresh-colored. A beautiful skin man beautiful. And here again hygiene steps In, for without hesith a beautiful skin Is impossible. Le Camus, the an- thor of that curious old book, *“*Ab- deker,” says: “The most regular beauty could never charm me if fresh- ness, purity and brilbancy of com- plexion did vot enliven it by adding the radiancy of youth and health.” In fact the complexion is to beauty what springtime is to pature—what the bloom is to the peach-—what the varied Unts are to the wings of the butterily, Bat as the sma'lest cloud can darken a spring morning, as the contact with another object can remove the bloom of the peach, and a touch can spoil the beau'y of a butterfly’s wing, sc the slightest derangement, either of mind or body, darkens and troubles the com- plexion, and without constant care this freshness and this purity which makes he power of beauty becomes like a faded flower. The preservalion and cultivation of a beatiful skin is, there- fore, one of our first duties. Lot me warn all ladies from wishing to appear different to what nature has made them; that 1s, let no lady who bas beautiful dark hair attempt to dye it yellow, just because it is yellow hair, and dark-halred ladies are quite as shall 1 tell you a secret, ladies? Satis. tics tell us that more dark-haired wo. men marry than fair-halred women! Beauty is not molded In one form, it is varied as the leaves on a tree, and no two types are exactly alike, How He Knew Him. Ben: Perley Poore is authority for the statement that Abraham Lincoln once told a good story about Heury common clothes, was studying human nature as exhibited in the highways of New York. In the course of bis philosophic peregrinatins, he went into a mock auction shop. He stood awhile on entering, and reflected to all sense of truth and honesty as the auctioneer in question, endeavoring to palm off his worthless trash to the in- experienced in city ways as good and valuable, and finally the auctioneer called out: “Mr, Beecher, why don’t you bid?" He was greatly astonisned, as can be imagined, at finding himself known in this place, and, as he had supposed in his purposely careless dress. He immediately left, and star tea for the residence of one of the members of the church in the neigh- borhood, and requested him, as an aet of kindness, to go down and inquire of that person who had sold himself to Satan for the love of gain how it was that he knew him in his disguise. The neighbor kindly consented, and on en- tering the “Peter Funk’ shop he ad- dressed the auctioneer: “How is it that you know Henry Ward Benshee eA tole ate to recognize him in his u “How do LLknow him? Why, I have been a prominent member of is con- fon for the last five and lease the OfLh pew from the front!” How Tugboatmen Sleep, The question has often been asked, “When do tugboatmen sleep?” In int of fact, so far as disrob and down in bed, nothing kind ever occurs to their experience; but still they manage to obtain a full and, in fact, liberal allowance of slum- ber, because they have trained them- TORIES OF ‘DEPRAVED APPE. TIre Beasts That Eeai Odd Things Stomach of the Elephant, Cow and Ostrich. **10 is truly astonishing what curous things are found in the stomachs of elephants,” said Bu ntendeut Conk- lin, of the Central Park menagerie, as be read the story from Bridgeport about the finding of an ivory idol and other curiosities in the stomachs of elephants that were killed 1n the fre at Barnum’s winter quarters, “I doubt very much about the idol being found, but as to the knives, pieces of lead pipe and the coins, that is quits com- mon, **I bad an elephant bere, and when he died there was aj least £10 worth of coins found in his stomach. Bowe of the coins were English pennies, three penny pieces; some were German coins and others were the coins of various European countries, and Chinese coins were also found. ** Another elephant we had here was crazy for bats, The boys bad great fun throwisg each other's hats into the inciosure. The elepuant would just put out his trunk and in a twink. ling the hat was gone, One day a gentleman’s silk hat blew off. The elephant picked it up and disposed of it as quickly as he did of the siraw hats of the culidren. “It seems that the elepbant's stom- ach will take anything. Anviling bul metal seems to pass away without cans. ing the animal any pain, but it appears that the gastric juices only lend to oxydize coins and the like, they remain in the beast’s stomach uetil death, “Cows are the only other auimals that bave a fancy for disposing of for. eign substance that may pass down the throat. *1 should judge the elepbapi’s tast- ing powers are ilmited, because be gobbles up everything that is offered him, { “The ostrich is just about as careless { of what he swallows a8 the elephant, | He takes in anything Le can caieh, and | more curious things have been found in | the stowach of the biped than that of the gquadruped.” Hind i Charles Reiche, the dealer 1a ani i mals, not only corroborated Mr. Conk- { in’s experiences, but related sowe of {his own experiences in that line, i “Once we bad an elephant,’’ he said, | “tbat took part in the first Plait- | deutsche Volksfest ever held, Out at { the park we had the animal on exhibi- i tion. A lady held out her pocketbook, { and the elephant took it in his trunk, jand before the woman could realize : what a foolish thing she had done the | purse was safely stowed under the ribs {of the bog brute, 1 had to give her | twenty-five cents to go home with, | *“Ifaman beld out a loaded pistol { that elephant would have swallowed (ik. Aupolber Mme one of the keepers left bis lunch for a second, and laid his {open jack knife on the top. Launch, | cloth, jack knife and everything else at { once disappeared down the elephant’s { throat, and he never seemed to suf- | fer from it. ElepBants must have ar- | mor plated stomaehs, for they take in jeverything from a lady's hairpio wo a | Wooden image.” “Then you believe the sacred ele. i phant swallowed the idol as reported?” *1 certainly do. The sacred elephant would just as soon pick up a stray god &s be would a Laoana or ¢range.” Old Southern Homes A greal mauy of the plantations in different parts of the South, which were once well known for their size, the magnificence of the residences upon them, the hospitality of their owsers or on account of the prominence of the families which possessed them, are now falling into ruins, The reason of this is, perhaps, that the land has been watked 80 long without being fertilized that it has become poor, or it may be that those into whose possession it has passed lack the energy and skiil which are required to make it pay under the present system of labor. One of these famous old places, in Liberty County, was lately sold to a colored man for $2,600, only a part of the purchase | being required al once, It is known as Laurel View, and 1s within two miles of the historic town of Sunbury, was the home of the gifted John Elli- ott, and a very beautiful home it was. John Elliott represented Georgia in the Hole States Senate from 1820 to The plantation contains 2 800 aerea It was purchased during the war of secession by Lion Stephens, a brother of Alexander H. Stephens, and was sold to the present owner by his bers, The district in which the plantation is situated wasnoted, from the first set- tiement of the State until the emanci- pation of the slaves, for the Intelligence and wealth of its citizens. It i» now, however, almost wbolly abandoned to he Soloted people. Its 3 i E ; § | i ree
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