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THE NEWS.
A band of robbers set fire to a temp e in a
Chinese town near Canton, sccording toad-
vices received in San Francisco, and 2,000
live: were io. Wadleigh's oid mill at
Atkins, Tenn, burned. It wos used as a
lodging house. Joe English jumpel from a
seccn d-story wind,w and brose his neck.
escape by tho elevator. Twenty other
lodgers barely escapsd with their lives ——
Dr. Samuel Logan, one of the oldest aad
most prominent physicians of the South,
died suddenly iu New Orleans of apop exy.
Mrs. Logan d ed three days ago, and
blow prostrated the husband. Dr,
was born ia Charleston, 8B. C ——A
the heart of thy retail district
fire in
$245,000. The fire destroyed the iour-story
stove front building at N s.
Walnut street. The Jaccard Watch and
Jewelry Company lose $130,000, fu ly in-
sured: the Foster Woolen Company, $530,000,
jnsurance not known; the K msas Ci.y Art
School $3,000; oss on building 49 000, inured
for $35,000. —— Chief Buchanan, in cha gol
live stock department, bas chosen James
Mortimersuperiatendent of the Westminster
Kennel Club, New York city, as sup erinten-
dunt of the doz show, at the World's Fair.
~The dry goods store of Joseph Bryan, in
Newark, N. J., wes burned. Joha Bryan,
father of the proprietor, woo was sleeping
in the store, was so badly burned that he
died at the hospital,
4he Prudential Insurarce Company bas
800 to $2,000,000, and declared an
figure, The Wichita Electrical Railroad
was sold by the skeriff under a mortgage of
$320,000. The property was bought in by the
bondholders. ——John Cally Campbell wis
found dead mn his
Hotel, in Minneapolis. The gss wes turned
on, and the man had been asphyxiated. —-
Jeffersonville, Ind, was shaken by an earth-
Fak on Sunday resulted in a victory for
the advocates of opening the Fair on that
day.—— Frederick Eteasperger, eighty-two
years old, who for fifty-six years had served
CEN. BUTLER DEAD
Passes Away,
| Hs Death Came Unexpecied at His
Washington Residence,
tater, of Mass ichusetts divd
| at his Washiogton residence on New
{ avenue at 1.8) v'clock A, M,
General Bat'er was taken i'l in
{ about a month ago, bu: no ser.ous
Benjamin I.
Jervey
Boston
termina.
| tion was expected.
He came to Washinton jus’ before Christ
| mas, sn i for the most part of the time bad
| kept quietly in his rosidence, His death was
due to hears failure,
BERTCH OF GENERAL BUTLER,
Doerfliald, N. H., on November 5, 1814. He
| was graduated at Waterville Colle ze in 183%,
| and studied law, bigianing
! Lowell, Mass, in 1811, He early
| to she Democratic pariy. In 1853 he was
| Senate. He was a delegate to the Nat onal
| Damocratic Convention in 186) at Charles-
| ton, 8B. C., but withdrew with other North
sraers on acccuat of the stand takea on the
s ave trade qu.stion.
{| ran on the Democratic ticket
of Massachuset s.
He had previously bean a brigadier g
for Governor
ne
Civil War be enterel the Union
He was placed in command of Bal.
tiunore and afterward of Fortress Mon: oe.
of ha
runaway slaves to Lbheir mas. ers on Lie
ground that they were “contraband of war”
~an expression that bec une lamous
eral Butier commande { the land force that
awsisted Farragut in the captare of New O.-
lesns on May 1, 1862, and alterward govern-
| ed that city unit November of the :ame
yor.
Toward thy latter part of 18831 he was
laced in command of the Department of
firginia ani North Carolina—ths Army of
the James, While Grant was marcuing on
twhmond, in July, 18.4 General Butler
made an uusuccesfula. tempt 10 take Peters
burg, and in Decemter was beaten in Furt
Fi her. te was then relieved of his
Central Railroad, wis stuck by a traia at
Conowags, N. Y., and killed. ——The knit.
ting mill of Allis McAdam & Co, at Utica,
N. Y., was badly damaged by fire. —
broken rail caused a car on the Downington
and Lancaster Railioad to be overturned,
killing Peter Damman, a passenger,——It is
reportel in Havana that Igaaci> Herrer,
who was kilnapped by bandits a
day or so
In 1566 hs was elected to Congress by the
R pubiicans of Mas«achu ¢.t* and continued
i to represeat that party .nths National J{ouss
| of Ripreseaators unt I 1877, when ho re
| turned to the Democrat ¢ party and i: 1878
and 1570 was a candi late for governor oun
| the party's ticket. He was defeated thse
years bue ia 1882 he was agin nominated
and elected. He served only one term,
lo 1583 be nas candidaie for President on
ths tcket of the Greenback Labur party.
Since tue war be hes practiced jaw ia Bs
Ins Vegns, has boen released by the bandits
upon the paym nt $10,000, —
Lewis Baker diad in Poughkeeopsia at the age
of 101 years.—— David J. Williams celebrated
kis 108d birthday in Saratoga.
Harry C. Combs, a brakeman on
Pennsylvania Railroad, was accidently kiljed
in Phiiadelphia.——East Franklin «
owned by the Heading Company, was
ebliged to suspend operations, because of
the extreme co.d weather. Other oli
it ix said, will also suspend work temporar-
Hy. ~—T oe Buprome Court of Wisconsin af-
framed the ruling of Judge
celebrated state treasury cases, whers
state recovers some { interest
from former treasurers. The
confirmed by all the judges Gov. J
geld, of lilinois, was inaugurated wih n
to them of
the
wry,
Ties,
+
~ % t
Sewton
2) U0
tary display-——The prosec iting commities
in the Dr. Briggs case doo
the General Assembly, —- Several men were
kilied and others injured by the bursting of
& fly-wheel in a Pittsbarg mill. ——A big fire
in Boston destroyed property to the vaius
of $1,000,000. —-A letter from Goochland
Court House, Va., states that James Coe
man and Sasan and Ellen Winston have
been arrested for the murder of Rober:
led to appeal to
and the father of Kilea,
edlored. Tha girl says that Coleman killed
Winston with an axe, piled wood on the
on the 3Tth of November last. The charred
remains of Winston was found in the debris
next day. ——Duriag church services in For.
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES
Joux Monoax leit Freeland
Houghton, Pa. He lost
found frozen to daath
Joseprit and Henry Austin, 11 and 13 v ars
cid resp ctively, were drowned at Water.
town, Conn
£2 walk to
hs way aod was
Jonx and Paul Closky, Poles were struck
by a Lehigh Valley train near Fairy ow, Pa,
{ John was killed and Paul fatally injared,
A snow-plow on the Gieat Northe n Rail
road was wrec ed near Java Station, in
Montana. by an avalanche, and four mes
were killed
Tae wife of Dr, H. I. Rchardson, of New
York, was fatally bursed at her bom» in Sea
CLA, Long Island, by her clothing catching
fire from a range
ANprEw Passirrran Italian of Pittaburg
saved two ¢ Jdldren from beiug run over by
4 locomotive, tut io dong so sustained ia
Juries which way provs fatal,
THE works of the F. rt Warne Electric
Company, in Fort Wayoe, indiana, wera
dasuages i by firs to the extent of $5).0),
The loss is covere l by imsuranoe,
Two sons of William
years, of Dalias, Texas, who went rabbis
aunting and did not return home, were found
dead, Jocked in each other's arms. They
were frozen to death, .
Tag temporary brils ceross the Raritan
river at New Brunswick, Now Jerwey, was |
swopt away by a flood, The contractors will |
lose 825,000, It is feared that the $100.00
tone arch bridge, nearing completion, would
Tue engine of a freight tra‘n blew up near
Francesville, Ind, killing two men and par.
bags fatally injaring anotaer., A larmer ane |
soun-H3winford vendetta had = hard battle,
and several on each side were kil'ed and
wounded.
Ths southi-bound limited train on the Ili
Boks Central was wrecked a mile and a-half
ent.raly. The engiveer, firerian and express
messes or wore bad y injired —-A deal bas
beats cone uded with the Nova Scotia mine
owners by which the Pennsylvania |aroas
obtain control of their coal fleld A syn-
dicate formed in New York by Mesars. BR. A
Lancaster & Co,, under a contract with the
Governor aad State Treasurer of South Caro.
lina, has placed a large block of new 4 per
cent. refunding bonds of the state of Bouih
Carolina, lssued for the redemption of the
Brown consols, which fall due July 1, 1803
aod will in a short time offer for saly the
balance of th: authorized bsue.——A com.
mittee of railroad men, representing the In.
dustrial Union of Bouth Carolina, have
fssued a call for a state convention, to be
held in Columbia on the 15th of March next,
the purp s» of enlarging and solidifying the
erganiza ion for determined oppositim to
the presont stats adainistration, John
Huatiogton, the Standard O11 millionaire,
died in London. He oad beea ill but a few
days with i flamstion of tie lungs —Coa-
piderable exc t unent prevailed at Cocilton,
Wis., when it was lesrn d thet the Rev
Father Hon syman, | astor of BS, Aug is ines
Catholic Church, was deranged and at large
with a loadsd revolver in his bans. He was
finally captured, an Ihishsnds wers so badly
frozen that he was unable to use the pistol.
Both fest aud his facs were al 0 frozen.
ct Oe ro
LIVED TO GREAT AGE.
A Woman Dies in Vermont With 110
YXoars to Her Credit,
~ Mre. Bushey did in ths towa of Georgia,
Vt, afew days azo. Shy was the oldest
woman in Vermont, possibly (n “as United
ates, having lived 110 years, A daughter,
of anid a son of seventy
re Dagny tlived three
Mey years
bands, Ab the tiie of her death her hair
gine was bauy burt by a piece of fyime |
meted
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.
—————————
Ma Swivsunrye has written a long poea
His early life was passed
AT a basinew cater in Elizabth N. J,
cross toe first by means of asother viaduot, |
Ir makes a mai who yearns to kill a doer,
But the locomotive had
A Caxpipate for Senat sr from Connec'is
| known now, tnt of d stinction ia the last
generation,
Congress. In the Republican National con
such o ators as Coukiing.
Doxserson Carvery, of Bt Mary's Par
ish, the new Henator from Lousiana, haw
heroic stuff {a him, In the dead of night
dur.ng the late armed unpleasantoess hs
swam into Atehafalava Bay, carcrylug a for.
none
ad a
torped » dida't go off, but the dsed w,
Hs is a lawyer
plaater,
Hexny Loomis Nrrsox, one of the edi
torial writers ¢f the New York World,
u eutioro | amoog the iriend: and assooiates
© rior the office of private secretary, Mr,
Nelson was private secretary of pint.
| sls during nis tenure of the Speakgrsh |
Congress, and is well known to be terms
of © oss intimacy wi h Mr. Clovel ind,
Tur Queen had ths traditional boar’s head
rT ar ono
ani rc ron
eof. This latter, Pen ni he youtoful
people may not know, is simply she two un-
divided sirloin of wef, was roasted at the
great kiichen fire at Winder. When it was
wold it was adore | with hor Majesty's mono.
gram in horseradish and sent to the
royal sideboard. Te days before Christmas
the Prince " Wales recu ved a fine live boas
“8 ent fron n August mam
ths ) festunplion in shat it fulfilled progee Perm
.t sd Ume.
A vAYT of loge war heouthy down the
gate ea a va
on, recantly, wie ian a ;
20,000 foot of F to eno 1 1t is said
; J uberutsn £6 ba 1th gat gor lo 8
re ever nto Puget Sound,
daraft Just July which w
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS,
Senate,
1611 Day. In the Beuate Mr. Platt intro-
luced & bil to provide a teruporary govern.
Was referred to the
Committee ou leir.tories, The bill grant
ing auditional qua antine powers and im-
Mai ine
taken and the
Wis up,
be ¥#X-
of views an agree
to tue biils on the subject of quarantine an i
Alter sn
penate ad
executive ses:lon toe
journed,
17TH DAY.~— After the disposition of rov-
tine business, Mr. McPherson spoke upon the
joint resolution mtreduced by nim directing
the secretary to suspend purchases of sliver
bullion. Mr. Aldrich gave notice ot his in-
m de Ly
Mr. Harris tor the 1egular order, which was
Soveral amendments
tha bill went over.
Senator Dawes introduced a bill 10 ratify
| to make appropriation for this purpose,
18TH Day.~The bill granting additional
quarcntine power and unposing additional
wuti s on thes Marine Hospital service was
passed after the seventh section had (een
amended so as to give the President power
ts prohibit in whole or part the introuucs
tion of persons or property into this coun-
try. Tue bill prohibiting immigration for
un: year was permitted to inpse,
option bill was thea taken up and was under
consideration at the time of adjourument,
198 Day. Mr. Kenpa's death was an-
in the absence in West Virginia of tee de od
Senator's colleague, Mr, Faulkner. The
S+#nate thercupon adjourned,
200m Day I'he S mate pas ed the bill ex
vi 1on of the statute for lis
fur seals. Bill t) es'ab ish a public library
ani reading room in Wa hiugton was re
ferred. Toe MceGareahan bili was then
cons. dered, but atter a »peech
Mr. Mills, ment over ani the
bitl came up. Feveial amendments wore
offerel and NS mator Hale gave
notice that be wou d offer an am ndment 1
the Furtifica ion bill provi ling jor the pur.
come of ground for commencing the work
of fortifications on Cushings Island
provioing for the construction of gun ata
mortar ba tories, as suomitied by the Secre
tary of war, at a cot of E150. 000
Anti-option
rejec tal,
House.
18ra DAY —In the House po miscellaneous
bus ness was « onsidered, ihe Lis ret «
Columb a Appropriation bill was considered
jn Con mites of the Whole, The hill, alte
di+cu sion, was reported 10 the House, but ¢
quorum disappeare!, and an adjourom ul
was had without the measure being dispx
of
orn Day
prop ation
act on was taken
efficiency of the
dn
The District of Cs
bill was passed
on the bill to
! militia A
was made for and against the
izing the Norfolk and Western to extend its
the Duwtrict of Columns, and
discueion. the House, ijastead of
r. LOOK a Mr. Watson
, introdoced in the Houses a bil
’ CLOT © i
STANCE
iumbia Ap
No fina
promo th
strong ni
till anthor
lines nto
regres
national
to provide {
gran
insgw
3 r ihe
f dep wit and for the
Yice money orders there
the payment of such o
funn
snd
LAIN
Consideration of the bill for
Norfrik npnd Wester:
rest of
Column
1
# Dax
the ndmiss on of
Katlrecad into the Di
umed and the
Ura pitition
the Cons: ftuti
| haces
4 iA WAS
UOBATIS Was Dans | I |
proposing
n surety
ha
re
amendmenis §
uting the 31-8
the 4th day of March
wement and t rmination of
is of members of Congress, a
g that Congres should bold
nual mesting on the second Monday |
uary and sutstitauting the 30th of April fo
the 4th of March, as date
mencement and termination ©
dent and Vice-FPres d ut was
defented,
res
as the
“n
ber for
i
the
f the
taken
Pros
up an
Zist Day No business but the rec
of the Banking Committes’'s majority an
my nority reports on the apr eal of the Sher
man act was done ia the House, Senate
Keuna's death was anpouncel, and tix
House adjourned
Ziad Day The speakeriai
a letter from ths Ssoretary of
showing that §19 9% har bean
{furmers and seizing ~flicers dur
year ending June Ste, 1863 Bakes
of Kansas, fotroduced a8 bill for the free
coinage of silver and making it anlawlal fou
any person to make any contr cl, note draf
bis payable in any »preifie coin or cur
rency. Mr. Payne, of New York,
duced a bl appropriating £50,000 for the
construction of vew t uiidiogs and the en
Inrgement of the military post at Oswege
Now York.
wy § ewe
wid
§f hafore theHonwu
peil ftom
ng the flsca
Mr
nts
WORK AND WORKERS.
Firrzex thousand dollars’ worth of grid
fem the Cariboa gold mine, near Truro.
A LARGE vein of natural gas was stroe:
Handy Creek, near Uswero
Th nos of the escaping gas c.uld be beard
Tux loeymotive shops of the Erie Railroad
a reduction of one hour. A similar
reduct on will be made in the ober Erie
Tue Inoal Fede ‘ation of Labor at Wash
ingten DL C.. embracing 28 organ zations,
has adopied reso utions asking Congres tw
It is
said that n arly one-ha { of she delegates to
the Fe leration are foreign born,
Tuner mors anthracite blast fursace
#p ctively—in Pennsylvania will go into
hiss
Cororapo’s total mineral produ »ti n der.
ing 15902 was value | at $41,565 124 of which
Her total mineral
The r preseniativ sof ths various organi
tederatvon,”
Ir is rep rted at Durango, Coloradns, that
7000 gol t ininers ars “wird ag nlorg' the Ban
Juni river tor a dwtanes of 150 mides, and
158 Samiag in at the rate of 300
# rors Groen Riv.r, Uiab, a d as
many through Darsn 0. (0) ww company bas
FON mon at work.
i i 4
ADDED ANOTHER CORPAE.
So; in
Whi'e Watching Ons Dead Body an Oil
Lamp Explodes With Fatal Rosul's.
A despite from Ciarksvile, Tean., says:
While neighbors wers sitt ng withthe corpse
of Mss Jane A jams, Mrs, Adaws attomp.-
od t+ fill a coal ofl lam from a full can. An
burned as to caus) ber death the next day.
Mr, Adams, two of his 50% aud thydaugh-
ter were danger usly burned in endeavor:
ing to extinguiss the flames from Mes,
Adams’ clothing. The burning oil set fire 10
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS,
Epitome of News Gleaned from Varioue
Parts of the Btate.
1% the fi:nt between the Pittsburz Reduce
tion Company and the Cowles Company
ever the 1izht to make alumi umn, the Court
has decided in favor of the former.
Tuene is trouble between the New York,
Susquehanna & Western and the
cont of erators, whose ou put it handles, over
tailroad
the price paid,
BEWARD GERNERT, a Jerks
County farmer, has been arrested, suspected
of being ringleader of a band of robbers that
have | een operating for several years,
Jupnues Beer and Gresn, of Bchuyl,
prosperous
450 applicants, 50 per cent. more than last
Vear,
Standard Oil Company to recover $40,000
City disaster,
negligence. In the event of a favorab e out
come many more suits will follow.
IN the Allen-Stineman contested election
in Btineman's favor on the ground thas
fraudulent intent should not be
ing place,
Hazleton came upon a bermit's but whose
ago and had not been wenn sines,
Eilers of the
buried
A xunser of Berks County farmers have
been swin dled through being induced to in
vest in al
Fceonomite Bocisty,
od valuable stallions that proved
to be worth little,
Tnx Board
Hospita bave reconsidered their determina
tion to appoint ouly
Of
the Dela
ware County Medical Society to positions on
the staff,
Bisce the Chr
been
mills.
mea bers
stimas shut-down
resumed in some of the Beth eben
Ar a meeting of Knights of Labor at
leading it is said plans were considered
to oppose the Reading Railroad in its runs
ored plan to drive labor unions from the
road,
RerezsextaTives of the Farmer's Alll
ance visited Wernesville to make an inves
tigation of the work done on the Asylum
for the Chronic Insane, It has been rumored
that it was inferior.
Joskrn D. Werks, of Pittsburg, who bad
charze of mining and manufacturing for
United Btates Census, has resigned
with Buperintendeat
the
owing to a conflict
Yortor,
Two claimants for possession of the Al
toons. Clearfield & Northern Railroad have
appeared in the
Jerk of the National House of
porsons of James Keer
Hepr sents
tives, and Samuel P. Langdon, of Philad-
chin
IRE verdict of the |
‘
Lairtesn a rikers st the
iry in the ease of the
Dusguene Steel works
the Carnegie Company, iound ten guilty
two of unsawini assonbiy while one
1itted 1)
if tw it 4 Pp
of Oliver & |
s Iw
1'iey wheels
lolter sn, Fills
o men were Kille
and
several slighsly hurt
HE sarpius in the Sate Treasury
tracted the attention of the J
uumber propose a radical eh
awe giving the roads isto ihe bands
Siate, while others would use Lhe money {o
the benefit of the schools
ing Peansylvauia Fisi Commission met
i NCT
anton and approved the recommenda
tion to appropriate $5900 fo
exhib,
Mx Hemxuy J. Binpre, of Philadelphia,
the founder of ths “Lydia Baird Home and
Hospiiai” of Carlisle, bas selected aboard of
mausagers for the ins iinticn
Joun L. SvLLIvaN, the
a World's Fair
would-be train
ine, nar Altoona, on the night of Decssuber
i, was convicted mn the Blair County courts
000 fine and ten ye urs’
Peaitentiary.
PoiLAapELPEIA capitalists, beaded by
James W, Shepp, Lave cbinined a controll,
imprisonment in the
Heading.
CABLE SPARKS,
art, # i sane,
perished,
starvation.
destroyed by tire
stateman and ons of the found rs of ihe
Austrian consti ution, is dying.
Evipexce before the French Parliamen-
tary Commision investigating the Panam
Canal scandal sh swe | that the expenditure
in corruptiog ths pres were but a trifle
when compare { with the enormods emouul
los: in bogus contrac &
Tux Dominion government has decided
that it will hear the argument up n She ap
pea: of the Cathol es of Manitoby against
the enforoemeat of the act pused by the
provi cial legislature avolishin «+ ths separ
ate school system in that provines,
Exotian offi ers in Lond conversant
wiih she condition of affairs in the Sou lan
believe the the report that a body of Egyp
tian troops had recently defeats | a foros of
Mahommodan mon is vear Ambigol, i un.
true. The offi ‘ers, ou the contrary, ve
the Kgyptien troo = were aanibila
Tie Baroness de Roques, moth.-r Mrs
Mayur.c: the American woman serving
sentence in England for p ioning ber hus
band, denise the sta omeut in the Bt. J
Gagstte of London, that her dan hier hai
ben swa lowing need os in order to cause
an effusion of blood from the a
thereby create the impression hat she was
A WONDERTUL CLOCK,
An Astronomical and Horological Curls
osity,
i —
Adolphus Hacnsle and Augustus Noll, !
Biack Forest (Germany) clock
have just finished the most |
wonderful of all clocks, an astronomical
and horological oddity that throws all |
It shows i
quar- |
two
the seconds and strikes the hours,
It also shows the
f the moon, the |
revolutions of the earth and the zodiac,
10,000,
Tiflis, Trieste, Rome,
Munich, Berne, New York, Geneva,
Boston, Paris, Metz, London and, on
the large face in the center, the time at
the place where the clock is located,
At the right of the principal works
there is a calendarium, at the left a
Vienna, Cairo,
by a simple peice of mechanism attached
second and minute hands are placed,
At the expiration of each minute an |
ungel strikes a bell, whereupon the hands
on each of the 17 faces simultaneously
move forward one minute, The expira-
tion of the quarter hour is indicated by |
the angel striking twice, ln the
of each hour the ages of man are rep
resented. At the end of the first quarter |
a child appears, at the second a youth,
an aged grandsire.
gure of Death,
at the fourth
The hour is struck by a fi
by whose side stands an angel,
t Death not to strike at the appearance
f the first three figures,
to the belli when the old man appears
on e¢ scene. At the left of the clock,
helf on its side, stands Christ sur-
rounded by the Twelve Apostles. At
the time when Death strikes the hour
the Twel bow Master,
who goes throug! t of blessing
them by bowing his
his hands. At
and evening,
the : monks appear
go into a tiny church for prayer: asthey
disappear through the door che ral music
is played. At If a night
watch appears and blows his born
hourly : ] or until
x 8 a cock crows from a window
ft.hand «
eit.
ait
+s
Vis
On as
vi before the who
thie a
head and raising
th morning
2 3
Je both
i!
rings a bell
6 o clock
a sexton ana
ficures of thiee ana
bin the evening
ian
i
for the next four hours,
orpner of the
both
x |
tht the calendar
noon
ays {«
lock,
iy and dale ap
wd of . Hae i
end of the onin
81 days, the
y
res
opriate {a
ing i
a1,
and pIAaYs A solo, ar
v Neos
It indicates
Appr
*
at 12 t
a'clock, 8 trumpeter appears
wupanied by an in
chostra, I'h ; the
of the new yesr,
numbers ch
ready for the
107
of time
musical treat all
hing
6 tail i 3 ”
and during
the Ange
18 we
wele
The Ragpickers of Paris,
The wealth of Paris
that the rubbish and
are worth millions. There are more than
fifty thousand persons who earn a living
by picking up what others throw away.
Twenty thousand women and children
exist by sifting and sorting the gather
ings of the pickers, who collect every
day in the year about 1200 tons of mer.
chandise, which they sell to the whole
sale rag-dealers for some 70,000 francs.
At night you see men with baskets
strapped on their backs, a lantern in one
hand, and in the other a stick with an
iron hook on the end,
rapidly, their cyes fixed on the ground,
is 80 bound ices
refuse of he cits
light, and whatever they find in the way
of paper, rags, bones, grease, metal, etc. ,
they stow away in their bask ts,
men,
the scavengers’ carts,
of the day vou may remark isolated rag-
pickers, who seem to work with
independent air.
generally noviees: men who, having been
for their living like the wild beasts.
The morning pickers are experienced
and regular workers, who pay for the
privilege of sifting the dustbin: of a
certain number of houses and of trading
with the results. The rest, the majority,
control, working when they please and
loafing when they please. They are the
philosophers and adventurers of the pro.
fession, and their chief object is to enjoy
life and meditate upon ita problems,
[Harper's Magazine.
AS SAA BSS SAN,
Church Hospltality,
The anecdote is told of Genersl Grant
that soon after Lis first nomination for
the presidency he was in the city of —-,
where he had not been expected and was
known to but few, and there, on a rainy
Bunday, ontered a church and took a
sent in a vacant pew not far from the
pulpit. The man who rented or owned
the coming in and seeing someone
In the seat, sent the sexton to ask him
to leave it, which the general juietly
did simpitaariog: 4 supposed a
¥ pew a gentleman, or
have tera} it, [Detroit
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pom
should not
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TWENTY-ROUR KILLED.
Colorado Miners Lose Their Lives
Through a "Windy Shot.”
Overcoms by Gas and Black Damp,
Oaly One Escapes.
At King four miles from Como, where the
Union Pacific of
mines, twenty-four miners were killed by aa
ope ates a number onl
explosion
The first news of the disaster wes received
an
in D mver, wh «u an order from Como for
number of coffins was received, and som
afterward the story of the exp osion and of
the fataliti 6 wes mude known, Physic aus
left immediately for the scene of the disas-
ter and everything possib'e was done
alleviate the sufferings of the injured.
The accident wus caused by wost miners
call a “windy shot.” that is, the charge of
powder had been in uffciently tampsl. The
result was the { wtunt explo jon ol the gas
in tue ch vmber of the miwes where the men
were work ng. The ¢ ncussion set fire and
circulated ths black dam, and the almost
justant death of toe 1wenty-four men lol
lowed
Of the twenty four victices of the disaster
twenty-one were italians, one a Scstchman,
aud two of them wore Americans, About
eight of them w. re married men, Tweniy-
five mes were at work in the chamber, but
one of them sscape | death, The siogle rur-
vivor wes thrown forward upon his face by
the tremendous orce of the blast, at wes
pot sei iou-ly hurt, and, rcrambiing over the
prostate bodies of bis fel ow wockmen, he
inde his way tthe surface,
The volss of the explosion was beard in
every part of the mine, and ail ths other
men eu ploy«d in the other chambers of toe
mine, 0. whom there were about seventy five
rushed to the open air. There was immed
ately the widest excitement in the the
villa e, and a j1escuing party was quickly
organiz d
air stili came from the chamber, but
brave men rushed in aod brought out the
bodies. 1 be bead of neariy every family in the
Jittie town was employed in or about the
miner, and the womsn ad «bidren crowded
around the en'rance #8 the Do ies wer's car-
ried out into the daylight. 11 was not until
after dark that th iss body was brought
from tbe mine The dead was ploced in Lhe
company’s store-house, where the bruised
and i iacken d feces were eagerly scanned
by friends aud je atives
P. Harding, superintendent of the mine,
did everything possible 10 assis. the work of
rescue. He wire Denver for coffias for
the victimes. The poridon of the mine in
which the ao cocurred was promptly
sealed up by ths proper alli porities 10 await
the arrival of asp clor of coal
wines,
10
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Mess Pork, per bar.....
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BUTTER-Fipe Crmy....$
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Rol. uunes.. PIR,
CHEESE,
CHEESE-N.Y. Factory.8
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POULTRY.
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Turkeys........c.ou0000nn
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TORACOCO,
TOBACCO-—-M4. Infer's.® 150
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FROCY teesncsonrasnvses 3200
LIVE STOCK.
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