a. _—— na 5 a i anal | In Paris, Frazee, the disorderly and | Jawless element ia on the increase, and never loses a chance to make both street and indoor demonstrations. A prize worth winning has been of- fered by the East Indian Government, The prize is 825,000 for a practical ma - chine for decorticating ramie. H. E. Van Deman, Pomologiet to the United States Agricultural Department, declares that there are in the southern part of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas millions of acres which can be made to produce as good dates as those grown in Arabia and Persia, The Atlanta Constitution notes that “Uncle Sam is taking steps to prevent the illegal carrying of mail by the rail- roads, Under the law, baggage agents and conductors of the different roads are permitted to carry mail pertaining to the business of the company to points along ! its line, but it cannot be transferred to The a violation of the law any other road, punishment for is a 850 fine for the employe and $100 fine for the rail road company for each offense. of readers,” says Public Opinion, *‘it will “To a large majority even out probably be a surprise to know that at the close of the sixteenth century there were in Japan 60,000 nominal Christians, hold- | Then commenced 1637 rose in revolt, but not a few of them influential and ing official positions. an era of persecution, and in the 60,000 then surviving were, after a brave and heroic struggle, and church practically exterminated from the defeated, the native Christian empire.” A French that within the French capital twice as many statisticlan alleges crimes are committed by persons between the ages of fifteen and twenty as between In gle year the crimes committed by 1 the ages of twenty and forty. a sin. inors included thirty cases of murder, thi nine of manslaughter, three of parricide, two of poisoning, forty-four of infanti cide, 4212 of blows and other physical injuries, twenty-five of incendiarism, 153 of theft, eighty of immorality, 458 of «t- tempted theft, and 11,867 of other mis doings. In the letter of a sportsman to his favorite journal appears the following sentence, written apparently in all sober- ress: “Net all the farmers in this valley gnoy the hunters by posting trespass notices.” How very kind and consid. erate, exclaims Farm and Fireside, How of the city sportsmen who annually invade the the How hard-hearted, sordic thoughtful of the tender feeling ng “rooral deestricts” during hunting 1 and selfish those other farmers are who ‘an. scason. noy” the hunters by posting trespass notices, Certainly what a ¢ Tn ha Ne y i “Annoy the hunters” is KODA. +} or M " Ta ith trespass notices, It is its The SCASOn 8 over, and the sportsmen have returned to their omes, and are now studying 0g homes, and are now studying what shall ) +3 ' TE amendments to the-game laws they have the Legislature make 80 as to give them a better chance next season. 1 he Atlanta Constitulion deems that the Duke of land the other day, deserves Bedford, who died in Eng more a passing That he was an able statesman few will deny. House of Commons twenty-five years sad went never made Then to a speech. remained eighteen years, without saying | a word, A forty-three parliamentary career o years in passed silence, able, useful and honored. What of ability did he possess? He owned abou In has been said that a very little wit goes a long way with an Emperor, and it is equally true that a very little thought speech and work will go a long way with a millionaire. The Duke was a powes in himself, Why should he speak, wher his frown, his nod, his smile, his look did more to shape legulation and move society than the eloquence of a Sheridan! Btatesmen and common mortals watched this plutocrat for the slightest sign, snd were eager to do his bidding. Brains were enlisted in his service, and the re. sults showed ability somewhere, and the fountain head, after all, was the Duke. He could scowl down a bill, or nod it through by a good majority. Was not this alvility of a very rare order! When the Duke died he left orders for his body to be cremated. Perhaps the thought had struck him that as a public man he had slwas been too cold. Finding that he had no fire in him-not a spark-he wisely declared that, if he eould not throw any heat into his carcass, he would throw himself into the fire. Able to the very last} in the city of London. 8000 residences and business houses, | a { Southern | eaused the burning of a wheat crop. The | thar | He sat in the | | Bt Paul's, Rome..... he | the House of Lords, where he | profound i But he was an able statesman — | kind ! The mom potential —his estate covered 118 acres | | Bt, Mark's, Venice... The cigarette is an illegal luxury for youth in twenty-nine States, A —— A census of the Province of Quebec, | Canada, compared with the returns of | 1881, shows a great exodus of the popu- | lation, | i The University of Geno, Italy, has es- | tablished an academy for scientific travel. | ers. It proposes to teach students how | to observe investigate all and phe- | nomena The New York World estimates that | tin Western Nebraska from 8000 to 10,- | 000 people are on the verge of starva- tion, and in New York City about 20,- 000 families are evicted every year for | non-payment of rent, But more corn is ! produced in this country than 80,000,- { 000 people could consume and the land. | | lords of New York pocket over $70,000,- t 000 rent per annum.” the California | A spark from a locomotive on ‘acific Railroad in company being sue 1 for damages showed | that the fire was caused by a lecomotive : of the Santa Fe Company, lessee of the road, and the United States Court sus- | tained the position that the lessor was pot liable for the acts of the lesse, which the New York hails as an important principle, of wide Comunercial Advertiser epplication. Many women are finding congenial em- ployment in the various libraries which have been established in nearly al cities and towns throughout the country, is eminently suited for them, rid, and they The work declares the New York Wo have been fou Mrs. Caroline for the work. has been ape pointed State Librarian of South Caro- lina. She is an accomplished student, a Columbia, and is the first woman to hold such a positior Sia upon mt a same person from being dragged from home, declared in. sane on the authority of two physicians, nd left to the chance of meeting an up- right judge to save him from incarcera- tion in a lunatic asylum, it is time, in the sists New York News, that one should be the way in New York has re. 3 ae be passed. How easily a man may got out of cently been shown in case of a well. to-do citizen, and the fact is not credit. The exist the sub ject evidently requires overhauling. able. ag statute on The United States has now become the greatest iron producing nation of the world, having produced 9,202,703 gross tons of pig iron in 1890, against about » 8,000,000 gross tons produced in Great Britain, sn excess of about 1.200 000 tot , Or tained by th wt astoundingly fifteen per cent. It has been at rapid Lown biratee swwhirh tt Weve nalry which the world has ever seen, ing 1n¢ i from 4.04 mi 189 }, } i IBY 1885 to ¢ lions in an in ions 128 per cent. during which 1 ul the British product 7.42 to 8.00 tons, or about 7.8 per cent ipereased only from miiion Says the St. Louis Republic: We think we have some big churches here in America, but few of them have a seating ¢ x capacity of over 1500 om of to DErsOns, § tr churches bo pared with some are mole-hills Europe ours mountains, Beats Bt. Peter's Church, Rome. ...cv... «04,000 | Milan Cathedral St. Paul's, London,..... Ht. Petrionlo, Bologua Florence Cathedral... Antwerp Cathedral, ....... Bt. Bophia's, Constantinople. .. Bt. John's, Lateran...... Norte Dame, Paris, . Pisa Chathiedral St, Stephens’, Vienna Bt, Dominie’s, Bologna Bt, Peter's, Bologna Cathedral of Vienna. ...... i RRR, KL os oil, SEK) vous 31,000 | sssnases 1 400 A1,000 T7000 7.000 Spurgeon’s Tabernacle, London... Dr. Hall's, the great church at Fifth avenue, New York, but That the Chilians, who have been dubbed the Yankees of South because of their business enterprise and stability of chamocter, should have » revolution on their hands has disap. pointed and even shocked their well. wishers in this country, admits the New, York ZTvibune. But the trouble seems to have sprung not from the lawlessness or unrest of the people, but from the un patriotic course of a few politicians, especially Senor Balmaceda, The Chil. America fans have advanced too far in the path of civilization to make it either possible or probable that they will revert to the | state of chronic insurrection which has chameterized so many countries of Latin America, politicians a salutary lesson order will doubtless be restored, and the people | will again resume the industrial and com- | mercial pursuits in which they have so ! pac, After they have taught some | © PRECIOUS METALS. Statistics Compiled by the Di. rector of the Mint. Largest Amount of Coinage in the Government's History, Edward OO, Leech, the Director of the United States Mint, has submitted to Con- gress a report on the production of the pro- clous metals for the calendar year 1500. The gold product of the United States was 1,- 588 B80 fine ounces (troy), of the value of £42. 845,000, an increase of 845,000 over the product of the preceding year. The silver product of American mines approximated 54,000,000 ounces, Sorruponpiag at the average price of silver during the year to $57,225,000, and at the coinage value of sil. | wer to §70,404, 045, against a product of 50,- i 000,000 fine ounces of the commercial valus of $46,750,000, and coining value of $64,404, - 484 in the preceding year, an Increase of 4, 500,000 fipe ounces in the silver product of the United States last year. The silver pro- duct of smeltors and refineries was 04,920,927 flue ounces The total value of the gold deposited at the mints during the calendar year was £56,217. - 105. of which $31, 294.542 was domestic bul Hon, 84,852 422 foreign gold bullion, $8 867.- 447 foreign gold colin, 8508 388 light weight domestic gold coins, £3,765,004 old Jewelry, plate, ete, and $7,440,141 redeposits, The total amount of silver offered for sale | to the Government during the year was 05,- 180,457 fine ounces, and the amount pur- chased 87 004,278.75 fine ounces, costing #4,- P91. 840, the average cost being $1.00 a fine ounee The coinage executed during the last cal- endar year was the largest in the history of the mint service, aggregating 124, 085 563 pieces of the value of 861,004 55%. 54 as fol- lows Ghoid F0 467,183; doliars, $35 048.004; subsidiary COINS, £1. 150, 00M; minor 81.084, ~ Tel, In addition } th colnage, gold and sliver bars were manufactured to the value of B38 HOA 198, of which $29, 408 006 was gold and #9004 502 sliver Gold Lars were exchanged for gold coin, principally at Assay Office in New York, of the value #2 here was a marked impr ment in the price of sliver during the far th Ww reaching the bigh- int in tw Fhe fluctuations vered a range of 20 per cent At the hee g { the sliver silver £30, NGG ¥ oar, ginnlag of year oeuls a August Bl be y OUI York, $1.05 the lowest price reac luring the year the vaiue the siver ¢ tainad in the siive Har was 74.08 cents; the highest nis; the price being %0.¥ cenis The id imports were $30, : a net loss of 8.1 mports aggregated $8 614.008 a gain of sliver Sipe at price, #2.06 oe average total gold $34,705, 16~ The amour f preci metals used in the arts in the { od Btates during the onlen year was: Gold, 815,105,901 sliver, The metallic stock ou the United States was, approximately, on January 1, 1891: Gold, S04 507.108: silver, $80.545,070; total, #1,- 191, 142.904 Owing to the brief time since the close of the last calendar year the statistics of the product of gold and silver in the world for 1800 are not compiste, Complete returns, hicwever, have been received fro Lumen, Australia Houth Africa, British India, Venezuela and n fow other countries baad npon which the Director estimates, as a mere ap- proximation, that the gold product of the world for the year 1500 was $115,450.00, a falling off of $3,007,000 from 1589; and that the silver product of the world was 130,650, G0 fine ouboes, an increase of 7,830,575 fine ounces over 1850 us it nit * ALIVE AFTER 19 DAYS, Phenomenal Rescue of Four Jeans ville (Peun) Minera the f the re Their Joe Mastuskowich, John Rerno and Bosco Frinko About So'clook Fr. MM. the searchers, wh had been working dav and night to recover the bodies of the miners, all of whom were stippossd to be dead, heard a tapping on a wall in an unused port of the mine. They redoubled thelr efforts and were soon re warded by hearing a voles which they at unos recognized as that of a Hungarian known as “Big Joo." Superintendent McFarlane Williamas pushed abead and found breast of the east gaogway of the north pitch the. bodies of four men. They were iving in various positions, all haddied to gether in their efforts to keep warm Ex amination showed that all were alive, weak ened of course by the awful torture of hun ger and thirst, but still alive. They ware 0 woak that, with one exception, they could not at once be moved. John Tomaskusky's great physique had left him in better shape than any of the rest, and he was moved to the bottom of the slops of the first lift into the engine house Mastuskowich, in an interview, said After being ninetesn days buried in Jeansville mine, four of the victims cont disaster ware found alive BALes are John Tomaskusky Caleb in a and yy . Mtiever gave up hope but that we would all be rescued alive, although my companions did They recalled similar disssiars io which men perished. | said lot us pray to God, He will help us out. So Hedid “For the first eight days we lived on the contents of our dinner pails. We had them pretty well filled with pork, bread and choose. The first day I said, ‘Now as there is | hope of belug rescasd we will ration our food! It was agreed and we got together in | the corner of the breast. “The cold was intense At first we could not drink the sulphur water, but necessity compelled us, and in the course of time we liked it. On the niath day our last ford was gone, We were surrounded by water and debris. | thought | would go on a little exploring expedition “I was mighty lucky 1 found a dioner pail. There was not mach in it, but what there was walived on for two days, Then 1 was almost too weak to goon foraging ex- petitions “Asn last resort wo had to kill the rats, and they, like ourselves, were hall starved and desperate, They would attack us bold ly. and we had to fight them off, 1 willed res or four a day. We had no hesitan in eating their legs, It was good food, We would certainly have starved had wo not had the rats to sat. We resoived to die to gether rather than eat sach other." CANADIAN TRADE, The Balance in Favor of the United States tor Last Year, The trade and navigation returns of Canada for 1800 have been lssued, The ex. ports were 7.740.140, and the imports Ma SI8 IAL The importa increased last year 4 Ld 7,500, the wx; Prin Bl Bn | charge - AS HN Nt THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. Foun of the miners who were caught by the rush of water and imprisoned in th Joanesville (Penn) mine were found alive after beng buried for nineteen days. Crier Exciveen Groner H, Warre, Uni ted States Navy, died in Philadelphia & few | days ngo. He wasa native of Penusylvania, i and about fifty-eight years old, and during period of over thirty years was in almost continuous active servios, GENERAL Ropery MoAvLsten, com munder of the Eleventh New Jersey Regl ment, died recontly at his homes in Belvi dere, N. J Frank Gamer, who was recently re elected Tax Collector of Texas (Penn.) town ship, has disappeared, leaving a balance of £22,000 owing to the county, He left a let ter saying he intended to go away, and, hike his father before him, put an end to his life GoveErson Parrsox, of Pennsylvania, ha approved the concurrent resolution author fzing the appointment of a commission to | revise the mining laws of the bituminous and semi-bituminous conl regions Hanny Mansi, convicted of the murde of Clara Jones, whom he killed with a coupling-pin, afterwards cutting her throat from ear to ear, was hanged a fow days ago at Ebensburg, Penn. He killed the girl cause she refused 10 marry him Travel was greatly delayed on the rail roads of New York by overflows caused by joe-gorgos in the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers Tug trial trip of the United States shi Bennington, off New London, Conn., was a failure, Axxa Dickinson, of Wilkesbarre, Peun., the once favorite lecturer and female aboli tionist, is now an inmate of the Danville Asylum. She wastaken to that institution by Dr. Hileman, her family physician. For six months it has been plain to Miss Dickin son's friends that she was losing her mind, Tre inhabitants of Johosnburg, Penn, are fleeing from the town, four deaths from smallpox having oo urred Tue ice jam in the Hudson River seriously obstructed teavel on the New York Central Railroad AX explosion of gas Pottstown (Penn) Iron Company's steel work Several tons of hot metal Soated from the converter in which it is kept before it Is turned into the moulds and fell in » the men, painfully burning of them, George Townlier and Charies Rutter were fatally burned, took place at the shower over sone fifteen South and West, A. M. Ossonss was shot dead at ( Hughes, was ale Inte steward instantly xu h 1 festroved the cooperage establishment of J, R Kelty & Bro. the Armourdale elevator, owned by P. Camplwll & Co. ; forty freight cars and about 100,000 bushels of grain, entailing a total loss of EL50, 000 A TORXAD in ver Jeffersonville and destroying scores of y passed Ution Indiana hr otinems Gexeral Asa Sroxe died at Winchester, Ind., aged seventy-three, He was very woaninent in the military annals of Indians, and for five years during the Civil War was Juartermaster-Ueneral of the tHtate. Tur five story block in Minneapolis, Minn. waned by Bol Smith Russell, the actor, and pied by the Clare Speaker Company, mints and oils, and J. M. Roberta's four story block, occupied by H. B. Gardener, han were burnel Mr. Russell's Joss © Total Joss B30, (KK ware, el Gn THREE assassinations in six weeks is the record st Leon Junction, Texas Winnie three men were returning from work on a hand. car st Santa Cruz, Cal, the car jumped the track and passed over thelr bodies, killing them instantly NEARLY every bullding in Yume, Arizona, bi 2 been destroyed by flood iE Hacumaxx, a waalthy German, neelf in Chicag ill, because his bride of three dave, a beautifel Polish had deserted him girl, Washington, of Women Was and various reforms Tre triennial coun ened EE a Un were ted Biates SN wrod mmehon confirmed the { Charles Foster, of Ohio, to be Neoretary of the Troasury, by to womiin & unanimous ¥ ASKIETANT WAPTARY made a ruling that sa par fessor Koch's lymph is duty at the rate of twenty valorem, TeurEnaxce was discussed at the Woman's Triennial Council at Washington Wosax suffrage was discussed at the Wo. men's Triennial Council in Washington, af ter which the assemblage adjourned Tre President has approved the act fixing Ho pina has ining Pro properly subject to five par cent, ad bot of NB MH cont i the salaries of Judges of United States Dis trict « Teng is to be another Arctic expedition It will be Jed by an officer of the Navy, al though not under the patronaze of the Gov ernment. Civil Eoginesr RE. Peary will undertake the task of going as far north as possible. He has selociod a few men who are to accompany him on the expe Htion Tun President made the following nomina. tions: John A. Anderson, of Kansas, to be United States Agent and Consul-General ut sires at £5000 per annum | Cairo, Egypt; Truxton Beale, of California, Minister Resident and Persia Tux Woman's National Suffrage Associa. Consul-General « | tion met in Washington Tux President vetoed the Lill providing | that the record and petision division of the We had to keep | crowded and bug each other to keep warm War Departioent shall hereafter be known as the Record and Pension Offlee of the War Department, and that the President shall be authorised to appoint the officer now in of the division a Colonel In the Army and chief of the office Funeral services over the remains of the late Senator KE. H. were held at the Hamilton House, Washing ton, and were attended Ly the immediate family, the Benator's late associates in the | Senate, the Congressional committees and » few intimate friends. The remains were then taken to Baltimore for interment, Tur President tranmitied to the Senate copies of papers relating to reciprocity ar rangements between the United States and Braxil Ture President sent to the Senate ti nomination of Henator Henry W. Blair, of New Hampshire, to be Bavoy nary and Minister Plenipotentiary to China. Brenerany Fosren attended his firs said that he tod making very fow antic Dong changes in the roa pary Devartment. Foreign, Javneqgui the notorious Mexican band chief, and his band of six wen who foi months terrorized the State of Jal wor surrounded and slain by soldiers a ' bloody battle, Tur Breasilian Assembly has adopted th proposed Constitution, 4 be | | Bovereign, | wind heavy damage to sroparty | rabwis entered the city they attacked the Wilson, of Maryland, ! , | When them in tw) battles, killing 200, including the leading Chiefs. Mus Rose Wanker, 105 vears old, was | burned to desth at St, John, New Brunswick, by her bedeiothes catching fire while she was smoking. Two clergymen were devoured by wolves while sleighing near Tmesvar, Russia, and two night watchmen of that town were uso | eaten by wolves Progr, Wortas & Co. lumber merchants of London, Eugland, have failed Habilities of $2 000,000, | | i i { with | | Tue British forces, under the command of | Major Bmyth, have captured the stookades of the Teawhwa of Wuatho, in Upper Bur | mah, killing twenty-seven of the defenders. The [sawbwa's palace was set on fire, looted ani finally destroyed. The British loss was thirteen killed or wounied. ine Lsawowa | escaped, OnxNERAL DA Foxseca, who Provisional Preddent of Brazil was chosen at the time | of the overthrow of the empire, bas been for. | mally elected Prosident of the Republic, Tue King has seoepted the resignation of the Norwegian Cabinet, and has asked Mr, Berners, the mover oi the resclution which | overthrew the Ministry, to form a cabinet, Tae French artists will not be represented at the Berlin Exhibition: the Cologne Gazette demands satisfaction from France for its treatment of Empress Fredorick Queen Vicromia christened two war ves- sels, the Royal Arthur and the Royal which were launched at Ports mouth, Eagland GEXERAL DA Fossgca took the oath of | office as President of the United States of Brazil Tur Portuguese Government has signed a [iovisioual contract with a syndicate of mnkers for a loan of 850,000,000, guaranteed by a tobacco monopoly for thirty five years, for the consolidation of the floating debt Exrrzss Frepruick,of Germany, reached London from Paris; precautions had been taken to prevent trouble at her departure from Paris, but no hostile demonstration was made Tax Roumanian Ministry bas resigned. TaenE is a deadlock In Hawaii between Queen Lillivakalani and her Cabinet who have refused to resign at her request, As a onsaquence she has not yet named her suo. cessor, Princess Kaiulan) Tux Peiravaca pine forest, near Mentone, Francs, Is on fire. An Alpine battalion made unsuccessful attempts to extinguish the flames. A sergesnt and two privates brionging to the battalion sere suffocated. A THE LABOR WORLD. OUR mine RCule stay: Tur foods Pittsburg, Pe Korra Can Industrial 8c Tur C Ji wages in Hire 310 1 por cent May it in Belgian pant ! stenographer nt demand in Blackburn and throwing Association, a redaction ges. Miner TE Ah Vie Fugland ¥ pmber § ONL OX | ISEuey the emp Huss it by the Cas viment er in agri Laborer ality are conducted to the roatier every day in hundreds, of tm factories Austrian Toe Japanese cannot do so rauch work as the Chinese, but they are more easily man aged, and they do t have the same desir to enter into business aad thus int competition the natives of the foreigr country. In Hawaii they have been found better laborers than Portuguese or Chinese ALTHOUGH the average quantity of cos mined by the individual miner of Marviand at 755 tons per year is larger than the quan tity mined by the man in Alabama 300 tons the Maryiand man's pav iy snaller than tha of his brother in Alabama, the wages in the latter Biate being ninety-four cents per tor against fifty nine conts in Maryland OF the $65,715, 160 representing the output of conl in 1859 in this country the 125 22¢ miners, foremen, superintendents and eo giveers received as thelr wages $30,152,194 making the average for the miners about § per day. The coal barons pocketed only §20, 406,041. These are the figures given out by Commissioner Porter, the census man, TRE SACK OF IQUIQUE. I'wo Hundred Wemen and Children Perish in tive Ruins Additional advices received from Chill say that the bombardment of Iquique by the in mrgents was productive af great loss of life When the aye wits dores and houses in six of the prin spal squares, sod completely wrecked fhe buildings sad afforded shelter to alarge number of women snd children: | but the insurgents, hoodloss of the rales gov. | srning civilised warfare, pursusd thelr work of destruction, regardless of the frantic on. Jeavors of the helpless oocupants to seek a pace of safety. It is known that 200 women and children perished In the rulos of the weked bulldings The insurgents seised the custom house, snd then pil all the principal houses in the eity. After General Soto, the com mander of the Government forces, bad sur sondered the city, the rebel leaders landed of EE ts aa Reilha purpose ling + foroe into the country, with the objet of mesting and engaging the Government woop. A UNIQUE AOCIDENT, A Girl Fatally Injured by the Explo. ston of a Barrel of Sanerkraut, A fatal aocidentocourrad near Crawford, N. J, a few days ago, which is probably un- sehiool { the hall of the House of | sarned a reputation which few men gain in | a single term | again retired to | Franklin died, in 1878, the Governor appoint- | was elected to the | bor 4, 1870, without opposition. { married Mary Dickerson, daughter of Peter | Dickerson, of Woresster County, who died, | saving him with two children | again married, this time Join A Keox, | laughter of James Koox, of Faow Hill | was elected (0 the United Btates Senate as a | Democrat in 1854, taking er FRIGHTFUL DISASTER. Over One Hundred Miners Per. ish in a Nova Scotia Colliery, A Mysterious Explosion Causes an Appalling Catastrophe, The first great disaster in the history of the Camberland conl fields of Nova Heotia occurred on a recent afternoon, when an ex plosion took place in the east slopes of the Bpring Hill mines, resutting in large lows of life, Twenty-six bodies wers recovered im- mediately and ten men were brought up nlive, but terribly mutilated. They are not likely to recover, The lows of life exceeds any mining disas ter in Canada. It is placed at 117 mon and boys The explosion was confined to “Nos, 6 and 7 balances,” where it did its most deadly work. The balances are in the west side of No. 1 dope, extending from the 1500 foot slope to the 1900 foot level In Xo 2 slope. The pits ere connected for pur- poses of ventilation aud it is owing to this that »0 many were killed in No, 2. The bodies taken out of that pit were not mu. tilsted in suy way and bear evidenos of having been suffocated by after damp. Death from this cause is painless At No. 1 slope thers were some ghastly sights, The first exploring party found two bodies so badly mutilated that they conld only be taken 10 the surface in bags One body was cut in two across the abdomen, one arm was missing, the face was a mass of blackened, burnt flesh, and the only thing to denote thet it was 8 buman boldly was a tuft of bair on the back of the head Volunteers courageously took conts and bravely undertook the work of rescue. Ma col Blue plendid work in bringing out the injured. The Rew, D Wright, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, went down to sucoor the relieving party and refreshed them with bot coffee. Thres of the searching party were brought out un. conscious from the effects of the after damp They were Thomas Brown, Thomas Portesr apd James Harvey Assistant Melnoess ventured too far and had to be assisted out When it was found, about six o'clock, that ft would endanger y further the work of res olf in their gorous more ives 0 men were withdrawn ye abandoned searching party satered the immediately after the explosion their gress was greatly retarded by the fall o roof and other 4 Two horses to put hornes When the obmtruct pinned iby an end 0 thelr muss’ wore | outright. A found on one of the slants with both his own off gang of men saved twelveof in the pit errible scenes were witnessed at uth as the bodies were brought The sir was rest with the beart-bresk- hrieks of the wives and mothers of the ne on the tim ber ied t the haoraes Phe most the pit's 1 otin The cause of the disaster is #till a mystery. A large carpenter shop is used as a morgue, The corpses are taken thers cleaned and then laid oul for identification Ly relatives and friends. In several instances theocharred remains have been almost unrecognizable, snd the only clew to identification hes been 6 vestige of clothing or some marks on the is owned by Eng- ¢ It employed an output of half hundred and twelve bodies have so far recovered he met with by POsCHers ar appalling. wer clasped or intoriwined arms. Botne ¢ stand. shyt sights someting hxawis euch others recs ware found ing erect, the men having apparently grasped any object which was within reach when the terrible after damp overtook them The only ould tell bow the explosion Oscar are agenda found with mn wh RIE prned rea ————— SENATOR WILSON DEAD. The Distinguished Marylander Ex pires Suddenly in Washington Wilson, of Mars apartments at Lhe nator Ephriam King lied suddenly at his lamilton House, in Washington City, at 1 wk on a recent evening. His malady we art failure, superinduced a morbus garded as critical unt ang bY Bl attack pdition was not re 1 a late hour in the afte despite the & ie f1is n sinking reciphy Licians 10 resuscitate hit fl Was a unobirusive gentleman of the old school. He was highly esteemed by his Be wial colleagues, umber of whom, &s well as the members of family, were present at the time of his ath. A few mouths ago the Legislature {f Marviand re-elected him for another term f h i Senalor modest, he nan } "ars raim K. Wilson was born in Snow Hil Worcester County, Md., December 22 1821, His father, whose Tull name he bore, was one f the most accomplished gentlemen and mwyers of his day When Judge Wilson bat a lad his father died He attended the school at the acadecay of Snow Hill anti) he was fiftesn Yeurs ola, Ki} when be entered a store in Philadelphia as x cler Young Wilson chen went to Washington Academy, in Somerset County, and to Jefferson Coliege, Cannonsburg where he graduated in 1840. He taught for about six years after ward, fimt in Washington Academy, and then in Beow Hill Academy, studyin law in the meantime. In 1847 be was wb thence Penn. | a member of the House of Delagates from Worcester. The spring of 18% he opened a law office in Bnow Hill. He read!ly obtained clients and for twenty years practised soc. comsfuiiy In 1852 hie wae an Elector on the Pierce end King ticket, and distinguished himself by hie speeches in the canvass In 1872 he was eloctad to Congress, and in Representative He decdaed renomination and wivate life. Whes Judge »1 him to the vacancy in the First cireait. He same position Novem. In 1552 he In 1880 ho He his seat on March A 1885, for the term ending March & 1881, HER LOVER KILLS HIMSELF, Then Her Father Followed His Exam. ple When He Saw the Girl's Grief A singular tragedy is reported from Hoge won, in the province of Posen, Germany. A without ss Tus of a person found In the river sd tockport Fo Send a the fact that it been
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