P - l-SEEBWRITERSflHHJ! kQi mt&MojLwtoygfatim: . ,sr i.-,2ey: .':alaisiTK." in xne ueius ui u auuLumun.wiu con tribute- to THE' Dispatch atterjjNcw, Year's. Watch lor forthcoming nn-' hsmimiiif'nfTTwehrePairesi 'Careful V- WM carriers deliver THKiDrsrATcrr every 'day'ln.the.year. -Iron', men will find. fresh news'fn to-morrow' tone, ' ' " - : m -. b DUIUllut-uw . -ucv (catUICS 1U 1IOHO lines. 2 PJlxlJ Ji aaaE m wKrflat K-Ztvl ft.- oi jU-T VjrJ TOETX-yOITRTH YEAH. HOM POLE TO POLE, i tr Bailway.S6lieiiies That Will Make Mes Yernp Tired. 'tTHE-lAM) OF THE INCAS To,$.e;leYelopecl by a Company With Capital of $100,000,000. YORK TO PEED IN BINE DAIS. fflntold.Blches Only Waiting for Means of Transportation. AERIAL EXPLORATION OF THE ARCTIC , Acompany has been organized with a proposed capital of 5100,000,000 to 'construct Jandoperate a railroad north and south through South America, in connection with PiiT " lA!. r steamers. The time from Lima, !iiuca -4 "'fperu, to New York will be .reduced to nine -.. days. Mineral and other wealth will be ; Sppured into the United States. A new plan ' forjArctic exploration is proposed. : ''Wheeling, December 26. In view of its great importance as growing out of the feeling that inspired the Pan-American Congress, and of the gigantic proportions as railway enterprise, the recently incorpor ated Colombia Railway "and navigation Company, at Richmond, "Va., is likely to assume, the following explanation of the bplan.'is gained from parties directly inter- 'ested, but who have heretofore refused to fcive out any information for publication, will apper in to-morrow's "Wheeling Iatelli gencer. It is authoritative. The purpose of the company is to con struct railroads in South America, steam ship lines connecting these railroads with 'points in the United States and incidentally r everything necessary to properly carry on such a business. PLENTY OF CAPITAL. Theeomnanv'scanital isto be 8100,000,000, ffand Captain H. C Parsons, of Virginia, is the head of it very shortly the other steps necessary to complete tne organi- zation will be taken, and at no istant day the plans -which have Sbeen carefully matured by some of the lead- Ming capitalists and most practical railroad men of this country will be in readiness for application. Briefly, the aims of the Col- jffe,ombia Railway ,and Navigation Company "fejgaare as follows: To construct a line ot rail--'j-Sroad from some point near the mouth of the !g-4Magdalena river, which empties into the life Caribbean Sea, in the United States of Col jjjgirombia, southwardly along the eastern m (flank' of the Andes and the head waters of the Amazon to points in Poru. .There it will connect with the Peruvian and Argentinian system of railroads, at L" present in operation or under construction. ; Prom the' mouth of the Hagdalena river ifc steamships will be run to the'sonthern twint HfeTp&Eteriifrrand io2fetr1Orleans,fnm whence. a win cxienu raiiroau. couunuuu w-ou jaii. this country. A BE2IABCABLE ENTEBPBISE. Tho vastness oi the enterprise contem plated is thu apparent at a moment's -oTrp A pntitinpnt Trfthnblv' lhfc rmTipt 5 tin material resources of all the continents in 'Jthe'world, and still practically unknown, is r, v, ?jbe opened up to the purposes of commerce, W:,-!K'of immigration and civilization; ltsprod i dg$uctsind people are to be brought into easy . excommunication with the rest of the world, Sand, best of all, the direct and lasting bene-t'-'fit of these purposes accrues to the United iStates, and especially to the Southern IStates. . As stated. Captain H. C. Parsons, now at &' 'Natural Bridge, Virginia, but who was for f&vlH'merly a resident of Charleston and Hunt 1 ington, W. Va., is the originator and con trolling spirit of the enterprise. It's by no ''means the first difficult and hazardous un dertaking m the railroad line that he has Ibeen engaged in, though the others were as nothing when compared with this. He 'made tho contract with Huntington for the Chesapeake and Ohio line from Covington, Kv., to the Ohio iriver. Constructed the Kanawha and -Ohio from Charleston to Point Pleasant in ' "i "West Virginia; and, finally, having pur chased the rights and privileges of the old .James River and Kanawha Canal Com- rtpanr, built the Richmond and Allegheny Railroad from Richmond to Clifton Porge, w Va. 250 miles in 14 months, under a pen- falty of 5500,000. CABEFPLLY LAID M.AUS. t For 15 years Captain Parsons has given sthe subject of a North and South line of EJrailrosdin South America his attention. '-.He has traveled and investigated stirrer n! 'the'eountrv. and collected information of Rft -, - " w'' all kinds until he has demonstrated the ISiieasibility of his great project, and at last (. j brought it to toe point or realization. In order to obtain a more thorough organiza- iption and secure a heartier co-operation, in-" corporators have been selected and will shortly be named in all the Southern States. 7hen this has been done and the organi- Eration completed by the election of officers Sthe.practical work of making surveys and estimates will be inaugarated at once. The Iportion of South America through which Ithis line will penetrate,particularly the great p?en traversed by the network of rivers forming the headwaters of the Amazon, and, illact, the whole or the eastern side of the Lndes Honntains is terra incognita to the Jhveraee person. Nevertheless, with the tJIKceptiou of a small part, it is Igoes to show that the proposed route is not ilik'ely to present such engineering obstacles 4k-&sj'.were snccesstullv overcome in the run. J? vjruction of such roads as the Canadian Pa Sf" ""tcific and the Denver and Rio Grande. fc . &" A 'WOlrDEKFnL EEGIOK. lany noted travelers -and scientists. lumboldt and Orion for instance, have MEtaaled and expatiated upon the wonders of jjthittreglon, so that the only part ot the STDUtegrnlch remains to-day entirely nn benowa'and unexplored is that between the sources of the Hagdalena and Napa rivers, over the dividing ridge of the Cordilleras in Ecuador, some 60 to 100 miles in extent. It iis'here that the only real difficulties or con Jstruction will be met with. a" mountain chain must be crossed in t,f "order!to pass from the valley of one river" to W .that or anoiner, miu m nuuiuoa ro me (itnaturai oosiac mo " m uovo uu m hospitable BTge tribes, -who have hitherto rendered all attempts to explore their conn try ineffectual. " It will probably be neces sary to make the preliminary Burveys through this mountain chain under the pro tection of -an armed' escort, but once this is accomplished, it. is 'believed there will be little to fear from the natives. THE EXTENT OF T1IK BOAS. , The northern terminus, as now proposed, will be the port of -Carthagena, on the Carribbean Sea, the southern terminus will be Cuzco and Cerropasco, in Peru. The distance between them is. approximately, 2,000 miles, one-half of which distance is along streams navigable for such steamers as ply on the v Ohio river, and all of which, with the exception of the 50 to 100 miles above men tioned, is along water corrses, or across pampas or level plains. . The port of Carthagena, though now al most abandoned, is one of the noblest har bors in the world. Upon its wharves, canals and other works the Spaniards spent 558,000,000, and during thei occupancy of it carried hundreds of millions of gold through its gates. Thence the road will follow the bank of the Jlagdalena river as nearly as possible for more than 800 miles to its source. Thence across the mountains and down into the beautiful and fertile Pampa Del Sacramento, through which it continues to its destination, per haDs the richest atrricnltnral reeion on the globe, skirting the largest gold and silver mines that have ever been discovered, and penetrating forests of untold value. SOME OF THE DIFFICULTIES. On this later portion the only difficulties encountered will be be enormous rainfall, on an average 72 inches per year, and the consequent sudden floods. 'This rainfall will, however, be a considerable aid to con struction in one way. for in the wet season there will scarcely be a mile of the line to which supplies cannot 'be furnished by Means of boats, while there is already a steamer service on the Hagdalena river. At Cuzco and Corriopasco, a junction lilt V V - ' " mmmmm-''' DB. DATED THAYEE'S.AESIAIi BAIL-WAY. F-EOM. AH ABvAME DBATVDTQ'SY THE PBOJECTOB. ' ' . H will be effected with the two Peruvian line? from the sea ports of Malendo and Call so. on the Pacific, and at the former point will be met the railroad frord'Bhenos-Ayres en the Atlantic, which roadds, already in oper ation for 400 miles, to S?lt4, on the head waters of the Xa Platarlyer, Thus are these different outlets to the ocean secured for products at present in accessible to any or all of them." At Cuzco and Cerro Pasco the heart of the mineral re gion is reached. Cuzco was the ancient capital of the Incas. Here was their temple to the sun, lined with plates of beaten gold, studded with gems, and filled with blocks and pots of gold. , A MULTITtrDE OF TBADITIONS, Around this region cluster the multitude of traditions dating from a time even pre vious to the Incas, telling of fabulous wealth extracted in the long gone ages. Here, it is claimed by some of the old monks who wrote of it, was the Ophir of Solomon. Cerro Pasco is the center of the silver mines. It is said that at this time there lie uncovered there ridges of silver ore which will produce tons of pure silver, for which no means of transportation to smelt ing works can now be had. The possibilities of Peru, which has within itself such store houses of mineral wealth, not to speak of its agricultural and climatic advantages, are pot to be estimated. Its devclopmrnt has been in the past ex ceedingly slow and at a wonderful cost Its 1,300 miles of railroad built and projected have cost the State almost 150,000 per mile. the most costly in the world. .Nofxitcstand ing this, the constructed portions of these lines have already been largely paid for by the royalty on the gnano beds. What would be the result of a rapid and complete devel opment of such resources can better be imag ined than described. . TOE 2TKW ELDOBADO. t Almost as much may be said for every one of the States through which the pro posed route passes. Tho .United 'States of Colombia is iorming an empire which, from all information, promises to be more pros perous than the Argentine Republic. AH these States have labored in the past under tbe sarpe disadvantage lack of an outlet for their riches. In conversation Captain Parsons dwelt at length -upon the element of uncertainty which must enter into the problem of rail road possibilities on account of the unknown quantity represented in the crossing of the Cordilleras. The fact is that this particu lar piece oi territory" through which a pass must be found to all tbe South American continent, in spite of the efforts of Jesuit priests, Spanish conquerors, gold seekers or hardy adventurersremains still unexplored. The highest peak in the Andes system looks down the coveted, way, rising nearly 21,000 feet above the sea level. Untold forces and powers will oppose the entrance. Whether man can do what man has never yet done, is tbe question which tbe company's engineers mil have to solve in the near future. ONLY ONH fcHAKNEL. -Notwithstanding, it cannot but be clear to even the casual student of the matters in volved that this or some similar one is the only practicable channel by which our wares can be carried in competition with those of Europe to the heart of South America. It offers theonly possible means of competing in time with transatlantic steamers and the La Plata system. By this means a traveler will be able to make the distance from Limn, the capital o(Pferu, to New York in nine days.- At Lima be will be buC 30 hours by steamer from Val paraiso, at New York he is but seven dars from Liverpool, or from Chili to England in 17 days. . If it be true that the Unites tales, with ' ::' V - . - ''y&ui Pan-American Congress and reciprocity treaties, is seeking its chief markets in South America it -would appear tbat she can best find not at Rio Janeiro, not at Buenos Ayres, not upon the coastfronting England, nor upon the narrow arid plains of the'npper Pacific coast, but by piercing to the center of the nut at once extract the kernel-while foreign -nations are looking for an opening on the outside. AN AERIAL RAILWAY, TOO. Description of n Wonderfal Project Which a Caltnred Jnles Verne of Boston Has In the Wind Chimerical, Uko Some Others. Boston, December 26. David Thayer; A. M., M. D is just out with a pamphlet setting forth a mighty tiovel proposition, in detail on "An Aerial .Railway for the Ex ploration of the Polar Zone, and for Air Transit Over "Water and Land.,": Nothing more readable in the Jules Verne line was ever 'evolved .in Uriel; and, in view ot the seasonable character of the proposition now that people are' actually skipping around the world to beat the records and with projectors all but proposing to girt the globe with railroads, the whole scheme is worthv a place in the columns of daily newspapers". Dr. Thayer tells it all as fol lows: In October, 1SSS. in the teeth of a gale o' wind, we steamed out of the harbor of Qaeens town, bonnd for New Yprlc A flock of gulls Kept company with ns across the Atlantic. Our speed from shore to shore was 15 miles an hour, while the Wind was blowing In an opposite di rection daring the gale, with a velocity of 30 or 10 miles, an hour. Our convoy, the flocks of culls, with the greatest apparent ease, seemed to be resting upon thflir wines, and as II drawn by an invisi ble force, kept even with us, and oft and fre quently, as if laughing at our delay ,and in viting nS to emulate their speed, on steady winra would frlicle awav In advance of the ship. cross our Cow, fall back into the rear without J any apparent expenditure of force; nay, not half so much force as they seem.to exert when fishing in the halcyoD waters ot Charles, river and South Boston Bay. Tbcse -observations led us to the reasonable conclusion that these birds, with all the ease of thought, moved through the air at the rate of SO miles an hour, and continued it for more than a week. MAX TO FXY A TTEEK, TOO. The phenomononwas observed and remarked upon by several ot our companions of the voyage, from day to day, daring the continu ance ot the gale, but no one could tnrow any light npon it by way of explanation. It appears that these gulls were on the wing for more than a week, unless they were complemented by a relay daring the night, which is not probable. AU along tho line of history we find wise men have predicted that man will navigate the air like a bird, but to the present hour no one has been able to imitate tbe act or explain the modus operandi. It is as much a mystery to-day as it was In the days of King Solomon.. We may recall the marvelous fact that tho home pigeons have traversed the air a hundred miles in a hundred minutes. This fact declares the wdn derf ul power of their flight, while the gyrations of the swallow and tbe swift proclaim, their wonderful accuracy of flight. This Invention of the Aerial Railway points the way to the first step in the solution of the sublime problem. The Aerial Railway consists of an apparatus which is acted upon by two forces, the first of which is tbe wind acting by oblique impact upon the surface of aeroplanes or kites, and the second, the resistance to that same force, by means of a drag at opposite ends of three or more draught lines. Force No. 1 is tbe direct action ot the wind upon the aeroplanesvForce No. 2 is the resistance which the drag otters to that of the wind. By the judicious use of these two forces we are enabled to travel over water and land, over seas and oceans; to explore unknown TOgions of the polar zone; to cross the prairies and pampas of North and South America, the arid steppes of Russia, tbe sandy plains of Africa; to carry the life line and needed supplies to shipwrecked mariners; to ascend to great alti tudes for purposes of observation; to visit with little expense and trouble any of tbe islands of tbe Pacific archipelagos: to reach tbe Northern and Southern poles, and other lo calities which by other means are difficult of access. PBOFELtiED BY GBEAT KITES. The apparatus consists of several series of aeroplanes or kites, and the drag lines of these Kites are attached to somo impedimenta or drags. In the water the drag may consist of a number of boats fastened together, sometimes called a catamaran, to Increase the resistance of tbe wind, ttfereby diminishing the velocity of the aeroplanes or kites. If tbe catamaran be insufficient In its resistance to the force of the wind acting upon the aeroplanes or kites, we may add logs of wood to the drag, or any other method of increasing its weight and re slstacce. The drag when traversing over the land consists ot wheels and axles with a brake; when traversing over Ice it consists of 'heavily laden sledges and any additional device to in crease the resistance. At the very top of tbe figure are fonr bal loons. The nso.of tbcse balloons is to keep the kites aloft when the wind dies away. These aeroplanes or kites may be multiplied at pleas ure, and each kite may be made more buovant by increasing the number And size of the 'bal loons, and the principal use of the balloons is to keep the kites aloft in the absence of the wind. If there were 'always a wind to be depended upon there woaldbeno use tor balloons. In each series of aeroplanes or kites there aro two broad, large kites, and to the right and left of them are two narrow kites which we call wings. To the outer edges of these wings are attached ropes called braces. When in tho course of tbe voyage it becomes necessary to change the di rection ot tbe flight, in order to avoid an isl and, an Iceberg, or tbe enemy, if desirable to evade such dangers, by escape to starboard, we would haul upon the right-hand braces, there by flexing the starboard wings, which WOULD DBIYE OCB APPABATTIS away .to the right If. on the contrary, it be come necessary to escapo to the left, we would haul on the port braces, thereby so flexing the port wings that ocr whole apparatns would be carried to tbe left. If, in case of voyages of observation. It become necessary to seek greater or less altitudes, we effect this by hauling on tbe halyards which are .attached to the lower edges of the aeroplanes or kites, thelowerends of which halyards are within reach of tho voy agers. l?re vlous to starting upon the voyage, wo will suppose that the carls resting in the water by the side of the drag. When everything is ready and we desire to weigh anchor, it is necessary for us to locate tbe car up tbe railroad, suffi ciently high to avoid the touch of the waves. In order to do this it is necessary to raise the sail attached to the tront of the car resting upon the three rails or drag lines above tbe car, bv means of tbe sail halyards, the lower ends of which halyards are within reach of the voyag ers, and then by the force of the wind the car is carried up the railroad a few feet i8 may be re quired for purjiose above mentioned, when we apply the brake, which grasps the cables or drag lines to which and beneath which the car hangs suspended. This brake holds the ear In any por tion of the track where It may be desirable to remain. PITTSBUBGr, ERIDAI,, A MADDENED X0TER JDisaDDoinfed at Losing thtfHatftti- Whom Hooped tor Win '$: !f 8H00TS' BER AKD HER BUSBAMS; H-' The Shocking Tragedy Closely . Follows the . Wedding Ceremony. ,' f ; THE GROOM NOT' LIKELY TO EECOTIK, - . j, Sad Seanel of a BoBuntio Courtship and an Klope--ment to Jersey. I''' ; " ; AStroudsburg bride and groom, were snot on their wedding day as they were returning to their home. , Tho man's injuries are thought to. be fatal. The crime was com mitted by. the young woman's rejected suitor. . - ISFXCIAX. TBUEOMOf TO THE DISPATCH. ' Stbotjdsbubo, Pa., December 26. The community along the Delaware, ten miles easf of 'here, is greatly agitated over the outcome of a iifve affair in which there were several suitors for the hand of Anna Hiller, it rustic beauty and general fav.br ite. The two men most de voted in .their - attentions were John W. Snyder and Rush Miller, .the lat ter a resident of the neighborhood, and the former hailing from Brooklyn, N. Y. The city chap made the greater- pretensions. Bat the rustic belle preferred a man from eer own sphere, and six weeks ago kindly bat flatly refused the offer of Snyder. He lin gered in the neighborhood, however, and wat occasionally seen in Hiss Miller's Com pany. .? A few days ago it was rumored thnt Miss Hiller had accepted Rush Hiller who, tnougn bearing tbe same name, is not a rela tive. He is reported tobea'sturdvhonest, hardworking young man and entirely de serving the aflections he was so fortunatolo. " t GBOOSI AKD BELDE SHOT. f Christmas Day vas. fixed for their wed; ding, and in the morning they went down to Columbia, N. J., and were married. They did this rather than cpme to Strouds burg, the county seat, and 'take out a mar. Wage license, as tbe law of Pennsylvania requires. After the ceremony theystarted for their home at Reseca. After leaving1 the cars they had to walk some distance', and while going along side by side a shot was fired at them by .a man concealed in tbe thick underbrush. The bride turned her head, 'receiving sev eral shots in her face and arm. Despite the pain, she managed to keep her senses sufficiently lbn to. see her re jected lover, Snyder, rise from his- !croqch ing position, shake the gun threateningly, utter an oath, and then start off through the woods. " ' THE VILLAIK ESCAPE& At the sound of the gun Miller", the groom, fell prostrate, and when the cries of the bride brought aid he was. lifted up. It was found that he bad received, nearly the entire charge of large size shot in the back, and that he was seriously hurt.- His condition has since become worse, and it is believed that he cannot recover, although his strong constitution is in bis" favor. The neighbors, on learning of the circumstance, began to search for Snyder, but he' has. disappeared. It is thought thathe took a cut across the country and topkan-Erie train for his home in Brooklyn. '" 5 .No intormatlop was, .sent to the police or tne assa: The' committed is -eoarseirettleo. The ceo d. are mostly in the humblest' circumstances, quiet and inoffensive, and aro'consequently an vue more snrrea.up over meauair. mrs. Miller's injuries are' slight. A JIFEJCULT CHOICE. Sirs. JtHeraon Davis NOt'Ready to Select a Final Resting Place for Her Hus band's Remains Too Many Claimant. rsrr.ciAL, nxioamio rax dispatch Richmokd, VA., December 26. Hayor Ellison, of this city, this morning received a letter from Mrs. Jeffersori Davis, iu reply to a request that the body of her husband might he buried here.. Her letter is dated at Beauvoir House, December 21. In it she says: If gratitude, for the manner in which tbe people of Richmond sustained him during the war, his affection for her. citizens, and pride in tbe calm fortitude ot her men and women under crushing defeat were to be the moving cause'only, I might lay him there unquestioned, but tbe State- of his birth (Ken tucky), tbe State of his adop tion, which showered every honor nDon him wltbln her gift (Mississippi); the State where the Confederacy first unfurled her flag (Alabama); the State In which his parents spent their early life, and where his father was born, and where zoy husband has received many honors (Georgia), and last, not least, the State which now gives him sepnlcher amid tho tears and plaudits of her people (Louisiana). All these have put forth claims so strong that I cannot cboose among them, and have decided to wait, perhaps a year, before making a selec tion. To rest in the same soil with your immortal boroes. Generals Robert E. Lee and "Stone wall" Jackson, is a privllego folly appreciated, and I sbould be the last to nndervalno tbe hon or, bnt when the final decision mnst hn made. I cannot be unmindful of the rights of those. wno nave aone me iue nonor to claim tne cus tody of my dead, and I beg you to bare pa .tlenco with me for a season. THE OIL DEEEICES SDPEJ5E. Thousands of Them leveled to tho Ground by the Hlsh Wind. Bbadfobd, December 26. A terrific northwest wind has been blowing here all day, add thdusandsof oil derricks have been leveled to the- ground throughout the Mc Kean and Allegheny fields. In this city the hause ot John Carroll, at the head of Sandford street, was blown from its founda tion and left reclining on the hillside at an angle of 40 degrees. The family were in the house at the time, but escaped unhurt. John Evans' house, in course of construc tion, was lifted from its underpinning and badly warped. The,1 losses, as far as can be estimated to-night, will reach at least 540,000. KJDKAPED A FAMILY. A Woman and Two Children Caaslit and Carried OB" by Men. rsrrciAL tsixobaic to tub ntspATCat f CoLTjniBXA, S.. C, December 26. The citizens in' Spartanburg county are very much exasperated at tbe high-handed con duct of a party of white men from Ruther ford county, N. O., who recently came over the State line at midnight ana kidnaped a negro woman, her daughter and ton, 10 years old. The woman was tied and put in a wagon. The white men are said to be respectable whites of their county. Thev claim that the woman's son had been legally bound to one oi them, and that she attacked his mistress and took the boy away by force. Infloenza Has Reached the Rockies. Denveb, Col., December 6. The Russian: influenza has .reached the Rocky fountains. Three-fourths of .the citizens of Denver are suffering from.it Reports from Cheyenne are to the .effect that that city is similarly affected, . . . auair Huin;;iiTjia.isi!i?wii;n.-l sgiB'.nay.imijmu"gw-y,Digv lead, com'mutiitvin'which the-crime was e 3589 afMMMBOTGoU). Tjf o Ohio Mob .SeeklDg to Rocayer Tr&es- uro Tht Wa Baricd ky "Sfcermaa's ArrayT-Thoy Expect.ta pi 0tf t. $266.899. . rtnCTAI.'tEfcEQlUV TD TllK DIaATCll Chablotte,, 'N. Cl, December .26. There is - consierabie sti,r. in. Kershaw .county, South Carolina, caused; by tbi .ap pearance there oEtwo strangers who say they have - been specially commissioned by John Sherman','' of Ohio, -to dig tip ' the rich treasure which was buried there in February, 1865, when Sher, man's army passed through this State. The two-men say they, are irqm Ohio, and they b'aVe 'already employed x number of negro 'laborers; who with: pick, spade and shovel, are fast.tnrnlng over, earth in search-of the bag-containing tbe-precious staff. ' , , It is said that about a month before the cl'oseof the late1 war, when Sherman's' army 'passed through this State and South Caro lina, , in a certain place in nersnaw coubty,' about 18 miles 'from Cam den . and near the banks' of the?- Lynch River, Sherman had a large canvas bag full of gold buried. The bg was placed in. a big pot and put. down 15 feet' iu tbe ground. ' There was a lot' of Jewelry set with diamonds in tbe pile, and. all would be worth from .100,000 to $200,000. Tbe summer ' alter the surrender man came down from Ohio to dig np the . treasure, but was taken sick With fever'and 'died. On his death-bed he .told his mission, and described as best he could the spot where the treasure was' de- S'ssited. All efforts, however, tounearth it ave"prqved fruitless. ' These new' searchers appear to mean business. The digging is watched by many bitizenswh'o 'declare that if the pot Is un earthed itwill not be carried to Ohio: NO SUCH STORM- IS YBAE8. Hailstone Large n Hickory Nats Do n ' trent Deal of Damage. tSrSCIAX. TELEORAK TV TIIK DISPATCH.! Amsterdam, N. 'Y. December 26. A cyclone from tho West struck this city about noon to-day, accompanied by .hail and rain. Great damage has been done in the Mohawk Valley, and especially in Gloversville. The several knitting mills were unrbofed, chim neys blown down and telegraph and tele phone wires blown down. The damage to buildings alone will amount to several thou sand, dollars. At Rockton, a small town adjoining this city, a house was struck by lightning and badly damaged. Thomas Steward's ice houses were damaged to the extent of Si, 000. The hail was the size of hickory nuts. In the town of Florida hundreds of trees were blown down and. fences destroyed. Several dwellings were '.unroofed at. Gloversville, and tbe damage is heavy. To-night a blizzard is blowing. The oldest inhabitants do' not remember seeing such a storm in years. LOSTJllS LUGS AND LIFE. A Man Ron Over by a Train While Picking Up Coal on the Road. rSriCIAX .TXUtOBAU TO TBS SISPATCB.I Reading, December 26. A thin and withered. man named Simon Spohr, aged 60 ars, poorly clad' and hungry-looking, carrying a battered tin pail, stopped to pick coal along the. , Reading Railroad here to-day, when" a train came along and cut off both his legs, and he died a few hours'later. Be bad been warned as late as this morning to buy his Cnal and keep off the railroad track, or elie be would be killed, but be' smiled and replied: "Nomatter: I won't Jive longer than the 1st of'hext April. Then 11 have reehed.mr father's age."" Li .yltvsUaetttepAoaa ! houses, BcaDuiy-iHraisnea apanioBHV witn a poor bed, a small stove, and a tiu spittoon cover ing a rat hole. All the coal he needed he gathered along the railroad, and yet his real estate and personal property are worth about $40,000.. This money will grto his aged sister, as he had no family. BUSINESS SDEELI BOOMING. Conllnned Increase of the Net Earnings of the Pennsylvania- Company. Philadelphia, December '26. The statement of the business of all lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company east of Pittsburg and Erie for November, 1889. as compared with the same month in 1888, shows an increase in gross earnings of $631, 946, an-mcrease in expenses of $370,934, an increase in net earnings of $261,012. The 11 months of 1889, as compared with the same periodW 1888, show an increase in gross earnings of $2,655,185. an increase in expenses of $1,546,862, an increase in net earnings of $1,108,323. All lines west of Pittsburg and Erie for the 11 months of 1889 show a surplus over all liabilities ot $921,124, being a gain, as compared with the same period of 1888, of $1,071,558. , ' ROBBED OF DEE DIAMONDS. An Actress Loses Some Jewelry, bat Re covers It Very Lnckllr. fgPXCIAL TELEOEAM TO TUB DISPATCH. I Philadelphia, December 26. Hiss r Bessie Taylor, leading lady in the "Pas sion Slave" Company, playing at the Ken sington Theater, was robbed of three dia mond rings (bis afternoon. Hiss Taylor was about leaving the theater when she beard a clinking of jewelry in her dressing room. She rushed to the room just as 10-year-old Thomas Nilan, a messenger boy in the theater, was ' leaving it, and found that her rings were gone. She called an officer, who arrested the lad at bis mother's house. He gave up two of the rings, and said that his mother had tbe other one. He was taken before. Magistrate O'Brien, and released for a hearing on $600 bail. A GALE WiTH'SNOW SQUALLS. Roofs and Fences In and About Pongukecp--lo. Suffer Sndty. SPECIAL TKLEOKAM TO Tilt DISPATCH.! PotroHKEEPSiE, N. T., December 26. The wind has been blowing very hard here all this afternoon, and from 5 to,8 o'clock it was 'a heavy gale. Tho roofs in several places were 'blown away and fences pros trated: This evening there have been snow squalls. At this writing the gale has lulled. . Wants a Territorial Government. Guthbie, Oklahoma', December 26. A petition which has been circulating through Oklahoma returned here to-day with 30,000 signatures attached. The peti tion, is addressed to 'the Congress of the United .States and prays for the speedy es tablishment of a Territorial government in Oklahoma. Crmthed tinder Falling Wall. Syracuse, December 26. The storm here this morning tore down 100 feet of the People's StreetvRailway barn. Charles A. Nichols, foreman, was struck by the falling wall, and was dead.. when his body was taken, from the rains. . Joseph Forkheimer and Giles Woods, employes, Tvere seriously injured. ' ' Tho Storm In the Mohawk Volley. OiK Ajohabie, N. Tk, December 26, A terrible wind and' rainstorm swept over the Hohawk Valley this morning, followed by a resplendent rainbow. In the afternoon a bllacard struck the;' tame section, leveling trees, telegraph wires, etc . DECEMBER ,2 IE0UBLE IS FEAKED. Tfcdiigli TMef e is: Yt H o Proof of iny Having Occarredlecentl liTTHEKEW REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL Tho Steamship SIrias Arrives at lfeir York jlfitfc s'Lot of New. UTERCAB&iQEAMSlft'OEE 1MP0ETAST, EattheBnxlliairHewspipers Contain Many Items of ' Interest, Another steamship is in .from Rio Janeiro. 1 brings lots of paper's- and other tidings. .No stock is taken, by 'its officers and passengers idthe rumors of late distur bances ln'BraziL . On the other hand, late mercantile cablegrams. indicate an unsettled state of affairs in Brazil. New x"obk, December 26. The steamship. ' Birius arrived to-day, frora Rio Janeiro. Captain 2risher,told a Dispatch reporter that the surface. of tljiuKS was very quiet in Rio when he left there. He said that busi ness was going on as jusual, though the banks were getting very cautious And hesi tated a good.- deal about honoring large drafts. Captain Pisher said: There was a very strong undercurrent of dls- affection In the city, and I think an outbreak was only restrained by fear, There were grumblings and murmuring on all sides. I heard tbat a riot bad. taken place in the Rio 3rande district, but I could learn no particu lars. I am not surprised to hear of riots 'since my arrival, and I'tbink the opinion of the best informed people in Brazil Is tbat there is trouble abead. The United States steamship RIchinond and several other foreign warships were in the harbor of Rio. EVXDENCE3 OF DISOBDEB. 'Hr. Charles R. Hind received a cabled gram from Rio stating that exchange bad .gone down to 23 francs. "William R. Grace & Co. received' word that exchange in Para was down to 24 from 25 the day before. This is a tre mendous drain and plainly indicates an unsettled state of' affairs and & lack of confidence, in the future on the Dart of busi ness men of Brazil. No news was received regarding, the rioting in Rio, and merchants here say that under the present cable super vision no such news could be sent. The most important mail brought by tbe Sirins was several copies, ot the Rio xfeuis, the weekly English newspaper printed in Rio Janeiro. Editorially summing up the events of the week ending December 2, the News says: The course of events during the past week has 'exhibited nothing new and interesting; Aside from the consciousness . that a great change has taken place, and that hew elections are impending, one might be led to think that everything u moving on in the same old grooves. Business is dull and complaints are heard of the scarcity of money, just as we havo so often experienced under the mon archy. Then, too, the Republican Minister of Finance has had a little consultation with the same old gentlemen bankers and merchants whom his predecessors were acousxomed to consult about tbe unfavorable state of busi ness, and the panaceas recommended are ex actly what might have been expected at any other time. We have changed, and yet are un changed. Brazil has merely put on a new suit of clothes, N$, WOBK. OP A, DAY. The Provisional Government has unquestion ably found that.tho task of changing and re forming institutions cannot be carried out in a day.. We were advised 'sometime ago that de crees were boob, 'to be .issued declariwr civil marriage, the secularization' of cemeteries, Annratrori -,of -f'.Cfenrck- mid - State, rnw fexsilti-ikm&ljmm'YimSmty 'na"twalatfopKr ui nmsi -.out-. iu iu tuo -vraacuiH 1J110 they have 'not. been .promulgated. ' The church'hashecn aroused, however, 'and we are now betog,ntertalned with a discussion ot tbe divorce eccentricities of the United States, as a means of defeating civil marriage, the writer evidently ' forgetting that other countries, notably Great Britain, have such laws, without the "20-mlnutes-for-divorce" diversion. Tbe Cabinet should not have announced these de crees so soon, and then we should have been spared these tame discussions. Among its'news items the paper prints the following: Unsatisfactory 'reports were spread as to the health ot General Ueodoro, chlet of the Pro visional Government, but a conference of doc tors examined him on tbe 27th ultimo, and de clared that, although the1 morbid state of the illustrious citizen required every care, it pre sented no immediate gravity. The States of the Rio Grande Be Norte and Ceara appear from telegrams to show some ob jection to the appointment of Governors who are not natives of the States- It is to be hoped tbat the enthusiastic adherence offered the General Government is not to disappear at so early a period of tbe Republic Tbe objection, however, is well taken. A commission oi army anu navy omcers has been formed to organize a full and correct ac count of the revolution. WILL OBBEB A CENSUS. The Gazelle de Noltctas mentions a report tbat before convoking tho constituent As sembly, the Governor will order the organiza tion of a census tnrougbout tbe republic. The Journal de Commercio hears that the commission to organize tbe project for the constitution of the republic will be composed of Drs. Santos Werneck, Americo Brazlliense and Kapgel Portana, with Dr. tiaidanba Warinbo as President. On tbe 23d ultimo the Chief Nf Police of the State of Rio Janeiro received information tbat tbe froemen in the Cantagalio and Valonco dis tricts threatened a revolt against the Republic. He drdered energetic measures to be takon, and a police force was sent to tbe locality, but it has since returned and reported everything quiet. Onthe30thult.it was officially announced that tbe flag of the Brazilian Republic will he that referred to heretofore, viz: a blue celestial globe with the southern cross and neighbor ing stars. In all 21, astronomically dis played, crossed from left to right, with a white zone bearing the dovice: "Ordenm V. Progresso." The globe upon a yellow lozenge on a green field. The flat was not eenerally satisfactory to the pub lic, but the Government has determined unon its adoption. According to a Santa Catharina journal, on the 18th ult., at night, 42 men of the Twenty nfth Infantry Battalion met the band on Its return- from an entertainment, and, or dering it to precede them, marched through tbe streets with tbe flag of tho old Twenty-fifth Battalion volunteers, yelling and making a noise generally. The omcers of the battalion, some of the men. and a police force interfered, and at the firt encounter beat the rebels, disarming and capturing them, after killing one and seriously injuring three. A COMMISSION JTAMED. On the 23d tho Governor of Rio de Janeiro appointed a commission of three to revise tho civil, judicial and ecclesiastical divisions of the 8tate. ' The Governor of the Stato of Rto de Janeiro has asked tho War Minister to fhrnlsh tbe State police with 40U C'omblaln rifles, 100 Spen cer repeating earbines and 20,000 cartridges. On the 22d the Governor of. Rio de Janeiro notified the Assembly that by a decree dated on tbo20tb, all provincial assemblies elected un der tbe Empire are dissolved, and that It should closo its sessions. The judges and other legal luminaries of tbo town ot Rio Branco Mlnas Gerlaes address the Governor as Most Excellent Wir, quite io the old Monarchical style. They, however, save tho situation by winding np with'health and fra ternity." , , A Santa Paulo local journal states as a report tbat the Rev. Mr. Chamberlain, an American pastor ot tbo Presbyterian Church, for many .years resident in tbat city, had secured subscriptions- in tbe United States reaching Sl.000,000, to build a university at Santa Pawlo. ... . On the 23d. at the invitation of the Gov ernor of tho State, various ex-members ot the Provincial Assembly of Rio de Janeiro met and submitted their views as to necessary ira- Srovements in various parts of the State. ' The Governor took notes of tbe idea's ot bis vis itors for future Investigation. SOME NEW DISTURBANCES. Telegrams received In Bahla, on the 20th ultimo, state that new disturbances had oc curred at Lihlos. Some 100 armed men at tacked tae plant t-ioa of Geatil Jon da Caeft a who, with his adherents, resisted. eral deaths and many wound' salted. Certainly ' these feuds .&. unrmml v-iv m -MHfnl Tiirttf-nn-' rf-l V." few mjmbcrs of each .of the factions! ,55he Crowded Littlo PlaVhonSeHaS EhtreRIos, in tbe same State, a regular rL-J,.t? w' "' '".' t-'.r- froi Tihe TaZthorlsfr "-Stat: dm&.T8 w jnw"- wvux. 'away, houses were sacked, etc. No mention xaade ot what had been done to correct aS all - On the 22d nit. when thB Emperor's repre sentative went to tho. Petropolis palace, to gether with the authorities, a large quantity of valuable jewelry, tbe personal property of the Empress, was declared to' bo inisslntr. Tbe police were at once communicated with, and tbet matter Is under investigation The doubt seems to be whether the jewels wero not packed away in some of tbe luggage ot the Imperial family by mistake, but tbe occurrence will recall a jewel robbery at the Santa Christovao palare some, years ago, la which servants were implicated, it is more than possible that av&ilim- themselves of tbe tr disorder caused by the hurried departure of ine imperial lamiir, some or tne wr-ncnes could not resist the temptation off ered by val uable jewels at their disposition. A BADI0AL M0YE. The Brazilian Government Suppresses a Newspaper and Katabllshea a. Mlll tary Trlbaaat An Official Benin! of- the Re- y ' ported Matlny. "Washington, December 26. A re porter who called at the Brazilian Legation to-day to' inquire fot news concerning tbe fighting which is reported to have occurred at Bio Janeiro, from the 18th to tbe 20th of tbe present month, found that the Hinister had. just received the following telegram from Buy Barboza, the Minister of. Finance, under tbe new regime: From telegrams we learn that, unfortunately, there is no speculation from newsmongers agalnstus, which is not credited In Europe in SPlteof all onr. warnings against this sort of .conspiracy. Reports about mutiny of corps of artillery are false. It was only the mutiny of few soldiers, immediately repressed. This cir cumstance increased confidence In the Govern ment, which shows itself strongly prepared with prompt and decisive means to put down any disturbance of public order. The aggrara- tion of General Fonseca's illness is not true; on tbe contrary be is recovering speed ily from his former complaints. The assistant doctor believes his recovery ur be certain. At any rate the fate of the! revolu tion, now accepted bytbawbole country, does hot depend on the contingency of one man's life, however precious it may be. In tha army itself tbe revolution can rely on other chief of. great prestige and no less devoted to tbe cause. All tbe different political parties have espoused with enthusiasm the term fixed (November 15, 1S90) for the meetinr of tbe constituent As sembly, they considering by this act tbe sta bility of the Republic assured. Beware of newsmongers. Another cablegram from Rio Janeiro says : .The Government nas issued a decree providing that all persons found endeavor ing to corrupt the allegiance of the sol diers, or contriving or proposing nny meas ure tor active opposition to tbe Republic, shall be tried by a military tribunal. An opposition journal was suspended on Tues day. v GAME OF ALL KINDS. A Wolf and. Fox Chine la Illinois Panning; Oat Big A Pnnther and Tiro Deer Anions the Gams Driven From Caver. rSPZCIAZ. TU.XGXAM TO TITS DISPATCH. t Cabthaoe, III., December26. A great wolf, and fox chase has been in progress along Bear creek ever since Christmas morn ing, when old Si Xemberger blew his horn and dashed into tbe buffalo- grass at the head of 200 well-armed farmers. The air was crisp and cold on Christmas, and the hunters enjoyed the sport keenly. Sev eral foxes'we're killed, but the wolves that were driven from cover escaped. Christmas night was spent iu camp on Bear creek, which; is a: crooked, swift-running stream. This moWnsT the party started out with the hounds baying musically as they WBsded ovtrire jarie;. :About noon Jim Long, who was Reading one-of the squads, dashed id the thickets in the bottom. As ,he did son terrible-scream set the horses back on- their hnnches, and a panther bounded out into the opening and started away over the prairie. A volley of musk etry caught the big cat and toppled him over, dead. This is the first panther seen in the bottoms iu many years, although form ers have often heard screams from the thickets. The pelt was taken by Si Lem berger. At 3 o'clock there was a grand rounding up on the south fork or Bear Creek. The haul consisted of 10 foxes, 6 wolves," a.1 panther and 20raccoons. After eating din ner, the party dividing into squads, re sumed iu chase over the bottoms. Tbe men had not been out an hour before two deer were driven from cover, and at 4 o'clock the animals were coursing in tbe direction of Basco. As the hounds have been hard pressed since Christmas morning, it is thought tbe deer will escape to the Missis sippi river, and reach the forests in Mis souri. The chase will continue all night and to-morrow. MANX AT THE H0KGUE. .Seven Bodies, Only Two of Which Were at First Identified. White sheeted and cold lay seven bodies in the morgue last night, five of which had not as yet been identified. From the boy who was drowned at about 4 P. M. yes terday, to the man whom some stories said was buried under an East End sand bank for three days, the mute, pitiful bodies looked from half closed eyes back into the tear-filled ones of those who missed their friends, with .a pathetic appeal which is unknown, save to those who have missed a relative and gone to tbe morgue on a mere chance of finding him. Five unknown dead I Killed by tbe rail road, the river and tbe shop, they repose in the morgue waiting the recognition of friends, as tbey do tbe judgment day, and Potter's field will probably hold the ma' jority of the victims before Si hours. TESTING TAB MACHINES. Enoneh Electricity to Exrcale Anything That Gets Within Kracu. New Toek, December 26. To-day the electrical execution machines at Sing Sing prison were tested by a committee for the State, composed of Dr. Carlos F. Mac Donald, Dr. A. D. Rockwell, Dr. P. BT. Laudy and electrical assistants. The tests to-day clearly showed that tbe dynamos were even more deadly than had been rep resented. ' Wbent run at less than their ordinary number of revolutions per minute the elec trical pressure was found to exceed 1,600 volts instead of being only 1,000. This proves that about 200 times a second the pressure runs above 2,000 volts. WHAT, BECOMES OP PINS. One of Them. Wanders. Tbrousb n Man's Apntomy for 65 Year. ISTZCIAI. TELXORAJJ TO TUB DltPATCir.l Holliston, Mass., December 26. J "W. Keith, who is 75 years old, exti acted from the calf of "his leg, Christmas morning, a pin which ha had swallowed when 8 years old. He had felt it.in various portions of his body many times since, but not until now did it come to the surface. The pin was i inches long, and though rusty in appearance, it otherwise retained its original conditiod. Lost the Money Flnylng- Poker. Ht. Vebnon, Ind., December 26. E. Ht-IiOrd, Superintendent of tbe water works, was- arrested here this afternoon, charged with the embezzlement of 1,790 of the com pany's funds. Lord admits his guilt, and says he lost the moneyplaying poker ia this city and Evansville, THREE OENTSt . PANIC AT THE GAOT6V- . taE - . JAHT DAMAGE BUT MDO Ah&WM ? K'W.4Tii1Ufi Tnramfn- Siva Thmf ZfJml ' uuuuiuj, iuycvvvi iW AjW3 Will Close ther House ' THE POLICE -GET' OS DECK Several People Choked by Emeie, Injarrd. At it few minutes past 9 o'clock fire was? discovered 'in the cellar of tho Casino Museum. A big panic narrowly avertedibyfyu quick work of the police. Damage" incon? sequential but tbe possibilties great. The. Building Inspector will close the theater. ' About 9:10 p. ii. yesterday there was a very peculiar commotion in, the Fifth Ave- ' hue Museum. The double-headed baby commenced a duet at once, which signified. that it had taken in the situation- through, both noses, and also a sense of fire impend ing. Tony White, who is a brevet member of the Humane Association, at once 'took: the tduocephalous child, and shrieking "Saved, saved," carried it into Grove's toy store, deposited it in" a' perambulator, and, although he failed to " hitch the wagon on to a cable car for adver- tising purposes, cent the youngster home.. The other freaks were of coune mora ma ture add got out in good time; but the fact.. remained that one of the most disastrous -panics on record in Pittsburg was quietly averted by two-police officers. With three places of amusement almost side - by.side and an alarm of fire started in one,"1 it seemed almost miraculous that no loss of ' life occurred. The whole loss'by fire and water will noW amountvto over 200, but that museum will never show another freak or stageperform anceifthe ideas of Assistant Building In spector J. A. A. Brown will prevail in ac cordance with, bis report of September 24, 1887, on buildings of the kind, where amusements are exhibited. He' said last night: "I say there .are several houses ot the kind- in this city where tbe exits are not properly ar ranged, and where the houses can be re- -garded as little short of beinc death traps should a sudden alarm arise. N o w, here is ahouso where the main stairway is in rear' of the ticket office, and an obstruction to free exit is easily discerned if. you want to go out in a hurry. I shall make another special-report on this subject" Outside ot the official accounts there were soma interesting statements regarding a fire, which, started by a foolishly thrown match in the basement of the building, might'have cost hundreds of lives. INTEBESTINO STATE3tENTS. About 8:53 o'clock Willie Dardine, a boy attached to the house, observed smoke coming- up the stairway from tbe cellar into the auditorium and through cracks in tbe floor. He gave the alarm of fire and the audience at once.'' EAELI. bnt Soa.Oaef'ji- made a rush for the door. There being no' 'SI wav nh frnm tli mnr the f nfrn nMnltt v&m -' ,4 compelled to follow on the heels ot the crowd. The employes of the house at tempted to stop the people in theirrusb,,butk tbey were pushed aside, and the struggling mass was outside fa a very short space of timet Many persons were severely squeezed. -ana. bruiseo. in tne xusn, out no- one jw hurt to anv extent it The downstairs audience had just escaped wheu the alarm was communicated to those on tbe second floor, and a second rush oc curred. As in the first case everyone got out safe with the exception of a little rough handling in the rush. JSp. 24 struck the fire alarm and the usual crowd collected in tbe customary number of minutes. The greatest efforts of the police .were directed toward allaying the excite ment and keeping the people in the Grand Opera House and Harris' Museum from knowing that such a thing was possible as a fire panic. Within probably fire minutes the police were on hand and the Assistant Superintendent, with his blonde mustache" and bland objurgations upon the people who crowded the premises; the Inspector, with an eye on both bureaus of the Department1 of Pnblic Safety, experience in the one and enthusiasm in the other; Captain Dan' Sylvus, whose majestic frame held back the ' crowds from pouring into the building to find what was left of the audience, and De tective Coulson, who distinguished, himself by getting involuntarily "verjr wet" through the breaking of hose, with their trusty lieutenants, were visible to the naked eye. A TEAPOT TEMPEST. The whole fire was a temptest in a teapot as far as actual damage is concerned, the'. whole Insurance being only about (3,000, c , according to Mr. OUnsai statement, and the whole damage being about 200. It' started in a -quantity of paper and rubbish : In the cellar, and is supposed to have caugh"t' from a heater close bv. The stairway from' j the cellar on np to the second floor was -sevtrelv scorched and .the flooring bad v. burned and was the extent of tbe damage,, ' outside of soma slight damage to the walls' and the wetting. Tbe upstairs portion was ." not damaged at all, and the ecects oi tne ' stage people were uninjured. The damage. - is estimated at from i0O to low. One fact that excited considerable com ment was that there is no exit in the rear of the nlace. Had the fire cot any kind start in the front of the building any oner -.fl wbo might have been in tne rear pan would. . i nave naa no way ot escape. While on the way to the fire engine No 4, coming down Fifth avenue, collided with. . engine xio. 3, which was standing at the; corner of Smithfield street. No one 'was : hurt, but No. 4engine wasdamagedslightlv. There were about 400people in the theater-it; when tbe hrst smoke apprised, tbe Poor". .flayers and tne public tbat the cellar wast a eettincr tin a startling denouement to tha9 tragedy then being perpetrated. w i i THE GALE SWEEPS 0YEB CANADA. A Perfect Ilnrrlcanc of Wind Castes GrcaC'jj Dnmaeo In the Dominion. ZSrZCTAIt TZLXOSAX TO TUB DISrATCH.! Honteeal, December 20. The tailendj "of the cyclone which visited Now York! State lately, has struck Eastern Canada! and to-night brings intelligence of its ravages. At Toronto it has been partico- Iarly severe and many accidents; more or less serious, occurred to-day. The Salvation Army barracks at Toronto were razed to tbe ground by the cyclone, anda new wine of the Congregational Church was 'denlolished. At points east of Honfreal the cyclone was accompanied by rain. Great anxiety is felt for the steamsh'D Parisian tvhich is five days overdue, and no word has Observatory returns at Montreal show that the barometer fell to 28.90 to-day the lowest point it has reached for years uuuat tiiuca we vciiwity ui mo winOjWas 140 miles an hour. The beautiful mild weather of Christmas was followed to-day uj ueavy now ana tne cyclone rageaHIor, some time at a terrible rate. EnglUU Ironclads Ordered to LUbonq -. -Liu.nuu.rw AjecemDer 2U. jionr ipnnAinwH T ,.. - t ma .. --t.'VE hayejeft Haifa under orders to .prw'eeSjtoi LisBon to be present at the ceremony. ofUhj proclamation oi .rung varies a. - -Tj 1 ' - '"- ' 'Jl-f&i:, t&iX&i- ?.-; i(ii kSr?. ssfe-; j3