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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPEIIANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. XI. MDQWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THUKSPAY. FEBRUARY 2. 1882. NO. 50.
The Fiddler.
Somotimps if yon listen listen
When the sunlight fades to gray,
Ton will hear a strange musician
At the quiet closo of (lay :
Hoar a strange and quaint musician
On liis shrill-voiced fiddle play.
lie bears a curions fiddle
On his ooat of shiny black,
And draws the bow acrosB the string
In crevices and in crack j
Till the sun climbs up the mountain
And flatds the earth with light,
Tou will hear thin strange musician
riaying playing all the night I
Sometimes underneath the hearthstone,
Souietimoa underneath the floor,
Ho plays the same shrill mnsio
Tlays the eame tuuoo'cr and o'er ;
And sometimes in the pasture,
Beneath a cold, gray atone,
lie tightens np the sinews,
And fiddles all alone 1
It may be in tho autumn,
From thecorner of your room
Tou will hoar the shrill-voiced fiddlo
Bounding out upon the gloom ;
If yon wish to see the player,
Softly follow up tho round,
And yon will find a dark -baclted cricket
Fi Idling out a mo-ry sound I
Weiii 1 Tl. Don; in Yvulh's Companion.
MORE THAN CONQUEROR.
Winter in Rmsis is mote emphatic
thin w:th uh. There is a Ptcely glitter
in tho io?. a barbed arrow in tho hail.
E'wuiil glactrrs lie upon the hillside;
at least it fifiems as if blossom nnd loaf
ond fresh green grss wro gone for
ever. 'J'ho sky, sparkling, blue nad
cold as tuvqnoi.se stone, has only sncw
dr.fts rf clouds flouting here nnd there,
illumined by a golden light called sun
shine, lmt totally different from the
life giving radiance wo hail with delisht.
Beneith much a sun wo wonld imagine
onlv snowflowers could bloom.
Yet a yimng ronn loiters along tho
frozen read cs if summer zephyrs were
wafi.ing the subtle odors of fields of
violets an! ro-es to his senses. IIo
is not mufllad in costly fnrs, yet there is
something within that makes life warm
end eestntie and fu'.l of rosy bloom, lie
Bnite the desolate fields about hi, a,
where the si ow lies pure and e ld as e
quarry of Omnia marble. lie is a
dreamer aud he is in love, bo the pres
ent does not exist for him. Ii ij
cothiDsr that he has never spoken to
the hi.'iy t Lis dreams; that &be i-j tet
far kl.o.e ',.i;n: that his love is like
' U bo il-sire i.fthn ninth for the star;
Of lie iluy fur tlie morrow."
Tt i.-i f iioiifrh tlint ho sees her every
rtiv ni'd li Jiws liimn that though
h r sky-blue eyes have never rested up'-ii
his face. Hy-uud-byehe will want.uoe
than a clanee, and the torment of love
will bpin.
Io the distance he cm ree a glimpse
of the lordly structure that is her
home, and in his mind he contrasts it
with his own humble abode. But he i
a- soldier of f rtuue, and who can my
what tLe future may have in store for
him? Russia oftV rs prizes to intellect
and zeal, why should he not gain one
and make a name for himself; ov, oh,
ecstatio thought, for her for Vi-ial
That is her name it sings itself to
mystic rousin in his dreams- it is writ
ten on his soul.
Yef- he has only seen her whirling by
him day afrer day in a sljieh fashioned
like a whitfi swan. Sometimes she
drives herself, ar.d he has been devising
means to eny some word to her, to
make her look at him ouco and speak to
him. Ah 1 if she is only alone to-day.
It is coniiug'now. Ife stops with a bnJ
den flah of lire kindling his blood. A
slim, girlish figure, in dark, wine-colored
velvet skiit trimmed with sables.
Her golden curls are streaming in the
tvir.d; her blue eyes are full of the sun
shine of youth, that light that is
olonded sa toon; her lips are scarlet as
c ppme,';ranuto blossom; on her cheeks
she keen wind has brought vivid roses.
Nicole loi.cs Lis head at the Right
IIo dots ret note tho thin, gray-Laired
old man at her side, hull-buried in his
furs, and shrinking from the icy blast.
This man's face is cold and hard as if
carveu from stone; l.ia lips are stern
and compressed; no kindly light warms
his pale eves. A man with an iron will,
you would say no prayers or tears
would avail with such a one. Nicole,
blinded by the splendid vision of tho
gill, supreme in her younj? beauty, sud
denly stepped forward and look off his
hat.
An idea had come to him a frenzy
to hear her voice. She had a heart of
heavenly pity, he knew, and bo he
wonld come as a mendicant. He felt
indeed like one who was willing to
kneel beforo her, if ha could win one
smile.
But he merely held las hat as one
that asks for alms and he looked poor
enough like a poor scholar whose in
tellect is his only wealth, and who
finds it is worth ncthing in exchange
for brf a I and butter.
The girl had no time to aot. In a
second her father had noted the move
ment on tho part of the young man, and
at the same instant the lash of the whip
was laid across his face like a living line
of fire. The Count hfemilouhad stopped
long enough for that and to hurl a half
dozen oaths at tho young man's head,
then tho tleigh dashed on like the wind.
Nicole staggered back. He grew cold
and bick from head to foot cold as a
stone, and with no life in him, cave
where the scurlet line on his face
throbbed and beat like a wound. He
Blowly steadied himself at last, but he
was deadly pale, save for the crimson
band, and he shook from bead to foot
as if with tho paXy. " Curse the arm
tocrat I" he gasped; one day we will
be quits for this. If I lived a hundred
lives I would never forget this moment,
Bah I fool that I was to forget lor an
ipstant that I am one of the people
that my hand it against ffuch as he and
his. He has brought me to my senses
with' a vengeance. That blow ought to
kill my love and it will. Henceforth
I live for revenge, and when that day
irjpmes, Count Bomiloff, I will remind
you of this."
The sleigh, skimming along the
frozon ground like a bird on the wing,
was a mere speck in the distance by
this titno. Not a word had been spoken
since the oaths that the connt had
thundered forth with his blow. There
was not a sound save a little gasp from
the young girl, and afterward a muflled
sob.
Vera, what do yon mean?" in a
stern voico. Look at me."
The girl unwillingly turned her face
toward him a sweet faoe, with the
color gone, and lips that quivered a
little, end eyes that met his own un
dauntedly, though they were as misty
as tho blue of showery "skies.
"He had a good face, papa, and
looked poor and cold."
' Bah the beggar ! Well, I warmed
him a bit I Besides, I've a shrewd
idea that he was a Bham beggar, after
all not but what he would have been
rightly served if he'd been genuine 1
There's work enough in the empire for
all. Only with this man I've happened
to notice one thiDg for tho last month
we have met him every day 1 I flatter
myself wo will not meet him again."
" But why should he shnm beggary V
asked the girl, wonderingly.
She was very young, only sixteen,
and sho did not dream that it washer
own sweet face that had made the poor
youth mad and blind.
Her father gave her a penetrating
glance. Ho would have been wise to
have spared her, but he was too angry.
" I thought women were keen enough
to see these things," he said, scornfully.
' It's my ide:i that he wanted to attract
your attention at any price ! But if he
comes in my way again I'll set the dogs
on him."
At these words a quick flush-mounted
to the fair face of tho girl. It was tho
first time u thought of her power over
any ether hent had been projected into
her mind, and she could not help think
ing a littlo of this mun this first lover,
who had dared so much for ono look
into her eyes. He must bo very roman
:i' then, this poor young man ; and
her heart softened a littlo as -she re
membered his dark, eloquent eyes, with
their appealing glance.
It was not strange that the thought
of this young man took popsossion of
her farcy for a few days, she longed
to let him know that her father's bar
barous blow had wounded her as well
to bhow him that her heart was not
so hard that she had not inherited tho
cruel prejudices of caste. She found
out his name from her maid, who knew
the people of the village ; and she
heard that ho was educated and ambi
tions. Day by day bhe watched the
roads as the sleigh bkimmed along, but
she never saw the face she half-feared,
half-longed to see. After a timo stern
realities took her away from these
Iremns. Her ambitious father had a
suiter for her a contemporary oi his
own against whom her whole soul re
volted. Count Semiloff found to Lis
urp) ife that his daughter had inherited
ono thing from him namely, Lis iron
will, bhe dared to rebel against paren
tal authority to vow that bhe wonld
never say the fateful words of assent,
even if bhe were dragged to the altar.
" lou are my only child, said the
count, in Lis hardest voice; "but cs
sure as there is a God ia heaven I will
cast yon oil you shall be as a stranger
I will forget that you live unless
ou obey mo in this thing."
"S3 be it," answereil Vera, with a
white face, and eyes full as cold as his
own.
He did not dream of the self-contained
power in tue gin. no nad seen ner
among her floweis and birds, singing as
carelessly as a bin! herself, aud so ho
d not fathomed tho depths ol being,
the possibilities of passion and pain, of
fortitude and high resolve, that were in
her.
Only, tho next day, when they came
and told him she was gone, no one knew
where, it was a terrible shock to him
He had been quite capable of disown
ing her, but that bhe should be the first
to cast off her allegiance was au inex
plicable thing and a terrible blow. All
day tho lonely old man sat silently as
one who Las been sore rmitten. He
wondered that his heart Lad such ca
pacities of pain in it. and -he was sur
prised at Lis utter desolation without
Vera. Now that she was gono he re
alized for the first time how much he
loved her, and that life wab an aimless
thing without her. A girl of eighteen
only, how could she battle with life ?
But the slow davs came aud went and
she made no sign, and at last the Count
Semiloff went forth with Lope in Lis
heart a hope that failed day by day.
For the days grew into months and the
mouths to years yes, four years and
he had not heard from her, not one
word.
Bo as a balm for an aching heart the
count threw himself into hard work.
His old prejudice grew strong again,
and with the vigor of a young man he
took up a service for the czar; a secret
service that needed fidelity, courage
and even recklessness of life. And
who was bo indifferent to life as the
tho Count Semiloff, the last of his
line save for the unnatural daughter
who had forsaken him in Lis old age?
What did tho few remaining years hold
for him that he should be careful to
preserve them ? Nay, he was ready to
fling them away, if by so doing he
could render a service to Lis master.
Therefore, he gave himself np to ferret
ing out the creatures who were plotting
against that master's life and the well
being of all Russia, according to his
convictions.
It was with peculiar censations of
triumph, therefore, Le read one day an
anonymous note that some one had left
for him:
"Whereas the Count Semiloff'a vigi
lance for the czar is well known, an op
portunity is now offered for the defeat
of a Nihilist plot of the first magni
tude, and the arrest, among others, of
a certain Sophie Fosenski, who is a
powerful member of the party. This
woman has for two years been a leader
and an influence in the band the most
subtle, the most dangerous to all lovers
of peace aud order. She has an infat
uation, an insanity, it might be called,
to redress wrongs; she is eloquent and
aways men's minds at will; she is beau
tiful, and she rules men's hearts; she is
the most malignant enemy the czar can
find, and yon can deliver her into his
hind. Be at the BorsofF warelones
to-morrow night at 10 o'clock. The
watchward is 'Pnblio Safety;' the place,
a cellar under the first house."
The count felt a sudden enthusiasm
for his work greater even than he had
ever experienced before. Ah I if he
could but seize this woman, of whom he
had heard much, but whom he had
never been able to see or trace before
if Le could deliver her into the hands
of justice, then indeed Le might be able
to Bay " Amen " to his weary life.
SomeLow Le Lad conceived an in
tense hatred against this Sophie Fosen
ski this arch traitress, as he thought
her, who led men into treason with
smiles,. and made them willing to cast
their lives away for a word of praise.
And a thrill of triumph came over him
as be thought that ho was to be tho in
strument of delivering Russia from this
curse. Siberia would be the place for
this ardent, snaring soul. In the mean
time tho object of Lis wrath, uncon
scious of her danger, but knowing that
sho walked amid ceaseless dangers
traps and plots and pitfalls was making
ready for tho meeting. Her toilet was
simple, as befits a woman sworn to be
long to the cause of the people the
poor, the downtrodden and oppressed
yet her beauty bloomed through all, a
a rose would do in a neglected garden.
Her hair was cut short, that no time
might be wasted in its arranger
mtnt, but it disposed itself in
bewitching little infantile curls all
over her head and low down over her
broad, white forehead. The face was
full of force, the mouth impressive
but it looked as if it might bo eloquent
of love and passion as w?ll aud tho
dark-blue eyes that could flash in
scorn at an ignoble aetion or anger at
a tyranons act, were soft and limpid
now with memories. Her room was
plain and bare, as a cell. She was one
of tho workers, and her slim finger
wero hardened with toil; but she did
not grieve over that. A strange en
thusiasm filled her heart; sho was liv
ing for a purpose, and that is tho
secret of happiness. Once in a while
there came up beforo her suddenly,
as if Eome one held np a portrait, the
memory of a faco she had seen at tho
meetings lately a new member who
seemed to hang upon her words, yet
whoso eyes betrayed a sort of animosity
she could find no other word for it.
Sometimes it seemed as if hatred and
love struggled together in their ex
pression, and sho had felt a cold creep
ing senpation as uhe caught the glance.
She had grown somehow to look for
his coming, and his presence anected
her in au inexplicable manner. It
seemed to touch somo rhord of mem
ory, too, and she vexed herself witli at-
tompta to understand i'.. To night, as
usual, her eyes sought him out, and
then a-t she met Lis glance tho hot
blood surged into her face.
Tho next moment Lo was at Ler side,
and with Lim a person whom she knew.
"Let me introduce niy friend Sergius,"
said her acquaintance, "and I will
leave you together to talk. Two such
ardent dis:ciples must be friends."
" 1 havo neard 'much of you, ex
claimed Sergius, bowing, "and have
longed, but scarcely dared, to bo pre
sented."
"Dated !" exclaimed Sophie, with a
lauf.h; "it is our religion to dare I"
"But I am a novice. Perhaps I shall
learn to dare everything m time.
There was a significance in the words
which made the girl bluuh again.
"It is a long time since tho causo of
tho people became tho dearest thing to
me." Then sho said: "Some one used
to send mo Nihilist pamphlets, and
became a convert when I was a mere
child. I wish I knew that person,
would like to meet him."
A peculiar smile came to the lips of
her companion. "Aro you grateful to
him?"
"Yes. I look upon him
apostle."
as my
"Suppose I could point him out."
"You 1"
"Yes. Pardon me, I am the unknown
I owed your family a debt. I began
payment iu that way but I shall not
end there."
"Ah!" exclaimed tho gH, "I fear
thev will not bo as grateful as I. Hush I
they are going to speak. It is Demitri
He is one of the bloodthirsty ones.
It was an odd crowd that was gath
ered together in the great damp cob
webby cellar. Men with pale faces and
lurid eyes that seemed to peer into a
wondeiful future when, all barriers
burnt away, a new world shoul.t spring
up on the ruins of the old. There were
women there in uncouth dresses, with
clipped hair and strange bonnets
women who eschewed all the frivolities
of fashion as sins against the great cause
who wero ready to sacrifice their rank,
their money, even thoir heart's idols.
for tho worS. They had sworn "to give
all even tuemseives according to the
mandates ot this strange power.
Demitri, a muscular man with a pas
sionate face and fiery eyes, was de
nouncing the tyranny of the czar in
burning words. Then he passed on to
a vivid picture oi siuertaa esue. " W
ore in Dante's Inferno !" muttered Ser
gius to the young girl ; " first a lake of
fire, and theu a sea i f ice."
At taht moment tho door sprang open
and an old man entered, lie did not
seem at all bewildered by the noise, but
took Lis place quietly and looked about
him. ' Sergius drew nearer to him
stealthily.
" How goes the cause, friend ?" he
said at last.
The Count Semiloff smiled calmly.
" Never better ? Shall we Lave a speech
from the renowned Sophie to night ?"
" I suppose bo. She is cogitating it
now, probably, in the shadow of that
wine cask 1"
The count's eyes ' followed Lis com
panion's. " WLat, that girl?" he cried.
"Did you expect to see an old
woman ?"
" Excuse me. I come from the prov
inces," the count stammered. I must
see her nearer."
The next moment his hand was on her
shonlder. " Sophie Fosenski, you are
my prisoner I" he cried. " No escape,
gentlemen, tho place is Burroundedl"j(
The girl tutnea, ana tne count ut
tered n'rry. "My God, Voial my
child 1" ho moaned, and stagpered back.
then fell heavily to the ground.
The lights were pat out and there
was utter contusion. "mows your
chance, gentlemen," some one cried.
'He is insensible; he has not made the
signal." !
Vera stood for a moment as if par
alyzed ; then, stooping, she lifted her
father s head in nor arms. There was
sound of retreating steps, then
silence. Suddenly a torch flamed out
on the f cene. Bhe looked up and saw
Sergius standing near her.
"lou have not escaped ? ' she asked.
" No I I told you I owed a debt to
your family. I want to settle it now 1"
he said, with a strange smile.
The count raised bis bead, !aintly,
My gill, my poor cV.ld he moaned ;
'your fatLer did not know; come! I
have you at last. Let U3 fly. They
shall not take yjn now, save over my
dead body."
"Aha, monsieur ie uount. High
treason, is it not?" exclaimed Sergius.
The count stared. " Vera, my love,
who is this man I"
He is a friend," stammered the
gill.
So von do not recognize me, most
noble count?" began Sergius, iu a
mocking tone. ' I am Nicole Sergius,
the man whom you lashed for pastime
ono fine day. Ohl I erried your auto
graph on my face for a Jong time, and
then I carried it in my heart 1 I told
your daughter I had a debt to pay to
the family. Well I 1 pay it to day.
She will be sent to Siberia as a Nihilist;
and you, heaven knows what fate will
bo yours But I have my revenge
T . '11 1 1 ?
era ianS up wim oiazmg eyes.
Whatever my fate, you will not escape
..ww
you are one of us 1
He smiled, mockingly. " hat am 1 ?
I am a spy I Yes, although I am your
l-i n 4- 'o a no vf if TT nnmn '
BJ)Un UllJ-j LUUW t11'J JLfcA W VI -UaT tJLIUl.t
' Good CJod I exclaimed Vera, hiding
her eyes on her father s breast, " and I
cared for this man I"
At theso words the face of Sergius
changed suddenly, as if ho had cast
aside a hideous mask. His eyes were
illumined by a strange fervor, and his
month trembled.
I Lave been a fiend I" Lo cried.
' Yera, my nngcl, I loved yon. I dared
to love you, and it made me a fiend. I
will die for yon I Only say again that
you cared for me and I will go through
flames straight into the jaws of death for
yon r
At tuat mcmcnt. armed men burst m
tho doors, and all three were secured iu
a moment, borgius was hoerated as a
spy, but the count was couvieted;
traitorous papers Lad been found in his
trunk. He was condemned with his
daughter to Siberia. In vain Sergius
confessed his plot; theie was no pardon,
even aftor he stated ttai no lind intro
duced the damaging papers among the
count's effects. But then the exiles
marched in line through tho stieet3 on
their way to their livin death a man
c.ime out oi tne crowd and stood by
Vera s side.
"I am going with vou," Le said,
nnd thus may I espi.ita my crime.
Where you live, I will live. 'Whore you
die, I will die."
Tlic Tocket Photographic Instrument.
Have yon heard of tlie instantaneous
photographio instrument ? asks a New
lork correspondent. It is a great in
vention. The instrument is no larger
than a well-lllled pocketbook, yet it. is
so cotupleto tha" every man cp.u be his
owu photographer without any trouble.
Tlie process of taking the picture is as
simriio as writing. You simply hold
the instrument oefore tho objoct to be
taken and there it in. I believo the
policemen of London aie armed with
them, and they nan tneu camera on a
rogue with as much ease as you would
a dark lantern. No matter Low swiftly
an object is moving, it can be taken. I
know of one entbusiastie man who
claims that they will be the reporter's
note-book of the future, i or example,
he is writing an article on the Brooklyn
bridge, and as he writes he ubcs his
camera. When Le goes home he do
velops Lis plates, and consequently Las
a correct picture of the scene beforo
him. Indeed, Le never goes out of the
house without his instrument in his
pocket, and he keeps his friends sup
plied with pictures. 1 am a little alraid
of the abuse of this invention. An un
principled rascal seeing a pretty girl on
the avenue can whip out his camera and
have Ler face at once transferred to the
plate. The instruments are quite cheap
810 I believe it is that they cost so
here is fun for tho million. How pleas
ant when taking a walk in the country
toreproduos the landscape for ones
own gratification or that of those at
home 1 You see a lamb frisking by its
mother's Bide, and in a moment, while
Us heels are kicking in the a t, you
have it down before you. If l was go
ing to travel in turope l should cer
tainly take a pocket camera along with
me. Any curious 6ight you can repro
duce in the twinkling of an eye. I Lave
seen . pictures of moving crowds, of
ships in motion, of men rowing and
horses racing, taKon Dy tins process
with the most remarkable acouraoy.
When to Advertise.
An old merchant, who Lad alwavs
been an extensive advertiser, was in tLe
Labit of saying (and practicing upon the
theory) that tlie most necessary time to
advertiso freely is when times are
dullest. Accepting this as fact, tho
present is a good time to advertise. Be
fore the holiday trade was brisk, bnt
since it is not so briss. Hence mer
chants do not odvertise so freely. Here
is the mistake. It mere be any diner
erence, advertising snouid be more
brisk. If merchants have bargains to
ouer now is the time to induce vur
chases. It ia now that purchasers
watch for bargains and bite a hook that
is temptingly baited, and how much
better it is that merchants who have
goods with which to bait hooks should
bait them, and sell the goods at email
proms rawer man seep mem upon
their shelves and invite damage from
ausi. vntcago iimet,
HEWS EPITOME.
astern and Middle States.
An explosion on board a steam tug at Haver
straw, N. Y., resulted In the death of the second
engineer, fireman and cook, and the total de
struction of the tug.
CnAEUM Dana & Co., wholesale provision
dealers of Boston, have failed with from 1100,
000 to $150,000 liabilities.
Hos. Clabksos N. Ponssn, the prominent
Now York lawyer, best known to the country at
chairman of the " Potter Congressional Com
mittee," charged with Inquiring into alleged
frauds connected with the prosl tential election
of 1S7C, died suddenly the other day at his
home In the metropolis, ageJ fifty-Bix years.
While arguing a oase belore the court of ap
peals at Albany he was token nick, ana his
symptoms assuming an alarming phaso ho was
conveysd to his home in New York, whero ho
liDgrred but a few days befo-o death relieved
him of his sufferings. In 1879 Mr. Potter waa
defeatod lor lieuteuant-governor of Now York
by only 290 votoa in a poll exceeding 000,000.
In August last ho was elected president of the
American Bar association.
The Hartford (Conn.) high school has boon
destr ycd by fire. Loss, $120,000; insurance,
$70,000.
A Philadelphia lawyer was fined $50 for
not reporting a caBO of smallpox which proved
fatal.
Governor Hott, of Pennsylvania, has
signed the death warrants of six men and fixed
the 2tth of March for their hanging.
Is New York and vicinity the thermometer
recorded a 1 tho way from forty degrees blow
rero at Like Saranac to three degrees below
rero at New York city and many casos of
prostration caused by tho intense cold wore re
ported. Tlireo men wero found frozen to death
one m New xork, ono lu Greonpoint, Long
Itllaml aml one la Newarili N. j.
Jiv Rni't r l.na rer.l.l.loJ .nnll... n! rnn.l-
the St. Louis and San Fraacisoo road.
A PinE destroyed the Providence and Woon-
socket passenger station at Woonsocket, B. Li
aud daraagod other property there, Involving a
loss of about $100,000.
A convention of farmers Interested Is
ensilage was held in New York, and disoussed
subjects connected with the use of enmlago as
food for'cattle.
The jury In the coroner's Investigation of
the Spuyten Duyvil railroad disaster gavo a
verdict fixing tho blamo on Melius, the brake
man of the Chicago express ; tho two engineers
and conductor of the same train ; the engineer
of the Tarrytown train j Mr. John M. Toncey,
the superintendent, and tho managers and
eJVicers of tho New York Central and Hudson
liver railroad.
A mix has been introduced into tlio New
Jersey assembly to provide whippiug-poats for
wife beaters.
PitoFESson Tueophilcs Paiisons, Dauo pro
fessor of law at Harvard college, and a well
known writer, diod a fow days ago, aged
eighty-four years.
An ieo gorgo at Bradford, Ta., caused tho
water in the river to rise over ten feet, floodin.
a porti'in of the city and causiug great damage
to property.
Ev tho burning of tho Keystone Hub, Spoko
and Wheel works, in Philadelphia, a loss of
150,000 was incurred.
Widow CJuait and her two ons, a very poor
family, living in Grotnsburg, Pa., havo received
notiee of having been left a foituno of $300,000
bv the death of a relativo in Swcd-ii.
A TERUi io galo has dono great damage to
property of all kinds in many parts of the
Eastern and Middle States. Barns aud bouses
wero overturned, trees uprootca and otuor
property damaged to the extent of hundreds of
thousands of dollars. At Nashua, N. 11
a thoo manufactory, a four-story ImiUBug, ni
which 200 men woro at work, was lilted from
its foundations and movod two feet from its
proper position. Ono of tho oeoaping men was
tutallv injured by Juiirmirz from a window. At
other points poisons wero also injured inr3 or
Iosb seriously.
An explosion of tho boiler in the mill of tho
Kennebec Framing company, at Fairfield, Mo.,
resulted in tho instantaneous death of two llro
men and fatal iujurici to the engineer, time.
keeper, foreman and another m,1u.
Geo. W. Goodnow, a merchant of Boston
and a deacon iu the First Baptist church of
Cambridge, dropped dead in church. Light of
his brothers and sisters had previously died of
apoplexy, and the death of tho deacon was
from that disease.
South and West.
A boom In wheat is reportod from Chicago,
where in one day ovor 20,000,000 bushels were
sold, tho price advancing from 1.3);; to 1.30,'t'.
A commeucial traveler named lludgms was
being driven by a colorod man in a buggy
from Roxboro to Oxford, N. C. While crossing
a swollen stream on a raft tho horse jumped
overboard, capsizing the raft, when Hudgins,
the driver and tha ferryman wero drowned.
All the prisoners but one dug their way out
of jail at El PadO, Texas, and escaped.
Further heavy damage to houses and farms
and largo lossos of lumber in tho vicinity of
Nashville by tho Tennessee river flood continue
to Lo repotted.
Rose Dutcuktk, a girl employed iu a paper
mill at Cleveland, Ohio, fell into a vat of boit
lug water and was literally boilod to death.
CnNTr.nviLi.E, Cal., has experienced & sovero
earthquake shock.
The Mormons are reported to be iucitin
Indians in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico to
go on the war path.
At a convention held in Yankton, D. T.,
delegates were appointed to visit Washington
for the purpose of endeavoiing to secure the
admission of the southern half of Dakota as a
State.
Fifteen prominent citizens of Marshall,
Minn., have been affected with triehimo.
through eating diseased ham; three are dead
and several reported In a precarious condition.
A van who hissed in the Detroit (Mich )
Opera house when the verdict in the Guitoau
trial was annonnccd from the stage was tot
upon and thrashed by some of the audicnoe,
and barely eecaped with his lire.
At Wapello, Iowa, 3. 11. llotlin fatally shot
his wife, with whom he had lived unhappily,
and then ended his own existence.
Tiihee colored men were hanged the other
day Auguste Davis at New Orleans for assault
ing wbito woman ; John Morris at Ivaleign,
N. 0., for ths murder of another colored man,
and Edward Bolton at Mansfield, La., for badly
wounding and robbing Albert Smith, also
colored.
Asti-Moiimos meetings are being held In
many cities of tho West.
Five members of a family named Itomann,
living on the outskirts of Corinth, Ky., were
fatally poisoned while at supper by eating of
corn broad containing arsenic
A rniB at Northport, Mich., destroyed the
court-house of Leelonan county, with most of
its contents.
Two freight trains, embracing fifteon oars
and two engines, wore completely wrecked by
colliding near Sturgis, Mich.
From Washington.
General RoDr.nr B. Mitchell, ex-governor
of New Mexico, died the other day at the
national capital, aged fifty-three years.
GrnEAU, on the day after his conviction,
issued another address " to the American peo
ple," in which he affirms that he gives himself
no anxiety on account of the verdict," says
ho is "God's man in this matter," and appeals
for money to employ more legal talent in his
defense.
An estimate has been made of the expenses
of the Quitcau trial. It is thought they will
amount to about $30,000. Of this Mr. Davidge
and Mr. Portor will receive, it Is thought, about
$5,000 each. Witnesses have been paid a little
over $8,000. The board bill of ths jury will
roach $3,500. The expense of printing the
testimony will bo about $5,000, and the fees for
jurors will amount to about $1,500.
The census report on tho production of bitu
minous coal in tho United States has been pub
lished. The total amount of bituminous coal
mined in tho United States for the census year
1380 was 42,420,530 tons, of whioh total 29,812,-
210 tons wero produced iu the Appalachian coal
flel.l.
Mb. Lai-ham, of Now York, prcsontod in the
Senate a memorial from tho preachers' meet
ing of the Methodist Episcopal church, recently
held in Kuw York, urging the enaotment of
such laws "ai will rid tho land of tho groat
crime of Mormon polygamy." Many similar
petitions from tho pastors and congregations
of Christian churches of all denominations in
many different cities and towns throughout the
country havo already been presented to Con
gross, all of which urgo the prompt passage of
viROious laws to suppress polygamy.
The eulogy upon the late President Garfield
by ex-Soerotary Blaine will be delivered iu
tho Honoo ot Representatives on Monday, Feb
ruary 27.
Sr.cnErAnr op the Navy IIdnt has received a
cablegram from Engineer Melville, at Yakutsk,
Siberia, stating that ovory effort is being made
to discover tho rouiuinder of tho lost Jeannette
crew.
Rei'ORTs of ravages by smallpox iu various
portions of the country continue to bo
mado to the national board of health. In somo
towns tho health authorities havo ordered the
schools to be closed and prohibited public per
formances, balls and othor gathoriugs.
jUEssus. bcovii.LE and ItEED, counsel for
Guitoau, filed a motion for a new trial, accom
panied by a bill of exceptions and aftidavih by
Gcorgo Scuvillo, John W. G a itcan, Chillies J.
Guitoau, and Frcdoriek H. Snyder, of Jersey
City, N. J. Tho following twelve roasons for a
new trial wero given: First By reason of thn
uncertainty of tho ovidence upon which the
verdict is founded. Second That the verdict
does not stato which count the verdict, is
founded upon. Third That the trial of thf
case was not concluded in the same term of
court in which it was begun. Fourth That th
court had no jurisdiction. Fifth That tin
court erred in overruling prayers of definc
Sixth That tho court erred in excluding
proper evidenco submitted by tho dofens".
Seventh That tho court erred iu permitting
improper evidenco offered by tho prosocutiou.
Eighth That tho court erred in entering into
an agreement with the prosecution whereby
experts wero allowed to obsorvo tho prisoner.
Ninth Thut tho jury was allowed to read
newspapers during tho trial in violation of the
lixw. Tenth That now and material facts have
boon diooovorod which should bo presented to
(he jury. Eleventh That llio vcniioi u t.m
trary to tho evidence. Twelfth That the ver
dict is contrary to tho law. Tho bill of ex
ceptions con'ains eleven counts, which are
almost identical with the reasons assigned fur a
new trial. Charles.J. Guiteau, in his allidavit
asking for a new trial, states that ho has been
confined in jail, and could not give attention to
ascertaining facts connected with the case, aud
had theretora to rely upon n.s counsel Jlr. sco-
ville, for all information touchiug upon the
case. Nr. Scovillo, tn his amuavit. says a
copy of the Washington 'cenii7 Critic, of No
vember 10, found in the jury's room, has the
names of several of the jurymen upon the
margin. Scovillo further avers that ho has dis
covered two important witnojsos in the perBous
ol Henry T. Bragdeu, of Fredericksburg, Va.,
and John W. Green, of Stafford Court-Honso,
Va., who will swear that in June last, upon see.
ing Guiteau in Lafayette park, they pronounced
him insano. Frederick It. Snyder, of Jeniey
City, in his affidavit, says he was a guest at the
National hotel, Washington, from December
7 to 20 inclusive. Ilia room waa near the
rooms occupied by tne jury, aim
on tho 13th dav of December, while tho jury
were absent, he in passing saw a newspapsr on
the table and took it. Believing in justice, he
had called the matter to the attention of Mr
Scoville. Mr. J. W. Guitoau makes affidavit
that lie knows all tho jurors and believes that
the names of Brandenburg, Hemline, Blight
and Shochan, on the margin of the newspaper
above referred to, were written by tho persoiiB
bearing those names respectively. The nows
paper in question contains an account of tho
day's trial, an editorial on Guiteau and an ac
count of BUI Jones' attempt to shoot the
prisoner.
District Attobney Cobkhill declares that
Guiteau will bo hanged June 30, 18H2.
The House census committee has agreed
upon an apportionment bill. It provides for
820 members, as follows : Alabama, 8; Arkan
sas, 5 (a gain of 1); California, 5 (a gain of 1);
Colorado, 1 ; Connecticut, i ; Delaware, 1
Florida, 1 (a loss of 1); Georgia, 10 (a gain of
1); Illinois, 21 (a gain ot 2); Indiana, 13; Iowa
11 (a gain of 2); Kansas, 6 (a gain of 8); Ken
tucky, 11 (a gain of 1); Louisiana, 6; Maine, 1
(a loss of 1); Maryland, G; Massachusetts, 12 (a
gain of 1); Michigan, U (a gain of 2); Minnesota,
5 (a gain of 2); Mitsissippi, 7 (s gain of 1);
Missouri, 11 (a gaiu of 1); Nobraska, 3 (a gain
of 2); Novada, 1; New Hampshire, 2 (a loss ot
1); New Jersey, 7; New York, 81 (a gain of 1);
North Carolina, 9 (a gain of 1); Ohio, 21 (a gain
of 1); Oregon, 1; Pennsylvania, 29 (a gain of 2);
Rhode Inland, 1 (a loss of 1); South Carolina, 6
(a gain of D; Tennessee, 10; Texas, 10 (a gain
of 1); Vermont, 3 (a loss of 1); Virginia, 10 (a
gain of 1); West Virginia, i ( gain of 1); Wis
consin, 8,
Foreign News
A CALCCTTAdispatch saya that the ameer ol
Afghanistan has executed Mahomed Jan and
several other state prisoners.
CoriES of, London runoh have been confis
cated In Berlin In consoquence of a cartoon ob
noxious to tho authorities.
Twenty depredating Indians were killed by
Mexican troops in Mexico. '
M. BoczAtro, husband of Christine Nilsson,
tho famous prima donna, has become insano,
owing to the financial panic in Paris.
Leadino English journals express satisfac
tion at the convic.lon of Gultcaii, but severely
criticise the conduct of tho trtal.
Tue French chamber of dopntles having re
jected the government revision scheme by a
vote of 305 to 117, M. Gambctta and tha other
members of the cabinot thereupon resigned.
FnEKH arrests of Nihilists have been made in
Russia in oonseqnouco of the discovery of
largo quantity of dynamito and secret printing
presses in Moscow. Fobrnary 21 thirty-six
Nihilists are to be tried at St. Petersburg.
TnE financial crises in Paris and Vienna have
extended to Geneva, Switzerland, where nume
rous failures-one fur $1,000,000 havo taken
place.
Sevehal prominent firms on the London
Btock exchange have failed for large amounts.
The Nihilists' nowspaper organ says that tho
coronation of tho czar, fixed for tho 25th of
May, will nevor take place, and predicts grave
events in Rnsria.
Bix Mormon elders accompanied by a proces
sion of Mormon men and women, singing
hymns, attempted to hold a meeting in Loudon
for tho purposo of inducing emigration to
Utah. The Mormons were attacked by a largo
crowd and the mooting was broken up.
Ten Austrian gendarmes were surprised by
the insurgents in Herzegovina and massacred.
A new French cabinet has been formed, with
M. de Freyciuet as prime minister.
NoiEitors failures havo taken place in Ger
many and iu Dublin. A Frankfort broker com
mitted suicide on account of his loses.
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
Tho elasticity of toughened glass is
more than double that of ordinary filaf s
and the former bends much more read
ilv than the latter.
Gun-cotton has the great advantage
over dynamite that it do.'s not freeze
nnd thereforo needs no thawing out, a
point appreciated in cold climates.
In tho case of h hen roisonea witfc
phosphorus the digestive organs were
found luminous on the twenty-third ilny
ind phosphorus was reaa-
ily detectod.
A well-known German manufacturer
of mica wares, Here Raphael, of Iireslau,
now makes mica masks for the face
which are quite transparent, very light
and affected ncitiior ty neas nor iy
scids. They afford good protection to
all workmen who r.ro liable to bo in
jured bv heat, dust or noxious vapors ;
all workers with fire, metal and glass
inciters, stone masons, etc.. In all
kinds of erindinK and polii-.hing work
the flying frapmoats rebound from the
arched mica plutss cf tho mask without
injuring them.
The iegister in deeds of Bay City,
Mich., stepped out ot his room a minute,
leaving his heavy glass inkstand on the
table. When ho returned ho found tho
inkstand split iu two in tho middle,
though no person had been in the room.
lie wants the scientists to explain tuis
phenomenon. The cccidrnt is not a
very rare ono. When glass, or any
metal, is nibltea- and cast in a tnieu
mass, tue outside coots ursi, and m
cooling shriuks, '.hus producing a
severe strain upon its particles, men
tho inBido cools and shrinks away Irom
the ontsido, producing another counter
strain. Tho tendency of these strains
is to produce n spin. Tvueu a mass ot
gl'jss or metal which is nndtr such a
strain is warmed by the sun or a cur
rent of warm air, more upon ono fide
than the other, the outside of that side
expands aud produces an additional
strain which may cause it to fly to
pieces. These are the causes why glass
lamp chimneys ureaK, ana mesa are
the reasons which scientists would give
for tha Bay City phenomenon.
Some Very Old People.
At 02 John Soiourner. of Louisiana,
has, after a year's widowhood, married
his fifth wife, who is ii.
Sirs. Haldemau. of Muhanoy City, Pa.,
will be 100 in July, but Mrs. Simpscn,
of Poltsville, is 100 already.
At 109 Richard Leonard, of St. Au-
firactine. Oaebee. was burned to death
in hiscibin while 'lighting a fire.
Rachael Brown, of Ilagertown, N. J.,
was 115 on Now Year's day. Bhe cm
still do a day's work if need be.
Tha evancelist. Aiehibald JIcArthnr,
who died recently at Dunoon, in Scot
land, was born on September 5, 1777.
Robert Warncck, a veteran of 1812,
and an inmate of the Dayton (Ohio)
soldier's home, was cut oft' by cancer
at the ago of 103. .
Three Tallahasseo warriors, with
their families, survive the chief Chip,
who died recently at Bartow, Fla, Hi
is said that he was 1UO years old.
With memory unimpaired and ferm
erect as it was fifty years ago, Mrs. In
man, of Smithfield, N. Y., has begun
her second century.
Aunt Dorcas, who die'd on a recent
Sunday in Sumter county, Ga., was 108,
and bad outlived all her kindred. She
had beeu married three times, but waa
childless.
Thomas Shofield, of Montville, Conn.,
91 years old, contiuues to walk nine
miles to renew his subscription to
the newspaper that has always printed
this item.
John Blozioger, of Camden, N. J.,
who can read without glasses, has cele
brated his 101st birthday. He was born
near Moscow, Russia, and is an old
soldier. His father lived to be 103,
The Mountain of the Lord is a solid
rock, 100 feet in height, rising above
the street level at Manti, Utah. The
Mormons are building on this emi
nence a temple of fine marble, 95 feet
by 170 in . ayea, and handsomely
adorned.
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