Savannah Weekly Echo, 1884-02-10

Mr. Hoar called up his bill providing for the performance of the duties of the Presi President - dent President in case of the removal, death, resigna resignation. - tion. resignation. or inability of the President and X ice- Fresidcnt. It was read three timesand passed. In the contingency named, it vests the presidential duties first in the secretary of state; if there be none, or if he be under impeachment or otherwise ineligible, then in the sect etary of the treasury, and in case of the ineligibility of that officer, then in the secretary of war, and so on successively in the attorney-general, postmaster-general, secretary of the navy and secretary of the in interior. - terior. interior. It provides whenever any such officer is thus intrusted with the presidential duties, if Congress shall not be within twenty days of assembling, he shall forthwith issue a reclamation convening it within twenty - lavs. The bill is only to apply to the officers named, if they have been appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. . ...Hr. Blair introduced a bill to provide for the free circulation of newsjiapers and other periodical publications within the State where they are published. It provides for the amendment of the postoffice appro appropriation - priation appropriation act of March, 1679, so as to allow one copy of each publication of the second class to go through the mails free to each actual subscriber.... Mr. Bayard, from the com committee - mittee committee on finance, rejwrted favorably the bill providing for the issue of circulating notes to the national banking associations. A joint resolution ot the Ohio legislature in favor of the restoration of the tariff on wool was presented.... A petition was pi'e pi'esented - sented pi'esented from Theodore I). W oolsey and others, praying for the pas-age of a law to provide for the collection of divorce statistics... .Mr. Hoar, from the committee of the judiciary, reported an anti-polygamy bi 11... Announcement of the death of Mr. Mackey was made and on motion of Mr. B tier the chair apiminted a committee consisting of Messrs. Butler. Pendlet< n an 1 Hill to attend, on behalf of the Senate, the funeral obsequies, and then, <ut of re.-pect to the memory of the deceased. the Senate adjourned. Resolutions were offered by Mr. Flatt to in mire into the effects of ti legraphic con consolidatii>n.... - solidatii>n.... consolidatii>n.... The Sherman resolut ion of in inquiry - quiry inquiry into alleged political outrages in Vir Virginia - ginia Virginia and Mississippi was taken up. and, after speeches bv Messrs. Sherman and Ma Mahone, - hone, Mahone, was passed without debate by a strict party vote of 32 yeas to 29 nays... .The Sen Senate - ate Senate passed the House bill making an appro appropriation - priation appropriation to pay the rebate of tax on tobacco . . The biff providing a method of settling incomplete titles to Mexican land grants was debated, without action. Numerous petitions asking for tne prohibi prohibition - tion prohibition of *he sale of liquors in the District of Columbia were presented Messrs. Sher Sherman - man Sherman and Saulsbury criticised the repirtof the conference committee on the Greely r 1 lief bill. Tliev thought it was wrong to leave with the secretary of the navy absolute power to say who should go on this desperate service. Mr. Ingalls attacked the Senate conferees for agreeing to the report, saying the Senate was too much given to receding. It would be refreshing to have it insist upon its amendments once in a while. Pending the discussion the hour of 1 arrived and the Senate went over to the House to attend the .Mackey funeral. House. Fuither debate took place in committee of the whole on the bill providing for the relief ut General Fitz John Pori er. Messrs. Tay Tayor. - or. Tayor. Bayne and Ray spoke in favor of the bill, and Mr. Keifer against it. The bill went over without action. F. \V. Rockwell was sworn in as the mem member - ber member from the Seventeenth Massachusetts dis district, - trict, district, succeeding Governor Robinson. . .Mr. Hatch, from the committee on agriculture, re| orted a bill for the establishment of a bu bureau - reau bureau of animal industry to prevent the ex exp - p exp n tation of diseased cattle and to- provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro pneumonia and other contagious dls dlseasee - easee dlseasee among domestic animals. Printed aid recommended.... Debate on the bill for the relief of Fitz John Poi-ter was continued, Messrs. Ray. Follett. Thomas and Wolford sj leaking in favor of, and Mr. Horr against the measure. Inime iiately after the reading of the jour nal. the announcement of the death of Mr. Edmund W. M Mackey, of South Carolina, was made bv Mr. O'Hara, who offered reso resolutions, - lutions, resolutions, which were unanimously adopted. I expressing the sincere regret of the House at the news of the decease of one of it' mem members, - bers, members, and authorizing the Speaker to appoint a committee to take charge of the funeral arrangements. The Speaker subsequently an announced - nounced announced as u h committee Messrs. Petti Pettibone, - bone, Pettibone, Bi-b e. < > Hai a. Willis, Davis of Mis Missouri. - souri. Missouri. Calkins and Hemphill. The House then, as a murk of respect to the memory of the decease 1, adjourned. Mr. Hopkins offered a resolution declaring tha - as a member of the House - JUarren Keifer - had charged H. V. Boynton, Wash Washington - ington Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Com Commercial-Gazette, - mercial-Gazette, Commercial-Gazette, with having corruptly no nopreached - preached nopreached the speaker of the last House (Mr. Keiferi. therefore a committee ot five be ap appointed - pointed appointed to investigate the matter. Mr. Kei Keifer - fer Keifer made a sieeeli in which he charged that Mr. Boynton had tried to influence his official action in connection with the McGarrahan claim. A letter of denial from .Mr. Boynton to Speaker Carlisle was r aI, and the resolution was adopted with an amendment directing the committee to inquire whether any otner member of the press now holding a seat in the reporters' gallery against whom charges have lieeti preferred ba I bee i guilty of con conluct - luct conluct that ought to deprive him of his seat. . Bills were introduced providing for in inspection - spection inspection an 1 certification of meat products for exportation; to reduce tar ff rates on sugar; for the sale of several navy vards; providing for the election of Senators bv the 1 eople. and to ext n l the operations of the signal service. Bills w. re introduced as follows: To estab estabish - ish estabish a bureau of animal industry, and to pre prevent - vent prevent the spread of contagious disease am iflg domestic nninals; for the retirement of H. J. Hunt with tne rank of major-general; regulating the rates of pos'age on second-class mail matter at letter-carrier offices by nuking the rate uniform at two cents [»er jiound; to tnase fraudulent venders of patent© i articles guilty of mis misdemeanor; - demeanor; misdemeanor; providing that no Territ tv shal . apply fur a im ssion as a State until it con (ain't a po; ulati u e jual to that re juiced in a congressional district,.. .Thefuneral services of Representative Mackey were conducted in presence of bot h houses ot Congress. THE AMERICAN HOG. t Communication to Congress from the Secretary of State. In answer to recent resolutions of the House. Secretary Frelinghuysen has sent to j the President , to be trans nittedtothe House, | a long communication relating in detail the , History of the restrictions and prohibitions of the inqKirtation of Ameriian i>ork by various foreign governments, of the corresixuideni e between the United States and such govern- ments on the subject, and of ttie investiga investigation - tion investigation made by our government in order to determine whether the alleged danger to public health from American exported meats kally existed. The resu tof this investiga investigation - tion investigation was t i show that the prejudicial judg judgment - ment judgment abroad against the swine export of this country was ex parto and unfounded. The sei retary advises the President to rec- I otnmend that no legislative action be taken ' bv Congress until the report of the commis commission - sion commission appinted bv the President to invest!- , gate the condition of American pork and ; swine has lieen presented. This report will soon be ready. The secretary adds: ''Should it appeal-that > the meat products of this country are. as we j b lieve them to be, not deleteriou . but pro promotive - motive promotive of health, it is believed that those friendly nation* which have put forth de decrees - crees decrees inhibiting th -importation of our meats j would annul those decree-. PENSIONS. The Amount* Appropriated in tire |*pi fourteen Years. The following statement of the annual appropriations mad'- for United States ;>en- | -dons from and including I*7l to and in- i eluding I'M will interest many persona The amounts are taken from the annual report of the treasury department: Amount Amount i Year. Appropriated. Year. Appropriated. | IK7I .. F-0,0 0 OHO l*i« r®,. r 48,090 1*1233. M) I*7-J 29,37*2,(C0 1873, 30,4 0,000 1*8056,101,078 1*74.30,481,0 0 1*8141,645,356 187&. 29,9'0.001 1*>2f1*,2*2,396 30,(AM),000 1883116,000, 500 . 1877 29 583,500 1884.8« K 578,267 I

NEWS OF THE WE",K. Eastern and Middle Staten Commodore Francis B. Ellison, of the United States navy (retired), died a few days ago in Boston, aged eighty-one years. Four thousand dollars were paid for a St Bernard dog thirty-five inches high by Emmett, Ihe actor, in I'as-aic, N.J. The dog is the largest in the world and the sum paid for him the greatest ever realized by the sale of a canine. A large coasting sled containing thirteen young men came down a steep hill at Waynesboro, Fenn., with such terrific speed that all control of it was lost by the steers steersman. - man. steersman. The sled struck a young woman, throwing her twenty feet, breaking her leg and inflicting other serious injuries; then it dashed into and shattered a heavy oaken hitching post, finally ooming to a stop against the front of a brick house. Four of the young men received fatal injuries, and the other nine were all more or less seriously hurt. year there was a total of 1,676 acci accidents - dents accidents in the mines of the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. Of these 323 resulted fatally, making 153 widows, and rendering 512 chil children - dren children fatherless. During the last ten years 2,463 lives have been lost in this district, 1,- 274 women marie widows, and 4,195 children made fa! herless. J. U. Wadsworth, of Morrisville,N. Y.,pro Y.,proprietor - prietor Y.,proprietor of eighteen cheese factories, has failed, with liabilities of 812,000 and assets of about 840,000. Dr. John B. Wood, a prominent New York journalist, and a few years ago presi president - dent president of the New York Press club, lost his life the other day in a melancholy manner. He was fifty-even vears <>ld ? and his eye eyesight - sight eyesight was bad. While walking after mi l lnight - night lnight along tho North river front he fell from a pier upon the ice twelve feet below and received injuries which soon resulted in death. A Freethinkers' association was formed at a convention in Boston. Petmecky, the murderer of Mrs. Froitz heim in Auburn, N. ¥., has been sentenced to be hanged on Friday, March' 21. The total Hudson river ice crop this winter is estimated at 4,000,000 tons, or 1,000,000 more than last winter. Governor Bourn in his annual message to the Rhode Island legislature commend, a proposed scheme for industrial education. Twenty-seven men at Greensburg, Penn, have formed a secret, oath-bound brother brotherhood. - hood. brotherhood. and decided not to buy French goixls and to boycott all dealers selling them until the embargo on pork is remove 1. About 600 New England farmers interested in the milk trade met in Boston and formed a protective association. After lasting seven months the strike of window glass workers at Pittsburg, Penn., has come to an end by an agreement between employers and employes which is largely favorable to the latter. About 2,500 men engaged in the srike resume work. Four men were frightfully in ured by the explosion of a can of giant powder at a lime quariy in Sipesviiie, Penn. Another Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooner - the Waldo Irving, with a crew of fourteen men on beard - has been given up for lost. A resolution of thanks to Lieutenant Rhodes, of the I'nited States revenue ma marine - rine marine service. for his gallan' conduct at the wreck of the City of Columbus, was passed by the Connecticut legislature. A scaffolding collapse 1 suddenly near Pottsville, Penn., throwing eight carpenters to the ground, a distanced thirty feet. One man was instantly killed, another fatally hurt, and the rest more or less dangerously injured. South and West. George Hardison and Harry Bronson fought with knives at Richelieu, Ky., and killed each other. Sixteen years ago Hardi Hardison's - son's Hardison's father killed Bronson's father with an Two boy's - John Anderson,seventeen years old, and Zach Snyder, twenty-one years of age - were hanged at Mount Vernon, Ind., for the murder and robbery of James Van Wye. a seventeen-year-old boy. The two murderers were shiftless characters, and their victim was a stranger. An immense crowd was present at the hanging. A dispatch from Winchester, Va.. statei that Miss Elizabeth Rebecca Payne, who is one of the best known ladies in the Shenan Shenandoah - doah Shenandoah valley, and who for thirty-eight years has apjieared as a woman, turns out to be a man I The discovery was made by her ap applying - plying applying for a license to marry a young woman who had been employed in her family as a domestic. Payne was brought up as a woman and no one ever questioned his sex, and his open avowal if masculinity has intensely as astonished - tonished astonished the community. * Payne married the domestic at Martinsburg, W Va. The Cleveland Paper company, of Cleve Cleveland, - land, Cleveland, Ohio, one of the oldest and most widely known corporations of the kind in the coun country, - try, country, owner of four paner mills and one pulp mill, and emploving 506 hands, has failed for 8250, (MiO. J. B. Simpson, the seven-year-old son of a Leading citizen of Red Clay, Ga., died a few days ago in great agony of hydrophobia. He had been bitten a month before by a rabid Tllness from a kidney trouble has led Big Horse, one of the most prominent of the Cheyenne chiefs in the Indian Territory, tp commit suicide by shooting himself in the head with a pistol. The Virginia house adopted without de debate - bate debate the senate's resolution calling upon United States Senator Mahone to resign. At Mineral Springs, Ark., two judges of the supreme court wi re hanged in effigy be because - cause because they gr anted an appeal in the case of three colored men sentenced to be executed for murder. Frank Williams and John Gray killed Orion Kurtz, a prominent citizen of Rosita, Col., and were in turn taken from jail by vigilants and lynched. San Francisco is to have a bronze statue of Garfield. Three brothers named Wilburn, of Jack Jackson - son Jackson countv, Ala., quarreled with and as assaulted - saulted assaulted a negro, when a man named Webb Interfered in 'he latter's behalf. M ebb was fired upon, and drawing his revolver ho emptied' it at the Wilburns, instantly killing two of them and mortally wounding the third. Ex-Governor John Letcher, of Vir Virginia, - ginia, Virginia, whose death has lessened the number of men prominent during war times, wa> buried at Lexington with military honors. Mrs. Mango, of Cleveland, Ohio, lost four of her five children within a short time by diphtheria, and the other day her fifth child was burned to death. The mother was -o affected by her terrible bereavement that she became a raving maniac. Burglars blew open a safe in the post postoffice - office postoffice at Blue Island, near Chicago, securing money and stamps amounting in all to 815,- 900. An express train struck a huge reck which had rolled down on the track from a moun mountain - tain mountain near Chattanooga, Tenn. The engine was demolished, nearly every car left the track, the engineer was killed, the fireman fatally burned, and a brakeman was ba Uy hurt. Martin Sxlllhs, of Kendallville, Ind., summoned to testify against a man on trial for murder, declared he would kill himself rather than appear as a witness in the case. He carried out the threat A pecuniary loss of about 8125,000 was in incurred - curred incurred and 500 men were thrown out of em- Blovineut through the destruction by fire of ie'Phoenix Glass works, of Philipsburg,Ohio. The works, which covered a large area, were imong the largest in the country. A financial crisis has occurred at Le ad adville, - ville, adville, Col., through the failure of three of its tour banks within a fortnight Washington. The Senate confirms 1 the nomination of John F. Hazelton, of Wisconsin, to be consul at Hamilton. Canada, and James Fletcher, of lowa, to be consul at Genoa, Switzerland. The Senate committee on education agreed to report the Blair educational bill, which provides for the appropriation of 815,000,000 the first year, decreasing in the sum of 8L 8L-000.000 - 000.000 8L-000.000 each vear thereafter for ten years. If any State does not accept the provisions ol the act, or retain the right to disoo-e of its allotment, the same shall become a part of the general fund for distribution among tlx other Stat -s and Territories. The industrial arts are to be taught in schools to be estab liehec by the provisions of the bill.

Now that the Senate has passed a resota resotation - tion resotation giving each Senator a private clerk, some talk has arisen among members of the House as to the advisability of a like pro provision - vision provision for the benefit of Representatives. John T. Gaine, the delegate to Congress from Utah, has written and sent oqt for publication a reply to Governor Murray's message to the Utah legislature. He says the message was filled with misrepresenta misrepresentations - tions misrepresentations and perversions of fact, evidently with the purpose of deceiving the Eastern public. The death of E. W. M. Mackey, the only Republican Representative from South Caro Carolina. - lina. Carolina. makes the sixth member of the present Congress that has died. Contrary to usual custom, the announcement of Mr. Mackey's death was not made by a member from nu own State, but by Mr. O'Hara, of North Carolina, the only colored member of the House. Mr. Mackey was born at Charles Charleston, - ton, Charleston, S. C., in 1846, and had been editor, law lawyer, - yer, lawyer, aiderman, sheriff, assistant assessor of internal revenue, speaker of the State legis legislature - lature legislature and Congressman. The President has sent to Congress a message recommending an immediate ap appropriation - propriation appropriation for the work of improving Hell Gate in the East river at New York. Representative Morrison, chairman of the ways and means committee, has com completed - pleted completed a tariff bill, but will not introduce it in the House until o.her members of the com committee - mittee committee have ha 1 an opportunity to consider it and offer suggestions. As preparer! the bill provides for a general horizontal reduc reduction - tion reduction of twenty per cent., but in no event is the reduction t >be lower than the tariff rates in the Morrill bill of 1861. Lauren Blodgett, of Philadelphia, for formerly - merly formerly chief of the customs division, ha l bn tight a suit for 50) acres of land situated in the fashionable part of the west end of Washington. He claims to be a descendant of Samuel Blodgett, one of the founders of thecity Three years have been spent iu the pre[ aration of the suit. A great throng of people came to the cap capitol - itol capitol to witness the funeral services of Con Congressman - gressman Congressman Mackey in the House. The spacious galleries of the House were pack d with spectators an 1 the boly of the hall was crowded with Senatorsand Representatives and the mourning f.imiiy and personal friends of the deal Cohere -sman. Soon a t r 1 o'clock the Senators file I into the hall a i<l were given seats in front of the Speak Speaker's - er's Speaker's desk. A tap of the Sj>maker's gavel brought the Senators and Representatives to their feet,a id they remained standing un until - til until the cotiin containing the body had b?en J placed before the desk of the reading clerks. , As the procession s owly a Ivanced a solemn ' silence prevaile 1. The widow and immediate relatives, clad in deep mourning, were given stats near the coilin. The servicescompr sed reading bv the <1 aplain of the Senate of a few verses from the Bible, and a short, feel feeling - ing feeling and eloquent addre-s b.-Rev. Dr. Ship Shipp - p Shipp n, after which the bene iiction was pro pronounced - nounced pronounced by the chaplain ot the House. The bidy was then birne away for burial in Glenwood cemetery, near Washington. Foreign, General Gordon has been appointed gov governor - ernor governor of the Soudan by the khediveof Egypt The body of Herr the distinguished German statesman who died suddenly in New York, was received by a largo number of prominent Germa i citizens up n its arrival in Bremen. From thence the body was con conveyed - veyed conveyed to Berlin, where preparations for a gieat public funeral had bjen made. The Marquis of Hertford, a well-known English nobleman and a general in the British armv, died the other day from in injure. - jure. injure. receive iby being kicked by a horse while hunting. Tonquin has been blockaded by the French fleet. While thirteen children were sliding on the ice at Rohr, Pomerania; the ice broke and all were drowned. Great excitement exists in Vienna over the inur ler of a prominent detective named Bloch. The murder is declared to be the work of socialists or "anarchists,''and the mui derer, a man of education, has been ar arrested. - rested. arrested. The anarchists have published a list of names (among which are those of prominent financiers and journalists) of persons who have been condemned by the executive committee. Eleven persons were killed by an explo explosion - sion explosion in a Welsh colliery, and a rescuing party of three men, including the manager of the mine, also 10-t their lives. Another heavy storm has done great dam damage - age damage to property in London, Paris and other places, ana numerous lives have been lost Many vessels were wrecked, and a large num ber of persons drowned. Steamers sent to c ear the Blue Nile of El Mahdi's insurgents have failed of their purpose. They were attacked furiously by the rebels, who waded out to the assault and were only driven back after suffering heavy loss. El Mahdi marched from El Obeid with an army of 37,00 1 men and plenty of Krupp guns. Professor Klinker, a noted German as astronomer, - tronomer, astronomer, committed suicide at Gottingen by shooting himself. Many houses in the manufacturing city of Laurvig, Norway, have been destroyed by a lire. The American Lumber company, of To Toronto, - ronto, Toronto, Canada, hasfailed for $l,0>M),000. Permission to erect a monument to Mar Martin - tin Martin Luther at Riga lias been refused by the Russian authorities. At an open-air meeting of 400 socialists in Paris a resolution was adopted declaring revolution the only means of ending the labor I crisis. Ten thousand persons, among them many distinguishe 1 Germans foliowc 1 the b >ly oi Herr Lasker, the German statesman, to its last resting place in the Jewish cemetery at Berlin. A book containing articles grossly libelous of the German imper.al lanilyhas caused great irritation in Berlin, where it wa: seized by the police, and its circulation in France has been forbidden by the Frenct authorities. The articles were reprinted fron a French i eriodical. Eleven men were 10-t by the wreck of t steamer near Cardiff. Wales. Mr. Lowell, the American minister, re sponded the other night to a toast at the din ner of the London chamber of commerce. He said that commerce was the great i aclti i cator between countries. It brought met face to face, and it was the great correctoi i of the eccentricities of nature, s > that a bar harvest in E igl ind meant a good season foi Minnesota. Kansas and Manitoba.

PROMINENT PEOPLE. Conkling. - Ex-Senator Roscoe Conkling's law practice yields him about $lOO,OOO an annually. - nually. annually. I^aird. - Congressman Laird, of Nebraska, was only thirteen when he entered the army in 1862. Hendricks. - Ex-Governor Hendricks,who is now in Paris, writes that his health is much better than when he left this country. Bergh. - Henry Bergh,president of the New York society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is reported to be worth $2,000,000. Cameron. - Ex-Senator Simon Cameron has left Hot Springs, Ark., for Mexic j. He is in much better health than when he started on his journey. , Davis. - The New York Tribune states that "the health ot Jefferson Davis is extremely poor this winter. His eyes give him much trouble and his step is feeble." Freeman. - Miss Alice Freeman, Ph. D., the president ot Wellesley colege, is de described - scribed described as "a slight, girlish, young-faced woman, of great force of character and bril brilliant - liant brilliant mental endowments. She is very popu popular - lar popular with the ytung lady students." Valera. - Senor Don Juan de Valera, the new Spanish minister at Washington, is fifty Years cf age, with gray hair ana mustache. He has been in the diplomatic service since he was fifteen years of age. He is also dis distinguished - tinguished distinguished as an author. Boudinot. - Colonel Boudinot, the long longhaired - haired longhaired Cherokee chief, was an interested si ectator at the Nutt tria'. He accompanied Senator Voorhees to Pittsburg. He was on the staff of the Confederate General Pr ce during the war, and a member of the last Confederate congress. Allison. - United States Senator Allison, who is called "Lueky Allison," has had a long legislative career. He served eight years in the House, then was elected Uiiited States Senator, and has just been re-elected a third time for a term expiring in 1891. At that time he will have been twenty-six years in Con Congress. - gress. Congress. Japan's Ruler - Muteohito L, emperor of Japan, who is now thirty-three years of age. is the 123 d sovereign of that counti-y. He nas reigned since the death of his lather in 1867. His is the only dynasty that has ruled in Japan, and began 660 B. C. There is no other monarch in the world who can boast so unbroken a descent from so ancient a stock. Victoria. - Queen Victoria will spend a considerable part of the spring on the conti continent. - nent. continent. She goes at first to Baden-Baden, and afterward to Darmstadt to attend the wed wedding - ding wedding oi her granddaughter with Prince Louis Battenburg. The Prince and Princess of Wales are also expected to be there, after making a Jong stay m the Riviera, whither they go shortly. Phelps. - Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, whose gentle voice and pleasant manners are worshiped by the poor people ot Glouces Gloucester. - ter. Gloucester. is a slender, graceful woman of thirty thirtynine - nine thirtynine years. The well known writer has dark brown bar, sympathetic blui eyes, a rather long, thin nose, and a facile mouth, which is never at rest. She is in delicate health, brought about by her labors among the poor. PBICES FORFURS AND SKINS. There is a continued good demand in New York for nearly all kinds of furs and skins at firm prices. No. 1 quality. North 4 East West 4S. W, Fisher »7 00011 00 rt 00010 00 Black Bear 9 00015 00 6 00012 00 Cubs and Yearlings. ... 4 OUO 600 j 000 50J Otter, each 7 000 900 5 000 702 Beaver, per lb 2 500 350 1 750 995 Mink...!?. 750 140 500 1 00 Red Fox 1 400 1 50 1 000 1 30 Grey Fox 900 110 70 4 90 Raccoon, each 850 110 650 90 Skunk, Black .....1 100 1 90 950 1 10 Skunk, Half-striped.... 6*o 75 600 '0 Skunk Striped M 0 45 800 40 Skunk, White 150 90 140 18 Opossum (trash 00t)... 180 *5 130 17 Muskrat, Winter 180 19 Ite 18 Moskrn*) M !!- 1®

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. A German has patented artificial cork. Every member of the present U tah legis legislature - lature legislature is a Mormon. The Florida sponge crop now amounts to about $160,000 a year. The oldest ope a-house in the United States is in Savannah. Florida alligator hunters earn, when suc successful, - cessful, successful, from $1,500 to $3,000 a season. The aggregate wealth of the seventy-six United States senatorsis said to be $180,050,- XX). Missouri fruit growers estimate their loss bv the recent cold snap in that state at $500,- XX). The talk about dividing California into two States is again revived in the Southern sec section. - tion. section. A Florida truck farmer has contracted for the sale of his strawberry crop at $3 per quart. The season in the lumber regions of Wis Wisconsin - consin Wisconsin has been prolific in accidents to the men. There were 4,732 lxx>ks published in Great Britain last year. Theology headed the fist tvith 701 volumes. Over 21,000,000 pounds of India rubber were imported into this country last year, a falling off of about 2,000,0 K>. Minnesota, where a Sunday-school was first establishe 1 thirty-seven years ago, has now 1.444 schools, with 76,000 scholars and 11,000 teachers and officers. The railway foreclosures in 1883 covered eighteen line-, with a total of 1,354 miles of track, $1 capital stock, and approxi approximately - mately approximately $28,505,000 bonds and debt. Quite a number of toothless individuals in lowa are out gunning for a traveling dentist who pulled out their teeth free, and collected half the price of new sets which he forgot to oring around. IN New York citv 7,80,5 signs, 1,103 signs on drop awnings. 536 wooden Indians, 3,393 ex exhibits - hibits exhibits of goods, 1.731 sh iw-cases, 1,101 stands, 631 coal boxes, and 1,325 awnings were li licensed - censed licensed to obstruct the streets last year. Mayor Scovii le has signed the new rules for conducting the civil service of Buffalo. N. Y. Buffalo is thus the third city in New York which has applied to itself the provis provisions - ions provisions made by the State act. The expenses of the first year's oja?ration will be paid by the local civil service reform association. Mr. D. R. Locke (Nasby), who is writing letters from the South, saj -: "If I was twen twenty-five - ty-five twenty-five years old and had $l,OOO to start fife with, I ha 1 rather risk my chances in Atlanta I han any city in the world. The four best cities in this country are Toledo, Kansas City, Minneapolis, and Atlanta." The American Grocer finds that in 1883 H,OO I.OUO cases of tomatoes were packed in the United States, each containing two dozen tins. The exact figures are 70,645,896 cans. Their value at wholesale was proba probably - bly probably $6,000,000. Maryland puts up about one oneba - ba oneba f of the product, and New Jersey over a fifth. In the Cherry Lake settlement, Florida, ' recently, while the mourners were singing and praying around a colored woman for whom an undertaker was dig igg a grave, she sprang from her coffin shouting: "I ain't dead yet'. I ain't dead vet'." But the shock was too much for her, and she is now a lu lunatic. - natic. lunatic. The ostriches of the Anaheim farm in California laid 305 eggs during the season from the Ist of May last until the Ist of Octo October. - ber. October. The birds have been plucked twice since their arrival. The first clip in May last ' yielded $5OO. The clip in Dt camber yielded 2,500 quills of all kinds from eighteen birds, 1 and is valued at $l,OOO.

BURNED TO CINDERS. A Train's Awful Plunge Through a Bridge. Six Persons Lose Their Lives end Otheis Injured. The south-bouu 1 accommodation train on the Indianapolis and Chicago Air Line met with a terrible accident at Broad Ripple, seven miles from Indianapolis, Ind. At that point the railway crosses the White i river on a truss bridge ot two spans, | each 150 feet in length. The engineer had gone to the baggage-car for a drink of water and the locomotive was in charge of the fireman. When the engine had reached the center of the bridge the fireman felt the structure sinking. He had his hand on the throttle at the time aad opened it, giving the locomotive all the avail available - able available steam. The engine sprang forward with great force, breaking the couplings be between - tween between the tender and baggage car. It kept the trass, but the baggage and smoking cars and one passenger c ach dropped through the bridge and were piled up in one mass at the foot of the pier, the smoking car being jartially telescoped by the bag'-age car. The wreck war partially submerged, but the portion above water im immed - med immed ate y took fire from the stives, 'lhe freman looked back after he had crosjed the bridge. The cars were on fire and smoke was obscuring the scene. News of the wreck reached Indianapolis short shortly - ly shortly after it had occurred and a wrecking train with surgical and other as- I sis ance was sent to Broa I Kipple. When it ieache 1 the wreck the bridge and cars were | yet burnin;. Thosa present wre so lac ring in presence of mind as to ba unable to extin extinguish - guish extinguish the fames or relieve the sufferers. The officials of the roa I worke 1 vigorously and systematically, and in a short time ths Hames wei e extinguished. Then a search for bodies was begun. Six persons had either been killed outright or burned to death, their bodies being charred almost beyond recognition and horriblv mu mutilated. - tilated. mutilated. The on y means of identification was by incombustible trinkets known to be the properly of the dead. The d a l com comprised - prised comprised the engineer, baggage-ma>ter. bridge foreman, express messenger, a brakeman and a jassenger. Ei;ht passen ;ers were in injured, - jured, injured, two or three with fatal effect. THE WHEAT SUPPLY. Estimate of the Amount of Wheat in the Country. The Cincinnati /Vice Current has made a special examination of the wheat stocks in the country and will publish the result to tomorrow. - morrow. tomorrow. The report will show the total sup supply - ply supply of wheat to bi 1i5,000,1100 bushels. To this is added 35.0)0,000 bushels in flour in the hands of dealers, making a total of 210,- OCO.OJO bushels for the remaining half of the crop year. The estimated requirements for that time are, for domestic food, etc., 121,- 00 ,000 bushels; for export, including flour, 57,1X10,000 bushels, leav.ng a surplus of 52,- 000.000 bushels. This is calcu ated upon the basis of exports of 120,000,003 bushels this year against 148,000,000 bushels last year. HUMOR OF THE DAT.

MUSICAL AM DRAMATIC The Hess opera company is going to Mex Mexico. - ico. Mexico. Twenty-three new operas were produced at the various theatres of Italy during the past year. They all died young. The new German theatre in Berlin has put upon its play-bills in large letters: "Indies are requested to take off their bonnets." J. T. Sullivan, formerly a Detroit press pressman, - man, pressman, and who has been but a few months on the stage, is doing good work in Rhea's sup support. - port. support. Wilson Barrett, the London manager, is coming over from London to make a profes professional - sional professional tour of America, with the play of "Claudian. Teresa Tua, a young violinist who has be come famous by her performances in many, is the daughter of a cobbler who lived in Florence. Chicago is to have a new opera-house, nine stories high, and with three fronts, to be built at Clark and Washington streets, at a cost of about $600,000. Lawrence Barrett so crowded the Grand opera-house, New York, while playing "Fran "Francesca - cesca "Francesca da Rimini," that the orchestra had to vacate the tank for the manager's box. Bret Harte has dramatized his famous story. "The Luck of Roaring Camp," and the Madison Square management will present it after revision by Mr. David Belasco. Frederick Warde is shortly to present in Boston a tragedy entitled "Memnon," written by Henry Guy Carleton. This piece is in blaiii verse and the scene of it is laid in ancient Egypt. Lotta and Minnie Palmer, both Ameri Americans. - cans. Americans. are both playing in London to crowdel houses and the rivalry runs very high. Both have their crowds of followers and together they are doing quite well. " How beautifully the woman sings," said one ladv to another, who was in gorgeous at attire - tire attire and biaz ng with diamonds. "Is she a mezzo-soprano J" " No, I guess not; I think she is a Swede, replied the other. Margaret de Vane, an American young ladv who hails from Alabama, has leased a London theatre for the sporting season, in wh ch she will ap; ear in Shakespearian characters. Her grandfather was formerly governor of A aba ma and judge of the supreme court. She is also a niece of Senator King. Mrs. Langtry has cleared $.30,000 thus far this season over and above a 1 outlay, includ including - ing including her jiersonal expenses. She has the sum mentioned Iving in cash to her credit in a single bank, and unless unforeseen circum circumstances - stances circumstances occur before the winter is over she will make f rom $65,000 to $75,000 out of her present tour. Miss Henrietta Beebe, the soprano of Dr. Howard's church in Forty-second street, New York, ranks among the finest singers in any choir. Her salary is said to be $1,500, anil is probably the largest paid to any lady in that city. Miss Beebe is specially a good part singer. She ha- often appeared in con concerts - certs concerts and great musical festivals, mostly in those conducted by Dr. Damrosch.

Miss Alcott says "she has fallen in love with a great many pretty girls in her Life, but never once the least bit with a man." Just so with us. - Boston Post. "When in society never talk of your yourself," - self," yourself," is the injunction of an authority on etiquette. That is, of course, you should talk about other people. - Loicdl Citizen, A young ladv of this city, who has a girl in Warren, and one in Corry, and another in Meadville, may be said to be Iready conducting a circuit court. - Perrici. "Dig graves for old follies and errors," says Ella Wheeler. That's the way to do, dear Ella; but where can you get enough cemetery room for all the corpses? Co wrier-Jou mal. An exchange gravely propounds the following conundrum: "Why are mules said to be stubborn?" The only reason we can think of is because they are. - Burlington Free Press. Mrs. Alexander Hamilton is credited with being the first to introduce ice icecream - cream icecream into American history. We rather surmised there was a woman at the bot bottom - tom bottom of it. - Statesman. Zadkiel's almanac for 1884 contains no ominous events for the United States. Zadkiel evidently thinks that American leap-year privileges will bring trouble enough for one country. - Philadelphia Press. "Freddie, did you go to school to today?" - day?" today?" "Yes'm." "Did you learn any anything - thing anything new?" "Yes'm." "What was it, my boy?" "I got on to a sure way oi gettin' out for an hour by snuffin' red ink up my nose."- Hartford Journal. The pen may be mightier than the sword, but the limberger cheese is stronger than both of them put together. We have been told of a piece of limbergei which was thrown in the river, and which calmly turned around and began to swim up stream. - Blizzard. A leap-year society, for the protection of young mentis about to be organized. Many a young man whose mother would not board himself and a wife will this year be lassoed by some ardent young woman and dragged down to matrimony. The society cannot get to work a mo moment - ment moment too soon. - Courier-Journal. We sat beside the glowing fire, The hour was growing late, I turned and to my heart's desire Said: "How you fascinate." Anti then she said, with smile benign: "With flattery have done: I cannot f .scinate - or - nine - But I can fascinate - Evansville Argus. Abe, aged four, wanted his mother to let him make a lunch-bag for himself. She gave him the necessary material, and when it was finished found he had left several small holes in the bottom of the bag. When asked the reason of this Abe replied: "It's to let the crumbs froo. It's such a bover to turn the bag inside I out every time, and now they will tum tumble - ble tumble out themselves." - Harper's Bazar.