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Joint Journal ten thousand chests of were imported to this country Calcutta during the niotith of Jfebrnsry. The future looks blue. THE.VT, who recent- "'ly tendered his resignation as Judge ojf the Kasteru district of Missouri, uppofuted by President Pierce, and has served thirty vears. THE rate of steerage passage from York to Europe has been increased on all the principal steamship Hues on an average of $5. The average rate was und it is now increased to $20.

THE records of the Treasury Department Washington show that eleven, persons ou its pay-roll have died since January of this year, a greater number than for a like period of any previous J' ear A HOUSE of tire-proof and waterproof straw is now being made in Philadelphia for the London exhibition. With paper clothing, straw houses and dwellings heated by the rays of the Bifn, we are surely getting on. A conREsFOXDEvr in Maine writes of a pond in which the ice was recently thrown suddenly upwards into the air-as though forced by violent pressure from beneath. Some immense pieces fell at quite a distance from their original resting place. THE county of Clermout, has a citizen who hns worn the same pair of boots continuously, day and night, without once removing them, for eighteen months.

He expects to wear them sis months longer and thereby a bet of one hundred, dollars. EMIX BEY, whom Staaley has gone to "relieve," was a favorite of General Gordon, and was intrusted by him with important duties in the interior. He has since remained shut up there, and is now becoming a figure of an importance only second to that of Gordon himself. PRESIDENT AKIHUK was the only President we have ever had, says the Detroit Free Prc-ss, who insisted upon paying for the boxes occupied by Mm at the theater. The theater managers ways consider the presence of thePresi- dent stich an attraction in itself that they are always more than, to give him.

a free box. Mr. Arthur would never accept IT is related that during the recent suspension of telegraphic communication between England and France, in consequence of the severe snow-storms which broke down, the -wires in. London, messages were sent from Paris to London by this circuitous route: To New York, by way of Brest, over the French cable; to Liverpool, by tray of Ireland, over the United States cable; to London, by mail. JOBS W.

STEELE, the original and only "Coal Oil Johnny," says the Franklin (Pa.) News, a tramp in the depths of poverty, as frequent newspaper paragraphs would have him, but is a respectable, solid citizen of Kearney, 2fek, where he lives with Ms wife and family. He was young lie got his sudden wealth, but, after a brief period of high living, he saw his mistake and settled down like a man. MBS. LFCSEHA E. GARFIELD and her daughter Mollie have returned to their old home at Mentor, after spending nearly three months ia New York.

"While in that city she accepted invitations from, friends to dinners and receptions and entered upon, quite a round of social duties, mostly undertaken for the sake of Miss Mollie, but which her friends think proved beneficial to herself. She is wholly devoted to her children. -CAPTAIN PAUL BOYTOK'S next exploit will be of a rather novel kind. "Just as soon as the ice breaks up in the Hudson," he says, "I am going to g4 into the water at Albany and paddle down the Hudson river to New York. I wish to show Colonel Gilder's brother that my way is the only feasible way to reach the North Pole, as it solves the question of crossing the ice- liulcn seas.

It will be my last voyage, and I will bn a lively one." ADVICES from Kansas Cisy say that the Inter-State Lnud Company has completed the purchase of tho Arkansas land grant, comprising 79,000.000 acres, situnied in Texas, New Mexico aiul Colorado, and including a portion of Nonameland and of the famous Miixwcll p-nnt. The purchase is made froni th; exterior real estate, the title come originally from the Mexican Government in 1326. The price of the purchase is not made public. This is tho largest private land purchase ever made in the United States. BY Captain Shaw's report on the London Fire Department we learn that in 1886, though below the number for 1S85, show substantial increase upon the average for fhe past ten years.

"Withont count of the false there were 2,149 calls in cases ivhieh resulted in actual damage. The attached to tho land stations Hindc SS.So- and used ten TO'Hiun gallons of water. The general gives an. average twelve calls a -ilsy, i)i- nirhcr. more, which had to be by force of 357, devidcd into two s-eelionp.

EHTOMEOFTHEWEEK. PISPAIVJII from the West occasionally of a wind called the A traveler narrates that Jn crossing ii'ouv plains through Dakota. this in bitter cold wcath- jer, where every wasVmudled up to tfee ws, a man to the coun- tty threw back hfe heavy ulster "There, we've struck 'f'i wind. Now I'm going out on Upon out the as- 1 fount! arctic cold to balmy spring. The name taken from tribe of In- XLIXth CONQRESa SMtim.

March 3. ---Tha Senate passed the Naval Appropriation bill (about and the conference report on the Agricultural Appropriataoa bill was agreed to. A bill was also passed appropriating $500,000 to erect a memorial bridge over tae Potomac from Washington to Arlington in honor of Lincoln Grant. The nominations of Mr. Greely as Chief Signal officer and Mr.

Benedict as PnRlic Printer were confirmed. In the House the conference report on the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill was agreed to, and the Senate Fisheries Retaliation bill was passed, also the bill annexing a portion of Idaho to Washington Territorv. THCRSDAT, March In the Senate bills for public buildings at Sioux City, Dayton, 0., Lafayette, and Lynn, were passed over the President's vetoes. The House bill appropriating for payment of pensioners of the Mexican war was passed, as was also the fixing the salaries of Judges of United courts at and iSe Legislative, Executive and Judicial bills. The confer- report on the bill to adjust railroad Jand grants was agreed to.

In tho House an attempt to pass the Senate bill pensioning Mrs Logan was defeated. The Senate jbiil to repeal the Teaure-of-OHea act was as was also the Urgent-Deficiency The bill to modify the internal-reve- "nue system of taxation failed tn pass. At session the bill admitting free of duty articles for exhibition at the Minneapolis (Mian.) Industrial Exposition was (passed, also the bill to establish a military at Highwood, aear Chicago. FEEDAT, March 4. Both, houses of Congress adjourned at noon.

In the several appropriation and other bills were passed. The nominations of Captain freely to be Chief Signal-Service Officer and James II. Trotter to be Recorder of peeds for the District of Columbia were President pro tern. Ingails an- mounced that ths constitutional limitation jOf the Forty-ninth Congress had expired, that the Senate was adjourned without day. In the House the Postal Appropriation and Legislative bills were passed, and the hour having arrived.

Speaker Car- lisle declared the House adiourned sine die. FROM WASHINGTON- THE United States February fire record shows a total loss of against in January. The total number of fires was IOC. THE Military Academy Appropriation bill, the regular Pension Appropriation bill and the act to organize the hospital corps of the United States were signed by the President on the 2d. Os the 3d the bill for the redemption of trade dollars and the Anti-Polygamy bill became laws without the President's signature, by reason of the expiration of the constitutional limitation of ten days within which he should have returned the bills to Congress in case of disapproval.

THE President on the Sd approved the act authorizing the Executive to defend the rights of American fishing vessels. American fishermen. American trading and other vessels ia the British dominions of Korth America; also the Indian Appropriation bill and the act to establish an agricultural experiment station. Is the United States tho business failures during the seven days ended on. the 4th numbered 203, against 1S6 the previous seven days.

THE Eiver and Harbor bill failed to become a law at the recent session of Congress, not being signed by the President, and the Deficiency. Fortifications ani District of Columbia Appropriation bills failed to pass bath houses. THE total number of bills which became laws enacted by the Forty-ninth Congress was, approximately, 1,431, of which 1.093 originated in the House and 33S in the Sanate. There were 133 bills vetoed by the President, or 21 more than had been vetoed from the foundation of the Government down to the beginning of tnis Congress. Of the vetoed bills 9i originated in the House and 39 in the Senate.

THE death-roil of the forty-ninth Con gress numbers thirteen names, foar in the Senate and nine in the House. This is unprecedented in Congressional history. THE tax on oleomargarine had up to the Sth brought Into the United States Treasury the sum of $220,000. The manufacture was mainly confined to the States of Illinois, Indiana and Kansas. THE death of Lieutenant-Colonel E.

K. Scott, chief of the publication ofSce of war records, occurred at "Washington on the Sth. THE exchanges at twenty-sis leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended oa the Sth ult aggregated $1,054,839,956 against the previous week. As compared with the corresponding weefe of 1886, the increase amounts to 6.3 cent PAROOSS were granted by President Cleveland on the 5th to ten persons convicted of various crimes against the Government THE EAST. As engineer oa the Erie road named IL L.

Rose was paralyzed at his post on the 2d, and the fireman ran the train to Deposit, ff. Y. B.UFU3 BLODOETT was elected United States Senator by the New Jersey Legislature on the 2d, the final ballet being: Blodgetfc il; Abbett 33. SEVERE earthquake snocks wero felt a Far Eockaway, Fire Island and Babylon, N. on the afternoon of the 3d.

Houses were rocked and windows broken, but no one received injuries. TOE plasterers of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, have withdrawn from the Knights of Labor. THE news that ths bill had receive! the President's signature was received at Gloucester, on tho the wildest demonstrations of joy. Bells were rung, colors hoisted and guns fired. THE jury in the divorce case brought at New York against the son ot Commodore KHtsou decided on the 31 that the marriage was null and void, as Kittsou was intoxicated when the ceremony was performed.

A FRVME building in New York City was burned on tbo 4th and two colored women perished in the flames. THE sudden death of Charles J. Peterson, publisher and proprietor of Peterson's oocure'l at his residence in Philadelphia on the 5th. He was sixty-eight years old. Is portions of Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont, the heaviest snow-storm of the season prevailed on the 6th.

completely blockading the railroads. THE Xfn Y'jrk Weekly office, at New York, was destroyed by fire on the oth. Ox tho 6th William Coke, one of the seven men organized tho Knights of Labor, died at Philadelphia of heart-disease, aged sixty-three years. Tun Legislature of Rhode Island has adopted a joint resolution to submit to tho people a const.tutional amendment providing for woman burst on the 4th near Liunronceburg. Ind.

Three roustabouts were fatally acalded and the engineer was seriously injured. A BOILER in a distillery at Oweusboro, exploded on the 4th fatally scalding four men. EnwABD BBBITUXO, one of the pioneers of the upper peniusula of Michigan, died in Georgia on the 4th, leaving or more to his widow and son. Ha was a member of the Forty-eighth Congress, M.uir BAKEK, of White County, had up to the 4th fasted 123 days. Her flesh was about gone, and death was thought to.

be very near. Physicians were completely baffled by her malady, and could not diagnose her case. FIFTKES thousand worth of horses smuggled from Canada were seized on the farm of Scott Gallaway, near Ligonier, Ind, by customs officers on the 4th. THE Legislature of Minnesota adjourned siiu oa the 4th. THE death of Mother Angela, the founder of St- Mary's Academy at Notre Daine, occurred on the 4thl in her sixty-third year.

She was a cousin of James G. Blame, aud was educated at Georgetown with Mrs. General Sherman. Duruig the war she rendered great service by opening hospitals. AT Ellsworth.

111., en the 5th, forty Woman Crusaders cleaned out the liquor saloon of J. A. McGrevy, and emptied the whisky into the gutter. A SILL pissed by the Ohio Legislature requires that the effects of alcohol ami narcotics on tho human system be taught in all the public schools of the State. JOSEPH W.

BiSi.iiAM, one ol the editors of the Indianapolis cut his throat on the 5th. jathctin? latal injury. lu- somama was the cause. He was thirty- seven years of age. He leaves a and two children.

AT Lonoke, on the Sth John a colored preacher, years old, was mar- to a woman of seventy years. Mr. White has beea preaching for eighty-one years. A TOW-BOAT on the Ohio river ran down a skiff containing seven colored persons near Madison, oa the 6th. aud six of them were drowned.

THE graiittmottier of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Mrs. Ruth Harmon, died on the Oth ai Jackson, at the age of seventy-eight years. Mits. BECK, wife of Senator Beck, of Kentucky, died in "Washington ou the oth, seventy years.

E. P. LULL, a Commodore ia tne United States navy, ubd on the 5t'a at Pensacola. Fla. Ox the night, of the 3th the Texas express on the Iron Mountain railroad plunged through a bridge near De Soto, drowning two passengers and wounding twenty-five others.

AT DEATH'S DOOR. Henrr Stricken Davit with Apoplexy Great Now Ljrlc IB ma Uncou- Abandoned from the Vying Mmu. NEW YORK, March Ward Beeeher, the great preacher, is seriously ill at his homo in Brooklyn, having suffered a stroke of apoplexy, and it is thought that even if he does not die he will uover recover in full his mental and physical faculties. Mr. Boecher was takua eick Thursday night, experiencing a violent headache.

His malady was at first attributed to biliousness, to BUTCHER. which Mr. Boecher has lousf boon subject, anO, r.s it was relieved by nausea on Friday morning his wife felt no alarm. Soon after the Mr. Beeeher went to sloop.

When at noon ho had not awakened the family was alarmed and sent for Dr. the family physician. who aroused the patient at 2:30 p. On awaking Sir. Beecher was jOviul imu told tbo doctor about a dream ho had had.

The physician prescribed for the case and departed. Returning at ten p. in. he found Mr. Boeoht-r's speech thick aud indistinct aud the complaining that his brain foil sore aud iha: he felt Ku'hisj pain in the right sido of Mrs.

Beecher, who still looked the case as a mere bilious quieted the doctor's suspicions by saying that her husbjnd when bilious usually spoke with indistinctness. Dr. was again summoned until eight a. m. Saturday.

He then ouniJ Mr. Beecher's left side partially paralysed. He could still move his left arm and leg. but with diaioulty. Ho V.MS vory drowsy, his speech was thicker, and he protruded his tongue with evident effort.

Ho complained headache, at times his face would tiush ho would WEST AND SOUTH. AT tho State conven'von ot Kentucky Prohibitionists held at Louisville on the 3d, Judge Fontaine Fox, of Louisville, was nominated for Governor. Two CHILDUEX of P. Dietz, aged seven and eight years respectively, were burned to death while playing with coal oil near Lima, on the 3d. THE fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of Chicago occurred on the 4th.

A BILL to require a civil license for marriages passed the Michigan Senate on the 4th. The object of the bill is to shut out elopers from tho borders of Indiana and Ohio. UNKKOWS parties broke open the safe in the Adams express office at Orrville, 0., on the 4th ani took stesuntniJC on the 8 learner Fleetwood FOREIGN iNTELLiGENCE. PORTIONS of Italy were again severely shaken by earthquake shocks on the The people fearel further disasters because of the excessive heat and the fact tnat the sea had not rerarned to its ordinary level THE Emperor in his speech at tie opening of the new Reichstag at Berlin on the 3d expressed the hope that its action would give the nation full power to rejiel attacks upon the frontiers, and thus streagthea the guarantees of peace. THEOFGHOCT the Riviera, in Italy, continued, earthquake tremors were felt on the 3J and a strone- shock occurred at Eeggio di Calabria.

ELECTRIC lights extend the entire length of the Suez canal, and a stsamer has made the passage in fifteen hours. AT Selkirk. Quebec, an avalanche on the 3d buried a snow-plow, and six men were smothered to death before they could be recovered. Ix an article on the 3d the London Standard declared that the proceedings of the British Parliament were becoming a public scandal AJX Afghan boys between ten and eighteen years of age were on the 3d receiving a military training by order of the Ameer, who had told his subjects to prepare for a hoiy war. Ix "Western Morea, Greece, a series of violent earthquakes occurred on the 1th, but no damage resulted.

AKorxD Limerick, Ireland, the dwellings of persons who had paid rents were being burned by incendiaries on the 4th. The aggregate of property destroyed was very large. AKTHTTR TV. BA.LTOTB, nephew of lord Salisbury was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland on the oth to fill the vacany caused by the resignation of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. officers and civilians concerned in the recent revolt at Rustcb.uk, Bulgaria, were shot by the authorities on the 6th.

CHOLERV. was raging at Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, on the 5th. OVER 140 miners were killed by an explosion of fire-damp on the 5th a Belgian coal-mine. IT was reported on the 6th that G. Harris Heap.

United States Consul-General at Constantinople, was deceased, LATER. REV. HEXP.Y "WAKD BEECHZB, who was stricken with apoplexy at his home in BrooMvn on the morning of the 5th. was on the night of the 7th sinking slowly, but visibly, and his death was expected at any moment- He was unconscious, and had been from the commencement of his illness. THE citizens of Winona.

took from jail on the 7th and hanged to a railroad trestle a negro murderer named Crawford. THE issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during the week ended on the 5th was 313,711 The issue during the corresponding week of last year was THE recent earthquake at luce. Italy, caused such apanic that hotel-keepers wera on tho 7th selling out at a great sacrifice. THK United States Supreme Court on the 7th denied the right of States and municipalities to tax commercial travelers from other Stales. A VAGIUST lying in jail at Augusta, was sold to the highest bidder on the 7th for seventy-five days.

He was knocked down for one dollar to the jailer, who turned him loose. THE Indiana Legislature adjourned sine die on the 7th. The deadlock between the Senate and Houso continued to the end, and the appropriation bills and other important legis'ation failed. Mr.s. MEDA wife of Oscar Kccbe, one of the condemned Chicago Anarchists, died on the 7th from a stroke of apoplexy, at the age of thirty-two years.

ALL freight traffic on the Baltimore Ohio road at Pittsburgh was suspended on the 7th by the brabcmcn's strike. were male on thn 7th for the redemption of trade dollars at the sub- treasuries. A VOTE taken in a joint Republican caucus of the New York Legislature On tho 7th on the subject of high liquor license resulted: For high license, 54; against, 4. ice-'jam ten miles in length was reported in the St. Lawrence river below Morrisburg.

on the 7th, and an enormous loss by floods was feared. AT Moberly, on the 7th H. Good! man, aged seventy-throe years, beat out his wife's brains and then hung himself. The refusal of his wife to sign a deed to some land he had sold caused tho crime. DURING the season just closed 700.000 less hogs were packed in Chicago than during the same time one year ago.

The cause of the shortage was said to bo the great strike at the Stock Yards last fall. REV. WILLIAM HOWI.ASD, for thirteen years a missionary in India, died oil the 7th at Auburndale, Mass. His wife died the previous day. COLOSSI, HCSTEB, ox-president of the Cattle-Growers' Association, said on the 7th that the reported losses of cat- tie by cold on the ranges were greatly exaggerated.

THE first through train in twelve days arrived at Huron, D. on the 7th with (two hundred of mail and one hundred passengers. The delay was caused by snow-blockade. raise his right hand tremulously and mechanically to his head. Dr.

Searle considered Mr. Boeehe-'s condition so serious that he asked the family to call Dr. William A. Hammond. Dr.

Hammond came at two o'clock. Both attending physicians agreed that Mr. Beecher had been attacked by apoplexy; that an effusion of Wood iiaui taker. place from the right, cerebrum of the brain, and that recovery was improbable, but still not entirely impossible. Their opinion was founded upon tae fac: that the paralysis had gradually increased.

Dr. Hammond also said tbat even if ilr. Beecher should recover he would never regain either his mental or physical powers to the full esteat. BBOOELYX, March 7, 3 in. The latent report from Mr.

Beecher's residence is to the effect that the patient is lying an unconscious state, and that he is slowly sulking. He does not move, but lies on his back with an occasional movement of the right arm: his breathing is at times heavy and spasmodic, giving four or five heavy respirations and then almost ceasing. Mrs. has been most of the time in the sick-room. She bears up heroically and scarcely ever leaves her husbaiurs side.

The doctors have informed the members of the family that it is only a question of time for the end. and they remain in tne sick-chamber awaiting every movement As socn as the news of Mr. Beacher's condition became generally known crowds of anxious people gathered at the house. ana. to relieve their suspense bulletins were issued by Dr.

Ssarle and affixed to the door of the house The last official bulletin issued yesterday by Dr. Searle is as follows: The condition of Mr. Becc'nsr has not materially cliaujecl during the cfay. He 13 in a deep comatose state troa which he can not be aroused, and from which he will never probably rally. Holies quietly, like one deepest sleep, and lives no indications of pain or uneasiness.

His pulse varies from 00 to 1'X). All taree medical advisers are ful! snd entire concord as to the nature and location of the disease, its present status, the remedial measures to 1)6 employed, and as to the progress of the cass. It is their opinion that the history of to-day confirms the opinions they have entertained from the beginning that recovery not to be hoped for: that though the effusion of blood into the brain is now a fresh hemorrhage may at any time occur and speedily end life. That is not likely to happen, so far as present indications are to be trusted, and should it not occur his life may be spared yet several days. How Jon? depends on his endurance and strength of 1 Yesterday was communion day in Plymouth Church, and a large congregation attended the services.

Rev. Mr. Halliday conducted the morning services, opening a prayer beseechiiig the Almighty to strengthen the pastor. Mr. Bsecher, in his serious illness.

Communion followed. during which messages concerning Mr. Beecher's condition were read and caused tears to flow in abundance among the consrogation. Prayers were offered for Mr. Beecher.

Tho scene at Dr. Talinage's church -was almost as Dr. Talmage made a very tender appeal to Heaven on behalf of Mr. Beecher. He prayed fervently for th: Divine blessing on the affl.cted preacher.

and alluded to Mr. Beecher as thj friena oi the millionaire, the friend of tho working man. the friend of the friendless, and all men, whether rich or poor. LOXDON, March Rev. Mr.

Parker at his service iast evening eulogized Mr. Beecher. He expressed the profoundest sympathy of himself and his hearers' with tho afflicted pastor. He prayed for Mr. Beecher and for his friends, that they might be comforted by the knowledge that their servant was prepared for Heaven.

"We mourn," he said, "yet we rejoice in our sadness. AVIiy should we mourn when a traveler completes his journey-- when a voyager leaves the sen over which he has wandered and rejoins his kindred at hoincf NEWSPAPER! IV Wcirath. of JMly Run Coliirry, drew his monthly pay, in bills the other day. lie took it all out of the envelope, as ho supposed, and then lighted hi- pipe with the erne-lope, find a the paper was consumed he he saw some i that looked like money. Ho did.

There was a fifty-dollar bill there which ho had r.fjrlected to take uut. The three dollars were safe iu his Post. --In a speech, on one occasion, Canon Stowell said that, when cate- chising his school children, he asked the meaniiur of "Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath." For a time there was a pause, when at last the plaintiff voice of a poor pale boy replied: "Licking them so as to make them angry." prescription you gave me last woelc, doctor," said Crocus, "is a medical miracle." "I know it, sir," said the doctor, proudly; "I've been using it for ten years, and it never "killed a patient yet." And afterwards he thinks that somehow this wasu't exactly what he intended to say. AN AWFUL PLUNGE A Train OB MM Iron Horatmln Road OOM Through Treitla Into Buglng Torrent--Two Many Wounded--Mlnculom Missouri HoroUm--Valuable Blall Matter Swept Away. ST.

Locis, March 7. A trostlo ever Joachim croefc, oa the Iron Mountain road, at Victoria, thirty miles south of gavo way uuder the Texas express, which leit Saturday night. The train consisted of baggage, express and mail cars, a smoker, two passenger coaches aud four sleepers, carrying about one hundred and thirty passengers. The eugiue and the express', baggage and mail cars and the smoker were precipitated into a raging torrout A full list ol tho can not now be obtained, but, so far as knows, only two lives ware lost, Henry Byron, of Jaiuestowu, N. was found drowned in the smoker, and Samuel Meyers, a brake- mati residing in St.

Louis, is missing and is thought to have been drowned. The injured number about twenty. A heavy rain had fallen all day aud the creek was ir.ueh swollen. As he np- prouched the trestle Knjfiiieer Kelly observed that the track was entirely straight ana level, showing uoihiug wroujj. and he went on without the slightest tear or hesi nation, but when his engine rearbeil about the middle of tbo trestle he felt tho whole structure sinking beneath hun.

In an instant ho opened tho valve operating the air brakes width an I brought the train to so quick a stop that the front IK! of one of cars was crushed in by the sudden shock. saved the coaches, but the mail, express aud siiU'kmj: ears went tho r.isiiijt tin rout below, carrvinj; with them all tho men ou board. Engineer Kelly and F.reman ITach went down with tho engine and were sulMin-rged in the tlood. Kelly, in his struggle to 'fee himself, leuud that ene of Ins iVei was held but at the same ir.sl.mt jus; as in: realued that he must mvwn the engine turned ever, his ioot was released, auJ he camt) to the surfaeo. a log he duns: to it desperately and was swept Uuwn the torrent and was lodged agiuust a tree 153 yards below.

With scarcely enough to move he clasped Uts legs and arms urouiii a i thj treo, became unconscious, ainl w.is ni't restored uatil two ur three hours alter he had been taken 1'roin tho treo to a house in Victoria. His face aii.1 head were severely cut. two of his toes cut from ene uf tis feet, ae.d he was badly bruised iu various parts of the body. He will recover. Fireman Hach was carried abo'lt five hundred yard? down-stream, lodged in a mass of brush or drift ami was rescued after tUe flood subsided.

He is a srootl deal'cruised but not hurl. The smoker, which is said to have contained some twenty persons, was swept d.wa about three hundred feet below tho trestle. Allot its occupants, except HenryISjron.of X. who was found in it drowned, succeeded in getting outside of the ear and clung to its topuutil they were rescued. The postal car was swept away some distance, and.

as the water rushed through it from end to end. the mail was literally washed out and is now scattered over miles of territory or imbedded in the mud of tee creek. It is regarded an almost total loss, the whole of it being completely soaked and addresses of the letters obliterated. The postal clerks McCnlloush. Shaffer and Kyau--were badly bruised and almost drowned, and, being for work, thev lost all their clotlies, their watches aud about SijO iu money, which were carried away by the flood." The mail is said to have been the largest ever sent over tho road, and losses will fall heavily on this city, where about three- quarters of the matter originated.

Tee registered matter was also very heavy and valuable, consisting largely of remittances from linns hero to their correspondents in Texas. An express package without address or any tiling on it by which it can be identified, containing $.37,000, -was founi yesterday, and it is notunlliely tnat others will be discovered in the bed of the creek or in the woods. A farmer named Andrew "White of Bailey's Station did heroic rk in saving passengers. He swam several times to the smoker and each time returned with one of the unfortunates who were clinging to the roof of the car. Several of the passengers in the sleepers also aided materially in the work and ail of the train crew labored like Trojans in rescuing those on the car.

MEXICAN BORDER TROUBLES. NEW SENATORS. A Lltt of Thou Make Up the Hither Branch of the National Lectela- ture. The election of Rutus Blodgott, In New Jersey, aud the appointment nt J. J.

Finley, ifi Florida, fill all the cluirs in the next United States Senate. As the two parties now stand tho Republicans will have iu tho next Senate thirty-nine votes and the Democrats thirty-seven. RiddUj- berger, though classed as Republican, has exhibited independent tendencies and may occasionally vote with the Democrats, thus creating a tie. Tho list of the new Senators is piveu below: pro John J. Ingallg, Senator Term Tfrtn ALABAMA.

MISSISSIPPI. J. T. MorKiiu, 1SS9 K. O.iWiUUwll, J.

L. I'ujfh, Ib'Jl J. Z. George, AUKANSAS. I MISSODHI.

JamosH. Berry, G. Vest. J. K.

Junes, M. Coeieri'U, CAl-HVKXlA, 1 SEUHASKA. L. Stanford. 11 ISHif.

F.MuudiTMHi, U. Hearst, A. S. Puddock. )tW COl.OltALlG.

I NEVADA. T. M. BoftfU, li JSS9J. J.

Jnucs. 3S91 H. M. Telltr, IbUljW. M.

Stewart. 0. II. J. K.

H.iuley. W. lU.ur.'i: 1M1 IH.I.AWAUb. MvVV J. U.

I George liray, IX K. UKhljfett, VI.OKIl'A. SKW YORK. Call. D.

1 W. M. KvurU, J. J. HlscovU, i i i i A I A I I 1 A.

H. Culiimti, U. M. W. U.

K. lirc.v.n. IM'l Z. U. Vaucr, lsl'1 i i t)H u.

M. II U. K.irwc',;, Shi'ricun, K. is 1 I i A A n. W.

P. J. N. Dolyb. S.

u. J. H. Miu-hi-11, A Plr A i J. F.

KVI.T W. IS. M. S. A i I I I I P.

B. Pnui.h, J. J. liijal.s IfJ! N. VV.

AMru-Ji, Jb'JJ sol i'K AHOt.i.v^. J. It. i 1 M. Buik-i-.

I) E. L. il. J. Ji.

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10 servo m.til the Leji-- lalure Laving to elect. THE SOUTHWESTERN STRIKES. Lieutenant Guitterez Ordered to Be Taken lead or AH re--So Trouble Feared. 5nGALES, A. llarch Torres, of Souora, aud staff, accompanied by Colonel Arvizu, arrived Saturiiay morning from Hermosilio.

Governor Torres, on learning the particulars of the affair of Thursday, censured the Mexican Consul. Senor Labadie, in unmeasured terms for not delivering 'Lieutenant Guitterez. who led the soldiers in the attack on 'he Americans, to the American authorities immediately. Colonel Arvizu. in order to clear himself, stated to the Governor that the Americans were in fault, whereupon the Governor said: ''The America as are not in fault: they were fixating you.

"VThat business had ycur sol- cliCrs in the United States, armed, and fighting United States Governor Torres is highly indignant at the action of the local Mexican authorities. Upon learning thatScnor Vasques, chief of the llexican police, had been removed for refusing to take hand against Americans, be immcdiatsly reinstated him. He was ordered to take a force of men to secure Lieutenant Guitterez and turn him over to the United States authorities. The chief thereupon dispatched ten men on horseback, fully armed, to scour the country and bring back Guitterez dead or alive. This it is believed will prevent further trouble.

Pardoned by the Pwddmt. "WASHIXGIOS. March President Saturday pardoned Joseph Evans, who is serving a term in the Utah penitentiary for polygamy. The President is informed that the man is 70 years old, that his legal wife seeks his release, but that he refuses to renounce polygamy as a condition of his release. The President says that he is unwilling that the hardship of such a case should make the Government appear vindictive the attempt to extirpate the practice of polygamy.

Six Persons Drowned by an Accident on tho Ohio Klvcr. March 7 --About two o'clock yesterday afternoon the tow-boat Diamond, ascending the Ohio river with a tow of ran down a skiff which had just started from Glent, to cross the river in front of her. The skiff contained seven colored people--Harry Gross, his three sons and two daughters, and a young man named Brown. The skiff and its occupants were swept under the entire fleet of barges and bix of them lost their lives. John Graham, son of the Vevay ferryman, by superhuman efforts succeeded in rescuing three of the unfortunate persons, but only one survived, the other two dying from exhaustion.

Terrible Result ot an of Firedamp in a Belgian Mine. BnrssEi-s, explosion of firedamp occurred Saturday in a colliery at Quaregnon, four miles from Mons. The explosion shattered the roofs and galleries so that many of them fell. Nearly 200 miners were at work in the various galleries when the explosion took place, and at latest accounts 144 dead bodies had been taken out The work of reaching the victims was slow and laborious, owing to the enormous amount of rocks, which fell when the explosion occurred. Searching parties are still at work, and more bodies are expected to be hourly brought to tho surface.

Keport of the llouse liivestijjrtttnj; Oom- mittt'o--Employes Had Just Keason vt Arrayrd Ajraiunt Combined Indorsed--Thi- Klack-LUt'' Denounced. TVAfiiiNf.TOs, March 4 Ctuurmm Cut-tin, of the special committee of Uir- House, nppiMutc'J at tae iirst session of tins Congress, on the Southwestern railroad has submitted a report. It taken up largely in a review of the strike, its inception aud progress, with which tho country is iamiliar, and status that 'the lo-s to the men engaged it for the fifty Jays they were out aggregated while thu mm and the railroads by loss of proi erty and revenues suffered to the extent of Tne loss to the publican not. the report says, be computed. Combined labor against combined capital is indorsed.

The committee observed that whatever may be the defects of the Inter-State Cuoiuierei an enlightened commission soon to be appointed will recommend prompt legislation to give the jjruttVtwn which is needeJ to those who are interested only in the regular and proper operation and management of the railroads. The committae concludes tiiut uruitratioa can nut be effective, for tho reason that there must be two parties to the arbitration, and either may decline, aud when disturbances occur it would not Le effective in immeJiately redressing wrongs or restoring the means of transit of persons or property to the people of the country. It is concluded further tbat tho Missouri Pacific employes hud grievances of which they had good reason to complain, and these may have extended or enlarged the strike. The general oppression complained of was generally by suoordinates who had power over certain persons employed on the road. They were asked to work without par and without sufficient sleep and rest.

The Texas Pacific had a "black-list," which contained the names of some of the persons who had grievances, and the committee declares that by no combination of capital or to no extent of incorporate power can the listing of an American citizen as being unworthy of eniplo- ment be justified. The report is a unanimous one, but some of the committee reserve tho right to differ from the conclusions of the rerxirt. HOSTILE I of Two Kantas Towns TitirKt- ing for Kach Other's ami I.eoti I'liticr Armv. W.u.L.vrc. March i--Coronado and Lsoti, the towns cnsaged in the county- seat wrangle, are prepared for Both towns are surroanded by strong cordons of armed mon, who permit no suspected person to enter.

The men in both towns sleep with their guns, and in each one fintls "Winchesters sf. every turn. They stand 111 the doorways, and merchants carry guns when they wait on customers. Men patrol the streets of each city all day and nirjht. The country surrounding is as excited as the towns, and about as equally divided.

The stage which runs from here to Laoti and Corouado left Wallace yesterday morning, taking the first mail received thert since last Saturday. It returned last evening, bringing the news ol a renewal of hostilities. Two Leoti men ivho were not in the recent trouble went to Coronado. The outposts of Coronado observed them and opeinl lire at once. One of the men, it 15 said, was shot iu t'ur- arm, and the other's hat was riddled with bullets.

The horse of one of the men was killed. The men returned toLeoti nod told the story. A Prominent Chifatcoan Knighted by Italy's King. Nnw YottK, has just come out thi't, George JI. Pullman has bceu knighted by King Humbert, of Italy.

Tho order ot kaighthool, a document in Italian but accompanied by an English tuiTHlation, was receive 1--ribbon and ail--through the mail shortly bo fovi; Mr. left Chicago for this Tbo insignia have not yet been received, but the letters accompanying the appointment said they would be forwarded very soon. The knighting of Mr. Pullman was a surprise to him. He met King Humbert when lie was abroad, and has some acquaintance with him.

The Vatican tlic Knignts of Ijibor. ROME, March is said on that the Pope will take the most favorable view of the attitude of Cardinal Gibbons and the American Bishops toward t-hc Knights of Labor. The letters of American Catholic statesmen to the Pope and the personal opinion of Cardinal Manning all support Cardinal Gibbons, and the Pope Himself, it is said, favors the aspiration of modern labor. Grcelcy Confirmed. WASHINGTON, March Senate in executive session Wednesday confirmed the nomination of Lieutenant be Chief of the Signal Service Bureau, with the rank of Brigadier-General.

1'HE TOMBIGBEE Oetalli of the Burning of the Stel All OB Board Compelled Into 'Water, and the JUvet were by Drowning. MOBILE, March Tho details of the burning of the steamer Gardner aro coming ta slowly. The fire wus discovered in a bale of cotton by Captain Stoiie. A negro deck hand, in throwing wator on the burning bale, set his clothes afire. Panio stricken he ran from place to place setting fire to cotton bales, and Iu a few momenta the boat was iu Barnes.

She in midstream and in motion. The pilots were driven from tho wheel and the crew aud passengers jumped overboard. It not thought that more than one or two were burned. Captain Stoao saved himself by swimming The steamer Tally was behmd the Gardner waiting to pass. soon as the flames broke out tho Tally lowered her boats and threw over bales, seed sacks and planks to help tho people who jumping from the Gardner.

The heat w.is so intense that the Tally did not dure to go near, but her boats picked up a number of people, llad it not been for the presence of the Tally but few would have been saved. When the nro broke uut the Gardner wits ordered to be run ashore. She backcxl and beils were rung fur going iitioud, but the engineers wero driven from their post by the flames, aivl the boat drifted into the woods on the opposite sulo from tlu place, vfhero there a practicable lauding. W. U'iNon remained in the until lie found that his signals were not obeyed and that flame-, wen 1 licking the Miie tha pilot-house, when he fled 1'cr Ills lite.

Hd is much praised bin heroism. The cabin-boy of the Tally, named Barber. color. -J, perform- 1 i heroic dee is, saving live by i i ashore with tho-c in the water. The screams of those on tho boat were heartrending.

Mrs. T. throw one child into the water, her husband taking the olUe: 1 two Then she jumped in. All but her husband were lest, Mr-; Keaibert, was ive.l from drowning. Shi' is at in a pro cariom coiul.rioii.

The boat u.m insured and was valued at cotton was insured for WJA Kojoicintj AnionK of Over the rrtsentatiou of Tlu-lr to tho I'op-e ty the Amcrir.iu CunhirM. Mai ch --Cardinal tiibbons' favorable report to Tope Loo to tho a'liis and standing of the Knisihts of Labor, set torth in cable from Koiiie. was receive much rejoicing by the Knights in this city. It had been thoucht by many of the Knights that tne McGlynii controversy and tin- ut- tacljT by Henry George on the church would Lave piejiuh; the authori- t.rs at Rome uguiust the order, and this fear w.i» by the fact that Car.h.'ia! who in company with the American C.irdmul, had an- his intention ot to m- ihieiiiv Home through it, in his ii with the The portion taken by Cardinal (iibbons, the Kiutrhts say. will settle the whole matter.

He is an especial favorite with th. 1 Pope, and ins ndvice as to the treatment of any mutter in which the Tnited States is concerned, will, vt is declared, be taken as it is givon. In addition, Bishop Keane. of Ki-'hmond. ami Bishop Ireland, of St.

Paul, who are both friendly to the Knights, and who are recognized at Koine us representing the mons progressive element in American hierarchy. are with Cardinal Gibbons to support him in the position which lie takes. The Senatorial Struggle In Now Jersey bv the -Election of Itufua (Ucm.) by a Coalition. Tunxri'N'. March The Legislature met at noon in joint convention and took a recess without balloting" for a United States Senator.

During the recess the K-'publn'ans mot in caucus and agreed to support Uufus Blodgett (Pom.) for Senator. Upon Tabling of the joint coiivenuou Mr. Bludcrttt was elected by the votes oi 35 Republicans and anti- Abbett Democrats, thy votu standing 41 for Bloigett and for Abhett. Thero Was great confusion, aud the result not announced by tho chair for half an hour. iKufu; IJloflpett, the ROW Senator, vris bonj in Dorchesti'r.

November B. Ha v.ts a merabur of the lower hous-' 1 of the New Jersey Legislature and 1870, represent ing Ocean County. He afterward removed to MeinioutSi County, hern ho now reviles. Ho is mil. n'tlied wiia the snterssts of jevcml railroad compaau-s, and bus always beea recog- n-zed as a Democrat, hi the Assembly he the DeniAcratic lender.

He i' a fluent speaker, and is of commanding ilgure. Hs was lor sevcrai years a member ot the Democratic State CVntntl Cumraittee. He is suuonnten- dent ot the New York Branch A Record of the Damage by Flames Durinjr rehruary, ilarch 3. A local publication says that tho fire record for February exhibits a gratifying decrease of losses in directions, except in New Tork harbor, where two fires consumed large quantities of cotton, with warehouses and vessels, all amounting to the sun of Indiana shows Illinois, SS75.310; Ohio, elsewhere in the United States, $3.191,000. and Canada, S20J.OOO.

The total in the United States, including Canada, fill; if to this we add fifteen per cent, for losses under SIO.OOU, the aggregate reaches nnly to $5.014,000, against for January, and for December. There were seventy-six fires of and under S50.000; eighteen of anil under eleven of and under D'JO; aud only one in excess of $300,000. The Illinois Supreme Court Fixes Thursday, Slarrh 10. as the for Hearing Their Flea for a New Trial. OTTAWA, 111., March Anarchist oppcal case of Spies et al.

vs. the people was up before tho Supreme Court yesterday ou a motion to fix the time for hearing. Leonard Hwettand Attorney-General Hunt represented the respective parties to the great case. On motion of Mr. Hunt, Mr.

Kwctt concurring, Thursday next, March 10, was set for the opening of the criminal docket, which means the hearing of tho Anarchists' appeal. Attorneys W. P. Black and Salomon Zeislcr, counsel for Spies, et. their brief in tho Anarchist caso in the Supremo Court yesterday.

It makes a respectable octavo volume of 420 pages, besides tho closely printed index of four pages. To Urgulate Sunday ObstT-rnncp. BO-TOX, March 3 --Tne llouso Judiciary Committee has reported a bill to regulate tho observance of Sunday. It allows tbo manufacture of gas, distribution of water, tho use of telegraph and telephone, tbo retail of and medicines, and th: letting of teams, running horse-cars, publication and sale of newspapers, sale and delivery of milk before ten a. keeping open harbor-shops bcfor- ten a in.

and tho business of bakers within certain hours. Death of a Michigan Ccntcnnarian. DETROIT, March a--John "Walters, the oldest man in Mfchigan, died yesterday, aged 106. He was a survivor of tho Irish rebellion of li9S. Burned to Death.

FRBEFORT, 111., March Elizabeth Fox, seventy-four years old, met a terrible death Wednesday at her home in the village of Cedarville, near this city. The flre from the pipe she was smoking set her clothing in flames, and she was so horribly burned before help was given that she died soon afterward. Death the COLUMBUS, March W. W. Johnson, late of the Ohio Supreme Court, died 'at Ironton, last night.

SAN FBANCISCO, March Morrison, of the California Supreme Court, died rsiterday rooming..