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SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, JANUARY 13, 1881.
VOL. I-NO. 9.
fWS-SUMMARY.
Important Intelligence from All Parts
Congress.
Ik the Senate on the 5th a letter was submitted from President-elect Garfield, formal-
lj- declining the* Senatorship from Ohio.
Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill, to protdde for the
sale of the reservation of the Prairie band of
Pottawattomie Indians in Kansas. A joint
resolution was introduced by Mr. Whyte for
the purchase of the sword of George "Washington, now in possession of the heirs of George
lewis, to whom it was bequeathed in "Washington's will. A resolution was offered by
Mr. Buder and adopted directing the See-
retarr.of the Interior to furnish information and the report of the Superintendent of the Census touching alleged
frauds in the  enumeration of inhabitants of
South Carolina In the House Mr. Springer
introduced a bill for the apportionment of
Representatives to Congress among the several States, and to secure to the people of each
State eciual and just representation.in the
House of representatives. Pernando "Wood
being ill, the Funding bill went over, and the
House went into Committee of the Whole on
the Army Appropriation bill, which was
amended...;s?B9.rterI back and finally passed.
Mb. Eaton reported the Diplomatic Appropriation bill in the Senate on the 6th. The
.Army Appropriation bill was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
 The House went into Committee of the
"Whole on the Pun ding bill, and a general debate followed, Messrs. Kelley, Weaver, Mc-
Jlane, Springer and Lounsberry opposing, and
Mr. Chittenden favoring (with certain amendments), the measures Mr. Phillips gave notice
of a substitute to issue three-per-cent. Treasury notes, redeemable after next year, in
regular series. The Speaker submitted the
reply of the Postmaster-General to the House
resolution in reference to the abuse of the
franking privilege, but Mr. Browne demanded
a reading, pending which a motion was made
and carried to adjourn.
Iirthe Senate on the 7th the Vice-President
submitted* a request from the Secretary of
Warthattheitem"for recruiting in the Army
Appropriation bill be increased from $75,000
to §97,000. A petition from "W. J. Moore, of
New Orleans, alleging that he had been bribed
to vote for Senator Kellogg, and asking that
he be allowed to. testify to the fact, was presented, and a discussion ensued ou a motion
to refer the. Question to the Committee on
Privileges and Elections. Mr. Perry introduced a bill to promote the efficiency of the
life-saving service and to encourage the saving of life from shipwreck. Mr. Burnside introduced a bill to authorize the retirement of
Bre%ret Major-General.William A. Averill, U. S.
A., with the rank and pay of Brigadier-General.
The Consular Appropriation bill (§1,190,5351 was
considered and passed. Adjourned to the
10th....Th the' House Mr. Springer offered a
resolution, which was referred to the Committee on Poreign Affairs, calling on the
Secretar3r of State for all information in the
State Department in reference to the Halifax
fishery award of 85,500.000 paid by th-s Government to Great Britain, and especially that
relating to alleged lictitious statistics and perjured'testimony imposed upon the arbitrators, and" oh which evidence the award was
made. A bill to confirm the title to certain
lands in the State of Ohio and the Senate
bill for the relief of the "Winnebago Indians
in Wisconsin were passed.
The Senate was not in session on the 8th....
Mr. Briggs, member from the ThirdDistrict of
New Hampshire, took his seat in the House.
Mr. "Wells, from the Committee on Indian
Affairs, reported the Indian Appropriation
bill i S4.528,0.J0>, which was ordered printed and
"■sSr recommitted. The Speaker laid before the
^ House for the third time the report of the
Postmaster-® eneral in regard to the abuse
of the franking privilege, but it was not
received. The Punding bill was debated in
Committee of the "Whole.. Fernando Wood,
for the Committee on Ways and Means, offered an amendment to fix the rate of interest
at three per cent. Mr. Claflin thought it
would be dangerous to put a bond of that rate
on the market. Mr. "Warner suggested that
the interest be fixed at two and one-half per
cent. Mr. Keifer offered an amendment to
pay nc t exceeding* four per cent., which was
voted down—12 to 1-tJ. Mr. Prye said he had
lately become convinced that it would be utterly impossible to tioat a threc-per-cent. bond
running less than thirty years. Mr. Bandall
remarked that the outstanding bonds vibrated
between three and one quarter and three and
three-eighths per cent. Fernando Wood gave
Secretary Sherman as authority for a
statement that a short certificate could be
floated at three" per cent. Mr. Mills thought
$100,OjO,000 could be saved by letting the mature;! debt stand and paying it in !hve years.
•Mr. Havyley said that at tue present market
rates Of bonds a thirty-vear three-percent,
was worth 9i to 98. Mr. Converse thought a
a three-per-cent. bond was equivalent to six
per cettt. on private loans. Mr. Townsend
called "attention to the sale of Northern
Pacific o's at a premium of over two and one-
half per cent. Mr. Felton thousrht it would
be criminal to perpetuate the debt. Mr.
"Bayne offered an amendment that the Secretary of the Treasury seiuthe new bonds at the
lowest rate of interest practicable, which was
,Icst.? Mr. Hurd declared specie resumption a
delusion and a snare. Mr. Newberry offered
an amendment authorizing_ the Secretary of
the■• Treasury to issue bonds not-to exceed
-?450,000,000, redeemable at the pleasure of the
United States, after ten years, and payable
thirty years after is-ue; also, notes in the
amount of $250,00!>,000; redeemable at the
pleasure of the United States, after two years,
and payable in ten years after the date of issue, which notes National Banks snail be1 permitted to hold as part of their legal reserve,
and interest on sad bonds shall be three, per
cent., and the interest on said notes three and
one-half per cent. Mr. Gillette argued^affainst
the policy of refunding.
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Domestic.
A cnxLD was almost roasted alive in a
small room in a tenement-house in St. Louis
a few days a#o, and a, babe of two months
was rescued from a burning cradle by the
firemen. Ihe mother states that she had left
them but a few minutes before, on a visit to a
pawn-shop with a faded shawl.
WiTrrthe provision, that 14,000,000 shall be
raisM-in New York, for the proposed "World's
Fair, the Central Eailroad lias subscribed
S250ta00. Messrs. Grant, Tilden and Vander-
bilt_.are mentioned in connection with the
Presidency of the Commission.
The time for filing applications for arrearages of pensions expired on July 1, but over
eleven thousand papers have since been received.
The official order appointing a court martial for the trial of Cadet Whittaker was promulgated in "Washington on the 4th. The
court is directed to meet in New York City
(Army Building), January 20, instead of West
Poij}^ 18th, as first announced.
ATPiiU/ADELPiBUA lad, aged fifteen, was recently 'fatally stabbed by another boy, aged
fourteen, with whom he was quarreling.
Two brothers named Heilman, at Sturgeon Bay, Wis., have recently lost six children each by diphtheria.
PATurcK Hayes and Daniel Sullivan, one
of whom murdered his wife and the other his
mistress, were hanged in Philadelphia on the
6th. A similar double execution took place
in Newark, N. J., the victims being Margaret
Meierhofer and Frank Iiammens, who murdered the former's husband.
By the explosion of a vat of varnish in the
brewery of Peter Dodger, in New York on
the morning of the 6th, four men were enveloped in flames, and scorched to a degree
.vhlch left no hope for their recovery.
A boiler in a rolling mill at Allentown,
Pa., exploded on the eveninz of the 6th, kill-*
ing one man, fatally wounding five, and injuring five others. The boiler was cut in
halves, each of which was thrown two hundred feet.
At Coalville, Kan., the other day the dress
of Miss Davis caught fire from an open grate,
and_ herself and her mother were burned to
deji|hi       ■      .
Charles A. Brown, 6f Brooklyn, N. Y.,
recently shot his son for protecting his mothe r
'&* from her husband's violence.
Mrs-  BRQyrjr,  of Indianapolis, has again
jeen convicted of the murder of herhusband,
but the jury sentenced her to Imprisonment
\     for life.
The County Poor-House near Dover, N. H.,
took fire about daylight on the morning of
the 7th, aud was totally consumed. There
were 169 persons in the building, and a list
of thirteen who are missing shows that that
number were suffocated or roasted alive.
The pecuniary loss was about §70,00.'.
The Superintendent of Census sent to the
Secretary of the Interior on the 7th, for transmission to Congress, a communication asking
for an- additional appropriation of §500,000 for
completion of the census work and publication of the results.
The total distribution of silver dollars from
the New Orleans mint the last six mouths
was $5,597,000, of which there was sent to
Texas §1677,500, Louisiana §1,379,000, Mississippi §826,500, Alabama §672.500, Georgia
§326,000, Tennessee §320,500, Arkansas §123,-
500 and Elorida §S7,000.
A mail train on the Passumpsic road was
thrown from the track, near Newport, Vr.,
on the 7th, by a broken rail. Mrs. Gushing,
of Keene, N. H., was killed, and twenty others were more or less injured.
The lottery features of a promising Catholic fair in New York have been suppressed
by the Society for the Prevention of Crime.
General Walker, of the Census Bureau,
computes that in 1890 the United States will
have a population of 64,467,000.
At Henrietta, Texas, a few days ago,%a,
man named Bice refused to drink with James
Curtis. An exchange of shots followed, and
Curtis fell, dying, within ten minutesi, Ricfe)
who was badly wounded, was carried to a
doctor's office. As he was placed in a
chair a ball was fired through a window, killing him.
Two boilers in the vitriol department of
Balbach & Sons' smelting works at Newark,
N. J., exploded on the morning of the 7th,
instantly killing the engineer and three
workmen and seriously injuring two other
persons.   Three buildings were destroyed.
Burglars recently blew open the safe in
the post-office at Gorry, Pa., and stole a large
amount of currency and $1,000 in stamps.
A seat in/the New York Exchange was
sold on the 7th for $30,030.
Two companies of the New York National
Guard were on duty at the large ice-houses
below Peekskill, on the Hudson, on the 7th,
where the cutters went on a strike.
The fast-mail train go;.ng south on the
Richmond & Danville Road struck a rock
slide near Lexington, N. C, on the night of
the 7th. The engineer and firemen were instantly killed, and the engine and postal-car
completely wrecked/
The Tax Commissioners of New York City
have this year placed the amount of assessable property in the city at §980,789,939, an increase of over §38,000,000 over last year.
The anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans was celebrated in that city on the 8th
by a salute and a parade of volunteer soldiery.
Standard silver dollars to the number
of 233,995 were distributed during the week
ended on the 8th, against 112,495 dutlng the
corresponding week of last year.
The War Department has recently issued
an order abolishing dress caps for officers,
and directing that hereafter helmets be worn
with trimmings to designate the different
branches of the service. The color for infantry will be white, cavalry yellowj*artillery
red and Signal Service orange.    -
Warren Langmore, a youth of nine years,
has been indicted at Pembroke, Me., for murder in killing Freeman Wright, aged eight
years.
Julius Cohn, a varnish manufacturer of
New York, failed on the 8th, with liabilities
of §100,000.
Ivan Petroef, Supervisor of the Census
for Alaska,, reports that the entire population numbers 31,146, of which 339 are whites.
Advices were received at St. Paul, Minn.,
on the Sth from Major Hges, from "the camp
on Poplar River, to the effect that he had
just started his prisoners to' Fort Buford
under escort of Captain Bell, of the Seventh
Cavalry, and that he was ready to move on
Sitting Bull's camp when diplomacy should
have failed, and he expressed the opiaion
that such a movement would be necessary.
recommends legislation to prevent the introduction and spread Of infectious diseases
among animals, and such amendment of the
sections of the criminal code on the subject
of adulteration of food as will secure their
better enforcement.
Governor Murray, of Utah, has issued a
certificate of election as Delegate in Congress to Allen G. Campbell,.the Gentile candidate, on the ground that J. Q. Cannon was
irregularly naturalized. The latter received
1S,56S votes: the contestant, 1,357.
The dead-lock in the Indiana State Senate
was broken on the 8th by the election of O.
W. Brouse (Greenbacker), Secretary. Robert
Sears and A. W. Monroe (Republicans) were
then elected Assistant Secretary and Doorkeeper. In his message Governor Graj7 recommends, in view of the fact that the Constitutional amendments had been decided not
to have been properly-ratified by the people,
the calling of a Constitutional Convention to
consist of fifty members from the. Senatorial
Districts. The public debt of the State is*
§4,99S,17S.34, not having been reduced during
the past two years.
Personal anct Political,
The Massachusetts Legislature was organized on the 5th by the election of Republican
presiding officers in both branches.
The Indiana Legislature met at Indianapolis on the 6th. The House at once effected
an organization by electing as officers the Republican caucus nominees. Judge Viehe
(Dem.), of Knox County, was chosen President pro tem. of the Senate, there.being only
one vote in the negative and one other not
voting. Four ballots were had for Principal
Secretary, in each of which Rice received
twenty-five .votes and Wilson twenty-five—
Davis and Majors (Greenbaekers) voting with
the Democrats and Poindexter with the Republicans.
The Illinois Legislature was finally organized in both branches on the 6th, Mr. Campbell, of Cook, was elected President of the
Senate pro tem., and General Thomas Speaker
of the House.
President Hayes on the 6th nominated
Nathan Goff, of West Virginia, to be Secretary of-the Navy.
The Michigan Legislature organized on the
6th. Governor Croswell, in his message, says
the State Is practically out of debt, and the
prospects for the future are better than ever
before.
The Missouri Legislature met on the 6th
and organized by electing the Democratic
caucus nominees.
In his annual message delivered on the 6th
the Governor of Minnesota strongly, urges
the payment of the old State railroad bonds.
President Hayes recently ordered the removal of Foreman Cook, of the Charlestown
navy yard, for intimidating employes at the
polls. Three naval officers will convene as a
Board to investigate the charges.
The Nebraska Farmers' Alliance met at
Lincoln on the 6th and passed resolutions requesting the Legislature to pass laws prohibiting the railroads from exacting extortionate passenger and freight rates, also to
reduce the tolls on, the Plattsmouth and
Omaha bridges.      .        t "'
Mr. GoPtf took the oath of office as Secretary of the Navy on the 7th aiid participated
In the meeting of the Cabinet.
Eugene Hale was on the 7th nominated
by the Republicans for United States Senator
from Maine, to succeed Mr. Hamlin.
Judge Billings, of Louisiana, has* been
appointed to the vacancy created by the elevation of Judge Woods to the Supreme
Court;.
. Governor Long, of Massachusetts, was
re-inaugurated on the 6tH. In his message
he urges the more thorough enforcement of
the Liquor laws, and favors the proposal to
give property-holding women the right of
suffrage. The State debt is about §33,0j0,-
000,
In his message to the Illinois Legislature
Governor Cullom recommends that provision
be made for submissiou to the people of a
proposition which will allow the Illinois* &
Michigan Canal to be turned over to the
United States ou proper conditions.   He also
Foreign.
Cody, a Land-League President in Ireland,
and twelve members of his organization have
been held for trial on a charge of "Boycotting" a farmer.
Herr Strassman, a Jew, has been elected
President of the Municipal Council of the
city of Berlin.
Captain Eads has obtained from the Mex-
icau Government a charter to build a ship
railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec,
and a grant of 1,000,000 acres of land.
The British Parliament opened on the 6th.
The Queen's speech expresses anxiety over
the ratification of the Turco-Grecian frontier; declares the necessity of vindicating
British authority in the Transvaal, and
shows that the. permanent occupation
of Candahar Is' not intended. On the
Irish question "the speech alludes to
the terrorifm .travailing, and asserts
that the insufiiciency of ordinary powers
forces a request'for additional authority to
protect life and property. The Lords are
recommended to take measures to give a
larger portion of- the Irish people a permanent proprietary interest in the soil, and to
consider a bill for the establishment of a
county government in Ireland, founded upon
representative principles.
A few nights ago the cigar factory of Joseph E. Egener, in Havana, was destroyed by
fire, and seven persons who slept in the
building were burned to death.
The Irish constabulary have been instructed to attend fairs and markets and prevent
"Boycotting.".   '
A CLOCiorAKER-, at Birminshain, England,
has informed the. Russian Embassy of a plot
by Nihilists, involving the use of. infernal machines.
Three of the five Irish Land Commissioners have recommended to the British Government the adoption of fair rent, free sales, and
fixity of tenure. Kavanagh and the O'Connor
Don dissent.
Dispatches from Cape Colony, on the
South African coast, received on the 9th, say
that the Boers had driven the mounted police
of Natal to. a point within three miles of
Newcastle;
A Judge at Tokio, Japan, was recently assassinated in the street by a man whos;
father he had condemned to death fifteen
years before.
A London telegram of the 9th says that
since the failure of negotiations _.for a treaty
with Russia the Chinese Government had
made extensive preparations for war. It was
stated that torpedoes would be laid at the
entrance to treaty ports, and the commerce
of all nations would be cut off.
On the 9th four hundred British infantry
appeared at Tralee to prevent a Land meeting being held. Local magistrates gave the
reasons for the prohibition. Davitt spoke to
an immense assemblage from the steps of his
hotel. «        "
A dispatch from Rome on the 9th says the
Pope had sent fresh instructions to the Irish
Bishops looking toward the restoration of
order.
LATER  "tfEWS.
The London Daily j\Tews qf a recent date,
commenting on "Prof. Hind's statement that
the ' Canadian fisheries award Was based
upon false statistics, expresses a hope that
the Government will refuse, in the name of
English honor, to profit by a misstated case,
and insist* on a complete investigation.
The President sent the new Chinese treaty
to the Senate on the 10th, and it was referred
to the Committee, on Foreign Relations. Mr.
JohnF. Swift, one of the Commissioners who
negotiated the treaty with China, arrived at
San Francisco on the 10flu. He stated, in an
interview, that the treaty contains a clause
reserving to the United States the right to
terminate at any time the residence of Chinese laborers in this country. It was also
tacitly understood that the Chinese cannot be
naturalized in the United States, and that the
naturalizations already accomplished shall be
considered null and void.
Sir Donald.Stewart has been appointed
to the supreme "command of the British troops,
in India.
A bill was recently introduced in the Ohio
House of Representatives for a special election on May 1, at which all persons having
the qualifications of electors, without regard
to sex, may vote on the question of suppressing the liquor traffic from July 4.
Incendiaries have recently made vain attempts to burn the'London (England) Cus-
tom-House.
On the 10th Messrs. Crittenden, of Missouri, Cullom, of Illinois, and Porter, of Indiana, werg inaugurated as Governors of
their respective States, with the custbmary
imposing ceremonies.       * *
A Bombay dispatch receiTed on the 10th
announces that a plot to depose the Rajah
and massacre all European residents in
church had been discovered at Kolopore.
Forty-seven natives had been arrested.
On the visit of the King and Queen of Italy
toPalermoon the 10th fifteen persons were
seriously injured by the fall of a staircase in a
church.
An outbreak of fever was reported in
County Armagh, Ireland, on the 10th.
Over one hundred persons had been prostrated.
Among the bills introduced in the United
States Senate on the 10th were the following:
By Mr. Logan, to place General Grant on the
retired list of the army, with therank and pay
of General; to extend the franking privilege
to all official business of Senators and Representatives; by Mr. Bayard, to require signatures on National Bank notes to be written.
Mr. Carpenter presented a Constitutional
amendment in the House, providing that the
bulk of civil Officers of the United States shall
hold, their positions for four years, and that
Congress may provide for the election of
Postma»*ers and other local officers. Mr.
Buckner introduced a bill to negotiate with
Mexico or Central America for the cession ol
territory on which to colonize our colored
population.
A FIRE HOBROB.
Terrible Fate pr Ten Occupant* at a. Tenement-House Iii X»tv Tork City—"Women
and Children Obliged to L«np from Lofty
Windows to the Pa-vement Below.
New York, January 4.
At 8:15 this morning- a fire broke out in the
tenement in the rear of James Doyle's liquor
store,' do Madison street. It started at the bottom of the stairs that furnished the only exit
forthe tenants in the five-story building, excepting the lire-escape attached to the building outside, and in less than five minutes
swept through the stairway to the roof, cutting off the escape of a score of persons. The
flames soon found vent also through the two
lower stories, aud thus barred egress by the
fire-escape. The tenants, panic-stricken, made
a rusn for the roof, but the scuttle was firmly
hooked, and would not yield. Ascending, the
flames drove the people back within their
rooms. The wildest confusion followed. Men
and women threw their children from the
windows and jumped after them through the
flames that swept across the yard and set their
clothing ablaze.
When the firemen obtained mastery, the,
dead bodies of nine persons who had been
burned were taken out from the building.
Several were injured in their efforts to escape,
and were sent to the hospital.
The scene of the calamity is approached
through a narrow alley (hardly wide enough to
allow the passage of a portly man) between
.two tall tenements, Nos. 35 and 33" Madison
street. In front of the house No. 35 is Doyle's
liquor store. Its back door opens directly
upon a narrow hallway in the rear of the tenement ^where the fire obtained its start.
Plumbera were at work at the foot of the stairs
thawing out frozen water-pipes, and for this
purpose used gasoline. The vessel was by
some means upset, and, becoming ignited,
there was an explosion, which blew in the door
of the saloon.
In an instant black smoke rolled up the
long stairway, drawn onward by the draught
caused by an open window in the top story.
There was a momentary hush as the frightened plumbers hurried into the yard. A man
sitting by the bar-room stovo slammed the
hall door on the advancing fire. Immediately
there was a wild rush overhead, and the air
was filled with the wails of imprisoned men
and women, shrieks of frightened children,
and cries for help.
The bar-keeper and plumbers rau through
the street to tfce near-by police station. Very
soon the clanjc of fire-bells filled the street,
and the narrow alley became filled with firemen and police struggling to bring help to the
imprisoned and burning tenants. They came
too late. The fire, finding vent through the
open doors and windows of the untenanted
ground floor of the house and through the
door, had seized upon the shutters, window-
frames, and wooden floors of the balconies
Outside, licking them up like so much tissue
paper, and reaching upward toward the floors
where the frightened occupants were huddled
together.
Eight families occupied the house, two on
each floor. From the second floor the Eagans
and Muldoons had at the first alarm escaped
through the windows. Mrs. Mary Eagan
(widow) and her four grown children, Margaret, Thomas, Joseph and John, reached the
ground in safety by a quick jump. Mrs. Mul-
doon, who is over eighty years old, was less
fortunate. Seizing her two grandchildren,
Annie, aged ten years, and Kate, aged seven,
she sprang from the fire-escape, but in the fall
broke her leg, and crawled away with difficulty.
On.the third floor, Mr. Began, who lived
alone, escaped with his neighbors, the McKenna family, likewise by jumping. James, aged
nine, Hugh, aged four, and the baby, were
thrown from a window by Charles McKenna,
their eldest brother, a lad of .fifteen. The
mother was sweeping in the yard when the fire
broke Out. She rushed to the stairway,' but
was met by a solid sheet of flame, and realizing the danger of her*phildren, roused them
by shouting, before they knew of their danger.
"Jump, Charles; throw them down," the agonized mother cried, and stretched out her
arms to receive them as the three little head3
looked over the window sill beside their; brother. The mother appealed to Charles to throw
the children to her and then to jump himself. The boy quickly measured the distance to the ground from his third-story
perch, and taking the baby up first, tossed it
out, and it fell into the arms of its mother,
who caught the other children as they were
sent to her one by one, and finally broke the
fall of Charles as he leaped, and all escaped
unhurt.
On the fourth floor lived Cassidy and another family of Eagans. The Cassidy family,
unable to escape to the ropf, flung themselves
from the window. Two of the children,
Charles and Thomas, aged six and eight years,
remained in the rooms and were burned to
death. The Eagan fainuyalso leaped to the
yard, except a child, aged two years, that was
suffocated. Mary Eagan, in the f alii was badly
injured.
On the fifth and topmost story Mrs. Ellen
Sheridan was at breakfast with her four children. At the first alarm she gathered together the children and sought to escape by
the stairs, but the fire had possession of them.
There was no succor from the street, and she
sought the scuttle in the roof, but it was immovable. She shrank back from the leap to
the yard, five stories below, and, closing the
door of her apartment to keep out the rapidly
advancing flame, herself and children were
suffocated by the smoke rapidly filling the
room.
A youth named Donegan, through an adjoining house, had reached the roof of the burn-
• ing building, and, with, an ax, demolished the
source. Kate Sheridan, with a child in her
arm* endeavored to escape. Her clothing
was ablaze. As the girl nearly reached the top
she extended her arm to Donegan, who
grasped It, but the flesh peeled from the bone,
and the girl and child fell back into the flames,
pieces of the charred flesh remaining in the
hands of Donegan.
Another victim of the fire was found thla
afternoon, making the total ten. This addition to the number is the babe of Mrs. Cassidy, which was discovered wrapped in a
blanket and clasped to the breast of its dead
mother.
Timothy Harrington, the plumber, is arrested. His hands are burned. He charges the
whole disaster to the carelessness of his boy-
helper named McGloan, who has disappeared.
Their employer, Mr, Patten, has also been arrested.
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Population of States and   Territories.
The Superintendent of the Census makes
the following approximate Statement of the
population of the States and Territories:
19i,G40
622,683
134,502
146,051
Alabama
Arizona	
Arkansas... .
California	
Colorado	
Connecticut..
Dakota.	
Delaware......
Dist. of Col...
Florida...	
Georgia.......
Idaho	
Illinois.   .....
Indiana	
Iowa	
Kansns.......
Kentucky....;
Louisiana	
Maine.. ...
Maryland	
Massachusetts 1,783,080
Michigan 1,034,01IU
Minnesota    780,807
Mississippi.... 1,131,899
Missouri.,..., 8,109,091
1,262,314 Montana
40,441
802,504
804,686
„ u      • 39,157,
Nebraska,.... 452,432
Nevada ,. 62,265
N. Hampshire.    347,784
New Jersey... 1,130.892
New Mexipo..       "~
New York.:..
N'th Carolina.
177,638 Ohio.
266,566 jOregon.
Pennsyvania..
Rhode Island.
S.. Carolina..
1,538,983
32,611
3,078,636
1,978*858
l,62M63Texas	
993,335 Utah	
1,048,599 Vermont.	
910,263 Virginia.......
648,945 Washington...
9*5,139 West Virginia
Wisconsin	
Wyoming.....
118,430
5,083,173
1,400,000
3,197,794
174,707
4,282,738
276,528
995,706
Tennessee  1,512,403
"w" - 1,51)7,509
143,907
332,288
1,512,201
75,120
618,193
1,315,386.
20,788
Total.... ,.60,152,559
—Perpetual motion—a motion to adjourn, which is always in order.—Bat-
ton 'Mraiisoript.
OCCURRENCES OP INTEREST.
A'ecrolosrlcal.
Fflosr a list, published in the Chicago Tribune, of the name3 of prominent individuals
who died during the year 18S0, we compile
the following, belonging to the United States:
POLITICAL   WORKD.
Adolph E. Borie, ex-Secretary of United
States Navy; Hon. William A Howard, Governor of Dakota; Richard B. Connoly, ex-Comptroller of New York City; ex-Governor Edward Clark, Texas; ex-Mayor George Opdyke,
New York; ex-Governor Albert G. Brown,
Mississippi; ex-Governor John A. Campbell,
Wyoming Territory; ex-Governor Herbert, of
Louisiana; Governor Williams, of Indiana;
ex-Governor Westcott, of Florida; ex-Governor Henry S. Foote, Tennessee; ex-Governor
McClelland, of Michigan; Benjamin K.Phelps,
United States District Attorney, New York
City.
EX-MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
General John Brisbin, Pennsylvania; Samuel G. Arnold, BhodeIsland; "William W. Warren, Massachusetts; Thomas F. Bayard, Delaware; Joseph Segar, Virginia; John Bobbins,
Pennsylvania; Ezra B. French, Maine; J. B.
Howell, Iowa; Jacob Brinkerhotf, Ohio; Joseph R. Chandler, Pennsylvania; William Big-
ler, Pennsylvania; James Alexander Sedden,
Virginia; Herschel V. Johnson, Georgia: Len
Bartholomew, New Jersey; Kobert McClelland, Michigan; R. C. Bitter, Kentucky;
Charles Albright, Pennsylvania; Fayette Mc-
Mullen, Virginia; Evarts W, Farr, New Hampshire; Percy Walker, Alabama; C. D. Coffin,
Ohio; Charles Knapp, New York; Lafayette S.
Foster, Connecticut; Henry D. Foster, Pennsylvania.
UNITED STATES ARMY.
Brevet-Major-General George Sykes, Major-
General Hector Tyndale, General Joseph W.
Revere, Major-General Heintzelman, General
Albert J. Myer (Old Probabilities), General
Alfred Torbert, General Richard S. Satterlee.
UNITED   STATES  NAVY..
Commodore Homer C. Blake, Captain John
Carson, revenue marine; Isaiah Hanscom,
Chief of the Bureau of Navigation; Commodore Edward Barrett, Rear-Admiral Thatcher,
Chief-Engineer John S. Albert, Commodore
Lowry, Rear-Admiral C. K. Stribling.
theology.
Bishop Gilbert Haven, M. E. Church, Maiden, Mass.; Jacob Ide, D. D., Congregational,
"West Medway, Mass.; William McAllister,
Methodist, New York City; Rev. H. S. Mc-
Murdie, Director of the Theological Seminary,
Emmettsburg. Mo.; Rev. Adolph Baltzer,
President German Evangelical Synod of North
America, St. Louis, Mo.; Rev. F. W. Kennedy,
editor Southern Christian Advocate, Macon,
Ga.; Rev. Jeremiah B. Jeter, D. D., Baptist,
Richmond, Va.; Prof. D. L. Tressler, D. D.,
President Lutheran College, Carthage, III.;
Rev. Robert L. Dashiell, D. D., Methodist
Episcopal Church, Newark, N. J.; Rev. George
Punchard, Congregational, Boston, Mass.;
Rev. Br. Osgood, Episcopalian, New York;
Bishop Pellicier, Roman Catholic, San Antonio, Tex.; Prof. Alexander Macwhorter,
Presbyterian theologian, New Haven, Conn.;
Dr. William Matthews, Presbyterian, Louisville, Ky.; Rev. Dr. "William Adams, New
York;-Rev. Dr. O. E. Daggett, Professor of
Divinity, Yale College; Rev. S. D Dennison,
D.D., "White Plains, N. J.; Rev. William S.
Plumer, D. D., Baltimore, Md.; Bishop David
S.Daggett, Richmond, Va.; Thomas H. Newton, D. D., Petersburg, Va.; Rev. John Mc-
Closkey, President Mount St. Mary's College,
TSrhmittsburg, Md.:Rev, John S. Phelps, Methodist, Trenton, N. J.; Rev. Dr. Edwin H.
Chapin, New York.
SCIENCE AND EDUCATION.
Prof. "William Livingston, Lombard College,
Galesburg; Prof. Samuel Gardiner, electrician
and inventor, Buffalo, N. V.; Prof. I. O. Chapman, Mount Union College, Ohio; Prof-F. A.
Allen,Principal Pennsylvania Normal School;
Pi^of. Frederick Peek, botanist, Washington,
D. C; O. H. English, school-book publisher,
Pittsburgh, Pa.; James Lenox, founder of the
Lenox Library, New York; Prof. James Das^.
comb, Oberlin College, Ohio; D. K. Jones, inventor of lucifer matches, Chillieothe, O.;
David M. Lord, editor Literary and Theological
Journal, New York; Prof. John C. Bull, American Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, Hartford.
Conn.; Rev. Barnas Sears, ex-President of
Brown University; Prof. Hiram Collyer, Nebraska State University; John B. Gordon,
Professor of Mathematics, Fayetteville, Ark.;
Jacob Ball, geologist, Texas; Benjamin Pierce,
Professor of Mathematics, Harvard College,
Massachusetts; Prof. James C. Watson, astronomer, Madison, Wis.
JOURNALISM.
Herman Roos, Swedish American^ Chicago;
George W. Bliss, Mineral Point (Wis.) Tribune;
Frank Leslie, New York City; Thomas L.
Grant, Evening News, Detroit, Mich.; L. P,
Plummer, Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn.; William H. Brewster, Traveller, Boston," Mass.;
George D. Hebard, Gallipolis Ledger, Ohio; R.
P. Lee, Shafer, Montgomery (N. Y.) Standard;
Charles Smith, Keokuk (la.) Constitution; C. C.
Taylor, Philadelphia Times; John F. Wheeler,
Fort Sniith (Ark.) Independent;. John Nugent,
San Francisco Herald; James J. Ross, Mays-
ville (Ky.) Bulletin; T. W. Eichelberg, Des
Moines (Iowa) State Register; ChaUncey Newton, Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer; Sidney
Andrews, correspondent, "Washington, D. C;
Samuel R. Glenn, New York Herald; George
Brown, Toronto Globe; Edwin A. Tucker,
Hartford (Conn.) Evening Post; George Rip
•ley, New York Tribune; David L. Phillips,
State Journal, Springfield, HI.; J. Bradbury,
New York TTorl.d; Alexander W. Rook, Pittsburgh Dispatch; Robert Lourie, Auburn (N.
Y.) Courier; Germon Foss, Woonsocket (R. I.)
Patriot; Solon Robinson, New York Tribune;
"William Stengel, Westliche Post, St. Louis;
Hiram Fuller, New York; Charles. "W. "Whip?
pie, Louisville Commercial; Charles E. Smith,
Cincinnati Gazette; Edward Lloyd Ford, Gliris-
tian Union, New York; Jerome B. Stillson,
New York Herald; Jphn Nugent, San Francisco Herald; Gerard Stith, New Orleans Picayune.
A. Poor-House Horror.
Dover, N. H., January 7.
A disaster without parallel in this section
befell the Strafford County. Poor-House, situated about four miles north Of this city, at an
early hour this morning, whereby thirteen
paupers and lunatics lost their lives. At 4:30
o'clock fire was discovered in the furnace-
room of the main building, a three-story
edifice of brick, in which lived one hundred
and sixty-fcur persons besides the physicians
and attendants. In some way the woodwork
near the furnace caught fire and burned
through one story before it was discovered. It
was then burningfuriously, and in the absence
of facilities for squelching the flames there was
nothing to do but to save the inmates, who.
Were immediately in a fearful state of excitement. Many of them were old, imbecile and
helpless, and the spectacle as they rushed,
about the corridors in utter bewilderment,
or crouched stupidly in corners, absolutely
refusing to leave the building, was terrible in
the extreme. For some time the flames
Seemed to have a fascination which induced
them to return after having once escaped.
Many of the children were saved by being
thrown from, the windows into the arms of
those below. One poor Irish woman, who has
been a pauper four or five years, stood nearly
naked for three-quarters of an hour catching
theuUnthis way. Finally, after every effort
had been made, the building was abandoned
and the flames had everything their own way..
There was no fire apparatus on the premises.
One engine from this city got within a mile of
the place, but could go ho further, and could
have done no good even if it had been stationed at the farm, as. there \yas no water to
use. When the flames subsided, it was found
that thirteen human lives were lost.
" YES"
They stood above the wbrld.
In a world apart,
And she drooped her happy eyes, .
And stilled the throbbing pulses
Of her happy heart.
And the moonlight fell above her,
Her secret to discover.
And the moonbeams kissedherhair,
As though no human lover
Had laid his kisses there.
"Look up, brown eyes," he said,
"And answer mine,
Lift up those silken fringes,
That hide a happv light,
Almost divine."
The jealous moonlight drifted
To the finger half uplifted,
Where shone the opal ring-
Where the colors danced and shifted
On the pretty, changeful thing.
Just the old, old story.
Of light and shade,
Love, like the opal tender,
Like it, maybe to vary,—
Maybe to fade,
Just the old, tender story*
Just a glimpse of morning glory,
•    In an earthly paradise,
With shadowy reflections,
In a pair of sweet brown eyes.
Brown eyes a man might well
Be proud to win 1
Open^ to hold his image,
Shut under silken lashes,
Only to shut him in.
O, glad eyes look together,
For lire's dark" stormy weather,
Grows to a fairer thing.
When young eyes look upon it,
Through a slender wedding ring.
—Temple Bar.
THE FACTORY BELLE.
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The Emperor of Brazil has translated
some of Whittier's poems into Portuguese,
"So that.is the factory belle, is it?"
said Mr. Payson, the new foreman.'of
the Mellendale Works. "Well, 1 must
confess that she has rather an attractive
face, with her large hazel eyes and that
profusion of red-brown hair, although
her nose is Jiot quite Grecian, and then,
too, the lines of her mouth are just a
trifle out of drawing."
"Humph!" said old Solomon Gilsey,
the engineer, "She's been made so
much of, Kitty Kelsey has, until she's
just spoiled. *And "
But here Kitty Kelsey herself came
saucily up to the foreman's desk.
"Mr. Payson," said she, tossing back
the cloud of red-gold hair that'hung
over her dimpled face, "fori suppose
you are Mr. Payson." *
"At your service," said the young
man with commendable gravity*
"My machine does not suit ine at all,
and I wish you would change it for another."
"Doesn't suit you?" he repeated,
quite slowly.
'\NTo, sir," .replied Miss Kitty, as she
straightened out the bow of ribbon at
her belt.
"Is it the custom to change machines
at the beck and call of every dissatisfied
damsel?" he asked, still without a
change of countenance.
"My machine is always changed
whenever I ask for it," said Kitty Kelsey, nonchalantly.
""Suppose you try and make it do."
said Mr, Payson. "I dare say the turn
• of a screw here, or the alteration of a
tension there will make it all right.
Johnson," to the packer, "bring me
that list of the boxes that are to. be sent
off this morning."
Miss Kelsey stood in indignant surprise at this politely-cavalier treatment.
She—the spoiled beauty, the petted
favorite of the whole "establishment,
whose every whim had been humored,
whose caprices indulged., to be told to
try to make things do!
"You will not change it?" said she.
Coloring very red.
"It is quite contrary to my rules,"
said Mr. Payson, firmly. "That's right.
Johnson. Now I will look over the list
with you."
Miss Kitty went back to her seat in a
genuine passion.
It was Anson Payson's first day in
the Mellendale factory, and of course it
proved rather a fatiguing one.
The morning, bleak and cloudy, had
settled down into a good, old-fashioned
snow storm before afternoon, and when
at last the throb of the engines had
ceased, the whiz of the numberless machines was still, and the flock of girls
had disappeared one by one; Mr. Pay-
son locked his desk, pocketed the keys
and also- sallied forth into the snowy
twilight of the November night.
But unaccustomed as he was to the
Mellendale roads and their windings, he
soon became disagreeably aware that he
had missed his way.
"They told me to turn off at an old
stone mill," he pondered, "but 1 have
seen no stone mill; nor any finger-post,
I do believe," standing still and
trying to peer through the wilderness
of flying "snowflakes, "that I am destined to be a modern 'Babe in the
Woods.' And the worst of it all is that
there are such a number of-awkward
precipices along the edge of this woody
road, where one might walk oft in. this
half-light and never know how he came
to his end. Stay! luckily there is a red
light gleaming through the darkness.
It must come from some farm house
window, and I am saved from my
doom."
But as Anson Payson knocked at the
door of the little one-story dwelling he
felt that he was very weary, with hands
and feet numbed by the* biting blast,
and garments wet through by the damp
and penetrating snow.
The opening of the door revealed a
cheerful little interior, which would
have been no discredit to the pencil of
a Dutch artist—a blaze of pine logs on
the hearth, a candle burning in its brass
sconce, a red and blue rag carpet upon
the floor, around cherry table set out
for supper, and a huge gray cat purring
cosily upon the hearthstone.
A" tall white haired man opened the
door to him and welcomed him after a
cheery fashion.
"Come in, stranger, come in," said
the'old* gentleman, "Well, I declare,
you've got wet, ain't you? Step right
up to the fire. Here's a seat. I don't
seem to recognize ye—not jest by sight
—though I've lived forty-odd years
hereabouts.   You, are •"
"I am Mr. Payson of the Mellendale
Works," interrupted our hero, with a
sigh of satisfaction as he expanded his
chilled hands towards the deliqious
warmth of the blaze and felt the subtle
influence of the generous firelight permeating his whole frame.
" Do tell!" said the old man, who had
by this time swung a huge iron tea-kettle to a crane over the fire. " I've got
a grand-dajaghter who runs a machine
thefe.' So you're the new foreman? Ye
board at'Squire Ames', don'tye? Well,
you're a goodtwo jRile Outof yqur way,
sir. You'd ought to took the fust right-
hand road by John Middlebrook's stone
mill and then the fust left-hand one,
runnin' whar the Widom Fitch's tavern
is. But you're kindly welcome to stay
here all night, stranger, and my little
gal she'll show you the way in the
momin'. She was wonderin' what the
new foreman was like and now she'll
get a good look at ye. Jest set down
in the big chair, stranger, and make
yerself comfortable, while 1 go down in
the cellar after a pot of apple sass. My
little gal, she comes home pretty tired
of a night and I like to save her all the
steps I can. She's workin' dreadful
hard for a new cashmere gown for
Thanksgivin'; and when the taxes is
paid and the interest on the mortgage,
and ?»
At this stage of his remarks, the voice
of Mr. Payson's host became inaudible,
by reason of his slow descent down the
cellar, with the brass candlestick still
in his hand; and the new foreman was
alone with the purring gray cat and the"
red shine of the flames, and the deep
shadows in every portion of the room.
"Well, grandfather, did you think I
was never coming?"
The door had opened suddenly and
admitted a gust of frozen air, a crowd
of flying snowflakes and a girl all muffled up in hoods and shawls.
"I stopped atMollie Dean's for a pattern," said she, "and of course we had
to-talk a little. O, grandfather," with
a merry laugh, as she sat down on the
floor to pull off her rubber shoes, "I'ye
seen the new foreman, and he's as
handsome as a picture, and as cross as
two sticks. Hateful fellow! Only
think ot him refusing to change my
machine for me! Mollie and 1 have
concocted a royal plan. I'm going to
bewitch him, and wind him around my
finger, and make him fall desperately
in love with me, and then I shall refuse
to marry him haughtily, and   Why,
who is that?"
She sprang to her feet with a" little
cry of terror, for while Mr. Payson had
sat bewildered in the vague shadows by
the fireside, and she had rattled on, old
Moses Kelsey had finished his errand
in the cellar, and now came slowly up
the stairway, the candle light shining
in front of him like a beacon.
"There she is now," saidhe; "my little Kitty. Well, my gal, supper's most
ready, and here's a good chance to
scrape acquaintance with the new foreman. He got lost in the snow, and "
But Mr. Payson rose and laughingly
offered his hand to Kitty Kelsey, who
now stood as if paralyzed in the middle
of the floor.
"Pray forgive my backsliding, Miss
Kelsey," he said. "I'm sorry if I really was as 'cross as two sticks.' As the
little children say, 'I won't do it again.''
And I am quite ready for you and your
friend to commence the bewitching
process. I dare say I shall find it very
agreeable."
Kitty Kelsey could not help laughing,
in spite of herself.
"Well, I suppose it's just about as
well to make the best of it," said she,
"and we will proclaim an honorable
truce for the present, Mr. Payson."
Kitty was charming all the evening
—full of vivacious spirit and arch chatter; but Mr. Payson did not know that
she cried herself to sleep that night
with the bitterest tears she had ever
shed.
"What must he think of me?" said
the factory belle to herself. "How did
I ever, ever come to make such a dreadful blunder?"
While Mr. Payson was saying over
and over to himself, as he drifted into
dreamland: "She is the most charming
girl 1 ever met in my life.''
And, at the year's end, Kitty Kelsey
left the Mellendale Works to marry its
foreman and keep house in a picturesque little stone cottage upon the
edge of the ravine.    .
"Didn't I tell yon Pd doit?" said
Kitty, saucily.
"You said you would refuse me
haughtily." said he.
"0," laughed Kitty, "I concluded I
would change my mind upon that point.
But all the rest has come .true now,
hasn't it?"
And Anson Payson smilingly confessed that it had.
The Electric Light.
The various exhibitions of the electric light, coupled with the recent forming of new companies, have all a
special significance in one direction.
They almost all of them representmore
or less different applications of electricity to produce light, and they register results obtained by different investigators along divergent lines of inquiry
and invention. But taken' together
they show that the primal and fundamental difficulties have been overcome.
The light has been discovered, has
been subdivided and can be registered.
With these points gained, and with several sets of skilled inventors working
away each at his own branch, who will
dare to deny that ere long the new
light will be perfected, and its position
established firmly, if not as a successful
rival of gas at least, as an active competitor?—New Tork Evening Post. "
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Triplet Maxims. „
Three things to do—think, live and
act. 3
Three things to govern—your temper,
tongue and conduct.      '
Three   things    to    cherish^—virtue,
goodness and wisdom. -
t   Three things to love—courage, gentleness and affection.
Three things to contend for—honor;
country and friends.
Three things to hate—cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to teach—truth, indus-.
try and contentment.
Three things to admire^—intellect,
dignity and gracefulness.
Three things to like—cordiality,
goodness and cheerfulness. *
Three things to delight in-r—beauty,
frankness and freedom.
Three things to avoid—idleness, lo-.
quacity and flippant jesting.
Three things to wish for—health,
friends and a contented spirit.
Three things to cultivate—good books,
good friends, good humor.
—A knife with 191 blades was lately
sfcnt'to the Prince-of Wales on his -birth**
day. *   -.*
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