Evening Gazette

              Sticning Jilfe CSuDctt VOLUME I., NUMBER 160 ( Weekly Established 1860 \ PITTSTON. PA.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1882. I PRICE TWO CENTS ) $4.00 Per Annum. A BIG BLAZE. secure another Democratic, Representative, when the Democrats have a majority in the House and a solid Democratic delegation from Luzerne, with this one exception. It A GHASTLY TASTE. sidered the proposed expedition to  President Grevy assented to Admiral Jauregi berry's proposal, which is regarded as acceptcd. The Government will demand credit of 11,000,000 fraucs for the expedition. "OTIS TRUE." amusement with each other, but which prevents any creatures from any other herd or fold or (lock from having the same kind of The Skin of a Human Being Tanned DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BUFFALO and Made Into a Medicine Case by a Student. SANTA CLAUS REIGNS SUPREME really lor.ks as if the State Democracy were desirous of sotting up as a rival to the Womelsdorf Jumbo. sport. A Printing Oflice and a Masonic Temple Destroyed—Heavy bosses—The Winton Insurance Case- Other News Items. Philadelphia, December 92.—A student «f the Hahnemann College, whose taste runs to the ghaatly, is having a medicine chest mado out of human skin—the leather—for leather it is now—was taqned and dressed at a morocco establishment on Third street, and was doliverod to the student on Monday last. It resembles a line pieco of morocco somewhat, and uo one, to look at it, would imagine that it once formed a very important part of a living man. The skin was obtained from the dissecting table, and was probably the largest pnce of human hids ever submitted to such a process. It consists of the Bkin taken from the trunk, the shoulders, part of the arras, and the upper part of the legs, of a negro. The skinning was very neatly performed, all in one piece, and the horrible relic of humanity delivered to the tanners two weoks ago. It was submitted to almost the same treatment Mayor Broderick the People's Candidate for Re-election—The Teachers' County Institute—This Annual Match-Making Bee a Happy Sensation and a Wise Provision. The present institute is successful in all its ramifications. Every feature of it is brought out into high relief, and I think the list of country weddings next vacation will be v«ry much larger than it would if no institute had been held. The rosy-cheeked ones will go horns rosier, aud they will impatiently continue to apply the lessons ot the Institute to their calling, the days of which they feel to be numbered. Blessed be the Institute which builds up homes all over the land, makes new placcs for fresh girls and b to step into, and go the round of about three Institutes, and thon in turn to wheel out for their successors. The State knows what it is about. It tfnnts fresh young teachers for the children of the land, and the best way to kesp the corps fresh and young is to have Institutes that will enable the older to marry off and LATE NEWS. TERRIBLE MINE ACCIDENT. Gleaned and Condensed from this Morn- ing's Papers. Buffalo, Dec. 21.—One of the most destructive fires that has visited Buffalo for a long time occurred this afternoon. Shortly before live o'clock, smoke was noticed issuing from the roof of the magnificent new building recently erected by James D. Warren, proprietor of the Commercial Advertiser, cornor of Washington and. North Divisioa streets. Almost immediately a bright Haino shot up in the air like a rocket and the roof was seen to be in flame. An alarm was sent to the engine house a block away, and tho firemen arrived with a chemical engine. It was realized Twenty Person. Killed. The United States Supreme Court yesterday adjourned until January 3. Dormi xd, Prussia, Dec. 21.—While a cage was descending the Ilardenberg mine yesterday, the chain to which it was attached broke and the cage fell, killing twenty persons. Tho Comptroller of the Currency authorized the Third National Bank of Greensburg, N. Y., to commence business. Capital, $50,000. In the middle of the holiday turmoil, wheneacli integer of tho mass we call the commu nity is beating its brains and perplexing itself beyond measure with the great uncertainty as to whether what it has bought for Christmas is going to bo exactly the right thing or precisely tho wrong thing for the friends that &ro to be tho recipients; or whether it will over bo possible to find anything that will answer the ideal that lias been formed in the mind, or is forming there, as to what will do for those whom we expect to honor or please; right in this busy time of hunting and buying and selling and carrying home and hiding, how do you expect anybody to got FINANCIAL AN1) COMMERCIAL, Secretary Folger approved the recommendation of the Commission that St. Paul's Church property, Syracuse, be purchased as a site for the proposed court-house and post-office Stock Report. Reported by Carpentkr & BoDmefc Rooms and 0 Club House, Franklin street. Wilkes-Barre Dec. 22-r-£:00 p. m. A Washington dispatch says it is reported there was trouble in the accounts of Marshal Knox, New York city, although the Govern- Closing Bid N. Y. Ch, 8fc. Louis Wabash pref.. . 65^ do. pref.. Penna R.li  Phil. & Kead'g Lehigh Valley. Lehigh Nat!... 82M o. & M., com... 82U 5i% do. pref.... 94yl 27*2 H. & St. Jo. com 45 68 do. pref.. 78 'C856 Union Pacific... 103% ment lost no money however, the firo was too fur advanced for this apparatus to be of any use, so the alarm was sent to other houses in the vicinity A A conference of prominent Democrats has been called in Albany for December 28th, to consider party policy in the forthcoming session of the Legislature. The question of tho Speakership will probably come up. niuke room for the younger. P., Titus?. & B.... \H% Mm K. & T  Northern Pac. com 4.rD% '\,C.A I. C  do pref at-. Paul, com.. f) L. A W 18(% do pref. Texas Pacific 4'»V£ P. £ Rio G  Del. & Hudson H'8 Illinois Central N. J. Central 71Met'n. Eler.... West'n Union.... Onialia, com... tclflc Nail 42J4 do. pref. "" Rock Island  Ohio Central... Mobile & O . . . Otis True. good deal of valuable time was los). 'ind it was fully twenty minute's before tlie first as kid, excepting that it wa; unnecessary to " unhair " it—that is, to scrape the hair from the upper side. Aftor being stained a deep black and dried, it was ready to go into the hands of the caso-maker, and by Now Year's day the young student will be ready to carry the dead into the homes of the living without SPIRITUALISM. time to write a lotier ? stream of writer whs turned on. So fiercely did the tiro do its work, it whh evident no( hopes of saving the building could be enter- It is officially announced that the Czar has commuted to imprisonment at hard labor for an indefinite period tho death sentence of the woman convicted of wounding the Governor of Tschita. Everything is Christmas. The question of how to elect city officers has dropped out of the public mind entirely. Not a word of who is going to run for mayoi, or coiu.cil or any thing else of that kind comes up in thegatborings at the home or at business or as peoplo meet in tho street. This is the most distracting week of tho year, and only duty drives auy to do anything except worry over the The rather remarkable statement In mad* by the Metropolitan scribe of the Minuet, polis Tribune that Spiritualism is gaining ground in New Ytirk in a quiet way. Hundreds of people spend Sunday evenings at seances or in halls listening to the addresses of inspirational female preachers. A very large proportion of these people are firm believers in the manifestations and communications of spirits, and many of them belong to the most refined and best educated. That a man of intelligence sb""!d become converted is easily explained. ~ [is inquiring disposition loads him to m ike an investigation of the phenomena of which he hears so much. He becomes interested, although at first he is incredulous, and even cynical. Then he is at a loss to explain what ho sees. At last he can only aocoHnt for the phenomena which he has witnessed nnder varying circumstances by attributing them to supernatural agencies. It is only • short step to Spiritualism, and he usually takes it and becomes an enthusiastio Spiritualist, wondering how he was so increduloua before, and why other people do not believe. taiusd, and story after story whs wrapped in flames until the entire building was a sheet of fire. « do. pref.. rlanlmttan Kiev N. Y. Central I2PW L'viJle & N'ville. B3fi r,ak« Shore U7';i SutroTunuel % Mich Central— 1"2% Robinson... Nor h "West, com. 18s Rich & Dan detection. The St. Petersburg Golos says the Senate ha* decided to accede to tho request of certain Jewish chemists to rescind the order of General Iguatiefl forbidding Jews from keeping chemist's shops outside of those parts of the empire Bet aside for Jews to reside in. An immense crowd assembled in the streets, greatly impeding the work of the firemen. Darkness setting in the tiatnts lit up the sky for miles. In the Main street block west arc three large cisterns containing water, built exp**essly for use in case of a large tiro. When one was opened a tremendous explosion of gas followed, blowing a man twenty feet into the air, the fall injuring him, and knocking several do pref.. J5r»W Rich. & D. Ter. *Vabo«h. com 35% Central Pacific. 55 25 SOH THE GREENBACK PROGRAMME. Market steady and dull, No Fusion with Old Parties. OIL MAKKKT. St. Louis, Dec. 21.—The Committee of the Greenbackers adjourned soon after 12 o'clock last night. Lee Crandall, the Secretary of the Committee, authorizes the statement that the meeting was called to look ovor the ground, consider any proposition that might lie made, and take such action as seemed to be for the best interest of the party. He says there was * strong fusion element in the meeting, but after a full discussion of all questions bearing on the welfare of the party, all propositions for fusion with tither of the old parties or for the organization of a new one were squarely beaten, and the members of the Committee were directed to return home and go to werk to still further build up the party under its present organization, that being deemed as perfect as it can be made. Twenty-two States were represented at the meeting. things we are to give and the things we are tc Oil Citv, Dec. 22—tftOO p. m, get, and tho things we arc to see others give and get. Upsido down and wrong side about is the whole social concern. Crude oil 8: The Secretary of the Navy is considering a plan for a reduction in the expenses of tho civil establishment of tho naval service, so as to bring them within the appropriation. The reduction will be made in Clio middle of Janu- PJttHtoB Wholesale Markets. Flour— patent f8.5u Flour. straight brands 6.00&6.50 Buckwheat Hour 3.00©3 10 Corn 90 Oats, new 60 Butter 80@ 12 Cheese, new u EffgR 38 Poratoen new, per bu, 60® C5 Chop and Feed 1.70 Meal 1.70 Salt, coarse, per sack 1.50 Salt, fine, per Kaek 1.65 Salt, per bbl 1.50 17.00 " Bailed 18.00 Rye Straw 11.00 Turnips, per bu 60 Onions, rD 44 70(^1.00 Cabbage, per hundred, good 5.00Ca8.00 " 44 fair to middling 3.00CgD4 00 3.00®3.50 3.0- @3.25 lfi 14 14 But Mayor B rode rick has come out in a card and declares ho is going to run for Mayor again, and on the People's ticket. That is a good enough ticket to run" on. It is so very definite and satisfying. If there is anything I like it is positiveness of this kind. When a man runs on the Republican ticket, some one is sure to ask "which one?" That is annoying. When he runs on the Democratic ticket, some one will inquire, "which wiug ?" I do not know what these questions refer to, but those who ask these questions look as though they had gallons of boitled-up essence uf concentrated meaning in them, and I never show spectators off their feet An hour after the fire aturtcd the roof of the splendid Masonic Temple, across the street, was seen to lDe in llame. The structure was occupied by various Masonic societies up stairs, while down stairs was a largo wholesale grocery, Miller, Groiner V Co. In a short time the top floor was a seething mass of flames. There was no wind, or the whole block would have prone. The firemen w.re censured for not throwing water on the Tem- female inmate of the Vicksburg, Uiss., puorhouse died last week at the age oi one hundred and twenty-one years. She was born in Maryland, and related historical incidents which she had observed which authenticated her great age A case of what is said by persons who profess to be judges to be genuine leprosy has bu*u developed in the almshouse at Salem, W'lss. The patient is Charles Derby, who rec ntly a-rived from San Francisco. He spent several years at, Honolulu, whero he was chief b Xunisi to Quoen Emma. He has been isolate! and his clothing burned. Romance and Reality —Many of th« magazine novelists cannot write a serial nowadays unless they introduce an editor among tbeir other characters. It is all right, of coursc, that they should m»ke the editof do his duty in fiction, but the novelists appear to have trouble in finding oat the rett animal. As they depict him, the editor at tends all the li o'clock teas, passes hours ii the dining rooms of swell hosts, figures a. the fashionable receptions and otherwise exhibits his intellectual brow up town and down. The fact is that the editor who edit* dons his evening dress about once a year, and duriug the other 364 nights lie may b* found in the fifth story wrestling with a* many topics as he has hairs on his head. The editor of the novelists ought be grow long curly locks and writs odes to the dog. star.— Philadelphia Times ple in season Apples, per bu  Sweet potatoes, per bbl Turkeys and Ducks  Chickens  Geese  At 7 p. m. the inside of tho Commercial Advertiser building was completely gutted my ignorance by saying anything except "don't know." But with a People's ticket, or a Citizens' tickct. or a stumo ticket, it is different. All know just what that is. T(ike hash, yon never have to inquire about it—or, at least, you never ' give yourself away" by inquiring about it. Tho word "hash" implies all yo" want to know, and so does "citizen" or "peoplo" when applied to candidates for office. 1 am glad to sec that the Mayor has learned wisdom by his incumbency. His Lock Works in Eaaton Stopped. Every effort was made to save Masonic Tcm plo, and only tho-two uppor stories were burned. Kighte/rkjfltnljfes and conunanderies hold corivociSijtJ&s Jn Masonic Temple. Car- Easton, Pa., Dec. 21.—The Easton Lock Works suspended operations this morning. A couple of years ago, the present company, composed of New York capitalists, bought the works of Eauton parties The lat'«r have served an injunction upon the present proprietors for money claimed to be due them, and the case will be tried in the January and February Courts. About fifty employees will be thrown «ut of emplyoymont until tho litiga- The Cyclic Theory of Bvent*. Msry HHannagan, aged seventy-three, was foun 1 load in her house at Stanfordville, We l les I iv, with lior clothes burned off. She live ! alo.ie. Choro were marks in the snow outside, showing she rolled in it, endeavorinsr li \ tho Hames The cause of tho burning is unknown, Tliero was no fire in From the N. Y. Sun. pets unci fiiniituro cost $42,000, jewelry and paraphernalia $20,000, most of which arc a The belief in the cyclic theory of events that is held by many persons will receive fresh confirmation from a grouping of recent happen- total loss, not an article being saved. The damage to Miller & Grenter's grocery stock is $50,000: total loss pnWibly $300,000. Th ings. Tho storm cycle which has created attch w.ld weather in different parts of the earth during the past fortnight and tho simultaneous earthquakes id New Hampshire and Panama have their counterparts in our social world. A few days ago we had an epidemic,so to speak,of grave robbing. Simultaneously, from Canada, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, came news of depredations of this kind. There was «o con- hospitality of the Courier ollice was tenderer .vo, nor was tho lamp lighted. head is levol enough to bo flat Warren, and the Commercial will be issued to- tion is settled. A writ has been issued by the Central News Agency against the Eastern Telegraph Company, of which John Pender is Chairman, and Sir James Anderson, Managing Director, claiming heavy damages for using telegrams from Egypt sent by the Central News. Anderson is also chairman of the Exchange Telegraph Company Agency which distributes the news. There is au Institute sitting hero now. It is an Institute of the teachers of J.u,-.'rne County and iuado up of half a thousand educators, most of whom are of tho female sex. Tho females referred to are young. (fid lady teachcrs are scarce. Kven middle-aged teachers aro rare. Teaching Is not a business, you understand. It is only a species of puss-time during the period of waiting for marriage to happen. Marriage is common enough to hap- morrow from the Com itr olliue The Winton Insurance Case Decided Th« Removal of DeLong'a Body Imprac- Pittsburg, Dee. 21.—In the United Suite.- District Court to-day tho suit of W. W. Winton and Catharine, his wife, against the Mutual Life lusuranco Company, of New York, and James S. Kutan, United States Marshal foi this district, was argued. A motion was miu'e ticable Now. Washington, Dec. 22.—A dispatch from Minister Hunt at St 1'otersburg says: The Minister of Foreign Affairs states the Govern of Irkutsk thinks the proposed removal of tin bodies of DcLong and men impracticable now. endangering the dogs and reindeer required, which cannot be replaced if lost. Mr. Hum has telegraphed this to Lieut. Harber at Jakutsk, with instructions to consult the Governor and forward tho result. nection apparently between the different hamlet f despoilers. This morning's news would indicate that an epidemic of defalcations had suddenly broken out. A bank President in Heohestor is called to account for $350,000 belonging to tho bank; a bank cashier in Jefferson, Ohio, is short $75,000, and tho Treasurci of London, Ontario, it is said, has used $70,000 that was hot his. Not the least remarkable ol these singular happenings is the coincidenct MUSIC HALL. FORTUNES OF PRIMA I.'ONHAS. W. ». EVANS L1S8E* for a preliminary injunction to prevent the de fondants from selling some property belongini Malibran made a wretched marriage and lost heavily by a husband whom she had to leave. Sontag, when a rich and favorite prima donna, wedded a German count, who squandered all her earnings in gambling, and she had to come to America to retrieve her fortunes, dying miserably in Mexico. Madame Grisi was the victim of an tin fortunate marriage, and she di* net better herself when she left her husband and went to live with Mario, who married her after his predecessor's death. Even Madame Patti has not escaped; for Bhb married an old, broken-down Frenoh marquis, who wasted her fortune, and she had to get a separation from him to become tho protege or the protection of a man much her senior, with whom she has contracted a marriage the legality of which is questioned. Acting under his advice, she has spent enormous sums In the purchase of a castle in Wales, where ihe is the prey of tradesmen, speculators and beggars, and she has to leave it every season to raiso money to maintain it and enable her and Nicolini to live luxuriously Joring part of each year.—Philadelptua Bulletin pen to everyono of passable looks and few years, and so all women wait for its coming with such equanimity as they may. It is said that marriago comes quicker to a teacher than to those of any known occupation, and that is what drives so many into it As the pretty women all get married easily before they arc old enough to teach, the mediocrity of beauty is all that is left for the profession. Tho home ly ones do not leach school because theirs is a kind of goods that does not look well on the shelves of the matrimonial market, and =o they get tucked away in Wo nurseries of their friends. Thursday, Dec. 26th. to the plaintiffs on an execution now in thr hands of the Uni'ed States Marshal. The property is claimed by Mrs own. ft consists of one hundred and for Wintou as he GRAND OPERATIC EVENT Telephonio Consolidation. The Management takes pleasure in announcing the appearance of the G. B Snyder and Robert G rau 8 iCres of coal land near SC reputed value is S14u,00f in ill hick that has befallen two Stalwart leaders. The beautiful setter pup belonging U' President Arthur had hardly been recaptured from a thief beforo Senator Don Cameron's ijoautiful white bulldog, with a yellow spot 01. Reading, Pa., Dec. 21.—The announcement is made here this afternoon that the telephone interests of the Lehigh, Southern and East Pennsylvania Telephone* Company will be consolidated and controlled by the Pennsylvania Telephone Company, recent!., organized at Harrisburg All exchanges m East Pennsylvania will be connected togeth re that the property was sold at Sheriff Philadelphia Church Choir FAMOUS sale and bought in by Mrs. Winton for $14, •10(1, and that the sale was held on another than a regular Sheriff's sale day, which pre vented other parties from bidding. Tin OPERA CO. his back, was stolen 4 5-ARTISTS-45 plaintiffs failed to make out their case and the Something Sensible from Wilde. or learn to be telephone artists, in which profession they can hermit it out in the third or fourth stories of some unfrequented building where people never go, but they can talk unseen with all creation nearly. Or else injunction was refused Krom the N. Y. Tribune Grand Chorous and their own Orchestra; Sumpt uous production of Gilbert & Sullivan's aesthetic satire. The latest D tory about the Sweet Singer of Readjusting Iron Workers' Wattes. the Sunflower is that ho was recently accosteu Steel Works Attached. PATI£NC£ conference to-day between a committee of tin —There was a secret 11 an elevated railroad traiu by a prominent Pittsburg, Dec. 21.—The Merchants' ami Manufacturers' Bank of Pittsburg, Pa., to-day Hied a judgment for $309,875 99 against the Sumens Anderson Steel Company in the countv clerk's office. The judgment was for a promissory noto aud recovered in the Supremo Amalgamated Asset hi and Captain \V. R French Catholic priest visiting this country, it terms: "Mr. Wilde, you have just been thev go West, where marrying men are not so fastidious, ami yoke up without so mucl for the FIRST TIME IN THIS CITY with a Matchless Cast and the most Elaborate Costumes ever seen on any stage. pointed out to me. 1 am glad to meet you trouble, as there »s a .-nmllcr pick, Steel Works, at BraddocK IVhile 1 was abroad I road nothing so am us This is hy there are neither kmdsome nor Admission 35 60 and 75 cents. Reserved seats 7"D cents. Diagram now open at Music Hall Book Store. justment of wages at t new j'ear. It has been of tin ng as the accounts of how you were stuffing positively ugly girls in institutes. Then most was present that no 1 re J ; t that nonsense of yours down the throats oi !onrt not an eternal study, and where the tricks of of theiu aro from the country, where dress i FAIR- AND FESTIVAL everything points to an an of all differences, and that t lies' Americans, and makini The aesthetic tried to get 01: money out of it A Sublime Lodge of Sorrow* the f mine pc 11 are not cultivated il annuHl his dignity, but was confronted by auch ait honest and jolly expression that he melted, Loi kcoht. N. Y., Dec. 21.—A large crowd gathered to-night at the Hodge Opera House to witness the ceremony of a Sublime Lodge of Sorrow under the auspices of Lock City Lodge of Perfection, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons, John Hodge, thirtythird degree, T. P. G. M. Promiuent Masons were present from Rochester, Buffalo and other places. Democratic Civil Service Reform. will) that which chacterizes the town AT THE ihort di From the Pliil'a Press. women. The of tho country school Baptist Church men id it was lather a good jo Ye, you know, and With its Joebrowns on one side and its Pal•iflons and Clevelands on the other, the Demo- She laughs, too, just as natural as a horse that of the infant A State Presentation invited the priest to breakfast. She has not h arned to suppress her i ARRIS! 21.—A lif The Reporter and the Piute. cratic party occupies a position almost as unique as that of the Yankee tanner, the front of whose shop bore a sign reading : "Dressed Kid and Morocco for sale,'' while the other side of the building supported another board inscribed: "Cash Paid for Sheepskins." and I don't believe that thev wear their THURSDAY and FRIDAY: From the Virginia City Chronicle clothes half as tight as town urirls do, else they would not dare to laugh so hard. » Johnson, the Piuto interpreter, gives the I am always glad when an Institute meet December 28th and 39(ii. presentation remarks were made by General McOandless, Governor Hovt responding f following account of the origin of the recont report to the effect tlint the Piute and Washoe Indians were at war and had fought a bloody battle at a point near Wadsworth. Says for then there comes such a refreshing atnosphcre of naturalness into our clement of artificiality that the effect is quite refreshing. Tho men ui the Institute aro very much liko the women, only there are less of them. They are fresh and good, though, and as they sit beside their friends in the seats at the hall, and hold each other's hands under the convenient cloaks and ceat tails, the observer of tho movement under the cloaks and other wraps blesses their innocence and wishes that civilization Under the auspices of the A number Prayer for the Temperance Cause LADIES' AIP SOCIETY, tary men were pre&nt, Phii.adei.phu, Dec. 21.—The Woman's National Christian Temperance Union have joined with the United Presbyterian Church in urging all the churches to observe January Alarming Reports. Johnson 'One day me see one uowspape' man down Reno. Newspape' man he aays to me: 'Piute Injuu like Washo® Injun purty Kood ?' Mo say, 'Lilce um purty good.' He says to mo, 'Pretty soon mebbe Injun flghtee?' Mo say, 'So, Injun no ilghtee pritty soon mebbe.' Then he say, 'Injun no Ilghtee ?' I say, 'Xo lifzlitcu Nejt' morning some people road Havana, Dec. 21.—Alarming reports aro published of freed nogroes, many of them *rmed, living vagrant iu the woods in various parts ef the island. It is said their numbers are increasing daily and they are forming The eatables will be supplied with a large aa sortment of Rivalling* the Womelsdorf Jumbo. from the Philadelphia Press. F. C Mosier, of Pittsi Dn. lately a 9, in the week of prayer, as a day of prayer for the temperance cause. FANCY ARTICLES candidate for assemblyman, but who wa: beaten by his Republican opponent. Mr. Mc- Millan, is just no secret societies. usefutxand ornamental, which will be sold a* rcAP'Dnabk» rates. Most of these goods will make acceptable \ New Year's Presents of pressure from Democratic headquarte resisting a good deal Advancing the Price of Beer Whistler Challenges Acten Again. Chicaoo, Dec. 21.—The Western Brewers' Association met here to-day and passed a resolution to increase the price of beer $1 per barrel after January 1, both for home and shipping trade. The price heretofore has been $9 for old and $8 for new. Nbw York, Dec. 20.—Clarence Whistler has issued another challenge to Acton, and wauts to wrestle him in Kansas. He claims to have been overtrained in his last match. was not any more exacting in the bigger towns him to begin a con tost to prevent Mr. Mc me in paper 'bout Injun fightee—dam. than it is in tho country Among these there wllUrt a lot of Elegant Bed quilts, Warm and Comfortable, and Knit Woolen Goods. Millan fiom taking his It is a gala time for the many womec teach ers, and a blissful time for t he few men teach nd just hov Scarlet Fever in Chicago. rar-A bountiful table will be spread for t hose who wish to take BUpper. The bill of fare comprises nearly everything seasonable. the Democrats hope to overcome the I; spreading alarmingly throughout i!io citv C.uuaoo, Dec. 21 —Scyirltt fever is Again Irish Manufacturers. ore, and a royal sensotion of newness lor the observer who doesn't mix in and couldn'tif he Republican majority of the district is lei-a apparent than the cause of thoir desire to Eighteen now cases were reported to the health authorities yesterday. A French Expedition to Tonquin. Pakis, Dec. 21.—The Cabinet to-day con- Dublin, Dec. 21.—A company is forming with a capital of £1,000,000 for developing Irish manufactures- wanted to ever so much. There is a freeoui sonry among teachers, male and female alike, that enables them to have an abundance of The Fair and Festival will be open day and evening. Everybody Is welcome. Admission free.