Evening Gazette

              VOLUME I., NUMBER 168. Weakly Established I860 PITTSTON. PA.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1882. \ PRIOB TWO CENTS | $4.60 Per AAnum. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL. Treasury yestordny. Warrants for thcumounta are to be issued immediately. Two claims of messenger* in tho War Department for $500 each, for extra services in setting up two nights during the President's illnesss, wore rejected yesterday. DELUDED CIGAR SMOKERS. to the spring, which runs along the rear walls and ceiH'ig until the ono ond drops over the driver's scat, so that when he pulls the wire, it turus 011 the gas and throws a stream of fire about two feet Irigli up into theeugine, the bottom of which is filled with shavings. Mr Fiickinger has been granted a patent for his A DAY'S NEWS. crowbars and broken in piece*. The coffins of an old man, who was only put in yesterday, and those of an old woman and a young girl, wore broken open and the bodies stripped of their clothing, and dragged across the road and laid beliind a fence, frcm whence they were taken away in a sleigh. The priest has gone to Montreal to notify the authori- Dark Cigars a Delusion — Soma K*cts Showins How the Sense of Sight Deoeives the Average Smoker. A MATTER OF EMOLUMENTS. A TERRIBLE BOILER EXPLOSION. A Small Salary bat Abundant Commissions tbat Increase the Total to a Larger Amount than is Received by the Governor. From the St. Louis Globe DC mocrat. " Now, do you know," said the dealer, "that you people who are always looking for strong and dark cigars are the worst fooled men in the country? Do you know that there isn't such a thing as a strong domestic cig ir—that is, one that you would smoke 7" '1'he party all pooh-poohed the idea. " I tell you that a real strong cigar, sueh as aro sold all over the town hero, would be so rank you couldn't smoko it. Now here is a Colorado—a pale, rather light brown cigar. Now I'll bet drinks for the party I can prove that this C igar is exactly the same as that dark otic you are smoking, sir," to the man who wanted ono very dark. The bet was taken and the man stripped the wrapper off each cigar. Tho one in the dark wrapper was, if anything, the lightest of the two. "Now you see," said the dealer, " tho ordinary dark cigar is a humbug, Eight Men Killed—Why the Iron Mills Stop—A Teacher has Some Trouble With His I'upils—Other Important Matters. The Act of a Religious Maniac. invention. Providence, Dec. 12.—Cyrus Barlrer, of Westerly, a young man while insane on the subject of religion, jumped from a windsw at midnight last night, ran to a wood pile, and with an axe chopped his leg nearly off. LATE NEWS. Diphtheria Spreading in Philadelphia. KNOWLEDGE OF THE ANCIENTS HaMiirbuho, Dec. 12.—So far as salary and emoluments are concerned, it is better to be an Attorney-General than a Gorernor in this State. The Governor receives a salary of $10,000 a year, but the attorney-general receives more than this. He gets a salary of $3,500 and $500 and expenses as a member ot th« board of uardons. This makes a certainty of $4,000. Then he receives a commission of live per cent, on all claims collected hy him, until the sum so received reaches $7,000, when, if there is any surplus, it is paid into the treasury. Tn 1881 the commission amounted to $7,342.04, of which $7,000 went to Mr. Palmer's bank account and the $642.94 to the treasury. This year the eomi;:irsioni cxceoded tho amouut allowed to Mr. Palmer by just $651.78. It is a remarkable fact that for at least seven years back the attorney-general always received his $7,000. It must bo borne in mind that this sum does not come out of the original claim, but is a sort of penalty placed on delinquent and law-loving corporations. It will thus be seen that it is an exceedingly strango sort of a year when the Attorney-General is left with less than $11,000 to his credit. As to the 5 per cent, commission, that has always been conceded, its constitutionality has never been questioned, and it is always made part of the judgment in claims awarded by the court. Gleaned and Condensed from this Morn- ing's Papers. Philadelphia, Dec. 12.—Notwithstanding the stringent sanitary rules to prevent the spread of diphthori», the disease ia making alarmiug progress. One hundred and fifty-five new cases have been discovered the past week. Deaths aggregate nearly a third of the number of cases. The Debt of Modern Time* to (lie Past—An- Twenty persons are ill with gmall-pox at Minneapolis. cient unit .Modern Progress. We talk of modern progress ; we gaze with pride upon this invention and that, which we fondly believe originated in cur day and generation ; we consider ourselves, in fact, tui generis. So short sighted are we, or so heedless, that we fail to acknowledge our debts to the pa it. The railroad dates back to Egypt, says Wendell Phillips, and Arago claims that they had a knowledge of steain. Humboldt in his ''.(Josmosf' says that the Chinese 1,000 years beforo our era had magnetic carriages with which to guide themselves across the gro.it plains of Tartary, on the principle of the compass. The Komaus used movable types; a magnifying lens of rock crystal with true optical lens—the origin of the microsoopo—was fonnd in Niuevah; experiments foreshadowiug photography began to be made more thau three centuries ago, tha principle of the stereoscope was kuown to Eu 1:', r. I'm tunnelling was anticipate,! by that under the Euphrates at Babylon. Aristotle's mental philosophy has hardly received any new suggestions or mark 'J improvements from modem thinkers. So-called spiritual manifestations, snjh as table-turning and spirit writing, have been practiced in China from time immemorial, before Confucius was born. Egyptian sculpture and hieroglyphs demonstrate the existence of mesmerism in tliose early days. Balaam evidently consulted a olairvoyaut— "a man in a trauce with his eyes opened." A man appeared before Aristotle wh9 could read on one Side of a brazen shield what was written on the other. Plautus in one of his plays says: " What and although I were by my ooutinnal Blow touch to make l)im as if asleep ?" The principles of Fourierism are discussed in the "Confessions of Augustiuq." Even the iced cobblers, upon which we pride ourselves as origi.ial coucoctors, were described seven centuries ago: "A oup of snow water into which was sprinkled sugar, and mixed with it the juice of grape." Marcus Aurelius was in favor of a free government —to use his own words—" the idea of a polity ;u which there is the same law for all, i polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of Bpeeoh, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the goterued." In Pompeii, during the process of exhumation, a room was found filled with glass of every description—cut, ground and stained. The Neapolitans were cleverer in their imitations than we are to-day. Their glass gems deceived tue most practiced eyes, and the celebrated vase of the Geneva Cathedral, which was considered a solid emerald, and according to the iegend was the gift of Shaba's Queen to King Solomon, aud the cup out oi which the Savior ate his last sapper, was discovered to be no precious stone at all, only a clever, wonderful imitation. Leather cut in ornamental designs for wall decorations were found at Pompeii. Table draperies embroidered in applique were dis. covered in the tombs of Egyptian queens. Spectacles and several magnifying glasses must have been uned as fftr back as Ninevah's proud reign: how otherwise could an entire treatise op mathematics be engraved on a stone twenty inches long and ten wide? Cicero said he had seen the entire Iliad written on skin, so that It oould be rolled up in the compass of a nutshell, the writing of oonrse so line as to lie indistinguishable to the naked eye 1 The Pompeian red glowi as richly to-day as when put on by the artist who lived when Christ was born. Nero's retreat, built ovor fifteen hnndred years ago, flashes out the undimmed colors of its painted walls, when modern light is admitted, while our pictures and raiment fade during the lifetime of a generation. Damascus blades are as perfect to-dav as when they came from the makers' hands, eight centuries ago, yet our steel must be gilded before it can stand the atmosphere of Asia. We eat desiccated fruitFand fish and meat, with the pleased assurance that the process is an outgrowth of Yankee iugenuity ; but in tha tomb of the Ptolemies was found the desio. oated liver of the great woman Pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty. — Washington Htm l'hlladalphia Market*. Philadklphia. Dec. 13 The Duke of New Castle called on the Presi FLOUR—The market was dull and unsettled; Western at |5GO(&5.75, and patents at Si; 75; Penna. family $4.62@4.75}a; rye flour (4.146 @$4.4-1. WHEAT -TV market was quiet anil lC;'ver;"o 2 Western red Penna. red $1.1 bHj: Del .» long-berry red and .amber fl.10. CORN—The market was dull and irregular; steamer 88Mjo; mixed 84c.; No 8 mixed 7ii@72c. OATS- The market was good and Arm; No. 1 white 48c.; No. 2 do. No. 8 do. 4ttJ4c; No 4 mixed 44^c. RYE— Firm at. 6l@68c. Senator Mitchell has been made chairman of dent yesterday the Pensions Committee. The town of Warner, N. H., voted to exempt manufacturers from taxation for live EIGHT MEN INSTANTLY KILLED, years. It is reported ex-Senator Spencer, of Now York, has gone to Canada probably to stay till after the Star-route trials are ended. The Fate of a Party at Luncheon Around a Boiler When it Hurst. PROVISIONS—The market wan steady. LARID— • he market is steady; Kettle, #12©12.50 steam. S12.5t»; butchers'. $10.75@9H. Shawxf.f.tow.v, III., Dec. 12.—The boiler in A. J. Vincent & Co.'s saw mills, near this city, exploded this noon, killing eight men outright and fatally injuring one ether. The only employee who escaped was a colored man named David Griffin. He says that the mill had just shut down for dinner, and the men were seated around the boiler eating their luncheons. Not feeling hungry, lie merely took a biscuit and went to feed and water a yoke of oxen aliout 200 yards away. He had been abseiit only ten minutes when he heard a frightful report, and, turning, saw the bodies of the men and the tmbers and machinery Hying in all directions. Pieces of the immense boiler were scattered around for nearly a mile. The main piece took a northerly course above tho tops of tall trees. Striking the earth at a distance of 200 yards, it bounded, struck again fifty yards away, and went seventy feet further before it stopped. Another large piece weighing half a ton went in an easterly direction, passing harmlessly over a dwelling house, and coming down almost perpendicularly. It buried itself deep in the ground 300 yards away. The dead Uniies were picked up in different directions, 000, and even 900, feet from the scene. Tho namos of the dead are William Montgomery, Henry Hughes, Charles Glass, George Price, William Price, Charles Baker. William Holden, and Andrew Kennedy. Wayne Key, the engineer, is not expected to live. made simply to gratify the eye. Silas R. Kenyon, formerly a General of militia of Rhodo Island, suicidled by allowing a train to run over him near Elizabeth, N. J., yesterday evening. He left a letter saying he was in pecuniary difficulties, and tired of life. BUTTER—The market was firm and tending upward; Penna c eauiery extra and Western do. :tf(C£40e.; firsts 83® »7c. EUUS—The market was steady and command full prices: Penna. 29e^3nc.; CHEESE—'The market wis firm and good inquiry, best grades I8}|(££14c. HAY AND BTitAW—'Trie demand for bay is trilling, and prices are weak Straw is scarce and firm. Timothy, choice. $10.ft0tfni7 0 ■; do No. i.$Hi©lo.7S: do No. 2, $1 ©10; mixed, $13® 14; low grades. f!0(gD12; cut hay, r.ve straw, $l5(&jl»{; wheal straw. oat. straw *10. A Globe-Democrat man happened in while all this was going on and became an interested listener. After the bet had been settled and the party dispersed he asked the cigar dealer about the little trick of the trade he had just exposed. "It is a little tiling," he said, The National Republican proposes the word 44 national" be added to the name of the Ro publ'can party at the next National Convention, in order to admit tho opposition elc- "that is perfectly krown to cigar men, but not, I think, to tho crer.eral public, The popular idea is that everybody must smoko a Vbtir.TABLES—Choice potatoes are scarce and bring readily 68(g*70c p«*r bush. New York and * icnigau cabbage &C'fA per 100. Onion* are in large supply and neglected at $l.A5(&?5c per bbl for best yellow. PETROLEUM-Steady; refined 7% @8 WHISKEY- ments in the South. strong, that is, a dark cigar. Fully nine-tenths Tho amendment will be offered in the House to Mr. Kassan's Civil Service Reform bill providing the regulations shall apply to all clerks and employees of all classes and grades in the service of the Senate and House. This would, if adopted, add a considerable number of employees to the list for which a fixed terra is of my customers want dark cig; firs, in the be lief that they are strong. It is all nonsense. Tho body of all cigars made in this city is the same in color and strength. Flour—patent  Flour, straight brands Plttstoa Wholesale Markets. Hut why do manufacturers practice the Buckwheat flour 3.0C@3.1U deceit ?" asked the reporter The Attorney-General's department makes a quarterly report to the State Treasurer of all money* collected and paid over by the Attorney-General, and does not keep, even for a day, any moueys collected as claims In the »os«ion of 1881, Representative Fenlon, of OMUbria, offered a resolution, which passed because just then the members were aot regarding Mr. Palmer with much affection, to the effect that the Attorney-General report to the House the number of claims placed in his hands during the years 1879-80, and the amount collected upon the name and paid over to the State Treasurer, and the amount of commissions received and retained by the Attorney-General for the same period. It wan found by the report, which was promptly made, that he had received $21,000 commissions for bimself up to that time and had paid considerable overplus into the State treasury. This included several months after the close of the fiscal year on the first Monday in October, 1880, but it does not appear from the statement that he#collected much as commission during the remaining mouths of the fiscal year of 1881 The first year of Attorney-General Palmer's incumbertcy he collected nearly the maximum of his commission in two cases against Kilgore, treasurer of Allegheny county, which had been pending during Attorney-Goneral Lear's administration. Mr. Lear was also fond of commissions, and stated before the legislative committee which investigated the Union Transportation tax affair, that he wouM not have accepted the office of Attorney- General had he not known of the existence of the act allowing him commissions. " Because tlioj have to gratify the public provided Flutter CheeHe, new Oatn, new 80® tt vm u It onlr s1 taste. which is goverue1 entirely • Dv the eye sight fools The Corn Exchange of Toronto passed a resolution agreeing with the memorial of the Montreal Board of Trado in favor of the abolition of tolls on Canadian canals, with the exception the canals shall not be free to American Teasels except when destined to I'otatoes new, per bu, Chop and Feed  Meal  8J crD 1.70 1.70 smokers. Co you remember that old test of blindfolding a man aud putting a lighted and unlighted cigar in his mouth in quick succension? He cau't for the life of him tell which ii which. It's a perfect illustration. Nobjdy —that is, no old smoker, if he cannot see the fire and the smoke—can tell vrliethor a cigar is lighted or not It is just so with these dark wrappers. Blindfold a man aud h ■ could not ti'll the difference between a so-called 'dark ' cigar and a lightor one." Salt, coarse, per sack Salt, fine, per Hack... Salt, per bbl  1.50 1.65 1.50 Hay 17.00 " Bailed 18.00 Rye Straw 11.00 Turnips, per bu 40 Onions, " TOQl.CO Cabbage, per hundred, good 5.00@8.00 " fair to middling :i. oCD t.00 8 0 ©3.25 14 18 Canadian porta. DOLLS WORTH MANY DOLLARS. Rahy Fcitiof the Petted Babies t hat Coyt Apples, p«*r bu  Sweet potatoes, per bbl Turkeys and Ducks  Chickens  Knougli to make Papa's Head Hum. Said a doll dealer to a Journal reporter: "Tho value of the last few weeks' importation may be put at $600,000. Three hundred thousand dollars' worth are now In tho retail bhops to be sold to private customers for holiday presents to children. The rest will be .purchased from tho wholesale shops by outof-town dealers. Why, a ready-made doll's costume of ordinary elegance is worth $50, From the N. Y. Morning Journal " How do manufacturers darken the wrap pers f" asked the reporter. The Blacksmith Preacher. The Rev. Robert Collyer told a congregation at Springfield, Mass., that lie had made his way from the anvil to the pulpit. Fifty years aero he was a child in Yorkshire, England, with unlettered but industrious parents, who put him at the trade of blacksmithing. He worked eight years with an employer who died of drink, and ho thinks that it was only a love of reading which saved him from the same fate. His first preaching was as a Methodist exhorter, ami for the first ten yoar* of his ministration his income from that "There are two ways. Ouo is by 'sweating' the leaf in a brick oven filled with jets of steam. The steam meistens and the heat brings out, or rathor condenses, the nicotine in the tobacco, and when a;ain subjected to the air the leaf is found darkened. Another way is in the process of manufacture to shove the cigar through a sponge saturated with some coloring decoction. The latter is the way they darken the cheapor grades, such 119 this," and the dealer opened a box of fair-looking cigars, which, he said, were of a class sold for the use of negroes on the plantations in the south. ▲ Teacher Stabs Two Pupils , Cumberi.a so, 0., Dec. 12.—A fatal affray occurred here to day in the public school house between William Frazior, the teacher, and two of his pupils, John Hayes and Charley Luso The boys refused to recito their lessons and the teacher was vigorously remonstrating with them, when thoy knocked him down and jumped on him. As he was rapidly getting the worst of it, and none of the other scholars dared to interfere, he drew a knife and stabbed Hayes in the back, inflicting a wound from which the boy died in fifteen minutes. Luse was severely cut, and lies in a precarious condition. The teacher gave himself up and will be examined at Cambridge to- and such costumes are made for spring, summer, winter anil autumn, as a doll could not reasonably be expected to wear the same clothes tho year round. The banner doll in this shop is valued at $05. Her dress and jewels are veiy rich aud elaborate. '" source averaged seventy Ave cents a year, his living being, earned ua a blacksmith. He name to America with his bride in 1850, and during the panic of 1857 he carried a hod for a while. Twenty years ago ho became a sal aried preacher, truing over from the Methodists to the Unitarians, and lias since been very •Show me an economical doll." Certainly," said she; " here is one in make, and of tliat the government gets $Cj, so you see they can't be vety extra fine." The reporter lighted one, aud one puff of the smoke would have disinfected a small-pox hospital. Thoy coat $12 a thousand," he said, white satin, with a while satin capo trimmed with swan's down, poke bonnet ditto, silk stockings and kid slippers. It is $50. Here is an aesthetic doll in old cold plaid plush sacque, with a blue satin dress and red satin bonnet with 09trich tips; a mere matter of morrow. Wives Helping: Their Congressional Hus- Two Mills Shut Down. successful. bands. Philadelphia, Dec. 12.—A special dispatch says that the large Riverside Rolling Mill and the Triton Cotton Mill of Newcastle, Deiawnre, closed on Saturday last for an iadoiiu.to period, throwing more than 400 hailda out .if employment The cause of the closing of the iron mill is due to the dulness of the branch of the irou trade it is eugaged in, and th" cottop mill closed because the bands struck, oniug to a reduction of 11 per cent, in their The Most Delicate Scales. Washington Cor. ol N. Y. Sun. The reporter gasped and turning to the superintendent of the department, said, " Do these dolls go out of the slock alone?" In what ia claimed to be the most delicate pair of scales in tho world, according to the account given in the scientific papers, tie beams is mado of rye straw, and together with tho pans, which are made of aluminum, weighs only fifteen grains. In the most delicate scale heretofore mado tho beam and pan weighed sixty-eight grains—the beam being mado of '■lmuninum—and the instrument was capable of weighing to the one-thousandth of a grain. This new scale, however, weighs to the one As the air is darkened in the autumn with the wild geese Hying southward, so is Washington crowded with Congressmen's wives during the session. Every Senator's or Representative's wife who conies to Washington takes tlio notion into her head, at some time or other, that she is to bo a Aline. Hulaud, and help her husband up the slippery sleeps ol fame. Then they try their hand at manoeuvring, and such marplots as they are ! The only way the wifo of a public man in Washington can help her husband is by letting his political affairs judiciously alone. Somo womeu here have sense enough to do it—Mrs. Voorhecs, Mrs. Bayard, Mrs. Pendleton, and about two FIGHTING FOR A PULPIT. "No," said he; '"they require elegant trosaeuu boxes of toilet article*, trunks, baudboxen, &o. A tolerable wardrobe includes two oxtra dresses—one of fancy satin, tho other of white satin; a full lin# of u"drrwe*r; luce caps, fashionable hats, ncck-laces, eur-iinpp brooobei and a basket of flowers. Scrimmage With His Congregation. An African Mathoillnt Preacher has a Lee, Mass., Dec. 12.—Last week the Supreme Court decided that the Rev. Charles Ackworth was entitled to the pulpit of the African Methodist Church; but on Sunday, when he went to preach there, he found the door barred against him. He tried to enter the window, but was fired upon by Trustee Freeman and others. Mr. Ackworth smashed the window, and at last the door, entered, and held service, but before he gained possession a lively row occurred in which revolvers were irawn, and Mr. Ackworth was knocked down. He held services in the evening, and was undisturbed. The subject of liia sermon was " Victory." Both parties have applied for warrants, but Judge Pease declines to interfere, saying that Ackworth has a right to the pulpit. If the people do not like him they arc not obliged to attend the services, but they cannot lock the d»or against hira. Some wages. wardrobes are arranged hi handsome- boxes: others in trunks, ready, for starting. A fair wardrohe costs $12 : soma ara $9, a limited wardrobe for a very yonng doll in only Why a Boiling Mill Shut Down. Chicago, Dec. 11.—The steel rail mill of the North Chicago Rolling Mill at South Chicago, a very large concern, shut down today. This action is understood to be owing partly to the quiet state of the rail marker, partly to a. doubt about the tariff of Congress, and partly because no definite schedule of wag«8 for next year has beeu fixed. The furnaces are still in operation. The shutting down of the mill owued by this company in West Chicago was announced some time ten-thousandth of a grain. A piece of hair, ono inch long, on being woighed with this wonderful apparatus, was found to represent tho almost infinitesimal quantity of one 98 cents. A miniature bcdstoad wifli a brocade velvet spread and cardinal satin cushion costs $9, More luxurious couches for dolls cost $15 Cunning rustic cliairs are $3 aud $5. Brouzo high chairs secured in a manner "to prevent thousandth of a grain. others. Compelling People to be Pioua. Attacked by Siberian Bloodhouuds Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, being requested to enforce the Sunday laws of that city, re plied Unit he would not uudcrtako any such thing. "I bolievo iu Sunday as a day of rest,' said he, "but what is rest to one man maV be On Friday afternoon Mrs. David J. Ril.ter, of Bethlehem, wlien nenring the butchering establishment of Jacob Uugerer, on tho west sido of the town, lieard the growling of d*ys as Klie any active dolls from bumping or fulling out of them, are $8 unci $10 apiece. Lace curtained cradles for dolls which have uot yet been weaned may bo had for $9. but did not pay was on tli© public reached the Monocacy bridge when she was ly attention to it, labor to anothei. Rest is not simply doing No i scort Provided highway Sho had just nothing. but is a Change. A man silting at a What Bab Are Worth, -The value of Washington, Dec. it.—& dispatch was published in the papers this morning to the ofleet thut the Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise, desiring to journey south, and being afraid of u Fenian plot, had applied to and secured from our government an escort of ten men and an officer. Inquiry has been made at the department as to the truth of the story, and the reply is that they know nothing at all A Bad Indian bur, finds to refreshment in a stiff-back bond) in church on Sunday, i ho Sunday of the Puritan fathers wan beneficial to them because lesk all the week, occupied with mcutal la- babies lias at last beeu fixed, and the happy father of a numerous family may cast up the figures representing the cash valuatiou of bis progeny with as much celerity and ease as if they were so many rolls of leather or bushels of potatoes A chil l less than puuuc. Washington, Dec. 12.—An Indian agent pounced upon by two ferocious Siberian bloodhound* owned by tho Ungerers. Mrs Kilter was thrown to the ground and badly bilti'ii in What's the Matter Here t reports that a young Bannock Indian was caught in Cog's flouring mill and killed. The mill was afterwards tired, presumably by the boy's father, and hurned. The mill contained five thousaud bushels of wheat belonging to ShoHhone Indians, who are *ery indignant. The agent fears trouble. The Indian Commissioner ordered the arrest of the alleged From the N. Y. Sun. the face and left arm and shoulders. The dogs were driven oil by h number of citizens and the lady was assisted to her home they spent the week in outdoor labor, but men We fear that Brother Grover Cleveland is leas gifted with good sense than people have boon led to suppose. It is a pity—rather. of sedentary habits used to reverse the usage one year oltl is worth SU ; between oue and where Any attempt to compel the people of Chicago to be pious will fail, and it ought to. two years, ssilO ; two to three years, $28 j lier wounds were dressed by Dr. Roebuck, Her face and left shoulder and other portions of her body wero terribly lacerated. $10; seven years, $."D() four years, five years, $35 ; six years, .eight years, $(10 A Woman's Loko Chase.—Ad English woman chased her husband to Australia, and thence to China, and finally run him down iu this rouutry. When a mans runs away from his wife and takes her false teetb to spite lier he deserves to be run down.— Hiekeh Thanks to Johnnie Delaney nine years, $70 ; ten year, $90, and eleven years, $123. At least these are the valuations made by a baby insurance company of Cincinnati. The parents pay 5 cents per week for the insurance of their children. The rates for colored babies are twice ax maoh, owing to the darkey's two-fold ability for contracting contagious diseases. there about it The escort was to go witii incendiary From the Serantou Republican them as fur as San Antonio, Texas. A Narrow Escape. It is a pleasure to know that owing to the vigilance of the Senate Librarian, our Senators wifrnot tie scrubbed with common threedellar wagon sponges, neither will they havo to expectorate in uaadorued cuspadores at the Feather Weights Unable to Agree. James Focht, a Lehigh county miller, made a narrow escape from a fearful death a fewdays ago. Mr. Focht wore a long beard, and while at work at the machinery in the mill, the hair became entangled in the wheels and his head was being rapidly drawn in when by almost superhuman exertion he pulled away And saved his life, but left his beard Portland, Dec. 12.—There was received here Sunday and filed among other papers with the Supreme Ceurt yesterday a cable message containing the affidavits of two director* of the Oregonian Railway Company, to be used in a suit to remove Ellis G. Hughes from the attorneyship of the company. It numliered 008 words and cost the neat sum of A Cablegram that Cost Over $400- New Yohk, Dec. 12.—White and Fulljamcs, the feather weights, met yesterday to make a match, White haviug challenged the other to fight for $1,000 a side. The tiro agreed to fight within 100 mil"s of Pittsburg. Articles were drawn up, but before the siguing White said that he wanted to fight at 118 pounds, to which Fulljames protested that he could not get lower than 124 pounds. No match was made. A Pickled Lover.—A Wisconsin young man sat on a barrel of vinegar aud drummed with his feet. When they hauled him out of the broken staves and other debris he looked so muoh like a pickle that his sweetheart soured on him forthwith. next session. A New Way of Star time the Fire. DanoeroI'h Ebuor :--Just down the interrale, where the brake ferns grow rank, she placcd her easel and sat by it sketching from nature. " PlC ase, ma'aiu. Is that me you're drawing milking that cow in the picture ?" "Why, yes, my little man; but 1 didn't know you were looking." "Coz if it's me," continued tho boy. unmindful of From the AUentown Chronicle. Henry A. Flickinger, of Readiug, the Junior Fire Company's driver, has iuventod a machine by which the driver can start a fire in the engine from his seat A pipe is attached to the gas pipe in the cellar, and runs through the floor under the engine, with a spring attached to a lever, which is fastened to a cock in the Then there is a wira, or Mring, festsaed behind $425.00. Philosophic.—A poor philosopher put blacking on that portion of his stooking which showed through tbo hole in his boot, and then said: " It if the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest."—N. IT• Commercial Advrrtufr. Which Nobody Can Deny. A Ghoulish Deed. The Qarfleld Audit From the Scranton Republican. St. Anne's Locks. Que., Dec 12.- —The Washington, Dec. 12.—Certificate of awards made by the Garfield Board of Audit www fnmtMi »o the Beoresujr C* the An appropriation to "improve"' the editor of the Becord would be a great benefit to the people of WUIra»Berre. the artist's coufnsioD, "you've put me ou the wrong side of the cow, and I'll get kicked way off the lot."—Uarrti Register. dead house of the paftSh church at the upper end of the village, was entered last night bv robbers. The door was forced open with