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Oilieri Sou. Vf* mill 27 yonrlwnlb Wtrrct. Ukoiwia complains of too many dogs. West Virginia also sutlers, but the doga j>oll an immense vote. Imagine Colonel Ben doing Pittsburgh in ? Pullman blanket! And so proud uiftn relapses into bis primitive state. Mb. Eoan baa come over to spend St. Patrick's Day with us. Perhaps England will be wanting him to "come back to Erin." _____________ Unk difference between two statesmen is that Davis wanted to be married quietly, and Tabor didn't. Another difference is a little matter of about two hundred and twenty-five pounds, and Davis is quoted at $10,000 a pound. Tint Forty-seventh Congress has adjourn ed "for keeps," but a good many members thereof, loathe to let go the public teat, are hanging around Washington looking for comfortable pegs to hang themselves on. Tbey think Congress has only taken a recess. Mh. Poictkh's letter from the great New castle coal and iron district to the New York Tribune is of special interest to l.VTKLLiUKKCEit readers. It shows what natural resources England has for iron manufacturing, and what an immense start she has of us. It is against these tremen dous odds that the British free trader in vites our young country to compsts?an hvitation which is not very inviting. The Tribune is rendering a valuable service to the country through the splendid work of its skilled observer. Tiik exhibition to be hold at Louisville, beginning in August and lasting a hundred | days, gives every promise of success., Wheeling should bo there in such force as,' to do credit to her industries. Mr. Wharton I who is here in the interest of the ex- j hibition, has met with encourage ment. He ought to away with the assurance that Wheeling will be at Louisville with flying colors.I We have it in our power to do a big stroke of legitimate advertising at the exhibition, and in this day and country live cities and towns waste no good opportunity to bring themselves to tfrw front. Accobdjno to the report of the Agricul tural Department about 140,000 sheep were killed by dogs in 1882, From seven States and Territories there are no returns. The same authority gives $2.53 as the aver age value of sheep for the year?over $M0,000 worth of good mutton literally "thrown to the dogs'.' in a single year. But the amount was probably much greater. West Virginia's contribution is put down at 2,189, Ohio's at 14,709, Pennsylvania's at 5,380?22,984 for the three 8tates. West Virginia is hardly given credit for all she is entitled to, but it is worth our while to consider whetner we are not paying too high a price for our sport. Ohio probably heads the list. Ik the contractors come to time Wheel* log aqu Parkersburg will be joined with steel bands before the New Year, and no man fhall put them asunder. The River road will open up a fine country and Wheeling will derive great benefit from it. The road will not stop at Parkersburg. From there it will push on to Point Pleasant, making a through line to Charles ton and aiTording convenient connection with the Chesapeake & Ohio. But there is also an incidental advantage of scarcely less moment. The River road will tdd largely to the importance of Wheel* ing as a railroad center, increasing the tonnage to be moved each way. This is a consideration that will weigh with the pro jectors of enterprises having Wheeling in view. We want Northwestern and South western facilities, and we want Vander hilt's short line to New York. We want a union railroad bridge over the Ohio, so that any well disposed railroad may have a way to reach Wheeling, bring what we buy, take what we sell, and go on its way re joicing. This city has prospered with scant rail road facilities, but with every hamlet bid ding for railroads, with Pittsburgh fighting hard to keep us down, with so much de pending on economy and convenience of transportation, how long we can hold our own with what we have is a problem for us to consider. We can not force railroads to come here, but we can press our claims to consideration. We can show some in terest in our own welfare and let it be known that there is business here worth coming after. It is not the best polioy to "wait for something to turn up." Tiie Ltf1?'t(ure exhibited excellent Judgmeut in incmisliiK the rate of t?xaUon fiom twenty to twenty live oenu on each ono hundred dolium value of properly for Bute purpoaea. Th!? wu tho rate of taxatlou up to 1873, when it wu reduced to twenty ceuta. lu rouaeuucnce of thin reduction tho receipt* at the Treasury have been below the requirements of the public service, bo that a debt of ?overlAJO.OUO htx accumulated. Upon thU Indebt edness the Utate is now paying interest. It is cconomy to the taxpayeuto have tbe rate of taxa Hou to the expenses of Suite government ?o u to save paying iuterest on borrowed mouey. The lucreased iate only applies to the year 1HW, bow aver. It should have been continued for 1884 and outfit never to go below that tigine.?Huntingdon AiLttrtlm, The Legislature would have exhibited more excellent judgment if it bad levied a tax sufficient to pay back money borrowtd from a bank and now unlawfully owing, and the money unlawfully taken from tbe sehool fund, to meet the "the expenses of the State government" and "to save pay* Ing interest on borrowed money." This we urged the Legislature to do, and this Republicans in that body were in favor of doing, but the majority could not screw its courage up to that point. It was well ?known that an increase of five cents for one jear would not be enougb, but the Demo cratic majority wu afraid to go further, lest it ceaso to be the majority. The debt, ac cording to the auditor's, report, wu $267,* 000, and the Legialature wu content to let that stand in plain violation of tbe 0on? ?citation. We agree with the Admtixr that "it is economy to have the rate of tax ation equal to the expensee of the State Government," but the Legialature could not be brought to that view. The Intklu> 4XNCBB hopes to have a hand in the elec tion of a Legislature that will not be afraid to be honest and deal squarely with thi j*opU. DEATHLY DAMPNESS. THE LOWER OHIO FLOODS. TheDevattatlon tod Detraction Wrought by the Wateri?The fllnlnilppl Ortiflsn?The Da.Vr?*.>'alt Harder Trial atUalon* tonn-titnrral Kiwa Note?. Evansville, March 13.?Mayor Jacob, of LouiBville, who went down the river to distribute money to the sufferers by the Hood, sends the following report' of his trip: The first point of inquiry was at Uniontown, where it was found that $1,000 bad been sent by John Shiileto, of Cin cinnati; $500 by James G. Bunnell; this $1,500 being the only foreign aid received by the town. The impressions were that Uniontown was badly alUicted, .though Mr. J. C. Hamilton informed Mayor Jacobs that the wants of the needy were being met; he seemed disinclined to accept aid. Mayor Jacobs, however, gave him a check for $800, expressing the hope it would be judiciously spent Raleigh, a very small settlement, was found substantially annihilated, except two families. The balance of the haniet had retired in the country. Mayor Jacob offer ed these two remaining families $800. They relusetl unless the balance of the in habitants shared in the benelh, among them two colored families. Air. Jocobs thereupon awarded them $400, which will be equally divided amoug all thoae suffer ers. At this point the generosity of the remaining families deserved equally gen erous treatment. Captain Dameron will see that the money is properly applied here. At Bhawneetown while the work of the flood was apparent it did not impress us as beiog as complete and far reaching as has been announced. Many houses were re moved from their foundations will yet be serviceable, and the town appears through out thrifty. Like Kentucky, .we found Illinois had abandoned her river towns to the charity of outsiders.. Mr. Jacobs offered to leave a sum commen surate which would appear necessary to the towns, but he was told the people were getting on nicely. He left $500 to the order of Mayor Millspaugh with instructions to call on him if further aid should be needed. It was our judgment that Casey villa and Uniontown proportionally have been more severely stricken thau Shawneetown. JUSSISHU'J'i FLOODS. , Mkmi'iiis, March 13.?The river con tinues to decline steadilv now. Tho marks are 34 feet 0 inches on the gauge; total fall 13 inches from the highest point reached this year. A force of men have been sent to clear away the debris along tho Mem phis & Little Bock Railroad, and make all repairs to the track, found necessary. If the water continues to decline' the travel over that route will be reeumednext week. Tho Appeal's Skipwitb, Miss., special nays: Dennis levee, near Australia, in Bolivar county, is reported cut. It is in the upper part of Bolivar county. Major Hellem, our chief eugineer, is having sacks tilled to-day and intends closing the break. TIIK Dllit.l 1'KIAIj. Rrnaillouil l??i?!u|nii<'uHi -TheDrprm IIy of Hie Jlurdnrr. Uniontow.i, Pa., March 13.?-Testimony in the Dukes murder trial was resumed promptly at 0 o'clock this morning. The defendant, in company with his counsel, exhibited none of .that gravity which Bhould characterize his demeanor. Resting his head on his left arm, he idly sketched diagrams during the day, except when he used his lead pencil for a tooth-pick. Im mediately to the left of your correspondent sat the bereaved widow of Captain Nutt, st times solaced by her sister in-law, Mrs, Stephen Nutt. Both are attired in the deepest mourning. The nervous system of the former was under a severe strain all day. Her limbs quivered involuntarily, aud theBilent, burning tears were perceptible to the close observer. The court room is packed, and a well planned strategy is accessary to admission. John Sturgeon identified the deadly revol ver used by the assassin. Mrs. Nutt, widow of Captain Nutt, was recalled by the prosej cution, and identified a letter offered in evidence by Hon. W. H. I'layford. It was shown to her by lier husband. There was second letter which Caploin Nutt gave to Witness the evening before he was killed. Clark Breckenridge, nephew of Captain Nutt, recalled, testified that by request ot Mrs. Nutt he was made custodian of the two letters referred to; that was on the !Mth of December last. Hubsequently witness gave them to Mr. Hapwood, woo turned tnem over to Hon. C. t. Boyle. II, H. Bowman, cashier of the National Bank of Payette county, was called for the purpose of identifying the defendant's handwriting, which he did. The signa ture to the inlamous missives was positively identified as that of N. L. Dukes. Hon. W. H. Playford here introduced in evi dence Dukes'two letters to the deceased, dated December ith and 1Mb, for the pur pose of showing the animus and mollves which led to the fatal slayiof. .Objected to aa irrelevant and not tending to prove any ol the matters alleged to he offered. A very long controversy ensued between counsel. Mr. I'layford dwelt upon the character of the letters, wbicb FOB IIO.VSTBOBITY BKGUAHKO nKsntllf 10*, The objection was overruled by Judge Willson, and there was audible approba tion from the audience. Mrs. Nutt and her sister-in-law at this juncture retired. Dukes' letters were then read by Mr. Play ford. The one dated December 4th is not St for these columns. Writing to the deceased about his daughter, Dukes used language which revealB dopravity. He flrat met Miss Nutt at a Presbyterian church. He might well curso the oc casion in the light of the letters. After stating to Captain Nntt that his dangbter was the prettitat, nicest and most modest girl he ever met, he ?oee on to tell about her swarm of followers, and mentions ju an unsavory way the names of Sat l'rey, Alonao Hagan, Prank Hellen and K. P. Kennedy, Dukee n^taays in his epistle that be determined to test her, (Mis Nntt), and found that ehe yielded to nil solicitations like wax in his arms. Following this la arefisotion oa JIia? Nutt'e CM racier, which puts her in tho light ol a common prostitute. Defendant wrote to deceased that, after consider able bandying, he extracted a oonfegeiop to this effect. Qroes remarks are made ?bout Ml* Mutt's personal adornments The father is told the harrowing tale ol hia daughter's lewdness. Her favors were in discriminately extended, says (he man who seeks acquittal Irom his peers. The concluding portion of the first letter la to the effect that Miss Nutt waa about to be eome a mother. The writer then pays tri bute to her musical talent, and personal beauty. The next paragraph says; "Save y0?n the Utter dat?fDecember 10th, which la in reply to Capt. Nutt, tho accused mur derer state* he is not the author of Mia N utt'a troubles, and bnnds her aa a wanton woman. These two letters are more rowum ix rimeniciKO itmucaanriiuiii against the prisoner than all tbe witnesses lor tbe OoptKOPffNJtb combined, The tee timony of James Nutt, eon of deceased, was ruled inadmissible, and the case for the Com monwealth closed. At 11 o'clock, R. H. Lindsay opened for the defense, which would be hard to define. Counsel will try to prove that Dukes fired the fatal shot in self defense. Hosts of witnesses, from all parts of the State, are on hand to testify as to his good character. There were no important developments at the afternoon session. WHAT 1>1D COL. KKX. WEAR? A ftlerplDK Car Burued no 111* PmbijI* vnnla Koad-Narrow Eacapc*. Pittsburg if, March 13.?Passengers com ing West by the morning express on the Pennsylvania Kailroad had a startling ex perience on the Allegheny mountains, at Wilmore, several miles this side of Cresson, shortly after five o'clock this morning. The destruction, by fire, of a Pullman sleeptaK car attached to a train, every berth of which u few minutes before had been occupied by slumbering travelere, was the alarming event which provoked their feare. For a time there was wild excitement and fright, but fortunately the fire was not at* tended by either a loss of life or even the slightest injury to anyone. The traiu was delayed, however, only about twenty minutes at the Bcene of the casualty, and after, with all its original passengers on board, continued its journey, reaching the Union depot about two hours behind time. Those who had occupied the car, all of whom hid lost the greater portion of their clothing, were taken care of by the other passengers on the train. There must have been a lack of clothing all around, however, as many of the luck less travelers when they arrived at the Union depot were wrapped in blankets, in liou of more fitting raiment A few of them . repaiiea at once to the city hotels, while others, who found friends to help them, at once con tinued their journey west. Among those who were in the car were General Dudley, United States Pension Agent; General Calkins, member of Congress from In diana; Colonel Ben Wilson, member of Congress lrom West Virginia; Colonel Davidson, of Beaver, Postmaster Porter, of Connellsville; K. W. Warren, of Allen town, Pa., and others. The above gentle men. as well as the others, lost all, or nearly all, their personal property includ ing jewelry, clothing, Jcc. Mr. Pallern, the gentleman above mentioned as having dis covered the fire, lost a valise containing some drafts for large amounts and $800 in money. BIEW KAII.HO.tU4. A Line That In l'roponed to Honrh Mor gait tow ti, W. Va. Pittsburgh, March 18.?The leader this evening says: A number of gentlemen in this city are about to run a railroad from this city to Morgantown, W. Va. The agreements are signed and they are in a position to withdraw the suits against Hop kins, who was the President of the Pitts burgh Southern railroad, and who was al leged to have taken fifteen miles of the railroad which had been graded by the farmers who resided along the line of the road. If all the detuila are arranged satisfactorily, the prospects are It):it the Southern Railroad will bo extended to Morgantown. There re mains but the necessity cf dealing with the Baltimore & Ohio people who own the franchise. II they should not desire to en ter into the scheme terms will be arranged and the road built and operated indepen dently as a connection. This morning a gentleman who is connected with the new road was seen by a reporter, and he stated "there was no doubt in the least but what theroadwould be built,andthatitwouldbe a great benefit to the tarmers, and also would be the means ot contiibutlng to the de velopment of the great mineral region ol West Virginia, now only drained by the waters of the Kanawha river and the Monongabela. The latter stream drains an entirely undeveloped region, rich in mineral and timber. The coal, iron and lorestaol the mountain ranges in West Vir ginia have caught the eye of such shrewd statesmen as Hon. James G. Blaine, of Maine, and ex Senator Davis, ol West Vir nia.botbol whom have with others quietly bought up all the marketable property in that region. They are also largely in terested in the Ohio outlets, and tho only thing remaining is for Pittsburgh to pitch in and permeate that which Is contiguous territory with a system of railroads that will tend to make this great city of iron, coal and glass the grand central depot of the development for West Virginia's riches. A meeting ol somo of the most prominent business men in this city will be held next Thursday tor tho purpose ol lorining an ortrani tation to build the new railroad to Mor gantown, and furthermore the gentle men stated that if the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company did not build the rail road to Morgantown that these business men would, so there is not the least doubt but what the people of that section of the country will have a railroad. Jt is also very likely that the Baltimore A Ohio Company will come to terma with us, as the new road is a more direct route to Morgantown than what (heir's is, and passes through a much better part of the country, David DavIm' Harrince, Fayhttiviu.8, N. C-, March 13.?Ex Senator David Davis was married here to day to Mies Addle Burr. WxshraoTox, D.O., March 13.?The lady whom ex-Senator David Davis, of Illinois, wedded to-day is described by persons who met Iter in this city during the past season as sn ejoaedlnglv pleasant,Intellec tual looking woman, about 'M yaara old. She ia neither blonds nor brunette, but a happy medium, with chestnut brown hair and light complexion, and welgba about one hundred and Wpty pounds. Sheisa cousin of Representative-olect Wharton Green, of North Carolina, and si dm the death ol the Iatter's wife, Miss Addle Burr has looked alter the interests of the motherleaa children. During last winter's festivities Miss Burr chaperoned Mr. Green's eldest daughter at numerous so cial gatherings and made hosts of friends among the society people of the Na tional Capital. Jiot a ball was given, however, of her prospective marriage to Judge Davis, and the frequent statements of the event have been generally discredited until the actions of the groom during the past week conSrmed tbe reports of the aflair. BRIEF tA?CR?MB. A Harriiborg, Pa., dispatch says: The House passed a bill to prevent delay or discrimination hy railroad or transporta tion companies. In Jemmine county, Ky., Monday night, George Allender shot Fremont Oaks through the bowels. Tho wound will, probably prove fatal. It la diacovered that Emit, ot Schenec tady, a broker, failed, and haa fled. He victim lied partlea of Schenectady andJer ranesburg of not lass tbsn >350,000. A Lynchburg dispatch aavsi Col. I.. D. Marye and R, T. Hubbard, a prominent lawyer of Richmond, were about to engage Id a duel. Marye was arrested. Hubbard tu not to be found. Tbe Lebanon, Fa., Olaam of tbe Re formed Church of the United States found the Rev. Alex. 8. Keiser, of Pottaville, Pa., guilty of unlawful Intimacy, breach ol promise of marriage and falsehood, and deposed him from the Christian mmlatry, yesterday. THE COUNTRY'S CROPS. THEIR CONDITION AND PROSPECTS. Tko VfttUj B?port?Jfo ObiUelM Left to latutaa with thi t'?rrjlnjof ll Uafevora* blaOallook for Wkait?Tba Bmiou wkj?ProalN of Utkir Canala. Philadelphia, March 13.?Dispatches to the Prm from the grain raising and grain growing sections of the country, present a highly interesting array of facts concerning the movement and condition of crops, present and J*ospective prices, etc. AH through the Northwest the weather, during the week, has been generally clear, with some sudden and sharp changes in tem perature. All the railroads in the States, and most of those in Canada, now report difficulty from snpw blockades and floods entirely removed. The country roads, in nearly all directions, are in fair condition for travel, so that, so far as transportation is concerned, there is nothing to interfere with the carrying of grains. TIIE OUTLOOK IJf WHEAT. The week closed with a record of a fairly steady market for wheat There have }>een moderate fluctuations in both direc tions, but, on the whole, the tendencies have been to rather easier prices. Foreign and seaboard markets have shown a much quieter tone, and the only strengthening elements have been the results of local speculation in Milwaukee and Chicago, cniefly stimulated by the reports concern ing the condition of growing winter wheat. Observers in a position to be well informed utill insist that the outlook is more or less unfavorable, and the sharp changes in the temperature during the week are regarded as having an injurious tendency. At the same time, it ia proper to reiterate the statement made in these despatches, last week, that statements concerning the growing crop are not entitled to full weight of iufluonce; and, as has been the case many times before, it is not at all bn* likely that fairly good weather between now and the opening of spring will show that the growing plant is hardy, in spite of present reports. The current opinion among millers in the Northwest is that the present price of wheat is too high. Owing to this fact, and the proportionately low price of flour, sev eral of the large flouring mills at Minne apolis have subtended operations. It is expected that their example will be fol lowed here and at other points. One large Milwaukee mill has already shut down, and othera will probably do the same this week. THE MOVEMENT IK COK.V. In view of the lessened activity in the export demand for corn, the strength of the market for that grain has been a sur prise to many dealers. The range for No. 2 corn for present and future delivery has been well maintained. This, Tiowever, finds some explanation ia the small pro portion of corn grading No. 2. Leading and well posted observers believe that there will be an improvement in this re spect as the season advances; but, it is evi dent that sound, dry corn will not be over abundant during the coming Summer. A great part of the heavy corn belt raised No. 2 corn last year; and, from Kansas and other sections where the corn was choice, liberal supplies were drawn out by high prices in December and January. All re ports go to show?as already intimated? that there has been much leas corn cribbed, during the present year, than for many years past. The low grade corn will have an influence on the price of No. 2; but taking all things into consideration, specu lators and dealers now regard the future of the corn market with much more confi dence. THE TRADE IN OATS. The seaports report a continued outward movement of oats, so that while supplies continue fairly large there is no accumula tion of stock. Milwaukee is almost bare of stock, and there has been no appreciable increase at Chicago, the amount on hand remaining about the same as at last week's report. The report at the close of the week shows an increase in the total visible sup-; ply of the country of 4117,000 bushela, but private information, as well as published figures, \b to the effect that stocks in East em markets and jobbers' bands are light. The increased supplies of the last week or two, instead of breaking prices as has been expected,peem to be absorbed and in crease in the consumption demand, and there are no indications that supplies are in excess of demand. At Chicago there is! considerable talk of a contemplated man ipulation of the market for May delivery, but the relative quotations for the present and future do pot yet show any special effect, from thin nairna. ins provision MAiucrr. Reports from >11 directions aliow that the provision market has been unsettled, with frequent fluctuations, only moderate, how ever, In extent Small supplies of hogs tend to impart confidence In the futurei but the trade lias been apprehensive of the movements of larger packers, and all Borts of reasons as to their action have pre vailed. The general impramion is that, with the winter season closed, and the small movement of hogs it high prices, packers have reason to hold their stocks with conBdence, and will bo likely to do so. Lard, especially, being bo light in stock, and having an export outlet not open to other products, shows a strong position, and is believed to be in strong hands. ARK THE BlkUors BO.INEk? Wllnt I>?dui>jIvihIu flflhodlil Preach er* W?ul lo Uiitiw. Puli.ADM.rnlA, March J3.?The Metho dist Annual Conference, which meets at Lancaster to-morrow, will be of general interest to Methodlata on account of the many and important (pastoral changes to be made in many of the churches. Time was when the lllihop and his Oouncll of Presiding Elders from the different dis tricts made up the list of appointments without allowing outside interference. Things ?re changed now and the large churchea make arrangementijwlth promi nent preachers in advance of the meeticg ol Conference, which are expected to be ratified by the Bishop, and there is a pretty row if this expectation Is not re Bishop Fosters few years ago created Jpiite accusation in the Philadelphia Con erence by putting his foot down flatly upon this encroachment of the Episcopal prerog ative. He declined to accent the eut-and drled programme presented to him. At that session the Conference passed a reso lution requesting the Bishop to inako no transfers of preachers from other to the Philadelphia Conference, because there' were already more preachers In this Con ference than appointment, and some of the brethren were oeund "to get left" The Philadelphia Conference preachers have thus prevented, to a considerable extent, the admission of men from abroad, This year there la a prospect of another claah between the big-church-arrangement plans and the lesser lights of the Conference, who are thus crowded into the smaller ap pointments. "The Bishops were bosses once," re-, marked a well-known Itinerant as be ran till eye along the list ol salaries pabUahed in the minutes; "bat the wealthy churches boss the Bishops now." A resolution will probably be passed as soon as the Confer ence meets like the one upon which Bishop Foster acted, asking Bishop Bowman, who will preside this year, to transfer no preacher to this Conference unless a preacher of equal grade is transferred out. The result remains to be seen. AN ANIMATED HKNACf. The Wonder/til Maliuly That A fillet m a Yoauff flout hero Ln<l. 1 Charlotte, N. C*., March 13.?A. M. Wilhelm, of No. 10 township, Cabarrus county, whose case is attracting in creasing attention, passed through Concord on Monday night with his sick son John, aged 20 years, on the way to Salisbury to oonscilt Dr. Wilhelm in regard to the extraordinary malady with which his son was afflicted. It is a most peculiar case, and the disease is what the doctors "hyperesthesia." An ordinary bathing tub can be tilled with cold water, and the boy's feet placed therein, and in less than ten minutes the water will be made so hot that one can feel the heat through the staves of the tub. The boy suffers agony as if lie had his feet in a bed of coals all the time, and was car ried from his father's house to Salisbury with bis feet in a tub of water. Between his houvo and Conconl Mr. Wilhelm had to change the water four times, and shortly, after being changed each time it would' become hot' again. At times the pain Btifferod by the boy is almost bevona en durance. Morphine used in treble doses lias no effect upon him, Vut at times whisky is used to good advantage. He has been suffering about one month. Mr. Wilhelm is running a steam mill and this boy is his chief help. On the day that this malady appeared one of his little brothers was at the engine, and by chance a very strong head of steam was put on. The machinery! was soon in vio lent and rapid motion, eo much so that all left out the little fellow, who climbed on the engine and was at the steam gauge trying to regulate matter. The other Soy, John, coming up and seeing the Perilous condition of his little brother, astily put up a ladder aud mounted it for the rescue, but up6n reaching him the rocking of the boiler aud engine was so ereat that he could not get the young fel low down, who was manfully trying to manage the gauge. The machineiy was finally stopped and everything righted. The excitement and strain upon John's nervous system were, in this case, supposed to be the formation of his disease, as he was attacked the same day with a strange, stinging sensation in his arms, apd from that to nis lpgs and feet, where lie is now suffering. Tho idea of a man's feet being so warm as to heat cojd water in ten min utes is puzzling the medical fraternity, un less they can connect the shock and scare at the. engine with it insome way. A NKW OCCAM VKNMKL. ? Trial Dome-Deck NlenniNlilp?Oroikl Hp red and Nnfoly Claimed. Nkw York, March 13.?The Meteor, a dome-deck Bteamship, said to be tho first one ever built, is,at Pier1 No. ?$, East river. She was modeled and patented by A. Perry Bliven for the American Quick Transit Steamship Company, of Boston, and has cost $08,000. By reason of the dome deck, Mr. Bliven believes that greater speed and safety can be obtained at a much lees cost for fuel and management than from Bhips of the ordinary pattern. He said yesterday that ocean steamers of this modei, carrying as many tons as the City of Kome, could be built here from American material, and with American labor, at two-thirds the cost of that vessel, and -be run at half the expense, and cross tho ocean twice every fortnight. The-princi pal object in Hie construction of snips of this kind, Mr. Bliven said, was to present the least amount of resistance below the surface of the water. In regard to safely, the Meteor was so constructed that if launched when loaded, in any position, she would immediately right herself. Her extreme length ie lo(i feet; the extreme beam, 23 feet, six inches; length on the water liue, 1$6 feet; depth of hold, 17 feet. She has 17 feet beam at the water line. The tonnage capacity is 554 tone, the ma chinery displacing 1G0 tons. After a few trial tests it is proposed to cross the ocean with this ship, for which purpose 180 tons of coal will be carried?fiuifloi ent to make the return trip. The draught aft with the coal in is 11 feet six lnchee, and it Is 0 feet11 inches forward. It is built of oak, hackmatack and hard pine. It has a solid oak keel and keelson the whole length, U feet in depth. All the machinery was planned by Mr. Bliven. The boiler, as a whole, has been tested, and the .pressure found equal ta 1,000 pounds to the equare inch, while In sections iris 2,060 pounds. The working pressure will be 050 pounds. The engine has four cylin ders, of wiiiuh two are hiuh pressure and two low pressure. ThetsnijftU of ham mered steel 7 J inches in diameter, of which the tension strength is 75,000 pounds. It is supplied with a four-bladed phosphor bronze wheel, with forty-three square feet of flange surface. "AMD VTILL TIIKYCOVF..** Nenrly Two ThnnNnml KnilicnintN land ed at C'umiIc Unrdcn VcNicrilii}', New York, March 13.?The iiumber of emigrants'arrived at Castle Garden yes terday was larger than on any other day this season, being 1,006. Aa many of the people who landed on Saturday and Sunday were still in the Garden the new arrivals to-day censed the place to be over crowded. The arrivals to-day were aa fol lows: No. of Ntmo of itwnihlp. Where from. Ptwenge'i. aeramila ...-Uu'rpooL fivM HamwunU. H.rabutf J,.. ?U Arixoa.,.. Liverpool 400 Tom.:.... ? .....? tis The Superintendent of the Labor Bureau anil his assistant* were hard at work icg iatcring the names ol tho emigrants seek ing employment. Tho applicants em braced nearly all classes of skilled work men and laborers, but the great majority were farm hands. It is expected that the arrivals during the present weak will aver age fully one thousand per day, as all the steamship companies report heavy en gagements for passenger accommodations on the vessels now on the voyage from Eu rope for this port. t'ubloM Mcollng. ? > Washington, March 13.?The only mem bers of the Cabinet present at the meeting to day wero Secretaries Krelloghuysen, Teller, Chandler and Linooln. Secretary Folger was too ill to attend. The Postmas ter General snd Attorney General are out of the city. It is the general Impression among officials at the Treasury Department that Assistsnt Treasurer V yman will be appointed to jucceed Treasurer Gllflllan. The President haa said he will be guided entirely in this matter by the Secretary of the Treasury. Ad l?p?i1HtXmiira. PrmiUKaii, I'a., March 13.?The Win dow Glaas Worker's Association ol North America, with headquarters here, are pre paring a bill to be presented at the opening ol the nut session of Congress, making.it an ofTeuM, punlshsble by floe and im prison msnt, to Impqitany clan of work men under a contract to titvk for certain wages for any given length ol time. ENVIOUS ENGLAND. PORTER'S PRESENTATIONS Of the Labor Hltutloi !b EiRlwd-Th* Cotl Sup p!j-TbeAdvtaUcMOfKaglaid Our Xmti- jg lea?TheVonopolltaofGrtatBrlUIi In Ore Mian-Cheap Labor. Mr. Robert P. Porter, member o! the late Tariff Commission, writes from Middles borough ail interesting letter to the New York Tribune on the development and re sources oi England's peat coal and iron district Mr. Porter says: I come now to a district which in I860 produced 35,000,000 tons of the 147,000,000 tons of coal produced in the United King dom, or one quarter ot all the coal; and over 0,000,000 tons oi the 18,000.000 tons ol iron ore produced in the United Kingdom in that year, or more than one-third oi all the iron ore. The relative importance ot this district in its production oi jilgiron may be Been troro the following statement of the output for 1882, given me this morn ing by Mr. Edward Williams, President of the Iron and Steel Association of Great Britain. Toul proluciionof District. ? plj Iron for 18SA lotia. ClMcllljd.... lffioo W?tComiKrUnX!(i?".?" 'assaos fouclx jS'St* North Wal?............ - South SmirortMUrw KoiOi 6iatfo:iW>ire...^M -A 'ii. \^??:::=;=::=:=:: I)--rby*alro and Notta - ?0*475 O^ou^tmiilre; wiiuUlre, etc 47.000 Total...-..- - - M**7 Within this region, which is full of in ternal anil of economic importance to Americans, is the great coal field of Dur ham and Northumberland, the oldest worked mines in England,ssvetto-day the most prolific. This area, comprised an ex posed coal-field of 400 square milea and a concealed area of 223 square milts, poss esses some of the most important coal seams worked in Great Britain. The rivers Blythe, Tyne and Wear naturally give their names to the three great divisions of the coal-Held. The Blythe coal field, the Tyne coal Oeld^and the Wear coal fleld are really one, extending Irom near Wark wortn, at the mouth of the River Coquet, on the north, to near the north bank ol the Tees (within bix miles of Barnard Caslle) on the south?an expanse of nearly fifty miles iu length by twenty milea in breadth; its greatest diameter be ing near the centre, along the course of the river Tvne, narrowing iu the north after passing the river Blythe. From the Coquet, near Wnrkwortb, to the river Tyne, the North Sea limits the coal-field to the east. To mine toe So.OOJ.OOO tons of coal annual ly produced in this district, in 1880, 95,000 persons were engaged, making an uverage ofaboutonoton ul coal per day for each man, or 385 tons a year if we include Sun day. Of ihe 05,000 about 7(1500 are em ployed under ground. Wagts have fluc tuated in the Isst twenty years as greatly as the price of coal, which averaged in win don coal markets in 180018i. 4d. or $1.00 a ton, to 30a !kl or 37 70 a ton in 1873, and gradually decreased until the average price tjr the year 1880 was 14s 1 Id, or about a ton. A sliding Bcale has been adopted by which the price per ton' paid the men varies with the maiket price?a maxi mum and minimum rate being fixed, bo great has been the fluctuations that in the fast decade -both , of the rates have been reached." According to the employers in formation the miners, in 1870, were paid 4s. 8d. or $1.12 a day for ail average output of 4.07 tons oi coal, and 4s. 8}d. in 1878, or a farthing more, for an average output of 402 tons, being a decrease ol 10 per cent in the quantity of work done for the same wages. Certain it is that the earnings in this dangerous and disagreeable work do not exceed, at the present time, 5s. or $1.20 a day for a steady day's work. The available coal remaining in this great Northern coal field is estimated at upward ot ten thous and million of tons. At the present rate of production the supply will last 280 years. 1 CLEVELAND IRON. So much for the coal supply of this dis trict. Now for the Cleveland iron mines, which are included in the area 1 am con sidering. The existence of an iron ore on the northeastern coast of Yorkshire ap pears to have been long known; indeed the constant discovery of iron slag on the hills of Cleveland bIiowb that ores were worked in remote antiquity. About thirty years ago local iron masters began to employ the Cleveland ore to supplement the supply of, ores to their furnaces. It answered well and soon it was found that the Cleveland Hills were full ol Iron. Then began the remarkable development of the district which reminds one more of thedeveop ment of the industrial towns of the United States than of anything in the history of British industry. From a place of 7.000 peo ple in 1851, Middlesborourgb lias in thirty years leaped to 00,000, and the whole sur rounding district is a marvel of industrial energy. Ihe area of the Cleveland Hills con taining deposits of iron ores extend on the northern escarpment from Orinesby, near Middlesborough, to.the coast,and southerly to the Eskadaie and Rosedalo valleys, the workable portion of the ore being found most fully developed in the northwest portion of the area, diminishing both in the thickness of the beda and the quality of the ore in the sooth and eastern part of the area. The growth of this region baa been unparailed. Commencing with the vear 1854. when returns ot production first appear, 050,000 tons of ironstone were raised in the Cleveland district. Two years later it bad increased to 1,148,488. At home the development of the Lake Superior dis trict is regarded as remarkable, but the following table, which I liaye compiled from A. P. Swlneford's sfatisllra of the Lake Superior mines, or for the Cleveland mineB, from John Marloy's Memoir on Cleveland Ironstone, etc., shows the mag nitude and ricbe. of the Cleveland hills even when compared with the Lake Superior iron region: ?Production in torn of Iron Oro Luke Superior Dbtnet. GroM t hi*. Production Jn tonioflrou stone, Cleveland District. Gro?? louc. YtAM.' 1858. 23,876 68,812 114,101 1M.2M 124,1(9 205,065 247,0-9 193,788 ?90.718 4M.601 610622 633.007 869,607 - 813,984 9IA.5&3 1,10\2U 9:?>.4*M 910,811) 993,111 1,<-23.129 1,126,093 1.414,182 1,987,698 1,807.393 1,620,112 1,471,319 1,242614 1,689,90S 2,078, SCO 2,401.890 2,782,859 2,959 061 2,739 039 2,785,817 8,094.678 4,072,888 4,881,901 4,974,960 ft.C17.014 . 6,6 4,423 ?5*111,794 6^12,000 0,284,646 6.W5.C39 4.7*0,0(9 0,688,664 A 010 ANTIC MONOPOLY, Until the year 1873 the number of per sons employed in the Cleveland district was not accurately known. That year, accord ing.to the report of Her Majesty's Inspect ors of Mines, 0,350 men were employed, 0,947 of whom worked underground. The average for each man employed was then 581 tons per year; it now exceeds 800 tons. The total number of hands employed in 1880 was only 7,072, vet nearly two million tons more ore was raised. This, Mr. Edward Williams told me, was largely brought about by the economy of Uwr in the way of improved machinery, and was hastened on accoant of the demand for labor in this district, and its consequent high price when extensive operations were begun twenty years ago. The average wages paid here, as in the great northern coal district, fluctuate with tlieprice of iron, 5s. 6d. er$L 32 per day aB a minimum rate, increasing plus 10 per cent plus 15 per cent or plus 20 per cent, or retarding, as iron advances or decreases in price. Mr. Edward Williams agrees with the Tariff Commission report in the fact that iron rails are doomed to ultimate disuse, but he says it is no less true that Cleveland has started the manu facture of steel rails from its native iron that are bound to become the cheapest in the world. I should hardly be credited in some quarters if I were to say that this im mense iron district which I have attempted to describe is one of the most absolute monopolies in the world. I will therefore merely quote the following from an address of the president of the Iron and Steel In stitute of Great Britain. The firm of Messrs. Bolckow & Vaughn, who were the pioneers of the Cleveland iron trade, and who now produce one-third of the total quantity of iron produced in the district; have also taken the lead in the establishment of steel works. "One-third of the amount produced in this district." What does that mean? My table shows that it means an amount of'iron ore far exceeding the total product of the entire Lake Superior district in 1880. The fact is, people in the United States have no conception of the vastness of the monopolies in England. A few firms con trol the entire district; own every foot ot it What does that mean? It means the control of an area of iron stone of 420 square miles, with an average yield per acre of 20,000 tons and estimated contents of five thousand million of Cons of iron ore. I have already shown - the amount of coal yet in the great adjacent northern coal field to be ten thousand millions ot tons, so that there is sufficient fuel in the coal district to smelt the main seam of iron ore in the other. This district is capable of supplying the world with steel rails for a couple of cen turies to come, controlled by a few wealthy men, capable, if the barriers of foreign tariffs were removed, of crushing out the steel interests of every country on the globe, and of then controlling the world's markets and prices. The truth of the monopoly is substantiated by the president of the Iron and 8teel Association of Great Britain and by a visit ?o the district; the truth of capacity in wealth of coal and iron and economy ol manufacture by the best scientists. Comment is not necessary. Let every one judge from the facts I present. TUB TARIFF STANDS HETWKK.V. And yet the managers of the firm pro ducing one- hird of this immense output camly sat down with me and unblushingly talked of "the grinding monopolies of the United States preventing the free importa tions of steel rails," and actually spoke disparagingly of "auch an otherwise sensi ble man" as the Hon. Abram S. Hewitt for his absurd protection heresies." It did not seem to occur to him that the iron manufacturers of England are worth millions of dollar^; the British iron districts are crowded within an area of a hundred square miles, while America's spread over a vast continent, every State producing iron ore; the manufactories of England are controlled, as I have shown in the Cleveland district, by a few enormous cap italists, the aunual product of one firm alono exceeding that of the entire Lake Superior district, while American iron and steel industries are scattered over a contin ent, giving employment and building up towns in the agricultural districts, and making more permanent the progress of the mining States; it is an exception in England to find a situation in which the ore and the coal and the coke nud the limestone are separated J00 miles, while in America 1,000 miles veiy often intervene From the ore mines of Lake Superior and Missouri to the coal ot Pennsylvania is 1,000 miles; ConnellBville coke is taken COO miles to the blast furnaces at Chicago, and 750 miles to the blast furnaces of St. Louis. The average distance over which all do mestic iron ore which is consumed in the blast furnaces of the United States is trans ported is not less that 450 miles, and the average distance over which the fuel used to Bmelt it is transported is not less than 200 miles. And yet here, within a rectangle of 75 miles by 30 miles and a square of 40 milex, is produced over one-third of Eng land'a annual ore supply and one-fifth of her annual coal supply. NOUUIKKN Mil IKON. I in nnuurarlarcm Kpeklal ? Xwlirl Id PltlNbursh. Pittsburgh, March 13.?"Do youHnow that the pig iron men o[ Alabama, Georgia and TenneB9ee are attempting to tap the local pig Iron market?" asked an old pig iron merchant yesterday of a reporter. He <u informed that it was all interesting news, and continued farther to explain: "I saw yesterday in your paper that the principal coke furnaces of those States, through their ofllcers at Cincinnati, have advanced the prices in all grades of pig iron from fifty cents to one dollar per ton. 1 have known of the coming advance for sometime, and propose to take a trip South shortly to familiarize myself with the con dition of their facilities and trade. They have heen trying lately to get a hold in the Pittsburgh market and may yet suc ceed. They can make the iron cheap enough as ore and labor is cheaper there than here, but the biggest part of the total cost of pig delivered in Pittsburgh would be the freight. That Southern product has always beon slaughtered and given awav, yet thereare special Southern charcoal irons which are very good and command full figures, even in the present condition of the market There are other cold short irons not so good, as well as coko and char coal iron, and they have all been selling way down. Their quality is not up to the Pittsburgh standard. Their stated advance is not indicative of the general market, but they are now erecting the right kind of furnaces which are producing a good iron and it is this which will be brought to Pittsburgh. Here prices are ruliog very low, from $10 to $20.50 per ton, cash to four months, yet this Southern pig it is believed ean be brought here protilably. Things in fact have got down to such a fine notch that a change is inevitable and the price must ad' vance. Ore is even ouoted now at $8, yet $ 10 Is the ruling price, hut there is little doubt bat a reduction ii t lis commodity will ensue. Pig iron has really discounted a large reduction in ore, a very big reduc tion in fact, and the samecan be truthfully ?aid of the finished product discounting any redaction in pig, ret this latter must go up, and If any kind of a revival shonld occur the Southern pig can find a market here." Hydrophobia. Yellow Ei'ringk, 0., March 13.?A dis tressing case of hydrophobia is reported from the neighborhood of Lumberton. A few days ago a son of Charles Oonklin, a well-to-do farmer near tho above place, was playing with a dog. The result of the play was that the dog bit the boy on the hand. Nothing was.thought of the matter until he began to get very sick, when a doctor was called in, who said the bite wonld no doubt result in hydrophobia. The predictions of the doctor proved correct, aa the boy con tinued to grow worse, until Friday be be gan to froth at the month and bark, using every means in his power to bite those around him. Great eicllement exists In the neighborhood, the boy's relatives and friends being nearly crsiy. The boy is laid to be (rowing worse all Uia time. A VEXED QUESTION OF LATE IN ENGLISH LEGISLATION *?* Tlr,l.|u. t, . MUo. from hi, Bltkiin it, L'.rl of n?|. ???!? to kl. iinU,.c,u,T. JacI.0.. TA# old "Ana*] Miittr." There I?? qHe8t|0n which stand. In much tie saint, relation to the proceedings of the English Parliament as the dog law f"*'0 the Vir*iui? ^Mature, at tart as regard, the time consnmed in il. consideration at each aewlon. The Fairu Qurtn In Gilbert & Sallivan's latest ope,a entaTco?,? SlKSHi tolhe Square', London, Uon'oMhe p0",6?01' """ in lb? last scs ?on oi the larlaiment of Great Hrimin ie enclM?L ?nH S" observalion, which Anw* exKaclfl enclosed purport to be the Sgp&tt SaraaAft-SaS .?7 ? argument on the subject at ita g view" on "'e suhjcct. L'if PrahMM "lii0& 1,0"ever- - lemUin i'i6 Uoion wou'd not ''o wise^un JSs'iaas ? ? la woulli "oJoubt bo ?ewsf? ?T any 1*"?? wlio lu. W8 t0 vance on the anhjooL The Jlotmtljtvili* camp ?**!!?*. Eari^S-SS ? whtoh J HiKani' rally, CKSl'St:: * in* will h? rtV?.wLl Si2 10 lbo c*?p ?>oet Kftor^ wi? be made to A SALTY (IKNN4UU.V. (tomeitiluff Nor? Ab.mi thr Clrayn huiI IbeYnsoo IXmrnlcr. N?w Obueans, March 13.?Dr. John G. Ate, who has been telling some remark able stories in Cincinnati and Louisville about Harrison L. Gray and his ?inter, Miss Clinton Scott Gray, ia not known in Natchex, Jlise., from which he claims to hail, nor are the Grays. In fact, the Grays do not exist, except in the imagination of Ake. His laststatement about the death of Miss Gray from injuries received while es caping from the steamer Yazoo contains as much truth as the former state ment that they were immensely wealthy planters in Louisiana, and had forward ed, through Schmidt & Ziegler, their bank els In New Orleans, checks of $1,000 each for the flood sullerers in Louis ville and Cincinnati. Schmidt Jc Zieg ler do not know the Grays, and cer tainly never cashed one of their checks. It is safe to say that ho flood sufferer was re lieved by their donation. As for the Yasoo yarn that has been telegraphed from Cincinnati by the Associated Press, it may be briefly disposed of. The name of Gray nor Scott was not on the list of passen gers and does not figure in the saved or losl. The statement of MIbs Gray's subsequent death is a euro fabrication. Yotir correspondent has been impellod to make this statement of facts because it was telegraphed hero last night that Cincinnati had been so much moved by the tragic fate of the be nevolent Miss Gray, that a testimonial meeting was proposed, at which suitable resolutions, lamenting the death of one so good and generous, would be adopted. nit. KUAN Arrives In Thlat'onmrjr?What UeHaya A limit Ilia rilicbl. New Your, March 13.?Patrick Egan, former treasurer of the Irish Land League arrived to-day. When naked the name of the vessel on which ho arrived and the port from which be sailed, he asked to be excused from answering, as to do so would give a clue to private matters. Egan says the pnblicitiona here reapei t ng bisetcape from Dublin sre entirely without foundation. Egan, in answer to questions, said: The chief purpose of my visit Is commercial. I have been long wanting to visit Chicago, 8t Louis, St Paul and other large flour exporting centres in connec tion with tlio business of my flrm in Dublin who deal largely in American flonr, and my decision to como here was hastened by the urgent request of Sheridan that I should give evidence in the extradition proceedings pend ing, and also by strong letters from Moonoy, a resident American Land Leaguer and other friends, who pressed mo to coine to America to give the leaders of the movement here audi infor mation na waa in my power regard ing the situation at home. Although at UiIb moment the National cause is surrounded by some dlfllcultlcs, the prospect ia entirely hopeful, i I have always held with John Mitchell the more England is obliged to coerco us, the more tightly she is obliged to put on the screw, the sooner wo will bo to attain our independence. Tnosx nesdlug Furnltnrs, Carpets, Ac., this spring will save money by oalilng at Zlnk 4 Morehead'a durlug their oloalng out aals this mouth. Qooda must be sold by April lat.