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THE MILAN EXCHANGE,
W. A. WADE, r.kliihrr.
- - TENNESSEE.
CUltltENT NEWS.
WASHnrQTOK.
The President hu nominated Norman
Buck to he United State Attorney and E.
S. Chase Marshal for Idaho Territory.
All Assistant Treasurers throughout the
United Sutcg nave been authorized to ex
change nilver dollars for greenback.
Mlninter George F. Seward hat been sum
moned home from China to appear before
the IIoiiMt Committee on Expenditure in
the State Department and explain certain
serious charges preferred apainet him, af
fecting hli om.tial Integrity.
The Committee on Ways and Mean, by a
vote of 8 to S, have decided to report to the
House a Joint resolution directing the Sec
retary of the Treaury to aucpend the jiur
rhase of fluted State bond for a si nklnz
fund, as provided by section 3,G!H of the Ile
vixed Statute, until the close of the use!
year, ending June 3n, 18S5, unless otherwise
directed by Congress.
The bill reported by Representative Fort,
which pawned the Iloue on the 2'.th, makes
it unlawful for the Secretary of the Treas
ury to cancel or retire any more leal-ten-der
note, but when they shall be received
into the Treasury from any source they shall
be roisMted and paid out apaln. There were
only four Western and Southern votes
against it, of which two were from Ohio.
The vote stood yeas 177, nays 35.
Apprehension is felt in Government cir
cle of Mrinu troulile with the Indians the
coming summer. The War Department is
In receipt pf communications from parties
whose opinions are entitled to earnet-t at
tention, to the effect that warlike move
ments are clearly discernible on the part of
several tribes.
The ptiblie debt statement Issued May 1
hows a decrease for the preceding month
of $.1,0! .VWi, and the following balances in
the Treasury: Currency,$l,Ka,140; specif
fund for the redrmption of fractions! cur
rency, $10,000,1100; special deposit of legal
tenders for the redemption of certificates of
deposit, $S,315,0U0; coi-i, $150,037,238 (in
cluding coin and silver certificates, $To,014,-)).-
Outstanding legal-tenders, MG,USJ,
01C. The Post Jiaster-Oeneral has officially in
formed Conpress that K)0,000 are required
to supply the deficiencies for the compensa
tion of Postmasters, and $2,137,787 to supply
the deficiencies in the postal revenues for
the fiscal yew ending with June next. He
Mys these appropriations are necessary to
I'ropcrly conduct the service of the depart
ment. In accordance with the law recently passed
for the employment of temporary clerks,
between CO nnd 70 persons have been ap
pointed to mcli positions in the Treasury
Department. A lartre number of clerks
have also been restored to the Interior De
partment under the recent appropriations.
The nomination of 'Georjrc L. f'mlih for
Collector of the port of New Orleans has
finally been confirmed by the Senate.
Owins to the forwardness of the general
appropriation bills, it isthoupht by a num
ber of members of Congress an adjourn
iae. die can take place toward the last of
June.
The Secretary of the Treasury invites
subscriptions to the 4-per cent, loan upon
the same terms as offered the public in July,
177, namely: Subscribers upon deposit of
2 per cent, will be allowed ! days to com
plete payment. At the expiration of 00
days bonds will be issued upon the receipt of
!W per cent, priucipal and interest accrued
to that date, and one-fourth of 1 per sent,
fommission on all subscriptions for $1,000
and over will be allowed.
Ex-Gov. Packard, of Louisiana, has been
nominated by the President for United
States Consul at Liverpool, to succeed Lu
cius Kairchild, of Wisconsin, who is trans
ferred to the Consul-Generalship at Ptris,
nre Aiirctl 1. A. 1 oilier!, of Delaware, re
called. WKST AND SOCTIIWK.ST.
Near Tyler, Texas, four negro children,
left locked up at home while the mother
was at church, were burned to death on the
niirhtof the-JMh.
At Kansas City, on the nicht of the J-"!),
Theodore Haltenbach, a German chemist,
a:;ed 43, and his wife were found dead in
their rooms, with a bloody ax and an empty
revolver lying on the floor. Both of them
bad apparently beeg brained with the ax,
but neither had been shot. Their
little girl, aed 8, was terribly
cut, but succeeded in reaching the yard and
alarming the neighbors, who rushed in to
find the house in flames and the dead bodies
as described. The bed occupied by Mrs.
Haltenbach and her child was saturated
with kerosene. The little girl was so badly
injured as to be unable to give any intelligi
ble account of the affair.
The tow boat Warner, from Xew "Orleans
to SU lmis, with barges in tow, exploded
her boilers at Memphis on the morning of
the 1st. The pilot-house and roof were blown
to a great height, and fell back upon the
wreck, which took lire, but in a few minutes
after the explosion the boat sank, so that ony
the upper works were visible. The following
lost their lives by the explosion: George
Dawson, eiplain; Dixon Kennett, pilot;
Wm. Raddilt'e, engineer; Win. Pettit, Wra.
PatcUffe, and another deckhand, name un
known. Jseob Cox, the pilot on watch, was
blown 75 feet in the air, fell beneath the
pilot-whoel on the wreck and was badly
though not dangerously bruised. His aerial
flight was shared by John W. Poe.thc boat's
clerk, who was also in the pilot-bouse at the
time of the explosion. Several others were
injured, none, it was thought, fatally.
The Newcoinb-Iluchanan Company of
Louisville, Ky., whisky distillers, w hich was
forced to suspend in March last, announce
that they 'are now prepared to jmy their
creditors in full, with 7 per cent. crcst.
A terrible disaster occurred at Minneapo
lis, Minn., oa the 2d, causing the loss of 10
human lives and the destruction of property
valued at probably $1,000,000. About 7
o'clock on the evening of thnt day a territlc
explosion occurred in the great Washburu
Mill, located, together w-ith several other
large miils'and factories, on the river bank
Just above the St. Anthony Falls. The bund
ing was almost literally blown to atoms, such
was the force of the explosion, and Immedi
ately a huge vohtme of flames shot up,
which communicated to the adjacent mills,
all of which had been more or less injured by
the explosion of the Washburn, and in a
few hours five immense flouring-mills, com
prising 7 out of the 117 runs of stone in the
city, were a heap of smoldering ruin's. Al
though the loss of property was immense,the
loss of life was simply appalling. Out of 22 men
who went into the Washburn Mill not over
half an hour before the explosion, only live
escaped with their lives, and these poor fel
lows were literally blown out, most of them
mere wrecks of humanity. The disaster is
believed to have been caused by the explo
sion of gas generated in the "middlings
purifier" process, w hieh isfcaid to be as ex
plosive as nitro-giyctrine. .
The Democracy of the Xinth Indiana Dis
trict have nominated John R. Cotl'roth, of
Tippecanoe, for Congress. The National
Greenbackers of the same "district have
nominated Leroy Templeton, of Benton
County.
W. S. CTErlen, of the firm of Flood &
O'Brien, thSXJuliIorn.it millionaires, died on
the 2d. He was a bachelor, and his heirs are
two sisters and several nieces and nephews.
The value of his estate is estimated to be
from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000, mostly in
mining stocks. V ' -
Luther Lfrlbrook, Herman Allen, and two
brothers named Suttn, who were engaged
in hunting KDd trflpping on Dismal Creek
Xeb., were recently killed, their dead bodies
having been found in the vicinity of their
camp. All hid bullet holes through their
heads.
At Delta," Keoknk County, Iowa, on the
50:h, Zero like, hotel proprietor, was shot
and Instantly ttfled ty "a boar Jer' named
Samwel Smith, during a quarrel about the
settlement of a board bilL The murder la
said to have been committed without any
Justifiable provocation, the landlord being
shot In the b!Tr the head while Walking
away from Us assailant. The murderer la
only 22 year of a, ton of wealthy stock
dealer. He b under arrest.
William Baldwin, colored, was hanged in
Miller County, Ark., on the 3d, for the mur
der of a negro woman named Melissa Phil
lips, In October last.
Gov. Xicholls.of Louisiana, has srned the
Moffett ReglMer bill.
The Illinois Ucpubtiran ta Convention
will be held at Springfield on June 20th.
Hon. Henry M. Darnalt, Jr., of Gayoao,
Pemiscot County, Mo., was decoyed from
his home aTo the river Into Lake County,
Tenn., on the evening of April 27, and bru
tally murdered by William Shearer. The
latter bad formerly been a tenant of Mr.
Darnall's, but about a week previous to
the murder he moved over Into Ten
nessee, from whence he wrote to Dar
null, saying he was almost dead of hem
orrhage of the lungs, and requesting him
to come and see him. Darnall waa shot by
Shearer as he was getting" out of his boat.
The murderer fied, but waa pursued and
overtaken the next day, and while trying to
escape from the custody of the Sheriff he
was fired upon and killed. It is reported
that Shearer confessed that he had been
hired by another party to kill Darnall. The
latter was about 54 years of age, a farmer,
and was a member of the last General As
sembly of Missouri.
At Crawfordsville, Ind., on the 3d, two
young men, C. R. Bailey and O. T. Dodffe,
both students of Wabash Ollel?B boarded a
freight-train for Lafayette, and seated them
selves on the bos-car attached to the loco
motive. When a short distance out of town
the coupling-pin broke, and they were both
precipitated under the wheels. The whole
train, consisting of about 20 cars, passed over
them, mangling them Into an unrecognizable
mass of iWh and bones. The heads or both
w ere found 30 yards off from the rest of the
bodies. Bailey's parents live at Carlinville,
111., and Dodge's at Fair Haven, O.
A shooting affray occurred in Little Rock,
Ark., on the 6th, between MaJ. John I).
Adams, editor of the Gazette, and Col. J.
X. Smithec, editor of the Democrat and
State Land Commissioner. Seven shots
were exchanged at short range, Colo'
nel Smithee receiving a bullet
through the right arm and another in the
hip, which placed hira horsde combat. Maj
Adams had the brim of his hat pierced by
one of his antagonist's shots, but sustained
no bodily injury. The latter was arrested
nd Rave bail. A newspaper controversy wag
the cause of the difficulty,
The first Congressional election of the year
will be held in Oregon, which State chooses
its member of the nouscof Representatives
on the first Monday In June, as well as
Legislature which will elect a United States
Senator to succeed John M. Mitchell. The
Democrats carried the Ptate in 1874 and also
the last Legislature, which sent Gov. Grover
to fie Senate, but the Republicans won in
the Presidential election by a little over 1,000
majority.
Gen. John M. Hinckley, of Milwaukee
formerly Assistant Attorney-General of the
United States, eonrmttted suicide on the
night of the 4th by drowning himself in the
lake. He left several letters addressed t
different parties,the contents of which show
conclusively his inteution to take his life,
The immediate cause of his rash act is at
tributed to mental aberration brought on by
domestic troubles. Gen. Binckley's family
consisted of a wife, from whom he was sep
aratcd, and four children, all of whom are
now iu Knoxville, Tenn. ,
A portable engine, used for hoisting ice
out cf a barge into an ice-house at Memphis,
1 enn., exploded its boiler, on the Cth, kill
ing Tom Hoist, the engineer, and seriously
injuring several others.
Contracts have been let by the Atchison,
Topcka and Santa Fe Railroad Company for
the con-truction of the first 100 miles of its
Xew Mexico extension.
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
The eighth General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South met at
Atlanta, Ga., on the 1st, Bishop Pierce pre
siding. There were present 248 delegates
from 37 conferences, and all the Bishops
Hon. John Morrissey, ex-Congressman
and ex-pugilist, died at Saratoga, X. Y., on
the 1st, aged 47.
The trial-trip over the Gilbert Elevated
Railroad in New Yory City was made on the
1st, and was in every way a success. Time
from Trinity Church to Central Park, 20
minutes.
S. E. Cummings, a revenue informer in
Baldwin County, Ga., was shot by an un
known assassin
Bishop McCoskrey was reported on the 2d
to be seriously ill at the bouse of a friend in
Xew York City. It was believed he would
not recover.
Thomas E. Ladd, heretofore one of the
most prominent business men of Laconia,
N. H., has committtd forgeries, to a large
amount and fled.
E. Remington & Sons, of Hion, X. Y., the
well known arm., manufacturers, have asked
an extension from their creditors on account
of the delinquency of foreign Governments
to whom they have furnished arms. Their
creditors have granted the concession asked
for.
An election riot occurred at Weldon, X
C, en the (ith, in which John Purnell, col
ored, was killed, and several others, white
and colored, wounded.
GENERAL..
It is reported that three companies of
Fenians are armed and equipped at Buffalo,
and other reinforcements are being held in
readiness elsewhere, to make an invasion of
Canada as soon as war is declared between
Russia and England. The Government has
n j official information of any proposed Fe
man movement, and the report is discredited
nt asliington
The transit of Mercury, which occurred on
the Cth, was successfully observed
from the various observatories through
out the United States. Prof. Peters, of
Hamilton College, is of the opinion he dis
covered indications of atmosphere on the
planet.
Chief Gall, with 150 warriors from Sitting-Bull's
camp, has surrendered to Lieu
tenant Baldwin, in camp on Poplar River.
Gall was one of Sitting-Bull's most sanguin
ary adherents, and his surrender is consid
ered by Gen. Miles as of no little important.
The Treasury Department gives notice that
a dangerous counterfeit note of the denom
ination of $100, on the Merchants' National
Bank, of Xew Bedford, Mas's., hag been put
in circulation in the Western States.
FOltKIGN.
An Orange procession in Montreal was at
tacked by Catholics on the night of the 29th.
About 100 shots were exchanged. One Cath
olic was killed and two others wounded, and
one Orangeman was shot twice, but not fa
tally. .
, The Paris Industria. Exhibition wag
formally opened with great pomp and cere
mony on Wednesday, May 1st. An immense
crowd wag present, representing nationali
ties from every quarter of the globe. Presi
dent MacMahon made a brief address.
A force of about 50 Lerdoists which had
been organized on this side of .the Rio
Grande, on the night of the 30th crossed the
river at San Ytidoro. They were met by a
body of regulars from Matamoras and a
sharp fight ensued, in which the Lerdoists
were routed, two of them being killed, a
number taken prisoners and three drowned
while trying to swim the river.
Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid, member of
the House of Commons for Reading, was
killed on the 2d in a railway accident.
There is reported to be a regularly or
ganized and formidable rebellion on foot in
Mexico against the Diaz Government, which
is likely to causa our Government no little
annoyance ou account of infractions of the
neutrality law by the insurgents, who are j
said to have fitted out various marniiftinc I
expeditions from this side of the Rio Grande, j
Gen- Orel's instruction are to patrol the
riVeiMtrom Mcintosh down, and put a etop
! to such proceedings.
The Right Hon. Uathorne Hardy has been
guettedjor the peerage, with the title of
Viscount Cronbrook.
7 Contrary to expectation! raised by the re
cent conciliatory altitude of the Papacy,
those Prussian priests in receipt of Govern
ment Kipends have been asked by Cardinal
Caterini, Prefect f the Congregation of the
Sacred Council, either to renounce their Sal
aries or declare their opposition to tha c
ciesiaatical May lawk
THE WAR TROUBLES.
The steamer Cimbria, of the Hamburg
American line, under charter of the Russian
Government, arrived at Southwest Harbor,
Maine, on the 28th. She has on board a full
complement of officers and men, and is un
der direction of a Russian naval officer of
high rank. On her arrival a long
dispatch in cipher waa gent to Admiral Lcs
aonskyatSfc Petersburg, and the officers
seemed to be awaiting a reply. The ship hag
a large amount of stores on board, including
oal for 10 dayg steaming. No arms or am
munition are visible, and the officers of tbe
steamer deny that tnere are any such on
board.
A Vienna dispatch of the 3d says the Gov
ernment expresses eonBdehce in the prompt
meeting ft the Congress and is again urg
ing England to accept the Congress. Per
contra, Constantinople dispatch of same
date represents both the Russians and Turks
as having abandoned all hope of a peaceful
solution of the difficulties.
A telegram from St. Petersburg, 4th,
stated that negotiations had been resumed
direclly between London and St. Petersburg
In regard to the withdrawal from Constan
tinople. A London dispatch says that the steam
ship Cimbria, now in American waters, was
chartered the 24th of March last, by the
Russian Admiralty, to serve exclusively as
a transport Her principal work will be to
supply provisions and munitions of war to
the Russian fleet in the Pacific. Her pres
ent destination, after taking aboard the war
material contracted for in America, is Xorth
Japan.
A Constantinople dispatch of the 5th says
that Sadyk Pasha has declared that Turkey
will observe neutrality in the event or war
between England and Russia, and will
cause ner own territory to be re
spected. A dispatch from London says
that tbe British Admiralty have ordered
that the Island of Helgoland be promptly
and efficl ently fortified. A St. Petersburg
dispatch rays that the Russian Commandant
f the Cimbria, now in American waters, is
Cassimer de Grlppenberg, and that his mis
sion is to create a flotilla of cruisers.
Parliament reopened on the Oth, after the
Easter recess. In the House of Commons
notice was given of various questions re
garding the employment of Indian troops,
Sir Stafford Xortheote, Chancellor of the
Exchequer, in reply to a question asked by
the Marquis of Hartington, leader of the
Liberals, said : " I can only say that the
negotiations with Russia continue. It would
be highly disadvantageous topublic interests
to diseuss them now."
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, on the 30th, Senator Mor
rill, of Vermont, from the Committee on Fi
nance, reported adversely on the concurrent
resolution of Senator Beck, declaring it In
expedient to levy taxes at this time to mnin
tain the StnktnK-fiiud, and tbe committee
was aisenarpeu trom tts further eonsidera
tlon. In submitting the report Mr. Morrill
said the law as it now stands provided for a
miiKiiiK-iunu, ana it coma not nc re
pealed by a concurrent resolution.
rwmiiuir i;ocKreu, irom tne Committee on
Military Affairs, reported without amend
ment the House bill authorizing the Presi
dent to appoint James Shields, of Missouri, a
Briiradier-Genernl in the United Stt9 Army
on me l-rnreu list. I'Kicea on tne calendar.
In reporting the bill Senator Cockrell said
it was not a unanimous report, und mem
bers of the committee reserved the right
to express their views when the bill
should be considered in the Senate.
The liankrupt bill was reported with the
House amendments, and pending discussion
of a motion to refer, the Senate adjourned.
In tbe House, after some discussion of
unimportant bills, the Leirislative Appropri
ation bill was taken tip in Committee of the
Whole. In the course of a lonir dis
cussion on reduced appropriations for
Territorial provernm-nts, the action ot
the Committee on Appropriations hav
ing bi'cn criticised ou the Republican
side of the House, Mr. Randall (the Speaker)
defended t lie eourso of that committee and
condemned the tendency of Republican
members to herd together in opposition to
all measures of economy. He was re
plied to by Mr. Garfield, who declared that
such an imputation against the Re
publican side of the House was not to be
borne, and asserted that from to the
present time (under Republican as well as
under Iemocratie control of the House) the
expenses of the Government had been on a
descending scale. A general debate ensued,
and after.having disposed of omy four pages
of the bill the House adjourned.
In tbe Senate, on the 1st, the motion of
Senator Edmunds, submitted yesterday, to
refer the bill to repeal the Bankrupt law anw
the House amendments thereto to a special
committee of three Senators, of which Sen
ator Christianey should be chairman, was
rejected. SenatorMatthewsnioved to amend,
so as to provide that the repeal of the law
should not take effect until the 1st of Janu
ary, 18711. yuite a long discussion followed
as to whether the original text of the
bill could be amended. A vote being
taken, tne amendment was carneu yeas ',
nays 42. After further discussion, Senator
Davis, of Illinois, moved to refer the bill to
the Judiciary Committee that the saving
clause might be perfected. Agreed to yeas
37, nays IK ..In the House, Mr. Robertson,
Chairman of the Committee on Mississippi
levees, reported, the bill appropriating
$3,871, 5K1 for closing crevasses and
strengthening levees on the Mississippi
Itiver. Ordered printed and recommitted.
The bill provides an appropriation of J7."),lMO
for closing crevaesss and breaks in Illinois;
JM,!ti4 above and J190,3s0 below tne Ohio in
Missouri; JI0,(P00 in Tennessee; $l,SM.lxo in
Arkansas; S) .8,000 in Mississippi; and i77.750
in Louisiana; and for raising and strength
ening levees on the Lower Mississippi, $1,000,
000. I'he Jurisdiction of the committee having
been extended to the improvement of navi
gut ion of the Mississippi River, as well as
the protection of alluvial lands, the report
submitted by Representative Robertson
treats elaoorately the entire Mississippi sys
tem. It gives equal prominence to the rec
lamation of alluvial lands, and claims it as
much the duty of the Government to repair,
build and maintain levees as it is to improve
navigation of the river. The House went
into Committee of the Whole on the Legisla
tive Appropriation bill, with Mr. Kden in the
Chair. A night session was held for debate
only.
In the Senate, on' the 2d, the Committee
on Judiciary reported back the bill to repeal
the Bankrupt law, with an amendment per
fecting the claim in regard to rights not to be
affected by the repeal law, and retaining the
amendment providing that the repeal of the
iuw Biioii iuko eueci januarv i, isra. urner-
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that the bill be laid over until to morrow
At the expiration of tbe morning hour the
bill to repeal the Resumption act was taken
up aud discussed at length, but not disposed
of. In the House, a number of bills were
reported, tne most important being by Mr.
Keagan, from the Committee on Commerce,
lemming me ngni oi way tnrougli public
lands to tue Karat aria (anal Comnanv. to
construct a canal from New Orleans to the
.uu ot Mexico. Also, a bill to regulate inter
State commerce, and prohibit uniust dis
crimination by common carriers. Mr. Ilea
gan explained the object of the latter
uui . was to prevent discrimination in
barges for freight by railroads, so that no
greater rate snouiu be enarifed to one shin
per than to another. Corooration won. al
so forbidden entering into combinations for
the purpose of discriminating a?ninst net-sons
or plnces. The only other materiul provision
was that they should not charge more for
shorter distances than for longer distances on
the same line of carriage. The morning hour
Aiiirru ano me uui went over without action,
'lift Hoosp tllfn wpnt into rVimmittAAf Mi.
Whole, with Mr.Eden in theChair.on theLee
Lslative Appropriation bill.
The Senate was not in session on the 3d.
The House further considered and com
pleted the Legislative Appropriation bill In
Committee of tha Whole. It was reported to
the House, but no action taken. There was
an evening session, which was devoted to
discussion of pension bills
The Senate was not in session on the 4th.
..The Bouse further considered the Leiris-
laHve Appropriation bill in Committee of the
W DOle. Several amendments nni riiannuiri
of and the bill pataed.
In tte Senate, on the 6th, discussion of the
bill to repeal the Bankrupt law lasted until
the expiration f the morning hour, when the
bi 1 to repeal the Specie-resumption act came
ip. v itnout disposing of either measure
he Senate adjourned A lari? number of
bills were introduced in tho Hotine. anion?
them being the following: bv Mr. Fort To
indemnity Illinois and outer States in reeard
to swamp lands; by Mr. Phillips To enable
soldiers of the late war to pre-empt land to
the extent of 100 acres: bvlir. Morrison To
amend tha law in relation to the tax on na
tive wines.- A motion to suspead the rulea
and pas the bill reducing- the tax on chew
ing tobacco, snuff, cigars, etc., failed. 120 to
to lis not two-thirds. The bill establishing
tXSLt
not disposed of.
' ' " Tile lutis exposition.
Brilliant Innarnratlon of th tntriia
tlaaal Khthltlot bt 18?ft.
PJllliA, May 1. The ceremony of the
opening of tbe International Exhibition of
1878 took place to-day with great pomp and
success. The ceremony began at J:.V) In the
afternoon, at which time it was showery, but
at t o'clock fie rn waa shining brightly
fcr&ln. The crowd was immense and entuu
i&stic, In ep'te of the alternations of rain
throughout the proceedings. Cries were
everywhere heard of "Vive la Republlque,"
"Vive la France." Among tliose present were
tbe I'rince of W ales, Uoa Kraucuis d' AssUsS,
father of the King of Spain; Due deAosta,
brother of the King of Italy and ex-King of
Spain; Prince Frederick, Crown Prince of
luuiuark; the i'rince of Orange, heir appar
ent to tlie tin ouo of the Netiiorlnntl'i nnd
I'rince Henry of Hollandi Marshal MncMauon
arrived In tle SitaW carriage, escorted by his
military household; troops being drawn up
kit along the route from tlie Elysue;
THE i'KOCESSlOX WAS THE FOHMEO,
which inarched It-ori the Grand Arcado to a
blatforni o'verlookiug tbe fountain, and com
luandlng a view of nearly all the buildinjcs
and grounds. Here Trisscrene de llort. Min
ister of Commerce, welcomed the Marshal in
a shoit speech, and the Marshal tlieu de
clared the Exhibition opened. One hundred
and one gun from the Invslides, Mont Y
lefien and Arista in Seine followed the an
nouncement) end at tbe same time two mili
tary bonds struck up, ull the fountains play
ed, and soldiers stationed by the flag-starts
hoisted Uugs of all nations on the roots of the
two palaces and annexes. The Marshal then
reascended the TroeaUero 1'alace, the pro
cession reforming behind him, and alter com
pleting the round of the buildings crossed
over tlie river to theChuuipsde Mars. Troops
were drawn up on and near the bridge. Tne
terrace of the Champs de Mars 1'alace was
occupied bv Senators, Deputies, Council of
Rtaut, Magistrates, Academicians, Military
Slk aud Jr rencn Commissioners.
THE SPECTACLE AT THE CEKEMOST
was magnificent, and perfect order prevail
ed. Ex Queen Isabella, of Spai witnessed
the ceremonies from the gallery occupied by
Madame MacMahon. The scene after the of
ficial declaration oi opening was imposing
tn tlie extreme From the heights ot Troca
dero the thousands ot guests assembled could
see crowds on the surrounding streets.Khe
banks of the Seine and Ht l'assy, both on the
tight aud left. In front lay hu immense area
crowded with exposition building gayly
decorated with flags of different nations, a
grand cascade aud row s ol statues illustrat
ing the countries participating. A long line
ot brilliant equipugeb tilled ue road to the
Champs Elysees and the fuileries, inter
spersed with detachments of mounted guards
of Paris, uiaguiticeut escorts of visiting
princes and the military household of Presi
dent MacMahon. The dazzling facade of the
palace on the Chumps de Mars was richly
ornamented with national emblems, and iu
eveiy assignable space the tiiousands
of spectators were helo In place by
lines of infantry. As the Presidential
procession, including the prinees, diplo
mates and other distinguished guests, reach
ed the front of tae I'a.aee ot the Champs de
Mars, the scene was extremely picturesque.
State bodies iu grand uniforms, Court coun
cilors and Magistrates in theii .obes, aud
different bodies of the Institute and Legion
ol ilonoi stood in strong contrast with sen
ators, deputies clergy and minoi oflicials. n
their civil costumes. These, vita the depu
tation irom the army, in lull 'lnlforur eil in
with tha Prertiileulitel frtrrnim ttnf moved
through the East Indian hall into the grand
central nave of the palace posting in rapid
review tlie various foreign sections and ex
changing salutes with each Commissioner,
who stood in front ot their respective sec
tions. The procession then passed into the
ait galleries, thence into the French section,
which occupies one entire side o) the palace.
Alter the usual courtesies tlie President and
party lett by Avenue llupp gate und returned
to the Elysee.
THE SCENES XT KIGHT.
Early in the evening the avenues and boule
vards were crowded wiih vehicles and foot
passengers. Later, the streets wre impass
able in many places, in consequence ol the
immense crowds assembled to witness the
illuminations. Many buildings in every
quarter of the city w ere decorated with flags
of all nations. The American colors were
abundantly and conspicuously lisplayed.
The lloulevards des Italiens and dcsCapu
cines were brilliantly illuminated with gas
Jets, transparencies and Chinese lanterns.
For i hours every inch of space in the main
thoroughlares and every side street w as occu
pied by surging masses shouting and singing.
The demonstrations frequently became seuu
riotous. Visitors who went iu carriages or
on foot to see the illuminations often found
themselves involved in the crush, and were
compelled to seek refuge from the pressure
ot the crowd in open doorways ol hotels,
restaurants und other public plactts. Men,
women and children of every class mingled
indiscriminately in the crowd, which w as oc
casionally enlivened by a rush ot companies
ot half intoxicated youths and workmen,
bearing Chinese lanterns and singii.g the
Marseillaise. Towards midnight, when the
ilium nation should have been at its best,
many lights were extinguished aud the
crowds began to disperse.
Hard
Times the
Just
Best for Young- Men
Starting.
Young men coming upon the stage of
active business life during the present
hard times are more likely to become
permanently successfull than those who
made their advent in business during
the period of inflation, of high prices
and of fabulous nominal profits. The
great reason of this is that young men
who begin now, form their business
management and personal habits, from
necessity, on principals of rigid econo
my. These in the long run tell so pow
erfully as to make, iu many cases, the
difference between failure and success.
Men who began when every thing was
at the top hnd it very embarrassing to
come down and adapt themselves and
their business to the times that try
men's purses, as war is said to try their
souls; whereas, those who commence
when ecouomy is the order of the day,
find no difficulty whatever in starting
upon an economical basis, and, once
started, it will be easy to adhere to it. So
that, for young men just embarking for
themselves, we may almost assert the
paradox that hard times are the best.
Wanted a Man to " Sit with Sal."
Yesterday afternoon a green-looking
couple, evidently newly married, called
at the photograph gallery of Heals &
V aterhouse, and wanted their pictures
taken. Just as Mr. Beals had got his
plate ready the man called him aside
and said he wanted to ask a favor. 44 1
was told in Carson you took the best
pictures in the State. Xow, you see.Sal
and I erot hitched down there last fllon
dav : now. her folks go a good deal on
style, and they live in the States. They
never saw me, and if I send my mug
back hast they'll be dead agin me sure
I'm a darned sight better than I look
and when people come to know me they
vote me a brick. Now, what I want is
to some ffood-lookin' man to sit with
Sal for a picture. Will you s'and in
She's willin'. Them big whiskers of
yours '11 catch 'em sure and create har-
mony,
l ou iook luce a soua capitalist,
and they take me for a petty-larceny
thief." Mr. Beals enjoyed the idea im-
njenselv. and sat With "Sal" lor Ifie
picture, which will doubtless carry joy
into the household of the Eastern rela
tives in a week or so. Virginia City
(Nev.) Chronicle.
m
Low Trices for Print Cloths.
The low price at which hundreds of
thousands of pieces of fan itiver print
cloths have been sold of late, say irom
31 to 4i cents per yard, now excites sus
picion, and there is no difficulty in giv
ing the reason why. A day or two be
fore Hathaway blossomed into a default
er the New Bedford banks held some
130,000 pieces of goods as collateral for
money advanced, and the first thing
known by the banks they had no securi
ty at all, for a Philadelphia firm came
along and scooped in the entire lot at
at cents per yard cash, and this is how
the New Bedford banks were defrauded.
The retail ttore3 are now selling good
prints at five cents per yard, ana some
people wonder how the thing can be
afforded so cheaply. Boston Letter.
A naturalist visited the Kania Pe
ninsula in Northern Russia, last sum
mer, to make natural history collec
tions, and also to study tlie peculiari
ties of the Sainoyede inhabitants of
that Tegion. These primitive people
took alarm at his proceedings, esnecial-
ly when he attempted to measure their
ncaus, ana, believing that he had some
sinister design toward them, they
marched with their reindeer far into
the interior of the peninsula, takino
tho enterprising man of science wit?
them.- He .was finallv rescued bv
some fisliermen, but ho lost all the in
sects lie had collected, as the Saruoy
cde :drank tip the alcohol in which
they were preserved. Dr. FooWs
Health Monthly.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.
Joshua Montgomery Sears, the
young Boston millionaire, has made the
Art Museum of Boston a gift of $10,000.
Midhat Faiha has turned author.
The Nineteenth Century will soon pub
lish an article written by him, its sub
ject, "The Tresent Situation of the Ot
toman Empire."
Mr. Emerson's lecture in Boston the
other night was an argument for tem
perance in language. 'Superlatives,"
he said, "are diminutives, and weaken.
The positive is the sinew of speech; the
superlative the fat.'
It Is not true that the price paid by
the Nineteenth Century to Tennyson
f 12.50 a line for his last ballad is the
highest paid in the present day to a poet.
Longfellow received for "The Hanging
of the Crane" $20 a line.
Eugene Benson, a writer for the
Galaxy magazine in its early years, is a
flourishing painter in Home, Italy. An
Englishman last week paid $1,500 for
one of his Holy Land studies a small
picture and a gem, glowing and Ori
ental. CharlesBlanc, the eminent art crit
ic, recently appointed to the only chair
of o'sthetics in France, has wriiten a
very loDg'and favorable notice of M.
Auguste Bartholdi's colossal statue des
tined for Bedloe's Island, in New York
Harbor.
Of the present status of journalists
in England, L. J. Jennings, London
correspondent of the New York World,
writes : " In these da3s all doors are
open to the journalist, and the time is
evidently rapidly approaching w-hen
the press will represent tho most pow
erful profession or calling even in Eng
land." Walter S. Morton, son of the late
Senator Morton, and who for the past
18 months has been engaged, as a civil
engineer upon the jetties now being
completed at the mouth of the Missis
sippi Itiver, is writing and will shortly
publish a history of that work. The
work will be illustiated with cuts, dia
grams, etc.
Mark Twain, who sailed for Europe
on the same steamship with Bayard
Taylor, said before he departed : "Mr.
Taylor goes abroad with a purpose ; I
with none. Mr. Taylor goes to repre
sent his country, I to represent myself.
Mr. Taylor goes to do business, I to
loaf. How long shall I stay? I can't
tell. I left my hause in Hartford just as
it is, so 1 can come back at any time.
Perhaps that's the best way to do if you
want to stay a good while. If you rent
your house for a year or so, you know
you want to come back in three months.
I am going to write something when I
get settled. I can't write when I am in
terrupted burn three pages out of ev
ery four, and begin over again. In
(Jermany, where I can't understand a
word they say, I can settle down and
work it off."
School and Church.
Drs. Stuart Robinson and J. I).
Matthews have accepted editorial posi
tions on the Kentucky Presbyterian.
Last year the British and Foreign
Bible Society printed 2,G70,742 copies of
the Bible, and the American Bible So
ciety 881,05(1.
Berlin has a population of 804,000
Protestants, for whom there are but 31
churches and 95 ministers that is one
shepherd to a tlock of 8,463 sheep.
The Lyman Beecher lectures before
the Yale Divinity School, for next year,
will be delivered by Bishop Simpson, of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Rev. George Muller, head, of
the Bristol, England, " Faith an.l Pray
er" orphanage, is preaching in Cali
fornia. He will return to England to
wards the close of next month.
The Congrerjalionalixl publishes a
list of 59 churches which have in the
three months past paid off their debts.
As large as the list is, it is incomplete;
the exact figures would make nearly 100
entireties.
The Baptist ministers of Xew York
have informally decided that women
may preach, if they have the necessary
gifts, grace and other accomplishments
"But why," asks an exchange, " can
the same restriction be put upon men?'
At Baltimore, Md., the corner-stone
of Bishop Cummins's Memorial Church
(Reformed Episcopal) was laid on the
i.tn witn appropriate ceremonies by
Kignt uev. Chas. tdward Uhenev, se
nior Bishop of the Church.
Rev. P. B. Morgan of Sti John's
Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, has form
ally announced his withdrawal from
fellowship in that church, ou account
of its alleged Romanish tendencies, and
his intention to unite with the Reform
ed Episcopal Church.
Church society in England has
again been stirred to its depths .by the
discovery of another extremely ritual
istic brotherhood with Roman Catholic
proclivities. It is called the Confra
ternity of the Holy Trinity, and nuni
bers between 300 and 400 members
Among them arc the Bishop of Ely,
Canon Carter, and a son of the Bishop
of Winchester. Two hundred and fifty
of the confraternity are already in holy
orders, and the remainder are university
students studying for the Church.
Some 200 former students of Hamp
ton (Va.) Colored Institute are now
teaching in the schools of the State
The Institute itself continues with its
work in a quiet way and has now un
der its charge about 250 pupils. Its
farming and industrial departments are
well sustained, the farm last year bring
ing in 11,545 receipts. In domestic
industries the college ha3 added a set
of broom machinery, a loom for weav
ing carpets, and 10 knitting-machines
to its former branches. '
Science and Industry.
A lien's egg is 11 per cent. fat.
Butter does not improve as cheese
does, by age, therefore the sooner it is
sold the better. (
Exhibitors of butter at British dairy
shows decorate their rolls with sprays
of maiden-hair fern and parsley.
The famous jseutchatei cneese re
sembles some of the fine Stiltons ; the
cheese is spread on the bread like but
ter.
The value of milk and its products
last year was six hundred million dollars.
One hundred and fifty million pounds
of our cheese was marketed in Europe.
The subject of fencing material is
becoming a serious one in the older
States and m the treeless ones of the
West. Thetimeisat hand to-' abolish
every fence possible, and save expense
in this direction.
One single house at Ncufchatel for
wards annually to Paris 6,000,000
cheeses, the value of which is estimated
at 1.200,000 francs. The manufacture
of these cheeses requires the milk of 5,
000 or 6,000 cows. ,
The Manufac'urer .'and Builder
makes a minute calculation of the ex
pense and advantages of the electric
ignt, as compared wiin inner meiauus
of illumination, aud concludes that it is
seven times cheaper than gas, motive
power not included; and lour tomes
cheaper, taking into account the cost of
driving. . . ' .
Tantalite. a mineral, lias teen found
in Coosa County, Alabama, ' and ana
lyzed by Dr. Smith, of Louisville, Ky.
Scientific men from various quarters are
stkincr snpeiniens. Dr. Smith esti
mates the value of tantalite from one to !
two dollars per ounce in weight for
good sized pieces, and at increased val-!
ues for good large lumps. , Small frag- ;
ments aoout 50 cents per ounce. j
Colasanti states that he has im
mersed hens' eggs for two hours in a
mixture ol ice and salt, exposing them
to a temperature of 7 degrees to 10 de
grees C.'. and apparently freeeing them"
solid. They were then thawed gradu
ally and introduced into a hatching
oven, whare, after a period of eight
days, in every instance the normal de
velopment of the embryo was observa
ble. It would thus appear that animal
germs possess a very much greater re
sistance to low, and possibly to high,
degrees of temperature than the ani
mals into which they develop.
A. J. Nellis, of Pittsburg, has in
vented a new process for malting steel
castings of Irregular shape, which con
sists in Impregnating the mold with
combustible material, which becomes
ignited by contact with the melted steel,
and keeps it fluid enough to penetrate
to the remotest corners of the mold,
and is also a preventive of blow-holes.
Plowshares and other irregular castings,
have been very successfully produced by
this process. They may be forged ino
any shape by a blacksmith, and, when
worn out by use, converted into smaller
articles, such as tools, knives, etc.
Haps and Mishaps.
Carrie Heatie, aged 19, of Ridge-
way, Mich., being crossed in love, killed
herself with morphine.
A 2-year old daughter of William
Johnson, living near Carroll, Iowa, was
drowned in a tub containing only three
inches of water.
Thos. Hagen, aged 71, formerly a
wealthy farmer of Butler County, O.,
hanged himself on account of his hnan
cial reverses.
A daughter of Mr. Bable, a farmer
living in Crawford County, Iowa, was
burned to death by her clothes coming
in contact with a prairie lire, she was
18 years old.
The house of Alex. Ashby, in Lake
County, Mieh.s was destroyed by light
ning recently. Mr. Ashby's mother
and daughter, b-year-old, perished in
the flames, and Mrs. Ashby was seri
ously injured.
A young son of James Wiseman,
residing near Fairfield, Morrow County,
O., accidentally swallowed a hickory
nut shell which lodged in hi3 throat,
choking him to death in a short time.
A 2-year-old child of Bolivar Dun
can, living near Bedford, Ind., while
playing near the house was attacked by
a large blacksnake and severely injured.
W hen found, the snake was wrapped
around the child s necn.
Near Mason City, W. Va., a young
girl named Lizzie Jasper, while fooling
with a loaded pistol given her by her
brother, shot her 3-year-old sister
through the head, killing her instantly.
Ex-Judge Gleeson, a practicing
lawyar, and his adopted son, Frank, 18
years old, were found insensible in their
room at Baltimore, Md., one morhin
recently,- having oiown out the gas
when they retired the night before. The
young man died in a short time, and
the J uuge was not expected to recover,
foreign Notes.
Eugenie's son. Napoleon IV., having
been drawn in the rreneh conscription,
has availed himself of his privilege as
me only son of a widow to take his ex
emption.
There does not seem to be the least
likelihood that the Paris Exhibition will
be finished before July, at the earliest.
i ranee is more backward than most of
its guests.
The present Earl of Leitrim has of
fered a reward of 10,000 for informa
tion which will lead to the arrest of tho
nun who killed his uncle. This is by
far tne largest reward ever otlered in
Ireland. A farmer with a shattered
hand has been arrested.
The beauties of Parisian society are
said to be the Duchess of diamines.
Mme. de Montebello, and Mme. de Fol
ster, the last one of the most fascinating
women Paris ha3 ever seen. Her head
and face are those of a wonderfully beau
tiful boy, while her countenance is full
of character.
Miss Burdett Coutts, now her lady
ship, is the richest and most philanthrop
ic woman in England. The bank of
thafrname is hers. Hundreds have pro
posed to her, but she somehow thought,
not being handsome, 'twas her money
they wanted. She has been troubled all
her life with a hereditary skin disease.
She dresses always in black. Her Chris
tian name is Angela.
The late Lord Leitrim did not go in
for popularity. , A few years ago he ad
vertised for some one to fill up the va
cancy in his Donegal agency. Three
hundred applicants wrote to him, and in
answer to one of them he 6aid that he
wished to appoint a military gentleman
used to shooting natives in Australia and
New Zealand, as he wanted a wholesome
lesson given to the tenants on his es
tate. During the 36 years of its existence
tho income tax has brought into the cof
fers of Great Britain and Ireland the
sura of 265,000,000, or $1,325,000,000
in gold. The highest rate Is. 4d. on
the pound was in 1856-57, the years
following the Crimean war. The lowest,
in 185, was 2d, while the present tax,
including the increase from the ''six
million" vote, is only 5d. (about two
per cent.) on incomes above JtloO.
There is in Berlin a society called
"The Society of Collectors of Cigar
Cuttings." Every Christmas the pro
ceeds of the cigar ends collected by its
agents arc applied to the purchase of
clothes for poor orphan children. In
1876 about 30 children were clothed by
this society, each child having a shirt,
pair of strong boots, woolen stockings,
warm dress, and pocket handkerchief.
They were in addition entertained with
a well decorated Christmas-tree. The
system of collecting is by one or two
ladies or gentlemen in the various towns
of German3T getting their friends to save
their "ends" for them. Putting the
smokers in that country at 5,000,000,
which is very much below the mark.and
assuming that the cigar-ends of each
person are worth 2 cents a quarter, this
would make in a year $400,000, and it
is now proposed by making more active
efforts to raise a much larger sum than
has hitherto been raised by this means
and found a large orphan home.
Odds and Ends.
The Times has a department head
ed " Pearls," which it casts before the
people of Chicago. Courier-Journal.
" Hennery the VIII. V as the tramp
said when he paused at the last hen
roost he visited before daybreak.
Haw key e. . - ,
Scene in a railway carriage : Fond
wife Let me see your paper a moment,
dear? Yes, dear, as soon as we get to
the tunnel. . t .
Suicides are ' more " frequent in
springtime, but true inwardness comes
only with the green apple season. Pic
ayune. '
We are at a loss to know why news
paper men suouid trouble themselves
about the tax on incomes. It is cer
cainly none of their' funeral. Derrick.
An Irishman, who lived in an attic,
being asked what part of the house he
occupied, answered : " If the house was
turned topsyturvy I'd be living on the
first flure!" - .
The proud claim of the Coney Island
Herald : " We can safely say that our
pap'er has" now the largest circulation of
any - Cunoy Island newspaper in the
world."., , - .. ;; ' ' !
One Adam Kehr, cf Bloomingtoo,
111., contracted to furnish a Chicago
firm wUh lo.uOO dozen egg3 for Easter,
but fell short 3,000 dozen ; and now he
won't speak to a lien. Chicago 'Junes.
THE MmEArOLIS DISASTER.
Particular Regarding th Great Explosion
and Conflavratton'-Theorlee as to tha
Cum ml th Disaster,
Special to the Chicago JTibune.J
St. Pacl, Minn., May 3. The Wash
burn "A" Mill stood on the inside of the
water-power canal at Minneapolis,about
a hundred yards- balow a street leading
into " the saw-mill platform" over St.
Anthony Falls. In front of it, across
the canal, on the bank of the river,
stood a stone block of three flouring
mills, via. : Pettit, Robinson & Co.'s, the
Zenith Mill, and the Galaxy Mill. Be
low it stood Miller's Elevator. At their
rear, across the track of the Minne
apolis & St. Louis Road, on which stood
28 cars loaded with wheat Hour, were
the Humboldt and Diamond Mills and
other buildings fronting on the freight
yard of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Bail
way. To the right of these last build
ings stood the Washburn "B" Mill. All
the above-named mills were run to their
full capacity yesterday, except the Pettit
and Galaxy. The Washburn "A" Mill,
run by water, was
THE LARGEST FLOURIXO-MILL IJf AMER
ICA, having 41 run of stone, and all the ap
pliances for manufacturing the finest
grades of flour. It was owned and
operated by J. A. Christian & Co.,
Christian being manager, and C C.
Washburn the principal owner. The
building was 100x138 feet on the ground,
seven and a half s-tories high, with stone
walls 6 feet thick at the base to 18 inch
es at the eaves, and was . supplied with
ample apparatus for extinguishing fires,
including hydrant and hose on each
floor. The management had insisted
upon every precaution, including pro
hibition of the use of open lights. Ex
tra caution was recently enjoined be
cause of fire having been narrowly es
caped through flour dust from the mill
stones coming in contact with the flame
inside of an open lantern. '
At 7 o'clock last evening the day
hands went off and the night force camo
on, being 14 at the Washburn "A"
Mill, 10 each at the Diamond, Zesith,
and llumboldt Mills, and one watchmau
each at the Pettit and Galaxy Mills. At
20 minutes after 7
THREE EXPLOSIONS
were heard in parts of Minneapolis, the
first and third of which were - plainly
heard ten miles away, and sensibly jarred
buildings at that distance in every direc
tion. All accounts of those nearest the
scene agree that the first explosion oc
curred in Washburn "A "Mill, and
most that all three occurred in the same
mill. The force of the explosion was
enough to move every stone
to the lowest foundations. All
the walls of the Washburn
Mill fell outwardly, the western walls
against the Humboldt and the Diamond
Mills and adjoining buildings, all of
which were instantly prostrated, falling
from the Washburn Mill in the direction
of the round-house across the Milwau
kee yard. The round-house was split
by the concussion and partly wrecked.
THE FLAMES
immediately enveloped the ruins of the
mills and the adjoining wrecks. Par
ties standing on high ground on the el
evated side, several blocks away, saw
from behind the tall elevator spring up
columns of whitish vapor, like steam in
appearance, immediately followed by a
dense black cloud, which was quickly
illuminated by the reflection of a great
fire. Simultaneously the elevator build
ing appeared to part in the middle from
top to bottom, and flashed out in a mass
of bright flames. At the same time the
flames rolled across the canal through
the crushed doors and windows of the
Pettit, Zenith and Galaxy Mills, setting
the interiors all on fire. The same ap
pearances were observed from other di
rections, and those who noticed the lift
ing of the roof of the Washburn Mill by
the explosion say it went not less than
SEVEN IU NIREI FEET HIGH.
That this is not an exaggeration may
be judged by the fact that small pieces of
roof-timbers and pieces of tarred roof
covering fell a few minutes afterwards
in different parts of St. Paul, one stick
falling on Wabasha Street, in the center
of St. Paul, fully seven miles from the
mill in an air-line. The wind was blow
ing down the river away from the other
mills and closely-built sections of Minne
apolis. The leaping flames passed over
the Palisade Mills to envelop Cooper's
warehouse beyond, jumped a small
building used for a lumber-yard office,
and set in a blaze 1,000,000 feet of lum
ber. Several frame buildings, three and
four squares away, were set on fire by
flying embers and consumed, while many
ot her build i ngs w hich canglit were saved .
The fire meantime raged with uncon
trollable fury where it had first started,
until it had consumed every thing which
would burn, leaving besides the empty
walls of the three river side mills noth
ing but heaps of stone and masses of
wrecked machinery. Under or in these
debris lay the remains of
A NUMBER OF II t MAN BEINGS. -
Of 13 men in the Washburn Mill not
one e-caped. A fourteenth man, who
belonged to the night force, was acci
dentally 20 minutes late, and so saved
bis life. From the Diamond Mill, at the
time of the explosion, one man had gone
out for a pail of water, and escaped. His
companion, John Boyer, was seen by
those who rushed to the scene of the
fire, painfully strugglihg over the ruins
through the blazing fire and smoke. He
reached the side of the railway bed and
crawled till he could almost touch the
rail with tho already charred stumps
which ended his arms. Twenty men,
barred from hi in by a wall of fierce
flames, saw him, burned and bleeding
from ghastly wounds, grasp feebly an
vainly at a rope thrown toward him, and
then sink back dead. An heur passed
before .his limbless body and bared
skull, all that was left of him, could be
lifted out, though a steady stream of
water was kept playing on the spot
where he lay.
NARROW ESCAPES.
Fred George, badly burned, leaped
from a window of the Zenith Mill and
e-caped. His companion perished. He
savs that at the moment of the explo
sion a pile of barrels to be filled last
night moved bodily upon him from the
front room. He climbed over them
through the rapidly spreading flames
and dropped from the window.
John Monte, a watchman, in - the Gal
axy Mill, jumped from a third-storv
window. Fortunately, the" " explosion
had rioDed ur the timber covering of
the canal, and he fell in the , water, re
ceiving only slight injuries. 1 wo men
perished in the Humboldt Mills. In all
the lost were 18, ot whom all but three
were married. One widow,, crazed by
her sudden loss, imagining she heard
or saw her husband, would have rushed
into the fire when burning its fiercest,
but that strong men restrained her.
Daniel A. Day, second miller, acting
as watchman at restit & iioDinson
mills, was in the mill office on the first
floor, by a window on the north side,
with his back towards the front win
dow, and near it, and at his tight
against the partition was a heavy- deck.
He heard no sound. " The first he knew
he was hurled against a stone wall and
the desk after him. Recovering, he in
stinctively, rushed .to a window; when
he was again thrown back." By" this
time. the office was full of flying debris.
Somewhat stunned he scrambled to a
side window, rlie wall was plainly '
roekragand waves from the canal roil-; f
ed several inches deep into the-office.
Still he had heard no noise. By this
time aa atmosphere of flame had swept
through the mill. .. lieu tried to turn on
"lh? water, but found he had not time.
na dropped from a side window, nd
escaped with many bruises.
OF THK DEAD,
Charles Ilenning, aged 30, leaves a
widow and one child.
Fred Mcrritt, aged 28, single, was a
Minneapolis base-ball umpire last year.
Clark Wilber, aged 45, leaves a widow
and two children iu Vermont.
"Aug.-Smith, aged 45, leaves a wife
and one child.
William Leslie, aged 28, leaves a wife
and one child.
Cyrus Ewing, aged 34, was single.
Ole G. Lee leaves a wife and one
child.
Walter Savage, aged 23, leaves a wife
and two children.
Patrick Jadd, aged 23, leaves a wife
and two children.
Ed Mewitt, aged 20, was single. He
was a brother of Fred.
Charles Kimball was single.
II. Hicks, aged 23, divoreed.
E. W. Burbank, aged 60, leaves a wife
and two daughters.
John Rosieunus, aged 26, leaves a wife
and an infant child.
John Boyer, aged 25, leaves a wife.
Peter Halberg, aged 25, leaves a wife
and one child.
Two other men are reported missing.
Peter Tund, first reported as having
perished in the Humboldt, was outside,
and escaped unharmed. He asserts that
the explosion occurred only in the
Washburn Mill, and that the Humboldt
and Diamond Mills were blown down
by concussion. Per contra, Alex Brad
ley and George Hind, who were twice
prostrated by explosions, when walking
from the vicinity ef the mills, being
twice laid on their backs and a second
time showered with stones.say the second
explosion occurred in the Diamond
Mill, just behind them, but the weight
of evidence is that all the explosions
were in the Washburn Mill.
The total loss of property is estimat
ed to-day at $1,000,000. The burned
mills and four small manufacturing es
tablishments destroyed will be rebuilt.
The city has temporarily lost 87 run of
flouring stone, but has 130 left.although
several mills are so shattered by the ex
plosion as to need repairs.
As to the
CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSIOX,
the most positive are -the millers.
Their theory is that fine wheat and
flour-dust which is thrown out in vari
ous processes of flouring is highly in
flammable, and at the touch of a flame
devclopes a powerful t-xplosive gas
more forcible than the explosive gases
of mines, or than steam. In one nota
ble instance, in the destruction of the
Trade-Stone Mill at Glasgow, Scotland,
a few years ago.this theory seemed con
firmed by all the circumstances. That
some sort of an explosive vapor or un
payable powder is created in flouring,
especially in the high grinding of the
patent process, is an undoubted fact
which has had numerous illustrations
in small explosions, but that an explo
sion strong enough, or in quantity suffi
cient, to rend and level massive walls,
and throw stones and timbers as if they
had been propelled by nitro-gljcerine
is only to be proved by the Glasgow
Mill destruction and by the circumstan
ces of the Minneapolis disaster.
The Washington Society Woman.
The Washington society woman has
one grand absorbing passion an enthu
siastic devotion to herself that has made
her stoical on every other subject ; she
may have her smiles and her tears, her
joy3 and her sorrows, but they are not
for others. She adores dress, kneels at
the shrine of Mammon, burns incense
to dear mealy mouthed society, fawns
upon the powerful and elevates her ex
quisite nose at the knock-kneed, pot
bellied, and weak. She is an audacious,
persevering, pioneering, little body ; her
motto is excelsior ; and her Alps is the
social ladder. Sooner or later, proba
bly later, she will get married to a sen
timental youth, with well balanced hair
and money ; or, to what she would pre
fer, money, with only septuagenarian
incumbrance. Money, subsidiary to
self, is the supreme object of ber life,
and she will secure it through mar
riage, if she can, but at any rate she
will secure it. Since the days of Baby
lon there have been other careers for
women at capitals than matrimony.
Cor. Yonkers Gazette.
flow Gag-light Affects the Eye.
In a report recently before the Ger
man minister for education by tbe sci
entific ' committee for medical affairs,
the conclusions arrived at are that gas
light has no prejudicial effect upon the
eyes provided they are protected from
its direct action. For this purpose the
committee recommend shades and bell
glasses of translucent glass porcelain.
lhey disapprove ol opaque metallic
shades, since when these are used the
eyes, though themselves in shade, gazo
upon a strongly illuminated surface, and
become dazzled and over-stimulated.
On account of the large quantity of
heat evolved by gas, the burner should
not be too near the head of the person ;
the heat is liable to cause headache and
even congestion of the brain. Care
should also be taken to prevent the flame
from flickering. The use of a dark-bluo
glass is also suggested in cases of irrita
tion. With these precautions the com
mittee believe that gas-light may be
used without mischief.
-- There lately appeared in a London
paper the following advertisement:
" Next presentation for sale to desirable
benefice in Bucks. Income about 300
a year, besides a good house. Church
and schools in good repair.' Prospect
of early possession. Price asked 1,500.
No reasonable offer refused if sold at
once." Respecting this the Echo ob
serves: "It was said of old, 'Make
not thy father's house a house of mer
chandise,1 but that was a long time
ago, and we have grown wiser since
then.' : "
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