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   Williamsport Warren Republican (Newspaper) - August 5, 1886, Williamsport, Indiana                                use ot the piece is coming in chestnut crop in York promises to be the largest grown for of the Court of Appeals will bo the only State officer elected in New York State this the apple crop will be small in many sections of the New England will have a courts bf three Connecticut And have declared boycotting a N. of N. proposes to go over Niagara falls in a rubber in No one has seen any thing the Other day in Pecos N. is reported to have killed two head of sheep belonging to one room in which General Grant died remains untouched in every The anniversary of his death occurred on the 23d of West there will be a total eclipse of the sun August 29, and astronomers are already turning their steps in that brother of one of the most famous men of pills ever known on this pill-shaped is to made a knight the British Chicago oyer 1,3.00 wads of chewing-gum which he has scraped from the backs of bureaus and bedsteads sold at his occurred recently on the eastern shore of Block R. L There is a high along the shore at this point About an acre of land in a strip two hundred feet in length broke off and slid down Into the L E. secretary of the Dakota Railroad says North Dakota will not harvest one-half as much wheat as she did last even if the most favorable condition of continues the rest of the of gypsy immigrants were forbidden to land at Castle Garden and were sent back to This may be taken as thc version of the which used to be sung so extensively at spelling who was chief engineer of the New York elevated railroads when they were has been in an insane asylum at L. since 1882. He te worth fully a million dollars and efforts are now being made to procure bis release on the ground of partial from Late July 28. In tha Senate the directing the Labor to system and the Deficiency Appropriation were At the evening session several billB public and Rity private pension bills were Blair reported favorably from the Education and LabOT joint a constitutional ' amendment the 1900 the and of alcoholic as a beverage shall In the House the Senate certain lands Pacific Railroad Company ' and a disagreement on the Executive and Judicial Appropriation was July 27.rin pension bills were reported back with that they be the At the evening session a number of pension bills were In the House the Commerce and the Eiver and Harbor were the items in the latter for the Lake Superior ship the improvement of the and the of being stricken July 28.The Senate refused to recede from its canal amendments to the Blver and Harbor and a new conference was The Fortifications was In the House a conference committee disposed of the Executive and Judicial Salary which appropriates Several amendments to the Civil were in and another conference was Mr. Holman submitted the conference report on the Legislative Appropriation and it was agreed July 29.In the Senate Mrl Beck reported favorably the House providing that manufactured snuff and cigars may be removed for export to a foreign country of The treasury surplus resolution was discussed at great In the House several pension cases were called up and an effort made to lay them aside for the Commerce bilU It was agreed that the pension bills should have At the session twenty-five private bills were were during the fiscal year ended June 30, 3,4SS established and 1,120 the total number at that date being 53,614, of which 2,265 are During the year 9,112 appointments were made en resignations and commissions and 9,55S on removals and and changes from other causes swelled the total number to 23,747.  mints issued 487,849 standard silver dollars during the week ended on the 24th the issue during the corresponding period of last year was 336,995.  KEW design for postal cards has been approved by They are to be printed in black on white with a head of Jefferson on the upper right-hand confirmation of W. W. Porter as United Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona Territory took place on the 27th. has appointed Alvey of the District of to be Second Assistant Secretary of and H. S. of to be Minister to P. Public sent his resignation to the President on the 29th,  on the 29th appointed George A. of in place of John whom the Senate refused to of is anxious follow the example of John who tried to cross the Atlantic in a dory 1;wo years and was never heard from after he set Chandler believes he can row the and wants to if some one will furnish him a subscriber who found a spider in his paper wants to know if it is considered a bad of the says the Tho spider merely looking over the of- the paper ito see what so that it could spin lis web across his and be free from takes a good deal to kill some A man Alameda wished to commit first turned the gas on fuIL head in his then cut bis and ended by glancing two ballets off his He is recovering He should off with plate of His wonld then have been wool clip in States pounds less than a year Ohio three millions and of Texas millions Every State and the exception the weather of in fall a undertook on the 37th to to R. several cases of porcelain eggs filled with bnt the carelessness of a drayman exposed the scheme to the leading women of the Royal Templars of Temperance at horsewhipped Peter 27th, for remarks he made in his the concerning was reported on the 27th that the hop crop of New York was a compete and growers were destroying their P. cashier and chief book-keeper of the American Baptist Publication was 27th to bo a defaulter to the extent the State of the Prohibitionists of Connecticut at Hartford on the 28<ii was by Rev. Samuel Baker the First Maine district on the 28th the nominated William ' of for of the Twenty-seventh district Of Pennsylvania met on and nominated C. W. Mackey for Vermont Greenbackers met on the 29th at Essex Junction and nominated a Stato headed by T. B. for mbe a in New York on burned Mrs. and destroyed to the ing to heat in New York City on the 29th prostrated eighteen four of while treasurer in 1884 of Chautauqua on his - AND met in that the Prohibition will neither soak nor accept affiliation other that total abstinence the Individual prohibition of the liquor traffic by the State threshold of labor v thorough public education and a more careful and Just imposition of at Chicago on the 28th Harry L. GUmer that at the time massacre he saw Alignait Spies the fuse of tossed into whom he recognized from as Rudolph - Republicans of the Twentieth district have renominated J. IL Thomas for Democrats nominated General Gordon for Governor at their State convention at Atlanta on the 28tb. Resolutions of fealty to the Democratic party and indorsement of were was stated on the 28th that there wias no Withe report of a lumber fire by on the 28th to elect a United States Senator to fill the unexpired term of the late John F. delegates were present at a Republican held on the 28th at W. Va. A was adopted favoring submission Of Prohibitory amendment to a vote of men wore killed on the 29th by the explosion of a boiler in a at N. Moore was executed on the 29th for assaulting his He protested bis innocence to the the Fifth Kansas district John A Anderson was renominated for Congressman on the 29th by bolting He had been indorsed by the Ferdinand wife and child were driving across a bridge on the 29th near Nebraska theif team became frightened and leaped the river thirty feet The three werfe First Indiana district Republicans on the 29th nominated General Alvin P. Hovey for and in the Fifth district Ira D. Chase was the Ohio State Prohibition convention at Canton on the 29th the following ticket was For Secretary of Rev. H. R. School Rev. L. N. Gideon T. Clerk of the Supreme H. J. Commissioner of Public Abraham Democrats of Tenth Virginia district met on the 29th and James for John's N. advices of the 27tirsay that thousands of arctic bears driven by the cold were consuming the provisions of tho starving people of and the Indians were eating their dead hundred Hindoos lost their lives by the recent of the theater at British of Khartoum by the rebels was reported by an Egyptian officer who Cairo on the 28th from the was raging to extent at St on the 29th and many deaths were filling the most important the new British officially announced on the 29th, Minister and First Lord of the the Marquis of Chancellor of the ' Lord Randolph Churchill Lord High Baron Lord Lieutenant of the of Londonderry Lord Chancellor of Lord Lord President of the Privy Viscount Secretary of Foreign the Earl of Chief Secretary for Sir Michael Home Henry Q. Secretary for Rt. Hon. W. H. Rt Hon. Henry Cecil cholera returns of the were as 18 new 10 13 new 6. 10 new 4 10 new 1 3 new 3 and 22 new cases and 12 deaths the annual meeting on the 29th of the Panama Canal Company in Paris M. de Lesseps expressed confidence that the cut would be completed by 1889.  Evidence the Grows enso of July In ihe trial yesterday a regarding Jihe utterances of Parsons ' at the Detective Tells tho of HIs Investir Who Saw f ulte the Fuse and tue Bomb at tbe mis AT TUB July 26.The developments M the trial Saturday such to considerably darken the hopei The prosecution had fitting climax to the dramatic evidence of the the testimony of Andrew C. a who hacuin the of his joined one of the groups of Socialists drilled with the armed section of the Lehr nnd His evidence was of Jn but of as indicating similarly employed and give their testimony in the The introduction of tbe witness created a sensation and evidently startled the who could illy conceal their A gentleman connected with said detectives were employed m of 1885 by Lyman J. the vice-president of the First National I am that Gage did not do this on his own a fund of was raised for the among the bankers and wholesale merchants of the The scheme was inaugurated by the Club of which is C. a said he joined the American group of International Association in 1885. The last meeting he attended was in January last Ho a member of the at the instance of the Pinkerton Detective in whose employ ha He made written reports of doings at the meetings to his Heard Parsons inake a speech at one of on February 2^ 1885. at Baum's m an aristocratic portion of the Parsons stated that the reason the meeting had been called in that locality was to give the many merchant princes who resided there an opportunity to attend and hear what the Communists had to say about tho distribution of wealth and then ho the capitalists .in He want you all to unite together and throw off the We need no no no no militia and no They arc all seeking the blood of the who have to support them by their I say to rise one and and let us Woe to the police militia whom they send against marched in the procession on the night of the dedication of the new Board of Trade and saw Spies and Fielden marching in the witness said he was with Fieldon and at 54 Lake street on the 24th of 1885. After having been there a time a man armed with a long cavalry sword and dressed in a blue blouse and wearing a slouch hat came into and he ordered all those present to fall in. He then called off at the witness that be saw several air during remarks of Percy a toot of the speeches in he - on witness stand and they corroborated testimony on this point On cross-examination English stated that ho heard Spies and He thought theif speeches on ' the night in more than They did not say that night that were going to force Parsons said they not and Spies said the meeting to incite a Heard Captain words calling on the crowd to but not hear Fielden say the or and both occurred before the police hod tired a shot was further substantiation of the use by Fielden of the words applied to the police and addressed to the come wind and occurred in portions of Ohio on the SOth ult The villages of Allentown and were wiped out of A family named consisting of wife and Wo were killed and three members of tbe family of Jesse Lazarus also A livery stable was blown to the and fifteen horses were At Lewis two persons were and at every house was damaged man was many were The at Columbus was The total loss of as far was There were failures in the United States during the seven days ended on against 194 the previous seven on the 80th ult in the valley ruined Of. houses and barns and leveled many men were HUNDRED a at Port a picnic on the ult in On ' ia cholera returns on ult 26'^ew 15 new new deaths and all those present answered To their He then inquired whether there were any new members who wished to join a military Witness and two others Witness was vouched for by Parsons as being a true was as a member and given number 16. who were not members were then expelled from the and the remainder fell into and were then drilled for about bait an nour or a manual by man armed with the The left the but in a few minutes returned with ten other men dressed lite and introduced them as the first company of tho Lehr und Wehr They were armed with Springfield Presently a man whose name witness did who was then employed the proprietor of the saloon at No. 54 West Lake street came into the room tin which he placed on the table at the south end of the The drilling instructor theu asked all those present to step up and examine the two tin as they were the latest improved The armed section met again on the following August 81. The drilled tho company for about one hour and a and afterward a consultation was held among all of the company the best way of procuring Some one suggested that each should so much a week until a sufficient amount had been raised wherewith to purchase a rifle for each member of the The fendant theu made a Ho ' Look why can't we make a raid some night on the militia There are only two or three men on guard there and it is easily This suggestion seemed to bv other and some more discussion took place and it was decided to put the matter of the raid until the nights got a little said that at first meeting of tho armed section the arose as to what the section should be what the section should be Some one suggested that the company should be amalgamated with the German and the company ' - to - be called the fourth company of the Lehr und Wehr This idea was Opposed by ty t he company was called the In case of with the authorities the to act in concert with the Lehr und Wehr Verein and obey the commander of that * also stated that at a meeting in December last Fielden said i the time the revolution should take 1st of May will be our time strike the There will be strikes and there will be 50,000 men out of is to the eight-hour movement is said he was handed a circular on the night of May and went up to He a Mr. Brazelton to pointent the Just then Schwab came along and was A Spies got on the wagon and called for Witness he got and pretty soon I saw Spies and Schwab enter the alley near Crane I was standing dose them and 1. heard the words and either the word or Then I heard Spies say you think -one is Hadn't we bettor get some passed along and later heard Schwab say when they come we wiU go for and Spies said 1 don't think will darS bother a third man joined Spies and and three seemed to up I saw Spies pass something to the third and he put it in his right-hand pocket Then they separated and went into the y see that third man after I on the at that picture and say if it looks like the third witness a of 1 should say that is a picture of the third man I saw with Schwab and and on the His were longer I testimony ot this witness created quite a sensation in and the defendants in particular were intensely They craned their necks forward to catch every Counsel for the defendants consulted for several minutes before beginning the cross-examination Finally Mr. Foster took hold of the witness and by a long and rapid fire of questions to shake his said he could not understand The he heard was in He did not hear them thing Schwab going to Deering to make a didn't hear Spies ask if one speaker at that meeting would be enough The question by ono be conversation overheard by he have been with reference to the meeting at He would swear positively that he saw Spies and Schwab talking together that night Spies used both of the words and Mr. Foster questioned the witness closely where Spies and Schwab and learned that they together on Randolph street as as ' and came Witness said he followed them closely up there and a about five He passed theiu at Union street on the way back and heard Schwab say when they come we will give it to He could not say to whom Spies answered him do not think they at good Governor and member of and Secretary of the when together with Secretary of David and by the bursting of Commodore Stockton's big gun on board tha Princeton during a pleasure exn on February 1844.  the Dr. J. B. Murphy a graphic harrowing account of the effects of the bomb and the sufferings of the wounded He had attended thirty of the of the some of at the Desplaines street stetion and others at the Describing in detail the wounds of the chief ha told a ghastly of mangled and quivering shattered bodies of those who caught the full force of the Some pieces of shell that left but a small surface wound had torn great jagged tunnels through liver or while others that had torn off lumps of surface flesh bad left the internal organs The description of the of Jacob Timothy Lawrence Nicholas Thomas Redden and Bernard Murphy were painful to many of. the and moved some of them to quantity of clothing ot the murdered and wounded policemen was bearing and and rents torn .by pieces of They were identified as the garments worn by the policemen who fell at their posts oE dufy abthe Captain Biack opposed this the State's ' said that he ought to be satisfied if they did not bring in on dead and to show deadly work of the young man whose recall had been requested by the took the stand during the forenoon but Mr. Foster had nothing of importance to ask nor did his answers in any manner impair or weaken his important Cantain Schaack described an interview with Lingg the day the latter was Lingg confessed he had made dynamite bombs and intended to use them against the He had bought the dynamite in a store on Lake had learned how to use it from Herr Most's and bad experimented successfully with some bombs of his own Captain Schaack then described his experiments with some of and exhibited as of its power the broken metal and plank already referred The were also put in THE HENNEPIN Map of the Waterway to Connect the with tha Great to Pass the July 27.Inaamuch as the Senate has commended the construction oi the Hennepin canal by its passage qi tho River and Harbor including an item appropriating in aid oi the the fact that the fate of the in the House seems to depend upon this a description of the route ot the proposed will not be amiss Illinois and Michigan 100 miles in runs from Chicago to La and from this point to the town of Hennepin the Illinois river is to be The canal is to be In the Trial All Important Testimony Is Case Showing What State to Hsts July 81.At 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon the informed the judge and jury in the trial that he had tendered all evidence against the with the exception of some formal Which he proposes to put in this An adjournment was taken until Tbe strength of the case against the accused cannow be fairly Grinnell his opening speech said to That there were in an organization of whose was the destruction of life and property and the subversion of social That this organization existed in Chicago for over two years and that the eight prisoners were active members of Tbat accused for the social by the manufacture of dynamite by arming and That it was determined to inaugurate revolt on or about the 1st of 1886, taking advantage of the labor troubles likely to occur at that time for the That the night Haymarket explosion the insurrection was finally determined tbe signal agreed the weapons and the plan of operations for the of the police and the sacking of the city That of these plans the bomb was red which killed and wounded so many of the and that the Anarchist conspirators on trial had guilty knowledge of the intention to throw assisted in its manufacture and caused it to be State claims it has kept its It claims to have proven that for the last year or more a conspiracy of a most murderous character has existed in this It has been shown that the object of this conspiracy was a which proposed to overthrow the existing government by and that ite methods would be burning and the hope of success being based on tho character of the weapons with which tho revolutionists would be dynamite on the expectation that the city would be into It is proven that seven of the accused were the leaders of the that they prepared tbe plans and devised the means for them and that they not only preached the doctrines of the conspiracy from the platform and through the press at their but made active practical bother When he got back to of Randolph and Desplaines he saw liking and that but two still talking and that was the last he saw of Schwal Spies get on the This was about twenty minutes past eight When they got bacK to the streets just mentioned they met the third who came tha as if from around the corner in the Witness was on the sidewalk facing ten feet distant from him when they stopped and into in an excited asked witness if Spies was facing did not see Witness calmly replied that he might have seen At that time witness did not hear a from any of He Spies hand but could not tell what it He next saw on the and he staid there about an Witness was not present when the bomb July 29.In the Anarchist trial yesterday Harry Gilmer swore that he entered Crane's alley while Fielden was speaking at the Haymarket that there was a little knot of persons in the that man came from the wagon to alley just immediately after a cry come the that this lit a match and it to a fuse held by another and that this latter man flung the burning fuse and its atr the street The man who lit the mateh he identified as. Spies the man who held and the he identified by a photograph as Fischer he identified as one of persons in the alley and he believed Schwab was man atthe end of the wagon had spoken to before coming into the The cross-examination failed to shake the witness in any tended make him more emphatic in his The evidence in one AND ITS corroborative of Witness It goes to prove that Schnaubelt had the bomb in his July ' 27.In the yesterday 1)0tective Johnson was to rigid counsel for but his evidence - inspector of factories next His was mainly given by the reporter Wilkinson Thursday last Gruenhut was Wilkinson in which latter the preparations made by the and their with various also of the adopted He also circular and corrected also tho Anarchists buti to been of the though of important seemed mild coming A furnace of cheap - construction which Lieutenant in was brought into court consisted of a zinc iron three feet nine in. resting on four iron side near the bottom wete inserted thick rectangular iron tended the introduction of an air angles with these was would off. told that he understood was for making and that a man whose but inake a there four or five ' the Hennepin to Rock tho thus formed connecting the river with Lake The Illinois Michigan canal has been to the Government on the event of the becoming a The as well as the Illinois will have to be and but the great engineering work will be on the locks necessary in the proposed as there are two one ot 208 feet and another of 140 feet in the line of the and over which the commerce will have to be The the canal has been surveyed and is estimated tp cost nearly canal is to be and it is expected that offering from St. great grain growing u 11 water route to and the lakes and Erie canal to New that it will be a beneficial competitor to tbe July 28. conference committee of tha House and who have been with the River and Harbor reported yesterday morning that they were unable to Mr. of then offered a ' resolution - striking from Senate amendment to that Portage lake and Lake Superior and to so instruct the House when they are After some this - was adopted by a vOte of 106 to 63; Mr. Willis then offered a similar resolution in reference to the Hennepin canaL Mr. resolution was adopted by Of 139 to 112. Mr. Willis then sent a third resolution out the Sturgeon bay and Lake Michigan The resolution was vigorously opposed by Mr. of ana supported by Mr. It adopted by a vote ot 41 to 05. The items for the improvement of the Mississippi and Potomac rivers were ordered stricken out and a further TO Over the Hubert far he - testified to tho stuff Lingg near the his own July 30.The body of Hubert the late leader of the was yesterday in Woodlawn Judges Allen and Mayor Secretary ' District Attorney Hon. Allen Hon. G. M. Richard A. Surveyor E. Anderson as Private funeral services attended only by the the conducted Worth House by 8. pastor of the ten a. Public were in Trinity Dr. rector of St. John's and S. Borden - Many ot the chapel a ot for putting their plans into effect at a stated time the beginning of As early as October last it is May 1 was fixed as the date for the of the Seven of the defendants belonged to the armed or and directed all the is proven that Engel and Fischer were the chief practical just as Fielden and Schwab the chief advocates and Lingg seems to have spent much of his spare time since his arrival in this in 1885, in learning the use of Ho during the with bombs of his own and for many months ious to the as. well as that particular he seems to have made bombs almost by the It is proven that the office of the that Spies explosives in his editorial and he made no concealment of the destructive use to which they were to be has been proved that Spies forced himself on the platform of the eight-hour meeting at the McCormick factory despite the protests of the organizers of the that taking advantage ot the prevailing excitement aud the strained relations between Mr. McCormick and his employes he incited a portion of the latter to that as soon as he had created the disturbance he fled from the scene of grossly exaggerated the inflicted on the strikers in their affray with the printed the exaggerated account written out with his own hand in his and immediately summoned a meeting to the murders which he but which never ocr In tho circular calling the advised the to At the same time Parsons inserted iu a local paper an advertisement calling - American of which ho was an to the place ot the The evening there was a meeting of the Northwest the most violent section of the at which Engel and other of the most active lieutenante of the leading con were when the general plan of attack on the city was agreed on the distribution of the bombs for whole plot the meeting came and how the to be one of those made by Lingg that and how eight were killed and sixty is all well The attack on the outlying police stations of the city was not carried out owing to the refusal of Seliger to give Lingg the cigar with which to fire the at the Larrabee street the proceedings morning Mr. Ingham read from Herr Most's book a description of infernal machine to burn down This apparatus is described as of wonderful efficiency and It is read to secure the as evidence of the tin cans spoken of by Detective saw them exhibited at 54 West Lake The court is not sure the contents in both cases are the and Officer Coughlin of the is put on the stand the character of the He experimented with one can by means of a fulminating cap. He to the can but then he attached a fuse and of burning much was - distributed inali a was thrown five or six teet high and for of ten feet in all the grass was set on and it burned for fully five a practical who is at present professor of at Rush Medical a analysis Of ithe pieces of bomb extracted bodies Of the wounded and dead and to a similar of bombs and other found in that the percentages of antimony and constituent of the Haymarket those of the bombs confessedly made by Prof. another expert chemist j Mr. Grinnell then stated that he had now all his evidence except some more tbe - were at work some evidence as to of the did not bare the Stato had isbed an adjournment was until this Severe Gale Destroys Towns In Number of Fersons Storms in the ' 0-, terrific rain and from the northwest passed over the city p. breaking down trees and doing to a of A portion of the roof the Union depot was blown off and the Columbus building was blown persons are reported but none killed so far as dispatch from Lima says the storm over that section about ten and the reporte so far received indicate that there may be considerable loss of life in that Allentown and near arc wiped out of The rain poured down in arid the shrieks of the wounded were There was absolutely no help be people fearing almost to IBut tew houses remain standing in either of the It is as yet impossible to name the number of and A family named consisting ot wife and two were killed outright by being crushed by of their Three members of the family of Jesse Lazarus are known to be They wero struck by a heavy piece of which dashed out their A livery in which was confined some fifteen head of was blown to the and all the animals most terrific storm ever known in Delaware struck the town yesterday A perfect blanket of water fell and the streets were like The wind blew with terrific and houses were chimneys torn down and outhouses At Lewis a small village eight miles a house was blown down and two people The loss of life in this so far is The damage to property will reach many thousands of Not a house in the town of escaped Fred Henking was killed by a falling Tha loss to property will reach Alarion a terrific was accompanied by a but incredibly heavy It is reported that a train ot empty freight cars was blown from the track between Delaware and that Many bouses were unroofed and barns but no life was lost so far as the east. New July 31.A disastrous severest known in swept over New England at a late hour Thursday In Boston the storm began at and lasted until three a. m. Several persons were quite badly shocked but none All of telegraph companies lost damage done was greater outside of the At North Leominster and Randolph no less fifty buildings were two persons killed and a number injured by Crops were and many horses and other live stock storm was almost severe in Rhode Island and throughout the Connecticut John Simpson was killed at Falls and Richard Green badly Two large barns were burned in East Conn. At the storm took the form of a Mammoth trees were twisted up by the roots or shattered from while gardens were ruined by wind and Entire fields of tobacco were the same storm which raged New England did much damage also in Central New The tobacco crop of tlie Chemung valley is badly cut to by In the town of Big Flats the loss is estimated at Corn and oats have also been greatly damage was done in the definite estimate of the loss can be but it will foot up into the hundred large amount of damage was done at Rockaway beach by a storm The wind blew a hurricane ior half an and the surf washed up to the More or less damage was done to nearly every building along the water Great excitement the especially among the women and damage was done at Brighton and Coney Island ' Many licht buildings were demolished and their scattered over the A similar state of affairs prevailed Few to a museum aud toold her old ' BLAZING in Devastated br Beasts Scamper Before a Wall of July 31.The Canadian steamer Isaac May staggered into the harbor at a late hour Thursday night without fuel and almost destitute of Captain her relates astrange The May left Chicago three weeks ago yesterday towing the barges Muskoka and Wau After a run of five days they arrived at on the Canadian side of Lake It is the largest island in the great and is covered with cedar When the vessels arrived the inhabitants were badly For weeks not a drop of rain had Shortly after the Steamer and her tow began take on their cargoes of and tics the woods suddenly burst into a great and no sooner had the fire started than a severe swept over the driving the flames in every The people fled in terror to the beach and shelter on board of the which pulled out into the Scores of roaring with ran out of the woods with the hair singed IrOm their and plunged into the The flames raged for two burning over acres ot valuable timber and destroying a vast amount of on the beach lor Then a set in and continued until the lire put It days the time the vessels reached before they were ready to and their stock of provisions was almost exhausted in- the people who took refuge on Surplus JuVy 31.-'-In yesterday the Morrison joint resolution for applying the funds in the treasury to the of the public was and by a ot 42 to 20.  resolution passed provides lenever the States exceed it phall month gives power these of imei for face six  

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