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Cambridge News (Newspaper) - April 19, 1877, Cambridge, Ohio The Cambridge news. Published every thursday a at Cambridge Guernsey county Ohio. La g. Haines proprietor. Terms of subscription. For one year if paid within the year.$2 of if not paid until after the year expires. 2 50 no paper discontinued until All the arrearage ire paid except at the option of the publisher. A very Large circulation. Cambridge news. The Cambridge news. Advertising rates. Spack. I in. A in. I Yea one Quarter column. One third column. $12 50 17 50 20 of 40 of $18 75 25 of 31 50 60 00 $80 00 40 of 50 of too of one column. Vol. . 45. Cambridge Ohio thursday april 19, 1877. $2.00 per annul. Fifteen cents per line for local in Reading matter ten cents per line for local notices first insertion and five cuts per line each subsequent insertion ten cents per line Tor special notices first Inser Tiou. And 3 a. Per line each subsequent insertion. Marriage and death notices Cree. Out Narinee Ftfe cents per cards. A. Coomb. N. . Cooper a Jefferson dentists Cambridge Ohio. Of a a office on West Market Street Over Shaffner a beam Era a store. Teeth extracted without pain by the use of nitrous oxide or laughing Gas. Mar4- 75-Tflizzie Hollingshead teacher of piano and Organ music Cambridge Ohio. March 29, 77-Tfj. C. Ferbrache livery and Sale stable in the rear of times building by patronage solicited. Accommodations Good. Of Cambridge Morton House formerly Starr hotel Joseph Morton proprietor West Side Public Square Cambridge Ohio. New pleasant and convenient. Net 29-78st. Lawrence hotel Corner of main and third . B. Cook proprietor late of the Zane House Zanesville Ohio. New factory. William a. Carr Fine Boot and shoe maker Cambridge. Ohio. 3p�?Tshop in Rainey s building on Mill St making and repairing sewed work a specially jy22-tf j. Woodford livery feed and Sale stable on Pine Street North of main. Persons arriving on the cars or any others taken to All Points of Guernsey county on the shortest notice. Aps2-�?T75-tf j. V. Taylor. T. H. Anderson Taylor amp Anderson attorneys at Law feb20 76 office adjoining the Taylor Block. We. M. Siens attorney at Law and notary Public. Will practice in Guernsey and adjoining Conn Tiea. Collections promptly attended to. Post office address Cambridge Ohio. Jane 15-74________tm of Mann Carpenter and Joiner Cumberland Ohio. Is persons wishing work in this line will be promptly accommodated by calling on or addressing the above named. June 15-74 d. K. Kyle Marble and Granite works Cambridge Ohio. Keeps on hand a Fine lot of the celebrated red and Gray scotch Granite monuments at the lowest prices. Italian and american Marble monuments of the Best style Aud Quality. Marble and Blate mantles._mayl3-75-Tfat Mackey Sart gallery Cambridge. A specially is made of find photographs. Alto copying and enlarging old pictures and finishing them in India Ink water and Oil colors. Of 29-74 we. Ogler Boot amp shoe maker. In the Davis Block opposite the Public Square Cambridge Ohio. Amp a la is prepared to do All kinds of work on Short notice Aud on reasonable terms. Give him a Call. Nov. 30. 18?6-Tfmrs. Sarah Jane Moss is prepared to clean and co lob clothing for ladies and gentlemen. Braid hair and make switches to Ordor. Combines straightened. Janl�?T7# Cambridge o. Or. C. T. Sweet dentist Cumberland Ohio. Teeth extracted without pain by the use of Quot harmless dec. 28, 1876-tf a a thing of Beauty is a Joy forever. Art amp Scott photograph lists Quaker City Ohio. Photographs in every size and style and in the perfection of Art. Jane 15-74kirk House formerly Grant House Corner of Market and fourth streets. W. A. 8. M. Kirk proprietors. June 15-74 Zanesville . W. Lippincott proprietor of the Beecher j House Cor. Broadway and South streets Quaker City Ohio. To this is one of the Best arranged houses in Eastern Ohio. Guests will receive every attention necessary to their Comfort. April 12. 77-tf Fairview House Fairview Ohio. F. Dubois proprietor. Or this House is newly fitted no and Kent in modern style. Good stabling. May 18-t.fmccollum a Mckinney Are prepared to attend to All the wants of their customers in their line of making and repairing wagons Iii All sizes and patterns. They also invite attention to the facilities for a homing and the other thousand and one things made at the Blacksmith s shop. Mccollum a Mckinney �mr23- 75-tf South end Mill Street news of the week. Washington. A voile pro Sequi was entered in the ease of the government is. Bonn Piatt on the 7th. The amount of Legal tenders outstanding on the 7th was $862,356,204. The published allegations against minister Seward arc stated by the u. S. Consul general at Shanghai to be unfounded. . Mccrary has i sued a letter to u. 8. District attorneys instructing them to retrench All possible expenses As the appropriation is being rapidly exhausted. The president on the 9th, appointed James Gilchrist Surveyor of customs at Wheeling w.va., and Alonzo Bell assistant Secretary of the Interior promoted from chief clerk on the ground of Merit and in accordance with the civil service rules. The u. S. Supreme court has decided in the Centennial appropriation Case that the $1,500,000 appropriated by Congress shall be returned to the government before any dividends Are paid to stockholders. G. N. Lockwood chief clerk in the Patent office has been appointed chief clerk in the Interior department vice Bell appointed assistant Secretary of the Interior and f. A. Seely assistant examiner has been appointed chief clerk in the Patent office vice Lockwood. The clerk of the House of representatives has received a Brief from Patterson of Colorado denying the right of Belford to a seat in the next Congress of the ground that he could not be elected at the same election for the fragment of a term in one Congress and a full term in the next Congress. The president has reappointed Peter c. Shannon chief Justice of the territory of Dakota and Jacob j. Boreman associate Justice of the territory of Utah. Francis m. Weaver of West Virginia has been appointed Indian agent for the Southern Ute Agency. By direction of the president the Secretary of War has ordered that the United states troops now in Garrison in Alaska be withdrawn and the territory turned Over to the control of the Treasury department. Commander Joseph d. Marvin died at Yokohama Japan on the loth. He entered the Navy from Ohio. Senator Patterson of South Carolina in an interview with the president on the Lith informed him that he thought he the president had made a mistake in his course toward South Carolina. Tile president replied that it was an Experiment but there was reason to believe it would be successful. M. H. Hale c. C. Adams and e. F. Jennings formerly special Treasury agents have been reinstated. Adams was removed because of his Friendship for Bristow. The jury in the Case of Ottman charged with stealing a $47,000 package from the Treasury department were discharged on the 13th, after being out seventy two hours they being unable to agree. The president on the loth appointed John g. Gosper of Nebraska Secretary of Arizona and Jacob Boseman associate Justice of the Utah supreme court. The Post office department advertises for proposals for furnishing postal cards for four years from july i next. Hon. Alex. H. Stephens health is reported to be improving. The East. The new England methodist conference in session at Boston on the 7th, adopted resolutions pledging to president Hayes their Hearty sympathy and support. John c. Phair sentenced to be hanged on the 6th for the murder of mrs. Freeze at Rutland vt., in 1874, has been respite by the governor until May 4. New evidence has been discovered which if True will establish an Alibi. The Atlantic it pc Pacific Telegraph company have reduced the Rales on their lines to Twenty five cents to any Point East of the Missouri River. The Western Union reduce their rates correspondingly to competing Points. The new York methodist conference on the Lith adopted a Resolution expressing a Confidence in the upright intention and statesmanlike purpose of president the Coal producers and carriers have resolved to Advance the Price of Coal at new York fifty cents per ton june i. The supreme court granted a writ staying the execution in the Case of Campbell sentenced to be hanged at Wilkes Barre pa., on the 10th. At Montpelier vt., on the 10th, Hiram Arbuckle shot George Short twice and then leaving him for dead went to the shop of his brother in Law George Bancroft and shot and killed him. He then killed himself. The Steamer amerique stranded on the Beach at Seabright n. J., for the past two months was floated off on the 10th and anchored in deep water. By the explosion of a gasoline lamp at East new York on the night of the 10th mrs. Charles Davis was burned to death her daughter Estella aged eight fatally scorched and two other children and three neighbors who attempted to extinguish the flames seriously injured. Several vessels were washed ashore in Hampton roads on the 0th, during a storm said to be the most severe in Many years. The storm set in on the night of the 8th and lasted forty eight hours. The new England methodist conference on the Lith adopted a Resolution requesting Bishop Foster to inquire into the recent killing of Rev. Atm. H. 8eott in South Carolina and bring the facts and circumstances to the notice of the entire Church. An explosion of Sulphur in the Middle Creek mines near Tremont pa.,on the 10th, injured seven men four fatally. The Bank of Avon n. Y., suspended on the 12th. The Hamilton Mill at Paterson n. J., was burned on the 12th. Loss $100,000. The jury in the Jewett tragedy in new York returned a verdict on the 12th that Geo. W. Jewett came to his death by the explosion of a hand grenade brought to the office by Orville d. Jewett and the latter came to his death by a pistol shot wound caused by the firing of a pistol by himself. West and Soeth. Mrs. L. M Porter pos mistress at Louisville ky., has resigned. Sex president Grant was Given a reception and serenade at Galena 111., on the 9th. A convicted murderer named de. Sever died in the jail at Evansville ind., on the 10th. He is supposed to have taken Poison furnished by his wife. Jonathan Edwards presided at the meeting of the National Reform association at Chicago on the 10th. The object of the association is to maintain the Bible in the Public schools Sabbath Laws the Christian features of our government and provide for them an undeniable Legal basis by a religious amendment to the Federal Constitution. The governor of Minnesota has issued a proclamation setting apart april 26 As a special Day for prayer throughout the state for the annihilation of the Grasshoppers. The first boat of the season the Steamer Northwest arrived at Cleveland from Detroit on the 10th. The woman a missionary Union of the West its District embracing the territory Between the Allegheny and Rocky mountains commenced its sixth meeting at Dayton Ohio on the Lith. Mrs. Robert Harris presided. The Keifer family arrested on the charge of a being the Kansas benders were discharged from custody by u. 8. Judge Parker at fort Smith ark., on the Lith the Kansas parties failing to identify them. A locomotive used for hauling trains up and Down the incline Plain at Madison ind., exploded on the Lith killing John Linley Engineer and j. Hans Fader a passenger who was Riding on the engine. The fireman had both legs broken and was otherwise injured. A Columbia s. A Telegram of the Lith says a a Gen. Hampton is now in Possession of the state House the Transfer of papers and other property was made at noon to Day by the respective secretaries Wade ii. Manning representing Hampton and o. Babbitt Chamberlain. There is no excitement Twenty five business houses offices and residences were burned at Pomeroy Ohio on the night of the Lith. Loss about $100,-000. The women a Baptist foreign missionary society at its meeting at Dayton Ohio on the 12th, elected the following officers for the ensuing year president mrs. Robert Harris of Chicago corresponding Secretary mrs. A. M. Aeon of Dundee 111. Recording Secretary mrs. Bray Man of Chicago treasurer mrs. C. L. Bloodsall of Chicago. Henry Seymour a horse thief was shot and killed in the jail at Memphis on the 12th by a guard whom he was attempting to shoot. Rodgers chief clerk in the u. S. Marshals office at san Francisco is a defaulter to a Large amount. He has absconded. Seven men were instantly killed and six others More or less injured by a Cave in at the Blue Point Graham mine at Smartville cal., on the 12th. George n. Makeley of Little Rock ark., and Selden l. Jones of Memphis met near the former place on the 13th, to Settle an affair of Honor according to the code and exchanged shots. The seconds having loaded the pistols with Blank cartridges no damage was done. Both parties were arrested. Foreign intelligence. Of Leary of Chicago was the Victor in the six Days walking match with Weston at London. Tile match ended at Midnight of the 7tli, of Leary having accomplished 520 Miles and Weston 510. The former completed 500 Miles in 135 hours. Rev. Or. We. Aug. Muhlenberg author of the hymn a a i would nut live alway a died at new York on the 8th. Bismarck has consented to remain in office. The London pall mall Gazette says unless Turkey yields to All or nearly All Russia Ever demanded there will be War before Many Days. The French and russian representatives on the 9th urged the Porte to accept the protocol. The cattle plague has broken out in Middlesex county England. The Porte has Given an unfavourable reply to the protocol and demand for disarmament. The turkish chamber of deputies on the 10th rejected the demands of Montenegro. St. Petersburg papers declare War inevitable. The London times on the 10th editorially said that Only the most urgent representations of the Powers at St. Petersburg and constantinople could prevent a collision. Fresh outbreaks of the cattle plague were reported in England on the 10th. Bismarck has been granted leave of absence until August next. A Bucharest Telegram of the Lith says the turks Are actively pushing Forward military preparations. Russian Diplomatist anticipate that turkeys refusal will provoke action on the part of All six Powers. A circular from the Porte was received by the Powers on the 12th. It expresses the conviction that they will take the porters objections into account and seek some other solution of the difficulty than the protocol. A St. Petersburg Telegram says War is Manifest. There was great excitement at Vienna on the 12th. Ever one apprehends that if War Breaks out Austria will sooner or later be invoked in the struggle. The budget was presented in the British House of commons on the 12th. The estimates for the current year Are Revenue �79,020,000 expenditures �78,7544, xxx. Thor was a surplus last year of �443,0 x. It was rumoured at St. Petersburg on to j 13th that War would be immediately declared. The russian army has advanced but not crossed the Frontier. According to a Scutari dispatch of the 13th fighting is going on in the Meridith country. On the 8th the turks were Defeated at Menai but on the 9th they captured Muela. A secret Alliance is said to exist Between Russia and Persia. Contested seats in the House of representatives. The following is a list of the contested seats in the House of representatives in the forty fifth Congress which will be convened in special session in june next Alabama Jere. Haralson rep., at. C. M. Shelly dem. California a Peter , dem., at. Rolando Pacheco rep. W. G. Piper dem., at. Horace Davis rep. Colorado Thos. W. Patterson dem., at. B. Belford rep. Florida a. M. Davidson dem., at. We. Purman rep. Jere. Finley dem., at. Horatio Brisbee jr., rep. Illinois John ii. Ilu Gate dem., at. B. F. Marsh rep. Benj. T. Wiley rep., at. We. Hartzell dem. Louisiana a. Ii. Acklin dem., at. Chester b. Darrall rep. B. Elmer dem., at. George f. Smith rep. Edward w. Roberts dem., at. Chas. E. Nash rep. Massachusetts a Benj. Dean dem., at. Walbridge a. Field rep. Missouri Robert g. Frost dem., at. Lyon s. Metcalf rep. Oregon Lemuel Mcdowell dem., at. Richard Williams rep. Pennsylvania jus. B. Hutting rep., at. James b. Riley dem. South Carolinas a. Cass Carpenter rep., at. D. Wyatt Aiken dem. L. Richardson dem., at. H. Rainey rep. Tillman dem., at. Robert Small rep. Tennessee a. M. Randolph rep., at. Cary Young dem. Virginia Joseph Segar rep., at. John Goode jr., dem. W. E. Hounton dem., at. James Jorgenson rep. In two states Louisiana and Florida there Are double sets of certificates which agree on some of the names and disagree on others. In South Carolina Only one set has been filed. Senator Blaines views. Boston april 12. Senator Blaine in a Telegram to the Herald says a i am sure gov. Chamberlain knows that he has my profoundest sympathy in the heroic though unsuccessful struggle he has made in South Carolina for civil Liberty and constitutional government. I am equally sure gov. Packard feels that my heart and judgment Are both with him in the contest he is still waging against great Odds for the governorship that he holds by a title As valid As that which justly and lawfully seated Rutherford b. Hayes in the presidential chair. I Trust also that both governors know that the Boston press no More represents the Stalwart Republican feeling of new England on pending issues than the same press did when it demanded the enforcement of the fugitive slave Law in 1851,�?� Ohio news items. Tiie dead body of miss Nettie Russ Man of Tiffin was found on the 5th in the River about five Miles from that place. Circumstances indicate that she was murdered and the coroners jury returned a verdict to that effect. Lester Stone miss rus8man�?Ts Lover has been arrested on suspicion. E. Dewitt the Man stabbed at Vermillion on the night of the 30th ult died on the 7th. Kolb acknowledges his guilt and says he planned the murder some time ago with the intention of robbing the store. Miss rate sortie to the eighteen year old daughter of a Cincinnati physician committed suicide on the night of the 5tli by shooting herself through the heart. Deceased had suffered from ill health for some time past. The saw and planing Mills of John s. Banks at Greenwich were entirely consumed by fire on the 8th. Loss $5,000 no insurance. The official count in Cincinnati shows that Moore is elected mayor by 1,634 majority Over Johnston. The Only Democrat elected is Moses Wilson police judge Over Walter f. Straub by 31 majority. William i Woods of Newark and Charles Lee Collins of Cincinnati have been appointed by the president cadets at Large. The Republican executive committee met at Columbus on the 9th and issued a Call for the state committee to meet april 19. A caucus of prominent republicans will be held on that evening for consultation with reference to the approaching Campaign. Near Weston Early on the morning of the 8th, a Farmer named George Halli Day hearing a noise at Bis barn went out to ascertain the cause. He was followed by his hired Man who heard two shots in Quick succession before reaching the barn and arriving there found Halliday lying on the floor with a Bullet Hole through his head. A valuable horse belonging to Halliday was found saddled and ready to be led out. It appears that when Halliday reached the barn he discovered a horse thief and the two fired almost simultaneously. The thief escaped. Halliday was alive on the 9th, but to Hopes of his recovery were entertained. Martin havens a boy aged seven years left his fathers House in Orange township Delaware county on the morning of the 8th, and up to the evening of the 10th no Trace of him had been found. When last seen the child was in company with Edward Booker a coloured Man employed on or. Havens farm. Booker has also disappeared. Bookers wife was arrested at Columbus on the 10th, but denies any knowledge of her husband or the child. Or. Havens is in Good circumstances and it is supposed Booker has taken the child to hold for a Reward. A recount of the votes for City solicitor in Dayton in the recent election gives the election to col. Smith Republican by one vote. It had been accorded by the republicans to the democratic candidate. At the Republican caucus of the House on the evening of the 10th a Resolution for adjournment sine die april 30 was agreed to. At Cincinnati in a suit brought against Gen. Samuel f. Cary charging that he had taken advantage of the Confidence reposed in him by a number of individuals who made heavy investments in a Colo Rado mine the court found that Gen. Cary had agreed with his associates and partners in the Enterprise to buy it in for their common Benefit for $50,000, took the Money to buy it As their agent bought it for $22,000 and divided the remainder Between himself and his Nephew. The balance of $28, he the court decided must be accounted for by Cary to the subscribers. Lester Stone the Young Man who was arrested under suspicion of the murder of miss Nettie Russman at Tiffin had his examination on the 9th and was acquitted As being innocent of the crime Laid to his charge. The Case is shrouded in mystery. The president on the Lith appointed the following Ohio postmasters f. E. Bishop Elyria George i. Waldorf Lima James la. Holcomb Malbert Creek. A most unfortunate Accident occurred in Collinwood on the Lith which resulted in the death of the nine year old daughter of or. Fiedler a Carpenter in the Village. She and a number of companions were on their Way Home from school going through the Woods where some piles of Brush were burning. As they passed near one of the burning heaps not More than forty rods from Home the girls companions playfully pushed her into the flames. Some men working on a House near by heard her screams and ran to the place at once. A Man named Hales pulled her out and wrapped Ber up in his coat. Her limbs and the lower part of her body were literally roasted. Medical Aid was summoned but her life could not be saved and after suffering until evening she died. The boiler at Townsend a saw Mill at Bluffton exploded on the 12th, with terrific Force completely demolishing the building. Fragments of the boiler were found nearly a Quarter of a mile Distant. Fortunately no one was injured As the men had not commenced work. The fireman had just left the Mill for his breakfast. The loss is estimated at from $3,000 to $4,000. It has been discovered that Booker the Abductor and the boy Willie havens spent the night of the 8th at bookers mothers Home in Columbus and that they left Early the next morning. Bookers Mother states that Booker stole a child some years ago in Virginia and she fears he will kill this boy if closely Pur sued. Booker the negro who stole Willie havens on the 8th, was arrested on the 13th at London Madison county with the boy in his Possession and taken to Columbus. Booker persistently declares he did not steal the boy but that the boy insisted upon accompanying him because he had been badly treated by mrs. Havens. He says he had no Hope of Reward for his return and expected to take care of him As Best he could. The boy upon being interviewed said when he left Home he expected merely to take a walk. He said he had been Well treated by Booker but had to walk a Good Deal some Days As much As Twenty Miles. He was delighted at the idea of being returned to his parents. There Are eighty churches in Cleveland. Legislative in the Senate on the 7th, Bills were passed to reorganize the girls Industrial Home to authorize an incorporation of associations to Deal in Patent rights authorizing probate courts to set aside appraisement of property of a decedent when such an appraisement has been procured by fraud. A Bill was introduced to create a state Board of medical examiners. A Large number of local Bills were passed. In the House Bills were passed to authorize guardians of imbeciles to sell real estate of their wards requiring assessors to make special returns of persons residing in special school districts. Several local Bills were also passed. A Resolution for sine die adjournment april 23 was referred. Adjourned. In the Senate on the 9th, a lengthy discussion was had on a motion for the reconsideration of the vote adopting the Resolution to Amend the Constitution so As to reorganize the state judicial system. The president decided the motion out of order As the Resolution had been already published in the papers As required by Law. Several members stated that they voted for the Resolution understanding there was a saving clause protecting the probate courts in six counties. A member said he thought it Likely the Senate had voted for one Resolution and the House for another. The matter was dropped with the understanding that the judiciary committee would investigate it. A few local Bills were passed. In the House Bills were passed requiring assessors to collect statistics of deaths of hogs by cholera to revise the Lien Law and give the priority of Lien to labourers sub contractors material men and principal contractors in the order named to authorize the guardian of an insane widow to answer in action for partition and Sale of real estate to secure to persons performing labor or furnishing materials on free turnpikes or improved roads prescribing proceedings for detaching territory from a City or Village. Adjourned. In the Senate on the 10th, the general appropriation Bill was reported from the finance committee with amendments. A communication from Gen. Walcutt president of the Board of directors of the Penitentiary was Laid before the House. It states that the number of prisoners in the Penitentiary is now very Large and constantly increasing. Many Are unemployed and More will be shortly unless the Board arc left free to control their labor to the Best advantage. Contractors will not renew their contracts at the Price fixed by Law a seventy cents per Day. The Board Are satisfied that As contracts expire a Large number of men will be left on their hands and the institution become a Burden on the state. They Reco Amend that the Law governing the Price of labor be repealed or suspended until aug. I 1878, and they be allowed to exercise their judgment As to letting the contracts. Referred. Bills were passed requiring township trustees to keep a record of chattel mortgages authorizing township trustees to appropriate not More than ten acres of land in any Case for a cemetery authorizing townships to Levy additional Road taxes extending the jurisdiction of notaries Public to the territorial limits of any City or Village extending from the county of their residence into the adjoining county. Adjourned. In the House the District prison Bill after a Long discussion wasdcfeated�?27 to 54. A few Bills were passed. Adjourned. In the Senate on the Lith the general appropriation Bill was considered in committee of the whole. The amendment proposing an appropriation of $10,-000 to the state Board of agriculture was disagreed to. Bills were passed providing that garnishes non residents of the state shall be compelled to answer in the court in which suit is brought and in the county where service is obtained to prevent the waste of property of a deceased wife by a surviving husband requiring township assessors to make a separate list of property in special school districts requiring assessors to make a separate list of hogs that have died from cholera during the year. The following joint Resolution was adopted without a dissenting vote resolved by the general Assembly of Hie state of Ohio that common honesty to tile taxpayer the letter and spirit of the contract under which the great body of its indebtedness was assumed by the United states and True financial Wisdom each and All demand the restoration of the Silver Dollar to its former rank As lawful Money. In the House 4he Resolution for sine die adjournment april 30 was adopted. Bills were passed authorizing the formation of common carriers associations to lease and operate railroads in relation to Railroad Bridges reported by the committee on the Ashtabula Bridge disaster to authorize villages incorporated for special purposes to reduce the Width of streets authorizing township trustees to Levy additional Road taxes to an amount not exceeding $200. A the joint Resolution to accept a proposition of citizens of Columbus to furnish a site and build and furnish a House for an executive mansion and receive therefor a tract of land in the City now owner by the state Wras lost by a vote of 19 to 63. Adjourned. In the Senate on the 12th, the report of the committee of conference on the Bill to reorganize the Board of trustees of the agricultural College was agreed to and it is now a Law. The Bill increases the Board to Twenty members one from each congressional District. The House amendments to the Bill authorizing common carriers associations to lease and run railroads were agreed to. The Bill to provide for publishing the proposed amendment to the Constitution was passed so amended As to make the Price of such publication 70 per cent of the rates of Legal advertising As prescribed by Law. The Resolution for sine die adjournment was referred to the finance committee. In the House the Bill to vacate the Lewistown Reservoir was indefinitely postponed. The Senate Silver re monetization Resolution was referred to the finance committee. Several local Bills were passed. In the Senate on the 13th, no business of importance was transacted and an adjournment was taken until the 17thin the House Bills were introduced providing that persons living outside of municipal corporations and owning property within the limits of such corporations May with the consent of the Board of education Send their children to school therein fixing the of members and officers of the general Assembly at $500 per annul and deducting therefrom $5 per Day for every Days absence to prevent the erection of a Tollgate within one mile of any incorporated Village of upward of 150 inhabitants. Adjourned to the 17th. A one of the curiosities of our coast is a Mammoth Frog which was exhibited yesterday at the new Orleans amp Mobile depot. Several River men declared that it is the largest Frog Ever known to exist anywhere in our swamps and bayous. It is estimated that its weight is at least 200 pounds. It was found under the wharf at the foot of government Street a Mobile Register. A St. Louis horror. St. Louis april la. The most frightful calamity that has Ever befallen St. Louis took place at All Early hour this morning involving the destruction of the Southern hotel by fire and the loss of at least eleven lives. It is feared Many others perished either by being burned directly or first smothered by smoke and then consumed. From the Best information at hand it seems the fire caught in a store room in the basement and was first seen coming through the ground floor just North of the office and in ten minutes it had ascended the elevator and Rotunda and spread itself Over the sixth floor under the roof. This floor was occupied entirely by employees of the hotel the largest part of whom were women. The fire spread rapidly filling every room and Hall with flames and smoke and the scene was one of the most terrible description. Frantic men women and children ran through the Halls shrieking in the most heartrending manner in their wild and desperate efforts to escape. The smoke was so dense in some of the Halls that the Gas jets were extinguished which rendered egress even to those most familiar with the building a matter of great difficulty. The fire department was on the spot promptly and hundreds of people congregated at the scene ready and willing to Render any Aid necessary. The density of the smoke in the Halls drove Many of the guests and boarders Back into their rooms and they rushed to the windows As a Means of escape. Ladders were raised As soon As possible and women and children Clad Only in their night clothes were thus taken from the burning building. Some fainted from fright and others Sank exhausted to the ground from nervous prostration. The ladders generally were too Short to reach to the fifth and sixth stories but by hoisting some of them on the balconies on the East and North sides of the building these floors were reached and All those at the windows were rescued. The fire escape was also brought promptly into service and was the Means of saving Many lives. The female help some eighty in number occupied the upper floor of the hotel and the panic among them was terrible. Several threw themselves from the windows and were instantly killed. The Coroner gives the following list of killed As related to him and thinks it comprises All known to be dead Rev. A. R. Adams of Stock Cross Berkshire England George Frank Gouley grand Secretary of the masonic fraternity of this state rate Reilly rate Dolan and Mary Moran servants Henry Hazen of the auditors department of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. He was formerly of new Castle pa., whither his remains will be sent. Mrs. Stewart wife of Vav. S. Stewart of the firm of Derby amp Day of this City Andrew Listmann of the firm of Techman amp co., of this City Charles Tieran Sidmore Hayden and an unknown Man. Rate Claxton Lettie Allen and Frankie Mcclelland actresses were among the saved but the latter is believed to be fatally injured. P. Shackleford of new York had both legs broken and others of the saved were More or less injured. Charles Tieran lost his life in attempting to save others. Philip Gerald w As brought out alive but entirely bereft of reason. Half an hour after the fire was discovered the entire roof was ablaze and the flames were rapidly descending to the lower stories. A half hour later the floors and Interior Walls began to fall and the roof fell in and there is now nothing left of one of the finest hotels in the country except the Walnut Street front and parts of the fourth and fifth Street faces. The Southern hotel originally Cost about $1,250,000, but was purchased by or. Campbell for $525,000? the furniture w As owned by Breslin Darling amp co., lessees was valued at $200,000 Aud is a total loss. Insurance on building $290,000 on furniture $142,000. St. Louis april 12. From sixty to one Hundred men have been put to work on the ruins by order of the mayor and this Force will be increased from 150 to 200. It is apprehended that several of the female domestics of the House Are buried beneath the debris As a number of them have Nolt reported to the proprietors and no account has been received of them. It now seems quite probable that h. Clark wife and child were among the killed. Mrs. Scott reported dead yesterday was still alive at a late hour last night but there is no Hope of her recovery. Rate Claxton lost everything she possessed and is suffering from nervous prostration. Her escape from the building was attended w Ith great difficulty and Nuch suffering from smoke and fright. Miss Frankie Mcclellan is in a very critical condition. She jumped from the fourth Story to the roof of a one Story Saloon adjoining the hotel and sustained a severe concussion of the brain and the spinal Cord. She also has a badly Cut face and head two penetrating wounds in the Groin a fractured rib and several minor hurts. The body of a child supposed to be a Little girl was found in the ruins this evening just under the Walnut Street Entrance to the hotel. It Lay on a Small mattress and evidently fell from one of the upper stories. It was disfigured beyond recognition. Or. Morrow agent of a new York jewelry House lost a Sample trunk containing $17,000 Worth of jewelry. This morning the remains of the trunk were unearthed and Between $400 and $500 Worth of the contents recovered in a damaged condition. Most of the employees of the hotel have reported and others Are expected to report to Morrow. It is not believed that Many of them Weie lost. France has 120,000 silk looms. St. Louis april 13. Two bodies were found in the ruins today and were identified As those of ii. Clark and wife of North Adams mass. The lady was identified by the dress she wore and the gentleman by his watch. Of the guests at the hotel on the night of the fire thirty eight have not yet reported but the presumption is that most of them left the City the Day following the fire or have since departed. Of the servants All but a very few have reported and the proprietors of the hotel do not think that any were burned besides those mentioned excepting perhaps Charles Kie Fricht the head waiter of whom nothing has been heard since the night of the fire. The last seen of him he was going through the fifth Story arousing the guests of the House and it is feared he was overcome by the smoke and fell a victim to his Noble efforts to save the lives of others. Miss rate Claxton the actress whose miraculous escapes from the Heaters in Brooklyn and Washington will be remembered gave the following account of her experience in the burning hotel a i left the olympic theater immediately after the performance and returned to the hotel with my brother. We went into the dining room to take a late supper and there we found miss Osborn and miss Mcclellan. Miss Mcclellan was so Bright and cheerful and i was so charmed with her Sweet face and manners Little imagining what was so soon to follow. After bidding them goodnight i went to my room on the same floor. I sat Down and read a Little before going to bed and everything at that time was quiet. The next things remember was a loud knocking at the door. I was undressed and had been sleeping some Little time. In a half stupid condition i turned and listened and the knocking was repeated. With the knocking the sounds of which were far and near came the dreadful shouts of a fire fire a i sprang from the bed and a terrible feeling of oppression came Over me. I cannot describe it. I looked up at the Gas in my room which was burning dimly and there i saw the smoke Curling around the chandelier. Then it appeared All at once to fill the room and dense Clouds came through the aperture of the fire grate. I thought instantly of my brother and rushed out undressed As i was to discover his room. Meanwhile he had been disturbed by the noise and was approaching my room. I said a let us find the stairs or we shall be my brother was half dressed and reached across the bed to pick up something to throw Over me. We could not find the staircase and the confusion and smoke and Roar of the fire were mingled with the most piercing and heartrending screams. I shall never forget it. We were not acquainted with the hotel arrangements for the common practice is to use the elevator in ascent and descent and therefore could not find a staircase or any Means of escape. There were others on the same floor in the same terrible dilemma but could not Sec each other for the smoke. Presently we groped along and found a step downward. We commenced to descend. What happened i cannot say for i do not distinctly remember. I have been in greater danger As you know and always Endeavor to maintain my composure but the smoke stifled the senses. We reached by some Means or other the first Landing of the ladies staircase on the fifth Street Side opposite the olympic theater. There was a great crowd of ladies in their night dresses in the Vestibule and some persons were persuading them to remain assuring them that All would be Safe. We did not heed this advice and passed out on the Street. A Way Vas made through the crowd for us to reach the hotel opposite and i remained there some Little time to recover myself. There i saw poor miss Mcclellan brought in. I can never forget it. My brother procured a Carriage shortly afterwards and we came Down to the Linden. I feel very much worse to Day than i did when i arrived Here after the escape. I have lost everything literally everything for i am under obligations to lady sympathizers and friends for the clothes which you see me wearing now. I have nothing of my own whatever except the night Robe in which i a thrilling scene was witnessed at the East front about 2 30 of clock. A number of people had been taken out of that portion of the building by Means of the Skinner truck which had then been removed it being supposed that that Side had been emptied of its inmates. Suddenly at one of the windows on the fourth floor a Man appeared in a nightdress. Glancing around he seemed to realize his situation perfectly. The ladder had been taken away and below him was a sheer descent of sixty feet. To jump was certain death. A a what shall i do a he asked. A a stay where you Are a answered the crowd aroused to a Clear appreciation of the imminence of the danger and of the possibility of securing help. A a god deliver me a he exclaimed looking up at the lurid sky and Down at the floors below now All ablaze. He looked up at the sky and clasped his hands in prayer a lord for Jesus Sake a could be easily heard by the throng below calmed into perfect silence. It seemed hours before the truck was brought. It must have seemed centuries to the lonely Man standing at the darkened window lighted by an occasional Flash from the flames around him and startled by the crash that came Here and there of falling Walls. A a lord for Jesus Sake a he cried. A stand where you Are a said fifty voices. The truck finally came and was slowly and clumsily raised to the window. Two firemen went up and put the Man on the ladder. He came Dow n slowly his limbs trembling beneath him. At the Bottom he raised himself up to his full height. A a Hurrah for St. Louis a be cried a a new York ainu to dead then raising his hand up to the sky he said in a lower tone a lord forgive me for every sin that i have Ever committed. To think of having your door opened with a cry and find the w Hole building on fire and then to get out lord i thank thee i have been in fires before and in Battles and fights but this beats he was too much excited to give any rational account of himself and was hurried away in an overcoat which had to be forced on his shoulders and held there by the two Strong firemen who escorted him to a place of safety. Our exports. The chief of the Bureau of statistics furnishes the following analysis of the exports of Domestic products during the Calendar years 1875 and 1876 raw or partially Manu values. Fractured articles. 1875. 1876. Animals living. $2,559,471 $2,462,043 a read Tuffs Rice included 113.651.467 la Coal. 2,90b,lb4 2,0.j1o Cotton a manufactured. 194,3. 7.223 187,662,425 fruits of All kinds. I fris s i most hides skins and furs--------9,116,282 b,004,127 naval stores resin crude _ turpentine tar Etc. 2,589,187 2,370,912 oils Petroleum crude and refined. 31,734,861 49,543x 1 Ani Mal fish and vegetal Kip 2,308,882 2.441,4 id Oil cake. 5,054,395 5,951.910 provisions meats .43.463.0 >7 62,1>6,223 butter and cheese. 14.007,080 14.770.728 lard. 22,744,2 27,108,534 pish. 3,425,118 3.676.213 be Quot tables. Etc. 967,653 1,056,148 quicksilver. 1,698,106 1,448,35 sol. 1.124. .98 2.912,405 spirits of turpentine--------2,045,383 1.747,741 tallow. 5,787.106 7,94b,063 tobacco Leaf. 18,394,660 32,031,255 Wood Timber lumber Etc. 13,572,722 13,931,019 other partially Man fac Turea articles. 5,463,5<4 5,891,508 total raw or partially _ manufactured articles. $498,073,291 $568,135, 85 total manufactured Arti cies. 68,938,527 69,316,383 Agar Este. $567,011,818 $63i,452,168 a two men were sitting together in a smoking car on the Danbury Railroad the other morning when one of them observed to the other a a i lost As Likely a Colt As you Ever saw last after a pause the addressed party inquired a a did it die a a die a repeated the loser somewhat resentfully. A a How could i a ave lost it if it Hadnot died a a a i did no to know but it slipped through a crack in the floor a said the other Man in an injured tone. Both lapsed into silence after my. The Louisiana commission. New Orleans april 9. The commission spent three hours this morning with closed doors. Then a delegation representing the Bankers merchants and business headed by president Black of the Cotton Exchange was received. The commission said to them that they had sought Louisiana but could not find it. They found two governors two supreme courts and an alleged dual government in a11 departments but in fact there is Only legislature though it meets in two Halls. The moment that legislature meets in one body it will be the 8tate of Louisiana and while it is in session it is the Only Power in the state that can secure the intervention of the army. If self government is desired and the withdrawal of the army it can probably be secured in a Day should the Public opinion of the state compel its legislature to meet As one body. There Are 33 of the 36 senators and 104 of the 120 representatives whose election is not disputed by either party and the commission urged that when they assembled As such the commission could have nothing whatever to say about its action. The discussion continued three hours. The delegation was not inclined to accept the suggestion maintaining that Nicholls must be defended As governor to the full extent. A delegation from the Union club a Republican association was received and heard and a committee from the Packard legislature presented statistics records and briefs. The commission was in continuous session nearly nine hours and the members spent the evening in individual conversation. The times states that the judges of the Nicholls supreme court called by request of the commission but would not discuss or argue the question of the status or legality of their court. In reply to questions it was stated that the court since Jan. 9 has passed upon and rendered decisions in Over 200 cases and their mandates and orders were implicitly obeyed in every instance. New Orleans april to. A number of delegations called on the commission to Day and presented their views. The commission have addressed a communication to each legislative body asking them to furnish compact statements relative to the affairs of the state. When the commission Are not in session they Are individually conferring and advising with citizens of All parties. They Are careful to disclaim any Compromise or bargains of any sort and refrain from conversation regarding the senator ships or Federal patronage. New Orleans april la. The commission has been Busy As Susil to Day though it has not heard so Many delegations. W. G. Brown state superintendent of education with five or six division superintendents and the Secretary forming the state Board of Educa Tion called and explained the affairs of their department at considerable length. After this interview the commission divided and had interviews with goes. Nicholls and Packard spending considerable time with each. In the afternoon a delegation of thirteen coloured men appeared with or. Pinchback at their head. Among them were three coloured members of the Nicholls legislature. They were All opposed to the Packard government and in favor of the recognition of Nicholls and presented their View of the Case at some length. Besides this the commissioners have been Busy As individuals but they do not make known the Progress they have made. New Orleans april 12. This was an uneventful Day with the commission. There has been much discussion among themselves without any result that they were willing to communicate to the press. The Only delegation received Wras a delegation of sugar planters in the interest of the Nicholls government headed by sex Justice Wyly. The commission declined to state whether they have received any supplemental instructions from the president. They also declined to indicate any time for the close of their investigation. The Packard commission handed in to the commission a list of officers who had qualified in the Packard Secretary of states office accompanied by the certificate of Packard a Secretary of state showing that of 1,033 officers commissioned by the governor 628, whose names Are Given have filed their oath of office according to Law. The remaining 405 Are justices of the peace and constables who have not made a practice of filing an oath of office with the Secretary of state. It is understood that the commissioners session which lasted until five of clock this morning was consumed in considering the message to the president. Gen. Augur who was present reduced the message to military cipher. The Tenor of the message is not positively known but it is believed notifies the president that they had concluded their investigation under present instructions and suggesting that they were ready to receive any further instructions the president might desire to give. Washington april 13. The Louisiana commissioners in their dispatch to the president yesterday relate the result of their conferences w Ith Nicholls and Packard the judges of the supreme courts and other parties. They say they find the Nicholls party Are not disposed to make concessions but will maintain their ground in the belief and Hope that ultimately As in Hampton Scase in South Carolina they will have full and unobstructed Possession of the Louisiana state government. The Packard party Are ready to enter into an arrangement for the joint legislature to determine pending questions but this being rejected by the Nicholls party the Packard party ask the president to determine which is the Legal state government. At the Cabinet meeting to Day after a Long discussion it was decided to Send additional instructions to the commission. _ new Orleans april 13. The commission was in executive session most of the Day but nothing has transpired As the nature of their deliberations. This evening the commission received a dispatch from the president but declined to make known its contents. A we wish Well to sex gov. Chamber lain but we Are filled with terror at the suggestion that he proposes to open a Law office in Boston. If he Only knew the number of lawyers in this City who wish they had a grandmother living at the 8ca-Shore or in the country with whom they could pass a few months next summer he would not Settle at the Hub. A Boston journal. A mrs. Eliza Strout of Chelmsford mass., was bitten by a Spitz dog some months since. A few Days ago she showed symptoms of hydrophobia and continued to grow worse until she died in terrible amp Gony

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