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CURRENT COMMENT.
A welIz-duessed man was detected
on Broadway, New York, the other day,
squirting oil on people's clothes from a
can concealed on his person.
TnE body of a rabid dog was recently
dissected at Chicago. In its stomach
was found the remnants of a rubber eoat
which it had torn from the back of a
man it had attacked.
Over two hundred Confederate sol
diers draw pensions from the State of
Virginia at the rato of sixty do lars a
j-ear for each limb lost. This is intend
ed to cover the cost of artificial limbs.
A Sheltox, Conn., man recently sold
a farm on which he had lived for nearly
fifty years, and gave a warranty deed
therefor free from all encumbrance. A
search of the town records revealed the
fact that there were not only two uncan
celed mortgages on the property, but
that he had not been the owner of it for
eighteen years past.
The Snpremo Court of Missouri has
decided that a warrant for a misde
meanor cannot be issued by a Justice of
the Peace on an affidavit by a private
person. Prosecution must be by indict
ment or by information of the Prosecu
tinjr Attornev. A knowledge of this fact
will save the officers of the law a great
deal of annoyance and unnecessary
trouble.
There will shortly be shipped from
London to New York fifteen pairs of
swans to replace the same number that
were poisoned by oil escaping from the
pipes of tho Standard Oil Company at
Baraapo, N. J., during the freshet last
year. The company was not liable for
damage under the circumstances, but
decided to replace them. They cost
about five hundred dollars.
Prof. Masi'EKO, according to the
London Times, has discovered between
Thebes and Assioot what is thought to
be the Panopolis of the ancient Greeks,
the Khomnis of the Egyptians. In a
tatacomb already explored one hun
dred and twenty mummies have been
found. It is thought that six thousand
will be unearthed. A harvest of pa
pyri, jewels and funereal treasures is
expected.
A Frenchman', lions. "W. de Fon
vielle, has offered English railway com
panies a novel suggestion for detecting
the presence of iufe.nal machines in
fcajrpasc. All Ijarjr:iire received should
be laid Hat on wooden tables supported
by iron feet, but not nailed to them,
when the slightest noise made by cloek
work on any of the parcels would be
come audible if a microphone were
placed on each table.
John Parrott, the pioneer banker,
f San Francisco, who died recenty, left
a curious will. His estate, valued at
5,000,000, was not to be divided until
the death of his widow. She will act
as trustee of tho property devised to her
and her children. Even one son, who
is of age, was willed the profits of a
large ranch "as long as his mother ap
proves of his conduct;1' in contrary
event she has power to divide the in
come anions: the other children.
Carlos Agcero, the Cuban Revolu
tionary leader, is a man below the
medium height and weighs only one
hundred and fifteen pounds. lie has
black curling hair and a small mustache
which turns up at the ends. His smiles
are grim, and there is a look of fierce
ness about his face, but ordinarily he is
the most harmless person imaginable in
appearance. Aguero belongs to a wealthy
family in Puerto Principe. He is not
yet thirtv, and has been in arms ajrainst
Spanish authority in Cuba almost con
tinuously since he was fourteen. No
one who knows him doubts his bravcrv.
It appears from a recent statement
made by one of the most extensive iron
founders in England, that owing to the
improvements lately made in the manu
facture of coke, the yield of the latter,
per ton of coal, has been increased
irom about sixty per cent, to seventy
five and seventy-seven per cent- At
the same time that the 3 icld of coke has
been thus increased, the by-products
have been utilized to the extent of seven
gallons of tar and thirty gallons of am
moniacal liquor per ton of coal. This
advance in the utilization of by-products
means, in a word, a reduction in
the cost of the production of iron.
A region of ridge lands in Central
Georgia, eiubracingfour hundred square
miles, is pronounced the finest peach
growing territory in the world. Re
cently large profits have been made
there. There are eight hundred acres
ef peach trees in the immediate vicinity
of Griffin. Lands contiguous have fruit
killed by frost two years out of three,
while the fruit on the ridge escapes.
2ibt only this, but the soil makes an
unusually sweet-flavored fruit, adorned
with uncommonly vivid coloring. The
Chinese cling peaches raised on this
ridge bring six dollars a bushel in the
Northern market when other peaches
aell for only two dollars a bushel.
THE WORLD'S DOINGS
A Summary of the Dally Xewi.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
The Senate on the 21st took ui the Bank
ruptcy bUL On motion of Mr. Sherman, the
bill was so amended as to make the examining
officers of the Treasury officers to Dually ex
amine -ie bills for disbursements, the bills
to be 1 the first instance suorn to by the
purty presenting them and certlncd to by the
juutrc. Aiiieuumcni.s were propositi
&
Messrs. Geonre. Hiennan. Hoar. Iniralls.
munds. Morgan and Vim Wyck. T no bill as
amended was reported from the Committee of
the Whole to the Senate and pased yeus:t!,
nays 15. The Chair then laid before the Senate
next the special order, it iK-injr the Pleuro
pneumonia bill In the House, Mr. Eaton
reported back the Senate bill to provide lor
the performance of the" duties ot the Presi
dent in case of removal by death or resigna
tion of boih the 1'n.sidentand Vice-President.
Mr. Mutehler. from the Committee on Civil
Service Reform, moved to suspend the rules
and pass the bill repealing- thescctir.ns of
the revved statutes restricting the term of
certain officers to four years. The motion
was lost yeas. 90: uuys. U3. Mr. Diinrlcy.
from the Sliippins-Comiiiittee, moved to sus
pend the rules and pass the bill creating- an in
vestigation of the Tieasnry Department.
The motion was agreed to and the bill pessed.
Yeas. 170: nays. 4". Mr. Warner, from the
Committee 011 Pensions, Rouuty and Hack
Pay, moved to suspend tho rules and puss the
bill for the relief of disabled soldiers and
sailors. The motion was iij-rced to and the
bill passed yeas, 105; nays..7. Adjourned.
Ox motion of Mr. Cameron, ot Wisccn
sin, the Senate on the d took up tho bill to
accept and ratify certain agreements made
with the Sioux Indians, and grant the right
of way to the hieago, Milwaukee A: St. I mil
Railway Company through the Sioux Reserva
tion in Dakota. The bill passed without de
bate. On motion of Mr. Camoron, of Wiscon
sin, the Senate took up a similar bill to ac
cept and ratify a certain agreement with the
Sioux Ind.aus and grant the right of way to
the Dakota Central Railway 1'ompanv
through the Sioux Reservation. The bill
passed without debate... The House went
into Committee of the Whole on tho Tariff
bill. After debate tho committeo rose and
the House again went into Committee of the
Whole on the Pension Appropriation bill. The
committee arose and reporter 1 the bill to tho
House, when it passed. At the evening ses
sion Mr. Kvans, of Pennsylvania, in the name
of fourteen hundred manufacturing Indus
tries in hjs district, prott-ttcd ngninst tlie pass
ago of the Merri-on bill. .Mr. KIdridge favored
a complete revision of tho tariff.
Mn. Vest, in tho Senniu on the 2.1d, re
ported favorbly a bill for fc bridge over tho
Missouri near Sibley, Mo. Vho bill amending
tho revise-1 statutes in relation to timlier
depredations was passed. It protects Indian
reservations from the unlnwiul cutting of
timber. The Chair laid before the Senate the
special order, beluga bill to esninlish 11 bureau
of animal industry to prevent th exportation
of diseased cattle, provide for the extirpation
of pleuro-pnounioiiia and other contagious dis
eases among domestic animals. The Houe
bill was substituted for tho Senate bill. Pend
ing debate the Senate went into executive ses
sion and soon adjourned In th House, Mr.
Turner, of Georgia, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Elections, called up the Kansas con
tested election case of Wood vs. Peters. A
majority of the committee declared in lavor
of the sitting member, Mr. Peters. A le.-olu-tioi:
by the minority provided for the seating
of the contestant. Mr. Wood. The gieater
portion of the day was consumHl In t lie dis
cussion of the case, I-'innlly the minority
resolution was lost, only two menders.
Messrs. Rcnnett and Wrller. voting in the
atlirmative and the majority resolution was
adopted. Tho House then went into Com
mittee of the Whole on the N'aval bill. The
evening session was devoted to a discussion
of the Morrison Tariff bill.
The Chair, on the 2Ph. laid before the
Senate a communication from the Attorney
General requesting that immediate provision
be made by a joint resolution of Congress for
the payment oT jurors and wjtne-se- in the
Culled States Courts. The sum recommended
was $"Ji.tHiO. A bill was passed providing lor
the thspo-al of abandoned military reserva
tions. The bill amending the revised statutes.
elating to trespasses on Indian lands, was
p.sed. It adds iiiiprl-onment to the tine
already provided l-r The Chair laid l-efore
the Senate unllnished business being a bill to
piovide tor a bureau of animal in
dustry and to suppress cattle diseases
. ..In the House, :i joint resolution
wan passed authori.iug the Secretary of
War to lease to the Hoard of FI-li Commis
sioners or Michigan a certain strip of land
adjacent to the sault Ste. Marie Canal. The
House then went into ominittee of the
Whole lor the consideration of the Senate
intendments to the Naval Appropriation bill,
some discussion followed regarding the bill,
when the committee rose and the House
ngrced to its report, the vote on loiictiriciicu
In the ordnance amendment being: Yeas ISi;
nayslW. Mr. Kassou withdrew the point of
erdcr which hail sent the Po-t-otlicc Appro
priation hill and Senate amendments tot 0111
nlttee of the Whole, and the House proceed
ing to their consideration the amendments
were non-concurred in. A revision of the
,-oto in the House on the ordnance amend
ment shows that it stood yeas, 1ST: nays. HJd.
In the Senate, on the 2.":b, Mr. Blair, of
the Committee on Education and Labor. n
ported favorably the House bill to establish
ami maintain a bureau of lalior statistics;
also, the bill introduced in the Senate to pro
vide for the study of physiology and effects of
intoxicating narcotics ami poisonous miI
htanees on life, health and welfare among the
peopleof thoTerritoriennd District of Colum
Ida. Mr. Wilson adlressed the Senate on
his joint resolution recently submitted and
several bills already introduced relating to
iuter-state commerce. The joint resolution
was referred to the Committee on Railroads.
Tho Plcuro-pncumonlahill was then laken up.
The Houe went Into Commit tee ot the
Whole on the private calendar. I'p to 3:31
o'clock the time of the committee was eon--iliiied
in the consideration of the bill for the
relief of Myra Clarke Caincs. 'I he unllnMicd '
i!H?,IlI.Snnfr,?!,,,ivI,u,he
lull relieving certain soldiers of the Into wjir
nomthechargo of desertion. Mr. Steele moved
to reler the bill to the Committee on Military
rcccs?nn iSlo'c The K V.t.S
evening session passed llftceu pension bills
uuU then adjourned.
POLITICAL ANI PEKSONAT..
The National Committee of the Prohibi-
bition and H lme Protection party nn-
ounces its national convention, which was
o have been held at Pittsburgh, May 11,
postponed till July 23.
The Democratic State and Parish tickets
were generally successful in Louisiana at
ho recent election. A light vole was
polled.
Phokeskor Wiggins claimed that tho re
cent Btonns and earthquake in England
were a fair fulfillment of his March predic
ions. The death is announced of John Lan
aster, fellow of tho Roj-al Geographical
Society, London. It was Mr. I.ancuster
who brought his yacht under firo during
-.he action between the Kearsarge and
Alabama, off Cherbourg, in 1504, and who
saved Captnin Semmes and several of the
rew of the Alabama.
Isaac N. Arnold, a well known barrister
of Chicago, died on tho l'4th.
Representative Rkagan, of Texas.
Chairman of tho House Committee on Com
merce, was reported seriously ill from
bladder complaint. Two operations have 1
hkAkOn nayfnpmarl A irrak..nonttn Vn - !
11 t . , , Italy, was opened to the public recently by
will not recover are entertained byhia .3Yvl,n x.
friends. King Humt crt and Queen Margaret. Many
Von Moltke was ill with catarrh of the , '0r Jsners we. P; ot
lungs. He has obtained a long leave of ab , "Vr!? ? ! ben fd,,!p,Ia?d b
sencV, and will retire to his estates , Sl. the police of Dublin of late. It m believed
jesill ', the C-overnment has received information
whii;B renders itexpediont to be keenly
MISCKLLANEOUS. alep.
Sagamore Mill No. 1. at Fall River, I The Senate was not in session on the
Mass., was burned the other morning.
Loss, $KX),XM; insurance, $500.O0. Tho fire
was alleged to be incendiary, the mill be-
ng tho sne of a recent strike. I
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The Pope has decided to create another
cardinal in the United States. It is in-
endad always to have two in the States
tnd one in South America.
The Waco. Tex., cotton mills have closed
for the season. The low price of material
manufactured, and the scarcity or high
price of eo.ton are the causes.
The Exgbsh Government has sent out in
vitations proposing a conference regarding
Egyptian affairs to all powers which
signed th treaty of Berlin.
The Knights of Pythias had a grand
parade in Now Orleans on the 24th.
The Assessor and Collector of Salt Lake
County, Utah, was a defaulter to the
amount of l.O'-O.
Half of the Arab quaiters at Port Said
burned recently. Four thousand Arabs
were rendered homeless.
The t. oops in Cuba were still unable to
catch Aguero. Ho was supposed to bo bid
in the Zana'a swamps.
The Canadian Pacific was about to re
duce the locomotive depai tmeut one hun
dred men, owing to depression in busi
ness. The Secretary of tho Treasury has
notified Wicker, Collector of Customs at
Key West, of his removal from oilier.
J. C. Burrows, of Michigan, recently
nominated and continued as Solicitor of
the Treasury, Las written to the President
formally declining the oflico.
The remains of Julien Martinetti, tho
well-known clown, who fell dead in tho
ring recently, at Daytou, O., were taken to
Baltimore.
The American Oak leather tannery
burnt d recently at Cincinnati. Loss about
jJtWOjO'.X), nearly covered by insurance.
Twelve business houses were burned at
Wooster, O., recently. Supposed incen
diary. The lnrget gas well in the country was
struck at Wellsburg, W. Va., recently, at
depth of llSl feet. Thu well was owiimI
by D.ilz.dl Brothers & Gillmore, of Pitts
burgh. The gas escapes from a six inch
pipe with a deafening sound.
The wholesale drug store of Rumble,
Cutter & Co., of Cincinnati was destroyed
by lire on tho morning of tho i."0th. Loss
very heavy.
The Henry County Lottery of Louisville,
Ky., has suspended operations. Tho offi
cers claim the company could not be oper
ated under existing laws.
Tuu strikers of tho htove foundry of
Sherm in S. Jewett & Co., of Buffalo, N.
Y., resumed woik at fifteen per cent re
due ion in wages. They were sa i-0e.l
a:tor a conference with the firm that the
reduction was nccessar3".
Failures tiio past week in the United
states, 108; in Canada, 21; compared with
lTlJ the previous week.
Fraxc James was acquitted at Hunts-
v lie, Ala., of the Mussel Shoals robbery.
He was immediately re-arres'cd for com
plicity in tho train robbery at Ot'ervi'.le,
Mo., on the night of July ?, 1S7U. The las'
arrest was thought to be for tho purposo of
thwarting his arrest by the Minnesota
authorities for tho bank robbery and mur
der at Nurthlield, in that State, September,
1876.
Advices from India state that the chol
era was abating at Calcutta. One (L-atli
trom cholera was reported at Bonitm-.
The Hank of Montreal has declared a
dividend of five per cent for the half year,
and has rais,d its reserve to .OOO.tWO.
Rune was found guilty of tho murder ot
Mrs. Maybe and daughter at Oyster Bay,
L. I. A motion for a new trial was denied
The clothing establishment of J. Knox&
Co., at Akron, O., burned tno other morn
ing. Loss, $4.",00J; insurance, 40,000.
The olliciai report of the inquiry into the
loss of tiio steamer Daniel Steinmann
states that Captain Schoonhoven made no
observations on the day of tho disaste
and was, therefore, uncertain of his posi
tion. The night was dark, foggy and
raitry, n:id it was high'y itupnident, uude
all the circumstances, to attempt to enter
the port of Halifax. To these circum
stanc s alone can bt attributed the loss of
the line ship and the lives of 1:14 persons.
The Anchor Line Steamrr John Scudder,
from St. Louis to Xew Orleans, while mak
ing a lauding at Bradford's point recen ly
swung in broadside on the point and stove
la thirty feet of her larboard hull.
tDlHTtOVAI. mSPATCTJRfc.
TnE steamer Peruvian, from Liverpool
for Quebec, was forced to go to Halifax to
discharge mails and passengers. She
could not mako Quebec owing to the ice.
Charles Hastings, William Cann and
Frank Pease were drowned tho other nfter
noon at Midland, Oat., by tho upsetting of
a yacht.
The grain elevators of Smith, Hippen &
Co. ami Hudnut tc Ot., at Pekin. III., were
destroyed by fi'o the other night. The
grain was parlnlly insured. The total loss
was estimated at .i.VJ.OOO.
Ax old man named Jollenson was
dragged out of bed at Audubon, Iowa, by
, ,, ...
four men and hanged naked to a tr.f. Ho
was an inoffensive fanne- and the crim-
s supposed to have b.en e .mmirted by
relatives, one of w-i.oin was a desperado.
The arbitration committees of the CartK't
Manufacturers.' Assfein'ion and the Carpet
Weavers' Protec:ivo Union of Philadel
p' ia agreed not to change thu present
scale of wages. During the past five years
I the manufacturers aud employes have met
together every six months and arranged a
schedule of juices. Trade was reported
gooi.
A TERRrnLE cyclone devastated Mont
gomery and Greeno Counties, O., on the
afternoon of the 27th. Jamestown, a city
of seven hundred inhabitants, was almost
swept out of existence, and six p-trsons
were killed. There was ss of life at other
points devastated by the storm, and the
destruction of property was immense. At
Sarnctt, Kas., the evening before there
was also a cyclone, but the damage was
light.
A band of fifty-three Hryian Creoles
landed in Cuba to reinforce AgueroN band.
Grand Master of Orang i"n at Belfast
has received a letter warning him that the
Invincible are on his track.
The Polar conference at Vienna hns ter
minated its labors. Lieutenant Ray of the
United States and othr delegates wore
presented to the Emperoi
The International Extnjsition at Turin,
fch. The House considered the bill to re-
movocertaiu burdens f rom the Am rican
merchant marine, and to encourage the
American foreign carrying trade. Several
.'."," j fe
important amendments were adopted and (
the bill passed. I
Farlet's stave factory at Paducab, Ky.,
barne-i recently.
Boltman, Tohpio-ns & Co., of New
York, have made an assignment. j
MOKE TORNADOES.
A TJ8tretlre Tornado In Ohio Anderson
Couniy, Kaan, ulso h a Cycluur.
Cincinnati, April 2S, A Jamestown,
nreen County, O., special says a terrible
:yclone struck Jamestown about live o'clock
yesterday afternoon; two-thirds of the
town was completely rained, and six per
sons killed, namely: Miss Stella Jones,
aged 15, Esciilapia Springs, Ky.; Mrs. Anna
Carpenter; Letitia Jenkins, daughter of (5.
J. Jenkins; Miss Kate Boetler, Mrs. Stew
trt, a colored woman and a son of Jnmo
I'aulls. Several badly wounded. No es
timate of the damage is possible now.
Further details cannot be given at this
Mine.
FUmiER PARTICULARS.
Dayton, (h, April -JS. Shortly before
live o'clock yesterday ttftcrnoon the most
destructive cj clone ever known in this part
of the country passed over the southern part
of Montgomery and Greene CountHv, devas
tating everything in its course. It appears
to have oridnated near Woodbury, a small
town about ten miles south of lcre, and eye
witnesses describe it as apr-'Jiing in its fury.
Authentic statement i ILat the cyclone
was formed by a union of two light storm
clouds from the south and northwest
which immediately assumed the form of a
water-spout, rising and descending like
waves of the sea. and destroyed everything
in its way. Mr. K. Best, of this city, who
was near enough to observe accurately, says
that it was fully one-Mghth of a mile wide,
and inoed about aver the country like an
immense cloud of smoke, while, every where
in its path thu air was dark witli trees and
ruins of houses. Forests were mowed dowh
like weeds, fences destroyed for miles and
it is estimated that hi this county alone
at least twenty residences are in ruins,
to say nothing f the lo- on
other buildings, live stock anil farm
property. At Ale.anderville, six miles
south of here, several people are known to
be injured and one lady reported killed,
while a saw mill, barns and other buildings
are destroyed. At Carrollton Friend's
paper mill and other buildings are badly
damaged, while a number of residences are
reported destroyed. Telegraph lines are
down in all ditcctioits and the roads are im
passable from the ruins that till them. Near
Woodburn residences and other buildings
belonging to Edward Wheatley were de
stroyed, with other property, amounting in
all to SUjOOO. Two farm hands are
REPORTED MIsMNO.
A brick school house. No. A., is destroyed
and the roof was carried live hundred yanls.
Mr. Harris house and barn was destroyed.
One child was caught in the cyclone and
carried two hundred yanls and "drojijd to
earth slightly injured. Mr. Mitchel house
and barn was partly ruined. Mr. Bidenottrs
property was badly damaged. Abner Har
ris barn and other buildings were destroyed.
The names of the other losers cannot
Ikj ascertained, hut considering the largt
number of houses destroyed, there must be
a heavy loss in the vicinity of Maimisburg.
There's a heavy damage in this city. There
was heavy ruin and hail, but little wind. One
of the lreaks of the cyclone is that in
Dayton and a few miles south of it there
was min and hail, while south of it there
was rain and no hail, stiit further hail and
no rain, and iu the sections of country de
vastated neither rain nor hail. At Hell
IJnwk. Green County, at least fifteen farm
houses are more or less damaged, but the
families, generally, escaped by taking
retime in cellars. From Carrollton the
cyclone took a direct easterly course, and its
foice was no! in the hr.ist sjent when it
reached Jamestown, a thriving village of
s'u hundred inhabitants, which is reported
T.NTIRKLY PIISTROYKD,
wiih only a few buildings standing. Meage
telegraph iviorts state that four ieopIe are
known to have been killed while twenty arc
more or less injured. Among others the
residence of L. Bickersham was lilted fioin
its foundation and carried quite a distance.
Owing to the scarce settlement of the coun
ties and the blockaded roads accurate
difails cannot be obtained, but with such
a loss of projKirty that of life must be
terrible. Near Xenia there was consider
able destruction. The Soldiers' and Sailors
Orphans Home was badly damaged; the
barn, laundry and other buildings were de
stroyed, while the hospital and others were
unioofcd. Miss Harvey, matron, and Night
Watchman Richanlsoii were injured, but no
children hurt. Between Jasjer and Cedar
Crovk, on the narrow gauge mail, the dam
age is great to farm property, and at this
point trains were unable to move on
account of the wind, while others didn't
dare to pass over the Cedar trestle, dur
ing the cvclone. In all directions south and
east of here the scene of destruction defies
uescripiioii. unoie ioresLs were cut now 11
like weeds. Trees and small buildings were
carried long distances in thu air.
A DRY rYCLONH.
(ARNiyrr, Kas., April 2S. The whole
city was thrown into a fever of excitement
at half-past live o'clock Saturday evening,
by the appearance of a cyclone, which
seemed to traverse the west part of this
county, ami was plainly visible from the city
lor a period of nearly half an hour. It was
so plain that our photographers took good
views of it fnnu this city. It had the appear
ance of a large rope, black' iu color and as
huge as a horseshoe, extending all the way
from the earth to (he clouds. It was almost
perpendicular near the earth, but leaned
northward at the top until it reached the
clouds, when it stretched almost horizon
tally through them for a great distance.
Your correspondent visited the scene and
found that it was a dry cyclone, no water
falling with it It formed near West
phalia, seventeen miles west of Garnett
and passed northenst a distance of eight or
nine miles. Three miles north of West
phalia it caught David Metheney driving
home on a load of lumber. It carried him
a considerable distance In the air and
dropped him. Altliottgh no bones were
broken, he sustained such severe internal
injuries that it may prove fatal. His wagon
and lumber were scattered all over the
township and his horses carried sixty
feet and the harness stripped from
them. Its course was over an open
stretch of prairie, else it would
have done great damage. It broke iust
north of Captain Report's farm, through
which it passed. It left a zigzag track about
twenty feet wide, and moved wonderfully
slow. At Ucppert'K farm it circled around
between his house and barn, destroying his
garden and bainyanl fences. It was not
remarkable for tlie damage caused but for
the excitement it created, and all the people
in Anderson and CoiTey County must have
teen it plainly for fully half an hour.
FHbusterinjr.
Key West, Fla., April 23. The
schooner Winlield, twelve tons, was taken
from her moorings at Key Largo, Thursday
night, between eight and nine o'clock.
Largo is about one hundred miles distant
I up the reef and about thirtv miles
from where the frigate
Yantic is
lying. It is thought another small
party mav have gone across to Cuba,
alth.ug t w supposed the leader of the
next ..xpedttton is still here. It u mtuored
that some men are missiug. That another
ex j,, ,UIS htarted or w, Ptart i3 n
,,estioned. It is generally believed that
only funds are wanting and that the present
federal forcos would "avail nothing if the
nlbusters were ready,
A NEW APPLICATION.
Kn Anarrlcau Invention Whrrrbr Fany
J"ay My Copt" Sncrnwfully With th
Mutt Pretentious Dynamite Bombs Klred
from Onlluarjr Cannon Gomi II) e lrou
ClatU. Xkw Voiik. April 23.
For the first time, a dynamite bomb wss
successfully thrown from an ordinary
cannon. The place selected for the triai
of this new projectile a trial which, it is
claimed, marks a red-letter day in tho his
tory of modern warfare was a long, low
swamp back of tJrcenville, N. J. A little
group of men hung about an ordinary
cannon, pointed up the salt marsh. To
the left lay Newark, and to the right
Morris Canal. Another group of men
stood on a bridge across the canal about
a block from the cannon, looking at the
first crowd through field-glasses. Mr.
F. II. Snyder, the inventor of the
projectile, exhibited the cannou,
an ordinary four-inch, twelve poun
der, from Covernor's Island. It was
loaded witli one and one-half pounds of
powder. Next, a wad made of round
disks of leather, with spiral springs
separating them, held the powder in
place. Then the projectile itself was
put in place. It looks much like a
very large cartridge about a foo. long
aud lour inches in diameter. Five
pounds of dynamite were stored in the
upper end of the projectile and the
lower end slides into a case contain
ing a rubber cushion full of holes.
The dynamite represented the bullet of
an ordinary cartridge, and the cushion
was in the place occupied by the powder.
This rubber cushion was the secret of
the invention. Through it the dyna
mite Is thrown from the gun without ex
ploding. UNDER OP.rrirTAKY CIKCCMSTANCKS
the shock of the exploding powder would
ignite the dynamite before it left the gun,
but this cushioti counteracts the effect of
the shock, and the bomb is tired without
feeliug the sudden blow as the powder
behind it explodes. The cannon was
loaded, and a long wire uttached to it
leading to the bridge. The men who be
fore had occupied places on the
bridge moved to a hill several blocks
further away. A bald-headed man, with
a blue coat hid behind a boat with his
fingers in his ears. There was only room
for one there, and his companion, with
his silk hat grasped firmly in his hand,
went scudding swiftly up the tow path
of the canal. A third spectator strug
gled, ankle deep, in a cistern marsh.
"Are you all ready';" saug out the man
at the wire. Everyone on the bridge tried
to get behind his neighlor as the word
was given. A puff of smoke, a loud re
port, aud the rubber buffer and the wad
were seen to drop a hundred yards away.
A second later a shower ol earth Hew up
nearly a mile distant. Where the shot
struck the earth was soft and, as ex
pected, the dynamite did not explode. A
party of men sent to dig up the missile,
after digging clown six feet, gave up for
the evening. Next a projectile for naval
warfare was shot across the water. This
was of wood, brass capped, four leet
loug, shaped like a cigar, and at the lower
end had four wings of steel, placed pre
cisely as the feathers of an arrow.
The theory was that the shot
would strike the water, ricochet,
anu, SKipptng over the wave?,
DEAL DESTRUCTION
to the most powerful vessel. A youn
man brought the missile 011 his shoulder
and placed it gingerly by the side of the
cannon. Mr. Snyder unscrewed the
pointed end and put In more dynamite.
Again the word was given, aud the bomb
went skipping over the bay toward New
ark. The wooden part broke, however,
so the rotary motion expveted to be given
was not shown. It had been intended to
recover the projectiles that had been tired
and explode them afterward, but as one
was too deep iu the marsh aud the other
in the water, the dynamite in the dinner
pail was touched oil' iustead. Explaining
his invention Mr. Snyder said, "I have
been working on this'lor two years. A
twenty-pound projectile, sullicleiit to an
nihilate the most powerful vessel, can be
made for $20 less than the cost of an or
dinary shell. The invention of this rub
ber seems a simple, every-day thing, but
that is its beauty." The experiments
were mare by the Dynamite Projectile
Company, of No. 200 liroadway. The
Government will try the shells at Sandy
Hook In a few days.
BADLY BUNKOED.
An Illlnoift ItnnkerllniU) rterceil by rrciufi
I.tinko Men He Itettirnn to llix llitme
Only to be Overtaken Nudilenly by Dentil.
Pkokia. III., April :M.
When Harvey Holman.an old citizen anil
bankerol Chillicothc, in this County, died
suddenly here last Sunday, on his return
from Denver, it was rumored that wnile
in that city he had fallen a victim to the
bunko steerers. The amount of which ho
had been defrauded was placed at several
hundred dollars. Yesterday it was ascer
tained thatthesum was really .$1G,000. Mr
Holman had drawn checks for the sum,
and, as he supposed, saw them de
stroyed. This pretended destructioo
was simply to keep Mr. Holman froto
complainiug to the police. The checks
were scut on to Chillicothe, and the face
paid by Mr. Holman's bank. Mr. Hol
nran became aware of this when he
reached here, and it Is probable the
distress aud anxiety of mind he experi
enced hastened his death. Mr. Holman
was one of the oldestand most highly re
spected citizens of this comity.
Ilynamlter Sentenced.
Glasgow. April sv
Peter O'Shca, charged with the nine
Glasgow dynamiters sentenced some time
since with causing the explosion of the
Tratcston gasometer and blowing up the
shed of the Caledonia Kailroad station,
was to-day found guilty and sentenced to
eighteen months imprisonment The
Chief Constable received a letter this
morning In which the writer Informed
him that his life had been forfeited for
the activity he had displayed in the coi
victiou of the dynamiters, and stating
tea; the avengers were on his track.
AfRIL FOOhA
fhe l.ate :olrt Discovery In Colored
portetl to bo a tlreat Fraud.
Desvkil. Col., April 24. From later de
velopments made there no longer exists any
Jonht but that the alleged discoveries of gold
it Mount Pisgah, this State, which have set
Uie country a-firc with excitement, is one of
the most colossal and lest-p'anned framb
aver perpetrated in a mining country. Tele
grams from there state that hundreds of
lisappoiuted men are leaving tlie new dig
gings, never more to return. It has been
proven ln-jond a doubt that the gnnmd was
"salted." This has resulted in so many con
dieting assays, and tests made from gravel .
aken trom the Teller shatt ran high in gold, f
out simples of dirt taken from neighboring
points did not show even a trace of gold
This created suspicion, but the salting of the
.nines could not be piovcu in time to head
itf the rush of men who came iMiuring in
like mad trom all the neighboring towns, in
Mime cases to such an extent that many
points in the mining districts were nearlj
depopulated. The raihoads were taxed to
carry the excited multitude traveling toward
she new EI Dorado. For miles and miles
the countn was taken up by the new coin
ers, all of whom were sanguine that it was
indeed the new Mecca which they h;Ul
struck. Few of them were experienced m
placer mining, or fur that matter in an
kind of mining. :uid were best described by
the ancient class name ot "Hay e,iLs."
Being unable to determine whether or not
the gravel contained the gold in a concca!cS
torni they s.-t al:tt proving that it was tree
and succeeded in completed doing so to-
their own satisfaction, and to the satisfac
tion of others who knew better, but who
were willing to believe anuhing that would
temporarily encourage t'lein. By the pan
ning operation coiisidfi.thle Mark sand w.i
found, and this was intcrsticrscd with the j el
low ish mica which is aoinulant in that re
gion. This collection was exhibited around
and to every fiesh ariiva! as black suni ami
gold dust, and tlie major jori ion of those who
saw it beJicu'd what thev were told, but as
time passed and a.vaj sot" the ore from all
portions of the district proved it to he worth
less, the wisplcion of "silting'' grew in gen
eral belief and now liccoiiics an established
fact. The men who owned the Teller
claim seem to have been at the
bottom of it nil. They were free witli
samples 01 ore irom their strati, tint were
always careful to select the samples them
selves. These samples, when assajed. gave
big returns in gold, and these gave rise to
the excitement. At a time when the Teller
shaft was not guarded, a jiarty of l.-.ulille
men descended the shaft and got out more
than a scoie of samples for assay. Except
in one rase not even a trace ot gold or any
other mineral was found. There is great ,
excitement, and the safety of the men guilt v
of the "salting" process is feand. should
they fall into the hands of wratldiil miners.
It is thought the ground was. suited with
liipiid chloride of gold.
INDIAN TKOUIILKS.
The i:eirtvl Kattle With Iti.li.un
Southern C'oluniilo.
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Dnxvi'u, April 2.". A. Johnson, who was
present at the recent battle between Nava
joes and whites, at Mitchell's place on the
lower San .Juan lier. in Nuithem Colo,
rado, arrived at Dur.iugo yestcidax. John
son says: "Myselt, Win. Greene and Victor
Nctr arrived at Mitchell's store on the l"th.
A party of a dozen Navajo Indians came to
the store, ami one drew a gnu on Kdward
Mitchell. While tin iiuatrcl was
in progress a Xavaio named I've
Lily commenced returning the buckskin
from his rille and the other Indians ran for
their guns that were standing against the
store. Both Indians and whites then began
firing. After about twenty-live shots had
been exchanged, the Indians rctieatrd across
the river, leaving one dead liody mi the
ground. None of the whites were hurL
The whites then proceeded to throw up a
fortification while tlie women showed
reat neru carrying tubs of water to
supply- them in case of siege. John
son then started for Fort Lewis and the
commanding ollicer immediately started a
squad of mounted cavalry to the relief of
Mitchell. When they reached Boweu Kerr
a Navajo came in and reported that the
L'tes had killed all the whites at Mitchell's
place. So far no other word has been re
ceived, and Johnson fears all the whites
have been massacred. It is not improbable
that the Utes went to the scene tc
avenge the death of a Navajo In
dian. It is common for one tribe to lay its
crimes to another. The district commander
has ordered C'aptainJKctehani's company to
leave St. Louis early this morning. Tioops
are also being brought up from Fort Win
gate, New Mexico. It ma be several days
In-fore an thing definite ran he learned.
The following is a list of whites, when
Johnson Iett at White's place: Old man
Mitchell and wife. Kdgar Mitchell, wife and
three children, Henry Mitchell and wife,
Joseph Dougherty and wife, I'c.er Ciirist
uiaii, William Poland, William Greene and
Victor Nelf.
About Wheat.
Washington", April 2.". The President
sent the Senate a report from She Secretary
of State in reply to a resolution of the Sen
ate requesting information as to the average
production, consumption, exportation ami
importation of wiieat, rye, corn and cotton
in foreign countries, their probable require
ments of such products from the United
btato before emps the coming year are
ready, and other information bearing on the
question of the demand for grain and cotton
products of the United States. Tlie Secre
tary in his report, says; "Calculations
and estimates submitted prove, as far as
statistics can prove under tlie cireumstauces,
that the stock of wheat on hand iu Europe,
at the close of lfcS: did not materially
differ from the stock on hand at the close of
the previous year; that the wants of Europe
are as inqierative and as great as they wenv
in 18S3. aud that the demands upon the
United States should naturally he as great
as they wore in lbSI. How loug EuroiKr
mayor can draw upon her reserve stock, or
what are the exact considerations which
control the several countries, especially the
United Kingdom, which may be said to
regulate the wheat market of the world,
time alone can develop."
Figure Don't I0.
jIistceapolis, Mint.., April 2.I. The re
port of Secretary Sturtevant. of the Chamber
of Commerce, shows that the receipts of
wheat at Minneapolis during the year 1SS3
were 2,000.000 bushels more than the re
ceipts at Chicago. This statement seems
almost incredible, but the ligures show iL
The receipts at Chicago were '2t.'trl,00"
bushels, and at Minneapolis 2,J.'i7.',,000.
Tliis will sive mine idea of what Minneapo
lis is likely to become as a great grain mar
ket. The business on "change i increasing
with wonderful rapidity. In another year
it will be greater than that of the Milwaukee
Board of Trade, and crowding upon thf
heels of Chicago in tl.ree years.
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