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FIFTEENTH YEAR, CHRISTMAS AT THE CAPITAL, cumspect Quietnde in Place of Former Holiday Carousin HOMES OF THE POOR MADE GLAD The Supreme Court's Desire fo vate Scoretaries achs Turning Public Men Toto Bour and Snapping Bears, Pri- Dyopanéie Stom- An Wasn gram, |—Thi eventful Holiday. toN, Dee. 25—[Special Tele- been anuneventful holiday in Washington., It the most quiet throughout the city known for many years, There was no drinking and carousing about the public places, no congregating of crowds, no fast driving on the avenue, no promenad- fng on the principal thoroughfares, as has Dbeen usual, but & complete ,absenee of life. The day, however, was one of the brightest and most pleaspnt of the winter, The sun shone brightly, the air was balmy. the streets perfectly dry and everything cheery in the outward clements, The white house was elosed ), visitors were n and there was no activity there, President Cleveland remained in- doors. Nearly all the scnators and repre- iatives were in different parts of the coun- try and few visitors were here, Those who did not go to their homes went to New York mostly. More charity was shown by the profligat and wealthy citizens than for many years e poor and needy were given unstintingly things which made them happy. About a dozen Christias clubs, composed of wealthy people and others who wanted to contribute towards the happiness of the needy, performed various acts of o It iy estimated that wmore than half a million dollars were spent in presents and Lelping the poor. Early in the morning delivery wagons loaded with clothitng, provisions and sweet meats left the store houses on their mission of charity in every direction, so that the sun must have shone more brightly in the homes of the poor than in those of better cirenmstances, speak- Ing for the moment. There were no demonstrations atany of tho public halls, and few of the churches. The theatres were not largely attended to-night. The city is as quiet as it it were Sunday, and it is not probable that thinzs will enliven under a week. Usually Christmas is a day of much noise making and ribaldry he; and the bar rooms have been made to ring with the voices of intoxieated men, most of whom were employes of the government, and it is likely that the ehange of adminis- tration, and the eonsequent necessity of goy- ernment ewployes conducting themselves with great uprightuess, is the cause ot this quietude. 1 this change for the better in moral matters heve has really been wrought through the change in zovernment aflairs it iswell. In any event this bas been a very quiet Christmas, SECHETARIES FOR!SUPREME The justices of the supreme e United States have been for some ti to have the private sec was JUDGES, ol the e trying rovernment furnish them with 1 the attorney gene has recommended that they be given such as- sistance. Th ions of the private ry will be judged, of course, by the employing him; but he will be paid out of funds apyropriated for that purpose, and is to be a stenographer, Nothing has been said about salary. but $2,000 a year for each justiee is thought to be about the amount wanted. There en members of the supreme court of the United States. They are ap- pointed tor life, and each is paid §10,000 a year, excepting the chief justice, who i ary and perquisites reaeh about $2,000 above that sum. The supreme cowrt during the' session sits about three howrs A diy on an aver and the ses- gions oceupy sbout eight months in the year. Decisions are only rendered on Mondays. Kach justice delivers on the av- erage thice or four decisions a week, Ezeh of these decisions are written out and printed and may average 800 words, or five ) of ordinary foolseap writing paper. The vol- ume of physical and mental labor devolving upon the members of the supreme court of the United States can therelfore be readily approximated. 1tis argied by the attorney general and those direetly interested that it requires the hizhest order of ability in a mem- ber of the supreme court, and that he should not be required to have to write out his de- cisions with his own hand. Inasmuch as it will necessitate an appropriation from con- gress, this whole matter will undountidly be discussed in all its bearings, and the proba- bilities are that the request of the justices will be refused, DYSPEPTIC PUBLIC M Representative William R, Morrison of 11- 1inois, who has gained 5o mneh celebrity in horizontal tariff reauction efforts and sue- cessful revision of the rues of the house, has grown morose of late, Whethier it is on account of hLis defeat for the United Stat senate against General Logan, or beeanse he is molested a great deal by the publie making fmquiries of him. is not known. Itis true, however, that the William R, Morrtson of todday is not the Willim R. Morrison of elghteen months azo. He has grown very il in temper and blustering in manver. His constituents, when they come to see im, un- less they have somedhing of the same disp sition as himself, cower betore him, Speaking of the harsh mannersof publie men hier gentleman who comes in contact Iy all of them duily, remarked to- *1 have discovered that the men who are inelined to bo dyspeptie and gouty in their inclinations have been growing w very rapldly for some thie. Some of them are already almost unbearable, 1 have often r marked the growth of this disposition on the part of Mr, Morrison of lat Mr. Ran- dall has become almost a bear, and it is like taking one’s breath to approach him with #ny kind of o civil subject. Ile seems to got all out of lence when one asks hiw a com- mon question. Personally both of these men aregrowing loss popular with the people who come in contact with them. [ was talking the other day to Abram N, Hewitt, the distinguished statesman from New York. You know Hewitt has the dyspepsia, and there is more harshness in that little bent form than in any other com- position the halls of the house of representa- tives ever held, I was astonishied, however, to notice that he was wore gentie and accoi- modating in bis manner, and | instantly in- quired woon meeting him if his health was not better than usual, and he said it was, 1 think that any wan with dyspepsia, gout, rheumatisim and kindred ailents, which lin- ger about one and incline him to be unpleasant, Is unit to oceupy # po- Bition In public life here, because he vents his spleen upon the poor devils who have to go to him. Senator Vest of Missourl is one of the most harsh men 1 have ever mel, and it seews W put iron Into bis Soul 10 have to speak gently to anyone, he 15 80 inclined to bluster and snarl, and cuts onu's feclings, Benator Beck is also a brash | fellow in his mann have to go to him for anything too, that Senator Voorhees, who has won such lanrels for his hospitality and kindly manner, is growing harsh and unpleasant in his fast, for I often hear the remark that lie has hurt somebody's feelings.” 1B SECTIONS DIVIDED ON COINAC ASITINGTON, Dee. 25— Associated | } Tiie National 'Republican to-morrow wi give as the result of an_exhaustive inquiry concerning tuture decisions in the house of reprecentatives in Tegamt 0 the wolimited snspension of silver coinaze, a table s that 145 demoerats and republicans arg agminst suspension, and 59 denp.cats and republicattansa 10 favor of it. Thie notfees feature In conncsm with ¢ matter is the division of mem Tonat hos The west and south are practically a unit for coinage, while the east and midale states ap- pear to be as solidly in favor of suspension COLORED TEMPERANCE CAMPATGN, A temperance campaign isbein g carried on in the colored ehurehes of the eity at present under the m ment of the Womans' Christian Temperance union. Much inter- est is sted, and_the learty eo-opera- tion o various pa has been se- cured. OFF T0 NEW ORLEANS, A large number of congressmen and jour- nalists, who witl the ladies of tieir fainiles were invited sowe to aceept the conrtesy of the Baltin Olhio lines fo trip to the New Orleans exposition, | Washington =~ this evening for a week's pleasure making. The list includes the tollowing Congressman Towns| il of Hlinois, Conger and ladics of Towa, Ward of Iinois, Lafollette and wife of Wisconsin, Mr. Moore, of Milwankee, Wis. - 3D THE CLAIM, Widow Securs a Big ance Plum [Speeial Telegram.|— th of Emory A and a person dreads to Tam afraid, ways wing comrnromi Emory Stor Insu CiteAGo, Dec, 25, Tmmediately after the der Storrs muceh interest was manifested in regard to the state of the great counsclor’s wordly irs. That the anticipations of those who knew him were correet were soon substantiated by a move of the deceased’s more intimate friends to present the widow witha substantial testimonial. ~ For nearly a year previous to his sudden demise Mr. Storrs was importuned by his friends to take licy in some reputable life insuranee His friends knew too well the iliarities of the great advocate, and while did not dare tooffer to pay the preminms for him it was generally understood that the policy should not be permitted to lapse on account of a defanlt of this nature, When the books and pavers of the dead jurist were gone oyer first no nolicy of any kind was found. A renewed search resulted in the discovery of a policy for 20,000 in _the Equitable Life Assurance socicty of New York. The document was finally found in a separate box in the oflice vaunlt of Mr, Storr’s on Washington street. Of course the paper was presented at the ocal oftice of the company, and then it was learned for the first time that not a cent of premium was 1 on it. The local managers upon thi ground retused an adjustment of the elaim and the se was submitted by Mr. Stor’s friends to the gencral oflice of the Equitable in New York., The fact that no premium had ever been paid seemed an. unsurmonnta- ble barrier to a suecesstul prosecution of the claim to some of the legal triends of the poli- cy holder, while others held that the verbiage implying that the premmum had been paid the policy practically a pt for the first installment of the prem- inm, and that therefore “the amount of the policy could be recovered. Tt proved by the face of the poliey that the document was one providing for the annual payment of the premium, It was issued January 1, 1885, for one year, and the first installment would therefore cover the pericd (il Decem- ber 51, 1885, 1t was learned further that the company had never renounced or caneelled the pol but that agents and collectors had at frequent intervals called upon Mr. Storrs for a payment. , of the a barrister, would give undesirable prominence to a suit, of- fered a payment of $1,000, This offer was held in abeyance. Then the company, being confronted with a suit, the outcome of which wounld at least be doubiful, while atall I rds it would involve considerable expense vielded, and yesterday o compromise was af- fected, by which the company pays $10,000 to the widow. FO Predicted Resignation of the Brisson Ministry in France, Pans, D It 1s stated that Admi Galiber, mimster of marine and colonies, tendered his resignation because President Brisson announced his decision o create a coloninl ministry A majority of the newspapers here prediet that the Brisson ministry will resigzn aftor the session of the chambers ix rencwed, in favor of M. De Freycinet. AL Ferry writes to the Temps that in the debate on the Tonquin eredic yesterday M. Clemencean misrepresented him by reading only a portion of the dispateh sent to him by on De Courcet, French winister to Ge, wany, in reply to a dispateh from the latte Conveyin g an offer made by Princo Bismire 10 act as mediator betw Ferry says that if the whole dispatch had peen read it would have been shown that the dispatell was written before the disaster to the French troops at Langson, Scene of the Conflict, Panis, Dec, 26.—The Matin this morning prints, though without giving full credit to the report, a telegram from Lisbon announe- ing that o German man-of-war has just been despatehed from the island of St, Thomas, in the gulf of Guinea, for Batenzo, in conse quence of a conflict between a party of Freneh ailors and the erew of the German corveto yelop, - COMMODORE KITTSON'S KID, A Disreputable Woman Claims the Youth for a Husband, N . Mary Kittson, alias Mary King and Minuie Clark, a noto- rious woman of this eity, and the keeper of a disreputable house, brought suit in the su- preme court yesterday against Hercules L, Kittson for alimony. The complaint and answer in the case are full of sensations, The woman says that she was married to Kittson on April 25 last, and that he aban- doned her in July, " She claims that he is wealthy and extravagant and a boarder at the Windsor hotel, Young Kittson Kittsol St faily at the W) To th is a son of Commodore aul, who resides with his dsor hotel during the winter scason. He says that he was taken to the wowam's house drunk on the. night of A pril 21, and was still_further plied with liquor, so that he was unable to leave on the nest When he becaie sober the women informe him that they had been warried, but Kittson ays that he has not the slightest recollection of any wmarriage. When Judge Donolius heard the voung man’s story he refused to permit the plaintid’s counsél to reply to i and reserved his decision, Commodore Kitt- son said to-nizght that his son was not of age on April 25, but he supposed the wowman led the boy into some sort of a fal which she now claius was o warriage, The woman is aged about 85 years, - She was Wading across wand avenue.when @ wnd splashipd her frow b ) pedestrian who witnes the sectasnt pulled out his handkerchief and said “Bez pare don, but let me wipe some of it off,” “0n, thanks!" she replied, “bul never mind the mud. If you feel it a duty to do somethin, in“the caseé, please wentiod sowe of the lv ‘f i« euss WOIds Bow o use I"—[Detroit Fiee Press, the mud on Wood- her cart came alon, Tk 10 Shoes, A | A CASK-BOUND HUMAY CORPSE OMAHA, SATL A Romantio Chapter in the History of a Distinguished Chicagoan, SAVED FROM AN OCEAN GRAVE, escrved in pught to His al, after Dying Atlantic. Walter L. Newherry Cask of Rum and I3 far By the Broad a A Soart of Seventeen Year CHICAC oy [ Stecial Telegram]. The body of Walter L. Nowwlly. Who be- auieatiied 82,500,000 1o found a public Tidrary in Chicazo, has been lying for seventeen years in Graceland ceme tery, while all Chi- cago, suve Lwo or three, believed it to be at the bottom of the ocean, And yet the story of its buriai there, and of the means by which it escaped the oblivion of the deep, is by far the strangest and most romantie chapter in this man's remarkable history. In 187 Mis. Newberry, leaving her hus- band in Chicago, took her two daughter’s broad, and eventually bezan the residence in Paris, which lasted until the death of all three, In November of the following year Mr. Newberry himselt coneeived the idea of joining his family, and started abroad. He was already well advanecd in years and it had been his practice to support a body servant, not so muc as & luxury A noecessity, Mr. Newberry went to New York aud shipped in a staemer for Havre. He was always austere and taciturn on shore, and he chose to 1emain so at sea, repelling every effort of friendship or even acquaintance. As anatural result the ship's register diselo: all that was known of this silent passenger save his appearance. Such remarks as fell perforee from his lips suffered to stamp him asa man of intelligence, but to all the passengers he was “Walter L, New- berry, Chicago,” and no more. In such surroundings as these—an alien in the midst of his own people—Newberry sick- ened and died. The common fate of those who die at sea is known—a canvass shroud, a brief perfunctory service, and a splash in the water. Such is the route by which Jack Tar consigns not only himself but all his, passenger to “Davy Jones’ locker.” It is one of the sailors many superstitions that there is bad Tuek in a eorpse on board the ship, and obe ent to this superstition the body ot Walter Newberry would have gone the usual route but for the interference of a gentleman from New York, This person urged upon the Ship's captain that he knew the Newberry family to be one of wealth and distincetion, and that they would begrudge no expenditure to bring the corpse back to land for burial, but the captain was obstinate, Perhaps he was not willing to confer a favor uvon the family of one whom he had found so in- tractible and cold. He saw no excuse for do- viating from the rule, and besides there were no means for preserving the corpse to the journey’s end. Herein the m. He vessel's eargo wa New York man found a sngges- 1 ascertained thata part of the Medford rum, and he at once offered to buy a eask of that liquor as a preservative, s suggestion finally pre vailed. 'The liquor was bought and the body of the millionaire plunged into its alcoholie bath, The ship meanwhile went on its way to Havre, where this nge item of freight was unloaded. The New Yorker looked care- fully after its unloading, and at onee rebilled it to the dead man’s former address in Chica- go. He had, of cou no knowledge that Mrs. Newberry was at that moment in Paris, within a few milés of where he stood, so he wrote a letter to be sent by the next post which was intended to precede the cask, re- lating what he had done, and why it had beel neeessary to resort to so unnatural a plan. t outward bound steamer from the port of Havre carried both letter and cask. t New York the latter was, of course, left behindhand in the race, but in due time it arvived on a freight train at the Michigan Central yards, The letter meanwhile had reached Chicago and had gotten into the hands of E, L. Tinkhan n old friend of the Newberrys, who., according to a statement made by himself before his death, felv at lib- erty to open it and apprise himsell of its con- tents. Mr. Tinkham prepared for the arrivai of the cask of rum containing the by this time pickled remuins of his old friend, and when it arrived at the depot was there in readiness to receive it with a single eye to the obligations of friendship and the respect due to so prominent and much loved a eitizen. Mr. Tinkham had prepared for the recep- tion of his friend’s mortal remains no less a vehicle than a dray. He brought no clery; man, but had instead several mutual filends, who, like himself, considered what was due the propricties. Upon the dray went the cask, and away to Graceland the strange pro- cession took its route, No clergyman here, either, and no funeral services of the ortho- dox sort. Again the propricties came for- ward and pointed out the incongruity of low=- ering moist and piekled “remains” to carth with the usual formula of *dust to dust, Mr, Newberry 1 owned a lot, and in this lot a hole was dug, the barrel was rolled ot of the dray and into the hole, and the earth closed over the body of the millionai CHEE CRIMES, A Missouri Real Estate Ag faulter for $100,000. . Louis, De w—Intormation from Clinton, Mo, that Silas E. Cheek, a prominent real estate and loan agent of that place, is & defaulter for over $100,000, The utmost contidence was placed in his inte rity until recently, and the banks had given him ered r beyond his means and honored his draf(s for lari About two. week C. Nichols, of Clinton to look Bridgeport, Conn., after a mortgage on property belonging to Orton B. Jones. He diseovered the name on the mortg tious and the mortgage a forgery had forged the name of the recorde the bogus mortzage _and had defrauded him out ol = 87,0, To save himself Cheek gave a deed of trust on his property for the amount: and the same day gaveanother deed of trust (o save friends wlhio Lad advanced him money. He then lefy for Canada and has not been heard from since, s manner of obtaining money was to e nauies 1o bogis deeds of taust, imprint recorder’s seal upon the daeuments, which he could easily do, as he had access to the recorder’s oftice it all times, The deeds thus appearing all rvight hie had no trouble in obtaining mwoney on them. As these papers are not reeorded it is impossible to tell who are defrauded, but the following parties have been heard from: Central Ilinois Finaneial uey, Jacksonville, 1L: John Hurd, Jo: Joice, F. C. Nichols, Bridgeport, Conn.; ewton Savings bank, Newton, Conn.; W, J. O'Keete & Co,, Marshall, Mich, Cheek is 52 years old, wairied, and hiswife is now lying at the point of death, but does not know of her Lusband's wrong doings. He owned property worth $34,000, which has been attaclied by creditors, but no other le- Iml action has been taken, His books show ie ha - loaned $171,000 for eastern parties. In bLis desk the following was foun Tam a thief, scoundrel, knave and liar. StLas E. CHEEK. Playing to Empty Benches. CiicaGo, Dec, 2.—1n the balk line billiard tournawent Vignaux «nd Slosson to-night played a herribly #low and uninteresting caiie befode an assemblaze of one hundred Viguaux, 500; Sicsson, 710, nt De- comes K persous, Beoie: [ The I A REIGN OF TERROR IN TEXAS. The Frightful and Bloodthirsty Orimes of | Some Insatiate Demen Rousing the Oitizens of Austin to Action, Avstiy, Tex, Dee. 95.~Two terrible crimes were comitted in this ity last night after midnight, which will undonbtedly re- sult in three deaths and no telling how many Iyne hings, During the vast year Austin been fio@ifad avary few weeks by somic 219 fardly attack on servant women, both white and colored, Fully a dozen servants have been ow d and eight murdered within thi The erimes all bore being perpe- tiated and pl 1 by the same persons. Every effort has been mado to apprehend the minals, and skilled detectives have been employed. Many negroes have been arrested and passed through a rigid examination, but nothing came of the elforts. Many citlzens and some oflicials held to the theory that the erime was perpetrated by some insane indi- vidual, who cunningly devised how he could shed women's blood withont apprehension. About midnight last night W. [1. Hancock, a well-to-do carpenter, residing at 205 Water strect, was awakened by groans, Entering hils wife's ehaniber adjoining he found a va- eant bed covered with blood spots, Follow- ing the trail out of the front door, around the house and into the back yard,where he found i ¢ weltering in apool of blood, She had o struck twice across the head with ablunt axe, and her skull fractured. Al- though still alive physicians say the lady will surely die from her wounds, Mrs. Hancock is40 years of and still a_ handsome woman, She bore an unblemished character. In the midst of the great excitement pro- duced by this outrage, the citizens were ap palled at hearing of a still greater erime p petrated about the same hour several squares distant, At 1 o'clock Mrs. Phillips, residing at 303 Hickory street, was awakened by the esof her grandson. Entering herson James Phillip’s room, she found the infant on the bed, covered with blood, and Phillips 1ying senseless from a terrible blow across the head. Ella Phillips, his wife, was missing, A frightencd neighbor followed a bloody trai Lagain, and tound her body lying in the back vard of the ning premises, Death had resulted from a blow on the forehead withan cross the body heavy rails, Her person had been outraged. “There is no elue to either erime. The excitement on the strects during the day s been great. Christmas was for- gotten. The mayor called a mecting of the citizens at the court house. Nearly one thousand attended. A committee of public safety was organized. The fecling over these Iast outrages is intense. A house-to-house search for the bloody handed wurderer will probably be inaugurated at once. Ending Her Sin By Death, NEW ORLEANS, Dec, 25,—'To-night M Heindal, a gas fitter, aged 21 years, called ata disteputable house on Custom Iouse street, where his wife Ernestine, aged 20 years, was living, He eallcd her ot and stabbed he times, inflicting infuries which will probably prove fatal. Hindal is under arrest and adinits having intended to kill his wife, saying that | 1 not stand her condu Slhe left hi has sinee been an inmate of « disrepitable house, He says he and his wite's brother, Jacob “Beren. and her father, had_determined to kil her, and as her father was too old to live out a term in the penitentiary it was better that a younz man should do it. Jacob Beren accompanied Hemdal to the house, and. it is said, held his sister while her husband stabbed her. — The = police have not - yet ssted him, The girl recognized " Heindal as her assailant, but as yet has made_no_eharge asainst he brother, 'Tho proprietress of the louse savs Heindal to-night was for the purpose o extorting money from his wite which was re- fused him. Hence the 5 Moro Crescent City Crimes. New Onrpans, Dee. 25,—Mary Greely, as found dead to-nizht. ” Matthew rrigan, who had struek her several times about the head with his fists, was ar- resicd eharzed wit John Williamson, azed :0, was to-day shot and fatally wounded by Patrick Datton, aged Killed by Convicts, SranksvinLe, Miss,, Dec, Seven con- viets working on W. IL Harvey’s plantation mutinied Wednesday and killed “Wash” Powers, the colored guard, and escaped. A v named Turner who pursued the con- viets was shot. but_will recover. It is that the mutiny 15 the result of inhuman treatiment on thie part of Powers toward the conviets. A Double Tragedy. LovisvinLe, De A1S 0'clock to-night Clarles Johmson (colored) eut his wife's throat with a pocket knife, alniost severing the head from the body, and then ent his own throat. Johnson eannot possibly recover, Jealousy was the eause i PRELLER'S PRO' TOTYPPE. A New Hampshire Myst bling the St. Louis Tragedy. New Marger Juserion, N L, Dee, 21 Phe excitement over a supposed trunk mys- tery here isat the elimax to-dwy. About 1 of a human sealp with hed were diawn froni Pateh pond _in Ossipee by men fishing throuzh 1l Yesterday a” large it of huus and a_portion of calp, together A plece wits - tished from under Siicks of wood four feet lonz have al-o been fished out of the mud, and it is generally thouzht they were put thiere to hold down the body, which is supposed 1o be thator a youns lidy who left H waimer's hotel at We mysterionsly six years possibly that — of “a who disappeared from vear ago, aidd never has been heard from. ir found is from ten to twenty inehes nnpares with that ot both the missing women, What is thought 1o Le a box or trunk sunk in the nind bias been grap- pled, but altiongh fifty men bave inzall day trying to recover it, they have thus far failed to et it out, - THINKS HIS T1TLE CLEAR, ssman O'Neul and the Committee Chairmanship. 81, Lovis, Dee, 25, —Congressman O'Neil of this city, who is mentioned as probuble chairman ot the committee on labor of the house of representatives, areived home to-day and was met by various’ leaders of the Jubor interests to profier thelr support to hin, O'Neill deprecated any action on their puit, not wishing to embarmass the speaker in - his selection of the comuitices, and said; “It having ereated the comnntiee on labor in the last congress, introduced the bill to create the burean ot labor statistics, and made a speceh in the bouse on the in- portation of contract labor, which the dem- ocratie national commitiee made one of teir principal campaien docuiments, all of whicl was done under the eye of the' spesker, does not entitle me to the ehairmanship of the commitiee, then mass meetings and resolu- tions will not help we.” the ice, long, and Cong Labor L Parson Downs Wants the Church. BostoN, Mass, Dee 2i.—On behalt of the Rev. W. W. Downs, counsel made @ formal demand upon Clerk Coleman and Deacon Wilbur yesterday afternoon for the ssesson of th M(r.m Square churel, Jeing refused, legal proceedings will be instituted. ——t Weather For To-day. Missovnt VarLexy—Warmer, fair weather, winds generally southerly, lower barowvter, | RDAY iifll(;\‘[\'(}, DECEMBER 25, 1835 TERRORS OF TROPICAL SEAS. Btory of the Frightful Storm that Swept the Oarribean Coast. LASHED BY SHEETS OF FOAM. Wreeked and Details of Told by © Lost Craf(s, Twenty-Two Vessels Fifty-Threo Lives Lost the Colon Catastroph Survivors of t The Gale at Colon. New Youx, De ~The steamer City of Para arrived here yesterday, having on board parts of the crews of five of the vessels lost at Aspinwall in the terrible norther that swept Tt port, beginning on December 3, and @ausing the 108s of twenty-two vessels and at least nity-three lives. The men returned to this port were American Schooner Thomas Ranze, Swward W, Danheh, £, Haniz Norwegian Bark touden zem, Mate AL Jacobson, Se Masorald, A, Lansing, N gald. Norwegian Bk Blance-Master S, and Mrs, Cavisen, Mate W W iison, Se A, Olcisen, M. Oleisen, Join Gaorielsen, A, Lsksea, S, Hermansen, L Hendricksen, M. Hamsen, J. Jensen, Norwegian Bark Donglas Castle—Master E. Oxholm, Mate B, Guudersen, Seanen J. Olsen, I Heincksen, A, CTobiassen, A Skroogs, J. Malachiasen, D. Eliassen, J. Sun- berg, B, Marcivlassen, O, Pies, Swedish bark Kaman—=Master P, Norfeldt, Mate J. B W. De La Mo, Seamen S, Py Larson, Fred, Gill In talking about the disasirous cffects of the gale of Deexmoer 2 yesierday, Capt, Ox- Lotm,of the bark Donglas Castle, said that he arrived in port on November 6 with @21 tons of conl from Cardiff, He had been waiting for an opportunity to dischar his cargo, and in the forenoon of December was on shore talking® Wwith his consignees about getting alighter alongside, The weather was beautiful and the water perfeetly caln, There was nothing in the atr or sky or about the barometers to indi- cate anything but a continuance of fair weather. But at noon those who happened to be looking out 1o sea saw a curling wave with I Sereve Master A, Berut- unen i1, Bro gelon and E A SHEET OF FOAM behind 1t making into the harbor at a terrific speed, although there was not a eloud to be seen. Atonce there was a stic on the decks of the steawers lying a ¢ heir piers, and evi- dences of atempis to gew up steain was appa- rent. ‘The captains of sailing vesscls who were on shore were oblized 1o stay there, The oflicers on voard, as the vessels heeled before the blast, hasiened to clear away the anchors and ke things snug, in hopes of ing out whal seemed o the strangers there stdden squall that would soon bloy itself out. Within half an hour the sky was overcastand the rain drove down before the wind so that no one could face it, while the howling of the blast made communica- tion between ofticers and,_ men possible only by weans of signs. The harbor was fuil of hu lers that broke as far out as Point Cliagres. A German steamer did not watll to get up steam, but with the ad of a tug started for sea. T tow line paried, and steamer crashed into the Royal mail pier, i Wi, vt of it The steamer ly gof and went to sea. Three other Eurovean steamers followed i last of all the American steamer Acapulco went out to ride out the gale in deep water. Wiile they were going out the sailine ships bewan to carry away cables, drag anchorsand : ConRAT that line the shore. _One seen in the ofling striving to clear the yoit, but without avail, and they were eventuuily obliged to take their chatices with the flect The schooners Luey R, Day and Crown™ Point, being moored “close in ‘shore, were bevond _hope, it by strentious exer: tions about $20.000 worth of their carcoes was saved. Betore night the vesscls began to o ashore. ‘Fhen the piers began to break up, mbers 12x12 lavee were suapped off and swept in shore. Houses standing sisty rods back from the edge of ordinary hizh water were overturned and destroyed, the Koval Mail oftice being amwoag them. When it Ships began 10 go ashore the people on the shore turned their aliention to saving the men from the ships, but little or nothing eould be done. No lite hoats could Iy Taunched, and none launched from the ships could_hope to make a Janding in safcty. Nevertheless, « of the men who tried to swim ashore were picked out of the breakers and saved, Capt. Bepntzen, of the bark Iolden, said that at 10 o'elock at nizht he was standing on his fovecastle watching a little schooney halg aship's length away, A boat from a three. masted sehoomer hid cone alonwside with four men, who boarded her and undertool to help the master clear his vessel, her were Ftwo vessels were AT THE PUNDS ana the men from the boats found that the discharze ports i her bow were open, giving the waves 1 clean sweep through her hold Stll her caplain refused o into {he bi schooner's Joncboat with bis men, and t four men went away. Vhey eame along- side the Hoiden, which seemed to be in - prefty cood shape, Wl were taken on” board. W ominutes later the little lamber-hoo ed over and ly help- lesson the rock, with her weather rail’out of water occasionally. The crew elung to it for a time, but one by one they dro were s, ADoit 4 o ¢lock on the morning ot the sl the Ho went ashore, I told the men,” s it Bennizen, “that we would die it fald, and that we hid chinee for onr lives it we ook to the water Mr. dJacobson, the wmate, went and, fortunat Ia in safoty, been [ 110 toreeastle, i wmy head cutopen so thiat 1 was weak from Toss of blood, but L determined to try it with the rest, Llet myself over the side. b was tao weal 1o 0 10 th tom. 1t seemed water, but 1 telta hurry me alon Ll roeks. The coral was can il 0ot harp a8 kiiy SEE T on my hands zud anmn but iy less weie helpless, but I sl 1 was utterly wy wate and lio saved me, AL or my erew were saved, but in such a condition as you never saw, My trousers had b @i out_away o that only thie watistband remaimned, My cont wiis in shieds, Sowe of the wen were vaked all b a fow vites, The heroism of thie sailors in port was puticularly shown in the efforts to yeach Capt, Lindezo, of the British ship Linton, with his wite dnd two ehildren, One of the chtidren was i givl of 8 years and the other a babe in arms. Lhe eaptain of the Freneh ¢ Fournel, seeing their danser, kot a at wanned with volunteers, bis ehiet oinz in command, The hoat wis but all hands were saved except s oflicer SW e, the mate,” Capt. Oxiiohn, of the Douglas Castle, wa among those trying Lo rescue the woman. “Phe boat was eleared ont and sent azain with a fresh erew, chief envineer ot the Four I vas vl ed over by #ie bre: er wars lost, The thivd trial was more s ful. and the wom an and ler baby s brought saf ashore, but thé capia and his little girl and all the crew lost. The bodies of the wate and englncer were recovercd, and, with the body of a American, who lost his life while tiying 't save others, wero burled with militaiy on ors, Capt. Oxholi said that over sixty lives were lost and twenty-two vesseis ore wiecked. *You ean tell” how completely my ship was wrecked,” he ad “she was sold atauetion for §15, and her carso of 21t of ‘coal brought i0,” —~ = nt lesson in the Salibath » death of Efisha, and wl came 10 the eliuse, 't him,” the teacher asked: ~ Wiy cremate him? Do you 11 1l courazement in the Bisle for “No encouragement wh v, ply. ““They tried it on the tire cast into the tery furnace, and di it work,”—[Harper's Bazar, Av ot seholars bt wake The men in | who | | | 18 Tean't do without | Charities' ¢ | forty { wio is said to be one ¢ | and ped off and | were | | the folow CHRISTMAS TREE m s Consnmed and Forty Attendants Injured. CricAc Dec. 25 <A huge Christmas freo bearing all Kinds of gifts for patients and at- tendants at the county hospital, and lavishly illuminated with wax candies, canght fire to- day while a hundred or more people were packed closely about it The tree and con tents blazed o flereely $hat the clothing of some twenty persons standing nearest eaught e, The tlunes were soon extinguished and no one was seriously injured. The accident is somiewiat niore serfous N oy i several persons having been njured in the WLLE L B AL thiee hundred persons were 0 tme Shanel when the aceident oceurred, When e fre started the siall room was densely packed, and “Santa Claus” was forcing his- way through the crowd to_ the treo to distribute the wifts, Suddenly @ wreath of colored — paper caught~ firo from a candle, and almost instantly the en- tire tree, and contents were & pyramid of tlame.The garimnents of those nest the tree eauht fire, and every one rushed to_the door a panic, Befoie the toom was halt \ptied of the crowd some one with a_tire extinguisher subdued the flames and drench- e the elothing which b caught nre. Somo persons were injured, but none fataily, 5 N A fater sutvey of the situation shows at Teast 100 persons injured, the greater part re: coiving briises by being trampled on by paniestricken neighbors,” A number of the ehildren patients hid been bronght into the ehapel in their cots, - Betore they could be renioved several suffered from smoke and fright, andone or two were siightly burned. The exeitement was intense, and for the calmness of Warden MeGarile and some at taehes of the Tospital lives would certainly have been lost. Three Children Burned to Death. NEw Yok, Dee, 25— fire started at an early honr this morning in a two-story frame dwelling in One Hundred and Sixty-sixth street near Kin 2o rond, owned by Daniel Phelan and occupied by Patrick Dris- coll and family. ‘The oceupants were in bed atthe time, and were awakencd by smoke pouring info the rooms. he <imoke was so thick oscape was most difticalt. Patrick Drizcoll tnally tonnd his way out’ and zave analarm. When the firenien reached” the scene the building was in flanes, Soon after the entire structire was consuméd, Driseoll, Nis wite Mary, andson Patrick, were se: rionsly burned while escaping.” Three of Driscol’s children were: burned to death, They were Johm, Julins and Mary, Their ages were respeetively 17, 14 and 7. The charred remains. were atter the fire was subducd, tound A Valuable Collectic WASHINGTON, Dee. 95, —Tlhe residence of Dr. Emil Bessells, the artist explorer, at Glendale, M., burned this morning, and all his books and eharts and other valuable doc- uments relating to Arctic matters were to- tally destioye Beer B Burned. MiLwAvKEE, De One ot the Brewing company's storchouses, containing 120,000 bushiels of elioiee barley, w by e to-da 50003 $08,000, Destroyed. HE STAKDR But the Knight of the Played Him W BostoN, Mass,, Dee, 25, —Fred Story is a moneyed gentleman who hails from Yar- mouth, Me., and is quite extensively inter- ested inshipping, and, i*1s s mittance of something like $5,000 every month rrom England. e has spent a few thousands to satisty his love for horsetlesh in the purchase of a fast trotier. Wien the trotting season was over Lawrence unblers who had made his acquaintanee during thie cirenitraces plucked him tor $1,100 at two sittings, and then he twmbled that it as a c'brace game” But e said noth- and eame to Boston and looked over all the card sharps for a partner, inaily picking out a skilltul manipulator named Fishe the very best poker untr fisher, it is said, from Chicigo, where he made tiie gamblers of that city Tarn their pockets inside out. Tue two “went to Lawrenee, Sy introduced Fisier, whom he for $1,700, It is atleged that the preat Chi- eaxo gambler went back on him, und in a very siort time Story lost s 21500 i mone SH00) in notes, which the Lawrenc men st «in gettinz cashed, although Story tried 1o stop their paywent, Story staked his shirt studs, el buitons, rings and wateh, all of which he lost, D AN Green Cloth ayers in this ¢ recently cie, - IPLE h Rev. John Jasy son of Rict: that peenliay asse nation's risibilities, Une (reading)—*And when the man Bowe fe thansed God.” Ethel he thank God, Uncle Geor iy nse the bear didn’t cat Lithel o why didi't he thank the bear,”—| Lite. Brown—"1 don't see how how you ean find to g0 to ehurch every Sundav, ' sire Lean't. I've so much 10 do.”" Fogg—"Yex 1 suppose yoin do turn off ol work Sunditys. 1 wish Leonld do it; bat the taet feep s well as you T cecentric colored par L, is lectutiing south on Wi that exeited the Sui Do Move ¢ George ot salel Why did l can.” A cat ot into a churci orzan I a western eity, and. wiien the congresation asscmbled Sunday morning and he d the 1 tul and pliintive complainings of the anival issuing from the i JCworshipper, they thoight anew and better orzanist ad been enzaged sinee the preceding Sabbath, A Verment deacon, who was hanfed up for Norse-acin Sunday, made reply 1 fon'Lapprov pn-racin’y UL Wil anoth ermember of the ehareh becoes 0 5 s Lo (ry to piss e on the road eo 1rom mivetin’, 1 fe 1y duty 10 the el 10 16t out i e L rins, Just to ke i from putiin® his trast in eaithiy t s, "Lie st woids of 1 dying crally regurded as sicnincanl blidi {ors are on o reh Lie on D ol nerid Vy ne [H whil ebunie betore he con the pilpit, met an old v wiks atilemployed in the shop. voi do, Patrick? Don't yoir tememb, sividl the cle an, 1 sed to work with yoll s S0, an 1 rein 3 you w ml 1 10 see you, veplied Patriek. with o hearty shake of the Band—then adding with a sidden thouzht, 1 liear you've foind a soit job 1oy “Yos, M Goodman,” said the the winisier who bad dioppad i chiat, " 1t bit long. (UDEhooves us il to in this world that we i ings of the world 1o oo esty in business is not g wore than that L sliawl oy CHY DKL yees Besitated the giocer, with rather ihious Jook in the divection' of the dominie, iUs a tite carly in the season yet. but L i bave a little o hand, wint? A little western prodicy, of a religlons turn of wind. azed thice years, has siven fordh & mioral leciure in the shape of a sicie were Lwo colis, One of onied toa man who didn't have any God. One of thein looked over the fenes anil didi’t have anything to eat. His wan didi'l bave any God. The other colt ate lots lots of Ziass in his pasture, and he grew grew and grew 1l he got a taill and a sy Lo bin His man had & God™ But it isa Boston swall boy who remarked the oth- | er morning, atter bis mother had had a labo- rious sieoe with his buttons, *Lwish God would sew some buttons on ‘my skin, so | coulid button my elothes right on and not 1 couie Off [ Pittsburg Comereial 11, an’ it's rizht zrocer 1o for a little ity is (-6 With ne siry hon- it iy some hishier, d i o yer How wich dv you | i 01 1hen bel - . B Riley. Real Estate and Loan Bro- ker. bas removed to Roows 4 and 6, “Grawite” block, NUMBER 160 NEBRASKA AND T0WA NEWS. COamp Firo, College and Ohristmas Ocoure rences at York, IN LIQUOR INJUNCTIONS 10WAy Wahoo Budding portanes w5 Cracksmen in a China Shop - Serions Pive at Salem, Brilliant Oty Tme into g and Christmas, [Special.|—A camp held at_Bell's Ll on by Robert Ane Camp Five, Col Neb., Dee, 2 fire and fes(lvat "Thursday, the 17th inst derson post of the G, AL R, Tocated hors. Dee partment Commander Cole, Rev. Dr. Britty Senfor Vice Commander Culyer and Capt, Blanchard, of Seward, were all present and gave interesting reminiscences of avmy lite, Capt. J. B, Reed, a resident of York, who was in the rebel army, also called fors ward and madea good speeeh. Tho company was so enthusiastie that the meeting was profonged till pasi midnight. — One of the most interesting features of the enterialne ment was the sones given by the college stus dents, trained for the oceasion by Prof, 1, B, Worley, the director of the departinent of musie in the M. B, coll The public schools closed the fall torm of this year on Friday, the 1800 inst, - Great sies cess has attended the work of - the teachers in the seven different departiients. Ou - tho same day Prof. Houston, the principal, tens dered his resignation. On that evening @ meeting was held by the school hoard and the resignation was accepted, and Prof. Chas, 8, Edwards, of Tacon, LI, a teacher of large expericnee, and a wraduate of Michigan unfe versity, was chosen to il the position for the next three months, As freight train was 44, from the west, was coming into the depot on Monday afternoon the engine, No. 117, said to be the largest on the road, jumped the track at the lirst switeh, The engine and three cars were ditched after running ity yards, In about twenty-four hours the wreek was put in running order n. Damages only about £100, The Methodist Epistopal college closed the first term of the college year on the 234 The institution has had the larzest enrollment this term of its six years history. Students have all laid aside their books and most of them lave gone to their homes to spend the holiday e next term opens Jans ary 6, and an inereased number of students is expected at that time. Mrs, Sedgwick, the Instructor in piano musie, has resigned, and Miss Annie Reeavis, daughter of Judge Rees avis of Falls City, has been elected to the place, Dr. ‘I, B. Lemon of Kearney has re- signed Lis position as president ot the board of trustees, and Dr. W. G, Miller of Utica hias been s his suceessor. Prof. R Wightman has been elected to till the new chairof latin. 11 F. Hitcheock of Sterling, amember of the sophomore class, has been made editor-in-chiel of the York Collegian, Christmas eve was greatly enjoyed by the voung people of the Conzregational and ptist Sunday sehools, To-day i3 quiets Most of the stores are elosed and the mess chants and the people generally are enjoying it home, e iquor Suits in Des Moinem Moix ks, Llowa, Dee. 25— [Speeial ‘Tels egran. (—\When the injunction suiis azaingg diys the city saloons were withdrawn a few recess, Sinee the liquor interest was prematuely Petitions have azain been filed for injunctions inst Lewis Fritz, Merryenone & Co., Ge Johnson, George Conrady Darry Campbell, William J. Harris and Jas cob Sersach, and their bartenders, and the owners of the buildings in- whieh thelr sas Toons e situated. Notices have been served upon the parties named, and the iling of the petitions will bring the cases before Judige Givin at the next term ot the eirenit court, The veen( decis the supreme conrt to he effect that buildings may be enjoined will greatly stitnzthen these cases, and those in enarie teel wore conndent. of complete sues cessilian_ever betore. Phe evidence they Bave obtained is ol a wmieh Stronger charags ter, and every prefini nsly gudrded with' the fis on to ke cach moyement final It g8, elated, Wahou Stretching b Wanoo, Neb, Dee Onr villaze s impors tance, ting from the prospect of have ing the Chicazo & Northwestern rai’rond here next spri Real estate has advanced e 10 1625 poer eent in value, An addition i tade 1o the i on the novthwest, ty-nive acres have been Taid ot in town Two new flonring mills have just been spleted. They have both pat in the patent system and are ready to turn out large ifies of the bost flonr. A very ne new clireh has just been creeted by the Chirstian denomination. Other improvements aro in prosress and eontenplation. Shouid the Chicigo & Norihwestein not there will be souie very soie specikators in (s vicinity® Plour. [Spe clal |~ © Bak SarEy, Neb, De Phe City our fal Telogram,] At this place, the zestin this section of the country, were npletely destioyed by fire this morning, il pread with great rapidity and tully tesisted the strenuous. efforts of prictors and it were 3,000 bitshel s to subdue them, cls ol wheat and 20,000 of four in the mills at the time, all of were destroyod, involving, with the e 0ss ol notless than $25,000, The will ot be more than $14,000, Cracksmen Among Crockery, iNEs, Lowi, D [Special ‘Veles wade @ Christoas eall upon the quecnswarg ray, Y a very cricking, Temoving the bolt and opening the door withous wtracting attention, They secured over E200 1 cash, leaving a large inount of dratts and nezotisble paper, Rheumatism We doubt if there 15, or can be, a specifie remedy for rhe atism ; but thousands who have suffered its pains have Leen greatly bet efited by Hood's Sarsaparilla, If you have failed to find relief, try this great remedy, “1 wa eted with rheumatism twenty years, Previows 101833 T found no relief, but grew worse, and at one tine was almost help. fess, Mood's Sarsaparitls did me more pood than all tio other medicing 1 ever bad” 1. T, Barco, Shirley Village, Mass, L had sheumatism three years, and got ne velief Lill I took Tlood's Sarsay 9 L things for e, 1 recommend it to Lewis Bukuask, Liddeford, Ne, ponnd Di gram, |~ Bt ently this mornin clever job ot e Hood s Sarsaparilla throe peculiaritios remedial Procesa 18 characterized by 151, the combiaation of d, the proportion; %, the g the active medioinal qual Phe result 15 amedieine of unsual strength, effecting cures pitheito unhuown, Bend for bock containiug additional eyidence, A's Barsaparilly tones wp my systei, purifies wiy biood, sharpens iy spretifo, a Beeins 1o ke e over 0.1 TuouesoN, Register of Deeds, Lowell, Miss, *CHood's Bareaparilia beats all ofbers, and Is worth s veigh Ui gald. 1. BaRRINGEON, 160 Bauk Street, New York City, Hood’s Sarsaparilla Bold by all drugglsts. $1; six for §5. Made enly by C. 1 HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. ' 100 Doses _Oneo Pollar,