The bee., 1883-01-13
TIE NEWS.


had been an invalid for nineteen years and
unable to walk or to use her voice for fCut
years, recovered the use of limbs and voice
yesterday while prayer was offered for her by
a clergyman SIZE says she was cured by
faith in God. and by tilat alone.
The connection between the Sunset
Route" Railroad of Texas and the Southern
Pacific, about completed, will give another
continuous line from New Orleans to San
Francisco.
A Nevada penitentiary convict says that he
was sent to prison for being dishonest, and
's there kept at work cutting out pieces of
pasteboard to put between the soles of
shoes, 1u place of honest leather.
There were 257 failures in the United States
reported to Bradstreet's Journal the past
week, l5 more than the proceeding week, and
los more than the corresponding week last
year.
The wife and two children of Thos. John
son, living in Westmoreland county, Pa. at
the foot of mountain, were buried and suf-
focated by land slide.
G. NJ. Howell, the Gamer, of Milford. Del.
who failed for $40, 900 or $25, 600 has arranged
with his creditors to pay fifty cents on the
dollar, and will continue his business.
The failure of p. p. Cuisine d Son,
wholesale and retail furniture dealers, 2OI
North Second street, Philadelphia, an
nounced. The liabilities are $4,000.
At Philadelphia it is estimated that at least
10000 looms and probably 100000 spindles
are now idle in the cotton and wooden mills
of Philadelphia and vicinity in consequence
of the continued depression in trade.
a fire at Cohees, N. Y, destroyed Norris,
Colwell & Paye's rolling mill. O'Brien .S
Powers knitting mill and the Patrick
Gugerty mills. Loss 100000, partially in
srred.
At Williamsport, Pa, ex-County Comnis-
sioners Daniel Corson and VIM. Elmer, who
pleaded guilty 10 the charge of ofembezzlement,
we're sentenced each to pay fine of $3.50,
and to be imprisoned in the Eastern peniten-
tiary-Corson for Il months and Elmer for
IL months.
Intelligence has reached here of violent
earthquake shock being felt in different parts
of Northern OHIO between and A. NJ. Jan
1ary Z. People were aroused from sleep and
some chimueys toppled over.
A suit has been commenced in Cincinnati;
against the keeper of gambling house by
the wife of Albert Stewart to recover S147
lost by her husband. The wife had saved the
money to pay a debt that had long beer
owing. She entrusted it to her husband,
who went to the gambling table and LOST
every cent.
Francis Register, Philadelphia attorney,
has been arrested for receiving from Mrs. 4.
L. Beaverd, colored, $40 in excess of the
amount legally allowed for the collection q;
\ pension. Register was held in $500 bail
The large warehouse of Ovington Brothers,
importers and dealers in china, glassware
and statuary, in Brooklyn, N. Y, has been
burned, and the loss of the firm is estimated
at 500, 900. The New Jerusale4e church was
damaged and Van Doon's photograph gal
lery was destroyed. The entire loss by the
fire is S250,000. The loss is nearly coverel
by insurance.
Cellar Rapids and Northern Railroad col
lided near Cedar Falls, Iowa. The engines
were wrecked, and the property-car of the
Lights o London" Company was tele-
scoped by the baggage-car. -Four persons
were badly injured, and one killed.
Five bills of Indictment have been found
in the New York Court of General Sessions
against George ]. Rice, late president of the
Utica, Ithaca and Western Railroad. Three |
of the indictments charge him with embez-
element and larceny, and two of them charge !
forgery.
Captain Gye, Colonel Mapleson's son-in- |!
aw states that the report that he was robbed |
Of Mime. Albani's $50, GOO earrings is untrue. !
ALI he lost was a scarf pin worth $50, 500 in |
cash and some papers.
man arrested in New York for swindling |
has been identified as "AI'i Wilson, a pro- |
fessional forger. He secured nearly $4,000 !
rom two banks in Buffalo by means of raised /
checks.
A dispatch from Cheney, Washington Ter
-itory, says: Eighty citizens took China
md robbing Chinese women, and hanged !
lim to tree.
The anniversary of the victory of Jackson ,
It New Orleans was celebrated at New York,
Boston, Cleveland and other cities. At Bos-
on two hundred and fifty persons, including
Governor Butler, sat down to banquet at
he Revere House.
The woolen and other mills along the Po-
Iobscot river have been compelled to COM
nence running on half time for lack of
nough to pay their board, and the mill own
rs are losing money, not being able to fill
heir orders. Such drought has never been
qualed in Maine, even in summer, and the
nils never closed before for want of water
n winter.
Judge Joseph c. Guild, one of the most
rominent citizens of Tennessee, dropped
cad of heart disease at his residence in
He was a native of Pittsylvania
ounty, Va, and 79 years of age.
A special election IN the Ninth Congress
ional district of Indiana to fill the vacancy
ccasioned by the death of Congressman
)rth resulted in the election of G. T. Deie
Rep by from 1000 to 1900 majority.
Middle and Southern States.
A disagreement about the holding a Local
lection at Cleveland, Tenn, resulted in tht
ity marshal, after the election had proceeded
or an hour, taking the ballot-boKes by fore,
nd putting them and their coneents into tbs
ire. The sheriff was holding the election
nd the marshal disputed bis right to do Sc