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you are and lei me finish my sermon for l fear that the congregation will become inpatient"
 The congregation remained quiet dur ing the remainder of the discourse, and when the benedio,ion was pronounced, every man arose and quietly walked away.
 John Sumpter," said Jeff Magle.
 "Yes, Jeff"
 That's what made her mope.'
 That's what made her nope, Jeff"
 When she was away she seed him an fell in love with him, an told him te come here"
 That's about it, Jeff
 "He's got the bulge on me"
 "Feers that way"
 Reckin' I'll travel"
 Breve would, Jeff" The preacher walked home with John Sumpter's daughter. Old Sumpter wal slew at first in entering into conversation with him, but after awhile he began to thaw and finally he grew warm. The stranger was very interesting, and was so kindly disposed towards every one, tha, John Sump,er began to like him. The next day the preacher was introduced all around as John Sumpter's future son-in- law, and the next week, just after the performance of a marriage ceremony church was regularly organized.
 A railroad now runs through the town, and near new church, not far from John Sumpter's house, stands a commanding school bsilding. John Sumpter was a member of the last Arkansaw legis- lature.
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THE colored fokesn of Arkansaw are dissatisfied with the treatment which for years they have been receiving at the hands of the white people. During a re- cent convention held in Little Rock, rep resentative negroes from all over the state discussed the numerous indignities imposed upon them by poli,icins. They had been mistreated by both parties, and were naturally very tired of such usage. As the debates grew warm and spirited. white people were denounced almost in- discriminatory. The negro was the com- ing man. The government must recog- nise him as one of its prime factors. He declared that he had not been given a fair chance in the matter of office seek. ing, and the time had come when the ne gro everywhere must insist upon an equal distribution of honors. It is jus, for the negroes to stand together, and in- sist upon their rights as citizens, but be- yond this they are not likely to receive recognition. All of their grievances seem to be political. They do not seem to realize that statesmen must be men oi education. Education is their only remedy, and when they teach their chil- dren to realize this, then they will have made step forward which the entire country must commend. Can any peo. pie expect to step at once from slavery tc official influence! lt.requires time and education to erase the effects of the CUTS, under which they were born. The, have been used as political tools, bu they are gradually learning to think fo themselves. The uneducated white mar has quite as little influence in politics and is quite as much of a tool as tn, negro. He could organize a convention of indignatioa, and present numerou points Of grievance. The colored mar exhibits too much of an ignorant readi ness to fsllow a shrewd brother who ha. some little education but little real phi lanthropy. With mind of his own h, could readily see that his brother is ge, ting up an excitement merely to serve hi: own selfish ends.
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Don't wan,er see Jeff when you know he's nearly dead airer you!"

" Don't wan,er see Jef when you know he's nearly dead airer you!"
 Let him die, then"
 "Come, an quit your foolishness," and withou, consulting her willingness to ae- company him, he led her into the house. She treated the young man with cool dig nity. He was as,onished. He asked her to sing. She refused, and he was amazed. When he went away, which he did very soon, the girls father soolded her. Jeff told several neighbors of the girls strange actions and before bed time they called on John Sump,er to consult with him. They agreed that immediate ac- tion must De taken. Jeff Magle was re- garded as the coming man of the Dis trict." Maidens had sighed af,er him and young men had envied him. To see him thus orumble and fall from his great social height. was ominous of coming evil ofgrea, consequence. A community thus divided against itself could no, stand.
 Yes" exclaimed John Sumpter in ac- quiescence, when one of he callers had expressed an opinion, an bout the next thing we know the state of Arkansaw will send men up here an try to make us live under her laws, an then fellers will hop up an wanter go to the legis- la,ure"
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The Pittsburgh Sunday ravfley has just celebrated its first anniversary. The Tavelsy is one of the best Sunday journals in the country, and the support which it receives shows that merit is recognized in Pittsburgh.
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TERMS OF sCBsCRIPTloN:

II is no doubt better for Frank James, but worse for the country, that he is tried in Missouri instead of Arkansaw. There may not be so much difference between the laws of the two states, but the pub lie sentimen, in the two states is by no means the same.
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lN England the English make fun of American customs, but here they regard American customs as advanced English. An international race congress would be a good thing, for it seems that the mat ter of cooking is the foundation of differ ence. Let the English bake beans and let the Americans eat them.
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With this issue we begin a series of stories, entitled "Tales of the Weird and Tragic,' by Rufus R. Wilson, of Pennsylvania. Mir. Wilson is writer of recognized ability, is a journalis, of repu- tation, and his literary work is of high order.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-09-08

A MAN sent the Norriseown Hcyakd an article entitled, How it Feels to be Hung and the editor returned the man. useript with the advice. go and hang yourself long time
The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-09-08

A. Miner Griswold, the Eat Contrib utor," is writing series of excellent European letters to the Cincinnati .Safny- day Nigkk.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-09-08

THE coming dramatic season, 1t is thought, will be the best the country has ever seen. After all, pedestrian contests may not have been in vain for they have inspired a disposition to walk.
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JOURNALISMS.

w. ]. Hampton is making the .hfy- ehank 7ravsify gleam with bright say ings and odd fancies in verse.
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Nepsune's power long ago vanished. The waves tide his sands-ExeIas.e.
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"' LOT, Jim, go wash your face Ina, settled it, for Wales is a proud
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CAPITAL cuLLlNos.

Brewster Cameron was before the Grand
Jury in the case against Henry A. Bowen.
Secretary Folger will probably issue a
call for fifteen millionSof extended fours to-
day.
tits estimated THAT the reduction in the
public debt for January will be thirteen
and half millions.
1t is rumored that the Grand Jury are
investigating the conduct OF the colored
Star route juror Brown.
In the Star route case yesterday morning
was consumed by the introduction OF oili.
cial papers relating to the Dalles' Baker
City, Oregon, route.
The Treasurer has mailed 9,75G checks,
representing S2,944,0lS, the amount Of in.
terest due February lst on United States
and District Of Columbia bonds.
Customs officers have been instructed to
admit at duty OF % per cent al ratOrenl
as manufacture OF iron not otherwise pro-
vided for bands Of hoop iron cut TO lengths
for cotton, accompanied by buckles, but
not having buckles permanently attached.
Secretary Folger informed delegation,
including Hon. Richard Smith, OF Clncln-
natl, and Representative Butterworth, that
he had no authority TO extend the time Tor
paying February taxes on spirits which
falls due on the 9th proximo. Congress
ional action isneedful.
Before the Bailey Investigating Commit
lee yesterday morning, Mr.. Douglass, ticket
seller OF the National Iheater, testified that
he had honored orders from Bailey for
tickets to the extent Of sometimes twenty
dollars per day, and that the orders were
turned in the Gas Company as part pay
ment OF the tbeaters' bills for gas.
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TARIFF THE TOPIC
OF ALL.ABsoRslNe INTEREST
At.hs Capital-spseulatIOn a. to the probabllt,
Ofaa Extra Session In Case Of Failure to
Act on the TarIr-propossd Sale
Of the Harpsr's Ferry Property.

From Our Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. O., January 3l.-The
all.absorbing topic of conversation here is
the tariff and speculations as to the proba'
bility Of an extra session Of Congress. The
Democratic members OF the House gener-
ally have no idea that the President will
call IN extra session in case Of the failure
Of the tariff bill. A great number OF them
are ofthc opinion also that the bill will
fail. Since Monday last the House in Com
mittee Of the Whole have had the bill un-
der consideration under the five minute
rule and as 1t have not completed II Of
the 140pages Of the bill. 1t is claimed the
schedule now under discussion relating to
Chemicals is one which will excite less dis.
cussion than any other. Ii this view be a
correct one the 4th OF March will find the
bill about half finished.
The opposition 10 the bill thus far has
not been factious, but on almost every article
made dutiable dozen or more amend.
mcnts are offered. The Senate on the
other band is making considerable pro-
gress. 1t is the intention 10 keep up the
session until midnight during therelnainder
OF the week in the hope that the Senate
bill eau be disposed Of by the middle OF
next week il not this week.
The greater part OF this afternoon was
given up in both houses to eulogies in mein-
ory Of Representative 0rth aud an early
adjournment followed. s
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SMOTHERED BY SNOW.
AN AVALANCHE FoR A STROUD.
Seven Persons Burlsd Beneath Rocky MOuntnIn
snOw.sllde and Several seriOusly Hurt-A
Passenger Train Hedgsd In and
Travellers In Danger OF Starving.

DENVER, COL, January Sl.-Last night,
about three miles from Crested Butte, oc.
Cured one OF the most disastrous snow
slides ever known in the Rocky Mountain
regions. Late in the night, thirty men
employed in the Howard F. Smith Anthra.
cite Coal Mine, were startled from sleep
by an ominous rumhling noise, and
almost instantly an avalanche was upon
them.
The building in which they were sleep
ing wascrushed to atoms, and the human
occupants hurled down the mountain side.
A rescuing party started from Crested
Butte as soon as soon as the news was re-
ceived, and after several hours Of indicate
gable labor the men were all recovered.
Phillip Carmin, Logan Inmap, Louis Rich
ards, William Moore, Charles Belts, J. j.
Raymond and one other, name
unknown, were found dead. Eighteen
others were wounded, several fatally.
All Of the company's expensive
machinery was destroyed. A passenger
train yesterday, when within six miles OF
Crested Butte, divided, the engine going
ahead 10 clear thetrack. When about four
miles from where it left the coach the en-
CINE was struck by a snow slide and
ditched, and is now under twenty feet OF
snow. A wreckipg engine which left this
morning could not get nearer than two
miles Of the coaches and returned tonight
for provisions for the starving passengers
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TIE Senate is working through the reso'
luton providing for the purchase of three
thousand copies Of Kelly's Revised Stat
utes. The cost would be about $500. 1t
is possible to imagine why Kelly should
want to sell frequent editions Of his Re
yised Statutes; and why his publisher,
nov on the ground, should be moved by
similar sentiments. But it is not so easy
to understand why the State, at a cost oil
$500, sho1ld be willing TO abet the
scheme. No reason has been offered. No
cry OF anguish has gone up from
the hills and valleys OF this young COM
mOnwealth because ola dearth Of Kelly's
Revised Statutes. Itanybody wants it, lei
him buy it. II three thousand people
want it, let them club together and buy It
at wholesale rates, discount of for cash.
Keily's conquest is sweeping all before IT
in the Senate. In the less conservative,
less digniGed, House we expect TO see II
htooel, scaIped, drawn and quartered and
flung into tile ash heap. A State which
can't pay rs it goes is in no condition to &C
laEely and unnecessarily into the gilt
book business. -
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VOLUME XXX1.-.NUMBER 1873.

the general condition Of the iron trade.
Their principal facilities are for bridge ma
terial, and tlieir demands are always very
large-grcater than several mills else
where.
The pudding department at Wilson 4
Walkers mill is on double turn, but very
little is done in the finishing departments.
The puddlers at Sboenberger's works are
employed double turn, and few finishing
departments are operated single. A train
Of nail rolls is in motion, but the nail fac
tory is just now idle.
The Sable Iron Works oi Zug d Compa.
ny show great activity.
At the Office Of the Pittsburgh Forge and
Iron Works on Tenth street, the report Of
trade is encouraging. The works in lower
Allegheny are operated double in nearly
every department, and the same report is
given about the mill OF Long & Co., at Char.
tiers.
Mr.. William Manchester, OF the Key
stone Boiler Work, corner Of Twenty.eighth
and Railroad streets, states that he has
large orders forupright boilers with force
OF from eight TO forty horsepower. They
are now working overtime 10 get stock
Of boilers on hand.
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TnE Pittsburgh case Of Scott against GER
tain members OF the Amalgamated Asso.
citation for conspiracy to deprive him Of his
employment raises point always. s.ofinterest
but already ruled on more than once in
tue Pennsylvania courts. About year ago
there was decision in the Common
Pleas Of Philadelphia in case which
was generally thought to be one OF hard
ship TO y workman. He was printer who
refused to join in strike. The strikers
VISITED the printing house where he was
employed aud by persuasion and demon
stations which he considered offensive,
endeavored TO take him from his work.
The employers instituted proceedings
dor conspiracy, and one Of the
aCest judges on the Philadelphia
benrh decided that they had no cause oil
action, the strikers not having reGorted to
Violence. The decision attracted great at
Iention, and was not at all satisfactory to
employers, who represented that moral
islASsG could be SO employed as to bring
Their bUGaeG to Il standstill. The Pitts.
'balga case AiGes, Of course, in many par.
tIcniars, among Otlers the action Is brought
ny a workman, but Il Involves the same
general point,
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CABLE CLICKS.

Notwithstanding the Government pro-
bibition, 10000 copies OF the Vienna Tag.
JIaN were sold yesterday, more than the
average sale.
Managers Of the Irish industrial exhibit
lion, at Cork, ask American exhibitors 10
consider the. advisabllity OF erecting q
special building for their goods.
At injecting held in London last night TO
devise means for the relief Of the distressed
in Ireland, Justin Mccarthy said he antici.
pated pinch OF famine TO be felt In Feb
ruary and March.
O'Donnell, member Of Parliament,
made violent attack upon the English
Government yesterday, which, he said, had
millions to spare for bOycot;ing Egyptians,
but none Tor relief works.
A report is current in Paris that the Or.
leans Princes have drawn up manifesto
In which they protest against the charges
made against them, aud declare their
readiness to sacrifice their personal inter
csts for France. 1t is reported that should
The necessity arise, they win publish q
manifesto and at the same moment qnit
the country.
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TESTING the CONSPIRACY LAWS.
The Trial of n Puddier's suit Against the
AmRIramnted Association.

AuhIeHflihteu AtNuCiNttbhs
P1rrsDuRGrT, January 3l.-An interesting
suit was commenced in the Court of
Quarter Sessions to. day. The case isworthy
attention from the fact that it is looked
upon as going far 10 decide whether a
workman or any set Of workmen have the
right to interfere with another workman
because he does not agree with them in
certain matters The case in question is
the suit OF Edward Scott, who charged
the following defendants with eonspir-
acy: Charles Price, Anthony Coyne,
James Graham, Thomas Mahan, Pat
rick Gillespie, Joseph Keating, Alex.
ander Porter Patrick Weston, Edward
Lewis, William Davis, Thomas Bry-
son, Joseph Chambers, James Brod-
eriCk, Anthony Patton, John Kennedy,
Thomas Clarke, James Matthews. George
II. Hughes, Pat Mclaughlin, Thomas Cos.
| lett, Sebastian Stehley and James Macon.
A mol prosqui was entered in the cases OF
Hughes and'Coslett. The prosecutor, Mr..
Scott, states that he is a puddler, and be-
lonyed 10 Mechanics Lodge, No. ~, Sons
OF Vulcan OF the South Side. When the
Amaleamated Association was formed
some five years since Mechanics Lodge
was taken in and he with 1t. He remain
ed in the Association about two years,
when he became dissatisfied and was
suspended for non.payment OF
dues. Last winter some Of his
companions in the lodge determined TO
prevent him from working with them un-
less he became member again, and, as he
SAYS, commenced course OF persecution
which drove him from place TO place and
caused him to lose many good situations.
At last, worn out by this constant harass-
ing, he said lie would join the lodge again,
but when he went 10 pay his dues he was
unable to do 80 Us they had been doubled.
The trouble eliminated on February Z,
1882, when alter weeks OF persecution, as
he claims, Mr.. Scott was driven from
Wbarton's mill in the Twenty.fiith ward.
He entered suit for conspiracy before AL
derman Kennedy and the trial OF the case
commenced to-day. Messrs. Marshall,
Knox and Reed appear for the prosecution
and ALoutooth and Beardon for the defense.
PIrrsDuEGIT, January 3l.-Next week
tle lOuRtb Ol tlle ALlhlkhtllhtSN ASoShblJ
Of l. & s. W., throughout the country, will
commence revision in the rates OF wages
paid tho past year, with view to arrang-
Ing new scale, ogo into effect June lst.
It Is not thought that any radical increase
will be demanded.
PrrsnuRon, January 3l.-The employees
Of the Pittsburgh chain works, at New
Brighton, Pa, struck to-day against u 10
per cent reduction. The works are now
idle.
PlrrsUuRGn, January 3l.-The report
sent out by several correspondents last
week to the effect that The Amalgamated
Association was 80 deeply in debt that It
would have 10 dishand IL officially denied
in the Labor Tribune, which brands the
story MS false in every respect, and says 1t
was gotten up simply for effect.
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LOUISVILLE is going ahead with her pre-
partitions for the Southern Exposition TO be
lrid upon her sacred soil for one hundred
days beginning with August ] next. A
quarter Of Il million has been subscribed,
and still they come. The main building will
cover about thirteen acres-iive more than
Atlanta's big. Cotton Exposition building
The management invites everybody who
makes anything worth showing to come
there and show it. II is to be hoped that
Wheeling will be represented by her glass
pottery. nails and pretty girls-on which
point it is about time 10 try conclusions
with vain boastiul Louisville. II that Ex'
position reaches the high-water mark Of its
opportunity it will answer all OF Brother
Ealteson's fiery FREQ trade essays. And
then he will want industrial exhibitions
prohibited.
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TRAGEDY IN A Rox CAR.
Fight Between Brakemen While the
Trnin MRs laundering Along.

WYTnEvILLE, VA, January 3l.-A few
days ago the wives Of Sam Banks and Tom
Irvine, brakemen on the New River Rail-
road, quarreled. When their husbands
returned home they were informed by
their wives OF the quarrel. Sunday night
the two men went on duty on freight
train, and when il was well under way they
went into box car to get warm. Each
spoke disparingly OF the wife Of the other
and they fell to blows, and then clinched.
At this point the whistle for down brakes
was blown, but they. did not hear it, and
the train was laundering down q grade.
At length Irvine got his hand to his belt,
drew revolver and fired, The ball
struck Banks above the left nipple. As
he fell, MORALLY wounded, the shrek Of
the locomotive whistle for down brakes
was again heard, and the train rushed on
with terrific speed down the heavy grade,
Banks cried out, "Look out for the brakes!"
Irvine ran up the ladder, put on the brakes
and stopped the train Just in time to save
il from destruction. When the conductor
entered the box cur he found Banks dying.
He lived only few minutes thereafter.
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twenty.four by thirty inches square, ten cents
per square fool; above that and not 10
thirty.fivs cents per square foot; all above
that. sixty cents per square foot. But no
looking.glaSs plates or plate.glasS, silyered,
when framed, shall pay II less rate Of duty
than that imposed upon similar glass Of like
description not framed, but shall be liable to
pay, 10 addition thereto, thirty per centum
I'D valorem upon such frames.
Porcelain and Bohemian glass, chemical
glassware, painted glassware, stained glass,
aud all other manufactures OF glass or ofwhicb
glass shall be the component material ofchief
value, not specially enumerated or provided
for in the act, forty.tive per centum ad
yalOrem
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WORST OFITHE SEASON.
Another blizzard Rasing-lIcayy Snow
md Drifts,

MINNEAPOLIS, January 3l.-The very
worst blizzard Of the season has been
raging here since night before last. The
snow is heavy and drifts, but it is not very
cold, the temperature ranging from 10 to 90
degrees above zero so fur as heard from,
but last night the storm abated and the
weather is growing colder fast. The storm
was first heard OF at Bismarck, Monday
morning. Last night terrible storm and
intense cold was report at Regina, on the
Canadian Pacific, 500 miles from Winnipeg
All the reports from Dakota, Minnesota,
Wisconsin and northern points speak OF Il
as the worst OF the season. The railroads
all gave up the fight at noon yesterday,
bnt began clearing the tracts in the after
noon. Even the short lines between here
and st. Paul were so blockaded as 10 run
but two or thee trains, in place OF the
hundred or more usually run. The street
ears have double teams this morning, and
business is absut half suspended.
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Iron AND STEEL.
The Condition of tho Trade at Pitt
hnrgh-A Tour Of the MIIIs.

PlrTsppRrlI, February Sl.-A reporter
took walk through anumber Of mills and
interviewed several manufacturers on the
present situation OF iron and steel.
The plate, bar, aud universal rolls at
Graft, Bennett 4 Cos mill, are in opera
ton, and the puddIen are working double
turp. Their mill at Kittanning was set in
motion for double turn yesterday, but at
present no finished iron is made at these
works. Several trains OF finishing rolls are
about to be erected. Until then, as here.
toIore, the muck iron will be shipped TO
their mills in this city.
are working double turn, but the linishers
At the Union Iron Mills Of Carnegie
Bros. ( Co, the trade is not reported very
good, but their statement is np criterion O