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A MIDNIGHT COLLISION
a Standing Train is Run Into by An
other.
Ten Passengers Scalded to Death, and
Nine Others are Badly Injured.
Three OF Them Fatally.

ATLANTA, GA, December IA frighttul
and fatal collision occurred this morning
shortly after midnight on the Georgia Pa
cine Railroad, about fifteen miles fromAt'
ianta, in which eleven lives were lost and
toree persons were SO badly injured that it
Is thought that death will result The cir
cumstances of the wreck are as follows;
ioe East Tennessee and Georgia Pacific
road use the same track from Atlanta to
austill, where they diverge, one going west
and the other north They, however leavs
the city from different depots, and meet
Inst AT the city limits and from, there they
both use the same track TO Austill.
Just one mile east of Austill, toward At
lanta, is . watertank used by the Georgia
Pacific. The night passenger train OF the
Georgia Pacific leaves here at 10 O'Clock
and the East Tennessee train leaves at lO:45
O'Clock. Last night, however the Georgia
Pacific was somewhat delayed, and when t
stopped at the water-tank was on the East
Iennessee's time. The East Tennessee
train came flying around curve near ths
~ater-tank, and without moments warn
ihg went crashing into the rear
ot the Georgia Pacific train Engineer
o"en and the fireman Of the Fast
tennessee train saw the Georgia Pacific
rain, but too late to avoid collision The
fireman jumped from the engine, but the
engineer remained at his post, reversing
the engine aud applying the brakes, He
vas unable, however, to avert the collision.
| he engine tore its wey into the rear oi
| lhe coach aud the rear coach telescoped
the one in front of it, which was forced into
the one ahead OF that again The real
| coach was filled with passengers many
| OF whom were 50 pinned down by tbs
| wreck that they were unable to stir, anC
the escaping steam soon caused the death
OF number, Following is the list of the
! dead: Bernard Payton, attorney tor Tin
! teorgi9 Pacific, formerly of Charlottes
vile, Va, but recently of Birmingham
| Ala Nathan Stanley, of Anniston, Ala
t. J. Heico OF East Point, Ga
}. W. Pierce, OF Texas. A lttl'
baby, the infant Of Jacob and Mary
Banks, who died in It's mothers arm. Two
little children Que baby, belonging tc
| Mr.. Bright Jacob Banks, OF fairburn
Ga. Mary Banks, wife of Jake Banks
b. Bright, OF Farburn. The injured are John
| Bryant, of Oxford, Ala 4. 4. Cooke
Of Fnirburu, Ga " J. Irwood OF Jackson
Ga, Carrie Bright, wife of b Bright, o
Fairburu. Ga, Z. n Ellison. Of ltivcsije
Ala; &. H. Sink. of salem, Ala; G, "
IL
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Ioypoy. December /. An agreement e
reported between Alexander aud the Porte
for the formation OF new government Tor
Eastern Roumelia, the Porte recognizing
tie union The Powers have collectively
notified Alexander that denarcst.on
commission has been appointed. lpe
Prince replied that il servia would pay
proper war indemnity he would lay down
his arms. the Inference being plain that
otherwise be will not recognize the deihaT'
cation. There are runors OF heavy ilsht-
Ing in the me- eghborhood OF Pirot
The ropoltad Scrvian victory OF lew days
since is without doubt canard Russia is
said TO have been plotting for the asSsSsi-
nation Of King Milan, Another battle has
occurred in Egypt, tho rebels being re
pulsed The Tories have announced tha'
they will neither make nor receive over
lures from the Pnrncllites The 'anlhe'
will ask - vote nt confidence from the 'oh''
mon, at an early date Due dAumaie mas
purchased Raphaers Three "rRces' Tor
E9i0p
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eOYCO1TlNG,
This Labor Federation says II is Injurious
toJabor Interests In the End,

wAsHlNdToN, December ll,-When the
Labor Federation met this evening the
committee on resolutions made report
which set forth that the remedy
Of boycott has been grossly
abused. so as % endanger the uS"t0l-
ness OF this legitimate and powerful weap'
on in the hands OF the working people 10
protect their rights and interests that some
organizations resort to il for trivial causes,
and that there we're instances where
rival factions OF workinGmen mad
placed boycott on employers or
firms employing union labor. ~ view
OF these facts the resolution recites that the
Federation discountenances such proceed
ings, and deprecates it On account Of the
odlum cast on the working Glasses aud the
injury to their Interest," The report was
adopted \ resolution recommending 70
workingmen aud their iriendo TO smoke no
cigars except those bearing the label oL the
Cigar-makerS Union wa adopted
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How Some People Livc...ahd Die.

BrRLiSGToN, IA, December l!.-A Wti'
ful case Of exposure and suffering was re-
ported last night. A party oi frencn-ta-
nadians came TO the city on Monday last,
consisting Of two men, two women and
half dozen or more children, bare-tooted
end ragged The party we~ travelling in
two covered carts, and he'd with them i've
besrs. with which the men gave exhibitions
on the s'reets while the women and
children solicited aims, The party were
en- route from the North 20 - Louis, and
left on Tuesday Tor ,be South. Yesterday
two ladiss passing along the road discover
ed the party encamped in open 'ents ABOUT
six miles south Of this city. where one ~
the women had given bir'u I" a ef'd' both
the infant and mother living on the bare
snd frozen gronnd The ladies had the
mother and child removed o. = piece Of
shelter, but both uill undoubtedly d'e efrom
tseir terrible exposure.
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PERSONAL AND iMPERsontt

--George Barnes. once famous ~ tss
Mountain Evangelist Of Kentucky. =
now missionary in India for tho
Church of England.
john Henry Grimes, a native "a
Nova Scotia, resident at San Francisco,
has four perfectly developed and ser
viceable cars.
Jacques Ferol, one Of the three
men who saved Napoleon from being
killed in the Orsini assassination plot,
is a rag-picker in New York.-N L.
Sun.
king Humbert, oi Italy, il thirty
eight wears old. His face habitually
wears a sad and sober expression. The
rare smile which lights it is one OF
marked sweetness and character. His
manners are courteous. He takes
great interest in the education Of his
only son, boy Of ten years.
An Morris, the Omaha pugilisf. is
knocked out for all time While at
tempting to shoot somebody who had
offended him. he pulled the trigger of
the revolver little too quick and shot
himself through the hand, making .
wound that necessitated The amputa-
ton Of the large finger of his left
hand.
Mr.. Gladstone is the owner of the
champion pencil Of the world. A
manufacturer at keswick has sent him
a walking-,tich thiriy-nine inches long.
made of cedar and forming a large
pencil with a lead nearly half an inch
square running through it. This curl
ons pencil has solid silver band bear
ing an inscription in verse.
Andrew b. McCreary, a California
millionaire, has purchased Colonel
Robert 6. lngersoll's residence, in
Washington. together with the house
hold furniture. The price paid for the
house was thirty-eight thousand dol.
lars, and the furniture brought seven
thousand dollars Colonel Ingersoll Il
going to New York to live. He has
been employed as counsel for railroad
| corporation It Chtcago Journal.
w. J. Daley, Of Lo,hair, Ga, is
PRINCIPAL Of the Miller Institute, post.
master. Captain of q military com.
panS' Suptrlii'eiI"ei' Vi ouilnd,
school, Justice OF the feace' secretary
of the Board OF Trustees of Miller In.
stitute, President OF q debating society
dancing master leader OF the church
choir, correspondent of the Eastman
| Times, captain OF oaseoaii cluo' and
beside Is described as None OF the
clevereot fellows IN 'he "hoic couh-
try. Ht'aoe'P''" freSS'
--EX-hovernor Horatio Seymour
said recently TO & correspondent of The
New York sur; - am feeling my
,eycnty-iiyc years; ! can not walk nov.
AL ! used to be great walker While
cadet IN a military school i'll Con-
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CANTON. o. pecemhe IA distressing
affair occurred IN the country son'h'a,, "'
here this afternoon where Mr. Louis hol-
den has dairy tarm Mr. Holden ana III,
VIII. were st work about the form white
their foul.ycar-old daughter was alone IA
the house. The little girl had han'' Vt
playing With fire, and ioduig'd IN 1t
during the absence OF her parents
While thu, engaged Der clothing was
ignitcd. and after Ndnly rndeavoF'ns !"
pu, ont tbe fire III. ran ,hrieklng 'h tue
ward. Her father and motner saw hef from
of,r and ,,,, ,n her assistance, hnt reached
the suffering child 10" late tooe q, "u, az"
The fire burned the clothing IRON "e' uous'
and left her half baked ana IN 'S"n.
Death came to her relief a lew h""'' '"'''
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"a LITTLE NONSENSE"

How do You like apple-pie, Mr..
Cross?" asked the landlady, why.
cut in large pieces and served with
cheese" replied the level-headed
boarder - The Judge.
49," Something new in bu,ter.dshes. I
see, said Mrs. Pompano as she glanced
over the advertisements, "What is
it2" asked Pompano, eagerly, Good
butter. "--AnaHtG Constitution.
Love: \ fresh egg. Marriage; A
hard boiled egg. Divorce; An added
egg. -EE According to this matrimo-
nial "lay, there seems to be consider
able chick-anery about coprtship and
marriage --No,vtstoWH Heral3.
A little fellow who made his frst
appearance at public school in Lynn.
Mass, not long ago, was told by the
teacher to take y seat. "Oh, thank
YOU" -aid little sam Simplicity, I'm
not bit tired. - Golden Days.
IN put a head on you,' said tho
postage stamp to the letter. IAN
right, said the letter; "but YOU will
be stuck on me before You get through;
We have cornered great many fellows
oi Your stamp, Commercial BRlj,!jR.
The prettiest thing in bonnets.
said Mr,. Bromley the other day.
"i,---" Your face. Mrs Bromley
said the old gentleman, gallantly-ani
Mr.. Bromley carried around nine
inch smile for week aiterward.--
PhIoi.lphia CaR
1T il evident tha; the lold burglars
who got into a Boston mans chamber
, the other night and woke him up to
ask him what size pants he wore Were
/ bad men from out of town. ANY real
Bostonian would have said trousers.
Som.rrii'e J0graa'
i don t care ii our dog did whip
yours" said IN angry little girl 10 u
| PLAYMATE. Your dog i, a sneaking
little thing. any howl u don't care,
aobbed the owner Of the >neaking dog.
Il guess your dog ,nooked first. -
, roath's Competition
--"Adoiphus, my deah felar. why
are YOU nursing Your arm in tina, wayP"
"It's boil, Cyril, I'm deuced lucky,
now. don't YOU think?' Il don't see
why" The Earl of Salisbury has one
on precisely the same spot. It's 80
English, YOU know by Jove, Adol-
phIs, but I envy YOU, "-Erchapge
Among the replies TO an adver-
tisemcnt Of music committee for "a
candidate a. organist, music teacher,
etc, was the following one; "Gent'e-
men, | noticed your advertisement for
an organist and music toecavr. either
! lady or sentlcmar shg been both
for several yea . offer you my ser.
vices. =. Hlsi~al loirier.
--"father, want to ask YOU a
question, said roguish Robert. What
is Ii, Bob, my boy9' George Washing.
ton was the fatherof bis country wssn't 4
hee' "Yes. my son." ,.Did he have
brother2" 81 think So" well, II
Washington was the father Of his coun-
try, l suppose his brother was the uncle
OF his country, and II he had a sister
she was the aunt Of her country. and II
she had any children they were"
"Shut up, and clear ""'"--P Pit,sbary'i
CAroriris.
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Value of Exports.

WASHINGTON, December l3,-The Chief OF
the Bureau Of Statistics reports that the TO-
tai values Of the exports of domestic cattle
and hogs and of beef and pork. and dairy
products from the United States during the
month Of November, lSs5 and for the
eleven months ended November CO. 1856;
also of dairy products for the seven
months ended the same, 8s
compared with similar products
during the corresponding periods OF the
preceding year were as follows; Novem'
her, 1855 81. 90, ,s+l November, iSS., si,-
os9, l9l; eleven months ended November ~,
lssi, sSj23jaii same period IN l'>'' 49,
2l5,s4l; dairv products for seven months
ended November n l>si, ssMl,ils: same
period in 1884. sllslo,2N.
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I'm an Italian garrison there was

I'm an Italian garrison there was q
private soldier by the name of Ugolno
One Of the officers took the soldier aside
one day and asked him: "Are you q
descendant OF the famous Count Ugo-
limo, about whom Dante wrote?"
NO. replied the soldier, "all my an.
cestors were poor people" II refer to
Count Ugolino who was starved to
death with his sons in the Tower Of
Pisa" III he didn't get enough to eat
very likely ne was an ancestor OF mine,
after all, replied the honest soldier.
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HfaYy leweIrY Robbery Confessed.

Chicago, December l5 George Edwards,
alias Elliott, arrested in Chicago, has con
fessed that he was one OF the burglars who
vent through pawnbroker Marks vault
last week and got away with $500 worth
Of iewelry. The plunder had been shipped
to New York in peculiar Japanncd zinc
trunk, which the police were very ea,llN
able to trace over the Baltimore and Ohio
road to New York, where it was Iecovereo
Yesterday. II ia belived that the entire
amount stolen will be recovered, aud the
police have strong hopes of catching Eli
otis partners in the robbery.
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TIE PANAMA CANAL


pc tes.cps INDIGNANT ~ American 'rt'r'
ism of His Last rct Project
LoNpUY, December l3--M De Le-,eps has
just received various American newspapers
which critlcise in harsh terms his Panama
canal. The veteran cana digger very in
dignant, but tries tocousole himself with the
reelection that tb,, abuse OF his
pet enterprise is prompted only
by jealousy He is especially
irritated at the suggestion Of certain Bos'
ton paper thDt tho French people will soon
tire of supplying cash for the canal and
that then The United States can buy 1t
cheap NJ De LeS,ep- swears that the con-
pany will never sell the canal, even II such
pn act we're possible that as a matter OF
fact the investor will ultimately receive
dividend, which will probably equal those
OF the suez canal; that the French nation
Vill never desert the enterprise, and thst ne
viii live to sal through the camel himself
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L.rsYrl1r. I'm, December Ia Henry
Moore aud Joseph Biddle made an unsur'
cessful attempt to drive across the lake
Erie a. Western Road 10 front of u passen-
ger train The locomotive struck me oug
gy. demolisbing it and throwing Moore and
Biddls q considerable distance b'ddle''
arm was broken, and he was otherwise
hurt Moore was instantly killed,
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Nau,lerbilt's VIII

Nry YoEE. December l3.--lhe ciii OF
the late Vim a. Vanderbilt bequeatbs
so. on ooa 10 each of his eight children,
nearly S,V1c0 10 ocharitable institutions,
and the remainder of the fortune is divided
eonsl,y between Cornelius and Wm. \,
Vanderbilt. He directs that all Of the rail
road stocks shall he held IN hulk and ad-
pinisteysd sor the hest Interests 81 all, and
,bs, non, ~, them Shall he disposed Of
witbou, the consent Of all concerned. NY
Chauncey NJ. pepew aud Mr. Henry II An.
derson are constituted administrations Of
the viii
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A well-knowp scientist says the
feeling OF one while standing on a high
mountain or on the edge Of a deep
abyss is 10 fly. Instances are noted
where persons, unable TO resist this i'm.
pulse, have cast themselves headlong
into dark, yawning chasms, in the be.
lief that they would reach the bottom
in safety. Chicago .Maa.
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A TERRIBLE CALAMITY.
Fifteen Lives Lost Al Plymouth, England,
by The Burning of 4 Tenement III ouss.

J
by The Burning Of 4 Tcnement.House,
LoNpoN, December f3 At Plymouth to.
day a tenemeut-house ou Love street, in Q
low and sQualil ueighborhood took fire,
and a terrible calamity resulted The
flames burned rapidly and fercely, and,
when at last suhdued, twelve calclined
human bodies were found among
the ruins Two others are miss
ing, and in all probability they, too, have
been burned 70 death. An unfortunate vic
tim was smashed TO pieces by jumping from
high window to the street Several Of
the occupants of the burning building, in
their fright, ignored the fire-escapes, and
throwing bedding to the pavement, forty
feet below, Jumped from ~indows. a
number Of these had legs end arms
broken by the fearful leap, \ harrow
Ing incident Of the calamity was the sp-
pearance of youth named Bickford,
who, with his little sister on one arm, hung
suspended from window by the other for
some minutes until the flame' surrounded
him and caused hiln.to lose his hold and fall
TO the ground. tie had both legs fractured
The child was also severely injured The
intensity of the flames gave the building
the appearance Oh furnace,
but this did not deter the firemen, many OF
whom entered the house, and by heroic
struggle succeeded In rescuing several per.
sons
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ST. LOuI-, December l5,-John O'Hnra,
who was convicted day OF two ago of
numbering Mrs Mary McColler, on Octo
ber T., ISL, hy breaking her skull with o
beer glass. was sentenced to-day to be
hanged on the 5th Of February. The t0l
lowing prisoners are now booked for exc
cution here; Sadie Hays and Charles
Wilson, both negroes, for January Is;
Daniel Jewel. January ~, and oHar,
February ;. All these cases will probably
20 Va the Supreme Court.
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a. Grai, Brown Dead

ST. LorIS December lS.--llou, b. Grat2
Brown died at his residence in Kirkwood,
a suburb OF this city, this morning, Of pneu'
monia. complicated with heart disease,
aged fifty.niue years, Mr.. Brown was q
prominent figure in the politics ofthis State
for a number of years, and also earned a
national reputation. He served one term
in the U. S. Senate. and in 1871 was noml'
mated Vice President Of the United states
on the (;reely ticket
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Jnl,uman Treatment,

- { - -, :, =, :,
~ ,>hLi, "As9'' ps''''''vi i+ ar.iIts i''suf
'"on,hs 'neie o''. ue9" -, ".
- ctnn,, ,uI< hos sor ,brae y,or,
,a 49,. nss ,l'a ap",an ', foo, a, Nm ,ve,ns, Of
aha,', .a'.an,,. t,-.o tnIlars q wear for each
S raUus. " rLn Tn'' sa,e,.rnar n hava nersistcn+lv
tti", t -, r,,n officars of ,,,e
sta,a pa.r,, -, uaa,,h Iunacv and Char.
"a, -, H.. ,or,,,o.od an invasti.
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w,suxarov. December 1.-THE only ad-
dition ,f lmpprtauce made to the Pre@iden-
,ial succession bin is revision for the te,
neal ~, sac,Inn, numbered from lii to lco
inclusive. of the Revised statutes ln,'s :
provide for special elections IN case ., a a
vacancy in the offices of the President a aua !,
Vice President. The effect ot TINS 'ePea' n' y
to continue the successions TO tne .,.. 'ss
dency in office until the next general e'ec-
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Co,ored colonization Scheme.

DALLAS, TEX, December i3.--Professor 4
II wethers. the culored principal OF the
Dallas colored schools, hat undertaken .
proiect looking to the colonization OF
about two thousand colored families in
Bro,opia County, Tex. The plan is to pur-
chase one hundred thousand acres OF land
and divide the same into fifty acre farms
lie has many applications for land from
Southern points.
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The Wealth a Ni~cr LETT.

osw YoRH, December l!.-siufus Garlic.
sbe mser, had. since the ?ith Of November
last. been in q dying condition at No i'l
South Fifth Avenue He refused IL pay
for medical attendance, and was sen, ~
Bellevue Hospital. where he died Oh Thurs.
day last. 1t wac ascer,aiued that besides
s253 found in bis pockets he bad t!,S0 IN
four banks in New York City, deed tc,
r-,pertv in Maine valued at 100000 and
IA m Tennessee valued at $1,000
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WASHINGTON. December lj-A joint
resolution. introduced by Senator Jackson
today. proposes an amendment to The Con.
.ti'uiion OF the United States providinc
that tho President and Vice Presideu'
hall hereafter be elected for Il term of >i>
wears, and that they shall be ineligible tui
re- election. and the Vice President shall be
ineligible 20 the office ot President after h,
shall have filled the same in case of "
annv thereln.
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italian Woman Attempts Suicide

NEw YopK, December ll.-Pauline Csf-
fersts, au Italian woman, was arrested to-
day for attempting suicide by jumping into
the North River She is tue mother Of the
two deck hands who were killed by the ex-
ploslon Of the tug boat Emery on December
9, and is said 10 be laboring under the hal
lucination that she can recover her sons
bodies by jumping into the water.
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Though electricity. says Mr.. Proc
tor. might be obtained by utilizing the
heat of water applied to the junction Of
Two metals, SCI the current produced
by temperature Of l6o deg. F., at one
junction. and say 60 deg. at the other,
would be too small 10 be successful.
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Terrible Amiction.

syRsEY CITY, n J., December l2.-Ma''--
uant scarlet fever has broken out in School
No Is at Marion, the extreme western part
Of Jersey City, and threatens to spread
throag, the entire city Five children Of
Josc,A 4anIsy, Of Meade Avenue, have died
since sunday from the disease, The cause
Of the disease is tue filthy condition Of
S.,hool No Ii
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.-Exneriments show ths, II fatty oils

Experiments show that II fatty oils
are cooled down TO twenty degrees,
and kept a, this temperature for three
hours, they assume very different de-
grees of hardness, olive oil being the
hardest, A cylindrical iron rod, one
centimetre in length, and extending be.
low In cone, and upon which is ex-
erted pressure measured in grams un-
til 1t penetrstes into the oil with its en-
tire length, shows that olive oil requires
a pressure Of one thousand and seven
hundred, and cotton oil twenty-five
grams. Boston Globe
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Sr. PETERSBURG, December la.--Erssia
has made overtules 10 Pr,uce Alexander,
offering TO assent 10 the personal union OF
Bulgaria and Rouuelia on the condition
that the policy OF Bulgar's he subordinate
to Russias policy. Russian agents are ac-
lively Intriguing at Belgrade to de'hrone
Milan II, luror of KaraeeorgsvIeh
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bectacle Of a little man under
/ biz for him is only ludicrous,
sight of young country like
|lsboriW, under a debt of nearly
lndred million dollars is thought
Toronto Tyvtb to he too serious
hnGipR.
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Rescued from Wreck on the Lake

PoRr HuRox, MIoH., December i9'-iue i
wreckipp.tus winslow srrived here carry
Yesterday morning with the passengers
and captain of the steamer ueU" ,.,anS
aground and frozen in near charity iS,spu. ,apo.
The tug was unable to get w''n,n +. .",s' ,cs
miles of the propeller Oh account c' '"' wv
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b." rev ballet about 10 be
} the spectacular stage at Milan,
mo hundred and fifty dan
nd two thousand three hundred
/, besides an elephant, fourteen
rsenty dogs, and quite q me-
d monkeys and bears,
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puRuQuE Iowa. December 1.-THE river
At this place is solid enough to permit the
passage Of loaded wagons
LOUISIANA, Mo. December Il. last night
was the coldest of the season the thermom-
eter indicating three degrees below zero,
This morning the river is gorged at the
Chicago and Alton bridge crossing