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The EiQht-H0ur Law.

WAsHINGToN, Feb. 19.-Congressman
Muller, of New York, to-day presented a
petition signed by President Lille, of the
Labor League, and nearly thousand
others, praying for the prompt adjudica-
tion of the claims of laborers employed by
the Government for services rendered in
excess Of eight hours day. The petition
was referred to the Committee on Claims.
Mr.. Muller, on behalf Of the Committee on
Claims of which he is member, sub
sequently conferred with Mr.. O'Neill,
Chairman of the Committee on
Labor, where the question of
allowances for time served in excess OF
eight hours since the enactment of the
eight-hour law is also under consideration,
and it was decided to arrange as soon as
possible for a joint meeting of the two
committees with a view to prepare meas
ure to cover all cases of claimants under
the eight-hour law. Both Congressman are
deeply interested in the subject, and say
they will use every -sndeavor to comply
with the requests of the petitioners.l
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Another Chapter In a Great Horror.

BLOOMINGTON, ILL, Feb. 19.-The sequel
of the terrible deeds enacted last evening
by David Sholty, the insane man of Shir.
ley, when he shot several members of his
brothers family, and burned his brothers
valuable barn is, that the demented man
perished in the flames which he set. After
shooting Mrs. Sholty and her seventeen
year-old daughter, he climbed to the
hay-mow, set fire to the building
and then, instead of flee
ing, as was thought, he held himself to the
grain bin, where he was first discovered,
and remained there until the flames over.
took him. His charred and roasted remains
were found in the debris of the burned
building at daylight. He had revolver
and two shot guns which he had stolen
from neighbors. He was forty-four years
of age and unmarried. Levi sholty, it
transpires, was not hurt, the buckshot cut.
ting his coat only, but his wife received
thirteen buckshot in her back, and is
thought to be fatally injured.
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Cabtured Couhterfeiters,

CINCINNATI, Feb. 1S.-For some time the
Secret Service officials have made strenu-
GUS efforts to locate a gang which was
vigorously Showing queer" half dol
lars and quarters in this city and
vicinity. The counterfeiters were
finally located at a rather unpreten.
tious brick building Oh jackson street occu-
pied by Mrs. Mollie Sullivan. This after
boon the officers quietly surrounded the
house and a vigorous rap at the door and
a demand for admittance caused the wild
est commotion among the gang but in an
instant the door was opened bv officers
who had been secretly stationed inside the
house. The counterfeiters thus trapped,
stood aghast but were quickly placed un-
der arrest and marched to the United
States Court. Their names are Richard
Harrigan, Dave Morrison and John Nc
Guire. The men and the woman
Sullivan were all arranged before
Commissioner Smith. Mcclure pleaded
guilty, and was at once remanded to Jail
without bail. His confederates, who
pleaded mot guilty." were placed under
bonds for hearing Twenty haif-doIlars
and sixteen quarters, all newly made, along
with the dies, chemicals, and the entire
outfit used in the manufacture of the bo.
gus stuff were captured and taken TO the
marshal's office,
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A DISCOVERY DISCOUNTED.
Promising Test of Real Butter Over
come by the Cunning of the
Bogus Makers.

Bogus Makers.
COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 1S.-1t is announced
here to-day that Prof. Weber, of the Chair
of Agricultural Chemistry, State Unive.-
sity, has just made an important discov-
cry in chemistry in connection with the
microscopic tests to distinguish oleomar-
garine from butter. Recently, Dr..
Thomas Taylor, of the Department
of Agriculture, announced at a meet
ing. OF nicroscopists that butter placed
under microscope showed round crystals
marked by plain cross, which could be
found nowhere else. When the polarizer, or
!elenite is used with the microscope these
butter crystals which are in reality only
globes of fat, show four parts each, two
green and two yellow. The chemical
test to distinguish between butter and
oleomargarine is very delicate, the only
difference between the two material mat
ters appreciable to chemists being that
butter contains a small amount of buty-
ric acid, which is lacking In the oleamar-
garine. The test is not always success
ful, and as the difference was likely to
be wiped out by enterprising oleomarga-
rine manufacturers, DR.. Taylor's discovery
was .heralded far and wide, and the test
has been adopted wherever known. Prof.
Webber has now discovered that the mix
ing OF a little water and salt with the
olemargarine, a process it always under
goes, causes the bogus butter to develop
under the microscope exactly such crys-
tails as are found in the legitimate article,
and the same result can be obtained with
pure tallow treated in like manner. This
discovery destroys the usefulness of DR..
Taylor's discovery and strengthens the po-
sition OF the oleomargarine manufacturers
d venders
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Sad and Peculiar Affliction.

YOUNGSTOWN, o., Feb. 2l.-Hattie Stan
ley, aged eight daughter of Joseph Stan
ley, a blacksmith, is suffering with dis
ease that is attracting the attention of the
medical fraternity. Two years ago the
child, who possessed a bright intellect,
was attacked with rheumatism affect
ing the heart to such an extent that
it did not have sufficient vitality to
send the arterial blood to the extremities
Her hands and feet have become
lifeless, and the child is slowly dying with
dry gangrene. The fingers of each hand
up to the knuckes are black and withered,
and her feet present similar appearance.
The child has suffered eXcruciating pains
for the past fifteen months and looks for
ward to death as the only relief The dis
ease is often met with in aged people, but
this is the only one known of which the
sufferer was so young
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A Noble Hangman.

LONDON, Feb 19-As the result of state
ment that we'll known Baronet had as
sisted Hangman Berry in hanging the
three Netherby burglars, Sir Charles De-
Crespigny, in an interview to-day, ad-
mitted that he was the one alluded to.
He said that as he would probably
be sheriff he desired to gain expert
ence in order that he might be pre-
pared in case he should be obliged to ac-
himself in the absence of the hangman.
He slept in the prison during the night.
pinioned one Of the culprits himself and
generally assisted Berry. The latter con.
does his task we'll. Sir Charles appears to
take lively interest in his chosen calling
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The Senate Means Fiz'.

WASHINGTON, Feb, 17.-About twenty
Republican Senators met in caucus this
morning. Senator Edmunds admitted req
olutions from the Judiciary Committee,
embodying the views of the Republican
members respecting the rights Of the SEN
ate to information from the heads of exec.
utive departments. The resolutions were ap-
proved, and it was decided that they shall
be offered in open session in the Senate.
The resolutions are three in number. The
first declares that the action of the At
torney General in refusing 10 furnish in
formation when called upon by the Senate,
no matter what his motive may have been,
was reprehensible. The second declares
that where the Senate has called or NAV
call upon heads of departments for infor-
nation regarding removals from of ice,
and the information is not furnished as re-
quested the Senate will not confil m the ap-
pointee. The third condemns the disregard
of the law which requires that in selections
for office preference be given to honorably
discharged Union soldiers and sailors. IL
is understood that these resolutions will bs
laid before the Judiciary Committee at it's
next meeting with view to having them
reported to the Senate Immediately there
after.
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BEYOND SEAS.
Polish Expulsion From Germany
Exciting High Feeling in Austria.
Marshal Won Moltke Very nl.-Men.of War
Assembling In Suda Bay.

BERLIN, Feb. 17.-Yesterday's stormy
session in the Austrian Reichsrath def-
nitely proves that Prussia's proposed ex-
pulsion of the Poles Is causing the most in
tense excitement throughout the Polish
portions of the Hapsburg domain. The
Austrian Polish press is filled with attacks
SO bitter, and often SO libelous against the
German Chancellor because of his recent
policy, that the German party In the Aus.
trian Parliament has Indignantly and ef-
feotually protested against their
continuance, Herr Pickeret, dur.
ing yesterdays session with
caIstlc sm criticism, read an extract from a
as being ha abitually drunk on porter and
cognac, and asserting that he was more
beast than man. Herr Pickeret said it was
true that this Gallician journal had been
suppressed by the authorities, but that had
been done only after its scurrilousnesss had
been widely read and thoroughly digested.
he concluded by saying that it was obvi-
GUS that the alliance between Austl ia and
Germany was purely official in its charac-
sympathies of large portion of the people
OF both empires.
LONDON, Feb. 1.-Two German, one
French, one Italian and one Austrian men.
of-war have Joined the British squadron
In Suda Bay. The Greek Admiral will not
fight if threatened but will merely
exchange shots, and then haul
down his flag. The commanders
OF the French, italian and Austrian
men-of-war have received orders to limit
their action to formal demonstration
The News says that the British Govern
ment's Greek policy is founded on the be-.
lief that war between Turkey and Greece
would postpone rather than accelerate the
settlement of the Greek claims. Greece,
the NeacS, declares, must trust Mr. Glad
stone, and yield.
BERLIN Feb 17-Count Won Moltke,
Chief Marshal Of the German Empire is
seriously ILL., 1t is later stated that Count
Won Moltke is suffering from slight attack
OF asthma, and that his doctors do not
think his condition is serious.
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Ne Dreaded Exposure,

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 17-Fishermen e. Caron.
delet this morning saw curious object
floating in mid stream, which was caught
and proved to be a mans body incased in
ice. The appearance Of the body indicated
that 1t had probably been in the river fully
proved beyond question that the deceased
was the late Rev. Jesse b. Braly, of Nor
tonville, KY, and that he committed sui
eide by jumping into the river. The cause
of this action is shown to be, from these
same letters, the fear of the result of an
investigation then going on in relation to
his private affairs and habits, which it is
hinted were not beyond reproach.
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WORK OF A MAD MAN.
Shoots Three Members of His Brothers
Family. Then Fires Valuable Barn
and Flees to the Woods.


Family. Then Fires Valuable Barn
and Flees to the Woods.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, Feb. 1S.-David
Sholty, a lunatic, shot three members of
his brothers. family and burned the
brothers barn, near Shirley, Ill.
David Sholty has been demented
for some years, but was not
thought dangerous. Three days ago he
disappeared, and his whereabouts was not
known until this evening, when he was
discovered in grain-bin in his
brothers. Levi Sholty) barn. Five men
attempted to capture him, when he opened
fire on them. The men fled to the barn
yard and were pursued by the lunatic. In
the barn-yard he shot Levi Sholty in the
breast, also Levi Sholty's wife, inflicting
wounds In her neck, back and leg He also
shot Levi 'Sholty's seventeen-year-old
daughter. He then fired upon Allen Nc
Gov, but the bullet went wide of it's mark.
Levi Sbolty and his wife are thought to be
fatally wounded, but the daughter is not.
David Sholty, after emptying his revolver,
returned and set fire to the barn and then
fled to the timber. Officers have gone from
this city to arrest him. The posse is now
securing the country for the lunatic. He
is supposed to have a supply of ainmuni-
ton, and it is feared more blood will be
shed. The barn and contents, which were
totally destroyed were worth $4,000.
Levi Sholty is an old resident of this coun-
ty, and is quite wealthy
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FOUR CHILDREN CREMATED.
Distressing Occurrence on an Island in
Chesapeake Bay.

ONANcoCK, VA, Feb. 17.-Persons ar,iv-
ing here late Monday night fro m Tangier
Island, Chesapeake Bay, brought intelli-
gence of terrible burning accident that
occurred there on Sunday afternoon. Four
with coal oil. The can exploded, scatter.
ing the burning fluid over the children
and igniting their clothing. There were
no grown people in the house at the time,
and the children were SO frightened that
they ran out with their blazing garments
into the open air. Their cry for help soon
attracted the attention of the neighbors,
but not before the children had been so
badly burned that two of them have since
died, and the other two are fatally injured
The unfortunate little ones are children of
VIM. Pruitt and Lee Cooper, two we'll
known citizens of the island. All the chill
dren were under twelve years of age.
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WaIsky AND Sbiunl Do fAeif wsrk

GRAND HAVEN, Mich, Feb. l9.-John
Doyle, of Holland, young man OF twenty
eight years, was found last night lying IN
the street in an insensible condition appar-
emily drunk. He was accordingly
taken to jall where 1t was found ne
was in a dying conditi n. lnVestlgs- e.,
ton showsu that he had been Ser.nS, a,,
ing in company with several .;uos yoshSs Ss toos @
during the evening, and every te sseene s1 D brown
s,'hs1ancs frinE ~ @ ;Tfo his glass. This substance
afterWard wsssh to haye been opium ons ~,
sts ', deadir :,,5Iseu was not recognized oy
any OF his SFiends. BE died during tne
night l'------r
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Died at the Ace of I20.

ST. CATHARINEs, ONT, Fen, 1t.-An old
colored woman namei Sarah Taylor died
Yesterday in the Township Of tewth in
this county, at the advanced age of lso
years IL months and days. There can
oe no doubt of the reliability of this
statement ss the records of Viroinis
wnere she spent her early davs in slaycr.
nave been exsmined, and testify to its coz, &
rectness, Her mental faculties we've nm.
impaired up to her death, and it ,naS ha Of
sacenS interest 70 know she was in pessession of
onu ,eo.L signt nad thirG ssS ef natural
cbanred n, ant me net oair we auite dark, having
1Sss3 - ..l .
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indiars May Not Slinu Mail.

New ORLEANS, Feb 1s.--A special from
Indian Territory says: Mrs l. Affair has
taken charge of the p6steffiee ht Tale,
quah, displacihg John W. stapler who had
held the position for twenty years. The
change is occasoned by the decision Of the
Attorney General of the United States to
the effect that Indians are ineligible for
postmasters, not being citizens of the
United S ates, Mrs. Adair Is white
woman, the wife Of prominent Indian,
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A DANGEROUS Counterfeit Dollar.

LA CROSSE, Wis, Feb l9.-T oler Hem
derson, Of the La Crosse National Bank,
has discovered counterfeit silver dollar
that is pronounced by all bank people in
the city absolutely the most dangerous
ever seen. It is a standard silver dollar
of the coinage of 1881. The outside is sill
yer, and the die in every substantial par
ticular as clear as the original 1t stands
all microscopic tests. The only possible
means of detection is by weight, it being
exactly forty-seven grains short of the
standard ana estimated about forty-thred
grains short of the average.
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An ,n5eH,o8s kuiSia,,

NEy YoHk, Fe6. lS.-Jean Lobossors, q
French cook, was found dsud this morning
at his boarding house, No 4O4 Fourth ave,
nue.. He bad committed suicide by in.
nailqg gas in an ingenious manner. The
gas JET IN one corner o. his bedroom was
turned turn on nll Over, the burner Qg. the
plSe was one end OF an eight foot rubber
tube. This was run down tie side of the
Wall, and on the other end OF this tube was
sn irop pipe about foot long. The rubber
Tas coiied once around the body of the
neau r,nnt man apd the iron, pipe stuck in rs
ped clothes and pillow. When found he lad
evidently been dead two DAYS. He left 4
letter in French saying that he was tIred
OF LIE and that he had been out of einnloy.
ment two weeks. - - 4'P'VJ
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FIRE IN WILMINGTON, N. O.
Over S1,6OO,OOO Worth of Property
Destroyed.

WILMINGTON, N. c., Feb. 2l-A destIuc-
tive fire occurred in the business portion Of
this city this afternoon. The loss will
probably exceed $l,500,000. The fire origi-
mated on the river steamer Bladen, cotton
laden, which set fire to the wharf and sheds
OF the Clyde line of steamers, A high wind
was blowing at the time and the fire spread
rapidly, sweeping away the business
houses on Water street for three blocks
and many valuable residences on Front
and Second streets Among the buildings
destroyed were the first Methodist Church,
the offices of the Atlantic Coast Line, the
freight depots of the Wilmington, Colum-
bia and Augusta and the Wilmington and
Weldon Railroad Companies, the Champion
Compress, two large grain mills, a sawmill,
the offices and warehouses of A. Sprunt &
Son, Worth u Worth, Kerchner Il Caldner
Bros, s. p Shelter q Co., and the steamer
River Queen and the schooner Holmes.
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GALL FOR BONDS.
They Comprise Ten Million Dollars Three
Per Cents Maturing in April Next.


WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb 20-Secretary
Manning this afternoon issued call for
$4,000, 900 three per cent bonds of the issue
of 1882, to mature April next. The bonds
are numbered as follows: Fifty dollars
Original 2S5 to original No. 297, both inclu-
sive, and original No. ,36S to
original No. 1875, both inclusive.
One Hundred Dollars-Original No.
2,1Os to original No. 2,14s, both inclusive,
and original No. 9,S64 to original No. 9,S79,
both inclusive. Five Hundred Dollars
Original No. 1,042 to original No. 1,062, both
inclusive, and original No. 4,2Ol to original
No, 4,209 both inclusive. One Thousand
Dollars-Original No. 9,03l to original No.
9,18S, both inclusive, and original No. %
Thousand Dollars-O Original No. 15,459 to
No. 16,44S, both inclusive Total, $lO,-
000OOO
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NoRRIsTowN, Pa, Feb. 2l,-Henry john
son. a bachelor and hermit about fifty
years of age, living in East Perkiomen, this
county, died yesterday, leaving ,considera-
BILE real estate and money. johnson was
SO ftiserly that he would not allow himself
the necessary comforts of life. During the
recent cold weather his feet were so badly
frozen that the soles Of them became mortl-
fled and fell off Other portions of his
body were also badly frozen.
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FOREIGN News.

teNDoN Feb, 1p,--Sir Charles Dilke's
constituency, with bit d handful aissens'
ing, voted confidence in him. The Portu-
guese Ministry has resigned, Servia is
negotiating with Turkey fora uuion OF
tesHla And serfia sitnilar 10 that Of Bnl'
garia and Eastern Roumeia. 4 Nihilisa
circular has been discovered which dooms
to death certain prominent officials. The
Chancery court has authorized the sale OF
the Blenheim gallery in June. Senor Ca
novas Del Castillo has been absolved by
the Pope Of all interdictions, and the Order
of Christ is conferred upon him.
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Nine expIosion

EVANSTON. Wy. Feb. 2l.-An explosion
occurred in No. mine at Almy yesterday.
Fifteen men were burned, one severely.
Nobody was killed. Forty men were in the
mine. Fifteen days ago the men left the
mine ON account Of gas, but were persuad''
ed TO 90 back. There was not gas enough
to wreck the mine, though the men were
blown thirty teet. The fire lasted hait a
minute.
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Fatal Encounter with Desperadoes.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 2l.-A Courier
journal special says: "A fatal encounter
took place near Pineville, KY, between a
man named Lane and five men named
Turner, on Friday afternoon, There was
an old feud existing between them. The
Turner's are celebrated as roughs and bad
men They were in ambush, hiding behind
trees, when Lane came along the road and
they all fired upon him. Lane saw one of
the Turner's step from behind a tree, and
shot him dead. Almost Immediately after
wards Lane fell, his body being pierced by
several bullets.
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fbur Men Drowned.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Feb. 2l.-Yesterday
morning, while four men and a boy were at
tempting to cross the Susquehanna,the boat
chbsilea and the four men drowned The boy
succeeded in climbed to the boat, and was
rescued about two miles below. The names
ofthe unfortunate men are as follows John
and Frank Mast, aged eighteen and twenty,
respectively, Lewis Ditrich and Charles
Matbies The lad who was saved was a son
nf Matthias
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THE BURIED AT NANTICOKE.

Fears That, After ALL the Dead Miners
May Not BE Reached.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Feb 2l.-The officers
of the Susquehanna Coal Company are
very much afraid that the men constituting
the recovering party at Slope No. will,
within the next twenty-four hours quit
work, as they have reached very close to
the point of the cave in which there is
great danger ahead. They have no means
of escape should another rush of sand and
rock come Should they refuse to work it
is probable that no other men can be found
to take their places, therefore the twenty-six
bodies of the miners who were entombed
on December Is will forever remain in the
nit
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Indian Scholar Dies on His Wav Home,

CHICAGO, Feb. IA young Indian,
named Red Eagle, on his way from the
Indian Training School at Philadelphia to
his home at Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota
died on the Northwestern railway this af-
ternoon of consumption. He was accom-
panied by nine other Indians, also on their
way home from school, He had been urged
not to attempt to undertake the journey.
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Heavy Capture of SmuuuIed Firearms,

MATAMoRAs, MEXICO Feb. 1.-THE mill
tary commander of this district received
report yesterday from up the river that
cavalry scouts had succeeded in capturing
q portion OF LOO rifles recently smuggled
across the Rio Grande from Texas, near
Torus las Priestas and Larascita, in Tamau-
lipas. These arms, it is reported, were to
be used in revolution that is on the tapis
in an interior State