The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-01-07

suicide Friday night last by cutting his wrist
with razor.-Mrs Samantha Legow was in
stantly killed by lightning on Friday night
| last, near Dallas, Tex. The electric current
passed downward through the house, burned
through the blankets of the bed on which she
| was sleeping and passed into her body, emery
ing from one of her feet. 1t splntered the
floor and entered an adjoining room. giving
severe shock to a son of the deceased who was
sleeping there.
INDUSTRIAL.
The long strike of the river coal miners in
the vicinity of Pttsburg is virtually over. The
miners of Walton, Hays, Fisher and Munhall
have returned to work at the 81 cent rate, and
there are now almost 5000 men at work at that
price.-An offer of 10 per cent advance in
wages, commencing Monday last, has been
made by Carnegie Brothers & Co. to their 1000
employees at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works
at Braddock, Pa, who were about to ask 10 per
cent. increaSe-A mercantile agency reports
that the total number of business failures in
the United States during 1885 was 1867, with
liabilities of little more than S124, 100000 as
compared with 10,96S failures in 1854 with liza
bilities of S226,0O0,00O While the failures for
1885 are only per cent. less in number than
in 1884, the liabilities have decreased nearly 80
per cent. The number of traders reported in
business in 1885 was 9l9990 OF these one III
every Sc failed.-The business statistics of
New York for 1885 show decrease in the
volume of trade as compared with 1884, but
at the same time a marked Improvement
during the last three months.--The Tobacco
Association Of Danville, Va, reports the sales
OF leaf tobacco for the last three months to be
1850 600 pounds The sales for the same quar-
ter of the preceding year amounted to 6.2O5,oO0
pounds, at an average of 11.24 cents. Since the
LIST of November the planters have marketed
only their most Indifferent tobacco. The sales
for the last II months have amounted to S.
$4,000 pounds, at an average of 1881 cents
The Tobacco Association of Lynchburg has
issued a circular announcing sales during the
month of December of 5,461 300 pounds of to-
bacco. the largest sales for the same month for
years.-One hundred workmen have quit
work at Maxwell's box factory in Chicago be-
cause of the introduction of machines for max
ing boxes. The strikers declare they will not
return to work unless the machines are re-
moved. A large crowd gathered in front OF the
factory on Wednesday of last week, and brick
was thrown through a Window review of
the industrial growth and resources of South
Carolina for five years by the Charleston Neos
and Courier shows ali increase of $50, 1856 In
the value of real and personal property, or
nearly 20 per cent, and decrease of more
than half million dollars in the public debt
of the State during the same period. In 1880
the value of productions of the State and of ag-
ricultural machinery was S74, 1883. In 1885
the value was STA 90S, GIT, an increase of S4O,-
1lS,19S. The summing up of the review shows
that in the five years $66.30O0OO have been ad
ded to the total wealth of the State.
MISCELLANEOUS
Thirteen cases of smallpox have been discov-
cred at Peoria, Ill.-David Richards, an en-
gineer on the st. Joseph & Grand Island Rail-
road went to Hanover, Kan, few days ago
to sell farm, which he succeeded in doing for
$4,000. Since then he has not been seen nor has
he been heard from. An investigation is in
progrcss.-Francs M. Westerield and his
wife, who live in Wilmette, suburb of Chi
cago are suffering from trichnosis, caused by
eating insufficiently cooked pork. They suf
fered excruciating pain, but are thought to be
improving.-Henry G. Garrison, an archi-
tect has instituted suit for S95,732 against
Mrs. A I. Stewart for services claimed to have
been rendered in drawing plans and designs
and experimenting the work of building the
Cathedral of the Incarnation, at Garden City.
Miss Eunice Christopher, daughter of j.
NJ. Christopher. a farmer, of Auburn Ill., has
been teacher Of the Finley school, among the
pupils at which were son and daughter of
James X. Lewis, a relative of the Christophers.
The two families were not on good terms A
few days ago Miss Christopher undertook to
chastise Miss Lewis, but was unable to do so
until she called upon a young man to help her,
and then Miss Lewis, who is Is years old, was
severely beaten. The parents of Miss Lewis
prosecuted the teacher, and small fine was i'm
posed upon her after a second trial.-Mr.
Mackay, the bonanza millionaire, sailed for
Europe from New York on Saturday last, to
pass the Winter with his wife abroad. A part
of the season will be passed in Rome.-On
the 1st inst. Gov. FitZhugh Lee and Lieut. Gov.
John +. Massey were inaugurated at Richmond,
Va. With the exception of the Inauguration
of Gov. Holiday, the predecessor of the out
going executive, Gov. Cameron, this was the
first time the inauguration was made an affair
of ceremony.-The quickest steamer passage
ever made between Liverpool and Boston was
recorded when the Cunard steamer PavOnia,
Capt. Wolfanden, arrived in Boston harbor at
7:30 a. m. Friday morning last. She left Liv-
erpool Dec. % at p. M, passed Fastnet Dec.
"a about p. H., and made her anchorage at
East Boston about a. M, making the passage
in days 153 hours, and to the wharf in 8 days
IL hours.-Gov. Hill was inaugurated on the
1st inst at Albany, n. Y. The attendance was
very large, especially from New York and
Brooklyn. The parade of military and civic
bodies was very imposing, about $500 men
being in line-Dr. Mary II. Head, wife
of DIR. Pussy Head, of Wilmington, Del,
and with him associated in the manage
ment of Heald's Hygeian Home in that
city, died Thursday night last. She was re-
garded as one of the most skillful physicians
practising the hygenic branch of the medical
profession. THE steamship Rhein, which ar
rived on the LIST inst. at New York from Bre-
men, had two cases of smallpox on board
August Feldt, of Streator Ill, is very sick, and
his wife and three children have died within
two weeks from trichinosis, caused by eating
raw pork.-The Chicago grand jury in its re-
port says that committee of that body inves-
tigated the saloons, and found dives of the low
est order in the first police district, defying the
city ordinances by keeping open from dawn to
midnight and midnight to dawn. In them
congregate disreputable women, thieves and
criminals, and upon our oaths as grand jurors
we blush to say that policemen have been seen
in full uniform tippling with the people in
those same dens." The Chief of Police when
summoned to explain this state of affairs said
there was no remedy as long as the force was
hampered by political influences.
CHASTITY Find.