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Las. Davn of bankrupt Sale.

On Thursday and Saturday all remaining
stock of crockery, lamps. glass, tin and wood
ware at Wiley's, 81 Church street, will be
sold at half price.
HOBART L. HoTCHKIss,
m29 2t Trustee
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

LESTER WALLAcK is writing his Recol-
lections Of the Stage.
ROSE CoGHLAN has left Wallack's, New
York. and will be star once more.
THOMAS B. Macdonough will revive Bart
lev Campbell's "Siberia" next season.
THEODORE THOMAS was fiddler at 50 a
week in the old Broadway Theatre in the me
tropolis.
THE author tiles at Madrid. Spain, have Or
dered every theatre unprovlded with electric
lights to be closed.
The salary of the Rev. Lyman Abbott,
temporary pastor OF flymouth Cnui'n' AA'
been fixed at $500.
THE Duke of Sparta, son of the King and
Queen of Greece, is to marry q younger
daughter Of the Prince Of Wales.
MASTER WoRRELL. a nine-year-old
prodigy. recently played the cornst before
the crowned heads of the Vanderbilt laml!y.
EDWARD HARRIGAN says he pays lOlPeo-
ple every week, and that his salary hst Is
larger than that of any other theatre man IN
New York.
MRS. LEr1r1A MCCULLOUGH, widow of
John Mccullough, tho tragedian, died re-
Gently in Philadelphia. She leaves an estate
worth s50,0N.
The opera is said to be having hard time
all over the world, but twenty-five new ones
were produced in Germany last year anu
thirty-five in Italy.
EDWIN BooTH's first appearance on the
stage was with SchoolfelowS in Baltimore
juvenile minstrel performance-admlsslon
one cent-giving him his opportunity.
FREDERICK WARDE is making an extensive
tour of the large Southern cities, and IS saia
to be drawing big audiences everywhere Az
the close of his season in the South he goes to
San Francisco.
RUDOLPH ARoNsoN has secured the Ameri-
can right Of the next Gilbert and Sullivan
opera, an opera on Spanish subject. 1y
Tito Mattel; LA Valliere," by Charles
Lecocq, and .Nadgy," by Paul Chassaigne'
composer OF "Falka."
LARGE returns are still the order OF the
day from Messrs. Robson and Cranes invest
ment in THE Henrietta" dividends being
paid nightly at the Union Square. Ml;
Howard's bright play shows no signs ye' u
losing its popularity.
THE performances Of the Irving Company
In this country are regularly advertised IN
the theatrical advertising columns OF the Lon
con papers, Just as though the company was
appearing at its own Lyceum, instead OF
1000 or 5 1000 miles away.
IMRE K1RALFY has commenced acuVe
preparations for the big spectacle which he
will produce at St. George, Staten Island, III
June, and on which it is said, 700 men and
women will I've employed, including Chevalier
Blondin, the famous tight-rope artist, who
has been engaged.
Mr.. w. l. BISHOP the "mind reader" will
give his entertainments for the next twelve
months under the management of Mr. NJ. b.
Ieayitt After his present California visit
is finished he will make tour of Southern
cities and then 60 to Australia, where he
will remain eight months.
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Washington.

THE House COMMITTEES on Elections by
party vote declared Mr.. White (Republican)
Ineligible to represent Indiana in Congress.
Should the majority report be sustained,
the House will be Democratic by State dele
cations.
THE eclipse of the moon, a few nights
ago. was observed with varying success by
the leading astronomers of the country.
REAR-ADMIRAL CLARK H. WELLS (retired)
died few days since in Washington. He
was born in Reading. Penn, in 1872.
THE President has nominated Commodore
Bancroft Gherardi to lie Rear Admiral,
Capt. William E. Fitzhugh to be Commo-
dore, and Commander Henry B. Robson to
be Captain.
THE Senate has confirmed as Postmasters:
John II. Curry at Nashville and John W.
Ross at Washington, and as Consul at Rio
Grande do Sui, L. &. Bennington, of West
Virginia.
FIRST CONTROLLER DURHAM has decided
that per diem employees are the only class Of
public employees who are entitled to extra
compensation for work performed on legal
holidays.
Two more Cabinet dinners are to be
given to the President and Mrs. Cleveland,
which will close the series for this season.
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A BLIZZARD IN TILE EAST.
High Snow Drifts Greatly Impede
Traffic in Many Places.

High Snow Drifts Greatly Impede
Traffic in Many Places.
A heavy wind and snow storm has visited
New England and portions of the Middle
States, greatly delaying the railroads in al
most every direction. A Boston dispatch
says:
A very good imitation of Western bllz-
zard if indeed it is not the genuine article,
settled down on New England. In the north
ern and western sections it was &C
companied by an unusually heavy snowfall.
On the coast but little snow fell, but the
wind during the Gny blew a veritable gale.
Boston Harbor has not been in such danger
GUS condition since 1915. The new 1000 ton
four-masted schooner Clara Goodwin, from
Portsmouth to Baltimore, was caught in thelce
off Chatham, and was>sinkinS when the pig
tug Underwater got hold of her and towed
her back to Boston. There was fleet OF 30
sail off Chatham, ice bound. With the
southeast gale which prevailed the ice was
piled up and they ;ure firmly held. An
unusual number of disasters are expected
The blizzard has been most>severely felt In
New Hampshire and Maine It is the worst
storm that has been known foryears. The rail.
roads were in bad condition when this atorm
came on Snow was piled high on the sides OF
the tracks and now these tracks are buried
deep under drifts that Will take Gays 10 clear
away. Through travel on the northern
railroads was practically paralyzed Dover,
N H., was blockadea with two feet OF snow
,on the level and badly driftsd.
From Vermont and Maine similar reports
to the foregoing were received. Trains were
stopped by huge SNOW drifts, and the tele-
graph and telephone wires were down in
many directions The roads and streets
about many of the towns and villages were
impossible.
Along the Hudson the severest snow
storm experienced in many years pre-
vailed. When the snow storm subsidized
a regular blizzard begun. scattering the
snow in all directions, blockading roads,
stopping ferries and delaying travel. In
Central New York and in portions of Penn
sylvania the storm was also severe, and IT,
heavy fall Of snow caused numerous block
AIDES ~ the railroads.
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A BLIZZARD ROMANCE.
A Drummer Finds His Future Bride
in a Deep Snow Drift.

A Drummer Finds His Future Br1de
in a Deep Snow Drift.
There have come to light few bright and
CHEEKY pictures from the terrible blizzard
which has desolated the West, carrying
death and suffering to thousands Of homes,
says the New York Sun.
But story with romantic variations comes
from Sioux City, Iowa. In rude log caoln
by the Cheyenne River French Canaaian
named Robeaun once lived iaWless lie. ne
married comely Indian maiden, and rosy
checked, brown-eyed girl was uorn U 'ueiii'
and they named her Lillian.
A band Of vigilantes hanged the lawieSs
Robeaun, and soon afterward his wife dled'
leaving the young girl alone in the world. a
family at Chamberlain adopted Lillian, ana
she grew up a handsome and accomplished
young woman. just before the great ollz.
zard came Miss Lillian was visiting friends at
Huron, and on the day OF the storm hao
gone a short distance in the country TO SEQ
friend. g.
On January II, Harry Oglebee, q 81:
Louis commercial traveller, arrived at
Huron. The day Of the dreadful blizzard ne
found himself in the suburbs or huron. Al
ter wandering about half hour he found
woman in a deep snow drift Rescuing her
from q possible grave, the two set out ana
soon found farm house, where their wants
were cared for. The young woman was LII
lian Robeaun. ...,,.
Sequel: The young people were quietly
married at a hotel in Sioux City on Monday
last. The handsome daughter of a once no.
torious outlaw became the happy bride OF a. an
industrious commercial traveller, and the
blizzard which brought ineradicable sorrow
to others brought them gladness which can
nnt ho rnanc11red
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

A NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LAWYERS is
proposed.
THE fire loss in the United States in 1877
was $50 000,000.
THE Government estimates the cotton crop
at &, 300, 900 bales.
CHICAGO reaper and mower manufacturers
talk of forming trust"
THERE has been 1000 deaths from small
poX in Havana since May.
ONE fireman was killed and four injured
at fire in Manistee, Mich.
FRANCE is about to issue nickel-silver coin
age to the amount of $l4,0OO,0UO.
DURING the past year 81 persons, among
them 6S females, committed suicide IN
Vienna.
SPAIN is organizing an expedition for
Morocco, according to reports, to consist OF
5000 men.
REPORTS from Russia indicate that the
Gar is now showing marked favor toward
the war party.
GusrAvE OLSEN fell eighty three feet at
the Poughkeepsie IN. ~ bridge, and was In
stantly killed.
THE Minnesota Farmers Association has
passed resolutions demanding that oleomar-
garine makers be compelled to color their
product pink.
GOVERNOR MARTIN, Of Kansas, has ap-
pealed to the people OF his State, asking as
sistance for those suffering in the southwest
ern part of the State
In consequence of the closing of the Rus
sian universities, large numbers OF the still
dents are leaving the country TO take up thelr
residence in Switzerland.
AN International Council of Women will
he held in Washington OH March -, to cele-
brate the first woman's rights convention,
which was held at Seneca Falls, N. y, IN
1S4S.
NATURAL gas has now been found in about
a dozen localities in central Iowa, within
radius of sixty miles Of Des Moines Each
new find develops stronger flow ana heavier
pressure.
DURING conflict between the police and
party of peasants near Sweedon ireland. q
woman was stabbed with oaSoneC, Girl
wounded with a club, anu several other
peasants seriously hurt. Two peasants were
arrested.
AN engine on the Northern Pacific Road
dashad into n herd of nearly thousand
antaIone which had huddled together in
cut near Mandan, Oak, the other day. A
score of the animals were killed, and some OF
their carcasses were gathered up by the TRAIN
men.
MRS MIRANDA and daughter, the t"O ieP
ers now in the Municipal Hospital at fhlia-
delphia, are to be sent to brazil, anu llloIu, t
mart has heen started to raise money for the
nnrnose. 1t is intended to charter vessel II
pas m aye cannot be procured OIL any regular
passenger ship.
STEPHEN RANE, an old resident of Wall
MN, Wis, met his death in singular way.
E Ike was ascending ladder in his barn when
he lost his footing and fell between bhe
| rounds, his chin catching on one OF Them
and holding him there until he slowly
strangled to death.
A RUSSIAN general has created great SEN
sation in Europe BY furnishing an elaborate
! s, scbeme for the construction of railway
through Siberia to the Pacific Ocean h,. 1t ts is
intended to go by the shortest POSI- possible Gps Gps
totaI cost Of the road is estimated at SSO),-
900 @ 'oSO, which, it is believed, can be readily
raised in Russia itself.
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South and West

CHARLES FOSTER, of the Indian Territory
who lost his wife and child in the blizzard,
has hanged himself.
AN oil we'll yielding 5000 barrels per day
has been opened at Carini, III.
JAMES MCKNIGHT murdered Duke Cum
mings at Purcell, Indian Territory, and,
after killing two of the posse that attempted
to arrest him, was himself killed.
The citizens of Logan County, West Vir-
ginia. have appealed to Governor Wilson, to
send militia to disperse the rival forces of the
Hatfields and McCoyS. Business is suspended.
A GERMAN named Anschlag was arrested
for numbering Mr.. and Mrs. Hitchcock, OF
Santa Anna, Cal, whose guest he was.
MAXWELL, the Englishman soon to be hung
at st. Louis, is attempting suicide by smok-
ing fifty cigarettes daily.
SIXTEEN persons were injured, two of them
fatally, by the breaking away of street car,
operated by cable, on down grade at st.
Paul, MINI.
GOVERNOR WILSON has sent two companies
Of infantry to suppress the warning factions
of Mccoy and Hatfield, the Logan County
Nv. Va-) desperadoes.
PATRICK MURRAY, eighty years Of age,
committed suicide at Richmond, Va, by
tying a large stone around his neck and
jumping IN Gne river.
AT Dawson, Ga, the house Of Mrs Mary
Brown took fire and her two children were
roasted to death before her eyes, all attempts
to rescue them being in vain.
In the Kinishi Mountains, Indian Terri
tory, masked robbers fatally burned an old
cattle dealer named Williamson, while
torturing him in order to learn the hiding
place of his money.
INDIANA is to have q soldiers monument
which will be 250 feet high and will cost
S300,0O0.
SPEAKER CARLISLE and wife visited For
.treSS Monroe and were received with salute
OF seventeen guns.
WILLIAM BOWEN, twenty years old, died
IN great agony at Atlanta, Ga, of hydro
phobia, brought on by dog bite received two
months ago.
AN ice gorge swept down the Mississippi
River and damaged property at st. Louis,
Mo-, to the extent of $l,5OO,OOO
GOVERNOR WILSON. of West Virginia, Of
ficially announces that the famous Hatfield
Mccoy war has ended and that there is no
necessity Of sending militia to suppress it.
THE shoe shops in the Virginia State Peni-
tentiary were burned, with a loss of 500, ,O00.
The militia was called into requisitlon to
prevent wholesale escape of convicts.
THE Supreme Court of California has
affirmed the decision in the famous Sharon
Hill case, granting Sarah Althea Sharon o
divorce from the late Senator Sharon, and
allowing large counsel fees
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RICH IN YEARS.

ALTHOUGH 80 years of age, the Hon. Fran
els Brinley, Of Newport, r. l., is still brill
liant speaker.
Mr.. AND Mrs. HIRAM BATES, Of Hanover,
Mass, were born on the same day and at the
same hour, and are 92 years of age. They
have been married sixty-two years.
SAN ANTONIO boasts citizen, century
old, who recently rode to dog fight eighteen
miles away, and was bright enough to pick
out the winning dog
THERE are yet living 3O5 of the old men,
bers OF the Tippecanoe Club of Indianapolis,
the average being "a years and 81 days. Jas.
Hubbard, of the club, is in his lO3d year.
WEALTHY John w. jackson, Of Chicago,
although over 80 years Of age, has not lost
his gallantry and he made Mrs. Sarah Golden
Mrs. jackson recently This is the third time
he has led bride to the altar.
TON MURPHY, of Enfield, N H., is 80 years
OF age, and still cares for his old horse that
he has driven for forty years. Murphy is
straight as an arrow, and has full head of
dark brown hair, with scarcely tinge of
white. He has full set of natural teeth that
are remarkably even and white. He reads
the finest print. and never uses glasses
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courthouse was arrested on another charge
of a similar character.

courthouse was re arrested on another charge
of similar character.
ALL the physicians of the German Crown
Prince have met for consultation, and it Is
said an operation will be performed on him.
FATHER McFADDEN, of Gweedore, Ire.
land, was arrested for holding anti-landlord
meetings and sentenced to three months i'm
prisormens. Father Stevens, another priest,
has been srrested under the Coercion Act.
All FAT, a Chinausn, was hung at Vic
toria, British Columhis, for the murder OF
Chinese woman.
AN army officer committed suicide at st.
Petersburg, in order to avoid the necessity Of
assassnating the Car. He belonged to
secret society whose object was to kill the
Czar, and he had been chosen by ballot for
thstpurpose.
OF ten persons injured at Matanzas, Cuba,
By the explosion of boiler, three have died.
Mr.. BLAME, member of Parliament for
South Armagh, Ireland, has been sentenced
to four months imprisonment for melting
tenants to resist the authorizes.
THE seven Nihilists who were sentenced ITO
death for an attempt on the Cars life have
had their sentences coalrnnted to various
terms of imprisonment
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LATER NEWS.

At Gallitzen, Penn, four Poles were divid
ing a can of blasting powder. Fire from {
cigar exploded it and scattered the house IN
fragments. Two men were fatally and all
very seriously hurt.
The big dry goods store Of Barnes, Hen
gerer 6, Co., at Buffalo, N. Y, and several
smaller stores adjoining were burned, with o
loss Of s1,5OO,OOo Five hundred people are
thrown out of employment.
REV. CORNELIUS BERKLY, Baptist min
lister, seventy years old, was frozen to death
at Somerset, Penn, In a field near hit
house.
The great coal miners strike has been de
clared off, so far as the Individual collieria
are concerned, and they are resuming werk
in them. .,.-
The town of Lee, Mass, has an epidemic
of scarlet fever, and there have been seven>
teen deaths out Of ninety cases
NINE hundred convicts at Sing Sing, N. Y.,.
are locked in their cells in enforced idleness,
because the Legislature has not passed the,
appropriations necessary to carry on the
prison industries.
A BIG cotton warehouse fire in Charleston,
S. c., destroyed property to the value Of
100000.
ELIZA RANDALL, sentenced to be hanged
for butchoring her father with an ak, has
had her punishment commuted to life inns
prisonment. 7
JOHN DoNAv1N, while making repairs op
a cornice in Baltimore, Nd, fellffty feet
and was killed.
SENIOR SoUzA Rosa, Portuguese Minister
to China, has been appointed Minister at
Washington to succeed Senior Nogueiras, who
recently died.
DURING January the National debt was re-,
duced SIS, ,3s7, ,32O. The total debt now is
s1,7OO, ,19l, ,452. as,
WHEN John Stumbaugh, of Loganspostr
Ind, was sentenced to five years imprison~
ment for burglary, he threatened to kill
Judge Winfield, who, thereupon, increased
the period of punishment to fourteen years,
The Cashier of the Trans Caucasian Rail.
way, in Russia, was murdered by two nihi-
lists and robbed of 1900 rubles.
Mr.. Cox. member of Parliament from
County Clare, Ireland has been sentenced to
q months Imprisonment for melting tenants.
to resist eviction.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
JUDGE KELLEY, father Of the House, was,
ieWAler

JUDGE KELLEY, father Of the House, was o.
jeweler.
SENATOR STEWART Of Nevada mined With
q pick and shovel in California
IT Is officially reported that Queen Victoria
will 60 to Florence in the spring.
BEFORE starting out as poet James Whit
comb Riley made living as sign painter.
THE oldest English surgeon, Mr.. George.
Sylvester, born March 10Th, 1888, has JUST
died. -
FLoAG1ER, the Standard on magnate, Is:
said to have given away 81 900, 900 in charity
during the last five years 80
THE Hon. Caleb West, Governor Of Utah,
says there are but five Gentiles in the whole.
Legislature of the Territory.
The wealthiest person Of the African race.
north of Mason and Dixon's line is DR.. James
N. Gloucester, Of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Won MoLTKE is likely to live to great.
ago. He leads thoroughly domestic life,
sees little company, talks rarely and plays.
whist. ,y.a
THE Crown Prince Of Germany, strange TO-,
say, looks the picture Of health, aud Is in ex-
cellent spirits He can swallow food without.
difficulty.
SENATOR QUAY, Of Pennsylvania, and Sem
ator Davis, of Minnesota, hook so nearly alikg
that even their friends have hard WORK to,
distinguish them. #tl
THE Duke Of Cambridge, Comm1nder-fn-
Chief Of the British army, gets $33, 600 year,
while all Count Won Moltke Of The Germans
army receives is $1,000.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD has been the leading
editorial writer on tee London Telegraph for,
twenty years He is a great Oriental scholar
and a poet of the highest class.
Ex-GovSRNoR ALGER, Of Michigan, IL
said to own over 100 square miles OF foresf
land near Alpena, bearing more than 5Oo,-
600, 900 Of standing pine timber.
Ex-PREsIDENT GREvY has been twice
striken with apoplexy since the shameful an:
tics of his son-in-law precipitated the scandal
that induced France to demand a new Presi.
dent. 49,.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND recently remarked
to caller who expressed regret at not seeing
Mrs, Cleveland: "The truth Is, don't see
much of her myself If see her once day
consider myself pretty lucky"
THE most characteristic part OF the person.
al adornment of Senator George, OF MIssis.
sippi, is an old-fashioned. open-faced silver
watch, about as big as tin dipper, which ne
carries in his breeches pocket hung upon the
end Of shoe string.
THEODORE T1LToN Is living in a remote
ouarter of Paris, France, in by no means
affiuent circumstances. His dress Is almost
shabby, and with his hair hanging about his
shoulders he presents peculiar appearance
as he walks about the streets of the trencn
capital. He does little literary work now
and then. but writes with no regularity:
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HER LAST LULLABY.
A Mother Falls Dead While LuIlins
Her Babies to Sleep.

A Mother Falls Dead While LullinS
Her Babies to Sleep.
MrsJulia Sophia Walker died at her nome
in San Francisco the other night under pecul-
lar circumstances. She was handsome,
vigorous woman, not yet thirty years oid,
and the mother of two children, one oaoy
and the other about four years old. Save Tor
their company she was alone at home IN tne
evening. She was busy with her householo
cares, and the children climbed about her
until shortly after S o'clock, when 1t came
their bedtime. She tucked them III Their
cribs by the fire, and kissing them good-nipht
turned down the light that they might sle>p
the Letter. Going into the parlor ADJOINING
she left the door ajar, and sitting at the piano
played for a time in a soft strain as q lullaby;
After a time the music ceased abruptly, ana
the elder child was aroused by a sound
from the parlor like q heavy fall: Calling
its mamm1 repeatedly and receiving no re-
ply, the little one arose, went into the parlor,
and there, by the piano, on the floor, just as
she had fallen from the stool, lay the mother,
dead. Mr.. Walker reached home within
few minutes thereafter and was over
whelmed at the spectacle which greeted his
entrance. His wife lay dead and his children
were crying with fright. The Coroner was
informed, but, as death plainly resulted from
heart disease. no inquest was held.