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CURRENT TOPICS. 
Trichina Spiralis In Indiana. 
Last week we gave a paragraph announcing 
tlie appearance of I hIn fearful scourge at Au¬ 
rora, Ind. We think it of MiflicJent Interest, 
and importance I ogive the following additional 
details which we find in u telourarn dated Feb 1: 
The first, viet inis were Mrs. Threnart., a German 
widow, and her three children, two boys, aged 
14 and 7, and a girt aged 10 years. Dr. Clcn- 
denin was Interviewed by your speeial reporter 
to-day, and furnished the facts. It appears 
that Mrs. Threnart had two hogs killed for 
home consumption about four weeks ago, one 
of which had been sick idler running In the 
etroots a month or so before killing. The ani¬ 
mal had what Is called Droop. II was stiff in 
the limbs and lost its appetite, but, after dosing 
with sulphur and sweet milk, it recovered and 
fattened up. A quantity of sausage was made 
with the meat, and of tills Mrs. Threnart and 
her children partook freely on last Monday. It 
was prepared and cooked In the usual way. On 
Tuesday last, the family took sick. 
They complained of a withering pain in the 
bowels, -of being very tired and sore all over 
the surface of the body. Vomiting anddlarrhoa 
set in and the family physician was called. He 
thought the symptoms v ere those of typhoid 
fever, and treated accordingly. The tUnese of 
the mother and her children excited the sym¬ 
pathy of her neighbors, and they took it in turn 
to nurse them. Mrs. Buyter, wife of the Met h¬ 
odist minister, wi Hi hertwo children, the young¬ 
est only 4 years old, was the first nurse, and de¬ 
voted herself exclusively to the Christian duty. 
She took up her abode In the sick house, and 
when meal-tlino came, prepared and ate sonic 
of the sausage, together with the youngest 
child. The other child would not touch it. On 
the nex’ day, Thursday, Mrs. Buyter and her 
child were seized In the same manner as the 
victims she came to nwpo, and still no suspi¬ 
cion was aroused as to the cause. 
That evening, Miss Davis, aged 19, and Mies 
MollenholT, aged 30, t wo charming young wom¬ 
en, came to nurse the sick, and at supper par¬ 
took of the sausage and some of the fried meat. 
They were seized with pains in the stomach 
and bowels in an hour, and were deathly sick. 
An old woman prescribed hot whlskey-puncli. 
and made them drink it freely, which Increased 
the vomiting. They are now convalescing. A 
lad named Krelger, who brought kindling-wood 
to Mrs. Threnart’s house, had supper, and is 
also down with the same sickness. Finally, a 
Mrs. Ross came and ate also of the meat, and 
soon after took sick in the same manner as all 
the rest, but at onco suspected the meat as t he 
cause, and said so to the physician. 
He called in Dr. Sutton, of the Health Depart¬ 
ment., and a scientific analysis of the sausage, 
cooked, and raw, w.-c- made, upon which the 
startling fact was revealed that the meat waslit- 
erally alive with the trichina spiralis. So tena¬ 
cious is this little devil of life, that it was seen 
to survive, the pickling process and the cooking 
of the meat. The entire carcass of the hog 
that had been sick is infected, not even the 
bones being free from the invasion. Under the 
microscope, it looks like knots and coils of the 
common earth-worm, with very sharp or point¬ 
ed extremities; and, while this is being written, 
a speck of the flesh not larger than the head of 
a small pin is under view, and contairs millions 
of the maggots, wriggling and t wisting about, 
although totally invisible to the naked eye. 
When Dr. 01 eu den in left Aurora last night all 
the patients except the t wo young ladies were 
still lying very ill. The symptoms were alike 
in all—a peculiar paleness of tho skin, with a 
livid puffiness around the eyes, and the lower 
extremities puffed and swollen. They lie 
crouched up in bed with the shoulders drawn 
forward, and the knees drawn up to the chin. 
There is a painful weakness in the limbs. It is 
painful to protrude the furred and thickened 
tongue. The voice is husky and changed in 
tone. There is diarrhea, with a tendency to 
dysentery, thirst, complete los* of appetite, 
and a fever which increases toward night, The 
oldest boy and the girl of Mrs. Threnart, and 
Mr*. Buyter, the minister's w ife, who was a fine, 
healthy woman, will undoubtedly die, hut some 
hopes are entertained that all the other victims 
will survive. The affair has created the greatest 
alarm and consternation in the community of 
Aurora, where there is a large German popula¬ 
tion, who live on pork and other meat > ' the 
hog kind. 
Ladies’ Temperance Prayer Meetings In 
Ohio. 
A teleoham from Columbus, o., dated Feb. 
3, says:- Probably the most signal victory of 
the ladies doling the temperance campaign was 
won to-day at New Vienna, Clinton County. 
A Mr. Van Pelt met the earnest laborers in the 
cause of temperance some time ago with blas¬ 
phemous epithets, and drenched them with 
beer while at their devotions in Ins saloon. 
Since then they have maintained a persistent 
fire of prayers and pleadings. To-day the people 
of the town in large numbers witnessed his 
complete surrender, a fter t lirce week I at, or. A 
procession of about 100 ladles marched to his 
saloon at 3 P. M., amid the solemn ringing of all 
the church hells. When the crowd was gathered 
about Ids door, brief religious exercises were 
held and then Van Pelt appeared and an¬ 
nounced that, ho was ready to give up his entl'e 
stock for the good of the temperance cause. 
He would, he said, make a complete surrender, 
not because of law or force, but In, yielded to 
Hie simple labors of love of the women which 
lisd reached ids heart. He exhibited consider¬ 
able emotion while addressing tho multitude, 
and appeared sincere in ids remarks. After 
giving permission that Ids liquors, consisting 
of two barrels of whisky undone keg of beer, 
should be roiled out, Van Pelt stopped forward 
with ids ax, saying, “This is the weapon t used 
i to defend myself and business with and to 
I terrify tho ladies; now I use it to sacrifice that 
which has ruined many souls." Without more 
I ado he knocked the heads out of the barrels 
and opened (he keg of beer, spilling the ron- 
; tents upon the ground. Devotional exercises ' 
closed the scene. Van Pelt admits freely that 
Hie ladies conquered him, and that their pray¬ 
ers forced him to surrender. To-night an 
earnest temperance meeting was held there, 
and Van Pelt made a brief address, giving his , 
experience in the truffle, and admitting that he 
could not reconcile himself to the business 
longer. A mass meeting is to be held at Hilla- 
i boro on Saturday, and a number of the ladies 
from Nev Vienna will attend. At the close of 
the meeting to-night a purse of #160 was pre¬ 
sented to Van Pelt as an expression of the 
feelings of the community toward him. 
The Mileage Question in Congress. 
Mr. Beck of Kentucky the other day offered 
an amendment to t he Army Appropriation Bill 
providing that only actual traveling expenses 
shall he allowed to any person whatever in the 
service of the United States, and declaring il¬ 
legal all allowances for mileage and transporta¬ 
tion in excess of the amount actually paid. 
This was assented to with the addition of a 
proviso that the law should not he construed 
to allow more than 10 cents per mile, the pres¬ 
ent allowance. In the course of the debate Mr. ! 
neck Instanced, as an illustration of the way in 
which the ^present law was abused, tho ease 
where a Treasury official, making a trip from 
Washington to Boston, charged mileage first 
from Washington to Baltimore, Uien from 
Washington to Philadelphia, then from Wash¬ 
ington to New York, and then from Washing¬ 
ton to Boston. 
Character of the New York Assembly. 
Statistics compiled by the Librarian show 
that, t here are in the present Assembly 35farm¬ 
ers. 34 lawyers, 13 merchants, 11 manufacturers, 
6 physicians. 1 undertaker, 1 butcher, 1 dis¬ 
tiller, 1 editor, and 1 gentleman. The editor is 
Mr. Coughlin of New York, and the “ gentle¬ 
man " is Mr. A1 berger of Buffalo. The nativi¬ 
ties of the members are:—New York, 100; Ire¬ 
land, 6: Germany, Prussia, and Bavaria, 6; 
England, 3; Holland, 1; Massachusetts, 3 ; Ver¬ 
mont, 3; New Hampshire, 2; Connecticut, I; 
Maine, 1; Maryland, 1; and New Jersey', 1. The 
average age of members is about 40 years, tho 
oldest members being Edmund Miller of Che¬ 
mung, who Is Go. and the youngest Hamilton 
Fish of Putnam, who is 34. The tallest and 
heaviest man In the House is Seth G. Pope of 
St- Lawrence, who is six feet four inches in 
higlit. and weighs 240 pounds. Mr. West of 
Saratoga and two or three other members are 5 
feet o inches, and the lightest weight is Stephen 
H. Hammond of Ontario, who balances 130 
pounds. The married men number 100, the 
bachelors25, and widowers 3. 
The Condition of Cuba. 
Spanish rule in Cuba, if we may believe the 
apparently trustworthy and disinterested re¬ 
ports that reach us, is waning. The Spaniards 
have latterly met with nothing but reverses 
from the Insurgents. The loss of men on the 
part of the Spaniards is placed at 3,500 men. ex¬ 
clusive of loss by sickness. Imperative demands 
have been made on the Madrid Government 
for reinforcements. Gen. Pcrtilla demands at 
least 5,000 men, else he can accomplish hut little. 
Conscription (as intimated last week) is a der¬ 
nier resort. The success of the Insurgents, 
dissatisfact ion of the Spaniards, onerous, taxes 
and financial embarrassments are resulting in 
general demoralization. The commercial situ¬ 
ation grows every day worse, aud whatever is 
realized from the sale of the sugar crop seems 
to he finding investment abroad. There aro 
indications of a general stampede from the 
country of those who are able to leave and 
realize means enough to live on while away. 
Execution ofthe Prohibitory Law In Boston, f 
Feu. 4, Youngs Hotel, the Sherman House, 
and the Tremont House were visited at 3 
o’clock, and a seizure was at once made, all the 
wines and liquors behind the bar were taken, 
with all in the wine-room,except what was In 
decanters labeled with the owners’ names. The 
lot Included many bottles of wine marked on ] 
the list as high as #10, including fine old Ma- 
delras of 1818, and port and brandy from 30‘to J 
50 years old. The State Police say the liquors 
and wines seized were worth about $6,0uo. 
Bill for Regulating New York Railroads. 
Assembly,man Davis has introduced a pro 
rata freight hill applicable to all tlie railroads 
of the State, requiring each road on the 1st of 
March of each year to publish its rates of 
freight for tlie entire year, which shall not he 
altered. It also limits the passenger fare on 
every road to two cents a mile, and prohibits 
the Issuing of free passes to any public official. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
On tlie suggestion of tlie German Chancellor 
the Council of State la considering a proposal 
for establishing a Central Meteorological Bu¬ 
reau for all Germany, with the espeeial design 
of making the empire independent of that of 
tlie Observatoire NaHonnle of Paris, on the 
‘‘Bulletin" of Which Its scientific men have 
hitherto mainly relied. It Is in contemplation • 
not merely to establish by means of the tele¬ 
graph regular intorehange of observations be¬ 
tween Germany and America, but to use these 
especially for the study of the passage of storms j 
across the Atlantic, as well as between Ireland 
and the Baltic, the subject being one on which 
tho Bulletin International of the Paris Observ¬ 
atory, added to the records of Groat Britain, 
have of late thrown remarkable light. 
The Budget Committee have voted to recom¬ 
mend the appropriation of #.'00.000 for repair¬ 
ing the damage done during the last days of 
the Cnnunure to public buildings In Paris, In- 
eluding the Tuileries and Palais Royal. 
A special dispatch from Berlin says that 
alarming reports are current In that, city con¬ 
cerning the relations between Germany and 
France. 
A special dispatch from St. Petersburg says 
that Russia has refused to send goods to the 
Exhibition to ho hold in Philadelphia In 1876. 
alleging that It Is a private undertaking. 
The majority of Hie Havana merchants are 
doing business on a gold basis. 
Rear-Admiral Heath of,Hit- British Navy as¬ 
serts that Captain Robertson of the Loch Earn 
lias a mistaken impression of tho law when be 
says that just, before tlie collision with the 
Villedu Havre the law required him to put the 
helm to port. He was empowered by Art. 19 
of the Maritime Regulations to depart from 
the rules where necessary to avoid immediate 
danger. 
A telegram from London states that Prof. 
Anderson, the well-known conjuror, is dead. 
Gen. Dorregarray succeeds Gen. Elio as Chief 
of Staff to Don. Carlos. Gen. Elio is disabled 
by rheumatism. 
In the British elections the Conservatives 
have a net gain of 34 members. About 3-7ths 
of all the members of the House of Commons 
have been returned. 
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improvements. Tlie country is well supplied 
with stock, cat tle and horses; sheep very scarce, 
owing to our farmers giving upraising them, 
for good reasons to themselves. This was for¬ 
merly a very large sheep growing section. Our 
people are about, to add to their crops, fruits 
and vegetables, which will he very profitable, 
we think, more especially as we are canning 
them where they are grown, for shipping. IVe 
have, so far, a very mild winter; ice two inches 
thick for only two days; our river open, and 
vessels continually plying, carryi nggrain,wood, 
sawed timber, ground sumac and barks, &<:. 
The panic that shook your city like an earth¬ 
quake, was scarcely felt In this section. Tell 
your people who know how to make cheese and 
can’t find a good opening, to hunt our section. 
None of us know how, but if some good man 
or men will locate down here and open a fac¬ 
tory, we Mill help Dint out by supplying him 
with milk and in any other way ise can. There 
are many fine locations in our county and all 
over tidewater Virginia, and our people are 
anxious to see good citizens from every sec¬ 
tion, and will give them a kind reception.— 
Observer. 
Lyndouville, Vt., Feb. 3 The January part, 
was a regular coquette—the veriest Miss “ Ba - 
bar*" In her palmiest, days was never mots 
strange. The weather was mild -many days 
really spring-like during the month. Some 
days the thermometer indicated as high as 
73’ in the sun. During a rain storm 1 noticed 
the mercury stood at 45 . Much of the time 
buggleawere In general use, t he hills more or 
less destitute of snow, and the atmosphere 
seemed more like that of April than January, 
The lion is not shilu, however. February canie 
in cold,and yesterday morning was tlie coldest 
of tho winter 40° below zero. To-day tho 
weather is moderate and snow falling. Sleigh¬ 
ing is very good at. present ; about afoot of 
snow—more in the forests. Business isgenorally 
improving, aud tho “hard times" gradually 
wearing away. Hay is quito plentiful, and farm 
stock la looking well. Beef, wool and farm 
products in demand, r. w. s. 
Hrldgevllle, hitmen Co., Del., Fell, I. Shall I 
toll you of our season, away down in this Pen¬ 
insula, where wo grow tho finest peaches in 
the world for the Jfew York market, aud other, 
fruits proportionately One ? Our autumn was 
a delightful one, ending with a little cold spell. 
December and January line; manypeact. grow¬ 
ers have been cultivating their orchards up to 
Felt. 1st, which opened with a now storm and 
closed with a magnificent sleet. Now all inani¬ 
mate nature is lowing and chattering beneath 
its gorgeous trappings and Jeweled livery. Old 
folks say (hat such a sleet in February brings 
an unprecedented apple crop. Happy are w’e 
to see it come. Money scarce, though prices 
aro good. Corn, 75c. bush.; wheat, #3; oats, 
50c.; potatoes, $1 .—m. r. ,j. 
Harlem Spring*, O,, Feb. 2.—Winter unusual¬ 
ly open and warm thus far for this locality- 
Heavy rainfalls and very little snow. Ther- 
motneter down to zero but once or twice. Stock 
not well stabled and cared for look had, from 
the fact t hat the ground being bare and muddy 
they refuse to eat. Hay and corn crop good 
last season. Potatoes almost an entire failure. 
Tlie late financial crisis has affected us quito 
sensibly ; fortunately, we have experienced no 
actual suffering, but it has slackened business 
generally. Horse market seemingly dull; 
no sales at any price. Fat sheep are worth from 
#4.50 to $5. Not many cattle raised here ; prin¬ 
cipal products are woof and horses.—J. n. l. 
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SEMI-BUSINESS PARAGRAPHS. 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
New London, O., Feb. 2.— On the 6th day of 
January a flue and steady rain commenced to 
fall, and continued to so fall till the evening of 
the 7th day, when it changed to snow and con¬ 
tinued till the next morning about 0 o'clock. 
Snow fell about five inches, but the One rain 
that fell, changing to ice as it touched tree, 
shrub, fence or earth, can hardly he measured 
by tons. Indeed, none of the oldest settlers of 
Ohio ever saw such an ice “ crtW/ier” before. 
The Oaks had limbs as large t hrough as a man's 
body wrenched from their crowns and hurled 
to the ground ; tall, slim Maples were snapped 
in twain like pipe stems; large Elms, Beech 
aud other trees were torn down at the roots: 
peach trees were snapped off by t he t housands; 
old apple trees were parted in the middle and 
laid flat on the earth’s bosom ; cherry trees and 
shade trees all tell the sad tale of Ohio’s second 
great glacial period. The forest Is one com¬ 
plete brush heap, made up with small limbs, 
large limbs and whole trees, and the damage 
done to forest and fruit trees can hardly he 
estimated. The ice belt did not reach much 
further West than this county—It being snow 
lu the west part of the Plate. In the forenoon 
of the 8th. as the sun came out, the scene was 
most beautiful—but beautiful at a most fearful 
cost. No lady ever glistened and sparkled be¬ 
neath a load of diamonds and opals as did the 
bending boughs of the trees; hut ike continual 
crash heard on Wednesday front orchard and 
forest tells most plainly that embellishments 
may be purchased at too great a price.—Bosa- 
nkll Post. 
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THE MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Monday, Feb. 9,1874. 
Receipts.—The receipts of the principal kinds of 
produce for the past week are as follows 
Cotton, bales. 31,765 Hops, bales...-. 779 
Dried Fruits, pigs. 647 Pork, bbls.. .. 1,920 
Flour, bbls.... 66,520 Beet, pkss. 355 
Wheat, bush. 697,500 Cut meats, pkgs... 11.885 
Corn, bnsb. 315,800 Lard. tee., . . 7,125 
Oats, busk . 199,500 Butter, tikgs. 14,505 
Grass seed, busli... l.TBo Cheese, pfcgs. 12,600 
Rye. bush ......... 16.700 Peanuts, bags. 1,836 
Barley, bush. l'.sfifl Ivggs, bbls. 4.405 
Beans, bush. 5,3ft Malt, buBh. 12 10 
Corn lueal, bbls.... 2,730 Dressed Hoirs. No.. 9.855 
Corn meal. bags.,. 5,185 Wool bales. 1,146 
Bruns nntl Peas.—Exports of beans, past week, 
400 bbls.; Ot peas, 2.300 busfi. Buyers have kept up a 
pretty steady attendance in the beau market, and 
prices are a allude stronger for Hit test erodes of 
mediumsupd marrows. Common and medium qual¬ 
ity parcels are no stronger, as in- are likely to have 
I au ndditolp of those clauses •, t stork. Pea bean-are 
firm. Kidney* arc not lareclr inquired for. and it 
would bo dltbenlt to obtain full old figures, even If 
stoek were of better quality. Canadian pens tire 
sleiidy at former prices. Green peas .oo active, with 
several round sales, southern l). K. peas scarce aud 
high 
Tin-quotations are For new media ms. f2.l0ta2.2l) 
for prime, and iLfflad-M lor other guides: prime mar¬ 
rowfats. *3.3tx5*‘J.46: other grades. ?2tg>2.10: prime pea 
beans, #2,46®?.Ml: do. fair lots down to f2.Iflf.'.'.'.'(lj 
kidney.red.ft.50ft-:;.Gb; kidney white. f2.35.<s‘.'.7&. Peas, 
neiv Canadian, in bbls. iiTS&s j _v); rlo„ In bulk, 
f 1.08® 1.19- Green, now. 8l.7fil,'l.7S: old. $Ltt)@1.6u, 
Southern B. E. peas. fa.togtS.C0 : c 2 bush.bag. 
E**ex Co., Va. t Jan. 25.—Our crops for a few j 
years have been short; but prospects are much 
brighter for us. People are steadily improving 
their losses; corn is selling at 75@80c. per bush,; 
wheat, |l.flOS1.8Q ; land, according to 
Bceswnx—Suoplles have been further worked 
down, and prices have hardened. Bleachers have 
been purchasing in connection with lurther import¬ 
ant export trade, gales at 31 &<&33c. for Western and 
Southern. 
Broom Corn,--Dealers continue to mime full old 
