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It is stated that the weight of the ?arth is 5,855,000,000,000,000 tons. Such statistics as these are calculated to make the president of a fat men's club realize the utter smallness of human achievements. Ward, the sculptor, has completed his model of the great monument ordered by t.hi? ritv nf Rrooklvn. to commemorate , "* " """ " " */ / I the wars of the republic. It is to be a very elaborate structure of granite and bronze, eighty feet in height, and will cost from $250,000 to $300,000. The suffering and loss of cattle in the Southwest the past winter will tend to revolutionize the cattle business, thinks j i Kansas rancher, who further says that ' public sentiment is against large herds, and, as the country is rapidly settling np, the herds must be made smaller and receive better care. An experiment in tea culture has been made at Auburn, Placer county, Cal., where a plantation was set out some fears ago. There are about fifty teaplants which have for several years been producing tea that is pronounced of ^ood quality. Further experiments will De made with tea-seed, and the result rill be watched with interest. Milling is another interest that is improving in the South. During last yea* tearly 150 mills have been erected in the Southern States, not including grist nills. A Southern manufacturing ex? jhange thus summarizes the year's work: 1 Arkansas and Mississippi have erected one mill each; Alabama, 2; South Carolina, B; West Virginia, 7; Maryland, 9; North Carolina, 10; Georgia, 17; Texas, 18; Virginia, 20; Tennessee, 24; Kentucky, 11. ______ The railway cars of Ru sia are among ihe most commodious in the world. They resemble ours rather than the compartnent cars in use elsewhere in Europe, but In Russia the aisle is shifted to one side 10 that the seat3 on the left will accommodate three passengers, side by side, ind those on the right but one. This is especially convenient, when the car is act crowded, in night travel. The end ioors of the car, instead of opening upon the platform, lead into a small enclosed vestibule, whence doors open out at right ind left. H j It is said that capitalists ave seriously ; contemplating the utilization of the | A.leutan islands for cattle-raising pur- I poses. These islands form. a portion of the territory extending out in the western chain across the extreme north of the j Pacific ocean almost to the Asiatic continent. Their total area is 8,000 square miles, of which at least one-fourth, or more than 1,250,000 acres consists of luxuriant pasture. The lowest temperature since 1$30 has been one degree above zero. Cattle can be shipped to San Francisco for $10 a head. No fencing would be .necessary, the pastures being sea-girt. A Washington correspondent tells of a death there recently which is sensational j in its details. A young doctor, hand- j lorae, strong and of great promise, was called to attend a lady in a carriage at ! his door. Receiving no answer to his greeting to his patient, he thought she had fainted. He stepped into her coups and found her already a corpse. He drove by. the side of the dead woman to her house and thence to the hospital, where he was expected to participate in a meeting of the managers. Apologizing to his colleagues for his lateness, he related his ghastly experience. Then remarking, <4I feel faint," he fell, struck dead by paralysis. t n ?, "".nit: diipuucsu, suva j.iuiurc} uu uuj i appear to have lost any of their faith in : the efficacy of vaccination for the small- ' pox. They have just enacted a stringent law on the subject, for, beside ordinary vaccination in the first year of infancy, it provides for at least two subsequent revaccinations at intervals of from five to seven years, so that by the time the child has reached its fifteenth year it will have been vaccinated three times. Beside, during epidemics of smallpox, local, authorities have power, when they deem it necessary, to order the vaccination of ail the inhabitants of their district, irrespective of the vaccination required by the law. < An Illinois farmer was prosecuted for cutting off the horns of his caftle. Eminent doctors testified that it was a cruel barbarous and unnecessary practice. On the other hand, one farmer said he had dehorned thousands of cattle, and, except for the momentary pain, which was slight, they did not suffer from the operation. Dehorned cattle consumed at least one-fourth less food than those whose horns were left 011 the head, more of them could be crowded into a shed, and the strong could not drive the weak from the food. A score of local farmers swore that they had been converted to dehorning, and believed it human and advisible. The humane society withdrew the suit. , It is said that the favorite recreation of the czar consists in wrestling with his brothers, of whom Vladimir and Alexis can well match him in herculean strength; his food is of the plainest, his amusements are i nsipid to a degree. At the favorite resort of the imperial couple in the palace of Gatchina, the czar surrounds himself with a dozen or so of his favorite noblemen, and they pass all the evening in playing cards at reasonable stakes and smoking cigarettes, entirety unrestrained by the presence of the cmpress and the grand duchesses, some ol whom smoke also. All floors being made in the Russian fashion of inlaid oak. the czar and his partners often forget to avail themselves of ash-holderi and throw the half-finished cigarettes ?bout them on the floor. The subjcct of baldness is once more under discussion, and we are told, remarks the Boston Courier, that one-haifof all | American men, above the age of thirty, are partially bald; and, as this characI j.?:_i-_ 4.1. ?? -u? I IVliSLlU IS UUC LU LUU5U I11USL iltVClJ lt> uc J transmitted from father to son, it is fair to suppose that a few generations hence adult Americans with hair on their pates will be rare. There are, of course, the usual speculations to the effect that the excessive mental activity of our people is believed to be the chief cause of this baldness, while it is added that a medical authority advises against wearing the hat so continuously, as many men do, and the wearing at any time of an unventilated hat. All of which is most improving and instructive, and all of which will have no possible effect upon the course we are pursuing. The idea of a bald-headed race of men is not an especiallv attractive one: but it maybe that ^ t ^ with the change will come a taste for it, so that a man with hair on his scalp will be regarded as only fit for the dime museum. The Zoarites are a very peculiar people, who live in Ohio and hold the property in common. They are as odd as the Shakers or the Oneida community. Their views of property are much the same as those bodies hold, but their practices as to married life are different. The community had its origin about seventy-five years ago in Wurtemburg, Germany. For a good while after the colony came to this country marriage was considered an irregularity. The cholera of 1832 made frightful rnvno-ps amonjr them. Thc.y *"S~ o? CJ tlien began to consider tlie propriety of marriage. They esteemed it wrong to to go outside and contract marriages among the world's people, and so they married among themselves. They are now the largest and most prosperous communistic society in the United States,and arc exceedingly thrifty in their business affairs. They own ten or twelve thousand acres of land, and are superior farmers and millers. They believe in a millenium of peace and glory, prior to which | the gospel will be preached all*over the world. Their religious services are much the same as those of the leading Protestant denominations. A horrible affair at Portempedocle, i near Girgenti, Italy, gives an illustration of the use of the knife in the island of i Sicily. Two butchers, father and son, of the name of Indelicato, who kept a shop ' in that town, not long since took two brothers named Alfonso and Giovanni i Cannetoni into partnership, , to enable them the better to compete with a rival establishment. At first there was a great show of friendship between the partners, i but before long the Cannetonis began to \ trade in lambs' carcasses separately on i their own account, and disagreements ; arose, which ultimately led to a collision between Baldassare Indelicato, and Al- j fonso Cannetoni. They drew their J butcher's knives from their belts on each j other. Alfonso aimed a well-directed i blow at Baldassare. He parried it with [ * 1 **' ?L 2 ?am 4-T\ r\ Kama ins icn arm, wincu wits cut iv mc uuut, j ancf at the same instant drove liis knife | | into the heart of Alfonso, who fell dead i on the spot. At that 'moment a young , son of Alfonso, aged nineteen, came up with a bludgeon to his father's assistance. Baldassare struck him to the ground, and then cut his throat across, "as he would have slaughtered a sheep." Mad with rage, Baldassare then rushed into the shop, and taking Giovanni, the brother of Alfonso, by surprise, "killed him with a .slash across the abdomen before he had i even time to cry 'God help me!'" Turning then to leave the shop, he inflicted a serious wound on a person just entering. "All this occurred within the space of four minutes, the result of the collisou being three persons killed and two wounded. Life in Other Spheres. 11 Proctor argues that every celestial body ! must at some time pass through a life- j supporting period which must be very short compared with the duration of the world's own 'existence. Concerning the date of the life era in other words than ours he remarks: 4'In the presence of time-intervals seen to be at once infinitely 1 great and infinitely little ? infinitely great compared with the duration of our earth, infinitely little by comparison with , the eternities amid which they are lost? i what reason can we have, when viewing any orb in space from our little earth, for ' saying now is the time when that orb is, ] like our earth, the abode of life? Why should life on that orb synchronize "with < life on the earth? Are not, on the con- 1 trary, the chances infinitely great againsi such a coincidence? If, as Holmholtz j has well said, the duration of life on our < earth is but the minutest ripples in the infinite ocean of time, and the duration of life on any other planet of like minute- ; ness, what reason can we have for supposing that those remote, minute, and no i way associated waves of life must needs be abreast of each other on the infinite ocean whose surface they scarcely ripple? It is more probable that life is wanting than that life exists at this present time. Nevertheless, it is at least as probable that every member of every order?planet, sun, galaxy,and so onward to higher and higher orders endlessly?has been, is now, or will hereafter be, life-supporting 'after its kind.' A Singular Necrology. A very singular succession of deaths among the men who have been candidates for the Presidency or Vice-Presidency of | the United States nas iouowea uicuemise of General Grant. That event occurred on July 28 of last year. Since then some one candidate who has run in every presidential election since 18G4 has passed away, as will be seen by this grouping: LSI>4?General George B. McClellan, Dem ocratic candidate against Liocoln. 1808?Horatio Seymour, Demoertic candidate against General Grant. 18158 General U. S. Grant. 1872?Ex-Governor B. Grantz Brown, of Missouri, Democratic candidate for VicePrdsident on the Greeley ticket. lSTtj?Ex-Governor Thomas A. Hendricks, Democratic candidate for Vice-President on the ticket with Mr. Tilden. 1880?General Winfield ?S. Hancock, Democratic candidate for the Presidency against General J. A. Garfield. 1884?Thomas A Hendricks, elected VicePresident on the Democratic ticket witl) | Grover Cleveland. HORATIO SEMI T? i A t il 1 TTJ massing Away quietly at uuca , After a Brief illness. 1 i A Sketch of His Long and Eventful , Political Career. I t i The death of Horatio Seymour, so closely following that of General Hancock, brought : to an earthly close within less than a week the e *ives of two Democratic candidates for Presi- j dent. Ex-Governor Seymour died at Utica, N. Y., on the 12th, at the residence of his ( sister, Mrs. Roscoe Conkling. Ha died after f a brief illness, the cause of his death ^ being cerebral effusion, the usual process of death in old age. Those present when he passed away were: Mrs. Seymour and her j _ 1 Tir _ /* "XT T> XT- t sisier, iurs. i^ieisuu, ox liuw crunswicK, iv 1 J.; the ex-governor's brother, John F. Sey- 1 mour, of Utica; his sisters, Mrs. Lincklaen t and Mrs. Conkling; Dr. W. E. Ford and c Judge Bulger. 5 The beginning of Governor Seymour's physical ailments dates from a sunstroke which ? befell him in the summer of 1876, while he j( was industriously at work on the roads of his town as pathmaster, an office which he 0 was wont to say he had asked for. h He exerted himself beyond his strength in extreme heat, and the c gonsequence was a severe attack of vertigo, (j With pain in the head and some irregularity j, of the heart. It left him weak, and always r afterward his walking was less easy, and on ^ occasions he was unsteady while standing on jj his feet. He accepted the stroke as a warn- sj ing, and he never felt that he completely recovered from it. At the time of his death his wife was also very sick. N j Governor Seymour's Career. Horatio Seymour was in his seventy-sixth tj year, and for the last thirty years of his life e has been one of the most widely known of t< the Democrats of the country, scarcely a M national convention having been held dur- ^ ing that time in which his name was not a mentioned as a possible candidate for the presidency. He was born in Pompey, Onondaga county, N.Y.,May31, 1810. His father, Henry Seymour, was one of the leading men of the little village, and took an active j>art g< in the politics of the State. When Horatio cl was atxmtnine years old his parents removed to Utica. The boy was sent to the academies a1 of Oxford and Geneva, New York. When in his fifteenth year his father, ^ hoping to benefit his health, sent him to a w militarv Kfhnnl at Mifldlfltnwn. Conn. ttpra t. he gained health and strength, studied hard, q and improved rapidly. After leaving the ni school he studied law in Utica, and in ^ 1823 he was admitted to the bar. At about the same time he was married to Miss Mary Bleecker, of Albany, a young lady of many accomplishments. His father dying he e,l never entered actively upon the practice of . his profession, his time being fully occupied in the management of his own large estate and that of his wife. y< Governor William L. Marcv in 1833, ap- a: pointed Mr. Seymour on his military st staff, a position which he held for six fo years. In 1841 he was elected to the assembly as a Democrat. The assembly fi] Df 1842, in which he took his seat, a included such men as Michael Hoffman, ]ji John A. Dix, Sandford E. Church and Calvin 0t T. Hubbard among its leaders, but Horatio Seymour took a position in the front rank from the first, surprising even his at friends bv the nroficiencv which he disnlaved in the science of legislation. Returning w to Utica after the session he jt] was elected mayor of that city. The following winter he was again nominated for the assembly, and was re-elected in 1844, n and made speaker of the house for the session of 1846. An exciting session of the legislature followed, in whicn the bill for a al constitutional convention was passed, and the Democracy was disrupted from one end of C the State to the other. m For the next Ave years Horatio Seymour w remained quietly at lis home in Utica, ei taking no active part in politics. In 1850, however, when his party was in a hopeless minority, he was induced to accept the Democratic nomination for governor, a, and after a very vigorous campaign was y. defeated by Washington Hunt, the Whig e> candidate, by the scant majority of 2621 In 1S52, however, he again ran against the same opponent and Tompkins, the Free Soil candidate. and this time he was successful, being ?l elected by a plurality of 22,506. He entered 1S upon his first term as governor during one of & the most exciting periods in the history of New " York. The advocates of temperance had gained a strong hold in the minds of the voters, in aixu were umujurmg luuuiy iul u smuguuu i" prohibitory law modeled oa that which had oi recently been passed in Maine. The legisla- T ture of 1854 passed such a law, and Governor 3i Seymour promptly vetoed it on the ground ai that it was unconstitutional His ac tion cost d< him his seat. He was renominated in the tl fall of 1854, and ran against a Prohibitionist, ei a Know-Nothing, and a Free Soil candidate, ci The Prohibitionist, Myron H. Clark, was ei elected by a plurality of 309 votes, and Governor Seymour again retired to private life. ^ Events were fast moving onward to the iE great crash of 1801. Mr. Seymour was of- m fered a foreign mission aft3r the election of e Buchanan, but declined it, and remained in rc retirement until the fall of 18G2, when the cj term of Edwin D. Morgan, the Republican war governor of New York, waa nbout to close. Horatio Seymour was ^ made the Democratic nomitieo for cc governor, and General .Tames S. Wadsworth fa was his Republican opponent. Seymour made su a personal canvass of the State. Most of the ti< prominent Democratic orators had gone over se do the* Republicans, and he was forced to take nearly all the burdeu of the campaign on his own shoulders, The light was a close and bitter one. but Horatio Sevmour won it by a majority of 10,752. In his ?L inaugural address, January 1, 1S6.1, "be announced his intention of standing firmly by the government in its effort to to sustain the Union, and declared that "under Hr no circumstances can the division of the Uniw be conceded." He forwarded troops to Washington as fast as the President called n svard, and Horatio Seymour was held up as professing himself a "friend" of the riocers, ns but he never replied to the attacks or denied A the words. In forty-eight hours the riot was at put down, but mauy rioters were shot before \y this was accomplished. SI Governor Seymour presided over the Demo- p< eratic convention of 18G4, which nominated g< General McClellan for the presidency, aud a also over that of 1868, held in this city, by al which Seymour was nominated to contest vj for the prize against General Grant. He had ]a declined to accept the nomination, but j< finally consented, aud made a spirited J. personal canvass. He was defeated, Grant s, and Colfax receiving a popular vote of at S.013,188, against 2,70:-$,600 for Seymour and mi_- -l?t 1 Cranf. 4?U oiair. 1 tit) ficLwutu vum: o u>uu. ? h? and Seymour 80?a majority of 134 for Grant. Aftor his defeat Seymour made up j for them, aud undertook to garrison the forti- ^ flcations of New York with State militia, g, The troops were actually on the move from the interior when on July 13 the order was countermanded at the request of General , Wool. That day the terriblo draft riots began. Governor Seymour was at Long Branch, but he hurried to the city, and on the 14th issued two proclamations, one calling on the rioters to disperse and the other declaring E the city in a state of insurrection. He divided the city into districts, sc placed under tho control of military men, who were ordered to organize the eitiZens, and 3,000 stand of arms were issued to jJ( these and other organizations. The governor visited the riotous districts in person, and by persuasion as well as by the use of force aided n in quelling the disturbance. Intone of these addresses in front of the (Jity Hail he saiu to si the rioters: "I beg you to listen to me as a friend, for I am your }] friend and the friend of your families." iS, This form of speech was often quoted afterhis mind never to run for office again. He was named in every Democratic national coil- a vention after 1808, but was not again nomi- j a nated. In 1870 the State convention nominated I him for governor, but ho peremptorily de- j clined, and Governor Robinson ivas substituted for him. He had resided quietly at his n' home in Deerlleld, occasionally writing arti- a( cles on political subjects and advocating the es policy of free canals and addressing agricultural societies. He was for years president, of the National Dairymen's association and of the Prison association of the United b< States. al ~ v< Mr. Sutho, of California, is ahouo h( build an aquarium l:U) feet in diameter in oi the bay of San Francisco. It will contain cc every sort of sea raaemone. mosses aud shell st fish. ai . ' ' v i w I NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. From New England and the Middle States eportsshow considerable damage to prop;ity by the recent heavy rains. pHiPT T?C TTrotJlf i V*T nrno knnn>A/l of Rllf AiriXVXi.HAil 11 HOO UUU^CU WW A-TIA4. 'alo, N. Y., on the 12th for wife-murder. The prolonged rain caused a number of ^ew Jersey rivers to overflow their banks, ind considerable damage was done to prop, >rty in and about Rahway, New Brunswick rrenton, and other localities. The New York delegation in Congress idopted resolutions of regret at the death of ix-Govcrnor Seymour, and appointed a comnittee of four to represent the delegation at he funeral in Utica. Messages of regret at the death of exiovernor Seymour were received at Utica rom President Cleveland, Governor Hill, jamuel J. Tilden and many others. The losses by freshets in Eastern Contecticut will exceed $ 1,000,000. Nearly the en- < ire eastern end of the State was inundated. Ground Boston 10.000 people were rendered : emporarily homeless, and the losses are upward of ?3,000,000. J A strike for increased wages, begun by ' he operatives of the Amoskeag mills, Manhester, N. H., on the 15th, threw more than ! ,000 people out of employment. J John' B. Gough, the well known temper- ( nee lecturer, was stricken with apoplexy in Philadelphia on the 15th while delivering a , jcture. . The subscriptions for the benefit of 1 General Hancock's widow up to late date 1 ad reached about $30,000. At the National Agricultural and Dairy : onvention, held in New York,more than fifty elegates were present. Various papers bear3g on agricultural and dairy matters were 1 ead, and a committee was appointed to urge f tio passage of a bill by Congress appropriate | lg 615,000 to each "State for experiment 1 Nations. ' Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour's fu- : eral at Utica was attended by Governor [ill. Lieutenant-Governor Jones, a delega- , ion from the New York legislature, nuraer- 7 us State officials, and many oihers. From le Trinity Episcopal church, in which the xercises were held, the body was conveyed j Forest Hill cemetery. Memofial exercises rere also held in the Utica Opera house:[avor Kinney presiding. Governor Hill . nd others eulogized the deceased. , i South and West. ( Sheriff Fonte, of Loudon couuty, Tenn., 1 oes to to ttie penitentiary eighteen years lor aeating in prison accounts. ; Old "Dad" Freeman. (colored) who died \ I Detroit, Mich., a rew weeks ago, aged 123 j ears, is eclipsed by Andrew Lucas, (also . ilored), who claims to be 127 years old. He * as born a slave in the family of General ( ackson, whom he accompanied to New j rleans as a body servant and there wit- ( essed the defeat of tho British. Lucas ^ leaped as a slave to Canada in 1812, where a still resides. j A fire at Flagstaff, Arizona, has laid the f itire business portion of the town in ruins. \ ne man perished in the flames. Aggregate 1 >sses, $100,000. Timothy IV he la n\ aged twenty-three 3ars, struck his father on the bead with an c c at San Francisco, Cal., killing him in- t antly. He then stabbed himself, probably itally. 1 Four small children were trying to build a e re on Tangier island in Chesapeake bay when can of kerosene exploded, and two of the ttle ones w?re burned to death and the ;har two fatally injured, A passenger coach attached to a train on ie Ohio Central railroad jumped the track ll ; Ten Mile Trestle, W. Va., and plunged to the Kanawha river. Several persons oro L-illorl ntirl Violf ? fln-mri rpnro curiniislv i jured. | 0 The counties lying along the Tombigbee a ver in Alabama have been visited by an irthquake. Chimneys were thrown down, j ockery smashed, and families camped out . 1 night, afraid to re-enter their houses. 11 The great McCormick Reaper works, P hicago, have closed down, throwing 1,400 tl ien out of employment. The suspension as caused by a threatened strike against the nployment of non-union men. j1 Washington. I Secretary Whitney, Admirals Porter id Simpson, and others, at the request of ie House committee on naval affairs, have h ^pressed their views before that body relave to the reconstruction of the navy. ! A Washington special says that the pres- b ire upon the lands of the Indian Territory so strong that no doubt the present Con- f, [ ess will adopt some legislation looking to . leir owning to settlement. Zi The total receipts of the patent office dur- 0 ig the past year were $1,188,089, and the ex- si ;nditures were $1,024,3714, leaving a oalance y : receipts over expenditures of $1(>:-5,710. ? he number of applications received was. " >,717; the number of caveats filed was 2,552.. D id the number of issues was 25,65)1. 01 o jniestic patents issued New York received ( le largest number?4,532, or one patent to reiy 1,121 of her population; but Connecti- ? it, with 1,011 patents, had one patent to rerv 615 persons. [ John Q. Cannon, late delegate in Con- j ress from Utah, and for a year past in hidig, has been arrested by a United States larshal at Winnsnmcca. Nev., under the b dmunds law against polygamy. Cannon is t< igarded as the leading mind in the Mormon t( lurch. The House silver committee, by a vote of . sven to five, determined to report adversely b [r. Bland's bill for the free and unlimited linage of silver. A proposition to report v vorably Mr. Waite's bill for the immediate spension of silver coinage was also lost by a a } vote?six to six?one member being ab- 8 nt. Sl The House ways and means committee has lopted a joint resoluti. i directing the sectary of the treasury to apply the surplus >ove $1(X),(K)0,000 to the liquidation of the S1 terest-bearing public debt. g Tuk eonllilitteO on invalid pensions agreed a report favorably the bills repealing tho nitation of time within which militiamen ? n complete and present their claims, and creasing the rate of pension for total deaf- $ >ss of both ears from $14 to $2U a month. r The Fresideut lias sent tne following nomi- a itions of jHjstmasters to the Senate: Chaj. . White, at Gardiner, Me.; George O.Guild, . Bellows Falls, Vt.; Dennis D. Dinan, at 1( 'estborough, Mass.; Joseph H. Wilder, at 'X lelburne Falls, Mass.; William J. v si jusler, at Flemington, N. J.; M. O. S1 wdoin, at Griffin, Ga.; J. W. Renfroe, at tlanta. Ca.: Thomas J. Francisco, at Cuy loga Falls, Ohio; George Moore, at Steuben- o lie, Ohio; Nathaniel 8. Bates, at Rensse- | er, Iud.; A. T. Bitters, at Rochester, Ind.; >seph Ed el brock, at St. Cloud, Minn.; James Russell, at Muscatine, Iowa; Frank B. nith, at Wichita, Kan.; Samuel E. Rigg, Beatrice, Neb. rj Numerous inquiries arebeiug made on beilf of loyal citizens whose slaves were enifceci into the service of the United States iring the late war as to their right ^ compensation for such slaves. General P ntler has declared that these claims are per- ^1 ctly legal. There is a fund of $9,000,000 id to be available for the payment of such s aims. e: tl Foreign. d Striking hosiery operatives at Leicester, tl ugland, attacked and sacked several houses, j any }>olicemen were injured, and twenty ven rioters arrested. The Canadian government has expended ^ 10,000 in relieving distressed settlers and ^ ilf-breeds in the Northwest territory. j. Twelve alleged dynamiters have been ar- v ;stod in Madrid. t a rebellion* in Kordofan, Egypt, is as- ^ lining large dimensions. n Two Americans have been cxpelle.l from ^ [olstein, Prussia, for "having made them Ives troublesome to the authorities." The Dublin corporation has adopted reso- t itions demanding home rule for Ireland, u nd expressing reliance on Mr. Gladstone's (] liilitv fcn iihhnin if n A revolution' is in progress in Uruguay. * Int Ireland 359 Presbyterian congregations, Limbering altogether 323,100 persons, have iopted resolutions denouncing the project of itablishiug home rule in the country. ^ ? i ( Mr. Blaxd. of silver-bill fame, is a man t . low the medium height, and would weigh ,s .knit 150 pounds. He has a hoarse, deep jice aud a rather dull style of oratory, yet i has a dogged persistence and a continuity fi ' purpose which explain his success. His n miplexion is very sallow and marked with n roug shades. His eyes are intensely black a id deep-set, a . '' "i/\.. V- '* ? V'\v'. .' millions un T 1 Disastrous Result of the Recent Heavy Inundations. : " ~ i lur nu:?? nn Tn^j~;i uictiiy uititjb ttuu j.uwiio xiuuueuj ( and Great Damage Done, The greatest rainfall ever known in New ' Eugland has been followed by widesdread ( disaster and ruin unprecedented in the memory of th9 oldest inhabitants. The iamage amounts to many millions in Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Most citiea and towns in those sections were almost entirely isolated. 1 In the Cape districts hardly a bridge is left. < The Boston and Albany was the only rail- ' road running trains to the south or west of Boston and then only by transferring pas- i sengers at washouts. Scores of bridges on < the Old Colony and New York aud New i England'railroads are gone and the washouts ] are simply innumerable. At Taunton,Mass.. hundreds of families were flooded out, aua j many buildings were undermined and threat- < cm art hi fninihlft l'ntrt tVio vncrincr flnnd THo i Whittonton mills, containing #200,000 worth 1 of goods, were saved only by blowing out a passage for the water with dynamite and i blowing up a portion of the Worden mills. The damage was estimated at $300,000. The loss at Providence, R. I., and vicinity is put at $1,000,000, and at Woonsocket, R. I., *70,000. Roxbury, Mass., a suburb of Boston, was the greatest sufferer by the flood. Two square miles of the city were uuder water from two to eight feet. Nearly a thousand houses were partly inundated, and the damige inflicted was estimated at more than $500,000. At Franklin, Mass., in addition to the immense losses resulting from the floods the large Cumberland dam of the Pawtucket water-works, built last fall, was swept away, causing a further loss of $100,000. In the Hudson river and the Mohawk river valleys of New York State the damage Tn-Anr?Vi4- Vvtt Ar\/-,r\c f a Km"/-I iyao ^onfmnAO nn/1 v IYIUU^UU uj iiwuuo w lav^ivnco nuu j )ther property will aggregate hundreds of c Jiousauds. The flood at Troy, N. Y.,isthe c nost disastrous ever know there, even eclipsng the great flood of 1837. It is difficult to 1 ;stimate the damage done, but it will not be t ess than half a million of dollars. ' c At Deposit, McL, the gorge at the mouth of e ;he Susquehanna river broke and the ice be- g ;an moving freely out into the Chesapeake c jay. The sudden rise resulted more disas- t Tously than any that has occurred for many I ,rears. The lumber yards aud wharves were C vashed out completely. Immense quantities i )f lumber were earned away. At Harris- f )urg, Penn., and in fact all alon^ the Susquehanna river the damage inflicted was I rery heavy. 1 At St. Louis duge masses or moving ice I \ lave greatly injured property along the river ( ront. Nearly every boat along the wharves I vasshoved upon the levee and grounded, c rhe river then arose Ave feet, and the boats vere once more afloat. . I Throughout the eastern part of Connecti- c ait the losses by freshets will aggregate more a han $1,000,000. J Tho losses in and around Boston, where c ,000 farms were temporarily homeless, were ( sstimated at $3,000,000. lateOews." $ J A Chinaman was found in a Waterbury * Conn.) laundry suffering from leprosy. c Reports received indicato that the loss of 1 attle in Western Kansas and Eastern Col* ^ rado by the terribly cold weather will j mount to 25,000 head- t The body of a clergyman named Jesse B. f k- i - f -i ?ii-i- S iraay was iounu nuaung mm tue n_o 1 the Mississippi, near St. Louis. From apers found in his possession it was clear I hat the deceased had committed suicide. The House committee on coinage, weights r nd measures, by a vote of seven to six, has t lid on the table the bill providing for a sus- 0 ension of the coinage of silver. Jj At a caucus of Republican Senators it was I ssolved not to confirm the President's nomi- I ations unless, when asked for, reasons for ? ispensions are given. Nominations are to $ e rejected when papers are refused. ' I The President has sent to the Senate the allowing additional nominations: Fendle- ^ Dn King, of North Carolina, to be secretary t f the legation of the United States at Con- s tantiuople; ex-Senator James B. Groome, of ** Taryland, to be collector of customs at Balti- v lore; I. Freeman Rasin, of Marlyand, to be aval officer at Baltimore. Frank I. Phelps, ? f Wisconsin, to be surve3rorof customs at La q ,'rosse, Wis.; Alfred B. Judd, of Wisconsin, t o be pension agent at Milwaukee, Wis.- * Villiam M. Campbell, cf Minnesota, to be 0 Jnited States marshal for the District of j linnesota. ? The sub-committee of the House commit- a E ee on postoffices, having charge of the posta' elegraph question, agreed to report adversely t o the full committee on all propositions foi ? be building or purchase of telegraph lines a .. + y tuc guvui n incut. | i, tife eighteenth annual national con- * entiou of the National Woman's Suffrage tl ssociation began in Washington on the 17th ^ leventeen States and Territories were rep re- Q] ented. b The great Ursuline convent at Laekeu. twe 'i -dies fiom Brussels. Belgium, has been detroved by lire, but the thirty nuns and 10.': ^ iris who were scholars and lodgers were al pi ived. I* M. Simon* Lock, a banker of Soleure Iwitzerland, has failed, with liabilities ol -100,(XX). Hundreds of small depositors were uined by the failure. Lock was arrested on charge of fraud. Mr. Gladstone has taken the office ol a] >rd privy seal in addition to that of premier, 'his is unusual and proves that Mr. Glad- y< tone is experiencing difficulty in securing uitable colleagues in the British cabinet. fi. The Senate has confirmed the nomination ei< A- c?4.? ?1?> nt.. tc >1 l.Tcurgij n. ntcuiiia wi uu ummi kHjw.n ??u orney for the district of Mns-ivhusetts. ELEVEN LIVES LOST. ? 'liree Life-Savers and Eight Sailors w Drowned off. Barnegat. b The Austrian bark Kraljcica, bound for i tew York with a cargo of salt from Porto ie, was driven ashore at Barnegat shoals on ti ie Now Jersey coast during the recent heavy ;orm. The shock damaged her to such an 66 stent that Captain Mateveservlue and * ie crew of thirteen seamen abanoned it and started out in ^ ie long boat in the fog for shore. Captain sc tideway, of Life Saving station 17, discov- d red the wrecked bark at daylight and lanned the large surf boat with a it row of six life savers. He pulled out ^ trough the fierce breakers to the wreck. le turned the boat back, however, ?hen he found tho bark deserted. There was a si srrific sea and every moment was perilous to it tie life savers. The crew rowed desperately to rr lake their way to shore, but just as they got rithin a hundred yards of the beach a wave :r truck tho boat broadside, overturned it in an | tj astant and flung the life savers into the sen. ! el They clung to the boat for a long time in j he desperate hope that it might be carried j R ipon the beach by the breakers. But it kept i K Irifting further aud furthc-r from shore, aud i n' t last they let go and started to swim to tho | e each. Captain Ridgway and three of tho i " i ; 1.,.+ ] W tow reaenea tno sanus , nuu muiuuwu I k>i>er, .John I. Soper aurl Foreman Perine vvre drowned. F The long boat of the bark bad di'ifted with J ho current southward eleven miles, and then vv t, too, was capsized by the tremendous seas, tl Japtain Mateveservlue and five seamen wore sc he only ones that got to shore alive. Eight eamen were drowned e: ? ? M. Packman', the Russian pianist, has ol illeu in the habit of carrying ou with his tl eurest auditors a kind of lacial ccinmentary la n what he is playing; smiling, frowning a nd grimacing, more like a clown than an n rtisfc ' , GEM". HMCOCPS FDHIBAL Simple Services in New York and at Norristown. General Hancock's body, which had been lying watched by a guard of honor in his residence on Governor's Island, was transferred to Trinity church, New York, on the 13th. Shortly Defore 8 o'clock the lid of the sofflu was closed for the Jast time and a laurel wreath brought by Colonel John H. Weeks from the Philadelphia Division of the Military Order of the Loyal Lesion, was laid npon it. The coffin was covered with black doth and bore the inscription: ; Major-General Winfield Scott Hancock,: : u. s. a., : : Born February 14,1824, : Died February 9, 1886. ; Six sergeants bearing a black cloth-covered aier came into tbe room, and placing the :offin upon it, bore the body out of the house, n e detachment of troops drawn up outside ;hen moved down the winding path to the government steamer Chester A. Arthur. As ;he cortege boarded the boat a gun from Castle William belched forth a report. Minite guns from the castle were fired until the procession reached the church. The steamer landed at the Barge office, iround which there was a dense throng. The jasket was carried ashore and placed in the nciwifmn urVtila 4- V%?k rnww?oiAn TTTOO IWUi ?UiiU UUU ^/1 W-QOOXUU UOO jeing formed on the street. It was twenty minutes to 10 o'clock when bhe word to move was given, and at that ninute it began to ram heavily. First n line were two mounted policemen; ;hen ten policemen in command of i sergeant. Following this escort was Major Jackson ana his command, :hen ten carriages, containing the mourners md pall-bearers. Behind these was the learse, the body guard marching on either iideofit. Ten carriages followed the hearse, n which were seated military and official jentlemen. ' Volunteers brought up the procession, rhey were representatives from the various J. A. R. posts; members of the Loyal legion, led by General Aspinwall, from the lancock Legion of Brooklyn; veterans of ihe Tenth N.Y. Volunteers; committeemen rom Tainmany Hall and many prominent litizens. Superintendent Murray had 900 jolicemeu on duty. The route of the prosession, up Whitehall to State, to Broadway utd tne church, was packed wi,h people. Rev. Morgan Dix, the rector, and Rev. E. 3. C. Goodwin, of Governor's Island, met he procession at the door. Promptly at 10 >'clock. the hour aDDointed. the Drocession intered the church. First came the reverend gentlemen above named, followed by the asket, borne by eight veterans in blue; next he pallbearers, then the friends of the dead. Meanwhile the large organ pealed forth Chopin's "Funeral March." The casket, )artly covered by the American flag, was de>osited outside the chancel raiL The pall-bearers, consisting of Hon. Thos. T. Bayard, Gen. Alfred H. Terry, Gen. We [*. Sherman, Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, Gen. iVilliam B. Franklin, Gen. N. A. Miles, Jen. John Newton, Gen. James B. fry, Gen. F. A. Walker, Gen. Wilox, Gen. Wm. F. Smith, Col. W. P. rVilson, Colonel Finlay Anderson, Major W. ). W. Miller and Mr. B. M. Hartshorne oc:upied the first pews to the left of the center lisle. In the third pews, on the right, were lieutenant Griffln and Mrs. Griffin, the neice >f Mrs. Hancock, with the general's grandson. )ther friends occupied pews in the rear. Among the prominent persons in the church vere Secretary of War Endicott, Colonel P. r. Yorke, Mayor Grace and the special Allermanic committee, Senator Evarts, John racob Astor, General Aspinwall, George W. Jhilds and many others. There were also leiegauons iroin me various military una ivic societies and the commercial bodies, ["here were many floral tributes from solLier and civilian friends. ' After the singing by the choir, the Rev. dr. Goodwin read the fifteenth chapter of he first Epistle to the Corinthians. Then ollowed the hymn 531, after which the choir urrounded the casket, and Rev Mr. Goodvin read the burial service. After another hymn by the choir, Rev. Dr. )ix, standing at the foot of the coffin,recited he Lord's Prayer, and concluded the service it 10.45. Then the eight soldiers carried the imains from the church, followed by the oarers, mourners and* escort, in the same rdfr in which they had entered, the bell neanwhile tolling a solemn requiem. ?he remuins were then conveyed to the 'enusvlvania railroad depot at Jersey City, ^our handsomely-draped passenger coaches ontaining the body guard of honor, palllearers and mourners, formed the funeral rain which started out for Norristown, 'enn. Norristown was reached at 2:45. All busiless had been suspended in the town and the rowd which surrounded the station filled he neighboring streets for blocks on every ide. Again the guard of honor lifted the emains of their old commander and delosited the casket in tbe hearse which was in raiting. The funeral procession was immediately ormed. The carriages containing the palllearers, preceded by the carriage of Mr. B. E. "hain, a prominent citizen of Norristown, led he way. The hearse followed, and then came he town council, the Hancock Veterans of 'hiladelphia, and the Masonic organizations f which the dead general was a membor. Lfter these came a body of citizens and cler;ymen of the town. The church bells tolled .ncl cannon thundered during the entiro aarch. The Montgomery cemetery, as the NorrLsown burial ground is called, is situated about , mile and a half from the village. There he Loyal Legion formed a hollow square ,round the tomb, and the pall-bearers took heir places in the middle iu two ranks with incovered heads, while the casket passed irough into the plain vault of the Hanox-k unily. On a mound near by stood Light Battery F f the Fifth artillery with four guns. As the ody was placed in "its compartment the arllery saluted, which was followed by a volv from the muskets of th3 soldiers. Bugler Richard Frank then sounded the tps for the hero's final rest and the funeral recession returned to the station and dis?rsed. PROMINENT PEOPLE. The shah of Persia, it is said, never dine8 lone. Samuel J. Tilden is just seventy-two 2ars old. President Cleviland is said to receive fty daily papers. Rustem Pasha, the Turkish ambassador > England, is one of the most expert riflelen in Europe. Mr. Gladstone, the English premier, has ?duced the rents of all his tenants from venty to thirty per cent. Asher Caruth, attorney for tbe commonealth of Kentucky, is mentioned as "a stter orator than either Clay or MarshalL" Senator Call, of Florida, is said to spend greater number of hours in his seat in the enate chamber than any other member of lat body. Rev. "Sam" Jones is conducting revival srvices in Mr. Mco ly's Chicago church 'bile the latter evangelist is making his tour t the South. Mysonheimer, the new boy evangelist, as had phenomenal success in several Mis>uri towns, and has gone to St. Louis. He raws like Moody. Speaker Carlisle has his meals served l the Speaker's room. He is a dainty eater, ad while he consumes but little, yet he is md of a complete assortment The Prince of Wales' dislike for his royal sters' husbands is said to be so marked that i requires all the suavity the prince is taious for possessing to conceal it. An album costing over $300 and containig Ino resolutions of condolence passed by le New York aldermen on the death of Genial Grant is to be presented to Mrs. Grant. President Franklin B. Gowen, of the .eading railroad, has a clerk read all the ewspapers mat come to ms omce ana inane rery reference to him; the pleasant ones 'ith red pencil, and the disagreeable ones 'ith blue. Of the three sous General Grant, Colonel red Grant more closely resembles his father, esse Grant has recently grown a full beard, 'hich completely alters his appearance, allough it gives nim more of the family re:mblance. The operation of paraceutisis thoracis?an rrwrl merit' ilolifflta nnprnHnii in envirorv? as successful}' performed on Senator Miller, C California, recently, by Dr. B. F. Pope of le United States army, and Dr. Lincoln. A irge quantity of fluid was drawn from the ivity of the pleura,"giving the Senator great diet, and his condition is much improved. ; , . : , ^ '-I -V ??$}&/*' ==? 1 SENATE IP BOOSE : ' 1 The President Refuses Private Information to the Former. L mi f A Committee of Inquiry Into Tele* phone Matters in the Latter. In the United States Senate on the 15th the chair laid before that body the following letter from the secretary of the interior, in re? ply to Mr. Dawes' recent resolution adopted by the Senate which called for aU infor* manon m tne interior aepanmeni/, reiuimg ^o Henry Ward, late Indian inspector: Washington, D. C., Feb. 13, 1886. The President pro tempore of the Senate: I have the honor to acknowledge the reeipt of Senate resolution of the 5th inst., is words as follows: "Resolved, That the secretary of the interior be directed to communicate to the Senate copies of all papers which have been filed in the interior department, and of all papers which have been presented to any officer of that department, touching the official and personal conduct of Henry Ward, Indian inspector, during his continuance in said office." I transmit all the official papers on file in the department which I understand to be embraced by the resolution. The official reports made to this department by Henry Ward, as United States Indian inspector* are volumimous, and as the clerical force of this department is limited and otherwise fully employed I have deemed it best to transmit the original ' reports. As they arp frequently consulted in the transaction of the business of the department, I have the honor to request that they be returned to its files as soon as . I they are no longer required by the Senate. I am directed by the President to say that if the object of the resolution is to inquire into ??AAn/\Mn oiiondncinn A# Twi? Woiv) UJO i caouus IVI uuo OUO^UJIWU vt iui. ?? CM vt| these papers are not to be considered as constituting all the evidence submitted to him in relation thereto. I am also dioected bv the President to say that he does not consider it consistent with the public interests to trans* mit copies of unofficial papers from private citizens held in my custody for him, which relate exclusively to the suspension of incumbents. I have the honor to be very respectfully, L. Q. C. Lamar, Secretary. The letter and accompanying papers wer# >, referred to the committee on lnaian affaire. , f. In the House of Representatives, on the same dav, Mr. Hanback, of Kansas, introduced th*e following preamble and resolution: Whereas, Grave charges have been made and are constantly being made by the leading ' press of the country reflecting on the integrity and official action of certain officers of the government of the United States; Resolved, That a special committee consisting of eleven members of this House be appointed, and when so appointed the said committee is hereby directed at as early a v. day as possible to make inquiry into and expenditure on the part, of the government incurred relative to the rights of the Bell and' Pan-Electric Telephone compa nies to the priority of patents; said inquiry to include all organizations or companies that have sprung out of the Pan?Electrio Telephone company or for any other purpose ; and also to make full inquiry into the issuance of stock known as the Pan-Electric Telephone stock' or any stock of any other company, companies t or > > organization springing out of the PanElectric Telephone company, to any person or persons connected with either the legislative, judicial or executive department of the government of the United States ; to whom, when, where and in what amount, and for ' what consideration in money or influence said stock was delivered. Also as to what opinions, decisions and orders have been made by " any officers connected with the government . and by whom, and all the circumstances connected therewith and arising therefrom. And also what suit or suits, if any, have been brought in the name of the united States to test the validity of patents issued , , or any other right in controversy between the Bell and Pan-Electric Telephone companies; what contracts have been made, what moneys paid or to be paid to any person or persons as assistant counsel to tne attorney-general or solicitor-general of the United States, the reason or authority for constituting the United States a party to said suit or suits. J >. And to the end that the people of the United States may be fully advised, the committee be granted the right to send for persons and papers, to sit during the session of the House, to employ a stenographer aud to incur any reasonable expenditures that may be deemed . / necessary for the purpose of such investigation. Referred to the committee oh rules. Mr. Pulitzer, of New York, introduced the following: Resolved, That the resolution creating the select committee, submitted by Mr. Hanback. of Kansas, be so amended as to authorize said committee to inquire whether any of the telephone companies have in any way influenced or attempted to influence officials or official action through newsjjapers acting from interested or improper motives; and also whether any corporations or their managers or representatives have contributed large sums of money for political campaign purposes upon the agreement that a certain person acceptable to them should be appointed a judge of one of the Courts of the United States, which mar Iiqt/i riaoida litricrflt.mil lYinrwninc tplfvnhnnp. patents. Referred*to the committee on rules. A LEAP FORFEEEDOM, A Prominent Mormon Prisoner Jumps i'rom a Moving Train. Ex-Delegate George Q. Cannon, the Mormon leader who was arrested in Nevada and was being brought back to Salt Lake City by Unitee States Marshal Ireland and three deputies for prosecution under the Edmunds law, jumped from the overland train near Promontory, Utah, on the 16th, in an attempt to escape, and was severely bruised. Cannon had'given the officers his word of honor not to make any effort to get away, and, though a pretty close watch was kept on him,he was not treated as a prisoner. Early in the moru'ng when the train was * * 3 UA running at a mgn race 01 spew, no Eassed through the sleeping car where e was riding with the officers into the closet, and thence to the platform, where ?e .sprang from the train. His escape was discovered in a few minutes, and the train was stopped. The officers went back and found Cannon sitting beside the track, bruised and too much injured to walk. He was taken to Promontory, where his injuries, which are not dangerous, were attended to. At Ogden, where the prisoner was to have been trausfen*ed to a Salt Lake train, a gi-eat crowd of Mormons gathered with the hope of catching a glimpse of their leader. When the news of Cannon's desperate effort to escape arrived there was great excitement. Women ran up and down the streets crying and wringing their hands out of sympathy for Cannon, and would not believe that he was not still alive. The Federal authorities did not. think it wise to bring Cannon to Salt - ' * 3 Lake on a regular train, turn m iuc evening sent a special carrying twenty-six soldiers and more deputy marshals to escort him from Ogden to Salt Lake Citv. C-unnou's arrest is looked upon by the ifcormons as one of the most serious blows yet dealt them, and conversely by the Gentiles as a most effective stroke in support of the Federal laws. His desperation is pretty clearly shown bv his daring effort to escape from his captors. ~ NEWSY GLEANINGS. Jottn B. Gough ha.s lectured ontemperan ? more than 7,000 times. They want $40,000 more to put Bartholdi's , statue of liberty on her perch. Thirteen* thousand letters were delivered tn Ponoressuieu in one day recently. *" ' ^ o Tiie cold snap destroyed cabbage worth $100,(XX) in the gardens at Mobile, Ala. A whole company of Chinese soldiers recently had their ears lopped off for stealing. Five thousand German physicians have petitioned the imperial government in favor of cremation. A lad attending school in Webster county, Iowa, measures six feet six inches and is yet in his teens. Hu Hsueh Yex. the wealthiest man in China, has just fallen by the same scythe that cut Vandevbilt down. The copy of the first book oa arithmetic, of which only another copy is known, fetched &200 at a sale in London the other day.