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JAPS ON THF. STAGE. A Day in a Japanese Tbca(rc?Novel StglltSa A Tokio (Japau) letter to the New York Tribune says: I have just returned from a most novel and interesting treat ?a whole day in u Japanese theatre. My head rings with the strange noises, the twang of anything but harmonious music; my feet ache from the cramped position in which I have had to keep them; yet before my eyes remain such visions of Oriental splendor and grandeur, such wonderful scenes of old Japan, that I must put them down on paper before they fade. I started at an early hour in company with friends Io one of the principal theatres in Tokio. Opposite to the theatre, which wc could distinguish by the crowds ol people and by various paintings hung out to represent the play, there were a number of tea houses or inns. To one of these "* _ I we repaired, ana n;r;ng a room, as is iu? custom, we left oar bundles, wraps, lunch, etc., and then were escorted over to the theatre. Upon entering the scene was almost indescribable. The theatre was large and square in shape, and had two upper galleries, and these and all below were packed full of all sorts and kinds and i classes of people, sitting right down on the thick mats on the tioor. The theatre wa3 divided into small sections, separated by a bar a foot or two high, and into each section about four could get, ; sitting very closely. The whole place j wa3 thickly matted, and all sit down on their feet without any chair, just as they ' do in their own houses. The sea of heads that one looked upon was very amusing; men, women, children and babies in all sort3 and kiuds of curious ' costumes from rich silks to rags, each family huddled together, but watching with intense interest and open eyes and mouths the progress of tne piav. uur i section was in the best part of the thea- j tre and easy of access, and of course we I did not crowd together as closely as others, but we had to do without chairs, and content ourselves by stretching out our feet occasionally, or standing up,and i I fanqv we attracted about as much no-1 tice as the actors, with our strange faces j and foreign clothes, especially when the i play flagged in interest. The noise and confusion at first were i dreadful. Every one moved about or talked and the actors could not bo heard i at all. As there were no passages around, 1 in order to reach the middle section peo- j pie were obliged to jump over or walk ' on the bars, which caused much con- ! fusion. To add to it, all the audience seemed to be possessers of were tobacco ' pipes, and were engaged in puffing out ] large clouds of smoke into the already close air. Gradually a little order began to appear, and the audience quieted as the play went on and grew more inter esting. I turned to look at the stage. The long curtain sliding on a bar at the top had been pulled aside and the interior of one of the rooms of a castle was being shown. I could not understand the language, as it differed from the ordinary common talk, and the long- i drawn out nasal sounds did not seem much like the usual glib, soft words of the Japanese. There were no women actors, the women's parts being acted by j men, and iu spite of skillful dressing and well studied manners they betrayed j themselves by the voice and the face, i which were most decidedly masculine. We were very fortunate to fall upon a play of old Japan, representing court life, | the plot being founded on facts. The latter part of the play was very pathetic, 1 and I came to the conclusion that the J Japanese are easily moved, for the whole audience was bathed in tears and at some parts of it strong men were constantly wiping their eyes. The whole thing was in several acts, and one of the hannv ? features of it was the revolving stage. Each act was divided into scenes; a icene being over, the stage revolved and brought another into view. The scenery was fairly good, but in the strong light of day showed many defects, and a most laughable thing was the running in and out of attendants, not belonging to the play, dressed all over in black and not, supposed to be visible, and these arranged a necessary changc of scenery or . brought necessary implements, or held a screen while some dead person ran off the scene of action. In other places. : again, the acting was unnecessarily re- i alistic. A stab from a sword and the j red blood (concealed in a bag under the dress) llowed in streams. An actor j would come on the stage dripping wet, j if such a scene was to be represented, or j do many other uncomfortable things just; for effect. In the midst of the audience there was a long, narrow board way, a little elc- 1 ated from the ground, extending the wholelength of the theatre, with an exit, at one end and connecting with the stage. Ou tliis actors made their exits | ana entrances, and often it represented the road leading to the place shown the stage. Nearly all the timo during the acting music was being played or sung on one side of the stage, sometimes softly, , sometimes harsh and loudly. In showing some excited or noisy time a man would make the most deafening noise with two pieces of wood stuck .on the stage flocr to heighten the effect, aud the j noisy din was fearful. Then when the curtain had been pulled down, the! scene around was again one of disorder ! and noise. Me a from the tea-houses would run in with tea, cake, all kinds of candy or fruit and refreshment of every kind, which had been previously ordered. People would go out to get the fresh ai?, or else repair to the teahouse* in style, and then push and crowd to get back to their seats. Babies would scream, and a babel of voices would j reach the car. The eating, drinking and smoking going on even during the play wag something remarkable. Wine, lunches of all kind?, balls of rice and fish, fruit and eatables of all kinds taken ' with the two long chop-sticks, were being distributed all around. A theatre party means in Japan all kinds of treats, j a day given to pleasure and eating. ; Especially is this so among the lower j classes, who frequent ihe theatre mostly. ! At noon was the longest interval between the acts, and during this time we ate our lunches at our rooms and stretchcd our tired limbs. After noon a short comedy of one act wa< represented, the continuation of the regular play, which ended at 4. There was yet an-! orther play, but we did not stav to it. j " 1 Tlie Beefsteak in Rhyme. The rule of the famous "Beefsteak Club," organized in England in 1731, for the cooking of a beefsteak, was as follows: Pound well your meat until the Iibre3 break; Be sure that next you have, to broil tho steak, Good coal in plenty; nor a moment leave, But turn it over this way and then that. The lean should be quite rare?not so the fat, The platter now and then the juice receive. Put on your butter?place it on your meat? Salt, pepper; turn it over, serve and eat. A Leadville hunter encountered a wounded deer as it ran down the mountains. He seized its antlers and was; tosned upon its back and rode until the j animal dropped dead. ^ -74 THE PEARL FISHERIES. Where the Flatting? in Done?Pearls Be:ouiln; Scarce. The over-fishing of the last fifteen or twenty years is doing for pearls what it long ago did for oysters. Fashion also bears its part in raising prices, and a good set of three black pearl shirt studs cannot now be got wholesale much under ?'40. Four years ago they could be had for less than a third of the price. Mother . of pearl has risen in the market too, and now costs nearly one shilling the pound at the fisheries. where four pounds could be obtained for the same money twelve years back. The fisheries of the lied sea and the Day of Bengal are stiil, however, as celebrated as they ever were in -' ~ ~ ^ A Alfl?An/?K tlio fair nit n n c\ uiiisaiu uaj uiutivsiigu buv ?( >? VMM ? ? longer hope for the produce by the peck, as Varro?at second hand?said they used to do. For all the scarcity of pearls, we now get them also from the Sunda isles of the Malay archipclago, the seas of China and Japan, from Panama, Tahiti, the Gam bier islands, and from Australia. The pearl market is no longer at Rome, at the Margaritarius porticus, but in the hands of the Amsterdam, Hamburg, London, and Now York dealers, who buy up all this harvest of the sea. There are numerous bivalves which give pearls, bad, indifferent or better; but the true pearl oyster?if oyster it can be called, for it is exactly like an exaggerated cockly?is the Mytilus, margaritiferus, or Pintadina in., which measures from four to six inches in diameter and an inch and a half in thickness. The oceanic variety differs from the East Indian, and gives a finer gem. The Tuamotu archinelaco, to the east of the So ciety islands, is perhaps the greatest pearl fishery in the world. Of its eighty islands there are only some half dozen whose wators do not produce the pearl oyster. The natives ot this group know no industry but fishing. Men, women, and children, they all dive like sea fowl, and the women are the most expert. Two women especially of Faiti, and one of Anaa or Chain island, are well-known in this trade?more dreadful far than sapphire gathering?for plunging into twenty-five fathoms of water, in the teeth of sharks, and remaining as long as three whole minutes under water. A , famous diver of Anaa escaped not long ago frr>m n. shark- with the loss of a breast and an arm, and many of them go down never to come up again. If they make too many plunges in their day's work at I the beginning of the season, which comprises the summer months, from November to February, they bring on hemorrhage or congestion; and, after some years passed in the occupation, paralysis is certain. Few of these divers work for themselves, but can earn four shillings a 1 day from the pearl traders. With a wnoden tube some sixteen inches long, , ten inches square, and glazed at one end, thny prospect from their boats the bottom of these translucid seas: tho glass J end, which is nut into the water, serving , the purpose of suppressing tho eye-puzzling surfuce ripple. The diver of the Persian gulf or of Ceylon nttaches a weight of some twenty pounds to his feet to aid in his descent, , and carries seven or eight pounds more of ballast in his belt. He protects both < anaa o.ifl nars icith nilof] onttnn. hnn dages his mouth,and goes down forty feet with a rope. He remains down from fifty-three to eighty seconds, and helps himself up again by the rope. But the ] Pacific diver practices the conjuror's boast of "no preparation." Just before the plunge he or she draws a full breath 1 rapidly three or four times running, aud i finally, with the lungs full of air, drops i feet first to the bottom, not forty feet, | but twenty-five or thirty fathoms (150 : feet to 180 feet) and comes to the surface again with extraordinary swiftness, un- ( aided in any way. Each dive generally , lasts from sixty to ninety seconds; and j only very occasionally the astonishing , maximum of three minutes. The divers 4 hardly ever briug up more than one oys- ^ ter at a time; but this is chosen as likely t to contain pearls by some fancied rule of 1 thumb of their own, grounded, on age, > form and color; and they hold the 1 nUsvlla firvltMff trwraflior oa fHou mnnnf: OUUllO iwjvvjiv/i uu wi4wj ux'xtuuf lest the envious oyster should abed the pearl, which the divers themselves are very quick to conceal by swallowing if the employer's eye is not fixed on them. Diving bells have been introduced by some housos in the trade; but the natives will no longer work in them, saying they bring on early paralysis of the legs. Like his edible relativa, the pearl oyster also has his enemies and parasites. A flat fish, called tahereta by the natives of this Polynesian archipelago, makes great ravages among the young fry: it resemble? the eagle iay, which is so destructive in European oyster beds. There is another, & long fish with powerful jaws for crunching the full-grown oyster, which is called the oiri or kotohe, and does not seem to have been identified by naturalists. There arc also two univalve shell fish?a murcx, which spends its time boring holes right through theovster. and a phoio le, which 1 scoops a nest for itself in the upper o shell, just as his fellows do in the focks f of our own coast. ^ But the worst pest of all is probably a c marine worm, locally called the needle worm, which pierces a network of galleries, like the book worm or tho ^ teredo, between the outer and inner tur. t faces of the shell, and so ruins the 1< mother of pearl, which, when so damag- 1 ed. is known in the trade as worm eaten, jj There is a small parasitical sponge, too, which stains or "spots" the mother of pearl. Polypi, Ascidians, and Serpulat ] all mingle in the fray; and while the older crabs r< move the young oysters from their beds t with their nippers to be eaten at leisure, the crab fry get inside and billet themselves at bed and board on s the grown oyster until they have eaten o their host out of house and home. It is very possible that some of these enemies 1 are the irritant causes of the pearls, in * the centre of which there is almost al- ^ ways some foreign substance, such as a a grain of sand or a fish's egg. A great number of small pearls are sometimes t found in one bivalve; one with 115, from a Elizabeth or Toau Island, in the Tuamotu group, was shown in Paris in 1878. S Some pearls reach, ft great size, ana one " from Panama, which was presented to Philip IT. of Spain in 1579, is recorded to have been as big as a pigeon's cg?. Imitation pearls?and admirable imitations the best of them are? are not uncommon. They were first invented in 1G5G by one Jaquin, a French enameller on glass. The little glass globules of which they consist are first lined with a mixture of isinglass and "essence of the East," and then stuffed with melted wax. This essence d'Orient is made of the pearly matter which is found at the base of the scales of the whiting, preserved in ammonia.?St James Gazette. The failure of eyesight among the young in Denmark is something astounding. In the classical dapartment of the largest schools in Copenhagen, 45.5.por cent, of the scholars in the upper class were found short-sighted. A $15,000,000 FIRE. Famous Buildings in London Almost Totally Destroyed. Thirteen Large Warehouse* Consumed?London's Greal; Fires. ATiro which broke out at 5 o'clock the other morning in tho Charter Houso buildings, a row of thirteen eight-story warehouses in Aldersgate street, London, spread with such rapidity that in a few hours all the slructuros, including their contonts, were destroyed. Tin origin of the fire is unknown. The houses were occupied by fancy goo Is dealers, furriers, toy stores and printing ofli??? ^ no ?1ba fKa Imil'Minrro Ut*5. UHC UUIHW Uiw UiOU iU mv This was tho only concern that escaped total loss. It was badly damaged, but not destroyed. The firemen had great difficulty in getting the streams from the engines to play on the upper stories of the buildings. Many narrow escapes were recorded owing to the desporato attempts of the tiremen to get at the flames. The damage is estimated at $15,000,000. Previous to the great fire of London, two serious conflagrations occurred in that city; one in 1087, destroying St. Paul's cathedral and many blocks of buildings, aud one in 1:212, by which 3,000 lives were lost at London bridge and a considerable portion of the city burned. From September 2 to 6, 1600, the great fire raged, devastating 400 streets, covering 436 acres with ruins, and destroying eighty-nine churches, many government buildings, and 13,200 houses. In March, 174$, 200 houses were burned in Cornhill Ward. In April, 1780, there was a great fire in the docks and shipping at Horsley Down, and in June of the same year Newgate prison aud many other buildings were destroyed by the Gordon mobs. November o, 1763, saw sow,wu lost oy lire iu Aldersgato street, and on July 21, 17J1, a fire at Wapping destroyed 030 houses, and an East India warehouse containing 35,000 bags of saltpetre; the loss was S5,000,000. Three West India warehouses were burned with loss of $1,500,0^0, in February. 1800, and in 1802 and 1803 great fires occurred in Tottenham Court road and Soho. Rotherhithe, Mile-end and Smithfield were devastated in 1820,1821 und 1822, respectively, tfith $400,000, $1,000,000 and $500,000 losses. Parliament houses wont in 1834, and two years later fire at London bridge made loss of $1,250,000. In 1841 the Tower armory was burned with 280,000 stand of arms. June, 1851, saw four hop warehouses, worth $750,000, burned, and three fires of $500,000 loss each, occurred in 1853. The Etna Steam battery fire, May, 1855, made a loss of $600,000, and there was lost $500,000 in the Shad Thames flour miil fire of Julv. 1850. Fire and explosion at Loudon docks'in 18-58 destroyed property worth ?750,000, and at West Kent and New Hibernia wharves on August 17,1800, began a fire which lasted nearly a month, with loss of s 1,000,000. Another month's fire began June 33, IStil, at Cotton's wharf, near Tooley 3treet, and made loss of ?10,000,000. The Grant warehouses, worth ?500,003, were burned in April,. 1803; St. ^Catherine's docks, January, 1800; Nicholson's warehouses, October, 1871; Grant's printing house, loss $600,000, August, 1876; the Manchester warehouses, loss $1,000,000, January 1878. In February, 1881, tho Victoria clocks were burned with ?3,200,000 loss. In December, 1882, the Alhambra theatre was burned, with $750,000 loss, and a few hours later two acres of silk and other stores in Wood street were destroyed, the losses aggregating about $15,00(^000. The next notable fire occurred in Paternoster Row, April 2, 1884, in which St. Paul's cathedral escaped only by a favorable turn of tho wind. Loss, ?250,000. STRUCK BY A CYCLONE Havoc Wrought In a Utile Now Jersey Village. A real Western cyclone struck the little tillage of Westwood, N. J., on the New Jersey & New York railroad, twenty-two miles from New York, Sunday afternoon, causing ^reat damage to property, but fortunately no loss of life. Shortly after 1 o'clock the villagers noticed i dark, fuunel-shapod cloud, which seemed to rise from behind the hills west of the village, [ts peculiar appearance attracted attention, >vhich was quickly turned to apprehension as ;he cloud was s<jen to approach them at a terrific rate of speed. The first building struck by the cyclone was De Baun's Park lotel". In a twinkling the bui'ding was in uins. Mrs. De Baun, wife of the proprietor, vas blown from a second-story window and lashed violontly to the ground, sustaining :evere injuries about the head. At the first ippearance of danger men, women and chillren rushed into the streets frantic with fear, ind many persons wore lifted off their feet md thrown down, or were struck by flying missiles, but strango to say, not one except Mrs. De Baun was seriously hurt. The path of tho cyclone was about 200 feet wide, almost directly through the center of ;ho village. Within this limit not a building ivas left uninjured. Houses and barns were rweriH nhnnt. nnrl nr ]iftrr? into .he air and moved many feetj roofs and ences went flying through the air, and trees vere torn up by the roots or stripped of their eaves and branches. For fuHy half a minute just after gust swooped down on the terror(tricken town. The air was filled with flying joards and branches of trees, and many per10ns narrowly escaped death or serious inury. The hotel, a now but an unfinished ichool house, and the village church were :ompletely wrecked, and many dwellings, )arns and outbuildings were scattered about he fields. The New Jersey and New York ailroad depot was scattered to the winds, elegraph poles were blown down and tele;raphic communication was cut o!F. C. S. DeBaun's distillery, which contained .3,000 gallons of cider and a large quantity of ipple whisky, is also almost a complete loss. Buildings not totally destroyed were moved roin thoir foundations or unroofed by the ;ale, and in many cases fences have outirely lisappeared. Five minutes after the storm hal passed ^..4 KM.wl U..M iw 9uu uiliio uuu ulcui uuu ui1u uull* [reds of people flocked to the scene of the vreck to assist t^io sufferers in removing lieir goods to a place of safety. The total oss is estimated at $">0,000. Mr. C. S. l)eJaun, proprietor of the Park hoti-l, is the srgest individual sufferer, as his buildings re completely mined MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Joseph Jefferson's oldest son is about hirty-six years old, his youngest not as mauy lays. Edward Lloyd, the famous English inger, is an euthusiastic devotee o! cricket ind lawn tennis. 4 ;Dom C.?sar" is tbe latest operetta which las scored a sucecss in Berlin. Of course it vill make its way hither. Mme. Marie Selika, the colored prima lonna, of Boston, has finished her studies .broad and is on her way home. Mme. Gerster will soon bogin a concert our in America, at Boston, under the mangement of Mr. Henry E. Abbey. Maurice Grau has contracted to pay iarah Bernhardt $400 a performance during ler coming year's tour in America. "Dark Days," Hugh Conway's novel, has eon dramatized, and will be produced both u London and this country this season. Miss Minnie Hauk has signed a contract 7>th Mapleson to join his company in this ountry for the forthcoming opera season. Herr Lewita, the Austrian pianist, has teen engaged for a six months' tour in America. He will take part in Mme. Nerada's concerts. Among the productions shortly to occur at ho California theatre will be a dramatizaion of Admiral Porter's novel, called "Allan Jare." Verdi now shuns hearing music sung or >layed, whether his own or another's. Ho lovor touches the piano, but frequently hums o himself simple old Italian songs. Thirty actors, twenty coryphees, forty ihoristers, 140 auxiliaries and thirty stage lands are employed in each performance of he "Comedy of Errors" in New York. William Terriss, the actor, who came to America with Irving, lately rescued a boy rom drowning in the Thames, and wa3 reYarded by the Royal Humane socioty with a jold medaL _ _ 1EWS SUMMARY. Eastern and Middle States* A financial crash of unusual dimensions ba> just disturbed tbci bulls and bears of Wall street, New York. William Heath & Co., one of the oldest, and largest houses connected with the New York Stock Exchange, have beon compelled to suspend owing to the inability of Henry N. Smith, a noted speculator ani one of their heaviest customers, to meet hit! obligations. Tlie aggregnto liabilities of H<ath & Co. and of Smith are estimated at W,OW,WU. ui 11313 sum iuo uiiu uwoa about $1,800,000 and Smith the remainder. Resolutions advising a revision of the Bcok of Common Prayer were lost by a tie vote in the Episcopal convention in New York city. George Bessexdorf, a young German printer, and Mr;:. Maria Koch were found dead together in the Central Pork,New York. The man had shot the woman, evidently with her consent, and then killed himself. Mrs. Koch was the wife of Edmund L Koch, proprietor of a German newspaper in Jersey City, N. J. Mr. Ko;:h bad befriended Bessendorf, and in return the young man had eloped with his benefactor's wife. A cateoat with sixteen persons on board capsized in Now York harbor, and three men lost their lives. Up to recent da(? the Grant national monument fund had reached $85,000. Two brothers--Thaodore and Robert Wade ?were struck dead by lightning during a storm near Watotrfoid, Penn. Frederick Fhhel, book-keeper for a New York clothing firm, has cone to Canada. About $40,000 o ' his employers' money is missing. The Knights c/ Labor elected the mayor, collector, register, and all the rest of the city ticket except two minor offices in the election at Norwalk, Conn. Judge T. R. Westbrook, of the New York supreme court, while holding: court at Troy was found dead the other morning in bod at the hotel where he was stopping. Mrs. Druse, found guilty of murdering her husband wit a the aid of her son, daughter and nephew, in Warren, N. Y., last December, and cutting up and burning the remains, has been sentenced to be executed oil November 25. Ex-Governor Thomas Talbot, died a few days ago at his home in Lowell, Mass. He was bora at Cambridge, N. Y. in 1813, and was elected governor of Massachusetts in 1878. South and Weat* Pr airie fires in McPherson county, Dakota, have swept ft way everything over an area of 100 square miles, rendering hundreds of families destitute and causing au estimated pecuniary loss of $2ii0,000. Dr. A. N. Bellongbr shot and killed Stepney Riley, a well known colored politician, at Charleston, S. C. The trouble arose oyer Riley's beating a carriage horse, and Bellonger, who was arrested, claimed he had acted in self-defense. A 'rRAiN broke in two while ascending a heavy grade near St Paul, Minn., and ten or twelve cars ran into another train containing 300 sleeping employes of a circus. Five men were Icilled and thirty or fcrty injured. more or less severely. Hog cholera prevails in thirty-five counties in Kunsas, and large numbers of animals are roportod as dying of the disease. The firm of Cole & Dodge, extensive farmers near Waterloo, Cal., has failed with liabilities of $200,1)00. Five more Mormons hove been found guilty of polygamy, nt Salt Lake City, ana sentenced to six months' imprisonment and to pay n fine of $o00. Captaix John; Lane and Joseph Lamb, r-roiiiinsnt farmers of Hancock county, Tenr.i., became involved in an altercation, which resulted in the latter shooting and instantly killing the former. The National Cotton Exchange reports that the cotton yield promises to be much larger thau last seasoii. Albert Cook, a farmer of Goneva, 111., shct his aged mother, instantly killing her, and then fired five shots at Ms wife, ev *ry one taking effect. Cook, who was insanely jealous and had been arrested for threatening to kill his wife, made his escape. Wuhlnrtom The President has issued an executive order directing Dr. B. O. Shakespeare, of Pennsylvania, to proceed to Spain and o:her cour tries in Et.rope where cholera exists and make investigation of the causes, progress and proper prevention and cure of that disease, in order fciat a full report may be made lo Congress during the next session. Consular appointments by the President: John Cardwell, of Texas, to be agent and consul-general t)f the United States at Cairo: Owen McGarr, of Colorado, consul-general In Ecuador. To be United States consuls: Thomas R. Jernig&n, of North Carolina, at Montevideo; Madison Allen Lybrook, of Indiana, at Algiers; Ijewis Gebhardt Read, of -V.N..V of 3drl.n.!noc. FTmirv T, Mnrrit-fr of Illinois, at Aix la Chapolle; 6t:o E. Riemar, of New York, at Santiago de Cuba; George R. Goodwin, of Massachusetts, at Annaberg, kingdom of Saxony. Ma. A. B. Dick:jrson, of New Jersey, has been appointed cltief of a division in the office of the compt roller of the currency, vice F. A. Miller, rosigiied. The treasury department i3 receiving an increased demand for small currency, which is regarded by the officials of that department as a sign of a revival :.n the business of the country. Commissioner Athens, of the Indian bureau, has left Washinsjton on a tour of iuvea tigation through ihe various Indian reservations. Ween the United State* Senate moots there will bo a lint o:f between five and six hundred postmasters, appointed during the recess, submitted for continuation. In addition it is estimated that during the session of Congress the terms of at least six hundred postmasters will expire, so that the nominanations of over one thousand postmasters will come before the Senate during the next (session. There are 2,385 presidential postmasters in this country, and at the rate that has been observed during the past six months all the presidential postmasters will be changed, in two years. Additional appointments by the Presi' dent;: To be receivers of public moneysSamuel L. Gilbert, at Wichita, Kansas; William C. Jordan, at Montgomery, Ala.; Oliver Shannon, at North Platte, Neb.; Samuel G. Glover, at Valentine, Neb. To be registers of laini offices?William Neville, at North Plat);e, Neb.; S. F. Burtch, at Valentine, Neb. Foreign, Great activity prevails in the Turkish war office, and thousands of troops are being hurried to Salonica ic. view of expected war. News comes by way of Ottawa that the Labrador fisheries have proved a failure, and that the people are starving, ntuo cnuareu dying in thair mothers' arras for want of food. During the great cyclone in India 500 villages wero all destroyed. Bulgaria is one vast military camp, all the male population between the ages of fifteen and forty-five being under arms. It is announced that Russia will take Bulgaria and Roumelia under her protecting wing in their troubles with Turkey. The followers of the late False Prophet have b?eii defeated again in the Soudan. Fifty persons were killed and injured by a collision on a railroad in Greece. Two Spanish military officers fought a duel at Madrid, one being killed and the other dangerously wounded. PROMINENT PEOPLE. General Longstreet is keeping a hotel at Gainesville, Ga. Queen Victoria's private fortune is estimated to be $30,000,000. Samuel J. Tilden has had 187 books read to him during the past eighteen months. Lord Coleridge, England's chief justice, Intends to come to America again shortly. Canon Farrar, of England, Archdeacon of Westminster, is at present in this country, lecturing. Robert Browning, the English poet, though now seventy-three years old, insists that he is coming to t he United States. Mr. Moody, the evangelist, is somewhat stouter than he was in the earlier years of his work, and his head sinks farther down between his shoulders. Mr. Stanley, the African explorer, has fitted up a cosey home in Londuu, a couple of doors from Mr. Henry Irving's. He has made the rooms look like a museum, with trophies I of his travels and adventures. PERILS OF TIE DEEP. n Fourteen Starving Men Taken From a Waterlogged Ship. ' t Struggling for Days to Save Them* a selves From Death. ! The Prussian bark Louisa and Augusta* t which arrived at New York a few days since 1 from wamDurg, bad on board fourteen seamen, rescued from the waterlogged Italian bark Talismano. Captain Berlimont, of the Louisa and Augusta, told a reporter that he sailed from Hamburg with a general cargo. Strong westerly gales wero encountered during the entire passage, wbich culminated on September 26 in a burricane lasting three days. On the morning of September 2'J, at 9 o'clock, the lookout sighted a barge flying a flag of distress. She proved to be the Italian bark Talismano, Clustered together on ner topgallant forecastle and afteruouse were fourteen men. The seas at times made a clean sweep over the dripping sailors and caused them often to take to the rigging to prevent their being washed overboard. When the rescuing ba'rk was hove to the seas became more troublesome and it was impossible to lower a boat in safety. On board the distressed vessel a long-boat could be seen standing in chocks on the forward house and Captain Berlimont told those on the Talismano to launch the boat. After many attempts, in which the men's lives were in 1 constant danger, the boat was got overboard - ? .1 i-U/. i mi t i i ukiu i?uo ucn luiuuicu lulu iiur. iney nau um two oars, and with those but little progress was made. When near enough the men on 1 board the Louisa and Augusta threw a line < and the shipwrecked crew were drawn along- c side and taken safely on board. Captain Oarglio, who commanded the Talismano, said that he sailed from Pensacola, v Fla., with a load of pine lumber, including a o dcckload, bound for Glasgow, Scotland. On r September 27th they were struck by a cy- r clone and the heavily laden bark began to t labor badly. When the storm had reached its y height, on the27th,a r ortion of the cargo in the c lower hold broke away and the vessel began r to leak. All hands were sent to tha pump3 \ and for many hours struggled hard to lower ii the water ia 1 he hold. In the mean time the e heavy seas dashed over her, carrying away s the deckload, which with great difficulty was u forced over the rails into the sea. Two men c while working among the heavy timbers had r their feet badly crushed and all had many n narrow cscapes from death. s At last Captain Oarglio, seeing that the j crew's efforts were useless to save the vessel v from being water-logged, caused them to u abandon tbo pumps and endeavor to get more u sail on the ship. The wash of the seas had s invaded the cabin, swept away the cook's' i ganey aud damaged or destroyed p Avorvthincr eatable on board. and. t with water-cas' s smashed, starva- f; tion and death stared the crew in the ' face. For nearly three days the men had been wet through to the skin, and subsisting on such food as could be dealt out in cans, with brackish water to drink. When, on the morning of the 20th, the cry of "Sail, bo!" was 1 7. xr - /? .vi > i ! *-.1 t a given uiu luuiibuou niiu cahhusiou iiion uau nearly given up all hopes of being saved. The captain said: "The job of getting over that long boat was the hardest one ever attempted by men at sea. Only through a spirit of complete desparation was the task accomplished, and when she was at last in the water tb$ men lay down in her from i complete exhaustion, and it was some time bofore they recovered sufficiently to pull on board the rescuing bark." LATER NEWS. 9 Forty suits have been commenced in New n York city for violation of the State oleomar 1 ? garine law. ^ Ex-Mayor Prince, of Boston, was nonii- c nated for governor on the second ballot by the * Massachusetts Democrats at their State con- | vention in Worcester. The remainder of the e ticket is as follows:- Lieutenant-governor, a H. H. Gilmore; secretary of slate, Jeremiah * Crowley; attorney-general, Henry K. Braley: c treasurer and receiver. General Henry M. a Cross; auditor, James E. Delaney. The plat- ' form commends the National administration ' e and opposes a voters' poll tax. g The President has appointed Jabez L. M. Currv. of Virginia, to be envoy extraordi nary and minister plenipotentiary to Spain, vice J. W. Foster, resigned. Dr. Curry is j sixty years old, served in tbe Confederate army, lias been ordained a Baptist minister, and is president of the board of foreign mis- g sions of the Southern Baptist convention. 0 Advices have been received from Ra3 i! Alula, the commander of an Abyssinian f expedition marching to the relief of the be- } leaguerad garrison at Kassala, in the Soudan, t to the effect that, after a severe battle, the t Abyssinians defeated a large force of der- * viahes under Osman Digma, and that 3,000 r dervishes were killed in the encounter. * Henby Y. Clarke, cashier of the Union c bank, or Halifax, N. S., has misappropriated y funds of that institution to the extent of ovor ? $30,000. 5 The entire Turkish army has been called 4 out. Three Turkish corps will watch the j Greek, Servian and Bulgarian frontiers. c The potato crop of New York and Nefl ^ England is fully one-third below the average e An epidemic of diphtheria is overrunning a Saxton, Penn.; also parts of Huntingdon and Bedford counties. The public schools and the fhiiivhps havrt been closed. Ferdinand Ward bos made a long state, meat purporting to be an exposure of the dealings of the bankrupt firm of Grant & Ward and of the men who made money by jr their connection with the concern. The state- a] mont includes a list of the names of the men jr. who were paid the $5,000,000 "made" by the f, firm. All these names have appeared in one Ji or other ol the lawsuits that followed the jjl suspension. Mrs. Veronico Bulla, of Syracuse, N. ei Y., has just died after refusing all food for ai fifty-nine days. s* Farmers about Yankton, Dakota, have lost more than one-half their hogs through cholera. Striking St. Louis street car drivers stopped a number of cars from running, and were attacked by a squad of police. In the fierce ^ twenty minutes' fight which followed one man was fatally injured; five men were sent a to the hospital with broken skulls, and seven- w teen more were arrested. Two firemen were killed and another badly fit injured at a large fire in San Francisco, Cal. The pecuniary losses aggregated nearly AAA AAA $1,uuv,uws. ^ New postmastere appointed by the Presi- tl: lent: Michael D. Baker at Uniontown. Penn.: 'a Miss C'aradora Clark at Blair, Neb.; R. W. *?' Hill at Jewoll. Kansas; Robert S. Wagner Q] at Bangor, Penn.; James G. Hasson at n, Ebensburgh, Penn.; Patrick J. Rogers at lx Piedmout, W. Va.; Henry F. Taylor at 'r Fulton, Kv. The President has appointed H. B. Plummet to be naval officer of customs in tho * district of Philadelphia, and Benjamin R. Tato to bo collector of customs for Now London, Conn. r) DESTROYING THE CROPS. t] Great Damage Done by a Tornado c' in Portion<? of Virginia. Intelligence has been received at St. Peters- ^ burg, Va., of a tornado which passed ovjr Brunswick county, that State. Barns and fences wore blown down and trees uprooted. The damage to the crops of tobacco and cotton is heavy. Many of the largest tobac- F co growers in the county had their entire en- tl tire crops destroyed. The storm was accom- "5 panied by a heavy fall of hail and lain, c Some of the hailstones were as large as eggs. J The storm wus also very destructive in Dm- \ widdie county. b THE SMALLPOX SCOURER -[ Iauf Deaths In Montreal?A l>clirr Iou? Patient'* Eicape. _ A Montreal dispatch says: There has agaia 1 teen a sudden rise in the death rate from mallpox. yesterday's figures showing the ;otal number of deaths to have been sixtyleven for the whole city. The total inter- ] nents in the Roman Catholic cemetery for he week were 271. There were only ifteen interments in the Protestant ccme;ery. Seventy-four new casej were eported yesterday, and there are now p [35 patients in tha hospital. No further atcmpts of resistance have been made, and it s expected that the militia will be disbanded c oon. The mayor, however will keep a patrol c )f cavalry on duty until the arrangements q or turning the exhibition buildings into a inallpox hospital have been completed. ? Sarly this morning another of the shocking o icenes which are becoming common here 02- c :urred. A patient named Bruneau, who was luuiiuua. oicu^cu iiuiii i?uo oiuaupuA uuapiww . ivith nothing on but Lis shirt. After wander- i" ng about for some time he attempted to " jreak into a grocery store. The occupants ? ook the man for a burglar, and, procuring ? he assistance of somo neighbors, captured Ij lim, and gave him a thrashing. A constable . ivas sent for to arrest him. On his arrival a j; ight was procured, when, to their horror F ;hey found that the man was suffering from *; imallpox. The medical health officer was e elephoned for, and he had the man taken jack to the hospital. Those who took part in ? ;he affray underwent the process of disinfeoion t EEVOLT OF CONVICTS.' J 8. ?~~ ,, ' " ! rwenty Five Eicapin; Prisoner* Miot in Texan. A dispatch from Rusk, Texas, says: "Yes- b erday, at the terminus of the Kansas and n Julf Shore line, near Lufkln, in Angelina ? :ounty, Texas, sixty convicts made a despar- j, ite break for liberty. The men were being g vorked on the railroad. The revolt D ccurred at 5 o'clock, just as the P irisonors had finished their sup- p ler. \Vith deafening yoils they started ? ip in a body and rushed for the neighboring ^ roods. The guards opened fire on the fleeing ( onvicts with deadly effect. The latest re- ^ >ort says that twenty-five of the convicts r vero killed or wounded. Thj prisoners ran , 11 one large body, and the guards* simply ? mptied then- repeating rifles and 0 mall arms into the moving 0 lass. Rumors of an intended mutiny in this e amp had been rife for some weeks. These umors ware strengthened by the fact that , any of the convicts were serving life r entences and were known to bo . des- ^ >erate characters. Extra precautions a vere beinz taken to J avoid any. ^ [prising. Every means possible is being 0 ised to recapture the thirty-flve convicts who r ucceoded in eluding the rifles of the guards. $ ill avenues of escape aie being guarded and j tosses are being organized to scour the coun- ^ ry. The scene of the outbreak is some miles ? rom a telegraph office." ? . " . . t iwrvn nr> cm a dtt a ttnat r JJJ.XDIU V/X ClrLlHUlLUiH p Deplorable Result of the FJftherles' it Failure In Labrador. p It has been- announced that the Labrador a isheries have proved a failure, and that the ? nhabitants along that inhospitable shore are r tarving. The news came by way of St John's, i f. F., a fishing schooner having put in there J earing for the governor a petition from the nhabitants of Sandwich bay,stating that tbey t irere starving and imploring assistance before ( he winter sets in. The captain state3 that lreadv snow has fallen on several occasions, y ,'od and mackerel seem to have vanished 0 rom the waters. The porgie fish have been 8 o scarce that the oil factories have not been 8 ble to obtain sufficient to keep them run- f ling, and have consequently closed up for the c oason, throwing out of employment a large t lumber of porsoas. These have been living s in what they could beg. Articles of food e lave long since reached such fabulous c ?Ka flnhVAlr ftiif. nf rfifl/?h m II ILC3 OS UV W v-r W-, - e if the poor. The supply of flour ia entirely ( xhausted. Scurvy has made its appear- n tnce and many have died with it The suf- j ering of the women and children beggars all E lescriptioo, the littlo ones dying in the arms if mothers who have no food to give then}, ? nd cold and exposure complete the list of j, iroes. Several ships will be necessary to meet he demand, as the famine extends along the fl ntire coast. Provisions and fuel have been y entoo the unfortunate people. a THE PATENT OFFICE Jctalls of 11m Operation* During: the Paul FImchI Vear, From a statement prepared by Cominis- < ioner Montgoraory, showing the operations c f the patent office during the past fiscal year, t appoars that the number of applications ^ or patents received was 3*3,tit>2, for designs, < ,071, for reissues or patents 10$, ior rademarks 1,126, and for labels 673, making 1 total of 85,688 against 28,823 during tbe receding year. The number of caveats filled was 2,515. The mmber of patents granted, including reislues, was 22.928, of trade marks registered ,002, and of labels o87, making a total issue if 24,057. Patents numbering 2,828 were vithheld for payment of final fees, md 13,332 patents expired during the 'ear. The receipts of the office from ill sources were $1,074,974, as against $1,145,^ 33 during the preceding year, while the erlenJitures were $934,123, leading a surplus if $140,851. The number of applications for latauts awaitiug action on July 1,1885, was ^7613, a d ecrease of forty-ona per cent as oiupare 1 with the nuiabar awaiting action it the beginning of the last fiscal year. A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS, trance Series of Fafalllle* In a French Town. A few days ago Jean Coubret, a mason li\" lg at Vallon, Franco, fell from a scalfold ntl fractured his snine. his injuries proving ital. His brother Tranquil!*, on returning om the funeral with his brother-iu-law lillet, fell into the Bessay canal and was rowued, the brother-in-law himself losing is life in endeavoring to rescue him. On the illowing day, when the bodies were recov ed, the widow of Jaillet swooned away, ? id, falling to the ground, fractured her cull. Such a catenation of catastrophes is n irely without parallel. ??? a VERT OLD PEOPLE " n The twins of Schoharie, Mrs. Caroline p ider and Mrs. Betsey Brazee, celebrated eir 94th birthday recently. Caroline Thompson,of Chestertown, Md., e, spinster of 99, died recently. She danced ]a ith Lafayette at a ball in Philadelphia. c] The active manager of the North Brook- b >ld, Mass., savings bank has just cele ated his 90th birthday. His name is Bonum g ye. a; Although 90 years of age, William ai ritzer, of Covesville, Va., drove recently tl lirty miles in a buggy in one trip without a! itigue. He has Si grandchildren and 104 eat-grandchildron. The last survivor of the Dartmoor pris- v iers of the war of 1812 is Charles W. Caler, c jw 90 years of age, and living at Waldo- s sro, Me. He does his own gardening ami is i excellent health. NEWSY GLEANINGS. * P Railroad ties cost a dollar each in Mexico. a Insanity increases in Massachusetts at the s ite of 200 cases a year. F An old beggar at Stirling, Scotland, knew 9 le entire Bible by heart; Gold worth $30,800,000 was dug from Unte Sam's rich soil in 1SS4 . No less than 8,000,000 gallons of Vichy B ater are exported yearly. j It is stated that the South tost year spent l 10,000,000 on public schools. ? Is It appears that Bellini, Donizetti and even Lossini are at last to be shelvod: for of the l airteen operas to bo produced at the New ( fork Metropolitan Opera-house during the I oming season there are six by Wagner, while r leyerbeer, Foldmarck, Gounod, Ponchielli, c rerdi, Bizet and Halovy are represented each i y one opera. i t ' v ' ; -'r-/v;-v ^ THE DEW MORMONS. ?u?s^j r Polygamy Still Strenuously Upheld by .prominent. Leaders. issuing an Addrens fienguncing the Law Against ; Polygamy. ~~ The arrest, trial and imprisonment of rominent Mormons for polygamous practice has stirred them up not a little, and the hurch organ at Salt Lake City prints five olumn3 and a half of an address from John 'aylor and George Q;- Cannon, read in a conerence at Logan. It is devoted to strictures n tne judicial proceedings at oaic i^ase uitjr ailing tbeui prejudiced and harsli, and says: "We join with all saints in invoking blessags upon the noblo men and' women who ave exhibited their integrity to God and the ause and their devotion to principle'by subnitting to bonds and imprisonment rather han deny the faith or break the covenants, .'heir names wiil be held in everlasting honor ti time and eternity, not only.es martyrs for eligious truth, but as patriots Who suffered n defense of the principle of religious libtfhoso who promised to obey the laws and o escaped imprisonment are referred to as he foolish virgins who will not be ready to et the; bridegroom. The address-deplores be prejudice existing against' the saints in be minds of the people, and intknates that he courts here peiiecujo them. Th| writers "We did reveal celestial marriage; we canot withdraw or renounce it.' -God1 revealed S, and he has promised to maintain it and less those who obey it. Whatever fate they lay threaten us, tliere is but one course for len of God to take?(jab is to Keep mvioiaie be holy covenants. They have been made 1 the presence of God and the auels. For the , remainder, whether it be Ife or death, freedom' 9r imprisonment, proserity or adversity, wo must trust an Goa. It ; a fallacious idea that there is a design to ropagate polygamy outside- of our own ommunity, and thu* introduce into the Jnited States an element opposed tp the Christian views of this and other nations. On he contrary, ouf elders have been instructed lot to introduce the practice of that princi)le anywhere outside of the gathering places it the saints, $nd they do not preach it .broad to any extent p'ven' in theory, except in occasions when it is called for or when they ire assailed on accou :it of it. After showing tlmt those who receive the jospel of the new and everlasting covenant nust and shall abido the law thereof; that lamnation was the awful penalty affixed to l refusal; that it- is iudissolubly .Interwoven n the minds of its members with their hopes if salvation, the address claim* that it is iractised only in the Mormon kingdom, not lie United States and foreign counries, and "it 3hould also be unlerstood that . thp . .practice is not ;enerally admlssiblo c-veri among the LatterJay saints. It is strictly guarded, the inteniou being to allow only those who are above eproach to enter into the relationship. The iractice of the doctrine is not for extension eyond the church, and is ever limited witha its pale. At first the command to enter into olygamy was adherent to the leading men iid women of the church, but the command if God was before them in language which " * * ~ ' -* ? ? KaWAM T 10 laitUlUl SOUl UllI O U19VIUOJ>( lut vrou\iM m. evealunto you a new aud everlasting cove- r:. i lant, and if ye abide not.in that covenant, he a. are yo damned,. . It was instituted for he fulness of ray glory,and he that receiveth ' -j be fulness thereof must and shall abide in he law or he i ball be damned, saith the Lord Jod." , : The address has a long arraignment of the rorld, of its wicke.lne.-s and the abundance >f sin among all th 3 people, contrasting the aints in favorable light with those who as; ail them and directing the people to be aitbful and true ' It closes, with an account >f the work done by the officers and missioniries for the spread of the gospel, declaring ill 19 going wolL "Notwithstanding til that we aro now "passing through, ?ur hearta are filled with joy ind peace. We can truly say, 'Hosanna to Jod In the Highest.' We know that Zion will iot be overthrown or made desolate. Every 1 iromise made concerning Zion by the Almighty will be fulfilled." Although both Taylor and-Cannon have or months been biduig from the officers, who iave warrants for their arrest, the epistle is bated Salt Lake, Occobor G. This is decisive m the question whether there would be a PAftkeninGr on nolvcamv at this conference nd confutes those who'said there would be. A CALF OASE~ENDED, , j ; Fifty Dollars' Worth of Property Coin $40,100 tii Litigation* A celebrated lawsuit known as. the ''Jones bounty calf case" has been concladed in the rin uit court in Waterloo, Iowa. _Jt was an iction brought by Robert Johnson against 2. V. Miller and six other defendants for 510,000 for malicious prosecution. Sloven years ago John Forenan, of Jones county, - Iowa, had 'our calves stolen, and at about tho same iine Robest John-ion, a neighboring farmer, jought some calves from S.D. Potter, of Green ;ounty. These calves proved to be the ones .tolen from Foreman. Soon after this Johnion was prosecut'd by the Anti-Horsa Hiief association oi Jones county for the ;heft of the calves. Ho wa* tried twice ind acquitted, an h in 1877 brought on-nitioh anwn members of the associa tion for malicious prosecution, alleging that ;hey did not have sufficient cause for commencing the action. The case has been before the courts ever since, and ha3 been tried Svg times, at difteivnt places, and each time sxcopt one the plaintiff received a verdict running from $3,UIJ0 to $7, v00, but each time the verdict has boon sot aside. The last jury has just awarded $7,000. The ?osts, attorneys' fees and expouses entailed upon all parties to the litigation growing out of the theft of the calves is estimated at more than $20,000, and several prosperous farmers have be^u rendered bankrupt, while bhe calves in the first place were not worth over $50. THE NATIONAL GAME The New Yorka are the first league team } make 1,000 base hits. The St. Louis Americans won the series rom overy club in the association. All of the Chicago players bat McCoruek have made home runs this season. Mobs games have been won this season by single run than in any season since the Ague was formed. The three defeats of the New York league ine at Chicago practically gave the chamionship of the National league to the Chiogo club. i The Southern league has developed considrable baseball talent since it was organized ist spring, and the American association tubs are now getting the benefit of it by uying np the best of the players. The Eastern New England and Njw York tate leagues have shown greater vitality ad tenacity of life than the Eastern league, nd their teams are just as high-salaried as le Eastern league teams and compare favorblv with them in playing strength THE NATIONAL LEAGUE. The last week of the League season began nth the following showing, the Chicago lub having virtually won the championhip: Won. Loxt. tToo. Lot. 'ew York. 62 2? Boston 45 63 hicaeo.........66 22 St, Lonis 33 63 biladelpiiia....52 53 Buffalo 33 70 rovldence. 49 63 Detroit 33 68 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. The St Louis club are champions of this ssociation. t. Louis 79 33 Athletic 51 57 ittsburft 56 53 Brooklyn 53 !8 incinnitl..,....63 49 Baltimore it 63 lOaiaville 53 59 | Metropolitan...44 64 EASTEKN LEAGUE. The Nationals of Washington have been eclared champions of the Eastern league. ridgeport 12 17 | Norfolk 33 +4 crseyCity 9 27 j Trenton 42 51 ancaster 23 39 | Virslnia 6-3 26 ational 72 .25 | Waterbury 6 7 cwark 41 4S | Wilmington 5 33 The country is being flooded with small ausical organizations Tike the "We, Us & ?o.," "The Parlor Match," and the "Rag Jaby" combinations. It is reported bjq nanagers who have been traveling about^ luring the past month that the popular cravng for such entertainments is beyond any-* hing of the kind evw before seen. J .