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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
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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
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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.
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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???
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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
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[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."
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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
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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
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