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c: f ' Alfred Poole, a Denver (Col.) purchaser of unclaimed express and freight consignments, recently bought three boxes, each about two feet square, solilly constructed and very heavy. The purc hase was made at a venture, but on opening the boxes each was found to contain a brick of solid gold worth about $12,000. The price paid for the three was $0.40. A fisherman says that he has frequently caught two fish on one hook in the ?f T AM/w Tfl?r?/1 Cnn r> /I Ano nf 1 TVA LCI a KJL JLJVUIL X?>l<Xll\A k;vuuu. vuv vi vmv fish haying seized hoid of the other's tail. He thinks that certain fish have & habit of steering each other through fitrong currents in this manner. "When taken out of the water exhaustion causes I them to tighten their hold, and thus the angler is enabled to land them. It is ap-1 parent that the fi*h story season is upon us. One of the most remarkable lapses of memory on record is reported by a Paris Journal. A man who is now enjoying the social eminence of a dock laborer is discovered to be heir to a vast fortune in England. His mother visited the continent when he was but an infant, and left him with a nurse while she went shopping. The excitemcnt of the moment *> AW i/v f oil ftVvrtllf Kni? tuc lilUlllll IV WlgtV CftlA uv? baby, and she never once thought of him again. $y . . A new origin for the terra "painting the town red" has been dug out by a writer iu the ITarrisburg (Penn.) Telegraph. He has discovered in the archives of the State that William Penn gave fifty gallons 'of rum and twenty-five pounds of red paint to the Indians for a certain tract of land. Thereupon he comments: "Just imagine that tribe of Indians filling themselves up with that fifty gallons of rum and doing the great decorating act with twenty-five pounds cf red paint, j a rnwhnT tnnf-. nr a Snrrwa svm ' * J ~ ?~ o ^? posium are ?is nothing compared to the way the aborigines carmined the vicinity of the village wherein dwelt Billy Penn." The 3Iexican authorities believe in "a short shrift and a sudden rope"' for train-wreckers. The House of Deputies has passed the law which provides for the immediate execution of those who ? ' hurl a train to destruction, -when apprehended in the act. Wrecks, particularly of freight trains, have been of more or less frequent occurrence ever since the Mexican Central Hailroad was opened for business. The lawless bands which so frequently gather upon the other side of our frontier, and which never scruple to plunder friend or foe. have on several occasions found a rich booty after cuus ing a train to leave the track and go into the ditch. Escape has been comparatively easy for them, and it is represented that immunity from severe punishment has made them bolder and more reckless, For the sake of loot they have t y caused the death of many a passenger or railroad employe. "The Saltation Army has just completed the construction of a $50,000 temple in Toronto, which is to be the headtjuarters of the Army in British America. It is of red brick, with stone foundations and facings; it has a frontage of 106 feet by a depth of 100 feet. There are three front entrances, the center one being through a fine arch. Above the anh the moin ricoc trt tVio nf pirrlitv WV.1V ?~-0?- ~ o J feet. The temple proper is on the first floor, and is 90x100 feet, with a height of thirty-five feet to the ceiling. It is arranged in amphitheatre form, the seats rising in tiers, with one gallery. It will seat 2,500 people. It is so well arranged that there is not a bad seat in the temple. The plans were prepared by the Army's architect in England. The portion of the building not used by the temple is devoted to the general offices, the editorial and publication rooms of the *TF<zr Cry, the store-room, sleeping apartments, banqueting hall, etc., etc. IW - r_ J J l .... iL.l l(i.n ?<in? ine muepenutrii's ?a^a iuuv w m.mj accidents occur from ignorant or reckless fTv* I . uses of anything like a mushroom, that careful people hesitate to use the numerous good things in this class that are everywhere about them. Some wholly innocuous species are similar in 'appearance to some that are virulent, and may be let alone until those who wonld eat them became familiar with the distinctions. But there are some that are easily distinguished from the dangerous ones; quite as easily or more easily than the common mushroom. Mr. Wortliington Smith points out the Agaricus infundibuliformis as one of these. It is whitish, and has cup turned inside out, as in the case of an umbrella inverted by the wind. The cup formed by the inversion recurves a little at the edges, and as one sees it along grassy paths, has the appearance of a huge pale flower of some Convovulus or "morning glory." With common care, says Mr. Smith, it cannot be mistaken for any other species." Following is a summary of the workers in the leading traders of Chicago: Fifty packing houses, 15,000 to 20,000; twenty-two breweries, 1,500; fifty wholesale bakeries, 1,100; three gas companies. 1,200; four street railways, 4,500; railroads, 15,000; one hundred cigar factories, 1,300; five express companies, 1,200; telegraph and telephone companies, 1,800; sixty-seven boot and shoe manufactories, 2,500; forty wholesale clothing manufactories, 5,000; twelve dry goods dealers, 8,000; twenty bra^s foundries, 1,000; twenty tanneries, 1,300; eightyseven foundries, iron-works, and rolling mills, 8,000; 100 carriage and wagon factories, 1,500; 140 furniture and uphol tery, 6,000; forty planing-mills and box factories, 2,500; 200 lumber yards, 7,000; 20,000 men are employed in the building trade as carpenters, paper-hangers, lathers, painters, stone and brick workers, stone-cutters, plumbers and gas-fitters, roofers and slaters. i\ "Long John'' Wentworth, of Chicago, j ex-Congressman and ex-Mayor, has completed a model for a gigantic monument which he proposes to erect over his last ^ earthly resting place during the coming summ-r. The material will be white granite f roii'the Hallo well quarries, in , Maine The monument will consist of a base 18 feet square in a single stone?the largest, it is claimed, ever quarried? resting upon which will be u tapering shaft 50 feet high and GJ feet square at \ the base. The four sides of the base will . s be engraved with an epitome of Mr. f TVcntworth's family history. r< -T==-=-=-==5-?-?S It "The great Lick telescope," says the ? Boston Herald, "when mounted and ^ swung against the sky, will have a focus ^ of fifty-five feet length and neatly fifteen L feet longer than the largest one ever made. It will be a refractor, which means v that the image is formed directly to the 11 eye by the object glass, as contradistin- ^ guished from the Gregorian and Her- -l schelian telescopes. The largest instru- re ment ever known of the latter style was Dr Horsrhpra. Tlin tube larked but eight inches of being forty feet in ' length. "What new revelations in the j*| heavens this largest and most powerful M of all refractors may disclose from its K costly minaret ancj the surpassing aid it 10 promises to the further study of the sur- n face of the moon alone,arc matters which j* already excite impatient expectation from ')S the whole seicntific world. ? h Sir'James Caird, whose recent state- ? mont that there are MS. 000 small tenants ic in Ireland who will be unable to pay any " rent, if the present low pi ices of produce ;h continue, has attracted so much attention, writes to the London Times again >n on the same subject. lie classifies Irish holdings under nine heads, as follows: m ivi 1. 21S,000 holdings averaging ?2 rental. ? 2. 196,000 holdings averaging ?7 rental. 3. 78,000 holdings averaging ?12 rental. v' 4. 46,000 holdings averaging ?18 rental. 1Q 5. 47,000 holdings nvernjriutr ?25 rental :r b. 34,000 holdings averaging ?3-~> rental. 'a 7. 14,000 holdings averaging ?45 rental. ^ 8. 34,000 holdings averaging ?75 rental. yj 9. 13,000 holdings averaging ?300 rentaL tn This makes a total of 059,000 holdings tti on which the annual rent is $52,085,000. fjj He says further that many tenants farm ;h< two or more holdings, and estimates the Vjj number of Irish bona fide agriculturalists ;h at 400,000. He states that he has learned that a majority of Irish landlords do not ?h want to sell out, but the statement has yi been received with increduality. o< ?? hi According to Sci(n".c, "there seems to jr be ground for the desire so generally ^ expressed that the Signal Service should >n give some warning of the probable occur- 111 rence of tornadoes, at least in such away that the inhabitants of towns in the exposed districts may be on the lookout r fnr the armroneh of the dreadful funnel cloud. The reports state that in the open couutry there was little loss of life, as the storms came by day, and persons generally saw them in time to take refuge mi in the tornado cellars with which nearly by every farm in that region Is provided, i But in the towns, where persons remain wi more indoors, and where clouds near the horizon are not easily seen, tornadoes in: too commonly arrive unperceived till the roar of their winds tells that there as is no time for escape, and here some di! early intimation of the impending danger th should be given. The warnings based ^ on the conditions shown in the morning dr weaiher map might be announced as experimental for a season, so that a on public trial of their value could be J* made. Towns at least could be reached tb by telegraph and telephone in all parts of the Mississippi Valley by noon on the cv days of danger, and the saving of lives ? in some places would compensate for a fu onnrl flpul of needless nnxiotv riinsrtl hv ^ e It warning towns that escape destruction, in There seems to be no way whatever of saving property that lies in the path of th the storm. wmmm^ m be Painting a War Picture. b? "In painting a war picture the artist m must first select a battle of national in- ja terest and with a certain dramatic value pi of its own. I^ow comes the almost end- ^ less task of collecting the material. " "The soldiers who take part in a great engagement often represent almost every locality in the country. All the Rources must be consulted. One can't alford to be mistaken in a single instance. It would be detected the very < first time an old soldier who was in the cb fight visited the picture. But to make you understand 1 will tell you how I collected the material for the Siege of Vicksburg. that Mr. Morgan is now fin- * ishing. First, I obtained access to the ^ War Department at Washington, D. C., and collected every photograph and w sketch pertaining to the fight. I also Wl obtained copies of the roll call of all the Federals engaged in the battle. To 38,000 of these men I sent circular let- in ters requesting them to send me their re full name, age. weight, height, and a 0 photograph. Thousands of those letters * have been answeicd. If they were all hi collected and printed in book form I lo honestly believe it would be the most P< interesting and most unique contribu- P1 tion to the history of the civil war ex- ~ tant. I wrote to Col. Fred. Grant ask- iii ing him to send me a photograph of dt hiin-eif at the' age when he >as at the 6' battle of Vicksburg with his father. His wife answered the letter, sending his di picture, representing a lad of thirteen. Ji She wrote: 'Dear Gcueral: Inclosed ?' find a photograph of Col. Fred. Grant at w the age when he was at the battle of ( Vicksburg with his facher, Gen. Grant, to It is the only one we have of him while ti at that age, and, as his mother prizes it hi very much, will you kindly return it j* when your great picture is finished C b, "Here is the photograph of four men fr all standing in a row on crutches. You P< will notice that each man has lost his left ?j leg. They wrote me a letter statiug h) that they were all engaged in the battle ni of Vicksburg, all were from the same c< neighborhood, all knew each other, and all lost their left le^. Now, isn't that a hi bit of remarkable war history ?" ?Cincin- hi nati Enquirer. sc P Ilunters in Southern Oreco 1 are wantonly slaughtering the deer for their g ci-Mo Their carcasses are thrown into fa the rivers. ti "victims of the flames. L Widow's Four Youn? Children Burned to Death. Their Uncle Fatally Injured While Trying to Eescue Them. Mrs. Mary Mooney, a widow, residing ?< a I.HAM rtu:_ WUU UUCC UlliCd UU1 IU Ui AAJUU, VU1U, 1 C" red about 9 o'clock the other evening, sleepig in the same room with her five children? homas, aged 12; Julia, 10; Nellie, 7; LawMice 4,and Maggie, 2. Thgir bed chamber was ltbe front part on the second floor of a nail frame house. In the rear part of le same floor, in other rooms, slept awrence Mooney, aged 58, brother-inlw of the mother of the children: izzie Mooney, aged 20, and Patrick todney, agod 19. Mrs. Mooney's husband, [ichael Mooney, died nearly two years ago. ad since that time the children, with their tother and uncle, have lived in this house, hich was for them a very comforable home, bout 11 o'clock p. m? some of the children ied out, which awakened Mrs. Mooney, ho, like the rest of the inmates, ializel that the house was on re. The smoke was already so dense as to i almost stifling. Mrs Mooney at once rang from the bed, grasped hor tivo-yeard baby in her arms, and also attempted to trry the little boy, Lawrence, but her son, homas, said he would take care of him. ts. Mooney then told the children to join inds and fojlow her, and she led the ay to the stairway to go down i the lower part of the house, and this way make their escape, but on reachg the stairway she found, that the flames id filled it and that there was no possible lance of escape by that way. Being almost ercome from the heat and smoke the poor other and little ones retraced their steps to eir bedroom. Here Mrs. Mooney raised a iudow and called to her children to jump r their lives. She could, however, no nger see them as the flames were >w scorching her and death stared her and ir babe in the face. In a half fainting and rribly excited condition the mother, with e babe hugged to her breast, threw herself it of the window and landed safely on the ound with nothing but her night clothes L Lawrence itiooney, uie uncie, auu lizzie id Patrick Mooney, also succeeded in aking their escape by jumping from the indovvs, though neither of tnem had time dress. The four children, Thomas, Julia, ?llie and Lawrence, who were last seen ith hands clasped trying to find the stairly, were still in the building, which was iw one solid wall of name. The ies and shrieks were Clearly heard, and ocsionally the forms of the little ones could seen through this terrible sbroud of ath that was so rapidly consuming them, r. Mooney, the uncle, was fairly crazed d foaght the fire as best he could. ?ain and again he rushed into the house rough the fire in his endeavors to save e little ones. The floor had burned out jm beneath them, and they had fallen into e cellar. The mother, brothor, sister and icle were wild from grief as they watched e terrible sight. Fainter and fainter grew e cries of their loved ones, uutil all was shed. Mr. Mooney, in his endeavors to save the ildren, almost perished in the flames. He is a sickening sight to look upon. His face ?c crs cwnllon nnri hl!ctx>rrv1 Hint, hp ^nrr?plv* )ked like a human bain?. His lips were rea times their natural size and looked as ough they would burst. His cheeks were eat blisters; his eyebrows, hair and his liskers were burned close to tho skin, leavthing but the curled yellow roots exposed the face. His hands and arms were litery roasted. He was fatally injured. FREAKS OF A CYCLONE. emarkable Occurrcnrcs During the Storm iu Ohio. Reports of the recent Ohio cyclone show e remarkably freaks that these wind stores ly with human life and property. In a VirtncA r\f rjoAPoro Unffmnn troc on pirrVi anths-old baby. It was picked up the wind, laid in a feather bed, 'd the whole business, baby and , was carried 150 feet. All is then deposited, and a log wns thrown on tbersideof the child, pinning the bed to 0 ground. After the storm a search was rtituted for the baby. Oue of the seareh9 board it cry, arid,"following the direction dicated by the sound, founa the little pet, id restored it uninjured to the arms or its stracted mother. Mr. Curtis Hall, Jr., of Neptune, reports at be saw straws that were blown into old ,k trees. A bed in the house of Andy Ginr was blown into the fields, and three chilen in it were carried along with it All of e furniture was blown out of George Fox's use. Feathers were stripped from chickens 1 this farm as clean as though the fowls h .d en prepared by a cook for the pot. The ickens were caught by an obstruction at held them for the wind to operate upon m. William Stevenson says that he saw the -i T* U1UMU ttJJyiUOCU. If iUUEDU Jiftc a g;c*?v ?ck ball in the act of rolling over (he surce of the earth. It came along with fright1 Telocity, and made a noise louder tnan roaring of a hundred thunder peals, was a clear night everywhere but the wake of the fearful monsr. It was about a half mile wide, and it risted immense trees off at the ground as ough they were pipe stem?. It cut crops grain and grass off a? clean as a mowing tchine, and in instances stripped trees of irk as a hungry Italian would peal a George Fox's wagon was carried half a lie. The tires ou two wheels were each cut two u with a sharp instrument, and each irlly straightened exactly in the same ape. At John Grimm's dishes were carried l<i driven into stumps so that they c ould ft bo pulled out. POUND GUILTY. Iderman Jaehne Convicted in New York of Bribery. The case of Alderman Henry W. Jaehne, arged with receiving a bribe of $20,000 am the promoters of the Broadway surface ilroad in New York, was given to the jury ten minutes to eleven p. m., on the loth. ie interest in the case deepened as the trial ew to a close, and the corridors and hallays of the Court Housa were well filled ith politicians and friends of the accused as ell as curiosity seekers. On the reassembling of the court after supsr, at halt-past seven o'clock, Judge Bartt ordered the door to be locked, and it was ipossible to get in or out until the jury j tired, wheu the doors were opeued. thers of the indicted Aldermen ere present and looked very serious, pecially while the judge was delivering s charge. Assistant District Attorney Felws in his summing up for the prosecution, rinted his finger at Jaehne in scorn, but the -isoner maintained his composure, although i was ashy pale. The jury returned to the court room at a t-tle after 1 o'clock a. m., after two hours' .'liberation, and rendero 1 a verdict of lilty. Under the conviction Jaehne could :t ten years in State Prison or a fiuo ' $5,000, or both. He was greatly sturbed when the verdict was announced, ldge Barrett stat-jd that a< it was Sunday orning ho would defer further action until 'onday, and the prisoner was thereupon rnveyod to a cell in the Tombs. The conviction of Jaehne was due mainly ? Police Inspector Byrnes and two detivves. Byrnes testified that ono night at is house, while two detectives were mcealed a few feet away, Jaehne had >n fussed to receiving $'-i0,0()0 as a ribe for voting for the railroad anchise in 1KH4; that the money had been it in his locker in the Aldermanic room by le Moloney, a clerk of the board, and that 1 the other members of the board save two id received the fame amount. The testilony of Byrnes was confirmed by the con;aled detectives. A play written by Julian Hawthone and is brother-in-law, George Parsons Lathrop, sis been accepted by Mine. Modjeska. The :ene is laid in England and the heroine is a rima donna. The eleventh annual meeting of nurseryMn, florists and seedsman will be held in th? Apartment of Agriculture building*, Washiftan, D. C.. beginning June Kith, and conauing three days. / NEWS SUMMARY i Eafltcrn and Middle States. Police-Inspector Byrnes on the 14th ; 1 told a New Y ork jury how Alderman Jaehne had confessed, to him of having accepted $~0,000 as a bribe for voting for the Broadway railroad franchise. Grand Master "Workman Powderly t has written a letter from Scranton, Penu., to the press, claiming that some employers boycott their employes for joining the Knights of Labor. Meyers, American champion short-dis- . tance runner, has defeated George, the Eng- ln lish champion, for the third time, in New o' York, the distance at this last match being in one mile. Mrs. Harriet E. Nasion, thirty-nine years g, old, is being ;ried at Rutland, Vt., for murdering her son-in-law, and is also strongly suspected of haying poisoned her husband, Fi her young nephew, aud her most intimate y( female friencl. Tue general impression at Rutland is that Mrs. ISoscn is afflicted with a most dangerous and insidious form of in- B' sanity, and that all the results of her secret cc work are not yet known. w | Bartley Campbell, a noted and suecessful American dramatic author, has become insane and be^n laken to a New York asylum. OI John O'Bfiie.v, Chairman of the New York fr Democratic State Committee, has boon ap- ai pointed receiver of the Broadway Railroad ni Company, of New York City, in a suit th brought by the State's Attorney General to c}( wind up the affairs of that corporation. he Three thousand barters paraded in New York a few days ago in favor of shorter M hours and advanced wages. in "Plinis" White, the most notorious confidence mem in the country, died a few days f1 aio at his brother's house in Reading, Vt I 3U By his oily tongue a nd gentlemanly manners he succeeded in the last twenty-two years in J1' fleecing busi ness inen, gullible farmers and confiding women out of more than $1,500,000. su i He was a venerable, - lerical-looking man, da highly educated, and d ressed with excellent aste." P? be South and "West. | The story that eight of the persons who M sacked a Chicago drug store during the re- if cent riot had died from the effects of poison fa which they drank under the impression that uo it was wine is denied- XI Hailstones big as walnuts fell during a mi storm at Wichita Falls, Texas. wi Additional disasters from tornadoes .in the West are reported. At Dunkirk, Ohio, ni| many buildings were wrecked, and four per- ^ sons?a fat/her, mother and two children? were instantly killed a id about twenty in- y jured. Many buildings in Meridan, Kansas, su were destroyed and a si ore of persons hurt. The pecuniary damage in nine Ohio counties is estimated, at $2.0J0.(K 0. l?U co A prolonged drought has killed thousands of cattle in the Southwest. Fully 20,- jjg 000 carcasses eover the plains. During a thunder storm three women de were killed by lightnin j at Celine, Ohio, and pa at Neptuue, three mile; , away,two men and a toi child were fatally injured by a falling house. Co Some fifteen other persons were more or less Pe injured. Hundreds of barns, houses, and in< farm build ngs in that region were either ne entirely demolished cr unroofed, and or- a chards torn up. an Chief Geronimq and his Apache cut-' gi1 throats have been badly whipped by a troop sac of United States Cavalry under Captain ist Hatfield in New Mexico, Two soldiers wore j killed and three wout ded. Many Indians A1 fell. wc Another Chicago policeman has died of jpb wounds received from the bomb thrown by A r*ov/?liiufc T-To ia fha firth iv*lir?pmrm Hoorl More thin 20,00.) striking tailors and ye tailoresses have returned to work in Chirago j on the basis of nine hours' work for ten hours' qj, Pa7- lac Nineteen men have been indicted and Ph arretted in Milwaukee for taking part in the pr< recent labor riot which culminated in a fatal LTi collision with the military. kil An alarm of fire in a theatre at Wester- lea ville, Ohio, resulted in a panic among the 700 people composing the audience. The lire was caused by the ignition of gasoline from one of tho /oot'ights. In the rush to escape about twenty-five pinions were burned or ' crushed, several with fatal result. m? em Washington. wc Confirmations by the Senate: 8. T. fQJ Houter, Governor of Montana; G. Montegue, Superintendent of the Mint at New Orleans; J. T. Healv, of Illinois, Assistant Treasurer th< of the United State? at Chicago; R. S. ? i Shields, of Ohio, United States Attorney for JT the Northern District of Ohio: J. P. Kimball, of Pennsylvania, Director of the Mint; H. by W. Gilbert, of New York, United States th( Consul at Trieste. ve The President has sent the following nominations to the U. S. Senate: Henry W. ^ f Severing, United Stata* Judge for tha West ern District of Alicbifpn; David u. ruicon, ja Marshal of the United State3 for the Western ?,y District of Wisconsin; Thomas E. Kelly, Marshal of the United States for the district P" of Nevada; John C. Penny, Postmaster at no: Dover, D?L to Many of the Westjrn Congressmen are ] urging an early adjournment of Confess. The President has vetoed the bill to esta.b- , lish a port of delivery at Springfield, Mas.". bei The 8enate has confirmed Mrs. Thoinp- e'S son's renonination as postmistress s.t Louis- bet ville, Ky. Of tin two Kentucky Senators ^ Mr. Beck favored anil Mr. Blackburn opposed confirmation. Among recent confirmations by the Semite ?ra nAininafmno orA V*. VUO X A CV1UOUV a uvutuMViVMu ? j W. 8. Rosacrana as Renter of the T reasury; iug S. "W. Burt, to bo Na val Officer for the dis- sid trictof New York; United States Clon- j suls?Peter Straub, of Tennessee, at St. .. Galle; Victor Viquain, of Nebraska, at liar- A1( ranyuilla; John M. Buck, of West Virginia, Ka at Na^astiki; and Postmasters?0. C. Yonge, co, Jr., Pensttcoia, Fla.; D. W. Gwynn, atTalla- t hassee, FJa. The rejection by the Senate of the nomina- ( tion of C. W. Buttou to be Postmaster at of Lvnchburg, Va., hits been officially an- Mii nouncod. sec Foieiicn. 1D= Cholera is on the increase in Italy. Later reports put the numberof killed by . a hurricane in Madrid at thirty-two, and th6 lni wounded at 020. etc Great distress prevails in Newfoundland pre owing to the failure of the sea) fishery this pr( season. Several deaths from starvation have ?? already occurred. "* The Mexican General Martinez has routed 1 the Yaquis Indians from their stronghold, for killiug 100 and capturing 200 of the Dand. 1 The Mexicans lost twenty killed and fifty wounded. This virtually ends the Yaquis war. Br A great banquet is to be given In London Ne to Oliver Wendell Holmes, the American njt author, by the authors and artists of Eng- . land. teE Quee> Christixji. ha-f given birth to a son a ^ ?the heir to the throne oi .Spain. The event cee was announced to the people of Madrid by 0tl the royal standard being hoisted on the gilace.'and by a salv.t? of twenty-one guns, ad the child been a Princess a white flag ' would have been displayed and fifteen instead of twent} -one guns iired. ga Moi'vt Ktva Sieilv's celebrated volcano, dif is again is a state of eruption. pr Sixty-kight Parnellite-s members of the House of Commons, desired to speak ou Gladstones Home Rule bill, but, in deference J to the wishes of Mr. Parnell, they have pi agreed that only a limited number of taem Nt should speak. tel NEWSY GLEANINGS. There ore 20,00) waiters in New York f?, and Brooklyn. ' Last year 4,080,459 cans of milk were _ brought to Now York city. la The estimated number of idle wageworkers in th>3 United States is 800,000. en Maine still pays out about ?1,000 a year toi bounties for bears k illed in the State. Based on the names in the last city direc- im tory.St. Louis clairis a population of 420,000. A floating plaD ing mill, 170 foet long by y l eventy feet in wi dth, is being built on the ' Allegheny River. About a fifth of the GOO Chinese residents ^ of Philadelphia have become members of the ^ Sunday-schools of the city. nc Dufiuro the last year the output of coal in ex Great Britain was 160,351,418 tons, in which 520,6^2 collieries wore engaged. The average annual yield of the Kimberly | op diamond mines in South Africa during the ! ac past thrra yearn has been 112,500,000. fe. A RIDE TO DEATE Tie Wife of United States Minister Pendleton Killed. lirown from Her Carriage in Central Park, New York. A frightful accident, cause! by a runaway i Central Park, New York, shortly after 5 clock p. m., a few days since, resulted in the stant death of Mrs. Alice Pendleton, wife of Senator George H. Pendleton, United tates Minister to Germany, and the serious lough not fatal injury of Miss Jane ranees Pendleton, their twenty-twojar old daughter. Mrs. Pendleton, ith her daughter, returned from arlin some two months ago, on a visit of insolation to her sou, Frank K. Pendleton, ho recently lost his wife, aud they were opping at his house in New York. It was ieir intention to rejoin Mr. Pendleton Berlin in a short time. About o'clock p. m. they entered the le-horse victoria which thev had ordered om a livery stable in Lexington avenue, id were driven by Hugh Reilly. the eoachan, to No. 013 Sixth avenue. While there e horse became greatly excited under the evated road, but Reilly kept him well in ind. From there, after a momentary visit by iss lJendleton to Dickel's Riding Academy, Fiftj'-sixth street, they drove into Central irk by way of the Fifth avenue entrance, ley followed the central drive, aud were st in sight of the Webster statue ben a rumbling noise was heard bend the Victoria. In an instant e terrified horse plunged and bolted. The dden spring pulled the coachman over the .shboard and upon his head, but he held the reins without flinching. When the cupauts of the lurching carriage saw the ix empty, with one accord they sprang to e same side of the carriage, and tried to ip to the grassy slope bordering the road, iss Pendleton, being the lighter, reached I Mrs. Pendleton, who was very stout, iled, and fell heavily on the concrete curb, it five feet from her unconcious daughter. ie horse, draiririutr the rarriocp nnH c-no^Vi an, ran into aTjusL, 200 feet further on, and is then caught by Patrick Conway, the itering trough boy, who helped the coachan to his feet. The coachman hastened to the | sistnnce of the ladies. At the same time an icer of the mounted park police, atti a ?ted r the outcry, arrived on the scene. He inintly put into practice the rules taught by b Soaety for b irst Aid to the Injured. He tempted to renew respiration in the elder ly, but, tDUching her cheek, he found it Id. Then he turned to Miss Pendleton, and, ter a few movements of the arms, restored r to consciousness. An ambulance had beeu meanwhile orred from the Presbyterian Hospital, and a irk wagon from the arsenal. Miss rendle , who was severely bruised and only seminscious was removed to the hospital. Mrs. indleton, who had an ugly gash, threa :-hes long, two inches above tbe nape of tho ck, was dead, and was taken to the arsenal, coroner was summoned, a jury impaneled, d a verdict in accordance with t'je facts fen above was rendered. The news of tbe i calamity was cabled at 7 o'clock to Miner Pendleton at Berlin. Mrs. Pendleton was, before marriage, Miss ice Key, daughter of Francis S. key, the irld-famous author of the "Star Spangled inner."' She was the niece of Roger B. ney, once Chief Justice of the United ci J 4.^ if- ii-*- ? nucs. one was uian icu lkj JU.I? ireuiimi/Oii 18#i, and at the time of her death was 01 ars of age. Mrs. Pendleton was esteemed in society in ncinnati and at the National Capital as a ly of rare culture and lovable qualities, ilip Barton Key. once a citizen of national eminence and Attorney General of the lited States, was her brother. He was bd by General Sickles. Mrs. Pendleton ives three grown children. . LATER NEWS. rwentt-two Troy (N. Y.) collar and cuff mufacturing firms have locked out thoir iployes, comprising about 8,000 girls and men. The cause of the lock-out is a strike higher wages of the 750 employes of one ? t i,AUi i a nnri [Li, Auuub iu,uuu peiTtuiia uro ttuo'.wju uj j stoppage. - . SJaine fishermen are greatly excited over 5 seizure of the schooner Ella M. Doughty the Canadian authorities for violation of 5 fisher}' laws. They talk of arming their ssels and resisting arrest if they are not Dtected by the Government. ["he Ohio Legislature has adjourned to nuary 4,1687. The Democratic Senators, 10 left the State so they would not be comlled to take part in the proceedings, did t return, but went direct from Kentucky their homes. Mrs. Margaret Donnan, a widow living Lincoln county, W. Va., cut the throats of r three daughters, aged twelve, ten and ht years, and then killed herself. She had :ome insane from religious excitement l warm personal canvass for the Goverrship of Georgia is going on between Genii John B. Go?don and Major A- O. con. The two candidates have been hold; joint discussions on the stump, and conerable feeling has been displayed. i. uuxbriKAUY against tut) lives 01 * nuce sxander, the Bulgarian ruler, and M. .ravelof, the Prime Minister, has been dis<ered. Jnited States Minister Cox has just i a three hours' interview with the Sultan Turkey in Constantinople. The American uistor presented to tha Sultan gifts .t by President Cleveland, consist; of a thousand views of scenr in different parts of the United ites, portraits of celebrated and typical -* Xt- _ ? nans, copies ui i/iie in&u ugidus i cpui us, . The Sultan was well pleased with the ?sents, and requested Mr. Cox to thank esident Cleveland for the "unique and luable gifts." ["he New York Legislature has adjourned the session. Ilderman Jaehnr, convicted of taking iribe of 820,0JO for his vote in aid of the oadway railroad charter, was sentenced in w York, on the 20th, to State prison for le years and ten months. The highest senico possible for the offense is ten years and ieavy fine. Application for a stay of pro(dings was made by Jaehne's counsel to anier judge, but refused. Jaehne utterly jke down after sentence was parsed. Colonel John B. Folsom, grandfather Miss Frankie Folsom, the young laiy enged to be married to President Cleveland J ;d the other day at Folsomville, N. Y. I esident Cleveland was the law partner in i iffalo of the Colonel's late son, Oscar. A. fishing schooner heavily armei is re- | rted to have left Boston for the Banks of [ #1 >hirmin >H tr> rpsist anv at- ! npted seizure by the Canadians. Louis Willett was hanged at Kingston, , Y., for the murder of Edwin Kellaud, his j iployer, the motive being robbery. Tiik Grand Jury at Belleville, 111., hus re" sed to indict the Deputy Sheriffs who tired on a 1110b in Ea-t St. Louis during the recent ilroad strike aud killed six persons. A mill is before Congress to prohibit own hip by foreigners of lands in the Terriries. Advices from Chiua state that one of the ij>erial palaces, built at a cost of $2,000,000, s been destroyed by fire. During April MX) persons died of small-pox at Jassam. A new tenor has been discovered in Carls- j be, Germany. His name is Felix Minuer, d be is a porter by trade. He is being edat?d for an artistic career at the public ! pense. rnE largest theatre in the world is the new | era house in Paris. It covers nearly three res of ground; its cubic mast is 4,287,000 ?t; it cost about 12.000,000. - ' I.,7 ' -.TV-'.?'.' SUMMARY _0F CONGRESS Senate Sessions. Nixety-ninth Day.?Mr. Frye, from th< Committee on Commerce, reported favora bly his bill to limit the privileges of foreigi vessels in the ports of the United States t< the purposes accorded to vessels of th< United States in foreign ports. Mr. Fry* said he would at the proper time move tni bill as an amendment to the House Shipping bill. The bill was placed on the calendar Public building oills involving an expendi ture of $l,235,0u0 were passed....Mr. Hoar'! resolution requiring the Committee on Com rrerce, when reporting the River and Harboi bill, to state the facte that show the nationa importance of the several pieces of work and why each item of appropriation is advisable, was repuruiu iavorauiy auu pa^*?u.... ? nt General Pension bill was placed before th( Senate. 100th Day.?Mr. Frye called up the House Shipping bill abolishing certain fees foi official services to American vessels, anc moved to add to it the bill recentlj reported by him, authorizing the Presi dent to issue a proclamation when ever be may deem proper, denying to vessels of foreign countries such privileges as are denied in such foreign countries to ves sels of the United States. This is the bill authorizing retaliation for the recent action ol the Dominion of Canada in excluding United States vessels from certain privileges in Cana dian ports, although its provision is not confined to Canada, but is made general, so as tc apply to all foreign countries. The amendment was agreed to without debate, and th< bill as amended was then passed. On motioi of Mr. Frye, a committee of conference wa< ordered on the disagreeing votes of the twc Houses upon the bill Various amendments to the Army Appropriation bill were introduced Several amendments to the Pension bill were rejected Executive session. 101st Day.?Mr. Gibson reported favorably from the Committee on Commerce, and on nis motion the Senate at once passed, a House bill supplying a deficiency appropriation of $6,492 to carry on to June, 1880, the examinations and survey regarding depth of water, etc., at the South Pass, Mississippi River.... In the course of the discussion of th? House J.ator Arbitration bill, Mr. Logar said he would at the proper time submit a substitute. The House bill provided arbi tration, but after the trouble had arisen, and aftfcr the arbitration should be appealed to and the decision rendered, there was no means of putting the decision into effect.... The pension bill -was discussed further without action. 102d Day.?The pension bill wasdis ussed. Mr. Blair's amendment that "no pension paid under any law to any soldier, sailor, or marine hereafter shall be rated at less than $4 a month" was agreed to. Mr. Logan then moved to make the minimum pension hereafter payable under any law not less than $6 a month. Rejected, 20 to 21. Auother amendment offered by Mr. Logan extending the provisions of the bill so as to cover men who served three months, was agreed to. The bill was then passed?yeas, 34; nays, 14 Thj Bankruptcy Bill was then laid before the Senate, and after an ineffectual attempt of Mr. Riddleberger to secure an executive session, the Senate adiournei 103d Day.?Mr. Beck presented in the Senate a memorial relating to oleomargarine, and said that if that article was one not inconsistent with health it should not be taxed, while if it were inconsistent with health the remedy was not to be found in taxation, but in the prohibition of its manufacture. .... Mr. Blair introduced a bill to restore to officers of the army and their widows and minor children the rate of pensions they received prior to July 25,1876,at which date revtain classes of pensions were reduced... .Mr. r.amunas introaucea in ine oenaie a 0111 appropriating $2.5,000, to be paid to the proner authorities of the State of Vermont, in aid of the establishment and maintenance of the proposed home for volunteer disabled soldiers in that State. House Sessions. 115th Day.?Alter the transaction of soma routine business the House went into Committee of the Whole on the private calendar. A bill for the extension of a patent gave rise to a debate on the tariff..... The House took a recess until 7:30, the evening session to be for the consideration of pension bills. 116th Day.?The bill to establish a subtreasury at Louisville, Ky.,was passed, after considerable discussion, by 157 yeas to CI Lays....The House proceeded to the consideration of the bill for the appointment of a Commission to inspect and report on Indian affairs, and the remainder of the afternoon was consumed in the discussion of this measure. ... At the evening session, speeches eulo* i-i.~ T> glSUC Ul too jul? XXOUICBCUbaVlVO Louisiana, were passed 117th Day.?Mr. Boutelle (Ma) introduced a bill appropriating $50,000 for the erection in "Washington of a bronze monument to the late Edwin m. Stanton ... The Urgent Deficiency bill was considered briefly and passed....Oi motion of Mr. O'Donnell (Mich.) the rules were suspended and the House passed, 203 to 8, a Senate bill to provide for the study of the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and of their effects upon the human system, in connection with the several divisions of the subject of physiology and hygiene by the pupils in the public schools of the Territories and of the District of Columbia. and in the military and naval academies and Indian and colored schools in the Territories of the United States. 118th Day.?Mr. Blount (Ga.), from the Committee on Postofflces and Postroads, reported back the Postoffice Appropriation bill, with Senate amendments, and it having been referred to the Committee of the Whole, the House went into such committee for the purpose of considering these amendments. The subsidy amendment was discussed till the hour for adjournment 119th Day.?Mr. Dibble (S. C.) from ihe Committee on the Laws Regulating the election of President, reported a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment ' J J_S_: creating uuu neuumj iuc vm?,c v>. >jv.vu<. Vice President of the United States? The House went into Committee of the Whole on the Senate amendment to the Post Office Appropriation bilL The Subsidy amendment was discussed until adjournment It was advocated by Messrs. Millard (N. Y.), Phelps (N. J.). Hiscock (N. Y.), Peters (Kan.), Bingham (Pa.), Lote (Del.), and Dingley (Me.): and was opposed by Messrs. Dockery (Mo.), Springer (111.), McAdoo (N. J.), and Holman 120th Dat.?The Senate amendment adding #800.000 to.the Postoffice Appropriation bill in aid of American lines carrying foreign mails, was defeated after discussion. CArtofa ronnmnionHotinnc wara flOTW^i to without a division, excepting that as to the foreign mail service amendment. This amendment was non-concuiTed in by a vote of yeas, 178; nays, 80. Twentysix Republicans voted yea, and six Democrats nay. PROMINENT PEOPLE The second volume of General Grants memoirs has appeared. The Duke of Newcastle is coming to this country for a nine-months' visit C. J. cressy, a California millionaire, began life on the Pacific slope as a woodchopper. Rev. Sam Jones and Sam Small are preaching to large congregations in Baltimore. Martin Irons, the deposed St. Louis Knight of Labor, is goiog to become a lecturer. Senator Spoo.ver, of "Wisconsin, is an enthusiast on music. His wife is a splendid siii-er. The interior decorations of J. C. Flood's new house in San Francisco, furnished by a New York firm, are said to have cost over $^00,000. Mr. Gladstone wore a rose and a shamrock, the latter a gift from Mr. Parnell, in his buttonhole the night he introduced the Home Rule bill 'Congressman Mi'Ktvt.ey, of Ohio," says the Washington AV? b'.ican, "is in personal apprarance the counterfeit presentment ot tne nrst i>apuieuu. Mr. Spofford has been librarian of Congress for nioro than twenty years, and during this period the library has grown from '.*0,000 to more than 500,000 volumes. Baron de Struve. the Russian Minister, who has just returned from a foreign tour, is one of the most popular members |of the Diplomatic Corps at Washington, A cave largo enough to accommodate all the citizens of the town is to be dug in Clifton, Dak. It is designed as a safeguard against cyclones. aber, Hosmer, of Concord, Mass., lives on the farm which has been owned by his ancestors since 10*45. He is ninety years old. : *: f'-fe-yta I 5 EX-PRESIDENT ARTHUR - A New York Doctor Says He Has I Bright's Disease. a s Little Doubt that He is Gradually : Passing Away, 3 ? The New York Commrr nal Advertiser publishes in its news column* the following 1 about the serious condition of ex-President ^ Chester A Arthur: 3 "Mr. Arthur is improving.11 Such is the v 3 answer that every out receives from exPresident's Arthur's attenr ant when inqui( ries are made about the health of that ' r distinguished citizen. There is no 1 variation to this assurance, day after r day. Sometimes the domestic servant de. clares that Mr. Arthur slept an hour lonzer . than he did the previous night, or that his r appetite is slightly better. Dr. Peters, of ' No. 12 West Twenty-ninth street, will not . say a word one way or the other. The exPresident is constantly attended by his sist ter, Mrs. McElroy, who gives him his meii[ cine and prepares his fooa. A reporter for the Commercial Advertisir has talked with a distinguished physician who has more than ordinary means of learning General Arthur's real condition. "Of course." said this physician, "Mr. Arthur has his ups and downs. There is no doubt in my mind, nor in that of most physicians wao have taken any interest in the case, that hfr has Bright's disease of the kidneys, This is a very treacherous disease. To-day the patient is abont his rooms and to-morrow he may be insensible. La situde, troubles of the stoma?h and a general feeling of worthkssness arc sympr/ino Tho lfiHnrtvs fin not; nrnvA DT>rxS and blood poisoning sets in. Coma or dropsy is the result. There is congestion of the I brain and the sufferer gradually sinks away i | to wake no more. One of the peculiarities of i I the dissase is that the patient may appear to , be in the best of health aud his spirits high. | "General Arthur, I am quite sure, has i Bright's disease. If he has it, his end is not far off. He may live for six months. He may live for nine. I see no hope for him. | The pleasant weather will probably retard , the development of the more fatal symptoms until autumn. But Bright's disease is a . mortal foe, and the victim never escapes. "You cannot learn the trurh except from General Arthur's own physician, Dr. Peters. That gentleman, for reasons of his own, and they may be very good, keeps the secret to himself. He cannot prevent the more prominent physicians from expressing an opinion. These concur . in the opinion that I have expressed. General Grant v -/ had the cancer a long while before | Vj his physicians had courage enough to stick their fingers down his throat and tell him his disease. In the same way with Gen* eral Hancock, his physician was actually afraid to ask permission 10 examine him. 1 know Dr. deters and ne is assuredly doing all he can for General Arthur. To stay the deadly consequences of Bright's disease is impossible, and the patient sooner or later must succumb. I am glad to see that General Arthur is no worse, and truly hope he may live for six or eight months more. As soon as insensibility sets in his death is only a question of a few hours. Watch for that." A gentleman who was permitted to see the sick ex-President a few days ago told a friend subsequently that he was startled by Mr. Arthur's emaciated appearance. The once portly form of the invalid had shrunken pitiably. The gentleman said that General Arthur had lost more than sixty pounds in weight since his confinement in th9 house. The ex-President took a drive on the 18th in Central Park. This was his first outing since his illness assumed an alarming character. The nature of Mr. Arthur's complaint, the physicians say, will necessarily lead to alter-1 nate periods of depression and exaltation of spirits?"good days'' and "bad days." The recent genial weather they regard as in bis favor, and they say that there is no reason to believe that fatal consequences are, to say the least, at present imminent. THE FISHEBY QUESTION. Another American Vessel Seized by the Canadians. The recent seizure of the American fishing schooner David J. Adams by the Canadians for alleged violation of the fishery laws has been followed by a second seizure?the victim this time being a vessel hailing from Portland, Me. Like the David J. Adams, ' the Portland vessel was seized for buying bait in a Canadian port, and also for neglecting to enter or clear at the Canadian Custom House. A North Sydney (New Brunswick) dispatch gives the following par- t ticulars: The American fishing schooner Ella MDoughty, Capt Warren Doughty, anchoredoutside the entrance of St. Ann's Harbor on the 11th inst, and purchased a number of barrels of bait. She left on the 13th, but owing to the ice, had to put back on Friday, the 14th. This morning (the 17th) she was seized by Customs Officer McAuly for purchasing bait and neglecting to enter or clear at the Custom House. Captain Doughty admitted purchasing bait and seams very little concerned about the seizure, saying that he will look to the American Govern raent for protection. No instructions have yet been received from Ottawa The Collector of Customs at Baddeck, C. B., has inquired into the facts regarding the seizure, and expresses himself as satisfied that it was legally made. A Portland (Me.) dispatch says: The report that the fishing schooner Ella M. Doughty, of Portland (Capt Warren Doughty, owner), had been seized by the Canadian Government, was confirmed. A telegram has been sent to Senator Frye, calling his attention to the matter. There is considerable excitement over the seizure,and the Portland Fishing Exchange will, as a body, take action in regard to it. A Bangor (Me) dispatch says: News of the seizure of the schooner Ella M. Doughty, of Portland, has caused much excitement among the fishing trade in this section, and the feeling against the provincial authorities runs high. .Unless a settlement of this question is reached soon there will be a very ugly feeling along the border. The Nova Scotians who sell bait to Yankee fishermen depend largely on this traffic at this time of year for a living, 3 i Offflm'flvflH t.hftt thft f tlllU LUC J 4CCI uiuvu nn6>IVTV%a Dominion Government should try to shut off their revenues. Many prominent paper of the Dominionpress ridicule the Government's policy. The New England fishermen have got their blood up over this latest seizure, and a provincial craft is now a most unwelcome visitor in a Maine port or in Gloucester, Mass. / A FATAL DROUGHT. i Many Thousands of Sheep DcoA and Dying In Texas. Major Bash, a United States Army Paymaster, who has just returned to San An- I tonio, Texas, from a trip through the centre of the sheep grazing section of the State, reports that terrible drought prevails in Pre^ ---* " ? Siaio, reccs. uuu vrocscn v_uum.i<=o. au^ counties embrace an area somewhat exceeding the acreage of the State of Maiue. Until a fortnight ago the larger part of this coun- ' try had not been vi?it?d by a heavy rain l'or eighteen months, and a recent rain proves to have done very little good, as the earth was so parched that the water, instead of tilling the small streams and reservoirs, was soaked up by the burning prairies. Major Bash snys that for many miles, as j far as the eye can "reach, the country is bare I of vegetation, not even wools growing, Hundreds of small streams are entirely dried up, und water, even for liviug purposes, is sparingly dealt out at the ranches. He relates several instances that came under his observation, showing the terrible effect of the drought on sheep and cattle. Ou the Meyer- ; halff ranch, out of 0,000 cattle, :J,000 have died within the pastmonth, and the prairie is literally strewn with gaunt carcasses, surrouuded by hundreds of huge buzzards. On another ranch 3,000 sheep nave died, while one of the largest flock masters was comEelled to kill 5,0u0 Iambs and a neighboring erder killed 1,200 lambs because their mothers were too weak from starvation to afford them nourishment Bash describe? the situation in this far West country as terrible beyond description. The shepherds told him that unless raius fell shortly every human being and domestic animal would b? compelled t-> vacate that district and move to the north of Texas.