The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, July 14, 1886, Image 2

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In 1880 one-twenty-fifth of the popu- | lationof the United States lived in cities | of 8,000 inhabitants and upward ;in IS 10, one-twefth; in 1860, one-sixth; in 1880, nearly one-fourth. During the half century preceding 1SS0 the population in cities increased more than four times as rapidly as that of the village or country" _____________ The statistical statemeut just issued for the Society of Friends in England shows that for the first time for many years there has been a decrease in the membership of the body in Great Britain. The number of members reported in Great Britain is 15,380, which is one less than in the preceding year. The deaths in the past year numbered 27G, which is about 17.95 per thousand. There appears to be a kind of fatality about the summer residences of the Emperor of China. In 1802 the Southern Summer Palace was burned to the ground by the allied French and English army, and the untold riches contained therein were looted by the soldiers. Latest advices from China state that the Eastern Summer Palace, about forty miles distant from Pekin, and erected three cecturies ago at a cost of about $10,000,000, ha3 just been entirely destroyed by fire. General Rosecrans, Register of the Treasury, certifies the cost of our four great wars as follows: With Great Britain, 1773-G.... $6,000,000 With Great Britaiu, 1812-15.. 115,000,000 With Mexico, 1845-S 135,000,000 Rntwonn ourselves 6.189.920.905 Total $6,441,933,905 War is a luxury that comes liigh, and when wc had to share it with other people, some economy was practiced. But whjn we had it all to ourselves it was conducted regardless of expense. For a number of years past there has been a steady flow of 40,000 to 50,000 Scandinavians into this country. The great bulk of them settle in the Northwestern States. Minnesota, especially, swarms with Norsemen. The census of 1880 shows that there were then 181,729 Norwegians, 194,337 Swedes, and 64,106 Ttnmoa in +VlO T'rlitn/I S+ntPC ft tftffll f>f L/QULO XLJk IUV VUMVU v%?vvw M wvw?a. v. 440.172. Since then?six years ago? fully a quarter of a million has been added to the?e figuiei by emigration, and Dakota has attracted not far from 50,000 of them. In a few years Dakota will be as full of Scandinavians as Minnesota, if the present rush continues. They are also beginning to flow into Montana and Id aha, Oregon and Washington. For some time the Ilydrographic Office has been collecting and publishing information about the use of oil upon waves at sea. Reports furnished by Captains from all p.irts of the world have been printed on the monthly pilot charts, and at the end of the last calendar year the reports for twelve mon:hs were issued in a pamphlet. The dissemination of the f; cts narrated by these observers appears to have convinced many mariners that lives and properly can be RAVpd hv the use of a few cents' worth of oil, for iu some of the South street ship (.'handlers' stores oil especially prepared fcr use iu gales is now advertised and sold, and the dealers say that it has become '"the fashion" to carry oil on boavd sh:p, and to u e it when vessels are threatened by heavy se.is. In Germany the hours of labor average per week, in textile factories, 72; in machine factories, 03. In France, in textile factories, 72; in machine factories, GO. In Austria, GG iu cach. In Russia, iu ^^ textile factories, from 72 to 84; ;n machine factories, 72. In Switzerland, GO hours in each. In Belgium, in textile factories, 72; in machine factories, G2. In Italy, in textile factories, G9 to 90; in v:__ "O Tn TTrtllo.,,1 in lilUUUlUU iaviui I *9 XU iivuuuu, *** textile factories, 72; in machine factories, 04. In the United States, 00 in each. In Great Britain, in textile factories, 50; in machine factories, 52. In England, factories generally close at 5:30 o'clock in the evening, and at 1 on Saturday afternoon; while in the silk factories of Northern Italy the factories are open from 5 a. m. to 10 p. m., the hands working 94 1-2 hours per week, or 15 3-4 ihours per day, exclusive of meal hours. According to the Washington Star, it is a rare thing that a steamer arrives !from the Isthmus of Panama without bringing some witness to extravagance and incapacity in digging the canal. One of the latest is A. P. Smith, formerly of Salem, who says that he has walked over the whole course of fiftyfour miles. The portiou of the canal completed is upon the eastern side, and is eleven miles in extent through a level country mainly of clay formation. Here is a specimen of the work done, in Mr. Smith's words: "One of the many stupid expedients which the canal company adopted for holding the mud was to put up an ordinary wooden fence, fastened with bamboo withes and stakes. Of course, in a little while the pressure of the half-liquid mud became too great for the weak barrier to withstand, and down came fence, mud and all into the canal again, to be once more dredged out at an enormous expense. A yet more curious state of things exists at places further in shore, where other cuts have been made by several different contractors. There have been no specifications in these contracts a3 to what shall be done with the earth after it has been excavated. "What is the result of this omission? The contractors simply load it on hand-enrts and lun it back a little way in the cut which they have made and leave it there. The consequence is that all this earth, all these stumps and stones shall have to be excavated all over again, to the immen e protit of the contractors. ^ NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. A number of Harvard College students out on a spree started to "clean out*1 a Boston saloon. During the s nHle one of them ?George G. Whitelaw, son of a Kt. Louis milliounaire?was frightfully and probably fatally injured. A party of eleven started from Providence, R. I., on a pleasure excursion in a eatboat. A sudden squall struck the boat and it capsized. The following five persons were drowned:William G. Bravton, about tweutyfour years old; Mrs. E. G. Farmer. Jr., aud her child, and the two children of Mr. and Mrs. Girsch. A fire in a New York cotton warehouse resulted in a loss of nearly $1")0,000. The English yacht Genesta's competitor last year, the Puritan, came in first at the regatta of the Eastern Yacht Club, Boston, defeating her conqueror in the New York Yacht Club's regatta, the Priscilla. Hans Holdorf, another of the boycotters indicted on achargeof extorting money from the proprietor of a New York concert hall by threats that they would ruin his busiuess unless their terms were complied with, has beeu found guilty by a jury. Sentence was deferred pending the trial of others charged with the same offence. The New Hampshire Democratic State convention ac toucoru noiumaieu uuiuua Thomas Cogswell, Jr.. for Governor and adopted a platform which praises Cleveland and Civil Service reform, expresses cordial sympathy with Gladstone in his efforts to obtain Home Rule for Ireland, favors the principle of arbitration in the settlement of differences betweeu labor and capital, demands the enactment of laws making ten hours a day's labor in manufacturing establishments, with weakly payments, ana arraigns the Republican party of New Hampshire for its indifference to the material interests of the State and for ' "its shameles; hypocrisy in dealing with the temperance question."' South and West. Robert Dillard and James Emmette, both colored, were hanged at. Greenville, Miss., for murder. At a meeting of representatives of t':e Southern Luthern Church, held in Roanoke, Va., a practical union was effected. Four laboreis were kille 1 and two injured by a railroad collision near Creston, Iowa. George B. Davis was hanged in Seale. Ala., for the murder of William McClelland. A i-irp nt, PaoHb. 111., dastroved a ware house containing 40,OW barrels of oil, and a railway freight aepot, with thirty cars and a large quantity of freight, causing a loss approximating $'20D,000. In the trial of Robert Schilling at Milwaukee, for boycotting, the Judge held that threatening to injure a man's business was a criminal offence. Wkstern crops have been injure I somewhat by drought, but indications pjint to a fair yield. An army scout reports the murder of five Mexican wood-hoppers on the Sonora River in New Mexico by ApacJ?"<. Rev. Alfred A Ccrtu., /distant pastor of the Cathedral of Baltimore, has been appointed Bishop of Wilmington, Del., by the Pope. The Lake Shore Railroad succeeded on the 2Sth in breaking the blockade of trains at Chicago caused by the strike of switchmen. Guarded by 100 special policemen armed with Winchester .rifles, eight heavy freight trains were sent out and three arrived from the East. The strikiug switchmen were present in large numbers, but refrained from any extensive exhibitions of violence. A hail storm in Dakota has destroyed crops and otht-r property, leaving scores of farmers destitute. The estimated damage is *500,000. Mips Rose Cleveland, late mistress of the White House, has signed a contract to ake editorial charge of a Chicago monthly magazine. The services at Judge David Davis' funeral in BloomiDgton, 111., were simple but impressive. Washington. Emigrants arrived in this country during the past eleven months?254,274; same time last'year?o0G,90J. Shortly after th? adjournment of Congress the President and Mrs. Cleveland will leave Washington for a while. A Washington dispatch of th? 2oth says that an effort will be made in Congress to pass some of the vetoed pension bills over the President's veto. Nominations by the President: Frank M. Forth, to be Collector of Customs for the District of Bridgeton, N. J.; WilliamG. Ewing, to be Attorney of the United States for the 1 iNortnern JJistr.cc 01 Illinois; oainuei r. i Wilson, to be Marshal of the United States for the Middle District of Tennessee. Confirmations by the Senate: A. II. Kellar, Marshal for the Northern Distrct of ' Alal ama; W. M. Desmond, Marshal for the 1 Northern District of Iowa; W. H. Denson, United States Attorney for the Northern and Middle Districts of Alabama; J. B. Harris, United States Attorney for the 1 Southern District of Mississippi; E. Van Long, Chief Justice of New Mexico; W. J. Bryan, Post:naster at San Fi ancisco. William E. Smith, of New York, has resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. The President nominated in his stead i Governor Hugh S. Thompson, of South Carolina. Tiie President on the 29th vetoed two mure ( pension bills. Foreign. Twenty-four men wore killed and sixteen entombed alive by an explosion in the colliery at Rochamp, France. The British Parliament has been dissolved by the Queen. A Mexican Lieutenant-Colonel and sixteen soldiers have been slaughtered by Ja pii Indians near Pota, Mexico. Henry Ward Beecher took part in an immense meeting in favor of Irish Home Rule at Liverpool. Me. Gladstone was the principal sjieaker. The Sul:nu has ordered the withdrawal of Turkish troops from the Greek frontier. l wo men have sailerl lor Jiew iopk iroin the Civile, Kaplan 1, iu a boat nineteen feet long. They took provisions for two mouths. Archiushof Taschereau, ofQuebe\ 'ias received his re.l ralotto and official notification of his elevation to the cardinalate at the fcnud of Count Gaczoli, of the Noble Guard, of Home. The French Senat2 has adopted a bill authorizing the city of Paris to spjud $50,000,ooo in inaugurating and .carrying on public improvements for the purpose of furnishing work to the unemployed. A Canadian Cabinet officer state? his belief that the fisheries dispute with the United SStat<*s will be settled shortly by a reciprocal treaty to the satisfaction of all parties concerned. NEWSY GLEANINGS. One man in Lyon County, Iowa; lias a flock of 5,0J0 chickens. There has been no rair. On some of the 1 Texas rauges for over e. year. | Indian skeletcasare being dug up near Talladega, Ala., iu large numbers. A solid bed of alum 500 feet thick has been discovered in Graham County, Arizona. Last year 201 persons were killed and 526 were injured on railways in New Jersey. The abandoned soft coal mines in North Carolina are to be reopened aud worked exvr?l v A Chicago restaurant has mado quite a hit by introducing churns and making its ! own butter. { Over liOO volunteer observers are now investigating thunder storms in New England in connection with the United States Signal Service. The season's seal hunt oft Newfoun Hand was n failure. Owing to promiscuous hunting the auimals are rapidly decreasing in numbers. I The 233 cities and towns in tho United States that have horse street railways iisj H),S4:{ curs, ?4,">77 hordes au l have 3,3 10 miles of tra k. The wheat acreage in the principal wheat States is estimat d as fo lows: Minnesota, <5,300,00:1; lJukota, 2,.r>00,0J0; Wisconsin, 1.300,000; Iowa, 2,000,00). Present prices of ho ;s in Chicago are ten to fifteen cents higher now than one year ago. Cattle are about that much Jower, aud Ehx'p practically un hanged. f " L07E VERSUS COERCION. Another Great Demonstration for Irish Home Rule. Premier Gladstone Addresses a Lar ge Audience at Liverpool. Mr. Gladstone the other afternoon addressed the Electors of Liverpool in Hengler's Circus. He was received with boundless enthusiasm. The circus was crowded to its utmost capacity, 5,000 persons being present Hundreds of people, unable to gain admitance, crowded around outside. The Ruv. Henry Ward Bee:her was on the platform while Mr. Gladstone was speaking. Mr. Gladstone said the enthusiasm in favor of Home Rule surpassed anything he had witnessed during his life. Despite the loag purses of his opponents he looked forward to the result of the elections with confidence. It was true that he denounced the Nationalists in 18S1, but it was because he thought tbey were in the wrong. He supported them now because he thought and knew they were in the right. Ho now firoposad to give a statutory Piiriament to Ireland to deal exclusively wif-h TrieVi Affnira His nnnnnenfoi nret^nded that such a grant M ould be the breaki ag down of Irish allegiance to the Imperial Parliament. But, said the Premier, their alleriauce had been given grudgingly and halfheartedly heretofore, and sometimes it had not been given at all. The Liberals wished to destroy that sort of allegiance and make Irishmen revere the Imperial Parliament;, like Scotchmen and Englishmen, from the heart and mind. He stoutly denied that they were refusing Ulster privileges which they were giviag elsewhere. On the contrary, they were willing to listen to any suggestion on Lehalf of Ulster. They were willing to make exceptional proposals if they were likely to be adopted. Again, they were told that the land purchase project meant taking British taxpayers' money. It meant nothing of the kind. It was one thing to spend their money, and another thing to invest it. If he thought that land purchase meant more than investment he would be no party to the scheme. He denied, however, that the Home Rule bill and the land purchase bill were inseparable. He reminded his auditors that Home Ru?e was a question of classes against the masses. The Liberal party, he said, was, as a rule, not supported by dukes, squires, clergymen of the Established Church, officers of the army, and so forth. Wherever there was a highly privileged, publicly endowed protession almost every member of that profession was an anti-Liberal. But from the legal and medical professions, which were now open, the Liberals received a fair share of support. The question was whether the masses were able constitutionally to overbear the classes, because it had always been s^wn that wherever truth, justice and liisianity were concerned the masses were in the right and the classes in the wrong He would show this by reference to Lord Randolph Churchill, whose name he had mentioned before during the canvas and whic h he did not suppose no would have occasion to mention again. He had been told that Lord Randolph Churchill had had a gocd deal to say about him, but he (Mr. Gladstone) had not taken the trouble to inquire. It was very difficult to describe Churchill; but if be could cut out one-half of his qualities he might make with the other half a valuable aud distinguished public servant. Churchill, however, admitted that the classes might go wrong, that the Pall Mall clubs might go wrong, but that the people never errea. Mr. Gladstone hopad they would not err on this occasion. Parliament, he said, had been paralyzed because of the Irish question, ana it would remain paralyzed unless some measure of justice were passed. Ireland had struggled to bring her case to the front, and had succeeded. She was now backed not only by her own members, but by a vast number of English people. He believed that the measures proposed would tend to promote the growth of prosperity in Ireland. The Liberals were told that the result would be that England would have to hold Ireland by force, but thus she was doing now. He hoped fco hold her in future by love. [Cheers.] Mr. Gladstone concluded,amid loud cheers, with a vigorous denunciation of the mauner in which the Act of Union was effected. LATER NEWS. A Pittsburgh dispatch says that nearly all the glass factories of the country havo Bhut down for the next two months. J. A. L. "Wilson, Treasurer of the Delaware anl Ch3sapeake Caual Campauy, dis appeared from his o3ico iu Philadelphia on Lt? ontu 1 a'inurn-1 tlmfr tin lUt) lA/ta, auu ill . oui^abiva o.ivhvm mv La/1 over-issuad sto.-k for nnrethm ^OO'J,001. Beside? being a defaulter for this heavy amount Wilson, wh> hal be3u in tin Company's employ over thirty years, toolc *40,0)0 in cash from the safe when ho fled. The Pennsylvania Republicans at their State Convention in Harrisburg nominated a full tickct, headed by James A. Beaver ] for Governor. Tuo platform pronounces strongly for a high tariff, deprecates the importing of foreign pauper labor, demands the pasigeof a national law prohibiting such importation, ad- J vocates laws providing for the arbitration of labor troubles, condemns further grants ofpublic lands to railroad or other corporation* condemns large landed ownerships eiiher by syn licate or alie 1 holders, and accuses the Cleveland Administration of indifference to our industrial on I commercial interests and inefficiency. It also conlemas tin enfrau. cnisement ot coiore^i cibuuus uy u?3uc uunuu^ or otber means, demands that all soldiers and sailors entitle I to pensions be e ptitably dealt with, approves the bi'l now bjfor-j Congress regulating commerce beiweeu the States, calls upon the Legislature to adopt a like measure to regulate and supervise freight charges, and asks the Legislature to submit the question of prohibition to the people iu the shape of a constitutional amendment. The Arkansas Democratic State Convention at Little Rock nominated a full ticket Striking swit -hmeu threw u L ike Shore train off the track at Chicago on the 3.1th, and numerous shot* were fired, one nia:i receiving a bullet in his leg from a special officer's revolver. James Coopeh and Joseph Van Win';lo fought a duel with revolvers on Brown Creek, Texas. Both were killed. New Orleans advices statj that heavy raius in the Red Kiver district have destroyed all the crops, and that three thousaud persons are destitute. Eight persons were instautly killed and twenty injured by a railroad accident iu Ireland. SHOCKING FATALITY. A Mother nnil Her Children iiiiriloc* to Deal It by Coal OH. The family of Tu.lor Russell, living Reading, Penu., met with a terrible acciila-jt the other morning. Mrs. Russ >11 and three ojjii dronwero home at the time. When Mrs. sel was makinz the fire her wood did not liijfj reulily. Her husband was up stairs in It-H very ill. Tho wife usedcoal oil to hurry ifjj firo, when the can exploded. Instantly tl|u burning oil spread over herself and the children. Tho room was at once in a bl.iz , atid tho weak unto (hath husband groped his way down through tho blinding sinoko. H<i saw hin wife lying on tho floor burning up. Nho was writhing in agony, and their children were also in flames. The husband fainte-l at the horrible sight. Neighbors rushed in and extinguished the flames. The wife died and the children were fatally injured. They were horribly burned. The Spo.Torrt family will celebrate in 1883 the anniversary of their common ancestor who settled in Massachusetts in 1(338. Ains worth R Spofiord, tho Congressional Librarian, is President of the association. I SUMMARY _0F_ CONGRESS Senate Sessions. 130th Day.?After further discussion of the Fitz John Porter bill, the opposition coming from Messrs. Logan an I Plumb, aud the rejection of several ameudinents, the bill was pastod by 30 yeas to 17 nays. The bill having already passed the House, and not having b_>en amende I by the senate, now goes to the President for his signature. There is a preamble to the bill setting forth the rec. mmendation of the Board of Army officers and the action of the President May 4, 18S8., in remitting ] art of tho court-martial sentence. It tlien provides that the President be authorised to nominate by ana1 with the advice and consent of the Senate and c.ppoint Poiter to the position of colonel of the army of the United States of tho same grade and rank hold by him at the time of his dismissal and in his discretion to place him on the retired list of the arm}*, as of that grade, and the retired list is "increased in number to i;hat dxtent; provided, that Portr shall receive no pay, compensation or allowanca prior to his apjHiintment un ler this act. 131st Day.?The Senate after debate < ame to a votv! on Mr. Plumb's motion to insist on the $800,(MX) ocean inai Transportation clause nln thrt PrtSf. OfPpA uuucu y/f ?ut ? Appropriation bill. Tho Senate insisted on its amendment by a vote of thirty-three yeas to K! nays, six Demo -rats?Messrs. Brown, Call, Eustis, Gorman, Payne and Pugh?voting with the Republicans in the affirmative ....The bill granting a pension of 1100 to Emily J. Stanuard, widow of General Sts nnardl, of Vermont, was pas-ed. 13:Jd Day.?Mr. Camden made a personal explanation denying a recent publication in connection with the Paj'ne ia?:e, in which he was credited with having asserted that only six votes were necessary to carry the Sern.te for Senator Payne, and that $60,000 wou Id be paid for each of them. The article he denounced as false in every detail aid without a shadow of foundation... .The conference report on the Army Appropriation bill wa^ agreed to. The bill appropriates abov.t $150,0J0 less than it did as i'O passed tho House On motion of Mr. Allison, the conference report on the bill to amend the Pacific Roads was 1 * - f>! * 1. iU* ftgl't'Cll liU.... i^i."5CU331UU LUUft. J'lav u vu mv Legislative, Executive aud Judicial Appropriation bill....The Senate resumed consideration of the President's) veto of the bill to quiet titles of settlers on tho Des Moines lands, and Mr. Evarts proceeded to argue in support of the veto, replying to the argument made by Mr. Allison in favor of the bill. After arguments in fa' or of the bill by Mr. Allison and Mr. Wil&n, of Iowa, the question was taken, and the bill was passed, over the President's veto by the re mired two-thirds majority?yeas 34, nays la Eleven Democratic Senators?Messrs. Beck, Berry, Blackburn, Call, Cockrell, Coke, Eustisj George, Jones of Arkan as, Maxey and "W altham?un'ted with twenty-three Itepublicans in voting to pass the bill. 133d Day.?The Senate considered tho resolution for public executive sessions, anil the speech of Mr. Morrill, who was absent through si:kues-t, aigainst the proro<ed change wjis read by Mr. Mander.-on. Mr. Hoar also spake in opposition to thj resolution, and severely arraigned the President for the wholesale discharge of Republican officeholders.... The Cbair laid before the Senate two vetoes of pension bills. Referred to Committee on Pensions. House Sessions. I.'Oth Day.?The Speaker laid before the IIousc the various veto messages transmitted on the previous day by the President. They were re id by tho clerkjind severally refer-ed to the Committee on Jrousions or on invE,ua Pensions, until that vetoing the bill granting .1 pension to fh j widow of Maj.-Gen. Hunter .was reached, when Mr. Hepburn, of. Iowa, moved that its consideration be postjxmed until Tuesday next. The motion was lost? yeas 9.5, nays 141?and the message took the usual course.., .The Senate Amendments to the Agricultural Appropriation bill were non -concurred iu, and a conferee committee was appointed The Sundry Civil Appropiatio:a bill was discussed further in Committee of the Whole. 151st Day.?Mr. Crisp submitted the conference report on the bill requiring the hind grant railroads to pay the cost of S3le;:ti:ag, conveying and surveying their lands. As the bill originally passed the House, it appliel only to the Union Pacific system, but the Sena te amendments which were agreed to by the (Conference Committee extend its provisions i? all land grant roads. Th3 report was adopted.... The Sundry Civil Appropriation bid was discussed. 152d Day.?Mr. Morrow (CaL) in the House moved to increase the appropriation to meet the expenses incurred under tno Chinese Immigration act from $ 5,500 to $10,000,and by adding a proviso requiring the Secretary of the Tiva ;ury to caus ?> to be prepared preliminary and return certificates, iuentifvingmore particularly than at present the Chinese to whom they are grant?d. He declared that that law was evaded in the most shameful manner, xue aiueaumeui> woa uuupicu.,.. The clause iu the Appropriation bill relative to the expenses of the collection of revenue from the sales of pub ic lands having been reached, Mr. Laira (Seb.) raadj a severe attack upon Commissioner Sparks in reference to bis administration of the General Land Office, and quoted from a number of letlers written by homestead settlers in bis district denouncing the Sparks orders, acd characterizing Sparks as a scourge worse than the grasshoppers. Mr. Cobb (led.) defended the Commissioner, declaring that his a?tiou was meeting with the co*demnation of every land grabbsr and sneculatoi in the public lands Mr. Randall (Penn.) introduced a Tariff bill. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means. 153d Day.?Mr. Townshen 1 (111.) submitted the report of the Confereuc e Committee ou the Pension Appropriation bill, and it was agreed to....The House, in Committee of the Whole, resumed consideration of. the Sundrv Civil Appropriation bill. Mr. Springer withdrew his "raotiou to increase the appropriation for protecting public lands from fraudulent entry. Another scene was created on the question as to the positions which Mr. Weaver, of Iowa, and Mr. Perk in*, of Kansas, bore t> the occupation of public lan Is, cattle syndicates and the Oklahoma "boomers." Mr. Perkins inquired if Mr. Weaver was not the paid attorney of the ' boomers." Mr. Weaver indignantly replied in the negative and inquire! ot Mr. Perkins if ho was not the paid attorney o* the cattle syndicate This imputation' Mr. Perkins indignantly denied....The conference report on the Postoffico Appropriation bill was agreed to. The Senate rece.les from amendment; relative to foreign inland service, the $80,(HI) increaso for railway postal service and the subsidy for foreign mail service. Tho conference reports oa the Army Appropriation bill and ou the Agricultural bill wore also agreed to. 154th Day.?Mr. Randall presented to the House a joint resolution to provide for ten days from to-day (the last day of the fiscal year) for tho expenditures of the government not provided for in the appropriation bills already passed. Tho resolution was passed....Tiie various reports on tho Pan Electric Telephone Company's affairs were presented. PROMINENT PEOFLE. Harriet Beecher Stowe has turned her seventy-fifth year. " . - TT?. V?., ??;,J ? i.ic't ULIVJSK >v UUli.HC,^ua:nmiu i* f*0.? to the Poet Teaiiysjn at his islan I home. At the recent common ementut Tufts College P. T. Barn am was the guest of h jnor. Congressman H:i'BURV,of Iowa, who has been prouimoiic in recent debates,was once a printer's devil. pRESCOrT Evarts, a son of th> New York Senator, has beoa ordained a minister bishop Potter. The President gave Pastor Sandjrland a draft for $">(.>0 for his marriage fe.', iustua'J of a $10 J greenback, as reported. "The Man of Metz," savs some one speaking of Marshal 1-a nine, ' is now seventy-Sivt years oil, white-haired, bloated a.id decrepit" Mrs. Cyrus McCormick, one of the wealthiest widows in the Uuiterl Slates, is worth $111,000,000. She was a Miss Fowler of Detroit. Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, an eminent English scientist and member of numerous learned societies, will next fall visit this country on a lecturing tour. Miss Kate Field will soon b?gin another nntt-Morinon crusudo in tho West, and announces ber intention of goini as l'ar as Alaska before she returns home. Secretary Lamar has accept ed an invitation to deliver the memorial a Idress at tho unveiling of the Calhoun monument at Charleston, S. C., next NovemLor. A NEW GAEDINAL, Archbishop Gibbons Installed at Baltimore?The Ceremonies. Baltimore became on the oOth the Cardinal city of the United States, and Archbishop Gibbons was iuvestel with the scarlet beretta, with all the ceremonial of the Roman 1 Liturgy. Just twenty-five years ago James ; Gibbons was ordained a priest in the chapel of St. Mary's S ami nary, Baltimore, by Archbishop Kenrick, anl on this, his silve r jubilee, he received from the hands of the venerable Archbishop of St. Louis the insignia 1 of his high digaity. A Baltimore dispatch 1 says: The congregation in whose presence were performed the imposing ceremonies attendant upon the investiture of Archbishop Gibbons with everything (save the red hat and ring, which must be placed on the j Cardinal's head and finger by the Pope's own hands) that appertains to a princedom in the church was not by any j means distinctively Roman Catholic, for in j tha great throng there was a goodly number < 1 ot prominent representatives of other re- , ligious denominations, who were present by special invitation. Admission to the Cathedral was regulated by ticket. The sanctuary of the Cathedral and the altar were decorated in a magnificent man- ; ner. The massive columns in the rear of the J ] altar were heavily entwined with coils of j evergreens, while from the top of , 1 the columns gracefully arranged gar- , \ lands extended around the apse. . Huge vases of flowers stood at the sides of J the altar. Hundreds of waxen tapers in ( golden candelabra reste.1 on the terraces 1 above the altar, rising in pyramidal iorm. ' Iu the intervening space? were placed vases of beautiful flowers and rare exotics. The procession was led by a cross bearer, and was followed by the students of St. Charles' College, the seminarians of St. Mary's, the r. gular and secular clergy, the mousignori, the miterei abbots, the bishops and archbishop5 in the order named. The apostolic delegate (Archbishop Kenrick) came i next, with assistant priest aud chaplains; then the Pope's Noble Guard (Count Muccioli), with the ablegates secretary. Last of all cam) Cardinal Gibbons, with the papal ablegate and the Cardiual's assistant priest, deacons of honor and train bearers. As the head of the procession entered the Cathedral street entrance of the edifice, the pealing of the organ broke upon tha stillness of the sacred place, i ana ine cnoir sang me profession anthem, "Ecce Saoerdas Magnus, with full 1 chorus. Shortly before the profession en- 1 tared the sauctuary, Mgr. Stranieri, his secretary and Father McCallau, master of cere- 1 monies, entered within the railings and \ Elaced the papal documents and scarlet erfttta on the table. 1 When the rear of the proce sion reached j th3 sanctuary, Cardinal Gibbons occupied his throne, the Bishops and Arehbisnops 1 finding s.*ats on either side of the altar. The . apostolic delegate (Kenrick) sat upon a special throne opposite the Cardinal. The { Noble Guard stood upon the Cardinal's left, , and the Taoal ablegate to the left of the 1 guard. * ' After the pontiflcial high mass there was < the usual clerical addresses, and the new Cardinal appeared in the scarlet robe of Iiis order ' and took his seat upon the throne, and the j sapphire ring was placed upon his finger. The prelates and c'.ergy, secular and regular, then ' approached h 's Eminence,and kneeling, kissed j his hand. The Card nal then delivered a . short address in Latin to Archbishop Ken- ' rick and one in English to the congregation, j A Te Deum was then sung by the ch >ir, and the Cardinal sang "The Prayer of Thanks- 1 trivinc'' and the Di aver for his Holiness the < fope. The Cardinal thea arose upon the " platform of the throne aDd pronounced ' the apostolic benediction seat to him j by Pope Leo XIII. upon the people present. The solemn ceremonies were thus conclude 1, ' and the Cardinal was escorted to the archiepiscopal residence. A banquet was given to the Cardinal and the visiting bishops at St. ' Mary's Seminary in the evening, and a sere- | nade subsenuently a* hi? residence by the Marino band of "VVashiuzton. 1 SEIZING-STRAINS, J Chicago Police Temporarily Over- ^ awed by Strikers. < The strike of the Lake Shore Railroad 1 switchmen at Chicago resulted in a serious | disturbance on the 25th. Shortly before ten ( o'clock the officials with the assistance of the police attached an engine and caboose to a w?it.in<rfreight train. Bevond the exDOstula- ' tions of the crowd no trouble was experienced until after the caboose was at- | tached to the train. The latter consisted of > tea tarj destined for South Bend. The crowd grew in proportions and more threatening. \ The police aud the Railroad employes were cursed and threatened with violence. In the 1 meantime the small foive was divided be- < tween the train and in guarding the switches, , to prevent the latter teiug turned so as to make impossible the free movement of the j train. With a shout, responding to the cries of 1 several leaders, the crowa rushed for the < police aud turned tha swit.-hes in spite of the fatter. The police had their clubs drawn ( and used them in a few instances, but they ] were either so thoroughly astonished or overawed by the crowd that th jy could make no successful resistance. A portion of the crowd at the si me moment surged toward the train, which had commenced to move out, but which, passing upon the open 1 switches, was thrown from the track, the ( engine and all the cars being derailed. To complete the wre-k, the coupling pins were < withdrawn and en thrown away. ( During the melee the police succeeded in making two arrests. The ex- I citement in the vicinity was very great. , One of the men aiTested was a member of the Executive Committee of the Switchmen's Union. A passenger train approached the scene soon after the attack on the freight tram, and one of the rioters, picking up a coupling-pin. flung it at a brakeman standing on a platform. It caused no damage however. No other demonstration of any kind i was made against the passenger train operatives or the passengers. A liie.'ting of the general managers and superintendents of the railroads entering Chicago was held during the clay to discuss the strike and the course to be pursued by I conr.ectin r roads. The meeting adjourned after agreeing to stand by the Lake Shore, and discharge an}* man who refuse to handle Lake Shore business. 1 Soin; of l he imported swit hmen wore attacked by the f-triki-rs shortly after noon.and i several were injured. A number refused to work, owing to a fear of violence. At 4 o'clock fifty Piukerton detectivcs appeared at thj Forty-third street yards of the Lake Shore road a .com; aaied by thirty switchmen. The strikers still remained in tho vicinity, and wheu au attempt was made to take an engine from the round hnn<r> the crowd made an effort to rnn a box car on the track. Tha police charged them, however, knocking two men down with their clubs. The-e men were placed under arrest. The 1 crowd then retired a short distan e, and a train was successfully made up uirle heavy guard and run north to Tlrrty-eighth street, where it passed upon tho n aiu track. Guarded by fully one hundred police, it again proceeded south and passad out of the city. In the evening a train of thirteen Hat cars on the Rock Island track, which are parallel to those of the Lake Shore, was boarded by several hu id red of the strikers aud their friends. At Frriy-sixth street live of the Hats were uncoupled and thrown diagonally a toss the tiack over whi.h the l*a!-:e Shore frei :ht care pa-s. At Fifty-fourth street seven' box cars were uncoupled, and likewise thrown over tho tracks of the Lake Shore. A force of men were soon put to work clearing the trades, but for many hours traffic was blocked. The next day i-everal collisions occurred between the police and strikers, and a number of arrests were made. On the ,'Sth the company pio lire 1 tin services of KM) special policemen, armed with ride-, and witn their assistance succeeded in sending nut eight loaded freight trains aud bringing in threstrains from the East. Thk census taken in Victoria, B. C., lately is remarkable for the fact that the Chinese male population exceeds that of the white male adult population by ll.L The police commissioners of Ciue.^ati have ju<t appointed six colored mer as patrolmen. There are colored policemen also on the lorce at Washington and Philadelphia. Mr. Warner, of Cleveland, is to be paid $42,000 for mounting the great Lick telescope in California. i TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT. The Old and the New. Extract from the diary of a minister iD 1830: "Made thirtv calls, read thirty chapters in the Bible, prayed thirty prayers, drank thirty glasses of whisky." From a sermon by Dr. Talmage, October 19, 1884: "The ghastliest evil of America to-day is drunkenness; the immediate cause of it, the rum traffic. If I ever preach again, I will declare the whole counsel of God on this subject." The Press on the Rum Traffic. W. Jennings Demorest says in Demorest's Monthly: "Next to the platform, the numerous and effective agencies of the press are the most potent influences to bring to bear on the liquor problem. "And it will be found that there is no power on earth that can keep the people in subjection to the rum power, when w bring the light of reason, through the means of the printed page, to their understanding. The printed page is [ike the noonday sun, it will scatter the lobwebs of selfish subserviency to the liquor interests and awaken an enlightened conscience, that will not be satisfied until this vile traffic is b.inished from [he land. "The printed page is the silent monitor that enlightens the millionaire in hia seclusion, the workman in his shop, the machanic in his mart, the scholar in his study. The f..ther, mother, sister and brother, and all classes and conditions are furnished food for thought. While none are too poor, or too low, for this means to reach them. Therefore 1st the printed page be scattered broadcast over the country as our most effective weapon to crush this monster evil. Let the inspiration and struggle of our intellect be to attain to higher and broader views is to our duty and obligation, ind keep our minds in constant action to thwart the selfishness ind duplicity of the rum-seller, in his iepredations on the best interests of the people. The press has already removed ;he dust and slime of ignorance, and opened a mountain of light, and taught ;he people their broad claim to common justice, and their right to immunity from ;his vile poison which so effectually interferes with their alienable right to life, iiberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; ind we, the people, will a1 so learn to resist the usurpations, fraud and chican;rv, that the rum traffic has so long practiced on them through the political influence of a degenerated party, and the credulity of their partisans. "We must know our rights and dare to maintain them against the sophistry of the rum-seller, the political tricksters, md the so-called Church Temperance Society, and other organizations, whose principal aim and purpose is to make us believe in the fallacy of regulating this evil. This last is the most dangerous delusion of all, as their only method consists of a sanction of the crime of rumlelling for a money consideration; a wicked concession to justify the criminal business and moke it reputable. "The printed page is the silent monitor that comes with its good influences * 1!Y.a to vitalize our lutcuemuai emrrgieo, n&c the evening (3ew on vegetation, which makes no display, no sound, but how jffective, how ranch like the life and eigor it imparts to the flowers and green grass, and which makes aJl nature bloom and brighten, with color and beauty, to delight the eye and spread the blessings of a glorious harvest for the benefit of humanity." A Little Calculation. The editor of the Milling World has nade a computation thfct a bushel of lorn, which costs originally thirty cents md is converted into seventeen quarts )f intoxicating drink, is ultimately so manipulated by the admixture of water ind more harmful substances by wholesalers and retailers as to represent about eight and a half gallons of "liquid fire." FJc says, allowing sixty drinks to the gallon, the official bar average, the bushel sf corn will furnish 270 drinks, which, at m average of fifteen cents to the drink, will take $40.50 from the pockets of the TT" o^lo. 'SnKfro^f. fhn ijuiiduiuurs. lie auuo. k/uwviuv* w th'rty cents which the farmer received for the corn, and the balance. $10.20, will show the anazing profits made by those who do not till the soil to grow the corn, but who multiply indefinitely by scientific means the misch'cvous powers of the grain, and who from this hurtful multiplication reap easy, large, and reliable profits. The original price of the bushel of corn is contained 155 times in the ultimate receipts from it." This computation gives some conception of the great alcoholic drink-waste. The consumers pay h avy tribute iudeed to the whisky manipulators. Tcmpcrance Notes. They are having temperance camp meetings up in Vermont, and Mr. St. John, the Prohibition leader, is ofiiciat ing as general supervisor. In California they make alcohol out of 1 eets. Here we make beats out of alcohol.? Texas Home. The formation of branch orders of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, together with the growing feeling that liquor is th: root of all evil, are gratifying indications that a movement toward the protection of homes from that awful curse of drink is afsum'ng s-ueh proportions that public attention cannot avoid seeing the sincerity and determination characterizing the issue of man against his greatest enemy. "Coming events cast their shadows before them,'' and the popular indignation being aroused by the Christian women of the land is a warning of approaching events that will surely play an important part in the future of our legislative enactments.? West Grore (Penn.) Independent. ????????? ?m RELIGIOUS READING. The Pilot. My bark is wafted on the strand By breath divino; And on the helm there rats a hand Other than mine. One who was known in storms to sail, I have on board; * Above tbe roaring ot me gaie, I have my Lord ^ He holds me when the billows smite; I shall not falL Safe to the land! Safe to the land! The end is this; : . And then with h m go hand in hand Far into bliss. Dean Alford. A Safe Tr?a?tire. St. Augu9tine, speaking on the partble of the rich fool, in which those - Ji words occurr: "So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and ia not rich toward God," says: "God desires, not that thou ahouldest y, 1 xi :.i v..i. i?. lose my riuut-s, uui utuu dhuuiucn change their pla*e. H-1 has given thee * i a counsel, which do thou understand. ' "Suppose a friend should enter thy house, and should find that thou hadst lodged thy fruits on a damp floor, and he, knowing by chance, the tendency of these fruits to spoil, whereof thou wetfc ignorant, should give the counsel of this sort, saying: / v>" 'Brother, thou losest the things which thou hast gathered with great labor. Thou hast placed them in a damp ~ place. In a few days they will corrupt,* ^ '"And the man asks: V'' " 'What, brother, shall I dof "And he were to reply: " 'Raise them to a higher room.' .. ''Thou wouldest listen to thy brother ^ suggesting that thou should est raise thy fruits from a lower to a higher floor; : * and tbou wilt not listen to Christ adviih ing that thou shouldest raise thy treasure r from earth to Heaven. For he would have thee lay up earth that thou mightest receive Heaven?lay up perishable- ~ things, thou mayest receivc eternal.n ?? * '*>tfaS Rcatful Prayer. Prayer, says the Independent, is not always petition. It is sometimes, and ought to bo oftener, thanksgiving. It is sometimes confession. It is sometimes- . adoration. It is often an uttered and _ unutterable communion. That is a beau? tiful illustration ot one pnase or prayer? the communion phase?which 13 related of the little girl of a hard worked and. somewhat nervous clergyman, who coold only compose to advantage when aloha- ? and undisturbed. One day he thought" lessly left his study door unlocked, and his little three-year-old child softly opened the door and came in. The minister was disturbed, and a littie impatiently lifted up his face to the face of : his child, and asked: "My child, what do you want?" Nothing, papa." "Then. what did you como in herofor?" "Just because I wanted tobe with you," was the reply, and the little one sat down quietly on the floor, and said not a word. Surely that is a fona of prayer that we need to cultivate in. ^ this busy day of ours. To come into His presence and wait before Him, wanting nothing but to be with Him?ho* such an hour now and again would rfflt us. "We have a friend, not a Christian,. who leaves his business placc down town, now and again, especially when he is be ing particularly burdened with care, and rides up to the great Catholic Cathedral on Fifth avenue, where he sits down for' an hour, and then goes back again tobusiness. He says: "It is so quiet there, it rests and quiets me." How' much more might wc find a sweet and quiet resting place for our weary and. tired souls and body, by just resting in . the Lord, sitting without petition at His feet, or as John, leaning our heads upon His bosom. There are two extremes in the way of of WKia one denies iuvivuijj aw jut * wiv j ? __ . the miraculous element in the narrative^ , the other gives all prominence to the mi raculous, and practically counts out the ' human element. The one extreme tendsto superstition, the other to materialism;, both being forms of rationalism. It is well to look at Bible characters in their completeness, and to learn from them that when God would use a man for His work, ... he uses a man fitted to that work, and He sees to it that the man has the character and the training which shall secure tin's fitness. At the opening of this year we announced, among the many side light helps to the study of the Old Testament lesson s, an article on Joshua as a Military Commander by General Chamberlain, of Maine, an experience! soldier, ? and a recognized Christian scholar. But that article was delayed through the se rious illness ?f the writer, in consequence of a severe wound received by him in the " days of our civil war. The subject, however, has its interest and its value for all times; and we are glad to lay its treatment before our readers the present week. There is a great deal more in this article than an analysis of Joshua's char- acter. It shows what should be the spirit and qualities of every soldier of Christ; and it suggests how large a place ^ every faith-filled and obedient se.vant of God may fill, and how grand a work he ^ may do in his sphere.?S. S. Times. Live near to God, and so all things & will appear to you little in comparison ' % vr with eternal realities.?u. m. ju w<cyr?<*. Forty editors from Texas recently on .1 press excursion proved to be all Pro- " : hibitionists and only three smokers among them. Xo wonder the Lone Star State is "bo'iminjr for temperance." The Buffalo lawyers propose to make President Cleveland a wedding present, and have selected a solid silver dinner set, richly chased with engravings, aa about the right thing. The cost will , be between $1,000 and $2,000. "7?