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Two Parisians arc introducing nn entirely new vegetab'e which is exciting ionic interest. It is called choro-gi, and is a native of Northern Africa. It belongs to the mint family (botanical name Stocky* arfini.*). Its fleshy roots or tubers are only eaten, dressed like string beans or fried like Iritters, aud arc said also to make an excellent pickle. The geological survey at Washington is in receipt of numerous letters from cranks telling how earthquakes may be predicted and prevented. One method of prevention suggested is to bore holes through the earth's crust order to give the destructive gasscs an outlet. The New York Commercial Advertiser suggests that as soon as one of these holes is bored, the next thing to be done would be to drop Wiggins into it. A late issue of a New' Zealand paper peaks of a peculiar lunar phenomenon ?a green moon. Says our informant: "A bright-green moon is not a common phenomenon. Yet this was visible in Willington for about a quarter of an hour last evening. There was nn exceptionally splendid manifestation of the ''afterglow" which is so complete an enigma to all physicists, and just at the edge of the vivid ro3y glow, where it merged into pink and violet, the crcs#!mt moon HDnearcd of the most brilliant yet deli categreen color, presenting a most curious and beautiful night." The office of Alderman in the Argentine Republic is not a sinecure. In the Dahia Blanca municipality the Council for some days could not get a legal quorum owing to the absence of some of the members. At last, one day when the Council was lacking one of a quorum, two policcmcn sallied out among the saloons and found ;,a prominent Alderman," and, says a Buenos Ayres journal, "they towed him into the hall and held him down on his seat while the sitting lasted." The public crowded to enjoy the fun, the more so as His Honor, the Mayor, was suspended from his functions on the same occasion for neglecting to preside at the peculiar 4 sitting." i The Frcnch scientific journal La Nature i describes aud illustrates a machine for i ^ making a product which is coming into favor in various different employments i under the name of wood wool. As its i name implies, this material is simply I wood cut into such fine shavings that 1 it answers many of the purposes to which I it Mmmnnlr nnnlierl Although it I "VVi 4" vv.?.?v-v -ri o was at first intended merely as a packing i material it was soon found that it had i a much more extended field of usefulness, i It is employed for stuffing mattresses, as I bedding for cattle, for the filtration of i liquids, etc. It is clastic like horse hair | Mid is beautifully clean in use. . The i wood used by preference i3 Riga fir, and i the machine will produce, without any i necessity for skilled labor, more than : 1,600 pounds of "wool" per day of ten i hour3. < x... i r i The following table, compiled from ( "Poor's Manual of Railroads" for 1880, ihowa the number of locomotives and jars owned *r leased by the principal ' railroads of ths country in 1885. It furnishes an interesting indication of the rapid extension of the leading Western ystems; . I Roads. Locomotives. Cars. Pennsylvania. 1,1.10 49,800 Reading 944 40,300 i Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul 6*1 19,900 Northwestern 672 21,000 I Baltimore and Ohio GG;J 21,500 i New York Central G5<* 25,300 Chicago, Burliugtou anl Quiucy 593 24,600 , Erie. 554 80,450 The above list iu-jludus all roads using ' more than 500 loeomjtives. Several I other line?, including the Union Pacific x".- ' ? and the Wabash, have nearly that number employed. At the close of the last 1 fiscal year ia July, 1885, C8'j Pullman ' cars were in service in this country and 1 in Europe. Mr. George B. Loring, in an address i before the New England Agricultural ; Society, of which he is President, made exceptions to the use of the term "thoroughbred" in connection with any other animal than the horse. He said: "A thoroughbred animal means a horse. A thoroughbred horse is just as much a specific breed of horse as an Arab, a Morgan or a Pcrcheron, or anything tlsc, and the use of 'thoroughbred' iu this connection Is entirely unworthy an intelligent and literary society. The term should be 'pure bred.' Let us abandon the use of the terra. If you have a pure bred Shorthorn, or a pure bred Devon, or a pure bred Morgan, it is not a thoroughbred animal. They talk about thoroughbred pigs now! The word never applies to anything except a race of horses bred in England for speed. So I hope the tru tees, when they make up their list another year, will put in 'pure bred1 in? ?tead of 'thoroughbred.'" r Governor Hauser, of Montapa Territory, in his annual report, says agriculture there this season has been almost a failure, by reason of the unusually light fall of snow 1-ist winter and the drought last summer: that the most serious loss to the Territory is that of the natural grasses upon which vast herds of cattle, horses and sheep are fed; that should in.2 approiicomg wmiur, uc acvciu loss must inevitably follow. Some stock owners, he says, are driving their herd9 into the British possessions to winter. He thinks Congress should provide for allowing stockmen to graze their auimals on the Indian reservations, for which the Indians have little cr no use. He estimates the number of cattie in the r Territory at l,.r>00,000; horses, 130,000, and sheep, 2,000,000. The permanent population of the Territory is place 1 at 120,000, an increase of about 10,000 during the year. Mine products he estimates as follows: Gold, gross value, $3,450,000; silver, $9,600,000; copper, $8,000,000; lead, 1,230,000. Total. *22.300.000. General Booth of the Salvation Army gave a Toronto reporter this account of the naming of the Army: "One of my 3ccretarics was writing a little tract describing the movement, and he wrote on the title page: 'The Christian mission is a volunteer army.' I Laned over his shoulder, took his pen out of his hand, crossed out the word 'volunteer,' and wrote 'salvation.' "We like.l the sound of it, ^eaing that it really described what the organization was?a body formed a-iu united after the fashion of an arm}', with the purpose of delivering men from sin and the devil. So we adopted the nnrnp Sal ration Artnv nine or tea vears ago. The terms general, captaius, lieutenants, etc., soon followed. The drums, flags, banners, and the like were adopted gradually, in carrying on the purpose of attracting the people." The Scientific American says: / ccording to statistical rec*>nls, the average price of wheat flower exported from the United States, for periods of eleven months ending with May of this year and twenty years past, has been as follows: Price per Price per Year. l,0.X)bbls. Year. 1,00J buls. 1886 $1,74'J 1870 fC,'20S 1885 4,S97 1875 0,001 1884 4,5S8 1S74 7.140 1883 5,950 1873 7,505 1SS2 6,149 1872 7,141 1S81 5,669 1871 C,5!i4 1880 5,878 1870 6,112 1879 5,252 1869 7,735 1878 6,358 l^OS..... 10,0*51 1S77 0,479 1807 8,428 The movement has been steadily downward since 1800, excepting in several pear* when extraordinary causes checked the decrease. The bottom is reached in 1830, aud now there are signs of an upward move that will accomplish a par* * * * - * Iams aP r>orinrl Hal retrieval ui iuu ivoo vi %.**w mentioned At the meeting of th-j Emperors recently held at Ga&tein the German Princes wore the Austrian uniform. They hive been in the habit of doing so now for many years. The Pall Mull Gazette says that the origin of this custom dates from the courtesy of a monarch whose life is more associated with feats of war than with the scrupulous observance of the details of a chamberlain's office. In 1770 Frederick the Great had lo pay a visit to the Emperor of Austria. Iho visit, which was rather a critical jne, was paid at the castle of Xeustadt, in Moravia. It wai only seven years be- | fore that Prussia had been engaged in lier great struggle with the Empire, and had thoroughly beaten Austria. Frederick fearvd that the too familiar blue iniform might now awaken unpleasant ,nemoric3. lie did not, indeed, wish to Jiscard the costume which belonged to his country, so he discreetly adopted a compromise. He and all his staff appeared at Neustadt, not, indeed, in Aus:rian uniform, but in colors that were lot far removed from it. The coats were ivhite, the ornaments and facings of iilver, and there were no epaulettes. If t were not Austrian costume it certainly tv.is not Prussian. That was the precedent for a rule that now obtains, at east on the continent, that when a ;rowneu ncau visits u uruiuci wnngu o :ourt, he and his suite wear the uniform >f the country in which Ihey aw guests. According to a writer in the Nineteenth Ccntnry it has been almost a cruelty to forbid the practice of suttee, or the sui. :ide of Hindu widows, while taking no tleps to defend such unfortunate persons from the miseries to which they are tondemned by native social laws. The theory is, as enunciated by the ancient Hindu lawmaker Mann, that " a virtuous svife ascends to heaven, if, after the deicass of her lord, she devotes herself to pious austerity; but a w'.dow who slights tier deceased husband by marrying again brings disgrace on herself here below, ind shall be excluded fro:u the seat of licr lord." Ilence he directs that she ihall "emaciate her body by living voluntarily on pure flowers, roots and fruits, but let her not, when her lord is deceased, even pronounce the n..me of another man. Let her continue till death fnririvinrr nil iniuries. ixrforminor harsh O ? y / A S/ duties, avoiding every pleasure, and cheerfully practising the incomparable rule? of virtue which hive been followed by such women as were devoted to < nly one husband." These laws, though laid down nearly 2,500 years ago, are still mercilessly enforced, and the life of a Hindu widow is, in consequence, almost unbearable; in fact, many cases are known where death from exhaustion and starvation follows the attempt to observe the prescribed routine of life. For two days of cach month, for instance,she must neither eat nor drink anything, no ' 1 t 1 1 UL matter how ieeu:e may oe ncr neaiui. Otherwise she loses "caste" and forfeits the respect and care of her family. "We | advise American widows to stay wheis they are. Our School Population. Accordi-ng to the report of the Commissioner of Education for 1882-3, the school population of the States and Territories amounts to 16,50-1,092; the number of pupils enrolled, 10,364,473; und the average daily attendance, 0,344,003; and for 1883-84, 16,794,402 school population, 10.738,192 pupils enrolled, and 0,093,-928 daily attendance?or an increase in school population of 289,710; of enrolled pupils, 373,719; tnd of daily attendance, 349,265. Commissioner Eaton's report is dated June 30, 1884, and if we suppose a similar increase has taken place during the period between that date and August, 1880, there is now a school population of 17,373,822; of enrolled pupils, 11,485,630; and of average attendance, 7,392,558.?Sclnol Jourrial. " A Man Frao Glesea." A Glasgow draper, who was narrating his experiences during his first visit to England, said he stepped into an Episcopal Church in the middle of the service just to see what they did. ''I hadna been well seated," he said, i;whcn the minister, ana' at the ither end, cried out, 'Lord preserve i;s all!' and then a' the folks aboot me cried, 'Lord preserve us all!' 'Preserve us!'says I, 'did ye never see a man frae Glesca afore?'"?S.otch Piij/er. DISASTROUS STORMS. Immense Damage Inflicted West ana soumwesi. Heavy Loss of Life in Louisiana and Texas. Di'astrous storms have been sweeping over a wide area of the country, the severest j losses being iu the Southwest and the "West. Dispatches from various important points give the following details: From Chicago: A high wind, accompanied by a driving rain, struck this city this morning. The storm tore through the trees of Douglas, (iarfield, and Humboldt parks with the fury of a hurricane. Soft maples and saplings were twisted off close ' to their trunks and hurled over the tops of the large trees. The frame building-; on West Madison street, near Garfield Park, were pickcd up by the wind and j pounc ed to pieces on the prairie. All the j streets in the western and southwestern portion of the city are littered with broken trees and shivered signboards. The drivers and conductors of street cars had all they , could do to keep on the platform, such was the violence of the gale. This after noon a brick <ottage at Sacramento I avenue and Congress street was j j struck by the storm and the walls blown down. A man and a womau were in the cottage, and were take.i out badly injured. ' About the same time the walls of aDuild- < ing in process of erection at California avenno ornl \fnHiern street, were hlr>wn down. I and, falling upon a cottage near by, made a j complete wreck of it. iNo one was injured. Report? show that the storm extends over a very wide area, but no jarticulars can be J obtained, as the telegraph wires are down in | %lmoi>t every direction. A tornado between j Ypjilauti aud Elkhart, lud., tore down all j the wires in that neighborhood, and on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway the t ,p of a car was blown off and carried ' against the wires with such force as tj break ' them all. From Cincinnati: A despatch from Fort Wayne, Ind., says that a terrific gale from i the south f assed over the city aud at twj t o'clock rag. d in full force. Odd Fellows' Temple, Centiver's brewery, Hake's bottling works, Adams Express office, and some of the principal business buildings were uuroofed. A fire broke out in t':.e outskirts of t the city, and at the time the despatch was k sent five frame buildings were in flames, 6 with the gale spreading the conflagration. From Toledo: 'ihe storm to-day struck To- ' leio about noon, and from that time until '? 3 p. m. the velocity of the wind was about * forty-flve mile; per hour. There was con- f siderab.'e damage done in a small way, blow- f ing dowu (hiaineys, breaking in show windows, unroofing buildings, blowing down tele- ( graph and telephone lines, and overturning ( shade trees. An unfinished two story frame a building was razed to the ground. There wero |, no casualties. Reports from northwestern a Ohio bring tidings of similar damages, tin most serious so far being to the Court House , at Napoleon, which was injured to tbe ex- ? tent of $1,000. There was much excitement ? here during the alternoon, as four vacht-. one fro:n Detroit, and three from here, were engaged in a race on Lake E: ie. The vachts, however, all arrived safe at Monroe, Mich. From Louisville: A hard wind storm prevailed throughout the State this inormug. The wind itartod a freight car from a siding near Old Deposit, Ky. It rau on to a main track, and was run into by a south-bound Louisville and Nashville freight train, causing a wreck. Two unknown tramps stealing a ride on the eow-oatjher were killed. A Lake Charles (La) dispatch says: The loss of property along the Cameron Parish Gulf coastandfor some dis'ance west of Sabine Pass by the storm of Tuesday night was fear- ? fuL The ma 1 boat from Cameron Parish reports 1 hat the water at Calcasieu Pass was eight feet deep at the lighthouse, and that the entire country, fast and west, was submerged Tuesday night, drowning thousands of cattle and ruiuing crops. No lives were lost at Leesburg or Calcasieu Pass, but the following are reported | lost at Johnson's Bayou, La.: The entire families of Alfred Lambert, Marion Lukes, George Striever, Charles Blauchet, Radford Berry, and two families by the name of Frane?war, beside many others whose names are not known. At Sabine Pass, Texas, the inundation caused by an overflow of the Sabine Kiver af'.er heavv rains was as calamitous as reported, the following list of the drowned was obtained from two gentlemen who came in on an engine: Miss Mahala Chambers; Jim Vondy, and family of six; the wife of Otto Brown and two children; Homer King, wife and cnua; mrs. juoner ?uu suui jxlib. Pomeroy and family of five; Mrs. Stewart, 1 daughter, and sou; a man by the name of Wilson; Mrs. Arthur McReynolds; Mrs. 1 McDcnald, daughter, and grandson; Frank 1 Mulligan and family; Columbus Martin and J family, and about twenty-five colored per- i sous whose names could not be learned. The above list comprises over fifty human , victims of the storm, among them some of the-leading familie? of the place. Many , others were reported missing and were prob- ' ably drowned! Fifty lives were reported , lost at the Porter House where many persons had congregated. It is said that the situation during the latter part of the afternoon beg- . gared description. The manifestation of terror and agony by the people looking face > ti fa?e at death and realizing that there was no escape; the dying cries of womeu, audible, but rendered almost noiseless by the roar of the mad sea; the hoarse voices of pallid men j trying to save those dear to them, all com- bined, made a scene too horrible to be described. e ?? i SENTENCED TO DEATE i : t Decree of the Court in the Case of the Chicago Anarchists. ! The trial of the eight anarchists held re- ' sponsible for the massacre at the Haymarket, i Chicago, has at last been brought to an end. Seven of the prisoners?A. R. Parsons, An- ' gust Spies, Samuel Fielden, Louis Lingg, | /~2 i'aK n rtl fiftKiifoK an/1 A/1/\1nK vicvigv tuivuu?t uvunuu uuu auvipu ] Fischer?have been sentenced to be hanged, f and Oscar Neebe has been condemned to undergo fiiteen years' imprisonment at hard labor. Tho scene in the court room was,accordlng ( to a Chicago dispatch, a most impressive s ona. Judge Graryt who has always been considered the coldest and hardest man on the i Bench, showed more emotion than he was t ever thought capable of. His voice faltered 1 and he was much affected. The prisoners t all took the sentence calmly and coolly, except Schwab, who is a broken and nervous man. He grew pale and gasped for breath. The others had apparently long ago given up all hope and knew what was coming. . They have made up their minds to die bravely in the hope of being looked upon hereafter as martyrs to a great cause. The closing scenej were watched with the i profoundest interest by the public, and for f more ttau an hour the street m front of the Court House was thronged by an eager , crowd, not one-tenth of whom could possibly j hope to gain admittance. The police were in full force all over the court room, and there was more than the ordinary large attendance of ladies. The prisoner Parsons was the last of the pri soners to address the court in response to the Judge's demand whether they had anything to say why sentence should not be passe J. He spoke continuously five hours and forty minute;. When the sentenced was parsed, all the ! prisoners roso and beian slowly to walk out of j the court room with the bailiffs who had tham , in charge. As thev rose, Mrs. Parsons came ' up and kissed her husband. Mrs. Ames also | kissed Parsons on the cheek. The relatives of j ; the other defendants wrung their hands, but ; none of the women shed a tear. They aimed ' to cheor up the condemned men by a show of 1 fortitude. The condemned men passed < slowly out of the court-room to the jail. As ( Parsons passed some police oflicers he drew ! I bis hand across his throat iu a significant i manner. ' A claugter was born in West Polk street i at the same hour that her father, Samuel 1 Fielden, in Judge Gary's court, beyan giv- j ing reasons why sen ten-e of death should not i be passed upon him. But few who listened to < Fielden's plea guesioi tho cause of the added i I bitterness iu his bitter speech. Tho i 1 knowledge of the scene beiug enacted at his i little home made his burden harder to bear, i Tho mother was heartbroken at the thonght I of tho improbability of tho new-born babo I ever teeing her father. I i Iv Corea, the other day, an old man, his i wife, two daughters, grandvhild and sou's 1 wife were hanged, be:au e they belonged to < the family of a Corean soldier who tooK part < in the conspiracy of December, 1584. ! NEWS SUMMARY! i Eastern an a Middle States. Miss Kate Taylor, aged 25 yean:, wa< j literally blown to a toms by an explosion of fulminate of mercury at the Winchester Arm? Factory in New Haven. A shortage of $51,000 in the accounts of Joseph Carter, ex-Town Treasurer of Pitts- ! field, Mass., was discovered on the 8tb. Mr. Carter was placed under surveillance, and given an opportunity to explain tho deficiency. Hon*. Austin F. ?ikEj United States Senator from New Hampshire, dropped dead of heart disease a few days ago on his farm at Franklin Falls. Senator Pike was born in 181!(, studied law, h id served as President of the New Hampshi re State Senate and as Speaker of the Statu House of Representatives, was a member of the Fifty-third Con press, and was elected to the United btates Senate in 1883. Hon. S. S. Cox, United States Minister to Turkey, arrived at his home, New York, a few days since. He wants to go back to Congress. The Gloucester (Mass.) fishing s::hooner Seth Stockbridze, with fourteen men on board, has been lost. Governor Hill has pardoned the New York city workingnen who were sentenced bo State's prison about threj months ago for boycotting a concern ball proprietor. Ex-Senator David Levy Yules, of Florida, died a few days ago at a New York botol. Senator Yulee was born in the We#6 Indies in 1811, was tbe first representative of Florida in the United States Senate, tind .luring the civil war took a prominent part an the Confederate side. The Tammany Hall wing of the New York 12ity Democrats on the lith nominated Congressman Abra:n S. Hewitt for Mayor. Henry L. Sayles, one of the New York Aldermen of 1884 indicted for selling bis rote, has fled to Canada. Ten of the four:een other alleged aldermanic bribe taker? lave been rearrested and their bail increased !rom #25,000 to fiO.OOU, Rear Admiral Edward T. Nichols! died it Pomfret, Conn., i few days ago. Ho wa-i aorn in Georgia in 18'.'3, and was on the retired list of the United States Navy. Edwin W. Bc:irage, assistant postmaster at Troy, is missing, and his accouats ire reported to l>e $3,740 short. 8outh and West. The United Labor party have put a itraightout city lator ticket in the field at St. Louis. They have also made three Congressional nominatic ns. Three shocks of earthquake were felt on ;ne 7tii at Soinervine, ss. u., and a s.ight hock at Charleston the following morning. Nebraska Democrats have nominated a ull state ticket headed by Jameo E, North or Governor. Wright Welde.v and Nathan Mc?ely both colore 1) ware hanged on the 8th, the ormer at Edgefield, S. C., for the murder md robbery of a wealthy planter, and tho atter at Union Springs, Ala., for assaulting t maiden lady of seventy-five years. A gekutxe tragedy was enacted the oiiher lay in a variety theatre at St Louis, am ataclie named Sandmever killing his wife in . dressing room and then taking his own life. Chicago has been flooded with couiiitereits of the new teu-dollar silver certificates, ssued a few days before tho time fixed to egin circulating the genuine certificates. Sven the banks were deceivod by the iraitaions. The two Dillard brothers had a pistoligbt with the two Reed brothers at Mount feasant, Texas. Ja nes Reed and John Dilard were killed. Nathan M. Neeld, managing partner of r. C. Ferguson &: Co., Chicago pork packers, las fled to Canada after stealing over jjoOO,lOJ by issuing fraudulent warehouse receipts, rhe firm was obliged to go into bankruptcy, tfeeld had lost money heavily by speculation. Thomas J. Cluvkhius, thi young lawyer :onvicted at Richmond, Va., of the murder >f his cousin, Lillian Madison, having been lenied a retrial, has been sentenced to be langed November 10. Burke Fairchild, an aged farmer resldng near Mineral Point, Wis., while temporally insane fatally shot his wife and himA qVARRKL between students and njrroes it the State University, Chapel Hill, N.C., relulted in an attn?k on the negroes' dwelling, ;he kil:iu? of one st udent and the wound.ng >f two others. A heavy storm has done considerable lama;e at New Orleans, Galveston, Mobile, ind other pointis along the Gulf of Mexico. A contest over the will of Vioe-F'resident rlendricks is about to take place at Indianipolis. Heirs of the late Vice-Presideut's nother claim a on 3- third interest in the es?te. A freight train ran into a shifting engine ;hrough an unclosed switch at East l.iverjool, Ohio, causing the immediato death of Brakeman Walker and fatal in juries to Forenan Peck. Many threats have boen made in Chicago igainst the jury who found ths seven Anarchists guilty cf murder; in one case an ittempt ha? been trade to mob a jurymau. The Chicago authorities will take steps to suppress the activity of the Anarchists. Governor Gray, of Indiana, has declared a quarantine against all Illinois cattle on iiccount of the prevalence ol! pleuropneumonia in the latter State. Washington. The President his appointed General John 61. Corse as Postrajister at Boston, vie# Edward S. Tobey suajiended. Commissioners'arks,of tho Land Office, lays in his annual report that depredations apon the public inioer, unlawful undomres of the public <lomain and illegal appro iriations of the land are extensi vely practised. Appointments o f Postmasters by the Presiient: Bridget Lan >,at Summit, N. J.; Wm. M. Breslin, at Labanou, Penn.; Michael rierney, at Salem. N. J.; Jamei Mulligan, it Central FalLs, R L The President lias pardoned Aramon M. Tenny, J. C. Kemr and J. R Christofferson. three Bishop.* of tlie Mormon Church, who were convicted in Arizona about two years ago of violation of tho Edmunds law and sentenced t:> imprisonment at Detroit, Mich, rhey were the first persons tried under that law, and the President and the Attorneygeneral. as well a;'the judge before whom the ?ases wer<3 heard, Dire now satisfied that the sentences imposed were illegal and exclusive. The United States Supreme Court is again n se-sion. The number of cases o:i the locket is 1,101 Tbe Justices called in a >ody nt the Whit s House to pay theiir rejects to the President. Foreign* S. Lawrence's cotton mill and four houses itCho;rley, England, have been burned. The Oss is ft 1,000,000. A new Cabinet lias been formed in Chili. M. de Lesseps, of Panama Cnunl lame, will attend the delication of Bartli.oldi'a Statue of Liberty in New York. The Spanish Cabinet has resigned, and a now one formed with Senor Sagasto a; President of tho Council. A NOVEL FAILURE. !%. Drive of 40,G'00 Cattle Abandoned ?Loss, About $250,000. A <attle man just returned to Walla Walla, Washington Territory, from IS'orth Montana states that the Neidringhaus drive of cattle from this country to British Columbia has proved a disastrous failure to the St. Louis cattle :;yndi(ate, of wh'.ch Mr. Neidringhaus is a prominent member. For a time tho drive, consisting of 40,000 head of rattle, prospered finely, but as the unusually :lry season in Montana progressed the gt a-s became scarcer, and streams of water fewer nnd further between, the stock be.'an to weaken aud fall by the way.sido, finally dying by hundreds. Tho herders, even, suffered great privat on for water, and so desperate did the situation become when nearng the British lino that Mr. Neidringhaus ordered the drive t bandoned an 1 tho herders :o reach the Northern Pacific Railroad as jest they could. The scene about the drivo vas a most pitiable one. The cattle were reluce J to skin and bones, and were so vreak Yon. fatigue and want of nourishment that hey would stand ft;)l and then fall in their ;ra.ki tj <lio. A cold, dry, piercing wi'id ivhicli was sw?e?>ii g over tho country did much to complicate tho situation. Cattle men are of the 0[ iuion that the syndicate will not have ^0) l ead of sto^k next spring out of the immen-o lierd driven from this country. Their less in that case will reach t?>U,OOJ. A TEXAS CALAMITY. The Town of Sabine Pass Overwhelmed by an foundation. An Overflowing River Causes the Loss of Many Lives, First details of a calamity at Sabine Pass, Texas, by the overflowing of the Sabine River, were meagre, owing to the fact that the f-amgT&pu wires in that section were ! all down. The following particulars, however, ware giveii ic a Jfew Orleans dispatch: Chief Operator Wast, of the Western Union leiegraf.n ouseo, mis cuy, tc.'-mguG receiveu the following from the operator at Orange, Tex.: "The town of Sabine Pass was totally destroyed by the overflowing of the Sabine River last night. It is known that sixty-five : lives wero lost. "Last night during the overflow a hotel \ containing fifteen or twenty persons was j swept out into the bay, and all the occupants i were drowned. "The Captain of a sclioonor from there today says that not a house is loft in the whole country, and that every living thing there was drowned. "A party of men cauio from Beaumont this evening on a train with th^ intention of joining the people of Orange and going down to Sabine Pass with a relief boat." A second despatch from Orange, Tex., says that "the storm did great dunmgo a? Sabine Pass. The Porter Jlotel, which contained a large number of guests, was swept away, and a boat containing a number of ueoplo was overturned in tho bay and all on board were drowned. ISight lives are known to be lost, and it is feared that the worst has not been learned. A schooner picked up three mon in tho bay in an exhausted condition. A relief boat has gone from Orange with provisions and doth ng for tho destitute." At Orange the Catholic Church was blown down and considerable other damage was done. It was known tiiat tho great storm of Monday did much damage, but no one dreamed of such a < alamity as this. In this city tho storm did great damago to the jetties at the mouth of the river. Tho gale swept the water over the east protectiou wall with such violence as to-force out a number of tho concrete blocks of which the wall is composed. Thee blocks are eight by fifteen feet. The water swept through the village of Eadsport on the narrow strip of land formed l>y tho jottics and washed away the mechanical shops. The extent of loss cannot be stated until a survey is made. Sabino Tass, sometimes called Sabine City, is a |>ost village of Joirerson County, Texas, at the mouth of the Sabine river, where it empties into tho Gulf of Mexico, sixty-six miles from Galveston. In 1880 it contained a population of 457 people, had two churches an 1 a high school. The Sabine river forms pirt of tho boundary between Louisiana and To s as. LATER NETO Josiah E. Freeze, of West Stratford, r*rmv\ O fnTT? A r? rro ein oa rrnf an anH fl*A* quent quarrels with his wife by stabbing her fatally and then jumping down fifteen feet from a bridge upon a railroad track, where he was decapitated by a train. Sam Hadden, a crippled soldier, shot and killed his father in a quarrel in Shiawassee County, Michigan. Many non-Union men have bean employed at Chicago to take the place of the strikiug meat packers. The Knights of Labor convention at Richmond re-elected Grand Master SVorkman Powderly, and General Worthy Foreman Griffiths. Charles H. Litchman was made General Secretary, and Frederick Turner General Treasurer. The terms of the general officers were extended to two years, and the constitution of the Order was revised. The State Department has been notified that no disrespect was intended by the Canadian authorities iu hauling down the American flag on tfce schooner Marion Grimes, seized for a violatious of the custom laws. As the Grimes has been released, no further notice is likely to be taken of the case by the Department of State. The Presideut has appointed Col. James C. Duane to be Chief of Engineers, United States army, with the rank of BrigadierGeneral, vice General Newton, resigned. Colonel Orlando B. Wilcox, Second Infantry, succeeds Colonel Duane. Other appointments by the President are: William T. Maginnis, of Ohio, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Wyoming; W. H. D. Cochran, of Nashua, N. H., to be Pension Agent at Concord, N. H. Postmasters: Charles E. Mclntire, at Lancaster, N. H.; Nathan H. Leavitt, at Newmarket. N. H. Rev, Augustus Stopford Brooke, the eminont Unitarian preacher, ha* become crazy, and has been confined in a Dublin insane asylum. On account "of the spread of cholera the Austrian and Hungarian governments issued special orders that a close watch be kept on frontier poi fcs. Slight earthquake shocks have been felt in various parti of Germany. Bayard Putnam, Chief of the United States Topographical Survey, hanged himself to a tree at the geologists' ca.np near North Adams, Mass., where he had been working. For the fir^t timo in many years the two leading factions of the New York City Democrats, the County Democracy and Tammany Hall, have combined on a municipal ticket headed by Congresiman Hewitt for Mayor. Charleston, S. C., is rapidly recovering from the earthquake disaster. Indian Territory has been visited by the most extensive and destructive prairie fires ever known in that region. Large numbers of cattle have been burned to death. The President has granted a pardon to Charles Thomas, a colored n.an now serving a life sentence in the West Virginia Penitentiary for a murder committed in Arkansas about ten years ago. Germany's exports to America during the fiscal year ending in September, were worth $~uu,uuu,uuu more tuau lor iuu fiscal year. Canon Blaxchint, a prominent member of the Catholic priesthood, while leaving St Mark's Cathedral, Veni.e, was stabbed to the heart by Signor Vianelli, formerly a Catholic Doacou, but recently converted to Protestantism. The assassin asserted that Lie had been ruiued by his victim. A PIG IN THE MOSQUE, Mohammedans and Hindus Engage in n Jlloody Kioc at Delhi. The ill feeling recently aroused between (he Hindus and Mohammedans at Delhi, India, over mutual violations of their respective rel'gious principles culminated in a riot the othor night. Several persons were killed. The immediate cause of the bloodshed was the profaning of iha Jumma Musjred.or Great Mosque,by a Hindu sectarian leader, who tied a small nig in a painful posture within the sacred edifice, so that it squealed with all its might. This euraged the Mohammedans, aud they at once - -U-J U.'n<lnc. aasiuuu.'u wojuiiiuuo, The native religious agitation is continually gaining dangerous activity. One cause of much of the troublo is the fact that the butter in common usa has been found to have been adulterated with pigs' fat. At Bombay a society has been organized to propagate hostdity to Mohommedanism and to inculcate a general knowledge of the true Hindu religion. There are 310 Southern cotton mills at work, against 101 six years ago. Production has been increased from $itS,388,5t>S to f00,?.;6,150, or 88 per cent A PEST HOUSE AFLOAT. ? ~ Yellow Fever Carrying Away a Veasel's Crew. British Consul De Fonblanqne, aided by two British shipmasters, has completed at | New Orleans an investigation of the matter of the bark Montreal and her rescue by a Capt. S;ittalora. The latter entered suit in the United States court for salvage, claiming that he helped the bark off the rec-fs, took her to Campeachy, had her repaired, placed a new crew on board, and brought her to New Orleans. The bark had a terrible experience. She was a floating post house. From the day she left Colon there was yellow fever on board. One by one the crew expired and the bodies were thrown overboard. Finally there were only two men left . who could do any work at all. The ship was reeking with pestilence. There was black vomit everywhere. The provisions were polluted with it, and the foul clothing poisoned the air the sailors breathed. When there was hardlv anv one left to man the vessel a hur ricauo swept the bark before it. Sails were torn away; every moment brought some new danger. The men bad lost their bearings and could only guess whither the wind had taken them. Finally the vessel v ent aground on a reef. The wind subsided and there was evidence cf the proximity of land, yet none of the men deserted the craft. There was some excuse for flying from a pest house, bat not one of them even thought of deserting, because, as they said, thev thought they could save her. The decision of the Consul's court was that the bark had not been abandoned, and the sick and dying on board remained by to save her, though they had an opportunity to go ashore. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Verdi will celebrate next year his fifty years jubilee as an operatic composer. Rossi and Salvini will star in bt Petersburg and Moscow in the course of the com- i fpg winter. Henry Irving will next season present "i'aust" in this country. It is the greatest of all his productions. ^ A comedy just complete! by Bronson Howard illustrates the humorous features of a young wife's attempt at housekeeping. It is said that William F. Cody, otherwise known as Buffalo Bill, has cleared over $100,000 with his Wild West show during the past year. Joseph Jefferson may give twenty con- ' secutive weeks of old comedy in New York next season. . Arrangements to that end are now being made. Mme. Lucca is singing again, and will assume the priuii. al female role in Massenet's "Cid," whi.h will be produced at Vienna for the first time this season. Sir Arthur Sullivan has completed the orchestral score of Lis new wort for tbe Leeds (England)"Festival. The libretto is . founded on Longfellow's "Golden Legend." When Mme. Minnie Hauk gave a concert j recently in Montana her audience showered , acalps, eagle claws and gold nuggets upon her in the absence of the usual floral tributes. I As a result of her artistic success in the I South last season Miss Emma Romeldi has l received a number of ofTers to appear in coa- I certs at St Louis, New Orleans, aud other 1 Southern cities. Mme. Janauschek always discourages ] youag ladies from seeking the stage as a pro* fession. . She says it is all work and travel, ] and travel and work, with no time for domestic or social pleasures. Ellen Terry wears an Indian "luck stone" whenever she faces a new audience. | She obtained it from the Prince of Wales, , who received it from a native when on an , elephant hunt in India. Mme. Patti begins a season at Stoinway Hall, in New York, November 17th. Mme. Scalchi is to be with her, and Signor Baroncelli will be her first tenor. Signor Galassi will be the baritone and Arditi the conductor. Mlle. Anna Senkrah, an American . pianist of note abroad, will give a series of concerts on the Continent this season, visiting all the principal cities. Her real name , ie Harkness, which will be derived by spelling her assumed name backward. ] Miss Calhoun, granddaughter of John C. < Calhoun, who went over to London two or 1 three years ago and went on the stage,where , she achieved some success, has had a play . written for herself which is founded upon , the life of Charlotte Cord av. She proposes , to bring it out in America this winter. PROMINENT PEOPLE Prince Bismarck is six feet two inches tall Secretary Lamar denies positively the report that be is soon to be married The new Lord Mayor of London, Sir | Richard Hanson, is an enthusiastic cricketer. ] Admiral Porter, whose recent illness ] was reported, has greatly improved in health. 1 Chief Justice Waits looks back on his 1 Alaskan trip as "an unbroken streak of sun- 1 shine." Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stove's health ' is so far recovered that she attends every Sunday the church in Hartford of which her son is pastor. The President has just purchased a mag- , niflcent upright piano for his country house , near Washington. It cost $5,000, sad was built to order. i James A Garfield, the son of the late " "? - *- * ?? Uim law rresiuent, nas own/ ?... studies at Cleveland. He is said to resemble his father greatly. Genenal Hawll, of Denver, has been elected to suo.-eed the late Jerome B. Chaffe* as the Colorado member of the National Republican Committee. ' , Mrs. Folsom, the President's mother-inlaw, will reside in the White House, it is , said, as long as Mr. Cleveland is President. She has no other home. General Sherman will reside in New | York until his son, who has enterel Yale * College, shall be graduated. He looks rugged and vigorous in spit? of his years. Lieutenant Greely is slowly regaining his old weight and strength. He has had quite enough of the Arctic, however, and 1 does not intend to do any more fooling with ' the North .Pole. 1 NEWSY GLEANINGS. Charleston, 8. C., is daily crowded with excursionists. , There are six thousand bee-keepers in the j Stntfl nf Iowa Migratory birds are going South a month earlier than usual,and an early wiuter is pre- ] di.fcd. * i Churches in this country are estimated 1 to u.e t5U,0UU gallons of wine every year for sacramental purposes. On the ancestral farm of Secretary Endicott at Dan vers, Mass., is a pear tree 253 ) years eld. It still bears fruit eveiy year. Lightning started a conflagration in the ! forest of the Vellowstoue National Park, which destroyed immense tra ts of timber. IIev. Mr. Harvey telegraphs a Montreal " paper that the reports of destitution in Now- ! foundland have been greatly exaggerated. A well digger :n Osco,IlL, found a hollow log twcntv-eiglit feet below th> surface of < the ground, and in the lo,' a vigorous frog A flock of sheep got on the tracks of the i Grand Trunk l-.a lway near Fergus, Canada, I and a train dashel through them, killing sixty-two. j If Daniel Pine, of Paw Paw, 111., lives un- ' til December ho will be oue huadred years ' oid. Meanti.ne he amuses himself by lioeiug and sawing wood. < At tho recent State fair iu Iowa. Mrs. C. E. Barron and ber daughter, of Dei Moine;, 1 won over a hundred premiums and prices for ' noodle and fan.-y work. The Peruvian Goverumeut has issued a ' deciee that Chiuese residents in that country shall enjoy all tin rights and privileges conceiod to other colonist s. The Fren h census shows that At Chevreul, the great chemist,is not the only centenarian 1 in that country, which can boast of J.Cothorj who have pass jd the centenarian uot.'h. a big eagle that measured nine feet rrom tip to tip, captured last spring near Binghair.ton, N. Y., was released the ofher day. On its leg is a brass tag giving the date of its liberation, and offering cash prizes for the return of the bird. It is estimated that the value of the wheat crop in California this year will bo nearly double that of last year, when it was worth $28,003,000. The yield of barley is placed at $16,000.0)0, against fL>,OtO,COJ last year. ? THOUSANDS ON STBIR Nearly All the Chicago Fork Packers Quit Work. Striking Against a Return to the Ten-Hour Day. Bather than submit to a proposed return to the system of ten hours' work with tea hours' pay, 12,000 employes of the various pork packing houses of the"Ch!esg(r$tock yards quit work on the 8th and inaugurated ' what was expected would be a long and troublesome strike. A Chicago dispatch gives the following account at th? in.mem. '' - ration of the strike: - -- v Since May 10 the packing houses have been running only eight hours a day, but they paid the men for ten hours' work. The pork packers say they cannot compcte with packers in other cities as long a3 the present system continues; and for some-months they have been threatening to put their men on ten hours once mora without increase of pay. A few dayi -rago a noti e to thatene.t was posted in mart of the packing houses, the date for the return to the old system being fixed for Monday next The men at once determined that they would not give up the eight-bout' system. This morning those employed at the boosed of the Chicago Packing and Provision Company met and talked the thing over. They decided to quit work. By common cooseut the men started down the alley to Armour's packing houses, and for some time there was great confusion, yellr ing and excitement. The men inside did not come out, however, and it was bat a few moments until the leaders of the Knights of Labor took hold of the matter. Without any great trouble the men separated in gangs and paid visits to different houses. There was a general stoppage of work at every other house, although the progress was gradual. With the exception of Hately Brothers and Johu MorrelK the workmen remained to clean up everything on hand, and this brought them out in squads of 50 to 100. Hately Brothers were left with 4.0W head of green meats on their hands and Morrell & Co. with 12,000 head. As fast as the men completed their work and came trooping from the buildings they were met by two or three men who appeared to pass some order or warning among them, ana in every instance the men scattered in all directions to their homes. When all the- ' . houses are running with full force there are 84,000 men employed. At jpresent there are 2l,uuu. ur wis numo3r o,wu areempjoyea In the beef departmerts and the balance in pork packing. As nearly as can be learned the beef men have not been asked to return to the . old system, and it is thought likely that they will not be. It is a question, however, whei herkhe Knights of Labor will not order the beef ~ men to go out in order to strengthen the position of the por^ packers. Should the sinking pork packers attempt to force the beef men to quit work, ttere will be friction, anough to make things live'y. Tne Packers' Association baa employed 152 Pinkerton men to guard the-prope/ty of its members, and the officers will go Into the houses to-morrow. Pinkerton men are not liked in the neighborhood of the Stock Yards, and their' preeenoe there will irritate any Hi-feeling which may exist. Both sides have been ge? ting ready to lock horns over this question of Uie eignvnonr pi&n, hxili uoiii pocwni tun workmen are determined not to give in. The workmen are talking about a strike of a month, and the packers say it may last all winter. To night Armour & Co. posted a notice in- forming their men that they would be raid aff to-morrow, which is taken a? an indication that the house will remain closed until 10me form of a settlement is reached. CEOP REPORTS. y \ Great Increase la the Wheat Yield.' ?Other Crops. The report of the Department of Agriculture for October gives the local estimates of" field per acre of small grains, with condition nf corn, potatoes, and other late crop*. The results corroborate the previous returns of wheat, confirming expectations of slight increase for the first records of threshing, without making any very material addition ?the crop aggregate. The average yield ipon an acre of fully thirty-seven million icres appears to be close to 12% bushels per lcre, making the crop 'an average of a series jf years. The area actually harvested Is now the principal object of exact determination, rhe result will \ary little from an increase at 100,000,000 bushels over the crop or last fear. The average yield per acre of oats is 20.6 ? .1 bushels, making a crop of over 600,000,000 busbels. The barley crop average 22.4 bushels per acre, and the product will come nearly up to sixty bushels. The average yield of the rye crop is 11.8 busbels per acre,aad the prod* uct over 2 (,000,000 bushels. The high temperature of September . absence of frost have improved corn crop prospects, and made the expectations of 33 bushels per acre,and rendered certain a crop of at least 1,650,000,000 bushels. The general average of October condition of potatoes is 81, against 82 last year. The tobacco average condition is nearly 87. The promise of buckwheat is for a crop slightly under average. Condition in New York and Philadelphia 87, which is nearly th*~ general average. THE NATIONAL GAME. The Detroit League Club has five pitchers under contract All of the League and American Association clubs have made money this season. The Jersey City and Newark Clubs will probably join the international League nextrear. Thk St. Louis American Association Club will go to California on November 1 for the winter. " Thk Chicagos have the best home record of iny club. They won fifty-two and lost ten james on their own grounds. A Brockton (Mass.) shoe manufacturer _ has given the Brockton players sixty pairs of shoes this year for three-base hits ana homeruns. It is considered quite likely that the New forks will have a duplicate team next yearfrom which to draw in case of sickness or injury to the regular men. Waltxr Baowir. of Pittsburg, is the projector of a colored league, comprising at least six clubs located in Pittsburg, \V ashingtoo, Baltimore, Trentoo, Philadelphia and Cleveland. The secret of the success of the Chicago- ? Club in the League and the St. Louis Club in the American Association Is that they play is well as they can throughout every game. Iaco hnnrt ftfc the loSS Of A * UDJ UCTVi iv^w ?vw. . _ ifter losing they make a stronger effort the next time. The leaders of I-eague batsmen for tea ^ fears past ai-e as foliows: 1876, Ross Barnes, 4<)3; 1877, Jim White, .385; 1878, Dalrymple, .35(1; 1879, Anson, .407; 1880, Gore, .H65; 1881, Aneon, 3ti9; 1882, Brouthers, .397; 1883, Brouthers, .371; 1884, O'Rourke, .350; 1885,. Connor, .371. During a rooent game at New Orleans & ratcher got the ball and stood directly on the line to intercept a base runuer who was coming houie at a lapid gait. The runner ^ leaped < lear over the catcher, but did not strike the plate when he alighted, and Lefore be could do so was put out. T\ik Philadelphia Times says: "Boston claims to have cleared 150,000 this season, New York $100,000, Detroit about $40,000, ? and Chicago $0.'>,00?. The profitsof the local clubs will not be so large. The Athletics will probably m ike from $25,0 )0 to $50,000, and the Phila leljihia Club under $20,000."' national league. * <-'no ohfvmnionshin lia9 I lie League ra j; w f 4 closed with th<i followiug record, the Chicagos winning the charapioiiihip for thesixth time in eleven years: IFon L<vst. TVon LmU Detroit 87 30 Philadelphia..71 43 Chicago 00 34 Boston 50 01 New York...75 44 Washington..26 91 6t Louis 43 7J Kansas City..29 89 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD. In the American Association the St. Louis !Hub has again won first place. The following is the record, nta.'ly complete: Won Lnit. Won Lost. St Louis.... 93 40 | Pittsburg 77 57 * Brooklyn....77 61 j Cincinnati...65 73 Athletic 61 71 Louisville.. ..65 70 * Ualtimore...48 62 | Metropolitan.52 7S