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* " TV* *. mm r'-: dC ftv b-'r '-'. _ ??? i The Canadian Pacific Company is i building five miles of snow sheds in the liocky mountains, at an estimated cost of $1,500,000. a fact which suggests one item of the expense of operating railways over the snowy ranges of the great continental divide. The ltcv. Dr. A. II. Lewis writes in the Popular Science Monthly on the origin and results of Sunday legislation. His contention is that the day was first instituted by pagan sun-worshipers, and that it has only Deen possible to maintain us status in Christian nations by the constant exercise of the authority of the Stat?. By a curious coincidence, two persons with bullet wounds in the head were received at the London hospital on the same day recently. More remarkable is the fact that, though in each case the 7 r> bullet was driven into the brain too deeply for extraction, both patients have been discharged convalescent. These j*:- marvelous recoveries from what, a fe.v years ago, would have meant certain death, illustrate the effects of superior 6urgical skill and the modern antiseptic method of treating wounds. Few persons on visiting a museum consider that such objects as skeletons require a certain fitting for exhibition. Yet the preparation of skeletons for the market constitutes a distiuct industry, to which a large manufactory in the suburbs ^f /I n/1 %eoi flrrt Clin. VI 1 (UiO 13 UVVVUUi vv/l |/?;v V Ml v plied from dissecting-rooms and hospitals. Cn its delivery the raw material is boiled for days in a cauldron, and the grease which rises to the surface is ekimmcd off and sold. The bones are carefully assorted and converted into artificial skeletons. The preparation of frogs, li?ards and various reptiles occupies a separate department. - A mm who has studied the various phases of the matrimonial market has come to the conclusion that every woman ha? some chance to marry; it may be one to fifty or it may ten to one { he will. Representing a woman's cntiie chance at ICO, he has made out the following table to show the chance at certain points of t time. Between 15 and 20 years.... 1-4J-a per cent Between 20 and 25 years.... 52 per cent Between 25 and :i0 years.... 18 per cent Between SO and :!5 years IS# per cent Between 85 and 4.) years per ceut Between <10 and 45 years.... 2% per cent Between 45 and 5) years.... %of 1 per cent Between 5<> and 55 years.... \ of 1 per cent After (50 it is on :-tcnth of one per cent., or one chance in 1,000. Tfie final estimates lor tne gigantic iron tower which is to be a feature of the French exhibition of 1889 are now K' ready. The state will contribute 1,500,000 francs, and the remainining sum of 0,000,000 francs will bi furnished by the contractors, who will acquire possession of the tower for twenty years. There is still some dispute about its height. The difficulty will shortly be solved in this way: A captive balloon will be let up to the proper height, and four cables, reaching down to the ground, will represent to the eye the four edges of the K;-.. tower. At intervals flags will be hung to mark out the positions of the several stories. Charles L. Webster, senior member of the firm that is publishing Gen. Grant's boek, said recently that ho had just handed to Mrs. Grant the firm's check for $150,000, the second installment due her under the General's contract, ller seventy per cent, of the profits oa the sale of the book will contiuue during the twenty-eight years of copyright protection secured to the work,so that she will doubtless receive anywhere from $000,000 to $703,000. Mr. Webster also said that his firm contemplated publishing an edition de luxe of the book, each copy containing portions of Gen. Grant's original manuscript The edition will probably be limited to 530 or 1,000 g|.. capias, and will be sold for $100 each. An association of Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, New York a:ul Philadelphia capitalists, called the North Birmingham Land Company, has been formed at Birmingham, Ala., with a"capital of $700,000. The Coalburg coal mining property, with a daily output of 500 tons, is included in the purchase made by the company from the Richmond & Danville extension. Its mining capacity will be pL increased and a largj iron lurnacj with numerous coke ovens will be erected at ^ once. The site of the plant is on Village Creek, not quite two miles no:th of Birmingham. The company owns 12,500 acres of coal and farm lands, and proposes building a suburban town aud engaging in extensive manufacturing. Aft?r nearly three years of study and deliberation, the manner of lighting the Bartholdi statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World"' has been definitely decided upon. The plan adopted is one which is in conformity with the general design of the s'atue itself, and which ?dds to its beauty in a marked degree. The torch of the statue contains eight lamps of G,000 candle power, the light from which is thrown directly up into the clouds. This powerful beam, together with the cloud illumination, constitutes a beacon visible probably a hundred miles out to sea, and is thus, afar off, symbolic of the light aud liberty to be enjoyed by the visitor to our shore?. At the foot of the 6taiue four or eight lights of 6,000 candle power each are dist.ibu'cd. Their light isrifbcted upon 4U ? nn/1 illnminotoo If 1 >? ! 11 IJIU &HUUC U4IV4 iiiumiiittno II U"gUtlJ'? All these arc lamp? arc invisible themselves, so that the objections raised by the river pilots against the blinding effects of the light are entirely removed. Besides the arc light? all a-ound the statue, the diadem upon the head of the figure of Liberty contains incandescent lamps, to give the effect of jewel*. Tin [pi ? whole plan is undoubtedly an excellent one, and cannot fail to make the statue | even more i posing at night than in the day-time. Y ' * THE PRESIDENT'S VISIT Attending the Virginia Stato Fair at Richmond. Making a Spsech to the People at the Fair Grounds. President Cleveland some time a^o accepted ail invitation to bo preenS at the opening of th? Virginia Stitj Fair in RichI nn 'Met; A Richmond dispatch gives the following account of his visit: The President arrived here upon a special train at 11 :'?> a. m. to-day. He was accompanied by the So retaiies of State and War, the Postmaster-General, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Colonel Lament. A committee from this city consisting of General W. ('. Wickham and Colonel A. S. Buford met the party at the station in Washington and e>corted them hither. The train consisted of the new Pullman palace car "President"' and one passenger coach. Brea'ifast was serve I ou the train immediately after leaving Washington. At Fredericksburg, where the train arrived at 9:45, an artillery salute was fired and an assemblage of several huudivd of the townspeople cheeivd the Presdeutial party. A stop of five minutes was ma le during which the President appeared upon the rear platform of hi-: car. and being introduced to th3 crowd by. General Wickham, shook hands with as many of the people as could iu the brk-f time crowd their way to the place. Several young women brought bouquets to be presented t.o hini. but only two were able to reach him. At Milford, forty miles from Richmond, the train was boarde 1 by sub-committees of the Reception Committee. When President Cleveland alighted and was recognized he was greeted with cheers. As quickly a? possiblo he was escorted to aud seated with Governor Fit hugh Lee iu a carriage drawn by lour white horses. Tne remaining members of the Presidential party were placed in other carriages and uuder the escort of the Governor's staff, Brigadier-General Charles J. Anderson and stall' the Stuart Horse Guard aud members of tfce City Council and city ollicers in carriages, the journey was made to the fair grOUUUS. At tn? inn 51 UUUU3 mo tary received them with a salute of twenty -oao guns fired by the Richmond Howitzers. The guests were ushered into the office of the President ot the Agricultural Society, wh?re tho members of the Keception Committee aud a few others were formally introduced. Half an honr later tho President, talcing the arm oi Governor Lee, male his way amid cheers to the verauda of tho offi.e building and faced the crowds. Colonel Robert Loverly, President of the Agricultural Society, stepped forward and in trod'.ice J Governor Lee, who delivered the address of welcome. The President was then introduced by Colonel Beverly, v.ho iu behalf of the farmers of Virginia welcomed h.ni to the State. Cheers and waving of hats and hand Kerchiefs greeted the President Iu a clear voi.e he spoke as follows: "Fellow Citizens of Virginia: While I thank you most sincerely for your kind reception and rejognize in its hear tines; the hospitality for whi: h the people of Virginia have already been distinguished, I am lully j aware that your demonstration of welcome | is tendered not to an individual but to an incumbent of an office which crowns tho i Government of the United States. Tho State of Virginia, the motlier of Presidents, seven ot whose sons have filled that high office, to-day greets a President who for the first time meets Virginians upon Virginia soil, I congratulate myself that my first introduction to tin people of Virginia occurs at a time when they are surrounded by the exhibits of productiveness and prosperity of their State. Whatever there may be in honor in Inr history and however mu:h of prido there may be in her tradition; her true greatness is here exe nplified. In our sisterhood of Srates the leading and most commaudiog place must be gained and kept by that commonwealth which by the labor and Intelligence of her citizens can produce the moot of those things which meet the necessities of mankind. But the full advantage of that which may be yielded to a State by the t?il and ingenuity of her people is not measured alone* by the money value of tho products. The eilOrLS auu IMBSUU^ltra ui uci IBIIUEIJ uiij i her artisans not only create new values in I tb? field of agriculture and in the arts aud j manufactures, but they at the same time | produce rugged, self.reliant and independent men and cultivate that product which noro than all others ennobles a State?a patriotic, earnest American citizenship. This will flourish in every part of the American domain; neither drouth nor rain can in jure it, for it takes root in true hearts, enri.lied by love of country. Th.-re are no new varieties in this production; it mu^t be the sum wher- j ever seen, and its quailty is neither sound , nor gen jine unless it grows to de^k and beautify an entire and united Nation, nor unless It supports and sustains the institutions and the government founded to protect Amsricau liberty and happiness. The present administration of the Government is pledged to return for such husbandry not only promises, but actual tenders of fairness and justice with equal protection and a full parti, ipation in Natknal achievements. If in the ) a>t we nave oeen esrransea aim the cultivation of A ueri *au citizenship has been interrupte I. your enthusiastic welcome of to-day de non-trates that there is an end to such e t angement and that the time of susoi'.ion and fear is succeeded by an era of faith and confidence. In such a kindly atmosphere an I bj ceatn such cheering slcies I grejt the people of Virginia as co-laborers in the field where grows the love of our uuited country. Uod grant that in the years t > come Virginia ?the Old Dominion, the mother of Presidents, she who looke 1 on th9 nation at its birth?may not only increase her trophies of growth in agriculture and manufacture, but that she may be among the first of all the States in the cultivation of true American citizenship." The President was frequently interrupted by the applause. Co'.onel Beverly theu introduced iu the order named. Secretarie; Bayard and Endicott, Postmaster-G3ne:al Vilas and Commissioner of Agriculture Colman, each of whiin was greeted with nheers which they simply acknowledged by bowing t> the people. Among the ladies on the portico from which the speaking took pla"e were Mrs. Lee, the Governor's wife, and Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of Jefferson Davis, to whom President Cleve'and was introduced and with whim he spent a few moments in conveisation. The party the:i witnessed a review of troops, white and colored. After the review the President held a public re 'option for over an luur and shook hands with thousands. Between three and four o'clock the visitors occupied scats on the grand stand and witnessed several races, after which lunch was oartaken of. The nartv were then driveu to the Confederate Soldiers' Home where they were received with a salute of artillery by th s veterans. The President was presented with a souvenir of his visit in the shape of a basket of flowers and he shook hands with all the veterans. The drive was then continue! through the principal streets an I finally to tha Governor's mansion where the party alighted and a general introduction tiou to the ladies took place and some time was spent in social talk. Miss Winnie Davis was the centre of attraction. At adieus were spoken and the Presidential party were driven back to the station, where they took the train at 0.40 o'clock p. m. for Washington. THE STORM IN ENGLAND. Large Vessels Going Down, and Many Lives Lost. The effects of the re.-ent storm on the south and west coasts of Great Britain were terrible. A Norwegian bark foundered ofT Tintagel. Wales, and hsr entire crew, consisting of fifteen persons, perished. The Br.t s i ship Malieny was wrecked in the Bristol Oliannel and twenty persons woro drowned. The Norwegian bark Fred rile stad. from Musquash, M. K., for Swansea, was wrecked olT l'adstow and nineteen persons lost their lives. Another large bark also fouudered, w ith the loss of from lifteen to twenty lives. A grandmother in Goldanda'e, TV. T., discovered her thirteen-months old grandchild looking like an infant Hereul-s as ho vainly tried to get the head of a big blow snake iu his mouth. She screamed, and then kided the snake, although it is not a dangercus reptile. A STATUE OF LIBERTY Description of tlie Groat Statu? In New York Harbor. Tlie Gift of the French People to the American People I NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. The New York City Republicans hava nominated Thoodoro Roosevelt for Mayor. Some reople who believe they are heirs to 'a large slice of land in the upper part of New York City worth $30,000,000 are about to I ring suit fbr its recovery. The Soutli Boston Iron "Works, where many of the Government < antion are made, Las shut down through inability to pay the workmen. Snow storms are reported from the Catskills and the White Mountains. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has just rendered a decision affirming the de: ree of a lower court that the Pennsylvania Railroad be debarred from purchasing or controlling the South Pennsylvania Railroad Company, organized to build a parallel and competing The bondsman of ex-Alderman Sayles,who recently f!e:l from New York to Canada rather than stand trial for bribery in connection with the Broadway horse-car charter, has paid the city the $-'5,000 forfeited bond. Mr. Blaine has been addressing large Republian meetings iu Pennsylvania. A mo python escaped from his quarters in a Boston museum, scattered the spectators, and was only (aged after a lively fight with four men lastiug over an hour. Four of the railroad magnates charged with brib ng tbo New York Aldermen of Itis-i to grant the Broadway horse-car charter were hauled into court on the 19th, as follows: Jacob Sharp, James A. Richmond, James W. Foshay and Thomas B. Kerr. They were each require 1 to give $50,030 baiL Senator Edmunds has been re-elected to the United Stat33 Senate by the Vermont Legislature. S jnset C >x, our Minister to Turkey, was nominated to Congress by tho Democrats in a New York c ity district shortly after his return from Constantinople. Sonth and West. A belief committee investigating tho destruction of Sabine Pass, Texas, by an inundation reported on the 15th that 101 persons wero missing, of whom ninety were known to have been drowned. Thirty-five of these victims are whits and fifty-tive colored. Ninety-one homeless, half-clad vie-, tims of the disaster were brought bv the commit ee iu a steamer to Beaumont, Texas. At Johnson's Bayou, La., thirty-seven bodies were recovered, and sixty-five persons were reported missing. The pecuniary loss in T>i_ * . T* T _ i. ^ f\ \A .riirjuciiuiic i urimi. jl-u., isput at $*oi/u,iaa/. Armour, the kin* of Chicago pork packers, has issued the following ultimatum tc his employes, who have struck against a proposed extension of work from eight to ten hours: "Ten hours or nothing." Biloxi, a summer resort in Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico, has been again put UDder rigid Quarantine on account of the reappearauce Ihere of a malignant type of yellow fever. A fire lias swept away nearly the entire business portion of Salisbury, Md., causing an estimated total loss of between $500,000 and *1,000,000. Mccif suffering prevails among survivors of the Hoods at Sabine l'ass, Texas, and Johnsou's Bayou, La., and appeals for aid have been issuod. The strike of Chicago pork pa"kers ended unexpectedly on the Itth, the men returning to work on the 1 erms of the employers?ten hours a day's work instead of eight, as heretofore. A special train was leaving the Chicago stock yards with 100 discharged Pinkerton detectives, who haJ been guarding the yards in view of the strike, when a crowd of strikers began yelling and throwing stones. The stone-'.hrowing con'inuoJ, and finally it was returned by a volley from some of the detectives' rifles. Two men were fatally wounded. All the detectives were arrested. Five msn were instantly killed and nine more fatally iujured by the fail of a construction train over an embankment near Fairfield, Neb. Tiie Knights of Labor Assembly at Richmond closcd on the 20th. Salaries of officials were increased as follows: Grand Master "Workman Powderly from $1,500 to $3,000; salaries of Secretary and Treasurer from SI,.500 to $2,00J; pay of Executive Board and General Worthy Foreman from $o to $4 a day and expenses while on duty. A Congress of the "Association for the Advancement of Women" has been holding it-s first session in Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe presided, and other noted ladies attended. Oakland, III., has lost nearly all its business section by a fire; aggregate losses, over ?.0.1,000. THE greatest j raincure ever Known in tne Northwest has been raging in tho Turtle Mountain region, Dakota. Over 200 square miles of prairie and timber lauds have been burned, with a large number of nouses and barns, great quantit es of crops,and all kiuds of stock. The losses will aggregate $1,U0U,UJ0. Washington. Secretary Manning is again at work in the Treasury Department. President Cleveland on the 15th went on a short deer hunting and fishing trip along the Blackwater River in West Virginia. The President has appointed Dabney H. Maury to lo United States Envoy Extraordiuary an:l Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of Colombia. Governor West, of Utah, in his annua] report recommends additional legislation for the suppression of polygamy. Foreign. England lias been swept by a a hurricane, which has done creat damage to shipping and other property. The European Powers are actively exchanging views on the selection of a (.audi date for the Bulgarian throne. Tiie schooner Emeline was wrecked on the west coast of Newfoundland, aud all 011 board ?seven souls?were drowned. Mits. Leader, wife of a London butcher, after a quarrel with her husband threw herself aud five little children into the Thames. All but one child were drowned. Advices from Coroa state that no idea can be formed of tha extent of the scourge. It has decimated Seoul, the capital, where, out of a populatiou of L'00,000, the death list rules at the frightful rate of 1,00 J per day. They are beginning to give over the task of burying their dead, and the city is threatened with } ositive extinction. Meyer Karl Rothschild, the h ad of the family of noted bankers and financiers, died a few days since at Krankfort-ou-theMain, of heart disease. Volcanoes in Peru nnd Ecuador are showing great activity, and some villages have already suffered considerably from descending lava and ashes. The Czar's eldest son, heir to the Russian throne, is dying. The Canadian authorities are said to have notified Wiggins,the weather prophet,that he must either quit prophesy iug or leave tho civil service ia which he is employed. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Ax Iowa insurance company offers $300 for the be t plaa of a tornado cave. MA Cedak Rapids (Iowa) cat has adopted a young mouse and is tenderly rearing it Bautholdi's Liberty is to be lighted by 30,00J candle power,as in the statue made ana provided. A Georgia hermit has hi* house in tho branches of a spreading oak tree. It is small, but quite snug. German military authorities are training shepherd dogs to carry messages from on<? army to another, It is roughly estimated that the amount realized by tho cjltou crop of Egypt this year will he ?45,000,00;). A lineman, who took hold of an electric light wire in Detroit, was shocked to death before the lino could bo cut. On tho door of Prince Bismarck's study at Friedrichsruhe aro notches indicating the height of all tho members of the family. A fatal disease prevails am ing horses all through the tidowater .section of Virginia, auu uuuureui oi iarmers uave iosi< siuck. The shipment of ice from Chicago to ir'an Fran-is o by trains run on a pastenger sche lulo, t3 prevent loss by melting, is tlie latest commercial idea. M. Chkvkeul, the Freucli chemist who recently pas-e 1 his one hun Iredth year, has lived to see in Franco four Kings, two Emperors aud tluve Republics. The unveiling of Eartholdi's great statiue of "Liberty Enlightening the "World," at Bedloe's Island in New York harbor, October 28, makes the following description of the magnificont gift of tlio French people to the American poople both timely an d interesting: This new wonder of the world, now p'ared in position on its pedestal, on Bcdloo's Island, the site selected in New York haibor by Ge.iaral William T. Sherman, as authorised undor the act of Congress, February, 1877, deserves mora than a raising comment, being the largest statue of the ancieut or modem world. Some idea of its magnitude I may be obtained from the following facts: Looming up o0."> foot above tide-water, the height of fiie stature is 1)1 feet. 2 inches, that of the pedestal 01 feet, aud the found ationS'i feet, 10 indies. The Statue is constructed of copper sheets S-10 of an inch thick. The forefinger measures 8 feet in length and 5 feet in circumference at the second joint. Tue nail measures 14 inches in length by 10 in breadi.h. The head is 14 feet high. The eye is ~'8 inchcs in width. The nose is 3 feet 9 inrhos long. The total weight of this stupendous figure is 440,ou.) pounds, of which 17(5,(0J pounds are copper, the remainder being wrought iron. About forty persons can find stindirig room within the head. A six-foot man slamling on the level of tbe lips only reaches the eyebrow. Fiftoen people might sit around tho flame of the torch, which elevation is reached by a spiral staircase within the outstronched arm. Tho manner of properly lighting the Statue by means of oloctricity has beeu carefully studied during the past three years, and paiti.i /\f fl.fl niitinnnf in till* country have hceu consulted. Ibe systcua adopted embraces a powerful olo .tric light from the torch, tho illumination of the Statue itself, and small cluster:; of lights in the diadem. Tho means for pro.uring the necessary plant was voted by Congress. While discussing our goddess, jet us turn for a moment to heathen mythology, three contures before the birth of Christ Tb? elder Pliny informs us, that at the entrance of the Port of tho City of Rhodes, there stood the most celebrated statue of antiquity, "The Colossus of Rhodes," a statue of Helios, the Sun-God, made of bras;, and 10> feet high, < osting the sum of 300 talent;, or about loft,006. After being erected it ?tood only 20 years, being thrown down by an earthquake 224 yea18 before Christ, to remain on the spot whore it fell '.)00 yoars, being finally sold to a speculator for old brass. After tho Grecian o:>oeh we pass on to modern times and lind examples of Colossal Art, yet nothing that compares in magnitude with the Bartholdi ,-Coli>ss.is of Liberty. " This Colossus of the Colossi of ancient or modern art represents an outlay of more than a million of francs (#21)0,000), tha individual subscriptions of the urticans of France, and stands in its imposing majesty higher than the enormous towers of the great Brooklyn Bridge, or thestaepleof Tnnity /-.i ?T ii? ..1 1. V^auruu?LUO lUllilCOU tuuitu O'ASt; j^ic 1U i>uc City of New York. Tbe total cos:; of stat ie, pedestal and foundation is nearly onomillion dollars. A word here is apropos as to its artistic merit. Tbe pose, stride and gesture, with its classic face, are pronounced by ar t critics as perfect; the drapery is both massive and tine, and in some parts is delicate aud silky in effect, as if wrought with a fine chis.'l on the smallest si-ale. The conception aad execution oJ this great work of art are due to the efforts of the eminent French sculptor Bartlioldi, who has de votefcl eight years of his life and a part of his private fortune to tin completion of a task so nobly and generously supported by the French peopla SABINE PASS. Further Particulars of the FloodGreat Loss of Life. Further particulars of the great disaster at Sabin-j Pass have bean received. The situation has not been exaggerated in the least. .A. correspondent tcleiraph3 that the turkey buzzards are soaring over ISabine for miles aroun J on land an 1 water, ic is one vusu charnel house. There are 12" persons missing aul probably dead Innumerable touching, heartrending incidents of th; storm are related by the survivors. One house containing fourteen colored people was seen to go down with a crash,acid every one of them was loss. Incidents a re related of husbands lashing wives and children to floating wreckand then seeing them kille 1 by heavy logs being driven against them. W'hi'n ths Government tugboat Penrose rea-h d Sabine. Columbus Marteo was found rowing around the delta looking for the bjdies of his family. He said: ''Myself, wife, and three c hildren w.?r.s c ingiug to a flontiug roof, which was gradually breaking to pieces. One of tin little ones went and then another. I was holding the ycungest, mid soon my wife said, 'Good-bye, husband, I am going.' I could not reach her. Tae piece of the roof supporting her broke ofT and she sank bjfore my eyes. I held on to the youngest <hild, named Ptarl, some time ] 1 niuar. The child, addressing me, stud: To pa, ; I'm tire I; won't you walk with me.' The piece of the roof I was 0:1 was now era tabling to pieces. I tol l Iho little one to kin.-: me. frhe put both her little nrms around my ne -k, ga-'O me n big s juee^e, and just then a wave dashed us o!t\ Mid I saw her no in ire. Great God! why didn't I go down, too.Hewai presse I to go on board the Penrosj, but relused, snying: "Here amDiig th >se la^oms nre the bodios of my wife ami children, atnl here will I stop until I ca i find the;n." No tongue nil tell how the people have suffered during tLe past f.'ew days. In mauy oa-o; the dea I ouos arc considered the lucky one:. I A later dispati h reports that the death and destruction nt Sabine Puss, Johnson's Bayou, Taylor's Bayou and other poiutsoi; the Texas and Lo.iiiana coasts present a pic ture fully as horrible, if not far wors . than heretofore reported. The results of the oli'orts of ex ploring parties to gather up the ue'tu ana rescue the living make u tale su.-ii as is seldom read in tha anuuls of calamity. The fall number of lives lost in the track of she wave and hurricane at tlio points montiono I a'ld in the country districts surrounding them will tvajh, if it doL-s int exceed, throe hundred. A religious enthusiast of Los Angeles, Cal., thought ho heard a voice commanding him to sell what he bad and give to the poor. Bo ho sent $1,000 each to two benovoleut societies of the place, leaving his family destitute. Tho money was sent to i;he crank's wil!e and children. JABITOR TITOS CONVICTED. A Murder Case Which Has Excited Unusual Interest. The trial of Janitor James J. Titus for the murder of Tillie Smith has resulted iu a verdict of murder in the first degrea against the accused. The story of the crime is as follows: Tillie Smith, a girl of eighteen, was a servrfht in the Centenary Collegiate Institute at Hacke'.stown, N. J. On the night of April * last she attended an entertainment in the town, where she made the a> quaintance'of Chatles L. Munnich, a young traveling salesman of Port Jervis, who escorted her home. They arrived in front of the seminary building just in time to see the lights extinguished ana hear the bolts click in the front door as it was locked for the UigUU x Ut3 JTUUUg iiiUU AUUhCU Ul/ Uh WUtJU and saw that it was 10:10 o'clock. ' There," remarked the girl, ''I am lockcd out, but the janitor has proinke J to let me in by the laundry door." A lew moments later the two separated, the young man returning to his hotel and the girl going toward the rear of the seminary building. That was the last seen of her ali ve. The next moniiug her body was found in the corner of a Held just outside the .?e aiuary grounds. She had been assaulted aud marderel. Munnicli was arrested for the crime, but proved his innocence and was liberated. Then suspicion turned toward the janitor, James J. Titus. His strange indifference after the murder strengthened that suspicion. The girl was assaulted and strangled. The marks of a man's hand were on her throat. When found her jacket was half off, and her gloves, handkerchief and other small article^ known to have been in her possession were missing. The back of her dn?ss was covered with dry dust and wood fibres, showing that the crime had been committed in a ary placo, under cover as the ground was wet outside. The distance from where she parted from Munnich to the basement door where Bbe expected to gain admittance was 41l> feet, all within the seminary grounds. Titus was alone in the basement that night. He bad told of taking liberties with Ihe girl, and on that i articular eveuiug told a studeut named Meade that she had gone out and lie had promised to let her in after hours, and he invited Meade to comedown and they would "have a racket." These and many other circumstances pointed to Titus as the murderer, aud he was indicted and locked up in the county jail at Belvidere, N. J. His trial began September 2S and ended,as stated, in a verdict of guilty. Such a verdict was hardly exported. Not that the people thought the prhouer innocent, but the evidence was entirely circumstantial and it was feared that the prosecution could not make out a casj. The murder excited much interest throughout the country, and the metro politan papers < ontaineJ long accounts of the progress of the trial. When the foreman of tho jury rendered the verdict he sobbed as he finished speak ing, ana ne inrnea away nis iace ana wipea ' his eyes with his handkerchief. His breakdown unnerved some of the other jurors until the teara stood In their eyes. The prisoner turned pale and grasped the back of a chair for support lie stenied dazed, bewilderod, and the muscles of his jaws twitched nervously. A motion for a new trial will be argued before the Now Jersey Supreme Court some time in November. In th9 meantime it aits a-s a stay of proceedings and Titus will not do sentenced until it is settled. VICTIMS OF A FLOOD. Details of the Disaster at Johnson's Bayou, La. The village of Johnson's Bayou, La.,which w:is swept away by the recent storm, is a high ridge on the seacoast, and the bayou from which it takes its name runs through the inhabitable parts of that section of the settlement in which is also situated the Fostoftlce station known as Radford. They are in Cameron Parish, on the Louisiana shore, six miles east of Sabine Pass. Tho bayou is nineteen miles in length and varies from one to four m'les in width. Ridges face the (Julf twelve feet above the sea level, and in the rear is a dense and impenetrable marsh. The population before the storm liumljeretl souls; to-uay at least eighty-five of that number are counted with the dead. Cotton and sugar are the chief products of the ridges, which are composed of the richest aud most fertile grazing country, and the j>arish had 8,000 head of rattle aud horses, owned by a thriviug community. Communication with the outer world was through two steam vessels, both owued in Johnson's Bayou and Radford, while a fleet of trading vessels plied the waters of the bayou. Thus is picture J Jobusous's Bayou, or rather the series of ridges over which was scattered the 1,20!) population on the morning of the storm. At 4 o'clock that afternoon/ the storm set in and everybody tool' t:> their homes and waited with lated breath the fate which they foresaw was doomed to bo theirs Tho waters, risiug with the wind, swept through the lower stories of the buildings, driviugthe affrighted people into the attics and upon the roofs. By 10 o'clock the first ridge, twelve feet above sea level, was t-u fejt uuder water. House after house fell in or was swept away, either burying the doomed people in the debris or hurling thorn into the hissing water. The cotton and the stores next succumbed, and Radford and Johusou's Buyou were destroyed as completely as if an invading army had done the work. It was a night of terror, des?ribed by tho survivors a-; appalling. Tho people could only cling to each other aud pi ay fei1 merov and for the souls of those whoso despairing shrieks rang iu their oars. For twelve hours the storm rage I over th3 settlements and then came a lull. Hope revived as the waters receded aud the storm parsed away, and the survivors gathered on elovated points viewing tbe scene of desolation around them. Houses that stood the aetiou of the storm were completely gutted. There was no food nor drink, tho salt water having invaded everything. Then began a search for the dead, and t hose whose bodies lay pinioned by the ruins of houses were speedily recovered. From out of the marshes more corpses were taken aud .likewise buried. The people, save a few who have large stock interost say they have abandoned the place forver. They are des ondnnts of a race of people who in tho past made Johnson's Bayou a vast orange grove. Tho frost came and ruined them, and then they turned to cotton and sugar and stock, only to meet the late of their forefathers. Of tho 8,00) hea l of stock which once tho bayou boasted G,0(XJ are drowned, while tho remainder died of thirst as all the water is salt. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. Tremendous Sti-i<le9 in the Indus* tries ol'the South?Some Figurca The Baltimore Manufacturers1 Record, in it? quarterly review of the South's industrial growth, rays that "even the West, in days of its greatest progress, probably never saw such tremendous strides of progress as so ne I portions of the South are now making." The centre of interest for some time has been in the iron and steel industries, and in thesa the activity ha-; bcei wonderful, though in other lines of diversified manufactures there is also remarkable progre.-s. During tl;o last nine months there have been organized in th? S-'outh 12 ire factories, 5(5 fouudr.es and machine shops, many of them large size: 1 JJoss.-mor stsei rail mill, 10 miscellaneous iron works, in l.uling iron pipe works, bridge and bolt works, etc.: 5 stove foundries, 1'.' gas works, 2:! ele tri; light < o.ji] anies, n ngric.dtuiai implement factories, 114 mining and quarrying enterprises, 12 < arriage and wagon factories, !> cott >n mills, in lurniture factories, 21 water works, 41 toba co factories, 71 Hour mills, :i>?2 lumber mills (not counting small portable saw mills', including saw and plauiug mill-, sash and door factories, stave, handle, shingle, hub ami spoke, shuttle block factories, etc., iu addition to which thero was a largo number of miscellaneous enterprises. Tho Rucoi d says that during tho first nine months of 1*8 i the amount of capital, including capital stock of incorporated coin| panics represented by tho new manufacturing and mining enterprises organized or chartered at tho South, and in the enlargement of old p'aats and rebuilding of mills that wore destroyed uy nre, aggregate uuuuu i $83,884,203, a^aiust ^5J,GSo,300 for the correI spending period of 1885. I I THE KNIGHTS AJJOUM * End of the Tenth General Assembly at Richmond. The Business Transacted During the Closing Hours. At 5:40 p. m. on the 20th the tenth annual General Assembly of the Knights of Labor adjourned at Richmond, Ya., to meet next year at Minneapolis, Minn. It ha'l been in session for sixteen days. The delegates, more than 70) on the first day of the session, had dwindled until not more than -10.) were in the meeting hall on the closing day. The Assembly during the morning first authorized a permanent committee on woman's work, and appointed Miss Leonoia Barry, General Investigator ofJ,he committee. Hhe will receive while on duty $4 p day and expenses. James Quiun, of District Assembly 49, introduced a resolution asking, in the name of human.ty, merc-y for the condemned Chicago Anarchists. Dr. Allen, of Missauri. proposed that the Assembly denounce Anarchist methods. The resolution was adopted as follows: "Thit this General Assembly appeals for mercy for the saven men of Chicago condemned to be executed: that, while asking for mercy for the condemned men, we are not in sympathy with tha a'ts of the Anarchists, nor any attempt of individuals or associated bodies that teach or practice violent infractions of the law, believing that p?aceful methods are the surest and best meaus to secure necessary reforms." The Assembly voted to place $10,000 a quarter 1n the hands of tha Co-operative Board, ti be used in carrying into effect some practical system of co-operation. In the aftjrnoon it was decided to abolish the office of General Auditor, and hereafter the General Executive Board will appoint its own auditor. The Committeo on Convict Labor made th3 usual report, and that on Chinese and foreign contract labor protested against the importation pf such labor, and asked for the abrogation of the Burlingama treaty. The Pennsylvania Railway's scheme of insurance, wn ch is also in lorce on too Baltimore and Ohio road, was condemned by the special committee, and the authorit'es of the Order were directed to protect men from compulsory insurance. The Executive Board was unanimously authorized to buy a home for the family of Uriah S. Steven?, the founder of the order. No limit was set to the amount to be spent A resolution was adopted donating ta the Little Sisters of the Poor of Richmond the tables, trjsses anl mu ilin usad in Armory Hall during the session of the General Assembly. By another resolution the General Treasurer was authorized to pay to the representatives of tha First Virginia Regiment $1,0<:0 for the use of Armory Ha L The us? of the ball had baen given without charge. The Executive Board was empowered to appoint at their dis ret on one or more suitable persons a Legislative Committee, to attend upon I ha sessions of Congress or any State Legislature to further by all honorable means objects of tin Order whi.h aie subjects of national or State legislation. The revised Constitution had been referred f/\ f)ia P.tapiiHva R-inrfl nnrl a rftmmittftP nf four appointed as follows; John Howes and Henry Abrahams, of Boston; John Dovliu, of Detroit, and E. J. Haggerty, of Brooklvn. By this time it wa? after 5 o'clock. Mr. Powderly spoke brie.iy to the dolegaces, urging the setting aside of all ill-feeling in the interest of harmony, and hoping that the delegates would go home with the intention of nushing the principles of the order. Tom O'Reilly th3u ;ans 'an ode written for the occasion, entitled 'We Ca \ we Must, we Shall be Free," and the delegates joined in the refrain. There were three verses, the air was that of the "Canadian Boat Song," and when the ode was finished the Assembly adjourned with manifestations of pleasure. LATER NEWS, Some shells were being loaded at Sand^ Hook, N. J., preparatory to experiments by the Government Ordnance Board, when one of them exploded. Private Joseph King was instantly killed and Lieutenant William M. Medcalte was injured so that death soon ensued. A number of sa!oon-ke?pers are charged with toe recent murder of R9V. Mr. Haddock, a pronounced Prohibitionist, at Sio ix City, la. Two men arresie.l have made confessions declaring that the murder was instigated by saloonists. i<. u...n t.-vnir tbrafl nATr.ie? charged iu A3JVC.W 1UVU vvva ?u. w ? I with arcon ont of tha Pickens County (A'a.) jail and hanged them to a tree. I During the past eight months there were J 150 suicides in the German army. The C.:ar of Russia, according to a London dispat.li of the 21st., has shot and killed one of hLs officers. It seoms that an aide-de! camp, Councilor of Stata Count Reutarn, was awaiting the C^ar in tin R >yal Palace, j The weather being warm, the Count unbut| tone J his tunic. The Czar returne 1 sooner than expected, and Reutern aros3 hurriedly aud began to rebutton his tunic, whereupon the C:ar, thiukiujthat thoofflc3r wa? about to draw a weapon, shot him dead. The will of the late 8 irauel J. Tddsn ha3 been admitted to probate at "White Plains, N. Y., without opposition. An attempt to break it is to be made by soma of the heirs. Thr twenty-third International Convention of tho Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers met in New York on the 20th. About 3S0 delegates were present and listened to addresses by Grand Chief Engineer Arthur, Mayor Grace,Governor Abbatt, of New Jers?y, President Depew, of t!ie New York Ceutral Railroad, and.Rev. T. De Witt Talmage. It was announced the sessions of tho Order, which is one of the strongest labor organizations in the world, would Jast ten days. The presence of Mr. Blaine ut' Pittsburg on the 20th was made t':e occasion of *n immense protective tariff demonstration. A eand of Anarchists in Chicago have been using a Catholic church for a drill room at night, storing bombs under the altar and hiding arms and dynamite in other parts 0* tho building. A Pole has revealed the plot, the deadly material has been found and seized, and a number of arrests ha re been niS le. The General Convention of the Episcopal Church and the National Council of the Congregational Church have been in session at Chicago. The War Department has given orders to transfer Chief Geronimo and his band of Apache cutthroat-; from San Antonio, Texas, to Fort Pickens, Fla., for confinement until further orders. The band numbers fifteen, and the othor captured Apaches?eleven m*/l civ / hilflivm?'i ro Kia fa '.'(in M Fort Martin, Fla. Majoh-General SirH. T. Macpherson, Commander of tho British army of o vnpatio n in Barmab, India, died recently of fever. Earthquake shocks have been felt in Alsaca-Lorraine. ?????_ MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. A heal Chinaman is now playing Washoe Washoo in "The Danites" in Detroit Booth, JeTerson, Raymond aud Margaret Mather have been playing in Chi ago this week. Bl'kfat.o Bir.r. has made a decide 1 sensasation iu Loudon with his "Wild West', show. , The season of Itali.m opera at the New i ork Academy of Music under Signer An gelo's dire turn has begun. The New York critics s-ay Mrs. Langtry has improved greatly iu her acting since her last appearauco iu this country. Three prominent English actresses have been plaving at New 1'ork theatres?Miss Laniztrv.Miss Fortes :ue and Violet Cameron. WIND-SWEPT BUFFALO. | J Loss of Life and Extensive Destruo-aj^H tlou of Property. jH9 r The fatalities and damage to piopeilf^jLjlfl caused by the recent storms were not con" fined to the West and Southwest. At Buffalc, N. Y.,?: serious loss of life and modi WW aamage to property occurred. A dispatch from that city says: jfl Examination shows the damage by last night's gale in this city to fall not short of fl $60,000 to buildings, breakwaters, etc. A V new church and part of the new Music Hall H were blown down, and boat-houses, icebouses and bath-houses were washed away. About a mile of the New York Central tracks was torn up, overturning and . sma.hiDc a train of freight cars. That part H of Buffalo known as the Islan l and the ad* jacent territory lying on the lake front.is to- ^4* day a scene of utter desolation. Probably400 persons living in this part of the city are H without homes. Many storm adventures are told. In the water near the Lake I Shore tracks, almost a mile from its proper . location, is the house of John Quinn. Whenthe lake began to rise Quinn and his wife wore driven from the house and took refuj? '? in the limbs of a tree. John Edwards, a neighbor, whose house jras flooded out,' tried to get into the tree, but the bunri^ ^H| cane blew him into the rushing water.'J^M His dead body was found to-day buried in sand. A toll-gate lod^e on the turnpike near the Lake Shore lloal was floated off its foundations Tbo keeper and his wife soi;ei their thi oe little children and spent the night drifting about at' tbe mercy of the storm. The floating house was often submerged yzW by the waves, which ran unprecedentoaly Kfl high. The two younger children died of ex- :SjM posure before morning, when the rescue tugs ffiiM reached tbe house and took the family off. A number of drowning cases in the iaun&? -H diate vicinity of the city^aro reegrted. From fifty to 100 houses, .saloons, 'Sna other structures -were totally wrecked JH by wind and water. The Tifft ml farm docks of th 3 Lehigh Railroad are under water. The entire fleet of the City Yacht JflnH Club is sunk or stranded. Not in forty years -igdH has the water i isen to such a height Canal ,~1XH boats were lifted from tbe ca ial and are left jflB dry on tbe towpath. A relief fund hai been ;4Vl raised for the people whose hoa:es are washed St?far six person# are known to have lost their live?, and it is feared that the muddy waters of Lake Erie will yet give up more 'V&H bodies of the unfortunate* who lived along the sea-walL The namej are: John Edwards, an old man who worked for 'tbe n Cuinns; Annie Dietch, agod seven: Jacob Dietch. Jr.. aged one; Ghirles Mitchell, a ? canaller, who walked off into the water intothe dark d::ring the storm; Henry Millington, and the cook on tbe schooner Kekier- -?j house, who went overboard coming into port. -T-jl and could not be recovered. * fl PIRATES FEOMCAttADA. -'BM Gangs of Lawless Men Pillage a- fl Hurnini; Town In Maine. I During the recent fieroe fire which nearly / destroyed the business part of Eastport, Me., gangs of lawless characters from the islandaon the Canadian side of the Passamaquoddy, ' who have for years been smuggling goods iuto Maine, deserted their regular business, and set tail in their boats for the doomed town. Anchoring off the wharvej out of * the reach of the liames they took their dories^*? and rowed ashore. Then began a series of^B. raids on the stricken people that was a dia.. ^^3 gsace to humanity. Bodily they entered thqi town, broke open the stores aud storehouses, selecting the most valuable merchandise, /;-^ and after loading then* small boat?, rowed out o ver the choppy waters of the bay only to return as quickly as possible to renew ?J> their depredations. This continued through the second day of the lire. The thieves, emboldened by their . ;i success of the night before, became more bold. I\i and disputed, in many cases, with the owners ii of tbo goods for their possession. The Police fS, Department and the Fire Department were' ^ powerless, and at last the citizens, wrought to a high state of excitement by 7? their losses and ffo> :e struggle to save their" . homes and property from the flames, turned jfl on the invaders who were pillagin? their* 9 town and fought them fiercely. The human JH ticnra would' not be driven from their orey ~"iiH without a struggle, and continued their ne-- -.H farious business into the second day. Jj At this time the United States cutter Gen- " V eral Woodbury, a well-armed vessel, arrived, I and the Captain, understandicg the charac ter of tho jnen across the line, and observing H tbe multitude of boats, quickly took in the- V situation. In tbe twinkling of an eye he had his boats out and manned, and shut off w all communication with the shore. Then jfl he ordered all the English craft to- . 4H leave tbe harbor. Whilo they might St flght tbe weary people of Eastport, m they had a wholesome respect for tbefiWning guns of the Woodbuiy, and coon the bay was white with the sails of the thieves as they soiled across the line. They were ordered not to return. i) THE NATIONAL GAME Hoover was the only umpire who weal" clear through tbe International season. i Eli as Peak, a Philadelphia boy, leads thesecond-base.nen of the New England League. In Boston Glasscock, tbe St Louis shortstop, is considered a wouder and the prince of fielders. Haverhill won the series from every New England League club except the champion Portlands. Chicago, St Louis, Utica, Portland, Atlanta, Denver, Newark and Duluth are the"big eight" of the baseball arena President George M. Ballard, of the Eastern League, has ordered the championship penuant to be sent to the Newark Club. In the last throw games between the New York and Chicago clubs the New York* made 28 hits, 24 errors, and IS runs, against 2.' hitS, 15 errors, and 14 runs for Chicago. In* the International League the Oswego# have been whitewashed 10 time; this season, the Rochesters 5, Homiltons 4, the Bingham* tons 4, toe Torontos 3, the Uticas 2, the Buffalos 1 aad the Syracuse Stars 1. Not satisfied with defeating the Chicago* four straight games and giving them a first class scare, the Philadelphias thrashed th? Detroits in the last two games out of three, and gave th? Chicagosthe championship. Thk Baltimores are the Association champions as regards tie games. They have played eight?two with the I'ittsburgs, two with the Louisvilles, two with the Cincinnati*, one with the Brooklyus and one with the Ath? letics. ,Tiie several League clubs have won and lost the following number of comes on the ? J home grounds : Chicago, 52-10; Detroi t, 4^ 18: . New York, 47-13; rtiuaneipma, dob- > ton, 82-26; St. Louis, 27-34; Kansas City. (I 17-11; Washington, 18-3?, -51 A singular accident occurred at Utica I recently duriug the progress of a game be- J tween the Ithaca and Trumansbnrg clubs. H James Pringle, pitcher of the home nine, while in the act of delivering a swift curv? liner, broke his right arm near the elbow and at the same time dislocated his shoulder. Pringle is heavily built and pitches a vary swift twill. PROMINENT PEOPLE Denis Kearney, the sand lot orator, is a candidate for Sheriff of Sui Francisco. Mr. PARNELLaud his mother and sister ^ intend to spend the winter in the South of I France. General Sherman told a reporter the othe.- dav, it i-i said, that lie never voted in ? his life />id never expected to. President Cleveland usua'ly wjars a -j flower on his coat lappel n >w, something be I rarely did ba."ore he was marrioi. I Mr.s. Belva A. L^c vwooo hai taken time by the forelo !* and again announced hervelt as a Pros d.-i:t al candidate. James C. Flood, the California millionaire, has just fiuished a S'2,(:0 ',000 brown stone house on Nob Hill, San Francisso. The fortune of* Mrs. Mark Hopkins is estimated at $10,00 ,000. It wa? all made by her late husband on the Central Pacific Railroad. Hamilton Fish at th?a.jeof seventy-nine is still hale and vigorous, in spite of the slight stroke of paralysis which no received some time ago. Queen Victoria ha? had th3 smali Bible carricd by General Gordon for so many years deposited in Windsor Castle in a casket of pure crystal rock. ^ The opening of the now Garfleld University of Wichita, Kax, will take place shortly. Mrs. Garfield will take a prominent j rai t in the inauzurol ceremonies. . . .