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p . BE'-* i tl i.- ? - : Artificially grown ducks are said to be the best fattened and plumpest birds in the Boston market. The largest duck pond in America is at South Easton, Mass., whire 7,000 have been hatched this season. It is only a few years since patent incubators found their way into public notice, and now they form the basis of a large industry. There are said to be in Paris more than 30,000 persons wnomaKe tneir living oui of rag gatlicring and burrowing in the ash bins of the city. It is a hereditary calling and those who are engaged in it are strong and robust. This is more than can be said of the ragpickers of New York. Their number certainly is increasing but their physical decrepitude seems to grow greater also. The annual report of First Assistant Postmaster-General Stevenson shows that there are 53,014 postoffices in the United 8tates, The appointments last year aggregated 52,747, the large t number beiqg 9,5GG, for removals and suspensions. The total gross receipts from the presidential oftic3s during the past year were $3?,491,557. New York State has the largest number of po.tolHces of the presidential grade. m EE. Kcntuckians Will have to give up the idea of the State's possessing diamond fields. At thfc session of the American Institute of Mining Engineers in S Louis the other day the subject came up for discussion, and it was demonstrated by Professor Ashburner,'of Philadelphia, that the only basis for such a belief was ho rem irk of Hcnrv C'nrlton Lewis be fore the British Academy of Scientists, tbat a slight similarity existed between the trap rock of Eastern Kentucky and the diamond region of Southern Africa. ? A newspaper correspondent, however, had reported him as saying that diamonds might be found in the blue grass State. 5p;\ Mr. Lui, of the Chinese consulate in \.y 7 New York, says that there are about 4,000 Chinamen in that city, or one-tenth of the whole number in this country and about one-third as many as there are in San Francisco. There arc 2,000 or 2,000 in the suburbs of New York. He says i that they are fond of the metropolis and i are better treated there than elsewhere. Very many arc married to white women, and in many instances these have proved happy unions. lie declares that it is a mistake to suppose that all the Chinamen are seeking wealth in this country with the idea of returning to China with it. Could they become citizens many j would do so, a< they like this country and are fascinated by the comforts and advantages of Western civilization. Th>y would not be as happy in China and their onlv obicct in returning, could they do - w so and then come back here, would be to see their parents. Mr. Lui complains of the injustice of Americau laws regarding the Chinese, but speaks hopefully of the near prospect of a revocation of those that prevent immigration and naturalization. A writer in the Brooklyn Union says: *'A long time ago I wrote the opinion of an experienced publisher that Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, or in other words the Grant family, would derive, in the end, $750,000 from the writing; of General U. S. | Grant. Inasmuch as Mrs. Grant has already received ?350,000 and will get at least $150,000 more from the work which Grant finished just before his death, it will be no difficult m itter to make the material left by General Grant for another work yie'd the remaining $250,000. The work to follow the war record will be practically a history of Grant's two terms as President of the United States. It will be even more interesting to the masses than the war rec- j ord, but will lack the merit of being the ' j personal compilation of Grant. His notes, however, will supply all the facts. A fair share of the persons who purchase the war record will want the Presidential history. Therefore the success of the work is absolutely assured in advance. Colonel Fred. Grant has the matter in hand. I am told that he proposes to be the publisher himself." An American who has spent some months in Liberia writes privately from Monrovia, the capital, that it is built on a bed of iron ore, nearly pure; that i contains 5,000 inhabitants, only few o^ them white, divided into natives, the Liberians, or children born there of foreign parents, and immigrants. The Kroos, an aboriginal tribe, were formerly the slave dealeis of the coast, and each man has a blue tattoo mark in the middle of his forehead, extending to the nose. The women paint themselves from head to heel, many having the Liberian or American ling painted on their brows, but never the British flag, which they hate. The girls, as soon as they cau walk, are put into the gree-gree bush, a kind of barbarous convent, where they are taught their duties as women and wives. They are usually sold at birth for connubial purposes, at about $15 each, or half a dozen for $75. A man may have as many wives as he has money to pay for. The boys arc kept in the bush until fourteen, when they are considered of age. If the boys or girls disclose the secrets of their bush, or are caught in another b'.ish than their own, they are publk ly put to death. The country has some 700,000 aboriginals, with 20,090 persons of colonial stock, and nearly all the semi-tropical products arc indigenous there. The government is modeled exactly after ours. It was declared an independent state in 1817, and, the years following, was recognized as such by Great Lritain and France. The climate, which was once considered fatal to Europeans, has been recently much improved by clearances, drainage and the like, and bids far untimately to l>c inhabited by the Western races. , '/ 1" . I i .. I ! In Holland ladies arc gradually assuming the occupations of the pharmaceutical assistants. The periodical State examinations have just been held and the result is highly favorable to the sex. Out of a total fifty-five candidates, nineteen out of thirty-one female candidates and qnly eight out of twenty-four male candidates -were successful. rnv e /%1%/vIai.o in Pnrnfi nrfl iuc ravages ui tuvwio m w.v? ? vividly presented by the news that the deaths from this cause in Seoul, the Capital city, alone are a thousand a day. This chief city of t'ie peninsula contains less than a quarter of a million inhabitants within its walls, and as the pestilence began to rage furiously there fully three or four months ago, it may be imagined what havoc it has made. An important paint to note is that the sanitary condition of the capital has been for a long time horrible, in spite of excellent natural drainage. The sewers were once very good, although open on the streets; but of late the houses have encroached on the thoroughfares, and have been recklessly built up to and even over the sewers, leaving only the space necessary for these conduits, which have become filthier and filthier. The lesson of this | present devastation of Seoul is the one that would be taught in any other city of ihe world under like circumstances; and horrible and pitiable as is the mortality, insomuch that the dead now lie | i 1 :-.i :i. L I lung unuuimu, it cuuuut uc apprising. Business in Xcw York's great financial center, "Wall street, would be paralyzed but for the loaning system ia vogue there. Comparatively small brokerage conccrns re juire as much as $1,000,000 at a time to do their business. They put up stocks and bonds as collateral. The rule is to advance money to the extent of about three-quarters the market value of the securities pledged. If the pricc3 of securities decline, the banks either reduce the loans or require an increiso in the collaterals. The system of certification makes it impossible to work off a bogus check. Loose money is never use J in a transaction Everything is "doue on paper." The banks adjust the balances of the brokers and their own balances are in turn adjusted through the medium of the clearing house. It is really surprising how little actual money is used in the street. About all the money that is seen in the offices is to pay clerks and for the personal use of members of the houses. Messenger boys and office boys run around all day with checks for hundreds of thousands of dollars in theii hands. Thieves do not snatch them, foi they would be of no more use than so much blank paper. Not a dollar could be secured on them. Such a thing as a robbery is never h?ard of in "Wall street nowadays. That, if any place, ought to be a thieves' paradise, but I do not know a place where gentlemen who help themselves to other people's property will find poorer picking. New York bankers who have spent time abroad the past summer tell enter taining stories of the easy-going ways in which business is conduct .'d in some of the leading European cities. In New York from the opening hour to the closing every day the b inker and the merchant are on a continual rush. In Europe there is a very different scheme. The European bunker may work hard from early morning till noon, but when noon comes he is ready for the table and to the table he goes. The New Yorker is u?ed to grabbing his morsel of lunch on the fly. The European eats leisurely and does not allow sociability over his viands to be interrupted by business demands. Ex-President Simmons, of the New York Stock Exchange, tells an interesting story, in tlie Timia, apropos of this difference between methods here and over the ocean. He was in a European capital, and wanting some ready money, sauntered down to a banking-house on which he had letters of credit one day at about noon. The bank was cloied, the doors were locked, everybody was gone. Something very like a shiver stole over the frame of the genial New Yorker; to all appearance?, though no notice was up, that bauk had suspended or gone out of busin ss. Appearances, however, were deceitful, there was nothing unusual; business had come to a standstill and the doors were locked only because the bank's officers and the bank's clerks were liuDgry and had gone home to dinner. And there is no rush over this noonday meal, cither; it seldom takes less than an hour. How $20,000 Were Saved. Omaha Banker?"Can't leave your office? * Why don't you get a boy to look after it?" Omaha Lawyer?"Have tried about a dozen and not one was worth keeping. Don't want another one around." "Why, I saved $20,000 by an office boy once." "Eh! IIow was that?" "I sent him with a message to a broker, saying that I wanted a large quantity of a certain stock. Well, that stock went way down to zero the very next day." "You must have been badly caught." "No, I saved $'20,0JO." "Saved $20,000. IIow under the canopy could that be?" iiiir.n T 1? - i wei;f juu 5UJ i uiuu t nave any 01 the stock because the boy lost the message."? Omaha World. When .Man is Weakest According to the recent experiment of Dr. Jiuch with the Dynamonetcr, a man is precisely at his weakest when lie turns out of bed. Our muscular forcc is g. e itly increased by breakfast, but it attains its highest point after the midday meal. It then sinks for a few hours, rist s again toward evening, but steadily declines from night to morning. The two chief foes of muscular force, according to Dr. liuch, are overwork and idleness. Sweating at work deteriorates the muscles. We know that many of the great workers of the world, though not all, have been early risers. But early rising, according to Buch's doctrine, ought always to be supplemented by early break fasting. | " LIBERTY UNVEILED. A Great Pageant in the Streets of America's Metropolis. Ceremonies in the City and at the Base of the Statue, The following vivid account of the cere monies accompanying the unveiling of Bar| tholdi's statue of Liberty has been compiled J for our readers from the New York papers: Bad "Weather, but Great Crowds, For many weeks the day appointed for the dedication of the statue had been the objective potnt to which thousands turned their thoughts and hopes. Though the faithless elements held out but little encouragement, thousauds of visitors came to the city. At an eariy hour the population of New York and the thousands of visitors were up and stirring. By St o'clock, the hour set for the head of the columu to move, the streets leading to upj:er Fifth avenu? were thronged with citizens, military and civil organizations on their way to the rendezvous. Looking east and west from the brow of Murray Hill, the entire po].ulatioii of the city seemed to be marching in one direction or drawing its lines closor about the Windsor Hotel, where th3 Grand Marshal and his staff were assembled. Just previous to the starting of the parade the sight-seers feasted their eyes upon the many and varied organization?-, the procession of whiili seemed to be endless. Uniforms nnd equipments which have seen service for a quarter of a century, shone in all the glorv of the overhauling and burnishing which they had received. Condemned, but caudy lire engines rumbled through the strec-ts alout Murray hill, and now and then some venerable relic, such as the coach of George j Washington, clattered alongside of a light I and trim model of the small but fat.-ful Mon| itor. Every leading thoroughfare of the city was bright with bunting and from every flagstaff stars and stripc-s or a tricolor fluttered. The City's Decorations. Few attempts had been made at elaborate decorations, but th9 mass and aggregation I of the red, white and blue in part made up for wha'ever lack of artistic arrangomeut there might be. On the fronts of many business houses were hastily manufactured reproductions of the motto of tha French: "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite''. Portraits of M. Bartholai were to 1 e soen here and there with the colors of the French Republic as a setting. The north end of the! post-office building was a mass of! flags, shields and bunting, and facing it the City Hall seemed to vie with the Government building in a display of color. The World building on Park row was completely hidden iu its mass of bright colored decorations. Stretching over the street was the beautiful triumphal arch erected by tho proprietor of the paper. In the midst of the evergreens, which conceal the framework of ( the structure, were the inscription "l>a Belle Fiance" and "The United States'' or. eilher side. Beneath the painted representation of the statue of Liberty uniting the two hemispheres was the inscription: "Vive P Kntento Fraternelle des Deux Republiques" (lDDglive the brotherly sentimeutof the two republics). From the centre of the arch flags aui bunting gracefully drooped Uptown the Hotfman, Albemarle and Bartholdi Hotels displayed the most elaborate decorations, though nearly every hostelry in the "hotel district" was decorate! to a considerable extent A majority of the Fifth avenue residences alODg tli? line of march displayed decorations. And where all else was lacking the handkerchiefs of the ladies served to make up for the want of other encouragement, to 1 he paraders. In lower Broadway the display was more general aud nearly every building of any size was festooned. At the Reviewing: Stand. The reviewing stand was located nearly abreast the llag-sivai hod Hoffman House, on IH8 west siae oi I'lltu avenue. Jt accommodated about ],0()0 persons. Tbo reviewing stand an 1 stand on the opposite side of Fi'th avenue began to fill with guests before 9 o'clock, and balf an hour later there was sarcely standing room on the grand stand. Most of the spaca in the re, viewing stand was reserved for the French quests, who did not arrive until a few minutes past 10 o'clock. They were headed by M. Kartholdi, Count de Lesseps, Admiral Jaures, General Pellss'er, Colonel de Pusy, M. liigot, Colonel d'Eloussedat, and Lieutenant Yillegert. Among other distinguished cuests on the reviewing stand were General Sheridan and his staff. Governor Hill, accompanied by Lieutenant Governor Jones ind nis staff, Judges Brown aul Benedict of the Supreme Court, General Rufus Xngalls and many athers. At 10:40 the Old Guard, acting as guard of honor to President Cleveland aud headed by the Thirteenth Regiment band and drum corps, arrived at the reviewing stand. The President was greeted with hearty cheers as be drove down the avenue and drew up in front of* the stand. Secretary Bayard rode in the carriage with him. The Old Guard made a fine show as they marched past tho reviewing stand and formed in line on the opposite' side of the avenue. Accompanying the President were Secretaries Bayard.* Whitney and Lamar, PostmasterGeneral Vilas, "Col. Lamont, and General Schofield and Admiral Luce with their staffs. After the President had taken his place on the reviewing staud tho members of the French delegation were presented to him. 1 The Military and Civic Parade. At half-past eleven o'clock the signal eorpi ?ave the signal that the liead of the procession had s-taited from Fifty-ninth street. All along Fifth aven ;o the members of the signal corps were stationelon the roofs of high buildings, signalling tha movements of the procession from point to point. At precisely eleven o'clock the head _ of the procession reached the reviewing line. At the head rode General Stone, accompanied bv a laree staff. After passing <t)6 reviewing line General Stone and his staff wheeled into line telow the stand and the General took his place beside the President in the stand. Close behind him came the Fifth United Stat?s Art llery under command of C.donel John Hamilton, headed by the United States Military Band. Next came the United States Marine Band at the head of the Naval Brigade, consisting of details of n arincs from the different war vessels in the harbor, and the boys from the training-shin, followed by four Gattling guu batteries. The marines did excellent man hing and wcro heartily cheered. They were undor tommand of Captain Robert Boyd, of the United States Navy. Then came the United States Brigade, consisting of comEanies from the different forts about the haror, under command of Major Wallace F. Randolph, of the Fifth United States Artillery. The Second Regiment of the National Guard of the State of New Jersey, parading ten commands of sixteen files front, and a detachment of one company of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia brought up the close of the first division. The second division wis composed entirely of troops of the First Brigade of the National Guard of New York Stato under command of Brigadier-General Louis FitzrrnrnlH nnrl n Tiiimher nf W#?nrh ?<v?i<4tip?. The Seventh Regiment, headed by Colonel Clark, had the right of the line, and thj band just before tl:o hea 1 of the. division reicbed the reviewing stand struck up the Marsellnise. This was the first band toplay tho air, aud every Frenchman on the stan.l removed his hat and shouted ,lBravo" as Colonel Clark saluted tl'e President. The French column,headed by Wadsworth fife aud drum corps, fo l )wcd thj militia. Next came United States Judges aud other oiicials of 1 he United State--, Governors of States aud Tei ritories in carriage*, bringing up the rear of the second division. The rest of the ] recession j as-ed tho reviewing stand in the following order: THIRD DIVISION. Hugh J. Grant, Marshal. Mayors of cities and Muuicipal Officers (in carriages), followed by A Battalion of the Police Force of Philadelphia and a Battalion of tho Police Force of Brooklyn. Veterans of the War of 1SI^ (in carriages). Tno A/to.' Club, Veterans of the Mexican War (in carriages). The Military Order of tho l^oval I.egion. FOURTH DIVISION. Col. C. A. Wells, Marshal. War Voteran Military Organizations. FIFTH DIVISION. So:ond Brigade, N. G. S. N. Y., escorting the Grand Army of tho Republic. Comrade C. H. Lutjens, Marshal. Tho Grand Army of the Republic, mM VS^k! SIXTH DIVISION. Col. Locke Winchester, Marshal. \ eieraa JUlllUiry urguui/miuiH uiaei tuau purely War Veterans. SEVENTH DIVISION. Maj.-Gen. A. S. Webb. Marshal. Aide Marshal Alexander P. Ketchum, U. S. Vols. The Edu. ational Division. EIGHTH DIVISION. Gen. H. C. King, Marshal. Independent Military Organizations. Gen. Washington's carriage drawn by eight horses, escorted by tha Continental Guards of Washington, D. C., and by theOld Wash ington Continental Guard, mounted. Sons of the Revolution. NINTH DIVISION. Bernard J. Deran, Marshal. Sons of Veterans. Detachment Fire D&partment, Brooklyn. Association of old Srooklynites. Representative citizens of Brooklyn. TEN TH DIVISION. John Decker, Marshal. Volunteer Firemen's Association. Board of Trade and Transportation. Regiment of ^Uniformed Knights of Pythias, Indiana. Regiment of Uniformed Knights of Pyth az, 'New York. Charity Associations and other civic societies. Citizor.s. Soon after the head of tho pro-ossion reached the reviewing point a drizzling rain bejran to fall. Some of the ladies on tho grand stand spread tlieirumurenas, dui; rresident Cleveland, who wore no overcoat, stood at his post in the front of the reviewing stand and removed his hat in response to every salute tendered him. After the roview was over the distinguished partv on the stand were, after ta'cing Rlight refreshment, driven at once t > the steamer Despatch, where they embarked forth??er> monies on Bedloe's Islaud, in the harbor. The head of the profession reached the City Hall at about noon, and the crowd then was immense; the weather seemed to have little or no effect, people standing ont in the drizzle and meekly taking down their umbrellas at the request of t.he people back of them. Broadway was almost impassible. At the Battery the procession ended. The Xaval Parade. Animated is the best word with which to describe the appearance of New York harbor during the morning. Ferryboats, steamyachts, United States revenue cutters, and crafts of all description moved through the water aud the fog, in almost a constant procession. Only the outlines of the great statue on Bedloe's Is'an 1 could be seen from the Battery through the heavy mist which had settled over the harbor. Surrounding the island the mast and hulls of the United States steamships Tennessee, Portsmouth. Jamestown, Saratoga, Yantic and Alliance could faintly be distinguished. The signal to proceed for the naval parade was finally given, and iu real nauti al style the flotilla moved down the North River from above Forty-fifth street toward the harbor. They steered two abreast each boat keeping: her leader on her port bow. President Cleveland, on the steamer Desratcn, left the foot of West Twenty-third st eet a few minutes before the naval parade i-tarted. The wharves were thronged and every ona seemed to recognize the Despatch. The old shippers on passing craft blew away nearly ail their s'eam to show the President how patriotic an American could be. The Despatch moved into the dock of Bedloa's Island at 1:4o, and with the echo of mighty cheers rinsing in his ears, the President was escorted ashore. When the naval flotilla passed the pier of the Compagnie Generate Transatlantiauethe steamer La Bretagno, moored alongside, discharged two deep-sounding cannon iti honor of the grand display. Bitween 200 and MOO vessels?led by the steamer Gedney with the Grand Marshal of the procession, Rear Admiral Luce, aboard?w.^re in line, including all sorts of craft, from the great Sound steamers to tug-boats and steam launches. On the embarkation of the President-'al a. 1 d.i 4.1,^ party una iul* uwjui tuww uu mo x><^'iu4ik.u, a signal gun was fired and the tugs ami steamers got in portion, "heading down stream. At a second gun the flotilla move 1 down the river, passing across the harbor to the eastward of the men - of war drawn up in a. lino off IJedlce's Island, and turnin.% ? assed around the last man-of-war, and an -horal off Bedlo. V- Island between tlie pier and the North Atlantic fleet. A snlut1 was fired from the fleet when the Presidential party landed, a second when the st it le was unveiled and a third wb?n the e ?rernouie-i "f the unveiling was over. Th * dense fog which prevailed made it impossibto to .sea much of the naval parade from the shore. Final Ceremonies011 Bedloc's Island. The face of the statue was veiled ull the morning with a French Sag. Au attempt to veil the entire figure would have involved too much bunting, more fc'ian could have be*?n conveniently handled without the use j of tackle specially rigged for the purpose. | At half-past 1 o'cloc'c many craft of all I kinds began t"> gathor around BcdlooY, Island and by 2 o'clock fully 2< 0 steamers and sailboats wore cruising within sight of the island. The music that was played while the officials and guests were assembling on Bedtce's Is'and in the afternoon was followed by a signal gun that announced the begiuning of the ceremonies. Prayer was offered by the 17 * Rev. Dr. Richard S. Storrs, and the aged Count Ferdinand de Lesseps then delivers 1 an address on behalf of the FrancoAmerican Union. Senator William M. Evarts next made the presentation address. He said that tbo scene upon which the vast assemmage was cone-tea aispiayea a transaction in human affairs which found no precedent or record in the past. "How can we fitly frame in word? the motives and emotions which have filled and moved the hearts and minds of two great nations in the birth of this noble preception i" He then, in eleauent words, alluded to the war in tnis Republic, in wh:ch the liberty-loving French people felt such intense interest, and paid a high compliment to Bartholii and the people of France. He also complimented the builders of the pjdestal, and the people who contribatei.ana the Government which gave space on Bedloe's Isiaud for the statue. He concluded as follows: "To day,- in the name of the citizens of the United States who have completed the pedestal, and raised thereon the statue, and of the voluntary committee who have executed ttie will of their fellow citizens. I declare in your presence, aud in the presence of these distinguished guests from France and of the august assemblage of the honorable and honored men of our land and this countless multitude, that this pedestal and the united work of the two Republics is completed, and surrendered to the care and keeping of the Government and the people of the United States." The ropes leading from the platform to j the flag which still covered the face of the goddess were now seen to sway; a sharp pull was given and the banner fell to the pe iestal. The countenance of the statu# was uucovered above the great assembly. M. Bartholli's life work was formally declare 1 to live as a work of art. From that moment began the existence of the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World. Scarcely had the banner fallen than j a signal flag was waved from the masthead of the Tennessee. A streak of flame 1 sprang from the side of the old war I ship, and then auothor and another, : until her decks were hidden in the white cloud of powder smoie. The Tennessee was not alone in this homage to Liberty. From every mau-of war in the fleet, French as well as American, thundered the salutation to the goddess. Again the strains of the bands were heard and th? sounds of national anthems were lorne upon the breezes until their notes died away as had the roar of the guns. The Presirfonr. nf t.hn TTnitorl States thon stannod for- I I ward and said: ' The people of the Unit:d States accept with gratitude from their brethren of the French republic the grand and complete work of art we here inaugurate. "This token of the affection and consideration of the people of France demonstrates the kinship of republics, and conveys to us the assurance that in our efforts to commend to mankind thj excellence of a government resting upon popular will, we still have, beyond the American continent, a steadfast ally. "We are not here to-day to bow before tho representation of a fierce and warlike god, filled with wrath and vengeance, but we joyously contemplate instead our own deity keeping watch and ward before the open gates of America, nnd greater than all that have been celebrated in ancient song. Instead of grasping in her hand thunderbolts of terror nnd death, she holds aloft the light whic h illumines the way to man's enfranchisement. "We will not forget that liberty has here made her home: nor shall her chosen altar be neglected. Willing votaries will constantly keep alive its fires, nnd these shall gleam upon the shores of our sister republic in tho East. Reflected thence and .joined with answering rays, a stream of light shall pierce the rlarkne-s of ienoranre and man s op pression, until liberty enlightens the world." An eloquent address was then made in Enlisb by tI'.o representative of the Republic of Franc?, A. I.efaivre. There wa> more music, and then Mr. Chauncy M.De{>ew delivered the commomorative addresa "Old Hundred" was played by the band, and the assembly .oined in singing tha DoxoIorv. Tho ceremonies were closed with th ' benedic* tif 11, pronouncad by tho lit. Rov. Henry C. Totter. D. D.. Assistant BNhop of th? Diocesjof New York. A national salutJ was then fired simultaneously by all batteries in th'! harbor, afloat and a liore. 1 Itir ng t ie evening there was to have bren an illumination but the rain au>i fog caused a postponement of this part of the proprogramme. Tho Presidential ? arty departed for Washington at the conclusion of the ceremonies on Bedloe's Island. In the evening a dinner was given at Delmonico's in Id nor of our French visitors by the Now York Chamber of Commerce. M. I Hartholdi, 'Count de Lesseps, and the other j French representatives, together with many prominent Americans. woro present. Speeches were inaile bv M. Bartholdi, Admiral Janres. George William Curtis, aud ' others. Tho dimensions of the groat statue aro as follows: Height from bas9 to torch, Ml feet I inch; foundation of pedestal to torch,805 i feet t! im hes: heel to top of head, 111 feet 6 inches; length of hand, 10 feet 5 inches. The statue aud tho pedestal, with the ex- t pense3 of transportation, etc.. have cast i about $700,000. i r*,: v . . .-7- .. -v#r; ; ? ,' - ;. NEWS SUMMA11Y Eastern and Middle States. Walter Knob, the seventeen-year-old . stepson of Judge Daniels, Republican nominee for Justice of the New York Court of Appeals, shot himself while gunning near B uHalo, and was instantly killed , 6onth and West. Three men were fatally burned at a fire in a Chicago varnish factory. Tnv liarrra Pnrnl'O niirltf mar* ohnnr/1 ViOQ been lost in Lake Michigan. E The old Peckstone manor house, built by c Henry Corbin in KXiO in Wostmui-oland county, Va., and near the Potomac River, 1 has been totally destroyed by fire with all ? the furniture :t contained. This house wus c known as the oldest colonial dwelling in the i United States. The loss is $15,000. r Martin Soukup, a farm baud at Sherry- j ville, Iowa, set fire to his employer's property r and brained two wornou, the wives of neigh- r bore, who attempted to quench the flames,the owner beingabsent. Soukup was insane. a The greatest wild-pigeon roost in the couu- c try is located just now near Tahlequah, In- s dian Territory. Millions of pigeons nightly i: cover the trees in a square mile of timlerod c land. When they come in to rocst they t make a noise like thunder. _ 1: Rosie Doknrrock, two years old, was torn ? to death by a chained bear in the yard ad- J joining her parents' residence at Toledo, J Ohio. * Dev. Robert West, editor of the Chicago r Advanc, the Western organ of the Congre- c gationalists, died at Sycamore, 111., a few t days since. . v Mary Jacksox, a colored cotton picker, ? was murdered in Bolivar County, Miss., by s James Hayues (also colored), who was ar- a rested. A crowd of colored people took a Haynes out of jail and hanged him. t Ten Chicago justices cf the peace are t charged with fraudulently appropriating e fines imposed upon prisoners. 1 A new industry for Texas is about to be J, opened in the direct shij m?ut from Galveston to London, .England, of fresh beef and ? mutton. Washington. ? General Black, Commissoner of Pen- 0 sions,has written a letter to an ollicial under F him declaring that any Federal office-holder c who pays a political assessment is liab'.e to d removal. 11 The President has mado tho following ap- ? pointinents: Daniel N. Lo?kwood, of New | York, to le Attorney of tbo United States ? for the Northern district of New York: Leo- ? Sold Moore, of New York, to be Consul at _ [ulL J Robert W. Alston, a clerk in the Sixth v Auditor's Office, Washington, had been 0 drinking heavily for soiuo tinu-. The other ^ morning he went to his desk, took out a re- j volver and shot himself dead. He came of a c proiuftient Georgia family. his father,ColoueU Alston, having been killed in the State Cap- k itol at Atlanta some j ears ago in a political a quarrel with a Captain Cox. g The report on the pleuropneumonia out c break among cattle at Chicago made to the ti Department of Agriculture by Dr. D. E. a Salmon sets forth emphatically the danger tl of contagion, and states that legislation is si needed in order to stan;p it out. President Cleveland has been growing J] uncomfortably stout, and is about to try the *! massage treatment United States District Attorney ^ Stone,of the Western Pennsylvania district, r a Republican, and United States District At- p torney Benton, of the Western Missouri <1 istrict, a Democrat, have been suspended by ? the President for disregarding his recent or- g der against Federal officeholders taking part in politics. Additional appointments by the President: Fred. A. Barker, of Keeue, to be United States Marshal for the district of New Hampshire, and Samuel J. Campau, of Detroit, Mich., to be Collector of Customs I for the district of Detroit Foreign. v Codst vow Beust, tho distinguished Aus- 1 trian statesman, died at Alteuburg, his estate on the Danube, aged seventy-seven years. " Ex-Premier Gladstone was badly stung 0 by wasps while felling a tree on his eouutry 0 estate. ) Lady Churchill, the American wife of the British Cabinet Minister, delivered a q political speech at the opening of a Primrose v Lodge in Bradford, England. p The National line steamer the Queen, which v had arrived at Liverpool from New York, P was nearly destroyed by fire. Tho loss is o heavy. si Tjiree men have been condemned to death v at Lytton, British Columbia, for the murder ' of William Dillmau, of Minneapolis. A massacre of native Christians has oc> I curred in Uganda, Africa. Many Christians ? were tortured, mutilated and speared, aud thirty-two were burned alive together. b LATER NEWS. 3 . a A vessel from Liverpool arrived at Phil- 0 adclpliia a few days ago with 307 converts to d Mormoais.n, mostly women aud children, on ? board. tl P. M. Anrnun was re-elected Grand Chief tl Engineer of tbe National Brotliernooa 01 ?,n i * gineers at the convention in New York. ? The magnificent stone building of the ! Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, t< Ohio, completed about a year ago at n cost of $200,00!), has been destroyed by fire; total ? loss, $250,000. ii A KiiiKat Pocahontas, Va., destroyed six- w teen houses, inclu ling two hotels and several business houses, (ieorge Baber, of Lynch- \\ burg, perished in llio flames. w A kkkkllion agaiust the British in Bur- P ir.ah- is spiralling. jj King Otto, of Bavaria, is suffering from jj violent attacks of insanity. Piwmixe.vt Mexicans an ! leading Mexican newspapers favor the establishment of a Dictatorship instead of the Presidency. Gkxekac. Deujado an 1 t'iree associates, leaders in the rccent invasion of Honduras, d have been executsd. All Honduras is under uiarlial law. P An* explosion of fire-damp in a mine at Scranton, Penn., iujured eight men, two so badly that they were r.ot expected to recover. ?1 Mrs. Cornelia M. Stewart, widow of tho late A. T. Stewart, was buried in tbs ^ crypt of the Cathedral of the Incarnation, at Garden City, Long Island. ti During the absence of "William Poe, a lo farmer, from his home near Flat Ro ck, Ky. the building caught fire, and all the inmates ?bis wife, five young children and two young j ^ ladies of tho neighborhood?were burned to i death. I tt The estimates of the expenses of the postal service for the next fiscal year aggregate $55,- ! 342,1*)0, while the appropriations for the cur- ^h rent year were showing an in- n> crease in the e ;timates for next year of f'JTti,- m G. There were in operation during the last ^ fiscal yfar, throughout tho United Stat.'s ? >,- j route; of all classes on which mail service. | 01 was jierformcd at an aunual rate of expeudi- I ture of f20,0i?i,G58. The aggregate length j of all tho o routes was oSr,5S;i miles. I A collision between two vessels in the j Thames, resulted in the sinking of one and j in the death of so'. o:i i ersous. i n' Ciiadwics's large thread mills in Bolton, al England, Lavo been destroyed by J:ro: los.*, i ag $200, <100. in ? 1RREE V0SSC1S l(l(ib Niut'u 11 Dili duciivu Avres for Savaunah on tho same ilny, saw ba nothing of each other during the entire voy- in age until they entered the mouth of the Sa- ai vanuah river, recentiy, within a few hours of cach other. (|c ? Bi Sumac gathering Is becominga recognized industry in portions of Virginia. This year ' the quantity gathered is uuusually large, Ia some gatherers having made $50J each by JIi collecting the leaves and branches of the Ct ihrubu Ai Accordtnt; to a Lewisburg (Penn.) paper ho i iiuml>er of apple trees in the track of the pb ierriflc hail-storm of last August are covered ? with blossoms. Ci ~ t - v ^ ' A''^ : : " t HEAVY BOBBERY. In Express Car in Missouri Bobbed of $50,000. - rhe Messenger Bound and Gagged by a Stranger. : . % ' /,3gg[ Tho Adams Express car attached to a pasanger train of the St Louis and San Fran iseo, which left St. Louis at 8:25 the other light, was robbed of about $50,000 in cash ind valuable articles before it reached Pa? { :ific, Mo. Superintendent Damsel, of tha '! Sxpress Company, gives the following as the i esult of a long examination of the messenger in chargo of the car, Mr. Fotheringham, cade at the office of the company the text morning: ' Mr. Fotheringham says that as he wa* ^ ibout to go out on his run la?t night a man ' j ame to him with a letter purporting to be igned by myself and Mr. Barrett, icStructng him to take the bearer, Jim Cummings, - * in his run as far a? Fierce City, for instructions. Fotheringham took the stranger and set lim to work checking up. Then he began hi* iwn work. Fotheringham was standing with J us back to the stranger, his coat off and tha j tandle of his i evolver sticking out of the pi?ol pocket About ten or fifteen miles out of he union Djnot he was Attankfiri from thA ear. Tin stranger gripped his neck with j; me hand and grasped his revolver with he other. Before Fotheriugham realized vhat was being done ho was thrown to the loor. He struggled and fought, but the tranger overcame him and bound him hand ,nd foot Then he put the gag in his mouth ~ ,nd tied him to the safe. Having secured he messenger, he proceeded to go through V he safe and tike all there was in it 8?y-. ral pouchej of silver he cut open, but . >ft them when he found out what- ; . ? hey contained. At Minck some men ~ % forking in a lime-kiln flagged tha train on r , .ccoant of an obstruction on the tract" 1 fVbile it was standing still some one tried to ;ct into the express car, but the robber stood ver Fotherin^ham with a revolver and preenteil hi-: making any effort to cry out At r about Pa illc Station the robber took his ilunder And opening the front door of the ar went out on the platform and closed the ' < oor after him. Tue messenger remain d lyog on thi floor of the car until the train eaehed St. Clair, when h) was able to got the ag out of his mouth and cry out for assist- /: nee. The trainmen hearing him. endeavr?l to get in the back door, and finding It ' Dcked, went around to the front door, rhich Ihe robbjr hid le.'t open. They rejased him. Fotlien'ngham say3 the robber- < ras about six feet high, twenty-four years f age and weighed about U'OJ pounds. He < '* ad dark, straight hair, cut close, a this, ark mustachs, a low forehead, wore dare lothe3 and a dark gray overcoat" He was gaged with handkerchiefs tied ittnots forced into his mouth and- bound round his head. His hands were tied toether behind his back with a silk handkerbief. His legs werd fastened with straps iken from valises in the car and with cords nd with the heavy strap whit-h was around tie safe. He wa? tied to the handle of the ifo. Mr. Damsel added, in re:>ly to questions, :iat it is customary to send new men out on lie road with messangers to receive instrucions, and that such orders as Fotheringham lys were presented to him by the robberrould be issued either bv Route Agent Barett or by himself. He also stated, that 'othoringham telegraphed in to the commDy's depot manager that he had beenobbed and that he (Mr. Damsel) was sagged of the fact about 1.30 the next moruimr ?? MRS. A. T, STEWART. )cath of the Great New York: -r\[ Merchant's Widow. Surrounded with all the insignia of luxury rhich fancy could dictate or wealth buy, Jfcjj Irs. Cornelia Mitchell Stewart, the wido*? f the late Alexander T. Stewart, the milouaire merchant, passed quietly away tE^ ther morning, after a short illness, in h? lagnidieat mansion, on Fifth avenue, New fork. A New York paper gives the follow3g account of her life and residence: ' Mrs. Stewart was the daughter of Jane* !linch, an old New York merchant She ras born on October 20, 1813, iu a house on tlcecker street, which was then considered ery Jar up town. Her brother was Charles '. Clinch, for many years Deputy Collector f the port. When sne married Mr. Steward tie was only twenty-two years old, aod ha ras then only a promising young man, rithout fortune or backing. For years they ved in a house in De Pau row, a quaint borough fa re running between Franklm and IcDougall streets. Stewart, bit by bit durine is lifetime, purchased the entire block, ana ; now forais part of his widow's ?stats. Mrs. Stewart was considered a great- j eauty in her younger days and she retained luch of her comeliness up to the hour of her eath. m. C4 I. TTTOO V.tlitf XUO UWvroi li iiiHJQiuUf nuivu n(w t/uuv ud fitted up in regal style by the late priuo* f merchants, Alexander T. Stewart, who ied in April, 137B, at a cost of nearly $5,J0,000, was always closed to the outside rorld. From the foundation walls to tie cap on the chimney, it is built of lie purest Carrara marble, every stone of 'hicn was quarried in Italy and freighted n special sailing vesse s to this countr^ Intil the erection of the Vanderbilt palacf ; was the most beautiful specimen of archi* 3 "turd in this country. Mr. Stewart attended to the interior furishings himself. Every yard of carpet, th? iirniture covers, rugs and works of art were nport-ed from Europe, where th?y wer* > roven after special desigus to match th$rescoes on the walls and ceilings. When Alexander T. Steward died in Apri? J 370, just a year after they moved into tu'hite marble palace, he left a fortune convi osed of real estate and personal property alued at from $30,000,000 to $i0,00j,00u. [uch of this property has largely increase) l value. THE NATIONAL GAME. The Dotroita were the first League club to is band for the season. Trfc n v unttURhnma mnc ma/ie hv LeA?TU# layers during the saaaon. The Chicago playcra have been presentedith new suits of clothts by their club. The Pittsburg team lost the first championlip game of the season and won the last. O'Rourke, of the New Yorks, will coach le Yale College team this winter. He has isumod his law studies at Yale. , The Eastern and Southern Leagues were le only ones of seven organizations to suffer ss of clubs in the past playing teason. Poun clubs?Now York, Chicago. Pittslrg and Baltimore?are after the Toronto itcher, L'arling. He is said to be what his une implies. Arout '?2,0JO persons saw, at Chicago, tba tree Cliicago-St. Louis games for the chainonship of tilt world, or which the League am won two. John Kelly receives $2,500 for managing ic Louisville American A-sociation Club ;xt year, whii h is a raiie of |1,300 on his come from umpiring. There is talk of the Chicagos going to ilia this winter, but Al&nu^or Simmons of 0 Philadelphia Athletics lias secured the ily t uitahlo grounds in Havana. < A picked nine, composed mostly of the juisvillo American Association team, has Hi t-'d oil a three month)' trip to Florida, obile, New Orleans and California. The St. Louis American Association club the three games with the St. Louis League ue lor the local championship, won them 1 by the scores of 'J?0, 10?1 and 7?i. T"* ~ ? ? firef ho on nn Iinlls J J tt)vIO JVUVUCU Ul^b WM.V ~ G times; Chicago, 145; Delroir, 330; "VVashgton, 2W; Philadelphia, 251; New York, 3; Kansas City, 231, ami St. Louis, 22J<. Ok the first dozen League batsmen Chicago is two, Detroit four, .Ntjw ifork two, AYasnKton two, JJ.?sto:i and St. Louis one each, id Philadelphia ami Kamas Lily not one. Oni.y threo League players got into the iuble figures iu th? home ruu column, viz., "outliers ami Kichardson, of Detroit, with jven each, and Anson, of Chicago, with ten. The schelule committee of the Southern >aguo will be appointed from Nashville, eunihN, New Urloans, Savannah and mues'.on, and will be called to meet iu lauta. 1'iik Chicago and Detroit clubs are tied ou me i utis, each having made 5'.'. Phiiadelia made '-io; liustou, 2i; St Louis, 2"J; :w Yoik, 22; "Washington22, and Kansaa ty, 18. -