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The British Academy of Scienccs proposes an international conference at Paris next spring to make arrangements 101 the making of a photographic map ol the heavens simultaneously at twelve stations in different quarters of the globe. The recent volcanic eruptions at the antipodes would appear to be, in some senses, good for the agricultural interest The New Zealand oificial analyst, Mr. Pond, finds that the ejected dust whict has covered so large an area of country is equivalent to manure of high quality General Miles, of the regular army, says the average Indian will make ai much success nt farming as a Unitec States Senator would at following t deer's trail over the plains. He agree: with all the oth?r Indian fighters that nc redskin will stay civilized. To expeel them to is to go against nature. b> ~ Fifteen years ago the buffalo ranges o: Kansas and Colorado were covered wit! thousands of these animals. The othei day a party went out from Denver, nnc after a week's hunting mannged to kil three from a herd of twenty-nine thai they found in Lost Pak. It is said thai there are not more than 2,000 buffaloes now in existence. Systematic 6laughtei has produced this shameful result. The "big trees" of California will sooi be extinct. Seventeen lumber com m pnnies, owning from 3,000 to 23,00( no/~.Vi opq Trarrinr OUIt'O ut 1CUUWU UiV iiWQiug a war of extermination with all the weapons known to the modern logging camp. The demand for the wood is un limited and all the mills are kept ai work to the limit of their capacity. The forests are large, but the force9 em' ployed against them are swift and irre 6i&tible. Tulane university, at New Orleans, tc which a New York woman has recently given $100,000, is to be the recipient ol the valuable archives of the Louisians Historical Society. Druing the civil wai the building in which they were kept was pillaged and the contents were carried north. The secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society discovered them in the possession of a soldier in Iowa, purchased and kindly returned them to their original home. ' She can't control her tongue" or "He can't control his tongue" are frequently heard in this world where people, being unable to control the very tongues that make use of the phrase, talk a great deal about their neighbors. But there is in St. Louis a man who literally cannot control his tongue, and the county medical society is looking into his case. Botts is the man's name. Muscular action being involuntary, his tongue shoots in and out of his mouth as does the tongue of a anake. "The straightest and probably the best built 400 miles of railroad in the world," says Demas Barnes, just back to New York from Russia, "is between St. Petersburg .nd Moscow. The contractors who completed this enterprise were two Americans?Messrs. Winans, of Baltimore, and Harrison, of Philadelphia. They are said to have pockcted some $15,000,000 each as a reward for their enterprise. Trains upon the road are numerous, cars good, freight business heavy, station houses Hoe and meals first-class." Missouri continues to attract attention on account of her marvelous products. In one issue of the Missouri Itepu'ilican record is made of a six-months old colt weighing 630 pounds; a pig of the same age born with but three legs; a calf lhal weighs but twenty pounds, and so small that it cannot reach its "dinner;" a radish twenty-live inches around, twentytwo inches long, and weighing 19J pounds; the discovery of gold in Jasper county, aud a man who, in January last, received at short range a pistol shot, the ball entering the left eye, and going through the brain, and who now is as well as a man can be. Defective addresses and insufficient postage are the main reasons why there is a constant flow of postage matter into the Dead Letter Office. After reaching the office every means is employed to ascertain the senders or owners of the letters and packages, and the articles offered at the annual sales represent the proportion of the entire matter lor wnicn no owner could be found. The catalogue this year contains some seven thousand articles, a slight increase over the number offered for sale last year, but bearing about the same proportion to the entire bulk of the matter passing through the mails. All dead mail is retained in the Dead Letter Office for two years, if not claimed sooner, before being finally disposed of. One of the famous women's rights women of the West is the Kev. Miss Annie Shaw, and good stories are told of her pluck and smartness. Once when 6he was riding through the lumber region of Michigan the driver began to talk insultingly. Miss Shaw stood it for half an hour, and then suddenly drew a Derringer from the folds of her gar --j . nv_.. mems, uuu cam >ci_) ijuiukij . jluu low, contemptible brato; utter another word of that sort, and I'll shoot you like a dog." The threat was sufficient. The man did not utter a syllabic the rest of the trip. He helped to get a large congregation for her at the settlement, "because," ho said, "he liked her grit." Once at a public meeting a speaker who had been discoursing on the trait; of trong-minded women, among others that of wearing short hair, suddenly turned to Miss Shaw and asked: "By the way, did you acquire that habit, Miss Sbaw?" "Sir, I was born so," was ifec &&SWCX*" .1 a mm .mp t [ A Man Leaps From the Suspension Bridgo at Niagara Falls. Plunging Downward Through 200 Feet Into the Water. Lawrence M. Donovan,the daring jumper, who successfully leaped from the Brooklyn 1 Bridge and was only prevented by police iu* J terference from repeating his performance at the Genesee Fails in Rochester the other day, jumped from the New Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls to the water below, ' a distance of over 200 feet. The leap was mad? ' at 6:57 a. m. from a point just past the centrfl I of the bridge and on the Canadian portion, i and was witnessed by about a dozen persona, j It is understood that a purse of $500 was the inducement for the daring act, but this Don> ovan denies, and says that his reputation only and not his pocket is to be the gainer. It had been known at Buffalo for some days past that Donovan contemplated the jump, but the time was not set until late in the evening, previous to the performance of the f feat, and only five persons comprised the j party that loit the city on the Michigan Central train at midnight. These were r Donovan, Prof. Haley, his trainer, and two i businessmen of Buffalo and a New York World correspondent. Donovan and Pro1 fessor Haley visited the falls the prei vious SSunday, and the former carefully inspected, nofe only the foot bridge, which t is the neare* to the cataract, but also , the river from a point at the water's edge where the current could be best r observed. He expressed himself satisfied with the place as a scene for his future operations, and announced decidedly that he would not return to New York City until ha had made the attempt which no man ever dared before. me morning was a ueauuiui uao, un^p, < clear and frosty, and the sun was just appearing in the cast when the buggy drove on > the bri ige. At the fame time a rowboat, iu , which were seated a boatman named Hynes. ' the correspondent and another man, rowed - out into the liver. At precisely 0:57, tho boat being directly underneath the bridge and hugging the Canadian shore, a pistol shot I was heard, a dark form shot off from the , bridge and a sec> nd shot followed. By a ' stop watch just four seconds elapsed from the time the shot was heard until Donovan struck the water, feet first with a loud splash. He was not fifty yards away from the boat, which was at once propelled toward the centre of the river. Seconds ^eemed ) like hours as the water was scanned for the appearance of the diver, aud ' it $eemed as though he had sunk never to [ risa again. A shout from the boatman signalized the appearance of Donovan's head i some distance down the stream, and those in the boat saw with delight that he was swimming. Ho appeared dazed, and could ! not have kept up long, but th3 boat soon I received him, and he was pulled in by eager hands. One of the party narrowlv esi caped being pulled overboard while aiding ! the swimmer, from whose mouth spurted a teacupful of blood as he fell into the bottom of the boat in a dead faint. The Maid of the Mist landing was soon leached, and here restoratives somewhat revived the hero of the hour. Professor Haley drove across the bridge rapidly as soon as he saw Donovan in the boat, and reached the i foot of the road which runs down tho bank opposite the Clifton House. In a few moment! Donovan was assisted into the buggy, and the party crossed the bridge to the American side and repaired to the Pacific Hotel, where the daring leaper was put to bed at once and Dr. Campbell summoned. Among the crowd that witnessed the leap from the American side was Chief of Police Madigan, of Suspension Bride, who had got wind of the aTair, and arrived just too late to interfere. Ho was one of the first to grasp Donovau's limp hand, and assured him that though it would have been his duty to prevent what looked like a del iberate suicide, now that it was over be was glad to congratulate him on his plucky and successful feat. A hurried breakfast was taken at the hotel, where the jumper was stripped and rubbed until his skin fairly glowed. The physician found no serious injuries beyond several bruises and a contusion on each elbow. The doctor also thought that one of the lad's ribs was broken, but advised that ho bo taken home at once, where a thorough medical examination could be made. Carriages were ordered and the party arove to the Central Depot and took the 9 a. m. West Shore train to Buffalo. Conductor Drake nnd Mr A lliprt Simnson of t.h? wnprnl nn?. senger department of the New York Central, were assiduous in thoir attentions to the bridge hero, who brightened up considerably and was not at all fatigued by the journey. Arrived in Buffalo the party drove to the Broezel House, where Donovan was at once taken to room forty-seven, on the rarlor floor, and examined by Dr. Edward N. Clark Drs. Clark and Geo. S. Palmer found that the fourth rib on the left side was detached from the breast bone and it was at once bandage 1 up. Asked how he felt now that the whole thing was over, the plucky jumper replied: "First rate, if it wasn't for my 1 broken rib. That's pretty sore and I'm all bandaged up, but outsido of that I don't feel any worse than a'tcr the other jump, and Dr. Clark savs I'll be able to get up arid around all right bv Tuesday or Wednesday." Donovan is a New York pressman, aged twenty-four years. He is five feet eight inches in height and weighs 154 pounds. THE NEXT SENATE How the Upper House of Congress May Be Divided. "On the 8d of next March," says the "Washington Star (Independent1, "the terms ol sixteen Republican? and nine Democratic Senators will expire. The Republicans whos? terms will then end are Messrs. Williams (recently elected), of California; Hawley, ol Connecticut; Harrison, of Indiana; Hale, of Maine; . Dawes, of Massachusetts; Conger, of Michigan; McMillan, of Minnesota; Van Wyck, of Nebraska: Scwell, of New Jersey; Miller, of New YorK: Sherman, of Ohio;-Mitchell, of . Pennsylvania; Aldri.h, of Rhode Island; Edmonds, of Vermont; Mahoue, of Virginia, and Sawyer, of Wisconsin. On the Democratic side the terms of Messrs. Gray, of Delaware; Jones, of Florida; Gorman, of Maryland; George, of Mississippi; Cockrell, of Missouri; Fair, of Nevada; Whitthorne, of Tennessee; Maxoy, of Texas, and Camden, of West Virginia, will end. Of the sixteen Republi ans who will retire twelve will certainly be succeeded by men of the same party. Mosses. Sherman, Aldrich and Edmunds have been re-elected, and the Legislatures of Conne.ticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Mi.higan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are Republican. The Democrats lose one of the nine whose terms expire (Fair of Nevaia), and are so;ure of the remainder, so that if the Legislatures of California, Indiana and New Jersey prove to be Democratic the result of the change in the Senate after the third of March will bo a net loss of three to the Republicans, a Democrat having been chosen to succecd Mahone from Virgiuia. Tno present Senate stands 41 Republicans, 3i Democrats, and 1 Read.iuster (Riddleberger). Rut Senator Van Wyck come3 back from Nebraska, as a people's candidate. He ma le his light beloi e the whole people, and won on an issue of opposition to corporations. During his present term he has not hesitated ono:casions to antagonize his party, and under the conditions of his re-election he ma}' be more independent still. "Leaving Van Wyck and Riddleberger out of the count, the next Senate will stand, provided the Democrats securo the three doubtful States mentioned, thirty-seveij Republicans and thirty-seven Democrats. Thus Messrs. Van Wyck and Riddleberger would hold the I lalance of power. In connection with 1hj probable situation, it is a fact worth mentioning that both Van Wyck and Riddloborger have given evidences of a kindly feeling for tho Administration. In the ovent of nny conlli t between the Executive and the Seuato. tbo two votes from Nebraska and Virginia wou'd determine tbo i>s ie. Van Wyck and lti-ldleborger would bave this power by co-ojieratiug with the Democrats to orgauue the Senate, or. should Van Wyck vote with the Republicans an i Riddloberger with the Democrats oa the question of organization. there would be a tie, and there is no Vice-President to throw the deciding vote." Australian farmers are still troubled by rabbits, which breed there at an enormous rate. One farmer has just offered $175,(WO for a rabbit-proof wire fence to extend ^03 NEWS SUMMARY Eactern and Middle States. McCabe, one of the New York Aldermer of 1884 charged with bribery, has been ad judged insane. ' The two] vp-vpnr-nlfl ?in of .Tosenh Doelzpr ' a millionaire JSe'.v "York brewer, di?d sud denly, as was supposed of heart disease, whil< playing in the street An autopsy showed that he had been strangled by a collar but ton, which he had been carrying in his moutl and which had lodged in the windpipe. The will of the late Henrietta Lenox, oi New York, which disposes of an estate wortt from $7,000,000 to $10,000,000, is to be con tested by some of the heirs on the ground ol undue influence. Dhlaware official returns complete fool I no: For Governor?Biggs (Dem.), 13,942; : Hoffooker (Pro.), 7,833. For Congress? Pennington (Dem.), 13,830; Cooper (Pro.), 8,38<). The Legislature is solidly Democratic. Harvard University on the 5th begat a four days' celebration of her 250th birth ! day with a re-union of the Law School graduates. The followers of Henry George, the de*?+ ?> J - J - # *1? ? xeaveu uinuiuaw ui tut? nuiiuugiucu *v* vuv New York Mayoralty, held an enthusiastic meeting aud organized a new party undfcr the name of the Progressive Democracy, j Steps have also been taken to form a new '^ibor party in Philadelphia. i Witji the exception of M. Bartholdi, all I the representatives of the French Governi ment who took part in the unveiling of Lib?rtyV Statue have sailed for France. Two deer poachers were surprised by two State Deputies named Hill and Niles on the Machias River in Maine. One of the I poachers fired twice ai the Deputies, killing both. Judge "Walks, of the United States Court, decides that the State of New Jersey has jurisdiction over a case of homicide on board a Belgian ship at Jersey City as against the claims of Belgium. TnE Woman Suffrage bill passed in the lower House of the Vermont Legislature was defeated in the Senate by eighteen nays to ten yeasL South and West. A desperate fight occurred between a gang cf riotous tramps and a number of citizens at Annville, Penn.,in which revolvers and knives were freely used. Four citizens and two of their as.sailant3 were wounded, and one of the latter captured by the police. Corrected returns from all the towns and cities of Massachusetts give for Governor Amos (Rep.M21,(>52; Andrew, (Dem.) 112,258; Lothrop (Pro.) 6,161). Is California the Democrats have a majority of about thirteen in the Legislature, and will probably re elect Senator Hearst to the United States Senate. The vote for Governor was so close it was thought the result could only be decided by an official count The Indiana Legislature is Democratic by about thirteen majority on joint ballot, which secures a Democratic successor to United States Senator Harrison. T3e official count ia the Sixth Kentucky Congressional District was completed on the 5th, and shows a majority of 7t>8 for Speaker Carlisle over Mr. Thoebe, the Labor nominee. The dead body of Sheriff Ferney, of Lake county, Ind., was found in a clump of woods near Plymouth, riddled with bullets. The assassin is supposed to be one Perrin, who was wanted by the Sheriff. . Edward Kelly, while repairing an elec trie light wire at Cleveland, Ohio, inadvertantly touched a portion of the uncovered conductor and was instantly killed. George Thoebe, candidate against I Fpealier Carlisle for Congress in the Sixth Kentucky district, announces his intention to contest the election of Mr. Carlisle on the ground that the returns were "doctored." The Arkansas Prohibitionists carried thirty counties in the recent election, polling 65,000 votes in a total of 140,000. Two wealthy Texas ranchmen fought a duel with rifles in Seavala County, one of them?Hiram Bennett, worth ?250,000?beinqj killed. A business disagreement was the cause. Another earthquake shock of soma severity visited portions of the South a few days ago. The Chicago meat packers have passed resolutions declaring they will not employ members of any labor rganization. The two militia regiments called out by the Governor took up their quarters in the'stock yards on the >-th. About 10,000 stock yard em >loyes were then on strike, the men refusing to work ten hours a day. Geysers in the Yellowstone Park are in a disturbed state, the earth in the vicinity quakes and an eruption is expected. General Gordos was inaugurated Governor of Georgia w?tlauta with imposing ceremonies. ' Fotherixgham, the express messenger recently robbe 1 of a large sum while on a train in Missouri, has been arrested at St. Louis on the charge that he was an accomplice in the robbery. Washington. A party of diplomats the other day witnessed the successful use of the telephone between Washington and New York. Conversation was successfully carried on between the two cities, a distance of about 180 miles. chief VrRAVKs, oi iue xsureau ui jc-ngruving aud Printing, in his annual report states that the one dollar silver certificates are now being printed in great numbers, while the plates for the two dollar and five dollar issues are nearly complete J. A large saving in salaries has been elected. It cost the government $03,797,832 to pay the pensions of 305,733 persons last year. Thf. Washington Chief of Police is charged with having Congressmen watched in order that he miy become acquainted with their habits, and so have them under his thumb when matters effecting the District of Columbia come up in the House. The charge is denied. A bulletin of the United States Fish Commission says that the total distribution of shad fry for the season of 18SG aggregates over 00,000,0iK). Foreign. A remarkable storm cloud has burst over tho lake district of England. The storm was the heaviest ever known in that locality. Tha damage to property was very large and many cattle were lost. A heavy storm throughout Great Britain has resulted in soino loss of life and great destruction of mariue property. Fred Archer,*the foremost English horse jockey, is dead He shot himsslf while in a delirium resulting from fever. To AmoriVv^ef L-nnwn nf his manV tlll'f vie tories was the winning of the Derby on tbe American horse Iroquois. H s income as a jockey was from (tOO to $100,000 a year. A state of siege has been proclaimed throughout Bulgaria. There was no serious disturbance in London on Lord Mayor's day, as had been anticipated. Ail ths shops along the route of the profession were closed and barricaded, and all the available police and militia were on hand to prevent any demonstration on the part of the Socialists, who had been interdicted by the authorities from holding a parade. FEDERAL REVENUES. Figures From the Commissioner of Customs' Annual Report. The annual report of Commissioner of Customs McCalmont shows that during the past fisral year there was paid into the Treasury from sources, the accounts relating to wt^ich are settled in his office, $194,3$4,5ti'J, of whi.h ?192,397,844 was received from customs duty. During the same period there w/k i nicl out for e <rvnsfii connected with the administration of this branch of the Government service ?24. H'>j,24<;, $0,427,012 of which was on account of expenses of collecting the revenue from customs. Tae total cole :tions of internal revenue from the time tho present system was organized, July 1, IS02, up to June flo. 1S?6, were $3,4:!S,2'.i0,45.V Tha States in which the aggregate collections reached over ?100,<ti;0,0.xj were: New York, $000,700,000; Illinois, ?420,GOfl,000; Ohio, ?572,000,00}; Pennsylvania, $2-Sty.iOO,00); Kentucky, $204,400,(JOO: Massachusetts, ? IDS,700,000; Missouri, $127,500,OOU; Indiana, $14S,001,000; Virginia, ?10*>,7(0,0(0, and New Jersey, $104,700,01)0. "The aggregate receipts from interna] revenue," said an officer of the Treasury, "were suTicienttofcave paid the entire public debt at its highest figure, $2,750,431,571, and leave a balance of $iWl,b5S,8.S4, if they haJ ! Leeu opplied to that purpose." ' PANIC AT AM t An Explosion Which Blew Out the Wall of a Factory. I A Number of Youn? Men and : Women Badly Injure 3. i , An explosion occurred in tho cigar boi J manufactory of Henry H. Slioep Co., . 1,704 and 1.70J liandolph street, Plaladeh ! pliia, the other afternoon, which blew oul the rear wall, badly injuring a numl>er oJ | young men, women, and girls, an I im ! perilling tlie lives of over one hu? , dred more. Tho manufactory is a threestory brick structure, with a depth of 150 i feet. The first and second floors were used as a planing mill and carpenter shop, and on the third floor were employed about t'ventyfive girls in pasting paper lining in the boxes. ^ Just before the explosion the engineer-* , started up steam by thro wing a large amount of sawdust on tho (iro, and then started to the Randolph street front of the bu lding. He says that he hal been thei\5 but a few minutes when he was startled by /in explosion, which was followed by the upper portion of the rear wall railing out and the s reams of the women in I the upper story. Bricks were flying in all dijections, and in lossthanaminnto afterward the whole rear portion of the mill seemed to bo in flames. The greatest excitement existed among the hands employed in the building. Some of the n rail for tho stairway leading to tho street, others ran to the windows, and a few started to climb out, but they were i prevented from jumping to the ground by their companions. In the meantime tho flames were spreading from one floor to another and crowds, attracted by the smoke and tue screams of the women, blokod the street, but the excitei inent among them was so great that /hey seemed powerless for a time to render auy assistance. At length several men ran into tho building and got them nil out. Some of tho girls and young women were bleeding aud others were badly burned. The fu o burned stubbornly despite the efforts of the lireraen, and in a remarkably short time the two upper stories of the factory and tho shedding in the rear were nblaze. 0;io girl, Carrie Brune'r aged eighteen, was missing. The following is a list of the injured: Ella Stacker, aged 21, badly burned about the face and hands; Cai rio Muller, IS year?,burned about tlw body: Kmma Mulder, 10 years, burned about the face: Mary IT. Knecht,l"> years, lace aud body burnei; Amanda Cook, 10 years, burned about the face, back, and hands; John Pollock, 17 years, injured about the head by falling bri ks; Joseph Rehmer. 17 years, bands badly burned; John Klengelhafer, 21 I years, head cut aud Lands injured; George ! Kimball, lit years, head and face cut; Charles Brown, 15 yetrs, head, hands and fa< e cut; Daniel Fl ies, an old man, head and fa.e burned and arm cut. LATER NEWS. Jaius D. Fish, ex-president of the suspend?! Marine Bank, and partner of Fordinand Ward in swindling operations, was examined in the Auburn (N. Y.) prison by his physician, who will report to Presidout Cleveland tliat he is a mental and physical wreck, who ou^ht to be released on the ground of humanity. A fire in Philadelphia destroyed a block of business buildings, causing a loss of about ? 175,000. Republicans will contest the seats of five Democrats in the Indiana Legislature. Ohio's official vote gives Robinson (Rep.) 340,895, McBride (Dem.), 339,314, Smith (Pro.), 28,057, Bonsai (Green.), 1,902. Robinson's plurality, 11,581. President Cleveland is busy at bis forthcoming message to Congress, which meets Monday, December 6. The total number of persons condemned to imprisonment for life for participation in the recent Spanish revolution is 2U0. The Bulgarian Sobranje (Chamber of Deputies) elected Prince Waldemar, the third son of the King of Denmark, as successor to Princo Alexander on the throne of Bulgaria. The United Presbyterian Church conference, held at Pittsburg, a lopted a resolution condemning the use of the organ in church. The Prohibition vote in Pennsylvania at the recent election was about SO,000; the Greenback-Labor vo e about 6,003. Governors patnsov, of Pennsylvania, Robie, of Maine, a id other geutlemen of prominence aldressel t'ie National Grange, in annual session at Philadelphia. Twenty-six vessels have been lost on the Great Lakes during the ro;ent storms, representing a value of ?ti0),000. Three fishermen were drowned in Lake Huron, by the loss of their boat in a ga!e. A moonlight fight between rangers and fence cutters in Texas resulted in the death of two of the latter. Alliday Wren (colored) was hanged in presence of 5,000 people at Pittsboro. N. C., for brutally assaulting two aged white women. Representatives of the dairy interests in all parts of the country were present at the annual convention in Chicago. The United States mints have been busy supplying an unprecedented demand for pennies and ni?kels. About 7,000,000 pennies are now in circulation throughout the country. M. Paul Bert, the French Minister Resident at Annam and a scientist of eminence, is dead. A railroad bridge across the River Po in Italy be anie dislodged by floods, and a train was thrown into the water. Five persons were drowned. Gold is quoted at twenty-eight per cent premium in Buenos Ayres. THE MINTS. Summary of Director Kimball's Report?A Year's Coinage. Dr. James P. Kimball, the Director of the Mint, has submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury his annual report for the fiscal year ended June CO, 188'!. While the volume of work oxecuted at tho mints during the year was greater, ho says, than that of the previous year, the total oxi>enditures> were less by $197,089, Tho total earnings of the mints during the year amounted to $0,032,680, of which $5,703,!>51 consisted of seignorage on 6ilver dollars. Tho total oxpenses and losses of all kinds amounted to $1,429,591. The coiuage of gold amounted to $34,077,1580, against $24,001,13:5 in the proceeding year. Of the gold coinage, *27,0s0,000 was ose-uted at San Francisco acid the balance lit Philadelphia The silver coinage amounted to $oC,022,347, against $.']><,848,959 in the proceeding year. Of tho coinage of tho year $29,838,!0'> consisted of silver dollars and the remo inder of subsidiary coin. The value of the gold bulJion importei into tho United Statesi was $4,073,458; exported, $27,305,090. The import of gold coin was $16,669,891; exported, $15,440,917. Tho import of silver bunion was $4 151,438; exported, $10,780,056, of which CMC -S 4 VOOtfOtJ UUUSibtOU U1 L1UUI III .1 a. Turkey has entered into a contrcot with a German firm for tho construction oi' twelve torpedo boats. They will cost $ I .MOO.OUU, and are to be finished within sixteen months. The Admiralty will also expend $7,.500,000 on men-of-war. As Arkansas girl who was bitten on the finger by a venomous snake immediately seized an ax aud chopped the finger olF. It is beliovcd that she saved her life by tliisheroio treatment. The mule grows large in Missouri James Lnnklord, of Centralia, has a mule colt six nioctlis old that is fourteen hands and an io-;b high, and. weighs 53% pounds, HARVARD'S GREETING. The President and Mrs. Cleveland in Boston. ' The last day in the celebration of the 250th birthday anniversary of Harvard College was a notable occasion. The President on/1 Wrc Plnrolnriri mmn on from Washincr ton by invitation of the college authorities to take part in the exerciser. It was intended to confer the degree of LL. D. upon the President, but he declined the proffered honor. The Presidential party included Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland, and Secretaries Bayard, Endicott, Lamar - and Whjtney. Governor Robinson received the President upon his arrival in Boston. Thousands of spectators cheered during the President's ride to Cambridge. Mrs. Cleveland .was also cheered by the Harvard students. The college exercises wore followed by a dinner in Memorial Hall, at which 1,2C0 persons were present A warm reception was given to Mrs. Cleveland who appeared in the gallery. After the feast I speeches were in order, the President's ad[ dress being as follows: j "Mr. President and Gentlemen: I find myself to-day in a company to which I am much unused, and when I see the alumni of the oldest college in the land surrounding, in their right of sonship, the maternal board at which Jam butau invited guest, the reflec noli mat tor me mere exists no mum umm gives rise to a feeling of regret, which is kindly tempered only by the cordiality of your welcome and your reassuring kindness. If the fact is recalled that only twelve of my twenty-one predecessors in office had the advantage of a collegiate or university education, a proof is presented of the Democratic sense of our pjople, rather than an argument against the supreme value of the best and most liberal education in high public positions. There certainly can be no sufficient reason for any space or distance between the walks of a most classical education and the way that leads to a political place. Any disinclination on the part of the most learned and cultured of our citizens to mingle in public affairs, and consequent abandonment of political activity to those who have but little regard for the student and scholar in politics, are not favorable conditions under a Government such as ours, and if they have existed to a damaging extent very recent events appear to indicate that the education and conservatism of the land are to be hereafter more plainly heard in the expression of popular will Surely the splendid destiny which awaits a patriotic etfort in behalf of our country will t be sooner reached if the best of our thinkers and educated men shall deem it a solemn duty of citizenship actively and practically to engage in political affairs, and if the fori e on/1 . laominor OUU punci -Ul l/U&U uuuu^uw uuu <vt*? HlUg shall ba willingly or- unwillingly acknowledged in paity management. If I am qo speak of the President of the United States I desire to mention as the most pleasant and characteristic feature of our system'of government'the nearness of the people to their President and other high officials. A close view afforded our citizens of the acts and conduct of those t > whom they have intrusted their interests serves as a regulator and check upon temptation and pressure in office, and is a constant reminder that diligence and faithfulness are the measure of Fublic duty, and such a relation between resident and people ought to leave but little room in popular judgment and conscience for unjust and false accusations and for malirious slanders invented for the purpose of undermining tbe people's trust aud confidence in the Administration of their Government No public officer should desire to check the utmost freedom of criticism as to all official acts,but every right-thinking man must concede that the President of the United States should not be put beyond the protection which American love of fair play aud decency accord to every American citizen. This trait of our national character would not encourage, if their extent and tendency were fully appreciated, the silly, mean and cowardly lies that are every day found in the columns of certain newspapers, which violate every instinct of American manliness and in ghoulish glee desecrate every sacred relation of privata life- There is nothing in the highest office that the American people can confer which necessarily makes their President altogether selfish, scheming and untrustworthy. On the' contrary the solemu duties which confront him tend to a sober sense of responsibility; the trust of the American peo pie and an appreciation of their mission among the nations of the earth should make him a patriotic man, and the tales of distress which reach him from the humble and lowly and needy aud a'Hicte.i in every corner of the land cannot tail to quickeu wic >in him every kind impulse and tender sensibility. After all it come to this: The people of tht Unite 1 States have one and all a sacred mission to perform, and your President not more surely than every other citizen who loves his country must assume part of the responsibility of the demonstration to the world of the success of popular government. Nc man can hide his talent in a napkin and escape the condemnation which his slothfulness deserves nor evade the stern sentence which his faithlessness invites. "Be assured, my friends, that the privileges of this day, so full of improvement and the enjoyments of ihis hour, so full of pleasure and cheerful encouragements, will nev<* be forgotten; and in parting with you now let mo express ray earnest hope that Harvard's alumni may always honor the vener.-ncti'futinn ivhirh has honored them, and that no roan who forgets and neslects his duty to American citizenship will find hit alma-mater here." The speech wa; warmly cheered through, out, and at the close there was a wild out. burst of euthusia?m. After speeches by Sec. retaries Bayard, Lamar, Whitney and Endicotb, the Presidential party withdrew to attend the public celebration in Faneuil Hall. At Faneuil Hall the President was introduced by Mayor O'Brien to the members of the city government, and afterward for an hour received tho general publi?. After dinner at the Hotel Vendome thj President held another reception, under ths auspices of the City of Boston, at which most of the prominent Bostonim* wero present Then he took a special t:r.i i for Washington. COMING CENTETOALS. Call for a Convention to Prepare Plans for Congress. At a raeatine of the Exposition Executive Committee in Washington it was ordered that a convention of the Board of Promotion, including the members from the various States ana Territories, be t ailed to meet iu Washington, December 7, to deliberate upon a plunaud present the same to Congress. The Board include* the Governors of the forty-six States and Territories, the May. rs of all cities containing a population of 25,0,'0 and upward, the Presidents and Se -retaries of Boards of Trade throughout the United States, the Presidents and Secretaries of all State Aarrivultural Societies and Grnnges. and the Vice-Regents of the Mount Vernon Association of the Union. The programme to be considered at such convention is as follows: 1. A constitutional centennial celebration at the national c apital on March 4, 18S0, by the sixteen Ameri an sister republics in honor of the lOjth anniver.-ary of the Constitution of the parent ropublic?the United States. 2. A world's exposition at the national capital from May 1, lWfc?, to the end of October, in honor of tne 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus. H. A permanent exposition at Washington of the antiquities, history, arts and industries of the three America.-*, to be the outgrowth oi the world's o cposition of 1892, and to remain under Governmental control on a plan somewhat similar to the present National Museum, but on a much larger scnin. TEE CROPS. Revised Returns Received by the Agricultural Department. From revised returns to tho Agricultural Dei artment it appears that the yield of corn is twenty-twj bushels per acre, making a product, upon tlia present adjustment of acreage, of l,fiC$,000,000 bushels. The potato product is nearly the same as last year, with higher yields in the Kast and lower in tho A Vest. The average is seventy-throe bushels per acre, giving a product cf Hi.'i,(MK),0;) i bushels. The buckwheat crop makes a yiold of about thirteen bushels per acre, promising a product exceed* iug 11,000,01)0 bushels. The apparent production of tob&c. o is at a rate slightly exceeding an average of seventy pounds per acre, or ubout4Sr>,000,000 pounds, which is equal to the average rejuiren.ents of consumption and evjKirtation. The average rate of yield for the hay crop is close to oue rind two-tenths tons per acre, and the apparent i roduct about 45,100,0^0 tons, A FATHER'S CRM , Murdering His Wife and Two Lit* tie Children. i Taken From Jail by Enraged Neighbors and Lynched. Intelligence has been received at Larucd, Kansas, from Hodgeman County of a terrible crime committed near Marena, in the extreme southeast corner of Hodgeman county. 1 Some seven years ago a handsome young woman namod Lowber fell desperately in love with Sam Purple, a man whose reputation for sobriety and mildness of nature was not by any means excellent. Against the wishes of all to whom the joung woman was in anyway connected, they were married and settled down near Marena. They never lived very happily together, and Purple's viciousness culminated Fri lay morning in the murdor of part of liis family and in his own death at the hands of an enraged mob three days later. At the time of the murder his fatuiiy consisted of seven persons?him?ie u: u:- ...vv.' cxjJi, u>S nnu, um miro oiowi ouvi ivut itvviv children, tho youngest of whom was only three weeks old. Friday morning his wife arose as usual and prepared breakfast. She then went to awaken her husband, which so enraged him as to incite him to the heinous crime which soon followed. He sprang vfolently from his bed and, seizing his re.< volver, shot his wife through the body, from which wound she died at once. The new born babe was next fired at, with the same result He next shot'and killed another of his children. His sister-in-law,Miss Lowber, was then selected and fired at the ball passing through the arm and lodging somewhere in tho shoulder. As this emptied his revolver he proceeded to load his shotgun in ordor to complete the work. A slight mistake in this was the only thing that Mopped the deadly proceedings. The powder was poured into one barrel, and, by error, tho shot into the other. With this he endeavored to blow off the head of another child, but as there was nothing except powder in the barrel tho child's face was only severely burned by the explosion. A heavy blanket was seized and wrapped round the suffering child, and this was secur ly bound by a heavy wire in the hope that he might*"accomplish by suffocation what he had failed in with the gun. The child will recover, though fparfully disfigured about the face. The murderer then mounted a horse and started across the fields toward Marena, with the avowed purpose of killing his wile's | mother and father. Before he could acco:u plish this, however, tbe wounded young lady mado lier way to the village and notified the inhabitants of what had happened, and they " had congregated for resistance. On seeing that his plan had been frustrated, Purple hastened to Jctmore and surrendered himself to the authorities. There he was placed in jail and surrounded by a heavy guard. Last night a mob of one hundred men went quietly to the jail and demanded the prisoner, and. he was delivered to them with little ceremony. Ho was then taken back to the scene of his crime and hanged to a tree. Only one member of the family escaped serious injury, and that was the murderer's little boy, who had concealed himself under his bed when he heard his father coming. ii . BL0WNT0_AT0MS. Terrific Explosion of 3,000 Pounds of Nitro-Glycerine. The second terrible explosion since June last in the dynamite factories at Lake Hopatkong, Morris county, N. J., occurred the other afternoon in the works of Hector, De I Castro & Co., better known as the Forcite Works. The firia employs about 150 men, and in order to guard against just such a calamity as occurred the various departments are isolat2d as much as possible in frame buildings. The entire works are about half a mile square. The explosion happened in one of the two mixing houses. In these buildings the nitric acid and glycerine are mixed, and the work is considered the most dangerous in the entire process. About 2:30 eight men were working in the first mixing house. One workman saw a thin wreath of smoke curl up from the mixing tubs, aud crying: "Run for your lives!" he started for the door. The others knew the meaning of the warning,aud dropping everything they fled through any means of exit. The warning came none too soon. Hardly had the men reached the air when a terrific explosion occurred. Over three thousand pounds of nitro-elycarind swept the frail building from th? earth as a leaf before a hurricane, and tore up the ground in all directions. A suffocating, impenetrable cloud of smoke arose, and before the terrified workmen could realize what had happened another explosion occurred in a dope mill near by. The second explosion was not to great as the j first, but the neighboring buildings were destroyel. As the c'oud of smoke cleared away scores of workmen and farmers rushed from all quarters to help the unfortunate. One man was Kiuea uuu a stui o kjl uuuci 9 rvci t> iujui cu. Thres or four of the injured are not expected to recover. As near as could be learned the first explosion was the result of spontaneous generation of heat. When the men in the j aope mill heard the explosion they ran for their lives. j Nitroglycerine was being mixed in a ves' sel, and, it is said, the mixture exploded, I owing to the lack of proper attention The | scene after the explosion was extremely 1 touching. Mothers, wives and children I rushed Irom the little frame cottages of the j workmen to the spjt, waiting and sobbing, fearful lest soma aear one was among the unfortunates. The terrific detonatioas were heard for miles about, aud at Dover, nine miles distant, windows and doors rattled as if an earthquake had or currC 1. The report of the disaster soon spread and all the doctors in tne neighborhood hurried thith?r. The explosion last June occurred at the works of the American Dynamite Company. About three huudred pounds of dynanr.ti were exploded in a mixing house at that time and of the ten men who were in the building only about three hundred pounds of flesh nnd bones were ever recovered. The timely warning of the workmen yesterday lortunattij uvui iuu a I' yeLiuiu vi biio calamity. THE NATIONAL GAME. The Baltimore club played eight tie games tn lS8>i, they leading the American Association clubs in this respect. Never before iu the history of baseball has the excitement over the engaging of new professional players been so great as at the present time. There was only one whitewash game in Chicago last season. In every other game each side made at least one run, Kantaa City alone failing once. A St. Louis jewelry company has presented to each member of Iho St. Louis Browns a solid gold, monogram scarf pin in commemoration of the victory over Chicago. The Chicago* in tho past season made most two-base hits, most three-base hits and most homo runs; the Detroit! made most singles; the St Louis made most double plays. Cr.arkson*, the Chicago pitcher, is in favor of the adontion bv the Leasnie of the Asso ciation rules civinp: a batter first base when hit by a pitc hed b tlL Other League playera besides Clarkson would like to see the rule adopted. Tick world's championship tedes bofween tho Chicago and St. Louis teams attracted more attention than any series of games ever before played. The people in ciiies and towns away out in the territories awaited daily the result of the contests. Bcsho.vg, cf the St Louis American Association champions, has caught more games this season than any other catcher in the land?over one hundred. Meyers, of Kansas City, leads the catchers of the League in number of games, having caught seventytwo. Russia is going to have a railroad tunnel three miles long, at a cost of $3,500,000. She has 15,000 miles of railway, but her only tunnel is 100 yards long. More great works of | this kind are contemplated, and as Russian engineers are ignorant of tunnel-making, I there is a de.uand for foreign skill. A i -r?: v. ,....... WM - - - -" - -?? ANIMAL ODDITIES. i In Cheyenne. Wv.. there is a Maltese cat that drives the cows to and from the pastures as successfully as a cowboy could. New Haven comes to the front with a cat that is like a kangaroo, both as to legs, tail and manner of 8lauding. It can beat a terrier at cat:hing rats. Pittsburg has produced the champion rat. It whipped a big cat and fought two dozs Tor ^ nearly an hour before giving up the ghost. It was six inches long. , ? A perfectly white buzzard is the curiosity of which Union Springs, Ala., boasts, 1 and the residents of that town are so proud of it that no one will shoot at it > j TjiEre is a_ porker in Marshall, HL, that: will never get left at feeding time. It hasthree ears. It is wmrwi hv Annf.hnr linir a few miles from the same place that has eight- ' legs. At Kingston, N. Y., there is a mule which,, knows just what the sound of the dinner horn: I means. When it blows he sets up an answering bray, and nothing can induce himto work auy longer. A Pittsburg confectioner has a dog and < a horse that are as fond of kissing each other as are the average young married couples. Each occupies the same stall and the two ar?inseparable. The bird spider of tropical America has a / " body ouly four and one-half inches long, but is "some pumpkins" for all that Its legs are wven inches long, it lives on young birds, and it seems to hatch not less than 1,500 egg* - < at a time. ^ PROMINENT PEOPLE, Mrs. Nellie Grant-8artoris will socj* come to this country to visit her mother. Oscar Wilde is now so fat fiat aesthati- cism and he may be regarded as strangers. Chief Jcstice Waite is a great wal'-rer, and he sneers at the Washington street : cars. Colonel John S. Mos'bt is to lecture o? fifty nights the coming winter, and is Afcb* paid 1500 a night # The three wives of John W. Young, th?son of tho late Mormon leader, accompany . him in his travels about the country. President Cleveland did not go to- Pn PFr 1a VAfi Tn/4innfi/Mio nA??f frtMe liatf_ i^uuuiu w t uyj. AUUI'.QVIUU^ p^tuvwuu uav ing [ -i ven up his residence in that city. Miss Cleveland has severed her connection with the Chicago Literary Life, after' three months' thorny editorial experience. , Jay Gould is said to have a superstition in regard to elevators. He will never ride- ' in one if he can help it, preferring to trampup the staira < .. Andrew Carnegie's new castle in tb?Alleghenies, which is to cost $1,000,000, will be built entirely of undressed surface stone* found on the place. The Czar has a large " play room" at his. ? Winter Palace where he swings, climbspoles, p'ays ball and slides down hill, with no jeafous Nihilists around to interfere withhis sport Bartholdi's cup of greatness needed just one more drop to be ful? It has come at last. . A post-office in Dakota has been named in* honor of the great French sculptor of' Liberty's statue. N . .< Jefferson Davis is said to be in better: health this fall than for a number of years. His mind is clear, and he is becoming a very -- N animated talker, and is beginning to intere&/ * himself mora in public affairs. Mrs. Cleveland, besides being an cot- cellent whip is said to be a horsewoman'tlfS-. no small experience. It is reported that sheintends to become an active member of the Horsewomen's Club of Washington. It is dsnied that Mrs. Grant, the wife of" the late General, has been impaired in health since his death. She is said to be contented, and cheerful, and takes an activa interest ineverything that is going on about her. commander B. F. chandler, of the' Navy, who died recently at Onset, Mass., of" apoplexy, leaves a widow and two sons. He v too a covont.v vp#r4 nlH nnrl for mn nv vpflrft was connected with the navy yards at New London, Portsmouth and Gharlestown. -; . MUSICAL Am_DRAMATia Edwin* Booth is being made a great social* lion in the West. Julks Levy, the cornetist, is to make tour of the world. It costs $1,030,000 a year to keep up the tworoval theatres of Berlin. Boucicaclt will not appear in the new American play that he has written. Ambroise Thomas has resigned his position as director of the Paris Conservatory of Music. CAYPAicm, the tenor, is to have an operation performed on his throat in order to givegreater purity to his vcice. Dcprez, the once-famous tenor, has ahobby for cats in his old age. He is said to feed hundreds of them every day. Marie Roze, the singer, recently won great success in England in the role of Elsain "Lohengrin," which she attempted for the first time. Mr. Abbet has offered Barry Sullivan, the English actor, an engagemeut of thirty weeks iu the United States, and Barry thinks- nf MPronfi'n<T A new "Nozze di Figaro," a three-act operetta by Antonio Martini, a composer of Leghorn, has bean produced with great success at Florence. Mme. Gerster-Gardini, the great German singer, has be:oine insane in consequence, it is reported, of loss of voice alter her recent confinement It is said that Anton Sheletzky, the pianist now living in Detroit, is finishing a grand opera, the libretto of which is based upon. Bulwer's story of "Zanoni." "Calaylas," the new play that LawrenceBarrett is now getting ready, will be first produced in Washington. The scene of the play is laid in Spain and treats of the expulsion of the Moors from Granada Miss Clara Morris played "Camille" at the Union Square Theatre, New York, at arecent 2 p. m. matinee, and owing to the fatiguing "waits"' between the acts, the audience did not leave until 6:15 p. u. It was a severe test of an actress's popularity, but she bore it without flinching and without loss. It is stated that the Violet Cameron Opera Company, as a financial venture, is proving a sad failure. The salary list is enormous, and, with the exception of the first twoniffhts t.h??ra hasn't b^en a navine house in Kew York. Lord Lonsdale* islikeiy to share the same f?t3 as another prominent English Peer, who bank ?40,000 in trying his hand at managing Lionel Brough. NEWSY GLEANINGS, Washington*, D. C., is grotong with marvelous rapidity. Toboggan- slides are being built in many Wisconsin towns. New York Citt contributed $9,000 in aid of the Charleston sufferers. The Swiss Government proposes to purchase all the railways in the country. A thirteen-year-old girl in MicHigan has been sent to prison for horse stealing. Ox the Dalrymple farm in Dakota 750 acres of land are being plowed over every day. Excursions are daily made on tricycles around Washington, it is said, by over 100 ucuca uj. tuai Maryland gives employment to 00,000 persons in canning fruit and oysters, the estimate being lW,000,000 cans aunually. Miss Hester Clarke, of Marion, Ala., says if she Jives to see Christmas she will be one handl e 1 a;id twenty-threa years old The dia nouds of the late Mrs. Stewart are value ! ac Some of them were so large that shj nj.er venture J t'j wear them. Mas. C'Ef.iA Moore, a colored woman of Kansas City, died a few days ago at the alleged age of 125. Her youngest child is fifty years old. A prisoner in the Santa Clara County Jail, California, has invented a water wheel which is said to be a great improvement oa the turbine wheel. Intending e nigrant? from Austro-Hungary to the United States who prove, upon examination, to have no mean3 of support* are not allowed to proceed. It is said that the only way an express car on the Pacific roads can be robb ?d is by collusion with the messenger. The cars are lined with boiler iron and provided with a shotgun and two revolvers, and the doors so secured that they cannot be opened from without in an hour's time. = , ,,w