Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Preparations for tUc winter carnival at Montreal are in progress. The ice palace ! is deigned, the skating masquerade is i being prepared for, a labyrinth in ice, a lumbermen's camp and a series of national processions are projected. In the last six years the cotton mills ol the South have increased in number from oia in nrndnctions ei2htv? 101 tU Oiv, Mil? X" eight per cent. They have secured new markets, and are now largely exporting goods. According to Science, it would appear that the "bogus butjer issue" is not confined to the United States. A similar agitation is taking place in India, and a bill dealiug with the adulteration of I ghee, or clarified butter, introduced in response to the urgent demands of the native community, has recently been passed by the Bengal Council. Careful observers assert that the postal receipts and operations afford as accurate indications of the conditions of the business of the country as any figures that a: e officially compiled. With the close of the summer, there began an upward movement of the most substantial and steady character, free from the unstable nature of a boom, but indicative of a gradual reawakening from a period of business inactivity. Some idea of the value of water in Southern California may be gained from the opening of the Gage Irrigating Canal, near Riverside. Three years ago land lold above Riverside for $5 an acre. It was without water and was counted valuable only for grazing. Mr. Gage made a contract with a large number of owners of land to furnish them abundant water at $100 psr acre. Then he dug an eleven-mile canal, supplied with water partly from Santa Ana River, but mainly from artesian wells. Recently water was turned into the canal, and land which lold for $3 now sells readily for $300 an acre. A Boston man tells how few in Eng- ' land understand American English. "I had not been in Liverpool an hour," he says, "when I became convinced that I had much to learn about the English language. "When I entered my hotel I asked the young woman who received me: 'What are your terms?' and had I spoken Choctaw she could not have understood me less. 'What do you charge a day?' I next ventured. 'Charge!' she replied, vaguely, and I tried again. 'Ah I you want the tariff?' she said at last, and sure \ enough I did. Now, if I had used the word 'tariff'in that sense in Boston it would have beeu considered slang. I tried in vain to get a pair of suspenders, as they would show me none but those for stockings, but succeeded finally in buying some 'braces.' I might prolong the list ad infinitum, but enough is shown to warrant the publication of anEnglisha ; -1:-i.- e ? fiiueriLitu uiuuuuuij ui sjruuujuis iui iuc use of travelers." A rock which the Sioux Indians near Fort Yates, Dakota, hi?/e worshiped for generations as the petrified form of a young squaw was formally unveiled the other day and dedicated to peace and plenty. It appears that the white settlers in the vicinity have long supposed that this strange specimen of nature's art work exerted a restraining influence on the Indians, but of late the rock has been removed from its original resting place, and it was feared that with its removal its chirm had disappeared. So the suggestion was made to Sitting Bull that the statue b3 placed upon a permanent pedestal and unveiled with appropriate ceremonies.- This pleased the chieftain, anrl r? Indians assembled to take Dart in the strange medley of Christian and , Pagan rites by which thejwveiling was J accompanied. Now the superstition of the whites is satisfied, and the scepticism of the savages?the first sign of civilization?is checked. The object of National and State agricultural departments and experiment stations is the promotion of agriculture by such scientific investigation and careful experiments as are impossible to the average farmer, and require the skill of professional chemists, botanists, entomologists, mineralogists and other pecialists. At the experiment stations aoalysesand field tests are made of commercial fertilizers; tests are made of the purity and germinating power of various seeds offered for sale; of new varieties of plants; of the leading methods in ag riculture; the solving ot questions relating to the commercial uses of feeding stuffs for animals is sought; farm pests, both plant and insect, ar?> ideutificd and remedies devised for them. In a word, * their purpose is to investigate the numerous vexed questions and daily problems that confront the farmer. These departments and stations, owing their existence to action of the Government, are for the benefit of the people. If, therefore, a farmer wants a fertilizer analyzed, a mineral or sample of peculiar soil examined, a grass or wesd named) an insect identified, or any similar information, and does not wish to pay the price of expert assistance, he has the right to send his specimen and ask information from the experiment station of his State, if there be one; if not, from the Department of Agriculture. Thi3 i3 a right, however, which in consideration of the courtesy and patience of the workers at these institutions, 6hould be exercised with moderation and a recollection of the many questions propounded for them to investigate. All letters of inquiry should be directed to the office, and not to the man in charge of it; questions on different subjects should not be asked in one letter if a fpeedv reply is desired, as tbey will be referred from one department to another for answers. Rutherford B. Eaye3 is now the only living ex-President, and Hannibal Hamlin and "William A. "Wheeler the only living ex-Vice-Presidents. Fremont and I Blaine are the only living ex-Presidential | candidates of great parties, and Pendleton, English and Logan the only living Vice-Prcsidential candidates. The ranks of these prominent gentlemen have thinned greatly by the death -within eighteen months of Grant, McClellan, Hancock, Tilden, Seymour and Arthur. A more noted group has hardly ever before passed off the stage of life so nearly together. The Detroit Free Press sagely says of an engrossing subject: "Some scientific men are asserting that it is the close hats that men wear that causes baldness to be more prevalent in men than in women, and in this they are about as near right as they arc in every other matter they attempt to elucidate. After much investigation and profound thought we have concluded that the true reason lies in the fact that women wear their ha;j long and men have theirs cut off. The remedy, then, is plain. Let the hair grow as long as possible. "We have yet to see the first long-haired man who is baldheaded. A drove of a hundred hogs that wer being driven through Allegheny, Pcnn., became frightened and stampeded. About a dozen ran into a drug store bleeding and covered with mud. Two ladies who were waiting for prescriptions screamed with fear. One of them sprang on the counter and the other clambered upon the soda fountain. After upsetting every article of furniture in the store, the fattest of the affrighted hogs tried to get behind the prescription counter and overturned the stove. The stove was I 1 1 neateu dj uaiunu yu.3, uuu nucu it nm upset the pipe was broken and a sheet of flame shot up almost to the ceiling. A disastrous conflagration would have been the result but for the prompt action of the proprietor, who turned off the gas. Two of the hogs were badly burned. The owners of the swine were compelled to carry them out. ?? i Ouspensky, a popular Russia writer, recently found a river steamboat in the Caucasus piloted by a youth of seventeen, who, although he was possessed of remarkable intellectual qualities, had abruptly abandoned his studies for manual toil, with intent to put Count Tolstoi's doctrines into practice. Many Russian families?people of standing and education?are taking their cnildren from school, abandoning the delusions , of so-called civilization, and retiring into remote country districts, where they propose to realize some vague ideal of primitive simplicity. This strange movement is vigorously supported by Count Tolstoi. The Count divides each day into four periods separated from one another by a meal, and he indulges in hand labor and in literary -work alternately. He has thus becomo accomplished in bootmaking, expert in wood splitting, and a very decent agricultural laborer. "Whenever ( he visits his estates he assists his farm j hands in plowing, sowing and getting in i the crops. Professor Charles A. Ashburner, geol- 1 ogist in charge of the Pennsylvania Survey, according to the Pittsburg Cimmer- i ciul-Gaz'.tte, is of the opinion that the practical application of natural gas has i opened up a new era in fuel economy, and the development of heat and me- i chanical power. "There is no doubt in ; my mind," says he, ''but that the greatest : advance to be made in the practical arts and sciences during the next two de- I cades is to result from a practical consid- j eration of the question of the manufac- ! ture and utilisation of gaseous fuels and \ the adaptation of plant and machinery to the new fuel relations that I believe we . ore hrmnrf fnr prnrmrrnr'a anlffl tn Psta'? 1 VVMU%* .V. J ~ lish." As to the probable duration of the present ga9 supply in the Pittsburg region, the Professor ventures the belief that, although two-thirds of the product has been going to waste, "very little j alarm should be entertained as to the ex- 1 haustion of the gas sands of Pennsyl- < vania an I the prostration of the manu- ' facturing interests that become depen- ] dent upon its use." I Bricks That Will Float. ! "Floating palaces" are often spoken of, but mostly by a figure of speech to describe certain splendid steamships. But now it seems that modern improvement has made it possible to build a brick house on the sea (?). Floating bricks are now successfully produced in France, the material of which they arc composed being a kind of earth found in Tuscany, consisting of fifty-five parts of sandy earth, fifteeu of magnesia, fourteen of water, twelve alumina, three Imo, one iron. It exhales a clay-like odor, and, when sprinkled with water, throws out a light, whitish smoke. It is iufusible in the fire; and though it loses about an eighth part of its weight, its bulk is scarcely diminished. Bricks composed of this substance, either baked or unbaked, float in the water, and a twentieth part of clay may be added to their composition without taking away their property of swimming. These bricks resist water, unite perfectly with lime, are sub ject to no alteration from the heat or cold, and the baked differ from the unbaked only in the sonorous quality which they acquire from the fire. Their strength is a little inferior to that of common bricks, but much greater in proportion to their weight. Thus a floating brick, measuring seven inches in breadth, and one inch eight lines in thickness, is said to weigh only fourteen and one-fourth ounces, whereas a common French brick wa? found to weigh five pounds and nearly seven ounces.?San Francisco Call. The Syllable "Ou?li." The syllabic "ough" is pronounced io seven totally distinct ways. The following couplet will help fix these differ, cnt pronunciations in your mind: Though the tough cough and hiccough plough me through, O'er life's dark lough my courso I still pursue. There are 8,000 miles of overhead wires in London. I THE NATION'S FARMS. Synopsis of Commissioner Cole, man's Annual Report. Review of the Country's Agricultural and Forestry Interests. Mr. Normaa J. Col man, Commissioner of Agriculture, has submitted his second annual report to the President He sets forth at length the benefits derived and to be expected from agricultural experiment stations, and says he has commissioned a special agent to visit and inspect experimental stations in order to ascertain what facilities already existed in this country for systematic experimentation, what has been actually accomplished, and especially what are the needs /or future work. There can be no question, he says, of the value of these investigations and experiments if liberally supported and ably vconducted, especially in adjusting to its new conditions the agriculture dependent upon the worn land of the Northern, Eastern, and Southern States. He points out defeats in the bill now before Congress "for the establishment of agricultural experimental stations in connection with the agricultural colleges," and suggests that it be amended to as to insure the expenditure of the sum proposed to be given to each State (?15,000) in establishing or strengthening oneefficient institution rather than, by allowing its distribution among several institutions, fail to realize tha desired cur r ose in any of them. He also holds it to be highly iinpor.aiitthatTprovisions be madofor a central station at once at Washington to receive, criticise, digest, edit, and consolidate the results obtained at tho various stations, and promulgate the same in form suited to popular understanding and application. He urges promj.t and effectual action for the suppression ot pleuro-pheumonia, and says: The matter is a most important one, overshadowing in urgency all others affecting our agricultuial population, and of vital interest also to every consumer of beef, of ruilk, of butter,and of cheese. To prevent this scourge, which has already greatly affected our foreign and inter-State commerce additional legislation by Congress is now essential. Much valuable work has already been done in Maryland, and .the danger of" the dissemination of the contagion from that State has been great'y lessened. No work has been done in the State of New York, because it was evident that the appropriation was not sufficient to secure any favorable results there on account of the infection. The disease also exists in New Jersey, Fennsylvan'a, and Virginia, but the State authorit'es have not yet accepted the ?^ wAnnilftfi'Ana a# fVlfl rlftnn T?t nion I IUC9 auu JC|Uiauiuuo Vi vuo uvjyui Wt4WUV for co-operation. I greatly regret the necessity of announcing the existence of this dangerous disease over such a wide area, but the serious results to be apprehended from it make it imperative that the truth should be known, in order that such legislative action may be taken as is indicated by the emergency.'" Upon forestry he says there is practically no reproduction attempted nor forest planting done worth mentioning in comparison with the enormous annual consumption. "As a first step of reform," he says, "undoubtedly, the land policy on the United States in the timbered regions requires a change according to the changed conditions of these localities. A state of affairs which allows railroad companies, miners, prospectors and settlers to cut timber on the public domain as their wants re ]uire without any proper supervision, without proper opportunity of acquiring either material or timoer-land by purchase, holds out a premium for fraud, theft aud immorality." The report expresses regret at the inability of the department to send representatives to conferences abroad where subjects of agricultural interest are discussed. A WOMAN IN THE RAPIDS. Passing Through the Niagara Falls Whirlpool in a Barrel. For the first time, as far as is known, a woman has gone safely through tho whirlpoal rapids at Niagara Falls. Her only protection from the rocks and waves was a torpedo-shaped barrel, in which was also a male navigator. The craft used was the one in which Potts and Hadett made.the passage on August 8, and Geoi-ge Hazlett was the < companion of Miss Sadie Allen, who helped ' fknf Tllfl /Miclr {u nionr.cliflnAfl I liuav lUUU. AUV w?a v?0u> | tea foet long by three in diameter, and has a double head, the prow being like a battering | ram. Hazlett, Potts and a number of friends, ! together with Miss Allen aud some lady acquaintances, came to Niagara Falls ou the night of the 27th. The adventuresome girl Is eighteen years old, plump, handsome, and a brunette. Her hair, which is of luxurious growth, is almost black. She lives with the family of John Scullv, a foreman for the West Shore Railroad in Buffalo. She is an orphau, and her sister is tho wife of Potts, who previously made the trip. Sadie had never seen the Falls before, and laughed at the idea that there was nay dauger. She laughed merrily when at 2 p. m. on the 3Sth she went with Mrs. Scully, her sister, Mrs. Potts. Mrs. Samuel Hazlett and others to the old Maid of the Mist landing near the Horseshoe Falls. The barrel had been ballasted with 500 pounds of sand, and t are was taken to make it water tight At 2:25 all was ready and the women bade Sadie good-by as she stepped from the dock on to the barrel and slid, through the turret. She wore a dark woolen suit Hazlett quickly | disappeared in the barrel aud arranged some ropes to steady the occupants. He wore two heavy flannel shirts, trowsers, and a Scotch cap. Besides the rope there were iron haudles to aid in steadying the occupants. "I'm all right," said Miss Allen, laughing. "There's not so much danger as you think." Then the queer craft was towed by Elmer Jones and John Keating down toward the head of the rapids. On the way Sadie put her head out and ( talked with tne oarsmen. When near the cantilever bridge the turret top was screwed on and a few moments later the first rapids were reached. So close was the boat that its occupants narrowly escaped going through the gorge. It was 2:50 p. M. when the torpedo with its freight was whirled side ways into the breakers aud began the wild trip of three-quarters of a mile. The water was muddy. The river was low, j but tho waves were higher than usual, and j the tiny craft seemed to be dashiug on to destru tion. "If there are any rocks there," suidold rivermen. "that thing will go to pieces on them." But thefcbarrel was hurled along from wave to wave, occasionally buried in clouds of foam and sometimeg completely thrown from the water. In three minutes tho last roller shot the barrel into the whirlpool. There it circled round a littlo and then the outer current carried the craft into the lower whirlpool or Devil's Rapids. When the torpedo circled out into the second series, or Devil's Rapids, it received fresh impetus, and was hurled about on top of tbe waveslikealeatber. vvuen near tne nttie maelstrom, below Thompson's flats, where Swimmer Scott was killed trying to emulate Captain Webb, the craft was tossed into an eday on the Canadiau side. There it was gently tofwe I around for three quarters of an hour, until a man with a rope lassoed it and pullerl it ashore. Hazlett and Miss Allen got out as quickly as possible. He was all right, but sue wai very seasick, and hardly able to walk. Miss Allen, in 'conversation with a reporter, said that the worst part of the trip was the sickness she experienced. "Were you not scared!" "I was not a bit afraid. I huugon tightly, and it did not seem long. I don't believe wis struck any rocks." The girl seems inclined to make light of the j danger and hardships of the voyage. Shewa9 not well enough to return to Buffalo, but hor companion, Hazlett, took the 9 o'clock train for home. He said: "The trip was much worse than the first one. The water was rougher, and, while we did not strike any rocks, the shocks were severe. Miss AUon is a brave girl and made bo outcry. I made a bet of $5 with her that ihe would scream before we got out, bat she won tbe wager." I.v the suit of the Choctaw Nation apaJnst the United States, instituted to obtain judicial 'settlement oS all existing claims of the Choctaw Nation against the United States Government, the Supreme Court has decided that the Choctawa are entitled to a judgment of 12,^8,^08. "news summary Eastern and Middle States. More than 2,500 wan-ants for illegal voting have been issued in Massachusetts. A baffling malignant disease, dipt heretic in appearance, carried off the four sons of Farmer James Champlin, of Westfleld, Penn.. on four successive Thursdays :in November. The great strike of the tanners and curriers of Peabody and Salem, Mass., which began on July 12 with a demand that fiftynine hours constitute a week's work, has bsen officially ended, the various ass emblies of the Knights of Labor of the two places declaring it off. William Kurtz, a lad of eighteen, ieaped from the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River, and escaped comparatively un| injured. A fire on T. W. Allen's stock farm, East Syracuse, N. Y.t destroyed several barns filled with grain and hay. Fifty-seven head of faucy cattle were burned to death. Loss *40,001). T. V. Powderly, General Master Workof tho Knights of Labor, has Issued a circular calling upon all the members of the Order f >r au assessment of twenty-five cents each, to be known as a ' special defence assess* inent." South and West. Navigation upon the Great Lakes has practically closed for the season. So far there have been thirty-three wrecks and forty-one lives lost Miss Minnie L. Freeman has been appointed Postmistress at Menlo Park, N. J. The Poe family of eight persons?all females?in Knox county, Ky., were murdered by two neighbors with whom they weraon bad terms. After c utting the throats of the eight persons their murderers set fire to the house to conceal their crime. A iittle son of the murderers betrayed his parents, who were arrested. There are but six Republicans in thepres* ent Legislature of South Carolina, and all of them are negroes. The ammonia boiler :in the ice factory at Apalachicola, Fla., exploded, killing C. A. Glazier, fatally injuring Captain Wm. Moore, of Columbus, Ga., and seriously cutting several others. The factory was demolished. After a respite of two weeks, Charleston, S. C., was shaken up again on the 26th by an earthquake shock, not severe, but perceptible all over the city, and accompanied by the usual subterranean roar. Three lives were lost and property worth about $1,000,Ol'O was destroyed by a fire at Duluth, Minn. The property included grain elevators, containing 726,000 oushels of wheat and 112,000 bushels of corn. Rev. Sam Jones, the Southern revivalist, has iust closed a three weeks' campaign in Omaha, Neb. He has gone to his home in Georgia for a re^l. W. A Baldwin and his wife's brother, Bernard Moore, shot each other at the former's home, near Ironton, Ala. Mrs. Baldwin rushed between the two men and was killed. Her brother was also shot to death and her husband fatally wounded. Citizens of the Indian Territory captured and hanged, three horse thieves and shot a fourth. Fourteen earthquake shocks wero felt at Charleston, S. C., last month. Washington. General Clark, clerk of the House, says there will be fifteen Democratic majority in the next House. William Pope, the negro convicted of assault and battery with thj intent to kill General C. C. Augur at Washington, in August last, has beeu sentenced to the Albany penitentiary for three years. It is estimated at the Internal Revenue i Bureau that the rovenue from tho tax on j oleomargarine, which went into e;i'e."t on NoI vember 1. will amouut to about $400,OJJ for ast month. The President has made the following; appointments: Edward Cusbing to be Collector of Customs for the district of Belfast, Me.; Joseph E. Moore to be Collector of Customs for the district of WalJoborough, Me.: Philip iV. Downer t3 be General Appraiser of merchandise for the tfort of Baltimore, Md. Foreign, Four prominent Socialists have been sentenced to variofls terms of imprisonment at Leipsic,Germany, for fomenting a riot The British Government has "proclaimed" (prohibited) the Irish National Leigue meeting calle 1 to assemble at Sligo. This a 'tiou, coupled with the proso.-ution of John Dillon, a leader of the Irish party, is causing the I most intense excitement throughout Ireland. Twentv-two sacks, containiug mails from England to Germany, Russia, Austria, and the East, while on a train in Belgium, were cut open and plundered of all the registered letters. Among the stolen letters were a lot from America containing money and diamonds amounting to $-'00,000. Hungary is suffering from an epidemic of robberies and murders. Intense excitement prevails in Ireland on account of the expressed determination of the Tory government to rule the country by coercion. A cable dispatch states that "Mr. Gladstone's prediction that the Tory government of Ireland would be a government of coercion ha? come true." A meeting of Nationalists near Sligo on the .2?th ult. was dispersed by the police. Toe British troops in Burmah, in a rucent encounter with the forces of Bosh way, killed 143 of his followers without losing a soldier. Nine youths have been sentenced to deattt at Sidney, New South Wale?, for assaulting * sixteen-year old servant gtrl. THE SECOND SESSION, Work for the Last Meeting of tho Forty-Ninth Congress. Tho second session of the Forty-ninth Congress has a great deal of work to do, and very little time in which to do it The first session lasted nearly eight months, from December 7. Ib8), to August 5. 1880. The sec ond session will last lass than three months, from December 0, 1SS6, to March 4, 1837. The holidays must come out of tlo session, aud perhaps a great consumption of time will have to be allowed for speeeho? on the labor question as connected with general politics. More than l.'i.OOO bills and joint resolutions were introduced into the two Houses during the first session. Of the;e fewer than a thousand bscaino laws. Various pension vetoes will confront Congress, to begin with. There is the question oi the fisheries, which has been under consideration bv a Senate committee during tho recess. Our Mexican diplomacy, as illustrated by tho Cutting case, will doubtless call Ifor review. Tho PanElo. trie investigation will quite surely occupy attention. There are various bills to allot laud in severalty to Indians, and to provide for throwing opon a part of the Indian Territory to white fettlemcnt. Several important land grant forfeiture bills await consideration, as does also the bill prohibiting Congressmen from acting as attorneys to land-grant railways. There is a Mexican pension bill now suspended between tho S.'nate and tho Houso, while >overal othar costly bills for }>eusious and for the equalizing of bounties will probably try to get a henrinj. There are resolution ; for investigating strikes and the labor problem which may taio up time, even if thjy lead to nothing. Tho tariff proje ts and the liuaneial measures are legion, and doubtless more of the.n will be iutrodu ed. Tho bill to increase tho efficiency of the Consular service is likely to be amended so as to i all for still larger expenditures. The army has its Logan bill, which has pas*?d the Senate, and its Mamlerson scheme for in"rcasing the infantry. The navy has b lis for an enlisted man's retired list, for a deposit system for seamen, and so on. There is the additional legislation against polygamy to be taken up, the international copyright measure, the Eight-hour bill, the Uniform Bankruptcy bill. Mr. Ingalfs project to -change inauguration day to April HO may claim a place. Mr. Hoar's for increasing the length of sessions by having Congress assemble in October and November in alternate years. The Free Ship bill, tho Inter-State Commerce, Mr. Frye's Subsidy bill for carrying tha ocean mails, ths Grant Monument bill, the HenneCin Canal bill, and the Eads Ship Canal ill will watch their chauces for legislation. The bills to a Imit Dakota and Washington, may b3 urged strongly, in view of the close array of parties in the Senat?. 1 WAVES OF DEATH. Six Men Killed and Sixteen Hnrt On an Ocean Steamer. The Vessel Suddenly Covered With an Avalanche of Water. TllA /V/IAAM YTT? i 1 i ug woiiu aiuoiuci f T csioruiauu, ui tuu Red Star line, swung into her pier at Jersey City the other afternoon after a twelve days' voyage from Antwerp. Her decks were crushed in, her stanch sides wrenched and strained, broken beams of steel and planks of oak protruded their jagged ends on every side. The fir.it glance suggested a story of stress and storm; of suffering and disaster. Disaster and suffering the vessel had encountered, but the story that was to be told was not the ordinary one of raging -winds and mountainous waves that storm-beaten ships bring with thein. The winds had not given her warning, the watei-s had not lashed themselves to threatening fury, but when all seemed calm a single wave had risen up from the sea and crashed down upjn the steamer's deck, leaving behind it as it surged away more tnan a score of mangled bodies, deaci or dying or sorely wounded, lying amid a mass of taugled wreikajro. It was on November 20 that the Westernland, the stanchest of the Red Star fleet, sailed out of Antwerp with sixty-nine cabin and 574 steerage passengers and twenty-two officers and men. A heavy fog in the River Scheldt caused the loss of a da}', but after that the weather was favorable ojd the voyage continued prosperous until Saturday last, jNcvember 2f. At noon on that day Second Officer Ehoff, as he relates, went on watch and found th3 sky clear, a fresh breere blowing and a moderate sea. The members of the crew were busied about their various tasks, and several of the steerage passeners were lounging about the deck. The cabin passengers were nearly all below. While standing on the inain bridge the second officer suddenly saw an enormous wave on the starboard bow. The next instant another similar wave was seen on the port side. Joining each other at right angles the two waves swept toward the vessel. The united mass of water rose higher than the lower yards of the foremast. In a moment it crashed down upon the deck of the steamer and swept it irom dow to siern, carrying every lumg oefore it. The turtle-back de ?k was crushed to splinters. The steel beams supporting it were broken off like pipe-stems. The stanchions were bent and twisted and beaten down to the forecastle deck. Everywhere lay masses of broken planks and beams and woodwork. Lying crushed in the wreckage were twentytwo steerage passengers and members of the crew. As soon as the first moment of panic had passed orders were given by Captain Randle, who was on the after-deck, to aid the injured, and the crew promptly obayed. Four of the seamen were found to have been killed. Max Frank, a steerage passenger, had his abdomen cut open and his skull fractured. He died the next morning. Gabriel Levaderi, another steerage passenger, was apparently but slightly bruised. He had, however, sustained internal injuries which caused his death five hours after Frank expired. The others injured were suffering from broken legs and arms and painful bnrses. They were at once taken to the intermediate cabin, which was fitted up as a hospital, and carefully attended to until port was reached by the chip's surgeon and Dr. Felix Cohen, of New York, who was a passenger on board. A steward who was just coming out of a closet under the turtle back lost the tips of two fingers in a curious manner. The door opened forward and was held open by a catch over the top. The steward put his left-hand on the after door post just as the big sea came along, carrying off the door, which caught the ends of the fingers that projectel beyond the door post, shaving them off a3 with a knife. Tho officers of the vessel, one and all, say that they never kuew of an occasion when two such fugitive wave? came together in weather such as that which prevailed at the time of the accident. LATER NEWS. Howard T. Blackstone, discount clerk in tho Canal National Bank of Portlaud, Me., (led with a shortage of $25,000 in his accounts, due to speculation. New Jer.set assessors report the railroad proporty in the State amounts to $192,930,313. The State tax cf $Jf54,931 upon it defrays all the State expeose.% President Head, of the International Range Association, has written a letter to President Cleveland, in which he says that tho time has come when the live stock men of the plains have a right to demand that the Government shall take vigorous measures to stop the spread of diseases among the cattle in the VVest. The Chicago Knights of Labor have adopted a series of resolutions condemning the sentence of death passed upon the Anarchists as unjust. Ppesidextial Postmasters appointed: Lillian C. Keyes, at Youkers, N. Y.; James "VV. Verlander, at Huntington, W. Va.; W. D. F. Whitsitt, at Pleasant Hill, Mo.; N. W. J.1UUI1, Ul J. CA4W, Tue November public debt statement shows a decrease of $3,005,249.57 during the month. Total cash in the Treasury, $439,02 J,740.59. A bailiff and his assistants were serving writs of ejectment upon tenants on Lord Dillon's estate in Ireland when they were attacked and pe'.tcd with mud by 200 girls, and compelled to rot: ear. The Paris lluuicipal Council petitioned United States Minister McLane to intercede with tne Governor of Illinois on behalf of the condemned Chicago Anarchists. Mr. McLane forwarded the petition to Governor Oglesby. During a heavy gaie the schooner Ariadne was driveu ashore on Lake Ontario twenty miles below Oswego, N. Y. Captain McKay was drowned %^1 two seamen were frozen to death. The remainder of the crew were res cued by numbers of a life-saving station. Thr delegates sent by the States aud Territories to devise plans for the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the promulgation of the Federal Constitution, which will occur in September next, met the other day in Philadelphia. A committee of thirteen wa? appointed to provide for carrying out a programme, which will include a military and industrial display, orations, et\ L. B. Franker & Co., of Virginia City, Nov., the olilest mining stock firm in that State, has failed, owing $915,000. The three younger Fraukel brothers, the active me:nIiai-s of the firm, flfid inst. before the failure. Forest fires have swept tbe entiro low region of South Carolina, causing immense damage. Many of the old plantation mansions have bo in destro ed. There was an almost unbroken line of fire along the Northeastern Railroad from Sumter to Charleston, a distance of ninety miles. No rain of consequence has fallen since last July. Three colored meu in jail at Benham, Texas on the charge of murder, were taken out forcibly by masked men ani hanged to a tree. Thirty men were instantly killed by an explosion in a Durham (Englaud) coal mino. Advices from Hanoi, the capital of Tonquiu, state that pirates at Halioi surprised the Frontier Commission and massacred two interpreters aud twelve soldiers. Immense coal-beds have been discovered in British America. The clock to be placed iu the tower of the new City Ilall of Philadelphia will be the largest in the world, if completed in accordance with the plans submitted by the reth Thonios Cloik Co., Thomaston, Conn. The bells upon which it will strike the hours and quarters will weigh fifty thousand pounds, and the glass dials, as contemplated, mea;u. e tweaty-feet iu diameter. LIFE SAVING SERVICE. Annual Report of the Superintendent?A Year's Record of Storms. The report of the General Superintendent of the Life Saving Service says that the number of disasters to documented vessels within the field kof station operations during the year was 322. There were on board these .nnaonln O <5*5/5 ? /> nhnm 9 AQQ VOT* saved and twenty-seven lost. The number of shipwrecked persons who received succor at the stations was 807, to whom 2,000 days' relief in the aggregate was afforded. The estimated value of the vessels involved in the disasters was $4,423,330, and that of their cargoes $2,073,805, making the total value of the property imperilled $6,502,135. Of this amount $5,073,078 was saved and $ 1,42!),017 lost. The number of vessels totally lost was 88. In addition to the foregoing there were during the year 145 casualties to smaller craft, such as sailboats, etc., on which there were 348 persons, 340 of whom were saved and two lost. The property involved in the.-e instances is estimated at $111,420, of which $!>8,250 was saved and $13,170 lost. In addition to persons saved from vessels there were thirty-six others rescued who had fallen from wharves, piers, eta, who would have perished without the help of the life-.aving crews. The number, violence and destructlveness of the storms which occurred during the year exceeded the record of any previous year since the general extension of the service to the sea and lake coasts. In one storm there were no less than thirty shipwrecks within the scope of the operations of the service, and in a single day, January 9, there were twenty-three. The service, however, did not fail to match its previous record of effectiveness In raving life and property. The number of casualties was greater by twenty-eight than that of anv former year, yet" the loss of life is fifteen less than the average, and although the vessels &ad cargoes totally lost were twenty more than in any former year, the amount of property lost was only about $85,000 greater than the average of the preceding years, while the amount saved is increased by nearly $2,000,000. At the cl ?e of the last fiscal year the Life Saving establishment embraced 211 stations, 105 being on the Atlantic, thirty-eight on the lakes, seven on the Pacific and one at Lauisville, Ky. INCOME AND OUTLAY, Federal Rccefpta and Expenditures in \nv*?rnlipr Following is a comparative statement of the receipts and expenditures of the United Statea for the month of November: RECEIPTS. Source, 1886. 1885. Customs $15,140,645 #13,056,651 Internal revenue.... 9,089,251 9,249,938 Miscellaneous 2,746,2J5 3,074,573 Total $27,576,102 $25,381,163 EXPENDITURES. Ordinary $11,677,846 $10,561,688 Pensions 12,517,339 11,037,061 Interest 1,462,523 1,987,185 Total $25,657,709 $33,584,935 A BRAVE ENGINEER i Losing His Life to Save Others?A Fatal Collision. A fatal collision, attended by dramatic cir- ! cumstances, occurred at Anderson Station, eight mile3 below Cincinnati, the other afternoon. An engine making a trial trip was ordered to leave Cincinnati not earlier than 1:45 p. m. It was in charge of Edward Droban, an old aid experienced engineer. At Anderson it collided with a north-bound freight Drohan had in the cab his two sons, five and seven years old, and also John Nabar, aged five. Perceiving the danger ahead be threw the three children through the cab window and stayed at his post He sacrificed hi* life for the boys John Naher was also MDfld, and Frank Lockwood, engineer of the north-bound freight, badly injured. THE NATIONAL GAME. Trie Philadelphia baseball nine have returned from Havana quite disgusted with their Cuban trip. Baseball has been introduced into the Pittsburg Insane Asylum for the physical and mental improvement of the inmates. * Nearly every club in the two leading associations will have all the way from two to six or eight new players in their ranks. The Philadelphia National League have easily defeated the Athletics, of the American Association, in the first gam* played at Havana, Cuba. There are two O'Rourkeo, catchers; two Baldwius, pitchers, and two Conways. pitchers, in the League, and no two related to each other. Newark and Jersey City had to pay a bonus of $500 each for admittance to the International League. They were admitted without a dissenting vote. The Pittsburg American Association Club has been admitted to the National League. A Cleveland club will ta'ce the place of the PittBburgs in the American Association. Dave Orr bags first honors in the Association both at the bat and in fielding. He not onlv leads the first basemen, but also every player in the Association. His is probably an nonor few ball players have ever achieved. The Metropolitan team held the record in numb-r of games played during a season until the year just passed when the St. Louis champions beat it The St Louis men played in Dearly 175 games during the season just passed, playing the first game on March 27, and the final one on October 3L. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. A local manager in a "Western town declined to book Lawrence Barrett at his theatre because the tragedian did not carry a brass bani. Pattx's favorite color Is red; Mme. Nils* son's ii blue, while Henry Irving's is crimson. They all match well with the old gold of American dollars. Will Carleton, the author of "Farm Ballads," lectured last week in five different States?Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Rubinstein, the great pianist, is said to have declined an offer of 2o0,000 marks for 103 concerts in this country recently made to him by an American manager. Thf new play that Mr. Boucicault has in preparation will be brought out at the Hollis street Theatre, in Boston, where he is to play for seven weeks during the winter. One of the leading operatic sopranos in Europe is Helen Theodorini, who is now the prima donna of tho Lisbon Opera Housa She seldom sings outside of Spain aud Portu* gal. President Cleveland never lets anyone know wh:n he is going to the theatre, but orders bis box shortly before the performanc3 begins and arrives at the theatre just as the curtain rises. Mme. Marcella Sembrich, the prima donna, and Miss Nettie Carpenter, the young American violiaist, are meeting with enthusiastic receptions in their concert tour through Germany. Illness of stage favorites is a luxury that costs a good deal. The losses entailed by Edwin Booth's recent illness are estimated at $10,000; t'-.at of Mi's. Langtry at $7,000, and that of Rosina Vokes at $3,000. Gatarre, the famous Spanish tenor, sixteen years ago received eiffbty cents an evening for singing in a Madrid concert hall. Ho recont'y make a contract to sing fifty nights in Italian opera, for which he will re.eive $70,0J0. TnE knowing ones say that there is no longer any doubt that Barrett and Booth will appear next season on the same stage and in the same plays. Othello and Julius Caesar are said to be productions in contemplation. "Jim, the Penman," in which Mr. Palmer has reintroduced his company of actors to New York, is considered the most brilliant play of the melodramatic strain seen in this country within the memory of the present generation. Mme. Minnie Hack had a remarkably successful tour on the Pacific coast. She gave twenty-two concerts, realizing $28,000, and everywhere from British Columbia to Minneapolis had large houses. She returns to Europe in January, and in March begins an operatic engagement in Berlin. LIFE SAVERS LOST. j Three Members of a Crew Lose Their Lives in Lake Michigan. j One Man's Magnificent Straggle to : Save His Comrades. The following is a 'thrilling description of ?the circumstances attendant upon the Ion of three of a life-saving crew on LakeMichigan : Sunday night, when tho wind began to blow a gale from the northwest; fTiA or>liAAv*iftr A T . FioTTftTr nf Wnn(af/v* WAS; '-M lying at Pierport waiting to load lumber for Chicago. The tug A. P. Wright waswith her, and when the big Sea? were driveninshore both were compelled to leave. The tug got a line from the schooner and started . to tow her to Mmistee for shelter, but the gale kept increasing in violence and theve:sel labored so heavily that she gave a sudden lurch, and the strain on the hawser caused it to part One end wa? swept into the whe?l of the tug, rendering it helpless, and the schooner was lost sight of in the blinding snow storm. At about 3 o'clock, after tossing about in the furious, seas for two hours, the tug struck and rolled over on h?r side. Then came the battle for life. The crew consisted of fivemen? Capt Sam Johnson, Engineer Thom.asVaughan, Lineman Henry Danforth, Fireman August Hegerson. and Steward Harry Darrell. The men clung to the wrock asbest they oould, urging each other to be ,~ brave and not give up in despair, and atone time, when young Darrell was about to re'ax his hold, the engineer put hisarm around him and held him up. Freezing seas were sweeping over them and. their clothing became rigid with ice. After clinging to the wreck for threehours daylight came, but with it therewere no signs of relief. The men by this J were frozen, and, knowing that they could not hold on much longer, Danforth volunteered to make an effort to reach the shoro. His companions begged him not to further* imperil his life, but the brave fellow silenced. * their entreaties, and after divesting himself of h<s heavy clothing, struck out for ther I shore. He was a powerful swimmer, but his-1 muscular arms and iron will .were- M hardly a fair match with the foaming Jl breakers that thundered along the beach. ' But he fought the battle manfully and * was buoyed up by the feeble cheers of his-< - bOipWIWACU CUlIlfKUUULU) nuu watched tin struggling form of the hero aybe rose and fell with the waves until be gained tbo shore. Stopping but for a' moment' to salute those who were still on the wreck Danforth made his way'to a farmhouse, and, after uttering a few words, fell fainting to the floor. He was picked up and kindly eared; tor, and last night was out of danger. The farmer made out that a vessel was in< distress and at otce set off for Manistee. He reached there with his horse reeking with foam, and in a few minutes tbo life-saving. ; crew were hurrying to the rescue with their- ? beach apparatus. On reaching a point abreast of the wreck the howitzer was trained . r into line and a well directed shot sent the life line over the tug. It was within easy reach of the men, and they hauled the hawser aboard and made it fast. The breechesbuoy was then sent out. and the first to come ashore was young Darrell, who is only a boy. The hawser had not been made taut and the slack permitted the buoy to sag^ through tho surf. Darrell was insensible when he was pulled ashore, but is now">o? . ^ covering. The others were safely taken from * the wreck, one at a time, Captain Johnsonbeing tho last It was al nost noon when thework of saving human life was over. In the meantime another thrilling sccne was being enacted sixteen miles southjof Manistee. At about eight o'clock the Dewey, having been driven before the gale, arrived off Big Pointau Sable with a flag of distress flying in her mizzen rigging The patrol of the life-saving station there sighted the signal, and in a few minutes the entire crew were pulling through the boiling seas. Tfaey bad coveredaboutone-h&lfof thedistancebetween the shore and the vessel when the fag was suaciemy nauiea vo me stuck ci iue ioremast The Dewey then steered awny on her course, and the life-saving crew, realizing: that they bad been tricked by a vessel that simply wanted a tug, started to return to their statioa Tbey had pulled bat a short distance when their lifeboat struck a bar and capsized. The entire crew was thrown intothe sea, and the boat did not right again. Orrin Hatch and John Smith, surf men, were drowned. It is thought that they must have been struck by the edge of the boat, as both instantly sank from sight Gaptain Flynn, who was in command, climbed upon the bottom of the boat with the aid of Surf man Lud wig. He appeared to be injured, and was gasping as if in great agony. The rest of the crew?Michael King, Matthew Yore, and Thomas Wishart?caaght hold of the life lines and held on until, the* boat was dragged ashore. Captain Flynn was taken into the station, bat soon died. "MINDREADING." A Wonderful Exhibition Given byMr. Bishop in Boston. ' In a report of some exhibitions of "mind reading" given in Boston the Transcript of that city says: Mr, Bishop was removed to the ante-room ? -? < Vm vnaanfinia Ifr? I ana UllUUlUlUCU, auu Ul luo wgauaunu Ml Kennard gathered a knife from a gentleman and a reserved-seat check and an opera glass < ase from two ladies. These he tied up in a ' white handkerchief and made a round of the hall, stopping for a moment t) make the future tra.e the more difficult. Thenheprocee !eJ tj the upper balcony and deposited, the package in the hollow of the oa?of Apollo's statue in sight of all. Mr. Bishop then announced that tbe experiment would be made without any physical contact, in * order that the question of Vmusele-reading"' might be settled. Mr. Kennard placed his hand about five inches above that of Mr. Bishop, and almost instantly the latter started rapidly down th? hall, Mr. Kennard following as best he could They passed out at one of the side doors toward I'remont street, and in a very short time appeared in the rear of the se.-ond balcony. Here Mr. Bishop paused before a young man, over whom he pa>?e.i his hands, and then.without hesitation, pushei rapHly forward to the statuo and brought out the package. The articles were rapidly re-delivered, the onlyhitch proceeding from Mr. Kennari's uncertainty as to the person from whom he took the knife. Mr. Bishop next repeated his feat of reading the number on a concealed bank note _ through the impression produced on him by tha co-iimittee who hai committed it tome jiory. It was an erceedinzly difficult test,. * . I eing no less a figure than lS,:i40,7H3. Mr. Kennard stated to the audience that he thought it was due Mr. Bishop to say that nobody but himself had ever seen the number " of that note till he had produced it in the hall, as it was fresh from the treasury. The closing test was with Professor Lyon of Harvard, who wrote upon the back of the blackboard a word, a language unknown to Mr. Bishop an;l unseen by him. With infinite labor Mr. Bishop, still with his eyes bandaged, wrote upon the fa -e of the board, in view of the audience, an almost exact reproduction of the characters, which was Assyrian. This was the closing test. It is but fair to say that Mr. Bishop was successful in every one of his atten.pts, with a single exception, cn i that was aue to the fact that his directioni were not co'iipliod with. Evidently the believers in inusrie reading will have to reverse their theory. TORTURING CHINAMEN. Fifty Masked Men Rob the InhabU __ tants ol' a Chinese Settlement. A most daring midnight robbery has beea committed at Morita, the first siding on the line of the Texas aud Pacific railway, ten mileswestof Big Springs, Texas. The only inhabitants of the place are a gang of fifty Chinese section hands and a white foreman. About1 midnight the Chinamen were waited 4 upon by fifty masked men, who demanded . their money. Upon refusing to give up their hard-earned cash, they were, one at a time, hung up bv their cues until they gave up their money, the robbers, thinking they had not got ail the cash in the camp, returned and , tortured one of th"> Chinamen by holding him on a red hot stove until* his comrades gave up the balance of their money, some j $">00 in alL One celestial had his cue cut off, anl was otherwise horribly tortured.