University of South Carolina Libraries
t- in ???mm Railway churches are to be attached to the trains in South Russia. Owing to the long distances traveled and the constant work, the officials complain that they have no chance of attending divine service; so carriages fitted up as churches will run on Sundays and fete days. Dr. iUerriam, the ornithologist of the Department of Agriculture at "Washington, is engaged in collecting reports from all parts of the country in relation to the English sparrow. He has received thousands of such reports, but only one of them is favorable to the feathered nest. A Norwegian farmer named Christianson, living near Toronto, Dakota, was driving home from town recently, when an eagle, measuring nine feet from tip to tip, settled on his shoulders and attempted to carry him off. The farmer managed to get several lines about the bird and captured it alive. Ten per cent, of the students in the University of Zurich, Switzerland, are women. Twenty-nine of them are studying mcdicine, fourteen philosophy and two political economy. There are now forty-eight female students of medicine in London, and in Paris i 03. Within the last seven years eighteen women have taken a medical degree in Paris. The farmer's hired man who has been getting out of bed every morning at four t?j _:ii A u CIUUA. IU xcuu mc stuufc. mil uy uiau an over when informed that actual experiments prove that a horse can live eleven days and a cow nine without food. As a hog can live for twenty-nine days there is no use in feeding him but once in two weeks, according to the lightning calculator of the Detroit Free Presf. The United States Treasury authorities recently notified Henry Berg, the well-known President of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, that as the result of a settlement of his accounts while Secretary of Legation to Russia in 1865, the Governwonf Atpna liim if Q1 TV TV Pnrrp V?oa UiWUH VII Vil liiUI yiUli 114*1 iiUO created somewhat of a sensation by refusing to accept the money. The refusal to accept any money proffered by the Government is regarded little short of extraordinary. The average duration of life has been made the subject of fresh investigation by a German statistician, who finds that ' the lowest average is for the day laborer (thirty-two years), and the highest among those who engage in manual toil is among the gardeners, sailors and fishermen, fifty-eight years, The professional occupations come even above regular open air occupations, as the average given show forty-nine years for physicians, fifty-four for jurists, fiftyfiPVOn for foir?Tiora onr? civfr_cot?on fr\T WV ? vu iVMVMW* U uuvt OiAbJ'SVIVU *w* clergvmm. Ocean travelers do not know the terrible ordeal the stokers undergo. The Bteamer Umbria has seventy-two furnaces, which require 350 tons of coal per day, at a cost of $20,000 per voyage. One hundred and four men are employed at the furnaces. One stoker tends to four furnaces, rushing from one to ? another, spending three minutes at each. Then he dashes to the air-pipe, takes a turn at cooling off, and waits for his call to go through the same operation. Four hours of scorching and eight hours of sleep make up the routine of life. Cook county, Illinois, last fall elected a blind man to the State Legislature. His name is James O'Connor. He is a musician, and is probably the first blind man :? it. Ci-l-. X- - 1 !-l. iu iuc Liuicu cutics eicuieu 10 a irgisia tive trust. He lost his eyesight by the explosion of a fowling piece in 1874,and vas previous to that accident, a marine engineer on the Mississippi river. Afterward he turned his attention to music, and was able to earn his own living by that. He is thirty-eight years old. Justice, they say, is blind, but it remains to be seen whether Mr. O'Connor is a more exemplary legislator than his fellows. The Kriegsbibliothek?war library? of Berlin, is a unique collection of books. It contains all known works printed durnar and since the Franco-German war of 1870 and 1871, having direct relation to that campaign. The library contains portly volumes compiled by staff officers, pamphlet descriptions of single battles, war maps, plans of battlefields, diplomatic documents, biographies of Princes, Generals, and other prominent military personages of the period, caricatures and humorous war pictures. Additions tire continually made to this kriegsbibliothek, and the 4,kaiser" naturally takes * much interest in it. He would, jio doubt, lika to know very much, also, what new mat rials for this library of Itvife the next few years will supply. "The breeding and rearing of horses for general purposis of business and for army uses in foreign countries, says the New York Times,is one of the most profitable pursuits of the farmer at the present time, and indeed, permanently, for the demand now existing for such horses will always exist and increase. The British Government has recently sent an agent to Canada to purchase a large number of horses for its army. The value of these horses is from $150 for cavalry to $185 for artillery and draft animals; the weights required for the former being 1,0C0 to 1,150 pounds, and for the latter 1,100 to 1,400 pounds. But it is ^$aid that very few horses were found suitable for the purpose, a large proportion being rejected for unsoundness caused by brccJin": from unsound mare3 or sires, and because of the unfitness in form and character due to the use of the larjje-boned, heavy, and coarse breeds now so popular. These are entirely unfit for the saddle and for quick action, hence the search for horses in Canada was almost wholly futile." i nmm ???ifcni i w??B>cw>??a j A contemporary states it as a notable Tact that two-thirds of the statesmen j who have lived in the United States bei gan their career as teachers in the district schools. Lumber men of the northwest complain that a syndicate of Canadian capitalists are obtaining control of most of the timber of that region. They have already acquired possession of more than 500,000,003 feet of pine lumber in Northern Minnesota, and are making' arrangements to gobble up the rest of the vast timber belt on the northern Blope of the state. This tract is occupied by Indians, and the clause in the j sundry civil service bill, providing for a i commission to treat with them for their ; removal to the White Earth agency, it is | charged, was secured directly in the j interest of this Canadian syndicate. I Meanwhile the dispossessed northerners j are "passing it along," in boys' langu 'ge, | by gobbling up in their turn the best j timber lands of the Southern States. At ; least so the New York Commzrdal Adj ccrtiser assert?. ? ~ A movement has been started in New York for the establishment of coffeehouses in that city. Mr. Frederick Gore, Secretary of the London Coffee-house Asaociation, addressed a meeting a few days ago in the interest of such a step, and a committee, with Dr. Howard Crosby at its head, was appointed to consider plans and way9 and means. The coffee-house is not a new project. They were onened in Constantinople over three centuries ago, and about 100 years later they appeared in London and soon after in Paris. The association which has been laboring in London for some time past began with a capital of $100,000, but this j sum has been gradually increased as the movement developed. They are con- j ducted on business principles, the plan 1 being to make the houses self-sustaining and so relieve them of any charitable 1 feature which might render them objccI tionable to those in whose interest they are established. The Russian government has published some surprising statistics about Siberia as a penal colony. From 1784 to 1834, j it appears nearly one million men and women were sent to that bleak country as convicts and political exiles. Between 1863, the year of the Polish rebellion, and 1873, 50,000 were sent, while the army of exiles deported under the short reign of the present Czar foots up to the enormous total ot l4t>,3BU souis. women form one-fifth of the total uumber. As J most of them are over forty years of age very few marry, and to make matters worse marriage is prohibited for the rirsl , five years of exile. The escapes during . the past twenty years have averaged ] twenry-four per cent., despfte the costlj ( guarding of the prisoners. Two-thirds ol the crimes in Siberia are committed bf the e.\ile3, and because of this and ol their misery and of the numerous escapes, to say nothing of the enormout expense, the government is reported to be seriously considering the advisability of abolishing the present system of Siberian deportation. Little wonder thai the Bulgars refuse to be absorbed in an imperialism which punishes free speech with exile to Siberia and slavery in the quicksilver mines. We were recently told that Mars the t planet was endeavoring to communicate- ? with the Earth by means of elecricity. ] This was not a great success; people ' won't take to a big thing in a hurry, but j now the learned Signor Schiaparelli, di- I rector of the Milan Observatory, and g other astronomers, reasserts that on the ? planet Mars several luminous points, a marking parallels of latitude and meridians, and arranged ..in triangles, squares and rectangles, appear. There are excellent reasons for believing that these luminous points arc due neither to t snows nor mountain peaks; and so M. Q Flammarion, the French astronomer, comes forward with the opinion that ? they are nothing more nor less than sig- E nals being made by the astronomers or (. engineers on Mara to the inhabitants of r our earth. It was assumed, of course* i that there are inhabitants on Mars, that they study astronomy, that they have 1 discovered the electric light or some- * thing like it, that they have optical in- j struraents as powerful as ours, and that ( they watch with attention and curlbsity \ our earth. As geomi-try is the sam^ t throughout the universe, and as twice c two makes four on Mars as on the earth, ' ( the only available way of signaling to a j distance of some fifty million miles is by ] a system of geometrical figures, chang- < ing the fiery circle this month into a I rectangle or an ellipse the next. _ ?? ] A Preventive to Consumption. I . In a certain hospital a physician was I * convinced that some of the patients were ' hacking much more than was necessary or safe. He therefore, by the promise ' of rewards and punishments, induced 1 them simply to hold their breath when tempted to cough. In a little while he was surprised himself to see how some of j them recovered entirely from their dis- j ease. Constant hemming and coughing j is precisely like scratching a sore ou the , outside of the body?as long as it is done ] the sore will not heal. Let persons when tempted to cough draw in a full ( breath, and hold it until it warms and sooths every air cell, and they will socn receive benefit from the process. The | nitrogen which is thus occasionally retained acts as an anodyne to the irritated mucous membrane, thus allaying the desire to cough and giving the throat and 1 lun?s a chance to heal. At the same ' time a suitable medicine will aid nature in her effort to recuperate. And if the 1 old adage that ".i stich in time saves < nine" is applicable anywhere, it most 1 surely is with lung troubles. Every cold 1 almost can be cured if taken in time. If you fear that your throat and luugs are 1 seriously affected lose no time in consulting a good physician. It is wonderful ] how a thorough examination and the wel- , come statement that there is no necessa- ] rily fatal trouble will even save from , consumption some persons who have become morbid over their condition.?Boston Journal. , i < Ill I * I i H . ^TfTinTT TNT."t T>Tf .TlT1 TJU immij uisira A Llvoly Correspondence With Great Britain. Damag03 Demanded for Lossq3 of American Fishermen. TJ?e President has transmitted to Congress the correspondence in regard to the fisheries dispute, with the .'ollowing letter: To Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State,which is accompanied by the correspondence in relation to the rights of American fishermen in the British North American waters, and commend to your favorable consideration the suggestion that a commission be authorized by law to take perpetuating proofs of the losses sustained during i the past year by American fishermen, owing to their uufriendly and unwarrante 1 treatment by the local authorities of the maritime provinces of the Dominion of Canada. I may have occasion hereafter to make further-, recommendations during me present session ior sacn remeuiai legislation as may become necessary for the protection of the rights of our citizens engaged in the open sea fisheries in the north Atlantic waters. Grover Cleveland. Secretary Bayard, in his letter to the President, after referring to the unsuccessful attempts made in the past to permanently settle this long standing dispute, tays: "It will be observed in the course of the correspondence that notification has not failed to be duly given to the government of Great Britain that compensation is expected for the loss and damage caused to American fishermen by the unwarrantable action of the local authorities of the Dominion of Canada, not merely by the summary seizure of their vessels and the exaction of heavy fines in advance of hearing and judgment, but for the curtailment of privileges to which they were justly entit'.ed under commercial regulations as well as treaty stipulations; and the consequent interference with their legitimate voyages, whereby the natural profits of their industry were seriously diminished aud in many cases wholly destroyed. "It would seem proper that steps in perpetuan rei memoriam should be taken by Cougress to allow proofs to be made and placed upon re:ord of these losses and injuries to our citizens,- to enable them to be properly presented to her Majesty's Government for settle nent, and that for this purpose a commission should be authorized bv Congress to take the necessary proofs of the respective claimants." The correspondence opens with a dispatch of date March l'J, 1886, from Sir Lionel Sack vine \\ est, iue r>nwsu iXLiniswr, ui oecretary Bayard, transmitting a request of Earl Rosebery to be informed "whether it is the intention (of the United States Government) to give notice to the United States fishermen that they are now precluded from fishing in British North American territorial waters, as Her Majesty's Government are now considering the expediency of issuing a reciprocal notice with regard to British fishermen in American waters." To this communication Secretary Bayard replied under date of March 33. that "the fisnery question is now understood to rest on existing treaties, precisely as though no fishery articles ha l been incorporated in the treaty of Washington."' He adds: "In view of the enduring nature and important extent of the rights secured to Ameri:au fishermen in British North American territorial waters uud?r the provisions of the treaty of 1S18, to take fish within the three-mile limit in certain defi nite parts of the British North American coast and to dry and cure fish under certain conditions, this Government has not found it necessmy to notify fishermen 'that they are now precluded from fishing in British North American territorial waters.'" On June 2 Minister Phelps wrote to Earl Koseberry concerning the seizure of th9 David J. Adams. After arguing the legal questions involved at great length, he says: "I am instructed by my Governmentearlestly to protest against these proceedings as wholly unwarranted by the treaty of 1618, ind altogether inconsistent with the friendly elations hitherto existing between the United States aud her Majesty's Government; torejuest that the David J. Adams and the other American fishing vessels now under seizure in Canadian ports be immediately released, ind that proper orders may be issued ;d prevent similar proceedings in the future, flind I am also instructed to inform you that ;he United States will hold her Majesty's jrovernment responsible for all losses which nay bo sustained by American citizens in ;he dispossession of their property growing )ut of the search, seizure, detention or sale )f their vessels lawfully within the territorial waters of British North America." The correspondence includes letters of pro?st and argument from Mr. Bayard to Minster West, lrom the Earl of Rosebery and ;he Marquis of Lansdowne to Mr. Bayard ind United States Minister Phelps, discussing ;he disputed points at great length. Mr. Bayird is determine 1 and unflinching in bis relections on the conduct of Canadian officials, ind serves noti:e on the British Government ibat settlement in full for all damages will je demanded. The construction of the treaty >f 1818 is the bone of contention, and on both ides the argument is ably maintained. Each lifferent seizure appears to have Called forth i volley of correspondence. LATER NEWS. Or seventeen Massachusetts cities that have leld municipal elections thirteen voted gainst license. Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, a prominent Congregational minister of Brooklyn and exaember of Congress, is dead. Governor Lee on the 8th granted T. J. /luverius, condemned to be hanged at Richaond on the 10th for the murder of Fannie Lilian Madison, a respite of five weeks. Secretary Bayard has 6ent to Congress he complete official correspondence in the Canadian fishery question.? Nominations by the President: Thomas Moonlight, of Leavenworth, Kansas, to be Jovernor of Wyoming Territory; Arthur L. rhomas, of Pennsylvania, to be a member of he Utah Commission; also a number of >fficials in the navai fervica * A heavy storm has resulted in widespread lisaster to shipping along the coast of Great Britain. A French vessel foundered off uymcnurcn. ana six persons wore urowuea. Dn the Danish coast alio many vessels have aeen wrecked. Owing to h avy impertation of gold from Europo, caused by large purchases abroad of American railway securities, there is now at ;he New York Assay Office $43,000,000 iD bullion, against <21,050,030 last August. The Boston boot aud shoe house of Field, rhayer & Cj. has failed, with estimated liajilities of $800,003. Rev. Dr. McGlyn.v, pastor of a leading Now York Catholic church, who took active part in support of Henry Georgo during the recent Mayoralty canvass, has been summoned to Rome to explain political acts au.l ittarancjs that have not mat the approval of lis ecclesiastical superiors. Coal in immense quantities has been dis'AT'DfOil ir? Tavno Four nogroes in York county, S. 0., decapitated a boy who detected them stealing lis father's cotton. They were arrested, and ;wo confessed The Internal Revenue officials estimate thn evenues from the tax on oleomargarine a: ?1,000,000 per annum. Indian Appropriation bill, as completed iy the House Committee, provides for a x)tal appropriation of $5,178,000?a reduction of $350,000 a;< compared with the estinates for the current year. Two steamers collided off Queensland, and forty-two persons were drowned. President Cleveland's expression in lis Message of a desire for the negotiation of i new commercial treaty with Mexico has been well received by the prcs3 and Government of Mexico. A revolution is ii progreis in Ecuador. Rexe Goblet is the new French Premier called to form a new mjnistry. i NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle Statsa The opera house, Brockton, Mass., lias been entirely burned. Loss $220,000. Gen-eral Benjamin F. Butlkr got worstad in the suit brought at Boston by the National Soldiers' Home to recover #15,000 unaccounted for by him as Treasurer, the jury awarding the Homo $10,537.50. Butler will appeal. ajsew rork taiior namea rum.ouuor^ has been arrested charged with trying to influence a man likely to bocome a juryman in the second trial of McQuade, the alleged "Boodle" Alderman. The entire estate of ths late ex-President Arthur, valued at $150,000, is divided equally between his son itnd daughter. Ten acres of a Pittston (Penn.) coal mine suddenly collapsed- One mtin was killed, a number of build ings were vrrecked and the mine was ruined. C. M. Foster & Co., New York Importers of upholstery goods, have failed, owing $800,000. Henry George has written a reply to the recent pastoral letter ol! Archbishop Corrigan.of New York, taking issue with the Archbishop's views on tho land question. Recent severe storms have caused much loss to shipping along th9 Atlantic coast; Many vessels have been driven ashore and at least a score of live3 lost. South and West. The hog cholera in the Miami valley, Ohio, has been checked by the cold snap. It has carried off 25,000 hogs, valued at nearly $200,000. B. F. Perry, former Governor of Soutij Carolina, died at his home in Greenville, aged eighty-four. He wis appointed Provisional Governor by Ar.drew Johnson in 1865. There is a boom in mining stocks on the Pacific coast, and within ten days $4,000,000 were drawn Irom the San Francisco savings banks, mostly by laboring people for the purpose of speculation. A number of failures of large firms dealing in mining stocks have occurred. Great hardship to sailors has resulted from the recent severe weather on the Lakes. Many lake and river vessels have been driven ashore overweighted with ice and their crews frostbitten and suffering terribly. Congressman W. T. Rice died a fe* days ago at his home in Black River Falls, Wis., aged sixty-two years, . Portions of the South liave been vhited by a heavy snow storm. * The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada began its sixth annual session on the 7th at Cleveland. The National Trades Unions Convention also convened there on the 6th. About twenty firms o;! San Francisco mining stock brokers havo failed wit'iia a few days owing to the sudc en rise in mining stacks, followed by an oquilly sudden drop. The trial of the men acc lsed of inciting a riot of Anarchists in Milwaukee during the recent labor troubles resulted in a disagreement of tha jury. Thomas J, Cluverius, the young lawyer condemned to be hanged on the 10th at Richmond, Va., for the murder of Fannie Lillian Madison, was refuse J pardon or commutation of sentence on the 7th by Governor Lee. Washington. n* T? ?J a V n.l.i 3 iu? .rrediueao atu uppuiurou ^umuiu Moore Postmaster a,t Trenton, N. J. Public Printer Benedict has notified the Treasury Department that an immediate appropriation of $8%000 is needed to prevent the suspension of work in the Government Printing Oilice. Additional appointments by the President: Charles B. Morton, of Maine, to be Commissioner cf Navigation; J. B. Caldwell, of Indiana, to be Deputy Second Auditor of the Treasury; A. K Lewis, of Pennsylvania, to be Deputy Fifth Auditor of the Treasury; Hugh A. Haralson, of Georgia, to be Deputy Auditor of the Treasury for the Postotflce Department; John McCafferty, to be Collector of Customs for the District of Alaska, and John Cousins to bo Collector of Customs for the District of Kennebunk. President Cleveland has been suffering from rheumatism, and ha3 been advised to take more exercise, having gained greatly in weight. A firk in Washington destroyed Herzog'ii Opera House. Loss about $175,000. The commissions ef sixty Presidential Postmasters expire during December. The President has appointed George A. Allan to bo United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, vice Wm A Sf/una cncnnnrlnrl fnr nflPh'cAn. ship." During the past fiscal year 634 suits, aggregating in amount $3,500,000, have been brought undor the ordinary jurisdiction of the iJnitei Sk'ate? Court of Claims. The total number of susli case3 pouiing is 691, involving *25,000,0tt>. Senator Cheney, of New Hampshire, appointed to fill temporarily the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Senator Pike, has taken his seat. Foreign. The French Ministry tendei^ed their resignations on the I'd after the defeat of the Government on a motion to alwlish the office of 8ub-Prefect The British Government continue its prohibition of Nationalist meetings in Ireland. Count Von Mojltke. the Gkirman miTitan icaaer, in a speecn oeroro tne Herman tfeicnstag predicted a European war at an early date. Large f ndings of gold havo been made in South Australia, and 5,000 me a are already there, with hundred* flocking daily to the new El Dorado. FOUR MENKILLED. Victims of the Explosion of a Locomotive Boiler. A few minutes after o o'clock the other afternoon nn engine of the Bee:h Creek Railroad blew up with tremendous force near Elmira, N. Y. Five men were on the engine at the time, and ail were instantly killed but one. The killed are: Philip Knight, .engineer; Allen Ramsey, fireman; James Warren engineer, and Joseph Fields, machinist. John Stapleton, machinist who was on the engine at the time, was blown about twenty feet down a bank and escaped unhurt. All the bodies were terribly mangled. At the time of the explosion tin steam gauge only showed a pressure of 14ti pounds, which leads to the balief that it was not working right, as it is supposed that there were 300 pounds pressjre. The dome aud wagon top were blown 1,500 feet, and Fields went with tbem. The.se pie es weighed about two tons and a half Tho froolr ? fnr fKo lantrfh r?f tbree rails was torn up. Pieces of flesh and iron were found s attored all over the lot. The noise of the explosion was heard twelve miles away. All of the killed were married and had families. A SAVAGE EAGLE, Attacking Two.Men?Trying to Carry One Away. Prof. W. F. (,'arr and. Samuel Curtis, who were surveying on Nicolet avenue, Minneapolis, were attacked the other afternoon by a large eagle. The bird dropped dowu like a bullet, and knocking Curtis's cap from his head, assaulted him with great fury. The man caught up a crowbar, and for a f 3 iv minutes ciofendcd himself in an utie pml combat, calling lustily for his companion. Professor Carr coming up, the savage bird turne 1 upon hiin.caught him by the log., threw him dovm, tore his trousers, and, vlnking his talons in the fleshy part of his leg, inflicted a serious wound. The bird then mounted to the collar of the unfortunate man and seamed determined to bear him ftW.iv hnHilv lint. at. this crisis i othermen came up, ani by their united ef- j forts the bird of liberty was finally conquered and securely pinioned. It was found that his wings measured nine feet ten inches from tip to tip, and his talons were over four inches Ion?. The captura of the eagle goes far to explain the fact that lately the farmers near the Washburn Home have nrssed sundry pigs and shees. The late et-1'resident Arthur used often to go out walkiuc; iti Washington, and before doiug so invariably put a lot of silver coins in a haudy pocket to give to beggirs, organgrinders, newsboys, etc. i DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 1 . I j Annual Statements of Secretaries Lamar and Endicott. _ 7 _ 1 Facts ana Figures Relative to Interior Affairs and the Army. Secretary Lamar in his second annual report speaks very favorably of the progress of Indian affairs and submits evidence that the work of elevating the race is bearing fruit Referring to tho Administration's policy, the Secretary says: ''That policy, as I understand it, is the incorporation of the Indian race into our political and social system as citizens. Before, however, this consummation, which wiU be the crowning glory of our Government, can be attained, there must bo some radical changes in our Indian policy." Secretary Lamar again earnestly recommends the passage of a law authorizing the appointment of a commission to visit each reservation and investigate the condition, conduct, circumstances and needs of Indians residing thereon. The work of locating tho Indians on lands in severalty has been and is now being pushed with commendable activity by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. During the year about eight hundred Indians have received title, as prescribed by treaties, to allotments of land for individual occupancy. Quite a number have taken up homesteads on the puplic domain under the Indian Home stead laws. A large number have been located who have not yet baen furnished wish a title to their selections. There are 214 Indian schools, with an average attendance of 9,528, which cost the Government last year $787,881.42. The total amount expended by the Indian Bureau was 16,100,751.82; balance of appropriations unexpended, $1,600,023.30. Public lands were disposed of as follows: Cash sales, 4,789,016 acres; homestead and ; other entries, 18,002,807 acres; Indian lands, 1,132,597 acres: total, 24,614,419 acres. The cash receipts of the Laud Office were J59,031,084.34. Snrveys and re-surveys of public and Indian lands during the year aggregate 2,302,377 acres. The Secretary recommends an increase of the price for sales of lands at private cash entry, with a view to prevent the accumulation of large tracts in the hands of a few individuals. During tha year 40,678 applications for i patents, registrations of trade-marks and la| bel? were received, and 25,61'.) granted. The I receipts of the oSlce were $1,20-3,167.80. A geological survey of 81,829 square miles of land was made at a cost of about $2.75 per mile. The metallic product of the United States last ye(ir was worth $181,589,865. Of this amount $31,801,000 was in gold, $51,000,00) rilvcr, $18,292,099 copper, $10,409,431 lead and $04,712,40;) pig-iron. The general condition of the Territories ' shows marked and, in some instances, striking progress in population, taxable property, settlement of land, education, the mecnanic art*, railroad enterprises and many other of the elements which promise to make them great and prosperous States in the future. The Donulation of the Territorv of Dakota for tbo year ended June c)0, 188U, is estimated at 500,00'), an increase during the year of 85,000. The present population of Montana is given at 110,000, and that of Idaho at 85.000, an increase of nearly 10,000 in each of theso Territories during the year. Washington Territory now claims a popu'ation of 210,000. ; Tho Secretary, referring to the Utah Coramission, says: "In tho opinion of the commission the bill now pending in the House, as it was amended by tho Senate and by the J'id'einry ConrrJttoe of the House, famishes a (. jrarrehensive plan for the treatment of i-ublu aiFairs in Utah, and they urge its nr osnge c* the approaching session. They ali') recommend loiislation forbidding the ' ."lign.uon into tho United States or aliens vbo ore polygamists, and they favor the i-dof,tion of the constitutional amendment proposed by the Judiciary Committees of the two Houses of Congress." Mr. Lamar opposes the building of railroads in the Yellowstone National Park and favor! the appropriation of $100,000 for the constructi jn of wagon roads through the park. The War Department. The report of tli3 Secretary of War shows that the total etpenditures, under his direc-' won aunng lag pasi nscai year, were ?*> .?,990,903, of which $6,294,80j was for public works, including river and harbor improvements The appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 3<), 1^7, aggregate $40,027,559, of which $10,72o,41G is lor public works, including river and harbor improvements. The present strength of the army is reported at 23,040 privates and 2, l(*;i officers. There are ten regiment3 of cavalry aggregating 6,913 privates and 411 officers; live regiments of artillery aggregating 2,473 privates and 212 officers; twenty regiments of infantry aggregating 10,721 privates and 836 officers. There are ten generals and 595 Indian scout?, besides 573 officers and 1,212 privates on the general staff. Speaking of Chief Geromino's capture Secretary Endicott says: "It is hoped that the Apa:he wars and raids that have devastated Arizona and Now Mexico and the adjacent States of Mexico, for so many years, are ended by the permanent removal of the fiercest and most dangerous of the Apache tribes." The Secretary of War concurs with Lieotenant-General Sheridan in his recommendation that all officers found to be permanently incapacitated for active service be trans ICI I CU IAJ VUr A OVU Od 110V l*-J iUdw w j/ww and he recommends action by Congress to this end. Mr. Endicott also recommends that i competitive examinations for promotion in fcbe army should be held. He does not think that seniority alone should determine an advance in rank. Mr. Endicoott lays stress upon the defenseless condition of tbe seacoast and says: "We have a sing'o problem to solve in defending our cities; how best to resist and silence the armored ships and the steel guns and mortars of modern construction. It can only te accomplished by guns of equal force to those which an enemy can bring against us, and by torpedoes or submarine mines laid in the navigable channels, both so guarded and protected that they can do efficient service when required. We have no gun now which can stop the progress of or do any material injury to a wellarmored ship. The manufacture of a gun is a work of time, and of a long time, aud | cannot be extemporized when wanted. Torpedoes may be more quickly created, but still time aud monoy are needed for their coustruction. It has been said by a well-informed writer on the subjcct that it is a matif wn Itnvrt An )ion<4 PlinHPh cables and cases to control with torpedoes the channels past Sandy Hook alone. PROMINENT PEOPLE. A private hobby of Stecretary Whitney is said to be chicken raising. Mk.Gladstonk has a rent-roll and land Income of #70,003 a year. Lord Wolseley's salary as AdjutantGeneral of the British army is $13,500 a year. Raix-in-tiie-Face, the Sioux chief who killed General Custer, hasbisrun to study his ABC's. Mrs. Langtry is said to b? writing a novel dealing with English life in England and America. The late ox-President Arthur's estate is variously estimated at $10i),0j0 to $200,'KH). It probably will not much exceel the first figure. Mit. Heron-Allen, England's young palmist, is examining the hand of New Yor* cociety people at *10 ea?h. He tells about twenty fortunes a day. L. B. Davis, inventor of the locomotive ' cow-catcher," is liviug in Cincinnati devoting himself principally to designing patterns for iron work. Mrs. General Hancock is visiting the widow of General Mit hell in Washington, and it is likely that she will make her future home .in or near that city. Mrs. General Grant will visit Washington during the winter, her first visit to the Capital since she went there with the General in the v? inter of 18S4. Joseph Holt, President Lincoln's Jud<re Advocate General, still lives on Capitol Hill, Washington. His hair is white and his form bent. He lives practically alone. Colonel R. G. Inqersoll has been re teined in b?half of the condemned Chicago anarchist?, and will appear for them to argue the appeal before the Supreme Court in March next. - . 4: SUMMAEY_OF_CONGEESS. Senate. First Day.?The second session of the Forty-ninth Congress was ojpenei in the Senate with the usual ceremonies in presence of crowded galleries. The Senate chamber was appropriately drape.l in black in memory of toe late ex-President Arthur and the late Senator Pike. Senator Sherman called the Senate to order, and Rev. J. J. Butler delivered the prayer.... Annual reoorts ofdeportments were laid before the Senate?Committees were appointed to notify the House that the Senate was in session and to wait upon the President Messrs. Edmunds and fc-'aulflbury were designated to perform this duty Senator Williams of California was sworn in Some bills and petitions were introduced to forfeit Florida land grants, to authorize bridges across the Missouri and East Rivers, etc. Recess was then taken until 2 o'clock, when the President's message was receivedand read. Second Day.?Three bills and resolutions relative to the tari ff were introduced: Mr. VanWyck introduced a bill for placing sugar, molasses, lumber and timber on the free list; Mr. Morrill, a resolution declaring that any tariff legislation at the present time'is inexpedient; and Mr. Dawes, a resolution instructing the Finance Committee to report whether and how the revenues of the country can be reduced to the limit of its expenditures without injury to business interests.. ..The Senate adjourned on motion of Mr. Miller,of Ne w York, out of respect to the memories of Representatives Beach and Arnot, of New York, and Price, of Wisconsin. Third Day?Mr. Edmunds presented a memorial in favor of a constitutional amendment empowering Congress to pass uniform laws on the subject of marriage and divorce. Referred to the Judiciary Committee. Also a memorial against permitting aliens to pos39ss large tracts of land. Same reference A bill was introduced by Mr. Hoar providing for the erection of a monument to the negro sailors who gave their lives to the presservation of the Government Mr. Ingalls jTered a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to the number of manufacturers of and wholesale and retail dealers in oleomargarine who have paid special taxes under the law of August a, in what districts such taxes were paid, and how many pounds of oleomargarine have been assessed, and in what districts it has been made. Adopted Mr. Blair spoke in favor of the bill proposing an amendment to the Constitution of theUnited States extending the right of suffrage to. women.... A message was received from the President transmitting the correspondence Dn the fisheries question, and the Senate immediately went into executive session Fourth Day.?Mr. Sewell introduced a bill for the redemption of trade dollars? Mr. Morrill spoke in favor of the following resolution regarding the tariff, introduced by him: "The promise of making any revision of the tariff in a spirit of fairness to all interests, not to injure any domestic in* dustries bu; to promote their healthy growth, so that any change of law must be at every step regardful of the labor and capital involved, and without depriving American labor of the ability to compete su?ce3slu'ly with foreign labor, and without imposing lower rate3 of duty than will be ample to cover any increased cost of production which may exist in consequence of the higher rate of wages prevailing in this country, aopears so obviously hopeless and impracticable that any further attempts at revision by tha present Congress in contravention to the foregoinrr r>orrlinol HnnlortlfiAno nro f^ Ko rflTQ CK I as inexpedient and detrimental to the revival of the trade and industry of the country." Messrs. Beck and Sherman also took part in the discussion. House. FinsT Day. ? When Speaker Carllslo rapped the House to order for the opening of the t ecoad session of the Forty-ninth Longro:s, there was a full attendance of membei 6 aud a large number of spectators. The desks of various : Representatives were decked with beautiful floral offerings. The Chaplain in his opening Iprayer feelingly referred to the deaths of Representatives Beach and Arnot At the roll call 341 members responded.. .Messrs. Regan, Breckenridge (Ky), and Reed were designated a committee to noti.y the Pre.ident that the House awaited his pleasure Messrs. S. S. Cox and Henry Bacon of New York, and H. W. Hush, of Maryland, were sworn in....Recess was taken until 2 o'clock, when the President's mes-age was received and read. Second Day.?Bills and resolutions were introduced as follows: By Mr. Adams, of Illinois?io change the law In relation to the amount of United States bands required to be kept on deposit by national banks as security for their circulating notes. By Mr. Peters, of Kansas?For the deposit of gold or silver coin or bullion as security for national bank circulation. By Mr. Parker, of New York?To amend the Oleomargarine bill so as to make the tax <i cents a pound. Referred to the Committee on Agriculture. By Mr. Cox, of New York?To prevent Government officials from receiving two salaries.... Mr. Caldwell, of Tennessee, called up for consideration and advocated the Electoral Count bilL Third Day.?Mr. Boutelle (Me.) asked for inanimous consent to put upon its passage a Dill admitting free of duty material to be lsed in rebuilding the town of Eastport, Me., which wa* destroyed by fire October 14, 18Stt. ilr. Bre.kcnridge (Ark.) objected to the immediate consideration of the bill, expressing ;he opinion that the people of the whole country were as much in need of relief from taxation as the people of Eastport He eras glad to find the gentleman from Maine confessing that the tariff was a tax; and he would insist that the bill should take the regalar course and be sent to the committee which had charge of the subject of taxation. ' The bill was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.... The Electoral Count bill vas debated until adjournment^ Fourth Day.?Mr. Forney (Ala.) from the Committee of Conference on the Fortification Appropriation Bill, reported a continued disagreement. A further conference was ^ ordered.... Mr. Pays on (111.) from the Committee on Public Lands, reported back the bill to restrict the ownership of real estate in the Territories to American citizens with Sinate amendments thereto. The amendments were noa-coucui reu m uuu a conference ordered The bill extending the free delivery system was passed, with an amendment providing that the'system may be extended to every place containing a population of not less than 10,000 within its corporate limits, according to the last general census taken by authority of State or United States law. * or to any postoflice which produce 1 a gross revenue for the preceding fiscal year of not less than $10.003.... The Electoral Count bill was taken^up, and after being amended was j a s?d../I Messrs. "Weaver and Hat h spoke in favor of, and Messrs. Breckenbridge, Gibson, Reagan and Tucker in opposition to the bill creating a Department of Agriculture and Labor.... Mr. Randall reported the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Good watermelons are still being picked in Georgia. The total Prohibition vote at the recent elections was about 300,000. Ten thousand persons have died from cholera, in Tokio, Japan, this year. An importation of about fifteen hundred English pheasants was recently made. Atlanta. Ga., has a kerosene drunkard who drinks half a gallon of oil a week. A single hunter on the Antioch (Cal.) marshe3 bagged 325 duck" in one day. A south polar expedition is being arranged for by a party of Australians. The Legislature of Alabama has elected a woman for enrolling and engrossing clerk. Southern' advices claim a marvelous new growth for orange trees arter the freeze of last winter. Deer were never before so numerous in the mountain regi mis of West Virginia as they now are. The orange crop of Southern California this year is estimated at 500,000 boxes, about 1UO,IAW,OJO oranges. ~ UUKINU a smaru suun-aiunu nv 1UUVH.V, Cal., a rancher was in town trying to sell a load of watermelons. Nathan Hobbs, of Ponnfield, Ga., who is ninety-six years old, works every day and reads without spectacles. Gold has been discovered at Oklahoma, Indian Territory. Saveral hundred claims have already been staked out A chkck for on? cent was recently drawn in New York by the Government in favor of an importer who had paid excess of duty to that extent. Francis Darnall and his seventeen-year old son visited Griffin, Ga, the other day, and crowds followed thein. The father is four feet four inch?s tall and the son three feet one inch. , - ' FIVE HEROES LOST. , Brave Sailors Drowned While Trying-to Bender Assistance.. 1 ' ~'-. Their Boat Overturned While Help" ing a Disabled Steamer, While performing an act of heroism First officer Bartholomew H. Henry, of the steam| ship Knickerbocker of the Cromwell line of ! steamers, and four brave members of the ves' Bel's crew lost their lives the other morning M in the terrible storm of wind and blinding snow which swept the New Jersey coast ^ The Knickerbocker arrived at New York Liuiu iioiv vueuui uiier a lempesiuou* ! voyage of seven days. 'When she had been made fast to her moorings, Captain Frank i Kemble came ashore and told the ptory of the loss of his friend Henry and the others, i with tears streaming down his cheeks. This is the Captain's story: | On Wednesday the Knickerbocker left New ; Orleans with passengers,' crew and cargo for ! New York City. The weather was fair until : the steamer struck the Florida coast, when heavy winds, varying from northeast to j northwest, were met. The sea was high, but j the vessel proceeded on her way with only little difficulty. ! At 8 o'clock a. v. the following Tuesday, the weather was nasty. The wind was blowing a gale from the northeast, with & driving snow-storm. When the Five Fathom Lighthouse had been reached, which is 150 miles distant from New York city and off the '/ coast of New Jersay, tbe lookout sighted a large schooner in the distance with the distress signal flying. First Officer Henry prop sad to the Captain that men be lent to her relief. Hepromised to go himself, and asked that four men of the crew be detailed to accompany him* When the crew learned what was wanted four of the most experienced of the sailors? John Johnson, Fred. Johnson, George Harrifand William Metgaten?volunteered their services. ... Just then tbe northeast gale Changed to ar trale from the northwest, and the spa. was rolling in mountains. With great difficulty I and danger the lifeboat, which was a new one and of the most improved pattern, waslowered. Officers and men jumped in and pulled away on their eri and of mercy to the disabled schooner in the distance. Nearly an hour it took the boat to reach. the schooner, and every now and then on her trip she was lost to the breathless passengers ana crew, who were watching her from the steamer rocking in the trough of t':e sea. At last the schooner was reached. Sheproved to be the Mary D. Creamer, bound to Philadelphia Her captain said that her rudder haa broken, and that she \vas helpless. She wanted to be towed to thiladelphia. Those on board the Knickerbocker then saw Officer Henry take a line from the cruiser and saw the boat's crew pull towardthe Knickerbocker. As the crew rowed away the line from the schooner was payed out, little by little. Finally, when about half the distance had been accomplished, a wave like a mountain came and struck the life-boat broadside. The towline parted in twain, the lifeboat capsized and her commanding officer and crew were seen struggling in tna water for their lives. It seemed hours, but it "was in reality only afew minutes when the boat was righted and three of those struggling with the waves were seen to clamber into her. The other two were never 6een again. Two sailors were drowned. Again the boat proceeded laboriously on its journey, first officer Henry took the place of one of the sailors at the oars and pulled with the remnant of bis crew. The passengers on the steamer saw him cease rowing once. He at that time lashed himself to the seat on which h? eat The wind still continued to blow the tremendous gale, and the billows seeded higher than ever before. Bat on and on the boat came with a progross hardly perceptible until it was within 'easy hailing of the anxious watchers on the steamer's decks... Then there rolled a threatening wave from the northwest, higher by far than any whifch had preceded it, and struck the life beat a terrific blow. Once more she capsized, and the three men could be distinctly seen battling the waves. The next wave that came took the boat on. its crest, and wijh tremendous force flung itagainst the hull of the steamer. It was stove in in an instant and sunk out of sight. Scarcely had the life-boat gone to the Dottorn when the body of a man was seen floating near the steamer's side. It was that of First Officer Henry. Lines were thrown and the remains were brought on deck. They were put in the state-room he occupied in life, and ware brought to the city. The bodies of the sailors were not found. ' -V TEE TREASURER. The Government's Receipts and Expenditures?Silver Dollars.. From the report of the United Stat63Treasurer to the Secretary of the Treasuryr . it appears that the net receipts of th.? government during the fiscal year inded June SO, 18S6, were $336,439,737 and tbe net expenditures, 1342,438,138. Th** excess of revenue over expenditure8 was $93,956,589. The receipts were $13,749,030.68 greater, and the expcndito-res were $17,743,796.01 less than last year, making an - increase in the net receipts for ihe past fiscal year over that of 1885 of $30,493,817,39. Bonds of the United States amounting to* $44,531,350 were redeemed and applied to the sinking fund. Coupons from bonds of tbe United States amounting to $7,557,413 were paid by tbe Assistant Treasurers. Interest amounting to $43,494,637 was paid on [ registered bonds of the United States. ' Tbe balance in tbe Treasury at the close of the year ending September 30, 18S6. was $100,055,775, an increase over that of 1885 of $16,815,63(5. Worn and mutilated United States notes AAA f J.J amounting to st?,uuu,uvw were xorworuvxi w the Treasury for redemption and new notes to a like amount were issued inplace thereof.. The issue of silver certificates amounted to $4,000,000 and *.38,523,971 were releemed. Gold certificates amounting to $10,188>8y5were redeemed. The total 'amount of debts outstanding at the close of ihe fiscal year was $346,G8l,0I(v The present business season, which began much earlier than usual, the Treasurer says, has absorbed a large amount of currency and this increased movement has not yet ceased. There are now in circulati'm $8f,7Sl,4t8 standard silver dollars, being the largest sum yet attained in the circulation of this kind of currency. The Treasurer is of opinion that $65,000,000 is the extreme limit which may be attained. He says, however, that it cannot be maint-lined at that sum wheathe new $1 and and $2 silver certificates are in full supply, and a return to the Treasury of at least onehalf the amount n#w in circulation is expected. The Treasurer thinks the Government would be benefited by a suspension of the silver dollar coinaze. ESTIMATES FOE 1888. Secretary Manning Submits His An> nual Budget to Congress. Tho Se.TPtirv of the Treasury has sent to Congress the estimates of appropriations required for the fiscal year ending June 30, The total amount estimated as required for all exj eases of the government is $32V i lfc5,7;>4. which is $14,40J,75'J less than the sum called for in the estimates submitted last year, aui $3,272,091 less than the aggregate of appropriations for the present fiscal year. There is an increase of about $4,0)0,010 for public works, about $3,000,00) for the r aval establishment, abont $1,000,0 )0 for the military and about $1,000,000 for the postal service'estabhshment. The increase in the other items is small. The estimates for public buildings under the Treasury Department amount to $3,444,014, of which $105,000 is for the Brooklyn Postoffice, $100,000 for the Koch ster Court bouse, ?1U i.U'JU ior ma iroy rcsromce, ana $250,000 for the Mariue Hospital at NewYork. An estimate of $o00,0;,0 is made for continuing work on the Congres -ional Library building. The estimates for river aud harbor improvements aggregate $30,281,740. The design for the new two-cent postage stamp, which is to be put into circulation about January 1, represents an embossed head of George Washington in profile upon blue tinted background.