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The swine census as compared to the
fcuman is as eighty to one hundred. Thak
is, according to Statistician Dodge, of
.'he Department of Agriculture, "\Ya*h?
A-- 11rirr. avnrv
lD?lOIl, tlicit (lit vigu.j ? j
100 of population of the United States.
It is said that if the silk-reeling machinery
now being tried at "Washington
works successfully it will put $50,000,?
000 a year more in the pockets of farmers.
The United States Commissioner of
Agriculture will buy cocoons from those
who wish to sell them.
That "knowledge is power"' has recently
been shown in Upper Michigan,
where a poorly-dressed day-laborer a
few months ago offered 2 ? cents a ton
for the refuse and worthle-s rock heap3
around the iron mines. It has panned
out one-half gtod ore, and he has already
realized about $>,000,000 from his purchase.
Some months ago the natives of a certain
district in Australia predicted the
approach of floods, and left their lowlying
villages for the higher country.
The floods camc several weeks later, and
the natives said that their information
had been gathered from the ants, which
had built their nests in the trees, instead
of, as usual, on the ground.
If any one wishes to prove to what a
great degree hi> own perceptions depend
upon his surroundings, let him hold the
ficcrers of one hand in a barrel of ice wa*
ter, and those of the other in a bowi of
water as hot as he can bear it, for say
one minute, and then plunge both hands
into a third bowl of water at the temperature
of an ordinary living room.
This water will be cold to one hand and
hct to the other. It is an amusing and
instructive experiment.
The latest idea in England is to tax
foreign workmen $25 a year. The proposition
is aimed at the German servants
and artisans, who are found be be formidable
rivals of the native article.
German and other foreign competition
in ocean commerce is also seriously impairing
the prosperity of Liverpool. Its
chipping statistics for 1S8C show a decrease
of 100,000 tons. The coastwise
trade r" )ws an increase, the falling off
being in the foreign trade.
The following table shows the number
of murders per 10,000,000 inhabitants in
each of the principal countries:
UDited Kingdom 237
Belgium 240
France 205
Scandinavia 260
Germany 270
Austria 310
Russia 323
Italy 504
Spain 533
United States ??20
Dr. Brown-Sequard is quoted as saying
that one has only to harden the ncck and
feet and destroy their sensitiveness to
prevent takiug cold. This is done by
daily blowing a stream of cold air, by
means of an clastic bag, upon the neck,
and by immersing the feet in cold water.
The air is at first only slightly cool, but
is each day made colder, until the ncck
can stand an arctic blast with impunity.
The feet arc immersed in water at first at
a temperature of ninety degrees, and
this is gradually reduced to thirty eight
degrees.
According to the calculations made by
a scientiGc writer, it requires a prodigious
amount of vegetable matter to form
a layer of coal, the estimate being that
it would really take 3,000,000 years to
form a coal bed 100 feet thick. The
United States has an area of between
1100,000, and 400,000 square miles of coal
fields, 100,000,000 tons of coal being
mined from these fields in one year, or
enough to run a ring around the earth at
the equator live and one-half feet wide
and five and one-half thick, the quantity
being sufficient to supply the whole
world for a period of 1,500 to 2,( 00
year^ __
The nature of the potato has been thoroughly
exposed in an exhibition celebrating
the tercentenary of the introduc
tion of the potato into England. 3Iethods
of storing, preserving and using potato
products were shown, and the history
was exhibited in an historic and
ecientific collection, including maps
showing the European knowledge of the
New World :500 years ago, and the proximity
of potato growing districts to the
ports most frequented, and illustrations
of potato disease and works on the subject.
The potato was found to be more
than a prosaic tuber; it was a subject of
history, botany and travel.
In 171)1) the population of Spain scarce
ly reached 10,000,000, but at the end of
1882 it exceeded 18,000,030, this being
tantamount to an increase of 8.40 per
1,000 inhabitants every year. The agricultural
population, which was only 3,013,000
cighty-tivc years ago, is now !>,328,003,
and the area under under cultivation
has increased faom 5:!,C00,000 to
193,700,000 acres, while there arc now
38,000,000 head of cattlc as against 'just
half that number at the beginning of the
century. The industrial population of
Spain has risen from 2,035,000 to 3,038,
000, and the number of manufactories,
etc., iro:n ooo 10 i-t,vn. i liu iruue 01
the country lias increased in proportion,
the p ogress during the last twenty-five
years being particularly remarkable, as,
while the imports and exports together
amounted to only L'2">,s0.,,00 > in 1SG0.
they have been gradually increasing and
now reach itft'jOOO.OOO. The increase
extends to all branches of trade, for
while Spain now produces 4til/MO,000
gallons of wine, of which about twothirds
are consumed in the country aud
the remainder is exported. Her railway
pvstem, which but five years ago did not
reach 4/200 miles, is now not far short of
mile?. ...1
France now has a total debt of about J
$7,200,000,000, or twice a9 large as that
?Vin 1'niforl Stotf>a nf tVir> rlose of the
war, and six times as large as our present
interest bearing debt. The French
debt is nearly $20.') per head of her population.
while that of the United States
is less than *'20 per head. There is an
interest 'charge of $140,000,000 a year,
besides annuities and other burdens not
clearly stated, amounting to nearly as ,
much more. The annual revenue wrung '
from the people is $050,003,000, and yet j
this is insufficient to meet the necessities J
of the government.
A novel ice-boat has been invented |
which ought to be of service in Polar
expeditions. The object of its construction,
however, is far more practical and
useful. It is for the Michigan Central {
Kailroad, and is to have a capacity of!
thirty cars, to run across the Straits of j
Mackinaw. It will be of peculiar construction,
designed especially to overcome
the hitherto quite insurmountable
obstacles that have been encountered in
the Straits of Mackinaw in midwinter.
I'y an ingenious expedient the new boat
breaks its own way through an ice floe
by immense screws at either end. It is
estimated that under the most adverse
circumstances the boat will be able to
make the passage in one day, where a
trip of nine days ha> been not uncommon
in bad times heretofore.
The separating tendencies of the white
and colored Methodists at the South are
attracting the attention of the leaders of
the denomination. At a recent preachers'association
the Rev. O. H. "Warren,
of the Xorthern Christian Advocate.,
opened ihe discussion, and said the subject
was brought before the country by
the recent action of the Chattanooga
I'niveisity in refusing admission to
young colored men. Dr. Warren reviewed
the work of the Methodist
Church in the South sincc the close of
the war. At first the work was carried
on without regard to color, and soon ths
- 0 - ,
fictwa? developed that separation of the
races was deemed necessary, aDd now
there are very few, if any, mixed congregations
or conferences in the South,
and thus caste or separation exists. Dr.
Warren contended that the division was
natural and necessary.
The American Grocr furnishes some
interesting figures concerning the "tomato
pack" of the year, showing to what
enormous proportions this comparatively
new industry has grown. The total pack
for the year is 2,303,700 cases of two
dozen cans cach. The total for 1885 was
1,434,000 cases; and the average forthe
past four years has been 2,190,031, showing
that the pack of 1880 is very much
above the average. New Jersey takes
the lead in the business, nearly one-third
of the total pack coming from that State.
Delaware comes next and then New
York. Michigan contributed 3:^,105 cases
to the mass. It will be gratifying to consumers
as well as packers to learn that
all the old packed goods have gone into
consumption, and that the spring will
see the stock lighter than it has been at
any time for six years. Although the
efonrl in nnt' pli
mate and last a lifetime, everybody pre.
fers them reasonably fresh and modern.
The newest and greatest mining camp
in the "West is said to be the Butte Anaconda,
in Montana Territory. According
to a correspondent of the St. Louis
GloU-Democrat there are eighteen companies
in the district, most of which are
doing well. The population is about
2'?\0'J0, and the town "supports four
daily newspapers, five brass a :d string
bands, three variety theatres, one opera
house, any number of gambling and
drinking establishments, is out of debt
and has $14,0JO in the treasury. The
mines in the district for the year 1883
produced close on $21,000,000. To
stand on any of the j>eaks and eminences
around Butte and take in the surrounding
country at a glance would convince
the most sceptical that here are gathered
more mills, smelters, shaft houses and
more producing mines to the acre than
upon any other portion of the known
inhabited globe. The amount of pros
. 1 5 U-J nntt
peeling now DUIIlg pilSUUU ciiiiJJaco anything
that Virginia City and the other
great Nevada camps could boast of in
thsir palmiest days."
The hostilities that have been going
on more or less in the northern part of
Sumatra for the last thirteen years between
the Dutch and the Achincsc are no
nearer than ever to a conclusion.
Acheen is the principal native sovereignty
on the island, and has kept its independence
against European efforts to subjugnte
it for nearly four ccnturies.
Through a great part of the time commercial
treaties have been maintained
with the Sultan of Acheen by European
occupants of the island, but the piracies
indulged in by his people and his alleged
violations of faith have of late greatly
exasperated the Dutch. An expedition
sent from the Netherlands in 1873 to
crush the Achincse was defeated with
much loss. Sincc then the war has been
prosecuted with varying success. Of
late the natives have begun to smuggle
in rifles and even artillery, so that they
have | ut the coast fort at Segli under
siege. The Dutch troops also suffer
severely from disease. Altogether Sumatra
has c ost the Netherlands much iu
money and men, with a prospect now of
costing much more.
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mm INTERESTS.
Value of Last Year's Crops of
Corn, Wheat and Oats,
Doings of the Farmers' National
Congress in Washington,
1 The National Department of Agriculture
estimates of the area, product, and value of
corn, wheat and oats for permanent record
are completed. The official work of the year
has been thoroughly reviewed, with the aid
of Stato co-operation and all available
data of crop production, and the aggregates
aro substantially those recently
reported. The corn crop in
rouud numbers aggregates 1,065,000,000
bushels grown on 75,000,000 acres, and has a
farm value of ?''>10,000,000. The yield is
twenty-two bushels per acre, four aud onehalf
bushols less than last year. There is an
increase of area of over three per cent., aud
a do Tease iu product of fouitean percent.,
while the average prico has increase* 1 twelve
per cent, or from tfiS cents to 30.0 cepts per
bushel.
The aggregate product of wheat is 457,000.00)
bushels from an area of nearly 37,001,000
acres, having a farm value of
$314,000,00). The average value is
0\ 7 cents per bushel, against 77.1
for tho previous, crop and 04.5 cents
for the :rre:it crop of 1SS4.. This is
:*> per ccut. reduction from the average
value between 1*70 and lSS'h The yield of
the spring wheat centres is better thau was
expected early in the season aud on the
Pacific Coast much worse. The general average
for winter aud spring wheat is i.eirly
12. 4 bushels per acre.
The product of oats is 024,003,000 bushels,
.1,("0,000 less than last year, from an area of
over 3i,090,000 acres, producing a value of
$ I SI5,000,000. The average yield is 20 4 bushels,
against 27.0 last year. Theave: a^e value
is s cents per bushel, last year 2>'.5 cents
l>er bushel.
Tlio F.inncrs' Congress.
In the Farmers' National Congress, hel 1 at
Washington, President Beverly appointe 1 a
committee as follows to confer with the Senate
in relation to tho secretaryship of
agriculture: R. S. Duke, chairmau, of
Virginia: J. W. Stryder, of West Virginia:
H. L. D. Lewis, of Virginia;
Springer Harbaugh, of Minnesota, and W.
L. Parkinson, of Kan-as. L. W. Corbin,
chairman, of Virginia; J. C. Walsh, of
Maryland: J. O. Saxton, of Pennsylvania:
,T. W. Miles, of Iowa, and D. M. llinsell, of
Mississippi, were appointed to confer with
tho Senate and House Comtnitteo on Agriculture
and the State Department Among
the resolutions reported by the Committee
on Resolutions and passed was the following:
"That tho clause in the charters
of the National bank? whii-h fo; bids
their loaning money on real estate works a
great in jury to the farmers of the Unit >d
States by denying them banking privileges
and thus causing them to
pay a higher rate of interest than
other class of citizens, and that we, the farmers
of the United States in congress assembled.
do most respectfully, but urgently, ask
the Congress of tin United States to repeal
the same." The members of tho Congress
called in a body upon tho President The
Congress finally adjourned to meet iu Chicago
on the Tuesday before tho meeting of
the Fat Stock Show in November, 1887.
A MARINE DISASTER,
Twenty-Two Sailors and Five LifcSsnvers
Drowned,
A most disastrous shipwreck occurred at 2
o'clock the other morning near the Little
Island life-saving station on the Virginia
coast, fourteen miles south of Cape Henry.
Twenty-seven lives were lost, among
them flvo life saving men, who,
in the discharge of their duty,
were drowned. Tho morning was bitterly
cold aud a blinding snow storm prevailed,
with the wind blowing a ga'.e from
the northeast During a lull in tho st jriu
the life-saving patrol from Little Island
life-saving station sighted a large ship
stranded on the bar about 80 J yards
from tho shore. Whon he saw the vessel
he was on his way to meet the patrol
from Dam Neck Station aud exchange
checks showing that both patrolmen had
been to the end of their beat. The Dam
Neck J atrol was only a few yards distant
when the vessel was sighted, and both fired
rockets to notify the crew of the stranded
ship that she had been seen. They hurried
back to their respective stations aud gave the
alarm.
In a little while both crews, with lifebmts
and apparatus were abreast of the wreck,
and the boom of a mortar announced that a
line had been shot out to the ill-l'ateJ vessel.
The shot was unsucces ful, and a se oud
was firei with like result. After firing
six unsuccessful shots, the life-saving
men determined to brave the furiI
pa?? o m/1 fit/* + TrViI/*h
seemd certain to await their venture. The
word of command being given by Captain
Belauza of Life Saving Station No. 4, known
as Little Islaud, six of the most expert
boatman mauned each boat. At his
comxand thj men gave way with
a will, and in a moment both
boats were breasting the furious waves
They reached the ship in safety, and iive of
the ship's crew were taken in a lifeboat and
teu in a ship's boat, which was launched for
the purpose. The boats were headed for
shore and not a word was spoken, for each
man realised tho awful peril which
surrounded them. With a steady pull the
two boats were m il:ing good headway for
shore, when a wave of great power struck
both bort-i, capsizing them instantly and
pitching their twenty-two occupanls into the
boiling sea.
Then began a desperate struggle for life,
and with many of the men it was a prolonge
1 one. The horrified life savers on
the bea h were powlerless to assist their
drowning comrades or the unfortunate
strangers. Tho drowning men were
carried southward by the seas, and
some of them were washed ashore. As they
came within reach they were picked up and
endeavors were made to revive them, and in
two instances with success, although one of
the two is badly injured.
Tho vessel is tho German* ship Elizabeth,
Captain Halberstadt, from Hamburg to
Baltimore, and not one ef her crew of twentytwo
men survived her wree!;.
Of the life-saving crew the following were
lost: Abel Belanza, Captain of No. 4, known
as Little Island: J. \V. Land, same station;
Geo. W. Stone, same; J. A. Belanza, of L-am
Neck station, and brother of Abel; Joseph
Spratley, of Dam Ne;k.
I John Etheridge and Frank Tetford, of No.
4 station, were washed asiiore and resuscitated.
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CHINESE PIRATJjB.
French Troops on the TonquFn
Frontier Wiped Out.
Advices from Hong Kong say that the
trouble on the frontier of Tonquin and
China has assumed most serious prcywrtions.
News has beeu received at Hong Kong
from Pakhoi lhat large bodies of Chinese
pirates attacked the French garrison at
Hakoi, and alter a three days' siege annihilated
the town. They also attacked Mon^kio,
with a similar result. The latter is
a town ten miles from the coast on
the border line of China and Tonquin.
Hakoi is about thirty miles south of Alongkio,
on the const. The French had a small
fortification there, with a garrison of sixty
men, under Lieutenant McAlahon, a nephew
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of Marshal AlcMation. Alter n luiruuaja i
siege only twentv-threo of the garrison re- j
warned alive. Th^se nia ie a sortie, but not
one of thoin survived.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
A Clare (Mich.) man owns a six-legged
calf. j
i The Hudson River ice crop will be very .
j large this season.
Storms on tho Gulf have occasioned seri
j ons loss to the 1 ico planters.
The losses by fire in this country during !
1SS0 will figure up about $ 110,000,000.
It is estimated that California has 9,600,00
) bushels of wh at available for export.^ !
The Florida orange crop this season is es- |
timated at 750,000 boxes of 128 to250 orange3 :
each.
During 1885 American mills produced !
1,350.000 tons of steel rails, valued at $40,- !
000,000.
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle State*
A strike of employes in the coal carrying
trade in New Jersey and Pennsylvania has
thrown 30,000 men out of employment.
w illiam ifi. JDizan, of W heelock, Vt.
has been held for examination on the charge
of murdering five of his children soon after
their birth.
Two old misers, Joseph Perry and Robor
Price, were found in a dilapidated building
in. Philadelphia starved to death.
An extensive fire at Hartford, Conn., gutted
a large business blo.-k, causing a loss of
over $175,000. Thomas R. Lawtou, a reporter,
was burned to death.
Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn, the prominent
Catholic priest summoned to Rome fro n
New York, because of his open championsh ip
of Henry George in the recent mayoralty
contest, has refused to obey the summons.
The assessed valuations of real estate : n
New York City are $1,2-57,275,903, an increase
of $53,3ill,S3S over 1866.
Two horse thieves named Caldwell and
Johnson attacked John Walters, turnkey of
the Waterloo (N. Y.) jail, in an attempt to
escape, but were secured before they could
get away. Walters died of his injuries.
Dr. William Perry, oldest graduate of
Harvard College and solo survivor of the
passengers on Fulton's first steamboat ride
down the Hudson seventy-nine years aro,
died a few days since at Exeter, N. H., in his
ninety-ninth year.
The Clinton Powder Company's factory
near Plattsburg. N. Y., was demolished by
an explosion of 1,200 pounds of nitro-glycorne.
The sho:k was felt thirty miles away.
South and West.
The Michigan Republicans, who control
the Stata Legislature, chose Francis B.
Stockbridge, a wealthy business man, as successor
to Oiner D. Conger in the United
States Senate.
Jacksonville, Fla., has been visited by
an earthquake which caused buildings to
shake and windows to rattla.
The Gate City Guards, of Atlanta, a cra?k
Southern military organization, contemplated
making a tour of England next summer;
but their application for permission to
march through that country has been refused
by the British authorities.
Delaware City, Del., a thriving village,
has lost nearly its entire business section "by
fire. Loss, about f 100,003.
A fire at Fargo, Dakota, destroyed a portion
of the Jfortharn Pacific Railroad's shops,
causing an estimated damage of $200,000.
Tiie Chicago Trades Assembly and the
machinery of the Labor party in that city
have been captured by the Socialists, who
now fill the prominent olfices.
The officers of the steamer J. W. Martin,
burned on the Mississippi River De-ember
i:j, have been indicted for manslaughter in
causing the loss of many lives.
Henry Meyers died a few days sinca in
Vermillion Parish, La, and it is claimed that
at nis aeacn no uaureacueu tee anvanct'uuge
of 120 years.
Vergho, Rithling & Co., of Chicuzo,
until recently the largest toy house in the
West, have failed for f 100,(xx>.
Owing to tho complications arising ic Indiana
from the election contests ana claims
of both political parties, the inauguration of
Lieutenant-Governor Robertson (Kep.) at
Indianapolis was accompanied with scenes
of great disorder. The Democratic members
of the Legislature energetically protested
against his presiding over the joint session,
and a motion to adjourn was declared carried,
but when a rush was made for the doors
they were found locked. The LieutenantGovernor's
inaugural could not be heard in
the din that was raised.
San Francisco has been visited by an
earthquake which lasted seven seconds but
did no damage.
Washington.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap
pointed Herbert F. B.-echer, a son of Rev
Henry Ward Beec-her, to be a special agent
of the Treasury Department.
The Senate has confirmed the following
nominations; A. E. Lewis,of Pennsylvania,
Deputy Fifth Auditor of the Treasury; L,
N. Buford, of Mississippi, Deputy Fourth
Auditor of the Treasury; Colonel 0. H.
Willcox, Brigadier-General; LieutenantColonel
John Moore. Brifiradier-General and
Surgeon-General: Colonel J. C. Duane, Brigadier-General
and Chief of Engineers; also a
number of postmasters.
Consuls nominated by the President:
Isaac R. Diller, of Illinois, at Florence;
Oscar Malmros, of Minnesota, at Cognac;
Willoughby Walling, of Indiana, at Leith.
The Senate Committee on Pensions decided
to report favorably to the Senate a
bill which provide, that persons permanently
disabled in the service shall hereafter receive,
in lieu of all pensions now paid them, $72 per
month.
Poreltrn.
The census of Franca for 1886 shows a
total population of 3S,2i.S,r03, against 37,672,WS
in 1SS5.
Four of the young men condemned to
death recently for an outrageous assault
upon a servant girl at Sydney, Australia,
have been hanged.
The village of Djeme), near Tunis, North
Africa, was severely shaken by an earthquake.
A number of houses fell down
and seven persons were killed and many
hurt.
A number of peasants at Smolensk, Russia,
have rebelled and overpowered and disarmed
the garrison. Troops from Charkoff cuelled
the insurrection.
Avalanches in Switzerland have destroyed
some houses and killel many tattle.
TEN persons wore injured by an explosion
of gas in a tenement house in Glasgow, Scotland.
A great snow storm has been raging
through the midland counties of Ea;lancT
causing an almost completa interruption or
traffic.
Germany is reported to be storing etor
mous quantities of provisions in the strongly
fortified town of Mete in anticipation of war
with Franca
Several changes in the British Cabinet
are announced.
English naval pensioners have boon ordered
to hold themselves ready for active
duty?an announcement not calculated to
allay the apprehensions of a great w&r in
Europe.
The famous royal Alcazar Pa'ace" at To*
ledo, Spain, has bea;i completely destroyed
by fire. Twenty persons were injured. The
ancient edifice had been restored at a. cost of
f],000,000.
Prince Bismarck in debate on the Army
bill bjfore the German Reich3tas: told the
members tiny must pas? the bill or the
Reichstag would be dissolved.
A NEW DEPARTMENT,
Features oTIl?o House Bill Creating
a Secretary of Agriculture.
The National House of Kopre>entalivo3, by
a vote of '.HI yeas to :J0 nays, has passed a
bill creating a Department of Agriculture
and Labor. It provides that
there shall bo an oxociitivo department to
bo known as the Dopaiimeut of Agriculture
anl Labor, uudor the control of a .Sieretary
of Agriculture and Labor, who shall he a
jnemlior of tlio President's Cabinet, aud
an Assistant Secret try. There shall bo in
the Department of Agricult iro ami Labor a
division which shall l>e under charge of a
Commissioner of Labor, who shall hold his
o.'lioo for four years and unlil his sueco?sor
shall bi appointe I, unless sooner roniovi-d,
and shall receive a salary of $'),Qi)0.
Tin Commissioner shall collect information
upon th3 subje.-t of labor, its relation t > capital,
tha hiursof labor, the rat j of wa^es,
the co.t of production of tho article* produced.
the earnings of laboring mon and
women, the means of promoting their material,
so.'ial, intellectual and moral prosperity,
and tho best meaus to protect lifo
and provent acident in mine;, workshops,
factories, and other place; of industry. Tha
Secretary is empowered to iuijuiro into tho
cat ho 5 of discontent which may ovist bo
twoau employers am employe? wnuiu mo
United States, and ho may invito and hoar
sworn statements from b>tb such parties concerning
the matters in controversy.
A PiTTSBCRfin nntura!-gas company is the
largest one in the country. It supplies over
40 > manufactories and over 7,000 dwellings,
with tlio entire amount of fuel consumed.
The total area of pipe leading into Pittsburgh
is given as 1,311,602 sjuare in -hes.
A LEGISLATIVE TUMULT.
Wild Scenes of Disorder in the
Mew Jersey Assembly.
A Struggle for Possession of the
Speaker's GaveL
A Trenton (N. J.) special gives the following
dotails of tho terrific and extraordinary
scones of disorder which prevailed at the
opening of tho Assembly, and which culminated
in almost a free light for possession of
the Speaker's gavel:
Twenty-six Republicans, three Democrats,
and two Labor men organi/od tho Assembly
here to-day by electing William liaird, of
Warren couuty, Speaker: Joseph Atkinson,
Labor Democrat, of Newark, Cierk;
Terence McDonald, Democrat, of Hudlon,
Sergeunt-at-Arms, and other officers divided
between the two parties. The incidents
of the occasion were somewhat animated.
Half an hour after tho proper hour for
opening tho session tbo tlio Republican
members stormod thp Assembly chamber,
where the Democrats were holding
a caucus. A squad of police, acting
under orders from Governor Abbett, entered
tlio chamber ancl forcibly removed those [
persons pointed out by tho officers of the |
democratic caucus, including tho Clerk i
and Kergeaut-at-Arms of the last !
House, who were present to assist j
in tho opening of the new session, as
well as some of tho reporters. Tho police
then guarded tho chamber while tho Democratic
As-emblyinen refused to permit !
the organization to proceed unless the
Republicans would withdraw uutl
their caucus was over. The Republicans
thereupon withdrew to the Speaker's
room in tho roar of the Assembly
chamber, and were accompanied by Donohio i
and Carroll, the Labormen. and Wolverton, |
Arnwine, and Baird of the Democrats, maj
ing thirty-one in all, ju?t a majority, ]
io the little back room. Tiio .
doors were then locked, and the |
Domocrals. with tho police stillon guard,pro- j
ceeded with their caucus. The Republicans I
meantime proeeoded to organize for them- |
selves, tho officers they elected bei"g boosted
in to them through a high window, the only j
means of access to tho room.
When the Democrats knocked on the do r |
and informed tho Republicans that the can- :
cas was ovor, and they could enter the large
room, the Republicans marched in, and tho j
officers they had ele ted took their places and
attempted to proceed with business ju t j
where they had left off in the Speaker's I
room.
The Democrats were thunderstruck, and a
riot at onco began. They declared James S. j
Beckwith temporary Chairmau, and ho
rushed t/? tlio desk. A terrific strufrcrle fo!
loworl between Beck with aud Haird'for the
possession oP tlio Ravel, members on
both sides rushing forward to join in
tho fipht. Shouts, oaths and execrations
fdled tho chamber. The dense crowd
in the galleries howled and swore. Fran c
McDermot.t, a member from Newark, shook
his fist across tli.s de-:k in liaird's face, and
threatened to put a bullet through him if lie
didn't get out. of the chair.
The Speaker's secretary was knocked ofT
tho high dais and his chair smashed. Some
cool-hoad moved to adjourn until to morrow,
and both Baird and liockwith declared the
House ad journe 1. The excitpment was sub-siding
when tho police again entered the
chamber, and one of them seized Sergeantat-Arms
McDonald anil attempted to eject
him. There was a terrible struggle iu
thenrenain front of tho Speaker's desk,
which ended in tho policeman retiring without
his man. About this time the trowd
outside biirst open the doors and surged into
the chamber, but the members dropped hostilities,
and comparative order was soon restore.!,
although it was an hour before the
chamber was cleared.
The Republiran Senators, pending the settlement
of the trouble in the House,refused
to orgauize the Senate, and the election of a
llnited States Senator is thereby postponed
ono week, or until threa weeks from to-day.
The trouble arose from tho refusal of the
three Democrat.! above named to units with
the remainder in the organization of the
Assembly, tneir reiusai osin? oaseu ou iuo
claim that they bad uot been recognised in
the apportionment of tbe o.Tices. As the
Assembly is clcse the three Democrats and
two Labor men, by uniting with the Repulicans,
were in the majority.
LATER NEWS, ,
Robert M. Taylor, a prominent resident
of Reynoldsville, Penn., shot and killed his
wife and then committed suicide. Sickness,
financial troubles, and the death of a child
by drowniug it is thought unsettled Taylor's
reason.
For the first time in the history of the
city two ladies, appointed by the outgoing
Mayor Grace, took their seats on the 12th in
thq New York Board of Education.
Ten firemen were thrown thirty feet by
the fall of a roof at a fire in Baltimore.
They were all injured in various degrees of
severity.
It is .bought that the bill to amend the
Anti-Polygamy act, passed by the House and
sent to a conference committee of both
Houses will, if it bocomes a law, be the death
hi aw fcn Afnrinrmis'yv
lord Iddesleigh, a member of the
British Cabinet holding the office of First
Lord of the Admiralty, dropped dead while
making a call at th^ official residence of
Prime Minister Saulsbury in London. He
was born in 1818, and was better known to
the world as Sir Stafford Northcote.
Missionaries report the massacre of 100
native converts to Christianity in Ugauda,
Africa. Most of the victims were burned
aliveJohn*
M. Wtr.soj? was hanged at Norristown,
Penn., for th3 murder of Anthony VV".
Dealy.
The late Seuator John A. Logan's successor
in the United States Senata is ex-Cougre
sman Charles B. Farwell, of Chicago, the
Legislative caucus of Illinois Republicans
having chosen him on the second ballot.
Additional nominations by theSeuate:
John T. Campbell, of California, Consul at
Auckland: Heurv H. Pendleton, of West
Virginia, Consul at Southampton.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Hugh A. Dinsmore to be Minister Resident
and Consul-General at Corea.
The first evening reception given at the
White House by tho President and Mrs.
Cleveland, assisted by tho Cabinet ladies,
was attended by a throng of people, including
Supreme Court Justices, foreigu Diplomats,
Army and Navy Officers, Senators
and Congressmen, et \ Seven different kinds
of invitations were issued.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
The Chicago players will report for duty
at the Hot Springs on April 1.
I* tho sir caines he played while in Cuba
lately Sam Wise, of the Bostons, had a batting
average ot
The University of Pennsvlvania will be I
coached by Henry Boyle, the gentlemanly j
pitcher of the St. Louis Maroons.
There aro about fifty basoball players I
wintering in Cincinnati, a? many more in !
Philadelphia and a few less in Detroit.
Ferol-sox, pitcher of the Philaielphia j
Baseball Club, lia-i been engaged to coach j
the Princeton College nine during the winter.
TnE Metropolitans'now have two men?Es
a?i 1.?j r\? i i?,i Aoo?_ !
lermuuu UIIU U11 ?WUU uarci(.u iuw nwu* I
ciation batteries, the former in 1S81 and the i
latter in 1880.
No loss than forty-six of the minor league !
players will be found in the ranks of the |
League and American Association for the
season of 18S7.
Carpenter, of tbe Cincinnati team, is
contemplating organizing a team to ro to
Now Orb ans in February to play with tbe
Southern League team there.
The National League has signed an even
100players; American Association, 70; International,
106; Northwestern, 40; Western,
44; Southern, 20: Eastern, 10; New England,
27?a total of 441 for the principal professional
organizations.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate Sessions.
16th Day.?Mr. Call offered a resolution
declaring that certain lands granted for
railroad purposes in Florida snail be forfeited,
and instructing the AttorneyGeneral
to bring suit against all corporations
attempting to sell or advertise
public lands embraced in railroad
grants where bills for forfeiture are pending
before Congress....Mr. McPherson proposed
an amendment to the Inter-State Commerce
bill A bill was passed appropriating $30,000
for the widow and daughters of Erskine
S. Allin, formerly Master Armorer at Springfield
Armory, the inventor of the Springfield
breech-loading rifle musket, in compensation
for the use of the invention by the government
Executive session.
17th Day.?A memorial was presented <
from the New York Chamber of Commerce '
presenting objections to some of the pro- 1
visions of the Inter-State Commerce Bill....
Mr. Hoar, from the Select Committee on the
Centennial Celebration, reported rerolutiona
dclaring it expedient that action be taken by ;
Congress for the due celebration in Washington
about April 30, 1889, of the centennials of
the adoption of the Constitution and of the 1
discovery of America, and directing the
? '**??? AM/) TM?/\rvAC?A fV(Q Kflof
CUlIlIiiilltD LIS V UUoiuot auu y* K/yKtiju vuo wow
mode of celebration. Adopted.... Messrs.
Beck and Cullom spoke in favor of the Inter- 1
Slate Commerce Bill Mr. Stanford spoke
in opposition . ..Executive Session.
18th Day.?The Senate resumed consideration
of the Inter-State Commerce bill, and
was addressed by Messrs. Coke, Harris and
. Saulsburyin favor of the measure.... Thd
Senate went into secret session and passed a
resolution advisiog the President to enter
into negotiations with Nicaragua for concessions
for an interoceanic canaL
Urn Day?The bill to extend the time for
filing claims in the Court' of Claims under
the French Spoliation act for twelvemonths
was passed The Army Appropriation bill
was reported with amendments. It appropriates
$23,737,718, being $?).>, 10.) in excess of
the bill as it came from the House.... The
Pension Appropriation bill was reported. It
appropi iates the fame amount as the House I
bill?Mr. Call spoke in l'avor of, and
Messrs. Brown and Mitchell (Oregon) agains>
the Int?r-Stato Commerce bill.
20th Day.?The Senate took up the resolution
oTered by Mr. Vest directing the
Secretary of the Treasury to furnish a full
and itemi.'.etl statement of all money paid
out on account of prosecutions of criminal
cases in State Courts by Federal officials of
the departments, from July 18751, to December
1, 1880, with a list of officials, agents
or employes engaged, the amount paid them,
for what specific services, etc. The resolution
was made to apply to civil cases also
ami then adopted A ruuning discussion
on the Inter-State Commerce bill took* place,
I the debaters boinsr Messrs. Harris and George
| in favor of. and Mr. Hoar against the measure.
Mr. Evarts also opposed the bill, d3j
nouncing it as unconstitutional Conferees
j were appointed on the Anti-Polygamy bill
I passed by the House.
House Sessions.
19th Day.?The Public Printer's annual
report was read.... A communication from
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue was
received requestin>. in immediate addit'onal
appropriation of .$50,003 for salaries and ex!
penses of collectors of internal revenue for
! the current fiscal year The House spent
the remainder of the day on the private calendar,
and then took a recess until 7:30?the
evening session being for the consideration
of pension bills.
20rn Day.?The bill appropriating $500-'
000 for a public Mildine at Charleston weat
. over after debate.... The Houss went into
i Committee of the Whole on the bill consoliI
dating certain bureaus of the Navy Depart!
mpnt. Messrs. Buck (Conn.) and Thomas
j (ill.) favored and Mr. Lord (Del.) opposed
the measure....Mr. Hiscock (N. Y.) introj
duced a bill reducing the duties on raw
I sugar, providing 'for the payment of bounI
ties on domestic sugars, and abolishing the
j tax on tobacco and spirits used in the arts
j and manufactures Mr. Willis (Ky.) reported
the River and Harbor Bill, and it
I was ordered printed and recommitted,
j 21st Day.?Bills introduced: By Mr. Tars!
ney (Mich,)?Providing for the erection
j or upward, the cost of the building
| the United States of If),003 inhabitants
| of a public building in each city of
j to vary according to the population, from
i $25,00) for 10,000 inhabitants to $140,|
033 for .50,003 inhabitants By Mr.
Brec'ienridge?Making certain forms of
j speculation unlawful. By Mr. Mayi
bury (Mi - h.)?Amending the Civil Ser;
vice a t so that no person shall be disqualified
from appointment by reason of a?e. By
| Mr. Merriman (N. Y.)?For the purchase or
1 John Ericsson's "Destroyer,'' and ten eni
larged steel vessels of the same type for de1
fending the harbors of the United States.
22b Day? Mr. Oates, from Committee on
I Revision of the Laws, repot ted to the House
a bill to prohibit the appoint nent of Con;
grossional committees to attend funerals
I at the public expense outside the Disj
trict of Columbia, and also to prohibit
| the draping of public buildings in mourni
oTPAnt unon the authority cf the
President Hcire calendar..... On motion
of Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, the
House went into Committee of the Whole
' on the bill creatine a Department of Agrxi
culture and Labor. On motion of Mr. *o|
ran. of Ohio, the.salary of the Commissioner
of Labor wasincreasad from $4,000 to$o.0J0.
The committee then rose and the bill was
tassed?veas 222. nays 26.
20d Day?The Tucker substituta for the
Edmunds Anti-Polygamy bill was discussed
I and passed without a division. The bill
makes the lawful husband or wife of any
person prosecuted for bigamy, polygamy, or
unlawful cohabitation a competent witness
against the accused; provides for tha registration
of all marriages, making it a misde;
meaner for any person to violate the provisions
relative to such registration; annuls all
Territorial laws providing for the
j identification of the votes of electors
; at any ele. tion, and also all laws conferring
1 on tli'3 Territorial courts the power to de:
termini divorce c ases, and abolishes woman
suffrage in the territory. Penalties are prescribed
for unlawful intercourse, and polygamy
is defined as a marriage between one
person of one sex and more than one person
of another sex, and is do .dared to be
j a felony. The financial corporations
known as the Church of Latter Day Saints
and the Perpetual Emigration Fund Company
are dissolved, and the Attorney- General
is directed to wind them up by process
of court; and ail laws for theorgani;ation of
I the militia of the Territory and the creation
j of the Nauvoo Legion are annulled. Polygj
amists are made inoligible to vote,
j and a test oath is prescribed to all persons
desiring to vote that they will obey the laws
! of the United States, and especially the laws
t in respect to tha crimes defined in this and
the original Edmunds act. The bill provides
fVia onrvM'nfmrtnf, hv thft PrPSi
dont of all Judges aud Selectmen of the
County and Probate Courts, and by the Governor
of all Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs,
Constables and other county and district
officers.
24tii Day.?A bill was passed giving tee
consent of Congress to the agreement Between
the New York and New Jersey Commissioners
respecting tho boundary line between
those .States.... The bill amending the law
regulating the removal of causes from State
to Federal courts was passed.... The bill providing
for the bringing of suits against the
Uuited States was passed.
SHIPWRECKED,~
Three Saved of a Crew of Twentyfour
in the Pacific.
The crew of the ship Harvey Mills, which
foundered at sea while on a voyago from
Seattle, Washington Territory, for San Francisco,
numbered twenty-four. The thrco
survivors say that when all hope of saving
the ship was abandoned the Captain nn l
three men attempted to leave the ship iu a
small boat, but as soon as thoy left the ship's
side the boat was capsized by a heavy sea,
and they were drowned. Four others took
to a raft, but have not sim o been heard of.
Mate Cu.-hman and three of the orow also
left the ship on a rait, but uoiore u.ey wero :
picked up 0:10 of the men went cra'.y and
jumped overboard. Tho other twelve of tho
crew stuck to the ship, and, as the survivors
saw her go down, nil 011 board must have
perishe 1. Tho three rescued men have arrived
in San Francisco.
THE most heavily endowod educational inBtitutioni
in the United States are: Girard
Colloge, $10,Columbia, $.->,001,0)0;
Johns Hopkins, $4,00.1,0(10; Harvard. $a,i00,000;
i'rinceton, L.-high, $1,S10,000;
Cornoll, $1,400,000.
During the past year ?13,2S4,0S6 was expended
for educational purposes in the State
of N<?w York. Of this amount $!?,102,268
was for teachers' wages. There are 31,325
school teachers and 1,735,073 school children
*n the State.
\
THE LABOR WORLD.
Report of the New York Bureau
of Statistics and Labor.
Investigations and Inquiries Into the
Workingman's Position.
New York State Commissioner Peck, in the
"Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of
Statistics of Labor," says:
The year LS86 has witnessed a more profound
and far more extended agitation
among the members of organized labor than
any previous year in the history of our
country, and while such agitation in our
owq State has not been characterized by the
wholly unwarranted and criminal excesses
that startled with horror the populace of several
of the Western cities, it has nevertheless
been earnest and pronounced. With
but rare exceptions, organized labor has
continued in this State, with greater success
and vigor tban ever before, to agitate,
to strike and to boycott during the
past year, and 188(5 will be remembei ed as
one of the greater importauce in the battle
waged between capital and labor, the signal
failures and successes of which will not be
lost or fail to servo a3 les ous of value to the
sturlent of social and economic questions. <
The subject of apprenticeship is treated at
groat length and in a most exhaustive manner.
Among other tbiugs the Commissioner
says, in discus-ing the question:
"As a very prominent feature of tho labor
nnocfinn it hns hffn fnnnri PTnedif-nt and
neccssary to look into our apprenticeship
sy&em?the means at hand of renewing and
rerpetunting oar lab >r supply. The broad
result is tl at we a;e largely dependent upon
foreign skilled labor. Our supply of native
mechanics is daily augmented by the skilled
labor of Europe, and while this foreign element
is not eoua!' to the skilled labor which
is retained in Europe, it is in the main vastly
superior to that produced in our own country.
Whether unrestricted emigration be or
be not a national blessing may bo disputed,
but a visit to the workshops of the State will
demonstrate the truthfulness of the statement
that the large majority of our tradesmen
and meebauics are foreigners. Indeed, in
many trade and industrial esiablishments
there is not a si ogle American at work.
Nearly all positions of trust and responsibility
in the mechanical do; artments are in
the bauds c f foreign-born worl ers, and most
of the I oys and young men learning trades
are either fore'gn born or the sons of
foreign born workers. And the opinion
is now very generally expressed aul accepted,
that most of the labor troubles of thelast
few years have been precipitated, not
by whale' trades, but by sections of them,
and that these sections were largely controlled
by loreigners, or natives who bad
from association imbibed foreign ideas on
the labor question."
The Commissioner argues in favor of manual
trainiug as a means of keeping up the
supply of trained la :or and preventing the
coming maa from becoming the slave of the
machine.
The conclusion at which the Commissioner
arrives in regard to "Shorter Hours of Lar
bor" are thus summed up:?' As predicted in
the last report of this bureau, a very
general movement was made on the first
day of May last looking to the reduction
of the hours of labor from ten to. eight per
day. The organization*, of New York arid.
Brooklyn seemed 11 have acted more in con .
cert than those of other cities in the States,
and were by far more successful,
having won a majority of the cases
where demands were made. It is true
that while a large percentage of all engaged
in the movement asked for a redaction of two
hours a r'ay, very many of the organizationsdid
it with a view of compromising on nine
hours as a day's work."
He next giv >s brief histories of the leadingstrikes
in the State during the year, notably
those in tha Troy laundries, the sugar
refineries, and on the street railTVio
lnecac Vitr fchfUA different
strikes, boycotts, Re.', ho is unable
to give in total, but iifty-eight firms alone
report an aggregate of $3,000,000. On theother
hand, the losso3 of wages to striking
employes are represented by tne sum of $2,858.1'Jl.
JOHN K0A0H,
Death of tlio Most Noted Ship*
Builder in America.
John Roach, the most celebrated shipbuilder
in this country, died a few days
since at his home in New York. He tad.
been suffering for some time from cancer of
the mouth, which finally terminated fatally.
Mr. Roach was born not far from Corkr
Ireland, December Si, 1813. He came to this
country alone when sixt en years old. He
w.irked four years in a New Jersey brickyard.
Then he was apprenticed for three
voars to the Allaire Iron Works, of New
York, to. learn the trade of an iron,
founder. After a while he went into business
for himself, and in course of time became
the leading ship builder in the country..
In 1871 h; built h's famous shipyards at Chester,
Penn. Mi-. Roach was an earnest Republican
and a firm believer in the doctrine
of protection. When the Democrats came
into power in 1885 he held entrants to
build four steal cruisers. All his available^
capital was invested in the work. His
friends, too, wero on his bonds for
large amount?. Mr. William C. Whitney,
the Secretary of the i\avy, aaopiea a new
line of policy regarding jrovernment contract
work, and he de-line.i to make any payment
upon the Dolphin, the first of
the vessels which Mr. Roach had tinder
contract, or upon any of the
others, v.util the Dolphiu had been approved
by the Naval A lvisory Board The first trials
of the Dolphiu were "not satisfactory. Mr.
Roach's mean- were all invested in the vessels,
and the Secretary's refusal to make advances
upon the work forced the veteran
shipbuilder to make an assignment. This
\vas in August, 18S5.
During his operation of the Chester shipyards
Mr. Roach built eighty ircn ships
there with a total tonnage of 210,000 tous
and valued at $:ir>,0?,000. He employed
from 1,800 to 2,000 men. The fortune
which he left is estimated at $1,000,00?. The
assignees appointed after his failure state
that they have paid sixty per cent, of his liabilities,
which amouuted to nearly t2,250,?
000, and that in February the balance will
probably be paid
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK. 2
Beef, good to prime 6)^(35 8
Calves, com'n to prime 5 @ 9
Sheep 4%(g 0
Lambs 7 @ 8
Hogs?Live 4)^@
Dressed 3
Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 3 00 @ 4 10
West, good to choice 3 70 @ 5 20
Wheat-No. 2, Red !? @ WJX
Rye?State 57}$ @ 5'J
Barley?State @ 70
Corn?Ungrad. Mixed 47}^<@ 47$?
Oats?White State 39 @ 40
Mixed Western S5f$@ 37
Hay?Med. to prime 55 @
Straw?No. 1, Hye 45 @ 70
Lard?City Steam 0 35 @ C 75
Butter?State C:eamery.... 24 @ 2!)
Dairv ? @ 2$
West Im. Creamery 24 @ 20
Factory 14 @ 17
Cheese?State Factory ? @ 13
Skims 10K@ 11X
Western 1 il4& V~]4
Eggs?State and Penn 33 @ :A
BUFFALO.
Sheep?Good to Choice 3 75 @ 4 00
Lambs?Westeru 5 00 (m. 5 75
Steers?Western 4 40 @4 K)
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 35 (ffj 4 4>
Flour 4 75 @ 5 15
Wheat?No. 1
Corn?No. 2, Mixed ? (& 44
Oats?No. 2, Mixed ? (<s !>
Barley?State 70 (<? 72
TiOSTOV
Beof?fioo.l to clioi.e 6}10 5
Hogs?Li. e >-+& "
Northern Dressed....
Pork?Ex. Prime, per bbl. ..10 o0 (oil 0'j
Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 11 (A 40
Corn?High Mixed 50 (? *>1
Oats?Extra White 41%<i? 4 2 -3
Rye?State 00 ({f. ?> >
WATERTOW.N* (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. A
Boer- Dressed weight 5 6k 7% -~Ti
Sheen?Live weight 4>4^ \Y%
I .amis 5 (it: i v .??
Hogs?Northern 4Ji(:S 4>? .
rniLADELl'HIA.
Piotir?Ponn.extra family... 2 To (ft. :) 00 i
Wheat?No. lied K <a *>"? >
Rye?State fi7 ($ .VJ -M
Corn?State Yellow 45 (<c 48
OatsMixel ?*
Butter?Creamery Extra... :JL "<$
Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. lsJtf? 13>f