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After fifteen years the marble work on Philadelphia's new City Hall is at last finished. It has cost $5,300,000. More than as much again has been expended on the non-marble work. The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette facetiously says: "Many persons, including 6ome of our own correspondents, are determined that the English sparrow 'must go.' The chief fault with him, we have thought, was that he did go everywhere he had a chance." The story of Ireland is best told by the following figures furnished by Mulhall, one of the most reliable statisticians of the day. He says that during Victoria's reign there have died of starvation in Ireland 1,255,000 people; there have been evicted for non-payment of rcnt} 8,365,000; and there have emigrated, 4,185,000. A Chicago man paid $130 a few weeks ego for a new and improved incubator machine. He placed therein $23 worth of high-priced eggs and hired a boy to attend it at a farther expense of $25. The time having fully expired, he went the other day to inspect the incubator and see how many of the eggs had hatched. The only living thing he found was a large bluebottle fly, which he caught and put in a bottle. He exhibits this insect to inquiring friends as the only $20(^ fly in the United States. Every year increases the importance of the cotton production of Mexico, especially in view of the fact that vast tracts of land hitherto inaccessible, and rendered unsafe through the presence of hostile Indians, are being opened up to immigration by the railroad. At present it is cultivated in only twelve States, and the amount produced is not sufficient for home consumption, large quantities being imported from the United States. One district, containing about 1,200,000 civ_i uo, iy pai tij in vvaiiuiM axi^4. *-> LArango, produces a perennial cotton plant, which does not require to be planted oftener than once in ten years. There is going to be another total eclipse on August 18, and a company of astronomers has been organized to go to Japan and observe it. The expedition will be under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, which body also furnishes the required funds. It will be under the charge of Professor David P. Todd, Director of the Observatory at Amherst. The instruments to be used will be chiefly photographic, aud will be fur- j nished partly by the Government, partly , by the Lick Observatory, and partly by j England. The party will number twelve to fifteen, two of them beinr* i>hotooTnr>h ' O I O I ers from San Francisco, and there will be three photographers from Japan. The station will be at Nikko, ninety miles from Tokio. ? Apropos of Mrs. Cleveland's love iffairs a correspondent tells a pretty little Dtory, not generally known, that her first j love was a newspaper man. She is said to have been deeply interested in him, but the engagement, which existed for a long timej was finally broken off and never renewed. It is said that even now Mrs. Cleveland has a weakness for the profession, and, in fact, it is generally accepted that she takes a great deal of i interest in newspaper men and their work, j She regards with special favor the lady correspondents attached to the bureaus of the various papers in "Washington, and in more than one instance she has made a point of conversing with them. Upon one occasion she went so far as to gently chide one of the young ladies for not speaking to her on the street. At one time she did some literary work herself. In Hartford, say local papers, "several i prominent physicians have been investigating the new French treatment of consumption by the injection of sulphuretted hydrogen gas. In fact, experiments were made by Dr. Johnson, of this city, somewhat earlier than those at the Philadelphia Hospital. The experiments have continued, principally at the free dispensary, by Drs. Johnson and Root, the former having devised an apparatus for uiaiviu^ auu auuiiuiovvxiu^ tuv; > *1 vin descriptions given of the French method. Several patients have been under treatment. and -with encouraging results. The physicians above named said that, while they had every reason to be satisfied with the results, they did not feel like heralding the treatment as a sure cure. Their patients have been under treatment only two or three months, and before speaking positively as to the efficacy of the work, treatment should be continued much longer?perhaps a year." Clocks, says the New York Times, are now not only useful but very ornamental, and so very cheap, too. A very pretty antique pressed brass mantel clock, (American make), with a deep-toned cathedral gong of a far-away sound, can be had for $10. A good-time keeper, nickcl-plated, costs but 90 cents. The prices have this wide range, and selections can be made from varied thousands of office clocks, alarms, cuckoos, halls, ind striking or silent recorders of the flight of precious hours. Clocks that tell the state of the weather and are also calendars; clocks that tinkle the half hours and chime the full; clocks that work like watches or swing the faithful pendulum, and, in fact, clocks of all iinds, matching all dispositions, are abundant and cheap, and there seems to do excuse for even the occupant of an east side flat not having one. These Yankee clocks are appreciated abroad and below, for the exportation* to Eu. rope, Mexico, and South America number a thousand a day. . , Buffalo Bill's "Wild West show in Lon- 1 don has oceasioncd an extensive republi| cation of Fenimore Cooper's Indian novels over the water. ''It seems as if everyJ body who has paid a visit to the 'Wild I West,' at Earl's Court, must fortwitli form an acquaintance with 'The Last of the Mohicans,' 'Leather Stocking' and t'The Pathfinder,'" says an English journal. I ?Mr. Colman, United States Commissioner of Agriculture, speaks hopefully of the new method of obtaining sugar from sugar-cane by diffusion. On returning from a recent trip to Louisiana to investigate the operation he is convinced that the process will prove successful. Cane which under ordinary circumstances and methods will yield eighty pounds of sugar to the ton yields 140 pounds under this process. A Providence man is issuing some tens of thousands of fac-similes of the Vicksburg daily paper which was issued by Grant's soldiers after the capture of the city, having already been put in type by the regular printers. It was printed, as Southern papers were in those days, on the plain side of wall paper. This would not be worthy of note but for the fact that in a quarter of a century or less the people who find these forgeries in their attics will be claiming that their fathers were at Vicksburg, and got one of the only dozen or two copies of the Citizen which were printed. Dr. Oscar Lenz, the eminent scientist, has lately returned to Europe, after traveling on foot across the African continent, through regions literally reeking with marsh fevers, ague3 and smallpox. During the entire journey he enjoyed perfect and robust health, aud on not a single occasion felt the need of medicine, remedial or preventive. This immunity he attributes almost entirely to his correct diet and habits. Raw fruit he eschewed. All water used was first boiled. Not a drop of alcoholic liquor passed his lips. Rice, chickcn and tea formed his staple fare. He avoided bathing in cold water, exposed himself as little as nossible to the d^ws and mists of ni?rht. and dressed entirely in flannel. A newspaper printed at Dolores, Argentine Republic, which is situated near the volcanic region, gives an account of a mysterious shower of stones which fell near that city a few weeks ago. The stones are said to have fallen as thick as hail, and varied in size from a pebble to a very respectable boulder. Incalcuable damage was done to the crops, tall trees were shivered to atoms, barns and outhouses were demolished and many domestic animals were killed. In some localities the ground was covered with the bodies of wild geese and hawks, 1 * - -1 i - 1 "I J wmcn appeared to nave oeen Kiueu uuring their flight in the air. Several persons were struck and badly injured while at work in the fields; and in the [city itself, which missed the violence of the shower, one dwelling was wrecked. The stones are said to have fallen continuously for more than a minute. There is a strange and weird fascination about stories of living burial. One of the most gruesome of these which we have seen for some time is sent by an Odessa correspondent. Major Majuroff, aide-de-camp to the Major-General of Odessa, was believed to have died suddenly three weeks since. He was buried with all military honors forty hours after his supposed death. But after he had been a fortnight in the grave, "while the family vault in the necropolis was being renovated for the Russian Fete des Morts, the coffin lid was noticed to have been partly iorcca open, it was iiniiieuiuiejjr removed, and the body was found face downward. The face was dreadfully lacerated, and flesh gnawed from the hands. The corpse was still bleeding, which confirms the statement of a workman that his attentiph was first attracted by a noise in the coffin, and the unfortunate Major died only on the instant of the appalling discovery." The idea of the "corpse" reviving after burial, pro longed existence for fourteen days by eating the flesh off its own hands, and then dying just as the lid was opened, is as terrible as anything Edgar Allen Poe ever conceived. The Grant relics, which have been for several months safely guarded in one ol' *he private rooms of the National Museum, in "Washi ngton,are now on public exhibition. Recently two handsome linnrl noc/io -fillml witli avfrtr?1n9 jilUClitU iiUVW VU-JVCj UUVV4 " *V?4 Ut ViV tvo from the collection, were placed in the north hall of the musem, near the main entrance. They contained the presentation swords, gold headed cane, caskets, medallions and many other costly and elegant articles presented by different people at different times to General Grant. Many of these articles are souvenirs of his trip around the world. There is a splendid' collection of Japanese coins, one series ot seven pieces, old Japanese gold coins of huge size, being valued at $r?.000. There are also invitation cards, menu cards, and reminders of entertainments given in his honor,engrossed ? 1J ? 1 ? i.,? A ! ,1 _ on guiu piuit's. ubi; iuvitiiiluu (.aru i<j u i masked ball, given at San Francisco upon General Grant's arrival at that city, on his return from his famous tour, is engraved on solid gold, and was inclosed in a silver envelope, with the address engraved upon it. In the right hand corner is a two cent stamp, and in the left the usual: "If not delivered in ten days return to," etc. The articles shown, besides their historical interest,are of great intrinsic valve. A beggar, to all appearances slightly befogged, thus accosted a passer-by: ' Sir, would you please give me a little money to buy a bit of bread, for I am so dreadfully thirsty that I don't know where I am to get a night's lodging." j TIE GREAT COKE STRIKE. Fully 500,000 .lien Will Be Idle Unless It is Settled. Nearly Ail the Iron Mills m tne Country Will Shut Down. A Chicago dispatch says that fully half a million men will be thrown out of work within the coining month unless the Connellsville (Penn.) coke strike is speedily settled. and there seems to be little prospect of a settlement of the trouble. No coke is being produced at present in the Pennsylvania coke regions, and without a supply of this fuel every blast furnace in the United States, with the exception of the few run by natural gas, will be forced to'shut down or bank their fires for an indefinite period. The blow has already struck Chicago. The first concern to feel it was the Union Steel Company, which has banked its fires, throwing out of work 400 men. Having a good supply of iron, the rail mills are still running, but as soon as the pig on hand is exhausted they will close also, and 1,100 more men will be nd(It>rl to the idle list. The Calumet Steel Company is the only prominent iron manufacturing company in the city that will not be seriously affected. This company employs only about on? hundred men in the ulast furnace works, and these will be the only men to be laid off for a while, as the mills will be run with pig iron and do not depend on the blast-funiaco metal for their material. The Joliet Steel Company is fortunate in having a stock of coke 011 hand, and is. therefore, in a i>osition to 111 n for a while longer. It is only a question of time, however, should the strike continue, when this company will close also, an! its thousands of employes be thrown out of work. The worst blow of all to the iron industry of Chicago is the fact that the North Chicago Rolling Mill Company will close its works 111 a week, throwing 5,(KM) out of work and leaving their families without income. 4-lt looks like a very serious thing just now," said Mr. J. C. Parks. General Manager of the company. "There is nothing to be done. Wo cannot run without coke, and we cannot get coke, so we must shut down. We are very sorry to do it. Our relations with our men have been pleasant, business has been very good, and the stoppage of an immense enterprise like ours means an immense loss. We are only in the same fix, though, that all iron works are that depend 011 blast furnaca metal to run. Those places that can run on pig iron may not have to close for a while, but the outlook just now is anything but cheerful. The Virginia coke is not good enough and there is not enough of it to run our works." J. C. Strobe), of the Keystone Bridge Works,who has an office at the Chicago headquarters of Carnegie Brothers, said: "I think a continuance 01 tne trouwe win paralyze ine iron business. Of Carnegie's business" I only know through Mr. Fleming, but I think they will be obliged to shut down if the trouble continues, notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Carnegie is largely interested in coke production and has an advantage ever other iron-masters in that respect. No other coke can take the place of the Connellsville article, and when blast furnaces cannot get it they must close, and not only they, but all the immense Pittsburg mills. "The outlook is very blue, unless something can be done to settle the strike. LATER NEWS. The United Presbyterian General Assembly at Philadelphia voted down a resolution prohibiting instrumental music. George H. Disque, was hanged a few days ago in Jersey City, N. J., for wife murder. The schooner Jamestown sailed from Gloucester, Mass.. March .'51, on a cod fishing voyage, and not having been heard from since has lictn given up for lost. Her crew consisted of nine men. Ix the late election for Governor of New Hampshire 110 candidate received sufficient, votes, and accordingly the Legislature met in Concord on Wednesday and balloted, with - ? - - /I 11 the following result: inomas uogsweii (Democratic), 140; Charies H. Sawyei (Republican). 178. Mr. Sawyer was inaugurate:! on Thursday. The Northern Pacific Railroad tracks have bcc-u blockaded in Montana by land slides caused by melting snow. There is a big wheat deal in Chicago, and the clique hold about all the grain in the city. A hail storm of great severity has visited Mississippi. At Amirount the roof of houses were battered in by the hailstones, which were larger than hen's eggs. Charles B. Parcei.ls, manager of the Hall Safe and Look Company at San Francisco. is a defaulter to the extent of $00,000. His' stealings were sunk in mining stock speculation. The total number of victims by the theatre fire in Paris has been finally put at seventy. a kire in Hamburg destroyed two British vessels, the Huebenet* Quays and other prop- i erty, inflicting a damage of several million marks. The Sultan of Turkey has ceded the Island of Cypress to England. The Thistle, the Scotch yacht which will vti-itviiiii in the international race at New York next fall, has been winning brilliant victories in British waters. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Alfonso XIII, of Spa in, has just celebrated his first birthday. Mr. Gladstone denies the report that he intended visiting America. KING Oscar, of Sweden, has a magnificent basso voice, and sings like an artist. Mr. A bell, proprietor of the Baltimore Sun, is reporti-d to on worth ?:20,000,000. Mrs. Phelps, wife of the American Minister in London, is a striking-looking woman, with excellent conversational gift*. John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, is to erect an immense structure in which the unmarried men of his employ can find homes. Lord Lansdowne, Canada's GovernorGeneral, is ten times a peer. He is Marquis of lansdowne. three times an earl, three times a viscount and three times a baron. Mus. Kate Chase Spragie is growing wealthy by the advance in real estate values, having but recently been offered #150,000 x? l,.... vtAar W/mhimrtnn *Ui I1CI V? Wii ? ?0 AVest Virginia is a!>k* to boast of having the two youngest members in the United States Senat?. Senator Kenna is only thirtynine years old and Senator Faulkner fortyone. Bernardo de Soto, President of UoKta Rica, is only thirty-three years old. and is a handsome, splendid looking man. His father. General Jestis Apolinario de Soto, is Minister of War. Senator Lei,and Stanford has U?en inspecting his big vineyard at Vina. II is the largest vineyard in the world, having not less than .'!,")00 acres planted in bearing vines, while the entire ranch comprises #1,000 acres. Mr. Samuel Pasco, the new Florida Senntm* i? (W,Til?>-l In' his home nauer as "of medium height, dark hair and complexion, with black mustache and imperial, and is altogether a very handsome man, and physically and mentally active and vigorous. ' The Emperor of Japan is dark and his features are heavy and irregular, but there is much dignity and majesty in his carriage. His uniform is handsome, the white cloth trousers having broad strips of gold chrysanthemums, and the black coat being almost covered with embroidery in chryanthemuins. Mk, Pa knell has received from Pay Director Cunningham, of the United States Navy, the parchment commission of President Jackson to Commodore Charles .Stewart ("Old Ironsides"), grandfather of the Irish leader and after whom the latter is named. Thfttirst initial of "Old Hickory ' is at least three inches long. Competitive designs are now called for, for the group of bronze statuary that is to ornament the San Francisco City Hall, for which James Lick left $100,000. NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. Chiara Cigxarale, charged with killing j her husband; was found guilty of murder in I the first degree by u New York jury. The nntinltr i< rlonth nn the fallows Fifteen destitute Arabian families were among the immigrants landed recently in New York. They have been sent back to their native country. The pecuniary* losses sustained by th? destruction of the feelt Line Railroad car stables i and adjacent property in New York will ag- I gregate nearly #70J,000. The number of horses burned to death was reduced by later reports to 1,185. Governor Hill reviewed the Decoration Day parade in New York. The day was everywhere observed with appropriate ceremonies, in which floral offerings were conspicuous. The Knights of Labor have won in their long fight with the Philadelphia Clothing Exchange. Palmer's large cooperage works in Brooklyn have been partly burned. One building contained 65,000 barrels ready for use. The loss is ?>30,000. A watchman was killed and a fireman badly injured. Townsend Johnson, a former employe, admitted having set fire to the works. Two young men and a young lady were drowned by the overturning of their rowboat in the Mohawk River at Utica, N. Y. At a dinner given in honor of Editor O'Brien, the Irish agitator, in Boston, Congressman Collins presided. Mayor O'Brien, the editors of the leading daily papers, forty Catholic priests, a number of Protestant clergymen, General B. F. Butler. United States Senator Sabin, of Minnesota, and other noted people were present. The Vedder Liquor Tax bill, passed by the New York Legislature, has baen vetoed by Governor Hill. John- W. Davis, the first Democratic Governor of Rhode Island in many years, was in augurated at Newport. Professor Charles Siedhof, ninety-one years old, and his wife, one year older, committed suicide together in their room in Union Hill, N. J., in preference to going to the poorhouse. A distinct earthquake shock was felt at Jamestown, N. Y. It sounded like an underground explosion, and many inhabitants ran out of their houses in great alarm. Coke strikers made an attempt to blow up a coal shaft at Davidson, Penn., with dynamite while four men were at work. The dvnamite was thrown down the shaft and exploded without injuring the men. The workmen quickly ran from the mine and were then fired upon by four men. More than a a dozen shots were fired, but uone of them took effect. A new silk mill to cost $500,000, and to employ from 600 to 1,00ft hands, is to be established at Pottsville. Penn. South and West, There is a hot Prohibition fight in Texas and Dakota. At the Virginia county and town elections Asburv (colored! was elected Common- | wealth's Attorney for Norfolk County. This is said to be the first time in the history of the State where a colored man has been elected to this office. The bursting of the boiler in a cotton " a i lacwry at mucu lvui jiciovua i and injured a number of others. The recent forest fires in Michigan caused a total estimated loss of -$7,000,0:W and eight human lives. Gacdaur beat Hanlon in the three-mile rowing match at Chicago. A horse attac hed to a carriage ran away in Kansas City, and the vehicle was smashed into splinters by colliding with a freight car. Mrs. Eleanor Randall was instantly killed, and Mrs. Charles French and her daughter Emily were fatally injured. Washington. Bex: Perley Poore, the well known Washington correspondent and writer of reminiscences of public men, died a few days since in the National Capital. He was born in Newburyjwrt, Mass., in 1S20. The collection of a fund for Mrs. Logan Has been completed. The sum collected is $ttt,l)00. The various prizes were awarded to the winners in the National Drill competition, participated in by j soldiers from thirty-one States?on Monday- and the regiments returned to their homes. A Washington* social says that President Cleveland will not appoint "the late Justice ?i?tt.. CKXI.S !SU('UC!)KU1 HI llir uuitcu ouuivo mu" preme Court for some time. The new Justice will most likely be a Southern man. Foreign. A cyclone has visited Calcutta. Four ships are reported missing, and one has foundered Editor O'Brikx paid a second visit to Montreal, and met with a rousing welcome, the French-Canadian associations taking part in the procession in the Irish agitator's honor. Mr. O'Brien spoke from the balcony of his hotel to SO,000 people. Six men who went fishing at Montreal became intoxicated and upset their boat. Five of them were drowned. Four earthquake shocks, one of great violence, have been felt at Ancona, Italy. M. Rouvier has formed a new French Cabinet. General Boulanger.tho noted French War Minister, has been succeeded by General Ferron. The retirement of General Boulanger has caused much dissatisfaction in Franco. Ax Anarchist plot to destroy Vienna with dynamite is reported to have been unearthed by the police of the Austrian capital. A terrible explosion has occurred in a coal mine at Blantvre, Scotland. Seventytwo miners were Entombed. Sixty bodies had been recovered at last accounts. r>. fi i *u? i?+ . i amlaatii? ui mciiciui , iui- iarc French War Minister, made a turbulent demonstration in bis favor at Paris, and were dispersed by soldiers and the police. It is believed the new French Cabinet will have a stormy and short existence. Mount Etna is again in a state of eruption. Many persons were injured in a panic caused by an alarm of fire during services in the Cathedral at Presburg, Hungary. The Ameer of Afghanistan's troops have been badly defeated bv revolting tribes. The commander of the Ameer's forces was captured and beheaded. FOR THE ORGAN. A Vexed Question Settled by ilje Presbyterian General Assembly. A long debate on the music question occupied the recent General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church, held in Philadelphia. The direct cause ot' the issue was the use of the organ by the Rev. J. T. Tate's church. Keokuk. Iowa, to which objection had been made. The Rev. James Brown said it was a matter of conscience with him. '"I couldn't go into | the Keokuk church," said he, '"becaus- they had an organ there. The congregation promised to cover the organ if I would come and preach for them, but I could not do so." Elder Charles F. Deaue, of Pittsburg, in Ixjhalf of the young people, appealed in favor of the organ. The Rev. D. S. McHenry,of San Francisco, insisted that the prohibitory law existed, and had never been repealed. "This is a question," j he added, "that has divided the Assembly for years. I contend that the organ is now'used without the authority of the Assembly." "This Assembly," said the Rev. Dr. Vincent, '"should vote to exclude the organ. Its use is wholly without warrant. It is a step fnwflnl Him mnflinr of harlot"*-'* The Rev. J. H. Brown presented the following: Whep.eas, There is now 110 law forbidding the use of instrumental music in the churches of G?d, and therefore there has been no violation of law in the casa pending; therefore, Resolved, That the appeal be not sustained. After further debate, Mr. Brown's proposition was adopted, as follows: For the propostion. and therefore for the organ?Ministers, til; elders. 4fi: total, 107. Against the proposition?Ministers, 30; elders, ; total, o4. Dr. Junker, the Russian explorer, has received letters from Emm Bey, dated last December. In these Emin Bey said the routes between Uganda and Wadelai were open, and that he had received supplies. Dr. Junker 1 savs he thinks that the success of Stanley's relief expedition is, barring accidents, assured I by the fact that the routes are open. , KILLED HIS GRANDSONS. The Double Crime of ail Aged Pennsylvania Widower. Murdering Two Little Boys so that He Might Marry Again. The town of Lebauon, Penn., has l>een double murder perpetrated at Annville. a little village five miles away. William Showers, aged fifty-nine, a widower, and a cigarmaker, lived on the outskirts of Annville, in a modest little home. Nothing was known against him. Living with him were two boys named Samuel and Wille Hoffnagle. aged three and five years. They were his grandsons, being the children of his deceased daughter. Their care devolved upon Showers, and he chafed under the additional expense tliey caused. Showers became engaged to be married to a widow named Mrs. Sargeant, but the woman finally told him that she would not marry him unless the children were put out to board. Showers suddenly began to entertain a strange enmity toward his little grandsons. He told Mrs. Sargeant that they should be sent away to live, and about two weeks ago the boys disappeared from the house, and Showers told the neighbors he had sent them to live with a mnn iimr Trtwpr C'itw in Schnvlkill count7. Then a suspicion arose that all was not right, and whisperings reached the officials in Lebanon that a double murder had probably been committed. Showers told conflicting stories, and Constable Fagan went to his home and arrested him. It was 2 o'clock Monday morning when the doors closed behind him in the Lebanon jail. Still he was only arrested on suspicion until an investigation could be made. . First he said he had given the boys in charge of a man who would provide them with a food home in Texas. Then he reported that e had driven the boys to 'lower City and given them into the charge of a farmer. Later he said that while on the way to Tower City he sent the boys back for something he had lost on the road, and they had been kidnapped by tramps in the vicinity of Indiantown Gap, a dangerous place. Showers declared upon his solemn oath that ho did not know the whereabouts of the children, and tears streamed down his cheeks cs he called upon God as his witness. Many of the officials who held conversation with him were inclined to believe him. Still the District* Attorney was not satisfied, and ordered a strict search of Showers's premises. Late Tuesday afternoon the bodies of the boys were found buried in the lot occupied by Shower's house. The bodies were found covered by only two l'eet of earth. They were six feet apart, and about twenty yards from the house. They had been strangled with a small cord, arid there were deep indentations in their necks where the string had been tightly twisted four or five times. They were in their nightgowns. After they had been strangled the murderer, to make his work sure, battered in their heads, and then carried the boys out in the night and buried them in the holes that had evidently been prepared in advance. The body of one of the boys looked as if he had been beaten with a club after he had been choked, and they had apparently been in the ground two weeks. It was well for him that Showers was safe in Lebanon jail. Had he been outside the jail when the bodies were found he would have been 13-nched on the spot. The greatest excitement prevailed. When confronted with the evidences of his crime, the wretched murderer confessed all, saying that his desire to marry Mrs. Sargeant had caused him to put the little boys out of the w-ay, and that he murdered them in their sleep. THE NATIONAL~GAME, Tun Cincinnatis are in a desperate strait for pitching talent. Nashvtle won twelve straight ere New Orleans checked her career. Since the pitchers' games have become fewer, drawn games are less frequent. Vtuct Rasfwav MnRRir.T. is becoming the I chief home-run getter of the Bostons. All the League clubs are more evenly matched this year than they were last season. Professor Swing, of Chicago, says that baseball is the "greatest outdoor sport in the world." Clarkson* istljemost effective pitcher the Detroits face. At least that's what the Wolverines say. O'Neill is leading the Association batsmen. with MoClellan, Foutz, Burns and Fennelly close after. The Southern League is in a bad wav, and is threatened with dissolution. Mobile has dropped out, and Birmingham been admitted. Chicago, Detroit, New York and Cincinnati have made bids for Yiau. the Dartmouth College pitcher, who is doing such effective work for St. PauL Harry Pyle. pitcher for the Chicago Club, who gave the Detroits ten nins in one inning was released, and was at once signed by the La Crosse (Wis.) Club. The gross receipts of the National League Clubs last year amounted to not less than $3:20,000. . it is estimated that the receipts for 18S7 will amount to $400,000. Philadelphia has the most magnificent pavilion and ball park in the world, but Detroit indisputably has the finest playing field. It is as level andsmooth as a table. Right fielders haven't nearly as much work as formerly, fewer flies being batted to them under the new rules. Centre fielders now have the bulk of the outside work. Good pitchers are scarce in the New England League. Whenever a player in a minor league makes a reputation in that respect the the larger organizations gobble him up. That $10.(.i00 investment in Kelly of the Chicagos was a paying one for Boston. The team is playing a very strong game, and drawing large crowds wherever they go. The International League will now have two colored pitchers, as the Syracuse Club has signed a colored twirler named Robert Higgins, of Memphis, Tenn. He is said to be a wonderful left-handed man. Pitcher Jack Lynch, of the Metropolitans, says that the story about Phenomenal Smith being unable to pitch until the ball had become rough from wear is true. He says that this is one of the deep secrets of pitching. It is almost impossible to pitch a ?mnnth I mil hut. when it becomes chinoed from coming in contact with the rough ground, it can be thrown aiul curved at will. Ax exchange says: '-It is not generally known, but it is nevertheless a fact, that the Detroit. New York, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and St. Louis Clubs have agents out all over the country in quest of pitchers. There is one pitcher in the Northwestern League that every one of the clubs is after. The New Yorks have offered as high as ?3,200 for his release, while Von der Ahe, of St. Louis, has authorized his agent to pay $100 more than the best offer in order to secure his man." THE NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD. Won. Lost. iron. Lost. Detroit 21 0 Boston 18 Jj Pittsburgh.... 10 13 New York....l.> 12 Philadelphia. .14 13 Indianapolis... 0 22 Chicago 11 14 | Washington... S 15 THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. ll'on. Lost. Won. Lost St. Louis 27 4 | Baltimore IS 11 Brooklyn 13 14 I Cincinnati.... 17 18 Ijouisville 17 1 (J j Athletic IS 14 Metroi>olitan.. 0 24 | Cleveland 7 23 THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. iron. Lout. H'ort. Lost. Newark 10 2 | Syracuse 10 11 Rochester. ...14 It j Bingha niton.. 0 I'J Toronto 1:2 0 j Hamilton 10 i:; Buffalo 1"> 0 j Jersey City... 1-1 Oswego ;J 10 j Utica *.... 4 15 THE COLLEGE LEAGUE. If'o/i. Loft. Won. Lost. Harvard 1 [ Princeton 2 4 Yale 4 0 | Columbia 0 5 EASTERN LEAGUE. iron. Lust. iron. Lost. New Haven. ..in 14 Hartford 17 7 Bridgeport.... 1H 4 Waterbury... 11 11 Danbury 7 15 Springlieki... 4 15 SOUTHERN LEAGUE. H'on. IO't. Won. Lost. Nashville Iti 4 I Charleston... 4 12 Memphis 15 fl Savannah.... 4 20 New Orleans. .17 11 Birmingham. 0 0 The estimated California hay crop this year will be 80,000 bales, an increa?e over last vear of i&.OOO bales. Reports from Oregon, Washington Territory, and British Columbia also show an increase. i NEW YORK'S GREAT BLAZE. The Largest Fire That Has Occurred There in Many Years. The greatest fke that has taken place in New York City for many years broke out at 1:30 o'clock Friday morning in the car stables of the Belt Line Horse Railroad, uii me ucm muc vi i "iiui a>cuuc, j between Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth streets. The car stables, with all their contents, were completely destroyed. Nearly 1,^00 horses perished in the flames. One hundred and thirty cars, with a large quantity of harness, feed, and other material, were burned up. Only about fifty horses were saved out of the nearly 1.501) in the stables. The stables occupied the whole front on the west side of Tenth avenue.and extended down Fifty-third anil Fifty-fourth streets half way to Eleventh avenue. The building was three 6tories high. The fire was discovered in the cellar in the extreme western end of the stables and spread so rapidly that it was impossible to enter the building to save the horses. The heat set lire to a row of frame stables and dwellings on the south side of Fifty-third street, and in a few moments the whole row was blazing. Then the flames leaped across Fifty-fourth street and set fire to the sixstory silk factory of Jacob New, a new building which extends through to Fiftv-fifth street. A row of flats ana tene ment houses east of the silk factory next took fire, and the flames spread so rapidly that the tenants, rudely awakened from their slumbers, were compelled to fly for their lives. In some cases the firemen were compelled to tear down the fences in the rear to enable the tenants to escape, as it was impossible for them to leave by the front doors, owing to the intense heat. The live-story brick tenement on the northwest corner of Fifty-fourth street and Tenth avenue was ablaze from cellar to garret in a short time. Next the intense heat set fire to a , row of eight two and three story frame build- I ings on the east side of Tenth avenue, which j were occupied as stores and dwellings. It (lit1 not take many minutes for the flames to sweep through this entire row of buildings I from Fifty-third to Fifty-fourth street, add- j ing to the great heat and blaze. The entiie pecuniary loss is estimated at j $700,000. NATIONAL DRILL. I Prizes Won at Washington by Com- : JIVJIlllg OUJU11.19* Thirty-one States were represented by soldiers at this week's competition in the National Drill at "Washington. The prizes were awarded as follows: I. Regimental?First Virginia Regiment, the only competing organization in this class. Prize?A stand of colors and medals for the officers. II. Battalion?(1) Washington Light Infantry; (2) Louisville, Legion of Kentucky. Prizes??3,000 for first, $1,500 for second. \ III. Company?(1) Lomax Rifles, Company j B, 1st Alabama; (2) Company D, 1st Mlnne- . sota: (3) Belknap Rifles, Company B. 3d | Texas; (4) National Rifles. Washington, D. C.; (5) San Antonio Rifles, Texas. Prizes?$5,000 j to first; $2,500 to second; $1,500 to third: F1,000 to fourth, and $500 to fifth. There were | thirty competing companies. I\. Cavalry (2 prizes)?No competitors. V. Light artillery <2 prizes)?;1) Battery A, 1st Regiment Indiana Artillery (or Indianapolis Light Artilleryl: (2; 1st Light Battery of Wisconsin (or Milwaukee Light Battery), j Prizes?S1.5IHH) for first: SI.(MX) for second. VI. Machine Gun (2 prizes)?(1) Battery A, Ohio (or "Cincinnati Battery"): (2) Battery A, Louisville Legion. Prizes?Silver trophy anil $750 to fii st and $500 to second. VII. Zouaves (2 prizes)?(1) Chicago Zouaves: pi) Memphis Merchants' Zouaves. Prizes?$1,000 for first and ?750 for second. VIII. Cadet Corps (2 prizes)?Michigan Military Academy Cadets; <2i Maryland Agricultural College Cadets. Prizes?$1,000 to first and $750 to second. The individual prises were awarded as follows: 1. Private H. G. Stack, San Antonio Rifles, $100; 2. First Sergeant Charles F. Conrad, Company B. Washington Light infantry. $75;8. First Sergeant J. R. Wagner, Company A. Louisville Iregion. In addition to the list of prizes announced to be awarded by the Board of Judges, the Executive Committee bestowed upon the first Light Battery of Wisconsin a gold medal for proficiency in sabre drill, and a silver medal to the Louisville Legion Drum Corps for proficiency in music an'l movement. A FIGHT WITH CONVICTS. Three Prisoners Brought Down by a Guard's Single Shot. The other afternoon, in a convict camp in Kentucky, two negroes and a white man of a gang of fifty penitentiary convicts who have been at work on the railroad to Newport, planned an escape. Toward evening, while <)vers?er Marshal was superintending some work, the white convict sneaked up behind him and struck him with a shovel. Marshall fell mortally wounded. The guard heard the tumult and rushed to the scene with his gun at full cock, and was aKr.?i- tr, fim nt the murderer, when the two negro conspirators interposed themselves be- j tween the guard and the fugitive. The guard ordered them out of the way. but tbey re- | fused to move, and picking up rocks advanced I upon him, when the guaru fired. Both negroes and the ileeing white convict dropped in their tracks from a single charge of buckshot?one negro dead, shot through the head, and the other dangerously wounded, while the assailant of the overseer was pierced through the lungs by two buckshot and mortally wounded. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Baby shows are in process of revival in the West and South. Edwi.v Booth has become so gray that he wears no wig in "Hamlet*' now. It is said that TV H. Doane, of Cincinnati, makes ?20,000 a year writing hymns. The Emperor of Austria spends over $1,OOH,(iOO a year on the Vienna Opera House. Joseph Haworth, who is one of the rising stars, will play Wallace's 'Rosedale" next season. "Harbor Lights" has run 500 times in i London, "Sophia" nearly 400, "Dorothy" 200 | and "The Butler"' 1.50. At the performance of "Ali Baba" in the Alhambra, at Brussels. forty horses and a camel will be introduced in the procession. Pauline hall.the leading lady of the New York Casino, has sung the "Lullaby1' in "Erminie" over KW times, encores included, during the past twelvemonths. The Rev. S. F. Smith, who fiftyfive years ago wrote "My country 'tis of thee,'1 has lately celebrated his seventy-ninth birthday anniversary* in vigorous health. The tendency to low prices is general throughout the country. McCaull's Opera ComiMuiy has been singing in Baltimore to a public that pays fifteen cents a head for seats. Miss Emma Abbott says she is the only prima donna in die world who sings publicly seven nights n week, and she can sing three notes higher than any other, excepting Sernbricli. at" hi" ST a Van Dorex, the young woman who will play "(.'iiariotte nusse hcai has just liad the life of her big Saint Bernard dog insured for The dog appears on the stage in her new play. A proposition* has been made in a London pajx*r that the words Way Out'' be painted m large letters with luminous paint near the exits of theatres to guide the audience iu case the lights should be stuldeuly extinguished. tyi kk.v Margherita. of Italy, attended every one of the twenty-two performances of Verdi's "Otello" at Home, always entering the theatre before the overture was begun and remaining in her seat till the last chord of the finale had been struck. Patrick Gilmore and his baud were recently obliged to wait two horn* for a train at Warren, 111. The citizens made up a purse cf $50 and offered it to the director on condition that his musicians would play one selection. Mr. Gilniore informed them that a little music would cost them $150. Warren did not hear the great band that day. Thk manager of a minstrel company in California having decided that he preferred farming to running a show lias gone to his 1. .>.1,1 liis wife has started out iu his lain ii. ?? place. Three or four owners and managers of theatres in this country are women, two or three heads of companies are women, and a woman is the theatrical bill poster in Saratoga. Osip Feldman is the name of a Russian mind-reader who has set all Paris agog. He finds hidden objects without coming in physical contact with any of the persons having k knowledge of the secret. j A VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE. 1 J ?*" j City of Mexico Severely Shake by a Prolonged Shock. A Number of Shocks Also Felt i Arizona and Texas. A heavy earthquake shock was felt in tl City of Mexico, and throughout the valley t 2:50 o'clock Sunday morning. Saturda afternoon had been extremely warm?in fac the weather for the last four days had bee extraordinarily warm for that regkn which generally enjoys a very - mi] degree of temperature even in surame Last Saturday afternoon there were eral whirlwinds in the valley and in the cifr carrying clouds of dust and fine gravel hig in the an-. Old citizens, with the memory < previous earthquakes in mind, predicted shock, and they are now regarded as prophet At exactly 2.50 o'clock there was felt, n< only in the city, but in the suburban town a violent shaking of the earth, or sort of lift ing motion, which lasted five seconds. Nea there came, prefaced by a low roar, as trot the bowels of the earth, and accompanied b a stiff breeze, a violent oscillation of the lan from east to west, which awoke nearly ever one, lasting, as it did, thirty-nine second Houses swayed as if they were ships at set and persons arising from their beds were, ii many cases, thrown with force to the_fioo1 Bells were rung in the hotels and everwher doors were forced open. Then came another a r\fAAoA/lmry L'iilUUVII UL luutu ?iuicuv c yi wcvutug &?vi north to south. During this shock crockery wi thrown down and pictures demolished ii several houses. Then followed a scene <j general confusion, dogs barking and horsj neighing and stamping in their stable Thousands of persons dressed themselves an did not go to bed again. Reports received by Governor Ceballos, o the federal District, do not show any fatil ties as the result of the earthquake, and th denizens of suburban towns report about th same sensations as were felt by the inhah tants of the metropolis. At the School < Mines Secretary Ugalde reports that the seii mic instruments showed that a heavy shoe had taken place. These instruments are sel: registering and prove that the shock c Saturday morning was a severe one. Dow J wmimU CAKAAI n# were UJKTiiCU ail uiu uu^u i/uc ucuwi v> ? j and the night watohnan reported the s'frftj ing of that enormous building. The shock is the topic of conversatio everywhere, and the people all have peculii experiences to report. In the Schw of Mines the water in the swimmin tank used by the students flowed 01 over the courtyard. Clocks everywher were stopped and there was general constei nation. At the office of Governor Ceballos is reported that the shock was much mof severe than that of 18ISJ. The heaviest shock of earthquake of th: century occurred in the city of Mexico,! 1858, when many persons were killed: T1 shock, which happened in the ni?ht, was fo lowed by a severe one the next day, the p& pie taking refuge in the streets. Prior to tbi there had been a heavy shock in 1847. 1 1864 there was also a heavy 6hock and in IS a very severe one, cracking the front of ti parish church and the Sagrario and tfaja wal of the London Bank building. Reports from- various points in the soutl ern parts of the Mexican Republic show thi the earthquake was severely felt very gene ally. " " """"" <???*! Earthquakes in Arizona and Texa Another earthquake shock occured at ! Paso, Texas, on Sunday, at 12:30 o'clock. T1 United States signal officer. T. W. Twadde says the shock lasted about ten seconds, ai that its intensity was about equal to that < the second shock of May 3. A second shoe was distinctly felt by everybody and peop rushed into tne streets. There was quite a severe shock of eart quake at Nogales, Arizona, at about 1 o'clo* Monday afternoon which created mu< excitement, although no damage was don Ten minutes ^afterwards there was anotb shock, but it was a very light one. Sunday evening a terrific dry cycla visited Is ogales. It came from the mountai on the east side of the town and demolished great many Mexican huts and unroofed se eral other'more substantial buildings. 2 one was injured. DEATHON THE BAIL, Six Passengers Killed and Othei Injured. The other night, as the fast line west.w nearins Kittaning Point, Penn., the wheel a car on a freight train east burst and t car crushed into two passenger coaches Wi terrible effect, killing instantly four men at injuring many oth&s. Telegrams were ii mediately sent to Altoona for physicians, ai all that could be procured were detailed the wreck. The killed were Dal Graham, son of e Speaker Graham, Allegheny, Penn.; J. ] Stauffer, of Lewisville, Ohio; Wymer Sn der. a one-legged man, of Shamotin, Pern John Dorris, a newsboy of East Libert Penn.; Frank McCue. of 75 East Thirt third street. New York City: Charles Beid man, of Brinfield, Noble County, Indiana. The injured were: A. Agen, Fayettevil N. Y., head and side, not serious; Clara i bert, of Flint, Mich., slightly injured: t Rev. John Alford. of Beaver Falls, Peru slight injuries: Hattie Luckett (colored), Alexandria, Va., not seriously; the Rev H. Porter (colored), of Detroit. Edith Geise. aged eleven years, travel! with her mother, was prostrated by t shock, but was not injured to any extei No passengers occupying sleeping or par] cars were injured. The accident was t worst that lias happened for years on t Pennsylvania Railroad. The injured w< brought to Altoona and were made as coi fortable as possible. A Canadian firm have taken a contract iii>r? of land in Sou ? Australia for the compensation of one-fifth the land ?-'500,000 are to be expended in t work, in twenty years, in terms of five ye< each. French ladies won't go to a party bali whore the electric light is used, shows their pimples and wrinkles t plainly. Something soft and snbdn is what they want. THE MARKETS. new york. 22 Beef, good to prime 6.l-*<3 ' Calves, com'n to prime ! Sheep 8 *65 ; Lambs 9V?(?) I Hogs?Live 5}i@ Dressed. " Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 75 @ 4S West, good to choice 3 85 @ 5 (X Wheat?No. 2, Red 96 @ .9 Rye?State*. (jjp t> Barley*?State 00 (fit 7 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 4 Oats? Wbite State 37% @ 3! Mixed Western S4 @ 3 Hay?Med. to prime 85 @ W Straw?No. 1, Kye 60 @ 6 Lard?City Steam 7 1 7 6 Butter?State Creamery.... ? @ V Dairy 14V<<g| 1 West. Im. Creamery 13,C@ 1 Factory 10 @ 1 Cheese?State Factory 7}^(g 1 Skims Western 13 "(<f! 1 Eggs?State and Peun 14 (? 1 BUFFALO. Sheep?Good to Choice 4 10 @43 I^3iubs?Western 4 75 (<$ 5 0 Steei-s?Western 4 35 @ 4 ?J Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 t'O @50 Flour 4 75 eg 5 1 Wheat?No. 1 91 @ U corn?.>o. x, Mixed *- ..>(<11 * Oats?No. 2, Mixed 32 (ii 53 Barley?State '54 (g 0 BOSTON*. Beef?Good to choke 1 Hogs?Live <r>K@ Northern Dressed.... Pork?Ex. Primo.iier bbl...12 00 @12 3 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 00 <& 5 i Corn?High Mixed ? ? 5 Oats?Extra White 40}<@ 4 Rye?State 60 @ ti WATERTOW.V (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef- Dressed weight o%@ Sheei?? Live weight 4 @ Lambj ? @ Hogs?Northern "}{? ' PHILADELPHIA. FJour?Penn.extra family... 3 00 @ 3 o Wheat?No. 2. Red 9 Corn?State Yellow 48 @ 4.' Oats Mixed 84^@ 3? Rye-State ? <? 5 Butter?Creamery Extra... 16 % 11 Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream., ? L