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' A GREAT YACHT RACE, 'l Cl International Contest Between tj the Volunteer and Thistle. i b: . T Details of the Volunteer's Victory tc On the First Day, t? 01 lc TITE AMERICA'S CUP. (1 The greatest nautical event of the year has t< been the international yacht race at New York, between America's representative, the a sloop Volunteer, and Great Britain's cham- h pion, the Scotch cutter Thistle. This last B contest for the America's cup differs from ^ previous international contests. It was not s simply a race prompted by the enterprise s and pluck of an English yachtsman anxious 11 for the honor of reclaiming the Cup captured by the American yacht in British waters o Tf ?t*ne a fflcf nf S Ui:i l/)"dlA ^ fill o ajju. iu tiao a v* vuw . ? merits of the American and English models | ^ as represented by the best yacht ever yet i t; lanncheil in English waters and the bast I * yacht ever built in America. It was a con- ? test between the two nations for the yachting J1 championship of the world. ? i . ? s THE VOLUNTEER. The conditions upon which the America's \v cup is sailed for are that the challenger f< must win it twice out of three races in ]? order to carry it off, and the de- ir fender must be victorious the same tl number of times to insure its remain- fi ing in this country. One of t he series of three fl< races must be sailed over the regatta course of ni the club holding the cup, and that is why bi the race of this year's series was vi sailed over the course of the New York Yacht Club. The second race is over a course en of 20 nautical miles to windward and of return, and the third race, if neces- si< sary, over a triangular course of 40 w nautical miles outside Sandy Hook. A T! statute mile measures 5,2S0 feet, but a cl nautical mile is 0,1)80 feet, though blue-water bi navigators, preferring to be a little ahead gi rather than behind in their reckoning, b< assume that it is just 6,000 feet. The following vivid account of_the victory ife won on the nrst day by tne volunteer is taken from the New York papers: tc By 8 o'clock a. m. the harbor was in a to tumult of preparation. Industrious launches w leaped from wave to wave, and up the gang- w ways of the }*achts were handed innumerable T1 and bewildering girls: leviathan steamers tli blew long and fitfully, hurrying their sil thousands aboard; multitudinous cats floated it seaward with limp wings; dories and dingies, ds catamarans, wherrks, mammoth liners, packets, barges?everything which coula float and move was busy as busy could be, getting packed for the race. And the tugs! The tugs had a day out and x they knew it If there was one tug there were a hundred, and each was loaded with all the red paint and cussed ness it could carry. Given ten snub-nosed, swag- Ir , gering and uproarious tugs on a pic- ti< nic and a foghorn may just as well curl up at and quit; given a hundred full of frolic and . toots, and the voice of the whirlwind in wrath sinks to silence by comparison. to By a hundred paths converged the mar- aj ellous throng to the place of trial. The sea gi I ! J\ ! "1 " ^ THE THISTLE. tj queens Electra, Mohican, Atalanta, Nourmahal, Stranger, Susquehanna; the nereids r Vision, Viola, Nooya, Loando, Norma, Loganda, Satellite; the winged wanderers of the beautiful fleet, the cloud-bearing champions, the huge and slow-moving arks of " ocean travel, the wicked Now Then scamp- i t( ering hither and thither like a small boy in o: recess, the teeming tiers of the harbor giants, whose machinery seemed perpatually reach- I' ing down into the hold for something it h never quite succeeded in fetching up?all a these, with a myriad turbulent tugs, snorting, n tooting, clanging mysterious bells, now beating the water, now idle, backing, going for- si ward, rocking idly, never at rest?all a these filled the expanse of waters; and be- t< yond, the gray curtains of the mist were L drawn to hide the hills and spires. n Finally all was ready. The two yachts had hoisted their anchors and were standing ? fn ntu) fm lil/a ?tv\ c An o fror?lr ? watching each other and the flagship. C( They hail the same sail set. iiicluding those mentioned, and the baby tj , jib topsail. Their perfect symmetry made jr them seem small. They were the centres of observation to an immense circle of boats, for n all the craft had been forced liack till they u formed an immense ring on the water, as if for ?| a contest with soft gloves for the two nation- I al representatives. The Regatta Committee i , on the steam yacht Electra looked at their ! watches. "Bang!" went the Electra's gun. It was 12:20 o'clock. The yachts stood back and forth uneasily. "Bang!" went the second_ cun at 12:30, and | ? almost with its echo the Thistle came about, j " and, under the light breeze, crossed the line first I *! The Electra tooted, and then the hullabaloo ! .1 was indescribable. Every whistle was ( turned loose to its fullest capacity. Above ; ? the dull roar of the big ones rose the j shrieks, screams and squeals of the little j ^ 6teamers. " Bro-o-o-o-o," " Bra-a-a-a-a,"' c " Bre-e-e-e," " Brow-ow-ow," the whistles I c steamed away in dissonant and deaf- 0 ening chorus, their boate covered with steam, j Vi through which the amok* of many guns came arsting out, though their reports, rapid as 1 pack of big firecrackers, could scarcely be J Bard in the grand uproar that prevailed. Amid the magnificent racket the Volunteer rossed on the heels of her rival, the respec- . ve time of the two being 12:34:5 8% and All i:o3:0t>. The breeze was from the >uth. Both boats stood across the rty, the Volunteer reaching furthest, hen over the faces of the specta- T >rs on the wharves, of the aditional thou- JUl tnds that lined the shores, of the black irongs on the two forts, and the multitude i the verandas of the shore hotels came a ok of blankest surprise. The Volunteer, it irthest inshore, had caught a breeze. The histle was unlucky and did not share it. The ioston yacht began to speed down the Bay in dec iie most cheerful and careless of moods, f^e -hile the Thistle stood still on the face of the , aters. Minute after minute tha strange ght continued. It was partly luck an:l die ?V.??f i4- TTraa unfArfnnqfa nri'c Xl liy JUUgllXOUU, UUV IV ??uu?v? WU..I.W. ?/ >. he race was to be ended at the start it are leined. Tt Yard after yard the Volunteer crept away ntil she had nearly a mile the advantage, per, hen the sails of the Thistle filled, and she, j Bar x>, started, but too late. It was one of ju( lose accidents that occur in all aces. The wind had shifted four ven oints to the westward. The Volunteer had pris might it long ahead of her rival, and as she wer ent ahead of her down the Bay it constantly , reshened, and she got the first of its fresh- er ess and increased her lead. It shifted any radually, and the Thistle, trying to follow "ilc ie Volunteer continually fell off, until it deci ?emed that she was no match for the Burgess sku: oat in pointing. She headed in close to the ?*>m 'ind and fell off so often as her sails began to Pre: luttcr that the superiority of thecenterboard oat in close sailing became more apparent ? II OCVlUlIJg UlUJl il VVilS ill 1UUU mo nuuiW ?|jg leet of spectators were surprised. They had 0j t| Joked forward to a very close race, and it lK,: lad become simply a procession. ,Jj0l All the way out to the Southwest Spit this , tate of affairs continued. The throng of ancj oats rushed into the Narrows so close to- ai ether that it seemed as if one could pass up0 rom fort to fort by merely jumping from t eck to deck. They went forward rapidly mor o keep up with the Volunteer, and, p] onsequently, interfered with the ?ou ?histle. The wash of the steamers natur- to y lly implied her progress; aud this would ggg lave been a source of general regret had 'jr ot the same thing happened later oil to the f.*,V( rolunteer, so that the injury was equalized. gru The Volunteer was away in the lead, like a s:(j0 now-white lamb leading the flock. They all n'jn( tuck close to her, leaving the Thistle far be- (Ur lind, like a little black sheep that nobody aj .'ould speiik to. The course to the lightship was in the same ?nj. rder with the same incidents. The old red ;s V( hip. with its round day marks at the mast- j?ea ead, rolled in quite a sprightly fashion all(j iver the responsibility which had been y.en hrust upon it, and was gorgeous -pi vith an entire new set of Stars | t^r(. nd Stripes. The floating city surrounded oro, ier long uefore the Volunteer arrived. When I ^ he white boat rounded they made such a ! ^ j. whistling and cannonading as the lightship ' niej ever heard before. It was a new Venice . ___ lit in the ocean. Secretary Whitney de- | lared it the greatest marine spectacle that ! j, \'ew York had ever seen. taj{( The homeward course was not exciting. The for 'olunt^er had a lead that it was impossible vjsj] jr the Thistle to overcome. After rounding luoy 10 she set her spinnaker and fairly flew. he Electra people made themselves merry. jow he plain and simple fare of the cabin was j.no iscussed with interest. ?phe During the long course homeward the posi- p j ion of the two boats changed little. Finally tie fleet of steamers, augmented by numberss yachts that had been waiting up the Bay, aocc ime to a standstill about Buoy 15. The lectra came to anchor. Everybody was *. aiting to welcome the victor. tj_e She came sweeping over the waters as if cou] he were alive. Her snow-white spinnaker fact as drawing to its fullest, and she seemed wot ke a hurrying white cloud. The green aves curled away under her fore coes >ot, holding up to her white garmds of victory. In the West the sinkig sun was a disk of molten red fire. Across le dull green water, marking a line straight om the buoy to the flagship, it scattered ?cks of ruddy liquid gold to mark the winng line. The steam fleet stood silent and The reathless. The Regatta Committee watchod igilantly. ... | Th "Now!' cried Air. Taylor, as ner mast ] ime into line. With a roar the two guns : the Electra went off together. A broad- j desci lie echoed from all the fleet. The yachts eign ere wreathed in blue powder smoke. I gg be signals fluttered, the spectators ; ?3 scored, the tugs, like a hock of "uni rown beetles, rushed across the line to con- | ques ratulate her, and the whistles could have ; and jen heard when they once got to going by q ,-cry sharp eared Scotchman on the Clyde self. j cons After many minutes came the Thistle. She e?er k> came rushing in with spinnaker set,but all the ] olate. She too was greeted with cannon and I . Ti histle, but it was rather melancholy. There as no golden line across the restless water. ! he sun bad gone out behind the clouds and , te landscape was gray and cheerless. A | '* Iver moon shone down" upon her coldly, for ? 111 was a cold day for the Thistle, the coldest iy she had seen in her racing experience. the _ _ each O'BKIEN CONVICTED. S5 mini he Irish Editor Sen'enced to Three Is at Months' Imprisonment. The trial of William O'Brien, M. P., the j ish editor and Home Rule leader, for sedi- j serv wis utterances daring the eviction of tenants I Tl Mifnliflllctmrn nnrlixrl in a vorHi'pf nf frilllfu I , VHUW m ? 6-..v | Jjgjjg f the jury. The accused man was sentenced j T1 i three months1 imprisonment. Notice of of l! jpcal from the judgment of the court was the < iven. j . "1 Mr. O'Brien spoke to the court and jury in j iug is own defense. | fron Immediately after setence had been pro- j pens junced on Mr. O'Brien on the first charge ; least 3 was placed on trial on the second charge. ' for i his was the same nature as the other. Upon ' roas lis he was also found guilty and was sen- "I need to three months' imprisonment, the j othe irm to be concurrent with the other. Mr. | the l Brien appealed from both judgments and : be e as liberated on bail. tern John Mandeville, Chairman of the Board ] T1 Poor Law Guardians of Mitchellstown, who a hi| as jointly indicted with Mr. O'Brien for syst >ing seditious language in a speech made on Sc le same occasion as Mr. O'Brien's, was also furr mvicted and sentenced to two months' ira- "J risonmeut. Mr. Mandeville appealed from ^ le judgment and was permitted to remain at use i berty on bail pending the decision of the ap- real ?al. ($1,: Mr. O'Brien, when bo emerged from the tain mrt-room after the trial, was received en- ($4^ msiastically by a large crowd which had real isembled to testify their approval of his Aft* >urse. I ceiv Tur T A POP wnPT."n th& J. XX XJ XJHUVlU ff VJ.UXJX/1 Real The Haniessmakers1 Union has now a Na- j""' ional Union of 15,(0) members. The statistician of L. A. 2,233 of Rico, 0f a Colorado, reports that over ninety per cent. vjce f its members own homes. or j] The membership of the K. of L. and the $7.5 Lmerican Federation of Labor is estimated ' TT] > be (i<K?,(K)U in good standing for each uo p rganization. sian The Union Coal Company. Shamokin, " enn., lias promulgated an agreement where- ! rat' y miners will receive eight percent, advance ?on! nd laborers fifteen per cent., and other ' linor concessions. A telephone company, with a capital *r0I] iock of ?10,0 >0,000, has been incorporated t Indianapolis, Ind. The company proposes 3 manufacture the telephone patented by H. mer i. Todd, of Washington, the place of busi- jgyg ess to be Indianapolis. qqq ( Tnr Amapinnii * \ *?ii Miuctnuit 11111U UUllit* U11U WIUUOH ium lass workers of the country have formed an The rganization to prevent tlie importation of antract labor. They have raised a fund of 50,000, which will be used in the prosecuon of any manufacturer who attempts to nport contract labor. Miss Catherine Ranger, of Hamilton, _ nt., is regarded as the feminine champion .. f the cause of labor. For three years she has j ilke<l and written at every opportunity upon , Jc lis theme, and one day recently the knights rial { Labor of Hamilton manifested their appre- Gra ntinn )>v r>ro?nntincr hpr with A murrmrinl I n\ ?VIVM J rm ? ??x j id a gold watch. you: Taber Skinner, formerly a Knight of La- Ami or, has brought suit against General Work- Ti tan Powderly and the General Executive rnak oard of the Knights of Labor to recover parj tt'i().24 for work done in repairs and alteraons upon the new Knights of Labor palace thr i Philadelphia. Skinner has filed a mechan- ^ n( s' lien against the labor headquarters in the p mount claimed. ..." - "bo' Peaches that grow to be ten inches in ontl ircuinference are a common sight about jj 'lyde, Ohio, where there are extensive ^ rcharJs. Toe peaches are of the very beet ' ariety to J. j xnan fACOB SHARP DOOMED. i Adverse Decision Against the "Arch Boodler." I 3ge Barrett Unanimously Upheld by the Higher Court, 'he General Term of the Supreme Court Sew York on Monday handed down its ision that Jacob Sharp, ex-President of Broadway Surface Car Company, had a rightly convicted of bribing the "Boo1 Aldermen, and refused to grant the oner a new trial. Judge Barrett's rulings upheld on every point. ; was just 2 o'clock, says a New York pawhen Judges Van Brunt, Brady and "tlett walked slowly into the Court room. Ige Daniels alone was absent. The reconiing of the Court was a great sure. Only the reporters and clerk e present. There was not a mem of the District-Attorney's office nor of the defendant's counsel present. Like ifire, however, the] news spread that the sion had been rendered. There was a rrying for seats. |The Clerk mumbled ething, and then Judge Van Brunt, as siding Justice, read the decision. Intense ice reigned until he had finished. He The Court, after a careful examination of voluminous record presented in the case be People against Jacob Sharp, and of the stion raised upon the appeal, have unaniisly come to the conclusion that no error judicial to the defendant appears therein, that the jury was justified in tiie verdict rived at. The order to be entered herein n the appeal and the motions made prior lie argument will be settled on Thursday n;ng Defore the presiding Justice." bis is the ultimatum of the Supreme rt, General Term?Jacob Sharp must go ing Sing for four years and pay a fine of Of) to the State for bribery. The leading lion is written by Judge Daniels and ?rs 12U pages of manus ript. Judge Van nt's covers thirty-six pages, and is a conration of the four opinions. Ju Ige Brady's ! pages and Judge Bartlett's merely conThis is the first time for a number of rs that four Supreme Judges have sat toier in General Term. Generally there are r three. The last time that such a thing 'membered was when Judge Davies ana body disputed the election of each other, pending a decision both sat together in eral Term. he news of the decision was received ninrkoiif flirt snfv with PVPrV Kifm of at) w! Thirteen comes up again," said an old ten. "There were thirteen boodle Alder1, September 13 was the first day of the Liment for an appeal, and now you see teen days later the decision is rendered." icob Sharp received the news?as he had ;n every important stop in his struggle liberty?in a stolid manner and without ble emotion. His wife was much affected the news. Young George Sharp Mr. Selmes brought the tidings to Ludstreet jail, and in a quiet manner made wn the decision of the General Term, y remained with him until night. Dr. H. Loomis called about 4:30 p. M. to visit his ent, and remained a short time in conation with him. Mr. Sharp is weak, and, >rding to those who see him daily, a very man. t the District-Attorney's office Mr. Marand his assistant, De Lancey Nicoll, d not refrain from expressing their satision at the result. "I expccted it, I exed it," said Mr. Nicoll. "I had no fear of result all along. You see, a rich man ; to prison as well as a poor man." PAYING PENSIONS, > Methods Adopted By Some Foreign Countries. ie most original feature in the current lal report of Commissioner Black is its riptioa of the pension systems of forcountries. The facts for this purpose, a "Washington special to the New York , were obtained iu respouse to rets made by him to American Ministers Consuls-General in various lands, and ;ral Black says that "the most courteous I ideration has been paid to the requests in J y instance save in the one addressed to iliuister at the Court of St. James." irning to the individual foreign systems, le French each pension for any grade is rved to contain what is called a maxii and a minimum figure: "or instance, that of a private soldier has inimum of WX) and a maximum of 750 cs. The minimum pension is gained by length of service above stated, and for i additional year of service the penzr is entitled to an addition of oneltieth of the difference between the imum and maximum until the maximum tained. An applicant who is entitled to than the maximum service pension is alsd an addition for active campaign ser, graded according to the nature of his ice in the campaigns in which he served." lis is practically only analogous to our evity pay system, which accrues to the s\f hrtea wHa crn r\r? f.h*? roHrA/1 lict". le German system is founded on the law >71, and its general basis is laid down at cutset of that law: Svery officer and military surgeon holdthe rank of officer who draws his pay 1 the army appropriations, receives a life ion if, after a period of service of at ; ten years, he has become incapacitated ictive service, and is discharged for that on. f the incapacity is caused by a wound or r injury received in the service, without fault of the person thus injured, he will ntitled to a pension even after a shorter 1 of service than ten years." le length of service becomes a ground for gher rate of pension, as in the French em. >me of the rates of pension in Spain are lished by Commissioner Black: [f by reason of wounu or other accident ar a soldier loses his sight or the entire of a limb he receives, if Colonel, 32,000 a (?1 ft/mi . if T iont<?nniTt-fV>l<->r?nl fYWl 350); if a Major, 22,00J (?1,100); if a Cap, 15,000 (?750); if a Lieutenant, 8,000 0); if a sub-Lieutenant, 0,000 ($:i00). The in our money is worth about five cents. ;r twenty years of service a Sergeant rees per month ?0; after twentyyears of service ?7.50; after ty-five years of service, $8. A fSerit entirely disabled by accidental ines received in the service shall receive the tlar retired rate of pension per month, I $2.25 to $0.75; corporals and privates II branches of the service receive as serpen ;ions after twenty years of service, j cases of total disability, from $2.25 to 0 per month." lie Turkish and Italian systems present ;reat elements of novelty, but the Rushas a peculiar feature: fhe pension system in Russia seems to bo ler fn the nature of a mutual insurance pany operation. The fund was established L85U by a donation from the imperial sury of 7,500,000 rubles. All the beneiries legal and possible of this fund were u thenceforth assessed G per cent. annum on the amounts of their ries until the date of the first payit of pension, which began about the year I Tne fund had then increased to 18,300 rubles. In 1880 the principle of the 1 reached the sum of 08,000,000 rubles, number of beneficiaries is very smalL " PK0MINENT PEOPLE. latjs Speckels, the San Francisco sugar is said to be worth over thirty millions. )hn Russell You.no is collecting raatofor a history of the civil life of General nt. he aged Baroness Burdett-Coutts and her ng American husband are coming to erica. he mad King of Bavaria is learning to :e himself useful. He passes his days in ug potatoes. ino Humbert, of Italy, is only forty? years old, yet his hair, long since gray, jw nearly white eneral Longstreet says he expects th sides to pitch in to him" when his book j he war is published. enry George, the land and labor agita- j was fined J100 in New York recently for jgarding the notice to serve as a jury* i. .... - i NEWS SUMMARY j Eastern and Middle States. The steamship Alesia arrived at New York a few days since with Asiatic cholera on board, brought direct from Italy, where the dreaded scourge is now raging. Thirteen persons were taken down during the voyage, and eight died. The vessel was immediately quarantined by the New York Health olJi- j cers. A resolution to hold meetings of workingmen all over the country to protest against the execution of the Chicago Anarchists, resulted in a row in the Central : Labor Union of New York city. Many of ! the delegates withdrew after a prominent member called upon God to bless the hand that threw the bomb. "William Haiitung, a well-known citizen of Reading, Penn.,fell into a kettle of boiling I catsup in the yard of his residence, and was I Bcalded to death. The Philadelphia Mint is unable to f ipply j the demand for cents, nickels and dimes. A mortgage for $50,000,000 against the i Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, j and in favor of the Central Trust Company of New York, was filed the other day at Wilkesbarre, Penn. It was dated J uly 1,1887, I and is to run 100 years, bearing interest at the ratw of five ner cent. South and West, A drug clerk in Wichita, Kansas, for 2,080 violations of the Prohibition law, has been sentenced to over seventeen years1* imprisonment and $20,803 fine. Mrs. Lucy Parsons, wife of one of the condemned Anarchists, was arrested in Chicago for distributing copies of her husband's appeal to tho people on the sidewalks, j Eleven criminals were publicly whipped, and two were placed for an hour in the pillory in the Wilmington (Del.) jail. From ten to twenty lashes were given. Another letter from Jefferson Davis to Senator Reagan, of Texas, opposing the Prohibition movement has been published. A YOUNG man on a bet took twenty-two drinks of whiskey at Dayton, Ohio. He died after swallowing tho last drink. An Indian outbreak is reported from the San Carlos reservation in Arizona. Post Trader Horton has been murdered. Two men?John McArdle and J. C. Reardon?recently attempted to file a land j claim at Indian Valley, Cal., which had already been filed by Newton Azbell, they I chiiming that the latter's entry was defective. A few days ago Azbell went to their i cabin and shot both men dead. He then sur- | rendered himself to the authorities. Miss Phoebe W. Coczins has been appointed the United States Marshall at St. Louis, by Justice Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, who is presiding in the Circuit Court there. Miss Couzins's predecessor was her father, who died lately. The streets and houses of St. Louis wera lavishly decorated in honor of the National Encampment of the Graud Army of the Republic. Many thousands of veterans from all parts of the Union were present. The j grand street parade, set down for Tuesday, [ was postponed on account of rain. At the meeting of the National Encampment of the Union Veterans' Union, in Cleveland, a pension bill to be submitted to Congress was unanimously adopted. It is intended as a service pension bill, and as an addition to all invalid pensions which have or may be granted. An entire passenger train, while running at a great rate of speed, was hurled from a high trestle near Jackson, Tenn., some of the cars turning completely over. Thirty persons were injured, some* fata'.ly. A race war has broken out in Brazoria and Matagorda Counties, Texas, largely occupied by colored people, and troops have been sent to the scene. Washington. The Navy Department is well satisfied with recent experiments with a dynamite gun. Projectiles propelled by dynamite shot through the ail' a long distance with tremendous force. General James B. Rickets, a veteran of the Mexican and the Civil wars, died in Washington, aged seventy-one years. Four negroes quarreled over a game of cards near Washington, D. C., the other night. One of them attempted to shoot another, but missed his aim and killed a bystander, George Rawlett, a young white man. Under the terms of its recent circular the Treasury Department has purchased a large amount of and 4 per cent, bonds. Foreign. Two distinguished members of the Irish Home Rule party?Sir. Thomas Gratton Esmonde and Arthur O'Connor, both members of the British Parliament?have sailed for the United States. The German poisoner, Schectel, convicted of the murder of his first and second wives, was beheaded in front of the prison at Stargard. The Franco-German frontier has been the scene of another exciting episode. A soldier on the German side shot into a group of five sportsmen and four beaters on the French side. A beater was killed and a hunter badly wounded. The soldier says he believed they were on German soil, and that he ordered the party to halt before firing. The affair has created much uneasiness in official circles. A Police Inspector's skull was split open j ?u * MAtrAf* of fha OTrir? Dy a woman arrauu nuu a ??., v..? tion of Colonel Meadow's tenants at Ardnacrusha, Ireland. LATER NEWS. The Progressive Labor Party, at a meeting in Now York, nominated a full ticket, headed by Henry Swinton for Secretary of State. The Democratic State Convention in session at Saratoga nominate.! the following ticket on Wednesday: Secretary of StateFrederick Cook, renominated; State Treasurer?Lawrence J. Fitzgerald, renominated; Attorney General?Charlo3 F. Tabor, present Chief Deputy; Comptroller?Edward Wemple, State Senator and ex-Congressman; State Engineer?John Bogart. The platform adopted praises Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Hill's administrations, approves the present Civil Service Laws, but deems the subject one which mijht appropriately be submitted to the popular vote, opposes sumptuary legislation, and demands that Federal taxation be reduced. The Massachusetts Republicans in ouato Convention at Boston renominated the present State officers, led by Governor Ames, the single exception b.-ing Andrew J. IVater^nan for Attorney-General. The platform favors the protective tariff, approves tho present tempsrance laws and favors the submission to the people of a prohibitory amendment. The Civil Servica laws, National and State, are upheld and Cleveland's administration denounced. A Chinese transport has been wrecked on one of tho Pescadores Islands. Three hundred soldiers, and the captain and crew, with the exception of one man, were drowned. The British steamer Matthew Cay has been wrecked off Cap3 Finisterre. Ten persons were drowned. A WATERSPOUT'S WORK. Two Towns in Mexico Nearly Swept Away. A despatch from New Laredo, gives tho details of great destruction of property in Guerro and Mier, Mexico, near tho Rio Grande, by the overflowing of two rivers. In Mier, which is built on the banks of the River Mier, 200 houses were destroyed and ninny were completely washed away. The town of Guerro, which is situated on the banks of the Salado River, is inundated, and about lifty houses were either completely washed away or damaged. Both these rivers rise in the Lampasas Mountains, and were swollen by a great waterspout, miuu i Friday, and did much damage to the Mexican National Railroad." The old war-ship Tennessee, for so many years the flag-ship of the North Atlantic squadron, which was condemned about six months ago, has been sold by auction for ?>4,425. It is understood that she will be used as a freight boat by a Connecticut railroad. i OVER TIE WIRES. I Telegraphic Information of an Interesting Character. J The Growth of Southern Industrial i Enterprises, The Baltimore Manufacturers' Record pub lishes a quarterly statement of the Souths in- * dustrial progress, and gives statistics of njw enterprises organized during the first , nine months of 1SS7. The growth of g industrial interests in the South during i that time is reported as surpassing anythings ever before known. From Jan. 1 to J Sept. 10 there were 2,594 new manufacturing 1 and mining enterprises reported, against ? 1,175 for the corresponding nine ui iw, covering almost the whole range of human industry. The wide diversity of new enterprises is shown by the following comparative table: 9 Months. 9 Months. New Enterprises. 18K7. 1SSC. Iron furnace companies 20 6 Machine shops and foundries... SO 56 Agricultural implement factories 17 8 Flour mills US 71 Cotton mills 59 9 Furniture factories 41 19 Gas works 29 19 Water works <15 21 Carriage and wagon factories.. 32 12 Electric light coinaanies 53 23 Mining and quarrying enterprises 444 114 Lumber mills 512 362 lee factories 76 42 Canning factories 60 11 Stove foundries 3 5 Brick works 141 43 Miscellaneous iron works, rolling mills, pipe works, etc 56 16 Cotton*compress;*s 33 11 Cotton seed oil mills 15 3 N-ihirnl eras eomnanies 46 18 Miscellaneous enterprises not included in foregoing 708 304 Totals 2,;*0i 1,175 The capital invested for the first threequartersof 1887 was $212,455,000, against ?83,834,200 for the first nine months of 1880. The Record sums up the South's growth since 1872, and shows that there has been an increase of 15,OUO new industries; 15,003 miles of railroad have been built, costing, with improvements to old roads, over #00J,000,000, ! an increase of 61,000,000,000 in the ass* ssed valuo of property, while iron production has increased from 397,000 tons to 870,000 tons. The amount of coal mined from lj,(K,0,000 tons in 1880 to nearly 14,0 JO,000 toas; cotton mills from 180 to 370; cotton s?ed oil mills, from 40 to 150; and during that period the cotton crop alone has sold for $2,500,000,003. an average of 1 ?3< 0.000.000 a vear. while the total value of ] I Southern agricultural products is ?700,000,000 ] a year. ( A Valuable Clam Mine. They have discovered a clam mine in Ips- { wich, Mass., and it is so valuable that they ( are arresting all outsiders who trespass on the ] diggings. The towns of Ipswich and Essex ] both lay claim to the river flats, which, it has been discovered, are rich with juicy, white-shelled fruit. No clam diggings i wore ever known here like these. The clams j in number, size, and quality surpass any- , thing ever seen here before. They lie so j thickly packed together in the mud and are < so easily gathered that even a green hand at clam digging can easily earn & per day at the work. The value of the bed is estimated at $50,- 3 000, and a chance to labor in this vicinity is * a coveted prize. The people of Ipswich claim the exclusive right to work the mine, and they caused the arrest of two Essex clam diggers for trespass. The Essex people retaliated by arresting William and Frank Jewett on the same charge. Tho President's Train. 1 The special train of cars upon which the President and Mrs. Cleveland make their trip through the South and "West was 1 newly finished at the Pullman car shops in "Wilmington, Del., and is i one of the the finest ever made up in the I world. It consists of the Alfarata, a composite car of the Pennsylvania vestibule j train: the Velasco, a vestibule sleeper, and , Mr. Pullman's private car, P. P. C. The forward car has an engine and dynamos that furnish electric lights for the entire train. All the upholstery has been renewed, ! and Mr. Pullman's car has been compktely changed from its original appearance. 1 Electric call bells are in all the cars. The i fittings throughout are most elaborate, and combine all the comforts of a first-class hotel and the luxuries of a millionaire's mansion. The train as it now stands represents $200,- j 000 of property. Grand Army Parade at St. Louis. , The Grand Army parade at its National 1 Encampment in St. Louis was marred by a J heavy rain. It was made up of ten divisions, led i | by Grand Marshal Grier, with his Chief of 1 | Staff, General A. J. Smith, aud aides; Logan i Post, of St. Louis, mounted, and the Spring j field, Mass., battalion, special escorts toCom| raander-in-Chief Fairtnild, who followed a few yards behind wrapped in a rubber coat, smiling and bowing to the I large crowds who lined the streets. | Hisstaff ofi 100m?n, mounted,preceded twenI ty carriages, moving three abreast, in which j were the war Governors and other honored guests. In the lead was one occupied by Mayor Francis and General William T. Sherman. The houses along the route were gaily decorated. In the evening General Fairchild opened the Encampment, held in the Exposition building, with an address. More Bloodshed in Ireland. A number of emergency men who were engaged in seizing cattle near Arklow, Ireland, l>eing resisted, fired a volley of revolver ( and rifle shot3. John Kinsella, aged sixty, was killed and several persons were wounded. A HURRICANE'S FURY. Great Destruction of Property Along the Itio Grande A hurricane visited Brownville, Texas, and vicinity the other night. The rain accompanying the storm deluged the country for i i miles. The village of Santa Cruz, oppo- 1 site Brownsville, was submerged for several I hours The Rio Grande roseraDidlv and raged like the sea, and the backwater overflowed many miles of fertile country. Hardly a tree ( is standing near the city, and several hundred acres of valuable sugar cane were blown , flat to the earth. The root of Masonic Hall was carried away. Scanlan's large oil warehouse was demolished. The telegraph wires were prostrated. The damage iu Brownsville and at Matamoras, Mexico, is estimated at $l,OUO,OiX). In Brownsville seventy small houses were blown down and 300 others were unroofed an 1 rendered unfit for occupancy. In Matamoras a dozen houses of the better class and from 150 to 200 small houses were ruined, while from 400 to 500 others were unroofed. In the country on the American side of the river incalculable damage was done. Many hoads of cattle and sheep were lost and the crops of cotton, corn and sugar cane were destroyed. In Matamoras the narrow streets in the storm were torrents. Even in the more central parts of the town the streets were filled with ruins. The school buildings were full of houseless people, and the authorities did all in their [tower for them. Among the merchants goods have been generally damaged by water. The suffering in the town and country is severe. At the railroad station several sheds wore bioun down and the lino was reported inundated at several points. Captain "Walker, of the Uunard steamship Cephalonia, reports having seen the big meteor in mid ocean. The meteor appeared in the northeast, and was very brilliant, sparks radiating from the centre. The illumination lasted six seconds, and then the f-.ii ^Mntlv ohnnt, hftl/ I meujur iuii iucu mcaca, a|;puvuvij ?w? a mile off shore. The Republic of Switzerland, which has never heretofore had a patent law, has voted ' by a majority of 146,000 in :200,0U0 in favor of granting patents, and it is expected the law will be enacted at once. JUDGE Walton, of Corsicana, Texas, has performed the marriage creinony for 785 [ couples during the past eighteen months. His ] revenue from this source exceeds $6,000. ] THE NATIONAL GAME. On'LT $15,000 is asked for the release of lainsey ana Kerins, the Louisville battery. Only fourteen out of the twenty-four ,eague pitchers have won more games than hey have lost. It is not a settled thing yet as to whether he St. Louis Club will or will not go into the .league next season. Clarkson, of Chicago, leads the strike-out ecord of the League pitchers. He has made 90 batsmen fan the air this season. Manager Gaffney corroborates the runor concerning the reported sale of the ] /Washington Club. The team is for sale. The Metropolitans have beaten the record >y scoring only two runs in four successive j ;ames. Three of the games resulted in no uns. There will be a large number of good ball | >layers from the East in California during j he coming winter, and some interesting ! ;ames may be expected. The Detroits have not been driven from , he head of the League column since the first coocnn when thev occimied third ! iitd second places successively for two days. I President John Ward is reported to have aid that the League must recognize the Basejall Brotherhood. If not, an association may >e formed of its members in opposition to ;he League. Umpire McLean, of the International League, mulcted ten of the players at To onto recently. He fined Faats $10, McCornack $5 and eight of the Syracuse players $5 ?ch for finding fault with his decisions. The series between the St. Louis Club and ;he Detroits for the world's championship will probably consist of nine games. Two james will probably be played in New York, two in Detroit and two in Chicago, and one ?ach in St. Louis, Philadelphia and Baltimore. In a recent game at Philadelphia between the Athletics and St. Louis, Latham, not liking McQuade's umpiring, insultingly askea the umpire if he "was going to do tbe j right thing in the game." McQuade replied i that he was, and immediately clapped a heavy I Bne on Latham. According to the records of the National; League, Bouthers, of Detroit, leads all bats- i men, with a percentage of .448. He has j played in 100 games, scored 134 runs and made 212 base hits. Connor leads the New j York Club; Darling, Chicago; Nash, Boston; I Hines, Washington; Ferguson, Philadelphia; I Carroll, Pittsburg, and Seery, Indianapolis. I "I have umpired for both organizations, ind let me tell you the League is away ahead jf the Association," said Umpire Daniels. I 'To begin with, the League has better bat- I tors, and its players see and play much finer | points. The "St. Louis Browns? Yes, they I ire a wonderful team, but the Detroits can | win from them by virtue of superior batling." THE NATIONAL LEAGUE. Won. Lost. Won. Lost. 3etroit 73 41 Boston 61 52 Pittsburgh....47 05 New York.... 61 50 Philadelphia. .67 48 Indianapolis....'14 82 Chicago 66 45 Washington...42 71 THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Won. Lost. Won Lost. 5t. Louis 89 34 j Athletic 59 63 Cincinnati.... 78 52 | Brooklyn 56 t68 Louisville 72 53 | Metropolitan..39 '84 Baltimore 70 54 | Cleveland.,...34 89 THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Won. Lost. Won. Lost. Newark. 59 38 Svracuse 58 39 Rochester.....49 52 Kfamilton 56 41 roronto 63 34 Jersey City...47 49 Buffalo 62 40 Wilkesbarre.,26 74 Scranton. 19 53 < SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Won. Lost. Won. Lost. 1 Birmingham. .16 53 I Memphis 60 40 [Charleston 58 38 | New Orleans...62 35 NEWSY GLEANINGS, _ . J.1 JnnfUn There were .*>3,ow more ou-ius wiu | in France in 1SS0. A movement is on foot to build a boulevard from Washington to Mt. Vernon. A failure to vaccinate is punished at Phoenix, Arizona, by $300 line, or six months in jail. There is one bag of coffea in store or in sight for every 120 persons in the United States. Thirteen- hundred ex-Union and ex-Con- 1 federate soldiers have been holding a reunion it Evansville, Ind. The Turkish Government has forbidden the attendance of Moslems upon the mission schools in Palestine. A petroleum spring which rises to a height of 150 feet has Hooded the Balakhan country, near Baku, Russia. Sjnday factory labor in Germany is enforced by the sharp competition between em- i ployers, and an agitation which will arrest I it is likely to set in. M. D. Ball, United States Attorney for Alaska, died on the steamship Ancon while 3n route to Seattle, W. T. H.s body has been shipped to Washington city. England encourages rifle practice by substantial rewards. At the Wimbledon meeting this year over jtfO.OOJ in cash prizes was distributed among the contestants. Half the work of reclaiming the Potomac flats at Washington is now done, and J To acres have been evolved for the magnificent new park that the flats are to furnish. Nearly one hundred young ladies of Atlanta, Georgia, have agreed to form a mounted escort to the President and -Mrs. Cleveland when tney visit toe rieuniuu# | Exposition. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Four plays by American authors are run? ! ningin New York. Marie E.vgle is to have $20,000 for sing- | ing in American cities this winter. Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett 1 charge $2.50a seat at their performances. j Mrs. Langtry opened her season in the ' metropolis with anew play, "As in a Looking Glass." A new American opera, based on Frank R. Stockton's little story of "The Lady or tho . Tiger," is to be produced in New York city. 1 Boucicault has brought out a new play, I "Pbryne," in San Francisco. It is said to ! bear a striking resemblance to "Led Astray." i Miss Het.en Dauvray, the well-known ! American star, has been compelled, by severe illness, to cancel all engagements for this season. Tite management of the Grand Operaliouse in Pittsburgh have introduced an inrio- j vation in the shape of a pair of opera glasses I fastened with a gilt chain to every parquet j chair. Mrs. James Brown Potter will open in [ Civil War at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, on tho 31st of October. Mr. George F. j Sims, the English playwright, is reconstructiner fhn fmirtlh APt. I , Tost Karl, the tenor, H. C. Barnabee and , W. H. MacDonald, who seceded last spring from the Boston Ideal Opera Company, have j organized a company of their own, which will be known as the Bostonians. The Philadelphia singer introduced abroad ns Mile. Nikita, and the heroine of a wonderful story of capture by Indians, has not proved a great success. English and Parisian papers speak of her as a fair singer. Colorow, the Ute chief who is rnak- j ing the disturbance in Colorado, is an j enormous old savage weighing 300 , pounds. He is what is known in base- j ball slang as "a kicker." He has never i been satisfied with the Government and has been more or less rebellious all his life. He used to visit Denver very often, and on one occassion went to Governor McCook's oflice and be- j camo rather insolent. Governor MoCook kicked Colorow out of his office and down a flight of stairs into the , street. Mrs. Sarah Massie, who lives in Athens, Ala., is 94 years old and has been a widow sixty-three years. She J was well acquainted with Jefferson and ( Madison. Her husband Berved in the ( war of 1712, and she i3 now seeking a pension on that ground, but eo far has been unsuccessful. VPOPULAR SCIENCE. A photographer, connected with the United States Signal Corps, had obtained a photograph of a sunrise from the summit of Pike's Peak. A French horticulturist, Count de ^ Buysson, ensures the growth of seeds so old as to have a doubtful germinating power by soaking them for thirty-six ' hours in water containing a little guano or other source of nitrogen. An increase in the demand for mica has resulted from its use for electrical purposes, and special machinery has been devised for getting out the mineral. Electricians usually select the whitest kinds, some colored miens having so much iron that their insulating property is affected. An Oxford meteorologist seeks to prove that the European and American magnetic poles are coincident with the centres of greatest cold for the two continents, and that the shiftings of the magnetic poles is due to the same series - e x ' maaIamiaaI aatldtlft oi astronomical iiuu ycuiuyicm vuiuwu> which produce the secular changes in climate. Prospectors are roaming about the 'Vmountain country of Tennessee, through which railroads are to pass, seeking ore- beds, which can now be bought for merely nominal prices. Kicli lead, and silver* ore have been found in several localities. In one immense cave in Putnam County five distinct veins of lead, all valuable, have been found. An English observer recommends the ----locomotive as a chcap hygrometer for farmers and others living near railroads. When the escaping steam remains long suspended the air is near its point of saturation with moisture, but when the steam quickly disappears,as if swallowed up, the weather is dry and there is little prospect of rain. A scientific journal, in an attempt to prove that mankind could not exert mechanical force enough of their own to produce the amount of heat needed to ' raise the crops necessary daily to feed themselves, states that ''the mechanical equivalent of the vertical sunshine received upon a square mile of the earth's } service is computed to be 3,323,000,000 ; pounds raised a foot high in a second. Mr. Ernest Hart, of the Smoke Abatement Institute, fears that London will frnm fncra it is placed in a river valley, on a clay soil, and is bordered on the Essex side by low-lying lands very imperfectly drained, and on the north side by. the Harrow Weald. The fogs generated, the results- of damp exhalations, are greatly aggravated by the parks, most of which re- ^ quire draining. But if the smoke is got rid of the fogs will be much less dense. The latest theory of the mode of formation of ozone in the atmosphere is that of C. Wurster, whose observations have led him to conclude that it is formed by the action of clouds. He states that wheD clouds are continually formed from above they become highly charged with this active form of oxygen, whilst those formed from below only contain it in notable quantity in their upper layer. This theory has no advantage over "many others, it admits of confirmation or refutation both by observation and experiment. Artificial clouds are easly formed, may be confined in glass vessels, ana there exposed to sunlight. Ordinary oxonometer paper contained in the same vessel will at once display the formation of ozone if it actually occurs. When Crime Was Rampant. In 1700 there were 160 capital offencei in the statute book, and before the end of the century the number had greatly increased. To steal five shillings' worth of goods from a shop was punishable by death. A girl of twenty-two was hanged for receiving a piece of woolen stuff from the man who had stolen it. In 1785 ninety-six persons were hanged at the Old Bailey. In 1789 a woman "wa? M burned at the stake for coining. Still, in spite of this enormous severity oipunishment, crime was rampant. Daring burglaries, accompanied by every circumstance of violence, took place in London every night. Highway- ' " men invested the suburban roads, and not seldom plied their calling in the capital itself. The late Sir Hamilton Seymour recollected his father's carriage being stopped near the bottom ol Grosvenor Place, where the Countess of Buckinghamshire had a suburban villa,, which the memory survives in the name of Hobart Place. Young men of broken fortunes and tradesmen whose business had grown slack, had swelled the ranks , of these desperadoes. It was even said that an Irish Bishop, whose incurable love of adventure had drawn him to- 3 "the road," received the penalty of his uncanonical diversion in the shape of a bullet from a traveler whom he stopped on Hounslow Heath. The Lord Mayor tv,o/in tn ctnnfl and rlpHver on Turn ham Green. Stars and "Georges" were snipped off Embassadors and Earls as they entered St. James's Palace. Dueling was the recognized mode of settling all personal disputes, and no attempt was made .to enforce the law which treated the killing of a man in a duel as deliberate murder; but debt was punisned with what too often was lifelong incarceration. A woman died in the County Jail at Exeter after an imprisonment of forty-five years for a debt of ?19, ?Edinburgh lievieio. '4 Self-Mending Snakes. Oliver "White, Secretary [of the Peoria (111.) Scientific Association, says in a letter to the Scientific American: "I believe that you, like most scientific writers, are inclined to scout the idea of the "Glass-Snakes" putting themselves together" and crawling away after being broken in pieces. Now, facts are facts, no matter what philosophy may say. About ten years ago I caught one of these reptiles, broke him in pieces from one to two inches long, from the anus to the tip of his tail?two-thirds of the whole length of the way?then placed a cage over him so that he could by no means escape, and mistakes were impossible. Then, on returning to the place twenty-four hours after, the snake was there, sound and whole, in full length. On close examination, however, I could see where most of the breaks had been, and the first section, about an inch and a half long, was not perfectly in place, so that the fine longitudinal lines of the figure wcie perhaps one-sixteenth of an inch out of the way. The remaining fractions corresponded, not with that,but with the body. I did not Know iuu;i mmthis putting together process was seriously controverted by scicntilic menr and supposed from previous careless experiments that it was ouly the illiterate who doubted. Her One Blemish. At last I had met her, could know and ad. mire The maid he professed to adore; But now he glared savagely into the fire, And begged me to name her no more. "Why, I thoughtyou considered her perfect," said I, "From her head to the tips of her toes?1' "So I did," he replied, "when I thought of her 'aye,' But I changed on account of hjr 'noes.'" -Liftt - "3 - ?.