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? ??? THE &. 1R. MEETIN&. Proceedings of the National Encampment at St. Louis. Position of the Organization 01 Pension Laws Defined, The National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic assembled in St T-nnifi on Thursday moraine. The report of committees was resumed, the first, in ordei being the Committee on Pensions. The] relate their efforts to procure liberal legisla tion from Congress and the fate of the De pendent Pension BilL The committee wen at Washington during the debates in Congres over tho bill. After the veto of the Dependent Pensioi bill by the President the Committee preparec a new bill for presentation at thi next Congress. This bill makes pro vision for pensions to all veteran! who are or who may hereafter become un able to earn their own livelihood; for i direct continuance of pensions for widow in their own right; for an increase of the present pittance to minor children, and for fathers or mothers frorr .any date of dependence. Such a law, th< committee says, would at once remove fullj 12,000 veterans from the public almshouse: where they now rest, making them pensioners instead of paupers, provide pensions for fully as many more now dependent upon private charity, and put into th< general pension laws, for the first time, the recognition of the principle that pen sions may be granted to survivois of th< lato war without absolute proof of disability arising from the service, proof almost impossible to procure after the lapse of more than twenty years. The bill is similar in general principle to that vetoed, but the objectionpauper clause is omitted, making this a disability, and not a dependent, bill. The result of submitting this bill to thf comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic shows that whatever legislation some of the comrades desire, they are practically unanimous for everything contained ir this bill. Whatever else may be desirable, the committee knows from the experience of five years that any additional legislation is only to be secured inch by inch after most persisent effort Ths committee therefore recommend the continuance of earnest effort in favor of the following: "The bill prepared by this committee granting pensions to all veteraas now disabled or in need, to mothers and fathers from date of dependence; continuance of pensions to widows in their own right and an increase for minor children. 'All of the recommendations for increase and equalization of pensions for special disabilities txade in his recent report by Pension Commissioner Black. "A Dension of $12 per month to all widows of honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the late war. "Increased pensions for the severer disabilities, substantially as presented in the bill prepared by the United States Maimed Veterans' League. "Pensions for the survivors of rebel prisons, substantially as presented in the bill of the National Association of Prisoners of War. "Increased pensions for loss of hearing or eyesight. ' 'A re-enactment of the arrear law, an equitable equalization of bounties. "The same pension for the widow of the representative volunteer soldier of the Union Army?John A. Logan?as is paid to the widows of those typical regulars, Thomas, the Rock of Chickamauga, and Hancock, always the Superb." The Committee on the Annual Address of the Commander-in-Chief indorsed the address and congratulated Commander-in-Chief Fairchild and the Grand Army of the Republic upon his administration of the past year, stating that all his official acts and every sentiment contained in his address meet the approval of the committee, and they believe, the approval of the comrades. They recommended the appointment of Past-Commander-in-Chief Robert B. Beath, as historian of the order, indorsed the recommendation of a permanent national headquarters, and approved the suggestion that the ueneral Govern? ment include in the next decennial census an enumeration of the Union soldiers and sailore of the late war who may be living in 1890. The report was unanimously adopted, with three cheers for Fairchild. Close ort ne encampment At the final meeting of the Grand Army National Encampment on Friday the Committee on Resolutions presented majority and minority reports on the $8 a month or Service Pension bill. The majority of the committee reported against the measure and the minority of five (a committee of one from each department) reported for it. Resolutions offered by Mr. Vandervoort ceusuring President Cleveland for vetoing the Dependent Pension bill were defeated, and the majority report 0? the committee was adopted by a vote of 318 to 173. The following were the nominations for Commander-in-Chief for the ensuing year: General Sloeum, of New York; General T. Rea, of Minnesota; General T. Anthony, General D. P. Grier. Slocum received 153, Anthony 66, Grier 18, and Rea 294. Sherman received one, and Warner of Missouri one. Rea was declared elected. He was escorted to the platform by the defeated candidates Anthony and Grier, and returned thanks to the encampment. Gen. Ilea is a Pennsylvanian by birth, enlisted in an Ohio regiment at the outbreak of the war and was promoted several times for gallantry in the field, being finally breveted a Major. He has been a most active organizer and member of the G. A. R. and has twice been elected Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief. He is now on the bench in Minnesota. Nelfon Cole, of Missouri, was elected Senior Vice-Commander, and John C. Linahan, of New Hampshire, Junior Vice Commander. General Lawrence Donahue was elected Surgeon-General. The Rev. Edward Anderson was elected Chaplain-in-Chief. The officers of the encampment were then duly installed, and the National Encampment came to an end. Next year's Grand Encampment will be held at Columbus, Ohio. The banquet given at the Lindell Hotel in the evening to the delegates of the National Encampment was a brilliant affair. Coven were laid for 630, the War Governors being among the guests. The responses to toasts were made by General Lew Wallace, General John M. Palmer, Hanmba.1 Hamlin, Governor Curtin, Corporal Tanner, General C. H. Grosvenor, Bishop Fallows, General Fairchild, Judge Rea and others. LATER NEWS William B. Washburn, Governor of Massachusetts three times and ex-Congressman, fell dead suddenly while attending a session of the Board of Foreign Missions at Springfield, Mass. Miss Sinchy Minderhart died a few days since in the Ulster County (N. Y.) Poorhouse at the age of 109 years. Diphtheria prevails to such an extent at Smithville, Md., that the churches, schools and business houses have been closed. There were fifteen deaths, mostly of children, in two days. Michael Davitt, the Irish Home Rule leader, delivered an eloquent address in behalf of Ireland's cause before the General nf t.hp TCnichts of Labor at Min neapolis, and resolutions of sympathy were unanimously adopted. Sam Branch, a colored man convicted ol larceny at Chattanooga, Tenn.. killed himself by cutting his throat in court when the verdict was announced. Some workmen in a cotton mill at Klin, Russia, raised a riot and set fire to the factory. Many persons were killed. The Chinese Viceroy has withdrawn his arrangement with a syndicate of capitalists, headed by Wharton Barker, of Philadelphia, by which the syndicate was to obtain enormous concessions in China. One of Kit Carson's sons claims to own i large tract of land in the suburbs of Loi Angeles. His father homesteaded the same back in the fifties, and it was afterward sole for taxes. It isnow worth $1,000,000. Younf Caraon has instituted suit for the recovery of the land. a tax of one dollar per year has beei levied by the government of Costa Rica 01 every male inhabitant over eighteen years o age. The proceeds are to be devoted to im proving the roads of the country. I NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. I j DURING the third quarter of the present | year there were l.flSS business failures in the I United States, with aggregate liabilities ol' I $73,000,iXX>. The Volunteer easily defeite:! i.w Thistle 1 in the second and concluding race for the j Americas cup at New York. Fire damp caused by an explosion in Hast colliery, near Pottsville, Pa., killed four L persons and injured eight others. j Anarchists from New York and vicinity ' i attempted to hold a meeting of sympathy 1 with their condemned Chicago brethren at : ; Union Hill, N. J., but were prevented by the j j authorities. A riot followed. The riot act j was read, an.l the police dispersed the crowd, breaking a number of heads and taking four K \ prisoners. > j John Boyle O'Reilly, the Boston editor, s declares that $5,000,000 a year is paid to I British spies on the Irish in America f j Two prominent Irish Home Rulers?Arthur j O'Connor and Sir Thomas Esmonde, fcoth ! members of the British Parliament?arrived ' | in New York a few days since, and are mak; ing speeches in behalf of the Home Rule j movement. B ; The Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, ' has Iteen nominated for Secretary of State by the National Greenback-Labor party in i convention at Syracuse. This makes seven j State tickets for New York now in the field. I The annual G. A. R. parade in Pittsburg, Penn., had 8,000 veterans in line and drew a large crowd of spectators. i The Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker, of the City Temple, London, delivered a eulogy at the Academy of Music, in Brooklyn, the other evening on Henry Ward Beecher. South and West, j A single highwayman in Texas robbed i two stages the other night, relieving the passengers, who were compelled to stand in a 1 row on the roadside, of about ?2,000. i j Rev. Henry Clemmens, while deranged, ] shot and killed himsell at Cleveland, Ohio. | The General Assembly of the Knights of Labor opened at Minneapolis on Monday. ( The principal event of the day was General Master "Workman Powderlys address on "The World as Knighthood Would Make It" 1 1 j John M. Reynolds, a journalist, drew a j pistol on Governor Martin, of Kansas, at Atchison, but was seized by a policeman be- , ! fore he could use it. The National Farmers' Alliance h?ld its seventh annual Convention at Minneapolis, i with fifty delegates from Illinois, Iowa, : Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota. I I Washington. I The Navy Department has directed the ( ! Commandants of the New York and Norfolk < | Navy Yards to prepare for the building of 1 I the (i,000-ton ships ordered by Congress. 1 | ! During September the national debt was I ' j decreased $14,'347,'.W9. This leaves the tota- ! ' ! debt, less cash in the Treasury, at ?1,25?,5:A>,. | < 396; cash in the Treasury, $478,8%,512. I < ' I The recent bond purchases at a premium : by the Treasury Department effected a sav, j ing of over four millions of interest money I to the Government. There are fifteen Government Schools in Alaska. The Territory's school population numbers 5,500, and the average attendance in the fifteen schools is 1,250. Foreiffa, The Scotchmen and Englishmen are greatly disappointed by the result of the international yacnt race at New York. The universal be, lief was that the Thistle would win. Spanish soldiers have burned the village of the Sooloo rebels on the island of Pata. Afghans have refused to take up the cau?e of Ayoub Khan, the pretender to the Ameer's throne. Stanley's expedition in Africa is reported as progressing without any obstacles other ! than those the country offers. Ki.yg Jaja, of Obosbo, West Africa, ( ordered the natives not to do any trading j except through his agents, and enforced his ( order by beheading 150 of his subjects as a j I warning to others. The British Consul has ( caused King Jaja's arrest. , Germany has seized the Samoan Islands in 1 j reported violation of treaties with other i nations. i ; Doctors in Paris report that Dom Pedro, 1 i Emperor of Brazil, will never be able to re- * sume the throne, owing to the effect of his < disease (diabetes) on his brain. The Trish National T^a^iift is holdin? meet- ' i ings in Ireland despite the interdictiorTof the ' | authorities. j China is extending its telegraph system so j as to have direct communication with Europe ] and America. j A strong shock of earthquake has been i felt throughout Greece. 1 I ! MUSICAL MP DRAMATIC, ' ] Strauss' latest opera is called "Simpli- ; ' cius." ; ! Emma Thcbsby, the singer, is back from i Europe, as determined as ever not to sing in i opera. Mary Anderson is to follow "A Winter's ' i Tale" with "As You Like It'' at the London j (England) Lyceum. Lilian Olcott h&ap irchased the American rights to Sardou'c new play which he has j written for Bernhardt. Minnie Palmer is about to return to her native land with a brand new play and $G0,I OjO worth of diamonds. I Louis Alduich has purchased the Ameri; can rights of the "Kaflir Diamond," an English melodrama success. John A. Stevens, the American actor, has been arrested in England for failing to pay i alleged to be due to the mauager of the ! Opera C'omiqne, 1 Mlle. Rhea, like other foreign actresses, has "declared her intentions" to become an s American citizen, and has taken out her first s UttlU10ii??ivur?1^.-, Minneapolis claims that the finest theatre 1 in America is her new Hennepin avenue 6 ' housi, which was opened recently with the 1 I Booth-Barrett company. * Henry Villard, the financier, is an ac- i cotnplished musician, and often spends his < evenings in playing a violin to his daughter's i ! pianoforte accompaniment. ' Music lovers may be interested to know j that the original title of Mozart's "Don Gio- j vanni'' was "II Dissoluto Punito Ossia Don t I Giovanni," and the price paid for the work f was $240. j Italy and England are joining France in i the movement for lighting all the theatres by electricity, and in Spain also the electric UgUL IS UUlKlg I eaui i/uu lux autui 11% &i xxxvcx ! safety in public halls, theatres, cafes, etc. i PROMINENT PEOPLE, 1 Count Von Moltke is about to celebrate bis eighty-seventh birthday in Berlin. Senator Hearst, of California, is worth j $15,000,000, and has an income of $80,000. ' Manager Thomas Potter, of the Union ' Pacific Railroad, gets $70,000 a year salary, j The Duke of Buccleuch, said to be the j ' richest man in Scotland, has an income of a million and a half dollars a year. Moses T. Stevens, of Andover, Massachusetts, is said to be the largest individual woolen manufacturer in the United States. uhahi.es dickens, tne younger, is re, ' markably like the famous novelist in all his | habits, anil has not a little of his capacity, i He is fifty years of age. It is said that George L. Schuyler is the only living member of the syndicate that built the yacht America, and won the cup 1 ' from Great Britain in 1851. Isaac Jeans, a Philadelphia Quaker, who has made a fortune of $:i,000,00i) as a fruit importer, began his business career by selling oranges and apples at retail. Kino Kalakaua, of tin Sand which Islands, has invited the yachtsmen of San Francisco to come and help him celebrate his 50th birthday on November 16. Miss Oloff Krarer, of Ottawa, Illinois, 1 a native Esquimau from the eastern coast 5 of Greenland, has been lecturing in Chicago. > i She is thirty years old and is only forty ' i inches high. } The engagement of Senator Joseph R. j Hawley and Miss Edith Homer, of Philadelphia, is announced. Miss Homer has been i four years Assistant Manager of the Rlockley i Almshouse, having had careful training as a f nurse in England and practical experience in . the care of the sick and wounded m the Zulu and Egyptian wars. THE PRESIDENT'S TRIP, i D w Incidents of the Tour Through ai the West and South. * Ol Ol The Special Train Bearing Them 2 Rapidly from Place to Place. J si The Presidential party left Washington p on Friday morning on the long-projected Ci trip West and South. Besides the President ti and Mrs. Cleveland the passengers of the 61 special train were: Colonel Lamont, Mr. W. ? S. Bissell,of Buffalo, and Dr. J. D. Bryant, ol of New York, together with two journal- ?3 ists representing the Press Associations, and an artist for an illustrated weekly. A ' crowd gathered at the depot in Washington ~ to see the party off. . . j The run from Washington to York, Penn., g was mane witnout nouiiuu inciuenu au way stations and hamlets little groups . of people stood on the platforms and embankments and saluted the pass- , ing train enthusiastically. At York a large j> crowd had gathered, and the President and P. Mrs. Cleveland came out on the platform , and were cheered. At Harrisburg the exnerience of York was repeated; likewise at ?r Huntingdon and Lewistown. When Altoona was reached about 1,200 people were gathered, and the Presidential party received an ovation. At Pittsburg the President held a fiveminutes reception, and then the party re- T tired for the night. ci Daybreak found the President's train in jr Western Ohio, about two miles west of Co lumbus. It was moving upon single track ?, lines, and its printed special time card bore the legend: "1 his train will run extra with ab- . solute right of track overall trains." About 1,000 persons had gathered at Columbus, but p no stop was made. At Bradford Junction, at 7 o'clock, the President made his first appearance, and greeted a little crowd of a hundred which had crathered about his car with a "Good Morning." ? "We would like, also, to see your wife," said one of the crowd. , 'That is impossible now," replied the Presi[lent. "She has had a.hard day's task before _ her and is resting." ^ "Well, we are right glad to see you, sir," h said the spokesman of the crowd. "I thank you for that," rejoined the Presi- j? lent, "but of the two, I expect you would prefer to see Mrs. Cleveland." fv At Richmond, Ind., a half acre of solid huinanity awaited the train. The five minute " ;top was spent in handshaking, the President remaining upon the platform of his car and < rasping the hands reached to him. s* At Indianapolis the Presidential party stopped about five hours. There was a pro- . session, consisting of military and civil organizations, and the street through l which it passed to the State House was linea with cheeriug specta- t[. [ors. The President and Mrs. Cleveland, with ex-Senator McDonald, rode in an open . :arriage draped with flags and drawn by | jight powerful gray horses, gayly ca- J aj parisoned. Krom cue grana scaiia at the State House, in presence of 25,000 { spectators, Governor Gray welcomed the President, who replied in a short speech, complimenting the people of the State ana city, md paying a tribute to the memory of the g: ate Vice President Hendricks. After r; :he speech Mr. Cleveland held a public reception in the State House rotunda. Then ;he President and his wife called on Mrs. Hendricks, and afterwards visited Mrs. McDonald, luuehing at both houses. The party left Indianapolis at 3:30. P It was dark when the special train reached j"? rerre Haute, Lid, when another reception was held in the grand square before lbout twenty thousand people. The Presi- J; lent was received by Senator Voor- 2* lees, ex-Secretary Thompson, and a j. 1'ommitttee of prominent Citizens. Mr. Thompson welcomed the President, fr tvho made another short address, in which he ' referred particularly, and in complimentary ?rms, to the ''Tall Sycamore of the Pl Wabash," as "Senator Voorhees is familiarly pj lesignated. Vi A large crowd witnessed the special train's l* leparturo from Terre Haute. Oil the way jv :o the Terre Haute depot a middlo-agjd tnm . ' climbed on the carriage from behind. The jj? Iriver whipped up and tried to leave him, jut in vam. The escort ordered the . nan away, but h3 energetically re:useJ to go. Two or three of the mounted ?l nen tried to ride h m down, but he cursed ;hem savagely aud refused to budge. Mrs. J Cleveland then turned to him and said: 'Please let go. sir," and the man dropped off is though shot and slunk away in the dark- f* less. The crowd, though turbulent and P iometiines wildly demonstrative, was good- ? latured and harmless. There were boutires, torch and Chinese lantern displays, and brass band serenades at vi nearly all the stations between Terre Haute ? J tii. T _ A A. T7?m U - fir IHQ Or. L/UU15. Ab ?jlllllguu:u u piatiunii) p ten by fifteen feet, gave way, and thirty or f.1 forty persons disappaared. Their fall was not more than two or three feet, and no one was hurt The train arrived at East St. Louis, HI., an the Illinois side of the Mississippi river, at A 11:45 Saturday night, and was met by Mayor Francis, of St. Louis, and the Citizens' Committee, who escorted the Presidential party across the great iron bridge in carriages. *' This was the signal for a burst of cheers v ind a glare of fireworks. The walls of the ir bridge were crowded with people who fol- t) lowed the carriages on the run. A banner Q1 stretched . across the bridge at the Mis- n souri line gave "Welcome to Missouri.'' 0: At the entrance to the city a u iense mass of people almost blocked a the road, but a charee of mounted nolice n ileared a way. The cheers swelled Into an ? jvation as the party passed the gates at the j, western end of the bridge. The city was il- c, uininated by a myriad of lights, with globes jj )f scarlet, green, amber, white, and blue, C( ind decorated in profusion with bunting, before the Presid nt blazed a transparency of himself, and on the streets w his left hung the transparencies if Grant and Lincoln. As the carriages oiled up on the granite streets the horses 1" tarted on a more rapid gait, and the crowd wayei back to let them pass, and then al oined in the run to cheer them on. For a lozen blocks an unbroken line of people jn itood on either side, and poured forth i volume of sound as one voice. In i short time the party reached Mayor Francis's V"1 lome and soon retired for the night. Mrs. tv Cleveland was considerably fatigued from the ong journey. On Sunday the President and in lis wife, accompanied by Mayor Francis and N< vife, attended morning services intheWashngton Avenue Presbyterian Church. A ar arge throng gathered both inside and outside er ;he church. The rest of the day was m pent by the Presidential party in a short Irive to Shaw's Botanical Gardens and in 1 est ine ouietlv. th Shortly alter 10 o'clock Monday morning j the entire party, in charge of a committee, were driven to the Fairgrounds in the northwestern section of St. Louis. The route V* the carriages took was elaborately decorated ca and much enthusiasm was manifested by the spectators, the President and Mrs. Cleveland acknowledging the demonstrations ad bv hmvinor to t.h#? crowds on either side of the tei streets. Xt the Fair grounds the President bu md Mrs. Cleveland were welcomed by the shouts of 34,000 school children, all tu seated in the vast amphitheater. The nu President's carriage made the circuit ar 3nce and then halted and the 1'resiient was presented to the members . of the School Board. The 24,000 school chil- ln' iren then sang a school melody and chorus, 1,11 at the conclusion of which five little tots, an none over six, walked demurely up to Mi's. Cleveland and presented her ' with a th massive floral sLield. The President took th them up and shook hands with th them, and Mrs. Cleveland kissed and nu bugged them. The party then drove from the amphitheatre through the grounds. At mi 11 o'clock the procession wheeled out of the M grounds and Mrs. Cleveland was taken in ei charge by a number of ladies, who tendered th her a luncheon at Mrs. M. F. Scanlon's. At 12 o'clock the President held a reception , in the Merchants' Exchange, the vast hall of ? the great building being crowded to its ufc ?? _ ?> iwvau uipatiuj. iuaj-v* jiiaiivw .?v?vv...w* ^ the President to the city and State. Mr. ^ Cleveland responded in a short speech. At its conclusion loud cheers wore given for the nation's Chief Magistrate, and he then took a carriage ride through the principal business a streets of St. Louis. In the afternoon, from three to six, Mr. a and Mrs. Cleveland held a public reception in n the parlors of the Liiulell House. About nine thousand people attended. In the evening w the entire party took a drive through the s< streets, which were brilliantly lighted. ? Broadway was spanned with many beautiful arches that were all aglow with colored ^ lights. At 9 o'clock the party again entered .. the Fair building, which was packed with ^ fifty thousand people. o; Returning to the Lindell House, th3 President, late at nieht. reviewed a mradn nt I u ?,wo men, an wearing wnite Tiate ana carrylg canes. Five thousand of the paraders ere mounted. There was also a serenade y German singing societies, and Mr. Clev?md made a short address. Tuesday morning President Cleveland held nother public reception at the Court House i St. Louis. A great crowd filed in, the city fficials first, and the private citizens, many r them from the surrounding country, fterward. At 10:30 the reception stopped nd the Presidential party took carriages nd were driven to the levee. (Jetting aboard steamboat, a ten-mile trip along the Misssippi was made, and at the return to the ity lunch was served in the club-house of the air Grounds. Then the party visited the rowded grand stand and witnessed a trotng race. Forty thousand people were preslt. In the evening the President and Mrs. leveland witnessed the grand street pageant I the Veiled Prophets, illustrating by twenr-two floats some of the events of Biblical Istory, beginning with the dawn of history, 10 Expulsion of Lucifer, Egyptian Captivity, enes of the Exodus, the Philistines, the rophets, events of Daniel, Jonah and Josiah's fe, war scenes, and ending with the famous elshazzar feast. The procession moved ithout interruption, and was about an hour i passing, jl nrougnoui/ il& leu^u ik ?<? luminated with colored lights, besides the are from the hundred thousand gas jets es:cially erected for the carnival. The crowds ong the line of march were very ;nse. From Fourth to Sixteenth street ong Washington avenue was a mass of huanity, leaving hardly room enough for the >ats to pass by. The police were unable to introl the people, but the moving column spt open the way. At 9 o'clock the last car had passed by the indell Hotel balcony, and the President and rs. Cleveland were immediately driven to le Merchants' Exchange building, in the eat hall of which was held the Veiled rophet's ball. At 11 o'clock the Presidential party with ew and were escorted imrvdiately to the spot, and were soon on their way to bicago. When the Presidential party reached Chii?o at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, it as met at the depot by a great throng, .r. and Mrs. Cleveland got into millionaire en Rawson's landau, drawn by four handime horses. The other occupants of the ndau wero Mayor Roche and Gen. Terry, >mmander of the Department of Misturi. The cavalry and artillery atmptcd to form a procession behind, it the crowd pressing from all sides was so "eat the military got all mixed up with the vilians for a time. When the line began to ;t into the fine residence portion of Chicago lere was some attempt to get order out of le tangle, but the crowd was so groat that it as almost impossible to preserve a line. Iinjine four or five miles of broad streets with ?ople banked in as thick as they could stand om away outside the curbstone to the walls ! the houses, up the stoops and extending ir back on every cros3 street. The two or tree policemen who were scattered every ilf mile were powerless to do anything with ich a press. ^ There were cheers all along le iiue as me lour-m-nanu came in siguu id Mr. Cleveland was given to understand ; once that he and his wife were welcome i Chicago. On every side flags were flying, id many houses along the avenue were dec ated with banners and bunting. Portraits ' Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland were conspicuous many windows. After the procession had gone threelarters of the way Mrs. Cleveland became o tired to proceed further. A carriage as called, and she was taken to her apartments in the Palmer House. When the procession reached the reviewing and at the new. Auditorium Building the irty alighted, and Mayor Roche made a leech of welcome, to which the President sponded. Then the procession moved by, id for over an hour the President stood up sponding to the salutes. The crowd in the cinity or the stand was great, many special ains having brought thousauds of j>eople oin all parts of the Northwest, all anxious r a glance at the President and his wife, ftjr the parade the President was driven to e Palmer House, and in the rotunda there, compamoJ by Mrs. Cleveland, he held a iblic reception. The President shook hands ith all who could reach him, but Mrs. leveland stood quietly by, and some the time sut in a bower of flowers and >tted plants arranged for her near the esident. A number of ladies received with r. About 6,000 p:ople succeeded in shaking inds with the President In the evening, from S to 11, there was anher reception in the Columbia Theatre, ven by the society people of Chicago the President and Mrs. Cleveland, rs. Cleveland wore a moss green ush dress with military bullion trimmings id looked very lovely. She stood at the esident's right and shook hands with each rson presented. The theatre was filled as on as the doors were thrown open, and ter the first few minutes the doors were Dsed at intervals in order to allow those in o house to pay their respects to the guests thp fivenine'. It was a verv brilliant affair id lastel from 8 o'clock till 11. Then the esident and his wife were permitted to re e to their hotel and seek much needed rest. A HOT PANCAKE, . Remarkable Incident at the St. Louifl Fair. A remarkable incident occurred at the St. ouis fair grounds during the President's isit that had a sequel the next lorning in the police court. While 10 President's carriage was driving by ne of the booths Mrs. Cleveland was startled nd surprised by the sudden appearance f a hot pancake in her lap. She had been sod to receiving bouquets in that manner,but hot pancake was something she was unproared for. The police pounced on the cakeiaker,and found ner to be Annie Saxe.a comej young cook, in the booth. In the police Durt she explained that something impelled er to hit Mrs. Cleveland with a pancake. A ontinuance was granted for a week. THE NATIONAL GAME, The League clubs this season have emoyed exactly fifty-one pitchers. "r,T * At. _ TTT Li L 1 w HiTAiir, ol iue ?v u&iiiugu.uis, iitia wo ucon I around record for pitching. There are vastly more left-handed batsmeD the League than in the Association. Pittsburg has been shut out four timesice each by New York and Detroit and rice bj Indianapolis. Managrr Schmelz says there is no truth the report that Cincinnati will enter the itional League if they win second place, Gerhardt, Houck, Parson? and Summer e the latest additions to the army of plays released by the Metropolitan manageent. Paol Radford, of the Metropolitans, has sde over 100 runs this season. He is one of e best base runners in the American Assoition. It is stated that the recent decision of Judge xlhaut in the in the Sunday ballplayiug se must stop baseball games on Sunday in . Louis, Mo. Ex-Secretary Carl Schurz is a great mirer of the National game. Ho was in at"ldnnce at one of the recent Boston-Pittsirg contests. In the National League 126 games constite a season's series for each club. That imber is not played by all the clubs,as there e some postponed games. Philadelphia carried off the honors dur 4.1.- 1--A A-:? 4-1 lir t TkAtAom M'nn ? bliu JiliSL trip ill l/liw IV cnc. J. UK? IAMiu Iiuu 3ro victories and sustained less defeats than y of their Eastern rivals. The Now Yorks this season have shut out eir opponents five times. Keefe blanked e PhiJadelpbias and the Pittsburgs, Welch e Bo3tons and the Indianapolis, and Mattiore the Indianapolis. The League players who have made ten or ore homo runs are Thompson, 10; Ryan, 11; orrill, 12; O'Brien, Wood and Pfeffer, 13 ch: Brouthers, 14, and Roger Connor tops e list with 17 homers. President Stearns of the Detroit Club, tiile in New York, said thut he considered nson, the Chicago Captain, ahead of all hers as a general of a baseball team, and at he would willingly give $10,000 for his rvices. The Saginaw Courier lias uiscovereu man who never used tobacco or took dram of liquor or a drop of beer, ever played cards or billiards, never as in the tlieater or opera-house to Je a piny, consequently never saw Uncle Tom's Cabin" produced; never ent with more than one girl in his fe, that beincr after he was 19 years f age, and she is now his wife. In is twentieth year he joined the church. ; LAKE DISASTMA Propeller and a School Wrecked in Lake Michigan Nearly a Score of Litres Lost ii Heavy Storm. A Mackinac City (Mich.) dispatch says t the propeller California, commanded Capt. Trowell, left Chicago on Satun night, bound for Montreal. She was la< with 20,000 bushels of corn and 700 barrel' pork, and carried a crew of twenty-t persons and three passengers. She enco tered a heavy wind early on Mom mnrninfr nff Ttftarprs flnrl nt, 4 P. M sea had increased so that it was impossibh steer her, and 300 barrels of pork were thro overboard, but without helping her mu About 11 p. M., when just above St. Hele Island, the sea broke in the gangways b put out the fires. She then swung arov m the trough of the sea and began break up. The Captain ordered the boats lowered, 1 she was so badly listed that it was impossi to lower but one. The Captain went into 1 cabin to get the passengers out, but when returned found that the first mate and seve men had left with the boat The steamer n began rapidly breaking up, and soon all hai were struggling in the water. The Capt and engineer succeeded in getting a b loose from the wreck and picked up second engineer,the cook,and one lady pass ger. Their boat drifted down alongside i propeller A. Folsom, which was anchoi under St. Helena, and was picl , up and brought to Mackinac City. Another boat succeeded in getting ash near Point La Barbe. The steamer Fax picked up one man who was drifting do the straits on some wreckage. Captain T well says all were supplied with life prese; ers, and it is probable that all the bodies \ be recovered. Seven of the crew read Point Les Barbes in the lifeboat in an aim lifeless conditionLater information places the number 1 at fourteen and the saved thirteen. The wr< lies a mile from shore and a heavy sea breaking over it, the masts gone, and t ' cabin stands on end. The survivors were t j derly cared for by farmers. Four of t sailors were unconscious when shore \ reached and none could walk Owen Rourke, a wheelsman, says: "Af all hope had been given up the passeng and crew gathered in the cabin and put life preservers. I was standing aft when immense sea struck her and threw her o1 on her side. When she came down she i peared to strike bottom, and the whole cal collapsed with a crash." Rourke says he pulled himself into a li boat and cut it loose. There were eif others in the boat with him. They drif around the Straits four hours, the boat be; full of water. A fireman and a passenj from Montreal, who were hanging on side, were swept overboard and lost. A Schooner Wrecked. The schooner Havaua, owned by Capt A. P. Read, of the Kenosha, was sighted St. Joseph, Mich., Monday morning, fly; signals or distress. 1 ne vessel was in a su iog condition, and the crew were unable keep her hold clear of water. Captain Jc Curran concluded to beach her. if possibles headed for the shore. At 9 o'clock, when ab< three-fourths of a mile off shore, the vesi went down and the crew were seen to clii into the rigging. There were seven n aboard. Captain Curran, Steward Jo Morris, and a sailor named Joseph CI: climbed into the main rigging and the o ers into the fore rigging. As the ves gave a heavy lurch, the mainnu crashed overboard, carrying the thi men into the breakers. Thay struck o for shore, and when last seen were breasti the waves. As nothing has been seen them since, they are probably drowned. 1 remaining four men clung to the crosstr for nearly three hours, when a tug came their rescue. It took nearly three-quart of an hour to get the men from their perile position. THE LABOR WORLD. The Knights of Labor lost 150,000 memb the past year. A home for working girls is being built Pittsburg, Penn. Sunday factory labor in Germany is < forced by the sharp competition between e ployers, and an agitation which will am it is likely to set in. At New River, N. C., the Knights of Lai have induced the cotton mills to reduce t hours of labor from twelve to eleven, a woflKic in mnnpv instead of RCrio. yaj j . TnERE are 870 Agricultural Wheels in T nessee. Of these 718 were organized the p year. Arkansas has over l,00J,and last y< they elected twcnty-threa members of i Arkansas Legislature. Joseph Sellwood has made $500,030 fr his contract to take the ore out of an ii mine at Gogebic, Wis. He started pounil three years ago and now makes $250,00 year by sub-letting his ten-year contract. superintendent Horner of the Kan Stat-' silk station thinks that the climate the West is peculiarly adapted to silk p duction. and that silk can be made in Kan and Missouri which shall be superior to i imported article. THEREaro now in New York City 113, buildings of all kinds. For the nine mon ending with September 30 plans for 3. new buildings, to cost $59,230,?27, were fil As compared with the same period la-it y this is an increase of 2,259 in buildings e $0,235,ISO in value. american nogs ana sneep are reaching Mexican market in great numbers. The p pie there welcome a reduction in the price meat, and urge the natives to breed bet stock and c ease raising bitter mutton t iuiceless be JL Kansas sportsmen are complaining cause ther have not been successful in bagg the festive prairie chicken this year, 'j chicken supply has not bean half a yield. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. 40 Beef, good to prime 6 Calves, common to prime.... 5 @ Sheep 4%@ Lambs 5/?@ Hogs?Live 5 @ Dressed 8 $ Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 3 50 @40 West, good to choice 3 00 @39 Wheat?No. 2 Red 8'2%@ S R e?State 56 @ 5 Bailey?State 00 @ 7 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 52 @ 5 Oats?White State ? @3 Mixed Western 82 @ 8 Hay?Med. to prime 80 @ U Straw?No. 1, Rye 70 @ 7 Lard?City Steam 6 70 @07 Butter?State Creamery.... 25^?@ S Dairy 21 @ 2 West. Im. Creamery 10 @ 1 Factory 13 @ 1 Cheese?State Factory U/^@ 1 Skims 8 @ Western y>s? * Eggs?State aiid Penn 22 (g 2 BUFFALO. Steers?Western 3 50 @ 4 Oi Sheep?Good to Choice 3 50 @45 Lambs? Western 5 05 @5 'J* Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 20 @52 FJour, Family 4 75 @51 Wheat?No. 1 82)<j@ 8 Corn?No. 2, Mixed 4S @ 4 Oats?No. 2, Mixed ? @ 3 Barley?State 04 @ 0 BOSTON. Beef?Good to choice 7V@ 1 Hogs?Live 5'^:i 1 Northern Dressed.... 0%@ Pork?Ex. Prime,per bbl...17 00 @17 & Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 70 @4 9; Corn?High Mixed ? @ 5' Oats?Extra White 3ti%@ 3' Rye?State 60 @ 0 WATERTOW.V (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef- Dressed weight. 0 @ i Sheep?Live weight 4 @ Lamb; 5 @ Hogs?Northern ? @ 1 PHILADELPHIA Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 50 @37 Wheat?No. 2, Red 80,'^? S Corn?State Yellow 50 @ 5 Oats Mixed ? @3: Rye?State 52>?@ 5 Butter - Creamery Extra... 25 @ 2 { Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. ? @ 1 "1 WOMAN'S .WORLDT PLEASANT LITERATURE FOI 161 FEMININE READERS. An Old-fashioned Girl. a Old-fashioned? Yes, I must confess 1 The antique pattern of her dress, The ancient frills and furbelows, The faded ribbons and the bows. Why she should show those shrunke hat charms, , That wrinkled neck, those tawny arms, y I cannot guess; her russet gown lay Hound her spare form hangs loosely dowr 3en Her voice is thin and cracked; her eye s 0f And smile have lost their witchery. By those faint jests, that flagging wit, ,wo By each attenuated curl, un- She surely is, I must admit, lay An odd old-fashioned girL the >Tis long, long since she had a beau, 5 to And now with those who sit a-row wn Along the wall she takes her place, . With something of her old-time grace. She yearns to join the mazy waltz, And slyly sniffs her smelling-salts. . Ah, many an angel in disguise May walk before our human eyesl ? Where'er the fever-smitten lie t In grimy haunts of poverty, r: Along the dark and squalid street, 'Mid drunken jests of boor and churl, r* one goes witn swirc ana pitying leet? j This same^>ld-fashionea girL ?James B. Kenyon, in the Century. ids ain A Wool Season. This is again a wool season, that ii ent all-wool materials rank first as favorites the and ate either made up quite simplj *ed with draperies of the same, or else use ^ where a smarter style is required, in cor ore junction with plush or velvet. Black ton and checks rival stripes in favor. Th mi new stripes, however, are unlike thos ro- with which we are familiar, in that th stripes are corded, the cord in man ie(l cases so defined by being raised abov ost Jthe ground that they have the appeal ance of narrow lines of braid stitched oi ??t it, this being especially pronounced ii ?V?s\e>r\ TirA/\lflno r\f rlnvlr ofri noa An 11rrV? jg bUUO^ tt UUitUQ vrx viuin ovii|/v? vu n^u ihe grounds, and vice versa. The woo Bn- ground of some of the handsomest o tbe the raised striped textiles is generall; Fas of serge or camel's hair, and a ver te,. artistic effect is given by a woven fla ers stripe being set next that which is raised on and so cleverly managed that it looks a ?n if it were a shadow cast by the bolde line.?New Yorlc Post. Jin Figures Spoiled by Athletics. Pht It is the athletic girl, the new type o ted girl, who goes in for nearly all the sport ing her brother takes up, who is, if she ha ?er previously cultivated her figure, th worst deformed girl of all. There i nothing like athletics and corsets, mixe< or in alternate doses, to bring out th rvnaQihilitina nf pnrws fwista and ahnor ain ? ? ? ? ? off mal developments in a modern girl. A1 ing British femininity is at present engage< in screaming contradictions to Labou |hn chere because he had the hardihood t nd declare that tennis playing girls wer >ut crooked. In a half-dozen grouds at th< Central Park yesterday I picked out fou len P>yers w^ose right shoulders were no hn ticeably of dillerent shape from the left int and six or seven in whom the same thing th- though less obvious, had begun to mani ^ fest itself, the summer exertion enlar? ing the muscles and light clothing thrust mt ing them out of place and accentuatin, ng the uneven developments of the bodj Girls who row in corsets are a curiou ^ sight, the extra muscular developmeo to all taking place high up, where the blooi ers has a chance to circulate, and making th >us shoulders tower above the rest of th body.?New Fork Letter. ' Lace Dresses in Holland. It would simplify matters wonderfull; ers should the women of this country adop an ancient custom observed in Holland in where it is the ambition of every Dutc! lady of high degree to possess a blacl Jn" lace dress. This is carefully worn am lasts a lifetime, in many cases beinj handed down irom one generation t jqj. another. he The singular feature of this custom i nd that, no matter what the style of th dress, wnetner 01 ancient or muuui en" fashioning, it is perfectly correct to doi ^ it upon whatever occasion of state o the social entertainment when the owne may desire to appear. Indeed no lady1 om wardrobe is considered complete withou on this dress, which is made all in on ess piece. a The lady for whom the garment is t be fashioned having expressed her pre! , 0f erence in the matter, patterns are draw: ro- and given to the lacemakers, who the] sis 6et to work and make it according to di the rections, without a single seam. _q(. Such a dress, is, of course, expensivi jjjg at the outset, but once secured is mos i;08 economical, as it is elegant, and, no mat ed. ter how frequently worn, is always ii sar good taste and admired by the company ind ?London Paper. Morning Dew for Her Complexion. ttlB eo- A young woman who claims August of as her home, and who officiated as mai< iteJ to a New York belle who spent last sum tner at Bar Harbor, has just cleared U] what was regarded, even at that resort used as it is to queer freaks, as mysteriou J*6" actions. Every morning my lady's mai< was seen to leave the hotel between fiv and six, and spread on the grass some _. thing that looked very like a fine whit handkerchief. Then, having waited : few moments, she would gather up th ?s article and return to her mistress's chain J/* ber. She now explains that it was par 5 of her duties to wet a lace mouehoir?a the lady called it?with the early dew o morning and then lay it over the face o the New York belle, who had an idei 0 that it softened and added beauty am 3% freshness to her complexion. Privately S the maid admitted?not expecting to b 5 engaged by the same damsel another sea son?that the young lidy's ruse was ; 4 failure, as her complexion always lookei 0 moist and rathiT shiny, instead of liavinj .5 the clear tint she hoped for. That th J first snow of winter is commonly sup 4 posed to remove freckles is an old con y ceit, but that the morning dew enhancc 7 the complexion of a city belle is indeed " " i " y . a. , /u, \ T, J new "lad."?J^eiciaion \.nc.) uvut ???. jf* John Adams ro His Wife. John Adams, in one of his letters t< 3 his wife, made these remaks concerninj jj woman's larger destiny and duties 5 ' Your mother had a clear and penetrn .1 iildfJ 5 ting UIlUCi:>ui:iuiii? .. _0 5 ment, as well as an honest, a fricmll and a charitable heart. There is on r thing, however, which you will forgiv me if I hint it to you. Let me ask voi rather if you are" not of my opinion U Were not her talents and virtues to 7jig much confined to private, social, and do ' mestic life? My opinion of the dutie jjV, of religion and morality comprehends -'a very extensive connection with society a 5 large and the great interests of the pul lie. Docs not natural morality, and much more, Christian benevolence, mak t'l* it our indispensable duty to endeavor t uQ serve our fellow creatures to the utmoj of our power, in promoting and supporl 5 ing those great political systems an OJ,; general regulations upon which the haf 1 piness of multitudes depends? The b< j? benevolence, charity, capacity and ir dustrv, which, exerted in private lift 2^ would make a family, a parish or a tow HH happy, employed upon a larger scale in support of the great principles of vir*S5 tue ana freedom of political rcgiilationsr|^H ^ might secure whole nations and genera- HH tions from misery, want and contempt. A Lady Real Estate Agent. j^H The sphere of woman's activity is en-^B larging, and almost every year sees mem-^R bers of the sex invading some new field ^Hj usually supposed to belong to men.1 IB n Here is an instance related in the HeralcLWR There ?is a very clever real estate i; agent in this city. She is disturbing^ her male competitors almost as much ttflS that other bright lady, the insurance1 agent, who, when attacked for doing business for an unlisted company, turned HS savagely on her ungallant assailants and! H| quieted them by threatening to hoktHB them by their own petard. This ladv-IH real estate a^ent. Mrs. Case. makes vB specialty of furnished houses, and,some what after the fashion of that cleverest of all Chicago business women, Mrs. Har-j riet Hubbard Ayer, turns her large soci-j HB ety acquaintance to averyprofitable use. IHHj To find a good tenant for a handsome home all furnished is a difficult and del*(^H icate duty. The male agent in his office is little fitted to perform it satisfactoriljffj^H This lady real estate agent does her ness in the parlors of her patrons; finds HI from the gossip among the fashionable; 3, ladies of her acquaintance the plans of IB j, pretty nearly all the desirable people inj r, town, and not only picks up business HI d during this boudoir gossip, but often ac^^H i- tually closes it. Mrs. Case's idea is not HH :s only a novel one, but looks sensible andj H| e practicable. Women really rent the H| e homes, especially the furnished homes. e The very best person to solicit the buSi-^^Hj y ness ought to be a woman with a fashion-'fl 11. _ _ ..a _ _ -t n - LtJzStfiBil e aoie acquaintance, ana me very oesc h - place the parlors of the dames who will BB i preside over the new home when it a accepted. At any rate, the lady real'^H t estate agent is a success, as big a succe#? 1 almost as the lady insurance agent, and f the latter is the best known woman on' v derwriter in the country. MB 7 . Fashion Notes. EH 3 Embroidered dress goods are veiy^^M r fashionable. IK Black will be a universally favorite, ^flj color in garniture. SB Watered silk still is used as a decora ^Bj f tion on stuff dresses, and is always effec- H| s Pick is a favorite color in eveningc fabrics and bids fair to rival the new JM * The polka dotted woolens in Iight'fln e shades make pretty house dresses and j matinees. I Cashmere dee Indcs, or chudder cloth, lH is one of the softest and most attractivec Bars of velvet ribbon will still be in.^H s good style on light woolens for indoor HE There is a fancy to have all the fall flf| , fabrics of firmer wear than they last season. VH . Green is combined this season with sorts of colors And is without doubt color for fall wear. 3 TVir> Tvncrlioli mnrlpls arp thf> favorite#-^H s this season in out of door wear and t tailor made costume. |H i Yellows of all shades are stylish'for e indoor wear and some delicate new^^H e shades are attractive. 19 Yellow and certain shades of olive are-^B most attractive in combination, and arer^H seen in some stylish costumes. HP y The soft and beautiful mohair fabrics, t which are growing in favor every day, fl| L are attractive and also durable. ^ Olive and white is a very effective- |H j5 combination, and one which has the'^J merit of being refined and elegant. Hi The wide stripes are stylish in twille& Hfl cheviots, and have a lightness and dura- H| bility at once attractive and desirable. v- B9 e There are many beautiful new bluet^^J a this season which are becoming, and will,HI tt be particularly liked by young people. H| r A French mixture of color is green and r purple, but it is not such as would pleases the taste uneducated in such combina- flfl t tions. H e The large buttons seen on all outside garments are of costly workmanship and H o invjiriiiblv have the finish of delicate HI * work. a The bcatiful materials for outside jack-.^H a ets are for the most part of simple wear, Hi with a fine, smooth surface ana of soft,^H ? texture. Ifl t The little ruffles which take the place . of the plaitings so lopg fashionable, will BH a be seen on all the stylish costumes if the fabric allows. RH There are some cheviots of Scotch weave which are particularly pretty and BB wear most remarkably; in truth they cana not wear out. 1 Purple will continue to be worn in it* - darker shades for out of door wear, but' r> for house wear it is no longer stylish ia! , the half tints. j^H s There are wide brim Mother Hubbard^ 1 hats for the fall which will look very,^| e dainty and picturesque above little - quaint, childish faces. e There are many pretty designs in the * beautiful Florentine velvets, which will HI e make most attractive basque waists for BM * skirts of plain fabric. s The antique shades of pink are the f most becoming to dclicate complexions, f and where it Is not used in masses it ie x certainly a most attractive color. J The yoke waist plaited is one of the.^H most convenient of corsages, as it take* e the place of the jersey, which, it must i- be confessed, is rather passe. a The fine straw braids called the "homei spun" are attractive for children's wear, HBj ? and arc so durable tliat they wear many e seasons, needing only to be whitened. '* There are few if any among the new H| '* hat shapes prettier than th j sailor shape, H| s abused as it is and commonly as it ia HI a worn by all sorts and conditions of peoPle An Esquimau Dog With a History. "Wolf, the nigh leader of the dog team * that drew the sledges in the famous Gree- B| ,1 ly Arctic expedition, is now a resident of Oakland, having spent the summer there y for his health. He may be seen at the'^H e home of John W. McNeil, a painter, by<H| e whom he is kept at the expense of Gen^^H ? eral Sherman, his owner. Wolf has ? history. He is the only dog ever enlisted n i in the United States navy, and after the^B ~ closc of the expedition Wolf wns given :S his regular papers of honorable discharge a from the government employ. Lieu-* t tenant Greely, in whose possession Wolf i. fell, presented him to General Sherman,1 I who has ever since kept him. The ho^^H q Eastern summers have been very trying IB 0 on Wolf's cold blood, and this summer hq HE was sent to California that he might efeflH t. cape the heat. He was sent consigned tp 3 George H. King, of San Francisco, who^H had a brother-in-law in the expedition. Mr. King placed him in the care of Mr. McNeil. Wolf is a large animal, with , long gray silky hair and j>osseses superior H q intelligence.?San Francisco Chronicle. H|