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SPEECH BY GLADSTONE. Demanding a Statutory Parliament for the Irish People. The British Minister Severely Arraigned by the Ex-Premier. The Congress of the Liberal Federation opened the other day at Nottingham, England. Ex-Premier Gladstone made a speech, in which he reviewed the situation in Ireland and denounced the British Government for tho manner in which it was dealing with the Irish question. His rising to speak was the signal for loud and prolonged cheering. Mr. Gladstone said he would tell them Dlainlv that he was not there to say smooth things". It was a deplorable fact that the settling of the great Irish question, might have been settled last year had their l>een a disposition to discuss it in a spirit of candor and fairness, had been again sit aside and was still pending, its difficulties aggravated and its prospects uncertain. He had always told the Conservatives that tho choice lay between coercion and home rule. The Conservatives had told them that home rule was an idle dream, but events had shown that it was not. A coarcion bill had been passed against combinations, against the liberty of thepres3 and the right of public meeting, ana not against crime. The Irish spectacle was now a grave and serious one, and if it continued it would drive Ireland into such a state that the difficulties of the Government would become almost insurmountable. Mr. Gladstone denied that he proposed home rule simply to advance Liberal interests. It was doubtful, he said, whether the Tories accepted home rule in its broad principles in the same way that they accepted his proposals in 187:2 and in 1S83. He wanted a statutory Parliament in Dublin, subject to imperial control. There was nothing to prevent any reasonable man from > agreeing with the Liberals' Irish proposals without reference to this or that particular or detail The immediate necessity of the day was to watch the way in which Ireland was now sroverned. If the government persisted in their rash and foolish policy it would naturally lead to political demoralization, and render it in the highest degree difficult, even for Englishmen and a Parliament truly representing their best and most enlightened conclusions,to deal rapidly and beneficially with Ireland. Only one word could describle the present system of Irish government. It was "impertinence." The events of the last few weeks in Ireland would not have been tolerated in England. He condemned the action of the authorities at Mitchellstown. He admitted having used the words, "Remember Mitchellstown!" The affair must and would be remembered. The country had an account te settle with the government in connection with that affair. The Mitchellstown authorities were undoubtedly wrong, yet Mr. Balfour, in behalf of the Government, unequivocally assumed the responsibility for their acts. The worst feature of the Mitchellstown incident was that the action of the authorities there had become a model and pattern for the whole of Ireland. The whole system of government in Ireland required to be thoroughly reformed,root and branch. There had been a break down in the Government in all essentials. A radical change was wanted, and such a change an enfranchised nation alone could accomplish. I Mr. Gladstone drew a glowing picture in defenca of his administration of the law in Ireland and olsewhere in the Empire. He expressed himself as perfectly confident that it a general election were held immediately it would result in the return of a Parliament resolved to do justice to Ireland. ^ COKTRACT LABOR. Proceeding Against a Church For Importing a Minister. The new Federal law forbidding the importation of contract labor has resulted in a peculiar case at New York. Particulars as given by tha Tribune are as follows: Banker J. S. Kennedy has put on warpaint aud resolved that the Church of the Holy Trinity and the Rev. E. Walpole Warren shall not violate the law prohibiting the importation of contract laoor. He has studied out the meaning of the words " labor" and " contract," he has read the law carefully and he has decided, and United States District Attorney Walker agrees with him, that the fashionable congregation at Forty-second street and Madison avenue are malefactors. There is deep method in Mr. Kennedy's conduct. Not content with being a banker, he is President of the St Andrew's Society. In looking after the interests or immigrants the case of the Scotch gardener, M. Cummings, attracted his notice. Cummings came to this country to enter the service of a Kentuclcy gentleman, but Collector Magone detained Cummings under the Contract Labor law, as an agreement has been made in Great Britain that Cummings should perform services as a skilled gardener here. A United States Judge wrestled with the case and sent Cummings back to Scotland. A short time afterward Cummings came back to America without any "contract" or agreement, and now is probably watering the grounds of the Kentucky gentleman who wanted him at first Mr. Kennedy's ire arose over this case and he resolved to make the law appear as ridiculous to others as it appeared to him. If the poor and lowly were to be subject to such a rigid interpretation of the law it was only right that the rich and highly should suffer. The Rev. E. Walpole \\ arren, who was recently called to the pastorate of the Church of the Holy Trinity, came from England, and he didn't start for this side until an agreement had been made with the oflicers of the church. Hero was an excellent opportnnity for the crusading banker to make a test case. Before Mr. Warren's arrival Mr. Kennedy wrote to Collector Magone, calling his fo/tfj comniv ttin? Kn was ObVCUblUU wkj bug 1CK.W auu vuuv uo nao i legally advised that Mr. Warren could not be permitted to land without violating the letter aud spirit of the law. But the Collector didn't appear to share the banker's views and Mr. Warren was not prevented from < landing. Secretary Fairchild was then appealed to by Mr. Kennedy to enforce the law. Mr. Kennedy, in his letter to the Secretary, ended as follows: "I need hardly add to the assurance contained in my letter to the Collector that I take this action with the kindest feelings toward the Rev. Mr. Warren and toward his congregation, which numbers several of my personal friends, and solely for the purpose of calling public attention to what I believe to be an unjust and unreasonable law. I see no reason, however, why a law shonld be enforced in the case of a poor gardener or mechanic and should not be enforced in the case of the chosen head of a rich city congregation, to whom it equally applies/' The Treasury Department replied to Mr. Kennedy's letter by referring him to United States District-Attorney Walker, who might prosecute a suit against a corporation or person violating the Taw. Mr. Kennedy wrote to Mr. Walker, and that official responded in ?letter in which he said: Notwithstanding first impressions to the contrary, I have reached the conclusion that tiie case presented is within the statute, and it is my duty to brin? suit against the church for $1,(XX) penalty. ' TRAIN ROBBERS FOILED. ^ Two of Them Killed?A BombAgatnst The Oar Door. The Galveston, Harrisbure and San Antonio mail and express, which left El Paso, Texas, the other evening, was stopped four miles out of the city by three masked men. While two ra?>n covered the engineer and , fireman with their revolvers tho third ran baclc to cue man rar ana inrew a ouiihj against the door. The explos on which followed shattered the door and side of car into splintera The ajcent was dazed and badly frightened by the shock,but uninjured. Ho recovered himself, however.and poured a charge from a doub!e-b;irre!Ied shot gun into tho breast of tho robber who had jumped into the car, killing hitn instantly. The two on the engine, hearing the report, fl?.xl. Th? mail acent fired tha ro,naming load after them. Tho train th<Mi retumod to El Paso anl remained until morning. A sheriff's po<s pursued the robbers next day, and found the dead body of anothvr of them, who luid been shot by tha maii agenf The fish i?> th" Arkansas river appear te be affected niili ? m stra.igc discsise. Many of those caught with hco"; or net spoil Within a lew houts afU:r b>dng taken from the water. C : Kik ,. NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. The largo Sprague Baltic Mill, built of stone, five stories in height, 1,000 by 500 feet, at Baltic, Conn., was totally wrecked by firo the other morning, Tho loss is $1,500,000; insurance $?>7,000. Three members of the British Parliament ?Sir John Swinburne. O. V. Morgan aud Halley Stewart?who will present an interm^ninrinl tn fllA iiauuuui (uuiuabivu uivtuvt?w? w ?? . ident and Congress, have arrived in New York. Cfiarles Dickens, eldest son of the distinguished English novelist, has arrived in New York. He will read selections from his father's works. The National Rubber Company, of Providence, R. I., has failed for upwards of ?900,000. Forest fires on the Blue Mountain range in Pennsylvania have been devastating valuable timber lands. A Gloucester (Mass.) schooner's captain reports having fallen in with a French fishing sloop waterlogged on the Grand Banks. He boarded her, and found ten men drowned j in the cabin. A lockout of 5,000 shoemakers has taken place in Philadelphia. A fire in tho business section of Syracuse, N. Y. destroyed property valued at ?400,000. South and West. There are more than fifty cases of yellow fever at Tampa, Fla. Charles Edwards (colored) was hanged at Clarksville, Ga., for the murder of William Echols (white). O D . ?*??? Proci. OILt nr<4> tUO amm/uauu 4 iw? dent of the Union Trust Company, of Chicago, was shot five times and mortally wounded while coming out of church. His assailant was his eighteen-year-old stepson, William Lee, and domestic trouble was the cause of the crime, Mrs. Rawson having separated from her husband. A resolution to reduce the General Executive Board of the Knights of Labor from seven to five members led to a bitter debate in the General Assembly at Minneapolis. The majority were charged with uniting to get rid of Messrs. Berry and Bailey, two of the members. In the uproar which followed a motion to adjourn was carried. Secession from the Order was talked of by some members. Three hundred citizens started in pursuit of a gang of robbers who murdered the Rev. Thomas r. Ryan, a Methodist minister, near Walton, W. Va. The robbers were found in a fortified house. The result of a fight was the shooting of one robber, the capturing and lynching of another, and the wounding of five of the citizens. Arizona's population is stated in Governor Zulick's annual report to be 90,000. ! Governor West's annual report estimates the population of Utah at 200.000. There are 2,000,000 animals of all kinds in the Ter! ritory, and the mining output last year was $7,031,72!). The Governor opposes them ovement of the Mormons for Statehood. Mrs T. * v Mm wnnvm who throw ft nan cako at Mrs. Cleveland in St. Louis, was .fined *50. Washington. General Greely, Chief Signal Officer, recommends that a trial be made of homing pigeons in the service. The Treasury Department recommends that United States attorneys, marshals and clerks bo paid salaries, and the fee system be abolished. It is stated tbat the Government will protect American seal fisheries in Alaska's waters from foreign depredations at all hazard Foreign. The days of Germany's Cro*n Prince are said to be numbered. Ho is suffering from cancer of the throat. The case is very similar to General Grant's. Wong Chin Foo, of New York, a cultured Chinaman, author of a recent article in the North American Iteeiew, and a naturalized American citizen, was taxed *50 by a Canadian Customs officer before he was permitted to enter Canada, The Irish Privy Council is about to devise measures for the suppression of the National League. Particulars of a disastrous fire at Hankow, China, have just been received. One thousand lives were lost, and an immense amount of property was destroyed. Unemployed workingmen had a pitched battle with tho London police. Many men were injured, and twenty arrests were made. The dedication of a jubilee memorial fountain in honor of Shakespeare, presented by George W. Cliilds, the Philadelphia editor, was made the occasion of impressive cere monies at Stratford-on-Avon, the great poet's birthplace. There was a procession, a dedicatory speech by Henry Irving, an address by United Stales Minister Phelps, recitation of a poem written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, ?nd a banquet. Several members of the Canadian Parliament are accused of bribery. The Disconto Geselleschaft, a Leipsic banking institution with a capital of 9,000,000 marks, nas failed in consequence of unlawful speculations. Two of the directors have absconded with an enormous amount of spoils and all tho bank's stock. m THE NATIONAL GAME. All of the International League club# have disbanded. Baldwin has caught fifty-one consecutive games for Cincinnati. Boston is willing to spend $30,000 for a team to win the pennant next season. There will be many changes in the different League and Association Clubs next season. Thompson, of the Detroits, has this season made over 200 actual hits and leads all the Lea irue batsmen in this oar ticular. Captain Swartwood, of the Brooklyn Club, says that three years is long enough for any player to stay with a team. Mike Kelly, when asked the other day if he would play in Boston, said: ''"Weil, I guess not. I'm no use to them, and they haa better let me go." The Brooklyn Club has purchased the right s and franchise of the Metropolitan Club. A general reorganization of these two teams will take place. So large a number of exhibition games have been arranged by the league and Association Clubs this fall that the show will fly before they are all played. The manner in which the league clubs have been instructed to make known who they reserve, would indicate that they have begun against the Brotherhood. There have been not a few whispered conversations among Association and League managers lately, and it would not be surprising if the Association would join issues against the combination of ball players. Reports from San Francisco say that the New York Club will be met with a royal recept:on on their arrival out there. Direc tor Appleton, who is now out there, predicts a brilliant success for the club. The latest sensation in the baseball world has been the marriage of John M. Ward, the short top of the New York Club and President of the National Brotherhood ot' Players, to Helen Dauvray, the popular notross. Jtiise Dauvray was an almost constant attendance at the games on the New York's grounds the past season. RICH IN YEARS. Mrs. Lydia Bacon, of Boston, was IOC years old a few days since. Samuel Post, who died at Ketchum's Corners, N. Y., recently, was in his ninety-first year. Mils. Nancy Eogkrlt, of Wolfboro, N. H., is 103 years old. She delights in political conversation. When Thoina; Whipple died at Brown Settlement, Sullivan county, N. Y., recently, h? had enjoyed nearly 101 years of active life. For lo:; years Mrs. Lucy Luther, ol Hadlyme, Conn., wiio died on Wednesday, had l?e< n a stranger to disease, and had all her mental faculties*. The oldest volunteer fireman in the United States is stid to be John do Mier, of Allen town. Mo., who joined Itclief Company No. 2 of Cincinnati in Ho is more Hum & years of ago. Thomas Bowkn, of While County, On has just rounded a century of life. He cult: vates flowers and g-utrds.' He on.*"! raisjd a gourd that was four f*et in mn.ua.'*d"eac.'. and which hold a bushel of .sbaJJe 1 corn. ' X, FROM WIST TO SOUTH. Details of the Presidential Trip Southward. Mr, Cleveland and His Wife Cordially ReceivedThe President and Mrs. Cleveland, accompanied by the rest of the party, were driven through the streets of Kansas City on Thursday morning. Large crowds greeted them heartily at every point. After the drive Mr. Cleveland laid the corner-stone of the new Young Men's Christian Association Building. The President made an address, referring to the good work done by Young Men's Christian Associations throughout the country. After the ceremonies the party took lunch and then were driven to the Custom House, where Mayor Kumpf made an address of welcome in presence of 50,000 spectators, the PresiJ i J! mi If- J Mw uunt responuiiijj. mcu im. uuu ^10. land held an open-air reception, thousands of people walking past the Chief Magistrate and his wife. At 0 o'clock there was a banquet at the C'oates House, and later Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland reviewed an imposing parade. The streets were brilliantly illuminated. At 10 p. M. the entire party took the special train for Memphis. At A Vest Memphis, which was reached Friday afternoon, the visitors were received by a Committee of 200 leading citizens, and taken by steamer to Memphis. About 60,000 people had gathered on the levee when the Presidential party left the boat,thousands of strangers having traveled to the city from Mississippi and adjoining States. The party were taken in carriages to the Gayozo House. In the morning there was a reception at the hotel, and later the guests were driven out to see a fine display of fireworks. Saturday morning there was a grand parade, an address delivered by Judge Elliott in the Court Square, a reply by the President, and afterward a public reception at the Merchants' Exchange. Early Saturday afternoon the special train was again taken, and Nashville, lenn., was reached early Sunday morning. A sad incident of President Cleveland's visit to Memphis was the sudden death of Judge H. T. Ellett, of the Chancery Court, a few minutes after ho had delivered the address of welcome to Mr. Cleveland from the crowded stand in Court Square. The President was responding to Judge Ellet, when that gentlemen was suddenly taken sick and sank to his seat. Although attended by Dr. Bryant, the President's physician, and 'AA?' T?.rl/?A T? 1 rn/^niimKa/1 fn not*_ lUVJvtl UU^tVJlS, ll UU^D JUIICU OUV<V UiUl/CU W ^?ui alysis of the heart. The exercises were closed on the stand by the announcement that there would be a reception later at the Merchants' and Cotton Excnanges,and the crowd hurried away. Both the President and Mrs. Cleveland were much affected by the sad event. At Nashville the President and Mrs. Cleveland were the guests of General W. H. Jackson on that gentleman's magnificent stock farm, Belle Meade, six miles from the city. There Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland spent a quiet Sunday?their first in the South. During the day they were driven to Nashville and called on Mrs. James K. Polk, widow of President Polk, and lady of the White House forty years ago. On Slonday morning the Presidential party were driven through Nashville to Vanderbilt University. The streets were crowded with people, and decorations and mottoes were plentiful. At the University Chancellor Garland made an address of welcome. Then the march through the city's principal streets to the Maxwell House was resumed. At the hotel Mrs. Cleveland alighted and held a reception for the ladies of Nashville. The President continued to the Capitol, and from a stand was welcomed by Governor Taylor. President Cleveland responded in a speech complimentary to Nashville and its people. After the address the President held a public reception in the rotunda of the Capitol. Shortly after noon the visitors left for Chattanooga. The city of Chattanooga was reached in the afternoon in a heavy rain. The train was greeted at the depot by an immense crowd. The President's carriage was followed by a mounted escort and 100 carriages, containing leading citizens. Many private houses were decorated. The party stopped about an hour at Chattanooga, and then departed for Atlanta, Ga. The train reached Atlanta at 5 P. M. The party were received with belching cannon, the illumination of Kennesaw mountain, and the roar of thousands of voices in greeting. n. 1 CVUJH 1V/II nuivu luviiiuvv* vw? ernor Gordon, Senator Brown, Henry W. Grady and others conducted tbe party to tho Kimball House. Five Governors of Southern States welcomed tho party. On Tuesday morning the Presidential party were escorted to the Governor's room in the Capitol at Atlanta. There they were received by Governor Gordon. The visiting Governors, the Supreme Court of the State, the United States officials, the municipal authorities, and the members of the Legislature were presented to the city's guests. This ceremonial over, the visitors, escorted by Governor Gordon, Senators Brown and Colquitt, and accompanied by the visiting Governors, and many other people of note,proceeded to Piedmont Park, which is the exposition ground. A national salute was fired as the procession entered tho gates of the inclosuro and proceeded to tho speaker's stand. Tho formalities of welcome to the President were begun with a prayer by the Rev. Dr. Bartlett, of the Presbyterian Church, after which Mr. H. W. Grady, Vice-President of the exposition, in a brier but eloquent speech extended a welcome to the President Mr. Cleveland respondedin a speech in which he referred in complimentary terms to the growth and enterprise of Atlanta. Governor Gordon followed the President in a short address. Then there was a public reception in the exposition grounds. In the evening the gentlemen of the visiting party dined with Governor Gordon. Mrs. Cleve land and Mrs. Vilas were entertained at dinner by Mrs. R. N. Porter. Later the entire party attended a card reception by the Capital City Club. The exercises at Atlanta on Wednesday in President and Mrs. Cleveland's honor wero marred by a heavy rain. The Presidential party breakfasted with Senator Colquitt at 10 a. m. There were about thirty other guests, including most of the people of note in town. The President and Mrs. Cleveland entered their flower-bedecked carriages at 11 o'clock, and, with an I esc >rt of cavalry and artillery, made their I wtfy through muddy streets to the Exposition grounds, three miles away. There Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland viewed the military parade. In the afternoon the President was entertained by Hon. Julius Brown, son of Senator Brown. At the same hour a reception in Mrs. Cleveland's honor was given by Mrs. Henry W. Grady. At night the President reviewed a torchlight procession of the Young Men's Democratic Leagues of the State, and made a speech. The party left at midnight for Montgomery and thence for Washington. nTinirmnvm DfnBT f LHU11LJL1N .DIM X rjjUi JJU. Prince de Talleyrand, of France, is I doing the United States. Tiie Sultan of Morocco is not dead, as reported, but is improving in health. George Francis Train announces a design to resumo the lecturo platform. Secretary Endicott says that he is i more interest ;d in yachts than in politics. General Joseph E. Johnston has con- ! tributod $100 to the Lee Monument Fund of j Richmond, Ya. Mrs. James A. Garfield and her daugh- I ter Mo'lie sailed a few days ago from Mew j York for Europe. The shoemakers of Natick, Mass., are 1 about to erect a monument to the late VicePresident Henry Wilson. It is asserted that ninety out of every hundred male children born in Ireland are named I after Charles Stuart Parnell. Dennis Kearney, the California "sand j lots'' speaker, is in New York for the purpose of making Anti-Chinese speeches. Dr. William A. Hammond, of New York, enjoys a medical practice which nets him ! $75,000 a year. Ho says the requisites of a j physician are tact and perseverance. itknekal mikiudan* is riir from weaitny. His income, salary and alio waives we about , $1:>,U>hj n year, and it co;ts for tho maintenance of his home, family and official posi- j tion four lilt lis of til's sum. II j is also j Presi lout oi thy Washington Carx Jockey j Club, of Chicago, an unsalaried ollic.'. losicpii M. I)ou?;i a <: >, of Nevada city, i while worth STi,(10(i,00(?, is ac-counto l tho most | eccentric miser on the i'uriite slope. He was , recently lined $1?U and committed to jail lor twenty-four hours for contempt of court. , He served his jail sentence, but announces that ke will tight payment of the /i;i3 in every court on the coast LATER NEWS Henry Schafner, of Pottsville, Penn seventy-ono years old, in an insane fit o | groundless jealousy shot and killed his wifc aged fifty-six years, and then put an ond t himself with a pistol ball. The twenty-fourth annual Convention o tlie Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, a Chicago, was welcomod by Governor Oglesb; and Mayor Roche. Chief Arthur, in his an nual address, spoke strongly against strike and in favor of abstinence from drink. Th Brotherhood now numbers 25,000 men. The twenty-first annual convention c American Architects has just been held i Chicago. The General Assembly of the Knights c Labor at Minneapolis has adjourned. Nex year the Convention will ba held at Indiar apolis. Messrs. Oberly and Edgerton, two c the three Civil Service Commissioners, d not agree upon some constructions of th Civil Service law. Tho former oppose political organizations of officeholders at th National Capital; tho latter thinks they havi a right to exist. Severe snowstorms, accompanied in som parts by a hurricane, are reported from Italy Crops and animals wore greatly injured, i number of housas were unroofed at Pisa, an< several persons drowned in Lake Como. The carpenter of a Russian schooner mur dered tho Captain and five of the crew, an< then threw their bodies overboard. THE LABOR WORLD. Mop.e than 10,000 electric motors are now in operation in this country. Twenty-five hundred to three thousanc miners are out on a strike in Southerr Indiana. The weekly BradslreePa records -,2S< strikes throughout the country for the current year. The productiou of pig iron has increased in the Pittsburg district from 2,000 tons pel day last year to 3,000 tons at present. General Secretary Litchman says the Knights of Labor on July 1, 1887, numbered 535,000, a decrease of about 195,000 members during the year ?, : The London Iron says that American cheai: hardware is driving all European competitors out of the markets of that continent, More than 80,000 dozen American monkej wrenches are exported to Europe annually, ll> id SU1U, IAJ S>UlJj[Jljr W1D IVIClgU UOUMIIU. The blast furnace report as published in tho American Manufacturer shows that 011 October 1 there were 346 furnaces, with a weekly capacity of 144,638 tons, out of blast. On the same date the number of idle furnaces was 243, with a weekly capacity of 50,00'J tons. The Emery Coal and Railroad Company has been chartered in Tennessee with a capital of $100,00J. The company has acquired 100,000 acres of mineral lands, beside $150,00) worth of property in the city of Chattanooga. They will proceed at once to build blast furnaces, rolling mills, and foundries. Since the last report (July) the Brotherhood of Carpenters has granted charters to thirtytwo new Unions, ranging from Brookline, Mas*., to Elsinore, CaL, and from Milwaukee, Wis., to Jacksonville, Fla. The brotherhood has -HO local Unions, and upward of 42,000 members. A Knights ok Labor Convention at Shamokin, Penn., was attended by 300 delegates, representing tho employes of the Reading Kailrojd. Resolutions of sympathy with the Lehigh Valley striking miners were passed and financial assistance was contributed. The Knights expressed themselves as pleased with tho eristing relations with their employers. NEWSY GLEANINGS, The Spanish Government is about to builc six cruisers of 4,500 tons each. There are 2,000 bootblacks in St Louis and some of them are well off. TnERE are 105,148 Union soldiers buried ir the National Cemeteries of Virginia. Tornadoes in some part or other of th< United States average about 200 a year. The Garfield monument at Cleveland Ohio, will not be completed for two years. the nanana lias oeen accumai/eu iu cuiu Connty, Cal., and trees are now in full bear ing. There were 30,78? fatal cases of cholera ii the Northwest Provinces of India during July. A box factory at Lakeside, Mich., is mak ing 11,(WO boxes to All an order from Centra America. A cannery at Santa Rosa, Cal., has pu up 1,000,000 cases of peaches, grapes, pears, etc., this year. Many of the orange orchards about Lo Angeles, Cal., are being cut up for residence and business lots. A forest of petrified trees is said to hav< been discovered on the line of the Eideai Cansi in Canada. Italy has entered into an alliance witl Austria and Germauy on an equal footinj with the two Empires. The Dominion Government will soon send a carload of lobsters to the Pacific coast foi propagating purposes. There are only two public statues in Sai Francisco?ono of President Garfield, th< other of General Halleck. Isaac Ellis, a Petersburg, Va., patriarch has just taken unto himself his eighth wife Ellis is seventy-five years old and is thi father of thirty-six children. St. Petersburg expects another grea trial of the Aiiarchists this year, when th cases of some fif teen Russian officers chargec with various political crimes will be dispose* of. Several dozen camels are owned in th vicinity of Ban Antonio, Texas, iney an the progeny of animals brought from Arabii in 1852, to test their usefulness in crossing th Mojave desert on the old Southern Californii trail. MUSICAL AND DKAMATIO, There are only four characters in Octav< Feuillet's new play. Several young ladies of Madison, Wis. have organized a cornet band. Michigan has a novelty in a bic> cle band The musicians play as they ride. Mr. Theodore Thomas will soon begin his New York season of orchestral concerts. Ristori's rocently-publishe I "Memoirs" ro voal that she made her debut as a three months-old child. Sarah Bernhardt has written a plnj called "The Pin." It Is said to be full of brighl points, sharp satire, and polished dialoguo. "The Fathir of Six Monkeys; or, the Prophet of Penon," is the unique name of i Dopulur play now running iu tho City ol Mexico. Frank Bangs will star Lawrence Barrett's plays, "France-ica da Rimini" and "Rienzi' this season. Manager Ed Stone is organizing a good supporting company. Miss Bessie Cleveland, one of the lead ing members of a Western coinic opera com pany now playing in Ohio cities, claims to be a niece of the President. She is good looking and has a sweet alto voice. Ox the boards of one of tho cheap theatre* in Chicago is a young English tenor of nobk birth who has made his youth noteworthy bj squandering an inheritance of more than ?100,000 in less than two years. Four prominent clergymen in New York have taken as a text Richard Mansfiold's per formance of "Dr. Jekyll nnd Mr. Hydo. The Rov. Dr. Eaton said: "I certainly do not remember any drama so powerful in its moral effect." Social circles in Washington are surprised at the report that Miss Ktliel Sprague, daughter of Mrs. Kate Chaso Sprague, ana granddaughter of the lata Chief-Just ioo Sal mon P. Chase, is about to make her debut oil the dramatic stage. Miss Eleanor Everest is the most popular young woman in Philadelphia's amateur musi. nl circles. She is just out ot' her teens, is good looking, and has a well nigh p.>rfecl Bonrano voice. A music house has named a collection of songs "Eleanor Everest's Alburn" in her honor. J**': ' 'j "" 1 f.r. 'v .z ^yp- i NATURAL-GAS EXPLOSION. ? ? ' () Fifteen Persons Injured, Sevo eral Fatally, in Pittsburg. f | ~ t rTwo Large Buildings Narrowij 7 Escape Destniction. 3 ... e The first serious natural-gas explosion in Pittsburg, Penn., in two years occurred a few minutes after 10 o'clock the otber mornQ ing in the Hotel Albemarle and Bijou Theatre Block, on Sixth street. The explosion was at tended with frightful injuries to a numl>er of t people, and great destruction to some of L. the finest property in the city. For several days past workmen employed by the People's Gas Company had been engaged in repairing .f Hio ni'noc ninninrr inf/1 t.hn t.hpdfrrfl ail(l hoteL 0 The cmW of escaping gas was noticed early in the morning, but, for somo reason, nothing was done to have the gas turneo 3 off. About 10:15 o'clock there were e three terrific explosions simultaneously in the cellars of D. T. Reed, optician. Hotel Albemarle, and the Bijou Theatre. The concussion shook buildings for several e squares and broke every plate-glass window in the block. Almost instantly flames shot ' up from various parts of the block, but before they gained much head 1 way they were controlled by the prompt work of the Fire Department. The Hotel Albemarle,the Bijou Theatre entrance, " and the shops wnich fronted on Sixth streel 1 between the hotel entrance and Library Hall, all were terribly shattered. The damage by the explosion will react ?50,000. The greatest loss is to the Hotel Albemarle, which will exceed $20,000. The Bijou Theatre lose.; ?.'1,500; D. F. Reed, optician, *2,50U, and Feick Brothers, dealers in artificial limbs, $*,500. Fully 000 worth ol plate glass was broken by the concussion. r Fifteen parsons in all were injure:!, fi\re of them, it was thought, fatally. The complete I list of the injured is as follows: Jacob Dini gar,a young man, einuloyo of tlio People's Na tural Gas Company,hurt internally and badh ) burned, and one leg and arm broken; will die. Thomas Scanlan,employe of the People's Natural Gas Company, badly burned about , the head, legs and hanrls; Mike Mebranzi, Italian, employe of the People's Natural Gas Company, severely bnrned about hands, face, and back; Blake, colored man, injured in | ternally; H. T. Feick, injured internally ' and faco severely cut by flying glass; John Feick, cut by glass about face and hands; nose cut almost ofT. Leon Kacharfki. > employe of D. T. Reed, injured in the back. (jus mete, memoir 01 ningmu vuiuuaujr No. 1, struck in the face by falling timbers. Unknown woman, blown into the gutter, , and severely hurt. G. G-. Nichols, editor People's Advocate, blown into middle of street and severely cut and bruised; Johr Mulberry, a colored employe, of the People's Natural Gas Company, fearfully burned about the head, face and hands; a col ored man, also an employe of the Peo pie's Company, was slightly burned aboul tho hands and "face; Michael]Humphrie3, arms and head severely burned; Charles Meyer, broken shoulder blade; Joe Gcadino, Italian laborer, burned about tho head and shoulders, and injured internally. A careful inquiry made at the scene of the disaster shows beyond a doubt that the ex plosion was caused by the ignition of the People's Company gas, while workman were making a connection in the basement ol Feick's establishment. THE PUBLIC LANDS, Synopsis of Land Commissionci Sparks1 Annual Report. Land Commissioner Sparks in his annual report, just issued, shows that since March 4, 1SS5, 31,824,4S1 acre3 have been restored tc the public domain. Th3 salo3, entries, aad ^elections of public land under the various acts of Congress relating thereto, for the fiscal year ended Juno 30, 1SS7, embraco 25,111, 400 acres, and of Indian lands 74G,GJ? acres, making a total of 25,853,038 acrcs, being ar I increase over the year 1880 of 3,733,474 acres, and an increase of 4,8(52,524 acres as .compared with 1885. ' The receipts from the disposals of public lands are *10,783,921, from sales of Indian 1 lands, ?1,484,302?a total of $12,2CS,224,being an increase as compared with the year 18S? j of ?3,247,727, and an increaso of $3,048,625 as compared with the fiscal year 1885; to which is to be added $8,291 received on account of ' timber depredations, and $12,493 received for certified copies of records furnished by the General Land Office, making the total receipts for the year from all sources $12,289,008. With respect to the survoys of public lands, i he says that charges of fraud are made in all ; the public land States and Territories, and that an appropriation to cover the examina tion of such surveys and for necessary resur I veys is a matter of the highest public importance. A large proportion of tne Surveyors(. General recommend that rates for survey be oa fliof /v\mnafanf cnpfovarc mnv IXIUICUOOU) OU I/Iiau wuij/ryvuK ou* wj w* w , be ablo to perform their work without calling on settlers for assistance. 3 On the subject of the forfeiture of railroad 3 land grants the Commissioner quotes from hi: last annual report, and adds: s "I renew the recommendation that fori feiture be declared in all cases in which the roads were not completed within the time 1 and in the manner conditioned in the respec, tive grants." Of fraudulent land entries the Commissionei . says that the investigations of the past yen J have been entirely satisfactory, and thai : as a result, 2,312 entries, covering aboul 370,000 acres, were held for cancel la i tion, and 1,153 entries, covering about ) 1^0,000 acres, were cancelled for fraud. This subject the Commissioner pursues at some length. He says: "Such J a record of crime as that shown by j investigation made by special agents during the last two years is rarely to bo found. . Bold, reckless, and gigantic schemes to rot the Government of its lands have been dis? covered and exposal in every State ami t Territory containing public lands,and I think 1 I can truthfully say in every land district and county which a special agent has visited. 0 Systematic efforts to mislead and corrupt 0 entrymen, in order that they might 1 become instruments in defraudingthe Governa ment, have been resorted to. Men of intellii genco and high standing in the community, in many instances millionaires, were the leaders in these unlawful traus actions. Over five thousand cases have been discovered wherein perjury or subordination of perjury was committed. In a majority of cases the ollicers before whom the 4 ?WAHA ^v/1/nl frtiI IllPirolv ' I prillllS Or UHIIT nciDEAEVunu, iu> ry^'J I State and Territorial officers not directly re t j sponsible to tho Land Departniont, were | cognizant of tho fraud, or could have become so by ordinary diligence. One thousand and eleven cases of timber | depredations or timber trespass have been 1 reported 011 during tho year, involving a value in timber and product therefrom amounting to $(j,l Hi,!):;.")?recoverable to the Unite 1 States. Tho amount actually recovered during tho year through judgments, p fines, ctc., is $125,(>-12. Tho wholesale destruction of public timber 011 old numbered sections of public lands, says the Commissioner, within tho granted limits of uncon* 3truct?d railroads continues to an alarming J extent. f On the subject of "reform in the public land laws" the Commissioner siys: 5 "All efforts to secure a reform in the land 1 laws by a repeal oramendrnent,*iof particulai ; acts and provisions have failed through the opposition of interests at variance with proposed legislation. I am satisfied that amend ments in detail aro impracticable. The time , for tinkering has passed. Existing systems . of disposal, fundamentally defective in the ' original instance, have become wholly unsuited to present conditions. What is needed, in my opinion, is an entire reformation of ex' 1 istiner laws, retaining an absolute home stead law an;l obsoleting all other 1 forms of disposal of agricultural lands. Actual residence, improvement, and : cultivation for tho homestead period of five years should bo the exclusive condition of ac> quiring title to such lands. It would also appear that tho time has arrived when the privilege of appropriating public lands should be confined to citizens of tho United States. Tho mineral laws should bo so amended as to preserve tho public right of mineral exploration to citizens of tho United States and to prevent a monopoly of native mineral wealth , by individuals and corporations." The remains of a great Roman building are baing brought to light at the steamboal ; station of Fischen, on the Ammersee, in Ba i varia. Already a frpntago of 130 feet, witl right separate rooms, has been cleared, and i cellar has bean disiovired. TUMBLING IN RUINS. Seven Men Killed By a Buildings Fall in New York. By tho fall of an unfinished building in East Utah street, New York, a few days since, seven workmen were killed and about eleven others were injured, several of them seriously. The accident was the result of haste and bad management. Details of the accident are as follows: By order of the Rev. Father Kerner, of the Church of our Lady of Mount Carmel. , workmen began to build a parochial school at No. 439 East 115th street about two months ago. The building was 1 to be five stories high, with a frontage of twenty-five feet and a depth of ; nearly 100 feet. Efforts were made to push i the work rapidly and cheaply. About t wenfcv mpn wprp nf. ivnrlr in t:h? nnfinichoH ture at 3:30 p. M. the other clay. The side t walls were up as far as the fourth story ; and tho rear wall was nearly as high, while the front had not been raised above the foundation. A steam engine was at work in front of the building I driving a hod elevator. The floor beams had not been supported properly in the middle, and they shook every time the elevator went i up with its load of bricks and mortar. Finally the unsupported side walls could I not longer bear the strain, and they fell without warning while all the workmen were i busy. There was a crash that startled every; body in the neighborhood. Bricks from the top of the west wall crushed the roof of the i frame blacksmith shop at No. 437, and killed ) Henry Reinitz, a horseshoer, who was at work there. For a few seconds after the crash the ruins were partly obscured by a cloud of pulverized mortar. Through the cloud a few men were seen struggling to i escape from the wreck. Loud cries from the helpless wounded men were heard. ! A great crowd of excited people soon filled the street, and for a time the work of rescue was impeded by the throng. A policeman f ran to the signal box at First avenue and 115th street.and sent out an alarm of fire. Call for ambulances were sent from the same box a little later. Hearing the alarm, Captain Hooker, of the East 12*5th street squad, went with his reserve force of policemen to scatter the crowd and help the firemen in the I work of rescue. Five companies of firemen, : who had responded to the alarm, went to ; work promptly. At first the workmen who were in sight were carried out of the ruins. a dn.r i .fllliuilg buuacijuuaij iiijuicu naa uud avct. , Amelianus Kerner, the priest who had been looking after the erection of the building. ' He died on Wednesday. The dead number ; seven, and tho injured eleven. I > Secretary Whitney, who wag present at the experiment made bj Lieut. Zalinski with his dynamite air-gun, has ' expressed his opinion that the new ' weapon, so far as the experiment went, i was a success, and claims that it has 1 demonstrated dynamite in destructive quantities can be lodged a mile and a | quarter off with considerable accuracy; | and, more than this, that it is a matter 1 of detail merely to increase the range of tho gun and the quantity of the [ explosive so as to render it capable of i destroying the strongest ironolads. All ! reports of the experiment seem to indicate that the dynamite gun, the shell propelled by compressed air or tired by slow-burning powder by Lieut. Graydoff's method, is destined to revolutionize the existing system of defensive warfare, if not of offensive. [ The first shot of the air-gun, with a charge of only fifty pounds of dyna> mite, blew the wooden vessel which was the target into fragments; and 1 Lieut. Zalinski is confident he can fire 600 pounds if necessary. Less that this would destroy any iron or i steel vessel Armed with these terrors we could look wjth complacency at the 1 approach even of the Trafalgar, the last and most formidable of the English 1 ironclads, with its 101-ton guns. ? Bitherto the torpedo-boats have been the only enemies feared by these iron monsters, against which they have protected themselves with nettings to catch the projectiles. It ha3 not yet been demonstrated that the netting I would save them even from the tor. pedoes, as there has been no test made in actual conflict; but a 600-pound dynamite rocket fired by electrioity ; would not be restrained by nettings, or, even if it were, would still get in its work, for no vessel yet constructed i could withstand the shock of that explosion. Its importance as an arm in i naval warfare apparently has not been 1 overestimated. It will make our shores impregnable against attack, and it indicates that the Trafalgars and Inflexi; bles have had their day. i A Pittsfield, ill., man is said to have made a big barrel churn upon i wheels. He goes through the country gathering the cream, and when he has secured the proper quantity returns ' home. On the way home he connects the churning gear, and as he drives along the churning goes on as the wagon goes along, and when he arrives ! there is nothing to do bub take out the butter and draw ofi the buttermilk. THE MARKETS. new vomc. 42 ! Beef, good to prime 7% 8% Calves, common to prime.... 8 @ Sheen 4 @ 4% ! Lamus C (J)/ ? 1 5 5W uuga? Dressed 7 ^ Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 3 50 @ 4 00 West, good to choice 3 50 @ 4 85 Wheat-No. 2 Rod bl%? Ilye?State 50 58 Barley?State ? (it Si Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 51;!-4^ 53 Oats?White Stato 32 (<? 32)4 Mixed Western 34 Hay?Med. to prime so '(& 85 Straw?No. 1. Rye 75 @ 80 Lard?City Steain 6 85 @ 7 40 Butter?Stato Creamery.... 26 @ 27 Dairy.... ? ? 24 West. Iin. Creamery 18 (<5 20 Factory 15 @ 15)<^ Cheese?State Factory 10%@ 11% Skims 9 Western 5 @ 8 Eggs?State and Penn 21 (g 22 BUFFALO. Steers?Western 3 00 @ 3 65 Sheep?Good to Choice 325 (#4 00 Lambs?Western 5 74 (<5 5 85 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 70 @ 4 'JO Flour?Family 4 75 ? 5 15 Wheat?No. 1 85 jj ^ 8t> Corn?No. 2, Mixed 47i4(<e 48>j Oats?No. 2, Mixed 30% @ 31 Barley?State (A @ 65 BOSTON. R>v?f?Onrwl to nhoifA 715 Va Hogs?Live *r>.1^ts3 Northern Dressed.... Ojg(d) 7% Pork?Ex. Prime,per bbl...17 00 (#17 50 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 70 ($4 05 ' Corn?High Mixed ? (<$ 50}^ Oats?Extra Wliito ;'!> & o<>3^ Ryo?State GO @ 65 WATERTOW.V (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef- Dressed weight 7% Sheep?Live weight 3J 4% 4 Lambs 5% Hogs?Northern ? @ 0 PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn.oxtr.i family... 3 50 @ 3 75 r Wheat?No. 2, Red 81 @ SI% f Corn?State Yellow 53 @ 53 . Oats Mixed ? @33 , Rye?State 52>?@ 53 , Butter-Creamery Extra... 2i @ 25 Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. ? @ 13>tf TO-MORROW. Bind up a wreath and give it me Before this dull day closes, And in the garland let there be The thorns as well as roses; Weave violets in and greenest bays, "Weave willow for my sorrow, Sad flowers for the yesterdays, White lilies for to-morrow. White lilies, for they tell of peace Beyond the gates of even, Where whispers of the soul's release Seom myscic hints of heaven, And yesterday?but that has gone, And so I needs must borrow A hope of that swift-coming dawnr The promise of to-morrow. For evermore to-morrow lends Bright visions of completeness; True lovers, and the steadfast friend* w With faces full of sweetness: But backward all ssems dim and gray And vaguely touched with sorrow;. I care not for your yesterday ^ S If I may have to-morrow. The past is past?ah! dead indeed, I weep not for its going, Its phantoms weird no more I heed Than west winds wildly blowing; Press onward, aye! and upward, heart. w nue i my giaaness doitow, For Hope and I shall never part While I can have to-morrow. . -^Zrntst WGaffey, t'n the Inter-Ocean. J PITH AND POINT. J| During a storra it is all up with an umbrella. The hornet always manages to keep hia end up. Odd, isn't it, that fast colors never run??TidBils. "Put up and shut up"?the stoves and doors.?Dansrsillc Breeze. Upright pianos are often played by . downright bores.?Duluth ParagrapTier. How sweet and pleasant it is to eat a big dinner for one's country. ?Philaddi phia Infjuirer. "Does he go by machinery?" inquired a little girl who saw a dude on a bicycle passing.?New Haven News. It is not every bicycle rider who can lower the record, but it is a poor bicycla that cannot lower the rider.?Philadelphia Call. : "T think I'll f?ive this countrv th& I i shake," remarked the malaria, as it | preparing for business. ? Washington Critic. Our best friends are those who keep perfectly quiet when some one is enumerating our virtues.?Shoe and Leather Reporter. A Harlem lady put her tongue to a hot flat iron, thinking it was not hot, and her husband has had a quiet time of it lately.?New York News. "I cannot be content with less than heaven,'* Said Mr. Bailey, a poet of much worth. ' < Not so modest he as many later. Who would be satisfied with the earth. -Life. "In literature there seems to be a man constantly catching our ideas," said a writer. "Yes," some one rejoined, "and the trouble is that he catches them before you do." | "What do you sell that ribbon for?,T asked a young lady in a dry goods >2 i store. "Eight dollars a week?oh, beg ' pardon?50 cents a yard, miss.''?Washington Cri'ic. The subject of "The American Bar" is attracting daily attention in the Eastern press. It receives considerable attention here, but mostly closes at midnight. ?Cincinnati En/uirer. "That man may not be a pugilist," remarked a hotel proprietor after a stormy , interview with a guest who kicked at | the amount of his bill, "but I'm sure I that he is a price-lighter.*' ?Arkansaw Traieler. .i5Si "No, darling," said a Burlington :' ] mother to a sick child, "the doctor says 1 I musn't read to you." Then, mamma," ' begged the little one, "won't you please ! read to yourself out loud '."--Burlington Free Press. "Pig pens close to the wall, or close to the house," says the Farmer's Friend,' "mean death." You bet; death to the i pjg. it s pretty nam to locate me pcu ! 60 as to change this fatal signification^ j too.?Burdette. "Lav off your overcoat or your won't feel it when you go out," said a landlord of a Western inn to a guest who was siti ting by the fire. 4,The last time I wa? j here I left off my overcoat. I didn't feel J it when I went out, and I haven't felt it since."'?Industrial World. LET HIM QUIT. "As this changeful world you go traveling through, With its mixture of wrong and of right, Be sur&that you give all sympathies to The under dog in the fight." This all is very well as it goes to be sura, I But it seems for this comment to call; The dog that is under is foolish, by thunder. To bo in the fight at all!?Boston Courier. A Curious Bird Diet. One of the most curious and new of all bird special diets consists of cured Mexican mosquitoes. The Mexican mosquitoes being low flyers, rise in dense masses during the evening time, when the miasmatic vapor begins to lift from i swampy and low grounds. For captur ing these masses of mosquitoes a light j upright framework of branches is constructed, on which are fastened large sheets ot paper made from some coarse: vegetable fibre peculiar to the country;: on both sides of the sheets of paper a* J coating of sticky vegetable glue is spicad, which is soluble in warm water. The clouds of mosquitoes moving with the wind strike these obstructions and become fastened to the sheets of paper,, which, after remaining up all night, are taken down and placed in tubs of warm water, which soou dissolves the glue and sets the dead mosquitoes free. These I are collected in strainers and, after being sun-dried, are put up in packages.?New York Post. Creatures of Yesterday. With all his pride at our progress,, the thoughtful student beholds with dis nifty me jujjiu awuujjiug uwujr ux mauj animal and vegetable species, which to future science would be most prccious. In his biographical address to the British Association. Prof. A. Newton lamented, as an example of what is being done, the disappearance of the birds of New Zealand. In the more thickly settled districts imported species alone are now to be seen, while the natives are fast being pushed inland, and must soon vanish. These native species are almost exclusively peculiar to that country, and supply a link to the past, that once lost can never be recovered. The forms of life that are being killed off are mostly the ancient ones, that must teach us more than the recent one; of the way life has been spread over the globe, and Prof. Newton therefore urges haste in gaining all possible knowledge of these creatures before they have passed away. ~' V.'. - .J,.'- "X..- *