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W m , ??1^???ra RIOTOUS SOLDIERS.~ Affray Between White ami Colored Troops in St Louis. Three Men Fatally Wounded and Others Badly Injured. A disturbance occurred at Jefforeon Barracks. Rt. T/on is. Mo.. the other evening be tween white and colored United States soldiers that resulted in the injury of many men and has probably cost three men their lives. At present there are many recruits i at this station, and a fow days since they drew their first pay nnd made an onslaught on the sutler. Numerous brawls resulted. a crowd from Now York resented the . familiarity of the colored troops and a tight followed. The guard house was filled with disorderlies and still the rows kept up. Late in tho afternoon a drunken j colored troo[>er was soon pursuing a white girl, and a party of white troopers was soon after him. and in due time handed him over to the officer of the day. This enraged a number of his comrades and they left the barracks, starting for Carondolet. On the r way tliey fell in with a 8 juad of white "troopere and proceeded to take veng ance. The white soldiers made tho;r escape with a few bruises and went to the barracks where they soon m ?de up a "i party to handle the rovolters. Armed with revolvers and carbines they 6tarted in good order for Carondelet, but before they had gone far, they were ordered to return and disarm by the officer of thed;>y. They refused to return to their quarters, but laid down their arms at once and then proceeded after the enemy. At the River Des Pores bridge they met tho color**! tronnors returning. An encounter immediately followed, and knives, clubs and I rocks were used. The fight was a desperate one and the white men in superior force were met by the discip.ine of the negroes, who | had entered on a second term of sorvice. For half an hour the battle waged without an advantage to either side, and on the bridge and road and river bed, men lay exbaustod and beaten down. Finally the belligerents withdrew. A colored tnnper reported the affray at Carondelet station, and he was locked up while the patrol wagon was sent to the scene to gather up the in ured. In the meantime the wh te soldiers had gathered in lorce, and marched to the 6tation and demanded that the colored trooper bo given to mem. me ponce refused and promptly prepare J for assault. In the meaitimj information of thj battle had reached the barracks and four troops of cavalry wore o dered out and arrived at Carondelet ia time to stve the police from attack, The mutineers d speraed and were arrested in detachments on a general order to arrast all troopers. The fcarracks, Carondelet and the intervening country assumed a military aspect, and all night long soldiers' tr^ad and tho demand of J "halt"' rang out. '1 he disturbance was quelled, J and in the morning weace rejgnen, wiougu bruises, h'ack eyes and gashes on ball a hundred still told t ho tale of the struggle, while in the hospital at the point of death lay Troopers Livingston, Peterson and Krumm.'knocker, all white. At one time in the altcmcon over three hundred men were looking for a row. LATER NEWS. A ftrk in Beaufort, N. C.,destroyed fifteen stores and dwellings. More than fifty suspicious characters were arrested in Detroit the other evening. The previous night Captain Ira A. Holt, a well known citizen, was assaulted and robbed in a fashionable neighborhood, and two hou: a later tho police had a sharp fight with four thieves detected in a burglary. Within a few days the city has seemed to swarm with criminals. Mb. Charles S. Moore, one of tho lost known young lawyers of Washington, dropped dead a few days since while crossing a street Two express trains on the Dutch State Railroad collide! near Mennel, Holland, ' ? Twenty-six persons were killed and many I vbucio iujuivu. Tub threatened return of inflammation in the German Crown Prince's throat has been averted. An American bark was wrecked off waterford, Ireland, and ail her crew of twenty-five persons ware drowned. THE LABOR WORLD. Morh than 8,000 persons live by the mills f Columbus, Ga. In Mexico laborers get 18 to 25 cents a day and are often paii* in farm produce. There are forty-six local unions of brewery amp]ores in the Brewers' Kaiional Union. A co-operative grocery Btore has been organized by the Knights of Labor at Lima, The Pennsylvania Railroad Company pays . out $0,< 100,001 > annually in wages to its 11,0J0 employes. One Of tho new industries in Maine which are springing up over the State is the extraction of oil from cedar boughs. Journeymen Bakers' Union, No. 1, of New York, which :s cnmpos?d entirely of Germans, has decided to employ an English teacher. At the Glasgow Exhibition next season, v?hich will I e opened by tho Prince of Wales, ^ one :e tion will he that devo:ed to modern shipbuilding nnd m irine engineering. Most of ibe Clyde shipbuilding firms have applied IVI 0(MiUU. Tbe Railroad Conductors' Brotherhood is going to attempt to get a law passed by Congress re (uiring all conductors on inter Stito railroads to have a Uovernment license, obtainab e only after an examination by a Government'board. Eight fruit and vegetable canning factories in Maitie. put on the market this season products valued at $2.0)0,0 KX Over 14,0)0,000 cans of swtet corn wei e put up, besides a large amount of apples, pumpkins, squash, beans, and tomatoes. A Pittsburgh special says that the FlintGlass Workers' Union, whoso members are on a strike, has purcha-ed for $20,u i0 a factory near East Liverpool, Ohio. At the outset g ,* sixty men will be employed. The factory will be under the direct supervision of the T7r*Ir\r\ nn/1 intA itj tvoociifV will tiirtlAi) tho JN-ofitS VERY OLD PEOPLE. Hatie North, who re ently died at Troy, Kan., was believe-! lo have lived 117 years. William Aiken, a co'orvd man of Columbia, S. C., w is married on his lo.?d birthday ~ to 6us.e Watson, a young widow, aged K> years. Two venerable eiti-ens of Cbillicothe, Mo., died recently?Isa ah Austin, who was 95 ^oars of age, and ianty MeKinney, who wa8 At the donation day ceremonies at tho Philado phia Home for A<?ed and Infirm Color? I Persons, John Gibson opened tho oele t>ration with prayer, aitnougu lie is jk years | o 1 ago. Tub Hon. Pavid Nc:ghbour, of Califon, N. J., has just celebrate I h s Hist birthday. He fa one of the lew *>u viving members of the Convention wh eh framed the Constitution of Kew Jersey in I*!:*. When M'iric Gilbert ?lied nt Stanford, Ky., re ent y, sho had lived 87 yo irs witiiout ever having l^tt her lionw. She never saw a train, a though her home was but five miles from the r?i road. Mrs. Mary Hayes Gilbert, of Gloucester. M ss.. is in her IOilyear. an 1 still in the fcpst of hea th, with memory unimpaired. When hub 14 years 6he was at a dinner to i President Adaux-s, who dt anb a glass of wine with her. Th c grandparents of Mr. and Mrs. E. PJohnston, are four of the longest-lived peopl; in Georg a. c-onneoted by similar t es. Tu.sy ^ reside at GrifHn, and are r spective y 9H, ?4. 84 and 7tt ye irs of nge, and are leuiarkably hale and he-ir v f Mxc. Jamks 'it'je ><">n. of HoupviHe, Ga , had b en d?nf for several yens, Hilda phys.'ciun who tieuled him was imablw to Afford relief. T te otli^r day, while Mrs. Jloi[) was washing tJto boy's fate, ?i>e pulled out from hi> car a blade of ?truw two inches Jong. Mis dealtu-ss 1mm since disappeared. k-. - - THE NEWS_ EPITOMIZED. Fartprn and Middle ?ltate*. According to BradstrccPs, tho mercantile failures in tho United States last year nurabero 1 y,740 and in Canada 1,815. The liabilities were: United States, $130,(503,000; Canada, $17,054,000. These figures are the lowest sineo I bS i. A CONVENTION of Reading Railroad employes, after a continuous session of nearly b hours in Roading, decided to issue another order to strike at noon on Saturday. Every itan in the employ of the Reading Company, with the exception of passenger train crews, trackmen and Bignal tower men and crossing watchmen, was ordered to go on strike. Alt. the fires in tho flint-glass factories of the East have been put out, pending the settlement between emp oyers and employes of a difference ovtr the adoption of new shop rules for 1888. Marcus W. Rasbacit, the trusted and popular cashier of the Herkimer (N. Y.) National Bank, absconded with over $34,000. In New York city last year there were 34,023 births, 13,7.>0 marriages and 88,933 deaths, 'j he police arrests for the year were 80,753; suicides, 232; number of emigrant arrivals, 311,034. Ho>'- Joel Parker, twice Governor of New Jersey, died suddenly of paralysis in Philadelphia on Monday. He was Lorn in 1818, elected Governor of New Jersey in 1803 and again in 1811, and wasappointod Justice of the Supreme Court by Governor McClellan in 1880. An explosion blow up the engine house on l?ymit?h o flnu wrvrkfl in New York.1 One man was 'kifled and the driver of a pa&sing horse-car had his legs broken. Almost all tha business section of Egg Harbor City, N. J., has been swept away by fire. There will probably be no international yacht race for the America's cup this year, the Britishers having iailed to send a challenge within the prescribed time. The New York Legislature is in session. Fremont Cole has b en elected Speaker of the Assembly. Governor Hill's me-sage was shorter than nstial. Its chief novelty was a recommendation in favor of the passage of an act abolishing the Senate's power of confirming or rejecting Executive nominations, exccpo ill bUO ltJ*V KXXOC* nuwy MUO vviiou.iu tion specifically requires confirmation by the Senate. An old couple named Woodham, who had been confined in an insane asylum at Concord, N. H., thirteen years, charged with crimes they never committed, have just boen released. R. S. Hicks, tho defaulting cashier of the Stafford (Conn.) National Bank, has been sent to the State prison for four years. Ronth nnrt WoiC. John Strickland, twenty years old, was banged in Conway, S. C., for murdering his I stepmother, and a similar fate befell Will.am Fnchinan. at.Harrisonburg, Va., for the murder of uis brother. D.nmtnn a l.itfnn In/rol TTflPfl Af> lAmiM IU U Uiiw;i ivf^ai ngitv oyiv w < rested and brought before Justice Haynesworth at ."Sumter, S. C. They began to fire upon each other and killed the Justice. D. i E. Kills, one of the parties, and a bystander were fatally wount.ed. Several other men were dangerously wounded. The floor of a crowded colored Baptist Church at Fo.getown, Ala., gave way, aDd , the bu ld.ng eo. lapsed. Two women and a child were killed, and betwoen twenty and thirty persoi.s were injured. Fooivlpkn human skeletons were ronna in , a pit under the d welling of a half-breed Sioux ( Indian near Pierre, Dakota. The remains , were travelers who had been murdered and robbed. The Indian had d.sapptared. Hostile Apaches are on the warpath in Arizona, and have killed a number of travelers. A fire at Houma, La., burned away twenty business houses and 10.) dwe'lings, causing an estimated aggregate loss of $150,COJt A weak-mi.vded white man named "Watdrop was lynched at Central, 8. C.. by a crowd of colored men, for a i atrocious assault upon a thirteen year-old colored girl. i During a political row in a New Orleans saloon Polico Commissioner Patrick Mcaley ! and Mike Welsh were fatally wounded, Dan Mark?y was shot in the mouth, William De:aney was cut in the ht.nd and Louis Clare was badly beaten. Three memb'i-s of the notorious Kelly r ^ I*. A I . >?? miiniatnnrr nnrl rrtKhmor ! ilUIli u .1 U" .1 travek-rs at their h >us ? on tue Texas bordor, have been caught by vigilantes and hanged. Tbey were William Ke ly, aged fifty-four; his son "Bill,"' aged twenty, and daughter Kate, a*e I eighteen. The o.d man confasse 1 bis lamily had murdered nine men and two women. Twenty-one busmcss houses were burned at Salirta, Ool., involving a lose estimated at $200,000. Washington. The pa*t twelve mont.w have been the greatest year in th-i history of the United States for raiboal buidin", the total mileage of new main track lines being 12,724 miles. Two reports have been submitted by the Commissioners ecamimnz the affairs of the UDion Pacific Railway Company. The majority repo t favors an adjustment of the , Company's debts; the m nority report advocates a fuifeiture of ti.e Coni| any's charter. Senator Hearst, of Caliiornia, wants to inciease the pensions of the few remaining veterans of the war of 1612. The Unit?<l State* treasury contained $G20,>j0?,47<) at the beginning of the vo ir. The total amount of national bank notes outstanding at the beginning of the present year was Five thousand persons, including the Diplomatic corps, Army and Navy oificers, Supreme Court Justices, etir.,*hoo!i hands j w.th the 1 resident and Mrs. Cleveland at the White House re .-eption on New Year's. Mrs. Clove and was ussisted in receiving by "M ro Vq i?v?hi nnHI Sirs. Whitney' Count de Sponneck, Secretary of the j Danish Legation at St. Petersburg, has been appointed Dan sh Minister to thle Un Uxl State*. He will enter upon the duties of the post in February. Government receipts in December were $29,05U,803, and ex peudi lures $12,5)80,550. During December the national debt was miuo'd $14,5*4,850.68. Toiol cash in the Treasury, $527,025,557.31. Foreign. The German bark Johanna was destroyed by fire off (Jape Horn, and eight of the crew were lost Pope Leo XIII. has been celebrating the fiftieth year o' his entrance into the Catho ic priestho xi at Rome. The City was filled wi h pilgrims from all pirtso.. Europe, and the presents received by tho Pops a^e worth m.lhons of doli re. At a pontifical ma<a, ceiebrated in St Peter's, 3U.IXX) people were present, and the Popo was so overcome that he fainted twr-e. A horrible disaster is reported from the seiport city of Arnoy, China. A powder magazine blew up, destroying one-fourth of ttii liu'lrtings in the p aco. Fifty boi tiers wjr? blown to atoms and several hundred civilian killcnl. A firk in Erard's big piano factory, Paris, destroyed 1,500 pianos. There have been several outbreaks at the univcrs.ty in St. Pe ersburg, owing to the, expulsion of &K) students. The military were employed to suppress the disorders. a ... ?i? -i ?. ?uii?n ifillLit\ IUKU uuu;i wcw ?oiu ?u uuj City of Mi i o. lasting til rty- ours conis. It was more violent in Southern Mexico. A violjcnt snow storm has swept across Kurope, ere t!y impeding tra'Jic in many places. At B uenneight gypsies were fro en to death, an! in Vienna several women have perished from the colJ. Peoi'iJS at St. f'aul are preparing for the Ice Carnival, whi< h will lie held with "iloats,'' sleigh par.idcs. proces 'ons of' o d settlers" an I other attractions. T<ie i e p ilace is in process of erection. It is thought that 2,500 l >a Ib of ice, or almost 0,000 tons, will be required for the building. A bio buck stood on a Michigan ra'lroad track th'> other nigntso interested in watch inglhe glare of t >e headlight of an approachng loc- otive that he never f-t'rred until hv waB H ock)l off ;h) tr ick and killed. A Boston 6teamsh;p company has own fined $i.0<K) by the i m gration Commission ei s lor a stowaway who was al'owel to cs (ape fi'Oin one of the company's vessels. MIXERS ON STRIKE. Thirty Thousand Men in Pennsylvania Stop Working. Nearly Every CoaL Colliery in the Schuylkill Field Closed. A great strike of miners employed in the Heading Railroad Company's Collieries in tho Schuylkill anthracite coal region was begun on Monday. As many of the railroad employes on the Reading Road were also on strike, the cessation of work by the miners served to complicate matters. A fottsville (Penn.) dispatch gave the following details of tho beginning and cause of the strike: The gigantic struggle has commenced. Corporate power :s on one side and organized labor on the other. The Schuylkill region miners are out and will not return, they say, until their demands are acceded to. They number 3>,0J0, and, addtxl to the 20,000 miners who are out in the Lehigh region, present an army which they say is invincible. W by they are out is a question about which there seems to be some doubt. Tha loaders of the strikers on the Reading Railroad say the m.ners havo struck to sustain organized labor. On the other hand the miners' leaders say it is simply a question of wages. Dan el Duffy, Secretary of the Miners' Amalgamated Association, sums up tho situation in this way: "Since the basis was adopted in 1877 there have boon ra iiicn'n?i<! in wnrrtst here and there untii the entire region has been brought down fifteen per c.mt. below the wages pai l at the time of ice adoption. Thceo reductions have been made in contract work, in increising the size of cars, in requiring larger headings and the setting of more timbers, and iu a hundrod other ways imposing more work w.th no increase of remune ation. Last August we demanded an increase of fifteen for cmt. This wou d have simply restored us to the starting point. The company would not give tne employes the full amount demanded and then compromised on ei ;ht per cent. The company now wants to go Iwck to the fifteen per cent, reduction, and the men are in revolt" "But does the railroad gtrfco enter into toe uuesuuii! "That will bo a matter for future consideration." Meanwhile Messrs. Lee and Cahill, of the striking railroad employes, manifest tha roost active interest in the strike starred to-day, and have been rece.ving re iorts from the minesat their headquarters as promptly as Chairman Davis,of tho miners' committee, has received them. Th. ro are forty-four company and twenty-eight individual collieries in the Schuylkill region in workable condition. Of th 8e five company collieries starte-i up to-day and worked as usual. NATIONAL LABOR BUREAU. Third Annual Report of Commissioner Carroll D. Wright. Commissioner Carroll D. Wright has submitted to the Secretary of tho Interior the third annual report ot ttio uareau or uiDor, which relates entire y to strikes and lockouts for the per.od of six yours, ended December >1, 1686. The following table shows the number of strikes occurring during each of the last six years and the number ot establishments involved: EsfablUHr mcnij Yean. Strike*. Involved. 188 1 471 2,928 1882 454 2,105 188:} 478 2,759 1SS4 443 2,367 188> M5 2,284 1888 1,412 9.8J3 Total 3,1*03 22,836 In 1887, the report Bays, there were.according to the best information obtainable, 8)3 strikes, details of which are not available. Tne report shows that during the six years oovered bv the investigation New York bod the largest nmnfcr of establish? ?rtW?f-n/4 Kftfli hv ofrilrAa nr?H lrv>lr- I UIC1IIO PliVVW* Wi'VH wr?. ?m.%. .?%M oats, there being for the former 9,349 and for tho latter 1,528. The buil.ling trades furnished 0,000 of the total number of establishments engaged in strikes The total number of employes involved in the whole number of strikes for the entire period is shown to have been 1.818,024. The number of employes originating the strikes was 1,020,!&^' * Tho number of employes in all establishments before the strikes occurred was 1,0(12,041, while tho whole number employed in the establishments invo.veJ after the strikes occurred was l,03i>,347, a loss of 2.1,7: )3. There were ArtD AMnnnrA^ affoH fKft OOW ?mpiujrun utiu hub strike, and 27,483 were brought from other places than those in which the strikes occurred. In 2,183 establishments lockouts were ordered during the period named. In these there were 172,995 employes before the lock-outs occurred, and ret nftsif tho Ifvk.niiffi whilfl the number actually locked out was 159,543. There were lo.WG new emplo}'e? secured at the close of lock-outs, and 5,682 were brought from other pla/ es than those in which the lock-outs oocurred. Uf the whole number of employes involved in strikes during the 6ix years covered by the report 88.50 per cent, were males and 11.44 per cent were females. Of those involved in lock outa duriug the samo period 68.78 per cent were males and 81.22 per cent were females. Losses to strikers during the six years covered by the investigations were $51,810,165; losses to employes throngh lock outs for tho 6ame period, $8,1:32,717, or a total wage loss to employes of $59,948,882. This loss occured for both strikes and lock-outs in 24,518 establishments, or an average 'oss of $2,445 to each establishment or of nearly $40 to each striker invol ved. The assist ince given to each striker for the same period. *o far as ascertainable,amounted to $8,825,057; to those Buffering from lockouts;$1,105,583, or a total of $4,480,595. T'hr* Inccaa f.htVMltrh CffilfM fftr AliO VA-?IJJI\JJ 11 J twnw w>?wu^M ...? the six years amounted to $10,732,(>53; through lock outs, $;!,4&i,i!(Jl; or a total loss to the establishments involved of t-W, 161,914. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, The origin of the "Foulanger March" is at tribnted to an Italian composer. New Yorkers are complaining of the high oost of first-class concerts nowadiys. Pauline Lucca, the opera Ringer, intends to leave the 6tage for good and settle in Vienna as teacher of singing. A fbw weeks ngo Mozart's "Don Giovanni" was performed for the 500th time at the Royal Opera House, Berlin. Mlle. Marie Deoca has had a triumfkoAtiwk Tv^lan/l onr) icRnnl'PTl piiotjv pivgiroo viiivugu jiviuui*) ??? ? ~jTw of as "tho coming Btar of ojjera." Massenet's new oratorio, "Marie Magda Jene," is pronounced "worthy to rank with the finest contemporary compositions." The Qneen of Spain is taking music lessons from Napoleon Verger, the bar.tono, who sixteen years ago visited America with Chris tine Nilsson. Lester Wallack is to have a benefit, and when it comes off, Joseph Jefferson, Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett and other stars wiJl play for him. A Ladies' Bixgino Society has been i 1 i- XT XT 1- * AI .A...].. jLuriiiwi lu n?'w i urn lur tuu miuuj ui nn^r cal duets and part songs, and the cultivation of Rubinstein's music. Gilbert and Sul'ivan's "Pinafore," performed in the original English by one of Mr. D'Ovly Carte's companies, has met with immense succea* in Berlin. An international musical exhibition will open at Itolo.-na, Ita y, on May 1. 1S88, and continue for six months. Verdi, the composer, will be President A London association of performers on wind instruments is giving cono.:rt-i at which oiJy -nch instruments are used. The h.giiost classical musk* is attacked fea-Ics ly. Ki.isk Fried i? Anarchist Linsg's swoethoart, has ma e an engagement with a dime mil eutn mn-'acrer to make a tour of the Pouth and West and ] cat as "Louis Linjigs Girl.'Wam^r Clifford, EntrliRh baritone, and Florence Wand, have signed en raiments for a iour in the United St ites. co.nmencing tn Chi'ntro early in April next, and comprising thirtv-two ooncerts. A Nnw f omic opera, entitled ''SimplicmV' by Strauss, the brilliant composer of the Ovjisy Baron." "Prince Methusalmn," "M> rrv War." ard many other New York guores$es, had its lirst appearance in Vienna On Saturday last. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. Senate Proceedings. 13th Day.?At the reassembling of the Senate after tho holiday recess petitions were presented urging the issuance of fractional currency; against any change in the fishery treaties and in favor of the rights of American fishermen under existing treaties and legislation; in favor of the present tariff on lunil>er; indorsing the Inter-State law; favoring Government ownership of the telegraph, etc.... Senator Sherman made a long speech on the tariff. He reviewed and argued against the Presidents Message, spoke strongly in favor of protecting American industry and favored a reduction of the surplus by the abolition of internal revenue taxation.... Mr. Voorhees followed Mr. Sherman in a speech supporting the President's Message. At the close of Mr. Voorhees's speech Mr. Klierman raovea mat iao message do referred to the Finance Committee, but the motion was not acted upon. Houso Proceedings. 1 1th Day.?a flood of bills, among them being the following: To provide for the reduL-t.on of customs duties; to establish a court of appeals; to amend the Civil Service act; granting pensions to survivors of Indian wars who have attained the age of seventy years: to establish signal stations on West Indian Islands: for the temporary support of common schools; for the refunding of the cotton tax; to remove th; tax from tobacco and spirits made from fruits; to authorize females to enter lands under the homestead l?n?. rociilntn tha Administration of the array; to donate public lands for school purposes; to secure cheaper telegraphic correspondence; to prohibit the immigration of Chinese; abolishing the duty on suear; to pormit the President to votoitems of the General Appropriation bill; rep >aling the limitation on the Arrea s of tensions net; proposing a Constitutional Amendment granting women the right of sulFiage; to prevent the emplovment of convict labor on public works; for the admission of ."Southern Dakota into tho Union. FUTURE EMPERORS. Two Probable Successors to tho Imperial Throne of Germany. The above group represents Prince William, oldest son of the Crown Prince of Germany, his wife, and their oldest son, also designated Prince William. Tho father was born January 27, 1859, and is, therefore, 28 years old. His mother is tho oldest child of Queen Victoria, marrie 1 to tho Crown Prince of Germany on January 2">, 1858. They had eight children, of whom two are dead. Their enn is tho I'rinoo William above portrayod, tho hoir appare nt to the throne of Germ iny. Should ho pass away then the ruler of tho German Empire in the natural course of events would l?e the little sevenyear-old Prince William star.ding before hi3 father and mother in the foregoing group. A GIGANTIC BILLOW, Destruction Wrought by a Wave Sixty Feet HiffK The city of Portland, Me., has hail a narrow escape from destruction by a wave of tremendous height and power during the recent heavy storm. A .Portland oispaico gives the following particulars: The great gale struck Portland Head at 0:30 o'clock at a time when in this harbor the wind seemed to l>e dying out. Up to that time, while the wind had been terrific, blowing fifty miles an hour, the rain falling continuously. Keeper Stroutaud his assistants, Joe and Oil St rout, had no idea that anything unusual was about to occur. "It was very clear," said Gil Strout this afternoon, "and wo couM see a long way out through the rain, and when the great wave mado its appearance we could see its white cap far out and could watch its approach." Apparently the monster wave came in the shape of a pyramid. It struck first against the outer line of rock, and at that time, when the fountains of the mighty deep seemed to have broken up, a ma1? of water towered up even, as they believed, with the lighthouse itself. Between the lino of rock extending for perhaps a hundred feet along the sea lino ami tho shore is an opening some forty feet deep, and varying from ten to twenty feet in length. This spaco was never filled with water until last night, when m'nnf wova hml/A luwl flllftfl if, f mm iUO g.lUMV "?'w v.wnv ? ? above. Waves of ordinary size and power, breaking and pressing behind added their strength to that of tho monster,and the entire mass was hurle.l sixty feet above highwater mark against tho engine, boiler, and fog horn house, fhe forco of the blow was such that the building, built as stn nsjly as possible, was bent, twisted, and shatt. r?>d. Great iron stays wero snapped, as though they bad been pipe stems, and the receding wave carried with it everything on the shore, including stones weighing tons. A farmer who lives on tho shore of Capo Elizabeth, about two miles beyond the headlight, said: "I know something about that monster wave. I never saw anything like it in iny life. It was greater than the one two years ago, which swept over Pond Cove and carried away the bridges and roadways. "When the wave was coining in it made a fearful roar, but when it struck the cliffs it 83 'mod as though it fairly smashed them to pieces. Tho force of the blow was 4 J rrinrontio Mllnm iruiutfimuus. {luuvuci ouou 6?0?w?.? wu.v.. would have done woeful damage along the shore." The British schooner Achsah, outward bound, whenolT Cushing'a Island became unmanageable, and rapidly dritted toward the shore. She was saved by the tug Warren. From all Maine ports stories of the work of the storm hare come in, and it has 1 eon a long time since so much damage has been done. In Kastern Maine the telegraph and telephone wires were prostrated^ and no communication with the outer islands and lighthouses could be eflVctei At Ro kland vessels were damaged, and at Calais the night wus one of tlw worst ever aeon. PROMINENT PEOLPE. A QRANDPAUOHTfcn of Charles Dickens does a flourishing business with a tvnowi iter. Governor Biogs, of Delaware, owni eleven farms and has mode a fortune front them. M. Grew saw twelve cabinets, with l-.'t ministers, serve under him while President ol France. M >st of th" London churches havo offcre-l | np prayers (or the recovery of the Crown Prince of Germany. The American Ross Wiuans now control* 230.000 acr^s of deer forest in Scotland, and emnloys Bcveral hundred keepers. William E. (j ladstcn', who n pist seventy-nine years old, is goin~ to the South of Kuiope. ostensibly for his health. Thomas L. Thompson, one of Ca'ifornia's Represont.it ves in Contjre- is t'ie son and grandson of former Representatives. Generals Sherman and Sheridan wi'l re view the State military exercises at the centennial celebration in i)h:o next September. Tiik Queen of FnJ iwl is planted $::C0. 000 annually for hor own personal exoenses. 1 ut she casts th<> people in one way and another a year. I Hon. Francis Brinley, the orator select. J is - -1.1?? *\,n eu LO aciiver IIIU IVIUK-xi < ?. xw, U^vum^ v.. the Barton Historical Society's new building, is nearly 1)0 years old. Canadians are establishing ron-tics in tlite Northwest Territory and sh pping cattle 10 the 1 urope >n market by wnv of Montreal over the Canadian Pacific Railroad. DISASTERS ON THE BAIL. Five Accidents with Fatal Results Recorded in One Day, Seven Persons Killed in Kentucky and Five in Pennsylvania, Five railroad disasters, each attended with fatal results, were reported on Saturday fiv-im /liffoponf. narffl of thfl United StAtfiS. Particulars of the various aocidenta were as follows: A Conductor's Terrible' Blander. North and south bound "cannon-ball" trains on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad came into collision at 1 P. M.. near Greenwood, Ky., about twenty miles north of the Tennessee and Kentucky State line. Engineer Michaels, of traiu No. 2, northbound, tells a thrilling story. He was running down-grade at the rate of sixty miles an hour, and did not s^ the engine approaching his train until it was about fifty feet away. Without stopping to reverse his engine or turn on the air-brake he jumped out of the cab window and landed in a lot of bushes, fiually dropping in a mud hole. One of his ankles was badly hurt. Train No. 1 was running up grade at the rate of thirty-five miles an hcur. Sam Bennett was conductor on this train, and on meeting Conductor Shrura after the accident he inquired: "What does this mean f' Shrum replied: "I had orders to run to Somerset 11am aP Ma 1 nnrl linrn M mw nr/lor ' I U1WW XJk 1) UU'* uv/ftv avj i..j VI V4V1 . On taking it from his pocket he discovered bis mistake,for it ordered him to run to Summ t The dreadful discovery was too much for Shrum, and he lost his mind. Ttie dead comprise 1 Pat Taylor, engineer, and Fireman Cadv, of train No. 1; Leo With row, Lawrence Callan and W. B. Powell, express messengers; James Severance, mail agent, ani Miss Jessie Green, of Cincinnati. About twenty persons were injured, several of them fatally. Wreck of an Erie Express. The fast Chicago express on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad, consisting of two sleepers and Ave day coaches, came into collision with freight train, No. &J, made up of two engines and sixty cars, three miles west of Meadville, Penn., at 8 o'clock a m. Five persons were killed an I fourteen injured. The deud are: William George, engineer on the freight train; Edwin Humes, fi; eman on the freight train; E. P. Swan, engineer on the express; Arthur Irwin, fireman on the express, ana a commercial traveler named Stevens. The physicians thought none of the wounded would die. The wreck was caused by the freight enjpneers leaving Meadville yard in advance ot their orders. Tbey were ordered to leave the yard as soon as the express arrived. They went in advance of its arrival. When Yardmaster Drecker saw that tbey were gone he boarded a switch engine an 1 under all steam followed them, but was unable toovertike the freight. Accidents Elsewhere. A fatal collision occurred on the Utah and Northern Railroad, near Dil on. Mont. It was caused by the breaking away of a long train of coal cars at Spring Hill, sixty miles distant, the grade being downward. After running wild that distance it ran into the freight train. Fireman Patrick McShane was instantly killed and Engineer John Sweeney was seriously hurt. The cars of UUIFI 11'U ill* ?CIC V?WUI 7 nui^vv.. The night express for M lwaukoe left Chicago at 10:30, over the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Faul, sm&ched into a freight train at Somerville, III., in a blinding snowstorm. The engine and mail car of the pas8.*nger train were derai.ed, with several freight cars, making a bad wreck, and giving the passengers a severe shaking up. Engineer Little was hurt 6eriously, and a fireman, probably fatally. . The rsection of a fast stock train ran into the other pirt of the Bini3 train n?>nr Kouts, Ind., cansmg a bad smnsli-up, followed by a fire. A trackman wa> burned to a crisp. A cattle car was destroyed and the auimals inside were burned to death. NEWSY GLEANINGS, A BOUNTY for wild cat scalps Is paid by Florida. A grand sheep-shearing will bo hold in Chicago in the spring. Extensive deposits of chalk have been found near Bluehil), Me. Cholera of the deadliest type prevails to an alarming extent in Chill It is proposed to emp oy colored people in the cotton mills at the South. Naturalgas was struck it Nebraska City, Neb., lately, at a depth of -150 feet. The Court-house of Walker County, Ark., at Jasper, sits upon a bed of solid coul. A man said to be worth $750,0)0 died in an inebriate asylum in Brooklyn a few days aga Thicre are said to be thousands of bushels of riBiimits eoine to waste in Indian Terri toi-y. Ranchmen near Mangus, N. M., are trying to catch a big bear that has killed over one hutidml goats. Landslides and washouts are greatly interfering with the operation of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in Manitoba. There are 1*'j college-bred mon in both houses of Congress. Of the seventy-six S'eua tors only tbirty-two are college crwluateA Southern Idaho has declared war against the scheme to divide the Territory ami add the northern portion to Washington Terri tory. A boy and girl, aged fourteen and twelve years resj>ectively, were recently married at iSh- Iby, Ala., with the consent of their parents. Mrs Susan Mears, Mrs. Almira Holmea, and Mrs. Israel Audmws, triplets, celebrated v.u ?#iinfh minivi'i'Qurv of their birth ro centl'y, in Etsex, Masa * I A Michigan man thinks that by draining ' certain Tennessee bog land* be can make a fortune raisin;; celery. He has just bought ] 1,0>H) acres, near Chattanoga, lor this pur | cose. - | THE MARKETS. 1 new yokjc Beef, ffood to prime 6 8 Calves, common to prime.... 8 @ II Saeep 4}4$ Lambs <V';^ Hogs?Live 5 40 ^ 5 70 Dressed 7 Flour?Ex. St, Rood to fancy 4 40 & 4 7o West, good to choice 3 00 <a;. 5 10 Wheat?No. 'I Rod 01 H vn ?stafcfl 50 ($ 58 Barley?State 83 @ bs Coru?Ungraded Mixovl.... CJ @ 63 Oaks?White .state 4?>40% Mixed Western 8 >^(3 3i> Hay?Me<L to prune To ^ bO Straw-No. 1. Rve 75 (? bu Lard?City Steam 7 85 @8 10 Butter?State Ui eamery.... 33 34 i)any 21 ($ 20 West Im. Creamery is ?5 25 Fa' torv 14 (d) 20 Cheese?State Factoiy 10;^ ? 12 Skims ? (d) 8 Western Eggs?State and Ponn 2o (g 20 BUKlfAU). Steer9?Western 3 2> @ 3 75 Sneep?Guo<l to Choice 3 <5 ($ 4 ?5 l^iniod? Western 4 !i? (?< (i DO * Hogs?(Joud to Choice Yorlcs 5 1 > (<b 5 liO j Fiour?l'unnly 4 75 (a, 5 15 I Wheat?No. 1 IM y.>'v C..I M?N.L 2. Ali\ed 5%^ '-3 Oats?No. :2, Mi.vol ? ($ Wi/t Barley?State. 75 (<fi t>5 BOSTON. Beef?Good to choi-je | Hogs?Live 5'4,4 Northern Dres-**!.... 0%,<j Pork?Ex. Prime, tier bhl. ..17 00 t<$!7 5) Flnur?Spring Wheat pac's.. 4 70 (a, 4 'Jo Corn?Hi^h Mixed. ? (d bt>}4 Oats?Extra White ?$ (% .W>? Rye?State AO ti) '5 WA I'EKTOWN (MAS3.) CAITLK MA iKET. Beet? Dressed weigut. ?> Sheen?Live weight 4 4/( I.amb (> Hogs?Northern ? (<5 7 PHILADELPHIA Flour?Penn.exrrn family... 3 75 @ 3 871* Wheat?No. 2, 11*1 !k?. Corn?Stato Yellow 58^ (cj o? Oats Mixe 1 3? (d) 411 Kye?Mate 62)^ ^ 58 Butter?Cienmery Extra... <U (& 30 Cheese?N. Y. Full Crotm.. ? 49 iaj4 j shoplifters! i SHRRWD THIEVES THAT INFEST METROPOLITAN STORES. Watching the Movements of the Shoplifters?How Professionals Are Distinguished?Amateurs Who Pilfer?A Mistake. A New York Commerdil Adr&rtit'r reporter recent y had an interesting conversation with a policeman who had been detailed to special duty in one of the Dig Sixth avenue shops as a detective. 4,I suppose," said he, "that the cost to the retail merchants in th s city for protection against shoplifting, by the employment of floor walkers and special officers amounts to fully *lu0,00d a year. It is interesting to watch the flo king of shoplifters to new 6tores or to the older establishments which open new departments. The ground is usually studied by these persons on opening day. They generally come in pairs and pay particular attcnt on to the younger of the *hop people. Host of them show an astonish ng knowledge of fabric*, and in this way, as well as in more obvious cases, become very friendly with the girls whom they propose to victimise. A thorough-paced shoplifter is nevera stranger in a store. As a rule she ma.<en frequent purchases as a cover for her thefts. 1 speak, as you see, only of women shoplifters, but there are, perhaps, a dozen men well known to the police who make a pood living at this kind of larceny. They confine themselves, however, to fields lying out of the domain of retail dry goods stores. 'One can almost invariably distinguish a professional shoplifter, bhe is usually between thirty and forty yeais of age,eminently respei table in appcarance, dressing quietly and moving aliout in such a manner as to attract the least attention to herself. She carries a loosely wrapped paper parcel or a widemoutncd handbag, and wears either a shawl or a dolman. The use of the wrap is evident. The paper parcel comes iu h:tndy in many ways. Into the folds of i imner wh lethe narcel is resting: upon the counter, the shoplifter can tuck away more things than an unskilled person cau get in a Gladstone bag. Lf course, all. the articles so stolen must be small. When she desires to get away with a quantity of silk, a bund e of gloves or a box oi handkerchiefs, she uses her convenient wrap. It is not often that a woman of this kind does not increase considerably in size from the time she enters the store until &he leaves it, and an observation of this change in her; ppearance is, after aH, the surest way of deA Vi n iAonnb o J iCl'UU^ bliC Ul VUAO. , " Ihe special officers who are detailed] to these big stores make, as a matter of course, a special study of these women. I have often lost three days out of a week by trotting around the Pol.ce Courts getting acquainted with the faces of shoplilters an ho have been arrested. Most of the large stores have rogues' galleries of their own, the pictures in which consist almost exclusively of shoplifters. In a special division of the books in which the names and | edigrees of the professional shopl fters are ke.-t, appear the uarms and addresses of women who are otherwise reputable, but who have been detected at shoplift ng. I pon the return of or payment for the articles 6tolen they have not been piosecuted. Queer as it may seem, the snops suner more from this class of amateur thieves than from even tbe professionals. Some women are a ilicteil wiih such a lust for possession of articles which tliey cannot alford to buy that they a'e willing to sacrifice their own and their families' reputations by a systematic course of stealing. I know of one lady living in "West forty-third street, whose name was on our books, and whose husband had made an agreement with the firm to pay for anything his wife m gfat steal. In one year his bill amounted to w.thin a few dollars of $7,000. This lady ?a? a patroness of several charitable institutions and a member of one of the most prom nent Presbyterian churches on Murray Hill. rorfl tVint m intakes are made in arresting women for ?-hoplifting who are not actually guilty of it. It is altogether too dangerous. The most notable ca-e I renumber occurred in Brooklyn some years ago. The wife of | the District Attorney of Kings County | bought a quantity of goods in the store of one of the leading d y-goods firms I across* the river. An over-oliicious floorwalker thought that she had taken sonic| thing which she had not paid for, and he directed her to uo to the office. 8he indignantly refused. Thereupon theman obtained assistance and carried her | there, where she wa9 t-earched by three | female attendants. .Nothing was found upon her for wh ch she had not a reI ceipted memorandum. 'J hen she was J told that she could go. blu* positively refused. 'But,' she said, 'I de>ire to have my husband *ent for, and he will in<|ti.re more particularly I iuto this outrage.' She wrote a note and directed it to her husband in his of' - nf tViu firm llCl&l CttpAClljT. j\ ixjciiiuv? >mv who by tliis time hail appreciated the gravity of the mistake, bcg?ed that the lady would say no more about the matter, declaring thai he would indemnify her lor the outrage wki h he acknowledged had been perpetrated. This the lady also retired to <;o. When her husband arrived the overtures for settlement were renewed, but we eagan rejected. Tlio floor wa ker. the man who assisted him. and the three women who made the search, were anested for assault. The m itter was given she widest pub icity in the newspapers, and :he re ultof it all wis that .^o strong was feeiing against thi' firm hecau-e of the outrage that it was ob'i-je I to retire from business. Thin was a salutary warning which dry goods men in geiu-rai have not loigotten." Are Stones Alive? TVe generally think of minerals ns dead lumps of inactive niatier. liut tliey may be said to be ulive, eieaturvs of vital | ulsa'.ions. and separated into individuals as distinct as the pines in a fore t or the tigers in a jungle. The disposition of crystals are as diverse as those of animals. They throb with un<een currento energy. Tney grow in size :iS long a* they have opportunity. 'I hey can be kibed, too, though not as eisily as -- - j- - .? an Oils or ;i .-mh/h- viv ">shock d'seharged through a cryst ii A\i 1 decompose it, very rapidly ii it is of soft structure, causing tins pa lick'- to irra'lualljdi integrate in the revise order from its growth, until the poor thing lies a dead, hopeless ruin. It is true the crys tal's life is unlike t'cit of higher creatures. But the dilTcrence be:ween vegetable and nn mal I fe i? no greater tlniP that bet wee i mineral and vegetable life Linn us, the great Swedish i - - * -1- ?l,o tliro.1 V- n.r Innic naiurau-ii, uc hu m >u? .. ....... b.v saying: " M on.-s grow: plants grow a d feel: animals grow and feci and move."? W.oc A a e. The wiso prove, and the f>ol:sh'onfess by ihi-ir to duet, that a life of employment is the only life worth livii g. umm Ages of Congressmen!!. ; Hfij The oldest member of the Honse Jndge William D. Keliey, of PcnneyW 1^91 vaaia. Although he is seventy-three, be not the' oldest-looking man in th* ^^E9fl .touse, or the least active. Be was HEH forty-seven when he entered Congret, in 1861, and he has been a member con- I H stantly since then, a period of twenty H|| six years. The youngest member if flHfl Rr?n iflnun V CVuVot? rtf tho TVtirfAPntH Indiana District. Born in 1857, he is only a trifle under thirty-one years of |HH acre, but he is tall, strong and vigorous, Hflj and has already served a part of & term in Congress. Mr. Ralph Plumb, of ths UjUJ Eighth Illinois L istrict, is an old mem; ber. He was bora in 1->16, the same yea? HH in which Mr. Gay, of Louisiana, tiret HH saw light. There is quite a batch of HHj members too modest or too sensitive to HH furnish their ages, the last including Mr. DBh iliken, of Maine; General Hooker, of 1^9 Mississippi, and Mr. Heard and Mr. Hfl Hutton, of Missouri; Mr. Sowden, of j^HE Pennsylvania, and Mr. R. Q. Mills, of ^Hj Texas. Some of thc?e gentle ren areia .^E9 good preservation, and upon the edge of IHB that period when men are not inclined I to grntiously lead people to consider them older than they really are. lb. I I \ andever, of California, who was bora in 1817, was a member of Congress from flnH lir'5'J until the breaking out of the civil war. He and Mr. Holmun, of Indian*) who was in the '1 hirty-sixth ( ongress In 1800?01, saw service before Mr. Kelley, I but Mr. Vanderver has not returned until now, and Mr. Holman's servicehaa Hj not been continuous. Mr. Randall did B not make his first appearance as a mem* 3B ber until l.iOfour years later than Mr.-' Jioiman, but he naa ne run his tmrteentn ? consecutive term, ttaudinu: next in length )f service to Mr. Kellev.?PittJwv Chronicle. HD Where Flies Go In Winter. sMB Some one baa asked where do the flies H go in the winter. This is a question of HO 8on.e interest, for the natural history of OH a house fly is not generally known. Few persons know that a house Cy is born fully grown and of mature size, and that there are no little flies of the same game spccies, me sinaii ones occasionally observed being ditferent in kind from the large ones. 1 he house fly does not lay I eggs, but extrudes living larva?, which H6 go through the usual t ansformations intheir temporary abodes in "heaps of de- HH caved gar age,' and rubb sh throjvn out HH from houses. It does not bite or pierce the skin, butgatheis its food by a comb or rake or brush like tongue, with which ' it is abfe to scrape the varnish from coy- '^D| crs of books, and it thus tickles the skin of persons upon which it alights to feed Hrl upon the perspiration. A fly is a scaven- :H ger, and is a vehicle by whcb contagious- ./'HI diseases arc spread. It poisons wounds, and mav carrv deadly virus from decay* - HE ing organic matter into our food. It re- -|H tires l'rora the si^ht at the beginning of B| winter, but where it goes few persons know. If a search of the house is made ^Hj they wiil be found in great numbers ?e- HQ cretcd in warm pi ces in the roof or be- HO tween the | artitions or floors. We re- H| cently had occasion to examine the roof, and found around the chimney myriad* of Hies h bernating comfortably and sufficiently lively to fly when disturbed in, overpowering clouds. No doubt thisis a favorite winter resort for these creatures.?Ntto York 'J viie*. nfl Remarkable Crystals. Sfl Some remarkable crystal; were found |H a short time a^o in a gravel bed nea* r ;fl9 Mokeumne Hill, C'al. 'i uey are of such hardness that the hardest tile doesn't - H| make the least impression, and they will cut glass like a diamond. All the epeci mens lire hexagonal cubes terminating is H pyramidal points, the sides being as [H smooth and regular as the finest cut glass, and of such clearness that objects can be H| plainly discerned through pieces afoot in thickness. Tlu-y are of immense size^ |H the largest having thirteen points start* ing from a single base three feet in M length, two and a half feet in thicknett, and weighing 500 pounds: the next in |9 side is two feet long, eighteen inches in |H roelrrViu oluiiit 1, n nounds! H Ill JUJVUC^O nuu ^ the others, about two dozen in number, range from one foot to one and a hall |H feet in thicknesa.and weigh from fifty to 0 seventy-live pounds. . 1 H A Valuable down. The old door-keeper of the Hotel' H Milan at Florence, Italy, named Sal- H| vador C ecchini, died recent.y and left H his property to his uephew. The latter H came and looked about in the dingy 9 porter's lodge and was much d5?-\ U satisfied at not finding anything worth fl tarrying awny. The deceased had for. years worn an old gown made of coa*se cloth and had never changed his attire in winter or in summer. The nephew H took up the gowu and threw it down H again in disgust. As it slipped from his Hj band he felt some hard ob ect striking H L!- ..irin/r tin thi* irnivn again. he ?? LiiriJ, 11UU| umiug v. y . = , ?p f _ iclt there was a thick paper parcel in it H It was rewed tinder the lining. Cutting H the folds he found 6eventy-tive Govern- H ment bonds in it of t ie value of about B $ SO each. That gown was no longer Bj treated with disrespect. BB P?ittlp>?nflke Neckties. B Mr. A. Judson Cole, who is the mn- H ager of one of the huge C bit-ago whole- H tale homes in the line of gentlemen1* H furnishings, showsa novel necntie which I he has just receive.! from Texas. It is a B a rattlesnake skin maJe up in the form H of a four-in-hand tic. The point-rattle H is set in the ccnter of the outer fold? fi to ser. e the pnrpo>e of a tie-pio. As it fl glistens and shows all sorts of shifting H colors in the 6unliuht or gaslight, it- B makes a very attrai ti e, if not exactly H conventional, tie. Mr. Cole Rays that it I wn? Ront to him as a >ample, the sender H saying that, ah the stock of rattlesnakes in his country is inexhaustible, be can supply as many of the-e strange tieaaa the Chicargo house may want?Chicay* Nexct. American Manhood, The grand featuro of American manhood is that it is composite, made up of the best < harac terist.cs of all nations. Our forefathers were of foreign birth or parentage, an I yet, where in history will wo tind more illustrious c\amples of upright minhoodWe do not care what nercentatrc of foreign bio ?d is in our population, provided it assimilates with I our own, and good results are attained.? Ncio Uitce.i liejisiir. An Old Epitaph. Here is an epitaph still to be fouud in an English churchyard: : HERE LIES THE nODY OS" : LADY O'ROONEY. ; First Cousin to Buhke, ; i Commonly Called 'TheSublim?," ; * Blan I, pa-*i<mate and deeply re igious, ; : She also pn n c<l in water color? ; ? / ># ia th> kiiicr.to:ii of h?aven.n Ilis Majesty Pop? Khan, of Annam, h:is fifty conks taking part in the prepairtiion of each royal ic|?ast. but each chef is (online I to the elHl>oiHiion of a single one of the fif ty diahia of which the menv , is invariably composed.