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-* t Timrr t rarr,?? NATIOB AFFAIRS. Action at Washington Upon Two Matters of Interest. British Fisheries Treaty Signed? The Senate Passes the Blair Bill. The labors of the American Commissioners and the English " Negotiators" have come to an end, and shortly after 7 o'clock Wednesday evening the Fisheries Treaty, which is the outcome of tin deliberations of three months, was formally signed by the high contracting parties on behalf of England nrirl tha ITnita.i From the first meeting of the commission, says a Washington special to the New York IVorkl. both parties have realized the imjxjrtance of the question as to wliether the "touch and trade" privilege would be extended to American vessels, a privilege now* fully enjoyed by vessels of other nations in our ports. The American fishermen have demanded the twofold right of purchasing stores and supplies and of selling cargoes to whoever might desire to purchase. The opposition to this concession, if it could oe called a concession, has proceeded from the very first from Sir Charles Tupper. Though Minister West and Mr. Chamberlain frankly admitted the justice of this demand on the part of the united states, n> required many protracted conferences and a deal of earnest argument on the part of his colleagues to finally induce Sir Charles to change his view of the subject. He finally gave in, however, and under the terms of the treaty the privileges enjoyed by American and Canadian fishers will be entirely reciprocal. The English Commissioners made a strong fight from the start for the preservation from invasion by foreign fishermen of the waters imbraced in the three-mile limit, but hardly hoped that they would be successful in securing a full concession from the United States, giving up all claim to the privilege of fishing in these waters. They were greatly surprised, however, to find that when the point was finally reached the American Commissioners were not inclined to press the matter. For. diplomatic reasons the Americans sedulously refrained from explaining the fact that the Eastern fishermen considered tho fishing in deep water iar more grofltable than that of the Shoals, within the mit. In consideration of the "touch and trade*' privilege the English Commissioners stipulated that a license should be exacted from American vessels trading in Canadian ports. This license is to be adjusted to the form of a tonnage tax, and the entire feature, it is agreed, will be abolished upon the placing of fish on the free list of the United States. Notwithstanding the reports with regard to the consideration of the Bahring Sea controversy. the Alaska boundary question and the exchange of imports, none of these subjects received any attention at the hands of the Commissioners, nor do they figure at all in the Drovisions of the treaty. It is understood that either Sir John McDonald or Sir Charles Tupper will present the treaty to the Canadian Parliament. The signatures of the entire commission were appended to the treaty. Secretary Bayard, Mr. Putnam and Prof. Angell signing under each other in the order given, and Mr. Chamberlain. Sir Lionel Sackville West and Sir Charles Tupper placing their signatures opposite those of their American colleagues. ( > __ The Blair Bill Passes the Senate. Th9 Blair Educational bill has passed the United States Senate by 39 yeas to 2'J nays. Twenty three Republicans and sixteen Democrats voted for the bill; eleven Republicans and seventeen Democrats voted against it. The bill appropriates annually for eight years the following sums, " to be expended to secure the benefits of common school education to all the children of the school age living in the United States:'' First year, $7,000,000; second year, $10,000,000, third year, $15,000,000; fourth year, $13,000,000; fifth year, $11,000,003; sixth year, $9,000,000; seventh year, $7,000,000; eighth year, $5,000,00 ). The money is to be divided among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia, in proportion to illiteracy?the computation to oe made according to the census of 1?S0 and (afterwards) 161K). There are to be separate schools for white and colored children. Xo State or Territory is to receive money under the actuutil its'iovernor shall have filed with the Secretary of the Interior a statement showing the common-school system in force in the State, the amount of money ex penaea during lae preceding scawoi jrai for the support of common schools, the number of white and colored children between the ages of ten and twenty one, the number of schools in operation, the average attendance of scholars, etc. No amount is to be paid to any Stats or Territory in any year greater than the amount expended out of its own revenues in the preceding year for the maintenance of common Fchools. No part of the fund is to be used for the erection or rent of any schoolbuildings, but an additional fund of $2,000,009 is to be allotted in the first year to Bchool-houses (either for construction or renting) in sparsely populated districts?not more than $150,00D for each building. From the Senate the bill now goes to the House, LATER NEWS, C. C. Beal, a prominent trader, of Clinton Me., drank out of a bottle of whiskey which unknown persons had dosad with strychnine' and died instantly in convulsions. His eighteen year-old son also drank some of the liquor, with fatal effect. Fire destroyed the office of the Elmira Y.) Adcf rtirtr and the adjoining building occupied by the Sunday l\d'u>g ? . Nothing was saved, and the employes barely es- j I caped with their lives. Tiie bonds to the value of S2Cj,000 which were stolen from the Saco (Me.) bank last summer have been returned to the owners by a brother of the thief. At Yor'c, Penn., Oliver Truett. a firemant who had recently been rewarded by the Pennsylvania Company for heroism in saving a child's life, shot his wife's tongue out in a fit of jealousy and then killed himself. David R. Locke 'Petroleum V. Nasby), owner of the Tole Jo (Ohio) Blade, died at his rtf poirruf^u rlicaisa hp was LLKJUIXJ III uuav tll/J V/L Iguv u M?vwv.^v< born in Broome County, N. Y., September 20,1833. Mrs. Andrew Tufferth and her young son were killed at Shattuck, III., while crossing a railroad track. Count Arco-Valley has been appointed German Minister to this country. United States Consul Lewis, at Tangier, has asked the Government to send a man-of-war to enforce the release from imprisonment of a Moor w ho is under his protection. Charles F. Carey, of Olean, N. Y., has been appointed Solicitor of the Treasury. The Senate has confirmed the following nominations: Henry Vincent, of New Orleans. to hp. C'on-iil at Lamantia; W. W. Dougherty, of Missouri, to l>e Indiau Agent at Warm Springs. Ore.: J. A. Van Auken, to le Register of Public Lands at Central City, Co!.; S. L. Blaisdell, to be United States Marshal for ltho:le Island: A. H. Dill, to lie United States Marshal for Eastern Pennsylvania, and Marshal McDonald,of Virginia, to be Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. ?. Fearful snowstorms have prevailed on the Continent and numerous avalanches have occurred, attended by great loss of life, in Austria and Switzerland. Mr. Pynk, member of Parliament for West Waterford, Ireland, was tried on the charge of inciting resistance to bailiffs. He was convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment without hard labor. T;ie cumber of live cattle, live sheep an., quarters of dres-ed beef shipped from the United States and Canadian ports during the year 1887 was as follows: loS.biH cattle H5,82S ehrep and 4'i!,&> t quarters of beef, in ltfetfi the total wern cattle, SU.WUheejcod quarter* of beet THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Four men were blown to atoms and fifteen were injured by the explosion of a building connected with the Dupont Powder Works, twenty miles from Wilkesbarre, Penn. Charles Fogle, a prosperous farmer living near Westminster, Md., was so chagrined at being swindled twice by bunco men that he killed himself. Clarence S. Bowen and wife, of Greenfield, Macs., rendered desperate by abject poverty, killed themselves in the presence of their four little children. Edwin H. Benton, of Guilford, Conn., a bachelor worth ?25,000,blew his head off with a shot gun. Dr. W. E. Thornton, a druggist of Baltimore. Md., slipped on the ice while ringing a door-bell ana broke his neck. William Preston, of New York City, a cigar maker, was found dead in a chair, with a bullet hole in h's temple an l a revolver tightly clasped in his hand. James Albert, of Philadelphia, was the winner in the International six-days-go-asyou-pleasi race held in Madison Square Garden, New York < ity. He succeeded in breaking the record of (510 miles, his score being close [upon 623 miles. D. Herty was second with a score of 582, Querrero third with 56 J, Hart fourth with 546, and Golden fifth with 538 miles, all of whom came in for a share of the gate money. In an affray among Hungarians at Mount Ploocotif Paiin twn irian worn ehnf, One fatally. When Constable Staaffer sought to arrest the offenders he was set upon, badly cut and carried home unconscious. The Town Hospital at St. Albans, Vermont, was destroyed by fire, and two patients ?Charles Chandler, a" paralytic, and Susan Gates, eighty-three 3'ears old?were suffocated in bed,"being unable to help themselves. A heavily loaded cattle train was brought to a sudden stop by a broken axle in Stroudsburg, Penn., and 400 cattle were instantly killed. Chester Evey killed his daughter, aged seventeen, at Altoona, Penn., aud then committed suicide. A double explosion in the Wyoming colliery at Wilkesbarre, Penn., killed two miners and severely burned three others. Twenty-one families were evicted in New York city, from the tenement houses of Jacoby & Bookman, manufacturers of cigars, who took this method of forcing their striking workmen to return to work. OUUI II nuvi if *:iu The boiler of a traction engine on a farm i near Wabash, Ind., explode I, resulting in the death of two prominent farmers and the ; wounding of three workmen. Judge Barr, of United States Court, in 1 Louisville, Ky., has issued a writ of habeas ' corpus ordering the Hatfields?desperadoes 1 connected with the McCoy-Hatfiedfeud, who were kidnapped from West Virginia?brought : into his court Ax accidental blow from a pick caused a lot of nitro-glycerine cartridges to explode at Bellevue, Ohio,and two workmen were killed. Patrick J. Hart was handed at Helena, Montana Territory, for murdering a miner. Joh.v Buttery, of Mechanicsburg, Ind., ; seriously wounded his stepsister, killed her lover and then committed suicide. Ix Marion county, S. C., a large eagle ' swooped down and attacked Mrs. Berry, a : lady seventy-five years old, and fatally injured her. Fire at Ironton, Ohio, destroyed a vast amount of valuable property, causing a loss of over $100,000. Levi Hogge, of Lilly, Ky., shot his brother through the heart because he refused to trade pantaloons with him. Mrs. Summerville, of Parkersburg, W. Ya. .dropped dead suddenly, and her daughter was so ufleeted by the sight that she, too, fell to the floor and died in a few minutes. Peter George, of Peoria, 111., a crippled Union soldier, was unsuccessful in an attempt to get a pension and disappointment drove him to suicide. Ruth Woodall, of Jones county, Ga., mixed poison with water and made her two daughters drink a portion. She swallowed what was left The mother and older daughter died instantly, but a physician saved the younger child. Governor Wilson, of West Virginia, has made requisition on the Governor of Ken tuck for twenty-throe members ot tuo warling Hatfield-McCoy factions. William Kellt, inventor of what is known as the "Bessemer steel process" died recently in Louisville, Ky., at the age of seventy-eight. D. C. Hill, Treasurer of Panola county, Texas, was killed in his office at Carthage, his head being cut off and his safe robbed of ?C.000. An overladen skiff was swamped near New Orleans, on the Mississippi River, and seven shrimp fishers who were at work in it were drowned. An old colored woman of Grant parish, 1 La., by mistake put rat poison in a dish of cabbage. Her family, consisting of herself, her daughter Grace, two grandchildren and another child named Nelson partook freely of the cabbage. In a few hours all were in violent convulsions. The grandmother, ] mother and one child soon died. The other two children lingered until next day, when j they also died. Archbishop Jean Baptiste Larny, of the Catholic Church, died at his home at Banta Fe, New Mexico, in his seventy-fourth year. In a riot at Pinckneyville, Tenn., Reuben Field was killed by a boy named Smithers. Stephen N. Wilson, a colored editor of T iMtio I'MIaiI in o nnarral a calnnn keeper named Archie Irwin.1 Bright Corxett, who has loci all the recent Texas train robberies, was killed by Alfred Allee on his ranch in Frio County, Texas. Washington. Dean F. Curris, of Albion, N. Y., has been appointed Consul at Yarmouth, N. S., to succeed William H. Robertson, who will go to Fort Hope, Canada. The board of naval officers appointed to examine, and test the practicability of the eight-inch pneumatic dynamite gun, has submitted a very favorable report and urged ttie secretary 01 me navy vo uuopi* ju iuvj the service. The House Committee on Territories har decided to report favorably an omnibus bill to admit four new States, namely: Dakota, Montana, Washington and New Mexico. Baron von Alvensleben. German Minister to this country, has been promoted to the Court of Brussels. The President has appointed ex-Judge Alexander McCue, of Brooklyn, Sub-Treasurer at New York City, vice Charles J. Cauda, resigned. Mrs. Cleveland made a hasty journey to New York, in order to say farewell to her mother, Mrs. Folsom, who went to Europe by the steamer City of Chicago. Mr. Blaine's lettter withdrawing as a candidate for the Presidential nomination ha? been the leading topic of discussion among the Washington politicians. The President has sent to the Senate the nomination of Fernando J. Moreno, of Florida, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of Florida. The House Judiciary Committee agreed to favorably report without amendment the constitutional amendment of Mr. Hoar to ehauge the time for inauguration to April tfO, and to extend the Presidential term to mat date. The Secretary of State has directed the establishment of a United States Consular Agency at Nanaimo, Vancouver's Island, for thi bcnelit of American commerce, which is growing in that vicinity. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of B. F. Wade to l>e Marshal of Northern Ohio and Alexander McCue to be Assistant Treasurer at New York. The Secretary of the Treasury has transmitted to the House estimates for a deficiency appropriation of S!i0,000 for the support of United States prisoners duriug this fiscal year. Forelffn. Major Templar, a prominent British officer, has been arrested by the Inspector General of Fortifications upon the charg of divulging state secrets to foreign powers Messrs. Gilhooly and Pyne, Irish members of the British Parliament, were arrested on the threshold of the House of Commons and hurried off to Waterford jail, bail being refused them. Small-pox in its most malignant form is raging in Cuba, and thousands have diei , from the disease. / -v-"' -. * ' ,... ; X ' ' . ... - >. Ex-Mayor of Dublin, Sullivan, who has just been released from prison, was given a grand reception in London, more than forty thousand turning out to do him honor. The Russian Ambassador, in an interview lasting an hour with Prince Bismarck, expressed the Czar's high appreciation of the Prince's recent speech in the Reichstag. A mob in Guayaquil, Equador. surrounded the house of the Bisliop, crying: "Down with the Priests,'' and a battle with stones followed, in which several persons were killed and quite a number injured. The Mayor of Cork, Ireland, has been convicted of the charge of assaulting a police 6ergeant at a plan of campaign meeting, and sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment without hard labor. FARM^NIMALS. Important Facts From the Department of Agriculture. The February statistical report of the Department of Agriculture relates to numbers and values of farm animals. There is a reported increase in horses, mules and cattle, and a decrease in sheep and swine. The largest rate of increase is in horses, amounting to fully five per cent, and it is genera] throughout the country, though largest west of the Mississippi. The aggregate exceeds thirteen millions. The increase in mules averages 3>? per cent. The increase in cattle is nearly 2)? per cent., corresponding closely with advances in population. It makes the aggregate over forty-nine millions, or 82 per 100 of the population. The increase is nearly as large in milch cows as in any other cattle. In sheep the decline appears to be between 2 and 3 per cent,"the aggregate of flocks being about forty-three arid a half millions. There is a smaller decline in numbers of swine, less than 1 per cent., leaving the aggregate over forty-four millions. Prices of horses and mules are nearly tha same as last year, but both are lower than in the year 1884. when tbe continuous advance from 1877 culminated. The average for all ages is ?71.82 for horses, and $79.78 for mules, a decrease of 33 cents and $7 cents, respectively. From 187$ to 1884 the annual estimates of prices of milch cows and of other cattle advanced yearly, and the decline has since been uninterrupted, without exception for other class of stock. The fall in milch cows has been from $26.08 to $24.05, over 5 per cent., and in "oxen and other cattle" from $19.79 to $17.79, a decline of 10 per cent, in the last year. In sheep, as in other stock, the annual advance was quite as steady after 1879, and amounted to 22 per cent, in four years. From 18S3 to 1886 the decline was over 25 per cent., or from $2.53 to $1.91. The next year's average was $2.01, and the present average $2.05, or nearly as much as in the depression of 1879, when prices were the lowest in twenty years. There has been an advance in the average for swine of all ages from $4.42 to $4.98, or 11 per cent. The annual advance was continuous from 1879 to 1883, then declining to 1SSG, and slightly advancing again since. The aggregate value of all farm animals is *n /\sm a/uT ? 4.1?? ~ ..? ? ^4-A1a#A?. (*o,uw,uw mure tuaua jeai agv. iuc ivuua w* the cattle being smaller by about (54,000,000, for sheep a trille smaller, with an increase in those for horses, mules and swine. The horses represent 046,000,000, the mules 175,000,(.00, the cattle 078,000,000, swine 231,000,000 and sheep 80,003,000, a grand aggregate of 2,400,000,000 for these classes of domestic animals on farms and ranches RIDDLED WITH BULLETS. A Mexican Officer's Summary Vengeance on a Treacherous Guide. Captain Samadrid, of the Mexican Army, at the head of a force of cavalry, descended on the Wcsquite ranch, about thirty leagues from Camago, Mexico, and captured Vasquez, a noted bandit, who had broken his leg and was there receiving surgical attention. Vasquez was made to confess that his companions, the notorious cur-throat Basaldua, and the terrible brothers, Adolfo and Antonio Yalligas, were in hiding near the ranch. Captain Mamadriil compelled Fernandez, the proprietor of the "Wesquite ranch, to guide his troops to the hiding place of the bandits, but Fernandez treacherously led the soldiers in the wroug direction. When samaurm discovered mat Fernandez had deceived him he tied him to a tree and ordered his men to riddle him with bullets, which they did, notwithstand ing Fernandez repeatedly cried out that he would give the soldiers $1,000 to save his life and release him. While this was going on the bandits had been warned and fled to Texas. There is reason to believe that not less than twenty notorious highwaymen are now safely rendezvoused in the Guello ranch in Star county, Texas. DIED OF RABIES. The Terrible Death of a Farmer in Alabama. Mr. James Ford, who resided near Eastabaga, Ala., died from hydrophobia several days ago. Mr. Ford was bitten in the hand by his yard dog about six months ago, and at the same time three of his cattle were bitten. Since then two of the cattle have died from the bite and the third ,ne was shot, having developed a clear case of rabies in the most violent form. Mr. Ford was taken with spasms about a week before bis death and grew worse. Thesp:s:ns increased as the disease developed, until there was hardly a moment's intermission between them. Mr. Ford was perfectly rational, and requested those around him to confine his hand? and feet to prevent him from harming them. He also aske.i the phvsiciau attending him to use' his corpse in any way ho pleased for the benefit of science and the profession. A few hours before the end h; Became violent, and his barking and howling ? - J iL-i. ur_ e?4i. . are aescriueu hs lern-jie, xic 11 uvucu uu tir; mouth and gnawed his own hands in his desperation. THE LABOE^WORLD, Last year 37,890 tons of leather were imported. The shingle manufacturers of the South have form d an association at Mobile. There are sixteen works in the United States and Canada engaged in locomotive building. The Magnolia Anti-Friction Metal Co., with a capital of $100,000, is about to start in Brooklyn. Warrants have been served on five millowners at Philadelphia for violating the fire-escapa law. The National B uilders'Association has just held its session in Cincinnati. About 200 delegates were present The strike of the Troy steel and iron company's employes has been settled and the men have gone to work. A $2,000,000 iron and coal company has just been organized at Tinneville, Ky., the centre 01 a ricn mineral district. Reduction of 10 per cent, in the wages of all employes has been ordered by the Lake Erie. Alliance and Southern Railroad. The railroad telegraphers' organization has succeeded in greatly decreasing the number of "students" in the railroad offices of Pennsylvania. The Iron Trade Review places the looses by fire to the iron works of the country, during the past year, at $1,331,009, against $3,417,500 in 1886. The exports of American machinery to Mexico, Central and South America, and Australia continue to agitate the manufacturers of machinery in Great Britain. At a mass meeting of miners in Wilkesbarre, Pa, it was unanimously resolved to devote one day's pay eacli month to the strikers of the Lehigh and Schuj'kill regions. The employes of the National Tube Works, of vf. l'onn mat. onH rafnspri tn n.ccept the 10 per cent, reduction ordered by the company. The company employs about (3,000 hands. The velvot cutters who were imported uniltr contract last Spring by the Compton Company, Providence, K. L, are on strike, claiming the contract void and demanding decent wages. The Maginnis Cotton Mills, New Orleans, La., have decided to increase their capital stock from *500,00J to $1,000,000, and enlarge their mill from its present capacity of 17,00;J spindles to 40,000 spindles. The North Chicngo Rolling Mill Company's plant at South Chicago, th j largest of its kind in this country, has resumed operations after being closed for more than two months, while repa.ro were Leing made. r. . .. r ' 'i "| ' *"' I dT' .1' CRUSHED TO BEATS. A Heavy Derrick Falls Upon a Brooklyn Street Car. Several Persons Killed and Many More Badly Hurt, The Union Elevated Railroad of Brooklyn was the scene of a terrible accident at a point 1 in Broadway, at 1?:45 o'clock the other morning. The steam hoisting apparatus which is used to lift the heavy iron girders of the new road fell upon a Reid avenue horse car that | was Dassine underneath, instantly killing I three men and seriously wounding fifteen I others, one of whom died a few hours later. | The whole reserve ambulance corps and | the off platoon from the Thirteenth precinct ! station were immediately sent' to the scene, j All of the available men from the neighboring fire department stations were also ord- j ered out The work of clearing away the ! debris was immediately begun by the force j thus collected, and a number of the bodies | were quickly extricated from the wreck of i the car. The instantly killed were: Charles : Kirschner, 30 years of age; Patrick Clark, employed by the Elevated Railroad Company, and Thomas Thompson, who was driving the car in the place of Michael McAuley, who had laid off for the day. Thomas Menton, twenty-seven years old, had his skull fractured, and died during the afternoon. John Schaefer, of No. 6"J1J East Ninth street, New York, superintendent of the hoisting and placing of the iron work, was arrested I soon after the accident by tho Brooklyn police and he was taken to the Thirteenth precinct station. This is the second accident of this kind that' has happened to this road within the last two months. A similar accident happaned about seven weeks ago on Flatbush avenue. An eye-witness described the scene of the J accident as follows: "I was standing on | Broadway, about opposite No. 630. ^ A j Reid aveilUe car passed through ihe 311 uov. . There were two horses attached to it. A truck, with one horse attached, was moving slowly along the street. As the street car got opposite No. 040 Broadway I heard a terrible rumbling and crashing sound, aa if the entire Elevated structure was giving way. A bolt fastening the girder-had broken, the two uprights not being braced were pressed apart by the weight of- the engine and the apparatus on top pf them, and the entire flooring, with the'engine and four stringers, fell witn a crash upon the car. The two car horses and the truck horse were instantly killed. One car was crushed like an eggshell and the shrieks and cries of agony from those who were in it were terrible to hear. The confusion was so great for a time it was amost impossible to do anything, and the poor people were wedged under the debris for what seemed an age before anything could be done to relieve them." The crowd which gathered at once about the scene of the accident was wildly excited. Ambulance after ambulance apppeared until every hospital in Brooklyn was represented. Police arrived on foot and in patrol wagons. It was necessary to increase their force as rapidly as possible in order to keep back the crowd. Mothers, fathers, sister.-, brothers 1 and friends of the employes of both the ele- : vated and surface roads began to arrive I almost as soon as the accident oc- I curred. All was confusion. The police could | tell them little or nothing; the officers of the i rnnrl still loss. As fast as the injured were I removed from the debris they were taken in . charge by the ambulance surgeons. Many I were taken to St. Catherine s hospit&l, which is only about ten blocks from the seen? of the , disaster. Some were so slightly injured that j thev had their wounds dressed in neighboring [ houses and left immediately for their homes. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Bismarck is said to be worth $10,000,000. Se.vator Morrill, of Vermont, once kept a country grocery store. The Grand Duke Alexis, of Russia, haa been promoted to the rank of Admiral The salary of Governor Luce, of Michigan, is $1,000 a year. He grooms his own horse. A.IXSWOUTH R. Spokford, the Librarian of Congres#, is said to carry the titles of 500,000 volumes in his head. Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, the noted novelist, has a collection of geraniums which is said to bo the finest in the world. Mad King Otto of Bavaria has become suspicious oi nis attendants, refuses to eat or j drink, and is reported to bo dying fast. The German Crown Prince, next to the | Emperor, has the largest number of decorations in Germany, namely seventy-four. "Ocida," who is sixty years of age, wean her yellow hair flying loose, and light colored dresses. She is engaged on a new noveL Joseph Chamberlain, the English Statesman, is a social lion at "Washington and is said to be industriously courting the daughter of Secretary Endicott It is related of Judge Clementson, of Lancaster, Wis., now a candidate for re-election, that in order to save time and oblige the law-. yers he once held court on a railroad train. , Mrs. Re'?d, widow of Mayne Reid, the novelist, is engaged in writing her husband's life, and is searching: for information of his life and adventures both before and after the Moxican War. It is stated that the great-granddaughter of Robert Morris, of Revolutionary fame, is seeking admission, at the age of seventy-four, to an old ladies' home in Washington, and needs $100 to pay the entrance fee. Mrs. Quin'cy A. Shaw, of Boston, daughter of Professor Agassi z, has for eight years upported freekindertrartons in the ooorest quarters of Boston and Cambridge at a par- ! sonal expense of as much as $50,000 a year. The monument for General Toombs, of I Georgia, that has been shipped from Italy, i9 | the third monument that has been built. The : first was lost at sea. A bed of crystals was ; found in the second after all had been completed except the basc-roek. Robert Smalls, who was the last of the colored race to retire from membership of the House of Representatives, is pushing his claim for a pension on account of his capture of the steamboat Planter, in Charleston Harbor, and its delivery to Union officers. < ' Colonel George L. Perkins, Treasurer of the Norwich <fe Worcester Railroad, ij the oldest railroad official in the United States, and probably in the world. He i? ninety-nine years old, is six feet two inches in , heijrht, and stands as straight as many men of thirty. The Duke of Westminster is reported to ( have a larger income than any other subject j of Great Britain. He owns row upon row of tenement houses and possesses many square miles of farming land. He receives $50 a minute the year round, or $o,0iW) an hour, or $72,000 a day. Mrs. Secretary Vilas has never recov- 1 ered from the nervous shock resulting from witnessing the sudden death of Judze Ellett at the President's reception at Memphis. | There has been little or no improvement since ] the first attack,and her physician and friends are becoming alarmed. j Coloxkl Marshall McDoxald, recently ] appointed United States Commissioner of i Fish and Fisheries, was born at Romuey, Vir- j ginia, in lKi5. In 1854 he was a student of , , natural history under Professor Baird at the j , Smithsonian institution, and graduated at j < the Virginia Military institute in 1S01. Miss Florence E. ICallock, pastor of the I ( Eaglewood (Illinois) Universalist Church, has [ , just celebrated the twelfth anniversary of : ] her entrance into ministerial work. Miss Kallock is forty years old and is a graduate of the Madison (Wisconsin) Normal School ' and of the Theological School in Rochester. Ciiaulks batchkldkr.of St. Paul, Minn., the young artist whose design for a monu- j incut to commemorate the Haymarket riot j ' has l>een accepted as the best of many sent ! ' in, is a native of Chicago. He was formerly a shorthand writer in the Venice of the West, but since ho took up his residence in St. i Paul lias been coming to the front as a de- ] Bigner possessing originality and power. ] The trouble at the Sins Sin? (N. Y.) State j ' Prison is over for the pressnt. The Assembly ! has concurred in the $250,000 appropriat on | 4 by t he Senate, and work has b?cn resumed : in the shoe and stove works. Tue 1,00J con- j victs employed in these industries, who were ! ] forced into an involuntary strike, rejoiced , at tho news v/hen it reached them. j Two villains, one named Hcgo and the i other Dargnesse, have been sentenced in j j Paris, France, to penal servitude for life and ' ] for twenty years, respectively. They mur dared a woman on a bet of a cup of coffee, i ] "v ,-^r ME, BLAINE'S LETTER. "Withdrawing His Name as Candidate for Presidental Nomination. The following letter, written at Florence, Italy, by the Hon. James G. Blaine, explain; itself: Florence, Italy, Jan. 25, 18S8. B. F, Jones, Esq., Chairman of the lie pub lican National Committee: Sir: I wish, through you, to state to the members of the Republican party that my name will not hn nr-PSAnf^rl to the National Convention called to assemble in Chicago in Juno next for the nomination of candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States. I am constrained to this decision b v considerations entirely personal to myself, of which you were advised more than a year a^o. But I cannot make the announcement without giving expression to my deep sense of gratitude to the many thousands of my countrymen who have sustained me so long and so cordially that their feeling lias seemed to go beyona the ordinary political adherence of fellow-partisans and to partake somewhat of the nature of personal attachment. For this most generous loyalty of friendship I can make no adequate return, but I shall carry the memory of it while life lasts. Nor can I refrain from congratulating the Republican party upon the cheering prospects which distinguish the opening of the national contest of 1888 as compared with that of 1884. In 1882 the Republican party throughout the Union met with a disastrous defect. Ten States that had supported Garfield and Arthur in the election of 18S0 were carried by the Democrats either by majorities or pluralities. The Republican loss in the Northern elections compared with ths preceding national election exceeded half a mil .ion votes, and the electoral votes of the Union, divided on the basis of the result of 1882, gave to the Democrats over three hundred electors out of a total of 401. There was a partial reaction in favor of the Republicans in the elections of 1883, but the Democrats still held possession o? seven Northern States, and on the basis of the years contest could show more than one hundred majority in EWfcor-'d Col]^?S of the whole oouutrv. But agatlisc tiiO diSCooilament naturally following the adverse elections of these two years the spirit of the* Republican party in the national contest of 1884 rose high, and the Republican masses entered into the campaign with such energy that the final result depended on the vote of a Bingle state, and that state was carried by the Democratic party by a plurality so small that it represented less than one-seventh of one per cent, of the entire vote. The change of a single vote in every (2,O X)) two thousand of the total poll would have given the State to the Republicans, though only two years before the Democratic plurality exceeded (192,000) one hundred and ninety-two thousand. The eleccions of 1886 and 1887 have demonstrated growing strength in Republican ranks. Seldom in our political history has a party, defeated in a national election, rallied immediately with such vigor as have the Republicans since 1884 No comparison is possible between the spirit of the party in 1882-3 and its spirit in 1886-7. The two periods present simply a contrasts* the one of general depression, the other of enthusiastic revival. Should the party gain in the results of 1838 over those of 1886-7 in anything like the proportion of the gain of. 1884 over 1882-3, it would secure one of the most remarkable victories of its entire existence. But victory does not depend on so large a ratio of increase: the party has only to maintain relatively its prestige of 1886-7 to give to its national candidate every Northern State but one, with a far better prospect of carrying that one than it has had for the past six years. Another feature of the political situation should inspire Republicans with irresistible strength. The present National Administration was elected with, if not upon, the repeated assertions of its leading supporters in every protection State that no issue on the tariff was involved. However earnestly Republicans urged that question as the one of controlling importance in the campaign, they were met by the Democratic leaders and journals with pero?/4,lAn;nl TUnf resource the President has fortunately re-I moved The issue which the Rupublicans maintained and the Demo- I uJats avoided in 1SS4 has been promi- . nently and specifically brought forward by I the Democratic President anl cannot be hidden out of sight in 1388. The country is now in the enjoyment of an industrial system which in a quarter of a century has assured a larger national growth, a more rapid accumulation, and a broader distribution of wealth than were ever before known to history. The American people will now be openly and formally asked to decide whether this system shall be recklessly abandoned and a new trial be made of an old experiment which, has uniformly led to national embarrassment and widespread individual distress. On tho result of such an issue, fairly presented to the popular judgment, there is no room for doubt One thing only is necessary to assure success?complete harmony and cordial co opera-ion on the part of all Republicans? on the part botn of those who aspire to lead and of those who are eager to follow. The duty" is not one merely of honorable devotion to the party whose records and whosi aims are alike great, but it is one demanded by the instinct of self-interest and by the still higher promptings of patriotism. A closer observation of the conditions of life among the older nations gives me a more intense desire that the American people shall make no mistake in choosing tho policy whi.h inspires labor with hope and crowns it w?th dignity, which gives sflfpt v to caDital and nrotects its increase. which secures political power to every citizen, comfort and culture to every home". To this end, not less earnestly, and more directly, as a private citizen than as a public candidate, I shall devote myself, with the confident belief that the administration of the Government will be restored to the party which has demonstrated the purpose ana the power to wield it for the unity and the honor of the Republic, for the prosperity and progress of the people. I am, very sincerely, yours, James G. Blaine. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO. Miss Julia Marlowe recently began her first starring tour in Cincinnati. _M. B. Leavitt ha* leased the Grand Opera House, San Francisco, and will run ft at popular prices. "John Brown" is the title of a play written by Mr. W. T. Price, the dramatic critic of the New York Star. Sardou, the French dramatist, is building a magnificent villa at Nice for the special benefit of Sara Bernhardt. Fanny Davenport has engaged for an important role in "La Tosca" that wellknown actor, Frank Mordaunt. A marble statue will shortly bo placed Dver the grave of Dr. Leopold Damrosch in IVoodlawn cemet?ry, New York. Baron Achille Paoanini, son of the great violinist, will shortly publish the posthumous works of his father. The Buffalo Bill " Wild West" show returns to this country in May, and will give exhibitions at Erastina, Staten Island, (luring the iuuimer. It is stated that church music in New York City employs not far from 2,000 organists and iwalists, whose annual salaries amount to *250,000. Edwin- Booth and Lawrence Barrett are jnjoyine a pro ligious success in the South, where they draw the largest audiences ever cnown there. " A Midsummer Night's Dream" dazzles ill who see it at Daly's. This is said to bo ;he finest production ever seen on the Sew york stage. Mrs. Pottkii is mentioned as the possible eadiug lady of Wallaces Theatre,New York Jitv. Hose Coghlan has gone and J Irs. 4 lJi?v ij f i 1-n Dion Boitcicavlt's new play, "Cushlana-eliree," is in constant rehearsal by the Bou.-icault company. The title signifies in English: Throb of My Heart." A tank used in one of the now numerous 'tank dramas'' gave way the other dav at 3t. Louis. The catastropho spoiled the play: 'Never Kay Die," but nobody was killed. David Belasco and Henry C. De Mille lave contracted to write a new comedy for Edward H. Sothern, which the latter will irodtice during his summer season at the Lyceum, New York. Clarence Worrall, the boy cornetist ivho appears at the Bijou Theatre, New York, n "The Corsair," is nineteen year# of age. Eiisselections include "Phantom Feet," Levy: j 'GeraJdine," Arbuckle; "Take Back the ( Eleart," ClaribeL f T . -S - v TEE LAMP EXPLODED. Terrible Termination of a Spree at Silver Brook, Penn. Six People Burned Alive, and Others Fatally Injured, An awful disaster, the result of a drunken spree, and by which six lives were lost, occurred Sunday night at Silver Brook, eight miles south of Hazelton, Penn., where there are two large collieries, one Old Silver Brook and the other, half a mile west, New Silver Brook. A short distance back from the road stood two large frame houses. One was occupied by Lawrence Man lick and John Deicher with their families. Both kept boarders who were employed in ths mines. In all about two dozen people lived in the house, most of them men. Sunday they all went to Hazelton and returned home drunk about 6 o'clock in the evening. They then Indulged freely in "polinki," a mixture i?_?j l.M? A oi uau oeer unu worse wuisnjr. .n. ucj uguv was the result, and while it was in progress John Seddo knocked a lighted lamp off the table. It exploded, scattering the oil about the room ana over the clothes of the men. In an instant the whole room was enveloped in flames. The door was locked and the key could not be found, and the only means of escape was by jumping from the windows. .Some were too stupefied to escape, and, remaining in the room, perished in the flames. Five oi the men and one girl were literally roasted alive. Their names are: John Elias, aged twenty years; John Seddo, twenty-five years; John Kobinko, thirty-five years, married; Michael Yankovitsch, thirty years; Mary Manlick,sixteen years; Paul Sisskowitz,thirty years. Manlick and his wife were botn so badlv burned that it was feared they could not recover. Paul Sisskowitz escaped from the house, but was so frightfully burned that be died on Monday. Mrs. Man' !!:!: ture?T uaoy out ot: one of the Windows to save it from the flames,but in falling it wa? fatally injured. Peter Manski was terribly burned about the upper portion of his bodv and his in juries were thought to be fatal. Half a dozen others were badly burned and injured by jumping out of the window. The house was an old one and burned so rapidly that in less than half an hour it was totally consumed. Near by lay Panl Sisskowitz, his face and body burnt to a crisp, and Manlick's one-year-old baby, its whole oody bruised and bleeding. These who escaped from the house rushed wildly about in paroxysms of pain, seeking relief from their intense sufferings. They were removed to Silver Brook. TO SAVE EIS LIFE, An Operation Performed on the German Crown Prince. The breathing of the Crown Prince of Germany was much worse on Tuesday, and a telegram was sent to Prof. Bergmann, of Berlin, urging him to hasten bis arrival at San Remo. It was decided by the physicians in attendance that the operation of tracheotomy must be performed, as tlVlA Prirtoa wna n?o ux raiuiii^ ytjiu uicuuct difficulty. It was finally decided that it would be unsafe to wait for Professor Bjrgmann, and Dr. Bramann performed the operation. The operation was performed at 3 o'clock p. m. in a large sitting room in the Villa Zirio. which had been converted into a bedroom. Not a teaspoonful of blood was lost. Drs. Mackenzie, Hove'.l, Schroeder and Krause were present during the operation. Dr. Mackenzie sent a report to the Emperor, which was of a cheerful character. At 11 o'clock at night the Prince appeared quite easy. He was not allowed to talk. Although there are no symptoms of laryngitis, he will keep in bed for some days. Dr. Mackenzie will remain at San Remo until his patient is out of danger. Tbe principal thing necessary to guard against is bronchitis. The Crown Princess was not present during the operation. The physicians 1 are pleased with the results of the operation and are confident of the patient's speedy recovery. The Crown Prince bore the operation bravely, and did not faint. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Oil has been struck at Lehigh, Indian Territory. Swedish protectionists have formed a new Cabinet. "Dnrwmii Drnir A tir?rr mne Kw Tin*. x luiiva uidnanv^n new vucviou ijj kuo lin children as he left the Reichstag. "Several American bishops are trying to reconcile Father McGlynn and the Vatican." The discovery of big cracks in the Boston State House frightens Massachusetts Legislators. A contract for 500,000 pairs of military boots has been given by the German Government. A woman in a circus at Dublin, Ireland, put her head in a lion's mouth and was horrv bly lacerated. The ice blockade beiween Bath, Ma, and the Woolwich shore was raised by the liberal , use of dynamite. I [Governor Bcckner, of Kentucky, says 1 he won't surrender the Hatfields to the Stat? 1 of West Virginia. Ernest Brock. 13 years old, died in Chij ;ago of hydrophobia. He had been bitten by a dog on January 10. A series of dinners are to be given to Jusi! - - T -- U? T.J/rnn svf lice i-*a.mar u v 0110 u uujjwj ui tuo oupivuio j Court, each one taking his turn. ( The congregation of the Rev. Mr. Was- f Bail, of Mendon. Mass., gave him his walking ] papers because he smoked a pipe. j San Francisco's Chief of Police was robbed by burglars, who got away with $1,- 1 500 worth of jewelry from nis wife's room. , Mrs. Sarah Stein, aged 79, accidentally i hanged herself while putting up a clothes i line at Titusville, Penn. Her neck was ( broken. ( American potatoes are scarce in Chicago, and thousands of sacks are being imported ] from Rotterdam, A recent consignment was { 2,500 sacks. ] Mgr. Adam, of California, presented to ' the Pope a photograph of Gabriel, an Indian Catholic, 140 years old, for whom he asked a special blessing. George L Finkle, leader in the faraoua anti-rent war in the Hudson and Mohawk valleys, N. Y., in 1844 and 1845, died recent- j ly, aged eighty. The United States authorities have cap- ? tured a smuggler at Watertown. N. Y., with j $25,000 worth of opium brought across the j Canadian border. j The French Government refuses to take | 1 part in the art exhibition in vlenna as a re- i prisal for Austria's refusal to participate in the French exhibition. Mrs. William Windel, while quietly listening to the service in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Wheeling (W. Va.), ex pired from heart disease. Recently Captain W. S. Pit to, the great Western tourist and Florida's alligator exterminator, made a contract to furnish one firm I with 18,000 alligator skins. Albert Little, Sheriff of Gonzales County, Texas, was killed by a negro desperado named Jackson. A posse overtook Jackson and riddled him with bullets. William Marshall, the conductor of the first passenger train in New York State, which ran from Albany to Schenectady about fifty-five years ago, died in the latter city a few days since. The new German Army bill increases tht strength of the army by 700.000 men. and tht initial cost of putting the change into effect, not considering the subsequent annual expense, will be * 70,0JO,000. Richard Cassiboxe, a decrepit old man. was arrested at Zanesville, Ohio, charged with having escaped from the Penitentiary thirty years ago, while undergoing a sis ( years' sentence for manslaughter. j Among the items in this year's Prussian 3 budget is one of o,000,000 marks for the ex I tension of the German telephone system in f Berlin. All overhead telephone wires will Ik I placed under ground during the year. S Dave Lasher, engineer of the cannon ^ ball train on the Texas & Pacific, refused | to take his train out of Texarkana, Texas, ^ the other night, because he had dreamed it ? would be wrecked. Before reaching Boa- C ham, Texas, the train had gone through n y trestle. ? J _ - * . ' > " . ' . * . . - SDMMABY OF C0tf&BE38. Senate Proceedingss 36th Day.?The following petition* and memorials were introduced: To place on the free list books printed in a fo/eign language; To amend the Patent law? in relation to mnocent buyers of patent articles; To remove the duty on all medicines, medical and surgical instruments; For the forfeiture of the Marquette, Superior, and Ontonagon Railroad Land Grant in Michigan. A bill was passed appropriating 115,000 for the relief of the poor or the District of Columbia; A bill to provide for the erection of Public Buildings by contract to the lowest bidder; A bill was placed on the calendar increasing the pensions of those who have lost a limb, two limbs or both eyes.... An appro??"* A# tonn (inAfAAmutfo pnttblUIl noa ao&CU Ul vwv^wv wr?ievvH vivf ernment Record Building....The inquiry into the alleged inefficiency of the mail service in the West was taken up, and after discussion was laid aside.... $3o0,000 was appropriated for the extension of the publlo building at Newark, N. J.... Mr. Morgan offered a resolution (which was laid over) instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire and report whether Congress had power to enact laws to prohibit, within the States, the adulteration of food. 37th Day.? Mr. Plumb made a lengthy argument for an inquiry into the inefficiency of the mail service....The following bitw were reported: Authorizing the Secretary of War to convt y to the city of Austin, Texas, a tract of land for educational purposes; To authorize the sale of mineral land* to aliens A bill was introduced to compensate female nurses for services daring the war....A bill was presented to prohibit the selling or giving of tobacco in any form to persona under sjxtfen years of ' age residing in the District of Columbia! 1 38th Day?A petition was presented from /?orfnfn roeirlAnte nf DhlrntJl nslnnc the ftrl mission of that Territory as a State.... The following bills were reported: To reward Esquimaux on the Asiatic coast in the Arctic regions for kindness to shipwrecked seamen; to provide for an international conference to secure greater safety at nea for property and life; to amend laws so that Notaries public can administer oaths....The Blair Educational Bill was passed by a vote P? 30 to & House Proceeding*. 39th Day.?Consent was asked for. consideration of the bill giving a right-of-way through the Indian Territory to the Choctaw Coal and Iron Railroad, which was granted The resolution to inquire into the alleged inefficiency of the Western mail service, was reported favorably and discussed at great length.... Four bills relating to the liquor traffic in the District of Columbia, ?? ? AIaaUaWa T TrofRrt VVCIT3 1C1CIICUUU VUO AIWUUVUV JUiUUV* xtumw Committee, by a vote of 116 to 20 . . A bill was reported favorably to create an Arbitration Board, to settle the differences between the United States and Texas concerning No Man's Land The House begun consideration of the private calendar. 40th Day.?The following bills and resolutions were introduced: Authorising the election of a delegate from the Indian Territory to Congress; Permitting farmera and producers of tobacco to sell leaf tobacco in any quantity to unlicensed dealers; For the appointment of apprentices in mechanical . branches in United States navy yards; To prohibit fictitious and gambling transactions in * articles produced by American farming industry. .. .The bill to prohibit the advertisement of any lottery scheme or other game of chance in the District of Columbia was taken up and discussed by Mr. Cummings, who said it was an abridgement of the freedom of the press. Referred to the Committee on Judiciary.... A bill was passed prohibiting poolselling in Washington or Georgetown. 41st Day.?A resolution was reported assigning the second and fourth Mondays in' : each month for consideration of business relating to the District of Columbia....The c Secretary of "War seut a communication in response to the resolution asmng ror miormation relative to war records, which was re? ferred A joint resolution was passed appropriating |C2.500 to print 25,000 copies qf an executive document relating to cattle ana dairy products.... A bill was introduced to refund to New York City $2,292,657, the amount (the contributed to the Union Defence ftmd during the war Mr. Mills introduced a bill providing for the use of the surplus in purchasing Government bonds. 42d Day.?A bill was pa: sei creating a Board of Arbitration to settle the controversy between the United States and Texai respecting certain territory lying between the north and south fork of Red River.... The Committee on Commerce reported a bill for the construction of a revenue cutter for use at Charleston, 8. C., to the Committee of the Whole Mr. Davis, of Massachusetts, from the same Committae, reported a bill to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases and to establish a Bureau* of Public Health. Committee of the Whofe. ^ . f * There is a convent not far froni the heart of New York City which has always had a select Jewish patronage* the young ladies paying each $1,000 for board and tuition. The good Sister* not only keep their own holidays, but see to it that -their Jewish pupils observe the Jewish festivals. "You need not att nd recitations to-morrow," said, a Sister once to her Jewish students. "It is one of your holidays." The girls were amav;ed. The only day their par* ents kept was Yom Kippur, and now; after severe reflection, they realized ' that they were requested to observe Pnntn. THE .MARKETS. 7 NEW YORK. Beef, good to prime jjK halves, common to prime.... ">$:? sheep ^(3 6* Lambs J? JVZHogs?Live... 5 50 @ 5 90 Dressed .J}4& A Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 40 @ 4 75 West, good to choice 2 90 @ 5 00^ Wheat? No. 2 Red ? O'j {g{ 0071 B Rye?State 56 @ 58 Barley?State - 82 @ 85 Dorn?Ungraded Mixed.... 5?0$? Date? White State 89 @ 40 Mixed Western S8%? 41 Say?Med. to prime 85 @ 90 Straw?No. 1. Rye 1 00 @ 1 05 Lard?City Steam 7 92 @7 93 Butter?State Creamery.... S3 @ 34 Dairy 20 @ 26 West Im. Creamery 20 @ 24 Factory 14 @ 23 Cheese? State Factory 12>?@ 12J? Skims 8 @ 10 Western 11^@ 12 3ggs?State and Penn 25|?@ 2<)Jtf BUFFALO. Steers?Western 3 25 ? 4 15 Sheep?Good to Choice 5 25 @ 5 63 ^amos?Western 4 5) @ 6 58 iogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 90 @5 95 'lour?Family 4 7> (g 5 15 A'heat?No. 1 91 @ 91V 3orn?No. 2, Mixed 5-5 @ 55V )ats?No. 2, Mixed ? @ 35?? iarley?State 88 @ 69 BOSTON. Jeef?Good to choice 8 @ 11 logs?Live 5)?(g) 6 Northern Dressed.... 714 tork?Ex. Prirao. per bbL.. 14 75' "@16 75" ~ , rlour?Soring Wheat pat's.. 4 70 @ 4 95 torn?High Mixed. 6465^ Jats?Extra White tye?State 60 @ 65 WATERTOWX (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET 5eef- Dressed weight 0%@ T-4 iheeri?Live weight 4&@ 5 -amb{ 6 @ 0% logs?Northern 7 @ 7% PHILADELPHIA 'lour?Penn.extra family... 3 75 @ 8 87% Vl:eat?No. 2. Red ' *'% torn?State Yellow )ats ? Mixed , 4" @ 40 lye?State 5 2J^.a} 53 Jutter? Creamery Extra... ? @ 28 Jheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. 12%@ 15 FURS AND SKI.V8. Jlai-k Bear IS 0) @25 05 ubs ami vearling 6 00 @15 00 Jtter, each 7 00 @10 00 leaver, medium 4 00 @ 5 50 Jink w (w av ted Fox 1 20 @ 1 K> rrev For 9'J (? 1 10 laccoon, each 75 <& 1 10 ikunk, black 1 00 (S) 1 15 ikunk, half-striped 65 @ 75 Ikunk, striped SI @ 3.5 Ikunk, white 15 @ IS ' )j.ossum, larpc, cased -38 <? 43 )posjiura, niea.um and open. 20 (5) 23 luskrat, winter 10 <? IS Imkrat, fa:; 13 <S> 15 ....