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' .f- - * "chief justice fuller. The President Nominates a Successor to Mr. lYaite. Melville W. Fuller, of Chicago, Receives the Appointment. MELVILLE W. FTLLER. .Tte President has nominated Melville TV. Fuller, of Chicago, to be Chief Justice of the United States. Mr. Fuller is a native of Maine and is a grandson of ex-Chief Justice Weston of that State. He has, however, been a resident of Illinois for many years, and has obtained a prominent place at the bar of Chicago. He is a personal friend of the President, and is well known in Washington from his frequent visits on business before the Supreme Court. He was not an applicant, and has not been in Washington since the death of Chief Justice Waite. It was known that .President Uieveiana held Mr. Fuller in the very highest estimation long before there was any thought of his name in connection with the exalted office for which he has been named. The President had in every possible way tried to secure Mr. Fuller's services in some office within his gift He asked him to be Solicitor General of the Department of Justice. He wanted him to give bis ability as a member of the Civil Service Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission or the Pacific Railroad Commission. To all the President's offers Mr. Fuller replied respectfully declining any of the proposed honors. He said his preferences were wholly as an active member of his profession and as such he could not indulge in political preferment. This only served to increase Mr. Cleveland's esteem for him, until at last he offers him the greatest honor within the gift of the President of the United States. In politics he is bast described as an old school Democrat He believes in an advanced <, doctrine of States rights and advocates a simple government. He is a member of the Urkiconnol PKnroVi onrl hoc KoAll prominently identified with that organization, and has been conspicuous in the Cheney and other famous ecclesiastical trials. Mr. Fuller's Career. Mr, Melville Weston Fuller was born in Augusta, on Feb. 11, lSS'i His father was Frederick A. Fuller; his mother Catherine ' Martin, daughter of Chief Justice Nathan Weston. Melville W. fitted for college in Augusta and graduated at Bowdoin in the class of 1853, his classmate being E. J. Phelps, our Minister to England. Mr. Fuller, after leaving college, began the study of law at Bangor. After attending lectures in the law department of Harvard University he began the practice of his profession in Augusta in 185&, While waiting for clients he acted as editor of the Age ana won hit spurs in journalism. Feeling that his true field of work was the law, and realizing that his native city did not afford that scope or effort which he stood in need of. Mr. Fuller went to Chicago. There he did not have to wait long for practice. His Ability was speedily recognized and properly rewarded. For thirty years he has enjoyed a lucrative practice, and has won distinction among the foremost at the Illinois Bar. Inl861 he was elected a member of the State Constitutional Convention. In 1862 he was chosen to the Legislature, and although a Democrat running each time in a strong Republican district, he was victorious by large majorities. He -was a delegate to the Democratic National conventions of 1864,1872,1876 and 1880. In 1860 he was selected by the citizens to deliver the address of welcome to Stephen A. Douglas. In 1858 Mr. Fuller married Calista 0. Reynolds, and,after her decease,Mary Ellen, daughter of the distinguished banker, Will iam F. Coolbaugh. He has eight daughters. Id his practice in the Supremo Court of the United States Mr. Fuller has repeatedly come in contact, both as a colleague and as an opponent, with Messrs. Edmunds, Tburman, Hoadly, Ingersoll and other admittedly great lawyers. He is familiar with the decisions of that Court and well informed is the history of our country, and especially in constitutional questions. Not content with the vast amount of reading and writing, which of necessity results from the active practice of his profession, Mr. Fuller has had an immense amount of miscellaneous reading and considerable writing by way of recreation. "wr ttnllov io a dim TPirv-lrvVkinc rriAn rather below the middle height. %e has silver-gray hair and a drooping gray moustache. He dresses well, and is considerei exceptionally good looking. His face is fresh and unwrinkled,his 55 years notwithstanding. He is a popular club man and goas a gooJ deal into society. He is one of the best known lawyers hi th? Northwest. _ THE LABOR WORLD. Den^r*(coiflri'.tlSyerS get $5 per day. Ihey work eight hour^ _ There are nearly 1000 people employed in thft Australian eonrar mines. A clothes-pin factory at Montpelier, Vt, has a capacity of 200 gross per day. One of the largest blast furnaces ever built has been put up at Knoxville, Tenn. Three thousand people earn their living in Kansas coal, lead and zinc mines. The co-operative town of Powderly, Ala., now boasts of more than thirty houses. Upward of forty-five ton3of paper are manufactured daily at Watertown, N. Y. A bridge is to be built across the Ohio River at Owensboro, Ky., to cost one million dollars. An organization of New York citv workiegmen proposes to establish a co-operative coal yard. One thousand children in Fall River, Mass., most of whom work in the factories, fnnnnt rea/1. Operators in the cotton and jute mills of Bombay, India, receive from ten to twelve cents per day. Near Coburg, Germany, a whole village of people bos for many generations made nothing bnt toys. Between COOOand 7000 men will be thrown opt of work by the shut down in the Connellsville (Fenn.) coke region. Immense iron works, costing $1,003.000,are to be erected at Duluth, Minn., including blast furnace, steel mills and rolling mills. Shot manufacturing is in a bad way at .present. Owins to the protracted peace it is possible to buy a ton of shot for the same price as a ton of lead. Labor strikes are spreading in Germany. The Labor Central Committee has requested workmen to stay away from the districts effected by the strikes. It is said there are farmers' wives on Long Island who make boys' trousers for three cents. There are women in .>ew i orx wno toil sixteen hours a day for sixty cents. It has been estimated that only ?000 men, are at present employed around the mines in1 the Shamokin (Penn.) district. Heretofore) G000 bare usually been at work at this time' . ?f the year. Only five hundred out of the three thou-, sand striking workmen at Carnegie's steel works, near Pittsburg, are active in their opposition against the co-operative proposition made them. There is a downward tendency in wages and cost of production all over the United States. A ten pi?r cent, reduction in wages is to take place among two thousand miners,' mt Johnstown, Penn. The Chinese colony in Chicago consists of 2,000 souls, of whom only two are women. About one hundred of them are merchants, everal of whom have fortunes of from $100,000 to $200,000. Four firms, dealing in tea, coffee and Chinese groceries, have an aggregate capital of 1500,000. I THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. John B. Biscoe, a colored man, has been hanged at Leonardtown, Md., for the murder of Captain R. P. Dixon in 1886. The sixty-sixth anniversary of the birthday of General Grant was celebrated through out the country, particularly by notable gatherings of men in New York, Boston and Pit'.sburg. The remains of ex-Governor John T. Hoffman, who recently died abroad, were brought to Now York, and after memorial services in Brace Church, were taken to Sing Sing, N. Y., and there interred. Frederick Witte, a New York clerk, while attempting to put out an electric light received a shock that resulted fatally. A lad in Grove City, Penn., banged himlelf because his mother whipped him. The Rev. Edgar L. Heermance, former pastor of the Presbyterian Church at W bite Plains, N. Y., committed suicide Sunday by (hooting himself while standing in that church's pulpit General Joseph E. Johnston, the highest in rank of living officers of the Confederate army, has been unanimously elected an honorary member of E. D. Baker Post, G. A. R., of Philadelphia. Freshets have done much damage in valleys of the Connecticut, Merrimac, Kennebec and other New England rivers, and in. the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota. David N. Burke, of New York, to be Consul of the United States at Bahia, and Francis Gross, of New York, to be Appraiser of Merchandise in the district of New York, are the latest appointments by President Cleveland. W. G. Dcttznhoffer, tax-collector of Columbia, Penn., having defaulted to the amount of StOJO, now turns out to be a forger as well, his bonds having no genuine Mguaiuiv^ u?/vsu vuvui. Two little children of Emil Faist were burned to death in New York city by the explosion of a kerosene lamp in the hands of their mother. Charles A. Rickerd, a New York policeman caught in the act of robbing a store on his beat, was arrested, disgraced by having the buttons cut from his uniform, indicted, sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, and taken to Sing Sing, all in less than ten hours. Dr. Simmons, of New York, who attended Samuel J. Tilden in his last illness, has sael the executors of the Tilden estate for $143,000, the amount of his bill for medical ?2rrices. Ex-Assistant Cashier De Baun, of the National Park Bank, New York, has stolen (95,000of the institution's funds and fled, it is surmised, to Canada. This does not affect the stability of the bank, as it has a large surplus. New Hampshire Democrats held their State Convention at Concord, and adopted resolutions approving the President's message on the subject of Tariff reform, and recommending him to the St. Louis convention for renomination. The delegates were instructed to so vote in the Presidential Convention. South and Wert. At Galesburg, 111., W. A. Hedberg, a Burlington engineer, killed Herbert Newell, a itnker, and seriously wounded a fireman. Alexander Jones has been hanged at Tallahassee, Fla., for the murder of George Cuthbert While in jail waiting to receive the death penalty he murdered one of his guards. Br the breaking through of the floor in the Rushsylvanii (Ohio) town hall, three persons were killed and many injured. John Qcarles, of Ridge way, S. C., attempted to punish his young brother for a trifling offense, when the boy stabbed him to the heart, killing him instantly. Arch Stoltz, a farmer who lived near Richmond, Ky., killed himse'f with poison. His brother William^ seeing the corpse, took the remainder or trie drug ana uiei, asking w be buried in the sime coffin with Arch. A peajjct trust has been formed at Nor folk, Va., which controls the entire peanut interest of this country with the exception of three small factories. The bodies of Mrs. Mary J. Kearney, aged sixty, and James Hand, aged seven, have been discovered on the ranch where they had been living, ten miles from Colorado Springs, CoL The boy had a large fortune, which was held in trust for him. There is no clu3 to the murderers. The boiler in William Caldwell's file fac tory at Rushville, Ind, exploded, kil.ing three men and wounding five others. Henry Pope, a colored murderer, was sentenced to be hanged Friday, at Summerville Ga., but Governor Gordon respited him foi sixty days. There waa such intense feelina against the culprit, however, that a mob oJ citizens took him from jail and lynched him. The State Republican Convention met at Columbia. S. C., and chose delegates to thi Chicago Convention, who go thither unin structed on the subject of a Presidential nominee. Two section men were killed and threa badly hurt near Elko, Neo., by an engin? running into a hand car. The Wisconsin Democracy assembled ir AAwwanftAn af ^la/1i'cAn arts! a/)nrvfdH racrt1n< tions demanding Tariff reform and indorsing the administration of President Cleveland A delegation was sent to the St Louis Convention that will support Cleveland for tba Presidential nomination. As electors-at-larga the Convention elected Nelson Dewey, who was the fiist Governor the State of Wisconsin over had, and Thomas Thompson, a young Norwegian, from Trempealeau county. General Wirt Adams, postmaster ol Jackson, Miss., and John EL Martin, editor of the New Mississippian, fought a street) duel, in which both were killed. The cause of animosity was certain articlos in Martin's paper reflecting on the veracity of Adams. _____ v r Washington. A majority of the members of both houses have accepted the invitation of the Secretary of the Navy to withess the launching of the new war vessels at the Cramp shipyard in Philadelphia. Total amount of bonds offered in reply tc Secretary Fairchild's recant call, $8,601,050; total accepted, $3,775,650; total cost, 84.291.790.75. Total saving in interest to the Government, $865,084.75. The President his approved the act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy: the act to secure the relinquishment of the In lian title to certain portions of the reservation of theSiour nation of Indians: the act ratifying an agreement with the Gros Ventre, Piegan, Blood, Blackfeet, and River Crow Indians in Montana; the act for a public building at Greenville, S. C., and the a?t for the construction of an arsenal at Columbia, Tenn. Foreign. Queen Victoria has returned to England, landing at Sheerness. The Panama Lottery Loan bill ha* passed the French Chamber of Deputies by a vote of 312 to 182. This empowers Count De Lesaeps to establish a lottery in furtherance of his Ship Canal scheme in Panama. The Servian Ministry has resign9d and a new Ministry formed. Thirteen* lives were lost by the sinking of the ship Smyrna off the Isle of Wight. Mexican traops had a sharp battle with hostile Yaqui Indians on the Tejambpo Mountains, in which twenty-one redskins were killed and fourteen taken prisoner. The Brit'sh Government offers to owners of over twenty horses an annual retainer of $2. SO for each horse for the option of purchasing them in time of war. Paul Kruger has been re-elected President of the Transvaal Republic. Sir Alfred Phillipps Ryder, Admiral of her British Majesty's fleet, has been drowned in the Thames at London. Admiral Ryder suffered from insomnia, and the drowning was the result of an accident. A FIGHT IN A 'MOSQUE, Fifteen Convicts and Four Pnltcomen Killed in Egypt. A desperate conflict took place a few day8 ago at a mosque in Damanhour, near the city of Alexandria. A number of escaped prisoners had taken refuge in the mosque and refused to surrender to the police, wbo had surrounded the building. In the fight that followed fifteen of the convicts were killed and two " oun^H The police lost four men killed and wounded. Dr. Junker, the explorer. In & lecture bofore tbe Berlin Geographical 8ociety, expressed hi* conviction that Stanley is now with Emin Bey. This is the opinion of all the leading German explorers, .. THOUSANDS POISONED. Attempted Annihilation of an Indian Tribe in Brazil. Over Three Thousand Natives Killed by Poisoned Water, An account of an alleged poisoning of a large number of Brazilian Indians by one Senhor Joaquin Bueno, has been received. The story shows that Bueno has already poissoned 3800 Indians and was meditating the murder of 5030 more. The Sao Faulo weekly, the Paulista, of Taubate, a Brazilian newspaper says: The worthy Bishop of Goyaz has engaged several missionaries and acquired books for the purpose of teaching ana converting cao Indians of our backwoods. Little did we think that at Paranapanema a certain Senbor Joaquin Bueno was also carrying out a conversion of a different kind among the Guaymus Indians, surrounded with the greatest horrors. A person recently arrived from the west, who deserves our entire confidence, heard Senhor J. Bueno himself relate in the presence of the Municipal Judge of Lencoes and of other persons the following exploits achieved by him against the poor Indians: Bueno, who resides at Sao Jose dos Campos Novos, stated that he had under his orders about seventy people employed in the persecution and extermination of the Indians. Some days ago thev attacked a village and put to flight all tnelndians, who abandoned to their Eersecutors their huts, which were inhabited y bodies of from tan to twenty Indians, who sleep on raised platforms made of logs fastened together, so that from the beJs, when all are counted, the number of the inhabitants contained in each village can be ascertained when they are absent. Around each of these villages there are three wells or holes; one, the deepest, is the well which supplies them with water, in fVinw i-ann a rlrfnb mnrlA of fermented I UUUbUOl WUWJ %m \u ? - - ... maize, which they call "piksi," and which composes their wine or rum, and in the last they preserve game, birds, and salt fi-h for their subsistence. Aa soon as the assailants found themselves in possession of the village, being furnished with a considerable amount ot strychnine, they set about poisoning all the wells containing water, win9 and provisions, and after putting into execution this treacherous deed withdrew without touching anything elsa Some days afterward Bueno ana his followers returned to the villajre.and even from a distance comprehended the horror of the sight from clouds of crows hovering over the site of the crime, where they found stark and scattered SOOO corpses. The crimes do not end hera. Days afterward they attacked and exterminated another village of eight hundred Indians on which occasion, having no strychnine, they made use of sublimated mercury in the same manner, poisoning the deposit? of water, wine and provisions, and at the time of speaking they were preparing to attack another village of five thousand Indiana. This Senhor J. Bueuo states that he is supported by influential people and by five Provincial Deputies. If still in time it is the duty of the provincial government to prevent the norron planned for the next attack, the description of which we have here recorded, in favor of these unfortunate nomads and for the shame of the human species. A DAKOTA TOWN BURNED. Central City Swept Out of Existence and the Inhabitants Homeless. Central City, a town of 1000 inhabitants, two miles above Deadwood, Dakota, has Afallw /loct.rnxrAH hv fire. Thft loss ifl I estimated at from $150,000 to $200,000; insurance light. No lives were lost. About 130 buildings were burned. The whole community is homeless, entire families losing everything and escaping with only their lives, the fire originated in a bakery. The entire fire department of Deadwood and Lead City were promptly on hand, but a failure of the water supply rendered their assistance useless. Both sides of Main street, from Saw Pit to Gold street, are in ashes. Fairview quartz mill was destroyed. Merchandise and household goods were piled up all over the side of the mountain. No one was injured. Central City is a mining town. It ships about $100,000 worth of Dullion monthly. MUSICAL AND DEAMATI0. Edwin Booth is a collector of rare old books. Lawrence Barrett has reached the halfhundred mile Dostof life. Maud Powell, tbe violin virtuoso, will undertake another Western tour. Minnie Terry, six years old, earns fifty dollars a week on the London stage. Thomas Nast, tbe cartoonist, talk? of building a theatre at Los Angeles, Cal. A violin made of clay is now on exhibition in Berlin. It is said to have a strong and full tone. Louis James and Marie Wainwright will do a dramatization of Hawthorn's "The Scarlet Letter," next seasoa At a concert in St. Petersburg, Russia,two pieces were playod upon twenty-four grand pianofortes by lorty-eight pianists. Mrs. Langtry is to pass the summer on the Pacific coast and has ?0$ piflig any contracts lo appear next season as yet Rosin a Volkes and hor English-American company are playing a very successful season at Daly's theatre, New York. Christine wilssox proposes to ena ner artistic career by singing for the last time at Albert Hall, London, May 25 and June 30. The great success in Paris at present is the comic opera in three acts by the late Bernicat, called "The First Arms of Louis XV." Campakiki, the opera impressario, has gotten rid of his $800 per night tenor, Marconi, and is singing the title role of "Otello'' himself. Phylis Broughto.v, of the English comic opera sj^e, who is shortly to marry the heir to a wealthy Earl, is reputed to be a good, womanly girl, who is universally respected. "Tank" plays are not new, as a tank was used in 1805 in a play called ''Life on the Ocean Wave," in which a dog rescued a rag" baby Irom a tank tun 01 water on uie stage. Miss Emma Thursby, the great concert artist, says she does not see the necessity of going to Europa to cultivate the voice, as we have as fine teachers as are to be found anywhere. Charles Wyndham, the English comedian, got his first engagement on the stage from John Wilkes Booth, whom he found to be ' 'a c harming fellow and an excellent companion." after Mrs. urown rotter e engagement in oan Francisco, she will take her summer vacation, and then go to Wallack's Theatre, New York. It is assumed that this will be a trial engagement for the difficult position of leading lady at that house. "Sweet Lavender" will be the flrstplay presented at the Lyceum Theatre, New York, when the regular season begins next fall. Mr. Frohman will get a number of valuable points on how to produce this play while he is absent in England. A story comes from Bordeaux, France, that Mme. Cornelie Fauvelle lately celebrated her eightieth birthday by playing the tame sombrette part in which she made her debute three-quarters of a century ago. In the aulience were her children, grandchil dren and great-grandchildren. Thj dramatic profession have arranged a benefit for the veteran actor, Lester Wallnck, to take place at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, on May 21st. "Hamlet" will be performed, with the following remarkable cast: Hamlet, Edwin Booth; La-rtos, Lawrence Barrett; King, Frank Mayo; Ghost, Charles Couldock; rolonius, John Gilbert; First Gravedigger, Joseph Jefferson; Second Gravedigger, W. J. Florence; Rosencranz, Lawrence Hanley; GuildenBtern, Charles Hanford; Marcellus, Steele Mackaye; Bernardo, Herbert Kelcey; Francisco, LouisMassen: Priest, Harry Edwards; First Actor, John Lane; Second Actor, Robert Hilliard; Ophelia, Mme. Modjeska; Queen, Mrs. D. r. Bowers; Player Queen, Miss Rose Coghlan. Miss Diehle, of Toledo, Ohio, returned from a two years' visit to Germany, only to find both parents dead and her home in possession of a stranger. i ~:rr* > '' ?sc '/--an SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. Senate Proceedings. &4th Day.?A bill was introduced to require the purchase and coinage of not less than $4,000,000 worth of silver bullion -per month.... Mr. Stewart offered a resolution, which was laid over, calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the amount of silver bullion offered to the Government since the passage of the Silver Coinage Act, and by wnom and at what prices; also of the amount of silver bullion purchased each month during the same period, and from whom and at what prices The Senate proceeded to the consideration of the Railroad Land Forfeiture bill After discussion, the bill went over without action. The International Copyright bill was taken up and discussed, and several minor amendments passed. 85th Day.?The following bills were reported: The Senate bill appropriating $100,000 for a public building at Sterling, UL; the House bill to establish a Department of Labor; the Senate bill to restrict the use and sale of opium in the District of Columbia and the Territories; the Senate bill defining the positions and salaries of assistant astronomers at the United States Naval Observatory .... A bill was introduced to establish an educational fund, and to provide for a more complete endowment of colleges for scientific and industrial education A bill was referred appropriating J 103,000 for the prevention and extirpation of yellow fever in the United States Mr. Spooner offered a resolution (which was adopted) calling on the Civil Service Commissioners for complete lists of all persons who have received probational appointments to offices within the classified service in Washington since March 4, 1885 The President sent vetoes of the bills to pension Mary Sullivan because she was already on the pension rolls, and of William Sackman because he was intoxicated when his injuries were received....Mr. InSalls spoke on the question to refer the Presient's message. 8'jth Day.?The Direct Tax bill ha3 been again offered to the Senate as an amendment to the Sundry Appropnaton bill.... The new Chinese treaty was reported to the Senate favorably from the Foreign Relations Committe3 with two amendments.... Senator Edmunds introduced a bill to-day to increase the pensions to "soldiers, sailors or marines wh> contract el heart disease during the war."....The Senate has aaoptea ine resolution to elicit certain information concerning the administration of the New York Custom House. The resolution directs the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish the Senate with full information as to employes in the Customsservice in New York....The nomination of Melville W. Fuller to be -Chief Justice was referred to committee. House Proceeding*. 99th Day.?Two resolutions calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information relative to the seal fisheries in Alaska were adopted.... After a short discussion as to whether it was competent for the House to proceed to the consideration of private busi- | ness the House went into Committee of the Whole (Mr. Springer of Illinois in the chair) on the Tariff bill. Mr. Brewer, of Michigan, took the floor and spoke in support of the present protective tariff. Speeches were also J delivered by Messrs. Tarsney, Russell, Goff, Ford and Landes. 100th Day.?On motion of Mr. Bryce of New York the Senate bill to provide an anchorage for vessels in New York harbor was passed The debate on the Mills Tariff bill occupied the remainder of the day's session. 101st Day.?The House continued the discussion over the Mills Tariff bill. The debate was participated in by Messrs. Grosvenor, Rayner, Nutting, HeDderson, Hemp' hill and Gallinger. 102d Day.?The continuation of the debatq over the Mills Tariff bill occupied the entire day's session. Mr. Foran spoke in opposition to the measure, and was followed by Messrs. McCreary and O'Ferrall, who supported the bill. 103d Day.?The day was devoted to the debate over the Mills Tariff bill. Messrs. Wilson and Lanham spoke in support of the measure, while Messrs. McComas and Allen too'c the floor in opposition to it 4 hi it-/-vt tin itti tti it/i tirn A \y rLUhLHRLL rULLMU-lJMU, Seven Murderers Simultaneously Executed In Arkansas. A wholesale hanging took place at Fort Smith, Ark., on Friday, of murderers recently sentenced by Judge Parker of the United States Court The execution was public and an enorraons crowd of people from all parts of the Indian Nation ana Arkansas assembled to see the murderers hung. The Sheriff had erected a scaffold with seven nooses and seven traps, and shortly before noon the signal was given and simultaneously the following seven mu: derers were swung into eternity: Owen D. Hill, a colored man, for the murder of his wife on July 1, 1887. Jack Crow, colored, for the murder of Hharlfts B_ Wilson, a Choctaw, in the Choc taw Nation, in 1885. George Most, colored, for the murder of George Taft in Red River County, CJf < taw Nation, in September, 1887. Jefferson Hildebrand. Cherokee, for the murder of John Ridgeway, near Coffeyville, Cherokee Nation, in May, 18S5. William Alexander, colored, for murdering his stepdaughter, Ella ""hitefleld, in Choctaw Nation. Emanuel Peterson, colored, for the murder of Deputy Marshal Wil'ard B. Haves, who was trying to arrest him in the Choctaw Nation in 1881. Richard Southerland, white, for the murder of his renter. Jake Burrows, in Septem ber, 1885. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Tej?jtyson is at work on a poem of some length. Henry t. uoxwell, tne D&uoomst, now 70, has made 700 assents. Bishop Wilson is the oldest preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Emperor Don Pedro, of Brazil, is a great admirer of George Eliot's novels. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, at 72, is as oiuch interested in this world as ever. Senator Saulsbury, of Delaware, is the only bachelor in the United States Senate. Empress Elizabeth, of Austria,is superbly beautiful, and has a weath of golden hair. Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland will remain in Washington until the latter part of June. President Diaz, of Mexico, has received the French decoration of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. I Secretary "W hit.vey is very fond of I animals, and has several fine horses and one ! dog for which he paid $50). Secretary Balfour, of the English Cabinet, used to be known in school and at college as "Clara Balfour." Congressman W. D. Kelley, of Pennlylvania, "Father of the House," recently J celebrated his seventy-fourth birthday. The Duke of Marlborough returns to this country in June, it is said, to continue his ~ wnnnof onrl v?t wA/ilthv Ameri lIUUUl6vl?;v??B.?. j j can widow. The Rev. Robert Collyer, of Naw York, was twenty-seven years old when he came to this country and brought his wife over with him in the steerage. Gabriel Salauson, the young Frenchman who is to marry a daughter of the British Minister at Washington, is of Hebrew descent and wealthy. The Due de Cozes, the $60,000 bridegroomelect of Isabella Blanche Singer, the American heiress, is an insignificant-looking little man, and anything but an Apollo. Lord Augustus Loftus, at one time Queen Victoria's Ambassador at Vienna, Dow presides over the bookkeeping department o? Lady Loftus's milinery store in IXMIUUIl. General Boulajtger, of France, has a large and constant correspondence with America, and receives regularly a number of the leading newspapers of leading cities in the United States. Emferor Frederick, of Germany, in spite of his illness, still supervises the history of the great elector, upon which a couple of Germans have been at work for years, and which has now reached its eleventh volume. Congressman Hitt, of Illinois, is one of the richest Representatives at Washington. He is said to have spent 130,000 a year entertaining when he was Secretary of Legation at Paris. He is an expert stenographer, and was at one time a clerk of one of the Senate Committees. Of the eight Republicans who received votes for the presidential nomination at the Chicago Convention of 1880, four are dead, four still live. Grant, Garfie'.d, Washburne and Conkling have passed away. Tfce four who remain are Blaine, Sherman, Edmunds and Windom. .. .. .. i. .. . jsa - - jnMm " ; . _ . vr - ;; . f * -t ' - ;>.*$ , >" ' . ' . 'i'V < r- - MIGHTY WAR VESSELS. Launch of a Dynamite Crniser and the Gunboat Yorktown. A New Era Begun in American Naval History. There have been many launches of big and little ships, iron and wooden, in years gone by at Cramp's shipyard, in Philadelphia, bnt never in the history of the city was so mnch excitement created as the dual launch on Saturday of the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius and the gunboat Yorktown. What made it particularly notable wai that it is the first launching for years of a war vessel there, that there were two ships to slide into the water and that Congress would be in town to witness the event. At noon the excursion steamer Columbia, | captain ueorge lyier, Jay at me pier ai iuo foot of Washington street, adjacent to the old Navy Yard of blessed memories. She had been chartered by the Secretary of the Navy to convey his Congressional party from the cars to Cramp's yard. The steamer was gayly decked out in bunting, and after receiving her cargo of distinguished people, took up a good position in view of the event. Strange to say, on the Columbia there were 106 members of the House of Representatives, which is three more than is necessary for a quorum. At three o'clock the Yard Superintendent reported everything ready for the launch and Mr. Charles Cramp gave the command, with the consent of the Secretary of the Navy, to "Let go the breaks''of the Yorktown. Whack, whack, sounded the mauls as the men struck the chunks away, and just as this big iron hull began to slide riverward Miss May Cameron, daughter of Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, whacked the gunboat over her no3e with a bottle of champagne, held by red, white and blue ribbons. It broke and as the wine spilled all down over the ship's rigid iron and paint, this lovely girl said: "I baptize thee Yorktown." The Yorktown began to move at six and a half minutes past three o'clock, and floated gracefully on the Delaware within a minute. Hardly had the excitement over the first event subsided when it broke out afresh over the dynamite cruiser, which lay on its ways, near the place the Yorktown had left. Mites F.lflnnnr HrAMrinriHtrA. rifliichtpr of f!nngrefiS man Breckinridge, of Kentucky, performed the christening function for the dyna?ite cruiser, as Miss Cameron had for the gunboat. As she broke the bottle over her bow this Blue Gras3 belle exclaimed, "I baptize thee Vesuvius." This was indeed news to even the Secretary's intimate friends, as be had kept it a secret till, at the last moment, be handed Miss Breckinridge his official order to call the cruiser Vesuvius. The Vesuvius glided graceful on her element four minutes after the Yorktown. The Vesurlns. The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius has a length of 246 feet, with a beam of 26 feet 6 inches; her mean draught is 8% feet on the plans and her displacement 700 tons. Her engines will be of the latest triple expansion type, with twin screws, designed for 3500 horse power, which is expected to give a speed of twenty knots per hour. There will be four cylindrical locomotive boilers, 160 pounds steam each. She is very lightly built, but firmly put together, and win trust to ner speed and shallow draught to choose her own time for fighting. She will have three dynamite guns, fiftyfour feet in length, fixed in position side by side, and they will really be built into the ship. They will project above the deck at an angle, and the shells to be thrown by them will weigh 20 J pounds. In firing the guns it will be necessary to move the vessel in taking aim. The officers' quarters will be right | aft, while the crew will berth forward in the usual manner, the midships of the boat being taken up with the appliances for loading ana j firing the guns, machinery, coal space and stores. The gallery and conning tower are on the upper deck. The success of the dynamite cruiser has been and will be watched and waited for with deep interest Its success simply means the revolutionizing of naval warfare. The Yorktown. The gunboat Yorktown, or as she f? more commonly called, "Gunboat No. 1," is an unarmored steel cruiser of 1000 tons displacement Her length is 230 feet, beam 3# feet. with a draught of water ol about 13 ieet rorward and 15 feet aft There will be twin screws, with triple expansion engines of the latest improved type, designed for a horse power of 2200 with natural and 3300 with forced draught, and it is expected that she will make a speed of seventeen knots. It carries four pneumatic gu n9 for the hurling of dynamite projectiles, each with a range of at least a mile. The training of the guns is accomplished by steering the vessel, and the loading is all done by steam. The guns are of 15-iuch calibre, and the | shells, which can be fired with great accuracy twice a minute, will contain COO pounds of explosive gelatine, equivalent to 852 pounds of dynamite, or 043 pounds of guu cotton. It is claimed that this gun. properly bandied, will be the most destructive engine of war vet invented, for the heaviest armored ships in the world will go all to pieces from the explosion of a shell much smaller than those thrown by the guns on the Yorktown. The conning tower will be armored with two inch steel plates, and will be on the forecastle. The Captain's quarters will be under the quarter deck,as will also the armory and a room devoted to the torpedoes. Speaking tubes and telegraphic, arrangements will enable the officer and pilot to communicate with those below. There wiJI also be a complete electric light plant, with two sets of dynamos. THE GOVERNORS MEET. Chief Executives of Thirteen States Assemble in Convention. In response to a call issued some time ago by Governor Beaver, the governors of the thirteen original States, or their representatives, with the exception of Massachusetts,met in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia. Saturday, to consider plans for the establishment of a fitting and fasting memorial to commemorate I the first cenOary of the Constitution of the | United Statefi. Governor Green, of New Jerj sey, was maue Chairman of the meeting. Resolutions were unanimously adopted calling upon the National Government and the various States and Territories of the | Union to make suitable appropriations to a fund to be dedicated to the building of a grand national monument commemorative of the framing and adoption of the Constitution, to be erected within the city of Philadelphia, said monument to bear the runes of the ' " ' ' Tv * j signers 01 me jjeciaruuuu ui iuuc|kuucuw [ in their autographs, and of the framers of the Constitution. A resolution was also adopted declaring that the Governors of the thirteen original States be invited to appoint a Commissioner from each State to cooperate with the citizens of New York in their preparations to fitly celebrate the centennial celeorat.'on of the inauguration of George Washington as the first President of the United States, and to invite co-operation on the part of the sister States and Territories. DESTROYED BYFROST, Enormous Damafe Inflicted On Truck-Farms in Virginia. There has been a heavy frost in Virginia, and the damage to farm truck is said to be from SI,500,000 to $2,000,000. Those I figures were given by some of the truckers, who were completely disI co urn pea by the result cf the damn go [ to their fleids. The most careful estimati puts the damage at from $500,000 to $750,000. The wind was from th9 south, and the farms situated on the water so as to get salt air experienced small damages, but in the back country of Norfolk, Princess Ann and Nansemond counties, the potato vines were cut down to the hills; beets, beans, cucumbers, watermelons and tomatoes were entirely destroyed and pease and strawberries put back a week or ten days. The seed store? were entirely exhausted of stock for replanting. A U.vitkd States Consular report declares that increased railroad facilities have made the beautifully located city of Zurich,Switzer| land, a formidable rival to Lucerne and | Geneva as a resort for pleasure-seekers from foreign lands. The erection of a large number of handsome new buildings, and the city's } new auay improvements, which will cost when finished nearly $1,400,000, have already ! transformed Zurich into the most attractive of Swiss cities. - i Ha a - i _uLii " ' ''} : ''>'?* j?i-v~ .'&?' 2f$?%.'f' '/ > '.?'?.' % ' - ' ' .... ' - T ~xi.yf* LATER NEWS. The Connecticut Democracy met in State Convention at Hartford and passed resolutions demanding a readjustment of the Tariff and elected delegates to the St. Louis Convention who are pledged to support Cleveland for renomination. Congressman Thomas R. Reed has been re-nominated by the Republicans of the 1st Maine District The town of Ralston, Penn., has been destroyed by fire. The Illinois Republican State Convention met at Springfield and Mayor Joseph W. Fifer, of Bloomington, was nominated for Governor. Resolutions indorsing Judge Gresham as a candidate for the presidential nomination were passed. The Democrats of Iowa held their State Convention at Dubuque, and elected district delegates to the St. Louis Presidential Convention. The delegation goes thither unpledged. The California Kepublican convention convened at Sacramento and cho?e an tinpledged delegation to the Chicago Presidential Convention. George Morton, a miner, killed Deputy Marshal Kelly at Warrior, Ala., and was lynched by citizens, who dragged the homicide from a freight train on which he was being carried to Birmingham for safety. He was hanged and then riddled with bullets. The Convention to organize a farmers' trust in Kansas and the Mississippi Valley effected a permanent organization at Topeka, Kan., by electing ex-Governor David Butler, of Nebraska, President. The Senate, near the end of its session Wednesday, procaeded to the consideration of individual pension bills on the calendar, and in 63 minutes passed 105 of them, 42 being I House bills. The public debt statement shows a reduction during April of *9,235,300. Total cash in the Treasury, $590,308,519.48. The valus of the coinage of the United States mints during April was $5,321,203, of which $3,850,001 was silver. The Sultan of Morocco refuses to submit the differences between Morocco and the United State3 in reference to the men imprisoneJ at Babat to arbitration, and the disput i has been reopsned. Fifteen banking houses in Buenos Ayres have suspended within ten days. The liabilities of one of the banks exceed $7,000,000The government bank refuses to discount bills and a financial panic is the consequence. TOWED BY A WHALE. Remarkable Adventure of a Gloucester I- ishiug Schooncr. A letter has been received from the cook of the schooner H. B. Griffin,Captain George Nelson, of Gloucester, Mass., now on a trip for salt cod on the Banks, in which a very strange occurrence is narrated. She arrived on the Banks a few weeks ago and found fish exceedingly plenty. One day, which was moderately fine, and while the crew were all out in their dories attending their trawls, the captain and cook remained aboard, as is customary, the sails being reefed and the vessel at anchor, the two occupants A Wlr onH O. flftflfWanl icib a auviucuk jvi n. MUv* ? the vessel was going through the water at a rapid rate. They rushed on deck to find the cause of the commotion, but none was discovered until suddenly a large whale came to the surface to blow, w'ith the anchor attached to his side. The marine monster had evidently been swimming near the bottom of the ocean, where be became attached to the fluke of the anchor. Once on the surface the maddened whale tore through the water at a frantic rate, so fast as to nearly submerge the bows. The captain saw that they were rapidly losing sight of their crew in the dories and would leave them alone on the ocean, so lie cut the cable and freed the vaeseL The jibs and foresail were hoisted, and they returned and secured their crew, who had filled their dories with finny freight. The vessel was put on the course for Newfoundland, where a new cable and anchor have been secured. THE NATIONAL GAME. New York was the first League club to play an errorless game. Chicago will shortly release or sell six of its new men. Louisville and "Washington received the first whitewashes of the season. About half of the professional pitchers chew gum when they are in the box. i Long John Reilly, of the Cincinnati's, is a bat fiend. He buvs one every day or so. Cleveland's fielders can get rattled quicker than the average fair amateur nine. Pitcher Whitney is now captain of the Washington Club, O'Brien having resigned the position. Tyng, of the Philadelphias, and Serad, of the Cincinnaties, have retired opposing clubs without a hit this season. Under the three-strike rule Van Haltren may replace Clarkson for Chicago. He has ^flrfoinlTr otoffu/1 Aiif troll vw vuiuij ovai vv^u vuv nvm United States Senator Stockbridge, of Michigan, is alleged to ovrn six shares of the Kalamazoo Baseball Association. Paul Hines, of Indianapolis, has taken to wearing smoked glasses while fielding. He does this to shield his eyes from the sun; when batting he discards them. Bobby Carutrers, of the Brooklyns, is decidedly lucky all around. He not only got the top price for pitching, but received fully $4000 worth of wedding presents. From a Chicago exchange we learn that the nine Karper brothers, of the Windy City, rise up and declare that they can easily beat the nine brothers Cantillon,of Brooklyn, N. Y. Another ball player has taken to himself a wife. This time it is Richard Conway, Boston's twirler, who married a Miss Moolic, sister of George Moolic. of the New Orleans team. The New York Club has decided to play Ewing at third base whenever he ia not behind the bat. When Ewing is catching, then Hatfield or Cleveland, probably the former, will cover third. The rules of the Washington Club in regard to the use of intoxicants provide for a fine of $2."> for the first drink, $50 for the second, IKOfor the third and a black-list for habitual drinking. The Lou'svi]]es have tho most hideous uniforms, it is said, ever seen on a ball ground. They are made of a dirty looking red materia], with white stripes and give the men a dismal appearance. The case of Burdock is a sad one. Had he let strong drink alone he would have received $ ,'000 from the Boston Club this season even if he didn't play a single gama That drink in Baltimorecost him #102-). Indianapolis has gone wild" over Denny's batting. Four hortie nins in two Ays is pretty good, but last season Moolic, of the Boston Blues, made three home runs in one game, and that is better in proportion than Denny's feat. Pitcher Clarkson on being asked the secret of his success, said: "Simply a little head work. Do you know there never was a batsrnan who didn't have some one weakness/ No matter how good a batter, there will be some kind of a ball.insbme one place, , that lie can't hit.'' ' 1" f on inronious UATr.>r.l 'UU1 j uu m"0 ? breast abd stomach protector. It is made of pasteboard in sections, jointed together with elastic, and made to fit tight around. When Gaffney buttons up his cardigan jacket no one would know that he is provided with a protector. He said he was hit so often in the chest and over the heart that he had to take some means to save his life. The contrivance is his own make. "Basepall is the squarest game on earth," said Joe Quest, or the St. Pauls, the other day. "I have been in tha business about fourteen years, and in that time I never knew of a crooked turn. I played in one came, however, where Jim Devlin, Geo. Hall and (.'raver, of the Loiflsvilles, were doing some of their funny business, but I was not aware of it at the time. Afterward, when these men were convicted of crooked work, I could Jook back and see in what respects they had thrown off in the game in question." v..%- *-V.."' '^>^^*. v-'r^R mhhmhmhmhmwmwmhmmmi HI ' . i A PAPAL DECREE, M A Letter Issued from Rome Against H? the Irish Plan of Campaign. ^B The statement that the Pope has lamed ft H decree condemning the plan of campaign in HH Ireland is confirmed. A Papa! letter says he BH does so because he is convinced that the plan of campaign is illegaL He says ho is als? Hfl convinced that the land courts will redou a& unfair rents. Another circumstance that influenced him, he says, is the fact that fund* [ are extorted from contributors to the plan. ^B The Pope condemns boycotting as a practice ^B contrary to justice and charity. B The Dublin Freeman's Journal urges the ^Hj people to exercise calmness and patience, and ^B to receive the Papal decree with profound respect and loyalty to Rome. It declares Bfl that boycotting is rare. The Nationalists B have determined to continue the plan of camr ^B paign in 6pite of the Papal decree. It is asserted that the movement will not suffer '^B much from the necessary defection of the priests, who will undoubtedly continue w sympathize with the people, and that the vacancies can easily be filled I with laymen. The matter has caused HB an extremely bitter feeling among-. the Nationalists. Mr. Dillon, in a speech at H Herbertstown, Ireland, pointed out til* H justice of the plan of campaign.the results of which, he said, fully justified the wisdom ^Hj of the League in recommending it The H| whole ground for the Nationalist policy ww Htf the fact that an Irish tenant could not make a contract with his landlord: that freedom of contract did not exist. He denied em- kH| phaticallr that the plan of catnpaigh funds I were^ obtained by^force and ^ntimidatlon, says: ^?he Papal letter has already beep B sent to the Irish Bishops and will be put* Bh lished soon. The Pope forbids Catholics to adopt the plan of campaign or to engage in boycotting and enjou^ obedience to H| the laws. Other questions are in abeyance." The London Post thinks that the Fope'a ao- :Sfl tion is by far the most formidable blow ret IB struck at the Nalionalists. The London Standard savs: "That the Papal decree w:U m do good cannot be doubted, but that, it wiD- HH extirpate the evil can scarcely be hoped." THE METHODISTS. g| Figures front Bishop Merrill's Ad- fl dress at the General Conference. Bishop Stephen M. Merrill read the Bisbhops' address at the second day's session of the Methodist Episcopal' General Conference- 'H in New York. It states that since thelast conference not less than 450,00(h lH souls have been brought into thsk^^B Phiir^h Th? mprnhflrshin has bone im' H from 1,769,534 to 2,01*3,935. There are. now 111 conferences under the control of the- ^9 American Church. Considerable corre- M| spondence has been had with the English Church about a conferencebetween the English and American churches, |H to be held in the United States in 1891. fl After dwelling at length upon the growth' I of Bdepticism, the address advises that pal* pile be filled only with men able to cope with the arguments of scoffers. The Church has.now twelve theological I seminaries, fifty-four colleges and 154 academies for the education of candidates for the > ministry. The value of this property is a little over $25,000,000. H The missionary work of the church de- H mands an outlay of $1,200,000 a rear. The growth of the number o [ delegates to vH the conferences was spoken of, and it was suggested that som9 change should be made H| to limit the representation. PW For the first time in the history of the Con-'; | ference women had been sent as delegates*,. I The bishops did not think that they werr H eligible. The struggles between capital and laborwere considered, and it was denied that the* j Church had any right to take part in political .. struggles or had done so. . The bishops denounced Sunday papers and advocated total abstinence. 4 A committee made a report saying t hat women could not be admitted afe delegates. NEWSY QLEANCTM. Roscor Cokklino left $250,000. Air ostrich farm of 250 acres is to be startedt Mar Bed Bluff, CaL N*w York City consumes 50,000 Frank- . furter sausages daily. , THxpoKce force of London has been increased to 18,800 men. | Thkbx were sixteen fatal accidents in thafootball field in England last season. 11 Polikoff, the Russian railway, king, isdead. His fortune is estimated at $30;000,? ooo. y . Mart Bhabpless, the richest chOd in -' America, is nine years old and worth fifty minion*. Two thousand foreign Jews in Odessa, Russia, hare received notice to quit withia Jne week. There are about 28,000 persons in Salt' Lake City, of whom perhaps 15,030 to 18,000 are Mormons. An industrial school for colored people has been started in Alabama, wherein twelve industries are taught. - ^ Representative Mclligan has offered e. bill in the Kentucky Legislature to make poker playing a felony. The mills of Minneapolis made 169,300 barrels of flour last year, an amount exceed fcl but twice in their history. Samuel Morrison, the surveyor, whomade the first map of Indiana, recently died at Indianapolis on his ninetieth birthday. At the Hoosic Valley (Mass.) sheep-shearing the other day, fleeces from prize rain* varied all the way from 15 to ?0 pounds. Ex-Attornht General BrewsterVj estate of $100,000 will be held in trust far his 6on, until the latter reaches the age of thirty. General Gonzales, Governor of the Mexican State of Guanaiuato, has decreed the suDDDression of bull fighting in that State. *"* An American quack who went to Frane* to advertise "a sure cure for consumption," was arrested and sent to prisoufor eighteen months. ' ^ ... St. Hklixa, Napa County, CaL. has a wine cellar in course of construction that wiU fcost $35Qt00J?and safely house 600,000 gaft> ? bns of wine. THE MARKETS, 18 NEW 70BK. Beef, jrood to prime G%@ 7% Calves, common to prime.... 5 C Sheep 7 Lambs 5 @ 8 Hog*?Live 5 75 S 85 Dressed 7J^ Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 55 4 75 West, good to choice 2 45 @ 3 00 Wheat-No. 2 Red 943^? 94# Rye?State 56 @ 58 Barley?State .. 82 @ 85 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 65^@ 67)f 41is'@ 43 uaw? TT mw , _ _ Mixed Western 3r @ o9 Hay?Choice Timothy 85 @ 90 Straw?Lone Rye -.. 90 @ 95 Lard?City Steam 7 t'5 @ 8 03 Batter?State Creamery.... 27 @ 27% Dairy ? @ 20 West Im. Creamery 19 @ 23 Factorv 18 @ 22 Cbee9e?State Factory 9X@ 12% 8kims 3 @ 9% " Western 11% @ 12 Eggs?State and Penn ? @ 13% BUFFALO. Steers?Western 4 a? @ 4 85 Sheep?Good to Choice 5 0J @ 6 00 Lambs?Western ? <jjp 7 00 I Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 .=>5 @ 5 90 Flour?Family 4 UJ (g 4 aw Wheat?No. L ? & 97 Corn?No. 2, Mixed 57 @ 57}? Oats-No. 2. Mixed 37 @ 37 Barley?State..... 68 <2 91 BOSTOW. Beef?Good to choice. 7li@ 8 Hogs?Live 6 Northern Dressed.... 7 Pork?Ex. Prime.per bbL..14 75 @16 75 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 00 @ 5 35 Corn?High Mixed. ? @ 68 Oats?Extra White 46?^<J$ 47% " Rye?State 60 ' @ 65 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET Beef- Dressed weight 7 $ 7)4 Sheep?Live weight 6 @ 6)4 Lam 03 0 @ 7% Hogs?Northern 7 @ 73i ,z PHILADELPHIA Flour?Penaextra family... 3 75 @ 3 00 Wheat?No. 2, Red 95 @ 9~>% Corn?No. 2, Yellow ? 06^ Oats?Mixed...., ? @ 39 Rye-No. 2 - & Butter?Creamery Extra... 27 @ 2S Cbeee*?N. Y. Full Cream.. 12 -,'(2 IS}* /** '"rS^ -