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. ' " ) 7 : ; ?? -/- ? ! TARIFF DEBATE CLOSED. ttr. Reed and Speaker Carlisle Wind Up the Discussion. Summary of Their Speeches On the Great Question. After several weeks of debate, daring which many speakers were heard on both tides of the question, the discussion on the Mills Tariff bill in the House of Representatives has been closed. The last speakers were Mr. Reed, of Maine, the Republican leader in the House, and Speaker Carlisle. A digest of th?ir speeches is given below: Mr. Reed's Address. Mr. Reed spoke without notes, having committed his speech to memory. "If it be true," he said, '*that by having their goods manufactured abroad the people of the United States, as a whole, will It come richer and more prosperous and enjoy more mvyA lnmn'oft ftf lifft. thfell bV VI VUV WIIUVI VO MUU - w all means sick national prejudice, burst the barriers of provincial narrowness and with one accord adopt not merely the present bill, bat such legislation as will triple the spindles of Europe and destroy our own. "The revenue reform argument is either a false pretence or covers the whole ground. Protection is either in its essence a benefit or a curse. You cannot dilute a curse and make it a blessing. Incidental protection is a sham. Tariff for revenue only must go down before the same arguments which are osed against protection. If protection be a tax for manufacturers' benefit, it is the same tax if it be the result of even a revenue tariff. '< Incidental protection is of all the most inexcusable." V Turning his attention to the President's Hessage Mr. Reed said: "If this message * * x i lrom our ruier do true, every mi turj ? wo abode of a robber baron, more fell and sure than ever swooped down a European hillaide to harry a cavalcade of honest merchants. In every mine lurks a more dreadful giant than ever before smelled the blood of an Englishman. But what do the friends of virtue propose to do with these wicked people? Sweep them out of existence with the strong liand of justice? The castles of the marauders are still to moke upon the hill-tops, and the tall chimneys are still to break the sky-line of this unhappy country. They are to be allowed to rob within 7 per cent, of what they rob now, and as compensation they are to be let loose npon the markets of the world, where, according to the learned chairman, they will reap larger wealth and pile np statelier millJons." The speaker did not purpose to defend protection. Its vast growth within the last quarter of a century defended it better even tnan eloquent orauous. it was uum -with the Republic. It was the faith and Sractice of every civilized nation under lie sun save one. It bad stood up against all the half knowledge of learned men who never had tense enough to transmute their learning into wisdom. On the face of the earth to-day there are but two sets of people who believed in free trade, whether pure aad simple or disguised as revenue reform, and those two are the masked majority of the Committee on Ways and Means and their followers, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with Ireland suppressed. Mr. Reed asserted that if the principles of -free trade were true there must be direct taxation. He closed with a bit of ridicule at tHe supposed dangers 01 trusts ana monopolies _ .? and some comment on the growth of the coantry, and especially of the South, since I860. Speaker Carlisle's Address. Mr. Carlisle began by saying that if protection was a sound doctrine it should be carried to its logical conclusion?protective duties. All taxation was an evil, and trade should be made as free as possible, with the lowest tax that would afford the necessary revenue. Commenting on the effects of protection on manufactures, he said it was the manufacturing interests of New England which had the best reason to appeal for further reduction of the tariff. He predicted that if this bill became a law and the effects of tariff reduction were fairly tested the New England representatives would com? back to Washington demanding i further reduction in the interests of all her people If they did not other men would be 'sent in their places. New England under a low tariff had seen prosperity. She had seen all her interests thrive, but she had not seen vast fortunes accumulated in a few years. Speaker Carlisle jread at length from tariff reform speeches i by Senators Wilson and Sumner in -? * [1857. He quoted Senator Morrill as saying 'thirty years ago that a margin of 20 per 'cent of protection was all that was required. iKesistance was offered to-day to the reduc !tion of duties affording three times the protaction which was then deemed necessary. Labor, the speaker said, was paid out of lits own product. The claim that a projtective tariff at the same time reduced the 'cost of products and increased wages, was DQjfe^r utterly inconsistent and unsound. It was manifest that the same cause could not iproduce both effects ? the fact was that it produced neither. The increase in the ' efficiency of labor was due to the increased [efficiency of mechanical device, co-operating with human labor. The marvellous inven! tions of this wondrous age were the cause of jthe great increase of the inefficiency of labor. The laborer who studies the operations of ja high tariff cannot fail to .-find that the ! balanqe^ta^against him. The protectionists [promised anome~marlcgf^ all-sufficient for the consumption of all American produc .Iaw? T^a *v\r\nlofmn trAiil/1 Vtorn tn Ka rvtvuo. A UU yVj^UiUVIVU " VUIU ?<MI V ?V MV 100,000,000 before we could consume our own wheat. Our demand would have to be multiplied three times before the cotton product could be consumed at home. The promised home market could never bo secured. The surplus must lie sold at the price"; fixed in the foreign market It was true that the American product had some effect in fixing the price in the foreign market, but the world's supply and the world's demand fixed that price. The product of pauper labor of every class and every clime entered into competition and must be met in selling in the foreign market. ; NEWSY GLEANINGS. , Henry T. Coxwklt,, the seventy-year-old balloonist, has made 700 ascents. Tnt? Cnlfan r\t V?aa ??noiT I WU1WBU VI UIU put VUU?wU cannons from the Krupps for $200,000. E. P. Dcflex, a colored Justice of the Peace, has been e1 xted Mayor of Wheatland, California. _ - ?r?Lojoj Wolselet has told Par liament that 100,0p0 med men might capture England. , Deaths in New York city average twentysix to the thousand. In London twenty to the thousand. I Hat and oats in Indiana have suffered from drought, while cornfields are being devastated by cut worms. The sugar crop of Cuba, owing to prolonged drought, will show a yield of ten to twenty per cent, below that of last year. The bonanza proprietors of the Nevada bank, Mackay and Flood, have settled accounts, paying ex-Senator Fair |2,00C ,000. ^ Some 350,000 boxes of oranges were shipped from Florida to New York during the season beginning with November and closing April. A# TTtirrlbVi noff.la h/l.VA *-CUU OT V.UIU1U TTTW-r-d HEH^SjfliiHsaS^BKancI twenty per cent, of some United States aro said to RM^^HH&RHR&HSjfflnjpB^^^bB/ler arrest at To HSHHMnmHBBm^^Q||nMaB.the Gov I ' jpm THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eaitcrn and Middle State*. The Brooklyn Democratic Club gave a banquet at the Academy of Music in honor of Secretary of the Treasury Fair child. Fred. Mars den, the popular playwright, committed suicide a few days ago at his home in New York city. His daughter's wrongdoing was the cause. Peter J. Quinn, bookkeeper for C. G. Dixon & Co.. builders, of Pittsburg, has absconded. His accounts show a shortage of $15,000. John P. Webster, of Norridgewock, Ma, the oldest attorney in Somerset County, was killed by a fall from a railroad bridge. At the Geileral Conference in New York, Rev. Dr. J. H. Vincent and Rev. Dr. J. N. Fitzgerald were elected Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church. At a saw mill in Hewittville,St. Lawrence County, N. Y., Horace Ellis, aged 18 years, fell upon the saw. His head was severed from his body and dropped through a hole in the floor into the river. Howard Gaskill, twelve years old, and John Williams, aged fifteen, sons of well known Lockport (N. Y.) citizens, were drowned in tiw canal near tfcat city while Ashing. The Maine Democracy assembled in convention at Augusta and nominated a ticket headed by William L. Putnam for Governor. Delegates were elected to the national convention who are enthusiastic for Cleveland. Resolutions were adopted favoring a reduction of the tariff. Two men were killed by a varnish explosion in Philadelphia. South and Weit. By an explosion of dynamite at Negaunee, Mich., Fred Hanburg and Charles Sundberg were instantly killed. Sand berg's back was terribly torn, and a staple from the door was found in it Every baas ia Hanbergs's body was broken. A supplementary report od the d?fa3cation of Tate, the Kentucky Treasurer, swells the amount of his shortage to $247,000. The Union Labor and the United Labor parties have been holding National Cenven tions m Cincinnati, but were suable to unite on the land Question, and adopted separate platforms. ll?e Union Labor man nominated A. J. Streeter, of Illinois, for President, and Charles E. Cunningham for Vice- President. The United Labor party will make nominations at some future any. There was a revolt at the Virginia Republican State Convention in Petersburg, find two sets of Delegates-at Large, with exSenator Mahone at the head of one, and John S. Wise leading the other, were nominated for the National Convention. Minnesota's Democratic State Convention met at St. Paul, and a delegation | was elected to the National Convention which is instructed to vote as a unit for Cleveland's i renomination. A tariff reform platform was adopted. William George: has been hanged in the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, for murdering an old farmer in Muskingum County. A Qcincy (DL) dispatch says that the total area of cultivated fields submerged by the great flood in the two levee districts is 250,000 acres, and the loss to crops will aggregate $3,000,000. Edward Wilmax, of St. Charles, Mich., killed his wife because she persisted in joining a church he objected to, and then shot himself through the heart. Four horse thieves were lynched by vigilantes at Woodward, Indian Territory. Hail fell at Pratt, Elan., with such force as to destroy all the growing crops and kill many pigs and cattla Robert Smith set Are to the jail in which he was confined at Cairo,111.,and was burned to death in the destroyed prison. Frantts T. Nichols was inaugurated as Governor of Louisiana at Baton fiouge. W. L. Bancroft, of Port Huron, Mich., has been appointed General Superintendent Railway Mail Service, vice T. E. Nash, resigned. The Genera] Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Chuch, which has for three weeks been in session at Newberne, N. C., has adjourned to meet at Pittsburg, Penn., in May, 1392. Both houses of the Louisiana Legislature have elected Randall L. Gibson as United < States Senator to succeed himself. The Democratio Convention for the Thirteenth Congressional District of Illinois has renominated Congressman W. M Springer by acclamation. i Washington. The Senate has confirmed the nominations i os Robert B. Roosevelt, of New York, to be Minister to the Netherlands: Thomas Brown to be Consul at Paramaribo; and 0. H Ernest, to be a member of the Mississippi River Commission. The new United States steel cruiser Baltimore, building at Cramp's shipyard, Philadelphia, will be launched on July 4. Mrs. Cleveland will christen it and th9 President will witness the launching. According- to the present arrangement, the Tariff bill will be laid aside by the House ; for the present, and appropriation bills will be taken up in the following order and passed: The Legislative, the District of Columbia, and the Post Office bills. A bill has been referred to the House Military Committee for the appropriation of $2,000,000 to be used in experimenting with ( dynamite and other high explosives with a view to determining the most suitable for sea coast defences. The Chinese Minister at Washington, ac companied by his suite, has sailed for Lima to look after China's interests in Peru. The wife of Senator Sawyer, of Wiscon sin. died, Monday, at her home in Washing ton, of paralysis. The President has approved the act for the 1 relief of the Mechanics1 National Bank of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. i Foreign. _ A tarty of tithe collectors and police were , attacked by a mob at Lianifidd, Wales, and In the conflict that followed thirty-five per- . sons were injured, seven of them seriously. ! I.v a conflagration at Calbuzowa. in Galicia, four hundred houses and the public buildings of the town have been burned. ? About forty prominent Home Rule leaders, headed by Messrs. Parnell and Dillon, | have issued a manifesto in reply to the Pope's . late rescript against the Land LeagiR. 1 Five hundred persons have been drowned ( by floods in Mesopotamia. , The Emperor of Brazil has recovered from 1 the severe attack of pleurisy that threatened his life. i Five lumbermen were crossing the Aroos- ( Maw Rrnnswinlr vchftn t.hfiir 1 boat upset and three of them were drowned. New Zealand has ratified a law which , prohibits the landing of Chinese under any ; circumstances. A STRANGE SPECTACLE. Lights in the Form of a Human Hand Dismay the Superstitions. A strange spectacle was visible in the northern sky at Findlay, Ohio, a few nights ago, which has caused the greatest consternation. It was the representation of a human hand of immense proportions. Early in the evening the sky in the north had a peculiar look, which as the night wore on took tne form of flashes of light, becoming more brilliant and unnatural as the night advanced. About 11 o'clock those watching the phenomenon were terrified to see the plumes of light concentrating into a distinct object, which soon assumed the shape of a giant's hand, well f/vrmnH nnrl na HisHnrfc nq if tviinted I upon the blacijj background of tfie sky. kffhe band appeared to be a shadowy suoWfc^through which waves of light of I^OTj^H^color gurged aa regularly as ^BHnBS^n^hutqan breast and then fell HBgg|Hflffl9BttN^Jlpger8 in drops of the as hot air balfflHMGHBRRHE^9^M^Land pointed as if ^ mmmm7?^?? TEE WATERS RECEDE. Illinois Farmers Lose Nearly Four Million Dollars. Great Suffering Caused in the Inundated District. The great flood in the Mississippi, which will be remembered as without a precedent In the destruction and suffering created, is slowly abating, says a Quincy (UL) dispatch, and it is thought that the worst of the high water Is passed, .But the worse tnat couia happen has already occurred, hundreds of families having been rendered homeless, and thousands of acres of growing crops ruined, to say nothing of the loss entailed by demolished dwellings, wrecked fences and washouts. A trip through the submerged regions shows that the stories of loss and suffering already published have not been exaggerated in the least. From the northsrn end of Adams county to the southern end of Pike county the land on the Illinois side of the river was protected by a system of levees, the region embracing 250,000 acres, the soil being the richest in the State. All the region was found to be one vast lake from six to ten feet in depth. Along the bluffs on tbe eastern edge of the submerged district hundreds of families were camped, living in tents, huts and the open air. Before the flood most of these people ware well-to-do, prosperous farmers, but now they have little or nothing. Much sickness prevailed among tbe unfortunates, but prompt measures were taken to alleviate their sufferings. Tbe Inundated regions were full of desolation. Deserted homesteads, with the water lapping the [eaves, were thejmost frequent, as well as the most painenc sag?!. wane the vast majority of the inhabitants fled to the higher land a few were not granted time to get away or misjudged the character of the breaks in the level and determined to stay with their homes and were seen living in 'the trees or on the roofs. Every roof was turned into a place of refoge for livestock, poultry, etc., but numberless houses have been drifted from their foundations and carried away with the irresistible current or demolished entirely. In the Sny levee district below Qufcncy, HL, the situation was infinitely worse than in the regions to the north. Tfee crevasse, which completed the inundation, opened at the upper end of the embankment and the pent-up waters from the river poured over tne vast tract of rich fanning land, sweeping everything before tbem. The torrent rushed down in a great wave several feet high with a force which nothing oould with stand. The towns of Fall Creek, Seehora and Halls were mere islands and hundreds of refugees were huddled together in limited space. > The damage to railroad property was enormous, and it will be three weeks after the water subsides before trains can be running on time. Quincy was cat off from railroad cominanicatian north, west and south. The Quincy and Carthage track was under water for a distance of several utiles. The Quincy, Alton and St Louis track is washed for miles, the bridges are gone and telegraph poles down. Owing to the great confusion it is impossible to obtain detailed losses, but the aggregate will reach fully $3,000,000 from crops alone. The damage to the levees, houses and railroads will approximate $600,090. Beports received at Quincy. Ill, record the drowning of Samuel Moore by the floods in the Indian Grave levee district and of two children of Wm. Johnson in the Sny district. Two families living in the Sny district were nnaocounted for and no trace of them could be found. It is probable that many fatalities will be recorded when all the facto regarding the flood are tally Known. A CHINESE LAWYER. The First One of His Race Admitted to Practice in America. Among the recent successful applicants for admission to the Bar of ffew York State was Hong Yen Chang, of Brooklyn. He is the only regularly admitted Chinese lawyer in this country. In reply to questions of the presiding judge in Poughkeepsie, before whom hii application was made, he said be was born in China, is 27 years old, and has hoin in t.Viio winntrff flffcpAn Vfiam Ha Btudied in New York City. He says he wai refused admission at the General Term in New York City, though the committee composed of Erastus Ransom and William Hornblower reported that he had passed the required examination. He Bays that Judge Van Brunt of Genpral Term denied him admission for reasons which, though he asked for them, were not given, the Judge telling him that the Legislature allowed the court discretion in the matter, and all he know3 is that the court did not "in its discretion" admit him. Chang was educated at Yale, studied law at Columbia College, and was recently naturalized. The Legislature in 1887 passed an act pemitting him to again apply for admission to the Bar. In appearance he has a decidedly Chinese look, but he speaks excel* lent English. He is of medium height, rather stout, and is a very blight young man. The Examining Committee said he passed a very creditable examination, and was deservedly 2?a ? & vrcu ucu aui^iuuio. THE LABOR^WORLD. There are 2,000,030 electric lights in the United States. The annual production of coil tar in France i3 60,000 tons. About 10,000 men are employed in the lumber business in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sawdust need be wasted no more; there is ? demand for all that can be shipped to market Baltimore gas companies have consoliiated in defiance of the ordinance and put up the price. A monson (Maine) slate quarry owner has begun the use of the waste slate for marbleized purposes. Germans use paper blocks for chimneys, made of abestos, aluminum sulphate, chloride }f zinc and resin soap. ? ??At n.-iis. THE OOUiaera rouiuu uvuipaajr a ouu^d xu Sacramento, Cal., where 2100 men are employed will be enlarged. The iron ore mines at Chestnut Hill, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, after being worked for more than twenty-five years have uecome exhausted. Every striking "Q" engineer has lost $333 in wages to date, and has used up at least 1300 while idle. Each one is therefore at [east $538 out of pocket. Statistics appear to show that in England iomestic servants are growing comparatively fewer. In 1831 there were 1,000,000, but in 1888 there are 1,250,000 only. A Southern manufacturer says Southern iron products are suffering from having gone ahead pell-mell, booking orders right and left at competitive rate3 which they cannot furnish The Quebec and Lake St. John Railway Company, on pain of dismissal, prohibits its employee from taking intoxicants while on duty, or having them on the cars or premises of the company. The Great Northern Railway Company of England insists that its engineers shall take at least nine hours' rest between the one day's labor and another as a precaution acainst accidents. Several hundred miles of railroad have been laid in South America under the direction of the Government, and 700 miles more are projected. The rails are bought in Eng laud, and cost about $25a ton delivered. The operators in the coke regions of Pennsylvania are weeding out the Huns, Poles and Swedes. One firm that employs 10.00C men will discharge all employes who do not speak English, and no others will be employed hereafter. A company has been formed at Pittsburg ' with a capital of $100,000 to manufacture brick from blast furnace cinders. The industry is successful in England, and the projectors count on turning out 30,000 brick pei day, which they expect to market at $5 pei itousand. Hj^^ucLOTnrNQ, as it is made in large ^Bfl^^^^der contract, is done in section?. of girls make one part. HEnBSH HBtejl Thus it is passe J B^HRHBHu advertised t& BHBi9i|Mi^paicl little. H^HHnHBSHL^th' ' i ;'\-l SUMMARY OF OOMBE33, Senate ProceedIn**. 96th Day. ?A bill was passed appropriating $17,500 to iflake the west end cr the Smithsonian Institution fireproof... The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds made favorable reports on public building bills as follows: Newport News. Va , $100,D00; Staunton, Va., $50,000?The following bills were introduced: By Mr. Blair, to secure to the people the enjoyment of the first day of the weelc as a day of rest and to permit its observance as a day of religious worship. It provides that on the Loni's day no person shall perform any sscu'ar work, except in cases of necessity and humanity, or I ? *1 nf engage in am use mem, tu iuc ujaimi uauiv ui others, nor shall the mails be collected or delivered except when the life or death of any person is concerned, nor shall commerce between States be lawful on this day; to in, corporate the American Historical Association The Senate bill for the erection of Postoffice buildings in place3 whera the Postoffice receipts for three years preceding have exceeded $3000 annually went over without action Mr. Frye, from the Committee on Commerce, reported back the River and Harbor bill with amendments, increasing the appropriation by fl,4?2.600. 97th Day.?A committee of conference on the Pension Appropriation bill was appointed, consisting of Senators Allison, Dawes and Gorman....A bill to provide pneumatic gun carriages for the War Department was placed on the calendar.... These bills we*e passed: To incorporate the National Academy of Dental Science; appropriating $125,000 for a public building at Faterson, N. J.; the Honse bill appropriating 125,000 for a public building at Bar Harbor, Ma; the bill to establish a Department of Labor.... It was decided not to con?fctar the Fisheries Treaty in open session The Senate Committee "on Finance ordered an adversejreport on the Fractional Cur- I rency bilL 98th Day.?The Hiddlebereer resolution for open sessions was discussed, but not put | to a vote The Senate then adjourned out of respect for the memory of Senator Sawyer's deceased wife. Houm ProoMdlne*. 117th Day.?The debate over the Mills Tariff bill occupied the entire days' session. Immediately after roll call the House resolved itself into Committee of the Whole, with Mr. Springer in the chair. Mr. Randall took the floor and made an elaborate argument in opposition to the measure. He outlined the Bcope of the bill he proposes to introduce, the plan of which is" to remove all internal reveifue taxes except upon alcohol used in the arts, and to tax whisky fifty cents per gallon, transferring the duty of collecting this tax to the customs service. Then he *_ XL- i; .4 4V. would revise tne tanir ia iqb una \>l ?,ue Democratic platform of 1884 Mr. Randal] was followed by Mr. McKinley, who made a lengthy speech in opposition to any tariff redaction. The discussion was prolonged throughout the remainder of the day's session by a long address in support of the Mills bilL delivered by Mr. Breckinridge. 118th Day.?The House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole on the Mills bill. Mr. Springer in the chair, who announced that with to-day's session would close the long debate over the Tariff measure. The entire session was consumed by the lengthy speeches of Messrs. Carlisle and Reed, the former supporting the Mills Tariff Reduction bill and tne latter opposing it 119th Day.?The Senate amendments to the Pension Appropriation bill were nonconcurred in, ana a conference ordered.... On motion of Mr. Dunn a resolution was adoDted directing: the Committee on Mer chant Marine and Fisheries to investigate the fur 6eal fisheries of Alaska.... Mr. DaTzell made a personal explanation in regard to Mr. Scott's speech The following bills were introduced and referred: Placing on the free list articles of merchandise the production of which may be controlled by trusts and combinations; permitting the Park Commissionera of New York to improve Governor's Island, in connection with a public park to be laid out on that island and on connected land .... The Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill was passed The bill to establish an executive department known as the Department of Agriculture was passed....The District of Columbia Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole and passed by the House. 120th 1)at.?The bill introduced by Mr. O'Neill, Chairman of the Labor Committee, to confine the sale of the products of convict labor occupied the attention of the House all day. It was discussed by Messrs. Cannon, Butterworth, Plumb, Long and O'Neill, but the matter went over without final action. 121st Dat.?The House devoted its whole time to the consideration of the Postoffice appropriation bill, which makes an increase of cfi rvv> rmn on t,h? umml ftrmronriation for thi-t purpose. When the bill came to be discussed in detail it was found that a proviso had been inserted authorizing the Postmaster General to allow rent, light and fuel to third-class postmasters, who hitherto have had to pay their own rent This provoked such lengthy discussion that the entire measure went over as unfinished business. DISASTROUS FLOODS. The Raging Mississippi Causing Widespread Destruction. A dispatch from Quincy, 111., says that the Mississippi River had risen nine inches, and was higher than ever before known, excepting during the great flood of 185L Rail communication with the West was entirely cut off, the tracks of all the roads on the Missouri side of the river being flooded. Bridges and tracks were held down by trains of flat cars loaded with railroad iron. Nearly every levee in that section is broken, and the loss to farming interests will be enormous. All the mills and factories along the river* am onrl chnfr. rlnwn MrTIV fishermen's bouses and other small buildings were floating down the river, and men were out with boats towing them asnore. Hogs, cows, and horses could be seen swimming in the flood until they came in contact with some obstacle upon which their bodies would be mangled. The smaller houses in the bottoms are wrecked. Many hundreds of cattle were drowned, so suddenly did the flood come upon the doomed farms and pastures. Many rowboa's and flat boats have come to Quincy containing such household effects as the unfortunate inhabitants of the flooded country could hastily get together, farmers with their wives and children finding this the only means of reaching a place of safety. At Carton, 111., fifteen miles above Quincy, school houses and churches were filled with refugees. A largely-attended meeting was held in Quincy to provide means of relief for the thousands of suffer* *8 along the lowlands. FOUR PEBSOKS SUFFOCATED. A? A 1Tf/v*Mavi nn/1 TTnf* Thrflft Alt XX |4 CU ft VJIIIUU MUM uva *M?WW Grandchildren Perish. "William Llewellyn, a letter carrier left his pleasant little home in Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday evening; in compahy with his wife, and when they returned a few hours later, they found the house partly consumed by fire, while in the parlor, surrounded by a crowd of firemen, lay the bodies of Mrs. Llewellyn's mother and three children of the family, all suffocated to death by smoke. The alarm of fire was turned in about eleven o'clock. The firemen were not aware at first that any one was in the building, and when they became aware of that fact it was too late to save the unfortunate inmatex In a rear room were found the bodies of four victims. The aged grandmother was lying on the floor, with the youngest child clasped In her arms, having evidently perished while endeavoring to make her escape. The boy was in bed, dead, while the fouryear-old girl was on the floor, behind her crib, where she had fallen in her struggles for life. Their names and ages are as follows: Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, agod sixty-eight years; Albert Llewellyn,aged six years; Fanny Llewellyn, aged four years, and Nellie Llewellyn, aged eighteen montrn Ik a recent fire near Tower, Dakota, a girl, barely sixteen, saved the lives of two small children by rushing through fiames to their bedside, and dragging them to where she could throw them to the earth without danger, and herself leaping after. A recent itorm on the Maine coast washed hundreds of lobsters ashore at York Mo3t of the large ones were dead, having been crushed by the wavee. One citizen picked up 150 email live ones in a few minutes. 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'' Baron told it to a }v^BBHQx|MHD^9mS^9M epondent, contains s'^HMEunffl^RflMSEMflR dozen novels and ^^^mNHHB^^E^|B^HH[ unquestionable, as substantiates hiseve^H|H^^^H9H^H^SHfl| production docuii^H^BHH^H^HH^KH most unimpeachable Kreitmeyer is the Baron of the same bafl^^^HHH^^KHI^Hg father's estates in the named forty-eight ing his majority he ^H^BQBflHKfiSHHj with Wilhelmlna Freit^^H^MHBHfl^H^HHH ter of his father's hM[H0BH|HEHB|^^fl oyed, rosy-cheeked, buj^UHn^^HHWM whom at length hecla^H^HuB^H^BB^^HflQ When the concealm'^HBMfl^KH^R^H^H riage was no longer Emirs noble father pronounced aii&themn,'JH3BHBH||^^^H^Hn on for having disgraoe^^B9^H|^KH[HHn| alliance with a peasani .SE^HH^B^^BESUUfaQi of doors and forbade hrB|^H^HHnBH the threshold of the Thus cast off by his fathix aristocratic friends. phickily resolved to taki^l^BHHnBHH|HSra the sea and endeavor toj^K^^^BHUfl^HHB living for her by the lat New World. During i ^HmRnHnflD sen ted him with a son f Hj^D9NMB8HHH mother and child died m vHnnHi Meanwhile the ^nsofgHB^nnni booming, and when New York he found thf excitement Having bef.^H^^HgMHlMIH father for the army, home as an officer Of and having no other pn,c^^K^BH^M^H^^M employment KreUmev^^^M^^RjHES^Ufljf in a New York regimentQ^H^H^HHE^BflBB of Bull Rnn he was carrie. a Confederate bullet in long weeks afterward h(? HHHBBHHB Washington hospital recovered to leave * l^HH^^KHHHRpjK| returned to his lantly until the very end. of a again twide wounded, and a Confederate sharpshooter in hiu head, continues therc^^Bj^^H^BgHMRn day. For a time he did sp^^HHHfl^EHnfafl messenger at the headquarterM|^nflBHH|^K| Dowell, and in this capacity into contact with many of T,Pnf. Opnpr?!a | , MMjUI'IHfHIH tinguished individuals of that eral of whom he received 8ubHn9flMB9|HHH of regard. When mustered out of Berv^HEK^BRS9j|R|Bt surrender, Kreitmeyer, havin^H^EffiHH^B^MB stemious life and carefully s^HMHUDHM found himself the possessor and with this sum he determii^HD^^H^^H|M| the water and pay a visit inc^^MQU^HHHHK neighborhood of his old home^BM^^B^BHBfii he had never received a ^vo^HBB^HflBKflMQI gence since leaving it morMBfK^8SMR89 years previously. On Oberarat Maulbronn he wended hia way, by the road7HHHR^^BSj|B| well, to the lodge in the forest estates, whence he had led long ago. Making himself father-in-law, the old gamekee> from him that both his parenK^fBMl^^BnBB and that his elder brother was the title and estates. Completely overcome and news of hiq mother's death, sought a reconciliation with hifJ^HHHHH|H^H| the new Baron declared that he forgive the disgrace which Emil upon the family name by his th? gamwWwr'firiaTiflhtarAnrt ^ WBW^ example oI his father he anatber^^HHnC^HBBg returned soldier and turned hilM|^BN^^^9| the second tima Feelint^M^Hj^HBM friendless and alone in Kreitmeyer came to the conclusionM^HBBMjHjjH best thine he could do was to get as possible. Accordingly he enlii^H^^H^H^R| Prussian army, and continued in for a period of fifteen years, time ne passed unharmed through Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prus^^^M^nBH| though on more than one occasioi^H|flRK|BBBj was shot under him. He left the army in 1880 resolved^^^EH^MB^H to the United States; bat bis seconH^^HHB^^H this country was not so fortunate Many of his old friends and patt^HBSHH^HSH dead, while others had retirea fr^M^^DHBU life and were scattered in various country, and he experienced cqSHHRHH^Z ?1Lja--u" tami? uiincmty m oTrnmrm^?| After wandering about for* time from city to city, . tt^Hfl^H^9R| his band to any odd jobs he coula? (3HHMnVHS be at length drifted to Economy an^flO^^B^^KBHK employment as a farm laborer, in pacity he has continued for Some three or four months out mentioning the matter one, he answered an advecttafl^HMjflH in a German newspaper for infgrpi^HR8K9^H concerning Etail von Kreitmeyer, barony and estates of Von Oberamt Maulbronn, Wurtemberg, ?the last incumbent, Emil's brotherjflfc^BKaNKSl recently died. Considerable corresptat^HRfl^^HH passed on the subject, and Kreitmeg&flHwHjS received a letter with a German from the family solicitors, enclosing on New York for a sum sufficient tdjgg^BSfl^BB all his wants' and enable him to travwnn9QH^^BH gentleman to Oberamt Maulbronn, title and estates await him. SHhHBHB PROMINENT PEQPLI^^^B The Sultan of Turkey gets annum. The ^Shah^of Persia has a privatelra^HJ^MH United States Senator dajpbimijhjhflm ing picture of Garfield. Edison, the inventor, says he would gnjjjHBB^Efi all his fame to recover his hearings -' : General Crook, the Indian fighter been thirty-six years in the service. '.7?^iHBR?b| The ex-Empress Eugenie, of France, again be Queen Victoria's guest at OsbotE&HBH^B this Summer. BhHR Abdul Hue, who entered the Engili^^HH^nj Government service in India at $150j^^^HR^H month, has saved S2.50u.000 in six or sein^^HHK yearn jSMHES A Monumental statue of Lord BeacojW HH field is to be erected at Maidstone, Englan? NHH which place he represented in Parliament wRBfl nore than fifty years ago. 4 | The Queen of Sweden is just now Bournemouth, England. She rides daily a small and gentle donkey, and is attende^^HDH by two or three men servants. tHgjHfl It was while staying at the late Matthevs^HHjm Arnold's house at Harrow, England, tbat^HB^H Prince Thomas of Savoy, Duke of Genoa, ro-^KCZK ceived and declined the offer of tbe crown of^KS^nj Spain. H|^n| Miss Linda Gilbert has devoted fifteen HH years and most of her fortune to prison reform. She has established twenty-two libraries in the prisons of different States and found employment for $0000 convicts. nHREj The Prince of Wales if he has won money on a race tilts his bat over his eyebrows, and talks rapidly to any one who .vmy be with him. If he has lost ho takes his hat off, wipes JHBM bis forehead w th his handkerchief and main- !3^hB feino a catwro cilon^a Sin Charles Tilson* Bright, one of the clHB projectors of the first transatlantic cable, who has since been prominently identified vH( with the extension of submarine telegraphs throughout the world, died at London a few days ago, aged fifty-six. jHB Mics Gabrielle Greeley, the daughter and only surviving child of the great editor, the^B is living a quiet and useful life at her country tje: home near Chappaqua, N. Y. She is a well developed, strongly built young woman with < a brignt and beautiful face. r. 9 Ezekiel E. Smith,who has been appointed. Jm/MM Minister. to Liberia, is a person of and importance among the North Carolina. He is thirty^HHMM^^^^HQ was born a slave and has an tion, which was obtained in difficulties. He has received Master of Arts from Shaw