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WK-? : a?? ?? - SDNK IN THE PACIFIC. A Terrible Marine Disaster Near the Golden Gate. Many Lives Lost by a Collision t of Steamships, One of the most terrible marine disasters that have ever occurred on the Pacific Coast happened at about 10 a. m. Wednesday in the Bay of San Francisco, at a short distance from the Golden Gate. The steamer City Of Chester left her dock there at 9:30 and started on her regular trip to Eureka on the northern coast of California. An unusually large number of passengers stood on her decks and waved adieus to friends on the wharf. The Chester steamed slowly down the bay, and when within two miles of the Heads encountered a thick fog. Captain , Wallace began to blow his steamer's i whistle to warn all vessels of his approach.HThe Che-t?r proceeded cautiously on her course till o?E Port Paint, when the hoarse sound of another whistle floated across the water. Captain Wallace answered the signal and gave proper warning to thestranger to pass on the port side. This was evidently not understood, for in a moment those on board saw the huge prow of the Occidental and Oriental steamer Oceanic emerge from the fog. The Oceanic had just arrived l'rom Hong Kong and Yokohama, Japan, and was moving up the bay to her uock. The huge steamer was so close to the Chester there was no possibility for the latter to escape. The cabin passengers were nearly all on deck, and the Captain, seeing the danger, called them to prepare for the shock. A panic ensued at once, particularly among the women and CQiiaruii, ol wiiuxu baero was a lai^c number. TKa HAAani/t ch?m>L? fVin Piftf r\f Phpcfor ftTI the port side at the gangway, and the shock was terrific. Her prow cut into the Chester's upper works and then crushed down to the bulwarks, tearing the great timbers and iron plates and breaking into the staterooms and cabins. The wildest confusion prevailed among the passengers, who crowded together, some shrieking with fear and others praying for help. The bow of the Oceanic crushed into the middle section of the City of Chester, cutting her almost into halves, and causing her to reel under the blow. When the vessels were locked a number of the City of Chester's passengers were passed up over the Oceanic's bow and rescued in this way. As soon as the large steamer could clear herself she swung around and immediately began to lower her boats. > . i At the moment of the shock most of the officers and crew of the City of Chester seemed to loso possession of their senses, and several passengers tt ti l afterward that some of tlio crew took the first opportunity to climb aboir 1 | the Oceanic, leaving the pus ca'rrs to cut; away the boats. One of these ?as lowered j Ias soon as possib'e and a number of p is>en- i gers taken oft". Others provided 'h msolvts with life preservers and jumped o erboar.l. The greater number, however, were compelled to remain on the steamer, which l?"gu>i to settle immediately after llio col is < n. Torrents of water rushe 1 into >er bo <1, an 1 in five minutes after the collisio i the City of | Chester had disappeared. Shj s nciu !it':y fatliomsof water. The rush of water into the hoi 1 was fo*lowed by an explosion of her boilers, hut slio was too far under water for uuy lurther j damage to be done. On tho Oceanic the C!?in si crew , WiAomA fawAn cfriol'on nj n ! the accident occurred, arid m u-li j time was lost in lowering the b .ats of ! the latter, but still the boats of tne Ooe mi: j were lowered rapidly and dd sool work j pickingup those who were floating in the l>ay, and sustaining themselves en life pns-rvers and bits of wreckage. In this w. r!c they , were aided by the Cbjster'sb wtsan l thoje 6t j two or three boarding liouse i uaner*. Those of the passengers an 1 cr?-w wi.oc.ims to the surface were picked up by tho f) e tni -'s boats, but the greater number we e dnwn down by the rushing water tn i Lever a. peared again. ? As soon as it wa; kno ' n that tfie rolliso'i bad occurred, a nirnht r of tugs and boats of I all descriptions ve t to tho scno ant rendered what service tlieycoul i in ]>i< kng np the living and c ead floating among the wreck aga The greatest loss of life occurred among the steerage passengers, of who-ii there ?cro twenty three oil bor,r I. Only two of tim e were rescued They were on the lower de.-k of the steamer at the time of t e collision,and there was no oppor.unttv to wirn them of danger or ren ter them assistance aft rwrrd. The cabin passengers nam lie e t seventy, and ;' of these ten were lost, t hree of the crew were also lost ?ne Chinaman showed preit brav- ry. A '- iU-""',:' man was trying to swini with a two-y. a--old vU ?L:U u;? i i ^ VU1IU 1U Uid (U U19, ?'UU '? O ? I ??n/ MUUljr, and finally, kissing her, n-lea e his h<?:?l and sank. The Chinaman jump* overboard from the Oceanic and res tie I the In by aud ; floated with her ti-1 p:c!el up I y a ioat W"hen the Chester final]v s nt one of her guards caught a 1 oat wi'h set en j>eople in it. four of whom h ?l just Leon rescued, and all were pulled un ier wa'er. Three of ;.*' (thc occupants of the boat U2\er came up again. s The steamer City of CI e-tor, Reich, man. master, was an iron vessel of llOfi tons burthen, -0.'? feet long, 83 feet 6 inches breadth of beam and 10 feet depth of hold, built by John Roach & Sons, at Chester, Penn., in 1874, with an engine of 190 horse power and a screw propeller. She was fitted with fine compartments, was rigged as a three-masted schooner, and belonged to the Oregon Steamship Company, of Portland, Oregon. GOVERNMENTAL EXPENSES. Congressional Appropriations for ho Pi?ocAnt Plscftl Vonr The Treasury Department has prepared this statement of the appropriations for the fecal year ending June 30, 1889, made at the present session of Congress in the regular appropriation bills: Bills finally passed ? As passed by the House, $2^2,733,190; as passed by the Senate, $222,733,190; the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill?House $23,3 >2, too, Senate $28,50i3.999; Army Appropriation bill?House $24,619,30), Senate ?31,53],?03; Havy Appropriation bill?House $20,(X) 1,074, Senate $20,193,282; Fortifications (pending in. the Senate)?House $3,725,000, Senate * >, 725,000; Deficiency (pending in tho House) ? House $3.539,4.34, Senate $3,539,434. TotalHouse, i 2 "7,972,405; Senate, $310,230,716. Permanent and indefinite appropriationsHouse, 1115,040,799; Senate, $115,840,'OA Total appropriations?House, $113,013,201; Senate, $42'),87(5,515. Estimate:! revenue, including $57,563,734 for postal revenue, $440,5<i3,734; festimatwd surplus, $26,950,5 JO, based on House appropriations. and $14,693,219, based on Senate appropriations. - PROMINENT PEOPLE. i Dom Pedro has returned to Brazil. Kino Humbert of Italy is forty-four. Christine Nilsson has retired to private Ufa Tttie Sultan of Tnrlrov hac nrHorAH Reveral typewriters. Bismarck is allowed but two dishes at his dinner, by order of his doctor. It cost the Emperor of Austria $600,000 to entertain the Czar for three days at Krem3ier. Ex-Empress Eugenie has given instructions to have her body cremated when she dies. The Queen Regent of Spain seems to touch the hearts of the populace at every turn of her heel. The Emperor of China goes to bed at five in the afternoon and gets up at three in the morning. The most inveterate letter-writer in Congress is Representative O'Neill, of Pennsylvania. Algernon Sartoris, Nellie Grant's husband, has become rich through the death of his brother. Chief Justice Fuller will carnrhis mustache to the Supreme Bench with him in spite ? ?f precedent. Mr. Gladstone gave to a poor church the ' , sum he received for his recent contribution to the Nineb'entfi Centura. Senator McDonald, of Toronto, is at the head of the largest dry goods h<nne in Can' nda, and is also a Methodist preacher. { ? . yr--- :?p. ;. v - - - - -. -- -- .. . . THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Moses Eastman McRoy, -and his son-inlaw, Phonoro Nash, of Harrington, Ma, have been drowned in Schoodic Pond by tb? capsizing of a boat Mrs. Joseph McDAtand Miss Kate Armstrong,recently from Ireland, wer j burned to death at South Adams, Mass., by an explosion of oil with which they were endeavoring to start a fire. Deacon Loverixg, aged nin?ty, his sister and housekeeper, Mrs, Richardson, were instantlv killed by lightning at Greenfield, Mass. The old man. who had been the deacon of the village church for fifty vears, was found sitting in the chair dead. His sister's body was burned to a crisp. Joseph S. Ward, a wealthy farmer of Middletown, R. I., and a member one of the oldest Rhode Island families, recently banged himself in his barn. He put one end of the rope around a beam and tha other on his neck, went on a ladder, and swung off. BETH IrREEN, ine weil-K.UU>v?i imi vuiuui iou, has died of paralysis at his home in Rochester, N. Y., aged seventy-one. Thomas Leonard, Thomas E. McGrath, and M. Peeler, residing in Fonda, N. Y., were capsized while attempting to cross the Mohawk River in a rowboat. Leonard and McGrath were drowned, I'eeler was rescued. A laborer on the New York aqueduct was killed by roceiving a shock from an electric light wire, against which he carelessly leaned. Edward Mahler, the Superintendent, and Robert Otz, brother of the owner, were killed by the falling of an iron arch in a Hoboken, (N. J.) silk mill. Daniel Lyons, the murderer of Athlete Quinn, has been executed for that crime in the New York Tombs. Arthur Adams, aged twenty,has committed suicide at StafYordsville, Conn., because his sweetheart refused to marry him. South and West. Chief Mekcott of the Kickapoos, his squaw and five children, have been killed by lightning, in his cabin, on the reservation near Netawaka, Kansas. Simon Wallace, aged thirty-one years, and his mother, aged fifty-five, were burned to death at Charleston, W. Va. Race troubles led to a terrible fight in Freetown, La. The colored men armed and ensconced themselves in a house, and after a fight lasting an hour or two, thirCaen of them were killed. None of the white men lost his life and none is reported missing. a sawmill at Blooming Valley, Mich, exploded. killing Engineer C. L. Dodge and Orson Robb and fatally injuring Mr. Prosser, the owner. In a railroad accident near Wilmington, N. C., two persons were killed and three injured. Mrs. Reed, wife of x. M. Reed, a prominent farmer of Alexander City, Ala., was found in bed strangled to death. l tie misLand has been arrested. General Lew Wallace, the distinguished author of "Ben Hur" and life-long friend of General Harrison, has just completed an authorized biography of him. W. U. Hensel, al staunch leader "in national councils of the I emocratic party, has just completed an ndrnirable biography of Cleveland, with a bright sketch ot Thurman. Hkavy rains have fallen in Southern Louisiana flooding many cotton and sugar, fields and submerging the railroad tracks. Billy Cole, the desperado who recently emptied a revolver iuto a dancing party at Guiding Rock, Neb., wounding two persons, has been lynched. Cheat damage has been done in New Orleans along the river front by a galo, accompanied by heavy rains. Several buildings were unroofed, trees were uprooted, and the coal fleet of the Pittsburg and Southern combine suffered severely. Fifty boats are known to have been lost. They were valued at each. Creat damage has been done to the rice and su~ar cane crop. Telegraph wires wore prostrated in every direction. a Tnovinn HnmnlieVifvJ mAnv bllildinPS in Marquette, Mich. Jcst before Trofessor Bartholomew was to ascend in his balloon and make a parachute jump at La Grange, Mich., the pole, twentytive feet high, fell into the crowd, killing two boye, Charles Graftmiller, aged nine ] years, and Gilbert Appleman, aged fifteen years. Captain X. Kinney, the founder and chief of the infamous Bald Knobbers, has been shot and killed at Ozark, Mo., by Bill Miles, an anti-Bald Knobber. In attempting to get down from a load of hay a farmer near Zanesville, Ohio, slippad and fell on a four-pronged fork, three of which entered his breast. He pulled the prongs out, walked around the wagon to where his wife was standing, fell into her arms and died. Catherine Willem, of Cincinnati, aged thirty-one; assisted to prepare the wedding feast for her young sister's marriage,and then went up-staire and committed suicide by cutting her throat. She declared that she killed herself because she feared she was doomed to lead the life of an old maid. Washington. jirigadiek-VjrKMCKAL.iMJSAL.uiu u/vin.u, mspector-General, has reached the age of sixtyfour years, and has passed from the active to the retired list. Colonel Roger Jones has been nominated by President Cleveland to succeed General Absolom Bairi, who has just been retired, as Inspector-General of the United States Army. TiiE President has nominated J. Russell Parsors. of New York, to be Consul at Aixla-Chap?lle, and L. Austin Spalding, of New York, to be Consul at Brunswick. The British Fisheries Treaty has been rejected in the Unite:! States S9nit3 by a strict party vote of thirty to twenty-seven, the Republicans voting against ratification. Foreign. Prince Mui.ey, with an escort of 200 cavalrymen, was recently sent by the Emperor of Algiers to receive the submission of the rebels. The insurgents uttacked Muley and hisescorc from an ambuscade when they came up. The entire force was massacred. The massacre was in revenge for the killing of the delegates sent to the Emperor to treat for peace. A terrible wind and rain storm has devastated Upper Austria. Lightning set fire to twenty houses in the Ischl district, and a woman and two children were killed. The total appropriation carried by the Navy bill as it comes from conference is $19,9:5 >,2-4. As it came from the House the bill appropriated $20,(.t0 !,074, which the Senate increased to ?20,193,243. General Boulanger who recently resigned his seat has been again elected to the French Chamber of Deputies in the Department of i he Somme by a majority of 34,7&>. Ho also heads the poll* in the Cbarente and in the NoriL The announcement of the figures caused great excitement in Paris. The Japanese Government has decided to spend $50,000,000 in the next five years for men-of-war. A thunderstorm at Kornenburg, Austria, destroyed thirty-five houses. Other villages were s a emerged. Thrae persons were killed at Aspern and twelve at other places. Many hesd of cattle and immense stocks of corn were destroyed. Salomon has been forced to retire from the Presidency of Hayti by a revolutionary P'rty and has taken refuse on board Her Majesty's steamer Canada, and General Legitime has been elected to succeed him. At the Paris Academy of Sciences M. Pasteur read a letter from Dr. Gamula of Odessa announcing the discovery of a virus which will cure ebo'.era. The Fight Rev. Samuel S. Harris, Bishop of the Prote^ant KpiscopaJ diocese of Michigan. who wns recently stricken with apoplexy while preaching in Winchester (England) Cathedral, has died su Idenly at London. Judge Rejtz has been nominated for President of the Or*inge Free F >te, in Africa, to succeed Sir John Brand, deceased. A family of six p?rson5 was dining in the City of Mexico on roiBS fowl.whm thav were taken suddenly ill anl died be'or j medical assistance coald t? procured. A physician on arrivin< exim ned the chicken,and found it to contain deadly poison. The Government of Spain is trying to induce the Unite! Suites Government to reduce or abandon altogether its claim for indemnity of $l,0l;?,0 to, which Senor Moret granted to American citizens on account of losses durinz the Cuban war. fyrHEWA, thirty-fourth Queon of the Zut Family of uysiei, is en amped at Sayt>rook Point, Conn. She will go to Bristol, England, in November, to attend a world gypsy lacampment to be held thero. AN ELECTRIC TEMPEST. lightning Wind and Rain Play Havoc in Canada. : Death and Destruction During a Furious Thunder Storm, | l A severe thunder storm passed over Que i bee and tho eastern portion of Ontario, in | Canada, early Friday morning that proves j to be the worst ever known there. Crops j were totally destroyed, houses and barns ! blown down and burned, hundreds of horses ? ?~ ? - t-MI. J J ? 4- wiimtvtM 4\t 1 i IfflD anu caiue Kiuttu ujiu u i?ioau uuuiuoi vlixv^i loat. j > The storm was particularly severe in the parish of St. Zotique, two miles from Coteau, I and, more especially in the townships of St. Catherine and St. Thomas. The widow of j Joachim Bissonett of St. Zotique was killed | under the ruins of lier nouse, which | was struck by lightning. Many persons j received severe injuries, and one | Jean Montpetit of St Thomas had his arm i broken. In the same township seven houses ! were completely demolished and the occu! pants left without any shelter. The ravages 1 of the tempest were felt for a considerable j distance along the lake shore, and in several | places the public highway was strewn with ; the ruins of the demolished buildings. 1 At Valleyfield, across the River St. Law. rence. from Montreal, shortly before 11 I o'clock, a yellow-edged cloud in funnel shape, ! appeared in the west and crossed the road | leading to Ormstown, about two miles from j there. Just on the other side of the road it ; struck the farmhouse of Andrew Jones. | In a moment the entire house was demolished, and the niate> rial which composed it was scat! tered far and wide over the fields. A wellI to do farmer, named Andrew Monteith, near j Rondoeuf, was buried under the ruins of his : house and received injuries of which he died I that evening. At the St. Louis River the ! it.voctoHnn wno frif?lit-fii1 Ripht near the I uw ? O" o bank of the river stood the bouse of a | farmer named Pbinea9 Sauvo. Mr. Sauve, | his wife, his children, bis hired girl, j and his sister had noticed the approach of the i storm too late, and the cloud swept over the j house and demolished it, burying under its 1 ruins the unhappy family. One of the ; children was found by the search | party which was organized, in the St. Louis River. Mr. Sauve himself was found dead with a picket through hia ' breast, and Mrs. Sauve, her hired girl, and Mr. Sauve's sister were found crushed by the ruins and quite dead. Two of the servants in the house who were found in the de-' bris were very seriously injured by falling beams. Mr. Edmonde Cardinal's house was wrecked and four'barns -were leveled to the ground. The seven persons who were in the house when the storm approached were all more 'or less injured, some very seriously. Here, as well as in other places, the barns were well stocked with grain of all kinds and hay which was all destroyed. At St. Louis the Beaunarnois Agricultural jSociety had their house, occupied Dy Messrs. 'Daignault, father and son, and two magnificent barns were completely wrecked by the tornado. Mr. Daiguault, senior, received fatal injuries, and three of Mr. Daignault, junior's, children are also badly hurt. I i In St. Louis village fifteen buildings were { Djown aown ana tv great uumua ui ^cu^ig ! injured. Phileas Roult, one of the victims, j was in his barn at the time, and though his j barn was carried away over forty feet and collapsed with a crash he escaped without I any serious injury. The number of the | wounded is estimated at over thirty. Twenty I houses were destroyed at St. Placide and two | persons killed. Nothing but utter ruin signalized the strip of land which has been ! brushed by the whirlwind. | At St. Ignace, George S. Lorimer wag ! killed by a tree falling upon him. At St. Hyacinthe, a boy, name unknown, killed while closing a window. Two lumbermen drowned at Chaudiere, while crossing the river. Their canoe was struck by lightning and their bodies wero swept over the falls. At Smith's Falls the wife of a hotel proprietor died from fright. At L'Original the people were congregated in the church, praying for protection from the storm, wnen a oau or ugncning swuuk. the building and a panic ensued, during which many were seriously injured. At Valleyfield five men were killed by lightning?names unknown. The damage is estimated at over a million dollars. ____ A PRODIGIOUS DOCUMENT. I A Naval Report that Fills 30,000 Pagei of Manuscript. The Secretary of the Navy has transmitted to the Senate the information called for by I Senator Chandler's resolutions relating to i the construction of the so-called Roach cru'sers and for other plans and con tracts. The information filled about 30,000 pa^es of manuscript and piled up on the floor stood six feet high. It took fourteen men seven months to compile it, and it will form the largest document ever sent to Congress from an executive department. NEWSY GLEANINGS. The English Parliament has ad journed. There is a short rye crop in Central Europe. There are 76,000,000 acres of corn In this country. Thk new-born Prince [of Greece will be named Christopher. Smallpox has again made its appearance in the City of Mexico. Philadelphia eats forty-four tons of pie every day in the year. Russia does not recognize Italy's right to annex Massowah, Africa. The English wheat crop this year will be one third under that of 1887. Thirty-sevent men have been executed in St. Louis for the crime of murder. Prussia, has a surplus in her treasury not I only large but rapidly increasing. The wine crop of California for this year has been estimated at 25,030,030 gallons. A new Keely Motor Company is to be formed with a capital Btock of 112,030,000. The Turkish government has just borrowed ; $7,500,000 on the new fisheries and silk taxes. About 15,000,090 cottonwool trees have been planted in Southwest Kansas this year. Last year Italy sent 130,003 emigrants to South America, an average of 10,000 a month. Ore assaying twenty per oent pure tin has been fount! in quantity, in Northwest Georgia. A balloon at Anderson, Ind., was inflated with natural gas and rose to an altitude of "^500 feet. Ma. Parnell demands $250,000 damages in his suit against the London Times brought in the Scottish courts. The contingent of recruits for the Russian army this year will be 2 >0,000. against 233,030 I men callea out last year. I Two seamen have arrived in Glasgow, j Scotland, who drifted 1300 miles, in an open | boat, after being wrecked. I The new rifle recently adopted for the ' British army has been withdrawn. It wets j condemned by "all practical men." Thk population of Rome grows at the rate of 18,000 or 20,0 )0 a year. At the beginning of the present year it was 382,973. I The uone thousand-foot tower" at the Paris I Exposition will be only 9?4 feet high. It will take 2,500,000 rivets to put it up. The new oil pipe line from Lima, Ohio, to Chicago is in successful working order, the oil now flowing at tbe rate of 3>o,00J gallonj j a day. The Pacific ocean cable will run from Vancouver, British ""olumbia, to some Australian port, and c- * from $15,000,000 to j $20,000,000. The Princes of Thurn and Taxia have to ! pay a fine on the death of a King of Prussia | of *350,001 A check for $700,000 has just been forwarded to Berlin. The total debt of Massachusetts, State and ' municipal, upon which it is paying interest,is ; $91,2-3,913; of Pennsylvania, $114,034,759, , and of New York, $218,82^,314. Nicholas Murphy, a watchman at a Boston wharf for five years past, hu during that time saved the live3 of a hundred persons who have fallen overboard. J. L. Legare, of Wood Mountain, Canada, will give evidence before a United States official to substantiate his claim of having captured Sitting Bull, for which he demands a biz Drice. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. Senate Proceedings. 155th Day.?The joint resolution to re- ( strain the erection or maintenance of over- , head electric motive power and electric light wires in Washington and Georgetown was < referred.... A bill was reported appropria- i ting $10,000 for the completion of the monument commemorating the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga The bill relating to postal crimes was passed. ] The bill provides as penalty for each offence a fine of not more than $.5003, or imprison- . ment at hard labor not more than five years, J or both, at the discretion of the court.... The Senate then, at 2.15, took up the Fisheries Treaty in open executive session, the pending ] question being on the motion submitted by 1 Mr. Gibson. Mr. Morgan proceeded to ad- ] dress the Senate in favor of a ratification o? ' the treaty, and spoke for two hours without ' concluding. ' < 150th: Day.?The consideration of tne Fisheries Treaty in open executive session was continued, and addresses were raaae on the subject by Messrs. Hoar, Evarts and 1 Morgan. 157th Day.?The Fishery Treaty was brought up for final consideration, and Mr. ( Morgan concluded his speech in favor of | ratification. The amendments of Messrs. , Gibson and Gray were defeated by a party vote, and the Treaty itself was rejected by a ( vote of thirtj' nays to twenty-seven yeas. 1o8th Day.?The Committee on Public . Lands recommended that the bill granting 1 the use of certain lands in Pierce county, 1 Washington Territory, to the city of Ta- ( coma for a public park, be passed over the . President's veto Mr. Beck offered as an amendment to the House tariff bill an additional section suspending until further order i of Congress ull laws relating to the sinking fund ... Mr. Reagan introduced a bill to de- '' fine Trusts and provide for the punishment ( of persons connected with them Mr. Beck introduced a bill to rep3al all laws relating to the sinking fund, and after discussion the f bill was read a first and second time, and laid r on the table A bill was reported granting 'i a pension of $3300 to the widow of General Sheridan. ( House Proceedings. . 1S9th Day.?In the House nothing was accomplished, the short time that the body was in session being consumed in fruitless at- 1 tempts to secure a quorum, beginning with an errors to secure cuuaiuerauiuui <jl gcuoi ai pension legislation. ' l'.KJTH Day.?The Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported for immediate consideration the Senate bill to prevent the coming of Chineso laborers into the Unite 1 States, with an amendment repealing the acts of May 6, 1S81, and July 5, 1884, the repeal to take effect on the ratification of the treaty. Speeches were made on the measure by Messrs. Morrow, Hooker, Bynum and Owen. No decisive action was taken on the matter. 10 1st Day.?The Chinese Restriction. bill was passed Resolutions to correct certain abuses arising under the present tariff laws in relation to bagging for cotton, sugar fit for consumption, coal oil, alcohol and cotton seed oil were referrad. A resolution declaring that the report of the Pacific Railroad Commission discloses scandalous law-breaking on the part of the management of ths Union and Central Pacific Railroad Companies, and providing for the printing of 10,000 extra copies of that report, was referred.... Mr. Dingley introduced a resolution reciting the allegation that in many instances foreigners are commanding: and owning vessels, registered vessels of th3 United States, and engaged in the coastwise trade, declaring that this is in violation of law, and call I fag on the Secretary of the Treasury for information. 192d Day.?Resolutions were adopted accepting the statue? of Richard Stockton and Philip Kearny presented to the Nation by the State of New Jersey, and Mr. Phelps made a formal presentation speech. 193d Day.?The Senate bill appropriating $<5,000 for a public building in Kalamazoo, Mich., was referred....Conference reports on the Army and Navy Appropriation bills were presented in the Hous\ When the bill passed the House it appropriated $21,629,000, as it passed the Senate it carried $31,531,000, and us agree 1 upDn by the conference committee it app opciat' d $23,881,000. The report was agreed to without division. OCEAN'S VICTIMS, Two Scandinavian Steamers Collide and 117 Passengers Perish. In a thick fog at early dawa, off Sable t~1 j 4-U~ *4 isiojiUf near vapo i.vaco, iuu oucaiiump Thingvalla, of the Thingvalla line, crashed j into the steamship Geiser of the same line, and, five minutes later, the waters of the Atlantic were gurgling through a great hole in the hull of the Geiser as she sunk to a grave beneath the angry waters. The Geiser had just left New York with 163 souls on board, ninety-three passengers ard seventy of her crew, bound for Stettin, Copenhagen, Denmark and Christiana, Sweden. Everybody in the ill-fated Geiser,except the portion of the crew who were on duty, were also nsleep at the time. The first mate of the Geiser, who stood on the bridge keeping a sharp lookout, did not see the approaching Thingvalla as she glided'over the water on her fated mission of destruction until her bow was too near the Geiser for the terrible calamity to 1 A. 1 A 1 LK3 averrou* miiiusi uoiuiu no uau uiiuo ww | think the Thingvalla was on him. There was a shock, a crash, and the terrible work of destruction -was (lone. The terrible crash awakened every sleeping passenger of the doomed ship. As they sprang terrorstricken from their berths the ominous sound of the waters rushing and gurgling into and through their vessel told them in an instant the terrible ordeal that fate had in store for them. The Thingvalla struck the Geiser amidships on the starboard side and cut her half in twain. . The Geiser's deck was aslant and wet after she was struck, and the ship lurched considerably toward her wounded aide, and passengers, unable to find a foothold, plunged and rolled overboard almost as rapidly as they reached the deckIn seven minutes the dying Geisor gave her last lurch. A jvave swept across the deck, and when it subsided only the bow with the bridge above it and the chief officer, Henry Brown, standing ?n the bridge, gripping the railing and looking away over tbe bow of the ship into the fog and mist, were to be seen. Another instant and ship and man were gone, j Three boats of the Thingvalla were lowered and manned. The first away rowed straight to an upturned boat, on which a woman was I supported by Third Officer Feteiscn, together with an engineer who had his arm broken and a seaman with a I broken log. These were taken on board the boat, an^l very soon afterward the other J boats had picked up the few others who survived, thirty-one all told, of passengers and crew. One hundred and seventeen souls hail been drowned. t I ~ - ? ? r*- .1 iU UVer six nours Kimrwum us mo nuuS- . valla, with her grief stricken human cargo, | lay tossing upon the wave-, with distress signals flying at hor masthead, she was sighted by the sti-amer Wioland, of the Hamburg- Amorican line, which wont immediately to hor relief. The Wieland'f ollicers. on hearing the t-.'rrible tale of di$Mter. took all the passengers of the Thing vailu and the; rescuad passengers and crew of the Oeiser on boin-d and brought thtyp to the port of New York, arriving at bar dock in Hoboken the following evening. A FAMILY ANNIHILATED. The Peculiar Accident That Befel an Ohio Fanner. A psculiar accident occurred near Steubenville, Ohio, recently, resulting in the death of George Owens, his wife, and his son. The two men were engaged in digging a well on J their farm, and were hoisting the earth and c stone with a windlass ropo and heavy bu?ket. 1 As the father was dragging up a load the ] ropo broke and the bucket fell a distance of ' ten feet, striking the son who was in the well. ' As soon as assistance could be projured the ( father was lowere 1 into the weil, where be 1 found his son insensible,but by arranging the rope about his body had him drawn up to the surface. The rope was again lowered for the , father, who was hoisted almost to the surface J when the rope again broke and the man fell . to the bottom, breaking his neck and causing instant death. Before the father coul.i be ; removed from the well, the son, whose skull ! was badly crushed and shoulder blades ' broken, died, and both bodies were taken to J thoir home. Mrs. Owens was so prostrated ' by the shock of the death of both husband and son that she also has since died. The estate of the late Edward Richardson, ( >P Jackson, Miss., comprising tbirty-five j otton plantations, was recently divided by i lot among his five heirs, each receiving seven 1 p antations. Still a large amount of prop- 1 ertv remained to be divided. He was t.;e ( richest cotton planter in the world. 1 ' \ -v LATER NEWS. ... W. L. Hiltox and Misa Nellie Axd&)$fy jf Montreal, went sailing in a small canoe 99 Lake Memphremagog, Vt, when a northeast itorm having arisen, their boat was swamped ind both were drowned. The sixteenth biennial Convention of the American Deaf Mutes' Association, which las just been held at Bellows Falls, Vt, jlected Oscar Kinsman, of Rhode Island, President. The Republicans of Wisconsin, assembled n convention at Milwauk^, and placed in She field a complete State ticket W. D. Hoard was nominated for Governor, and jeorge W Ryland, for Lieutenant-Governor. t. p. Skeene, a United States Marshal's Assistant in Kentucky, was assassinated on lis way to Grayson with some prisoners. A herd of blooded horses, owned by Seorge D. Rainsford.of Cheyenne,Wyoming, ;ho well-known horse raiser, was struck by ightning and eighteen animals, valued at ?20,0ll0, killed outright The extensive buildings of the Herman Berghoff Brewinc Company at Fort Wayne, [nd., have been totally destroyed by a fire Mused by spontaneous combustion, inflictng a loss of $200,000. The Republican State Convention of West Virginia was held at Charlestown, and a full ;ieket was nominated, headed by Nathan ' off, Jr., for Governor. President Ci.eveland has approved the ict for a public building at Jackson, Mich., tnd the act for improving the mouth of the Brazos River, Texas, has become a law with)Ut his signature. The President has returned four private lension bills and two bills for relief of private psrsons to the Senate without his apjroval. THE cnier guide in trie uoiomue julouu;ains of Switzerland, while trying to save a party of tourists recently, lost his own life >y falling over a precipice. The investigation into tho Skeena River ;roub!es in British Columbia has disclosed ;he existence of a plot by the Indians to nassacre all the white settlers, which was iverted by an Indian warning the Government. At Antique, China, a Spanish priest and ine other Spaniard were attacked by a horde >f n itive inhabitants, with the intention of tutting the priest to death. His companion imlatthe mob, until fifty of them were dllei. Latest official returns from the Bandal San Juan earthquake in Japan, give the lumber of persons killed at 470, and injured it forty one. THE NATIONAL GAME. The Brooklyns lack dash and vim. Goldsby now captains the Baltimores. St. Louis owes the lead to Pitcher King. The Pittsburg players wear caps of differjnt colors. Gentleman has been released by the Tro? [N. Y.) Club. San Antonio has the best .batters iu the Texas League. Chicago Chinamen play ball and are said io play it well. Denny, of Indianapolis, leads the Leagua in home-run hits. Felt-lined gloves are used by the majority Df League players. Keefe, of New York, recently won nineteen consecutive games. The Chicagos were the first to win a series -that with Indianapolis. Ryan, Johnston and Connor have each nade over a hundred runs. Dave Foutz has the best fielding record of my of the Brooklyn players. Every time the Indianapolis Club plays in STew York Esterbrook gets hurt. Hanlon has signed a contract to go to AusIralia with Spaulding next winter. The Cincinnati's have played in a twelve, ifourteen, and a fifteen-inning game. Umpire Gaffney says Philadelphia is the >est city in the country to umpire in. Pete Wood is one of the most successful ntchers in the International Association. Shreve has supplanted Boyle as the winling and star pitcher of the Indianapolis. Boston is having a hard time finding a nun tn tjibft Burdock's nlftCd at second base. The Hamilton (Canada) city council has roted $300 to the Hamilton Baseball Association. Ferson, of Manchester, N. H., is considred the best pitcher in the New England jeague. " Doffy, the new right-fielder whom Chicago ecently signed, is making a very favorablo mpression. Notwithstanding the amount of cat-hag he is doing, Bu3hong has not yet been lurt this soason. With Hardie Richardson and Jack Rowo iff the team, and Thompson unable to throw, )etroit is in a sad plight The Louiivilles have one of the best staffs ?f pitchers and more star performers than ,ny other club in the Association, At Lima, Ohio, the other day, Ellsworth Miliars, a catcher, had his left eye knocked >ut by a bat slipping from the hands of a atcber. John Burns, of the Baltimores, has been 1 J 3 L-, mifk fha Rrnnlrlvna eieuieu, una nt? oifcucu mm uuv. ?vv?v ? is centre-fielder. A good bonus was paid for lim by the Brooklyiis. The Hamiltons, of Canada, are considered he heaviest batting team in the Intermtional Association. It has seven leftLanded sluggers in its ranks. The Detroit team lost ten straight games ecently. This is the first time in Manager rVatkins's experience that any team he ever landled was beaten more than three traighfc. Baseball critics who have seen young Joy, Washington's deaf and dumb centrelelder, pronounce him one of the most latural players now in the field. He catches i ball very gracefully, and bats with coniderable science. The California papers unite in declaring hat Purcell, of the Pioneers, is the dandy >itcher of the Pacific Slopa, and tbat Jorcbers, Knell and Van Haltren, who are low doing duty in the East, are mere side hows alongside of this greatest phenomenon if them all. Manager Watkins hasssnt Sam Thompon, the famous Detroit cent?r fielder, home, lis arm has been getting worse with every tame-in fact, so lame that without imnediat* and total rest he would be pernmlently lamed. Baseball will know him no nore this season. Laroque, who has just made his appearince with the Detroit team,was secur?d from ihe Lynns, of the New England League. He s a hard hitter and a swift runner, though lomewhat clumsy. He resembles EarUie Hichardson in physique and handles a ball omewhat similar to Shortstop Rowe. The best monthly record of victories in 1885 in the league championship arena was ;hat of the Chicago team in June of that rear, when they won twenty-one vict ries mt of twenty-three games. The best in !h8H vas that of the Detroit team in May of that rear, when they won twenty victories out of .wentv-fjur games. The Lest in lJS'ST was hat of tha Fhii&delphia team in September )f that yeir, when they won sixteen victories >u4 of twenty-one games. na.tio.val lsa.oUS record. r(imf' Club. Wo*. T. ot. tfew York til 31 Jhicazo 53 39 .'etroit 43 42 Philadelphia 4(> 45. fa>?ton 47 45 a"~1 dll dH -V ash ith:t on 36 5*5 Indianapolis 33 GO AJlii UUA* ASSOCIATION RECORD. ' 'atnr M 'I.I a. I foil. Tx>?'.. >t. I^ouis 6i 29 J.nnnuati 56 36 fUbletic 54 35 Brooklyn 5S 40 3ait more 39 57 LionisviUe 35 55 Jleveltmd 33 56 Kansas City 31 6U A CYCLONE'S PATHWAY. 1 It Cuts a Terrible Swath Along the Atlantic Coast. A Deluge Destroys Many Lives and Much Property, A terrific cyclone or water-spout wrought terrible havoc in the vicinity of Wilmington, Del, and its force extended as far as Wheeling, W. Va., where great damage was done by a flood that resulted from this cause. The cyclone originated at Still Pond, Md. Krebb's cannery at that place was totally Hoofrmrorl hv t.hA ovrtnnfl ah 4 nVlnok in thn afternoon. Nine persons were killed outright and many others wounded. The wreck took fire hut was soon put out. The other damages there is great. The storm came from the southwest and cut a direct line for the northeast. It was next seen about four miles south of Wilmington, Del. The path of the cyclone was not over two hundred yards wide. There were several strata of clouds, which seemed to be no higher than the tree tops. They came on with a terrific roar,like that of distant thunder or the noise made by a train passing over abridge. The first place which it is known to have struck is the country blacksmith shop of Theodore Bruce. Bruce had eaten his supper and had gone to close his shop when the storm struck, and in a few seconds hardly a vestige of the building remainod. A falling beam hit Bruce and crushed his skull, killing him instantly. At Jonesville, one person was killed and seven were seriously wounded, while a large number were badly wounded. The dangerously wounded are Wm. Turner, blacksmith; Mrs. David Lentz, a farmer's wife; the threeJear-old child of Charles Cathcart; James [cNiflf, coachman; Charles Cathcart, labor no am/) TT?A /-*V*i 1 /-?*?on nmnT? The cyclone then continued in a straight I course, tearing up everything in its way. Trees were torn up by the roots, crops completely destroyed, aud nothing but a sad waste and scattered debris remain. The beautiful residence of General J. H. Wilson, near Wilmington, although it was completely hidden in a cluster of trees, was mowed down like grass. It razed to the ground a large barn belonging to Mrs. Rogers, a widow. Some line blooded cattle were killed, and Mrs. Rogei-s' coachman was seriously injured. About a quarter of a mile distant from here it struck a cluster of three houses within a couple of hundred yards of tach other. One was occupied by David JLentz, a trucker; another by William Turner, a blacksmith, and a third by a family named Foster. These houses were all shattered as though mere egg shells. The debris flew through j the air, and was scattered about a mile away. The furniture, bedding and household goods were taken up by the whirling wind and carricd miles awa*. Turner was fatally in'ured, and the wife of i>>ntz a'id two of the Foster hou eho i are seriously i hurt. The storm was then half a mile from the outskirts of Wilmington. After sjveeping through a beautiful woid, making a swath as with a scytha. it stru -k the big rolling-mil! owned I y ti e I ob.le'l Car-Wheel Company. This mi 1. tmugtJ unoccupied, was stored with valuable tnavhinery and ready to start up at any tiinn. N (thing but the fly-wheel could be se n standing after the storm passed. The <ss th.-re is estimated at $75,0 0 t? <)"*>. Of two frame tenement hoiv-es th?t stood on theopposicesiae 01 tne rum nam y o. vesu^a remains to show that they ever exist*!. Charles Cathcart, who ii ed in on \ saw rho storm approach and ran <>ut of the house with his little child in bis arm^. Hi was 3tru'ck and felled to the g o m l i>y a piece of flyiDg debris, and was ? rio :s!y hurt about the face and head, in falling he crushed the child fatally. The wife of Tom Hamilton, who lived in the adjoining house, esc .ped from the bil ling. but just before t!? storm ranched her she lay flat on th* gro;in 1 wi h her children underneath her rim es ;ape 1 unnurel. ttie cyclone next rams witbi.i a few hundred yards of str king the steamer iSrartilywine, which was just coming from Philadelphia, loaded with pas enters. It diil bit asloop, load'.tl with tru.k, and 1 n led it lgn nnri nry <?i i/:e nun*. mu-i ?> >i..s a new barn it p.?s?ed over the Delaware River, where it raise 1 the ?a:e tothj height of a three-storv b ick hoi:s_?. It conlinu d iti course ov-^r info New Jersey, though it lost m ich of its f 'roe in the Delaware River. It first struck the Salem (N. J.) brick work*, whicli were nearly demolished by the funn j-.shiped whirlwind. The high -mokestick was l> own Dver and nearly a'l the I.u 1 iug swept away. The cloud then took a no: th w ster y course, blowing down I arns, wl-cle orchard* and growing crops. Tie damage in that comity will amount to many thousand dollars. The cyclone seems to hive extended in an opposite direct o j, mi 1 in West Virginia it paused a waterspo.it thit inli ted serous injury, and for the third tire with.n six weeks the Upper Ohio \ alley suffers from a flood which has done fully $1.''0'.000 worth of damage, but which.thanks to the s ow rising Df the water, resu'te 1 in no o- s of human life. A- ?V,Q vol rnn.Ic ctlfFiir ll OTPJlt fi.im I no UCiVi tj IUU im I VH-../ ? p. age, not less than six i ri?l?:es on t ie line of the Pittsburgh Division of the Baltimore and Ohio Road beim: mis-in^ n on;? county alone. The bridges at West A^e :ar. ier. ntthe Pennjylvania State line,we t out at 2 o'clock, and were followed in half an hour by three bridgss it Triatfelphia. At 3 o'clock the iron bridge it Elm Grove, five miles from Wheeling, went away, and almost at the same time the big Baltimore and Ohio bridge, Wheeling, collapsed with a crash which could be heard for blocks. At 6 o'clock the big stone bridge across the creek on the liue of Main street, and but ten yards east of the railroad bridge last mentioned above, went down. This bridge was built in 1842 and was one of the landmarks of the city, and with it went the Electric Motor line, the 20-inch water main, and the natural and artificial gas lines, cutting of 15,000 people from light, fuel, and water on the south side. The natural gas mains were also broken outside the city, and the whole popur lation was without fuel of this description. At Elm Grove, W. Va., every house was submerged and the loss will rea h $25,000. The streams were all higher than ever before. THE MARKETS. 34 NEW YOIIK. Beef. City Dressed 7^@ ' % Calves, common to prime.... 5 @ 7 Bheep 3 @ 4% Lambs 7% Hogs?Live 6 50 $ 6 75 Dressed 9% Flour?City Mill Extra. 4 7J @ 4 90 Patents ? @ 5 00 Wheat-No. 2 Red 97%@ 9>}{ Rye?State 56 @ 58 Barley?State 82 @ 85 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 5.' @ 53 Oats?No. l White ? @ 43 Mixed Western 83 @ Hay?Choice Timothy ? @ 9> Straw?l one Rye 65 @ 70 Lard?Citv Steam ? @ 8 80 r> 1Q f/h 'M DULlttr?Oiaic VICOIIICI j .... * " - . Dairy 14 @ 1 H West. Im. Croataery 11 (?) Faotorv 11 @ 14 Cheese?State Factory. 7 @ Skims 2 @ 6,'if W estem 7 & ^ Eggs? State and Perm 17;^@ 13 BUFFALa Steers?Western 4 03 @ 4 73 Sh'ien?Menu uto Good.... 4 20 @ 4 50' Lambs?.-'air ti <!<> 5 50 6? 0 (X) Hop?Good to Choice "i orks 5 ;<0 @ 15 05 Flour?Family 4 85 (g 5 25 Wheat-No. z He 1 '-'3 1 Corn?No. 2. Vellovv 51 & 513^ Oats?No. Wri e 41 {(J 4;> Barley?Stare bS (ij 91 BOSTON. Beef?Good to choice. 9 @ 10 Hogs?Live 6 Northern Dressed.... 6 J* 9 7 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 10 ? 5 5) Corn?Steam-v Y. liow. 5.? 0) 63 . Oats?Vn. 2 White r0 @ 51 V< Eye-State 60 <3 ?5>* WATERTOWX 'MA3S.) CATTLE MARKST Beef-Dressed weight Oj^igl ^fceep?Live weight 0 Lamb< 6 @ Hogs?Northern ? ($ 0% I'HILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn. family 3 75 @ 4 00 Wheat?No. 3, Red Corn?No. 2, 5>}$ Oats? nsrrade . W te 4t);<,@ 42 Rye?No. 2 ? @ ?8 Butter?Creamery Extra... 18 (2 10 Cheese?N. Y. Pull Cream.. 9 ffl 9J? Aboriginal Wood-Workers. At the Smithsonian Institution at Washington are collected as many of the aboriginal tools of America as the officers have been able to gather. Of course," said H. F. McLeod, one of the attaches .>$ of the institution who is now on his wayt to Puget Sound, to a Chicago tftws in- . terviewer, "aboriginal carpentry was the chief trade of our predecessors on this continent. The Indians and the moundbuilders had a very good idea of wood 1-- ?ill AMAn anmo worniug. l uu wiu ecc c?cu uv?? owtuv veiy pretty joining done by the Sioux Indians. Their tent-poles make a fit which many a white carpenter would sotlike to try to better. "The best carpenters, of course, weia the Aztecs, who had arrived at quite a* ? high stage of art, and whose tools, although they knew nothing of steel, are* v really excellent. We have a few of their tools at the Smithsonian, but the best collection is, of course, in the city of Mexico. The material used was almost wholly glass, especially for the finer partsof their woodcutting. To chop tree* they used flint axes and for the rough hewing out of the logs the same, but when it came to the accurate fitting in of ' ^ the hewn timber they handled glass knives, chisels and saws very deftly and s with beautiful results. There is a ceabawood post in Washington with hiero crl I'Whinnrl fnooc ottf. nnrtn it all with glass. You can see bits of the aboriginal chisel still sticking in a corner of tne work where it broke off three centuries -3 ago under the hand of the workman. V The Aztecs knew how to make a very good and manageable glass, and their best cutting blades, swoi ds, daggers, and spears, saws, chisels, and, axes were made of it. When the edge dulled they broke it from the eud instead of sharp- * sning it, and got a new cutting line. ; ou can see a great deal of aboriginal carpentry sti 1 in use among the Moqui Indiana of the United States. Of course they use our tools now, but they ' follow thoir old patterns. TTiey know how to make ladders and they swingtheir doors on hinges from the top, ana they know how to mortise timbers? knew how loner before Columbus landed ' in America. Of course they use our tools differently from our way. TheDhisel they push rather than hammer, and they wor.< the board up and down 'J on a fixed saw rather than the saw on the board, but withal they get very creditable results. The frame work in the: pueblos is quite as honest as anything you have in Chicago." A Monster Cell In Japan. If I were a good Buddhist, says a cor- a respondent of the Globe-Democrat, I - " would say a prayer or two to the Chioin 1 bell, the largest bell in Japan, but a mon3ter breathing sweet music that thrills jne from head to foot, and ringing soseldom that the dates are kept in mind ^ carefully, lest one miss the great treat. The bell hangs in a ?hady little place at the top of a stone staircase by itself, and is struck from tne outside by a swinging beam that gives the soft reverberations, that do not jar on the ear no matter how powerful they are. When the huge' beam is unchained and swung it is generally at the time of the live o'clock mass in the morning, and heavy sleepers : have been unconscious of the musical' booming and missed it ail. Others *re -A wakened by the strange vibration and the soft music ringing and pulsating on . ; ' the air, and in the half consciousness of waking it seems like a part ot same beautiful dream. It is the grea'est pity that with such a magnificent bell tLe temple doe3 not see fit to ring it oftener. The Chioin is a rich temple, and its altar one of the mosl gorgeous in Kioto, amass of carved and gilded ornaments-. surrounding a massive gilded shrine. -J Occasional worshipers come and kneel on the mats and mutter their prayers, but * most often one finds the only occupantj of the space before the altar is a lone old ! in/liiafrinnalv hnmmGrin<r awat at *? j o i modem drum shaped like a huge round j'eigh bell. From live o'clock in themorning until the temple closes at four in the afternoon the thank, t/.unk keeps up. A nice old woman, who must be a professional mender, from the incessant patching and darning of blue cotton garments that she keeps up, takes care of' rhc shoes while one roams the temple stocking-footed, but she does not o.ier to mend the foreign stockings worn out on matted and polished wood floors. """ Lack and Chance. A term used not long since in donriection with an accident striken a line of reasoning worlh following up. The term used was "the laws of chance were against them.". "VVebstor says chance ia "the absence of any defined or recognized cause," or "an event which happens without any assigned cause." Clark hit the mark truly wnen he wrote: "It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it beingevident that these words do not signify > anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of an event, but they signify merely men'signorance of the real and immediate cause. It seems as if the "laws of chance" would be a pretty good field for study, and that some pretty solid law3 are in existence somewhere on nature's statute book. Another terra goes with, "chauce." It is called 'duck." Sometimes they go hand in hand as a "lucky chance." Luck is disposed of in Web- . stei's as "that which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting & man's happiness or interests, and which is deemed casual; a cou:so or scries of such events regarded as occurring by chance." Now, then, Iuck is wnat chance does, and we must "take the chances'' if we wish knowledge of this mutter. To acknowledge that there are "laws of chance" admits that a cause precedes each event, and gives some ground to work upon. If a man would think twice before he used the words "chance" and "luck/' he would not use them at all, but reason out, as far as his knowledge would permit, the cause of each event he calls luck.?Bos'on Gazette. "Marriage by the Glove." A marriage by proxy, or, as it is called, "marriage by the glove," is prevalent in Holland, and is brought about by the fact.that many of the eligible young men, after having finished their education, depart for Dutch India. A friend selects a willing young lady, gencr-ally one with a substantial dot and otherwise conforming closely to the ?pcc;tica ions of the letter. A pho:ogiagh of the favoied one is enclosed in the return epist'e. After the lapse of a few months a soiled left hand glove, with h power of attorney, is received from the faraway bachelor. The friend in Holland marries the selected bride in precisely the same manner as if he were the actual groom, and the young wife departs in the next India mail stealer to bring ha piness to the lonely one in the far Kast. A marriage of this description is. as binding as if the bridegroom were present, aud is never repudiat -a. If either party of the glove m :rriage should die before meeting in India, the survivor would hhare the property of the deceased in accordance with the law. ? Baton TravtUr. ^ 'i-V v.'.vyu' .