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- 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.
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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. {
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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
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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.
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