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> - - THE NATION'S KROVtH. 6 What the United States Will Becomc in the Near Future. Blai whi Figures Which Testify to the Country's Greatness, >-ou J ente and . _ - i no. .1.. XT,. V?.l, f)nr An interesting arui-io iu wc ?>cw lum ~-j Times contains some startling facts and fig- *"jg ures concerning the future growth of the United States. The foundation for any Stat estimates of our future growth, says the an(* writer, must lie in the history of its past. ^ Beginning, therefore, at the dawn of the "^Vij present active generation, say 35 years ago, on t we find that our territory included 31 ^uc< States, 4 Territories, and the District of Columbia; that its extent was islal as it remains to-day, exclusive of Jiot Alaska, 3,0J2,S52 square miles, and tha t it hill contained a population of less than 25,000,- bill 000. The centre of population was near Park. ersburg, W. Va. The vast territory west cu!'1 of the Mississippi River, embracing 6 States ^ein and 4 Territories, 2,135,840 square miles of land, or over seven-tenths of the entire na- ac|l! tional domain, contained at this time only 1' 1,999,404 people, and of these there were only Y43 92,298 living in the limits of the four Tern- App tones. Several peculiar fallacies respecting this region gained such general acceptance J"?1 that tney were recorded upon the maps *avc and in the geographies published in this early period. The fertile region between the f * *->, ?J T>_J d;?- ?Ana. lutl< XWV?r -TJttlMj 8I1U bliO 1VCU XVIV Ci ncvj uvj - , cribed as the "Great American Desert" in one case and as an "Alkali Desert" in another, tion Even as late as 1660, in Lippincott's "Comprehensive Geography," it is said that, ?1SC' ' Along the eastern foot of the Rocky Moun- "ut_ tains these plains are almost deserts. Much of this region is suited to a pastoral people, Proc as are the high plains of Asia.'- The greater ti?n part of Northern Texas is described as an . ''arid, staked plain," and the southern part In<? is called a "sandy desert" J"egt Now there exist in the trans-Mississippi re- ber' gion 12 States and 9 Territories having a J?660 population in 1SS0 of 11,259,360. According *ere' to the census of 1850 the true value of the Pr0I real and personal property west of the ,ow Mississippi was in the States $509,704,47'.) and in the Territories $11,-24,0:23. In 18S0 01 this had increased to $0,119,00J,000, or by 1200 per cent., in the six States, and to ;?s?, $2,904,C00,000, or by 2720 per cent., in 7?-' the States and Territories^ included in ^ the limit of the four original Territories, jn rr-. the same period of ;;0 years the true value of ot real and personal property in the entire ~ country had increasad from $7,135,750,22$ to $48,642,000,000, or something over 000 per cent. During this period of 35 years since ' 1S53 the Territories of Minnesota, in 1857, and E, ?. Oregon,in 1859, were admitted into the Union: J , the new Territories of Kansas. 185 J; Nevada, ? 1861, Nebraska, 1854, and Colorado, 1861, were crganized and subsequently ad- P-J mitted into the sisterhood of States, and the ./jpresent Territories of Washington, 185\ Dakota, 1861, Arizona and Idaho, 1863, Montana, v, 1864, and Wyoming, 1868, were organized , The State of Kansas, that was not even > organized as a Territory until 1S34, was dcredited in 1880 with a property valuation of $760,000,000?a sum exceeding by nearly H $180,000,000 the aggregate valuation of all , the States and Territories west of the Missis- ? fiippi in 1850. o? In the direction of agricultural develop- ^ ment the progress of the Nation has been no -w_ less striking. The corn crop of 1849 was t- * 592,071,104 bushels, and in 1879 it was 1,754,591,676 bushels; the acreage had in- _f*; creased from 25,000,000 to 62,000,000. The wheat crop in 1849 was 100,485,944 bushels, ? ?roduoed on less than 10,000,000 acres; in 91 879 the crop was 4-59,483,137 bushels, and the ,Hc. acres 35,430,333. In 1849 there were 65,797,896 )"! bushels of potatoes produced on SOO.OOJ acres of ground, and in 18?.? the crop from 1,800,- . 000 acres was 169,458,539 bushels. A But perhaps as just a criterion by which to judge of the development of the country as can be taken is the statistics regarding the A T building of railroads. At the end of 1852 there were in operation 12,908 miles of rail- ^ road, in 1862 there were 32,120 miles, ia 1872 there were 66.171,and in 1882 there were 114,- Stat 930. According to the Annual Statistician beer ? the number of miles in operation at the close of 188(5 was 1SS.248 miles. The population by decades since 1S50 was sleej as follows: awa .Per Cent, oj b3 S Increase in u,.f Ten Years. Duc 1&50 23,191,876 33.83 <;On( 1860 31,443,321 35.11 1870 38,558,371 22.(55 fj?*| 1880 50,152,886 80.06 The average per cent of increase per de- V~ cade from 1700 to 1880 was 32.70, and exclud- , ing the decade during which the civil war stv? occurred it was 33.95. , Immigration was never so great as during iV" the present decade. It would seem as if the i~? old countries or the world had reached the ' limits of their human life sustaining capacity, and that nearly their entire natural in- j crease was being poured in upon the more ' promising fields of the United States. For ?; ' the ten years from 1S51 to 1860 the number of immigants to arrive was 2,598,214, from E? 1861 to 1870 it was 2,466,752, and from 1S71 .. to 1880 it was 2,944?695. These figures have ^ already been greatly exceeded by the imrai- ?P' gration during the current decade. In 18S1 PalD there arrived 669,431 immigrants; in 1882, 788,992; in 188.3, 603,322; in I8S4, 518,5.12; in 1885, 395,346; in 18S6, 334,203, and in 1187, 509,281, making a total for seven years of 3,819,167, exceeding by 874,472 in seven years K the immigration of any previous decade! Ti At the rale of 30 per cent, increase per de- bor. , cade the population in each decade for a century would be as follows: 3890 65,199,000 | 19.50..... 314,702,120 T, 1900 84,753,700 1960 409,112,753 1910 110,186,3I0| 1970. 531,816,583 ? 1920 143,242,203 I 1980 691,400,5.58 T) 1930 186,214.864 1990 898,820,725 cars 1940 242,079.323 |. A If carried to the end of the twentieth far century of the Christian era this computa- A tion would show a population of the United buil States of the astounding number of 1,168,466,942, with a ratio of 3SJ to every 640 acres ofNground. The rate of progress T made in material affairs, as can readily be A seen by a comparison of the statistics given , above, has been no less startling and gratify & ing than in the numerical increase of the in- . Tj habitants. incr ? mill FLOODED RIVERS. nei? Destructive Freshets Play Havoc in A jreirasjiviiiiia. anu ucrse). joq; All the rivers in the vicinity of Easton, a Penn., have overflowed their banks. At ^ eight o'clock Ithe Delaware River jhip was twenty-five feet above low water mark, ]j a clear rise of fifteen feet since noon of pQW the day before. It backed up the small cou, streams and flooded cellars, yards and T wharves. Many people in Front street moved out of their first stories. The Bushkill was a * rj raging torrent, sweeping away everything in its path and doing great damage to mill 1 properties. Lou Residents near the Delaware and Hudson bad Canal left their houses by boat At Milford, tive Penn., Brown's sawmill and tannery were A swept into the Delaware. Near Belvedere, ord< N. J., the Delaware rose fourteen feet. y0i Bridges were sweptjaway and crops destroyed, whi At Bordentown, N. J., the Delaware overflowed the docks and piers so that no vessels (vm could land. waJ The Pennsylvania company sustained a loss ma* of $5030 by a wreck near Phillipsburg, N. (j J., caused by a freight train crushing into a ' passenger train which was delayed by a ' * washout ?a2 The Lehigh and Hndson and the Bangor nu'j and Portland roads were abandoned because ana a# mnnw rPQcKnnto TVta TlalQwora T 6pO' V& lUUli; 4^?l|?.f(UV| MWV?. wanna and Western tracks were washed I away near Portland, that road using the Le- ves high Valley road to reach Scrantou. The em] total damage done to railroads, county roads, we< bridges and streets will exceed {200,000. are CANNIBALS IN CANADA. ?? iga Starving Indians Down to the Level pie of Hungry Beasts. I Late advices from the Northwest received ?r' Ht Ottawa, report great suffering and many ^ deaths from starvation among the Indians ne1 of the Canadian Northwest territories. From bu; the Peace River district several cases of j " fennib;ilism are reported, where, to save pig their own lives, heads of families have eaten is < their children. dr< Last season Parliament voted the sum of so $854,000 for supplies for the destitute In- rea dians of the Noithweet, but from what has Seen learned it appears that dishonest agents Who were entrusted with its distribution cot had appropriated the greater portion of the tl" tfrant. 00(1 V - ' " 4 ' ^ * V 1UMMARY OF CONGRESS, Senate Proceedings. g, 5th Day.?The Senate Finance Commitiefined the situation with regard to the if when called upon to do so by Mr. Vest There was no quorum present when Mr. r's motion to reconsider the vote by > ?h the Chinese Exclusion bill was passed e to a vote. By agreement the vote was fis sn at 2 o'clock without debate. Eighteen r* is were cast for reconsideration and seven- 0f en against it, four less than a quorum, ar hence the matter went over ior anocner tb A bill was passed appropria- re $300,000 to prevent the spread of jw fever in the United States. The House amendments to the Inter- se ? Commerce bill were non-concurred in, ra a committee of conference (Messrs. Cul- jj{ , Piatt, and Harris; appointed. sa 6th Day.?A bill to appoint General liam S. Rosecrans a Brigadier-General tt he retired list of the army was introii.... A resolution was adopted, instruct- 0l the Committee on Finance to inquire as fa tie Cotton Bagging Trust, and what leg;ion is necessary to counteract it The m ion to reconsider the Chinese Exclusion was defeated by a vote of 21 to 20. Tne m now goes to the President.... The Senate m it the afternoon in discussing the Agri- ^ ural Appropriation bill, the chief subject a> g a proposition to transfer the Weather jau to the Agricultural Department. No m was reached. 7th Day.?The General Deficiency bill reported from the Senate Committee on iropriations A bill for purchasing ve naval guns of different sizes, in which w re-enforcea cartridges will be used, was irably reported....The correspondence . Unrr f-j-i t-ha Phinjxjn Trftotv wnsKfiTif; hv the lident to the Senate, in response to a resom of the latter Mr. Sherman's reso- th >n practically laying aside the Retaliabill until next session was brought up in discussed by its author ...The Senate ussed the Agricultural Appropriation bill, no action was reached on it. Sth Day.?Messrs. Jones and Stewart ~ :eeded to address the Senate on the moto refer the President's annual message Mr. Chandler, from the Committee on tr an Traderships, reported back the bill dating the purchase from Indians of tim- dj an certain Chippewa reservations in Minta and "Wisconsin Mr. Edmunds of- tj. rl a resolution, which was adopted, ap>riatmg $100,000 for the relief of the yelfever sufferers of the South. * Honse Proceedings. g] 3th Day.?The House passed the .joint lution to appropriate $200,000 in addition ., ae balance of the fund heretofore approted, to be expended in the discretion of President to prevent the introduction of s' era or yellow fever into the United P< :es or its spread from one State to ther. A 4th Day.?On motion of Mr. McMillin gj Cox of New York was elected Speaker tern, to act during the absence of Mr. lisle The Department of Justice r<?:ed a deficiency, incurred for special lsel fees, and asked for an extra appriation....A bill was introduced prong for investigation of the contracts for di Brooklyn Public Building?Mr. Kellev's lution to enlarge the scope of the Stahl- le :er investigation was agreed to....Reso- in >ns were introduced inquiring as to any ue influence used to have the Sioux In- q is sign the treaty: whether American p] srmen's rights had been interfered with, to prohibit the use of national or other ks as national depositories unless they are ^ mvenient for special disbursements. J 5th Day. ?The House discussed the Liry appropriation of the sundry civil bill, e3 Parson onnosine anv further aDDroDria- se this session and recommending a liberal ropriation for next session, when new eq is could be drawn and the work speedily Bi aed. Mr. Kelley favored the appropria- be . No action was taken. fith day.?The Sundry Civil bill was r ussed, but a lack of quorum prevented so on- ___ Bi l PECULIAR AFFLICTION. dc p! 7nited States Senator's Disease? r Neither Asleep Nor Awake. nc ews comes from Europe that United w ?s Senator Le'and Stanford, who has ^ i there for some time, is the victim of . extraordinary disease, He cannot g| 3 when he wants to, and he cannot keep re ke when he wants to; he can hardly ever aid to be awake, and hardly ever asleep, or perpetually oscillating between the two hi htions. He does not sleep more than a th **? fr?./\ of a t.ima (if we mavcallit Ql ) for want of a better word; somnambui might be more nearly correct), and his i don't remain open or his senses active or more than the same length of time at a jr ten. " ma tor Stanford is never allowed to walk ie. for if he tried it he would surely fall, ~ somnolence coming upon him without ce. Sticking pins in him is no use as he s off notwithstanding. If he starts to it with you he may get through with a few euces and then be cut off in the midst of a unfinished word, but when he awakens bs >nsciousness again he has the knack of as ng up the talk precisely where he left off. ar use a printer's phrase, his sleeping, his ba ting, his talking and his thinking are all 3 in very "shorttakes." But he has no Y w u , i 3 so THE LABOR WORLD. " RCPP's works cover over 1000 acres. Ci here are 69,000 colored Knights of La- hi li rree Wisconsin Mayors have been elected abor tickets. **r bree million women in the United States 11 working for wages. ie Northern Pacific Is having 1000 box P, made at Troy, N. Y. rricultural labor Is in demand in the ar West, but at low pay. lu big chemical fibre paper mill is to be D t at Huntingdon, Peuu. th he 15,000 harness makers of the United BE ?s have formed a National union. he brick-makers' strike in Chicago is * nated to have cost nearly a million dol- ^ D 3E paper makers all over the country are B easing the productive capacity of their p s. p se-half of the brass workers of New b k city are out of work because of a dull- V in trade. lime-crcsher has just been invented at A" tistown, Penn., which will do the work S hundred men. A be entire output of a Lisbon, N. H., shoe 2 mill?oCOO bushels for the past season?is p ped to Germany. g < men were employed to furnish the l 'er to carry on the industries of this j; itry, it would require 21,000,000. he cednr shingle mills of Oregon and shington Territory have united. The luctiou is worth ?4,000, OtX) a year. he employes of the Laclede mill, at St lis, will let pne third of their wages stand #( k in order tt> run the mill on a co-opera> basis. ^ . huge jjumpin^ engine has just been cicu ujf ??cicn luuio uwnurs irorn a new k house, because none others can be had * ch are safe from bursting. he capital invested in paper mills is S50,- ? 000, value of production $85,000,000, 'es paid per year ? 18,500,000, tons of paper b ie 200,000, number of hands employed 0?. ? rORK, Penn., is said to have the greatest carpet works in the United States. Six r id red women and girls make carpet rags I there are one hundred weavers and olers. t 'renton, N. J., has over $4,000,000 inted in potteries, and the army of workmen * ployed receive in the aggregate $75,000 a sk. The arerags earnings of the employes } about $18.50 a week. l Providence (R. L) foundry is engaged i lasting the largest mining pump in the rid, for the Calumet and Hecla, of Michn. A single section of it has been com- > J ,.,AlnUe fAr>o cum ?> oi^uo Mtvuwj wuo, 'illsbury Mill "A," at Minneapolis, nds 7000 barrels of flour daily, which is j >ugh for New York, Brooklyn, and Jersey j y. It is eight stories high, and work is rer stopped. It keeps 200 railway cars sy. ; important invention in the method of ining lumber has just been perfected. It . iesigned to enable the person using it to J jss the lumber in the log while he saws it that when the plank drops off it is planed idy for use. Ita.lt Is the greatest onve prortacmg f intry, 1,250,000 acres being developed to c it industry, yielding 30,000,000 to 50, r 1,000 gallons of oil annually. ? . ' ' ' ' ' -r*. ^ ; LIYING ON DOQ FLESH. t&rvation Staring: Labrador Fishermen in the Face. Advices received from Labrador, draw a rrowful picture o? the suffering prevailing ero among the starving fishermen. The iheries of the past season have, at many ?ints, proved almost a total failure. Many the fishermen and their helpless families e begging to be removed before winter, as ey must starve to death before spring, if nei IS doe senu wj mem. Deprived of the necessities of life, sickness is set in among the children, and in the abnce of medicine and proper nourishment any have succumbed. A gentleman, whc is just returned from the Labrador coast, ys he never again wishes to witness such a ate of gradual starvation as he saw among ie poor families there. The emaciated mothers had gone day withit food, vainly trying to nourish their in jits. He knew a family who for four days id subsisted on nothing but dog flesh and a itle flour. Unless relief is soon sent there must tx any deaths from starvation. An effort if aking to induce the Dominion Government send a steamer with supplies and to bring vay such families as are disposed to leave. THE NATIONAL GAME. Rowe is back with the Detroit team. AN60.V allows his stay-at-homes to play ith local teams. Barr, of the Rochesterg, refuses to play ill on Sundavs. John Irwin is the leading base-stealer of le Central League. Alle.vtown claims to have the strongest i the Central League. Chamberlain, the Louisville pitcher, has ;en sold to St. Louis. New York has won the series from all the astern League clubs. The fifty-one games at Boston have atacted 235-,000 persons. Baseball fatalities are growing extraornarily frequent of late. Louisville has made fewer home runs tan any other Association club. Unlucky Catcher Fulmer broke a finger in recent Baltimore-St. Louis game. Louisville paid $900 for the release of tiortstop Tomney, of the Allentowns. Tener, the new pitcher for Chicago,stands x feet and two inches in his stockings. Dan Brouthers now leads the Detroits in ngles, doubles, triple runs, home runs and it outs. Rochester still leads the International ssociation clubs in the number of errorless imes played. George Wright, the noted ball player of renty years ago, will make one of the Ausalian party. Sunday, of Pittsburg, now leads the eague in base stealing, with Seery, of Inanapolis, second. The town of Cleves, Ohio, boasts of a onegged player who is said to be quite expert fielding at third base. The wife of Ball-Player Lillie, of Kansas ity, has been burned to death by the erosion of a gasoline stove. The first instance of where a plaver was )ld for $1, was the sale in Ohiojof Williams r Canton to Lima for just $L Flint, the Chicago veteran catcher, is an :oellent trainer or young pitchers. This ason he devoted much of his time to this. Nash comes pretty near being Denny's |ual as a third baseman. Of the two the astoniac is the best batsman with men on ises. There will most likely be a Michigan ?ague next season, with Kalamazoo, Jaclrn, Muskegon, Grand Rapids, Saginaw and ly City. At the close of the season ten of the Phila lphia players are going to Augusta, Ga., to ay two weeks during the centennial celeation at that place. Morrill and Anson are the only two men >w playing ball in their respective clubs ho were members of the League in 1876, e vear it was formed. That offer of $500 to each of the Brookn players if they win the pennant has irred the boys up, but their chance of aching the top is very slim. Wh*n Anson strikes out or makes an error i the Chicago ground the play meets with s8es or cheers. This display oh the part of e crowd stings the old war horse to the lick. In every game that Quinn, of Boston, plays > does something astonishing with the bat 1 in the field. In his first game with the idianapolis team he had five put outs, five sists and one error. Buck Ewing and Tim Keefe agree that ickley, of the Pittsburgs, is a natural hitter, it Keefe thinks that Beckley will not hit fe so often when the League pitchers oroughly size him up. Kelly, of Boston, is still one of the star ise-runners of the League. Probably not fast as some, yet he is seldom thrown out, id can rattle fielders into throwing wild ills better than any of the rising clever onea Anson is determined to rob the New orks of their claim to the title of "Giants." e is signing big men whenever he gets a lance. Farrell, Tener, Sullivan, Williamn, Baldwin, Darling and Anson are all six t tall or over. At times a ball player risks his life withit realizing it. Such an event occurred in liicago when Duffy caught Connor's line t as it was about to land on a horse's back, i jumping for the ball the little right ilaer lost his balance and rolled under the ulnars feet. Ryan came to his rescue and t'ted him un with tlifi hall in hia hnml Dunlap's injury is eo serious that his boll aying days may be very short. He will irdly play any more this season at any te. A ligament in the ankle is torn loose, id while the wound may knit it will be ible to break by a sudden start or jerk, unlap told an intimate friend in Pittsburg:, at he was afraid the wound would put an id to his ball playing. national l,ea&c3 record. imeo' Club. Woi. I??; ew York 73 42 hicatro 65 51 etroit 62 52 oston 60 5-5 hiladelphia 57 55 ittsburg 55 53 idianapoli3 44 73 fashmgton .. 42 71 american association record. am f of Club. Won. l/t?\ t. Louis 78 34 .thletic 70 42 rooklyn 72 46 incinnati 64 48 leveland 45 65 altimore 46 69 ouisville 40 75 [ansas City ^. 38 74 NEWSY GLEANINGS. Canada has 3200 oil mills. Germany determines to increase her naval jrce. A new Siberian railroad to Irkutsk if egun. The proposed Canadian combine has fallen brougn. Ixermans ana iuncans nave Deen ngnting t Zanzibar. Philadelphia has spent $26',000,000 on lercity building. The Indian depredation claims amount to ive million dollars. The finerest talc in the world Is found in Cherokee county, N. C. Chicago annually distributes more fruit han any other city in the world. A disease called the "red eye" is afflictng people in some parts of Spain. A tunnel is to be built under the St Clair iiver, Canada, one and a half miles long. There are about 200,000 pure-bred cattle n the United States, against 40,800,000 'scrubs." The new ocean racer, the City of New STork, carries a crew of 394 men, including i towards. Cattle raisers and feeders in the United. states will meet in mnrftnhinn at Kfc T.niiia November 20. A new Mexican railroad to connect the ;runk lines and tap the Sierra Majada mines s contemplated. A Natural gas line to cost $1,000,000 is to >e run through Beaver County, Penn., t' Xoungstown, Ohio. There is to be a mild boom In ostrich eathers?so much a one that the Town Council in Cape Town, Africa, have provided a lew and larger building for the use of the eather dealers. V / I CYCLONE IN CUBA. Over a Thousand Lives Destroyed in Twenty-Four Hours. Property and Crops Worth Many Millions Swept Away, The Avisador Commercial of Havana ha? issued a special supplement giving details of the recent cyclone in Cuba. From this the following is taken: A cyclone has spread its blackened wings over this unfortunate land and swept the island. Its disastrous ef fects were felt from Point Maisi tc Cape San Antonio, the whole length of Cuba. Its greatest violence was exercised in the Province of Santa Clara. Telegrams regarding this sorrowful event were sent to the Captain-General of the island, who immediately authorized the highest officials to form a board to consider measures for allaying the misery caused, and put at their disposal $20,000. This cyclone was as disastrous as that which occurred in 1888. Commencing late in the afternoon, it reached its greatest intensity at midnight, and lasted until 3 o'clock on the morning of the next day, when the barometer commenced to rise. There was a great deal of damage done in Havana. The shipping suffered greatly, and the gunboat Jorge Juan lost two of her crew. Some of the metallic roofing of the Theatre Payret was torn off. Trees were uprooted * * * - * -A - J ana lamp posts aesiroyeu. Telegrapnic communication was interrupted for upward of fifteen days, the railway lines were also intorferred with, and communication between Sagua and Havana by rail was cut off for six davs. The cane fields have suffered great damage. It is the opinion of those well versed in the matter that the damage will amount to 25 or 30 per cent. Not a single banana plant remains. At the port of Batabano nine sailors were drowned by the foundering of the Spanish' gunboat Lealtad. Trees were torn up, roofs were torn off and the violence of the hurricane was great. The schooner Suarez, which had made the port the previous day, wai completely wrecked and several of the crew were lost. The schooner Alphonso XIL was driven entirely out of the water and literally into the street. The schooner Antonio met a similar fate, having been blown into Pavia street, where she still remains high and dry. The schooner Almirante disappeared completely. Nothing is known of the fate of the crew. There were many acci'lents caused by falling buildings, resulting in broken legs and arms. In Cardenas the waves of the sea swept into Hector street. Many families abandoned their houses owing to the flood. In Sagua the cyclone, properly so-called, commenced early in the morning of Wednesday. Of th? 1420 houses in Sagua, scarcely twenty escaped damage; $6tOOO,OCO worth of property was destroyed. The desolation and ruin are complete. The picture is dark?much darker than any pen can make it, however sad and truthful the lines. In Isabella thirty-four bodies were found on the beach. The overflow of the river caused great damage there. The beach was covered with dead fish, and many cattle were drowned by the flood. The latter are producing fearful ' odors. The .correspondent at Caibarien says: One " family lost three children; the schooner Emanuel, four sailors and three passengers; the Union, two sailors. Mr. Cordova, his wife and five children were lost. It is believed that the number of deaths at this point was over seventy. There was an extraordinary rise of the river. Mr. and Mrs. Jose Crespo saw three of their children swept away by a terrific wave. Twenty-two nouses were blown down and forty-eight received 6erious damage. All over the city there is much damage. At Cardenas alone property was destroyed or damaged to the extent of ~SI,000,000, and the deaths amounted to over 100. Womea and children, sometimes entire families, perished by the dozen. Two mothers were drowned trying to rescue their little ones. Others endeavoring to save life were also drowned. Among the dead recovered at the La Isabella de Sagna was a mother with her two children still firmly clasped in her arms. In this situation the bodies were buried. The total number of deaths from the cyclone throughout the island is estimated at upward of one thousand. The vortex of the cyclone entered the island near Sagua, crossing between Havana and Batabano and through Consolacion del Sur, leaving Cuba for Vera Cruz. A peculiarity of this cyclone was its southward tendency. PBOMINENT PEOPLE. "Octida" has become religions. The Princess of Metternich is her husband'i niece. De Lesseps is referred to as the Duke of Suez." Phil. Armour owns the finest paintings in the West. Mrs. Mackay and ex-Queen Isabella of Spain are great friends. H. Rider Haggard has been shipwrecked while making a trip to Iceland. Justice Gray is six feet five inches in height and weighs nearly three hundred pounds. The Emperor of Austria has but one passion, grouse shooting, and that he indulges in sparingly. The imported Guernsey cattle of the Hon. Levi P. Morton took eight prizes at the Buffalo (N. Y.) fair. Louis de Geer, the eminent Swedish statesman, is seventy years old, and has ret'r xl from public life. Miss Hattie Blaine, daughter of the Maine statesman, has pink cheeks, a fair complexion and nut-brown hair. Lord Dcfferin, Viceroy of India, is now dependent upon an amanuensis, owing to the tendons of his hands having contracted. Senator Bcjtler, of South Carolina, delights in athletic sports, and one would hardly suspect him of having an artificial leg. Curtis, the Presidential candidate of the American party, is the most wealthy of any of his competitors. He is set down at $2,000,000. Srn Arthur Sullivan, the composer, is short and stout, with a low forehead, short, curly hair, black eyes, and a square, bulldog chin. Ex-Governor Long, "of Massachusetts, has amused himself by translating Greek classics as a relaxation from his more serious occupation. Saraii Bernhardt, the actress, is quoted as telling a friend that she intends the scene of her own death to be something startling and striking, Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore is the only woman lawyer in Philadelphia, and .is regarded as one of the ablest members of the Bar in that city. President Cleveland, James G. Blaine, Speaker Carlisle, Senator Ingalls, Warner Miller and "Sunset"' Cox began their careers as school teachers. Forty years ago Professor Blackie made a vow that he would visit some new district of Scotland every year, and he says he has conscientiously kept it. Mary Garrett, Robert Garrett's sister, manages the Garrett interests in the Baltimore and Ohio road. She was trained by her father, and is said to be quite equal to her task. It is said that Canon Siddon, one of the ablest men in the Church of England, has never been made a bishop because on one occasion when he preached before the Queen he addressed her Majesty as plain "madam." Ex-Governor Knott, of Kentucky, haa not read a book that has been published within the last fifteen years. He reads the newspapers only when he cannot avoid it He says that the old books are good enough for him. On learning that at the funeral ceremony of Frederick III. the New Emperor had accorded to only one person a grasp of the hand, that person being Waldersee, Bismarck is reported to have exclaimed: "I shall amputate that band-" IT is said that Canon Siddon, one of tbo ablest men in the Church of England, has never been made a bishop because on one occasion when he preached before the Queen he addressed her Majesty as plain "madam." Ex-Governor Knott, of Kentucky, has not read a book that has been published within the last fifteen years. He reads the newspapers only when he cannot avoid it. He says that the old books are good enough l for him. Frank McGurrin, of Chicago, the cham1 pion type-writer of the wor d, breaks hij 1 own record with 533 words in five minntea. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED i Eastern and Middle States. ] Latku and fuller returns place the Repub c lican plurality for Governor in Maine at c 18,4!?5. Two inches of snow and sleet fell at Mount I Washington, N. H. 1 Fire in the lumber district of Boston, 1 Mass., caused a loss of over $80,000. airs, kebecca LiANGLibr ana ner nve- " year-old daughter were burned to death at their home in Boston by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. A merry party of young people were celebrating the oirthday of pretty Minnie Tufful by a sail on the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia when the skiff became unmanageable and took the plunge over the falls. Miss Tufful and Frank Carver were drowned. A little boy aged eight and his sister aged nine, children of Michael Flaherty, of Boston, were playing in a deep cut when the train came along. Worried by the engine whistle, the children endeavored to get out of the cut, but missed the regular path and were ground to death. Charles B. Whiting & Co., the most prominent firm of bankers and brokers in Worcester, Mass., have failed, with $'300,000 I liC&UlJiblCS. Joseph Cannon, an employe of Allen's [ mill, Birmingham, Conn., bad both legs I torn off from nis hips by being caught in revolving machinery. Death was instantaneous. John Firth, of Rahway, N. J., and his brother Simon, of Paterson, N. J., who was visiting him, were both struck and instantly killed by the Chicago limited express in Rahway. Both had been drinking freely all day, and John had taken his brother to the station to see him start for home. The Democrats of the Twenty sixth Congressional District of Pennsylvania have nominated James R Burns for Congress, William L. Scott having decliued a renomination. William Fooartt, a Now York job printer, has been arrested as the murderer of his brother James, who was killed by a thrust in the eye from the point of his umbrella. Mr. James Langdon Curtis.of New York, the candidate chosen for the Presidency of the United States by the National American party, is out with his formal letter of accep m&uuc* Re v. D R. Tr a velli, of Sewickley, Penn., has died, aged eighty years. He was the first to introduce the kindergarten system of education in America, and was also prominently connected with the prison reform ide* of the past two decades. Sonth and West. The official returns from the Arkansas State election are all in, and the majority of Eagle, Democrat, for Governor, is 14,081. John* Cruetzi, of Baltimore, Md., was choked to death by a celluloid collar, his head dropping on his chest while in a drunken stupor ana his collar stopping the windpipe. Two lives were lost,'three persons fatally injured and more than a score badly wounded in a collision on the Baltimore and Ohio road at Newark, Ohio. At Winfield, Ohio, Richard Jones was sick of typhoid fever. He asked to see his children, but his wife would not allow them to go near their father. Jones then deliberately cut his throat in the presence of his wife and mother. He lived only an hour. Sam Brown, a desperado who boasted of | Having Kiuea rour men, was soui auu iwuou at Hartville Mining Canp, Wyoming, by Frank Williams, a cowboy. Alexander Goldensen, who shot and killed a fourteen-year-old school girl named Mamie Kelly in 1886, has been hanged in the county jail at San Francisco, Cal. The entire business portion of Washburn, Wis., has been destroyed by fire, causing a loss of over 8150,000, with no insurance. ' Eight cases and one death from yellow fever were reported from Hendersonville. N. C. An explosion and fire in a flour mill at Cleveland. Ohio, caused two deaths and serious injury to four other victims. A horse thief named Wise wad fleeing to Manitoba with a number of horses, when a body of armed settlers overtook him near Turtle Mountains, Dakota, and lynched him. The business portion of Florence, Wis., has been wiped out by fire. Fifty-six buildings were burned. Loss $75,000. Up to late date the total number of yellow fever cases at Jacksonville, Fla., was 995; total deaths, 128. A man named Iverson, who lived at Steiner's FJat, Northern California, shot and ---? ? 1? koJ killed ms wiie ana nimseu nunc u um. When found their babe, which was in bed with them, was covered with their blood. Hostilities have begun afresh between the Hatfield and McCoy factions in the Kentucky Mountains. The Kentuckians came upon the West Virginians at Pawpaw Mountain, where a lively battle took place. In the melee two of the West Virginians were killed and two more badly wounded. Nona of the Kentuckians was hurt. George McCurdy, of Canton, Ohio, aged twenty-eight, while walking alone tbe street with his Detrothed, Miss Lucinaa Qonder, dropped dead on the sidewalk dragging Miss Gonder down with him. They were to have been married the next week. At Devine station, Texas, Callie Smith, a fourteen-year-old girl, attempted to start a fire with kerosena when the can exploded, scattering the burning oil over the girl and | , her two sisters, Delia and Dosia, and her only brother, all of whom "were standing I around the stove watching her, and the four children were burned to death in sight of their mother. Rikop's saddler}- establishment and adjoining buildings, Paducab. Ky., were destroyed by fire. Loss, $200,000. The rice crop in Georgia has been almost destroyed by tne floods in the Savannah district Elijah Fuilt, a veteran of the Civil War, was placed on trial at Kokomo, Ind., to make him divide a pension he recently received, with his wife. During the progress of the case he killed his wife and J. C. Blocklidge, her attorney, in the crowded court room. Speaker John G. Carlisle has been renominated by acclamation for Congress by the Democrats of the Sixth Kentucky District. Mrs. C. J. De Leon, an elderly widow, committed suicide in Chicago by attaching a rubber tube to an unlighted gas jet, which was turned on, and inserting the otner end beneath the bed-clothes, which she tucked closely over her head and body. Washington. The President has sent the following noraI {nations to the Senate: John Fitzpatrick, of Louisiana, to be Marshal of the United States j for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Louis W. Crofoot, of Dakota, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Dakota. The statement of the United States Comptroller of the Currency shows $*245,072,052 outstanding in national bank notes. There have been $l,0f>2,545 destroyed. The President has approved the act for the erection of an appraiser's warehouse in New York City. Hon'. S. S. Cox, of New York, on motion of Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, was elected temporary Speaker of the House of Representatives to preside during the absence <JS Speaker Carlisle in Kentucky. The Treasury Department sent to the Senate a communication recommending an appropriation of $200J as the share of the Lnited States for the expenses of the publication of the tariffs of the world. Foreign. The floods in Switzerland have submerged fifteen thousand acres, destroyed the crops and driven people from many villages. William Redmond. Irish member of the British Parliament, has been sent3nced to three months' imprisonment for.'foffences under the Crimes Act. The French Government has ordered that gnuboats proceed to the west coast of Africa for the purpose of destroying vessels engaged in the slave trade, especially those which fly the French flag. The death of Prince Johann Adolph of Schwarzenberg, Prince Landgrave of Klegfan, Count of Sulz and Duke of Kruman, i as just occurred in Bohemia, at the age of eighty-nine. ^11 wenty-eight persons have been drowned by the floods in the Tyrol, Austria. Many others are missing. The British Parliamentary Commission to examine into the charges made by the London TVmes against Charles Stewart Parnel' has begun its investigations, the initial proceedings resulting favorably to the Irish leader. . I Fifty Germans have been expelled from France on suspicion of being spies. M. Salomon, the deposed President of layti, has just undergone the operation of . lystotoray in Paris, which left him in a criti- 1 {al condition. John Dillon, the Irish member of the | British Parliament, who was serving a^sen- ! . /?lice ID JJUUUtlUL JU.ll iur u^iuibiuu, uao ucvu eleased on account of the alarming- condi;ion of his health. His term of imprisonment would not have expired until January. A Greek fleet has been ordered to the ?gean Sea to protect the Greek sponge fishjrs against the injustices to which they are mbjected by the Turks. ^ Mrs. McArel, of Sydney, Nova Scotia, . i bride of two weeks, committed suicide by mtting her throat with a razor. Her hus- < sand was waiting to take her to church and 1 supposed she was getting ready. When he t intered her room she was lyine in a pool of j blood with the razor in her hands. LATER NEWS. ' LIJSQtD D. Clever for twenty-five years ( teller of a bank in Wilmington, Del, hid 1 imstlf in a cornfield and committed suicide, j owing to financial reverses. 1 John Van Sicklen, of Burlington, Vt, ( and A. L. Wright, of Boston, both rich grocers, were drowned while fishing on Sand Bar, Vt A boiler burst in a sawmill at Point Mountain, W. Va, killing William Brown, ] the manager, and William Knabenshue, a workman. The mill was wrecked. Simon J. Strader was passing by in a wagon at the i time. The horses ran away and he was j thrown over a bluff and killed. ; A boiler in the McHamilton sawmill, at Blair, Neb., exploded,killing Engineer Henry 1 Morell and Fireman Henry Alexander. A kerosene can with which two children, "Victoria Butta and her brother George, were kindling a fire at Norfolk, Va, exploded, fatally burning both. John Mcrphy, deputy postmaster of Artesian City, Kan., has been arrested for rob- 1 bing the United States Express Company of $10,000. The large new silver vault in the Washing- : ton Treasury Department is so damp that the canvas bags containing the silver stored there are actually rotting away. Measures are being taken to improve the ventilation of the vault, and arrangements are also being made to substitute small rough pin9 boxes for the canvas bags for holding the silver. A fire in Brisbane, Queensland, caused a loss of property amounting to $2,000,000. A long train bearing recruits who were returning from the German army manoeuvres, under the command of Emperor William, collided with a freight train at Meppen, Hanover. Four of the recruits were killed and a large number were wounded Twelve of the cars carrying troops were wrecked. The accident was caused by a misplaced switch. Mr. Perreault and his son, farmers of Bte. Anne, Canada; Mr. Boisvert, a miller in Rosseau's mills, with Mr. Morrin, the station agent at Ste. Anne de la Perade, and Mr. Goodin, of the same place, were drowned while crossing in a boat from St. Jean d'Eschaillons to Ste. Anne. DK0WNED m THE HUDSON. Five Pleasure Sefelcers Perish Near Hastings, N. Y. Five young people out of a party of six enjoying a sail in a small sloop on the Hudson, near Hastings. N. Y., were drowned by the sinking of the boat, the accident apparently being due to the fact that the planking of the K/vir whir>h was sixteen vears old. gave way and let in the water. Ex-Senator Treanor, of Yonkers, N. Y.. saw the boat in distress. He at once climbed into a small boat, and, with a laborer, pulled out to her. Before they arrived the boat lurched, plunged her nose in a breaker, and went down head first. Then a young man's head appeared above the water and was grabted by the hair. He was hauled aboard and showed signs of life. The young man revived, and in a couple of hours was able to tell his story. He could not realize the circumstances at first, and did nothing but exclaim: ' 'I did it! I invited them! I don't want to live! It was my party! They are all drowned! I can't telegraph Sadie! I want to die J" Then he said he was the only survivor of a party of six, two young ladies, three young men, including himself and his own fouryear-old son Sylvester. The party had been arranged fa week before. They were to go out for an afternoon's saiL About 10 o'clock the party started for Piermont, where the boat lay. It was a twenty foot cabin sloop. It had no ballast aboard, so they put in a number of large round stones. It was also part full of water, which they attributed to recent rains. They bailed it out After they had got started they noticed more water in the boat, but thouehtit some which had escaped notice under the deck before the boat was ballasted and loaded. They bailed it out and thought liUlUllig Ui tuc ioatvagv> The wind was very fresh and the water rough. They had mainsail and lib drawing. As they approached Hastings the boat acted queerly. It seemed to drag, and Mangham threw out a lot of ballast He brought about on the port tack, and the ballast rolled. The boat appeared to be filling, and the occupants screamed. He shouted to them to jump out and hang on to the side, but they were terrified. He jumped himself, grabbing his little boy as he did so. He got an arm over the mast, and with bis hand seized Miss Butler. Then the boat went down, and he knew no more. The survivor's name was Jake Manghan of Tenafly, N. J. The rest of the party consisted of his son, Silvester, four years of age, a Miss Elizabeth Butler, aged twenty, also of Tenafly, Miss Nettie Voorhees, aged twenty-two, of Creekskill, and John Demorest, twenty-six, and a Mr. Derringer, an artist, both of the same village. THE MARKETS. 38 NEW YORK. Beef. City Dressed 6 @ 9 Calves, common to prime.... 6 @ 11)% Sheep 6 @ Lambs 8 & 10* Hogs?Live 6 40 <| C Dressed ? Flour?City Mill Extra. 4 85 5 CO Patents 5 ? Wheat-No. 2 Red. 97%@ 98 Rye?State ? @ 65 Barley?State 82 @ 85J^ Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 54;a@ 54^ Oats?No. ~l White ? <? ??4 Mixed Western 25 @ 32 Hay?No. 1 Npw 83 @ 9<> Straw?Lone: Rye ? @ 7 Lard?City Steam ? @10.50 Butter?State Creamery.... 23 @ 24 Dairy 19 & 22 West Ira. Creamery IB @ 18 Factory 13 @ 14 Cheese?State Factory. 8 @ 8 Skims 6>2'@ 6% Western 7 @ 8?* Eggs?State and Penn 19}?@ 20?1.j BUFFALO. 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Pull Cream.. 8 Q 9U "modem crusoes. _______________ * 1 IDYLLIC LIFE OF CASTAWAY# ON PACIFIC ISLANDS. ?n Sappy and Simple Existence of Llfr tie Colonies Dwelling in the Midst of the Sea?The Pitcalrn Islanders. * About four months ago, as the Engliib sark Queen's Island was passing Palmer*:on Island in the Southern Pacific, the :aptain was surprised to see a boat con* ' laining eight persons put off from the ihore. It was generally supposed thai this coral island, one of the least import- \ Hit of the Hervay group, and about three tiundred miles from its nearest neighbor, was uninhabited. Captain Reid, how jver, had accidently approached near snough to this little speck in the ocean to discover another of those romantic island settlements which are now.and then unexnect-idlv found in the broad expanse of the great.Pacific. , The bronzed and rather scantily clad - i white man -who clambered up the side of the bark said he was William Marston, the chief of the little island, where he ba.l lived for twenty-five years. When he was a' young man he deserted from the British bark Rifleman in Tahiti and made his wav in a small sailboat nearly one thousand miles west to the HerveT group. He took a native wife, and journeyed on to Palmerston Island, where he built him a cabin and started a cocoanut plantation. A few natives joined him, and now his little world contains thirty-three human beings, of whom fifteen are his own children, English is the only language spoken in!' , bis little community, whose island hom* < is not so large as some Dakota farms. Here the subjects of the runaway English sailor live on the happiest terms, getting along without the news and gossip of the world, while enjoying, nevertheless, many of the good things of civilisation brought to them by small trading vessels, > to whom they sell the copra prepared from their cocoanuts. Within the past few years several . islands have been discovered in the Pacific which, it was found, had long been known by small traders, who in the interests of monopoly carefully kept their information to themselves. After the Sidney newspapers announced the discovery of a fine new island not far from New Guinea, a sea captain in portproduced a very good map of the island which he had made sevoral years before. He hid probably hoped to hand down the secret to his heirs as an exclusivetrad ng privilege. In this way it hat- ' happened that Marston's little colony ha&> flourished unknown save to one or twotraders, whose interests have kept them quiet. ' Hundreds of the little islands of the V1 Pacific are uninhabited and are very rarely seen by vessels. Who knows but among them may be modern Robinsoni Crusoei, waiting patiently for a sail and living in a fair decree of comfdrt upon the bounties of which nature is so lavish. . in those regions? The story of Mr. Belt and his little family, who are monarohs of all .they survey in the sKermadeo group, 600 miles from their nearest neighbors, was recently told in the New York Sun. The passengers and crew of the bark Henry James, who were rescued in May last from a coral reef in Poly- ; nesia, kno w what it is to be castaways in. PofliS/i m#nT hiinflrfld miles from in? CUV I UVIUV ?M?MJ ? _ habited islands. If they had not fortu- , nately saved their small boat they might have been prisoners for many months on the little island. Five men in the boat carried the news of their disaster 1300 miles, to Samoa, and in less than two* months deliverance came. They needed ' clothing, but were not otherwise in. serious want, for tish and cocoanuts had amply supplemented the slender food, supplies with which they had reached' their place of refuge. ' Among the jubilee presents received: by Queen Victoria were some hats and other manufactures, most skillfnlly made of straw, the humble tribute of the most unique and famous of Pacific colonists. In 1890 the Pitcairn Islanders may celebrate their centcnnial of the landing of their mutinous fathers on the little rock where Lady Belcher, their historian, i.L ? UnnAma ft PAmTTHl SciyS II1CJ ilUYO UCUUrnv HMVW % nity as has been the dream of poets and the aspiration of philosophers." It is not often the world hears from thesehappy and peaceful islanders now nam-' \ bering 112 souls, who have perpetuated the remarkable colony founded ninety* eight years ago by English sailors, but it is refresh.ng now and then to contemplate theis idyllic existence, cut oft as they are from the busy world, tilling the fertile valleys of their little home only two and a quarter miles in extent, possessing a scboolhouse and a church but no jail; intelligent neat and clean, with plenty of books and fruit and flowers, a simple-hearted, devout people, and the only Christian community in ths world that has no strong drink, tobacco, or money. A traveler on an English bark which touched at Pitcairn in February last sayf he saw among the islanders men who in stature would be a credit to the Royal Guards and women who were fair to see though their garments were not rich and . fashionable?women who are skilled in the arts of house-wiferv, in the making of fancy baskets and shell work, ana some, too, who can play excellently on the little church organ. Born to this lite of isolation, the Pitcairn Islander hearB with wonder and delight, but without envy, of the world beyond his sea; girt home. When, years ago, Pitcairn became too crowded, considering its slender resource*, and the people were removed h_v Great Britain to Norfolk, that island, small as it is, bewildered them by its vastness. Having only footpaths in Pitcairn, they thought the wagon roads of Norfolk unsightly, and the echoes aroused by their voices in the stone quarter where convicts had once lived impressed them as a most d isagreeable novelty. A minority decided that they could not be happy among these strange surroundings, and they returned ' to Pitcairn to live. ? Cticago Herald. | Big Winnie, the Freak. Baltimore has lost her champion freafa, " wnman Winnie Johnson, who a tuivivu I weighed 849 pounds. Her coffin was nearly four feet wide and three and a half feet deep. She was born in Henry conuty, Ky., in the year 1839. As a I child she was as other children are, and gave no signs of attaining any unusual size. When she was about twenty years of age she began to grow large. Every year added to her size. She was the mother of ten children.?New York Telegram. An Aboriginal Superstition. One of the peculiarities of the Indian* was that animals had spirits, and the; addressed them as if they were human. It is related that an Indian once shot & large bear, which fell and lay groaning. The Indian reproached it, saying: "You are a coward, and no warrior. Tour tribe and mine are at war, and yours began it; If you had wounded me, I would not hare uttered a sound; you cry < and disgrace your tribe. J