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f THE NATION'S LAND. . Facts From the General Land Commissioner's Report. More than 83,000,000 Acres Restored to the Public Domain. u 1 fr*x- - ? ?? C! IT Rf/v^lrslofrar Prtmmia. IliO U Ul fcw>. XUi uvwa^Mdv., , sioner of the United States General I Land Office, has just been made public, and it shows that during the year 8,605,194 acres of land have been conveyed, from the Government, either by patent or by certification under specific grants. The number of patents issued was 47,lo0, not including mineral patents, of which 1034 were issued. Lands were patented or certified to railroad companies to the amount of 829,162 acres In the States of Arkansas, lowa. Wisconsin and Minnesota. Lands were certified to the several States under the Swamp grant to the amount of 95,515 acres, and under school elections 99,205 acres. The number of original entries made during the year was 73,* 854, and final proof was made on 70,46$. t, Down to the close of the fiscal year 83,15S,990 acres were restored to the public domain,and 65,020,or.8 acres recommended for restoration. Urgent recommendation is made for an appropriation of $oU0,000, which is an increase of $200,000 over the present appropriation, to carry on the work of surveying the public domain. The report says: "Surveyor Generals" scrip has issued on claims in Louisiana to the amount, of i>2,038 ac res. These are claims for indemnity by reason of failure in obtaining title to the full amount of the original grants. An amendment of the act which provides ior me issuing ui luisotupuici.ommended, so as to provide for the payment of $1.25 in money for each acre of the oriSinal grant which is lost to the grantee or Is heirs or assignees, instead of issuing certificates entitling: the claimant to "locate" an equivalent amount of land elsewhere. The principal reason given for this recommendation is that it is now the policy of the Government to retain the public lands for actual settlers. The x-eport says that of the 25,42!),SfiG acres of land covered by selections pending at the close of the fiscal year ~l,W)0,j4tt acres were selected by railroad companies whose roads were not completed in the time required by their respective grants. The forfeiture of all lands coterminous with these parts of the respective roads which were uncompleted at the expiration of the time limited for their construction is recommended. The time of the special agents employed to investigate fraudulent entries has been principally occupied in theinvestigationof groups or clusters of entries illegally made in the in terest of single individuals or of syndicates | and corporations who desire to obtain title to large bodies of land. These entries are said to Be most of them of several years' standing and it is asserted that this class of frauds has been largely checked. The pending public lands' bill, commonly known as "the Holruan bi.l," is endorsed by the Commissioner. It proposes the repeal of the Jpre-emptjon. timber culture, ana commuted homestead laws. The Commissioner calls special attention to the inadequacy of the clerical force in his office, and to the need of additional office room, which, he says, greatlv lessens the efficacy of the force allowed bim at present. tie recommenas me reurgaui^auiuu ui wc bureau by act of Congress, so as to provide for all of the necessary divisions by law, and so as to provide compensation for the officials of the bureau commensurate with the class of services rendered. ' AMERICA'S OLDEST MAN, Death ol William Porter at the Agt or 117 l ears. John Porter, a colored man, sixty-five years old, went into an Indianapolis (Ind) undertaker's a few day's since andjannonnced that his father, William Porter, was dead. 'How old is hef" he was asked. "My father," he said, "was 117 years old when he died. We live up toward Howland's Station. He was born in Kentucky, in 1771. He has been in good health, and at his death he weighed about 135 pounds. He has been active all bis life, and has been able to visit hi? children, twelve in number." If the family record in this case has been correctly kept William Porter must have been the oldest man in America. He was born before the Revolutionary war began and long before the Declaration of Independence, and it is claimed that he had indistinct recollection or tue coionwi pericxi. xie leaves, Desiae nis children, two generations of descendants, including many grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. TEE LABOR WOBID. Girls are employed as shingle packers in the mills at Bay City, Mich. Great Britain mines 16,000/K)0 tons of ton per year and imports 3,000,0 )D tons. It is estimated that eight millions of umbrellas are made in this country annually. The Indianapolis Car Works ara turning jars out at the rate of twenty-five par day. In the "United States 640,000 women are imployed in manufactories, and 530,000 in laundries. Paterson, N. J., may be called the Lyons It American, for it manufactures silk and ithur fine goo Is. Sixty employers in the United States j ihare in some measure thoir profits with their employers. Wallace Gruelle,assistant editor of the Labor Sijmil, and a prominent Indiana abor man, is deal. Cowboys used to get ?o0 a month each and board. Now $3 > is a top figure, and the aver Mr 4.1. BgO 19 tt UlUUbU auu uuaiu* Thirteen hundred men have been thrown ?ut of work at Boston and Brooklyn by the Sugar Trust closing refineries Direct returns from producers show that the total value of bu Iding stone quarried in -b? the United States during ISSi" was $25,000,T KM). Twelve hundred bolters employed in Ihe cotton mills at Bolton, England, have gone on a strike against a new system of weighing cotton. The hours of labor in England were twelve per day up to 184<S, when they were reduced to eleven; and a^ain reduced to ten in 1874, where they now stand. Five hundred convicts in the Kings County (N. Y.) Penitentiary make shoos for the Bay State Company, under a contract which expires in M irch next. At Manistee, Mich., girLs fead the planers, in the hop-mills and do oth?r like work. They also do fie sacking at the dairy salt works, and m ike from $1 to $1.25 a day. Trinton, N. J., has over $4,000,000 invested in potteries, and the army of workmen employed receive in the aggregate of $75 ,000 a week. The aggregate earnings of the employes are about *18.50 a week. Herman' StkiX, the New York shirt contractor who recently went before th3 Congressional Commit!ee and stated that he had reduced the wages of his employes an l would do so again if be felt so inclined, has kept his word. The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America was founded in convention in Chicago, August 12, 1881. At first it had only 12 local unions and 2042 members. Now it has 481 local unions in over 445 cities an 1 53,000 enrolled members. There are 30)0 women telegraph operators in England, earning any where from $300 to ' $1000 a year. The telegraph being a branch of the civil service in England, it is necessary for them to pass a competitive examinat.on before employment is given them. Most combination tools are so clumsy that carpenters have generally abandoned them as wasting time instead of saving it. One tool, however, of recent invention, is handy and s mple, and likely to become of gre.it service. It is a piece of 6teel or other matyrial cut so as to form a square, mitre or trisquare. The work of doubling the capacity of De Pauw's plate glass factory at New Albany, Ind., which has been in progress for two years, was entirely complete! a few day? since. The capacity of the works is S.OOJ.OJC feetof plate glass, 20?,000 boxes of window glass and 30,000 gross of fruit jars. Iw many establishments where th? daintier ind more artistic of the artisan trades an arriei on?wood carv.ng, scroll work, chins : "orating and tii3 like?the woriz is tnrne 1 , ? ? . >r largely to women. The employers fine t the sex generally have fine hands fitted foi work requiring delicacy and flrmnt*6s, Koud artistic tasle, and a fondness for tlx t jBmploymsnt. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Philip Palledoni, the Italian who, in ; cold blood, murdered his brother on the even- I ing of June 22, 1S-S7, has beeu hanged aj I Bridgeport, Conn. Captain Benjamin Gleadell, commander of the White Star steamer Germanic and commodore of the White Star fleet, died on the voyage from Liverpool. His body was brought to the port of New York. In* Glendale, N. Y., Wiliiam and John Herrick, brothers, went gunning. While resting, William's gun was accidentally discharged and John was killed. Two of the horses in a chariot race at the Sussex County (N. J.) Fair became uninan- i ageable and plunged through the fence into the crowd of spectators, knocking down several of them and dangerously, perhaps fatally, wounding three men. Grant Pellet, an old citizen, was struck in the breast and knocked under the horses' hoofs and killed. In the village of Oakfleld, N. Y., Mrs. Joseph T. Moore, the young wife of a prom inent citizen, snoi nerseii snrougn tue umm. She had dressed herself with preat care in spotless white and laid upon a blanket on the floor of her bedroom when she fired the fatal shot. Her married life was unhappy. In* a collision of trains near Oswego, N. Y., one man was killed and six others badly hurt. The Tammany Hall Democrats met in convention and nominated Hugh J. Grant, the present Sheriff, for Mayor of New York 1 city. That faction of New York Democrats known as the County Democracy has nominated Abram S. Hewitt for Mayor of New York city by acclamation. Josbph Smith, broker and politician, , killed himself by inhaling illuminating gas at Plainfield, N. J. The collapse of a flooring at the laying of i a corner stone of a Catholic Church in Read- j ing, Penn., resulted in the serious injury of about a hundred persons, a number of them i being fatally hurt. i Francis W. Williams, of New York, 1 the senior member of the firm of Williams, Black & Co., brokers, who suspended pay- ' ment recently by reason of losses sustained through the Chicago wheat corner, committed suicide at the Grand Union Hotel. A wooden stable at the foot of East Thirtyfourth street, New York, was consumed by fire and two hostlers and twenty-six horses were smothered to death. At East Watertown, Mass., in a little pond, May Crafts, a young woman about 1 twenty years old, petite and pretty, deliber- i ately drowned herself. i George E. Leavenworth, night editor i of the Bridgeport, Conn., Morning New*, ! died alter taking laudanum with suicidal in- ! tenfc He left a letter to his mother saying that he was tired of life. 1 Sonth and West. A section master named Williams, of Norfolk, Va, told his gang to do certain work, i -nrUirkU IKaw AiA r?r?f Hn onH hft cnnlfA to them 1 roughly. Three of the gang became exasperated and made for him with pickaxes. He ar?w his pistol and fired six shots, killing all three of his assailants. There is great haste shown in preparing the naval despatch boat Dolphin for sea at Mare Island, CaL, her presence in Callao being urgently demanded becaus9 serious complications have arisen between General Caceres, the President of Peru, and the syndicate of New York business men who t are largely interested in railway enterprises in that country. |< About 1000 Chicago street car employes are on strike for higher wages, and threo- i fourths of the people of the city are without transportation facilities. The police are constantly on duty to suppress rioting. Tauvp trainman worn killed and six others I * injured by the collision of express and freight trains onthe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near Washington. The accident was duo to ?' the negligence of the freight trainmen. A colored man named McCondon was 8 shot aud killed at Birmingham, Ala., by a party of four colored men, who took him to I the woods and made way with him. N. B. Wade, of Knightstown, Ind., mur- e dered his wife and his aged mother, and after taking a fatal dose of poison set Are . to his residence. The three bodies were partially consumed in the flames. ^ The Supreme Court of Utah has declared j. the Mormon Church corporation dissolved, and its property escheated to the United . States Government. 1 ? Justice of the Peace Lawrence and a friend named Lacy, who was drunk, visited _ the Anniston (Ala.) Hot Blast office and de- ? manded a retraction of certain statements ? which Editor Edmunds refused. Then the . shooting began, Lacy firing at Edmunds, i shooting him in the arm. John Chapman ( and a plumber named Tipney were shot in the head. Their wounds were fataL ? f An explosion in a grist mill at Charity Neck, Va., killed George W. Dawley, the proprietor. J. R. North, a farmer near Independence, Kan., quarreled with the Rev. G. W. Puckett, a Methodist minister, and shot him fatally. Schunemann's packing house in the stock yards, Chicago, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $135,000. The employes of the Chicago West Side street railroads have gone on strike to assist ? their striking comrades of the North Side J road, making 2000 men now engaged in the mnvpmnnt for higher waees. A fierht occurred between the strikers and police "in j which twenty people were injured. ' Washington. | The President and Internal Revenue Com- j missioner Miller have returned from their brief fishing excursion to the Upper Potomac. . They caught a good string of bass. Judge Alle.m G. Thurman, while in , Washington recently to argue a case before ! the Supreme Court, spent several days with 1 President Cleveland at his country seat, | J "Oak View," near the Capital. 1 , The Senate has confirmed the following I nominations: L. W. Crofoot and U. FT | Templeton,to be Associate Justices of Dakota; j ' E. D. Sinn, to be Collector cf Customs at j Saluria, Texas; John H. Oberley, to be Com- , missioner of Indian Affairs. i ? - . J Congress has passed the supplementary j legislation thought to be necessary for the j counting of the Presidential vote. Foreign. Emperor William of Germany and the 1 Emperor of Austria have been on a five- * day8' deer-stalking trip. * Two students who were in financial trouble ( by agreement shot each other dead in the j street in a suburb of Vienna. ( The troops of the Ameer of Afghanistan ] have defeated the forces of Ishak Kahn at I Tashkurgan. The town of Tiacohur, Mexico, has been completely destroyed by floods. Over five hundred families have been rendered homeless in the mouutains and are in great distress. A disastrous flood in the Province of Moukden, China, about 350 miles northeast of Pekin, caused the death of hundreds cf natives, the destruction of many houses, and the ruin of the crops. IN the recent storm atNokejorie, in Japan. 3COO houses were demolished, eighty-five vessels were totally lost and 500 wrecked, and 52,000 persons wounded, injured, or made dependent upon public assistance. The British man-of-war Osprey has captured off Mocha three dhows, havine on board 204 slaves. The captains of the dhows and four of the slaves were killed before the slavers su rrendered. The death is announced of Father Schleyer, the parish priest of Constance, FVance, and the inventor of the new language known as Volapuk. Sir Anthony Musgkave, Governor of Queensland, is dead. BUBNED TO DEATH. Eight Victims ol a Mvsterlons Fire l*i Nebraska. A family named Richter, farmers, living between Geneva and Ohiowa, in Nebraska, consisting of a husband and wife and five childron were burned to death at their home on the plains. A tramp, who was spending the right with them, was also burned to death. The origin of the fire is unknown, but the supposition is that it is another tribute at whiB.>y's shnne. The tramp had been around thw neighborhood for some time and that day was drunk. Air. Richter had also been drinking, and it b supposed that the farmer may have gone to sleep while smoking and that the fire thus originate I. It was not discovered until the house, with its inmates and entire contents, was consumed. ? qp? ? A MARINE HORROR. ? ti*. 1 li-.I n..i ?. A JTisnin^ Bcnuuuer iu i nu and Sunk by a Steamer. Twenty-One Fishermen Drowned, and Only Four Saved, On the eatern edge of the Banks of Newfoundland, at ten minutes to three o'clock, the other morning, the National Line steamship Queen from Liverpool bound for New York, cut down the French fishing schooner Madeleine, which had twenty-five hands on board, all of whom but four were drowned. Captain Healey, of the Queen, was not on deck, and the bridge was in charge of Second Officer Jackson. The weather was a little hazy, and the steamer was going at about ten knots an hour, her usual speed being eleven knots. Officer Jackson says that he Baw the schooner ahead, showing only a white light, which he supposed was at her binnacle. As he could see no side lights he supposed she was at anchor, and by keeping on his course could easily clear her. in intti.nt o/ta). h? hpapd two hiftsts on a fog-horn from the schooner, signifying that she was on the port tack. The Queen's whistle was blown furiously, but it was too late to do anything, and the steamer crashed into the schooner striking her amidships, slightly on an angle. The big steamer crashed right through the smaller vessel,cutting her in two, without stopping the Queen's headway to any appreciable extent. Immediately there was considerable excitement on the 'Queen. The people in their berths were alarmea by the crash, and were afraid that they might never see land again. Lydia Thompson and her theatrical troupe were among the 14!) cabin pas engers on the Queen, and Miss Thompson said that all were badly scared. The excitement was soon allayed when it was found that the only damage suffered by the Queen was the loss of her foretopmast and a trifling injury about her bow. The steamer was run ahead for a short distanco for fear of the propeller being foaled by wreckage, and then the engines were put at full speed backward. In four minutes the first boat was lowered, and two others were in the water a very short, time afterward, while the fourth* boat was ready to lower in case of necessity. Within ten minutes four men were picKea up. others could be seen. The- Captain of the 5chooner, Dominick Roulet, was floating on a trunk wheu rescued, and Jules Jaquet, the second mate, Charles Meniger, and Marion Solomon, the cook, were taken out of the water. No one else was saved, although the Queen lay to near where the collision took place for nearly four hours before proceeding on her course for New York at 7 o'clock in the morning. |>Tbe Madeleine was a two-masted fishing smack of 154 tons register. Every one on board was a native of France, except the colored cook, and even he had been 8 > long there. and on French smacks, that he knew no other language. The Madeleine ha 1 been out for nearly six months, and was preparing to return home when the collision occurred. THE MTIOMLGAME. The great Kelly has had fifty-one passed tails this season. Steinmeyer, the tall pitcher, has been resased bv Cleveland. Milwaukee still has leanings toward the Lmeriean Association. Omaha would like to take Detroit's place a the National League. Baltimore is said to be out $10,000, while 'ittsburg is ?15,0u0 ahead. McGuirk's wild throwing caused his reease from the Philadelphians. McGeachy and Glasscock have done the teadiest work for Indianapolis. Pittsburg has her eyes open for a catcher o take Carroll's place uext season. Drischel Is the only Toledo player who tar ted the season with the Ohio club. Four times out of six when the Bostons jlayed two games in one day they won both. Slattery, of the New Yorks, is so fleet of oot that he is seldom compelled to slide to a ?ase. Carroll's captaining and coaching is not iked in Pittsburg. His judgment is depresated. Over 5000 errors have been charged to me league players this season, averaging about iO each. Landman, the pick up phenomenon, has ro'i every gamo he has pitched for Jersey 3ity, N. J. Manager Barnie, of Baltimore, thinks St. Louis will beat New York in the world's ihampionsbip series. Henry Murphy, ex-proprietor of the jynns, says there will be no New England league next season. Ok the Bostons?Radbourne, Madden, towders and Higgins have utolen only one >ase each all the season. A ball caught by Foster from Twitchell's >at during the last New York-Detroit series ras a play not often equaled. The Albany (N. Y.) team played in more :ames without getting a run tnan any of the >ther International League clubs. During the season only two triple plays iave been made in the League, one by Chicago and the other by the Bostons. The League batting averages show Beckey, Quinn, Ryan, Auson, Ivelly, Connor, 41 - 1 ? tV\ft AfHof tsroutnere ana jciwiiig w uo m ? mmed. Detroit has Che best ball ground this side the Atlantic, and equal to most of the cele- i brated cricket grounds of London and Manchester, England. The following New York players have made over one hundred hits this season: Connor, 134; Ewing, 124; O'Rourke, 103; rieroan, 108. Ward, 1.16, apd Richardson, 128. NATIONAL LBACJUU HSOORtV. Same or Club. Wot. I.oi: New York 83 4> Chicago 77 56 Detroit 67 HI Philadelphia 67 61 Boston 67 64 Pittsburg 66 6-> Indianapolis 49 84 Washington 46 S5 AMERICAN ASS JCIATIO.V RECORD. Vame of Club. Hon. St. Ixmis 91 41 ithletic 79 49 Jrooklyn 83 52 Cincinnati 78 54 ialtimore 55 77 Cleveland 48 77 xmisville 45 87 Kansas uicv .. r? oo NEWSY GLEAMGS. The hop crop in England is a failure. 1 The yield of celery this fall is exceptionally ! arge. , They are putting an elevator in the Washngton Monument. Russia is talking of interfering in the Afghan disturbances. Associate Supreme Court Justice Stanley 1 llatthews is convalescent. For the first six months of 1888 the English ailways killed 165 people and injured 'J57. Ice skates ore going to be cheap this , rinter, as several of the patents have just un out j A young couple who were married at Nar- : agansett Pier, Mass., took their wedding 1 rip in a balloon. Kino Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Islands. | :oes to Melbourne, Australia, next month to , ittend the Exposition. , The bronze statue of the poet Longfellowt irected bv his e low townsmen of Portland, i He., has been unveiled. i The .South American skunk has been ntroduced into Australia with a view of ixtermiuating the rabbit pest. The Pope has closed his jubilee by celebra- j ;ing high mass for the dead in St Peter's in ( ;he presence of 20,000 people. Empiror Francis Joseph, of Austria, larrowly escaped being shot at the rifle jractice of Austrian soldiers. The world's pacing record of one mile for l ihrce-year-olds has been beaten at Napa, Sal., by Gold Leaf. Time. 2:15 Two corporals of the French army have ?een arrested for off ring Label rifles and j&rtridges to the Italian government Floods are prevailing throughout Switz>rland, which have caused mu< h damnge to jroperty. Railroads have especially suffered. ! Johiv Redmond, the Irish member of Par- ( lament, has teen convicted under the Crime? ict ana sentenced to five months1 imprison- t neat . r < . . ' -vr "chief justice fuller, formally sworn in as rrcoiu\n^ Judge of the Supreme Court. (J i L \\ lLr?l?;ll? W TTS.lTnv f?,o oirrlifh flhifif .TllS iUOl ? 1UO ?f . X- UllVi I HUV w.B M ? ? ? HQ tice of the United States, has been inducted th into office with ceremonies fully in keeping d( with the dignity and high character of hia ^ new duties. Mr. Fuller swore himself in, w reading the oath in a clear voice that could rt be heard distinctly in every portion of the m Supreme Court room. in The narrow space allotted to the general w public in the court chamber was crowded, al Among the persona of note who found place* in the room were Judge Allen G. Thurman. se Chief-Justice Fuller arrived at the Capitol h< a little after eleven o'clock. The first oath, A that of allegiance, was administered in 01 private by Justice Miller, the ceremony oc- d< curring in the robing room, with no one pres w ent but tho Associate J ustice. It is the cus- st torn never to permit any ono to witness this fa ceremonv. in At juA twelve o'clock the Deputv Marshal ec in a loud voice announced "The Honorable the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court." T The members of the Bar and the public ai assembled, arose in their places and re- bi mained standing facing the bench, wiiile the bi Justices filed, in. Justice Miller was at the w head. Following him were Justices Harlan, pi Bradloy. Gray, Ulatchford and Lamar. Ex- ol Justice Strong and Chief Justice Fuller came v< in together. The Associate Justices sat in si their places, and Chief Justice Fuller, with A ex-Justice Strong, stepped within the railing in enclosing the Clerk's desk and took a seat. d< Justice Miller then announced that since to the last meeting of the Court the President th had appointed and the Senate had cod Armed se Melville Weston Fuller Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; the ni clerk would read the commission. After fr this was done Chief Justice Fuller stood K up to take the oath of office, and the p* Court and all assembled arose. There had been some question as to who should admin- fa isterthis oath. The new Chief Justice settled the matter by administering it to him- st self. The clerk handed him the written of form of oath and a little Bible covered with tis velvet In a clear vo ce he read the oath as T1 follows: dc "I do solemnly swear that I will admin- pc ister justice without respect to persons and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, cc and that I will faithfully and impartially A discharge and perform the duties Encumbent wi on me as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court fo of the United States according to the best of my ability and understanding, agreeable to fo the constitution and law of the United States, br so help me God." His voice trembled at the last words. The Chief Justice was then escorted behind the bar and to his official seat in the centre. Again the Court and the assemblage arose, without other summons than a wave of the hand bv the clerk. Justice Miller took the hand of the Chief Justice, ajid, with a smile in of welcome, addressed him in a lo.v voice: "e ''I welcome you, sir, on behalf of this court, as one of its members and its Chief- ?.1 Justice." The Chief- Justice bowed and took his seat, and when the assemblage was again seated ^ he said: "In accordance with immemorial usage, *8 the court will now adjourn in order to enable its members to pay their respects in a body " to the President of the United States." ^ A GKEAT WAE SHIP. $ ___ th The Biggest Vessel of the United ^ fltntAa NAVV IiAiinnhprl. an ? 0^ The new steel government cruiser Baltimore has been successfully launched, between showers, from the Cramps' shipyard, in Kensington, Penn., in the presence of s great crowd of Philadelphians and many g* United States Government officials. V( ? No cards of special invitation bad been sent out by the Messrs. Cramps for the event, ex- q cepting those sent to Washington, but the gates of the immense shipyard were thrown jo open to the public, and notwithstanding th? to rain thousands of people gathered to witness at the novel sight The cars containing the Wash. <}? ington visit ;rs arrived at the shipyard at 1 :-;6 P.M. Secretary Whitney arrived from New York a few minutes later, and with the 0f Washington visitors was escorted to th< Uj platform erected on a level with the extreme tip of the bow of the cruiser. Hundreds oi workmen were at once put to work driving the wedges and sawing the timbers support- fr ing the vessel. jn At 2:25 cries of "Look out!" from the ar workmen gave notice that the huge hull was ca : J 4- if fypannfnlln Xiiuvilig, turn a uivuicuv iawi, uo iv uv.viuuj slid away, Mrs. Wilson broke the champagne bottle on the bow and christened the vessel p< The Baltimore. The cruiser slid slowly and ^ smoothly down the ways, and, on striking ar the water, ran swiftly out to midstream j7 amid the booming of cannon on the Despatch, the cheers and shouts of the vast assemblage, pr and the blowing of whistles and horns. The th anchors were immediately dropped, and the gj Baltimore stood gracefully resting in the Delaware river. <j{ The Baltimore is the largest vessel yet f0 constructed for what is known as the new ^i navy. She is 335 feet long over all, her ce beam amidships is 18 48.5 feet, her mean jj draught is 19.5 fret, and her displacement is ce 4tons. The indicated horse power of her gv engines is 7500 at natural draught, and 10,750 ^ at forced draught, and they are expected to drive here along at the rate of nineteen knots bi an hour. Sho will carry two masts, fitted ^o with military tops, and her crew will consist b, of 300 men. She has a protective deck of thick steel plates,and under this,down below ilia wn(?p lino are nlaced the rudder and the steam steering gear. The new cruiser, being intended for effec- ? tive service in time ot war, will be armed with a main body of four eight-inch breechloading rifled guns in sponsons 18 feet Above the water. There will also be a second battery of six rapid firing six-pounders, six Be Hotchkiss revolving cannon; and four gatling Ca guns. She will also carry five torpedo ghi launching tubes or guns. La The Baltimore can make 3068 miles, He or about the distance across the Atlantic ocean, in seven days and a half?a speed Fl< early equal to that of the great passenger steamers. w AWTUL kaILROADWRECK, |* Oa Two Trains Collide With Fatal Ef- _ i'ect in Pennsylvania. A most appalling acc dent occurred be- La ;weon 8 and 9 o'clock at ni^ht on the Lehigh Bi Va'ley Railroad in Pennsylvania, at a point | nidway between White Haven and Penn Havpn Junction, near the little station ct known as Muri Kun. '1 here is not a worse spot on the line foi mch an accident The track there runs close gbeside the Lehigh River, a steep embankment sixty to seventy-five feet high, running down from the trucks to the river. gb One section of an excursion train return- La ing from the Father Mathew celebration g( at Hnzleton, Penn., crashed into another jrj, action. W The cars piled in n shapeless mas-, one Qj being stood upon its end. The cars were all Qa crowded to the doors, many women and Ua children being among the passenger.*. The cars were smashed to pieces and hurled from the track, rolling down the steep embank- ^ ments. 0 Several cars'of the forward section wern o telescoped and forty persons were killed out- ^ right, and the total number of dead is placed at about eighty, while lot) were injurpd. Be Fortunately the river was low. or the c a s Sh would have gone into the water, and tie La loss of life would have been still moro ter- He rible. '?J n< Tnic lnr?est passenger engine in the wort. W has just been finished by th" Rogers works, Co Providence, R. I., for the New York, Provi- Qa flenc? and Boston Railroad. The driving Rj whee's nre six feet in diameter. It takes Bu three tons of coal to get up steam. Ch i TRA&EDY IN A CHURCH. atastrophe at a Pennsylvania 0 Corner Stone Laying. * a he Platform Collapses and Ly'ures e Scores of People, h h The ceremony of laying the corner stone of new Polish Catholic church in Reading, sun., had ju8t been completed, and the offi- ^ iting priest, Father Leibeeczki, was deliv- g ing the final address, when, at a quarter to e ur o'clock, the floor in front of him fell with _ crash, and about 200 men, women and ^ Jldren were dropped fifteen feet into the v isement. Upon the struggling wounded j 11 the wreckage of joists and planks and a ctiou of newly built flbrick wall about renty feet square. F 1 - -pU{1o/lnl^V,;o rrrU ys aiiuuuuup V". * ? ood in ?afety a short distance from 6 e fallen floor, looked down in horror upon ie scene. Mayor Kenny, of Reading, went c >wn with the unfortunates, and was one of ie first to be taken out with a slightly in- 8 ired leg. Women and children screamed e ith pain or fright Some of them were g ithlessly trampled under foot by men whc ade baste to free themselves, but in many stances tlie stronger sought safety for then c eaker companions flrst and themselves I Iter w ard. 8 Nearly a thousand people, who were Rambled outside of the Duilding, rushed in tc 7 ;lp the wounded. A reporter stood beside s rchbishop Kyan and assisted him in lif tin.' ? it several women and children. A hall jzen of the members of theGermania band ere in the struggling mass, their silver in p ruments being knocked about in lively s ishion. Two Polish women were taken out i a dying condition. Two babes were hand I up next. One had bitten off its tongue, f An alarm brought the two city ambulances. P hey were quickly filled with groaning men id women who had their legs, arms, o: 8 lcks broken. Neighboring bakers and itehers hitched up their teams, filled theii agons with bedding, and witn tnese im- * ovised ambulances assisted in the removal v the injured. Private residences were con j jrted into hospitals, and in some nstancu r patients were received in a single house, a II the physicians in the city were promptly i attendance, and everything possible wai > jne for the relief of the suffers. Very uching scenes were witnessed among th< lousands who had rushed to the church in fa arch of friends and relatives. The list of the seriously injured numbered " nety. Among ihe injured were ten men d om Lancaster, Penn., who came with th? fc nights of St. John and participated in th? trade prior to the service. At least half a dozen of the victims were d tally injured. h Men who have examined the wrecked j ructure report that the planking, instead overlapping the girders, bad b-Ksn mor- h ;ed in about ha'f an inch on each Bide. I ae heavy weight on the floor bore the planki . >wn until the ends slipped from their supirts. The wood used in the platform was oniy immon pine, and some of it old and rotten, uthorities in such matters say that il as actually not strong enough to hold one- . urth of the people that crowded upon it. 1 Of the injured twenty-three hid their legs, urt en their arms, and seven their spines oken. g SUMMABY OF CONGEESS. \ v 8enate Proceedings. v 1S9th Day.?The House resolution for the o vestimation of frauds in the building of the e iw aqueuucii was explained uy oenawr z ale and passed The debate on the Senate t iriff bill was opened by Mr. Allison. Mr. t ance replied. i 190th Day.?The Senate took up and disssed the conference report oh the General sficiency bill. The conference report was jeed to A special bill was introduced anting to the widow of Chief-Justica aite bis salary for the remainder of this iar.... Mr. Hiscock spoke upon the Senate iriff bill. 1 191st Day.?Mr. Hale submitted the report the special committee appointed to inre? . cate the Civil Service....The Senate passed e bill paying the family of Chief-Justice aite the balance of his year's salary, L aounting to JS74.5 Mr. Bate, of Tennes5. made a speech on the tariff. s F Hons? Proceedlns*. 228th Day.?The bill appropriating a sum j, money for flredging and improving the Clair Flats ship canal was reported fajrably from committee.... Action upon the nate bill to charter the Maritime Canal ampany, of Nicaragua, was twice defeated C .. A resolution for th9 appointment of a f int committee to investigate the Washingn Aqueduct matter was agreed to.... The t tention of the Housa during the rest of the j ly was taken up with the private calendar. 229th Day?The bill giving to fruit audy the privileges accorded other spirits, f three years' bonded period in warehouses ider gaugers and storekeepers, was passed. ..Mr. Wheeler delivered a tariff speech e iticising the Senate substitute. Mr. n rheoler reported favorably to the House om the Committee on Expenditures I the Treasury Department, a bill l ipropriating $.500,000 to establish E raps for" yellow fever refugees. .. On motion of Mr. Turner the Senate bill as passed, providing for the disposal of the * >rt Wallace Military Reservation in Kan- r s....The following bills were introduced id preferred: By Mr. Breckenridge, authoring the construction of bridges across the 0 entucky River; by Mr. Dougherty, ap- 1 opriating $200,000 to suppress infection in | 'j e interstate commerce of the United 11 ates. 230th Day.?The House passed, without d ibate, a bill appropriating $T)0,000 to en- b rce the provisions of the Chinese Exclusion ? 11... The Senate Supplementary bill con- I rning Presidential electors was passed.... r. McRae called up the .bill to indemnify n rtain States and purchasers of overflowed _ camp lands. No quorum was present and e measure was withdrawn. v 331st Day.?The last of the appropriation T Us has been passed, the house hav ng agreed the conference report on the Deficiency IL Filibustering tactics were then resorted ? , and then the house adjourned for two 11 i f THE MARKETS. 8 41 NEW YORK. g ef. City Dressed 7 <5> 8)i t Ives, common to prime.... 9 @ 11^ I sep 3 50 ? 5 25 c mbs 5 35 @6 50 igs?Live j Dressed 7}?@ 8 r )ur?City Mill Extra. 5 75 @ 6 00 Patents 7 00 @ 8 10 . heat?No. 2 Red 1 10 @ 1 10>f J, e-State C5 @ 67 " rlev?N'o. 1 ? @ 98 rn?Ungraded Mixed.... 50% @ 53)4 ,ts?White sr it.- ? @ 43 Mixed Western 26 @ 32 * ly?No. i N"w 8> @ 95 I raw?T.one Rye 70 @ 75 r rd?City Steam ? @ 10c f itter? State Creamery.... 24 @35 * Dairy :0 @ 2:1 1 West. Itn. Creamery IS @ 20 B Factor v 13 (31 14 * leese?State Factory 10j< Skims?Medium.... 5j< Western @ 10'; ;<rs?State and Penn -2 @ 32 J buffalo. ,, aers?Western 3 25 @ 4 00 eep?Meuumto Good.... 4 00 @ 4 n unbs? <>Hirto < ?? 4 5J (a) i> 00 )gs?Good to Choice Yorks 0 15 (g 6 35 uur?Family 5 tiU (g 5 35 Ifl beat ?No. - Me i 1 !<> (<$ 1 12 rn?No. 3. Yei!.? ? 51 (<$ .*>'>; its?No. 3, W.iite XiA'A Jl; " w .rley?State 5>8 (2 91 ii BOSTOIT. our?Spring Wheat pat'a. 7 40 @7 75 P( irn?Steamer Yeiiow. ? @ 56 its?No. 3 White 36 re?State 65 61 61 b WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKSt a] ef- Dressed weight. 7 % 1) m. eep?Live weight 4 @ 5 4%@ 5)i ! 01 >gs?Northern 7 $ S PHILADELPHIA Jur?Penn. family 5 25 @5 50 as heat?No. 2, Red J. t... 1 l\y^ 1 u ic ru?ISo. 3, .1^ Mixed... ? 54 its? Tngraded Wnite ? @ 3^ r? No. 2 ? (g) 57 &i tter?Creamerv Extra... ? <&) 24 eeie?N. Y, Full Cream,. 9 <2 9^ * E1 LATER NEWS, James B. Caunce, the confidential clerk r the Dolphin Manufacturing Company of 'lainfleld, N. J., has confessed that he has { mbezzied the company's funds to the j mount of nearly $10 030 during a period of Ighteon months. Ho was arrested. Hart Griffin, an old inmate of the almsouse at Meriden, Conn., died after starving erself for fifty-five days, during which she ook nothing but water. An amphitheatre was erected to assist in he big annual celebration of Quincy, 111. Icarcely had the show begun wh?n with a rash the vast structure 20 feet hi-u, 50 feet ride and 700 feet lonaj fell with a crash, mrylng 5000 in the debris. Over 500 people 4.1 ??i? i rciomjuicu, uaii ujl turui doa ivuaijr auu uuo atally. John J. O'Neil, of the Eighth District, It. Louis, has been renominated for Con;res8. The Chicago rioters and striking street ar employes and the police came in conflict everal times. Clubs were used with good ffect upon the mob, which retaliated with tonea Several shots were fired, but none ?ith fatal effect. Captain Aldrich was seriiusly hurt and a hundred people clubbed, hilly fifty policemen were struck with tonea and other missiles, and fought their ray through the infuriated mob with blood treaming down their faces and dripping rom the ends of their clubs. A. 8. Nesmith, of California, has been appointed chief clerk of the Signal Service,the lew office created by Congress. Judge Allen G. Thurman spoke for orty minutes before the United States lupreme Court in the famous telephone ait The President has vetoed the bill paying jaura E. Maddox for 4J42 boxes of tobacco, flliioH H74 ftftf) furniahpd hv hpr Imshand L A. Risley, an agent of the Government, ,t Norfolk, Va., in 1S<?4. Chas. Winslow, Vice-Consul at Guerero, lexico, has died of cholera. Thk British forces in the Black Mountains iave captured Seri and burnei many viliges. The eaemy is falling back to the In.113 and will negotiate for peace. Seri will * permanently occupied by the British. Emperor Willi ah of Germany hastermilated his visit to Austria. Before leaving le embraced and kissed the Emperor Francis oseph three times, and then embraced and :issed the King of Saxony and the Regent of iavaria. A MONSTER DAM. Scheme to Head off Rio Grande for Irricuiinj; Purposes. A movement is on foot to construct a monter dam sixty feet high in a pass a few miles bove El Paso, Texas, so as to form a great eservoir in which the waters of the Rio irande will De stored up ior irrigating me alley for fifty miles below that city. This rould submerge about fifty thousand acres f 1 and, scarcely an acre of which is at presnt cultivated. At a public meeting of citiens of El Paeo committees were appointed oraise a fund to bring a competent engineer o the place to investigate the coD4it.<m and eport on the possibility and otst of the plan PROMINENT PEOPLE, The King of Sweden is a historian. The Queen of Roumauia bos become a pubisher. The Prince of Wales intends joining the )dd Fellows. Evangelist Moody will spend the winter a California. v Mrs. Fred Grant loves the military, and till lives at West Point George Bancroft, the historian, has just last his eighty-eighth birthday. The betrothal of the Czarevitch of Russia 3 Princess Maud of Wales is announced. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has mad? aore money as a surgeon than as on author* Bishop Foster, of the Methodist Episcopal Jhurch, was licensed to preach when only our teen. The American Duchess of Marlborough las already distributed several large sums to .rotidon hospitals. Colonel F. C. Lister Kay is the youngest egimental commander in the British service, eing only thirty-six years old. Joseph Thompson, the plucky African xplorer, is only twenty seven years old, of aedium height, but robust and wiry. Carl Schurz has been applied to by loughton, Mifflin & Co. to write a "Life of Lbraham Lincoln" for their American Statesmen series. Senator 8herman is reported to have jade $8<)0,000 during the past five years rom investments in real estate on Columbia leighta in Washington. Frank E. Vistorato, a well-known citizen f Salem. Mass., was, when a lad, one of the 200 Greeks that, under Marco Bozzaris,made tie famous charge at Carpenisi in August, wa Some one has discovered that of the candiates for President th s year Cleveland is the ingest, Harrison the shortest, Fisk the handomest, Streeter the wealthiest and Belva iockwood the sweetest Yan Phou Lee, a graduate of Yale, who larried a New Haven lady, has been apointed to a position in the Pacific Bank, San rancisco, Cal. He will attend to all the msiness his countrymen, the Chinese, have pith the bank. Tit? oiioTit Vnn Moltke" isn't at all silent t home. Ho is, on the contrary a charmag, lively and amiable companion. He is rery fond of the wife of his nephew, who iresides over his household, and of ber chilIren. He loves whist and roses, and of these lowers cultivates a great variety. John L. Porter, who designed and contracted tbe Merrimae, the first ironclad ever milt, and who thus changed completely the ystera of naval warefare, is now wieldin? a iroadase in the navy yard at Norfolk, Va. le is an old man. 'almost eighty, but he is impelled to toil from early until late. Probably the richest college professor in Lmerica, if not in the worid, is i rofeesor E. 2. Salisbury, of Yale. He is a millionaire, jid his fortune was made from investments n Boston real estate. Professor Salisbury is ibout seventy years old, is a man of courtly lemeanor, and has traveled over nearly the ehole world. Ex-Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, is credited pith having an income of $ltX>,000 a year, le is considered the brain of the old com nercial house of A. A. Low & Co., xrhich in ormer years control ed nearly the entire American tea trade with China and Japan, fr. Low is thirty-nine year* of age, and is uarried to a very brilliant and cultured roman. A recent issue of the London Figara its: "Women who want to got marked are as plentiful in Berlin as in fcher capitals. A Berlin merchant ifccly advertised for a wife and relived 277 answers. Of the so 87 were I idows, varying in age from 25 to 52; 2 of them had no children, and 21 osscssed fortunes entirely under their tvn control. Four ladies who had een separated from their husbands !so wrote to express a desiro to try icir luck at marriage a second time: le of them for a third time. Of the ;maining 18G only two gave their age ? over 30; 18 of them professed to be :st turned 18. Seventy-one photo aphs were inclosed, and 31 of them e said to represent remarkably pretty rlfl." AN ARCTIC HOME. J THE STRANGELY CONSTRUCTED ICELANDIC HOUSES. <* Exigencies of Climate the Key to Their Awkward Architecture? Bniit of Wood, Lava ana Tarf? Picturesque Interior* . William H. Carpenter, in an article is the Atlantic Monthly on Icelandic farm houses, says: The buildings ol a farm usually arc under one roof and stand in a row, with their gab!e ends facing the court. They are peculiarly,constructed: economy of timber and the exigencies of the climate furnish, however, a key to their architecture. Ordinarily, they are but one story in height. They are framed of wood, and the'r gables also are wooden; their sides and backs, which usually slope to the ground, are com* monly of lava and turf; the roof alwayi ; is thatched with turf, which quickly i grows together and forms a continuous covering, through which wet and cold scarcely can penetrate. Seen from a distance a group of farm buildings bean the appearance of an irregular grassgrown hillock, upon which, to heighten the illusion, ahcep are calmly grazing. The farmhouse proper consists of two or three gables; next it -S ia the byro for the winter shelter of the cows, if the farmer is sufficiently wellto-do to possess any, and next the ? smithy with its forge and anvil: the Icelander in his isolation is thrown upon his own resources, and is obliged still to exercise, upon occasion, a calling that has descended to him from an immemorial past. Entering the house through the low doorway in one of' the gables, you find yourself in a long straight pass- J ace, through which, even in broad daylight, you must commonly grope you* way. The fioor is sometimes of boards, sometimes of earth; on each side doors open into the adjoining buildings,, sep&> ^ rated from each other only by wooden partitions. Usually the door on one Bide leads into toe common livingroom of the nou.-e, which occupies j the whole of the building in which it is situated.' A quaint and pict- , uresque interior meets your eye. It is a long, low room, lighted at eithef end ;v by a square window. Above, the beams are visible, and have been .made the place of deposit for an indescribable variety of household articles. Along one 1s side stands the low, stationary bed whieh serves also as a lounging place by day; some square wooden chests are ranged along the opposite side; at the end, par* tieularly in winter, several women tie carding and spinning wool. This common room always indicates the thrift or poverty of the farmer. Sometimes it if j scrupulously neat and orderly, and its furniture is good and substantial, if not ' costly. Frequently, however, everything about the place is of the most primitive kind, and comfort, convenience and cleanliness are uuknown. The bed looks >: as if it were never made up; and dirt, fleas, children and dogs are distributed in equal, though inordinate, proportions. If yen enter the door on the opposite $ side of the hall way. you find a smaller room, usnally furnished with chairs and ? Trr i V* a tt lauic, nuui Ouiucbuuto n uu ? vw? This, in the larger houses, in the spate room of the house, and, after the various saddles and Sunday garments placed here for safe keeping have been removed, i it is assigned to the chance guests. If, instead of turning to the right or to th? left, you continue your way along the passage to the end, you arrive at the kitchen, which usually is in a separate building. Its floor is of earth. In a fire-place flickers au uncertain fire of peat, and over it hangs an iron pot front a crane. Everything is dark ana smokebegrimed, for much of the Emoke does not e3cape through the open chimney, and the only lighc is from the fire. Perhaps an old woman with her black garments and her tasscled hufa bends over Uo nnn fen fro TVlA IIIU ACttlC BUU ov* J ibo wu vvui>wa unsteady light gives it all a weird a]? pearance, and you wonder if the crone if ot muttering an incantation. It is such an interior as Ueraid Doaw would have loved to paint. Small as is the kitchen fire, it is often the only one iu the house, for fuel in some parts of the island is exceediugly scarce, and must be used with the strictest economy for cookiDg purposes alone. It is customary to close the < houses when the cold winter weather comes on, for then the atmospbhere becomes at least warmer than the outside air, if not quite so well adapted for breathing purposes. The houses of the clergy are often oetter than those described, in that they have more rooms or better accommodations; sometimes, however, they are worse, or the guest chamber already has been allotted.and in that case you may retire to the neighboring church. Sanitaria for Consumptives. The proceedings of the Congress of American Pbysi ians and Surgeons, recently held at Washington, were hardlj of a character to interest non-professional readers, observes the New York Observer. Perhaps an exception might be made in the c^se of a paper read by a Brcoklyn physiciau on the value of sanitaria for the treatment of consumptives. He dwelt at length upon the importance ol sending patients to properly conducted institutions instead % of simply allowing them to go to some summer hotel, lie called attention to the fact that the greatest caution must be used in the application of so simple a no "nnpn air." and he recom 1VIUV?J ?W r mended the method used in b alkenstein, in Germany, of letting the patients rest I on steamer chairs or lounges for hours fl daily in the air. He called this method I taking "an air bath." Spec al ieference M was made to the danger which patients I undergo who live with well people from the fa :t that consumptives hardly ever recoanize the severity of their illness. I Such iunoccnt pleasures as rowing, ten nis playing, mountain climbing, or even fl walking longdiatauces. which are legiti- B mate means for enjoyment of the well, I may do much harm to the consump- I tives. fl A Child Uses a Snako for a Whip, fl A gentleman of this city was talking fl about snakes, when a citi. en from l;an- fl dolph said: '*! have a chap who is fl pass:onately fond of a whip. When I hickory bushes are in order I make for H him whips, and he pops them to his fl heart's content. The other day, his fl whip being lost, he went out in search fl of it, and somewhere in the yard he fl found a small snake. He picked it up, fl holding it by the neck, and came in the fl house using it as a whip, and began pop- fl ping everybody in reach. His mother I discovered that her baby boy's whip was fl a live snake, so she seized it and threw fl it into the yard. With a frantic scream fl the boy darted after the snake, and fl again c.iughtitand began to pop around fl as before. His mother again tried to fl take the snake from him, when he fl caught it in h 8 teeth and took a piece H out?skinned the h:deo;T as he would a H Eotato?and, strange to say, he was not H itten."? Wett Point Adiance. fl .fl