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A DISASTROUS ISTORM. Death and Devastation Along the Atlantic Coast. Numerous Lives Lest and Mucl Valuable Property Destroyed. Never since the ever-memorable blizzard o last winter has there been a storm in the vicin ity of New York equal in force and de ttruotiveness to that which began early th' other morning and raged along the Atlantit coast. The wind was blowing nearly torty mue: an hour over the sea wall of tho Battery al New York, and a hurricano razed at Sandy Hook, which had been cut of? from teleeraphic communication. At Blocs Island there w is a wind velocity of eighty miles, higher than that during the blizzard, and at ten o'clock a. m. a northeast hurricane was blowing into Boston at tho rate of sixty miles. The edre of tha storm swept over the Atlantic States. It wa? circular in form, with its centre only a counle of hundred miles off Sandy Hook, and the Signal Service predicted that it woul l biow off to the northeast before to-morrow morning. From all.over the country come reports of low temperature and colder weather. The lowest recorded was in New York City, where it registered 23 de crees at ten o'clock. At Albany, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Vv'ashington it was below the freezing point, and everywhere in tho eastern territory affected by the storm there were high winds, mixed with rain and s!oot. Jacksonville with -*> degrees, showed the lowest register since the yellow fever epidemic b<g<n, and frost is looked for there in the immediate future. The storm raged with zreat fury over Long Island, especial!}* 0:1 the eastern end. A large number of telegraph poles were blown down and telegraphic communication was greatly interfered with. The wind an 1 heavy seas combined broko down the end of the enbankment at Shianecock Canal, opening it through from Peconic Bay to Shinnecock Bav, and washing out all the roads leading over the hills. Sag Harbor reported that a large number of lish ng smacks and small craft were blown from their anchorage and driven ashore. At Manhattan Beach the breakers were tremendous, the esplanade along the front of the Manhattan Bench Company's property, soven hundred and littv feet, was thrown high in the air and totally destroyed Immediately afterward the depot at the \ve?t end of the Marine Railroad was swept out to sea bodily, and a few minutes later fully one-third of the track of the road was also carried away. Superintendent Mott, of the Manhattan Beach Company, says that the sea has not run so high since lis'iS. The damage will not fall far short of #l'J,()Of). At Far Rockav. ay tremendous seas washed over Hog Island Bar and threatened groat destruction. Bath homes, out buildings, together with hundreds of feet of plank walk have been washed out to sea. Ten thousaud dollars will r.ot cover the damage done. At Rockaway Beach, Jones Beach and Fire Island the waves swept away bathing houses, platforms and other small structures, and many smah craft were either beached or 'carried out to sea. For twenty miles along tho Hudson River from Yonkers the wind had a clean sweep and the storm got in its work merrily. Tho steamer Saratoga had to put into her dock at Yonkers, and the James W. Baldwin wai turned back. The propeller Terrace Garden was blown from her moorings and foundered below Yonkers. Several canal boats were blown j adriff above Yonkers, but were saved from | foundering. At spots along the New York Central Railroad trains had to be run at slow speed to freveut being blown into tho river. At City sland a fleet of fitty or more vessels was detained by the furious gale. In Westchester County many trees and outhouses were de- J molished. The storm was most disastrous in its erects all along the New England coast and terrible loss of life is reported. The northeast gale came on so suddenly that it was impossible for vesse.s to seek shelter. Many total wrecks have occurred and a number of vessels are stranded and very badly damaged. It has been much moi e destructive along the coast than was the blizzard, and tne damage to telegraph and telephone lines is almc*t as great. Wrecks were reported by almost every 1 fe saving station, and considerable loss of life was reported. But meager reports were received, as fifty per cent, of the telegraph wires were down. The storm found Massachusetts Bay dotted with vessels, and swept them from the face of the ocean like so raui h chaff. Many lives I have been l0i?, and more than a score of vessels are wrecked near the entrance to Boston Harbor. Such a wholesale destruc- j v tion of shipping has nor. been known in the ' memory ot old salts. Tiie sei was awfu1 in its wildness especially alon^ the south shore, where the coast was exposed to the full sweep of the gaie. Although the loss of life already reported is large, it would have been still greater but for the brave efforts o; Cnptain Joshua James and his volunteer life-saving crew of Hull, Mass.,who are emitted with savins twenty* eight persons troni various disabled vessels. The fishing schooner Edward Morton, owned by Stubbs <? Co., T wharf, Boston, went ashore in the gale at Scituate, Mass., and is a total wreck. Of her crew of sixteen men all were washed overbo ird and drowned save one, a seaman nair.ed Alien, of Boston. When the tide went down and left the wreck on the beach Allen was found in an unconscious condition uwder the wreck by the life saving crew and resuscitated. As near as ho could tell, lb?y struck between five and six oViock and almost immediately caps zed. He was down below and was the only one saved. He says sue carried fifteen men and a boy. The schooner Avnlon Milberry from St. John, New Brunswick, for Now York, with a cargo of 910,0 ill aths, eonsigned to Scammell Brothers, went ashore on Spectacle Island in Boston Ilar. or. Three of the craw were swept overboard in the gale and drowned. There wero probably 1U0 vessels wrecked on t ie New England coast. The schooner IS. K Walker, Westgate, 01 Fall River, from Philadelphia, for Boston, was wrecked on Toddy Rocks, near Hull, Mass. Her cabin an t forward houses have washe 1 away. Cap'ain Westgate and Mate C. M. Thomas were lost The Alice, from Boston for Shelburno and Lockport. with a general cargo of provisions, went down near Hul1, Mass. The two crews,, 9? ten men, lost everything and were in ? derperate a ndition. The beach in the neighborhood of Norman's Woe. Mass., is strewn with wreckage, consisting of lumb-r, laths, barrels, etc. Only small oieces of the schooner Addie S. Emery are left. Two vessels, a sloop and a coal laden schooner, are reported ashore at Rockport and gone to pecesNearly 8tfii0,(X'0 damage has been done alone the New Jer-ey coast. Atlantic City ifl f.ooder1 -vith a lor* over $100,000. INTERNAL REVENUE. Amounts Collected and Expenses oi llunninjg That. Service. The annual report of tl:e Commissioner oi Internal Revenue shows receipts amounting to$124.o2 ,475.: 2, end t:ixos of ?4,978,'3S:j.o'J The expenses of revenue agents were $7,382, 744. There were 1071 violations of the law reported, resulting in the arrest of 7"<1 persons and the conihcailon of property valued al $20,dot?,84 '. L'uring the year 40'.' stills were destroyed, SI.'j ersons arrested and one ofli cer ki led and another wounded. The commissioner recommends the enactment of a law to reimburse agents for the loss of prop erly during the prosecution of their business. There we:e received from cases compromised during the year. The force employed comprises men in the liell, '.<47 col lectors and deputies.181 clerics, 2!) messengers, and l'-'79 gau^ers and storekeepers. Addi tional employes are rerue-te 1 owing to the crowd) of tl e business. There are 4 fruit stills registered, nearly ail of winch arc in operation. The capacity of tbo grain and mo!a=ses distil'eries in opera ti <n on September 1 was 14",Ti?l gallons. Then.* were 10, l^,*i(K) bushels of groin used in distilleries during tbt year, n decrease of ~,OJO,OUO bushels from the preceding year. The commissioner oppos s the reduction of the tax on fruit Lrandy as it would seriously cut into the ave of whisky, on which a tax of ninety cents per gal on is levied. There are over -00 ? registered iruit distileries. ami from an sections come complaints from whisky distiller? of competition from this eource. -Ay- ' ijrJ: LATER NEWS, Ton\* Comfort and his son were at work about ton miles from Carlisle, Penn., felling trees. A large tree snapped a limb of anoth. I er near by, which fell on the head of his son, killing him almost instantly. John Dewey, tho driver of a load of nitroglycerine, was annihilated near pleasantville, Penn., by the explosion of the freight By a boiler explosion at Ralston's Mills, Penn., Lile Cross, Goorgo Kelly and Jesso Hall were instantly killoi Lewis Ralston u as j>erhaps fatally scalded. A at. on C. Turner, a half-witted boy, shot i and killed his sister, Bella, at Amelia, Ky., I with a gun given him to care for by George { Manning, a hunter. Georce Gilbert and Glenn Blodgett, aged sixteen and fourteen respectively,broke through the ice at Charles City, Iowa, while skating and were drowned. Charles and Henry Kohlman,of Auburn, Wis., aged twelve and ten years respectively, were drowned in 51 ud Lake. The oyster pirates on the Little Choptank j River, Md., have not only put to flight the j vessels of the State navy, but they have so cowed their crews that many of the men have resigned, and though every inducement has been offered none others could be found who would take their places. Two men were killed and three injured by a railroad collision at Husted, Col. A terrible tragedy occurred at Viau, Cherokee Nation, in which four men were killed and one wounded. The killing was the result of a drunken row, which was first commenced by one of the Starrs stabbing Landrum with a knife. They were all Cherokees. Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Flo., have been visited by frost. Thin ice formed throughout the country. All danger of yellow fever is now thought to be over, and the incoming trains are crowded with passen i gers returning home. | Forty-two houses have been destroyed by fire at Isabella de Salena, Cuba. Serious election riots occurred in Servia. Several lives were lost and many public buildings were demolished. The strike of coal miners in Belgium if spreading. Gendarmes and guards are pa trolling the troubled districts^ rl nE steam collier Allentown, of Philadelphia, wen ton the rocks of! Cohasset, Mass., and was wrecked. Her crew of eighteen perished. A fatal fire occurred in Brooklyn in which an invalid woman and her brother, who attempted to save her, were killed. Surgeon W. J. Simon, of the United States cruiser Boston.who contracted yellow fever while his ship was cruising in Haytian waters, has died on board tba vessel ir New York Harbor. A steam engine connected with a threshing machine at Poynette, Wis., exploded, frightfully mangling and killing John Tutt!e, Charles York and William Buckley, and seriously injuring three others. The General Assembly of the Knights of | Labor, which has been in session at Indian I apolis, has adjourned. The place for the next meeting will be chosen by the General Executive Board. It will be either Atlanta, I New Orleans, or Albany. The total vote for the highest Presidential elector in Indiana, according to the official canvass just completed, gives Harrison 2 jo,I XTil anrl Platrnlonrl p.Thft r?lnrfl.lifcV rtf ? | the lowest Republican elector is 34% The boiler in the chair factory at Cochran, Ind., exploded, killing William Bencke.John Stark and William Matthews, Jr., and severely injuring the engineer. The factory was wrecked. Five men quarrelled in a low drinking saloon at Vaine, Indian Territory, and in the I fight which ensued three of them were killed. The New Orleans Mint sent sl,2GOtOOO of silver dollars to Washington a few days ago, and it has been discovered that ?1000 was stolen en route, a bag of shot having been substituted. The House Committee on Appropriations is hard at work in Washington, and expects to have at least two bills ready for Congress when it assembles. President Cleveland has appointed George Washington Hensel to be Collector of Internal Ptevenue for the Ninth District of Pennsylvania. In accordance with his custom, Secretary Whitney presented each of tho four hundred employes of the United States Navy Depart- i ment with a large turkey for the Thanksgiving dinner. a pru^uicu uu uiio 1 c1i91u11 Bureau at Washington shows that of the 15,000 estimated cases under the act of June 7, 18SS, allowing widows arrears of pension from the date of the husband's death, 14,503 have already teen allowed and settled without eypense to the Government m. tv. f. hkrtenstkiv, President of Switzerland, who underwent the amputation of his right leg last week, because of disease of the arteries. is dead. He wid bo buried with inilitiry and civic pomp. ! the British ship The Douglass has founddcrcd in the North Sea. Two of the crew were drowned. A ltfbboat was upset at Whitby, Engand, and twelve persons were drowned. A DARING AEKONAUT, He Drnns with a Parachute into a River and is Drowned. A balloon ascension and a parachute leap nt the Chattahoochee Valley Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, by the famous aeronaut Professor P. H. Vandergriffc. was hilled to j take place at 1 p. m. a few days since. | An immense concourse of over 15,000 people had assembled to witness the leap However, a stiff gale was blowing at the time, and Vandergrift approached the directors and stated he was apprehensive. The directors told him a 1 right, and tho announcement was made to the throng by Superintendent Gottheus, who said the aeronaut would make the leap at 2 p.m..if the wind settled. The crowds were greatly disippointe 1. At 4 o'c'ock the wind hud not settls d. but tho daring balloonist determined to make the ascent at all hazards. When ready the cords were cut and the balloon ascended, with Vandergrift hanging fro n the trapeze of the parachute, lie performed several feats goinjr up. I.oud cheers rent the air, but when the ha'loon had reached a distance of about half a mile it burst clear from top to bottom. The aeronaut cut loose the parachute immediatelv.and the parachute flew open and just escaped the hailoon falling upon hm. The gallant fellow managed the parachute in the sale with great cleverness and bravery. It took a southwesterly direction, with a rapid downward course, and fell into tho Ch ittanooche River about a quarter of a mile from th6 park. *- *? ? j firft ty* nn A bated".; Siar at nnnu, ?nu wint to his assistance. Vnnd<'rgi ift. entangled in tho trapeze, swam up the river bravely on his bad: for a shore distance to meet the boat. When the boat reached him ! he eaujrht hold of the st?rn 8nd endeavored I to climb in. Tho parachute was still hanging to him. j The end of the boat went under, l'he men cot scared and pulled away.and Vanrtegrift's I hold slipped, an.l after a short strugg e he sank. His partner, O. J. Brady, dive 1 after tbs body several times without success. Florida orange growers are looking to ' Europe as a market for their earlj fruit. V lHENAmrS FINANCES. Synopsis of the United States Treasurer's Annual Report. The Government's Revenues and Expenditures Last Year. The Treasurer of tho United States, the Hon. James W. Hyatt, has submitted to Secretary Fairchild his annual report of tho operations of the Treasury. The net revenues of the Government for the fiscal year ended June 30, were $37i),2G6,074, and the net expenditures $267,924,801, the Burplus receipts available for the rpduction of the public debt being $111,341,273, an increase of $7,570,170 over the year befora As compared with 1887, the revenues were $7,802,797 greater, and the expenditures $7378 less. The Treasury balance increased during: the year from $69,224,379 to ?12Jt,801,242, and the total assets, including certificates of deposit in the cash, from 5(i2^,:'04.284 to $704,7211,535. The net change of $00,579,803 in the balance was produced by an increase of $37,526,408 in the assets and a decrease of $23,053.394 in the liabilities. The silver balance ren on more man .?si,uuu,vuu. xno principal increase of assets was in United States notes and deposits in national banks, and the principal decrease of liabilities in tbe public debt and the funds for the redemption of national bank notes. There was a net decrease of $74,788,920 during the fiscal year in the principal of the interest-bearing "debt. The total purchases of bonds for the sinking fund and out of surplus revenues were $51,464,300, the net premium raid, exclusive of accrued interest, being $8,270,842. Under the circular of August 1S37, interest amounting to $2,130,830 on 4 nnd 4% per cent, bonds was prepaid,with a rebate at the rate of 2 per cent per annum The amount of the rebate was ?9259. The gold and silver coin and bullion in the country and all kinds of notes and certificates outstanding on June o'O, 1S87. amounted to $1,925,259,&S2, and on June 30, 1888, to $2,093,502,072. The stock of gold and silver increased from -?1,007,513.901 to ?1,032,391,690, mostly in gold. The increase in the volume of the paper circulation was $#3,424.400,resulting from an increase of $110,3i9.!!5"> in the amount of certificates and a falling off of $26,895,554 in the total of notes and fractional currency. The coinage of silver dollars during the year amounted to $32,484,073, making the total coinage $299,424,790. The increase of the net distribution was only $39,156. Owing to the scarcity of one-dollar and two-dollar notes and the demand for the movement of crops nearly nine millions were drawn into circulation between May and November, 1887, but when the notes were again to be had the dollars came back to the Treasury as fast as they had gone out. The Treasurer is of the opinion that the people have all of these coins they want or are willing to take, and recommends that if the purchases of silver are to continue the bullion be put into the form of heavy bars of ingots, ariru * ?- 1" 'f wnll ka 1L1^ IIIC1U UIIO ^ICSUIU oujipij %'& KVUHIO ..... w sufficient for any demand there is Jikelv to be for them, and that any increase of the certificate circulation could bo based with perfect safety on the uncoined metal. The new" silver vault in the Treasury Building, having a capacity of 100,000,0(X) of the dollars, and said to he the largest treasury vault in the worl:l, is being fillfd at the rate of 500,000 a day. It will hold the total coinage of three years, but at the end of that period still further storage room will probably have to be provided unless the f-oina^e is suspended. At the c!o>e of the year the Treasurer held $178,312 65 ) of United States bonds to secure national bank circulation, $56,1'.'8,000 to secure public moneys held in dep^itary banks. There was a decrease during the year of $13,054,050 in the amount of the former, and an increase of $29.('4 J.5.J0 in the amount of the latter. There was $58,712.511 of public money held bv the banks, an increase of $35,395,033. The semi-annual duty co'.'ected from natioml banks amounted to S1,016,127, making an aggregate of $136,25>,803 since 1 V'G\ The net proceeds of the national bank notes redeemed during the year was $98,'-'46.727. The redemptions were $11,000,000 greater than those of the proceeding year, in the face of a reduction of $50,500,0(10 in the two years in the amount outstanding, ana greater in proportion 10 mo circulation than those of every year save two since 1870. The increase came from New York City for Treasury checks and one-dollar and two-dollar silver certificates. The redemptions from the 5 per cent, fund were ?43,1579,185, and tho~e from the fund for the retirement of circulat on were $ '0,163,957. The latter fund excited much concern early in the year. On July S, it stood at $107,827,754. The highest point it has ever reached. From that time it declined to $91,952,843 by the end of the fiscal year. The net deposits during the year were 544,123,883. of which $700,585 was for the retirement of the circulation of banks to liquidation or in the haivls of Receivers, $24,5?3/>0l was for the reduction of the circulation of banks in active e*istence, and $16,813,7!>7 was for the reti: % ent of old notes, to be replaced by new issues of the same amount. It is expected that the balance in this fund will continue to de| ceease. The expense of bank note redemption was $141,141, and the rate of cost $1.53 2U7-1000 per $1000 redeemed. EMPEROR WILLIAM'S SPEECH I TKrt ranmon Mnniirnh Oni?na tlie I Reichstag with "Words oi" Peace. The German Reichstag has re-assembled. Emperor William opening the s;-sion in person. In his speech he sai J that the tours he had recently made had convinced him that the desire for imperial unity wa> deeply | rooted in the people. He referred to the inclusion of Hamburg and Bremen in the German customs union and to the conclusion of a commercial convention with Switzerland. He was gratified to know that trade had improved, and said that the prospects of higher prices for farming produce justified the hope of an improvement in agriculture. He emphasized the pacific chara.-ter of Germany's foreign relations and policy, and said that his visits abroad, which had been undertaken with a view to effecting an understanding in the interest of peace, had caused universal confidence in the maintenance of peace. The Emperor made no reference to any military bills of credit, and touched but briefly upon East African affairs The Emperor's speech meets with general approval. The pacific tone, strengthened by ha o-rnrftsswl abhorrence of unnecessary war. reassures everybody and comes in good time to allay the alarm which has prevailed throughout Europe during the Jast fortn ght. The complete ignoring of Franco in the speech may leave a vaeue feeling of unensiness, which, however, the emphatic allusion to the allies of Germany is calculated to dissipate. CLOSELY KNIT FAMILIES. Ponr Brothers Marry Pour Sisters at Louisville, Ivy. At four o'clock a few afternoon's ago thf Rev. Mr. Zimmerman, of St. John's Church Louisville, Ky., performed the raarriagt ceremony for Georgo Kothenberger and Mis? Lou W eglieb. The young couple live aboul ten miles out on the Shelbyvilie road and thf farms of their parents are adjoining. Mr. Wieglieb and Mr. Rothenborgcr, Sr.. came to this country manv years aco ano" settled near each o: her. They were nlway* on the best terms, and two years aio. whet? the oUi< sb son of Mr. Rotlu-nberger asked for the hand of one oj tho seven handsome Miss "Wioglichs the parents of l)Of,!i wn> delighted. Tii? l!ev. Mr. Zimmerman was called upon to marry them and thero was feasting and rejoicing. A few months tmsso 1 and another of tho oons of Mr. R->tlieiiberger married another of tho Miss Wiegliebs. Hardly had the remnants of this wedding foist been cleared away beforo the th rd son of Mr. Kothenberzer married tho third daughter of Mr. Wieglieb. Then tlicro was only one so i left unmarried?this was George?and now he has proposed to the fourth daughter and tliev wee married. Mr. Wieglieb has three pretty daughters left, but tho ltothenb^r jer family has giv?n out and they will have to look elsewhere for husbands. ' ' There are indications *>f another smallpox epidemic in New \ ork, nnd vaccination and revacc nation are urged unon the comi muaitv by the State Board of Health. it k- .\ : 'f, I I vV *r. .v&p THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Cleveland's official plurality in Connecticut is 336. The Prohibition vote is 4234. Gkuthude Limesozt, aped thirty, of Great Barrington, Mass.. was found dead in her room at her boarding placo under circumstances that indicate suicide. Mrs. James II. AVheatox, of North Adams, Mass., was beaten to death by her husband. Ten large iron mills at Pittsburg, Penn., have closed down on account of the bursting of one of tho principal gas supply mains. Ton thousand men are id'o. George Tucks, a Pittsburg (Ponn.) dmg clerk, gave Christian L rczop, a child,a dose of ammonia for Jinie water. The child died immediately in convulsions. James E. Bedell, who obtained $294,000 by forgery while acting as real estate clerk o tho New York law firm of Shipman, Barlow, Laroeque & Choate, has been sentenced by Recorder Smythe, in tho Court of General Sessions, to twenty-five years and four months' imprisonment. He was immediately taken to Sing Sing Penitentiary. Three men were killed and three more fatally injured at Thompson's Mills, N. Y., by an explosion of dynamite through the recklessness of one of the number. The United States steel cruiser Boston has arrived at Now Yorx from Hayti with yellow fever on hoard. Four seamen died from its effects while on tho voyage from Port-auPrince and were buried at sea. There were three others ill with the disease, but such precautions had b?en taken that its further spread was impossible. Mrs. Robert Owen, of Poultney, Vt., recently gave birth to four children, two boys aud two girls. They are all alive and look healthy and robust. A heavy storm of wind, hail and snow swept overall the Eastern and Middle States, endangering travel by land and sea. At New York telegraph" wires were blown down and shipping in the harbor greatly damaged. The wind blow a gaie, and the coast from Delaware to Maine was strewn eAliAAuaro orjrl nnnal nltlt wrtrciva Ut oouuvuci a UI??? VUMM4 boats. Thcro was much suffering among the poor in tho large cities of the East. The snow caused a blockade in Boston. Navigation on the Hudson River aud New York State canals was suspsnded. Sonth and West. Following are the official returns of the vote of Virginia: Cleveland, 151,977; Harrison, 150,42a; Cleveland's plurality, 1535. Henry James, colored, and his wife, of Livingston, A la, went to a church supper, leaving their children locked up in the house. Upon their return they found the house in ashes and tho children burned to a crisp. B. F. Vandergrift made an ascent in a balloon from the Exposition grounds at Columbus, Ga., in the presence of 12,000 people. When the balloon reached a height of about SO 0 feet it burst, and the performer fell to the ground and was killed. Levi Meeker, his wife and eight-year-old daughter we e crushed to death at a railroad crossing near Wellington, Kan. The State Bank of Valparaiso, Neb., has closed its doors and depositors are looking for tho managers?L. t-covi'de and G. A. Crafts?with shotguns. Liabilities, $200,000. Oyster pirates, while unlawfully dredging in the Chesapeake, were attacked by Maryland's gunboat and one man was fatally wounded. Later the pirates attacked and captured the gunboat, sending her crew on shor?. General Master Workman Powderly, of tho Knights of Labor, has been re-olocted and his friends chosen to fill the!other offices in the order by the General Assembly at Indianapolis. His salary was fixed at ?5000 pel annum. T<iE central plant of the Jenney Electric Light Company, at Fort Wayne, Ind., wa totallv destroyed Dy lire, causing a loss 01 over $300,000. At a joint caucus of Democratic Senator? and Representatives of tho Alabama Legislature United States Senator Joiin T. Morgan was nominated by acclamation to be hii own successor from the 4th of March nest. This is his third nomination. A kirk broke out in a drug store at Pocomoke, Md., an 1 extended right and left, in the absenco >t a fire department, until the greater portion of the village had been destroyed. The greater portion of the SSOG inhabitants are homeless and have lost all their possessions. The aggregate loss is figured at $253,000. George Milliken has been hanged at Shawneetown, III., for the murder of his wife last fall Adam Berkes. of Sardina, Ohio, who was whipped by the White Caps, has become a raving maniac in consequence of the brutal castigation. A fire that started in a dentist'3 office at Eureka Springs, Ark., destroyed the greater !>art of tho business portion of the town. Tho oss is $200,000. Harry Gilbert, a wealthy ranchman living west of Wichita, Kan., has committed suicide by drowning. He hail just returned from his bridal tour. Ho leaves an estate worth half a million. TV UCJLI a lift i-vru. The fcioux Indian Commission has forwarded its report to Secretary Vilaa Subscriptions to the Harrison" and Morton Inauguration Fund now amount tc $27,210. Only $4000 in cash is needed. Thu J balance of the expenses will be paid from the rale of tickets, etc. The expenses of the last1 inauguration were $40,000, of which only one-half was subscribed. Hon. Perky Belmont,the newly appointed Minister to Spain, has called at the Department of State at Washington, taken the oath of office and received his credentials and preliminary instructions. The United States Post Office Department is considering a plan of establishing letter ' boxes on lines of street cars which pass near I pest offices in cities, in such cases collectors would meet the cars at points nearest to thf post office and transfer the mails. According to the report of the "Washington bureau of statistics the number of vessels of all classes built in tho United States for the year ending June SO, 18S8, was 1014, with a total tonnage of 218,080 tons. The summary statement of the imports and exports of the United States, made up at the Washington Bureau of Statistics, , shows that the total value of exports for 1VSS j was $445,355,2-'6, and of imports of mer- i chandise $544,511,034. C. J. Vickery, Superintendent of the | Third Division of the railway mail service, with headquarters in Washington, has resigned at the reque-t of the postal au horities, and will be succeeded by Eugene Carrington, the Superintendent of Mails at Baltimore. Foreign. The Turkish budget shows a deficit of $7,oCO.OOO. The Cabinet, Ministers of Mexico have handed in their resignations that President Diaz may have full liberty to appoint a new Cabinet for the new term. advices from Samoa say that llatnafa's followers attacked a stronghold held by adherents of Tainasese at * tna, ana succeeded in capturing the outposts after two days1 fighting. Hundreds of the combatants were kil ocL Copenhagen was brilliantly illuminated in honor of th? Princess of Wales, who, with her daughters, departed for England after paying a visit to her father, the King of Denmark. Nkws has been receive ! of the foundering ; of seven icebound sailing vessels in the Sea of Azov. The crews of the ill-fated boats managed to reach Taganrog, Russia, after s vere suffering. They were all frost bitten. He'?r von* Levetzow (conservative) has been elected President of the German Reichstag by a vote of 271 out of a total of 281 ballots recorded. A SKBtOUS revolution has broken out ip Venezuela. Oeneral Creispo. supported 07 fienernl Sergio Cnnnrgo, lias lan 'ed in the j Kastwith an army of five thousand men. M. IIetitknstfin,President of Switzerland, I hfic iimi life rirrhh letr amnutato l. The opera tion was necessary because of disease of tho I arteries. Nicaragua bns ncceptcd theUnited States ftovornment's invitation to ioin tho proposed i no"f> rpi'<?oof American Republics on October 2, 1HS9. Mackib & Co.'s oteamer Nowbur<rb, of Leith, Scotland, whilo on a voyaco from ' Ornncemouth to Aarhnus, with coal, foun- | dercd in the North Sea. Sixteen persons wero d rowned and one was rescued and landed in Norway. A Bsrltn paper openly charges time fimperor William is the prosecutor of papers ] which publishe 1 Emperor Frederick's diary. | i ' M mated value of the vessels involved in the disasters was $5,024,150, and that of their cargoes $3,031,185, making the total value of property imperilled $9,055,28."). Of this amount $7,770,-105 was saved and $1,778,880 was lost. The number of vessels totally lost was 71. "The extent of the assistance rendered in saving vessels and cargoes was greater than ever before, 4'.i2 vessels having been worked off when stranrlf d, repaired when damaged, piloted out of dangerous places, and similarly assisted by the station crews. There were beside 229 instances where vessels, running into danger of stranding, were warned off by the signal signs of tho patrol, most of them thus beius saved from partial or total loss. The expense of maintaining the service during tho year was $928,213. The General Superintendent states that the foregoing results of the year's operations are tho best yet obtained since the general extension of tho service to the soa and lake coasts. The number of lives lost in proportion to the numbers of persons on board the vessels involved is less than ever before, being only ono out of every 2o2. In the saving of property, the exhibit is also very gratifying, sho'wing more than $b saved for every dollar exppnded. "The following table gives a summary of the statistics of the service from the introduction of the present system in 1871 to the close of the fiscal year. Tho statement below includes the loss of 1S3 lives at the wrecks of the Huron and Metropolis, which loss, thereport says, was really not chargeable to the service: "Number of disasters, 4390; value of property involved, $75,302,999; vaiueof property saved, $55,25)7,(352; value of property lost, J20,005,.147; number of persons involve!, 39,414; number of lives lost, 501; number of persons succored at stations, 7116; number of days'succor afforded, 19,101. The General S?nrM>rinhiTiflorif. cfrnntrlv rflnnmm^nHQ An in. crease in the compensation of the surf men, whose hardships and lnbors, he declares, are worthy of bettor remuneration than they now receive. He also advocates the passage of the bill reported to the House of Representatives by the Committee on Pensions at the last session of Congress, granting pensions to the otlicers and enlisted men of the service, who are subjected to imminent peril, and to their widows and minor children." REJOICING IN FLORIDA. Frost All Over the State and Yellow Fever Dyins Out. A Jacksonville dispatch says that there was a heavy white frost there, completely covering the roofs, lawns and pavements. There was great rejoicing thereat, and the people talked of nothing else. Business revive! perc eptibly. Ice forme I in at least a dozen pluces about the ci y. The Board of Health Committee of the auxiliary association and Doctor Peters held a conference relativo to giving immediate attention to such preliminary work and necessary precautions as shall open up the usual channels of business throughout the State at the earliest moment. Steps were taken to remove all embargo on travel. Telegrams from many portions of the interior of the State reported heavy frosts and :n fome cases the formation of ice. It is perfectly safe for neonle to tr?v?1 r,n? in any part of Florida. Kailroad trains have resumed their customary winter schedule. Disinfection began at Jacksonville, and will take at least twenty days. Hunter's immense mill furnace will l>e used for burning infected bedding and Smith's laundry for the the disinfection of clothes, etc. The official bull?tin pave only two new cases and no deaths. Total eases, 4677: total deaths, 405t. NEWSY GLEANINGS, A coal fever rages at Astoria, Oregon. Griuiany last year imported 02,000 horses. The Bell telephone patent expires in 1833. The present value of a ton of silver is $37, 704.84. November 15th was Thanksgivins Day fn Canada. Tf'e vote for Fisk and Brooks is estimated at SCO 0 )0. Thk Mexicans bet heavily on the result of our Presidential election. There are about 1,00.),003 Union soldiers living at the prosent time. Official returns in_ Mississippi give Cleveland a plurality of 55.38). TnE crop of potatoes in Michigan this year is estimated at l-"),21vJ,9JS bush.'ls. A new society to promote the causa of anarchy has bee^ started at Chicago. Fou the first six months of 18 <8 the English : I 11t"; ncw-into l?".7 railways hlUCU kKJ'J ^CUpIO UUU lUJUlt-U uui, Tin: groat exposition at Cincinnati was a financial failure, resulting in a loss of ?340,000. Over $87,000,OHO of Government bonds have been redeemed under the circular of April 17. Thk statistics of agrarian outrages in Ireland during the last quarter place the number at 173. The crop of Malaga erap?s is larger than for year.* before, and raisins will be cheaper than ever. Swarms of gnats have mnde themsalves so pestiferous as to break up the schools at St. I Albans, Vt The Cheyenne Indims in Dakota are starving anrl the Government is called upon to extend aid. The Gorman budget for 18S9-9") contains an appropriation of ?2,133,400 for strengthening the navy. Wi i.liam Kei.i.y, a deaf mute, has been convicted of theft in Boston on the testimony of a deaf mute. Mrs. Berenice Chouteau, t"ie first white woman who lived in Kansas City, has just died there at the age of eighty seven. This year's mackerel catch by tha Gloucester (Mass.,) fleet is the smallest for fiftv years. It was less than half that of last season. Mrs. Cleveland has, by her personal effoits, raised $100.0t0 to rebuild Wells College, her Alma Mater, which was recently burned. The paupers receiving indcor rener in London arts rapidly increasing. They number more now than three years ago, or 1)3,000 altogether. The Committee on Revision in the French Chamb?r of l eputies indorses General Boulauger's idea of abolishing both the Senate and the Pres.dency. The idea that yellow fever is one of the most fntal of epidemics is not borne out by the history of the disease at Jacksonville, Fla. The "total number of cases so far reported foot utt a little over 4500 and the deaths loss than 400. The total whaling catch in the North Pacific ami Arctic fishery this year was ]5,():;:{ barrels of oil an i pounds of whale- | bone, divided amoncc vesse's. This makes i an average of ." So luirrels of oil for each vessel, which is very small. The latestolllcial advices report the average yield of cotton this year aliout the ?am9 as last in the cotton- irowing States generally, except a sli.'ht increase in tho?e west of the Mississippi, and a trilling redaction in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. Plan-'for the proposed ?0,001.000 cathc- i dral of Trinity parish, Ne?v York city, are in the hands of architects and as soon as com pletod will lie submitted to the Building j Committee. It is understood the cathedra* i ... . ?ii_j not. n Will D0 caueci uu uuuii wio uiriuo. Leopold Rothschild, the great London j banker, has offered an income of $10 a week for life to the man who gives information which will lead to the arrest and conviction j of the Whitechqpel fiend. + - -' > ; - ' LIFE-SAYIE SERVICE. The Past Year's Work in Saving Yessels and Crews. A Summary of the Help Rendered by the Station Crews. The following is an abstract of tbe report of the General Superintendent of the LifeSaving Service: "The number of disasters to documented vessels within the scope of station operation, during the year was 411. There were on board these vessels 25TJ persons, of whom only 12 woro lost. The number of shipwrecked persons who received succor at the stations was 743, to whom 1S08 days' relief, POSTAL EXPENSES. The Postmaster-General Submits Estimates for 1SOO. The Postmaster-General of the United States has submitted to the Secretary of tho Treasury his estimates for appropriations for the postal service for the fiscal year ending June.'}'.), 18!K). They aggregate $00,812,07;.!, as against $00,800,253, tbo appropriation for the present fiscal year. This is an increase of $5,i>ol,8:59. The principal items and amounts of increase are as follows: Mail depredations and Postotlice Inspectors, $100, W0; compensation to Presidential Postmasters, $S00,0it0; compensation to clerks in Presidential Pcstoilices, $000,000; rent, light, and fuel at Presidential Postottieosj Sluo.OOO; free delivery service, $1,000,000; transportation by star routes, $250,000; mail messenger service, $100,0UJ; transportation by railroads, $2,105,OoO; manufacture of postiigo stamns, $12,000; manufacture of stamped envelopes. $00,000; manufacture of postil enrds, 5=10,00:); transportation of forL'ign mails. $108,000; balance duo foreign countries, $25,000. These increasos ore stated to be neccssary uu iiurco liiy jji f^i;noajiu jji uajjei'bi vw WAieu^iuu of the postal service. In the item of mail bags and mail-bag catchers, the estimates are $00,000 less than the appropriation for tho present year, and tie item of locks and kays is ?10,000 less. These reduction?, it is jaid, aro occasioned by the syst.-matic repa r of all d fective pouches and bass, and by the bringing into use of locks which havo accumulated in tho various postfllces throughout tho country. Tho revenues of the department for the fiscal year ending June 80, 18!)0, are estimated at ?6',',5(.'8.(!5S, which is an increase of $9,813,482 over the revenues for the present year, and an incroase of $4,9 4,944 over the sstimat?s for tho fiscal year ending June :J0, 18S9. This will leave an apparent deficiency for the year ending June 30, 1890, of $4,403,414. THE LABOR WORLD. A Frederick (Md.) packing house employ* 1200 persons. The Bethlehem (Penn.) drug clerks have formed a union. There are 3500 watches made every day in the United States. "The Elite1' is the title of a labor society at Toronto, Canada. The Pittsburg coopers have had their scale signed again this year. There are 25,000 members in the Erotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Thfre are more than a million of persons cmp'oyed by railroad companies in the United States. Germans are to a large extent displacing colored laborers on the sugar plantations in Louisiana. In 1861, 419 women worked in Engltnd at printing, and their number has increased to about 4500. Fifty-three local assemblies were represented at the recent Coopers' National Convention in Chicago. The working girls of New Yerk city have organized a society for their mental and moral improvement. There are 3000 male and female member? of the Metropolitan Stenographers' Association in New York city. The rafting season throughout the Mississippi valley is over and the men will go to the pineries for tie winter. Rotten* boilers aud careless employes are sendincr mora victims out of the world un prepared than would be slain in a battle. Rjx thousand Monongahela (P nn.) coal miners will be thrown out of work by the shutting down of the mines by the owners. A construction detail that is eainine freat popularity among carpenters and uilders in Western cities is the bricking-in of frame houses. "Wood pulp is a product of twenty-one States of the Un'on: it represents a capital investment of $25,000,000, and gives employment to ?2,000 hands: About twelve thousand American cokeworkers were benefited by the advance in coke, their wages being increased a little more than six per cent. The Women's National Industrial League telegraphed its disapproval of the admission of Chinese into the K. of L. to T. V. Powderly whi'e at Indianapolis, Ind. The Princess Christina of Sweden gave n dinner not long nco to the car drivers of Stockholm, and. after the repast, read to them a lecture on toe care of horses. Under the present conspiracy law there are thirty tailors, ten walking delegates of building trades, twenty bakers and twenty brickmakers under indictment in New York. In England there are 347 female black wiii'iua, nub uitiuh-jjiiiiLus ia LII^J beuse ui U?Uing and running smithies merely, but actual swingers of the hammer and manipulators of the hello vr& Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,denies the report that the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad strike is about to be settled, and says the situation remains unchanged. The manufacture of pat-nt leather has grown to such an extent that it prartically amounts to a separate industry. Several now factories have just been started in New Engl'inrl, and there is a call for expert workers in patent leather. The Knights of Labor, as represented in their General Assembly at Indianapolis, seem to have full confidence in Powdeiiy, even to the extent of investing him with powers beyond those that he has already exerci ed as General Master Workman. The engravers who work on magazines are having a great time. A magazine page divided between arti.it, graver, and sonneteer will cost about $T>0. Of this sum about $125 fulls to the painter and ?15U to the engraver, while the poet gets what is left?if there is any. The total eclipse of the sun January l ? attracting interest in sc.entiric circles, and preparations are being made to make careful observations. The totality in the United States will bo continued to the northwest,au<f will be loneest continued in California. by a recent act ofihe City Council of Davenport, Iowa, the theatrical license has been reduced from $10 a performance to thirty-five cents, or from fciiO per year to *35. Freaks have to pay $10 per night, as heretofore. Thirty-five cents a performance is probably the lowest license paid in any town in the country. THE MARKETS. 47 new york. l.'eeves 3 35 (5) 5 40 Milch Cows. com. to good...35 00 @55 QJ Calves common to prime.... 3 00 @ 4 ^5 Sheen 3 50 @5 50 Lambs 4 '5 @ 6 60 Hogs?Live 5 70 @6 1'i.y. Dressed 7}? Flour?Cilv Mill Extra. 4 90 (15 5 25 Patents 6 00 @ 7 20 Wheat?No. 2 Red 1 01^? 1 01?{ Rye?State 6"5 67 barley?>o. 1 to 1)2 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 37 @ -i'J'X Oats?-x... i .. hito LHto.... ? Ci 42 Mixed Western ' >0%(? 33 Hay?Xo. i HO @ 1 00 Straw?Long Rye 75 & SO 1 ard?City team ? @ S.lOc L utter?.-tate Creamery.... 2> (tf) ?4 Dairy 2) @ 29 West Im. Creamery 21 @ 23 1 actor v 13J4({$ 2(5 Cheese?State Factory 103^@ 11% Skims? vliilinin.... 7 @ 8 Western Eggs?State and Penn 26 (? 27 BIT CCA T.n_ Steers?Western 5 00 (<? 5 25 hheep?>1lm ..mto . <ooi ... 4 0;) @ t 50 Lambs?Pair to <>>o 1 4 "0 (tS 5 50 1 ogs?Good to hoico > orks 5 45 @ 5 o ) Hour?I'ainily 5 0J (<$ 5 25 Wheat?No. -i Northern ? (<# 1 l-' i Corn?JSa ?. Vollo.v 42 ($ 4?}_ Oats?No. 2, Wnito ?- ft? 3!j j l.aiJey?State. OS (2 10 l v. ' lour? pringr W boat pat's.. 7 10 (Sf 7 50 Corn?Steamer Yellow. 53 5S}$ Oats?N'o. *2 n bite "<4\{(c3 o5;? I ye?State Go (Jl WATSRTOWN (MASS.) CArriiS MARKlir. Eeef- Dressed weight S Sheep?Livo weight '.I @ S LaiuLn 5 5}.g Hogs?Northern ? ^gj 7 rniLADELPHIA. 1-lour?Penn. family 4 62)4? 4 Wheat?No. 2, lied Dei*... 1 00 (.oru?No. 2, u Mixed... ? 53 Oats? fn-iTaded Waite ? @ 81% Pye?No. 2 ? @72 Butter?Creamery Extra... 84 <2) 35 Chease? Y. t ull Cream.. 9 ? 9% - ' i- '' . HOUSEHOLD HATTERS. I Cold Food. Cold food, says the Boston Journal of Health, is more easily kept on a sensitive stomach than hot; so in cases where it is rejected in the ordinary warm or hot form, it had better be tried as nearly frozen as may be taken. In manyjfevers this would be a decided ad vantage. Milk may be administered in a frozen state, often with positive advantage. The Sanitary Era adds, from frequent instances, that ice cream suits admirably some conditions where hardly any other ' food is acceptable. Delicious Pancakes. Pancakes made from tho following re- i cipe are delicious: Beat up three eggsin a quart of milk, make it up into a batter with flour, a little salt, a spoonful of eround cincer and a little crated. lemon peel; let it be of a tine thickness 1 and perfectly smooth. Clean your frying pan thoroughly, and put into it *good lump of dripping; when it i9 hot pour in a cupful of batter and let it run all over of an equal thickness; shake the pan frequently that the batter may not : stick, and when you think it is done on* , one side, toss it over,' if you cannot turn } it with a cake turner; and when both' ? sides are of a nice light brown, lay it ooa dish before the fire, strew sugar over it, ) and do the rest in the same manner. ; They should be eaten immediately or they will become heavy. If you hav? j no maple syrup, caramel sauce is vary < nice to serve with them.?Brooklyn Citi- ) zen. , Vfcjjl Why Monday? Where so much depends upon order C and accuracy in the management of the J, housekeeper, it is not always easy to pro- 1 portion the work of each day. Too much is thrown upon Monday and Tues- t day. Why not postpone washing till the latter day i on Monday the house can be put to richts, bread baked and desserts made for that day and the next. < That night the table may be laid and : covered with netting used for this purpose alone, the cloihing put in soak, and all the materials made ready for breakfast. Where there is but one domestic, or none at all, the week's labor is thus under much |better control. The firat meal should consist of few d shea, and the dinner may all be previously cooked J save the vegetables. The domestic, 1 who swept hall, hteps and piazza while the fire was kindling, has only to remove ths breakfast thiugs, wash the dishet and go to her laundry work. On Wednesday she is not over fatigued by the previous day's work and there i* time enough to keep the house clean during the remainder of thu week, finishing up odd jobs on Monday. Where two or more girls are kept the same custom might well prevail, by which means the cook will be able to do all the cooking so that the food may be as nicely served as usual?The home Maker, , p. How to Broil Beefsteak. The points of excellence in well-cooked meat are tine flavor, juiciness and nutritive quality; the best of meat can be spoiled during the cooking when the effect of heat is not understood,or the ob ject ot certain metnoas 01 coosery intelligently followed. The purpose of all cookery is to prepare food to yield its nutritive properties during the process of digestion. The first question iy: In what form can its digestion be most perfectly accomplished{ frying a3 it is frequently done covers the surface of meat with an excess 'of fat, and also deprives it of some of its most valuable juices. Roasting proper retains those by surrounding the meat with a crisp surface of intense flavor that is not obtainable by any other method of cookery. Baking, if properly done, gives a brown surface, more or less crisp, according to the heat of the oven aud the amount of steam generated, and the juices are preserved. Broiling when well done retains the flavor and juice of the moat, and .jivea a surface less hard and crisp than roasting,equally favorable in flavor, and more digestible. The free circulation of air about the meat and the application of intense heat preserves all the flavor and nutriment, while the rapidity with which it is cooked favors its perfect digestion. To broil perfectly, have a clear hot fire; either a red beil of wood embers, a glowing mass of coal, or a hot mass of charcoal which has cea-ed to burn with flame; there is au admirable device for broiling with illuminating gas, by combining enough atmospheric air with the gas to produce a blue ilume intensely hot, and free from smoke, under which the meat is broiled; the temperature of this flame equals if it does not exceed that of the hottest bed of bum;ng coals. Aftor the meat is tr;mmed free from excessive bone and fat?both being re served for soup and drippings?put it ju a gridiron and expose it to the hottest fire available; brown it as quickly as possible, first upon one side and then on the other, being careful to avoid puncturing the meat so that the juice escapes; when both sides arc brown, cook it to the desired degree without burning or smoking it; this can be done by taking a little care, holding the meat near or far from the fire, accord,ng to the heat. Have ready a hot pla: ter upon which to lay the steak, season it p ilatably with salt, pepper and butter, and serve it at once. \Vilh a hot fire an in h-thick steak will broil medium rare in about twenty minutes.?h.u>eio/fe. R<.MiUkiiu> r'nnvfofa fnr Identification. IX u nwv? lit) vvu I "The latest fad in prison munageI ment," said a prison oilicial, "is tattooing. It is a ready meaiis of identification, and is bound to become popular in prison management. iMy idea is to tattoo a convict every time he is imprisoned, and then we'll have his record as clear as the moon at midnight. Let each penal institution adopt a different mark or monogram and the problem of identifying couvicts will be solved. It is the simplest and best system yet proposed. To some persons it may seem as harsh as branding, but it isn't. Tattooing isn't painful, and the marks could be put on the convict's back, aims or legs, and would not embarrass reformed convicts. Tattooing is now followed in several penal institucions abroad, and I understand that it is to be introduced III. It I lli lllU ijiuic j/i aw - wiiw?, ?... ? { might be ft good thing to try in the Erie I County Penitent ary.? Luj'alo Expreu. ! A Switchback Aerial Railway. An amiable 1'rcai h n.cntor named M. i Jule* Imbs is, it appears, quite sanguine about his new metlio.l of aerial locomotion by means of boats worked on somethiug like .lie "switchbacK railway" system. These marvelous crafts are, it is said, to transport people from Paris to St. Petersburg in eight hours, unless the aeronaut's invention is making game of j him. M. Imbs is wording at his wonj derful invention in the line de Traktir, Paris, oif the Avenue * ictor Hugo, but people will have to wait a little before they can put any trust in his promises on such unprecedented velocity of locomotion. I The bloodhound as an agency to track fl j . . X.. A