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5/' '".-IF ' " jf-""- T-" -V-VY : .* r . V-< THE NEXT CENSUS. Suggestions Received by tlie Senate Committee. Estimated Cnst of the Work and Subjects to be Treated, A bill providing for the taking of the elev. enth census passed the House of Representatives at its last session. As the date approaches on which it is proposed the census shall be taken?June 1, lb'JO?the Senate j Committee is receiving frequent communications suggesting amendments to the House bill. The principal ones suggestel relate to the provision authorizing an enumeration of the survivors of the late war and the insertion of a provision for ascertaining the recorded indebtedness of the people. Senator Hale. Chairman of the Census Committee, is in constant communication with persons acquainted with census work, several of whom have requested a hearing before the committee. The committee has been authorized to employ a stenographer and take expert testimony." The bill creates a new officer?that of Disbursing Clerk; increases the salary of the Superintendent from $50011 to ?0000, and increases the maximum number of Supervisors of Census from 150, in 18S0, to 175. There is also a difference in the pay of the supervisors. Section u of the bill proposes that the schedules of inquiries of the eleventh census shall be the same as those of the tenth census, with such changes of subject matter, emendations and modifications as may be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, it being the intention to give the Secretary full discretion in mis matter, a provision i? made, however, in this section, that the Superintendent of the Census "shall cause to be taken in the same schedule of inquiry the names of those who served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in the "War of the Rebellion, and who are survivors at the time of said inquiry, and the widows of soldiers, sailors or marines." Twenty-two volumes, besides compendiums, were the outgrowth of the census of 1?80. The House bill, while, as before said, it gives to the Secretary of the Interior discretion in the matter of schedules of inquiries, limits the publication of the volumes to seven, as follows: Population, and social statistics relating thereto: Products of manufacturies; Mining; Agriculture; Mortality and vital statistics; \ aluation and public indebtedness; statistics relating to railroad corporations, express telegraph and insurance companies. The House bill limits the expenses of the census to $0,000,000 as the maximum cost, exclusive of the printing, engraving and binding. The last census cost the Government $.i,8G2,750; but this included the entire cost of delivering the work to the public, finished and complete. It is thought that the sum of $0,000,000 will be necessary for the work, on account of the increase of population, although the schedule of inquiries is limited to seven. It is believed by experts that the population will reach 04,000,000, an increase of 14,000,000 over that of 1880. Another feature of the House bill that is new is that allowing the Superintendent of the Census the privilege of furnishing to any cit^ town or municipality a list of the names in said city, townor muriicipalitv.at the rate of 25 cents for each 100 names so furnished. Pitman Pulsifer, the committeo clerk, has prepared a table showing tha time each syndic was tntpn. from th? first down to I that of 1880, the date of publication, the entire cost of the census, and the number of volumes in each. The table is follows: 1790, one volume, published in 1702, $44,377; 1800 one volume, published in 1801, ?00,600; 3810, twovolumes, published in 1813, $17$,445: 1820, two volumes, published in 1823, $208,525; 1S30, one volume, published in 1S32, $378,543; 1840, four volumes, pnblished in 1841, $883,374: 1850. four volumes, published in 1S59, $1,329,027; 1800, four volumes, published in I860, $1,922,272; 1870, four volumes, published in 1872, $3,323,511; 1880, twentyfour volumes (including compendium), published in 18S8, $5,802,750. A TRAIN "HELD UP." Two Masked Men Rob the Central Pacific Express of Bags of Money. The east-bound Overland train on the Central Pacific, from Sacramento the other night, was robbed by masked men near Clipper Gap. The express-car was ransacked and many packages were taken. Two men with masks suddenlv appeared while the cars were running slowly through a Ion? snowshed. They broke the glass in the upper part of the express-ear doors and covered the two messengers with revolvers. Then, while one stood guard over the men, the other went through safe and package. He secured considerable plunder, but, strangely enough, he passed over one sack containing over $10,000 in gold coin, and he also left behind several small sacks containing lesser amounts. When the train neared New England Mills the robbers dropped from the door. They are described as young men, but they were so well masked that no description of them could be obtained. Detectives were &t once ' sent by special train to tho scene of the rob. . bery. The railroad company claim that the robbers'only secured SSO0, but other reporw Bay that they got from $10,000 to $'20. TO J. PROMINENT PEOPLE. General Harrison is a skil'.ful hunter. John Sherman carries $o50,00U in policiej on his life. THE hn:press 01 ausrria is soon to visu Jfc-w York. Cyrvs W. Field bcs almost wholly withdrawn from business. Dr. Jacobs, who attends Robert Garrett, tbe millionaire invalid, gets a day. . Ex-Governor Berry,of New Hampshire, is ninety-two years of age, tut is in vigorous health. Colonel Buffalo Bill Cody lies been rased to the dignity of General of Nebraska Militia. Mr. Hertf.nstein, t\io President of the Swiss Republic, died from the mal-lreatment of a corn. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Mr? , Frank Leslie are to be aracn^ tbe wiutel visitors at Washington. Mme. Carnot, the French President's wife, is leading the way lor the extensive patronage of Irish lace. King KALAKAUA.of the Sandwich Islands, is expected to reach Wa-hington in time for ' Mie Presidential inauguration. M. De LESsEPS has just entered upon his eighty-fourth year, and seems to lose none I of his extraordinary physical vigor. There is little hope that the Empress of Russia will recover Irom the nervous shock caused by the recent railroad accident. Rear Admiral S. B. Luce, United States Navy, at present in command of the Jvorth Atlantic squadron,will be retired nextcionth on account of age. President Carter, of Williams College, has a great record as a beggar. He has raised since be became President of the college about $6UU,U0'J. Chief Justice Fuller, of the Supreme Court, is very nervous, and when he is on the bench he is always twirling his moustache or folding pieces of paper. Mourning is of lcng duration in the Queen's house in England. Victoria wiil not receive any state guests for one year after the death of Emperor Frederick. If Mrs. Humphrey Ward had receive* the usual royalties on the sale of "Kobert Elsmere" in this country, she would be ?20,000 richer than she is at present. King Oscar, of Sweden, spends from six to ten hours a day at his history, and says he would rather be remembered as the historian than as the monarch of \iis countrymen. Secretary Whitney has a scrap-book, in forty volumes, thit is entirely filved with newspaper clippings referring to himself and his administration of the Navy Department. Osman* Digma, formerly a merchant in Suakim, now.changed by fate into a scJldhr, and a good one, wants the English and Egyptians whom he bulds locked up in the Soudan to evacuate. Senator Beck is back in Washington, looking ten years older for his sickness. Ha will not be able to attend to his Senatorial duties this session. He will soon leave for a leisurely Southern tour. One of the attractive ladies in Washington society this winter will be Mme. Berratti, wife of the former Minister to Italy. She w a brilliant woman, noted for her great beauty, and she owns large interests in cotton plantations on th? Mississippi, River. TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. AFiKEinLynn, Mass., destroyed the P. Lennox morocco factory; a four-story wooden building in the rear, occupied by Harvey Brothers, morocco manufacturers, and the adjoining two-story wooden building. Five dwellings were badly damaged. The total loss by the tire is estimated at $250,000. The Presidents of most of the prominent railroads of the country, representing about S2,000,000,000, at a meeting in New York, signed an agreement to restore and maintain freight rates-, which have been in a disorganized condition for a long time, and have resulted in great losses to the roads. John* T. Trainor, a railway employe in TTnl</iL.an V T liimcplf hpfori* ft lof'fi tive and was killed, rather than allow it to simply cut off liis leg. Henry D. Schooxmaker, a prosperous young business man, killed himself and wounded his wife fatally, at their home, in Brooklyn, X. Y. Mrs. Kowolski, of Port Kennedy, Penn., was accidentally shot and killed by her daughter at their home. George W. Tccker, aged thirty-three vears, while choppine wood in the Bunker Hill district, near Waterbury, Corn)., was struck by a falling limb and killed. Henry and John Van Wormer, brothers, aged respectively fifty-five and fifty-eight years, were killed at "Oneonta, N. Y. The west-bound train ran over them, mangling them in a horrible manner. Mrs. Henry Hepple, a widow seventyfive years old, was burned to death at New Haven, Conn. While making dinner her clothing took fire. She jumped into bed to smother the flames. The bed took fire and she was roasted. Afire occurred at Forest City, Penn., which destroyed the home of Mrs. John Priestly. The woman and her grandson were caught in the flames and burned to death. Sonth and West. A construction train on the Arizona and Southern Railroad, with some sixty laborers on board, jumped the {track near a coke siding and rolled down a high embankment, killing eight of the men and wounding several others. Some fiends by exploding dynamite under a store at Wichita, Kan., killed two persons. A boiler burst near Frankfort, Ind., and killed two men. Hermaxsville, Mich., a lumbering settlement of about 400 inhabitants, has been totally destroyed by fire. There is great distress among the homeless people on account of the cold weather. Factories, dwelling houses and other property, covering three acres, were destroyed by fire in Cincinnati, Ohio. Total loss, over $300,000. The steamer Lief Erickson, burned at Alki, Washington Territory, arid was a total loss. Seven lives were lost. At the Ohio Coal Company's dock, Duluth. Minn., one of the bins, holding GOO tons of stone coal, burst and buried John Jackson and John Oleson under the mass. Both were killed. A boiler explosion occurred near Gold Hill. Col.,which resulted in the instant death of four men and the scalding of another. Washington. Commodore Schley, Chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, appeared before the Naval Committee and made an argument in favor of increasing the number of enlisted men in the service to 10,000. Quarters have been engaged at the Ar lington Hotel, Washington, for Genera) Harrison and (party prior to the inauguration ceremonies. There will be in the pirty General Harrison and wife, Russell Harrison and wife, J. R. McKee, wife, and two children, ex-Senator Saunders, of Nebraska, and wife (parents of Mrs. Russell Harrison). E. W. Halford, private secretary, wife and daughter. The President and Mrs. Cleveland spent Christmas quietly at the White House. Foreign. : fVicroR Stan wood, eUnited States Commercial Agent at Andakobe, Madagascar, was recently shot and killed by Captain Duverge, master of the American schooner Solitaire, whom he had placed under arrest. Dispatches to the Congo State confirm the report of the arrival of Stanley and Emin on the Aruwhimi. The British have decided to build perma nent lorts Deiore wicnu rawing irom ou&kiiu, Egypt. The Turkish marines in the arsenal at Constantinople have revolted because their wages have not been paid fJTHE British Parliament has been prorogued untii January 31st. The Queen's speech was of a pacific tenor. Heniiy A. Blake, whose appointment by England as Governor of Queensland, was opposed bv the people of that country, has been appointed instead Governor of Jamaica. A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE, The Business Part of Marblehead, Mass., in Ruins?A Heavy Loss. The entire business part of Marblehead, Mass., about twelve acres, has been burned. The fire was discovered in the house furnishing store of D. B. H. Powers on Pleasant street, at about 10 o'clock p. m. The first warning was a loud explosion of naptha in the store. The building was of wood, and ! was rapidly consumed. i ne ouiiuings surrounding the structure were mere shells, and it seemed everywhere a spark fell a fire started. In fifteen minutes the entire business section was burning. The entire shoe manufacturing district, the principal business of the town, was burned. Thirty-seven buildings were consumed. The tSuinated loss Is ?500,000, with 1000 or more men thrown out of employment, and many families rendered homeless. Though the boundaries of the fire were almost identical with those of the big fire of June. 1877, the losses are nearly double those by that one. For a while there was a panic among the inhabitants, who packed their goods for re ijuu> ui. w/ua: ics \^uuaic, *> uu uiuhca uy jumping from a second story window, is the onlv injured person reported. The heat on all sides was intense; curbstones were cracked and crumbled, car rails were twisted out of shape, tall chimneys fell with terrific crashes, and boilers exploded with the force of cannon. None of the manufacturers think it possible to rebuild this winter, and there is a general feeling of depression in the town. STANLEY MEETS EMIN BET. Encouraging N'ews From the Great Explorers of Africa. A Zanzibar (Africa) despatch says: Letters dated at Stanley Falls, Augti3t 29, have been delivered here by Tippoo Tib's men. They i state that a letter was received at Stanley Falls from Henry M. Stanley on August 28. Stanley was then at Bonyala, on the Aruwlvmi, where he had arrived on August 17. He had left Emin Pacha thirty-two days before in perfect health and provided with plenty of food. Stanley had returned to Bonyala for the loads of stores in charge of his rear guard, and intended to leave ten days later to rejoin Emin. He reported all the whites in the expedition as healthy, and said the expedition wanted nothing. The West African Telegraph Company has received the following dispatch from St. Thomas, in the Gulf of Guinea: "I have just received information that Henry M. Stanley, with Emin Pacha, has arrived on the AruwhimL The news is reliable. Further details will follow. "Parsons, Agent." In the British House of Commons Mr. Gos- | chen. the acting Government leader, read, amid cheers.the telegram received by the West African Telegraph Company from St. Thomas reporting the arrival of Stanley and Emin on the Aruwhimi. Mr. Uoschen stated that the Government had not received any direct oilicial news confirming this report. In the Stanley Falls advices it is stated that Stanley wrote that Emin was in possession of vast stores of ivory and many oxen, and that he had an abundance of food. Stanley intended to leave Bonyaia at the end of August A Bill has been passed by the South Carolina Senate makinc it a misdemeanor punishable by dismissal for any member of the Legislature to accept a free pass from any railroad. S . V'fX, A STEAMBOAT EURm~ Appalling Loss of Life on tlie Mississippi River. The Kate Adams,Loaded With Cotton, Burns Like Tinder, At twenty minutes to eight o'clock in the morning the passenger steamer Kate Adams was destroyed by fire near Commerce, Miss., and twenty-five lives lost The boat was engaged in the local trade between Arkansas City and Memphis and was north-bound with people and 1200 bales of cotton. The fire started in the cotton in the bow, and the alarm created such a panic Qmnnrr fhn r\ncconrrorv fhat flirt prftW WPPrt obstructed in their efforts to fight the flames. The boat was near the middle of the river when the lire was discovered, and Pilot Barton at once turned the burning bow toward the Mississippi shore. The fire spread with great rapidity and the smoke was so thick that when the cabin passengers rushed forward to land they wero driven back nearly suffocated. On the lower deck were about fifty passengers, the majority of whom were colored, and they seemed to lose all control of themselves the moment the flames burst through the cotton. They ran backward and forward along the guards, seeking some way of escape, but only to be confronted by the swift current and the approaching fire. Many of the men plunged headlong into the river when the boat came within 300 yards of the shore, and while some succeeded in battling the stream and reaching land, others were drowned. On the cabin deck the panic was even greater. Captain Mark Cheek took his post and issued his orders while the boat was | burning away below. The pilot-house was enveloped in smoke and sparks, but the pilot, like the hero of the Prairie Belle, kept her nose to the bank. Unfortunately a shallow spot in the river was struck a short distance from the shore, and the boat went aground, but swung off a moment later. The yawl and two smaller boats were lowered and the passengers were landed as rapidly as possible. The usual rush was made for the boats, and many of the passengers fell into the river in their struggle to reach the yawL George Corbitt and several members of tbe crew tried to lower a second boat, but the boat was capsized in the panic and tXjrbitt and five others were drowned Meanwhile a good many who were hemmed in by the fire jumped overboard and were drowned. When the burning bow struck the shore gang planks were ran out and about ICO persons were landed in safety. About seventy-five others jumped into the water and sixty of t hem reached the shore. The officers made several efforts to rescue five colored women among the deck passengers, but the fire had complete possession of the lower part of the boat, and the women were lost. Three of the colored cabin crew who were rescued from the water died afterward. The water was very cold and benumbed the limbs of those who jumped over > J 4UJ- ,*? fllA uuuruy aim iaj VUIS U nuux IUUWWI vu? greatest loss of life. All speak in the highest terms of the coolness and bravery displayed by the officers. Captain, clerks, pilots and engineers all remained at their posts until the last, and it was through their efforts and courage that all the lady passengers were safely taken ashore. The officers were the last to leave the boat and Captain Cheek was forced to jump into the river. The steaiper was swung out in the river by the current and floated to the head of Peters Island, where she sank. Nothing was saved, and the loss includes a large sum of money belonging to passengers that was given to the clerk for safe keeping. The boat was owned by the Vicksburs and Memphis Packet Corapanv and was valued at ?l'j0,000; insured for $75,000. She was bound to Memphis, and had about two hundred people aboard, including her deck and cabin crew of eighty, twenty-five cabin and sixty deck passengers,and twentyflve colored cabin passengers. Later accounts, while not stating with any degree of certainty, soemed to indicate that the loss of life might reach thirty-five or fifty lives. BLOODY FIGHT IN HAYTI. The Insargents Under Hyppolfto Defeat the Army or Legitime. A battle has been fought in Hayti, and resulted in favor of the Northern army and the utter routing of the forces under Legitime. The conflict took place at Miro Calais, which is thirty miles inland from Port au Prince and ninety miles south of Cape Haytian. The exact date of tie battle was not given, but it is supposed to have taken place the day before the Haytian gunboats made their last attempt to bombard Cape Haytien. General Hyppolite advanced on the town early in the morning and during the forenoon skirmishing took place without serious loss to either side. But early in the afternoon the Northern army closed in and advanced in a solid body, firing as they came. After a short but decisive battle, during which a number were killed and wounded, the army of the South gave way and finally fled in great disorder, some of them throwing away their brand new Winchester rifles as they ran. Hyppolite then took possession of the town, which ne strongly garrisoned. The wounded of both sides were then looked after and the arms of the defeated Southerners gathered up for future use by Hyppolite's soldiers. The dead soldiers were buried near the field of battle, every cartridge belt being first removal. It is reported that four cabled messages have been received from Paris stating that the French Government refused to recognize Legitime as the head of the Provisional Government of Hayti. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Orchids are a drug in the English market Belva Lo^kwood received one vote in Kentucky. The export or American apples continues very heavy. The British Government says it will not abandon Suakim. Tacoma, Washington Territory, is to have electric street cars. Newark, N. J., annually turns out 150,000,000 corkscrews. A congress of colored Catholics is to be held in Washington. The California raisin pack has been an exceptionally fine one. Apples are worth only ten cents a bushel in Bcntouville, Ark. There were only twelve prohibition votes cast in South Carolina. New England made last year 100,000,000 pairs of boots and shoes. A National colored school teachers' asso? l i uiatiuu uas uccu ut^cuu&cu. The people of the United States wear 160,000,000 pairs of shoes per year. The Africans and the Arabs are cleaning out the Germans in East Africa. The world's gold product for the current year is estimated at $100,000,000. Minneapolis has finally outstripped St. Paul in the matter of population. Mountain towi,s in California are flooded with counterfe.t fifty-cent pieces. The amount of copper exported in 1887 was 3,700,000 and in 9,573,000 pounds. I>r. Tanner, the famous faster, is soon to marry the daughter of a Parisian millionaire. Fifty-three persons under sentence of death are confined in the Kansas Penitentiary. A movement is on foot among the Kansas millers to induce the farmers to sow more wheat. Some sheep bred in the Argentine Republic fr.>m imported stock were recently sold for ?340 per head. St. Louis ib the only 3arge city in the . country that will sand" a solid Republican delegation to Congress. Thk Honorable Artillery Company of London, the oldest military body in the world, has been disbanded. Forty large English steamships have been chartered to bring iron ore from Mediterranean ports t > Philadelphia. M. de Giers is about to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of bis connection with the diplomatic service of Russia. Great distress is said to exist among the fishermen of Halifax County, Nova Scotia, owing to failure of the inshore fisheries. LATEBNEWS. Ex-Congressman William L. Bcort has effected one of the most important coal deals ever made in'the Monongahela Valley, of Pennsylvania. He secures coal lands valued at $105,000 in the centre of a large tract of valuable lands. A hall at East Prospect, Penn., collapsed with a party of about three hundred persons, and the ruins took flre, but all were rescued with no more serious damage than broken legs. Michael Manning, employed about the Cooke Locomotive Works, inPaterson, N. J., was whirled about a shaft until he was killed. A boat containing Leta Raumbaugh, Flora, Clara, Harry and Samuel Smith was capsized in the river at East Brady, Penn., and Flora and Clara, aged twenty and eighteen, were drowned. The four-year-old son of E. T. Leidel was burned to death at Milwaukee, TVis., while lighting candles on a Christmas tree. White Cap outrages are reported from Martin's Ferry, Ohio. The banking house of W. R. Morse, at Clarks, Neb., has closed its doors. The liabilities are placed at $80,000; no assets. John Peabody, Jr., teller in the Merc hants' and Mechanics' Bank of Columbia. Ga, has committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. The Denver Gas Company had 100 men employed in excavating a ditch, six feet deep, along the side of and underneath the track of the cable car line, when suddenly the track for an entire block fell, crushing the life out of four men and badly wounding two more. John Bryan, the little son of a farmer, ? Lama MAM* VAKpocITQ Nflh. uicu xiivo a ticiu noai a?vu?uoivm . The house caught fire. The father, mother and five of the children escaped. One little girl was left in the house. The brave boy went into the burning house and brought her out safely. Then he rushed back to secure some clothing for his mother and the children who were standing almost naked in the snow. He was overcome by the flames and died. A boat containing a party of holiday merry-makers was capsized in San Franoisco (CaL) Bay, and three men and three women were drowned. The remains of the late General John A. Logan have been removed from their temporary resting place in Washington, where they have been for the past two years, guarded by United States soldiers, and placed in the mortuary chapel, which has Kaon Knilt- Hw Mn T-ntran at. the Soldierfii Home. The act placing General Andrew J. Smith on the retired list of the army, with rank of Colonel, has been approved by the President Congressmen Lodge, of Massachusetts, Farquhar, of New York, and Bayne, of Pennsylvania, have announced themselves as candidates for Speaker of the House. The Abban Flour Mills at Waltham, England, have been burned. The loss is $450,000. The death of General Loris Melikoff, the well-known Russian officer, is reported from Nice. General Melikoff was born in 1834. Deserters from the rebel force at Suakin, Egypt, report that there are many wounded Arabs in Handoub. Osman Digna, is sending his women to Erymeit preparatory to retreating to the Nile. The friendly Sheiks strongly urge the British authorities to ad . vance upon Handoub. ??? ?? i rrmr 1 it TllfTlTlArtTTA TJtLfci HAIT1AJN JjMUItUUljIUr The Seized Vessel Delivered Over to the United States Authorities. Advices received in New York report the arrival of the United States war ships Galena and Yantic at Hayti, and state that the steamer Haytian Republic was handed over to the United States authorities as soon as the vessels appeared at Port au Prince. The Haytian Government, it is reported, had been informed that the men-of-war were on their way to that country and had done all they could to facilitate the passage of the seized steamer from Haytian to American hands. The vessels anchored in Port au Prince Bay and the Haytian Republic was immediately given into their custody. The two United States vessels then firei a salute of twenty-one guns in honor of tho island and withdrew with the steamer. The people of Hayti were much averse to giving up the steamer and are extremely hostile to the United States. As the people there have little idea of the power of the States, they believe they could blow the whole American navy into a cocked hat with - - * *1?UfHo forrvhnfltfl whioh one oi mat iuuuj iiwiv they call men-of-war. General Legitime has been unanimously elected President, and it is quite probable that he will in a short time have complete order restored on the island. | jit was thought that England would take the part of Hyppolite, but the decisive stand taken by tbe United States has banished such a hope among the insurgents. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Mme. Scalchi is singing in Russia. Jeffrets Lewis is playing on the Pacifli Coast. Alice J. Shaw is whistling her way t< California. 'The Charity Girl" is the name of Annw Pixley's new play. Mavrice Barrymore has made the hit ol his life as Captain Swift, in New York. "Little Lord farxtelroy" is the biggest dramatic hit of the season in New York. Mas. Laxgtry is about thirty-eight yean old, and Mrs. Brown Potter about thirtytwo. There is said to be a general dearth ol musical ta'.ent in Europe, and the critics ar< in despair. Patti has consented to sacrifice something like $5000 a night to sing in Paris in Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette." Reginald De Koven and Harry B. Smith, authors of "The Begum," have written another comic opera entitled "Don Quixote." \1 v> rrurineu Hia rofarnn frfltroHinn nnH elocutionist, is in Boston, and, though in his seventy-eignth year, is still vigorous and active. Marie Gordon, who was Mrs. John T. Raymond off the stage, is starring through the cities of England in "The Princess Diana." Fred Warde, the tragedian, read the burial service over the remains of Alice Hastings, the actress, who recently died in New York city. Maria Tiet jen'S, a niece of the late distinguished prima donna Theresa Tietjens, is becoming known as a rising young concert linger in London. Walter Standish, an actor and author of some ability, dropped dead from heart disease while playing with J. H. Wallick in Boston, a few days ago. S1THF.F..V has made a. t>itj hit nt the National Theatre, Washington, with "Lord Chumley." Washington, like Tommy Moore, has a weakness for lords. "The Mikado"' was produced for the first time in German in Berlin, and ''The Yeonun of the Guard" is being translated tor p-oduction in German in \ ienna. The Opera House in Chicago was damaged, after a recent performance, by a tire caused by the dropping of an electric light carbon. The loss is estimated at $50,000. Mus. Potter intends to startle the critics in "Antony and Cleopatra" by introducing a real asp in the death scene. She wili not carry her realism to the biting point. The Indians are quite a feature of the Winnipeg, (Manitoba) audiences. One redskin was so delighted with a recent performance that be insisted on paying over again after every act. MOTHER MR HORROR. A. Cotton-Laden Steamer Burned at Placquemine, La. Awful Loss of Life Aboard the Blazing John J, Hanna, Another horrihlft steamboat accident com. THE SOUDANESE. A Brief Statement of What They Are Fighting For. The Soudanese, says the New York Sun, have been suffering for lack of the great quantities of clothes, cutlery, and so on, which they used to import. They have also had no outlet for several years for their j ivory, hides, slaves, and other exports. By, running great risks they have kept up a smuggling trade with Arabia by means of small dhows, which landed on unfrequented parts of the coast. But this smuggling trade was wholly inadequate to their needs. Suakln is the natural port of the Egyptian Soudan, and is the only good port on that part of the coast. Over a year ago the British forces were withdrawn from Suakin, and Egypt was left alone to guard her port. Knalifa Abdullah, the Mahdi's successor, decided that this was a good time to take Suakin, and thus secure a port for his country. So he sent Osman Digma with a force from Khartoum numbering about 4000 men to lay siege to Suakin. He told Osman Digma to make no terms with the Egyptians, but to drive them into the sea. The siege has lasted about a year, and the Egyptian Government a while ago declared her inability to drive the rebels away: The British Government recently decided to send troops to Suakin and compel the rebels to raise the siege. This was the position at Suakin when the recent battle opened. The town is on an island in the Red Sea, which is connected ?* ' :_i i WILLI LUC Jiiuiuiaiui uy a wauwnaj tuicaj *?uu? dred feet lonjr. It is protected on the land side first by a high stone wall, about threesevenths of a mile west of the town. About half a miie beyond this wall are two Egyptian forts, connected by strong intrenchments, protecting several of the wells upon which the town depends for its water supply. From a quarter to a third of a mile west of these forts were the deep trenches of the Arabs, extending about a mile north and south. These defences were so well made that it had been found impossible to shell the rebels out. Eight miles north of Suakin, near the coast, are the Handoub Wells, the headquarters of Osman Digma, where he kent his reserve forca Before the fight began two war ships were sent up the coast for the purpose of shelling any re-enforcements that might be sent from Handoub to the trenches. Then the forts and the men-of-war in Suakin harbor began shelling the trenches, and the Egyptian and British troops moved out and carried them by assault. Ihe defeated rebels retreated north to Handoub and were followed nearly to that village by the cavalry. The rebels who fought and died In the late battle were not natives of the Red Sea coast, but their homes were on the Nile. They were a part of the Khartoum army, and most of them were Baggara herdsmen, who live most of the time in the saddle, and whose homes are south of Khartoum. THE LABOR WORLD. Plate-glass making is booming. The Phoenix (Penn.) Iron Company employs 1700 men. A Brocton*, Mass., shoe factory will b? operated by electricity. In England there are 347 women who maki a living by shoeing horses. Some of the shoe factories of Massachu setts have adopted electricity as their motiv< power. Amalgamation amone trade and laboi organizations at present "is experiencing i "boom." The question of eight-hour labor is agaii coming up and is being urged with renewe< vehemence. A public library for the exclusive usi of factory workmen has been established ii Houtzdale, Penn. Duiuxg the last ten years the wages of thi cigar-makers of Buffalo, N. Y., have beei doubled under the union system. The men who do the "chipping" 01 Georgia turpentine farms receive $1 per day. "dippers"' get twenty-five cents more. According to a recent consular report, American shoe-makers turn out much bettei work than their European fellow-craftsmen All the furniture workers' unions report their employers anxious to encroach upoi the nine-hour rule by making ten hours i day's work. There are fifty co-operative stores in Nev England under the management of the Sov ereigns of Industry. The yearly sales amount to 45,500,000. The old Lehigh Valley engine "Hercules,* which was in the collision at Easton, Penn. lately, was wrecked six times within the pas year. It is a massive machine. The coke consumers of Pennsylvania ob ject to the increase in the price of coke. I they will not buy it at $1.50 the burners can not get their increase in wages. An electric hand-saw is the latest in ventioi tor carpenters. It works like any ordinary saw, the electricity being applied only in th< process of setting and sharpening. It is said that of the 241 leading clothing manufacturers in New York City, 234 ar< Hebrew firms, and that the Jews' are alsc larcrelv engaged in cigar making, employing over 8000 persons. A new industrial school, the first of ici class in the West, has just been establishes in St. Louis. It is for the purpose of teach ing the art of engraving on wood, and nigh1 sessions only are held. | McMaster's History teils the wages re ceived in ltiOO: On the Pennsylvania canali the diggers ate the coarsest diet, were housed in the rudest sheds, and paid ?6 a month frorx May to November, and $5 a month from November to May. In the late congroesof Italian co-operators held at Bologna last month, the report showed that there were in that country at present 176 co-operative manufacturing societies, 221 co operative agricultural in stitutions, 43 bakeries,405 co-operative store* The wajjes of firemen in Louisville, Ky. have been raised all around. Engineers wh< have been receiving ?8:i35 a month, now gel $95, and chief operators will hereafter tx paid $150 monthly. Captains will receivi $2.60; pipemen, $2.50, and stokers $2.25 t day. All the coai mines in the Monongaheli Vallev. in Pennsylvania,have been closed foi an indefinite period, and over 6000 miners and hundreds of river-men will be without employment, and they and their families, numbering altogether probably not less than 20,000 to 25,000 souls, will be without means of support "Within* a radius of forty miles of Rochester, N. Y., there are more than 1500 fruil evaporators, giving employment during the autumn and winter to about HO,OJO hands. Lost season the production of these evaporators was about 30,000,000 pounds, worth at first cost about $2,OOiJ,O0O. A large proportion of the product is exported. Bremen, Germany, cigarmakers get from $1.50 to $4 per 1000. They avorage 20d( cigars per week. Only the average workman works over four days per week. Work begins at 7 o'clock. They work until 'J o'clock, and take a half hour for breakfast The dinner recess Is from 2 to 4 o'clock. The day's work is over at 7 p. u. Box finishers get sixty cents per 100 boxes. Henry G. Ha worth, of Augusta, Ga., said to be the oldest living railroad engineer, was the engineer ot the "Best Friend," the first locomotive built in America, and he has fol.owed his business for fifty-one years. When lie first nanaiea ine burubue mcno miles an hour was considered good time, while nowadays no one is surprised at a run of sixty miles an hour. A company has been fcrmed in Georgia to scrape the entire bed of the Chestattee River with dredges. It has always been known that the bed of this river is wonderfully rich In loose gold, and the company proposes to get the gold. Just after the war another company attempted to accomplish the same pumose by fluming the river, hut it cost so much that the enterprise was abandoned. The present company will build an expensive dredging boat, capable of removing 000 ton& day. As things actually stand, the English position at Suakim, Egypt, is sufficiently ridiculous. Seventeen hundred Arabs" holding scientific defences, and, firing accurately, are keeping at bay about 4000 English and Egvptian soldiers, aided bv gunboats and all'tbe latest appliances of war. The sharp hooters among the Arabs are as deadly as were the Russians in the Crimea. Isaac Staples has sold 50,000 acres of /ine lands on the Snake River, Minn., to Fred Weverhauser, of Rock Island, I1L The jonsideration is over 5600,000. The purchase was made for a down-river syndicate which is rapidly buying up all the pine lands on the St. Croix River ana its tributaries, t < ing close upon the loss of thirty-five lives by the burning of the steamer Kate Adams, occurred at Placquemine, La., when the steamer John H. Hanna was destroyed by fire and many persons were either burned to death or drowned. Just how many lives were lost will probably never be known, as all the books and papers of the boat are gone. It is Baid that there were fully one hundred persons on the boat, including passengers and crew, and that no more than a dozen have been accounted for. Another estimate placed the number of the lost at thirty. The Hanna had left Monroe, Ark., Sunday morning weM laden with cotton. She picked up freight all along the Ouachita, and when she entered the Mississippi she carried over 2300 bales of cotton. The steamer was headed down the river, going at her best gait, when the fire was discovered. A majority of tne passengers were asleep, but quite a number were in tne dining saloon eating, saying "Merry' Christmas" to each other, ana making life as pleasant as is possible on a small and badly crowded Mississ.ppi River steamer. The little party was in the best of spirits about 1 oclock in the morning, when the cry of ''Fire1' fell upon its ears. A colored roustabout who had been sleeping near the boiler was awakened by a heavy smoke. Before he was well aware he shouted "Fire." John Cullen, a stoker, heard the cry and rushed in tho direction. He saw that the tier ot cotton piled up close to the boilers was in a blaze, aud that there was no time to lose if any one on the boat was to escape. In less time than it takes to narrate it, the flames had forced their way aloft and were licking up the light woodwork of the main saloon. A moment more aud the entire boat above the water's edge was wrapped:in a sheet of fiame. Samuel Powell, one of the Hanna's clerks, was in the office. Seeing the flames he heroically rushed along. the smnke-filied cabin, pounding furiously at the stateroom doors to arouse the slumbering passengers. Meanwhile Engineer Merriman stood at his post, in spite of the hissing flames which shot into the engine room. He set the steam pumps at work and attempted to flght the fire. He had hardly done this when a steampipe burst and filled the room with scalding vapor. Further delay was impossible, and accompanied by the stokers, who bad bravely remained with him, he dropped over the teamer's side into the water. Pilot Jolles had swung the wheel around and headed the steamer for the nearer shore. Tilro n m or) thino- she nlnncerl alonsr under a full heal of steam, but before she reached the land every plank was aflame. As the struck the land she bounded off again, swung round and drifted slowly down the stream with her pitiable load of perishiug humanity shrieking for relief from the hideous death which clutched them. Passengers, in their night clothes, rushed frantically through the burning cabin, seeking a means of egress. The usual exits were blocked with huge masses of cotton, and many dropped from suffocation before they reached the forward deck. When the Are broke out the Hanna was in midstream, but would probably have reached the shore in time to avoid the terrible loss of life had not her bow struck a bar when she "was within fifteen yards of the bank. This checked her headway and caused her stern to swing round. When the boat was nearing the shore the stage plank was ordered prepared for lowering to the bank. This wing done a panicstricken crowd rushed upon it. It gave way under the great weight and broke. Between twenty and thirtv persons were precipitated into the river. Many of them were drowned. The Captain and a number of tbe crew and passengers had fought their way to the bow of the boat with scorched faces and bruised limbs. A majority sprang from her when she was about ten yards from shore, and the moment the boat touched the rest sprang ashore into the mud or water. The Manna rested there a few minutes aground, then bounded away, and swung around, drifting imfil oKo flnollr cmnlr in uunjl anu uuiuuig UIIVU auu ..v ... the ??w Although the crew had escaped from the burning boat they were not wholly saved, and ootli tne Captain aud Bob Smith, the famous pilot of the ill-fated Ed. White, met their death after getting ashore. They sprang into the mud on the bank, and becoming fast there, were slowly roasted to death by the intense heat from the burning boat. They buried their faces and hands in the soft mud to protect themselves, and appealed to the people on the shore to coine to their assistance. This was impossible. The Captain was finally protected from the fire by means of a box, and was dragged ashoro with ropes. It was too late, however. He had suffered too serious injuries, and, although he received medical attendance at once, he died before he reached Placjuemine. Tho people of Placquemine did all they could to relieve the sufferings of the wounded and to care for the saved. Hotels and private houses were thrown open, and the unfortunate people were nursed and | clothed. No attempt was made \ to I save any of the papers, and everything, [ including the clothes of the crew and passengers, was lost When the body of Clerk Powell, who tried heroically to awaken tnose in the cabin was found, ?1000 was discovered in his pocket. None of the survivors could say what was the origin of the fire. The general impression is that some careless smoker threw a cigaretta amons: the cotton, and thereby caused the disaster, Owing to the coldness of the water many of those who escaped the flames perished from cramps in the icy tide. Perhaps the 6addest cases were those of men who got so tar toward safety as the banks of the river, were there mired in the mud, and buried to death while attempting to clamber up the muddy levee. The Hanna was valued at $18,000; her cargo at $12,000. Both are a total loss. The cotton was so much tinder, and as the boat was built 12 years ago, her timbers were in fine condi*-'"" " "" * ^tTifion. A new volcano is reported from Hulmanguillo district, Tobasco, Mexico, which is spouting forth large streams of red water. ~THE MARKETS. 51 sew TORS. Eeevee 3 4) (3) 5 01) Milch Cows, com. to good.. .30 U0 (a>50 00 Calves,common to prime.... 0 00 @ 8 50 SheeD 3 50 @5 75 Lambs ? W <3 7 to Hog??Live 5 . 5 5 55 Dressed ' Flour?Citv Mill Extra. 5 00 tj5 5 85 Patents 5 75 @7 25 Wheat?No. * Red. 1 ? 0 1 Jg Rye-State ?3 @ 04 Barley?No. 1 - ? W , Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... '&>A@ ^<3. Oats?No. 1 White ? @ Mixed Western 29 @ oi Hay-No. 1 ?5 & <J5 Straw?Long Rye. ? ? _ ?5 Lard?City Steam - ? @ Butter?State Creamery.... 20 (g Dairy.fair to good.. (S -? West Ira. Creairery 20 ? 20 Factory Cheese?State Factory Jl/s Skims?Medium... @ ,s/ Western 10 @ ll5?* Eggs?State and Penn 23h& BUFFALO. Steers?Western 3 25 @ 4 03 Sheep?MeU.umto liood ... 4 -5 @5 00 I Lain OS?Fairto(ioo<l 5 50 & h 00 Hogs?Good to I hoice lorks o uu (gj o o'J Flour?Family 5 00 (3 5 25 Wheat?No. '-J Northern ? <<g 1 21}$' Corn?No. 3, Yellow 4 * (rtj 40>? Oats?No. 2. Wnito ? ($ 3"> Earley?State. os a 10 BOtTOV. Flour?Spring Wheat pat's. 7 10 <$ 7 5) Corn?Steamer Yellow. ? @ &) Oats?No. 2 White 3r>V($ j 1< ye?State 63 ? 04 WATBRTOW.N (MASS.) CATTLB MABICSr. Beef? Dressed weight 7 @ S Sheep?Live weight 2 (g) 5 Lam 03 4'?@ Hogs?Northern O3.5 ($ 6% PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Fenn. family ? 4 Wheat?No. 2, Red, Jan... 9.l^(?< Corn?No. 2, Mixed, .Tan... 42;i,(g! Oata?Unjrraded White ? <g) 31 * otates. Early po? 40 (a) 45 Butter?Creamery Extra... 31 & 34 Chee^?N. Y. Full Cream.. 9 @ 11& vast glaciers of solice ice bare poiistea off whole continents of earth. A will has just been snst&ined In New York in which the testator ordered than none of his children should marry undejf twenty-live years of age, or sleep in bed later than 9 in the morning. ) Major D. A Cook, of Atlanta, Ga.r has sold 202 acres of Georgia land to i neighbor for 250 opossums, the opoesum*to be delivered in instalments of fifty annually for the next five years. It tnke3 thirty-seven yards of cloth to make Hanson Craig, of Taylor county, Ky., a suit of clothes. He weighs 7tf2 pounds, is niue feet four and a half inches high, and thirty-one years old. A recent English testator bequeathed his wife one farthing, which he directed ihe executrix to forward to her by post | unpaid, because in his lifetime she was in the habit of addressing him as "Old Pig." George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, possesses the original manuscript of Dickens's "Our 3rutual Friend." It if the only manuscript of Dickens, with the exception of a few short stories, outside of the South Kensington Museum. Mr, Childs has refused $0000 for it Colonel Clinton, of Albemarle, Ky.*,' has a horse that is fond of whisky. Hehas several times broken into the Colonel's cellar, and always makes for the bin where the oldest and rarest bourbon. ia kept. He will break open a demijohn and drink until stupefied, when he staggers Out and takes a long nap. Five hundred years bare elapsed since ! England beheld the first marriage of Prince of Wales. Indeed, there have-1 only been four such marriages in ling land, and one abroad. The preliminaries of marriage have often been made, but these were in such cases carried out after the Prince's accession to the throne. The sardine and other tins, of which, such thousands are thrown away, go to support a branch of industry in Paris which is deeply interesting to the youthful part of the population; for, after being stamped into shape by machine* of simple construction, they reappear in theform of countless armies of tin soldiers, which are sold at prices so low that the manufacturer could not possibly afford to buy material new from, the tinman. * Gigantic Transportation Company. A gigantic river transportation company has been formed in Pittsburg by ill ?? ? mwmi V. C&linJ U&pimilBlBj WllU IUC iuiVHMVam of entering into competition with railroad companies for the freight business of the West and the Lake Superior iron trade, so far as the quantities used bj Pittsburg mills are concerned. The company will put on a line of powerful steamers and will own several barges. At St. Louis it will co-ope :ate with the "Diamond J." line of Mississippi River steamers plying between that city and St, Paul. At the latter place it is intended to erect large ore docks. Ore will be brought from the ore mines overland and loaded into barges at St. Paul and will be brought by river to Pittsburg. By this means, it is claimed, ore can be brought to Pittsburg much cheaper than by lake. There is less handling than by the old route, ajid the difference of time will be in favor of the new route. ? ' ' The company also expects to be able to bring Alabama and Tennessee ore in successful competition with other ore, thus opening up anew supply territory for Pittsburg. It expects to have traffic arrangements with one or two roads west of St. Louis, which will enable it lo receive freight for inland western - - ? points. Later on u may nnu uiu iwi transportation of grain from the West to the seaboard, and traffic arrangements can be made from this point East?New York Times. A Nine-Y ar-Old Giri Official. The city of Trenton, N. J., can claim the brightest and youngest city official in the State. Miss Hattie Owens, very cute and clever for a girl of nine, has been made Second Assistant City Clerk; and can now be seen on duty at certain hours filing away in their proper order the official documents in tne city ciencs office. When Colonel Owens, the City Clerk, took possession of his new quarters the public documents appeared to be considerably disarranged, and, on complaining, he found a cheerful volunteei in the person of his young daughter, Miss fiattie, who is very small, but sharp and methodical. She was assigned the work of reassorting, and is doing it well. She is rather annoyed on account of being a girl and announces that, aa Second Assistant Clerk, she desires to be called "Harry," and as such she ii saluted by ail the city officials. Misi Harry Owens is a pretty girl of pleasant address, and with the manner of one twice her age.?New York Times. Mysterious Magnetic Display. Standing beside the deadly arc-light dynamo, within a toot ot its ugnrmngM stroke, S. L. Martin, one of the managflj ers of the American Institute in NewH York, opened his pocket-knife ami laicH it on the base of the machino half wajH between the two poles, which are aboulH fourteen inches "apart. Instnntlv th^B knife arose and stood on end, the bladcfl pointing upward. For several second^H it wavered there, swaying to and fro a^J if uncertain what to do or where to go^l Then it began crawling slowly towar<* the great rangnet. At lirst the motioiH was scarcely perceptible, but as the in^| strument neared the electric coils it tool^l a sudden plunge and buried its sharjH point in the pitch coating of the horse^l shoe. When removed it was magL^^B tized so strongly that it supported si]H keys and a ring which held them toH gether. It was then brought in contacH with the other side of the magnet, whe^B its power of attraction immediately dbiH appeared.?New York Tribune, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmammmfmmmmm ~~ CUE10US FACTS., December is tho dry est month in the year. * , Mars is only half the size -of the earth. * 'J" A "sled brake" has just been pat- * cnted. ; % The "Blue Eapids country" is the reAf \T.?*.fUrtAflfA??? \Tqnaoa gAUU Ul iiutiucasioiu uauqtMM .o .. For eight months in the year the bed does nothing but loaf and eat. The orchid called butterfly plant has a, wonderful likemiss to a showy butterfly. \ A Chicago advertiser sets forth that he) has a diamond ring to exchange for j coal. The Human Hammer and the Ossified,s Man are the latest freaks in the dime mu-\ seums. ., , i? A Key West (Fia.1 fisherman haa captured a turtle weighing 1(500 pounds,! the largest ever seen. / The King of Portugal ha?, perhaps, > the largest and most valuable aiamond in the world. It weighs 420 carats. < The catch fly plant has a viscous substance on its leaves that entraps small flies: cat mint has a great fascination for the household pet. } ... Stones roll, mountains crawl (the.' width of a hair once a century), whflo