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! KING MWANGA DEPOSED. I " A Bloodthirsty Monarch Dethroned by His Body Guard. Arabs Put a Number of Missionaries to Death in Africa. Information has just been received of a Revolution in Uganda, Centra) Africa, which has re?ulted in the complete overthrow of Sling Mwanga, the slaughter of many Christian officials appointed by his successor, the deaths of many other converts to Christi - _ - . . 1 nnitv, the enforced flight of the missionaries, i and in a proclamation that hereafter Uganda | if to be a Mohammedan country. The outbreak, it seems, was entirely due to j the bloodthirsty instincts and cruel inteutions j of King Mwanga. In October he concocted n < plot to destroy the members of his body guard. The latter were under orders to take canoes | lor a certain island in Lake Victoria j Nyanza. There King Mwanga intended, j after destroying the canoes, to de- j sert them, in the belief that the guards would soon die of starvation. The guards, having been warned of the King's j intentions, refused to make the trip, and | turned the tables on Mwanga by suddenly j returning to his capital and organizing an attack on bis palace. The attack was successf"!. T*? <?uards were determined to k;Ii Mwanga if they laid hands on him, brt be escaped by flight. The victors in the tight named Kiwewa, j the brother of Mwanga, as King, and he was crowned. Kiwewa's policy was j was not satisfactory to the bulk of the people, as he appointed Christians j to the principal offices. The discontent of I the anti-Christian faction was soon fanned I to fury and an irrezular hunt for Christians [ followed. Many of the Christian officials were killed and the only Christians who es- i car>ed death did so by flight. Five converts to Christianity met death'in j a curious way. They fled to the mission ! boat Eleanor and got safely aboard. Soon ; afterward the boat was struck by a hippo- j potamus with such force that it filled and j 6ank. The five converts were drowned. The English and French mission stations j "were burned, and as many of their inmates [ as could be found were murdered. All the j missionaries, it is believed, escnpea ?uu reached Usamboio safely. The Msalala de- I pot is untouched. By the burning of the j mission stations many letters addressed to , Henry M. Stanley and Emin Bey have been [ destroyed. Mwanga was caught and is a prisoner ! at Mag we. H? has appealed to the J English missionaries for asssistance. | Missionary McKay lias received j word from the revolutionists that : they intend to destroy all the mission sta- ; tions in Central Africa in revenge for Eng- i land's anti-slavery policy, and he is warned i that missionaries will not be treated with more tenderness than their missions. Uganda is in the eastern part of Central Africa, has an area of 34,000 square mi'.es, and a population of 5,000,000, It is divided i Into three provinces?Uddu in the south, j Bingo in the west, and Chanewe in the east, i The men of Uganda are tall and well built, j with chocolate-colored skin and woolly hair, j The Government is feudal, the King being j nominally supreme. Succession is hereditary, I nominally, but the successor is generally a minor, who is chosen by three hereditary chiefs, who, with the young King's mother, carry on the Government until he attains his majority. King Mwanga is of the Wahuma trite, 'fhe late Kine Mtesa claimed direct descent from Kintu, (Ham). The Waganda are a warlike people and all ( males hold themselves in readiness for mili- i tary service. Mwanga is probably the met bloodthirsty monster in Africa, and is subject to paroxysms of uncontrollable rage. Whenever he has heard of the I approach of a European traveler he ha3 j been terriblv excited, and ordinarily he has ' relieved his feelings by butchering mission- | aries. In 18S6 ne burned at the stake I iorty converts of the missions of i the Roinan Cathojic and English Churches. Bishop Harrington was treacherously assassinated by this unreasoning savage despot a nd many other missionaries have sharea the same fate. When Mwanga beard of the Stanley expedition, he cast murderous eyes on the nearest mission stations, but finally contented himself with sending envoys to Emin to demand explanations. His plot against his bodyguard, which has led to his dethronement, is characteristic of this inhuman savage. What effect Mwanga's imprisonment will have upon Emin's fortunes it is idle to conjecture. The brutal King has been his chief enemy on the Bouth, and has blocked the road to the coast. His dethronement would naturally be helpful to Emin. The exten?ion of Mahometan sway, however, will have the effect of exciting renewed hostility to Europeans. FBOMINENT PEOPLE. John Bright believes in phrenology. The Queen of Portugal has a mustache. King William of Holland is reported dying. Prince Bismarck is again suffering with neuralgia. James G. Blaine has engaged apartments in Washington for the winter. The young Duchess of Braganza is at pres- j ?nt a popular idol at Portugal. The fund for the tenefit of Mrs. Matthew Arnold has now reached $40,00;'. There is a probability that Browning will be the next Foet Laureate of England. Lord Randolph Churciui.l has given up his contemplated trip to South America. Ex-Ma you HEWiTT.of New York,paid out $40,000 in his unsuccessful attempt to be reelected. Ex-Preside.\t Woolsey, of Yale College, th->u?h nearly ninety years of age, is still ? /' rigorous. A new statue of the Duke of "Wellington was rec ntly unveiled in Loudon by the Prince of Wales. H. P. Cheatham, who has been elected to Congress from the Second North Carolina District, was born in slavery. The Russian Czar delights tt show his good will toward France by delicate attentions to her distinguished citizens. M. Carnot, President of France, is a firs* class carjenter, and can handle the saw and piane as well as any mechanic. Geokge Routi.edge, the London publisher who died the other day. printed ui?d boju wv.iwu oi uncie lomscatiin." Dom Pkdro, of Brazil, is the oidest reizning sovereign now living. He mounted the throne in ISil at the age of six years. The two most punctual men in the Hou?e of Representatives are Buchanan, of New Jersey, and S. V. White, of Brooklyn. A SlOt'X chief named Lime Wolf says that "William F. Cody (Buffalo Billi is the biggest coward of a white man who ever rode over the plains. Ex-Postmaster-General Frank Hatto v, who has just bought the Washington Post, was the youngest citizen ever called to a position in the Cabinet Congressman Martcn, of Texas, is sixtyflve years old, the lather of nina chi dn?n and the owner of lO.Oi'O head of cattle and 10,000 ai res of ranch land. Bill NyE, tbe humorist, is now driving the wolf from the door at tho rate of at least $4.r>0 a week, and Jamss Whitcomb Riley'i jucuorc is not rauca, 11 any, smaller. Richard Quay, son o" the Pennsylvania Senator, is a partner of Senator Cameron in the ownership of a splendid cat%e ranch, eight miles s (uare, in Mexico. Montgomery Sears, one of the richest young men in Boston, is rated as worth $5VK>o,(iOt). His father, Joshua Sears, carne to the Hub without a penny and laid the foundations of his fortune iu a-gro:-ery store. Gknkral Harrison has just had his life insured for in a New York agency at Indianapolis. The papers were drawn up in favor of Mrs. Harrison. The certificate of the examining physician was to the effect that General Hhrrison has no trace of any organic disease and is in perfect health. Georgk Vandsrbilt, the young New York millionaire, has purchased about three thousand acres of fine land near Ashevil'.e. N. C. Mr. Yanderbilt will not talk for publication concerning his plans, but there is a report which he does not contradict that he i? about to establish * women's college there. Thk International Exhibition or norsoa, asses, etc., to be held in Paris in 1889. has been fixed definitely for the 1st to the 10th of September. The prizes have been largely Increased, and the highest for the best horse in the exhibition will be $3000. i THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle Stares. The (,'unarder Urabria has made the eastern voyage across the Atlantic in six days, two hours and fortv-lirg minutes from Sandy Hook. N. J., to Browhead, thus beating ail previous records. The bodies of the dead were all recovered at Pittsburg, and at Heading it was found that a corrected list of those killed by the storm numbered twenty-threo. J. B. Morrison*, a prominent dentist of Pittsburg, Penn.. committed suicide in a fit of dyspeptic melancholy. Samuel Becket. the President of an iron foundry company in Arlington, N. J., committed suicide at his home by inhaling gas. The third special trial trip of the dynamite cruiser \ esuvius has I een made over the new Government course at Delaware Breakwater. Penn. It was a complete sue cess, the ves?el attaining a speed of SI.til knots, which makes her the fastest war ship afloat. Chari.es Crisp was killed and Mrs. Herkimer injured fatally on the Long Island Kailroad. Mrs. Gould, wife of Jay Gould, the millionaire, has died after a lingering illness at her home in New York city. A fire broke out in the five-siory brick building occupied by Smith, Pratt & Herriok, in Albany, N. Y. It was only after a light of live hours that the fire was extinguished. The loss is about 00. "William Carroll and a boy named Bostley were killed bv the fall of an elevator at the Walter A. Wood Mowing Machine Works at Hoosaic Falls, N. Y. Ahem and Jansea, the other passengers on the elevator, were fatally injured. A fight between riotous Hungarian and Italian miners, near Scranton, Penn., resulted in three deaths. Lieutenant Charles Richards Miles, United States Navy, the young naval officer who has been very ill with yellow fever on board the Yantic in New York Harbor, since the vessel's return from Hay ti, is dead. The Republican caucus of Massachusetts nominated, by acclamation. George F. Hoar to succeed himself as United States Senator. The Democratic caucus nominated General P. A. Collins. Miss Ada Walker,h teacher in a Springfield, (Vt.) public school, committed suicide by drowning in the Black River. She was the daughter of James R. Walker, a wellknown farmer and writer on agricultural subjects. Senator Hoar has been re-elected by the Massachusetts Legislature. The vote stood: In the Senate, Hoar thirty-two, General Collins, six; in the House, HoarlTl, and Collins fifty-six. J-'^-vror Frye, of Maine, has been reelected. Three girls lost their lives at a fire in a cigar box factory in Fifth street, New York city. Sonth and West. An immense crowd attended toe funeral of Owen Brown, son of John Brown, and last survivor of the Harper's Ferry trageay, at f asadena, Cal. He was seventy-four years old. Av ^idemic of diphtheria prevails at Argyle, Minn. As there is neither ice nor snow in St. Paul, Minn., the project of the ice palace and carnival has fallen through. James Barber, a prominent farmer of Kr,?vn<y Hill TCnn__ has been eored to death by a Holstein bull which he was leading ic the barn. Elmer Sharkey, of Eaton, Ohio, qunrreled with his mother because she objected to his marriage. At two o'clock next morning be beat his mother's brains out with a maJlet The Sharkey's are among the richest people in the county. At Benwood.W. Va., an unoccupied house was demolished by an explosion of gunpowder, and two boys, who had temporarily taken shelter in it, were killed. Three men were killed by a boiler explosion at Petosky, Mich. Mrs. Clem^iie Cox. a demented woman, locked herself in her room at Paris. Texas, and, saturating her clothes with coal oil, set them on fire. She was burned to death. D. R. Driscoll, City Marshal of Florence, Mo., was killed by Isaac Willi, who escaped from jail sorae time ago. Willi was followed and killed. A battle took place between over 200 citizens of Cimarron and Ingalls.two Kansas towns which are fighting for possession of the county records, during which J. W. English and John Blis<, two of the loading citizens of Cimarron, were killed and a score of others wounded. The crowd was dispersed by the State militia. Isham G. Harris was nominated by the Democratic legislative caucus at Nashville, Tenn., to succeed himself as United States Senator. The nomination is equivalent to election. Senator Manderson has received the unanimous vote of the Republican caucus of Xoi.rneta Ipp^slators for United States Sen ator to succeed himself. The caucus also I resolved to submit the prohibition question to the popular vote. Governor Alvin P. Hovey, of Indiana, was inaugurated at Indianapolis; Joseph W. Fifer took the oath as Governor of Illinois at Springfield, and D. K. Francis was inaugurated as Governor of Missouri. United States Senator Charles F. MandeRSON, of Nebraska, has been reelected by the Legislature. He received a vote of 104 to 29. The Michigan Legislature ha? elected James McMillan, of Detroit,as United States Senator to succeed T W. Palmer. E. O. Walcott has been elected Upited States Senator from Colorado to sucbeed Thomas M. Bowen, receiving the solid Hepubiican vote. C. 0. Thomas received th? complimentary vote of the Democrats. Wesley Barne:t, the notorious half breed Creek Ind an desperado, who has beer, the terror of Indian Territory for years, has been killed. He was the leader of a desperat* band of thieves and outlaws in the Creek Nation. Washington. The Senate and House of Indiana met ir joint convention at Indianapolis and listened to the farewell message of Governor Isaac P Gray. Senator Plvmb has been renominated bj the joint Republican caucus of the Kansas Legislature. A fight between cowboys and shepherd; took place near Holbrook, Arizona, in which three men were killed and three fatally wounded. Gineral Harrison is hard at work at his home in Indianapolis on his inaugural. Comptroller Trknholm has :ssu?d a circular in regard to the affairs of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, in which he says: "No dividend has been declared sirtct May 12,1883, and the assets are not likely tc allow of another dividend." President Cleveland has sent to the Senate the nomination of Henry W. Beckwith, of Illinois, to be United States Consul at Bermuda. Secretary and Mrs. Whitney inaugurated their official hospitalities of the season at Washington by a brilliant reception, at which they entertained a distinguished company. Mrs. Cleveland has held the first public reception of the season at the White House. Over POOO persons attended. Sfeaker Carlike has appointed as the j conferrees on the part of the House to consider the question of concurrence with the Senate on the bill to incorporate the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua. Messrs. Clardy, Rayner, and O'Neilof Pennsylvania. The President and Mrs. Cleveland were entertained by the Secretary of State and the Misses Bayard at a Cabinet dinner. The President has nominated W. B. Webb to be Commissioner of ti e District of Colum bla, Thomas C. Anderson, of Iowa, to be .Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah, and Henry J. Munn to l?e Collector of Customs for the Pamlico District of North Carolina. The Secretary of the Navy has issued intl j ?1 l'imknfltr pnm. i I structions 10 iiear auimuiu n.iu.?v. .j, ] manding the Pacific station, to proceed in the United States ship Trenton to Samoa,for the purpose of protecting American interests on that island. Secretary Vilas has reported to Congress that a commission, after conference with the Utes of Southern Colorado, had induced the Utes to agree to cede their lands for a new reservation in Utah, to which they agreed to remove for a per capita payment of J #1000, $20,000 worth of sheep and $2000 to each of the five leading chiefs and the ; establishment of a new agency on the new reservation. The new reservation will contain 2,1112,000 acres. The President has npproved the act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Walter C. Newberry to be Postmaster at Chicago. President Cleveland has transmitted to both houses of Congress a report from the Secretary of State, with correspondence exhibiting the progress of the disturbances in Samoa up to the present date. Foreign. A great fire occurred in the Elcvpnth Arondissement of Paris. The school build ings were destroyed. The Bank of England rate of discount has been reduced from five to four per cent. The damage wrought by the cyclone in Canada is estimated at ?'J,OOO.OOJ. The Russian budget for 1880 has been iseued. It shows a surplus of $2,2-50,000. The insurgent tribes of the Zanzibar (Africa) coast attacked the German misssion at Dares-Salaam. A stout de fense was made and the blacks were repulsed. -The losses in killed and wounded were heavy on Loth sides. There was continuous figthing for several days at Lindikelwa between boats from the German squadron and the enemy on shore. The native villages have been shelled. An earthquake has almost totally destroyed the town of Guanare, Venezuela. Russia has increased her army by from 80,000 to 100,000 men. The yield of gold in Queenstown for 188? was 420,000 ounces, an increase of 2'J,00C ounces over the yield of 18S7. Snowstorms are reported in Eastern Europe. Railways in Galicia and Roumania are blocked by snowdrifts. The steamer Phyopeket has been sunk by a collision with an unknown vessel off Singapore, India. Forty-two persons were drowned. A duel was fought in Paris between twc journalists, Henri Rochefort and M. Lissagary. The weapons were swords. Both combatants were wounded. M. Lissagary's wounds were dangerous. A uAirci? of Mnrcnilloa TTronno inhnhi'foH by Italians, collapsed. Seven of the occuEants were killed and nine injured. Ihe uilding had been undermined by floods. The Parnell Commission in London has resumed its investigation. While on a shooting excursion at Buckow, the Emperor of Germany, having by accident wounded a citizen of Berlin, who was looking on at the sport, expressed his deep regret for the occurrence and begged the victim of his misdirected aim to pay him a visit as soon as he recovered from his wounds. LATER NEWS, Miss Carrie Platt, a wealthy younc lady, was killed by the cars at Danbury, Conn. Joseph Mookehocse, aged sixty-eight, | boss dyer at the woolen mill at Webster, Mass., and his niece, Ella Cooper, of Woodstock, Conn., while crossing the railroad track were struck by a train and thrown fifty feet. Their skulls were crushed and both died in a few minutes. Oxe Gila Btnita, a cowboy. dres;ed and painted as an Apache Indian, made a descent upon Mexican herders in the employ of Don Pedro, of Montana, recently, killing five and wounding one. Two small boys, Sidney Watson and Joseph Harper, playing on the ice in the harbor at Chicago, broke through and wera drowned. The public schools at Albert Lea, Minn., have been closed on account of a diphtheria epidemic. The Exchange bank of Dunlap, Iowa, ha? failed with $o0,000 liabilities. The Michigan Senate and House, in joint assembly, have formally declare 1 James McMillan elected United States Senator to succeed Mr. Palmer. Asbury Evans, a farmer, whose fortune is estimated at $500,030, hanged himself at his home near Elkhart, lnd-, because of the death of his favorite dog. Public Printer Benedict has transmitted his annual report for the year 18SS to the Senate. The most elaborate fireworks ever seen in this country will mark the inauguration of President-elect Harrison in Washington. i The President has directed the Secretary of War to order Judge-Advocate-General Swaim. now under court-martial sentence of j suspension, before a Retiring Board, to be I examined with a view to determining whether his existing disabilities are such as to incapacitate mm i<ji um;. The proposed International Maritime Conference has been postponed from April to the end of September. Secretary Bayard has informed the different Governments of the postponement of the conference. a letter from Henry m. Stanley, the explorer of Africa, dated August 17, has been eceived at Brussels; it confirmed the news of his safe arrival on the Aruwhinii. Damage estimated at ? '5.000,000 was done by an earthquake in Costa Rica, West Indies. THE LABOR WORLD. TnK St. Marks Railroad in Florida fcas a lady conductor. In* Eastern shoe factories the girls make from $7 to $10 a week. In nearly every industry men are paid two to three times as much as gii-Js. In New England candy factories the wages of girls are from $4 to $6 a week. Ix the California cotton mills the average pay of a woman is $7.50 a week. Beside locomotives, there were seventeen rotary snow-plows built last year. as a rule, the hours of labor have been reduced within the past half century. There are indications of another big strike in the fennsylvaia coke regions. Three men over eighty years of age are employed in a factory in Taunton, Mass. The average of salaries paid to working girls in the city of New York is about $5.35 a week. About 4000 laborers employed on the Culebra cut of Che Panama Canal have been discharged. An increase of fifteen cents per day has been granted the striking switchmen ac Lima, Ohio. The average salary earned in Germany by men working on machino-made shoesis ai>out a week. For girls under fifteen years old in Northern factories the pay is from thirty cents to seventy cents a day. Fhom 400 to 500 tramps have taken up their abode in empty coke ovens between Pittsburg and Johnsiown, Penn. As electrical locomotive is building at the locomotive works in Rome, N. Y. It will be constructed as an experiment. There are said to be women in Cincinnati who do all the work on pantaloons for five cents a pair, and furnish their own machines. There are now in the Southern States more than 300 cotton mills weaving l.SUO.OUO spindles against 160 mills and 700,0^0 spindles in 1SS0. The retail clerks of San Francisco are said to be preparing to make a vigorous elfort in the b-.-glulling o? ISaO tj establish early closing in stor The Amalgamated Union of American PiiptumtiJiv hucit'J lirn nphtx nml *A" > 'li Lerjv. It is the rival of the American Brotherhood of Carpenters, whicti has a iuuc'a larger membership. The eight-hour system oflabor, which was adopted in Australia many years ago, has bteu found to operate so advantageously there that it is now upheld by both employers and wage-worker?. The Municipal Council of Paris maintains at ati annual expense of $4000 the Labor Bourse, or Exchange, where workers of all kinds can seek employment, and where the labor societies have their headquarters. TIE ELECTORAL VOTE. Second and Formal Election For President and Yice-President. How the Electoral Ballots Have Been Oast in the State Capitals. In every State of this Union on Monday distinguished citizens, chosen last November for the purpose, met at their respective iA-1- 1. J- Pmoi'. capitals to uu me crckucu iuuuS vuc x . v?ident of these United States. The voting in which the people at large participated on November 6, while it was of course an expression of their will, was only a mere factor of the real balloting performed on Monday. The labors of the electors of the various States are not generally understood,says the New York Sun. At Albany, lor instance, the thirty-six Republican electors will meet, and after thoroughly examining the tabulated lists, will cast their ballots and then sign the declarations prepared by the Secretary of State. This done they will vote for some distinguished citizen of the State, who will be commissioned a messenger to the Electoral College, To his care, within a few days, will be committed a sealed package containing the results of the electors' work, together with duplicate lists prepared by the Secrelary of State, properly signed and sealed, and he will then proceed to Washington and formally hand the package to the President of the Senate. At the same time another set of documents, sealed and signed, will be sent by mail to the President of the Senate. To be a messenger of a Board of Electors is considered almost as much of an honor as to be chosen Governor. The fortunate individual not only has bis expenses paid, but his name is engrossed on the archives of the State. It has happened in many of the States in times past that tBe Secretary of State has forgotten to provide for a ballot box, and of a necessity a hat belonging to one of the electors has been used. Thereafter the possessor I fila n11atv?arl if. mnot. nnfc Vi uuo mw * v? "V even daring to wear it lest it should be lost or damaged, and at his death bsqueathing it as an heirloom to his descendants. The question has often arisen: "Has any elector ever cast his ballot contrary to the pledge of honor which he gave when he was chosen?'' There has not been an instance of this kind since 1796, yet by the method of balloting in vogue there is absolutely nothing to prevent an elector from depositing a ballot contrary to that expected from him. There is no open declaration of his preference; he deposits a written or a printed slip, as the case may be, and should another name from that exp-cted to be cast it would be difficult to ascertain who it was had forgotten or disregarded his pledge. It is this simple fact which has caused so much surprise amone statesmen of other countries ever since the nineteenth century began, and more particularly since the developmentof the country became the wonder of the age. In this connection it is safe to say that Benjamin Harrison will receive all of the votes 10 which he is entitled, name)y, 233, and that Grover Cleveland will follow in Becond place with 163. NEWSY GLEANINGS, BosTo.v-bos 101 club& Skating is in full swing in Parii Bkklin is to have rubber pavements. UKKiiUN oppies are snipped to v^uiiiu. Brooklyn has 80,0.'>g school children. The Patent Lc<ather Trust has suspended. In France last year 701 wolves were killed. The English cavalry are wofully short of horses. Thekk are 3000 professional tramps in California. In 188S 023 persons died in Connecticut from old age. Thkrb was a decline in tonnage last year on the canals. The Virginia peanut crop is almost a total failure this year. Only eight counties in Kansas are no*r without railroads. There were eight lynchingB in North Carolina last year. Over a million tons of pig-iron were made in the South in 1838. The Southern Pacific Railway earned about $47,000,00J last year. The winter in France has thus far been the sawrest in fifteen years. Maine's mackerel catch for last year is in the neighborhood of 25,000 pounds. You may Le incinerated iu Philadelphia now?after you are dead?for $28. There were nearly fifteen thousand weddings in New York city last year. France is excited over the attitude of the United States on the Panama Canal question. Before the new year was fifteen minutes old murder was committed in New York city. A town of Oklahoma boomers grew from fifty inhabitants to five thousand in sixteen days. 1 he next Legislature of North Carolina will have about 1400 justices of the peace to elect. Three hundred and fifty-one patents Af WTnnVtinmt'rtn in AAA /lav ha >Y t'i O IIIOUU UUU ttU TV (UUIU^IA^U iU V?UO UHJ * W~ cently. The records of Kansas show the amount of land mortgages in the State to be i'Sio,1)00,000. The United States hog cholera commssion is traveling through the South seeking for information. There will be sixteen Republican Representatives in the next Congress from the Southern States. New Jersey has 10 5 public schools, employing 4121 teachers and giving instruction to 3;>7,t>4i pupils. t The value of the agricultural products of the South in lbSS was $300,(MO,(JOU, against 8570,000,000 in IPSO. Careful estimate* place the number of people living within ten miles of Boston Common at l,0JO,U(K). Eastern markets are overstocked with apples, and a great quantity is going to waste lor want uf saie. It is deemed a flattering sign of the times that seats in the New York Stock Exchange are now held at $il,r>00. Sioux City will send a special "corn palace'' train to Washington at the time of Harrison's inauguration. The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided that railroad stock is taxable in the county in which it is held. Thk bank clearings at our thirty-seven largo cities Jor twelve months of 18&5 aggregated about $41), 15)1,000,000. About 154 deaths during the last four years is the record of slaughter at railway grade-crossings in Philadelphia. Over 3s3,000 immigrants landed in New York during the past year. This is about 12,000 above the record for 1s87. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. : The author of "Madame Angot" has a new boaffe nearly ready. Marie Van Zandt, the American vocalist, is singing In Portugal. Edmond Audran, the French composer, has about completed a new comic operu. Rubinstein has finished a new grand opera, "Uorivska." on a Russian subject. Mr. Wiiktherill, the husband of Emma Abbott, the American prima donna, is dead. Lawrence Barrett is afflicted with a glandular swelling that is likely to prove serious. The musical colleges of Chicago are said to bo unsurpassed by three in any other American city. Edwin Booth and Lawrenca Barrett are to receive f'JO.lWO cash for seven perlormances in Louisville. It is said that Joseph Jefferson intends to engage botli John Gilbert and C. W. Couldock for next season. W. J. Florence, the comedian, is contemplating a big reviva' of one of Shakespeare's plays next season. The London papers are unanimous and enthusiastic in their praise of Henry Irving's impersonation of Macbeth. John P. Sousa, the leader of the Marine band of Washington, has sold to Francis Wilson, the comedian, a new comic opera called "The Wolf." Under the contract Mr. Wilson agrees to produce it in New York city within a year. The scene is laid in Spain, ... . . /v.. ' _ ... SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. ] The Senate. 22d Day.?Onlv six Senators were present ' at the opening. Mr. Butler moved a call of the Senate. The Chair declined to entertain the motion. After an hour's delay a quorum j 1 assembled The Senate then resumed consideration of the Tariff bill, the pending e question being on the amendment offered by \ Mr. Plumb, to strike out of paragraph 557 ? the words "except when frozen or packed in t ice, or otherwise prepared bv any process, for t preservation"?so as to let the paragraph ^ read simply "fresh fish" (free). Messrs. Hoar { and Frye opposed it. After a long debate, fresh fish was struck off the free list of the j Tariff bill and made dutiable at one-half < cent a pound. j !S5d Day.?Consideration of the Tariff bill i was resumed. Quite a number of minor ( amendments were adopted. After the read- ] ing of the entire bill was completed, the Sen- ( ate. in Committee of the Whole, went back j to the provisions which had been informally j passed over. A number of verbal amend- \ inents intended to make clear portions of the , Ill] were maae 10 me administration secuuiis. , 24th Day.?The Senate proceeded to the . consideration of the Tariff bill,and Mr. Alii- , son. on the part of the Finance Committee, ^ reported two new sections, which he proposed . to offer as amendments. 1 hey related to a ) lounty on sugar, and provided that until | April, l'.KJO, there shall be paid to the producer of sugar from beets, sorghum,or sugar cane grown within the United States a bounty of one cent per pound.... Mr. Hoar intro- \ duced a concurrent resolution, which was j referred, providing for the counting of the votes for President and Vice-President in the House of Representatives, on Wednesday, February 13. ( 25th Day.?The Senate discussed for five hours and a half an amendment to the Tariff bill, which proposed to strike from the free list atter of roses and substitute salt. No action was taken, and the Senate adjourned with the amendment still pending. The principal speakers were Messrs. Vest, Voornees, Aldrich, Hiscock and Plumb. 2Hth Day.?The debate on the Tariff bill was continued.... The correspondence in the J Samoan affair and about the seizure of the steamer Haytien Republic was laid before the Senate. The House. 24tti Day.?Chairman Dibble, of the Pul>lic Buildings Committee, succeeded in offer- , ing the conference report on the Milwaukee Buil ling bill, and it was adopted, as also was a report on the Umaha isuuaing 0111. meu Mr. Dibble tried to offer a third conference report, but Mr. Weaver moved that the House adjourn, and filibustering was engaged in over this motion until both the day and night sessions were consumed without accomplishing anything. 25th Day.?The deadlock which bas been maintained through ten days by the filibustering tactics of Mr. Weaver has been broken The Pension bill, the Military Academy and Diplomatic and Consulate Appropriation bills were passed In Committee of the Whole a bill to revive the grade of Lieutenant-General was reported favorably from the Committee on Military Affairs. lifiTH Day.?Immediately after the reading of the journal, Mr. Randall from the Committee on Rules,retorted a resolution rescinding the rules requ'ring a dailv adjournment at five o'clock. After debate this was adopted by a vote of 155 to 85....Under the call of States, Mr. Cowles introduced a bill embodying the internal revenue features of the Mills bill. 27th Day.?The bill for the admission of South Dakota into the Union was taken up and discu-sed until the hour of adjournment. Chairman Springer opened the debate, and was 'ollowea by Messrs. Cox and Gifford.,.. The bili which provides that there be established off Sandy Hook, N. J., a new lightship with a steam fog signal, the entire cost of which shall not exceed $<?.' ,0(10, vras passed 128th Day.?The debate in the House on the Territorial bills was continued. Delegate Joseph, of New Mexico, delivered au earnest r-peech in behalf of the admission of that territory. Delegate Voorhees, of Washing- i ton Territory, delivered a strong speech in behalf of the admission of his Territory. RAILROAD MEN AO-REE. Important Conference In New York , ?An Interstate Association. Substantially all the leading railroads of the country were represented by their Presi- ] dents or other officers at a meeting held in New York for the purpose of effecting a radical reformation in railroad matters, rate j cutting and other troubles having caused a great depreciation in the securities of moe'. of the companies. Prominent New York bankers also too* part in the conference on behalf of the security holders. A committee which had been appointed to perfect a plan of organization submitted a long report, | which was adopted. The essence of the proposition o" the committee is that an association be formed of th8 Presidents of railroad companies. The purpose of such an association shall be the enforcement of the Interstate Commerce act, and the establishment and maintenance of reasonable and uniform rates; to secure complete reports of all com- i petitive traffic subject to the Interstate act, . and such other traffic as may hereafter be ' deemed advisable. , A Board of Managers shall be formed to j consist of one accredited representative from J each company whose President is a member . I of the association. This Board shall meet \ monthly, or at such fpecial times as may be , I deemed necessary. They shall appoint rate j J oommittees to consider all changes in rates. ( One officer from each company shall be held ] responsible for the maintenance of rates by , | bis company. Agencies and commissions ( shall be regulated or abolished. No conces- , sions shall be made to iufluence business. All | ronnrta must lifl curtified. For violation of any of the laws or rules of ' the proposed association penalties are provided. including dismissal from service of any employe responsible for such violation. ! The association, when formed, is to be known as the Interstate Railway Association. As a guarantee of good faith each member of the association will be required to keep in a bank, to be named by the mana- I gers and to the credit of the managers, not less than *1000 and not more than ?5003, as may be agreed upon. The plans submitted by the committee have the endorsement of the Interstate Commerce Commissioners. AT.T icnoun is toe name or a gigantic black trooper who was promoted on the field to bo Sergeant for his conspicuous gallantry in hand-to-hand fighting with the dervwhes at 6uakin. THE iMAKKEIS. 3 NEW TORS. Beeves 3 50 @ 5 10 Milch Cows, com. to good...SO 00 (a~>0 u0 Calves,common to prune.... 0 00 @ y 00 Sheen *1 50 @ 5 50 | Lambs 0 50 & 7 ?5 Hogs?Live 5 50 5 85 Dressed _ & @ Flour?City Mill Extra. 5 cu ug . > ~u Patents 5 til) (CQ 7 00 Wheat? No. 2 Red 97 @ Rye?State 5^ @ (52 Barley?No. 1 S4 @ fr5 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 08 @ -55 I Oats?No. I White ? (0 H9 f Mixed Western tM? @ 32 Hay?No. i 82K@ W Straw?Long Rye SO @ 85 Lard?City steam ? @ 7.4(>c Butter?Mate Creamery.... 21 (<3 2!i Dairy, fair to good.. 18 ($ 20 West. Im. Creamery 16 <?} 21 Factory 13 @ Cheese? State Factory Jl% Skims?.Medium.... (>K@ AVestern 10 @ 11'^ Eggs?State and Penn 18)^@ ? BUITAOa Steers?Western 3 25 @ 4 00 Sheep?Meu.iimto Goo.l ... 4 25 @ 5 00 Lanios?Fair to (too 1 5 50 fa 0 00 Hogs?Good to hoice \ orka 5 20 @ 5 5"> Flour?Family 5 00 @ 5 25 Wheat?No. - Northern ? ($ 1 21}? Corn?So. Vdiow 4 ) @ 40 Cat.??No. 2. White ? ? SI Parley?State. to @ 10 K< ?<TOV. Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. G 8"> @ 7 .5 Corn?Steamer Yellow. 40 (S 47^ Onts?No. 54 \\ hit6 b ye? State 63 <<|| 64 WATIRTOWX (MASS.) C ATX LB MARKST. ] eef? Dressed weight. (i 7}<f Sheep?Live weight 5'i J.atnb* ''h? ^ Hogs?Northern ? (t$ C% PHILADELPHIA Flour?Penn. family 4 @ 4 '5 "Wheat?No. :i, Red, Jan... 9'>4^ Corn?No. 5J, .Tan... -il.'ii# 41^ Cats?Ungradfi Wnite ? @ 3oj^ j>or. ,r. e?Kar v o o5 to 40 Butter?Creamery Extra... ? 6$ -S Cheese?v"uiR s.ums 6 (& b i \ V 'ASSENGEKS BOASTED ALIVE L Green Brakeman's Error Causes a Fatal Collision. The worst wreck in the history of the New fork, Pennsylvania and Ohio road occurred it three o'clock in the morning one and a ialf miles east of Tallmadge, Ohio. The ast bound fast express, No. &, consisting cf )aggage and express car, smoker, coach and ,wo sleepers, crashed into a westbound extra reight. No. 81. Eight persons were killed ind a dozen injured. The long freight train, in ascending a leavy grade just east of Tallmadge, broke n two. The first part was taken to a siding lear Tallmadge and Engineer Kobinson. before starting back for the other part of the ;rain, put out as flagman his fireman, named Brady, an old railroader, fearing to, trust to :be brakeman, who was a green hand. A lagman had also been sent back as a warning to trains from the east. The engineer ihen went back and coupled on to the remainder of the freight train to pull it also to i siding. He then gave a signal of four long whistles and one short whistle to call in the rear flagman. The flagman near Tallmadge thought he heard four long whistles without ?iKa eJrrnol tnn hrtt.li to liUUSUUiVVilC l/uu .v. ?w?? .._Q , return. Putting out his lantern, he started back,thus leaving noguard toward the west. Just as he got to the freight engine, the walk taking him about fifteen minutes, the fast express dashed round the sharp curve into the cut from which the freight was just Btarting and then came the awful crash. Engineer Huntington reversed hisengine and put on the air brakes, and then bad no time to jump. He and his fireman were crushed to death. The baggage car, smoker and ladies' coach were telescoped. The smoking car and the passenger car next to it took fire, and then followed the slow roasting of wedged-in passengers. Most pitiful of all was the fate of a little girl traveling alone, ticketed from the far AV est to Cherry Creek, N. Y. She was not injured by the crash, but a seat caught her fast and held her as in a vice, and then the flames crept up and slowly burned her to death. There were seven Chinamen in th6 smoker, and three were pinned in the wreck and consumed by the fire, which reduced to embers the smoker and the passenger car next to it. The little girl and the Chinamen were pinned down by seats, and their shrieks rent the air until the smoke sti filed them. The passengers who escaped, and the farmers, who were quickly on the scene, worked heroically, but were beaten back by the fierce heat All that remained of the six persons in the three coaches was a heap of bones and burnt flesh, gathered up in a common receptacle. The express engine was smashed to bits. Three freight cars and an oil car took fire and burned up. The loss to the railroad company is $35,000. A quantity of gold and silver bricks in the express car were partly fused with the wreckage. A strong guard was put about them. A lawyer who was going East to try an important case saw his trunk full of valuable papers burn up, and remarked: 'There goes $25.000." i-i-riT * ttt a -n-niri n-Hvr a rum) ULLih. VV AHJliO Anthony iliggins Elected to the Unl' ei States Senate. The Repr.olican caucus of the Delaware Legislative nominated Anthony Higgins, of Wilmington, to the United States Senate on tho forty-third ballot. In tho Legislature Mr.. Higffins was elected, receiving on joint ballot sixteen votes, to nine for Walcot and five for Robinson, both Democrats. Anthony Higgins is a son of the late Anthony M. Higgins.of Fed Lion Hundred. Ho was born in Red Lion Hundred, New Castle County, Del., October 1, 1840. He was graduated from Yale College in 18*51, with the degree of A. B., and was admitted to the bar of New Castle County in May, ltfM. Ho at once opened an office in Wilmington, in conjunction with the late Edward J. Bradford, afterward United States District Judge rind the founder of the Republican party in Delaware. Mr. Higgins was one of the original 300 persons in Delaware who voted the Republican ticket The same year he was admitted to the bar he was appointed Depnty Attorney-General of the State under Attorney-General Jacob Moore, serving two years. He was made Chairman of the Republican State Committee of H^IS, and in 180!t was apK)inte;l by President Grant United States istrict-Attorney for Delaware, which office he held until June. 1876. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1SH4. He took a front rank as a lawyer from the first. He has been a leader of that taction of the Republicans of Delaware who have been favorable to Blaine. GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT. Estimates in Detail of Some of the More Important Cereals. The December report of the United 8tafces Department of Agriculture, which publishes in detail estimates of some of the more important crops, makes the product of corn 1,'.*37,7!K),000 bushels, grown on 75,673,763 acres, valued on the farm at $617,561,500, or 34.1 cents per bushel against 44.4 cents for the crop of 1887, a decrease of 23 per cent., the product of 1887 being 27 per cent, less in volume than that of 1888. The average yield of the commercial belt, or seven corn surplus States, is 33.2 bushels per acre. The Atlantic roast, south of the Potomac, averages 11.2 bushels, of comparatively poor quality. The wheat aggregate is 414,S*i8,000 bushels, grown on 37,330,138 acres, and valued at $884,24S,1)30. The average yield is therefore 11.1 bushels per acre; winter wheat. 11.6 bushels, and spring wheat 1U.3 bushels per acre. The average farm value is 1)2. G cents per bushel, against 08.1 cents for the previous crop, a difference due more to foreign than domestic scarcity. The azgrezate for oats is 707,737,000 bushels, grown on 2S,W)8,282 acres, and valued at $195,424,240. This is 27.8 cents ?>er bushel, against oO cents for the crop of A comparison of aggregate values shows that the present corn crop is worth only f31,000,000 more than the previous one: wheat $74,000,1)00 more, and oats f.?,000,000 less. Lieot. TVissmax, the eminent German traveler, says that of late years a great change has taken placa in the attitude of the Arabs of Africa toward Europeans. The danger of European ascendency has made them very hostile, defiant and relentless. They no longer hesitate to show that the right belongs to them of carrying on the slave trade, and that they mean to exercise it. The slave dealers oharged Lieutenant Wissman to inform the English on Lake Tanganyika that any attempt on their part to interfere with the traffic would bring war upon them. The traveler is convinced that warlike ineasures against the Arabs must be reported to if a secure foundation is Bought for the establishment of European civilization in Africa. Prof. Chandler Roberts, the English chemist, has been analyzing the smoke cloud which perpetually hangs over lioudon. He estimates that it i A x?_ -c contains UDOUt JUfcV wjjjo ui DUUU Wttibon in gaseous combination. The expense of this waste of coal is figured at $13,000,000 annually. TnE new law passed by the New York Legislature requires that after Jan. 1, 1881), electricity be substituted for hanging as a means of execution. The precise mode in which the electricity shall be applied has not boer. officially determined. Minneapolis has finally outstripped St. Paul in the matter of population^ The former registered 50,000 voters b^ fore the late election and St. Paul onl^ ^2,000. -. '.v,.vi.;-.* |H Portraits Two Thousand Tears Old^H An interesting collection of antiquitie^H has lately been on exhibition in I.ondon^M consisting of the various objects brought wi to light by Mr. Flinders Petrie duringj^H his recent excavations in Egypt ^ atHj | Hawera, on the site of the ancicnt^J i Labyrinth described by Herodotufl|^H | These objects arc not so very ancient^^^| that is, they belong to the Ptolemai^Hj and Itoman periods, which, althougl^^J dating back to about 300 B. C., is quit^^B modern according to the Egypti&i^H standard, says Chambers'* MnyazintMH Nevertheless, to many people these relic^^fl will be of greater interest than those o^^H far greater antiquity. The first thing which strikes us is Rprips of nort:inits nn wood, so tierfeC^^H and fresh in appearance that it is diiiicuI^Hj to believe that they have been buriecflfl for nearly two thousnnd years; yet sucl^B is the case, for these portraits repre-entHB Komnns interred during the Ptolcmiac^H period. ' It is singular that the Romans in Egypf^H should have adopted the mcde of burial^H of the Egyptians: but the faces and dreas^H of these portraits are undoubtedly^ Koman, although they covered the heada^H of mummies beautifully and elegantly^M swathed in the numerous linen bandagei^H peculiar to Egyptian burials, but mor^^J artistically arranged than was commni^H in the more ancient mummies, for th^^f crossings of the bandages form a beautl^H ful honeycomb pattern of extraordinary^* symmetry, each pane) finished with gilt band. The board upon which the portrailBB was painted waf. bandaged in skilfullj^H over the head, and thus the relutives^B might have the mournful pleasure of^H contemplating the features of the de-j^H ceased whenever they pleased; ancl^H ccrtainly no artist of modern times couldHH have more faithfully portrayed the indi-HB vidual than did the portrait painter of^H : two thousand years ago. They are evidently what are usually^H called "speaking'' likenesses. There ia^H one or an old man, who might have been H| ; a general, or one of the C.tsars, in hia^B j white toga, every line and furrow of the.^H I fonn AOKrtftillTT /lolinoafa/^ toVIIIO AAVOrftl.^D of the ladies, and particularly two youn{f^| girls, might be exhibited as likenesse?^B of professional beauties of tho prcsent^H The material employed for these durablc portraits was a wax medium, whiclv^fl has been employed with excellent eriecti^M in modern times, and might be used^B more frequently with advantage. JB Sponge-Gatlieriug on Florida Reefs. All the guod sponges do not come from B the Levant and the Indian Seas, nor from Jlexico and the Bahamas. The United H States has quite a t!onrish:ng sponge in- H dustry, oil the Gulf coast of Horida> flfl i whete a great line of '-sponge reef' extends from Appalachicola down to and H beyond the Cedar Keys, and out toward the Bahamas. These coral and lime- fl stone ridges afford a supply that is abun-' > dant and pr.ictically .nevhaustible, as- H the sponges grow rapidly, reaching ma turity within two years. Italians and I half-breed Indians do most of the ; "sponging'' in this locality, and very jl hard work it is. An eight-ton schooner, H manned by a ciew of five, and carrying H two small boats, or "dinkies," goes out H on a cruise of, perhaps, five or six weeks H on the burning subtropical waters of the H Gulf. As the average depth of water oa ? * -4. / _ 1^ ' tne sponge-reeis rao-i ircquenuv is umy , about twenty feet, the men do not have to dive after their harvest of the deep. They go out, two in each of the small boats, and take observations of the rocky 1 bottom through the clear water, using* for the purpose buckets with glass bottoms. The sponges are thus easily discerned, and it is easy for an expert todctach them by means of an iron hook fastened on the end of & long pole. The fiponges are laid out on the deck of the schooner for four or five days, until the gelatinous animal matter decays; then they are taken to the shore aud deposited in a "crawl," or cage of logs, In some inlet, where the most of this substance is soaked out A beating with wooden paddles followed by several more washings and a bleaching in the sun, after which the sponges are strung in bunchea of twenty, completes their preparation for the Appalachicola market, where they are trimmed and sorted befoie being shipped to the North. With average luck, a schooner's crew of, say, live men will gather about 1200 sponges a week, or 7000 (:Jo0 "bunches''j in mx weeks. These bunches, or strings, arc worth? according to a correspondent wrifing in-Fored and Stream?about *1.50 apiece in the local market, making the gross . " ** - earnings lor ine trip amuum iu After the expenses and the ^boat's tharejfl are deducted, there is about $< 0 apiece for the men?little enough, when the risks, exposures and hardships of t\eir H calling are considered. Hj Banana Plauts Fractify Lavishly. In tropical countries bananas are H propagated principally by suckers, H which spring up about the old or bear* ing stems. Plants are also ra sed from V seed, mainly for the purpose of produc ing new varieties, of which there are fl now an immense number in cultivation. K The tall-growing varieties, witli stems ten to fifteen feet high, will usually bear fruit when about eighteen months old, B if planted in the richest soils of tfce tropics; but dwarf varieties are said jto J come into fruit earlier, or in about Qrie year. Botanists have described about (J eighteen species of plantains and bananas, '9 giving them different names, but it is now thought that most of those de- M scribed a6 species are merely lbcal vaffip~-W The hiinnna nroduces food for millions of people, far surpassing in quantity that of any other plant in pro portion"to the space it occup es. It ha9 I been calculated that the same area re- H quired to produce 100 pounds of pota^il toes will produce more than two tons of bananas. The dwurf varieties of the fl banana grow and produce fruit freely in fl I hot houses, and the fruit is as finely j favored as that produced in the tropica. ? Xeio York Sun. Hj Where Lodgers are Hung: Up to Sleep^H Plunging about on the levee in the-^| blackness the other night a reporter covered a retreat, the Dovelty of which Hi knocked him all in a heap. It was lodging house but there were no bedt^HI The guests did not recline on the either, nor were they hungup on hooks]^! and yet they slept. The room was perJ^H haps seventy-five feet deep by twentf^H wide. About three feet from the wall and extending around it, was a royeW j nlo/^uH nf intprvnlo It HI lUbicneu iu ? ?w# was about five feet from the floor avc^^H was slightly slack. Underneath it other ropes similarly stretched, whole resembling a rope fence. Wj^^H their backs to this support, and both arms thrown over it to keep fro^nH falling, were twenty-two persons, most^^H colored, but among them were ecvc^hH wretched white meu, and all were sle?|H ing f-ouodlv. The place was dii^BH lighted, and the old darkey prpprftfl^H tat patiently waiting for more-'gueststo^B arrive. His charge for lodging, ggH j rather to hang on the ropes all night, i|JH | but five cent8.? LouiuUU- C^uriSmm j Journa7. fl M