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mum, on top. Paris Sends the French Agitator to the Chamber of Deputies, Iliz. Election Swiftly Followed Bjr a Cabinet Crisis, J r GENERAL BOULANGER. General Boulonger, the man now most talked about in French politics, after an exciting election baa been returned to the Chamber of Deputies from Paris, defeating M. Jacques, Government candidate, by 31,550 vote*,and securing a majority of over ?4,000. The members of the French Government were astonished at the result. The complete vote was as follows: Boulanger, ^4-4,070; Jacques. 162,530; JBoule, 16,760; other candidates. 10,35Great excitement prevailed on t.ho hnnlnvRrds of Paris durine election night. The police did not interfere. Ten thousand persons assembled outside the Cafe Durand, cheering and singing. Thev were especially demonstrative whenever Boulanger appeared at the window. When Boulanger was leaving in bis carriage after the announcement of the result he passed a restaurant opposite the Cafe Durand, where friends of the Government were assembled. The latter hissed loudly, and BouSanger's friends replied by throwing stones. The tinging and cheers continued all night. Ihe Boulangist organization was marvelous. For the first tim* in the history of Paris carriages were largelv employed to convey voters to the pools. Boulanger's carriages" were the first in the field, and his canvassers were provided with the names and addresses of the Panama shareholders and other classes of electors. Membars of the Patriotic League did spirited and gratuitous work as canvassers. Voters were cautioned to add "General"' to Boulanger's name, as a civilian named Boulanzer had posted placards over night as a candidate. Louise Michel, the Socialist leader, worked hard on behalf of the General, and was largely instrumental in securing the victory. The Jacques organization was far inferior to that of the BoaIan gists. Ac several electoral meetings there were scenes of grent disorder. Bands of men and lads singing the "Marseillaise" and Bouiangist songs paraded the ooulevards until a late hour. In the Place de la R?publique and the Place de l'Opara open-air meetings werj held. Great masses of people were present, but the proc-edings on the whole were fairly ' orderly, although a few individual brawls I occurred, and a number of persons were ar- : rested, . j gilt Jo computeu that luv.OOO Conservatives I and as many Radicals and Socialists yqted 1 for General* Boulanger. M. de I<e3sep3 claim! | the credit for the General's immense majority as the result of his telling his clients (the | Panama Canal shareholder**) how to vote, and publicly dining Boulanger. Since July, 18Sr. General Boulan-er haw received in the different elections an ag^regate vote of 700.000. The Republicans, during the same period, claim 1,200,000. Every quarter of Paris was enlivened on the night preceding the election by frequent street brawls between supporters and opponents of Boulanarer. The most violent encounter took place in Montmartre, were a number of persons were wounded. The police interfered and arrested several of th9 ringleaders. Another serious collision occuired in the Faubourg du Temple, where sAvaral nersons were in "lured. Election day opened fine, and at an early hour the streets began to fill with people, the general stir and bustle increasing as the morning wore on. At noon the electors were thronging toward the 20"? balloting stations. It seemed certain that the vote would be the heaviest ever polled in the district. The Boulanglsts were everywhere first at , the voting places, and displayed the greatest i confidence m their success. The voters of the Faubourg St. Germam and Champs Elyseep diiiricts are neariy all Boulangiscs, but &&>.' Issue re&llv dep?nded upon the vot9 in W .the workmen's quartars, especially in the Belleville*. ChTonne, St. Denis, and Courba'& 'enterprising morning newspaper engaged 250 special reporters, each of whom it provided with a cab, and thirty bicyclists, to Lring the results in each section with the greatest possible speed. The Boulangists early in the afternoon caleulated upon a majority of 80,000 for their caodidate, and discussed the possible consequenoes of their victory. Among other things they predicted the immediate fall of the Floquet Ministry, the dissolution of Parliament, and a general election in March. They also predicted a rupture in the Radical party, and expressed the belief that 40 Radical Deputies would join the Bou'.angist ranks, and thus give the General a following of GO members in the present Chamber. The Prefect of Folice enlisted the services of a large number of householders to aid police in maintaining order. Troops wer-a held in readiness at various points, and cavalrv were ordered to patrol the streets and disperse all gatherings. Municipal guards lined the boulevards, and in every quarter the police and military were weu prepared to suppress an outbreak. In consequence of the victory of General Bonlangsr the French Ministry tendered their resignations on th? morning after the election, out President Carnot declined to Accept them. MALIETOA'S PBOTEST. Samoa's Deposed Kin<r Complains or Germany's Action. A copy of the Samoa Times and South Sea Adx^ertUer, published at Apia, Samoa, December 22, has reached Washington. It contains the farewell letter of King Malietoa, who has been exiled by the Germans. The deposed Samoan monarch says: "I was repeatedly told by the representatives of the British and American Governments that they would offer mo and my Government assistance and protection if I abstained from doing anything that might cause war among the Samoan people. Belying on their promises I did not put down the rebellion. "Now I find that war has been made upon me by the Emperor of Germany and Tamaeese has been proclaimed King of Samoa. The German forces and the adherents of "lamasess threaten to make war on all Paxnoans who do not acknowledge Tamasese os King. "I am innocent of any wrongful net, and hereby protest against the action of Germany. But. as the German nation is strong and 1 am weak, I yield to their power to prevent my people from being s'aughtered. I shall deliver myself up t<> the German forces to prevent bloodshed. I desire to remind you of the promises renpatadlv innrin fn vonr (Jnvprnmpnt'.q end trust that you will so far redeem them as to cause the lives and liberties of my chiefs and people to be rospecteii. "1 wish to inform you that I fear that the Germans will compel me?as they are now forcing my people?to sign papers acknowledging Tamaseso as King, and if I sign such papers it will ba under compulsion, and to avoid war made upon my people. (Signed) "MAUKTOA.King of Samoa." The new American navy,when completed, will consist of twenty-two vessels, ranging from the armored cruiser Maine, carrying 444 men, down to a first-class torpedo boat, carrying four officers and eighteen men. There will be 5780 men on board the twentytwo vessels?500 officers and 5230 sailors and marines. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Eastern and Middle States. Neakly 1000 Brooklyn street car employes have struck because of an alleged evasion of the ten hour law. Seven lin?3 are tied up. tpv caamar. ?. , ,.)n , *? *' ncio ICIJUUSI^ oluiucu, i-uico fatally, by the bursting of a boiler pipe on the White Star steamer Republic in New York Harbor. At the trial of the pneumatic dynamite gun at Fort Lafayette, N. Y., out of eight i-hots six hit the target. The gun is regarded : as having shown remarkable accuracy, j A kemale nurse at the Cooper Hospital in Caroden, X. J., was murderously assaulted by an unknown man who imitated the methods of the Whitechapel fiend. Hknry S. Ives and George H. Stayner, Wall street operators, were arrested at New York city in a suit brought by the Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton Railroad for defrauding the company of ?2,538,328.Hi. President Cleveland has commuted to a term of five years the sentence of James D. Fish, formerly President of the Marine National Bank of Now York, who is serving a ten-year term at Auburn, N. Y., under a conviction in April. 18S0, of misapplying the funds of that bank. He will be released May 11. I.v joint convention the Maine Legislature elected George L. Boal, of Norway, State Treasurer, fie received 112 of the 115 votes cast. Governor Green, of New Jersey, has signed the bill repealing the law which required ballot-boxes to be closed at sunset. The Knights of Labor have instituted a general tie-up of all street car lines in New i ork city except two. Twenty-one surface systems are at a standstill. About lO.OOt) men are idle. The strike is because of an alleged evasion of the ten-hour day law. The fourth day of the Brooklyn strike passed without a car being run. The directors con j %__fj _ r j sentea to noia a coiiiereni-e wiw uio men. One of the seven tied-up liaes has yielded to the strikers terms. I Near Ashburnham Junction, Mass., Noah Trombley and Robert Joy, Western Union linemen, were killed by an engine. Five men were upset in New York Bay by a ferryboat. Two were drowned. South and West. Richard Smith, a Choctaw Indian, has been hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., for murder. Senator Carpenter, of the Indiana Legislature, has been unseated on the charge of bribery made against him. The J. J. Burns Company, railroad contractors at Battle Creek, Mich., has fails 1 with liabilities of $1,000,030. The latest estimate of the amount embezzled by J. A. Moore, the Connecticut Mutual Life's agent at Indianapolis, is $1,ojo,(x)j. Ed. Frey has been hanged at Marietta, Ga; Charles McGill at Cameron, Texas; Jim Seams at Eutaw, Ala.; John Yancey at Yanceyville, N. C., and Charles Blnckman at Ellaville, Ga. All were executed for murder. R. Irving Latimer murdered bis aged mother at Jackson, Mich., in order to obtain a small amount of insurance money. Samuel Wakefield, Jr., coored, shot and killed James W, Trainor, his employer, i in New Iberia Parish, La.,and was promptly lynched. Maky Porter, a colored woman, went cut to do washing at Oglethorpe, Ga., leaving her four small children in charge of the house. In her absence the house caught fire and tho children were burned to death. Three men were instantly killed aud two fatally injured by a boiler explosion at Popar Bluff, Mo. Colonel Roger Joxes, Inspector General of th$ United States Army, died at Portress I Monroe. The bill to remove tho territorial ^apjtaj of Arizona from Prescott lo rhoemx has ! passed both Houses, been signed by tho Governor and reported to tb? Legislature. The Duluth (Minn.) Opera House building has been destroyed by fire. The total loss is |250;0:o, Ai' Cmaha. >"ob., David Kimball, sixtyI three years old and wealthy, was run over and killed by a train of cars, Three hundred and eighty-five cases of typhoid fever are reported at Lakeview, the Chicago suburb, ana new cases develop every day. Two school children of Aberdeen, Dakota perished in a snow storm and a third was not expected to survive Amma Ellis, a colored man, has been hanged at Kaleigh, U, ior ine muraer 01 his father. John M. Clayton*, brother of Powell Clayton, who was contesting Breckinridge's seat in Congress, has been assassinated at Hummervil e, Ark. The first National Convention of Furniture Manufacturers met at Grand Rapids, Mich. Seven residences, two livery stables and two business houses were destroyed by fire at Marietta, Ohio. The losses aggregate $40,000. Julian* C. McCLURE,of Mitchell. Ind., his disappeared with $2i\00J belonging to miners, cf whom he was guardian. Smallpox has become epidemic at Monroe, Mich. | James H. Berry has been re elected to the United fetates Senate from Arkansas. Washington. A personal encounter took place iu Washington between Representatives Crain, of Texas, and Barry, of Mississippi. Barry received a pair of black eyes. The matter has be -n amicably adjusts t Tut? irmv Atjni'firii'iauOii bill rennrted to the House provides for an aggregate appropriation of #24.:;i3(>,41">, which is S4SS5 less than the appropriation for the current year. The estimates were $'-'4,9<"0,358, exclusive of the provision for sea coast defences. Thk Senate in executive session confirmed the following nominations: John Tyler Campbell, of California, now Consul at Auckland. New Zealand, to be Consul at Foo Chow, Cbiua; John Darcy Connolly, of California, to be Consul at Auckland. The Secretary of State has roceiverl a telegram stitin^ that tho British Government hns notified him of its acceptance of an invitation to the maritime conference. Since March 4, 1SS5, tho Government has purchased bonds as follows: 4 per centsAmount, $)it,rt-'4,l(X): accrued interest, $&U,012: total cost, $72,651,827. 4>? per c;nts? Amount, $fi*,5.i1,(550: accrued interest, ?.V?4.'.i&j; total cost, $74,103,(61. Grand total expended, $140,814,688. A serious surgical operation has been successfully performed on Senator Vanco at Washington. On? of his eyes which has caused him a great deal of trouble was rej moved. Threo phjsicians wt-re in attendI ance and the opi r ftion was performed in a few moments, tin patient being anaesthetized. Colonel W. L. Trenholm, Comptroller of the Currency, has tendered his resignation to the President, to take effect at his pleasure. Foreign. A dispatch to the Paris Temps from Zan { Ziuar, AiriCH, bays: 21.11 nuiaiiuu oamu^ vessel, bound from Zanzibar to Madagascar, was fired on by a Gorman vessel, and ono of her masts was broken." United States Minister Phelps and Mrs. Phelps have been invited by Queen Victoria to dine with her and to stay over night at the Palace. The Rev. Mr. Brooks, an English missionnry, and sixteen of his assistants and followers have been massacred near Saadani, Africa, by some of the coast tribes and natives of Zanzibar. The last of the British troops have left Suakin, Ejrypt. The command of the Egypj tain carrison devolves upon Colonel HolledI Smith. J. E. V. alvord. an American citizen I who had lived in S:imoa for thirty-live years j and was Vice-Consul under the administra1 lion of United States Consuls Dawson and Foster, has just died in Apia, Samoa. During the riot at his trial for conspiracy at Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland, William O'Brien, the Irish azitator escaped. The trial, how' ever,proceeded in his absence,and he wa^conj victed and sentenced to four months" imprisonment without hard labor. Fir William Buell Richard. ex-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, is dead. The Pope's health is causing alarm. He has had a serious fit of unconsciousness lasting over half an hour, and the College of Cardinals is prepared for eventualities. , At Crosson. Saxony, a family of six persons was suffocated to death by the escape of coal gas from a defective stove. General Boclanger was elected Deputy from Paris ia tbe Department of the 8eine, France, by a plurality of 81,550 over the Republ-.cau candidate, M. Jacques; there were no serious disturbances. The heaviest snow storm of the season has just prevailed throughout Canada. A merchant from Khartoum, Soudan,has arrived at Suakin, aud says that Emin Pasha was captured by the dervishes, but escaped. Advices from Tonquin say that the King of Annam is dead. The United States Consul at Buda-Peeth, a Toconh Ru.fb has been recalled bv the United States Government for having in articles and American papers made certain unbecoming criticisms on Austria-Hungary. William O'Brien-, the Irish leader who recently escaped from the police, was arrested at Manchester,England. LATER NEWS. The second trial of er-Alderman Thomas Cleary for alleged bribery in connection with j the Broadway railway franchise has been re- j moved from New York city to Binghamton, I Broome County. It was impossible to get a j jury in the metropolis. The Pennsylvania Senate has passed finally the prohibitory amendment by a vote of 32 to 2. Typhoid fever and diphtheria are decimating the little village of West Middlesex, Mercer County, Penn. Posey, Republican, has been elected to Congress in the First Indiana District by a majority ranging from 505 to 1000 to suoceed Governor Hovey. /~1"? unvnoiin inHinfcmpnts for election unjj frauds have been found in West Virginia and 161 in Indiana. The recount in the Phelps-Clunis contest in the Fifth Congressional District of California has closed. Clunis, Democrat, was given nine majority. The President and Mrs. Cleveland were entertained at dinner by the Secretary of War and Mrs. Endicott. Harry L. Bryan, Secretary Bayard's stenographer was ordered to proceed to Florida to obtain the election certificates o? that State for use in counting the electoral vote of the Union. The President has sent a message to Congress on the Samoan question, accompanied with reports from Commander Mullan, of the Nipsic and Consul Blacklock of Samoa. The Secretary of State ha? appointed Charles M. S. Leslie Vice-Consul of the United States at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, vice B. D. Armstrong, resigned. Archduke Rudolf, the Austrian Crown Frinceand heir apparent to the throne, died suddenly at Mierling, twelve miles from VI enna. He was found dead in bed by his * aicu, Several persons, including women and children, were serious y hurt in a political riot in Pesth, Hungary. Qdebn* Victoria, and the Empress Frelerick of Germany are sojourning at Biarritz, in France. On his death bed recently O'Connor, who sworo before the Parnell Commission in London that Timothy Harrington instructel him to visit tenants' houses at night and iutimidato them, n^njitted that the evidence was absolutely false. MUSICAL ANTDRAMATIO. Mart Anderson* is worth $250,000. Marie Van Zandt, the prima donna, has made a hit in Lisbon. The use of electric lighting in Paris theatres is almost universal. The Madrid Spanish Opera Company will Boon be seen in this country. In Los Angeles, Cal., a party is organizing an ostrich show to take the road. A German specialist asserts that Patti has two extra valves in her windpipe. Edmond delannoy.a noted French actor, has just died at the age of seventy-two. spencer's "l-iltcie xycoon opera is unviug a wonderfully successful Southern tour. The annual agitation against German opera has broken out again in New York. A musical manuscript of Mozart, the composer, sold recently in Berlin for about $140. Mrs. Potter, the society actress, has a little daughter who is said to bo curiously like her. The benefit of A. R. Cazauran, the playwright, at Palmer's Theatre, New York city, netted fclGOO. SionorTomasi has retired from the Emma Abbott Opara Company. Carl Martens is to supplant him. Mrs. Burnett's play, "Little Lord FaunMeroy," is giving her an incoma of more than $30,u00 a year. Joseph Jefferson,fc'ne cnm;dian,has gone to his Louisiana plantation for his usual j winter vacation. Nothing like tho profitable long life of ! "The Silver King" has been achieved by re- i cent } . ~ SiGKOri t)iu PUENTE has decided to remain in this couutry, an l int2nd9 to opan a school for singing. Jane HADiffG.the French actress, isstudyinz English, with a view to touring this country next season. Miss Kate Forsythe is to appear in"The Gold Mine" with Nat Goodwin at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York. Lawrence Barrett has a glandular tumor on his neck which will prooably require a surgical operation to remove. A new theatre specially devoted to French operetta, with Miss Horwitz, an American, as prima donna, has just been opened in St. Petersburg, Russia. Edward Fales Coward, the amateur actor, who used to support Mrs. James Brown Potter in her amateur days, has during his career acted 103 roles. Agreeable to tha wishes of the German Emperor, the theatres have resolved to abolish all French theatrical terms which have crept into the language. It is said that $2,000,030 has already been pledged for the erection of a mammoth amusement temple on the site of the Madison Square Garden, New York. Billy Birch,the msrry ena man or cne oia : San Francisco Minstrels, is again about to enter the field of management He is organizing a new minstrel company. Pickwick, prior to the breach of promise trial, is the subject of a new comic opera by Burnand, of London Punch, and Edward Solomon. It will soon be produced in London Mrs. Langtry's Lady Macbeth in New York was somewhat of a surprise to the critics. She did better than was expected. Her rendition of the part was lit up by occasional gleams of tragic force. Emma a3bott, notwithstanding the death of her husband, will not for the present desert her opera company, the members of which are in the main dependent upon the organization being maintained. Miss Rosalie Ann Booth, an elder sister vMtoin Rrw-if.h has iust been buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, in the family plot, in which are the graves o? Junius Brutus Booth and J. Wilkes Booth. President (xILMan, of Johns Hopkins University, at Baltimore, objected to ths students of that institution acting as "supers ' to Booth and Barrett after the initial performance of "Julius Caesar," and his advice was followed. Henry E. Abbey, the New York manager's attractions are pretty well scattered over the world. Mary Anderson is in Philadelphia, Coquelin and Hading are in the City of Mexico, Bernhardt is in Cairo and Mrs. Potter is in New York. The mortality among the European nav- j vies at Panama during the past three months i has reached the astounding figure of fiftveight per 1000. That is as near as may be decimation. The total number of Europeans who have perished in prosecuting this undertaking is 5L;00. The fishing schoonsr Northern Eagle caught in Ipswich Bay, on trawls, and carried into Portsmouth, N. H., a tremendous shovel-nose, men-eating shark. He was twelve feet long, nine feet around, and weighed about 15,000 pounds. ..... ?. .. v vn . "v, tTHE SAMOAN TROUBLE. A Message From President Cleveland On the Subject. Prince Bismarck's Announcement ?f War Upon the Samoans, The President has sent to Congress additional correspondence relative to Samoa affairs, accompanied by the following message: To the Congress: I had the honor on the 15th inst. to communicate to your honorable body certain correspondence and documents in relation to af fairs in the Samoan islands, ana navmg since received further dispatches from the Vice Consul at Apia and the commander of the United btates naval vessel Nipsio in those waters, I lose no time in laying them before you. I also transmit herewith the full text of instructions from Prince von Bismarck to the German Minister at this capital, which was communicated ou the afternoon of tlie 20th inst. This appears to be an amplification of prior teleeraphic instruction on the same subject communicated through the same channel, and which, being set forth in the note of the Secretary of State to Count Von Arco Valley. the German Minister, of the 12th inst., was duly laid before Congress, with my last message in relation to Samoan affairs. It is also proper to inform you that on Monday, the 28th instant, the" occasion of the communication of the note of the Prince Chancellor, the Secretary of State was given to understand by the German Minister that a proposition from his Government to ttiat of the United States for a conference on the Samoan subject was on its way by mail, having left Berlin on the 20th inst.; so that its arrival here, in due course of mail, can be looked for in a very short time. In reply to an inquiry from the Secretary of State whether the proposition referred u'flc tnr n rpnnwal of the ioiut conference between the United 8tates, Germany and Great Britain, which was sus6p?nded in July, 1SS7, or for the consideration of Samoan affairs ah novo, the German Minister stated his inabilitv to answer until the proposition, which left Berlin on the 20th inst., should have been received. I shall hereafter communicate to the Congress ail Information before me in relation to the Samoan status. v Gp.over Cleveland. Bismarck to Bayard. Accompanying the message was a dispatch dated January 13, at Berlin, and addressed by Princo Bismarck to the German Minister in Washington, informing him that Germany was making war upon that part of the Somoan people which 1-ecognizes the leadership of Mataafa, and instructing the Minister to communicate that piece of interesting information to Secretary Bayard. Bismarck states distinctly that Germany has been transplanted from the state of friendly mediation between the rival Samoan chief to a state of war against Mataafa and in support of the insurgent chief, Tamasese. Continuing, Bismarck savs: "We shall carry on the contest which has been forced upon as by Mataafa and his followers with the utmost consideration for English and American interests. Our military measure i have in view only the punishment of the murderers of German soldiers and th6 protection of our countryfKaiV ryfnnoft-Tr A a f.Hpv fin t.hpip 1UCU QilU uubu y I Ujyvi V* ? -.-wj , .~.M part, aro at war with Tamasese our interference will necessarily assume the character of assistance to Tamasese" A BELIO FBOM SAMOA, J, The American Flap that was Riddled by German Ballets. Secretary Bayard has received from Samoa tha remnants of the flag that floated over the house of an American when the Germans made their disastrous landing at Apia, in December. This is the flag that was shot through by German bullets aod burned by flames kindled by German means, and is an interesting relic of the controversy between the Powers as to Samoan riarhts. It will probably be stored in the library of the State Department with other relics of an historic naUiro PROMINENT PEOPLE. Mrs. Jay Gould left six children. The Prince of Wales is growing gray. Prince Bismarck is in wretched health. Ben Botibr chews up twenty cigars a day. The Czarina of Russia is reported to be Insane. Senator Don Cameron is a statesman epicure. General Harrison carries $40,000 life insurance. The Khedive of Egypt has a great fondness for cats. H. Rider Haggard, the novelist, has become a vegetarian. The Empress of Japan is laying in a 1 wardrobe for a visit to this country. <* Alexandre Cabanel, the noted French I painter, is dead at the age of sixty-six years. ! Queen Victoria and Empress Frederick i visit the Quean of Spam at St. Sebas- I tion. JGhn L. Waller, of Kansas, was the only colored man in the Electoral College this year. Ella Wheeler Wilcox promises to stop writing poetry when she reaches the age of forty. Emperor William, of Germany, announces that he will visit Alsace and Lorraine in ApriL The Emperor of China has been presented with six railway sleeping cars by some of his I French admirers. J. T. Trowbridge, the author,is now very j pleasantly settled for the winter with his j family at Naples. Sir John* A. Macdoxald, the Dominion I Premier, has investments in the United , States amounting to $l,5u0,000. Db. L. B. Conovbr, formerly United I States Senator from Florida, has gone back | to tbat State to resume his practice. General J. C. Black, Pension Commis- ' sioner, has the reputation of being the most I wounded man who survived the war. Amhony Higgins, Senator-elect of Delaware, by tasting a peach, can tell its variety, where it was grown, its age and its market value. The "Orange Kinaf' of Florida in J. H. Harris, of Marion County. His grove of 200 acres this year yields 50,000 boxes of oranges. Attorney-General Garland is one of the hardest) working men in Washington. He is frequently found at bis desk as early 7.30 in the morning. Senator George Vest has a weakness for Kentucky sausage. He was bora in Jtven- | tucky and has never recovered from a taste acquired in boyhood. Jay Gould was terribly shocked by the death of his wife. It is said that the home life of the great capitalist has always been exceptionally happy. Edward 0. Wolcott, the new Colorado Senator, is said to be the only lawyer who has ever made the Supreme Court of Colorado reverse a decision. Senator James B. Beck thinks Kentucky Southdown mutton the finest on earth, and he has declared that a saddle of it can't be cooked aoywhere else so well as at bis own house. The sons of the late Pr sident Garfield are practising law in Clevf iand, Ohio, uuder the firm name of Garfield & Garfield, and tliey are said to be succeeding better than they expected. W. i). W ashjuuk.n, cjenaior-eiecb iruui Minnesota, is estimated to be worth upward of *10,000,000, and owns the socond largest ilouring mill in the world, with a capacity of 10,000 barrels a day. G. "W". CniLDS'g weddinz pressnt to Miss Drexel was a largo pendant, having for its centre stone an Alexandrite, a weird gem of changeful hue. By daylight it looks a luminous green, and by night a deep red. Lx Hung Chang, the famous Viceroy of the province of Chihli, who takos rank next! to tno members of the imperial family in China, lias suffered a stroke of paralysis, and is said to be in a critical condition. "Sir" William Conrad Reeves, Chief Justice of Barbadoes, just knighted by Victoria, is a colored man. His mother was a full-blooded African. His father was a Scotch planter. The Chief Justice began life as a ; winter. THE NEXT SENATE.' Two New Western Men Who Will lake Seats March 4. Hon. Janes McMillan, who succeeds Senator Palmer, of Michigan, in the United States Senate on the 4th of March, was bom at HamiltOD, Canada, on May 12,1838. After an ordinary education, and a six years' apprenticeship in the hardware business, mostly in a retail Btore, he became by his father's help purchasing agent of the Detroit and Milwaukee Railway. In 1864 he began his independent business life by organ BENATOB JAMES MC^DLLAir. {ring the Michigan Car Company. A quarter ol a century has sufficed to make him the bead ol corporations in Detroit employing three thousand men, and doing a bnsi-? ness of over six millions annually. It would be useless to catalogue those enterprises here, says Harper's We&l]/, but it should be noted that he organised the Detroit, Mackinac and Marquette Railway Company, and built for it the road from St. Ignace to Marquette. This was the beginning *?-- 1 ?? J. n..1_.k O...L A UL iuo impurtnub x/uiuuu, ouuvu ouurc ouu Atlantic line, which owes Its success chiefly to him. He is charitable, and a Presbyterian. He has a wife, a son in business with him, another son studying law at Yale, and two other sons aud a daughter of school age. Senator Wolcott, of Colorado. A writer in Harper3! Weekly says that Mr. Edward O. Wolcott, ths successor of Senator Bowen, of Colorado, is not, strictly speaking, a Western man. He is an Eastern man who has made unusually good use of Western opportunities. Mr. Wolcott's first experience in the West was obtained at Chicago, whither he drifted soon after leaving Yale College. He had few friends and but little money, yet he set out to practise law in the Illinois courts with all the serene confidence and undaunted courage that formed so striking a character* istio of his nature in after yeara, By some strange freak qf fortun9 his abilities were not widely recognized in Chicago, and to improve bis chances in life he removed to Denver. It is said that bis determination to leave Chicago was caused in part by an unfortunate love affair, in which an ambitious parent refused to give his daughter to so poor and obscure a lawyer as young Wolcott It is further said that the daughter iu quastiou grieved for a long time over the unhappy ending of her engagement An air of probability is given to this romantic little story by tho fact tfiat Mr. Wol- I cott is still a bachelor. In Denver Mr. Wokott began the practice of law with more success than be had met with in Chicago. He soon became known as a good orator and a shrewd political manager. His merit as a lawyer was quickly established, and it was not long before he ba 1 as much bu3ines3 as he could handle. r ? ? v- n?,t ijater un uo WUUU-TU u? cuvi giui to railroad cases, and in time was retaino 1 by the Denver and Rio Grande and the Burlington Railroad companies at salaries aggregating $20,000 a year. He still receives these two salaries, in addition to large fees earned in miscellaneous cases. His income is said to be larger than that of any other lawyer in Colorado^ In age Mr. Wolcott is not more than forty. Hard work and grave responsibilities have left few finger-marks on his still fresh and handsome face. His brother, Henry R. Wolcott, a Denver oapi talis t, is his political yoke-fellow and social companion. THE SAMOAN ISLANDS. Tbclr Location. Peoplo, Products I and Kclijclou. With all the talk about Samoa, there are scores of people who liaven't the least idea where it is. Samoa is a croup of nine inhabited islands called the Samoan, or Navigators' Islands. They lie in the South Paci3_ im ?ji?, nf t.hn Fartiflo Inlands. ii(J, 1VU Illliot ll'/l VMW W? J They were called the Navigator;1 Islands by Bougainville, who visited them in 1768, from the skill with which the natives propolled their canoes. Ihere has been no very late census, but the population of the whole group is probably not more than 5U,000, Tutuila is a thickly settled island, and has a good port?Pangb-Pango-on its southern coast. The commerce of the islands is small, and the German and English ships are chiefly engaged in its carrying trad9. a very small portion falling to the United States, though Commodore Meade, by a convention with the natives in 1872, took the harbor of Pango-Pango under the protection of this country. In 1873, General Grant sent a special agent I to the inlands on a mission to the natives, I who wished the whole group to be put under > the protection of the United States Two years later a native .King was electa! and Bteinberger became his prime minister. The natives are flnelv built, the men averaging five feet ten inches in height, and the women being remarkably graceful and symmetrical. Their tint is a clear olive and their hair is black and straight The largest island in the group is Savaif, which has not yet been fully explored. The climate is very even, though rain is pretty equally distributed through the year, the winter months of January. February and March abounding with heavy rain storm3 and northern winds. Dried meat of the cocoanut, timber, tropical fruit, sugar-cane and tobacco are the chief staples. Horse, cattle and swiae bave been introduced into these lands. Hie old religion of the natives acknowledged one great God, but admitted several minor deities, especially war gods, who were i more veneratod. At present all the Samoans are nominal Christians, at Jeast, consisting principally of Independents and Presby| terians. There are tome Wesley ans and a few Catholics. Ten thousand tons of coppra, or dried cocoanut meat, are shipped annually, mainly to Hamburg. Godeirroy & Co., merchants, of Hamburg, control most of the trade. Tiicy have several cotton plantations at Apia, the [ chief town of the island of Anuu. It is the next best port to Patigo-Pango. Among the imports of the island are lumber from California and Oregon. i there are manufactured in Louisville three times as many axe bandies as are made in any other city in the United States. Althougii this soeins to be a business of small dimensions, yet one firm in Louisville alone gives employment to thres or four hundred men in the manufacture of those urticles. ( The regular running time of the fruit trains from Jacksonville. Fla., to Washington is 52j^ hours, to Baltimore 35 hours, to Philadelphia, hours, aud to New I York 67^ hours. ,- ,.3>-> vw-*^ 7^?. > *> ; : ; : ,; - ; < ,.- - r 1 A CHEAT TIE-UP. ', Twenty Street Car Lilies in New York Stop Running. Scenes of Disorder Followed By Many Broken Heads, A desperate industrial straggle was Inaugurated in New York a few days since, with something like 7000 men on one side and a doaen powerful corporations on the other. The announcement that this contest was about to begin came like a thunderbolt on the latter, who were ill-prepared for it. With few exceptions all the men employed on twenty leading street-car lines ceased work and declared their determination not to resume until their employers meet their representatives and agree to remedy their grievances, which they said were too galling to be borne. The railroad corporations at once pat on a bold front, declaring that they would never submit to the dictation of their employes. The struggle began before daybreak. As early as three o'clock in the morning committees were sent to every depot ana they took a stand near by. As each car came along the drivers and conductors were notified that the tie-up was begun. They remained around until daybreak to tell th) early man who had finished work the night before. When they appeared they learned the news. According to reports they accepted the situation cheerfully. The day was a stirring one and was marked by scenes of violence and wild disorder. Fifty thousand men were on tbo streets at one time or another and they were apparently against the companies, for they joined with zest and even desperation in the attacks upon the cars, the non-unionists and the police. These on* slaughts, fortunately, did not result seriously except in one case. There were frequent collisions with the police. Only fifteen cars were placed on the streets by the tied-up companies, and these were manned, guarded and occupied bjr bluecoats, locusts and revolvers in hand. Some of the cars were overturned- Many strikers' heads were broken. Others were arrested and fined or held for trial. The inconvenience and delay caused by the lack of transportation facilities probably cost the city thousands of dollars. The State Board of Arbitration opened an investigation into the trouble. The Railroad Presidents refused to attend or notice it. In Brooklyn there was a similar state of affairs. The strikers were determined, and succeeded in preventing a single car from running. The police protection seemed inadequate to cope with toe strikers, and it was thought the military might have to be called out to quell disturbances. Second Day of the Strike. The second day of the wholesale tie-up of the New York city car lines passed with a great number of collisions between the police and the />w\nr1o ofvilra atf mnAfh !7Arfl Thpr? Wrtm a few cars run during the day on most ot the lines. No 8tep6 were taken toward a settlement and the company managers expressed themselves confident or victory. Twenty street-car lines were still tied up and the 7000 men who usually operate them were devoting their ellorts to stop them from running. More cars, however, were placed on the tracks than there were on Tuesday. Violent mobs did damage to the rolling stock and rails of the Third avenue, the Broadway and other lines. The police wounded many of the rioters. A few pistol shots were tired. There was no hope of an immediate settlement of the strike. Perhaps the largest outbreak of the day occurred about 5 o'clock at Tenth avenue and Forty-second street. About 4:15 a large part of the police stationed on this liue had been sent to other stations. At 5 o'clock there was not an officer in sight for a block in either direction. The few strikers then banging auout saw their opportunity, and in about two minutes had secured crowbars and were tearing up the rails. The crowd gathered around them, and when the fourth rail bad been torn up fully 8000 people stood around and howled with glee. In the meantime word bad been sent to the stables, and Roundsman O'Brien and eigne men startea ior mo mou. They swung their sticks right and left, not stopping to arrest anybody, but simplv hitting. The mob acted like sheep, each getting In everybody else's way as the officers chased them up the street. It was a clear case of every man for himself and the nightstickhit the hindmost Upward of a fecore or men were left in the wake of the mob, Btunned or with bad head wounds. People in the houses were apparently with tee strikers, for cans, bricks, and even small articles of furniture were thrown from windows and roofs. None of the officers were hit with sufficient force to be disabled. It took ten minutes' bard fighting to scatter the crowd. Then the officers returned.but the wounded had all boon carried away by sympathizers. Four ni?n who had been knocked senseless were taken into one house until they regained consciousness. There are probably ten times that number who suffered in the charge. A notice was nailed to the stable doors that unless the strikers returned to work by 1 o'clock that day their places would be filled. The men laughed at the warning. EMBEZZLED $500,000. The Connecticut Mutual Life Swindled by an Agent, Cap'iin Jacob L. Greene, President o! the Connei ticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, has is sua.1 a circular Informing the policy-holders that Joseph A. Moore, for sixteen years financial correspondent of the compauy at Indianapolis, Ind., is a defaulter to the amount of &>00,000, but has restored property which may reduce the actual loss to <4 )3,0J0. Moore's crooked work has been going on for a long while. He not only appropriated money intrusted to him as the agont of the company for the payment of interest and principal on loans made, but also the rents collected by him for the company. For sixteen years Moore has had charge of the Connecticut Mutual's investments in Indiana, which amounted in the aggregate to more than $1,000,000, and so successful was he in the management of the affairs that he was given control of the financial interests of the company in neighboring States. Presidenl Greene and the directors of the company had absolute confidence in his integrity and his judgment In the days of real estate excitement, when money came easily and wes in great demand at a high rate of interest, the Afiitn.il made m?nv loans in Indianapolis, and when the panic of 1873 struck the inflated city, the depreciation in values left upon the hands of the company much property upon which it was necessary to foreclose mortgages. President Greene, of the Insurance Company, speakiue on the subject, said: "This steal" consists of three parts?the principal of loans paid to him by borrowers to be remitted to the company, interest paid to him for the same purpose, and rents collected by him on real estate in his care. "He was selected for the position in 1873 by the late Major James Goodwin, then President of the company, and had the entire confidence of the officers and directors. Tha rents taken are a comparatively small item and could be easly concealed by misrepresentation as to short time, verbal leases, etc. "This is the only loss through a financial correspondent the the company has ever experienced in the forty-three years of ita career." Mr. Moore was born in Madison, Ind.. and is a son 01 a Danicer wuu was mr^ci i y mvcrusted in the branch of the ol 1 State Bank of Indiana- located at that place. A MUNIFICENT GIFT. A Philanthropist Gives ff?2.f500,000 to Found a Trade School. The Rift of Jacob Tome, the Port Deposit (Md.) banker, has been swelled by the philanthropist. Instead of SoOO.OOO be will give ?2,500,000. He proposes now to establish a training school for boys as well as girls, in which all mechanical trades are to be taught. It is the founder's intention that the Tome school shall be to the hand what Johns Hopkins istothomind. Every branch of trade is to be taught. The girls will be instructed in cooking, sewing, telegraphy, etc. Five hundred thousand dollars is to be spent in the erection of the necessary buildings in Port Deposit and $2,000,000 are to be set aside for investment, the interest to be used in defraying all the expenses. Mr. Tome is ninety years old, uncle of J. A. J. Creswell, and one of the wealthiest men in Ihe State. a NO HAND AT KEB HELM. I The Five Thousand Mile Cruise o^Hj an Abandoned Vessel. HH A telegram received by the Navy Depar^H meet at Washington from Stornoway (b^H the Hebrides, off the northwest coast oH Scotland) marks the completion of the lon^H and erratic cruise of the derelict AmeriJH can schooner W. L. White, abandonff!B| oif Delaware liay March 1.% 188811 during the great blizzard. Her crpi^H was rescued ana tbe vessel, with masts anc^H portions of her sail standing and ensign aet^B with union down, started oif to the sonthegs^B before tbe northwest gale, and now, after Interval of ten months and ten days, she completed her voyage and lies standed on t&c^| coast of Lewis Island, one of the Hebrides.* H The most notable feature about the trackfoS the W. L. White is the remarkable zigzBBgfl course she took in mid-ocean from tbe o^nnlnnp r\9 \(att /? *nM/1U a# KiuMtu^ vfc aubj wu vuo uiiuuro v& wwwcpy Previous to that time she followed a coui^pl about east-northeast at an average of thirt^BM two railee a day. Subsequently moved eastward and northeostwai^B[ 1200 miles in eighty-four days (an averag^H? of fifteen mile* a day), but during tb^HK long interval of six months she remaine^^B within this comparatively *mall arca^BH drifted back and forth by the Gulf Stre&c^^fl and the Labrador current and tossed abou^^H by the varying winds, a constant menace t^^B transatlantic steamships (three of whlcp^H sighted her In a single day). During theaa^l six months alone she was reported by thirty* six vessels. In her oruise of ten months and ten dayaH| she traversed a distance of more than five^b thousand miles and waa reported forty-fUre TEE INAU&UBAL StJPPEB. I What the Guests at Harrison"* Iafl aujjnration Ball Will Eat. H A dispatch from Washington says that tbs^J inaugural committee decided to at ?eptlH George C. Boldt's proposition to furnish tlwl supper for the Inaugural balL Mr. Eoldt Is^B the proprietor of this Hotel Ballevue, Phila-^R delphia, where the dinners of the famous^! Clover Club have been held for several yeaflblH The following is th9 bill of fare: Hi Blue Points, on icd. HOT. n Bouillon, in cups. bH Steamed Oysters. M Oysters, a la poulette. Chicken Croquettei. . ,. Sweetbread Pates, a la reine. Terrapin, Philadelphia style. . Assorted Sandwiches. j Mayonnaise of Chicken. ' .-^K Lobster Salad. flH Cold Tongue, en Bellevae. Cold Ham, a la Montmorency. Boned Turkey, a l'Americaine. > Breast of Qnail, a la Cycoroo. PB fate de Foie Gras, a la Harrison. BE Terrine of Game, a la Morton. 4 \ SWEETS. -vtM Assorted Ice Creams. Orange Water Ice. . Roman Punch. H Pyramid of Nougat. Renaissance. *,' Beehive of Bon-bons, Republican. Pavilion, rustic. M Assorted Fancy Cates : K| Fruits. Desserts. Coffee. Kj m AN ANCIENT CONSTITUTION.' Qnarter-MIIlennial Celebration of Connecticut's State Organization. There was a public celebration at Harttocd of the 350th anniversary of the adoption by the people of the Colony of Connecticut of their first constitution.The authorsbipof.tho instrument is variously attributed to Tbomai Hooker and Roger Ludlow, and the paper was remarkable for tho3e times in that DO allegiance to the English King was even hinted at, while the supreme governing power was vested in the Legislature, where it yet remaina The instrument is the first example in history of a written constitution organizing a government and defining it* powers; The exercises of the afternoon were held in the Centre Church, and were largely at-; tended by State and local officials ana prominent residents. Lawyer John Hooker,' of Hartford, a lineal descendant of Thomas, Hooker; ex-President Pynchon, of . Trini-. ty College, and others, representing the Governor and "magistratee," ana. J. F. Morris and many others' the "deputies," who were chosen directly by . the people 250 years ago, were among thaw present. Mr. Henry Barnard, of Hart/ord^^H delivered the opening address. Govern Bulkeley read the Constitution of 1639, the Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, of Hartfore^^^J read the historical addiress. HjH Evening exercises weca held in thd^H Academy of Music, with addresses by Sena-^^B tor Joseph R. Havrlev, Mr. Henry C. Robinson, of Hartford; Mr. John Hooker, Lientenant-Governor Merwin, Mayor Root, Mr. Alfred E. Burr and Speaker Perry, of th* Connecticut House of Representatives. NEWSY GLEANINGS. I nuGHTKCL mortality from diphtheria la H reported from Berks and Lehign Counties, Penn. H There ara fifteen army retirements and H five naval retirements this year on account H of age. 9 Rents have declined fifty per cent in Lom H Angeles. CaL, owing to a collapse of tbe "boom," ; A teost has been formed to control the H Bale of all common or prison-made brushes in H a mpricA. gfl The winter in Central Kansas has been so open that most of the spring plowing it H already done. H The United States vessel Thetis is to go as H far north as the ica will perm.c t j search for H distressed whalers. H Emperor William has dismissed the H French cooks from his palace and replaced H them with Germ/ins. H A great Iu ii&n cemetery has been laid bare at Romney, Va., by a freshet on a H branch of the Potomac. Numerous skeletons fl and many trinkets have been found. fl THE MARKE1S. 5 new york. b Peeves S 05 @ 5 03 fl Much Cows, com. to good.. .&"< 00 Ca>4>? 00 Calves,common to prime.... 3 2-i & 4 00 H ShocD 4 -5 @ 6 90 H Lambs 5 00 (gj 7 0J H Hogs?Live 5 45 <0 5 75 H Dressed 7% Flour?City Mill Extra. 5(0 5 20 B Patents 5 00 <0 7 00 H Wheat?No. li Red. W% Rye?State 55 (g 59 B Koriov?No. ] .. Si (gb 15 ^ Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... U7 @ 4t> Oato?No. I White ? @ Mixed Western 23,4,(3 $3 Hay?No. J 85 0% W Straw?Long Rye .... <">5 @ tO Lard?City ft team ? ($ C/:*c butler? ' 11/in Creamery.... 28 ($ 2.) Dairy lair to good.. 18 (<$ 22 West. Im. Creamery 16 f<5 22 Factorv 13 (ft 19 Cheese?State Factory )-,V Skims?Light 9}^(g| 9% "Western 10 & 12 Eggs?State and Penn 16 ($ BUFFALO. Steers?Western 3 2-~> @ 4 03 Sheep?MeU.umto Gooi ... 4 25 @ 5 00 Lamos?Fair to Good 5 50 (q ti 00 Hogs?Good to choice i orks 5 20 (<$ 5 5? Flour?Family 5 0.) <& 5 25 Wheat?No. - Northern ? ?? 1 Oi Corn?No. Yellow B Cats?Ho. 'J. White ? (ft 3:}? M Barley?State. OS @ 10 1:>)ST')V. Flour?-prinp Wheat pat'i. 0 50 Q, 7 10 Corn?Steamer Yellow. 47 B Oats?No. y White ? 3>?^ H Bye?State 63 @ W WATZRTOW'S (1IAS3.) CATTLB MABIgr. H Feet? Dressed weight ti t?3 7 H Sheep?Livo weight 4 <31 5 H J>ambj 53? H Hogs?Northern ? (tfl C% H PHILADELPHIA. Hour?Penn. family 4 ID @ 4 75 Wheat?No. 2, Red, Jan... 91%?, 94 Corn?No. 2, Alixtxi. Jan... 41)ic0 41l? Oats?Ungraded Wtite 38 @ 3i-^ por .r. es?fc)ar!y Ho?<? 35 io> ?7 Butter?Creamery Extra... ? @ H Cheese?Bart B-ums 6 <2 8 - -.uambjtnr