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' THE FEDERAL OFFICERS. Important Nominations Submitted by President Harrison. Prominent Appointments-in the Diplomatic Service. The President has sent to the Senate the following nominations: Thomas TV. Palmer, of Michigan, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Spain. John F. Swift, of California, toba Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan. John D. Washburn, of Massachusetts, to be Minister Resident and Consul-General of the United States to Switzerland. George C. Tichenor, of Illinois, to bo Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice Isaac H. Maynard, resigned. The nominations were formally laid before the Senate as soon as the doors were closed. There was a disposition on both sides of the chamber to confirm ex-Senator Palmer as Minister to Spain without reference to a committee, but it was decided not to oreaK over me regular rum. ?u u<.o nomination was seat to the Foreign Relations Committee along with those of John D. Washburn for the Swiss mission and John F. Swift for the mission to Japan. George C. Tichenor's nomination for Assistant Secretary of the Treasury went into th? Financo Committee. All this took less than ten minutes, and when it had been done the S?nate adjourned. Thomas Witherell Palmer, of Michigan, who has been nominated to succeed Perry Belmont, of New York, as United States Minister to Spain, was born at Detroit on January 2-5, 1S30. His father, Thomas Palmer, was one of th9 pioneers of Detroit, and his maiher was a daughter of Judge James TTitherell. In 1S55 he married Miss Lizzie P. Merrill, daughter of Charles P. Merrill, and then entered the lumber business with *he latter. As the successor of his father and I lther-iulaw he is one of the largest owner5- of lumber property and saw mills in the Northwest,and is the possessor of a large fortune. In 1678 ho was elected to the State Senate, and in 1SS3 he was elected to the United States Senate for the term which closed on March 8. John F. Swift, of California, who has been nominated to succeed ex-Governor Richard 1* WriM-iar-H of Tfiras. as United States Minister to Japan, was born in Missouri about fifty years ago. He went in 1S52 to California, and became one of the leading lawyers of the Pa.ific Coas.. He has traveled neariy all over the world and possesses a fund of information of places and people. He has written several books, among which are "Going to Jericho," a book of travel, and "Rupert Greathousa." a novel. Colonel John D. Washburn, of Massachusetts, who has been nominated to succeed Boyd Winchester, of Kentucky, as United States Minister Resident and Consul-General to Switzerland, is a native of Boston and is fifty-six years old. He has served in both Houses of the Massachusetts Legislature, was chief of staff of Governor Bullock durini!; the war, and has held various places of he nor and trust in connection with charitable: nstitutions. He is a man of wealth, and at pi ?sent is not engaged in business. Mr. Tichenor was a sc Idier of the Union, commanding an Iowa regiment He was appointed in the Government service in 187S, and has been in continuous employment since, most of the time e.3 a special agent of the Treasury. A great leal of his time has been spent abroad in investigation of the , matter of undervaluations, and he has be- ( *nma mfRt. nrnficinrif; of all thn snecial agents in that line of wort 1 - , Third Day's Nominations. The President on this day sont the follow- ( ing nominations to the Senate: 1 Eugene Schuyler, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of State, vice George L. Rives, resigned. "Walker Blaine, of Maine, to be Examiner of Claims for the Department of State, vice Francis Wharton, deceased. '- Cyrus Bussey, of New York city, to be As- i sdslftnt Secretary of the Interior, vice David - L. Hawkins, resigned. ^ The Senate during the day confirmed the following nominations': '-.A, C, Kallecte to bo Governor of Dakota, , L. B. Richardson to bo Secretary of Dakota, , Cornelius H. Hanford to be Chief Justice of ] the Supreme Court of the Territory of Wash- < ington, George W. Irvin to be Marshal of the United States for Montana. . Smiley N. Chambers to be United States : Attorney for the District of Indiana. George S. Batcheller to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Albert G. Porter, of Indiaua, to be Minister to Italy; John A. Enander to be Minister to Denmark. "Walter Blaine, of Maine, to be Examiner oC Claims in the State Department. The confirmation of Walter Blaine was out of the usual order and made by unanimous consent. Eugene Schuyler, who has baen appointed Assistant Secretary of State, is about fortysaven years of age. He is generally well known as an author and a diplomat, and in the last mentioned, career he has filled almost every grade in the service. In 186T he began his connection with the State Department as Consul at Moscow, and in 1800 he was l__. Consul at Revel. In 1ST0 he was made .Secretary of Legation St. Petersburg. In 1$?G fce occupied a similar post at Cou_ stantiuople. Two years later he was appointed Consul at Birmingham, and in 187!) he was Consul General at Rome. He was then appointed Diplomatic Agent and Consul General to Roumania, and becamo Minister Resident when the mission was established. Since 1S82 ho has been traveling in Europe. His contributions to literature include editorial work on Webster's Dictionary, "American Diplomacy,and the "Life of Peter the Great." Second Day's Nominations. On the second day after he began making ' nominations, President Harrison sent the following list of names to the Senate: Albert G. Porter, of Indiana, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary ; of tho Unitad States to Italy. John A. Enandcr, of Illinois, to be Minister Resident and Consul-General of tho United States to Denmark. George S. Batcheller, or New York, to be , Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vico Hugh S. Thompson, resigned. t Arthur C. Mellette, of Water town, Dak., to bo Governor of Dakota; Luther B. Richardson, of Grand Forks, Dak., to bo Secre- j tary of Dakota. Cornelius H. Ha 11 ford, of Washington Tor- ] ritory, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme ' Court of the Territory of Washington. George VV. Irvin, of Montana, to bo Marshal of the United States for the Territory of < Montana. Smiley U. Chambers, of Indiana, to bo i Unitod States Attorney for the District of Indiana Postmasters?Charles A. Rolfo, at Princoton, Me.; Arthur C. Perry, at Presque Isle, Me.; Loinie L. Sayles,at Malone, N. V.; Ira Dorrance, at Middletown, N. Y.; Geo. W. Dunn, at Binghampton, N. Y.; Lawson R. 1 Muzzy, at Pulaski, N. Y.; Wm. L. Beers, ' at Ithinelander, N. Y.; Lyman M. Ward, at ijonron riaruor, aiica.; xucaaru itoos, at Keokuk, Iowa. ... i INAUGURATION FATALITIES, Nine Deaths in Washington Due to Exposure on March 4th. ( During the first week after the inaugura- < tion nine deaths cccurre.1 in Washington ' city that were directly attributable to that , event. This is merely tho local record, and is necessarily only a partial one. It does not , include the mortality among the SO ),00'i t visitors or the cases of sickness which have fatal tendencies, but have not yet culminated. "Washington is apt to show its bleak side to visitors. It was a very cold day when the monument was completed, and many suffered afterward from the effects of the exposure. So also tha unveiling of the statue to General Thomas occurred on a very raw day. General C. S. A. Davis caught a fatal cold on that occasion. The whole number of hogs packed in Cincinnati for tho winter season, from November 1, 1SSS, to March 1, 18S9, was I'OJ.OSi?. The preceding year the uumber was 30.1,593, showing a decrease for the year of 0J headThe United States pays $900,000 a year for its weather service, Great Britain $80,000, Germany $5tJ,000, Russia $55,000, Austria $10,000, Switzerland $0000, France $60,000. "the"news epitomize!^ EMtem mid Middle States. Ex-Senator Simon Cameron celebrated his ninetieth birthday at his home near Harrisburg, Penn. The British schooner Gleaner was seized at Boothbay, Me., by United States custom officers for non-entry. The fine is 51500. The BufTord's Sons Lithographic Company, of Boston, has suspended payment. Liabilities, 8100,000. Shocks of earthquake were felt at various points in Pennsylvania, Delaware. Maryland and New Jersey. Black diphtheria is epidemic in Cranberry Township, Venango County, and Gallitzin, Pean. The schools aro closed and public meetings forbidden. Since November 100 people, out of a population of 2000, have died in Gallitzin. A buzzard almost as severe as the memorablo one of last year, has raged throughout the Berkshire Hills in Massachusetts. Three men wore killed in a coal mine at Yatesville, Penn., by an explosion of gas. JosErn Rksselt., killed his wife at Auburn, N. Y., and then committed suicide. A. J. Drexel, lias decided to found an industrial college for women at Wayne, Penn., to cost ?1,500,000. The will of the deceased millionaire, Isaiah Williamson, was admitted to probate at Philadelphia. The estate is estimated at $9,000,00.'), exclusive of the gift to the Mechanical School of ?'-,250,000. Largo specific bequests are made to relatives and $1,000,000 X*3 lUi V-i*CU1UJ? The constitutional prohibitory amend ment was defeated in New Hampshire by a majority estimated at two-thirds of the total vote. Sonth and West. Kleikhaus & Simonson's mammoth clothing house in Louisville, Ky., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of ?430,000. Emanuel Gaskins, colored, has been banged at Camden, S. C., for murder. Wabash, Neb., has been almost totally wiped out by fire. Thieves started the fire to conceal their depredations. Mrs. C. A. Hanson and her brother-inlaw, Jaob Hanson, of Brunswick, Minn., were killed by William Noting, a neighbor with whom Hanson had been drinking. William Gessner, a glassmaker. murdered his wife, who refused to live with him, and then committed suicide at Fostoria, Ohio. Mrs. Thomas Love, of Fredericksburg, Va., was accidentally killed by her husband while he was cleaning a revolver. He was arrested. The excitement over the gold fields of Lower California has somewhat subsided. A wholesale firm of San Francisco has received a telegram from their foreman, who has just returned from the mining district, which says: "Tell everybody to investigate. The mines are a sell." The Chicago division of the Wabash Railroad was sola for $3,503,003 to the purchasing committee at Springfield, III. The Indianapolis, Legislature adjourned sine die, A boiler, thirty feet long, in the forging department of the Cleveland (Ohio) Rolling Mills, exploded killing James Barr ana Thomas Dorsey and injuring eleven others. The North Carolina Legislature, which adjourned the other day, made provision for more iuny pensioning uonieaerate veterans and needy widows of Confederates, a tax of three cents on each hundred dollars' worth of property and nine ccnts on the poll being levied for the purpose. John A. Campbell, ex-Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Assistant Confederate Secretary of War. died a few days ago at his hom9 in Baltimore, aged seventy-eight years. His death was the end of a long illiness resulting from old age. At Des Moines, Iowa, the women voters sleeted all their candidates for school directors by large majorities over those of the political parties The Supreme Court of West Virginia has lecidAd in the Goff-Wilson Gubernatorial mandamus casa that Governor Wilson is sntitled to hold over until such time as the :ontest between Fleming and Goff shall have >een settle! Washington. Postmaster-General Wanamaker has Durchased the elegant Washington residence ivhich has been until recently the home of Hon. W. C. Whitney. The price paid was 5^000. There was a net decrease of ?4,313,706 in : ;he circulation during February, and a net ncrease of $2,78S,15S in the money and iullion in the Treasury. Nearly S 10,000,000 was appropriated by ihe Congress just ended for the construction ind improvement of public buildings. Bills filing tor 54i,Mi,u00 were introduced in the House alone during the first session. Congressman* Townsiiend, for many ?ears Representative from the Eighteenth Illinois (Shawneetown) district, died a few lays ago in Washington of pneumonia, contacted during the closing hours of the last Congress. He was horn in Prince George's .'ounty, Md., April 30, 1S40. Secretary Windom has appointed George 3. Tichenor, of Illinois, to be Assistant Secre:a.*y of the Treasury. Senator Beck, of Kentucky, has been iworn in for bis third successive term of ofice, As a result o? oxposuro on Inauguration lay, over fifteen Congressmen are more or ess ill and confined to their rooms. The Senate has confirmed the nominations )f the Ministers to Spain, Japan andSwitzerand, and also of George C. Tichenor to bo Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas F. Barr, LJ. S. A., has been appointed military secre;ary to Secretary of War Proctor. . Rear-Admiral John Lee Davis has just lied in Washington. He was a native of Lndiana, and ente red the naval service as a nidshipman in 1S41. His last cruise was in - ommand of the Asiatic station. He was placed on the retired list in February. 1S87, 1 being sixty-two years of ago. His sea service ' lggregated twenty-sir years, eleven months md his shore duty fourteen years, ten months. ] _____ i Foreign. T) 'I.* .1. ? C..1? U ~ i lit di iu3ii mau-u?-war cuiuin utva uo^ii tvrecked on the Island of Comino, in the Mediterranean. The captain and crow were >aved. A passenger train on the Transcaspinn Railway, in Russia, was thrown from the ;rack in a tunnel, owing to the removal of rails by train wreckers. The result of the ierailraent was frightful, the killed and injured numbering fifty. . King Meneleh, of Shoa. has formally de:lared war against King John, of Abyssinia. The greatest flood that has been known in the west of England for a generation has just prevailed. A fearful storm raged in the south of Russia for three days. Railway traffic in Austria was stopped. The British and American consulates at Chin-Kiang, a treaty port of China, were sacked by riotous natives. Emperor Dong Kahn, of Annam, has been assassinated. Bien Lantaa, son of Due Due, ten years old. was proclaimed Emperor by the French resident, and the next day was crowned. Queen Victoria is said to have protested against Balfour's treatment of O'Brien, the Irish agitator. A cable dispatch from Aquairaina, West Coast of Africa, states that Captain Holmes, of the American whaling bark Sea Fork, an officer and a servant wore killed, and five of the crew burned by the explosion of a whaling-bomb gun. The Queen has approved tho appointment of Sir Julian Pauncefoto as British Minister to Washington. At a by-election in tho West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Earl Compton, Gladstonian, was elected to Parliament with an increased liberal majority. Private letters received at Berlin from Zanzibar say that Stanley is marching rapidly toward the east coast of Africa. The steamer Remus, which had a Spanish military expedition on board, ha"? been lost. The vessel was wrecked o!I tho Philippine Islands. Forty-two persons wore drowned and 127 were saved. Mr. IIexry Campbell, Member of Parliament, tho privato secretary of Mr. Parnell, has brought suit for libel against the London Times. The Chicago and All America baseball teams, now making a tour of the world, played on Keunington Oval, London. The grounds were crowded and the reception was enthusiastic. The Prince of Wales received / the taaran in the pavilion. He shook hands with thom and complimented them upon their exfcellent playing. The Chlcagos won by a score of 7 to 4. James Harris & Co.'s rolling mill at St. John's, New Brunswick, the largest in Canada, has been burned. The loss is $100,000. "laterjews7 The striking weavers at Fall Rivor, Mass., have agreed to accept arbitration. PiiiLir Paul, Chief of Police of Renova Penn., had arrested a young man named Belford, and was about to enter tho jail when a friend of the prisoner named Mike Clary killed him with a pistol. Fourteen business buildings in La Grange, Ind., were burned. Loss $30,000. Dr. McDow, the murderer of Captain Dawson, in Charleston, S. C., has made a statement, showing that he watched his victim dying for an hour. The towboat Kangaroo was capsized on the Green River, at Spottsville, IncL, and George Ingram, the owner, and Edward Simmons, the cook, wero drowned. The King block in Denver, CoL, was burned. Loss nearly ?200,000. Twenty persons were killed in a colliery explosion at Wrexham, England. Admiral Jaures, the French Minister o? Marine, has died in Paris of apoplexy. Telegraphic advices report the freezing to death in the blizzard at Prince Albert, Northwest Territory, of Donald and John Finlayson, who had taken up farms there. The London Times has finished its case bofore the Parnell Commission. Mr. Parxell attacked the Government vigorously at a banquet in his honor at St. James's Hall, London. THBEE DOUBLE DEATHS, Grief-stricken Relatives Drop Dead at Hearing Sad News. Three double deaths have occurred under most peculiar circumstances. A solemn funeral cortege wended its .way to Greenwood Cemetery recently. Two bodies were laid side by side in one grave. They were the remains of Joseph Ritter and his siater Lydia. Mr. Ritter died suddenly ??? o nk.AM<i aam ?r? pat'/lnvt 1 off whan vllo (tl. XU ?* 9U1COU WCU VU riiunjr iu^u. ?w ueu uw ii? valided sister was informed of the sad occurrence on Saturday, she rushed to the casket, uttered a piercing scream and fell back dead. Daniel Harper, who lived near Coleman, Georgia, was shot and killed by an unknown assassin on the same day on which Mr. Sitter died. He had been sitting in his house talking to his mother when the watch dog uttered a low growl and suddenly began to bark furiously. Harper went out to Investigate and received a bullet in his brain. His old mother heard the shot, and upon stumbling over the prostrate form of her son she too fell dead. "Let me see my daughter once more for the last time," implored Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson of the undertaker in Jersey City recently, as he was preparing her daujhter's body for buriaL The request was granted. The sorrow-stricken mother was left alone with her dead. She knelt down, kissed the cold lips and began to pray: "0, Godl let me die with my child. I cannot live without her." A piercing scream startled the relatives in another room. They rushed in and found that the mother's prayer had been answered. She was dead. THE LABOR WORLD. Nebraska plumbers have a State society. RsnnKTOV. Mass.. has eip-hfc shoe factories Over 1500 New York car strikers are idle. "Window glass men have plenty of business. The number of the unemployed in London is enormous. The Pacific Coast Seamen's Union has 5000 members. All of the Chicago papers are now employing union bauds. The stereotypers of Detroit, Mich., were organized lately. There are three thousand telegraph operators in England. A bill to prevent blacklisting is before the Indiana Legislature. In some of the deepest mines the workmen wear no clothes it is so hot. The iron and steel makers are generally on full time but prices are down. Grand Rapid3, Mich., has the greatest furniture factory in the world. Five thousand men are employed by Pinkerton's Detective Agency. The Connecticut Legislature has voted to make Labor Day a legal holiday. A good many Northern machinery and ngine builders are moving South. Carnegie recently beat the world on a steel ingot. It weighed fifteen tons. In Ecuador it is understood that the employer shall board the cook's family. Some Western rolling mills are working three sets of hands eight hours each. More than 0000 Now York cigar makers ire women, girls and small children. The American Federation of Labor has indorsed all Trades Union labels issued. The union scale of the New York carpenters is $3.50 per day; in Brooklyn, $3.25. Bv a new system steel car wheels can b9 turned out in five minutes at Norristowm Penn. Many Southern women are engaged in the effort to establish industrial schools in tho South. A Louisville, (Ky.) firm has invented a process for making the finest edge tools at naif the present cost. Kansas City has a young woman compositor who sometimes acts as "boss" in the absence of the foreman. Ireland's sixty spinning mills employ 51,749 persons on S43,590 spindles, and pay $6,250,000 in wages yearly. The United German Trades of New York will send their own delegates to the international labor congress at Paris. The engineers of New Jersey are united in their desire for the adoption of a licensing law by the State Legislature. Twenty-five hundred men, women and children are employed in the Government printing office at Washington. There are 1830 cigar factories in New York city. Of these the groat majority employ from one to fifty hands each. Only sir out of 177 flint glass houses in the United States are idle and only seventynine men out of 5920 are out of the union. It is proposed to train every seafaring man in England capable of bearing arras with a view toward an efficient naval reserve. The Jewish workmen of New York city in various trade3 are organised and have a federation known as the United Hebrew Trades. The largest steel axle-works in the country, located at Wilkesbarrt, Penn., employing 1000 hands, has shut down for want of orders. Several hundred stove founders have been thrown out of work in Albany, N. Y., because stoves can bo made cheaper in the West and sent East. There is another steel revolution which makes steel fit for wire, screws and bolts, iu seven to ten minutes at a cent a pound, no puddling, no annealing. AT the Erie round houso at Elraira, N. Y., the places of men who received $1.20 per day have been filled by boys, who get sixty cents per day, tho rato in other shops. The Methodist Episcopal Church now has 2,154,237 communicants, against 2,033,935 last year, indicating a net gain in 18SS of over (30,000. The value of church propjrty, including parsonages, has reached the enormous sum of $97,540,515?an increase for the year of about .S4,825,0:J0. A peasant in Irkutsk, Siberia, recently found gold in a trap pit. The discovery caused much excitement, and the peasants are diszing everywhere. Eleven armored vessels are now in coursa of construction by the United States, five of which will be completed this year and the others in 1890 and lotfL HAYTIAN HOSTILITIES. Progress of the Revolution in the Black Republic. Grand Saline Totally Destroyed and the Dessalines Sunk, A town burned to ashes. A man-of-war sunk with all on board. A general deserts from Legitime with $10,000 and 2000 men. These are the striking items of news brought by the steamer William Coleman that has just arrived, at New York from Gonaives, Hayti. This puts an entirely new face on Haytian affairs and offsets to a certain extent the bombastic cables sent by Legitime to this country. The William Coleman has touched at Vera Cruz and some Haytian ports. She steamed into the port of Gonaives, which is situated thirty-two miles north of St. Mara Captain Scott found the town completely fortified, a heavy stockade having been erected around the outskirts and two forts composed of sand banks and piles erected at the mouth of the harbor. Captain Scott went ashore, and there learned that the day previous, about 4 p. M., the Haytian man-of-war Dessalines had steamed up to Gonaives Bay with the intention of bombarding the town. She reconnoitred for a Dosition a little, seemingly afraid of the 'forts, and she had reason to be, for they suddenly opened fire on her from both sides. This treatment seemed somewhat discourteous to the commander of the Dessalines, who returned the fire, sometimes aiming at the forts and sometimes at the town. No damage was done to the former, and but one shot landed in the latter, and that tore the roof off a dwellinghouse near the German Consulate. The firing of the forts was rapid and wellaimed, owing to the efforts of a Spanish gunner who had recently entered Hippoly te's service and another new recruit, General O'Hara, a soldier of fortune who made his way from Turk's Island to serve under Hippolyte. After th9 exchange of some thirty or forty shots the Dessalines pulled out of range, but not before a gaping holo was seen in her side only a foot above the water line. It was also noticed that she listed heavily and seemed to labor in the light sea that was running as though seriously disabled. Her departure was followed by a chorus of demoniac yells from the Northern artillerymen, who deserted their guns and ran out on the beach and ramparts to express in derisive gestures their "contempt for so cowardly an enemy. That Dight was a great one in Gonaives. All the town turned out to feast and toast the soldiers, and two or three of them were made Generals on the spot. Before the festivities wero completed a runner arrived from the lower coast announcing that the Dessalines had sunk off St. Marc's with all on board. This added to 4*? ?"frtflo'J flnmor? litre* I Lie entUUSiUiUl auu WU IXIUU livnva I..V water. Acting under instructions from the Secretary of War, 200 men left Gonaives to march against Grand Saline, which was then garrisoned by Legitime's forces. About five hundred men left St. Marc's at the same time for the same purpose, but for some reason failed to connect. The Gonaives forces, however, made a spirited attack on Grand Saline, but were repulsed. The next day fighting was resumed aDd during the night Legitime's troops evacuated the town, having previously set it on fire. The place was entirely consumed, and Grand Saline is blotted off the face of the earth. The Southern troops flod across the sandy plain to the mountains that form the boundary line between Hayti and San Domingo, and unless the inhabitants of the latter have murdered the refugees they are still in hiding. General Jean Jumoaux. late of Legitime's army, came to Gonaives from Cape Haytian to assume command of the troops. Jumeauz was formerly a trusted lieutenant of Legitime's. who gave him charge of 2000 men and 510,000 to go and subdue Gonaives. It was some weeks ago that he arrived within five miles of the town and felt a kind of sneaking sympathy for Hippolyte, coming over him so strongly, in fact, that he disbanded his armv nnd struck out for the bills with the ?10,000. T>TTTT TkTMTt A TVDT) /YDD T A fUTn'OTa Jj u -LJjuJ.1N vjr n.j:zjmjj. i\>in. jlj.is.liui ' The Fiftieth Congress Provides $10,? 000,000 for Public Structures. During the Fiftioth Congress nearly $10,000,000 were appropriated for public buildings. The appropriations for like purposes by the Congresses immediately preceding th? Fiftieth ranged from $'j,000,000 to S'J,000,000. The public building, bills introduced in the House alone during the first session of the Fiftieth Congress proposed appropriations aggregating $12^41.000, and the Committee on Public I3ui!ding3 gave its sanction to bills carrying appropriations ranging from $50,000 up to several millions, and aggregating $15,714,000. About one-half of these bills passed both Houses of Congress during the first session, while during the second session the aggregate appropriation for public buildings was about f5,000.000. MPSIOAL AND DBAMATIO. Mme. Hading has sailed for France. Fanny Davenport is worth $150,000. German opera is unpopular in London. Adelina Patti was born in Madrid in 1848. Margaret Mather is playing Lady Macbeth. Maggie Mitchell has written her autobiography. Mrs. D. P. Bowers, who recently retired from the stage, is worth $150,000. A x-T-nr cfr?cf in SfyinlrVinlm lias? illSt been graced with the name of Jenny Line! Henry Irving, Jr., son of the great tragedian, is to make his debut on the stage. Prince Alexander op Battenburg has been married to Marie Loisenger, the Austrian opera singer. A London theatre has a water curtain formed of jots falling from the back of the proscenium to a channel way in the stage. Frank Mordaunt has been engaged to play Mr. Crane's port in "The Henrietta," and form the leading Bupport of Mr. Robson in his other plays. "Otbelio"' in Tamil is promised as a theatrical novelty in Ceylon, where a Tamil dramatic company has been organized by some wealthy natives. A young lady of fifteen years is shortly to make her debut in London, whose talent lies in playing with extraordinary dexterity on the single string of a violin. Mas. Potter's Cleopatra was au artistic failure and a financial success. Mrs. Langtry's Lady Macbeth was an artistic success and a financial failure. John Madison Morton, author of "Box and Cox," "Lend Me Rve Shillings," and numerous other farces and comedies,is an invalid in an English almshouse. Henry E. Abbey has arranged to commence Mine. Patti's concert tour in this country ;in Chicago, the diva opening in the immense Auditorium in that city oa Decern ber 5. Lawrence Barrett nas commenced active preparations for a handsome production of William Young's tragedy of "Ganelon," which will be his chief reliance for next season. Slack's Mountain City Theatre in Altoona, Penn., has been burned. The fire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin. The structure was valued at $75,000; insurance, $21,500. A butcher who was in the audience of a theatre in Galicia was so moved by the excellent playing of an actor that he cried aloud: "You play so well that I will let you off the rest of the bill you owe me." Jeremiah Whalen, an employe of tha Hudson Hotel at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, went to see "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." During the night ho dreamed Mr. Hyde was after him and jumped from the third story window, fatally injuring himself. Rosa Lee was lately singing in a pantomime in a Glasgow theatre, when the "flyman'' fell from the top "fly' to the stage and was instantly killed. Miss Lee, after noting the situation, stepped forward so as to cast her shadow on the dead man and finished her sonir. Forty railroads have oceu projected sinc? January I, and all appearances indicate thai 10,000 miles of road will be built this year. 3 guy ? THE MONITOR INVENTOR. Death or John Ericsson at a Ripa Old Age in New York. John Ericsson, inventor, engineer and builder of the celebrated iron clad Monitor, died the other day in New York in his eightysixth year. His end was absolutely painless. John Ericsson was born July 31, 1803, in Wermland, Sweden. His father was an iron master, and his mother a mine owner's daughter. At the age of ten John constructed a miniature saw mill and pumping machine, the merits of which attracted the attention of Count Platen, then chief of the great Swedish ship canal. From that time the boy made rapid strides in scientific development When twelve years old he entered the Swedish naval forces as a cadet of mechanical engineers. At seventeen he was an ensign, and at twenty-two he was a Lieutenant. After constructing a flame engine of ten-horse power he went to London to produce it. He then resigned his commission and was promoted Captain in recognition of his great merit. He has not returned to his native country since. His countrymen, however, erected in 18G7, a huge granite monument, built by unpaid labor, in acknowledgment of his eminent scientific services. During his residence in England Captain Ericsson invented about forty machines of various kinds, lie won many prizes, ana ms achievements created the greatest surprise among the scientists of the day. In 1839 Ericsson came to the United States, where bis fame had already preceded him. His first great work here was to build the Princeton, the first naval vessel that ever carried her machinery below the water line and beyond tha reach of hostile shot. It changed the whole system of naval architecture. But his next device was even greater. It was in the form of a turret ship, the plans cf which were offered to Napoleon III. in 1854. It was upon those plans (with improvements) that the celebrated iron clad Monitor was constructed iu 1861. Her performance elicited the admiration of the whole civilized world. Six others were constructed upon the same type, and Russia. Sweden, Norway and Turkey adopted the American turret system. After the close of the war Ericsson devoted his genius to devising a plan for destroying the great naval structures his energy had built up. This invention he proposed to call the Destroyer, through tha agency of which a species of submarine warfare was to have bean developed. Its practicability has not yet been finally demonstrated. The sun motor was his latest idea, its principle being the utilization of solar heat through m ;chanical agency. Upon this invention hs was engaged when taken sick. This does not reprasent bv any meani the whole work upon which he was engaged. Dozens of other inventions, to describe which would fill many volumes, have employed his time. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Mrs. Harrison is fifty-seven. The Czar is expected at Berlin. "Ouida's" first novel was sold for $250. The Pope has ju8t celebrated his seventyninth birthday. Queen Victoria has gODe on a pleasure tour to Biarritz. Queen Pia, of Portugal, is very anxious to come to this country. The only son of the Secretary of Agriculture is named Blaine Rusk. Davitt, the Irish patriot, has spent nine years of his life in prison for political offences. Grover Cleveland was the only President who, during bis term of office, wore a moustache. Mrs. John Wanamaker was born a Brown. She is a daughter of her husband's first partner. The ex-Secretary of War and Mrs. Endicott, will remain at Washington until April, and then go to England. The country has now two ex-Presidents, Hayes and Cleveland, and one ex-VicePresident, Hannibal Hamlin. The Austrian Emperor, Fraucis Joseph, is said to be able to get through a prodigious amount of work without exhaustion. Governor Burleigh is reported to have broken the Maine record by mastering and signing seventy-eight bills in on9 day. James Russell Lowell will devote the remainder of his life to travel and reading. He says that his literary work is aQ done. Colonel North, the Nitrate King, gave a nraifAi* oh o T.rmrlnn hntal whn ha/I jiin^ a check for $5000 before leaving EngMrs. Ingalls, wife of the Kansas Senator, Is considered a handsome woman, and her daughter is one of the mo3t charming girls it Washington. Judge Henry S. Long, the last survivor of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1837," died at Lancaster a few days ago, aged eighty-five. George Bancroft, the historian, is the snly surviving member of the class of 1817 at Harvard, and the oldest living graduate in college seniority. King Orro, of Bavaria, has been attacked by a curious malady, his hair having turned white in a single night, while all his physical power has entirely left him. Miss Minnie Wanamaker, the pretty, dark-eyed daughter of Postmaster General Wanamaker, has had her life-sized portrait painted by M. Brozik, of Paris. Mrs. Mackay's dinners in London have been the most popular events of the season. The wife of the bonanza Croesus has won her way into the most exclusive society of England. The auaint littlo ladies of the Corean legation in Washington are quite pretty and are very much admired. Mrs. Ye is twenty-six years old and Mrs. Ye Sang Jay only twenty. They are no taller than children of ten years and twice as cute in looks and manners. Viscount Mandkville, eldest son of the Duke of Manchester, has been declared a TJic. lioKilifioc a*v? 1V nlAPAfl utll 1111 upu. iiio nauuiviujuiw VIUWV...J r it $600,000. It is said that he has been living beyond his means and has lost money by betting. Viscount Mandeville in 1S76 married >liss Consuelo Yznaga, of the United States. O.ne of the central figures in Administration circles during the next four years will be Mrs. J. R. McKee, the daughter of Presi dent Harrison. Mrs. McKee is of medium height and has a pleasant, intelligent face. She is far more clever fian most social wom?n and has a mind and will distinctly of her own. Sidney Bartlett, the oldest member of the Massachusetts Bar, died recently at Boston from congestion of the lungs. He was ninety years of age, and with him passes away that generation of lawyers whose fame was continental. He was a contemporary and worthy rival of Daniel Webster and Rufus Choate. NEWSY GLEANINGS. There is now a needle Trust. Norway has but 7601 vessels. Germa.yy has *.nly 4021 vessels. SMALtrPOX is raging in Canada. Detroit has 135 electrical towers. ti. ANSAS nas Jouu nines ui ruimity. Natural gas at 125 feet is found in Dakota. A subterranean railroad is to bo built in Buenos Ayres. White girls are marrying Indian braves at a rapid rate. Only 13,18S New Yorkers pay tares on personal estates. The Pullman Palace Car Company is worth $2.5,000,000. In Samoa English is the language of trade and social intercourse. The number of New York corporations paying a tribute is 994. Gkrosimo, that old rascal of an Apache, is raising cabbage in Florida. About (5000 men engaged in car coupling are annually killed or injured. The bullet carried off seventy-five persons in New York during 1SS8. Mail is now carried between New York and San Francisco in 113 hours. A good many artesian wells are being bored, particularly in the West. The Erie railroad took five dead tramps from its freight trains last winter. New York city is going to spend $1,000,00.) on the Washington Centennial. A man has just died in a New Jersay asylum from the effects of a mosquito bite. The navy of Denmark consists of thirtythree steam vessels, nine of which are ironclads. It is now unlawful to sell tobacco to any person under sixteen years of age in Pennsylvania. ? li i^i^?^ AN EDITOR SLAIN. F. M. Dawson, of the "News and Courier," Murdered, Shot Dead in the Office of a Charleston (S. C.) Physician, Captain P. W. Dawson, editor of the Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier, and one of the most popular men in South Carolina, was shot and instantly killed by Dr. T. B. McDow in the office of the latter. A dispatch from the scene of the crime says: The city is in a terrible state of excitement over the assassination of Captain P. W. Dawson, the editor of the News and Courier. The murderer is named T. B. McDow, a young physician, who is married and has several children. The evidenco in the case is very meager, but it has been learned that Captain Dawson was murdered because of an attempt on his part to protect the honor of a servant "girl in his oinploy. The murder was committed about 3:45 o'clock in the afternoon, but was not discovered for three hours afterward, when the murderer surrendered himself. The body of the murdered man had, in the meantime, lain in the office of the murderer, not ICO yards from his own residence. Captain JUawsou left the News and Courier office about 3:30 o'clock, and wa3 never seen alive again. It appears that he bad a suspicion tnat bis maid servant, who bad charge of his children was not behaving herself properly. Last week he asked the Chief of Police to detail a detective to shadow the girl, stating that ho would not subject his child/en to her control if she ivas not strictly honest. The detective accordingly shadowed the girl. The detective submitted a report in writing to tho Chief of Police, who communicated its contents to Captain Dawson. As stated above, Captain Dawson left his offlco at 3:o0 o'clock and was found murdered about 6:30 o'clock in the office of Dr. McDow. His face was badly beaten, and a pistol bullet was found lodged in his heart. It is supposed that be went to Dr. McDow's office to remonstrate with him, a married man and the father of several children, against going with bis maid servant, and that McDow shot him after the two had been engaged in a scrimmage. After the murder McDow disappeared until about 0:30 o'clock, when he appoared at the police station and surrendered himself. McDow is said to be the only doctor in the city who is not a member -of the State Madical Society, and has an unsavory reputation. He marriod some years ago the daughter of C. D. Abrens, a rich retired grocer, and it is known that the .police have been asked to shadow him several times. All the evidence adduced shows that the murder was one of the most diabolical in the annals of crime. Captain Dawson was shot while sitting down. The shot waa fatal. After murdering his victim, it is said, Dr. McDow left him lying on the floor,locked his nfflpA rlnnr utiH wont. rmf. tn n mrnsp ?rrn/??n7 shop. There is evidence that he tried to bury the corpse of his victim, bat that) in the meantime suspicions had got out, and, finally, three hours after he had killed his victim, he surrendered himself up to the police authorities. The murderer was hurried to the jail as soon'os he had surrendered himself,and for the present is safe from lynching, as the jail is well nighJimpregnable.The entire community was incensed. The city council had just met when the news of the murder was telephoned. upon which the council at once adjourned. The street in front of the News-Courier building has been thronged all the evening, and the expressions of regret at the death of the popular editor are loud and sincere. Mr. Dawson, during his career in Charleston, had made himself a power, but he was at no time or in any relation of life disliked by any one. He had absolutely no enemies so far as can be learned. His purse was ever open to the needy, and his pen was always at the service of every just cause. During the fearful earthquake excitement in 1880 Mr. Dawson was most active in soliciting and securing aid for those who had suffered. FIFTY IDLE MILLS, Over Nine ThonsandWeavers Strike at Fall River, Mass. TUa tttodraro' of.rib-A frtn nn aHvflnr?A in wagee, which has occurred at Fall River, Mass., was one of the most general in the history of labor troubles. The weaving departments of fifty mills were practically shut down. Between nine and ten thousand weavers were out on strike, and in consequence fiftyfive thousand looms were idle, ana the manufacturing plant representing $25,000,000 was rendered unproductive. The disaffection which resulted in the shut down, with a single exception, of every factory in the city, numbering about fifty, began on January 11.18S3, when the last general advance was made. Those who refused to strike did not altogether number more than half enough to keep one mill going. The extent of the strike was quite a surprise to the manufacturers who expected that only a few mills in the outskirts would be involved. They thought the help would be so much divided as to the wisdom of a strike that the circumstances would disorganize the movement in a few days. The operatives were very much pleased at the unanimous sentiment of resistance displayed in their ranks, and predicted an early victory. They claimed that they could afford to maintain the strike. It was the prevailing impression that the manufacturers could give an advance at present prices for cloth, and could ill afford to curtail production for even a short period. The Board of Trade said, however, that no [ advance would be Riven, and a bitter struggle was anticipated. Three thousand weavers met in mass meet- | ing in the park. Reports to the Executive Committee of the union showed that the weavers in every print cloth mill in the city had quit work and that the strike was general. The horsa-power developed in the recent trial of the g '.nboat Yorktown exceeded by 400 that required by the contract?3000. This will give the contractors a bonus of $40,000. THE MARKETS. 11 new tors. Beeves, 3 70 <2> 5 15 Milch Cows. coin, to good...25 00 @45 00 Calves,common to prune.... 6 50 @ 9 00 SheeD 5 2> (2} G ?5 Lambs :5 oo @05'j Hogs?Live 5 2-5 5 CO Dressed 5 S Flour?City Mill Extra. 4 JO "(9 5 15 Patents 5 05 @ C 85 Wheat?No. 2 Red 9> Rye?State 55 @ 5S Barlov?No. 1.. St @ ?5 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 42 @ 44j? Oats?No. 1 White ? (g 59 Mixed Western 29 @ 3'i Hay?No. 1 80 @ 95 Straw?Long Rye ? @ 80 ? ? /59> r. Lara?wicy ? vn Butter?Elgin Creamery.... 2S>?@ 29 Dairy, lair to good.. 20 @ 21 West Ira. Creamery 18 <gi 2i Factorv 12 @ 21 Cheese?State Factory. ll'v'@ 32 Skims?Light 9K@ 10 Western 11& Eggs?State and Penn ? @ 15 BUFFALO. Steers?Western 3 25 @4 0) Sheep?Medium to Good ... 4 .r.O @5 15 Lam 0s?Fair to Good 4 50 @5 50 Hogs?Good toChoica York* no @ 5 :.0 Flour?Family 5 03 (J 5 25 Wheat?Xo. - Northern ? (# 1 00% Corn?No. 8, Yellow 3S @ Cats?No. 2, White ? (Tt> 30% Barley?State OS @ 70 BOSTON. Flour?spring 'Wheat pat's.. 7( 0 @ 7 (10 Corn?Steamer Yello;v...... 4 > *4 @ -l'yu Oats?No. 2 White 35 @ j Bye?State 63 @ 04 WATERTOWX (MA3S.) CATTLS MARKS P. Beef? Dressed weight \H<2 o Sbeep? Live weight 3^$ 5 Lambs '>!? Hogs?Northern ? "(<? PHILADELPHIA Flour?Penn. family 4 70 @1 S5 Wheat?No. 2, Red, Mar... 9<J3K Corn?No. 2. Mixed, Mar... ? ifl) 40 " Oats?Ungraded White ? @ 33J^ Potat es?Early Rose 25 <5> 45 Butter?Creamery Extra... ? (55 28 Cheese?Part skims 6 <? 8 . ~ ^ ?? ; CURIOUS PACTS. , ' Nevada stage route horses wear snowshoes. There is a Michigan Schoolmaster^! Club. The mint at Birmingham, England, is. "S tho greatest in the world. Books published 300 years ago sell from $25 to $500 a volume. "Katie" is a name of Celtic origin,, and means romping, laughing. -i A book on palmistry was published as. j far back as the sixteenth century. ' ; A sea bass weighing 425 pounds was caught at San Diego, Gal., a few ago. A gentleman in Columbus, Ga., has & razor which has been in constant use 104s \ years. A scarlet geranium leaf that measured V forty-seven inches in circumference was . picked at Hanford, Cal., a few days , ago. j A prisoner in a Cincinnati station '. house attempted suicide with an ordinary brass pin by opening arteries in his wrist. An iceboat on the Hudson River recently ran a race with an express train, beating it easily. Two miles and a half WCiC uiauc JU UVC LLilUULCB. What becomes of all the pins made in the world? is a question that has been asked by thoughful persons, and it still i stands without satisfactory answer. Catfish are so numerous in Washoe M Lake that the Nevada people want the Legislature to import a carload or two of alligator gars to thin out the catfish. In the great museum at London is a small watch, one hundred years old or more, in the shape of an apple. The golden outside is adorned with grains of pearl. Quoddy Head, Me., is the easternmost point of the United State9, Alton Islands^ the westernmost, Point Barrows theMfl northernmost and Key West the mostSJ southern. HB In Kansas the hides of Galloway cattl^HJ butchered are cured and made into lap^E robes. The jet black hair is thick^ glossy and handsome, and makes a neater robe than the buffalo, while it is " equally warm. Down in the wilds of Washington County, iie., they have discovered a tree, ' the wood of which is white birch and the bark hemlock. The natives have dubbed this queer tree the "mugwump of the forest." While a man at Carlisle, Penn., was running a planer his coat tail got tangled, and was fortunately torn off. A bit of v wood in his pocket blocked a cog wheel and saved his life. The wood was fti piece of John Brown's scaffold. Cliff dwellings are found in great numVioro in Whirh nrp. nnw. find probably have been, inhabited from the- fl time of their first construction. These fl dwellings in all particulars are like those found in Arizona and New Mexico on this continent. H French scientists are puzzling over a spider which has been discovered in the hollow interior of a stone. It is eati- W mated that the stone must be at least 400 years old, but the spider is quitelively and youthful in its antics. It is blind and has no mouth. 9 There is hardly any science that has- gB advanced more rapidly than medicine; M though some of the methods of the an- f-H cients cannot be improved upon. The-1* value of steam in diphtheria was known jfl to the Egyptians and practiced by them I many, many years before the Christian John Dennett, of Santa Cruz, CaL, re cently found a two-headed snake about a foot long. The heads were distinctly serx""^ aratc and bcth were perfect. The heads were littie over an inch in length. When I aroused the snake would throw a forked | tongue out of each head simultaneously, I as if they were one. | The first inventor of the sewing ma- I chine turns out not to be Howe, but & am man named Thomas Saint, who took out his patent in 1760, sixty ye&rs befoie^H Howe produced his machine. A machine^^B made according to Saint's specifiation is H| now being exhibited at the exhibition of sewing machines and domestic appli- B ances, at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Hj Islington. H An Embittered Poet. ^ Edgar Allan Poe, the poet, says a?J writer in Harper's Magazine, was about ^ five feet eight inches tall, and had dark, I almost black hair, which he wore long J and brushed back in student style over his ears. It was as fine as silk. His eyes were large and full, gray and piercing. He was then, I think, entirely cleanly shaven. His nose was long and straight aud his features finely cut. The expression about his mouth was beauti- H| TT? w?ln nryA VlO/1 T1 H PfllOP. H ifl ^Rl llll. JCIC ))1U yuib uuu ~ skin was of a clear, beautiful olive. He V had a sad, melancholy look. He was M j very slender when I first knew him, but had a fine figure, an erect military carj riage and a quick step. But it was his H manner that most charmed. It was ele- fl gant. When he looked at you it seemed as if he could read your very thoughts. (I His voice was pleasant and musical, but M not deep. I He always wore a black frock coat buttoned up, with a cadet or military I collar, a low turn-over shirt collar, and I a black cravat tied in a loose knot. He -J did not follow the fashions, but had a I style of his own. His was a loose way I of dressing, as if he didn't care. You I would know that he was very different from the ordinary run of young men. Affectionate! I should think he was; he was passionate in his love. My intimacy with Mr. Toe isolated me a good deal. In fact, my girl friends were many of them afraid of him, and forsook me on that account. I know none of his male friends. He despised ignorant people, end didn't like trifling 3nd small talk. He didn't like dark-skinned people. When ne loved, he loved desperately. Though tender and very affectionate, he had a quick, passionate temper and was very jealous. His feelings were intense, and he had but little control of them. He was not well balanced; he had too much brain. He scoffed at everything sacred, and never went to church. If lie had had religion I to guide him, he would have oeen a | better man. He said often that there J was a mystery hanging over him he never I could fathom. He believed he was born I to sutler, and this embittered his whole ! life. A White Girl Weds a Sionx. Miss Gertrude Britton, a seamstress at the Yankton Agency, in Dakota, was recently married to Wellington, a full[ blooded Sioux Indian. The ceremony ! was performed by the l*'ev. Joseph T. Cook, an Episcopal minister as the agcncy. The bride is said to be a beautiful young lady, of nleasing appearance. The Indian is sala to be poor and repulsive. Every possible effort was made by the agent to dissuade the unfortunate young woman from her rash step. She is at present living with Wellington in a log hut near Greenwood. ? Commercial ?? [ Advertiser. _. jfl