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NEWS TOMES. ;4 Ymportaut Happenings Gleaned : From Late Dispatches. Li Desperado Hatfield's Terrible : - Story of Crime, T Ellison Hatfield, sometimes called Ellison Slounts, ouo of the participants in the Hatfield-McCoy feud, who is in the Pike County jail in Kentucky, has made a confession 'to Stato Attorney Ferguson. "I was present,'' he said, "and participated in the murder of the threo McCoy brothers?Talbot, Fanner, and Randolph, Jr. The brothers were taken from a school house in Logan County, "VV. Va., where they had been guarded for a day and night, and brought over to the Tug River, which separates West Virginia and Kentucky. "About fifty feet from the river Carpenter tied them to a paw-paw bush and hung a lantern over their heads. Bad Anse Hatfield then said to them: 'Boys, if you have any peace to make with vour Maker you had better make it.' Talbot and Randolph began praying, but Farmer did not. However, before the boys had ima to finish tlipir nravors John Hatfield Bhot Farmer dead. Anse then gave the order to Are. and shot as he gave the word, killing Talbot and then emptying the contents of his revolver into the dead body. Alexander Masser fired and killed Randolph McCoy. The others followed suit, and all the bodies were riddled . with bullets. After the boys were killed Wall Hatfield administered an" oath to all of us, binding us to take the life of the first who divulged the name of any who were along." ' Captain Hatfield said" that he and Tom Wallace shot Jeff McCoy after he had escaped from them. The prisoner also gave the particulars of the brutal murder of Allaphare and Calvin McCoy, in which ho took part. Nine of tho Hatfield faction, on a Sunday night in January, 1SSS, crossed the river into Kentucky under the command of Jim Vance. "They surrounded the McCoy homestead, fired the house, and killed the girl as she stood in the door begging for her life. Cap and Jouce Hatfield both, asserted that they killed Calvin McCoy, and bragged about it. 'Xhc World's Conference of Mormons. The World's Conference of Latter Day I Saints, which has been held at St. Joseph, j Mo., was the largest assembly of Mormon ! representatives ever held in this country. The preliminary proceedings were attended by over 500 delegates. No regular proceedings were held on the first day but informal gatherings discussed various matters to be considered during the week. There are over 1000 of them in the city, England having a stronger representation than any other foreign country except Canada. Australia had eight representatives. Much interest is manifested in the affairs of the Mormon Church in Utah. The Statehood claims of the Territory will be put in shape for presentation to Congress at "Washington. A communication from the Mormon General Conference in session at Salt Lake arrived by mail and was read. The report of the" church recorder shows that there are over 26.000 members of the church, a gain of 14S5 in the last year. There were 1165 removals and expulsions. Elder G. T. Griffith reported that missionaries in Virginia had met vigorous opposi tion, and nad been tnrearened witn personal violence on account of the erroneous belief that the Latter Day Saints were polygamists. I How Natives Harrassetl Stanley, t Henry M. Stanley's letter to the Royal Geographical Society was read at a meeting of that body in London. The letter consists mainly of a repetition of what has alreadj been published. He describes at length the various devices by which the natives endeavored to prevent the advance of the expedition. One of them was to dig shallow pits across the path of the column and fill them with skewers, which were deftly covered with leaves. r- The skewers pierced the feet of Stanley's men, inflicting wounds that in many cases developed into gangrenous sores. The men who were lamed in this manner were sel'dom of further service. ' f- Mr. Stanley calls the natives "cunning rogues," and says that for purposes of extortion they always pretended that the country was suffering from a famine. ,The "friendlies," he says, withheld Information, but the natives who were captured by the expedition immrted all they .knew. Mr. Stanley believes that the lake he discovered in 1870 beloncrs to the Congo. i >" - A Town in Ashes. : Almost the entire town of Smithfield, in Johnston County, N. C., was consumed by fire. The only buildings which remain standing are the County Court House and jail and a few dwellings. Every store in the town and many dwellings were burned. The fire originated about 1 o'clock p. m., and in two hours the town was in ashes. r Tho wind was raging at a terrific rate and jthc flames swept over the town like a hurricane. There was no fire department to fight tije finmoc and the people were powerless I to resist the dCY?uring sweep. ^ The I total loss 19 estimated at upwaTu Zl 9100,000. Much of the property was insured. I The fire originated in the carriage factory of | 6. R. J. R. Morgan. Its origin is thought *-o 1 have been acr>"'~ E?'~" Hamburg's Horror. i. The body of a boy named Steinfatli was found at an early hour in the morning on ,1 HoniKiirrr f-Jprmnnv The bov's ' J* luau u?u ? nl ? - , throat had lieen cut and his abdomen I i ipped open and his entrails removed. Tho body was otherwise shockingly mutilated. It had evidently laid in the road throughout the night. . . Immediately upon the discovery of the murder parties of hussars were sent out to I scour the surrounding country. One of these I parties surprised the murderer, but he sue- j ceeded in effecting his escape. f A Death Struggle in Mid-Stream. . Larry McDonald and Jolm Schneider, two Government employes working on the River Improvement Commission, quarreled in a small skill' in the middle of the river opposite St. Louis. Mo. The men clinched, and a terrible struggle followed. McDonald proved the more powerful, and finally threw Schneider headlong into the river. McDonald rowed ashore, and allowed Schneider to drown. A Tornado in the Northwest. PTVord has been received at Regina of a tornado that struck a settlement on Long Jo>i:e, Northwest Territory. It mowed a fRith thirty yards wide through the bluffs, tearing trees up by the roots. Several houses and barns were blown down, and logs were carried fifty yards. No casualties are reported. Prairie lires swept a large area of land north of Regina. FOUR WERE KILLED, Pathetic Details of a Railway Collision in Illinois. Passenger train No. 2 on the Chicago Sante Fe and California Railroad was run into and badly wrecked at Lorenzo, 111., at 5.30 o'clock in the morning. Four people were killed outright, five wero badly scalded and several others received serious -wounds. The train was running on time, and the extra freight, through some^inexcusable error of the train dispatcher, was allowed to follow her. The engine crashed into the private car, driving it upon the steps of the Pullman car Santa Anna. The fireman of the freight engine jumped and escaped, but the engineer was crushed against the boiler head. In the private car was J. L. Hart, a director of the California Construction Railway. He lives at Brookline, Mass. Both his legs were broken, and he was badly scalded. His son and daughter, who accompanied him, were killed instantly. Henry "VV. Lamb, also in the private car, was scalded about the face and body. Palmer, the freight brake man, was hurled over the freight engine int. the mass of debris, and he escaped with a bad scald on his face and both hands wjre terribly burned. One of the saddest features of the accident is that Miss Alice Hart was killed within a few feet of the man who was soon to be her husband. She was engaged to be married to Henry B. Lamb, and the young couple wero on their way East to bo married when tho accident occurred. ^ THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and. Middle Stales. A. G. Spalding, of Chicago, and his party of baseball players who left San Francisw last fall arrived in New York city after a tour around the world. Isaac Rtcii & CO.. the oldest fish house in Boston, are financially embarrassed. Their liabilities are placet! at $200,000. The firm was part owner of the steamer Haytien Republic, which was seized at Hayti. The j troubles at Hayti are said to have had much to do with the firm's trouble. Downs & Finch, shirt manufacturers of New York city, with large factories at Jamcsburg, Bordentown and Higlitstowu, N. J., regarded as the loading firm in the business in the United States, have failed for$500,000. Ex-Presidext Cleveland has returned to New York city from his trip to Cuba and Florida and resumed the practice of law. A reception was given to Secretary Tracy by the Brooklyn Club in Brooklyn. Orders were issued for the entire Pennsylvania division of the National Guard to go to New York and participate in the ceremonies incident to the centennial of Washington's inauguration. The extensive ax, shovel and saw factories of Hubbard <& Co., at Pittsburg, Penn., were I totallv destroyed by lire. The loss will be ! fully $500,000. I. Ulric Alton, of Greenville, N. H., was killed while driving across the track at' Fitchburg. Mass. OrnnrTtov Tl) i r*\r noi/1 liic fivef. nfRpldl visit to the Brooklyn ^ayy Yard and inspected all the vessels being built and repaired there. Tiie All-America and Chicago baseball teams were warmly welcomed home by their friends at a public dinner at Delmonico's, in New York city, and their trip around the world was celebrated with toasts, words of wit and praise and applause. Among the many speech-makers were Chauncey M. Depew. Mark Twain, Erastus Wimau and Daniel Dougherty. Jacob Saniit, a well-known aud respected ! grocer of Easton, Penn., Commander of Hugh Payne's Conunandery, committed suicide by I hanging himself from a rafter in the garret of his home. After a shut-down of only a week's dura* I tion. the coal miners along the Monongahela I River, Penn.. have resumed work. About 0000 men in all were affected by the resumpI tion. Tiie Boston freight houses of the Boston I and Maine Railroad were destroyed by fire. Loss over $500,000. Matok Grant, of New York, has ap| pointed Fire Commissioner Richard Croker, the leader of Tammany Hall, to the office of i City Chamberlain, recently resigned by "William M. Ivins. Mr. Croker was promptly sworn into office. The salary is $'25,000 a year. South and "West. At Frankforl, Intl., William Pray shot and killed his wife, and then shot himself through the head, inflicting a mortal wound. At a revival meeting at Calhoun, Ky., J. W. White, Sheriff of "the county, confessed that thirteen years ago "he stole $1000 from the county. He made restitution at once. Commodore Ben-ham has taken command of the navy yard at Mare Island, CaJ. Thomas Washxgto.v, fourteen years old, was put off an engine near Charleston, W. Va. He returned and struck Engineer Spriggles on the head with a pump handle, knocking him down, and then beat him to death. Bill Morax, the "Terror of Flat Top," a West Virginia coal mining region, was killed after a most desperate fight. "One officer was fatally injured. Mark Francis, a colored man who was handed at Lebanon, Ky.. on March 2!>, was not killed, and was resuscitated by his friends. He is now at large. Rich deposits of gold have been discovered at Bear Paw Mountain, Montana. The cashier of a bank in Anoka, Minn., has disappeared with $100,000. Craft's sawmill, near Junction City, Ky., was wrecked by a boiler explosion ana rour men were killed. Rain fell in South Dakota extinguishing prairie fires. Miss Bertha Tracy committed suicide at Chattanooga, Tenn., by firing a bullet into her heart, having only a few minutes previously taken chloroform with the intention of ending her life. Frank Harss, of Bloomfield. Mich., aged twenty-two years, was tramped to death by a stallion. "The animal seized him by the neck with his teeth, shaking him terribly, and stamping him to death. The recent storm which raged in Baltimore with severity swept over the lower Chesapeake most disastrously to shipping. More than a dozen seamen lost their lives and forty vessels were wrecked. The Louisville (Ky.) Bridge and Iron Company's Works, the largest establishment of its kind in the South, has been destroyed by firo. Loss, $150,000. Two hundred men were thrown out of work. Scarlet fever of a malignant type has broken oat at Fairbury, 111. Near Yarbnioueh Station, Texas, Rev. Hall Miller shot and killed an intoxicated man of evil reputation named Purchard, who ^ad disturbed his meeting, _ _ I " The President lias appointed Joel B. Er* hardt Collector afc the 'Port of New York* | ] Colonel Krhardt was the Republican candi" i date for Mayor of New York last November) auu is a prominent party leader hi the Me" tropulis. Cornelius Van Cott was appointed Postmaster of the city of New \ ork by the President. Mr. Van Cott is a State Senator, and like Colonel Erhardt has been for years a Republican leader in New York city politics. The Secretary of the Navy has formally accepted the gunboat Yorktown. A parcel post, convention between tliu ( United States and the Leeward Islands, has been signed by Postmaster-General AYanamakor. Schuyler Duryee has been appointed chief clerk of the Patent 0(1 ice. He is f< >rtytwo years of age and was born in New Jersey. A xew Chinese Minister has been appointed to "Washington. His name is Tsin Kook Yan. | He is a man of scholarly attainments, and ! holds high rank as a member of the Imperial 1 * * r Academy ui rtruui. The President and Mrs. Harrison entertained Governor and Mrs. Alger,of Michigan, and the First Assistant Postmaster-General and Mrs. Ciarksou at dinner at the White House. I Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms James Christie, of the United States Senate, has just died of pneumonia. He had been a Senate employe for twenty-five years. ( Secretary Windom ordered the dismissal of Captain Herbert Beecher. a sou of Henry Ward Beecher. from the Government serIvice. In ISS5 Cleveland appointed him Collector of Customs at Fort Townsend, Washington Territory. TriE President made the following appointments: Eben E. Rand, of Maine, to ne Appraiser of Merchandise in the District of Portland and Falmouth, Me.; George 0. Sturgiss, of West Virginia, to be Attorney of the United States for the District of West Virginia, and Hugh B. Lindsay, of Tennessee, to be United States District-Attorney for th? Eastern District of Tennessee. Colonel H. L. Swords, formerly Ser| goant>at-Arms to the Republican National | Committee, Las lieen appointed inspector ul Furniture in the Treasury Department. By direction of the President the Secretary of War has ordered that the new military post near Denver, Col., shall be known as j Fort Logan, to honor the memory of the I late General John A. Logan. The President has designated Assistant | Secretary Bachellor to uet as Secretary of ! the Treasury in the absence of Secretary | Wisdom, and Assistant Secretary Tichenor [ to act as Secretary in the absence of both | Secretary Windom anil Assistant Secretary Bachellor. Harold M. Sewf.ll, removed by Secre tary Bayard from the oflice of Consul-Gen! era! in Samoa, has been appointed by Secre! tary Blaine the disbursing agent to the Samoan Commission at Derlin. Adam C. Tax.ver, of Canton, Oluo, has 1 eon appointed Chief of the Appointment j >i vision, Interior Department. The President has made the following appointments: Frank Phimley, to be United States Attorney for the District of Vermont; George A. Knight, to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of Texas, and James McDowell, to be Register of the Land Office at Huron, Dak. Foreign. The 0000 tusks of ivory, which the Afri- 1 can' explorers Stanley and Erain Bey are reported to have with them, are valued at $600,000. A nephew of Guzman Blanco, ex-President of Venezuela, who committed forgery to the amount of $23,000, has been arrested iu Mexico while trying to escape to the United States. A new Peruvian Ministry has been formed, with Pedro Aleiandrino de Solar as Premier. ** i Hundreds of houses have been destroyed by fire at Swat, India. The loss is placed at .51,000,000. The Dowager Duchess of Cambridge, aunt ( of Queen Victoria, is dead, aged ninety-two. Considerable distress prevails along the Panama Canal. There are still over 3000 persons on the line of the works who are in a destitute condition. Some deaths from starvation have already been reported. The Ameer of Bokhara is about to send his son to Russia to be educated. The State Bank of Russia will open a branch in T^ntlmrn The Persian Government lias ceded tho districts of Kelat and Kederi to Russia. Over 15,000 persons were rendered homeless by the great fire at Surat. India. To add to the prevailing distress cholera has broken out in the town. The rumor that Stanley and Emin Pasha were marching in the direction of Zanzibar was an Arabian invention. A wixe store at Szil, Hungary, was entered bv thieves. The proprietor surprised the robbers at their work and was seized and crushed to death in a wine press. They caught the blood in a cup and forced a passer-by to drink it. King John, of Abyssinia, before his death appointed as his successor his nephew, Dagiac Mangaeia. Tiie French Chamber of Deputies has passed the bill regulating the procedure of the trial of Boulanger by the Senate. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of General Boulanger, Dillon and Rochefort. Copies of them have been submitted to every police station in France. The Indian pearl fisheries are a failure owing to the prevalence of cholera. The failure involves a loss to the government of about ?2,800,000. LATERNEWS. The by-elections in Rhode Island resulted In favor of the Republicans. They will have a majority of eleven on joint ballot in the Legislature. Charles Hopkins, sixty years of age, of Philadelphia, was instantly killed, and John Coogan fatally injured by falling from the fourth story of a now building in Atlantic City, N. J. General Francis Frederick Millex, Irish patriot, soldier and journalist, died at his late residence in New York city at the age of fifty-three years. Pauline Zanchiska, an insane Polish girl, threw herself in front of an approaching train near Scranton, Penn., and was crushed to death. She did it in order to escape capture by asylum authorities. Tiiorwald Egidius, the son of the Nor- : wegian Consul at Amsterdam, committed J suicide in his elegant apartments at New ( York city. Egidius was a tall, athletic man, i about twenty-eight years old. H was well educated and was of a cheerful disposition. Mountain fires were raging on the South i Mountain near Edgeniont, Md. A vast lot of j timber was destroyed. The United States man-of-war Pensaeola, which sunk during the recent hurricane at . Norfolk (Va.) Navy Yard, has been floated. j ana is iounu not uj ou suiuncu. ? Mrs. George Shecklks, while trying to \ extinguish the burning dress of her infant daughter, was burned to death at Shelbyville, Ind. The child also lost its life. The President has abandoned his proposed cruise in Chesapeake Bay for the present, as Mrs. Harrison's health is not good. Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson, U. S. N., retired, died a few days ago at Washington, aged sixty-nine years. He was born in New Orleans, and entered the navy as midshipman in 1830. A terrible explosion has occurred in a colliery at Castrap, Westphalia, Germany. The men were at work in the pit at the time, and twenty were killed. j] The American schooner Carrie A. Buch- ^ nam was chased by a Dominican gunboat and I fired upon off the coast of St Doming, YFest Indies. ^ Archbishop Joseph Tulzsphorus Paul, ol Bogota, United States of Colombia, is (lead, ? " ~ r-T--?T A mTAlTH TJlt; JN UlYLliN ilTlUJN Summary of the Work Done by tin Senate Special Session. | ? Of the 3)0 nominations sent to the Senate j during the special session by President Harri- i a son the following were rejected: Murat Halstead to be Minister to Germany. I L Isadore S. Loventhal to Postmaster at j Modesto, Cal. j. The following remaiued unacted upon (and therefore died) at the end of the session: William H. Whiteman to b? Associate Jus- ( tic? of tho Territory of New Mexico. s Edwin 1. Kursheedt to be Marshal for the Eastern District of Louisiana. e Postmasters?Kittrall O. Haiders at Minot, t Dak.; Carl C. Crippen at Eustis, Fla.; Burt C. Drake at Gainesville, Fla.; Robert P. Pebout at Kusliville, lnd.; George E. Nichol- ? son at Ness City, Kau.; Samuel C. Moore 1; at Find laj*, Ohio. President Harrison's nominations were t contained in :.8-i messages. During the spe- e cial session of the Senate at the beginning of President Cleveland's term ho sent to the | Capitol 118 messagcG. Eighteen of his nomi- , nations failed to receive confirmation, but khere were no rejections. At the last session pf Congress during Hayes's Administration ' the Senate faile I to act ou luu or ins nomi- < Rations, and rojected three?an uuequaled record. t SINGULAR SUICIDE.' An Aged German Kills Himself With jj a Home-made Cannon. Gustavo Stenzel, mi aged German of Mil- f waukee, Wis., shot himself with a cannon t under jK'culiar circumstances. He made the E cannon himself. He first secured a piece of ' cast steel, weighing nine pounds, six inches j lung and two inches square. In this was a , hole nil inch in diameter and five inches deep, i with a regular cannon touch-hole at the end. J He filled it with half a pint of powder and double B shot. He then placed the cannon on a tub. with ' the muzzle close to his abdomen, and deliberately touched off the load. His wife found ' him ljnng on the ground with a terrible hole ' in his abdomen. He died instantly. The cannon was found several yards from the ! spot. Stenzel had been a hard drinker for ' 1? *-~'1 nrnviniK ho I several uuntu^ uuu iu<- ? . threatened to kill his wife and himself. I j WAR SHIPS AT SAMOA. The Three Powers Concerned Agree to itetluee Their Naval Forces. It is authoritatively stated at the Department of State, Washington, that the three treaty powers concerned in Samoan affairs? j Kngland, Germany and the United States? have reached an understanding, by the terms of which they will each keep but one war vessel at Samoa pending the termination of tho Berlin conference. The vessel to be sent there by the United States will be the Alert?a thousand-ton ship now at Honolulu. The German corvetto Sophie, now on her way out from Zanzibar, will represent German interests, while England will doubtless order the Calliope to return to Samoa from Sydney, or will replace her if she was materially damaged by the hurricane. " ... ' - - / ' ' . SWEPT BY A GALE. Terrific Storms Throughout Virginia and Maryland. The United States Ship Pensacola Sunk at Norfolk, A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., says: Thunder and lightning, hail and snow and a bowling gale were what the people in this Ficinity were treated to the other day. This continued all day and changed at 10 o'clock at night to a regular cyclone, the wind blowing upward of fifty-four miles an hour until 5 o'clock that morniug. The wind came from the northeast, and blew into the harbor and its tributaries a tide which, at high water was eighteen inches higher than ever recorded before. Tlio United States ship Pensacola sank in drydock, where she was being prepared for sea. Her sea valves had been opened for inspection and another one was being cut. The tide flooded the dock and she filled with water, and, getting off her keel, sank before she could be got in position again. A diver will have to be sent down and her valves stopped up and the ship pumped out. The Simpson Drydock was flooded and the damage may reach $40,000. The lower part of the city was flooded by the tide, and* fire broke out on "Water street, caused by slacking lime on the wharf of John O. Gamago & Son. The entire block, with the exception of Savage, Son & Co.'s, commission merchants, was in flames. Tho old Cotton Exchange building, containing about 800 bales of cotton, and the warehouse of J. W. Perry & Co., containing about 600 bales of cotton, were totally destroyed. Santos & Bro., coal dealers, lost everything except their office building; Batchelder & Collins, coal, lumber and lime, are damaged to the amount of S-1000, John A. Carnage's loss, including building, is $10,000. The loss on buildings and stock destroyed in this block is estimated at $150,000, partly insured. It is probable that the losses sustained by the wholesale groccry merchants from the water forced into their warehouses by tho unprecedented tide will nearly equal this amount. Hundreds of barrels of sugar and flour and other goods are ruined. During the storm the roofs of the Opera House, Masonic Temple and many dwellings were torn off, and the Virginia Beach Railroad depot is badly injured aud the track for hundreds of yards is seriously damaged. In Portsmouth firo destroyed the lime and lumber yard of Trugie & Hill. The wires along the coast were all down. The snowstorm began at Charlottesville. Va., early in the morning and continued through the night. The telegraph wires were 1-NO/lltr IwaI'oti /1/vrmn alnnrr flm f'Vinco nn^1.'? aut uvuu tuvu^j luv vuvoa^??ivv and Ohio and tho Richmond and Danville railroads and all trains were delayed. The electric light wires were down in the city. The worst storm of the season prevailed at Richmond, Va. It commenced with thunder and lightning, and was followed by rain, hail and snow, augmented by high wind. At nine o'clock tho snow and wind showed no abatement, and reports denoted the storm general throughout the State. A furious snowstorm and blizzard provailed at Winchester, Va., all day, snow falling to tho depth of fourteen inches, as much as has fallen during tho entire winter. At 10:30 o'clock, whilo tho snow was falling rapidly, a loud clap of thunder from southeast startled the citizens. The winds were very high all day. Telegraph wires were down iu all directions. This is the severest storm this late in the season for years. Tho storm in "Washington badly interrupted slectrical communication and workmen were busy all day repairing damaged telegraph ind telephone wires. There are 384 poles iown between Alexandria and Fredericksburg, Va. The barge Sunrise, bound from Norfolk for New York with coal, was towed to a buoy in Delaware Bay and anchored by the tug B. vv. morse during a Heavy gale. At miamgnv the barge foundered. The Captain, his wife ind two children and one seaman were lost. Joseph Coyle was the only survivor of the 1 (vreck. ' Coyle, in the open boat drifted ashore near ( ;he Government pier. He was picked up in in exhausted condition by one of the crew of ' ;he Lewes Life-Saving Station. A dispatch from Baltimore says: Reports . ?ming in from the counties in the State , ihow the storm to have been a very peculiar ' >ne. The snow and rain was accompanied by j ihunder and lightning, and much damage was lone. Near Mount Airy rain began to fall in orrents and continued until at about 2 p. m., vhen the snow began. In some places it was rom eight to ten inches deep. A terrific galo ; >f wind was blowing, and the snow was \1m<4inrr A ciiicnilnv fonfiirn nf t.hn J vas that while the snow fell there wore con- lj inuous peals of thunder and vivid flashes H ightning. Prom Knorville down th^Tclep-aph poles and wires were strewn'in all 1 lirectious. Throughout the State nearly all ' he wires were down. Ob* the bay the wind 1 lew a gale. PROMINENT PEOPLE.. King John of Abyssinia is dead. | The Pope is a very fine chess player. Secretary Windom is worth $5,000,000. ^ 1 Senator Stanford is worth $40,000,000. P. T. Barnum began poor and has now ' 5,000,000. Emperor Franz Josef is to visit Berlin 1 bout the middle of August. The Empress of Japan has abandoned her [ ntention of visiting this conntry. The Prince of Wales has accepted an invi- ' ation to dine with Mrs. Bonanza Mackay. tWt'r \t H *t.stfad. editor of the Cincinnati ' 7ommercicdrGazcttey is a sufferer from eryipelas. I Mrs. Amelia Rives-Chaxler, the author* ss, is just twenty-six years old, having been \ >om in lt)G3. Bismarck looks pale and haggard and has 1 ;rown ten years older in appearance in the ost twelve months. , The Emperor of Austria lias given orders hut his dead son's name shall never again be ( poken in his hearing. The lato John Bright had on the walls of | lis study a portrait of Gladstone, one of Linoln and one of Washington. ( Stoxewa r.i, .Tacksox's widow is now living n Randolph County, N. C., with her father, . vho is ninety-one years of age. King Alexander, of Servia, is a tall, veil-built boy, but awkward and shy. Ho ' akes much interest in natural sciences. Admiral Kimbkrlv, who is in command ; if our Pacific squadron, is fifty-nine years of ! ige, six feet in height, well proportioned, and luick in all his movements. I Tnr. family of Assistant Postmaster-GeD;ral Clarkson is composed of five persons? limself, Mrs. Clarkson and three sons. The i ddest son is eighteen years of age and the I -oungest six. Tnt will of the late John Scott, of Pitts- I >urg, President of the Allegheny Valley Rail- I vay, leaves nothing to his wife, while his ""MO Avilir <51 tim ia , ralued at ?300,000. J Miss Clara Huntington*, the daughter of he railway magnate, has $4,000,000 of her >wn, and will inherit four or five times as uueh. She is about twenty-three years old md goes but little into society. Ward McAt.ijster the famed leader of ;he Four Hundred Aristocrats of Gotham, is :lose on to sixty years of age. He is a tall, n-ell-built mail, with a brown mustache and jjoatee, slightly streaked with gray. One of the closest students of the Indian problem and one of the best informed persona ti the country in matters relating to the Iniians is Miss Kate Drexel, of Philadelphia, rhe Indian in her hobby, and sho is said to jive ?hri,U!W a y^ar out 01 ner own mcome 10 ihe Indian Department at Washington. Chang Fan Mo ah, tlio interpreter atSnchcd to the Chinese Legation at Washingcon, is described as a gigantic blonde Chinanan, with a profile as regular ns a Greek itatuo. He comes from the north of China, ivhere, owing to tho severity of the suniptuiry laws, the race is kept intact as to its unasual size and peculiar attributes. Mrs. Ella Clymep., the new President of Sorosis, is said to be tho handsomest member Df that highly intellectual organization of tvomen In New York. She has a sweet, Mar lonna-like face, bi^ dark eyes, and a soft, ,ow voice. Mrs. Clymer is a widow, wao was left a large fortune by her husband. She Dossesses exquisite taste in dress, and is, in fact, an ideal President. J--"-' -v'.-T w APEIL THANKSGIVING, The President Recommends Kcll/cious Services on Centennial Day. The following proclamation has been issued by the President: A hundred years have passed since the Government which our forefathers founded was formally organized. At noon, on the 30th day of April, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, in the city of New York, and in the presence of an assemblage of the heroic men whose patriotic devotion had led the colonies to victory aud independence, George Washington took the oath of office as Chief Magistrate of the newborn Republic. This impressive act was preceded at nine o'clock in the morning, in all the churches of the city, by prayer for God's blessing on the Government and its first President. The centennial of this illustrious event in our history has been declared a general holiday by act of Congress, to the end that the people of the whole country may join in commemorative exercises appropriate to the day. In order that th9 joy* of the occasion may be associated with a deep thankfulness in the minds of the people for all our blessings in the past, and a devout supplication to God for their gracious continuance in the future, the representatives of the religious creeds, both Christian and Hebrew, have memorial ized the Government to designate an hour for prayer and thanksgiving on that day. Now, therefore. I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, in response to this pious and reasonable request, do recommend that on Tuesday, April tfO, at the hour of nine o'clock in the morning, the people of the entire country repair to their respective places of divine worship to implore the favor of God that the blessings of liberty, prosperity and peace may abide with us as a people, and that His hand may l9ad us in the paths of righteousness and good deeds. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. Done in the city of Washington this fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-nine, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirteenth. BENJAsnN Harrison. By the President.?James G. Blaine, Secretary of State. FIRE IN SAVANNAH. Fifty Buildings Bnrnetl, Causing a Loss of $1,500,000. The fire which recently swept a number ol business houses and dwellings at teavannan, Ga., out of existence, was the most extensive in the history of the city. The loss is undoubtedly over $1,500,000. The fire broke out during the evening and rapidly assumed proportions of a connagra tion. The local lire department was inadequate to cope with the names, and the Mayoi of Atlanta was asked by telegraph to send all the firemen he could spare. That half of Savannah was not swept from | the face of the earth is little short of miracu- j lous. The halt of the conflagration after It i had burned out the Independent Presbyterian Church and its chapel, together with three adjoining dwellings, wtu not due to human efforts, Decause at thai point not a single engine or stream of water was available against the destruction. The total number of buildings burned is estimated at fifty. The Independent Presbyterian Church, a four-story brick building, and the new bricfc arsenal of the Savannah Guards Battalion, were destroyed. The fire also swept along the north side ol South Broad, from Whitaker street to within one house of Bull street, the structure left bein* a large brick residence owned by Dr, Daniel Hopps STANLEY AND EMIN. (1 Keport That They are Marching together to the East Coast. Advices received at Brussels, Belgium, from Stanley Falls state that Arabs who have irrived there report that Henry M. Stanley ind Em in Pasha were heard from in Fefcruiry. They were then marching toward Zanzibar, with several thousand men, women md children. They also had 6000 tusks o? ivory. The Arabs who brought news of Stanley and Emin arrived at Stanley Falls in February. They claimed to have seen Stanley several months before that time. This report, says the New York Post, seems to be a confirmation of the rumor, published recently, that Stanley was on his way to the East Coast, and it would also indicate that lie had safely rejoined Emin according to the plan mentioned in the letter just published. and thafcjtfrs. -detenhlnea finally to" sefcaino civilization with all the men, women and children attached to his command. This would apparently fulfil the main object of Stanley's expedition, although there is a political side to it yet to be explained. THE LABOR WORLD, About 3000 iron cars are in use. "Western* stove foundries aro nearly all on full time. A new forty mile ore road is to be built in Michigan. TriErtE are two hundred gold beaters in \Tew York. In the South all the coke ovens are running louble time. There is a general depression in labor conlitions abroad. A lady in Belfast, Me., is learning the nachinist's trade. Minneapolis, Minn., has 2000 men who ire looking for work. Montana coal miners show an out crop ;wenty-two feet thick. New Bedford, Mass., is to have a mill for weaving fancy cashmercs. A thousand dock workers at Marseilles, France, have gone on strike. The Gadsden, (Ala.) car works have an or- I ler for 700 cars for one road. A good many costly hotels are being built ; >f concrete and artificial stone. Starvation' wages and idle workmen is ;he story that comes from Berlin. A bed plate weighing thirty-three tons ivas recently cast at Steclton, I'enn. In the neglected mining district of Zacalpam Mexico, labor is paid ?14 per month. ivages are being reduced in New England | rvoolen mills and new mills are starting up. In Baltimore 5000 women and girls get tho J iverage weekly wages of for making overills. A Vienna man- is making good leather Tom red beechwood. It can bo nailed ox iewed. Patterson, (N. J.) silk weavers work till ) o'clock at night, and new silk mills are starting. Delaware River shipbuilders have contracts enough on hand to keep them busy for two years. The New York Progressive Musical Union has taken steps toward getting up a national organization. The 10,000 washerwomen of Paris havo formed a union. They will demand seventyfive cents per day. IN Australia twU,-K?> worKiiien, uiupiuj Oi m "1,570 shops and mills, have their lives injured against accidents. Nashua (N. II.) tool makers have had to reduce wages five to thirty-live per cent, to meet Western competition". Building in the City of Mexico is said to be so active that some of the work has to be suspended for want of bricklayers. The striko outbreak in Germany is so general tbat it would appear to be an organized co-operation of the trade centers. The Standard Oil Company think they now have a process to turn lime into gas, ann have just bought up 40,000 acres of territory. Postmaster-General "W'anamaker is the pioneer in Philadelphia in employing colored people for responsible positions in his business. A Union- of Manchester (England) TaHarasses has been formed. Miss Iiarkness stated that there were 25,000 tailorcsscs in London, working sixteen hours a day, at two cents an hour, when they can get work. Ai.nEHT Raymond, a Jersey City (N. J.) painter, is out with an offer to paint 100 0 to S inch letters, six colors to a letter, against any man, the painting to be done on glass, in water colors. He has a 6.2a record for the job. . . _ . .1 ~ - > . - _ Vv r . - . . ." * - - ' ' , - ". j A CENTENARIAN DEAD, Death of Chevreul, tlie Distinguished French Chemist. M. Michel Eugene Chevreul, the distinguished French chemist, has just died in Paris at the age of 103. He was born at Angers, August 31, 1780. He was educated in the schools of that place. In 1810 he was appointed a professor of chemistry in the Lycee Charlemagne. He was awarded in 1823 a prize of $2400 for an essay of animal oils. He succeeded his old master Vauquelin in the chair of chemistry at the Museum of Natural History in 1810. He was made commander of the Legion of Honor in 1844. He was the author of many works on scientific subjects. In 1886 the centenary of his birth was celebrated in Pains. Almost to the last he was a devoted student, and his intellect and memory were both unimpaired by advancing years. His vitality was amazing, and ho betrayed the liveliest interest in all current affairs of the day. His daily life was one of extreme simplicity and rigid regularity. Of late years lie was only out of bed for a few hours daily, but this wus only a matter of precaution. Ho pursued liis studies in his bedroom, and received his friends, with whom ho discussed chemistry and colors, with unfailing animation. It may lie interesting to know that he never drank, never smoked, and never ate fish or drank milk except when mixed with other food. His regular diet was of strong soups, beefsteak or cutlets, and coffoe. A NEW SENATOR, Election of Nathan P. Dixon by the Rhode Island Legislature. The Rhode Island Legislature, on the ninth ballot, elected Nathan F. Dixon to the United States Senate as successor to Senator Cliace, resigned. Senator-elect Dixon is a lawyer about forty-two years of age, and is the third member of the same family with the same name. All three have been graduates of Brown University, and lawyers. The first, Fifter serving seven terms in the Rhode Island Legislature, was elected to the United States Senate in 1839, and served there till his death in 1842. The second served six terms in the State Legislature, was elected seven times to Congress, and declined further service; then was subsequently elected six more times to the Legislature, serving until hjs death. The third of the name, now chosen United States Senator, was graduated at Brown University in 1869, and is at pres ent a member of the State Senate. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Scott's "Marmion" has been dramatized. German- opera is to bo produced in Boston. Mrs. Crabtree (Lotta's mother) is worth $800,000. Bernhardt is making a tour of Algeria, j north Africa. Emma Abbott, the opera singer, was born in Peoria, 111. The Buffalo Bill "Wild West will open in Paris May 15. It is said that there are 1200 actors out ol employment in this country. Del Pjtente, the tenor, is to be with the Patti Opera Company this fall. Josef Hofmann, the boy pianist, will return to America next November. iVlME. ALEAK! wiu neau an xuumu upeio company in this country next season. Adelaide Moore,the English tragedienne, is to return to this country next season. Pauline Lucca is concertizing in Austria prior to her proposed departure for this country. Ernest Gye promises us a season of Italian opera with an American prima donna and chorus. Victoria Vokes, the handsomest of the Vokes Sisters, will tour the United States next season. Clara Morris, the emotional actress, -was taken ill in St. Louis recently by an abcess i on each hip. A floating Russian theatre and hotel i9 ! successfully touring the shore towns of the j Volga River. Another American singer, Miss Jeanne Danish has made a success on the concert platform of Berlin. Margaret Mather, the actress, has made arrangements for a twelve weeks' tour of the West this summer. The "Passion Play" will be given at Oberammergau in the autumn of 1&90. The text j and music have been revised. John Duff, lessee of the New York Standard Theatre and an old-time theatrical man- i ager, died recently of paralysis. Miss Mary Anderson has sailed for Eng ~-krwi>-. She was much improved in health and will protsatty resume-" Eer American tour in October. Fanny Davenport, the actress, who was at one time very obese, has reauced her weight from 215 pounds to 16S by the system of Banting. In Japanese theatres females are not allowed to act with men, consequently the Ophelias, Juliets and Perditas are played by men with shrill falsetto voices. Maurel, the baritone, is to receive S100,000 for forty performances in Buenos Aryes, while Patti is to be paid $180,000 for singing thirty times in South America. Harriet Hcir, an ex-English actress and a fine-looking young woman, was lately arrested in London for attempting to enlist as a private soldier in the British army. Signor Massini, the famous tenor, at his recent benefit in St. Petersburg, Russia, received so many presents that twenty-four servants were needed to carry them from the opera house to his hotel. Catelix, a once popular French tenor and a pensioner of the Societe des Artistes, and noted of late for his squalid poverty, was lately discovered dead in his miserable garret in Paris. Over $7000 was found by the po-' line hidden in his wretched mattress. New railroads tu'o projected every day. Among the recent announcements ar6 a 235 mile road from Springfield to Hannibal, Mo., a 210 mile road from Waco, Texas, to Shreveport, La., and a sixty mile road from Coleman, Texas, to Albany, Texas. Railroad building is looking up. THE MARKETS. i 15 NEW YORK. Beeves 3 05 @ 5 10 Milch Cows, com. to good.. .25 00 @45 00 Calves, common to prime... 4 00 @ 6 30 Sheep 3 75 @ 6 25 Lambs 2 00 @ 5 50 Hogs?Live 5 00 @ 5 40 Dressed 66% Flour?City Mill Extra 4 50 @ 4 05 Patents 5 10 ^ 0 40 Wheat-No. 2 Red 85%(S> 88% Bye?State 59 @ 61 Barley?Two-rowed State... 70 @ 74 i Corn?Ungraded Mixed 41 (5. 44 ' Oats?No. 1 White ? @ 39 . Mixed Western 30 @ 83 Hay?No. 1 t>0 @ 95 Straw?Long Rye ? @ 75 ; Lard?City Steam ? @ 6 70 Butter?Elgin Creamery.... 275^@ 28 Dairy, fair to good. 18 <tf) 24 West. Im. Creamery 17 @ 23 i Factory 10 @ 19 j Cheese?State Factory 10^@ 11 Skims?Light 8V?(S} 9 Western 9 @ 10% TVcs?State and Perm 11%@ 12 i BUFFALO. Steers?"Western 2 SO @ 4 25 Sheep?Medium to Good.... 3 25 @4 75 Lambs?Fair to Good 5 25 ft 6 00 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 15 @ 5 20 Flour?Family 5 00 ft 5 25 Wlieat?No. 2 Northern ? ft 89,^ Com?No. 3. Yellow ? ft 3S}<j Oats-No. 2. White 30%ft 31% Barley?No. 1 Canada ? Cj 70 BOSTON. Flonr?Spring Wheat Pat's., fi 70 ft 7 25 I Corn?Steamer Yellow 43 ft 4f;'-^ Oats?No. 2 White 31 ft 40 Rye?State tio ft 70 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef?Dressed weight 5 ft 0 Sheep?Live weight 4 ft 5}^ Lambs <> ? Hogs?Northern .'... ? ft 5;1; PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn. family 1 50 ft 4 75 Wheat?No. 2. Red, April... Ill ft 02 Corn?No. 2, Mixed, April.. 41 @ 42 Oats?Ungraded White ? ft 33}? j Potatoes?Early Rose 30 ft 40 : Butter?Creamery Extra.... ? @ 27 / i Cheese?Part skiias 0 @ ' .... /? ' / ; HI ME WORDS OF 1YISIK>M? H Attack is the reaction. To the lean pig a fat acorn. jjEj Good bread needs no trumpet. He is the happiest, be he king or pe&^Hj ant, who finds peace in his home. HH Let us consider the reason of the cas^H For nothing is law that is not reason. Bfl To be prepared for war is one of tl^H most effectual means of preserving peac^H If you employ your money in doinjHj good you put it out at the best interes^H He draweth out the thread of his velwl bosity finer than the staple of his argtfiS ment. Ql The heart of a beautiful woman, that of a beautiful flower, may ba tigH abode of a reptile. flH When the sun of virtue is set the blufHH of shame is the twilight. When thdBQ dies all is darkness. 90 Liberty is the soul's right to breath^H and, when it cannot take a long breatl^H laws are girded too tight. 9H It is always to be feared that they wh^H marry where they do not love will lo\fl9| wuere uicy uu nut marry. MM That character in conversation whic^M commonly passes for agreeable is macflH up of civility and falsehood. hQ There is music in the beauty and tl^B silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweet^Hj than the sound of an instrument. HH When bad men combine, the goolM must associate; else they will fall, onebflS one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contempt*? ble struggle. i Ba The Home of the Moravians.. jfc|l On the north side of the Lehigh RiveiES fifty-four miles from Philadelphia, anjjfl twelve miles above Easton, Penn.,. M situated one of the neatest and most aflB tractive towns in the State, and in all itflfj government probably one of the quietes1flg| The borough of Bethlehem also occupi?M both banks of the Monocacy Creek, thdsH at this point adds its pure waters to more turbulent neighbor, the Lehigh. WSj is probably due to the excellent watenjjR more than any other one thing, that tracted its first settlers and caused thei^H to build their houses at this most deligh^H ful spot. It has always been the princ^H pal settlement of the Moravians, or Uni'e^M Brethren, in the United States, and fcjflfl an entire century retained the principle o^B its original organization?to wit, the ex^H elusion of til persons who were not mem^H bers of the church. H| The name Bethlehem was derived fror^H the. following circumstance: "Coun^B ZinzendorfE, a Saxon nobleman of wealtJ^H and great talent, and of the Moravia^H faith, arrived in New York in November^? 1741, and came to Bethlehem in Decem^H ber, and in his house the celebrations o^h nativity of Jesus Christ took place on ih^H 24th of the month. This celebration sug^n gested to the Count a name for the net^H settlement, and it was accordingly c&lleJH Bethlehem." SI The wealth which within the past teen years has centred in the Bethlehem^H has been attracted principally by the coa^H and iron interests, situated on the line o^B the two great railways which connect thJH anthracite regions of Carbon and Luzern^H Counties with New York and Philadelphia and in the heart of a valley which is proflH verbially rich in iron ores and limestone^H enterprise was not slow in selecting Beth^J lehem as a most desirable point for th^H successful prosecution of traffic in thos<flH indispensable staples of modern civilizaMB Bethlehem, the seat of the LehigbH| University, possesses an admirable schoo^H system, an efficient fire department, forn^Hj ? ? ? ? J ?11 Qcwspspcrb^ anu uu iiiu which distinguish'a prosperous and en^H terprising community. ? New Yor'i^M Graphic. Esdtinf Adventure With a Whale. The fishing schooner G. A. Whit^H has returned to Port Townsefld^^B Washington, from a halibut cruise in th^H North Pacific. Her mister, Captain^B Charles Johnson, relates an exciting ad-^B venture with a whale. The vessel wa<^H anchored on the Flattery Banks, seventy^B five miles from shore, with all of tht^B crew out in five dories catching halibut,^B when a school of fivf black whales cam^K alongside. 0.ae of the school got en-^B tangled in the vessel's cable, the anchoi^B parted and the vessel, in tow of t?^H monster, was taken at a rapid rate to th^H westward, the only person aboard being^B the Captain and the cook, who were un-^B able to stop her. jj9| The whale became exhausted and^B brought the schooner around in a circle^B rr ifliin flffrr from where thev started.^H The windlass was rigged and the vesse^H hauled alongside of the whale. measured over eighty-four feet. With^H one turn the cable became disentanglecBj on the whale's flank, and the whale dis-^H appeared beneath the water. The Cap^H tain and cook hoisted sail and returnec^H for the boats, where the crew was safely^B found twenty-four hours later. The ex-^H perience was the most exciting that haj^f ever occurred off Flattery Banks. The^H story is vouchsafed for by all the crew.? San Francinco Chronicle. flfi Cuban Pineapple Plantations. Hj Twelve miles from Havana is a fln^H pineapple plantation of sixty acres, ownec^H by two brothers. The pineapple tree^H arc low and bushy, about two feet high,H| with long and prickly leaves extendin^H up and around the pineapple. Thes^H bushes, or trees, are planted touching^? each other in rows about four feet apart^H Each tree has an apple growing in th(^| top. Some were just forming, other^H half grown and others full gro-vn. W^H had the pleasure of eating them ripe frorr^H the trees, and we found the flavor fa^H superor to those we get at home, whicl^B are shipped green to ripen on the way^H - ""*A ^ +V,? There are about ivuu trees iu iw Each tree produces an apple every eigh^H months, which are sold on the place fo^H about ten cents apiece. The trees art^B pood for four years' bearing; they ar^H then replaced with fresh settings. It wa^H indeed .1 pretty sight?the pineapples ir^H their different conditions furnished dif^H ferent hues?some golden, some azurAB and some bluish green, all blending to^J gether, making a beautiful picture.?At^^k Untu Constitution. J An Oil King's Luck. 13 The luck of John McKeon, the oi^H king, continues, his present income fron^E his wells being *50,000 a month. addition to his oil interests, he owns 25,^H 000 acres of yellow pine lands in Ala^| bauia, one of the largest flour mills Minnesota, and a business block in Balti^E more said to be worth $1,000,000^B ' Nevertheless he goes about his oil well^B from five in the morning until late in th^H evening, iu an ordinary workman's dress^H i ?A'eic York Tribune. flD