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' A FARMERS' CONVENTION. iFirst Meeting of Its Kind Ever Held in This Country, i 'What the Farmers of the Mississippi Valley Hope to Effect. The wheat-growers of the Mississippi Valley assembled in convention at Central Turner Hall, St. Louis, a few days since to organize for future action. Walter N. Al- i len, President of the Farmers' Federation, called the convention to order and made a long speech. He said that it was the first meeting of the kind ever held on this continent. "We are not here," he said, "for the purpose of denouncing trusts and combines, DUt to meet the issue of now systems and | conditions in trade. Realizing our individ- j ual feebleness, and the great importance of , unity of action as a class, we have beeu called together to con- ! eider the proposition to delegate | to a power of our own creation, the exclusive right to market the products of our farms, and to take such measures as will afford present relief and future protection to the agricultural interests of the Mississippi Valley. The farmer is the only producer who sends an over-supply of his wares to market to be sold by some one else, and, like | the goods of the bankrupt, at some one else's j prices; and, when he dares complain of the j sacrifice, the answer of the master is, 'Over- ! production.' Over-production cannot, in justice, be wealth for the nation and slavery for the producer. "If farmers would organize, like manufacturers, to control production and regulate the output in the public market, they could in common with all producers, set the price on their own products irrespective of overproduction, or the power of the Liverpool markets. The unavoidable tendency of the present established trade system is to bring the price down to the lowest limit at which a food supply can be produced under the most favorable conditions of soil, season and climate. Now, in order to advert impending ruin, we must reverse this order by substituting a new system, fixing the price of farm products at the cost of productfsvn nn larirlc that niwliirv milV t.hirl'V fold. This will restore the natural law of exchange with equal and exact justice to all. In other words, the difference between the present trade structure aud the system proposed is, the one tends to the minimum price that a food supply can be obtained witnout checking production, while the other seeks the maximum that a food supply can be sold at without diminishing consumption. "The power to establish the value of one bushel of American wheat and one barrel of mess pork can control the markets of the world. This power is to be found in the centralized agency of the the Federated Farmers of the Mississippi Valley, a company legally chartered with a capital stock of $20,1)00,000, and as your servant this company awaits your bidding to enter upon its work of redemption." Ex-Govcrnor Charles Robinson, of Kansas. was made Temporary Chairman, and he addressed the convention, strongly urging unity of action and organization of the farmers throughout the grain-growing States. Norman J. Coleman, of Missouri, ex-Secretary of Agriculture, was made Permanent Chairman: Walter N. Allen, of Kansas, Vice-President: T. G. Wilson, of Minnesota, Secretary, and J. P. Limeubener, of Kansas, Assistant Secretary. Mr. Robert Linblood, of Chicago, spoke briefly to the delegates, stating that he sympathized with them in their cause which he thought was a good one. Resolutions were adopted setting forth that farming, under existing laws, is a losing business, and that Congress and the President be asked to make such reciprocity rrit.h fnrnicm nntinns as will CailStt such nations to remove cnstoms duties from farm products shipped abroad, thereby resulting in a higher price for the product. Congress was also requested to pass laws throttling trusts and monopolies. A resolution was also reported requesting Congress "to pass laws declaring option trading r. felony. The resolutions were adopted. At the afternoon session the Wheatgrowers1 Association of the Mississippi Valley was organized. This is a sort of an annex to the Farmers' Federation. Norm an J. Colman was elccted President, and an Executive Board, consisting of two members from eacjj State or Territory, was named. The Executive Board is to have full power to transact the business of the association. It will fix the price of wheat, build granaries and store wheat until the fixed price is obtained. Agencies will be established in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha on December 1 for the purpose of handling the product ot the association. The convention then adjourned sine die. i? ^ PKOMINENTPEOPLE. ' Walt Whitman, the poet, is reduced to a wheel chair. Prince Bismarck has been ordered to take a physical and mental rest. Mus. Frank Leslie wears black leather boots with tips and laces of silver. President Carnot, of France, is making arrangements for a visit to Algeria. I Lord Tenntson is hard at work on a new SOOO poem for one of the English magales. * -T&e King of Bavaria receives an income | of $1,000,000 a year from the profits of a brewery. Lafcadio Hearn, th? brilliant New Orleans writer, has a Greek mother and a British father. The new crown being made for the Empress of Germany will contain 1500 diamonds and eleven large pearls. Queen Victoria is said to have real estate i investments in New York city which pay her a handsome income. The mother of Bayard Taylor recently celebrated her eightieth birthday. She lives at Kennett Square, Ptnn. Sir Frederick Young, the English scientist, at the age of seventy, has just finished a trip of 16,000 miles through Africa. A marble statue of the Princess of "Wales, by a French sculptor, is to be executed fur erection at Copenhagen, Denmark. The efforts which are making to induce Oliver Wendell Holmes to write an autobiography are not likely to meet with success. Historian Bancroft says that he feels as well as he did sixty years ago. Horseback friding, he asserts, is the best elixir of j jouth. i Secretary Balfour, "the best hated anan in England," is forty-one years old *nd does not look like a strong man either (mentally or physically. j The Sultan of Turkey has lost n zrert deal of flesh of late and begins to look like an old man. His physicians have ordered him to drink plenty of wine. General Stuart Van Vliet is the old,?>t General of the retired list in the United States Army. He is seventy-four years old and served fifty-two years. William O'Brien, the Irish patriot, is | a slim, weakly-built, consumptive-looking | man of four and thirty, with a p&lid, intellectual face and a fair chin-beard. George William Curtis is a determinedlooking, concentrated-mannered, polishedspoken man, with a clean-shaven upper lip and irem gray side whisker of the proverbial Englisu barrister. He is six and sixty less i four months. Acting Rear-Admiral John G.Walker, i who has just been ordered to command the Squadron of Evolutions, with the new cruiser 1 Chicago as his flagship, is a man of striking j appearance. He is about six feet in height, J with broad shoulders and erect form, and wears long side whiskers. Bret Harte, who has a great social as ' well as literary popularity in England, is now i a handsome, ruddy, white-haired mail, and j owes his popularity in a measure to nis mastery of Western slang; and that eloquence of j destitution of the proper phrase, his pathetic, j uneducated, humoristic slang. Dr. Talk age is a tall, acrobatic- , manered man of lanky build, with a palid face framed in well-trimmed side-whiskers, i He sermonizes after a delightfully original 1 fashion, and though his utterance is a trifle ! disjointed, he is an excellent preacher. He [ is also seven and fifty, and he is getting bald j rtf* The Bank1 of Russia has just discovered thai the new bills of -5 rubles put into circulation only a short time ago have already I been forged in a very perfect way. Only ex- | perte of the Bank of Russia a re "able to dis- j tinguisb the forged bills from the genuine. v. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. The round house and machine and repair ' shops of the Pittsburg and Castle Shannon i Railway, at Castle Shannon, Penn., have been burned. The World's Fair subscription books were | opened in New York city and $250,000 was | subscribed by Cornelius V amlerbilt, the New York Central and the Wagner Palace Car Company. Jessie Truitt and Maggie Camack, ages : respectively twenty-five and twenty-two , years, of South Chester borough. Penn., | were run over by a railroad train and killed. I Mamie, the three-year-old daughter of j Henry Matthews, of Orange, N. J., was | burned to death by her clothing catching fire from the stove. The Protestant Episcopal General Convention, at New York .city^rl journcd after taking action on the race problem and passing the tirnr/M'tmnpti* ttmivMCTitnt.inn nilftstion On to the convention oiTiS92. Three thousand delegates attended the Christian Endeavor Union of Connecticut, at New Haven. Fire destroyed much of the business portion of Port Leyden, N. Y., entailing a loss of $115,000. The National Association of Collegiate Alumna; began its annual session at Buffalo, N. Y. Joseph S. Boxxey, aged sixty-two years, a well-known inventor, who for "thirty years had lived in Lawrence,Mass., committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. The Rev. Dr. Talmage preached his farewell sermon at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, before setting out for the Holy Land. Boston held its centennial of Washington's visit to that city in 1789 and inaugurated a movement to restore the grave of Mary Washington. The principal portion of the town of Stonoboro, Penn., has been destroyed by fire. The loss is 5150,000. A fast freight train jumped the track at Rah way, N. J. Three men received fatal injuries. Caleb Di.xsmore, of Claremont, N. H., aged fifteen, committed suicide by placing the muzzle of a gun to one of his eyes and Qring the gun with a cane. South and West. No collector has been stationed at the United States Custom House at Osooyoos Lake, on the British Columbia border, and nnm,- tho Tnrlionc h?vr> mssessinn of the structure formerly occupied bT representatives of this Government. Opium is being smuggled across the line and cattle are being stolen by border thieves. The New Orleans Grand Jury have indicted ex-State Treasurer Burke, who is now abroad, for forgery in uttering as true forged Louisiana bonds. Children playing in a barn at Muskegon, Mich., set the building on Are, and little Annie Michaels perished in the flames. Alliance Day drew 60,COO farmers to the Piedmont Exposition at Atlanta, Ga. A number of vessels have been driven ishoreby bad weather near Norfolk, Va. While Hugh McCullogh, the Superintendent of Perkins's cotton gin, near Memphis, Tenn., was sitting in his office, an unknown person shot him through the window and killed him. The United States war ship Galena arrived at Chesapeake Bay with a number of the rioters from Navassa Island on board. Fif.e at Port Clinton, Ohio, destroyed August Spies &Co.'s lumber yard, an elevator filled with grain, two dwellings, railroad :ars and docks. Loss, ?100,000. Joe Harold, the colored man who made an assault on a lady of Columbus, Miss., was captured at Tupelo, and was taken to the scene of his attempted outrage, fully identified and lynched. He confessed. I Two bovs of Fultonvile. W., Va. drank a I 1,-Jf Miwl f!ipr> i The steel cruiser San Francisco has teen successfully launched at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco. Fiue has destroyed property in Selnia, Ala., to the value of nearly a quarter of million dollars. Mrs. Catharine Clifford, a lodginghouse keeper in St. Paul, Minn., has o^n burned to death. While driving to the fire which destroyed her house Chief Engineer Cook was thrown from his carriage and fatally injured. Five men are to be hanged in Hancock, Tenii., on December 23, for the murder of Henly Sutton, a prominent stock buyer. The murder was the result of a family feud, and the Tennessee Supremo Court has confirmed the sentence of tne lawer court. Mr. and Mrs. Miller, an old couple who ived near Unadilla, Ga., were brutally 'murdered by thieves, and their house ransacked and robbed. F. M. Arthur was re-elected Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at the convention at Denver, Col. Oliver Garrison, seventy-nine years old, who built the first steamboat to ply Detween New Orleans and St. Louis, has committed suicide at the latter city. ' Sergeant T. C. Baron*, Thirteenth Regiment, U. S. A., was fatally wounded by a butcher named Taylor, during a drunken brawl in Guthrie, Indian Territory. Fire in the packing-house of Armor & Co., in Kansas City, has caused a loss of ?110,000. Great excitement exists at Lexington, N. C., on account of the arrest of thirty whit? men, charged with the recent lynching of Robert Berrier, who murdered his motherin-law. Five Chinese lepers have been shipped back to Hong Kong from San Francisco. The forty-third annual meeting of the American Missionary Socioty opened in Chicago. The drug establishment of O'Neil & Dyas, at Akron, Ohio, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $250,000. The United States^ship Monougahela, which arrived at San Francisco from Samoa, brought the body of Captain C. M. Schoonmaker, of the United States man-of-war Vandalia, who was drowned in the great torm of March 10. "Washington. The President has appointed Edward T. : Green, of New Jersey, united States District Judge for the District of New Jersey. Immigrants who arrived at theportsof the United States from the principal countries, except Cayada and Mexico,' during nine months ending September 30, numbered 3o9,ios, a decrease of 103,0!>9 as compared with the same months last year. The contract for furnishing postage stamps for four vears has been awarded to the American Bank Note Company of New York city. President Harrison has granted an absolute pardon to George C. Wood, convicted <>f po ygamy in Utah and sentenced to five I years'imprisonment in the penitentiary ami to pay a fine of $500. t u.-t,, t-* a CHTAV irac),;n^nn l,n tiecn appointed counsel for the United States , before the Venezuela Claims Commission. Bids for three new 2000-ton steel cruisers were opened at the Navy Department. Five ; builders tendered bids, and all were within the appropriation. President Harrison has appointed John C. Sloeum, of Florida, to be Surveyor-General of Florida. yy-jj Secretary Tracy has awarded the contract for the building of the new 2(KK)-ton cruiser to the Columbia Iron Works and Dry Dock Company, of Baltimore, at their bi 1 of $1,225,000. Private Secretary Hai,fori> has returned to Washington from Fortress Monroe, and resumed his duties at the White House. (tuim riELU l'Bk ueen ?(>|Kiiiiiru i mident Harrison Postmaster at Philadelphia. Acting Secretary Batcheller has decided that Chinese laundrymen are laborers within the meaning of the Chinese restrictive net. and are therefore prohibited from lauding in the United States, no matter whether they have been here before or not. Attorney-General Miller has appointed James P. Van Rensselaer to be Assistant District-Attorney for the Southern , District of New York. Foreign. The special commission to inquire into the charges made by the London Times against Charles Parnell and other members of the Irish National Party in Parliament has resumed its session in London. Irish Nationalists met in Dublin and organised the Tenants' Defence League. President Barrillos, of Guatemala, has ordered the execution of seven insurrectionary leaders who were taken prisoners in the district of the Republic, where a revolution is now in progress. The German police have notified Count Dillon, the French political exile, to quit Dieuze; otherwise they will arrest him and expel him from Germany. The cotton crop of Egypt promises to exceed last year's in quantity. The average quality will probably be similar. The Cunajrd steamer Cephalonia, which sailed from Liverpool for Boston, had to put into Holyhead on account of an explosion on board, by which the second engineer and four firemen were seriously injured. Prixce Francis Hatzkeldt has been j married to Miss Clara Huntington, daughter )f C. P. Huntington, the American railroad ! magnate, in the Brompton Oratory at London by Bishop Emmans. Ix a railway accident near Agra, in India, fifteen persons were killed and forty injured. The British ship Bolan, from Calcutta for I Liverpool, has foundered at sea. Thirty (/Ill C'J 11 v n ct c luoc. The General Transatlant-'c Line steamer Ville de Brest burst her boiler in Tunis Bay. Five persons were killed by the explosion. Five thousand miners employed in the colleries in Barinage, Belgium, went on strike. Herb Gosche, professor of literature in the University of Halle, Germany, has committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. President Barillias, of Gautemala, is reported to have killed twenty-four of the leaders of the recent revolution in that State. They are said to have been supplied with arms from Mexico and New York. The balance of the profit on the receipts of the Paris Exhibition, amounting to about $810,000, is to be divided between the State and the city of Paris. Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, in a speech at Sidney proposed a federation of all the Australian colomes. Princess Sophie of Prussia and the 1 Crown Prince of Greece were married at Athens. A Canadian Government organ has announced that proclamation of the Weldon Extradition Act is deferred until the United States Senate takes action on a new British Extradition Treaty. The United States ship Mohican, which ar- ; rived at Honolulu from Callao, received orders to proceed to Samoa to reinforce the Adams, which is there now. LATEE NEWS?" The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, accompanied by his wife and daughter, left for the Holy Land on the steamship City of Paris. The steamer win carry mm to unerpvin, j after a short stay there, the reverend gentle- I nan will take a steamer up the Hediterra- i nean. The stealers Cleopatra and Crystal Wave were sunk in a collision off the Delaware Capes. The Indiana State Board of Health has received information that hog cholera is prevalent in the northern and northwestern counties of the State. One of the large boilers of the Bellair blast | furnaces at Bellair, Ohio, exploded with terrible force, cracking two other boilers in the I main battery and wrecking the boiler-room. ' The damage to the mill and adjoining prop- j erty is $200,000. No one was injured. Rear Admiral Walker was entertained : at dinner by his friends in Washington; and ! Admiral Franklin, in the same city, gave a I dinner to the delegates to the Maritime Con- I ference. rr, 1 I Ime; annual j cj>ui i> v/i Nelson A. Miles, commanding the Division of the Pacific, has been received at the War Department. He recommends appropriations of $30,000,000 for sites, plants and guns. J Secretary Blaine has acquitted Consul J Lewis of the particular charge made against j him by Ramon Azogue, interpreter at the I Tangier Consulate,of withholding money due ] the latter. The London Missionary Society has re- | ceived news of the massacre by natives of ! Rev. Mr. Savage and a number of native teachers, and the crew of the society's vessel, the Mary, in New Guinea. It has been announced that Mr. Balfour, the Irish Secretary, would introduce in Parliament a bill providing for a large system of land purchase. The railway system on the island of Jamaica has been sold by the Colonial Government to a syndicate of American capitalists. ATE TWO MEN, A Revolting Tale of Cannibalism at j Carl Graves, fireman, and Ludwig Lorler, I eamin, two survivors of the crew of the toamship E irnmoor, who have reached Bal- 1 timore, tell a story, horrible iu its details, of ! the way they sustained life by cannibalism I for days. Lodersaid: "The only food we had for the first fifteen j days in the boat was a flying fish and a few j raw small seabirds divided among eleven j men. On the sixteenth day out William Da- ! vis, a Somali, aau^lifc me by the throat, and j made a dash at my head with a knife. He I cut me on the right cheek, the scar from | which still remains as you will see. "Ho was told to attack me by August Plngge, a fireman, When Davis began to cut i me some of my companions caught him, but j others shouted: 'Kill him! kill him! We want something to eat?we are starving 1' It seems | that Plagge, Davis and others in one end of j the boat had decided that I should die, as, j i?eing pretty fat, I lookca inviting. ua^gt ( was placed on wntcli that night, but he was | missing next morning. No one saw him ge overboard. "On the seventeenth day "William Robin- j son lay down to sleep. When they tried to I call him tlicy found him dead. It was deter- j mined to cat his flesh, and William Wright, i the cook, was ordered to carve the body." i Loder continuing, told how the flesh"of the j dead seamen was partaken of by the rest o\ j the crew, and how Third Engineer Hunt, who died two days after Robinson's death, was ! also cut up for food. * RAILROAD COLLISION. Three Persons Killed and Four Injured. Norfolk and Western east bound passenger train No. 2, which left Roanoke, Va., fifteen minutes late, was run into by a west bound freight train east of Bufordsville, wrecking the freight engine and five cars and the pas- j senger engine, baggage, mail and express I cars. Thousands of dollars' worth of canned foods were scattered in every direction, j hree men were killed and four injured. > The collision was caused by the freight men mistaking the figure 1:20 o'clock for 1:40 on mfcir uruvr. iuc* !?uvum tracked their train at the station east of Bu- ) fords. A colored man who was returning from ! church saw the trains approaching each j other and signaled them. Th? passenger | train had nearly stopped, but. tlvj freight | dashed into it at" the rate of thirty miles an hour. BIG CAPTURE OF TRAMPS, j Thirty Sent, to .Jail in Twenty-Four Hours In twentv-?T,,f hours officers arrested j al'cv.o tnirty tramps between Rending and j Lebanon, Penu., ami they were all sent to jails in those two cities and Harrisburg. For months past the Lebanon Valley has been overrun with tramps, and many crimes have been committed, houses and stores have been burglarized, highway robberies committed, women insulted and abused, and houses and barns burned. Stolen goods in large quantities were found in possession of the prisoners, some of which have bsen identified by merchants as their property. Evidence is being gathered which is expected to send some of them to prison for long terms. I A WRECK IN MID AIR. Workmen Killed and Injured by a Peculiar Accident. A Car Load of Granite Falls With Shocking Besults, The great cable used for transporting granite blocks overhead across a gulch at the Sodom Dam on the new Croton Aqueduct in New York broke under the strain of a neavy joau. xuu acviucav wvuuvu heads of a gang of thirty or forty Italian laborers, and the terrified men were in flight when the great mass of stone and iron was descending to the ground. Two, however, were caught and crushed to death, their remains being unrecognizable as human bodies, and six of their companions were injured, some fatally, by flying pieces of granite and wood. The Sodom Dam is about two miles out of Brewsters, in the village of Sodom. It is designed to be a storage reservoir for New York city, and the water is to cover 1530 acres? by far the largest reservoir in that section of the countrv. The valley in which the dam is situated is bounded on each side by lofty hills. The dam is to be of granite, 125 feet in height, sixty feet wide at the top ami 150 feet wide at the bottom. Across the valley immediately above the stone work was stretched the cable of wire, four inches in diameter. It ran over towers on either side and was buried deep in the hillside with the best of anchorage. It had been in use since the work begau, and was originally capable of bearing a weight of ten tons. A swinging car was arranged to run out? across the cable from either side. This car was used to transport building material? granite, cement, tools, etc.?but the workmen were never allowed to ride in it. By means of a guy rope a catch could be thrown off and the car lowered to any part of the work. A car was sent from the west side loaded with two huge blocks of granite weighing two and a half tons each. It ran as usual until over the place at which a gang of thirty or forty Italians were at work lay ng the stones. As the car neared the men the crowd of spectators on the west side began to shout, having noticed that the strands of the cable were parting. Those near the work were alarmed and took up the shout. The workmen attempted to escape, but the car was by this time over them and was descending with lightning speed. There was a scattering for dear life and taany succeeded in escaping tlie falling mass, which a moment later crashed upon the Stone-work. The great blocks of granite Were splintered and the fragments flew in all directions. A cry or horror went up from the crowd as they saw two of the unfortunate workmen, paralyzed with fear, throw themselves flat on the ground. A second afterward a horrible shower of blood, bruins and splintered bones was thrown out, but the sight was mercifully almost hidden by the great clouds of dust. Rocks were thrown among the companions of the unfortunate men and a number of them, with several of the onlookers who stood fifty yards away, fell bleeding. The broken cablo squirmed like a thing of life, and several men were struck by it and knocked senseless. As soon as the dust clcared away the terrified workmen approached the place. They were horrified at the spectacle. Blood was oozing from uuderneath the car. Derricks were procured and the mass of stone was lifted. When the car was hauled off the bodies were found to be crushed beyond all resemblance to human beings. They were left as they lay, and the wounded were removed to temporary quarters. TEE LABOR WORLD, Oct of 1060 convicts in the Eastern Pennsylvania Penitentiary only nineteen are said ro be mechanics. There is a project for the formation of a National organization of the Picture Frame Workers' "Unions of the United States. The shepherds at Anteguesa, Spain, recently went on strike for an advance from seventy to 120 reals per month. They won. The unions of Massachusetts will request the next Legislature to enact a law which will prevent the counterfeiting of union labels. In January next the International Tailors' Clan of New York city will have two classes for thi instruction of its members in ladies' tailoring. Owing to the protests of the unions of Indiana the directors of the South Indiana Peni-tentiary have decided to stop shoemaking in the institution. The 713 convicts employed in the Riverside (Penn.) Penitentiary are making mats and brooms, which, the warden says, are exported to Australia. The Columbus (Ohio) Trades Assembly will make special efforts to defeat candidates for the Legislature who refuse to sign their eight-hour pledges. Cigarmakers' Union No. 100. of Philadelphia, has made a contract with Gumpert Bros., who have granted their 200 employes a slight advance of wages. A new development of the labor question is the suit begun by two miners at Greensburg, Perin., against a boss who called them "Mollie Maguires" and "Anarchists." It is reported that 180 new locals of th? K. of L., with 8340 members, have been formed within two months, and that 86 locals have been reorganized or reinstated. Ax organization of clerks has been formed in Manchester, England, with a membership beginning with 509. It includes only those who are engaged in bookkeeping. An appeal has been issued for the formation of a National Union of Tile Layers. It is proposed to call a National Convention of rhe trade if this appeal meets the approval 'f the local unions. Several ladies in Everlav, a village in Yorkshire, England, have started a co-operative shirt factory. .Stock is being bought rapidly by workingwomen in other trades, and the affair has been a success from the start. The "Western Window Glass "Workers' Union h;is won its strike at Pittsburgh for a ive pc* cent, advance in wages, and business ias been resumed. The plate glass workers > [ Pittsburg have also been successlui in tney -trik*. Favorable accounts of the prospects of the K. of L. in Great Britain are given by Master Workman Archibald, of tlio New York Paper Hangers' Assembly, who has spent two months in Europe as a promoter of the interests of the order. The paving stone cutters have a national union, with fifty-six branches and 1T00 members in nineteen State.--. Maine lias ten branches. About one thousand members are located in that State, and they cut about one hundred thousand stones daily. The new Brotherhood of United Labor has already adopted a seal bearing a square and triangle and the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity?Equal and Exact Justice to All ?Special Privileges to None/' It already claims a membership of 20,000. A skillful cork cutter can produce from 1500 to 2000 corks a day, his only tools being two sharp, broad bladed knives. Machines have been introduced which can turn out about 2000 corks an hour, but they are useless for the cutting of the finer qualities. The Shoe and Leather Reporter says that in the clavs of shoe manufacturing by hand one person produced on the average a pair and a half a day. At that rate it would require the labor of 333.-)33 persons to furnish the 150,000,000 pairs of shoes worn yearly by the people. A\ ;th the modern machinery 140,000 make the shoe?. John' Bcp.ns, the leader of the London dock laborers, says that the remit strike was but a preliminary skirmish, and that the struggle of British workingmen will be continued. He has announced that thenextthing to be undertaken is the establishment, of a general Federation of Labor, with branches in all parts of Great Britain. Tns new United States cruiser, which will be constructed at the Brooklyn Ntivy Yard, will be limited in cost to $'1,100,000. Before any work is done in the ship proper a model will be made on the scale of a quarter of an inch to rhe foot. This model will be 12% feet, long and perfect in every detail. From it tus sched* .it' tb? materials will ha ruaxtu. Japanese papers bring the story that five schoolboys hiding in coffins to fool their teacher, in the province of Kiangan, were suffocated. A sixth, left as a sentinel, was then whipped to death by the teacher. -' " . - ?~r *' r . 'v WITH A GILT SPADE, Dr. Talmagc Breaks Ground for the New Tabernacle. The ceremony of breaking ground for the new Tabernacle, to be erected in Clinton and Greene avenues, in Brooklyn, attracted a large number of spectators. The exercises consisted of singing, prayer, reading the Scriptures, and addresses. Dr. Talmage presided, and also turned over the first sod with ? TTIE TABERNACLE BEFORE THE FIRE. a gilt spade. The top of the iron part of the i spade, as well as the handle, was covered with blue plnsh. Among the ministers who | participated were the Rev. Dr. Lvman Ab- ; bot, the Rev. Dr. Ingersoll, the Rev. John j D. wells, and the Rev. Dr. Terhune. Dr. ( Talmuge made an address, in the course of j which he said: "We put our church here because it is as ! near as we can get to the centre of our con- ! greg&tion. We were central when we planted ! OUT former church where it was, but Brook- ! <3^ > THE RUINS OF THE TABERNACLE. lyn moved on and moved up and moved 1 out." Treasurer Jolin Wood said it would be one , of the largest and most imposing churches in ! the world. The regular seating capacity would j be more than 5000, and by throwing open the ' Sunday-school rooms there would be accom- | modation for 2000 more. The insurance com- ! panies affected by the late fire have settled ! with the trustees for $115,000, which will 1 about pay for the ground for the new build- j ing. The building that was burned down was [ dedicated February 22. 1874, and was known j as the largest Protestant church in America. Since then other large churches have been j greeted, but now it is very probable that the I new church will be the largest and most j beautiful in the countrv. A FEUD ENDS IN A BATTLE, j Two Men Killed and Several Wound- I cd in Iowa. A feud of twenty years' duration has been ! settled near New Hampton, Iowa, by n general battle, in which two men were killed nnd several others wounded. Thomas Doud. his ' two sons, Peter McKenna and a number of j other farmers met at the farm of Albert Smith ! to assist him in a barn raising. A feud has dx- I isted for twenty years between the Doud and McKenna f ami lie.-, who occupy ad- ! joining farms. All the neighbors have j takon sides one vvay or the other, and the j men who met were "armed to the teeth and i prepared for anv emergency which might i arise. They worked together quietly until 3 I o'clock in tho afternoon, when a dispute I arose. Hot words passed, when without a ' moment's warning Thomas Doud drew his re- ! volvcr and fired at McKenna, who was stand- | ing ten feet away. McKenna was hit in the j forehead, and the top of his head was blown j off. As he fell a man named Mulvihil, a j friend of McICenna's, shot Doud through the ; lungs. Then the battle became general. A posse i "r tt-oc oont. out-, from New Hampton, I and Doud's two sons and Mulvihil wcro | brouzht into tbc town and locked up. DANQEROUS DYNAMITE. One Person Killed, Five Injured and ! Many Houses Destroyed. A workman named Chartrand, employed j with a number of others in making a drain l on Panthalion street, Montreal, lighted a fire in a forge close to several primed dynar mite cartridges which were being used by the contractors who had charge of the work I for blasting purposes. The cartridges ex- | ploded, instantly killing Chartrand, aged , twenty-one, seriously injuring five other per- , sons, and badly damaging many houses in the neighborhood. The wounded are Mrs. , Charboneau, A. Leblanc, Mme. Leblanc, Philippe Leblanc, and Mrs. A. Bilodian. Chartrand leaves a widow and two children, j MUSICAL AND D'MMATIO. Mrs. Bancroft will probably return to j the English stage in a version of Sardou'j [ 'Belle Maman." Robert Mantell intends, it is said, toap- ! pear in New York city as Hamlet before the end of the season. Charles Wtndham has secured the English rights of all Robertson's comedies for the term of five years. "Dante" is a new opera by Benjamin Godard, to be brought out this winter by the Paris Opera Comique. Professor Herkomer's next play will include a theatrical marvel not as yet attempted?real lightning. Joseph Jefferson and W. J. Florence are doing a remarkable business at the Star Theatre in New York city. A complete cyclus of Shake.-peore's hisI torical dramas will be given during the win| ter at Frankfurt, Germany. Map.v Anderson, in recent letters, exj presses the hope that she may be able soon to resume her stage performances. Maggie Mitchell, in her successful ! comedy drama, "Rav," is the attraction at rlie Windsor Theatre, New York city. Pauline Lucca is to go on a concert tour 'hrough Russia. She has quite abandoned rlie idea of revisiting the United States. Robert Buchanan is busy on an Irish romantic drama, which will probably be proluced at the Princess's Theatre in London. Otto Hegner, a thirteen-year-old pianist, has made his first appearance m this our.try at the Metropolitan Opera House, >7ew York city. Johannes "Wolff recently played eleven pieces on his violin for Queen Victoria, and he gave him a diamond pin and wrote him an autograph letter. John V. Bridgeman, a well-known dramatic writer, has inst died in London, in his eventieth year. He was one of the editors f the Musical World. The ladies of Munich, Germany, desire to erect a statue to Richard Wagner in that town, and they hope t~> attain riie necessary , funds by an appeal to the isri?ei of Ger many. The Shah of Persia was so delighted with he performance of ''Excelsior,'' which he witnessed at the Paris Eden Theatre, that he determined on having a representation given !n his palace at Teheran. Emma Abbott is reported to have recently said: "I)o you know, 1 have never been in better voice than I am now. Sorrow seems to have developed new tones; to have deepened and strengthened and mellowed thern. i am offered larger terms from managers than I have ever had before.1' The "Merchant of Venice" has been pre--euted at the Broadway Theatre, New \ ork ity. with Air. Booth as Shylock and Madame Modjeska as Portia. During Mr. Booth's engagement he will be seen as Don Csesar in "Don Caesar ile Bazan," a part that he has not acted in this city in several years. A controversy has, it is alleged, arisen :n Leipsie. Because the authorities of the Church of St. Thomas there propose to conaerate a chapel to the memory of Mendelsohn, the anti-Semitics have made the porentous discovery that Mendelssohn was .escended from a Hebrew. Hence tfc* j . umpus. . i WORDS OF WISDOM. Remember impertinence isn't wit, any more than insolence is brilliancy. If young men -will not believe in themselves, no man or woman can believe in them. If you haven't the moral courage to laugh at sneerers, then you are another nf nfl?iirf>1a mistftlfps. If you learn that people say spiteful, wicked things about you, and untruthful things at that, be silent. Don't talk about what you are "going" to do; then, if you fail to accomplish it, nobody will know. Do not be afraid to go near your ene- . my. The nearer you get to a kicking horse the less damage will result to your person. Treat all men and women considerately and you will be surprised at the dividends that will come to you daily and yearly. The man wha does a generous act and lets the world into the secret shows the world a peach after rubbing the bloom from it. Cultivate a cheerful frame of mind and the mind will mold the face and the tongue and the voice into something irresistible. If you do a good piece of work in finance, journalism, politics, art, music, or literature, do not spoil it by voluntarily speaking of it complacently; and, on the other hand, do not speak of it disparagingly. As there are mountebanks for the natural body, so are there mountebanks for the politic body; men that perhaps have been lucky in two or three experiments, but want the grounds of science, and therefore cannot hold out. "VT^ ~ VlA VlOO nu JUUU 13 a tuuuuuuxo v U1LV1 uv MUW property of his own. Those people who want things divided even, have nothing to divide. The anarchists who would blow the world up with dynamite, would have first to steal the dynamite. A person using a word possessing two meanings, can dodge either, as circumstances occur; but a word'can only have one true meaning, and therefore words are given two meanings, to give a falsehood the appearance of being the truth. Natural Enemies of the Snake. Other animals fcre natural enemies of the reptile tribe, but the American eagle is known to be the most savage and fearless foe of the deadly rattlesnake. Besides preying upon birds and small animals, the eagle has a relish for ser? olert rvn+liore fVipm in as food jJCUbO UUU aiov ^UVMV?W .? for its young. On one occasion, while a party of gunners were out on the mountains they espied an eagle several hundred feet in the air slowly winging its way toward a distant pine forest. When directly over them the men fired several shots at the bird and were greatly surprised to see it drop what they supposed to be a large eel. Going to the spot where it fell, the men were startled at the sight of a full grown rattlesnake almost lifeless, but still squirming among the fern shrubs. The snake was badlj torn by the eagle's talons and having | been severely shaken up by the fall it I was easily despatched with a club. At I another time an eagle was seen to rise | from the summit of a high rock. Suddenly the bird began to flutter one of its wings and fell to the ground below the rocks, making a rapid descent ol about 100 feet. Three or four coal prospectors who had witnessed the singular affair ran to the scene and found the eagle and a rattlesnake locked in deadly embrace. The rattler had thrown a vigorous coil around one of the bird's wings, and down the contestants came together, more dead than alive. One day near the middle of last August, a log cutter heard a terrible racket among his chickens while in camp enjoying his noon repast. Getting up hurriedly from his rough board table he went out to an old log stable from whence the noise proceeded, and was astonished to find that an old hen in defending her little "chicks" had picked the eyes out ol" a four-foot rattlesnake. The other chickens took no part in the fight except an old rooster that had cautiously enough "tackled" a baby rattlesnake, and, holding it up in his beak, was making a big display before his admiring lady friends.?Philadelphia Press A Petrified Man. Our Australian cousins havegota novel i sensation in the form of a petrified man, I and it is clear that they place great store j by the new acquisition. The remains of ' a person long deceased, would not, as a : rule, fetch any very extravagant sum in 1 the market; but it is evident that this particular specimen of the genus homo j possesses an exceptionally high value in I the eyes of his Australian discoverers. A man who has been literally turned to stone?a real human being, not a mere carved or sculptured statue, whose body i and limbs, nevertheless consist in every part of solid rock?may not be entitled , to be called a man of the stone age, yet he is a curiosity of sufficient interest to > * " ' ? virViA ' make tnc ioriune 01 any may get possession of liim. Henc? it is that the first public appearance of the ; stone man is iu the. law courts of the j capital of New South "Wales. This petri- i tied fellow creature begun to find work ; for the lawyers from the moment of his j discovery. Meanwhile he has been ex- j hibited to the public by two showmen, ; who were accused of being in unlawful ; possession of this fossilized specimen of ; prehistoric man. The case has at length, been settled in favor of the defendants, j who will, therefore, be able to continue i their exhibition, which is understood to 1 be as good as a gold mine to the lucky I showmen. No doubt the "petrified man'' ' will eventually turn up in London, and ' perhaps Mr. Barnum may make up his I mind to add this latest anthropological I curiosity to the attractions of the new j museum now on its way to London.? | Loudon Standard. Utilizing Worthless Materials. Not the least hopeful of the signs of i the times is the tendency to use materials once thrown aside as worthless. Cot- : tonseed oil was once w ithout value. Slag, i formerly mere rubbish, is made into j beautiful ornaments for the table and mantelpiece, and some varieties have been j utilized as a manure or iu road making ; Anthracite cord was long in proving its i claim to be a serviceable fuel. Coal dust [ is to-day used in 'tilling iu" places where | mining has been carried on with such j vigor as to endanger houses and streets. The probabilities are that each year will \ press into service something that hasj hitherto been overlooked. It is not likely that man knows the full worth of everything in nature's storehouse. ?P?????mmmmmrnrn SABBATH-SCHOOL! INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOBj NOVEMBER 17. ; Lesson Text: "David's Last Words/'j ; II Sam. xxiii., 1-7?Golden Text: II Sain, xxiii., 5?Com mentary. 1. "Now these be the last words of David.^ Things are apt to look very different when one comes to the last hours of life in the morji tal body; earthly things fade, their importance vanishes, trials seem no longer great; and eternal things become intensely real; nMKinnr onnai^owr*rr nnf iKn King of Righteousness and His righteous] kingdom. David, the man after Goa's own heart (I Sain, xiii., 14; Acts xiii., 22), Is ixi] this lesson brought before us with eyes di-i rected afar off to the highest mountain peakof revelation, the establishment of the king-] dom referred to in chap, vii., 16. Jacob seee and speaks of the same things when in his] dyipg moments he calls his sons around him] and tells them what shall befall them in the; last days. (Gen. xlir., 1, 10.) 2. "The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, j and His word was in my tongue." Here is ?1 definition of inspiration. The Spirit speaka,^ the words are His, but He uses David's j tongue; so Jesus testified that David himself | said by the Holy Ghost (Mark xii., 36) and! Peter testified that the Holy Ghost by thej mouth of David spake; so Paul testified that) the Holy Ghost spake by Isaiah (Acts i., 16;* xrrtii.. 25); and in II Pet. i., 21, we havethe, comprehensive statement that "Holy men of] God spake as they were moved by the Holy, Gho6t." The Fifth Article of Religion in] our Book of Prayer emphatically states that "Holy Scripture is therefore the Word ofi 1 God; not only does it contain the oracles of| God, but it is itself the very Oraclea of God.^1 Let us yield our, too often unruly, tongues: to this same Spirit, who dwelleth in us if wen are true believers, that He may use then^ only for the glory of God. 3. "The God of Israel said, the Rock of V rad spake to Me." In the first verse it wa?i \ the God of Jacob, perhaps with the thought; of the Great Creator ana Restorer (Elohim)^j who could make something out of and turn i for His glory such crooked ones as Jacob and? ' r* !J __ J _ M 1 i. U 4.1 l/aviu anu au ui us aio uy uutuic, uaoii/j?i the God and Rock of Israel, the same creat-j ' ing and restoring and covenant keeping! Elohira, but now in reference to the broken,^ helpless, clinging, earnestly seeking one, whd] had power with God and man, ana received' the new name of Israel (Gen. xxxii., 26-28).j Both Moses and David loved to speak of Goal as their Bock (Deut. xxxii., 4,15,18, 31: Pali xviii., 2, 31, 46, etc), but it is from the mar-, gin of Isa. xxvi., 4, that we get the title}, "Rock of Ages." In this verse and th?: last we seem to have very clearly the Three Persons of the Trinity, the Rockf pointing us to Him who was smitten for us,i from whom alone comes living water, in whom we hide, on whom we stand, and who' shall soon break in pieces the governments of earth and establish His own kingdom. "Hk that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in! the fear of God." We now for a time low sight of David as we fix our eyes upon that' Just One (Acts vii., 52; XTii., 14), the King whoj shall reign in righteousness (Isa. xxxri., 1),1 of whom it is written: "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto1 David a righteous branchy and a king shall! reign and prosper, and snail execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, pud Israel shall dwell) safely; and this is His name whereby Ha shall be called, the Lord our righteousness# (Jer. xxiii., 5, 6). "Whatever He does shall b? /Innex f/?QT- /vf fViA T .nrrl {flit.lifnllv- ftnii with a perfect heart (II Chron. rix., 9). ' 4. "And He shall be as the light of the morning when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds." One of His last names in Scripture is in Rev. xxii., 10, "The root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star;'' and in Mai. iv., 2, "The sun of righteousness." The time of His appearing in glory to build up Zion (Ps. cii., lb) is preeminently called "the morning," as in Ps. xlvi., 5 (margin), where the whole subject is the safety of Israel when He judges the nations and makes wars to cease, and where it is written "God shall help her when thq morning appearath," or (R. V.) "at the dawn of the morning." and again in Ps. xlix., 14v v. "The upright shall have dominion over theffl L in the morning." . 5. "He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure." This is our golden text, and it is in some respects the center of the lesson, for it brings before us God and His faithful covenant and assurance of complete fulfillment, inasmuch as there can be no failure on His part. The two "althoughs"' which begin and end this verse point to possible failure on the part of David and his house, for man is only and always when left to himself a failure; but the terms of the covenant indicated that whQe iniquity might have to be chastened David's house and kingdom should be established forever (chap, vii., 12-16); so that it might truly be called an "everlasting covenant, ordered (or furnished) in all things and sure;" or, as it is in Isa. lv., 3-3, "The sure mercies of David," pointing to the time when other a II mm tA Teraol KnoonCfl nf thflfp uauuuo OUWi 1 uu wv AOiiM.* wwiwww v, _ glorious king. Gaze on the full consummation of the things included in this covenant as revealed to the prophets: "Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David,; and upon his kingdom, to order it and to establish it with judgement and with justice, henceforth even forever;" "At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem,' neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil 'heart." "And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and David, My servant, shall be king over them; and the nations shall know that I, the Lord, do sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore." (Isa. ix.; Jer. iii., 17; Ezek. xxxvii21-28.) With such a kingdom before him, and, like Abraham, believing what Gcd has promised He is also able to perform, David is able to sny: "This is all my salvation and all my desire." 6, 7. "But the sons of Belial (R. V. the ungodly) shall be ail of them as thorns thrust away; * * * * * they shall be utterly burned with fire." Thorns' and thistles are the manifest evidence that the earth is still under the curse of sin (Gen. iii. IS); Jesus uses them as a symbol of the natural, unr&. newed heart when he says: "Do men ^rather trrapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" (Matt. via." 1C). And the ungodly are tnus acscriDea in Ezek. ii, 6: "Though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell iimonc scorpions, be not afraid of their words." We are all of us such by nature and by practice; sin dwelleth in us, and all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Tbcsi wbo will not repent, but persist in their urfBgPiliueSSy?^ have nothing to expect but efl!<v!ast;ug destruction from thejpresence art he Lord, and from the glory of His power when He shall come to be glorified iu Hjsriaiiits (II Thess. i, 9,'10); they will not be drawn by love, therefore they must perish ly? judgment. May we be amoug the mighty ones of the ti*ue David while we wait for the Lord more thau they that watch for the morning. (Ps. exxz, 5, 6.) ?L esson Hclver. 0.*n ii-ast go to tne coauuj to find people who are constantly enough in the midst of the sights and sounds ol the opening year to take cognizance cJ lie order of that grauc- procession, with March blowing his trumpet at the head of it, and April following with her green fla~ and the rest coming in their turn, till Febniarv brings n? the rear with its white banner. London h;^ eighty one hospitals and fifty dispensaries supported by voluntary contributions. Last year 1,038,000 outsiile patients we:<? treated at the dispensaries and out-service department of the hospitals. One in every four of tlio inhabitants of London receives gratuitous medical tiv?at? naent when ill. Thehe is c. village in Tippecanoe County, Ind., that rejoices in the name of B. This is the shortest name in the United States, and, of course, as riort as any in the wcrl 1.