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SOVEREIGN STATES, j La^?t Act in the Admission of North and South Dakota. Proclamations Issued Declaring Them Members of the Union, President Harrison has issued proclamations admitting North and South Dakota to the Union of States. It was expected that the President would withhold his proclamation until all four of the new commonwealths could come together. General Harrison said the returns from both the Dakotas were in and there was no occasion for further delay in the matter. As [ * tir I soon a? tile returns ironi >? luuuigivu are received the proclamation admitting her will lie issued and so. too. with Montana, when the present political complications shall have been straightened out. The following dispatch was sent from the Executive Mansion by Secretary Blaine to Governors Mellette and Miller, of North and South Dakota, Bismarck, North Dakota: "The last act in the admission of the two Dakotas as States in the Union was completed this afternoon at the Executive Mansion at 3 o'clock and forty minutes by the President signing at that moment the" proclamations required by the law for the admission of the two States. The article on prohibition, submitted separately in each State, was adopted in both. The article providing for minority representation in South Dakota was rejected by the people. This is the first instance in r.he history of the National Government of r.win States, North and South Dakota, entering the Union at the same moment." In the proclamation admitting North Dakota the President says: "Whereas it has been certified to me by the Governor of the Territory of Dakota that within the time prescribed by act of | Congress a constitution for the proposed State of North Dakota has been adopted and the same ratified by a majority of the qualified voters of said proposed State iu accordance with the conditions prescribed in said act; "And whereas it is also certified to me by the said Governor that at the same time tV-at the body of said constitution was submitted to a vote of the people, a separate article numbered twenty, and entitled 'Prohibition,' was also submitted and received a majority of all the votes cast for and against said article as well as a majority of all the votes east for and against the constitution, and was adopted: "And "whereas a duly authenticated copy of said constitution, article, ordinances and propositions, as required by said act, has been received by me. tnefofnre T Beniamin Harrison, I President of the United States of America, do, in accordance with the provisions of the act of Congress aforesaid, declare and proclaim the fact that the conditions imposed by Congress on the State of North Dakota to entitle that State to admission to the Union have been ratified and accepted and that the admission of the said State into the Union is , now complete." In the proclamation admitting South Dakota the President says: "Whereas it has been certified to me by the Governor of the Territory of Dakota that at the election for delegates the 'Sioux Falls Constitution" was submitted to the peo-1 pie of the proposed State of South Dakota,j 1 as provided in the said act; that a majority i of all the votes cast on this question was 'for the Sioux Falls Constitution ;r and that the said constitution j was at the time prescribed in the act resubmitted to the people of South Dakota, with proper changes and amendments, and has been adopted and ratified by a majority of the qualified voters of said proposed State in accordance with the conditions prescribed in said act: "And whereas it is also certified to me by the said Governor that at the same time that the body of said constitution was submitted to a vote of the people, two additional articles were submitted separately, to wit: An article numbered twenty-four, entitled Prohibition,' which receives a majority of all the votes cast for and against said article, as well as a majority of all the votes cast for and against tne constitution,and was adopted, and an article numbered twenty ave entiueu .ninoniy xvepr^cutattuu, which did not receive a majority of the votes cast theron or upon the constitution and was rejected. And whereas a duly authenticated copy of said constitution, additional articles, ordinances and propositions as required by said act, has been received by me? "Now, tnerefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, do, in accordance with the act of Congress aforesaid, declare and proclaim the fact that the conditions imposed by Congress on the State of South Dakota to" entitle that State to admission to the Union have been ratified and accepted, and that the admission of the wiid State into the Union is now oomolete." THANKSGIVING DAT NAMED /* The President'*; Proclamation Fixing1 the Date. The following proclamation, setting apart Thursday, November 2S, as a day of National thanksgiving, was issued: v^Bythe President of the United Slates?a proclamation: A highly favored people, mindful of their dependence on the bounty of Divine Providence, should seek fitting occasion to testify gratitude and ascribe praise to Him who is the author of their many blessings. ^- v. It behooves us, tlien, to jook uack wmi thankful hearts over the last year, and bless God for His infinite mercy iu vouchsafing to our land enduring peace, to our people freedom from pestilence and famine, to our husbandmen abundant harvests, and to them hat labor a recompense of their toil. Now. therefore I. Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, do earnestly recommend that Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of this present month of November, be set apart as u day of National thanksgiving and prayer: and that the people of our country, ceasing from the cares and labors of their working-day, shall assemble in their respective places of worship and give thanks to God, who has prospered us ou our way, and made our paths tne paths of peace; beseeching Him to bless the day to our present and future good, making it truly one of thanksgiving for each reunited home circle, as for the Nation at lnrge. Iu witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, the first day of November, 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 fourteeth. Benjamin Harrison. By the President. James G. Blaine, Secretary of State. SENTENCED TO DEATH. Nine Men to Hang at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Judge Parker, of the United Slates- Court for the Western District of Arkansas, has passed sentenced of deatb at Fort Smith upon Sam Coins, Jimmon Burris, Harris Austin, John Billy, Thomas Willis, M. James. Jefferson Jones, George Tobler and Charley Bullard, execution to take place Thursday. January 16, 1800. This is the largest number ever sentenced in the court at one time, and as there are no extenuating circumstances connected with any of their cases, they will all likely be executed on the same day and at the same time, making the largest number by three ever hanged in Arkansas 011 the same day. Goins and Jimmon Burris. Choctaws, killed Houston Boice in the Choctaw Nation in November, 18S8. Harris Austin, Chickasaw, slew a white man at Tishomingo in 1884. John Billy. Thomas Wiilisand James. Choctaws, murdered Matison Williams in the Choctaw Nation in April, 1889. Jefferson Jones, Choctaw, killed Henry Wilson in the Choctaw Nation March 13. 1880. George Tcblcr. colored, slew another colored man at a dance in the Choctaw Nation. Charley , Bullard, colored, murdered Walker Dean near Gibson Station, Cherokee Nation, iu I March last. The latest scheme to relieve the employer from liability in the case of injury to an employe is the design of an insurance company m London. The workman takes out au accident policy and the premium is paid from his wages. He also signi a contract indemnifying his employer. ; ! THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. T. W. P. Phillips. of Burrillville, R. I., I has become insane in consequence of his removal from the post master snip in that town. ! Eight workmen were seriously injured, | some fatally, by the ' olliipse of two houses ! built on Buddensiek principles at Passaic, i N. J. I William Hkxry Cresson", cashier of the I Tradesmen's National Bank, of Conshohock- i en, Penn.. is a defaulter in $50,000. The j bank is dosed. Harrisox Lorixg, of Boston, has been j awarded the contract for building cruiser No. ! 31, one of the "iOOO-ton type, for -W4.000. Archbishop Katot.lt. the Pope's delegate to the Catholic Centennial at Baltimore, has j arrived at New York on the steamer La j Champagne. Moses Robbixs. one of the most prominent j and wealthy men in Bloomsburg, N. J., committed suicide by hanging. Ix the first ten days that the subscription j books for the World's Fair at New York I were opened, for the purpose of raising a ! guarantee fund of $5,000,000, about ?2.500,000 j was subscribed. Twit r?f tlua ctanmoi* S ft Rrnwn pi- ! ploded oir H'Tost'ord Inlet, X. J. Three men were fatally scalded and the vessel badly I wrecked. Abraham Hatfield, entered the Milford j (Mass.) Methodist Church during service and i set fire to oil-saturated cushions. The fire ! was soon discovered and extinguished amid 1 much excitement. Six men wero burned to death at the | Colebrook furnace at Lebanon. Penn., by j the escape of riolten iron. Two other labor- | ers were fatally burned. Soutli and West. While a portable engine was being worked j on a farm near Hamlet, Ind., the boiler ex- ! ploded. killing Adam Mann and seriously ! scalding Jive others. In a saloon row at Nashville. Tenn.. Sheriff Grigsby. of Dickinson County, was shot to j death by J. C. Arelidge, a distiller. The 20(10 Indians occupying the Wind j , River Reservation, just north ?f the Yellow- i stone National Park, W T.. are in want and i many jnay die of starvation before spring. The attempted assassination ot a Chinaman in Chinatown, San Francisco, led to a j pitched battle between highbinders, in which ! several persons were wounded. i Earthqi*ake shocks have been felt in j Illinois and Missouri. Senator Kennedy has anuounced his j withdrawal from the defense in the Cronin | murder trial at Chicago. i At the Cronin trial in Chicago Martin j Burke was identified by three witnesses as i Frank Williams, who rented the Carlson cot- j , tage where Dr. Cronin is supposed to have ; been murdered. ! A freight train was derailed 10" miles : west of Savannah. Six cars went off the ! track. A colored man stealing a ride on one j of the derailed cars was killed. Del Pino Brothers' immense cigar fac- i | Lory at Key West, Fla., containing over one | ; million cigars, besides a largo quantity ot j j Havana tobacco, has been completely con- I sumed by fire. The loss is $120,000. j ! The Supreme Court of Michigan has deci- j , tied that adopted children cannot inherit j ' from their foster parents. Fire destroyed the West Refrigerator | ; Company's building in Chicago, IU., causing j a loss of two million dollars. i K. L. Boone, a member of the Georgia ' House of Representatives, was found dead ! in his bed at his boarding-house in Atlanta. J < Apoplexy was the cause of his death. I ' By a collision of freight traius near | : Wawak, Ind., two engines and fifteen cars j were completely wrecked, and the track j badly torn up. Leonard's mill dock on Muskegon Lake, 1 Mich., has been burned with a large quantity 1 of lumber. The loss is not less than $150,000. j < l Washington. j f The President has appointed William B. | ] Sheppard, of Florida, Collector of Customs t at Apalachicola, Fla.; also the following i Surveyors of Customs : John Mahood at j Galena, 111.; William H. Alexander at i ( Omaha, Neb.; Henry C. McArthur at Lin- I t coin, Neb. j ( The Government Directors of the Union j c Pacific Railroad in their report to the Secre- j ] tary of the Interior say that the interests of 5 the United States demand early action to se- I ( cure the payment of the company's indebted- j ness to the Government. L. P. Dawson, son of ex-Education Com- ; i missioner Dawson, is under arrest in Wash- j s ington for stealing postage stamps from the ' s rooms of the bureau. ! ? - 1 . Postmaster-General Wanamaker has ] ' made public an order fixing rates on Govern- , j nient telegraph messages for the current i ' fiscal yew. The estimated stock of gold and silver coin" , in the United States Treasury for November < 1, shows gold coin, $Gl!>, 940,450; full legal 1 tenders silver coiu, $343,038,001; subsidiary i silver, $70,6'-iS,7Sl. ] The total gold coinage at all the mints dur- 1 ing October was $2,570,{)ti6.50; total silver 1 coinage, 53,310,504.35, total minor coinage, j $0.01*.153.44. ! ] The Treasury Department officials esti 1 mate that the public debt reduction during | . October amounted to about ?9,000,000. ; J The cruiser Charleston has been formally ' ( accepted by Secretary Tracy. j i Chairman Cooley, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, has expressed his official opinion that passenger rates in the West ' are too high. The President has appointed Jerome A. 1 Watrous, of Wisconsin, to be Collector of Customs for the District of Milwaukee, Wis. ^ Secretary Tracy has written a letter to Rear Admiral Gherardi, complimenting him on his conduct of American interests at Hayti. Mrs. Harrison left Washington on a visit ! to Mrs. Wanamaker at Philadelphia. di'ring the ]>ast fiscal year the United i - :- l o /-Tt-nl r>f <f?. A->7 141) i mates .un?t> wuiwi c* iw?? ^ pieces, worth $fSO,%r>,927.01. President Harrison has appointed War- ; ren G. Sayre. of Indiana, a member of the Cherokee Commission, vice John F. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, deceased. By touching his finger to a telegraph kev : President Harrison set in motion the wheels ] of the Southern vlxposit ion at Montgomery. j Ala. The President lias pardoned John A. j Kimball, convicted of violating the post?! | laws and sentenced to imprisonment at hard j labor for two years. Foreign. Foi'R Peruv ian revolutionists were caught j while trying to capture a cruiser in Callao : Harbor. The overflow of the river Po, in Italy, has j Mis-cd the ios of several lives and the destruction of much property. The French Government has suspended the navment of the sf>oe"d? of fifty-five priest* in various parts of France for preaching j political sermons on the occasion of the re- { cent elections. Nicolas Gabrilovitch Tschernischew- , ski. the father of Nihilism in Russia, is dead, aged sixty years. The Swiss Government has apologized for a mistake made last August in the arrest of j five American gentlemen on the charge that ! they were pickpockets. The members of the Irish Home Rule par- j ty who have been traveling through A us- ; tralia have finished their tour. They collectvd $100,000 to advance the Irish cause. A letter has been received at Zanzibai 1 from Stanley, the explorer, which reports that he and his party are well. The Spanish Government proposes to in- j crease the import duty on wheat (lour. The Emperor and Empress of Germany j arrived in Constantinople and were received i by the Sultan with great honor. Many families at Terrenee Bay. Nova Son ! i tia. are Imrdering on starvation, owing to the j failure of the fisneries. At the fortnightly meeting of the Irish National League at Dublin it was an- j nonnced that contributions amounting to j $40.000 had been received from America since ! the last meeting. In the municipal elections throughout Italy | the Liberal and Radical candidates were successful in the great majority of cases, the Clericals winning in only a few towns. The New York Club won the series of games with the Brooklyn Club?the former representing the League and the latter" the I American Association?for the world's cham1 pionship. Score, six games to three. - ELECTION ECHOES. Tickets Were in the Field in Ten States of the Union. Late Keturns From the Various Scenes of Battle. Ten States have held elections. In five of them, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ohio, and Virginia, a Governor and other State officers were chosen: in New Jersey a Governor and members of the Legislature; and in the other four, Maryland, Nebraska, } New York, and Pennsylvania members of j T nffi/.orc WPl'A Vrttfifl I me licgluatuicauu muiv> ~ .. for. In Iowa there were three State tickets, | Democratic. Republican and Labor. The vote of the State last year was: Cleveland. 179,877; Harrison, 211,398; Streeter (Labor), 9105. In Massachusetts there were also three tickets, Democratic, Republican, and Prohibition. Last year's vote was: Cleveland, 151,855; Harrison, 183,892; Fisk, 8701. There was only one ticket in the field in Mississippi, the Democratic. In New Jersey there were three tickets, Democratic, Republican, and Prohibition. The vote last year was; Cleveland, 151,498; Harrison, 144,344; Fisk, 7904. In Ohio there were four tickets. Democratic, Republican, Prohibition, and UnionLabor. The vote of the State last year was: Cleveland 396,455, Harrison 416,0.54, Fisk 24,356. There were only two tickets in Virginia, Democratic and Republican. The vote last year was: Cleveland 151,977, Harrison 150.438. Maryland elected only a Comptroller. There were Democratic, Republican, and Prohibition tickets. Last year the State gave Cleveland 106,108, Harrison 99,986, and Fisk 4767. Nebraska elected a Supreme Court Judge and two Regents. There were Democratic and Republican tickets. Last year Cleveland received 80,552 votes, Harrison 108,425 and Fisk 9429. New York elected a Secretary of State. Treasurer, Comptroller, Attorney-General. State Engineer, and Court of Appeals Judge ;tnd an entire Legislature. There were Democratic, Republican. Prohibition and Greenback tickets. Members of both houses of the Legislature were also chosen. The vote of New York last year was: Cleveland 635,965. Harrison 650,338, Fisk 30,231. Pennsylvania elected a State Treasurer. There were Democratic, Republcan and Prohibition candidates. The vote of Pennsylvania last year was: Cleveland 446,633, Harrison 526,091, Fisk 20,947. Details of the returns from the various C,i-A Kftl/vti* oc for AC tllPV WPTP ouites cue ^IVCU uciu?? received up to the time this side of our paper went to press: NEW YORK. Returns from all parts of the State indicated the election of the entire Democratic State ticket by about 22,000 majority. The Legislature wentRepublican in both branches. The Republicans gained in the Senate and the Democrats in the Assembly. In New York city, Rice the Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, had a plurality of 64,000; nearly the whole of the Tammany city ticket was elected over the fusion ticket of County Demo2rats and Republicans. In Brooklyn Mayor Chapin (Dem.) was re-elected by lbout 8000 majority. The last State Senate stood Republicans 20, Democrats 12. The Senate of 1890-91 will contain 22 Republicans and 10 Democrats. The last Assembly stood Republicans 79, Democrats 49. The Assembly just elected will contain 70 Repubicans and 58 Democrats. NEW JERSEY. New Jersey elected ex-Governor Leon A baett.the Democratic candidate for Governor, ay about S000 majority over his Republican opponent, E. Burd Grubb. The Democrats etain the Assembly, having made a slight ;ain there, but they have lost the Senate. I"he Senate will stand 11 Republicans to 1ft Democrats, and the Assembly 24 Republicans :o 36 Democrats. PENNSYLVANIA. In Pennsylvania the vote was light and :omparatively little interest was manifested, he election of Buyer, the Republican candilate of Secretary of State, being a foregone :onclusion. Early returns showed net Remblican gains over the vote of 1887 of about ?er aaa AloAtinn r\f Rnvor Kr nhnut W,VW, OUU. LUC UCVUVU Vi A'WJV. 50,000 plurality. massachusetts. The counting of the vote in Massachusetts mder the new Australian ballot law went on Jowly, but the early returns pointed to a ;mall plurality for the Republican State icket. Later returns made the issue somewhat doubtful, and both sides claimed the governor. The Democrats made gains in joth branches of the legislature. ohio. The vote for Governor in Ohio was very . lose. At 2 a. sr. on the morning after elec:ion day the Chairman of the Republican State Committee sent out the following dispatch: "The Republican Executive Committee claims the Legislature and :he Stat? ticket, except Governor Foriker, who is in doubt. If Repub- | lican counties on the Western Reserve and in ither parts of the State held up to expectations, nowever, Foraker, will pull through by a small plurality." Democrats made heavy gains in Cincinnati, and claimed the election of Campbell as Governor over Foraker by a small plurality. Both parties claimed the Legislature on joint ballot. The Prohibition vote was larger than usual, which was a loss to the Republicans. virginia. Virginia, after one of the most exciting political contests in its history, elected Mc Kinney, Democratic candidate for Governor, over ex-Senator Mahone, by an estimated majority of 30,000. The Democrats elected both branches of the Legislature, ami will ! have two-thirds on joint ballot, in Kionmond the negroes generally refrained from voting, and many of them "kept awav from the polls in all parts of the State. Charges of fraud were made on both sides. At 10 p. sr. on election night. Herbert P. Harrison, while standing on the street in front of General Mahone's residence at Petersburg,engaged in celebrating the Democratic victory by exploding fireworks, was j shot by somebody apparently in the Republi- | can candidate's yard. Immediately great ex- I citement ensued, and General Ma hone was arrested and, followed by a great crowd, ivas taken to a Justice's office. When it was dis- , covered that Harrison's wound was slight, | the excitement abated. IOWA. In Iowa the vote for Governor was close, j the Democrats claiming the election of Boies by a small plurality owing to gains in many | places. Tne Des" Moines iSlate. Register j (Rep.) and the Republican State Committee j claimed Hutchison's election with probably : ROOD plurality. Returns from 140 precincts indicated a Republican plurality of 6000. The Democratic leaders claimed the State. MARYLAND. In Maryland the principal contest was in i Baltimore, where the Independent Democrats united with the Republicans on a local ticket. After one of the hottest canvasses vne city has ever seen the regular Democrats elected their candidate for Mayor by about 4500 majority, and retained control of the City Council. The Legislature is Democratic, insuring the election of a United States Senator to succeed Senator Wilson. NEBRASKA. The returns from Nebraska indicated the usual Republican success by a majority of If,000 to 20.000. MISSISSIPPI. The Democratic ticket was the only one in j the field in Mississippi, and it therefore had a I i? amu ?>-*. | Later Returns. Corrected returns put the plurality of Rice j lV>r Secretary of State in New York at about ' .'0,(100. With this change the Senate will be composed of 19 Republicans and 13 Democrats. The Assembly will contain 08 Republicans and ii() Democrats. This is a gain of 11 for th-i Democrats in the Assembly and of i Democrats in the Senate. Iu New York city Amos J. Cummings was elected to Congress as the successor of the late S. S. Cox, without, opposition. In Ohio Vhe Democrats have elected Campbell for Governor over Foraker by about 10.000 plurality. The Democrats also elected a majority of members of the Legislature in both branches, insuring a Democratic successor to United Stales Senator Payne. Governor Foraker sent a dispatch of congratulations to Governor-elect Campbell. Later returns make Abbett's majority for Governor of New Jersey about 12,000. The Senate stands J1 Republicans 1ft Cfmo crats and the lower xiouse 57 Democrats to "28 Republicans. In Massachusetts Brackett (Rep.) for Governor has a plurality of 6000. The Legislature will stand 162 Republicans and 78 Democrats. In Iowa the Democrats elected Boies Gov-ernor by a plurality of about 6000. The rest jof the Democratic ticket was also successful. The Republican State Committee claimed [the Legislature by three majority on joint ballot. "later news." Heavy snows have blocked traffic on the Denver, Texas and Fort Worth Railroad. All the freight conductors and brakemen of the Evansville and Terre Haute and Evansville and Indianapolis roads and branches of the Mackey system have struck for an advance in wages. Miss Mae Lester, the pretty blonde 10year-old daughter of John T. Lester, the $10,000,000 Board of Trade operative of Chicago, has eloped with young Phil Armour. Natives of the Solomon Islands decoyed an Englishman named Nelson and three navive boys to one of their villages, murdered and then devoured them. Upon learning of the massacre, the Captain of the British cruiser Royalist shelled the villages along the coast where the murders were committed. Emperor William and the German Empress sailed from Constantinople on their return to Berlin. Rev. Dr. Talmage has arrived in London. Baron Ashbourne, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, has called Judge Gowan, of Canada, to the Irish bar, in recognition of his services as a jurist. The Russian Government, in order to avoid anti-Russian demonstrations, has postponed the elections in the Baltic provinces until a proclamation has been issued placing the provinces under Russian supervision. The closing of the Paris Exposition was marked by a brilliant fete. Four hundred thousand persons were present, the largest attendance since the opening of the Exhibition. It is reported at Zanzibar that the Masais or Somalis have massacred Dr. Peters, the German African explorer, and his whole party except one European and one Somali, who were wounded and who are now at Ngao. The sum of $400,000 was paid over by the Provincial Government of Quebec to the Jesuit Order in Canada, in consideration of the orders total and perpetual abandonment of claims to the estates which became the property of the Crown when the order was suppressed nearly a century ago. SILLED THEIR CAPTORS. A .Sheriff and Deputy Murdered by Kiglit Indian Prisoners. Sheriff Reynolds, W. A. Holmes and iugene Middleton, while taking eight Apache Indian murderers and one Mexican to Yuma, (Arizona) Penitentiary, were killed by their prisoners. The Sheriff had removed tho shackles from the legs of six of the Indians before they started to walk up a heavy sandwasb, but they were handcuffed together by the wrists in sets of two, thenouter hands being fr?.e. At a signal from one of the Indians, the Sheriff was seized by the two immediately back of him, while tfce two Indians immediately in front of the deputy secured his gun, with which, after killing him, they shot the Sheriff, who was held by their companions. During the massacre the Mexican ran to the stage, and warned the driver, Middleton. The latter drew his piscol. but was shot twice by the Indians and badly wounded. THE LABOR WORLD. Boston's electricians are going to start a union. Many Southern unions are composed altogether of colored men. The National Association of Stationary Engineers has now 4811 members. The eight-hour rule is observed by the Cincinnati Board of Public Works. One hundred type-writers will be em; ployed by the United States Census Bureau." The Knights of Labor claim that S340 men joined their order during August and September. There are good prospects for the project of forming an International Wood Workers' Federation. Two-thirds of the cigar dealers of San Francisco have pledged themselves not to sell cigars made by Chinamen. The eight-hour movement has been started in Albany. N. Y., the trades unions and the Knights of Labor co-operating. Five assemblies of the Knights of Labor in Cincinnati have joined the International Boot and Shoe Workers' Union. The journeymen tailors' strike in Chicago, which lasted five days, has been declared off and the men have returned to work. j Stonecutters in St. Louis complain that their situations are threatened by ttie competition of convict stonecutters in Illinois. J. J. Geraghty, candidate of the miners and other workingmen, has been elected Mayor of Strcutor, 111., after an exciting contest. In New Hampshire working children between the ages of 14 and IB years are compelled to go to school three months of the year. A union of machinists is to be formed at Indianapolis, Ind. The Bookbinders' Assembly of that city is going to reorganize as an open union. The Brotherhood or rainters ana Decorators has 7000 members enrolled in 130 local unions. The receipts last year were $0401; expenses, $5200. The silk trade in England is threatened by France, which is running up a lai .^e number of silk mills and producing some of the finest work in the world. Brooklyn has the largest an-1 best appointed labor hall in the country. It is owned and managed by workingmen. It is known as the Labor Lyceum. Trade is very good in the iron and steel industry at Young-;town, Penn. All the mills are running at full blast and no one is idle who is willing to work. A fre.vch letter, which reached the office of the Americau Federation recently, states that a number of unions in Paris have begun to agitate for an eight-hour workday. Over seven hundred men are now employed at the granite quarries of West Sullivan, Me. The product of the quarries averagts from three to four millions of paving blocks a year, besides other work. The strongest labor organization in the United States is the Flint Glass Workers' Union. There are 0000 flint glass workers in the country, and all "are union men with the exception of less than 100. In 1870 there were 739,167 children under sixteen years of age at work in factories in the United States; in ISSOthey had increased 1,118,356, and it is believed that in spite of factory laws there are more than ever of children employed. An investigation lately made into the condition of colored labor in the South in blast furnaces, rolling mills, iron works, mines, lumber mills and similar industries showed that WOO colored people were so employed. nf ci-;u..^ Many tilings arc reversed in Australia. It is summer there while it is winter in America. Trees shed their bark instead of their loaves; fruit ha9 the stone or kernel outside; swans nro black; there is a species of fly that kills and eats the spider, and a fish called the climbing perch, walks deliberately out of the water and, with the aid of its fins, climbs the adjacent trees after the insects that infest the?. j ODR FIRMING INTERESTS. First Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture. ; A Summary of Secretary Rusk's Facts and Suggestions. The annual report of the Secretary of Ag| riculture?the first issued under the newly j constructed department?has been made pub lie. Secretary Rusk says that the aggregate ! sum asked for in his estimates must not be I measured by what is past, but by what a great agricultural country should do toward "sustaining, protecting and promoting a j calling which lies at the foundation of its I prosperity and power." Of those countries | which "are the most active competitors of American farmers in the world's market," Great Britain appropriates for agriculture SI,500.000; Germany, $2,850,000; Brazil, 520,000,000; for agriculture and mines; France, $8,000,000, and Austria more than . $4,000 000. Of the crop reporting system, he says: . *?WV?ilo annrATi'motfl nr?r1 Vft 111 ?hl A it 1*? in dftTl ger of becoming discredited by the popular acceptance of its results as exact in precision and absolute authority. It should be remembered that they are not the conclusions of a thorough census, though they may be far better than the work of a poor census; they are the consolidations of local estimates of agricultural experts, and are intended as a foil to the interested, biased and untruthful statements that speculators issue to mislead their victims." The report urges the duty of the Government to assume a more definite supervision of such forest areas as are still owned by it and as occupy a position of importance in the regulation of water flow and of other climatic conditions, and emphasizes the importance of the relations which the forests bear to the problem of irrigation in the arid lands and of j their immense annual product. The subject of agricultural organizations | is dwelt upon earnestly, their astonishing i growth during the past few years being cited | as strong evidence of the growth of the spirI it of self-help among the farmers. The : farmers' institutes are referred to particular| ly as one of the greatest movements in the I history of agriculture, and as the strongest lever for raising and upholding the work of superior agricultural education represented by our system of agricultural colleges and I experiment stations. The Secretary recomI mends, without going into details, that the i department should be empowered to afford I aid and encouragement to this work. The sheep and wool industry secures special consideration in the report. The growth of the mutton interest is referred to as one to be greatly encouraged. As to wool growing, the reduction of the tariff in 1883 is earnestly deplored. To it is attributed the great reduction in the number of sheep, which has since then fallen off by about seven million head, while the importation of wool has increased from 78,350,651 pounds in 18S4 to 126,487,729 pounds the past year. '"On behalf of this industry," says the Secretary, "I recommend these facts to you, and should they be submitted to Congress, I ask for them intelligent and careful consideration/' The condition of the sugar industry is reviewed in detail, and the results declared to be of a mixed character. The region where the sorghum sugar industry may be attended | with success has been localized in the south | ern part 01 uenirai ivansas, v?est uuu wu?u of Wichita, and in parts of the Indian Territory resembling it in soil and climate. The j Secretary is seeking a variety with a higher j amount of available sugar. j The botanical department is to be specially ! occupied in an effort to solve the problem of I increasing the forage yield on the 300,000,000 acres of the arid region outside of possible irrigation by promoting the productiveness of the grasses now growing there. The language used by the Secretary in regard to a national meat inspection law is pointed and vigorous. "The* necessity for inspection at the time of slaughter is, first, to enable the authorities to promptly locate any cattle disease centres, and, second, to avoid the anomaly of leaving the inspection of our own meat products to the officials of ither countries, thus giving foreign Governnents some show of reason for the claim that they have better opportunities for learning of disease among American cattle than ire enjoyed by our own Government." He accordingly advocates "such an amendment 10 the law under which the bureau is at present organized as will provide for such official national inspection as shall guarantee the fitness of our meat products for food consumption, under the seal of the United Stat?-. Courts." A TEAR'S COINAGE. Interesting1 Facts in the Report ol Director of tne .mnr. Edward 0. Leech, the Director of the Mint, in his annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1SS9, reports the coinage at the mints during the year as follows: j Gold coins (in value), $25,543,910; silver | dollars, $33,793,860; subsidiary silver, $721.I 0S0; minor coins, $!X)f5,472; total. $60,965,929. ' III addition to this gold bars, valued at $22,i 241,121, and silver bars, valued at $6,709,240. I were manufactured at the mints. Geld bars were exchanged for gold coin, principally at I the assay office at New York,during the year, | mainly for export, of th? value of $57,507.I 812. ! The profit on the coinage of silver dollar.and subsidiary coin during the year was $9,403,049. The total coinage of silver dollars under the Bland act up to the first of Novemi ber was $343,638,001. Gold imports during I the year amounted to 510,372,145,and exports { to $60,033,346. Silver imports amounted to 1 $24,6S2,3S0, and exports $36,716,783. These ! figures show a loss to the United States, by ! excess of exports over imports of gold, $49,: 061,101; silver. $12,034,403. The Director estimates the consumption of ; gold and silver in the United States in the j industrial arts for the fiscal year to have I )>?<>?,. finlrl XI(1000.000: silver. 38.000,000. : The product of gold and silver in the United j States for the calendar year 1888 he reports | as follows: Gold, $33,175,000; silver, *comj mereial value. ?43,000,000; coining value, ; $59,195,000. The product of the world for that year was: Gold. SI05.994,150; silver. : commercial value. $103,050,000: coining value. [ $142,439,150. i The coinage of the world for the year 18V. was: Gold, $134,720,639: silver, $149,737,442. j Deducting recoinages reported and the coinage of Mexican dollars, "the net coinage for ! the year approximated: Gold. $109,000,000: j silver, $95,000,000. Of the latter, about j eighty per cent, was full legal tender coins executed by the mints of the United States. India and Japan. Director Leech recommends legislation looking toward the discontinuance of the j coinage of the three-dollar and one-dollar I gold pieces and the three-cent nickel piece, j and withdrawal from circulation of pieces of those denomination* now outstanding. TORMENTED TO DEATH. Robbers Subject an Aged Couple to Fearful Torture. Masked robbers perpetrated an outrage on an old couple living at Jackson Cross Roads, Mo., which ended in the death of the wife of I Jasper James and the serious injury of the husband. James keeps a small store at the cross roads, and is known to have a dislike for banks. What money he has he keeps j hidden about his place, and as he is accredited | with being a mis ?r, it is generally supposed j ;hat he had considerable money hidden. The I other nicht his house was entered by three j masked men, who demanded that the* old : man tell where he hail his money concealed, j The information was stubbornly refused by j both Mr. and Mrs. James. The robbers tied ! the couple back to back, and began torturing the old man, hoping that his agony would make iiis wife * give up the secret. They stuck pins in bis feet and legs and even burned his face and hands with matches. The old man was plucky and insisted that his wife keep still. At last he fainted from pain. His wife then told where part of t he money was hidden and the robbers released the couple. Mrs. James worked to restore her husband and after he had recovered consciousness she was overcome with 1 exhaustion and sank fainting to the floor | Her husband summoned aid. but she died in | themoruinc. The robbers secured $400. It seems to be a settled fact that a large body of colored colonists will be given a tract of land by the Mexican Government. * % - ' -,r O-"" '' ' ~ -j .. h\ - ' / RET. DR. TALMAfiE. THE BROOKLYN DIVTNE'S PARE WELL SERMON. Dictating a sermon to jus Many Readers as He Embarks for t he Holy Land. The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., on his embarkation at New York for the Holy Land, by the steamer City of Paris, addressed his millions of friends through the press, taking for his text Acts xx.. 38: "And they accompanied him unto the ship." His sermon is Drinted below in full: To the more tUau twenty-nve million people in many countries to whom my sermons come week by week, in English tongue and by translation, through the kindness of the newspaper press, I address these words. I dictate them to a stenographer on the eve of my departure for the Holy Land, Palestine. When you read this sermon I will be midAtlantic. I go to be gone a few weeks on a religious journey. I go because I want for myself and hearers and readers to see Bethlehem, and Nazareth, and Jerusalem, and Calvary, and all the other places connected with my Saviour'slife and death,and so re-enforce myself for sermons. I go because I am writing the "Life of Christ," and can be more accural auu ^rapuic wuen jl uave uwu an eye witness of the sacred places. Pray for my successful journeying and my safe return. I wish on the eve of departure to pronounce a loving benediction upon all my friends in high places aud low, upon congregations to whom my sermons are read in absence of pastors, upon groups gathered out on the prairies, and in mining districts, upon all sick and invalid and aged ones who cannot attend churches, but tt> w 10m I have long administered through the printed page. My next sermon will be addressed to you from Rome, Italy, for I feel like Paul when he said: "So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the 6 ospel to you that are at Rome also." The fact is that Paul was ever moving about on land or sea. He was an old sailor?not from occupation, but from frequency of travel. I think he could have taken a vessel across the Mediterranean as well as some of the ship captains. The sailors never scoffed at him for being a "land lubber."' If Paul's advice had been taken, the crew would never have gone ashore at Melita.. When the vessel went scudding under bare poles Paul was the only self-possessed man on board, and, turning to the excited crew and despairing passengers, he exclaims, in- a voice that sounds above the thunder of the tempest and the wrath of the sea: "Be of good cheer." The men who now goto sea with maps, and charts, and modern compass, warned by Duoy and lighthouse, know nothing of the perils of ancient navigation. Horace said tnat the man who first ventured on the sea must have had a heart bound with oak aud triple brass. People then ventured only from headland to headland, and from island to- island, and not until long after spread their sail for a voyage across the sea. Before starting, the weather was watched, and the vessel having been hauled up on the shore, the mariners placed their shoulders against Ihe stern of the ship and heaved it off?they, at the last moment, leaping into it. V essels were then chiefly ships of burden? the transit of passengers being the exception; for the world was not then migratory, as in our day, when the first desire of a man in one place seems to be to get into another place. The ship from which Jonah was thrown overboard, and in which Paul was carried prisoner, went out chiefly with the idea of taking a cargo. As now, so then, vessels were accustomed to carry a flag. In those times it was inscribed with the name of a heathen deity. A vessel bound for Syracuse had on it the inscription, "Castor and Pollux." The ships were provided with anchors. Auchors were of two kinds?those that were dropped into the sea, and those that were thrown upon to the rocks to hold the vessel fast. This last kind was what Paul alluded to when he said: "Which hope wo have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, arid which entereth iuto that within the vail." That was what the sailors call a "hook anchor." The rocks and sand bars, shoals and headlands not being mapped out, vessels carried a plumb line. They would drop it and find the water fifty fathoms, and drop it again and find it forty fathoms, and drop it again and find it thirty fathoms, thus discovering their near approach to the shore. In the spring, summer and autumn the Mediterranean Sea was white with the wings of ships, but at the first wintry blast thev hied themselves to the nearest harbor: al though now the world's commerce prospers in January as well as in June, and in midwinter all over the wide and stormy deep there float palaces of light, trampling the billows under foot and showering tne sparks of terrible furnaces on the wild wind; and the Christian passenger, tippeted and shawled, sits under the shelter of the smokestack, looking off upon the phosphorescent deep, on whicli is written in scrolls of foam and fire: "Thy way, 0 God, is in the sea, and Thy path in the great waters!" It is in those days of early navigation that I sec a group of men. women and children on the beach of the Mediterranean. Paul is about to leave the congregation to whom he had preachcd, and they are come down to see him off. It is a solemn thing to part. There are so many traps that wait for a man's feet. The solid ground may break through, and the sea?how many dark mysteries it hides in its bosom! A few counsels, ?lhasty good-by, a last look, and the ropes ritttle, aud the sails are hoisted, and the jf&iiks are hauled in, and Paul is gone. I expect to sail over some of the same waters ovel which Paul sailed, but before going 1 want to urge you all to embark for heaven. The church is the dry dock where souls ara to be fitted out for heaven. In making a vessel for this voyage, the first need is sound the timber. The floor timbers ought to b? of solid stuff. For the want of it, vessels that oivin t/i vim fhm'r iihhoruns into the ev< of any tempest, -when caught in a storm hav? been crushed like a wafer. The truths ol God's Word are what I mean by floor timbers. Away with your lighter materials. Nothing but oaks, hewn in the forest of divine truth, are stanch enough for this craft. You must have love for a helm, to guid' and turn the craft. .Neither pride, nor ambition, nor avarice will do for a rudder.* Love, not only in the heart, but flashing in the eye and tiugling in the hand?love married to work, which many look upon as so homely a bride?love, not like brooks which foam and rattle yet do nothing, but love like a river that runs up the stej>s of mill wheels and works in the harness of factory bandslove that will not pass by on tbc other side, but visits the man who fell among thieves near Jericho, not merely saying: "Poor fellow! vou are dreadfully hurt," but, like the good Samaritan, pours in oil and wine and pays his board at the tavern. There must also be a prow, arranged to cut and override the billow. That is Christian perseverance. There are three mountain surges that sometimes dash against a soul m a minute? the world, the flesh and the devil?and that is a well built prow that can bound over them. For lack of this, many have put back and never started agaiu. It. is the broadside wave that so often sweeps the deck and fills the hatches: but that which strikes in front is harmless. -Meet troubles courageously and you surmount them. Stand on the prow; and, as you wipe off the spray of the split surge, cry out wuu tue aposiie: inoiie ui these things move me." Let all your fears stay aft. The right must conquer. Know that Moses, in the ark of bulrushes, can run down a war steamer. Have a good, strong anchor. "Which hope wc have as an anchor." By this strong cable and windlass, hold on to your anchor. "If any man sin, we have an advocate with t he Father." Do not use the anchor wrongfully. Do not alwavs stay in the same latitude and longitude. Von will never ride up the harbor of Eternal Rest if you all the way drag your anchor. But you must have sails. Vessels nre not fit for the sea until they have the flying jib. the foresail, topgallant, the skysail, the giuTsail and other canvas. Faith is our canvas. Hoist it and the winds of heaven will drive you ahead. Sails made out of any other canvas than faith will be slit to tatters by the first northeaster. Strong faith never lost a battle. It will crush foes, blast rocks, (juench lightnings, thresh mountains. It is a shield to the warrior, a crank to the most ponderous wheel,a lever to pry up pyramids, a drum whose beat gives strength to the step oCthe heavenly soldiery, and sails to waft ships laden with priceless pearls from the narbor of earth to the harbor, of heaven. But you are not yet equipped. You must have what seamen call tbe running rigging. This comprises the ship's braces, halliards, clew Jines and such like. Without these the yards could not bo braced, the sails lifted nor the canvas in anywise managed. Wo have prayer for the running rigging. Unless you understand this ticklilic.xrui nva wni a ? s aal seaman. By ptfltTiTg oa these ropes yon hoist the sails of faith and turn them every whither. The prow of courage will not oat the wave, nor the sail of faith spread and flap its wine, unless you have strong prayer for a halliard. \ One more arrangement and you will i? ready for the sea. You must have a compass , J ?which is the Bible. Look at it every uay,aBfl and always sail by it, as its needle paints tpward the Star of Bethlehem. Through fog and darkness and storm it works faithfully. 7]H Search the Scriptures. "Box the compass." Let me give you two or three rules for tie a voyage. Allow your appetites and passion* 7.1 only an under deck passage. Do not allow ' them ever to come up on the promenade deck, . I Mortify your members whicn are upon the -> earth. Never allow your lower nature any- ' < I thing better than a steerage passage. Let watchfulness walk the docks as an armed sen- | tinel, and shoot down with great promptness 1 anything like a mutiny of riotous appetites. . Be sure to look out of the forecastle for . \\ icebergs. These are cold Christians floating about in the church. Tho frigid zone prolessors will sink you. Steer clear of icebergs. Keep a log-book during all the voyage?an account of how many furlongs you make a x day. The merchant keeps a day book a? well as a ledger. You ought to know every night as well as every year, how things are "> going. When the express train stops at the depot you hear a hammer sounding on all .4 the wheels, thus testing the safety of the rail train. Bound, as we are, with more ? than express speed toward a great eternity, | ought we not often to try the work of sell- - <7. examination? . Be sure to keep your colors up! You know the ships of Ungland, Russia, France and Spain by the ensigns they carry. Sometime* it is a lion, sometimes an eagle, sometimes a star, sometimes a crown. Let it ever bt A known who you are. and for what port yoa a are bound. Let "Christian" be written oq 9 the very front, with a figure of a cross, a 1 crown and a dove; and from the masthead A. let float the streamers of Immanuel. Then V the pirate vessels of temptation will pass yon . unharmed as thev sav: 'TharA tmes ? A tian, bound for the port of heaven. We wilL?^^ not disturb her, for she has too many gii2^y;> aboard." Ron up your flag on this pull07^^^ "I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Chrat^Ha for it is the power of God and the wisdom of God unto salvation." When drivon back, or; laboring under great stress of weather?now fl changing from starboard tack to larboard,' and then from larboard to starboard?look. above the topgallants, and your h^art shall beat like a war drum as the streamers float1 on the wind. The sign of the cross will make *1 you patient, and the crown will make you' H glad- J Before you gain port you will smell the " J land breezes of heaven; and Christ, the Pilot, will meet you as you come into the Narrows j of Death, and fasten to you, and say: "When ' thoupassest through the waters,! will be \ with thee; and through the rivers, they shall . ] not overflow thee." Are you ready for such j a voyage? Make up your minds. The gang* planks are lifting. The bell rings. All aboard for heaven! The world is not your rest. The chaffinch is the silliest bird in all the earth for trying to make its nest on the rocking billow. Oh, how I wish that as I embark for the Holy Land in the East, all to whom I preach by tongue or type would em- -4 bark for heaven. What you all most need is God, and you need Him now. Some of you I jG leave, in trouble. Things are going very 9 rough with you. You nave had a hard 9 struggle with poverty, or sickness or perse- ] cunon or oereavement. Light arter light has m gone out and it is so dark that you cad Jfl hardly see any blessing left. May that Jesus, who comforted the widow of Nain, and raised 3 thedeceased to life, with His gentle hand o? a sympathy wipe away your tears. All is welL 1 When David was fleeing through the wfl- j derness, pursued by his son, ho was being j prepared to become the sweet singer ofr Is- | rael- The pit and the dungeon were the best ' I schools at which Josspu ever graduated. The hurricane that upset the tent and killed ' Job's children prepared the man of Us to write the magnificent poem that has astounded the ages. There is no way to get I the wheat out of the straw but to thresh it? There is no way to purify the gold but to burn it. Look at the people who have always had it their own way. They are proud, discontented, useless aiid unhappy. If you want to find cheerful folks, go among those who have been purified by the fire. After Rossini had rendered "William Tell" the five hundredth time, a company of. musicians' came under hi3 window in Paris' and sere- | naded him. They put upon his brow golden crown of laurel leaves. But amidst all the applause and enthusiasm Rossini H turned to a friend and said: "I would give < all this brilliant scene for a few days of youth and love." Contrast the melancholy 1 T">Ua/l ATTAmrfKi'n^ fliaf 9 ieenug <ji xwaoim, nuu U.UV.V.J.UU.,, - _ this world could give him, to the joyful ex- iff penence of Isaac Watts, whose misfortunes |f were innumerable, when he sayB: The bill of Zlon yields A thousand sacred sweets, Ij Before we reach the heavenly fields Or walk tbe golden streets. Then let our songs abound, And every tear bo dry; We're marching through Immanuel'i ground To fairer worlds on high. It is prosperity that kills and trouble that saves. While the Israelites were on the march, amidst great privations and hardships, they behaved well. After a while, they i prayed for meat, and the sky darkened witn a large flock of quails, and these quails fell in great multitudes all about them; and tbe Israelites ate and ate, and stuffed themselves until they died. Oh! my frieuds, it is not hardship, or trial, or starvation that injure# the soul, but abundant supply. It is not the vulture of trouble that eats up the Christian'* life; it is the quails! it is the quails! I cannot leave you until once more I confess my faith in the Saviour whom I have nreached. He is rav all in all I owe more stM j grace of God than most men. With 11 this ardent temperament, if I had gone over- M board I would havo gone to the very depths. II You know I can do nothing by halves. 9 0 to grace how great a debtor ' I Dally I'm constrained to be I | I think all will bo well. Do not be worried I about me. I know that my Redeemer liveth, {; and if any fatality should befall me, I r think I should go straight. I have been most s" unworthy, and would be sorry to think that any one of my friends had been as unworthy a Christian as myself. But God has helpeda ereat many through, and I hope He will help me through. It is a long account of shortcomings, but if He is going to rub any . of it out, I think He will rub it all out. . t. And now give us (for I go no'; alone) your*' benediction. Whon you seud letters to & friend in a distant laud, you say via sucb-a t | city, or via such a steamer. When you send ') 1 you good wishes to us, send t!:e.n via the J throne of God. "We shall not travel out of I the reach of your prayers. J There Is n scene where spirit? dwell, m Where friend holds Intercourse with friend; B Though sundered for, by faith we meet Around one common mercy seat. B And now, may the blessing of GoiL^ome down upon your bodies and upon yoursojatf-^ your fathers and mothers, your companions, your children, your brothers and sisters, ana H vour friends! May you be blessed in your H business and in your pleasures, in your joys and in your sorrows, m the house and by the way! And if, during our separation, an arrow from the uaseen world should strike H any of us, may it only hasten on tho raptures H that God has prepared for those who love fl Him! I utter not the word farewell; it is too sad, too formal a word for me to speak or write. But, considering that I have your hand tightly clasped iu both of mine, I utter n Irinrl nn affectionate and a cheerful good The physicians of a Iuna'ic asvlura have found a new use for rabbits. A number of these little creatwes have 9| been turned looce onto the fields ad? joining the institution, so that the in? mates will be amused by seeing the rabbits run about, and to divert the minds of the patients u one of thef JB great objects of the asylum. ^Hj After destroying a very large nunw^^B ber of letters, Mr. Gladstone has se^^H lected GO,000 for preservation, and hag built for them a five-proof room. When V his biographer comes to overhaul thenj I he will find aia work half done in ad* vance. W I The Boston Transcript gravely ad<^^J vises its readers not to pick up horse chestnuts in the street and pocket | them. They may bo horse chestnuta I that somebody else has leaded up witli 1 rheumatism and thrown away. I 5 m