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I REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE DIVINE WRITES A LETTER OF SALUTATION. His Tour of Inspection to the Holy Land. Completed?An Inlcling of What He Has Seen Abroad. i Constantinople, January, 1S90.?On leaving America I addressed some words of farewell to my sermonic readers, and now, on my way home, I write this letter of salutation, which will probably reach yon about the Monday that will find "me on the Atlantic Ocean, from which I cannot reach you with the usual sermon. I have completed the journey of inspection for which I came. ? ?< vomers urny miwauicuiv,uu?K ?ituvm/acc* ing the Holy Land. I did not feel competent for such a work until I had seen with my own eyes the sacred places; and so I left home and church and native country for a most arduous undertaking. I have visited all the scenery connected with our Lord's history. The whole journey has been to me a surprise, an amazement, a grand rapture or a deep solemnity. I have already sent to America my Holy Land observations for my "Life of Christ," and they were written on horseback, on muleback, on camelback, on ship's deck, by dim candle in tent, in mud hovel of Arab village, amid the ruins of old cities, on Mount of Beautitudes, on beach of Genesareth, but it will take twenty years of sermons to tell what I have seen and felt on this journey through Palestine and Syria. All things have combined to make our tour instructive and advantageous. The Atlantic and Mediterranean and Adriatic and JEgean and Dardanelles and Marmora Seas have treated us well. Since we left New York we have had but half a day and one night of storm, and that while crossing Mount Hermon. But let only those in robust health attempt to go the length of Palestine and Syria on horseback. 1 no not think it is because or the unhealth of the climate in Holy Land that so many have sickened and died here or afterward as a result of visiting these lands, but because of the fatigues of travel. The number of miles gives no indication of the exhaustions of the way. A hundred and fifty miles to Palestine and Syria on horseback demand as much physical strength as four hundred miles on horseback in regions of easy journey. Because of the near two months of bright sunlight by day. and bright moonlight or starlight by night, the half day of storm was to us the more memorable. It was about noon of December 13 that the tempest struck us and drenched the maintains. One of the horses falls and we halt amid a blinding rain. It is freezing cold. Fingers and feet like ice. Two hours and three-quarters before encampment. We ride on in silence, longing for the terminus of today's pilgrimage. It is, through the awful inclemency of the weather, the only dangerous day of the journey. Slip and slide and tumble and climb ana descend we must, sometimes on the horse and sometimes off, until at last we halt in the hovel of a village, and instead of entering camp for the night we are glad to find this retreat from the storm. It is a house of one story, built out of mud. My room is covered with a roof of goat's hair. A feeble fire mid-floor, but no chimney. It is the best house of the village. Arabs," young and old, stand around in wonderment as to why we come, xnere is nu wiuuuw m uuc tuuui, uuu two little openings, one over the door and the other in the wall, through which latter opening I occasionally find an Arab face thrust to see how I am progressing. But the door is open, so I have some light. This is - -- - - an afternoon and night never to be forgot ten for its exposures and acquaintance with the hardships of what an Arab considers a luxurious apartment. I sat that night by a fire, the-smoke of which, fiuding no appropriate place of exit, took lodgment in my nostrils and eyes. For the fir.it time hi my life I realized that chimneys were a h"Xury but not a necessity. The only adornments in this room were representations of two tree branches in the rnud of the wall, a circle supposed to mean a star, a bottle hung from the ceiling, and about twelve identations in the wall to be used as mantels for anything that may be placed there. This storm was not a surprise. Through pessimistic prophets we had expected that at this season we should have rain and snow and hail throughout our journey. For the most part it has been sunshine and tonic atmosphere, and not a moment has our journey been hindered. Gratitude to God is with us the dominant emotion. Having visited the scenery connected with | Christ'6 life I was glad to close my journey by passing through the apostolic lands and seas. You can hardly imagine our feelings as we came in sight of Damascus, and on the very road where Saul was unhorsed at the flash of the supernal light. We did not want, like him, to be flung to the earth, but we did hope for some great spiritual blessing brighter : than any noonday sun, and a new preparation for usefulness. Our long horseback ride 1 was ended, for a carriage met us some miles 1 out and took us to the city. The impression 1 one receives as he rides along the walled ' gardens of the place are different from those ' produced by any other city. But we cannot ' describe our feelings as we entered the ' city about which we have heard and read so ' mnoh thn oldest citv under the sun. and ! founded by the grandson of Noah; nor our emotions as we pass through the stieet called I straight, along which good Ananias went to meet Saul; and by the site of the palace of JTaamau the leper, and saw the river Abana, fis yesterday we saw Pharoar, the rivers of Damascus that Naaman preferred to wash in rather than the Jordan. Strange and unique i Damascus! It is worth while to cross the Atlantic to Europe to see it. Though it has been the placa of battle and massac-r^ and of ancient affluenco and splendor as well as it is of present prosperity, to me its chief attraction arises from the fact that hero the scales fell from Paul's eyes, and that chief of apostles here began that mission which will not end until heaven Is peopled with ransomed ?>irits. So also I saw day before yesterday atmos, where John heard the trumpets and the waves of the sea dashed to his feet, reminding him of the songs of heaven, 4'like the voice of many waters." But this letter can only give a hint of the things we mean to tell you about when we get home, where we expect to go before this month is ended. I baptizf d by immer- j ?on in the Jordan an American whom we met, and who desired the solemn ordinance administered to him in the sacred waters, l rolled down from Mount Calvary or "place of a skull'' a stone for the corner stone of our new Brook lyn tabernacle. \\ e bathed m the "Dead Sea" and in "Gideon's Fountain," where his t three hundred men lapped the water from i their hands as they passed through; an 1 we t sailed on Lake Galilee and stood on Mount Zion and Mount Moriah and s Mount Hermon, and I saw the place c where the shepherds heard the Christ- r mas anthem the night Christ was born; and have been at Nazarneth, and Caper- , naum. and sat by "Jacob's Well," and ; saw Tel-el-Kebir of modern battle, and . Megiddo of ancient battle, aud where the Israelites crossed Jho desert, and slept at Bethel where one udder was let down into ^ Jacob's dream, but the night I slept there ^ the heavens were fuli cf ladders, first a lad- t der of clouds, then a ladder of stars, and all up and down the heavens were the angels of i beauty, angels of consolation, angels of God i ascending and descending* and I was on i nearly all the fields of Herodic, and Solomon- c ic; aud Davidic, and Mosaic, and Abraharaic history. I took Rome.and Naples, and Athens, f and Alexandria, and Cairo on the way out, f and take the Greek Archipelago, and Con- _ stanti^opie, and Vienna on the way back. * What more can God in His goodness grant me in thf -vay of natural scenery, and classic association, and spiritual opportunity? Ah F yes! lean think of something gladder than that He can grant me. Safe return to the ? people of my beloved flock, the field of my * work, and the laud where my fathers died, and v in the dust of whose valiey6 I pray God I may uo uuuca. p ? 1 A prima r7 teacher in one of the j( schools of Independence, Kan., -was a talking to her class about peace-xnalters, and asked, "What is a peace e maker?" Two hands wero raised; one .ct said, "A peace-maker makes pieces oJ tl things; the other, "He makes pieces for us to speak." Yet some persona think that if a child, on being asked il < it -wants to go to heaven, raises its j hand, it should at once be received in \ to the church and admitted to the holj 1 communion. ? FIFTY-FIBST CONGBESS. In the Senate. 30th Day.?The "Silk Ribbons" bill, and the bill to provide for the enumeration of farm mortgages in the census, were passed ....Messrs. Vance and Hampton spoke on Mr. Butler's Deportation bill Among the nominations made by the President were these: Robert Adams, Jr., Minister to the Empire of Brazil, to be Minister to the United States of Brazil, and William H. Taft, of Ohio, to be Solicitor-General. 81st Dat.?Immediately after the reading of the Senate journal, Mr. Cameron announced the recent afflictions in the families of two members of the Cabinet, Secretaries Blaine and Tracy, and moved an adjournment, which was agreed to unanimously. 32d Day.?Mr. Westcott introduced a bill providing for the admission of the Territory of New Mexico. Referred....In executive session Mr. Sherman called up the Samoan treaty, and for over three hours it was under discussion. Senator Eustis led the attack upon the treaty, asserting that by its terms the United States was placed at a disadvantage compared with the other treaty powers ?Uerraany and England. The discussion continued until 5 o'clock, when the roll was called upon the question of ratifying the treaty. The motion to ratify was adopted ?i? ir? ? - ? fnnfiinnaiiAn wlxlh uruy 1*2 ucgail V c3 tukco. . . was announced of the nomination of John M. Clark to be Collector of the Port of Chicago; Augustine Heard, of Massachusetts, to be Consul General and Minister Resident to Corea, and William H. Taft, of Ohio, to b# Solicitor General. 33d Day.?A debate took place on the sub ject of providing additional committee rooms ...The bill to aid in the establishment and temporary support of common schools was taken up as the unfinished business, and Mr. Blair addressed the Senate in advocacy of it....Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Foreign Relations reported the following joint resolution, which was placed on the calendar: Resolved, That the United States of America congratulates the people of Brazil on their just and peaceful assumption of the powers, duties and responsibilities of self government, based upon the free consent of the governed, and in their recent adoption of a republican form of government. In the House. 32d Day.?The exciting debate over the rules, arising from the calling up of the contested election case of Smith against Jackson, was continued. The scenes of the previous day were resumed, and the Housa was again in an uproar over the same decision of the Speaker counting a quorum, and nearly every member on the Democratic side was on his feet shouting and shaking his hand at the Speaker. The scene resembled a riot. 33d Day.?The heated debate over th? Speaker's action in certifying a quorum was I continued, the same disorderly scenes taking place as in the two previous days. Finally Mr. Dalzell began his argument on the West Virginia contested election case of Smith against Jackson. 34th Day.?'The contested election case of Smith against Jackson was again considered, but the day's session was only a faint reflection of the boisterous scenes of the previous days. 35th D at.?The contested election case of Smith against Jackson, which was the cause of the big row in the House of Representatives, has ended. After a long debate it wai voted to award the seat in the IVth West Virginia contested election case to Mr. Smith, the Republican contestant. 36th Day.?Immediatelv uc>on the House being called to order the Democrats demanded the reading of the journal in full, and when it was completed Mr. Springer de clared that a part had been omitted and de manded the reading of the omitted portion. The Speaker paid no attention to Mr. I Springer, but recognized Mr. McKinley,whc moved the approval of the journal and de manded the previous question, which was | ordered, 165 to none The Speaker then j laid before the House various Senate bills ; "Without accomplishing' anything the ; House, at 4:15, adjourned. 37th Day.?There being a tacit understanding between the Republicans and Democrats that no effort would be made for the j transaction of business (a large number hav- I ing gone to attend the funeral of Mrs. and Miss Tracy), the Clerk was permitted to read the journal in its abridged form. The Democrats did not wish to go on record as approving the journal, and consequently demanded the yeas and nays on that motion. The journal was approved?yeas 150, nays 0. MANY CHINAMEN DROWNED Overwhelmed by a Clond Buret on the Yantze River. Chines? advices give an account of a re cent dipastrons cloud burst in the Yantze River, near Nankin. At about ten o'clock in the morning two large black clouds suddenly appeared and soon enveloped everything like 1 l thick foe-. The waters in t,h? riv?r wbfa ; much disturbed. The two clouds eventually reached Tsitlichow, when they burst asunder. During the disturbance many boats were destroyed and over one hundred people were irowned. More than fifty were picked up in in exhausted condition by the Chineses Life j Preserving Association. Those who lost their lives were buried by the authorities. L THE LABOR WORLD, S&T t Thb labor organizations of Washington ire collecting money to build a hall. The next meeting of the General Exeeu* tive Board of the Knights of Labor will be tield in Cincinnati March 17. An English syndicate is now negotiating for the purchase of all the Newark (N. J.) patent leather manufactories. The Knights of Labor and the Progressive Union met in joint session at Columbus, 3hio, to discuss a plan for uniting. The largest manufacturers of mining raaihinerv in Chicago have been bought out by in English syndicate for $2,000,000. r A local organization, similar to the c Knights of Labor, will bo formed at Glo- t rersville, N. Y., but it will be independent of j ;he Knights. t In the North Dakota House bills prohibitng trusts and the employment of children inder twelve years of age in mines or faoories were passed. t The Builders' Convention met at St. Paul, f tfinn. A resolution was passed urging all t ocal organizations to establish the system of v 'payment by the hour." The Swiss Bundesrath has decided to con- E roke an international conference in May ^ lext for the purpose of establishing regula- . ions relative to factory labor. The shoe factory of Samuel Shaw & Co., it Elmwood, Mass., has been closed on ac- j, :ount of trouble with union men, who would ^ lot work with non-union men. TnERE are over 120 India rubber manufac- f urers in the United States, employing 15,- b KX) hands, and producing annually 280,000 t ons of goods valued at 5:200,000,000. a The Bureau of Labor in New York State * nil add to its report for 1890 the average of vages lost to working people in various trades ^ >y dullness in trade and inclement weather. ' A bar of iron worth $5 is worth $10 after t t is made into horse-shoes; made into needles, 0 t is worth $350; made into penknife blades, a t is worth 13385; made into balance-springs watches, it is worth $250,000. ^ The Industrial Co-operative Society, if ormed by Kensington (Penn.) workingmen f; Ifteen years ago, and which became the most irosperous enterprise of the kind in this ountry, is defunct. Liabilities $38,000. The stevedores along New York harbor are . ilanning a general strike for April 1st, simi- i w tv l"U iCUCUU VUD 1U JUV/UUUU, XUUJ CUCiU ^ orrespondence with similar organizations in . Liverpool, Australia and California, with a g iew of securing their co-operation. a There are thirty-six car-building comanies in the United" States, and in tho year .1 SS9 they turned out 70,546 cars, and at the a bops of railroad compauies there were doubt- 1 ;ss enough cars built to swell tho number c dded to the freight equipment of the roads I f this couutry last year to 100,000 cars. ] As a result of the crisis in the diamond atting, trade at Antwerp, Holland, is b2- v omingmoro acute every day, it is said that * number of workmen inteud to establish s tiemselvcs at Paris, aud that the Amsterdam ' orkinen, who are suffering much from tho t risis, look to London as their future homo F ? a There are in Florida 10.000 orange growvs. The acreage is 100,000 and the capital 1 nrested is from $60,000,000 to $75,000,000. a rhree seasons ago there were orodoeed ,250,090 boxes; two seasons ago, ?,.100,000, ? tnd last seeson about 2,500,000 Doxes. It ii I K stimat?d that the crop of 1890 will beaver I ? ,000,000 boxes. j " ~ M AWML VISITATION secretary Tracy's Washington Mansion Burned. His Wife and Daughter Both Die a Terrible Death, SECRETARY TRACT. It was about 7 o'clock in the morning when flames were seen isuing from the windows and roof o2 Secretary Tracy's handsome residence, 1634 I street, Washington. The neighborhood had not yet awakened, and all around was still. Within the residence not a sound was heard except the crackling of the flames, as with great tongues of fire they came out of the windows on the top floor. Soon the front door of the mansion was opened and two male servants were seen to emerge and run for their lives. Figures robed in white then appeared at the windows. The fire gained headway rapidly, and, although the Fire Department responded promptly, the residence was enveloped in flames when they arrived. Secretary and Mrs. Tracy, occupied the back room on the second floo. Mrs. Tracy, it is thought, was first awakened by the suffocating smoke. Secretary Tracy was at the time unconWw ?ntVi Vtarm'n /?awAfi'nn auiuua. auu xuis. j. a uv.j , ?? ??u uv? viv uu? w.w^ attempted to drag the inanimate body of the Secretary to the window. In this she partially succeeded. Half dazed and blindea by the smoke she opened the window, and just as the firemen were putting ud a ladder to rescue her she leaped to the sidewalk. Hei body was picked up with severe internal injuries and a broken leg. She was taken to a neighboring house and, without recovering consciousness, died within an hour. The ladder, which would have saved Mra Tracy's life had she waited but a brief moment before leaping to the sidewalk, wai soon placed under tne window and strong hands lifted the body of Secretary Tracy through it and carried him to the sidewalk. The Secretary was at first thought to tn dead, but it was discovered that a small sparl of life yet remained. He was removed to th< residence of Mr. Bancroft DaVis, near by, and at 11 o'clock was reported as improving, though at that time he had not gained con?/-"irmcn?ce nnrJ wns nf nniirRP unaware of thl death of his wife and daughter. Miss Tracy, the Secretary's unmarried daughter, occupied the third story front room, and met a fate that was terrible to behold. The young lady could be seen at the win. dow in the light that flickered in between thi blinding smoke and flames, clad in a whit< robe, her hands in the attitude of prayer, an<! her face uplifted to Heaven. The flames gradually hemmed her in, and she finally sank to the floor only to be recognized again by her charred remains. A French maid, Josephine, met a similat fate in an adjoining room, where hei charred and blackened remains were found. Mrs. Wilmerding and her daughter, Mis: Alice, occupied the second story front room on the same floor with Secretary and Mrs. Tracy. Both she and her daughter jumped from the windows to the grass terrace below, and while the shock to both was severe, neither received, 60 far as is now apparent, any serious injury. Mrs. Wilmerding had her right wrist badlj sprained. Miss Alice suffered from shock. The bodies of Mrs. Tracy and Miss Tracy were removed to the residence of Attorney General Miller. Mrs. and Miss Wilmerding were taken to Dr. Baxter's, but were after wara removed to tne nouse 01 oenator naia Around all these houses great crowds congregated as soon as the sad news spread, and remained during the day. Carnages and messengers stopped at the doors momentarily. With Mrs. Tracy and Miss Tracy, and Mrs. Coppinger, Secretary Blaine's daughter, all lying dead, Secretary Tracy seriously ill and his health permanently impaired, Sovermental circles were enshrouded in sadness and gloom. President Harrison, as soon as he heard of the calamity, sent assistance from the Executive Mansion to aid the bereaved family, and followed himself to inquire what assistance le could render. The members of the Cabinet, with whom Secretary Tracy was very popular, wer? itnoug the first to call. They were all shocked beyond measure at the calamity, and Dlaced their respective houses at the disposal )f the afflicted family. Secretary Tracy regained consciousness an lour or so after he was taken to the house of Vlr. Davis, and a quieting opiate was then pven him, under the influence of which he 'ell asleep. rnu~ u?:J A J A- C* TX*?1_ jluc J" resident) oiiu xrivtibe ocucwij xa.ua:ord remained at the house with Secretary rracy until late in the afternoon. The Prevalent suggested that the Secretary be r& noved to the White House, but the physi:ians advised against any disturbance fot 'orty-eight hours. They thought he would jo strong enough for removal by that time, ["ho President also suggested that the bodies >f Mrs. Tracy and Miss Tracy be taken tc he White House, and that the funeral tak? dace from there. The removal was made in he afternoon. The Tracy Family. Mrs. Benjamin F. Tracy, the wife of Secreary of the Navy Tracy, was a lady well and avorably known in Brooklyn, where her tome had been for twenty-three years. She ras in mu slxui'iu year ul ner uge. General Tracy, who was born and brought ip in Owego, married Miss Catlin in 1854. ["hey resided in that place until 1SG5, when hey came to Brooklyn, where their borne las since been. Three children blessed their mion, two daughters and a son. Personally Mrs. Tr? cy was a very pleasant ady. She had a fair complexion and large >lue eyes. In height she was slightly above he medium. She was solidly built and her ace was that of an intelligent woman. Her ilver-gray hair was worn smoothly brushed ?ack from her high forehead. She talked in . very quiet tone and expressed herself in erv few words. Mrs. Emma L. Wilmerding, the eldest laughter, is a widow witW one child. Mrs. Vilmerding has resideO '"With her family ince her husband's death, and went with hem to Washington. Frank B. Tracy, the nly son, is a handsome young man of thirty ,nd unmarried. Miss Mary Tracy, the unnarried daughter, one of the victims of the lisaster, was like her mother in appearance. She was very amiable and had a host of riends. Funeral ?-f Mrs. and Miss Tracy. The funeral of Mrs. and Miss Tracy took >laee at 11 A. M., from the White House, and vas one of the largest attended that nave aken place in Washington for years. It was mrticularly sad, and the immense crowd in ide and out of the Executive Mansion felt it, .nd many showed their sorrow by tears. The great East Room was arranged so that 40 chairs were placed in a hollow circle round the two caskets. A great palm from the Vhite House conservatory stood at the head if the two cofllns. The heads of tho caskets lad been changed to the east, and they were iterally covered with floral tributes. Just before eleven o'clock the Schubert Quartette, stationed just within the entrance o the East Room from the main corridor, ang the hymn, "I Cannot Always Trace the Vay." The members of tho Cabinet, with he exception of Secretary Blaine, acting as lallbearers, soon after entered and took seats it the right of the caskets. They were followed by the funeral procession, Secretary 'racy and his sou Frank walking arm and xm at the head. . As soon as they were seated, the choir of it. John's Episcopal Church, consisting of ixteen white-surpliced boys and four men, ntered the main corridor from the far end, nd they passed _fdon? its .length with j slow and "measured step, sang as a processional the hymn, "Lead, Kindly Light." The Rev. Dr. George William Douglas, rector of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church, then began the Episcopal burial service, "I am the resurrection and the life." At the conclusion the choir sang the hymn, "Jesus, Lover of My Soul." The Scripture lesson was read by the Rev. Mr. Elliott, pastor of the Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church. It began at the twentieth verse of the fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians. The choir then sang "Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me." A prayer, read by Dr. Douglas, concluded the services. The President, with Secretary Tracy on his arm, first passed out of the room, and next to them came Mr. Frank Tracy, who was so overcome that he had to be supported by two of the ushers. Following tne procession come the choir, singing as a recessional hymn, "Abide with me, fast falls the | eventide; the darkness deepens, Lord with me abide." The bodies were removed to the hearses and the funeral procession was formed, the cortege moving slowly to Rock Creek Cemetery, just beyond the Soldiers' Home, where the bodies were placed in a receiving vault to await Secretary Tracy's determination in regard to their permanent resting place. becretary Tracy did not go to tne cemetery, as it was feared the task might prove too much for his strength. The President occupied a carriage with Mr. Frank Tracy. A long line of carriages containing nearly all of those who attended the services at the White House followed the remains to the cemetery. BOASTED TO DEATH. Result of Drunken Kevelry Among Polish Miners. In the village of Marshwood, Penn., where houses are built in blocks of ten by the Moosic Coal Company for the residences of their miners and laborers, four lives have been sacrificed in a fire resulting from the carelessness of drunken revellers, and ten houses were destroyed. There was a christening at the residence of a Polander named Pulaski. It was largely attended by the Poles of the community, who had gathered to make merry over the naming of the latest Polish arrival to the mountain village. Whisky flowed freely. A dance was inaugurated and dui*ing the drunken festivities a kerosene lamp was overturned, which fell on the floor and exploded. There was no one sober enough to im U ^-1? 1." ;_U 4-1. ? mediately exi/iuguisu luo u?mw <***>* burning oil ran about the room igniting everything combustible. In a few minutes the building was in flames. From one dwelling to another the flame? quickly spread. The fire was quicker thar those who endeavored to awaken the sleeper* and it spread with such rapidity that in less than fifteen minutes the entire block was enveloped. The men, women and children rushed from the burning building in their night clothes, being unable to save any of their effects. The house of Joseph Strauss was in flames before the rescuing parties arrived. After considerable effort the occupants were aroused and all were taken out alive except Mrs. Strauss and her two children, who occupied a room in the upper story. Several men ran into the burning apartment, but were forced back by the fierce neat. While the attempt was being made to save the lives of these people, another band of rescuers went into an adjoining building and attempted in vain to save a Polander named Mike Switz. He was asleep when the fire broke out, and it is not known that he ever awakened. His blackened and charred body was taken from the ruins yesterday, as were also the other three bodies. As all the possessions of the occupants of the burned block are destroyed, those whose lives are saved are destitute, many of them not having a garment to cover themselves The Moosic Coal Company sent temporary relief to the stricken people. FATAL SNOW SLIDES. An Idaho Town Almost Wrecked by Avalanches. The town of Burke, Idaho, in Cceur d'AJene mining district, has been nearly destroyed by disastrous avalanches. Half of the business houses are in ruins. -Three men were killed and the terror-stricken inhabitants have fled to the towns of Gem and Wallace, fearing a repetition of the disaster. With scarcely a moment's warning, a tremendous mass of snow and rocks swept down upon the town from the west side of the narrow gulch in which it is situated. Five men were buried beneath the snow. Two were rescued, but the others are dead, The ill-fated town lies in a narrow gulch, through which Canyon Creek pours its water into the south fork of the Cceur d'Alene. It had about two hundred inhabitants, who have deserted their wrecked or menaced homes and places of business. Another disastrous avalanche sweep down upon a boardinghouse connected with the Custer Mine, situated upon Nine-Mile Creek, about five miles from jBurke. The house was full of miners, six of whom were killed. The others had a narrow escape and several were more or less injured. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Dr. Talmage called upon Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden. Sir William Gull, tho eminent English physician, is dead. Leo XIII. will be 80 years old on March 2, iliould he live till then. Colonel North, the nitrato king, has a or irate dog house that cost 85250. Emperor William is devoting several hours each day to the practice of fencing. Emin Pasha has been made a doctor of philosophy by the University of Koenigsburg. General Boulanger bumped his head the other day against a chandelier, and Is laid up. Speaker Reed is not a great smoker, out in the seclusion of his home puffs a pipe at intervals. a new member of the Japanese Parliament is Kumas, who has been a student at Michigan University. The only Territorial delegate in Congress who was born in his Territory is Antonio J oseph, of New Mexico. Senator Ingalls is a prolific writer, and it is said that he doubles his salary as Senator by means of his pen. Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburg millionaire, thinks that a college education does not help a man to make a fortune. King Humbert, of Italy, has been obliged have his teeth pulled. This misfortune is the outcome of chronic dyspepsia. Colonel Kilgore, the Texas Congressman, is noted as a hors?man, and many tales are told of his wonderful feats of riding. Millais has received tho sum of $25,000 for his latest portrait of Gladstone. It was paid lor by subscriptions or tno women 01 England. Senator Hearst, of California, is a native 1 of Missouri. He began his career by working in the gulch for gold like thousands of , other miners. . Governor Boies, of Iowa, will appoint as his private secretary S. L. Bestow, who was the candidate for Lieutenant-Governor in the last campaign. Another monument will soon be erected 1 to the memory of Leon Gambetta,the French ! statesman, this time in the grounds of the J villa near Versailles, where he died. Senator Hiscock, of New York, has an J immense head, which is encircled by a heavy ! growth of hair, and this, with his thick 1 beard, gives him a "leonine-'appearance. 1 Explorer Stanley writes to a friend in London: "My hair is like snow from Ruwenzori, but it is the crown of a busy period, and I I wear it without regret as the gift of Time." I Rev. Albert Gallatin Morton, of Amesliury, Mass., is still preaching in a pul- 1 pit that ho has regularly filled since 1825, without, in a single instance, writing out a < S-'rmon. < Cornelius Vanderbilt, the New York millionaire, has leased the residence of Lady ' Herbert of Lea, for the ensuing London season, and will take possession on his return 1 from Nice. 1 The Empress of Russia is said to be ex- 1 tremely shy in her manner, and blushes like 1 a girl on the slightest provocation. She has ' the same blue eyes that her sister, the Princess of Wales, has, but lacks the latter'a regular features. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. The first annual meeting and banquet of the United States Navy Veteran Association has been held at Boston. Admiral Porter was elected Commander. The Sixth National Bank in New York city has been closed by the United States Bank Examiner and thrown out of the Clearing House; the Equitable Bank is in the hands of a State Bank Examiner, and its checks have gone to protest; and the Lenox Hill Bank has suspended. All these institutions lately came under the control of a clique, of which one P. J. Claassen was the head. Warrants were out for the arrest of Claassen, who was illegally elected President of the Sixth National, and George H. Pell, a broker. Depositors will lose no money probably, but stockholders will. About $700,000 were misappropriated. The debate in the New York Presbytery on the revision of the Confessional of Faith was closed by a lively tilt between Dr. Hall on one side and Dr. Hastings on the other. While Frank B. Wilson and Benjamin Townsend were foolingwith a revolver at New Brighton, Pennl, Wilson's brains were blown out. The boys were sixteen years old. Townsend was a son of Congressman Townsend. During the dress parade of the school regiment at the Latin school, Boston, when an American flag was presented, five of the young boy soldiers fainted in the ranks and were carried off by their comrades. A train wreck occurred six miles from Lancaster, N. H. The engineer, L. F. Crouch, was killed, and the fireman and brakeman badly injured. A statement signed by Edward King, President of the Union Trust Company, annonnced that Charles H. Leland. ex-President of th? Sixth National Bank, of New York city, made arrangements by which the bank would resume business. Danbury, Conn., had the most destr ictive fire in the history of the place. Several -docks of stores were destroyed and many t< nints had narrow escapes. Explosions occuiied during the fire. Loss, about $300,000. The steamer Waseland had a rough passage to New York from Antwerp. Her fourth officer and a quartermaster were swept overboard and lost. Alfred Brown, a "professor of medicine," at Westchester, Penn., was convicted of practicing medicine without a diploma and using incantations and "voudoo" methods, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment and $70 fine. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, the noted Brooklyn divine, has returned from his pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Hon. Seth Low, ex-Mayor of Brooklyn, was installed eleventh President of Columbia College at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, with impressive ceremonies. The Gloucester fishing schooner Alice M. Stouple was reported lost at sea with a crew of fourteen souls. The New York Presbytery, by a vote of 93 to 43, accepted the report by the special committee in favor of revision of the Confession of Faith. The New England Agricultural Society met at Boston. General John D. anderson.of Augusta, Me., has been elected Commander G. A. R., Department of Maine. South and West. Lucia Zaretta, the Mexican midget, said to be the smallest human being in the world, died at Truckee, Nev. Louis Pierce, aged sixteen, and Bert Clark, aged nineteen, of East Dubuque, Iowa, while skating on the river fell into an air hole and were drowned. Jos Wright, Morgan Hoover and Bud Mullins were killed by a boiler explosion in a sawmill near Charleston, W. Va. George Tabler, a colored man, has been hanged at Forth Smith, Ark. His crime was the killing of another colored man, Irwin Richardson, at a dance on Aoril 30, 1SS?. Burglars entered President Harrison's house, in Indianapolis. Although it is occupied by Henry S. Frazer aud family, much of the President's property was still in the house. The loss au told amounts to nearly $1000. The people of Pierre, South Dakota, indignantly deny the reports that they are suffering from poverty. Both branches of the Legislature officially denounced the reports. Leander Anderson shot and killed Anne. Carlson at Sioux City, Iowa, and then killed himself. Anderson was about 26 years old and the girl 16. She had not received his attentions with favor. The Indians representing the Jen tribes of Chippe was Held tneir council at uaanan, r? is. They say that the chiefs of the old tribes only ceded mineral rights to their lands to the Government, ana did not give up the feesimple under the treaties of 1834. They now claim land worth $200,000. Rev. C. T. Phillips, a Presbyterian min isterof St. Louis, was assaulted by burglars in his study in the Presbyterian Church. He was beaten until he was unconscious and waf then robbed. The burglars escaped. The plant of the Kansas City Packing Company aud the Chase Refrigerator Company, of Kansas City, have been destroyed by lire. The loss is about $100,000, Dr. Edward McGlynu was taken seriously ill in Chicago, and was obliged to give up a lecture engagement there ana return to his home in Brooklyn. The three sons of James Bright, of Kirkland Township, Ind., were found dead in their beds. They had been suffering from influ enza, but when they retired the previous night their condition was not considered dangerous. The Chicago Presbytery declared for a re* vision of the Confession of Faitb. Meningitis has become epidemic in many parts of Texas, and people are dy.ug rapidly. The Belcher district has already lost thirty, and many more were dying. Not a single person attacked by the disease has recovered. The bouse of William D. Ellis, of Chicago, was burned in the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, who returned just in time to save a nine months' old baby from death. A servant and a two-year-old daughter were burned to death. Rev. S. R. Frazier, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Youngstowu, Ohio, and well known as an eloquent orator ana successful lecturer on Japan, has suddenly become insane. Cora and Annie Brock ate a poisoned cake intended for rats in the Schietz bakery it St. Louis, and both died. John Kelly, of Marianna, Ark., murdered his wife, from whom hs had been separated, and a young man with whom she was living. He then forced a neighbor named Owens to accompany him to the woods. Neither was seen again. A freight train crashed through a bridge at Peoria, 111., and the cars were precipitated into the Illinois River. The engineer, fireman and brakeman were killed, A great sensation has been caused in Cincinnati by a public announcement that Theodore Haymau, Superintendent of the crematory, has been for months stealing and solline the coffins of those brought for cremation. A north bound passenger train struck a band car near Clear Lake, Minn. Three section men on the hand car were killed. Washington. Blanche K. Bruce (colored) has been nominated by the President to be Recorder if Deeds in the District of Columbia. Mr. Bruce was once a United States Senator. The Department of Agriculture has received from Europe a consignment of choice iilk-worm eggs, which wiU be distributed jratuitiously to all persons who desire to raise silk-worms in this country. It hasbsen decided that Governor's Island will replace Castle Garden, New York, as the lauding place of immigrants arriving in this country at the port of New York. Mhs. Coppixger, eldest daughter of Secretary Biaine, and wife of Lieutenant-Colonel John J. Coppinger, Eighteenth Infantry,died }f congestion of the brain, at her father's resilence. The funeral was attended by the President, Mrs. Harrison, and many other prominent people. Owing to the calamity which befell Secretary Tracy's family President Harrison and the other Cabinet mambers abandoned their intended visit to New York to participate in the exercises in celebration of tne Centennial ot the United States Supreme Court. The Senate Committee on Agriculture derided to refer the bill transferring the Weather Bureau to the Department of Agri* culture to Chief Signal Officer Greely for hii views on the subject. The report of Adjutant-General Skelton upon the militia force of the United States has been sent to the Senate. It shows the strength of the militia to consist of 8052 officers, 103,292 men- and 7,352,171 men not -organized but available for duty. Foreign. The cholera has made its appearance in the Caucasus Mountains. The epidemic has been steadily moving up the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates, and has crossed the Persian frontier. Portugal has prepared an appeal to the Powers on the dispute with England, based on the Berlin Treaty. morassoR Westphal, of Berlin, a physician celebrated as a specialist in mental diseases, is dead. In the French Chamber of Deputies the bills to tax foreigners and employers of foreign labor passed the first reading. At Dietz, Prussia, the flywheel of a thresh ing machine burst while in rapid motion, kiHine live men. Several Boulangist and socialist meetings were held in Paris, each of which ended in a free fight. Several persons were badly injured, some stoned and some stabbed. The Portuguese Government has authorized the opening of the entire Delagoa Bay Railway to the frontier of the Transvaal Republic. The road will be under the control of State officials. a circus in Lisbon was wrecked by th? audience because of the presentation of a pantomime called "Portugal in Africa." Senhor Rebeiro, the Brazilian Ministei of Commerce, resigned, and was succeeded by Senhor Francisco Grizeiro. In consequence of the rejection of th? colonial budeet and the condemnation of the Government's Acheen policy by the First Chamber of the State's General, the Dutch Ministry have tendered their resignations to the King. A Government decree revising the banking law has just been issued at Rio Janeiro, Brazil. According to this, the republic will be divided into four banking districts, and the total issue of paper currency will be united to 200,000,000 milreis. John Reed & Co., one of the oldest shipbuilding firms on the Clyde, Scotland, have failed, with heavy liabilities. On the steamer La Plata during her voyage from Buenos Ayres to Antwerp $170,000 in specie and bonds were stolen. Herr Schmitz, editor of the Cologne Oazette, has been sentenced to one month's imprisonment in a fortress for publishing calumnies against the Empress Frederick, mother of Emperor William. Portugal has been notified that England I ? A. i? ? A. ?4ii. it., J; will agree to a cuiuei euto uu ki>uc wo uxoDute between the two nations. LATER NEWS, . The advance sheets of the Controller's reIport in New Jersey showed a serious deflci'ency in the finances of the State. The Grand Army of the Republic in Massachusetts began its convention in iJoston. The Justices of the Supreme Court were entertained by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. The British ship Thanemore reached Boston, with one-half of the crew of the Norwegian ship Josephine, who were rescued al sea. The other seven Scandinavians were lost during the prevailing hurricanes. Mrs. Woko Ah Tuck, the young wife of a Chinese merchant in San Francisco, arrived at New York city disguised as a boy, in company with Lo Ung. The Wongs in New York took the runaway woman in charge until they can get an explanation and instructions from Wong Ah Tuck. Two workmen employed in a wire mill at Trenton, N. J., were pierced by red hot wires and suffered shocking and fatal injuries. Two Brooklyn factories were destroyed by a fire which started at 143 Spencer street Two firemen were injured and about $100,000 damage done. An important vacancy in the Ohio Senate has been filled by the election of a Democrat. Had the Republican candidate been successful the Senate would have been a tie, with a Republican Lieutenant-Governor to give a casting vote. an oil still belonging to the Standard Oil Company exploded at Lima, Ohio, killing Patrick Ryan and injuring five other men. Aurora, HI., has been quarantined owing to a smallpox scourge. Frank Chapman, Fred Young and James t?--?? titv?i 1 o offflmntinrr ta JDUTJT TTCIC lUVTTUBU nuwv cross the St. Clair River at Marine City, Mich., in a skiff. Rear-Admiral Stephen P. Quackenbush, U. S. N. (retired), died at his residence at Washington, aged sixty-seven. An American officer has arrived at McLeod, in Northwest Canada, to try and recover the white girl held captive there by the Blackfeet Indians. ' Emperor William, of Germany, sent a sensational rescript to Prince Bismarck and an order to Minister Berlepsch regarding measures for workingmen. A NAVAL ENGAGEMENT. An Oyster Dredger Surrenders to a Police Schooner. Captain Harney, of the oyster police schooner Helen Baughman, towed into Chestertown, MdL, all that was left of the dredging schooner Lightning. The latter presented a sorry sight. Her sails were in ribbons, every rope was cut and her hull was splintered in many places. The Baughman, too, looked as if she had seen service. The police vessel was cruising off Wickes Beach, in the Chester River, when she came upon the Lighting dredging on forbidden beds. The police boat bore down on the offender and called upon her captain to surrender. The only reply was a volley, which caused the Baughman's crew to hunt shelter. Captain Harney returned the fire, ana Degan j closing in on the Lightning, with the view of j boarding her. Skipper Smith,of the dredger, i attempted to escape. The Baughman, however, hung to him, and finally succeeded in getting alongside. This was Harney's opportunity. The cannon was trained on the schooner and a solid 6hot sent through her sails. Then followed a regular fusilade with small arms. At length it got too hot for the dredger, and her captain signaled that he had enough. No one was hurt, though there wero some narrow escapes. Captain Smith was arraigned and will have to stand trial. EIOT IN A CEUKCH. A Pastor's Personal Remarks Cause a General Fix At. During service in a Virginia Countj church about thirty miles from Sparta, N. C.t Rev. Joseph M. Stroke, in the course of hia remarks, said: "There is a man in this congregation who is so mean to his wife that it is a wonder God does uot rain down fire and brimstone upon his head aud consume him.'' The preacher pointed his finger toward Thomas Coleman, who occupied a seat near the nulpit, and as he did so that individual | jumped to his feet to inquire if the parson meant to be personal in his remarks. No sooner was Coleman on his feet than half a dozen deacons were up demanding that he sit down. Everything was in an uproar and an attempt was made to eject Coleman. Coleman resisted and, seizing a stick of wood lying near tho stove, he began to wield it hard and fast, knocking four men to the floor and killing Jeremiah Ferguson. One man wrenched the club from Coleman and dealt him a fatal blow across the head. The riot lasted six minutes and was par- ] ticipated in by many of the congregation, who used clubs as weapons. Besides the j two men killed, three others were badly < wounded. .... 1 ' A CENTENNIAL OF LAffH Celebrating the Foundation o^H the U. S. Supreme Court. J /"< ? 7 Impressive Exercises in Presence* of a Brilliant Gathering, 1 The only thing which served ^to detract from the magnificence of the long anticipated centennial celebration of the Judiciary at /J.5 New York was the absence of President Harrison and his Cabinet. This was due to the melancholy disaster which befel Secretary ^ Tracy, and in consideration of his terrible bereavement the heads of the United States Government decided to decline the invitation to participate in the exercises in commemoration 01 the organization in the Supreme Court of the United States. The exercises vrere held at the Metropolitan Opera House. The decorations of the Opera House celebration can be adequately referred to as magnificent. From the bril- j li&nty lighted chandelier which surmounted 1 the auditorium hung colored streamers J reaching to every point of the vast interior 1 of the Building." From the fronts of the various balconies were gracefully entwined 1 the colors of the Union and the arms of the various Stated of the Union. The stage was tastefully draped in colors, and an interest* ing feature was the exhibition of portraits of seven of the Chief Justices of the United States, Jay, Rutledge, Ellsworth, Marshall, Taney, Chase and Waite. Promptly at 10:30 the orchestra began the < opening strains of Meyerbeer's "Coronation" , march, and almost immediately the doors \ leading to the centre aisle of the auditorium. i were thrown open, and the Hon. William H. Arnoux. the Chairman of the Judiciary Can- % tennial Committee of the New York Stat* < Bar Association, appeared leaning upon the < arm of ex-President Grover Cleveland. Together they led the procession to the stagey . the audience standing while the venerable dispensers of United States justice in the | Supreme Court walked to their places on the stage. They were Chief Justice Fuller and Associate Justices Samuel F. Miller, Stephen J. Field, Joseph P. Bradley, John M.. War Inn, 1 Horace Gray, Samuel Blatchford, Lucius Q. C. Lamar and David J. Brewer, all attired la their black robes of office. Following the Justices came many distin guished guests. George F. Hoar represented' the Judiciary Committee of the United States ;j Senate, and Congressmen John W. Stewart, George E. Adams, J. Buchanan, Henrv C. McCormick and James Sherman the Judi? : ciary Committee of the House of Representa- j tives. The exercises were bejjun by Frederic R. (Joudert, woo mtroaucea mr. oieveuuia as- ; the Chairman of the day's proceedings. Mr. Cleveland began his address with a sympathetic reference to the affliction which had come upon the Executive Department of theGovernment. His speech was brief, and ended as follows: "I deem myself highly < honored by the part assigned to me in these commemorative exercises. As in eloquentand fitting terms we shall be led by those chosen to address us to the conternplation of the history of that august tribunal organized one hundred years ago; as the lives and services of those who in ths past have presided over its councils are rehearsed to us; , as our love and veneration for our fellow- ; countrymen who now fill its high and sacred , places are quickened; and as we are reminded of the manner in which our national 1 Court has at all times illustrated the strength and beneficence of free institutions, let us be glad in the possession of this rich heritage of American citizenship, and gratefully appro- ciate the wisdom ana patriotism of those who gave to us the Supreme Court of the United States." At the conclusion of Mr. Cleveland's address the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix offered th? invocation, reading the Episcopal prayers- ? appropriate to the occasion. The sadcalamity of the previous day in Secretary Tracy's family was brought again to the tnought of the audience when Dr. Dix added the prayer - for those in affliction. n Ex-Judge Arnoux, Chairman of the JudI- .fl cicry Centennial Committee of the New York'.^fl State Bar Association, next rose and deliv- fl red an address of welcome to the SupremO^^B Court. The response of the Supreme Court was de- livered through Mr. Justice Field, who was RH introduced by Chief-Justice Puller. The Hon. William Allen Butler, of New j^H York, then delivered a stirring address on flfl the "Origin of the Suoreme Court of tha- ^fl United States and Ite Place in the Constitution." fl| Addresses were also delivered by Henry Hitchcock, of St. Louis; Thomas J. Semmea, H of Louisiana, and ex-Minister Edward J. fl Phelps, of Vermont. The address which was: fl to have been made by President Harrison. ' fl was necessarily omitted; and after the sing- fl ing of the National Hymn and the doxology, ? the exercises were closed with the benedio- - fl tion by the Rev. Dr. Talbot W. Chambers. fl A dinner in honor of the Supreme Court' fl was given at night. Responses to the various - fl toasts were made by Associate Justice Har- fl Ian, Senator W. M. Evarts, Edward M. Paxson. Chief Justice of Pennsylvania; Waiter- Hi B. Hill, of Georgia, Joseph H. Choate, of New York; Seth Low, President of Columbia. Hfl Coll ere. Rev. Dr. W. R. Huntington and- fl Chauncey M. Depew H ABAHOASHEB BOBBED. | I He Is Thrown Into the Street and Fatally Hart. j , J. B. Armstrong, Cashier of the Sumner. County Bank, at Conway Springs, "KanJ was attacked the other afternoon by a. mob of 100 men and received fatal ln> juries. Ha was oonnected with a sugaft mill at the place, and the ocmpaijg v had promised farmers certain prioef for cane and the employes In th* factory certain wages. The farmers claim that 928,000 is still clue them, while the eni- Si ployofl claim fcflOOO. Armstrong, in addition to being a member of the company falling to ]B fulfill contracts, was the leading guarantor, and used his influence to establish a credicA^B (or the company. Trouble has been expected for J ? X *? ?? n'nln/iU 4*V?A flVAtlTll time, emu uu i?ww v civua vu? v< w colled in front of the bank and one of tha number invited Armstrong out. He complied! with the reguast and a tew minutes spent in talking the matter over. The, farmers and employes finally bocame so anraged that Armstrong was picked up, thrown1 out into the middle of the street, where ther* was a scrimmage to reach him to give a kic^f It was suggested to hang him to a tree ne^j; by and he was carried there in an unconscious state, but cooler judgment finally prevailed*) The bank property was not damaged beyond! the breaking of a few windows. Some other persons in with Armstrong made haste to eavo town. 1 PABNELL'S LIBEL SUIT. A The Loudon "Times" Compromises by u| Paying $23,000 Damages. J9 The trial of the suit for libel brought by Mr. Parnell against the London Times was to have begun a few days ago, but wh?) the case was called, counsel announced thai the suit had been compromisd, the Timet EH paying Mr. Parnell ?5000 damages. The withdrawal was also announced of th< action brought by Mr. Henry Campbell, Mr. Parnell's private secretary, against the Timet for damages for statements affecting Mrl Campbell made by Attorney-General Web* ster, counsel for the Times, in his opening speech in the case of O'Donnell against Wafter, proprietor of the Times, and for charges BH made against the plaintiff in an editorial cublished by the Times in July, 1888. The court room was crowded. Mr. rarnell was present. Ho looked well. The aunounc?> ment of the results of the actions caused 4 sensation in the court room. HH A DESPEEATE STEUGGLE. H Socialists and Police Killed and Wounded in Germany. During a Socialist electoral meeting at Stassfurt. Germany, while Deputy Heine was speaking the overflow from the meeting coP HH lided with the police and a free fight fol- HH lowed. Knives and stones were used. The police fired with blank cartridges without effeet, and then used bs.ll cartridges. One HH woman was killed, four civilians wounded and several policemen were stabbed^^HB ' M