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y . TELEGRAPHIC TICKS, j * The Latest Important Occur | rences at Home and Abroad. | The Statue of Lafayette for thf; Paris Monument. United States Minister to Fiance, White- j 3aw Reid, has recently officially received tht j mouument to Lafayette that is to be erected I by Americans. An international contest foi | the execution of this was opened in 1SS6, anil resulted in the work being awarded to MM. Falguiere and Mercie, sculptors, aud M. Pu- I jol, architect. The monument will be about j > THE LAFAYETTE STATUE.' ! thirty-two feet high. The pedestal of white i Italian marble will rest upon a granite foun- I dation, and will be surmouuted by a statue of I Lafayette in bronze over ten feet high. The I General is represented at the age of twenty, j which was abo>t his age when he first set out | for this couutry. He is standing, the left hand resting on his unsheathed sword, the i right hand half extended. His cloak, hang- | ing over his left arm, falls to the ground be- j hind him. He wears on his breast the decora- ' tionsof the Society of the Cincinnati. A large cartouche ornaments, the face of thu j pedestal, and encloses the inscription: ? "A Lafayette et a ses compagnons d'armes, ! FAmerique reconnaissante." "To Lafayette and to his companions in j arms, the gratitude of America." The sculpture also includes two groups in ! bronze about ten feet high, Rochambeauand I de Grasse on the right, and Duportal, officer ; of the engineers, and Admiral d'Estaiug, all i companions of Lafavetto on the left. Under the cartouche there is an allegorical J figure of a woman lifting a sword toward j Lafayette, a reminder of the sword which was offered to him by the Americans. The New Tariff Bill. Mr. McKinlev. from the Committee on Ways and Means, introduced the new Tariff 1 bill, with the majority report on it, in tho I House of Representatives at Washington. | The report discusses the effect that the bill j will have upon the revenues of the Govern- | ment. It states that the exact effect is diffi- ! cult to ascertain. The Committee have recommended changes ] in the Internal Revenue law as follows: Abolishing the tax on dealers in leaf tobacco. j manufactured tobacco, manufacturers of tobacco and cigars, and peddlers of tobacco; j reducing the tax on smoking and manufac- \ tured tobacco and snuff from eight cents to j four cents par pound. No reference is made in the report to raw hides, a subject that has given the Republi- ; |A can members of the Committee considerable I ^trouble. They decided to put hides on the j i dutiable list, but changed that decision, and , hides will remain on the free list as at present. I , The Committee recommend that all pro- , visions of the statutes imposing restrictions ; of any kind upon farmers and growers of to- j bacco, in regard to the sale thereof, be re-J pealed. This will enable the farmers and j planters to sell their tobacco wherever and ] to whomsoever they please with the same : freedom they now dispose of other agri- I cultural products. The Committee conclude that the proposed ; bill, if enacted into law, will certainly re- i duce the revenue from imports at least $60,- j 936,539, and probably more, and from the i internal revenue or, mmeag- i gregate, ?71,264,414. The bill, as finally agreed upon, removes all tariff on hides and sugar, and gives a bounty of two cents a pound on sugar produced in the United States. Mr. McKenna, of California, a Republican member of the Ways and Means Committee, submitted a report dissenting from the sugar schedule of the bill. A minority report was submitted by the Democratic- members of the "Ways aud Means Committee, declaring against "the Re- j publican policy of taxing the nation for the benefit or the few. ' It also declares emphatically against the bounty provision, as taxing the great army of "producers of other products for the benefit of those engaged ia making sugar. fh. ____ Levees Are Tottering. A recent despatch from New Orleans says: The flood situation in Louisiana is now extremely critical. Although only two serious <crevasses have occurred thus" far?one in "Wnnfh T^ni?innft Anri thft nt.hpr fti-rf-.v milp< above this city?many of the most important dikes in the State are seriously threatened. The full force of the flood is at present upon them, as the crest of the flood wave is now passing along the Louisiana front. fc.JThe riy.fr Uas been rising steadily for two t weess from Vicksburg to this city, and the ^^highest water of whicn there is any record ^^has been reached. The prospects are tint W the river will continue to rise for a week or mor?, ani is likely to go nearly a foot higher. The danger is regarded as so imminent that many of the planters are removing thei?y stock and personal effects to places of greater safety. To add to the danger the levees have become water soaked by the long continued high water and are much weakened in consequence. The water in the Atehafalaya is so high . that it already flows over the levees in many I places and has submerged a large section of I Point e Coupee and Avoyelles parishes. Very | little cultivated land has been affected thus .far, but the steady rise of the water causes j great anxiety. Many of the most valuable plantations in that section are entirely inundated. The ,vill ?lf> Ihittb h? t-.ho rron for thf> veai* will be entirely destroyed. About fifteen hundred people, mostly colored, are now in a state of destitution iu the < taction. The water has been over the land j for a month, and there is no probability that j it will disappear for another month, and the j poorer classes in the affected section are entirely without means of support. An effort is being made to have them supplied with Government rations. Winter Weiltletl to Spring. Gould Rockwell, aged eighty-three, was I married a few days ago at Ridgeville. Conn., to Miss Mary Louise Deninan, aged twenty- j five. Mr. Rockwell has been a widower for | forty years. He early amassed a comfortable j fortune iu the hardware business in Troy, | N. Y., retiring from active business forty ' years ago. He then settled at the old Rock- j well homestead at Ridgefiild that stood on , the main street long before the memorable ' skirmish there i:i Revolutionary times, when I Woosterfell. For nearly half a century he has lived practically alone. It is said "that he has settled $"25,000 ou his bride. The bride is a prepossessing blonde, not quite 25 years old, of coyish ways and coquetA tish glances, and the wedding was only the K fourth time she had met her husband. Her H former home was in Nevarsink, Sullivan y County, N. Y. The couple first met about three months ago, and their courting has been by tender missives. The girl indignantly denies that she married for money, but tne gossipe are unwilling to accept her avowal. The marriage was a quiet one, at the resilience of the bride's uncle, the Rev. Charles ^ JI. Seeleck, of Nor walk, performing the cer* r * - mony. The couple left town on the afternoon train, amid the din of torpedoos, the blowing whistles, and tli2 loud huzzahs of the small boy. Blew His Brother's Head Oil' A sensational tragedy occurred at noon at the country residence of 0. P. Ziner. of Stark County, North Dakota. Albert Ziner entered the house of his brother, 0. P. Ziner, and insulted the latter'* wife, whereupon O. P. Ziner seized a shotgun and literally blew his brother's head off. Albert died almost instautly, and the brothi.* was arrested. A great crowd gathered at the jail at nightfall, and it was feared the prisoner would be lynched before dawn. The Sheriff was powerless to withstand the mob. and had no opportunity to spirit his prisoner away. To Irrigate the Northwest. Much interest is being aroused throughout the Canadian Northwest over the proposat of the Dominion Government to inaugurate a system of irrigation throughout this country. Last summer, owing to the great drought, the crops in Manitoba, as well as the Northwest Territorie.suffered greatly. The rainfall is always very light in the Territories, and it is confidently asserted that with the system of the Western States there would be a vast increase in the crop? as well as in the area cultivated. It is likely the Dominion Government will have the matter thoroughly inquired into during recess. Prominent Texans Murdered. News has reached Madisonville, Texas, of the murder of Captain John Richardson and his wife at their country residence, eight miles from there. Robbery is believed to Hjivp hpp.n thf? mntivA. Tlif* snnno<it.irm that they were murdered by strangers who had accepted their hospitality for the night. Captain Richardson was one of the oldest an') most respected citizens of Madison County. Seventeen Girls Killed. A fatal accident occurred at Bergann. Italy. The roof of a weaving mil! in which :>(XJ girls were at work fell in, and sevaatoe;; of the eirls were killed. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, In the Senate. 81st Day.?The consideration of the Montana Senatorial election ease was resumed, and Mr. Evarts addressed the Senate on the subject.... The World's Fair bill was reported to the Senate; one of the amendments provides for a naval review in New York harbor in April, 1893....Mr. Cullorn introduced a bill to establish a tirst-class mail and steamship service between Tampa, Fla., and Aspinwall, Central America, for a term of live years. S2d Day.?The Senate passed a lar^e number of bills, including the Senate bill transferring the Weather Bureau to the Department of Agriculture. 83d Day.?When the message from the House announcing the death of Mr. Randall and the appointment oi a committee to attend his funeral had been road Mr. Cameron rose, and, in a voice tremulous with emotion, offered a resolution expressing deep regret and providing for the appointment of a committee to attend the funeral. The resolutions were agreed to, and Senators Quay, Allison. Dawes, Voorhees and Eustis were appointed the committee on the part of the Senate. As a further mark of respect to Mr. Randall's memory the Senate then adjourned. 84th Day.?Mr. Evarts presented the amendments he proposes to offer to the bill providing for a special enumeration and cer tification of Chinese residents bv the census , officials... .Further debate on the Montana , Senatorial election took place, no final action being taken. , 85th Day.?The Montana case was disposed of, and the Republican contestants, ( Messrs. Sanders and Powers, were sworn in The Chinese Enumeration bill was killed ... .Mr. Barbour introduced a bill providing I for the purchase of several original journals and other relics belonging to George 1 W ashington, and now owned by Lawrence Washington, of Fauquier County, Va i Mr. Chandler reported favorably the bill to j recognize the services of Chief Engineer George W. Melville, of the Navy, and the , other officers and men of the" Jeannette Arctic Relief Expedition Bills appropriating $150,000 additional for continuing the erection of the public building at Worcester, , Mass., and *100,000 for a public building at Newburg, N. Y., were passed. I In the House. 90th Day.?On the second day's discussion ] o? the Naval Appropriation bill in Committee of the Whole, Mr. Holman moved to < strike out of the bill the paragraph provid- ( in.i* frtt* tViroo V>attlA chins hilt iPAVinJ* in the provision for an armed cruiser. Agreed to ?98 to 70....Mr. McAdoo introduced a copy 1 of the Senate bill to incorporate the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. 91st Day.?The consideration of the contested election case of Waddill against Wise, of the Third Virginia District, wasbeguu. 92d Day.?The contested election case of ' Waddell against Wise, of Virginia, was de- ' cided by the adoption of the majority report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections declaring that Waddell, the Republican contestant, is entitled to the seat. Mr. Waddell j appeared at the bar of the House and took ( the oath of office. 93d Day.?An air of sadness pervaded the chamber when the Speaker's gavel called the 1 House to order. Draped in black and ornamented with a handsome floral design, the ' seat so long occupied by Mr.Raudall recalled to members thct theU- olJ colleague had i passed away forever. The crayon portrait ( of the ex-Speaker, hung in the lobby, was also ] tastefully draped with the emblems of I mourning. The Chaplain offered a prayer. Mr. O'Neill then offered a resolution expressing the deep regret and profound sorrow of ? the House on hearing of the death of Mr. , Randall, and providing for the appointment of a committee of nine members of the House, with such members of the Senate as i may be joined, to attend the funeral. Tho resolutions were unanimously adopted, and t.ho SrwnVpr nnnointed the following com- I mittee: Messrs. O'Neill, Carlisle, Harmer, < Holman, Cannon, Forney, Springer, McKin- 1 ley and Reilly. The House then adjourned ' for the day. 94th Day.?The Holman amendment to | strike out the provision in the Naval Appro- 1 priation bill for three battleships was stricken out, and the bill was passed The bill to define and regulate the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States vras passed by a ( vote of 131 to IS, the Speaker counting a quorum Mr. Martin submitted a report on the Morrill Service Pension bill. The re- ' port criticises the age qualifications of the 95th Day.?A bill was called up amending ' the Alien Land law so as to permit foreign capital to be invested in mines of gold, silver, lead, tin, cinnabar and copper The House passed the Military Academy Appropriation bill.... Mr. Bergen called up the contested election case of Posey against Parrett, from the First Indiana District. The committee reports unanimously in favor of Parrett, the sittiug member. Tho resolution was adopted.... Mr. Rowell called up the contested election case of Bowen against Buchanan, from tbe IXth District of Virginia. The resolution, which confirms the right of the sitting member, was adopted... .Mr. Squire introduced a bill appropriating $100,000 for the erection of the equestrian statue of General Grant in Washington City.... Mr. Raines introduced bills for the erection of public buildings at n.? ^n?ann(r ninnas iii Nhw York: Hornells ville, Geneva and Corning ? Majority and minority reports on the Revenue bill were presented. A TERKIBLE AFFLICTION. Spotted Fever Causes Consternation in Kentucky. Spotted fever broke out iu Union County, Ky., and the wildest consternation prevailed for a time. It made its first appearance at Hanshaw. and since that time a score of children have been attacked, and in each case fntally. The disease is identical in all its symptoms with that which last summer carried off 250 victims in Webster and adjoining county. In that epidemic neither sex nor age was spared. Only children have been attacked this year. The disease runs its course inside of thirty-six hours. Its approach is heralded by intense pain at the base of the hrain. A burning fever speedily fo! lows. The tongue becomes swolleu and nard, unconsciousness ensues and death follows. ft ' ' y ' * :" /. x-s '*' # THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern mid Middle States. The machine and smith shop of the Lewi& Fowler Manufacturing Company, car makers, Brooklyn, were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $200,000. The maiden records of all transatlantic steamers were broken by the new White Star liner Majestic, which made the voyage from Queenstown to Sandy Hook Lightship in 6 days 10 hours and 30 minutss. The Republican Committee has determined to contest the election of Orestes Cleveland as Mayor of Jersey City,N. J., od the ground of alleged fraud. As earthquake shock was felt at Dover, Me. A noise like that of an explosion was heard, and theu the earth trembled foi several seconds. Clocks were stopped and small articles were thrown from their places. John* H. Stauffer's four-story brick cigar factory, Isaic Buch's frame cigar fac lory, Bomberger & Co.'s hardware warehouse, and five frame stables adjoining, in the borough of Litiz, Penn., have been destroyed by fire. Forest fires have wrought great destruction to property in the vicinity of Pleasant ville, N. J. Over 300 acres of pine timber were burned, causing a loss of about $50,000. The postponed elections in Providence gave the Democrats control of the Rhode Island Legislature and innures the election of their State ticket. About one hundred farmers in Adams and York Counties in Pennsylvania have been defrauded of a sum aggregating about $125,* 000 by swindlers who sell them fictitious rights to sell wire fences. The assignee of the dry goods firm of John F. Plummer & Co., of New York city, which recently failed, has just made a statement showing liabilities of $877,000 and assets only #75,000. Sixty-five children of Blackfeet Indians arrived at the Carlisle (Penn.) training school from the West. The first annual convention of the Sailors' and Firemen's unions of the United States was opened in New York city. Andrew Campbell, the well-known inventor and manufacturer of printing presses, died in a Brooklyn (N. Y.) ambulance while being taken home after falling in an apoplectic fit. At the Appraiser's Stores in New York city the body of a man, who had been strangled, was found imbedded in plaster in a cask, which had been shipped to that port from Copenhagen, Denmark. The cask had beeD stored there for about three months. The murdered man was a clerk named Meyer, and his slayer was his employer, Philipsen, who is under arrest in Denmark. The twenty-fifth annual reunion of the Loyal Legion was held in Philadelphia. Twelve hundred and ntne coke ovens were shut down at Connellsville, Penn., I because of a lack of orders. This suspension throws 1200 men out of work. Deacon Jacob Estey. the founder of the great Estey Organ Company, died suddenly of heart disease, in Brattleboro, Vt., at the t ge of seventy-six. South and West. A tornado caused damage in the Valley of the Rappahannock in Virginia. The Iowa Legislature defeated the High License bill by a vote of twenty-one to twenty-nine. The business portion of Pearsall, Texas, has been almost completely destroyed by fire. Loss, estimated at $4-5,000. Three boys were killed at Webb City, Mo., by the falling of a slab of rock while they were digging lead out of the side of a mine Defaulting State Treasurer Archer, of Maryland, was arrested at his countrv seat near Bel Air. He had made away with ?5G,000 worth of registered State securities, of which no traces have been discovered. Yelvington, Ky., has been entirely destroyed by fire. Bv the running away of a team near Mansfield, Ohio, Mrs. C. Levering, of that town, was fatally injured, and Miss Emeline Hill, of Needrnore, Penn., instantly killed. James Speed, one of the wealthiest cattlemeu of Southern Texas, was shot and killed by John Tomerlin at Moore Station, Texas. There was great excitement on the Chiclgo Board of Trade because Armour, the packing king, and Hutchinson, the wheat tung, actu uui lioi c?u iiiay uuu o uiy yvi a, i ind May wheat. Pork sold at $15.75 and | wheat at 9.1 cents par bushel. The O'Brieu Wagon Works, at Tiffin, j Ohio, were destroyed by fire, involving a loss of *80,000. In* a secluded district near Wakefield, Huron County, Ohio, Revenue Collector Waldorf unearthed illicit whisky distilleries >n the farms of several prominent and hithsrto respectable farmers. Fire broke out in the Northern Pacific machine shops at Ellensburg. Washington, ind in a very short time they, with the roundhouse, were totally destroyed. Loss iver $100,000. The Gilbert Starch Works at Des Moines, Iowa, were burned; loss $109,000. Three employes?two girls and one man?lost their lives. State Treasurer Archer, of Maryland, ivas admitted to bail in $25,000. Gold and other precious minerals have been found in large quantities in the Grand Canon of Colorado. The Detroit (Mich.) Steel and Spring Com i oany, the largest concern of its kind in the tJnited States, has suspended payment, with 1 labilities amounting to $300,000. 1 Edward Gillem and Alex. Gatewood, j members of a Klu Klux band, were killed by 1 i fourteen year-old boy named Holland at 1 Pike Place, Mo. They were about to whip ais father. * ? Tir _4. lion /1a. a storm in western imuit?n.? u? ui.- , stroyed the prospects of the growing crops in ! several counties, and Governor Thayer asks :ontributions of wheat and oats for seed. Bo.vskield & Co.'s wooden ware factory i it Bay City, Mich., was burned. Loss #150,K)0. | Goveknok Jacksox, of Maryland, removed Stevenson Archer for malfeasance in >ftice and misappropriation of the funds of the State, and appointed to the vacancy Edwin H. Brown, of Queen Anne Couuty. By the explosion of a saw-mill boiler at 31adwin, Mich., Engineer H. M. Carry and his son Aaron were torn to pieces. Both branches of Congress adjourned as a nark of respect to Samuel J. Randall; committees were appointed from the' Senate and House to attend the funeral. The United States Supreme Court has iecided that the State of California had no jurisdiction in the case of United States Marshal Nagle, who was arrested for killing Judge Terry while protecting Justice Field. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has received a telegram from Indian Agent U pshaw, asking for troops to suppress a threatened uprising of the Indians on the Tongue River reservation in Montana. The annual session of the National Academy of Sciences began in the hall of the National Museum building at Washington, the President, Professor O. C. Marsh, of New Haven, presiding. The Judge-Advocate-General of the Navy ( submitted a preliminar}' report to Secretary Tracy in the McCalla case, recommending " ' " % rr i..? | tnat uommanaer cowmau n. .wlohu uo tried by court-martial for maltreating seamen on board the United States vessel Enterprise. Washington. The bill to revive the grade of LieutenantGeneral of the Army was ordered to be favorably reported by the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. The Senate in secret session at Washington confirmed the following nominations: Lewis A. Grant, to be Assistant Secretary of War; Brigadier-General Nelsou A. Miles, Major-General; Colonel B. H. Grierson, Brigadier-General; Major T. H. Stanton, Deputy Paymaster-General. Secretary Blaine lias asked the Hou^ to appropriate $1500 for necessary repairs in the United States graveyard at Acapulco, Mexico, which is in a delapidated condition. President Harrison has approved the act making an application to supply the deficiency occasioned by the defalcation in the office of the late Sergeant-at-Arms. Mrs. Harrison held the closing one ot her afternoon receptions at the White House, the event having been postponed by the tragedy of the Tracy fire. The occasion drew forth a throng of anxious sightseers and many prominent in official and social life. 7' ' : ' . >*<?"? . v,"-; " : ?*.' 'V- ??*. Secretary Tracy has accaptcd tho new torpedo boat Gushing, built by tho Herreshoffs, at Bristol, R. I. The complete cost of the Cushiugto the Government was $98,060. President Harrison* has approved the joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to remove the naval magazine from Ellis Island, in New York harbor, and to purchase a site for a n&val magazine at some other point. A small company assembled in the Blue Parlor of the White House at Washington to witness the formal presentation of a medal to Joseph Francis, of New York city, in recognition of his services in the construction and perfection of life saving appliances. The medal is of pure gold and weighs over three troy pounds. It is four inches in diameter ana contains $760 worth of pure gold. Foreljrn. In Valencia, Spain, there was serious antiCarlist rioting, and the entire local military force was ordered tinder arms. Many people were killed. SlG.N'or Saffi, who, with Mazzini and Ar mellini, formed the triumvirate in 1&48 when tho people rose in rebellion, drove Pius IX, from Rome and established a republic, is dead. During a gale at Goderich, Canada, a fish ing boat containing three brothers, Donald, vVilliam and John Matheson, capsized, and all were drowned. In the Parliamentary election in the Carnarvon District, the English Liberals gained a seat. Henry M. Stanley arrived at Rome, Italy. He was greeted with cheers and "vivas" by a great crowd of people. Signor Vitelleschi welcomed him to the city and presented him with a gold medal. n It r " iLL(ia.u, VI wci ulauj', ?j3ucj the Empress of Austria at the Villa Langenbeck, Wiesbaden. He was attired in the uniform of a Colonel of Hungarian Hussars. Marquis Tseng, the well-known Chinese statesman and former Minister to the courts of London, Paris and St. Petersburg, has died in Pekin at the age of fifty-one. Discontented Italian workingmen held a meeting in Rome, Italy, and wore dispersed by the troops. The two bandits who kidnapped Senor Alzola last year have been executed at Guauajay, Cuba. Colonel Bermudez lia3 been elected President of Peru. Five thousand dock laborers went on strike in Liverpool, England. A great fire destroyed the gas works in Madrid, Spain. Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, visited Dom Pedro, the ex-Emperor of Brazil, at Canues, France. The Rev. Alexander Mackay, a noted missionary to Africa, is^dead. Chancellor von Capriyi, Bismark's sue cessor, made his maiden speech as German Chancellor at the opening of the Prussian Diet. The steamer Shakharoh, from San Jose, Cal., for Hamburg, haa been wrecked off the English coast, aud her cargo, worth $400,000, is a to cal loss. LATER NEWS. Mrs. Carrie Vandegift, of Burlington, N. J., has been indicted by the Grand Jury on a charge of attempting to murder her son, Frank C. Norman, by administering small doses of croton oil. Commander McCalla, of the United States vessel Enterpi ise, was deprived of his sword and placed under arrest at the Brooklyn (N\ Y.) Navy Yard, pending a courtmartia' for alleged abuse of sailors. Lieutenant Ingersoll was placed iu command of the ; Enterprise. The Oregon Republican State Convention met in Portland and renominated Bingei Herman for Congress. D. P. Thompson, ot Portland, was nominated for Governor. President Harrison received a portrait of JIrs. Angelica Van Buren, who was mistress of the White House during the Administration of her father-in-law, President Van Buren, and gave orders to have it hung in the Green Parlor along with the portraits of Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Tyler and Mr3. Polk. The twenty-eighth anniversary of the emancipation of the slaves in the District of Columbia was celebrated at Washington by a parade of colored military and civic so- I pieties. The procession was reviewed by the ('resident from the north portico of the Executive Mansion. The Latin American delegates to the PanAmerican Congress gave a dinner to President Harrison at the Arlington Hotel. President Carxot, of France, was enthusiastically received at Aix-les-Bains and Marseilles ou his journey to Southern Fiance. APRIL CROP REPORT. Good Average for "Wheat and Rye? AVinter Exposure Disastrous. The condition of winter wheat an April 1, as reported by the Statistician of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, averages 81 for the entire breadth. The general average for rye is 92.8. Seeding was ate in the States of the central valleys, bemuse of drouth and the soil was therefore aot in the best condition; but the mild winter continued growth until the plants were too luxuriant to withstand the usual vicissitudes of March. Recent frosts have cut iown the growing plants generally, and in wet or submerged areas th e roots have been destroyed. There are reports of recuperation by sprouting and renewed growth in this region. Where the roots are intact, great improvement will follow with good weather. The fact that th& roots are so well developod is favorable-to improvement. In the South the soil was- generally in better condition, and the early sown developed j rapidly, and in Decern oer ana January suffered more or less from attacks of the Hessian. By. In March frosts were general, discoloring and sometimes killing tho plants down to the ground, but not injuring the roots except in wet places. The crop looks brown in New York, but th& State agent believes- it is better than it looks. The other Middle States return wheat in good condition. The Pacific Coast has had an extraordinary amount of rain and snow, which have delayed seeding and injured the early sown aims. The report of condition of farm animals makes averages as follows: Horses>97.4;cattle, W. 1; sheep, 93.7; swine. 95.6. The loses from winter exposure of cattle have been heavy in the Northern Rocky Mountain belt and on the Pacific Coast. The reports indicate the loss by exposure throughout the country of more than a million cattle and still larger lossos of sheen. SWEPT INTO THE EIYEB. Passengers Drowned Because of a Steamboat Captain's Carelessness. The Handy Boy, a little steamer carrying about seventy-five passengers, plying between East Saginaw, Mich., and Bay City, | on tho Saginaw River, left her dock on a regular trip with about thirty-five passengers. It was necessary for her to pass through the draw of the Fiintand Pero Marquette Railroad bridge, and at her signal the draw was opened for her passage. J Just at this moment Captain Dolsen left the wheel and began collecting fares, giving the wheel in charge of some on:*, nobody seems to know whom. At any rate the boat shied off and struck a pier with a terrific crash sixty feet from the middle of the j draw passage. | The whole upper deck, with about eighteen passengers, was swept off into tho water, part of the debris crashing down on the deck below. Boatmen on the shore saw tho disaster and at once put off to the rescue of the people struggling in the water or clinging to the wreck and the piers. The Handy Boy did not sink, but lay a wreck against the pier, thus averting greater loss of life. Most of the passengers were easily rescued, but thpse in tha water were savea with much difficulty. It is certain that six were lost. Miss Mary Haight and Mrs. C'atherini Navit, of East Saginaw, are among them. " Captain Dolsen. as soon as he reached thl shore, disappeared and could not be found It waa supposed that he bad fled. A A A $500 COTTA&E. Description of a Neat, l?ow-CostRest* dence?Special Features. (Copyright by the Author.) A correlative of the petition "Give me neither poverty nor riches," might read give me not a large mansion but a small cottage in which to dwell. The mansion costs a great sum, so great indeed that a good man may well be disturbed sometimes while viewing his superfluous luxuries by the reflection that there are thou sands o? his fellow creatures who are not provided with the barest necessities of life; the cottage is of low cost, leaving the conscience clear and the heart merry. The mansion involves the wearisome labor of superintending servants; the cottage imposes the easy tasks of simple housework. The mansion requires workmen to make repairs; the cottage may be easily watched and promptly repaired? "a stitch in time"?by the owner. The owner of a mansion must have a large income; the owner of a cottage and a fertile acre or two is practically independent, the labor of his hands providing fruit, vegetables, poultry, etc., sufficient for his needs. A touching picture is seen, suggestivo of nobility of character, when an elderly couple resume the simple cottage life of their early wedded years. Their llrss have been too unselfish to permit the acquisition of wealth. They educated their children and started them in prosperous careers and now they have planned to be self-supporting to the ,h?! PERSPECTIVE VIEW. end. The sons and daughters, however honored and prosperous, who do not kiss the labor-browned hands of such parents are not worthy of the name they bear. | Following will be found a brief deseripI tion of the design illustrating this article. | I Size of Structure: Width, 33 ft.; depth, I 36 ft. 6 in. | Materials for Exterior: Foundations, posts | or piers; side walls and roof, shingles. Height of Story: 10 ft. I Interior Finish: Smoothed and chamfered studding and ceiling joists to be left exposed. Walls between studding and I ceiling joists to be papered. Flooring and all trim of windows and doorj to be of white pine or other soft wood. All doors and aashes of manufactured stock sizes. The windows that command fine views should be glazed with plate glass; all other windows with double thick glass. All interior woodwork to be varnished, showing natural colors. Erterior Colora: AH side snmenng, cream; all trim, mouldings and veranda rails, dark red; veranda posts and balusters, cream;, outside blinds and doors, roof and chimmeySi dark red; underside of roof overhang,cream; porch floor and ceiling, oiled .showing natural | color of woodv Eyrrrre-ii -A. E. I KiFcW Si 1 io:o*?o:6*:__J! :i icn! ft 7- "miAr 1 |! ' ,| I,' ';!) . | : ;i ~T.yg.-f Vest. I i ^"Foldiw^jQOfigasSa .as' 1 "Ifcrom ||| ' 11 5!oXSO?J :,SJ FLOOR PLAN". Accommodations: All of the rooms are thown by the floor plan. The attic is floored and is reached by a step ladder. No cellar isprovided, at this cottage, built as described, Is intended for summer occupancy only. To fit it for winter use a cellar under the whole house should be built at an additional cost of about $200; and the interior walls of the cottage should be plastered at ou additional cost of $75. Special Features: The large bays may be saia to give character to the exterior of this design as well as to provide attractive features within. With cushions provided for the bay window seats, the sitting-room is indeed a comfortable place. The overhanging roof gives aa appearance of largo size. The chimneys (one over the kitchen and one over the e'tting-room) are simple and inexpensive, but substantial, built of terra cotta resting on the ceiling joists. CrTn ail in i;fios where the orices for labor aud materials are about the same as tbose of New York city, ?500. R. W. Shoppell, Architect. * A RED PROPHET,. He Says a Big Flood is Coming to AV'ipe Out the Palo- Faces. Meat Axe, the big Shoshone medicine man, has predicted a flood, to occur in July, and wipe out the heartless pale faces. He says I the visitation is retribution for the unjust conduct of the whites- in confining 2000 Indians on a little reservation of 2,000,000 acres, circumscribing them, so they don't get a shot more thau once a year. Runners have been sontall over the reservation, and to the Crows, Cheyennes aud Sioux, to herald the calamity, and a rush of Indians to the Wind River Mountains, the scheduled haven, is anticipated. Meat Axe exhibited considerable ingenuity in arranging for the- general sousing. He lias it that all the whites and half breeds-will be drowned, and that the game will apparently die to make the play strong, but that as the waters recede the beaste will revive, to become the- prey of the braves. I A REGIMENT OF REDSKINS. \ Proposition to Enlist 1000 Indians in the Regular Army. Secretary of War Proctor has submitted to the Interior Department officials a propo sition to enlist 1000 Indians into the regulat army. It is proposed to officer the regiment with graduates from West Point, the subordinate grudes to be filled by pupils who have been educated at the Eastern schools for Indians. The details of the plan have not a-> yet been fully matured, but it is the opinion of Secretary Proctor that the Indians can ba received into tho regular army in a separate regiment both to their own advantage and that of the Government. A NOVEL WEDDING. Mother and Daughter Simultaneously Married in Illinois. A novel matrimonial event occurred a few day.iagoat Galena, 111., a mother and daugh_ ter standing at tho altar together and both taking upon themselves the vows of wedlock, the grandmother of the junior bride acting I as bridesmaid. The parties, male and female, to the unique affair were William Hammond, of Dubuque, and Mrs. Mary J. Reddlngton, of Galena, and Louis Bourineim, of Warren, and Miss E. J. Reddiogton. The first named lady is on the shady side of fifty and her daughter is a coldly maiden of. twenty, SAMUEL J. RANDALL The Famous Democratic Statesman Breathes His Last. A Sad and Pathetic Scene at the Death-bed. SAMUEL JACKSON* RAJTDALL. Samuel Jackson Randall is dead. The great Democratic leader and statesman died at 5:04 o'clock in the morning at his home in Washingtou City. The end came peacefully while the distinguished sufferer was surrounded by his wife and children, Postmaster-General "Wanamaker and his medical attendants. Mr. Randall was a victim of cancer e the bowels. The malady seized him nearly two years ago, and bis sufferings have been intense. On many occasions his death was thought to have been a question of hours, but hi# splendid physique enabled him to ward off the inevitable. The story of the sick-room and the deathbed scene is a peculiarly pathetic one; There was not a moment in the last three days, before bis death, when it was not believed that Mr. Randall was at tbe point of death. All of the last night the patient was attacked frequently by sinking spells. Fits of hiccoughing followed. Though unconscious a greater part of the time he was able to whisper his wants. Plum preserves appeared to relieve him. Just after 1 o'clock a. m. he was seized with a violent choking spasm. Postmaster-General Wanamaker sat at the bedside at the time, and Dr. Mallen hastened to his aid. The physician' removed a large- piece of phlegm from thethroat with his fingers, after which the patient breathed more freely From that hornon Mi*. Randall's strength gradually failed. Mrs. Randall, her two sisters, Mrs. Hyatt and Mi*s. Swann, the ex-Speaker's brother, Robert Randall, his daughters, Mrs. Lan* ?i j-11 u:~ caster ana .uiss ousia xvauuuu, ms sun, Samuel J. Randall, Jr., and his son-in-law, C. C. Lancaster, and the Postmaster-General gathered about the deathbed just before-5o'clock A. M. The patient convulsively seized Mr. Wanamaker's hand and pressed it with' all the strength he possessed. Mrs. Randall, completely overcome, knelt at the bedside and 90bbed as if her heart would break. Suddenly Mr. Randall gasped. Hisdevoted wifelooked up. Tho dying husband and father for the last time recognized her, whimpering the single word, "Mother." and as he uttered the word bis spirit had flod. Mrs. Randall fell back into the arms- of the PostmasterGeneral aud had to' be carried from the room. As soon as the sad news reached the Capitol the Stars and Stripes were placed at half mast on the roof of the House. Early in the morning tho President and Mrs. Harr'.son drove to the Randall residence. Both did what they could to comfort the afflicted family. Vice-President and Mrs. Morton, Secretary and Mrs. Blaine, Secretary Tracy and other members of theCabinet, as well as Senators and Representatives, flocked to the house, but few were admitted, and those who were not simply left messages of sympathy. Mr. Randall came to Washington early in last November a sick man, but with hopes of improvement. He erpected to be able to take his seat in the House when Congress met in December but when Congress convened he was unabiw to leave his home. Subsequently the oath of office as a Representative was administered at his residence by Speakfr Reed, and Mr Randall was made a member of the Committees on Rules and Appropriations, the two important committees he had served on for so many years. Mr. Randall joined the Presbyterian Church about two months ago. Mr. Wanamaker spoke to him on this subject, and Mr. Randall replied that he had been thinking of this matter for some time and would like to become a member of the Church. Ar rangements were made by which he entered the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church, on Capitol Hill, Dr. Chester, pastor. The news of the ex-Speaker's death spread rapidly about Washington, though it was Sunday morning, and general grief and sympathy were expressed both in and out of political circles. The Sergeant-at-Arms of the House at once took charge of the body and of the funeral arrangements. Sketch of Mr. Randall's Career. Samuel Jackson Randall was born in Philadelphia on October 10. 1828. He came into public life at a very early age as-a Democrat, and has never since been retired even temporarily. He served four years in the Common Council of his native city, and one term?1858-59?in the Pennsylvania Legislature as a State Senator. Air. Randall was first eleeted to Congress in 1862. He commenced his Congressional life in. December, 1863,. iu the Thirty-eighth Congress (in which the Hon. James G. Blaine served his first term),.op>y two years after his-old friend, but political opponent of tnir-ty years' standing,the late William D.Kelley, had commenced a< career in Congress that lasted nearly thirty years. Mr; Randall was. returned at every succeeding election, and at the time of his death had served twenty-six years in Congress,, or-through thirteen ConTT ".-?? ii fVuirfppnf,h greases, ai was mociw4 iv> ? terra, but though he-took the oath and quali-fled as a member,, he was- not able, becauso of failing health,, to tako his seat in thepresont Congress. Mr. Randall, wasa. candidate for Speaker of the Forty-fourt'u. Congress in lS75,but wasdefeated by the Hon. Michael C. Kerr,- by whom he was. a^pointod Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations. At the second session of tho same Congress, Mr. Randall was chcwcn for Sjieaker?Mr. Kanhaving died during the recess. }lr. Rajul;tll was re-elected Speaker in the Forty-li?th Congress by tbo Democrats-in 18". By reason, of long service and close attention to his duties, Mr; Randall became- th< most expert parliamentarian on the Democratic side of the House; In familiarity witfc the rules and all branches of parliamentary law. he. Derhan-:. hu-1 no superior in ei'-h'-i party, and as far back as 1ST."), whea the jreat contest over the Force bill took place it the close ol the Forty-third Congress, Mr. Randall was, by common consent, assigned Che leadership of ths Democratic minority. Perhaps the domestic side of Mr. Randall's life was the most attractive. While yet Foung he married a daughter of General Aaron Ward, of Sing Sing, N. Y., a member of Congress at intervals from 1S3T to IS4'?. She was. in ever}" sense of the word, a model wife. No man ever had a more faith* C'dl or devoted helpmeet. Few man were more successful than he in dai rying a debate through to a satisfactory conclusion; hut his strength lay more in the dogged perseverance with which he piled up indisputable facts and statistics than in any charm of manner or grace of oratory. Though so many years in tbe public service he was one of tne poorest men in Congress. His worldly possessions consisted of a very plain residence on C street, near First street, Capitol Hill, Washington. Mr. Randall entered the Civil War as a private and rose to the rank of Sergeant. The wonderful clock o? Thomas Fitzsimaxons of PlttstCD, Penn., which took him four years to make, was destroyed by fire while on exhibition in Owego, N. Y. The inventor valued his work at $15,000 and refused >7000 for it a few days ago. His friends fear that the loss will affect his mind. The clock was Insured for $5000. The price of petroleum has declined thirty tents per barrel within the last two mouths, chiefly by reason of &q Increase iu pro-* duction of 91,000 barrels per day. ) \ -T&*JF . J?vj TMPMAKK v / ? SALOON MEN NEVER SLEEP. A bill is pending in the New York Legisl* lure to amend the liquor law by inserting a clause making it unlawful for any Sheriff or other officer, or any agent of any society, to enter a saloon and offer to purchase drinks at an hour during which it should be kept closed. The object, of course, w to make it impossible for those charged with the duty of enforcing the law to procure evidence of its violation. The saloon men evidently act upon the Pinkerton motto?"We never sleep." It behooves the temperance people to keep wide awake also.?Chicago News. DUTY OF THE CHURCH. Of the duty of the church a temperance writer urges: "She must disdain to partake of the intoxicating cup at the Lord's supper; she must refuse fellowship to all who are engaged in the business?the distiller, brewer, shareholder, the saloon-keeper, and the licensed grocer; she must deny herself a share' in the ill-gotten gains of the accursed business; she must suffer not a joist, not a brick, not a nail, even, of her sanctuaries to be supplied at the expense of the wrecks of humanity which the trade is making; she must, in a word, throw the entire traffic overboard aa a pest to society, r scourge, an infamy of infamies." TOTAL ABSTAINING STUDENTS. That sixty per cent, of the students attending the Toronto Medical College are pledged total abstainers is a fact in wmch the friends of temperance may well rejoice. In no direction is the change of sentiment on thifc question more marked than in the different opinion entertained by the medical fraternity now as compared with a quarter of a century nzo. Now the testimonvof those, who of all men ar? best qualified to judge of the effects of alcohol upon the human system, is overwhelmingly in favor of the practice of total abstinence" Nor can this fact fail to influence the rising generation, provided they are made acquainted with it. If the doctors, whom the boys regard as oracles in matters pertaining to the body, pronounce against alcoholic beverages they will be led to view these drinks with grave distrust. In this circumstance lies one of the groatest advantages of temperance instruction in schools. Temperance people have reason to be encouraged by the progress then- cause in making. Let there be no slackening of effort along the line of uioral suasion.?Toronto Truth, THE AlfNCAL ENGLISH DRINK BILL Dr. Dawson Burns, upon whom the mantle of the late Mr. William Hoyle has fallen, has calculated the annual drink bill for the year 1889. As compared with 1888, the figares are by no means creditable. In the former year the drmk bill was ?124,615,346; in the latter, ?132,213,276. As the prosperity of the nation ha* revived, the expenditure of the nation in driuk has increased by over seven and r. half millions, or about 6}? dot cent. In round figures, half a million is aue to increasid expenditures on wines, and half a million more on foreign and colonial spirits, six and half millions being the increase on beer and British spirits. This points to the fact that, as wages have increased, a large portion of the industrial classes have been more lavish in their expenditure upon drink. The annual expenditure per head nas gone up from ?3 6 shillings 8 pence to ?3 9 shillings 11 pence. One satisfactory feature nf Hip i* that ha/1 a* wp irp wa Viava been worsfr. In the dccade ending 1870 the annual average drink bill was nearly ?136,000,000; in the last decade it was ?125,500,000, and this in spite of the iucrease in the population.? London Echo. ?? N'O MIDDLE GKOUXD OX THIS QUESTION. A man might as well try to wipe the Rocky Mountains off the face of this continent with a school-boy's sponge as to try to eliminate the liquor problem from the issues of American lifo with any sort of measure short of its total, absolute national prohibition, It is- the gigantic evil of the age, and the issue of its future life or death as a traffic is the irrepressible conflict that is now upon the nation. The line of division upon tnis-question is radical and inflexible. There is no middle territory where the man of conscience aud patriotism can stand, pro- fessing a love for God, country and fellowtnen on one side, and practising friendship with the liquor traffic on the other hand. He that is not against it is for it, by the unavoidable logic of the situation, and no manner of. argument or vehemence of protestation to the contrary can ever change the 'act. The nature of liquors and the history-of the traffic in all lands convict it as the most stupendous cur.se of humanity, the enemy of ill righteousuess, tue rowrer or ail prosperity, the disturber of all peace aad the lespoiler of all phases of individual and national glory. No priest or publicist, no rite or sacrament, no philosophy and no legislation have ever been able to transmute it from a curse into a blessing. Your own common sense repudiates any man or argument that eolts to teach you that the liquor traffic is a personal or public good. If I were to say to you that its tendency and aim is to produce sober, industrious and thrifty citizens, instead >6 sots, paupers and criminals, not a man )r woman among you would leave this hall to-day with an atom of respect for my vericity and honesty. If I were to say to the wives of Evansville that the liquor trade is i blessing to them, yielding them loving, tenler, provident and Christian husbands, thi* vouul repudiate mo with scorn, as they i enember their sorrows, their tears, their :hame and their ruined hopes. By my hope n God, by my past experience, by my loyilty to the truth, I would die a dog's death n my place before I would so outrage and nsult you!?Rev. Sam Small, NATI0>.\MS TZ4IPBRANCE COXGRES3. A National.Temperance Congress will be held in the Broadway Tabernacle Church, at Broadway and Thirty-fourth street, New York city,.on.May 14. A circular signed by many prominent men has been sent to all temperance' organizations, irrespective of politics, in the country, asking that delegates be sent to the Congress, and it promises to be one of the largest conventions ever neia in this city. The circular states that the liquor traffic is still on the increase and is more aggressive and destructive than ever, and the only way to fight ifc with any possibility of doing away with it is by an organized effort. The mass meeting is for the purpose of effecting a permanent organization that will embrace the whole of the United States. The Committee of Arrangements consists of Charles T. Deems, Albert Griffin, I. K. Funk, T. B. Wakeman, J. A. Bogardus, Mary T. Burt and A. S. Bacon. The Congress will be in session two days. Mass meetings will be held in the evening and conferences during the morning. Among those who have signed the circular are Noah Davis, the Rev. Dr. R. S. MacArthur, John Lloyd Thomas and Edwiu P. Ide, of New York city- George E. Reed, President of Dickenson College, of Carlisle, Penn J. W. Lee, of Atlanta, Ga.; Amos Briggs, of Philadelphia; William Daniel, of Baltimore, Bishop Vincent, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Elizabeth S. Toby, President of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, of Boston; Edward P. Ingersol), of Brooklyn; Ellen J. Phinnez^ President of the \Vomen's Christian Temper TT * ? /-ii 1 3 nu:.?. ance union, 01 v^?evenmu, vmu, wmicot man Elijah A. Morse, W. C. Stiles, of Rich-, mond, Va.: J. B. Gamboll, of Meridian,, Miss., and Feal Dow, of Portland, Me. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. There is said to be one saloon keeper to ivery forty-four voters in Chicago. An attempt is being made in Ireland to Thrive Father Matthew's heroic crusade against ntemperance. It is stated that forty-one per cent, of the rimes in Germany last year were committed >y intoxicated persons. The Southern Star, of Atlanta, Ga., says -hat on one street in that city there are eleven ;toros vacant aud four others used as saloons, which were all occupied by merchants doing i good business during prohibition times. Rev. Herrick Johnson, of Chicago, ia luthor of tho fatuous sentence that closes the. esolutions of the general assembly of the. Presbyterian Church for 1889: '^So tar as the, 'iquor traffic is concerned we would welcom*. its annihilation." Notwithstanding the population of New i.rork is rapidly increasing, tjhere lias been no ncrease in the numberof drinking places for several years. The report of the Excise department, Just made, shows that there are seventy-eight less liquor saloon3 than there tvere last year. Samuel White, sentenced to the Ohio peuivcntiary in 1871, for a murder committed while drunk, was pardoued it* 1881 on consideration that he would never drink again. White kept hia pledge until his daughter married last summer, when he got drunk. He was promptly sent back to prison to serva jut his s<M?tence, but he haa recently been released, and gi.v?n another chance to braes up. ' ~ " " i r /?