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CRUSHED BY A WALL. Fatal Fire in a Silk Mill at Catasauqua, l'enn. An Explosion Kills a Number of Volunteer Firemen, At 6 o'clock in the morning tire was discovered in the largo new building at Gatasau qua, Penn., ownei and occupied by the Unicorn Silk Manufacturing Company, of NewYork, with offices at 38 and o.*> Greene street. An alarm was quickly sounded, l>ut owing to the hour, the fire companies, which are composed of volunteers, mainly workmen employed in the different furnaoas, factories and mills, wer> under the impression that the whistles were, as usua', calling them to their day's work, aud did not respond until the fire had beoii burning about twenty ruin utes. Upon their arrival atthe s^sne ot i,he conflagration considerui)!-! ?!itlii-ulty wa< experienced in s?rc wat?r lor the tiro mi"in? as the mill va? 5' li!' !i a bllitf looking the Lehigh and Navigation Company's >..*nal and the Lehigh River, halt a mile from the town. They -an their engines down a hilJ on the other side to the canal, and soon hail two streams of water on the building, which was by this tnue a uia^s of flames. The mill employed 350 hands, mostly females. They were to have commenced work at 6:30. While they were assembling shortly before that hour tire was discovered if. the dyeing-room. The place was without sufficient fire protection, and the flames spread rapidly. The em. ployes rushed panic stricken from the mill and all got out safely. When it was seen that the mill was doomed the firemen and | others devoted themseives toward saving goods, while another force got on top of a one story addition and on the roof. Suddenly there was a terrific noise ami 1 . the flames, and it was at once known that a steam-pipe had exploded. Tae report cause! A the great crowd to retreat, but they had only Hmne a few steps when a section of the sonth Ul of the mill nearly forty feet long and P^oSUt four feet wide fell with a crash and f landed on the roof of the new addition, thirty feet below. The fall of the wall is supposed to have been caused by the concussion of tne explosion. A mo nent later the air was filled with smoke and steam and a ?fir rvf hnrmr ?rr>so when it was discovered that thirty men had been buried in the ruins. The work of digging them "out was at once commenced, and after hours of hard work the bodies were all taken oat. The killed were as follows: Ulysses Everett, aged twenty. Scalp cut, both hands and arms burned and internally injured. Died at St. Luke's Hospital shortly after being taken there. Charles A. Frick, fouuier, age.l twentyfive years, and having wife and three children, burned and crushed. Died three hour3 after being recovered. John Good, member of Phoenix Fire Company, head crushed, aged twenty-five years, has wife and child. John Lottejeanni, boss dyer, aged forty, has wife and child. Instantly killed under falling walls. Three other men were fatally wounded and about thirty were badly injured. The fire is supposed to have been caused by i spontaneous combustion in one of the packing rooms. At 11 o'clock the flames were under control. The loss on building is $50,000, on machinery ?35,000, and on stock $25,- i 000. The Joss is partially covered by insurance. Catasauqua is a centre of larje mining interests. A few years ago the authorities cast about for some industry that would afford ?mployment for the large female population of the place. la Paterson they opened negotiations with the proprietors ot the present Unicorn Silk Manufacturing Company, which ended in the Catasauqua Improvement Company building a mill tor the silk company, the latter to pay the interest on the investment and to buy the building at a stipulated price if it should at any time wish to. Prilled her husband. Lizzie Ackerman's Crowning Act in a Career of Infamy and Disgrace. A sensational shooting occurred in the Police Court at Memphis, Tenn., resulting in the death of Jake Ackerman, a well-known thief, highwayman and train robber. Ackerman was arrested on a charge of wife beating. When the case was called in the Police Court the prisoner and his wife were standing side by side. Ackermau spoke to her and at the same time handed her a written request for some clean clothes. The woman bent her head for an instant to hear what he had to say. and then, without warning, drew a revolver from beneath her cloak, and presenting it within a few inches of Ackerman's abdomen, pulled the trigger. Before any one could realize what had happened, she fired two more shots at Acker- j man, who had fallen to the floor and was I writhing in agony. An hour later he was dead. Ackerman was a notorious crook. nt /"vttt\ nnnrim t*t mr>v a a i n UJb'JUJJ DUAOl in 1JDAAO. Gainesville Flooded 'and Forty Dwellings Swept Away. M A terrific storm of rain and hail visited Bpainesville, Texas, deluging the streets to the Hlepth of three feet and destroying over $50, )00 worth of property. Thero was a Kloud burst after the storm had ' besu i B*aging for four hours. A creek which j Mows through the town overflowel and Hwept away forty dwellings, but the whole ' Hown came to the rescue, and only one life Bras lost. Mrs. Gestman died of fright iu RBBfe|tens of a man while being carried from MCflSHme. The streets were knee deep in for t wo hours, and an immense amount B^^H>perty was swept away or destroyed. RMK>orts from the country show that the (Hp have suffered, and many farms were B^BJer water. I THE LABOR WORLD. B The labor agitation increases. The first local union of printers was orHanized in 1S31. The labor situation in France, Germany ; Hnd England, is serious. The convention of working-girls has closed i ^es sessions in New York city. H A general strike among the cigarmakers i Hi New York city is threatened. fl The lanrost iron coal-breaker ever erected i i being put up at Drifton. Penn. It is estimated that 2,001000 men are now ut of work in the United States. In Sheffield, England, there are about six undred artisans who play the violin. The strike fund of the United Brother- j ood of Carpenters and Joiners is over $200,- > X). There are three men invhe State Prison in iregon each of whom cut off a hand to avoid rork. A stove molder in a Rochester iX. Y.) rnndry recently found a ?20 gold piece in is sand pile. Among the 17,000,000 wage-workers in the | nited States, only 5,000,000 belong to labor j ganizati on*. The Kentucky Legislature has passed a j ,w giving married women the control of i ieir own wages. Female barbers have opjned shops in i rery large city, and have generally failed i :*u; ^^Mll/UlU a aivui.u, ^HThe Reading Railroad is adopting eco- [ HB)rnic&l measures, aud at least 7000 men are . Hit of employment ^HThe increase since 1836 in carpenters' ^Hages alone caused by the eight-hour sysamounts to fully $4,000,000. brown-stone cutters have had the < N^Bt-hour workday for flftean years. They ! B^KoOO strong and earn $3 a day. ^hThb Knights of Labor, as a body, are op- ' ^B>eed to the eight-hour movement, but they i ^Hkve tacitly agreed not to oppose it. HThe Russian Imperial Council has passed SB bill prohibiting children under twelve ^Aars or age from working in factories. ^HCo-opzratxvx stores and dwellings for ^Arking people have been started in North9^K Italy, and they are meeting with remarkHbsaocw. - . TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle Stares. The annual report of President D wight, of Yale University, New Haven, Conn., shows total gifts to it during the Dast year of $"!?,000, and total gifts since he took the o31ce in July, 1886, of $1.244,390. Almost the entire business portion of the village of De Ruyter. N Y., has been defrayed by fire. Fifteen buildings were burned arid seven families rendered homeless. Loss about $75,000. Noah aged oixty-tive, a member of a' Gypsy camp near Trenton. N. J.. j killed hi* wife and tu?jn shot himself fatally. i JiTD<;i;X. B. Bearosley, of the Superior I Court died of pulmonary apoplexy it I Bridgeport, Conn He was ?ixty-seven j old, and had a widespread reputation 2* ? ! juri.it Lawyer George B. Ives, a member of an old, and proud Salem (Mass ) family a j graduate of Harvard and recently Assistant j District-Attorney of Ess.-x County, Mass., I is a self-confessed forger to tlu oxte;'* ->f j over fcHOOO Cov?'et. E W Davis. Under Sheriff of j Essex County. N. J , disappeared leaving a . ill) in nNancouuts. a few <lav.> ago, at one time, twenty-two '1 ~.'i ,M' fit teen men j SSYJu ! !a\ unidentified in the Morgue in New York city | Caspek yoer, Chiof of ^h?* Money Order I Department in the Newark (NT. J.) Pootottir?, is in the County Jail. a confessed defaulter in ; the sum of ?V>00. John J. O'Brien, the well-known Republican politician of New York city and exChief of the Bureau ot EieOti'JU*, di-? I Km Bader's Hotel, Coney Island, aged fortyeight. The Pittsburg Commission Company, the largest bucket snop iu Pennsylvania, lias suspended payment. Mrs. Anastasia Parsells uied at her daughter's home in Bayonne City, N. J., aged 104 years and forty-three days. The Uuited States sloop of war Yantic, which is now taking a rest after her run from Hayti, has been ordered to the Brook1 V -XT \ V A" A fna. ? .,,3 n.x,, ijll ^i. x.j iiavjr intu lkji suitcj uuu i,uu* aeatnation. Al Daggktt, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has been awarded the contract for furnishing the Census Bureau with manila cards. About one hundred million are to be used in the j tabulating machine. At the court-martial of Commander McCalla at the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Navy Yard, the defendant's counsel made an unsuccessful attempt to show a conspiracy against his client. A boat containing four men was capsized on the lake at Newport, Vt., and three of the men were drowned. Thoy wero Edward Foss, clerk at the Memphremagog House; Edward Green, an employe of the hotel, and Joseph Robitaile. Arthur Moore, the fourtli occupant, swam ashore. Maximilian Albrecht, Count Pappenheim, of Bavaria, and Miss Mary W ister Wheeler were united in marriage at the residence of Mayor Fitler in Philadelphia, Pe.in. The Count belongs to one of the oldest families in Europe, and is worth $3,000,000. The bride is also wealthy. Judge Wallace, of the United States Circuit Court, granted a writ of habeas corpus at the mstanca of Lawyer Roger M. Sherman, in the case of Keminler, the murderer. who was to have bean electrocuted in the Auburn (N. Y.) Penitentiary, &nd the constitutionality of electrical executions will be argued before the Federal Courts. South and West. Sim Garrett and Jerry Te3l, who were in jail at oan .Augustine, lexas, una caarge 01 attempting to poison Colonel John H. Brooks ana family, were taken from the jail md lynched. Convenient hooks in front of i butcher shop were converted into an impromptu gallows. Ax earthquake, lasting nearly two hours, with, in some cases, as many as thirteen successive vibrations, occurred on the Pacific Coast. There were additional breaks in the Louisiana levees. Michael L.vnt:, a San Francisco (Cal.) stonecutter, shot and fatally wounded hU wife, and then blew out his brains. A terrible explosion of dynamite in the drug store of H. K. Doane at Delavan, Wis., wrecked one building, badly shattered several others, killed two men and severely injured three others. Thirty-two non-union workmen were assaulted by strikers in Chicago, 111., and one man was injured fatally. The Congressional Committe3 bagan tiie investigation in th9 Clayton-Breckinridge (?amfo-f of 7 ifH.? Rrtnlr ArL? if lira oc^arl'a 1 that the murderer of John M. Clayton dial in 18S9 near Los Angeles, Cal. A hailstorm in Baltimore, Md., lasting eight minutes, was thought to have broken about 100,(XX) panes of glass. At Point, La., a family of fivj colored people named Watson were drowned by tha great flood. A small fly has made its appearance in the wheat, hay and oat fields of the Maryland peninsula and is doing great damage. The falling c f a brake rod on the Cincinnati, Old Point and Washington express caused an accident at Staunton, Va., by which one life was lost and eight porsous injured. All the injured were miJibars of a theatrical organization. Destructive prairie fires have been raging on the Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. A man named Shoun lost fifty head of cattle and narrowly escaped with his life. The fires were set "by Indians, who have since been arrestod. The cead bodies of two infants, one white, the other black, horribly mutilated, were found wrapped up in a newspaper near Birmingham, Ala. At the Convict Camp, on the cotton belt road, four miles north of Black Jack. Texas, four convicts made a break for liberty. They wore fired upon by the guards, and one was killed and another fatally wounded. The other two escaped. The sufferers by the overflow in Concordia, Tensas and other parishes of North Louisiaua are being fed by the planters, who are strongly opposed to the distribution of Government rations. The steamer H. B. Plant, of the St. John's River Line, m Florida, was burned. John Collins, Albert Mallory, a waiter boy, and a deck hand, all colored, were burned to death. William Lambert, the richest colored man in Michigan, committed suicide while temporarily insane, by hanging himself in his woodshed at Detroit. Ho was worth $100,000. Washington. The President nominated John P. Jaoksou to be Assistant Unitjl States Treasurer at San Francisco, Cal. The President signed the joint resolution of Congress appropriating Slo J.O-')) for the relief of the sufferers by the Mississippi flood, and also the World's Fair bill President Harrison has issued instructions that no obstructions shall be offered in Florida to the work of Federal officers. Mrs. James A. Garfield and Mr. and Mrs. J. Stanley Brown, the latter of whom is Mrs. Garfield's daughter, visited the White House for the first time since the death of President Garfield, and were received in the red parlor by President and Mrs. Harrisou and Mrs. Mcfcee. President Harrison has appointed exGovernor David H. Jerome, of Saginaw, Mirh fo he Chairman of the Cherokee Indian Commission, vica Angus Cameron, resigned. Edward 0. Leech, the Director of the Mint, has submitted to Congress a report on tha production of the precious metals for the calendar year. ISS'J. Thb United States Supreme Court decided that the law of Iowa providing for seizure of liquor in "original packages" was unconstitutional. Representatives of nine of the American Republics?namely, the United States of America, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Salvador, Honduras, Bolivia, Ecuador, Havti and the United States of Brazil?signed* the formal treaty of arbitration in Secretary Blaine's office. Ten of the seventeen nations partici- | pating in the Pan-American Congress have now signed the document. President Harrison sent to the House a message vetoing the bill to provide for the erection of a public building at Dallas, Texas. [ A delegation of twenty young colored men called on the President and urged the 1 anointment of Edward P. McCaoe, of ... ..A - Oklahoma, as Secretary of that Territory. The colored people form nearly one-third of the population of Oklahoma. Foreign. The oil refinery of Sir W. A. Rose & Co., at Bankside, London, has been damaged by fire to the extent of $600,000. Mexican forces under General Hernandez attacked the Yaqui Indians at the Canonez de Jubsibenps and La Conia, and after several hours of fighting routed them. The Mexicans lost one officer and two soldiers and five soldiers were wounded. The Indian loss I was heavy. i Five sisters named Domovieroflf, the 1 youngest nineteen years old, committed suij cide at M cow, Russia It is believed that I fear of ?rr ?8t as Nihilists Kl to the commis' s'ou 'jf ihr deed ; A SUMMEB COTTAGE. ; A Two-Story Frame Dwelling With . Ail City-House Conveniences. (Copvri^ht i.-jr tl>-- Author.) ?Vtr the heated term t!i?iv? j- more comfort probably in a '-otuige iik" tb- one i I lustra | tiug tt.is artt-'it? man in*ay A-.n?r. us aoors r and windows "X9JJ wayward breeze that blows. IU wide veranda provides 19*^ outdoor life and its large hall with fireplace^ a cheerful place retreat during a stress of PERSPECTIVE VIEW. weather. View ed ''broadside on1 this cottage presents quite an imposing appearance. Bplow will be found a condensed description: Size cf Structure: Front (width) 17 ft. 9 in., uot including veranda; depth,56 ft. 9 in., iucluding veranda. Haight of Stories: Cellar 6 ft. 6 in. first story. S ft. 6 in.: second story, 8 ft. Materials for Exterior Walls Foundations, stone: first story, clapboards second story and gables, square butt stiiugles; roof, shingles. ft Sell i kitchen.. tomr ' . ' j Dmgfoorp. j ; '/tfilifyo: j I - _rl m Igg. V ltmpda* yo.'o'w/ck ^ 1 FIRST *STORY. Exterior Colors: All clapboards and shingles on side walls and gables, gray all trim, white roof shingles, oiled veranda floor and ceiling, oiled. Interior Finish: Rough brown plaster tinted and yellow pine trim. Accommodations: All the rooms and their sizes, closets, etc., arc shown by the plans given herewith. Besides these, there is. a cellar under the whole house and storage room in the attic. All city-house conveniences are provided. Special Features: Style of exterior, colonial. Open timber ceiling in hall and dinine room. A more descriptive name for the hafl would be living room. E:,ery room may r~i I Btdroon} U /a'oiafcl fl Bedroom. | /z.'ox/^'a' ^ >^3 P/0-Vfo&'&Z % \ ? 1 yft j Bedroom \V J Aft/VOT second floor. j have the most thorough ventilation. Cost: With "plank" frame, 18000; with I balloon frame, $2500. '"Plank" frame requires somewhat less material and labor; in [ appearance it is quite equal to ballon frame. As usually built a small frame house will bear twenty times the weight that is usually required ot' it. Plank framing sacrifices some of this unnecessary strength. R. W. Shoppell, Architect A HUGE PRINTING JOB. The Enormous Quantity of Blanks Prepared tor the Census Bureau. The Government Printing Office at Wash; 1?.. thu inrcrpst single iob lllgUJll UU* JU3VUUIOUW. Q 0 - ? ever undertaken, in printing for the Census Bureau 20,000,000 enumeration blanks. The paper required to print this number of blanks amounted to 11,4.>8 reams, each sheet measuring 22x30 inches When printed and cut these made 20,000,000 sheets, 18,000,000 of which were 11x15 inches and 2,000,000 of which were 15x22 inches in size. The thickness of each ream measured inches; therefore if it were possible to stack all these blanks they would make a pile 6510 feet high, equal to one and one-quarter miles. This would make a solid column of i paper over eleven times as high as the Washington Monument. If laid end to end these blanks would form a continuous line of papar 4955 miles in length, or as far as from San Francisco, Cal., to New York city, and from there to New Orleans The paper would cover 25,208,333 square feet. Its total weight was 458,336 pounds; or over 229 tons. ___ NUGGETS OF NEWS. A Selected Budget of the Latest Dispatches. &reat Damage and Suffering Inflicted by Floods in Texas. The mcst destructive flood ever known in the history of North Texas has just passed through the Trinity River at Dallas, Texas. The great rain raised every tributary of it far outr of their banks. During the night it rose rapidly, and at 10 o'clock In the morning passed the highest water-mark in fifty years. In front of Dallas, Texas, it was two miles wide, extending to the foot' of Flanders Height west and to Oak Cliff south of the city. Ou the north all residences from a hundred vards bayo;;d Co* aran I street were submerged, some to the second floor and others to the attic. No one had been i e|K>rted drowned. Back water extended far up on the north Bide of the city, while ou the south houses were submerged as far up as Ward street north. South and in front of tho city there i was one vast ocean of water thirty and forty ! feet deep. Its like has not. iieen seen. I Trains on all the railroads, the Texas Pacifit*; r',e Missouri Pacific, tlio Santa Fo I and the Gr*?u. "i"<V?ere not running west, ! north or south of fhncifiv: "TTrJiiiiii^tS were re j ported a!! along t!<?ir line*, but th^ worst were j immediately around the city. Gangs of men were watching tiie bridges over the Trinity j Kiver and k<iopiug off the drift. Th? crest j ot' the waves larkr i sir feet of | the ilooriug of th<* bridge.-, in j the ' itv. but -the Saui.i Fa Ceuffal's 1 bridges below town were reporter! submerged. News front thd surrounding country is bad. Small bridges have been destroyed by the deiuge. In lew], few ar3 left. The destruction of crops will amouut to little or nothing, for as soon as the ua^er goes down they will grow again. The storm of Friday will be a memorable one. It extended from the Indian Territory to the Gulf, from Marshall to Abilene. There was not a stream, however small or great, that was not raised high above its high water mark. At many points were hurricanes and one genuine cyclone. Many houses were blown down, but so far not a single life has been reported lost. A norther was blowing, and fires were quite comfortable. Stanley in London. Henry M. Stanley, the explorer of Africa, arrived' at the Victoria station in London. There was an immense concourse of psopI? inside and outside the station and he was given a most enthusiastic greeting. The Duke of Abercom, Baroness Burdett-Coutts and a large number of other friends of the explorer were awaiting to welcome him. The Baroness presented Mr. Stanley with a bouquet. He silently bowed his thanks and then entered the carriage of the Baroness and drove off with her. The hour of Mr. Stanley's arrival at Dover was 3:55 o'clock. Disgraceful confusion prevailed on the pier when he landed, owing to mismanagement by the local authorities. .titty reporters were present and they came near having a conflict with the police, owing to thendefiance of certain orders which the reporters regarded as unwarranted. A number of Mr. Stanley's friends, among them being Mr. New, the American ConsulGeneral; General Sir Garnet Wolse'.ey, and Rustem Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador, and others of prominence wera unable to get aboard the steamer which brought Mr. .Stanley. The authorities of Dover presented an address to Mr. Stanley. He replied with a few words of thanks. At the command of the Prince of Wales, Mr. Stanley, Dr. Parke, Sir William Mackinnon and Sir Francis De Winton want to Sandringhara, where they were to remain several days. Three Horse Thieves Whipped. The whipping of three horse thieves at tha county whipping post at Georgetown, Del., attracted a great crowd. The culprits, J. Owens Isaacs, John T Owens and Joseph Hamiltou urj connected with the leading families of Sussex County. The culprits themselves and their friends expected to get orders from the Governor for the remission of the whipping part of the sentence, and were sorely disappointed. The crowd that gathered to witness the floz ging was the largest seen at Georgetown on a similar occasion for many years. It was composed of men, women, and children, women carrying their babies and men driving for miles with their families to see the show. The whipping was in a public square in full view of the windows of the surrouuding houses. Each window was filled with spectators. The whipping was done by the Sheriff of the county, who used small switches, two of which ht? wore out on the back of each man, giving them twenty lashes each. The first man was put in the pillory about 10:30 o'clock in the morning. Each stood an hour with his head in a wooden yoke and his hands raised above his head, and was afterward whipped. The exhibition ended at about 1:30 p.m., after which the prisoners were committed to jail. This penalty carries with it perpetual disfranchisement, and this fact was the source of greatest grief to the culprits. Harrison's First Veto. President Harrison sent his first veto io the House. In his message, returning without approval the bill "to authorize the city of Ogden, Utah, to assume increased indebted ness." He says: The general law fixes the limit of four per cent, on the last assessment for taxation as the limit of indebtedness which a mu nicipal corporation in the Territories may assume. This bill extends this limit as to Ogden to eight per cent. 1 do notdoubt that the citizens of Ogden will ultimately realize that the creation of a municipal debt of over half a million dollars by a city of 15,000 population, being about $37 per capita, is unwise. Fatal Firo in a Miss. Firs started in the North Tamarack shaft at Hancock, Mich., near the surface pump, a boy being in the mine at the time. The flames reached the shaft houss, but were soon extinguisheJ. Captain Joseph Roberts, John Thomas and Johu Rowe were affected by the gas. Roberts was brought up nearly suffocated. Thomas was insensible and fatally burned, and Rowe was dead. The pump boy, John Williams, was found drowned at the bottom of the shaft 360 feet from the surface. The fire is supposel to have caught from the boy's caudle. Terrible Accidcnttoa Pleasure I'urty. While returning from a trip to Lafayette, a party of young people met with a shocking accident near Lima, Ohio. 1 fr^k?nnn,l fa,. A liCXl UUi 3C3 UC^CilllC Lll^UUCUUU uuu tun into a stone wall, killing both of them, and dashing the occupants against the stone abutment of a bridge. Minnie and Gertie Pierce were instantly killed, and Ella Hawkins and Clif Church were fata'ly injureJ. A Village Blown Away by a Storm. Yorkville, Ark., a village a few miles southeast of Cotton Plant, iu Woodrufl County, was entirely blown away during e heavy wind and rain storm. Hundreds of cattle and stock were reported killed, but there was no loss of life, so far as could b{ learned. FREAK OF A MADMAN. A Canadian Fanner Drowns His Three Children in a Raiu-Barrel. A well-to-do farmer named Marion, living about two miles trom oneiDurne, uub , Canada, drowned three of his children in a barrel of rain-water, and than attempted to drown himself in a creek. Ha was found on the bank of the creek by neighbors in a critical condition and there was no possibility of his recovery. No reason is known for the rash act. ELEVEN OF THE MOB KILLED Troops Fire on*' Anti-Semitic Rioters With Terrible Results. An anti-Semitic mob, numbering 1000 persons, after invading the town of Biala in the Government of Sledlee, Galicia, sacked the shops and dwellings of the Hebrew inhabitants. The troops were called out and eleven perI sons were Killed and many wounded. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, In the Senate. 92d Day.?The Committee on Privileges and Elections presented a National election law Mr. Teller introduced a silver bill The Land Forfeiture bill was debated... .Mr. Sherman introduced a bill appropriating MO,000 for the erection of a memorial building at Marietta, Ohio, to commemorate the acquisition of that territory and ite normal settlement The House bill to transfer the Revenue Cutter Service from the Treasury Department to the Navy Department was agam taken up for consideration. The amendments reported from the Committee on Naval Affairs were agreed to. Mr. Sherman spoke in opposition to the bill .. .The bill appropriating 550,000 for an equestrian statue of General Stark, at Manchester, N. H., was passed. , 93d Day.?The Land Grant Forfeiture bill was discussed at great length by Messrs. Call and George; no action was taken ; Mr. Gibson offered a joint resolution declaring the profound sorrow of the Senate at the ! announcement of the death of the Hou. Ed- ! ward J. Gay, late a Representative from the , Suite of Louisiana. The resolution was agreed to, and, as a further mark of respect. tb>? Senate adjourned. ?-?tfr Day.?The joint resolution accepting 1 tli? donation of the battle sword of the late ! Captain Sainyl Chester Reid, tendered as a j gift by his son, Saum?lC. Reid, and providing for the presentation to him by Congress of a ' a gold medal, extensively discussed.... I The following bill-; were passed: To carry ' ! out (in party) the terms ot the agreement ' I with the Sioux Indians of Dakota for the T"2iRrxf?r-*i.'.rtion of their reservation, and an- j ^oprialinc*purpose; mi- I ; tliorizing the Secretary of tTT?>-?w*?rlor TO negotiate with the Turtle hand of Chippie Indians for the cession of their reservation. I ' to pay $50,000 to Albert H. Finery, of Stani- j ford, Conn., for the use of his patents by the ' Government, with an amendment increasing } the amount to $rA5,000...'.The Senate in ex- I 1 ecutive session confirmed the nomination of j ' John G. Fremont. Major-General, United j ' .States Army, retired. '.'"th Day.-The Mississippi Hoods were ; discnssoil without action... .The bill to in- j corporate the American Society of the Son* ' of the Revolution went over without action j Mr. Moody introduced a bill authorizing the Secretary of War to employ iis many ' ministers as he may deem necessary, to be assigned as chaplains in the army at a salary of $1200 a year Mr. Blackburn introduced a bill for the admission of Arizona. Referred Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill granting a pension of $6 a month to all persons who served in th.? late war not less tnan three months nor more 1 than one year; to those serving more than a year and not exceeding 800 days, 48 a month, and those who served over 800 days, one cent per diem for each day's service. No person who is worth $5')D0 at the time of filing his application shall be entitled to this service pension. 96th Day.?The Land Grant Forfeiture bill was passed The Administrative Cus- j trims hill wn? disoiiBtnri Mr. McPhei'SOll introduced a bill granting a pension of $52500 a year to the widow of General George B. McClellan; also introduced a bill to purchase Alexander Lawrie's picture of General George H. Thomas, at a cost not exceeding $3000. 9Gth Day.?The Customs Administrative bill was discussed, and Mr. Vest's amendment 1o it was rejected Mr. Culiom reported favorably the bill introduced by him to authorize the Interstate Commerce Commission to prosecute inquiries into alleged violations of the law by means of special agents, who shall have authority to take testimony, administer oaths and send for per* sous and papers. In the House. 102d Day.?In committee of the whole on 1 the Legislative Appropriation bill, the question of the Civil Service was debate! at length. 103d Da.y.?The House in Committee of ! the Whole took up the Legislative Appro- J priation bill, and continued the discussion of the Civil Service Commission... .Several ! New York importers protested against the Dingley Worstad bill.. .Mr. Bland introduced a bill to reduce taxes by placiug on the J free list all imported goo is exchanged in for- ! eign countries for farm products. 104th Day?By appointment of the Speak- 1 er, Mr. Burrows acted as Speaker....The House then went into Committee of the ! Whole (Mr. Payson, of Illinois, in the Chair) ' ? it. t ? *?? Kill MV 1 JU luo juugisiaui ve -rvpuiu^ji lauiuu cut* . I Bland introduced a bill to admit free of duty goods, wares and merchandise purchased in foreign countries with the proceeds of farm products of the United States. 105th Day.?The Speaker laid before the j House the message of the President returning without his approval the bill to allow Ogdeu, Utah, to increase its indebtedness. Referrjrl to the Committee on Territories The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was passed The bill to create Rock Creek Pane, in the District of Columbia, was defeated. ' 100th Day.?In Committee of the Whole < the bill providing for classification of worsted cloths as woolens was discussed and reported; no action was taken by the House....The Senate resolution was concurred in concerning the irrigation of the arid lands in the valley of the Rio Grande, and the construction of a dam across that river, at or near El Paso, Texas, for the storage of its waste waters... .The House then proceeded to consider a bill removing the charge of desertion from William Dawson. The bill was passed ?yeas, 127; nay 3, 88.... A bill was passed increasing to $100 a month the psnsion of the widow of Rear Admiral Nicholson Mr. Bingham reported the Postoffice Appropriation bill. IOGth - Day.?The Senate Service Pen Will ....... I ??,1 Thn Imwu win ?aa auicuuvu cuiu ^aoocu. . . auu Worsted bil' was Dassed. EIGHT STOWAWAYS PERISH. Terrible Sufferings of Twelve Japanese on a Steamer. Ghastly stories of the sufferings of stowaways on a steamer from Japan to Hong Kong come by mail from China. On the day after arriving at Hong Kong, on opening a compartment near the water tanks, eight dead Japanese were discovered, and four more who wero still alive. All of them were naked, their clothes having been discarded on account of the intolerable heat. The compartment is about three feet high and two feet wide, and extends across the ship. In this cramped place twelve persons, one a man and the other women, had been stowed for a waek. The survivors wore terribly bloated, and had used the corpses of the dead to lie on to escape the heat of the iron plates. The man had induced the women to go with him to Hong Kong, and as the Government refuses to permit women to emigrate, he had tried smuggling, which ended so disastrously. Thev had a supply of food and water with them, so that starvation was not added to their other sufferings, but that any of them should have survived a week's confinement iu such a place is simply wonderful. The man was one of those who succcm'ued, but the old woman survived. The survivors were iu a shocking condition. Their bodies were swollen and covered with prickly heat. They at once received such attention as those on board were able to give them. Warm batln were provided and clothing was supplied. FASTED POETY DAYS, Signor Succi's Remarkable Abstinence From Food. Sueei completed his forty days' fast in London, England, in the presence of thousands of spectators. At the commencement of his fast he woighed lif> pour as, ana niaeuy t wo at its conclusion, and had lost ope inchin height. He broke his fast in public on the >taje. At the conclusion of his first meal he was presented with a gold medal an 1 the ]>rj.ss gave him another. Succi declared that lie never would fast again. Si^aor Succi has done similar fasts before this. He is a rival of Dr. Tanner, but alleges that he works on a system that will be of benefit to humanity in the future. He has been experimenting in the animal and vegetable kingdoms for years, and claims that he has at last found a vegetable from which he compounds an ingredient which is to displace the necessity for all substantial food, and yet sustain the germs of life to its allotted number of days. Succi claims that his elixir will eventually be used by doctors in cases where abstention from solid food is desired, also for soldiers on the march when food is scarce. English physicians wt tchad the course of Succi's fast 'lay by day. PRECIOUS METAL PRODUCT. Report of the Director of tlie United States MintThe Heavy Coinage of Gold and Silver Last Year. Edward 0. Leech, the Director of the United States Mint at Washington, has submitted to Congress a report on the produc tion of the precious metals for the calendar year 1889. from which the following figures ire taken: The gold product of the United States was 1,587,000 fine ounces of the value of #32,800. XX), against $33,000,000 in the preceding calsndar year.* Of the gold product of the Unite 1 States $31,959,Oi7 was deposited at the mints for coinage and manufacture into bars The silver product of our own mines for the calendar year 1889 was approximately 50,W0,000 flue ounces, of the commercial value >f SW), 750,000, aud of the coinage value of N>4,fJ46.4fil, against an estimated product "or the catandar year 1888 of 45,783,032 fine unices, of the commercial value of $43,020, i _ c A.t_ r 1 iar nt\n jvu. auu 01 me coinage vaiuc ui, >u, ir>.i,vv/, in increase over 1888 of about 4,210,UC8 fins unees. of the commercial value of $3,730,Mft. In addition to the silver product of our mines, about 7,000,000 outlets of silver were extracted from lead ores imported into the United States and smelted in this country, Ifii't over 5.000.000 ounces from base silver principally from Jltxico, making the total pi oJu(?f-v? ' tei's, niul refineries about 02|ug'JJw?*4lj]^ ounces of silver. Of this amount the Gotf5"!* imment purchased for coinage 27,125,357 niiK-es; there were used in the arts about 0,!)0??,000 ounces; tliere were exported to Hong Kong. Japan, and the East Indies about 9,? >,(>:>') ounces; and there were shipped to London for .-.ale about 20,000,000 ounces. Colorado still maintains tlrst rank among producing States wiJhau aggregate product id' gold and silver of over *2?.000,000. Montana stands next with a product of #22,S94,D00. California produced $14,0:34,00J, of which #13,000,000 were gold, being about two-fifths of the total gold product of the United States. Utah shows a largely increased product, notably in silver. Idaho and New Mexico report an increased product, and Arizona and Nevada a reduced product for 1889. The gold product of Dakot* (South) increased from #2,600,000 in 1888 to $2,000,000 in 1889. Oregon and Washington both report increased products, the former having produced $1,200,000 in gold. The States of the Appalachian rauge show a slightly increased product of gold over 1888. TUa AAt'nana nf f V?r* minfa fnr fVia na lanrlor* year 1889 was as follows: Gold pieces, 1,338,012; value, $31,413,031. Silver dollars, pieces, 34,051,811; value, $34,651,811. Subsidiary diver coins,pieces, 8,378,811; value, $814,872.15. Minor coins, pieces, 04,772,283; value, $1,283,408.49. Total pieces, 109,140.917; value, $58,194,022.64. In addition to the coinage, gold iad silver bars were manufactured at the mints and assay offices as follows: Gold,$22,349,752.28; silver, $0,223,751.09; total, $28,572,503.37. Gold bars were exchanged for ;old coin free of charge of the value of $26,H3,753. The quantity of silver purchased for the silver dollar coinage was 27,125,357 fine junces, costing $25,379,510, an average cost jf 93.56 cents per ounce tine. The amount of. silver offered the Treasury Department tor sale during the year aggregated 47,965,"00 fine ounces. The total amount of silver purchased for the coinage of the silver dollar fro.-n March I, 1878, toDacamber 31, 1389, was 271,632,593 Sne ounces, costing $291,470,95(5, an average ;ost of 11.06.13 par ounce fine. The coinage af silver dollars for the same period was 319,938,001 pieces. At the average cost of silver for the whole period the cost value af the silver dollar is eighty-two cents, rhe average price of silver in London during the calendar year was 93.5 cents per fine ounce, and the average price of fine Dars of silver in New York during the same period was 1)3. G cents. The highest price reached during the year was 44% pence, and the lowest price was 41 15-10 pence. The shipments of silver to India during the year aggregated MO,000,000, and the amount realized from the sale of Indian Council bills about 177,000,>00. The net loss of gold and silver to the United States by excess of exports over imports of the precious metals was a-! follows: Gold, 538,880,753; silver, $14,788,000. Total $.j3,575.410. LATEK NEWS. Thk complications of the American Life Insurance Company and kindred corporations in Philadelphia, Penn., resulted in the suspension of the Bank of America. The total deposits of the bank were estimated at $700,000, divided among 4000 depositors mostly poor people Ground was broken in New York city for the Washington Memorial Arch. Adolphus Robertloy and Frank Wells, aged seventeen years, were drowned in the Mohawk River at Schenectary, N. Y. They were returning borne from a fishing trip,an-' in some way their boat was capsized. The Grand Jury in New York city presented an indictment against Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the New York World, and his assistants, John A. Cocker ill, Julius Chambers and James F. Graham, for libeling exJudge Hilton and A. T. Stewart. Richabd Snitke, a German farmer living near Rochester, Minn., shot and killed his only child, a boy of three years. He then committed suicide by shooting himself. Av Tniiion Anosticio Uu?0. who had been arrested for horse stealing, was taken from a box ear at Banning, Cal., by vigilants ana hanged to a telegraph pole. Governor Buckner, of Kentucky, has been asked to send troops to Perry and Knott Counties to suppress lawlessness. The President has nominated Willis H. Pettit to be Surveyor-General of Idaho, and Samuuel A. Swiggett to be Register of Laud Office at Helena, Montana. It was estimated that there had been a decrease of $?',o00,000 in the public debt since April 1. General John* C. Fremont was commissioned as a Major-General in the United States Army, and was almost immediately afterward placed on the retired list. William: P. Campbell, of Illinois, has bo jn appointed Assistant General Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service under the law recently passed creating that offico. Queen- Victoria has returned to Windsor, England, after her continental tour. The Senate at Madrid, Spain, has approved universal suffrage. A revolution' broke out in Paraguay. Several person* were killed and many wounded. The discovery of the plot to proclaim the Duke of Oreleans of France led to the flight a.' thl Duke of Laynes from Paris. 13arney mcGitiuk, aged 85, who haa been in prison thirty-five years of hia life, pleaded guilty, in Rochester, to larceny, paving he had no home or friends,, and wanted to go to prison for life. The judge gave the old man a fourteen-months' sentence to Anburn. A very ingenious electrical device has lately been patented by which the hands of a clock set to a certain hour are made to complete an eleotrio current connected with the kitchen stove, so that the fire is started when the given hour arrives. TEMPERANCE. 11 TRY HI* ONCE MOBS. Poisoned by alcohol, blear-eyed and illy clad Cursing bis fate as he shuffles along. Crushed aud bereft of the once earnest will he had, Penniless, homeless, and jeered by the Friends have assisted him, pastors have prayed with him? He has been rescued and lost o'er and o'er. ;3ut do not give him up?pull from his lips the cupSpeak to him kindly and try him once more. # l hough 'tis disheartening never to thriv# with him, Sad his relapses from virture to shame; iivehiin not hopelessly up if you strive with Some ^sparlc of good may be fanned to a Some potent memory?haply a mother'i Teaching him virtue and wisdom of yore May be recalled to his ear by another's voice. Speak to him kindly and try him once more. Christ in His charity taught those who came to Him, 111 deeds should be pardoned seventy times seven. Succor the least here aud you do the same to -V ^ Him, These are His precepts in earth and in heaven. Ob. then, wh^n laboring hard for humanity. Never believe that you labor in vain, Kindness will conquer the drunkard's insanSpeak to him gently and il,ry him again, ?Francis S. Smith, in Nirw York Weekly. w, INTKMPERA SCE HEAD3 THRUST. -I^^jjAjitreiwrt of the British Comrnis. iiSlii tables showing the sioners of LunSSy^^l by th? medical causfs of insanity as ^Ttbi ijjt j f 13a officers of the institution in tE^SS^ 178 patients who have beer, nlr-'^-i , public and private asylums since 1887. causes are'classified as "moral" and "physi-^^^^^^^a cal." As might be expected, "intemperance in drink'' heads the list of single causes, with 18,290 cases. Of "moral causes," "domestic trouble," "adverse circumstances,'' and ^ "mentalanxiety and worry, aud overwork," are collectively held responsible for 25,897 cases. Of other moral causes, "religious excitement" is credited with 3769 cases, "love affairs" with 2234, and "fright and nervous , . ;3? shock" with 1953. Of physical causes, "over exertion" is credited with 761 cases, "sunstroke" with 1686, "accident or injury" with . '3 4199, "diseases of women" with 11,315, "old age" wtli 5773, "privation and starvation" with 2607, ''fevers" with 880, "puberty" with 582, aud "other bodily diseases or disorders" with 14,719. Previous attacks had occurred in 0?> Tn^nouaj Tlara^if-irr infliionno vau no. certainediu 28,063, and congenital defect in 5881. As between the soxes, 66,918 were of tie male and 69,560 of the female sex.? [tyutar Science Monthly. THE ALCOHOLIC CONSTITUTION. It is on" of the most distinctive effects of alcohoi that when the taste for it has once been acquired it makes for itself a special constitution which may most faithfully be designated the alcoholic constitution. When this constitution has once been formed it renders everything else subordinate to itself, according to the degree of alcoholic influence that has been established. Thus the person really temperate in the use of alcohol holds by his temperate habit, as firmly as he who has established in himself the more dangerous habit of Inebriety. These effects are purely physical, and they can be induced in animals inferior to man, by training, just as easily as in man mmseir. may are dependent on the affinity which alcohol has for the matter of the brain and the other nervous centres; in which centres it forms a habitat for itself, from which it can only be removed by long-continued total abstinence? Voice. - 'v?g FOUR KINDS OF ALCOHOL SUFFERERS. Many persons go on for years under the simple action of the moderate effect of alcohol; they are never affected beyond the first stage of "its action, and always assume that they feel the benefit of it. Others who have got so far are tempted to go a little further under some excitement, recreation, work, worry, or one of the many incentive.? for stimulation, and so work themselves into the habit of the second stage, which is l?ss easy to restrain than the first. Others slip habitually into the habit of the third degree, become regularly intemperate, and so fixed in intemperance that they are all but irreclaimable. From this last group spring those lowest in the series of the habitual alcoholics, who suffer from, general paralysis, and who fitly and literally represent the individual in the fourth degree of acute alcoholic intoxicacation, dead to the world under the extreme paralyzing influence of the spirit they have imbibed. These four classess of mankind form the four gr^at populations of constitutionally alcoholized humanity that exists out of the bonds and bounds of childhood. It is fortunate that as yet the first years of human life have been so far exempted from the alcoholic spell, for by this circumstance a full sixth of the term of each life is largely saved from the injury and danger of alcohol. Yet even this more fortunate section is not altogether free; for, unhappily, an agent which, like alcohol, is capable of inflicting so marked an impression on the nervons centres is also capable of inflicting impressions which pass - r * - j from parent to onspnug uuu nmt-u uu^nuu, by inheritance, the constitutional habit. The inheritance of disease thus acquired from alcohol is not so strong as that of some othor diseased conditions from other causes, and it is not, according to my observation, transmitted further than the third generation; but it must be admitted as a factor tending to the production of alcoholic degeneracy ana to the increase of the great populations sharing in one or other of the great constitutional stages of alcoholic existence, and in the induced series of aberrations from the natural standard of health, which furnish the large class of affections, bodily and mental, now designated as the alcoholic diseases of mankind. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Fifty members have been recently added tc the W. C. T. U. of Mason City, III. In New York, last year, 1434 husbands procured divorces from their wives on the ground of drunkenness. During the same year 12,402 wives procured divorces from their husbands on the same charge. Baron Liebig, the great German chemist, says that "as much flour as cau lio on the point of a table knife contains as much nutritive constituents as eight pints of the best and most nutritious beer that is made." r"* -1 -????, /vf PnlifAmlfl nf A i lie sasoou muuajtiioui _ late meeting of the Horticultural Commission, complained of the fact that 25,000 gallons of aniline dye disguised as "cherry juice," to flavor the wines, had been shipj>ed into the State within the year. It is estimated that ten per cent, of the cases of insanity are caused by tuberculosis, ? and three per cent, by contagious diseases; the habitual and intemperate use of alcohol; opium and other narcotics causes about nine per cent, of all cases. A temperance editor, of Lincoln, Nebraska, recently found acoflln on his doorstep, placed there by the liquor men to indicate his fate if he continue! to "persecute" them, whereupon the editor sold the coffin for seven dollars and presented the money to the W. C. T. U. About four hundred and thirty soldiersinmates of the soldiers' home and prisoners in the military orison, at Leavenworth, Kansas?have signed the pledge of the W. C. T. U., as a result of the work of the State Superintendent of the department of work among soldiers. An Englishman who insulated his bedstead by placing underneath each post a broketi-olT bottle, says he had not been free from rheumatism or gout for fifteen years, and that he began to improve immediately after the application of the insulators. A paper, quoting this, wisely adds: "There's many a fellow who could cure his gout if he would break off the bottom of his glass bottle3 in time." A maker of stoppers for beer bottles, with a suit for infringement before the United States Court, gave some notion of the immense business done in bottled boor, by stating that there were 30,000,000 of his stoppers alone in use in the United States. They are of course used over and over again, though it is not improbable that one-half of th?m may be, for one reason or another, out of coatinui ous use.