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' f \ ACMTHlWM Important and Newsy Tales Told by the Telegraph. t1 ?? ^Terrible Experience of a Surveying Party in Alaska, Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, Superintendent of She United States Coast and Geodetic Surrey, has received several reports from John E. McGrath, of St. Louis, who has charge of />ne of the parties engaged in determining the 141st parallel, the boundary between the possessions of the United States and Great Britain in Alaska. Mr. McGrath's party is encamped on the "Yukon River, about 1400 miles from Sitka end in one of his reports he tells of the privations experienced b; the party during last fall and winter. j Owing to the wreck of the steamship Arctic, which had provisions and other things ' iorthe party o;i board, tha surveyors were In danger of starvation, and serious alarm was felt as week after week went by and the eteamship did not appear. In October the river was frozen over. | jTust before this a party of starving; miners | ( came down the river from Forty Mile Creek 1 furt insisted on taking from Mr. MeG-rntli a lighter that had Deen loaned him in order to continue their journey. In the hope of securing provisions two ?f the * surveying party (French aud MoLarty) were detailed to go with the miners and secure what they could in the of eatables at a place called Miklukayet, put back to camp through the winter ed and dog. The members of the party been placed on short rations before ch ana McLarty lsft. 'They set out for the main camp in Februfury," says Mr. McGrath, "with a hand sled find a toboggan drawn by three dogs. These ihey loaded with flour and beans, knowing Jiow scant one lot was, and after seventy days of a journey got into our camp on May C, having traveled 350 miles,and most of this Was gone over thrice, as they could not haul JJCQeir load ail at one time. "When they reached us they had only the Clothes on their back, one pair of blankets ?nd no coats, but on their sleds were 200 pounds of flour. For the last days they cut off the tops of their boots to feed the dogs, gave them deer skins and whatever they could spare. Their own clothes they cached on the way." The progress of the survey has been greatly retarded by cloudy weather, and Mr. Mc? Grath has determined to remain another rear in order that his part of the survey may be finished. Collections have been made as far as possible of insects and flora. The party has received a large consignment of provisions and is comfortably situated for the weather. How an Ohio Miser Lived. The death of George Gilbert, which oc?arred recently, reveals some strange doings of the man, who was a confirmed miser. During the last fifty rears he had lived alone, devoting his time to iaving money, which he deposited in banks. It ! was his boast that his living the year round did not cost him to exceed three cents per day. In 1835 he sold a neighbor a load of hay for 127. Gilbert punctually collected the interest ptch year, and last year ho accepted the it houinc parned him over $100. Pilbert leaves on e3tate valued at from 1125,000 to $150,000, and has no relatives living in this pert of the country. Killing Horses to Pat Oat a Fire. A widespread and destructive prairie fire Ravaged hundreds of thousands of acres (long the Little Missouri River a few days ago, about forty miles from the main line of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The great range of the H. T. Cattle Company was swept clear. The fire was put but by means of horses which were killed for fhe purpose of using them as drags to extinfculsn the flames. The horses were split up file back and then the carcasses were Iragged over the country by long ropes. Aa Iowa Town Burned. : * Fire tne other night almost totally destroyed {he town of Oxford, west of Iowa City. "11 Ktiolnaeo noi?f onH m QTIT7' CtXi XJ CUi luu uti.Timvjij J/Ui v wuu private residences were burned. Tho Fostpfflce, the bank, and many other buildings *ere destroyed. Tho fire was of incendiary brigin. The fire bell rope was cut. The loss B upward of ?50,000. Five Austrian Villages Flooded. Tho river Rhine has overflowed its banks and inundated Varadberg, Austria. In that district the villages of Albach, Hohenems, Hoech, Lusteoau and Fuessach have been flooded, and a number of bridges have been swept away. Many lives are reported lost. liivcs Lost by a Cellar's Collapse. Tho cellar of a brewery in Stoetteritz, Saxony, in which a number of men were at work collapsed, burying sixteen of the workmen. Of these seven were killed and the rest were severely injured. Eighty Miners Killed. An explosion occurred in a mine at Bory.slav, in Galicio, Austria. Eighty miners lost their lives by sutfocarion. PBOMINENT PEOPLE. ' Emil Zola, the French novelist, has made 1500,000 from his books. t The estate of the late John Boyle O'Reilly will amount to 1150,000. { Edwin Arnold, according to rumor, is going to take a Japanese bride and settle in Japan. ! "William Walter Phelps, United States Minister to Germany, no longer wears his hair banged. | Hon. W. L. Scott has declined the Democratic nomination for Congress fro: i his old district in Pennsylvania. ( George W. Childs, the Philadelphia editor and philanthropist, is said to spend and Ppve away ipiou,wu a year. ^General Ezeta, who has led San Salvador's forces so successfully against Guatemala, is only twenty-seven years old. I Senator George, of Mississippi, has a bead of long, flowing hair that waves picturesquely about when he is excited. ( Young John Jacob Astor is stoop-shouldered, probably in anticipation of the great responsibility he will have to carry in later ^ ears. I Prince Alexander of Battenbcrg has adopted the children of Panitza, who was ihot for conspiring against the existing Bulgarian regime. I The Duke of Edinburgh is a clever violinist and also an enthusiastic postage stamp gatherer, his collection being one of the most complete in the world. i Commissioner of Pensions Raum is a ihort man of medium weight, keen-looking and bald on the top of his head. His chin is covered vith whiskers. I President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, started life as a track hand thirty years ago. Tnecomoineasalaries uoiw^ua now amount to $100,000 a year. I Robert P. Porter, the Superintendent of the Census, has the physiaue of an athlete. He is an active, clean-snaven mau, dark complexioned, with black eyes and black ' The Marquis of Salisbury, the Premier of Great Britain, owns 20,000 acres of land in England. As much of it lies within the corporate limits of London, he is enormously rich. ' Justice Bradlet, of tho United States Supreme Court, is an expert mathematician. pe has been known to make almanacs and calendars just to keep his mind in good working order. ! The Queen of Italy has maintained her reputation for pluck and endurance by climbing the Mountain of Monza, 10,000 feet high. B during a rainstorm, which turned into snow 9 before the top was reached LI Da. Noryix Green*, the head of the West^ btd Unidn Telegraph Company, is a Ken Htuckian of giant frame, nearly seventy-three Years of age. He was a practising physician La the early days of his career . . . I A check has lately been drawn by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway ComDany B on the London and County Bank for |8,'2o0,B 300. This is supposed to be the largest ever written, the famous Vanderbilt cneck for 13,500,000 having hitherto stood at the head B afjthe list. . ...... 1 BOLD TRAIN ROBBERS. Ten Men Go Through an Express Car in Alabama. Tiis Frightened Passengers Intimidated by Pistol Shots. Th3 Louisville and Northern train from New Orleans reached Fionaaton, Ala., about 11 o'clock tha other night. Two men emorged from the swamp, and running closa to tha train, made their way to tha engine. They climbed up over the tender and covered the engineer and fireman with pistols. With hands up, they were made to crawl over the tender to tha front platform o' tha express car and open the door. Here two other outlaws joined them, and as soon as the door was opened they rushed into the express car and fired two shots to intimidate the mes senger. At tiie same time a volley or snots was fired from other outlaws who stood on either side of the train near the baggage car to prevent any one from the rear of the train coming toward the express car. The passengers were very much frightened and began stowing article of value away in hiding places about the car, expecting the robbers to give them a visit as soon as they finished with the messenger. While two of the men kept tHe engineer and firemen covered with their revolvers two others paid their respects to the express messenger. Ha was made to unlock his safe and turn over all the valuables in it to the gang. It was not certain how much they got, but the passengers declared they made a good haul. They said it was asserted on the train that the robbers took $30,000 from the express messenger. After finishing their work in the express car the robbers fired another volley to intimidate the passengers, and then made off into the swamp with their oootv. The Das senders began recovering the articles they had hidden, and then the train hurried on its way, having been delayed forty minutes by the bold outlaws. It was a neat piece of criminal work, performed by ten men, and it was the belief of everyone on the train that it was done by Rube Burrows and his gang. A careful examination by the express officials at Mobile showed that only a portion of the packages in the express safe in the car which was robbed was taken, and the loss is not over $3000. HANGED AT MIDNIGHT. A Boy Murderer and an Older Criminal Executed at Columbus. Otto Leuth, the boy murderer, of Cleveland, was hanged in the annex of tho Ohio Penitentiary at Co'umbus, shortly after mirlnicrhf Thd rlrnn fpll nt fivft minutes East twelve a. it. His neck was broken, and e was announced dead at twenty-two minutes past twelve. Another murderer, named Smith, was hanged at the same time. Both Leuth and Smith bore themselves with great courage during the entire evening, and were nerve and game up to the time tbe trap was sprung. The death warrants were read to tne men at eleven P. M., when the spiritual advisers took leave of the doomed men. SEVEN BOYS KILLED. They Made a Bonfire of Cartridges With Terrible Results. A number of boys were playing in the field near Hemmerstein, Prussia, formerly used for military manoeuvres, when they found some cartridges and thrust them into a bonfire to hear them explode. The cartridges Droved more oowertul than the bovs ex pected. A frightful series of explosions occurred, and seven of the boys were so badly Injured by the flying fragments that they died soon afterward. HIS STATURE DECREASED, A Carious Case of Shrinkage of the Human Form. Death has ended the career of Alexander Sorden, of Harrington, Md., for nearly twenty years clerk to the Levy Court of Carolina County, at the age of eighty-five years. He has been a source of wonder lo physicians for many years. Without success they have been examining into a peculiar physical shrinking that followed sickness, causing his stature to become one foot les3 than it was during health. THE LAEOR WORLD. Mediation" has averted the labor crisis in W a!er. The Australian labor market is overstocked. Over ll/f'O miners are on a strike in tho Borinage district ia Belgium. Labor troubles continue to disturb busiaess in Australia aurl Europe. The Arnc-ricau Upholsterers' Union has seen organized in New York city. At a recent meeting of the boiler-makers >f Boston, Mass., it was voted to form a union. TnE shipping strike in Melbourne, -?.ug;ra!ia.has caused a general paralysis of busiles.-'. Map.tin Irons, the once great labor dictaw, now sells peanuts in a St. Louis (Mo.) lepot. The Italian Masons' Protective Union, of !sew York city, reports that it has now over ww memoers. Jat Gould and the Vanderbilts are said to be working in harmony for the protection jf mutual interests. A national organization of Paper Hangsrs was formed at the recent convention held it Kansas City, Mo. The lace industry on the Isle of "Wight, long neglected, has been revived through the iffortsof Princess Beatrice. Miss Annie A. de Barr has received a 11;ense as a mechanical engineer from the Chi?go (111.) Board of Eugineers. The congress of German miners was called So meet at Halle on September 15. The session was to last until September 20. There arc sixteen locomotive engineers ivho have each served the Erie Railroad at She throttle for twentv-fivo rears or more. At last accounts there were 370 local iiiionsin the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and its total membership was 27,)00. At a conference of British shipowners, representing a capital of $400,000,000, it was iecided to unite in a flght against the labor anions. All employes of the Now Jersey Central Railroad have been notified that they must ibstain from the use of intoxicating liquors tvhiie on or off duty. The proprietors of the South Jersey glas3 factories have agreed to reduce the hours of labor to uine for five days in the week and sight on Saturdays. Grand Master Workmax Powderly, of She K. of L., dresses neatly in black, and his !inen is always clean and spotless. His head is bald and he wears gold-nmmed spectacles. William T. Field, nominee of the Montana Labor party for Congressman, is a locomotive engineer and under thirty-five rears of age. He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention last year. The wavers of the Eulengebirge hava petitioned the German Emperor to help them. By working fourteen hours for six days out of seven they say they can earn only $1.25 each weekly. Their wives earn about sixty-five cents each weekly at the looms. The Secretary ox the United Brotherhood jf Carpenters and Joiners reports that in four years carpenters's wages in 413 cities have been advanced from twenty-five to seventy-five cents a day. Besides, the carpenters have scored a general eight hour victory. The Corn Fair opened at Vienna, Austria, with a good attendance. In the crop estimates for the world, America is credited with 414,000,000 bushels of wheat and 1,600,000,000 bushels of maize against 491,000,000 bushels of wheat and 2,113,000,000 bushel3of maize in 1389. England is credited with an average yield. -.-' VX:,. sjv . , : i ( TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Salvator, the famous Kentucky horsa owned by J. B. Haggin, the California millionaire, lowered all previous records by runnine a mile, carrying 110 pounds, in 1:35)? at Monmouth Park race course in New Jersey. John- F. Brade.y shot and instantly killed his wife at Johnstown, Penn. Secretary Blai.ve made a speech at Waterville, Me., on the subject of reciprocal trade among American Republics. The President's family, including Mrs. Harrison, left Cape May "Point, N. J., for Cresson Springs, Penn., in a special car. The cottage wnich had been occupied by the President's family was closed after a truck load of baggage haa been taken to the depot. A.v unusually heavy surf at Asbury Park, N. J., caused an estimated damage of 820,000. The two factions of workingmen in New York city had a parade on Labor Day, the aggregate number of men in line being about 20,000. In Brooklyn the paraders numbered 10,000. Parades also took place in Pittsburg, Boston, New Haveu and other places. A National conference of Single Tax clubs held a three days' session in New York city. Henry George, who has just returned from a lecturing tour abroad, and other leading Single Tax men were present. The Now York Republican State Committee, at a meeting in New York city, unanimously nominated Judge Robert Earl, a Democrat, as the party candidate for Judge of the Court of Appeals. By the fall of a scaffold in New Orleans William Harvey, carpenter, was instantly 'silled; two painters, named Henry Albright and William Ray, were fatally injured, and several others were seriously hurt. The Vermont election resulted in the success of Carroll S. Page for Governor, and the rest of the Republican State ticket, on a light vote. The New York State Board of Arbitration began an investigation in the Metropolis of the Central RaUroad strike "controversy;" Third Vice-President Webb, Mr. Powderly, Grand Master of the Knights ol Labor, and others testified. South and West. Nebraska Prohibitionists, at Lincoln, nominated Dr. E. L. Paine for Governor. Representative Joseph G. Cannon has beau renominated for Conzress by the RennhiififtnR of the Fifteanth Illinois District. The Michigan Republicans convened at Detroit and nominated James M. Turner for Governor. Fiftt-five adobe bouses were destroyed and seventy families rendered homeless by floods in the Plaza of Ingrez, El Paso, Texas. The loss will reach $73,000. Titr United States revenue cutter Rush is ordering the sealing pirates out of Behring Sea under threat of seizure, and the orders nave been obeyed in every instance. South Dakota Republicans, at Mitchelladopted a prohibition plank ana renominated Governor Mellette. Ixdiaxa Democrats, at Indianapolis, nominated Claude Matthews for Secretary of State. Jons M. Chen'OWith was shot and killed at San Francisco, Cal., by Richard T. Carroll. The latter then killed himself. A cyclone swept clean of buildings a path 120 rods wide at Coldwnter, Mich. Orchards suffered severely. The loss was estimated at ?40,000. The Arizona Territorial Convention at | Phcenix nominated George W. Cheney, of I Cochise, for Congress. The North Carolina State Convention met at Raleigh. Charles Price, at present United States District Attorney, was nominated for Chief Justice, and W. F. Faircloth for Associate Judge. The Missouri Republican State Convention was held at Jefferson City. The following nominations were made: Alexander Mullin, of Linn County, Supreme Judge; James K. Merrifleld, Railroad Commissioner; Frank P. Sever, Superintendent of Public Schools. The Oklahoma Legislature was organized at Guthrie by a combination of the Democrats and Farmers' Alliance members. George W. Goldenshire, Alliance member from Payne County, was chosen as President of the Council. In the lower house it was found that the Democrats and Alliance members had combined, and had fourteen votes out of twenty-five. The "Washington Democratic Convention at Seattle nominated Thomas Carroll for Congressman to succeed John T. Wilson. While Milton Reiden was performing on a trapeze attached to a balloon anchored about one hundred feet above the earth, at WoodslielcL, Ohio, the rope broke and the h-tllnnn to the haicrhtof 1009 feet. Then Reiden fell from exhaustion and was dashed to pieces. As epidemic of crime has been sweeping over Cincinnati. There were six murders in as many days, and numerous lesser crimes in the same time. Three people lost their lives in a firo which destroyed the "Wolford House at Corno, Col. Fire almost totally destroyed the town of Oxford, La. Laeor Day was celebrated in Chicago, San Francisco and other cities by big parades of workingmen. Governor Eagle has been re-elected Governor of Arkansas by an increased majority. Four persons were killed instantly and eleven otners injured by the wreck of a passenger train on the Northern Pacific Kailroad in Washington. The sloop yacht Petrel capsized just outside the border of San Francisco, and the six persons on board were drownei Six thousand Chicago carpenters quit work because a promised advance in wages had not been made. Washington. The Swedish authorities having requested that the body of Ericsson be disembarked at Stockholm, as originally intended, orders to that effect have been sent to the Baltimore, at Gothenburg, by the Navy Department. General Grant, Acting Secretory of I War, has directed the abandonment of the military reservation at Hot Springs, Ark., as a military reservation, and its transfer to the Interior Department for disposition under the law. The President has approved the Joint resolution making an appropriation for the relief of the destitutes in Oklahoma. During August the public debt was decreased $883,072.75. Total cash in the Treasury, $694,557,451.07. As agreed to in Conference Committee of both Houses, the River and Harbor bill appropriated $24,981,295. It has just been made public that five months ago Ex-Senator T. C. Piatt, of New York, declined President Harrison's offer to appoint him United States Minister to Spain. In his letter of declination Mr. Piatt said that he was precluded ),y numerous business obligations from accenting the offer. Foreign. A naphtha vessel has been burned at her Tr?Vioff of UntAiim Piieain Tha /v?nf.nin nnfl two sailors lost their lives. The treaty of peace between Guatemala and Salvador has been signed by both parties. Tnp.ee-QrAP.ters of the town of Keneshma, Russia, has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at $1,500,000. Serious fires are also reported at Orel and Kursk. A terrific storm flooded the rivers and canals in St. Petersburg, Russia, and vicinity. Thero was two feet of water in the lower streets of the city. Guns were fired at the fortress to warn the inhabitants of danger. The schooner Bessie Walker collided with the bark Wave in the Bay of Fundy.and five of the crew and a young lady passenger were drowned. Rebellion*, believed to have been incited by European powers, has broken out among Moorish tribes. The strike in the shipping trade has sprea i from Australia to New Zealand. The Tunnel House, at the Sarnia (Canada) entrance of the St. Clair Tunnel, has been burned. A female employe, unable to escape, was burned to death, and two laborers, who were stopping at the house, also perished. Fifteen* persons were kiiled at a firo in a Hungarian village. Prominent French papers favor tha removal of the prohibition of the importation of American pork into France. Asiatic cholera has broken out in several country districts of Portugal. Five hundred delegates took part in the Trades Union Congress at Liverpool. The British steamer Portuense, from New York, foundered near the Island of Anegada. British West Indies, and ten of the people on board were reported missing. LATER NEWS. The New Hampshire Democrats, at their State convention in Concord, nominated Dorrance B. Currier for Governor. Fire followed the explosion of a coal oil lamp, in Philadelphia, and Mrs. Sarah MoIntyre, sixty years old; Mamie Mclntyre! ten years old, and Annie Logue, seventeen years old, were burned to death. Speaker Reed, of the National House of Representatives, while on his way to Maine to take part in the political canvass there, of DAr4?r? nn/1 in T?nnmit1 XJoil U*Di uu uvavuuf uuu tu i-auciui JUL.au addressed a largo and onthusiastic audience. The Kansas Republicans have nominated a State ticket headed by L. A. Humphreys for Governor. In* response to a resolution of the New York Board of Aldermen, demanding that a new censu3 of the city bo taken, Superintendent Porter says that there is no reason at all for a recount. The overflow of New York's population into New Jersey and Brooklyn, ho says, sufficiently accounts for the comparatively low percentage o2 increase in the population of the metropolis. Extensive forest flre3 have don9 great iamage in Russia. Owixo to an overflow of the Woldan River many villages in the Danube Valley, in Austria, have been partially submerged. Minister Phelps, in an interview at Berlin, expressed the belief that public opinion in Germany was hastening tho removal d? the restrictions against American swine. FIITY-FIBST CONGEESS. In the Senate. 194th Day.?Tho Finance Committee gave notice of two proposed amendments to the Tariff bill in the direction of reciprocity. Considerable progress was made with the text of the bill. 195th Day.?The remaining paragraphs of the Agricultural schedule of the Tariff bill and the Wine and Spirits schedule were disposed of, and the Wool schedule was taken up... .Mr. Edmunds offered a resolution for a recess of Congress from September 19 to November 10. 196th Dat.?The "Wool schedule of tha Tariff bill was discussed, and Mr. Carlisle's amrndmentplacing wool on the free list was i defeated....The House amendment to the Senate bill giving a pension of $100 a month to the widow of General Hartranft was disagreed to and a conference asked. 197th Day.?The Wool and Silk schedules of the Tariff bill were disposed of, and Mr. Sherman offered an amendment booking to reciprocity with Canada....Mr. Plumb crave notice of an amendment which be proposed to offer, imposing an annual tax of three per cent on dividends of corporations, including interest on nonds... .Amendments looking to a reduction of rates were offered on the Democratic side, and were rejected without* the formality of yea and nay votes, to paragraphs 376 to 3S0. 198th Day.?The sugar schedule of the Tariff bill was discussed and Mr. Hale made a speech on reciprocity. The subject was discussed at length, and debate was continued at an evening session. 109tii Day.?The Sugar Schedule of the Tariff bill was again under consideration, and speeches were made by Messrs. Evarts, Edmunds and Voorhees....At the evening session Mr. Pierce spoke in favor of reciprocity. In the House. 204th Day.?Mr. Henderson submitted tho conference report on the bill for tho relief of the sufferers in Oklahoma, and it was agreed to....The Land bill was passed.... The Eight Horn* bill was passed. 2C3th Day.?Immediately after the reading of the journal, the House went into Committee of the Whole (Mr. Allen, of Michigan, in the chair) on the private calendar. The first bill to be considered was that which has been ponding for the last sixteen weeks, the "Omnibus" Southern War Claims bill. It was passed .... At its evening session tho House passed seventy-two private pension bill. 206th Day.?Tho bill amending the Alien Contract law was passed....The bill prohibiting the employment of convict labor on public works was passed; also, the bill to prevent the purchase of supplies the product of convict labor by the tj niteJ States.... The conference report on the bill to prevent collisions at sea was adopted. 207th Day.?Mr. Smyser, of Ohio, withdrew as a member of the committee investigating the office of Pension Commissioner Raum... .Mr. Perkins moved to suspend the rule3 and pass the bill to ratify and confirm tho agreements with the Sac and Fox and j Iowa tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, and ' after an explanation of its scope by Messrs. Perkins ana Peel the bill passed. 203th Day.?The Clayton-Breckinridge election case was called up and speeches upon it were made by members of the majority and minority of the Elections Committee.... Mr. Cannon, from the Committee on Appropriations, made a statement in regard to the appropriations made by the List Congress as compared with those of the previous Congress; a minority reDort also was presented by Mr. Sayres. $Q9th Day.?The Clayton-Breckinridge election case was again discussed, and Speeches for and against the unseating of Mr, Breckinridge were made. After others bad addressed the House, Mr. Kennedy, of Ohio, made a speech in which he denounced Senator Quay aud the other Republican Senators for delaying action on the Force till. DUEL TO THE DEATH, Two Men Fatally "Wound Each Other ana Two Bystanders. One of the most desperate battles fought between man and man took place near Middlesborough, Ky., the other night, about nine o'clock, between Marsh Turner, of the famous Turner gang, and Steve Warrick, another deperado or more than local fame. Warrick's brother-in-law, who is a huckster, called to see Warrick-, and he drove across the lot which is owned and occupied by Turner. Turner ordered the pedlers wagon off the premises. Turner and "Warrick mot at seven o'clock in the evenine and went to fighting after a few words. Turner used his revolver and Warrick a large knife. The terrible combat lasted fully fifteen minutes and resulted in Warrick receiving a pistol shot in the breast, about an inch above the heart, the bullet passing entirely through his body. Turner received eleven knife gashas in all, one of which penetrated the abdomen and will prove fatal. The father of Marsh Turner attempted to Beparate the two men and received uxly knife wounds in the hand for his pains. Police Of ficer James Parham, who also endeavored to arrest the men, was badly cut about the hands and arms. Warrick died next morning and Turner also died soon afterward. BOTH DEOWNED. Captain Thurber Dies Attempting to Save His Child. While the schooner Palmer was being towed down the Connecticut River, off Middletown, Conn., Captain Thurbor's daughter, a beautiful girl about eighteen years of age, who was on a pleasure trip with her father, acci" dentally fell overboard. Her father, who wa9 at the wheel at the time, immediately sprang into the water after her and before a boat could be lowered both sank, clasped in each others arms, for the last time. I Captain Thnrber's home is in Stataa Island. ?. Y. " THE mm CAPITAL v News Among the Yarions Departments at Washington. The San Francisco is the Hew Navy's Fastest Ship. The Secretary of the Navy received a telegram from Commodore Irwin, President of the Trial Board, saying that the trial of the cruiser San Francisco, off Santa Barbara, Cal., wa3 completed, and that her mean speed was 19 7-10 knots per hour, subject to slight correction. This speed, which will entitle her builders to a premium of 8100,000, Is slightly in excess of the rate made by the Philadelphia. The report comments upon the trial in tho most favorable manner, and the average speed maintained during the four hours run was 19 and 7-10 knots, which is about on&> tenth of a knot in excess of the recent record of the Philadelphia. This figure waa Bent subject to correction, as there are still Bome calculations to be made based on tidal and current observations, which it is expected, will eive the San Francisco a still higher rate of speed and possibly an average rate of 19% lmots. The board also states that the maximum rate of speed attained by the cruiser was twenty and six one-hundreth knots, and that this rate was made during the last ten knots of the run, and after the engines already had been under forced draft for over four hours. Twenty and six one-hundreth knots is equal to twenty-three land miles. The horse-power developed by the engines during the run will not be definitely known for some time, but calculations made so far indicate that the average will not exceed 8800. Experts claim that this shows an easy model, and that wave resistance will be less than the Charleston. Naniwakau, Baltimore,Reiva, Regente, Orlando or Philadelphia. As the San Francisco was built entirely on plans prepared by the Navy Department, it is regarded that these facts speak well for the work of the department, Governor Wolfley Resigns. President Harrison has informed Governor Wolflev. of Arizona, that he does not consider him the right man for Governor of that Territory, and Governor Wolfley has tendered his resignation. One o'f the causes assigned is said to be Governor Wolfley's severe criticism of Major Powell and his work in the reclamation and irrigation of arid lands. It is said he notoriously criticised Major Powell and the policy of the Interior Department with frank freedom and this is the reason for his losing his official head. Governor Wolfley would neither affirm nor deny the reports in regard to his rumored removal. He remarked that in his criticism of Major Powell be understood it was held that he had reflected on the Interior Department. 1 Secretary Noble was more explicit. "Governor Wolfley has resigned," he said, "and his resignation has been accepted. The President has came to the conclusion that he Is not the right man in the right place. That he is, in a word, not capable of grappling with the complications which confront a Governor of Arizona. There are many conflicting interests in that Territory which require sfclful handling, and Governor "Wolfley has signally failed to harmonize them. There are no reflections whatever on Governor Wolfley as a man or on omci&j." Sickness in the China Squadron. The Navy Department is informed of the disposition of vessels on the Asiatic station as follows: Omaha at Yokohama, Monocacy at Shanghai under repair, Swatara at Chemulpo, Corea and Alliance at Yokohama. Lieutenant Rodman, of the Navy Department, has received a private letter from an officer on the Alliance, dated Yokohama, Japan, saying that the officers and men of that vessel were denied their liberty and not allowed to go ashore, because of the prevalence of cholera at Yokohama. He says also that Mrs. Smith, wife of Surgeon Howard Smith, died on the steamer between Hong Kong and Kobe, and that the Doctor himBeLf is in bad health. Lieutenants Norrisand Constant, Ensign Dieffenbach and Lieutenant Turner, of the Marine Corps, were ill, but are now convalescing. The President's Change of Base. President Harrison returned to Washington from Cape May, N. J. He traveled alone from Philadelphia in President Roberts's private car. According to his present plana Mr. Harrison will remain at CresEon. Penn., until October 1. Ther# will b9 direct telegraphic communication with the White House and Congress. Executive business will be conducted rs it was done from Deer Park last summer. 1 The President wil bo only eight hours away by mail and he will come to the capital himtelf when it ia necessary. Mrs. Harrison und the remainder of the familv left their Cape May cottage and went direct to Creston. Active Officers "Who Draw Pensions. The Pension Office has furnished the Senate with a list of those officers of the Army, i Navy and Marine Corps who are drawing | pensions in addition to their regular salaries | as officers on the active or retired list. There are 198 of these gentle- I I men, most of whom are retired from active duty. None of them receive less than $2000 a year, and many of them are drawing between ?C000 and $7000. The $8 a month they I have been receiving because they partici| pated in the Mexican war. . Cause of a Clerk's Dismissal. 1 Edward Renaud, a $1800 clerk in the Pen- * sion Office, was dismissed by Secretary Noble 1 upon the recommendation of Commissioner j Raum. Mr. Renaud has a penchant for writing for the newspapers, and it was ' charged by Commissioner Raum that he has < inspired articles which have appeared in a ] New York paper criticising tho action of , Pension Office officials. THE BIGGEST COTTON CE0P, ] niI TTV vini.ia _???,i?.i , , | t 4*4 J. f in IUC4 JUIV1UO JUACCCUCU uy Jiure Titan a Quarter Million Bales. The New Orleans Exchange has issued thfc official report of the cotton crop of the TJni- a ted States for the commercial year ending ( with the close of August, 1890, made up by ( Secretary Hesler. The report says that the j total crop amounts to 7,311,332 bales, exceed ing the largest crop ever grown by 265,4Sf t bales and the crop of last year by 373,032. t The total Southern consumption for the [ past year is reported at 540,363 oales, againsl 481,235 bales last year. The number of mills 1 in operation is 270, with 1,665,191 spindles t Thirty-nine new mills, with 241,864 spindles, a have commenced working during the yeai / and fifteen new mills have been completed _ and will be at work this fall. Forty-four J mills are idle, a number of which expect to r start up again at an early date. The total t number of mills in the South is now 336, with , 40,819 looms and 1,819,291 spindles. Secre- 1 tary Hesler says the increase of spindles dur- C lug iue past year is equivalent to nearly one- o half of tho entire number reported in the South by the census of 1SS0. S Not only is the crop of 1S89-90 the largest g aver produced, but it ha3 moved off with uu- b exampled rapidity and brought full prices r throughout the year, netting to the farming interest a handsome surplus. ^ A REBEL GENERAL KILLED, Barrundia, tho Guatemalan Revolutionist, Shot on an American Ship. A San Jose do Guatemala dispatch says: _ "Everything was prepared to capture the q revolutionist, General Martin Barrundia, ^ who was on board a passing American n steamer. Tho Port Captain, with several n companions, boarded the steamer and r demanded the surrender of Surrundia *from Captain Pitts, who answered that he C would deliver up the revolutionist and in- ? vited them to Barrundia'a cabin. The As- ^ sistant Chief of Police, Captain Calderon, r and three officers were among those who & went with the captain to the cabin. When c there Major Toriello made known to Barruadia that the captain of the vessel had decided * to deliver him up. Barrundia thereupou P opened fire with his revolver upon the party, 1: I who answered his flro. Barrundia fell, rid- ^ died with bullets. His body was taken to the Port Captain's offlco. 8 'e.'.V:...?? >;?l " . * p ' r. / A Millionaire's Log Cabin. The new summer residence of George Gould, the eldest sou of Jay Gould, at Furlough Retreat, in the Western Catskills, of New York, has been taken possession of by its owner. It is one of the largest and most picturesque private dwellings in the mountains and is beautifully situated. The building is in primitive style so far as relates to the outside, being constructed of logs hewn on three side, tbe round, or bark, side being on the outside. The structure is thirtyfour by seventy feet, and two stories high. A veranda ten feet wide skirts three sides of the house. The dwelling has twenty-six rooms. The main hall is sixteen by thirty-two feet. There is alijther hall, which extends across the building and separates the laundry and iitchcn from the main partion. The interior of the house was carefully calked, then papered, next furrowed, and lastly jeiled over with narrow strips of Nor *ray pine. The floors are all laid witu. Seorgia pine of the finest quality. The rooms have Queen Anne trimmings, finished in white wood. All the window glass is of uniform size, seven by nine inches. A sixteen-foot balcony is on the front and rear of the house. The roof is 3hingled. The main stair railing and balusters were cut out of trees found in the woods close at hand, and are left "in the rough." The newel posts were once parts of beech trees, one being eight inches in diameter. The balusters attract attention. They represent all the different kinds of trees that grow within the bounds of Mr. Gould's mountain domain. The residence is situated about two hundred and fifty feet from the lake, which covers an area of ten acres. In some parts of the lake the water is sixty feet deep and trout are plentiful. At the present time no trout can be caught, not because Mr. Gould would deny his fnends the pleasure of trying their skill, but simply for the reason that the trout will not allow themselves to be caught. During this month the lake will be cleansing itself? one of nature's workings?and the water if of a milky color and thick at the surface. While this process of cleansing is going on the trout hie themselves to the bottom of the lake, at the deepest points and remain there until the "clouds roll by." Sir. Gould now has twentj-one deer and elk in his park, and all are doing well. The thirteen first received are now quite tame. The eight animals in the last consignment are very shy, and hide when approached.?New York Times. jx iiuTut uiiiver s 11 uiuivuc. A naval officer's wardrobe is a serious matter. The only other creature on earth that has more clothes than an officer of the United States Navy is a Saratoga belle. There are full-dress coats, and short coats with hooks, and dude coats, with trousers to match in each case; helmet hats, two or three kinds of caps, and even regulation neckties. Then come the overcoats, and after that the swords. All of these things are extremely eipensivc, because they can be procured of only certain tailors and hatters. To make matters worse there is the perpetual threat of some radical change in uniform that shall render everything in use utterly valueless. In the matter of linen the naval officer has much his own way, but even here he labors under certain disad vantages, for many ships, perhaps most ships, have insufficient provision for laundering, and each officer must carry an enormous stock of collars, cufis and shirts. Jack washes his own clothes with the Captain's or Admiral's permission, and hangs them aloft to dry, but it would hardly be dignified for an officer to do this. As a consequence the wardroom lugs about a constantly increasing i stock of soiled linen until some port is reached where laundresses do abound. Then there is a great washday and a gigantic laundry bill. Here again is a difficulty, for the methods of foreign laundresses, especially in the trcpics, are primitive. Mostly the linen is dumped into a stream and beaten with stones until it is fairly clean and dreadfully ragged. A favorite method with shirts is to tie a stone in the sleeve and thrash the garment about in the water. "West Indian laun dresses, mostly black and extortionate, are famous throughout the Navy.?New York Star. Retail Grocers and Deadbeats. Business men who have suffered considerably from "dead-beat" aro the retail grocers, and they claim to have an < jrganization which will protect them in i :he future. The nature of their business ;s such that they ??re obliged to do most )f it on the credit system. Thousands of 1 iollars are lost annually by customers i noving away to another part of the city ' it- - v;ti i : I [Ynen laeir gToccr s 0111 ucuumes iucuureniently large. One dealer with whom ' was speaking said that not only have ;hey a large and well-kept black list, but ;hat each member of the organization is ' :ompelled under the bylaws to constitute limself a special detective. "For instance," he added, "every time ; i van loaded with furniture passes my i jffice, I am obliged to follow it myself, >r send someone else after it. The vau i s shadowed. If it passes out of my dis- 0 rict some other member of the organizaion must take up the trail. Finally tho s louse or apartments to which it is going s located. The uext thing is to obtain t he name of the owner of the furniture c ,nd the place he moved from. These acts are reported to the proper officers. ? rhen, if he proves to be a 'beat' and his a lame comes in on the black list, the vie- | imized grocer knows whore to locate * lim in case he wants to bring legal pro- ? ecdings. Until ho pays his debt, no ^ ithcr man in the business is permitted to b five him live cents' worth of credit. All ;roccrs in the three cities arc not mem- ? iers of the union, but it is spreading ^ anidly, and when all are in you can see chat an organization it will be."?2Tcu> K fork Star. i tl Telephones Made by a Chiuaraaa. Several days ago inspectors in China- ri own, San Francisco, Cal., discovered a lrge number of telephones which were '' aying no royalty to the Bell Company. J- _ _ G] nese teiepnones were maue in uaina- C( own, anil had no connection with the h lonopoly's wires. The secret of their J1 lanufacl urc was only discovered when a pC Ihristianized Chinaman, who had dia- p arded bis cue, was found to be the inenious mechanic. He, as well as his pi atrons, swore he furnished the machines t cost, and hence there was no commer- cj ial speculation in it. They all professed hi jnorance that they were infringing any P1 atent, and though several were arrested, iwyers disagree as to whethor they caa w & held. The inventor is a good tele- ol raph operator also.?Ntw Ygrk Tribune. u " I TEMPERANCE. :M THY LOBD IS WITH THEE. Thy Lord is with thee, mighty man of valor. Rise andoboy the word He speaks to thee; Go in thy might, put from thy face its pallor; Strong in His strength, go set thy psoplo free. Thy Lord is with thee, for the light He needs thee, He will defend whatever may oppose; Strange tho' the way, yet follow where Ha leads thee, He leads to vict'ry over all thy foes. Gather the host, be bold, be calm, be cheerful, Trust not to numbers, choose the strong * and brave; Send to their homes the cowards and the fearful, Tn TTio rvtrm rtrnrr fV?o Ts\yA fhtr flriH wfll save. Charge on the foe, sword of the Lord and Gideon, Blow now the trumpets through the hostile camp! Put to the rout the frightened hosts of Midion, Break every pitcher! wave each blazing lamp. <'?$91 ?Rev. Alfred Taylor, in National Advocate. WHAT ALCOHOL 13 GOOD TOB. . Dr. Nansen, the Norwegian explorer, crossed Greenland on foot, with five companions he spent several weeks on floating ice. For forty days they tramped over frozen snow, with eighty degrees of frost. Did he use any alcoholic drinks? That he did make use of alcoholic spirits you can see from the following statement, but never as a beverage. He says: "Tne only spiritB we took were as fuel for our stove to melt the snow that we might have water to drink. I think the use of stimulants is a mistake." TIPPLING AMOXG ENGLISH WOMEN. Great Britain is the only country I have been in where one will frequently see fine looking women drinking brandy and other / : spirits in the cars and where the custom is so prevalent among both men and women. that at each station and in the cars, one will see a sign requesting passengers not to throw bottles out of the windows^ "as employes are often injured thereby." If this custom keeps up it is possible that the railway companies will have to steel-plate their section hands in order to preserve their lives from. these bombs.?Chicago Journal. A FALLACIOUS ABGU3IEST ASBWEEED. Samuel Dickie, in answering the argument that the drink traffic is productive of wealth, says: "The man who goes to-night and breaks into a bank and carries away $100,000, if he escapes the officers of the law, may '?e wealthy for the balance of his day, but the burglar is not engaged in a wealth producing business: The gambler may accumulate money, but the gambler produces no wealth. The successful pickpocket may acquire vast possessions, but neither the burglar, gambler, nor the pickpocket is engaged in a wealth producing industry. In every one of these cases that I have referred to by way of illustration the party takes the money from his victim and oh'ttpc nn valunhlia th^r^cr na ci,}omfirm Now I submit it to the intelligent judgment of this great people, may I not introduce a fourth term into the proposition and declare that the burglar, the gambler, the pickpocket and the saloonkeeper all take the money from their victims and give no valuable thing in return?' vl THE CSE OF ALCOHOL AS A MEDICI**. Dr. Grosvenor, in the Buffalo Medical Journal, gives the following concise summary of ni3 views respecting the medicinal use of alcohol: 1. Grave responsibility rests upon the medical profession in the use of alcohol as a medicine, on account of its deleterious influence upon the system and the liability of the patient to contract the habit of using it as & beverage. 2. Alcohol being an acrid narcotic poison, the bottle containing it should be labeled, ' 'Poison," as a reminder of this characteristic, and a warning to handle it with care. 8. Alcohol containing none of the compounds which enter into the construction of the tissues, connot properly be termed a tis* sue-forming food. ' ffijw 4. The evidence in favor of the existence of a beat-generating quality in alcohol is not sufficient to warrant the belief that it is a heat-producing food. 5. As a narcotic and anaesthetic, alcohol has a limited sphere of adaptation, and is much less valuable than several other narcotics and anaesthetics. LIQUOR ADULTERATION*. The American Analyst reports a dealer ia liquor adulterants as saying: ' Our largest business is in the liquor lino. With Frencn spirits and color as a basis,! -,H. can make you any liquor you want with our extracts. Here are tne essences of Old Tom, London Dock, Swan, Holland, and Schiedam gins, the extracts of Otara and Cognac brandies, rye, bourbon, applejack, Irish and Scotch whiskies, Santa Cruz, Jamaica and Medford rums, not to speak of the fancy cordials and liquors. To make Old Tom, I take a teaspoonful of French spirits, one of water, ? three arop3 of glucose syrup and two drops of the extract. That makes the Old Tom you have drank in a dozen saloons in this city There are some funny things about this part of the business. Most people like their whisky and brandy aged ana free from fusel oil. But there are a great many, especially among manual laborers, who like it fresh and harsh. They want it 'to cut as it goes down.' To supply this demand we sell fusel oil to rectifiers and oven retailers. l'hey mix a barrel of whisky, of spirits and one of water with a gallon of fusel oil. That makes a ten cent rve which beats a torch light procession. It's cheap, too, and stands ^ an intelligent dealer in only $1 a gallon. That's twenty cents a bottle, and less than one cent a drink on an average. No wonder that rum sellers grow rich and become Aldermen or go to Congress." / TEMPERANCE NEWS AMD TOTES. Geauga and Harrison Counties, Ohio, have 10 saloons. The women of Nebraska propose to hold ill-day prayer-meetings November 4. The liquor traffic costs our country about 3,000,000 a day?$3,000,000 worse than vasted. The retail liquor traffic is now prohibited n seventy-nine municipalities of the province f Manitoba. Huron's large brewery in South Dakota, rill, it is said, be converted into a beetugar factory. The City Marshal of Cartersville, Ga., says hat prohibition has done Cartersville an inalcutable amount of good. Between 150 and 200 hogsheads of beer are ,-iven away every week to the employes ,t Burton-on-Treni in the way of "allow aces." He who made the human frame made it so risely that it does not need the stimulus of everages, which, when taken in excess, lind the reason, inflame the blood, sow the eed of disease, and implant an unconquerale craving for the fatal poison. According to Bishop Taylor, the single city f Hamburg, Germany, has exported 200,0u) ins of rum and ein to Africa within the last ear. Apparently the best way to convert .friea, therefore, would be first to convert faraburg. The Royal Niger Company has prohibited 19 importation of spirituous liquors for de or barter throughout the greater part E its territory. In the remainder of its ju ^uijuuu ii? uus nut yvl luu aucu^m w cu)rce this law, but hopes to do so in the near iture. Mr. T. V. Powderly says that an erperiace of twenty years among workingmen jnvinces him that "liquor has done more arm to workingmen than all other causes. I is not the drinking man alone who suffers, >r three drunken men in a hundred will revent the other ninety-seven from accomlishiug what they seek." The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Comany has sent to each employe a circular Dte, of which the following is in part a 3py: "This company will not under any rcumstances employ men who are in the abit of becoming intoxicated. All emloyos known to frequent drinking places iust bo warned to discontinue the practice r quit the company's service. Employes ill bo discharged if intoxicated either on or I duty. No person discharged for in toxica* i ou will bo re-employed." .. J vi -.-V - ...