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TSE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Gleanings Among the Tarions " ^Departments at Washington. Associate Justioe Miller S trick e"n With Paralysis, ^ recent dispatch from Washington City Bays: Associate Justice Samuel P. Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, was Irtricken with paralysis during the afternoon kbout three o'clock and now lies in a precarious condition. He spent the early part jOf the day at the Capitol, attending to business in the Supreme Courtroom as usual, and When he started homo took a street car as was Ills usual custom. After alighting at Thomas fcircle, when in sight of his own residence on Highland terrace, he walked a few steps and then was seen by his servant, who was Watching for him on the terrace steps, to fctagger and fall. When the servant" reached him he found the Justice lying on his face and hands altaost unconscious, and his face smeared With blood from an ugly cut above his nose. There were plenty of helping hands in a few minutes to aid the servant lift him into a coupe and take lxim the two or three hundred yards up to his own door. The effort to carry him up the long street steps and then up another flight to hi9 chamber roused the Judge to consciousness and he was soon able to talk. The left side of the head and face and the 2?ft arm are paralyzed, but he has been able to mo*e both the lower limbs with ease. He Buffered no pain after the first shock. As it j neared his customary dinner hour he asked | for something to eat and partook of it with relish. , At a late hour that night the chances were greatly against Justice Miller's recovery. His mind, which had been clear during the ] afternoon, became somewhat clouded to- | ward night, and his general condition such | as to alarm his family and friends. Shortly ^before 11 o'clock a 6edativa was adminis- | ^ered and he dropped into a deep slumber, ! but his breathing was labored. Justice Miller is seventy-four years old and in number of years of service is the senior member of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was born in Richmond, ! on April 5,1816, but moved to Keokuk, | Iowa, when a young man. Abraham Lin- ! coin made him Associate Justice of the j Supreme Court in 1S62. He presides overthe the Eight judicial circuit. He has a large family of adult sons and | daughters. In figure he is one of the most j portly men among the many portly members j of the Supreme Court. Ho ?s not above the j average height, but is very fleshy. His face is always smoothly shaven, and his massive M J 1 lwatutcb are luppcu uj aiMcucauvi dinary height. Work of the General Land Office. Lewis A. Groff, the Commissioner of the i . General Land Office, has submitted to the ! Secretary of tho Interior the annual report ! of the operations of his bureau for the fecal j year ending June 80,1890. The report saya ; that an agricultural domain of nearly 19, j 000,000 acres has daring the year been transferred to enterprising and industrious settlers by patents issued to them. The area patented to the States, under the grants for educational and internal improvement purposes, has increased 300 per ?ent. There were patented or certified under (the law, for the benefit of railroad companies, during the year 363,862 acres. The to- I tal cash receipts of the office from various j Surces during the fiscal year were ?7.780,- ! 7. The Commissioner finds that the most valuable timber on the public lands is being rapidly exhausted, and that the several laws relating to the subject are utterly inadequate properly to protect either the public forests from unlawful appropriation or the interests of the settlers. He believes that exportation of public timber should be prohibited, as also should the removal of timb3r from any of the reserved lands and from mountainous regions and other woodlands at or near the Ahead waters or sources of streams, which for | Climatic, economic or public reasons should j be held permanently as forest reserves, ex- j oepticn beins made in favor of settlers or j miners for their personal necessities. Oct<Jt>er Crop Reports. The October estimates of yield per acre for the entire breadth of cereal crops, as consolidated by the Department of Agricul- | tore are: Winter wheat, 10.8 bushelsper acre; spring j wheat, 11.5; the wheat crop, 11.1; oats, 19.8; J barley, 21; rye, 11.8 bushels. condition of corn is 70.6 instead of 70.1 j last month; buckwheat, 90.7 instead of 90.5; potatoes, 61.7 instead of 65.7; tobacco, 85.4 ! instead of 82.4. There is practically no : change in the general average of condition, ! except a reduction of four points in potatoes j and an increase of two points in tobacco. I The effect of winter l'rcsts upon wheat is 1 shown by the low rate of yield to have been severe. The figure would have been lower but for the reduction of area by ploughing and planting of the worst fielas in other crops. Some of the higher rates in principal States: New York, 15.2; Pennsylvania, 12; I Ohio, 12.5; Michigan, 15.2; Illinois, 11.5; i Missouri, 11.2; Kansas, 13.5; California, 12; Oregon, 15. The Rocky Mountain areas made high | averages in spring wheat on limited area*;, i The Dakota yleldB, varying from a bushel or two to twenty-five bushels, make an average ' of nine bushels per acre. Minnesota returns j 12 and Wisconsin 12.5 bushels. The estimated vield of oats is 19.8 bushels, wmcn is me lowest ever reported, probaole reduatog the aggregate product more than 200.000,000 bushels. Reversing ? Pension Decision. j The Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Chandler, has made a decision in the j case of Joseph Zerbach,late of Co. L, Second ! Missouri Artillery. The record shows that j in April, 1864, while the claimant was on detail, ^ratering horsey he was assailed by acorn- ; rade,who with & large revolver beat him over j the head, fracturing his skull, which resulted in a permanent disability. The evidence i shows that the assault was unprovoked. The Bfessistant Secretary holds that the injury was received in line of duty, and is therefore pensionable. The former adverse decision of the Pension Bureau ia accordingly reversed. Tests Not to be Delayed.' In relation to the impression that the j explosion at the Dupont Powder "Works, I near Willimington, Del., will delay Gov- j ernment tests and otherwise hamper j naval or army operations, a member of ! the flrai said, in speaking about the ; prismatic or testing powder, which : was manufactured only in the yard in which the explosion took place, that he did not j thick any tests would be delayed. His firm had 30,000 pounds of testing powder on hand, which had escaped the explosion, and which would supply the Government until another set of mills could ba started on the tame kind of work. LOST IN THE FLAMES, I A Hotel Partly Bnrneil In Chicago? Unable to I leach the Fire-liscape. Putnam's European Hotel, at Xos. 1G3 and 165 East Adams street, Chicago, III., was burned, and four persons lost their lives. They were: Robinson, Mrs. Minnie, who was killed by jumping from a window; Dowler, Thomas a barber, burned to a crisp; Sams, H. K. formerly a Pinkerton detective, burned to death; Peyton, Edward, colored porter, who was suffocated. The cause of the fire is unknown. The house Is lighted by gas and tbo proprietor insists that there was no lamp in the hall. The fire was confined to the top floor. Dowler left his room nnd entered the flaming hall to meet his death. One of the windows opened directly on the fire-escape and his roommate made his escape easily. i Mr. Robinson descended the fire-escape carrying an infant. His wife did not follow him from their room along the hall to the room in front of which was the fireescape. The dense smoke and fiames bewildered her. The building resembles a firetrapl The halls are narrow and crooked ana the narrow stairway is in the centre of the structure. "The largest cheese everi*ade in the United States has been pot in hoopa at the cheesefactory at East Otto, N. Y. It is Ave feet in diameter and "weighs two tons; SS,00Qpoandl Of Ojilk were used i? it? manufacture. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. | The machinery of the United States I rruiser Newark broke down on the trial trip Dff Philadelphia, Penn., and the vessel had j to return to Cramp's yard. Thomas J. Docgdertv, tho insane man ! who became notorious by reason of his per- | j -eeution of Actress Mary Anderson, shot j and killed Dr. G. W. L'.oyd, of the Kings County (N. Y.) Insane Asylum, where the crazy man had previously been confined. The United Stat is dynamite cruiser VeI -uvius mado two runs off Newport, R. I., j Dver the measured mile courss at full spaed j with forced draft and all boilers working, ; and made twenty knots an hour under those jonditions. ! The British and American iron and steel : neu held their first joint session ia PittsI burg, Penn. j Hon. Lewis Barker, one of the most | t prominent men in Maine, was killed at Ban- i I ;or by a runaway horse. raxcis M. Scott, a Damocrat, was j I nominated for Mayor of New York city by a [ combination of Democrats and Republicans, j The rest of the ticket is divided among the Swo parties. William Pain', of Brooklyn, N. Y., tarred ind feathered himself in order to get an enja^ement as a freak in the dime museums. Doiierty, the lunatic who killed Dr. j Lloyd, had mapped out a scheme of wholesale) murder, including among his intended 1 -f-i-? T ...1 T 1 -4.1 vicnms iiucige jjHwieuce ami o-uer umvau n New York city and Brooklyn. The convention of the iron and steel men concluded its session at Pittsburg, Perm. There have been forty-five cases of maligoant dysentery withiu the last two months in Hamburg, N. J., a village of 500 inhabitants. Twenty deaths have resulted. Thero iiavo been nine deaths in a hamlet near-by. The Tammany Hall City and County Convention renominated Grant for Mayor of New York city. Walton* 0. Kerxocsa.v, a wealthy younjj club man, while temporarily insane killed himself with a revolver in the Delta Phi club bouse, New York city. The Corning Mill, connected with the large Dupont Powder Works at "Wapwallopen, Penn., was exploded with terrific forcc trom some unknown cause. Three men were fatally injured. The corner stones of the now City Hall building and the Memorial Library building i in Lowell, Mass., wore laid. The City Hall ' :s to cost *250,000 and the Memorial Library building $150,000. Arthur D. Farlet, First Lieutenant of Company C, New Hampshire Militia, has left Nashua, and several forgeries of notes, amounting to $1000, are charged against j him. Dr. Walter Fleming and General Milton 1 S. Littlefleld were arrested in New York city ' and held on a charge made by Mrs. Spephani jf receiving ?5150 from her to have a lunacy < commission aDDointed in the case of her in- ] sane son Alphonse and applying the money to other purposes. Alphonse is the murderer , of Lawyer Reynolds. Two babies, children of Mrs. Anna Al- \ drfcb, were burned to death iu a Brooklyn (N. Y.) tenement. They were twin sisters, , and their little four-year-old brother was the j j innocent cause of their death. The first heavy frost of the season oc- ] curred at Bellows Falls, Vt. j f Jcstin S. Morrill has been re-elected as ( s United States Senator from Vermont. ! < The completion of the police count shows j ' the population of New York city to be 1,710,715, as against 1,513,501 returned by the 1 federal census takers, an increase of 197,214. The Comte de Paris visited the battlefields ( around Gettysburg, Penn. ] r South and West. & Rube Burrows's borly was taken to Lamat i County, Alabama, and delivered to his' a father at Sulligent Station. The old man wept at the sight of his son's body, and P-ube's I , sister went into hysterics, crying out that ha j ; was shot down lik9 a dog. The President visited the Coal Palaei at I e Ottumwa, Iowa. | e Bv an explosion of eiant powder near I Jamestown, Col., Mike Nilas, Hu.?h Morgan and Harry Atkinson, all miners, were killed, i, William Shcu, a Muncie (Ind.) printer, J became insane after setting up the aescrip- c tion of a murder case and beheaded himself r by placing his neck on the rail iu front of nn jinnrnnohinf train "*rr*w ? The Anti-Tillman Democratic Convention 1 met at Columbia, S. C., and nominated for j c Governor, Alexander C. Haskell. The Mississippi Constitutional Convan- j c tion defeated a proposition to make the office t: of the Supremo Court judges elective. r Captain* Peter Foster, tba oldest mem- j ber of the Graud Army of the Republic o? j r the United States, died recently, at Mount j c Pleasant. Iowa. He was ninety-six years i old and fought in the war of 1812, the Mexi- ( can war and the Civil war. President Harrison' attended the reunion of o'.d soldiers at Topeka, Kan. President Gardenshire, of the Okla hoaui Territorial Council, has signed the bill ' ' locating the capital at Oklahoma City. G. M. Lewis, Mayor of Clinton, Miss ..has been assassinated by two colored men, whose , motive was revenge. Frank Woote.v (colored), who confessed | to setting fire to the residence of Dr. Pace at Athens, La., was lynched a few nights ago i at Homer. i Peter and Minnie Bers, th9 former three years old and the latter twenty j months, children of Peter Berg, a miner, | were run over and instantly killed by a train at Des Moines, Iowa. The trainmen claim that the children were asleep on the track. President Harrison went from Kansas City, Mo., to St. Louis, where he reviewed a procession of military ami G. A. R. organizations. He then visitei the fairgrounds, after which thd entire Presidential party went by special train to Indianapolis, Ind. Seriocs damage b_y floods occurred in the Kanawha Valley, lv. Va. E. E. Swearingin. State Senator from Cloud Couuty, Kau., committed suicide at Kansas City, Mo., by shooting. He was a j Republican. A race war broke out near Middleborougb, Ky., and, but for the interference of the police and troops, it might have proved a disastrous conflict. As it was, three men lost their lives, ohj white man and two colored men. William E. Trudeact and Miss Beatrice Karrig, of Louisville, Ky? chartered a locomotive and eloped to iJelfersonville, Ind., where they were married. The only son of Colonel Charles Fred. Crocker, Second Vice-President of the Southern Pacific, was killed at San Francisco, Cal., by falling over the oauistor in t his father's house. The lad was under ten years of age. The boy would hava inhei ited ] the bulk of his father's large estate, now es i timated at ?15,000,000, and growing every i year. The Ohio Legislature met in extraordi- j nary session at Columbus, and received i ! message from Governor Campbell recommending the abolition of two Cincinnati Boards. i Congressman* John L. Wilson. of Washington, who returned to Spokane Falls a few i days ago, reports the loss of his pocketbook, | , containing $10,000 in securities, $350 in j greenbacks and gold and other valuable pa- j I pers. Wallace Waggoxer & Co., wholesale j 1 grocers, assigned at Houston, Texas. Liabili- t ties, 6300,000. The bank of F. H. Haggertv j & Co., suspended at Abardeen, boutli Dakota. Liabilities, ?230,000. Washington. The Secretary of tho Tr?ssurv issued a j circular offering to redeem all per ceut. j bonds with interest to August 31, 1891. The Census Bureau announces that tho population of tho State of New York is 5,931,934; increase, 899,003, or 17.63 par cant. Edward Caton, a Knight of Labor, while in a lit of despondency, committed suicide iu Washington by hanging himself on the White House fence. An* organization has been made at Washington of the "Daughters of the American Rornlnfcinrt The mimosa of the society is to secure and preserve the historical spots of America and to eroci thereon suitable monuments. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison has been elected President-General of the society. The Navy Department has received information that thirty-one members of the crew of the United States steamer Nipdc deserted recently at San Francisco. CaL The Corean Legation, at Washington, was honored by the presence of a little stranger in the person of a son born to Mr. aud Mrs. Ye Cha Yun. The baby is the first "nativeborn" Corean in the United States. The Supreme Court of the United States met pursuant to law for the Fall Term, tha Chief Justice and all the Associate Justices, jxcent Mr. Justice Miller and Mr. Justice Fiela, being present. The President returned to Washington from Indianapolis, Ind.; ha made several speeches in Indiana and Ohio, en route. The Census Bureau issued the following figures. The population, complete, of Illinois is 3,81S,536, increase, 740,665; of Louisiana, 1,116.83S, increase, 17ti, 882; of Mississippi, 1,2S4,SS7, increase, 153,290. Jcstice Miller's chair was draped heavily in black when the Supreme Court met. "No business was transacted, and the court, as a mark of respect to the memory of its ominent associate, adjourned. All the olcrt nrlinnrnA') niif. nf rpsnpnf. <L/iabi iv^u v,vut WJ uuj uwM ~~ ? - - ?~x-... to the dead jurist. The Treasury Department has decided that books imported for the use of colleges, schools, etc., are admitted to this country under the new tariff law substantially as they were admitted under the old tariff law, and subject to the same restrictions. The census of the City of Mexico has been completed, and it is officially announced that the population numbers 324,000. Acting Secretary of War Grant is- ! sued an order reciting the military servicas of the late General William W. Belknap, and directing that the War Department be draped in mourning for thirty days, that all business be suspended therein on the day of the funeral, and that upon the day after the receipt of the order at each military post seventeen guns be fired at intervals of onehalf hour, commencing at 8 a. m. It was decided to bury the late Goneral in Arlington Cemetery. The Navy Department has awarded the contract for building coast line battle ship NTrt 5 ?/ > f ViQ TTn?r?n Tmn WnrJcs of Sail Fran cisco, Cal., at $3,223,333. The Census Bureau states that the population of Kansas is 1,423,4S5; increase in ter years, 42.91 perceut.; North Carolina, 1,017,349; increase, 15.54 per cant. Foreign. Dr. Robert Sacasa, who succeeded to the Presidency of Nicaragua on the death of Evaristo Carazo in August, 1889, has been re-elected by an overwhelming majority. The Portugese steamer Riolima has been wrecked by a collision with an unknown steamer at Cape Roca, on the west coast of Portugal. Four of the crew of the Riolima were drowned. The long list of recent suicides in high life in Berlin, Germany, has been added to by Lieutenant von Hedeman, who, ruined by too great a devotion to the turf, has shot bimself. Madame Bo.vxkt, the German spy, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment at Nancy, France. The recent elections in Brazil show that ;he Government was upheld by a large majority, polling 180,000 votes to the Opposition's 60,000. The Ministerial crisis in Portugal has ended vith the appointment of General Souza as trime jumisier ana Aumsier u; ??ai. The Count de la Grange's chateau, near Domfront, in Orne, France, has been sacked ind burned. The entire building was destroyed. There were many valuable works >f art in the chateau, all of which have been ost. Canada has removed the esport duty on ogs. Tiie British bark Melmerby, bound from Quebec for Greeuock, went ashore at Little larbor, Novia Scotia, and th9 captain and line men were drowned. A report from Zanzibar, Africa, says that t British gunboat, in attempting to forca the jaasage of the Zanzibar River, ran down ind sank oae of the Portuguese warships. The Guernsey (England) detachment of he East Surrey Regiment, which had beea irdorod to the Indies, refused to leave their >arrack. They were disarmed and threatened with severe punishment. They finally mbarked, but retained their disrespectful ;ehavior throughout. The physicians attending the King of Holaud had "a consultation with tha "Cabinet linisters, when it was decided that the conlition oZ the King rendered hitu uuGt to eign. iliXT persons were killed in a riot at Hoiiow, China, raised because of the Governuent'.s endeavor to collect the increased tax m native opium. Stuttgart, Germany, made a festival day if the opening of Buffalo Bill's "Wild West show." The court attended, as well as nany thousand Wurtemburgers. King Christian, of Denmark, gave a dlnler at the Palace in Copenhagen to the >ffleers of the United States cruiser Baltinore. The United States Minister and Mrs. ,'arr were also present. MRS. BOOTH'S FUNERAL. Remarkable Outpouring of Salvationists to Honor Her Memory. Ths funeral of Mrs. Catherina Booth, wife of General Booth, who was known as the "Mother of tho Salvation Army," took place in London, England, and was made the occasion of a great demonstration by that organization. The weather was exceedingly disagreeable, a fog enveloping tho city, but despite this thousands of persons assembled in the streets to witness tho funeral procession. The route from the Thames embankment, where the Army mustered, to Abney Park Cemetery where the remains were interred, lay through the densely populated district ot Stoke, Newington, The entire rout?. was lined with crowds of spectators, and the windows of the houses were thronged by the occupants and their friends, all anxious to witness the last demonstration of love and respect paid to thoir leader by the devoted memberaof the Army. When the procession had entered the cemetery the gun carriage on which the coffin rested was drawn beside the open grave, and the coffin was removed by officers of the Army and tenderly lowered into tha earth. Gen. Booth stood at the head of the gravo and road the burial service. Officors of tho Army from various parts of England, t :e British colonies, America, the Continent, and Asia delivered orations. All the railways entering London ran excursion trains, and the throng in the city was augmented by immense numbers of Salvationists and t^eir friends fro u the provinces. There was also a larga attendance from foreign countries. The members of the Army, attired in the uniforms and wearing a white badge of mourning, were everywhere conspicuous iu the crowded streets. The crowds on this occasion surpassed ia point of numbers those which gather to witness the show on Lord Mayor's day. Thj demonstration was a convincing proof to tho public that the Salvation Army wields a powerful influence throughout the country. There were fifteen bands in the line. All those who took part in the procession wera officers of the Army, the privates and their iriends not being allowed to march. A DRAMATIC SUICIDE, A llussian Professor Takes* Poison Before His Class. An extraordinary story is telcgraphsd from St. Petersburg, Russia, it 13 pro name no romancer has ever imagined a more dramatic incident. A young professor of medicine, Koucharsky by name, closed a lecturo on poisonous acids to a class in the laboratory of the university by pouring into a glass soma drops of one of the poisons, saying as ho drank them: "In two minutes you are going to see a man die bofore vour eves. Gentlemen, I bid you farewell." The students rushed up and tried to administer an antidote, but it was powerless. At the expiration of the time he had fixed Koucliarsky was a corpse. There is great excitement in St. Petersburg over this tragic incident. It is generally believed the Professor had gone suddenly mad, for no motive for the act, so far as is known, existed. He leaves a wife, of whom h? was very fond, and two littlp children. He will be buried with great pomp at the expense of the state, I A straw-papkr trust, representing ighty-two mills with an output of 325 tons [ daily," has been formed to control the market west of the Alleghany Mountains. ! JUSTICE MILLER DEAD. I The Eminent Jurist Succumbs to an Apoplectic Stroke. A Keview of His Distinguished Judicial Services, SAMUEL F. MILLER. A dispatch from Washington City announces that Associate Justice Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, died during the night at ten minutes to eleven o'clock, from the effects of his recent apoplectic stroke, after lingering for threo days. His wife and son were at the bedside. His youngest daughter, Mrs. Tousealin, and nis granddaughter, Mrs. Lucy Corkhill, reached Washington next day. He was unconscious to the last and the end was a happy release to the mournful circle by whom death had been momentarily expected since tho first attack. It was decided to take the body to Iowa for interment. A few minutes before Mr. Miller died tha phlegm in his throat gradually accumulated and his frame quivered. It was evident that the end was fast approaching, and the members of his household who were not in the sick room were hastilv summoned to his bedside. Besides Mr3. Miller and her son Irvine, there were present Dr. Cook, J. W. Wool worth, an old friend of Justice Miller, who had just arrived from Omaha; the family servants and Chief Clerk McKenney, of the Supreme Court. Soon after death the face of the Justice, which had become somewhat drawn during the last day of his illness, changed to a per- i fectly natural condition, and he looked as if Ill U 4Ul?b iiwp. Sketch of His Career. Samuel Freeman Miller wa9 born in Richmond, Ky., April 5, 1810. In spite of his judicial miud, which must have shown itself at an early age, the future light of American jurisprudence, when he had become a young man, determined to study medicine, and he was graduated as M. D. at the Transylvania University, Kentucky. He acquired a good reputation as a doctor, but he afterward said that there was too much guesswork in the practice for him. In a short time he relinquished medicine for the law, where his great powers of ratiocination had full play, un l in solving whose difficulties his intellect rejoiced like a giant refreshed for the battle. Kentucky was a slave State, but Mr. Miller steadfastly and courageously advocated emancipation to the detriment of his worldly prospects. So unpopular did he become tnat in 1850 he deemed it best to remove to Iowa, then a State four years old, and rapidly growing under the influence of free institutions. He became one of the founders of the Republican par:y and a leader in the State. He refused all nominations for public office, however, nreferring to become eminent in his profession, which he rapidly did. Mr. Lincoln graatlv admired his character and his professional ability, and in 1802 he appointed nbn to the Bench of the United States Supreme Court. This was just the glace for him, and ho gladly accepted it, to is own glory and the lasting benefit of the country. I'hereafter for twenty-eight years Judge Miller proceeded to administer justice according to law and equity. He was a lawyer - - J 1 il.. whose-mind was never warperj uy me icuumcalities of his profession, although ho was a master of them all. Ho used them to good ends, and never let them turn him asido from justice to bad ends. It is a curious fact that going on to tho Bench a Republican, the most famous decisions he has shared in. of late years have adopted Democratic constructions of the Constitution, notably the decisions in the civil rights cases, which practically annulled the fifteenth amendment. Ho was not a centralizationist, but believed in maintaining the rights of the States unmutilated and intact. His reputation was that of tho best all round lawyer on the Bench. He could have retired on a pension of full pay several yeara ago, but he preferred tp work, and he died literally in the harness. GENERAL BELKNAP DEAD. Sadden End of the Life of Grant's Secretary of War. General W. W. Belknap, ex-Secretary of "War during President Grant's first term, wai found dead in his bed in "Washington City at about 9 o'clock the other morning. Deceassd had been in ill-health for somo time past. His family has been absent, anJ the General has been lodging in his office. General Belknap was last seen alive on the night before the discovery of his dead body about midnight, when he was on his way tc his rooms, apparently in excellent health. Mrs. Belknap, who was in New York city, was notified of her husband's sudden death. The result of the Coroner's inquest showed that the General bad suffered from fattj degeneration of the heart, and that the immediate cause of death was inflammation of the heart. General Belknap was born in Newburg. "" "*> 1COO onrl was the son OI pi% X.? 1U General W. G. Belknap, who served in the war of 1812. The junior became a Major of Volunteers at the breaking out of the late war, was pre* ent at the battle of Shiloh and other battle^ and was promoted to Brigadier-General. H< became Secretary of War in 1809 continuing to 1876, when he was impeached by Congresi on charges of corruption. He was charged with selling an appointment of an Indian agent for $1500 in November, 1870. His trial onded July 2d, 1&7.5, when the Senate took a vote resulting iu thirty-five guilty and twenty-five not guilty. Belknap escaped conviction, as a two-thirds vote was not given against bim. He baJ previously resigned, as soon as the charges were preferred. A FAMILY WIPED OUT, Wife and Husband Kill Themselves and Their Baby Dies of Xeglcct. A double suicide occurred at Pertt Auiboy, N. J., a lew days ago. Gaboi Showdisb, a Pole, employed on the Le high Valley Railroad docks, quarreled with his wife. A babe hau been born tc tbeni three days before and Showdisl accused h?r of infidelity. The woman be came worried 0:1 the departure of her husband to his work, and pouring some bailing water on a bunch of matches drauk the decoction and was thrown into convulsions, from which she died the same night. When Showdish learned of her act he so cured a pistol and went iuto his woodshed where he shot fcimsoif through the head, ily ing at noon nest day. The child, the inn> cent causo of the quarrel, died of ueg'ecl during the mornin?. TiATTnmT' TTrrmxmfn r uun JLJDuri vy Pitched Battle Between Rival Pactions in Tennessee. A pitched battle is reported from Smithville, DeKalb County, at Mine Lick, near Smithville, Tenn. Tom "Watson had had several persons arrested for firing his barn. They were acquitted, but words ensued between the two factions which soon grew into war. Both sides had plenty of followers. About thirty men and women engaged in the fight It is said that fourteen were wounded, twp of whom may die. The Mins Lick crowd got the worst of the battle. LATER NEWS. Mayor Gleaso.v, of Long Island City, N. YTvas convicted of assault in the third degree. Governor Brackett, of Massachusetts, nominated Daniel W. Bond, of Northampton, to be Associate Justice of the Superior Court. uAJiiua riiiLnr.^, u liijuui, wua itiueu uy u fall of rock and coal in the No. 4 colliery at Audenried, Penn. At 7 oclock that same morning two Hungarians met a similar fate inono of the chambers in No. 11 slope, at the same place. Dr. He:;ht G. McGojtegax, who killed Annie Goodwin, the cigarette girl, by malpractice, was sentenced in New York city to fourteen years' imprisonment at hard labor at Sing Sing. He is more than seventy years old. The Leland Hotel at Syracuse, N. Y.. was destroyed by fire, and the fii st meagre details indicated that nearly fifty guests and employes perished in the flames. The third fair of the Piedmont Exposition Association was formally opened at Atlanta, Ga., in the presence of a large crowd. The procession to the grounds wa3 made up of military companies. Senator Colquitt and John Temple Graves were the orators of the day, and Mayor Glenn was master of ceremonies. The Consolidated Ice Machine Company of Chicago, III., has made an assignment. Assets, $475,000; liabilities, ?350,000. Coxcordia College, at Milwaukee, Wis., has been closed because of an epidemic of diphtheria amODg the students. Officer Thomas J. Madde.v shot and mortally wounded a brother policeman, Albert Junge, in Chicago, 111. The shooting was the outcome of differences between the men over.politics. J. Bailey, TV illiam R. Davis and J. Fisher were killed, and two other men were hurt by a fall of rock in the Ludington mine at Iron Mountain, Mich. Four horse thieves were captured in the Iowa Reservation by three Deputy Marshals after a desperate fight. One of the thieves was killed. When they saw that they could not get away with tUe horses, eleven in all, they shot them. The Census Bureau ancouncc3 that the population of the State of Alabama is 1,508,073; increase, 245,508; per cent. 19.45. The Secretary of State received a dispatch from Minister Ryan, at the City of Mexico, announcing that the Mexican Republic will adopt the recommendations of the International American Conference in regard to a uniform system of weights and measure?. The contracts for the three battleships for f.Vin hflvn baen settled, the Cramns. of Philadelphia, building two vessels, aad the Union Iron Works, cf San Francisco, oneThe former firm will receivo $3,0S3.333 for each ship, and the latter ?3,223,333. The President made the following appointments: D. Geoghe^an, Register of the Land Office at Yancou ver, Washington; George W. Bryant, Receiver of Public Moneys at Los Angeles, Cal.; Thomas A. Starrh, Receiver of Public Moneys at Hailey, Idaho; Charles C. Warner, Agent for the Indians of tha Nevada Agency, Nevada; David Wade Matthews, Agent for the Indians of the Klamath Agency, Oregon. Tiie deaths from cholera at Aleppo, Turkey, average fifty daily. Toe Russian Government will shortly introduce a reformed judicial system in Siberia and the Russian possessions of Central Asia. Ax imperial order was issued in Berliu, Germany, that all the schools be closed ou October 20, the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of General Count von Moltke. the labob wobld, The strike of the colliers in New Zealand bas collapsed. The State of Ohio has established free labor bareaus. The barber^' Sunday elosins: movement is rapidly spreading. None but citizens can be employed on the city works in Pittsburg. The Pittsburg building trade unions are at war with the Knights of Labor painters. Montreal (Canada) bakers are owed ?300,000, and they decided to raise prices. The world's glass workers are to be brought in one union under the Knights of Labor. New York slate and metal roofers have agreed to work eight hours for $3.50 for a year. Twenty trade unions of women have been organized since 1874, when the first one was formed. New York shoe salesmen want stores closed at 8 o'clock, and 10,000 people signed the petition. By law no Toronto (Canada) contractor on city work can pay a laborer less-than fifteen cents an hour. The wages of iron and steel workers in the midland district of England have been reduced five per cent. A new restaurant in Paris, has- colored men waiters, West Indians and others, stranded after the Exposition. Mme. Bx-avatsky has started a club for working women in London. One gentleman gave her $5000 for the purpose. A society of London waiters has- offered to work without "tips" upon condition that their wages are increased by hotels. The national organization of the marbleindustry of the United States was completed in New York city by the election of officers. The New Orleans rice-boats aro having trouble, as usual at this tima of the year, with the roustabouts. They demand $100 per month. The employes of tho Erie Railroad have declared tbat their hours of labor are too long. and hare asked for a redaction to a maximum of ten hours. A new machino promises to till anil roll cigars. They say only 14,000 men will ba needed to do the work that now employs 5S,000 skilled hands. Experts by hand make 500 a day. The machine manufactures 2000 in ten hours. Eight ritrxdium salesgirls in Berlin be long to a union which has had remarkable success. For ton ceuts a month they receive medical care, medicine and help ir getting work. Tho organization was starte 1 by a woman's club iu that city. The two elder sous of Prince Albrecht of Austria are taught the mason's trade, and the younger one is to bo a joiner. Thf Prince takes a greater interest in this than in any other part of their education. H? himself is an excellent bookbinder. The Machinery Trades Council is the name of a labor organization about to be formed iu Pittsburg. It will be made up ol delegates from the various organizations ol machinists, pattern-makers, niolders. brass workers and blacksmiths. There will bi over 13,000 workmen represented m mi council. BLOWN TO ATOMS, Ten Miners Killed By an Explosion in Mexico. " " 1 T> rtort ?!A rrrOrl News has been receiyeu u ull> nine, seventy ruiJes inland from Mazatlao, ilexico, of a terrible explosion which oo curred there. An American named McGea, who came from Napa, Cal., was working with nine Mexicaqj in a sixty-fool level near the magazine, which contained several hundred pounds of dynamite. Thij exploded in ome way aud too men blown almost to atom*. RELIGI0USJIEAD1NG.' THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. I bold him great who, for love'rs sake Can give with generous, earnest will; Yet lie who takes for love's sweet sake, I think I hold more generous still. I bow before the noble mind That freely some great wrong forgives; Yet nobler is the one forgiven AVho bears that burden well and lives. It may be bard to gain, and still To keep a lowly, steadfast beart; Yet be who loses has to till A harder and a truer part. Glorious it is to wear tbe crown Ofdeserved and pure success; He who knows how to fail lias won A crown whose luster is not less. Great may he be who can command And rule with just and tender sway; Yet is diviner wisdom taught Better by him who can obey. Blessed arc tbey who die for God And earn the martyr's crown of'light; Yet lie who lives for God may be A greater conqueror in bis sight. ?[Ade aide Proctor. MOTHERS, SPEAK I.OW. I know some houses, well built and bandpomely furnished, where it is not pleasant to be even a visitor. Sharp, angry tones resound through them from niorning till night; ami the influence is as contagious as measles, ana much more to be dreaded in a household. The children catch it, and it lasts for life, nil incurable disease. A friend had such a neighbor within hearing of her house when doors and windows were open, and even Foil Parrot has caught the tune and delights in screaming and scolding until she has been sent into the country to improve her habits. Children catch cross tones quicker than parrots. Where mother sets the example, you will scarcely hear a pleasant word among the children in their plays with each other. Yet the discipline of such a family is always weak and irregular. The children expect just so much scolding before they do an} thing they are bid, while in many a home, where the low, firm tone of the mother or a decided look of her steady eve, is law, the children never think of disobedience either in or out of her sight. Oh, mothers, it is worth a great deal to cultivate that "excellent thing in a woman," a low, sweet voice. If you are ever so much tired by the mischievous or willful pranks of the" little ones, speak low. It will be a great help to you to even try to be patient and cheerful, if you cannot wholly succeed. Anger makes you wretched and your children'nlso. Impatient, angry tones* never did the heart any good, but plenty of evil. You can not have tue excuse for them that they lighten your burdens any; they make them only ten times heavier. "For your own, as weft as your ehl dren's sake, learn to speak low. Thev will remember that tone when your head is under the willows. So, too, II .1 ? koivli nn.rrv w oil hI inn ri'iucuiuci a uauu uuu uwni_. voice. Which legacy will you leave to your children??[New York Chronicle. T1IE PRKACHER AND THE BELLMAN. In nn interesting volume, ''The Way th? Lord Hath Led Me." Charles Stanley relate3 | the following incident illustrating* the importance of looking to the Lord every day for the guidance of the Holy Spirit, as we never know when and where He may use us in sovereign grace. "I was crossing the country one day, from Bristol, where I had been preaching,"to Tetbnry. I had never bteen in that part of the countrv before. On arriving at Wottouundcr-Edge, I had some time to spare before going <m. It was about five o'clock on ? .lov in tlio niiiiat. of hnri'Mt. "There was scarcely a person to be seen in the little town. I was very distinctly impressed from the Lord that" I must preach the gospel there that afternoon, yet there appeared to be no peoplo to preach to. I Nearly all seemed to be out in the harvest field. " Yet the conviction deepened that I mu-t preach. I took a few tracts and gave them whefre I could find any one. I was standing in a little shop, speaking to a woman about her soul, when a man came running up the road, the perspiration stremniug off his face. He turned into the ; fshop and said, 'I'lease sir, are you a preach- i or of tha gospel." 'Yes,' I said, '1 am, through the Lord's mercy, but why do you | ask?' He replied, 'I om'tbe bellman, and if you will preach today I will cry it.' " 'Well,' I said, 'it was very much laid on my heart to preach the gospel here today, biit I do not sec auy to preach to. Tell me, how is it yon came in such haste, and asked me the question?' He replied, 'I was working in the field, and a woman came past and tolii me some one was distributing tracts in Wotton. and it was just as if a voice had said to me, You must run. and there must be preaciiing in Wotton today. That is why I left my work, and came immediate')".' "As he was the bellman, I involuntarily ?1 U ?% ??! WV nArtl-nt tr? (fivo him J1 ! jiUL uij nami in n?; ^vv.^v w ?v ? shilling. 'Ob, deaf no, sir,' he said,. 'I don't want the money, I want souls to be saved and tbe earnestness and solemnity of the man confirmed his words. In half an hour he had washed himself, cricd the preaching, and we were on the way to the Chipping to preach." It requires a bold man to say that these coincidences were the result of an accident. And it will require eternity to reveal the good wrought through men who are thus "led by the Spirit of God.''' SYMPATHY WIT If A XDLlia. I ?iy that all noble natures the race through have been tiJIed with this so great sympathy with all these lower being* whose very look as you raze into their evts te!l to us such a story of dependence, and suffering, and joy and deathless affection. Locke in his '-Treatise on Education" would have taught among children lessons of compassion for the inferior creatures hoth as a duty toward them and as developing in the children the best nobilities of their nature. One of the profouiidest pieces of human reasoning is Bishop Butler's "Analogy of Religion." In it he refers to the "latent powers and capacities of the lower animals, ami sees no reason why they should not be developed in a future life." Sir Walter Scott had always about him a family of dogs larger than his own. How he mourned them when they died! Who has ever gazed at that magnificent monument at Edinburgh, and rot been touched in the tenderest spot hi his heart at seeing there at the very feet of the statue of the great man'the- beautiful form of his favorite do.', Maida! I think [ shall always remember the tallyho conch ride one Fourth of July from Dunlin to Bray. Four horses of perfect forms, hining like silk, leaping like deer over their six-mile course, and then four more fresh for their run; thirty-six horses in all. speeding with unwearied pace up the smooth hills, through village and hamlet, boys and girls breaking loose from school, tilling the air with their echoes of our tooting horn, and yet in that wild ride from Dublin to the sea and from the sen to Dublin, not a lash fell upon a single horse. Only its sharp craek in the air, and the low voice of that superb driver, the richest tea merchant in the Irish capital, to keep the eager horses firm and even to their work. And so through old England, among the majestic dray horses, with their monumental legs; among the bus and handsome horse*, so endless in their procession through the streets and strands of London; among the young pacing cobs and on the country roads; among the tall but stocky hunters"in field and moor; among the racers, so elegant in cvi-rv part, with high pasterns, deep tlanks and chests, and long thin necks. rostle>a for tlie Mgnal for the race?among them all I ' Haw not in a month so many bearing about in overwrought, starved, \vhipped bodies the marks of man's cruelty as I see in & single day her* in the streets of Syracuse. ?[Kev. Dr. Spauldimr. "I should think, Mr. Owelot3, that you would be afraid to marry me. I an so old aud have so much money that people might misjudge your motive." "My sweet Angeline, I love you so, that I would willingly maijry you though you were three times as old and had twice as much money. "?Boston 2'imrx. Fraxk D. Millet, the artist, who _-a r.,wiru> it-aa nn art D&3 roLrixuuu iaj uui??_ critic. Hi.s taste for gunpowder, contracted in the civil war, led him to join bhe staff of a London paper during the Russo-Tnxkiah war.. _ j SABBATH SCHOOLA INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR I NOVEMBER 2. Lesson Text: "Jesus Accused,'*! Luke xxii., 54-71 ? Golden Text: Isaiah liii., 5? Commentary. 54. "Then took they Him, and led Him, , and brought Him into the high priest's ; house. And Peter followed afar off." See our Lord and Saviour bound as a transgres- \ sor and led away as a Lamb to the slaughter, i Those hands that were never used but in ; blessing soma one now bound by wicked men; j end He suffers it meekly. A little while ago we saw Peter blundering, but now ho is fol- | J ? ? 8 ? CO aUall CAA Vim WrtfOA lOWJUg V.IIXI uix, nuu noouwi svw w* w before he is better. And all through selfconfidence and sleeping when he ought to have watched and prayed. Oh, let us watch and prav and follow fully. 55. "And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together. Peter sat down among them." This' is surely a down grade. For a few verses now we leave our I<ord in the hands of His captors, and consider Peter being sifted. And' what a contrast between the disciple and his Master! The one faithful unto death, the other in the company of those who hated' Him and were seeking His life ? 56. "But a certain maid behind him as he tat by the fii'a, and certainly looked upon him and said, This man was also with Him." TVe are observed when we least think it, and by those whom we think see nothing. Let; a parson go from home, and being among strangers, and unknown (as ho thinks), let: him do the least thing that he would not do if at home, and it will surely be carried' abroad and at some time brought home to him. But Peter was here accused of nothing wrong, he was simply pointed out by this maid as a follower of Jesus, and judging from his previous confessions in Matt, xvi, 16; John vi., 68, 69, we would have expected him to stand by his colors and rejoice to own Jesus as his Lord. 57. "And he denied Him, saying, Woman, I know Him not." Did you act that way when you found yourself among the scoffers? Or if you did not openly say that you were not a Christian, did your silence when He was ridiculed, or the Bible sneered at, give consent? Or do you always by word and deed proclaim yourself on the Lord's side? What a He Peter told! what a base and cowardly spirit he manifested! Jesus was close Kir nrm hontvi nnrf saw it fllL but Peter did not think of that. 58. "And after a little while another saw him and said. Thou art also one of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not." Another opportunity of confessing Christ is given to tnis poor erring man, but again he loses it and adds sin to sin. Matthew says that this time he denied it with an oath (Matt, xrvi., 72). He is yielding terribly to the flesh. Xhe devil is pressing him hard and he is fast drifting away. 59. "And about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow was also with Him, for he is a Galilean." One more opportunity to confess Christ. Aneels would gladly have done it. Gabriel would come to ao it as quickly as he came to Daniel. 60. "And Peter said, Man I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew." Matthew says that he now began to curse and swear (Matt, xxvi., 74). What a sink of iniquity is the heart of man I How desperately wicked! 61. "And the Lord turned,and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how H3 had said unto him, Before the cock crow thou shalt deny Me thrice." The Lord had sean and heard it all, and no doubt it grieved Him to His heart, and Peter bad added to His much sorrow, but He loved His sinning one through it all, and this look now turned upon him must have been fall of tenderest love, mingled with deepest sadness; saying loudly to Peter as He had said long before to Israel: "Thou hast destroyed thyself; but in Me is thine help. Return nnto the Lord thy God. for though hast fallen by thine iniquity" (Hoe. xiii., 9;xiv., 1). i)2. 4,And Peter went out and wept bitteriy." That loving look pierced his heart and brought him to his senses. He saw it all noW; Jesus was right and he was wrong; he thought he had some strength when he had nons. Had he gone out before he denied his Master ke had saved himself much sorrow, but better even now than not at all. He goes out; he is alone; it is as cold now as when he warmed himself at their flre, but he is not so cold; he thinks of nothing now but bis fearful sin and his loving Master, and we can easily fancy that we see the strong man weeping as*if his heart would break. 03. "And the men that held Jesus mocked Him and smote Him." We now turn from Peter, who failed, to Petar's Lord, who faileth never. Peter they only spoke to and accuse! of being with Jesus; but Jesus they mock and even smite. Read the full account of this fearful night of mockery and insult and injury, as given by the four evangelists, and picture it in its darkest colors, and still the half has not been told. 64. "And when they had blindfolded Him, they struck him on the face, and asked Him, j sayiug, Prophesy, who is it that smote theaf (55. "And many other things blasphemously spake they against Him." Buffeted, mocked, spoken against; but He fails not. 66. "And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people, and th3 chief priests and the scribes came together, and led Him unto their council." The fearful night had passed and the more fearful day had come. An ordinary sleepless night is trying and unfits one for the next day, but such a night as He had passed would break down many a one. J And now He is before the Jewish council, where He will have as much justice as a lamb among wolves. 67, 08. "Art Thou the Christ? tell us. And He said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe; and if I also ask you, ye will not answer Me nor let Me go." He knew that they meant to kill Him, and that their question was au idle one. He knew that His hour had mm? tr? ha offered no. and that this was the way to the cross. ?fe mteht have wished it over and done with; but He will not hurry matters. He will go meekly and patiently to the end. 69. "-Hereafter shall the Son of Man sit on the right haud of the power of God." Matthew add9, ''And come in the clouds of heaven" (xxvi., 64). He has not yet been brought before the Roman governor. He has been before Annas and Caiaphas, and now He is still before the Jewish council, and He reminds them of the words of their prophet Daniel (viL, 13) concerning the coming of tha Son of Man in glory. Things will be changed then; there will be no mockery nor trifling at that court, for He, the righteous one, will be the judge. Then will He come as the nobleman from the far country, and the wicked citizens who would not have Him reign over them shall be slain, while all truly penitent shall be saved, and all the faithful rewarded. 7<X tLThen said they all. Art Thou then tha Son of God? And He said unto them, Ye say that I am." He acknowledges that it is even so. HeistheSonof Man and the Son of God, the Divine human Messiah, the God man to sit in due time on David's throne. He has by word and deed proved Himself to ba the one foretold by the prophets, and now they are by their conduct fulfilling other prophecies concerning Him, as Peter afterward told them on ths day of Pentecost {Acts ii., 22, 23). 71. "And they said: What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have heard of His own mouth." So because He said He was what He truly was, and what God tho Father bad on two occasions s-aid from heaven that Ha was (Matt, iii., 17; xvii., 5), He has iu their judgment committed an unpardonable sin and mu=t be put to death. Well, let us not wonder if to this day the wroug is often uppermost, and right goes t? the wall; it will be so till He comes. But let us overcome by tho Blood of the Lamb aad by the word of our testimony, not loving oar lives unto the death. Be faithful, be patient, follow His steps; but let us never be found suffering because of our own wrong doing, or because we have followed afar off.?Lesson Helper. Cardinal Lavigerie, of Paris, whc has taken great interest in the slav? traile which is still carried on in Africa, bas offered a premium of $5,000 for thi best romance treating of this diabolical affair. Uncle Tom in Africa, it u hoped, will awaken public interest t? the existence of this great crime. ..U.ONET Tenders in Italy used to display the monoy they had to lend out on ft banco, or bench. "When one of these money lenders was unable to continue business his bench or counter waa broken up, acd Le himself "was spoken [ of ?? a banporotto, i. e., a bankrupt. .