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" Cz * v* -*^r % STORMSWEPT COASTS. "Wind anil lYaves lVork Havoc on Land and Sea r Great Damage Done in New York and New Jersey. A tremendous wind storm swept along the Atlantic coast, flooding the smaller seaport t/wrnc ?nr1 summer resorts, stranding vessels I and carrying destruction before it. The storm began at New York early one morning and continued until late the next afternoon. Unlike the great tempest of a week before,the wind came from the eastward and it blew with even greater force. This gale came from the sea,and it brought with it a blinding rain, which fell unceasingly for over twenty-four hours. At sea ; the rain fell in torrents, and tho tempest j gathering strength throughout the night swept inland at the rate of forty-five miles | an hour Such waves as piled in along the j Jersey coast and on the shores of Long j Island have not been seen for years I before. Thsy tore away bulkheads, I inundated many of the coast railways, I strewed fishing craft all along the shores aud and undid in many cases the labor of years. | Next morning the water rolled along the Long Island and New Jersey shores where there was solid land on'the day before. There can be no conception of tho terrific force of the wind and waves. Along the water front in the surrounding country the low-lying lands were flooded, I and nearly everything exposed to the action i of the wind and water was destroyed or carried away. In New York city hundreds of " " a nnH in the southern sec tion of the city nearly every pier and bulkhead was at times under water, much damage to merchandise resulting inconsequence. Not a single sailing vessel;enterod the port, although quite a number were overdue. The telegraph and telephone service was severely affected. Tho wind blew at the rate of thirty-six miles an hour and put on an extra spurt coming around corners. Shipping, as usual, suffered most severely from the storm, and the incoming steamships and sailing craft almost without exception brought stories of disaster along the coast. A result of the storm in the upper bay was the grounding on Ellis Island, New York Harbor, of the tug, E. B. Burgess. The storm swept over Coney Island, and the great weaves paid their respects to their old friend, the little railroad between Manhattan and Brighton Beaches. This marine railroad was badly broken up, as it has been frequently before. Men were at work all day trying to save the remnants. About 600 feet of the Concourse west of the Brighton Beach Hotel was washed away. Keller's bathing pavillion, which had been raised on rollers for the purpose of being removed, was blown over and dashed to pieces by the breakers. The pavilion was valued at over $4000. The promenade in front of the Brighton Beach Hotel was badly broken up, being undermined by the waves. The board walks in front of the Oriental and Manhattan Beach Hotels were badly damaged. Piermont, Rockland County, N. Y., was partly submerged. In some parts of the town people went from house to house in boats. The streams were swollen throughout Rockland County. High winds were general. At Far Rockaway, N. Y., tho high tide washed over Hogg island and swept away Craig's Arbor, and Locltwood, smitn & uo'3. office and batli houses, causing a loss of about 55000. A large crowd of persons remained until a late hour watching the work of destruction. "While the storm was at its height, E. D. Morgan's steam yacht Catarina ran on the rocks o.f Matinicock Point, in Long Island Sound. Mr. Morgan was on board at the time. A great hole was knocked in the bottom and she began to fill rapidly. As soon as it was seen that tho Catarma was filling, Mr. Morgan and the crew took to the boats and reached the shore without accident. The coast of New Jersey, from Sandy * Hook down to below Atlantic City, suffered severely. The places which suffered the most damage was Seabright, Monmouth Beach and "Galilee. At Sandy Hook the water broke over the tracks of the New Jersey Southern Railroad, and the roadbed was washed away in many places. At Monmouth Beach and at Galilee the bulkheads and the embankments were washed away by the unusually high tide. All the wires were blown down on the line ~e ? "V~ ? T C?t%*%A T-Tnnlr "Vi LUC JCW O CI SCJ UUUVUCl U,?uu wuuwj MVWU was completely cut off from all communication. At Asbury Park, N. J., tho Promenade, Second and Asbury avenues were undermined and greatly damaged. The pavilion at the foot of Asbury avenue suffered from the waves and many bath-houses were washed out to sea. Fishing boats and oyster sloops at Keyport were driven ashore and lifted high on the beach. A three-masted schooner was driven ashore at Bayhead. The crew escaped to the land and were cared for by the Jife-saving men. Tho bridges over the Manasquan River were all carried away, and between that point and the Atlantic Highlands the - meadows were completely under water. A portion of the railroad track on the Atlantic Highland Branch was submerged and all travel was suspended. All along Long Island Sound, on both shores, damage and wrecks are reported, and on Long Island hardly a place on the shore escaped the fury of tne gale. From Long Island City to Moniauk serious loss from wind and water are recorded. On Staten Island, N. Y., damage was reported all along the coast. At Poughkeepsie, N. Y., the water in the Hudson has not been so high in twelve years. Piles and wharves were submerged. Main street wharf was so deep that passengers had to be taken to and from the steamer Tremper in wagons. Lumber yards were flooded, and the water reached the steps of the Exchange Hotel. The storm's damage slosg North Shrewsbury River in New Jersey will about equal that caused by the cyclone in Septeinr ber of last year., An old fashioned northeast storm pre[ vailed in Boston, Mass., and vicinity, the high wind making it the most disagreeable and aggravating storm for pedestrians that has occured for many a day. It was most violent along the waterfront, although no darn age is reported within the city limits. At Revere Reach the wind and high tide played sad havoc. The Woburn House, built on the shore at the north end of Crescent Beacb, was lifted from its foundations and settled deep in the sand. A photograph building was wrecked by the waves and thrown up against the railroad saloon building. Thi lattice work of the Palace bathing establishment wa3 torn away, and the rear portion of tfce Gak Island cafe and Waverly House suffered some damage. A small sloop yacht was lifted bodily by the wind and waves and deposited on the bed of the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad. Along the south shore the storm is reported as the most severe since the big storm of November, 1&S8. At Provincetown the schooner Emily Bell broke adrift and is now ashore in the harbor in an easy position. A snowstorm raged in the Catskills regions of New York. In front of the Hotel Kaaterskill the snow was two inches in depth. A i cold wind and rainstorm raged all day, causing great damage. There was a high tide in the Rondout Creek; docks were covered and cellars flooded. T-l * m A T ri A T1 TIT nnflllTTlNn XiliAJLi UAHJjJLiIjdSlNIiSS, Two Civil Kngiitecra Throw Away Their Lives With Reckless Abandon. Edgar H. Cooper, of New York, and Jarues Herd man, of Ohio, Civil Engineers, employed by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway Company, were instantly killed on the Niantic Bridge, at East Lynn, Conn., a few mornings ago. The two men were employed in constructing the double track of tho Shore Lino and wore walking along the bridge^ evidently cognizant of tho fact that the passenger train -wilich loft New London at 7:43 was steaming do rill, on them. The train could be seen a quarter bf.a mile away. The men evidently thought they'll ad plenty of time to get out of the way. They-were struck by the pilot of the engine when near the end of the bridge. So near were they to * the end that both bodies struck dry ground ? instead of falling into the water. Both bodies were considerably mangled. The men were young, and it seems unaccountable that they should have taken such a risk as they did by regaining on tho bridge. PROMINENT PEOPLE, The Russian Czar has forty-four different binds of uniform. William Waldorf Astor, the richest American, is traveling in Europe as W. H. Class. General Bex. Butler owns the Craig ranch below Pueblo, Col., consisting of 100,000 acres. Joaquin Miller, the Poet of the Sierras, it is declared, writes the worst hand in the United States. Stephen H. Ttxo, the onoe popular New York pastor, is doing life insurance business in Paris, France. Archdeacon Farrar, of Westminster, has accepted the Chaplaincy of the British House of Commons. Dom Pedro, formerly Emperor of Brazil, has taken up his residence at Versailles, just outside Pans, France. Simeon E. Baldwin. President of the American Bar Association, has been profesKnr of constitutional law in Yale College since 1872." Mrs. Emmons Blaine, formerly Misa Anita McCormick, has property in her own right and will iiiherit $10,000,000 from her mother. Ex-KrxG Milan, of Serria, has been offered a pension of $50,000 per anr^m if he will live outside of that country, but he wants it made $75,000. I Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Barnum, who have been spending some titne in Denver. Col., expect soon to visit California and from there they will go to Japan. | Roswell P. Flower, of New York city, t boasts that he represents in Congress a dis! trict that is richer than any State except I New York and Pennsylvania. ! Mr. Gladstone makes marginal notes oa ! everv book he reads. He reads pencil in i hand, marks as he goes along and makes a i nt inrfoT tvh(?n he is through. Daniel Seales, the colored millionaire of San Francisco, Cal., is a man of fine appearance, who dresses in the height of style. He is now seventy years old, but as lively as a cricket. I It is said that J. M. Longyoar, or MarI quette, Mich., made his millions by studying ! geology until he could traco an iron vein by i the dip and strike equal to the best miner in the world. Walt Whitman, the poet, is his own pub* lisker. He receives frequent requests nowadays to write for the magazines, but he works only on the days when th9 spirit moves him. Commander McCal:,a, who was restricted to Rhode Island territory for three years by the Enterprise court-martial, has, by permission of the Navy Department, , taken a house in Washington and will spend the winter at the capital with his family. The Czar of Russia has grown so fat that he is obliged to wear uniforms that appear grotesque, and he rides a heavily-built, sturdy, brown horse, which is capable of carrying au immense weight. But the horse does not prance with 275 poimds on hia back. The late General Belknap was a very conspicuous figure on the streets of Washington. There was an air of great distinction about his tall form, and he was always dressed with the greatest care. He went into society but little and was abstamious in l\i? habits. DYING OF CHOLERA. Japan, Abyssinia, Turkey and Other Countries Ravaged. Advices received by the United States Marine Hospital Bureau at Washington from the United States Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, report 1095 new cases of cholera and 742 deaths from this disease during the pe| riod from August 18 to September 11. From i the outbreak of the epidemic until Septemj ber 14 there have been 31SS cases and 2031 ! deaths. Advices received at the Bureau from the I United States Consul at St. Helena report j the appearance of cholera at Meskene and | Aleppo. | Advices from Spain are that the cholera ] epidemic continues, but its presence in Bar; celoua is not officially confirmed. Reports from Abyssinia say that the epi| dernic is intense in the localities occupied by Italian troops, and at Massowali about sixty i deaths occur daily from the disease. Reports from Russia state that the actual I presence of cholera is not reported, but some ; cities in the South are suspected, but nothing i riafiniffl is ?hnWn Renarts from France state that the sanitary condition is very satisfactory and no cases of cholera have been reported. The report from Italy states that according to information received from private sources many fatal cases of cholera have oci curred in Venice. The Italian Government | has ordered the return of troops,from the I Red Sea colony. | Advices from Constantinople say that the j late cholera reports are very unfavorable, j and show that the epidemic is increasing in I extent and intensity. The appearance of the disease at Aleppo, to ! which place it was imported from Meskene, i is very serious. On September It and 12 nine deaths were reported out of fifteen cases. ELEVEN VESSELS BUENED. The Cotton Shipping District of Mobile, Ala., Swept by Flames. A fire in the cotton gin and shipping district of Mobile, Ala, destroyed eleven steamers and over a million dollars' worth of cotton gins, wharves and shipping depots. The local fire department was incapable of doing any effective work to check the spread of the flames. For a time all the sailiug vessels in the harbor were threatened. The wind carried sparks a great distance, and many small fires were started where cotton was exposed. Th^Are started in a shingle mill near the river front just outside the northern boundary of the city limits. In Goodman's mill, near the shingle factory. there were stored about nine hundreds bales of cotton. They were soon ablaze, and the sparks from the cotton carried by the wind next communicated the flames to Brown's warehouse, and running back to Magnolia street to th\? southwest of the Mobile mills and to the wharf front. The flames swept on down the wharf front of the city and before the fire was finally checked eleven vessels had been burned. The loss will amount to over a million dollars. COURT OF CLAIMS. i ponnrt nf i)>a Vphp's Ilnsiimss Before This Tribunal. From the annual report of the Court of Claims, submitted to the Attorney-General, it appears that the aggregate number of suite begun against the Government in that court and pending is about 14,0u0, and that the war claims alone now pending number 8000, involving an estimated aggregate sum of $400,COO.OOO. During the last year, under the general jurisdiction of tho court, [ claims amounting to nearly $2,000,000 have been disposed of. In these cases the amount recovered was $210,- J 000. Claims against the District of Columbia have been adjusted by the court to the extent of $350,000, at a cost of only $45,000. Of the war claims tried the amount claimed was nearly $1,000,000, and the findings for the claimants aggregated $103,000. In all departmental cases tried tho findings have been adverse to the claimants. PASSENGERS HELD UP. Three Train Robbers Make a Haul of $1500 in New Mexico. As the south-bound train on the Santa Fo pulled out of Socorro, New Mexico, threa men were seen to step on board. After the train had passed San Antonio threa strangers entered the Pullman sleeper and locked the door. Thej then drew their revolvers on the porter and conductor and relieved them -Of their surplus cash. Then they robbed the passengers, making quite a haul. They jumped from the train on the Basque d? Apache taking to the hills. It is estimated that ?hey got $1500. The officers of tbe road have offered a reward of 11000 for their arrest. \ TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. The Board of Estimate of New York city incorported in the appropriation for the Health Department $5000, to be used in taking a census in 1S9L. Fire at East Pepperall, Mass., destroyed n shr>B factorv. three residences, seven stores I and a block of boarding bouses. Loss, $300,000. The body of Charles L. Pickering, a Sheriff of Lincoln* Me., was found in the woods, where he had gone to a lumber camp after witnesses. Ho got lost and died from exposure. A runaway team in Brooklyn, N. Y., caused the death of Mrs. Robinson, who was struck by the pole of the wagon. Her daughter was knocked down and her skull fractured. Mrs. Waito was seriously injured, and Mr. Mollenhaner, the driver of the team, was thrown from the wagon and his right leg and wrist fractured. Ex-Goverxor Butler Gilbert Noble, of Wisconsin, died at his home. Brooklyn, N. Y., in his seventy-fourth year. From the time he was stricken with apoplexy on the preceding afternoon and fell down the basement stairs of his residence he had been in a comatose condition. Mayor Gleason*, of Long Island City, N. Y., was released from jail, where he had served five days for assault, the event being celebrated by a reception, decoration of buildings and general illumination. The corner stone of the new Municipal Building was laid in New York city, Mayor Grant presiding and Recorder Smyth delivering the oration. Extremely high tides did much damage on the Massachusetts coast. The lowlands and meadows for a distance of over fortyseven miles were submerged. j The jubilee in honor of Field Marshal Von Moltke's ninetieth birthday was celebrated in New York city at the Metropolitan Opera House, which was packed to th9 doors. Chauncey M. Depewmade a stirring oration. Mrs. Jane Turner Martin*, probably the oldest person in Lancaster County, Penn., is dead in the County Almshouse. She is reported to have been 103 years old. Mayor Fitler. of Philadelphia, decided that an enumeration of that city's population should be made by the municipal authorities. The correctness of the census taken by the Federal authorities is doubted. The large fish-dealing firms of TVatertown, | N. Y., anu Kingston, Canada, five in all, j hare combined and formed a company to bo called the Lake Ontario Fish Company J (limited) of Cape Vincent, N. Y.. with a capital stock of $100,000. They will have practical control of the wholesale fish business along the St. Lawrence and the lake shore. Brigadier-General Samuel H. Roberts died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., after a year's illness, of asthma and general debility. He was born in New York city about seventy years ago. When a mere boy he enlisted in the regular arm. South and West. Governor Campbell's bill making the Cincinnati boards non-partisan was passed by the Ohio Legislature, after which that body adjourned. Two Mexican sheep herders have been murdered and their bodies horribly mangled by Indians about twenty miles from Silver City, New Mexico. A posse of deputy I sueniis weni ill pursuit 01 iae reneguue iuuiderers. The Indians beat off their pursuers after two of them had been killed. i The stallion Superior, valued at f75,000. [ owned by Dubois Brothers, horsebreeders, of Pueblo, Cal., was accidentia killed by a train. The Maine stallion, Nelson, trotted the fastest half-mile on record (1:03) at Cambridge City, Ind. Belle Hamlin and Justina lowered the team record at Independence, Iowa, by trotting a mile iu 2. Thomas J. Nms and Miss Gertrude Pilman, of Brewton, Ala., were married at the Alabama State Fair, Birmingham. Rev. S. M. Adams, President of the State Alliance, performed the ceremony. The young couple then steppad into the car of a monster gas balloon, and with Aeronaut Baldwin sailed off on a bridal tour. The bursting of a steel standpipe flooded the town of Temple, Texas. The machine shop, blacksmith shop and a portion of the large mill of the Youngstown (Ohio) Rolling Mill Company, were burned. Loss about ?100,000. Fifteex armed men burned down the buildings of L. B.Varnes, in Coffee County, Ala., bacause of his supposed participation in the late riot. Governor Gordon called out the militia to repress the mob. a desperate duel to the death was fought near Danielsville, Ga., in which William Sanders, a prominent planter, was killed, and William Martin, his neighbor, was fatally wounded. Two Italian laborers were buried alive in a land slide in a canyon fifty miles north of Ogden, Utah. Another man was rescued fatally injured. The entire wharf front of Apalacliicola. Fla.. was sweDt bv fire. The Kennedv ana Kimball lumber mills, in each of which were from two million to throe million feet of lumber; ths Apalachicola iron works, Grady's store, the Apalachicola ice factory, Gould & Warren's planing mill, the Orman building and a number of frame structures were destroyed. The loss is estimated at from $175,000 to $200,000. Fire broke out in Morley's shoe store at Andover, Ohio, and spread rapidly. The town had no fire apparatus and an engine was sent from Jefferson. The fire was extinguished after fifteen buildings, including the postoffice, had been completely destroyed. An unknown colored passenger boarded a train at Navasota, Texas. He refused to pay his fare, and having some words with the colored porter drew a revolver and fired three shots into the porter, killing him instantly. He then pulled the bell cord and as the train slowed up jumped off and escaped. Ten miles below Austin, Texas, on a cotton plantation, four Mexican gamblers fell out over a monte game, when one of them drew his pistol and shot and killed the other three. Bill Darnwell, cx-policeman and I keeper of a "chili con carne" stand at Austin, Texas, shot and killed a woman, Maggie Null, and then blew out his own brains. In Gwinnett County, Ga., Fanny Cham1 hers, a colored girl, win quarreled with i Picrce Wright, her lover, cut off his head with a razor. Fire started in H. S. Collins's jewelry store in Eureka Springs, Ark., and con .sumoa property valued at ?300,(WO. The I Ferry House, Springfield House, Ohio House i and thirty-five other business and dwelling houses were destroyed. John* Weber and Henry Switzer, living at the same cabin on tho line of their adjoin- 1 i ing claims, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma j I Territory, were called to their "doors by per* sons unknown and shot and killed. I The train carrying Barnuiu & Bailey's ; circus was wrecked at Macon, Ga. John i j Kelly, from Michigan, and Mack Glenn, from ! j Macon, were killed outright, and eight valu- j able horses were killed. The books of John J. Irving, late Circuit | Court Clerk of Hamilton County, Tc-nn., j nave nesa louna suort between S'JU'JU and i ?10,000. AVashiu<;fon. The Pension Bureau made a requisition upon the Treasury Department for $25,000,j OCX) to meet the payment of pensions under i the act of June 27, 1890, as well as of those under the old laws, for the next Ovo j months. The Secretary of the Treasury has in- ' ptriicterl customs officials to render their accounts monthly hereafter instead of quarterly. Toe Secretary of the Interior accepted the resignation of "Pension Agent Barclay at Pittsburg, Penn. It is practically settled that the vacancy on the Supreme Court bench will not be filled until after the meeting of Congress in December. The State Department is informed that the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office has refused to receive Mr. Black, American Consul at Budapest. The Census Office announced the total population of the State of Maryland to be l,(w0,303. The population in 18S0 was 984,943; increase during the last ten years, 105,300. The British iron and steel men reached "Washington in the course of their travols tkrniiixh Uia TTniiaH TkaJr violi: purely one of sightseeing. The party numbered four or flvo hundred, including sixty or seventy ladies, and most of them gathered at the White House, where they were introduced to President Harrison. Secretary Windom determined to call a meeting of the lady managers of the World's Fair, to bo held in Chicago November 18. They will receive ?6 a day and expenses. Secretary Noble rendered a decision denying the application of Mayor Grant for a remuneration of the population of New York city. Ex-President Cleveland- made his argumont in the Peake vs. the City of Now Orleans case beforo the Supreme Court of the United States. The court room and corridors were packed with sightseers, and the ex-President was listened to most attentively. Superintendent Porter resumed his duties at the Census Bureau, having returned from nis Drier trip to u,uropa iu ssmuu- ui. health. A fatal runaway accident occurred In Washington by which Mrs. Margaret Gantt, widow or the late Lieutenant Gantt of th9 Navy, was killed and her daughter, Miss Clare Gantt, fatally injured. The Director of the Mint issued a statement regarding the silver policy of the Treasury and the recent decline in the pric9 of Silver. The Indian Bureau has received from th9 President a telegram, sent to him by Governor Cooper, announcing that bands of Uto Indians are off their reservations in Colorado slaughtering game, damaging private property, and greatly endangering the peace. Foreign. Secretary Balfour began a tour of the west of Ireland, to investigate the alleged famine. Mesrss. O'Brien and Dillon, the Irish patriots, left Paris oil their trip to America to raise famine funds. Ensign Rumsey, of the United States steamel* Swatara, was accidentally drowned at Yokohama, Japan. The American Minister to Turkey has demanded satisfaction for the unlawful arrest of a fellow-countryman. Sir Chales pearsqjr has been appointed Solicitor-Genera'! of Scotland. Le Comte de Paris was magnificently entertained in Montreal. Canada. He made a speech in which he said he saw the signs ominous to France, but that Canada's future is bright and promising. The number of strikers in New South Wales has been increased to fifty thousand. A general parliamentary election was held in Greece. The Government was defeated, retaining only one-third of the seats. Very heavy earthquake shocks, lasting twenty minutes, were felt at Ignala and Chilpancingo, Mexico. The King of Portugal received tho Captain and officers of the United States cruiser Baltimore at Lisbon. The election disorders in the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, broke out again; and there was fighting also in the Canton of Frlbourg. M. Allard, a Paris journalist, fought a duel near Tours, France. The weapons used were pistols, and M. Allard was shot in the stomach. He has since died from the effects of his injuries. The Portuguese Minister at London has been recalled. LATER NEWS. Daniel McDermott and Fred. Bennett, passengers, were killed in a railway accident at Providence, R. I. N. G. Peabody was fatally injured. Reports from tho Gloucester (Mass.) whaling fleet in the Arctic Ocean state that the catch of the fleet is ninety whales. The historic old United States Court House in Baltimore, Md., was sold at public auction. The building, constructed solidly of granite, and costing the Government more than $400,000 to erect, was sold for ?3000. Thomas Wool folk was hanged at Perry, Ga., for the murder of his father and mother, his two brothers and four sisters, and a Air?, west, agea eiguty-iuur, tu uis umc, early in the morning of August 6, 1837. H j bad cut down all bis victims with an axe, and was the sole survivor of the household of ten persons. Rich placer deposits of gold have been discovered in Jackson County, South Dakota, recently, a part of tho Sioux Reservation contiguous to the Black Hills. Miss Mar? Butterworth, daughter of Representative Butterworth, of Ohio, was married in Washington to Haughwout Howe, of the State Department. Secretary Windom appointed J. K. Moore, of St. Paul, Minn., to be Chief of the Appointment Division of the Treasury Department, to succeed T. E. Byrnes, resigned. Vitc, on the east coast of Africa, was captured by the British and burned. A girl named Flanagan and her mother have been murdered by moonlighters in County Clare, Ireland Ki.vg William III of Holland has again be?n declared incapable of governing, and the Council of State has been temporarily invested with regal powers. INDIAN OFflCE REPOET. Commissioner Morgan Favors Compulsory Indian Education. Commissioner Morgan of the Indian Bureau in his annual report just issued, says that it has become I he settled policy of tho Government to break up reservations, destroy tribal relations, settle Indians upon theii* own homesteads, incorporate them into nationul lifo, and deal with them not as nations, or tribes, or bands, but as individual citizcus. The American Indian is to become tho Indian American. A public school system is being rapidly provide.!, whereby every accessible Indian boy and girl of school age is to have an opportunity of acquiring the rudiments of an English education and the elements of an honorable calling. Tho Indians themselves aro coming to understand the present policy of tho Government anil aro showing an increasing readiness and even desire to adjust themselves to it. The Commissioner favors compulsory education, and upon this subject says: "I am in favor of compelling every Indian child of suitable age and health, for whom accommodations are provided, to attend school tc.i months out of twelve. A general law, however, could not now bo applied, for the sim- i pie reason that school accommodations aro J provided for less than half the children o. j school ago. The question is not se much on i | of filling the school, ns it is finding room fo.' j the pupils. With fow exceptions every r^- ; servation school is crowded, and hundreds of j children who are willing to go to school are j prevented by want of proper accommodations. The total school enrollment during | the year was 10,37?, with an average attend- i ancd of 12,233. This is but a s nail fraction I more than one-third of the school population." At tho date of the last anuual report there were 133 Indian reservation? in the Unitod States, having an aggregate area of 110,03.1,01)3 ?121* <35. During the year about 13,<M0,01) acres have been secured bv cesiion from the Indians, and agreements by which about 4,510,00) acres will bo secured, aro now pending in Congress. The work of makin* allotments of lauds in severalty under the several acts of Congress has steadily progressed during the year. Ay innovation in the method of handling green fruit at the Port of New York is about to be put into practice. The new arrangewonf nAMMtfo Af n cfanm n>Un?P fn "iuuw vi u ouuaiu-ucauou n uai i. au the past fruit has been landed on the wharf without regard to the weather, and when the temperature ranged below the freezing point groat damage resulted. The heated wharf will be fifty-six by 184 feet in dimensionsHun'Ters from the Moreau River country in South Dakota report extensive prairie fires raging in that portion of the Sioux reservation. They also say that vast tracts of lignite coal land have commenced to bum, and fears are entertained that it may continue to spread through the coal fields in the Bad River district, west oi Pierre, South Dakota. THE LABOB WOBLD. Ijr New York city there are 50,000 tailors. It is calculated that there are 150,000 tail- ' ors in the United States. More than 5000 stone masons in Berlin, i Germany, are without work or money. First grade cooks at St. Paul, Minn., get $100 a month; second, $75; and third, $50. * Workwomen' are strangely apathetic to the great questions of finance in tnis country. ^ New York city fresco painters are fined $5 for misrepresenting their houra or wages. The Ion? strike of bootmakers at Leicester, r England, has ended in a victory for the men. Thousands of Japanese will soon be j colonized in Mexico. They are wanted a3 laborers. It has been decided to hold an international f in Rwicenlo "R^lorinm in All? 1 gust, lS9lf j The Ohio law compelling payment of wages every two weeks has been declared I constitutional. < Italian* stone masons at New York city ^ I will form a $59,000 co-operative company. Shares, $25 each. Two New York city walking delegates . were discharged for taking money from con- -1 tractors for ordering strikes. ] The marble-cutters from sixteen cities met in convention in New York city recently, and formed a national organization. The Grand Division o? Railroad Conduct- ' ors has paid off an indebtedness of $11,600 in < a year and has a large balance in its treasury. ( The United Brotherhood of Carpenters , and Joiners has now 729 loccal unions, 55,807 1 members in benefit, and 79,000 enrolled mem- i bers. Newport and Monmouth'(En^land) boiler- . makers struck to settle the point -whether they or the engineers shall do the angle iron- ' work. I Four hundred Boston (Mass.) waiters, white and colored, have organized a branch of the National Culinary Alliance whose headquarters is in Chicago. Nearly every mining camp in Colorado is just now experiencing a scarcity of labor. Hundreds of men in addition to those now employed will be wanted during the winter. The averago wages paid are ?3 a day. The strike of th9 cigar-maker3 in Bing- i hamton, N. Y., in about fifteen weeks, cost $20,000 spent in contributions tft the strikers, and about a quarter of a million dollars in wages of strikers lost by not working. By a section of the new election law every employer in New York State is compelled to give to his employes two hours in which to vote, and no 'deduction from his wages is v.a maHa An nmnnt nf such absence. A toung locomotive engineer on the Southern Pacific Railroad is the son of a millionaire of Terre Haute, Ind. The son voluntarily chose his present life on account of a quarrel with his father. The family is trying to induce him to return. Lady Dilke, wife of Sir Charles Dilke, is taking active interest in labor organization in England, and has recently addressed crowded meetings of women. She urged them to form unions, but warned them against deserting the cause as soon as their wrongs had been righted. The hours of field labor in the Sounh have always been "from sun to sun." "White farmers who do their own work?and the freedmen also?adhere to the ancient U3age. The same rule holds good in other out-ofdoor employments, such as railroad construction and lumbering. According to the official statistics of Italy over 55,000 millers and millwrights have been thrown put of employment during the last ten years in trial "kingdom by irpproved machinery; and when in all mills in Italy such machinery has been introduced the total number of unemployed in the flour milling industry will reach 70.000. CENSUS RETUENS. Vermont and Nevada the Only States Which Have Not Grown. The official count of population of all the j "* ' ' ^ -** - ? "*r I States ana lerruones, except jujujiouu, Missouri and Virginia, has been completed, and is as follows: SMf. 1S90. 1680. Alabama 1,508,073 1.262,505 Arizona 59,691 40,4-10 Arkansas 1,125,385 802,525 California 1,$01002 864.694 Colorado 410,975 194,327 Connecticut 745,861 622,700 Delaware 167,871 146,608 District of Columbia... 229,796 177,624 Florida 390,435 269,493 Georgia 1,834,366 1,542,180 Idaho S4.229 32,610 Illinois 3,818,536 3,077,S71 Indiana 2,189,030 1,978,301 Iowa 1,906,729 1,624,615 Kansas . 1,423,485 996,094 Kentucky. 1.855,436 1,648,690 Louisiana..'. 1,116,828 939,916 Maine i.. 660,261 648,936 Maryland .... Massachusetts 2,233,407 1,783,085 Mich^n... 2,089,792 1,636,937 Min??<ota 1,309,017 730,773 Mississippi 1,284,887 1,131,597 Missouri .... Montana 131,769 39,159 Nebraska.....1,056,793 452,402 Nevada*....; 41337 .62,266 New fiampshire 375,827 340,991 New Jersey 1,441,017 1,131,116 New Mexico 144,862 119,565 New York 5,981,034 5,082,871 North Carolina 1,617,310 1,399,750 ^foi'th Dakota .* 182,425 36,909 Oiiio u-iw6,719 3,198,052 Oklahoma 61,701 Oregon 312,490 174,768 Pennsylvania 5.248,574 4,282(891 Rhode Island :345,343 276,531 South Carolina 1,147,161 995.577 South Dakota 327,S48 9S.268 Tennessee 1,763,723 1,542,359 Texas 2,232,220 1,591,749 Utah 206,498 143,963 Vermont 332,205 332,286 Virginia .... I Washington 349,516 75,116 West Virginia 760,448 61S.457 Wisconsin 1,083,697 1,315,497 Wyoming 60,389 20,789 The couut of the population of nearly all the cities has been completed. The figures of the first ten are as follows: j rt>j. li'JO. 183 >. ' New York 1,513,501 1,266,299 Chicago 1,098,566 503,185 I Philadelphia 1,044.894 847,170 J JJrooklvn 804,377 506,663 St Louis 400.357 350,518 Boston 446,007 352,839 Baltimore 433,639 332.513 ] San Francisco 291,390 233,959 i j Cincinnati 296,309 255,130 ; i Cleveland 901,51'J 160,146 j (j FIENDISH POISONER. IJ { < A German Father Kills Himself and Five Children. Another tragedy has bean added to tho list of horrors which have recently occurred in Berlin, Germany, and the vicinity. The i ^ community was shocked by the discovery of j the fiendish work of a poisoner, which t is almost without parallel in the history of crime. A retired farmer named Gast s gave to his children some sweetmeats in 1 t which he had previously placed a quantity of i r poison. He then partook of the poisoned i 1 confection himself. After suffering L great agony for some time, t the murderer and three of tha s children were relieved by death from n their sufferings. Two other of the children, . who also ate of the sweetmeats, are in a dyiug 1 condition, and the physicians say there is no c possible chance of saving thorn. No reasoa t ia known for the crime. 0 NATURAL GAS FAMINE, It Gives Out in Pittsburg, Pcnn.,With Sail Results. . . I s There was a genuine natural gas famine in : j several sections of Pittsburg and Alleghany City, in Pennsylvania, for sovcral days r>> cently. Although the officials of the Phila* delphia Natural Gas Company claimed that the pressure in their pipes was from four to s six ounces, many families partook of col I h dinners, as the gas died out altogether in a some sections. It is promised that after the 500 puddling furnaces are cut off from tin f supply all private consumers will have plenty ii of gas. 1 . ^ '" > . "V* *; J?? CURIOUS FACTS. The cotton gin was invented by Eli Yhitney in 1793. A thirteen-year-old girl i3 the organist ' n a Mains church. An Iowa woman has named her twin3 Jascline and Kerosene. There are only six thousand stars | risible to the naked eye. Five thousand boxes of gum are chewed , ip in Chicago every day. A peasant woman near Nantes, France, ecently gave birth to five children. Cutting off a wife's nose is still a avorite mode of punishment by jealous mabands in India. At the funeral of an aged lady at FVoolwich, England, her seven sons, all :lergymen of the Church of England, vere present. The rhododendron plantation of Mr. j'ollansbee in the town of Fitzwiiliam, ST. H., is one of the floral wonders of .Sew England. Thomas Winans, the Baltimore millionlire, said on his deathbed that he would jive $1,000,000 to be able to eat a piece jf bread and butter. The population of London can be best jstimated by the not generally known fact that it is greater than that of Norway ind Sweedcn combined. The colony of Hong Kong, China, was first ceded to Great Britain in 1841, ind the cession was confirmed by the treaty of Nanking in 1842. The first Colonial Congress met October?, 1765, at New York. Timothy Ruggles, of Massachusets, was Chairman, and John Cotton, Clerk of the Convention. A Three Kivers (Mica.) gin uas a beau who is a Lake Shore fireman. Every day she tics a bouquet to a stick and hands it to her lover as he flies by her home in his cab. A family in Isabella, Penn.,wasthe possessor of four kittens joined together after tho manner of th? Siamese twins. A cord fastened them together which seemed to pass through the four. They lived several days. An ox has been dug out of a straw stack on the farm of George Pitzer, Louisiana, Mo. It had been missing forty-flve days. Though weak it was alive and will survive. The straw buried tho animal a3 it came from the thresher. Heroditus states that the Greeks received the sun dial from the Chaldeans. The first dial on record was one set up by King Ahay, of Jerusalem, nearly 400 years before Aristotle and Plato, and just a little previous to the lunar eclipses obsorved at Babylon, rs recorded by Ptolemy. The peculiar reach toward Lake Erie in the State Line of Penn3yleania,known as the Triangle (from its being originally the State of New York extension) was a special purchase, September 4,1788,from the Government, of a slice of the Northwest Territory, containing 202,187 acres, at a State cost of $157,640. The fastest biid on the wing is the swift, which has been known to attain a speea of 200 miles an hour. It feeds exclusively on insects, which it capture* flvin?. The speed of the swallow, .. ?J o * # which comes next to that ot the STvift, is usually fifty miles an hour, but sometimes goes a3 high as ninety miles. Jonas Leopold has a fine farmjn East Coventry, Chester County, Penn., and the other morning, without any special effort, plucked eighty-three stalks of four, five, six and seven-leaf clcver. The four-leaf is much sought for as a curiosity, as there is good luck on every fringe. Up to date Farmer Leopold has secured 2IS of tho phenomenal stalks and believes the record can go much higher. The Russian Czar's wardrobe vies in extent and variety with that of Henry Irving. His Imperial Majesty has fortyfour different uniforms, all of which he has worn save one, that of a Russian Field Marshal. Although the titular head of his army, the Czar has vowed never to j wear the dress of a Field Marshal until this rank shall have been conferred upon him by the other Field Marshals after a victorious war. An Emperor's Lodging. On the occasion of Empeior Wilhelm's recent visit to the Austrian capital the Emperor of Austria selected Schoenbrunn nS the residence, as a special compliment to his Imperial guest, who was wont in his yjutfe to Tva^ abQut Crown Prince RuuvJf iQ the Park which surrounds it. , The quite nf rnnms nssicmjd him tVCffl once occupied by Napoleon the First, and the splendid Empire decorations were renewed for "Wilhelm's visit. The walls were hung with ancient tapestries, and the alcoves were filled with choicest hothouse flowers. The magnificent stretch of lawn between the palace and the Gloirette being somewhat deteriorated, no fewer than 7000 plants were placed in the beds to ijivc the landscape the requisite freshness. In the great salon where Napoleon the First, in the days of his greatest prosperity, gave many a famous banquet, a muting breakfast was given in honor of Rmperor TVilhelm. It is said that no >uch collection of royalties \ias assem)lcd at Schoenbrunn since Napoleon's irne. There were thirty-eight guests, sach dressed in a gala hunting costume. ?New York Journal. Best Fodder for Cavalry Horses. A series of experiments, made witli a ! *iew of discovering the best fodder for French cavalry horses, has established he fact that straw and oats are, in rsaon, preferable to hay. It appeared hat when the ration of hay was reduced, iud that of the straw and oats proporionately increased, the staying power of he horses was much improved; they wcated le33 and bore fatigue better, rhese experiments have excited much ntercst in military circles, and it is very ;cneraUy recognized that there is imperaivc need for a complete and careful study if the question of cavalry forage. Spraying IVith Cold Water. j ( The spraying of the surface of the luman body with cold water is now re* orted to for the purpose of jeducing ' ebrile temperature. In the ca?e of a J aan suffering from phthisis, whose tem- j icrature was high, it was found that by ' praying about a pint of water between : ixty and seventy degrees Fahrenheit over ( .is body the temperature fell to normal, ] nd continued 50 for several hours; 0 1 imilar method was satisfactorily adopted * 1 the case of a girl with diphtheria.-- j ITew York Tribune. I \ TEMPERANCE / DISGRACED. Upon an oak tree, grand and tall, A clinging grape-vine hung, v 3 TVhiJe from the far outspreading boughj ' r > Great purple clusters swung. No daring hand had ever reached Where topmost branches played. So high in air tho ripened fruit In tempting beauty swayed. Dno day the vintage master paused Within tho checkered shade. Which high upon the oak tree's bough The swinging clusters made. Across the greenward's even floor With bright leaves thickly spread, Old Autumn's tribute levied on The branches overhead. He glanced up through the dancing leaves, J As 'gainst toe trunk he leaned, "Those grapes are nicer ones," he said, , "Than any I have gleaned. I think, my beauties, I can find Some way to bring you down," And soon the pretty clusters lay Dismantled on the ground. Their quiet, harmless life was o'er. For soon against their will They're tossed with others not so fair Into the cruel still, ^3^53 Where, crushed and bleeding, sore dis? graced, Their future work must be To scatter broadcast o'er the earth The seeds of misery. ?Susie E. Kennedy, in Temperance Banner, PLEASANT FOR THE PASSEJfOEBS. When I was up in Northern Wisconsin the other day I saw something that caused chills ^ to chase each other in rapid succession down my spinal column, and that made my hale. ? (tnatis, ine rim 01 mrsute growxa mat :.~jl adorns the base of my skull) to stand erect The train upon which I traveled stopped for dinner at a little water-tank station. Just -' $ as the train was about to pull out, a grimy- > -* looking individual staggered upon the platform and started to fall aboard. The con- . inductor was a new man on the ran, but ha didn't propose to allow the intoxicated indi- 3 vidual to get aboard. ' 'Look here!" shouted tho conductor as the sooty specimen went to get on. "You're too . ' drunk to jjet on. Where's your ticket?" ;> "Hav?haven't got any," stuttered the >i drunken fellow. * "Then you can't got on." "Yesh I kin; you can't stop mo. I'm the ' & engineer of this train. There ain't no fresh conductor can put me off."?Milwaukft Evening Wisconsin. - >. SOME OF RUM'S WORK. A few weeks ago a young man committed ?;.=f suicide at the Osboru House, Rochester. Up- >v on the table in bis room was found the following letter. It preaches a good temperance sermon: "Rather than have opium and rum kill me, ^ I prefer to do it myself. I fool I am past re-, demption. and why should such a useless thing encumber the earth? I have abused and disgusted my friends; have lost my position with my house, have overdrawn my account several hundred dollars, and, in fact, cannot see a ray of light ahead? If I thought . my friends would put me in an asylum somewhere, I would not do the cowardly thing I -" i ; am about to; but they have always used me so kindly, and I have so invariably abused then1 trust, that I neither ask, nor expect; any more mercy at their hands. You can notify my house, and they will inform mv friends whero I am, and I think they will give me a Christian burial. ' 'To my father and my darling sister a long * good-bye. May God forgive me for all the trouble I have caused you. May those friends in Springfield who first induced me to smoke the pipe, and thereby wrecked my young life, suffer for it, if there is an avenginjj "i God. "Young men, for God's sake never touch a drop of liquor. It has killed me and will just as SUrely Kill you. I had as bright a prospect ahead of me as any young man ever nad, had a nice position and good salary, but rum and opium have got the mastery of me. "And now may tne aii-mercum uoaiorgive me. Let this be a warning to all, for I would like it posted over the door of evenr rum shoo and opium den in the world. CrOOUbye." ' 1 'PROFIT AND LOSS" DRINK ACCOUNT. ? ; The following significant statistics of; j driifc, crime, disease, pauperism and taia-; ' tion are from official sources, and should be' -j carefully studied: LICENSES?NEW YORK CITT. Whole number of liquor licenses issued by the Commissioners of Excise during the year 1889 9,369 Total amount of license fees received, 1SS9 $1,442,770' Total number of licensed places in existence, January 1. 1890 8,885 E. senditures, alio wo d by the board of Estonia e and Apportionment, for 1890: i\;Lti;E?CHARITIES AND CORRECTION. The Police Department $4,647,791 84 >. Department or Public Charities and Correction .... 1,949,100 00 | Other Charitable Institutions.. 1,215,31150 Salaries, Judiciary 1,068,840 00,'>;t?s Salaries, City Courts 382,900 00 Coroners, salaries and other expenses 53,855 00 .jjgj $9,317,798 34 ||| tWCTERISM. t- is Wholenumber of Dauperssupported or relieved, year end- * \ii ing December 1, 1888, in New Y ork city 50,271 $.- ? At a cost of $1,808,612 86 Whole number of paupers supported or relieved, in the several counties in the State of '? New York, year ending Dec. f- . 1, 1888 135.753 ;V ^ Total cost to the State $3,838,315 10 I PrwM-hnncA cimnlioj ill (\S9 334 4% 1 " "~?l attendance and medi ? ?i?? 828 24 ^*#0 cincs t?>?**? ' Superintendents, keepers, and officers of Poorhouscs, sala- * < ? tj ries $C2(j,34d~ZL-v-N. Constables and other officers.,.. 15,138 89 Transportation of paupers $22,924 85 Children born in Poorhouscs, the year 755 . CRIME AND CORRECTIONS. Convictions in Courts of Special Sessions, the State, 188S 90,515 Arrests for intoxication, New York city, 1S59 20,240 The license revenue for New York city for 1SS9 was $1,442,770; but the aggregate cost to the city, for tha support of the police, prisons, hospitals, courts. poorhouse3, etc., was over $11,246,410. Fully three-fourths of this large sum, or $8,412,300, would ba saved' to the taxpayers of New York city alone i*?-"Y sinsjle year by prohibition. Greater still would be the gain throughout*the Empire State, in immunity from crime and pauperism, and in the improved moral character and intelligence of its citizens.? Xationcil Temperance Advocatc. . TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. The (rood Templars of Wisconsin last year dHtriDiue-j i.imwi pages or tempjranca literature ind csoeudea over ?10,00^ ia lecture work'. The procession nt Curl: on the anniversary of the birth of Father Alatthow was two miles long, and consisted of delegates from the total abstinence societies of Scotland, England and Ireland. Mrs. Annie IVilmarth, the daughter of wealthy parents, is a voluntary prisoner in Raymond Street Jail, Brooklyn, where she was first committed for being drunk in the street. An unhappy marriage drove her to drink. An Ohio man, who has kept track of 307 railroad accidents during the past year, declares that only five of them were perhap3 unavoiuauie. ana mat cue oinar ouv weretne result of gross carelessness, druukenness and disobedience of orders. The Atlanta Constitution makes the statement that there is, at Indian Springs, Ga., a spring whose waters cure the wii-ky Labit. It is proposed to build there an ici.L'iatd isylum and to place it in care of the G^ci'jjltt Woman** Christian Temperance Union. The East Tennessee Laud Company, which by provision of the dee Is forbids forever the i.ileof liquor in its immense territory, has not with remarkable su?eass, having sold at rxr $2,000,000 of its capita! stock. Its treasury stock is soiling at twenty cent3 ibove par. -Mr. G. B. Skinner, of Lincoln, Neb., says hat the Fireman's Insurance Company, of Peoria, 111., canceled his policy upon the Red Ribbon Hall, because the hall was devote.l to .emperance. But they are williug to take inlurance upon rum shops, because they have 10 fears of temperance people destroying jhoir property. J