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A BRITISH WARSHIP LOST. ?lie Serpent Founders Off the Spanish Coast. Over Two Hundred Perish and Only Three Saved, ' The British torpedo cruiser Serpent has foundered off the coast of Spain. Out of a total ofc 250 persons on board only three were saved. The disaster occurred at a point twenty miles north of Cape Finisterre. The Serpent went on the rocks during a storm at night. A heavy mist prevailed at the time of the disaster. Owing to the violence of the storm, it was impossible to send assistance from the shore. Tremendous seas swept the decks of the vessel, carrying away group after group of the men on board. The news of the wreck was conveyed to Corunna, a distance of sixty miles, over mountain roads. The Serpent's complement was 170 officers and men. * The others on board were going out to relieve men now on ships on the African station. Lloyd's agent at Corunna telegraphs: "It appears that the Serpent was running for shelter in one of the bays north of Finisterre. It is not known whether she foundered or grounded on the fearful reefs that are a continuation of the Galician Mountains. If she foundered, nobody need be surprised but the Admiraltv. If she grounded on the reefs, j she could "not stand a minute's battering in a heavy sea." The Serpent had just started on hei J maiden voyage. She was commissioned for service in Africa last June, but was detained by several mishaps to her machinery. She and her consorts were cordially disliked by ;the service. The Serpent has a bad record. She broke down more than once in the manoeuvres of 1S88. Several Admirals condemned the whole class as crank. ' An official telegram from Corunna says j the Serpent was wrecked off Cape Bucy, neat ' the village of Camarinas. There were 276 persons aboard, of whom only three were saved. The bodies of three ladies have been washed ashore. The Governor has ordered the authorities at Camarinas to render every assistance in their power. The three persons saved from the Serpent are sailors who swam ashore at Camarinas. They express the belief that all the others on board were drowned. The newspaper offices at Plymouth, England, were besieged by crowds of people anxious to hear further news of the disaster. Among these were the sobbing wives and daughters of many of the lost seamen. It is stated that many of the crew of the Serpent, before the vessel started on what proved to be her last voyage, expressed the rear that some misfDrtune would befall the ship. The lost man-of-war was a twin-screw vessel of 1770 too and 4500 horse-pofver, and can-led six guns. She was a swift, light cruiser, one of eight begun during the administration of Lord Northbrook. She was launched in 18S7. The Serpent was built after the ideas of Admiral Conner Kev. who insisted upon an Immense horse-power, which, according to previous notions, was oat of all proportion to her displacement. She could maintain a speed of seventeen knots an hour. Lord Brassoy, in his naval manual, adversely criticised the vessel. He said that economy of weight had been carried to excess in the construction of the ship, that her plating was too thin, and that her armament was overdone. In a seaway, he said, her heavy top-weight would be a detriment to her speed, and would unduly strain the hull. The vessel was 225 feet long, while she had a draught of only 14^ feet. THANKSGIVING DAY. President Harrison's Proclamation Appointing It for November 27. The President issued a proclamation desig naticg Thursday, Novembar 27, a3 a day of thanksgiving. The proclamation is as follows: By the grace and favor of Almighty God the people of this Nation have been led to the closing days of the passing year, which has been full of the blessings of peace and the comforts of plenty. Bountiful compensation has come to us for the work of our minrls and of our hands in every department of human industry. Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, do hereby appoint Thursday, the 27th day of the present month of November, to bo observed as a day of prayer and thanksgiving; and I do invite the people upon that day to cease from their labors, to meet in their accustomed houses of worship, and to join in rendering gratitude and praise to our beneficent Creator for the rich blessings He has granted to us as a Nation, and invoking the continuance of His protection and grace for the future. I command to my fellow-citizens tin privilege of remambcring the poor, th? homeless and the sorrowful. Let us endeavor to merit the promised recompense of charity and the gracious acceptance of our praise. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this eighth day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and of tho independence of tho United States the one hundrodand fifteenth. Benjamin Harrison. By the President: James G. Blaine, Secretary of State. FATAL" FIRE. Four Persons Burned to Death at Denver. Col. Fire started in the rear of M. J. Todd's livery yard in Denver, Col., and notwithstanding the efforts of the fire department the flames had spread nearly all over the yard before the water could be turned on. The flames quickly passed to the St. Elmo Hotel, Meyer's Liquor Company and O'Leary's drug store, while a number of dwellings just across the alley went up in the flames. The firemen made every endeavor to keep the fire from jumping across Lamarie street, where there were a number of large business blocks. The entire block between Ninth and Tenth streets and Laramie and Market streets was a seething mass, but the fire is now under control unless a strong wind comes up. One unknown man was burned to death in the hotel, and his charred remains now lie at the Coroner's. Another man and two children were caught in the same building and burned to The ?auso of the fire is not known. The loss will probably be over $100,000. STORM IN GREAT BRITAIN. A Yacht "Wrecked, and Viscount Cantelupo Drowned. A heavy storm prevailed throughout Great Britain and Ireland and much damage has been done. The rain fell incessantly and in many sections the country was flooded. The downpour was accompanied by a high wind, ana reports have been received 'of many houses being unroofed by the gale. The storm was especially severe oil shore. Telegrams from various* points along the const stat9 that an enormous sea is ruuuiug and that a number of coasting vessels have baen wrecked. Advices from Belfast state that a report has been received there that th9 yacht Frauia. foundered in Belfast Lough, and that its owner. Viscount uanteiupe. was uiunueu. ? i.u crew was saved. Viscount Cantelupe was the eldest son and heir of E?rl De La W&rr. Viscouuti Cantelupe climbed the rigging *nd cheered the men for a while, but th* cold was so bitter that he became benumbed and was swept overboard. At Liverpool and in the vicinity of that city the storm raged with terrific fury. The damage-in that section is great. The Aiatret) race meeting has been postponed in consequence of the storm. Icb brought to New York City lately from Mai.?e and Norway has been sold at auction to dealers for $1.75 a ton, bat for family use ttocharge ia stUl at the rate of $30 a xou. - THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. Mrs. Barbara Lamprecht, evidently in satie, cut the throat of two of her children a Philadelphia, Penn., with a large butche; knile ana then cut her own. Three mills belonging to the J. B Williams Company of Glastonbury, Connwere entirely destroyed by fire. The loss ii placed at $100,000. The "Wells Grain Elevator was burned it J Buffalo, N. Y., causing a loss of 8250.000. Daniel Taylor and Samuel Keigei wer< instantly killed and William Pettit was fatally Injured by a falling wall at Doylestown, Penn. The accident occurred at th? large new mill being erected by Swarthj Brothers & Co. The striking salesmen of the six larg? clothing stores of Pittsburg, Pennwon then strike. The firms conceded the demands of the salesmen for shorter hours. The met who took tho strikers' places will bo discharged. Mrs. A. A. Nickersox, of Bangor, Me., while out shooting with her husband was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of her rifle. ' One man was killed and four seriously burned by an exoloding shell at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, N. Y. Thomas Harper, President and Treasurer of the Harper Brothers Company, manufacturers of decorated lamps and lamp shades, New York City,and William Harper, manager of the factory, have disappeared, lfaving debts reoorted to be from ?25,000 $50,000. The American Committee for the Relief of Famine Sufferers in Ireland has temporarily withdrawn its appeal. A freight train and a gravel train came into collision atEatontowu, N.J., and a number of cars were wrecked, and two brakeman were fatally injured. Hannah Demon, one hundred and two years and eleven months old, died a few days ago at South Dartmouth, Mass. Tames Struthers. an old member of the New York Stock Exchange, dropped dead on its floor during the excitement in the market. His death stopped a panic. The reception given to the Irish Members of Parliament in New York City was a success; $37,000 was subscribed for the cause of Home Rule; speeches were made by Messrs. O'Brien, Dillon, O'Connor, Sullivan and Governor Hill. A collision between a passenger train and a construction occurred near Yarmouth, Mass. No one was killed, but about fifteen persons were bruised or scalded, i Hoboken, N. J., is not satisfied with her 44,000 population announced as the Federal I census, and has begun preparations to have a police census taken at once. Henry M. Stanley gave the first lecture of his present American tour in New York City. The Metropolitan Opera House was crowded. The title that Mr. Stanley gave to the story he told was "The Rescue of Emiii Pacha; the Forests, Pigmies and March Across Africa." sour li auu ivest. Ex-Mayor IV. W. Cottrell, of Key West, Fla., who a few weeks ago was a terror to tho officials and was finally driven to Alabama, a fugitive from justice, was shot and killed by Gerald, the Chief of Police at Montgomery, Ala. Cottrell was drunk and was arrested by the police. He insulted the Chief and challenged him to fight a duel. Black diphtheria is prevailing in an epidemic form in Cygnet, Ohio. The schools are all closed, and business is practically susEended in the town. A number of deaths ave occurred and many persons are leaving the place. General E. A. O'Neill, who was Governor of Alabama from 1882 to 1886, died a few days ago at his home in Florence, Ala. He was State Solicitor in 1841 and a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1875. During the war he rose to the rank of Brigadier-General in the Confederate army. Wiifslow, a town of Pike County, Ind., was totally burned. Tho houses were all frame structures. Not one is left, and four hundred people are homeless. The body of Abraham Lincoln, Jr., was deposited in the monument at Springfield, 111., alongside of that of his grandfather. Ex-Governor Edward A. O'Neal died at his home in Florence, Ala., after an iliness of five weeks, from paralysis. Governor O'Neal served two terms as Governor of Alabama. A. C. Evans, a millionaire manufacturer of Springfield, Ohio, after an escapade with an actress in Cincinnati, ashamed to face his friends, committed suicide by taking opium. Early in this season he was manager for Agnes Herndon, the actress. Mrs. Mary Kent, colored, die! at her home in Moundsvilla, W. Va., aged 114 years. The boiler at the sawmill of M. J. Wright & Son, near Maguolia, Miss., exploded, killiner two men and fatally injuring two others. A traveling showman at Birmingham, Ala., designedly precipitated a panic among a thousand children, in which many of the little ones were horribly crushed and bruised. Ida Snyder was returning home from church at Hanna, Ind., riding in a buggy with a female friend. Albert Shurt, a discarded lover, met her, and shot Miss Snyder, killing her almost instantly. Shurt then killed himself. The Oklahoma capital has been located at Kingfisher. A jury at San Antonio, Texas, awarded Charles N. Briggs ?30,000 damages against the Southern Pacific Road for the loss of a leg. At a secret session of the City Council of Brazil, Ind., Jacob Herr was deposed as Mayor for alleged inebriety. T. C. Dawson, a prominent citizen of Glenvilie, Ala., was shot and killed at a race track in Columbus, Ga., by the Howard Brothers, who accuse! Dawson of having married and deserted their sister. *- *- - AS ? A 4U-.1 iU. ? IT IS Oinciauy aiiuuuui;ea mo vuocii and Crescent systam, the line from Cincinnati to New Orleans, is to pass into the hands of the officers of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, and that the two systems are to be operated under one manage men.. ? "Washington. The amount of per cent, bonds redeemed under the circular of October Si makes a total to date of $4,002,599. ' Major-General, Schofield made his annual report to the War Department on the condition of the army. {Secretary Noble refused Mayor Grant's second application for a recount of the population of New York City. The members of the Beta Thsta Pi Fraternity living in Washington and vicinity had a social reunion ami dinnvr at the Shoreham. A number of invite i guests from the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University were present. The President appointed Harry H. JBengough to be pension agent at Pittsburg, Penn., vice William H. Barclay, resigned. { Captain N.M. Brooks, of Virginia, ha? I been annointed Superintendent of Foreign Mails in the Postoffice Department. Mrs. Margaret S. Watkins, a clerk in the general delivery branch of the Washington City postoffice, was temporarily suspended from her duties, by order of Pr stmaster-General Wanamaker, pending an investigation for alleged offensive language to Richard Quay, son of Senator Quay. . Acting Adjutant-General Chauncey McKeever, in his annual report, says that tho desertions from the Army last year were 489 less in number than in the preceding year, and the parcenta^e, ns compared with the enlisted strength, was reduced from eleven to nine per cent. Major David B. McKibbev, United States Army, died at the Garfield Hospital, Washington, a few days ago. He suffered a long time from a cancerous affection of the throat. Don Frederico Volio, Charged'Affaires of the Costa Rican Legation, and Actios; I Minister for some montns past, died In his | rooms at the Elsmere, in Washington, of pneumonia, after an illness of five days. The funeral of Senor Don Frederico Volio, Charge d1 Affairs of the Costa Rica Government in this country, took place. His body was taken to St. Matthew's Church by ten sailors, preceded by tho Marine Band, and escorted by the entire diplomatic corps in full dres3 and t* o detachments of cavalry. Never in the history of the diplomatic service of the United states has 30 much pomp been shown at the funeral of the repressn tative of a foreign Government dying m Washington. Attorney-General Miller has decided that a "guessing contest" conducted by a newspaper is not a violation of the AntiLottery law. The report of the United States Signal Service Bureau was made public. The work of reorganizing the Signal Corps was begun. Foreign. At the close of the celebration of a Buddhist festival recently in the province of SzeChuen, China, a number of organized mobs attacked several Christian villages, burning the buildings anl looting their contents. Twenty native converts to Christianity were killed during the disturbances and their bodies thrown into the Yang-tse-Kiang ruver. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, while presiding over the Court of the Queen's Bench Division, London, England, was stricken with paralysis. Thanksgiving Dat was observed in Canada by special services held in all the Protestant churches of the country. Dr. Robert Lucius Ballhausen, Prussian Minister of Agriculture, Domains and Forests, has resigned. The establishment of the British protectorate over Zanzibar has been formally proclaimed. The Bank of England discount rate was advanced from five to six per cent. It caused a panic. Chancellor von Caprivi, of Germany, bad an interview with Prime Minister Crispi, at Rome, Italy, and afterward was entertained at dinner by King Humbert. The shoe manufacturers at Erfurt, Germany, have declared a lookout in consequence of a dispute arising from the dismissal of a workman. Three thousand men are thrown out of employment. It is said that many cures have resulted in Germany from Professor Koch's remedy for consumption; nothing is yet known of the nature of the process. Despite the order issued by the Government prohibiting the emigration of peasants and Polish Hebrews to Brazil, 300.000 have left Russia for that country in the last three months. Part of the roof of a house in course of erection in Prague, Austria, collapsed, demolishing a scaffold upon which a number of men wore working. Five dead workmen and six injured ones were extricated from the ruins. Five hundred armed Armenians concen trated at Mador, Russian Territory, and made a raid on several Kurdish villages, killing five persons. T xt,?, Pofar Panr? mare* punsized UUU A uuvi - ~ ,.v.v W| in a dory, while attending trawls, off New Foundland Fishing Banks, and drowne d. Election riots are reported to have occurred at Rosario, Argentine Republ'c. Troops were called out and several persons killed. A large tobacco factory at Madrid, Spain, was burned. Loss, ?200,000. Ten thousand persons were rendered idle by the conflagration. The reappearance of influenza is being reported on all sides in Germany, and a seminary in Nagold, near Suttgart, has been closed in consequence of an epidemic of this complaint, which has been raging there. A .ferryboat capsized in the Rivei Waag, near Bisztritz, Austria, and fifty-five peasants were drowned. The boat was overcrowded with men, wagons and horses. LATER NEWS. The North River Bank, of New York City, closed its doors, owing to the Wall street panic, and there were two unimportant failures announced at the Stock Exchange; "Wall street was easier Mayor Grant's application for a copy of the census returns of New York City was granted by the Census Bureau at Washington. T?n"WiMwirowf .Tohn Whalen and William Hastings were drowned in Ipswich Bay, Mass., a few days ago. They were of a party of sir meu who had gone out on a sporting trip ou the schooner Carrie F. Two old maids, Mary and Ann3 Meyers, who lived with an imbecile sister, Mrs. North, at Hartford, Conn., were found dead. They had evidently been dead for several days, as the bodies were somewhat decomposed. The cause of death was old age. Selby Jones, who committed suicide at Kansas City, Mo., a few days ago, was responsible for the shortage of $100,000 in the defunct firm of Hall & Willis. Jitdge T. P. Sanders, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, died at his home in Fort Smith a few days ago. The annual report of General Greely, Chief Signal Officer of the United States, show8 that of the weather forecasts made during the year ended June 30th last, eighty-two par cent, were successful. The marriage of Captain William P. Hall and Mrs. Therese Blackburn Stewart,daughter of Senator Blackburn, was celebrated at St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church in Washington City. Postmaster-General Wanamaker has sent a letter to City Postmaster Sherwood directing the reinstatement of Mrs. Margaret S. Watkins, the delivery clerk at the postoffice who was temporarily suspended for Oiinv's son that his father's l*7JUM? ucuabw* 'x, ? ? ? mail went to the Dead Letter Office now. Generai?S. V. Bexet, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, has submitted his annual report to the Secretary of War, From the report it appears that the bureau has expended during the last fiscal year $'2,2S9,820, leaving a credit in the Treasury on June 30, 1890, of $3,994,484. Qceen Emma has been appointed Regent to govern the kingdom of Holland during the illness of King William. The Emperor of Germany opened the Prussian Diet with a speech from the throne. He said Prussia had strengthened her relations with foreign States during the past year, and he looked forward confidently to continued peace. A revolution is now in progress in the capital of Honduras. The President of that Republic has been driven from the city, but is now collecting a force of troops, and is expected to make a fight for the recapiure of the Government. A KENTUCKYTOWN BURNED The Moat Imnordtnt Buildings ot Owcnsboro in JRuins. Owensboro, Ky., was visited by the most destructive fire in. her history. .At 1 a. m. the firo ha:l destroyed property to the amount of $250,005. At that time it was bslieveJ thai at least five persons hai met their death under falling walls, while others were seriously injured in jumping from burning buildings. The fire originated in a pantry in the basement of the Budd liousD, which was filia l witu quests. The ilaines hail gained considerable headway before they were discovered. The guests were awakened, an 1 some ran out into the streets in tlieir nigut-ciotning, wune many, crazed by fear, jumped from the windows of the hotel. Among these were two women and n child, all of whom were badly injured. William II. Halm jumped from a third story window of the Budd House, fell on his back, and was fatally hurt. Charles Laibeck, a traveling salesman from Philadelphia, and Charles Bareford, of New Albany, were badly burned. A high wind was blowing at the tiru9 the fire originated, and a,fter the hotel had been swept away the flames reached the Bank of Commerce, nest door, and that with the buildings occupied by Mark3 & Dregan, grocers, and Quicksert & Co., merchant tailors, was soon Id ashes. The buildiug occupied by the Gwensboro Messenger and several other houses were destroyed. THE NEXT CONGRESS. Senators and Representatives From the Various States. The Farmers' Alliance Elect Twenty-three Members. The following is a tabulated comparison of the present with the next House of Representatives as indicated by returns furnished by the Associated Press dispatches. The Senate after March 4, 1891, will stand as follows, one seat, from New Hampshire, being omitted as in doubt: I i ! ? Alabama. ...# 2 Nebraska .. 2 Arkansas 2 Nevada. 2 California 1 1 New Hampshire .. 1 Colorado 2 New Jersey 2 Connecticut.. 2 New York 1 l Delaware 1 1 North Carolina. 2 Florida 2 North Dakota 2 Georgia 2 Ohio 1 l .Idaho 2 Oregon 2 Illinois .1 1 Pennsylvania. 2 Indiana.... 2 Rhode Island 2 Iowa 21 South Carolina.. 2 Kansas *1 1 South Dakota... *1 1 Kentucky.. 2 Tenneesee 2 Louisiana....... 2 Texas... 2 Maine 2 Vermont .. 2 Maryland 2 Virginia 2 Massachusetts 2 Washington 2 Michigan 2 West Virginia .. 2 Minnesota 2 Wisconsin 1 1 Mississippi 2 Wyoming .. 2 Missouri 2 ? ? Montana..... 2 Total 42 45 Controlled by the Farmers' Alliance. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 5Ut Conqrts*. 52d Congrm. Dm. Rep. Den. Rep. Alabama 7 18.. Arkansas 8 2 5 California.'... 2 4 0 6 Colorado 1 .. 1 Connecticut 18 3 1 Delaware * 1 .. 1 Florida 112.. Georgia 10 .. 10 .. Idaho .. .. 1 Illinois 7 13 15 6 Indiana 10 8 11 2 i iu t ? Kansas 7 5 2 Kentucky 9 2 10 1 Louisiana 5 1 6 Maine .. 4 7." 4 Maryland 8 3 6 Massachusetts 2 10 7 6 Michigan 2 0 7 4 Minnesota 5 6 .. Mississippi 7 . .. 7 Missouri 10 4 14 Montana 1 1 .. Nebraska..... 3 3.. Nevada 1 .. 1 New Hampshire 2 2 New Jersey 8 4 5 2 New York 15 19 23 11 North Carolina 6 8 8 1 North Dakota 1 .. 1 Ohio 5 16 14 7 Oregon 1 .. 1 Pennsylvania 7 21 11 17 Rhode Island...... ..2 1 South Carolina 0 16 1 South Dakota 2 .. 2 Tennessee 7 3 8 2 Texas 11 .. 11 Vermont 2 .. 2 Virginia 0 4 10 Washington 1 .. 1 West Virginia 2 2 4 .. Wisconsin : 2 7 7 2 Wyoming 1 Total 151 179 248 80 Whole number of members. 332 Democrats in next House C4"i Republicans in next House 89 Democratic majority ...T. 151 THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE. The following table shows the numbsr of Farmers' Alliance candidates elected, with their party affiliations: lad. Dem. Rep. Georgia 6 Illinois 1 liwa 1 K .......... ? .. Minnesota 1 Mississippi 2 Nebraska ~ North Carolina..... 2 South Carolina 2 * .. Tennessee.. ~7 15 1 Total elected r?.~.T.M.. THE HOUSE BY DELEGATIONS. Should the next Presidensial election oy any possibility bo thrown into the House, each State delegation would be entitled to one vote, and the political party having the largest representation in the delegates would control that vote. The following table shows which party has a majority of Representatives in each State: Democratic State*. Republican S'a tt. Alabama, Colorado, Arkansas, California, Ccmecticut, Idaho, Delaware, Maine, 1 lorlda, Nevada, Cror^ia, j North Dakota, J-JJr 3i", Oregon, >, 1 Pennsylvania, , South Dakota, ]jcuo-nj, Vermont, l^crylinr., "Washington, Hcr^?.cad<-ctta, Wyoming. Michigan. fSIinacsol-a, iJ.licciEsinpi, illicsorji. 'Mon^c, 'Kebz-asifi., Kcw Hampshire, Kcw Jersey, l\ew York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin. Total?Democratic delegations, 30; Republican delegations, 12; Alliance, 1 (Kansas);, in doubt, Iowa. WALL STREET PANIC. 1 A Flurry in Stocks and the- Suspension of Three Firm3. The growing scarcity of money at the financial center, New York City, culminated in the inability of three banks to make good their debit balances at the Clearing House in the morning. It was a day of wild excitement in Stock Exchange and financial circles. Decker, Howell &Co., C. C. Whitney & Co., and David Kicbmona suspenaea, dug rirsr named with liabilities of {10,000,000. The Bank of North America, the North River Bank and the Mechanics and Traders' Bank wero unable to make good thenbalances at th9 Clearing House and the associated banks had to come to their relief and advance $1,300,000. Clearing House certificates will be issued and a bank panic prevented. It was also announced that the firm of Narr & Friend, at Philadelphia, one of th9 members of which belongs to the New York Stock Exchange, had failed, and the failure of John T. "Walker, So*i & Co., merchants and importers, at No. 81 Pine street, New York City, was also made public, but their suspension was only indirectly connected with tlip tight money market in Wall street. This monetary stringency is due to two causes?first, tho exigencies of London, brought about by over-speculation in almost every part of the world in general, but in tho Argentine Republic in particular; and secondly, to the almost unprecedented ac UV11J Ul UttUO ill uma wuuuj, nuiv.il Hv?o drawn fuuds away from the Eastern centres. The present disturbance is a repetition of i the two preceding ones. In the great d9- ] pression of 1873 tho first to go were the northern Pacific stocks, which were then j controled by Jay Gould, who went down in tlio wreck. The Northern Pacific stocks led 1 on the dccline of 1884, aud buried in their 1 ruins Henry Villard, who was the master I spirit in them. i Tlvj action of the Clearing House in voting ! to issue loan certlHcates to tue JJank ot iNortn Atnorica and all other banks connected with it that might require assistance, went far toward relieving the panicky feeling in the market. Some idea of the great loss sustained in Wall street is afforded when it is said that twenty-three stocks showed, up to the time of the panic, a total shrinkage in value since , November 1 of about $100,000,000. The associated banks of New York City have available assets of 195,000,000. Against this it was voted to issue Clearing House certificates in such volume as the situation might suggest or require. t.t L^- v - 1 FALHROi The Government Statistician's November Averages. The Largest Cotton Yield Ever Eecorded. The November returns to the Department of Agriculture of rates of yield per acre make the average for corn 19.9 bushels; pota toes, 57.5 bushels; buckwheat, 14.o Dusneis; hay, 1.20 tons; tobacco, 718 pounds. The corn crop makes the smallest yield reported, excepting only that of 1&81, which was 18.6 bushels. That of 1887 wa3 20.1 bushels. It is 83 per cent, of the average of the last ten years, a period which included four unusually poor years, and only 73 per cent, of last year's crop. The indications of recent returns Lave been so uniform that the estimate for permanent record will not be likely to change this figure unless by a fraction. The decline of the last decade is not due to loss of fertility, but to unfavorable meteorological influences. The highest rates are in New England as usual. New York averages 25.3 bushels; Pennsylvania, 27.5; Ohio, 20.7; Michi- < can, 26.7; Indiana, 24.3; Illinois, 25; Iowa, ] 26; Missouri, 25.8; Kansas, 11.3; Nebraska, ' 20.3. The principal decline is in the corn I surplus States. i The average rate of yield of potatoes is 57.5 i bushels. The condition of the crop in Octo- i ber was lower than any reported previous crop, except in 1887, beuig 61.7, against 61.5, < when the rate of yield was 56.9 bushels per i acre. It imports scarcity and warrants high i prices. The low rates of yield of principal i States areas follows: New York, 62 bushels; Pennsylvania, 68; Michigan, 58; Ohio, 46; 1 Indiana, 37; llliuois, 30; Iowa, 48; Missouri, 39; Kansas, 28; Nebraska, 27; Minnesota, 68; i Maine, 95; New Hampshire, 90, and Vermont, 95. The yields of thb hay crop are large as a rule throughout the country. The cane sugar crop will be a large one, and sugar ' beets have dono well west of the Missouri, indicating a probably rapid development of the sugar industry. The cotton returns for November are county estimates of yield per acre. The consolidation, considering areas with rates of yield, with correction only o? obrious errors, majces the average yield 187 pounds of lint per acre. It is about the same as the yield of last year, and better than the returns of vield last November, which were exceeded by the results of the final investigation. Much will depend on the weather of November and December, not only in perfecting growth, but in saving the orop. If the season remains favorable,and the views of the correspondents prove conservative, the result may be slightly larger than is here anticipated. The estimated yields by States are as follows: Virginia, 16S pounds; North Carolina, 182; South Carolina, 175; Georgia. 163; Florida, i 108; Alabama, 100; Mississippi, 200; Louisiana, 238; Texas, 196; Arkansas, 225; Tennesse, 191. The Government cotton crop report was received at the Cotton Exchange in New York City and caused some excitement in the market. It was the largest crop on record, being abont 8,000,000 bales, or about 700,000 more than last year. The market declined from twelve to sixteen points and closed in a nervous condition. DESPERATE DUEL, Three Men Killed and. Others Wounded in Kentucky. ( The election day duel in Estill County, Ky., turns out to have been one of the most) desperate encounters ever witnessed in KenJ ' tucky. A man from Irviue, Ky., tells the follow- 1 ing story of the duel: The principals were Dr. P. A. Lilly, a prominent young physi? cian of the town, son of Juage H. Clay , Lilly, on the one side, and John Wilson, J Commissioner of Common Schools in Estill, on the otber. Lilly was a Republican and ] Wilson a Democrat. Lilly brought upTi . colored man to the polls to vote him. Wil- j son challenged him. The judges of the election sustained the , challenge and the vote wa3 rejected. This fired up Lilly, and hot words ensued, result- j ing in the drawing of pistols by both men. ( Lilly got his pistel out readily, but Wilson's "hung in his hip pocket and was acci- , dentally discharged before he could get ( it out. In the meantime he received | two bullets, both lodging near the ; heart. The wouuds, however, were not im- j mediately fata!, and the combat continued. . Wilson got his weapon free at last and fired tero shots, one of which struck Lilly near the j heart. About this time Wilson's brother interfered and succeeded in wrestling Lilly's weapon from his hand. Nothing daunted ( him. however, and almost Li the throe3 of ( j T :i 1? UiP 1'nifa mflflfl CQPArfll U till Oil ljlllj UiOn uto ftuifcw mum ww . ? ? J stabs at his enemy. Both fell to the ground, but the terrible uael was not over. With the last of his fastebbing strength Wilson raised up and fired the last load in his pistol at Grant Lilly, a brother of Dr. Lilly, who had appeared on tho scene, inflicting a dangerous, if not fatal | wound, and theu crawled over to where his antagonist had fallen and buried the ham- ( mer of his pistol in his head. Lilly died in a few minutes, while Wilson lingered until the next day at noon. In addition to the parties already noticed as having been shot three outsiders wer? ] wounded, but were not seriously hurt. Al- j together the affair was the most desperate j that ever occurred in Estill County. , Grant Lilly is also dead. All the parties | to the difficulty were prominent men in Es- ( till County. Judge Lilly has gained a ( national reputation for trying the mountain j dasperadoat of Kentucky. ( JNUVJjL Tltiurj it?Ui3j5ijrti. ; A Sneak Thief Opens Safes and Gets Away With $12,000. < Two night trains on the Georgia Railroad, one leaving Atlanta for Augusta, at 11:50 i o'clock, and the other leaving Augusta for ' Atlanta at the same hour, were robbed on a recent night. The Southern Express Com pany takes no way packages, and the mes- ] sengers sleep on cots in the express car. The j train leaving Augusta was robbed of about t 540. ? Messenger Ficklen is a heavy loser, a tel- , egram from Atlanta saying that his pack- j ages amounted to $12,000. Ficklen says he j must have been robbed between Conyers, j which is about thirty miles from Atlanta, t and Oconee bridge, about eighty miles from ( Atlanta. He was asleep on a cot in his car, , and the robber must have entered the door ? next to the engine. Ficklen's key was in ( his vest pocket, which hung on the wall, j One package could not be got into the safe , and lay alongside. In the morning when . Ficklen reached Augusta his key was miss- f iug. After two hours' search, failing to t discover it, his safe was broken open, and it j was then discoverel that he was robbed. ( Both robberies wore evideut'.y the work of j the same man, who probably knew the run | of the road. The trains were not stopped, , the robber mounting them at a station quietly, and doing his work and getting off after- < ward. < MURDERED 200 INFANTS. ! Ihe Chief Culprit Sentenced to Only } Three Years' Imprisonment. i The trial of the midwife, Skibinska; her married daughter, Mme. llanowska; the ? latter's sister-in-law, and another woman, be- ' si'rJpa frwn men for the murder at "Warsaw. Poland, of 200 infants, has just been concluded. It was brought out in evidence that the children were never interred singly, c but in order not to excite suspicion the con- r spirators waited until half p. dozen of the un- . fortunates had died, when they were huddled into the same coffin. I The accused were defended by seven advo- } catss, but all were found guilty. Skibinska, the chief culprit, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, while her aicomplices I got shorter terms. Against thi3 leniency the I e Public Prosecutor promptly appealed. | t TKE total assessment ot Montana last yea\ c was a little over $79,000,000. This year it is ? $107,000,000 without tbe supplementary as- . sessment, which will bring the total to >110,- c 000,000, an increase of $31,000,000 for the i year, or nearly forty per cent. ? religious_reading7 TRUST. A picture memory brings to me: I look across the years and see Myself beside my mother's knee. I feel the gentle hand restrain My seldxh moods, and know again A child's blind sense of wrong and paiu. But wiser now, a man gray grown. My childhood's needs arc better known, My mother's chastening love I own. Gray grown, but In our Father's sight A child still groping for tlio light To read his works and ways aright. I bow myself beneath his hand; The pain itself for good was planned; I trust but cannot uuderstand. I fondly dream its needs must be, That :is my mother dealt with me, So with His children dcaleth He. I wait and trust, the end will provo That here and there, below, above, The chastening heals, the pain is love. -[J. G. Whittier. LOVE IS TIIE nOME. Nothingcan be more beautiful in the sight Df God than a home circle where the Lord reigns in the hearts of the members, and where love for each other is manifested in looks and tones, but dreadful the homo marred by unkindness and bickerings. Family quarrels are the hardest to heal, the most wretched to endure. Daily taunts and flings keep such wounds open, uutil finally hatred for each other ensues in utter defiance of the terrible denunciations of the Scripture against those who cherish hate in the heart. Love is the keynote of heaven, and the bappy, loving home is the purest type of the paradise above, where love and joy eternally reign.?[Christian at Work. A DRAUGHT FROM A DE1SP WELL. "I remember going into tne country on Dne particular occasion for my vacation. At the farm where I lodged there was an old wen, worKtng witu u sweep?uiai is, a oig beam working on a pivot, with n bucket at one end, which was so suspended that the bucket end could be dropped into the well, which was about sixty feet deep. I got hold of the beam and swung it round till the buCKOt touched the water, and I got a good drink. Just theu the old farmer came out; up baa 3een mc at the well. 'I have no doubt thai is fair enough water,' he said, 'but you do not know now to ? get a right good drink,' and coming over he seized the beam and sent the bucket down into the water about twenty feet, and I cot a draught taken from the very heart of the living rock. "I had thought the water I had drawn myself all that could be desired, but when I tasted the other I thought I had never drunk real water until then. I have often thought that young converts do not get deep enough spiritual draughts. One touch of the hem of Christ'!) garment, faith as a grain of mustard seed will save you. but if; dear friends, you wish to know Christ in his inexhaustible fullness you must drink deep of the living water which He so freely gives."?Rev. Geo. F. Peutccost. SUGGESTIONS FOB MOTHERS. I have been much impressed while reading the reminiscences of Lamartine's childhood with the natural way in which his mother taught her children to pray to God and to . think of him. When she went in the" morning to take them from their beds and assist them to ! dress, she would tell them about the good God who had given them sweet sleep, and : who made tbo sun they saw shining, the | liirHa tliev hpurrf sin<Hna. ihn arrflSS thev saw ' growing, nnd who had given thom kind parents to prepare their food: then she would appeal even thus early to their heart and conscience to know if they ought not , to thank him for these pifts and ask him to make them good children. So that it became the most natural thing in the world for them to kneel beside her ani offer a | morning prayer. At night she would not wait until drowsi* t ness had benumbed their faculties or their plays were absorbing them, but immediately after supper she would call in the servant , smd read short selections from Scripture, explaining them, and following with prayer. ! As soon as any of the children became old jnougli, she would teach them to lead the Jevotions. She always said grace before and after meals. It she walked tfith them in the . country and they came upon any beautiful bit of scenery, a cataract, a bed of flowers. J she would lead their hearts up from nature to nature's God. Nor did she neglect the j principal part of their religious training. For she took them with her to the bedsides of the sick and made them her almoners of bounty to the poor. At twilight she would quietly leave them to their play and retire for secret prayer. Out of doors she had a cho?en spot under some fruit trees?the most sheltered spot in the garden?and this became a sacred place :o her children. They never entered it in their sports, knowing it was where their mother lommuned with God; and when she returned to them with a smiling countenance, they felt that she had left behind her the burdens of the day and was at peace. Happy the children who had such a mother.?[New York Observer. THE MORAL VSE OK ItELPLHSSNESS. God allows us to exhaust ourselves before be Interposes. Tremature relief would be injurious to depth of character. We must j Srst despair of ourselves, before we can ' l utterly put our trust in God. Tho prodigal j began to be in want before he came to him- i self; painful pressure of circumstances!' iwoke bim to repentance. It is never any I loss to come to great extremities In spiritual experience, but an infinite spiritual gain. ' i "When we were yet without strength, Christ i lied for the ungodly" (Rom. 5:0). Wo are i ilwaya without strength in reality, but we j 1 ire not always so in consciousness. ; i The strengthlessness of our condition is i' >ne of the first Jesons God sets himself to I :each. And He teaches us, by not coming to < onr aid the moment we cry, but leaving us < to find out the measure of our power, and < ;he extent of our ability to help ourselves, [/'brist stilled the tempest on the sea after the < lisciplcs were so terrified that they cried, j; 'Lord save us; we perish." Not until they I. lad lost hope in themselves did He display j i jis power. "Then H e arose, and rebuked 1, he winds and the sea; and there was a great j aim." Their fearfuhuss of heart j >nhanned the impressivenoss of j lis command. and led to a pro- ; , founder appreciation of His majesty. "What J iianmr of Man is this, that even the winds \ ind the sea obey Him" (Matt. 8:24-27)? The , experience is bitter, and often protracted, | vhich issues in the soul ccasing from itself f ind turning in helplessness to God; but it , omes forth with a poverty of spirit, a con- i rition of feeling, a dependence on the Sa- ( rsour, which it could not otherwise have { (quired. God's manner of dealing with ? he iudividual is His mannero'' dealing with ] he race. It was human help'e>sness He s neant to teach and prove by delaying the j coming of Christ to the world, lie allowed ntellect, philosophy, art, civilization, to do s heir best before He sent His Son upon the 1 scene. 1 They brought the world to despair. Then i Christ comes" So is it now. and so is it ever. 1 !?ood only saves when we feel He must save < is, or we shall surely peri>h. The moment ,vc abandon hope in ourscl .-e>, the out- i stretched arm delivers. !{> grace are ye i laved through taith. and that not of your- < elves, it is the gift of God: not of work*, ] est any man should -boast." While wo 1 struggle to achitve self-extrication fiorn our ] iins, we, like the man in the morass, only link deeper and deeper. To be resetted by ] jod, we must resign ourselves to God.? i [Rev. John Bainl. i Nevada is getting on very well witliiut a Governor or Lieutenant Gover- . lor, both of these officials having died, 1 ind there being no provision for filling 5 ho vacancies until the next election. 1 tfuch has been said about the instabil- ' ty of republics as compared with mou-. trchies, but our ropublio, in its form' 1 ind the character of the people, is such hat its Fedoral and State Governments 1 tan exist in security for an indefinite : >eriod without an official head?a con- 1 lition that has suddenly plunged strong 1 nonarchies into auarchy and blood- i lllflfL 1 J: SABBATH SCHOOI INTERNATIONAL LESSON FO? NOVEMBER 30. Lesson Text: ''Jesus Risen," Luk? tj.iv., 1-12?Golden Text: I Cor. xv., SO?Commentary. 1. "Now upon the first day of the week; very early in the morning, tney came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them." On Friday afternoon His body wrapped in linen, with about a hundred pound weight of spices which Nicodemus provided, was by him and Joseph of Arimathea laid in Joseph's new tomb, wherein was never man yet laid (John xix, 88-42). According to Matthew and Mark, some of the women of Galilee who followed Him, ministering unto Him, saw Him die as they stood afar off, or rather were standing afar off when He died, and also saw where Joseph and Nicodemus buried Him. Th6n they returned and prepared spices and ointments and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment (xxiii., 56). These are they who come so early to the sepulchre. Witn ?nri and h?arv hearts thev come to add ona more kindness to the many which they have already bestowed on Him whom they loved so well. 2. 4,And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulcher." They said as they came, "Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulcher?' (Mark xvi., 8) But they find that difficulty removed ere thev come to it. When love leads us on in His v service, even though it often be unnecessary and unbelieving effort, His love and power rolls away all the stones; how much mora does He do this when our service is believing as well as loving! 3. "And they entered in and found not the botfv of the Lord Jesus." Putting the various accounts together, it would seem that Mary Magdalene was the first to find the sepulcher empty and the stone rolled away, and that she, too, was the first to tell Peter and John (Johnix., 1,2). Then it would seam that the other women came and saw an angel sitting upon the stone which had be?n rolled nway, and also an angel sitting in the sepulcher. and that each told them to go and tell His disciples that He was risen (Matt, xxviii., 2, 7; Mark xvi., 5, 7). Mary Magdalene seems to have lingered after the others, so blinded by grief and tears that she eituer did not know^ that it was angels who spoke to her from the tomb, or did not care to know; neither did she know Jesus Himself when He first spoke to her until He cailsd her byname. ' !, Bo blinding is unbelieving grief. U Mary : and the other women and the disciples had ' onlv believed His simple statement that He would rise again the third day thoy would not have been found looking in a sepulchre for a lifeless body or seeking the living among the dead. 4. 'And it came to pass as tbey were much perplexed thereabout, behold two men stood oy them in shining garments." These ar? probably the same two mentioned by Matthew and Mark- Jesus sent the seventy, two and two before Him (Luke *., 1): toe Spirit sent forth Paul and Barnabas, then Paul and Silas, Barnabas and Mark (Acts xiii., 2; xv., 39, 40). In the beginning of the church's history, and also in Jesus's last days, we read of Peter and John as fellowlaborers (Luke xxii., 8; Acts iiL, 1; iv., 19). So also we often Unci the angels two together, as when two accompanied the Lord to visit Abram and two appeared at the ascension (Gen. xviii., 1,2; Actsi., 10). 5. "And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living (margin, Him that liveth) among the dead*" See His own words to John long afterward: "I am the first, and the last, and the living one; I was dead and behold I am alive forevermore?' (Rev. i., 17,18, R. V.). We learn from this verse that unbelief causes fear and turns our faces earthward. The remedy is to look up and see Him who is alive forevermore, and who has the keys of hades and death; who has all power in heaven and on earth; who says, "Fear thou not, for I am with thee." 6. "He is not here, but is risen: remember how He spake uuto you when He was yet in Galilee." It would not do for us to say of nnr Haarl in Phrict tViah thev ara risen, for "risen" refers to the body, and the body remains in the grave till the resurrection of the righteous at the coming of Christ; but we may truly say as we look into the grave, "They are not here, they are with Christ." 7. "Saying, the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again." Many times had He said these very words just as plainly as these angels now said them (Matt, xvi., 21; xvii., 23; xx., 19; see also John ii19; Matt, xii., 40), but they hoi never believed them. 8. "And they remembered His words." That was tho right thing to do. If they had remembered sooner they would have saved themselves much sorrow. The word of God is to be received, kept, hid or laid up in the heart, eaten, talked about, meditated on. 9. "And returned from the sepulcher, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest." Remembering Hi3 word makes us forget our sorrow, and turns us away from the dead to minister unto the living. If we have not something to tell about Jesus our hearts must be very empty of the things which concern Him, and we had better ask ourselves if we really know Him. There are two appearances of Christ which occurred somewhere in connection with this lesson, though not mentioned by Luke. His appearance to Mary Magdalene before He had as J.J C.*I 1ft 171 on/f CCilUCU LU bUU X awua \UUUU AW| *?/, M?v? His appearance a little later to tlie other women whom He suffered to hold Him bv the feet and worship Him (Matt, xxviii., 0). 10. "It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary, the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles." According to the word of the angels, "Go quickly and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead," "they departed with fear and great ioy, and did run to bring His disciples word.' * It was then that Jesus met them and said, "Be not ifraid; gotell my brethren" (Matt, xxriii., r-10). The explanation of any seeming difficulty in the various accounts is that some of the evangelists summarize matters, while Dthers give a certain item or items more in detail. Thei e are no contradictions. 11. "And their words seemed to them as idle tales, aud they believed them not." Paul preached Jesus and the resurrection at Athens; some mocked, and others said: We will hear thee again of this matter. When it Rome he preached the Gospel of the Kingdom, some believed and some believed not (Acts xvii., 32; xxviii., 23, 24). We are lowliere encouraged to hope that in this dissensation all who hear the Gospel will beieve. The parables of the sower and ^he :ares declare the contrary, and also the comnission in Mark xvi., 15, 16. This is not to ~ -? 36 wondered at, for the carnal mind is mmitv azainst God. But these men to ivhom"thewomen came were disciples; they lad lived with Christ, had preached the Gospel and wrought miracles in His name, ind to them the fact of His resurrection was in idle tale. Let us not wonder then if the 31essed Hope of His return and all that ib lijpifies is to many true Christians only an dlo tale. IV. "men arose reter. ana ran unto xno iepulcher, and stooping down he beheld the iinen clothes laid by themselves, and departed wondering: in himself at that which, ivas come to pass." This is probably the same* risit to the tomb recorded in John ?x., 6, 7; ?r if not, then Peter went twice to the tomb ?once with John, when Mary told them, ind again alone, when he received a personal message by the other women. Some time )n this day Ho appeared to Peter (vs. 34); perhaps it was on this probable second visit to the sspulcher. The words concerning the linen clothes seemed to indicate that they were left lying just as when His body was lying in them, Ho having emerged from them without disturbing them. Dlessvxl are all who balicve. Wo shall be like Him.?Le> son Helper. _ The Western railroads arc complain* mg of a lack of cars to do tneir immense business. At the same time the stockholders are complaining of a lack )f dividend prospects. There seems ;o be something rotten in the managemeat of the Western railroads. An English traveler in this country lias criticised our umbrellas as "huge, misshapen, bulky, discolored, wretchedlooking articles." This may be true, but we have the advantage of not being required to carry the article as much aa the critio would be in his own country. , *\ i