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? Meeting of the National Body at Ocala, Fla. A Synopsis of President Polk's Annual Address. \\ > L. L. POLK. A public meeting of the Nat ional Farmers' Alliance was held in the Opera House at Ocala, Fla. About twelve hundred persons were present. President Rogers, of the Florida Alliance, presided. i The only business done was the calling of the roll and the appointment of a Committee on Credentials. After a recess for dinner another session was held, and Governor wiATTiincr nf Florida.made a formal speech of . welcornPjWhich was enthusiastically received. * ? John P. Dunn, a prominent aspirant for the United States Senatorship, followed the Governor in a brief address. President Foulks, of the South Dakota Alliance, delivered an address, in which he predicted victory for the Alliance at the ballot box in 1892. This sentiment was cheered to the echo by the delegates. All the speakers predicted the general prevalence Within a short time of the ideas embodied in the Alliance platform adopted at St. Louis. Chairman Rogers introduced President Polk, who delivered his annual address. He said, in part: Profoundly impressed with the magnitude of the great revolution for reform, involving issues momentous and stupendous in their character, as affecting the present and future welfare of the people, the public mind is naturally directed to this meeting with anxious interest, if not solicitude, and you cannot be unmindful of the importance and responsibility that attach to your action as representatives, coming from States and localities remote from each other and differing widely from each other in their material and physiological characteristics, and marked by those social and political differences mncrh no^occanlv arisft under our form of Government. It is your gracious privilege, as it shall be your crowning honor, to prove to the world by your harmonious action and thoroughly fraternal co-operation, that your supreme purpose is to meet the demands of patriotic duty in a spirit of equity and justice. The alarm incident to centralization of the money power and upbuilding of monopolies was then pointed out, and both political par ties were condemned for forcing and encouraging this condition. He urged that additional organizers be sent at once to Oregon, Washington, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Arizona and other States. Among the recommendations was one thai an organization be formed to be known as the National Legislature, composed of the National President and the Presidents of all State Alliances, their duty being to look after all legislative reforms detnauded by ttia Aliianrva Vwit.h In State legislation anc r Congress. He deprecated sectionalism, anc closed with an eloquent appeal for national harmony. In relation to the political action of the Alliance, he said that while the order is polit ical, it cannot be partisan or sectional in it! action. In support of this declaration h( pointed to the record of the Alliance in there cent popular election, and particularly to the noble and patriotic bearing of theBrotherhoot in Kansas and South Carolina. In regarc to the record of the Alliance during the pasl year, and especially with reference to th< legislation demanded by it, Mr. Polk de clared that Congress had permanently ig nored allot their propositions,notably in the -case of the measure known as tne Sub Treasury bill. "Congress,"' he said, "mus come nearer to the people, or they will ge nearer to Congress." In outlining the future policy of th Alliance, President Polk said that it wil demand the restoration of silver to a] the rights and qualities of legal tende which gold possesses, the issuance o Government currency direct to the people r equalization of taxes, prohibition of aliei ownership of land, ownership and control o transportation lines by the Government -limit of public revenues to the econotn ic ad ministration of the Government, graduatec taxation of incomes and the election o; United States Senators by direct vote of thf people. At the conclusion of President Polk's ad dress the Alliance resolved itself into a sor -ot "love feast," during which C. A. Power an old Union soldier from Indiana, movec that all ex-soldiers in the hall who indorse: the sentiments expressed in the speact of President Foulks, of South Dakota, with reference to tho burial of sec tionalism, rise up to be counted. Tha mo tion prevailed, and between forty and fiftj ?tooa up amid the wildest enthusiasm Under the inspiration of this goo: feeling an ex-Union soldier from Wis consin stood up in his seat and called upon all Union soldiers present t< give three cheers for the old Confederates ii! the Alliance. They were given with a will Then it was the Confederates' turn, and thej cheared the old soldiers of the Union with b volume and heartiness that raised no doubl as to the genuineness of their feeling. The cheers ended with a wild, old-fashionec "yelL" The convention then adjourned until eight o'clock next day, BLOWN FROM A GUN, The Crime and Punishment of an Afghan. Governor. Tho Jellalabad correspondent of a Lahore <India) journal reports that Mirza Abdul Samad Khan, Governor of Cbaplior in the Jellalabad province, was executed by being blown froic. a gun, for murdering Mirze ? ' * -1 -nT -!_!1 ZCO ~?f T_1?_ 1 _ adgui ooaivur jviih.ii, civil iuuldiu ui o eiuuabad. The execution took place outeide the Sherpore gate on October 7. in the presence of all the garrison of Cabul. The murder was committed about September 15, after evening prayer in the mosque in the village of Khusbgumbat, the victim being stabbed in the stomach by a servant of the culprit. The following day the latter arrested many of the villageis on the charge of having committed the murder, but tho other inhabitants of the place reported the real facts of the case by letter to the Ameer, who had Samad Khan arrested, tried, and executed within a few days. The motive for the crime is said to nave been that Shakur Khan had recently written to the Ameer reporting that Samad Kheui had mis' appropriated a Large sum of public mouey. LUMBERMEN DROWNED, A Boatload ot Men Upsets and Si.1! Find a Grave A sad accident took place at Miller, Sig noor & Co.'s logging camp on Devil's Lake, twenty miles north of Rice Lake, Wis. A boatload of men who were returning from ^ the opposite side of the lake to suppei were caught in a strong gust of wind be"Hvppn nnrl worA Th? fnllnw ing tvere drowned: A. D. Clark, of Royalton, Minn.; John Crotto. Frank Fouriner, William Knight, Arthur Page, Charles Btykes. i I Four of the men sank immediately, but Crotto. with his brother, floated on a broken cake of ice for five hours, when it upset with them. His brother was rescued. The bodies have not yet been found, owing to the condition of the ice, which is not strong enough to support men. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Daniel O'Conwell, a religious fanatic4, committed suicide at Ansonia, Coun., by cutting his throat. Frank Oatman and Cliff Beatley, nine and eleven years old respectively, were struck and killed by a train near Saudv Hill, N. Y., on a recent afternoon. Folly 25,000 people went to Eastern Park, Brooklyn, N. Y., and saw Yale boat Princeton at football by a score of 32 to 0. A crowded stand containing 2000 people fell during the progress of the game and^many persons were seriously hurt. John Gebhard, his wife and their two children were instantly killed by the train known as the "Nyack Flyer'' at Closter, N. J. Gebhard was a cigarmaker of Closter. George Dickey, clerk of the New Ham r J-l-i fiita rd poire Juegisiai/Ui e, uas lui ?. <*. ^ signation to Governor Goodell. The firm of B. K. Jamison & Co., bankers and brokers, of Philadelphia, Penu., made an assignment to Samuel G. Thompson. The firm, which is thirty-five years old, has liabilities of $500,000. As a carriage containing Jamas McNabb, his sister-in-law, Mrs. McNabb, and her sixmontbs-old infant was passing through the gorge in the mountains at Bound Brook, N. J., the horse became frightened and dashed down the narrow driveway, upsetting the carriage and dragging it over the embankment to the rocks below. The child was instantly killed and Mrs. McNabb received fntnl lniuries. Mr. McNabb had one of his legs broken, besides receiving internal injuries. The last rites over the remains of the late Mr. August Belmont, of New York, were performed in the chapel which the deceased erected in memory of his daughter, at Newport, R. I. The new steel steam lighthouse tender, built for the United States Treasury Department, was successfully launched at New York City. The Deposits Bank at Indiana, Penn., has closed its doors. The extent of the failure is unknown. The Bessemer plant of the Bethlehem 1 (Penn.) Iron Company has shut down for an 1 indefinite time. Twelve hundred men are ' thrown out of employment. The A. Campbell Manufacturing Com, pany (cotton yarns), at Manayunk, Penn., , was damaged by fire to the extent of $300,, 000. One fireman was killed and three , others were injured by falling wills. The Secretary of the Navy has made a contract with E. W. Bliss & Company, of Brooklyn, N. Y., for the manufacture of projectiles for the service. A contract has beec given the firm amounting Co $125,000 to ini stall a plant such as is needed. > Lyttleton Long, a brother of Colonel Chaille Long, the African explorer, was ar1 rested in New York City for forging checks belonging to Jacob D. No?dlinger to the amount of $40,000. sinnth and West. | A firs in Powars's dry goods building afc St. Paul, Minn., caused *150,000 damage. Bell & Restus's private bank at Du. lutb, Minn., has suspended. The deposits are about $500,000, the capital $100,000, an:? ' the surplus $100,000. The boiler o? John H. Ackers & Co.'s steam sawmill at Scotland, "Worth County, [ Ga., exploded, killing three men and iojur' ingfour others. The killed are Augustus ! Stmson, of Angelica, Wis.; Thomas Sammons and Adolphus McMillan. James L. Ptjgh was elected United States Senator by the Alabama Legislature, to suc1 ceed himself. At Sylacauga, Ala., William B. Hunter, | editor of the Bee, shot and killed Town Marshal Mokerson. The latter arrested the editor while with a party of friends, charging him with disorderly conduct. Hunter . was discharged. Next day the Marshal attacked the editor with a stick and the latter , defended himself with a revolver. I The Annapolis (Md.) Naval Academy I : team defeats the We3t Point Military | - Academy eleven at football on the campus [ at West Point. [ Some of the Indians of the Northwest ara ' still dancing, but there are no signs of an outbreak. ' The control of the Chesapeake and Ohio | Canal has been secured by the Baltimore ! j and Ohio Railroad. The University of Virginia football team 3 defeated the Trinity College team of North \ Carolina for the championship of the South 1 at Richmond, Va., by a score of ten to four, t Every coal miner in the Birmingham, ** * * -* ?AAA _ _ii u;? i I (Aia.) district, OWV 1U Ull, uuon uunu ixxa - pick ti)3 other evening, and tbe most exten siva strike of its kind ever known in the i Sou ill began. It was probable that 30,000 - men would be thrown out of work. ? Freeman B. Crocker, President of the fc Board of Public Works of Denver, and one of Colorado's most prominent citizens, com j mitted suicide because criticism of his public jj actions had deranged his mind. r Robert Leeds and Jeremiah Hitchcock f were fatally injured iu a railroad collision at Cherokee, Iowa. 0 The Brazilian naval officers visited Annaf polis (Md.) Naval Academy and were enteri, tained at dinner by Secretary Tracy. The Indians at the Pine Ridge Agency are ? drifting into the inaccessible Bad Lands. , Thomas G. Jones was inaugurated Governor of Alabama, at Montgomery, to succeed Thomas Seay. t The First National Bank of Texarkana, Texas, has suspended. This is the oldest 1 banking institution in the city. I 1 Washington. 1 The total population of the country, as . verified by the Census Bureau, is 63,022,250. r Admiral da Silveira and hisstafT of tha Brazilian squadron left New York and arl rived in Washington. The officers and men - on board the Brazilian ships are suffering 1 seriously from the cold. ' All the Executive Departments of the ' Government and the offices of the City Gov' ernment were closed Thanksgiving Day, and mercantile business was generally suspended. I The President, accompanied by Mrs. Harri' son, Dr. Scott, Mrs. Dimmtck and Mrs. Will. iams, the wife of General Williams, attended , divine services. After the service the party returned to the White House and ate Thanksgiving dinner. The President appointed Henry M. Gracay, of Massachusetts, to be Marshal of the Consular Court of the United States at Foo pkntff pkino vuvn, vuiuai The militia force of the United States abrogates 109,469 men, as shown by an s official report presented to Secretary [ Proctor by Captain D. M. Taylor. ( The President officially received Rear Admiral da Silveira and his officers of the Bra' zilian Navy and gave them a luncheon. In l the evening a social reception took placa at the White House. ' Secretary Wi.vdom has written a letter J tc Secretary Blaine stating that it is impracticable to adopt the metric system of weight i and measure in commercial intercourse beween the United States and other American i republic?, as recommended by the International American Congress. Attor.vky Geskbal Milt-hr has appointed Fleming Bignon Special Assistant United States District Attorney for Southern Georgia. | The annual report of the Secretary of the Navy has been submitted to the President, j The annual report of the Civil Service Commission, just made public, shows that the classified service has grown so as to include over 30,000 people. The annual report of the Secretary of the Interior, summarizing the work of that Department for the year, has been made pub, He. Republican Senators in caucus agreed to I k c.a hue A-vtva uui IU ape7&\aj paraagv. ? The debt statement issued shows an ini crease in the Public Debt in the month of November, amounting to $0,130,813. The . surplus in the Treasury ug^re^atcs $59,044,(.25, against $07,803,033 a month ago; a decrease of $S,75$,40S. Gexeral Miles spent a half hour with the Secretary of the Interior in discussing the Indian situation. Upon leav/ng theSeo retary's office, in answer to inquiries, he said that the Sioux continued to be much excited and that he feared an outbreak. He said h'j regarded the situation as alarming. The President has directed the removal from office of Joseph H. Wilson, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of >y,k" ? ? f Texas, on the ground neglect of duty and inattention to the public interests. The Fifty-first Congress reassembled to take up agaiu for three months the labors of legislation left unfinished at the | end of the long session on October 1. There was an unusually full attendanca in both branches. Foreign. Thirty-two miners were drowned by the flooding of the Breux pit at Vienna, Austria. This failure >s announced of Messrs. Oostendorp & Co., bankers of Antwerp, Belfium, whose liabilities are estimated at 1,500,000. Their assets axe said to consist ] largely of land in the Argentine Republic. Railway traffic was delayed in England by a heavy snowfall. Mr, Parxell issued a manifesto to the Irish people giving his reasons why he should i continue in the leadership of the Irish party. | The damage caused by the floods in Germany is enormous. Aqueducts, bridges, streets and squares have been destroyed, and hundreds of shopkeepers ruined. A royal decree of amnesty has been promulgated in Italy. Five of the six Irish members of Parliamont nnw in this eountrv issued a manifesto at Chicago declaring that Mr. Parnell must retire as leader of tne Home Rule Party. Lord Wedlock has been appointed Gov- i ernor of the Madras (India) Presidency, vice Lord Connemara. An English war vessel has gone to the New Hebrides to Dunish the natives for an act of cannibalism, two men, an English trader and his son, having been killed and eaten on one of the islands. The wife of Major Gregg, an instructor in the Sandhurst Royal Military College, Berkshire, England, suddenly became insane and murdered her mother. The demented woman then took her own life. THE LABOR WORLD. Wilkesbarre, Penn., has a female cob U1CI Over 8000 hatters are idle in Danbury, Conn. At Bengalore, India, laborers get 2% cent3 a day. The Cincinnati cigar-makers have left the Knights of Labor. Everything connected with the hiring of servants in London is unsatisfactory. New York piano varnishers want nine hours' work ana ten per cent, advance. I.v Victoria, Australia, bricklayers and masons work but seven and a half hours per day. The Working Girls1 Club of Baltimore, Md., will take up the study of Woman Suffrage. St. Paxil (Minn.) plumbers want a law to prevent incompetent men from engaging in the business. All the table glassware factories in tkt United States are now in the hands of an English syndicate. The miners of the South Wales and Monmouthshire coal fields have secured an advance of two and a half per cent, in wages. General Master Workman Powderly, after strenuous argument, has induced the Knights of Labor to cut his salary from $5000 to J3500. Two hundred and four American carpet mills, running 11,000 looms, employing 43,000 hands, made, in the year 1889, 76,800,000 yards of carpet. The Southern Mining Company is putting "iron men" into their pit at Prospect, Ohio. Thev say they are not getting enough out of [ the coal'as it is mined by baud. Whenever the New York Sixty-ninth Regiment parades every member of its band of sixty-five pieces receives $6 excepting the I leader, who gets $12. The drum major has 19. The San Francisco molders sent men to Honolulu and Omaha. The strikers won the suit brought against them for $35,000 by a non-union man whom they refused to work with. 1 The high rate of mortality amdng the shop girls, in the monster shops of Paris, six Eer cent, is largely due to premature vital exaustion from being unable to Bit down i throughout the day. The average wage3 of bakers in Germany according to the statistics gathered by August Bebel, the Socialist leader, are $2.50 per week, while the hours of labor are from fourteen to twenty per day. The Brooklyn (N. Y.) Reliance Labor Club is composed of marble-cutters and their employers. An eight-hour day will begin in February. The lowest pay tor cutters is fixed at $3.50 and carvers $4. Seventy girls employed at the Galland Undergarment Factory "in Ashland, Penn., went on strike because of a notice which requested them to carefully arrange all their work at night before leaving. The local assemblies of the Knights of Labor in-Maryland will inaugurate a systematic agitation for amending the nev Ballot law of that State, which has not proved to be tvliat it was expected by the labor organizations. A London gentleman recounts a somewhat surprising experience in endeavoring L- ? ??? ? ? TUttaa orvnlinonfa I Do engage a coiuumuu. xuec uLrpi^uM . trere found suitable, but refused the place because the family did not use liver jr. Two I tuits of clothes a year were to be furnished, ? but it was livery or nothings ... ^ ^ ALL HANDS KILLED. Four Dead Men Found at the Scene of an Explosion. Berwick, Penn., was the scene of a shocking boiler explosion the other day. Four men were killed, and a saw mill plant, including the stable and surrounding buildings, was burned. The accident occurred at four o'clock, when a great outburst of steam at Adams'? saw mill was followed by a terrific report. Crowds of people at once hurried to th? scene. Nothing remained of the little hamlet that had been built for the lumbering men, and its four inhabitants were strewn about the woods dead. IraGruver, one of the employes, was found about fifty feet from where the boiler house stood, horribly mangled. His brother was found in another direction also mangled badly, while their companions lay in the saw pit without mutilation, but dead. Examination of their bodies showed thom to have sustained fractures of the skull and internal injuries from which they must have died almost immediately. DYING BY HtJNDBEDS. Followers of the Mahdi Perishing of Starvation Around. Khartoum. A despatch from Suakim in the Soudan, says that the desert chief, Senoussi, is marching against the Mahdi with a large and well-armed force, and that the Mahdi, owing to numerous desertions and privations, is in no condition to meet the enemy. Iu Khartoum and vicinity all the food has been seized for the support of the Mahdi's followers, and the inhabitants are perishing by hundreds. An Arab living in Khartoum is said to have killed one ofnis slaves, the family being without food, and lived with his household for several days on the remains. There is abundant food in Iukin, but none of it is permitted to pass into the interior, as it is the purpose of the British to reduce the >nemy as much as possible by starvation. FISHING DISASTER. ! Seventy Vessels Ashore and Man} Lives Lost. Advices have been received of the disaster to the fishing fleet off Ofoten, ou the "Norwegian cnv! j. Out of one hundred and eighty smacks, all of which were compelled to cut away their rigging, seventy were driven ashore and battered to pieces on the rocks. Many smaller 'boats were also wrecked." Hundreds of lives were lost. The bodies of victims are constantly being washed ashore. The coast is intensely bleak and is sparsely settled aud the survivors are suffering greatly from exposure and starvation. Communication with the interior is cut off, the roads being blocked with snow. A steamer has left Christiwiia to assist the wrecked fishermen. y.JJfs.? . .fix. V ~TR. KOCH'S FLUID. The Liquid Lymph With Which He Inoculates Consumptives. What It Looks Like and How It is Used on Patients, In all parts of the civilized world Dr. Koch's cure for consumption is exciting tramendous interest. More than 2000 doctors from all parts of the world have gone to Berlin to study the new method of treating consumption, and patients by the tens of thousand have flocked to the German capital to get inoculated with the magic lymph. Speaking editorially, the New York World says of Dr. Koch's discovery: "Dr. Koch has furnished the physicians of the world with an effective weapon against the most redoubtable enemy of the human race. He has done that which must alleviate suffering in nearly half the homes in all civilized countries. Other physicians are adding constantly to the benefits that science has bestawed upon mankind, and some great ones have made immortal additions to the agencies with which disease is fought. But there is no name on the roll that will equal his, for no other malady is so universal nor is any more deadly than that his remedy assails, and what is alreadv proved shows that this remedy fax* surpasses "in effectiveness all hitherto essayed, and may even promise the eventual eradication of consumption. ".Tust what Dr. Koch has done in this regard it may be well to state. In lSS2helaid before the world evidence of the real nature of tuberculous disease and its dependence upon the presence of a specific germ, which hq, called the bacillus tuberculosis. All previous knowledge on the pathology of this disease has no value iu comparison with this. Koch showed that tbe germ existed in the tissues of all consumptive patients; that if this germ were lodged in the bodies of animals previously healthy they died of tuberculosis; that there was no tuberculosis without this germ, and that the disease was propagated by the transmission of this germ and not otherwise. Upon that discovery followed the universal inquiry: 'Can that germ be killed in the body without hurt to the body? for it was obvious that to kill the germ was the radical cure of the disease. Koch now answers by producing a remedy which, as proved, does kill the bacillus and does not nnH; t.ha nofi^nf; TT? oorou oil nofiawla in whom the disease has not gone so far that death is impending/' A correspondent of the World attended a clinic of Dr. Bergmann, a famous Berlin physician, and from one of his assistants obtained the following account of the precious liquid and the manner of inoculatlong patients: "It is important to understand that the tuberculosis disease, which exhibits itself in many form^ with children, begins usually with what is known as wasting away, attacking their abdominal organs, also in what ia known as scrofula, in which the enlarged glands appear on the neck, followed by hideous scars. Lupus is commonly called tuberulosis of the skin. In lupus, the skin, bones and joints also suffer. In 1882 Koch made it known that this disease was due to a minute germ which ravages the entire body. When seen under the most powerful microscope this organism looks like a fine scrap of the thinnest thread. Once having entered the body it rapidly grows and multiplies, gradually destroying the tissues on which it lives. Koch's method of destroying the bacilli is founded on exact scientific) principles. He claims that his fluid will destroy che living tissue in which these germs live, and that with the death of the tissue the activity and ultimate expulsion of the germ from the body must ensue." "What does Koch's precious liquid look 111.. <1(1 T 11KB : ' x aa&ou. "It has somewhat the color of sherry, and slightly viscid. It is supplied from Koch's laboratory much too strong for us?. Before injection it is usually diluted to one onehundredth of its original strength. It is a most deadly poison. An overdose produces scrips results. One patient so overdosed was unconscious for thirty-six hours, and was expected to die at any moment. The remedy it usually administered by subcutaneous injection with a syringe invented by Dr. Koch. This consists of the usual glass cylinder and hollow needle, but instead of a piston to eject the contents an india-rubber Dall is used, which when pressed forces out the fluid with much power. 'The inoculation is generally made under the skin between the shoulder blades. When the fluid is used on healthy persons commonly no particular result ensues unless a large dose is administered. But when inoculated in a tuberculous patient extraordinary effects are produced in whatever portion of the body there is any tubercular living tissue. Koch's liquid is carried everywhere by the blood and finds and attacks it3 enemy. The parts affected become irritated and inflamed: the whole system becomes atrectea; tae patient's temperature iisss until at the end of twelve hours it may reach the excessive height of 106 degrees. "It soon falls, however, and each succeediug injection rises less than the previous ir.oculation, finally followed by no noticeable rise at all. Such cases we i egard as cured; the patients are be- j lieved to be free from tuberculous tissue; bub it is undeniable that after an interval inoculation may again produce a rise of temperature, and tubercular bacilli may reappear. It is certainly not true that the disappear ance of bacilli or their complete absence from the sputa implies that the patient has no tuberculi; but it is certain that after the treatment by Koch's njetbofl the sputa, which formerly swarmed with bacilli, becomes free, the patient loses the hacking cough, the night sweats, inability to eat, ana gains weight and spirits. The presence of bacilli in the sputa is a certain proof of tuberculosis, but their absence doe3 not prove the contrary. Some very bad cases of consumption which have been inoculated by Koch's treatment received no benefit from it, whereas milder ones have. Jn the case of one patient who died of a different: . disease while under treatment, a post-mortem examination showed no sigu .of the arrest of consumption." ? i PARNELL AT BAY, Stormy Meeting of the Irish Members of Parliament. The meeting of the Irish members of the ' House of Commons in London, England, called to consider what action the Nationalist party shall take in regard to the leadership J of the party, began at noon. Mr. Parnell and his Private Secretary were the first to arrive. Mr. Parnell "took the chair ] and called the meeting to order. Telegrams from the delegates of the party now in the United States and from Archbisbop 1 Croke were read. An adjournment was ] then taken until 1:30 o'clock to allow the members to procure luncheon. Before the meeting Mr. Parnell held a con- 1 ference with his supporters. Messrs. Joseph \ Nolan, Kenny, John Redmond, William Redmond, Edward Harrington, Power, Shiel and 0'Kelly were present at the conference. < When the meeting reconvened about a T-j.u 1 seventy-live iusli uieuiucis ul tuo nuuw were present. : The motion for the retirement of Mr. Parnell was made by Mr. John Barry, member for South Wexford, who aided the late Isaac Butt in founding the Home Rule Con- 1 federation of Great Britain in 1873. i Mr. Joseph Nolan, member for North Louth, submitted an amendment to the effect that the question of the retirement of Parnell should be postponed until the members had personally ascertained the views of their con- ; stituents on the subject, the party then to meet in Dublin and decide the matter. Mr. Parnell ruled out of order any reference to his conduct in the O'Shea case and ( this brought him into frequent collision with the different sneakers, especially Mr. Heal v. c with whom Parnell exchanged hot words. ^ Parnell displayed great passion throughout. At half-past eleven the meeting adjourned * until noon next day. f I 0:rE of the finest veins of coking coal yet r discovered has recently been found in South- t eastern Virginia, measuring twenty- two feet c in thickness, witn two feet of slate. It be- a longs to the Flat Top or Pocahontas field, \ which has bean partially developed in the last few years and became so univerally \ known for its coke and steaming qualities. t - li The total number of deaths from cholera J i*n Spain during the present epidemic i3 about 1 3000. The disease has not yet been stamped i: out in Valencia. " *y v ? LATER NEWS. Mr. axd Mrs. Cyrus W. Field celebrated their golden wedding in New York City. Mrs. Lucy Wood, 105 years old, of Barre, Vt., has sent a petition to Congress for a pension, her husband having been an army teamster in the War of 1812. The employes of thirteen shoe factories of Rochester, N. Y., numbering about two thousand, struck, because 1 he manufacturers refuse to employ members of the International Shoemaker*' Union. The New Hampshire lower house met in extra session at Concord. The Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to recommend that the names of twenty-two members, twelve Democrats and ten Republicans, be striken from the roll. Ellis Miller, the Union County murderer, was hanged early on a recent morning in the Penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio. A Kentucky farmer came across the river to Evansvllle, Ind.. and engaged five colored men to load corn on a barge. The party attempted to cross in a skiff. The river was very rough, aqd when near the Kentucky shore the skiff was capsized and the Ave colored men drowned. The Bank of Commerce in We3t Superior, Wis., closed its doors and made assignments. Among the depositors was the city, which had with them $230,000. The business portion of the town of Collinwood, Ohio, was completely wiped out by fire. President Harrison has issued a proclamation that in cases of collision at sea the mastera of vessels must stand by and aid each other. Admiral De Silvtera and other Brazilian officers looked upon the sessions of the two houses of Congress, under the chaperonage of Secretaries Blaine and Tracy. Admiral Silviera and Senor Valente at night returned the complim?fitary banquet given them by Secretary Tracy. Covers for one hundred were laid at the Arlington. Nearly every prominent army and navy official in "Washington was among the guests present. Secretary Blaine was also present. The Irish Home Rule members of the Brit, ish Parliament held another long and exciting meeting in London, but without result; a motion to postpone the question of Parnell's retirement was defeated. Advices from the Congo State report that the natives are still rebellious, and that fighting has occurred between them and the forces of the State. Eight natives were killed and twenty wounded. A French woman, the Marquise Gaggel, while traveling in a railway carriage from Monoco to Toulon, was attacked by thieves, who pinioned her and robbed her of $1250. Forger Albert H. Smith, the juniorpartner of the stock brokerage firm of Mills, Robe3on & Smith, who were swamped by his forgeries to the extent of WOO. 000, has been sentenced to seventeen years in Sing Sing (N. Y.) Prison. Secretary Windom has selected as a site for the Appraisers' Warehouse in New York City the square bounded by Christopher, Washington, Barrow and Greenwich streets. This square contains 56,000 square feet, an J ?sj-t. *u? nf a am oil nnrfcion. is WllsU IUQ CAt jyvivu Vk ? r. , __ owned by the Trinity Church Corporation. The price to be paid for it is >500,00). The Rittenhousa "Woolen Manufacturing Company of Passaic, N. J., haa gone into the hands of a receiver. The liabilities are S803,000. Colonel Hevl, of the Unitel States Army, alleges that th9 Indian trouble was dii9 to a scarcity of rations; a blizzard prevails in the Northwest and prevents fear of immediate danger from the Indians. Ex-Congressman Isaac M. Jordan was instantly killed at Cincinnati, Ohio, by falling through an elevator shaft at Lincoln's Inn Court, which had been carelessly left open. The Farmers' Alliance Convention at Ocala, Fla., appointed a committee to look into certain insinuations against President Polk and others. The fine cut department of the Scotten tobacco works at Detroit, Mich., was destroyed by fire. Two firemen, O. G. Robin son and Patrick Coughlin, were Kmeu. jj-jm i 6300,000. Fire destroyed the Arlington Hotel and four adjoining buildings at Oxford, Ala. A falling wall fatally injured W. H. Orr, Chief of the Fire Department; Walter Gallagher, fireman, and J. M. Whitesides and C. J. Dodd. Loss $100,000. The President has nominated Lathrop B. Kinney, to be Probate Judge in Sevier County, Utah; Everett B. Sanders to bo Register of the Land Office at Wausau, Wis.; Robert H. Johnson to be Receiver of Public Moneys, at Wausau, Wis. The Democratic Senators in caucus re- ( solved to oppose the Election Force bill to the end. The Japanese Charge d!Affairs has just received a telegram from uis Government announcing the appointment ot Mr. Gozi Fateno to be Minister of Japau to the United States. Deputy Minister of Finance Couuvskt bas loft for England to float a loan tor a mw million dollars to pay off soma $3,000,009 of i Canada's floating liability and to meet i maturing liabilities on account of inter 39t on i the national debt. ] The body of a young peasaut girl, so hor- 1 ribly mutilated as to suggest the handiwork ] af a "Jack the Ripper," has been found in a i forest in the vicinity of Borne, Switzer- ' land. , Mr. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ire- j land, has ordered a man-of-war to secure ten J tons of meal and immediately proceed to the relief of the distressed people of Clara Island md Innisturk. Advices from Orenburg, Eastern Russia, state that the mercury suddenly fell from three degrees of warmth to thirty degrees of cold. Four caravans of horses, sbe9p and , camels and thirty Kirghese, who were riding across the steppes, were frozen to death. ( DE. KOCH'S LATEST. | rhe Care and Prevention ot Two Contagious Diseases. < Sir Joseph Lister, in a speech at King's j College, Loudon, on his return from Berlin, mnounced that within a month the world vould be startled by two new discoveries. ne saia mat. ur. ivocu s iranscenuingiy imjortant consumption cure hinted at and inrolved the cure and prevention of two >f the most terrible contagious diseases cnowu. Sir Joseph Lister had witlessed experiments on guinea pigs in which hey wero inoculated with a new, simple ihemical substance which anybody would be ible to prepare, and were totally unaffected vhen germs of diseases were injecteJ. Dr. Koch had practically concluded this vork of discovery, but desired to make furher tests. Therefore he desired to keep his atest discovery secret for the present. Sir 'osepti Lister said that he was convince! hat this discovery wa3 the most importaut a the history of melicine since that of valine. ' * ' V. --V-; ~st mail mm Annual Report of Postmas ter-General Wanamaker. The Revenue $5,000,000 Large: Than Ever Before, The annual report of Postmaste.'-Gcnera Wanamaker for the fiscal year ended Jun. 80, 1890, has bsen made public. * In the administrative methods of the Da partment some changes have been made. A new series of smaller stamps, criticised, anc jusujr uribiuitfeu m unst su iur tm luc iwy cent stamps are concerned, are now, it is bo lieved, quite acceptable to the public. More than $200,000 has bean saved on th? contract for postal cards, which, thoughthej were properly criticised at first, were quickly brought up to the required standard by the contractor. Four hundred thousand dollars have been saved on the contract foi stamped envelops; $200,000 or more has beet saved on certain contracts for carrying th< mails, and at the same time the mail routes have been extended over almost twotaillior miles of railway, steamboat and stage lines. Mr. Wanamaker says that the gross rev enue is nearly $5,000,000 larger than it evei was before. Almost 5000 new Postoffices it ore than in any one year before have been established upon the petitions of communitia which have needed them. Over 5000 milei of railway Postoffice service have been put on. The railway postal clerks have reduced the number of pieces usually sent to tin Dead-Letter Office by 2,000,000. It appears from the report that 14,072 Postmasters were removed during the pasl two years and 26,680 appointed in the same time. The appointments for th< past year numbered 14,468 and the r& movals 6374. The total number of Post offices is 62,401. Hie net increase in the number of offices, after taking in account all of the offices discontinued, was 3905, a considerably larger number than ever before in the history of the service, the next largest being immediately after the close of the war (1866), when the net increase was 8278. Mr. Wanamaker favors, wherever practicable. one-story inexpensive buildings for Postomces, and says that to move out of a six-hundred-dollar rented. room, safe and ample for the postal business, into a one* htindrMl.f:hnnun(<Jnll>p VmilHinv vliapa t.)i? janitor alone gets more salary than She whole of the rent in the former place, cannot be justified on any business principles. The Postal Service, he saya, does ot need any such expenditures. A one* story structure is all that is required in three cases out of four. Of course, due regard must be paid to the size of the town and the location in which the building is to erected, as well as to architectural features conformable to the dignity of the Government; but to waste money on numerous storiesj with towers and turrets for dignity alone, is not in accord with the American idea of utility and taste. The anti-lottery legislation has entailed much extra labor upon the inspector force, but, on the other hand, ^he temptation to thieving among employes of the Department has been much diminished by the same means. The past year has been made very disagreeable to "green-goods" swindlers. ii egouaraons wiin tne uermau auwionsies looking to the establishment of sea postoffices have been successful. A commission of postmasters has examined 900 methods, designs and suggestions for house letter, boxes to find something which, if universally adopted, would save a quarter part of th9 time of the carrier force of the Department. A new Postofflce Building for New Y?rk City is recommended. More than two hundred thousand dollars, he says, has been added to the pay roll of the clerical force in twenty months, which is a much larger amount than was ever granted before in a corresponding period. But, however muqh the Department: tries, it cannot overcome fixed physical conditions, It is useless to expedite trains and lose the gains at an overcrowded postofflce. The fleet ocean steamers might as well ba a day late, so far as ths mails are concerned, u tneir immense ouik 01 mcomuig uiaui/si u to be piled up iu the Nw York office until space can be cleared for it. The Postoffice building is totally inadequate. The men cannot be managed either economically 01 with the greatest speed. The total expenditures for the service dur Ing the year wa9$66,645,083; the revenue was 160,858,783, leaving a deficiency of $o,786.BOO. Compared with the preceding fiscal year, there was an increase of $4,710,768 in revenue, and an increase of 14,089,036 in expenditures. THE CENSUS FIGtJBES, We Are 02,022,250 by ? ie O* cial Count. The Census Bureau has issued the cXJal census figures as finally determined. Tl 3 ! total Is 62,623,250, or a difference of 141,71'J from the report of October 23. The official figures for New York State are 5.997,8.53. The entire North Atlantic division of States have a population of 17,401,545, a3 follows: Maine 601,086, New Hampshire 376,530, Vermont 332,442, Massachusetts 2,238,943, Rhode lsland 345,506, Connecticut 740,258, New York 5,997,853, JXew Jersey 1,444,933, Pennsylvania 5,253,014. The Atlantic Division amounts to 8,857,920; this includes Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Boutn Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Northern Central Division, 22,352,279, and it includes Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North ana South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas. Southern Central Division, 10.972,893?Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Arkansas. Western Division, 3,027,613?Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California. FIVE YEARS' ABSTINENCE. If Holland Drinks Rum He Will Go Back to Prison. Edward Holland, a life convict, who was sentenced W Sing Sing (N. Y.) prison on June 20, 1S78, for the murder of Ellsworth, a fellow laborer on the Croton dam, was liberated from prison upon a commutation jf his sentence from Governor Hill. A condition of the commutation was that he should totally abstain from liquor for five fears and if he violated the condition he should be returned to the prison to serve out the life sentence. His wife secured a divorce ifter his sentence, remarried and is now living near Patersou, N. J. He had two chiliren by her and feels much aggrieved at her action. UNCLE SAM'S FINANCES. Secretary Windom'3 Annual Treasury Report. Secretary Windona in his annual report says the receipts of the Government wer? $463,963,080, and expenditures $35S,613,5S4 ot which $106,936,855 was for pensions. Th< estimated surplus for the fiscal year 1892 ii Dnly $15,147,790. In regard to the payment of pension*, ho suggests that the quarterly payments be made at different dates in various parts of the country, so as to avoid accumulation of large sums in the Treasury, the payments at New York to be on thf Fourth day of May, August, November anc 1 February. Regarding the currency, he says that the jravest defect in our present financial system is its lack of elasticity, the demand for nouey being so irregular'in amount of cir- < mlation, the amount required iu August j ind September being more than at any oth- ; ;r time, to move the crops, but he offers no ernedy. Regarding the silver law, he says that it , las been the means of providing a healthy ' iddition to the circulating medium. lie uvors me reuuimug ui uucun cut smuu < lilver coiu. < Further legislation is needed to exclude , jersons unfit for citizenship, and it is there- ' 'ore recommended that all emigrants be re- ( juired as a condition precedent to their I anding, to produce evidence attested by our : Aiinilai* nfflnoro nf fVialr mnrol manfal ari/1 .UUOUiUl UUiVOi J W4 UUUJi UAWAUlf UiVUMk UJJU I ? >hysical qualifications to become good citi- 1 lens. _ | ] ''-y r - - _ :"S FIFTY-FIRST OONGBESS. la the Senate. 1st Day.?The opening proceeding in the Senate were very quiet. The Wyoming Senators were sworn and chose their seats, Mr. Warren drawing the short term closing March 3, 1893, and Mr. Carer the long one, ending March 3, 1895. There was the usual large crowd in the galleries, but they contained few persons of distinction.. .The President'9 Message was read and referred ... .On motion of Mr. Sherman the Senata then adjourned. 9n TliV ?Thn Honat-o hir *. vntA of forfcV one to thirty, took up the Federal Election bill. The bill took fir3t place as' 'unfinished business" ... Several bills for the free coinage of silver were introduced....Mr. Sherman introduced a bill providing that the present tariff act should not be construed to repeal or impair the stipulations contained in tha ? reciprocity treaty vrith Hawaii. 3d Day.?General debate on the Fores bill was begun, Mr. Turpie making the opening speech for the opposition... .The location of site for the Public Printing Office Building was discussed.... A lively debate on the Indian question was held.... Mr. Pierce introduced a bill appropriating $200,000 for repairing and extending the buildings at Fort Abraham Lincoln, North Dakota... .Mr. Cullom introduced a bill appropriating $100,000 for the erection of a public building at Danville. HI... .Mr. Cameron introduced a bill to grant a pension of $100 a month to the widow of the late General Daniel McKibben... .Mr. Cullom intro duced a bill providing that from and after July 1, 1891, the rate of postage on domestic aha drop letters shall be one cent for half an ounce or less, and one cent for each additional half ounce or fraction thereof. In the House. 1st Day.?Speaker Reed announced that the House of Representatives would come to order forthwith and begin the second session of the Fif ty-flret Congress... .The President's Message was read. ...The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury asked for an appropriation of $30 000 to purchase gas buoys to be used on the Atlantic coast..., Mr. Coleman introduced a bill appropriating $9,000,01)0 to repair and build the levee* on the MissLteippi River....Messrs. Flower and Cummings introduced resolutions in Congress designed to secure a new census enumeration in New York City.... Mr. Dockery offered a resolution for an in* vestigation of the allegations that twelve Senators and fifteen Representatives, more or less, were pecuniarily interested in a "po?l," which bought and neld silver bullion, pending the silver legislation of last season ... .Four bills to provide for free and unlimited coinage of silver were introduced. 2d Day.?The morning was taken up bj Mr. Wheeler, who. discussed for an hour the reference of a Virginia claim to the Court of Claim8....The Pension Appropriation bill was taken upduring the afternoon as regular business... .The House voted to' consider thi Copyright bifl Mr. *'ranK mixoaucea ? Reapportionment bill. 8d Day.?The Copyright bill was passed by a vote of 139 to 95.... Mr. Belknap Intro* duced a bill to limit to tl the fee which any person may receive for prosecuting a claim, for increase of pension. The maximum fee at present is $10. A STEAMBOAT BUBNED, Five Persons Perish on Bo&?d the Magnificent T. P. Leathers. The magnificent river palace T. P. Leathr trs, the finest stern wheel steamboat plying the Mississippi, caught fire just after leaving Port Adams, twenty mile3 above Bayou Sara, La., at 11:80 o'clock the other morning, on her way down the river. The boat's bead was turned to shore, and all the passengers rescued, but the vessel and her cargo of 2500 bales of cotton were totally consumed. Four roustabouts and the chambermaid perished in the flame* The T. P. Leathers was comparatively a new boat, owned by Captain T. P. Leathers; who is known from Maine to the Gulf in connection with Captain Cowder's celebrated outlet scheme. j Cotton Crop in the United States, j ' The yield of cotton in th# UnitedStates rose, in round numbers, gradually j' but rapidly, from 40,000,000 pounds in! f 1801 to 3u,uuu,uw iq jloix, ana irom 170,000,000 pounds in 1621 to 1,684,-; 000,?gf whi$h 936,000, were exported to Greffit Britain?in the season of 1841-j 42; thence to 4,861,000 bales in 185960, of which Great Britain received 669,000 No accurate record of cotton movements was kept during the Civil War. Liverpool reported the receipt of 72,000 bales from the United States in 1862, 132,000 in 1863, 198,000, " ia 1864 462,000 in 1865, 1,163,000 in 166b, end the maximum of 2,886,000^ bales ii. the season of 1882-83. In tho season of 18C6-36 tho crop was 2,278,--' 000 bales of wh'ich 1,262,000 went to Great Britain; in that of 1889-90, according to Shepperson's Cotton Facts,' the crop in round numbers was 7,262000 bales, with average net weight of 450 pounds per bale, or 3,267,990,000 pounds. The statistical abstract of tho United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, returns the yield at 6,-, 935,082 bales, averaging 465 pounds per bale, or 3,437,408,409 pounds with farm value of $292,139,209, of which 3,456,407,552 pounds went to England,' and 13,992,515 pounds to Scotland; 41-' 259 bales were sent to Mexico, and 1, 884,741 to the continent of Europe; 1,-' 060,376,010 pounds, or 30.78 percent.' of the entire yield, were retained for. home manufacture and consumption; 7,973,039 pounds of cotton were impoited, principally from Egypt ria England, to be manufactured1 into thread, laces, and other fabrics requiring long staple, by Clark & Co., Auchincloss & Co. and other firms. A small quantity of cotton, mainly in transitu, arrived from the "West Indies. Cotton, although no longer imperial, is still one of the most regal elements in the foreign commerce of the country. "While the crop of 1889 was the largest on record, the indications are that it will be exceeded by that of 1390.?Harper't Wceily. A Remarkable Diamond. A large diamond was recently found in the De Beers Consolidated Mines at _ Kimberly, South Africa, by a native, says the Jewelers1 Weekly. It was in two pieces, one weighing 19^ carats and the other 25$ carats. The remarkable feature of the stone is its shape, as, with tha two pieces joined, it measures two and a half inche3 long, one inch broad and three-quarters of an inch thick. It is crystalized more in the form of ordinary quartz, except that, instead of being hexagonal, it is of the prismatic form, hr.ving only three sides. At ona end?the base?it has a flat cleavage plane on the slant, and there is no doubt that, to make it a perfect crystal, there is another piece about three-quarters of an inch long that should be added to it, and which may yet be found in the sorting. At the other end, or top, it comes to 1 blunt point, and it is this piece that was broken off. It is of a light brown :olor. To anyone not thoroughly acquainted with rough diamonds it would ippcar a piece of brown quartz, as the jleavcu or broken end naturally forma :he base of the quartz formation, as if it had grown on the rocks. The coating is more like that of the river diamoada. [t is valued at $10,000. J