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r J , ITALY IS INCISED. Baron Fava, Minister to the - United States, Recalled. Relations Severed Because of the '' ; New Orleans Lynching. A new and highly sensational twist was fiven to the diplomatic tangle growing out the New Orleans lynching by the ani iouncement to the Stato Department by flaron Fava, the Italian Minister a1 Washington, of his perjmptory recall by the tlome Government and the consequent sev" ? .1 i xv nfin ml ofinnc pance 01 an serious uijj.uuiam, > between the two countries as far as the Capital is concerned. A dispatch from Washington says: ShortSr after rfeven o'clock this morning Baron ava,wh? has for so many years represented (be Italian Government as Minister to the United States, walkel into the State Deftfi'Sinent and requested an immediate audi* Qlce of Secretary Blaine on business of p"*at importance. . ^ r The Secretary directed thatTne Italian l?inist?r should be shown into the private , liplomatic room, where he immediately joined him. Baron Fava, with many per* rjonal expressions of regret, informed the Secretary that it was his duty to announce Jhat he had received instructions from His Ifai'afitv Kine Humbert to ask through the Secretary an audience with the President in \ Order to present bis letters of recall. In accordance with diplomatic usage Baron tfava handed to Mr. Blaine a copy of the inItructions he had received from his GovernKnt. They were curt and to the point, ey referred to the implied pledge held gat by the Government of the United tates in the dispatch sent on March 15 to the Governor of Louisiana that the President and the Governor of Louisiana would co-operate in maintain* ' log the treaty obligations of the United States toward Italian subjects in NewOrleans and in promptly bringing all offenders against the law to justice. It was then added that "as the United States Government has not given assurances that the murderers of the Italian subjects aoquitted. by the American magiv trates and murdered in prison while fender the immediate protection of the authorities of Now Orleans will be brought to Justice, the Italian Government has found ltaelf under the very painful necessity of ^icoot.Ufar>Hoii bv recall OUW?iUg IM lng the Minister of King Humbert from a country wnere the Italian representative is unable to oLtain justice." Secretary Blaine, it is understood, while . expressing surprise and regret at this api barently hasty action on the part of the Italian Government, inasmuch as the facts of the case were still undetermined and under investigation, promised to convey to the President the Italian Minister's request, and to ask for him an interview so that ha could present to the President in person his letters of recall. The immediate cause of offense to the Italian Government is understood to be the evasive and unsatisfactory reply of Governor Nicholls to the telegram addressed to him by f the Secretary of State. 7L~ ' ' call of Baron Fava puts an end to a ay further direct communication between 1 ae representative of Italy in this country .vnd Secretary Blaine. Hereafter the State L apartment will bo obliged to communicate -dl/ectly with the Italian Government at num?. Secretary Blaine had a long consultation with the President and Cabinet on the newaspect in the diplomatic negotiations with Italy. The idea that the trvvo nations would really go to war was scouted by everybody. The question of our available military resources iand the present condition of the fleet was ihardly touched upon, and the increase of the (army or the concentration of navy supplies was not even suggested. ' The question, most seriously consid| ?ered was whether we should retaliate by !withdrawing Minister Albert G. Porter from iRotne. The opinion of nearly every member fof the Cabinet was against tnis. It was felt tthat Italy had acted hastily and would probably soon regret her action. For us to follow in her footsteps would make matters fworse and would detract from the dignity jof our position without in any way helping I Strange as it may seem, this is the first itime in the history of this Government that fa foreign diplomat has voluntarily demanded pis passport. There have been a few cases, .(however, in which the passports have been jreturned, which practically amounts t*? a j PROMINENT PEOPLE. Ex-Speaker Reed has gone to Europe. Senator-elect Prefer, of Kansas, wears <no necktie. The Czarwitch of Russia will not visit the United States. Theodore Thomas will be offered the position of Musical Director at the World's Dr. Nansen, of Christiania, Is about to " make another attempt to find the North Pole. The King of Italy has granted to Princess CJlothilde the pension of her husband, Prince i Napoleon. The late Prince Napoleon was dull, incap able and cowardly. He was nicknamed Plon-Plon," which ineao3 one who fears lead. Edwin Booth, the tragedian, declares that he will never write a book. He is e&id to have refused $25,000 and a heavy royalty. Kaiser Wilhelm, of Germany, has written a biography of his grandfather, 260 copies only of which will be printed for circulation among royalty. Senator-elect Palmer once worked for -twenty-five cents a day on an Illinois farm, and afterwards learned the trade of cooper. He paid his own way through college. General John C. Lee, Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio under General R. B. Hayes, JtTlfl rma r\f fha rr?r*af. nrAminanf loww/mo thatlftate, died recently, aged sixty-three. Senator Sanders, of Montana, says that it la inconvenient for him to sleep in a sleeping-car, for the roason that he is too long for the berths. His feet stick out at the end of the berth, to his great discomfort. Charles Felto.v, tho new California Senator, is a New Yorker by birth, being a native of Erie County. He is sixty-nine -years old. He went West in '49, and though poor then he is a millionaire several times now. Daniel H. "Wells, counselor of the twelve apostles, general in the Nauvoo Legion and an old-time leader and trusted official of the Mormon Church, died in Suit Lake City, Utah, a few days ago of pleura pneumonia. The late Senator Hearst, of California, was forty-nine years old whe.i the Comstock silver mines were discovered. In Six months after he reached the Comstock lode he had made $500,000 and from that date till his death his wealth went on multiplying. When ex-Empress Eugenie left the railway carriage in the Paris station, on tho occasion of her recent visit to the French capital, she was almost lifted out, and did not need the walkin? sticks she usuallv car riee. She was attired in a plain black dress. Her hair has become white, and enhances the faded beauty of her face. Her smile is pathetic, and every line in her countenance bears */he impress of sorrow. Thomas A. Edison was at Schenectady, ST. Y., the other day, where the Edi.son Works are located, and after examining au ?lectric torpedo boat, diued at the hotel. As en evidence of how deeply absorbed lie becomes at times in his thoughts, it is said he got up from the dinner table, and in passing out of the dining room commenced to sing "Sweet Violets," much to the amusement of the waiter eirls and hot-el guests. The contract for erecting a monument to the "Unknown Dead" of the great flood, Whose bodies rest in the Grandv'ew Cemetery, at Johnstown, Penn., has just been awarded. The base is to be twelve feet high, and the granite shaft will rise twenty-one feet, six inches. It will be surmounted by three figures representing Faith, Hope and Charity. The monument is to cost $6500 and is to be completed by May 31, 1892. F The Chilean Government has bought, through its agents in Hamburg, several fast gtauners which will be fully equipped as cruisers to operate against the insurgents. TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Charles arbuckle.the millionaire coffes merchant, died a few days ago in Brooklyn, N. Y., in his fifty-ninth year. A wreck occurred on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, two miles from Ashland, Pennby which three men were killed and several injured. The commercial hotel and boarding house of R. . Henry, at Austin, Penn., were destroyed by fire. Three lives were lost, Lizzie McGarisk, a sorvant; Jack McGarty, a boarder, and an unknown man. The origin of the fire is unknown. The stranded United States warship Galena was floated and torred from Gar Head to Vineyard Haven, Mas. Erastus B. Stickney, of Lansingburgh, N. Y., dropped dead of heart disease at the age of ninety-one years. His death so affected the mind of his only daughter that it became unbalanced, and the next afternoon she dropped dead of heart disease. The biggest snow storm of the Beason swept over Pennsylvania a few days ago, delaying railroad traffic and rendering country roads impassable. The fall was heaviest at Pittsburg, Reading, Harrisburg and Lancaster. Ret. Dr. Howard Crosby. the distinguished Presbyterian divine, died of pneumonia in New York City, aged sixty-five. Claus Sprkckels has effected a truce with the Sugar Trust and will abandon his Philadelphia refinery. About 5000 school children are sick in New York City with either grip or measles. General Charles A. Johnson, a retired army officer who served in the Mexican and Civil Wars, committed suicide at New Haven, Conn., by shooting himself. He was sixty-five years of age, and a descendant of John Quincy Adams. The coke strikers in the Connellsville(Peon.) region became riotous and destroyed much property of the companies. The mob made a raid on the Jimtown plant of the Frick Company, putting to flight the non-union laborers. A dynamite bomb was exploded at Leisenring. The Leith works were also raided and tne plant gutted. The Grand Jury in New York City indicted the Directors of the New York and New Haven Railroad on charges of misdemeanor in violating the New York law9 asrainst tieatiner cars with stoves. The in dieted men are: Charles P. Clark, President, New York; E. M. Reed, Vice-President, New York; Wilson 6. Hunt, New Haven; E. H. Trowbridge, New Haven; W. D. Bishop, Sr., Bridgeport; Henry C. Robinson, Hartford; Joseph Park. New York: Henry S. Lee, Springfield; Nathaniel Wheeler, Bridgeport; ChaunceyM. Depew, New York; William Rockefeller, New York; Leverett Brainerd, Hartford. South and West. General James A. Ekin, of the United States army, died at Louisville, Ky., a few days ago. He was born in Pittsburg in 1819. He was a member of the commission which tried Mrs. Surratt, and was for many years Quartermaster of the Government at Jeffersonville, Ind. Henry Smith, colored, was handed at Louisville, Ky., for the murder of Louis J Specht. Specht was a saloon keeper, and employed Smith. Specht asked Smith to do some work. Smith grabbed a pistol and beat Specht to death. Captain W. D. Dowell, a well-to-do farmer and State Treasurer of the Farmed Alliance of Arkansas, was buncoed out of $3000 at Fayettesville, Ark. It was the same old game. Captain Dowell loaned one of the men the money with which to cover a wager on a game of cards. Two landslides have occurred on the Spartanburg branch of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, in North Carolina, and through traffic has been discontinued. The track is covered to a depth of forty feet for a distance of a quarter of a mile. Captain Henry E. Catley, of the Second Tnfantry, United States Army, tried at Omaha, Neb., on the charge of feigning sickness at Pine Ridge, has been acquitted. General Brooke disapproves the finding and icquittal. Colonel John McEnerv, who, the Democrats claimed, was elected Governor of Louisiana in 1872, died at New Orleans, La., aged fifty-eight. A mob of 250 armed men at Belgreen, Ala., overpowered Jailer Waltrep, and took "Jeff* Denzmore and "El" Hudson, two colored men arrested for burning the town of Russellville, to a neighboring tree, swung them from a limb, filled them full of bullets, and left them^^ A HOL^^fc blown in the port boiler of the steamer Wfcier, which was on her way to Savannah,?*., from Brunswick. The noise jf the escapile steam caused a panic among the colored deck hands, several of whom rushed overboard, and four of them were drowned. The Italians employed by the Construction Company building Camden's road through Upshur County, W. Va., incensed at the remark made B. Gr. McCauley, a track I boss, justifying the New Orleans lyinching, shot him dead and mutilated his body in a j horrible manner. There are over 500 | Italians engaged on the job. Chicago, III., reports three hundred deaths i from the grip during a recent twenty-four ; hours, | A blast furnace in Terre Hauto, Ind., full of molten Iron, burst. Two men were inj stantly killed by being swept under the hot iron and much damage to property resulted. A nrr*/\* ? fnmilvr nAnciofin? nf A Horn Ror TT ELKJkuC* lauiuj, wuoioviu^ v?. a?\u?u< vM? ley, his wife, a sister and a daughter, have died in the past week after a few days' illaess of ula grippe," followed by pneumonia. They lived near Stephens City, Va. One of the heaviest rainstorms that have occurred since the memorable Centenuial I flood visited the region around about Galena, | 111., doing great damage to the railroads and other property. Citizens of Decatur, 111., are boycotting the local cemetery because the body of 0. \V. Crawford, who was hanged for murder, is buried there. Will Field, colored, was lynched at Mineola, Texas, for making a criminal assault upon an estimable lady residing near the city. G. W. Porter, of Kansas City. High Chief Ranger of the Missouri Order of Forresters, has disappeared with the Order's money. Washington. The President appointed Joseph Pinkham, of Idaho, to be United States Marshal for the District of Idaho, and John C- Quinn. of California, to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of California. Indiana, received from the Secretarj of the Treasury a draft for 5769,144, being the amount of the direct tax money returned to the State under the act of the last Con gress. the clotn cnosen Dy tne rosLomce uepartment for the new uniforms of the letter car riers is a new shade of cadet blue. The contract tor furnishing two suits each to tht 10,070 letter carriers throughout the country at $15, without hat or cap, has been awarded to a Baltimore firm. The President has pardoned George Smitb, convicted in Michigan of breaking into a postoffice, and sentenced April 10, 1889, to live years' imprisonment. n n n . ? e t-? _ _ rr* . iuajdk Ej. u. r^ai-ttbujiis, umei .rostorncu Inspector, has accepted the office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General. The Treasury Department made tbo following payments under the French Spoliation Claims act: Mary B. Scott, administratrix of Jacob Clement, 834,093; Cassias F. Lee, Jr., administrator o? William Hodgson, Miss Grace Fuller, daughter of the Chief-Justice, was married to Archibald Laphara Brown, in Washington. The President made the following appointments: Thomas H. Carter,-of Montana, to be Commissioner of the General Land Office, vice Lewis A. Groff, resigned; James Compton, of Fergus Falls, Minn., Surveyor General of Minnesota, vice John F. Norrish, term expired; Ernest W. George, a British subject, to be Marshal of the United States Consular Court at Hankow, China. The wife of Senator Faulkner,of West Virginia. died in Washington from inflammation of the stomach, caused by an attack of the grip. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has issued special instructions to the Collectors in regard to the tobacco traffic. He say3 that the practice of allowing cigar manufacturers to put up in packages their scraps, cuttings, clippings, etc., and attach thereto stamps and place the same on the market as manufactured tobacco should bo discontinued. Foreign. CotTN't Arthur Kesselstadt and Countess Anne Fries were caught in a storm in a pleasure boat off Albazia, Austria, andwero drowned. The youthful Count Fries was saved. A merchant has been murdered bv a Mafia assassin at Kufstein, in the Tyrol ol Switzerland. M. Baltcheff, Bulgarian Minister oi Finances, was assassinated while walking with Premier Stambuloff, in Sofia. The Cork (Ireland) Court House caught fire while the Tipperary riot trial was^oind on, and was destroyed. Many ancient and valuable records were burned. Camille Tombea.u, of East Templeton, and Alfred Bradley, foreman, of Prescott, were killed by a slide of rock in a phosphate mine near Ottawa, Canada. The will of the late Prince Napoleon was opened at Rome, Italy. It was found that he left everything he possessed to his son, Prince Louis. Sergeant Meter, of the Reserves, has been sentenced to fifteen years' pnprisonment for inciting men to Socialism and to disobedience of the orders of the German Emperor during the manoeuvres near Berlin. Severe fighting at Sligo, Ireland, between the two factions of Irishmen was prevented only by the constant interference of the police. Dr. Tanner. Member of Parliament, was assaulted by a mob at B&llina and was knocked down and dragged a considerable distance. There was heavy snowfall in Great Britain and France. A riot occurred at Moven, Argentine Re- i Eublic, during the recent elections. Two undred voters attacked the police and general firing ensued, which lasted two hours. The killed and wounded number twenty. A unrtKff nrvnirrori nn fchft Chilian man-of war Pilcomayo while lying in the harbor of Buenos Ayres. The mutiny is supposed to have been instigated by Chilian residents of that city. Three sailors were killed and nine were wounded. By the wreck of the missionary schooner Chapman on the west coast of Tahiti, th? crew, numbering sixteen, were drowned. Influenza is again raging in Berlin, Germany. Many deaths from the disease are reported. Two hundred Bengalese troops and eighty Goorkhas were shot to death by hostile tribee in a pass in India. Earl Granville, who had been 111 for several weeks, died on a recent afternoon In London, England. Lord Rosebery succeeds to tho leadership of the Liberals in the Hous? of Lords. Granville George Leveson-Gower, Hscond Earl Granville, was born on May 11, 1815. LATER NEWS. Teie United States steam tug Nina has ! been floated and towed alongside the Galena i at Vineyard Haven, Mass. The Connecticut House of Representatives adjourned to November. Toe bill appropriating $40,000 for representation at the World's Fair was passed by the New Hampshire legislature. Christian Montao, of Savannah, 111., drew out 10,000 pounds of fish the other day at a single haul of his net from the Mississippi River, the catch being the largest ever made in chat section. Judge Paul A. Weil committed suicide with a revolver at West Bend, Wis. Ho had been a sufferer from la grippe. He was about sixty years of age. John Maitland macdonald, s cousin or Sir John Macdonald, the Canadian Premier, and one of the most remarkable characters iu this country, died at Fort Smith, Ark. He was a geologist, mineralogist, mining expert and a speculator. Ho squandered three or four fortunes in England, Australia and this country. John Henry Martin, thesteDson of Senator Vance, who while drunk broke into tho White House, has been let off with a fine of $25. The correspondence between Baron Fava and Secretary Blaine relative to tho recall of tho Italian Minuter by King Humbert was made public. The elections just held in Chili have resulted in a complete triumph for the liberals. It is reported that tho situation in which tho insurgents at Iquique find themselves is a most desperate one. Prince Bismarck was seventy-six years old a few days ago; thousands of visitors greeted him, and ho received 3000 congratulatory messages. WONDERFUL COUNTERFEIT. The Two-Dollar Silver Certificate Duplicated Even to the Paper. A sensation lias b9sn caused at tha United States Treasury Department at Washington by the discovery oE a counterfeit $3 silver certificate so nearly perfect in all its parts as to be almost impossible of detection. Heretofore all counterfeits of our paper currency havo been readily detected by the failure to imitate the distinctive character of thepapar on which Government notes are printed, which is so arranged that each part of it forming a complete note contains a solid silk thread running through it lengthwise. This paper is, for the first time, almost perfectly imitated in the counterfeit just discovered. 80 far as is now known it has been used of the series of 1886. This note was designed under the supervision of Treasurer Jordan and contains on its faca a vignette of General Hancock. It is estimated now that nearly $40,000,000 worth of these notes are in circulation; and the problem before the Treasury Department is how to get them back into the Treasury and to suostitute a new series without serious embarrassment, before any considerable quantity of the counterfeit notes get into circulation. It has been practically decided to suspend the printing of the $2 silver certificate and to institute a new series of the same denomination. These will contain a vignette of Secretary Windom and will be issued as soon as the necessary plate oau bs engraved. It will take about two months to prepare the plates, and in the meantime the Government will exert it3 utmost endeavors to secure and destroy the plates and other paraphernalia used in the manufacture of the counterfeit. TWO MURDERERS HANGED. Geo, W. Moss at Willcesbarre, and Wm. Stangley at Mauch Chunk. George Washington Moss was hanged at Wilkesbarra, Penn., for the brutal murder j or tiis wire, uctooer iu, issy. Ho had ill-treated his wife for years aul was tinMlv sent to nrison on her cDmolaint. After his reteas?, which was secured largely on his professions of penitence, he renewal bis cruelty and soon began to lay plans to kill his wife. On the evening of the murder he bought a cheap pistol, and going to bis house, deliberately shot and killed the helpless woman, j He then tried to kill himself, but only suej ceeded iu inflicting a serious wound. Moss's neck was broken by tbe fall on tlae scaffold. William Stangley was bangeJ at Mauch Chunk, Ponn., for the murder at Weatherly of Mrs. Albert A. Walbert, with whom he boarde:!, on October 12, 1889. He had quarrelled with the woman and she had had him arrested. The suit wa3 afterwards withdrawn, but Stangley brooded over the affair, and on the morning of the murder went to the house, and, aftAr a quarrel with Mrs. Walbert, shot her. Ho narrowly escaped lynching when captured. -?. in i ??i " \ ' ' ' *' ' ' ' - " ' ** '7 . * LOST IN THE WBECK. The Bark Dictator Founders Off Cape Henry, Va. The Captain's Wife, Son and Six Sailors Perish. The Norwegian bark Dictator, Captain Jorgensen, from Pensacola to West Hartlepool, England, laden with pine lumber, with a crew of fifteen and the Captain's wife and boy of three years, went ashore on the Virginia coast in a strong easterly gale a few mornings ago, four miles south of Cape Henry and two miles north of Virginia Beach Hotel. Eight lives were lost, including the Captain's wife and son. The weather was so thick that the vessel was not seen until 9 o'clock. She was then in the breakers broadside on, and within a ?[uarter of a mile of the shore. Fall crewB rom the life-saving stations?those of Cape Henry and Sea tack?under command of Captain Drinkwater, were promptly on band, and began firing lines to the ill-fated i *_ mi. . u * u&tk. i at* guua luiuu uun utuou hwuuu, though repeatedly fired. The crew finally succeeded in getting a line ashore. It was tied to a barrel, which the surf carried to the life savers. The breeches buoy was quickly rigged and sent to the vessel. Unfortunately the crew were ignorant of its use. and the rescue was delayed until Captain Drinkwater of the life saving crew wrote instructions, put them In a bottle and sent it to the Dictator by the line connecting the vessel with the shore. The men on board broke the bottle at once, as could be seen by glasses from the shore, and proceeded to carry out the directions. The first man was brought ashore in eight minutes, and seven others were rescued before sunset, four of whom came in a lifeboat, which was capsized, but the men succeeded in reaching the shore in a half-dead condition, one man having his arm broken. During the entire day the ship rolled and pitched terribly, and made the work of rescuing the sailors difficult and slow. The life line would tighten and slacken in response to the motion of the vessel. Once the line broke, with a man midway to the shore, and he was hauled back to the bark half dead. The line was mended, and the same man safely landed. The beaoh was lined with people who had come from the country houses and the ho- ^ tel near by. To the spectators the suspense was painful. They could plainly see tho people oil the bark and hear their criea for help. At nightfall there were still nine persons on the Dark, among the number being the Captain, wife and child. The Captain urged his wife all day to take the buoy and come ashore, but she refused. She would not leave her husband and child, and only one could take the buoy at a time. That night the work of rescue was continued, and the Captain, after vainly beseeching his wife to make an attempt for life, took his half-dead child and strapped him to his back. The father said farewell to the wife and leaped into the sea. The father reached the shore; but the son was lost. Late at night the bark went to pieces. All on board were, lost, including Mrs. Jorgenson. All <-viof aamM Ko erafrr\m fiia halfa dead sailors as to the cause of stranding was that they did not know where they were,the sun not having been seen for four days, and the weather being so thick that they struck the breakers before they could see the coast. The life savers worked all day without food. The list of the saved Is as follows: Captain J. M. Jorgensen, Second Mate Julius Anderson, Ampler Barrett, John 8teven, John Patterson, Yelmer Olsen, John Mall, Carlo Olsen (broken arm)/ and Charles Joseph (colored). The Dictator wa3 trying to make Hampton Roads, having been disabled by hurricances. THE SOUTH'SlEYELOPMENT New Enterprises Started Daring the Last Three Months. The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Tradesman's report of new Industries established in the Southern States during: the first three months of 1891 shows a total of 853, against 837 in tho corresponding period of 1890 and 612 in the corresponding period of 1889. During the three months there were established in the Southern States 6 agricultural implement works, 6 barrel factories, 12 boot aud shoe factories (a comparatively new industry in the South, only 2 having been established in the first quarter of 1889), 3 breweries, 1 bridge works, 2 car works, 10 canning factories, 45 cotton and woolen mills (which is somewhat below the number established in the corresponding quarter of 1890?but the distribution is general?Georgia leading with 12,South Carolina S.Texas 7,and nearly every other Southern State being represented), 5S large development and improvement companies organized, Texas leading with 12 and Alabama with 10; 31 electric light companies organized, 22 flour and grist mills, 47 foundry and machine shops, against 43 in 1890 and 45 in 1889 (Texas leading with 10, Virginia 9, and the balance being equally distributed), 9 blast furnaces organized, against 23 in the AAfcoanAnrlinrv r\9 1 >}QA nnH 17 in IftfiO 7 gas work3 organized, 28 ice manufacturing plants, 53 mining and quarrying companies incorporated, 4 nail works, 8 oil mills, against 21 in the corresponding period of 1890, 5 potteries, 1 rolling mill company, 53 street raiiway lines incorporated, 12 tanneries, 32 water works chartered, 141 woodworking plants, and 79 miscellaneous industries. The phosphate excitement in the South is sucli that thirty-two new companies were organized during the quarter, nineteen of which were formed in Florida. The extraordinary activity in railroad building in the South is evidenced by the fact that during the three months ninety-three new railroad companies were incorporated, thirteen in Virginia, thirteen in North Carolina, twelve in Georgia, ten in Alabama, seven each in West Virginia, Texas and South Carolina, eleven in Tennessee and the balance in other States. The Tradesman adds that the present indications point to continued activity In the Southern States in all industrial branches. a n-DTnrnrrm mr> a txtjo t?t mint" 11l X IUj.IVX.CL JL J.XI.O.J..W O X JJ U1* VJJJ Thirty-Nine Cars Piled, on Top of a Locomotive?Three Men Killed. "While a freight train on the Philadelphia and Readiug Railroad was ascending the grade from Locust Summit Station on a recent night the locomotive jumped the track near Barry Station, Penn., and rolled down the embankment,carrying with it thirty-two freight cars. Engineer Andrew Walker and Fireman John Oches, also Frank Myers, a passenger engineer, who was riding to hia Lome at Tamaqua, were instantly killed. Conductor William E. HofEna and Brakeman Lewis Cockert and Jacob Yenancer were injured, the former fatally. The cause of the wreck is attributed to the spreading of the rails. Succe.'ji in Jouriiallain. Cienius ia literature and journalism is the faculty of doing things much quicker and better than the majority can do them; and is not a thing that i3 easy to kill by obstruction or that can be prevented from making itself kuovn. It is the rarest of human Rifts ani it is not worth while for anybody to imagine that he has not it. It will alwavs prove itself to others, and it i3 just as well for its possessor to remain nuconscious. For the young man of talent and industry, but not of genius, who desires to make his way in the newspaper business, we recommend study, intelligence, moral integrity, great accuracy in the statement ot facta and of principles, economy in living, always paying your dobts, first-rate health and a power of work equal to a steam engine's. With these he will got along, though lie may never draw the greatest prize ic the list of professional success. The newspaper business is just like any other. Those who succeed in it are fewer than those who do not.?Hew York Siul. / / ' GEN. SHEBMAN^TDESIOT. The Simple Monument He Selected to Mark His Grave in St. Louis. "Work has begun on the monument which was designed by General W. T. Sherman himself to mark his grave in Calvary Cemetery, St Louis. The monument is being made by the New England Monument Company. A few weeks before his death General Sherman called on Mr. Canfleld, of the Monument Company, and expressed his views as to a proper monument to mark his grave. A drawing was prepared, and after it was somewhat modified, according to suggestions made by the General, he accepted it, saying he would place it among his papers and leave a request for his executors to carry out the design. Shortly after the General's death his son, the Rev. P. T. Sherman, arranged with Mr. Canfleld to prepare th* monument. The design, as approved by (ieneral Sharmin, is here produced. The monument is to be mode of what is known as fine hammered Westerly stautary granite of light color. It will be four foot eight inches by three feet eight inches atthe base and nine feot six inches high and made in three sections. It is to stand beside the granite cross which General Sherman a year ago eracted to the memory of his wife. In height, material and finis a the monument will, by the General's direction, correspond with the cro33. There will be no ornamentation of the monument except on its front. On the top his well-known gold and silver combination badge will be represented. It consists of a gold pin, from which is suspend*! a ribbon in the national colors. The ribbon supports an arrow from which a triangle is suspended. To the triaugle a gold shield is ftJ-fonliarl urlMi OTl flMfn T%Anrtttnf.. Oil fchft centre of the shield ia a star with a cartridgo box engraved on its center. The arrow, triangle, shield, star, cartridge box aad acorn are each the emblem of one of the army corps with which General Sherman was associatsd daring the war. Below the badge are two furled flags, one tho headquarters banner of the General of the army and the other the regulation national flag. It is a reproduction of the two flags as they stood in the General's late residence in Seventy-first street, New York. Below the flags in addition to the modest inscription given there will be added a simple record of his birth and death. THE LABOB WQBLD. Brass unions are spreading. Initiation* fees are going up. Colorado has Miners' Alliances. New York has a Japanese carpentcr. f England will revive industrial villages. San Francisco unions exclude Japanese. Lowell (Mass.) weavers can average I8.5C a week. SAN r RANCI9C0 musicians talk or a musio library. Palestine (Ohio) pottery girls struck for less hours. Union and non-union shearers are at wat in Australia. Labor agitation is unusually active in in Chicago just now. Massachusetts sweaters make eightyeight per cent profit. The international bricklayers have accumulated a fund of $4000. Lord Derb r has accepted a seat on the English Labor Commission. The Flint Glass Workers' Union has 7000 members and $99,000 in bank. The carriage makers and wheelwrights are about to form a national body. Denmark proposes an international union of machinists and blacksmiths. One hundred and fifty thousand New York girls get sixty cants a day. The boiler manufacturers are forming an insurance and inspection company. About 700,000 able-bodied workmen ara out of employment in France at present. The French Labor Commission will established a Labor Bureau and an Arbitration Board. The Secretary of the Nary is unable, under the law, to supply men for the new war vessels. The railway managers of Holland employ watchwomen instead of watchmen at their , stations. All arrangements have beon perfected for the builaing of a million-dollar cotton mill in Huntsville, Ala. "* The corner-stone of the Printers' Home at Denver, Col., will be laid on George W. Childs's birthday, May 13. # Canton (Switzerland) municipal authorities have decided that all employers must share profits with the laborers. In the United States the average annual production of each employe is $720, of which the laborer receives ?310 and capital $374. The Reading Railroad of Pennsylvania is cutting down the trees along its tracks that the engineers may have a better look ahead. C*T-?r /% anirnn fVirvncnnrJ trnrVmon A T*fl MftW UiA VI OOrcu vuvuouau ? w uv ? . steadily employed in the various branches | of industry connected with Edison's inventions. The Master Masons' Association, of Philadelphia, refuses to grant the increase of pay from $3.25 to $3.60 per day asked by the masons, who threaten to strike. Fifty of the coal miners at Rondville, Ohio, broke open a general store and carried off thirty barrels of flour and several hundr?i pounds of meat. They said that they had to steal or starve. In 1890 there were in Germany 1131 strikes^ in each of which more than ten men participated. The total number of ctrikers was 394,440. In 420 cases they were entirely unsuccessful; in 468, partiallly successful; in 187 they irot all thev demanded. A PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS. Morocco and Algeria Invaded by Myriads of These Insects. After months of anxious uncertailfty there remains no room for doubt that MoAlrroiMT will a an in hfl vioifcfld bv E. plague of locusts. The warning first came I from Mogador in November last, whence tho i insects were then advancing in untold myriads. A spell of cold weatner checked the ' advance for a time, but they have now arrival on the coast at Casablanca, where they literally carpet the ground. They have even invaded the city o." Morocco, climbinz over the walls and infesting the houses. Famine is certain to follow their ravages, and in Morocco the wretched people will be permitted to die liko dogs, as they were twelve years ago when thousands perished. Algeria can scarcely escape for Arabs who have arrived at Figuig from a village in the Sahara say that they rode on swift dromedaries for more than sixty miles through swarms of locusts. The authorities are bestirring themselves, but the latest and most scientific measures have hitherto failed to check the awful invasion, an-l this year efforts will in the end have to bo concentrated upon the saving of lives during tho famine which must result from the universal destruction of crops and every greeu thing which the lo cust, "el djerad&j the scourge o? the Most High," finds on his way. f The census of the United Kingdom, awarding to the estimate of the Registrar* Benerai, gives a population of 39,000,000. WOKDS OF WUDOM. True honor despises evasions. Beware of the man who has no petty ?ice9. Dig, sow and reap; but the harvest i* Death's. Money made by chance will go with certainty. Waste of money and time usually go hand in hand. Friendship at the highest height Is Btronger than love. Be quick. You can use a minute but once?make the most of it. i _i _ ii.1* iu imi&e ciusu couaeuuuua wim CWJnity Death has to be run on time. Life is a long course of mutual education which ends but with the grave. The first snow flake of winter, how significant?and the first white hair! Lying is the basis of all evil. After one year of absolute tilth crime would disappear. Borne p3ople spend their vacations in nAtror ffio Knainoaa tViov laff Ko. TTUll VTWi hUW VUVJ *VftW WW" hiad them. Justice is a little short sighted, perhaps, but it frequently has aa eye to the main chance. You just bring a couple of little quarrels into your family and they'll breed like sparrows. It is so easy to fancy one's self right that self-condemnation is about as scarce as dodo's eggs. Doubt is brain fog, and it sometimes takes all the rays of the suu of experience to disperse it. Every incomplete work is a monument to human folly. Whatever is worth be ginning is wortn completing. God sets the stars in the windows of the night to cheer the belated world as it rolls through the darkness. She was regal, she was haughty, she was highborn, and distinguished; and, like the rest of us, she was clay. Grief is not to be measured by the tears shed, nor does the'loudest mourners always deserve the largest bequest. The happiest man is he who, being above the trouble which money orings, has his hands the fullest of work. They Lire la the Stone Age. Hugo Zoller has published in the Mittheilungen, of Gotha, an article on the little known islands, Bouka and Bougainville, the most northern of the Solomon group, east of New Guinea, which he visited two years ago. The inhabitants of these islands are so remarkably hostile that to this day all the islands of the Solomon group are little known. The natives have kept almost wholly free from European influences. They live in the stone age, though a very few of them have firearms. They wear little or no clothing, are of the Melanesia!] race, and whilo darker in color than the natives of New Guineas their habits reeall the Polynesians. Their bows ar? ten feet long, and they also use lances and clubs. They have quite a number of industries, and build canoes which Mr. Zol^ ?? ~ . 1 J ? UA owaaI/IS! 7>TT T*TV?4 ffl xur soya iuuiu iiuu uc cawcicu uj nunv artisians. Their carvings upon wood are ingenious, and they weave nets r?.nd make pottery without the aid of the wheel. Cannibalism, which is always observed in these regions to a greater or lesser extent, is becoming rare among them, if the natives are to bo believed. Many writers have affirmed that these islands throw their dead into the watei or cremate them, but Mr. Zoller says he repeatedly saw cemeteries in Bougainville decorated with rude stone monuments. This custom cannot be attributed to the influence of Christianity, for missionaries have never yet ventured among these dangerous people, and the nativea have met only a few Europen merchants, most of whom they have slaughtered. Bouka is only about thirty miles long and ten miles wide, but it has a population of about 15,000, and the little islands which are near it are denselj peopled. Real Dimensions of Whales. Most of the stories wo hear about whales of 200, 300 and 400 feet in length are the imaginary musings of persona who have more respect for the size of a story than for the truth it may contain. Mr. Scoresbv, a very high authority on this subject, declares that the common whale seldom exceeds seventy feet in length, and is much more frequently under sixty. Out of 362 whales which ao personally assisted in capturing not one exceeded fifty-eight feet in length, and the largest he ever heard of being captured and measured by persons who could be relied upon only moasured seventy-seven feet. Of the razor backed whala he has seen specimens that measured 105 feet. One of these was found dead in Davis Straits, which measurei'. 101 feet, and a skeleton of one found Id in Columbia River was 112 feet. Othei specimens have measured all the way from eighty to 100 feet. One cast on shore at North Berwick, Scotland, and preserved by Dr. Knox, was eighty-three feet in length. These instances seem to establish the average length of these huge animals. Iu his earlier accounts Cuvier, the eminent naturalist, with considerable credulity, says: "There is no doubt that whales have been seen in certain epochs and in certain seas thai were upward of 300 feet, or 100 yards long."?St. Louis Republic. Best YFay to Study Birds. Olive Thorne Miller, in a paper in tho Atlantic, called "From My Window," tells about her ' ;Bird Study." She says : The best place I have found for spying upon the habits of birds is behind a blind. If one can command a window with outside blinds, looking upon a spot attractive to the feathered world, he will be sure, sooner or later, to see every bird of the vicinity. If he will keep the blinds closed and look only through the opened slats, he will witness more of their unconstrained free ways that can possibly be seen by a person within their sight, though he assume the attitude and the stolidity of a wooden figure. Says our nature-poet, Emerson: ' You often thread the woods !n vain To see what singer piped the strain. Seek not, and the littlo eremite Flies forth and gayly sings in sight.1' And tho bird student can testify to tho ; truth of the verse. Many times, alter having spent the morning in wandering about in the bird haunts of a neighborhood, I have returned to my room to write up my notebook, and I have seen more of birds and bird life in an hour from my window than during the whole morning's stroll. 1 wv< mTTTmam???a??mm Comities. ^"l||8 A revision of the areas of cotmties 1? ' ^0 United States, made by the Censual Bureau, reveals some facta of interest' with regard to these minor divisions of; the territory of the Union. The "coun-! tv" is a territorial division of the United- - a] States derived from Great Britain, where the counties correspond to the provinces or departments of other European countries, and in a limited sense, to the States of the American Union. An Englishman addresses a letter to "Bromley,! . Kent," a3 we address a letter to "Wor-. : cester, Mass.," or "Rochester, N. Y." One State of the Union, which derived its usages from French and not from English originals, has no conn- Hm ties at all. In Louisiana these sub- jfiS jt -t il. m.i. _i.:n umsiona ui me ataws are tsuu tautsu ,. parishes, both officially and in ordinary' speech, though they are now divided ^ into many real parishes of the church. : There are about 2800 counties in tha| Union, with an average size of about' 1000 square miles; but this average is ' 3 enormously exceeded in many instances,' and is also frequently fallen below.j i Leaving out the great unsettled counties. of the West, the average county worn? be about 500 square miles in extent. , ^ In much of the Western part of thoj ^*11 country the size of the county is regu-{ lated'mathematically. It consists of six- ' vi2 teen townships, each composed of thirty* '3 six square miles, aking 576 square milei> in all. In other words, each township i? . ' -j'& six miles square,and each county twentyfour miles square. In Iowa there are thirty-nine counties- ' ^ which were formed in this way, each on? of which has exactly 576 square mile?.1 Such divisions were possible in the newe? West, where these minor political divi4 v sions were made in advance of settle-j ment. In the other parts of the country) the territorial arrangements were largely', accidental. The largest county in the United States is Yavapai County, Arizona, whicty has an area of almost 30,000 square miles; Nine States of the Union are each smallei - : 5than this one county. It is larger than ;' ^ the whole of West Virginia, and almost 13 large as South Carolina. The sixteen counties of Montana aver- .-/ age a greater size than the State oj Massachusetts. Among the other great counties of the - j| Union are San Bernardino and San Diego# .4, in California, which are not only vast /-,?$ regions, but contain a very great amount of productive territory; Humboldt ana Lincoln Counties in Nevada, which are exceedingly sparsely populated, and Lin-! coin County in New Mexico, which mayi some time have a large population. ; Although the New England States are) small, the average size of the counties is greater than that in most of the Middle, Western and Southern States.1 *} Worcester County, in Massachusetts, ill an example of an Eastern county which.' is at the same time large in area and very populous. It has more than 1500 square miles, and almost 30,000 people. ^ It is larger in area than the adjoining State of Rhode Island. The emallet State in the Union has the ; ^ smallest county as well. Bristol County, Rhode Island, is only twenty-five square miles in extent. At one place it is not more than two miles in breadth. A 7ovan^pia nnitnfu in Vircrinift. til not much larger,having only thiity-two square miles. King3 County, New York, ha3 but thirty-seven. One of the new West- ; 3 em States possesses an exceedingly small county as weil as some large ones; Todd County, South Dakota, is only fortyfive square miles in extent.?Youth1? \ Companion. How Lions Hunt Game. Lions, as a rule, hunt in family parties. A very old lion, not infrequently incapacitated from taking an active part in purtming game, is generally to be found at the head of such a coterie, and on him devolves no unimportant part of the programme. Down to leeward, a hundred paces below where the draught bullocks are made fast when a train halts for rest, the young ana active maiea ana lioneses place themselve3 behind what available cover is tc be found. Thii being done, the old lion goes to the windward of the encampment, and shakes out his abundant mane in the breeze, so that the odor from it may be carried down to the excited draught animals. One sniff of the tainted breeze brings every ox to his feet in a moment; then standing, often trembling with fear, they gaze with dilated eyes into the impenetrable darkness. Closer and closer approaches the aged lion to his victims, shaking and reshaping the dense, tawny covering of his fore-quarters. Then, if the traveler's harness be not strong, he may look out for a stampede. Should it hold tem] o arily, the aggressor, as a climax to his former maneuver, gives utterance to his deepest and loude^TiSar.when the frighteued beasts,if not secured bythe"stoiltfisf""^ ^ fastenings that can be obtained, will break free and rush with inconceivable rapidity into the very jaws of their foes, secreted to leeward.?Picayune. The Noises of a Big City. "I cannot understand the outcry some people make against the noise in the streets," said tho man. "Just stand here in the City Hall Park, close youi eyes, and listen. It is a bright day, and it is the time when the tide of city life is at the flood. That dull, heavy boom, like the roar of the sea, is tho thousand wagons, which, when heard one at a time, rattle and jar so. But the thousand are like a multitude of bass viols blending in a monotonous, musical note. Above it rise the higher, shrillei notes, the tinkling of a score of car-bells, the shouts of drivers, the high-pitched voices of women and children, thq sounds of laughter, the faint murmur of ? i .1 u ? ?i. u.ii_ <U3lIlUb uuurt'u ur uciui. ^uuvi times this rises to a shrill falsetto, then dies, until it i3 scarcely to bo c'istin^ guished from the bass roar of the wegona on the granite. You are hearing tha tremendous orchestra of city life?violins, flutes, cellos, cymbals, drums. It could be set down in notes. It is not discordant. It is soothing, and the city man, who hears it unconsciously day after day, learns to love it unconsciously, and it haunts him with its melody in country places so that he must como back to it.?Xeto York Sun. Paralllne From Peat. A new industry that is flourishing in Brazil is the distillation of puaffine from a peculiar kind of peat, which is found in great beds. This peat is rich in paraffine, aud the distilled product is used in the manufacture of candles. Some of the beds have been worked to great depth, but there is no evidence ol the exhaustion of the supply.?Philia*, delphia Record, t