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FOREIGN AFFAIRS. A Budget of Late News From the Old World. Fanatical Chinese Eioters Attack American Missionaries. The Department of State has received a telegraphic despatch from the Minister at Pekin, China, reporting that a riot has oc, eurrta at Ichang, on the Yangtsc-Kiang River, in the Province of Hoo Pe, and that an establishment of American missionaries there has been destroyed. No further particulars are given. The gr.ivity of the situation in China increases dail}% and the Navy Department is lenu>n< its aid to protect American interests in answer to the representations of th-? Department of State. The Charleston is now on ner way to China from San Francisco.and the Petrei,~in the neighborhood of New York, is ?nde" orders to proceed immediately to China to strenghten Admiral Belknap's fleet; but they can uardly reach their destination inside of two months. Particular concern is felt at the departments in this last riot because of its location. Ichang is about 20() miles further up the Yan?tse-Kiang than Hong Kosv, which is as far above toe mouth as vessels of -war can make their way under ordinarv circumstances. In time of high water light draught war vessels may mat. nh/ivn thcrtJ unrl in th? Ashnnlor and the Monocacy have each succeeded iu reaching Ichang. But unless there is high water in the river at present Admiral Belknap will have difficulty in getting a vessel mp to the scene of trouble. Corpse in a Coal Bunker. A horrible discovery was made in the coal bunker of the Thompson liue steamer Fremonaat Montreal, Canada. While working among the coal the men found a human root ana a search for the v body to which the feet was supposed to belong was made. The stench In and around the ounker was almost unbearable. When the men got to the bottom of the banker they found the body of a man. It was a shriveled mass. It was doubled up, both feet were gone and the features were unrecognizable. The remains proved to be those of S. Dickson, who kept a widowed mother in Shields, England. He was employed on the Fremona while in Shields Harbor as a coal trimmer. While thought to be ashore he was down in the bunker at work when the coal was being put in, and he was buried alive under 150 , tons of coal. The Immigration Into Cauatla. In the Canadian House of Commons at Ottawa there was a lively discussion on the I immigration estimates. Sir Richard Cart- I catrl fKof ha fhnntrVit. it. woe t.imA thft Government ceased paying out $250,000 a | year on an immigration which was either mythical or useless, inasmuch as a great majority of the immigrants leave Canada for the United States. In the last ten years the Government had spent nearly $3,000,000 on immigration. An immigration of 885,000 persons was reported, but the population bad increased by only 504,000. Burglars and Parricides. Two young men named Hoefflar, aged respectively eighteen and twenty-four, brotce into the house of their parents in Beriin, Germany, believing it to be empty at the time, and proceeded to the bedroom of their father, intending to steal some money which was usually kept there. The older Hoe filer was in the room, however, and grappled with the burglars. A fierce struggle followed, which ended in the old gentleman being baa ten to death hy his sons. rv * U Alna UCAIU UU inpo, Charles Lane, of New York, who has been living ac Oberhofen, near Thun. sixteen miles from Berne, Switzerland, recently escorted a party of women on an excursion to Beatenberg, on Lake Than. The women returned by the same way they came, but Mr. Lane went by the dangerous Gustuchal route. Late next afternoon his body was found, horribly mutilated, at the foot of a precipice. Fatal Earthquake Shocks. The volcanic disturbances at San Salvador, San Miguel and Izalco culminated in a terrib'.e earthquake shock, which was followed by successive miuor shocks. Tne I people rushed in a panic from their bads shrieking and praying, while buildings othvbH and foil. Other towns hava Battered greatly, some being virtually destroyed. Some lives were lost. Distress L>eads to Disorder. In the Froviuce of Orel, Russia, bands of peasants are roving over the highways attacking convoys of grain and food even where the convoys are escorted by soldiers. Fights are of frequant occurrence and many persons have been killed. Crime is rampant wing to a desire to escape starvation by imprisonment. The jails are crowded witn prisoners. Collapse of a Building. A house which had but recently been completed and occupied in Regensburg, Germany, collapsed and eight of the occupants were Killer and a number injured. The ' builder has been arrestad, charged with manslaugoter, and an official inquiry is in progress. FAST RUN ON THE RAILS. A Mile on the Central Made in FortyKlght Seconds. The best record for a long-distance run in the history of railroading was made the other day by a special train of three Wagner ?are from New York to Buffalo. The train Kit ilfw 1 oik au < :oo a. n., auu omicu m Buffalo at 2:50 p. M., covering: the distance in 440 minutes or 42G minutfis exclusive of stops. On board were H. Walter Webb, James C. Gould, Theodore Voorhis and G. H. Daniels, the Division Superintendent of theroa?i. This time of seven hours and twenty minutes includes stops. The ti? st was at Aloany, where engines were changed and two minutes lost. At Syracuse three minutes more were consumed in another ehange. The most serious deiay occurred at Purport, a town about ten miles east of Rochester, whore the train was stopped nine minutes by a hot journal. Word was sent from Fairport to Rochester to have another engine in readiness to take them to Buffalo. This was not needed, and the train dashed through the Central Station in that city without stop and running at the rate of a mile a minute or over. This was at 1:49 p. m. From that point to Buffalo the run wix> made without incident fa sixty-seven minutes, a distance of sixty - ! nine miles. Conductor Rickwell had the special in charge. The fastest mil* was made in forty-eight seconds. PLUNGED INTO A CREEK. Five Persons Fatally Injured in a Hailroad Wreck. A passenger train bouhd toward Denver on the Grayraont division of the Union Pacific Railway was wrecked uear Beaver Brook Station, Col., and twenty-thra9 passengers were injure', five of them fatally. The train was late and running very rapidly, when, rounding a sharp curve, the express car left the track and roiled down a fifteen foot embankment. It was folloive I by the mail car aud two nas??nger c ta-lioi, one of which turnel fiver tivi? ? lv?t'oiv reaching the ooiton. t'h-j water in the stream was rusuin? along in a torrent and the cars were carried along with it a long (tistanc*. The list of injured would liivbeen mucii s>u tiler bat for the dittlculty experiei'C?d in rescuing th.no imprisoned. in some instances the rescuers were badly injured by beiug hurled against the boulders in the creek. The train was loadel with passengers, many of whom were Kuights of Pythias returning from tho State Convention, which was held at Aspen. The seriously injured were left at Golden in the hands of physicians. ' The old soldiers now in the National Home j at Milwaukee, Wis., who are able to work, will be compelled to leave that institution. . THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. K?oi?n n iw! MkldlpStates. W. A. SMITK, a New York broker, was | arrested for swindling a Pougakeepsie (N. Y.) merchant out of ?55,000. Charles R. Colwell, of Weymouth, N. J., has sold to the Industrial Land and Developement Company, a syndicate of New York capitalists, about thirty-five thousand acres of New Jersey land. The consideration is $3,191), 000. A pleasure yacht from Orange, N. J., while trying to enter the Kulls, was ruu into and wrecked by the steam lighter Conklinp;. Four men were on board the yacht. Albert Stewart and his cousin, Harry Stewart, Harry Fairchild and Walter Dodd were drowned. The ropes of a swinging scaffold under the railroad bridge at Saultsburg, Penn., broke, throwing nine workmen into the river bed fifty feet below. The river is very low. The men fell on sharp stones and were all more or less seriously injured. Four were killed. Superintendent Brady, of the New York Bureau of Buildings, made a report attributing the cause of the Park Place disaster to an explosion, and entirely failing to touch upon the generally accepted theory of overweighiog and vibration by the heavy presses. Captain John Taffixger, formerly of the United States Navy, died in Stroudsburg, Penn., aged sixty-seven years. He was found dead in his room. He was a native of Philadelphia, and enlisted in the Navy in 1840 at the age of sixteen. Grkknsburg, Penn., has an epidemic of diphtheria and scarlet fever. There are 150 cases in town, and many deaths occurred. John Finnek,married, twenty-nine years, James Conley, single, twenty-five years; | James McOarry, single, twenty-four years, and John McAleer, married, thirty-four vears, were drowned from a skiff off League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Penn. At the Newport (R. 1.) torpedo station the Naval Ordnance Bureau is experimenting with a smokeless powder said to equal that of Europe. The trial showed a speed of 2,180 feet per second, with a pressure of 11.9 tons in the chamber. Hon. George B. Loring, ex-Minis tar to Portugal and former Commissioner of Agriculture, died at Salem, Mass., from heart trouble. He was seventy-four years of age. Francis w., President, and Henry H. Kennedy, Cashier of the defunct Spring Garden National Bank, of Philadelphia, Penn., who were convicted recently for wrecking that institution, were sentenced by Judge Butler to ten years each in the Eastern Penitentiary. Henry T. Edson, son of ex-Mayor Edson, of New York City, was held for the 3rand Jury in Rochester on a charge of grand larceny broughtby a bank. New York's Street Cleaning Commissioner, Hans S. Beattde, was removed from office by Mayor Grant for his failure to clean the streets properly. The Board of Health voted to sustain the Mayor's action. The old Moses Y. Beech Building, corner of Nassau ami Fulton streets. New York City, was destroyed by fire. Some of the occupants narrowly escaped with their lives. The firemen were hampered by lack of water. On the day after the fire it was thought taat three occupants had lost their lives. South and West. Captain Frederick S. Dodqe, a retired army officer, who has besn deranged for some years, committed suicide at Detroit, Mich. He was fifty-one years old. Ex-Mayor John H. B. Latrobe, the oldest lawyer in Maryland, and widely known as a jurist, author and philanthropist, died in Baltimore, aged eighty-nine. M. B. Curtis, the well known actor who impersonated Sam'l of Posen and Scliatchen, is in jail in San Francisco, Cat., charged with murdering Policeman Grant while the latter was trying to arrest him. The Chickasaw Legislature convened at Ardmore, Indian Territory, and received Governor Byrd's message. * William E. Bailey, a young millionaire bank President of Seattle, Washington, and R. B. Aibertson, his attorney, were kidnapped in that city. President Coleman, of the Catholic Knights of America, is at Chattanooga, Tenn., investigating the accounts of M. J. O'Brien, Treasurer of the Order. Mr. O'Brien is out of the city. There is an apparent deficit of about $89,000. Jacob H. Shakeer and his daughter Ida were killed by a railroad train at Warren, Ohio. Lieutenant-Governor Miklejohn, of Nebraska, was badly used up in a fist fight ?rv_ XT ? ??- Wio w1m1 jl/1 . xvccuaa, au iuaumva, u m. Fred Wiley and John Packer, half-brothers, each aged flftean years, quarrelled at Pratt, Kan., over the possession of a horse. Packer got the best of Wiley, when the latter went to the house and procured a shotgun, shot and instantly killed hid brother. John H. McCargue, the Sheriff of Somerset, Ky., was assassinated by James H. Gilland and his brother Joe. They were arrested and hurried to jail. The Pacific Mail steamer China reached San Franasco, Cal., making the record trip Irom Yokohama of twelve days, eleven houra and fifty-five minutes. Four children were burned to death in Barton County, Kan. Mrs. William Klein locked them in the house while she went on an errand, and upon her return found the house in ashes, John Sorrick aud wife, of Lyle, Kan., agreed to separate, anl the woman was j given the custody of the seven-year-old j child. Next day Sorricic went to a neighbor's where his wife was stopping and a bitter quarrel ensued, ending in Sorrick fatally shooting his daughter and sending a bullet into his own brain. The peach crop in Chestertown, Md., exceeded 3,000,000 baskets. Prices were poor and trees are being dug up. Diphtheria is epidemic at Shelbyville, Ind. There were thirty deaths in forty-eight hours. Hollister & Jewell's saw mills at Garden River, Mich., were burued. Loss, $200,000. Albertson, tho cashier of the Tacoma (Washington) Fidelity Trust Company, has absconied with $20,000 casli and nearly $1,000,000 in bonds. Chicago (111.) elevators are being worked night and day to senl eastward without delay the enormous amount of grain pouring into that city. Most of it will go by rail from Buffalo, N. Y., to the seaboard. In the Tennessee Legislature the bill to abolish the convict lease system after the expiration of the present teasa was killei. 1 he Dill prohibiting corporations frpm paying employes in scrip was passed. Washington. By the death at Washington of Pay Director Thornton Pay Inspector Edwin Stewart, now Paymaster-General, becomes Pay Director, and Paymaster George Beanian incomes Pay Inspector. Admiral Brown, Commander of the PaI ciflc Station, has been ordered by the Navy Department to proceed from Chili to San Francisco. Ho will sail on the San Francis- I y>, and when he reaches the Mare Island Navy Yard the vessel will be docked and re- I paired. The Army canteen appears to be prospering; at least the semi-annual reports which have come into the War Department from commanding officers of posts show that feature of the serve to be financially successful, popular among the men and beneficial to the discipline of the file. Mrs. Harrison, wife of the President, has issued a call for a conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution to be held in Washington October S. The Navy Dopartment has made tests proving the superiority of nieuel-steel armor over all steel, a target of the latter being perforated, while the nickel shattered a similar prolectile. Henry Coleman, colored, for twenty-six years the messenger at the door or tho office of the Assistant Attorney General of the United States, in Washington, died a few days ago, aged eighty years. The Marquis Imperiali, the Italian Charge d'Affaires at Washington, has informed the [ local Itak>-American World's Fair Committee that the Government at Rome cannot recognize the World's Fair officially or participate in any way in it. A Farmers' Alliance circular has been ; issued from Washington calling upon the j farmers to hold their wheat for higher prices. ' Owing to the scarcity of change In many communities, the United States Treasury has prepared a circular, stating that new halves and dimes will be furnished in sums of $200 or more, by express, free of charges, or by registered mail,in sums or multiples of $50, roeistration charges paid, to any point in the United States. According to the report of the Bureau oi Statistios the total export of beef, hog and dairy products for the ten months ended August 31, 1890, was $85,497,271; for the corres{>onding period of 1891 it was $79,645, 531, a decrease 01 ?o,aoi,oou. The President returned to Washington from, his summer vacation at Cape May, N. J. The American representatives of the World's Fair, just returned from abroad, and the German and British representatives of the World's Fair interests, called at the Treasury Department at Washington. They arranged to have a formal conference. Foreiim. The proposed reproduction of Wagner't "Lohengrin" in Paris, France, caused sc much excitement and indignation that it had to be postponed. The Ashing schooner Georgiana, of Yarmouth, was upset in making Halifax (Nova Scotia) Harbor, and her captain and crew of fifteen men were drowned. At least forty lives were lost in the earthquake shock at San Salvador. Mr. Lacoste, Speaker of the Senate, has been appointed Chief Justice of Quebec, Canada. A steam launch carrying laborers from Dublin to Londonderry sank in Lough Foyle, Ireland, colliding with the steamer Albatross. Fifteen persons were drowned. It is announced that 374 estates belonging to the Russian nobility will be sold by auction in October under foreclosure by the State Bank. The estates are located all over European Russia, and the sale indicates the riofinerata straits to which the landed nobility are'reduced. Schifferstadt, in Rhenish Bavaria, has been destroyed by fire. The disaster originated in the sawmills, and, notwithstanding all efforts, the flames spread rapidly, canverting a flourishing town to ashes. A disastrous flre brolce out at Cape Blanc, Canada, and before it was got under control thirty-five dwellings, chiefly tenements, were destroyed with their contents. The large Catholic Church was gutted. Serious floods and storms are reported in various parrs of Spains. The Ainarguillo has overflowed its banks,destroying the town of Consuegra and flooding several villages. The sinking of a steam launch in Lougb Foyle, Ireland, by the steamer Albatross resulted in the drowning of eighteen persons. An official report on the hurricane at Mar tinique, West indies,gives MO as the number of people killed. The transatlantic steamer Arizona, of tb< Guion line, was struck on her last voyage from New York to Liverpool by an unknowr vessel and damaged. The unknown craft was sunk with all on board. There have been fifteen deaths from cholera on the British war ship Marathon, at Bombay, India. The village of Refel, in the Swiss Tyrol, was destroyed by fire while the inhabitants were away at a religious festival. Brigands recently captured the railway station at Pavloklof, in Turkey, killing two gendarmes who opposed them. In a fight between carbineers and bandits at San Manro, near Palermo, Italy, the bandit chief and three carbineers were killed. A British force landed on the Turkish island of Mitylene, near the Dardanelles, and is said to have surrounded the island with torpedoes. A 1,000,000 fire occurred on the Salvages, a group of islands near the Canaries. The death-rate from cholera among the pilgrims to Mecca this year was' unprecedented in the annals of Mahometan pilgrimages. The authorities at that time estimated that 11,000 pilgrims had died during the season. Sir John Steell. R. S. A., sculptor to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, who oxecut?d tbe bronze statue of Robert Barns erected in Central Park, Now York City, is dead. Sir John was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1604. The Mexican Congress and the Dutch Parliament were opened. Cardinal RoTHLti, Papal Nuncio at Paris, France, is dead. The Pope is deeply affected over the news of the Cardinal's deato. The news of the occupation of Sigri at the entrance to the Dardanelles, by the English, is false. The 3000 striking hands in the Chaudiere lumber mills became riotous at Ottawa. Canada, and attacked Mayor E. B. Eddy, of Hull; C. B. Wright, R. N. Macon and other lar>je mill owners, wounding them. The mob compelled 500 of Eddy's men to quit work. TWO BROTHERS LYNCHED, Held for the Murder of a Sheriff?Not Allowed a Last Prayer, At 1 o'clock on a recent morning a determined crowd of men gathered in front of the jail at Somerset, Ky., and demanded TneioK rilllilonH ha]H fnr t,hfl values auu vvai?u vsommuv., mw -? ?? murder of Sheriff McCargue, of Pulaski County. 'The guard of ten men, in charge of Chief of Police Anderson, stood at their post until they saw resistance was useless. Jailer Sheppard was overpowered by the mob and the prisoners taken out and hanged to the limbs of two sycamore trees. They were game to the last, and did not conf ess, protesting their innocence and only asking leave to kneel and pray, to which the mob answered by groans and curses. James's last words were, "I am dying for another# crime." He uttered a short prayer, but wa? interrupted by the mob, who told him to "die tellinc the truth; don't die with a lie on your lips." He is the one supposed to have fired the fatal shot, and many crimes are attributed to him. Josiab, the younger brother, a slight, smooth faced lad of twenty, protested his innocence. YOUTHFUL MURDERERS. Xhey Deliberately Drownedl a Little Playmate, and Pawned His Clothes. The details of a horrible murder committed by two boys, each of them about eight years of age, have just come to light in Liverpool, England. The two lads, named respectively Crawford and Sharon, were arrested, charged with murdering one of their comrades, a boy also about eight years of age. Upon being taken to the police station they confessed to the crime. They said that they wanted to steal the clothes of the murdered boy, and therefore pushed him into the water, intending to drown him. When the poor little fellow managed to scramble out, Crawford and Sharon pushed him in again: then Crawford went down on his knees, and, kneeling on the drowning boy's head, held him down under water tn til he finally ceased struggling. The two young murderers stripped the boy of the clothes, dried them, and afterward obtained some money upon them at a pawnshop, This led to their identification and arrest. LIKE HUNGRY WOLVES. The People of Itusain Compelled to Fight lor Food. According to accounts from the Russian frontier it is not only in those provincas in which the crops have failed that are afflicted with famine, but also all districts bordering on them. In Oriel things are well nigh desperate. The population has been decimated by hunger and disease. Bread is literally fought for. Wagons bearing rye bread, ilour and salt have been attacked and plundered on the road by famished peasants and laborers, even when escorted by soldiers. There have been frequent sanguinary collisions between the troops and the people. Since the famine has broken out the prisons have filled rapidly, as the lower classes find that they are better provided for in jail than onfc; and so many or them commit some petty oV fences in order to get a few weeks' imprisonment. At Nijnl Novgorod it has been found necessary to put up temporary sheds to accommodate criminals, as all the prisons are overcrowded. THE COUNTRY'S CROPS. I BeTleir of Their Condition by the Agricultural Department, i Corn and Wheat Figures Are ; High, but Cotton Unsatisfactory, i The Statistician of the Department of Agriculture reports from Washington the September general averages of cereal crops as follows: Corn, 91.1; wheat, 96.8; rye, 95.1; oats, 90.7; barley, 94.3; buckwheat, 96.6. A small advance is noticed in all, buckwheat alone excepted. The average for potatoes is 94.8; for tobacco, 87.4. The condition of corn is twenty-one points higher tban in September of last year, and , has been exceeded only three times in the ( last ten years. State averages are generally . high; the lowest are those of Michigan and Wisconsin. In the Eastern and Middle States the crop is well grown, is generally earing well, but a little late, and recent cool 1 nights prevent rapid advancement; frost has as yet done no damage. The crop is in fine condition in the Southern States. It is not so much injured by heavy rains as cotton. In some bottom lands water has caused i material injury, while on uplands the crop is remarkably good. It was somewhat late, bat is now generally beyond the reach of I a flnz* TTi'dlH has hann mnde West of the Mississippi, though in Western Texas a little redtfcea by drouth. It is above medium throuehout the South as a whole. In the Ohio Valley corn is heavy in stalfc, somewhat late in earing from cool nights, in some places has been blown down by heavy i winds, yet is generally promising, in Indiana and Illinois there was injury from drouth in July and early in August, which has been partially repaired by recent rains. In Michigan there has been considerable injury from frost. Wisconsin reports damage from frosts; there was also damage from fro6t in the Dakotas. In Iowa and Nebraska the crop is late. In Missouri alternate heavy rains aud drouth have been unfavorable. In Western Kansas crops suf; fered from drouth; eastern counties have a heavy crop. The condition of wheat is very high, considering both winter and spring varieties, in soils, latitudes and elevations so widely differing. The general average has been exceeded only slightly twice since 1879, in 1883 and 1884. State averages are quite uniform, only ten falling below 95, ana three below l 90, the lowest being 83 for South Carolina, and 84 for North Carolina. In the Middle States wheat was generally well filled, har vested in good condition,'yielding well in the spring. In a few counties in Pennsylvania, and in parts of Maryland and Virginia, there has been some injury in the 1 stock. ' There is a reduction in the condition of 1 eotton daring the last month of six points, ' from 88.9 to 82.7. The cause on the Atlantic Coast has been an excess of rainfall, causing overgrowth of the plant and diminishing the tendency to fruitage. From Alabama westward drouth was the main factor of loss, assisted by the boll-worm and caterpillar. ( Condition is lowest in Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee. In a few counties of Texas heavy rainfall in the morning, followed by hot sunshine in the afternoon, caused serious shedding of forms. The most serious complaints are of shedding fruit and 1 leaves, rotting of bolls, sprouting of seed in the bolls, rust, staining of open cot* > ton, except in a few regions, where cotton worms are unusually destructive. In the area affected by drouth, rust and shedding also occur. The State averages are as follows: Virginia 78, a loss of 3 points; North Carolina 79, again of 4 points; South Carolina 81, a loss of !4 points; Georgia 82, a loss j of 4 points; Florida 88, a loss of 6 points; i Alabama 88, a loss of 6 point*; Mississippi 63, a loss of 10 points; Louisiana 85, a loss of 5 points; Texas 82, a loss of 10 pionts; Arkansas 86, a loss of 9 pointer Tennessee 84, a gain of 2 points. LATER NEWS. Charles A. Woodbury died at the Salem (Mass.) Hospital of hydrophobia. He was bitten by his dog six weeks before. The New York Democratic State Convention as Saratoga nominated Iloswell P. Flower for Governor, William F. Sheehan for Lieutenant-Governor, Frank Rice for Secretary, Elliott F. Danforth for Treasurer, Frank Campbell for Comptroller, Simon W. Rosendale for Attorney-General,and Martin W. Schenck for State Engineer. The Massachusetts Republican State Convention met in Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass. Out of 1369 delegates 1245 were present. The followiug ticket was nominated: For Governor, Charies H. Allen, of Lowel), Lieutenant-Governor, William H. Haile, of Springfield; Secretary of State, William M. Olin, of Boston; Treasurer and Receiver-General, George A. Marden, of Lowell; AttorneyGeneral, Albert F. Pillsbury, of Boston; Auditor, John W. Kimball, of Fitchburg. . The wife of the President, Mrs. Harrison, and her daughter, Mrs. McKee, reached Auburndale, Mas?., from Cape May, N. J., where they were to spend several weeks. The decision of Judge Swan, of the New York United States District Court, wbich is final, ana provides tnat urnnamen illegally in this country must b3 returne.1 to the countries whence they came, not necessarily China, practically nullifies the Chinese Exclusion Act. Clarence T. Jenkins, a prominent church member, was arrested at St. Louis, Mo., charged with embezzling nearly $14,003 frofi his employers. He confessed his guilt. For seven years he has been the trusted cashier and bookkeeper of Armstrong, Gilbert & Co., cork manufacturers. John McCafferty, a lineman, received the full current of an electric wire at Cleveland, Ohio, and hung by his irou spurs for three minutes from a telegraph pole, his face and bands turning black. Ho died on the way to a hospital. The President: siguod tho commission of State Senator Francis Hendricks as Collector of Customs at New York. OKt'KETAKi IU3T1.K issuea a euuuuu n.\.ing September 3() as the last day on which the four and a half per cants shall be received for contiauancu at two par cant, i The damage to property by the flood at Consuegra, Spain, is estimated at 62,500,000. The French and Italiau Governments have recognized the provisional Govern1 merit of Chili. i The first performance of Wagner's 1 "Lohengrin," in spite of all opposition, was given at the Paris (Francs) Opera, and passed off with success. Two hundred mounted men aud .TO on foot surrounded the building. There was a noisy demonstration outside the Opera House. Emperor William witnessed military manoeuvres near Mnlhausen, Germany. Starving peasants in the south of Russia are resorting to pillage aud muruer. Gexehal Ca-RLO Pacheco, Minister of Public Works, Colonization, Industry, and Commerce in Mexico, died at Cordoba. Pacheco gained a lasting fama in the war for independence from tha Maximilian monarchy. Irish harvest hands aro swarming into England at this season, no fewer than 4000 being shipped from Dublin on one day recently. The men are said to be mostly stalwart young fellows, contrasting remarkably with those going over for the past few years, who were principally old men. The biggest flour warehouse in the United States, owned by the Reading Railroad Company, with a capacity of 125.000 bushels, was opened recently at Philadelphia. FLOODS IN SPAIN. Two Thousand People Said to Have Perished. Appalling Devastation in the Province ol Toledo. Official information has been received at Madrid, Spain, from the scene of the terrible floods now devastating the province of Toledo. According to the news received two thousand people have already perished, and an immense amount of damage has been done by the swollen waters. At present it is utterly impossible to send assistance to the survivors, as all road and railway communication with the scene of the disaster has been cut off. Official telegrams report that fifteen hundred persons perished in the destruction Hi Consuegra by the overflow of the Ainar guillo. Hundred of others were injured by falling buildings and enormous numbtrs of cattle perished. At other places many persons were drowned an l much property was damaged. Cfowdff blockade the entrances to the Government, telegraph and newspaper offices, the all-pervading anxiety being to ascertain the details of this awful calamity, as they aflPostf. t.ha cAfofar nf frVin unfortunate r>ftOT)le residing in the pathway of the apparently irresistible floods. All commnnication by railway, highway or telegraph being at present cut off, nothing can be learned which could serve to lessen the apprehension of the people that the news, bad as it is, may be followed by Worse. Consuegra is on the river Amarguilla, in the province of Toledo, and thirty-six miles soutneast of that city. It contains about seven thousand inhabitants, who are principally engaged in the manufacture of coarse woolens. It was the Roman consabrum. On a neighboring hill are the ruins of its ancient castle. PEOMINEKT PEOPLE. Poet Swinburn~e is a red-headed bachelor. The German Kaisei's new beard is bright red. Ex-Sknator Ingalls, of Kansas, receives $500 for each of his lectures. Prince Bismarck has partly written five chapters of his autobiography. Von Moltke loft a sort of autobiography comprising twenty-nine diaries. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, has been nearly thirty-eight years in office. Senator Stanford, of California, is said to receive a larger mail than the President. Ex-Goveiinor Berry, of Now Hampshire, has observed his ninety-fltth birthday. Lord Dudley, of England, holds the highest life insurance ever taken out. It la for $6,000,000. Lord Salisbury has made twenty-one new peers since he has been in office, besides raising the rank of several more. The youngest son of General Grant, Jesse D. Grant, has accepted the management of a group of silver mines in Mexico. Clarence H. Freeman, the champion checker player of this country, is a mulatto, with a slight tinge of Pequot Indian blood. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, distinctly objects to being classified among the old men ot the Senate. He is sixty-five years of age. Secretary Blaine's fortune is estimated at $750,000, a friend of his says, and much of it is invested in railroads and mining properties. Governor Campbell, of Ohio, is bald headed, of Scotch extraction, with a droop- , ing iron-gray mustache, and is rising nineand-forty. Mrs. M. Hotchkiss, of Lakeville, Conn., has given seventy-five acres of land and $275.000 to found a Dreoaratorr school for Yale College. Chang Jay, Governor of 8hangtung, China, is dead. He was a prominent statesman, and had he lived, would probably have been Viceroy. Since Garibaldi's death no one has been allowed to use his ohair in the Italian Legislative Chamber in Rome. It is now bung with a laurel wreath. William Hatward, the oldest jockey a*i the American turf, is supposed to be worth abou t $60,000. The horses he rode won something in excess of a million dollars in stakerand purses. The remarkable vigor of Oliver Wendell Holmes's mind is due to the strict care ha has taken of himself since he became an octogenarian. His life is now one of great abstemiousness. TJtctj/mj .1 W Vrvt-WKT nf ChAiitannna fame, has not been in good health for some time past. He is in constant demand as a lecturer, but it is doubtful if he will be able to lecture often in the coming season. Captain Peter John Irving, commander of the record-breaker Teutonic, is one of the youngest captains in the service of any of the transatlantic steamship companies. Captain Irving is not much above forty. The proposed brido of the Czarowitch of Russia, Princess Marie, of Greece, is only fifteen years of age. She is very pretty and is of the Danish type of beauty, with blue eyes and fair hair. The Czarowitzh met her a year ago, and immediate/"' /ell desperately in love with her. A HUNDRED LOST. Sinking of the Steamer Taormina Off the Greek Coast. A collision has taken place off Cape Colonna, the most southern point of Attica, Greece, between the steamship Taormina, of the Italian Messageries Company, and a flin Thaacnlin Thft T/ir>r- 1 urWb ouoauuutp, ?mv ? ??s~??^ mina sank soon after the accident, and her captain, several of her crew and forty of her cabin passengers were drowned. The total number of lives lost was said to be 100. The second officer of the Taormina and a number of passengers who were standing on the bridge at the time the collision occurred were saved by the boats of the Thessalia. ' Most of the Taormina's passengers were in their berths at the time of the collision. Tha Thessalia was badly damaged forward, bnt by keeping the pumps going the steamer just succeeded in reaching Pharleon. WESTEEN TEAIN EOBBEES. An Express Car Rifled of $2500 by Masked Men. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas southbound passenger train was held up and the express car robbed at 9:50 at night, at Leliatetta, in Indian Territory, four miles north of Wagoner. The robbers covered the train officials with their pistols, and two of their number entered the express car. They ordered the expressman to open the large steel safe, which he was unable to do. The robbers thereupon dumped the small iron chest, which contained $2560, out of the cur door, aud, breaking it open, took the ontiro amount. They made no attempt to rob the passengers, and there was but one shot fired. The robbers wore masks of red llauiiel, and after completing the iob took to the woo .is with their booty. Officers have Jatt Muskogee iu pursuit of the robbers. SENATOE FEOM FLOEIDA. Ex-Congressman Davidson Appointed to Succeed Senator Call. Ex-Congressman R. H. M. Davidson has has been appointed United States Senator by the Governor of Fiorida, to succeed Wilkinson Call. Mr. Davidson served in Congress from March 4, 1877, fourteen years. Last fall he declined to take a renomlnation. He is a lawyer, now flffcy-nine years old, and served in the Confederate Army, attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was a Presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1873. This appointment emphasizes Governor Fleming's declaration, made last month, that Senator Call'a r?-election in May was irregular, inasmuch as there was not a quorum present in the State Senate at the time. r ' "t" V - HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. THT5 PHILOSOPHY O* BOILING AN EGO. The white of the egg is albumea, and I the yelk, also, but containing a peculiar oil. It is the albumen that heated at 160 degrees Fahrenheit, coaerulates and . i renders the egg delicious, tender and digestible. But if the temperature is raised beyond the perfectly coagulating point the albumen will dry, shrink and become leathery and indigestible. Large eggs placed in boiling water will not properly "jellify" or coagulate the albu- c men of either the white or of the yelk c in three a"9d a half minutes. Then, to * secure the desirable degree of cooking or e coagulation of the albumen of the egg or 1 of a steak, the temperature should be * just sufficient when longer continued to y perfectly cook, and not to sear and born- ' ify the nutritive element of food, until 13 cooking impairs digestibility rather than, 8 as it should, promote it. A. meal presupposes preparation, calculation and E forethought. Then why not as well apply these to uniform, certain and perfect cooking of eggs? Ten minutes before the meal hour put the eggs into a vessel into which boiling water has previously been poured, cover and set aside, and when the meal is ready to be served the eggs will be perfectly cooked. If some of the family desire their eggs harder, two or three minutes longer will gratify the wish, but still the eggs will be perfectly digestible. Too much fuel is wasted in spoiling food that should be made delicious ac 1 digestible, but which too olten is unnutritious, indigestible and tasteless.?Daughters of America. CANNING AND PRESERVING. For canning or preserving choose always the very best fruit. It should be thoroughly ripe, but firm and sound. In peeling be very careful to cut out all bruised spots. Reject whatever' has the least trace of decay; it is ripe for fermentation, and may ruin the whole batch. To keep apples, pears and peaches firm and well colored, wash and drain well before paring, drop each one as the rind comes off into clear lime water, and let stay till all ore finished. Take out upon a sieve, and rinse by pouring clear water through. If for canning, pack close in your jars, and set in cold water up to the neck. Bang it to a boil, while you make a syrup of half pound of sugar and half pint of water to each pound. Cook five minutes after the sugar melts. Skim well, and fill the cans brimful of it. Let them stand two minutes, then fill again if it has sunk below the top. Press the fruit well below it with the back of a spoon, and seal at once. If the cans are of glass, be careful to set them on something warm when they are removed from the water. A suddeu chill will burst them and make all your labor vain. For delicate fruit, such as strawberries, make the syrup thicker?about three-quarters of sugar to half-pint of water. Choose large firm berries, handling them as lightly and as ittle a3 possible; boil your syrup ten ] minutes, or until it ropes a little; then drop in tne oerries, a nanaiui at a time. As the kettle boils again, take them out with a skimmer, and pack down in a hot jar. Keep on scalding a few at a ] time till all are done; then boil the , syrnp till it ropes freely, pour over them , till the fruit is completely covered, drop | a teaspoonful of brandy in the top of , each jar, and seal while boiling hot. ( The secret of 3ucceas is never to put In fruit except when your kettle is on the j full boil, and not to add enough to check , it but very slightly. Fruit so treated ( keeps shape, color and flavor?all which , are by ordinary methods almost wholly . lost. For preserves allow five pounds best j sugar to each four of pared fruit. After ] rinsing, drain for a minute; then pach in , layers with the sugar in a deep stone jar. ( Let stand twenty-four hours in a cool j place. Pour off the syrup then into a , scrupulously bright kettle, boil it for ( ten minutes, skimming very closely; | then pour over the fruit, and let it stand . another day. Drain oif again, bring to ( a boil, and add the fruit after you have | skimmed it'well. Keep it boiling brisk- j ly, neither very fast nor slow. Never , overcrowd your kettle, nor use one that , is very large. The why no woman hath j discovered, but the fact remains that for j beautiful clear pink or golden jellies and } preserves you must cook only a moderate , quantity at once, If the heat is jost right, in two hours your fruit will be j clear and sugary all through. Take it j out with the skimmer, and lay on broad ( dishes. Boil the syrup till it is like ; honey, adding, if you like it, the strained I , juice of three lemons, along with their ( peel boiled in clear water until a straw will pierce it. If ginger is preferred, j soak two races overnight in half a pint , of water, and add the whole to your ( syrup before boiling down. When it is thick enough, pack your fruit delicately in glass or stone jars, and cover an inch j de;p with the syrup. Lay a brandied i paper in the mouth of cach, and tie down securcly, but do not seal.?Earptr'i Bazar. recipes. , Corn Oysters?Grate corn from the ear; to every pint of pulp allow two eggs, two tablespooufuls of dour, with salt and pepper. Fry in boiliug lard and serve very hot. j Breakfast Potatoes?Slice potatoes 1 thin; put two tablespoonfuls of butter in 1 a frying-pan; wheu hot, put ia the pota- 1 toes and stir until done; pour in a pint 1 of milk, thin with a little dour, season with salt and pepper. Picklcd Apples?Wipe and place in r earthen nappy, after pressing one clove into each apple, cover with vinegar and . sugar in the proportion of two cupfuls to ' a quart of vinegar. Molasses gives them a rich, dark color if you prefer it. j Bake until you can run a straw through ( the gruit. Can be eaton at once or .< canned for winter; will keep a year. Egg-plant?Wash the egg-plant, put a in a kettle, cover with boiling water and ( boil half an hour. Take up, cut in i halves, and scoop out the soft portion, i leaving the skin unbroken. Mash the < egg-plant, season with butter, pepper i and salt; mix well and put back in the skin. Lay in a pan, sprinkle with grated bread crumbs and bits of butter, and set ' in the oven. Clear Soup?Scrape and cut two car- , rots, pare and cut one turnip, slice an ] onion, cut up two or three stalks of ( celery and one head of cauliflower. Put . all together in a kettle, cover with < water and boil fifteen minutes and drain. ^ Melt a quart of stock, bring to a boil and add the vegetables. Let simmer one j hour; add half a gallon of water, boil , half an hour longer, season with salt ana . pepper. ( GEMS FROM STARS. DIAMONDS FOUND IN A METEORITE IN ARIZONA. rt'ere All Diamouds Brought to tha Earth by Meteors??A Subject of Great Speculative Interest. Of all the curiosities which the wise aen of the Association for the Advanceaent of Science brought to Washington or exhibition to their fellows, the most xtraordinary was a meteorite with diaaonds in it. Such a thing has never teen seen or heard of before; in fact, it ras the only speeiincu of the kind thus ar discovered in the world. The diaaonds were little ones, but what they ignified was big. The meteorite in question was one of oany found recently in Arizona, near he Canon Diablo. It was supposed by he discoverers that they had hit upon in iron mine of enormous value, but instigation proved that the great chunks >f metal picked up had been shot out of he realms of space. The place whence hey were obtained is known as the 'Crater," because it looks like one; \mn<v a. Vinllnw nn? hnndmd feet fc> 7T. " n depth, three quarters of a mile wide, ind gurrouaded by a wall of rock so steep hat the bottom is strewn with theskele ons of animals which hare got in and )een unable to climb out again. Never' iheless, it is not of volcanic origin, as is iroved with certainty by the fact that ;here is no lava, obsidian?volcanic glass ?or other volcanic product in the leighborhood. What was it then that nade the crater? Geologists say ;hat it was formed by the impact of a single gigantic meteor, which at lome time in the past struck the earth and >uried itself out of sight, leaving a hole which has since become partly filled up, lurrounded by a wall of rock that was 'orced out of place. Imagine what a big >ne it must have been to leave a cavity 1 o# a mil a in midtK vliarA Ifc 411CC"lUUlbU9 V& a tuii? au nivtvu nuv*v * lit this planet. The huge mass of iron of ffhich it was composed is there yet, of :ouroe. Perhaps it is not sank too deep x> render mining for its material unprofitable. Fragments of it formed the masses :hat were picked up by the prospector* above referred to. That one which contained the diamonds, however, has opened an absorbing subject for speculation. It proves that there are diamonds in other worlds than ours; but also it points to many other important conclusions. The diamonds of the famous Eimberly mines, which at present produce almost the entire world1* supply of these gems, are all found at the bottoms of just such craters as the one described in Arizona. It is believed that these craters, so called, were formed by the impact of great meteors, because there is no other conceivable way in which they could have been made, and for other reasons geological. If so, then it most be inferred that probably all the diamonds of the world were brought to this terresai\hof>o htr mntnorites. In Other words, these precious jewels are not native to the earth, but have been fetched hither with the duat of other stars. That accounts for the manner, hitherto deemed unaccountable, in which they are scat* tered everywhere through drift of all jorta,'having apparently no birthplace or definite relation to other minerals. Soma scientists go so far as to assert that diamonds, like coal, which ia so nearly of the same chemical constitution, could not possibly come into existence without previous vegetable growths to generate their material. For this reason they infer that the finding of the gems In the meteorite demonstrates that then must have been vegetable life, at all svents, in the place whence the meteorite lame. If there was vegetable life there, t is a fair presumption that there was mimal life also. All this may be ua:rue, but it affords the first guess glimpse ;hat has ever been obtained into the greatest problem that mankind has ever ittempted to handle?namely, the ques;ion whether life exists in other worlds :han ours. From the philosophical point of view, the fact caaaot but be taken for granted in a universe in which :he sun is merely an inferior star of the fourth magnitude. Nevertheless, some absolute evidence on the point would be extremely satisfactory. Meteorites ordinarily are nearly all iron, with a small percentage of nickeL None of them has ever been known to contain a particle of any precious metaL Nevertheless, many of them are worth many times their weight in gold, because of some peculiarity of structure or othecwise. Every collector of minerals makes it a matter of pride to have a specimen * 1 !?; %/! mafnAinh) It* Kfi oi every j&uuwu muu v*. wvwvt??v . m?m _ cabinet. If a new sort turns up and h* I bas not a piece he is unhappy. It hap- B pens somctine3 that one weighing not B more than a pound, of a make-up that B has not been seen before, will sell in bits B for a couple of thousand dollars, if its I possessor knows how to dispose of it. B People are not less interested in other B svorids because they know nothing B lb out the next one.?Boston Transcript. I An Immense Catflsli. 9 A huge catfish hanging in front of aa B Edmond street restaurant almost preoipl- B tated a riot yesterday. The usual ad- B miring crowd surrounded it, and the B members, according to custom, began B affording each other information as to its B weight. One man who had caught B shoals of just such fish, only larger, de- B glared that it weighed 105 pounds. B This was a starter, and all subsequent B estimates wern based upon it. The fish B soon weighed 115 pounds, and by easy B gradations attained a gravity of 169 B pounds. Newcomers were arriving on B :he scene, and the sidewalk was ob- B '.tructed by malignera of each other's B judgment, and accusations of wilful B ying and perjury were recklessly tossed B lbout. The proprietor became alarmed B md hastily wrote a label bearing the in- B jcription, u109 pounds," which htB placed on the back of the breeder ol B discord. The crowd compromised on B this statement and separated.?tit. Joaph B Gazette. H rhc Basis of Weights and Measures. B British weights and measures?those I aow in use in the United States?are basod upon the weight of a cubic inch of B distilled water, which Parliament,in the H reign of George IV.,decided to be 252, 158 grains. Recent experiments show I that a cubic inch of water at the temper* M iture of maximum density equals 252,-1 286 standard grains. On this account scientists arc urging the readjustment of B thegallou, bushel,etc.?St. Louit