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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.
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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