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STORM SWEPT COASTS. Fierce Gales Blow in New Jer- 1 sev and Great Britain. Immense Damage Caused on Land and Sea. |: Much damage was done along the New j Jersey coast by the heavy win Is. The I steamship Alaska had a rough trip. The Providence line steamer Connecticut's piston , i rod broke in the Sound anl the passengers j ' were transferred to tha Massachusetts. A ! heavy storm in the British Isles did much ( damage to shipping and interrupted the telegraph service. ( A dispatch from Long Branch, N. J., ( says: A severe northeast wind and rain storm which raged for twenty-four hours did much damage all along the New Jersey coast, particularly betweeen Sandy Hook and Point Pleasant. For twelve hours the wind blew from forty to tiftv miles an hour and the sea was unus ually higa ana strong, ai nign uae mat afternoon the waves dashed over the ocean pier at this place and swept the decks, but the structure withstood all attacks. Several large pieces of timber were driven about in the undertow and Threatened the pier. They pounded ( hard against the iron pillings, but were finalJy secured and made fast, by Superintend?nt Dudley's crew. The sea toam was blown inland a distance of a hundred yards and more ' Between North Long Branch and West End the bluff and Ocean avenue driveway has been ravenously?attacked by the waves, and in several places the roadway has been considerably eaten into. The washout on Ocean , avenue in front of the old East End Hotel property has been extended several ( wet, and in front of Iauch's Hotel the bluff , has been washed away and the roadway en- ( , croached upon for a distance of one hundred feet. The foundation and platform? of the n. . Ocean Hotel bathing pavilions, just south 1 of the pier, were smeshed into j kindling wood by the high tide and carried out to sea. Between the Surf 1 House, just north of the pier and Chelsea j avenue, nearly eight feet of sand has been I carried away and the bluff has been badly 1 washed ana inundated. From this place I to West End hundreds of tons of I the bluff have been torn down i i and carried away. At Monmouth Beach, 1 Low Moor and Galilee there has been but i little damage done aside from the vigorous attacks made upon the bluff. At the latter { place the tracks of the New Jersey Southern , Kaiiroad have been washed, but the j trains have not been delayed. Min- j ugh's Hollow, at Seabright, is flooded ( by the high tide in the Shrewsbury River, r and several small houses there have been j badly undermined. The tide there is so , l-.'-t- M a. AL.A iU. U nAiranol tugu, m itici, luut mo uisii uuun iu oo ? o> <?-- j houses are submerged. The high winds have i also done considerable damage inland. < A telegram from Asbury Park, N. J., says: The wooden pier at Asbury Park, owned by James A. Bradley, was con- 1 siderably damaged, and at" the foot of 1 Fifth avenue a gap was made in the I beach by the terrific rolling of the i surf. A fishing smack which was anchored off Second avenue that night was missing next morning. It is believed that the boat ( was swept down the coast by the fierce gale, e dragging the anchor with ber. The 1 new pier at Ocean Grove wa3 badly 1 damaged. Much damage is reported along the coast south of Spring Lake. At Cape ; May, N. J., the surf washed high upon the j beach and did much damage. The front brick wall of the courtyard of Postmaster- , General VFanamaker's cottage at Cape Ma? i 1 Point was washed away, as was ! 1 also a portion of the beach in front of the 1 s cottage. President Harrison's cottage, how- ! c ever, did not suffer serious damage. The 1 r oyster business at Pleasantville had to be temporarily suspended. A cablegram from London, England, says: The windstorm which visited England on . a recent morning, and which caused serious * Interruption in telegraphic communication, soon developed into a furious gale and resulted in an interruption or almost complete 8 cessation of telegraphing throughout the ? southwest portions of England_and the C south of Ireland and in Wales. The storm | flooded the lowlands of Northern Wales, | i causing great damage. It overturned a i I number of tents on the race track j Fazelev, a mile or so from Tam- j c worth, while the races were in pro- ; t gress and many persons were severe- c Iy injured. At Hastings heavy seas swept over the promenade, and the damage there ' And at the other watering places along the eastern coast will be enormous. A Nor- . wegi&ti bark went ashore at Chesil Bank, off the coast off Dorsetshire. She went to piecos very soon, but the crew was rescued. A French brig was lost near Fatmouth. A Nor- J wegian vessel, loaded with coal, became a ( total wreck off Kearney, County Down, Ire- 8 land. Several collisions occurred in the Thames, and many vessels there were driven 1 Ashore. The gale demolished Batty's Circus, ( which was giving an exhibition at Birr, in a Ireland, aud many persons, mostly children, t were injured. 1 CHICAGO'S GRANT STATUE. < &~'V; Unveiling in Lincoln Park in the Presence of Thousands. The bronze statue of General Grant was unveiled in Lincoln Park, Chicago, 111., in the presence of nearly one hundred thousand people, who were on the long beach in the park and on ships in the lake. When the orator of the day, Judge Walter Q. Gresham, stepped to the eJge of the temporary platform erected at the base of the monument, there were assembled on either side in i the twits arranged for them about five hundred distinguished guests. Among them was Mrs. Grant, the general's widow. Massed in front of the platform and to the immediate right and left in a solid square were nearly two thousand uniformei men?in- i fantry, cavalrj ana artillery, regulars ana < militia, veterans or the Grand Army of the < Republic. Knights of Pythias, and many 1 civic organizations. Back of these, sep- 1 aratei on one side by the narrow regatta course, swarmed the general public. Beyond, on tne choppy waves, was a flotilla of nearly i two hundred vessels. ( The street parade was one of the finest ever seen taere. It was led by General , Miles, with General Stockton as Caief of Staff. It consisted of seven divisions. Jn the first division were 500 policemen, Chief McClaugiirev in command; in the second the United States troops from Port 8heridan. and the Illinois National Guard; i in the third the veteran societies of the ar- i miea of the Tennessee, Cumberland and Po- I tomac, commanded by Colonel James A. Sexton. The fourth division was made up of carriages, in which Secretary Noble, Governor Bufkeley, of Connecticut; Governor Fifer, of Illinois; Senator John Sherman, Henry Wattersou, General Horace Porter, General E. S. Braggs, Mrs. John A. Logan, General Daniel Butterfield and James Whltcomb j Riley were conspicuous. The thirty-four Grand Army posts of Chi- j cago and posts from elsewhere in Illinois and from Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa made no the fifth division, which General Horace Clark commanded. Thi Sons of Veterans, commanded by William Hale Thompson, 1 and 20U ex-Confederates composed the sixth, 1 and civic societies the seventh division. The j< line of march led up the lake shore drive, i j At the house of Potter Palmer Mrs. Grant j 1 reviewed the parade. ' At the monument Bishop John P.Newman offered the invocation. Colonel Edwar i S. Taylor made the presentation on behalf of the Monument Association to the Commissioners of Lincoln Park, and a 1 daughter of General William E. Strong 1 loosed the cord binding the bunting that i concealed the statue. Ait&r the salute was 1 fired, W. C. Gouay, President of the Lincoln Park Commissioners, made a speech of , acceptance, and .Mayor Washburne accepted j the mounment on tne part of the citizens of j Chicago. Judge Gresham's address folio wea. ] The statue is a colossal equestrian one, and : sets north and south upon an immense arch. It represents General Grant grasping a field glass with one hand resting in an easy and somewhat unconscious manner upon bis right | thigh as if be had been taking a careful survey of the field. It suggests a powerful concentration of mind, confidence and selfreliance. The bronze statue measures eighteen feet three inches in height from the bottom of the plinth to the top of the slouch hat. It is the largest cssting of the kini 4va is the United States. alAdr* ?vl.. _ THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Fastern and Middle States. There are 36,503 dogs in New York City, according to the police census, of which bui 338S are licensed. A 10,000 barrel oil pusher was struck in the McDonald Held near Pittsburg, Penn. A. S. Manx & Co., one of the largest,oldest and most reliable dry goods firms in Rochester, N. Y., has just marie an assignment. Liabilities, $100,000. The failure was a complete surprise. Alviv De Long was shot and killed bv hh wife at their home, in Binghamton, N. Y. Eight-tear-old James Steebe, who was bitten by a rabid dog two months before, died in the Elizabeth (N. J ) City Hospital of hydrophobia. The extensive planing mills, factories, warehouses, sheds, etc.. composing the plant of Messrs. Neel & Wampler at McKeesport, Penn.. were completelv destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $150,000. The fire wa: caused by spontaneous combustion and will throw several hundred men out of em ployment. Alexander Goodale and Bermanr Kilts, farmers living near Little Fall3, N.Y., were drowned in the Erie Canal about half a mile east of that village. Levi M. Bates, the well-known dry-goods merchant of New York City was drowned in Bowery Bay. Arthur Shall, a fireman; Daniel Crockwell, a brakeman, and another brakeman, name unknown, were killed in a railroad collision a mile south of Hyde Park, N. Y. TV. Bocrke Cocrran was nominated for Congress by the Democrats of New York City to fill the unexpired term of the late F. B. Spinola. The American Board of Commissioners ol Foreign Missions met at Pittsfield, Mass. Frost and snow were reported in North' Bra New York and New England. Ex-Governor Hobart B. Bigelow, ol Connecticut, died at New Kav9n. He wai bora on a farm in the town of North Haven, Conn., May 16, 1834. James r. Logan* and Mattie, brother and sister, aged twenty-eight and thirty respectively, ware crossing the railroad track at Palmyra, N. Y., in a buggy. Thev were unable to get out of the way of an approaching train, which struck them, killing the roung -woman outright and injuring her brother so badly that he died soon after. Major Charles B. Throckmorton, Commandant at Fort Schuyler, New York, was placed under arrest pending investigation of charges of issuing worthless checks ind duplicating his pay vouchers. Pursuant to the proclamation of the Sovernor, the Pennsylvania Senate convened in extraordinary session at Harris>urg to consider whether sufficient cause exsts for the removal from office of Auditorjteneral Thomas McCamant and State [Veasurer Henry K. Boyer, who are alleged o have been in collusion with ex-City Treasiiw .Tr>hn Rurdslnv of Philftdelnhia. in his nalfeasance In office. Lieutenant-Governor tfatreg occupied the chair. Of the fifty Senators, fqur failed to answer the roll-call. He.vry Sanford and Frederick Lovejoy vera elected President and Vice-President, espectively, of the Adams Express Com>any in New York City, to succeed John loey and Clapp Spooner, accused of maleasance. Judge He.vry Wilder Allen, of the rourt of Common Pleas, died very unexpectidly in the Chamber Street Hospital, New Fork City. He was born in Alfred, Ms., in 836. The soldiers and sailors' monument in Jtica, N. Y., was unveiled. General Joseph S. Hawley made an address. Elwood Parsons, President of the First National Bank of Trenton, N. J., and aiargo eal estate owner in Pennsylvania, New Jerey, Kentucky and Virginia dropped dead in a receqt evening. Mr. Parsons wa3 a a em bar of the Friends' denomination. South and West. Reports from the Northwest showed that he rainy weather had seriously injured rheat in the shock. The storage warehouse of Hunter & Co., it Montgomery. Ala., was burned with ibout 200 bales of cotton. The loss is $1^5,100. a fire at Mayfield, Ky., burned over learly six acres of ground. The Newport iews and Mississippi Valley freight and lassenrer denots. tne Western Tobacco Company's warehouse and 600 hogsheads of obaeco and a number of residences were lestroyed. Los.-, $100,000. John Williams. Company D, Tenth Kanas Infantry, and Peter Cusick, a navy vetiran, were run over and killed by the rapidxansit train at Leavenworth, Kan. Both nen were inmates of the Soldiers' Ho ma. Joe Coe, the colored assailant of flve-year>ld Lizzie Yates, was taken from jail at Dm aha. Neb., by a mob soon after midnight ind lynched. A most remarkable and previously unleard of occurrence took place at Macalester College, St. Paul. Minn., when the whole enlor class deserted the institution. They lid it, too, on the advice of the Board of rrustees. What is at the bottom of the afair?finances or bad feeling?is not known. An elevator fell in tha Shelby Cabinet Company's mill at Shelbyville, Ind., fatally njuring three men, Joseph Schott, Clint lleely and EL Thayer. Royal Voorhees was instantly killed and Robert Creque fatallv wounded at Champaign, 111., by Daniel Renner, the result of a ;ri^al quarrel, the man having been drinkng. Commerce on t'ae Great Lakes was docked for several days by the sinking, in :olllsion, of a wheat-laden barge in the Sault ^te. Marie (Mich.) Cana!. James Miller, residing on a claim near Stillwater, Oklahoma, was shot an'V killed jy his eighteen-year-old stepson. MilJer had iDused his wife and her children, and in orler to gain revenge the stepson followed him nto a Held and shot him deaJ. Dr. Frank S. Billings, investi~ato:' of infectious animal disease for Nebraska, has completely demonstrated that a germ does jause Texas fever. He has isolated this germ from the blood of Texas ticks, cultivated them pure and killed cattle by mocuiatioD with tnera. Sherman* Greer, colored, shot and killed bis father. Rev. William Greer, in Wilkes County. N. C. An accomplice named Watson held the old man while Sherman shot him. Jcdoe Goodrich has declared the Allen Land law of Texa3 void. Six laborers on a construction train at Ensley City went to sleep in a car where a redhot stove was close to two kegs of powder. The powder cauzht fire ana exoloded, blowing the car to fragments. All were killed. The Minnesota Presbyterian Synod in session at Minneapolis protests against opening the World's Fair on Sunday. One of the latest moves of the Farmers' Alliance is the boycotting of the town oi uaaonia, Texas. The boycott was started because the Town Council enacted a law prohibiting the running at large of stock in the corporate limits. Reports from Northern Minnesota and North Dakota as far west as the Missouri River are of the most discouraging character. It snowed and rained all over that section for eighteen hours, and not a wheel ^ould turn among the thrashing machines. It was calculated that from 2,000,000 to 5,500,000 bushels of wheat would be utterly ruined. Washington. Captain M. A. Healy, commanding the revenue steamer Bear, has made a report to the Treasury Department in regard to the recant cruise of that vessel in the Arctic Dcean. The Boston and Yorktown have been ordered to Chili by the Secretary of the Navv for the express purpose of reheviuij the Baltimore and San Francisco, the hulls of which are in so foul a state that they will bave to be dockei, and it will be necessary lor them to go to San Francisco for that purpose. President and Mrs. Harrison attended the funeral inJWashington of Mrs. Pruden, wife of the Executive's assistant secretary, Secretary of the Treasury Fostei has ordered three clerks to go to Philadel phia, Penn., to aid in investigating the affairs' of the Keystone National Bank. Thej will be paid out of the lund of $5000 placed at the Treasury's disposal by the Commits of Fifty. ... ... jV'ik-tviSl,.'; - A convention- has been concluded between Germany and the United States by which American cereals are to be admitted into the former country freaof duty in exchange for the free admission of German sugar ? , here. I Tnp. Sporetarv of War has received th? report of the Board of Visitors to the Mili- I I tary Academy of West Point through Major ' John M. Carson, the secretary. The President has accepted the resigna* ] tion by Senator Blair of the China mission. William H. Barker, of Brooklyn, N. i Y., Chief of the Record Division of the Pension Office has resigned, i Brigadier-General August V. Kautz, 1 commanding the Department of the Colum- t ! bia, in his anuual report to the Secretary of ] War, says there have been repeated troubles . between the Indians and white settlers in j the Koontnai country, and that unless the Indians are provided with an agent serious J ; troubje will follow when the Great Northern J Railroad Js built through that country. > The United States Supreme Court con- . I vened in Washington at noon, for the Octo- { I ber term, Justice Field-presiding in the ab- ? sence of Chief Justice Fuller. Justices Brad- ] ley and Gray were also absent, owing to ill? i ness. \ | The Ecumenical Council of Methodists at i 1 Washington discussed preachers and the 1 press. ' 1 | The Government steamer Alert, which \ 1 went ashore near Anticosti Island, Washington, has been pulled off with slight dam- j age- < L The Cabinet at its last meeting discussed j in detail several reciprocity treaties that are now in the course of negotiation between | : the United States and European and South i American countries. I 1 Foreign* < Austria has made an appropriation for ' the Chicago Fair. * , Serious rioting has occurred forty miles i from Amoy, China. The riot was caused by t fiscal abuses. The riots were quelled, but < not before several mandarins and other % officials had been killed by the mob. i _ Serious disturbances occurred at Jtio ' Janeiro, tsrazu. ine trouoie muuo ius m-so appearance in the Italian theatre, and soon ? spread to the adjacent Btreets. The police" 1 arrested many of the rioters. A force of ] | cavalry made several charges and disparsed ( the mob. Several persons were killed and many injured. Intrigues are afoot regard- f ing the succession of the Presidency. ' Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Stanley, ao J companied by Mrs. Tennant, the mother ^ of Mrs. Stanley, started from London, Eng- . land, on a tour of Australia. Mr. Stanley , ' is still lame as the result of his recent ac- , cident in Switzerland and is compelled to , have the assistance of a crutch and stick in j walking. ( The famine in the Volga Valley of Rus- i sia has caused widespread sicknes3 among < the starving inhabitants of that district. < Thousands of peasants are already pros- 1 trated by typhus fever. t The express train, on board of which were Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Stanley and Mrs. J Tennant. mother of Mrs. Stanley, has been 1 completely wracked at Carovigno, Italy. ( The Stanley party was on its way to Aus- { tralia, where the explorer is to lecture. t They had a narrow escape from death. The Parnellite Members of the British 1 Parliament have issued a manifesto in < which they declare their hostility to the Mc- t Carthyites. i An epidemic of smallpox is feared in Mon- ' treal, Canada. Already forty cases are 1 reported. 6 Fifty-four residents of Montevideo, Uru- j guay, were killed in the attempted revolt j against the Government, which was quickly , I suppressed. I Felsee Najjar, a large village of Tran- i sylvania, Austro-Hungary, has been com- l pletely destroyed by fire. * . _ 1 ' t WOBLD'S FAIR NOTES. Pen nsylvania's Exposition building will cost j-75,000. The Florida Horticultural Society has j asked for three acres in which to show an j orange grove and make a fruit display. | South Dakota is now eogage.l in raising ' $80,000 for its representation at the Exposij tion. It proposes to errect a building 144 ; feet square. Bids are soon to be invited for 450,000 I square feet of sidewalks for the Exposition i grounds. These waits, for the most part, I will De iorty feet wide. Indiana will have a $100,000 building at j the Fair. It will not cost tuaC much, howI ever, as a large share of the material, all of | wuich will come from that. State, will be | donated. There will be not less than twenty-five restaurants, as well as numerous cafe}, in the Exposition buildings. It is tbe intention of the Exposition authorities to protect visi- ; tors from exhorbitant euarges. It is expected that therd will be fully 3000 dogs entered in the Exposition bench show. The various kennel clubs propose to supplement the already satisfactory premium list by a number ot very handsome medals. The total expense of organization, administration and operation ot the Esposit.on is estimated at nearly $5,000,000. Tnis takes no account of the sums to be spent oy the Government, the States or foreign nations. The State Department at Washington has ueen notified that Russia has appointed its royal World's Fair Commission, and tbat the President of it is Privy Councillor rtenr, Director of tne Department of Finance. France has asked 25,00) and Th9 Hague I 11,000 square feet ot space for their picture j exuibits alone. Until recently it was thought I that the weakest feature ot tha Exposition I would ba its fine arts exhibit. Now, how ] ever, it is believed that this wiU ba one of ; the oest of all. I The owners of ona of the finest business | ! corners in Chicago nave decided to erect a | $1,000,090 sixteen-3tofy building to b9 called I 'The Columbu?," in honor o(! Atner.ca's dis( cover. The plans contemplate a structure . strikingly artistic and ornate in appearance, i of the Spanish style of architecture. 1 The Western Union Telegraph Company f intends to frame handsomely the first tele- 1 graph message ever sent, which was in May, | 1&44, and exhibit it in tne Electrical Depart- i | ment at the Exposition. The message was ] 1 received by Professor Morse at the Capitol < | in Washington, from an assistant in An- i : uapolis. ( The American Pomological Society, at its ( i ' recent annual meeting in Washington, de- I cided to maice an exhioit classifi9i by State and connty associations, and also by indi- ' iduals;^ind it appointed a Wotfd's Fair committee of six to confer with the Horti- 1 cultural Department, and to perfect arrangements. ' It is not thought probable, now, that there will be any tower at the World's Fair. The j projectors of the most promisiug tower ( i j scheme abandoned it when they found that . they would have to take down their tower , when the exposition closed, because the Park Commissioners refused to grant any suOse- ( quent use of a site. Dr. Bertolltte, Commissioner of theLi I Platte Republics, has informed the Latin ( American Department that he is endeavor- i ing to secure for the Exposition a coiony of lace makers and gold and silver workers i from Paraguay. These people are ingen- i ious, their product being equal to that of < the Brussels working women, and the fact that they use vegetable fibre exclusively ; makes their work of even greater value and : interest. _ i Aside from the cost of the great building, whicn will be not tar from *7,0JO,000, the 1 following are among the sums which have been or will be spent in preparation oi the Exposition grounds: Grading and tilling, $450,000; landscape gardening, $333,500; viaducts and bridges, 1125,000; piers, 170,000; waterway improvements, $225,000: railways, $500,000; steam plant, $$0j,000; electric lighting, *1,500.000; statuarv, $100,' 000; vases, lamps, etc., $50,000; lake front adornment, $200,000; water supply and sewerage, $600,000; other expenses $1,00J,1 000; total, $5,943,000. , | george W. Truitt, a well-known cotton i grower, says that the cotton crop of the present year will fall fully one-third short of last year. He thinks three hot days?August r "10,11 and 12?did the cotton great damage I and was the cause of the decrease. He j estimates that the crop of the South was cot off 1,500,000 bales by that botwave. IN A HURRICANE'S GRIP. Tempestuous Voyages of Fire Transatlantic Steamers. Days of Terror During Which Fif" tv Passengers Are Injured, "With prayers of thanksgiving on their ip?, the passengers of five big transatlantic iteamships, numbering nearly 4000, were anaed at the Port of New York after ha7ng experienced storms and cyclones, which 'or a time filled them with dread. 3ne of the severest cyciones that ias swept across the Atlantic Dcean for many rears was expsrienced by ;he incoming vessels, and the number of passengers bruised and injured can be safely taid to be fifty; and although no fatal remits occurred, the suffering on the steam ;ossed vessels cannot be overestimated. The arrivals were the Augusta Victoria 'rom Hamburg, La Bretagne from Havre, [Jmbria from Liverpool, Taormina from Hamburg:. Slavonia from Hamburg, Sicilia from Marseilles, and Consmauga from Antwerp. Each of the several cap:ains reported that while they had experienced bad weather in all October voyages, ;he one just ended was by far the severest sver encountered. The trip will stand on record as the most exciting and dangerous jver reported. The list of casualties to ?asseng:ers and crews outnumbers anything uefore known. Of the three big passenger steamers the trip of the Augusta Victoria was the most hazardous, the Tog of each day .telling a tale >f storm appalling to even old seamen. Th? vessel carried 327 cabin, 820 steerage passen ( jers and a crew of 305 m?n. I'h* vessel had scarcely passed Southamp:on when Captain Barends saw that i storm was coming up, and gave orders that everything should be made snug indtaut. A northwest gale was blowing, ind as the day waned it increa ei in force intil it became a tierce hurricane. The big iteamer was soon pitching in the temendous sea, and Captain Barends gave orders that ler head was to be kept up to the wind to prevent her getting into the trough of the sea. As the storm increased in violence the scenes in the saloon and steerage were unisuol. Veterans who liad crossed and re:rossed the'ocean and boasted oC ignorancs )f seasickness lay prone on their backs, suffering intense agony. Thero was no abatenent in the gale until six days afterward, vhich was the severest day of the "oyage. During the whole period the waves vere incredibly high, and the wind whistled furiously through the rigging, the vessel juivering and shaking in every part as if ibout to go to pieces. Her nose plunged lown into the waves, while the stern rose >ut of the water, causing the twin screws :o race, with imminent danger to the ship. To eat, walk or move was absolutely im? jossible. Those who were compelled by ircumstances to change their positions had :o creep. Mrs. Richard White and her laughter attempted to leave their staterooms md were hurled down with such force that ;he rieht arm of each was broken. In the steerage the passengers, crowded ia ,heir narrow little bunks, were being hurled >n top of each other, against the decks and x>sts until nearly a score of them were injured. F. Spiroch and Anna Bartoon were mocked down. Their heads came in contact with such force that both became unconicioue. The family of Heinrich Edp, eightsen in all, ware badly bruised. The other njured people were fifteen in number. Their njuries consisted of bruises aud sprained wrists and ankles. Dr. Lonburn, a cabin passenger, wa3 ;hrown across tue saioon and had an arm jroken. Another injured in the saloon was John Schirmer, who was knocked against a Able and had his arm broken. When the vessel got to her dock she was :oated all over with salt, where the waves lad broken on her, while her passengers rrere limping about with heads and arms Danda^ed. The Cunard steamship U mbria weathered ;be same gale as the Augusta Victoria. The 'ormer sailed from Queenstown and caught ip with th9 bad weather the first day. The passengers suffered much, hue only twowere njurea?Char es Roat?, of Buffalo, >". Y., tvno was thrown to the fioor of the smoizing room and had his scalp lacjrat9d, and Benry Harrison, an Englishman, who fell ind was badly, bruised. Mrs. Mary Moor man, a cabin passenger, forty-five, of Louissrille, Ky., had a strose o! apoplexy and iied. It was discovered on tha day that Mrs. Moorman aiea taat ? pm iu uuo utav.mu?; of the vessel had brokeu. It was necessary to lay to until the damage was repaired. The vessel was in the trough of the sea for some hours, which in creased the discomfort of the passengers. The waves broke into one stateroom and narrowly escape J drowning one of the passengers. Among the passengers were Corneliu3 N. Bliss, his son, C. N. Bliss, Jr., Count Endody, Admiral John C. Howell and F. W. Rhinelander. The big French liner La Bretagne, from Havre, took a more southerly course, buc encountered tha hurricane. She weathered it bravely. The crew and passengers were uninjured. Some of the passsugers thought that when thov retired on Wednesday night they would have to take to the boats belore the next tlay. La Bretagne passed a fishing boat, floating bottom up, with two dories alongside. The schooner W. R. Houston returned to New York with her jib and foretop sails carried away. The steamer Storm King, from Hamburg for Montreal, put into Ply i.L 1 i_ ? f.hnf. Hur. mout/o, &UU liOl uauvom &ouvi wvk wumv ?. ing the gale be lost 152 head of cattle. THE DESPATCH WBECKED. She Went Ashore On Assateague (Va.) Shoals in a Gale. The United States steamer Despatch while >n her way from New York to Washington an ashore on Assateague shoals on the Virginia coast during the night and was totally fvrecked. The weather was thiol; and nasty that light, and the commanding officer of the Despatch hugged the shore too closely in his jfforts to avoid the full fury of tho weather, ind her dangerous position was not discovered until it was too late to avoid being iriven on the shoals by the heavy northeast jale which prevailed. There is hardly a more dangerous and treacherousplace along the coast than Assateague. The tug North America went to ner assistance. The Despatch was firmly fixed in the sand, broadside on to the beach. A high sea was running and rapidly pounded her to pieces. The Assateague life saving crew succeeded in getting her officers and crew ashore in safety, and they were properly care 1 for. There was little or no hope of hauling the vessel off. The grounding of the Despatch is not anew experience with the Navy Dap irtment. This is the fourth time within a year that she has thus distinguished herself, but on each ocjasion she has been haule i without incurring serious damage. Tue Despatch succee lelthe old Tailanoosa is the President's yacht and despatch vessel about six years ago. Her days as a despatch vessel were already about ended. l'ha Dolphin is now being fitted at tho Norfolk fard to take her placL\ and it is expected she will be ready for the service in about sixty days. The Despatch upon being relieved was to be assigned to duty as a freight boat after a general overhauling,of which she was badly in need. AN AERONAUT KILLED, A Youth, Caught in the Roped, Causes a Startling Accident. Just as a balloon was ascending from the fair grounds at Greenup, 111., Alexander Gordon, a youth, became entangled in the ropes attached to the parachute and was then carried up head hanging downward. In his struggles he caught the rope that releases the parachute, and he and the aeronaut were thrown to the ground, eighty feat below. The balloonist, William Kesser, of Louisville, Ky., waa killed, and Gordon was aeri- i ously injured. /j ?.' ?. . j' f' ' ' ' . LATER ireWS. phtllfps Bbook8 was consecrated Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. The ceremonial occurred in Trinity Church, Boston. Charles G. McCawley, Colonel Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, roHrpd fiied at his home at Rosemont, Peno. He had been ill since last Marcb, when he sustained a stroke of paralysis. Kings County Democrats ratified the State and local candidates at a big mass meeting in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Rink. ExPresident Grover Cleveland presided. Thomas H. Stout, a clerk employed by Kennett, Hopkins & Co., New York Stock Exchange brokers, has disappeared. Ho was a defaulter to the extent of about $50,000. The Indianapolis (Ind.) city election resulted in a Democratic victory. Sullivan was re-elected Mayor over Herod (Republican) by a majority of 2?28. A passenger train jumped the track just east of Hickgville, Ohio. All the cars left the rails, killing three persons and injuring twenty-three others. The private car of Emmons Blaine, son of the Secretary of State, was in the wreck. Young Blaine was slightly injured. Sam Wright, colored, was hanged by a mob near Helena, Ga., for assaulting Miss Ada Beckwith. The surgeon who accompanied the Coroner from Wyoming to the Sargent ranch ia Idaho to exhume the alleged remains of the jate Robert Ray Hamilton, of New York City, reported that the examination was made, that the remains were unquestionably those of Robert Ray Hamilton, and that he came to his death by drowning. C. F. Heinricks, a disappointed inventor, committed suicide at Chicago, 111., by inhaling chloroform. By his bedside was found the model of an uncompleted electrical machine. The Assistant Treasurer at Boston having recently refused to give gold coin in exchange for a $1000 Treasury note when requested to do so, has been informed that his - ?* tha TrA?Ktirv De BVtlUa Ul UUI/ U???>11-> J partment. Acting Treasurer Whelpley has received a 1503 Treasury note in an envelope post-marked New York, N. Y. It was accompanied by the following statement: This money is interest on moneys defrauded from the Government years ago. Principal and interest have now been restored. The money was deposited in the United States Treasury to the credit of "Conscience." Secretary Rusk assured a committee from the New York Produce Exchange that pork products stamped at abattoirs in the West could be re-examined at the port of export. The storm in Great Britain subsided, after raging for npany hours; numerous marine j disasters were reported. The latest reports J tell of nineteen vessels being wrecked, with an estimated loss of twenty lives, while hundreds of people have been injured. BLOWN FIFTY FEET. Eleven Wounded, Tbree Fatally, by a Locomotive Explosion. Shortly before 4 o'clock on a recent after- ' noon a terrible explosion rent the air at the shops of the Chicago, St Piul and Kansas *?-? ? <" of purl- si* i \jlity xuuiruau va/uipcmj uu wuvu * wu] w Paul, Minn. As soon as the smoke and noise had sabsided agonizing groans were heard in the debris of the wreck. The employes in the shops had been repairing an ola engine, and, having completed the work, decided to test the boiler. Doubtless too much steam was put on, for the boiler ' exploded with terrible velocity, and eleven persons were injured, three of them fatally. Five of .the victims were terribly mutilated, and were picked up unconscious. The others were quite badly injured and taken to their homes. The three who were fatally injured were conveyed by a special train to the Union j Depot and taken to St. Joseph's Hospital. i L. F. Newton, a clerk in the company's ! office, who was an eye witness of the acci- : dent said: V?r?r1 -incf Koftn hmiichf Ollf. nP ' JL Lie CU^iUO uau JUWw vwwu WMI. wh the shops, Hostler May being in charge. Suddenly the explosion occurred and I saw May shoot up in the air and come down behind some freight cars fifty feet away, j Clancy, who was standing near, was thrown I two car lengths away. The explosion tore the firebox out and ripped open the right side of the boiler. 'The boiler head was blown a hundred feet away and through the machine shop door." CALIFORNIA SHAKEN. Buildings Shattered, and People Frightened by an Earthquake. The heaviest earthquake shock erar felt at Napa, Cal., was experienced at 10:31 on a recent night. People rushed into the streets in night clothes in great excitement; chimneys toppled over ani several buildings were shattered and badly shaken up. Drug store fixtures suffered greatly, bottles being thrown from the shelves to the floor, an 1 other damage was done. T?mnU n fins hnildin? Wis shattered. At the State Insane Asylum great excitement prevailed, the patients being almost uncontrollable. It is reported that the building cracked and that other damage was done. A severe earthquake shock also occurred at San Francisco at 10:27 that same night. It lasted fully half a minute aud was the most severe experiencsd in that; city for a long time. As far as Jcnown, however, no serious damage was done. WHOLESALE HANGING.' Three Men and a Woman Expiafco an Awful Crime. Particulars have been received of the hanging at Spanish town, Jamaica, of three men and a woman for the murder of John Aller, his wife, his mother and a man named j Gofaden. The executed criminals were tro coolies named Punhanaing and Ilbiliic, the latter'a wife and a creole named Robert Johnson. The last named, according to the story told by Ilbillic's wife to a man named Richard Bennett, in the hearing of a detective, was employed to commit the murder and was to be paid 130 for the deed. The crime was caused by John Aller having given information upon which a bailifif made a levy on some of Ilbillic's property. SMOKELESS POWDER, Ungland Has Decided to Use Ir for Big Guns Only. After making thorough tests of tin various kiuds of smokeless powder, including American, England has rejected its use for small arms, owing to its not be- ! I . ing compatible with the use of thuniform cartridges adopted by ruBritish army.'and also oa account of its extremely rapid combustion. She has decide'i. however, to use it in cannon,a fourfold gain in the velocity of projectiles being obtainsthereby. As a result of eating German-bred pork, seven Saxons are dead and thirty others are very ill. It has not been learned that trichiniasis from ,a German hog Is materially different from that of the American porker? but It is much more numerous. _ _ j i l l w iii , . jr PBOMINENT PEOPLE. The German Kaiser is an inveterate smoker. Mr. aitd Mrs. Gladstone will pass the I winter in Florence, Italy. r The royal families of Russia and Greece are now visiting in Denmark. 7 J udge Noah Davis was born on a farm J and realized his first coin selling eggs. y The late W. L. Scott, of Erie, Penn., was i a director in railroad companies owninz f 22,000 miles of road. " i Enoch Pratt, the Baltimore banter, who at the age of eighty-three is as chipper as he was fifty years ago, never wore spectacles. The Duke of Nassau, although seventy- ( five years old, is still hale and haarty. He j has a fortune of 125,000,000. and is believed < to be the richest prince in Europe. < The Shah of Persia has been ia retirement 1 lately, because by mistake, he used a rheu- < ruatic lotion instead of hair dressing and 1 turned his hair a beautiful myrtl e color. ' i Author Howells is one of the neatest 1 of men in his attire. He spends six hours a 1 day at his desk, writing usually from 9 till 1 3, with no midday lunch to divert his 1 thoughts. 1 So far from being slothful, the Sultan of ] Turkey is one of the busiest monarchs in j Europe. He possesses a wide knowledge of geography, or international law and of j European politics. , Don Carlos, pretender to the throne of i Spain, who is living at the presant time in "Venice, is said to be badly in need of money. He was obliged, according to reports, to pawn his jewels a short time ago. The man behind the throne in Russia is , Constantino Petrovitch Probedonostzeff. the highest civil official in the empire. He is the Sractical bead of the Russian Church and j le most intimate adviser of the Czar. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, preserves < the more important of his letters in a fireproof vault in his Mansfield library. His i correspondence has always been voluminous ' and he has destroyed only the unimportant 1 letters. i Queen Victoria proposes to confer upon President Carnot, of France, the highest grade of the Order of the Bath. The conferring of this order on the President of a Republic is said to be an unprecedented distinction . Charles H. Alles, the Republican can- ; didate for Governor of Massachusetts, is a , young man who wears eye-glasses and dresses in the height of fashion. He is a ; favorite in society. His business is that of a lumber dealer. , Whew he visited America in 1881 the late General Boulanger showed nothing of the fop in bis dress or of the snob in his manner. He were but one of his medals, and that i pinned inconspicuously on his vest, where it was practically concealed by his coat. Dr. Newman Hall, the noted English congregationalist divine, is seventy-five years old. The famous tract, "Come to. Jesus," of which he is the author, ha3 had a greater sale than any other religious work excepting the Bible and "Pilgrim's Progress." Governor Boies, of Iowa, Is a broadshouldered man of sixty-four years. He has a ruddy, smooth-shaven face, a hearty manner and a pleasingvoice. He is a native of the State of New York, and, like the regulation poor boy in search of fortune, started West with only a few cents in his pocket. There is only one man now living in Edinburgh who knew Sir Walter Scott. That is James Stilla, the bookseller, who began his apprenticeship with John Ballantyne & Co. in the year after Waterloo. He is fnll of TBmini<u??no*i nf Sir who was to him bath the greatest and the best of men. It is announced that Colonel Forsyth, formerly of General Sheridan's staff, is to marry the twenty-year-old daughter of his old friend, Dr. Dallas fiache, a Philadelphian, while the latter will marry Colonel Forsyth's daughter, who is also about twenty years of age. Bochof the prospective bridegrooms are sixty years of age. Oliver Wendell Holmes takes the utmost precaution to avert an attack of pneumonia. All of the rooms of his house are equipped with thermometer?, barometers and acromers, and he makes it a point nerer to rise in the morning without knowing the temperature of his bedroom. TTig rules are inflexible, and he ne7er takes a risk. FTOEBAL OF KING KARL. The Kaiser and Other Notables Attend the Services. The funeral of the dead Kiug Karl of Wurtemburg took place at 10 o'clock in the morning, at Stuttgart, Germany. A memorial service was held in the Marble Room. The catafalque was surmounted by a handsome baldachin of black velvet, embroidered . with silver. The casket was covered with a red velvet pall, heavily embroidered and fringed with gold. Beside the casket, reposing upon richly embroidered velvet cushions, were the crown, sceptre, swora ana otuer insignia of royalty. The royal family of Wurtemberg. the Emperor of Germany, Prince Henry of Prussia, the Diplomatic Corps, the Ministry, all the prominent public officials, a number of Generals and representatives of the clergy of high rank from all parts of the Empire, were present at the ceremonies At the conclusion of the service the casket was placed in a richly draped funeral car and was conveyed to the old castle of the kings of Wurtemberg. Toe procession passed through the streets of Stuttgart amid the tolling of bells in all the ca irches. After these services, the coffin was lowered Into the royal vault. When it had been placed in the niche awaiting it in the vault, Emperor William,accompanied by the King and Queen of Wurtemberg. and all the Princes and Princesses, descended aud witnessed the blessing of the bodv FORGING- ORDNANCE, Secretary Tracy Visits the Bethlehem (Penn.) Iron Works. The great ordnance works of the Bethlehem (Penn.) Iron Company, where 54,000,nno worth of work for the Government is being done, were visited the other day by Benjamin F. Tracy, Secretary of the Navy, and Commodore Folger, of the Bureau of Ordnance. They witnessed the pouring of the largest casting every made in this country, the head of a new forging press 180 tons in weight, and they saw a thirteen-inch rifle forged aud two pieces of armor plate flattened beneath tbe 125-ton steam hammer. The spectators stood on the platform of the open hearth steel furnaces opposite the casting ground. The work was performed by the larger Whitworth forging press. The heated ingot was taken out of the gas furnace and placed beneath the powerful ram of the press. It was rapidly moulded and shaped, aud it gradually !;rew longer and more slender beneath the orce of the ram. The gun will be a thirteer.inch tube about forty or forty-two feet long. The party subsequently visited the hammer building, where a large and a small ingot were in the furnace ready to be moulded Dy the world's largest steam hammer. The ingots were taken out and the Secretary witnessed the forging of a large and a small armor-plate. Both the Secretary and the Commodore expressed themselves as being highly pleased with the progress made on the Government contract. BROTHERS HAN&ED. Ed. O'Neill Also Pays the Penalty of Murder at Omaha, Neb. There was a double hanging at Rusk, Texas, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. John and Wade Felder were placed on the scaffold in the jail yard. After a short prayer the drop fell, and the condemned men were pronounced dead in ten minutes. Tbe Felders wors half-brothers, and had baen convicted of the killing of a neighbor named Yonce Thompson nearly a year ago. John Felder acknowledged firing a shot into Thompson's house, out said his half-brother Wade was innocent. The murder of Allen and Dorothy Jones, which was committed on a lonely farm,near Omaha, Neb., ?n February. 189r\ has been expiated, Ed. O'Neill having been jxecutedat Omaha just as the noon whistles were blowing. At the last moment he confessed thnt he committed tbe crime alone, and asked the forgiveness of all, especially of the Jones family. . 1 ^ . t? . -?- <*?> . ?; ~ TEMPERANCE. THE PHYSICAL HARM BY BEKB. Dr. Ezra M. Hunt, military editor of fh* *ew York Independent, saya in a recent lumber of that journal: "Outside all questions of home and of orals, the physical harm being done by >eer is appalling. Even Germany has been ; :ompell?l to raise its voice against it. Bin^ ; vho is an advocate for alcohol as an ecolomic factor in sickness, expresses his proound conviction of the terrible evil it it nflicting on the health of the nation." DRINKING, PAST AND PRKSEXT. Instead of drinking being the role now imong native Americans, ft is the excepion. It is rarely seen on oar dining-tables. Church members seldom make a practice . )f drinking. It is never beard of at ordinalions, and not often at f unerals. Thousand* jf children have grown up without ever aking a glass as a beverage. Total abstinence has become respectable, and drunkenless a disgrace. And yet sensible people se- . -iously tell us chat our reformatory methods uust be given up, because we have made no Drogress. They say there is more drinking per capita now than when we began this temperance work. Will they please tell ni if this means more whisky or more beerf . But suppose it means more alcohoL will they please tell us how much we would nave bean taking at the previous rapid rate of in:reased immigration of drinkers, it It had not been for temperance work and teaching. ?Temperance ieacher. \ RELATIONS OF ALCOHOL TO POOD. Elisha Chenery, M. D., of Boston, author of "Alcohol Inside Out." in an able paper on "The Physiological Relations of Alcohol to Food," read at the Medical Temperance Con*' gress, Staten Island, and published in full In a Philadelphia metrical journal, the Time* and Register, says: "I had an uncle who made a fortune from an apple orchard. He never poured cider on the roots of tbe trees, though that cider originated from the apples, and might bo rich in albumen from the wormy ones. Bat he did dress the trees with nanure and gave them water as they needed. For such reason*' able care he was rewarded with abundant truit. * "Has any one a piant, valued almost as an only son, who is foolish enough to break bottles of beer, wine, or whisky about it? Should this be done, the fig-tree bv the way* Bide, with the curse upon it, would illustrate the mistake. Why, then, wet down this higher organism with such unnatural fluid? Pari if nnpnph fhJrth nr riiocnlvA Tinfpirinnt ' : substances better than wat.T? Nay, verilj^ J. water?water with the acids and alicaliec ot the body?is the universal solvent of the body. There is nothing alcohol can do baC oppose and hinder, since it is in direct antagonism to the various elaborating ter ments. Therefore as a fluid for the oody, it is not needed, its U33 is positively harm- -JfuL" ; , SURE DEATH. k A man cannot drink intoxicating liquor* and live long on the earth?that fact is settled, and there are very few exceptions to the rule. Kelson, of England, investigated the case of 7111 tiDplers, as ascertained from their experience that the death rate of English tipplers was fifty-eight in 1003 per annum. This is a - startling fact when we know that the death rate for all England, in*' eluding the tipplers, is but nineteen in LOOO r persons. Among the tipplers between: twenty-one and forty-five the death rate is ten times as great as between abstainers of the same age. Dr. Willard Parker, in his estinutes for the United States, was hardly more encouraging in bis statements. For ten temperate persons who died between'twenty-one and thirty he declared that flfty-oae intemperate persons would die. That is, if the mortality for the former was twenty-one in 1000, it would te fifty-one in 1000 for the latter. That is a woful picture and it means murder in a wholesale degree. There is almost one constant procession to the Sew York City Morgue?5000 has been the average for a few 1 ye-.rs past: 417 eacii month; neatly fourteen , persons each day; more than one for each hour of daylight; and of the 5000 dead, 4000 come as having aiei from drink. It is terrible record. ?Z'acred Heart Review. _ M THE POWEB OF SXUrw ^ 1 A well-known Christian merchant of this city, not long e.go had an argent telogram calling him to see an old friend residing in a suburban town. When he arrived at the house of his friend, he found the latter very ill and only expected to live a few hoars. This friend asked to see him alone, and what by themselves, said; "My doctor tells me that I can live at the most bat twenty-four hours. 1 wanted once more to see you, and. to say to you something that I have never! I told you." In early life, as young men, I", tbey Lad met in this city, in business rela-~ tions, and it was at that period that the close bond of personal friendship was formed. They went much together in society, and had great happiness in each other. The one" who was about to pass away, had in their young manhood, a cousin, a beautiful yoqng lady, in this city, in whose society both these friends passed much time. On one occasion she gave an elegant party, at which both were in attendance. During the evening when refreshments were served, she came to the friend of her cousin and asked him to drink with her a glass of wine. Very fond ? of her, the young man was sorely perplexed, I but finally declined, saying, "I wul do any- I thing for yon that I properly can, but I can- I ?/%f Hrmt thA^iiua or wine." Turning from I him with somewhat of an air of displeasure, she said. "Well, I will go to-?" (her cousin), "he will drink it with ma" 8he crossed the room to her cousin, extended the invitation to him with the air of confident expectation, but he also declined, greatly to her astonishment, and not a little to her chagnn. In this last interview, many years after the party ia question, one thing which passed between these tWo old friends was the statement of the one who was aboat to die, which he wished to make as something of a confession to the effect that he ' was at that time an observer across tbe room of wnat transpired < with his cousin, and though he had never before thought of abstaining from intoxica* ting beverages, to the social use of which he had always been accustomed, influenced by the example of his friend in declining, he also determined to decline. He wished now to make acknowledgment of his gratitude for this eventful incident in his life, which ha had no doubt had saved him from excesses and ruin which, in his case, would* have almost certainly followed the continuance of the drink habit. In this incident may ba seen a practical illustration of the power of right example. Its influence is sometimes more potent and farreaching than words of coansel alone,_ however good they may be. May every one, young and old, realize in the light of this. * * *- -" ?? M onrtfhflr'7 dying statement ui uuo ukuu ? T _ the great value and importance of the ab- B stainer's example to others.?JVeio York Tern- E *>erance Advocate. I TEJrPEllANCE NEWS AND NOTES. J Pennsylvania W G. T. U. held sixty I county conventions this fall. gj In Cincinnati there are 1300 inhabitants I to every church and one saloon to every 150 -I inhabitants. B Trying to drown a sorrow in drink is abont B as wise as cutting off a sore finger to make it B stop hurting. Dr. Norman Kerr, of London, has trea^^H 1500 cases of inebriety, an 1 of these he able to trace a family History of intoxicatit^^H in 740 cases. In 1890 there was an increased expenditnrHB for alcoholic liquors of $*5,00./, 000 over 1889. One-half of this was for beer, one-third for spirits, one-ninth for wine. B In a late debate in the German Reichstag,^B it was stated that there are at present 11,000^8 persons in hospitals and insane asylums wh^^fl are suffering from delirium tremens. JHH Mendon Centre, X. Y., a small villa^BK near Rochester, has a marble monument its foar corners which tells the passer-by th^^H no liquor has been sold therein since 1845. Sho Neinota, a Japanese who is greatly I interested in temperance and W. C. T. U. M work in Japan, has translated into thelan-^ guage of that country the paper that was H written by Dr. Charles Davis, of Chicago; H upon the "Non-Use of Alcoholics in Medi- I cine," and which was read at the medical I convention recently held at Saratoga. 9 The Woman's Christian Temperance I Union of the United States, it is said, got up I a petit on to the Chief of Shangay, on the fl west coast of Africa, asking him to prohibit A the sale of spirits in his dominions. For a while he hesitated, but at last gave in and B issued a proclamation accordingly, that no B liquors should be sold in Shangay. The first fl oSense is punishable by a fine, and the second fl by confiscation and banishment. 4 fl