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- THE PUBLIC DEBT, j Monchly Statement Issued by the Treasury Department. An Increase of $2,794,749 During the Last.Thirty Days. The monthly public debt statement issued from the United States Treasury Department at Washington shows an increase in the aggregate of the debt during the last month amounting to $2,794,749. There was a decrease of ?1,758,140 in non-interest bearing debt, an increase of $100 in the * j-j j-t-j. a - ti rco ?0(] I Donaeu uoui aau a. uccicaso kjl iuo in the surplus cash in the Treasury. The total debt, less $34,574,128 net cash balance or surplus and the $100,000,000 gold reserve, is $841,407,818. Of this amount, $583,033,970 is interest-bearing debt made up of $559,562, 000 four per cent, bonds and $25,364,500 twc per cent, now outstanding. The principal of the outstanding bonds has been reduced $33,992.770 during; the calendar year just closed 1380,190 in 4s. and $33,813,050 in 4 l-3s hav ing bfcen redeemed during twelve months. The n9t cash or surplus in the Treasury, exclusive of the $100,000,000 gold reserve, is $34,574,12s. against $57,571,812 on January 1 a year ag?. Of the surplus National bank depositories bold $20,2o4,00S against $24,193,872 a year ago. The Treasury gold coin and bullion assets aggregate #378,846,749, about $8,000,000 less than a month ano and $14,000,000 less than on January 1, 1890. Silver assets have increased about 14,000,000 during the last month and about $81,000,000 during the year just closed, and now aggregate $418,976,342. Against the gold coin and bullion and silver assets there are $165,578,889 in gold certificates and $402,099,420 in silver certificates outstanding. Government receipts during December aggregated $27,932,985 against $31,370,039 in December, 1890. Customs receipts during the last month were $13,836,555, or two ana a quarter millions less than in December, 1S90, and internal revenue receipts were $12,247,046, or about half a million less than in December a year ago. Receipts from all sources from July 1 to December 31, the first half of the fiscal year, aggregated in round numbers $175,745,287 t>r $43,000,000 less than for the corresponding six months of 1890. The big loss of revenue was mainly in customs receiDts. the. revenue from tbis source ' - for the last six months aggregating 185,722,341 against $134,240,195 from Julv ' 1 to December 81, 1890. Of this decrease in customs receipts, amounting to $38,000,000, fully thirty millions, or five millions a montn, is chargeable to the free sugar provisions of the Tariff law and the remainder is accounted for by unusually heavy importations in August and September, in anticipation of The new Tariff law going into operation in October of that year. Internal revenue receipts during the last six months aggregated $77,057,281 against $75,022,783 during the corresponding siit months of 1890. Government expenditures during the last six months aggregated, in round numbers, $176,018.751, or about thirty-five millions less than expenditures during the corresponding six months of 1890. Of this decrease in expenditures, compared with the first hair of the preceding fiscal year, twenty millions are due to prepayment of interest on bonds redeemed, ten millions for premiums on bonds purchased, and about seven millions for pension payments. PERKINS SUCCEEDS PLUMB. Governor Humphreys, of Kansas. Appoints Him United States Senator. I BISHOP W. PERKINS. Governor Humphreys, of Kansas, appointed ex-Congressman Perkins as United States Senator, to fill the late Senator Plumb's unexpired term. All the other candidates for the appointment had combined against the present appointee. ' Bishop "W.Perkins was born at Rochester, Ohio,and was fifty-nine years old on October 18 last. He was educated in the public schools and at Knox College at Galesburg, III. He went to Colorado, and on his return to Illinois in 1862 enlisted in CompanyD,Eightythird Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Re became fc>"?rgeant and Lieutenant, ani 'in December, J863, was appointed Adjutant of the Sixteenth < o.ored Infantry, Later he was Captain of Company C in the same regiment. He was Judge-Advocate on the staff of General Gillen, and afterward on the staff of General Steadman. After the war he returned to Illinois and resumed the study of law in the office oi O. C. Gray at Ottawa. He was admitted to th9 bar, and in 1869 want to Oswego, Kan., where, in , tl > same year he was appointed County Attorney, and the following year Probate Juace. In 1S73 he was elected Judge o: the Eleventh Judicial District. He was re-elected in 1874 and in 1878, and in November, 1883, was elected a member of Congress from the Third District. He was thr. re re-elected: but was defeated a year ago by taa Farmers'Alliance. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in THE CEREAL CROP. The Largest Total for Wheat Ever Grown in Any Country. The estimates, by States and Territories, of area, product and value of the principal cereals of the United States for 1891, made by the statistician of the Department; of Agriculture, have just been made public at "Washington. The crops of corn, wheat and oats, including all but two or three per cent, of the cereal aggregate, are reported. The total for corn has only been exceeded once. The wheat product is the largest ever grown in any country, ana the yield per acre in the United States is the largest ever reported by the Department of Agriculture. The total for oats was slightly exceeded in 183 J. The agCTegdtes are as follows: Cornarea, 76,2C' 515 acres; product, 2,060,154,000 cushelf; value, ?83(5.439,229. Wheatarea, 3^,916.897 acres; product, fill,780,000 bushels; value, $513,472,711. Oats?area, 25,581,861 acres; product, 735,394,000 bushels; value, $232,312,267. The aggr<?gite of all cereals is the largest ttat- nnfkHiiniA and will Clinnlr trt JW J/ivuuv.u, "Mfr; ?V fifty-five bushels per unit of population. The wheat supply is the largest ever reported in proportion to thtj population, averaging 9.4 bushels to each persoo, against 9.2 for the largest previous crop, in 1884. The average value to the farmer is 40.tj cents for corn. S3.9.1 or wheat and 81.4') cents for oats. Th > va.ue ot wheat is greater than in any year sines 1883, that of the sliort crop of lSSS alone excepted. Tho products are, of course, in measure 1 bushels. EIGHT MEN KIT,LED, A Fatal Georgia Fight Over Cheating at Cards. Eight men were killed in a general fight at Bright & Williams's turpentine still, in Clinch County, Georgia. The flght started with a quarrel between two of the men named Ed. Williams and John Parker over alleged cheating in a game of cards. Parker began the shooting. Both he and W illiams were killed. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. ! Eastern and Middle States. In New York City during 1891 there were 40,898 births, 15,fill marriages and 43,577 deaths, against 89.250 births, 14,992 marriages and 40,103 deaths in 1890. The arrests during the year were over 90,000, of which 71,COO were males and 19,000 females. Stephen H. Bell, who murdered his wife in Fairfax on December 2d, 1889, was hanged in the State Prison at Windsor. Vt. Roswell P. Flower was inaugurated I Governor of New York in the Assembly Chamber at Albany. . The ceremonies were very simple. New York City's ex-Superintendent of W YCollinfr ninri atKeVDOrt. x uiiur, ucvi^o ' . ?? ^ r N. J., of pneumonia, aged sixty-eight years. Joseph Earle, a farmer, about forty years old, died at his home in Monroe, about ten miles above fuxedo Park, N. Y., oi hvdrophobia. The .Pasteur treatment failed to save him. , Bank Commissioner Krumbhaar took fossession of the Continental Trust and inance Company of Philadelphia, Penn., [ and closed its doors. The capital is $1,000.000. | Mayor Grant sent his fourth annual message,regarding New York City affairs,to I the newly organized Board of Aldermen. Mayor Boody, of Brooklyn, sent his first annual messaee to the Common Council. The decision of tbe Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors in the quo warranto case of [ Judge Luzon B. Morris against Governor Bulueiey was rendered at Hartrord, and it ) j upholds" Butkeley as Governor de facto and J Governor de jure of the State. The decision, which is unanimous, was written by Chief Justice Andrews. By the terms of the will of Mary Macrae Stuart, who died a few nights ago in New York city, upward of ?4,000,000 of her estate is left to various colleges and charities of the Presbvterian Church. The Lenox Library receives her magnificent library and collection of art works in addition to $300,000. Both branches of the New York Legislature were organized by the Democrats. Walker, from the Twenty-seventh Senatorial district, was seated, and Governor Flower'4 first message was read. Robert H. Bush was elected Speaker of the Assembly. Edwards, Independent, acted with the Democrats. South and West. Thirty-five State militiamen have been sent to Coal Creek, l'enn., to guard the 300 convict miners there. The Cherokee Indian Senate has elected T. M. BufilnTton and E. C. Boudinot to represent the Nation before the present Congress in Washington. It was rumored that ex-Chief Bmhyhead, of the Cherokee Nation, was dead. Edward Spohn and Lizzie Seig, who were i engaged to be married, were standing on the sidewalk near Miss Seig's home at ' South Bend, Ind., when a brick wall fell on them, crushing both to death. Mount Airt, N. C., a tovrn of 2,000 popu- I latioo, has been destroyed by lire. The loss is roughly estimated at from $3)0,000 to $500,000. Four persons perished and six others were badly injured in a fire in a lodging house at 1 Sandford, Cal. The fire originated in an explosion of a coal oil store. A cab containing ten non-union operators, whom the Western Union Telegraph Company was sending South to take tbe places of strikers, was broken into at Texarkana, Ark., and three of the men killed. Thk town of Saybrook, in Illinois, was practically wiped out ot existence by a $100,000 tire. Linwood, Art, has been terrorized for some time by a mob of a dozen colored men, led by a white man named Puryear, who wanted the railroad station removed some distance south of its present location, but was strongly opposed by Dr. Bryan. In revenge the desperadoes burned the doctor's gin. They then set fire to the station and proceeded through the streets, firiug their Winchesters in the houses. The sheriff, aided by a vigilance committee, lodged Puryaar and threa of the gang in jail. Ax Creswell, Ga., Dr. R. G-. Barrett and Mrs. Barrett were brained in ttteir room. The instrument with which they were murdered, a coupling pin, was lying near them. ' The tragedy is wrapped in mystery. , Six men were killed outright, two fatally injured, and many others badly hurt, in a railroad collision at Aladdin, Mo. Four men were killed by a railroad train leaving a trestle at Dyke Ridge, N. C. In Springfield, the county seat of Stewart Connty, Kan., the Sheriff and his two deputies were killed by a mob of forty men who were in ambush. The attack is the outcome of a plot to kill Thomas Botkin, Judge of the Judicial District. * Washington. The new French Minister, M. Patenotre, was formally presented to the President by Secretary Blaine. The revenues of the Government for the f month of December were $38,500,000, or $2,- j 500,030 less than the expenditures during th9 same period. This had the effect of reducing the Treasury cash balance to $80,405,749, including $14,000,000 in subsidiary silver and $12,656,927 on deposit with National banks. President and Mrs. Harrison gave the usual New-Year's reception at the White House, which was largely attended by the official and diplomatic circles of the Capital. A few davs ago Brigadier-General Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, retired, died of pneumonia in Washington. He was born May 18,1S16, at Augusta, Ga. The President issued a proclamation announcing the signature of a reciprocity agreement between Salvador and the United States. The agreement is a provisional one. The United States Treasury Department's statements of changes in the circulation during December show a net increase during the month of $11,519,851). President Harrison sent to Congress a message touching the relief of the famine in Russia. The President sent to the Senate the following nominations: Interstate Commerce Commissioners?James W. McDill, of Iowa, vice Thomas M. Cooley, resigned; William M. Lindsey. of Kentucky, vice W. L.Bragg, deceased,* William R. Morrison, of Illinois (a reappointment). Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General?E. G. Rath bone, of Ohio. William B. Hess, United States ConsulGeneral at Constantinople; William D. McCoy, of Indiana, Minister Resident and Consul-General to Liberia, Andrew P. McCormick, of Texas, United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth J udicial Circuit; Abraham J. Seay, Governor Territory of Oklahoma. Foreign. Disastrous floods in Uppjr Austria have swept away many bridges and uprooted hundreds of trees. There has been a renewal o* lawlessness in North China. A mysterious but trivial explosion in the cellar of Dublin (Ireland) Castle gave rise to an ill-defined rumor that the "physical force" party had resumed operations. The British bark Childwell was run down, off the Enzlish coast, by a steamer supposed to be the Red Star Liner Noordland, and fifteen of her crew were drowned. The Pope accepted the terms proposed by France I or conciliation between the Vatican and the Republic. A detachment of the Salvation Army was roughly handled by a mob at Eastbourne, Eng.and. The death of Sir George Biddle Airy, Astronomer Royal of En :land, occurred a few days a?o at Loudon. He was born at Alnwick. .Northumberland. June27, USUI. Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, dissoived the Hungarian Diet. Eight of a sleighing party of eleven wera drowned by the breaking of the ica in a | caual on the Dutch frontier. The tug Progress, of St. Pierre. New Foundland, while cruising off that Dort picked up a vessel, bottom up, and towed her in. When she was righted it was discovered that she was a banking schooner belon^iqg to Lacroix, of St. Pierre. When she was dried on a dock the bodies of ten men were found in her. She had a crew of sixteen or seventeen. A number of villages in North Schleswig, Germany, have united in purchasing great quantities of rye, which they sell at half price to their poorer inhabitant*. HYDROPHOBIA'SyiCfflS/ Two Little Boys in New Jersey Bitten by a Mad Bog. One of Them Dies After Several Days of Terrible Suffering. Eddie and Harold Ball, aged four and six years respectively, of Harrison, N, J., were playing about a month ago on Passaic avenue. With them was their nine-year-old sister Louisa, carrying a three-year-old brother. A shout of "mad dog!" reached the children, and a huge mastiff tore along the avenue and made straight for the boys, who were too frightened to jump out of the way. As the dog came on the children stood up and began to cry. He jumped upon Eddie, and, fastening his teeth into the bridge of his nose, pushed him backward to the gronnd. Harold, who is a brave little boy, cried loudly, but kicked the mastiff in the side. This attack enraged the mastiff, so that he turned his attention to Harold. Harold turned to run, but the dog had him down instantly and bit his head first on the crown and then just behind the left ear, where he fastened his teeth and began to shake the head and drag the body about the sidewalk. Louisa, hugging the baby tightly to her, ran screaming and shriekingto her home a little ways down the street. Eddie staggered to his feet with the blood running down his face, but he was unable to run. The dog, alarmed by the threatening approach of a grown person, gave the little boy a final bite in the right arm and darted on down Central avenue. As he turned away from the children a man named Wilkie came up and fired at him, but missed him. Several other men joined in pursuit, among them Chief of Police Turnbull, who issued the order a year ago that all loose dogs should be shot. The mastiff ran into the yard of the Clark Thead Mills, and making fnr a iwrnw frinH to nr?wl unrlfir n Inf. nif rubbish piled there. Wilkie and Turnbull began firing at short range, and soon a bullet from Turnbull's pistol made the dog quiver, groan, and roll over dead. Meanwhile Mrs. Ball, the mother of the children and a widow, had run out and had picked up Harold from the pool of blood in which he was lying. She carried him home, and a Mrs. Dunn carried Eddie. Dr. Reid dressed the wounds. Then Dr. J. 8. Pringle came. He advised that the children be sent to the Pasteur Institute in New York. Harold was by far the worst bitten. He had two pretty bad wounds in the back of his head, and the skin of his arm was broken. Eddie had only the tyite through the bridge of his nose. Dr. Prindle went to see Dr. Gibier at the Pasteur Institute and was told it was too late. The children got along nicely and Mrs. Ball's fears began fo fade. This until the nest Wednesday afternoon. Eddie had not been feeling very well all day. He seemed to have caugnt cold. About four o'clock in the atternoon he began to cough, a peculiar hacking cough, as though he were threatened with croup. Mrs. Ball made a poultice and put it on the back of the little boy's neck. But he got no better and, when be clutched at his throat and gasped for breath and shivered from head to fout, she sent for Dr. Pringle. By the time Dr. Pringle got there the boy was plainly.Eufferipg with Hydrophobia. He lay awake all Wednesday night, coughing and shivering and crying out that he was burning. Thursday morning the foam began to come, and from that time on his lips were always covered with foam and he was flimrinci't nhont the bed and UDon the walls of the humble little room where he la7. Bis sufferings during Thursday and Friday and Saturday were terrible to see. He had frequent convulsions, and when his littie body was not writhing he would moan and say "Mamma, mamma," ovpr and over again. But he did not seem to lose his senses. Early Sunday morning, when his agony was at its height, he would shake his head when his mother would ask him if he wanted water or milk. Sunday morning, at 11:30 o'clock, he died, stretching his small body out with a long sigh of relief. The other child nas a' bandage about his head, buf. bis wounds are nearjy healed. Dr. Pringle, however, feels sura that he will die also. It was learned in Harrison that the dog which bit the boy was a huge English mastiff, owned by W. Campbell Clark, of the Clark Thread Company. When W. Campbell Clark was seen at his home in Newark by a reporter he denied that he owned the dog which bit the children. He said "that it was one of four pups born- last February. He owns the father and mother and gave three of the pups to friends. The one which bit the boy was given to an employe. '*1 gave it to him with the distinct understanding that I would not be responsible for its control," said Mr. Clark, "and if I had uy way the animal would have been drowned." PAOMINMT PEOPLE. The German Kaiser's favorite horse is a coal black mare. The wealth of Baron Hirsch is just about equal to that of Jay Gould. Whittier wrote his first published poem when he was seventeen years old. JKjng Oscar, of Sweden, is a collector of books of poems with autographs of the writers. Congressman MciIlLLA.it, of Tennessee, commits a poem to memory every morning before breakfast. Queen Victoria will open the British Parliament in person instead of by deputy in 1S92. The date is February 9. Speaker Crisp has the faculty of remembering names and faces, an invaluable ac* complishment for a man in public life. Prince Christian was shot in the faoa by the Duke of Connaught while hunting in England, and one eye had to be removed. Rrn Motirwt.t. Maritevrrk is devotine mora and more time to literary work, for which the English magazine puoliShers pay a big price. Michael Davttt, the Irish Parliamentary leader, was only eleven years old when he lost his right arm in an accident in a Man* Chester mill. Miss Harriet Hosmer will give 925,000 for the "Queen Isabella of Castile," to be unveiled at the opening of the Women's Department of the World's Fair. Dom Pedro's daughter, the Countess d'Eu, might have been a first-class prima donna had she given attention to the higher cultivation of her naturally fine voice. charlesadolfhxjsmubrat.Earl of Dunmore, is to be President of the Union Bank of South Carolina and London, shortly to be established at Columbia, S. C., with 15,000,000 British capital. John P. Richardson, who died in Louisiana the other day, was the largest planter in this country. He owned fifteen plantations and eight stores, and his operations were always conducted on a vast scale. Captain John Davis, of Deer Island, Me., believes he is the only survivor of tho crew of fifty-two who sailed in the United Statessteamer Jamestown fortv-three years ago to carry nour ana gram to iraau i uur* ing the food famine. Every on of the fifty-two men before the mast had previously been master or first officer of a ship and all served without pay. Li Hung Chang, the Viceroy of China, has a thoughtful, not a cunning-looking face,eyes straighter than we are accustomed to expect to see in a Chinaman, and an unusually long, drooping mustache aud imperial or "goatee." His hirsute adornment alone stamps him as a man of distinction in his native land, for au ordinary cooley wouldn't think or trying to grow a lip beard. COST OF THE CENSUS. Superintendent Porter Thinks it Will be Eleven Cents a Head. Superintendent Porter reports to the Secretary of the Interior that the cost of collection of data for the JSIeventh Census has been $3,600,355, and that the total cost of the census, excluding printing and farms, homes and mortgages will not exceed, he thinks, $7,000,000, or a trifle over eleven cents per capita. The tenth census cost 15,000,000, or about ten cents per capita. The census work proper, he thinks, will be finished and ready for the printer by the close of this year. fcv'TWO WASHINGTON LADIES. The Wires of Speaker Crisp and Postmaster-General Wanamaker. It is not likely, says a Washington special, that Mrs. Crisp will feel like assuming the social position and accompanying hon* ors belonging to the Speaker's wife. The death of her son a few weeks ago cast a gloom ovar the Crisp household, and the bereaved mother will nave little heart for the MRS. CRISP. gleasures of the Washington season. Mrs. risp was bora in Ellaville. near her present home in Americas, Ga. Her father was a planter before the war. She was married to Mr. Crisp while quite young, and four children, two daughters and two sons, blessed the union. The elder daught?r is married to a druggist in Americus, while the two younger children are still at school. Mrs. ? u?? -I the winters in Wash L'l iSp UOO (UTrajo o^/vuw VM? . _ ingtoa with her husband since his first election to Congress. She is thoroughly domestic, and cares most about being in har Georgia home, where she is accustomed to dispense real Southern hospitality. She is about medium height, has dark eyes and hair slightly tinged with gray. Mrs. John Wanamnlcer. Mary Erringer Brown?this is Mrs. Wanamaker's full maiden name?was born in Philadelphia on November 28, 1839, and educated at a private seminary in that city. Shortly after leaving school she became engaged to her brothers intimate friend, John Wanamaker, to whom she was married two years later. 8he has had six children, four of whom are living?Rodman, Thomas, Minnie and Lillie. The two sons are married, the younger, Rodman, being the father of the two grasdcnildren of the familv, the younger of whom is known as John Wanamaker, Jr. The daugb MRS. JOHN WANAMAICEB. tors are still unmarried, only one of them, Miss Minnie Wanamaker, having as yet made her debnt into society. Mrs. Wanamaker was in Europe when her husband was appointed Postmaster-General by President Harrison. She returned at once and too It up the social dntiss which her husband's official position roquired. Mrs. Wanamaker is her own housekeeper, and when it is remembered that her duties include the management of four homes,some appreciation of the sysfomatization which accomplishes such management mar be experienced. One of these homes is in Philadelphia, where the family spend the early winter, the months of November and December. The rest of the winter season is given to Washington, where they have a second beautiful home. The summer is divided between "Lindenhurst," a magnificent house and estate about fifteen miles from Philadelphia, and "Lilenmyn Cottage," a smaller country house at Cape May Point, whloh gets its rather peculiar but entirely original name from the diminutives of the daughters of the house?Lillie and Minnie. The house in Washington contains a fine art gallery, which must be taken as an evidence of its mistress' devotion to fine paintings and statuary. ( In appearance she is most pleasing. Her face, though not strictly beautiful, is a most -i?^ativhtfni nnn ana her ex Uiuu JUiug auu v?ui4&uw.w. preesion, while usually grave and preoccupied, is constantly broken by smiles which brighten her gray eye>3 and display a charming mouth of beautiful teeth. She is of medium height and weighs perhaps 140 pounds. FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. In the Senate. 10th Day.?On reassembling aftsr the Christmas recess, the Vice-President laid before the Senate the annual report of Public Printer Palmer, and also the fifth annual report of the Inter-State Commerce Commission, signed by W. R. Morrison, Acting Chairman ? Among numerous petitions presented were memorials from Presbyterian synods and others, stated by Mr. Frye to be signed by over 900,000 communicants, favoring the ratification of the Buss els Congo treaty for the suppression of slavery Resolution was passed authorizing the charter of a ship to convey corn to Russia. 11th day.?-The Vice-President took the chair at noon?Mr. Pasco presented a memorial from the State ot Florida, asking that a pension be granted to the survivors of tj?e Seminole Indian war The VicePresident laid beiore the Senate three messages from the President, transmitting agreements made by Commissioners with the Indians of Colville Reservation, of Washington, with th9 Wichita and affiliated bands in Oklahoma and with the lonsawa Indians in Oklahoma. They were read and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs Mr. Morrill spoke agaiust free coinage of silver; he was answered by Mr. Teller. In the House. 7th Dat.?Promptly at 12 o'clock Clerk Kerr called the House to order and announced Speaker Crisp's sickness, and that the election of a Speaker pro tarn, was in order. A resolution by Mr. Springer proposing the Hon. Benton J. McMillin. of Tennessee, for that office was adopted bv a viva voce vota, and Mr. McMillin took the Speaker's chair It was bill day and 372 were introduced Mr. Hinciley, of North Dakota, announced the death on August 14th last of John Gamble, who had been elected a member of Congress. The customary resolutions of regret were passed, and ths Housa at 4 P. M. adjourned. Sth?Da.v Mr. McMillin, Speaker pro 16IU.( l/UUK bliO UiitXll [71 uuipuij uv uuuu ??u? laid before the House the Senate joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to transport contributions for the relief of the suffering poor of Russia. The resolution was discussed all day and indefinitely postponed ' The numoer ot water worics in operation or under construction in the United States is 2037, and tbe number of towns and cities supplied is 2187. Pennsylvania has 21(5 works for supplying 245 towns, while New York has 199 works for 218 towns. Massachusetts has 128, Michigan 113, California 103, and Illinois 102 works. Twentj-fiva cities have duplicate or triplicate plants. .... - ' ;',y\ V'-. <VV "'-.V TEXAS BORDER WARFARE. The Campaign Against Garza's Band of Bandits. Official Eeport of the First Fight TTT' j. l_ J.T. . H IT I vvmi uie ixLtuuuaim. The growth of the insurrectionary movement headed by the bandit Garza caused great excitement among the Mexican and American populace on either side of the Rio Grande, and the efforts of the United States troops tt> suppress it were watched with keen interest. It was the general opinion that the Mexican outlaws had no less than 2C00 active followers, scattered at various points alon; the Texas border. The revolutionists were all magnificently armed with repeating rifles of the latest pattern and side arms. They were paid $1 per day and given good supplies. The ranchmen who came in contact with Garza all state that be was abundantly supplied with money, and compelled them to either furnish cattle for beet and receive pay for the animals or take the alternative of having them takan by force. The report that revolutionists several hun dred strong were operating in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, was received with considerable credence by the majority of the people. The neighborhood of Matamoras is Known to be a perfect hotbed of revolutionary spirits, ana it is the general opinion that Garza received large reinforcements from th?-re. A great many of the people in the interior of Mexico are secretly in sympathy with any movements that may be set on foot to overthrow the present Diaz administration. Tko c-rmnsKntnnn Thnf; some flfcronp secret power was backing the revolutionary movement gained ground, and a correspondent heard a citizen state that in his opinion some of the funds' for carrying on the warfare came from the City of Mexico. The bandits break into small squads and plunder innocent citizens. They have a perfect organization, a good system of signals, know the country thoroughly, and. being without uniform, can change themselves into ranchmen and goat herders in five minutes. H. J. McNeil, of San Antonio, Texas, received a telegram from his father, Captain J. S. McNeiT, of the Texas Rangers, which stated he had just had an encounter with the Garza men. 'His command numbered only a few men. They were scouting through -1 ?-I I" Sfnw Pniirtr TVtup whfln uuapoii?n ui w^.vf v they met a detachment of about thirty of the Garza revolutionists. The rangers ac once opened fire on the Mexicans and a number of the latter were severely injured. Nearly one thousand shots were exchanged, but none of the rangers were wounded. Colonel Corau, of the Mexican forces io 1 Nueva Laredo, received a telegram from down the river, on the Mexican side, which stated that a fight had occurred on th< American side and that two soldiers of the United States had been killed. The loss tc the revolutionists was not given. It seems that Garza made no attempt to cross into Mexico, but collect all his forcei : together on the American side in the hope oi defeating the United States troops. Captain John G. Bourke, of the Third United States Cavalry, has made his official, report to the War Departmentat Washington of his fieht a few days ago with Garza's ' band near La Guilla, Texas. It recount* ; heroicdeedsof our soldiers on the frontier. < On the afternoon of the battle Captain ' Bourke, with a detachment of men from Troop C, of the Third Cavalry, and Company jS, of the Eighteenth Infantry, started across country for th? , rendezvous of the outlaws. Spying after dark the camp fire they left their horses in charge of two recruits and crept quietly toward it. ! "Quien va alliP rang out from a sentry. There was no answer from our soldiers, who, ' advancing in skirmish order, .held their carbines '"'at a ready." "yuien va am?" came again, and then two sbota from the two 1 pickets. "My men," says Bourke, "replied with a volley, kneeling, and the bandits broke for the lulls, their nerd bell ringing to ronnd np their horses. We could do nothing further in the darkness." The troope then felt back ten miles to the Rio Grande and camped. They were attacked in the night, ana during a sharp en* gagement a prisoner escaped from Deputy Marshal Perez, who was put under arrest. Continuing, Captain Boarke says: "We struck straight back, hoping to catch up with some stragglers. I threw out two reconnoitring parties to circle through th? bru?h. Corporal Charles H. Edstrom, of Troop C, who commanded one, ran upon th< enemy in force and was almost surrounded. He kept the attacking party at bay until our main body came up. We charged across a soft, open muddy flat, exposed to the enemy'd flre from rifles and carbines. But our men were not to be restrained. "In the face of three or four to one th^ made a gaiianc rusa ior uie vumun uwu, beaded by Sergeants Ihling and Oibb and Corporal Honeyman. The infantfcy with their long guns did capital work, and in another minute the bandits were scampering for the brush. "Hampered with prisoners and wounded we could not pursue. We lost one man killed. He was Corporal Charles Edstrom, a most excellent soldier, who was shot twice through the head and once through the leg. "Second Lieutenant Charles Hayes, 'Eighteenth Infantry was slightly wounded in the side by a glancing bullet; Private David Lloyd, Troop C. Third Cavalry, was grazed by a bullet. Our men and officers were all dressed in complete uniform and were plainly seen by the outlawp, among whom I was told were three of the train wreckers of the Texas Mexican Railroad last spring. They recognized us and called out in English and Spanish, 'Kill the gringos f "Tbfc fighting was pretty close and Cor- ] poral Edstrom, after he fell, was again shot, . bis assailant being so close that his face was j>?wder burnt. J "After the fight we returned to the post, < there being no way of finding the trail in Vioo w thicket. We caDiured ten or twelve horses belonging to the bandits, bat 1 they stampeded through the cactus on the < wayback. "The capture and destruction of these outlaws will be an easy, matter the moment proper facilities are supplied, but uutil they are nothing can be done worth , mentioning. "The Rio Grande valley ii practically ( unanimous in support of Garza, whose follower* buy all the ammunition they want and all other necessaries. They are all equipped, as a few things we captured show. They have one hundred and twenty or one hundred and fifty cartridges to the man and their saddle bags are loaded with coffee, sugar, fresh beef and wheat biscuits made with caking powder." General Schofleld also received information at Washington of the surprise by United States troops of one of Garza's camp3 of revolutionists near Lascuevates and KingSold, in Texas, and of the capturc of one of le rebel offlcern. FAILURES OF TEE YEAR. Greater in Number Than in Any Previous Twelve Months. The mercantile failures for the year 1891, as reported by the mercantile agency of R. G. Dun & Co., indicate that the number of failures in the United States is 12,273, as against 10,907 in 1890. The failures in 1891 are greater in number than in any previous year since the record has been kept by this aeency; running back to 1857. In amount of liabilities, however, the figures are almost precisaly the same as those of the year previous, amounting to $189,000,000. The amount lost, therefor#, does not exceed that of the previous year, while the average of the liabilities of each failure is $15,471 in 1891, as against 117,406 in 1890. The distribution of the los3 in geographical sections shows that the liabilities of failures in the Eastern States in the year just closed were $19,000,000 as against $27,000,000 last year. In the Middle States the liabilities were $7,000,000 as against $75,000,000 in 1890. In the Southern States a marked increase in liabilities is noticed, as they amounted last year to $45,000,000 against $27,000,000 in 1890. In the Western Stains there is a decline of $2,000,000 in liabilities, which amounted in the year just closed to $48,000,000, as against 950,i)00,000 in the year previous, while on the Pacific Coast in 1891 the liabilities amounted to $9,000,000 as against 97,000,000 in 1S90. v- : w<W. 'W?-Z ;: > BASEBALL IN 1892. How the Twelve League Clubs Wtll Take the Field in April. President Younj?, of tbe new "National League and American Association," announces the baseball teams as they will prac 4J~.11? Aa1/I 4m 4-U-. 4?U. uukujr IOAO bug uciu iu buo bwmvo Liuoa when the championship contests begin next April. To begin with New York, says the Herald,, Manager Powefs has been careful in bis (election of players, and (eels confident that the Giants will push to the front, especially if Richardson is allowed to come back from Washington. The pitchers are Amos Rusie. "Silver" King, John Ewing and "Mickey" Welch. The others, with the possible exception of Sharrott, whose arm is an uncertainty just now, will be released outright when the time comes. "Jack" Boyle, "Buck" Ewing and a youngster from Joliet, 111., named Moran, are the catchers, and Boyle and Evring will alternate at first base in order to have the latter in every game. In the event of Richardson's return he will, of course, play second base, while "Shorty" Puller ana "Denny" Lyons, of last year's St. Louis Browns, will cover short and third respectively. John Ward will have a team in Brooklyn that should land somewhere near first placa in the League straggle. He will play sec* ond base himself, and will have clustered about him this galaxy of fine fielding and heavy hitting beauties: Brouthers, first base; Joyce, third base: Corcoran, shortston: H. Richardson. Griffin. Collins or "Tom" Brown, outfielders; "fom" Daley, "Con" Dailey and "Tom" Kioalow, catchers; Buffinton, Haddock, Hart and Lovett, pitchers. In the estimation of the proverbial cranlc the Boston team is the strongest of them all. Manager Selee, not content with his champions of ' a year ago, has succeeding In strengthing his Boston crowd so that it appears (on paper) to be well nigh invincible. Back of the some plate there are Bennett, GanzeJ, and "Mike" Kelly who will "receive" for pitchers Clarkson, Nichols, Stale? and Stivetts. Then the infield taken care of by Tucker, Quinn, Long and Nashj is the same as laCst year, and with Stovey, Daffy and McCarty in the outfield the Adding work of the team will ba hard to excel. Harry Wright at last as & formidable team to represent Philadelphia. There are Clements, Brown and Cross to wear the mask, and Keefe, Weyhing, Esper and Thornton for tne box work. Connor. Hallman, Allen and Mulveyare the infielders, while the outfielders will be the same as last year?Hamilton, Delhanty and Thompson. Oannra Von TTalfcron tVi a frr-Hhipocrrt player, will manage and captain the Baltimore team. He has already secured these men, and says he is satisfied with them all: Robinson, Gunson and Hess, catchers; McMahon, Healy and Cobb, of San Fran* cisco, pitcners; Whistler, first base; Pickett, second base; Gilbert, third base; Shindle, Bhort stop; outfielders. Van Haltren, Welch and Johnson; extra man, McGraw. Manager "Billy" Barnie has a strong , team slited for Washington. His claim to "Dandy" Richardson's services has not been settled as yet, but it is quite probable that be will accept Bassett in exchange. Barnie has this team to pit against- the others: Milligan and McGuire, catchers; Foreman Knell, Dolan and Daley, formerly of Boston, pitchers: Larkin, first base; Bassett, second base; Schochor Dowd, third base; Radford, short stop; Wood, Hoy and Duffee, outfielders. The Weefern teams, with the possible exoption of Louisville, are very strongly constituted. Anson has the same team as last rear in Kittridge and Schriver. catchers; Hutchinson, Gumbert, Luby and Vlckery, pitchers; Anson, Pferfer, Cooney and Burns, [nfleldars; Wilmot, Ryan and Dableu, outfielders. Cleveland, too, with one or two additions cuts practically the team that represented I tier last summer. "Pat" Tebeau is the man* I igor and will captain these players: Zimmer, O'Connor and Doyle, catches; Young. Viau, Gruber, Davies, of Milwaukee, ana Rettger, pitobers; Virtue, first base; Childa, second base; . Tebeau. third base; McKwtn, short stop; McAleer, Davis end Burkett,outfielders. Captain Comiskey has a team in Cincinnati that is looked upon as a winner. His catchers are Herrington and Morgan Murphy,; the pitchers are Rhines, Mullane and Chamberlain: Comiskey will cover first; MoPhee, second: Latham, third. Smith,' short, / with "Tip?1 O'Neill, Holiiday,' Halligan and' "Eddie" Burke in the outfield. They are fealing confident in Pittsburg. Manager Buckenberg*r is still on the lookout for more players, althoughtthe Smoky City team appears to be completed. George Miller, "Connie" Mack and "Charley" Far""o stanfl* K*lriwfn_ G?.lvin and (Jaatright, pitchers; Becklev, first base, Bierbauer, second base;, Whitney, thira base; Shugart, short stop;' Hanlon, Corkhill and "Darby" O'Brien, outfielders. Chris Von der Ahe and "6ns" Schmolz will take charge of the St. Louis Browns. They have already secured Buckley and Donohue, catchers; (ileason. Burrell, Breitenstein and O'Day, pitchers; Werden, first base; Crooks, second base; Pickney, third base; Glasscock, short stop: Van Dyke, Brodia and Carroll, outfielders. Jack" Cbapman's Louisville band will be made up this way: Cahill, Ryan and Grim, catchers; Fitzgerald, Stratton, Meekin and Ehret, pitchers; Taylor, first base; Jennings, second Dase Kethna, tnird base; C ana van, short stop; Browning, Weaver and Bay* moD, outfielders. It will be seen from this list that Boston* Philadelphia, Brooklyn, New York, Chicago, Cleveland and Cincinnati are remarkably strong, while Pittsburg, Washington, Baltimore, St. Louis and Louisville have many fine players who, with competent handling, can play winning ball. New York and Brooklyn are very evenly matched. ' LATEKtTEW?. A head end railroad collision occurred a mile north of Smyrna, N. Y., resulting in * ??? ?i-.?J ?1- A Vahnw Ancn? CD8 Killing ol rrvuvnu n. ivuuh ?-aaeer, of Utica; Martin Sheody, engineer, ot Oswego; Albert Cady, fireman, ot Norwich. Both engines exploded soon after they struck, and were blown into twisted scraps of iron. The United States revenue cutter Gallatin went ashore on a ledge off Manchesterby-the-Sea, N. H. All hands were saved except J. Jacobson, a carpenter. The vessel is atotallos3. The fault seems to have been with the pilot, who lost his reckoning. A tornado swept tbrodgh Fayette ville, Ga., killing four persons and seriously injuring a dozen more. A path 300 yards wide was cut throngh the town and for three miles east of it the devastation continued. The United States Government's suit against the schooner Robert and Minnie, for violation of the neutrality laws in conveying arms to the Chilian steamer Itata, was dismissed in the Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco, Cal. At the joint caucus in Columbus of the Republican members of the Ohio Legislature, John Sherman was nominated for re-election to the United States Senate, getting fifty-three votes to thirty-eight for J. B. Foraker. The acting Secretary of the Treasury sent to Congress a letter from Robert P. Porter, the Superintendent of the Census, aceom pauied by a deficiency estimate of $1,000,000 for continuing the work of the census, which appropriation, it is asked, be made in toe Urgency Deficiency bill. Secretary of State Blaine wa3 seized with an acute attack of indigestion and was obliged to suspend work for the day. He recovered in a few hours. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: Walter Wyman, of Missouri, to be Supsrvising Surgeon-General of the Marine Service of the Unithd States; John B. Hamilton, of Illinois, to be Surgeon in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States. The Czar refuses to admit that the famine in Russia is widespread. Influenza is spreading in Yorkshire, Dorset, Essex and Kent, in England. The disease is of a severe type. Many deaths are reported - $'-i YfCf?.T% I RELIGIOUS READING. IF WE BUT KXBW. Ii we bat knew what danger* lie before; What wells of bitterness; What paths of weariness That, darkening, go by sorrow's gloomy shore? . TTT...I 1 L J L.U 1L. h?il< V? UU1U w e UUl uiuscr uuiu UiC iuojuci n uauu, And seek more oft bis counsel and command, ' If we but knew? (f we but kuew what dangers we have missed, Led safely, sureiy on? While happy snns have shone Upon our paths, and peace our lies has kissed? Would not our hearts go out in thankfulness, The Master's love our every act confess, If we but knew? We cannot know; in wisdom He doth hide The mystic way he leads: We can but sow the seeds Of hope, of trust: He is a faithful guide, And, seeing not, we should believe the more, He knows all things who sweetly goes before, We cannot know. ?[Ingraham Crockett, in Churchman. XX HIM WAS LIFE. Tn flits Kaontt^nl *nW nli^lMAnhtA AYIMHML xu viiio ucauwuu i awu puitvovpu iv sion we have the key to the practical power of tbe Gospel. It is'a living, spiritual prin- ' ciple, flowing from the Lord, that gives to truth its energy; which makes it sanctifying and saving. There is a singular power In all life. If It start in tbe tenaer, feathery substance of tbe mushroom, it will bear tbe huge rock from its bed. If it spring in the deeper darkness. like tbe potato vine in the cellar, it shall creep and crawl, and wind to the light! A living principle! it be but a mushroom growth it shall exrel in power all the disjointing strokes of ttie civil law. The acorn breaks its shell and springs upward with a powei excelling the shock of hireling hosts in battle. And bow much more powerful will be tbe living influx of the Divine Spirit? That . it is which will make society, engergize public sentiment, destroy public vice and save the nation. It will cause the soul of sun to expand to the dignity cf obedience to . Qod. We want nothing so much , as tbe . spirit of the Gospel.?[California Advocate. ? I BAVJ5Tx jlti iu& ona^Muxv awivi Jesus Christ is no security against storm*, but He Is a perfect security in tbem. II ava seen a village nestline in the bosom of stme. great mountain. Speaking one day to i he villagers, I ventured to ask if they had any storms during the year. ./ V"Oh, yes," was the answer. '^If there If : storm anywhere in the neighborhood it seems to find us out J* "How da you account for It?" ' Those who seem to know } ay it is due to tbe monntsin wh'ch towers . above our village. If he happens to see a clond anywhere on tbe horizon, be beckons it until it settles on bis brow. We villager* call it putting on his nightcap." 4iHaVeyou bad any accidents from lightning f* ^Kot one. "We have seen tbe b'ghtaing strike the mountain a hundred times,and a grand sight it was, but nobody bad been-kllled." "Wnat ' have you, then?" 4,We bave the thunder I which shakes our windows and frixbtens our women and children, but it has not killed anybody; and we have the downpour. The fertility of our village which you. so much admire, is all due to tbe thunder showers." When Jesus Christ became Incarnate, He ; rose like a very mountain of God, and all ^ A TTim me Biorms 01 uiv sgta gmuncu biuuuu . ? bead. There came swceoing tip, too, hurricanes from the dreary wilds of eternal, night, which hurled themselves In all their fury against.Him, but Be took the lightning into His own breast, and what have we 7^ The thunder shower. He shs 11 come down. like rain on the mown grass, like showers < that water the earth.?[Henry Simon. """" WHAT DO tOTT READ ? There ace few things which I am more anxious about than to have my boys and girls form a taste for good books. I do not mean stu p id "goody-goody" books, buttboqe which are really good, bright, interesting, < full of fun some of them, and all such at will help yon to grow into good, genuine 9 men and women, besides giving you a good time while you art growing. Yon will be pretty apt to grow like the characters you read about and admire. Think of this wnen you are asked to read '-blood and thunaer' * stories or lives of bad men and women, or silly, wishy-washy stuff often found in story papers, about such/people aa never lived and never ought to. Ton derthlnly do not wish to be like them, but you are in danger of becoroiug so if yon read such books. Once a boy went to my school who would * read such stuffin spite or all bis mother and Isaidtobim about it. When he was four- 1 teen years old be thought he was in love' ; with one of the school-girls, and that she liked another boy better than she did him, v and that he was jealous of bis "rival" Just.5. . as folks are in the books be read. So he determined to scare her into loving bim better. He asked the two to take a walk - with him; when they were outside the town, be suddenly stepped in front of the other two, and in a very theatrical way said to her, 4'Deride at oncc which one of us you love best, fot the other must die.1' He {looked and acted sc ridiculous that she lauebed, never imagining he was in earnest. At this be exclaimed, "AJfe is this the way you scorn me V drew a pistol from his pocket and shot himself. Afterward they found in that same pocket a novel with exactly such a scene described.- In a.u^.4 iViA w?? ny\f oovf/uiAlv ' ' ' llittVf UIC UW4W 'IBO UV? #v uu?J nvwuww} _ his lady-love relented, he {tot well, and they I were married. But poor Eddie was not ao I fortunate; his shot proved fatal tad he J died, begging all around to save him; I al- J ways felt he was killed by trashy story- /I reading.?[The Union Signal * ' . I THE OWT OF A THORX. " "And leat I should be exalted above Eneas' - s nre through the abundance of the revel* tions, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh." "There was given to me;" can tbe thorn be a gift from God? I am in the habit of seeing God's gifts in the abundance of the things which my life possesses; and I call those things the dangers of life which diminish the sum of its abundance. Here is a -complete reversal of my thought: tlie abundance is the danger, and that whi?'H diminishes it is a gift. Paul was exalt i il>ove measure; he bad been standing ?u tbe mountains of prosperity and summering in the supshine of a cloudless day. The cloudlessness of.the day was his ??#??*. art A tliora (i Kent K milt m CaiCPU uaugv*) muv. *mv*v ? - ? ?? over the sun. Bis life hns been redolent with a breath of flowera, and there is sent a thorn among the flowers. The thorn la God's best gift to thesoal; there is some* thing protective in it. It ha* neither beauty nor fragrance, but it yields the sweet uses of adversity?it remind# the human soul that It is, after all, only buuian. Dear Lord, I have never thanked Thee for the thoin in the flesh. I have thanked Thee a thousand times for the roses, but not once for the thorn. I have been looking forward f to the world where I shall get compensation for my cross, but I bave never thought of my cross as a present glory. Thon, Divine Love, whose human path has been perfected through suffering, teach me' the glory of my cross, the value of the thorn in the flesh. Show me that I have climbed by the path of pain. Show me that my tears have made ray rainbow. Reveal to me how my strength came as the product of that hour when I wrestled until the creaking of the day. Then shall I know that my thorn was blessed by Thee,my cross a fgift from Thee, and I shall raise a monument to the hour of my sorrow, and' the words which I shall write shall be these: "It was good for me to be afflicted." ??? f there is a great war on tne Doys . t for reading dime novels and bloodand-thunder stories, but the girls are doing something just as bad. It does not hurt a boy half as much to read a dime novel as it does a girl to cram her mind with sickly love stories.: But the boys are so watched that they have to crawl up in the loft to read their favorite literature, while the girls sit in the parlor and read theirs. _ ,