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A BOYAL FUNERAL. I ? I Obsequies ot the Late Duke of Clarence ami Avondale. Impressive Ceremonies at Sandringham and Windsor. The funeral of Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of the Prince of Wale.', who died at Sandringiiam Hal), took place in London anl Windsor, England. The funeral ceremonies commenced at Sandringham (London) Parish Church, where the body had been lyinz smce tne a?y arcer me rnnce s deaih." The religious services there were confined to the members of the Royal Family and to the household of the Prince of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales and hsr daughters, the Princess Louise, the Duchess of Fife, the Princess Victoria and the Princess Maud, were present. Prince George of Wales, the heir presumptive since the deat.i of his brother is looking quite delicate, as did also the Princess Victoria May of Teck. were also there. PRINCE GEORGE?3EIH .>3iaui?rm After the prayers had been read by the Rev. A. J. Hervey the services were concluded with the singing of the hymn "Thy Will be Done." The state staffs of both the Queen and the Prince of Wales were present. At the conclusion of the ceremonies At Bandringhan, the orffin was conveyed to Wolverton Station, Vhere a special train was in waiting to convey the boay to Windtor. ihe route from Sandringham Church to the station was lined with crowds. The male portion of this concourse respectfully raised their bats as the body passed. It would be difficult to imagine a more simple funeral service in connection with royalty than that witnessed at Sandringham this morning. The road to the station was lined, not by the troops or police, but by the school children of the neighborhood, who wore large black crape rosettes upon their left arms. Tne body was taken to the station upon a gun carriage like that of any officer of the army, and the Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Duke of Fife, walked the whole distjtnno two mi?ag hntwAAn the church and the railroad depot directly behind the coffin. The other mourners followed the funeral cortege in carriages. * The funeral cars passed the outskirts of London at 2 o'clock, the request for privacy made by the Royal Family being everywhere respected. while the train was conveying the body of the Duke to Windsor minute guns were fired from the warships and forts throughout Great Britain and Ireland with dull, constant booming. in addition to the firing of guns, the bells from nearly every church steeple in England were tolled during the whole time the body was on its way to Windsor. In London the stores were all partly closed. All the cabmen and bus drivers have bows of black crape upon their whips, and yjr the majority of the male portion ot the populatioo seen on the streets wear crape bands, military fashion, on their left arms. Every Hag is at half mast. In the neighborhood of Windsor the scene presented was a most gloomy one. The sky was overcast and threatening snow or rain. All the houses in, at or near Windsor were draped with crape or black cloth, and not a shop was opened throughout the day. Thousands upon thousands of persons went from London and elsewhere to Windsor. The main thoroughfares were kept clear by a strong force of troops and police, who had no difficulty in maintaining the most perfect order. A special train carried the leading mem> bers of the Government to Windsor. There were also present deputations from the House of Commons and from the House of Lord?. Tbe gun carriage bearing the remains was escorted to St. George's Chapel by a detachment from the Tenth Hussars, Prince of Wales's Own, the regiment in which the dead Prince held the rank of Major. j. he coffin was covered with the Union Jack, and uuon it was placed the busby of the late Duke, together with his sword and sas'u. The dead man's charger was led behind the gun carriage. Following the body were all tbe personal attendants of the dead Prince and the household of the Prince of Wales. Services m memory of tbe Duke were held that s*me day in all the European capitals. In Berlin the Empress Augusta and Empress Frederick, the later of whom is the aunt of the Duke,many other members of tbe German Imperial Family and a num ber of royal personages attended tbe services held in that city. *' IERIQATIOB IN MONTANA, Statistics Gathered by the United States Census Bureau. The TJnifad States Census Bureau issued from 'Warhinjton a bulletin upon the subject of irrigation in Montana. It is shown that in that State there are 37C6 farms that are irrigated out of a total number of 5664. The total avea of land upon which crops were raised by irragation i2 the census year ending May 31, 1890, was 350,582 acres, in addition to which there were approximately a7,000 acres irrigated for grazing purposes. The average size of the irrigated farms, or, more strictly, of irrigated portions of farms on which crops were raised, is*ninetyflve acres. The average first cost of water right is W 63 per acre and the aver age cost of preparing the soil for cultivation, including the purchase price f the land, in 90.54 per acre. The average present value oi the irrigated lani of the State, incluiin,; buildings, etc., is reporte 1 as *49.50 per acre, showing an apparent profit, less cost of buildings, of $35.33 per acre. The average annual cost of water is ninety-five centc per acre, which, ? IU. 1 ..I asuucuru i rum mo avci ?uuuai twua of products per acre, leaved an average annual return of J12.C1 per acre. In this investigation the Cansus Office his restricted itself to laud an which crops were actually raCjed by irrigation during the year 1889. Farms and stock ranches irrigated merely for prazing purposes are not taken into accouut except a statement as to their approximate area. i ANTHRACITE COAL, fe; The Year Just Closed the Largest in the History of the Trade. The official statistics of the anthracite coal production for 1891, just made public at Philadelphia, Fenn,, show the shipments from the mines for the year to have been 44,446,336 tons. The year was the greatest in the history of the trade and the production exceeded that Of 1890 by 4,592,161 tons. The product m the different districts was: Schuylkill, 12,741,259 ions: Lehigb, 6,387,S3S i tons; Wyoming, 21,323,239 tons. These figures do not include coal consumed ! at or about the mines, which consumption ptobably amount to 5,000,000 tons annually. The total production of anthracite coal gince the Lehigh Com an 1 Navigation Company began to market it has been 783,614,BpA i- *4 tons. | | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Mitch damage has been done by floods in New York State and New England. Floods carried away North Weare (N. H.) bridge, over the Merrimac River. Ex-Congressman* Walter A. Wood died at Hoosick Falls. He was born in Mason. Hillsboro County, N. H.. on October 23,1815, and was a well known manufacturer of agricultural machinery. John Carson, once a prosperous lawyer of Baltimore, Md., was found lying dead in I New York Citv with his throat cut. Fire destroyed Van Tassel's grain ware- I houses and four other buildings ir. New j York City, and caused the death of three workmen. The Typothetae celebreted the one hundred and eighty -sixth anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth with a dinner at the Hotel Brunswick, New York City. A large two-horse country sled, with a I dozen young persons in it, went over a 300 foot hili, near Harmony, Penn., and all were injured, Elizabeth Merton, Miss Long and j William Berry fatally. The sled was demolished, aud the horses killed. Two children of Arthur Bisert, of Roxbury, Mass., died from the effects of drinking from a flask of whisky they found in a closet. Judge Earl was appointed by Governor Flower, of New York, to succeed the late Chief Judge Ruger of tue Court oc Appeals, and Deputy Attorney-CJaneral Majnard was nominated to fill the vacancy caused by the elevation of Earl. South and. West. Robert I. Chester, who was positively the oldest living Mason in the world, died a fevy days ago at Jackson, Tenn. Colonel Chester was born in Carlisle, Penn., July 31, 1793. The first rivet was driven the other day in the United States Cruiser No. 3 at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, Cal. Captain Schley and many navy and army officers were present. Henry CoRBiu.the colored man who murdered Mrs. Georgetta Horner at Oxford, Ohio, has been lynched. , Niko How, a Chinaman, was hanged at Canyon City, Oregon, for the murder of one I of his countrymen. W. V. Harben was hanged at Poplar Bluff, Mo. An old man named Smith sold a farm to Harben and took his notes as part payment. Harben murdered him to get possession of the notes. Jess Brown was hanged in Paducah, Ky,,for the murder of John Larry. A locomotive, eight miles south of Birmingham, Ala., blew up, instantly killing Engineer Joseph Hunt and Fireman Bradford. The bodies were blown into fragments. Three sheepmen were killed and several cowboys badly wounded in a fight in the White Mountains of Apache County, Arizona. . The house of Judge Brazee In Lancaster, Ohio, was blown to pieces by an explosion of natural gas, and the Judge was fatally and his two sons and two daughters seriously injured. Harrt Hixtok, the colored man impli * ' - - ^nmhor nf t.hn catea oy xxjlt oiuu ? ? ? ? gang that participated in the massacre of McMillen's family, was taken from jail at Butler, Ala., by a mob and banged. The National Convention of the Prohibition party, to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President, will convene in St. Louis on Jane 29. A Wabash train ran into a sleighing party of twenty-one members of the Clover Leaf Fishing Club, near Forest Park, Mo. Eight were Killed and the rest more or les3 injured . ' Senator Gorman was re-elected to the United States Senate by the Maryland Legislature. Senators George and Walthall were also returned by the Mississippi Legislature. The Louisiana Republicans met in State convention at New Orleans and named a ticket beaded by A. E Leonard for Governor; they also declared for Harrison's renomination. Washington. The Assistant Secretary of the Interior has decided that for pension purposes the Civil War began on March 4, 1861. Secretary Tract received Information that Balmacedist refugees, after leaving the Yorktown, would be liable to capture on any merchant vessel at a Chilian port. The Church of the Covenant, Washington, which President Harrison attends, caught fire. The damage was $10,000. President Harrison and Vice-President Morton watched the firemen fight the flames. Assistant Secretary Nettleton has informed the Secretary of the Health Department of New York City that the Treasury Department regards Ellis Island, on which the immigrant station is located, as within the State of New York. This statement was in response to an inquiry on tae suojecc, ana grows out of the boundary line controversy between the States of New York and New Jersey. Judgi Lijtdsit, of Kentucky, has declined the appointment of interstate Commerce Commissioner. The American Woman Suffrage Association held its annual sessions at Washington. Prksidknt aitd Mas. Harrison gave the first state dinner of the season. According to long-established etiquette, the dinner was in honor of the Cabinet. , The Marine Band played and the White House was never more beautiful with floral deoorations. A Bio delegation of Tammany braves visited Washington to ask the Democratic National Committee to select New York City as the place for holding the National Convention. Foreign* Thi band of revolutionists who w?re fortified in a mill at Ascension, Mexico, surrendered to Mexican troops. The leader escaped. Thk Bishop of Chichester, England, has ordered the clergy of his aiocase to offer especial prayers for the abatement of the prevailing epidemic of influenza. Anarchists attacked Bornes.. Spain. and were repulsed only after considerable fighting and repeated cavalry charges. Many rmrtj hnvfl hpf?n made. Randolph Rogers, the distinguished American sculptor, died at Rome, Italy. He was born in New York sixty-nine years ago. Dr. LAmnESA has been elected rresident of Guatemala. Manuel A. Saboria, a Guatemalan exile in this country, will .be made Secretary of the Treasury. Prince Abbas was formally installed at Cairo, Eeyot, as the new Khedive. The English fleet welcomed him to Alexandria. Everywhere he is greeted with enthusiastic evidences of good-will. His dignified bea: ing created a good impression. a hundred men were entombed for six hours in a burning mine in Scotland, but were finally rescued. T^e prevalence of influenza led to the abandonment of the plan for a public pro* cession in London, England, on the arrival there of the Duke of Clarence's body. There has been fighting at Kallasdasb, Persia, arising "from a revolt fomented by Persian priests on the tobacco question. The local troops were defeated by the insurgents, eighty soldiers and 200 rebels being killed and more than one hundred irounded. 1 if the French Chamber of Deputies at Paris Minister Constans struck a Deputy in the face; in theresulting disorder there were several personal encounters, and at least two duels were arranged. The mail steamer John Elder was wrecked in the Straits of Magellan; among her passenger* were several refugees, who escaped from Valparaiso through the assistance of the American Legation. They will be re? turned to Chile. He is no whole man who does not know how to earn a blameless livelihood. Society is barbarous until Avffrv InrlnctvHnna man ran cftt, his 11 v I ing without dishonest customs. I Every man Js a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He fails to make his place good in the world unless he not only pays his debt but also adds something to the commonwealth. A spell of la grippe Is not so bad when it is spellfid simply grip. fIFTY-SEOOND 0QNQ&ES3. In the Senate. 16th Day.?Mr. Qnay reported favorably a bill whica in previous Congresses obtained some prominence by reason of President Cleveland's veto authorizing the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building at Allentown, Penn. ? Mbrning business was exhausted in less than twenty-five minutes and the Senate resumed the consideration of the bill 8 on the calendar, the first on the list being a bill to aid the State of Colorado to support a school of mines. Passed The motion of Mr. Ratabun for Postmaster at Elmira, N. Y. was recommitted. 17th Day.?The Vice-President laid some departmental communications before the Senate?Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, reported favorably the bill fixing the times of holding the District and Circuit courts of the District of Iowa. By unanimous consent the bill was passed Mr. Faulkner, of West Virginia, reported favorably with amendments the Senate joint resolutions directing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to toe State of West Virginia its proportion of the direct tax refund?-La Abra claim was considered. 18th Day.?The President sent in a report from the Secretary of State respecting the awards of the Mixed-Claims Commission These public building bills were passed, appropriating $1,225,000; Monmouth Hot Springs, \ ellowstone Park, $10,000; Tampa, Fin., $140,000; Waterbury, Conn., $100,000; Hastings, Neb., $250,000; Mansfield, Ohio. $100,000; K or folk, Neu., 5250,001); Jacksonville, III., $75,000, Fergus Falls. Minn., $100,000; Nashua. N. H., $100,000; Zanesville, Ohio, $100,000?The La Abra claim was discussed nearly all the session, with an average attendance of twenty-five Senators?Several appointments by the President were confirmed. 19th Day.?The Senate spent the morning hour?betore 2 o'clock?on the calendar, adopting a number of minor measures exclusively for the West Eight public building bills were passed The La Abra Claim bill went over again. In the House. 13th Day.?Judge Holman's resolution against subsidies and limiting the House as to appropriation bills was discussed during the entire session. 11? TV. -rr Tl_? ET?..?? ,, ? J.? 1X1 X/A x ? x ud xiuusu wua u yj vuc uufinished business?the Ho! man resolutions, debated the day before. Mr. Holman w.th dred his motion to reconsider the vote by which the previous question was ordered on his anti-subsidy resolution. The House then passed the second of Mr. Holman's resolutions referring to ecconomical expenditures by a vote of yeas, 164; nays, ninety-three A hot debate took place over the question of clerkships to committees?-The following bills were introduced and ret'errad: By Mr. Newberry to test the method of spelling schools and appropriating $100,000 to establish a spelling school at the World's Pair; placing salt, lumber, nails, cotton ties, binding twine and agricultural implements on the free list; Mr. Smith, of Arizona, for the i admission of Arizona as a State. 15th Day.?The seventh week of the session began to-day with no rules for the guid| ance of tne House, and its presiding officer still within the grasp of the grip. Speaker pro tem. McMillan therefore called the House together at noon. The bill relating to public building was read and explained. The House then proceeded to consider the bill prepared by the Joint Committee on Printing,, regulating the whole subject of Government printing, introduced by Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee. The bill was read inextenso The roll of States was then called, and a large number of bills, etc., were introduced for reference. 16th Day.?Chaplain Milburn in his prayer at the opening took cognizance of the (Jtniean situation-?numwr 01 executive documents were presented and referred Mr. Oatea, reported a bill changing; the methods of taking depositions of witnesses in the United States courts, to conform to the method in vogue in the State where the case is pending. It was passed Mr. Oates also reported his bill to prevent blackmailing in the territory under the jurisdiction of the United States, it provides a maximum punishment of $1000 fine and one year's imprisonment. Passed. The bill to regulate th? printing and distribution of public documents was killed. 17th Day.?.Mr. Springer introduced his Free Wood bill and it was referred to the* Committee on Ways aud Means The Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures voted to introduce the Bland Free Silver bill??The House spent an hour and a quarter in the introduction of bills and con* sideration of inconsequental measures, and then adjourned. LATEE HEW?, Christopher Pearse Cranch, the wellknown painter and poet, died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., aged eighty. Thb Connecticut Legislature met at Hartfortf; the House adjourned for a week. Mrs. Frederick Olison and her twoyear-old babe Fredella were burned to death at Chicago. 111., In the fire which destroyed their home. Tm inauguration of Governor Horace Boies \%ook place at D?s Moines, Iowa. Robin W. Christian was murdered with with an axe by his insane son, aged twenty two, in McDowell County, Virginia. Secretary and Mra. Blaine gave a din* ner party at Washington in honor of President and Mrs. Harrison. Ripbksestatiyx Roger Q. Mills, of Texas, has written a letter to Speaker Crisp resigning his position as Chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. The Legislature of Mendoza, Brazil, has deposed the Governor of that province. The United States gunboat "tforktown, with the refugees on board, has sailed from Valparaiso for Callao. This is regarded as an indication that affairs were quiet in Chile. A TERRIBLE REVENUE, The Kival ot a Shopkeeper and. Hid Family Bunred to JJe.ith. A peasant, who formerly kept a shop in the Government of Toola, Russia, became so noor that he begged for assistance from a rival in trade, whose "uccess had caused his ruin by attracting away customers. The rival refusei to listen to tne appeal Thereupon the one that had lost his business determined upon a terrible revenge. He procured a large quantity of kerosene and went to the house in which his rival and family liv^d. Wher it was dark he drenched the dwelling with kerosene and set it on fire. The flames made rapid headway, and as the incendiary bad deliberately barred the only way of escape, the inmates of the house, three women and seven children, were burned to death. FIQHTINS IK DAHOMEY. A Native Force Repulsed by a French Garrison, 250 Being Killed. The steamer Thibet, from the west coast of Africa, brings intelligence of further troubles between the French and the Dahomans. The steamer reports that a force of 2000 Dabomans made an attack upon Kotonou. The French garrison made a gallant defence, and tne fighting lasted for three hours. Fiually the French troops made a sortie, an l the attaching party fled, leaving 250 of taeir dea t on the tield. The French loss was three killed and ten wouuded. MTnmpppn TTTH PPTRHTFFT). XU. U lUJk/JJXOiJi/ JOiXKJ Inexplicable Crime of a Germari Scientist?His Suicide Follows. Dr. Bredmann, director of the chemical laboratory in the University of Berlin, Germany, killed bis betrothed, Margarethe Meyer, and then committed suicide. Dr. Bredermann was forty-two years old, while the girl to whom he was engaged to be married and who has now met her death at his hands, was only eighteen years of age. No motive can be conjectured which would have led to the commission of the double < crime. BLOWN UP" BY POWDER. Terrific and Fatal Explosion at Central City, W. Ya. Six Workmen Killed and a Mill Destroyed. Dispatches fro m the cities near -Ceredo, W. Va., tell the news of a terrific explosion of the Phoenix Powder Mill which was destructive to life. The Phoenix mill is situated at Central City, near Ceredo, and about half way between Huntington, W Va., and Catlettsbure, Ky. This is the third explosion at this mill within three months and js the most destructive one. How this latest wreck was brought about will never be known, because not a soui taat was m mo i mill is left alive to tell the story. At half-Dast 8 o'clock in the morning peo- | pie in Irontou, twenty-five miles away, heard the terrible detonating roar. In Ceredo, three miles away, windows were broken and wares in the stores were shaken from the shelves. In Catlettsburg, nearly ten miles away, the earth shook and people were alarmed. Everybody divined toe causa and there was a rush from all directions for the scene. The local authorities organized and surrounded the ruins with a cordon of police through which none of the thousands of spectators was permitted to pass. It has been ascertained that the first explosion was in the glazing-roam, where there were ten tons of powder. Then,successively, the packing-house, the magazine and tne flour-wheel mills, and lastly a car load of gunpowder went hurling in fiery fragments through the air. Isot a vestize of the entire plant remains, and the country for half a mile around is strewn with fragments of the build ings and of the bodies of five men, victims of the disaster. It is not known definitely, but at the present writing it is believed that not less than thirty-five tons of powder were burned in the several explosions. Those killed are as follow^: Archie Livingston, a Scotchman, who had been superintendent of the milh since they started; only his hand was found. "Ed* Wmton, the architect and engineer, who built the works: he was in the magazine when it exploded and strange to say his body was little mutilated. John Benton, a workman; body horribly mangled. John Schlosser and Charles Scott, workmen. were both terribly mutilated. All these are either known or supposed to have been in the buildings when the ex plosion occurred. Robert Cook, a glazingmill hand, was approaching the glazing mill when it blew up. His clothing, hair and whiskers were burned off. He ran two hundred yards to a stream and jumped in. He died at midnight. K. 0. Reece, James Esteep and John Justice, who were in the vicinity when the explosions occurred, were seriously hurt. PROMINENT PEOPLE. President Montt, of Chile, is forty-eight years old. Gladstone has shrunk over two inches in stature since he was in middle life. Du Maurier, the artist, has ceased to contribute cartoons to London Punch. The late Governor Hovey, of Indiana, left * a 1? aa nnrt an estate amounting w naany wv. John Archibald, one of the Standard Oil Cro03oaes, was an offlca boy at Titus ville, Penn. The Prince of Wales has bean paid $30,000,000 by the British people since he came of age. The late, Cardinal Manning did all hi) literary work on a small wr.ting pad which he rested on his knee. Henry Villard, who has so many ups and downs as a railroad man, earned nis first money as a reporter. Mayor Washburne, of Chicago, 111., has three children born on St. Patrick's Day, July 4 and Christmas Day. Andrew Carnegie, the Pennsylvania manufacturer, added another $100,030 to his gift of $2,000,000 to Pittsburg. VnTTwrt Ram TIlHon who 1?1 thn contest against his uncle's will, will receive about 1800,000 as his share of the estate. Senator Kyle, of North Dakota, ij a regularly-ordained preacher, and for three years he filled-a Congregational pulpit. Garibaldi's eons have made good soldiers, bat have acquired an unenviable reputation for shady transactions in business. The oldest surviving graduate of West Point is Colonel William C. Young, who lives in New York City, and celebrated on Thanksgiving Day his ninety-seventh birthday. The gold medal given to Virchow, the German scientist, on his seventieth birthday, is the largest ever made. It weighs nearly six pounds, and the metal alone is worth $1750. Catarino Garza, who has set all the Southwestern border by the ears, is a young man of slender physique, nervous and fidgety, with dark nair and eyes and a swarthy complexion. Joseph W. Bailit, of Texas, is the youngest member of the House of Representatives. He was born twenty-eight years ago in Mississippi. He has considerable oratorical ability and is very popular among his constituents. Speaker Crisp has a very clear complexion, blue eves, straight, well-formed V -r?J 1 r . Eight thoitsavd DeoDle are employed in the Woolwich (England* Arsenal. Nkw York painters declare that varnishing: is a pari of their worlc and not a distinct trade. Boston boilermaker?, iron shipbuilders and machinists will demand nine hours ou May 1. It took forty m9n thr*e monthi to make the drawings of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, Prance. More than 100,000,000 Chinese are en gaped either directly or indirectly in the tea industry. New York bricklayers and ironworkers have sent money to the striking printers in Germany. In 1500 a carter's wages ware tax cents a day, while workmen were paid five cents a day for working in the fields. The effort of a street railway company in Indianapolis, Ind., to collect fares from" its employes except when t?sey were oa duty, resulted in a strike. \ r ' "' 'fijf :r>. DOWD, THE SLASHES. Police Arrest the Man Whose Razor Cat Seven Throats. Inspector Byrnes has succeeded at last in laying hands on the man who has been catting the throats of drunken people in the streets of New York City recently. On his own partial confession, the man will be charged also with the murder of John Carson, the brokendown lawyer, found lying in a hallwav the other morning with a frightful gash in his throat. The prisoner's name is Henry G. Dowd. He was born in Liverpool forty-one years ago, and has spent tne last fifteen years of nis life begging in New York City. He was caught red-handed, in the very act of killing a man at ten minutes past 3 o'clock in the morning. The latest victim of the slasher's razor is Henry Miller, or Mueller, of No. 326 Cherry street, and the slasher himself is Henry R. Dowd, of No. 54 New Chambers street. As far as the police can learn, Dowd be? - a/ -la An +hn nirrkf. aI g&U UtO Wat wi VI uuuiiv/i.iu vu vuv aiguw u? the 2Jth of last December. Since that time he has rua wild through the Fourth and Eleventh Precincts in the early hours of the morning, and seven victims have fallen under his murderous razor. The second cutting case occurred on January 8, and the police of the Oak and Eldridge Street Police Stations were convinced that a man was running through the lower portion of the Fourth Ward, bant on deeds of blood, aud they turned all their energies to his capture. Inspector Byrnes w&s called on to aid in the hunt, and every night from midnight until dawn twenty policemen in citizens' clothes, and twenty detectives from the Central Office had paraded the district in th? hope of making just such a capture as was made. For a week or two their efforts were in vain, for, although it seemeA as' if every street ana alley was guarded, the cutting went on, until the slasher killed Lawyer John Carson in front of a Chrystie street stable. This murder determined the detectives and the police officials to make every effort to capture the slasher. The closest watch was kept on every suspicious character, and the man was caught with his bloody razor in his hand, witoin two blocks of where he was seen to cut his seventh victim down. . Inspector Byrnes asked Dowd why he tried to cut Muller, his seventh victim. "It was an overpowering Influence," responded the prisoner. "I don't know how to describe it. I liked to see my deads recorded in the newspapers. Every time I cut a man the papers would print columns on it. It del it^hten me to feel that the capers were afraid of me." The Inspector asked him why he cut the man, and ne replied: "I want to kill a German." This extraordinary answer staggered the Inspector, who pressed him for his reasons. He replied that a good many years ago a German assaulted his mothor in Brooklyn while he was in the next room, and that ever sinco the man's face had haunted him, and he had become possessed of an uneontrollable desire to kill a German. The - Inspector then asked him, "Why aid von kill Carson? He wasn't a German." Dowd replied: "I did it because I couldn't help it," but immediately afterwards denied that he had killed nose and a brown mustacne. ais ne&a is bald and his manners refined. He generally wears a black flock coat and dark ciothej and nectkie. Gkptehal. B. F. Butler is said to be a rery rich man. Besides possessing an abunJ?? in T^ofAn WAahincf/in IWUUO KfL XlKfc* COK.W MA .. ,B. and Chicago, he owns the big Craig Ranch near Pueblo, Col.?the largest ranch in the State?has 150,000 acres of coal and mineral lands in Virginia, and controls part of the Hora grant of 600,000 acres in New Mexico. 1 A sort of Damon and Pythias friendship has sprung up in Washington between the giant-like General Curtis, of New York, the biggest man in Congress, and Representative Cable, of Illinois, who is a pocket edition of the statesman and little enough to be lost in a crowd of schoolboys. The two are almost inseparable, and the diminutive Cable is supposed to tyranize over his big brother Congressman. M. Alphand, whose faneral took place the other day, had conducted the public works of the city of Paris, France, for a quarter of a century. He had $4800 annual salary and $1000 extra allowance for expenses. He had under him nearly 4000 employes. The annual budget of his department exceeded $20,000,000. He had founded four international exhibitions and 1600,000.000 had passed through his hands. He died poor. . Tfl? LABOR WORLD. There were 6258 strikes in 1891. Watchmaking here employs 8000. India men servants get 12 a monthThe labor outlook is dull in England. Queen Victoria's chief cook ^receives $3500 a year. The window glass blower does not work in July or August. Italy has a co-operative association of agricultural laborers. The theatres in London. England, regularluamnlnr nvep 12.000 D800le. him' After this he refused to say anything mors and was taken back to his celt MUTINY IN BBAZIL. Prisoners Overpower Their Guards and Seize Two Forts. Two hundred prisoners, confined in the Fortress of Santa Cruz. at the mouth of the harbor. Bio Janeiro, Brazil, broke out in mutiny a few nights since. A number of them, who were arrested for misconduct in connection with, the recent political disturbances, and were mostly partisans of the deposed Dictator, General da Fonseca, appear to have taken the initiative. They surprised and disarmed the guards and soldiers at the prison, seized all the arms and ammunition in the soldiers' quarters, which was sufficient to equip them all for effective service, and then marched upon and captured Forts Pico and Laga, that guard the harbor. They then elected as leader' the man who had been foremost in their stroke for liberty. He announced that their object was the restoration of General de Fonseca to power, and made a formal demand to that effect upon the authorities. The latter simply clapped his messenger in jail and proceeded to gather troops and notify the navy to attack the forts. The insurgents began an irregular cannonade with the artillery in the forts, hoping, apparently, to compel the authorities to come to term*. The mntineera refused to surrender and the gun boats began a heavy bombardment of Fort Lage and soon rendered, it untenantable. The mutineers seeing no escaps, and being unable to stand the storm of shells from the gunboats, threw down their arms. Fort Pico was carried by storm, but when the troops reached the walls of the fortress they met with slight resistance, the mutineers being panic stricken. When the troops entered the fort they found the leader of the mutiny dead. He had taken his own life because ne feared the vengeance of the authorities. The fortress prison of Santa Cruz, where the mutiny began, yielded after half an hour's bombardment. During the time the forts were in possession of the mutineers, the latter fired upon the British steamship Serangi. The prisoners were placed, after recapture, under a strong guard, and the surviving ringleaders were loaded with manaclej. NINE KILLED. A Train ltuns Into a Sleighing Party With This Kesulr. Details of the sleighing accident which oc cured a few night3 ago at the Sarah street crossing of the Wabash Railroad, in St. Louis, Mo., give the number killed as nine and eleven seriously injured. The party was composed of twenty-two members of a social organization who were mit. for an evenincJ9 drive and were struck by a special train chartered by a local Legion of Honor lodge. The train was moving at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour, with the tender ahead, the engineer being unable to see tie party until fairly upon them. Two of the horses were killed and the occupants of the sleigh thrown in every direction. i The dead and injured were promptly attended to, all being conveyed to the depot by the train and from there sent to the mortfte and hospital. All the dead but one have been identified, RUSSIANS LIE PNBUBIED. Starved Villajjers Take the Sacra* ment and Then Wait lor Death. The London Standard has received an account of the famine from the Government of Orenburg, on the Ruaso-Asiatic frontier. One instance is mentioned which throws a lurid light upon the situation. The inhabitants of Cheliabinsk have fled from the dis trict by hundreds to avoid starvation. Bodies of men, women an i children and carcasses of horses and cattle lie unburied in the houses and field?. The few persons who remain subsist on dry herbs. The traveler from the district who brings this story says when he arrived there nobody he saw had partaken of any food for three days, t ne maaoiumts ot uue i village took the last sacrament together ia expectation of death. MEXICANS KILLED, Texas Rangers Have a Desperate Battle With Ore Tbieves. News has come from Shafter, Texas, of a battle between a detatchment of Captain Jones's ranger company under Sergeant Hughes and a band of Mexicans who were stealing ore from the Presidio mine. Sergeant Hughes caught the thieves in the act and called on them to surrender. The demand was answered by a volley from rifles. Hughes and his men replied and the thieves fled, leaving three of tneir number dead. One of the dead is a brother of An? tonio Carraaco, who assassinated a deputy ; sheriff six months ago. DCST BATHS 70R HENS. Wherever coal is burned, and it is in one stove at least in most farmers' homes in winter, there need be no lack of material for a dust bath for hens. Finely sifted coal ashes piled in heaps on the henhouse floor will enable hens to dispose of vermin just as they do in summer by rolling in freshly plowed land.?Boston Cultivator. BEE MOTHS. Bee moths are scavengers. They eat up unprotected combs. Keep your colonies in good shape and the bees will keep out the moths. As soon aa they cret weak and have more combs than thev O - can protect, then the moth worm has a chance. Italians are more energetic in repelling moths than common black bees, though the latter if strong and in good health are able to protect themselves from real damage, though the hive may contain a few worms.?New England Farmer. SALT ON OS IONS. While salt cannot be considered in the way of a fertilizer for plants, it is often indirectly a great benefit, as it destroys iAaects, hastens the decomposition of vegetable matter and aids in the retention of moisture in tho soil. Salt is also destructive to many species of fungi, rust, smut and mildew, but it must always be applied in small quantities, because destructive to most plants, espec ially while in their active or growing stages. If applied at the rate of from four to six bushels per acre to onion land just previous to sowing the seed, we think it will prove highly beneficial in preventing rust and destroying the larvae of insects in the ground.?American Agriculturist. WABMUfO POULTRY HOUSES. If your poultry house is damp and cold hang up a stable lantern at night, suspended with wire and do not have the flame too high. It will not only warm the house oome, but dries the air therein. Do not be atraid of any carbonic acid gas, or have any terrors about the entrance of fresh air, for even one lantern may not be sufficient to warm the house on a cold night, as more so-called fresh air (that is cold air) will get in than you can keep out, even if you try- Another point?when you build a poultry house have your windows large. Do not be afraid of plenty of glass. The sunlight on tne noor ana waus anes cae nouse, makes the fowl* cheerful and happy, and renders the interior of the house as bright as outside. True, glass radiates heat at night, but it also permits the wood to absorb heat during the day. The heat of the night can be retained with a hanging lamp, but the glass should let in the heat during the day.? Poultry Keeper. INOCULATION JOB BOG CHOLERA. According to a statement furnished, by Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, there has been during the last summer an outbreak of awine disease in La Salle County, 111., and the farmers applied to Secretary Busk for relief. At their urgent request Dr. Sohroeder, of the Bureau of Animal Industry, was delegated to make investigations and to give such advice and assistance as wm np.edfid. As further stated by Dr. Salmon under a later date, fifty-five hogs had been purchased and divided into three lots. Of these, eighteen had been inoculated by Dr. Schroeder according to the method used by the Bureau of Animal Industry, and eighteen others by another person according to another methodr and nineteen were not inoculated, being kept by themselves, and were held to determine whether the animals had been exposed to disease previous to inoculation, and whether the inoculated animals resisted disease better than those which had not been inoculated. According to this last report the hogs not inoculated were all well, none of those inoculated by the Bureau bad died, while four of these inoculated by the other method were dead. The subject is chiefly interesling from the fact that a committee of the farmers agreed to pay one-half of the expense of the experiment, thus showing their interest in it and their desire for further light on the question whether any system of inoculation is & preventive for hog cholera. Dr. Salmon did not oppose inoculation, but he pointed out dangers connected with it which farmers should understand before they adopted it. In the meantime the renort of the commit tee of farmers superintending the expetr iment made at Ottawa will be looked for with interest.?New York World. I TOMATO CULTURB. A summary of some of the results of experiments carried on for several years at the Cornell University Experiment Station, at Ithaca, N. Y., is as follows: Fertilizers?Tho best tomato fertilizers are those which produce their effects early in the season. The intermittent application of nitrate of soda, when prolonged into August,delayed the crop as a whole, while early applications appear to producc early results. But larger yields appear co follow intermittent application if it does not extend beyond mid-summcr. Nitrate of Soda?Nitrate of soda is an incomplete fertilizer and should not be used to thn exclusion of other fertil izers unless the soil is already ricli in potash and phosphoric acid. Upoa poor soils it is of little advantage when used alone. Early and Late Setting?The experiments of two years show that tomato plants which are early set in the field, are less injured by inclcment weather than is generally supposed,and that very j early setting on well prepared land appears to be advisable. But the results of early setting, especially as regards earlinesa,probably depend considerably upon the character of the plants; they should be strong and stocky. Few and Many Transplautings?Two fcraiwplantings gave better results than / ::'''/ .'-..1M?S i #.' * *i?b$-*--?$, *VVr^K>>3^H .j .$1'*^ OA<'?' "?'" ^.',?-a?rt '' 'A.*'. K ?^ three, but so much depends upon coh- H| dition of plants, their age, and the -way m in which they are handled, that gen- I eralizations cannot be made upon the sab- I ject. H Single-Stem Training?Single stem B training of tomatoes gave twice a* much HE yield per square foot as ordinary culture, Hj onmnvhaf onrlfpr nunltli. pnH it rrrflaHV decreased injury from rot. The system is to be recommended for early market or choice trade or for home me. Rot?Upright and open training tends to decrease injury from rot; and such training allows of more easy and thorough applications of fungicides when spraying is necessary.' Fertilizing?Very heavy fertilising with stable manures or concentrated Her* V-,.' tilizers has uniformly iucreased yield iu our experiments, although the common opinion is to the contrary. But in order that fertilizing shall produce early ftpits, the food material must be quickly avail* able. If stable manure is desired, only the most thoroughly disintegrated part should be used. Nitrate of soda is a good tomato fertilizer on soils contain* ing abundance of potash and phosphoric acid, but like other incomplete fertilizers it has little value when used alone on poor soils. Nitrate of soda appears to give heaviestyield* when used iittwo or three applications, but in this latitude it should not be applied later than the first nf inMnt ?lu) It nrntAnn irrowth too Very early setting of stocky plants in I the field, even in dark nod ravr weather, ; augmented earliaeca and productiveness in 1890. This year the aame results were I Obtained- except that there was some gain in earlineas from very early setting. The ' tomato can endure mnch more uncon- I genial weather when set ia the fleldthan I ia commonly supposed. Early setting on well prepared land therefore appears to be advisable.?Tick's Magazine. fl PARK AND &ARDEIf 50TKA. I To make a success of farming avoid extremes. * Have the sheep barn light and well ventilated. Breed from pure, good poultry stock; get rid of your culls. ' Are you doing anything to have better roads in your neighborhood!' Poultry needs shade as well as sonshine; plant at least one tree in your yard. With sheep and clover the poorest soil can be made rich. Both return to the land more than they take from it. ' r; A farmer says he finds a grdb hoe the j best thing for prying off boards in tearing down barns, sheds and other structures. Plant plenty of sunflowers; the seed is not only relished by the birds, but is productive of health, and the plant fur- < nishes shade. The dairyman who does not make his ( cows profitably productive when their [ care and keep are the most expetuire ' I will not make the dairy pay. . hj You cannot dungs your system of farming at a bound?you must do it | step by step. If your system is wrong 1 take the lint right step noir. During the cold snap* watch your watering Teasels. The water should be [ turned out ea?h night and replaced the ; next morning with slightly warmed I water. i Regularity In feeding, watering'and milking are important items in securing good results from cows, and comfortable j shelter, with bedding enough to keep the animals dean. Corn husks do not make a feather bed, but if dean and dry, and stripped up fine, they are much better than straw, and will last many years if taken out each summer, shakes up and well aired in a hriirht dftT. O i Study the markets aa<3 see if 70a canI not leant of something that is not in sufficient supply ia your market, and then see if you can grow it. That is the way in which the "specialty farmers" have grown rich. / Ia warming the cream op to the f churning temperature it jhould be well / stirred before it is tested with the ther- J mometer, for cream conducts heat very A J slowly and while one part of it might be f just the right temperature the rest might J be too ca'd. / '"1 There are some ways at least in which!1 more protection would help the farmecJ If he would protect his cattle from cold storms and winds, his poultry from ver? min, and his tools and machines from sun and rain, it would increase his/income and reduce his expenses. A noted western man riding across the country and noticing thousands .of acres of cornstalks standing in the field from which the ears had been, jerked (said: "The farmer is conducting the only business in the world thay allows a 1 man to lose forty-five per ceDt. of his capital stock and at the same time live. A correspondent in the Practical Farmer recommends giving cows a teaspoonful of sulphur onse a week to make the cream churn quicker. John Goald, in the same paper, says it might effect the blood of the cow sufficiently to neutral* ize the albumen contained in the mityc, which is the principal cause why cream is tardy in rising. Market gardeners put on their manure as fast as they draw it home when th6y can, but that which is pnt on at the time of the spring plowing must be well . composted, and the heaps worked over J two or three times, they say, to give tne j best results. That put on earlier bej comes mixed with the soil by the action of the weather. As many farmers will need new tools next spring, How would it do to try the co-operative system ol buying? Small tools, such as every one wants of bis own, could be bought by the dozen. Seed drills, pulverizing harrows and many others not needed often might be owned in partnership, thus saving the expense of each man owning his own. Can it be done without tbe likelihood of J future quarrels over the using?