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HARRISON'S LITTER. He Formally Accepts the ttepublican Nomination. The Principles and Policy of Eis Party Endorsed. BE.VJAMIJT HARRISON. Tbe following is in substance President Harrison's letter accepting toe nepumirau nomination for the office of President of th? United States: "Washington. D. C., Sept. 3, 1892. "Hod. William McKinley, Jr., and OthersCommittee. Etc. "Gentlemen?I now avail myself of the first period of relief from public duties to respond to the notification which you brought to me on June 20. of my nomination for the office of President of the United Stalss by the Republican National Convention, recently held at Minneapolis. I accept the nomination, and am grateful for the approval expressed by the convention of the acts of the administration. "The great work of the Fifty-first Congress has been subjected to the revision of a Democratic House of Representatives, and the acts of the Executive Department to its scrutiny anl investigation. Ther? has seldom b?en a time. I think, when ? changt from the declared policies of the Republican to the declared policies of the Democratic Party involved such serious results to th9 * * ?*r. ak fhn /? *!! ntrtr " Dullness lUieresia v. Here Mr. Harrison writes at length on the currency question. He continues: "Pew subjects have elicited more discussion or excited more general interest tban that of a recovery by the United Sr--?- its appropriate share of the ciw^-carrying trade. This subject touches not only our pockets, out our National pride. The great ships?the fastest upon the sea?which are now in peace profiting by our traae. are, in a secondary sense, war ihips of their respective Governments. "It was plain to ev?jry intelligent American that if the United States would have such lines, a similar policy must be entered upon. The Fifty-first Congress enacted such a law; and, under its benaHcent influence sixteen American steamships, of an aggregate tonnage of 57,400 tons, and oosting $7,400,000 have been built, or contracted to be buiit, in American shipyards. "In addition to this it is now practically certain that we shall soon have under the American flag one of the finest steamship lines sailing out of New York for any European port. This contract will result in the construction in American yards of four new passenger steamships of 10,000 tons each, costing about IS, 000,003, and will add nnr 'V*vfil Reserve six steamships, the fastest upon the sea. "The Democratic Party has found no place in its platform for any reference to this subject, and has shown its hostility to the general policy by refusing to expend an appropriation made during the last administration for ocean mail contracts with American lines. On the snbject of reciprocity President Harrison writes: "Another related measure, as furnishing an increased ocean traffic for our ships, and of great and permanent benefit to tbe farmers and manufacturers as well, is tbe reciprocity policv declared by Section 8 of the Tariff act of 1890 and now in practical operation with five of the Nations of Central and South America, San Domingo the Spanish and British West India Islands, and with Germany and Austria, under special trade arrangements with each. "The removal of the duty on sugar and the continuance of coffee and tea upon the free list, while giving great relief to our own people by cneapening articles used increasingly in every household, was also of such enormous advantage to the countries exporting these articles as to suggest that in consideration thereof reciprocal favors should be shown in their tariffs to articles exported by us to their markets. "Great credit is due to Mr. Blaine for the Tigor with which he pressed this view upon the country. We have only begun to realize j tne Denenc ot mese iraueojiau^tuiculo. j. uc work of creating new agencies and of adapting our goods to new markets has necessarily taken time, but the results already attained are such, I am sure, as to establish in popular favor the policy of reciprocal trade, based upon the frw importation of such articles as do not injuriously compete with the products of our own farms, mines or factories, in exchange for the free or favored introduction of our products into other countries. "1 he obvious efficacy of this policy in increasing the foreign trade of the United States at once attracted the alarmed attention of European trade journals and boards of trade. Tne British Board of Trade has presented to that Government a memorial asking for the appointment of a commission tKo Kucf mnan q r?f rvMinUraefcinp ?AJ VUUOtUWi kww ww? m what is called 'the commercial crusade of the United States.' "The Democratic platform promises a repeal of the tariff law containing this provision, and denounces as a 'sham reciprocity' that section of the law under which these trade arrangements have been made. It no other issue were involved in the campaign this alone would give it momentous import* nee. "The declaration of the platform in favor of The American Doctrine ol Protection' meets my most heartv approval. The convention did not adopt a schedule, but a principle that is to control ail tariff schedules. There may be diff?r? races of opinion among protectionists as to the rate upon particular articles necessary to effect ar. equalization between wagea abroad and at home. "Once or twice in our history the production of tin plate had been attempted, and the prices obtained by the Welsa makers wouli have enabled our makers to produce it at a profit. But the Welsh makers at once cut prices to a point that drove the American beginners out of the business; and. when this was accomplished, again m?Hp thpir own nrices. "But ia spite of the doubts rais&d by the eleciioas of 1890 and ef the machinations ot foreign producers to maintain their monopoly, the tin plate industry has beep established in the United States, and the allianca between the Welsh producers and the Democratic Party for its destruction will not suoceed. "Thig tariff law has given emploment to many thousands of American men and women, and will each year jiv9 employment to increasing thousand?. It* ??m/mlrl thrrvw thousands ouft of employment and eive work to others only at reduced wages. I rerret that ail employers of labor are not just and con* siderate and that capital sometimes tikes too large a share of the profit*. But I do not see that th??s3 evils will be ameliorated by a tariff po'.icf, the first nec?ssjiry effect of which is a severe wage cut, and th? sec.md a larze diminution of the aggregate amount of work to be done in this country. "No infw'iieent adv-vat? of a protective tariff claims that it is able, o' itself, to maintain a uniform rate of wag??, without regard to fluctuations in ko ?.?nn.v of and demand for the products of labor. But it is confidently claimed that protective duties strorgly tend to hold up wages, and are the only harrier against a reduction to the Eurooean scal<?." In regard to the Federal Election bill Mr. Harrison says: In my last annual message to Oonjresa I said: "We must yet entertain the hope that it is possible to secure a cilm. Datriotic consideration of such Constitutional or statutory changes as may be necassary to secure the choiciof the officers of the Government to the people by fair apportionments and free elections. I believe it would be possible to constitute a com mission, non-partisan in its members lip anrt composed of patriotic, wise and impartial men, to whim a consideration of the questions of the evilsconnectei with our election systems and methods might be committed with a cooi prospect of securing unanimity in some plan for removing or mitigating those evils. The Constitution would permit the sslectiou o? the commission to b9 vested in the Supreme Court if that method would give the best guaranty of impartiality. This commission should be charged with the duty of inquiriug into the whole subject af the law of elections as related ti tne choice of officers of the National Government, with a view to securing to every elector a ires ana unmolested exercise of the suffrage and as near an approach to an equality of value in each ballot cast as is attainable. * * * The demand that the limitations of suffrage shall b3 founi in the law, and only there, is a just demand, and no just man should resent cr resist it. It seems to me that an appeal to our people to consider tho question of readjusting our legislation upon absolutely fair nonpartisin lines mignt flGd some effective response. Many times I hnve had occasion to say that laws and election methods designed to give unfair advantages to the party makinz them would some time ba used to par- ! petuate in power a faction of a party against 4U* * ?v>r?TT AP f.ha nAnnlp. VliV TT1U KJL a Uiaji/1 i VJ Vk Of this we saera to have an illustration in the recant State election in Alabama. There was no Republican ticket in the field. The contest was between white Democrats. The Kolb party say they were refused the reoresentation guaranteed by law upon the election boards, and t'aat when the courts by mandamus attempted to riqht this wrong, an appeal that could not ba heard until after election made the writs ineffectual. Ballot boxes were thrown out for alleged irregularities or destroyed, and it is asserted on behalf ot one-half, at least, of tha white voters of Alabama that the officers to whom ViQT7r> Wn <ri von were not honestly elected. There is no security for the personal or political rights o' any man in a community where any other man is deprived of his parsonal or political rights. The power of the States over ths question of the qualification of electors is ample to protect them against the dangers of an ignorant or depraved suffrage, and the demand that every man found to be qualified under the law shall be made secure in the rights to cast a free ballot ana - 4..J to have that Dai lot noneswy couutou u?uuvv | be abated. Our old Republican battle-cry, "A frae ballot and a fair count," comes back to us not only from Alabama but from other States, and from men who, differing: with us widely in opinions, have come to see that parties and political debate are but a mockery if, when the debate is euded, the judgment of honest majorities is to be reversed by ballotbox frauds and tally-3heet manipulations in the interest of the party or party faction in power. These new political movements in the States and the r?cent decisions of some of the State courts against unfair apportionment laws, encourage the hope that tbe arbitrary and partisan election laws and practices which have prevailed may be cor rected by the States, t&e laws maae equai and non-partisan, and the elections free and honest. The Republican Party would rejoic9 at such a solution, as a healthy and patriotic local sentiment is the bast assurance of free and honest elections. I shall again urge upon Congress that provision be made for the appointment of a non-partisan commission to coosider the subject of apportionments and elections, in their relation to the choice of Federal officers. In conclusion the President remarks: "It is not possible for me to refer, even in the briefest way, to many of the topics presented in the resolutions adopted by the convention. Upon all that hava not been discussed I have before publicly expressed ray views. "A change in the perjonnel of a National administration is of comparatively little moment. 11 tnose exercising puuuc imixtions are able, honest, diligent and faithful, others possessing all these qualities may be found to take Their "laces. But the changes in the laws and in administrative policies are of great moment. When public affairs have been given a direction and business ha3 adjusted itself to those lines any sudden change involves a stoppage and new business adjustments. If the change of direction is so radical as to bring the commercial turn-table into use the business changes involved are not readjustments, but reconstructions. "The Democratic Party offers a programme of demolition. The protective rmii/Mr?tn which all business, even taat of ? the importer, is now adjusted?the reciprocity policy, the new merchant marine, ara all to be demolished, not gradually, not taken down, but blown up. To this programme of destruction it has added one constructive feature, the rs-astablishment ot State banks of issue. "Tne policy of the Republicau Party is, on the other hand, distinctively a poHcy of safe progression and development?of new factories, niw markets and new ships. It will subject business to no perilous changes, but offers attractive opportunities for expansion upon familiar lines. Very respeclully yours, Benjamin Harrison." THE LABOR WOULD. A Paw compositors use both hand3. A Boston girl runs a printing office. English mines employ 6112 persons. ^ * *ttv ota pfnilrao in fan mnn fvt u Lf uc? uau Oft iaca iu wu luvuum, The 33,000 newspapers in this country employ 100,000 men. Labob in Chicago Is better organized than It ever was before Wyoming, Kansas, Idaho, Nebraska and Indiana have eight-hour laws. An adult laboring man uses up about five ounces of his muscle every day. * The German Miners' Federation has at present 223 local branches in Germany. In Saxony about saventy per cent of the workingmen earn less than $150 per year. The job printers at Duluth and Superior, Minn., have formed an eight-hour league. The London Building Traces Council ii composed of delegates representing 16,WJ members. Too DUII 1-1 ubi ovicuu iaiuv/au ompiujrco ui X UlIiAUVl* phia are about to revive their lapsed K. of L. assemblies. In St. Paul. Minn., no distinction is made iu wages of male and female teachers in the public schools. The percentage system for the payment of union dues is"being discussed by the labor organizations of Boston. In some of the brickyards at Springwells, Mich., scores of women, it is sai i, dig in the pits and carry the molds. Sixty tin works are now closed in Wales acd 10,030 bands are idle. Many have sailod to find employment in America. The secret work of the Kniehts of Labor has been translated into the German, Italian, Swedish and Polish languages. The report of the New Yorlt Bureau of Labor shows an increase of over Stt, 000,? 000 paid in wanes and $31,000,000 in value of production during 1891. The congress of the workingmen's socialistic revolution party adopted a resolution in Paris, France, to send to American miners an address of sympathy, ' Simon Wixa, a Boatou tailor, for Presi dent, and Charles Matchett, a Williamsburg lN. Y.) carpenter, for Vice- President, heaa the Socialist Libor Nation xl ticket. At Placeatia Bay, Newlouudland. alone, 1200 meo an1 women are employed in the lobster industry. Five millions is the annual catch, which represents $180,00J in value. Urkat Britain has 1515 co-oparative lnbor sucietie.-, with 1,0 >3,9tfrS members, ?55,999,070 of share capital, <2,929,705 of reserve luna and an auiiusl bu>in?ss of #301,127,030. .t ayofi C G. McIIillsx, of Dayton, Oi.iy, issued a proclamation urgently at>pealing to the population of that city w cease ail kinds of labw aud business on Labor Day. H. B. McClelland, who for some time has been teaching school in EncinaJ County, Texa*. for $40 per mouth, has been informed by English attorneys that he is the only heir of his uncle, the late Lord William Moore, of England, and is therefore the possessor of '' * + MAAA/W) tnat title as well as an estate 01 Reports frora the California. vineyarai seem to show that the grape business is being overdone there. They are producing more wine than can readily be disposed of, and the result is a glut in the market and a tumble iu prices. THE CHOLERi News From the Plasrne Ships in New York Harbor. Fearful Ravages of the Pestilence in Europe. According to the daily bulletins of the Board of Health, New York City remained from tha cholera scourge that found such a comfortable lodging place iu the three pest-ships lying in th9 Lower Bay. The last bulletins issued by the Board of Health told of a condition of affairs in the city that is far different from that on the Normannia and Russia, and on those two desolate spots, Swinburne and Hoffman Islands. The plague is spreading there, but consolation can be derived from the confident prediction of Dr. Jenkins that the pestilence will not reach the city. He firmly believes that he can keen it in the infected territory. I where it i9 now running riot, and where the terror-stricken Cibin passengers of the Normannia were kept like rats in a cageOn the day that the bulletin just mentioned was issued there ware ten new cases, hut no deaths. That last statement of fact leaves slight ground for congratulation, of those ten who go to make up the long list of victims, ninety per cent, at least will go the way of those whose bodies have been reduced to ashe3 in the Swineburne Island crematories within the past fourteen days. The pest-ship Normannia, whose name is only to be mentioned now in connection with cholera, suffering and death, contribi uteri eie-ht cases. and the Rugia, which was kept up with her sister ship in the race of death, haniel over two to the o verworked physicians who are fighting the dread disease. They in turn handed them over to Dr. Byron on Swinburne Island. Since the three cholera ships arrived there have been thirty-one new cases and eight deaths from the pest in the Port of New York. President Harrison gave orders to turn over part of Sandy Hook an J give 500 tents for the use of the cabin passengers from the Normannia. The City of New York, with Chauncey Depew and other well-known Americans on board, besides several other steamers, ar? rived with no trace of the disease. Special cables report all the steamers leaving England crowded with Americans. Double prices are being paid for berths, and on some vessels new cabins have been built nn the decks. A guard line has been established by the Federal authorities along the Canadian border. All the passengers by rail or boat will be carefully examiued. The lower bay was so crowded with the detained ocean liners that navigation became difficult, if not dangerous. The terrors of possible collision were added to the terrors of the present plague. There were daily additions to the fleet of steamships idly but anxiously rocking at anchor in the water* of the bay. The problem, of how to separate the healthy passengers who had been exposed to no reasonable chance of infection from those who bad been in serious risk and among whom the dread plague might be lurking, was the most serious question. So serious wa3 it that Secretary of the Navy Tracy went to New York and joined Sectary of the Treasury Foster and ex-Surgaon-G-euera 1 Hamilton lu considering iuu uurawu. More Plague Ships. Following fast in the wake of the plagua ship Moravia, two more vessels reached New York Harbor with cholera on hoard. They were the Normannia and Rugia, from Hamburg, and both belong to the Hamburg-American Packet Comoany. Health Officer Jenkins reported the number of deaths on both ships to be nine?four on the Rugia and five on the Normannia. On each vessel there were four persons still ill of the disease. The bodies of the dead were buried at sea. The plague-infected ships anchored in the lower bay to the east and soutn or nonman umuu. .m uuo ?? allowed near them On the two ships there are 581 cabin passengers who must stay coonei uo on board or we vessel until toe neaitb Officer Believes all danger is passed. Among them are some prominent persons, including Senator McPherson, of New Jersey, and a number of theatrical people. The Normannia has 483 cabin passengers and 482 staerage. The Rugia has ninetyeight cabin passengers and 436 steerage. The tour who died on the Rugia were all steerage oassengere. Of the five who dlei on the Normannia one was a first-class passeneer, one was a second-class and three were steerage passengers. On the day after the infected vassals were sent to quarantine cholera claimed new victims on every one of the three Hamburg steamships, and four mora names must b9 added to the death roll. There were two deaths on the Jformannia. Emma Horn, eight years old. a steerage passe'uger.succumbed to tae disease after an illness of five day?, and Heinrich Lammers, fortyseven years old, one of the steerage stewards, died while being removed from the ship to be taken to Swinburne Island. He baa been ill one day. Both boiies were cremated at Swinburne island iu the afternoon. On the Rugia Antonia Marin, seventeen years old, died after an illness or a rew uours. Abraham Schneidermann, the eight-year old boy who was taken sick on the Moravia, died while being transferred to Swinburne Island. Two ne*v cases broke out on the Rugia, making seven cases on board. The Quarantine authorities seemed unable to remove the sufferers to the Swinburne Island Hospital. The dead were cremated late at nifcht. There was almost a panic among the Normannia's cabin passengers. It was reported by persons who approached within hailing distance of the ships in tugs that the passengers were badly trightened. *** * * 1 ^0 w nen jur. jenKins was ou uuuu uuo ui. mo passengers told him, it is said, that be could raise $5000 on board in an instant if permission were given to charter a boat and remove the cabin passengers to her, the vessel to be anchored north of the pest grounds until the passengers could be released. On toe second day after being placed jp quarantine there were three deaths and live new cases of cholera on the plague fleet in the lower bay. Two tugs with policemen <"?" r?if?lrAf. lintv. Dr. Jenkins. New York's Health Officer, decided to act in harmony with the President. Secretary of the Treasury Foster visited Quarantine. He said there would be no conflict between the State and Federal authorities, and pronounced the station one of the best equipped in the country, if not in the world. He has great faith in Dr. Jenkins's ability to fight the plague. Two police boat3 have been added to the patrol fleet. seven omcers are uu eauu tug. They will endeavor to keep every kind of craft away from the peat ships. At the Navy Yard there are a tug and launches all ready with stores aboard to go down to the lower bay and assist the police in tneir patrol work, should such a thin? ba necessary. It seemed to be definitely settled that there should be no more leaks fro.n the cholera fleet to New York. Cholera at Hamburg. Dr. Veuz, of Hamburg, gives a graphia description of the sad condition of the city. The old town, he say?, is a collection of dirty, stiflinsr, crowded caarnel houses. The Alter Juugferatieg is desolate, the Alster pavilion deserted. There are few tram cars, and they are alincst empty. The whole city is in dreary and disneartening contrast to what it was. The tre& lined rfp;elbudenplatz is unfrequented, and an oppressive stillness hauRS over if. The cafes ara empty. One head-waiter, who serves at a restauI r.nl , ,1.. i I ? ?'it "uvic IWJ uin IJ jjciawua ai/o uaitj, i told the pjysician the other day that eighteen customers hart been there up to 6 p. in. In parsing the strasse he saw a crowd and six policemen holding it in check, while six women ran scrcaming dowuthe roa i after ambulances wuich were bearing their husbands away to the cholera hospital. Occupants of houses, he says, often run out iu tl^ MAI.AAMA.. IUC OUll UCJCCULi JM_>i JCOILIOU Ij\J send ambulances to remove patients, butthe police can seldom accede to their appeal?, as the ambulance service is quite inadequate to the demands upou it. At uight, Dr. Veuz says, the streets are completely diserted by pedestrians, although ambulances, dead wagons and hearses can be heard passing almost constantly. '1 ho statistics published by the authorities. Dr. Veuz says, are utterly worthless. On one ?!*? the nnmhflr nt deatbs announced by the health officials was but ore-half the number registered at the offic?. 'ihe epidemic shows no sign of abatement. On the day this cablegram was sent 989 new cases and 369 deaths ware announced, the victims beiug mostly women. There were 130 burials. The deaths in the prisons and lunatic asylums have been disproportionately numerous. The banks have resolved to prolong the term of payment of bills now due till October. The loss of business is estimated at $50,D00.000. Prayer meetings are held to implore Divine assistance. Relief committees have been formed in every ward of the city. No other European town presents a greater contrast between the old and new quarters. The new quarter and the suburbs are handsome and well built, with breezy open spaces. The old part is dirty and stifling, and its population of 150,000 is squeezed into the space of an English town of 5000 inhabitants. It requires some courage to explore the further recesses of the 9unle33 labyrinths where each house is occupied by a dozen families. The narrow streets are reeking with decayed vegetables and evilimelling liquids. PB0MINENT PEOPLE. Gladstone is much addicted to the use of tea. Count Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany, tips the scales at 216 pounds. The Mayor of nymoutn, .angiana, recently gave a public luucheon in honor of Dr T. Dewitt Talmage. C. H. Harris, who was born and reared near Long Bridge, Ga., is now Chief of ths Cherokee Nation of Indians. Ths oldest officer of the United States Nary is Commodore Henry Bruce, now livDg in Boston and on the retired list. Senator Casey, of North Dakota, has 5000 acres under cultivation. He boasts that he can plant 350 acre3 of wheat per day with his drilling machines. The wife of the Confederate General, Thomas J. Jackson, when she registers at a hotel, uses the sobnquat "Stonewall," as if it hau been her husband's chriscian name. Tiie lato Stephen States Lee, of Balti more, was decorated with the French cross of the Legion of Honor and with Prussian and Bavarian orderffof merit for services in aid of the wounded in the Franco-Prussian Thomas Caxty", of St. Paul, tho nominee for tho vacant Supreme Court Judgeship of Minnesota, is one of the seven children of an Irish day laborer. He got all the schooling in his reach, taught scnool, and worked through college. Congressman* McKbiqhait, of Nebraska, lives in a sod bouse. This singular dwelling, which contains three rooms, is boarded over a tranie work, which is then entirely covered with thick sod. It is warm in winter and cool in summer, and there is little danger to its occuci nts from cyclones. It has now been finally settled that Glad scone will acu-ept the peerage soon after the preliminary work of nis assumption of office shall be finished. He will bear the title of Earl Liverpool. This title has formerly been in the Jenkinson family, and fcas beeu extinct since tho death of the third earl. When Whitelaw Reid was a schoolboy in Ohio his teacher used to punish him and his felJow pupils for disobedience by thrusting peacock feathers down their backs, leaving the busby ends extended above their heads. Then the boys were made to line up and march about the school room, the feathers waving behind them like plumes. Gabriel Bznvillk, Chisf of the Sisston Indian?, died at Browne Valley, Minn., tho other day. Benville was seventy years old. At the time of the Sioux massacre in 1863 he bad a farm of 300J acres near the present cltj of Graceville on the Minnesota River. It was mainly through his efforts that 230 white captives were surrendered at Camp Rivas at the close of the uprising. His influence had always been to cultivate and better the condition of the In iians. LATEB HTSWg. Ex-United States Senator Francis Kernan died a few days ago at Utica, N. Y. He was born in Steuben County, New York, Japuary 14, 1S10L The First District Republicans at Manchester, N. H., nominated ex-United States Senator Henry W. Blair for Congress. Mr. Blair received 174 votes, again3t sixty-sight for Governor Tattle. , The Connecticut Republican Convention at New Haven nominated a State ticket headed by General Merwin for Governor. The Montana Republican State Convention at Great Falls nominated the following ticket: Governor, J. E. Pickards; Lieutenant-Governor, W. C, Botkin; Congressman, Charles W. Hartman. Richard Wright, aged sixty, of Payne, Ind., was shot and killed by Dale Judah, his son-in-law. Judah was immediately killed by his wife with an ax. A boiler in a sawmill, located four miles from Bessemer, La., exploded, killing three laborers and injuring another so badly that he died shortly afterward. Assistant Secrstary Crounse left Washington for Nebraska to onter actively into the political campaign. He has severed his official connectioa with the Treasury Department. A United States seiner, the Hattie Maude, has been seized by the Canadian Government cruiser Curlew for infraction of the fishery laws. She was caught within the three-mile limit in the Bay of Fundy, near St. Andrew's. A European missionary and a number of native Christians have been massacred in the Province of Shanei, China. The bodie3 of the victims were mutilated by the mob. On account of failing health, Dr. Don Rafael Nunez, President of Colombia, has resigned his office. TO BUY POPOCATEPETL, Americans Wane ft For Sulphur and Ice. A syndicate of American capitalists, rep* resented by Mauricio Rahden, formerly Mexican Consul at Kansas City, has securdi an option on the volcano Popocatepetl, in Mexico, which they propos9 to operate as a sulohur mine. The volcano is the property of General Sanchez Ochoa, who works it oa a small scale, without modern machinery, securinz good returns. The Americans propose to run an electric railway up the mountain and briug down sulphur, which will be mined on a large scale by the most modern machinery, and also to utilize the railway by bringing down natural ice to compete with the artificial ice factories there. The sulphur is of excallent quality, and is now only used for making pj?vd9r for the Mexican Army. WANT ODE M0TTON. American Sheep May Be Taken Alive to England. Secretary Rusk has just racaivol through tha Daoartuient of State a codv of a latter | from Minister Lincoln, statin? tbat lireat Britain has removed the prohibition on the a .mission of live siisep fro.11 She United States into that country. The order requiring the slaughter or taese animals on the docks where landed within tea days after arrival uas been revoked, an 1 hereafter they may be shipped to any part of the kingdom if they are landed at the proper ports and pass inspection. The conditions are that only one kind of animals shall be carried by a vessel on the t-fm that-, fha nopnor nr Acrrtnt". nf thft vessel shall give a bond that tlie animals Lave not come in contact with animals from suspected countries, and that the vassal has not entered the pores of such countries. How kick It would be for the fellow with a 9arage mother-in-law to order a Piakerton.?Columbus Post. PORT GATES CLOSED. Twenty Days' Quarantine Ordered by President Harrison. A Circular Which Practically Suspends All Immigration. President Harrison practically suspended foreign immigration by issuing an order that all steamships from foreign ports bringing immigrants be subjected to a quarantine of twenty days at the port of arrival before landing passengers. This order applied to all steamships leavinsr foreign oorts on and after Septem ber 1, and was enforced against all steamships then on the sea hound hither, at the discretion of health officers. On the announcement of the President's order the Inman line, Ihe leading American transatlantic steamship company, immediately cabled to all its European agents directing them to suspend all immigrant business. As about 50,000 European immigrants are brought hither a month the order will have immediate and far reaching effect. The agents estimate that the loss to the steamship companies will ba not less than (2,000,000 a month. President Harrison arrived at the White House from his vacation at Loon Lake and his visit to Whitelaw Reid in New York about half-past 8 o'clock, and immediately called a conference of Government officials to consider the cholera situation. After an hour's deliberation it was decided not to issue a proclamation suspending immigration, but instead to issue the following circular: Treasury Department, Office of the supervising aurokon-u-enekal. uni- | ted States Marine Hospital 3er- i? vice. ( Washington, September 1, 1893. J To Collector of Customs, Medical Officer* of the Marine Hospital Servica, Foreign Steamship Companies, State and Local Boards of Health: It having been officially declared that cholera Is prevailing in various portions of Russia, Germany and Prance, and at certain ports in Great Britain, as well as Asia, and it having been made to appear that immigrants in large numbers are coming into the United States from the infected districts aforesaid, and tbat they and their personal effects are liable to introduce cholera into the United States, ana that vessels conveying them are thereby a direct menace to toe public health, and it having been further shown' that under the laws of the several States quarantine detentions may be imposed upon these vessels a sufficient length of time to insure against the introduction of contagious diseases, it is hereby ordered that no vessel from any foreign port carrying immigrants shall be admitted to ecfcer at any port of the United States until said vessel shall htve undergone a quarantine detention of twenty days (unless such .detention hi forbidden by the laws of the State, or the regulations made thereunder) and of such greater number of days as may be fixed in each special case by the State authorities. This circular to take immediate effect, exrant in case.* of vessels afloat at this date. which will be made the subject of special consideration upon due application to the Department. Walter Wyman, Supervising Surgeon-General, United States Marine Hospital Service. Charles Foster, Secretory of the Treasury. Approved: Benjamin Harrison. This circular was accompanied by le?al opinion as to the power of the President from Attorney-General Miller, the essence of which is in the following latter half: By the law of 1873 it is provided, among other thing?,: First?That no vessel coming from any foreign port or country where any contagious disease exists, or conveying any person or persons, merchandise or animals, affected with any contagious disease, shall come into the United States except in the manner and subject to th9 regulations in that act authorized . Second?The Surgeon-General of thj Marine Hospital Service shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, be charged with the execution of the provisions of ttiis act, and shall frame all needed rules and regula tions for that purpose. These rules and regulations shall be subject to the approval of the President; but such rules and regulations shall not conflict with or impair any sanitary or quarantine laws or regulations of any State or municipal authorities now existing, or which may hereafter be enacted. The policy of Congress has apparently been to mainly leave this branch of the public service with the States, and most of the seaboard States have statutes more or less elalx>rate on the subject. The State statutes and regulations, however, may be supplemented by the National Executive. My conclusion, therefore, is that the Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service and the Secretary of the Treasury, with your approval, have authority to make needful rule3 and regulations, not inconsistent with the State laws and regulations for the quarantining of ships coming into our harbors, with a view to the protection of the health and lives of our people. Very respectfully, w. H. H. Miller, Attorney-Genera!. The Postofflce Department also decided on a rigid inspection of all foreign mails from infected countries. The step was considered necessary by reason of the large commercial correspondence constantly- going on between the United States ana those countries, and by which cholera germs could be communicated. Mail matter of this description is to be thoroughly fumigated before being delivered for distribution, and the upmost pains taken to prevent the introduction of th'e disease into the United States through the mails. Tne chief of tbe Foreign Mail Bureau has the matter in charge, anJ his instructions to posto.lice officials on the subject are most comprehensive. Additional means of security have beea ordered for use at the National Quarantine 3tation3 at tne Delaware Breakwater and |-> Va Tho rBMnilS eutter uunt too, u. *.w - _. Winona was ordered to the former and the revenue steamer Crawiord to the latter place. Both boats are well equipped for the work n hand, and Marine Hospital officials say .hat their presence at the two stations named will be fruitful of good results should infected ships put in there. The revenue steamer Ewing is also at the Cape Charles station fitted up for use as a floating hospital, and this makes the outfit a: that station complete in every particular. A FATAL WKECJL Disregard or a Danger Signal by th< Engineer the Cause. Three men were instantly killed and twc others injured by an accident to the morning newspaper train on the Hudson River division of the New York Central ana nuapon River Railroad at New Hamburg, N. Y., at 6:15 o'clock a few mornings ago. The fatal accident was said to have been due to the carelessness of the engineer, who disregarded a danger signal and tried to run his train over an op3n drawbridge. The engineer wad one of the three who were killed outright. His fireman and a postal clerk were the others. Of the sixteen men on the train, eleven escaped with a severe shaking. At New Hamburg, the Hudson River division of the Central, crosses Nappinger's Creek on a short bridge which spans about twenty-five of water. The bridge is a swing draw. The draw had been opened for the ? ami11 ar??mhr)ftt_ and had been Wl a ouaw*. , nearly closed again when the train dashed on the bridge at the rate of a mile a minute. The engino bounded over the space between the southern section of the bridge and the draw and hung from the middle portion, with the tender hanging over the water. Only the strength of the couplings prevented the rest of the train from plunging down into the creek. But the mail car was hurled on top of the tender and badly smashed. Engineer Owens, Firemen Beck and John H. King, one of the postal clerks, were instantly killed. Conductor Todd, Chief Postal Clerk Toomev and Brakemaa O'Neil were badly bruised. The other men escaped with slight hurts. Much of the mail matter was destroyed. Fna engine, tender and mail car wara entirely wrecked. THE NATIONAL GAME. Lowe leads the Bostons in batting. McQgirs leads the Waahingtons in batting. Pittsburg has recalled pitcher Gurnbert's release. Pitches Baldwin has been released by Pittsburg. Daly and Foutz have proven great utility 2ien for Brooklyn this season. The Brooklyns have fallen off somewb .j in both batting and fielding lately. Pitcher Rcsie, of the New Yorks, has regained uisoia nine eaectiveness. The St. Louis Club has released Outfielder Wolf, and signed Outfielder Browning. Poor fleliinz and a lack of sacrifice hitting is the trouble with the Chicago team. Ewing's throwing, while catching for the New York's out West, has surprised people. Highlands, of Harvard, is by long odds the best amateur pitcher who showed this year. Sunday, the ex-baseball player, has bean nominated for Congress in an Illinois district. Kkeke'b work in excellent when he pitches for the Philadelphias, but he scarcely averages a game a week. Thk New York amateur team now in England is meeting with success, both financially and artistically. Burke, of the New Yorks, has been playing the best all-round game of any second basemen in the country. Connob has fallen off wofully in his battine. Heis moving down gradually in the Philadelphia battiag list. The St. Louis Club has shifted more players and had more captains this year than any team in the League. Second-baseman Bierbauer is putting np the mo3t brilliant iielding game of his career with the Pittsburg*. The veterans are dropping intoob3curity at an aiarmiag rata tuisaooauu. xuo jruuug player will now have his inning. Carpenter, the veteran Cincinnati play* er, has retired from the profession to accept an engagement as a Pullman car conductors This has been Anson's worst year in baseball, and there would not be much wailing if he should retire from the Chicago team. One thing which counts against the veteran player is that he gets injured rather easily and then it takes him a long time to recover. Brouthers, of the Brooklyn team, is in his unual place among the leaders in batting. Lizzie Borden Held at Fall River for Her Father's Murder. Arguments were heard by Judge Blaisdell, of the District Court, at Fall River, Mass., in the case of Miss Lizzie Borden, accused of the murder of her father and stepmother. The evidence was reviewed by both Mr. Jennings, Miss Borden's counsel, and the District Attorney, and at the close the Judge declared Miss Borden probably guilty and held her for the action of the Grand Jury. Mr. A. J. Jennings, counsel for the defendant mmmonra? hh (trmmimt At 10:39 I and closed at 11:05. He contended that the State had failed to prove that there existed an opportunity for the prisoner to commit the crime, and that it based its c^se on merely the inconsistencies in the story told by Lizzie Borden of her whereabouts on the morning of the murder. District Attorney H. M. Knowlton followed. Hn argument was a masterly summing up of the evidence. His language was simple, and be forged around the accused a solid chain of circumstantial evidence. He said the motive that caused Lizzie Borden to kill her parents was her anxiety to inherit the property, and he declared that she, and sne alone, did the deed. The hacking butchery was not the work of a man. It was the work of a woman woo knew not when she had completed her work. The hatchet had not been found, neither was the bloody dress which she wore, but the evidence was so strong that aside from these things the Court must find that she is probably guilty. When District-Attorney Knowlton had hio mmminff nn for th? nrosecution Few or the old timers Keep up tneir Datuog like be does. Cleveland's left field is the worst in the world?bar none. Old Sol stares the unfortunate "meadowlander" full in the face and high flies are almost sure to fall safe. Carsey is Philadelphia's winning pitcher. Not so long ago he was playing around the vacant lots in New York City and pitching with any semi-professional club which would let him. He deserves great credit for his pern stance. There is something of a contrast between the salaries paid the old Cincinnati Reds an der Harry Wright in 1869 anil those paid by the existing Cincinnati Cluo in 1892! The salary list of tbe old Rels in 18d9 was as follows: Harry Wright, captain and centre field, $2000; George Wright, shortstop, $10JO; brainard, pitcher, $890; Gould, first base, $800; Waterman, third base, $300; Sweasy, second base, $700; Allison, catcher, $700; Leonard, left field, $700; McVey, right field, $700; Hurley, substitute, $60J. RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLT7B3. Per Per Clubs. Won. Lost. ct. Clubs. Won. Lost ct. Cleveland..34 12 .739 Philad'lp'a.23 23 . 500 BoetoD 27 18 .600 Louisville..22 23 .489 Pittsburgh 19 .587 Naw York.21 24 .467 Brooklyn...24 22 .522 Baltimore..1.7 27 . 386 Chicago....24 22 . 522 St. Louis.. 17 29 .370 Cinclnnati.24 22 .522 Washiug'n.14 33 .298 "PE0BABLT GUILTY." UUiflUQU UW BU?M..|.MQ - Mr? ? Judge Blalsdell said: "Sympathy should be laid aside, and duty, 6tern duty, re quires upon this evidence that but one thing be done. Supposing that a man was seen in the chamber of Mrs. Borden, the guest chamber of death, and that ha was in the room of the father when death came; suppose that a man should tell as many different stories as Lizzie Borden bad done, the way would be plain. I find that she is probably guilty." When Lizzie Borden was pronounced probably guilty, hundreds of people gave way to tears, and the scene in tne courtroom was truly affecting. She was committed to Taunton Jail with out bail to await the action of the Grand Jury. EXCURSIONISTS PEEISH. I T&e Western Reserve Goes Down With a Pleasure Party. The steamer Western Reserve, one of the largest and finest vessels on the lakes, went down off Deer Park, Mich., the other night. Twenty-six persons were drownei and only one of those on board was saved. Among the lost were Captain P. G. Minch, his wife and two young children. Captain Minch was the principal owner of the Reserve, and one of the wealthiest 1 M and hia f?.milv vessel men oi i/imuauu, were taking a pleasure trip. The boat was commanded by Captain Aloerfc Myers, of Vermillion. The survivor is Harry Stewart, o* AIg;onac, Micb. A sister of Mrs. Minch, Mrs. Jacob Ingledry, and her nine-year-old daughter were also lost, The vessel was | valued at 1230,000. The disaster is the | worst which ever bp.ppnnei on the upper lakes. BEHEADED AT MESS. A Soldier Murdered by llis Comrade Because nt Jealous}*. A horrible murder has bean committed at the Sehuvalovo Barracks, St. Petersburg, Russia. The murderer was a bauds* man of the Imperial Guard who was actuated by jealousy of a comrade. The murderer stole up behind his victim while the latter was at mess and dealt the unfortunate man a terrific blow with a sabre, which completely beheaded him, hi3 head falling into his plate. The Pennsylvania woman who gave a costly funeral to her pet mastiff the ot,hf>r riav r/imfis under the exact definition of a dog gone idiot.?Boston Pilot. , > . w ===== JOHN 6BEEMLEAF VHITTIEEL The Good Quaker Poet Peace* fully Passes Away. A Sketch of His Brilliant Literary Career. JOHN G REE S LI A? WHITTtKB. John Groenleaf Whitfcier, the poet, diedAt Hampton Fall?, N. H., at 4:30 o'clock a few mornings ago. He had been unconscious at intervals since the first serious symptoms of his illness developed, but at the last moment was apparently con3cion? of his surround* Inn. Whittier's last conscious utterancj was one of recognition of his nieca, Mrs. Samuel ' L. Pickard. who lived with him for soma years previous to her marriage. Mrs. Pickard aslcea him whether he knew her, and ha replied^ "?e?. I have known you all tne time," and immediately lapsed into unooa? sclousness. His end was painless and peace* 1 ful. Upon the announcement of the death of Whittier, the bells of Amesbury, Mass,, were tolled eighty-four strokes, the age of the poet in years, and the flags on the public buildings were placed at half-mast. His body was taken to his home in ,Ame? bury, and it was decided that the funeral be held from his old home on Friend street, the house in which manv of his bert poerru ware written, and the shrine of every visitor to a.mesoury. Bis Career. John Greenleaf Whlttier was born in Haverhill, Mas?., December 17, 1807. Hit parents were members of the Society1 of Friends, and the poet himself always conformed to the customs and usages of that sect, even to its peculiarities of speech and dress. He spent his earlier years upon his father's farm, and bis first occupations *! ? ? A* a farmaria hii taniilnv th? cows and assisting in tbe lighter labors of having and harvest. It was thos that he was early brought into touch with nature, his intimate acquaintance and knowledge of whose charms gives such a picturesque beauty to many or his Sjemr. They reflect the country scenery of ew England with a fidelity that has never been equalled. His early schooling was of the scantiest kind, for it was only in the winter months that he had the opportunity of attending tha neighboring district school. Later on ba learned the shoemaker's trade, and by this means he earned enough to enable Him to attend the Haverhill Academy daring six months in 1827. He was then able to teach school himself, thus obtaining the means of continuing his course at the academy another year. During all this time he was a regular contrlb-. utor to the "Poet's Corner,'' in the. Free Press, a paper edited by William Lloyd Garrison, at Newburyport, Mass., for his literary tastes had begun to develop when. ? - -4JI1 - Be was tuu a uuj> Garrison saw signs of promise in the young man, and their association at this time led to the life-long friendship which existed between them and brought them closely together. After his father's death Whittier carried on the farm for live years uutil 1835, during which time he was an industrious writer contributed verses to many periodicals. H? was also in turn editor of the American Manufacturer, of Boston, the Haverhill Gazette and the New England Weekly Review, of Hartford, Conn. to In 1836 be removed to Philadelphia, where 1 ? 15 1 .i. Deeaiteu vuttxcuiu/Kouia ik^uiuu Vu.u offlca of that paper was sacked and burned by a mob. In 1840 he returned to New' England and took up his abode in Ameabory, where be lived a quiet and simple life. During bis seclusion Whittier has never been idle. His tirst volume in prose and verse, "Lozends of New England," was published in 1831, and since teat time collection! of his writings have appeared almost every year. The last edition of his poetical and prose works was published in 18S9 in seven volumes. Among his best known works cure "Lays of My Home and Other Poems," published in 1843; "Old Portraits and Modern Sketches," 1850; "Home Ballads and Poems," 1860; "Snow Bound," 1882; "In War Time and Other Poems," 1863; "The Tent on the B?acD," 1667; "Among the Hills," 1868; "Hazel Blossom?1874; "The Vision of Echard," "The King's Missive," "Bay of Seven Islands" and "Poems of Nature," all published within the past dozen years, pennsylvaniT soldiers. Colonel Voltman Hoports to the War Department. The United States War Department has received a long and interesting report by / Colonel W. J. Volkman, of the AdjntantGeneral's Department, on the National Guard of Pennsylvania. The reoort dwells at some lenzth on the mobilization or tne militia at Homestead and speaks highly of the efficiency and discipline of the State troops. After criticising the equipment of the * trooos and the inclination of some of the militiamen to wear starched linen and patent-leather shoes in active service, the colonel commends the activity displayed in calling out the troops an i says: The system for notifying men is unique and very interesting. A captain in a Western regiment explained to me his method, which, if not uniform throughout the entire Guard, is substantially followed by many officers. The company was divided into squads, each under charge of a sergeant, corporals and privates of squads being grouped. as far as practicable, accordine to residence or place of employment. Ia one regiment there was a company consisting: entirely of coal miners; when the captain actually received his orders, Monday morning his men were miles underground, among shafts and galleries of mines, yet the orders were communicated to the men, who dropped their mining tool?, ascended to the surface an 1 were soon in their places in the ranks. The colonel give* credit for the discipline in tta* Guard to Governor Patterson. Co!onel Volkman has this to say of the lama case: When the Guard arrived at Homestead toe mnaoitants prepared au auiuu well calculated to induca the troops to affiliate with the populacs. With quiet, soldierly dignity th > Commanding General frigidly declined to entertain such overtures, and he instantly became the target for abuse. Matters reached a climax one day when the hand of the assassin was raised; for a moment no one could tell who would fall beneath the next shot and great excitement prevailed. In Homestead the provost /?.iorvi snondilv disnersed crowds clustering about posted telegraph bulletins, while enlisted men disposed to gather in group3 wero ordered at ones to their tents. In defiance of this order, one man proposed cheers for the assassin and was dealt with summarily if not in exact accordance with forms of law. There are times wh9a immediate example is absolutely necissar/, and although the one to which I allude has l 1 j ?> ? Xntirtrml drouguuuuirtu ?u iuo x <iuu;i<?u.. Guard, as a body, most unmerited obloquy, it is certain that hesitation might have easily resulted in gatherings which could have baea dispersed only by ordering one part of tbo force to fire upon another.