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NATIONAL FINANCES. Exhibit Made by the Public Ul?lAM.A>a JJi'OC otaimeuu A Small Increase Shown, and a Decrease of Gold Holdings, The monthly public debt statement just iigued from the United States Treasury Department shows an increase in the aggregate of the debt during the last month of <518,284. There was a decrease of $1,235,333 in the net cash balance or surplus, and a decrease of 8718,148 in the non-interes i bearing debt. The interestbearing debt was increased a trifle ?$100 during the month. The total debt on January 1, less $39,093,533 net cash balanc? and the JIOO.OO.OOO ^old reserve, was $835,432,163, or ?>,975,653 less than on January 1,1892. Of the total debt $535,033,080 U bonded indebtedness mide up in round numbers of ?560,000,0 JO, of lour per cent., and $2i,000,800 of two per cent. bond*. The net cash or mlns in the Traa3hiy on January 1, ex dnsive of the $100,009, uO 3 gold reserve, was 189,092,588, against ?31,574, 128 on January I, 1892, and $57,571,813 on January 1, 1891. W the surplus, Nation&l bank depositaries hold only $11,000,000, against $20,000,000 a year ago. Treasury gold assets on the irtt oZ the month amounted to 2233,000,000. against which there was $117,000,009 in gold ertiflcates in circulation, leaving a gold balance of $121,000,000, a decrease of $3,503,000 during December and of $10,009,000 since January 1, 1892. Government, receipts during December aggregated $33,212,911, against) about $28,OOO^OJO in Decernoer, 1891. Customs receipts were $16,308,334, or nearly $2,5 X),HOC nro than in December a year a?o; and internal revenue receipts were $14,343,836, er $2,250,000 more than in December, 1S9L Receipts from all sources from July 1 to December 3L, the flr?t half of the current Isc&l year, aggregated $195,853,830, fully f2J,000,000 more than for the corresponding months of 1891. Customs receipts alone aggregated $103,576,227, or about 115,000,000 more than for the same months a 1891, and internal receipts for the last six months amounted to $84,613,697, or $7,500,<100 more than during the first half of the jjreoeding fiscal year. Government expenditures dnring the last x months aggregated in round number) $11*5,000,000, or about $19,000,000 more than doting the corresponding months of 1891. The noticeable increase in any item of expenditur* *as in pension payments, which during tb<? last six months amounted to t&>,4'&9.k{l or fully $19,000,000 more than trom July 1 to Decembur 31, 1391, or at thi rate of *180,000,000 per year. .. nrrrin rwrpn ? n A "D JJjdO?L?ll/ J.UXU JX Carelessness in Chicago Leads to a Terrible Accident. Fbur persons were killed and eight injured a few mornings ago by the collision of a street oar and locomotive at Forty-seventh itreet and Stewart avenue, Chicago, I1L The street car was crowded and was passing the Fort Wayne Hallway tracks when a Fort Wayne s train crashed into it so suddenly that the occupants had no time to escape The dead art-: George Blaka, Archibald Mc Andrews, nknown man found under the tender of the engine. Unknown woman died in a patrol wagon on the way to Mercy Hospital, supposed to be Mrs. Canon, as a card bearing that name was found in her pocket. The accident happened when the street ear traffic was at its herviest and the cars were crowded to the doorways with people landing and sitting. The car was going east on Forty-seventh street to State street, where it was to be hitched to a grip ear, which was to bring it to the business centre of the city. As it approached the tracks of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wiw and Chicago, at Forty-seventh street and Stewart avenue, an engine came backing 4own the tracks at a rate of about fifteen miles an hour, the railroad people say For some reason the occupants of the -cab did not sea I the car approaching, and. on account of the heavy coating of frost on the windows of Itae car, the paAsengerj did not se9 the engine bearing down upon thsm. In an inatant the engine struck the car and passed ?o. The car was dragged for loO yards, and at every foot of the distance fresh injury was added to those inflicts. The horse9 became detached from the car and ran away ?n injured. The wildest confusion reigned for the first few minutes. Those who nad come to th? work of rescue could hear the pitiful cries of the wounded and see the body of one dead nan. George Blaka was the first one taken from the wreckage. He was carried to a saloon, but died almost as soaa as he reached there. The other wounded were then picked mp and carried into bouses near tae crosstae. Five police patrol wagons soon arrived. The most severely injured person, the woman supposed to be Mrs. Carson, was at odcj put into one of the wagons and started for Mercy Hospital. Before the wagon had gone far Conductor O'Connor and Driver Stanley, who were on the street car, and Engineer Rossnip and Fireman Meigar of the train were arrested. That the accident was due to the grossest carelessness cannot be doubted. By their own statements the two crossing men. AUbright and Schwartz; were not attendsag to their duty, and neither of them knew of the danger until after the crash. STABBED BY A TRAITRESS. lawyer McCoy Suffer. Death in an Amateur Performance. A party of about fifty friends assembled tfca other night at the house of Sidney McOy, a young lawyer of San Francisco, Cal. Ike feature of the evening's entertainmat was the production of a short play written by McCoy and performed by amaltar?. The plot of the play was the betrayal of a kaod of Russian Nihilisti by one of their mber. The Nihilists discover the traitress sad condemn her to death. Ther decide by Mi who shall perform tae execution, and the mbmber fell to the c mracter portrayed bv McCoy. Miss Grace King played tne pare C the traitress, who is given the choice of Wing killed or stabbing herself, and chooses *be latter alternative. McCoy handed Miss King a stout dagger flhat baa been in his family for many years, li the play the girl, instead of killing herself. stabs her assigned executioner, and as Miss King received the knife she reached Sarward to touch McCoy on the breast with 31. At the same instant McCoy started toward the girl, when she stumbled, and, forward with the dagger in her tend, drove it through McCoy's heart. McCoy staggered into the next room, asked for a doctor and then fell dead. Miss King knew there had been an accident of jomekind, but di 1 not know that McJoy was kiileJ. Sne was ta'cen home,anl afterwards, on advice of friends, gave herself up to the police. sine was taken to the City Prison at 3 o'clock in the morning, a ud wheu fce entered the prison she tainted, and tor a lone time remained unconscious. Next morning McCoy's two brother^. secured her release by giving bonds for $10,#00 for her appearance. The girl was then taken home, but is still in a critical condition. Miss King recently suffered from a grained ankle an 1 had been using crutches to walk vrito, but had lai.1 taeji aside to practise the part in tae play. As she made m motion to stab McCoy she rested her weight on the weak foot and it gave way aad she fell forward. Efforts will be made by the Mexican Government and through other agencies to turn the tide of emigration, which has been flowing from Europe to the United States into that councry, in view of the probable passage by the United States Congress of laws turther restricting immigration. It is ramored that the authorities of several of the Mexican States are preparing to send migration commissioners to Italy, Sweden, Ireland and Germany. Thk Nez Perce? Indians of Idaho have refuserl *1 au acre for their lands offered them by the United States Commissioners. i TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastera and Middle States. Adonirah Fairchild, one of the oldest and mo<t skilful diver3 in the country, wag killed while at work under the JNortn mver. New York City, by the explosion of a forcite cartridge. He went down to All eijrht holes in the reef of rock that obstructs the north slip at the foot of Fulton street. He met his death while tamping down the first cartridge. Dr. Charlks A. Brioos, after having been on trial before the Presbytery of New York for nineteen days on the charge of heresy, has been acquitte i on each- of the six charges brought against him. The overdue Cunarder Urnbria was sighted off Fire Island. Port of New York, after beins; six days overdue. Hundreds of .rienJs of passengers on board the vessel were relieved by the landing of all the people. There were nearly 490 persons on board. She was delayed at sea by the breaking of a shaft. She refuse i all offers of assistance but made the necessary repairs and then procaeded slowly under sail ani steam. Mayor Gilrot, the new Surrogate, County Clerk, Register an 1 the Board of AlrWmen took offlc9 in New York City. Archibald Bartlett was killed ani Miss Maggie Kelly fatally injured at a railroad crossing in Bedford, Mass, Tae young couple were on their way to be married when struck by the locomotive. The house of William Phillips, of Strong Brook, N. Y., caught fire ani two of his children were burned to death in the building and a third died shortly afterwards from his burna. Professor Eben Norton Horsforo, the noted chemist of Harvard, died, suddenly, at his home in Cambridge, Mass., of heart disease. A widow and five children survive him. He was born seventy-four years ago In Moscow, Livingston County, N. Y. The New York Legislator e met at Albany and the Assembly organized by the election of William Sulzer, of New York, as Speaker; in the Senate a lively debate took place over the bill to postpone the Constitutional Convention election. Governor Flower's message was received. South and West. A. J. Hudspeth was hanged at Harrisou, Ark., for the' murder of George Wat kins in 1887. The boiler of the saw mill of Date & Blums exploded, killing threecolorei men, James Wilbanks, Gruffln Phillips and Joe Smith. After being forced under theats of death to surrender between $4030 and 13000 to two masked men who entered his office in the Courthouse, County Treasurer John O. Johnson ot Vircqua, Vv is., was gagged and bound and locked in his vault. He was found there almost dead. The bodies of Adam Siler, aged eighty, and his wife, aged seventy-two, were discovered lying on the floor of their house in Chatham County, North Carolina, by their ten-year-old grandson. Slier had been shot three times and Airs. Siler twice. A snow^low was wrecked on the line of tne (jreaii uumuuu m nuuiu^ uuw. Four lives were lo3t. The plow was standlug on the track and was strack by an avalanche which came down the inouatain. The Legislature of Montana, California, Minnesota, Ohio and North Dako ta met and organized. ! Washington. About 1403 postoffices hive been do3ignatei as additional domestic money order offices. The President has proclaimed a definite arrangement of commercial reciprocity with Salvador. The arrangement is to tue effect immediately. Leadlvo bankers in all parts of the ' rvmntrv are sending protests to Washington ' against the purchase of silver under the | Saerman law. | The Treasury Department^ latest eiti. i mate of the aggregate amount of Unite! i States currenoy, fractional and otherwise, ' destroyed, an l not likely to b9 presaatei I for redemption, places the amount at about $20,003,000. Commodore William iL Folgsr has re* 1 tired from the Navy Department as Chief ' of the Bureau of Ordnance. Ha is sue* | ceedod by Captain Smith. The President has appoint3i Dr. Tarle; ton H. Be in, assistant In charge of thj divij sion of fish culture, United States Fish Com* mission, as the representative of the Commission on the Government Board of Management and Control of tne World's Columbian Exposition, Vice Captain J, M. Collins, resigned. Orders ware issuad at the Treasury Department directing tae shipment from Philaj delphia to Chicago of 88,000 souvenir coins, aU minted up to dace. These 86,030 coins ' - ' : 100 1?. ?i| ; word cae iftsfc uaviu^ iojv ua tula, oik uvuui bavins the year 18 J i on them. A delegation of thrae Seneca Indians from th9 Indian Territory, in charge of J. J. Spencer, an interpreter, called on Secre| tary Noble. Their visit to Washington was [ to protest in the name of their tribe against the passage of a bill annexing the Seneca reservation to the Territory of Oklahoma. Foreign. Cholera, continues to spread in the north of France. In the town of Gravalines, near Calais, six deaths and one new case were re At a meeting of delegates to the Indian National Congress at Allahabad indication was given of tbe growing desire for a National Indian legislature. Hidden in a barn in the rear of the express office in Sarnia, Canada, 17000 were found, concealed by a thief who had robbed the office the week bifore. M. Eiffel has secured the contract to build a gigantic bridge across the Neva, in Russia. His bid was <15,00 J,03 J. Sen'OR Muruaoa. has been nominated as Spanish Minister to Washington. Senor Muruaga was Minister to Washington three years ago and was very popular. The military were called out to suppress uprisings among tbe unamployed in the Iietberiands; three rioters were killed and many wounded. Anarchist riots were reported in Spain and in various parts of Germany. The Government of Mexico has secured evidence implicating ao r prominent Mexicans in the presant revolutionary movement. The Canard Compinv issued from London an official statement ttiat the Gallia proceeded on her voyage because her coal was low and the Umoria was not thought to be in serious danger. Brigands are committing many outrage? in Russiau Poland. The commission of the Duke of A.lmo? dovar del Valle as Spanish Minister at Washington was signed by Queen Regent Christina. n a rnrpT T? "DT i nnn tut a nnm a un.xjljj?i rijau-ujj in aijiiua Millions of Cattle Perish From the Niter Nearly to the East Coast. The cattle plague reported by Captain Lugard as having swept away most of the cattle in the region of the Victoria. Nyanza appears to have extended its ravages clear across Arrica. Captain Monteil, who has just arrived in Algiers after crossing the SouJan from west to east between the Niger ami Lake Tcha 1, says that millions of cat tie have died and on long stretches of his route not a single animal survived. Captain Lugard says that the Wahuma, north oJ Victoria Nyatizi, have been exelusive.y pastora1, anl lived solely on the milk ant fl- hof their cattle. Now that the p a,;ue has totally destroyed their stock, the people are dyin^ in vast numbers, and I th? ramnnnt. ara Ha umlant nn tha acrrinnl. I tural settlers for a scanty subsistence. When Captain Lucard left Uganda the Wabuma were slowly learning to cultivate the fields, but vegetarian food was unnatural lo them, and their gaunt and half-starved lorms attested the hardships they were undergoing. Tag Britis i Charge d'Affaires at Chile directs the attention of the Foreign Office to the alleged discovery of gold which ia said to exist in fabulous quantities on Lennox Islaa Terra del Fuegj. It is reported that two tons and a half of gold have been obtained by miners within the last two months. LATER NEWS. GoVT?RWf>R r.TTTnv R Mi-ID oro ~.t W -. Haven, the fifty-fifth Governor of Connecticut, was inaugurated with appropriate ceremonies. Joseph arc Henst Austin1, eleven and thirteen years old, while skating on Lake Quapassaug, Waterbury, Conn., went through the ice into fifty feet of wator and were both drowned. Henrt Cabot Lodge has been nominated for United States Senator by a caucus majority of the Massachusetts Legislature. The official cmvass of the vote of Oregon at the recent election shows the following results: Harrison, 35,002; Cleveland, 14,243; Weaver, 26,975; Bidwell, 2381; F'.erce ] ^emocrauc-ropuust Elector), 35, SW. A series o? explosions of natural gas in Chicago, III., injured several employes and many firemen. Four blasts partially wreck the printing houss of Donohue & Henneberry. The President made th9 following nominations: Gilbert A. Pierce, of Minnesota, Minister Resident and Consul-General of the United States to Portugal; George W Bartch, Associate Justice Supreme Court of Utah. Secretary Elkins has appointed a Board of Officers to suggest remedios for the bad sanitary conditions of army posts. Fifteen men were killed by an explosion in a Russian mine. A riot occurred among the striking miners in the Saar District of Germany. Eight people lost their lives in a railway collision in Hungary. BATTLE IN KENTUCKY. mQKa* riaorl and FIlTft PrOb uao J&AU OIIUK WMW ? ??* ? - - ? ablj Fatally Wonnded. The bloodiest light in Magoffin County's history took place a few days t?go about one mile from Salyeraville, Ky. Thar a were eight or ten of the county's best citizana engaged on each side armed with repeating rifles and ravy pistols, and the trouble, which had its inception in a triv'al matter the day before, culminated in a pitched battle. Casualties so far as known w.re: John Davis was killed by a pistol shot, said to have been fired after he was disabled and disarmed; W. P. Daskins, constable, was fatally wounded by a shot in the right hip, the ball ranzing upward through the bowels; Monte vllle De? kins, a Justice of the Peace, left bloody trail on the snow through a woodland near the scene of the tragedy, and was supposed to be fatally wounded. The gun with which he is known to nave bean armeJ was found next day in the woods. Shepherd Col* Coroner of the county, received some fearful blows with a clubbed gun. Brice Patrick was shot through the bowels, and was reported to be dying. T. Patrick, a brother of ex-Sheriff J. C. Patrick, received a rifle ball along the right-side of his bead, and was at first supposed to be dead, but he rallied. Reports as to who was immediately re* ' SV1- fAwotKIa oflPair apa BUUUUUIO &VI mo wi??v.w lug; and it is not even known who fired the iatiil ahota. . A BEMASKABLE YEAB. fL Comparatlrelr Small Nambor of Failures ia 1892. Bradstreetfs ooatalns the following* interesting resume of the statistics ot co mmercial disasters collected by it daring the year 1892: "The number of business failures ia the United States during the calendar year, with the exception of So uth Dakota, where a State law renders it unlawful to report sach information except under prohibitory conditions, is 10,270, a smaller total than has been reported sines 183 J, with the ginzle exception of 1837, whsn Cae aggregate was 9740. "This is not the only astonishing part of the exhibit, for the grand total ol liabilities DC railing traders in tae unitea estates in 1892 appears to be only J108,5JJ,000, a total also smaller than in any vear since 1332, without any exception. A similar comparison may be made as to assets, the total of which is $54,700,000. "The total "business population' of the United States in 1883 was 855,003 commercial and industrial concern*, individuals, firms and corporations of sufficient standing and permanence to be of record, and the number of failures in that year amounted to 10,291', the first time the aggregate had passe 1 th9 10,000 mark. Yet in 1892, nine years later, with a 'business population' of 1,035,00!), a gain of tveenty-one per cent., the number o? business failures is only 10,270, or about the same as nine years ago, and the debts of tailing trades are forty per cent, smaller n A w f Kan f Kan Thin l'a fkn mA of afi*il/inr* uut vuau vudui imn *< vug iuv/ sv ouniuuj^ feature of the year's exhibit with respect to sommercial deaths." FOR GOOD ROADS. Summary of WorJfc Done so Far by the National League. The National League for Good Roads, although less than three months old, is bestirring itself in the new movement with much energy. A summary of it is as follows: Local league* have been formed in &*iine. New Hampshire, Vermont^ New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia, and Arizona; and a State leagU9 ia Vermont and a county league at Rochester, New York. Arrangements have been made for holding State conventions in January in Maryland, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Virginia and Minnesota. The Governors of twenty* five States have been persuaded to act as State Vice-Presidents or have appointed substitutes. Fire thousand railroad' agents have been supplied with documents and instructed by their employers to aid in forming local leagues. Country banks and manufacturers of road and farm implements have also been enlisted in the work. The Chamber of Commerce of New York and other commercial bodies hare taken a marked interest in it. Colleges and county clubs are forming local leagues. Preparations are being made to supply country postmasters ana school-teachers "with blanks and documents when the National League is able to pay for the necessary printing and postage. FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. I I In (he Senate. 13th Day.?"Mr. Sherman spoke in favor of soon disposing of tha Anti-0,jtion bill Mr. Chandler offers a biir designating four nenr classes of immigrants to be excluded A commission so settle the Pacific Railroad indebtedness was appointed In the House. . 15th Day.? At 12 o'clock the Speaker called the House to orJer au l ttie Ubapiam offered prayer?Mr. Mirtin callel up the private peasioa bills on the calendar. One Bill was passed, and then the House adjourned without a quorum, being able to muster only 143 votes. FOUB MEN KILLED, They Were Thawing Dynamite tor Blasting Purposes. While a party of men employe! on the Wilkesbarre & Eastern Railroad near Tannerville.Pcnu., were thawing dynamite for blasting purposes, four of them, two white and two colored, were instantly killed. One of the number was a gang boa. Iff letters to toe Joint Committee on Im1 migration of the Senate and House at Washington leading New York physicians declare there is danger of an outbreak of cholera in tbe Unitod States next duramer. Many o! them favor a National quarantine law and the ausoension of Immigration. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Gladstone is becoming quite deaf. Speaker Crisp is in favor of an extra session of Congress. Montagu Williams, the eminent London barrister, died a tew days ago. Zola, the French novelist, has madi $400,000 by bis pen in twenty years. Jacob Henrici, the leader of the famotu Economite Society of Pennsylvania, ii dead. Congressman Jerry Simpson 3ays he h a candidate for the United States Sena.j Irom Kansas. Thomas Settle, of North Carolina, only twenty-eight years of a?e, is the youngest member-elect of the new Congress. Ex-Ministerto-England Phelp3, on account or his connection with the Bering Sea arbitration, will temporarily give up his professorial duties at Yale. Mrs. Gladstone, wife of the British Premier, is a voter in Canada, and owns property at Miagara Palis, Canada. She owas three acres of laud worth about SoDOO an acre. * J. D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil millionaire, has just presentel $1,000,000 in Vx nn/^n f/N f Un T7? TTAWIl'f?? rt P Mltlfln/V UWUUO LIS IUC HUlTCiOIUJ V/4 VUiWS^W, luantug $3,600,0 .0 in all which be has given to that institution. A clever man was Bismarck's lata private secretary, Lothar Bucher, whose demise the ex- Chancelor much deplores. In a lew hours Bucher drew up tne Imperial German Constitution. Emil Thomas, a German actor now claying at Am berg's Theatre in New York City, has no less than 250J roles in his repertoire, which he has learned during a stage career of thirty-seven years. Chatjnce* M. Dapaw is a believer in ecrap boons. Be has eight or ten of them which contain clippings Iron newspapers and periodicals relating to himself. All his printed speeches are preserved in this way. Senator Carlisle, of Kentucky, personally keeps a iut of all applicants for office from his State in a book. Every time he receives a letter from a new applicant ha writes his name and addroes in the book nnder the heading of the office to which he aspires. James Whit comb Rilbt, the Hoosier poet, owns up to ceing thirty-eight years old. He says be was a painter by trade, and worked at sign writing; a long tune.. ?ia served an apprenticsahip also as a house painter, but was nerer strong enough to follow the occupation steadily. John A. Morbis, the Louisiana million* aire, has one of the finest country estates in America in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It embraces 630 acres of good land, in which are preserved hundreds of deer and bear, and numberless conveys of gams birds, while the fojr Jakes on the place are black with mallard duck. Gxorqk Gould at twenty-eight Is the youngest American who has inherited an estate that gives employmont to 100,000 mea. The three successive Astoni have each been over forty before they inherited their fathers fortunes. William H. Vanderbilt was nearly fifty and his sons ware fortytwo and ttiirty-aix when he died. Louis Pasteur was on his seventieth birthday presented with tha gold medal of the Academy of Sciences in the amphitheatre} of the Sorbonne, Paris. President Carnot, of Franca, walked arm-in -arm with the distinguished scientist, to his seat, followed by the ministers, diplomats, scion tiata > Aft thft wan OUU II Vvttt atciu O* A3 vuo uiwitu nw iiwuww to him M. Pasteur embracad the President and the audience cheered wildly, THE LAB0B_W0RLD. IJtar silver mines have that down. Chicago has 562 bona die labor organic* tions. Factories are busy making summer goods. It is well known that over 100,000 people are at present unemployed in Vienna, Austria. A PROPOSITION to establish a universal 'abor headquarters is being considered by Chicago labor men. Late statistics show that in London more than 300.000 families earn less than seventy* live cents each per day. uunn iiunns cu?w ts uuau su.bjr par wjuu. of the English workmen over sixty years of ' age are in receipt of poor relief. In Boston the bosses and the clothing-cutters have joined hands to compel sweaters to grant the demands of their workmen. AT New Plymouth, New Zealand, E. M. Smith, a lamplighter, was elected a member of the Colonial Parliment by the local labor organizations. A Federal court in Macon in a decision againsc the Georgia Central road held that a man could not be discharged simply because he belonged to a labor union. All railroad employes of Russia who have not embraced the faith of the Greek Church prior to February 1, 1393, will b? discharged from the Government's service. One hundred miner3 at the slope mines of the Ohio ana Pennsylvania Coal Company, at Salineville, Ohio, have struck, a disagreement with the company over the size of screens used having arisen. The privation in Loudon arnon; the unemployed increases with the advaoca of winter, and, notwithstanding the numbers already there, multitudes continue to throng in from other Darts of the country. Petitions are circulated bv many workin.zmen's organizations in France, asking their respective municipalities to imitate the e xample of the Common Council at Roubaix in giving meals to the children in public schools. Considerable excitement has been caused in iNew Zealand by the action of the Governor in apoointing four veritable workingmen to the higher house of the Legislature, whose members hitherto have been selected invariably from the class of rich men, or Jar^e land-holders, or prominent politicians. Advices from Lancashire, England, state that the loclced-out employes in the cotton manufacturing districts had a hungry holiday, thousands of them being Hependent up on cuarity lor Busienunce. nuaureaa are walking about begging, and it is feared that he rigorous weather will cause the loss of many lives. s COLUMBIAN STAMPS Placed on Sale at the General Postoffices. The Columbian souvenir postage stamps have been placed on sale at the various postoffices. They range in value from one cant to 15, and each denomination is printed in a different color. The stamps are much larger than the ones in current use, and each variety bears an engraving illustrating tome event in the life of Columbus. It is expected that there will b9 a heavy rush of purchasers, not only from professional stamp dealers and collectors, but from people who will wish to preserve them as mementos of the quadrennial of the discovery of America. Xhe little Queen of Holland will purchase a set of tae stamps for her collection. The idea of issuing Columbian postage stamps was first suggested by Assistant Postmaster Gaylar, of xVew Yonc City.' He selected many of the dediga-<, an I his suggestions were adopted by the PostmasterGeneral. SPEEDILY LYNCHED. The Alleged Murderers of an Alabama Tax Collector Hanjjed. When the citizens of Grean ville, Ala., arose the other morning they saw twc dead bodies hanging from above the Court House steps. Late at night two strangers went to Jailer Bergainer's bouse anc told him they had a prisoner, tie went with them to the jail, where he was met by a mob of 100armed and masked men, who uad hidden behind a fence. They dema nded thi keys. The calls of John Hipp an t Charles Kelly, the alleged murderers of Tax Collec tor C. J. Armstrong, of Butler Co unty, were opened, and both mea were take n out and hurried to the Court House yard with rope) about their necks. Without being allowed time to pray, they were hafcgsi above the Court House stepe. The mob tnen dispersed. The verdict of the jury is that the men were hanged by unknown persan*. A CHAPTER ON ACTRESSES. WOMEj of the stage. How They M.tnage. Their Art in Drew. The Seciet of Beauty Lies-ii tna Adaptation of Dress. ' 'ow- LET US CONSID er ^ow 's ^at women of the stage are apt to outdo us in style. / *vM What is the secret of r 1/M their arts of the toilet ? How is it that actresses v r ; r are so generally es\~ teemed beautiful wo1 men? And how is it that so many fashions are set by actresses': The one question almost answers the other. In every case the secret of their attaining their reputation lies in their skill, shared by almost all women on the stage, of adapting fashions to their personality. The mere woman slaps on whatever happens to be "the rage," and she does so whether the particular rage makes a fright of her "'not TIib nrfrpss will nnfc tonch a fash ion if it is distinctly and irrevocably unbecoming to her; nor will she touch any fashion without modifying it to suit her own needs. The other woman confines herself to the fashion of the hour;. the actress searches the modes of all times and adapts i M.'/Wfl ir/-i to herself what she decides suits her. Or she makes a brand new departure for herself. Thus it is she sets fashions. The mere a Vmni'M woman rusnra uuu i/ucvwuc auu uiuj>u? and Louis XVI. because Mile Ceat 8a or Miss So and So did in the last play, and probably she looks more like a fright than evex thereby. The actress adopts, adapts 01 brings back a fashion because she herseli looks well in it, bat another women plangc: into a fashion because some one else has. The two pictures given herewith are 6otb actresses,and show their cleverness in adapt in? attire so as to set off their looks tc ' ' I the beat advantage. The first picture shows an actress who is really no beauty, bu< seems so from her taste in adapting hail and gown to the style of her face. There ii an emphasizing of the brows and eyes, a central dividing of the front hair to give needed length of face, and a suggestion oi soft grace by the use of fluffy stuff. Th? armo o ra IVWOKul On/1 fVlO nPflf rtf th*? drPSJ is well up over the place where the collai bonea grow, and cut down at the lower cor ners where it can be done becomingly. Although the gown and mode of hair are ap parently unstudied, yet they are carefully adapted to emphasize all good points, and to suppress all that are not so eood. and arc n their very conventionality well suited to i he style of the wearer. The next aclresshas most cleverly caught .nd fixed by the style of her hair and gown Hie evasive childlike charm of her face. Less fittingly surrounded by details of weai she would be no more lovely than are dozens of other women. Put her in a very low cut gown, cover her with jewels and furbelows, do up her hair in some special and unconventional way, ind where would be the sweet wiatfulntss of the personality the photograph reveals? The mistily loose hair, the veiled neck, the dark color setting off her fairness, in each modest detail, the whole is suited and planned to bist suit her contour of feature and natural expression. The actres who finds one mode is of all t1*2 best suited to her, sincerely perseveres in it whether it is the dictate of the hour 01 j not. This is especially the case in modes o wearing the hair. Has any hysterical gvm nasties of fashion ever induced Jane Hading . to wear her beautiful hair ir. any but tin t one way so well suited to her, and at the same time so trying to the usual woman thai her wearing of it has for years been a sort ol , palm or beauty to lier. Has the divine Sarah ever been induced to do anything to wob hei > frizzles in one way or another? Perhaps you do not like the wob; but imagine her in [ smoothed down, parted locks, or in spit ? curls. Take this picture for instance. The face is conventional, not beautiful, except for the . ) i'-j ; One orowj and the long, dark eyes. The arrangement of her hair is distinctly conventional, with the low, spft carls aboat the forehead that have so long been worn, and ?-u2-(~ a nflcfl nrrtman Will WPftP WU1U1 9UC, JilVO C* Wio^ ?f ?? much longer, because they so well emphalize the eyes and brows. Note the showing of hair or comb at the back, just high r- ll iWi enougn to suggest length to a rather square face, not high enough to emphasize the squareness by a taper effect from the fore" head. She has not a very full figure. The bodice is only slightly low, and the filmy quality of the tulle used gives softness of outlines. Notice, too, that the catching up of the sleeve puff is done toward the front, 10 covering the possibly less rounded part of .he shoulder. The whole thing, dress and :oiffure, are apparently conventional, yet, is you see, carefully thought out and adapt?d. A face that permits a striking style of hair ind gown is given in the picture. Indeed, put this girl into coventional dress and though she might not miss being pretty,she would miss being the lovely personality this fashion from the Greeks makes of her. The outline of her profile is by no means imperatively classic. She has adopted this ityle, not because she had to, but be rause she knew that a woman who can wear an exacting fashion gets the more credit for beaaty because so few women can do it. But she has adapted it all. The hair about her face is cut short, the soft locks are combed loosely back, Thus she avoids the hard and trying effect of closely drawn hair. The knot at the back is carefully adjusted with reference to her chin, which is cbe least bit prominent. Even her '-pose" is made with this.fault of her face in mind. From the full, round throat one would expect the shoulders bared, hnf thin is an artress. The maidenlv charm and the suggestion of Grecian days would be hurt by a modern display of shoulders. Oh, if the mere woman would only make up her mind what she dresses for! In other words, if she would only learn of actresses. THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. Final Returns Make Cleveland'! Majority 108. The composition of the Electoral College, chosen on the 8th of November, is at length definitely ascertained, the last question in dispute having been settled by the decision V." Mitnmma fVmrfc nf Oracon. which fires to a Dsmocratic-Populist candidate for Elector disputed votes which were cast in counties where his name appeared twice on the official ballot The Electors, aa chosen by the several States, are politically divided as follows: Uleve- nam* land. son. ver Alabama 11 Arkansas 8 k. California 8 1 Colorado .. Connecticut 6 Delaware 8 Florida 4 .. . Georgia 18 . Idaho .. J Illinois 24 Indiana 15 .. . Iowa 13 Kansas .. I1 Kentucky 13 Louisiana 8 Maine tt Maryland 8 Massachusetts 15 Michigan 5 9. Minnesota . 9 Mississippi V Missouri 17 i Montana...'.... 3 Nebraska 8 Nevada .. : New Hampshire..... .. 4 New Jersey 10 . \ New York. 36 ... . North Carolina 11 ..' . North Dakota.... Ohio 1 22 Oregon 3 Pennsylvania 32 . Rhode Island .. 4 . South Carolina 9 .. South Dakota 4 Tennessee 12 .. . Texas 15 Vermont 4 y Virginia 12 Washington 4 Wast Virsdnia ...... 6 . WirconsinT. 12 Wyoming 3 . Total 27d 144 2 Total number of Votes. .44 Cleveland's majority 10 LOUISIANA'S NEWSENATOJ Donaldson Caff-'ry Appointed to Sw ceea tne u i? uiuauu, Donaldson CafTery, of St. Mary's Parisl was appointed by Governor Foster to b Senator of th3 United States froi Louisiana to fill the unexpired term of tb late Senator Gibson. Mr. Caffrey wa3 born in the Parish of 8fc Mary, La.t on September 10, lt>35. He wa educated at St. Mary's College, Maryland and graduated with honors. He began lif as a pionear farmer in Drayton C.iunti Texas, but returned to his native State i 1838. He was admitted to the bar in th following year. The death of his step-daughter, which oc curred aoout this time, nec?ssitated givini ' his entire time to his large property ani his family. When the war came he er listed in the St. M iry Cannoneers, a hom company, from which he resigned after i few months' service to enter a company ii active service at the front. At Shiloh h fougfct under General Gibson. In 1563 he was mule a lieutenant in th S?c jnd Louisiana Infantry, but did not serv with the regiment, being transferred to th trans-Missouri department, where he serve as aile-de-camp on the staff i?f General Jo I Walker. At the close of the war Mr. Caffrey Dega the practice of his profession iu his nativ * parish, and soon roso to pro.uinence as member of the bar. He was elected to th I Constitutional Convention in 1879, an served in that body with conspicuous dis tinction. At present ha is President of tu ; Bar Association of Louisiana. , In the last campaign he became a candi date tor State Senator, to which office h ( was elected by an overwhelming majority He rendered valuable service as Chairmai | of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Mr. Caffrey was a proaiinent leader of th anti-lottery cause. He is identified with th sugar industry of the State, beiug a largi sugar plauter. To him is largely due th< erection of the Caffrey Central Sugar Fac toryy<be largest in th* State. The Massachusetts State Board of Agi culture during 1892 sold fifty-one abandon farms, representing a total of 4522 acres, f *74,15 >, an average of 116.40 per aero. ? POPULAR SCIENCE. I ?i?? Most spiders have eight eyes. The Milky Way has 20,000,000 stars. At Manistee. Mich., water was struck at a depth of 2220 feet that carried Are t ' per cent, of bromide. Phosphorus is admirably adapted for renewing the essehtlal nervous matter, lecithin, of the brain and spinal cord. The atmosphere is so clear in Zululand, Africa, that, it is said, objects can I be seen by starlight a distance of seven i miles. , 1 A AAmnrtnn/1 f\t AWflPAn [ | TT ai>Ci IB Ck wuxpvuuu VI. VAJgvu hydrogen, air a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen with small, amounts of other gases. In manufacturing occupations the average life of soap boilers is the high- ^ est, and that of grinditone makers the J lowest. V , English medical authorities are com? I ing to the conclusion that the smoking I of pure opium is not nearly so injurious | to Chinamen as has been supposed. 8 According to a recent report there I were 4272 electric-lighting plants 'I throughout Germany, excluding Wur- 1 temburg and Bavaria at the ond ot June v I last. ^ To have an invention protected all I over the world, it is necessary to take I out sixty-four patents in as many differ- 0 ent countries, the estimated total cost 9 - ? ?vi_v i. &-I -r /win H t? wmuu in vii,wu. There are some sixty.seven elementary 9 bodies recognized and probably there M are others. These bodies hare not by Hj an? application of science been resolved S into two or more bodies. B The governor of the electric light H works in Sedalia, Mo., broke the other I night and the engine jumped from S00 to 2000 volts. The globes bant in the fl *? *V?A.a mi nraaf orcitA. | BUCCt CttiO auu lUOlw niM gtvuv vww meat for awhile. Probably the largest steel plate ever rolled ia the United States was lately rolled in the Pottstown Iron Company's v works, Pottstown, Penn. In length it is 150 feet, in width twenty inch&? and J in thickness seven sixteenths of an inch. , i As a rust protector slack a piece of quicklime with just enough water to cause it to crumble in a covered pot, 'V v and while hot add tallow to it and work into paste, and use this to cover over bright work. It can be easily wiped off. Epilepsy and allied nervous diseases - ? ??mmnn than ia mnRfllllv fltln- ' (uo juu&o wuumvu www* . ? ft JT r posed, and under the high pressure of our civilization they are apt to increase unless medical scieace finds some more efficacious remedy than,any now in general use. i A. new cable-making machine if the result of the increasing necessity for laying telephone cables underground. .The . machine is five feet wide and fifty-sir long and makes and, by another electric device, measures the cable on the ground as it is laid. ti tttq a Hafflnnttrttfld JLV IB ICpUl IOU vua? AW nm , . , ( by tests made at the Chicago stock* ' yards by representatives of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry that lumpy jaw, in a mild form at least, is curable, and is not dangerously con- , v^J tagious, if at all. The recent renewal of hydraulic minr ing in California has again attracted ' the attention of mining engineers to the problem W removing the tailings or debris after the gold has been taken out from the earth in its passage through I me Sluices HUU umci gci?i?w?. ?^ Lightning and lightning Bods. ' . > t Iron roofs are oftea struck, and badly : damaged by lightning, as also are the. large petroleum storage tanks, which are made wholly of iron; consequently they . cannot be classed as protected structures. There is a wide difference of opinion in regard to the value of lightning rods. Sometimes they appear to hare guided or conducted a bolt of electricity safely to the ground, while in .other instances the injury has appeared to hare been > greater than if no rod had been present, although the latter may hare been the ! result of faulty construction or insulation - * J or tne rod. A pooriy cuu9iiui.?u ii?, with bad earth connections, would only add to the danger of injury by ligbtaiag. Of course, there is much to be said on ' both sides, for and against the use of j rods, but we notice that-of late yeari they are going out of use in the older States, where the people have had the most experience with them. On very , . high buildings and steeples lightning rods are still used, but merely as con ductors of the electricity which may < hare gathered in low, drifting clouds, but they are not supposed to attract lightning from any considerable distance. _ Large bodies of iron ore do not attract 4 lightning, for if this was the case it 4 would be exceedingly dangerous to work ? in iron mines or in any of our great - - ' manufactories wnere immense <|uau btblW . P of iroa and steel are collected. If a man I B and his family think they would feel I safer and sleep better ia a house to 3 > which one or more lightiiiag rods are 9 affixed, we would say put them up by I all means.?New Tork Sun. I >e 1 n Lire Mnst xlons. >9 The Strickeen Indians positively as- S sert that within the last five yean they I have frequently seen animals which, I i* from the descriptions given, mu9t have e been mastodons, says the J uaeau (Alaska) r< Free Press. Last spring, while out ? hunting,-one of the Indians came across a series of large tracks, each the size of the bottom of a salt barrel, sunk deep in ^ the moss. He followed the curious trail for some miles, finally coming oat in full 9 view of his game. As a class these In* a dians are the bravest of hunters, but the ? proportions of the new species of game filled the hunter with terror, And he took e .to swift and immediate flight. He dc- ' ? scribes the creaturc as being as largo as j a post-trader's store, with great, shin e ing, yellowish-white tuscs, and a mouth large enough to swallow a man at a siu- 1 n gle gulp. He further says that the ani- l a mal was uadoudtedly of the sam.! species e as those whose bone* and tusks lie all d over that section of the country. ? The fact that other huater3 have told of seeing these monsters browsing on the i- herbs up along the river gives a certain a probability to the story. Over on Fortyj Mile Creek bones of mastodons are quito ?ion?if.ii Hnn irnru t.nak nine feet loaff ' I*6""""" ~? J w 6 projects from one of the sand dunes on j that creek, and single teeth have been 3 found so large that they would be a good load for one man to carry. I believe that the mule-footed hog still exri ists; also that live mastodon's play tag ^ with the aurora every ni^ht ove* on 01 Forty-Mile Creels, in Alaska. jL