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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.
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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.
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