Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE BARK ALICE WRECKED. The Sea Smashed Her Lifeboat and Drowned Four Seamen. Her Crew Saved by the Breeches Buov ADDliances. U AX A most exciting shipwreck occurred at 9:30 o'clock a fsw nights agq north of Life Saving Station 21, which is thirty miles south of Barnegat Inlet, off the New Jersey coast. The weather was very thick, and the patrolmen could see but a short distance seaward. The second watch left the station house at S o'clock, and were walking backward and forward over their beat at about 11 o'clock, wheu they made out the outlines of a vessel flying head on toward the bar. The uatrolmen ran to the station and called Keeper Spragua, who called out his crew and ran out the life saving apparatus. Tbevesse), which when first seen was less than a quarter of a mile off the bar. had in the mean time struck and was fast, with the high seas washing over her. Her masts and rigging were being carried awaf fait. The seas were running so high that there wai no hope of jetting a boat out to her. Keeper Spragua ordered cut the Lyls gun Kid charged it. It was aimed welL The guy line was shot across the bow of the esse!, and it was found and seized by the vessel's crew, aad they hauled the heavy cable to which the other end was attached on board.?.The sand, anohor was buried by ; ' the life savers and a breeches buoy was ssnt out. The vessel's crew wore hauled ashore onA hv one. it wm 3 o'clock in the morning when (he last man got ashore. The vessel Droved to be the Norwegian bark Alice, Captain Jacob Jacobson. bound from Dunkirk, France, for New York, in ballast. The Captain reported that soon after they struck and before the guvline was shot over the boat an effort was made to launch one of the ship's boat?. The cable parted and the boat was lost. Another boat was lowered and sailors began to get ioto her when a heavy sea struck her and smashed her to atoms, and the four seamen who had succeeded in getting into the boat were swept away. There were seventeen all told who were brought ashore by the life savers with the breeches buoy. Peter Eland was the only seaman who was in the first boat; which met disaster before she was fairly launched. The boat did not cap?iz>, and Eland managed to row and drift north, and landed near Cedar Creek life savin? station, twenty miles distant from the wreck. Before leaving his boat Captain Jacobson had the foremast cut away to make the vesBel lie easier. Soon after she struck the fall That afternoon tha vessel was bilged and will be a total loss. The sea is washing high and strong over the bark's huU, tearing away all her upper works. Tne Alice left Dunkirk December 21 for New York. She is a double-deckcr and has a registered tonnage of 977. She was built in Maine and hails from Ayendal, Norway Her crew w^re^all^Norwjegians. NEBRASKA'S NEW SENATOR. Allen, Populist, Elected With the Aid of the Democrats. William V. Allen, Populist, was elected United States Senator from Nebraska to succeed Senator Paddock, on joint ballot of the Legislature at Lincoln. Tae vote for Paddock, Republican, was flfty-3even. All the Independents and Democrats voted for Allen. His election wa3 than ma de unanimous. On the winning ballot he received seventy votes, four more than necessary to a choice. William Vincent Allen was born at Midway. Madison County, Ohio, Jan. 3$, 1847. In 1855 he moved to Iowa and he enlisted at t-le age of fifteen years with Company O, Thirty-second Raiment, N. GL, Iowa, in the Civil War. Hecarriei a musket for three years. He next studiedlaw with L. L. Ainsworth, of West Union, Iowa. Nine years ago he came to Nebraska, loci ting at Madison, bis present home. His conversion to the Dooulist idea of Dolitics occurred dur ing the campaign of *199 J, and since that I time he has ' been enthusiastic and constant in the advocacy oC the party's principles. In the fall of 1831 he was nominated by the Populists for Judje of the Ninth Judicial District, and was elected. Previous to his going over to the Populists he was a Republican and a member of the State Convention of 189) and took an earnest and active pare it that famous campaign. stumping the State for his party ticket and doing splendid work for it. Ju !ge Allen is an enthusiastic Grand Army man, and on every possible occasion gives evidence of bis iove for the old soldier.*, taking prominant parts in the State and district encamp nents. He is a giant in stature, and it is said his mental calibre is consistent with hu physical make np. FOUR LYNCHED. Charged With the Murder of Two Conntrr Merchants. : Mob fury was expended by the lync'iing of four colored men at Tazawell, Va., a few days ago. A. Ratcliffe and Ben Shortridge, whits traders, of Kichland?, Were on their way there to buy goods. During the night they ? mif want-, trk roflh in thftlP Ukllipcu VUV UUO ? -? ? -?? ? wagons. Four colored men, Gerry Brown, Spsnc9r Branch, John Johnson and Ban Fillerson, were seen watching the merchants. Next morning the dead bo lies or the traders ware found. They had been robbed and murdered. Suspicion at oao fell upon the above-named colored men. Brown was caught. He conteued that ha and his pils had committed the deed. Soon as the news reach)I Richlands a party of resolute men toDlc caarg4 of ths criminals and bung them to th9 elms which skirt the road leading to Ta?well Court House. Grant indignation was caussi by the lynching* BUBNED TO DEATH, *A Mother and Her 1'hrea Children Periah in the Flames. Mrs. Stephen Jamee, Emma James, aged eleven*, Arthur Jame3, aged seven, and Joa Mitchell, aged six, were burned to dea th at Kansas City, Mo., at 12:30 the other morn* ing, in a fire which destroyed the little cabin of Stephen James. All the victims were colored. Tho fire caught from an over* heated stove, and while all the occupants cf the house were asleep. When the Fire Department arrived on the scene Jametr had just been awakened and was rushlnr from the building badly burned. Mr* Jamee had fallen suffocated just within the door and she was dragged out, but was so badly burned that she did not live many hours. In fifteen minutes the little house was aatirely consumed and then the charred remains of the little children ?- /I <n tka oahae. ? ??WO UWWTOiOU Ul buw wv? ICY RAILS CAUSE A WRECK. Two Men Killed, One Fatally Injured and Others Hart. A. disastrous wrack occurred at Williams's Station, Penn., ou the Baltimore and Ouio Raiiroid. Two men wera killed, another fatally injure , and joveral others badly hurt. Those killed were: Joan Nex, conductor, married, lived at Ccnnellsville. Georgi Wallac?, eujineer, married; lived at ConnellsviLe. j The badly injured were: ' William ftiland, o! Glenwooi, a fireman, fatally; Conductor Dun lap and Flajraau Grimes, both badly injured. I The rest of the crew were injured. The accident was caused bv the icy rails, which rendered the train unmanageable. At the foot of the mountain the train crashed into knottier .'r^ignr, am oosq iraius wen wrecked. Twenty-four car* were demolished. f Thrxe ) - spellers have just towed seventy coal iacjeu o.ual boats from Perth Am boy to ' Jersey Citr. X. J. The string w?*tiM* jicg?atyetbrou4aCUir*ughthebf|^ 4 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Kastern and Middle States. At McConnallsville, N. Y., a snow plow ? ran into the rear of a freight train, whica J was stalled in the snow. The plow was crusher! by the collision and two men inside were killed. Wallace W. Holmes, the wife murderer, . was hanged a few days since at Springfield, i Mass. A fire of snoicious origin in a tenementhouse in New York City caused the death of three persons in one family and the serious injury of three others. The Rev. Dr. W. J. Tucker, Professor of s cAcrerl rhetoric at Andover Theological P Ssrainarv, was unanimously elected Pre3i- tl dent of Dartmouth Colle<?e; a Edwap.d H. Ml Just, a wealthy New jj York City property owner and "retired manufacturer, committed suicide in his e! office after mourning many yaars for his a wife and children, who were lo3fc with the w steamship Schiller. " Mrs. William C. Whit.vby, the wife of a the ex-Secretary of the Navy, died sui- a denly of heart disease at her home in New w York City. Mrs. Flora Payne Whitnev was a the daughter of Henry B. .Payne, oc uieve- gj land, recently United States Senator from w Ohio. J Miss Sallik Clarinda. Koop. of m Brooklyn, N. Y.t who was bridesmaid at tl her twin sister's wadding a few days ago, u committed suicide by shooting herself four g; times, first baring taken an ounce of chloro- m form. h Ah explosion of pas In a tenement in New Tork City caused the death of W. R. it Patterson, burned and otherwise injured ? nineteen persons and destroyed the interior n of the building by fire. t Mrs. Armstrong and her infant child D were struck and killed by a train at Shan- i< nock, R. I. i? Thx Old Colony Railroad has been purchased by the New Tork, New Havea and ? Hartford Railroad subject to ratification by the stockholders' vote. ? Willi am. Walter Phelps was uaani- c mously confirmed bv the New Jersey Senate at Trenton as Lay Judge of the Court of Q Error* and Appeals. ^ a South and West. n Ths blizzard in North Dakota created a P, fuel famine, and tha people are burning their j old sheds and fenos. r R*tor? iitormj mm mnorted from the f.l West and Northwest. r n The overdue steamship City of Pairing ar- J rived at San Francisco, Cal.; aha was d?- g layed by the breaking of her shaft. n o Washington. q The Commissioners from Hawaii, who 5 bring with them the request of the pro vis- ii ional Government for annexation to the United States, arrived in Washington. The Agricultural Appropriation bill, as completed by the House Committee, carried an appropriation of 43,189,390, a reduction of (33,380 as compared with the bill for the current fiscal year, and $133,700 below the estimates. The first interview between Secretary a Foster and the Hawaiian Annexation Commissioners was held in the diplomatic parlor c of the State Department, and lasted half an hour. The interview was unproductive of . results. Secretary Rusk issusd an order placing Canadian cattle under the restrictions of the ? act of August 39, 1890, designed to exclude pleuropneumonia. This means a quarantine detention of ninety days, and Buffalo is ? named as the only quarantine station. C A tribute unprecedented in the history of Congress was paid by bis colleagues to ? Mr. Blouat,of Georgia, who is about to retire a after twenty years of serrica in the Hoaae. Messrs. Hitt and O'Neill, Republicans, vied f< with Messrt Hoiman, Bland, MoCrearjr and fi Springer, Democrats, in lauding the retiring h Chairman of the Qommittee on Foreign Affairs. si Tas President sent to the Senate the nomi- J nation of Carroll D. Wright of Massachu- ti setts, to be Commissioner of Labor, a reappointment. , J. The President granted a conditional par- C don to Edgar Swan, ex-President of the r< City National Bank, of Lynn, Mass., convicted of violating the Federal banking laws ? and sentenced on April 11, 1899. to five years' Imnri'innmuit In T/iwr?Bes Jail. , President Hakrisox submittad to Cobgrass the Hawaiian annexation treaty made .. with King Kamehameha in 1854. 0, The coast defence vessel Monterey has tl been accepted by the Secretary of the Navy. The Russian extradition treaty has bjen ratified by the Senate, with an amendment t Including attempts to kill tha Czar or any u member of the royal family. Foreign. P! The Navajo Jadians are commifctiasr many depredations in the State o' Sonora, Mexico. p] Secretary White, of the American L9. gation, has deliver ad to Lord Rosebery, in 0< London, three dispatch boxes containing the h American case in the matter of the Bering q Sea arbitration. ^ The Banco de Roma y La Plata, Buenos tr Ayres, Argentina Republic, has suspended payment, in consequence of the losses sus- b] rained in gold spaculstion by the manager of the ooncern. These losses amount to b 0,000,000. J A band of Somalia attacked and beat tha L Kismayu agent of the British East Africa Company and his guards. The marines y from the British warship Widgeon evantu- 0l ally were landed, and after killing eigat ~t Somalia, put the rest to flight. The Hottaa- ^ tots recently attacked Mosjamedes, in Lower w Guinea. The Portuguese trqops drove them back after a stubborn fight, In which the Hott*ntot3 lost their chief and fifty men. ^ Floods in Quaensland hava caused enor- ^ mous loss to propsrty; many persons have M been drowned. The loss of property causad by the s9ries m UJl oorbuquKKoa au vri cw-c, is osuuiair rt ?d at eight millions of drachmas (about fl,- ki ttOO.OOO). King George and the Quean of Greece visited Zante to inspect ttie havoc tauaed nby the earthquake. The caraval Santa Maria, escorted bv the cruiser Isla de Ljzjd, sailed from Cadiz, A Spain, for America. The cruiser will proceed half way acrosi the Atlantic with tae caraval. Algir.von* Sartoris, who married Nellie ?' Grant, daughter ot President U. S. Grant, tb died a few days ago, at Capri, Italy. He jD hadnot lived with his wife for some years. Their wedding in the White House, at Wash- P' ington, was a notable ev9nt. "j Within four days fifty persons died in j Marseilles, France, of a choleraic disease. 01 Water, caused by floods, flowed thirty re feet in the principal streets of Brisbane, tc Queensland, anl the city was in darkness; st 500 nouses were demolished. B The British Home of Commons voted 3 confidence in the Gladstone Government, 1* 276 to 109, the test vote being taken on1 aa tc amendment by Kier HarJie. i w A GENERAL EXECUTED. ! He Refused to Lead Moxlcan Troops ? Against the Indians. A telegram from Guaymas, Mexico, an- ? nounces the shooting by court martial of a General Jouquoia Urez, commander of tha y, Third Federal zone. A band of Indians at* tacked the hacienda Los Mercedes, belong- r' ing to Senor Tapis, broke into the fields and ? drojre away thirty head of cattle. As soon j? a9 forces composed of Captain Luna's Rur- ? ale?, Federal soldiers, and some servants of r( the ranches could be s;ot ready they started in ourt-uit of the Indians. The latter procaed9i glowlv, satisfied, perhaps, that tbey were in sufficient numbers to < resist the attack, and were soon overtaken by the advance. A It is said that Captain Luna, as soon as he came in sr>;ht of tbe Indians calculated their numbers and position and informed the officer commanding the Federals, asking tt his co-operation to attack them and rescue ., the plunder. This General Urez declined to * ? ?hi.. V vj UC\ auu bur a mjuia ww?pwui Captain Laaa laid the matter before the tl Federal authorities, and upon the above statement General Urez, oommioder of the s< Federal troops, waa court-martialed and ji immediately executed. li The movement into sight of the ootton jj crop lor the season shows a deficiency of a nearly 2,000,000 baits uadar last year. Vi , v \ NATIONAL FINANCES. [ he Treasury Department's Public Debt Statement. I $3,000,000 Increase?Largest Beceipts in Two Years. The monthly public debt statement just sued from the United States Treasury Dear tment shows an increase of $3,105,904 in ie debt during th9 last month. There was n decrease of $722,299 in the non-interest earing debt On the other hand the inter* it bearing debt was increased a trifle, $380, nd the surplus or net cash in the Treasury 'as lowered $3,827,5i0 during the last lonth. The surplus, , including the 100,000,000 srold greenback reserve, fgregated $125,265,088. Treasury gold ssets aggregate $J28,59S,465, against hich there are gold certificates, rteiand liabilities, amounting to $136,375, 39; leaving a gold balanoe in the teasnry amounting to $iJ2,222.876, a da* .-ease of $4,789,034 during January. Silver nets aggregate $468,049,081, against which lere are silver certificates and silver Treasry note liabilities amounting to $456,093,.?f "? ai7 nan M, leavuig a 01 ITCl isuiugg V.W , a increase of about $100,00) daring last 1011th. The National debt, lass the cash balance i the Treasury amounts to <838,537,965, of hich 9585,033,600 is interact bearing debt lade up ot 1559,669,180 four per cents., and 25,864,600 two per cent bonds. la round umbers about 1510,000,0J0 of this bonded idebtedness is in registered and $75,000,000 i coupon bonds. Since March 1, 18S9, the eginning of the present Administration, the onded indebtedness of the country has dereased $259,072,561, there having bean bout $138,000,000 four and a half ana $121,30,000 four per cant, bonds redeemed and incelled. Government receipts last month in round umbers amounted to {35,209,972, the largest l any one month for more than two years, nd fuUyfoor and three-quarter millions lore than in January, 1892; customs resipts alone last month were $21,102,476, or iree and a half millions more than in anuary a year ago, while internal revenue fceipts were half a million greater turn in January, 1892. for the seven lonths of the current fiscal year, or up to o. * aauarj 01. revoi^io uviu tut ovu?uw regated 1231,063,853 or about *25,000,000 lore than daring the corresponding month f the preceding fiscal year. On the other and, expenditures during the seren months r the current fiscal year amounted to 9231* 56,090 or about #23,000,000 more than durig the same months of the preceding year. PBUMIN?n"t people. clsvbiiaicd wears a 7% hat. mgr. satolli*3 title is ''His Excellency.'* The Qtar of Russia personally spends bout #10,000,000 a year. Qussir Victoria's annual visit to the ontinent costs about #55,000. swinburne has written an ode concernIK the Chicago World's Fair. The full name of the Populist* Governor t Kansas is Loraine Demosthenes Lewelag. It was Sir William Harcourt who first be* ? * *? - - m a _ j bowed upon wiaostone ios una 01 - umuu lid Man?' Harrison received during his term of fflce as President, for saiary and allow* nces, the sum of 1876,890. 1 he late ex-President Hayes was wounded 3ur timed during the war, once almost itaiiy, and had three horses killed under im. Lord Wolselet is credited with a dore to be Govarnor-Ganeral of Canada, ust now he commands Her Majesty's oops in Ireland. A decree is ofBdally published announoig the removal of the name of Dr. brnelius Here, tbe Panamiteur, from the >11 of the L9gion of Honor. Edward H. Payson, of Salem, Mass., has lied the positson of Cashier in one ban it >r sixty-seven years. He Is ninety years Id, and has just resigned his position. The Crown Prince of Roumania's allow* nee has been fixed at $120,000 a year, half Cwhich is to come from his country and le other half from bis uncle, King Charles. It is proposed that ex-President Hayes's dttrait be placed on the Government reasury notes before many months. The ices of Grant and Garfield have been so jed. The late Bishop Phillips Brooks had a rivate business arrangement with a Boston aotographer by which a royalty was paid i each photograph of his that was sold, the roceeds to be devoted to mission purposes. Cleveland is the only honorary member ! the Sigma Chi.College Society. The initiaon took place at his office in New York ity. Rev. Dr. Gessler and Alfred Taylor >tra him ?ha o-n'n rtf rAROffflittOn and the ..? ?- o--f ? o aternity pin. Ex-Governor J. M. Thater, of Ne*aska, who created such a sensation two iara ago by refusing to allow Governor oyd to take possession of the office, is being altered by a poor soldier in the suburbs of incoln. Me is penniless. Senator Davis, of Minnesota, is almost ind In one eye, and the trouble Had a cunts origin. He was exposed to the steady are of an electric light for two hours while aking a campaign speech. The optio nerr? as injured, a cold ensued, and paralysis of ie nerve resulted. When a President is inaugurated at rashington he is usually sworn in with a rge, new Biblf, which is afterward preuted to some member of his family. But lereland in 1S85 took the oath on his other's Bibla It was a small book, moicco bound and gilt-edged. So far as is 10wn he sAiil has tee book. 'HE QUEENSLAND FLOODS. ppailing Damige Done by tho Rising Water. A cablegram from Brisbane, Queensland, ire these particulars of the beginning of te floods there. The water is rising skj?uuj i this city. The lower districts ara cometsly submersed. In the lower portions of le main street it is twenty feet deep. The tops and their contents are almost a total sa, as the flood came on so rapidly that lly a small portion of the stocks could be smoved. Men are at work in boats trying >save the content* of the third and fourth ories before the water rises to them. The risbane Ri*ar Bridge, which connected ortb and South Brisbane, was swept away ist night. All the inhabitants are crowding > the highest parts of the city. In consequence of the interruption of railay and telegraphic communication, only santy Information about the disasters in Cher parts of Queensland is obtainable. At [aryborough, in March County, thirty perms hare been drowned. Most * the town i under water. The Mary Rirer Bridge, is largest one in the colony, has be9n uried away. The town has been deserted y two-thirds of its inhabitants. Tiara, aother town on tho Mary, is also under rater. At 4 o'clock in the morning the water Dund Brisbane began falling. The oity is till isolated, however, and Tittle news can e got from noar-by town?. The list of ead grows hourly. Many bodies are being * s~ ' war* qnnnosed to have JUIIU 1U UUU3C3 wuavn ? v. ? ?r, ?en deserted. CAPTUSED BY A MOB. > Hundred Killed and Six Hundred Wounded at Bogota. Private advices from Bogota state that le recent riot there w as much more serious lan at first reported. It is said that there as a severe and sanguinary battle between le populace and the police. The mob defeatel the police and held poeMsion of the city for two days. Than the rational troops war* called out, and martial lw was proclaimed. The soldiers succeeded i restoring order, an 1 the leaders of the iob ware arrested and executed. Altogether bout 100 persons were killed and from 500 3 600 wounded in the conflict. i FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS In the Senate. 37th Day.?The Chandler Hawaiian rese lution was referred to the Committee o Foreign Affairs?-Messrs. Hale and BlacL burn were appointed tellers to assist i counting the Presidential votes Mr. Cai Hale's resignation as Senator from Kentucky was presented?The District Appropria tion Dill was passed The French extra dition treaty was ratified. 38th Dat.?Mr. Hill gave notice that h would call up the Sherman Silver "Repea bill The House bill to ratify and connrn an agreement with the Cherokea Indiaoj was taken up and many amendments wer< offered, discussed and disposed of. The bil was laid aside without final action ??At : p. m. business was suspended in order tha fitting tributes might be made to the memory of the late Senalor Barbour, of Virginia Eulogies were pronounced by Messrs. Daniel, Manderson, Faulkner, Qaliinger, Piatt, Hill, Hiscock and Hunton. 39th Dat.?The Senate spent two hour in the consideration of House bills on thi calendar and passed eighteen of them? Mr. Morgan introduced a resolution, which was agreed to, requesting the President tc send to the Senate the draft of the annexation treaty negotiated in 1854, but so' completed, between the plenipotentiaries o: the United States and the kingdom of Hawai ??The Senate then passed tne House bill t< ratify and confirm an agreement with the Cherokee Nation ot Indians of the Indias Territory and aporopriating $8.595.738 tc carry ifc out?-Memorial proceeding! ii memory of Mr. Gamble, of South Dakota; Mr. Ford, of Michigan, and Mr. Stackhotue, of South Carolina (late members of the House of Representatives), were begun at 4 tv m., and arter eulogies on each of the deafl Representatives, the customary reaplutiom were agreed to, and the Senate adjourned. 40th Day.?Bj a vota of forty-two t< twenty .three the Senate declined to take ut the bill for the repeal of the Shenian 811 rer Purchase act. Mr. Hill made a speeck in favor of free coinage??Mr. Harris Quarantine bill was substituted for the House bill and passed. It confers National quarantine powers on the Marine Hospital. 4 1st Day. ?Tho Senate took up unobjected to House bills a ul passed a numbei of them, including sixteen psnslon bills. The bill for the relief of the assignees ol John Roach, to pay the balanc 9 due on thi despatch boat Dolphin, $8163, was also passed??The bill to require automatic couplings and continuous brakes on freight cars was discussed??The Senate refused to consider the New York and New Jersey Bridge bill The Senate ratified the Russian Extradition Treaty with amendments. 42d Day.?Mr. Morgan has introduced i bill which will e-ive the President power b establish a temporary Government in Ha traii pending the establishment of a permaa ent one??The Car-Coupler bill was dla cussed. In the Hotue. 40th Dat.?Mr. McMillin reported a r? solution providing for the daily mesti ng ol the House at 11 o'clock. Adopted ? Then was a preliminary fight ore r the Anti-Op tion bill?John L Davenport and thi Federal election lawa were the subjects of i debate The Sundry . Civil bill was passe* Mr. Cummings offered a bill to facili tate political union with Canada. 41st Dat.?Speaker Crisp ruled that thi Anti-Option bill must be referred to tin Agricultural Committee and the amend ments considered in the Committee of th Whole The House then proceeded in com mittee to the consideration of the Deficient; Appropriation bill?Mr. Wise offered ai amendment granting a month's extra salary to employes of the Brnate and Hons* I wns agreed to. The committee then rose In the House the extra month's pay wa agreed to, 142 to 64, and the bill was passed 42d Dat.?The opening feature of the sea sion was the spontaneous expression of r? gret manifested by his colleague at th voluntary retirement of Mr. Blount o Georgia, from the seat which he has filled fo twenty years. Never before in the history o Congress has a member been so honored? The House then, in Committee of th Whole (Mr. Hatch in the chair), proc*eda to the consideration of the Diplomatic ant Consular Appropriation bill There wa no general debate, and the bill was read fo; amendments. When the committee rose th bill was passed The Military Academy Appropriation bill was then taken up There was no opposition made to the bill which was passed without division?' Public business was then suspended to en able the House to pay tribute to the .late J. W. Kendall of Kentucky. After remarfc " *? " d p.mfh Dy JUnn. m.i;uro?rjr, tojum, Bonn, G. W. Stone, McKinney, Smith Weaver, Wilson and Bellman, the House ou of respect to the memory of the decease* adjourned. 43d Dat.?The House filibustered all da; against the Anti-Option and Bankruptcy 44th Dat.?The Legislative Appropria tion bill was discussed. 45th Dat.?The Electoral votes wer counted in joint session in the House, an the result was declared The Legislate Appropriation bill was considered. THE NATIOJN^MILITIA, Cheir Number Keportcl br State.1 and Territories. The Secretary of War his transmitted fc the Senate an abstract o? tha militia force of the United States as foliowj: Alabama 2,8.T> Montana 5U Arkansas.; 1,091 Nebraska..1,38 California 4,19S Nevada 50 Colorado Sfto N. Hampshire.. 1,133 Connecticut... ,2,77(5 iSew Jersey.... 4,01 Delaware 443 New Y rk 12,90 Florida., 1,030 N. Carolina.... 2,03 Georgia...., ...3,9+9 North Dikota.. 51 Idaho W Ohio 5.82 Illinois 4,417 Oregou 1,43 Indiana 2,6-54 Penusy.vania.. 8,HO Iowa 2,363; Khoie Island.. 1,59 Kansa* 1,714 I d. Carolina.... 5.BU Kentucky 1,350 South Dakota.. 53 Louisiana 1,18*3 i feuness*; 1.15 Maine 1/206 j Texas ' 3,33 Maryland 2,83? i Vermont 7H Massachusetts ..5,?lrt I Virginia -J.S4 Michigan 2/Jltf | Washington... 1,33: Minnesota 1,984 ; West Virginia. 86 Mississippi 1,71'i j Wisconsin 2,31 Missouri 2,355 1 Wyoming,.., . 3J Aggregate of all State militis, llo,0i3. The militia strength of tho Territories i< as follows: Alaska 4 Arizona 21 New Mexico.,.. 57 Oklahoma 15 Total , lt0fl District of Coiunuoia 1,38 Grand tofcai 112,49 Utah is the ?cily State or Territory tha has no orgapU<*l militia. UNIQUE COAST DEFENDER The Armor-Plated Kara Katahdn Launched at Bath, Me. The twib-screw, armor-plated harbor d5 fense ram Kathadin, built upon the desigi of Rear-Admiral Ammen, was launched few days ago from the yards of the B^t (Me.) Iron Work*. General Hvde, of th worts, was the host of the occasion. Among those present were: Assistant Secretary of the Navy 8?Iey, Miss Sole* Senators Hale and Frye and ''Deacon" S. V White, of New York. The Cramps sent r? grets. The Maine Legislature was presen in a body. Rear-Admiral Ammen was pre vented by illness from attending. Mias Sole; christened tha vessel. The peculiar feature of the new ram can sists of a number of tanks which when fille< with air give her a convenient freeboard to coasting service, but when filled with wate they depress her so that her turtle-back dec isawash. She is intended purely as a weaps: of offensd against an attacking and he< mission will be to sink pattle-ships or cruia ers. She will mount only a few small gun of a rapid-firing pattern, intended to kee off torpedo-boat^. The lower portion of the hull is dish-shap up to a short knuckle which runs all arou a< the vrasel six inches below the normal wate ? 1?? ??? - VnnMrln thft Shane of th Jine. AUUIt vuu r hiUJ ia a circular arc. This curve dock wil b? armor plated throughout. Above thi deck, when the ram is completed, will rb ' only a conning tower, a smokestack and i ventilator. The quarters for officers and crew are a wittaia the armored hull aad they will b fitted with a complete system of electri lighting artificial ventilation and draiaage I ELECTORAL TOTES COUNTED.' i n Cleveland and Stevenson FormJ ally Declared Elected. T .... - The Impressive Scenes Attending the Official Canvass. 0 .1 1 Great crowds were drawn to th9 Capitol 3 at Washington by the formal ceremonies inI cident to the official counting of th9 electo3 ral vote of the States for President and t Vice-President. The ceremonies attending the counting of the vote are prescribed by a joint resolution reported by Senator Hoar in 1885, and incorporated in tfte supplement *ry revised 3 statutes. It provides that when the two 9 houses of Congress are assembled in tbe hall . of the House of Representatives pursuant to the requirement of the Constitution, that two persons be appointed tellers on the part of toe Senate ana two on the Dart of tbe House of Rspresentatives, to make a list of the votes as they shall be declare!^ that the result shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall announce the \ote and , the persoas elected to the two houses, whioh shall be deemed a declaration of the persons elected President and Vice-President. Vice* President Morton several days before appointed as tellers on behalf of the Senate ; for this ceremony Mr. Hale (Republican), of Maine, and Mr. Blackburn (Democrat), of Kentucky. Speaker Crisp appointed Judge Chipman,. of Michigan, find. Henry. Cabot Lodge, (Senator-elect from Massachusetts), as the House tellers. As early as ten o'clock a steady stream of people began to flow towards the gr?at white building on Cipitol Hill, and long before an hour had passed every available seat in the galleries?except those reserved for the Executive and Diplomatic Corps?had an occu L pane, up to tne dibs oe tne mtttug or tne House no one graced the bench reserved for the Speaker's family. In tbe main public galler/ were many fashionably dressed women. ! The actual ceremonies preceding the cere> monies of counting the electoral ballot were nearly the same as four years azo. There s was the ceremonious opening of the safe in : the Vice-President's room and the taking out of the eighty-eight sealed packages supposed to represent the votes of the forty-four States a* received in duplicate by mail and messenger; there was the procession, led by Captain BaSsett, who hafc participated ut 9 every Presidential count for more tnan sixty years, and his escort of a squad of Capitol " police. Promptly at one o'clock the Senate, headed by the Vice-President, Levi P. Morton, entered the Hall of the House. The Vicj-President took the seat of honor at the _ right of the Speaker, and having called the joint assemblage to order proceeded formally j to open one of the boxes in which were con. tained the returns of the Electors of the , various States. Tne first return?that of ! Alabama?was handed to Senator Hale, one 2 of the tellers, who, in a low but distinct . voice, read the statement showing that the eleven votes of that State had been cast for s Cleveland and Stevenson. 9 Then the certificates were presented with. out formal reading, the tellers merely stat9 ingthe result. Toe utmost dignity was . preserved until Teller Blackburn announced 7 that the 3 late of Illinois had ca3t twenty a four votes for Cleveland am ocevenson. T Then the spectators broke into applaosa. t The totals announced by the Vlce-President were: Cleveland and Stevenson 277, 9 Harrison and Held 145, Weaver and Field 22. After the laat certificate had been read u and the results footed up, the Vice-Presi9 dent made the customary announcement f that under the lair this was a sufficient der ciaration that Grovsr Cleveland, of the f State of New York, was elected President of - the United States and that Adlai E. Sterene son was elected Vice-President of the United 1 State?, eacn for the term beginning March 1 4, 139a, and that this result would be ens tered, together with a list of the votes, on r the journals of the Senate and House of Rep? reeentativea. j The joint session was then declared dissolved; the 8enate withdrew, and each House resumed bv sin ess In its own chamber. f LATEBNEWS. s ?? % t Rxsolutiojcs favoring the annexation of ? Hawaii were passed by the New York Sen1 ate at Albany. Rocktellui & Co., private bankers, J Wilkesbarre, Peon., stepped payment' and hundreds of small depositors wers left with* - out money to continue business. Fona thousand colored people In Conid cordia and Catahoula Parishes, in the north* 0 ern portion of Louisiana, are said to be on the verge of starvation, the floods of last rummer having destroyed their crops. Exchanges in Memphis. Vickaburg and New Orleans are to rales funds. News has been received of the killing of 3 Deputy Marshals Rusk, Bruner and Knight, aear Tahlequah, Indian Territory, by Bill Pigeon, an Indian desperado. Pigeon lives In a fortified house in the Cherokee Nation. >3 Qt7ABA.im.TZ having been raised against ? the White Honse on account of the illness of 7 (farthena Harrison, the Presidtat resumed > the afternoon public receptions. ; 3 Thi Government stock of gold has run so 5 low that New York bankers have already | lent $2,000,000 to the Treasury, and have 4 promised more if necessary. ^ Tbk dwelling of James Flyno, near 4 Chatham, New Brunswick, was burneJ and -'J Fiynn, his wife and two children perished in J Che flames. 5 Forty-four persons died in Marseilles, * France, in one day of a choleraic disease, g Nine of the cases were suspiciously like Asiatic cholera. ! Thirtt-szven' persons were drowned by the loss of the British steamship Trinacria, | off the coast of Spain. 1 Several lightly built bouses iu Campoll* eto, Province of Campobasso, Italy, colit; lapsed during a high wind. Thirteen par3 sons were killed aud fourteen were injured. NEWS fBOM HAWAII. Honolulu Under Martial Law, and the Kanakas Disarmed. 1 The sugar bark Robert Lewis^ has arrived at Sau Francisco, Caln from Honolulu, Hawaii, bringing news two days later than *" that brought by the Claudine. (Captain W. a G. Goodman, of the Lewis, in an interview a uid: it "When we left, Honolulu was really under 9 martial law. All the available marines from the Boston had been landed, an>i the city was virtually in their hands. : "The whites are all in favor of the new Government, but the Kinakaa are violently ,1 opposed to it. To guard against trouble c from the Kanakas they have been disarmed. "The marines from the Boston aresup_ posed to be guarding tba American Consulate, but in reality they are watching the palace and the royal residence, and no one I can *ain entrance to it without a pass signed r by President Dole. r "l'he Provisional Government has been k recocrnized by all the foreign Consuls. The British Consul recogaizsci ic wnn cne proviso r that bis aotiou be approved by the Home h Government. 3 "Minister Stevens's recognition on the part p of the United Stacas is absolute, and he does not make any qualidcation about the atti0 tude of his own Government." * j.h. Whklplet, Assistant Treasurer of r the United States, has officially severed his ? connection with the Treasury Department to enter private business, after an active s connection frith the office for thirty-twc 0 years. Mr. Whelpley entered the office is 4 August, 1881, when the Treasurer's office numbered only eight clerks. Now it has If oven" three hundred employes. In 180L the * total assets aggregated less than 910,1)00,00Q? c oow they aggregate $700,000,000. I FASHION'S LATEST EDICTS. HOW TO DO THE HAIB, New Stylos of Dressing That are Coming Into Vogue. Illustrations Whioh Point the Moral. j| FTER all the talk about Ml fillets, coronets and Greek "parts," and so is over, it will still /iV m 'rrM m i e? *i,?* tk? / u iuLt iuan tuv k ^MHFeegirl to whom the bang JF "^Hrijilfis distinctly becoming bH^b \\Tr'i3 an(* a'wa73 will be, ^ 1 VWFas she always has been, f?w a very pretty kind of ' Ik ?irI- Incidentally, she 'k\. i^isapt to look badly in /v\ //fa Greek part. She is J /ft bright enough to know f\ A \j/a i/mk if, and smart enough? \AwmfflR/ySF ^e bang-style of girl is tvMxcWwffiw alwa7? smart?to pointedly slick to her v bang, and let those who can do it, or who have not the sense to see that they can't, wear their Grecian effects. 3he stays pretty in her own particular way, retaining her own dear bang. So, here a word about bangs. The horrid frizzle is, let as hope, gone for? aver. You may have as much or as little hair in the bang as yoa please and as you can, but there must be only a little curl and / /^QcvV A, ? \ no side bang at all. We who wear bangs may congratulate ourselves that the present bangs are each and all examples of the survival of the fittest If your hair Is very thick at the forehead, you may make just a little fringe. Curve it down in the center, for now no bang is ever cut concave. Let it be a Senuine fringe that shows the clear color of ie skin where it lies over the forehead. This fringe is not curled at all, though of coarse, it is not exactly straight. It has a turn in it If it has it naturally, you need not,bother about what sort it is, but if you are to "do" it, don't risk more than one half turn of the irons. The hair at the sides and top of the head back of the bang may be waved, and for two reasons. For one it is ^ ~~ " 5 more dressy and besides, if vou hare pal back of a previous bang in favor of the present fringe, you will find the hair very rebellious unless it is waved. Then, too, maybe your hair is not very thick at the forehead, in which case the waving makea it seem so. This fringe is as becoming to-day to young girls, or to older fcjees, that have the girlish m MWA -Z look, as it ever was, and if yours is a face tc which the style is becoming don't let th? talk about new hair adjustments bother you. The girl with the bang has been much talked down. She is readily imagined as eitbei a school girl of tne "what-der-yer-soy" type, or a most fr'volous and artificial creature. But that need not worry you. Your bang is not that kind. A thoughtful, gir ish face of delicate oval wears the fringe charmingly. 8uch a head dress as I have just described goes with downcast lids and wistful mouth very sweetly. Even the very prim girl suits her style of bang and looks the more quaintly prim and sweet for it. 8he may not wish to adopt a Greek headdre?s and a Greek part. Perhaps her hair will not part, some hair doesn't, you know, and maybe she looks like the mischief with her hair parted. Besides, being just a guaint, prim girl, she does not want to peel her hair straight back uirl lonk lik an uncompromising blue stocking. The ban? is a happy compromise, so she cuts a tiny bit of fringe, then another above its end just covering the part of the first, and perhaps another still above. Each "relief" to the line of the brow, the contour of profile is softened, and the bang in no way takes from the charm of the precisely poised head, and the demure coil at the back. This sort of girl is always daintily attractive. She h33 a bright, clear complexion, a good figure, well rounded neck and shoulders, which she is most prudent about displaying, and all with an air from the top of her moderate bang to the soia or ner muuciate shoes of not bothering or caring desperately about her dresses or get up, anyhow, Now, how would that type of girl be improved by a change or' her neaddress, There,too, is the pretty girl who is a bit frivolous. She is naturally and tiqconciouslv frivolous as a butterfly is light-hearted. Would you spoil her pretty face by putting classic touches to her head, and parting her ' 1' " - ?_ " hair; or would you abolish her bang and leave her with straight black hair? Sach a girl will cat a bang awav back to the crown of her bead, thereby getti *7 rid of a lot of hair and making the coil at the back small' er and less calculated to interfere with the graceful outline of her head. The first two or three rows of the bang are tiny short lengths, and those further back are longer, so they will not stand up and spoil the oatline. The first fringes are slightly burned with the iron,and those nearer the top of the head are almost straight, that they tie more closely to the head. She is thas sweet and delicately pretty as she can be, and a Greek coiffure would not suit ber half so welL I might go on and quote any number of types that should stick to the bang. Some women may dignify their faces by parting the hair at the forehead.but for most of yon, don't do itl Fashions are not made to adapt yoorself to; they are not made to rale, bat to serve,and if it suits your beauty yoa may consider them. I f not, make up a fashion for yoorself, or take one from Home other x period, or stick to an old one, like the bang, and continue looking well in yoar own way. , The women with long, heavy hair had better cat the lengths-off. 8houlder length is the most convenient It knots on the top easily and is easy to.keep curled and clean. Then, too, von are much more apt to have nice heavy "hair when you get old, and need a few charms to helpj*ou to live. Above all, you will be more ir *Te present mode. Very heavy and long hair is more of a nuisance than anything else. There is no way of doing it up, and yoa can't always be pretendtag Ophelia and Jndith and let it hank. What has been written conoerning the . coiffufes of the fa hionabb women is illustrated in the accompanying pictures. A HANDSOME EVENING BEEPS. THI Kit WEST SKIRTS HAVF R17FFLKS LOTD WITH csnroLiKE. The newest skirts are having their raffles lined with crinoline, and there is certainly a welcome crispness of effirct If only we could besure the fad willgo no farther than just crispness. But fashions never stop at tneir nrac prcity eueci;tnev gu uuouu uu wu the hideous exaggeration is upon us. Then we are slaves to the tashion and eTeryone forgets the start of the thing and groans on* der what seems an unreasonable tyranny. The exaggeration of the crispness is, of coarse, the awfnl hoop slcict and the yards and yards of stuff in skirts. Let me cling to the Empire, or perhaps it is better to say,let the Empire cling to us. Of coarse short waists are no guarantee against hoops, for, . < . ''. '4 ' 1 "mmmmmmm?? fil!y_ r 2? 4ss?3^agis*in fact, hoops are bound to come. They came as a reaction the last time fashion took to clinging gowns for a time. 80, if your mother has given you any old dreasea,paoae in your maa career and aon't cat up the wiae skirts. Keep them a few months lohg- (\i er and yon can wear tbem just as they are. At the sight of the first models you wi'l have to admit a charm of graeiottsness in the fashion and the suggestfon'of bandboriness that is very alluring after oar cloee-clinpng, damp-looking notions of late. A shabby silk petticoat can be made really swell again by running Us raffles with nar row ribbon is rainbow combinations. Not only will the rows of ribbon give fresh color, bat they will lend a crispness to theskirt and to the dress over it. The California Ostrlcli. The ostrich will eat anu VUI1?<7 uu m great many plants. Their principal food is alfalfa. Thej will do well oo natural glasses, such as alfileria,> clover and salt grass; also, green barley and cornstalks (cut half an inch in length), red or white clover, cactus witk the thorns scotched off, grape pomace, beet pulp, calla- lilies, banana trunks, and sweet potato vines. Alfalfa hay and ' clover cut up and moistened-is a good substitute when green feed is scarce, although green feed is indispensible at all times of the year. Grain is only neces* sary during the winter months. Potatoes, cabbage, and roost kinds of vegetables rank as luxuries. At fifteen months old a bird will yield its second crop of feathers, consisting of from forty to fifty plumes, and othei short feather amounting to over half a pound in weight. The first crop of feather, when the bird is only seven months old, is not of much value?from two to five dollars a bird. At the pres eat London prices a bird will yieitf from twenty to forty dollars' worth of feathers at a plucking, the amount depending on the sez and condition oi the bird. The egg-shell may be another item of profit. A hen will lay as many as sixty eggs a year,if well fed. They commence laying at three and one-half years old. The leathers are equal, if not superior, to the African product. The larger tho enclosures tho better, for their habits are naturally roaming. Sandy or gravelly soil is preferable An acre of alfalfa 1 will keep ten birds, if the feed is cut and given them; if pastured, only half this number will thrive. , The only one showing for profit at i present is in the disposal of the feathers. Paradoxically as it may appear, a parcel i of feathers will bring a higher price in the London market tban can be obtained here. The reason for this is that each buyer here requires a certain kind of feather, there being many varieties and colors. If the present product of the State was so divided there would * ' I.I.J aaflafv All* not be eaouga 01 encu &mu w ??u>; v? bujen to bother about, so they go to the London sales and pick what they need in any quantity. When once the production is sufficiently large to hold a quarterly or hilf-yearly sale, this obstacle will no doubt be obviated. The California feathers are sold in London, bought by American buyers and sent back here with a duty of twenty-five per cent, ad valorura added to their value and selling price. No diseases have yet appeared among California ostriches. In batching 100 per cent, of the eggs often turn out sue* cessfully. Eggs require six weeks to hatch. The male assists in setting, filling the nest in the sun fully two-third* of the time. The eggs are first-clasa eating, of rich flavor.?San i'raaciaco Bulletin. "WMriDnSfSnbe! Away back la the year 1313 egg* sold la LoQdon at 3 pence for tw? dozen. - - ?;