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jjj^pp^^p ???? MB OF THE Fl JBANSCENDENT MERIT OF 'THE VARIOUS BUILDINGS. t i They Arc Beautiful Beyond Anything Ever Seen In This Country?The Novel Fisheries Structure and Its P Varied Exhibits ? Sinhalese and Egyptians?A Huge Chunk of Coal. It is the tr.ins 'enJent merit of the buildings*? I the Fair at Chicago, says a New York San correspondent, that they demand nothing but to be represented as they are. Their beaaty of line, their harmonious proportions th?ir grouping which has brought so vast A plan into such unity that from ever}- point the eye delights in new views of a perfect whole, the lovely enrichment, the ennobling IS [J X"-- ^ OCARDS ON DUTY AT THE FAItt. souse of largeness. freedom,which is conveyed as they stand in their shining purity of color, gain nothing, but lose, by the vagueness of outline and atmospheric accessories that are among the most common of studio proper UAH. The Fair buildings are beautiful beyond anything that we have ever seen in this country. This opinion has beeu too warmly advanced by foreigners taking the experiences of their own countries as a standard, to make It appear native and pardonably parti*!. But their beauty is rational, coherent, studied, and is best represented by showing them frankly real. They demand nothing of any art beyond thai which i3 merely technical. The commonplaceness and heavy exterior I i||l? lilll w \ scass ' 1 -,-, j' Vi y , ^ l. t ^ A SZCTIOK OF THE of the Government Building have been atoned lor in the Fisheries, where the building and the Government exhibit are two of the most attractive features of the Fair. The Fisheries consist of a central rotunda and two colonnades leading to two circular wings. It takes time to reach the wings, so interesting is the architectural detail. The beauty, the richness. the novelty and the sportiveness of this ornament appeals to the least accustomed eye. The balustrades are flsh standing on their beads in couples with fan tails expanded. Ooe is attracted by the beauty of the curves JUKI men iuu?XJ9 LU uuvu mcauiu^. poles follow one another in solemn lines between raised spirals up the columns, and wiggle waggles knot their rails decoratively, and at regular intervals crabs escaping Sroni. nets and lobsters from wicker baskets form the capitals, shells and seaweed and finny things unite in running ornament. Since the days when elegant rusticity flourished in the gardens of the little Trianon,and hoes, rakes, pots, pans and baskets tied up among ribbons and flowers were introduced into the decoration we now call Louis XVI. thero has been no such interesting and beautiful use of new forms as are now seen in the Fisheries. There is not a r&gainufdn who may creep into the Fair grounds und has caught Sh? with a pin hook whose eye will not be caught by the ornamentation of these two colonnades. He will Kfin familiarly at the sight of old friends, but if ho does not get a new idea ol their meaning in this, their new place, he will be duller than most American boys who creep under circus tenia and through cracks in fences. One could wish for him no better introduction into the vast, fertil e, and pleasant fl^IL's of architecture and art than through the Fisheries and their frogs. The only place on the ra3t exposition fjrounds where there is any consciousness ol more than two or three persons gathered together is in tho Government exhibit in tin Fisheries. This consists of tanks around r?s^r L.j) ../ ( / ATRTjE BETWEEN AQTMUA. th* <rentre and circumference of the ciroula winy, with a passageway between. Thesi tanks aro fitted up with such representation: of the vasty deep and the mountain pool9 a are appropriate. The picturesque part is, ii l?ot, exceedingly attractive, and seems to con tent the inmates, who appear to /eei at home, ! IIore#the people of the prairies see the straneo inhabitants of the sea in their native element. Many of tho fish seem to enjoy their introduction into society. The big fish come forward an.I pr?ss their nosss against the glass, and open their wids mouths in astonishment jc: a JATANESE FISHING SMACK. at the crowds in front, then look at one another, and plainly convoy their sentiments. The tanks are suppiiod with air by means ot rubber tubes. When the water ??ets stale it is replenished A newspaper man was taking a l3dy through. "U?h, what croature is that?" she exclaimed with a shiver. ' That's no fish. It's a man in rubber boots cleaning out the tank." "Oh," she said, making a quick recovery, "I thought it was an elephant." THE SINOALS8E AND EGYPTIANS. The most agreeable hosts are the Singalese. Their building might be taken for a temple. It proves to be a bazar, fragrant with all the scents of the Orient, and most fascinating of all, huge baskets containing blocks of sandal wood, none larger than the fist, and rough hewn from the tree. The Singaleso keep up continuous hospitaiity in steaming cups of tea. Here, anion? rugs, idols, silken draperies the hard-handed sons and daughters of the prairie sip their tea. It is handed around with many genuflections by men in clothing which they have never seen equalled by even the village firo company or the brass band. These men are brilliantly clad in red, embroidered in much gold, and their heads wreathed in myriad folds of flne white muslin. There are several varieties of this costume. One is a garment hot wnm 11 mnn st_nrt.R out franldv to be a red petticoat, and then changes its mind above the knee and becomes trousers down to the sandals. Th-j Turk who, in picturesque though frantic English, invites passersby to the Turkish cafe chantant, wears close red flannel trousers, and over these short white skirts and a gay and gilded red zouave jacket. The upper class Egyptians are enviably clad in striped silk skirts and blouses, and fascinating dandies, swinging along the Midway Plaisance smoking cigarettes, wear dresses of pale green striped silks with long full back ulsters flung wide open of pale blue silk. All the charms of color and splendor of dress on this most gay of promenades belong to the men. Th? women, in tailor-made gowns and shirt fronts and four-in-hand ties, i look on them with smiling admiration and fishebiks btlldiso. wonder how much they paid a yard for such lovely silk. a kovel excursion. A novel excursion was given by the Intramural Elevated Kailroad. At 9 o'clock a. m. the officers of the road, which encircles the grounds on the inside, had a train of four cars brought to the Midway Plaisance gates, and in response to invitations the population of that cosmopolitan quarter embarked for a ? /MAiin/ld Thn H fat" n Of TTTOO I I 1UU vlLVuL bUO ^IVUUUi}. XUV uiofc vw? uw ; ; A NORWEGIAN FISHIXO BOAT. I! pi von up to the Iowa State Band, and Bandi master Phiuney and his men were kept busy , [ tooting the airs of all Nations and varied war . j dances during the trip. Hagenbeck's animal !! show sent forty men. King Bull, of the I>api land village, came on with the party, and sat j j side by side with three swarthy seven-foot [ i Zulus, who were playing jackstonea with the . j natives of the Dahomey village on the seat ) opposite. "Buffalo Bill's" Indians, in their [ gaudy trappings, filled the last car. Noarly - overy riUMOU ou cunti was ruprusemeu, nuu as they went around the park they sent up a conglomeration of cheers and yells that almost caused the statues on the big building to -.'rumble. The train finally stopped at the south end of the grounds, where the party was photographed, and atter a luncheon returned to the starting point. A nUOE CHUNK OF COAL. The foundation of the Washington State Building is made of hugo logs, ten in number, each of which is 125 feet long, three feet six inches by three feet in breadth. They were cut from trees 310 feet in length. Tho llr treo mast, or flagpole, :;t the Washington State exhibit is 215 feet high and is only three feat six inches in diameter at tho base. This treo was cut in two sections in order to ae- j complishits journey from Washington. From tho top o? this high sta'.T Iloats a sixteen-foot banner bearing the stars an I stripes. Washington also has the honor of having the largest chunk of coal over handled or mined by man. It is in thvi north wing of tha State Building, and bears this inscription.: ; I am she largest lump of coal ever : ; handled. I weigh 50,250 pounds. I : I : am 26 feet long, 5 feet 4 inches high and : 5 feet 8 inches wide. I cams from the : : Roslin mines, Kittias County, Washing- : r ; ton. I was brought out of a slope 1070 ; j : feet loug with a dip of 18 degrees. I am : 3 . not unuirauiiu ;i iMuswKUk-<jiLuimiiuua iii . a ; character. My State has a coal ar^a of : i : 1.000,000 acres. Boat mo if you can : : and you are entitled to tho broom. south dacota's mineral cottaoe. An interesting exhibit is the mineral cot? tage in the South Dakota Building. It is constructed entirely of minerals, is unique in design and tasty in execution. The minerals were gathered in Custer County by the ladies of that district, and comprise almost every Tis- ful mineral known. The roof is of mica, from the mioa mines, the walls are of gold, silver, copper, tin. lead, zinc and nickel ores, the whole resting on a foundation of the different building stones for which the Black Hills are noted. I WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. A ueiid of peacocks from Ohio have been given a home on Wooded Island. The Pennsylvania State Board gavo a banquet to the foreign commissioners. A kiddle an 1 a chair made by Kit Carson are exhibited in the California Building. Tee managers of the Dahomey Village 'uftvo sent to Africa for flfty more natives. The American Bible Society's exhibit includes Bibles printed in 242 different languages. The total atten lanco at the World's Fair In May was 1,077,233 a dally average of 38,000. Susax B. Anthony addressed the National Association of Women Stenographers at the Art Institute. Five more Samoan women have reached Midway Plaisance; they brought with them | two large fishing canoes. At the opening of the Gorman oxhibit In Machinery Hall, the Tyrolean girls in their picturesque costumes served champagne. Nebo, the biggest of the lions in the 'Hagenbeek arena, has been shipped back to Hau burg because he has become ungovernable. I ? The grounds are gradually acquiring that gala appearance so much desired by the officials and so necessary for the success of the Fair. West Viboinia's coal, coke and building stone display has received its finishing touches, and been thrown open without ceremony. Ox June 12 a congress of trained nurses held its opening session. It is hoped to incorporate American nurses into a society similar to tho Royal British Nurses' Association. Fhaxce's musical exhibit, for want of space in Manufactures Hall, has been set up in tho Electrical Building. Among the tifty-flve pianos shown is one with a complete steel frame. The fifty foot anthracite needle, with the name ' Pennsylvania" on its base, which stands in the center or tho building, is ono of the sights of the Department of Mines and Mining. In the Transportation Building is a farm wagon, strong and ss.-viceable, but very light in weight. The tires of the wheels aro of steel, but all the other metallic work is of aluminium. The pavilion in which the City of Paris has its municipal display forms a half circle in a colonade around a bronze fountain. It is one of the most ornamental structures on I tho grounds. r a laboe collection of English medals and 1 historical relics, including some famous swords and valuable old letters, have been placed in the United States Bui[iing and are now on exhibition. Thb National League for Good Roads has an exhibit in the Agricultural Building of road making materials and sectional samples oi" approved roads. Around the building different kinds of roads are to be built. Miss Ka-jk Marsden delivered two addresses before the Medical Congress on her work among the lepers of Siberia. Dr. Donald McLennan, of Honolulu, sent a paper on leprosy in the Hawaiian Islands, which was read. The chaazinsr colors of the lamps on the great tower in the Electricity Building, which, are moved to the strains of music, changed from gold to white and then to purple, to the strains of tha "Beautiful Blue Danube," at the opening. The Wonder tree is a camera obseura which was exhibited at the Paris Exposition ; it has now been set up in Midway Plaisance. It gives the visitor the impression that he haa climbed a tree and is looking down on the crowd beneath. HesKrB. Fuller, author of the "Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani," in reviewing the minor architecture of tno Exposition, pronounces the Merchant Tailors' structure "the rival, in miniature, of the Art Palace itself, in the severe beauty of its proportions." Ix the New England log cabin in Midway Plaisance the ceremony of "Hanging the Crane" took place, the <;raue being fixed into the llreplace while Longfellow's poem "Hanging the Crane" was recited. This was the formal opening of the log cabin. Edkund Rdssell, the Delsartean professor, is decorating a room for the San Francisco women in the California Building. The room is formod by partitions of red wood; the general tone is a dull copper; one end is devoted to California's musical instruments ; portraits adorn the wall. IN tee renusyivania exuiou in cn<j mining Building is a pavilion constructed to show every use to which slate can be put; a collection or seventy-eight varieties of building stone in thy State, samples of glass sands are shown, and a primitive furnace used in tho infancy of the iron business. The Javanese orchestra is largely made up of bells. The players sit in front of a tflue and gold stand holding a dozen queer shaped bells, made of brass and with a rouud pinnacle at tho top of the dome and on this the musician pounds. There are deep brass bells on big stands and high trablo bells on small stands. A big yellow and groin drum and a pair of huge cymoals accompany the bolls. In tho Electric Building. Miss Johnson, editor of Table Talk, demonstrates the practical advantages of cooking by electricity in a sarins of lectures Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 11 o clock. She broils a steak in six minutes, makes flapjacks, three at a time, heating her griddle in one minute. Miss Johnson says that electricity costs no moro than gas. and a big family car. do their cooking for $3 a month with electricity. All tho cooking on tho new whalebock steamer Christopher Columbus is electric. Thk Samoan colony in Midway Plaisanca contains an old house which belonged to Mataafa, tie king whoso causo Robert Louis Stevenson is championing. It is bui<* ot bread fruit wood, the only wood which the white ants of the island cannot oat. It is round, shaped something like a tent, the slues ?>c*in? upri^m lu a ui 11 vu feat the peak then rising high in air. Tne uprights are about four inches in diameter, crossed by a circle of the wood every four feet. The pieces of wood are all short and joined together by thongs. The roof is of twigs covered with thatch. The California Building is a reproduction of Iho old mission houses. It is 435 feet long. 144 feet wido and two stories high: it cost 5150,000, and large windows and heavy columns are its principal features. In the centre of the building is a palm tree 100 years old. A bronze statue of James W. Marshall, the man who llrst discovered gold in the State, stands in the midst of specimens of gold ore. There is a big display of California woods, a Cleopatra needle in olive oil and collections of traits, grains and grasses. ExGovernor John Doggett sends a collection of Indian baskets. One room in the building is decorated in poppies and another in various wild flowers. Portraits of celebrated California girls are shown on the walls ; among them are Sybil Sanderson and Eleanor Calhoun. The English potteries exhibit in tho Manufactures Building attracts much admiration. Iu tho lloyai Worcester collection is some very beautiful pierced work. It ia made by .a man named Owms, who takes tho vaso as it cornea from the moulders and cuts out tho patterns with a knife, designing :is uo ko-?s on. Tho largest vaaj over made in Royal Worcester i.u on its way to Chicago ; it is nearly I flv j feet high ; tho decorations typify tho | seasons. In tho Douiton ware is tho History of England vus s; it is four l'eet four inches high; around the body are twenty niches containing historical groups ;aroundthe*neek of th-j vase ar j twenty single llgures, portraits of En^iish sovereigns. .In tho Crown Lambeth is tho Coiumbus vaso. six feet high, with Columbus on its summit. Specimens of PatiHiur-Pate exhibit tho work of the renowned artist, M. Solon. This is a Chinese prooes.1 by which the vaso is coated with thin layers of liquid white China clay, in which the ornamentation is drawn, so that the whole of the work is completed before the vaso is 11 red ; the effect is like cameo work. Tho most interesting specimen of this work ia the Jubilee vaso, presented to the Queen in lHtJ7 ; it is valued at 16500. Si ill 1PBDBB CASE CONTINUATION OF THE TRIAL AT NEW BEDFOED. Daily Progress of the Attempt to i?rovo That th? Dausrhter. Lizzie. Killed Her Father and StepMother at Fall River?Her Testimony at the Inquest Excluded. When the fourth day of Lizzie Bordon's trial had ended, from the vaguo and unshapely mas3 of evidcnca produced by the prosecution, tho finger of accusation seamed to the spectators to point still more directly at the prison?r. The first witness was Doctor Bowon, the physician who was summoned to the Borden residence after the bodies had been discovered. He told the situation of the bodies, and said that{ apparently nothing had been disturbed in the rooms. On cross-examination he testified that he had prescribed morphine for Miss Borden to allay nervous excitement. The doses were increased to double strength and had a tendency to affect the memory. Mrs. Churchill, who lived in part of the Bordea house, testified to occurrences just before the murder. She said that Miss Borden was so pale and excited after the murder as to attract considerable attention. Miss Alice Russell was then C3lled. She described Miss Borden's burninor the dress Sunday after the murder. Witness want out and came in again and saw MiS3 Borden standing near the cupboard door and tearing or ripping small portions of the dre3s. Robinson's cross-examination failed to shako Mi89 Russell's direct testimony. On re-direct she testified, against objection by defense, that the cupboard in .which witness saw a part of the dress at the time of the burning was used only for kitchen utensils. Then there came a string ot officers. Two points were made off George Washington Allen, policeman. One was that a table, un8patter3d with blood, was found within three feet of the front of tho sofa where Andrew Borden was found dead. The other was the production of a bloodstained and tattered handkerchief of the bandanna variety, found on the floor, and not hereto fore produced. Both thes9 things are Erotty sure to mean something eventually, 'eputy Sheriff Francis H. Wixom swore, from his recollection of army wounds, that Mrs. Borden's blood was coagulated when he saw it. while Mr. Borden's was not. This helped out the prosecution theory that Lizzie Borden killed her stepmother before breakfast, and then, after a long chat with Bridget and a per.i'dl of an old magazine, killed her father. The clanking of the hatchets and axes besyan with the examination of John Fleet, Assistant City Marshal, of Fall River. He told the old original story of how he had cros3 examined Mtos Borden right after the murders, and she had said: "She wasn't my mother?she was my step-mother. My mother died when I was a little girl.-' He identified the two hatchets and two nxe9, already known in tho case, and tho new hatchet head. He had found it. he said, in a box on the cellar shelf on the Saturday afterthe murders. Officer Cunningham thof imnin'lintnlv aftnp thi-- mnrrlers he found tho callar door locked. This was considered a strong point for the prosecution. On the fifth day ot Miss Borden's trial there were more women than usual in the throng that tried to gain admission to the court room. Assistant Marshall Fleet was the first witness called. His cross-examination was continued by ex-Govemor Robinson. Robinson led Fleet into a contradiction of his testimony of the day boforo that the broken part of the hatchet handle was covered with ashes like tha blado. He also said he put the handleless hatchot back where he found it, and that it w.is not produced at the preliminary hearing, and that ha didn't testify about it at this timo because he didn't think it was used for the murder. Police Captain Harrington was called next. Ha tastified that the prisoner said she left her father reading a paper and after twenty minutes found him dead, and that she said the motive was not robbery, as everything was right about the house. Harrington testified that the prisoner was not in tears during the interview on the day of the murder, and that she was very positive as to the exact timo she was in the barn. Ha described very fully the prisoner's drass at tho time. On cross-examination he contradicted Fleet as to the ptace where the hatchet was found. Officer Doherty then described his experiencos at the Borden house. There was less of a rush of spectators to the Borden murder trial on the 3ixth day than usual, the day opening warm and muggy. The first witness callod was Lieutenant F. L. Edson, of the Fall River Police. He testified to an ineffectual attempt to search the Borden cellar for the hatchet at-Aon fA kyr TLfnlloIv On IWUilliC onuiu IW %JJ iuuuwkj! WM W. VW. examination ho dascribed the thorough search of the cellar after the murder, and said he saw no loosa hatchot handle. Robinson brought out the fact that nearly all the Fall River police prominent in this case have been promoted since the murder except Mullaly, who contradicted Fleet. Officer Benjamin F. Mahoney was oalled and corroborated ' Edson. William H. Medley, inspector of Police, Fall River, described finding the barn door fastened, and on entering seeing dust up stairs which had not been disturbed. The barn windows and door upstairs wera closed. His examination was made within ten minutes after ' reaching the house. Medley descri bed his finding of tbe handleless hatchet covered with coarse dust of ashes, except on the new break. He saw no handle there. Officer Dennis Desmond, Jr., testified as to the search in the house and the failure to find dresses covered with paint or blood. Ha also saw the handleless hatchpt. but no loose handle, and contradicted Medley, claiming to have wrapped up the blade himself. State Detective George F. Saaver then testified to an examination of the handlfile33 hatchet, corroborating other witnesses as to its appearance and the dust oa it; also testified to his saareh of the dresses in the house. He also described the character and location of the blood-spots found in tile rooms where the murders were committed. Op. cross examination ho became badly confused and was unable to tell the ago of the break on the hatchet handle or about the character of the dresses which he examined. The court at 1 I o'clock ndjourued. With the he.it making the court room where Lizzie Borden was on trial the ? most uncomfortable place in town, the second week and savanth day of this proceeding against the stoical daughter of New England was resumed promptly. When the court opened Chief Justice Mason informed the jury that it might retire. That was done because of the argument which was about to be begun for and against the admission of evidence given by Lizzie Borden when the inquest was held in Fall Biver last summer. The point to be decided meant everything to the defendant. Assistant District Attorney Moody made the argument from the standpoint of the prosscutioa, and ex-Governor Bobiuson spoke for Lizzie Borden. While arguments were making Miss Borden w:is not in tile <-ourr room. She was conducted down to the matron's room on complaint of feeling indisposed. When the argument was ended the court retired to deliberate on the points raised. It w;is 12 :35 o'clock when the Justices returned to the court room. In deep, even tones Chief Justice Mason began to read the opinion of the court. In brief it was thar Lizzie Borden was practically a prisoner at the time of the inquest, and that under those circumstances the testimony taken at the inquest would not bo admitted in this trial. The decision of tho court not to allow the evidence taken at tho inquest to enter into tho present case was considered a black eye to tho prosecution. Doctor Alfred C. Dederick, a physician of Fall River, testified that in his opinion Mrs. jJorden had been killed first. Joseph Hyde, a Fall Iiiver policeman, testified that at 0 o'clock of th'j night of the murder, while he was watching outside tho house, he saw Miss Russall and Lizzie Borden go down into the | cellar. Lizzie carried a lamp and the other woman had a bucket in one hand. They I ii n .icaln. and a few minutes later Liz zie went down into the cellar alone. All ha saw Lizzie do was to stoop over tbe sink. Doctor \V. A. Dolan, the medical examiner, was the next witness. Ho described his examination ot the bodies and the premises, and said that in his opinion the wounds could have been inflicted by a woman of ordinary strength. On the eighth day of the Borden case Doctor Dolan took tho stand again, and Mr. Adams continued his cross-examination. A manikin's head wa3 set up on a chair beside - tho jury box and the doctor described how the blows fell upon tho head of Mr. Borden when ho was murdere-l. He 3aid that tho blows were made by a sharp Instrument and some on Mrs. Borden by an assailant astride the body. A juryman was taken sick and a recess of Ave minutes was taken. Miss Borden also left the room evidently feeling much affected. When the s333 ion was resumed Dr. Dolan admlttad testifying in preliminary hearing that Mrs. Borden's death was an hour to an hour and a half before his examination of her, but now thought it was an hour to an hour and a half before Mr. Borden's death. On the re-cross-examination Doctor Dolan said the length of tho wound would not determine the length of the edge of the instrument. Doctor E. 8. Wood, of Harvard Medical College, then described the examinations of the stomachs. He found nothing to indicate dissase or irritation in either stomach, and their contents showed a difference of an hour and a half in the time of death. Examination showed no blood on tho claw-hammered hatchet or axe or on the blue dress. The hair found on this hatchet was not human. The blood spot on the white skirt probably came from outside and was human blood. The handleless hatchet had no blood. The break in its handle contained no dust, but it had dust like ashes on the blade tightly adhering. Under defendant's objection and exception Professor Wood testified that the handleless hatchet might have been cleaned of blood before the handle was broken off. The Professor of Surgery in the Harvard Medical School, Doctor D. W. Cheever, was the last witness of the day. He has been in practice for thirty-five years. He thought that Mrs. Borden had been dead for an hour or more longer than her husband. He thought that the wounds were inflicted with a hatchet. When the ninth day of the Borden trial was opened promptly at 9 o'clock, every seat in the court room was occupied. "The first witness called was City Marshal Hllliard, of Fall River. He described his visits to the Borden house, his conversation with the prisoner, in which she was told that she was suspected, and said that she was In the barn when the murders were committed. He was cross-examined by Governor Robinson, and swore that the search of the Borden house was thorough, and that the defendant gave him all the articles he asked for and spoke earnestly and frankly in conversation about the suspicion of her. The next witness was Mayor John W. G'oughlin, of Fall River. He described his visit to the Borden house with Marshal Hllliard and corroborated the Marshal's testimony as to the conversation with the defendant. Mrs. Gifford, a dressmaker, testified that the prisoner told her that Mrs. Borden was a mean, hateful old thing; that she hated her, and never ate with her when she could help it. The prisoner's color rose as this testimony was given. Lucy Collet testified that she sat on Doctor Chagnon's piazz3 in view of the Borden fence '?? 1A -' - rn r\fT\irtcr rtf fhft A rum 1U :u l?t/ XX ."*?J KJIX ?.uo uiviutu^ v? >MV murder, and saw 110 one. Thomas Bolles, a hostler, testified that he washed carriages in Mre. Churchill's yard on the morning of the murder, and saw no one. Patrick McGowan testified that ha was in the Crowe yard on tho morning of the murder ani saw no ona in the Borden yard. Joseph Des Rosier and John Denny testified that they worked in the Crowe yard all day on the day of the murder and saw no one go or come between that and tho Borden yard. Tho cross-examination of these last few witnesses tended to show a man might have gone out of the Borden yard without being seen. Hannah Reagan, matron at the police station. Fall River, testified to fin excited conversation in the station August 4th between the prisoner and Emma, her sister, in which the prisoner said ''You gave me away, Emma, and I will let you see I won't give in one inch." Emma said "No, Lizzie, I didn't glvo you away." They then sat two hours without speaking and parted without speaking. Bridget Sullivan wa3 recalled, and Mr. Moody-*iowed her the blood-saturated handkerchief which was picked up by Mrs. Borden's body. She identified it* as ono of the sort of handkerchiefs that Mr. Borden used as pocket handkerchiefs and Mr3. Borden U3ed a3 dust rags. Then came Eli Bance, the drug clerk, who was to open the most important question of the day?whether the prisoner's effort to buy prussic acid was to be admitted or not. He gave his name, and said ho had been in the drug business thirteen or fourteen years, and had been with his present employer, E. R. Smith, about four yoars. At this point the lawyers expressed their determination to argue for and against the admission of this testimony. The witness was sent away, and the jury was directed to retire, ai rne citwo of the arguments the Court retired and remained away nearly an hour. When the Judges returned the Chief Justice said: '-The Court are of the opinion that the evidence is competent. The jury may be brought in." It being time for adjournment, nothing more was done. THE LABOB WORLD. Boston is agitating early closing of stores. Connecticut peddlers must now be licensed. New Yobk is to have a co-operative home association. Socialists are organizing in the Pennsylvania coke region. The Cincinnati's cabimet makers' strike threw out .7500 hands. Chicago marble workers refuse to work on stone imported from Europe. Kansas City unions run an industrial bureau and library association. At Denver, Col., $200,000 will be spent on a co-operative home scheme. Union shoemakers started a co-operative factory in Syracuse, N. Y., with a capitalized stock of $10,000. Syracuse (N. Y.) striking shoemakers failed'in their attempt to raise money for a co-operative shop. Federation men favor a labor convention j to take action on the proposed Constitu- j tional amendments in New York. Japanese and Chinese are crowding out the I white flshormeu in British Columbia and the latter petition the Government for relief. Salt Lake (Utah) plumbers refused to work for a non-union boss whooPV-red union men a dollar a day more than the union scale demands. In its manufacture a knife is handled by seventy different artisans from the moment the blade is forged until the instrument is finished and smoothly wrapped up for market. The Criminal Court at Pittsburg, Fonn., has noil pros3ed all the cases against the officials of the Carnegie Company for com plicity in the Homestead trouble last summer. Complaints come from California of lack ol help in the hay field and vineyard, as many Chinese have moved to the cities and towns, and others rofase to work while they fear deportation. The differences between the Italian Mosaic Workers' Union, of New York City, an i the Helpers' Union have been adjusted. The former organization would not permit helpers to become mechanics, but have compromised by granting the privilege when a scarcity of mechanics shall exist. The lowest average weekly earning by female labor in any city in the Union is at Atlanta. Ga., where it is $4. New York shows i .. ^ _ -n u js.j.bD, wmie O.Ui i' riiziuiorv js wn uiKui.oi with 36.91. Comparing the price of liviujr iind clothing on the Pacific coast tfith the E:>st, the advantage is on the side of Xew York. PEARY TO USE BUKEOS. First as Pack Animals and Then as Food for the Dogs. Lieutenant Robert E. Peary has written to C. 15. Rhodes, of Denver. Col., asking him tc socure and forward to him at Philadelphia at onee, from six to a dozen burros in prira condition, broken to pack. The explore' will try the experiment of using these anl mals to convey his supplies across the ice <!&J of Greenland. Lieutenant Peary, in his letter to Mr. Rhodes, says that ho intends tc utilize the burros not only as pack animals but also as meat on the hoof for his dogs. Ag soon as the loads become reduced, so that ;i burro can be dispensed with, he will be killed and fed to dogs. Russia is trying to weaken tho powm of Austria by working through tho Hungarians in this country. Efforts are made to convert them to Pan-Slavism hero and 60.000 of them return home every year to become missionaries of the Czar among the subjects of the Austrian Emperor. : k f ' Sr IjATEE news. This cointge of the Columbian souvenir quarter do lars was begun at the United States Mint. Philadelphia, Penn. The qjd warship Omaha has been turned over toth-i Treasury Department as a quarantine ship it San Francisco, Cal. Colox Aixswobth applied to tho court ?or a mr ndamus compelling the Coroner to allow ) im to appear by counsel at the inquest i lto the cause of the Ford's Theater disast- r. Th?. President made the following appoint-; menti: Holmes Conrad, of "Virginia, to be Assistant Attorney-General; Henry C. Grady, Uni,ed States Marshal fpr tho District of Oregon ; Daniel R. Murphy, United States Attorney for the District of Oregon; Bennington R. Bedie, of New Jersey, United States Consul to Sheffield. England. Sevex more deaths from cholera have occurred in Southern France. The Viking ship left New London, Conn., in tow of a tug en route to Newport, B. L Several yacths accompanied the craft. Postmastee Cha&les B. VToollet, of Long Branch, N. J., disappeared. Hia accounts are more than 92000 short. The Brazilian war ships Aquedaban and Tiradentes sailed from New York. They are bound for Rio Janeiro, and will stop at Barbados for coal. They will reach Rio about July 15. Vix and Elbert Longley, aged seventeen and eleven years respectively, were drowned at Judsonia, Ark., while in swimming. The Nashville (Tenn.) Savings Company, of which Thomas S. Marrs is owner and President, filed an assignment. The liabilities are $232,876. Alba, a village of 800 population in Antrim County, Michigan, has been totally destroyed by fire. The Infanta Eulalia left Chicago for Niagara Falls, BufTalo and New York City. The body of Herman Schaffner, the missi ing Chicago banker, was found in Lake Michigan, near the Marine Hospital. Babon Fava was presented to the President by Secretary Gresham under his new title as Ambassador from Italy. The usual felicitous speeches were exchanged. Chief Justice Bixohau, of tho District Supreme Court, refused the mandamus asked for by Colonel Alnsworth, and declared the proceedings before the deputy coroner in the Ford's Theatre casa illegal. A dbeadfui, accident occurred at Chatham, England. A barge smashed into a boatload of soldiers, three of whom were drowned and several others were shockingly maimed. Doctor McGlyjhj has been in Rome. Ho had a long audience with tho Pope, who rt>ceived him cordially, as did other high ecclesiastical dignitaries. jjocror jnc'vrjyiin then left for home, and is reported as being highly delighted vtiUi his reception. . ANOTHER WARSHIP BORN. The Massachusetts Successfully Launched at Philadelphia. The big battleship Massachusetts was successfully launched from the shipyard of the Cramps, at Philadelphia, Penn., a few morn, ings ago, in the presence of 15,000 spectators. The Washington party Included Secretary Herbert and his daughters, Leila and Mrs. Micon. Miss Leila Herbert christened the vessal with a prettily decorated bottle of champagne, and after entering the water the latest addition to Uncle Sam's Nary was made fast to the wharves where are also moored the cruisers New York and Columbia and the ship of war Indiana. The Massachusetts, tho second of the three coast-line battle ships to be launched, is built of steel. The hull is protected by belts of heavy armor, 1)4 feet wide, three feet of which is above water. This protection runs along both sides of the vessel for a distance of 148 feet amidships, at the extremities of which the armor turns in toward the centre line at an angle of 45 degrees for a longitudinal distance of 24 feet, affording a total broadside protection of 19G feet, ana passing around and supporting the armor for the 13inch gun turrets. On top of this side armoi is placed a steel deck '2% inches thick, under which are the magizines and machinery. Above this belt of side armor and extending lrom redoubt to redoubt the sides are five inches thick with a backing of ten feet oi coal. The main batteries will consist ol four tbirteen-inch breech-loading rifles, eight eight-inch breech-loading rifles and four sixinch breech-loading rifles, and the secondary batteries of twenty six-pounder rapid-Art; guns, four one-pounder rapid-flro guns and four Gatling guns. In addition to the foregoing offensive phase of the ship there are six torpedo tabes, one bow, one stern, an>3 four broadside??two on either side, jusl abaft and forward of the forward and a.'tei barbettes, respectfully. The complement will consist of 475 officers and men. THE ORANGE DTDUSTET. An Enormous Increase of the Yield in Florida. The last annual report of the Florida Fruit Exchange showed the growth of the Industry in Florida had increased from 000,000 boxes in 1835 to 3,900,000 for the season just closed. The average net price to growers at the nearest railroad or steamboat station had been $1.31 per box, an increi33 of nearly twenty per cent, over the average of the previous year. President Fairbank says the coming crop will exceed in volume all previous yields. A conservative estimate places it at fully 5,000,000 boxes, of wjbich over 4,000,000 will be marketed. It is the purpose of the Fruit Exchange to market a considerable portion of this crop in Etgland and other loreigb countries. , FROM TEE SULTM. A Magnificent Medal Commemorative of America's Discovery. Mavroyni Bey. the Turkish Minister, in behalf of the Sultan of Turkey, presented to the President a magnificent medal commemorative of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America. The medal is of massive gold, about four inches in diameter. The centre piece is a beautifully engraved cameo. Illustrating the discovery of America. There is a. suitable inscription in Turkish on the face, and the medal proper is encircled with :in elaborately wrought laurel wreath studded with diamonds. Just what disposition will be made or the medal has not yet been determined, bitf as it is really a gift to the Nation it will probably ornament the National Museum or the Library of the Depirtmeut ol State. COTTON TO BE PLANTED. The Planters in the (Overflowed Districts to Try an Experiment. The planters in the overflowed districts of Mississippi and portions of Louisiana are so encouraged by the fall of the water, which has lately taken place, that they propose to piant their f:irms after the flood goes down* Their first idea was to plant corn and similar short crops, but they have finally announced that they will try coirton. with which their places were originally planted. This hainever been done before at the latter part o June. Tho planters think, hdpvever, that the overflow will have tho oflfeot <m fertilizing the soil and making tho crop grow more rapidly and that they can raisja crop ia three or four months. *, k TEE VIKING SHIP. 1 She Puts Into New London All Sound fl And Well. 1 Tni> vtnirjG. After many days and nighls nt aea, wrest- fl| ling with storm, ico rind current, the good' IH Norse ship Viking, modcllod after the old oaken ships of the time of "Eric the Bed," reachod New London (Conn.) harbor in the teeth of a gray southeaster, and after returning salutes rode placidly at anchorunder her snugly folded sail. Hor first officer, Gustav Gunderson, a sailor of great experience, told this story of the voyage : :?V* "We have had a very comfortable passage.. We left Norway with a crew of twelve men. including six sailors, a cook, sail maker ana carpenter. A temporary canvas awning was erected over the bow from stem to stern, as you see, for shelter, and we bent a jib on the, stay running from tho masthead to the bows. We called it the 'foresail.' There was no jib on the viking boat, but we found that it steadied our craft greatly and helped her speed. Altogether we spread about 300 yards of canvas in our mainsail and about eighty more in jib. Our best day's run was 211 miles. We passed the Shetland Islands, and then sailed directly for Cape Bace. Newfoundland. We did not strike Cape Bace, however, because of adverse winds. The first land we made was Becalieu Light, on the east coast of Newfoundland, on the morning of May 27, at 3 o'clock, and that same day we spoke the ocean tug Ingraham. On June 8 fourteen j fishermen from the Gloucester schooner | Bronhilde boarded us off Cape Canso, and Kave us the first copy of a newspaper wa had' seen since leaving Norway. On the- j 11th of June we sighted Cape Cod at I o'clock in the morning, and the Captaint called all hands aft* in celebration of the event, Cape Cod being the famous vinftland,, as we suppose, discovered by our ancestors.! From that time on wa have been saluted and cheered by steam whistles and fog horns everywhere." The vessel is a perfect model of en old Viking ship unearthed from a mound in Norway thirteen years ago. The Viking ship is built of the very best oak. Her length is eightyone feet, width 16feet, and extreme depth 5W feet. The Vila*,' ship has only one mast, but that is fifty-one feat high. She carries a very great area of canvas, ~her one square sail" being thirty-two feet wide at the top and' 373^ feet at the bottom, the material out of which it is made being red and white striped duck. The standard of the Vikingshlp is conspicuous and can be seen at a great 'distance. It <o mo^o nt rati fal? dtH Viok pmhlawinfld on it a gilt lion and the name of the ship. The banner of the ship is <iiso made of red felt, on which is painted a huge black raven. Eight shields, painted black and yellow, are placed on eitner side. To cross the ocaau in sucu a frail craft as this required no ordinary skill and seamanship. To make the ship more seaworthy she was supplied with fipating piers of raindeer skin, twenty-one decimetres in diameter. The rudder is placad on the starboard side, while there are two rows of seats extending irom bow to stern. The Viking ship has no deck, her in- . . terior being just like an ordinary rowboat, but in order to preserve the charts and instruments she has four water and air-tight compartments made of solid oak. During the voyage the crew had to usa the seats for bunks, and wrapped in a reindeer rug and a couple of woolen blankets were compelled to make the best of it. There were twelve men on the Viking, captain included. This is not enough, as she possesses fourteen pairs of oars, and before she is brought to Chicago additional Norwegian sailors must be engaged to man her. The crew are dressed in dark navy-blue breeches, jacket and cap and gray vest. On the collar of the officers' jackets are embroidered three, two or one gilt star, according to the rank wnich they bear. On the front of the cap is the name "Viking." Every man aboard is a first-class sailor. When it was known in Norway that the Viking was bound for too World's Fair, applications for positions from all quarters of the country came in. ?y a careful weeding-out process the most suitable candidates were selected, and it may be safely said that very few ships that ever crossed the Atlantic carried such a splendid lot of seamen as did the Viking. ' Captain Magnus Anderson, the -captain of the Viking and the man who first suggested that the vessel should be brought to the World's Fair, is as daring and aa skillful a sailor as ever trad a deck. TO 0L03E TEE FAIR. Decision of a Majority of the Federal Court. The JuJges of tho Federal Court at Chicago failed to agree upon the proper policy to ba pursued on the question of closing the World's Fair on Sunday. A crowd of lawyers and others were present and wore greatly surprised. When Judges Woods, Jenkins and Grosscup tonk their seats on the bench. Judge ' Woods announced that the court would pass upon the motion for an injunction made by the United 8tates against the World's Columbian Exposition. Judge Woods said that he and his associates entertained different views on certain important points and that each of them would formulate his ideas in an individual opinion. TheJtidgeina long opinion Rave his views of the cas9, and decided that the prayer for an injunction was well . . trrounded and that the Fair should be enjoined from opening its sates on Sunday. Judge Jenkins agreed with Judsre Woodson the main point in the World's Fair Injunotion proceedings, and also decided that the injunction must iaiuo and the Fair be closed on Sunday. This decides the question, leaving Judge Grosscup in a minority. The court declares with the Government for the tatter's right to insist on the contract made by the acceptance of the souvenir coins. Judsre Grosscup holds that the Fair may be kept open. ???^ Jeffersonville, lad., is mentioned as the Mecca of eloping couples who ran away because it was cheaper to do so than to have a suitable wedding ac home. A marriage Occurred recently at Jeffersonville rnmantir? enough to make one fonret the pruden* motives of a dozen other couples. Miss Pricc was the daughter of a rich Kentucky farmer who had determined that she should be an old maid. She had a lover, for whom she left a note in the corner of a certain field every day, receiving _ 1 ? TT?J 11 ? XI 1 - ?l + W one 1Q reply. riuany uue iuver, tviiu the assistance of a doughty colonel and two female friends, stole the lady from her chamber window at night. The romance is all complete, for the rope ladder and the covered carriage and impatient team were all brought into play. Trie lovers were rcvddcd in Jetfersonville and all that is now wanting is the forgiveness of the bride's father. This he cannot withhold, forbyso doing he would destroy the symmetry of the story. Xo old mao wouM be so mean as that. a gentleman who nas oeen exploring near the former sites of Sodom and Gomorrah states that, though he looked for the pillar of salt into which Lot's wife had the misfortune to turn, he did not And It. This leaver his reputation for veracity in excellent repair.