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X MTU SDN BUM.: a< TEE FIRST MEETING OF THE j? FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. !? Sceneson the Floors of Both Houses on the Opening Day?Xo Business of Importance Transacted in the ' Senate?The Keprcsentattves Or ganizc With Crisp as Speaker. 31: wl Oniy routine business was transacted on t{j the first day of the extraordinary session of mi the Fifty-third Congress, called by President Cleveland for the purpose of enacting legis- Cc lation to relieve the alarming financial condition of the country. The Senate ad- , journed very abruptly on receiving jn the announcement of the death of ta Senator Stanford, which occurred a month ago, and the House spent the day in . electing its 8peaker and choosing the seats ? that the Representatives of the new Congress J.01 will oocopy. At the White House President p? Cleveland awaited the coming of the usual committees from the Senate and House to announce to him that Congress was ready to do an business, and was prepared to reply to them that he would at once communicate to thetwo Sll Houses in writing. His message was completed. and the office carriage stood at the tu door to convey the--private secretary to the t0 Capitol with the important document. The wt Congressional committees did not arrive, Li however, and the meesago was locked up in an the White House safe. . Fr In the 8enate, just before the stroke of Li noon, the Vice-President's gavel "fell, and the i Rev. Mr. Butler opened the session with prayer. The Vice-President then directed the Secretary to read the proclamation of f the President convening Congress to ex- i~i traordinary session, and the document was read by Mr. McCook. the outgoing Secretary. Mr. Quay, who had been absent I during the last session of the Senate, and had Nc therefore not taken the oath qualifying him for his new term, had the oath now admin- po istered to bim, as also had Mr. Pasco, re- th Hiected by the Legislature of Florida since pii the close of the last session. The VicePresident laid before the Senate a comiruuicatlon from 5Ir. Beckwith, of Wyoming, saying that, owing to a combination of cif.-u mstances over which he had no control, bri had been obliged to hand in his re9igna- di tion to Governor Osborne, of Wyoming, of n's appointment as United States Senator. ba The communication was placed on file. On the i suggestion of Mr. Gorman the oath of office qz was administered to the new Secretary of the y Senate, Mr. Cox, who was escorted to the Wf desk by the retiring Secretary, Mr. McCook. Resolutions were then offered and agreed to to inform the House of Representatives that , a quorum of the Senate had assembled and was ready to proceed to business; to notify the Co House and the President of the election of 381 w- /1 Conofa fhft r mr. oui usocvicioij v? iuu n ,MV daily bour of meeting at noon, and for the th. appointment of a committee of two SeDatots bu to join a like committee on the part of the of Hous? to wait upon the President and in- i form him that both Houses are in session and jja ready to receive auy communication he /q may be pleased to make. Messrs. Har- v , ris and Sherman were appointed as such committee on the part of th? S^Date. Mr. White then rose and said 5"a that it was his painful duty to announce the wa de;;tb of his late colleague, Mr. Stanford. He should, at a date to be fixed hereafter, re- Br qu i#t the Senate to set apart a day for such ' rriwrks in regard to Mr. Stanford's memory W< as miyht be deemed proper, and should con- tei tent himself now with moving, as a mark of ne: re.- pect. that the Senate do now adjourn. The ] nM tion was agreed to, and the Senate, at at( 12 20 adjourned. jn the House of Representatives a quarter WJ bi? ore 12 the floor was cleared of persons Qs not entitled to the privilege of being present aZ( during the session, and at noon Clerk Kerr ' , > ?a!led the members to order, and the extra- J r ordinary session of the Fifty-third Congress J* began. Then the Clerk read the President's proclamation summoning Congress "? to convene in extra session and im- al> mediately afterward proceeded to call the ] roll. Three hundred and thirty-six mem- thi bers having responded to their naniPB, the soi Clerk announced that there was more than a erf quorum pa? sent, snd that the first business ? in order was the election of a Speaker. Mr. an Ho man. as Chairman of the Democratic cau- g1E cue. rose and said that he haul the honor to , put in nomination for that high office the Hon. James" F. Crisp, of-Georgia. The laugh- Pa ter caused by this slip of the tongue s had hardly abated before it was renewed, when the Clerk fell into the same error and toi announced that "James" F. Crisp had been gr put in nomination. Mr. Reed, of Maine, was co placed in nomination by Mr. Henderson, the Chairman of the Republican caucus. Then arose Mr. Kem and, amid general laughter, speaking for the third party, presented the name ol Jerry Bimpson. 01 Aunsas. rne voio ? resulted : For Crisp, 214 ; for Reed, 122; for se Simpson, 7. The announcement was greeted with loud applause. Messrs. sp Holman, Reed and Simpson were Co appointed a committee to escort the Speaker wl to the chair. As Mr. Crisp assumed the de travel a sudden hush fell upon the House. In a clear but moved voice the Speaker said: tei "llepresentatives : Profoundly grateful for wi this mark of your confidence, I shall try to be be in some degree worthy of It by an honest rlj effort to discharge the duties of the , office on which I am about to enter with fidelity, with courtesy, and cr with the strictest impartiality. (Ap- ^ plause.) I am now ready to take the oath of office/' The oath was impressively administered by the father of the House, Mr. mi O'Neill, of Pennsylvania. Prayer was then M; offered by the blind Chaplain of the last bc House, the Rev. Doctor Milburn. The work Sf -I- ?k? nf M >ha Cl <J J HUUJUiJdlCilU^ mo VHiW V4 vtuvw .v ?mv -numbers-elect was then entered upon. In 3c squad6 of two dozen they, as their namta Di were called, took their stand in the area in CI front of the Speaker's desk, and with right hand raised swore to obey the Constitution u] and the laws of their country. Then the UI Democratic officers were elected as follows: James Kerr, Clerk ; H. W. Snow, Sergeant- ce at-Arms; A. B. Hurt, Doorkeeper: Lycurjjus Dalton, Postmaster, and 8am- . uel W. Hadaway, Chaplain. When 10 the drawing for seats was concluded, 95 it was ordered that the daily hour for the 1x1 mee *ng of the House would be 12 m. Mr. ?r Grosvenor announced the death of his colleague. Mr. Enoch, of Ohio, aud as a mark & of respect to the memory of the deceased the House at 3.30 adjourned. Tlic Senate. 2d Dat.?The Rev. Dr. Milburu, the new Chaplain of the Senate, opened the proceed- !? iri?s with prayer. The Journal was read by the new Secretary, Mr. Cox. The croden- m .. . t A - T? l.s ....J A.- Tf iiHis oj ueor^w v/. roritms. imurr iwi appointment of the Governor of California, in be place of the late Senator Stanford, were read, and the oath of office was administered to ti the new Sensitor. Mr. Pruden. one of R the resident's .secretaries then deliveredthe message, whlcii was immediately read to the jn Senate by Mr. Johnson, the chief clerk. It eI was ordered to be printed immediately, and re referred to the Finance Committee. Various petitions for and against the repeal of the . Sherman act were presented and referred c to the Finance Committee. Mr. Hill, of New York, introduced a bill to repeal 31 certain sections of the Sherman act. That al was followed by two bills introduced by Mr. Stewart. Mr. Lodge introduced a k r-solution for a vote on the repe-jl of silver ^ purchases on August 22. Mr. Murphy [ir - j; ecntela bill to bridge the Hudson Biver, be- ti tw^en New York and Jersey Citj*. 'A long a debate tool: place over Mr. Hale's proposition t-> in -ri-j.se the daily working hours o! the body t, 3i> Day. -Xo business was don", adjournment heins; t:sken immediately after tho read- ^ iug o." the Journal. j lie nuusc. 2d D.v'i'.?thi; Housr was callod io order promptly .~.t noon, an-1 prayer was offered by ttie newly-electod Chaplain, the IJev. Dr. S Haddaway. The Journal, which was a rather lenghty one. was then roail and approved, and the House took a recess until 12.45. After the recess Mr. Springer, o Chairman of the committee appointed to wait . on ttie President, reported that the President would .'ommunicate in writing a message to Congress forthwith. Instantly Mr. Pruden, bi one of the President's secretaries, made his la bow and sent the important document to the d< clerk's desk, where it was read by Clerk li< Kerr. The President's message was listened to with intense interest by the members of the House, and the conclusion of the reading was greeted with general applause not confined to any section of the chamber. ? When the reading of the messiyje TiS con- 0 clu-l-i-eiocilr- tne Fifth 8 let or Michigan was taken up, and after two >urs" debate Richardson, the Democrat, was ated on his prima facie title. Reilly an);m<'ed the death of his colleague, William utehler. and as a mark of respect to the omory of the deceased the House at 4.35 adurned. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Secretary of tiik Treasure Cahlisl3 ar,ed at Gray Gables, Buzzard's Bay. from ashingtOD. He was met At th?' station by rs. Cleveland and driven to Gray Gables, lere be took breakfast with the family, and en consulted with the President on the >ssage to Congress. Chief Justice Bleckley, of the Supreme ?urt. of Georgia, a widower more than s-enty years old, married Miss Chloe Herig, of New York City. The farmers near Huntingdon, Penn., are despair over the great loss they have susined by an invasion of grasshoppers. Pbesident Cleveland left his summer ime at Gray Gables. Buzzard's Bay, Mass., r Washington, accompanied by Secretary imont. Secretary Carlisle and Mtorneyjneral Olney. John Chew, a stable employe, was stabbed d killed by "Snip" Donovan, a disoharged liner at the Monmouth racetrack, Little Iver, N. J. , A. pabty of nine men and children were turning to Eaqt New York from a fishing trip the old mill on JamaicA Bay, when they >re overtaken by a severe thunderstorm, gbtning instantly killed two of the party d injured five others. The dead are: ederiok Siegling, thirty-seven years old ; zzie Topal, five years old. Robebt H. Colemax, the "Iron King" of ) Lebanon Valley, Pennsylvania, and a llionaire several times over, has con>sed judgments aggregating $306,500, lich, together with other liens previously tered, swells the aggregate to 32,604,000. Snowdbifts a foot deep are reported in >rtheastern Massachusetts. Postmaster Dayton, or new yoru uiry, apinted General Fitz John Porter cashier in b postofflce. He lives in New Jersey. The ace is worth $2500. South und West. It was practically settlod that the prates of e World's Fair would be opened on Sunday iring the rest of the Exposition. Laza3us Silverman, a well-known Chicago nker, suspended. Liabilities, $1,000,000. The people from the frozen land of the ;ar of all the Russias celebrated at the orld's Fair their special day. A reception is held throughout the day in the Russian .vilion in Manufactures Hall. A concert Russian music was given in Festival Hall. Felix Poole,a notorious character of Ohio unty, Kentucky, was lynched there for asulting a young woman. The exodus of Colorado miners continues rough Kansas, and is proving a heavy rden to the Western farmers, and a source great annoyance to the railroads. Pan Look, bank robber and murderer, was nged a few nights ago in the Columbus hio) Prison. Walter F. Shaw, the murderer of his >ther and aunt, was hanged in the court rd at Houston, Texas. Joseph A. Howell is hanged at Benton. Mo., tor the murder Mrs. Nettie Hall and four children near ookfleld, Mo. The Executive Committee of the Board of >rld's Fair Directors ordered a payment of 1 per cent, on the entire bonded indebtedis of the corporation. Kelson Van Kirk, a Bosrd of Trade oper>r, shot himself to death in his office in licago. He was seventy-five years old, and is a member of the firm of Van Kirk <k ten, which went bankrupt about a month a. Receivers were appointed for the James Walker Company, wholesale and retail jT goods dealers in Chicago. The liabili3 are reported to be $2,400,000, of which out $2,000,000 is due to New York firms. Peculations amounting to $800,000 from - Dml. r\9 Con hv thft 9 rauiuv/ xmub is of Doctor McDonald have been dkcovjd. The World's Fair gates were opened,for other Sunday, but the attendance was tall. These train hands wei^e killed and many ssengpre injured in a wreck of a?Laka ore Railroad train near Lindsay, Ohio. Dibectob Holdkn, of the Lick Observary. California, telegraphed that photoaphs were taken showing objects like a met on the sun's face. Washington. Ministeb Blocnt'b long expected report : Hawaiian affaire was received by the cretary of State. The President appointed E. Ellery Andern, of New York, one of the Pacific Railroad tmmissioners in place of Mr. Dimmock, 10 was appointed by Mr. Cleveland, but clinedthe office. Pension Commissioner Lochben has exrwiari until October 10. 1893. the per od ithin which pensioners whose pensions have en suspended may make proof of their jht to receive them. The Democrats, Republicans and Populists Id caucuses at Washington. The Demoats renominated Crl3p for Speaker, and en selected Snow, of Illinois, for Serant-at-Arms; Huerr, of Tennessee, for jorkeeper, DaJton, of Indiana, for Postuster, and ths Rev. S. W. Hadaway. of aryland, for Chaplain. The Republicans uninated Thomas B. "Reed, of Maine, for leaker. The remainder of the ticket was: erk, Edward McPherson. of Pennsylvania; irgeant-at-Arms, A. J. Holmes, of Iowa; aorkeeper, J. L. Hathaway, ot Montana; laplain, the Rev. Horace Green, of New >ri. Thirteen members attended the Ponist caucus. Thoy decided to 'vote as a lit to maintain the present ratio of silver gold?sixteen to one. No ticket for offlra of the House was nominated. To meet the continually increasing demand r National bank notes from banks which e taking advantage ot the low rate of Dvernment bonds and buying them and ineasing their circulation. Secretary Carlisle is ordered the force of the Bureau of En aving and Printing to work from 8 a. m. itll, C p. m. Foreign. The cholera has existed in epidemic form Marseilles for throe months past, but the cal authorities have succeeded in concealer the fact even from the French Govern ent. The condition of things at Naples, aly. is also stated to be very sarious, there >ing now as many as,fifty new cases a day. A. financial panic, caused by the condion of the silver market, prevails in Costa ica. Four hundred men have been killed durig tbe siege of La Plata. Argentina, in the liiagements between the provincial and (volutionary troops. The blockade of Bangkok, Siam, has been rmally raised by Admiral Humann. Fire in th9 timber yards adjoining the [ersey (England) docks caused a damage of Imost a million dollars. The Corinth ship canal was opened by the ing of Greece in the presence of all the lembers of the ltoyal family, the Cabinet tinisters, the foraign diplomatic reprasentaves, the principal military and civil c-flcials ad an immense crowd of citizens. Socialists met in an international confess in Zurich, Switzerland, sixteen coun :ies being represented t.y delegates. Twenty-two members of an excursion parf were drownoJ in Swansea Bay. Wales. RUSSIAN. TOWN BUBNED. even Persons Killed and ISO Buidings Destroyed. The town of Blrsk, In the Government of renburg, Russia, has baon visit 3d by a most isistrous conflagration. One hundred and eighty houses were irned. Saven persons were killed and a ,rge number injured. Among the buildings 33troyed were the City Hall and the Cathou Church. It ia reported that a ton of hay recently old In London for double the price of a ton f o'?ts. Hay and wheat are now nearer toother in price than ever known bofora. A IMP B Bill BRITISH GUIANA'S EXHIBIT AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. Tlie Products of Her Plantation Clold Fields, Tangled .Jungles aii Rich Forests?Best of All Trees Triumphs of the Taxidermist Art?Beautiful Feather Work. If I had th* privilege of seeing only o; World's Fair department, said a fjentlcraa I would cbooso tlio agricultural. Iu uo oth building can one come so no;ir the people other lands. In tho Agrioulturs Buiidii you are close to tho soil, to that which giv sustenance. As a matter of course. tho lii habits and customs of tho people arc show in a moro direct way. Tho Agricuttu Building is the place to study the world thi world is. The speaker m?ist have boon in tbe Britii Guiana section of Chief Buchanan's buildii before he spoke. In its timber-fenced arc the products and probabilities of tbnt lai which Columbus saw in 14D8 when lieenten the Gulf of Para, are placed in such sha| that an hour givesoneanintimate Icnowledi "of the interesting country. One of tl products is Adolphus Daniel, the Indian pil of the gold rivers, Essoquibo, Mazarum ai Guyuwinl. With an active brain, an intel gent comprehension of what a visitor wan to know and a thorough knowledge of h subject, the little riverman, tnio to his ca ing, pilots his guests all over British Guiaa through sugar plantations and cold Hold tangled jungles and grand forests, giviig ; object lesson at every step. Triumphs of the taxidermist's art are tl stuffed fauna of British Guiana, which a mounted under tho roof of the Agricultu Building. The most conspicuous group is tapir with a jaguar's claws and teoth in i thick skin. Threo varieties of ant-eaters a shown. One, a tree-climber, is no larg than a foxtail squirrel, another is about tl size of a dog and the ant boar, or crreac an eater, twice as large, with bushy tail, coar long hair and a long snout. Then there a ocelots, wicked-looking wildcats, gracofi slim-limbed wood deer, cougars, buire to toise and snakes as natural as life, nlaced attitudes of arrested motion whicn tell the jungles and tracklcss forests tbat cxtoi back from the towns and clearings noar tl coast. They are interesting, but apparently < aot attract as muoh attention. ;ia the nil gilded pyramids which represent the outp of gold since 1884. People gaze wpon tl pyramids with renewed interest when th learn that even Sir Walter Raleigh believi the reports of the Spaniards, ?ailed up ll Orinoco River in 1595, and the next ye sent Captain Keymis to hunt for tbo 'Tic est country in the world." It. was not un 1880, howover, that placer w/ishing real amounted to anything in British Ouiaun. began in the Puntni River, a branch of tl Masaruni. Pour years later the Oovern'me took official cognizance of the gold washii and imposed a royalty on the tfold obtainu ~T c nnrrrsn gpiana 6ecti which amouuted in that year to 250 ouao< This is represented by the smallest pyrami The next year gave 939 ouaces. In 188G t output jumped up to 6518 ounces, and ovo year thereafter the gold product almi doubled, until in 1892 it amounted to 12! 615 ounces. Nuggets and dust are exhibit from the Puruni washings, Groote Crec the districts of Deraerara. Essoquebo at other gold bearers. 8o rapidly in tho go industry developing that a railroad.conittx ing the Essequebo and Demernra ltivors is be built for transporting tho product. British' Guiana has but one railroad, short coast lin9 connecting Georgetown, t metropolis of the country, with Mahaic twenty miles distant. Lines or steamei however, use the rivers, and ferry steam* are numerous. Logs and largo timbers :i transported in a manner peculiar to t country. Instead of being rafted down t rivers the logs are slung in tho water < either side of a punt, much after the mann of loaiing a pack mule. A model of one loc-iadea ounts is one of tho pron nent exhibits. The punt is shaped sorr what like an Ohio River coal bargo, oc narrower. It is a house boat in which hai mocks are slung, for whole Indian famili often live on these punts. The craft is steer by a long sweep and carries a surprisi amount of timber. Tho logs lie ou outri gers of wood, which extend on either 3i twice tho width of the punt. British Guiana is rich in woods. Tho ft Is proved beyond peradventure by tho varit of forest products which are shown. Hu timbers form a gigantic fence around thess tion, and hundreds of polished squares a arranged in a separate exhibit. Pilot Dani tapped tho round trunk of the eta palm most with affection, as he recited the virtu of the "best of all trees." Tho etapalm gn food, shelter, clothing and drink to the i tive Indians, and the arts of civilization ms it a great commercial product. Its nuts a edible, and the tender shoots or palmetl which grow from tho crown are esteemed delicacies and preserved in sirup and pickles. Its ftber, originally woven ? ropes and cloth, makes mats and hammocl its oil is used for medicine and cooking a its sap or milk, which flows readily whent tree is gashocf, is caught in caiabushos, ai after fermentation, drunk its a wine. The woods exhibited embrace some of t hardest and heaviest in the world. Th vary in color from nearly black through t browns to almost pure white. Pernapn t most singular is the mottled "l<yter wo'oc which resembles closely the snakewooi East India. Its dart, markings across t grain look like irregularly formed letters, is the heart ot a tree, rarely exceeding .= inches iu diameter, although the tree isso.T times two feet across. Taking a very hi polish, it is largely used for walking cat and for inlaid work. The greenhoart. frt which the quinine of British Guiana is take is a densa, heavy timber of a greenish yeili color, almost entirely free from knot9 a X 4 T*. a /-v., I- .,n l fti ?V:'U K^OIU'.'J. tl L .1UR.1 niku v., ,.u.? t? for ship building, and is used all throught couutry for building the boxes of tho pi pie. Mora is :i reddish-brown wood, not heavy as gr:*onheart.' but like greenheart procurable in logs of sixty to eighty feet lo aad up to two feet in diameter. Wailaba dark orimsou in color, and makes tho sh gleso? the country. It is easily split. ant] also used for p iling and vat staves. A-> st< ing rain-water is a umessity in lint Guiana, th;* wallaba is iu.lispensaolc. fame ;is a water-carrier extends to the W Indies, for in 1391 urvirly 5,500,009 waiia shingles were shipped to the islands. To the Iudiaus the cassava dominates trees and shrubs. From its poisonous r< the bread of the family is prepared. Then is grated, and tho pulp, having be squeezed dry in what is ealled the "mat pee," is placed on the "barbacue," or sh< over the fireplace, until all the poisonc juioo is evaporated. It is then baked u flat iron dish to form a kiuil of paucako flap-jack. The cassava bread is kept fr< envious hands in a showcase in the exhit with several cases ot cassava starch. Caas/i juioo is prepared in another way. 1 poison hav;ag llrat been expelled by evaj ration the juica is turned into a darii bro 1 molasses like extract called 'cassnreep," ^ which, with fresh peppers, forms tho basis o* a most delicious soup. The ca3sava is cultivated by the Indians with little trouble. Xt M is raised in fields and grows about ten feet b high. After the roots are cut oat the stalk is cut into pieces from twelve to eighteen im-hes long and stuck into the freshly plowed land. In three or four days the cuttings sprout and in seven or nine months are ready 3, to be rootod out again. The cassava Held is 1(i generally som<i distance from the "renal),' or leaf-covered hut of tho native, in a clear~~ ingof the forest. '8 Naturally sugar, which fs the principal export of the colony, forms an important factor in the exhibits. In lM'.H over 105,000 tons a3 were shipped out of the country, more than half coming to this country. With its by^ products?molasses and rum?the value of Vi" TIIC pronil?*[S UL tUO JiUl^UC {/luumnuao of amounted to over $0,000,000 ia 1301. The l(? plantation.? always front the seashore or bnuk of ft river, and are cut up by numerous 3 canals and protected from high water and "t\ floods l>y dikes. One plantation employs fu >V15 people. and all the machines ery and methods aco used of the most modas ern character. Demorarn crystals are well known in the sugar market* of the world, ?h and it is claimed that they are of a very su>g porior quality and rich flavor. All grades of sugar aro. shown, with photographs of id mills and plantations. The pre9orved fruit id exhibit is closely connected with the sugars, so Large glass jars containing tempting sarnie pies of jams, preserves and marmalades are h? arranged in tiers, showing preserved guava, ot Seville oranges, pineapples, tamarinds, id limes, crtisareep and Demerara pickles or 11- palmettos. l.9 Milliners and young women addicted to [, wearing plumage on their hats crowd around the (Jumps containing the birds of the eountry. Tho king hummingbird, purple-breast' od cotinga, pompadour cotinga, firebirds and other tropical sougless birds, with the rainbow on their leathers, are hut a few of J? the gorgeously tinted flyers that were stuffed in Georgetown for the World's Fair. a Woman's work is seen in the ne^Haces and ts purses made from tho seeds of a gros3 called re "Job's tears," which look like miniature er robin's eggs, and from the flat, glossy black ,a and brown munosa seeds. In the same case with them are boaurllul baskets and fans 3e niado from corn husks and tho llbre of tue r0 Spanish needle plant. Beautiful feather Ll work is shown and many women sigh with irl | disappointment wheu they aro told that the in j carved calabasas are not tor sale. Of . t j ISLAND OF JAMAICA 3 EXHIBIT. io The priucipal products of Jamaica are shown ia the Manufactures Building in atJo tractive arrangoment. some of them after arne tistic designs and all of them so as to develop ut their valius to the Inland in its relations with tio the commercial world. Tobacco, one of the ay important crops, is shown in festooned ropes fhI ot natural loaf and in fancy cases of the he manufactured article, ar When it comes to coffee, says the Chicago h- News, thocommissioner grows eloquent, and, til polutintf to a Rrout array of sampler, he says ly "Coffee-farming lu Jamaica is fast becoming It one of our principal Industries. We raise a ho peculiarly duo brand ot coffee, which virturit ally llx?8 the price of the commodity. Very ig little, if any, of ourcoiToe tluds Its way into (1, the American market. It is sent to the Eug ) i J OS, AaTtlCULTCKC BCIT.OIX9. 3S. I I1?ti warehouse*. whero it commands a higher il. prlc? than the product or anv other country. Srt) "flerft," indicating a large case, 'is the onry tiro history of Jamaica coffee. Tho speci)8t mens in the case show the processes through 1).- which coffee must be put before it is ready ed for tho markut, from the original pod, or ilc. husk, in which the coffee bean is taken from nd tbn tree, to the green coffee of commercc. A Id lar^e proportion of tho country in which this . t- cofffx: Is raised is practically unsettled, but to uvery attraction is being offered to induce iuimiirratiou and tho laud is rapidly being a taken up. Before a great while we bopo to be liuvrt It completely settled." iu, Those who visit tho Jamaican3ection, howw. over, linger longest over the wonderful colire taction of dried plants loaned by the Oov,ro eminent. Tho collection is said to bo very ho viilu?bie. It contains every variety of ocobo no'tnic plant indigenous to the country. Aran ranged with rogard to color and form, the er exhibit forms one of tho most interesting of features of tho pavilion. ii- Around the southeast end of the section is arranged the sugar oxhibit. It ranges from ily vacuum pan, or pure white granulated, to m- muscovado, or tho dark brown, sticky stuff Ics from which comes molasses candy. Theru od are 32,487 acres of sugar cane under cultivnng tion in Jamaica, and the productionoi sugar ig- gives employment to great numbers of the de islanders. Oinger in ali'its forms is on exhibition in let the southwest corner of the section. Not sty only preserved ginger, but tho original Rinse ger root from which the hot modiclno Is 3v:- I mailt*. Ollircu iUlii U&[IIUUU Uiauu uuiu iuu ire cassava root, graded ami arranged with relets eronce to quality, may l>e seen in their espoal cial section. ies la fruits the banana and cocoanut take the ve place of honor. In the cocoanut section ia ia- shown what may 1)9 done with tlie fruit, de There is cocoanut oil made from the mil* ire and meat, a huge flower pot made from the :os root of the tree, brushes ot. all descriptions, as ropes, hammocks and even a serviceableas looking coat made from the ilber of the husk, ito Banana flour is shown and visitors are asked ts, to sample little cakes made of it. The cakes ad or biscuits tuste very much like cookies and lis | are said to be very nourishing, id, Jamaica produces pimento, or allspice, in large quantities. A liquor is made from the be ripe pimento berry. It is a favorite drink ol ey the natives. Another drink is a sort of tea b" made from the kola nut. This nut, it is said, tJA has wonderful nutritive qualities. A pieee I," small enough to be carried in the vest pocket of | will, it is said, sustain life for several days he j It >ix jo rnn oisaprotxttxa attendance. gh | Tim Chicago Ilorald says that the tw?nies | ty thousand citizens of Chicago who fur>m j nished the monfty to build the Expo^i 11. | tion win nor gee fi uouar 01 muir iwjuvj 'w buck. Tho city of Chicago, which furnished nd $5,000,003 after tho citizens had taken fully ilk ijn;,000.0(10 trom their pockets aud contributes ed it to the Fair, will lose all of its enormous 3?- donation. The men who bought '55,000,000 so | worth of bonds after the entire capital stock is had been exhausted will, perhaps, be paid in ii'.,' full. The contractors who put up the whitt Is buildings and made Jackson Park bloom like in- i ;i royal garden will get what is due them, but I i-s I that is all. J*'- J The average attendance durin ? May was |s-? 37.503. There were two days on wiiica the if* attendance exceeded lO J.OOi) and on oue da) ,wt ! onwlii.-ii it ox .'ceded 120.000 ?opening day. ilia i The total attendance lor May was 1,050.037. The June figures reached 2,675,113, ;i all I daily average of 8!). 170, a little more tnan jot two and one-half times the attendance foi jot the flut mouth. There were eight days iu (cu June when more than 100,000 visitors passed ta- through the turnstiles, aud live days the atdf, teudanco was beyond 120,000, the uumbei >us that must be reached every day from uow i a until the iron arms of tho turnstiles eeast or pushing visitors into the gat<*?. >ni July did not show tho desired increase >it, over June. Exclusive of the last day the ativa tendance for the month was 2,680,125, or uo 'he average of 00,059 a day. Eight times during po- the month the figures exceeded 100,000 and iva on two days went abovd 120,000. \ THE MESSAGI President Cleveland's Reco mendations to Congress. HOT A PARTY MATTE Urging the Immediate Repe of the Sherman Law. Silver Legislation is Declared 1 Cause of the Present Crisis?E Effects of the Present Law A Asserted to be Constantly A cumulating?Tariff Reform I gent, But It Xnst Wait Until 1 Financial Difficulty is Overcono President Cleveland has sent this mesa to the special session at Congress To the Congress "/ the United Stales: The existenoe of an alarming and ext ordinary business situation, involving 1 welfare and prosperity of all our people, 1 constrained me to call together an extra s sion of the people's representatives in C< gross, to the end that through a wise a patriotic exercise of the legislative duty w which they solely are charged, present e\ maybe mitigated and dangers threaten! the future may be averted. FINANCIAL SITUATION EXCEPTIONAL. Our unfortunate financial plight is not t result of untoward events nor of condltic related to our natural resources, nor is traceable to any of the afflictions which fi quently check National growth and pri perity. With plenteous crops, with abundant pro ise of remunerative production and mar fncture, with unusual invitation to safe; vestment and with satisfactory assurance business enterprise, suddenly financial d trust and fear have sprung up on every sit Numerous moneyed institutions have si pcuuou wutuso ttuuuuauk ooocus no 10 j. immediately available to meet the deman ot the frightened depositors. business cbbdit weakened Surviving corporations and individuals t content to keep in tand the money they < usually anxious to loan, and those engag in legitimate business are surprised to fl that the securities they offer for loai thpugh heretofore satisfact >ry, are no ion# accepted. Values supposed to be fixed t fast becoming conjectural, and loss a failure have involved every branch of bu nesa. legislation to blame. I believe these things are principa chargable to Congressionallegislatlon tout ing the purchase and coinage of silver by 1 general Government. . the 9hekxan law. This legislation is embodied in a stati passed on the 14th day of July, 1890, whi was culmination of much agitation on 1 subject involved, and which may bu cons ered a truce after a long struggle, betwe the advocates of free silver coinage and the intending to be more conservative. Undouotediy the monthly purchases byt Government of 4,500,000 ounces of silver < forced under the statute were regarded those interested in silver production as a o< tain guaranty of its increase in price. THE FAX.Z. IK SILVER. The result, however, has been entirely d ferent, for immediately following a sp, modic and slight rise the price of sliver 1 gau to fall after the passage of the act, a has since reached the lowest point ei known. This disappointing result has 1 to renewed and persistent effort in ( direction of free silver coinage. evu, KPrECTa or the law. Meanwhile not onjy are the evil effects the operation of the present law 'constan accumulating, but the result to whioh execution must inevitably lead is becomi palpable to all who give the least heed financial subjects. ITS PROVISIONS. The law provides that in payment for 1 four million Hnd Ave hundred thousa ounces of silver bullion whioh the SecreU of the Treasury is commanded to purchi monthly, there shall be issued Treasi notes redeemable on demand in gold or i ver coin, at the discretion of the Secrets of the Treasury, and that said notes may reissued. It is. however, declared in the i to be "the established policy of the Unit States to maintain the two metals on a p iHfh ou/ih Afhor unnn fhu nruconf- Iai i ratio, or such ratio as may be provided I law." 1 TKKASCBY HAMPBBED BY THE LAW. This declaration so controls the action the Secretary of the Treasury to prevent 1 exercising the discretion nominally vested him, if by such action the parity betw< gold ana silver may be disturoed. Manifestly, a reiusal by the Secretary pay these Treasury notes in gold, If manded, would necessarily result in th discredit and depreciation a3 obliaratii payable only in silver, and would destroy parity between the two metals by establi ins: a discrimination in favor of fjold. Up to the 15th day of July. 1893. th ! notes had been issued in payment of sil bullion purohases to the amount of m than il47.000.000. i While all but a very small quantity of t bullion remains uncoined and without. u fulness In the Treasury, many of thu no given in its purchase have been p3id in gc GOLD BBSEnVE NOT STABED. The policy necessarily adopted of pay! 1 these notes in gold has not spared the g reserve of $100,000,000 long ago set aside the Government for the redemption of otl notes, for this fund has already been si 1 jectea to th<5 payment of new obligatio amounting to about $150,000,000 on accoi of silver purchases, and as consequence the first time since its creation boon 1 croached upon. OTHER NATIONS PROFITED. Wo have thus made the depletion of < [ gold easy, and have tempted other and m< i appreciative Nations to add it to their stoi That the opportunity we have offered 1 not been neglected is shown by the lai amounts of gold which have beeu reeen i drawn from our Treasury, and exported [ increase the flnauoial strength of forei i Nations. The excess of exports of gold o its imports for the year ending June 30,18 i amounted to more than $87,500,000. " THE SILVER DANGER. Between July 1, 1890, and July 15, IS the gold coin and bullion in our Tre isu decreased more than $132,000,000, wt during the same period the silver coin a bullion in the Treasury increased more tt $147,000,000. Unless Government bonds i to by constantly issued and sold to replen our exhausted gold, only to be again < hausted, it is apparent that the operation the silvnr purchase law now in force, lei in the direction of the entire substitution silver for the gold in the Government Tre ury, and that this must be followed by t payment of all Government obligations depreciated silver. At this stage gold and silver must p , company and the Government must fail uufoKlloUad f a mninfoin f nil 110 CniaUilOlKPU puuvj iv iuuiui>mu wuo v metals on a parity with each other. Oh , over to tho exclusive use of h curren I greatly depreciated according to the star ' ard or tbo commercial world, we could longer claim a place among Nations of I first class, nor could our Government cla i a performance of its obligations, so far l such an obligation has been imposed up it, to provide for the use of the people t t best and safest money. ^ CAN'T O<> single-HANDED. ! If. as many of its friends claim, sil1 \ ought to occupy a larger place In our ?i rency and the currency of tho world throu general international co-operation ana agr ( ment, it is obvious that the United Sta will not be in a position to gain a hearing [ favor of such an arrangement so long as , are willing to continue our attempt toacco j plish the result single-handed. EFFECT OF CJJ8TAPI.E MONET. The knowledge in business circles amo # Eour own people that our Government cannot make its flat equivalent to Intrinsic value, nor keep inferior money, on a parity with superior money by its own independent efforts has resulted in such a lack of confidence at home, in the stability of currency values, that capital refuses its aid to new onterpriaes while millions are actually withm. drawn from the channels of trade and commerce to become idle and unproductive in the hands of timid owners. Foreign investors, equally alert, not only decline to purchase American securities, out make haste to sacrifice those which they already have. It does not meet tho situation to say that apprehension in regard to the future of our R finances is groundless and that there is no i reason for lack of confidence In the purposes or power of the Government in the premises. The very existence of this apprehension and < lack of confidence, however caused, is a man on a r*r Antvhf ? V*?r. WVlgU?. U\SV IVl i* UlUUlOUl IU U\J ial disregarded. PABITT IMPOSSIBLE. Possibly If the undertaking wo have in hand were the maintenance of a specific known quantity of silver as the parity with gold, our ability to do so might be estimated the gauged, and perhaps in view of our unvU paralleled growth and reeouroee might be favorably passed upon. But when our Lre avowed endeavor is to maintain such parity kC- in regard to an amount of silver increasing fTm at the rate.of $50,000,000 yearly, with no - fixed termination to such increase, it can hardly be said that a problem is presented le. whose solution is free from doubt. KTJST BEQA.3D OTHEB. STATES. ige The people of the United States are entitled to a sound and stable currency and to money recognized such on every exchange and in every 'flSarketl. lit the world. Their ra- Government has so right to injure them by the financial experiments opposed to the policy and practice of other oivilizad States, nor is it justified in permitting an exaggerated and efl* unreasonable reliance on our National 3n" strength and ability to jeopardize the aoundnd ness of the people's money. ?? WOT A PABTT MATTXB. [ng This matter rises above the plane of party politics. It vitally concerns every business and calling and enters every household in the land. There is one important aspect of he the,subject which especially should never be ins overlooked. At times like the present, when '11 ine eviis 01 uasuuuu imauca us, iuo ro" speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered 30- from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding, or even m- may find profit In the fluctuation of values, iu- bur the wage earner?the first to be injured in- by a depreciated currency and the last to reto ceive the benefit of its corrections?is practiis cally defenceless. He-relies for work upon le. the ventures of confident and contented capiis taL This failing him, his condition is withtot out alleviation, for he can neither prey on ds the misfortunes of others nor hoard his labor. WAGE EABNEBS MOST AFFECTED. One of the greatest statesmen our country ire has known, speaking more than fifty years ?re ago when a derangement of the currency had ?d caused commercial distress, said: nd "The very man of all others who has the as, deepest interest in a sound currency and who ;er suffers most by misohlevous legislation in ire money matters is1 the man who earns his nd daily bread by his daily toil." si- These words are as pertinent now as on the day they were uttered, .-Hid ought to impressively remind us that a failure in the Hy discharge of our duty at this time must 3h- especially injure those of our countrymen be who labor, and who, because of their number and condition, are entitled to the most watchful care of their Government. lte COHOBKSS SHOULD ACT AT ONCS. loh If is of the utmost importance that such be relief that Congress can afford in the exlstid. ing situation be afforded at once. The i0I1 maxim, "He gives twice who gives quickly," )3e is directly applicable. It may be true that the embarrassments from which the business he of the country is suffering arise as much !Q- from evils apprehended as from those by actually existing. We may hope, too. 3r. that calm counsels will prevail, and that neither the capitalists nor the wage earners will give way to unreasoning panic and sacrifice their property or their in if- terests under the influence ox exaggera&su fears. Nevertheless, every day's delay in r-emoving one of the plain and principal causes Qd of the present state of things enlarged the *er mischief already done and increases the reed sponsibility of the Government toritu exlsthe ence. Whatever else the people have a right to expect from Congress they may certainly demand that legislation condemned by the 0[ ordeal of three years' disastrous experience tJy 'shall be removed from the statute 'books as 1/ soon as their representatives can legislatively JjJ deal with it. tO AS TO TAB ITT BZFOBM. It was my purpose to summon Congress In special session early in the coming SeptemHje ber, that we might enter promptly upon the work of tariff reform, which the true interiry eats of the country clearly demand, which so ^ large a majority of the people, aa shown by iry their suffrages, dee ire and expect, and jjj. to the accomplishment of which every " officer of the present administration is pledged. But while tariff reform has lost act nothing of its immediate and permanent im'ed portance, and must in the near future outage ' r_ the attention of Congress, it has seemed to _a] me that the financial condition oftho country fry should at once and before all other subjects be considered by your honorable body. MOMPT REPEAL RECOMMENDED. , of I earnestly recommend the prompt repeal hig of the provisions of the act passed July 14, [ in* 1890, authorizing the purchase of silver bul>eu ^on, and that other legislative action inay put beyond all doubt or mistake the intento t-on and the Government to fulfill its peounide ary obligations in money universally recogteir nized by all civilized countries. Groveb Cleveland, mw Executive Mansion. August 7. 1993. the ? LshA RESERVOIR BURSTS. ver ore Twenty Million Gallons of Water Loose in Portland, inc. his ;9e- The great reservoir of the Portland (Bfe.) >tes Water Company, on the eastern promenade, ,ld- burst, letting loose its 20,000,000 gallons of water in les3 than fifteen minutes. The immense volume of water da3hed upon two . houses occupied by the families of Michael , * Lappln and Dennis M. Conley. . The buildings were crushed as If they had been made of cardboard, and four persons lost their lives?Mrs. Dennis Conley, Mt83 . A^nes Conley, Miss Mamia Conley and James Mossley. The buildings stood under the walls of the reservoir, each with a small stable or barn attached. The Conley family was warned in time, >ur and it seems that Mrs. Conley was already >re up and drassed when the warning cams. 3k. The other members of the family prot up at ins once, and supposing that tbey would surely rge Ret out James Conley started for the barn to itly rescue his horse. to The younger Mrs. Conley did get out in gn her nijiht dress, hastily folding a wrapper ver about her ai> she went. She ran across the 93, road and fell fainting there. The elder Mrs. Conley, with her two daughters, Agnes and Mamie, appeared next at the door. 93 They were holding each other by the arms. The water was already dashing . against the door sill. Perhaps this terrified u'e them. The fjroup of neighbors saw them ,nt' draw back and close the door. lan Young James 3Ioseley. Jlr. ijappiu? ?re adopted sod, said that the- Couleys ware lost 'M'' unless they could be gotten out of the 9X" house. He dashed across the su Mt and went into the house. He was never aoeu , ali ve again. of 5 LYNCKEKS SLAIN. in art Two Boys Kill Four Men and Fatally in Wouml a Fifth. rwo A dispatch from Corydon, Intl., says ICV About 1 o'clock :i. m., Boouo Township, this id- county, was mado the scene of the most terno rible shooting affair that ever occur rod in ^ this part of the State. A large crowd of men went to the home of William and Edward " Conrad for the purpose of lynching the two boys, who were suspected of killing their father last winter. The boys armed themselves with shotguns and revolvers, and awaited the coming of ,-er the mob. The boys secreted themselves outur side their house when tho crowd appeared ch und llred into them, killing John Timberlake ae- and William Wiseman, after which the crowd tes dispersod, but were again llred into, and in Edward Houston and Isaac Howe were inwe stantly killed, and William May was fatally m- shot. The Coarads escaped. Many well-to-do Frenchmen now in Chi^ ti&%o intend to buy land in California and establish there large colonies of fruit growers. 'WM YACHT, SOI A FATAL DISASTER ON LAKE GEORGE, N. Yr i The Rachel Sherman Ran Upon * Sunken Pier.in;l Went to the Bottom With All on Board?Passengers Battle for Life In the Darkness. About 9 o'clock, a few nlchte a?o, a pleasiyo party, while ffoincr to a dance at the lower ead of Lake Oeortje, N. Y.. mot wftj a terrible accident. The steam yaoht Rachel j owned by D. VP. Sherman, proprietor of the Pearl Point House, was carrying twenty-nine people up the lake. The little r*wel was Utrned to ward the One Hundred Island House ann was gliding toward the landing when the passengers were thrown forward by a sudden ., hock. In the dark the vassal hod rfto upon a sunken pier, and before assistance arrived from the shore it sank with all on board. It was only a few minutes after the shook when the yaoht careened to one side and wont down in eighteen feet of water. The shrieking, struggling passengers J>attled for life in the darkness. Women threw up their arms and sank beneath the surface. When brought ashore they were dead. Deed* of heroism were performed by the men. When all in signt had reached thesfeorait was learned, that nine persons, dft-wofti6a," except a boy of nineteen. iiad been drowned. As soon as possible an attempt to recover the. bodies was made. After strenuous efforts all ' the bodies were brought to the surface. The dead are: Hiss Hattie Hall, Brooklyn Bertha Benedict. Montclair. N. J.; Miss Edith Harding, Hobolcen, N. J.; Hiss H. M. Burton, Jersey City: Mrs. J. H. Mitchell, F. C. Mitchell, Lizzie Corley. Clara Black, Burlington, Vt.; Lizzie Clare, Bridgeport, Conn. Some of the passengers ware caught undei, * the shade deck and weru drowned quickly. It seemed hours before help arrived, though , ' a dozen men were on the water in rowboats almost before the smokestack sank out of sight. The rescued passengers were taken ashore and w count of the number taken. At first it was reported that only throe were drowned, then the number was increased to Qve, then seven, and finally nine. Young Mr. Benedict', son of the Now York jeweler, who was on the boat, is an expert swimmer. He tried to save his sister, and dived for her once. Frank Mitchell, aged nineteen, of New York City, lost his life try ing to save his mother," who was also drowned. Robert Sims, of Glens Falls, and others who assisted in the search for the bodies, did not give up until they had found them- ' . LATER NEWS. K-: H. L. Hotchxim & Co., bankers and brokers, of New York City, assigned, with ^ liabilities of *800,000. The town of Snow HQ], MdL, has been burned. Only two stores and a few dwell-/ ings were saved. The loss is about $300,000. The offloial list of members of the House gives the Democrats 220 members , Republicans 126, and the Thirl Party nine. There is one vacancy in the Tenth Ohio District, caused by the death of Representative Enoobe. ' j ' >>] The contest in the Fifth Michigan Congressional District was settled in favor of Richardson, the Democratic candidate. Expkbob Wnxiijf wae enthusiastically received at Heligoland. Mb. Gladstone announced in the British , i House of Commons that the Government intended to hold an autumn session of Parliament. The announcement was received with loud cheering by the supporters of the Government. M. Pavxe, the French-Minister Residdht to - Slam, has returned to his post at Bangkok. Kobii.t H. Colkkan^ tho iron millionaire of Lebanon, Penn., has executed a deed oi assignment. His liabilities are between foul ' ? -a a mix? ' ana avo rmiuvaa. Mb& Cathzbixx Gomak was caught In a . , ? folding bed and slowly burned to death. 8he was cleaning the article with naphtha in one hand and a lighted can Uo in the other. A woman and u child wore also badly burned. John H. Miihtm shot and killed bis wife at Brooklyn, N. Y., then shot himself and hanged himself with a clolhee Una. Cloudbubsts and floods did much damage to railroads in the West, travel on sdme roads was interrupted tot several days. Skvbbk earthquake shocks '.cere felt in San Francisco and other California cities. . Beau Adhibal Thornton A. Jknkikb, U. 8. N., retired, dlod at his residence in Washington, aged eighty-ana. Hj was born in Orange County, Virginia, and was appointed a midshipman from his nitive State November 1.1831. The Democratic Senators and the silver men in the House hold Hup:irato caucuses to - ,f - ? ? determine upou a una ui ncuuu n?ww reaching any dottnito conclusion. Eabi, Spkhceb, First Lord of tha. Admiralty, jave a dinner in Lotvlou to Admiral Erben ind Captain Mohan, of the United cruise* Chicago. The Parnelite Convention in Dublin has ieclared that the Homo Itule bill asnmoudod is impossible of acceptance by the Irish people. A xumbeu of people wore drowned by a cloudburst near Gratz. the capital of Styria. EXPLOSION OF A GEENADE. Two German Lieutenants and Seven Seamen Blown Up. A disastrous explosion ocqjorred on board the German armor-clad steamship Baden at Kiel. Lieutenants Oelsner and Zembseb and seven seamen were killed and saventeen persons were wounded. - Some of the men bad just removed' from the magazine a grenade measuring twentysix centimetres in diameter. Through some cause not vet explained the grenade ex* ploded, killing or" wounding nearly every person In the immediate vicinity. The Baden is a vessel of 5609 tons. Sho was launched In 1SS0. She mounts eight large guns, and her armor is ten inches thick at the water line. Princa Henry, ol Prussia, Emperor William's brothor, and Vice-Admiral Sohrooder wore standing together on the bridge at the time of the explosion. They ran to the scone of the accident nnd Prince Henry'did much to assist iu rolievteu: the wounded. BIG FIGHT IU SAMOA. Fifteen Warriors' Heads Rrouglit In Triumph to 31aIiploa. War broke out in Samoa between M-ilieto:i's and Mataafa's foroes, but war slifys of the three powers intervened and sloppod tho fighting. Mutaafa and liis chiela have surrendemd. Malaafa's loss was thirty killed, twenty wounJnd. The first outbreak of hostilities occurred when the royal forces started their marcu ou Malie. Mataafa's camp. They captured an outpost and disarmed four men in it, who were afterward set at liberty. Next day war actually began and first blood was shod. Fifteen heads were brought in triumph to the King. Mataafa's forces were scattered. Mylietoa had carefully planned his attack, and but for the accidental discharge of a gun which precipitated the conflict Mat&ata's forces wouid have been oztermiuated. ;