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SWEPT BY A HURRICANE. ? BUIN WROUGHT BY A WEST ? INDIAN CYCLONE. J d The Worst Summer Storm Tliat Has P Ever Struck New York?Great T Damage Alonij the Long Island tl a?nd New Jersey Shores?Two- si Score Lives Ileported Lost. j * Tlje West Indian eyelona which swept over ^ 'the middle of the Atlantic coast on its way to jr tho New England coast left its marks over si the whole region around New York?with a sweep of fully 1000 miles. It strewed the tJ New Jersey coa3t with mor9 wrccks c; than have been recorded ia a sin- ci Kl? .day since the blizzard. Reports ei ?how that nearly two score of lives were lost, si and many pleasure, merchant and fishing g craft foundered or were driven to destruc- w tion on the shoTfes. The greatest violence of w the elements was manifested in a region fifty ci miles in diameter, with New York City as a L " .oenter. and in this district the fury of the A storm was almost unexampled. fi In New York City the storm did every ii kind of damage that a rainstorm can do, ex- a ?wpt that it was attended with no fatalities, p Signs, shutters, chimneys and fences were tl blown down, trees were uprooted, plate glass b windows were wrecked, leaky roofe were a: discovered and cellars were flooded. The J parks perhaps displayed the most striking lc scenes of wreck when morning came. The c< paths were almost impassable with the gi branches of trees, and those trees that were ol hinron a nathetic feature of the ruin a was the large number of sparrows that di were killed. Three hundred dead ones were w found in City Hall Park alone, while in Cen- ji tral Park they must have been numbered by fs the thousands. Among the hundreds of B trees blown down in the city the old oak di which formed a landmark in West Ninth a street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, is ni noteworthy, it being blown across the w street, effectually blocking it. Along ? West. Vesey, Barclay and Washington T streets some of the greatest damage was a! done, mainly by the flooding of basements in and cellars. Everett's restaurant on Vesey pi street, and Smith A McNeil's on Wash- di incron and Greenwich streets were re flooJed. and much damage done. In a; the North New York parks trees and A shrubbery were blown down, and along the vi streets next morning were seen shutters gi blown from their fastenings. At Oak Point si and Port Morris much damage was done w to yachts. ' Residents say it W3s the fr worst storm in years in thai section, m On Washington Heights huge trees were N uprooted, broken and twisted, gardens were di utterly ruined and fences were torn apart te J ulrvnn. thn HftVflPftl qffPPfQ IT! ouu sucnutuvu^ ?uw iv.?uua vv.?.w. ?? w? were blockaded by fallen trees, and the axe- ti men were busy for several hours. 16 The storm raged over Brooklyn with de- ? struorive fury, and next morning there were *: marks of its work all over the city. Houses 9, were demolished in some cases, unroofed r' iir o: hers; tre& were blown down, electric poW and wires broken and twisted, a.! and business signs knocked into splinters. Near y 600 of the finest shade trees were up- w root- 1. One struck a Fifth avenue elevated f5 train, but fortunately did no damage to it. A stran 'e feature about the destruction of the {* 4r?ps is that the largest suffered. They went down beforethemerclless3torm,leavinggreat j? gai'sj where they stood, ripping up sidewalks Si1 and navements and crusning fences, rails. V Btof>p? and piazzas. There were cases where , the (alien trees barred ingress to or exit from P the houses in front of which they stood. The trees and plants in Prospect Park suffered Kreatlv. One hundred shade trees were uprooted and thrown ; others were stripped L of their branches. Hardly one escaped, xne i beautiful flowers were wholly or partially jj <l?st roved. The cemeteries were not spared. Trees were thrown, plants and shrubbery upxooted, headstones leveled with the earth -and railings thrown down. . Coney Island lay fairly* in the cyclone's path, and probably fared the worst of any "> section, so far as damage to property was k< -concerned. No such storm had visited the 8j island in yeare, and perhaps not within its history as a seaside resort. From at Norton'9 Point, on the westerly end. to Point Breeze, on the extreme east. U] the shore was left a continuous picture of disaster and wreckage. At Brighton Bsach Hotel the lawn and walk were completely tjj destroyed. The tide reached a remarkable ^ height, sweeping up to the electric railway tracks on Sea Breeze avenue. The piles rn supporting the Brighton Beach Elevated Railway were washed away, and a train w -was removed from the station just in time p? to save it. The station itself is a wreck jr and the road crippled. The guests in the ^ hotel were roused at 4.30, as the spray was than doshincr over the Diazza. and it was n, feared the structure would be surrounded. At jj West Brighton the mo9t noticeable damage gp was done. Palmer's mammoth bathing pavilJon. said to be the largest in the world, was pj -wrecked, as were also dozens of smaller g, bath houses, restaurants, booths and places m of axusement. At Manhattan Beacn the w powerlul bulkheads protected the hotel to a p. great extent, and less damage was caused, ^ but the boardwalks wore broken and scat- ? tered over the lawn. The losses on Coney ^1 Islhnd are estimated all the way from $50,- ? 000 to $200,000. Ir Considerable damage was done on Long tb Ialiind. The wind blew with the force of a bj hurricane, tearing o?f branches of trees and in sc ?ome <-ases tearing trees up from the roots, pi Travel on the various branches of the Long st Island Railroad was greatly inconvenienced, w and nearly all the trains were more or less de- re layed. Some of the trains were not started. p< Many business men on the south side of the tb Island gave up all idea of coming to town. b< but many who had concluded to take a in holiday changed their minds when the weather cleared later in the morning. The farmers who have (or two months been wbhing and praying for rain are in a serious state of mind. The wind that came along with the water was more than they ~ bargained for. Ia some cornfields there is scarcely a stalk standing, and on some of the truck farms patches of vegetables are com- r pletely washed out. The effects of the storm c at the various yacht club anchorages along a the Sound were tremendous. Tne exces- a! -eively heavy winds on shore drove the small boats together and in many Instances great P1 -damage was done among the frail pleasure craft by collision. At Larchmont Har- !* bor a big schooner w<?nt a3horo ?irly in the morning during the height of T the storm on the rocks off Shepherd's Point. Her crew of seven men remained on her at c* work at the pumps, but with the falling of the tide she was left high and dry. and will Inevitably go to pieces. All along the Sound 8( .shore, from Indian Harbor at Greenwich to Port Morris, the devastation of the storm was apparent in the de- . stroyed piers, the flooded meadow 1C lands and the shore houses, whose 01 first floors were in most instances on a level with the water. The trale struck Flushing ^ broadside, and over 100 of the rarest and . / ' t. roost beautiful specimens of .trees, which X have made the village famous, jiere upmtftM and thrown across the street, b)f ckinjrfVavel? T In the morning the streets were covered"with ? foliage and branches of trees. * The storm swept Connecticut on shore and inland with tremendous fury. At Black w Book thrilling scenes were/enactcd- The first n boat to be hurried upon, the shore was the w Hazel, a yacht owned, by J. C. Wolcott., of n Jwsey City. It sank beneath the waves. t] and the party on "board were rescue*! oy a y life line. The ..rescuers then turned ti the r attentionf to the yacht Stella, b ? She is a pilpt' bout about thirty feet 0 V, Ions: and is owned by Roland Pattit, of New a 'i. , . York. The cable which held the boat snapped r< .. ' aboitts^wfn o'clock in the morning. Tden ' *was at the mercy of the sea. It rolled and tossed and every moment seemed to be its last. It was heaved by the { waves against the pier. The yachtmen jumped, but the pier gave way and j the life line again did good service. The . 5 crisis came when the big schooner yacht | Neta dragged her anchor. Suddenly it was | a heaved high on the crest of a wave and then lanood upon the disabled Stella. At Savin > j;j Bock nearly a!l ihe bath houses were washed away and many dancing pa vilions damaged seriously. At Short ri Beach the launch Ella, owned by Ella I Wheeler Wilcox, the poetess, was sunk in tl a collision, and a number of small yachts were driven on the beach and destroyed. n Camp Morris, where the Connecticut Xational Guard was at rendezvous at Niantic. was left in ruins. Not one tent out ot' the 750 remained standing. The 15 severe gale did immense damage in w the interior of the State. Many ttne shade Jk trees were blown down and several partly t< finished buildings were unroofed and demol- E ilied. The roof of the lleriden silver plats ictory at Merideu was blown oft. The storm fell on New Jersey's coa3t reion with terriflo force and disastrous effect, hippinsr destroyed, crops ruined, communiation interrupted, houses and hotels unaofed. trees uprooted, fow! killed and roads cashed out are some of th?' costly results. In ersey City the streets were littered with hunreds of shade trees. The roofs weretorn lik<? aper and shingles were carried away, leavlg apertures through which the rain poured, hose living in the meadow section found leir homes in a lake. In Hoboken th<* nvers of the meadow district were choked nd the streets were under water. Few teleraph poles along the West Shore tracks ssisted the furious pale. In Kabay cellars were flooded and roofs ijured. Two factories were obliged to tiut down temporarily iu order to ;pair damages. A. T. Crane, who has oats for hire lost fifty of thom. In Belmar le entire roof of the big Columbia Hotel was arried away. The heavy beams and joists rashed down through the floors bolow.frightningthe 350 guests who were in their beds ;a :ampede was made for the parlor on the round noor. 1D0 oatniD^uwusraouu pu....vU 'pra also blown down. The loss to the hotel rill exceed 85000. In Point Pleasant several Dtt3ges were unroofed. The visitors to .one Branch will long remember the storm, t West End the gale lifted part of the roof om the big West End Hotel. The bath- J ig houses were strewn along the beach ad the pavilion badly wrenched. A big ile of debris on the beach is all lat is left of the Howland Hotel bathing i ouses. The Scarboro Hotel bathing houses re all gone also. The loss is a heavy one. . C. Van Cleaf, of the United States Hotel, ?ses all of his bathing houses and their intents. At the Ocean Hotel bathing rounds, Plerson & Jules have a pile I r kindling wood, all that is left of long row of new bathing bouses. Fivehunred dollars' worth of new bathing suits J ent with the houses. Of the big iron pier ist north of the bathing grounds fully (ur-flfths were swept away. Of the righton Hotel bath houses a few oors. some broken joists and part of bathing suit is all that is left. Just orth of the Brighton Hotel the roadway as not protected by bulkheads and the saa irried away fully ten feet of the highway, here are barely eight feet left. A fleet of jout twenty-five graceful boats were swingig at their moorings off the long railroad ier at Atlantic Highlands at sundown: at iybreak only four remained. The at lay wrecked and battered gainst the spiles or along the shore, moner the farmers and fruit growers in the icinity of Elizabeth the storm has oaused eat damages. The peach crop ha3 iffered badly. The fruit crop, which as about to be gathered, was blown om the trees and scattered on the uddy ground. Reports from nil inland ew Jersey towns say the storm did much image to buildings, farms and stock. All legraphic or telephonic connection with any inland towns was cut off for the first me since the memorable blizzard of March, 188. The greatest havoc was wrought at sea. rom all along the coast came reports of sa3ter and loss of life. This is the record : ng Panther, of Philadelphia, with barge ackins Valley ; tug went down off Southnpton. Long Island, barge went ashore; xteen men on tug, four on barge seventeen ere lost. Fishing smack Empire 8tate ihore at Squan Beach, N. J.; crew of n men. all of New London, lost; shing schooner Jlary P. Kelly ashore at Aslry Park, Captain Chris Brattan and three on dmwnnH afAimnr of Merritt WfBCkinZ ompany ashore near Narragansett Pier, iver William Coolan, of Staten Island, rowned; Government tug General Humirey sunk off Atlantic Highlands, crew not jard from. LLINOIS DAY AT THE FAIR. [any Thousands of Visitors ?A Remarkable Procession. Illinois day at the World's Fair was cele ated by an enormous crowd. The mea at ie gates had more than they could do to jep the thousands of applicants for admison from congesting outside the three hun:ed turnstiles. The excursion boats, the earn cars, the elevated road and the surface irs were packed with people from 8 o'clock itil noon. Then there was a lull in the ream, but it lasted only a short time when w;i3 renewed, thousands of people leaving ioir work in Chicago to come out and see ie night's display. The day's entertainment began with a pa,de of the Illinois National Guard, 5000 rong. The militia marched into the Miday Plaisance from the west entrance, and issed down the thoroughfare in companyont order to the main Fair grounds, and as ey moved by the natives o! each village ia .e Plaisance fell in behind. First came the 3douin3 riding camels and Arabian horses. ?* ? .A/I nnnwlif n iKmiann<4 faof A# LItJy woro OliUWOU ucuu; Cfc iuwuiuuu *uvi vr* iace. and as the parade moved along, those ounted on horses rode back and forth disavinc feats of horsemanship. After the 'douins came the Laplanders and the itives of Dahomey. Then came the Chinese 1th a dragon, sixty feet long, made of riceiper, a band ot Sioux Indian*, the South Hi islanders, the Hawaiians, Persians, Egyptians, Turks, Moors, Swiss hornowers, the natives of Jahore, the Igerians and the inhabitants of the ish and German villages. In ia main grounds they were joined * the Italian m arines. the British Idlers, and the West Point Cadets. The irade was led by Governor Altgeld and his afT until it reached the Illinois Building, here they dropped out, and the Governor ivlewert the procession from the Ant >rtico of the building. At the conclusion of ia parade Governor Altgeld and his staff sld a reception in the Illinois State fiuild? FLED BEFORE FLAMES. rcat Panic in South Chicago and a Large Area Burned. For six hours Are raged in that part of hicago known as South Chicago, practically city of itself, having 50.003 inhabitants, id situated on Lake Michigan, about three iles below the World's Fair grounds. It irned nearly 230 houses, most of them frame sellings. At least 10D0 persons were mads ameless. and the loss was about $1,000,OOOl Nearly a dozen blocks were burned over, he burned district is north of the business jntre of South Chicago, and was almost celusivoly Riven up to residences. I wo vps were lost, and several persons wars svoreiy injured. Tho fira began about 5 o'clock in the afTnoon in a three-story brick building at 10 corner of Ninety-first street an.i Superir avenue, owned bv William Gilles, and eeupiod by him as a residence. Tho llamas spread rapidly under a pale of ind from the west and ate their way over lock i\fter block of the small frame reStences until they reached tt^e laka, Within le first two hours of the Are it had conKmed at least, thirty buililnM. and five loelts. The 50*000 residents' <n the town ere stricken with a panic lllfe that which har;ictarized the conflagration of 1871, As the pine structures in which lived the orkingmen employed in the largo steel lills of the Illinois Steel Company and In rbich the smaller merchants of tho plaoe rnde their homes ware levelled by tho flames, tiose whose homes had not yet fallen fled rith their goods and household utensils to he other portions of the city} Streets were locked with wagons containing the effects f the fleeing residents, and men and women, ppalled by the calamity, fled in every d>sction. NEWSY GLEANINGS. A water famina is threatened in Western lassncliusetts. Corrox, wheat and corn promise less than a average yield. rr..? /-vP Ai-afniK? fhia r ia aaiil ir\ Ua I UK I \J 1 VJOICIO 11419 JUUfc M O.IIU IV wv irge ani of fine quality. Thk oholora epidemic continues to spread ipidly throughout Russia. The Gould estate lost $0,090,000 during le late fluctuation in stock, Thk Manufacturers' Record reports twenty ew cotton mills under construction in the OUtl). Yacbtino experts agree that the Vigilanfc i the fastest boat of the cupdefenders in fair reather. The army worm has appeared in the catjn fields of the Arkansas and Mississippi fiver bottoms. THE MM VILLAGE. A NOVEL AND INTERESTING i EXHIBIT AT THE FAIR, 1 Seenos of Oriental Industry and , Home Life?Dwellings of the Vll- ! lagers?The Police Station and ' Its Implements?A Javanese The- . atre and Orchestra. 1 After a careful inspection of the pleasures J offered by the Midway Plaiaance, perhaps the 1 majority of visitors will decide, say3 a Chi- ' cago correspondent of the New York Even- J Inc Post, that the Javanese Village is at once i tho most unique, refined, and comprehensive fn its scope of any at the Fair. There is no sign of coarseness or vulgarity in either amusements or customs, and Oriental life is presented in one of Its most charming phases. The houses, bazaars, theatre, and kiosk are a delight to the eye; the men. though lacking the stature of the Saxon, nave a sturdy physique, the little women have lustrous eyes, sweet faoes and gentle ways; both are placid and soft spoken, industrious and artistic. The village, which covers a very considerable area, is surrounded by a palisade of split bamboo and at its western side is a high arched entrance made of immense bamboos decorated with devices In smaller bamboos, palm leaves and bark. In the oentre of the village and fronting the entrance is a large kiosk where the real Java coffee and tea are served. Apropos of real Java coffee and tea, It was largely with the idea of letting Americans know what the true articles'aretbalThis village has been sent over. At present comparatively little, it is said, of our so-callod Java coffee comes from the island of Java, but rather from South America. The Java coffee is very high in the essential oil and less is required in making the beverage than when the South American berry is used. For that reason aud for Us finer flavor the genuine berry commands a higher price. Most of the Java coffee goes to Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and is distributed from there, while i [ the greater part of the tea crop is shipped to 1 Wwjfrwd, , ] Speaking of ooffee and tea-drinking in the < United States, Signor CarloTerrari, the manager of the Javanese natives here and for i 7!|p DETAIL or THB BB,U the lost twenty-eight years resident of Java, says we do not at all understand brewing either tea or coffee with any regard to preserving their delicacy of flavor. Coffee, he says, should be first ground to a fine flour, then tightly packed in a Alter so that the quantity of liquor desired may be passed through it in about two hours; one tablespoonful of the powder should be used for each small oup, and in the filtration cold or warm water employed ; after Altering the liquor should be heated, but never to the boiling point, and then served without dilution. In tea-making enough boiling water should be poured upon the leaves at one time to make tne amount of tea required, and in a few moments poured into another hot pot so that the leaves may not give up the tannin and other undesirable properties. If tea is too strong it should be c thrown away and more brewed, using a less quantity of leaves, as diluting with water destroys the. flavor as much as it would to reduce a strong beer by the same means. This tea epicure smiles in derision at the decoction which forms the old ladles' ideal of a "good strong cup of tea." But to return to the kiosk, this building, like all the others, is one-story in height ana constructed chiefly of bamboo and palm leaves. The roof over the house proper has a sharp pitch, but over thef broad veranda ' which surrounds it on all sides the incline is s **"?" I>olrr? lootroa ova iiaaH fni?fhafrth- V ing, with ft layer of blaok palm bark at Intervals of ft foot or more, which gives a very j decorative effect. The veranda Is crowded t these hot days by visitors who, after wander- k lag through the village sight-seeing, rest la a the oool shade and sip dellolous tea and oof- ? fee or a very seduolve Iced drink made of I cocoa, enjoying the while the misery of per- t spiring humanity as it trudges up und down f the Midway under a torrid sun. a All around the palisade on the inside are 1 built the dwellings of the villagers. These 1 delightful little artistio creations in bamboo g and palm have the usual one-story thatched c roof and broad thatoh-oovered veranda which e seems to be the work-room and drawing- a room of the owner. Hero may be seen carv- \ era working in wood, men making queer a Oriental musical Instruments, women weaving or sitting oross-legged before a low frame t cluing very olever bead-work, embroidery, t etc. The sides and doors of these houses are e made of finely split bamboo woven with con- o ventional design, in different colors, prln- g ' .oipally tUo natural colpjra and blaok, and, t . with the light and blaok-thatohed roofs and ?jj 1 general graoeful shape, the whole la plctur- n esque to the last degree. 8warthy children l, tumble about In silent glee, men from time 3 to time abandon their tools for a ohat ?nd t the odd skewer-shaped cigarette, the matrons p gossip with mild animation, and the young Javanese belles gcze dreamily at the bold 1j American until, suddenly conscious of his o too scrutinizing glances, they turn with c heightened color and unusual zeal to their o needlework. Everything is restful, every- t! where is Industry, but quiet, tranquil in- i ilustry. 1; lu the east end of the "iiiago is the black- t smith.shop. The ap Drentice softly blows up ? the Are by pushing a piston back and forth p in a long cylinder whioh looks very like a * i great syringe; the smith busies himseli g j chiefly in forcing knives ; most of the carpen| ter work is done with knives and it requires i blade of unusual keenness ana temper to work in the tough and fibrous bamboo, h Around the central portion and near the p kiosk are bazaars for the sale of matting, p v?oven bamboo hats, reed instruments, curi- p ous drums, embroideries, and a great variety s of Javanese art work. li The whole village was constructed in Java <1 on tho estates of the proprietors and shipped o by way of Hong Kong and San Francisco to Chicago. In Java the village would occupy F many acres, but here in the Plaisance the a beautiful gardens surrounding each house at u home have necessarily been crowded out. t< One hundred and twenty-five natives were brought from the same estates properly to represent Javanese lifeto the Western world. C Fifty tons of coffee and thirty tons of tea for h drinking at the kiosk and lor wholesale also si formed part of the cirgc. The owners hope F to familiarize Amnrieana with their prodacti and to open direct trade relations with the merchants of this country. On the island of Java the ooffee tree begins bearing at thre? pears, is mature at seven years, and livei usually from thirty to forty years, and froa its olimate and soil the tree thrives best at as altitude of about 4000 feet, when the averag* yiold ia two pounds of the berries per tree Near the kiosk on the north is a typica' Javanese village police station. It is s 3mall affair, having room for not more thar two or three persons. In front hangs s ijong, in the form of a great red flsh, upor which alarms are given. Leaning agains' the station are the implements with whicl the culprit is apprehended, and most un jomfortable looking implements they are They are oalled tjagak. One, the tjaj?al bessi, is of iron, shaped like the letter U with barbs on the inner side, and the othei is of wood in the form of a V. This has 01 the inside wicked-looking thorns from th? rattan which point backward. Both th< ' ' 1 fVw rjagaKfl are iasreneu iu iuug yuuio. owiuov m. prisoner may be kopt at a distance when hit neck is in the jaws of this contrivance, ane :he long thorns or barbs pointing to th< rear deprive the poor wretch of any temp ration to escape by running. However Ihere is comparatively little use for jails 01 ijagaks In Java now. Occasionally a nativt ?ets some opium and has a jolllfloatlon, bu :rlme, especially of a grave character, is un sommon. The people are naturally gentle md so extremely sensitive that one who ha> mastered their language is said to be able tc punish them much more severely by wordi :han with a stick. Beyond the police station to the. north it :he theatre. This is a long building of thi tame general construction as the others, ex sept that It is higher, wider, more elaborate ly decorated, and generally a more preten :ious piece of architecture. Its seating ca pacity Is for 1000 or more people, and here ire given Javanese play? of the present and former periods. In former times the tal? was unfolded by using marionettes behind in illuminated screen. One man, called th< ialang, worked them and spoke the differ ant parts, changing his voice with the characters represented, then the screen wai abandoned and dolls were substituted in which the extravagant and characterise profiles were preserved. Afterwards th< several roles were played by persons wear ing the typical masKs and supplying the ap propriate gestures, while the dalang from a concealed position spoke the various parts. In this form, which is still the cominor amusement of the poor peoplo, the different 1 ?n* \tmm ?? LILIAN BOtLDINO. iharacters were known by the masks, the irinces and nobles wearing white masks, riants and devils red and brown masks, etc. hthe last evolution the parts are both poken and acted by the same person, but ho plot of the play is taken as of old from nythologioal tales. The orchestra of the theatre numbers about wenty-flve, and their music, though quaint ind strange, is not at all bad. The leader >lays a two-stringed violin, or rebab, there 9 one wind Instrument, the soelling, & kind if bamboo whistle, several xylophones, some tonangs, a kettle-shaped affair made of bell aetal, some big gongs of the same material, ind drums great and small. None of the iounds are the discordant, terrible noises of he Chinese, but each one is by itself at least listinctly musical. In fact, the Javanese are aid to be in muslo by far the most highly leveloped of any of the Eastern Nations. For ome muslo the ootave is divided Into seven ones, as for the pelog, and for other music nto Ave tones, as lor the salendro. The tavenese say the salendro sounds like glass ind has a manly sound, while the pelog is aore tender and mast have a more metallic 'timbre." This orchestra occasionally plays yell-known English and Amerioan airs, and h? effect is very pleasing if somewhat odd. ?he dancing by the Javanese girls is a slow uocesslon of graceful poses, vhebest of them leing very Delsartlan indeed. Before one leaves the village he goes to lay a final visit to Klaas, the orang-outang, rhose large cage is at the corner of the :iosk. This is certainly an extraordinary ,pe, and nearly as clever as old "Aunt lally," who used to be at the London Zoo. le washes his face and hands, cleans his eeth, eats his porridge with a spoon, careally peels and eats an orange for de&sert, ,nd then walks on his hind feet about his touse, or takes a little practloe on the horzontal bar, but always sedately and with rroat dignity. When the weather isa bit ool, he folds his blanket about him and sits neditatively looking at his strange visitors, ,nd perhaps ruminates regretfully upon the fnrm rtiiva In .Tnvn. whnn hft could tranrm ,bout the village unrestrained. After the Javanese women get married hey file the two front teeth, which, soon urning black, make their smile a most disnchantlng one. Why they do It Is not disoverable. The only explanation they vouahafels'that "dogs have white teeth." In ' ront of the kiosk are several Buddhist idols J irought from Java, but they are for sale and lot for worship, as the religion of that popuaus island lfl Mohammedan. Holland is urely fortunate in having in Java so producIve & colony and In the Javanese. 26,000,000 leaoeful, industrious subjects. When a person goes onoe down to this vilige he becomes n habitue. It's only ton ents to enter, just enough to keep out the rowil. and only ten cents for oocoa, coffee, r other drinks ; on the veranda of the kiosk here is invariably a little breeze, and there, leaven be thanked, the visitor from the outying districts does not in the hottest part of he day possess himself of the only shady eat and at:ack formidable sausages and imicrlshable eggs. To the frequenters of the 'air the Javanese Village is of green and rateful memory. TBIZES IN THE STOCK EXHIBITION. More than ?2.000,000 worth of blooded orses, and cattle worth $1,000,000 wore araded in the stock pavilion at the World's I air in the presence of 10,000 spectators. | 'eople who have attended the principal live- | lock shows in Europe and America for the ?st twenty-flve years declared it to be the nest display of blooded animals brought to- ! ether in recent .years. After the parade all the animals excopt the 'ercheron stallions of five years and over, nd the short-horn heifers of two years and nder three, were arranged about the arena ) be judged for the awarding of prizes. Pieces of wood from the beam to Tilich lolumbus was chained and the irou. ball that eld the fetters nro shown among the thouund and more relics in the Convent of l.a ahida. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States* State Bank Scpebintekdent Preston's statement of the affairs of the suspended Madison Square Bank, of New York City, shows that the capital stock is impaired by 8371,312.03, and that the loss'to stockhlders amounts to 3564,312.03. A LA.BGE meeting in favor of silver and against the repeal of the ;'8herman act" was held in Cooper Union, New York City. A case of apparent poisoning from eating crabs, resulting in four deaths, was discovered in Jersey City, N. J., the victims being Mrs. Annie Lewis, Caroline Collins, Augustus Hasalocher and John Morse, colored. Evidences of extensive frauds in the Bureau of Weighers and Gaugers, New York City, were discovered by the Custom House Commission. The known dead of the great storm on the second day after, numbered nearly fifty persons and the missing were fully that number also. Each ship coming to port is either disabled or has thrilling stories to tell of the storm. The New York Democratic State Committee have decided upon Saratoga, and October 5, as the place and date of the State Convention. Claos Timseebmak, a young Anarchist loader, was arrested in New York and held for making incendiary a peaches. The Norwegian bark Glengalrn collided nrlfVi a. afronoA nff Tialnt???ia " wvuwv/uui vu tuu vuiunaio Breakwater, and sunk an hour later. Her captain and crew of sixteen men took to the boats and were ploked up by a passing vessel. It is believed the schooner went down with ali on board. The death of August Jacobson, a New York tailor, made the sixteenth vlotim of the terrible collision between two trains on the Long Island Railroad. Eaqlesmebe, a beautiful summer resort on the crest of the Alleghanies, in Sullivan County, Penn., was struck by a tornado, whioii wrecked a cottage and several barns, and badly damaged other building. South and West. At a railroad crossing between Lexington, Ohio, and West Alexandria, Mrs. William Hapner and her daughter, aged seventeen, were struak by a train and instantly killed. A little girl aged three was seriously injured. Axl the inhabitants of Brunswick, Ga., except about 5000, are reported to have left the city from fear of yellow fever. At San Francisco, Cal., the jury in the case of the actor, M. B?. Curtis, "Sam'l of Poaen," for the murder of Policeman Grant, returned a verdict of acquittal. These was a fight between unemployed men and police In Chicago, in which several persons were Injured. The Brunswick (Ga.) Relief Committee issued an appeal for contributions for the relief of the destitution caused by the yellow fever scare. The town of KernersviUe, N. C.. was struck by a cyclone. One hundred nouses were blown down, four persons were killed and many wounded. Washington. The official copy of the decision made by the Bering Sea Board of Arbitration has been received at the' 8tate Department from the Hon. John W. Foster, agent of the United States at Paris. Senator Hill, of New York, argued in favor of the repeal of the Sherman law and declared he was in favor of free coinage of silver at a smaller ratio than sixteen to one. Ma. Cumminos, of New York. Chairman of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, has organized his committee. J. C. Baumsr, who served with Secretary Herbert while Chairman of the committee, was appointed Clerk. Iif his annxal report the Hungarian Minister of Agrioulture estimates the world's production of wheat this year at 2,279,000,000 bushels, against the official average of 2,280,000,000 annually for the last ten years. The deficits to be died by the importing ociintries will require 379,000,000 bushels. 'ir!e surplus available in exporting countries to satisfy this demand is 378,634,'J00 bushtfls. Foreign. The Duke of Edinburgh has resigned his position as British Admiral owing to his ao ceptanoe of the Coburg Duchy. The report stage of the Home Rule bill was closured la the British House of Commons; eighteen amendments proposed by John Moriey were carried by thirty-eight majority. The rioting in Naples, Italy, has been quelled by the military, and order restored In the city. It is estimated that the Frenoh Govornment will have a majority of 176in the Chamber of Deputies after tho second ballots have been taken. Maxt deaths from oholera ara reported from various countries of Europe. > At a concert in San Sebastian, Spain, the band refined to play the Basque hymn; a riot followed, the military were called out and two rioters were killed before order was restored. Saragossa. Spain, was also the scene of a riot, spectators at a bull fight being dissatisfied with the performance. In the British House of Commons several speakers critioised the construction of warsnips of the Victoria type, and Lord George Hamilton charged the Government with not maintaining the efficiency of the navy. PROMINENT PEOPLE. The state attire of the King of Siam Is worth over $1,000,000. The Dake of York has become a tenant farmer and is to try his luck breeding hogs. C. T. Yebk.es. the street railroad king of Chicago, has bought a $100,000 diamond at the World's Fair. The 8hah of Persia has Ave sons and thlr teen aaugnrers, :iau mere 1.1 uu uuugoi ui the royal line becoming extinct. Judoe William Conlev, of Madeira, Cal.. is only twenty-six years old. and is regarded as the youngest Judge of a Court of Record in this country. Jaxes Hablax, who wiis elected to the United States Senate nearly forty years ago, was lately in the field for the Iowa Republican Gubernatorial nomination. Like a voice from the tomb sounds the announcement that Theodore Tilton, who has been long dead to the world, has just published a hook of poems in Paris, where he lives. Pbebident Cleveland's brother, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Chaumont, Jefferson County, N. \\, is light of build and spare figure, and is in othor respect* unlike Grover. The middle name of United States Judge John F. Phillips, of Kansas City, Ma., is said to bo Finis,.and to have been bestowed upon him by his father because he was born in the last day of a year's last month and week,. Hew&s the last born of a large family, too. A windfall to S. V. White, the Wall street speculator, comes in the shape of 350,000, the amount of an insurance policy taken out on the life of Philip Bruns, the Wall street operator. It is said that the policy was written as a security for a loau. Geobob B. McClbllax, not yet twenty OlgUt V^?r? ui iltft?, UUJJT wu VI iuo K^ai vrac general of the same name, formerly a newspaper reporter, and now Preaident of the New York Board of Aldermen, Is the Acting Mayor of New York when Mayor Gllroy Is absent. He Is the youngest man who ever gat in that chair. Jean Martin Chabcot, a distinguished French physician, died, a few days ago. at Morvan, France. He made a specialty of diseases of the nervous system, aud wrote a large number of works on this and other medical subjects. He was a member of the Academic des Sciences and of the Clinical Society of London. Congressman Boatneq, ofLouisania, is the terror of the official stenographers, l'ho rapidity of his utterance is oompared to thq noise of a shot being poured into a tin pax. The words chas9 themselves out of him and arowd upon one another's heels and when they reachthe air develop into a swarm that rises to the ceiling in a tangled mass. The shorthand men, who take ordinary speakers with ease, get their noses right down to the paper when Boatner delivers a few remarks. It Is said that apples are being sold tn Chatham County, North Carolina, at tifteon cents per bushel, and that dealers are buying all they want of thorn at that orlce. i LATER NEWS. , J. A. Arnold, an Alderman of Newark, N. J., was accidently killed by swallowing^ a dose of carbolic acid given by his wife in mistake for a harmless tonic. Rev. Fba.nk Sheffield, a Methodist clergyman and temperance orator, in a fit of insanity murdered his flvo-year-old daughter Margaret at Rocky Point (R. I.) Excursion Grounds. The ohild's head was crushed in and she died in twenty minutes. Edmond Bostab6uche, aged eighteen years, and Samuel and Alexon Bouchard, brothers, aged eighteen and fifteen years, respectively, were drowned while swimming at Manchester N. H. New Yobk and New Jersey have been visited by a second hurricane, but happily without the trightful loss of life which accompanied the first cyclone. In New York much damage was done to crops, and along the New Jersey coast m3ny summer hotels and other buildings were badly damaged. Co.vtbolleb Eckels, of the Treasury De- ! partment, has Issued a statement showing that thirty-four suspended National banks had resumed, and that there were prospects for the resumption of about sixty more banks. Ten persons died in Lichtenstein, Germany, irom the effects of having eaton poisonous fungi, whioh they mistook for mushrooms. Ex-Sekatok and Mrs. William M. Evarta celebrated their golden wedding at Windsor Vt. Thz Pennsylvania Republican State Convention, at Harrlsburg, nominated D. Newiin Fell for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and Colonel Samuel M. Jackson for State Treasurer. New Yobe Prohibitionist at their State Convention in Elmira nominated a ticket headed by Joseph A. Bogardus for Secretary of State. The seventh annual convention of the International Sunday-school Union was held in St. Louis, Mo.. The loss caused by the cyclone on the cot ton crop in the territory tributary to Savan nah is placed at $1,000,000 and that on tin rice orop $200,000. The total losses on the cotton and rice crops of Georgia and the Carollnas are regarded as incalculable. The property loss in Charleston, S. C., and suburbs resulting from the storm, is placed of *11 RATI OnA ftffrt-thlr.'k r?f vhlph in by cyclone insurance. Chicaoo polioe to the number o{ ?00 clubbed and dispersed a big crowd of unemployed workingmen, many of whom were armed with shovels and coupling-pins and threatened to start a riot. The Ways and Means Committee of the House decided to prepare a tariff bill and to grant hearing)) to persons who may desire to communicate facts aad information and submit arguments bearing on theaubject of tariff revision. ...... The new Cliinsse Minister, with his wife and three children, the members of his official suite andnsrvants, numbering fifty-seven in all, has arrived in Washington. President Cleveland ami family have returned to the White Hou3t> from their country residence in Buzzard's Bay, Mass. An operation has been parformed on Mr. Cleveland's mouth, but the assertion that ic was for a cancer is denied. The President has been suffering fron an ulcerated tooth. "* *' ' ' " Asicito Garcia and Nicanor Horta were xecdted'ln Havana, Cuba, for kidnapping. Soldiers were-oalied out to fight immense forest.Area near Flguieres, France. One of them was burned to death and several others were injured. During a heavy storm the British steamship Justin, which has arrived at Barbadoes, West Indies, lost six of her crew overboard. THE LABOR WORLD. Indian* unions held a State convention. Stonecutters won thirty strikes this year. Chicago is the Mecoa of the unemployed. Nashville, Tenn., has a colored barbers' union. Brooklyn custom tailors have 97000 in the treasury. Chicago K. of L. demand a free employment bureau. Milwaukee horseshoers get twenty-flve cents an hour. Boys under sixteen cannot operate elevators in Connecticut. Twenty-five thousand persons are out of employment in Boston. Seattle, Washington, is to have a municipal free employment bureau. the railroads in all parts of the country are reducing wages ana salaries. Bostox teamsters and coal handlers have organized under the Federation. Th* number of workmen's daily tickets Issued by London railways during 1889 was 18,942,835. Oxford (N. J.) iron workers.are will In? to accept a cut In wa^es rather than a shutdown of the works. Doixnesb marks the Iron business, many miners beiag idle and small shipments of ore being made. The Iron Trade Review says the rasumptioD. of iron mills does not promise to be of long duration. It is said that there are 8000 iasters in ths country, and that 3000 of them are at work upon machinery. Thk coal miners'strike in South Wales is so serious that thousands of troops have beau ordered to the scene. A dacohter of the late Judge ("Pig Iron") Kelly, Mrs. Florence Wischnewetsky, is au Illinois factory inspector. Mobs in the San Joaquin Valley, California, are threatening an outbreak against the Chinese laborers in the vineyards. The shoe business in Lynn, Mass.. 1? improving, so the manufacturers say, and tie labor leaders claim that more of the men are at work than for 3ome time. Thk oldest engineer in active s^rvic on I the Erie road Is said to be H. L. Cario-j^n, who runs the SufferU looal. He eut'jre.i the service in 1853..ani has never been in a collision or wreok. The average amount earned per wae< r>y women in Kansas and Wisconsin is $3.27 : in Minnesota, "86. In Indianapolis tii ? s.u n paid for shirt making ranges irooi thirty to sixty cents a dozen. ARAB MUTINY QUELLED. Villages Burned aud Many Inhabitants Killed by British Marines. The British cruiser Blanche has quelled a mutiny of Arabs against the East Africa Company's employes on the island of Kismayoo, and rescued all the company's servants at the port of Klsmayoo exceptfng the ohief agent, who had 'jeen killed. The steamer Kenia, in Kismayoo Harbor, was hard pressed by the Arabs, and was saved from destruction only by the early arrival of the Blanche. The marines drove the Arabs into the interior of the island, after having killed and wounded many and having burned several of their villages. re Is proposed to hold a universal exposition in Madrid, from April 1 to October 31, 1894. A request has been forwarded to the i United States Department of State, asking i that a United States Commissioner be 3p> pointed to arrange for American oxhibits. a -v: AGAMT FREE COINAGE. '* ???????? THE SILVEB REPEAL Bill. PASSED BY THE HOUSE. ! ' '+?&* The Vote, Yeas 2-10, >*ays 110?'Th* 16 to 1 Amendment Defeated by 124 Yeas to 226 Nays?More Votes Against Other Ratios?Intense Interest In the Closing Scenes. The fortnight's debate in the House of Representatives on the Wilson bill to repeal the purchasing clause of the Sherman sUvsr law ended in the passage of the measure and the defeat of all the amendments offered by the friends of free silver. The House , started voting at noon. The programme wm to vota first on the proposition for free coin- \ age at a ratio of 16 to 1 and so on up to 90, t if the preceding ratios were defeated. The '. I programme after this was to vote on the re- j turn to the Allison-Bland law and finally oa :td the unconditional repeal of the purchasing ~T| clause of the silver Jaw of 1890. J When the Speaker commanded order near- I ly every seat in the hall was filled, an omnia- I takable evidence of the general and Individ- 1 ual Interest In the matter in hand. Chaplain 1 Had da way prayed briefly, and la a voice fa- j audible at u distance of more <than ted feat I I from the desk, for an especial gift of wisdom and judgment rightly to settle the gnat question before the House. After the reeding of the Journal, Mr. Weaver (N. Y.) ap- v peered at the bar of the House on the arm of his oolleegue, -General Tracey, and was sworn in by the Speaker. Thereeolution contained in the order of < procedure on the sliver question' was r?- ,V i ported by the olerk, providing for a vote rttf* \ ?- ] upon free oolnage of silver at the present i ". /'' *.jj ratio of 16 to L Bepreeentative Bailey (Texas) asked If, la ? : the event of all the amendments Included la , ' the order being defeated, it would be in order to propose an additional amendment germane to the subject. Speaker Crisp replied that as at present a<t- ! vised he would answer no; that the order , . provides exhaustively all that the House may consider, but that when the time came formally to present the question, the members ^ from Texas might be heard. Bepreeentative McMillan (Tenn.) desired to offer an amendment providing for the free , < ,V; coinage Of the product of the silver mines Of the United States; but Mr. Bland (Mo.) ob>> . jectodeveuto having it read, saying that such a proposition was not free coinage at all. The roll was then called upon Mr. Bland's . ' ' amendment to the Wilson bill, providing for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. It resulted yeas 121, nays 226. Messrs. Shell and Graham were paired, the former in . ' favor of free coinage. The announcement of the vote was received with applause and some surprise at > the majority against frea coinage, it beingj nearly double the largest estimate made by IUU AJiu-ouver V/Uuilluiioc. ou. uuuiu, aviui r a seat at the extreme loft of the Speaker/ smiled grimly as he heard the result, ner- . vously rooking to and fro on his pivot chair. Mr. Bland then asked for a yea and nay vole on the question of free coinage at the I-' ratio of 17 to 1, and secured it. The vote on this ratio resulted?yeas, 100; nays, 340. . Tdr. Bland then offered the amendment 1 providing for free coinago at a ratio oT 18 to 1, and demanded the yeas and nays. There were protests against this and cries of "N<V* but eighty-five members seconded the request, and the roll was again called. 6'n this question the yeat were 103, and nays, 239. | The next amendment was that providing! for free coinage at a ratio of 19 to L Yeas, <3 ahd nays waro demanded and ordered. The roll call showed the following vote: Yew/ - ; lot; nays, 238. * ' 4 The slight gains made on the higher ratios,' as shown by the last two votes, was not unexpected by some of the leaders, and It was the published Impression of these that the ratio of 20 to 1, the next amendment offered by Mr. Bland, would poll the largest vote re- -X ? corded In favor of free coinage. The result I of this roll call was : Yeas, 121; nays. 222. | Vv The amendment to re-enact the Bland-AI-' '.?> lison act was then defeated ? yeas, 188;' ''slS nays, 218. 1 1 The next and final vote was op Mr. Wilson's bill to repeal the purchasing clause of] the Sherman silver law. It was passed by!< 240 yeaa to 110 nays?a majority of 130 vote* 1 < Tne bill was then engrossed and sent,to ; the Senate for action. The story of the day's voting is told in the shortest and most instructive manner by the following table: Ratios. Tern. Nay* Majority VV: 16 to 1 -..124 226 102 17 to 1 . ....100 240 140 18 to 1 103 239 186 19 to 1 104 238 184 r 'W- > 20 to 1 .* 121 222 101 Bland-Allison act 13C 213 77 Final passage 240 110 180 The vote on repeal was divided by parties as iuuuwo . Parties. For repeal. Agalmt. ' Democrats 138 77 Republicans 102 24 . Populists ... . ? 0 ? -*_ Totals 240 110 ~ig.& The vote was divided by grand divisions of States as follows: ? Divisions. Tea*. Nay*. New England States 27 ? Middle States 60 2 Southern States 56 68 Middle West 83 It For West 6 29 >. . 8? Totals 240 110 FASTED UNTIL HE DIED. ? . A Sailor Lives Seventy-six Days Without Food. Antonio Bachetlch, an Austrian sailor, who bad refused to take food for seventy-tit days, died a few days since in a sailors' . boariing-house in Philadelphia, soon a ft or calling for food and sipping a little beef tea. On June 11th, because no knife and fork and spoon were put at his place at,table, he vowed in anger not to eat another morsel of food, and no one could prevail upon him to . change his mind. He raiused to have a physician or go to a hospital. HELD UP THE TRAIN, 'j Five Masked Men Rob Passengers on the Northern Pacific Road. Five masked men held up passenger train No. 4 on the Northern Pacific Railroad at Gray Cliff. Mont., the other night, compelled the express messenger to open the express car and local safe by threateniug to blow them open with dynamite, and then went through the train taking money from the passengers. Ttiey seourea oniy sooui tfiO from the safe and about f 100 from the pussoagers. TO COIN MORE SOLD.. Buflion in the Treasury to Be Minted " as Fast as Possible. ' , Secretary Carlisle has ordered that th? mints at Philadelphia and San Francisco be fully manned and run to their full capacity n coining gold bullion. The Treasury Department possesses from eighty-five to ninety millions of gold bullion, a part of the , gold reserve. Gold bar.-; cannot be used a* currency, and it has been decided, In I the present need, to coin the bullion on hand. I This bullion will be coined into $10, $5 and | $2.50 gold pieces, proferonrs being given to the first two denomination*. The coining capacity of the Pbiladelpnia Mint Is over 1 *5,000,000 per month. The San Francisco Mint will also be utilized, but nearly all the bullion posses39d by the Government is in I lue ILU^l. There isS20.000.003 in sold bullion in tho Philadelphia Mint. $15,000,000 of it being in one vault, where it has remained untouched for fifteen years The worst feature of the drowning season is that it kills off so manjf people without giving the doctors a chance at thorn. ^ Perhaps if a pneumatic tire were put en the dollar of the dads it would circulate better.?Johnstown Democrat. ,