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t BY EMMS OBDEBS. JOHN BULL EESTOEES THE MOSQUITO FLAG. Klnara<ma's Assumption of the Coast Reservation Resented by the Knglish Government and an Armed Force Lauded?The Mosquito aud Xiacraguan Flag Left Flying. Captain Angus Brown, of the steamer Elliott, which arrived a few days ago at Savannah, Ga., from Blueflelds, brought some details of the state of affairs on the Mosquito Reservation. . Captain Brown says the Nicaraguans entered Blueflelds on February 25th or 26th. He did not know their exact numerical strength, but says there was an armed force of 400 or 500 of them at Blueflelds when he arrived. They brought no cannon with them. They linear arms, und without any ouupij v**kv*v%. ? ???. ? , resistance 011 the part of the natives. They hoisted the Nlcaraguan flag over the Custom House and over the other public buildings. , The flags remained uo during the time the Elliott wus in port. There was no fighting. The Mosquitos were terrified by the presence of so large an armed force, as they were practioally without protection in the city. Captain Brown says the reports that reached this country with regard to the name of the British war ships there are in error. It is not the Cleopatra, he say3, but the Tomas. The Moaquitoe, he says, fearing they might be attacked by the Nicaraguans, appealed to the To mas for protection. On Thursday, March 1, the Tomas, Captain Brown says, without any authority from the British Government, as there had not been time to get any such authority, sent three boat loads of armed men ashore. He did not know the exact number or men, but between eighty and 100 were landed. They were armed with carbines and cutlasses. The men went ashore in the steam Iniwoh of the man-of-war, and carried with th*m two Gatling guns and three field pieces. The British forces did not land at Blueflitlda. but at Blueflelds Bluff, about four or live miles northwest of the city. There was some understanding between the Mosquito eiiief and the officer In charge of the Tomas, the chief asking that the men be landed for the safety and protection of his people. The British soldiers went Into Blueflelds from the Blnff several times while Captain , Brown 7ns there. They oould not go by land, bat had to nse the steam laanoh, on which they carried one of the Gatllng guns. There was no flght at all between March 1, the day the men landed, and March 4, the day the Elliott sailed. Captain Brown says there was little excite* xnent among the people. The Mosqaitos Were somewhat frightened when the Nicaragnans first entered, bat after the landing of the British troops, he says, all excitement subsided, and the people seemed willing to let things go on as they were until the trouble between the Indians and the Nicaraguans to settled. The Nicarajjuans, of course, objected to the landing of the British troops and charged the officers in charge of the British with an open violation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. Little attention was paid to this by the British. The Nicaraguans wanted them to Miok to the terms of the treaty. The Tomas i sailed from Blueflelds for Colon to cable to England for advices. Meantime the troops w?ro left in camp at Blueflelds Bluff. The Tomas returned to Blueflelds in two days. Captain Brown did not learn the result of the correspondence with the English Department of Foreign Affairs, as he was five or six miles away from Blueflelds, and did not land there again before leaving. When he left, he says, the soldiers were still In camp at the Bluff, Captain Brown found little excitement in Blueflelds. Business was going on as usual and the foreign population, most of whom are Americans, expect no bloodshed or other trouble. The Americans contro> the bulk of the trade\and American Influences are the most prominent forei>oi factors on the reservation. All were looking for an American' man-of-war. The general opinion saemed ' to be that the settlement of the question of Nlcoraguan controi would In the end be settled by the position assumed by the United States Government. All were agreed that Nicaragua 1 merely took possession of Blueflelds to secure the revenues there, which have become large in recent years and have been coveted lor some time. > One Incident occurred wmcn was reg&ruou as indicative that the Briti3h regard the Nt? caraguuns as usurpers. When the Custom House and other public buildings were taken possession of by the invaders, the Musquito flag was hauled down and that of Nicaragua put up. The commander ci the British war ship insisted that the Mosquito flag be restored, and it was run up under the Nicaraguan flag. This was not satisfactory, and la V . the end the two flags were placed on opposite poke at the same height. v PROMINENT PEOPLE. .Gr.AD3TO.VE has again refused a title. Ex-Gotxbkob Downey, ol California, fJ dead. The Sultan of Turkey Is an amateur oar ponter. > ' * Queen* Yictobia signs about 50,000 documents a year. Potter Palmer has purchased 800 Bibles for his big hotel in Chicago. Dr. W. F. Poole, the well-known llt^arian, died at his home in Evanston, III. Jdsticks Field and Mreweb can both talk modern Greek, which they learned in '"S Smyrna. Manuel Garcia, who taught Jennv Lind, is still teaching, although he is in his nine? tieth year. Pbisce Bismarck is reported to have sai(? that rejection of the Russo-German treatj means war. The King of Portugal could sell the jewels in his erown for $6,500,000 in case of a royal financial stringency. Commander Harry Lyon, who broughl the Nipsiclrom Samoa alter tne oamoannur ricane, has been promoted. About the only European monarch wbos? life is not insured is the Czar, whom the nihilists have made an unsafe risk. It is odd that both the Italian Premier and the ex-British Premier should suffer from V cataract of the eyes at the same time. 31b. Gladstone received thousands of letters and telegrams expressing regret at the necessity of his resigning from tho Premiership. Cardinal Gibbons, at the Pope'u request, has sent to His Holiness large pictures of President Cleveland and ex-President Harrison. The hospitality Senator Erice, of Ohio, dispenses from the old Corcoran house in Washington is said to cost him $150,000 v a year. Thomas Habdt has besn bitten by the modern labor problem, and his next novel will deal with the differences between capitalist and workman. Lord Rosebeb? has become a milkman, one of the most extensive in London, but he does not ba.ve his name on his milk wagons, as Lord Itayleigh does, preferring to carry on the trade under the names of his managers. Mbs. Cleveland, Mrs. Gres'nam. Mrs. Carlisle and Mrs. Bissell the other evening attended a Moody revival meeting in Washington. The President's wife was among those who stood up and testified their willingness to confess Corist before all men. Associate Justice Bbewes. of tho United States Supreme Cour% is as successful a Bible class teacher as he is a jurist. He is exceedingly apt in his illustrations. His class gathers every Sunday morning at the First Congregational Church, Washington. tf thes Hickman was cutting down a rrea near Glasgow. Ala., when it fell on his two daughters, wno were passing near by. unseen by him. One daughter was killed instantly and the other died in the morning. Hlokman has since gone crazy from tho grief and is a raving maniac. The state of the affaTr-3 of Charles Foster, I ex-Secretary of the Treasury, to the creditors shows personal liabilities of $303,255 and net assets of $193,773. The liabilities of the banking Arm of Foster <fc Co. are stated at 771,201, net assets #43,410, ol whic l $16.299 are classed us doubtful. .. S& A '7 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Ar a mass meeting in Troy, N. Y., a committee of one hundred was named to see that the mui derer of Robert Ross, the election watcher, was brought to justice. The fltrht between the rival Senates of the New Jersey Legislature has been carried before the Supreme Court at Trenton. The State Senate Committee held their first rflmilnr session and becan the investi*a tion of charges against the police of tfew York City of partisan activity at the polls. The residence of William Snyder, at Delavan, N. Y., took Are. Snyder, who was old and sickly, went to the front door to give an alarm, and then returned to rescue his aged wife. Both perished. The Forsyth Street Methodist Episcopal Churcb. New York City, celebrated the 104th anniversary of its founding. The oldest United Presbyterian congregation in America dedicated a new church at Oxford, Penn. Thomas Dunleavy and Edgar Van Gaa3beck. through a heroic attempt to save the lives of fellow workmen, lost their lives at Hickory Bush. N. Y. They were suffocated in a cement kiln. Samuel Ham, of Barrington, N. H., the most prosperous farmer of that vicinity, committed suicide by thrusting a knife into his heart. He was sixty years old. The millionth loaf in The World Free Bread Distribution was given away in New York City. Stbikino spinners and dyers' helpers in Paterson, N. J., attacked those who remained at work, and mamy were injured. South and West. Daniel Cocqhlin was acquitted in Chi. cago of the chargo of complicity in the assassination of Dr. Patrick H. Cronin. Ex-Pbesidekt Harbison paid an eloquent iriDute to the late Senator stanrora at raio Alto, Cal., the occasion being the celebration of Memorial Day at the Stanford University. Jcdoe George W. 8tone, Chief Justice of the Alabama State Supremo Court, died a few days since in Montgomery. Half way between Little Rock, Ark., and Marche, some colored men found the dead body of a young mulatto woman, probably about thirty years old, suspended to the limb of a tree. On her body was a placard bearing the inscription: "If anybody cuts this body down they will share the same fate." It is supposed the woman was lynched. These is wholesale destitution in southwest Texas and nppeals are made for aid. Jacob Studt at 8t. Louis killed his employer, Charles Wuenscb, who bad discharged him, and then fatally wounded himself. Both are carpenters. Ex-Pbesideitt Habbisox delivered the second of his course of six lectures on Constitutional Law before the students of Leland Stanford, Jr., Universitv, in Menlo Park, CaL Mabiox T. Skapps shot and killed his wife at East Alton, 111., and then fired three bullets into his own brain, killing himself instantly. The couple lived unhappily together. Washington. The Senate confirmed the nomination of H. A- Hayden to be Marshal for the Eastern District of New York. Th* trial of the Pollard-Breckinridge suit was begun in Washington. Majob Thbockmobtok, of the Army, ha? been retired to permit him to accept the office of Assistant Superintendent of Street Gleaning in New York. Louis Gree.v Stevenson, son ot the Vice President, was nominated Assistant Paymaster of the Navy. Walter L. Wilson, son of Chairman Wilson, was nominated to a similar office. Th* President made the following nominations : Wallaoe MacFarlane, United States Attorney for the Southern District ot New York; Edward Grosse, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third District of New York Francis M. Gardenhere, Surveyor of Customs for the Port of Chattanooga, Tenn. Genebal A. W. Gbeely, Chief Signal Offloer of the Army, has been designated to act as Librarian of the War Department, a place heretofore filled by a civilian clerk. Ths Government receipts for the first third of the month of Maroh showed a decided improvement, the aggregate oeing $3,250,000, indicating $28,000,000 for the month. Newton C. Blanchabo was sworn in as the successor of Justice Whito as Senator from Louisiana. The President has nominated John H. Mulligan, ot Kentucky, as Consul at Samoa. Associated Justice White took his seat on the bench of the United States Supreme Court. Commissionkb Lochben was informed of the arrest of Jesse C. Hansee, a pension attorney of Hudson County. New Jersey, for alleged pension frauds. The Commissioner restored between 3000 and 4000 suspended Densions. Foreign. Eight persons were seriously wounded by the explosion ot a bomb in front of the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, Italy; several arrests have been made. The Rosebery British Cabinet, at its first council, approved tbe draft of the Queen's speech ; the speech may promise disestablishment of the Church in Wales; the Parnellites have issued a manifesto expressing distrust of the new Cabinet. Adhibal Benham, of the United States Navy, is the only foreign commander on duty at Rio de Janejro, Brazil.. _tho naval representatives of other nations having fled ifrom the pestilence. Da Gama's men have insulted the British and German flags of late (with impunity. : A British force of thirty-four officers and men were massacred by tribesmen in Assam, after fighting two days and nights. Da. Gam a is said to be convinced th.it the Brazilian insurgent cause is lost and to be seeking a chance to surrender to the foreign commanders. British shipmasters in distress at Rio cable to England that succor refused by the British Navy is given bythe American squadron. AGAINST THE LORDS. A Motion to Abolish Their Power of Veto Carried. In the British House of Commons Mr Henry Labouchere's amendment lo the Queen's address to abolish the veto power of the House of Lords was passed by a vote of 147 to 145, iu spite of the opposition of the Government. Mr. Labouchere's proposal was an amendment to the address in reply to the Queen's soeech. After some discussion and considerable excitement the amendment was put to a vote and was passed. When the figures were announced they caused an outburst of prolonged cheering which was renewed when the Deputy Speaker read the address in reply to the Queen's speech with Mr. Labouchere's amendment attached to it. The division on the Labouchere amendment occurred earlier than was expected and many of the canvassers were absent at dinner. The majority was composed of seventy-three McCurthyites and Parnellites, the remainder being Radicals. When the division paper was handed to Mr. Labouchere a tremendous cheer broke irom the Irish and Radical benches and the uWtnbers standing bolow the gangway. Mr, Tanner was excitedly cheering and waving his handkerchief, while the Governmenl tellers looked pale, especially chief whi{ Ellis. All the Ministers looked downcast while Mr. Ballour smiled ironically. The division was moved purposely durlnf the dining hour, when one-half of the mem bers were absent. Mr. Labouchere was con gratulated on his victory, and was chafflnglj asked when he would undertake the for mation of a Ministry. The majority o the Ministerialists do not disapprovi Mr. Labouchere's victory, but they ar perplexed over the Government's defeat Ii looting up precedents it has been found tha tho only way of getting rid of an amend men like Mr. Labouchere's is by having the Hous vote on the address as a whole. All the Irish members supported Mr. La bouchere. The two Houses of Parliament met a Montevideo, Uruguay, for the purpose o electing a President to succeed Dr. Hereia Y Obes, whose term expired on March 1. Th ballot resulted in the electing of Senho Ellauri by a majority of fifty-four votes Senhor Ellauri was President of the Repub 11c In. 1873. Ellauri has declined to accept THE TB1BIPH OF PBIXOTD ciTT-D-Drxr-nn? nr TTTF! TNTSTTR. O U UJL11.M VJ. AU*. GENT VESSELS AT RIO. Da Gama Seeks Safety on a French Cruiser?Insurgent Soldiers Will Be Pardoned and Captured Officers Conrt Martialed?Melio Deserts His Followers. ADMIRAL CtJSTODIO JOSE DE HELLO. A. despatch from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, says: Floriano Peixoto is triumphant. The insurgent vessels nave surrendered wnaoui having answered with a single shot the cannonade from the Government's hilltop batteries. The report that Admiral De Gama bad fled was confirmed. He has sought safety on the French cruiser Magon. The American officers of the Government warships came ashore during the afternoon. They report that the crews of the vessels are well, and delighted that they won without a fight. Excepting the officers nobody aboard Pelxoto'3 men-of-war seems to have been eager for battle. In coming up the harbor the Government fleet saluted the United States flap; and Rear Admiral Benham. The United States fleet will disperse soon. The men aboard the American war ships are in excellent health. The end of insurgent power in the harbor has been welcomed with joy in the city. Exshange has improved twenty-flve per cent. Business is as usual. Not a symptom of disorder has appeared in the city. The people are preparing to celebrate the collapse of the insurrection. The Aquidaban and Republica, which constitute about all that Is left of the insurgent M?uan are reDorted to be in south Brazilian waters. Both are said to be disabled. Admiral Mello, it is reported, has just been seen in the streets of Montevideo. He has deserted his followers, an Admiral da Gama deserted his officers and men on the harbor fleet. The insurgent sailors will be pardoned ; the officers will be court martlaled. The surrender of the rebels after the attack by the forts and shore batteries was complete and unconditional. Da Gama has taken refuge on a French warship. Many of the other officers esoaped on other vessels in the harbor. The revolution is now confined to the Southern States. The sudden surrender of Da Gama and his fleet to the Brazilian Government without a naval fight, which seemed imminent a few days before, is the source of great gratification to the officials of the Navy Department, who now expect the dissolution of our large fleet in Rio. The expense to our Navy Def>artmqnt during the revolution has been arger than is generally imagined. The cablegrams alone have cost thousands of dollars, while coal, supplies, and stores have been enormously high. Every officer on the fleet is believed to have spent a large part of his salary for mess bills alone on account of the exorbitant prices charged for everything at Rio since the outbreak of the revolution. The dennrtment has felt the greatest con cern for the health of the officers and crews, and bat for the exercise of unusual care It Is believed yellow lever would have appeared on all the ships. Some naval officers regret that the war was terminated without a naval flght, where the dynamite gun would have undoubtedly played an important part, and where our officers would have had a chance to witness their first modern sea battle. RIOTOUS STRIKERS, Workers In the Silk Mills of Patersou Terrorize the Town. The city of PateisoD, N. J., was for several days p-actically in (he bands of a lawless meb. ? tbeusand strikers went from one to another of several of the silk ribbon factories and dye works, broke down doors and fences, and forced the workmen to abandon their work and joiu them. Thousands of other striker? looked on, ready at a moment's call to join their comrades and demolish whole buildings. In the evening the police charged a large crowd of strikers and dispersed them. During the day tho police seemed to be Eowerless. There are iu.uuu mie suk worKor* i Paterson and only sixty-live policemen. The striking silk weavers ami flax spinners were joined by the silk dyers. Riots broke out in the town at intervals all day. Early In the morning the strikers began to mass themselves about Weldman's mill. Bv 8 o'clock there were a thousand people gathered and the disposition of the crowd was such that the little guard of police became uneasy. The strikers marched to the dye works of Auger <fc Simon, half a mile away. When the second mob reached the mill the doors were broken in and the entire building was at tho mercy of the mob. Five minutes after the mob broke open the doors they began to destroy property. Big bundles of finished and unfinished silk, valued at thousands of dollars, were thrown from the shelves to the floor. The mob then hurrieito the dye works of Vermorel <fc Kimball, on River street, but the police were there before them, and tho work# of Richard Berdan, on Water street, were attacked. The doors were forced and a repetition of the scenes and doings at Auger <fc Slmons's was threatened. Mr. Berdan said nothing until the strikers -* ?Hu uiik nnon the floor. SlUriOU LU luivn Then he sprang upon a bench and, with a drawn revolver, ordered them to throw up their hands, and they did so. With theU hands still above their heads ami covered by Mr. Berdiux's pistol the strikers left the mill, By this time the mob bad increased tr about tbree thousand and iu a disorderly mass, cursing and sinRincr, moved througl: the city to the various dye shops and forced them to close. Store-keepers shut theii places of business for fear of being looted and resident? kept out or the stroets. At night about 3000 strikers gathered ii Ranford Brothers' mill and were driven ou by the police. Clubs were used freely anc several heads were broken, though ther< were no fatalities. The Mayor has issued a proclamation, bu no attention was paid to it and more troubli was feared. , REVENUE ESTIMATES. t 1 The Senate Tariff Bill Decreases thi ' Present Revenue $32,469,681. ? The figures as laid before the Senat< Finance Committee of the revenue unde r existing law and estimated revenues unde; - the House and Senate Tariff bills show thai f there was imported during the last fisca ' year $530,379,052.53, of which 8400,069,658. e 40 was dutiable, yielding a duty of $198, 3 373,452.97, the average ad valorum rate be 1 ing 49.58 per cent. 1 The House bill gives $124,603,004.17, at i e rate of 35.52 per cent., and a decrease in th revenues of $73,680,448.80. The Senate bil yields a duty of $165,903,771.45, at an avei ago rate of 34.19 per cent., with a decreas in the revenues of but $32,469,581.52. Th t estimated revenues by the Senate bill are : f From customs, $165,903,771.45 ; from#addi tional internal revenue income, $30,000,000 e spirits, $20,000,000 ; cigars, $9,000,000 ; cig r arettee, $1,500,000 ;playing cards, $8,000.0(M i. Total additional revenue, $63,000,000, makin the total carried by the bill, outside of th present internal revenue, $229,403,771.45. ' y/ ' '} *' , : ; LATER NEWS. Twenty students of Swarthmore College Pennsylvania, "Gave been suspended fo thirty days for hazing Lawyor John W Hutchinson, Jr., of New York City. The Central Board of Education at Pitts burg, Penn., voted (29 to 2) refusing to paj any teacher appearing in the public school in the garb of any religious order. Th< Junior Order of American Mechanics applied to Judge McClung for an injunction restraining the nuns from teaching in the public schools while wearing the dress 01 their order. Eveline Loyton, of New Bedford, N. J. hanged herself on her twenty-ninth birthdaj presumably because of an unfortunate lov< affair. A permanent committee of one hundrec to secure good government and the prosecu tion of election criminals was chosen by th( people of Troy, N. Y. Adam Saueii, Deputy Collector of Interna' Revenue, Toledo, Ohio, is under arresl charged with embezzling $37,000 from th< ? - ? n n.kink h< juenance ^umo; aavmya ohuk, ui nuuu u< was cashier. Road agents forced the railroad clerk Ir Woodward, Oklahoma, to open his safe, anc they secured $10,000 booty. R. W. Page, formerly President of the Merchants' National Bank, of Fort Worth Texas, shot and instantly killed A. B. Smith, formerly cashier of the bank, during a | quarrel. Secbetabt Carlisle has asked Congress for $100,000 for the Buffalo public building The President made the following nomina Hons : Samuel Truesdell, of New York, to be Pension Agent at New York ; Charles P. Blnkely, Register of the Land Office at Bo zeman, Montana ; Clark 8. Rowe, Register ol the Land Office at Chamberlain, South Dakota. At Vale's saw mill, in Sombra Township Canada, the boiler of the 3aw mill exploded, killing James Cornell, the engineer and three of his children, who were in the engine room with him. A head-on collision between the Montreal and Quebec express trains, near Sherbrooke, Canada, resulted in the killing of tneengineei and a train hand who was in the cab Witt him. Rabid wolves are creating havoc among persons and animals In the iiterlor district! of Russia, and over thirty residents of smal outlying villages, who have been bitten, hav? been treated for rabies by physicians ii Moscow. The United States steamer Marion vrm nearly wrecked in a typhoon in the China * Sea. caref Fodisllah, the slave trader, whos< depredations among the natives In th< t British sphere in Africa led to the recem fighting in that territory, resulting, insevera Instances, in the defeat of the British sailors has been captured In French territory. Seventy-seven new cases "f typhoid feve were reported In Buffalo, N. Y., in one day Justice. Kenneth F. Sutherland, Mc Kane's henchman, was found guilty or mis demeanor at Brooklyn for his connectioi with the election crimes at uravesena, z Rev. Db. 8. D. Notes, pastor of the Secon< i Reformed Church, died suddenly at King ston, N. Y. He was in church rehearsing i party for a wedding and dropped dead. The nuns who have been teaching in on of the public schools in Pittsburg, Penn. gave up the flght and told their 251 pupils t< report at the parochial school. [ Chables Thompson and his wife, of Damas i cus, Ala., were killed by lightning whil driving to ohurch. John Bbecht, a young German farme living several miles south of Ravenna, Neb. killed his wife, a bride of four months, am then blew out his own brains with a shot gun. John T. Fobd, the veteran theatrical man ager, died suddenly at bis nome in uam more. Md. The House Committee on Commerce favor a life-saving station at East Marion or Rock; Point, Long Island. The British Government withdrew the ad dress in reply to the Qaeen's speech a amended on Mr. Labouchere's motion, am the House of Commons adopted a new ad dress without division. A number of arrests of Anarchists hav been made at Rome and evidences of a bii conspiracy discovered. The fiftieth birthday of the King of Ital; was celebrated at Rome. Qoeen Victoria has left England for a] outing in Italy. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, The Senate. 54th Day.?Mr. White, recently appolntei Associate Justice of the Supreme Court o the United States, announced Tils reslg nation as 8enator. A House bill giving i pension of $12 a month to Hannah Lyons ninety-one years old, the daughter of a sol dier in the Revolutionary War. was passed Mr. Sherman made an argumen against the Bland seigniorage bill. 55th Day.?An agreement was reaches t vote on the Bland seigniorage bill. 56th Day.?Mr. Blanchard took his seat ai successor of Mr. White, of Louisiana.? The motion to investigate reports of stock jobbing in connection with the Tariff bil was tabled. The Bland bill was debatei [ by Messrs. Allison, Vilas and Walcott. 57th Day.?The Bland seigniorage bil was discussed during the entire session. 58th Day.?Mr. Allison's motion to recon ' sider the third reading of the Bland bill wa r defeated by a vote of 28 yejis to 45 nays . also Mr. Mandersoa's motion to recommi [ for amendment. The House. ' 70th Dat.?The bill to abolish the Custom Bureau of the Treasury Department wai I passed. -Bills were also passed to protect : the fisheries of the Potomac River for a pe 1 riod of ten years and to amend the law gov 3 erningthe Smithsonian Institution. Tii District of Columbia Appropriation bill wa; r discussed two hours and theu went over. 0 71st Dat.?Almost the entire session wa1 devoted to tho District of Columbia Appro priation bill. The general debate wa9 closed and the bill was discussed under the five minute rule for amendment. Mr. De At mond's amendment, to repeal all lavs re quiring the Federal Government to pay hal ! theexpenditures of the District was rejected An evening session was held Tor the consid oration of private pension bills. 72dDav. ?The District of Columbia Ap r propriation bill was passed by 111 to 11. I r carries a total appropriation of '55,200.773 ^ half payable by the general Government. J committee amendment, appropriating 543, ' 000 for the improvement of streets cxtendei " beyond the city limits, was agreed to, and a " amendment requiring illuminating gas fur ' nished consumers to be twenty candle powei was adopted. The House then took u 1 the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, makini ? it the unfinished business. 1 73d Day.?Only District of Columbia mat '* ters were considered. Mr. Walker mad e charges against the trolley trust and salt 0 "the trail of the monster, the General Elec trie, can be traced in this House." l" 74th Day.?The House in committee ap ! propriated $90,000 for the improvement o <' the New York Tostofflce. A resolution ask ' ing Secretary Herbert for information re 8 garding the armor-plate scandal wn adopted. 75th Day.?The day was devoted to dia cussion of the Sundry Civil bill. TUP. patk'S mroml ' SWINDLES PEEPETEATED BY MIDWAY FAKIES, 7 Over 25,000 Persons Fooled by the Blarney Stone ? It Was a Limestone Paving Block Dug Up From a Chicago Street ? $7,000,00C Spent by the Public on the Mldwaj I Collector of Customs Clark, at the Port of Chicago, has made an interesting report to ( the United States Treasury Department, one r chapter of which concerns the Midway Plats 5 ance of the World's Fair. This part of the. great exposition was under the direct charge i of Deputy Collector J. E. Ralph, who makee public some curious facts as to how the people were fooled by the so-called "Blarney i stone." throwing out a warning about the growth of the hasheesh habit, and incident ally refers to various tricks of the foreign [ fakirs to draw out the money of the gullible t Americans. Mr. Ralph says: "At the opening of the Irish village, there - was one essential thing lacking to make the ! 'Blarney Castle' a counterpart of the original structure in Ireland, and that was the 'Blarney stone.' The manager, desirous of endow ing the visitors with an opportunity for beI coming famous spouters, took int<? his confi Cenoe James miey, a contractor, uuarequested that he produce a 'Blarney stone.1 Mr. i Riley secured the servlcesof Charles Thompson, an employe of the village, and these ' two men, on a dark night In Jane repaired to the corner of Fifty-seventh street and Portland avenne In the city of Chicago, and there dug from the street a limestone paving block about eighteen inches by eight I Inches by ten Inches in dimensions. They car ried It to the village and placed it in a case which had been received that day In bond ?Case No. 97, serial 4099?addressed to , Thoma9 Baker, Irish Industrial Village. This case contained a model of 'The Bells of Shandon.' Invitations were issued to the representatives of the Chicago papers and to f Mayor Harrison, the latter accepting the invitation to officiate at the opening of the case containing the famous 'Blarney stone.' "On the day set aside for the ceremonies Mayor Harrison could not be present, and > Customs Inspector E. W. Matlock was sent for to open the case. The inspector arrived , with the invoice for Case No. 97, serial 409C-, . which stated that the case contained a model of the 'Bells of Shandon,' valued at $25. He opened the case and found it checked 'one I stone over.' After properly labelling both model and stone, he made his 9 return on tne invoice: uuo muuo r over, estimated value $500.' This stone was t then placed in the walls of the castle, where it remained daring the balance of the Fair, and was kissed by at least 25,000 people, a ? fee of ten cents apiece being charged. At the i close of the Fair the manager of the village , desired to take the ston? and exhibit it in a store in the city of Chicago, but was in5 formed that he eould not do so uni less he made a consumption entry on same and paid the duty. This was done, and on November 24, 189S, I ) delivered, the store on a duty-paid permit, t Both the inspector in charge of tho village and myself remained in ignorance of the history of the 'Blarney stone' until January 23, > 1894,believing up to that time that it was imj ported in 'Case No. 97, serial 4099." The in. voice on which consumption entry was paid ' read as follows: 'One piece of stone from I Blarney, Connty Cork, Ireland, value $500.' , "I wiBh to call the attention of the department to the fact that large quantities of t 'hasheesh' were brought into this country by the Egyptians, at least 300 pounds being consumed and distributed on the Midway. I made w a report of this to the special agents, but never heard the result of their investigations. 'Hasheesh,' which means herbs in Arabic, 1 tn atmnlonf nnlnm and lc.ft narcotic . drug having the same effects as opium. It is . made from an Indian hemp which is caltl1 vated in Asia Minor. It is used very exten. - aively in Asia and Turkey for the purpose of i producing a particular kind of inebriety. Its value being high, only the aristocratic class enjoy it. In order to get an exact idea e of the great consumption of 'hasheesh' in Egypt, it is only necessary to know that the ' average quantity used per month by small oafes is ten to twelve pounds, one grain being sufficient for a dose or smoke. The Egyptian Government has absolutely prohibited the introduction of 'hasheesh in 0 Egypt, but smugglers are so clever and expert that they succeed in introducing immense quantities of it." r In another part of the report Mr. Ralph , gays: "There were consumed in the German j village and Old Vienna 5000 cases of im_ ported wine and 6000 kegs of beer and 100 cases of merchandise, for all of which consumption entry was made in the city. Hence, you will see that the Midway Plais* ance was a large source of reve cue for the Treasury Department. I Goods received ana accepreu as inhibits in the Midway comprised every 3 known variety of merchandise, comprising 7 wild and domestic animals, antiquities, rugs, jewelry, fancy embroideries, bric-a-brac, works of art in statuary and paintings. In addition to concessionaries there were 1650 foreigners who took part in the concessions, 9 us natives, salesmen, or musicians. It has i been estimated by several of the most important concessionaries that over $7,000,000 was spent by the public in the attractions of the Midway. The largest consumer of foreign e goods was Robert Levy, concessionary of the Turkish village, who at the close of the Fair > received over $10,000 refund for goods reexported. The second largest was the Irish _ Industrial Association, of which the Coun^ tessof Aberdeen was concessionary. This village has opened a large store in the city , of Chicago, and promises to bo a large factor in the importation of Irish woolens,laces and jewelry. To some one connected with this village should be credited one of tho greatest jokes ever perpetrated oa the Customs force, if not on the public." j OFF FOR THE POLE. ^ Walter Wellman Started on the First Stage ot His .Journey. The steamship Britannic, which sailed j from New York a few days ago for Liverpool, carried Walter Wellman and the American 3 members of his party on the first stage of a journey which they fondly hope will terminate at the North Pole. The most original feature of tho Wellman party is the equipment of aluminum boats , and sledges. With these Mr. Wellman exnwts to skim the Dolar regions and get , further north than any explorer has yet done. The travelers go from Liverpool to Norway. There they will be joined by ten young * Norwegian scientists. They expect to sail 8. about Slay 1 from Trorasot for the island of Spitzbergen. Headquarters will be established at Dane's Island, about 700 miles south of the pole. The dash north will be made soon after with the boats and sledges. , Mr. Wellman expects to make about twenty, live miles a day, getting back to Spitzbergen t in September. Tha American members of the partv are Walter Wellman, Professor Owen B. French, I nstronom ical observer; Dr. Thomas B. Moj hur, medical officer, and Charles C. Dodge, a rust and photographer. ' BUENED AT THE STAKE. Youngsters Play "Indians" at Caini den, N. J., AVlth Serious Effects. ' A. number of boys playing "Indians'' on .1 lot at Broadway and Mechanics streets,Cam. den, N. J., tied their companion, Charles ^ Baney, aged thirteen, to a stake and built a I lire around him. { His clothes were burned from his body. The other boys became frightened and ran i away. Young Baney was rescued by a colored a man who heard the lad's cries and carried him to his home. r The lad suffered intense agony. Sheuld p he survive his injuries, he will probably have ^ to have both of his hauds amputated. The police are looking for the boys whe tied him to the stake. e 1 It is estimated that John Y. McKane's trial for election frauds at Graveseud, N. Y., cost him in counsel fees ami other ex1. penses not less than $160,000. He is worth if over half a million dollars. Mr. McLAUBrK. the new Senator from Mis3 sissippi. i? a tall, erect, well-proportioned man. whose fine face is indicative of high ^ intellectual caliber and much Individuality. mie TARIFF BILL THE SENATE'S CHANGES IN THE WILSON MEASURE. The Report to the Full Commlttoe? The Whisky Tar Increased to $1.10 a Gallon and the Bonded Period Extended ? Sugar, Iron, and Coal on the Dutiable List. SENATOR Y00BHEE8. The Wilson Tariff bill, whioh passed the House of Representatives February 1, has been laid before the full membership of the Senate Committee on Finance in the amended form upon which the Democratic majority -? -* oAffaK I VI LLLUL cwamiuw Lilian J OftlDW, IWIU4 vuo whole month's consideration, and numerous changes of front upon all the more Important objects of taxation. Simultaneously with the presentation of the bill to the full committee by Chairman Yoorhees, It was given out for publication through the press. The chief features upon which public interest centered were the provisions in regard to the tariff on sugar, iron ore, lead, wool and its manufactures, cotton manufactures and the internal revenue taxes on whisky and tobacco. The sugar provision is as follows: Ail sugars, tank bottoms, syrups of cane juice or of beet juice, malada, concentrated malada, conorete and concentrated molasses testing by the polariscope not above eighty degrees shall pay a duty of one cent per pound, and for every additional degree or fraction of a degree above eighty and not above ninety degrees shown by the polariscope test, shall pay one one-hundredth of one per cent, per pound additional, and above ninety and not above ninety-six degrees, for every additional degree or fraction of a degree shown by the polariscope test, shall pay a duty of two one-hundredtbs of a cent a/4s!{finnnl anH ahntra ninafv-air jra! ,/uuuu degrees by polariscope test, shall pay a duty of one and four-tenths cents per pound; molasses testing not above fifty-3ix degrees by the polariscope shall pay a duty of two cents per gallon, molasses testing above fifty-six degrees shall pay a duty of four cents per gallon. Iron ore, Including manganiferou3 iron ore, aJso the dross or residuum from burnt pyrites, forty cents per ton. Goal Is taken from the free list and made dutiable also at forty cents a ton, and coke at fifteen cents. Lead ore, which in the Wilson bill was fifteen per cent, ad valorem, lead ore and lead dross, three-fourths of one cent per pound; provided, that silver ore and all other ores containing lead shall pay a duty of threefourths of one cent per pound on the lead contained therein, according to sample and assay at tke port of entry. Raw wool is left on the free list exactly as in the Wilson bill, the provision to go into effect August 2, 1894. The whisky tax is raised to a dollar and ten cents. The bonded period on whisky is extended five years, that is from three to eight years. Cigars, 95 a thousand . cigarettes in pape. $1 a thousand. cigarettes in tobacco, fifty cents a thousand. Barley and barley pearled, patent or bulled, Is raised from twenty-five to thirty per cent, ad valorem, and barley malt from thirty-five to forty per cent. xne reduction m too aiura iut uiwuuu.tures of wool are to take effect December 2, 1894. Among the additions to the free list are diamonds and other precious stones, rough or uncut, including miners' diamonds. In the siLlc schedules corded silk is changed from twenty-five cents a pound to twenty per cent, ad valorem; thrown and spun silk from twenty to twenty-five per cent, ad valorem. Lumber remains on the free list. The income tax of two per cent, remains in the bill, but the tax on non-residents stricken out. THE LABOE WORLD. Habd times don't prevent strikes. Chicaoo has 6000 union carpenters. St. Lodis has thirty shoe factories. Pabis has 600 female street oleanera. New Yobk Citt has 11,000 factories. Sante Fe Railboad has Chinese clerks. Unionism is thriving at Toronte, Canada. Fall Riveb, Mass., has 1000 union carders. Mexico laborers get twenty-sevea cents a day. Hubbahd, Ohio, has a co-operative Iron plant. New Yobk unions want Stats labor bureaus. At Pittsburg carpenters are working for $1.50 a day. Kentucky Knights of Labor held a State convention. Australian shearers have had 1000 strikes in two years. Washington, D. Cm is to be the IL of L. headquarters. Baltimore unions held an anti-child labor mass meet in e. Female Knights of Labor run a Cleveland (Ohio) laundry. St. John (New Brunswick) steamboat laborers get $3 a day. Abmoub, the Chicago packer, pays $7,000,000 a year in wages. The Independent Labor party of Great Britain has 400 branches. Massachusetts button workers average elgthy-three cents a day. Fall Biveb Spinners' Union has dis. tilbuted $5000 among unemployed members _ BarrreH coal miners take two days off weekly in order to give work to surplus labor. Only nine of the unemployed of Indianapolis would accept the city's offer to break stone. Labor organizations are opposing the making of tho Labor Bureau a Cabinet department. If the views of Judge Jenkins, of Milwaukee, Wis., are sustained, an end will be put to strikes for higher wages. Minnesota farmers sent money to aid Chicago's unemployed, and recommended the Populist party to their consideration. The last great strike of the British miners cost about $500,000. of which about $100,000 was contributed by trades unions other than miners. A London jeweler maintains a pearl fishery of his owu in West Australia, where he employs 500 men and twenty-two sailing vessels. When city work was announced for the unemployed of Toronto 1000 men besieged the City Hall before 6 a. in. and hundreds were on hand at 5 a. m. Work was provided lor 1500 men at $1.35 a day. In his report on the effect of the business depression on the laboring classes of Michigan, the State Commissioner of Labor says of 2966 factories inspected 37" were wholly shut, 572 were run on short time, resulting In a loss of labor of 36,627 hours a week in the short-time factories. William Waldobp Astor in his London newspaper "scooped" the entire Londou press in an early report of tha Orladetoa? resignation. I \ Whaling-. Regular whale-boats are twentyeight to twenty-nine feet long, with a cut in the bow through which the line passes, and in the stern a post over which the line may be checked if it is running out too fast. The officer site in the stern, from where the line, which is coiled in a tub is managed. The oars are called "leading," "tub," "midships," "bow,"and "harpooner" ("harpooneer"- they pronounce it). When a boat "goes on," the harpooner draws in his oar and prepares to "strike." He doesn't always succeed. When the whale is struok the harpooner shifts with the officer. This explains why he is often called the .rm i. 1 Doat-steerer. xne criucai laumeui utw> arrived. The whale once fast, the future is narrowed down to "dead whale or etove boat." Therefore the killing of the whale is in the hands of the officer. He must judge nicely, though on the spur of the moment, when to lay on or off, and meet all the emergencies caused by the unforeseen actions of the wounded leviathan. Sometimes the whale will rush through the water, drawing the boat after him at a lightning speed and almost tearing the loggerhead out of the stern, the while the line is taut as a fiddle-string. Or he may "sound," or dive, and fathom after fathom of line be rapidly paid out. Woe to him who gets foul of the smoking line! It often means loss of leg or arm, or even instant death; for the diving weight of tons at the other end tells before^ knives can be whipped out and the line cut- And where *ill the whale' , come up? Perhaps right under the boat, staving it, or raising it np with him and spilling all hands into the sea, where they will sink like so many' stones unless they know how to swim nr iinloan ftnnfhpr hoftt is At hand to pick them up. He may appear a little to one side, and in his convulsions shiver the boat with one lash of his tail, or splinter it between his jaws. I saw on the shore at Provincetown, last summer, a stove boat from one of the Provincetown whalers. The oaptain had been thrown out over the bow; the others j umped. For tunately there was another boat near by to save them ?and kill the whale. In the old days the whale was killed with a lance in the hands of the officer. It required eye and nerve for the fat&I thrust at the rolling, plunging monster. Now, however, they use the bomb* lance, which is shot from a heavy brass gun, and explodes within the whale, usually with fatal effect. ?St. Nicholas. Will Establish a Reindeer Farm. A Madison (Wis.) man has just been selected to go upon a very peculiar and interesting, even romantic mission. William Kjellman is his name and he is a young Norwegian of thirtyfour years?a man who for three years past has been working in this city as a carpenter. He has a wife and a three-year-old daughter, and all of them will soon be located at the uttermost western point of the American continent, surrounded only by native Eskimos and a few Laplanders. Kjellman has been deputed by the United States Government to go to Lapland,' get five or six Laplander families, and their dogs, then proceed with them to Port Clarence, jutting out into the narrowest point of Bering Strait, there to remain presumably for the remainder of their days. The object in transporting Laplan ders to Alaska is to obtain the benefit of their knowledge in breeding, developing and using reindeer. The whole scheme is a Government venture possessing the greatest likelihood of having in it elements of the highest practical utility. At Port Clarence a little coast fishing is done, but in the interior no industry has yet been established of any value whatever. To all intents and purposes the land back from salt water lies idle and nonproductive, and yet it abounds in the choicest of food for reindeer?moss and other lichens. Not until within three vears has any effort been made to domesticate reindeer, bat three years ago Br. Sheldon Jackson, who, nnder the Federal Bureau of Education, has direct charge of the educational and civilizing affairs of the Government in Alaska, obtained an im< portation of the animals from acrosa the Strait of Siberia, and now there are about 400 of them in the peninsula. He also brought over some native Siberians to instruct the Eskimos in their care, and the experiment proved fairly successful. The native Alaskans took to the innovation kindly, but Dr. Jackson realized that by no means the fullest measure of success was being achieved, owing to the general inefficiency of the imported Siberians in treating the reindeer. He therefore concluded to go to the real home of the reindeer?Lapland?and pecure some of those people to whom a reindeer is horse, cow, sheep and goat all combined. ?Chicago Herald. A Simple Fire Escape. A simple, easily procured, inexpensive and entirely practical means of escape from upper stories may be found in a stout duck sack and a strong manilla rope. The sack should be deep and wide enough to hold several persons, and have a rope well bound around the top, to which the rope bali is attached. If no appliance be provided to hold a stout rail across the window on the inside then several wraps must be taken around some article of furniture, wife and children dumped into the sack, the husband paying out the rope and letting them down. The sack is then drawn up, when the remaining occupant goes into the sack with the slack end of the rope, and, paying it out, lets himself down. Rope and sack will pass unhurt past considerable sheets of flamo from windows below, and if occasionally treated to a strong solution of alum water, or even strong brine, are of difficult ignition. The deep sack dispels the feeling of fear in not beholding the dizzy height, and also protects from flame in passing windows. Every window should have strong staples into which a raii can be inserted, and which should be ever ready if needed. A cool head could! thus let down, in many cases, numer-' ous loads, and for that matter there' may be rope enough to allow all the! paying out and pulling up to be done* by some one on the ground. Private; instructions should be in every room, and each occupant should be made familiar with the working. ?Pittsburg; Dispatch. r