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I mm has big The Postmaster-General Retires From President Cleveland's Cabinet, TO RESUME HIS LAW PRACTICE. ft In the First Break ia the Administration'* Family of AdvinevM---He Leave*) the Cabinet With Regret, but His Professional Work Demand* His Attention?The President'* Explanation. Poet master-General Wilson S. Bisseil set at rest all doubts as to hi5 purpose of remaining in the Cabinet by tendering his resignation to President Cleveland. This action was not taken hastily. As far back as the early autumn Mr. Bissell felt that his law practice at Buffalo, N. V., required his personal attention, and at that time ho notified the President that sooner or later ho would be compelled to retire to private life. Nothing further was said on the subject until ten days ago, when Mr. Bissell again assured the President that he must soon resign his portfolio. * W1UOV 8. BIMELL. I The Postmaster-General's resignation was ' not known until a late hour in the evening to ' liis private secretary, nor will it bo knowD in ali probability to any of his subordinates at the department until its publication in I the morning ne vs. The letter of resignation was brief, an! was couched in the usual | formal terms. It recite!? the fact that he ( deems it advisable to retire from the Cabinet, and that he will do so upon the appointment | and qualification of his successor. The letter was by Mr. BJssell personally handed to his | chief." To a reporter who called at his residence Mr. Bissau said: i;I have placed my resignation in the 1 hands ot the President. The reason is that my professional work at home demands my attention, and I feel that I cannot longer remain away from it. The business of i the Department is in good condition, and a its transfer to my successor can be made I without affecting the public service. I have louud my work agreeable, although at , times quite onerous. I confess I leave it j with regret, because I have become deeply , interested in it and had a desire to acoom- j plish something more In the development of t the postal service than I have found possible in these two years of effort. I deeply re- . gret, also that I am thus compelled to sever official relations with the President and his c Cabinet, which have been most satisfactory and cordial throughout. Perhaps I may now t *ay that all rumors of disagreement between t the President and any of his Cabinet have 1 been without foundation. I doubt if there j ?ver was a more harmonious Cabinet than a the present one. and its members are a unit in support of the President on every public a IJUVSilVU* j Speaking of Mr. Bisseli'* resignation, President Cleveland said: "It surely is not necessary for me to say that I shall release Mr. Bisseli with the utmost regret. All his associates in the Administration will feel that they have lost a colleague who In nil respects was a valuable factor in their executive labor, as well as a companion to whom they have beoome greatly attached. I am not taken by surprise, for I havo known for some time that it wao inevitable, because Mr. Bissell's reasons for his action were of a personal nature. and were inexorable. Still, this first break in a Cabinet which has been, in the midst of many perplexing situations, entirely harmonious, always actuated by a loyal devotion to the public interest, and pervaded in a marked degree by the personal attachment which such connections cannot fail to create, causes us all roal sorrow. Much jjrati 11 cation awaits Mr. Bisseli in the appreciation of his countrymen of his splendid and valuable public service." William Shannon Bisseli was born in Kome, Oneida County. N. Y.. December 81, 1847. When lie was about six years 0111 ms parents moved to Buffalo, the city which lie has called his home ever since. He entered Yale in 1805. and wis graduated with honors in the class of '69. In the year of his graduation Mr. BiS3ell began the study of law in Buffalo with A. P. Damtiig. In 1872 he became the law partner of Lyman K. Bass. Two years later Mr, Cleveland joined the firm, which was known as Bas?, Cleveland & Blssell. It enjoyed a large practice, and Mr. Bissell came to be known as one of the ablest railroad lawyers in the country. When Mr. Cleveland was married Mr. BLssell was best man at the wedding Mr. Bissell remained a bachelor until February 6, 1890, when he married Miss Louise Fowler Sturges, of Geneva, N. Y. In politics Mr. Bissell has been active over since his former partner became a candidate for Governor of New York. He has been a consistent and zealous friend of Mr. Cleveland. MANY MINERS KILLtD. The KcMilt of an Kxplonlon in a Xew Mexico Colliery. j A lerriflc explosion of gas occurred in the i White Ash mine of the Suuta Fe Railroad Company. three miles from Orrillo?, New I Mexico, at 11 o'clock a. m., causing the j death of at least thirty-nine miners. I Tho flrst intimation of the disaster was a rau'Bad roar, and clouds of smoke and dust ( rolling from the month of the mine. Nearly :i00 men are employed in the mine, but only fifty were at work when the explosion occurred. Only eleven of thom escaped alive, and some of thes.< were fatally injured. Twenty-eight bodies won' taken from the mine soon after the uocideht. Relays of men worked heroically all day to reach those who were .still imprisoned in the mine, but little progress could be made on account of th?- ya, which permeated every -haft Up to 4 p. in. tlioseon the inside could be hoard trying t > work their way out from the cave<l-in mine. Since then the imprisoned men in all probability have succumbed to the deadly gas. The scene at the mouth of the shaft afte: the explosion was heartrending. One wo' mar, supposing her husband to have been killed, tried to commit suicide by throwing herselt in front of a moving train. Her husband was afterward rescued alive, and the reaction l'rom insane grief to delirious joy was nearly fata!. The mine was known to be badly ventilated and full of bad air and gu% and a catastrophe oT this kind has been frequently predicted. The Fatal Trolley. Gustavo Carlseo, twelve years old; Frank Dumbleton, twenty years old. and Stephen Gill, twelve years old, were killed during one day, each in a separate accident, by trolley ears in Brooklyn. These deaths increase the total number of j>ersous killed by trolley cars in Brooklyn to 102. Postmaster's Children Hob the Mall. Nelly Palmer, Deputy Postmistress, and William Palmer, aged respectively twenty and sixteen years, daughter and son of Postmaster Palmer. Astoria. 111., confessed to tampering with the mails and were placed under arrest. The peculations have been going on for r year and a half. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED IVanhiiiKton Item*. Coxoressjiax Joseph H. O'Neil. of Massachusetts, has been nominated to be Assistant United States Treasurer at Boston. Secretary Gresham intimated to France that she will not he permitted to forcibly collect her San Domingan claim, as it would destroy an equity held by an American company The National Dairy Congress held a throe days' session at the Agricultural Department. The National Council of Women amended its constitution, creating an upper and lower nouae. :uary jjowe .LUCKinson was ciwica President. Secretary Carlisle asked Congress to make changes in various tariff schedules for the purpose of making clearer the iutent of the law. A Senate sub-committee reported that the ruinously low price of cotton is due to the demonetization of silver and dealings in futures. The Ways and Means Committee recommends that England. Russia and Japan be requested to co-operate with the United States in protecting the seals. President Cleveland decided the boun dary dispute between Brazil and Argentina, in favor of Brazil. The House Committee on Elections decided the Goode-Enes contested election case from the Fourth Virginia District in favor of Mr. Epes, the sitting member. The vote ontho case was 7 to 4. The President approved the joint resolution extending from March 1. 1895, to April 15, 1895, the time for making' returns of income for the year 1894 under the income taa provisions of the Revenue act of 1894. The Daughters of the American Kevolu tion, in session at Washington, elected Mrs T. "W. Foster their President General. Foreign Notes. Sir Hercules Roeinbon has been reap rkAjnffk/1 riAT?A??nfti? Prtlftnr Smith puiuttu UVtUlUVl W?. VS??|'V, ?.w ? ?.*. Africa, as Cecil Rhodes could not get alonti with Sir Henry Loch. Fire at Halifax. Nova Scotia, destroyed ar elevator and a wharf stored with merchan dise. Loss, $1,000,000. The Japanese Government has ordered all its officers now serving in the German army ro return home at once for duty in China. News has been received of a battle neai Cali, Colombia, in which the rebels wer< iefep.ted. Many were killed on both sides, rhe Government forces captured a large t>ody of prisoners. A bill to make American goods pay a( [east twice as much duty in Germany as th? ;oodsof other countries is before the Reichstag. A mild type of inflnenza has spread over England. The -public offices have become ihort of hands, and the sen-ice is, conseluently, crippled. The importation of American cattle into France has beon forbidden. Li IIuno Chano's yellow jacket, peacock eathers, etc., have been restored to him by :he Emperor of China. Influenza, is prevalent throughout Engand. A widespbead plot to overthrow tbo Manshua has been discovorod in Kwanp-Kung, Cwang-Si, and other southern provinces of 3hina. Domestic. Lebot Feenold. aged thirty-eight, an nsane son, first killed his mother with an ixe and then set fire to thoir home at East jebanon, Me., where the body lay. Detectives Jacob and McManus, of Supirintendent Byrnes's staff. New York City, vere arrested and held in $1000 each on a harge made by Parkhurst Socioty agents, to he effect that they had allowed a burglary to ake place and received money therefore. A Cuban mans meeting at New York City teveloped wild enthusiasm for the rebel ause and much money was contributed. An explosion in three empty ramshackle tuildings in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which lODoay eouici expiam. tunuu ouo uu^.ouuu ?luhr; fatally hurt another, Peter Wenz; inured six persons and broke windows blocks way. The cupola of Brooklyn's City Hall burned ind with it went the figure of Justice, the wo-ton bell and fhe clock- Loss $*5,000 to 535,000, mostly by water. The bids for the city three per cent, gold >onds, on being opened in New York City, rere found to amount to almost four times he amount of the issue. While skylarking at Louisville, Ky.,Max irunn shot,to death through the heart Clarsnce Watts, with a supposedly empty revolver. The new naval dry dock at Port Royal, S. "V h?<* hennpnmnlf>ti>ri and tested with hichlv satisfactory results. The drouth district of Nebraska lias been (leased with a heavy rain. William Haverly was shot and fatally inured at EngelV Pavilion, Chicago, by 'Troessor" Alfred KieekhofT, alleged ''champion ifle shot of the world." The men were perorming the human target act. Coiidelia Hill, the eleven-year-old colored hild who shot and killed hor father in deense of her mother in Charleston, Ya., has jeen acquitted, the trial lasted about three loure and a verdict was reached in half an lour. At Mansfield. Ohio, Fred J. Crooks, aged lineteen, and nis sister. Mary E. Crooks, iged twenty, were out driving when they vere struck by a freight train and instantly tilled. Thomas Cavanauoii and his. wife, who lived n Hog's Hill, Conn., were burned to death n their house. Their charred bodies were ound in the ruins?. George Heiszelman, of Chillicothe, Ohio, lied of grief two hours after the death of his wife. Farmer Frank Hesdrick and his wife were ound mysteriously murdered in their house, wo miles south of Lebanon, Ind. Major-Gen eral Josrru B. Carr died sudlenly in Troy, N.- Y. Walker G. Hammlr, for twenty years :eller of the First National Bank, Lynchburg, Va., was arrested for embezzling 523,000 of the funds of the bank. His pecuations are said to havo been going on for en years. At Guthrie. Oklahoma, Mrs. Minerva C. Paylor.a seamstress, shot and killed William ilenry Harrison at her house. Harrison had mnoyod the woman oy persistent attentions. Edwin P. Brown, a hermit, was found dead in his hut of fluid stones which he occupied In the woods al>out a mile from Westport Harbor, Mass. The body war, frozen stiff and had been nibbled at bv rats. At the Rhode Island State Prohibition Convention at Providence the nominees were: For Governor. th<- Hon. Smith Quimby, of Warwick: Lieutenant-Governor, William B. Franklin, of Newport. The Missouri Legislature hes voted to move the capital of the State from Jefferson City to Sedalia. Governor Morton, of New York, designated the seven justices who are to compose the new appellate division of the Supremo Court for the First Judicial Department. A special train of eleven coaches carried the body <>f Isaac P. Gray, late Minister to Mexico, to Union City. Lid.. for burial. Tho militia companies oonducted the remains from the Capitol Building, Indianapolis, where they had been lying in state. A great sensation was created at Tialeigh, N. C.. hv the adoption, in the House, of a resolution, introduced by a colored man. that the General Assembly adjourn in honor of Frederick Douglass. The resolution was passed, all the Democrats votiug against it. When 31th. Alimson i'resiier. one 01 irte few remaining pensioners of 1812. was buried iu Janesville, Wis., recently, live generations of descendants were presem. Told ia a Few Lilies. Influenza lias ag:iin secured a liold in Berlin. The idea of a tunu'-l under the English Channel has be.ni linally abandoned. The bill for refunding the State debt ol Alabama in gold bonds has been signed by thi. Governor. A sew diamond-bearing district has been discovered on the west coast of Tasmanin The geological features of the ground resem ble those ot th>; Kimberley fields in South Africa. The fishermen belonging to Hull and Grimsby, in England, who perished in the recent gales, numbered about two hundred. The disaster has created ninety widows in Hull alone. " A MOLUTION IN COBA. Insurgents Start a Movement toThrow Off the Spanish Yoke. SYMPATHIZERS IN FLORIDA. Government Troops Root the Patriot* i *i an Engagement Near Santa CeciliaKilled and Wounded on Both Sides? Demonstration* Among Friends of the Cause in Thitt Country* Koirc hAa lw?n rconiviMl of the attemnt of the insurgents to overthrow the Government of Cuba. The rebels nt Guantanamo, under the leadership of Henry Brooks, who is the wealthiest resident of Santiago de Cuba, had an encounter with the Spanish troops ne a Santa Cecilia. Three prisoners were captured, and the rest of the insurgent force fled to the woods. In the engagement at Ybarra, near Mataaeas, two of the rebels were killed and many wounded. They also lost fourteen rifles altd a large amount of ammunition. They were surrounded in the woods, near the Igna1 ia plantation. Manuel Garcia, the noted revolutionary leader, was in the vicinity of Agaacate, with sixteen adherents, and was said to be lecruiting men by force. Arms for the revolutionists were found on a plantation near Matanzas and seized. In addition four trunks containing arms and cavalry equipments were iound among the baggage of passengers on the steamer City of Washing :on and confiscated. Many persons implicated in the revolutionary movement have been arrested. Others, who, It is said, came from New York, arrived aDd were presented to the GovernorGeneral. Spanish gunboats keep a close watch along the coast. Public opinion Is almost unanimously opposed to the uprising. In West Tampa, Fiiv, where many Cubans reside, ft nunarwu revolvers were uicti upon receipt of the news. Flags are raised, and the children joined in the shouting and enthusiasm. The cigarmakers decided to donate two daj-3' work to the' cause. The latest advices from Cuba confirm the reports of a general uprising of the patriots there. The movement was simultaneous at seven different points on the island, and the insurgents attacked eight or ten interior towns. At Matanzas a Spanish army officer was dangerously wounded. Generals Marti and Gomez are at the head of the revolution. They reached the island from Vera Cruz, Mexico. Secretary Gresham received a cablegram from Consul-Genoral Ramon Williams at Havana, announcing that a state of affairs practically amounting to martial law had been proclaimed in Cuba. It appears from the despatch that the proclamation of the Governor-General has caused great excitement throughout the island, where no general revolution exists, as it was the first notice the people had that the Government was taking action to prevent disturbances in some sections from spreading. I Fernando Figueredo, of Tampa, Fla., who was a Colonel in the former revolution and a j prominent legislator in the revolutionary party made this statement: I "Thus is a very serious revolution. Tha | plans are well laid. The difference between j tho former and this revolution is that now wa have chiefs and soldiers. Even if we are not | thoroughly equipped in arms, we know how | take them from the enemy. We can raise , a drilled army lrom tne stare. iu? policy of Marti has been such as to perfectly ( organize the clubs and colonies through- , out the exterior so that the most harmonious and efficient work can be done in accord with those in actual battle. I have just received a telegram from New York, saying | that a mass meeting was held there a few | days ago and that it was enthusiastic, and , large contributions were made." CENERAL BOOTH'S TOUR. Returns to England After a Remarkable American Trip. General William Booth, the Commanderin-Chief of the Salvation Army, has sailed j from New York for England on the steam- < 6hip Paris. He has just completed a twenty- | four weeks' tour of the United States, and ] has made a record of which few travelers or public speakers can boast. I He has spoken in eighty-six American | cities, and the aggregate number of persons , who came to hear him expound was 437,000. ] at 340 meetings. To SDeak to this vast , audience he traveled 18,453 miles, or thirtyflve days, on railroad trains. At a conservative estimate General Booth uttered more than 2,000.000 word* in public halls in the twenty-four weeks' tour. Ho landed at Halifax, September 20,1894, and started at once on his journey. The route had been mapped out beforehand, and the time of arrival and departure at each city or town was carefully arranged. In only one instance did General Booth fail to fulfil an appointment, and then the elements prevented him. He was snowbound. The means of transportation has been/by fast express trains, whenever such service was procurable. Before coming to New York he traveled for a month through Eastern Canada. From New York he went to Washington. D. C.; thence to Pittsburg, Cleveland, Detroit and several other of the larger cities in Michigan; then to Chicago, to Minneapolis. St. Paul, down the Mississippi to St. Louis: thence to Denver, Colorado Springs, and on to California, where he addressed meetings in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco; up to Vancouver and back East by way of the Canadian Pacific. Although ho is sixty-five years of age Gen- ] oral Booth has endured this extraordinary , Ctroin ti-/in.H??rfii)lv wpIL Ho naarlv sue cumbed to the grip fit Colorado Springs, but/ , his indomitable pluck and energy kept him | on his feet, and he succeeded in completing } a very remarkable tour. BURGLARS WRECKED A BANK VAULT. Men Arrested on Suspicion Fought the Police With Revolver*. Tho First National Bank of Griswold, Iowa, ' was entered by burglars about midnight. Thoy blew open the vault doors and then , drilled the front door of the time-lock safe, t< put in dynamite, and closed the vault doors* i The charge used was evidently much heavier ! than intended, as it totally wrecked the 1 vault, doing over $3500 damage to the safe i and building. ' The noise of the explosion was so great i that the burglars made a hasty departure, s Over $400 worth of stamps belonging to < the Postmaster and 8120 in cash are known < to have been taken, and probably other valu- > ables. The burglar-proof safe Inside the ' villiII COiltWlieu iu cusu, uuv iui? noa i not touched. Three men were arrested at Council Bluff, Iowa, supposed to have committed the bur- i glary. As they ware being led to the jail ! they drew revolvers and fired. One policemac was badly wounded and will probably die. One of the thieves was shot. Only two of the men were recaptured. ; The Labor "World. | Amebic ax railways have 750.000 employes. i The new Labor Commissioner ot Kansas, < W. J. Bird, was a newsbow but a few years 1 ago. Distress in the mining regions of Ohio in- ! creases, and hundreds of people?men, wo- 1 men and children?are threatened with starvation, which is only averted by contributions of charity from other parts of the State. In British Columbia and Pacific coast watei.1 12,510 men are employed in the fur seal industry. Gbeat distress exists among the unemployed in London, and relief measures on a large scale are being planned. City, denounced the Charities Organization Society in a sermon on the unemployed. It has boon voted by the local lodges of the International Association of Machinists to hold a convention in Cincinnati on May C. Labor Commissioner Wright ha? submitted a report outlining plans for providing homes for the working people on easy terms. Ex-Senator Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, offers to his State $50,000 in cash and a site for the proposed industrial whool for girls. . . l FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. In the Senate. 65th Dat.?Mr. Gorman's motion to reconsider the adoption of the report by the Senate on the income tax was lost by a vote of LO to 57, and the bill went to the President for his signature 56th Day.?The session was taken up almost exolusiv'v with the consideration of the Indian / priation bill. Mr. Milk introduced a., amendment to the Sundry Civil bill, which reads: "And all laws which authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the bonds of the United States for any purpose are hereby repealed." 57th Day.?Mr. Woleott introduced an amendment to the Sundry Civil bill, which authorizes the President, on the in vitaH/\f nn<? rv# flin riniTAwnmanfa rvf T?nwrvrvn V&VSU \SJL OUJ Vi WUU VlUTUlllUiOUVtJ VI to appoint Commissioners to a Monetary Conference to be held with a view, to secure International Bimetallism. The Agricultural Appropriation bill was passed. A motion to take up the Bailroad Pooling bill was defeated. The Indian Approprirtion bill'was passed. Mr. Pettigrew offered a resolution permitting the remains of Frederick Douglass to lie in state in the rotunda of the Capitol and he asked for its Immediate consideration. Mr. Gorman objected and the resolution went over. The day's session was closed with the delivery of eulogies on the late Bepresentative Snaw, of Wisconsin. 58th Day.?The Sundry- Civil Appropriation bill was disposed of. excepting the Gorman amendment providing for three per cent. Treasury debt certificates. 59th Day.?The 8enate agreed to amendments to the 8undry Civil bill appropriating $50,000 for commencing work on the Paterson (N. J.) public building, and $*22,950 additional for the Troy (N. Y.) public building. The Senate adopted the sugar bounty amendment to the Sundry Civil Appropria non Din. xne amenumenu to lae ounury Civil bill creating a retired list for tho revenue marine was passed. 60ra Day.?After a spirited debate growing out of opposition to the $100,000,000 certificate amendment to the Sundry Civil bill, Mr. Gorman withdrew th9 amendment. In the House. 60th Day.?Mr. McCreary called up the conference report on the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill, and debate on the Hawaiian cable question, the only matter at issue between the two Houses, was continued during the entire session. 61st Day.?The session was occupied mainly in the consideration of the General Deficiency bill. The concurrent resolution, expressing the' gratification of Congress atthe honors paid by the Government of Mexico to the late Hon. Isaac P. Gray, Minister to that country, was agreed to. Before talcing tho recess at 5 o'clock under mlfl. tho House Dassed the Senate bill postponing, at the request of Great Britain, the enforcement of the international regulations of August, 1890, to prevent collisions at sea. At 8 o'clock the House reassembled for a session of two and a half hoars to be devoted to the consideration of private pension bills. 62d Dat.?The entire session was devoted to the consideration of the General Deficiency Appropriation bill for the current year. The House, in Committee of the Whole, voted to give extra pay to the amount of about $400,300 to clerks and secretaries. An amendment was agreed to, directing the payment of $200,000 of ludian depredation jlaims allowed by the Court of Claims. Without completing the consideration of the bill, the House dovoted the rest of the session to the delivery of eulogies upon the late Senator Z. B. Vanco, oi North Carolina. 63d Day.?The General Deficiency Appropriation bill was passed without the provision for paying $425,000 damages to alleged British and Canadian sealers. 64th Day.?The day was devoted to labor legislation, and a bill providing for the arbitration of differences between common carriers and their employes was passed. 65th Day.?Tne House spent most of the day discussing the Printing bill and the purchase of the Mahone site for the Government Printing Office. Conference reports on the Pension and PostoflQce Appropriation bills were agreed to. The Senate amendment to the House joint resolution suspending the transfer in bond through the United States of articles destined for the Mexican free zone was concurred in. THE MILITARY CALLED TO ACT. Narrow Escape From a Riot In Savannah Over the Lecture of an ex-Priest. Savannah, Ga., escaped a riot through tho intervention of the military. The trouble was precipitated by ex-Priest Joseph Slaliery's lecturo on the Roman Catholic priesthood. For several days efforts naci t>een maae by members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians to revoke the ex-priest's permit to ieliver the lecture, but the Mayor, upon legal advice, replied that it could not be ione. Threats were openly made against ;he lecturer, and the Chief of Police and a ietail of officers were ordered on duty at the ball where the lectuj* was to be delivered, rhe lecture contained no offensive fanguage, but the crowd which had gathered on the jutside began to hurl stones through the windows and among the audience. The police ordered the crowd to disperse. It refused lo do so, and kept shouting and jeering. The Mayor was notified, and, after a confutation with the Chief of Police, deaided to order out the military. The riot ilarm was sent in, and in half an hour sight companies of infantry and a troop of iismounted cavalry were on the scene. The lecture was over by the time the military irrived, and most of the audience had left A /lnfuil Af mAiinfnH nnli^o af/trt/i ?uard at tho entrance. The crowd numbered 4000 by this time, largely spectators, i portion of it kepting yelling and hurling )ricks at the windows of the hall where the ^x-priest was. A few shots were fired in the ilr by the rioters, but no one was hurt. The streets were cleared for a block in n-ery direction and the troops remained on ?uard until the disturbance had subsided, kvhen the lecturer was brought out of the | tiall and escorted by a squad of twenty policemen, surrounded by two battalions of oldiers, walked to hi j hotel. Half an hour ifter the ox-priest's wife was escorted from the hall to the hotel by a squad of policemen. PORT ARTHUR STORIES. \n American Correspondent With Oyama's Anny Has a New Theory About Them. A new theory of the mutilations at Port Arthur, China, is advanced by an American :orrespondent who is with Field Marshal Oyama's army. He says that, while preparing it Hiroshima to go to the front, his coolie lervant was approached by an old Japanese loetor, who asked him to procure human hearts on the next battlefield and send them to h:m. He offered seventy yen or about a.s uany dollars, for each heart. When asked what he wanted of them, he said hearts of men killed in battle wore the beat euro for tomach troubles. He directed the coolie to 2ut the hearts out, dry them over a pan ci :harcoal and send them to him. As this loolie recoived only $15 monthly, the offer was a big temptation to him. It was noteworthy that the hearts of all the corpses at Port Arthur had been cut out. Hence servants and porters of the army were probably responsible for the mutilations attributed to soldiers. New Orleans's Carnival Day. Shrove Tuesday opened at New Orleans, La., auspiciously with ideal carnival weather. The Rex parade started at 11 o'clock and completed its route early in the afternoon. The Comus parade brought the arnival pageants to an ena with the ball at the French Opera, rhasubject chosen this year by Rex was " Fergus Hume's Chronicles of Falrv Land." ami it offered exceptional opportunities for brill- I iant and artistic treatment. The different floats were taken from tho principal scenes of the story. tartest Diamond in the World. Tho Tall Mull Gazette says the Pope has received from the President of the Transvaal Republic a diamond weighing 071 carat.*. The stono was found by au African chief in the mines at Jagersfontoin, and is the largest known. It is of a bluish white cast and practically perfect, its only blemish being a tiny spot which is invisible to the naked eye. Many Murder* in Chile. Criminal statistics published by the Chilean Minister of Justice shew that 290 person* were murdored in Santiago in 1894, and about the same number in the provinces. The number of murders in the Republic during the year wus 2900. \ . ' - vf: ' 7 .: .' r i ' THE NATION'S CAPITA) News Gleaned Among the Depar ments and About the Citv. HONORING FREDERICK DOUGLAS The Departed Champion of His Ra Viewed by Thousands as He Lay in Sta ' --The National Council of Women Di <cub8 a Variety of Themes at Their Ai nnal Qaa a I An ??*?* OV9S1VUI Shortly before nine o'clock a. m., the 1 mains of Frederick Douglass were remov from his late residence on Anacosta Heighl a suburb of the capital, to the Metropolis African Methodist Episcopal Churob, Was ington, the largest edifice of the kind in t] city, where the body lay in state for son hours, and wa3 viewed by immense crow* of sympathetic mourners. All the leading oolored men of Washingtt took active part in the ceremonial obser ance. Ex-Senator Blanche K. Bruce, Mississippi; ex-Governor Pinchback. Louisiana; ex-0ongressman Lynch, of Mi sissippi, and other men of his race who ha been prominent in official life, were amoi the pail-bearers. Mrs. Cady Stanton, Miss Susan B. Anthon Mrs. Sewall, and other ladies identified wi the Woman s Bights movement, were demo Btrative in their manifestations of esteei and the only colored diplomat in Washin ton, Mr. Clement Haentjens, the Haytii Minister, personally attended to testify b respect. Several of the New England Sen tors and Representatives were amongst tho who attended the church. For many hou there was no intermission in the consta stream of mourners. A silver plate on the casket bore the simp inscription: "FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Born 1817, Died February, 1895." A cast of the dead man's hands was o tained. The floral tributes were very bea . tiful. At 7.10 the body left for Rochester, ] Y., for burial. WOMEN'S NATIONAL COUNCIL Toplci Discussed at the Triennial Sesalc by the Leadlnj Delegates. The second week of the triennial session the National Council of Women opened Washington with a prolonged discussion < the topic of equal pay for equal work. T1 disoussion was led by Miss Harriet A. Shin of Illinois, a delegate to the National Ass ciatlon of Women Stenographors: Miss Mai Desha, of Washington, and Harriet A. Beyse of the organization of working women of Ne York. A plea for the creation of a S^creta for foreign women in the Council was ma< by Madame Josefa Humpal Zeman, of Ci cago. Frances E. W. Harper, of Pennsj vania, a colored woman, characterized tl present sentiment as to the true position colored women a3 unjust, and claimed th the avenues of usefulness open to them a too few. FRANCE BARS OUR CATTLE. French Coancll Has Issued a Decree Fr hlbltlng the Importation. flMMtowftroaSam has rfifielvftfl from tl United States Charge at Paris a cablegra stating that the Council has entered a deer prohibiting the importation until further o ders of American cattle into France. Secretary Gresham has furnished a coj of the cablegram to the Department of Agi culture, and has given in publicity in view the great importance of this action to tl great American cattle interests. 10,830,000 for Pensions. Tho Secretary of the Interior has made requisition on the Secretary of the Treasu; for $10,850,000 for the quarterly payments pensions to be distributed to the pensi( agenoies as follows: Boston, $1,800,000; St Francisco, 8750,000; Washington, $1,950,00 Augusta, Me., $800,000; Columbus, Ohl $3,850,000; Detroit, Mich., $1,700,000. Two More Warships Nearly Ready. Bear-Admiral Brown, Commandant at tl Norfolk (Va.) Navy Yard,reports to the Nai Department that the work at the yard progressing rapidly. The Amphitrite is no practically ready for sea and only awaits crew. The Texas is also well advanced. A of her gun mounts are in place and t of the armor save some shutters. Named for Collector. - *> i- J 4M *1 xne I'resiuuui uol-iucu mc ugut m n Democratic ranks in the western part Pennsylvania by nominating a new Collect of Internal Revenue for the Pittsburg Di trict. The man named is Edmund A. Bigle the Collector during Mr. Cleveland's lit term. New Rules of the Road. The President Issued a proclamation poa poning the effect of the new rules of the roa at sea until some future date, in accordani with the act of Congress. In the proclam tion it is Btated that this action is taken the request of Great Britain. A Consul Resigns. The Secretary of State has received t] resignation of Charles S. Hazeltine, of Mict gan, as United States Consul at Milan, take effect on the appointment of his su ceascr. SMOTHERED TO DEATH. Alabama Convicts Entrapped In a Mil Fired by Incendiaries. Two convicts and twenty-three mules we smothered to death In Rock Slope Shaft N' 1, at Pratt Mlne3, Birmingham, Ala. Short: after 2 o'clock the engine room in the sloj was discovered on fire, and a genoral alar was given on the outside, for it was kno* that twenty convicts and twenty-three het of mules were cut off from the outside by tl fire. After three hours' hard work the fl was extinguished, and the men pushed on. The body of John Patton was found lyir across the track, his head> badly battored. A pareatly he tried to kill tiiraself beforo beli smothered. A short distance away the se ond body wan found. It was that of Lou Stevens. The twenty-three mules were foui all in a heap. dead. They had kicked 01 another fearfully while maddened by thethii smoke. The other eighteen convicts were found i a bunch near the airshaft, where they he gathered in hope of keeping alive. Saver of them were on the ground. They were has ily carried out on terra flrma and all brougl around all right. A Young Queen's Heroism. With the object of removing the prejudi< that exists among the Portugese peop 1 .... j ? against tne newiy aiscovercu saruiu ui mp theria, a malady that commits terrible ra ages in Portugal, young Queen Marie Amel has just submitted to inoculation, being tl first crowned head or royal personage to in dergo the treatment. Earthquake in St. Louis. There wero two distinct shocks of eart' quako in West St. Louis, Mo., a few nigh ago, occurring about half an hour apai Each shock lasted about ten seconds. The Peabody Ceutenary. Tho centenary of George Peabody, wt was born at Danvors, Mass., February 1 1795, was celebrated at various places in th country and in England. The public gif I bestowed with such a generous hand ai wise discrimination amounted in all to 100,000, including largo sums to libraric colleges, education in the Southern Stat aud model lodging house? in London. Farmer and Wife Perish. George Weaver and his wife, an old coup! living alone on a farm seven miles west < Dayton, Ohio, were burned to death in thel dwelling. v -yy ,y V r RANSOM GOES TO MEXICO. U? His Nomination Promptly Confirmed bj tbe United States Senate. Matt W. Ransom, Senator from North t? Carolina, was nominated and confirmed as Minister to Mexico, in place of the late Isaac P. Gray. The Senate went Into executive session immediately after reoeiving the i- nomination from President Cleveland JO and confirmed it by a unanimous vote. The confirmation was moved by Senatoi n- __ p MATT W. BAHBCtt. n> g. m Sherman, who, in making the motion, adds dressed the Senate briefly as to the fitness of a- the nomination, which he said was in every 30 way deserving and appropriate. The execure tive session lasted but five minutes., nt Matt Whitaker Ransom was born In Warren County, North Carolina, October 8, 1826. le A.fter an academic education he attended the University ol North Carolina. He was graduated there In 1847 and in the same vear he studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was both planter and b- lawyer for several years. He began his polltu* leal career in 1852, in which year he was a Presidential elector on the Whig ticket He was also in'this year elected Attorney-General of the Statfe. He resigned in 1855 and joined the Democratic party. He was a member of the Legislature from 1858 to 1861. On the secession of his State he enlisted as a ,n private in the Confederate service, and was at once commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel ol of the First North Carolina Infantry. He at was made a Brigadier-General in 1863 and )Q a Major-General in 1865, but the Conue federacy collapsed before he received n his commission as Major-General, o' After the war he resumed the practice of law. ry In 1872 he was elected UnitedStates Senator, ir and was re-elected in 1876,1883 and 1889. iw The political unheaval last year ended the ry domination of the Democratic party inNorth ie Carolina, and with it Senator Bansom'a ii- chance for further re-election. Senator Ban j. 6om has six sons, all grown, and one daughtie ter. of ? FATAL FIRE AT HOT SPRINGS. Three Persons Burned to Death and Fifteen Boarding Houses Destroyed. Fire started in the Ledgerwood bakery on Ouachita avenue, Hot Springs, Ark., at foui o'clock a. m. It is in the southern part oi 16 the city, where boarding houses are numerm ao onsIn an hour three woman had been burned to death, and six boarding houses, several store-houses, and fifteen cottages, in all J worth $100,000, had been swept away. The 0j dead are Mrs. Laura 8cammon, Mrs. Henry a J. McLeod, and Augustine Stivetto, colored. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Browns on, of Macon, Mo., Mrs. Peacock, and others were injured, but none dangerously. A strong wind fanned the flames, but prevented the fire from moving in the direction a of the big hotels and bath houses. The streets covered by the Are were Ouaohita, where it 01 originated; Sealey, Malvern, Woodbine and Orange. Twenty-eight buildings in all were burned. u> The boarding houses destroyed are the Ouachita, Illinois, La Clede, Missouri and Bloomington. Three hundred men, women, and children were driven to other quarters for lodging, and most of them lost all their ie clothing. - y 13 WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. W ' ? It* General Observance Throughout the United States. Washington's Birthday was observed generally throughout the Union; in Chicago Archbishop Ireland delivered an address on 4'American Citizenship." or At Washington Washington's Birthday was ? more elaborately observed than It has been ,r for a number of years, an additional feature gZ being the patriotic exercises of the National Council of Women, now in session in that city. The entire local militia turned out. In New York City Washington's Birthday was very generally observed; dinners were 'j" given by the Southern Society, New York 'a State Society of the Cincinnati, Syracuse ce Alumni and the Publishers' Association. The a" New York Society of the Sons of the Bevoluac' tion observed the 163d anniversary of the birth of George Washington with a banquet. At Albany, Governor Morton signalized his occupancy of the Executive Chamber on 10 VY osmngiuu o XMXtuunjr uy axvaxvi) ii- bill No. 1, commonly known as the Lawson to Foreign Flag bill, which prohibits the display c- of foreign flags on publio buildings. BATTLE OF THE BROTHERS. ae Two Dangerous Families Wiped Out in the Virginia Mountains. re Near Osborn's Gap, Dickinson County, Ya., o. Robert and Sam Smith met Ben and Lem ly Cox. All four were under the influence of >e liquor. The Smiths, it is said, drew their rem volvers and commanded the Cox brothers, m who were their enemies, to surrender. Inid stead, the Cox boys drew their weapons, and ie then a general flght wa3 begun. re The battle lasted for nearly half an hour. and when the . smoke cleared away ig Robert and Sam Smith and Ben Cox were p. found lying dead on the road, while Lem Cos ig was fatally wounded. ic- The killing of the men puts an end to two lis families that had long been prominent in id criminal circles. There were originally eight ae Smith brothers, and all of them met their :k death in tights similar to this one. Two other Coxes were also killed several In years ago in a battle with men of thoir stamp, id Ben Cox enjoyed the reputation of having al killed five men, and his brother Lem had it- twice been tried for murder. They all relit sided back in the mountains and were regarded as dangerous men. A FRUITLESS HOLD-UP, :e ,le Train Bobbers Find the Express Car Lnspty ^ ana iae jioBeuKor wuo. v- The East-bound train on the Frisco road '0 was held up by robbers near Aurora, Mo. a. Throe men got on tho engine when the train was Ave miles from Aurora, compelled the engineer and fireman at the point of revolvers to go back to the express car and l open it. The robbers, however, found to their disgust that the car was empty, the safe locked, and the messenger not in sight. He i had disappeared in time and the robbers left empty handed. Lcznl Curlosltloft. A court in Crawfordville, 111., i3 asked to 10 award damages to John Elliott from a rail8 road company. Two years ago there was au arcident near his house in which a number *"a"A Iri 11 nrJ onrl tho rrKi\ctc a t , (_)[ |)kupic amuuj ujkuv (juwijw vi Jjj thedf, Elliott says, annoy his family. I. An English cnurt has awarded damages to a the Whitehaven Iron and Steel Company es from workmen who struck, leaving 700 ton* of metal to spoil. Samuel Elliott, a Chicago colored mau. has recovered $100 under the Civil Damage act from the management of a skating rink I? which refused him admission. Tex lawyers recently appeared in a 8arax toga (N. Y.) justice's court la a case Involving sixty-live cents. __j ' J- ;'Ja TEMPERANCE. | i . * . ?? THE ALCOHOLIC AGE. Vj 1 In spite of the marvellous advantages of 1 our present age, a great retrogression, in *aj i ethical sense, is undeniable, the chief cause . of whioh is principally due to the increase! of drunkenness, because the beer-saloon hut ' become the centre and focus of social life. 1 This is the greatest alcoholic age the world has ever seen.?Dr. Brendel, Address to th? Anthropological 8odety, Munich. TOTAL ABSTINENCE AND THE 008PEL. When moderate (lrinklttir was' substituted/ : 1, for total abstlnenoe, Canon Ellison, and like-', minded earnest men, found* that the preach- ' _' ? ing of the Gospel was like "casting pearl* before swine." But when the stumbling-* block of drink was removed by "entire abstinence from that whioh had been the occasion of the sin," and Christian men and' * women, "in the exercise of their Christian liberty" associated themselves witn the victims of the drink, "in their voluntary abstinence," it was found that the Gospel be-1 came again "the power of God unto salvation."?Christian Statesman. A BUSINESS VIEW OF SIODEBATE DBIXCnfG. * A writer who is discussing the question of . drinking and total abstinence from a pcacti- pa cal business point of view and, ignoring thej moral and sentimental side, says: "Life in-; ' <j surance companies find the moderate drinker /3 a more dangerous risk and his mortality' greater, hence refuse to insure him at ordinary rates, or at alL Mercantile agencies And that business conducted by moderate drinkers is more precarious and followed bv a greater number of failures, hence rate ?uon flnriHlowfta to munonsrfhlHtv. Railroad com paalee find thabaccidentaand loaeee increase) v**~ under the care of moderate drinkers; that the laoome and stability of the road are> diminished, compared with the same service, by total abstainers. Capital everywhere discovers by figures and statistics, which have . no other meaning, that under the care and control of moderate or excessive drinkers the ' losses, perils and risks of business ore increased. ?Popular Health Magazine.^ A SICK HOB8E. :! A brewer once bought a horse from a tarm-j er, and set it to work drawing & beer wagon., Although the animal was well groomed! and cared for, it was observed that in the' course of a few weeks he began to fall away t . in flesh and spirits, and soon went off his feed] Altogether. The case was so mysterious that; jt?S he went to see the farmer about it. "I can-j not account for the matter -at all," said the JvX farmer; "that hone was a most perfect ani- . . v.S mol, perfectly Bound In every way,-and l never nad any trouble with him. Lefc us call - ' > In a veterinary surgeon." Having secured the^ "s professional, all three proceeded to the stable. k and the expert proceeded to make a careful examination of-the horse. "I am completely at a loss to account for it," said the surgeon. I =? "The horse Is in perfect condition, so far as! m I can see. I oannot explain." "Then I will,", sr. id the horse, who had somehow found human speech. "I am simply ashamed of the . j business I am in! When I was working for 35 thft farmer I was dolnc? Bomethinj? uaefuLi. .'Vrti Now I am employed in doing that which' . 3 servos no good purpose, but rather curses the community, ana It makes me sick'.1' Moral?It would be better for humanity tfjr. i horse sense were more common.?Canadian Templar. THE POE OP CBIU>QOOD. 'AJ: The drunkard's children oome Into the world mentally and physically weak. In one t lunatic asylum, out ot. some three hundred! ldiots,kbalf were found to be the children of i Irunken parents.?Dr. J. B. Hellier, Leeds, : 'ij .894, j ?Vj Of fifty-two pawnwbrokers in Birmingham,! ^ ,'orty-three say that the pawning of chil- < lren's clothing constitutes from ten to twenI y per cent, of the general trade.?Child's Guardian, 1893. t i I have seen a man strip his child in the 'JJ'a itreet, and take the clothes to pledge, Ins ' >rder to get drink.?Pawnbroker's testimony 1 n Child's Guardian. 1893. I The birds of the air will tear feathers fromi ihelr breasts for the comfort of their young; n the nest, and it is sad to know that there) ire homes where parents strip the the oloth- ' '*>-1 i ng from their children for drink.?Dr. Stow- .'/ ! . II Rogers, Birmingham, in Child's Guar-' ' WjM iian, 1898. . The Society,for the Prevention" of "Cruelty i o Children find that, while an enormous1 " lumoer of cases of cruelty are npt due to irunkenness, the total child suffering in the and, due to that one. oAuse would furnish i naterial for an inferno to which all imaginadve compositions on the place would be , Tanquiiizing reading for delicate i>ensibili? {*11 les.?Child's Guardian, 1893. In a paper read before the Philosophical/ 'Th Society of Liverpool, in 1893, the authors, pr. H. R. Jones and Air. H. E. Da vies, state !hat nine out of every thousand children k)rn in Liverpool die by violent means, and 'Vvft ihe conclusion could noi be avoided that the i . treat source of this criminal violence is irink. They also state that more of these on- . timely deaths occur on Saturday night than apon every other night of the week. ? '-I'mt THE RIGHT SOBT OP PLUCK. . j Thirty years ago two Irish immigrants, employed as porters in New York warehousee, ft anaertook to study law. After working from norning until night packing goods, loading; irays and making deliveries, they sat up on- * ill 12 o'clock in their rooms in a boarding' I JJ I J ' y UOU8C reuuiil? tow uvuu uuu uwvumiuq '?*--? ]jY's ; principles and cases. The ambitious young men were so deeply Interested in their night work that they ire- -sgj quently argued points of law during leisure 1 ' moments at the store, and naturally exposed themselves to chaffing and ridicule. With Irish wit they parred every thrust and never' lost their tempers. Their companions nicknamed them the > "Judge" ana ''Lawyer John/' and asked! them mockinglv whether they thought that merchants would consult them as lawyers ' after employing them as porters. "They may do it," answered the "Judge," "after we have worked up a fine criminal practice in keeping out of the penitentiary, night brawlers like yourselves-, who ought to . *' / -k be in their beds and &leep." "Instead of loading your drays," said an intemperate clerk, "you stand there arguing, whether an injunction could be brought against the firm for obstructing thesidewalk. . ' You are your own lawyers and you have fools for olienta/" "Judgment may be affirmed," said "Lawyer John," "but not with cost. We have ,.?j borrowed our law books and we save money by keeping out of the saloons. It costs us less to fuddle our brains with law than with drink. A debauch over Blaekstone leaves a better taste in the mouth than a night spent in carousing." So the laugh in the end turned against the intemperate clerk. The young porters knew how to take and return a joke. By their good humor they amused everybody in the store, and it was not long before members of ^ ^ the firm helped them to get clerkshlpe in law offices. . ** One of them is to-day on the bench, and the other is a lawyer with a lucrative practice. They made their way rapidly, and .-i^ \ neither criticism nor ridicule kept them, * back.?Catholic Review. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Every drunkard used to boast that ha could drink or let it alone. yff fc Tennessee's Legislature will be petitioned for a scientific temperance instruction law, "f and to extend the benefits of the four mile law to incorporated towns. - J*? The population of the earth is estimated at 1,440,650.000 persons. America's annual ' drink bill is but little less than a dollar for every inhabitant on the globe. Bishop Fallows, of Chicago, has bought OUt A SaiOOUL IU run ma ucn iviupcLauvo dri ikiug-house in. His first act was to empty the whole stock ot wines and liquors into the gutter*. *. v One of the foremost women physicians of England. Doctor Anderson Brown, has established an industrial farm for inoDriate women. The test of the practicability of outdoor life as a cure for drunkenness will be made under the auspices of the Women's Temperance Association. A sample of ginger ?ine bought in a London store where only temperance beverages were supposed to be sold wa3 found to contain ten percent, of proof spirits. W Temperance?that virtue without pride, and fortune without envy; that best guardian ^ of youth and support of "oid age; the precept of reason as well as of religion; the universal medicine of life that clears the head and , cleanses the blood and strengthens the nerves; in a word, that secures and perfects the.digestion.? Sir Willia? Temple, 1680.