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0 A LITTLE BLIZZARD. New York and Vicinity Swept by a Heavy Snow Storm. Its Effects Felt All Along Atlantic Coast. the r In its general features, a storm which •truck New York and vicinity the oth?r morning more closely resembled the great blizzard of 1688 than any weather disturb ance that has happened in that locality since that memorable occasion. In a less degrea there were the same indications—tempestu ous winds bearir'’. a downfall of fine,cutting snow, a low temperature, and a general dis comfort to man and beast, whether indoors or out. • The wind seemed to have no particular di rection after it had struck the streets. While It was generally from the northeast, there were many localities in the city where it was exceedingly difficult to tell from what quar ter the wind came or whither it blew. There was a succession of eddies and whirlwinds that caught the unsuspecting traveler from every quarter and played havoc with his habiliments At one moment the wind seemed to come from the north, at the next it blew furiously from the east, and then, striking the buildings on either side of the street, it whirled and swirled until no one could tell what it was trying to do in its seemingly mad attempt to tear up the streets generally. All the while it was snowing heavily. * Toward evening the snow changed into rain for a short time, and then changed again into sleet. This was agreeable part particles came were beaten with such strength by the wind into the faces of travelers that it required a pretty tough cuticle to withstand the on- . slaught. i The effect of the storm on trade generally was severe. The shops did little or nothing, the women for the most part being kept in doors. The result was that the big dry goods establishments, toy shops, and other places where such crowds have been seen all through the holiday season, were practically de serted. Down around the river front locomotion was greatly impeded. The heavy trucking that is done in this neigborhood was blocked and retarded, and so were the street cars, which circle the lower part of the city. Shipping was jeopardized, for the storm blew severely off shore, and the ships that could withstand it had to be stanch and strong. The storm originated in the South, and on its vay north centred at Norfolk, Va., early in the morning, while later in the day it was central in New Y ork. ^Toward 8 o’clock at night it began to move slowly in a north easterly direction, and late reports from the Signal 'Service office said that it was snowing . hard all along the New England coast. The Signal Service Officer looked for the storm to spend its force in the Gulf of Newfound land as it was accompanied by a high north east wind. High winds prevailed from Norfolk to Bos ton The greatest velocity obtained at Block Island, where the rate was forty-four miles an hour. The rate in New York City was thirty-four miles an hour, decreasing grad ually until 10 o’clock at night the wind had fallen to twenty-four miles an hour. South of Norfolk and extending all along the coast and almost throughout the South the storm was accompanied by a heavy fall of rain. Two and a half inches of snow were reported front Norfolk, one inch from Lynch burg, one and a quarter from Atlanta, and one and a half inches from Mobile. The rain area extended over the entire South east and included the southeastern por tion of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The snowfall was general in all the States north of the thirty-seventh parallel i Mississii of latitude and cast of the pi River. •sippi The heaviest fall of snow was throughout Virginia, Ohio and New York. The area of the greatest cold was in Can ada; that is, the centre of cold was there. The lowest temperature reported from any point in Canada was 24 degrees below zero at Rockliff. At Montreal it was 121 ‘ . THE HEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Goverxmkxt engineers at Sandy Hook, N. J., tested a new thirty-foot nfle gun. Shells were thrown fifteen miles out at sea. During one of the teste Private Adley was badly hurt about the head by being struck by a steel bar which was knocked off the gun carriage by the recoiL Six more American doctors have arrived in this country from Berlin, with enough of Dr. Koch's lymph to inoculate 39,000 con sumptive patients. Chacwcbt M. Dkpew and other promi nent men spoke at the annual dinner of the New England Society in New York City. Bv an explosion at the New Jersey Steel and Iron Company’s works, at Trenton, N. J., one man was fatally hurt and four others were seriously injured. The men caused the explosion by throwing water on a heap of furnace ashes to cool them quickly. A meeting of the New York City Tariff Reform Club, in honor of the politi cal victories last fall, was addressed by Ex- President Cleveland, Senator Carlisle, of Kentucky; Governor-Elect Russell, of Mas sachusetts; Governor Boies, of Iowa, and others. Isaac B. Sawtelle’s trial at Dover, N. H., for his brother’s murder resulted in his conviction and he was sentenced to be hanged on the first Tuesday in January, 1892. General Charles S. Taylor, a well- known citizen of Mount Holly, N. J., com mitted suicide by drowning in a creek at the identical point where his brother drowned himself a few years ago. Nearly all the patients in the New York hospitals inoculated with Dr. Koch’s lymph are reported as doing well- South and Wesrt. Nearly.all business has bean stopped at Fairfield, Texas, by a scourge of spotted fever. Eight or ten deaths occurred m two days. The ice broke in Indian "Wheeling Creek, W. Va., while a party of young men were skating. William Kosenstein and Will Nay lor were drowned. A crank from Iowa, masquerading as a “Messiah,” was arrested in Red Cloud’s camp. Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. One man was killed and six injured in a tornado at Barberton, Ohio. The handsome Baltimore (Md.| Masonic Temple, Including Forepaugh’s Theatre, ha* been destroyed by lire, involving a loss of $350,000. The Oklahoma territorial Legislature has adjourned after passing a complete code of laws. Silas Mickle (colored), of St. Paul, Mino., killed his stepdaughter Emma, dan gerously stabbed h's wile and then com mitted suicide. Postmaster Matthews, Carrollton, Miss., was shot and killed by W. S. McBride, a wealthy young druggist. Thera had been an altercation between the two men. Contests against five Democratic mem bers of the Illinois Legislature will be in stituted. W ashing ton. The United States Supreme Court has juSt rendered a decision in a Mormon polygamy rase, holding that a wife is not a competent witness against the husband where polygamy •a the crime charged. The President has nominated Colonel Charles Sutherland to be Surgeon-General, with the rank of Brigadier-General, vice J. H. Baxter, deceased. Senator Davis, of Minnesota, has intro- luced another pension bill to increase the tension of persons incapacited for the per formance of any manual labor to $59 a nonth. 1 Foreign. Forty-five honored railway employes vent on strike in Scotland; no freight trains ind few passenger trains were running. Berlin newspapers report that 30,000 Russian Hebrews m|^^fMB|BlBrazil. Mrs. of PAMELL DEFEATED, i ut^-fibst oohqbess. the LAB oe wobld. A. Battle at the Polls Between the Two Irish Factions. The Anti-Parnellites Elect Their Candidate for Parliament. The election held to fill the seat for North Kilkenny, Ireland, in the House of Com- nons made vacant by the death of Mr. Hamm resulted in a victory for the anti- Parnellites, their candidate, Sir John Pope 3ennessy, being returned. The result of the election was as follows; 3ennessy, 2502; Scully, 1356. Majority for Sennessy. 1146. Messrs'. Parnell, Harrington, Redmond, Scully. Hennessy and Healy were inside the Kilkenny Court House at an early hour, .waiting the actual announcement of the re mit. Though the Parnellites asserted up to ;he last moment that victory was hovering >ver their banners, the defeat of their -andidate was virtually admitted long be- ’ore the close of the polls. Immediately after the Sheriff had offi- •iallv announced the result of the polling die Parnellites present moved in a body to he front of the Court House, and then, with i cheer hoisted Mr. Parnell upon their ihoulders and gave him what might be ermed a rousing reception. Mr. Paruell was ipon the point of making a speech to his fol- owers, when Timothy and Maurice Healy tppeared among the crowd- The Parnell- tes resented the so-called intrusion by as- uming menacing attitudes and giving vent o various threats which implied personal violence to the Healys in case they did not eave the scene. Finally, Mr. Parnell, in order to prevent vhat seemed likely to be a row, asked the >olice who were guarding the Court House o induce the Healys to withdraw, as .heir presence was causing a dis- mrbanee. The police promptly acted ipon Mr. Parnell’s suggestion, and he Healys were eventually prevailed ipon to depart under police protection. kVhile the Healys were being escorted out of langer Mr. Parnell diverted the attention >f the crowd by resuming his attempt to nake a speech to his followers, saying le would not be turned aside !rom his determination to do his iuty to Ireland, seeing that the result of the son test in North Kilkenny was brought ibout by conspiracy. Mr. Parnell added that he would go through Ireland fighting •very election, and that he felt confident of eventual triumph. The leading members of the Pamellite party in that section, after the announce ment of the defeat of Mr. Vincent Scully, were seen parading the Court House pass ages apparently being in a very despondent state of mind. Mr. Vincent Scully, the defeated candi date, will lodge a petition protesting against the election of Sir John Pope Hennessy. on the ground of undue influence upon the part Df the priests, particularly referring to the priests' action in connection with the illiter ate voters of Castlecomer. In connection with the formal protest to be made by Mr. Vincent Scully against the validity of the election, it is said that over 200 votes are challenged by the Parnellites. The first public meeting of the McCarthy ite committee took place at Dublin after the election. It is almost needless to add that everybody present was filled with enthusiasm over the result of the contest in North Kil kenny. At a meeting of the National Committee of the Home Rulers in Dublin, Mr. William Murphv who was in the chair, said that Parnelf had disregarded Ireland’s voice aad that it would be necessary to stop him in his mad career by every legislative means. The committee decided to start a daily morr.ing newspaper, which will he edited by Mr. O’Brien. DK. KOCH TO _AMEEICANS.. Telling Mlirfsier Phelps That Inva\ Here ShouM'Sthy at Home.j A Berlin dispatch says^-that Pr4 gv^y. wili . ^ ■A r in;« In the Senate. 19th Da \—Mr. Pettigrew introduced a bill prohibifing the sale of firearms and am- munition tolndiansou reservations. Referred Mr. Reagan offered an amendment to the FinanciafbUl agreed upon by the Financo Committee, substituting for the first section a free coinage section, and amending the re maining secaons to correspond in purpose by striking out all reference to silver pur chases Tk« Election bill came up. and Mr. Paddock gave notice that after the consideration of the pending bill and before it should be concluded, if its debate was to bo protracted tg any great extent, he would ask the Senate to take up the Pure Food bill, which was demanded by the farmers from one end of the country to the other. Mr, Spooner spoke over five hours in defence o.’ the bill. 19th Day.—The bill to establish the recor 1 and pension office of the War Departmeni was passed....Mr. Spooner having sub mitted various conference reports on pubiiJ building measures, Mr. Gorman criticised th) policy of Congress in making no appropria tion for the erection of the edifices,although a limitation was placed upon the cost....Mr Higgins spoke in favor of the Election bill, and Mr. Gray replied to his strictures upon the State of Delaware. Mi-. Voorhaes sooki in opposition te>the bill. 20th Day.—The Committee on Finance re ported an amendment to the Caucus Finan cial bill, authorizing the issue of $200,000,000 in two per cent, bonds, redeemable at pleas ure after ten years....Mr. Call addressed the Senate in opposition to the Election bill, and was followed by Mr. McPherson in the same strain.%. .Mr. Aldrich, Chairman of the Committee on Rules, gave notice of his in tention to move an amendment to the rules, providing for the closing of debate on any Dill under consideration. 21st DAYt^Mr. Hale (Me.) introduced a joint resoluw.on to provide for the floating of American flags on the eastern and western E orticos of the Capitol every day of the year. >aid over... .Mr. Morgan attacked the pro posal to apply cloture m the Senate.... Mr. McPherson spoke against the Election bill. 22d Day.—Only seven Senators put in an appearance at the north wing of the Capitol, and its session was held only to escape the constitutional inhibition against an adjour- ment of over three days. In the House. 18th DjUlY.—A bill was passed to authorize the construction of a tunnel under New York Bay, between the towns of Middletown and New Utreteht.,. .The Urgent Deficiency bill, with Senate amendments, was discussa l in committee of the whole, passed and re turned to,the Senate for its action. 19th Day.—Mr. Blanchard offered a reso- tion calling for a committee to investigate the cause c£ the threatened Indian outbreak in the West, and of Sitting Bull’s death. Mr. Me Adoo also offered a resolution calling on the Secretaries of War and the Interior to furnish all official correspondence relating to Sitting Bull’s death and to the alleged muti lation of his remains. 29th Datt.—Various committee appoint ments we?a made bv the Speaker, after which Mr.- Blanchard offered a resolution reciting th at the present remarkable strin gency in th« money market of the ^United States is causing widespread alarm, and re solving that’ -‘the Committee on Banking and Currency ctf the House be instructed to bring in a bill providing for such an increase of the legal-tender currency of the country as, united with the present supply of money in circulation, and that being coined under ex isting laws, will increase the volume of money to an amount equal to fifty dollars per capita of our population.” 21st Day,—There were but fifty menber; present when the House was called to order. On motion of Mr. McKinley it was agreed that when the House adjourn it be to meet on the following Tuesday, and then an ad journment was taken. The Brotherhood of Carpenters has 85,000 members. Children are working in Cincinnati for wages as low as six cents per day. The city of London will build and rent houses to workingmen at a slight profit. A general movement of coal miners for an eight-houi day is to be made next May; On Christmas Eve the Order of the Knights of Labor was twenty-one years old. A manufacturers’ federation of boot and | shoemakers in England is all but established. The united mine workers of America will attempt to enforce the eight-hour rule on May L 1&9L Emperor William has given orders that women shall not be employed at night in any German Government factory. The companies controling twenty-five piano factories in New York City have agreed that nine hours shall constitute a working day. A convention of patternmakers will be held in Chicago in February to prepare for the adoption of the eight-hour rule, which is to go into effect March 1. During the last fiscal year the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers has paid to the widows and Orphans and disabled mem bers 8322,50-9, making a grand total of $3,- 122,669.61. The average wages paid to women and children, of which a large number are em ployed in the various kinds of factories in Baltimore, is not over $4.25 per week of six days of nine hours each. There are 6000 white women in Richmond, Va., who work for their own living. The majority are employed in the tobacco, ci garette and cheroot factories, but many are employed as clerks in stores, typewriters and teachers. The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of Great Britain has 30,000 mem bers at present, organized in 208 local branches, eighty-eight of which were founded this year. The principal aim is to reduce the hours of labor. A ukase has just been issued by the Czar forbidden the employment of Austrian work- | men in Russia either in agricultural districts , or in factories. Laborers of Austrian nation- 1 ality are conducted to the Austraiu frontier every day in hundreds. In Austria there is a law governing the maximum working hours for men. By this | law a man may not work iu factories or shops more than eleven hours daily, not in- ciuaing rests. Exceptions can be made by permission of the Trades Minister, in con junction with the Minister of the Interior. ; in urgent cases the consent of the local au thorities will suffice. TEMPERANCE. ’SY GLEANINGS. 16,000 public schools in Mis- ^rdened with a debt of nearly $90,000,000 for her cotton as of India PROMINENT PEOPLE. «. Stanley’s first payment for his book was $20,000, spot cash. The late August Belmont was an snthusi- astic collector of old china. Senator Leland Stanford, of Califor nia, is estimated to be worth $80,000,000. Ex-Speaker Keifer is to be seen daily on the floor of the House and Senate in Wash ington. It is a fact unfamiliar to many that the poet Whittier was from 1837 to 1840 a resi dent of Philadelphia. Colonel R. F. Humphrey, the leader of the Colored Farmers’ Alliance, is a white man, and was formerly a Baptist preacher in Texas. Major Burke, the defaulting State Treas urer of Louisiana, is hard at work along the rivers of Honduras in the hope of winning back his fortune. Ex-President Cleveland has accepted an invitation to attend the annual meeting of the Indiana Tariff Reform League in Marcb, and will be one of the speakers at a banquet given by the League. The Empress of Russia is forty-three years old. She was never pretty, and is now ex hibiting a tendency to grow stout. She is the second daughter of the Danish King, and is three years younger than the Princess of of W ales. Benjamin Butterworth, the Secretary J of the World’s Fair, is a Jon in the prime of physic 1 “ e is tall^golidly buift _ all. the way— FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. THR DRUNKARD’S DAUGHTER. The circumstances which induced the writing of the following most touching and thrilling lines are as follows: A young lady of New York was in the habit of writing to the Philadelphia Ledger, on the subject of temperance. Her writing was so full of ■ pathos, and evinced such deep emotion of soul, that a friend of hers accused her of being a maniac on tte subject of temper ance, whereupon she wrote the following lines: Go feel what I have felt. Go bear what I have borne— Sink ’neath the blow a father dealt And the cold world’s proud scorn: Then suffer on from year to year— The sole relief the scorching'tear. Go kneel as I have knelt,- Implore, beseech and pray— Strive the besotted heart to melt, The downward course to stay; Be dashed with bitter curse aside. Your prayers burlesqued, your tears defied. Go weep as I have wept O’er a loved father’s fall— See every promised blessing swept— ” ' ‘ -d to ” ' Youth’s sweetness turned to g Life's fading flowers strewed all That brought me up to woman’s day Go see what I have seen. Behold the strong man bow, With gnashing teeth, lips bathed in blood. And cold and livid brow; Go catch his withering glance, and see Tiere mirrored, his soul’s misery. .Go to thy mother’s side, And her crushed bosom cheer. Thine own deep ar.guish hide; Wipe from her cheek the bitter tear. Mark her worn face and withered brow, The gray that streaks her dark hair now, With falling frame and trembling limb, And trace the ruin back to him Whose plighted faith, in early youth, Promis’d eternal love and truth. But who, forsworn, hath yielded up That promise to the cursed cup, And let her down, through love and light, And all that made her prospects bright; And chain’d her there ’mid want and strife, That lowly thing, a drunkard’s wife. And stamp’d on childhood’s brow so mild, That withering blight, the drunkard’s child? Go hear, and feel, and see, and know. All that my soul hath felt and known; Then look upon the wine cup’s glow, See if its beauty can atone. Think if its flavor you will try, When all proclaim, ’tis drink and die! Tell me I hate the bowl? Hate is a feeble word! I loathe, abhor, my very soul With strong disgust is stirr’d When I see, or hear, or tell Of the dark beverage of hell! DENIZENS OF DARKEST ENGLAND. General Booth in his new book, “In Dark est England,” says: “Have you ever watched bv the bedside of a man in delirium tremens? Multiply the sufferings of one drunkard by the hundred thousand, and you have some idea of what scenes are being witnessed in all our great cities this moment. As in Africa streams intersect the forest in every direc tion, so the gin shop stands at every corner with its River of the Water of Death flowing seventeen hours out of the twenty-four for the destruction of the people. A population sodden with drink, steeped in vice, eaten up by every social and physical malady—these are the denizens of darkest England, amid whom my life has been spent and to whose rescue I would now summon all that is best in the manhood and womanhood of our land.” DRINKING IN PALACE CARS. A gentleman writing to the Inter-Ocean makes the same charge against the Pullman car “saloon” the W. C. T. U. has so often made: “Among the many annoyances of traveling in a Pullman car none is worse to bear than the ‘saloon.’ Last year I took a trip to California anl back by way of Tacoma and St. Paul. The through trains carry liquor and it is sold and drank to in toxication, and what with the noise, pro fanity and gaming, I determined never to spend any more money to secure a sleeping berth when the porter is unable to secure LAYER CAKE THAT WILL KEEP. A layer cake that will keep a week and be even better then than when first made has for its ingredients one cupful of powdered sugar, one table spoonful of butter, three eggs—whites beaten separately—half a large cupful of milk, one cupful and a half of flour, one heaping teaspoonful of bak ing powder; cream butter and sugar thoroughly, add yolks; next whites beaten to a still' froth; (hen gradually flour and milk, and the baking powder last. This makes three layers.—[New York World. CHEESE STRAWS. Cheese straws are nice to S3rvc with salad. Hub a quarter of a pound of butter into half a pound of flour; add a quarter of a pound of grated ciicese r either Parmesan or Gruyere, a salt- spoonful of flour and a little mustard and cayenne. Beat the whites of two eggs very light, add to them a quarter of a pint of cold water, and stir into the other ingredients. The paste must he kneaded thoroughly, then rolled about an eighth of an inch thick, and cut into strips about four or five inches long. Bake in a quick oven until pale brown in color. They cau he eaten either hot or cold. A STEW' OF ROAST BEEF. When roast beef is too rare to eat cold, and there is too much of it to be used for hash, a stew made of it will he found very appetizing. Put a good- sized piece of butter on a pan and when it gets hot add a tablespoonful of chopped onion, and when light brown stir in one tablespoonfnl of chopped parsley and a cupful of water or stock. Thicken the sauce with one tablespoonfnl of flour; a pound of cold beef cut into dice is then added and a seasoning of pepper and salt. Simmer for five minutes, remove from the fire, add the well-beaten yolks of two eggs, one tahlespoonful of lemon juice aud a glass of water. Serve im mediately. TICKLED RAISINS. Raisins make a delicate pickle, and very nice. I have not yet made any* but I am intending to use this receipt when I find time. It was given to me by a friend at whose table I satisfied myself as to its value. Get fine, large raisins on the stems. Make a syrup of one pint of vinegar and two pounds of the best brown sugar, with a tea- spoonful each of cinnamon, spice and cloves tied in a hag; let it come to a boil, skim and turn over two pounds of raisins that have been carefully looked over, washed if need he, hut