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\ s / T l BIOTING IN BUFFALO. Serious Results of a Switch* men’s Strike. Railroad Property Burned and Troops Ordered Out. ' % A strike of switchmen on the Erie and Lehigh Valler Railroads at Buffalo, N. Y., baa turned out t* be a serious matter. There bad been more or lees trouble between the strikers and their sympathisers and the man who were doin 2 the strikers’ work, and a few desultory assaults occurred. Things began to put on a more serious aspect at two o’clock in tne morning when a series of in- eendi&rr fires broke out simultaneously in the Lehigh Valley yards. Eighteen or twenty freight cars filled with wool, cotton, hay and various other mer chandise, two passenger coaches and two watchmen’s houses were burned. The fire* occurred at places where the firemen could not successfully stay the flames, on account of an absence of water, besides the difficulty of access to the fires. The fire first discovered was in what is known as the east-bound yards. Here the watchman aaw flames burst from the little office building, and ran to give the alarm. This spot is fully a half mile from the west yards. He bad not gone half the distance when be turned around and saw that the flames bad burst out among the 500 or more cars. In the meantime Yardmaster Mead, at the west end of the yards, had dis covered flames in the two pas senger coaches which were used to carry workmen up and down the road, and an alarm had been turned in from William and Dingens streets. Tr.e firemen were delayed, owing to the bad condition of Dingens street, and when they got on the tracks the two cars and the little building bad been de stroyed. Other fires broke out in different places, and more freight cars were destroyed. The damage by fire was estimated at $100,000. The cars destroyed were in the midst of a great number of other cars. The firemen nnccupled a number of cars and removed them from danger. A dozen or so cars were thrown from the Lehigh tracks, and a sim ilar number from the Erie, by misplaced switches. Passengers on the Erie and Lehigh Valley trains that were ditched stated that strikers ■went through the coaches, detached the engine and broke the air connections. H, Dickerman, a commercial travel er, who was on board one of the trains, said no violence was attempted with any of the passengers. He continued; “ Three str liters boarded our train. They were ail apparently sober and met with no resistance. They politely informed the passengers that the train would go no further. The spokesman was a tall fellow, light complexion and witb sandy hair. He simply stated that be was a striker; had a wife and family to maintain, and the road would not do the square thing by the men.” There was little disorder through the following day, but several freight cars w<fre burning in tne Erie and Leaign yards, and it is estimated that more than 100 were burned between midnight and dayligat. Some of these contained Brussels carpets and other costly goods. While the flames burned the strikers jeered at the firemen, and in some cases interfered with them, in the afternoon Sheriff Beck went out to the scene of disorder with a posse of forty-two men, each armed with new ash clubs and shining handcuffs. The men bad been on the grounds only a short time when they were met by thirty or forty strikers and asked to disarm. The deputies promptly surrendered their clubs, which the strikers considerately gathered up and oiled into Sheriff Beck’s buggy. The sheriff drov» back to town and at once asked General Peter Doyle to call out the militia. General Doyle ordered < u* both regiments of the National Guard. Tney were ordered to wait at their headquarters under arms till a call was made for them to do active service in putting down the lawlessness at East Buffalo and beyond. ^ Later reports showed that the Lehigh Valley had lost seventy-two freight cars by the fires and the Erie tourteen. At 1 a. M. the Sixty-fifth Regiment was sent to Cheektowaga to guard the Lehigh Valley and Erie yards, and half an hour later the Seventy-fourth Regiment was called out protect the Central and West Shore property. A Conflict WitA the Strikers. On the night following the foregoing events rioting broke out in the yards of the Lehigh Valley and Erie roads at Buffalo. There were three conflicts be tween the mob on oue'side and tae military and police on the other from 6 o’clock, an i the la jelessness spread to such a degree, both in the number of tne mob and the extent of space covered, that General P. C. Doyle deemed it necessary to send for military aid to otner cities. The streets in the eastern part of the city, near the Lehigh Valley and Erie roads were filled all the evening with crowds of men and boys hurry* ing to and from the centre of disturbance. The Seventy-fourth Regiment and most of the Sixty-fifth moved down from the William street station to Queen street crossing when it beceme eviuent that the strikers were massing there. All the after noon there were indications of the trouble that was brewing. The strikers gathered near the soldiers and jeered and howled at them. Once or twice an exasperated soldier would strike out at his tormentors or threaten them with hie bayonet, and a num ber of fizhts were stopped by the interfer once of the police or the National Guard officers. Finally,at S o’clock Captain Kilroy, of the police, with half a uozen men, ordered the crown back. They refused to move and threatened to sweep the police from their path if interfered with. The Captain or dered ciubs drawn, and by. means of their potent persuasion the mob was driven hack fror” the bridge. On William street it made a stand and was charged by Sergeant Lambrecbt with fit teen policemen. Clubs were used freeiy, and finally the strikers and their sympathizers broke and fled. But, althougn broken up for the time, the strikers and their friends soon drifted bac^ tc their place under the bridge. This time they meant bu-iness. It was now half past 9. and the deep shadow from the trestle con- cea.ed the strikers, while a bright bonfire burning near General Doyle's headquarters threw a strong light over the forms of the •al hers lying on tne grass. bu idenly a large rock thrown by some one m the shadow fell near a man belong ing to Company G of the Seventy-fourtn Regiment, commanded by Captain Darner. This company was nearest the strikers. A storm of smaTer stones and dirt followed, ana the nmb set up a veil. The soldiers sprang to their feet. Captain Danier gave the order to fail in. Still the tnob continued yelling and throwing mis* aflee. A drummer beat the long roll. Ex cited by the sound and exasperated by the attacks of the strikers. Company M’s men started forward. when the door of the bouse where General Doyle had his headquarters was thrown open, and Captain of Police Kilroy, who had been conferring with the General, ran put at full ■peed. Calling to bis men to follow him, ha rushed among the yelling mob and the now thoroughly exasperated soldiers. “Keep back, bovs, keep back!” he shouted to the soldiers. “We can manage this our- aelvee. For God’s sake, dou’t shed the first blood! K-ep back.” The soldiers paused for a moment, and at that moment twenty policemen had followed Captain Gilroy into the open space between the mob and the soldiers. The Captain drew his club. “Clubs out, and charge!” he .shouted, and the twenty policemen, with ■ticks drawn, fell upon the strikers. The latter retreated step bv step until they got to William street, wnere they stoppe 1 and fought viciously. How it would have coded is doubtful, but at that moment a de tachment of the bixty-Sfth Regiment, with bayonets fixed, came down William street at doable quick and attacked the mob on the left flank. They stabbed for the legs of their op ponents, and in a very few seconds tne mob was in rapi l retreat, man v of them bleeding from bavo-i-t wounds, bat none of then s-.-riouslv injured. They were I olio we i by the police, ■who used their c.uos vigorously, driving them half a mile down William street on a ran. Guards were then established and no caa permitted to go near the tracks who I could not give himself. satisfactory account of Governor Flower at Albany. An Albany dispatch stated that Governor dispat Flower arrived there at 1:30 a. M. He was met at the station by Adjutant General Por ter. The Governor said he bad not been summoned to Albany by any recent commu nication, bnt thought he ought to be there. General Porter told him be had just received word from General Doyle that he had ordered out the whole of his brigade on the requisition of the Sheriff. Thu Gover nor replied: “Well, the Sheriff has had all the troops he has asked for thus far, and be can have more. If be needs more troops he must have them. We must stop this. It most stopP* In all about 1900 additional soldiers of the Fourth Brigade were ordered out. When they reached Buffalo the troops called out formed a grand total of nearly 1800 men. The Central Switchmen Strike. At 1:15 o’clock a. m. word was recaived that the freight switchmen of the New York Central Railroad at Buffalo had gone out. A detachment of police was at once ordered to the Central freight yards. It was estimated that the Central strikers numbered 330 switchmen. The strike of the Central switchmen tied up all the trains and locomotives. The Buffalo. Rochester and Pittsburg switchmen also struck. More Troops Ordered Out. A midnight conference at Buffalo between Brigadier-General Doyle, Mayor Bishop, Sheriff Beck, Superintendent of Police Mor- f eastern, H. Walter Webb, Daniel H. Me- [Ulan, W. S. Bissell and E. (3. Sprague on behalf of the railroads and several citizens resulted in agreeing to send the following telegram to the Governor: To the Hon. Roswell P. Flower, Executive Mansion, Albany, N. Y.: We have become satisfied that the situa tion here in Buffalo under the pending strike has become so serious that we ask that the National Guard of the State be called out to protect the lives and projierty of citizens of this city and county. August Beck, Sheriff. Charles F. Bishop, Mayor. At 1 A. M. Adjutant-General Porter tele phoned from Albany that the Twelfth and Twentv-second Regiments of New York City, the Tenth Battalion of Albany and six separate companies would leave for Buffalo in the morning, and that the remainder of the Guard would start as speedily as possi ble. Sixth Day ot the Strike. On the sixth day the offizers of the rail roads involved in the switchmen’s strike at Buffalo claimed victory. Trains were moving from the great yards at East Buffalo, with a soldier on the p.afcforms of each car. By daylight fully four thousand more soldiers were in camp, an i by evening one- half as many more, bringing the total n am ber of militia up to over eight thousand. The regiments which arrive! at Buffalo during the day included six from New York City and two from Brooklyn. Charles O’ Hara, of Oswego, a private of the Forty-eighth Separate Company, while on duty in tae Central yards. East Buffalo, during the morning was struck by an engine and instantly killed. This made the second militiaman who lost his life by accident during the strike. The Centra 1 , Lehigh Valley, and Erie tracks for five miles from tae stations ware closely guarded by the military. Sol iiers with fixed bayonets patroled uo and down the tracks in small detachments, stoo i on guard by the switches, or were carried up and down the tracks ou open cars provided with benches. Strict orders to stop all per sons not having business along tne tracks were given out to the sentries, an i were rapidly carried out. No sooner tiid a civilian leave the road to go up or down the tracks than he found a bayonet presented at his breast ani beard the challenge: “vVno goes there?” If he gave a satisfactory reply he was passe! by the corporal of the guar!, othervise he was peremptorily turned back. After 10 o'clock at night no person was allowe 1 through the lines except at certain Diaces near the headquarters at William street. The two companies of the Seventy-fourth Regiment, under the command of Major Hardy, were on guard at the Lehigh Valley coal trestle, four miles out from the city limits, and were keeping a picket line about the trestle continuously, the men wonting in relief, two hours on and four hours off duty. Two strikers were arrested during tne morning for breaking a train on the Cen tral tracks near the bridge. The train was just pulling out, waen it broke in two near the engine. Two men ware seen to jump from the train where it bro te and run for the grass. They were caught an! arrested by policemen wao were near by. Oa the Li- high tracks two men were arrested for threatening the working switchmen. They told the “scabs,” as they caltel the non union men, that they would be kiliel unless they stopped work. Waen arrests! the men said tnat they had co ne from Pailalelpaia to work as switcanen, but hal decile! not to on looking over the situ itioa. They were locked up. The Seventh Day. The first shot since the beginning of the strike was fired at eight o’clock P m. of the seventh day. The peacefulness that had been a characteristic of the day was oroken by another riotous demonstration out at the Erie yards. Two men euterei the trestle overlooking the yard near Baily avenue. East Buffalo, and began pelting a crew of yardmen who were engaged in making up a train. None of the railroad men were hit, but they gave the alarm to a guard of soldiers, who ran toward the trestle on double time. They were met with a volley of stones and promptly returned it with a volley of bul lets. The men on the trestle ran and two more volleys were fired after them, but the bul lets whistled wide of the mark and the stone throwers disappearei in the darkness. Tfie shots alarmed the pickets all along the line, however, and in a few minutes a company of soldiers were in hot pursuit. A member of the Twenty-second Regiment of New York City was seriously stabbed. The soldier was assaulted by tares men on Tifft Farm, where the regiment was sta tioned. He received three serious cuts in the left arm, the wounds being deeo. The soldier was sent into Buffalo an! taken to New Yo: k. Grand .Master Switchmen Sweeney, leader of the strikers, stated, in an interview, that in all 475 meu were out on strike, divided among the roads as tollows; New York, Late Erie and Western, SS; Lake Shore and Michigan Southern. 62: New York, Chicago and St. Louis, 47; New York Central and Hudson River, 128; West Snore, 41; Lehigh Valley. 84; Buffalo CreeK, 22; Buffalo Creek (non-union men), 3. During the uay two of the strikers were arrested for assaulting men at work on the railroais and locked up. The Chief of Police also ordered the arrest of all persons making any disturbance, and, as a result of the order, more than 300 persons were taken to the police stotions of Buffalo in patrol wagons during the evening. It was claimed by the railroad officials that as far as the switchmen were concerned, the strike was at an end, as during the day freight trains were moved with almost ac customed rfgularitv. Master Workman Sweeney in the evening address©! to officials of tied-up roads a formal letter reciting the history of the de mands of the switchmen for ten hours’ work at previous rates, for overtime and for the right oi appeal of dis charge! or suspended switchmen to higher authority. He then proposed arbi tration of the differences between the roads and the men by three persons one each to be chosen by either side and the third by these two. The Lake Shore’s response to Mr. Sweeney’s letter contradict©! many of his statements with regard to the company’s ac tion towards its men, and ciosed without a definite statement as to wba: course will be takeu by the company accounts from Russia in regard to the prospects ot the growing crops are very gloomy. Locusts nave destroyed the grain over several of the Southern provinces. In other places worms and innumerable mar mots, the same as the American ground hog, nave done enormous injury. The same complaint comes irom Centra! Russia, and around Moscow vast clouds ot locusts have covered the land and eaten it bare of Teg tv **ififwis THE HEWS EPITOMIZED. GLADSTONE IN POWER WORLD’S FAIR NOTES. Eastern and Middle States. The bodv of Samuel F. Keller, Sheriff of Danohin County, Penn., was found beside the Pennsylvania R tilroa'l track, east of Conewago Station. It is supposed that he was accidentally thrown from a train dar ing the night while passing from one car to another. The American Association for the Ad vancement of Science held its annual con vention at Rochester, N. Y. The little town of Delmar. Del., has been almost wiped out by fire. About flftj build ings. covering three acres, were destroyed, entailing a total estimated loss of $75,003. A Buckwheat Trust has been formed, with a capital stock of $5,000,000. Incorpora tion papers have been filed at Trenton, N. J. Private Elsaesskr. one of the militia men ordered out during the switchmen’s strike at Buffalo, was shot to death by the accidental discharge of a rifle. Jabez A. Bostwick, the Standard Oil Trust millionaire, met with an accident dur ing the burning of the stables at his summer residence at Mamaronecr, N. Y., and died in ten minutes. Two stablemen were burned to death in Mr. Constable’s adjoining stable, which was also destroyed by fire. The Republican State Convention of Del aware met in Dover and nominated Rev. Jonathan S. Weller, a Methoiist clergy man. for Congress by acclamation, and also Presidential electors. Charles H. Peckham, sixty-two years old, walked into the station house at Fall River, Mass., and declared that he had killed Mr. and Mrs. Borden, for whose mys terious murder Miss Lizzie Bor leu has been arreste!. Peckham was evidently insane, and little stock was taken in his story. A NEW TURF QUEEN. Nancy Hanks Trots a Mile at Chicago in 2:07>4. Maud S. is no longer queen of the trotting turf. The proud position which the daugh ter of Harold has held so long has been wrested from her, and Nancy Hanks reigns nancy hanks. in her stead. At Washington Park, Chicago, in the presence of 10,000 sp?ctators, Budd Doble drove his beautiful mare to beat her record of 2:19. She not only beat her own record, but lowered the world’s trotting record from 2:0S}£, made bv Robert Bon ner’s Sunol. and 2:08% the time of MauP S., to 2:07*. Owen Chase, a Maine hunter, knows the forests of the Piue Tree State by heart, hav ing hunted and woraed in them for nearly fifty years. He has killed 222 bears during : that period, and entertains very little re spect for bruin’s courage. England’s New Prime Minister flakes Command. South and West. Pit men were killed ani fifteen injured, several fatally, by the wrecking of a con struction train at Coshocton, Ohio. Michigan Demo-'rats at their State Con vention in Grand Raoids nominated a ticket heade l by Allen B. Morse for Governor. Ex-Senator John C. Spooner heads the Wisconsin Republican State t cket put in the field by the Convention at Milwaukee. The Ohio People’s Party, at a State Con vention in Massillon, put in nomination a full ticket, with S. C. Thaver for Secretary of State at the head. About forty of the eighty-eight counties were represented. Jerry Simpson, renominated for Con gress in the Seventh Kansas District, has been endorsed by the Democrats. A State Convention to devise means for securing better roads in Iowa was held at Des Moines, with nearly 1003 dele gates in attendance. • Logan Murphy was taken from jail and lyncaed at Mount Sterling, Ky. He had killed Ids father. While in jail h4 attacked two fellow prisoners, one of wnotn die*. Three highwaymen held up and beheaded a man near Eilensborg, Washington. Vigi lantes pursued the highwaymen, and after capturing them hanged them to a tree. Hon. Whitelaw Reid spoke at the Con vention of the Illinois Lsague of Republican Clubs at Springfield, III. The Common Council of Battle Creek, Mich., has put a boycott oa Carnegie bridge steel and iron. At Washington Park. Chicago, the geld ing Hal Pointer pace! a mile against time in 2:05*, breaking all previous records and gaining lor himself a foremost place in the annals of the track as being the fastest har ness performer the world has ever seen. The Iowa Democratic Ste-te Convention at Davenport nominate 1 a ticket headed by J. H. McConologue for Secretary of State. The Republican State Convention of Idaho has nominate 1 W. J. McConnell for Governor and Willis Sweet for Congress. Geneva, Ohio, has been partially de stroyed bv fire. Loss, $175,003. Governor Hogg, of Texis, was renomi nated at Houston by his faction of the Democratic State Convention which split after a hot fight. The Clar.t Convention com Dieted the State ticket healed by Clark for Governor. Washintrton. Admiral Ghef.ardi has been ordered to Wasnington, and will then go to San Fran cisco to take charge of the naval parade next spring. This will leave Commodore Walker in command of the North Atlantic Squad ron. William Harrison Bradley, of Illi nois, present Consul at Nice, has been trans ferred to Copenhagen in place of H. B. Ryder, under arrest lor embezzlement and forgery. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is preparing actively for the display it will make at the World’s Fair. A complete col lection of portraits of the Secretaries of the Treasury and the portraits of all the Pres - dents will be included in the exhibit of the bureau. A telegram has been received by Acting Secretary Adee of the State Department from Minister Egan at Valpiraiso which says that the Chilean Senate and Chamber of Deputies have unanimously passed the appropriation for the payment of claims growing out of the Baltimore incident. Foreign. Fifty persons were seriouslv injured by the conapse of a grand stand at Lanuemazan, a summer resort in the Pyrenees. Five vessels were wrecked "during a storm on tne New Brunswick coast. I Four inmates of a workmen’s lodging ; hou-e at Tredegar, England, were burned to death. Rigid quarantine against Russian vessels has ueen established by Sweden and Den mark ou account of Asiatic cholera. Wales has had a severe earthquake shock. Fire destroyed three hundrei houses and rendered 2533 people homeless in siervodsk, Russia. The notorious Duke of Manchester is dea 1 in his thirty-ninth year. He married a Sew York City girl in 1876, but deserts! her for a London concert hall singer na ned Bessie Bel wool. The marriage of the Duke’s mother, the Dowager Duchess of Maacnes- ter, to the Duke of Devoushire, took place only two days before his death. He left three children. Europe has had a hot wave, the mercury rising to beyond the one hundred mark in some places. The Swiss villages of GrindelwalJ and St. Stephen have been destroyed by fire. Fifteen hundred tourists at the former place lost everything they possessed. The Liberal Leader Announces His Cabinet. any of getting a d are masters of tta __ tives of old Whig fa extreme views havj Total a............... Tne communicants ot copal, with those of c her denominations, will bring the aggregat* up to about 20,000, 000. The number of chqfches showing the growth of forty years u stated thus: D ?3ominat Ions. Congregational Lutheran 1350. 3,705 :s«iu. 4,736 6,559 Methodist 13.-MS 44,244 Presoyterian 4,936 12,463 Romau Catholic 1.227 8.76» Ijdf) 9.360 -39.412 Episcopal 1,461 5.605 gYii Okb&rs«•••• 5,<X>7 20,471 Totals.•»•••*•••••■» s;.. # 85,183 142,256 Total value of churcf, property, as ?scer tain ed by census authorise 5 --, is $021,221,3 .3, as against $87,440,371 in S50. The co.ored churches 1! all denominations show a total membershfa' of 2,370.10''. mid own church property vi uei at $13,103,000. In the new Maine ton , where not eveu a log ht, $10,000 residence is buii at work upon mills an i ■itor-General. . Samuel Walker. Lord ■d. t, Attorney-General for PRIME MINIS FER GLADSTONE. William E. Gladstone, leader of the Lib eral party in Great Britain, visited Queen Victoria on the Isle of Wight to lay before her the names of those who would comprise the Cabinet, and to Perform the usual cere monies attendant upon the taking of office by a new Prime Minister. On the following dav Mr. Gladstone re tired to London, art! the new Government was officially announce! as follows: William E. Gladstone, Lord Privy Seal and First Lord of tha Treasury. Earl Rosebery. Foreign Secretary. Baron Herschell, Lord Chancellor. Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Herbert H. Asquith, Home Secretary, The Right Hon. Henry H. Fowler, Pres ident of the Local Government Board. The Right Hon- H. Campbell-Bannerman, Secretary of State for War. Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty. The Right Hon. John Morley, Chief Secre tary for Ireland. fhe Rizht Hon. A. J. Mundolla, Presi dent of the Board of Trade. Sir Charles Russell, Attorney-General John Rigby, Sol' “ - " ’ The Right Hon Chancellor of Irela Mr. MacDermc Ireland. The Right Hon. Edward P. C. Marjon- banks. Patronage Secretary to the Treasury. Alexander Ashir, Solicitor-Jeneral for Scotland _ ... The Right Hon. J. B. Balfour, Lord Ad vocate of Scotland. The Earl of Kimberley, Secretary of State for India and Vice-President of the Council. The Marquis of Ripon, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Sir George O. Trevelyan, Secretary for Scotland. Mr. Arnold Morley, Postmaster-General. Mr. Arthur Herbert Dyke Ac!an!, Vice- President of the Council of Education. Baron Houghton, Viceroy of Ireland, without a seat in tip Cabinet. James Bryce. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with a stat in the Cabinet. An Associated Press dispatch from Lon don says that “the composition of the new Government is the cause of intense disap pointment among tbe Radicals. Not a single man, except Johnj Morley, prominently identified with th^ Radicals has been ap pointed a Cabinet Minister, and among the ex-Cabinet posts f.’w members of the new set have any but the remotest chance ne. The old set .tuation. Represents dies and men without ien Mr. Gladstone’s ex clusive choice. Evfen Mr. Stansfeld, who in the last Gladstone Cabinet represen ted demo cratic opinion, has been shelved. The official list, when scanned jto-night at the National Liberal Club, awoke vehement protests. The bulk of the members of strong Raiical tendencies turned Irom the announcement with expressions of scorn and anger. Was it for this undi'uted list of o d men associ ated with the traditions of Wniggery, with some new recruits from the territorial and aristocratic class, that the Radicals had given their money and their time? This was the general question, and the responsive prediction followed that such a Government could not last three months after Parliament resumed business. “Apart from Radical opinion the Cabinet is really composed of eminently reputable men. Mr. Gladstone has preferred collect ing around him tried coileagues accustomed to subordination and certain not to deviate into strange ways. His three new Cabinet Ministers, Messrs. As quith, Arnold Morley and Acland, are sound Liberals. Mr. Asquith alone is slightly tainted with Radicalism, but he has a legal mind, with such a strong bias toward high office as makes him malleable on prin ciples. Arnold Morley is in everything Gladstonian. Mr. Aciand has potent old Whig family connections and is heir to largo estates.” Speaking of Lord Houghton’s appoint ment as Viceroy for Ireland, the Dublin Freeman’s Journal savs: “If mere is sub stance in the modern theory of heredity, Baron Houghton :s likelV to be a justly popular Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. His father was t gentleman an l a scholar, of winning personal courtesy, with deep sympathy for Irdaud’s national aspi rations. The son is sxid to be active, dis tinguished and popular in his own country, endowed with political ambition and ability and with wealth and personal accomplish ments tnat will enablt him to fill tne po sition with dignity and success. But unquestionably the ebief lesson of the anpointment of Paron Houghton as Viceroy, without a seat in the Cabinet, is that John Morley will take the administra tion of Ireland completely into his own hands. We trust and believe that his ad ministration will t e tiorough. Hitherto a change of Govern mint has but siighty changed the admiaistntion of Ireland, This, the first Government ever elected with a distinct mau late to dofull justice to Irish opinion, means a revoiition m Castle meth ods.” COUNTING THd CHURCHES!. Census Figures Depicting the Coun try’s Religious Growth. Statistics of the chu-ches of the United States, as gathered for the eleventh census, show that there are in this country nearly 153 different sects or deiominations. Rough ly stated there are in dve sects 13,496,522 communicants, as follovs: Denominations. No. Communicants. Congregatioual 512,771 Lutheran 1,199,514 et nodist 4,25o, 817 Presoyterian 1,273,315 Roman Catholic 6,250,045 13,496.522 be Baptist and Epis- The City of Mexico will have a special exhibit at the World’s Fair. Germany will be represented at the Co lumbian Exposition as it never has been at any previous international exposition. The Pilot Com mission of New York has decided to make an exhibit at the World’s Fair in the Transportation department. The old whaling bark ‘‘Progress,” with its extensive museum of marine curios and relics of whaling voyages, is now in the harbor at Chicago, and is t^ing visited by hundreds of people. W illiam L. Lafollette, Superintendent of tbe World’s Fair agricultural exhibit for the State of Washington, is arranging for a complete model farm in miniature for the Washington exhibit. It is announced that the Postmaster-Gen eral of the United States has decided to is sue a new series of postage stamps, with de signs appropriate to the commemoration of the discovery of America. Hip Lung, the wealthiest Chinese mer chant in Chicago, together with several in fluential Chinese of Canton, San Francisco and New York, have applied lor space at tbe World’s Fair for a big tea house. New York will exhibit at the World’s Fair sections of all the trees which are in digenous to the State. Of these there are forty-three species and eighty-five varieties, a number which is not excelled, it is claimed, in any State in the Union. Professor Putnam and his assistants, while engaged in collecting material for the ethnological exhibit at the World’s Fair, have made a very important archceologicat discovery near Fort Ancient, Ohio. It is that of a serpent mound 1903 feet long and about ten feet thick. New York will have a large exhibit of interesting historical relics at the World’s Fair. Among them will be Washington relics, autographs of all the Presidents, au tographs of the signers of the declaration of independence and famous men of the revo lutionary war: portraits of famous citizens of New York, including those of all the Governors; model of Fulton’s steamboat, and many other relics dating back to revo lutionary times. The World’s Fair buildings will be dedi cated on the 21st of October instead of the 12tb, Congress having passed a bill to that effect. October 21 is the exact anniversary ot Columbus’s landing, allowance being made for the correction in the calendar made by Pope Gregory. The change of the date ot dedication was made in the interest of chronological accuracy, and also to oblige New York City, which will have a Colum bian celebration on October 12. “Marshall’s gold nuggett” will be ex hibited at the World’s Fair by California, and it is safe to say that thousands will con sider it one of the most interesting of the in numerable objects which will be displayed at the great Exposition. This is the iden tical nuzgett wu’ich Marshall picked up in the American River, February 16, 1848, when selecting a site tor Sutter’s mill, and which constituted the first discovery of gold in California. The nugget is about the size of a lima bean, and, on account of its asso ciations and the almost incalculable wealth and development which have resulted Irom its finding, is regarded as an almost priceless treasure. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Gladstone’s first book was published fifty-four years ago. Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, is just eighty-six years old. f resident Harrison and David S wing, the great Chicago preacher, were classmates at Miami University. It is said that the Sultan, of Johore, who is to visit this country, observes the tenets of Mohammedanism so strictly that his only beverage is pineapple juice. Mr. Cleveland writes all his letters be tween 10 o’clock at night an i 2 o’clock in the morning. This habit the ex-President con tracted at the White House. General Lew Wallace is sail to have been the first man to conduct a courtship by telegraph. This was in 1852, and tne mes sages were to his future wife. The Queen of Greece is President of a sis terhood devoted to the reformation of crim inals, and visits personally the condemned prisoners in Athenian prisons. Miss Ella M. Knowles, whom the Peo ple’s Party of Montana has nominated for Attorney-General of the State, is a success ful practicing lawyer in Helena. Mrs. Guild, an American sculptress, has recently completed a bust of Mr. Gladstone, whica is very highly commended by tne critics as a portrait and a work of art. John G. Whittier writes in a bold, dash ing, but irregular and uneven, style, as dif ferent as you can imaiine from the plain, precise, unassu ning Quaker that he is. In Europe the two most conspicuous pub lic personages to- lay are Gladstone and Bis marck, bota of waom have passed far be yond tne mark of threescore years ani ten. William H. Rice went from Massachu setts to Texas in 1833. He has given the city of Houston $230,330 in cash. $43,033 in securities, and OOOOaeresof good Texas farm land to found a college. Squire Massie Beasley, of Aberdeen, Ohio, has male that town famous as the American Gretna Green. For many years he has been marrying all comers until now his record is between 5303 and 6303 couples. The adjournment of Congress complete! a thirty years’ service in the House for Mr. O’Neill, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Holman, of Indiana, comes next in length of representa tion, as ne has been for twenty-eight years a Congressman. The Czar and the Siamese King ar 3 among the monarchs who are allege i tori le bicycles: The Empress of Austria has a ladies’ safety which she rides wit 1 almost as much skdl as she does a hors?, and the Princess of Wales moves about oa a tri cycle. VIEWED BY THOUSANDS. The Body of Riggin, the Murdered Seaman, Lying in State. The body of Charles W. Riggin, the mur dered boats wains's mate of the United States steamship Baltimore, has been lying in state under the Liberty Bell in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and has been gazed upon by thousands of his fellow citizens. The throng was permitted to pass in shortly after noon, and until 6 o’clock P. M. a continuous stream of hu inanity pass-d in a double lino through the corridors of the building, enter ing by tbe lanaous front entrance from which tbe news of tbe signing of the Declara tion of Independence was announced, and emerging in the square in the rear. Tne ex ternal decorations ot Independence Hall outr side were severely simple, and did no more than hint at the elaboration within. The National emblem, lowered to halt-mast, and the urnping of the doorway constituted all that could be seen irom the streets of the occasion’s solemnity. The bier upon which the victim of Chilean wrath rested and the walls and windows of the rear hall were craped in black, and the stairways and window cases were converted into floral balconies. Shortly before noon t.n undertakers wagon urove up with the casket eontaming Riggin’s body, and it was immeaiately borne into tue hall on the shoulders of the guard ot honor selected for the occasion, under the escort of a large squa i police. At tbe same moment, t ie flag float ing above was lowered to halt-mast. .V ben the speciators who had gathered in large numbers were finally a unitted, they were allowed to file past the cottiu, whic.i was buried beneath the drapery ana sur rounded by a guard with lixeu bayonets, composed of live members oi the Sons of Veterans, a seaman from tue Portsmouth, and two members of tne Patriotic Order Boils of America. Tne burial occurred the following day. The civic and military demonstration m con uection with the iuaeral was one ot taa most imposing seen in Philadelphia lor come time, OOoO meu being m iine. of Ru nford Falls, stoo i a year ag j, a < ng, and 700 men are kther itruefara*. In New South Wales ewes have been snli at sixteen cents per heal, and bids were subsequently made oi 13* cents. A drove ot cows was offered at $2. iJ each, fat bul locks could not beplacel at $l0.aud53J two- tooth ewes went at fifty cents, no bids be ing obtainable on a furcaer lot of 3)JO. {Sur plus supply and drouth are accountable for ‘.hUcoalition of affiirs. WORLD’S FAIR FINANCES. A FRIGHTFUL FATE. JMEWSY GLEANINGS. Alaska is raising hops. Chicago bandies 1363 trains daily. Uncle Sam has 8,935,812 dwellings. A great corn crop growing in Texas.* Of Waterloo veterans France has eight left. The United States contain 43,000 oil wells. Milan is to have an electrical exhibition in 1894. Switzerland is erecting its first sugar factory. Churches built in America in 1991 num bered 8508. London has now over 700,000 houses inside its city limits. Caucassia is said to be infested with huge swarms of locusts. A twin watermelon is a fruit freak m Ware County, Georgia. A potato weighing twenty-six ounces is a curiosity of Gastana, N. C. Seven-eights of the bread made in Lon don is made of American wheat. The real and perscnal prooerty in Phila delphia is assessed at $752,763,332. A miner of Silesia has been unconscious for ftmr months, says a medical paper. A dealer in artificial limbs estimates that 300,300 Englishmen have lost one or both legs. Newfoundland is rejoicing over the catching of 400,003 seals by her fleet this J season. French speaking Canadians now embrace 29,3 per c?nt. of the population of the Do minion. A society has been organized in Iowa whose object is to push the pansy as the flower of America. Mrs. Watson M. Smith, of Bonn, Mich., has given birth to four sets of twius in ten years. The eight are all healthy. . A man in Maine lost nearly 6303 lobsters lately, that he had confined in a pond, by a quantity of fresh water flowing into it and killing them. The highest viaduct in the world has just been erecte l in Bolivia, over the River Lea, 9833 feet above the sea level, and 4098 feet above the river. Reports from all over the Northwestern wheat belt show good prospects on the wnole. with an average crop certain, and above average with good weather. There are seven brothers and sisters in New London, Conn., wnose combine! ages are 512 years. Their family name is Corn- stock, and their Christian names are Emily, Orlando, Cordelia, John, Frank, Ezra and Stephen. The recent disastrous avalanche at Saint Gervais is the ninth serious disaster of the same sort to occur in the Alps during the present century. Nearly 530 persons per ished in the avalanche on the Rossberg in 1806. Eleven other like Alp.u? disasters oc curred in the period between the years 1356 and 1749 inclusive. In 1618 an avalanche at Plurs in the Grisons destroyed nearly 2500 persons. 11 ^ THE NATIONAL GAME. Viau has been released by Louisville. The Bostons have released Catcher Lake. Cleveland won eight straight before dropping a game. Harry Stovey is one of the most timely hitters on the Baltimore team. Pitcher Stein is doing phenomenally good work for the Brooklyns. Von der Ahk has signed another young pitcher named Hawley for the St. Louis Club. Duffy, of the Bostons, played the first twenty games of the second season without an error. Bad weather and the poor record of An son’s colts has made this a decided off-year for baseball in Chicago. Childs, of Cleveland, and McPhee, of Cincinnati, are considered the heaviest batting second basemen in the League. Burke, of New York, is not far behind them. The Philadelphias do not play steady enough for a winner. They make phenomenal spurts at times which are headbreakers to their opponents, only to fall back with a sickening thud. Ward, of the Baltimore?, in chasing a two-bagger at Baltimore, and while sitting on the ground, tossed the ball to Van Halt- ren, who by a beautiful throw headed the runner off at third base. The phenomenal success that the second season has had in reviving lost interest in many cities has bean a very strong point in favor of the twelve-ciub League, whose suc cess is assured for another season. Stivetts, of Boston, is the only League pitener who has so far this season shut out a team without a nit. The feat is doubly remarkable in that it was achieved against Brooklyn, the hardest hitting team ip the League. Jocko Halligan, the Baltimore out fielder who broke Captain Strieker’s jaw in Boston during a dispute, the result of Halligan getting ilruuk, has been suspenied without any pay for the rest of the season by the Baltimore management. Elmer Smith, himself a pitcher, is quoted as saying that Tony Muilane is the best and most wonderful pitcher in the profession. He is as speedy to-lay as in 1883. Neverthe less Tony has still a long way to go to equal Galvin’s record of nineteen years of success ful pitching. Sullivan, the Cinciunatis’ new big pitcher, can get over ground in remarkably last time, considering the fact that he weighs 210 pounds. He is a left-handed bat ter, and when he hits he goes away from the batter’s box like a professional sprint-rua- ner leaving the mark. New Yorkers have all at once fallen into 4 Western haoit. In the ninth inning of a recent New York-Brooklyn game after Doyle had scored the tieiug run he was greeted with a shower of silver pieces from the grand stand. These were picked up and presented to the club’s mascot. RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS. Per Per Clubs. Won. Lost, ct. 1 Clubs. Won. Lost. ct. Cleveland..‘Zl 8 .724 Pittsburg.. 15 14 .517 Philad’lp’a.IS 12 .600 Louisville..13 16 .44S New York. 16 11 ..',93 Cincinnati.12 18 .400 Brooklyn...17 13 . 567; Chicago.... 12 18 .40U Boston 16 13 .55:! iVashiug’n.ll 18 .319 Baltimore..!5 14 .517jst. Louis.. 9 20 .310 The Bonds, Souvenir Coins and $1S,- 000,000 Budget. Members of the Finance Committee of the World’s Fair at Ch cago have practically determined the podey which they wifi pur sue in regard to floating $5,003,000 worth of bonds, selling the souvenir fifty cent coins and disposing of the budget of estimatsd ex penditures which has been submitted by the heads of the various departments. Ferdi nand W. Peck, C airman of the Commit tee, has submitted the report of tbe Board of Directors. Directors are of the opinion that no more than $4,000,000 worth of the bon is will have to be sold, peruaps not any. But provision for their sale will be made in order to com ply with technical conditions of the Act ot Congress granting the $2,500,00.3 appropria tion. These bonds will be payable on sr be fore January 1, 1834. The souvenir coins will be sol 1 by the Ex position Comoaay for $t each. The idea of giving to any syndicate the entire issue was cii-couraged. Tbe budget o: expea litures up to theopen- ing of the Exposition on May 1, 1393, mdi- eates that a trifle over $18,00 >,000 must be ixuanded. Five Children Burned to Death in a Georgia Xowu. Nathan Ellis and his wife, with his sister. Silver Baker, went to church at Griffin, Ga., a few nights ago, leaving two children of a dead aister of Ellis and thres of the Baker woman’s chillrsn locked up in the building. The house was discovered on fire about nine o’clock, and tbe flames had gained such headway that it w&s imooisible to rescue the children, although the .- cries for help were IT 'rd. All tiv? perished. Padgett WILL PAY THE FREIGHT SAY! DO YOU KNOW TIIA.T YOU Can buy any article of FURNITURE, Cooking Stoves, Carpets, Mattings, Window Shades and Lace Curtains, Cor nice Poles, BABY CARRIAGES, Clocks, Mirrors, Pic-| tures, Dinner Sets, Tea Sets, Chamber| Sets, Mattresses, Comforts, Blankets j and a thousand and one articles needed in a house delivered at your depot at the same pr ce that you buy them in Au gusta? I CARRY EVERYTHING You need, and can quote you prices that will sat isfy you that I am giving [ a dollar value for every | dollar paid. Special Offer No. I. To introduce my business in every | neighborhood in the quickest possible manner, I will ship you one Bedroom Suite complete, consisting of One Bed.- stead, full size and high head. One Bureau with glass. One Wash Stand, One Centre Table, Four Cane Seat Chairs, One Rocker to match, well H worth $20; but to introduce my goods M iu your neighborhood at once I will deliver the above suite at your railroad depot, all charges paid, FOR ONLY $16.50, When the cash comes with the order. BESIDES this Suite, I have a great many other Suites in Walnut, Oak, Poplar, and all the popular woods, running in price from the cheapest up to hundreds of dollars for a Suite. Special Bargain No. 2 Is our elegant Parlor Suite, seven pieces, walnut frames, upholstered in E lush in popular colors, crimson, olive, lue, old gold, either in bandea or in combination colors. This suite is sold for $40.00. I bought a large number of them at a bankrupt sale in Chicago, hence I will deliver this fine Plush Suite, all charges paid by me, to your nearest railroad depot, for $33.09. Be sides these suites 1 have a great many o f her suites in all the latest shapes and | styles, and can guarantee to please you. Bargain No. 3 Is a Walnut Spring Seat Lounge, re duced from $9 to $7. All freight paid. Special Bargain No. 4 Is an elegant No. 7 Cooking Stove, trimmed up complete for $11.50, all charges paid to your depot; or a 5- hole range with trimmings for $L5. Besides these I have the largest stoeE | of Cooking Stoves in the city, includ ing the gauze door stoves and rani'es, and the CHARTER OAK STOVES with patent wire gauze doors. I urn delivering these stoves everywhere, all f reight charges paid, at the price of an ordinary stove, while they are far superior to a^iy other stoves made. Full particulars by mail. 100 rolls of Matting, 40 yards to the roil, $5.50 per roll. 1003 Cornice Polls, 25 cents each; 100 Window Shades, i 3x7 feet, on spring roller and frigned, at 87* cents each. You must pay your own freight on Cornice Poles, Window Shades and Clocks. Now, see here, I cannot quote you everything I have got in a store con taining 22,600 feet of floor room, be sides its annexes and factory in another part of the town. jgf-I shall be pleased to send you anvthing above mentioned, or will send my catalogue free if you wifi say you saw this advertisement in The Aiken Recorder, tniblished at Aiken, 8. C. E3f-No goods sent C. O. D., or on consignment. I refer you to the editor and publisher of this paper, or to any banking concern in Augusta, or to the Southern Express Co., all whom know me personally. Yours, etc.; L. F. PADGETT, DIER BUILDING, 805 Broad St., AUGUSTA, GA., Proprietor Padgett’s Furniture, Stove and Carpet Stores. Factory, Harrison St. i-\