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? r # VOL. VII. > ?? THE HON- WAYNE MACVEAGH o Why he Renounces the Republican FaithThe State.i iiii.adelahia, Oct., 15.?Five tl ousnml people were at the Acad ? omy of Music to night, to witness the formal entrance into Democratic r.l n 1/e # 1 I ? *?* \\7 u o no \ f ?? -? \T Art I Ur\ > uunu V* JL I I\?M. 1? "JliU I'lrt ^ II ) tuu Attorney General, of President Garfield's cabinet. Tlio distinguished jurist was introduced by Samuel (!. Thomas, president of the Young Men's Democratic Association, under the auspices of which the meeting wite held. Mr. MacVeagh first returned thanks for the comment to which he has been subjected during the past ten days, and said ho considered as the greatest possble eulogy the declarations of Christopher M.ugee and David Martin, that they did not think very highly of his political oonsistpnnv nr nnlitinul inllnonnn J -- t ^ "I novor sold my vote, he continued, ^iind I never whs a party, directly or indirectly, to buying any body else's vote. How, then, could the Magees and the Martins of politics think well of me?" Mr. MacVeagh said he voted for President Harrison in 1888, but all his hopes have been disappointed, and from that day to this the conviction has been growing on his mind that the general tendency of the Republican partv was not onlv inimical to the best interests of the country, but unless checked, was sure to result not only in making the poor poorer, but the rich more selfish and more corrupt, and, therefore, less pati totie. The speaker raid he cannot vote it second time for Mr. llarr'son, be -i cause of th" buying of tho McKin ley bill by manufacturers and the action of the present administration toward Chile. Mr. McVeagh said that in tho State of Pennsylvania less than 12 tier cent, of its laborers can be em. j>loyed in the industries which are said to he benefited i>y high duties upon imports. The American far nior is deserving of a better fate than that which has overtaken him in the last twenty years. The total depreciation in the valuation of farm lands in this country since 1870 is greater than the cost of any manufacture in it: and vet, when the farmer comes to bind his wheat, which he must sell for the prices fixed in Liverpool, and less than it costs him, he is confronted by the fact that the McKinley bill puts an artificial price on the twine he must use. The speaker then dwelt upon the sugar trust and the reckless pension legislation which followed the McKinley bill. Of silver, he said it has fallen in its value more rapidly than lead or iron. In the present year vast quan> ' titic8 of it have been mined at a cost of 30 cents per ounce and sold to the Government at over 70 cents per ounce; so it is entirely probable that our si.ver dollar is not now fairly worth more than 50 cents. * Taxed Farming and Protected Manufacturing0 A protective tariff policy which aims avowedly to foster and favor our manufacturing interest above all others, and which, in its working does favor it at the expense of all others, is based on the theory that manufactures cannot thrive without, help; that if left, to themselves they would fall to the ground before foreign competition; and therefore a tariff which protects them from foreign competition by imposing a duty of .50 per cent on f reign goods is absolutely necessary to enable our home manufacturers to make a fair livimr rtOf course, as fanning is tlie vocation that furnishes employment to the largest number of persons in the country, and is, in truth, the interest which the country's prosperity rests, farmers are the class on whom their protective tax for the benefit of manufactures chiefly falls. It is assumed that farmers are so prosperous that they cannot only get along without protection for themselves, but pay a good many millions a year for the protection of the hard pushed and distressed manufacturers. It will be Only legitimate and pro per, then, to compare manufacturing and farming and their respective earnings ami profits, and see whether these assumptions are true or not? whether manufacturers are the dis* tressed class they pretend to be, and farmers are the prosperous class so i abundantly able to be taxed for the manufacturers' benefit. The value of all products of manu* facture in the United States in 1870, as shown.by the census, was $5,369,000,000. The (value of materials used was about, $3,324,000,000 in w * * - - CC round numbers, or two-fifths the value of the gross product; so that thojo was $2,000,000,000 represented ; i . /?. nu in wages anu proms, i ne amount actually paid our in wages was *047,000,000; more than half the two thousand million, less incidental expenses, therefore went to profits. Manufacturing has greatly increased in the number of establishments, the capital invested, tlie number of persons employed and the value of the product. The value of the total product in 1887 was estimated at ?0,000,000,000, and for 1801 it was not less than $7,000,000,000 -three fifths of which, or $4,200,000,000, was the cost of merterials used, and two-lifths or $2,800,000,000, was wages and profits. The value of all farm products in 1870 was $2,13,000,000, or a little more than the value of manufactures less the value of materials. But this I enure crop value was the product of 7,070,01)0 persous engaged in farming, while the nearly equal sum of $2,000,000,000 was the product of only 2,700,000 engaged in manufacj taring; so that manufacturing yield ed nearly three times as much value per hand as farming did; or, to put the matter in another shape, the average product per hand in farming was $290 a year and in manufacturing #740. Tho farm product of the country has increased in 1879 as well as tho j manufacturing product; that is, it has increased in quantity, though t here j arc good reasons for doubting that! the value of it is considerably great-1 el*. The corn crop lias grown from 1 1,717,000,000 bushels in 1880 to 2,- ' 000,000,000 bushels to 012,000,000 j bushels; oats from 117,000,000 bush ! els to 751,000,000 bushels; cotton j from 6.400.000 bales to 8,000,000 bales; and it may be assumed that while a few of the minor crops have I declined in quantity, most of them hive increased. Out while there has been a considerable increa e in the quantity of the agricultural product, there lias been, unfortunately, a steady decline in prices, and this re duotion has told heavily against the! agricultural interest. Between the years 1880 and 1887 there was a de cline in the value of all the grain I crops of the country of $260,000,000 j arid this although there was an increase in the amount of them of 600,000,000 bushels. It was estimated by good authorities that the corn crop of 1880 was worth to the producers of it $80.48G,000 less than that I of 1870; the wheat crop *89,000,000 le.'S; the oats crop *43,000.000 loss; showing rt loss in these three cereals of $212,406,000, notwithstanding the quantity raised in 1880 was great er than that in 1879 by 777,000 | bushels. I rn i " * i no crops or tno present year | make but little better showing, the prices of the great staples being so low as to provoke from farmers the I oomp'aint that tln-y do not pay them for the cost of raising them. Even taking the vory largest estimate that the case will allow, the total value of tho creps of 1892 will not be greater than $2,51)0,000,000 which divided hy 8,500,0(50, the number of persons ongaged in producing them, gives only $295 per hand. There are no returns of manufacturing sufficient to show what the earnings per capita are for the whole country. But the last census shows that they were $740 in 1879, and tho report of manufactures of Massachusetts for 1888 furnishes information to guide us in an estimate. This report shows that the manufacturing product for each hand employed has I largely increased in that State in tjic last ten years, chiolly through the introduction of more effective machinery and improved processes, and , that the average product of 175,000 persons employed in 1,140 factories was $830. While, therefore, the average value of farm work is $295 per hand, the average value ot manufacturing work per hand in tho leading factory State has gone up from $740 to $830. That is, while the average value of a farmer or a farm hand's labor is j $205 a year, the averatre value of a! factory hand's labor is $83^) a year. Can that bo a fair and s equitable policy, then, which favors the most prosperous interest in the country at the cost of the least prosperous and most depressed one? Is it not most unfair and unwise to tax an interest that pays only $295 a year per handf for the protection of another that pays $830 a year??It on. Ur. L. Wilson, in St, Lonia tlapuhlir. Not Wanted in IowaDes Moines, la., Oct. 15.?Mrs. Lease, of Kansas, is booked for a numbar of speeches in Iowa. It G. Scott, chairman of the People's party State committee, today telegraphed her that if the publised reports that she had advised the Populists to vote for Harrison were true, she need not com? into the State. The bronze cents, such as aro in circualtion now, were first coined in 1864. James Cope, of Martin's Ferry, O;, claims to havo an almauao for tho year 1660. . i M liAjfl "Be True (? You >NWAY, S. C., The Cat Out of the Bag. From The Washington National i Democrat. The Philadelphia Press, edited by i one of Mr. Harrison's closet frionds, | Mr. Emory Smith, his lato minister l co Russia, has No courage to say j plainly what all observant men have j known all the time, viz., that it is the i 1 r . i i i policy aim purpose or mo republican party to enact a force bill lint The Tress is frank enough to urge a reason for it beyond mere political power, and declarers that to pass the Lodge election bill is to destroy the dangerous competition that southern prosperity erects against New Kngi land cotton goods and Pennsylvania ! iron. Or, in other words, the real,down , right republican north seeks to over whelm the south with another ruin, after the south hns so far risen from the ashes of the war as to com pete with the northern states in | commerce and manufactures. If ? single man or woumn in the j south ever had any doubt about the fiendish intentions of the radicals. ! let the folloing word of The Philadelphia Press settle the doubt and determine the only w? to avoid the destruction proposed for that section. IF THIS DEMOCRATS HAD NEVER BEEN ALLO U'KI) To REGAIN CONTROL OF THE STATE GOVERNMENTS OF THE SOUTH, NORTHERN OA V1TAL WOULD NEVER HAVE EMBARKED IN THE DEVEL OPMENT OF SOOTHEUN COAL AND IRON: AND THE SUREST AND STEED 1 EST WAY TO PI IT A STOP TO THIs COMPETI TION FROM MEN WHO ARE OUR POLITICAL ENEMIES, AS WELL AS TO CARRY THROUGH \M> ENFORCE MEASURES LIKE THE LODGE ELECTION LAW. * Mr. Smith is not only a republican who fires the northern heart with a reflection of burning Columbia and the general destruction of war, but he is also a business man who puts the proposed fo;ce t?ill in the front as a material necessity to ruthlessly destroy the progress of the south, and utterly ruin it, because, forsooth it competes with northern interests. The most rabid secessionist never artributed to the men like Ben Butler anything t8o .virulent and fiendish us this open declaration of the radieal organ, Mr* Smith, late minister to Russia, has learned the an ninir I Kai*l\ui?Ana 1%. 1 .?f ?' <??*" U'VIIV "Illinium uiutiiuii ill nil' I'/lills and added something to the deviltry of Boss Heed and such other malign spirits of the republican party, from whom the destructive policy emanated. Mr. Smith did not carry a musket like a brave soldier, and thereby learn to respect the southern people as sill the real soldiers did. He was one ot the flock of political kites that represented ill omen and harted After presenting a picture of the utter wreck of the south, he gloats over it in the following terms: AND IF W K OA N 0 N 0 E M 01J E 0 ET T11EM INT() T1110 CO N DITlOX THEY WE HE BEFORE 187G WE WONT HEAR ANY MORE ABOUT Oil EAR IRON AND CHEAP COTTON GOODS PROM THE SOUTH, THEY WILE i! AVE OTHER THINGS TO THINK ABOUT. Thank you Smith! The democrats appreciate the picture, and there are certain things that ate the picture, and there certain things that they will think about now, and / ' among others.is the resolve to bring out the unanimous vote of the party which has long been in the majority and another is to cut off from the study of monarchical customs in Ri -sin all such (1. O. P. partriots as tin editor of The Philadelphia Press. Mrs- Lea Sells Out. New York, Oct. 15.?A special from Topeka, Kansas, says; The sensation of the day in Kansas is the iutciview with Mrs. Lease, who has been accompanying Gen. Weaver on his tour through the Southern States. She recites the indignities they 'vcre subjected to, and then dec-ares that if a vote for Weaver is iu reality a vote for Cleveland in this State, her desire is that the Populists scratch their ticket and vote for the Harrison electors. ..rs. Lease is, next to Jerry Simpson, the strongest leader of tiic Kansas Populist, and her expressed wishes have caused great consternation, not only in her own party but | among' tho Democrats. She concedes every Southern State to Cleveland, and therefore, at this late day, indicates her preference for Harrison, Iter advice will be followed by many, but at this time it is impossible to say to what extent* [Mrs Lease has denied this interview . En.] Tho altitude of El Paso, in the trans-Pecos territory of Texas, is 3,830 feet above the sea, Chtckers or draughts were known to the anoient Egyptians, and pictures 4,000 yesrs old represent a quarrel over the game. r Word, Your Work nnd Y THURSDAY O "1 THE SONS OF GIDEONNorUi Carolina Stirred Un Oyer the Day's Disclosures. Atlanta ('(institution. Raleigh, N. C., October l'.h--Spo eciall A sons ?t ion todav is the com plolc exposure of the order of (lidefeniies in North Carolina. Chairi man Simmons, of the democratic state executive committee, makes itand gives as proof letters from M. L. Reed, of Ashvi! >, and .). S. Hell, of Camden county. Reed swears that S. Otho Wilson I was grand chief of the order when ke was initiated and that there wore congressional district chiefs and cout.IV chiefs. - J Heed whs initiited by Wilson, who had th mi just returnod from In dianapolis. W'ilron was a great alliance worker anil in that guise was working for the third party and or gani/.ing the Sons of (Jideon. Reed says the penalty for failure to obey the obligations is very severe Bell makes a complete exposure, stutiup tb it Wilson last December i urged him to become a member, the conversation being in the presence of dames Brinson, alliance lecturer of the lirst district. Bell said he could not consent to join unless Wilson j lirst revealed fully the character and I purpose of the order. Wilson then j gave details and also read the obligations lie wished Bell to take. ( O The latter found there were to be J only thirty members in caeh county or 3000 in each congressional dis! trict, an 1 all specially chosen for in 1 llucnco and men who could he relied ( upon in an emergency. It was made i me ?M11\ ol all to implicitly ? bey all ; orders of supervisors. Wi!soii slated that tl>o purpose of the organization was to furilier the thinl party movement. Bell toM Wi'san that he regit riled the organi zntion its very dangerous and that it would result in the extinction of the alliance and defeat of the third parte. Wilson said he had made lined ehiel of the ninth district and that Brinson wO'ihl ho chief of the (Irs district. Democrats t:day call upon the grand jurors to present Wilson ami those who liavo joined with him in this outrageous violation of the state law and constitution. The latter in strument prohibits absolutely any OoAI'ot /venr.? ^ I..- 1 i ? lo^bitv oigmiiMiiiiiiin ui any num. ;vr rests h'*h liable to be made at any time and will, if made, result in the greatest sensation of lb s remarkable exciting campaign. Democrats are extremely indignant. Chairman Simmons says tint until publication of these letters there was no tangible proof of tho existence of Gideon's Hand, but that they are now conclusive and he submits them in full confidence that the people' will rebuke the desperate agitators who dare introduce that organization into North Carolina. -w ?' Potection" for Farmers [From the Now York Times,] "PertatersI pertaters!" exclaimed a Connecticut farmer who was talking tariff with a young man whom he had fallen in with on the train. > "I guess you didn't ketch my mean in', did ye? I asked you to tclr mo how us farmers got any good out of the tariff. Wasn't that what I asked ye?" "Yea" answered the young men. "I'd been tellin ye" resumed the! farmer, "how I had to pay more for; thiiiL'S that 1 used e.lot.hin' and such things as that and then I turn ed arounu and said: 4Now, what is they on the other side? I tow do us farmers get anything out <>f thu tar-: iff? You spoke and said': 4 J low , about pcrtators?' A n't that the way of it?" "Yes, that's tlie wav I remember it." 4 JFell, what do you mean anyhow? Do you mean that the tariff of 25 cents a bushel on portaters makes my portaters worth any ntouren they would be worth if thev was no tariff?" "'Why, yes; doesn't it?" "Donesn't it? Well, no, it doesn't W hy, I had 250 bushels of portaters 1 a few years ago* One day I loaded ! up two big wagons and went down j to Bridgeport. I went into a store j down there, and says 1: 'Hallo, Sim, want to buy a hund'ol bushels pertateiv?' ' He picked up a counter weight drew back his hand, and suugout* 'You git out of this store. There hasn't been a man in hero for two months who hasn't tried to soli mo pertaters.' 444 Wbntare they wuth,' says I. '"Nothing* to me', says he, 4l'vo got seven hundred bushel ratlin' i down in the cellar now. The mar ket price i6 <15 cents, but nobody! wants them at any price ' "So I foiftid it. 1 managed to get rid of one load, but the other I had to take home with mo." "But," pleaded tho young man. IJ our Counti'}" CTOBEH 27, 1 ? tliat was before the McKinley Act1' "But there was a tariff just tin i r . l ? ? - ' sitiuu?i.> ecu is a ousnei. it woul dn't have intulo any difference though, if tho tariff had boon $1U( a bushel; Bridgeport would have been just as full of {Mu tators. "Well, the next year it was <hf forcnt. A feller catno to my house olio day. 'I'll give you a dollar n bushel for all the portat'us you'vgot,' says he* *l?y Cleorgo,' says In 'they ain't any pertaters hi Bridge port this year at all We can't hardly keep tip with our customers' ordors.' "Now, the fa rill' was just tho same one year as tho other, and it had just as much to do with niakin' the price one year us the other, and t hat was uothin' at all. When it comes i to pertaters 1 don't give a continental dang about tariff, (live me a good crop of perta'ers, an I have 'em portater hungry down to Bridge'port, and the pauper laborers of (danady and Now Scoshy can go plumb to tho ()ld Niok. "I guess you kind of think you made a mis'ako talkin' to mo about tho tariff on pertaters being a bios sing to us farmers, don't you? Pro bahly you think you ought to have said eggs or wheat, or something else, hut you're wrong about that, again. There was a time when I wouldn't have known to say if a man had cotno to me and showed what a grist of protection they was in the tarill' f r us farmers, but, I know more about, it, now, and I tell you the farmers all through my section arc gettin' posted. "We Tint so green, quite, as we i USed lo be.'' A 1 >VIC12 TO fit 5CI.S. * Can y<?u row gracefully? Canyon pla> the piano or violin charmingly? Can Xou embroider, paint, and make fancy work? (Jan you speak Trench or (iermtin Uncutly? I)o you read ..II i I... I i i i ' > 1 I in I ill vol. I|W>V"1 Ull'l IXOfc'p U'ilCK of all tlio Inlet "fads?" "Why, certainly, where do yon think wo havo Ix.'cn educated? Can you sw< op a room, and dust, and urur'on \ m furnituiv tastily? Can you cook? If you cannot, what kind of a ho.nl' do yo t oxpoct to havo whon you havo full charge of one yourself? You may never ex poet to do su<-h work, but if you do not know how to do it, yourself and are not able to do it, your servant,i if you ever havo one, will soon find it out and I hen will conio your 8tru<jgh*. In the words of Kate Field, "if you do not know how to do these things, in the nanio of common sense, of I ho man you propose to marrv, of the friends who may visit you, of an innocent posterity, don't rest until you have learned the busi nesk of almost, every woman's life which is to keep house well and economically. The woman who cannot turn her servants out of doors and do their woik better than tllC h.>0 Of ill,'111 )lHU !>'? nwrlif marry unless she lias money enough in her own right to employ a skilled housekeeper to carry out her orders." i What is more pitiable than a bride whose servant lias left her and who does not know how to take up the work of her house? Young housekeepers with all their new furniture and numerous dainty ornaments and brio a-brae have need to know how to care them. Many homes have been almost ruined by the wife not knowing how to cook food properly. I do not wish to have anyone think t hat eating is the chief concern in a home. But Some one has said that the best way to "touch a man's heart is through his stomach." Men are i quiet apt to wish to take thoir dinners down town, or they w'U "have to meet a man" about supper time, I or (ind out excuses to keep tliom away, if the homo is not inviting. | Mothers so often make the mistake I of sliioldg(?) their daughters from work and care, thinking it will ho , time enough for iliein to learn when 1 they are in their own homes. This is such a mistake, for when they are in their own homes and all alone, it is too much for them to undertake all at once. How much better it is for them to take up lirst olio part of tli" work and then another, while they are with their mothers, and have her to direct them and shyw them which is the oasieat and 1> -st way to do the work. Th?ro are so many ways to do the same thing and -fi ? uii.cn uie hardest w..y i--, chosen, | when, had, tliey been guided by a; loving hand, it would have been much easier for thcin. It is well to have them take up some particular work and for a time have full re sponsibilty for i'. For instance, bread making, llavo your daughter for a Certain length of time, take full charge of keeping the family supplied with bread. '1 his is not such a simple thing as it may soom for with bread making should go everything that can be made of bre?d dough, such us different kinds of biscuits, rolls, puddings, bread cake, dumplings, etc. By the time a girl has had full charge of that work for say two months, she will understand it thoroughly, and will have a! good^ foundation upon which to build. The main articles of food JOv> J * ' % I should bo understood first, and then ? the delicacies can bo taken uj> easily. - Thou for another length of time . she should havo tho caro of the din) | i'?g room 01 parlor and soon until > sh? has had experience utid practice in every lino of housework. It is not every ono who cau sweep and arrange a room tastily. It may ho i clean, hut has not a pleasing effect . . 1L-- . i * i i u? muibc ? iiu'rin;- uu1 room. .\ yout :g i housekeeper was regretting that she hail never l?cen taught order. Her house was clean hut it did not look as if it. were, for it was never in or I dor. There would ho a pile of things here and a pile there. Tito presses drawers were never shut properly, if they happened to shut straight it was well, but if they stuck out a i little way it was not noticed. Order us something that is very important in house-keeping. If a house is in order, even if if isaelegantly furnishoil, if has a pleasing effect. It is more important now that girls should i ho taught everything pertaining to housekeeping than it was in our grandmothers' time. Then an old and competent servant was usually given .i daughter at marriage ami it was not necessary for lmr to have the rare of those things. It is not so now. Kveryone must know for herself and be,capable of taking up the \\ tI< whenever it is nrcusasru it site wonUl not greater accomplishment than to bo "queen of your kitchon." Music, art, French and all otli- i er so called accomplishments are good for nothing if you have not a pleasant homo. Hut have them bar moni/.ed with \o\\v -homo-making and your household will bo happy. . IHirririin / '<irm A\ irst U ^ AN Alt ItOW AT A V KNTU Itlb One evening (he Hev. Newman Hall was preaching to a crowded j congregation. Somewhat a ido front his usual manner, lie was treating his theme in a calm and even philosophic or scientific way. Suddenly the thought Dashed through his mind, ' This is not what some one here may need.'' In an instant, and with a sort of undefined inspiration, he broke abruptly from the train of (thought which he had been fol ?w, ing, and oxclainod in some i h words as those. "Perhaps thoiv mav I Kn u,...w. nnn? ... ,?.l -II 1 ' --- j vyv o- '"i?V JMJVi U IIIIUl'l Jill 1 j under tho sway of intoxicating li?( I nor who has strayed in hero to night,, Perhaps ho has reached the point f where lie is just ready, and on the way to end his own life as u refuge from the horn bio bondage. 'JO stud) a one I call, 0 peer and lot! one. . Christ is waiting to help and save. Ho can and ho will save and help if | yon but will now call upon him in your trouble and sinfulness.'' Having made t his sudden appeal, ho re sinned his discourse. Some weeks afterwards his a is taut come to him and said: "f have j just met a very interesting and even I strange er.se in my visitings. 1 have found a poor woman, evidently near her end. She has been dissipated, and her disease is probably tlic result of h -r excesses, but she seems ?o he having a good hope in Jesus Christ, clearly resting on his salvation. She tells me this story: On iiwci'k night some mouths since she was on her way, in her despair and agony, to one of the bridges with a (ixed determination to cast herself into the river. A* she wont toward the bridge, she passed the door of ! our chapel, Seeing it lighted and i hearing your voice, she stopped and j stood at the door. .lint then yon looked up >ind spoke to her as if you j knew what was in her mind; told her of the Lord Jesus, an 1 urged her to iconic to him. She knew that you spoke to her, and she took the message to her limn. Site seems by it to have been led to embrace him as her Saviour, and to bo peacefully waiting till ho shall take her to him1 self."- AV. o IJi:.\tJTIFLIi IJVKS. 10very man feels instinctively that I all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action; and that while tenderness of feeling and suscept:bility or generous emotions are accidents of life, permanent goodness is an achievement and a duality of the life "l-'inn words/' says one homely proverb, i "butter no parsnips/' and it' the question be how to render those veg ! ( tables palatable, an ounce of butter would bo worth more than all the orations of Cicero. The only con-! elusive evidence of a man's sincerity I is that he gives himself for a princi j pie. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy t<? give away;' bat when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that tho truth, whatever it may bo,; lias taken possession of him. Front j that sincerity his words gain the foreo and pertinency of deeds, and his money is no longer the pale j drudge 'twixi man and man, but by a beautiful magvs, what orewhile bore the image and superscription of Crosar seems now to bear the imago and superscription of God.?./. It tinsel I Loirtll. New York city is the only city whtch'has a one-armed bartender. NO; 15 General NewsMrs. llrrrison, wife of President IlurrUon, continuea^ery ill. A mlimber of people, and many sheep ami entile, poria'ied in a recent snow storm in Colorado. The remains of Lord Tennyson were interred in Westminister Abbey, London, on tbe 12th inst. A Columbus statue was unveiled at Baltimore on the 12th inst. Car dinnl (liobons made the address. It is estimated that over 300,000 persons nave died from cholera in j Kussia sine * the outbreak of the scourge in that country. The finost block of buildings in j West Point, Miss., was destroyed by tire on the 15th inst. Loss. $70,000; insurance, $35,000. A largo cotton factory in Clarke county, (la., was recently destroyed by fire. Los*, $130,000. The build* ing will replaced at once. Tho Bristol, Pa., rolling mill has " .s ponded operations indefinitely, uuowing i.>u men out <>t work. These mills formerly mauufacta red large quantities of cotton ties for the j Southern markets. Tim Columl/us festivities began nt j Madrid, Spain, On the 12th inst. jTliecity was beautifully decorated. American II igs were conspicuous. The World's Fair buildings at Chicago were dedicated last week. The illness of Mrs. Harrison prevented the attendance of the President. A boiler explosion in a roiling null at Portsmouth, <)., last Saturday, killed two men and injur I a score of others, some of whom will probably die. Puss on boilers and building, *10,000. A partial eclipse of the sun will occurred on the 20th of thi month, which was visible throughout almost the whole i North America if the day bo clear. An explosion in a piper mill at ( Iniiin M'lino mi f ii I I ! iii t I II led two persons, injure I several others, and destroyed ^.'J()U,OrtO worth of property. Over ono hundivd and fifty persons thrown out of employment. A Chicago dispatch announces that ATr. Charles T. Yerkos, of that city, has authorized !Vol's. ?. W. Hurnhan and Heorgo K. little to secure for the. i niversity of Chicago the finest and largest telescope in the world. Tho only condition attached to this timely gifts is that the instrument shall bo tho best. And Mr. Alvan (1. Clark, of telescopic fume, has undertaken to supply a lens of forty live inches diameter, just eleven inches greater than the <vondcifnl glass at tho Lick Observatory. -X. Y. Herald. Special services commemorative of the discovery of America were held in most of the churches in New York ( ity Sunday the 9th inst. The groat Columbus celebration began on Monday. The city was elaborately decorated and great crowds wore in attendance from all parts of the country. Tho feature of the day was tho parade of school children, in which twenty-live thousand took part. Tuesday the naval parade took place. pro\ing a grand success. Aftnerican', Italian anil Spanish crnist rs participated. On the afternoon of the same day a parade of the united Catholic societies occurred, in which about twenty-tfvo thousand engaged. At night a magnificent display of flroworks wore? exhibited on Brooklyn bridge. Wednesday was a legal holiday, and on this day the big military parade took place. It is estimated that there were over thirty live thousand men in line. It is said to have been the greatest military parade ever witnessed in America. After the military demonstration the Columbos Monument was unveiled in Central Park. Speeches were made by prominent. Italians and Americans. In the evening an attractive civic parade preceded by live thousi.nd wheelmen carrying lanterns occurr" 1. Many gorgeous floats were in this procession. On Thursday the groat fete closed with a magnificent banquet, at which several hundred prominent men were present. I res:dont Harrison wh > was prevented from being present by the illness of his wife, was represented by vioo President Moiton. llcrgmunn, the man who is serving a term ff twenty one years in the penitentiary at Pittsburg, l\v., fo1" shooting If, O. h'rtek of the Car negio Company, made an unsuccessfill attempt to escape several days ago. lie jumped from the top of ttie prison wall to the groun 1, forty feet below, and began to run, but was shot through tho leg by a guard. -O- ? An Kast Boothbay (Me.) man is engaged in supplying New York and Now Jersey summer resorts with seals, which are very plentiful along the Maine coast. These seals do vorv well for seashore attractions, being objects of unfailing interest to the summer visitors.