Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 8 September 1893 — Page 2

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* The proposed cork trust w.H have little weight. A good resolution is a better stimI) ulant than a nightcap. It costs 75 cents an hour to “get Into the push" at the World’s Fair. ’ A little knowledge is sometimes a dangerous thing to the party about whom It is known. If people will pay their small bills the big bills will be better able to take care of themselves. Hasn’t the field of Gettysburg seen enough bloodshed without the introduction of trolley cars? Tur United States has secured protection for the Behring seals, but England appears to have secured the seals. Chicago Dispatch: Several Indiana whitecaps have been completely cured lately by the bichloridc-of-lead treatment. ' K In the Behring Sea matter Uncle Sam claimed more than he expected to get, as away of getting all he wanted. Shrewd boy, Uncle Sam. < — I A farmer near Buchanan, Ga., it is reported, has a tame rattlesnake, that has the freedom of the premises, and beats forty yard dogs keeping off intruders. ' The American Indians at the World's Fair are quite disappointing from a dime novel standpoint. None of the squaws, so far as our observation goes, wears warhoops. Edison tells a Chicago reporter that rubies can be manufactured for s<s a pound. Go 'way, Mr. Edison; gold bricks and green goods are good enough for all such purposes. New York City has a man whose * profession " is the finding of lost' articles. Chicago ought to hire him I to look up the sense of decency lost some time ago by Gotham's press. Mrs Frank Leslie says she wouldn't marry an angel. Up to the hour of going to press this seems to be the only variety of natural or supernatural masculine man whom Mrs. Frank Leslie wouldn’t marry. A dispatch from Morganfield, Ky., says that a quiet lynching occurred there the other night. That is the best kind of a lynching. We have always condemned brass bands, fireworks and torchlight procession on such occasions. Several of our valued exchanges seem to have believed that the United States would be deprived of all rights in Behring Sea, and they are profoundly thankful because En-1 gland will not be permitted to gobble the whole sealing territory. i Dr. Stevens, of Philadelphia, has ’ discovered the location of the soul. ■ He says it is in the corpus callosum, ' a little spongy lump at the base of . the brain. Corpus callosum means a | callous body, and that accounts for the number of tough souls one is lia- | ble to encounter in the course of a I day’s business. i ■i..,'.. — ...j.! t A Boston servant girl asked per- r mission to go down town the other , afternoon, saying she wished to go to the bank. Her mistress offered to lend her any money she might need, j whereupon she replied that she did not need money, but was going to deposit $5 as she had heard the banks were in trouble. Now, there is a girl who deserves a medal and three afternoons out every week. --- ■ - We should think the bones of Christopher Columbus would turn over in one of their several sepulchers and that the shin-gearing of the same would kick hard. The of Christopher who were honored nr® Chicago are anxious for charity, and a leading American is passing the hat for them. Blushes for Spain and Uncle Sam, and tears for the slaughter of a pride that everybody ought to have. The Prison Mirror, the neatly printed little paper gotten up by the inmates of the Stilwater penitentiary, was seven years old the other

week, and one of the brightest pa-> pars that come to our table. It is I also a power for good and placed in the hands of the rising generation is of more practical benefit to them than all f lic tracts' and Sunday, a school papers in existence, containing as it does sensible, sound and* highly proper articles and leaves of j experience from those who have “been through the mill.” Wk have fortunately reached a halt ’ in this employment of cheap foreign ! labor and turned the tide backward to the land whence it came, and if employers shall consult their own interests the exodus of alien labor will I continue until our American industries are manned throughout legitimate American labor, either native born or naturalized. The labor that comes in utter ignorance of our laws and institutions, that ever continues • stranger to our citizenship, and that never can be taught the liberty •C law should be excluded from the -

workshops and mines and forests of ’ our free republic. The lowa Supremo (pourt has rendered a decision defining what con- ■ stitutes a peddler. A man went from bouse to house in Stuart taking i verbal orders for spoons, albums, etc. A few days later the merchandise was shipped to Stuart and delivered to the purchasers by one Cunningham. While thus engaged he was arrested for violating an ordinance prohibiting peddlers from selling or | offering for sale goods or merchandise along the streets or from house to house. The case finally reached the Supreme Court, where the defendant was ordered discharged. The court says that the authorities are not agreed as to what constitutes a peddler, but it adds that its “attention has not been called to any authority which holds that a person who delivers goods previously sold by another is a peddler within the ordinary use of that term. The defendant did nothing that was prohibited by ordinance and should have been acquitted.” A highly respectable young lady of St. Louis has just kissed a young man who was an entire stranger to her. In justice to the young ladj T it must be said that there were extenuating circumstances. The kissing was done under conditions of intense emotion. For that matter it generally is. In this case the cause of the intense emotion was unusual. The young lady was out driving with her father, who left the vehicle fora' moment to enter a store. During his absence the horse ran away and the strange youhg man gallantly rushed out into the street and stopped it, rescuing the terrified young lady from various dangerous possibilities. She rewarded him by kissing him at once on the spot—the right spot. Possibly her father had not kissed her at all during the ride, and a buggy ride without kissing suggests kissing on the principle that, like tact, “it is especially prominent when it is absent” Besides, the young man, even if previously unknown, had just proved himself to be a worthy young man in at least one respect—his physical courage; and what woman does not admire physical courage ? It is already rumored, i however, that the enterprising young j men of St Louis are organizing a ; stock farm syndicate for the purpose of breeding and training a mild and intelligent variety of runaway horses for the use of young ladies, and that the young ladies of tbe “future great” are stiffening up the market for driving gloves. Louisville has met with a notable loss In the death of a well-known citizen, who is described as “the best known sporting man in the South.” A recent issue of the Louisville Commercial devotes a column and a half to a glowing eulogy of the deceased. He died a wealthy man, and the bulk of his fortune was acquired in gambling, yet the Commercial informs us that “words of praise for actions in his life were uttered by lAny.” Mr. Waddill, for that'was his name, must , have been a man of rare goodness of heart, for a fellow-gambler is quoted I as saying of him, “He was a very conscientious man, and his character in this respect I can best express when I say that he would rather give up SSOO or SI,OOO than keep it with the least i suspicion that he was not entitled to ■ it.” Again, the Commercial says, ■ “Although a gambler, he never forgot ' that he was a gentleman at heart,” and “he gave away thousands of dol--1 lars to people who weijt broke at his ■ games, not because there was any I reason that he should do so, but beI cause he was begged for the money.” [ He also was “greathn unostentatious, real charity, relieving many a poor person who was a total stranger to him. ” In one respect this account of the dead gambler’s life Is deficient. It fails to mention whether, like ; Mark Twain’s Buck Fanshaw, “he ' never shook his mother.” But probably lack of space compelled the editor to leave a hiatus in the career of ; this noted Kentuckian. In closing, I the Commercial says, with an air of , regret that does it honor: “The deceased was a member of no church or order.” We are sorry that such should have been the fact. His failcure to join a church or an order was one mistake of his life. Had he been a church member, for instance, nothing would have been wanting in i the example that he set. But the best of men have their shortcomings, ' and it was perhaps too much to ex- ’ pect that even “the best known sporting man in the South” should have rounded out his useful and praiseworthy career by making a profession of religion.

The Well of Frozen Air. Near Dayton, Ore., there is a well locally known as the l, well of frozen air." In drilling it a stratum of frozen clay and gravel was encountered at a depth of fifty-five feetAfter passing through five feet of this, numerous cavities were enI countered from which cold a.r came with sharp gusts. The escape of the 1 air from the well may be beard a distance of nearly 200 yards, and it is so frigid that is not possible for any one to hold his hand ovef the ' opening for more than a few minutes ■ without having it frozen stiff. According to an exchange a bucketful of water set near the mouth of the I well will freeze through during one ; night’s time. It is needlessly to add I that work on the well was abandoned I as soon as these frigid blasts found I vent through the; 5 opening made by tile drill. i Emma—-What’s that noise? It I sounds as though they were pounding beefsteak. Jane—You guessed right; I but we always speak of the performi ance here as “tendering a banquet ”— Boston Transcript. ■f ' s j _

1889 1893 IL &>• wsKw" l/V 5 //Ww A'* lili k Iwf "THE PEOPLE WANTED A CHANGE, AND THEY GOT IT."-Benj. Harrison. BUT THE CHANGE WAS MADE IN 1889, AND WE ARE STILL SUFFERING FROM IT.—Puck.

REPLIES TO A REPUB. CLEARLY SHOWN WHY PRICES GO DOWN. They Become Lower In Spite of mO Not Because of Protection—The Democratic Party Is Falsely Accused—Not a Lack of Currency. Answer to a Protectionist. The Courier-Journal has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a letter fromja Democrat in Illinois, who admits that he has been talked to a standstill by an intelligent Republican of his acquaintance, and he appeals to this paper for help. Here is the substance of the argument submitted by the Republican: Granted that a protective tariff increases cost of stoods to consumers at first, it always results In cheaper goods ultimately. For instance. wire nails cost, when first Invented, 10 cents per pound: a tariff of six cents was proposed, but Mr. Mills exclaimed, "Oh, that will never do. ’Twill make them cost 16 cents," but the tariff was put on and is on to-day, vet the wire nails sell at three cents per pound. Acaln. steel rails were costing $35 or S4O per ton: a tariff of s.v. was put on, which stimulated home production so that now they sell at $23 tier ton, although the high tariff of $26 is still on for foreign rails. So is It ever the case that a protective tariff, by increasing production, tends to lower price of goods. Again, while he prices of , manufactured goods are still at a high figure, the farmer can well afford It. because It makes a larger margin of profit. A thrifty farmer can sell, sav. $1,200 worth of produce and spend FOO in clothing, tools and other manufactured articles. Now let protective tariff be removed and the scale of all prices comes down exactly one-half. The farmer sells the same produce for S6OO and pavs $l5O for his purchases, thus pocketing $450. where he formerly pocketed foCO. If the purchasing power of $450 is equivalent to the former SJOO, the farmer might still be no worse off; but then low wages at. the mills have m antime driven many operators to the farms to become competitors of the farmer, and also his market at the mills Is smaller, and he Is not sue of selling all his produce, as in former years. We make room for this long extract in order to present the argument entire, and also because the last part of it is an answer to the first part. The first argument is that protection is right because it makes prices lower, The second argument is based on the assumption that the removal of protection would lower prices one-half. These two theories cannot stand together. The pretense ilqat protection lowers prices is based on the impudence of protectionists claiming credit for what happens in spite of them. Owing to the many discoveries of this century, the use of steam, the introduction of improved machinery, and many laborsaving inventions, labor has been growing more and more productive. It happens, therefore, that the labor of- a man will produce, with the aid of machinery, ten, twenty, \r even fifty times as much of some objects of desire as it would one hundred or two hundred years ago. This has had two results. It has cheapened commodities and it has raised the wages of labor. Commodities are cheaper because they cost less labor, while wages are higher because they produce so much larger quantities of commodities. This change has occurred under high and low tariffs and under free trade. The Protectionists, however, assuming that no one knows what is going on abroad, have tried to account for this universal tendency by ascribing it to laws passed in the United States, although it has gone on here under a revenue as wellas under a protective tariff. Apart from these improvements in machinery, it is competition

that cheapens commodities, and this competition stimulates invention. It is the manufacturer most pressed by competition who is most likely to discover devices for saving labor, according to the old adage that “necessity is the mother of invention.” This competition is inconvenient to manufacturers, and they try to diminish it by shutting the foreign producer out of the market. By this means they are able to keep prices higher than would otherwise be possible. In process of time domestic competition may spring up and help to reduce prices, but, of course, the domestic competition alone cannot, ordinarily, make prices as low as both foreign and domestic competition would. Steel rails afford a very good illustration of these principles when the whole truth about them is told. The use of steel for rails was made possible by the cheapening of steel,and that was due to a new process. If protection bad made them cheap in America, free trade would have made them high in England. The fact that they were $lO a ton higher under protection shows what the tariff is for. The general decline in the price is due to invention; the difference between the English and American prices is due to protection. The Republicans cannot adhere to the theory that protection cheapens. It is a wholly artificial theory, and they are always forgetting all about it and talking about the ruinous prices at which goods will have to be sold under free trade. They are continually telling the wool-growers, for example, that the bare prospect of free wool has put down tho price. This shows plainly enough that there is no sincerity in the plea that protection cheapens. If protection really cheapened the product no producer would ask for it, lor every one wishes to sell at the best possible price.—Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.). A False Accusation. The Republican party is trying to make it appear that the present unsatisfactory condition of things in this country arises from an uncertainty as to what the Democrats are going to do, says the Burlington Gazette. We do not believe a word of this. This crisis has been threatening the country for some time. Even President Harrison, in one of his later messages to Congress told the people that to avoid such a condition of things the Government ''ad ooxne to the relief of the situation.

It has been seen by the wise men of the nation, and they "have predicted it, let whichever party assume the reins of power. It is a natural consequence of a false system of legislation, which has instituted a false system of general business methods and a wrong basis for our financial conditions, and all- together have brought ab >ut a. condition of national affairs which is giving alarm to all our people. This condition of things can only ’be ]>ermanently remedied by a salutary system of legislation which shall partially at least undo what has been wrongly done in the way of legislation. That is what the Democratic party has been put into power to do, and if it does not do its work with a master hand and in the spirit of alacrity, a reckoning day will soon come upon it, and the people will ask why their pleadings have not been heeded,. Read the writing on the wall, and act accordingly. Not a Lack ot Currency. The Hon. John De Witt Warner presented a memorial from the New A ork Chamber of Commerca to the House, during the silver debate, praying for the repeal of the silver-purchasing clause of the Sherman act. Mr. Warner explained, for the benefit of Western and Southern Congressmen, that the Chamber of Commerce “is not composed either exclusively or mainly of bankers,” but of business men who are borrowers and not loaners of money. They are big merchants and traders who are interested in the prosperity of the whole country. In reply to questions from various Representatives, Mr. Warner said that he was willing to advocate each and every plank in the Democratic platform. He expressed himself as follows regarding the question of whether or not it is a lack of currency or a lack of confidence tn at is now afflicting this country: “If this country has learned anything from the present crisis so that it has been burned into its memory as with a red-hot iron, it has learned this, that while the currency has been increasing as fast as gold can be brought from Europe, and as fast as Government notes can be printed, money has been getting scarcer than before. Men are beginning to learn that the real money of commerce, the real currency for the transaction ot business, does not consist in silver or gold, but in the confidence of business men. “That, sir, is the matter in which the chamber of commerce is primarily interested. We want the Government, not to help us to do business, but to let us alone, so that we can have facilities to do business. This law is a destroyer of confidence, an interference with the development of this country; and we ask to have it repealed. “We want that repeal, not as an end, but as a means; as a means to the reinstatement of the public confidence, so that, as in former flourishing times, every bale of cotton as it reaches the press, every bushel of wheat as it reaches the elevator, every ton of.ore as it lies on the dock, shall be a basis of credit and be current money throughout Christendom. “If that law, which puts it out of our and your poiver to restore that confidence, is once repealed we can cooperate with you in helping on what will be the greatest reaction of prosperity that this country has ever seen —in which, from Texas to Maine, from Florida to Washington, all will be blessed, and we with you will share in the benediction."

A I’ecnltor Parallel. Under the heading, “The Deadly Parallel,” a great many of our partisan Republican contemporaries are publishing the following extract from the Utica Herald: Opening of President] Opening of President Harrison’s message to Cleveland's message to Congress, December, Congress eight months 1892: later, August, 1893: In submitting my The existence of an annual message to alarming and extraCongress, I have great qrdlnary business altsatisfaction in being nation, Involving the able to say that the welfare and prosperity general conditions as- of all onr people, has feeling the com merci alcons trained me to call and Industrial inter- together an extra sesest* of the United slon of the people s States are in the high- representatives In Conest degree favorable, gress, to the end that A comparison of the through a wise ana existing conditions patriotic exercise of with those of the most the legislative duty favorable period In with which they are the history of the solely charged present country will, I believe, evils may be mitigated show that so high a de- and dangers threatengree of prosperity, andlng the future maybe so general a diffusion averted, of the comforts ot life, were never before enjoyed by our people. I Can't they see that the thing is loaded? Have they not learned to keep their hands off , campaign literature from New York? Did not Harrison assume tho office after Cleveland, and did not Cleveland again take up the work where Harrison left off? Is not tho whole argument in favor of Cleveland, and, according to the Herald, may we not expect a condition at the end of his present term similar to that which obtained at the inauguration of Harrison? If all this is true, is it not a good thing for the country that Grover was successful? The Herald is t quoted by the directories as a Republican paper, but its editor must be devoid of tact and foresight.—Cedar Rapids Gazette. They Squirm.. Republican journals and politicians are following the cue to protest against any disturbance of tbe tariff. “ üßi " ness, they say, demands rest and certainty. To proceed to obey the people s mandate for a reduction of taxes, sfter the monetary danger is removed, will, they insist, “unsettle”, our industries. There has been no talk of precipitate action. The intention of the Democratic party is to reform the tariff with due carq and deliberation, and to give business ample time to adjust itself to any changes— six months at least. The Republican protest is inconsistent and impudent. Ten times since the war tariff was passed bave the Re- | publicans revised or amended it in gen-

eral bills. They have been persistent tariff tinkers. But always, with one exception; the duties have gone up, un, up! The'average duty of 32 tier cent, in the original war tariff of 1862 had increased to 381 per cent, in 1874. Under the “reform of the tariff by its friends” in 1883 the average rose to 42. Then, with a surplus of revenue of nearly $100,000,000 annually, came the McKinley revision of 1890 covering every schedule, and last year the average duty on dutiable articles imported for consumption was 48.71. This is the record of the Republican tariff tinkers who now ask that their new tariff of abominations be permitted to stand in order to secure stability to business. This continual tax-raising is the answer of the monopolists to the people's demand for relief from oppressive burdens! They have never hesitated to “disturb industry” when they wanted their bounties increased. They will not prevent the relief demanded by the people bv bringing out again their tattered old campain bugaboo.— New A.ge. The House for Honest Money. The House of Representatives must be thanked for doing thoroughly what it has done somewhat tardily. And perhaps the country is to be congratulated upon the tardiness because of the greater thoroughness. As it is, no one can say that the house has acted hastily or without due deliberation. Ample opportunity has been afforded for exhaustive argument of the various questions involved in all their important aspects. The result is the complete rout of the allied forces of dishonest and destructive monetary legislation and a more complete assurance of future safety to the business interests of the country' than a vote without full discussion would have been likely to afford. At first the silver people predicted, with the utmost confidence, that the Sherman purchase clause could not be repealed unless something equally or more satisfactory to them should bo coupled with the repeal. As the debate progressed their confidence diminished, until at last they conceded the unconditional repeal bill would pass the House. But they would not concede more than twenty-five or thirty majority, while not many even of the advocates of repeal claimed a majority of more than forty to sixty, a.nd the very few who ventured to predict a majority of 100 were regarded as visionary enthusiasts down to the very hour when the voting began. The first vote was on the Bland 16 to 1 amehdment. The number voting was 348, or only six less than the whole number of members of the House, and the majority against the proposition was 102. The Blandites were driven from their first ditch by more than a two-thirds vote. Then the 17 to 1 ratio was beaten by a majority of 140; then the 18 to 1 by 137; then the 10 to 1 by 132; then the 20 to Iby 103. This last was the widest departure from the present ratio which the silver men would deign to consider at the outset. It was the last ditch of the free-coiners, the ditch in which they were going to exhibit their full strength, and yet the majority against 20 to 1 was one greater than that against 16 to 1, and the number of votes in favor of it four less. And finally, to complete the stampede of the silver forces from their last ditch and their final dispersion through the woods and swamps, the House passed the Wilson bill by a majority of 131 in a total vote of 349, giving 240 affirmative votes, or sixteen more than two-thirds of a full House. —Chicago Herald.

Who Passed the Sherman Bill? It may be of some interest to know, how the vote stood upon the passage of, the Sherman bill in the Republican; Congress which forced it upon the peo-j pie of this country. The vote in the, Senate stood as follows: Republicans', for it, 29; Democrats against it, 26; and this included the full vote of tho Senate for and against the passage of the] law. In the House the vote was as fol-; lows: Republicans voting for it, 121;, also one Independent. Against it were 90 Democrats. And this is tho full vote upon the adoption of the bill in both houses. One Democrat in the. House and fifteen Republicans not, paired refused or neglected to vote. Thus it will be seen how the Democrats stood then upon this compromise measure. They did not compromise much one way or the other. They were solfhly against the measure, and have none of the responsibilities of its evil effects to carry. Legacy of Republicans. The Ohio Democratic platform puts it thus truthfully and forcefully: The financial situation is the unfortunate legacy of a Republican administration. It is the natural result of the McKinley tariff, the Sherman silver law, extravagance cf the revenue of the party lately in power, and the creation and fostering of trusts and corrupt combinations by that party, all combining to shake cTedit, to create distrust in the money of the country and to paralyze its business. On III* Own Platform. The Ohio Democrats have made revenue reform the direct issue, with the author of tho tariff plank in the National Democratic platform leading their ticket in opposition to McKinley, the framer Os the protection plank In the National Republican platform. The convention approved “especially" those portions of the platform adopted by the national convention at Chicago referring to the tariff and to currency legislation. Wilt Drop the “Gov." Gov. Wm. McKinley Jr. has dropped the “Jr." from his name. After election he will drop the “Governor.” and then will be known simply as plain Bill McKinley. 1 ’ »■ ■ . •

HUNDREDS are lost. MIGHTY HARVEST OF DEATH IN THE SOUTH. Ruin Wrought on Every aide—Score* of Llv.a Destroyed by the Angry Element— Southern Coatt Strewn with n Hurricane’. Wreckage. • Work of the Wind. As communication becomes established with that part of the South devastated by the furious hurricane of Sunday and Monday, more complete details of the awful visitation are made known. Many places where the storm was most severe are not reached by telegraph, and Reports from these points are necessarily slow and inaccurate. The cyclone flow through Port Royal, S. C., at the rate of 100 miles an hour, and was followed by a tidal wave that almost swept the town away. One hundred lives are said to have boon lost here. At the time this is written Port Royal is completely cut off from the outside world, as all the telegraph wires are down and the railroads washed away. Even the people themselves have no idea of the extent of damago done. The messenger was unable to give the exact number of lives lost, but without overestimating says that over 100 person# were killed and drowned. He saw himself thirty dead bodies. Others are being recovered, nnd ma*ny are still missing. The suffering and misery the storm has caused cannot be pictured nor the damage to property be estimated. Most of the drowned are negroes. The jieople of Beaufort and Port Royal were apprehensive in regard to the fate of St. Helena, a small island four miles from Beaufort. They were unable to hear a single word from there. There were twenty-live lives loft between Port Royal and Seabrook, a small station only four miles from the harbor, all of thein negroes, who were plantation hands. Houses were blown down and carried in every direction, and almost a tidal wave covered the town to a depth of ten and twelve feet. Only meager reports have been received from other points near Beaufort, and it is feared that many more negroes have been killed. The Alma Cumming, a large boat loading at the Sea Island Chemical Works, was swept from its moorings and badly injured. The pilot boat Palmetto, tied up at Port Royal docks, was blown to pieces and finally sunk a few yards from its moorings. Every house in Port Royal and Beaufort was seriously damaged. Live* Lost by Hundreds. A passenger train of the Atlantic Const line reached Richmond, Va., from Charleston, S. G., having been delayed twenty-four hours by the storm. J. B. Beddinacauld, the Southern Express Company’s messenger, who was in Charleston during the storm, says that the battle of wind and rain began with terrific force at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon and continued without cessation until Monday morning at seven o’clock. While the record of terror and ruin wrought by the great disaster of 1885 remains unbroken, Charleston stood in the track of this cyclone which has shake* the old city to her foundation stones. The total damage to property cannot be told for some days, and the loss of life is unknown. Not fifty yards’ space was left in the streets that did not contain debris of all kinds—roofs of houses, signs, awnings, telegraph poles, etc.? which were scattered in all directions during the storm. It is reported that five hundred persons have been drowned on the Sea Islands, but this report cannot be verified. The Sea Islands skirt the coasts of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Storm Kt Savannah. At Savannah, Ga., the storm, which had been predicted by the weather bureau for several days, began early in the afternoon and, according to a dispatch, increased from then on until it reached the climax between 11 and 12 o’clock at night, having lasted for eight hours. The storm and rain ceased for awhile In the afternoon. It began again with terrific force and the work of destruction reigned supreme and lasted until midnight, when the storm spent its fury. All the wharves along the river front and ocean’’ steamship companies and Savannah, Florida ana Western Railroad wharves were under water. The city streets were impassable on account of debris and fallen trees, twisted roofs, masses ot brick fences, and broken limbs and branches. It is difficult at the time this is written to estimate tbe damage as the result of the storm, but it was very general, and it is sate to say it will go up in the hundreds of thousands ana perhaps higher. Nearly if not quite all the property owners in the city have been damaged to some extent and some to the amount of thousands. Fourteen lives are known to be lost, and this will certainly he augmented when details 1 come to hand. There are forty or fifty other persons who are reported missing, and it is supposed, as nothing has been heard from them, that their bodies will be found later on. Twelve barks and barkentipes which were anchored off quarantine station were thrown high upon the island, and some of them were carried by the storm across the marshes Into an island twenty miles distant from the quarantine station. The ruin at quarantine is immeasurable. Nothing is standing where one of the finest stations of the South Atlantic was twenty-four hours before, except the doctor's house, ahd how this weathered the fearful gale is miraculous. The wharves are gone, the new fumigating plant, which cost the city so much money, is in the bottom of the sea, and nine vessels which were waiting there for release to go to the city are high and dry in the marsh, and no doubt will be total wrecks. The Cosnine was the only Messel which managed to keep afloat. It is reported that eight of the crew of a terrapin sloop Which went ashore on the south end were drowned. All the bath houses are gone, the Knights of Pythias’ club house was washed away, two of the cottages of the Cottage’Club are also gone. The Ranch ana Rambler clubhouses were wrecked and the railroad track is cleaned out. The water swept with tremendous force over the island, railroad tracks being carried from 300 to 500 feet. The people of Savannah and at Brunswick had warning of the coming storm and took to flight. But for this the loss of life would have been terrible. Whole rows of houses were wrecked and everything in the path of the wind went down. The known property loss 18 already over 81,000,000. Havoc In ths East. At Baltimore not since th* big flood of 1868 has such a deluge of water invaded the city. The wind blew a gale all the afternoon, damaging .all movable property. Mountainous seas were piled up and rolling in the basin. The waves spread over the wharves and flooded the streets and buijdings adjacent. Men rowed around in boats from store to store in the lower part of the city carrying merchants ana clerks to their places of business and removing valuable goods and books. The streets resembled lagoons rather than busi- . ■ ■ ■ '

ness ' thoroughfares. The wharves were completely submerged, if not do8t Philadelphia, Boston and other cities suffered too greater or low extent. Along the Coney Island beach everything has been swept away, and the roofs of many big buildings wore carried for blocks. The storm seems to have had it* origin in a cyclone arising in the West Indies and from there swept altmg the Atlantic coast in a northeasterly direction for a distance of nearly 1,500 miles. RAIN FAILS TO FALL. Hot and Dry Weather Continue* In Many Region*—Crop Condition*. Washington dispatches tn speaking of the weather and crops during the past week say that hot and dry weather continued in the Ohio valley, whore the crops have been injured In many sections by continued drought. Fronts were reported in Wisconsin, which must have caused some damage. The weather was more favorable in the Northwest. Crops wore generally improved in the States to the west of the upper Mississippi, while the conditions were unfavorable in the States of the Ohio Valley and Tennessee. In the Southern Rocky Mountain districts the season is reported as the most satisfactory for years, while in the Northern Rocky Mountain districts the ground is dry, crops need rain, and the ranges are in poor condition. The week was dry throughout the central valleys, except in portions of Kansas and Nebraska. Over the greater portion of the region named crops are much in need of rain, and especially from the lake region southward to the east Gulf coast. The West India hurricane which passed inland from Florida to Northern New England caused great damage to growing crops in Eastern Georgia, South Carolina, and portions of North Carolina and Virginia. Generous rains occurred in North Dakota and portions of Minnesota, but the week was drier than usual from the Rocky Mountains westward to the Pacific coast. Alabama reports cotton picking getting along favorably, but the crops are in need of Northern Georgia reports that corn has been injured by droughts. CORN CHOP IB POOR. The Farmer*' Review Give* the General Outlook n* Discouraging. The Farmers’ Review, which is generally recognized as authority in the matter of crop conditions, this week contains the following: Corn—Since our last report the condition of corn has continued to deteriorate. Only one in nine of the correspondents In Illinois report the crop In good condition. Two-ninth* report fair. Oyer 66 per cent, of all the oount es report the outlook as very discouraging. In Indiana there has been a great decline in condition, and in only a few counties will there be an average crop. In three-fourths of the counties the crop is e>tlmated at less ihan 75 per cent, of tlie normal, and in many cases falls below a half crop. In Ohio not one correspondent reports a good prospect, but about one-third report fair. In the others the condition Is from poor to very bad. Michigan reports a better on'look, the conditions being about evenly given at good, fair, ioor. In Kentucky half of the correspondents report fair and good, the others poor. Missouri has a good prospect for corn, the condition being goon in more than two-thirds of the counties. In Kansas 25 ptr cent, report good, 35 per cent, fair, the rest poor. Nebraska reports good in per cent, of the area, fair tn 24 per cent., poor in the rest. lowa will have a large crop, nearly all counties being reported at fair, good and very good. The general condition Is good in Wisconsin and Minnesota and fair in tbe Dakotas. Potatoes—The average condition of tbe potato crop Is poor In Illinois. Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kansas. Nebraska, Minnesota. Wisconsin and tbe Dakotas. It is nearly fair in Kentucky and Iowa; good in Missouri Pastures—Pasture* are In very bad shape la Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Kansas, lowa and Wisconsin. In Missouri. Nebraska. Minnesota and the Dakotas the pastures are still fair. NEWBY DENIED A NEW TRIAL. The Case Will Go to the Supreme Court oi the United States. At Springfield, HL, Judge Allen over* ruled the motion for a new trial made by the defense in the celebrated Newby case. A motion for arrest of judgment was likewise overruled, and the court then sentenced the convicted man to two years at hard labor in the Chester penitentiary. An appeal was allowed, and the case will thus go to tho United States Supreme Court. Ex-Attorney General McCartney haa been engaged to carry the case up. Pending the appeal the defendant wul go to prison. He takes the outcome indifferently. Grand Army men are taking a deep interest in the case, and Department Commander Blodgett has authorized Fairfield Post to appeal to other posts for aid in raising a fund to defend Nowby. Stole a Canal Boat. Sunday night thieves stole a canal boat on the Miami and Erie canal, which was tied up about thirty miles south of Toledo, Ohio. They next caught a horse in a neighboring pasture, hitched him to the beat and hauled it to Defiance. Here the thieves broke into J. B. Weisenberg’s elevatoi and stole about $650 worth of clover seed. This they loaded into the boat, and a start was then made for Toledo. After getting through three locks the robbers ran the boat into the Maumee River, hoping the current would carry them down. By this time the alarm had been given, and tho men, being closely pursued, ran the boat into the bank, then escaped into Wood County. The police have no clew to the robbers. Currencies Condensed. New York is expecting a beer war, owing to the invasion of the territory by Western brewing firms. Grain bags to the number of 3,000,000 have arrived in San Francisco and the prices have g*»ie down. A skull has been excavated inGreece which is said to be that of Sophocles. This is disputed. Foureeen of the twenty-eight hat factories at Orange, N. J., are not in operation. About 2,000 persons are out of work. AN explosion in Louis Gocdbub’s grocery store at St. Louis wrecked the building. Several persons narrowly escaped injury. John Dossett, of Guthrie, O. T., has been found guilty of murder in the first degree in poisoning his rival for the hand of an Indian girl. Charles Keener, who shot and killed John Hutt last April, was convicted of manslaughter at Akron, Ohio, and sentenced for ten years. John Hicks, 88 years old, who haa . stolen horses in every State in the Union and spent forty-five years in penitentiaries, died at Hamilton. Dr. James H. White, of St. Louis, has filed suit against the American Medical College, alleging it is doing business under an expired charter. In attempting to cross the railroad track ahead of a freight train at Anaconda, Mont., Jack Dougherty and Peter Hammill were run ovef and killed. At Lexington, Ky., Matt Keeley and John Welch quarreled over a dice game. Welch plunged a dagger intc Keeley’s breast, inflicting a mortal wound. The Lewis Sharp Commission Company, of St. Louis, has filed suit against Vance & Barrett, of Chicago, so: 82.478.68, growing out of the Cudahy failure.