Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — Page 2

ffiftelrmocraticSentiitel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, ... PUTLISHEB.

IRON TRUST FORMED.

TO CONTROL THE BESSEMER PRODUCT. Old Boys In Blue Capture Indianapolis— Another World's Fair Express Wrecked with Fatal Results—Elephant Tackles a Chicago Grip Car. Giant Among Trusts. At Duluth Tuesday there was completed the organization of the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines, a corporation which will have much the same relation to the Bessemer iron-ore trade of America that the Standard Oil has to the oil trade. It ■will control fully nine-tenths of the productive mining capacity for Bessemer ores of the United Stales, and the other tenth iis harder and more expensive to mine the ores It will include the larger mining facilities and ore shippers' railways from some of the mines to Duluth, and from others to Ashland. Wis. It will control a great fleet of vessels on the lakes, with an aggregate carrying capacity of 600,000 tons, and an ore-receiving port and railway from Lake Erie to the furnaces of Pennsylvania. The company is capitalized at 530,000,000, all paid in, and the Minnesota Iron Company, which has been the giant among the iron mining corporations, will be a pigmy in comparison. John D. Rockefeller, of the Standard Oil Company, is at the head. Members of the syndicate forming this huge deal are heavily interested in iron and steel manufacture, both East and West.

WITH MARTIAL TREAD. Magnificent Parade of the G. A. R. at Indianapolis. The stronghold capitulated before the onslaught of the boys who wore the blue, and with flying flags and keeping step to the same old strains that led them through valleys and over mountains three decades ago, the veterans inarched in the big parade at Indianapolis like a victorious army up and down the principal streets amid the plaudits of a multitude of euthuststlc spectators. A discharge of artillery from Camp Wilder ushered in a glorious autumn morning and gave the signal to-citizens and visitors to prepare themselves for the festivities of the day. No such crowds were ever before seen in Indiana’s capitat. Naturally enough, the Hoosier element predominated. Where the throngs were the most dense one could almost have believed that the greater portion of the State had turned itself out so that the comrades from at home and abroad should not be allowod to feel lonesome for lack of a hearty reception. SIX PERSONS KILLED. Disastrous Collision ou the Big Four Near Aurora, lnil. The World's Fair Big Four express train No 12, which consisted of ten Wagner sleepers and day coachos, filled with Cincinnati people en route homo from the Exposition, crashed into a freight train, which was an hour late, Tuesday morning near Aurora. Six people were reported killed and over twenty Injured. The engineer and fireman were buried under tho wreck, which was piled up in tho greatest contusion beside the tracks. The express was due in Cincinnati at 7:45 a. m. Ihe freight with which it collided left Cincinnati Monday night for Indianapolis. The accident took place at the bottom of a steep grade known as Bates hill, six miles north of Aurora, and it is reported that the express telescoped the freight, owing to its superior momentum. The first report was that thirty persons had been killed. Later reports were to the effect that only six lives w ero lost, mostly trainmen.

Won by the Elephant. Ojb of Mr. Yorkes’ north side cable trains was set upon by a big elephant on North Clark street, Chicago, Sunday night atlloclock; the front end of the grip car was battered out of shape, tho passengers shaken off Into the street and the grlpman compelled to flee for his life. After driving everyone off the car and pounding the metlonless car to his heart’s content the beast quietly submitted to be led away by his keeper. George Mayberry, and peacefully continued hl3 journey to the far end of Lincoln Park, where he Is to ba kept for the winter. Betrayed by a Newspaper Clipping. Charles W. Hill was arrested at Sedalia, Mo., as a suspicious charector, and was lined $25 for carryliig concealed weapons. A newspaper clipping found ou his person led to the belief that he was wanted at Eureka, Kan., for cattle stealing, so Chief of Police Delong wired an Inquiry to the authorities of Greenwood County. Ills suspicions were confirmed by the receipt of two telegrams asking that the prisoner be held. Indiana Men Hurt in an Explosion. An explosion of gas occurred in one of the mines at Ehelburn, Ind., on Tuesday morning, In which thirteen men were Injured. Pid Hayes, Simpson Elwick, Levi Bardsley, Charles L. Loyd, and George Brown are In a precarious condition from bums and bruises and may not recover. The other miners werainot dangerously injured. ’ ,r,‘

Others In the Field. lowa Populists at Des Moines named a full State ticket, headed by J. M. Joseph, of Creston. The Prohibition ticket Is headed by L S. Coßßn, of Des Moines. Wiped Ont the Family. Marshall Bos worth, a farmer of Smith■wyn, & H, poisoned his wife, three children and himself with strychnlue. Afraid of the Siamese. The French commander at Chantlbon has asked for re-enforcements from Saigon, as he considers his position unsafe. Saginaw School Buildings Closed. Three school buildings In Saginaw, Mich., are guarded by policemen to prevent children from entering. The trouble arises over the action of the School Board In refusing to remove the Smead dry-closet system as unbealthful on demand of the Board of Health. Seventeen were Drowned. Daring the flie which occurred In the Florestry, opposite the Botte quay, at Rotterdam Sunday night twenty-five onlookers who were aboard a lighter rushed to one side, causing it to capsize. Seventeen were drowned. President Cleveland Returns. President Cleveland, accompanied by Mra Cleveland, their daughter Bath, nurse and maid, has returned to Washington from Buzzard’s Bay. The party were met atthe depot by Private Secretary Thurber with carriages and driven to the White House la a drenching rain. The steamship City of Savannah, from Boston for Savannah, is ashore on the South Carolina coast. She wss badly damaged la the recent gala and the captain "beached her In order to avoid sinking in

PATS NO MORE GOLD. Bureau of Engraving Kept Busy by the Increase of Circulation. The Treasury Department Friday sought to Impress Congress by f aying the entire Government contingent in Washington in gold coin. Buch a thing had never been heard of and was entirely unexpected, and led to such a disturbance in the methods of distributing that most of the disbursing officers were paralyzed. Many members of Congress refused to take their month’s pay in gold. Most of the employes of the House and Senate begged for a credit rather than coin, and for the first time in the history of the country gold, which sold thirty years ago for 285 per cent premium, absolutely went begging nt less lhan par. The effect was to convince the Treasury officials that some other Action must be had to satisfy the pay rolls By hook or crook, or by extra hours down at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, a new supply of paper money was furnished. The disburements were all in crisp new paper, without creaso or fold, the ink undried, the puper damp, and the signatures of the certifying officers so hastily attached as to be rather illegible The printing presses in the engraving department are working night and day.

WERE WILD WITH JOY. Passengers Rescuod from the 111-fated Steamship City of Savannah. At Savannah, Ga., when the tug Paulsen arrived with the balance of the passengers of the wrecked steamer City of Bavannah, the wharves were lined with people, and when It was announced that all the shipwrecked passengers were on board shouts went up from the vast audience. Flags on commercial houses facing River street were hung out and dipped in salute, and the merchants rushed to the balconies and cheered themselves hoarse. Toe Cotton Exchange balcony was crowded as never be'ora The mighty greeting which they sent up made the hearts of the shipwrecked glad and they clapped their hands with wild delight When the Paulsen was made fast to thd wharf there were affecting scones between husbands who had been brought on the City of Birmingham and wives from whom they had parted at the wreck, and also between friends who had been separated on that eventful night House's Action Hus Favorable Effects. R. G. Dun & Co. 's Weekly Review of Trade says: The House has passed the silver bill by a majority astonishing to its friends Instant improvement in the stock market followed, the average of prices rising over £8 per share, and there was also a rise in wheat, cotton, and pork. Money markets throughout the country are more healthy. Failures are diminishing In number and resumption by a number of hunks and other establishments illustrates the genoral tendency toward revival of confidence. Manufacturers do not yot feel the upward impulse, and exhibit on the whole rather loss signs of improvement than a week ago. After some days of encouragement, too, stocks began to drag again, and in speculative circlos somewhat loss confidence was seen. But in these and in t'ue money markets the record of the week has been mainly one of satisfactory progress toward recovery.

Closed by a Suicide. Dr. T. Thatcher Graves, who was convicted of poisoning Mrs. Josephine Barnaby, but had been granted a new trial, committed suicide in his cell at Denver, Col, Saturday night, presumably by taking poison. He was found dead at 9a- m. Sunday by the “trusty” who had been caring for hint. On his person was found the following letter: Denver, Col., Aug. 9,1893. To the Coroner of Denver: Dear Sir— Please do not hold an autopsy on my remains. The cauHO of death may be rendered as follows: “Died from persecution. Worn out. Exhausted." Yours respectfully, T. Thatcher Graves, M. D. Count of the Cash. The official count of theTieasury cash beginning May 31 last, necessitated by the transfer of the office of Treasurer of tho United States from E. H. Nebeker to D. N, Jordan, having been completed. Treasurer Jordan on Tuesday signed a receipt in favorof E H. Nebekar for *740,817,419.78%, and by this act Mr. Neboker’s bond was released and Mr. Jordan's bond became effective The weight of coin counted was about 5,000 tons. Four Girls Burned to Death. Berlin dispatch: The hotel in Salmbacb, a hamlet in the Wurtemburg black forest, was burned. Sixty young womon from cities of Badon, who were passing their holidays in Salmbacb. were in the house when the fire broke out Most of them wore roused by tho town watchman in time to escapo down stain A few saved themselves by jumping from the second story windows. Four were suffocated in their rooms New Pension Order. Commissioner Lochren, of the Pension Bureau, has issued an order modifying the practice of the offleo as to suspensions of pensions The most Important change is that which directs that hereafter there will he no suspensions, except In cases where the record shows on its face that tho soldier was not entitled to anypensiori. Smiths Have a Reunion. About 10,000 people, all tracing their ancestry to a common root, assembled at Peapack, N. J. The occasion was the annual reunion of the descendants of John Smith. Indianapolis Hard Up. Indianapolis has failed in a third attempt lo take up £600,000 7 8-10 per cent, bonds defaulted July L Convict with Leprosy. Ed Fisher, a convict in the penitentiary at Laramie, Wya, is suffering from a genuine attack of leprosy.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 25 ® 6 25 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3 75 ® 5 75 Sheep—Fair to Choice 8 00 @ 3 75 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 62 ® 63 Cobh—No 2 37 @ 38 Oats-No. 2 2354® 2454 Rye—No. 2 41 ® 4154 Butter —Choioe Creamery ■ 24 ® 2454 Eggs—Fresh 13)4® 14>* Potatoes—New, per bu 65 @ 65 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3 00 ® 4 75 Hogs—Choioe Light s 50 ® 6 75 Sheep—Common to Prime 3 00 ® 3 60 Wheat—No. 2 Red 67 ® 58 Cobn—No. 2 White 40 ® 4054 Oats—No. 2 White 27 ® 28 „ ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3 00 @ 5 00 Hogs 6 bo @ 5 76 Wheat-No. 2 Red 69 ® 60 Cobn—No. u 3354® 3454 Oats—No. 2 23 ® 24 Bye—No. 2. 41 @ 43 „ CINCINNATI. Cattle 300 @ 4 60 hogs ' 3 00 @ 600 Sheep 300 ®4'oo Wheat—No. 2 Red 6754@ 5854 Cobn—No. 2 41 ® 42 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 26 @ 27 Bye—No. 2 48 @ 51 „ DETROIT. Cattle 300 ® 4 75 Hogs 300 @6OO Sheep s 00 ® 3 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red cl @ 62 Cobn-No. 2 4054® 4156 OATS-No. 2 White, old 28 ® 29 TOLEDO. Wheat-No. 2 Red. 62 ® 63 Cobn-No. 2 Yellow 41 @ 42 Oats—No. 2 White 2654@ 2654 Rye—No. 2 44 @ 46 „ BUFFALO. CATTLK-Prime Steers 3 00 ® 5 00 HOGS—Choice Packers 300 ®6 60 Wheat—No. 1 Hard. 69 ® 70 No. 2 Red 65 @ 66 „ MILWAUKEE. Wheat-No. 2 Spring 60 @ 61 Cobn—No.3 87 @ 8f OATS-No. 2 White.., 28 ® 29 By*—No. 1 4354® 44*4 Barley—No. 2 51 ® 53 POBK—Mess 14 25 ®l4 75 „ NEW YORK. Cattle seo @ 5 00 Hogs .1 s 00 &• to S***p 8 00 ® 4 w Wheat-No. 2 8ed.... 68 ® <• Coen—No. 2 45 ® 46 Oats—Mixed Western 30 ® 82 Butteb—Creamery r.. 22 ® 26 Po*i-New Mess it 01 017 00

SOLDIERS OF CHRIST.

GATHERING OF SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORKERS AT ST. LOUIS. Delegates Attend from All Parts of the World—Two Million Sunday Schools Represented—Distinguished Men IVho Took Part—Will Sleet in Boston. Army of the Lord. The seventh International Sundayschool Convention of the United States and the British provinces in America

opened its fourdays’ session in the Grand Music Hall of the Exposition Building at St. Louis, with upward of 1,000 delegates present, representing 130,107 Sundayschools, with 1,372,teachers and an ' enrolled attendance of 10,870,104 scholars. The second

PRESIDENT MILLER.

World’s Sunday - school Convention which followed this four days’ ‘session, represented 2,000,000 Sundav-schools and 18,000,000 scholars. The beautiful hall was decorated tastefully for the occasion. The stage had been extended over the orchestra pit for the additional accommodation of the speakers and distinguished guests of the convention. A large globe thirty feet in diameter, over the stage, was indicative of the universality of the Sundayschool work. The number of delegates from each of the States and Territories was equal to four times the representation of both houses of Congress, or four delegates for each 160,000 of the population, with a corresponding number from the provinces and territories of Canada and Newfoundland. The num-

ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION BUILDING.

ber from foreign lands was not limited, but membership is restricted to such as bear credentials from national and international Sunday-school organizations. Mr. Edward Towers, of London, marshaled the foreign delegates, and the Rev. B. F. Jacobs, of Chicago, had charge of America’s representatives. The most distinguished men in the world’s Sabbath work participated in this gathering. Our own country had a distinguished list of participants from every Stato. New York’s delegates were headed by Dr. W. A. Duncan, of Syracuse; Pennsylvania sent J. R. Caldwell, of New Hamburg. The Rev. G. W. Smith, of Denver; William H. Hall, of Connecticut: Timothy Nicholson, of Indiana; the Hon. T. B. Sweet, of Topeka; the Rev. George R. Bird, of Nevada, and the Rev. J. H. Babbitt, of Vermont, are a few of the other wellknown Sunday-school workers. The subjects of international lessons, organization in the church, Christian literature and home influence were among those discussed. Representatives from Paris spoke in the interest of the McAll mission. Signor Charanti represented Italy, with numerous colleagues. Egypt and Palestine, Japan, China and Asia were also represented. Tho resolutions as adopted indorse training schools for teachers, favor the homo department plan of bible instruction, urge more extended use of the bible as a text-book in Sunday schools, plead for wider co-operation of denominations, denounce the liquor traffic and plead for its abolition, and release

BISHOP VINCENT.

the committee from all restrictions upon its work except that the action of the Pittsburg convention of 1890 upon temperance shall remain in force. Boston was chosen as the place of meeting of the convention in 1896. By voluntary contribution $5,000 was raised toward the indebtedness on the model Sunday-school building at the World’s Fair.

GLADSTONE’S TRIUMPH.

Ireland’s Cry for Justice Hus at l.ast Been Heard. _ The English House of Commons has listened to Ireland's cry for justice. Gladstone's splendid campaign against deep-rooted conservatism and ancient prejudice has ended in magnificent victory. The Irish home rule bill was adopted by the Commons by a vote of 301 to 267. The measure was hurried to the House of Lords, which gave it the first reading and adjourned. Tho Home Buie movement is about twenty-one years old. It began to take form early in the '7o’s, when patriotic Irishmen realized that Fenianism could do their beloved country no good. The father of the Home Rule movement was Dr. Isaac Butt. He died in 1878. Before his death a new leader had arisen in the Home Rule party, Charles Stewart Parnell, who had been elected to Parliament as member for Meath in 1874. Parnell's methods were far different from those of Dr. Butt. He was essentially aggressive. English statesmen who looked at Ireland's grievances without without prejudice joined the Irish party in the Commons in calling for Ireland’s relief.

WM. E. GLADSTONE

When Gladstone pronounced in favor of home rule, the world instinctively felt that the success of home rule was assured. It is needless here to recall the vicissitudes of the home rule movement during the past five years. They are fresh in the public mind. The probability is that the bill which has passed the Commons will be defeated in the Lords at the present session, and

sylvania University, while the founder of the congress and its Secretary General was Dr. Charles A. Reed, Dean and Professor at the Cincinnati College of Medicine. The delegates assembled upon the invitation, first moved by Dr. Reed of the American Medical Association, seconded by an invitation from the President of the United States authorized by joint resolution of congress. All of tho countries except Chili and the Argentine Republic were represented. The congress was divided into twenty-two sections, each dealing with a particular department of medical science. Two sections of extreme interest were those on hygiene and on quarantine. Dr. Conegys, of Cincinnati, brought forward the proposition that, in view of tho paramount importance of public health, there ought to be a Secretary of Public Health in the Cabinet of the Presidents of the different republics. This idea was enthusiastically supported by many of the delegates and was indorsed by vote. Quite a sensation was produced by Dr. Wolfred, of New York, who charged the United States of Colombia with propagating the great epidemics of the western hemisphere. His argument was based on the fact that those who die of yellow fever and other epidemics are permitted by the authorities at the Isthmus of Panama to decompose under circumstances that permit of the propagation and perpetu-

ation of the specific poison of the disease. Dr. Juan J. Ulloa, a delegate from the Government of Costa Rica, presented a plan for a uniform international quarantine for all of the American countries. The absence of uniform quarantine regulations at present so far interferes with commerce that a large amount of money is lost through cessation of trade during half of each year between certain of tho American countries. The plan of Dr. Ulloa was reosived with much favor, and with some amendments was recommended to the various governments for adoption. There were interesting displays of cholera germs, but they were all caged on microscopical slides, and there were also exhibited yellow fever, dengne, and other germs that excited great interest. There were in all about five hundred essays read before the congress, which was attended by about three thousand delegates. On final adjournment the South American visitors were taken on a free excursion to New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Niagra Falls, Detroit, St. Louis, and the World’s Fair at Chicago.

REV. DR. MASTERS

obligations was witnessed on the streets of New York recently. Three express wagons heavily loaded arrived at the United States sub-treasury. On each wagon sat men with loaded shot guns across their knees. In the three wagons were ltX) coarse wooden boxes, fastened with bands of iron and big screws. Each box weighed 1594 pounds and contained $40,000 in gold coin, making a total of $4,000,000. This consignment of gold had been sent from the San Francisco mint a week before. A large crowd watched the unloading of the gold at the sub-treasury building. There was also received at the different banks from Europe gold amounting to $6,000,000, which had been brought by the steamships Campania, La Bourgone and New York. Joel Barnhardt, in attempting to save the life of his 9-year-old daughter, at Peru, Ind., by jumping with her from a buggy when his horses were running away, was seriously injured and the child was instantly killed by striking against the iron girders of a bridge. Deputy’ Marshal Folsom shot and killed Henry Durant at Caddo, f. T. Folsom was attempting to confiscate some liquor in Durant’s possession, and Durant fired a weapon, in answer to which Folsom fired. The Hotel de Logorot, New York, is in the hands of an assignee. Liabili' ties, $147,000.

that tbii Parliament will be dissolved, and a new Parliament elected in which the 1 -Liberal strength will be greater than before. In the face of repeated demands of tie English people; says a correspondent, 'the peers will pass the bill. If the House of Lords should make stubborn and continued resistance, so much the worse for the House of Lords.

MEETING OF MEDICAL MEN.

North and Sooth American Doctors In Convention at Washington. The Pan American Medical Congress, held in Washington, brought together the greatest gathering of medical men

SECRETARY REED.

PRESIDENT PEPPER.

GOLD ARRIVES IN NEW YORK.

84,000,000 from San Francisco and 86,000,000 from ICurope. A sight to inspire confidence in the ability of the Government to pay its

CONVEYING $4,000,000 IN GOLD TO THE SUBTREASURY, IN NEW YORK.

WAS ABIDE TO DEATH

FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED ON THE BOSTON & ALBANY R. R. Chester, Mass., the Scene of a Frightful Accident—Thirty Persons Injured, Some Fatally—Western Express, East Bound, Crashes Through a Bridge. Many Are Mangled. The Chicago limited express train for Boston broke through a frail iron bridge on the Boston and Albany Railroad one and one-half mile 3 east oif Chester, Mass., and four Wagner cars were crushed, killing at least fifteen persons, fatally injuring several others, while at least a score are badly hurt. The wreck is the worst ever known on the road. The bridge was being strengthened for the big locomotives,, and the workmen who were putting on the plates were at dinner when the crash came. The lccjmotivo passed over the structure, but was smashed, the water-tank being thrown a long distance. The buffet, two sleepers and a dining car were smashed to kindling when they struck the stream twenty feet below, but two day coaches and a smoker in the rear did not leave the track. There are a few houses in the vicinity and a man driving by gave the alarm through the village street. In a few minutes hundreds were on the scene. The shrieks of the imprisoned were terrible, and scores of people looked on completely unnerved. The village people soon recovered from the shock; and were hard at work. The hospital was a group of apple trees in an ad*joining orchard, where scores were taken. Ox teams arrived with loads of straw, cushions, bedding, and food. The wounded were soon removed to houses and all that remained on tho apple-strewn grounds were thirteen bodies covered with red blankets from an adjoining stable. The dead were many of them horribly mutilated—i heads crushed in, limbs torn, and ten were only recognizable by the clothing worn. The train was seven minutes late atj Chester and the railroad hands say it was going at the rate of twenty milog an hour when it struck the first of the two spans across the Westfield The locomotive seemed to leap across the bridge as the trusses collapsed and fell over to the south. The theory, is that the blow of the locomotive as it struck the bridge from-the curve sent it off its foundations into the river. A wrecking train was sent to the scene from Springfield at once with medical aid, and every attention was shown the passengers. The bridge had been built fifteen years, and was a two-span lattice 221 feet long. The train was one of tho fastest expresses on the road, stopping only at Pittsfield from Albany to Springfield. It carries the largest engine and best cars of any train running west of Springfield.'

this country has ever known. The congress wa3 formally opened by President Cleveland and continued during the next three days. Tho President of . the congress was Dr. William Pepper, Provost and Professor of Medicine at the Penn-

The List of Storm Victims in the South Is Still Growing:. Three hundred and ninety dead bodies have been found on the islands about Beaufort and Port Royal, and the total number of dead will reach 1,000. Over $2,000,000 worth of property has been wrecked near the same points. Both are the direct result of the storm which swept along the Atlantic coast. Every one of the fifteen or twenty islands lying around Port Royal and Beaufort is steeped in sorrow. On every door knob there is a bunch of crape and upon every hillside there are fresh-made graves, some already filled, while others are awaiting the bodies that will be deposited in them just as soon as some one can be found to do the Christian act of shoveling the dirt upcn the coffin. Tho beeches, tho undergrowth, trees and shrubbery, the marshes, and the inlets are turning up new dead bodies every time an investigation is made. Of the many disasters and devastations which have visited that section of the country none have been half as horrible. As the waters recede and the people move deeper into the wreckage gathered by the storm, the ghastly pictures are uncovered. So frequent are the discoveries that the finding of a single body attracts no attention at all. It takes the discovery of a clump of at least half a dozen or more to induce the people to show any feeling whatever. It was around Beaufort and Port Royal that the death rate was the greatest, but in neither of the towns were many lives lost. Around the two towns there is a complete chain of islands, and it was upon these that the harvest of death was reaped. This section of the Atlantic coast has been prolific in storms that scattered death and destruction of property in their wake, but the weather-wise, tho oldest citizens and the pilots, cannot recall anything equaling this last storm. The people are now suffering for, food and 7,000 negroes, who have been driven to Port Royal by the storm from the surrounding islands and the rice and cotton plantations, are starving. They are so destitute and so badly in need of something to eat that they have resorted to fighting among themselves for food. Several were killed in a fight for provisions. Men, women and children stand in tho streets pleading for something to eat. The white people in Port Royal are doing all ip their power to relieve the suffering, but their efforts alone cannot begin to better affairs. The horrors of the devastation can scarcely be imagined, and nothing can be extravagantly said of the wreck and ruins. That part of South Carolinaua known as the black district and is almost entirely inhabited by negroes.

SHERMAN ON SILVER.

The Ohio Senator Speaks on the Repeal Measure. Alter the routine morning business in the Senate, Thursday, the bill for the repeal of the Sherman act was

stringency. On one thing, he said, Congress and the people agreed, ana that was that both gold and silver should be continued in use as money. Monometallism pure and simple had never gained a foothold ,in the United States. If Senators i wanted cheap money and an advance ■ in price, free coinage of silver, he said, | was the wav to do it; but they should ! not call it bimetallism. Mr. Sherman then proceeded to discuss the history of the act that bears his name. He was not in favor of the free coinage oi silver, and regarded it as but another name for the monometallism of silver, and was only in favor of the purchase of silver for purposes of coining.

ONE THOUSAND DEAD.

taken up and Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, proceedto address the Senate. He said that if the repeal of the purchasing clauses of the act of July, 1890, were the only reason for the extraordinary session, it would seem to him insufflcient. It was, however, justified by the existing financial

JOHN SHERMAN.

ARE TOYS TOO GOOD?

A Suggestion Th»t (he Toys of Our ChUdhood Were Better, Men are, after all, only overgrown children. Give your little boy money, and the sweetshop and the toyshop will, too probably,-eoiipse the mute appeal of the missionary box. And, when the boy grows up, physically, if his income also grows, he will spend at sweetshop and toyshop Instead of acid drops he will purchase rare wines and order elaborate dinners; the race game and the clockwork boat will expand the real thoroughbreds and a steam yacht. Do wo really outgrow the taste for sweets and toys? Some of us never have it; some lose It by over-indulg-ence during youth. But to the temperate person, whose pocket money has always been limited, are toys and sweets ever wholly without attractions? He is ashamed to be seen openly purchasing sugared almonds and chocolate creams, and looking in vain longing at lead soldiers and clockwork trains; but the old delight is not dead. Even a humble box of bricks, that best of toys, unrolls before his mental vision a prospect of houses, fortresses, harbors, railway stations, zoological gardens, and all the ingenious constructions of the young architect, half blocks and half “make-believe.” When I look into the toy-shop windows, as I usually do, it seems to me that children are losing the poetic imagination that transformed a dingy play room into a fairyland. Toys are becoming daily more elaborate. more realistic; less room is left for fiction and romance. Lead soldiers are no longer flat simulacra of humanity, but big, broad, solid and expansive. Cavalrymen sit plumply astride bulging horses; artillery trains, pontoon trains, complete in every detail, replace the improvised substitutes in which I once reveled. Yet, can the model 81-ton gun give as much satisfaction to the boyish possessor as the fortress artillery I used to contrive out of an old brass cannon, three bricks and the tender of a tin train?—The Sketch.

Survival of a Strange Custom.

On July 13 of this year, as on July 13 of every year since the thirteenth century, the inhabitants of the province of Baretous, in France, including the mayors of three communes, performed a curious ceremony in expiation of a crime their ancestors committed more than five hundred years ago. In those early days the people of Baretous fed upon the people of Eoncal, in Spain, just across the border, massacred thousands of men, women and'children. To-day their descendants humiliate themselves before the Eoncalese as a token of sorrow and regret. Punctually at 9 o’clock In the morning the ceremony began. The Baretous dignitaries, escorted by an armed detachment, stood at the frontier. A peasant, bearing a red pennant as a symbol of justice, was at their side. At the stroke of the hour the French mayors advanced, wearing their scarfs of office and preceded by a peasant carrying a lance, with a white pennon as a flag of truce. Behind these followed the peasantry of Baretous, some leading three white heifers. “Do you wish peace?” cried the Spanish mayor of Isaba. “Yes,” replied the Frenchmen. They laid their lance on the boundary stone. The Spaniards planted theirs on French soil, then laid it across the French weapon. One of the French mayors stretched out his hand above the cross thus formed. The' Spaniard did the same. Then they repeated the formal oath and all present swore to observe it. “Pazdavafns!” (“Henceforth pearCe!”) said the Spanish mayor. His escort fired off their guns toward the French territory. The three white heifers were next turned over to the Spaniards. The two parties then dined together at the expense of the Spaniards, and a paper was drawn up which all signed. Formerly the blood tribute took the shape of three white mares. Their price and the difficulty of finding them has brought about the change. The heifers cost about one hundred and twenty dollars—a large sum for these poor mountaineers.

Li Hung Chang.

Li Hung Chang, viceroy of China, says a writer in Frank Leslie’s Weekly, does not live in Peking, but has his palace in Tien-Tsin (ninety miles from the capital), where he is sursounded by his armies, and has his fleet near at hand. It is well known that the members of the Summi Yamen, (Grand Council of the Empire), who sat in Peking, have the most profound hatred for the viceroy, and have tried several times to get rid of him by'Yneans which would recall those used in the Middle Ages. But Li Hung Chang is too well guarded in Tien-Tsin. Every attempt has been a failure, and after several of them the heathens in office came to the conclusion that the only thing to be done was to get the viceroy to come to Peking. They demonstrated to the Emperorand his mother that Li Hung Chang’s ambition might lead him to overthrow the actual dynasty and make himself a monarch, and that it was quite necessary to have him live in Peking, where the Summi Yamen would watch him.

The Emperor saw the imaginary danger and ordered the viceroy to make his headquarters in Peking. He did not even answer. Two orders were sent, the last being so imperative that he answered at once: “I am coming. Arrange quarters for the fifteen thousand soldiers I take wdth me. ” One can easily imagine the alarm of the Emperor and the members of the Summi Yamen when they heard of those fifteen thousand soldiers, and they answered promptly: “Stay whvire you are by all means, and keep your soldiers away.” Li Hung Chang may be considered the most liberal and- most progressive man in the Chinese Empire. “I understand -Tigson is financially interested in the concern he is with.” “Yes; they o.we him six months’ salary.”—Westfield Union. Between the plate and the mouth the soup ia often spilled.

TO ACTON THE TARIFF

PROBABILITY THAT CONGRESS WILL NOT ADJOURN. Xeaders of tile Democrats In the Bouse Favor an Immediate Attack on tho McKinley Bill—President Cleveland's Wishes to Be Consulted. Doings at the Capital. Washington correspondence:

IT is the plan of Bland, Springer and Crisp to go right on with Congressicnal business _ > and avoid an adjourument. The sentiment of nearly ||m all the Democrats pga and a strong contingent among the Republicans is in jjjßft favor of continuing liipßSjm session and go at the tariff, the tvp*££2_.propriations and all Bunnimpr- other qu esti on s rW ;.i which press for setn[ Utlement. This is ! , particularly true of the Southern and

Western Democrats who dislike to gohome and face the reseptment of silver constituents over the House outcome on the Wilson bill. Aside from that, as stated by Fithiari, Dockery of Missouri, Sayers .of Texas, and others, they believe that prompt, radical steps in tariff revision will allay the indignation of their people. They are getting letters every day which show their districts to be afire over the silver question. They think a strong tariff bill might be used in the nature of a wet blanket to smother these silver flames. It can be safely said that three out of every five Congressmen here do not want to adjourn, but are eager to push on with the work and get tnrough. However, this wants to be remembered: Congress proposes but Cleveland disposes. Congress will adjourn or not just as President Cleveland wishe3, and no one has heard whether Mr. Cleveland wants it to.adjourn or not. There are one or two reasons to believe that Mr. Cleveland will not a-k them to adjourn. He said in his message that he had intended to conveno Congress in September to look after the tariff. September is here, and if his former tariff mind holds good ho will want Congress to keep right on. Another reason is that the treasury i; cleaned out of cash for general expenses. It is dipping into the gold right now, and the last department pay roll was paid off in gold, from white house to navy yard. If it is decided to issue bonds to put money in the public purse to pay the nation’s daily way with —and most people here believe Mr. Cleveland will favor that —he will need Congress to authorize it and back the play. So there are all those reasons for believing that Congress will continue right along. But it will be as Mr. Cleveland says. If it does, Bland and others will at once introduce every form and sort of silver bills and there will be one more silver fight at least before all is over.

E outlne Proceedings. Senator Sherman, In his speech Wednesday, submitted no plan, but made a few suggestions. Ho thinks that tho silver bullion now in tho Treasury should all be coined, and ho is also in favor of authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury or the President to issue bonds wbonover it is necessary. Mr. Sherman was followed by Mr. Teller, and at the conclusion of Mr. Teller’s speech the Senate went into executive session. Tho House is still discussing rules. Mr. Wolcott, of Colorado, addressed the Senate Thursday, deprecating the repeal of the Sherman act; he was opposed by Mr. GaiTery, of Louisiana. The resolutions of the House on the death of Representative Mutehler, of Pennsylvania, were laid before tho Senate aDd resolutions expressive of the sorrow of the Senate were offered by Mr. Cameron and agreed to, and the Senate, as a farther evidence of respect to tho memory of the deceased, adjourned. The House was occupied all the day with its rules. Friday, after some twenty minutes spent in the ordinary routine morning business of the Senato (none of which was of public importance) the House hill to repeal part of tho Sherman act was taken up The House resumed the consideration of the new code of rules, the pending question being on the amendment offered Thursday by Mr. Boatner (Dem.), of Louisiana, which would practically put It in tho power of any member who is in charge of any proposition on the floor to propose closure at any time that he thinks It advisable to do so. The amendment was rejected. In the House the debate on rules was continued. In the Senato the House deficiency bill was reported and passed with some small amendments A hill wits introduced by Mr. Dolph anpropriatlng $300.000 to enable tho Secretary of the Treasury to enforce the Chinese exclusion act. A large hatch of nominations was received from the President, and a still larger ono confirmed. It is likely the Senate will devote three weeks to silver talk Monday the Senate continued discussion of the silver question. Mr. Cullom speaking for repeal. Some unimportant business was done in both houses, but the House was chiefly occupied in consideration of its rules. Substantially the entire day. in the Sonate, Tuesday, was consumed by Mr. Stewart, who took positive ground against the repeal of the Sherman act until silver was remonetized. The vote of the Senate—3s yeas to 28 nays—to proceed to the consideration of executive business was ths first set-back the repeal men have thus far sustained in the Senate. Among the hills introduced was one by Mr. Peffer creating a department of education, under the supervision of a secretary of education, who, within throe years after the passage of the hill, shall cause to be constructed a college of scientific learning, in which shall he taught all the classics and professional studies, arts, etc., to he known as the Scientific University of the Red. White and Blue Cross. The House was inactive, awaiting committees’ reports.

Overflow of News.

John H. O'Connor has been appointed receiver for the Algiers Brewing Company, New Orleans. The model of the city of Jerusalem at Chautauqua was demolished by a storm. The loss is $25,000. Jas. Skidmore shot Marion Spriggs with an old army musket at Waverly, Ohio, and he will die. Family trouble was the cause. Anerew Jehnsen, clothing, Great Falls, Mont., assigned, with Columbia National Bank of Minneapolis as a preferred creditor. The trial of John Wagner at San Francisco, charged with the murder of Trobert Ojillvie, ended in the acquittal of the defendant. The shipment of gold coin from San Francisco has arrived at the New York sub-treasury. The consignment con- > sisted of $4,000,000. Anthony Vanderslye and an unknown Italian were killed at Philadelphia by touching live electric wire A huge landslide on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad tracks Newcastle Junction caused an engine and frurteen freight cars to be derailed. Two negroes were killed. A plan to administer ICO lashes each to the nine Chcctaw Indians instead of carring out the death penalty was objected to by the Indian Territory am thorities as illegal. President Van Horne and other Canadian Pacific officers indicted at Tacoma, Wash., have surrendered and will stand trial on a charge of having violated the interstate commerce law.