Ligonier Banner., Volume 21, Number 38, Ligonier, Noble County, 6 January 1887 — Page 2

THE¥BANNER. TIGONTER, ';: -+ INDIANA. Wy A o v T a 4 5 ; 1 New rail'roa,ds to the length of s@veﬁ _ thousand miles were built in the United. States during the past year. o . Ty d ‘THE man who can walk on the water has appeared, ang@he man who can-fly in the air may be expected along spon. — o S SR ; { “ONE of the sweetest Christmas presents recorded is that of a Connecticut Youth who sent his best girl forty pounds of candy. =~ - il A & S ————————— THE man that will devise a method of ascertaining whether pistols are loaded without pulling the triggers will spare the fool-killer a large amount of work, and will save valuable lives. . e amount ff money in: the United States, exclusive of copper and nickel, was recently estimated at $548,320,031 in gold, $308,784,223 in silver and $630,000,000 in. paper; total, $1,487,104,254.

DuriNg the past year twenty-five thousand articles - accumulated in the dead-letter office at Washington. %'l‘he recent sale included all sorts of necessaries and luxuries, from Easter eggs to seersucker suits. : bl

TaE Supreme Court of Alabama’has decided that all sales.of lands m‘adje' by the Alabama & Chattanooga road before its completion are void. . Millions of ‘dollars’ worth of territory in the Tichest mineral districts are involved.

‘At the rate of one mile per day the Mexican International road is pushing southward to a connection with the Mexican Central at Lardo. It isclaimed that -the distance from Chicago to'the Mexican capital will next summer be thereby lessened six hundred miles,

- Joux G. Wurrrier celebrated his seventy-ninth birthday recently at his bome in' Danvers, Mass. Hosts of friends extended their congratulations, and the day was observed in~some of the schools by reading and reciting selections from the works of the poet, and in a like manner by some of the literary societies. Lt

HeNrRY WOOD, who was county treasurer of (}zu'r‘(?ll County, Ark., aqd is serving a five years' imprisonment for stealing six thousand dollars of co?mty funds, has made application for anew trial, his defense being: that he kept the money in an old boot hidden in a hayloft, and that the boot was stolen while he was away from home. . |

AN exchange is amazed at the announcement. that a captain of the (P ew York police has retired to private life with $250,000. At the same time we have the startling story that a hurglar ‘broke into a country wewspaper office at Lawrénce, Mass:, and. got%fZOO out of the s:lrfe. - A sudden flux of such items as these is whit destroys the public confidence in .the veracity ofi the press. S ]\ _ - ERNEST, SCHILLING e io the hu-d’u W w tly in the marine c_orlﬁ, at the Brooklyn navy yard, and has been transferred to Norfolk, Va. This transfer is said 'to have been made through the influence of the rich banker, and for the purpose of paving the way for the return of the truant Vietoria, who, it is said, is secluded in some safe retreat by her father. : b

- CouNTERFEIT’ twventy-dollar. United States Treasury notes are afloat. In 1884 the eounterfeiter was captured with several thousand dollars’ worth of the notes, but many were buried, and it is supposed have been dug up and set afloat. * Phe note. is of the series of 1880, letter C, is thick and greasy and one-eight of an inch shorter than the genuine. - In the left face, in the word ‘“‘certificate,” the letters R, T and F are engraved-upside down. ¢

.THE Montreal ice carnival this year is to surpass all previous efforts. It will Tequire twenty-seven thousand blocks of ice to construct the palace. The structure will- have a tall tower, a short tower and a huge round tower, all in Canadian-Norman style. There will also be a labyrinth of ice-blocks, eight toboggan slides, skating, curling, -snovggshoeing and sleighing on the _usualfarge scale, a grand fancy dress '%katipg scene, and a full-dress ball,

SoMe enterprising German statistician has couhted up the newspapers in the world. He finds that there are 34,900 of them, and that their added circu- . lation is 592,000,000 single issues each year. Sinéde there are about 1,500,000,- > 000 people in the world, it appears that . _-on an average every five. of them get two copies a year. There are 19,000 papers printed in Europe, 12,000 in - North America, 775 in Asia and 609 in South America. Of all these 16,500 are printed in English, 7,800 in German, 3,850 in French and ‘about 100 in spamish.” . . PHeny L e o 3 i RTS S I SR S T & 2 Mgs. CHAMPAGNE, of st. Louis, has _ not known where her father was for years. Recently an old man called - and said he was her long-lost parent. . He showed such knowledge of the family that she believed him. He 'told her ~ he had maae $8,000,000 in the far West, . and now that he had found his heir he . would die happy. It was a touching ~ 'meeting, and the only drawback to the ' old man’s happinéss was the fact that mﬁg{mr banking hours, and he was . out of cash. Then his daughter loaned . him $l5, he stepped out, and she has ~ not seen him since. L . Tum celebrated express-robbery case, __An which the Van Wert (0.) Bank sued Pl St wonir ny e R M““*@V’«mw}? i | %e’% RN WALAONS SeMTOYING the Aemi. ‘p;g’ N'7 R »;) w%}.w‘%%ﬁfgzgﬂkﬁwi ~M%E T R s Yey ol SN ?;ﬁm ~ Y : mgg‘!a{ e w:”*x;'%:« ‘“'»_‘ 3’& ¥oy »’*nw*nﬂ\lp Sy

EPITOME OF THE WEEK. Interesting News Compilation, : L eee—— T : - FROM® WASHINGTON. Ox the 23th it was decided that the remains of General Logan would be interred in'a cemetery at Washington until a final burial-place could be determined upon. The ‘General died poor, and while it was olear that a liberal pension would-be granted to 1 Mrs. Logan, several leading men throughout the country had already subscribed $15,000 for her relief. - ' SECRETARY MANNING on the 28th issued a call for $10,000,000 of three per cent. bonds. The call will mature February 1, 1887, Tae sum of $7,500,000 is appropriated by the River and Harbor bill, as prepared by the House Committee. £ l - DuriNe 1836 there were 8,010 miles of railroad track- laid in the United States, at a cost of $160,000,000. 1 . THE Dead-Letter Office gives an evidence of the carelessness of the public in addressing correspondence in a list. of sixty-four letters addressed to Pittsburgh, 0., when Pittsburgh, Pa., was intended. Chicago, N. Y., is often written for Chicago, Il : | During November last 81,029 immigrants arrived in this country, while in November,, 1885, the number was only 20,070. s DurING 1886 it.is estimated that there were thrée thousand separate strikes, and that the loss to the country was ai)out $25;000,000. ! Durine 1886 the value of the new gold received at the mint in Washington was $1,344,706.29. = i Iy the Senate chamber solemn and impressive funeral services over the remains of Senator Logan were held on the 31st ult. There w: gat. throng of people present. Rev. Yr.' Newman preached the funeral serfnon. The President was not able to' attend, but Mrs. Cleveland was present, as well as the members of the Cabinet and their wives. All the branches of the Government were represented. The remains were placed in a vaultin Rock Creek Cemetery. An offer of a permanent burial-place on the Lake frontin Chicagowas said to have been accepted by Mrs. Logan, ; : 3 Tre fund being raised by Captain Lemon for- Mrs. Logan had on the Ist reached $40,000. W. P. Nixon had placed in her hands $6,500 contributed in Chicago. A TueEreE were 272 persons killed in the ‘ year 1886 in tornadoes, 216 by boiler and other explosions, 420 in fires, 174 in mining disasters, 887 by floods and drowning, 71 by lightning, 40 by snow-slides, 39 by falling buildings and 36 by earthquaks. The number killed in railroad accidents was 855, against 947 the previous year, and 2,748 lost their lives in ocean and lake disasters, against 2,397 in 1885, THE number of .persons in the United ‘States who committed suicide in 1886 ‘was 914, against 978 in 1885. Of the number, 757 were males and 157 females. There ;were 1,449 murders reported, against 1,808 in 1885; 83 hangings, against 108 the prp vious year, and 133 lynchings, againt 181%N 1885. 5 . . . 5;5-‘,-;‘ "IN the United States during 1566 the nulNe | ber of business failures was 9,834, as'compared with 10,637 in .the year 1885, a decrease of 805 failures. =~ The total liabilities for 1886 were $114,000,000, against $124,000,000 in 1885, THE fire ltéss in the United States during the year 1886 was $110,000,000, against $105,000,000 in 1885. -

THE EAST.

-A TrRAIN on the Fort Wayne road was derajled on the 29th near Darlington, Pa., and six persons weré painfully injured. - Mgrs. EDWIN STAFFORD, aged nineteen years, of Sanford’s Corners, N. Y., was burned to death a few days ago by her clothés catching fire from a stove. ) Tue failure is announced of Charles H. Raymond, dealer in hardware supplies at. New York, for $500,000. S THE death of James A. McMaster, th€ veteran Catholic editor of the NewXork Freemgmiadgurnal, occurred on thé€ 29th at, ) he.a¥ Tuf sifkty-six years. L HONAS LOTOURETTE, a centenarian, who lived under every President of the United ! States, died at Stanton, N. J/,jon the 29th. Lizzie HArT and Sadie Bigelow, aged nineteen and eighteen, respectively, quarreled with their lovers at Boston the other night, and'upon returning to théir rooms swallowed poison and 'died ‘a few hours later. » 4 . A FIRE destroyed ten buildings on the 20th at Greensburg, Pa. ILoss, $lOO,OOO. MEMORIAL service was held on the evening of the 29th in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, to celebrate the completion’ of the sixtieth year of the ministry of Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher, D.D., the eldest brother of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. o

Friexnps of Don Cameron held a conference the other day.at Harrisburg, Pa., to arrange for placing his name before the National Republican convention as a candidate for President.. ; ;

OvVEß.two thousand brewery employes in Philadelphia struckon the 30th ult. against a reduction of twenty per cent. in their wages. | el R

Mr. PowpERLY in a recent letter to a friend in New York strongly denounced the Socialists, and told them that men who for 364 days in the year advocate the use of the dirk and bullet, and who on the 865th day walk up to the polls and vote for the continuance of the system which they denounce, could' not be recognized by the Knights of Labor. :

GENERAL W. W.-LoRING, aged seventy:one yearss a veteran of the Mexican War, a Confederate General in the rebellion, and more recently a corps commander in the Egyptian army, died in New , York on-the 30th ult. :

A BAND of counterfeiters is said to be working in New York City, and were getting rid of their bogus coin through the agency of saloon-keepers and' bar-tenders. HiLBorNE L. Roosevert, of New York City, one of the largest organ builders in the world, and inventor of electric appliances, died on the 30th ult., aged thirtyseven years. = - S :

ON the Ist the proprietors of the Boston Herald announced to their employes that during the present year they should each have a share of the net profits of the business. :

HorATio PoTTER, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal’ Diocese of New York for thirty two years, died at his home in New York City on'the 2d,-aged eighty-seven years, ; TwENTY-81x vessels of the Gloucester (Mass.) fishing fleet were lost last year, Wwith 187 lives. .\ . ‘o o :

s~ WEST AND SOUTH. = - Jony Evros, Jr., charged with the murder of John Lavalle, was on the 28th taken out of jail at' Arcadia, La., and hanged to a tree. ; 3

. 'THE other day Laura Varley, aged six- ' teen years, was thrown against a red-hot' stove in SBt. Louis by a large dog, her clothes caught fire, and she was burned to death. : i ‘ sais . In Chicago a few days ago Grace Collins, aged four years, was burned to death, her _clothing catching fire while she was play-. ing near a stove, : : : ON the evening of the 29th twenty-five hundred ladies and gentlemen met in ‘ Central Musik Hall, Chicago, to do hotior to the memory of General John A. Logan. Preachers, soldiers and politicians paid tribute to the dead hero, .~ { Raymoxp Mureay and Bbbe% Beasley" were lynched on the 20th near Vicksburg, Miss., for the murder of Milton Washington. o b SR : A sTEAMBOAT at Jackson, Ala., used 11,1-t boarding-house, was burned early on the morning of the 20th, and twerty-five persons lost their lives, ten perishing in the flames and the others being drowned. _ Juper M. A, Hamwoop fell desd whils/ ‘examining a witness a few days agoin & N e f"ﬁ%"‘ i e e Al ud R *'u*w 1 Mingi S A R g gy e e IR ﬁij %ezﬂm% T ;Mm§ T T T b et e e e i s

25,000 tons over the pravious year. - There were seven fatal accidents ‘in the miies during the year. . il TaE famous ‘‘one-armed patriot” of. Ireland, Michael Davitt, was united in marriage to Miss Mamie Yore at Oakland, Cal,, on the 30th ult. . THE dedication of the new State Soldiers® Home at Grand Rapids, Mich., which cost £lOO,OOO and will accommodate five hundred persons, took place on the 30th ult. : At Columbus, 0., a special grand jury on the mt%;ﬂt.‘ found a true bill-against five citizensor.altering tally-sheets at the election held fifteen months ago. TaE death of George H. Hammond, the pioneer of the dressed-beef trade and the founder of a town in Indiana, occurred in Detroit on the 30th ult., of heart-disease, in his forty-ninth year. -

A pPArTY of Italians were gambling on the 30th ult. at Puebld, C 01.,, when one ‘of them, thinking himself cheated, drew a revolver and fired - five shots, fatally wounding three men. A FIRE the other day destroyed one-half the town of Upper Marlboro, Md. \ SEVERAL buildings, including the Journal office, were burned on the 30th ult. at Nicholasville, Ky. Total loss, $lOO,OOO. . EARTHQUAKE shocks of a mild character were felt. on the 31st ult. at Summerville and Columbia, 8. C. Q :

MEMORIAL- services were held in many Illinois towns'on the 31st ult. over the death of General Logan. . et G Ox the Ist Fred Wittrock, the self-con-fessed cxpress robber,- was placed in jail at St. Louis. He said that Fotheringham, the messenger now under arrest, had no ‘knowledge of the scheme until he was disarmed in his car. Nearly . $50,000 had been recovered. e Tae failure of the Dolores Land & Cattle Company of Texas was recently announced to secure debts of §300,000 ; \ GovERNOR FORAKER, of Ohio, on the Ist pardoned from the penitentiaryi its oldest inmate, Priestly Buckmaster, .who was sent from Coshocton County twenty-six years ago for the murder of his wife. His son would give him a home. |

- Tue output of Colorado mines in 1836 was as follows: Silver, $16,450,921; lead, $5,128,296; gold, $5,087,901; copper, $132,570; total, $26,794,688. Increase over 1885 of §2,362.080. : ‘ TrAINS collided on the 81st ult. near San Antonia, Tex., killing fifteen persons and injuring several others. S : " Tue death of John 8. Newberry, an-ex-Congressman and a milXonaire, occurred at his home in Detroit, Mich., on the 24, in his sixty-first year. ; It was reported on the Ist that Mary Baker, aged eighteen years, an ailing girl living at Monroe, Ind., had not eaten or drank for the past sixty-four days.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. . TrE British Parliament will not meet until February. : ; o ON the 20th the Chancellorship of the British Exchequer was accepted by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Lord . Randolph Churchill. e f o © Tar" steamer Sir John was burned just }qut,si&e the harbor of St. John, N. 8., on ithe 29th, and five of the crew were fatally injured. One man was drowned. The vessel and cargo were valued at $70,000. THE belief was growing in Vienna on ths 29th that Russia was determined on war. The Czar ordered the massing of 800,000 troops at Kief. :

ON the 29th Mr. Gladstone celebrated his seventy-seventh birthday. He attended early service at the Hawarden Church, and received presents and congratulations from ‘all parts of the world. . ‘ - THE death of Baron von Oppelseir, the Austrian astronomer, occurred in Vienna on the 29th, at the age of forty-five years. IN a recent fire at Lisbon five persons were killed and a number of firemen were ‘injured. t ; . :

THERE were fotff,g-four new cases of cholel¥.nd_ gjgb'r,agﬁ' d&aths in ‘Mendoza, Ar£€ntine Republic, on th&goth ult.. : THE death of ex-Governdg Gibbs, known as the War Governor of OrBgon, occurred in London on the 30th ult., wheldje had resided Yor twd years: ’ Ry . Durinag the recent great snow-storm in Germany over two hundred lives were ‘lost. e g Al By a"gollision of steamers fourteen persons were drowned on the Ist off Bardsey, . Eng. i o

Ar the People’s Park in Madras, India, a fire broke out the other day while the annual fair was being held, a panic ensued, and three hundred people ‘'were burned or crushed to death. H : TEN miners lost their lives by the falling of a cage in .a Houghton (Eng.) colliery a few days ago. ~* : - :

. TerROUGHOUT Canada the business failures for the year 1886 numbered 1,252, with liabil--Ities of $10,386,000, against 1,256 failures in 1885, with liabilities of $3,881,000.° . IN the Old World the whole list of casualties reported during 1886, including those who perished by cholera and in battle, amounts to 118,023, as compared with 381,845 in 1885, © . 3

LATER.

- TEE public-debt stateraent on the 3d shows the total debt to be #1,726,083,692; cash in treasury, $42,196,632; debt less cash, in treasury, §1,341,934,496. Decrease during December, $9,358,202. e TaE Wisconsin State officers were quietly inaugurated at Madison on the 3d, there being no festivities, as a mark of respect to the late General Logan. L #

Tae fund for the benefit of Mrs. Logan had on the 34 reached $50,000. Captain Lemon, the treasurer, had purchased 414 per' cent. bonds for Mrs. Logan to the amount of $20,000,

IN Toronto on the 8d Howland, the temperance candidate for. mayor, was elected by a majority of 2,277 : - TaE official count for State officers was made on the 8d at St. Paul, Minn., giving McGill (Rep.), for Goévernor, 107,064; Ames (Dem.),104,664; Childs (Pro.), 8,966, Mr. Ames was present, but made no contest. : S k

For the'week ended December 8d there were 511,666 standard silver dollars issued from the mints, against 476,584 in the corres. ponding period the previous year. . ARreNsDoßrrF-and five others, charged with murder and conspiragy in the Haddock affair, appeared in court at Sioux City, la, on the 8d and'entered pleas of not guilty. - A FIRE on the 8d destroyed the Odescalchi palace at Rome. Loss, $1,000,000. = | VERY cold weather was reported on ths 8d from all quarters. The Manitoba wave even swept south as far as the City of Mexico, where thin ice formed in several places in the city. =~ The thermometer stood at 40 degrees below zero.at Watertown, N. Y. et g

Tug California and Tennessee Legisla tures convened on ths Bd. g s

Over fifteen hundred men employed about the New Jersey coal docks, from Heboken to South Amboy, struck on the 8d against a reduction of wages. : Tue National bank circulation stood at $206,486,877 on the Bd, a decreass for December of $2,5%0,994, and for the twelve months of §20,586,283. : e AX unknown man committed suicide on the 88 by jumping from the suspensien bridge intoithe Niagara river rapids, a distance of 195 feet. = . : EARTHQUAKE shocks and loud rumblings early on the morning of the 3d.disturbed and excited the inhabitants of the towns in Western Maryland. As the country is mountainous, a voleanic upheaval was feared. . : o e e Four men were killed and thirteen in‘jured by an explosion of gas in the Camb:xdge barracks at Portsmouth, Eng., on thedd, - o e _Tun fire losses n the United States and oo s during: Doocataber. resched SO, IHB exchanges at twonty-six leading ke B iged g - ko Wbk ol o wu M 2 e S e s R

. A YEAR’'S HISTORY. . A Resume of the Most Important Occur- ~ rences at Home and Abroad for the Year. Just Ended«; L - “ £ THE OLD YEAR AT HOME. The record of the old year at home presents much for which to be thankful—bountiful barvests, increased trade and commerce, peace Wwith all ‘countries, absence of pestilence, continued dsvelopment of Natioual resources and a happy and prosperous year. ‘ e e ) The legislative history of the country presents many interesting featuges. During the first session of the Forty-ninth Congress, which' lasted seven months and . twenty-eight days, the following measures of importance were enacted into laws: The Presidential Succession bill; legalizing the incorporation of National trades unions; the Oleo< margarine bill; the increase of the navy; the relief of Fitz John Porter; and the increase to §l2 per month of the pensicas of widows and 'depeadent relatives. During the second session the Electoral Count bill, the bill to repeal the Tenure of Office 'act, and the resolution against open executive sessions of the Senate have passed. | The' following are still pending: -The Inter-State Commerce bill, the Mexican Pension bill, the bill repealing the Timber Culture, Preemption and Desert Lanhd laws, the Tariff bills, the bill to prevent aliens from %c--quiring or owining land in the Territories, the Bankruptcy bills, the Anti-Polygamy bills, the Chinese Indemnity bills, and the bill for the admission of Dakota and Washington Territaries. | . Another important event was the negotiation of .a'supnlemental extradition treaty with Great‘Britain, adding manslaughter, embezzlemeny ny and dynamiting to the extraditaViee Jgnses. |

The Administration has had two little specks of war. The first grew out of the arrest of Cutting, a citizen pf Texas, by the Mexican authorities, in the management of which the State Department displayed conspicuous inability. The possibility of international disturbance, howoyer; was finally averted by hLis release last August, after he had been tried and sentenced by a Mexican court, the penalty being his detention for a few days. The Canadian difficulty has been a more serious one. - The 12th of May the schooner David J. Adams was seized at Digby, N. 8.,f0r alleged violation of the fishery laws. This was the signal for the seizure of fourteen more during the summer upon all sorts of pretexts, most of them trivial. Protests: were made, but they were unavailing, as ‘the Canadians were .evidently determined to force this country into a new treaty. A bill passed Congress which gave the President power to retaliate by cutting off commercial intercourse, but he declined to use it. The English Government sustained the Canadians in their course and thus far no satisfaction has been obtained. The President in his message to Congress recommended the appointment of a commission to fix the losses' by these outrages and make a demand for them. . ‘ :

The most exciting events of the year have been the great Southwestern strike on-the Missouri Pacific and the eight-hour movement in Chicago, which culminated in. the Anarchistic bomb-throwing. ' The operatives on the Missouri [Pacific, 10,000 . in’° number, were ordered out by the Knights of Labor the [l7th of March because some person who had been discharged. in Texas was nof reinstated. The strike rapidly spread through Arkansas, Texas, Missouri and Kansas, and into Kast St. Louis, -Illj: - The Governors of the above States interposed their authority to induce the strikers to return to their work in vain. Mr. Powderly also denounced the strike as untimely, and a conflict of authority arose between him and Martin @ Irons, the Ilocal - leader. The 27th of March Mr. Powderly ordered :the men back to work pending -an arbitration between himself and Gould, but the strikers declined going to work when the railroad company refused totake back the leaders. The ineg . s tive Board of the Knights of Labor rescinded the order to resume. In East St. Louis the sfrike assumed a violent form and seven of the rioters were ‘killed. - Meanwhile a com%itt,ee was appointed by Congress to investigate the trouble, and pending its completion the strike was declared off the 8d of May. S e o - In Chicago on the Ist of May the eighthour movement began. Two days later, urged on by the inflammatory speeches of the Anarchists, a mob attacked McCormick’s factory, but was repulsed by the police. The next evening occurred the attack upon the police and the bomb-throw-ing in Haymarket square, which resulted in the death of seven of the. officers and the maiming of sixty others. The massacre by = the Anarchists was the death-blow of -the eight-hour movement, and on the 18th of May the men -returned to work on the old basis, The Anarchist, conspirators — Spies,. Schwab, Fischer, Engel, Lingg, Parsons, Neebe and Fielden—were indicted May 25, a jury was impaneled July 15, and the 20th of August they were found guilty. The motion for a new trial was overruled October 7, and the 9th they were sentenced to death, with the exception of Neebe, whose punishment was fixed at fifteen years in the penitentiary. The 25th of November Judge Scott issued a supersedeas in the ease. GG Mt

- There have been humerous other strikes in ‘the country, prominent among them those of the street-car employes and sugarrefinery men in New York City, the mill operatives at Amsterdam, N. Y., the tanners at Salem and Peabody, Mass., the glass-blowers of -New Jersey and the miners in Pennsylvania. e Other events of interest during the year were the conviction and punishment of Herr Most, the Anarchist, in New York, the dedication of the Bartholdi statue, the Charleston earthquake in August and the ‘November elections. . : PG

THE OLD YEAR ABROAD. _ ° Although the old year was a particularly peaceful one yet it has -witnessed many stirring -political events and complicdtions which as the. New Year dawns portend speedy strife betwsen the European Powers. The nucleus of this menacing agitation is Bulgaria. The year opened with a protest from Greece against the union of Bulgaria and Roumelia, which was soon followed by the mobilization of her forces notwithstanding the repeated warnings of the Berlin treaty Powers. The latter, with the exception of Russia, recognized the uysmion and confirmed the appointment of Prince Alexander as Governor for a limited term of years, and ultimately succeeded in compelling Greece to disarm by a display of force at Salamis Bay. In August occurred the memorable coup d’etat, growing out-of Russian intrigue, by which ‘Alexander was forced to abdicate. A Provisional Government was formed, but the loyal Bulgarians overthrew it, established an: anti-Russian Government, and invited Alexander ‘to return. He appeared .at Sophia, September 2, but before assuming 'power sent word to the Czar that he would: take the throne conditional upon his approval—an unfortunate message, for the ‘Crzar at | once manifested his disapproval, and ‘the Bth of the same month Alexander signed ‘the deed of abdication and the Government passed into the hands of a regeucy, where. ;t‘ still remains. Meanwhile the other | Powers were in correspondence with Runslp, demnading: 10 kndwt s ntens ‘tions, -to which she replied that she had nﬁfd@fg‘ u of mﬁﬁm a, Her ‘Envoy, M. Kaulbars, was already ih that province for the purpose of influencing 2 Bire g M@*%ﬁ” %‘ w.k : i&ﬁg M‘fﬁ ‘W@‘ 5 *‘r‘“"'ﬁ#mﬁf}g it sihdiad Fing, ket o h Tithagrdin bl e lib est iy gilted £ e ‘!Fe'&r)’)?\;?u‘f/"“ ’»3,7 ”‘\a’ i‘;%" o n:‘sf««“ ’V\‘ ~w,¢;«€§ k ’&@” iAs S x et i;: e g R R R R eEE L

owing to the opposition not only of Bulgaria but| also of the larger European Powers. The latest candidate is Prince Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg Gotha, but, as he is objectionable to Russia, his candidacy will algo prove a failure. - Meanwhile Russia has not relinquished her determination. to Russianize Bulgaria, and, as such a purpose must bring her mto collision with Austria, whose interests lie in the same direcsion, the danger of war is imiminent. New Year's Day, 1886, the Queen of England issued: her proclamation announcing the annexation of Burmah, although that Empire has not yet been pacified or organized, so great has been’the opposition of the Bu.rmese. Parliament met the 12th of January, |and ' fourteen days later the Torey Ministry was defeated on an agricultural amendment to the Queen’s address. | February 3 Mr. Gladstone formed a new Government. The 19th Parliament . reassembled, and the Bth of April the Premier introduced his famons Home-Rule bill. After a long and excited debate the bill was defeated June 7. The Cabinet decided to appeal to the country. The election favored the- Tories, Mr. Gladstone resigned, and a new Gov. ernment was formed by the Marquis of Salisbury, in which Lord Randolph Churchill _appeared as the Chancellor of the Excliequer and leader of the Conservatives in the Housé of Commons, a position‘which he resigned last month owing to radical differences with the Marquis |of Salisbury on questions of intex{nal policy as well as upon the amount of; appropriations necessary for the national defensein view of impending war. Sinde their advent to power the Tories have made no progress in conciliating|lreland. 'On the other hand, they have dei%eated the Parnell Land bill and proclaimed themselvesiin favor of a more coercive policy, the beg‘inning of which is already apparent in the arrest of prominent Irigh leaders upon the charge of conspiracy io defraud the landlords out of their rents. 5

' France, as usual, has been in a ferment the entire year. The 4th of January M. de Freycinet formed a.new Ministry, which distinguished itself by concluding a treaty with agascar, expelling the French Princes| and seizing a few more islands in the Pacific. | The 3d of December the Freycinet Ministry was defeated on. a |motion: to /abolish the subprefect{x‘res. M. Floquet undertook the task of making a new one and failed, but the 11th M. Goblet succeeded in organizing a Cabinet of very ordinary ability, which in the nature vf things will be short-lived. Though| plunged heavily in debt, France is increasing her armies and preparing herself to meet an expected attack by Germany in the spring. ; ; Thelgt{ter Power has apparently had a quiet year, but under her seeming repose she has been preparing herself for war, ‘and a bill is now pending for a very material increase of the army. In Bavaria mad King Ludwig was deposed last June, and a few d%s afterwards ended his troubles by drowning himself. Prince Luitpold succeeded him as Regent. Italy has been scourged. by the cholera again, but, ;ike the = ‘other Powers, is, putting herself in readiness to meet the! impending storm.of war, regardless of pestilence. Little Switzerland has been happy, quiet and prosperous. Sweden has had her Socialistic troubles and settled them. Portugal has lost a Conservatlve Minis&y. which 'has been: succeeded by the Progressionists. In Spain the new year opened with a Republican revolution, which: was promptly put down., In October the Ministry resigned because the Queen pardoned the leaders and Senor Sagasta formed a new one. The only other events of interest. are the birth of an heir to the crown, a decree from the Bishops separating Church and State, and the abolition of slavery in the Spanish colonies. : : A RECORD OF THE LOSS OF. LIFE. ! ~ The record of loss by disasters of various kinds is not as appalling as 1t was in 1883, Following is a whole, list of casualties in the Old World where the w'wi;; %m enetrgh-Pts~be ~telcgraphed, inetading those who perished by cholera and in battle, amounts to . 118,023 as compared with 381,845 in 1885. ' n The following table gives the loss of life occurring by varivus disastersin this countrv: ; 1 T0rnad0e5........... 212|Lightning.......... 7 Boiler explosions. .. 139{Falling buildings.. 89 Pire5................ 420|Snow-51ide5........ 40 Mining disasters.... I‘74’Earthquake...... 0186 Other explosions.... 77 . — Floods & drowning.. 887 Total ......... .2,165 The loss: of life by railroad accidents is considerably less than that of last year. The total number of killed as reported by telegraph is 855, as compared with 947 in 1885, 621 in 1884, 755 1n 1883, 820 in 1882 and 1,040 in 1881. The total number: of those seriously injured,by a singular coincidence, is 855, as compared with 936 in 1885, 1,050,in 1884, 1,116 «in 1883, 1,115 in 1882:and 527 in 1881, ; a 3 ;

‘Bo far as reported 1,552 lives have been lost upon the ocean, 197 on our inland waters (a total of 2,749, as compared with 2,397 last year), 855 by railroads, 2,165 by disasters in thé New World, and 118,028 in the oOld World, including pestilence and battle, making 122,791, as 'compared with 887,463 last year. i : ; |

3 ° THE WEARY OF LIFE. The number of persons who have committed suicide in the United States is 914, as compared with 978 last. year, 842 in 1884, 727 in 1883, 734 in 1882 and 605 inlBBl. Of the ‘total number 757 were males and 157 females. The causes are‘as follows: Me1anch01y............262|8u5ine5s losses.... 32 1n5anity..........,.... 140|Liquor.. .. .... ....'dD Domesti¢trouble..... 74|111-health.... .... .. 50 Disappointed 10ve..., 67Ln_known Jeinreini, 208 Of the above cases 341 shot themselves, 181 died by poison, 136 by hanging, 79 by drowning, 82 by:cutting -the throat, 16 by throwing themselves in front of railroad trains, 13 by stabbing, 7 by fire, 4 by throwing themselves from windows, 4 by inhaling gas, 4 by starvation, 2 by dynamite cartridges, 1 by jumping down a shaft, 1 by jumping from a cliff, 1 by beating his héad against a wall and 1 by opening his " veins. The revolver and poison appear o be the favorite routes. : A 5 MURDERS. $a - The total number of murders committed |in this country as reported by telegraph is 1,499, as compared with 1,808 in 1885, 1,465 'in 1884, 1,697 in 1883, 1,467 in 1832, and 1,265 in 1881. = The c#uses for these murders may be classified as follows* : ?u5fre15............ﬁa1‘ Resisting arrest .... 52 ealousy. ou. 0 181 Strikes Ll i 185 itgror - o B ERIONE a 8 By highwaymen ... 89<l Self-defense ........ 19 Highwaymen killed 24 | Qutrage ............ 10 Insanity oo o 84 Duelel siR Infanticide ......... 431 Unkn0wn...........196 JACK KETCH AND JUDGE LYNCH. The number of legal executions during’ the year is less than for many years-past, being but 83, as compared with 108 last year, 18%8 in 1884, 107 in 1883, 121 in 1882 and 90 in 1881, -Of pixis' number all were males, 42 were wltiﬁeu; 40 negroes, and one Chinaman. oo Yo ; : s | Judge Lynch has executed in various Ways 138 vietims as compared_with 181 last s égsa 107 in 1883, 121 in 1883 and 190 indBBl. O ;‘ggls number, 131 were males, 2 females, 62 whites'and 71 negroes. . | WEAYX LOSSES BY THE FLAMSS. . during the year w mk%ﬁ gloomy for the a 8 follows %@“ ?&Wh«w >m ot Ae Ll e SRR R e R _January ....... $6,787,000/october.. ... $4,785,000 et ’st ggt‘:g";' sombor, . B 507000 Al a 0 e May..io.io s 18100000 Total ... 840,094,000 June ﬁd’“ . 1,706,000(Total, 1885... 82,466,500 AW 45*?“%% 1888, .1, 41.564.750 BRntamßne .. L gamaadal Y e Septembor.... 1,270,00 %*u%‘wﬁ% ‘~,{ 2w« i‘ R ‘,"?wﬁ'ﬁ 'i".»;;wﬁsﬁ s‘,z;;w é\“"’}:n\ } " ’L"‘, ‘,,,1,d .w,gy‘ and Canada for 1 E;ﬁ_'"v(.‘.g@j%r ach about €ll O.. R e R L{'.E:f; L 3 iy oL ’ T L RCRNERD Pos i. “»jgﬂ 3 ‘,;,i'{;_‘;;i:.. e S

The Remains of General Logan Tempora= rily Laid Away—lmpressive Funeral Serve icg in the Senate Chamber. = . ~ WasHINGTOY, Dec. 81.—The sleet-storm of Thursday night, which thickly enameled the pavemgats, gave place this morningtoa h,enxy!o'ﬁg. almost a rain-fall. ‘The two inches of thawing snow and ice which covered the ground made marching and all out-door exercise a thing to be dreaded. However, great crowds made their way from early morning toward the Capitol to view the remains of the dead statesman, and the time -of the lying in stateg was too short to give dn opportunity for all to pass by. At12:10 the pall-bearers took their places and conveyed the casket to the Senate Chamber: The hall of the:Senate was tastefully, though not elaborately, draped, and the chair of the dead Senator, the second of the innermost row from the center aisle, was covered with crape. The Senators came in singly or in pairs and took the seats assigned them on ' the left of the presiding officer’s dosk, leaving the three front rows vacant. At a quarter. before twelve o’clock, clad: in their: silken: robes of office, entered without formal announcement Chief Justice Waite and Associate Justices Bradley, Gray, Field and Matthews; together with ‘the officers of the Supreme_ Court and took the seats assigned to them to the right of the presiding - officer’s desk. Behind' them came the members of the House of Representatives, headed by the officers of that body, and were conducted to their seats in the rear of the chamber. . The members of the diplomatic corps; many of iwhom came in dress’ uniforms; were ushered: to teats upon the right and belnd them came the representatives of the Aministration, »Becwetaries. Bs’:,wgd, ~Endicott Whitney . and Attorney Gcneral B Garland, who were“placed in the first row upon the right. The President was not able to be present. . e e The seats reserved for the family of the President were occupied: by Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Folsom, Mrs. Vilas, Mrs. Manning and Mrs. Lamont. At twelve o’clock

A BUSH FELL OVER THE ASSEMBLAGE, and as the procession of mourners entered the north door ofy the chamber, every occupant of a seat upon the flocr rose to his| feet. Mrs. Logan, heavily vailed, was 'supported by her son, John A. Logan, Jr. ‘Major and Mrs. Tucker and their son, Logan Tucker, Cornelius and James V. Logan, brothers of the General: Miss Andrews, affianced of John A. Logan, Jr., and Mary Brady, a cherished friend of ‘the family, and for years a member of the household, composed the mourning procession. . They were ushered to seats upon the lefhfront. Following the mourners came. - T THE FUNERAL PROCESSION, - ° headed by Rev. Dr. Newman, the officiating clergyman; Rev. Dr. Butler, Chaplain of the Senate; Bishop Andrews, of the Methodist Episcopal Church; and Rev. Dr. O. H, Tiffany, of Philadelphia, former pastor of the Metropolitan Church,-of this city. *. . THE HONORARY PALL-BEARERS were General Sherman, Hon. Roscoe Conkling, Senator Stanford, Postmaster-General Vilas, General Lucius Fairchild, Mr. C. G, Andrews, Colonel Fred D. Grant, Dr. McMillan and General John C. Black, They wore sashes of black with shoulder knotsof black and white ribbons. They formed in twolines as they came within the bar; and between them passed the members of the G. A. R. men bearing the casket. The Congressional committee wore wide sashes of white. The honorary pdll-bearers and the committee were conducted to seats, on the left center. Senator Sherman and Speaker Carlisle occupied chairs at the -President’s desk, and the clergymen at-the desk of the secretary. - : i

| The solemnjservices were begun by the reading of the Ninetieth Psalm: by Bishop Andrews. Dr. Butler read, ag the burial service, a portion of the Fifteenth Corinthians. Prayer was offered ‘by Dr. Tiffany, and the funeral sermon was delivered by Dr. Newman. ! g R P

~B¢ Newman finished his sermon at-one o'olocioiid thasengoopying geats on.ihe floor of the Senate Chamber arose while Bishop Andrews pronounced the benediction. - e i

* Mr. Sherman, the presiding officer, thén announced that the cortege would form according to programme. Mrs. Logan, escorted by her son and brother-in-law; and fol-. lowed by the other members of the family, left the chamber. . The guard of honor lifted the oasket and-proceeded from the chamber, followed by the honorary pall-bearers, Cabinet officers, Senators and others: on the floor. Sa R s R When the casket was carried from' the Capitol by the east front and placed in the hearse a magnificent military display was presented. Beveral companies of artillery and cavalrymen;” on foot and. mounted, were drawn up in line extending 'the entire length of the east Capitol front, while members of the G. A. R., Loyal Legion, Knights Templar, etc., ete, all in uniform, added to' the concourse of soldiery. The rain fell lightly, the atmosphere was dark and murky, and the surroundings intensely unpleasant, but the procession was one of the largest and most impressive that ever moved on a like occasion in this city. It moved for Rock Creek cemetery at 1:20 o’clock. : e

° . THE PROCESSION:MOVED in the following order: - '

Battalion of Third United States -artillery, : Colonel H. G. Gibson: e Light Battery C, Third United States artillery, ; Captain J. G. Turnbull. =~ =~ Battalion United States marine ecorps, Captain z 000 HL Harmmgton, ot ‘Detachment United States seamen, Lieutenant- : Commander W. W. Rhoades. = - ] t.O District militia.! ot L e g Grand Army of the Republic. = . < Senate Committee of Arrangements. . Hearse; pall-bearers; family of deceased. ' Senators; Representatives. s Officers:of the army and navy, =@ ' » Committee of Mexican War veterans. ' . - Committee of Military Order Loyal Legion. Committee of Grand Army of the Republic. ‘ Committee of the Army of the Tennessee. | Citizens of Illinois. Fh Clerks Pension Bureau. - o ' Other organizations, '~ - Down Pennsylvania avenue to Fifteenth | street the procession moved, then. to Vermont avenue, to Rhode Island avenue, to Seventh street road, and to the cemetery, where the casket was deposited in a vault, to remain umtil Generdl Logan’s final, resting place shall have been decided upon. President Cleveland determined &l eleven o'clock not to attemd the Logan funeral ceremonies at the Capitol yesterday because of the inclemency of the weather, . —A great many American girls who hastily marry foreigh noblemen never repent at leisure. This is not so much | owing to the happiness of their marriages as to the fact :that when a wom~ % . SLB Tl e L gS I R an takes in washing and irening andhustles around to support a-~lusband she has very little leisure ‘tc repent in. | —N FGrapMe; ;i o L e — s . S R o L RS SRR ~ —The Arab horses which the Sultan | of Msmds vipally, ot fo, Guane Mg foria ave valued st 17,000 . Tho miscellaneous bric-a-brac which her Maj-' cseg il ud ki tholSrlimi sST at §2,500, leavinga net’profit of 14,500 in favor of the Queen.® = . e + —~Mr, Fingeris a defeatod candidate 1c " selelatire in . T Qn ~. T x;a;-;éj;fi ";=;;»7;;;§;'t'd;§.f«t;?g;;::‘ (s B "’?gé% aeratening aid It, savs. an exchanoe., ProLavly Pe O nand b the next Vs L U R R e R e e fom, oo R By s ;,;gﬁu‘i hf ‘ ii" ' the que avant fanty &gw L ey e e O

.~ ‘SIN AND DEATH, - International Sunday-School Lesson for - January 9, 1887. _* . [Specially arranged trom 8. S. Quarterly.] . Gen, 8:1-6; 17-19; commit yverses 17-19. 1. Now the serpent.was more subtile tham any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he ‘said unto the woman: Yea, ‘hath God said: Ye shall not eat of every troe of the garden? - feie AN L e - 2. And the woman silannto,the serpent: We: - may eat of the fruit of the treesof the garden; .8, But of the fruit o(ithﬁ tree which i 3 in the midst of the garden, God hath said: Ye shall not eat of ity‘neither shall ye touch it, lest ye: ;v Yoo thewy ; .*4, And the serpent shid unto the woman: Ye shall not surely die; * | e 5. For God doth know that in :the day ye eat. thereof, then your eyﬁe%shall be .opened, and. ° ye shall be as gods, kneWing good and evil, , - 6. And when the woman saw that.the tree wus: good for food, and that it was pleasant to the ’ eyes, and a tree to be desired tomake one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and . did.eat, and. gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. ' ° . 4 g . o LM 17. And unto Adam He said: Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree. of whichl commanded thee, saying?i Thou shalt not'eat of it; cursed is” the ground fér thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. ; Ferals 18. Thorns also and thistles shall ‘it ;bring: forth to thee; and thou shalt -eat the herb.of | the fleld. At R 2 i "

19, In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat - bread, till thou return unto the: ground; for out. of it wast thou taken; for dust thou arf, and. unto‘dust shalt thou réturn. - .. ~| . : . New TesTaAMENT TEXT, the .T,egnpta.tion of Jesus.—Matt. 4:1-11.. ~ - w - TiMe—B. C. 4904 | Soon aftef thd croation of Adam and Eve. : Cat PrAce—The ‘Garden of ‘Eden, probably somewhere in the large disnrict througn which, the Euphrates flows. = s Max 1y EpeX—lnnocent, perféct, but in.experienced, n@t"gul'g;_ red ‘or &ivilized outwardly. & o .- TREE or Lire—Probably a tree by whoss qualities the body. was to be presérved from:. decay, and accidental injuries bd healed; a type of immortality. Lt Soidl . -TREE oOF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND: :EviL—Not the tree of knowledge -in gen--ieral, but the test-tree, ' by which Adam “would gain the knbwledge of good and evil. It was not' to make' him fall, but to make: him good by choosing to obey.. God meant ihim to know good-and evil by experiencing‘the good, and to know evil by contrast. He chose to know them by experiencing the: evil, and learning gdod by contrast. . . HELPS OVER HARD PLACES—I. The serpent: la real serpent, but. used- by Satan, who is. the great serpent—the dragon. Subtile; crafty, cunning, tricky, and hence used by Setan- . oo 2 o

* TemMpTATION—(I) It was impossibls for {Adam to have been developed in character: ‘without temptation. (2) The tenlg)ter was. not allowed to cam? in order-to make him fall, but to enable him to resist. (3) The: tempter was not allowed to come in his own. ‘form, nor as an angel of; light, but only as. ;abeast, to make the trial as light as possilble. (4) He ngither threatens hor pet: ‘suades nor compels, but only misrépresents . that as to which Adam and Eve knew ths jéxact truth from God’s own words. » 8. Lest | .ye di¢: body and sbul. Death began the moment they disobeyed; they were shut: - ‘out from the tree of life, and so. in their- 3 bodies began the process of decay. And | ‘sin is spiritual death. 4. Ye shall not surely | die; Satan first planted a doubt of God’s. -/ goodness; now he denies his truth. 5. Yowr - | eyes shall be opened : to see things now wholly bidden' from them. Be as gods: angels, or 4 as God. The hgly beings they had had com- ° munion with: Knowing . good and evil: they . understood the knowledge of good by experiencing it; he knew it would be by les-: i"git- i G g G 5 :’—‘_ 3 - TeeFIRsT Llle. () It was against Gdd’s . word. (2) It was clothed in a form that. might be “mistaken .for a literal truth. A lie sugar-coated with tmuth is' the' worst of lies. (3 It was -malignant. ~ (4) . It. brought great evil - in ‘its train. (5) It was the parent’ of | & multitude of lies.. 17. In sorrow (or in toil) ' shalt thou eat of it; i. p., the -wilds outside; of Eden, whither they were dfiven. 18. ' Th{ras and this t@&h e yould grow nathglly ) good fruit’.ico'tﬁed‘be had Bnly 2?_’_}2‘ W Dust - thow art: his body was made o 1 dudt. Unto dust shall thow returni instead of Being immortal or transformed, as were ti® bodies of Enoch and Elijah in .ascaxp}hng toHeaven. =.. . :

Tae FALL. L.. Adam dnd Eve fell from (1) a state of innocence; (2) from commugion: with God and holy beings; (3) f{rom a clear conscience and undefiled morgl nature; (4) from .happiness; . (5) from being obedient. children and heirs of God; (6) from the kingdom jof God; (7) from spiritual’ and: eternal life; (8) from bodily = life. and | health; (9) from the hope of immortal life. - IL..They fell’lo (1) spiritual death; (2) bodily: sickness and death;-(3) to guilt; (4) to.a defiled moral nature; (5) to misery; (6). to. the kingdom of Satan; (7). to astateof ‘eternal punishment and death; (8) to the defilement and injury of the whole race. GoLpEN TEXT—Byione man sin entered into the world, and ' death by sin.—Rom. Bl et O : 1 CE‘.\'TR%L TrurH—Paradise lost by sin. New TESTAMENT LIGHT ON OLD, TEs®aMENT THEMES—How was Jesus. tempted * (Matt. 4:1-11.) | In-what part of His ministry ¢ How did He resist the devil? How . was Moses tempted £ (Heb. 11:24-27.) Are we tempted in the came way ? Giye examples.. Why does God permit %to be tempted ? (James 1:2, 8; 1 Pet. %:7; also Deut. 8:2.) How can we gain thegkictory ‘(Eph. 6:10-18.) = - ‘»‘T"h i : s PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. |~ 1. God has done all that is posiible for, the happiness of man. o e 2. But there are limits and laws, to break over which is to lose paradise. - £ ; . 8. Lifeis a probation as well as an edu“ecation, not to make us fall, but to form and- | strengthen character. 4 J 4. Satan does not.come in his own form,. but under the guise of innocence and privHdegeo vp ot i - 5. The worst of lies are those clothed in the form of truth. .° 7 o . 6. The true way to become like God is to ’resist,., temptation and to know Jesus ORriat o e e i 20 7. Bin'makes us a?a’i'q'of &d., ke - 8. No one can sin and yet live in paradise. Bin drives from every paradise. | . 9. Circumstances é;) not compel us tosin. Christ. résisted Satan in the wilderness, }whi-&e ,Adam»‘fen"mrfden. Rt et - 10. God calls g.*t’e ‘the lost, and, while he: _punishes, seeks to restore. Sy % g '1—""-"——-"—"——-?-—-——-—-' " :-_.t ‘ 3 3 : £ . Tarre is unothing preferable to the remembranoe of a good action, except the-in-ention of doing a bgtter.—dmon. | i _--—"Onievery_"roagi since railway trains to turn their wheels began, aff every’ station you will see a solitaiy man. ‘His brow is damp with beaded{sweat, Hiis heart with woe is cleft; mast ear‘nestly he wants te go, the man thata, always left. If etmdﬁgtﬂ”? ‘m. should wait till ‘half-past eight, ee T e e wm‘ﬁhm"‘ e LR e e * b i i e “%’*??@”ﬂ%% %’ 1%“”’;‘."?‘,5&?"% é:" ﬁ}*‘q@?‘@}z ioBE. i sﬁ‘?& ;‘\Q cicoan sho light conses alfogether, onee Ralsd Ee Tt i Aborbotl bl passs: biii thiatidh Sevod Test obithe’ porsst [TR STHEn A M“*%%W‘gg;‘ i LB DISoAY T T L L 0 el