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"~ WE can not all be as wise as Solomon, but we can all stop pretending that we are.

HaLr a million dollars’ worth of canned goods.were shipped from this country to tropical regions last year.

THE strange thing about ‘Susan B. Anthony’s new lecture ‘“What Woman Waunts” is that it only takes about ¢hree hours for her to deliver it.

Dr. Cuarces R. peE TROILON, a famous French veterinary surgeon, is in this country examining our methods of treating the diseases of animals. He says that he is astonished” at our progress in veterinary science. 2

Tnre gentleman who stole a red-hot stove pales into insignificance in compavison with Moiles Bros., of Michigan, who have just succeeded in picking up a saw-mill—building and all—and skipping to Canada with it. -

i A Cgicaco man has invented a » spring 'gong to be attached to an umbrella or canc; so arranged that if any unauthorized person picks up the article he will get a surprise that will project him about five feet into space.

IT is stated that George Meredith, the English novelist, once lived entirely upon oatmeal for a year. As George is a literary man, we would remind him of the fact that he was in great luck to be able to get even' oatmeal. . g

Two LITTLE eight-year-old children playing with a gun. The gun was exploded and left only one. That was what happened in an Jowa town the other day. By and by it may be discovered that fire-arms are dangerous toys for children. e

SoME women in England make good salaries by manufacturing the dainty 'silk and lace lamp shddes now so popular. A dealer in London, who glories in the royal patronage, pays one woman two hundred dollars a month for the shades she makes. o , e ———— A LATE official report shows-that in New York State 1,862,252 persons have an average of $384.25 in the savings banks. That is probably more than an average of one person to each family, and speaks well for the economy and prudence of the masses. e ) IN a special report, in answer to a Senate resolution, General Greely, of the Signal Office, states that Oregon and Washington are ‘favored with a ‘climate of unusual mildness and equability,” and that the ‘‘conditions favor to a marked extent the growth of most cereals and other important staples.’ ' By his will- the late Justice Stanley Matthews left all of his property ($200.000) to his wife and children, there being no public bequests.” The will is dated June 23, 1886, the day of his marriage, and in it he states that his wife is entitled, as against himand his representatives, to all of the property which was hers before marriage. TuE Oklahoma boomers nearly went crazy with joy when they heard the news of the Pfesident’s proclamation opening the lands for settlement. Flags were hoisted nearly everywhere in ‘Southern Kansas;, cannons were fired and bonfires built, and a general jubilee was in order. Some of the towns in Southern Kansas will be almost dépopulated. : .

WuiLe the engineer of a train was making his way down grade toward the Ohoopie river on a Georgia railroad recently he saw a woman standing on the track waving her handkerchicf. He stopped, imagining there was some danger, when the woman scrambled aboard and asked him to take her across the bridge, as it made her head dizzy to walk on the crossties. He didn’t swear.

Lorra Bripges, of Keene, N. H., has been poisoned and made seriously sick by wearing a green flannel dress. Her symptoms were those of arsenical poisoning. Other and similar cases are reported from time to time with the opinion of medical men generally appended that no green garment ghould be worn continuously; and yet many ladies still persist in wearing this dangerous though beautiful colors

A MAN 1n Connecticut was arraigned 8 few days ago and pleaded guilty to killing another man, and was sentenced to three months in jail and to pay a fine of one dollar. About the same time a man was convicted in Boston of mutilating a book in one of the public libraries, and was sentenced to five months injail. It would appear from this that books are rated unduly high in Boston, or that human life is held much too cheap in the wooden-nutmeg State. |

R_Ev. Dr. SCOTT. President Harri-

son’s father-in-law, it is said, keeps ' steadily at work at his desk in the Pension Office. His daughter and the President have asked him to resign, but he refuses to live in jidleness. Soon after the election Mrs. Harrison wrote to her father asking him to quit work and live at the White House. Her husband also wrote to Dr. Scott supporting his wife’s request. But the old gentleman sturdily refused, and szid that - he had been 80 long used to the routine of his office thdt he could not give it up. L ——————— : Taere is a family in Waterboro, Me., that is certainly blessed with perfect health and immunity from accidents. - David Scribner, of that town, ~ isin his ninetieth year and his wife is but two years younger. They have ‘been married sixty-five years and have ~three children living, the eldest being mpward of sixty years of age. These _ehildren all have children of their Own and. grandchildren, and in the wholeline of descent, from Mr. and ohildren, po death hag ever yot oc-

Epitome of the Week.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

FROM WASHINGTON.

THE Secretary of War on the Bth ordered that the new military post near Denver shall be known as Fort fogan, to honor the memory of the late General John A. Logan. By the direction of President Harricon the State of Wisconsin was on the Bth transferred from the Military Department of the East to the Department of Dakota. ON the 9th Adam C. Tanner, of Canton, 0., was appointed Chief of the Appointment Division of the Interior Department.

. THE death of Rear-Admiral T. H. Patterson (retired) occurred on the 10th at his home 1n Washington, at the age of sixtynine years. ‘ Tue President on the 12th appointed Lyman. E. Knapp, of Middlebury, Vt., to be Governor of Alaska. g : :

THERE were 186 business failuresin the United States during the seven days ended on the 12th, against 141 the previous seven days. The total of failuresin the United States from January 1 to date was 8,878, against 3,362 in 1888. DuriNGg March the total value of exports of beef and hog products from the United Btates was $8,125,068, and for the five months ended March 31, $41,571,715. |

THE EAST.

THE Monongahela river coal works near Pittsburgh, Pa., resumed work on the 9th after a shut down of a week's duration, giving employment to six thousand men. IN Albany on the Yyth memorial exercises in honor of the late General P. H. Sheridan were held by the New York Legislature. ON the 9th two strangers visited Daniel Keller's residence near Shamokin, Pa., and robbed him of $4,700. ; : THE report of the State Board of Agriculture of Massachusetts on the 9th noted the great growth of the bufter business in the State, and spoke particularly of the development of the co-operative system, twenty-six such institutions having made during the year two million pounds.

THE ¢lections held in Rhode Island on the Oth assured the Legislature to the Republicans; who would elect the State officers. . - MaskED mcen entered the house of Lewis Patterson, a wealthy farmer living near Centerville, Pa., on the 9th and demanded his gold. On being told that he had none they tortured him by holding his feet and his face to the stove, and after securing $43 and a gold watch they left. -

Ar the National convention of the Sons of Veterauns in Albany, N. Y., on the 10th, it was decided to comnsolidate the ‘‘post” and “camp” system. - e

Wirriam J. IRVING, JR., was arrested on the 10th at Hartford, Conn., for embezzlement of $20,000 from the Hammond Dressed Beef Company, for wilich he was local manager. : :

Ox the 10th Jerry Sullivan, aged seventeen years, was steamed to death in a large keir at the print works at Dover, N. H. NaTaaN F. DixoN (Rep.) was elected United States Senator on the 10th by the Rhode Island Legislature. - Ox the 10th the propeller Oswego left Buffalo for Chicago. This was the first departure of the season from that port.

. THE American schooner Bucknam arrived in New York on the 10th, and - Captain Stubbs reported that he was chased and fired upon by a Dominican man-of-war on March 21. The American flag was flying at the schooner’s peak at the time. The Bucknam soon distanced the steamer and the latter gave up the chase. MANY acres of fine pine timber land between Pittston and Wilkesbarre, Pa., had on the 11th been destroyed by forest fires. THE firm of Billings & Eaton, wholesale leather dealers at Boston, failed on the 11th for $700,000.

Fire destroyed the storehouse and contents of the Chelsea Cordage Company at Boston on the 11th, ecausing a loss of $150,000.

ON the 11th Edgar Swan, ex-cashier of the First National Bank of Lynn, Mass.,, was sentenced to five yearsin jail for the embezzlement of $33,000. AT Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 11th a license was issued for the marriage of Samuel R. Welser, aged seventy-two years, to Edith Wilson, a girl fifteen years old. THE jute mills of Buchanan & Lyell ab Brooklyn, N. Y., were burned on the 11th, the loss reaching $400,000. il : THE death of Mrs. Lydia Watson, of Leicester, Mass., occurred on the 12th at the age of one hundred and two years and three months.. She had been remarkably well and vigorous up to her final illness. EvrEcTIONS for members of the Rhode Isiand Legislature were ended on the 12th, and the complexion of that body stands on joint ballot: Republicans, 59; Democrats, 49.

WEST AND SOUTH.

DuriNG a fire in Kokomo, Ind., on the Bth, which destroyed Lynch Brothers’ hoiler works, three firemen were fatally injured by a falling wall. . Onthe9th R. F. Schor, book-keeper of the First National Bank of Evansville, Ind., committed suicide by hanging. Unsuccessful speculation was the cause.

CapTAIN CoucH, the Oklahoma leader, stated on the 9th that about every body without authority to remain had been driven out by the troops.

A FIRE destroyed Arkwright’s cotton factory at Savannah, Ga., on the 9th. Loss, $lOO,OOO, :

Fraxcis - E. . WARREN was inaugurated Governor of Wyoming on the 9th, at Cheyenne, with military and civic honors.

. THE recent storm.which raged in Baltimore swept over the lower Chesapeake bay, causing great disaster to shipping. Over a dozen seamen. lost their lives and thirty or forty vessels were wrecked. g - NEAR Edgemont, Md., mountain fires were raging on the 10th, and great damage had been done.

. EARLY on the morning of the 10tha private car containing a party of seven Boston people returning from a tour of California was wrecked in a collision on the Santa Fe road near Joliet, 111, and Miss Winslow, Henry Hartt, Harry, the. porter, and Smith, the cook, were instantly killed, and the others were dangerously wounded,

O~ the 10th ‘‘Farmer” McClaughrey, one of the Cook County (Ill.) boodlers, was released from the penitentiary, his sentence of two yearshaving been reduced one month by the Governor. He went. direct to his home at Palos.

FraMES swept away almost the entire business portion of Camden, a small town in Jay County, Ind., on the 10th. AFTER five ‘minutes’ deliberation the jury at Omaha, Neb., in the case of Elizabeth Beechler, who killed Harry W. King, Jr., of Chicago, returned a verdict on the 10th of not guilty. : ' JUDGE THAYER decided at St. Louis, Mo., on the 11th tHat stealing papers from the top of a mail box was no more an offense against the mail laws than taking a package from the steps of the post-office. A FIRE nearly destroyed the village of Cannonsburg, Mich., on the 11th, . Ox the 11th the evidence of Des Moines river land settlers in lowa were stopped by a court order, pending an investigation instituted by the Secretary of the Interior. A FIRE on the 11th destroyed the stable of McArthur Bros., contractors at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and seventeen mules burned. Ir wassaid on the 11th that Samuel W. Myers, business manager for the Booth Packing Company at Indianapolis, was $lO,000 short in his accounts, He had fled. Tar three children of Sebastian Merdam, & Bavarian faxmer at St. Joseph, Minn.,were poisoned on the 11th by eating wild parsnip ‘roots which their father had plowed up, and all died in a few hours, e e L. J. FARWELL, Governor of Wisconsin in 1831, died on the 11th at Grant City, Mo., aged seventy years He was a noted poliYcian of the Northwest forty years ago. _ A PARMER named nenry%nmxsnm Mount Vernon, Ind., was called to the door gt his house on the 11th and fatally shot by e el g e on ettt . & ?"“ "/ﬁ‘x WK 2 M* SOWENIORS . ANV 5

Ga., his house was burned and his entire’ family, consisting of a wife and five chil-! dren, perished. ; { GovERNOR FIFER issued a call on the 11th’ for an election in the Nineteenth Illinois district on the 21st of May of a successor to Congressman Townshend o WiILEELMINA SEIDERICK and Jacob Schaler were found dead in the former’s farmhouse near Bramin Hill, Kan., on the 11th, It was thought to have been a case of murder and suicide. -

+ ON the 11th twenty-three horses and cows were burned in a fire which destroyed the barn of W. H. Emmons at Eden, 111. The, fire was of incendiary origin. : b A FIERCE gale struck Tama City, la., on the 11th, unroofing and raising many buildings. No one was injured. It was discovered on the 11th that Abel Lodge, the village and township treasurer of New Lisbon, 0., was $9,000 short in his accounts, :

Tsk death of ex-Congressman William P. Cutler occurred on the 11th at his home in Marietta, 0., at the age of seventy-seven years. :

THE death of Mr. Beddinger, a prairie-fire victim, oceurred in Valley township, D, T., | on the 12th, making the sixth death in Hyde | County from prairie fires. & Oxthe 12th the moonshiners’ strongholdat Carr's creek, near Hindman, Ky., was taken | by United States officers, five illicit ‘distil-~ leries were destroyed and five men were captured. : : " Frames destroyed the cargo of the steamer Chilian on the 12th at New Orleans, causing a loss of $lOO,OOO. ° AT Port Townsend, W. T, on the 12th the United States grand jury found twenty-~ five indictments against William Harmed, ex-Bpecial Deputy Collector; eleven against Herbert F. Beecher, ex-Treasury Agent, and twelve against Quincy A. Brooks, for -gtealing from the Government. Beecher i 8 | %2 son of the late Henry Ward Beecher. |

Tee mining town of Beidler, 0., wasstruck by a cyclone on the 12th, destroying six houses and Kkilling the twelve-year-old daughter of William Lewis. A wiND and hail-storm visited portions of Epstern Ohio and Maryland on the 12th, doing great dnmage. John Wetzel and two- horses were struck by lightning and killed at Elk Garden, Md. ON the 12th Prince Law, a negro living on a plantation near Savannah, Ga., killed his four-year-old child as a sacrifice to the devil. : .

IN a recent gale and rain-storm at Portsmonth, N. C;, high water drowned many cattle, sheep and hogs. The water rose many feet in the houses and there was great. destruction of property. The inhabitants took to the housetops for safety. RicH discoveries of gold were reported on the 12th near Georggtown, in Brown County, Ind. . i Mrs. BEckY KiNg, living near Shelbyville, Ind., was burned to death in her bed on the 12th. She was an invalid. :

A cexsus which was completed on the 12th gave Baltimore, Md., a population of five hundred thousand.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. DispaTcHES of the 9th from Western India announced the failure of “the pearl fisheries owing to the prevalence of cholera. , A wAGER was made by four Russian officers on the 9th that they could ride on horseback from St, Petersburg to Paris in forty-five days. They will start in May. In the Erin colliery at Castrop, Australia, an explosion on the 10th caused the death of twenty-five persons. Apvices of the 10th from Spain announced heavy gales off the coast, interrupting telegraphic communication, delaying mails and steamers, and doing a great deal of damage.

THE death of M. Michel Eugene Chevreul, the distinguished French chemist, occurred in. Paris on the 9th. He was born in Angiers, August 1, 1786, and: was therefore nearly one hundred and three years of age. Apvices of the 10th from Londan say that the spring emigration to the United States had assumed large proportions. All the available steerage space on the seyeral steamers at Liverpool and at continental ports had been taken up for intending emigrants. Phe movement was more voluntary in character and less the work of agents than hitherto, and the people were of the better class.

ON the 11th fifty-three hundred emigrante sailed from Bremen and Hamburg for New York. Ox the 12th the trial of General Boulanger, Count Dillon and Henri Rochefort was commenced betore the French Senate.

UroN arriving&t Queenstown on the 12th the Inman steanfer City of Chester reported having sighted the steamer Danmark, of the Thingvalla line, on April 8 in a disabled and sinking condition,”having apparently been abandoned in mid-ocean. The Danmark, when she sailed from Christiania, Norway, for New York, had about seven hundred persons on board, and the inference was that these had either been lost or were at sea in the ship’s boats. Mexico advices of the 12th°say that four of the men arrested on a:charge of being implicated in the derailment of President Diaz’s train had been shot.

LATER.

THE steamer Almeda arrived at San Francisco on the 13th with ten cadets rescued trom the war ships at Samoa during the recent hurricane. They told tales of horrible sufferings and awful deaths, as well as heroic acts of rescuers. The total number of lives lost was one hundred and forty-six. . Priscitra Davis (colored) died on the 13th at Baltimore, Md., at the advanced age of one hundred and five years. : WiND-STORMS on the 14th near Cincinnati did great damage to property. At Buena Vista a'bridge costing $20,000 was swept away. :

RUDOLPT SPIELHOFFER, a laborer, fell into a kiln of hot lime at Norristown, Pa., on the 13th and was roasted to death. i

CHARLOITE GORDON, seven years old, died at Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 13th from being bitten by a dog that had eaten strychnine. . ‘ h RIOT, growing out of the street-car strike, occurred on the 13thin Rochester, N. Y., and several policemen were badly injured. Apvices of the 18th from San Francisco say that the schooner Northern Bell foundered off Motlat Island, Banks group, and four white men and sixteen natives were drowned. ¢

J. D. Hoover, aged thirty-five years and married, committed suicide on the 13th by hanging on his farm near Bowling Green, Ind. - : Ex-CoNGRESSMAN CRITTENDEN died on the 14th at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., after a long illness, ;Zed seventy-five years.

THE American commissioners to the confergnce at Berlin on Samoan matters sailed from New: York on the 18th on the Etruria. Two THOUSAND immigrants left Liverpool on the 13th for America, making a total of twelve thousand who sailed from that place in a week.

At Pittsburgh, Pa., an international six days go-as-jou-please race closed on the 13th, Noremac winning with the score of 501 miles. i SEN:

It was announced on the 13th that several persons lost their lives in Dakota during® the recent prairie fires in their efforts to save the lives of others. :

JouN D. JENNINGS, one of the real-estate kings of Chicago, died on the 14th of rheumatism of the heart, aged seventy-three years. He leaves an estate valued at $5,000,000. ; HenryY D. WerLcH, of Philadelphia, was on the 13th elected president of the Allegheny Valley railroad, to succeed the late John Beott. ; ' ' JorN CLARK shiot his wife on the 14th at Haverhill, Mass., and then killed Himself by swallowing laudanum. No cause was known. : sl THE village of Milford, Ky., was almost totally destroyed by fire on the 18th. - THE exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing houses in the Unktedﬁtamduung BLOSS 0%, agetast SLIOBIOSID . the Drevious week. A 8 compared with the

BATTLING WITH THE TEMPEST.

Story of the Recent Storm Along the Samoan Coast—How the American and German War-Ships Were Wrecked—A ~ Fierce but Futile Struggle with the ‘Worst Hurricane Ever Known in That Region—-The Number Drowned Was 146 —Nohle Work of King Mataafa’s Sube jeots. s APIA, Samoa, March 30.—The hurricane which passed over the Samoan islands March 16 and 17 was the most violent and destructive storm ever known in the South Pacific. The loss to life and property was very great. The United States and Germany alone lost 142 lives and $3,000,000 worth of property. Six war-ships and ten other vessels were dislodged or driven ashore.. Of the American gun-boats the Trenton lies near the United States consulate and is fast going to pieces. The Vandalia is buried out of sight between the Trenton and the shore. Her shattered foremast and smoke-stuck rise from the water to mark the spot where the gallant vessel struck and lay for twelve hours before the awful torrent of water swept four officers and thirtynine men from her decks and rigging. The Nipsic lay for several days alongside the Vandalia, with her bow high on the beach and within five feet of the water’s edge. The vessel, though badly damaged, was hauled off a few days after the storm andis the only warship afioat in the harbor. She lost five men by the swamping of a boat, and two others who jumped overboard ‘'were drowned. It was on the little German gun-bgoat Eber that the greatest loss of life occurred. She had a compliment of six officers and seventysix men. Five men were ashore during the storm. When the vessel struck the reef she sank compietely out of sight, and a minute later there was not a vestige of her to be seen. Every man on board was lost except one officer and four sailors. The German corvette Olga suffered less than any of the other vessels. The British ship Calliope was the only one that escaped. She having very powerful machinery put to sea. All the other vessels had a full head of steam on and three or four anchors out, but before that awful storm they were like toys in the hands of a giant. Many of the sailors became drugk soon after they got ashore. But the officers rallied them and the injured were cared for. The nativesrendered every assistance, Americans and Germans being treated alike. The damage on shore was also very great. Houses were unroofed and blown down and trees and fences were blown across the streets so that passage was almost blocked. The storm was not unheralded. For several days the barometer had been steadily falling and Friday the wind began to blow. However, nobody thought the gale would be so violent. The gun-boats had their engines working to relieve the stra:n on their anchors, but no commander had foresight enough to put to sea.

All the vessels weathered the storm through Friday night, but all had dragged their anchors. A little after 5 o’clock the first rays of dawn broke upon the scene and to those on shore revealed a spectacle not often witnessed. The position of the vessels was entirely changed. The wind, which was Dblowing from the northeast, had swept them from their former moorings and they were all bearing down'in the direction of thereet. Black smoke was pouring from their funnels, showing that desperate efferts were being made to keep them up against the wind. Their decks were swarming with men clinging to the masts ‘or any other objects. The hulls of the warships were tossing about like corks. One moment the vessels seemed to stand almost upon their beams’ end and the next instant their sterns would rise out of the water and expose to view the rudders and rapidly-revolving propellers. Then the huge prows would be lifted high in the air, only to plunge into the next wave and deluge the ships with a torrent of water. It was then seen that the vessels were doomsed and they soon succumbed to the fury of the tempest.

Soon the Adler came ashore and she was followed by the Nipsic. Most of the men on the latter were got to shore on a hawser which the natives made fast. @The British ship Calliope was still in the harbor. She was lying near the Vandalia and a collision between « the two seemed certain. - The Calliope was nearer shore and her bow close to the stem of the Vandalia. Great waves were tossing the two vessels about and l they were coming closer together every minute. | Suddenly the great irop prow of the English- ‘ man rose high 1n the air on the crest of an enormous wave and came down with‘ full force upon the port quarter of the Vandalia. The ecrash was awful. The jibboom of the Calliope was carried away and the | heavy timbersof the Vandalia were shivered. Every man who stood upon the poop-deck of the Varndalia was thrown from his feet by the shock. A hole had been torn‘: below the rail and the water rushed into the cabin It seemed that the Vandalia had received her death blow and the men rushed up the hatches in the belief that the steamer was sinking, and it was only after great effort that the officers persuaded them to revurn to their posts. Just after this collision Captain Kane of the Calliope determined to make an effort to steam out of the harbor, as he saw that to remain in his present position would lead to another collision with the Vandalia or throw his vessel on the reef. He accordingly eave the order to let go all anchors. The Caliope’s hcad was swung arouand to the wind, and her powerfnl engines were worked to their utmost capacity. It was an, anxious moment on board the corvette, as with her anchors gone she had nothing but her engines to depend upon to keep her off the reef. The steamer seemed to stand still for a moment, and then the rapidly revolving propeller had its effect, for the vessel moved up slowly against the great waves, which broke ovér her bows and flooded her decks from stem to stern. Clouds of black smoke poured fromy her funnels and fresh coal was thrown into the furnaces. All her great power was used in the desperate struggle against the storm. She seemed to make her headway at first inch by inch, but her speed gradually increased until it became -evident she could clear the harbor. As she passed abreast of the Trenton a great shout wentup from over 400 men aboard the flag-ship and three hearty cheers were given for the Calliope. ‘‘Three cheers for the Trenton and the American flag’’ was the answer that came back across the angry waters. The Calliopeipassed safely out of the harbor and steamed far out to sea, returning after the storm abated: : An attempt was then made to beach the Vandalia, and she: was run alongside the reef and within 100 yards of shore, when she grounded. Several attempts were made by the natives to take a line to her, but they were in vain. The vessel swung around with her broads:de to the waves, and one by one her officers and crew were swept off by the torrents of water, but few being saved through the heroic efforts of the natives. The Trenton had thus far weathered the storm through the sk:ll of her navigating -officer, Lieutenant Brown. Her rudder was, however, carried away and her fires put out by the rnsh of water through the hawserholes. She then fouled the Olga when the latter let go her anchors and was run ashore. The Trenton drifted on toward the Vandalia. A new danger now arose. The Trenton was sure to strike the Vandalia, and to those on skore it seemed that the huge hull of the flag-ship would crush the Vandala to pieces and throw the hundred men still clinging to her rigging into the water. It was now after 5 o’clock and the light was beginning to fade away, and in half an hour the Trenton had drifted on to within a few yards of the Vandalia’s bow, and the men in the rigging of the latter vessel . trembled with fear as they saw the Trenton approach. The poor crcatures who had been clinging for hours to the rigging of the Vandalia were Dbruised and Dbleeding, but they held on with the desperation of men who hang by a thread to life. Their final hour seemed to be upon them, The great black hull of the Trenton could be seen through the dark‘ness almost ready to crush into the stranded ‘Vandalia and grind her to atoms, S ~ SBuddenly a shout was heard across the ‘waters. The Trenton was cheering the Vandalia. The sound of 450 voices broke upon the air. ‘‘Three cheers for the Vandalia” was the ory that warmed the hearts of ‘the dying men in the rigging. The shout died Bway upon the storm and there arose {from the quivering masts of the sunken ship ‘a response 80 feeblo that it was soarcely heard “W‘”mm“m”’ew‘“m“m ‘across the water, the Trenton's band was playlng “The Star Spangled Banner.” The mmwmmwmf Sevas WSins honrd susing SC skl YR € listened o the notes of the Natioual suthem. ‘Shißglsd With thS D] of 1e etort. Hor & e s e w@@%”gi&mg;mgw@emwg%m e

seemed inspired to greater efforts. The collision of the Trenton and Vandalia, which every one thought wouid crush the latter vessel to pieces, proved to be tne salvation of the men in the rigging. Notwithstanding the tremendous force. of the waves the Trenton dragged back slowly, and when her stem finally struck tie side of the Vandalia there was no shock and she gradually swung around broadside to the sunken ship. As soon as the vessels touched the men In the mizzen rigging crawled out on she yards and jumped to the deck of the Trenton. The men escaped justin time, for as the last left the yards the mizzenmast of the Vandalia fell with a crash on the side next to the shore, The other men escapea in the same way. }

From 10 o’clock in the morning until 6 in the evening, when she grounded, the Trenton heid out against the storm without steam or rudder and her escape from total destruction was miraculous. The skillful management of her navigating officer, Lieutenant R. M. G. Brown, was all that saved the lives of 450 mén. Admiral Kimberly, Captain Farquhar and L'eutenant Brown stood upon the bridge all day and directed the movements of the ship. Oil was poured overboard, but ithad no effect in stilling the waves. The Olga was still standing off from the reef and holding up against the storm better than any other vessel in the harbor had done, but just as the Olga commenced to move up against the wind her bow came in contact with the starboard quarter of the flag-ship. The Olga’s bowsprit and figuréhead were carried away. and the heavy timbers on the Trenton’'s quarter were shivered: several boats were torn from théir davits, and the American flag which had floated from the Trenton was carried away and fell to the deck of the Olga. Fortunately the vessels drifted apart aftér the collision, and the Olga steamed ahead toward the mud flats in the eastern part of the harbor. The Olga’s prow wasimbedded in soft mud in the safest part of the bay. No life was lost. King Mataafa came down from his camp early in the morning for the first time in several months and directed the natives in their work. ‘He expressed the greatest sorrow on aceount of the disaster, and feared that the American people would blame him for being the cause of the war-ships coming down to Samoa to be lost in the storm. ;

. Mataafa pointed out to Admiral Kimberly the danger of sickness breaking out among the men on account of exposure, and on behalf of his own people he offered to vacate all the Samoan houses in Apia and allow the American sailors to have the use of them. Admiral Kimberly thanked Mataafa and told him that it would be almost impossible to control the men if they were scattered around among the native houses. 'He promised to consider the affair, however, if the situation became more pressing. By noon there were nearly 800 American sailors on the streets of Apia. The saloons, were crowded with them and it was not long before many were disorderly. ‘ViceConsul Blacklock, recognizing the gravity of the situation, issued a peremptory notice to all saloon-keepers in town, of whatever nationality, forbidding them to sell or in any way furnish liquor to American sailors, and notifying them that if they did not obey this order a guard of marines would be sent to their places and all liguor emptied into the street. Captain Fritze, senior German ofiicer, was asked to co-operate in providing poliee protection, but he notified ‘the American officers he was afraid to trust his own men as guards, as thie American sailors would attack them, and he requested the Americans to take full control of the town. This was accordingly done. Contracts were made with various parties for feeding sailors, though it was a difficult matter to provide them with much food during the day. A temporary hospital was provided for the large number of men injured orsuffering from exhaustion.

Apia has the appearance of a camping ground. Trenton sailors have erected temporary tents in the large yard near the center of the town and the Vandalia survivors have quarters near the American Consulate. Survivors of the Adler and Eber are quartered in the warehouse of the German Trading Company. The officers and crew of the Oiga are living aboard their ship. The town is under marine guard. The greatest precautions are being taken to keep the town clean and to prevent disease breaking out among the men. % SAN FRANCISCO, April 15.—Additional Samoan advices say thie Admiral commanding the American fleet was the last to leave the Trenton, his flag-ship. Admiral Kimberly said he considered faulty construction of the Trenton’s hawser-pipes as indirectly the cause of her wreck. . The Germans and Americans held meéemorial services at different dates for thedead. Atthe German service Admiral Kimberly and other American officers attended. Only about onefourth of the bodies have been recovered. Some of these were Dbadly mutilated. It was . difficult to identify them, or even to tell thé nationality, and it was finally cetermined to bury all at one spot together. The interments were made as speedily as possible, owing to the extremely hot weather. Some of the bodies, including that of Paymaster Arms, were wrapped in Samoan matting for burial. The political situation in Samoa remains unchanged. 'Mataafa declared some time ago that all the blood that had been shed was on account of German interference in Samoan affairs. He believed the war would end if the Germans would cease giving assistance to Tamasese, as the latter would be almost powerless alone. Mataafa hoped that Kimberly would formally protest against the part the Germans had taken. Should Malietoa be released by the Germans and return to Samoa, ;Mataafa says, the question of who should rule%vould be settled between Malietoa and Mataafa. There would be no trouble on this account, as Malietoa had resigned ‘in Mataafa’s favor. Following is a correct list of the victims of the disaster: :

United States steamer Vandalia—Captain C. M. Schoonmaker; Paymaster Frank H. Arms; Lieutenant Frank E. Sutton, marine officer; Paymaster’s Clerk John Roach; George Morrage, boatswain’s mate; George Gorman, carpenter's mate; M. Craigan, captain of after guard; William Brown, quartermaster; T. G. Downey, pay-yeoman; B. F. Davis, equipment yeoman; M. H. Joseph, equipment yeoman; N. B. Green, bayman; H. P. Stallman, bayman; C. H. Harkins, storage steward; R. G. Stanford, landsman; W. Brisbane, Captain’s steward; Thomas Kelly, fireman; Joseph Griffin, fireman; W. Howat, coal-heaver; E. M. Hammer, M. Erickson, C. P. Kratzer, Thomas Reilly, John Kelly and Henry Baker, seamen; John. Hanchett. sergeant of marines; F. Sessman, sergeant of marines; M. Cashen, corporal of marines; N. Kinsella, corporal of marines; H. E. Gehring, F. Jones, G. Jordan, F. Wilford, H. Wixted, E, Montgomery, John Sims, G. H. Wells, C. Kraus and E. Geldner, private marines, and four Chinamen. - Sy

United States steamer Nipsic—H. Pontseel, seaman: John, Gill, seaman; G. W. Cullen, A, P. Prentice, Joshua Heap, Thomas Johnson (colored), captain’s steward; William Watson, fireman; N. P. Kelleher, coal-heaver. } United States steamer Ironton—Joseph Hew litt (colored), landsman, killed on deck by falling spar. ' : H. I. G. M. S. Eber — Captain-Lieutenant Wallis, Lieutenant Eckhardt. Lieutenant Von Ernst Hausen, Surgeon Marbenhauer and Paymaster Kusize. ] '

The names of sixty-six sailors who perished on the Eber can not be ascertained here, as the rolls were all lost and Lieutenant Gaedeke, the only surviving officer, has no other record of the crew. :

The schooner Lily lost two men—Anthony Ormsby and a Hawaiian. Two natives were also drowned in the surf while atbempting to rescue men from the Vandadia. The whole number of lives lost was 146. Nearly every man who clung to the rigging of the Vandalia during the storm was more or less seriously injured, and for a day or two the hospital was crowded. -

COLLISION AT SEA.

A Pilot-Boat Sunk by an Ocean Steamer : And Two of Her Crew Lost. : New Yorg, April 15.—The steamship Suevia which arrived here Baturday night from Hamburg had on board a portion of the crew of the pilot-boat Commodore Bateman which was run into and sunk by the Buevia on Saturday morning off the Georgia Banks, Nantucket. A thick fog prevailed and the officere ‘on the bridge of the Suevia failed to sight the pilot:boati until too late to avoid a collision. The bow of the steamship crashed into the port quarter of the pilot‘boat, cutting through below the water line, The Bateman began sinking and the Suevia's boats were lowered to rescue the orow. Soven men were picked up, while two were lost—James Handran, a pilot, rescued men were more or less injured by the collision. The book-keeper;Madigan, had his collar-bone broken, and one of the n,.«,n ‘ : &Wgﬁ' (\W ';,(: _:_,s ’ﬁg‘;%&%}w

ABANDONED AT SEA.

The Steamer Danmark Discovered Adrift Without a Soul on Board-—When She Left Port Her Passengers and Crew Numbered Between 600 and 700 Persons- Their Fate Unknown.

QUEENSTOWN, AprillB.—The steamer Danmark, which left Christiania March 26 with 650 passengers on board, was discovered April 8, abandoned in mid-ccean. The news was brought to this city by the Inman steamer City of Chester. She passed the abandoned steamer in latitude 46 north, longitude 37 west. The Chester sighted her from a distance and bad been struck by the apparent absence of any life on board. She had drawn near and investigated, and afterward made sure that no one was on board of the abandoned wreck. The Chester lay to for several hours. The stern of the Danmark was on a level with the sea Her bow was far out of the water in the air, and she was rapidly sinking. There were no visible signs of a collision. No wreckage was floating about. The boats were all gone from their davits, and nothing indicating haste and panic was noticeable. After laying near the wreck ‘for some little time the City of Chester proceeded. i i

- NEw Yogrg, April 13,.—The greatest excitement prevails in shipping circles over the loss of the Danmark. She had on board when she left Christiania for New York on the 26th of March' 540 - passengers. presumably all immigrants, and the agents here say she ﬁ’mad a crew of at least 60, and probably 100 or 125 men. There are, therefore, from 609 to 674 lives to be accounted for. .The office of the agents of the steamer, Messrs. Funch, Eyde & Co., has been thronged all day with anxious inquircrs for later news of the vessel.

The New York agient said that the Danmark wascommanded by Captain Knudsen, an old seaman, well known for his courage and presence of mind, and that he wus not the man to abandon a ship to the merecy of the waves when there was even one chance in a thousand of getting her into port. He added: :

*‘No incoming steamship to this port reports any life-boats or rafts that mjght have belonged to the Danmark. There were a great number of life-boats and several new life-rafts of the newest pattern and improvement which could have accommodated the crew and officers and some of the passcngers if there was not room euough in the life-boat for them.” : f

No list of the passengers on boarad the illfortuned steamship is to be had in this city. Several people have called at the oftices of the agents asking for information of friends supposed to be on the Danmark, but all refused to give their names. The agents of the line feel certain that no lives have been lost, and furnish the following letter giving the reasons for their belief:

*lf the wrecked passengers and crew had‘ not been picked up they would namrallygs even if embarked in boats and on rafts, haye remained in the neighborhood of the wreek, the presence of which would beﬁnuch more likely to attract the passing steamers than small boats or rafts would. Tbe City of Chester evidently did not find the sﬁghtf est wreckage near the vessel, such as might be attributable to smashed or otherwise incapacitated boats, while the steamer bore no sign whatever of human iife. We confidently believe, therefore, that with the possible exception of single casualties, such as may occur during the transfer of so many people from one vessel to another, the passengers and crew of the Danmark are safe, and will ere long be heard of as on board of one of the transatlantic steamers."” y

The Eider reached her dock after 1 io’clock yesterday afternoon. The Eider ‘did not see any thing of the Danmark and her officers were greatly surprised when told the particulars. No answers to the cables sent by Messrs. Funch, Idye & Co. to London and Copenhagen have yet been received.

[The Danmark belongs to the Thingvalla line of steamers plying betweein New York and Copenhagen. She was formerly the Jar Brydel, of the White Star line, She had been thoroughly overhauled, and this was her first voyage uunder the rew flag and name. The was a bark-rigged vessel of 2,260 tons, was 340 feet long, 40 feet in breadth and 26 feet deep, and was built at Newcastle, Eng., in 1880.]

THE SILVER QUESTION.

Secretary Windom and Senator Stewart Discuss the Coinage Question—The Matter Soon to Be Made a Special Subject for Cabinet Consideration. Gl

WasHINGTON, April 13.—Senator Stewart, of Nevada, had a long interview with Secretary Windom T'hursday, in which he tried to persuade the Seccretary to increase the monthily purchuse of silver. This, the Nevada Senator argued, was the best way to reduce the surplus. = Secretary Windom could not .see just how the surplus would be reduced by giving ont greenbacks and getting silver in return. He said he had some $20,000,000 in silver in the Treasury vault, some of which he wonld be very glad to part with. To purchase - more silver would be - simply changing the shape of the surplus from gold and ‘paper to silver. Senator- Stewart made the point that the purchase of silver brought millions of money from the Treasury and distributed it among the people. Mr. Windom stated that it would be impossible to take any action In the increased purchase of silver until 'the subject has - beem very carefully weighed and considered by the President, and discussed in the Cabinet meetings. It is understood the Nevada Senator will soon have an interview with President Harrison about the matter, and afterwards it is expccted it will become a special subject for discussion in. Cubinet meetings. ‘ ; :

WHITE CAPS WORSTED.

An Indiana Farmer Profits by a Warning Received fiom a Band of Regulators and Gives Them a Warm RKeception— Five of the Mob Wounded.

Evansviig, Ind., April 18.—The White Caps bave commenced fresh depredations 1 Warrick and Dubois counties. John Lansford, road supervisor .in Madison township, received a mnotice from the White Caps that some of the hogs hc impounded were the property of poor people unable to pay fines, and if not promptly released he would be visited Wednesday night and compelled to surrender them. Tuesday morning at 1 o'clock Lansford was awakened by twenty masked men and in the fight which ensued a son of Lansford and five of the White Caps were wounded. The mob then withdrew. : -

HEALTH NOTES.

A PHYSICIAN now claims that the citric acid and potash in tomatoes make them very beneficial to persons affected by rheumatism. £ LET every sufferer from insomnia understand that, if he resorts to drugs for the purpose of producing sleep, it is the very worst step he xyau possibly take, for there is not a single orle of them that is not harmiul if used continuously. | WaNT of sleep and restless nights are symptoms which can notbeoverlooked. The cause must be found and removed. The trouble may certainly; arise from overwork and worry combined, but in most cases the stomach and digestive system are the roots of the evil. S As TR result of certain extended investigations it would appear that very cold and dry weather invited the occurrence of pneumonia, while warm, moist weather was least favorable for its development. This ‘theory is so well supported it should ¢ertainly hold in the absence of proof of its WeBNUGRS. . . oG nd e - Aixconsumptives have large quantities of carbonaceous matter in their blood, which they are unable to remove, and the lungs, not- being able to resist its evil effects, break down and finally fail. Consumption £ ek 00l dkost fy mn G 0 RN gwbg\fwﬁe«m “,"{Q*“"Wﬁ’;" g‘w?ﬁ:‘f;%wi‘gg W:f?’w"‘: i

LINED WITH WRECKS.

The Fastern Coast Littered with Remains of Totally Lost or Badly Damaged Vessels—A Number of Lives Lost. .

Bavrnfore, Md.,, April 10.—The storm which raged in ?a.ltﬁnoro with severity on Saturday swept over the Lower Chesapeake most disastrously to shipping.- Over | a dozen seamen lost their lives and thirty ' or forty wessels, some large and others small, were wrecked.” Reports of dizasters to shipping and loss of life continue to come . fn by arriving vessels and special dis- - patches. i »

Captain Gourley reported that the schooner Caroline (Captain Hutchinson) was driven high and dry on Cove Point bar and wentto pieces.. The schooner W. P. Snow started out * of the Patuxent Saturday for ' Baltimore. Her stern, with her name, floated ashore on Sunday near Millstone creek. A body, which is supposed t 0 be one of the Snow’s crew, was found on the beach near where the stern of the schooner floated ashore. It is feared that the entire crew is lost. Nothing is known of the crew of the Caroline. Two unknown vessels are ashore in Battle creek. -

' The steamer Sue, Captain Geoghegan, arrived at 1:40 this morning from :the Potomac river, and brought news ofthe severest storm ever known in Southern Maryland. - Captain Geoghegan reported seven small psailing vessels ' ashore in the Yeccomico river. In Coan river the schooner William Cobura © and the sloop Amelia Cowart are in a field high and dry. The schooner Columbia F. C. is sunk in Carter’s! creek. All the fish traps were destroyed in the lower part of the Potomac. There willy also be a severe loss to property-holders: along the Potomac river front, as the lanla\‘ was submerged, and in many places ther have been many dcres of land 'wa.she%‘ away. : : g

The wharf and store of Representative W. Williamson at Sleepy Hole were boti# washed away, and the clerk, Mr, Woodai\ ward, was drowned.” The western branch drawbridge was carried away; the damageé to it is estimated at $lO,OOO. A very aged coldred woman named ‘Amy Jasper, who lived alone, was found on the flooxr of her hut'drowned. All the southern side of the harbor is lined with wreckage. Captain Elijah Benson and his two sons, of Por mouth, are reported to have been capsiz% in their oyster sloop in James river and drowned. The oyster fleets suffered B:s}-v ‘ - verely, and thirty vessels went ashore in Scott s creek. no " BarTIivMORE, Md., April 10.—Reportsof disasters from Saturday’s storm continue to come in from Cape Henry and show that'it was the worst in ten years. It iz hard %o state exactly the number of lives lost or the number of vessels ashore or sunk, butitis estimated that between fifty and seventyfive vessels were damaged by the hurricane near the capes. The large list given in ™ prévious dispatches has been increased in }.number, and much fear is expressed among the shipping men that some of the vessels ‘ca;ught in- the gale will never be heard, from. The arrivals in this port Tuesday 1 " were only three ocean steamers, and one of _ them has been due three days. The details of the storm are coming in very slowly. »The steamship Caspia, from Glasgow, reports that on Monday morning she sighted a bark sixty miles southwest of Cape Hefry. Her foremast, main-top-mast and jib- m were gone. It may have been the barky Albatross, which broke adrift on SaturHlay, and Whose crew were landed at Port Rbyal on Monday by the steamer State of Texas. The Caspian also reports a schooner ashore ‘at False Cape and another ten miles below..

The steamer Westmoreland reports that. in the Rappahannock river a number of wharves have been washed away and the low lands along the river covered with water. The wharves are seriously damaged at Rappahannock; Wares, Bowlers, Bay Port, Waterview, .Urbana and Burnham. Tne New York Silicated Company's warehouse at Lyons Creek) in the Patuxent, had one end torn away by the gale. 3‘5: schooner Emma Jane, Ca’ptain Pryor a#wd Eva T. Barnes are ash@re at Battle Creek in the Patuxent. .AttheiLazaretto the schooner May Queen had hep rigging entirely = demolished, her forémast gone and her bowsprit broken by a collision with a three-masted schooner which was blown into the May Queen. . q ~ ForTrESs MONROE, Va., Aprillo.—Fafmers report heavy loss of stock from droWwning during the late gale. Between hefe and York rivér the fishermen have lost nets valued at $20,000. : : i NorroLE, Va., April 10.—The United States fteamship Pensacola, which was sunk during the recent storm while in the dry-dock at the mavy yard, has been pumped out. An examination develops the fact that she has been damaged to the extent of about $50,000. A large force will commence the work of repair at once. :

WILL KEEP THEIR HANDS OFF. The American and German Goverini'ients',' It Is Said, Have Agreed to Send No War Vessels to Samoa Until After the Berlin Conference. WasHINGTON, April 10. — State Department officials were very reticent when asked about the truth or falsity of the report that an agreement had been reached between Germany and the United States that no war vessels are to be sent to Samoa until after the result of the Berlin conference is announcged. = There is little doubt, however, that both fgovernments are alreadg committed tofuch an agreement. It isfinderstood that tfle proposition to leave. Samoan waters uguarded by Germany and the Umm%Fl States, and just as they were A ‘the typhoon had wrecked and. % disable d the vessels of hoth ~ govﬁnments, came originally from Prince Bismarck, and he was promptly met half way by our Government, and that the proposition was accepted. This will leave matters/in statu quo and the British Government alone will police thosé waters and look out for German, American and British interests until the Berlin conference; settles Samoémaﬁairs on a new basis. Sl e

The Civil-Service Vacancy: WASHINGTON, April 10.— There appears tc be a spirited conflict in progress for the Democratic vacancy on the Civil-Service Comunission. Mr: Hugh T. Thompson, of South Carolina, late Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Judge Durham, of Kentucky, the present First Comptroller of the Treasury, and Richard Randolph McMahon, oi West Virginia, the present Depuby Second Comptroller, are the principal gandidates, with several others of less pronMinence in the field. ~ R L : . @ e ' The Comptrolle‘rship,ﬁi s ; WAsHINGTON, April 10.—Mr. HBdward 8. Lacy, who is a candidate for the Comptrollership of the Currency, arriveéd in town Tuesday morning. Mr. Lacy isB indorsed not only by the Senators from Mi¢higan, but by the leading bankers from t-hg;iorth and Northwest, and he has, besides, many supporters among the fraternity in the East It is generally understood. that Mr. Charles E. Coon, formerly an Asgsistant Secretary of the Treasury, has practically withdrawn from the race for this position, and the selection now lies between ex-Congress-man Richard Parson, of Ohio, and ex-Con-gressman Lacy, of Michigan. i ~ Fighting the Trust. Prru, Ind, April 10.—A general movement of the farmers of this county is being made against the twine trust, and a few days hence will see the establishment of & bwins fastory by the furmerilas an id mation to down the trust. ~ § ? - WILEESBARRE, Pa., April §lo.—Three ‘months ago th *’*”N%"’““ﬁ“” 11 gﬁ?f“‘ﬂ* Was ST eTte L S eR R SUe R “*"'@A‘%&:ﬁﬁ o T 3:5 L i ’"ﬁ*w%av‘??y— *pkwﬁg'-f ov e ’ e Sl Lk B riveall RV