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Waite Henry Green, of Fairfield, Me., was removing a wall near his barn recently, he unearthed a half-bushel of lgad bullets. They were the kind used with the old flint-lock guns, and are, no doult, a relic of old muster days..

' Discoveßies of valuable onyx, which promise to develop into very large mines, have been made near Healdsburg, Cal. The stone is beautifully marked and a blast of the face of the ledge has exposed it in great quantie ties. :

Wit the amount of provisions in cribs and graneries at the opening of the present winter neither man nor beast should suffer from hunger. The total production of grain in the United States this year is placed at 3,527,279,« 600 bushels, an increase over the yield of 1894 of 1,091,360,600 bushels. -

Tur new census statistics of Rhode Island show that women predominate over the men in the state to the numsber of 10,000, In Providence alone, with a population of 145,472, women outnumber the men by 5,000. The en= tire population of the state is 384,758, an increase of 80,000 over 1885. ‘

AMonNG living statesmen Mr. Goschen probably writes the worst hand. He is extremely short-sighted, and one day in the house of commons he picked up one of his own memoranda, and after vainly trying to make it out exclaimed: ‘A man who writes like that ought not to be in public service.”

Lorrery bonds will be issued to cover part of the expense of the 1900 exhibition in Paris. For twenty franecs the holder will be entitled to twenty admissions to the exhibition, to twens= ty-five per cent. discount on'the price of admission to all the side sliows and on railroad fares and to a share in the profits, . o

A Hixpv who stammers has found out that he stammers more on moonlight than on dark nights, and that when he sleeps in the moonlight he stammers most of the days succeeding the full moon and not atall on the day before and the day ' after the new moon. Nature says this agrees with other observations.

By chance it has been discovered that even the most delicate tracery of the petals of flowers can be reproduced in metal. During the trial of a new fuse, the other day, a small leaf fell between a dynamite cartridge and an iron block on which the cartridge was fired. . As a result a perfect imprint of the leaf was left on the iron.

THE most peculiar clock in the world is that in a tower in the court yard of the palace of Versailles. Upon the death of a king in any portion of Europe the hand is set at the moment of his demise and remains in that posie tion until another king passes away. This curious custom is said to have originated in the time of Louis XIIL

FLeETS of prairie schooners still nave igate the western plains despite the gridirons of railroad tracks. Eleven wagons in one fleet,with an average of six persons to each wagon, passed through Union, Ore., one day recently. They had come all the way from the southwestern part of Nebraska, and were bound for the Grand Ronde, Ore. ' i :

* CHICAGO is to have a lake front park in short measure if energy can bring it about. Work will be begun on the bulkhead and retaining wail at once, and it is believed the wall can be built in ninety days. A permit to fill in the , outer harbor has been received from -the general government and the Chicago authorities will do all they can to further the project. DeATH came to Capt. H. C. McLaughlin, of the steamer Resolute, while he was in the pilot-house steering his boat across San Francisco harbor the other day. As he felt his-senseés leaving him * he intuitively reached forward and rang the relief bell for the mate. When the mate reached the pilot-house the "captain was lying on the floor, senseless, and in a minute or two he was dead. .

It is reported that Monterey bay, California, has for several weeks been fairly swarming with all kinds of fish. The surface of the water is constantly stirred and churned by the schools of fish. Sardines are so numerous that they may be caught by bucketfuls along the wharves and beach. King mackerel weighing from 200 to 500 pounds are said to have been caught in the bay, »

IN Attleboro, Vt., where eighty per cent. of the population depends upon the jewelry business for a living, good prices are paid for ideas, and on a score of occasions ideas have been worked out _tl}a.t ‘have been worth a million dollars to. the concerns controlling them. It is in thistrade that new ideas are required more than in any other, and in that town may be found men who do nothing but rack their brains from one year’s end to the other studying out patterns for goods.

A 1 the recent election the voters of New York indorsed in an emphatic way the proposition to borrow $9,000,= 000 for improving the Erie canal. A favorable vote was exoeected, but the most sanguine and enthusiastic advos cates of canal improvement did not foresee so general a verdigt for the $9,000,000 appropriation. The great influence came from the commercial bodies throughont the state, and especially from the business men of New York city. They realize the vast importance of the Erie canal to the commerce of the city and to the interests of the en~ tire state. Gl :

A sprriEs of experiments has just been completed at the New Haven electric light station with a little invention which is destined to be of great commerciak value to electricians, inasmuch as it enables the strong current that runs over the electric light wires te be reduced so that it will be applicable to hotel enuneciators and other forms of electric bells, and for low voltage instruments generally, like those in telegraphy, telephones, electric forks, induction ecoils, efe. At present such low voltage instruments can only derive their poser from the erdinary eell batteries. .. . .

.. i Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, ~ FROM WASHINGTON. - v In the United States the visible supply of grain on the 18th was: Wheat, 60,326,000 bushels; eorn, 4,306,000 bushels; oats, 5,972,000 bushels; rye, 1,287,000 ‘bushels; barley, 4,047,000 bushels. In his annual report Chief Hdzen of the secret service shows that during the year 803 arrests were made, with few exceptions for violation of the statutes against counterfeiting. Altered and counterfeit notes, counterfui‘t coins and the like were captured having an aggregate face value of almost $5,000,000. b President Cleveland appointed John L. Peak, of Kansas City, Mo., United States minister to Switzerland, to succeed Minister Brogdhead, resigned. The new battle ship Indiana was accepted by the government from the builders. i The assistant secretary of the interior department has decided that where a pension has been obtained fraudulently the attorney procuring the pension is not entitled to the fee and must refund it. - s The National Civil Service Reform league will hold its annual meeting in Washington December 12 and 13.

The cOmmi%'sionex} of internal revenue in his annual report shows the receipts from different sources during the last fiscal year were $143,246,077, a decrease of $3,922,371 over the previous year, ! The death of Senor Augusto De Saguira Thedim,Poituguese minister to the United States, occurred at his residence in Washington, aged 38 years. The Knights of Labor in session in Washington ordered a boycott against the establishment of Wanamaker & Brown, of Philadelphia, and against the beer output of brewerics controlled Ly the English syndicates in -5t Louis, Pittsburgh, Omaha and Philadelphia.

! THE EAST. . J. Berlo, of Boston, broke the twomile bicycle record at Fountain Ferry, Ky., making the distance in 3:43 1-5. in session at \Worcester, Mass., the National Grange reeclected J. H. Brigham, of Delta, 0., as national master to serve his fourth term. . Funeral services over the body of Rev. S. F. Smith, D. D., famous as the author of the national hymn, “America,” were held at the lirst Baptist church in Newton, Mass. I'lames in the Parker block at Lowell, Mass., caused. a loss of $350,000. Secretary Carlisle spoke on national finances at the 27th annual banquet of the chamber of commerce of the city of New York. MHe said the legal tender note was the fundamental vice of our currency system, was responsible for many vagaries, and should be retired. On the New York Centra: road four boys wrecked a train near Rome, N. Y., and N. N. Hager, the engineer, and an unknown man were killed.

The Gloucester (Mass.) mackerel fleet the past season caught only 25,000 barrels, against 50,000 last year. ; Burglars broke into the post office at Summit, N. J., blew open the safe and secured over $5,000 worth of stamps and $5OO in cash, ; The Silk Association of America at a meeting 1n New York advanced the price of twisted silk five per cent. David J. Hill, president of the University of Rochester, N. Y., resigned to take effect at the close of the present college year. The KEdna M. Champion, a schooner which sailed from Philadelphia October 12 for Port Tampa, Fla., was given up as lost with her crew of nine men. At Auburn, N. Y., Mrs. Mary T. MecMillan was found guilty of making counterfeit two-cent postage stamps und was sentenced to the Erie county penitentiary-for 18 months. At the National Hardware association's convention in Pittsburgh resolutions were adopted asking the republican and democratic national committees to make the presidential campaign one of three instead of six months. At Troy, N: X., the Morning Telegram, established in 1853 as the Troy Morning Whig, has suspended publication, o One hundred Armenians employed at the Whiting machine works at Whitinsvillé, I@ass., refused to work Dbecause the firm would mnot discharge four Turks. In Philadelphia Christ church celebrated its 200th anniversary, distinguished prelates from all over the couniry being present. ;

WEST AND SOUTH. Judge Ricks, of the United States circuit court, sitting at Cleveland, in a test case decided that areceiver of a defunct Lank can assess stockholders and recover in suits from those who refuse tq bay,. At Dunlop, Kan., David Henderson, a young colored school teacher, who assaulted Dora Ray, one of his puptls, was cited tg appear before thie school board, and while there fatally wounded Samuel Ray and his wife and two other persons with a hatchet. In the state of Washington the Nez Perces Indian reservation was opened for settlement. On Decenmiber 4 next a\convention to consider the question of statehood for Oklahoma will be held at Shawnee. Samuel Grier and his wifeé, of \Wilmot, Wis., died within an hour of each other. The husband was aged 73 and the wife 70. Last April they celebrated their golden wedding. One of the best known printing firms in Chicago, the Henry O. Shepard compuny, failed for $lOO,OOO. I'lames destroyed the livery stable of J. R. Koons and tive dwellings in San Irancisco and 50 horses were cremated. In Kansas City 100 retail druggists formed a stock company to manufacture all proprietary remedies consumed by the local trade, v Earthquake shocks frightened the residents of Cairo, Ll, but did no damage. ' : : ; Thirty-two buildings were burned at Purcell, L. 1., at a loss of $150,000, and two merchants were arrested for arson. Feliciano Chavez and Jesus Vialpando, donvicted of murdering and burning the body of young Tomis Mar-, tinez, were hanged at Sapta Fe, N, j At the age of 107 yeairs d. IY. Doolan died at Jacksonville, Ll, | | A feud between the Hanley, Jones. and Kilgore families, near Birmingham, Ala., resulted in the death of Joseph Kilgore and John Jones aud John Handley wis fatally injured. o 1 © Dangerous countefeit two-dollar bills were in circulation in Indianapoiis, They are a trifle larger than the genuine, and in the portrait of Windma the eye %M«Mnmwfiwfifl!

At Dallas, Tex., the Texas Paper company and the Deering Harvester company lost their plants by tire, the total loss being $125,000. - ; A new gold-bearing region was said te have been found in Archuleta county, Col., which would eclipse anything known in the world. : In Baltimore Alcaens Hooper, the first republican mayor in 30 years, was inaugurated. v : v Fire destroyed the buliness portion of Madisonville, Ky. The marriage of Congressman J. F. Dolliver and Miss Louise "earsons took place in the First Presbyterian church at Fort Dodge, la. : South of Ashland, Wis., 120 ssttlers are, by a deeision from the general land office, made homeless. ; Off {St. Martin’s Key the schooner Shamrock of Key West, Fla., foundered and six of the crew, all colored, were lost. . ‘ 5 Ate Cripple Creek, Col., the monthly output of the mines was said to be $l,000,00. ' : At La Grange, Tex., the First national bank, which suspended payment Oetober 20 last, was permitted to resume business. - . At Columbia, S. C., the constitutional convention ‘made. provision fot the establishment of an industrial mechanical and normal school for negroes. : It was announced that John Tod, of Cleveland, had been appointed receiver of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad company. . » Flames that started in the Excelsior building in Chicago, owned by Warren Springer, destroyed property valued at $500,600. Near Bryan, Tex., a negro accused of riding a horse over a little girl, inflicting serious injuries, was lynched by a mob, but later developments showed that the mob got hold of the wrong negro, Ilugene V. Debs, the president of the American' Railway union, was released from the jail at Woodstock, 111., after a confinement of six mornths. : A mob hanged Charles Hurd, a nego who killed Joseph D. Kelley at Wartburg, Tenn. Fire destroyed ten business houses and one dwelling at Geneva, Indj, and Oliver Martin was in jail charged with having caused the fire. . ‘

’ FORE!GN INTELLIGENCE. ‘While temporarily insane Manager Short, of the Commercial bank at Sale, Victoria, shot his wife and two children anddhen killed himself. Senor Canovas de 'Castille; the premier, declares that the persistent rumors regarding peace negotiations between representatives of the Spanish government and the insurgents of Cuba are untrue. . The mnational fraternual congress (American) met in ninth annual session 'in Toronto. The societies represented by the congressinclude a benefit membership of 1,33%,570 and a social membership of 30,059, and the protection in force at the end of the year was $2,847,054,610. Dispatches from West Africa say that Capt. Bower, the Dritish resident at Ibadan, attacked and killed the king of Oyo and many of his followers. The cruiser Minneapolis was ordered to sail for Smyrna, Asia Minor, to assist in protecting the lives of American missionaries and other subjects of the United States in the districts now being ravished by the Mohammedan fanatics. : ‘ A boiler and magazine explosion on the troop ship Kung Pai at Kin Chow, China, sent 600 men to.death. : ‘The insurgents defeated the Spanish troops in a battle near Santa Clara, 500 of the latter being killed and wounded. The insurgents’ loss was small.The Chinese papers are bitter in their attacks on the Japanese authorities in Corea, whom they blame for the murder of the queen. They say that there were 15 women of title in the court, the queen, her mother and 130 ladies in waiting and they were all soaked in oil and burned. ~ In Canada Thanksgiving day was observed on the 21st. ; At the age of 70 years Sir Henry Ponscnby, formerly private secretary to Queen Victoria and keeper of the privy purse, died at Cowes. ' LATER NEWS, There were 320 business failures in the United .States in the seven days ended on the 22d, against 279 the week previous and 322 in the corresponding time-of 1894. ; o Winebrenner Bros., oyster packers in Baltimore, made an assignment with liabilities of over $lOO,OOO. 5 Advices from Turkey say that the Kurds destroyed 20 villages in the northwestern portion of the distriet of AlepPo, and the 10,000 inhabitants were massacred, .

The new census of Wisconsin shows the total percentage of foreign-born population of*the state to be 27.04. Nancy and IFannie Armstrong and Mollie Whitney (all colored) were burned to death in a cabin at Stony Foint, Ky. John Redfern, the well-known ladies’ tailor, whose reputation is world-wide, died in London. = Thomas Mabe and his two sons were burned fatally in a fire which destroyed their brandy distillery near Danbury, N, € - < Mrs. Phoebe Woodward @ celebrated her 102 d birthday anniversary at Charlestown, Mass. ‘ ; The Nationnl Hardware association in session at Pittsburgh, Pa., clected W. W. Supplee, of Philadelphia, as president. ' Miss Ella Tickle, the smallest woman in Ohio, was buried at Miamisburg. She was 33 years old, 30 inches high, and weighed only 31 pounds. Prof. Brooks, director of Smith's observatory at Geneva, N, Y., discovered a new comet. This is the 20th comet discovered by Prof, Brooks. : The Puget Sound Loan Trust and Banking company at New Whatcom, Wash., failed with liabilities of $60,000. Amanda Cody and Florence English were hanged at Warrenton, Ga., for the murder of the Cody woman’s husband. Florence is a man, S H. W. Bmith, associate justice of the supreme court of Utah, died at Ogden. Lugene V. Debs was given a reception in Chicago upon his arrival from the Woodstock jail and spoke to a large audience in Battery D, his subject being “Liberty.” ; R A 40-ton meteor fell on a farm near Round Head, O. e i In a fire in the Exchange building in Chicago which caused a loss of over $300,060° Patrick J. O’'Donnell, Martin Sherrick, John Downs and John Prendergast, all firemen, and Kittie Landgraf were burnied todeath,

T, 3 NATIONAL FINANCES. Carlisle Addresses the New York Chamber of Commerce. id T : ; '_———'-—A- : - ‘ “The Legal Tender Note the Fundamental{ Vice of Qur Currency System, Is Re- | sponsible for Many Vagaries, and ¥ s Should Be Retired. ! o : x , New York. Nov. 20.—The chamber of| commerce held its 127th annual banque 8t Deimonico’s Tuesday night. Many men distinguished in politicaland finan+ cial circles were present. Alexander Ej Orr, president of the chamker of commerce, presided. The leading speaker was Hon. John G. Carlisle, secretnrfi of the treasury, whose theine was **Ou; Currency Question.” Ile spoke in part as follows: : . o “Two years ago I said to you that thidis < position and:ability of the governmert t maintain its own credit at the highest standard, and to preserve the integrity o all the forms of currency in circulatio among the people, could not be reazonabhly doubted and cught not to be the subject o'd further controversy. While scarcely anyone now seriously doubts either the diaposition or the ability of the executive§ branch of the government to aceomplish these objects, all who have given any attention to the subject must realize that in; the existing state of our legislation the tasgl is both difficult and expensive. Since that declaration was made here, interest-bear-ing bonds to the amount of $162,315,400 ha v-.f) been issued to procure gold for the redemption of United States nptes and trcasury% notes, and the obligations of the goverrnment on account of the notes still I'cmui% the same as at the beginning. Laws Must e Changed. - i !

*“The notes are redeemed, hut they ar unpaid, and if' our legislation lis nog changed, no matter how often they .aay b presented and redeemed hereafter, they Wilfl remain unpaid. If this policy of redemp tion and reissue is continued the intere%t; bearing debt will be greatly increased while the noninterest-bearing debt will not be in the least diminished. The disadvan tages of such a system are so obvious tha it is hardly necessary to enumerate themj The government has undertaken to kezsp an unlimited amount of circulating notes equal in value to gold coin, and, at the sam time, it has no legal authority to comp«l anybody to give it gold in exchange for th notes, or to pay gold on any demand due to it. Although the amount of United States notes is fixed at $316,681,000, and tfle amount of treasury notes outstanding is s little over/ $140,000,000, yet the total amouiit that may be presented for redemption jg unrlimited, because there is no restrictiofn as to the number of times the same note may be returned to the treasury and exchanged for-gold. : ! Responsible for Many Vagaries. ' “The theories that the government oaln create money by placing its stamps upo}n paper; that a legislative enactment can malke 50 cents equal to 100 cents; that artificially inflated prices, paid in a depreciated currency, are better for the people than natural prices, paid in a sound currency, and various other vagaries are alll directly attributable to the long continqd use of legal tender paper. The proposition, that a promise of the government to pai’y money is money, i 8 just as absurd as tl}e proposition that a promise to deliver |a horse is a horse.. i **The agitatlonforthe freecoinage oflegfil tender silver at a ratio which would put only 50 cents worth of bullion in a silver dollar is predicated upon the same viciot@s principle. The "United States note was ja forced loan from the people to the government, which the governinent promises tio repay in dollars, but free coinage of legal tender silver at the rate of sixteen to one,?}x" at any other ratio not corresponding witj the commercial value of the two metalg, would be a forced loan from the people to the owners of silver mines and silver bullion without a promise of repaymert by anybody. One loan was forced for the benefit of the government, in a time of war, but the proposition of the advocatds of free coinage is to force another loojn for the benefit of private individuals and corporations, in a time of profound peac{:. 1n principle, the two measures are preciseély alike. The free coinage of legal tender silver would be far more unjust than the issse of legal tender United States notes. | - Leading Vice of (Jur System. 1

. *““The fundamental vice In our currency system is the legal tender note, redeemable in coin by the government and reissuabli under the law. This threatens the stability of the whole volume of our currency and has caused immense losses by fluctuatio.s, of which it is impossible to keep the publie ~aware. Jt was never contemplated that thie government should convert itself into ha bank of issue. The treasury departmenit is simply a public agency for the management of the fiscal affairs of the government. ‘““The circulation of legal tender Unitef States notes and treasury notes has_a tendency to drive out of use and out of thpe country the very coin in which the government is compelled to redeem them; and ift has expelled miilions of dollars from our borders. No other government in the world is required to discharge the privute obligations of its citizens, and no governt ment ought to be required to do so. The factthat the government is required to bor+ row money is an injury to its credit and the credit of its people, but the injury resulting from this cause is ingignificant in comparison with the ruin that would follow «n abandonment of the reserve while tha4 notes are outstanding, for all our currency would thus be reduced to the silver standard. “However, it is not my purpose now to discuss the question of free coinage. I think the abandonment or suspension of the aggressive movement against this financial heresy would be most unwise at this time, especially in view of the faét that a concerted effort is evidently now’ being made in the south and west to regain the ground lost during the last six months. If the friends of a sound measure of value are vigilant this i‘fnrt cannot possibly succeed. PBut the I#al tender notes will remain to complicate the currency system u:ifl congress agrees to their retirement and substitution of others in their places. This legislation is imperatively demanded, as it concerns the welfare of all the people. : | ‘‘No nation can reasonably hope to con-i trol the trade of any considerable part of the world, or even to realize the full ben-| efits of its own trade, unless its exchanges| ure based upon a standard of value I‘OCOg;{; nized as sound and permanent in all the| centers of commerce. The pound sterling has made London not only the principall market, but the clearing house of the whole world. No matter what character of currency other nations may use, no matter, what standard of value they rhay adopt,! all their international balances are sub-| jected at-last to test of the pound sterling| with an inferior curren¢y, we could never! successfully contest her supremacy, and the belief that we can punish her, or en-| rich ourselves, by destroying the value of our own money is one of the most remarkable delusions of the age. We are greatf enough and strong enough to maintain| our commercial and financialindependence | in opposition to any country in the world,*i but, in order to do so, we must be allowed | to usc as cffcctive instrumentalities as are| employed by our rivals.” ki Must Be No Equivocation, | l The speaker closed with a hope that the political platforms of both the greait partics l would hencetortih be clear and uncquivocal. *“lf a majority of the p=ople of the Unucd! States are in favor ot the maintenance | the present standard of value and opposed‘i to the free and unlimited coinage of legal; tender silver, they ought to have an op- | portunity to say so in a form which will | preclude all controversy as to whether they | have said so or not. On the other hand, 1t | a majority of our people are in favor of abandoning the present standard of value and establishing silver monometallism py | the free and unlimited coinage of that metal into full legal tender money, they. should have an pppgrmnity to say that, When this issue js directly presented we need not fear the result.” 7 Other toasts responded to were: “Qur Domestic Commerce,” by Hon. Julius C. Burrows; *“Nutioual Develop- 1 ment and Opportunity,” by lion. Charles Ewmory Smith; “The City of New York,” | by Mayor Strong, and “Etics in Folitiesy” by Rev. Dr, M. W, Stryker. <ee e - ‘ - Falls Bpmw $90,000,000. Washington, Nov. 20.—The treasury gold reserve {(all withdrawals up te Monday out) stands at $59,468,210,

SULTAN MAKES PROMISES. Jurope Waiting to See Them Fulfilled— B ~ The Bahri Pasha Incident. : Constantinople, Nov. 21.—The attitude of the porte, or of the sultan, has undergone a decided change since the other fleets began to join the British flect in the naval demonstration in Salonic bay. There is nodoubt that the pressure brought to bear upon the sultan has been strong enough to make him take personal charge of the work of reform in Armenia, and it is now hoped there will be no further blaad'shed, except in the case of putting down the insurrections which have broken out against Turkish Fale in different parts of Asia Minor. It is hoped, however, that the Armenian clergy will be able to induce their coreligionists to lay down their arms, especially as ths ‘ sentiment of the whole of Europe is now in favor of the sultan, whose evident desire to meet the views of the powers is thoroughly appreciated and h.s undoubtedly tided over a most difficult crisis in the east.” There is no longer any talk of the armed intervention of the powers in the Turkish eimnpire, and if any display of force is nececsary upon the part of Europe it might be in the direction of supporting the authority of the sultan, as Great Britain, Russia and France are extg‘remely desirous that order should promptly be restored throughout Asia Minor. Constantinople, Nov. 22.—Matters political do not look as bright as they did. The professed determination of the sultan to act energetically in suppressing the disorders in Asia Minor had a decidedly good effect here and elsewhere, and the troubles which threatened to cause the disruption of the Turkish government. were looked upon as almost ended. DBut a further jarring has occurred, and it is once more Bahri Pasha who is the disturbing element. This notorious official made himself so conspicuous by his cruelty to Armenians and maladministratiod of his district when governor of Van that the British ‘ambassador, Sir Philip Currie, insisted upon his removal. _ After considerable correspondence on the subject, the plain. evidence of the pasha’s unfitness for his position having been furnished to thie sultan, the latter removed the pasha. Bahri, however, brought the strongest influence to bear upon Abdul Hamid, protested his innocence of the charges brought against him, claimed that his removal was brought about by the intrigties of the Armenians and eventually he was not only forgiven, but was decorated with the order of the Osmanich and complimented upon his efforts to suppress disorder.

Scon afterward it was rumored that ‘Bahri Pasha was to be appointed %o command the large force of Turkish troops being concentrated at Marash for a movement upon Zeitoun, which is Lield by the Armenians, wlho had captured the Turkish garrison, consisting of about 400 men. This report raised such a storm of indignation in diplomatic and other circles here that the plan was abandoned, if, indeed, it had been formed. E Now, however, the storm has burst again, for Bahri Pasha has been appointed military commander of the Aleppo district. The bad impression which this has produced can hardly be exuggerated, for the diplomat§ feel that it will be almost impossible to prevent him from pursuing the same tactics at Aleppo as he did at Van.” Upon receiving the news of Bahri Pasha’s appointment to the military command of Aleppo the representatives of the powers held a meeting and discussed the matter from all standpoints. The result was’that they have joined in a note to the Turkish government saying that they cannot answer for the consequences whichmightensueshould the Armenians of Zeitoun be massacred after their surrender, which the Armenian patriarch, atthe instance of the representatives of the powers, is endcavoring to bring about in order to prevent furéher bloodshed, - -~ It will thus be seen that while.the sultan, alarmed at the disafiprogal which the rumor of Bahri Pasha’s appointment to the immediate command of the Turkish troops at Marash raised, refrained from confirming it, he has made him military commander of the Aleppo district, whiéh will give him control over the commander of the Turkish troops at Marash. A dispatch received here from Aleppo says that the greatest alarm still prevails there.

- CHILDREN CREMATED. Jealous Ndjghbors Watch Them Burn and Make No Effort to Save Them. "~ South Pittsburg, Tenn., Nov. 21.— Wednesday morning a tenement house occupied by Irvin Robinson, a respectable colored laborer, was destroyed by fire. In the building were two of Robinson’s children, aged one and four years, respectively, and both were burned to death, Robinson and his wife being absent at the time. Much indignation exists against the negroes ljving near, who stood by and saw the children burned to death without maling any effort to save them. Their brutal conduct was prompted by jealousy of Robinson’s superior attainments. Librarian Spofford’s Accounts. Washington, Nov. 21.—~The report of the treasury expert who has investigated the accounts of Ainsworth R. Spofford, librarian of congress, has been completed, and is in the hands of Secretary Carlisle. The expert finds that Mr. ' Spofford has for years been drawing money from the treasury on vouchers bearing fictitious signatures of dead men or men who never existed. Mr, Spottord’s accounts were $35,000 in arrears, but he has reduced this amount to about $B,OOO. 1t is understood on the ‘ best of authority that the ' president contemplates the removal of Mr. Spofford. . ‘ K - Fire Brings Ruin. - Chicago, Nov. 22.—A fire which caused a property loss of $500,000 and imperiled the lives of 500 persons, mostly young women, broke out at three o’cluck Thursday afternoon on the third floor of Charles Emmerich & Co.’s feather and down goods factory, 175181 South Canal street. 'The conflagration was attended by scenes of intense excitement and a score of firemen narrowly escaped being killed by fire und falling walls. : SR ' Balfour Agamn 6?1 Trial. : London, Nov. 22.—The trial of Jabez Spencer Balfour and the other defend“ants charged with frauds in connection | with the house and land investment _trust, began in the queen’s bench di‘Asion of the high court of justice Mhucedpy, morning ;an*%viflw bpying., “been' obtuined without delay. . .

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