Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1889 — Page 6

The f£e publican, jr RENSSELAER. ■ INDLUU

From the frequency of royal marriages in Europe of late it would ap- • pear that representatives of monarchy are forming a crown trust. ' An unusual wedding ceremony occurred not long ago in Dublin, where a well known artist was married to his second wife by a clergyman who was ids son by hi# first wife. There has been a marked decadence in the use of the French language at Montreal during the last ten years. Formerly it was the prevalent tongue, but now the English predominates.

Nonaco, to which only consuls are accredited, has a big diplomatic corps in the rest of Europe, and its diplomats display a profusion of gold lace and titles purely for the honor of serving the principality gratis. The Indianapolis Journal says that, “the American sovereign votes as he thinks and thinks as he pleases.”! Granted. But he most always pleases: to think what his father pleased to think before him. - ~ < " Sir Francis de Winton says that, in spite of the scores of explorers who have been traversing in Africa in all directions Since Livingston began his travels, the larger part of the many millions of natives have never yet seen a white man. .Pretended rivals of Boston in refinement afid culture have often appeared, but they have never made good their claims. The Hub still holds its own as a literary centre, and it is still the home of some of our most eminent literary men. They are telling of a Maine man who asked two boys to carry half a cord of wood from the sidewalk up a flight of stairs to his office, -and -when they had finished the task handed one of the lads a cent, with instructions to “divide it” between them. A sensible suggestion is made that the movement to restore the monument to the memory of Mary Washington, the mother of the first president, shall include the purchase of the old house in which she lived and died. It is a small house at Fredericksburg. An American orator, at a dinner at the Grand Hotel in London, recently made use of the following metaphor in his speeoh: “Let the Russian bear put his paw upon the fair land of Australia and the British lion, the American eagle and the Australian kangaroo will rise up as one man and drive him ignominiously to his lair.” According to the New York Tribune the paupers of the llockley Almshouse, Philadelphia, can’t complain that their lives are monotonous. While they are sleeping the sleep of the pauper, large and hungry rats nibble their toes, and while they are partaking of their dinners, the resident physician and officials engage in ratshooting contests. “Looking Backward” ha 3 sold to the extent of 175,000 copies. This is immense when it is considered that the ordinary novelist thinks success ha 9 been attained when his production has reached a sale of 5,000 copies. Belamy's book is still selling at the rate of 1,000 a week. It has passed by “Ben Hur” and promises to overtake “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” There is a plant in New Grenada known as the “ink plant,” the juice of which serves without the least prepa-1 aration, as ink. The writing at firsl appears red. but in a few hours assumes' a deep black hue. Several sheets of j manuscript, written with this natural ink, became so iked with sea water oh their journey to Europe, but when dried the writing was found to be still perfectly clear. More remnants of the famous old bridge of the Romans at Mayence * have been discovered recently. In i digging for the foundation of a factory laborers found a massive pillar of square cut stones, which 1,900 years ago helped to support the bridge. j The pillar was without seam or crack. ! After digging down sixteen feet the workingmen gave up trying to find the pillar's base. As A rule, there is very little in the average marriage that involves the sacred ness of a sacrament Men aad women drift together, are interested, and they marry with as small regard for its real importance as if it were an evening calL Society is largely frivolous, shallow, unthinking. These superficial people marry on sight; none of the deeper and more serious feelings are involved In the union. The great Bear riyer canal in Utah, (or the construction of which $2,000,009 has been provided, is expected tc be one of the most evtensive irrigation works in America. To get the river along the side hill along Baar river canyon and out onto the plain neat Plymouth will necessitate moving 222.000 cubit yards of solid rock, 19,000 cubit yards of loose rock, 1,528,080 cubit yards of earth, aod digging 1,20 C last of tuuacL

DR. TALMACE IN JOPPA.

The Brooklyn Freachw Tafkson- -* * the Charities of the Needle. , . Ha Arrives at the Birthplace of Be wing Societies, in the Courae of His Pilgrimage and Entertains a Company of Christian People. Rev. T. De WlttTalmage reached ancient Joppa in time to preach to an appreciative company of Christians last Sunday. His subject was: “The Birthplace of Sewing Societies.” He took for his text Acts ix, 89: “And all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.” The preacher said: Christians pf Joppa! Impressed as lam with your mosque, the first I ever saw, and . stirred as I am with the fact that your harj bor once floated the great rafts of Lebanon 1 cedar from which the temples St Jerusalem were builded, Solomon’s oxhh drawing the logs through this very town on the way to Jerusalem, nothing can make me forget that this Joppa was the birthplace of the sewing society that has blessed the poor of all succeeding ages to all lands. The disasters to your town when Judas Maccabaeus set it on fire, and Napoleon had five hundred prisoners massacred in your neighborhood, cannot make me forget that one of the most magnificent charities of the centuries ’ was started in this seaport by Dorcas, a , woman with her needle embroidering her I name lueffacoably into the beneficence of the j world. I see her sitting in yonder bome_ !In the doorway, and around about the building, and in the room where she sits, are the pale faces of the poor. She listens to their plaint, she* pities their woe, she makes garments for them, she adjusts the manufactured articles to suit the bent form of this invalid woman, and to the cripple that comes crawling on his hands and knees. She "gives a coat to this one, she gives sandals to that one. VV ith the gifts she mingles prayers and tears and Christian encouragement. Then she goes out to be greeted on the street corners by those whom she has blessed, and all through the street the cry is heard: “Dorcas is coming!” The sick look up gratefully in her face as she puts her hand on the burning brow, and the lost and the abandoned start up with hope as they hear her gentle voice, as though an angel had addressed them; and as she goes out the lane, eyes half put out with sin think they see a halo of light about her brow, and a trail of glory in her pathway. That night a half paid shipwright climb 3 the hill and reaches home, and sees his lit Lie boy weii _ciad, ami says:. —VV here did these clothes come from(” And they tell him, “Dorcas has been here.” In another place a woman is trimming a lamp; Dorcas bought the oil In another place, a family that had not been at table for many a week are gathered now, for Dorcas has brought bread. I'BA-rn and resurrection of dorcas. ! But there is a sudden pause in that woman’s ministry. They say: “Where is Dorcas? Why, wo haven’t seen her for many a day. Where is Dorcas?” And one of these poor people goes up and knocks at the door and finds the mystery solved. All through the haunts of wretchedness, the news comes, “Dorcas is sick!” No bulletin flashing from the palace gate telling the stages of a king’s disease, is more anxiously awaited for than the nows from this sick benefactress. Alas 1 for Joppa! there is wailing, wailing. That voice which uttered so many cheerful words is hushed; that hand which had so many garments for the poor is cold and still; the star which had poured light into the midnight of wretchedness is dimmed by tne blinding mists that go up from the river of death, lu every Gcd forsaken place in this town; wherever there is a sick child and no balm; there is hunger and no bread; wherever thero is guilt and no commiseration; wherever there is a broken heart and no comfort, there are despairing looks streaming eyes, and frantic gesticulations as they cry: “Dorcas is dead !” They send for the apostle Poter, who happens to be in the suburbs of this place, stopping with a tanner by the name of Simon. Peter urges his Way through the crowd around the door, and stands in the presence of thedead. W hat expostulation and grief all about him! Here stand some of the poor people, who show the garments which this poor woman had made for them. Their grief cannot be appeased. The apostle Peter wants to perform a miracle. He will not do it amidst the -excited crowd, and he kindly , orders that the whole room be cleared. The door is shut against the populace. The apostle stands now with the dead. Oh, it is a-Seri-ous moment, you know, when you are alone with a lifeless body! The apostle gets down on his knees and prays, and then ho comes to the lifeless form of this one all ready for the sepulcher, and in the strength of him who is the resurrection he exclaims: “Tabitha, arise!” There is a stir in the fountains of life; the heart flutters! the nerves thrill; the cheek flushes; the eye opens; she sits up! \\ e see in this subject Dorcas the disciple ; Dorcas the benefactress; Dorcas the lamented; Dorcas the resurrected. If I had pot seen that word disciple in my text, I would have known this woman was a Christian. Such music as that never came from a heart which is not chorded and strung by divine grace. Before I show you the needlework of this woman, I want to show you her regenerated heart, the source of a pure life and all Christian charities. I wish that the wives and mothers and daughters and sisters of all the earth would imitate Dorcas in her discipleship. Before you cross the threshold of the hospital, before you enter upon the temptations and trials of to-morrow, I charge you, in the name of God, and by the turmoil and tumult of the judgment day, oh women! that you attend to the first 1 last and greatest duty of your life—the seeking for God and being at peace with him. When the trumpet shall sound, there will be an uproar, and a wreck of mountain and continent, and no human arm can help you. Arniast the rising of the dead, and amidst the boiling of yonder sea, and amidst the 1 live, leaping thunders of the fiying heavens, calm and placid will be every woman’s heart who hath put her trust in Christ; calm nut withstanding all the tumult, as though the fire in the heavens were only the gildings of an autumnal sunset, as though the peal of the trumpet were only the harmony of an orchestra, as the awful voices of the sky were but a group of friends bursting through a gateway at eventime with Inugh--1 ter, and shouting “Dorcas, tho disciple!” Would God that every Mary and every Martha would this day sit down at the feet of Jesus! Further, we see Dorcas the benefactress. History has told the story of the crown; the epic poet has sung of tho sword;Jfbapastorai poet, with his versos full of tho redolence of clover tops, and a-rustlo with the Bilk of tho corn, has sung the praises of tho plow. I tell you the praises of tho needle. From the fig leaf robe prepared in the garden of Eden to the last stitch taken on the garment for the poor, the needle has wrought wonders of kindness, treneroviiy and benefaction. Unadorned

—— - —■ - ■ . ... the girdle of the high priest; it fashioned the euriams in the ancient tabernacle; it cushioned the chariots of King Solomon: it provided the nt ‘?ii‘“n j’ltrimrtTT and in hi h places and in low places, by the fire of the pioneer’s back log and finder the flash Of the t-hitnrin’iiwr, PTroryiyhen-. tt has clothed nakedness, preached the Gospel, it has overcome hosts of penury and want with the war cry of “Stitch, siitch stitch !” Thoopcratives have found a livelihood by it, and through it the mansions of -the employer have been constructed. Amidst the greatest triumph in all ages and lands, 1 set down the conquests of the needle. I admit its crlm’es ; I admit its cruelties. It has had more martyrs than the fire; it has punctured the eye; it has pierced the side; it has struck weakness into the lungs; it has sent madness into the brain; it has Ailed the potter’s field; it has pitched whole armies of the suffering into crime and wretchedness and woe. But now that lam talking of Dorcas and her ministries to the poor, 1 shall speak only of tho charities of the needle. This woman was a representative of all those women who make garments for the destitute, who knit socks for the barefooted, who prepare bandages fQr the lacerated, who fix up boxes of clothing for missionaries, who go into the asylums of the suffering and destituta-hoaring that Gospel which is sight for the blind, and hearing for the deafusstT which makes the same mam leap like a hart, and brings the dead to life, immortal health bounding in their pulses. V\ hat a contrast between the practical benevolence of this woman ana a great deal of the charity of this day! This woman did not spend her time idly planning how the poor of your city of Joppa were lo be relieved: she took her needle and relieved them. She was not like those persons who symyathise with Imaginary sorrows, and go out in the street and laugh at the boy who has upset his basketof eoldvituais, oriike that charity which makes a rousing speech on tho benevolent platform, and goes out to kick the begger fropi the step, crying: “Hushyour; miserable howling!” The sufferers of the, world want not so much theory as practice; not so much tears as dollars ; Dot so much kind wishes as loaves of bread; not so much smiles as shoes; not so much “God bless yous 1” as jackets and frocks. I will put one earnest Christian man, hard working, against five thousand mere theorists on the subject of charity. There are a great many who have fine ideas about church architecture who never in their life helped to build a ehurch. There are men who can give you the history of Buddism and Mohammedanism, who never sent. a farthing for their evangelization. There are women who talk beautifully about the suffering of the world, who never had the courage like Dorcas to take the needle and assault, it. ——— r — —“ I am glad that there is not a page of the world’s history which is not a record of female benevolence. God says to all lands and people, Come now and hear the widow’s mite rattle down into the poor box. The princess of Conti sold all her jewels that she might help the famine stricken. Queen Blanche, the wife of Louis VfHyof France, hearing that there were some persons unjustly incarcerated in the prisons, went out amidst the rabble and took a stick and struck the door as a signal that they might all strike it, and down went the prison door and out came the prisoners. Queen Maud, the wife of Henry I, went down amidst the poor and washed their sores and administered to them cordials. Mrs. Ret.son, at Matagorda, appeared on the battlefield while the missiles of death were flying around, and cared for the wounded. Is there a man or woman who has ever heard of tho civil war in America who has not heard of the women of the Sanitary and-Christian commissions, or the fact that, before the smoke had gone up from Gettysburg and South Mountain, the women of the north met the women of the south on the battlefield, forgetting ail their animosities while they bound up the wounded, and closed thq eyes of the slain? Dorcas the benefactress. I come now to speak of Dorcas the lamented. When death struck down that good woman, oh, how muclrsorrow there was in this town of Joppa! I suppose there were women here with larger fortunes; women, perhaps, with handsomer faces; but there was no grief at their departure like this at the death of Dorcas. There was not more turmoil and upturning in the Mediterranean sea, dashing aeainst the wharves of this seaport, than there were surgings to and fro of grief because Dorcas was dead. There arc a-great many who go out of life and are unmissed. There may be a very largo funeral; there may bo a great many carriages and a plumed hearse; there may be high sounding eulogiums; the bell may toll at the cemetery gate; thero may be a very fine marble shaft reared over the resting place; but tho whole thing may be a falsehood and a sham. The church of God has lost nothing, the world has lost nothing. It is only a nuisance abated; it is only a grumbler ceasing to find fault; it is only an idler stopped yawning; it is only a dissip ued fashionable parted from his wine cellar; wuile, on the other hand, ho useful Christian leaves this world w.thout being missed. The church of God cries out liko tho prophet: “Howl, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen.” Widowhood comes and shows the garments which tho departed had made. Orphans are lifted up to look into the calm face of the sleeping benefactress. Re laimed vagrancy comes and kisses the cold brow of her who charmed it away from sin, and all through the streets of Joppa there is mourn-ing-mourning because Dorcas is dead; When Josephine of France was carried out to her grave, there were a great many men and women of pomp and pride and position that went out after her; but I am most affected by the story of history that ou that day there w re ten thousand of the poor of France who followed her coffin, weeping and wailing until the air rang again, because, when they lost Josephine, they lost their last earthly friend. Oh, who would not rather have su.h obsequies than all tho tears that were ever poured in the lachrymals that have been exhumed from ancient cities. There may be no mass for the dead ; there may be no costly sarcophagus; thero may bo no elaborate mausoleum; but in the damp cellars of the city, and through the lonely huts of the mountain g'en, there will be mourning, mourning, mourning, because Dorcas is dead. “Blessed aro the dead who die in the Lord; tfifiy rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.” I speak to you of Dorcas the resurrected. The apostle came to where she was and said: “Arise; and she sat up!” In what a short compass the great writer pm that—- “ She sat up!” Oh, what a time there must have been around this town, when the apostle brought her out among her old friends! How the tears of joy must have started! What clapping or hands there must have been! What singing! Uhit laughter! Sound it all through tuatUne! Shout It down that dark alley! Let all Jopp.i hear it! Dorcas is resurret ted? You and 1 have seen the same thing many a time ; not a dead body resuscitated, but the deceased earning up ugain after death in the good accomplished. If a man labors up to fifty years of age, serving God, and then dies, we are apt to think that his earthly work is done. No. His influence on earth will continue till the world ceases. Services rendered for Christ never s,op-

*f : >~ : l.J' ■ _ A Christian woman toils for-the upbuilding of. a church through many anxieties, through many self denials, with prayers and tears, and then she dies Ts ls fifteen years since she went away. Now the spirit of God descends upon that church; hundreds of Souls stand up and confess the faith of Christ. Has that Christian woman, who went awa.v fifteen yoaiSs ago, nothing to do with these things? I see the Anwar* ing out of her noble heart. I hear the echo of her footsteps in &H the songs overkfcg: forgiven, in all the prosperity of tho church. The good that seemed to be buried has come up again. Dorcas is resurrectedAlter a while all these womanly friends of Christ will put down their needle forever. After making garments for others, some one will make a garment for thein'; the last robe we ever wear—the robe for the grave. You will have heard the last cry of pain. You will have witnessed the last orphanage. You will have come in worn out from your last round of mercy. Ido not know where you will sieop, nor what your epitaph will be; but there will bo a lamp burning at the tomb and an angel of God guarding it, and through all the long night no rude foot will disturb the dust. Sleep on, sleep ou! Soft bed, pleasant shadows, undisturbed repose! Sleep on! Asleep in Jesus' Blessed sleep! From which none ever wake to weep. Then one day there will be a sky rending, and a whirl of wheels, and the flash of a pageant; armies marching, chains clanking, banners waving, thunders booming, and that Christian woman will arise from the dust, and she will be suddenly surrounded —surrounded by the wanderers of the street whom she reclaimed, surrounded toy The wounded souls to whom she had adtn mistered! Daughter of God, so strafigely surrounded, what means this? It means that reward has come, that the victory is won, that the crown is ready, that the banquet is spread. Shout it .through ail the crumbling earth. Sing it through all the flying heavens, Dorcas is resurrected! In 1835, when some of the soldiers came back from the Crimean war to London, the Queen of England distributed among them beautiful medals, called Crimean medals. Galleries were erected for the two houses of paraliament and the royal family to sit in. There was a great audience to witness the distribution of the medals. A colonel who had lost both feet in the battle of Inkerman was pulled in on a wheel chair; others came in limping on their crutches. Then the queen .of England arose before them in tho name of her government, and uttered words of commendation to the officers and men, and distributed these inodals, inscribed with the four great battlefields, Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman and Sebastopol. As the que. n g;ive these to the wounded men and the wounded officers, the bands tof music struck up the national air, and the people with streaming eyes joined in the song: God save our gracious gueen! Long live our noble queen! God save the queen! And then they shouted “Huzza! huzza!” Oh, it was a proud day for those returned warriors! But a brighter, better aud gladder day will come when Christ shall gather those who have toiled -in his service, good soldiers of Jesus Christ. He shall riso bo- I fore them, and in the presence of all the glorified of heaven he will say: “vV’ell done, good and faithful servant!” and then he will distribute the medals of eternal victory, not inscribed with works of righteousness which we h ivo done, but with those four great battlefields, dear to earth and dear to heaven, Bethlehem! Nazereth! Gethsgmaao! Calvary! .

Musical Lizards.

As is well known, lizards of all colors and sizes abound in Italy. They lie basking I 'on all the stones, they run along all the walls, they peep out of every chink and crevice; but as I soon as they hear the faintest noise they disappear with lightning speed, and it is ham to see them near aud to observe them closely. Walking carelessly, and noticing the dear little . animals darting now here, now there, i I remembered the Greek statue of Apollo Sauroktonos, who is always i ■ represented as busied with a lizard— j Apollo, god of the sun and of music. 1 “Suppose I try,” I thought, and softly, 1 quite softly, I began to whistle a dreamy old German air, and behold! a lizard lies still, as though rooted to | tho spot, raising his little he ul in a listening attitude, and looking at me ring I continued my melody. The lizard _ came nearer and nearer, and approached quite close, always listening and forgetting all its fears. As soon, however, as the whistler made the smallest movement it Vanished into some crevice, but to peep forth again a moment after and to listen once more, as though entirely entranced. A delightful discovery, truly, and one of which I extended the field of observa- i tion daily. At least as many as eight or nine of these little music lovers would sit around me in the most comic attitudes. Nay,two of them, a mother and its young one, would sit awaiting me as I arrived whistling at the same hour of day, sitting on a large Btone, under which was probably their home. With these, too, I made some further experiments. After having made music to them a while I cautiously f went a few steps further, whistling on in soft, drawling tone, such as I had found they best loved to hear, and see, verily, they followed me! Watching them with interest, I continued to wkistlo as I walked on slowly, halting every few paces and being silent when I baited, and truly the little creatures followed, slowly it is triie, but in a straight line, at a distance of about fifteen steps, until at last, unhappily, the heavy tread of a peasant put them to flight But my experiment had lasted long enough to make me understand the Apollo Sauroktonos, and I once more reverenced the keen native observation of those old Hellenes. Besides this the legend of the “Rat Catcher of Hamelin” suddenly became much more credible.—Leisure Hour.

Muskrats.

Twoßallowell (Mo.) sportsmen saw an interesting family in a Maine stream. They suddenly found their boat surrounded by young muskrats, which were us play ful as kittens, diving and oomin ' to the surface again, swimming around the bout and ldoking up to it With oyes that did not betray the least suspi' ion of danger. For some minutes the two men watched the mun.euveres. until the two old muskrats made theii appearance. The latter came out from the shore and dove with a splash \hal seemed to be the signal for the younger ones to tpllow, which they quickly did.

FIFTEEN LIVES LOST.

Frightful Holocaust in m Novytpapor Hollaing at Minneapolis. One of the most horrible holocausts that ever happened in Minneapolis took place Saturday evening at 10:30 o’clock. An alarm of fire was turned in and it was soon knoWn that the Tribune buiidfngwaa on fire. This is a tall, eight story building, occupied almost wholly by printing offices. In an incredibly short time the flames were bursting through the roof and the windows of the upper stories. The fire department was promptly on the ground but was powerless to stay the flames. Now came a scene that stout men turn from in horror—one that froze the blood of the thousands who looked, but were powerless to save. Faces white with terror wore seen at the upper windows, piteous cries for help and shrieks filled the air. The largest, ladder hardly reached the fifthstory windows. The flames at the very first seized on the elevator, and the only stairway and all means of exit from the upper stories were cut off excepting one fire escape at one corner of the building. This afforded a means of escape to a number, but many »were cut off from this by the flames. Some men were seen to leave the buildxig by means of telegraph wires. They went fifteen or twenty feet, hand over nand, and then dropped, and were j crushed out of all semblance to humanity. Three others jumped from the windows near the same place, and were instantly , killed. One poor wretch in the upper window was seen, in his desperation, to, place a revolver to his head aad fire and fall backward in the flames. The firemen; did everything possible, but the doomedmen being in tho sixth and 1 seventh stor-' les, were out of reach, and little could be> done for them. One man jumped from thei seventh story on the First avenue side,snd was crushed to a pulp. It is now 1 thought that at least fifteen or perished in the flames. (. James F. Igoe, the night- operator of the Associated Press, met with a sad death as the result of his faithfulness to his em- i ployers. He was at work on the seventh floor when the report of tho fire was first., received, and immediately opened his key, stating the. fact to the head office at Chicago, and asking for a minute’s time to investigate. Soon lie returned to his : instrument apparently thinking he was lase, and told the sending operator to continue. In a moment he said he would have to “skip,” and found too late that escape was cut off. He jumped from the seventh-story window, and was so badly injured that he died before reaching 'he hospital. | The fire originated in a law office on the Ihird story of the building about 10:30. The elevator man noticed the smell of. smoke, and called attention of some of the' persons around the building to it. The ;ry of fire was raised and several persons' went do wn stairs from the seventh story, to investigate, and then returned to work. Before long smoke began to fill the narrow itairway, tho only one in the building, and everybody began leisurely making preparations for their departure. No immediate Hanger was feared. The only exits to the building, which was erroneously supposed to be fire-proof, were a narrow stair-case scarcely wide enough for two persons to some down abreast, the elevator aud a single fire escape, at the north end of tho building. Several persons had made their escape in tho meantime, but in less than leu minutes the fiamos sought tho elevator shaft, which, acting as a mammoth flue,- 1 Conveyed the flames to the top story, and soon the editorial rooms, in the same side otthe bui 1 ding where the fire originated, svere a seething mass of flames. In a few minutes it reached the other side, where the composing-room was situated. A gen_ tral alarm was turned in and all the engines in the city responded to tho call. Mr. A. J. Blethen, the proprietor of the Tribune, says that he heard the cry of fire snd started down stairs to investigate. On iihe third ffoor_he. found .The. fl.am.aa- hurst.ing out of the Union League rooms, some man trying unsuccessfully to subdue themHe Jumped into the elevator to get a fire extinguisher, which he supposed was on the fourth floor and started up after it. Before reaching the supposed location of the extinguisher ne was half suffocated by the dense smoke and compelled to leave the building, which speedily burned down. The flames were to the north of the elevator snd shot up the elevator shaft and stairway with terrible rapidity. Those on the upper floors who had not previously got out were penned in by the fire, which cut off the way in most instances to the fire escape on the north side of the building Mr. Blethen is of the opinion that eleven lives have been lost. The loss is placed by Mr. Blethen at $250,000, with an insurance of about $125,000. The following are among those lost: James F. Igoe, Associated Press operator Walter E. Miles,Associated Press agentW. H. Millman, commercial editor Tribune. Jerry Jonkinson, compositor Tribune. Robert McCutcheon,compositor Tribune Prof. Edward Olsen, Vermillion, Dak. Milton Pickett, reporter Pioneer Press

REED ELECTED SPEAKER.

The Republican congressional caucus was called to order, Saturday noon, by Secretary McClomas. Mr. Henderson, of Illinois, was elected chairman. There were 165 members present The result of the first ballot for the speakership was: Reed, 78; McKinley, 89; Cannon, 23; Burrows, 10; Henderson, 16. Another ballot vas immediately taken. It resurtedTn Reed receiving 86 votes, thus securing the nomination. The second ballot was: Reed, 86; McKinley, 86; Cannon, 19: Burrows, 15; Henderson, 9. McPherson, of Pennsylvania, was nominated for Clerk of the House, and A. J. Holmes, of lowa, Ser-gcant-at Arms. Mr. Reed has been a mem ber of Congress since 1877. Wheat, of Wisconsin, was nominated sot Postmaster. Charles. Adams, of Maryland fo r Doorkei per, and Rev. C. B. Ransdel, for Chaplain. The auhools to the Fort Wayne Catholic diocese are taught by 177 teachers and art attended by 7,‘M) pupils.

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

prance recognizaa*Braziljm a sister re- , public. — ~ ; { The Salvation Army has located at Hunt j ‘ ington. I j Austria and Russia are reported to be' at outs again. ’. 7 I Mr. Jefferson Davis continues seriously ill and is unable to take food, f New Cumberland, Grant county, is exercised over a ghost that stalks the nights in that vicinity. j Benjamin who lost a foot while in the employ of the Cerealine Mdnufacr turing Company,of Columbus, has brought | suit for $20,000 damages, j Warden Brush Is preparing for the execution of Charles McElwaine by electricity, which is to take place at Sing Sing during the week beginning December 9. Poison instead of medicine was given the inmates of a hospital at the City of Mexico. Four patients have died and others may do so. The nurse and two students are under arrest. j A new natural gas company is boing orj ganized at Noblesviile, in opposition to the I Noblesviile Gas and Improvement Company, now having full sway. Exorbitant rates is the cause of the opposition. Judge R. p. Trippe, of Atlanta, Ga., committed suicide, Friday, by blowing l out his brains with a double-barreled derf ringer. The cause of the act was despondency, due t£ ill health. J. C. Gilliland, cashier of the Citizens’ State Bank, at Selden, Kan., was arrested, Friday, charged with forging mortgages and obtaining loans from Eastern capitalists on them. He was about to leave the , State when arrested. : -'it--I Dom Pedro arrived at St. Vincent, Cape de Verd Islands, Saturday. He at once telegraphed the King of Portugal thanking him, but declining t,o reside at the Nessi. dades Palace. After a few days rest he will take up his permanent residence at Nice. | Judge Brewer has rendered a decision , that that part of the Topeka (Kan.) meat f inspection ordinance which prescribes the inspection of the animal before slaughter ing within a mile of the c.'ty limits is an obstruction to interstate commerce, and therefore void. | A serious cigarmakers’ strike is in progress in Havana. There As great distress among many of the families of idle j Cuban cigarmakers in Key West. Some I have not tasted warm food for several—weeks. Key West has not been so much depressed in business for many years. j At a meeting of R. E. Lee Camp of Con- ! federate Veterans, held at Richmond, Va., j Friday night, a letter was read and order|ed to bo forwarded to Jefferson Davis ex- ' pressing sympathy for him, and saying that their affection and veneration for him is still as great as it. was when ho was ■ President of the Confederacy, j The will of the late L. B. Eaton, of Angola, made provision for establishing a home for indigent widows and old ma ds, and Isaac Eaton, a son, brought suit to set. it aside, alleging that the testator was of unsound mind when the document >vas .drawn. Friday the administrator admit j ted this fact, and the court thereupon held } the will null and void, and under the ruling ' the plaintiff will enter into possession, j The estate is valued at $35,000. There are some interesting facts stowed ' away in the annual report of the Commis- • sioner of Internal Revenue. There were manufactured in the year ending June-H), [-1889, nearly 289,000,000 more cigarettes than during the preceding year. The whole number of cigarettes made was ,151,515,5150, while the number of cigars w&s 3,867,395,040. New York State is the great cigar manufactory of the Union. It turned out 1,108,404,001 cigars and nearly i billion cigarettes, using up in the pro ductiou of these articles Dearly 27,000,000 pounds of tobacco. Pennsylvania comes next to New York, consuming nearly 19,000,000 pounds of tobacco in its cigar and cigarette production. Virginia, which is heard of so much in connection with the :>roduotk>n of cigarettes, coffies after Fenm sylvania, Ohio, Illinois and California in igar production, but is third in importnice as a cigarette producer. Theie were -ised in the manufacture of tobacco during the year more than 23,000,000 pounds of licorice, 18,695,550 pounds of sugar and more than 8,000,000 pounds of other materials. I The United States received special taxes from seven rectifiers, 2,758 retail liquor dealers, 35 wholesale liquor doalers, 41 brewers, 228 retail dealers in malt liquors, and 50 wholesale dealers in malt liquors in lowa, and from one rectifier, 1,254 retail liquor dealers, 3 wholesale liquor dealers and 4 brewers in Kansas. There are two pages and more of the report that- housekeepers would do well to get and pin up in their kitchens to enable them to know the makers of some things they don’t want to buy if they are anxious to avoid adulterations. There are more than 100 brands of baking powder that are described as adulterated. There are twenty-two sorts of coffee, so,called,that are described as made up partly of chicory, peas, beans,rice,corn, wheat and coloring matter. Ten makes of cream of tartar are adulterated with phosphate of lime, sulphate of lime, more than 6 per cent, of tartrate of lime, alum, corn starch and flour are spread before the reader. ! Judge Anderson at Salt Lake, Saturday, in an elaborate and carefully-prepared opinion, denied the applications for citizenship made by Mormons ,who had taken Endowment-house oaths in the Mormon Church. The app.ication has created wide-spread attention, and for the past two weeks J udge And erson has been taking testimony. In his decision, he states the ground of his opposition to the admission of such applicants to be that “the Mormon Church is, and always has been, a treasonable organization in its teachings, and in its practices hostile to the government of the United States; disobedient to its laws, and seeking its Overthrow; and that the oath administered to its member! in the Endowment-house binds then under penalty of death to implicit obedience in all things temporal, as well as spiritual, to the priesthood, and to avenge the death of the prophets, Joseph and Hyram Smith, upon the government and people of the United States.