Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1894 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Texas cotton crop is estimated 1,824,982 bales. • 8 Colorado Populists , have re-nominated Bov. Waite. Gen. Stoneman, ex-Governor of California, died at Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 5. Chauncey Depew declares that he will not be a candidate for Governor of New York. 2 Drought in New YorkJState is without precedent. Farmers are mourning the loss of crops. Ex-Secretary of War Stephen B. Elkins Is reported to be seriously ill at his home at Elkins, W. Va. The coke men in tn*. Connellsville, Pa., field, went out again Sept. 4, and nearly all the plants are idle. Burglars entered the Wabash ticket office at Springfield, 111., at the noon hour and robbed the safe of 51,000. The Union Pacific has issued a notice to all employes to in the future abstain from any participation in politics. Henry Irving bas cabled SSOO to the mayor of New York for the relief of the sufferers by the forest fires in Minnesota. A Milwaukee undertaker was stoned by smob when he attempted to convey the body of a smallpox patient to the cemetery. While scuffling on the footboard of an engine at Danville, 111., W. C. Langdon and W. Lee fell off and were fatally injured. Mrs. Hamilton, of Fargo, N. D.. en route to visit a brother at Marion, contracted smallpox, of which she died, Wednesday, at Marion. Arkansas went Democratic Sept. 4, by 25,000 majority. There was a large decrease in both the Republican and Populist vote, with the Populist ticket third in the race. The Arkansas election was held Monday. James P. Clark, the Democratic candidate for Governor, and the entire State ticket were elected by pluralities ranging from 15,000 to 20,000, The Republican State ticket and all the Republican candidates for Congress, in Vermont, were elected by increased majorities, Sept. 4. The State ticket will have a majority of at least 25,000. Senator Jones, who has represented Nevada in the United States Senate for twenty-one years as a Republican, formally renounced his allegiance to that party it Washington, Sept. 4, • and cast his lot with the Populists, Six negroes, under arrest near Mem phis. Tenn., on a charge of arson, were ihot.by a nieb, Sept. 1, while being taken by officers to a place of safety. All were killed. It is claimed that the lynchers are known and will be arrested and punished.

ENGINEER JAMES ROOT,

The hero of Hinckley, who bravely ran his train through smoke and flame and saved hundredsdflfvesbyhlanerveahd determination, receiving terrible burns and injuries from which he may die. At Fincastle, Wolf county, Kentucky Joo Gum left his three-year-old child in care of its cousin, Henry Gum, while he went to work in the cornfield. The boy becoming tired of his charge, beat its brains out with a club and threw the body into a creek. lie was arrested and is now in jail at Beattyville. The alleged war in the Orient continues. The Emperor of China issued an edict, Ang. 1, news of which reached San Francisco, Sept. 5, in which he says that Corea has been tributary to China for two hundred years. He claims that the Wojen (a name of contempt for the Japanese) suddenly sent their troops to Corea without cause, and refused to listen to reason. Hence war was declared.

The Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias at Washington considered the report, Friday afternoon, from the committee appointed to draft a new ritual for the uniform rank. A discussion of the proposed amendments to the constitution, which will establish a judicial body analogue to the Supreme Court, absorbed most of the session. It is reported that an amendment will be recommended excluding liquor dealers and bartenders from admission to the order. Mrs. T. DeWitt Talmage, wife of the Brooklyn preacher, has been left a legacy of 813.000 by Miss Elizabeth Lord, of Brooklyn, who died in the early summer in actual want, cared for by benevolent people. Within a few days it has been learned that the woman who died in poverty was worth 813.00 J. It is not known that she was acquainted personally with Mrs. Talmage, but perhaps she had heard of her as a charitable, kindly woman. Possibly Mrs. Talmage called on her during one of her trips of visitation among the people of her parish. Secretary Carlysle believe that the total amount of whisky taken from bond before the new tariff law went into effect will be disposed of inside of two months, and that the payments of taxes on whisky will then be resumed. For the last week the receipts from that source amounted to practically nothing. The first week’s operation of the new tariff law has shown that it is satisfactory as a revenue measure to the Treasury officials. The receipts for the last week were larger than for any similar period in the history of the Government, —-- Public Printer Benedict discharged Sbout three hundred employes from the overnment PrintlngOffice, Tuesday, who had been appointed on the recommendation of Senator Gorman. Those men were jet out, it is said, on an order from the White House, and is an incident of the war waging between the President and Senator Gorman, growing out of the tariff fight. Gormcn, as chairman of the Senate printing committee, has been dominating Ahe Public Printing Office. He was only a minority member of the committee under

the Harrison administration, but controlled nearly two hundred appointments eyen then. ,

GEN. N. P. BANKS,

The distinguished Massachusetts soldier and statesman, died at Waltham, Saturday, Sep. 1, Nathaniel Prentiss Banks was born in Waltham, Mass., Jan., 30, 1816. He was educated as a lawyer and was elected to the Legislature in 1849. In 1853 he was elected to Congress as a Democrat, but afterward withdrew from that party, and was re-elected as a KnowNothing, and was elected Speaker of the Hoilge, after a contest lasting two months He was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican, and served until 1857, when he was elected Governor of Massachusetts, being honored by re-elec-tion in 1858 and 1859. In 1860 he became president of the Illinois Central railroad, but resigned when the war broke out, and went into the army as major-general of volunteers,being assigned to duty as commander of the Fifth Corps in the Army of ths Potomac. He was relieved of his command in May, 1864, resigned his commismission, and returned to Massachsetts, where he was again elected to Congress several times. For several years he was United States Marshal for Massachusetts.

GOV, S. J. KIRKWOOD,

lowa’s most prominent citizen, the great war governor, Samuel J. Kirkwood, is dead. With no illness preceding, without a pang of suffering, he passed away, Saturday afternoon, at lowa City, just as he would fall into a sleep. No disease had attacked him; old age simply claimed him with gentle hands. He would have been eighty-one years old next December, and would then have completed forty years’ residence in lowa, during all of which time, save the first year, he had been a central figure in public life. Samuel Jordan Kirkwood was born tn Maryland, Dec. 20,1813; was raised on a farm, educated in a log school-house, and afterward clerked in a drug store in Washington, D. C. He studied law and removed to Ohio, afterwards moving to lowa. He entered the State Senate in 1856; was elected Governor in 1859; was prominent as a war govenor; elected to the United States. From the Senate he returned to private live, but in 1875 the unprecedented honor nf_a-third_nbminaHon for Governor came to~him, and—he had-a—great majority. Again he was elected United States Senator, only to be chosen; soon after he hal taken his seat, as Garfield’s Secretary of the Interior. - At the Democratic State convention at Sioux Falls, S. D., W. H. Wilson, the temporary chairman, created a sensation bj his references to Senator Pettigrew, who, he said, was a Napoleon Bonaparte without his courage, a Cassius without a Brutus to guide his dagger, a Judas Iscariot with thirty pieces of silver in his pockel and without the courage to use a rope. The National Retail Liquor Dealers' Association in session at St. Louis, Thursday, passed resolutions favoring personal liberty; favoring organization to prevent political parties from surrendering tc their enemies; holding that mankind arc created free moral agents and denouncing the attempts of fanatics to regulate the appetites of men by law; holding that the liquor traffic is legitimate and honorable when properly conducted, and that legal discrimination is a plain violation of the spirit and principles of free government; In an action to annul the charter of the American Tobacco Company in New Jersey, on the ground that it was operating as a trust, testimony being taken in lau offices in New York city. President Duke testified that the entire properties of the several companies were turned over to the American Tobacco Company. Duke, Soni & Co., the witness declared, sold 960,000,000 paper cigarettes during the year 1889 Mr. Duke said 8400,000 had been spent ii advertising in 1888, and that the sale; were made all over the world.

FOREIGN.

The King of Slam is suffering from i dangerous fever induced by excessivi doses of chloral. Seven persons were summarily shot it Hayti, on Saturday, for alleged consplracy against the life of Mrs. Gauthier, th< favorite daughter of President Hippolyte It is stated that the young Duke ol Marlborough has recently paid a visit U Danesfleld, and gossip is rife in Londot and Paris as to the possibility of a mar rlage being arranged between him ant the eldest Miss Vanderbilt, who is nowt pretty girl of nearly eighteen. It is said that the Duke will not be able to keep u| Blenheim unless his present income it largely increased iby marriage or otherwise. 'i ■ . Work on the Panama canal will be resumed next month. Ajjew company hai been organized on the ruins of the great wreck. American capitalists will bi largely interested. Five hundred millioi francs will be necessary, and they will b< raised, so it is now claimed, x Comprehensive plans for the relief o: the surviving victims of the Minnesoti forest fires are being perfected at Dulutl and substantial aid is now assured.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Daviess county paw-paw crop will be light Madison women resist arrest more than the men do. The new'tin-plate-works at Middletown are in operation. Hon. W.D. Owen opened the Republican campaign at Peru, Thursday. There was a big fire at Union City, Thursday morning. Loss, sls, Muncie, Elwood, Brazil and Hammond passed into Republican control, Sept. 1. The income tax will affect thirty-five or forty persons and corporations in Wabash. As Noblesville is going to have brick streets an elevated railway may be built Greensburg people think they are right •‘in it” because that place has ten newspapers. - Noblesville was plagued with mosquitos to an unparalled extent during the last week in August. The opening of the public schools at Bedford has been indefinitely postponed on account of diphtheria. Ten prisoners escaped from the Marlon jail Sept. 1. Two voluntarily returned. The others got clear away. William Perkins, eighty years old, and Mr§. M&Fgaret Floyd, seventy-eight, of Putnam county, have been united in marriage. - ..... .. „

Edward Kelley, of Marion, accidentally drank a solution of concentrated lye, dying in great agony. His home was East Cambridge, Mass. Senator Voorhees has written that his health is rapidly improving.and has made Bn appointment to speak at Terre Haute, on the, 18th inst. The Prohibitionists of the Sixth Congressional district have nominated the Rev. Robert B. Lindsay, of Wayne county, as a candidate for Congress. A sensation has been created in Terre Haute by Russell Harrison, the street l car magnate, refusing to pay SIOO,OOO cash for street improvements, which amount, It is said, is due the city. The Rev. O. C. Haskill, of Greencastle, in charge of the Belmont circuit, M. E. church, who was stricken with paralysis while filling an appontment. at Pleasant “Valley, is-dead. He was fifty-nine years old. Raymond Woods, seventeen, well-known coutortlonist of Anderson, while performing the other night, wore a pair of green tights. As he perspired freely the poisonous coloring was taken into his blood and It is now feared that he will die. Grant Kimmell, one of the best known young men in the vicinity of Ligonier, committed suicide by swallowing carbolic icid. The only supposable cause is the objection of his parents to his marriage with a young lady of Silver Lake. Hon, W. R. Myers, Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, also being the present incumbent of that office, was married at Indianapolis, Sept. 5, to Miss Florence Stewart, sister of Charles G. Stewart, managing editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel, 6 Indianapolis had a fatal case of smallpox, Friday. There were numerous exposures before the true nature of the disease became known. The patient was removed to the pesthouse and all possible precautions taken to prevent the spread if the disease. 4 A mill dam five hundred feet long across the Salamomie river, two miles east of La?ro,has been on fire for a week. The water is very low and it is supposed that the fire was started by fishermen on the dam, Accidentally. The structure cost SIO,OOO Mid will.be a total loss.

Gov. McKinley will speak at Hndianapo1s Sep. 25. The secretary Jof the State com mi ttee has assurance th at the Cen tr al -Traffic Association wlll probably grant a half fare rate from all points in the State, md excursions will be run from nearly all the neighboring cities. Frankton claims to have a sure-enough {host. The apparition appears near the Riley farm. Sometimes it has a head, vhich occasionally floats off into space. This does not seem to worry the ghost at ill, as it continues to move about. It is a Dutch ghost and has been heard to sing in German. John Oates, of Anderson, walked into the Midland beer garden and ordered Dmer Hurley, leader of the orchestra, to (top playing, as the music didn’t suit him. Hurley declined and- Oates attacked him with a knife, giving him three thrusts in the face and neck. Hurley was badly hurt. John H. Terhune was elected mayor of Anderson in 1890 and again in 1892. During his administration he saw the city increase in population from 10,000 to 20,000, and he aided in inaugurating many public improvements. Monday night he retired from office. His successor is M. M. Dunlap, also a Republican. Harry Loomis, of Howard county, who assassinated his cousin, James Gregory, and was arrested for murder, is again a raving maniac, and he will be returned to the insane hospital without the formality of re-examination. Loomis has been a terror to his neighbors for several years. A common pastime with him was practicing with a revolver. He was noted as a crack shot.

There was a Chicago rate war at Indianapolis last week, between the Pennsylvania and L., E. & W. R. R. The fare got as low as tl tor the round trip on Saturday, Sept. 1, and both roads carried thousands of excursionists. The Pennsylvania noon train on Saturday consisted of twenty coaches and two parlor cars, In two sections. More than I.GOO people were aboard. Richard and George McGriff, twin brothers, celebrated their ninety-third birthday at the former’s home near Decatur, Sunday. They are undoubtedly the oldest twin brothers in the United States. Both are quite spry, walk without canes and read without glasses. Ono thing remarkable in the history of their lives is that neither ever used tobacco in any form nor took intoxicating liquors. Each owns a well improved farm. The Leltzman Sorgum Manufacturing Company’s factory was put in operation at Mooresville, Sept. 4. The prospect for a big run is flattering. The crop of cane is large and the quality fine. The farmers realize 12.90 per ton and a great many fields yield from fifteen to twenty tons per acre., making a profit of from 137.50 to ?50 per acre. There are from five to six hundred acres of cane in the immediate vicinity of Mooresville and the factory wiil run day and night till frost catches the late planting, The growing of cane is on

the increase and promises to become * paying industry in this section. Patents have been issued to Indiana Inventors as follows: M. Arbuckle, Indianapolis, wheel-washing device; J. 8. Blrt, Arlington, asslgnorto F. H. L. Kahn& Bros., Hamilton, O,,pan-,making machine; T. Cox, assignor of two-thirds toM. J. Moon and W. T. Bowers, Liberty, disinfecting apparatus; M. Gleason, Liberty, fence machine; E. and L. Hedderick, Pettit, sawing machine, I. H. Henley, Straughn, fodder-tying device; L. Humbarger. near Columbia City, apparatus for transplanting plants; F. G. Smiley, Goshen, beam scale; A. Weil, Greenfield, apparatus for boring wells; W. A. Wildback. Indianapolis, target trap. The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railroad company has issued a circular to its stockholders notifying them that at the annual meeting on Sept. 19, authority will be asked for the creation of $1,000,000 equipment mortgage sinking fund 5 per cent, twenty year bonds, to be secured by mortgage on freight cars now used but not owned by the company, which cost $1,002,254, of which more than one-third has been paid. All passenger cars and engines have been paid for. The proposed equipment bonds will be countersigned and issued only as title to the cars is vested in the trustee, the . object of the. operation being to fund into a twentyyear bond the temporary obligations now existing in the form of equipment notes.

HARRISON HEARD FROM.

The Ex-President Talks to West Virginia Republicans. The Republicans of the Second West Virginia Congressional district never had as large a convention as the one that, Sept. 5, at Eikins, nominated Alston Gordon Dayton, of Barbour county, to run against Chairman W. L. Wilson for Congress. Ex-President Harrison arrived at 1 p. m. by special train from Cumberland with his daughter, Mrs. McKee, as the guest of ex-Seeretary Elkins. A committee was appointed to call on the ex-Presi-dent and inyite him to address the convention. When the committee escorted the distinguished visitor to the open-air convention there was a great demonstration. The ex-President said: I came here to this beautiful valley of the mountains to pay a visit to a citizen with whom I have been Very pleasantly associated. It was not expected that I should be called upon to address aQv public body, but when invited, I choose to come. You are assembled to discharge an important public duty and I will not, there* fore, detain you with any speech. This district will be before all eyes this autumn, This contest is not locsl. It happens that your present representative has been assigned to prepare the tariff bill and has at-' tached his name to it. It is, therefore, expected that his conduct will be subtected to severe and careful- scrutiny. Jnfortunately the proclamation has been made by President Cleveland and Mr. Wilson that the tariff bill is not a finalityj but that this distinctive warfare is to go on. If you approve this, show it by re-, turning Mr. Wilson to Congress, but if, on' the other hand, you have felt the effects of the depression, if you think more of those you prefer to lead the country through the slough of despondency, show it by defeating him. I can not; say much of the last administration—delicacy forbids me to say much of this—but if you consider the heads of Departments and subordinate officers, you will see that there was an attempt to act for the best interests of all the people. I cart not say how far we have succeeded, but only that we have done the best we could do. If the people at the elections this fall condemn the recent action on the tariff, we shall have an end of tariff tinkering, When the tide of emigration started from the seaboard it returned to Ohio and the interior valleys, but now it is toward West Virginia. Now the spring of commerce is coursing through your fertile valley. The pick and shovel are busy. Is this a time with the cheap ocean rates to br Ingl nto com pet ition wi th your prod - nets the cheap coal of Nova Scotia? I speak as a patriotic American, who feels an interest in the honest people. To your judgment by the quiet November firesides this question must be settled, and may you have the courage to do your duty. 1 thank you for your attention and hope that you will immediately nominate tne best man. Ex-President Harrison was received vyith enthusiasm and his brief speech favorably commented on by other speakers. He was freely applauded at various points.

THE JOINT CANVASS.

Dat is anti Places for the Joint Debates Between Owens and Myers. Chairman Taggart, of the Democratic State Central Committee, and Chairman Gowdy, of the Republican committee, and the secretaries of the committees “got together” Wednesday night at the Grand hotel and arranged the times and places for holding the joint debates by Messrs. Myers and Owen, the candidates for Secretary of State, as follows: First District—Evansville, Tuesday, Oct. 2. Second District—Vincennes, Thursday, Oct. 4. Third District—New Albany, Saturday, October 6. Fourth District—Lawrenceburg, Tuesday. Oct. 9. Fifth District—Thursday, Oct. 11. Sixth District—Richmond, Saturday, Oct. 13. Seventh District—Tuesday, Oct. 16. Eighth District—Terre Haute, Thursday. Oct. 13. Ninth District—Lafayette, Saturday, Oct. 20. Tenth District—Logansport, Tuesday, Oct. 23. Eleventh District—Marion, Thursday, Twelfth District—Fort WHyne/TSaturday. Oct. 27. Thirteenth District—South Bend. Monday, Oct. 29,

THE CAMPAIGN TEXT BOOKS.

Thos. H. McKee and Congressman Bynum, the editors, respectively of the Republican and Democratic campaign te: t books, at Washington, are about ready tc launch their productions. The Democratic headquarters will point a small from the defection of Senatoi Jones, of Nevada, from the Republican party, and will circulate it widely. The Republican headquarters profess little apprehension from Senator Jones’s action, and express confidence that no other Senators will follow Mr. Jones. The Republicans are circulating a leaflet containing the assertion that in 13t»4 the public debl was increased 150.004.790. The charred bodies of twenty-five Chippewa Indians have been found between j’okegama and Opstead, Minnesota. Thej doubtless perished in the great fires lasl week. They are scattered over ten milet of country and will probably become focc for buzzards and wolves, as burial is lx practicable at present.

A DEMOCRATIC "KEY NOTE."

Senator Vilas was temporary chairman of the Democratic State convention at Milwaukee, Sept. 6. He made a “key Bote” speech of considerable length, the tnost notable paragraph of which, perhaps, was as follows: .The most grievous thing manifested in the battle of tariff reform was the power ilsplayed by trusts and combinations—the natural enemies of the Democracy, hnd upon the discovery of their hold upon Some in the ranksof the Democratic party. Tariff reform would yet be achieved in the full measure of justice and right. It was delayed but not defeated. A good •tart had been made toward retrenching the expenses entailed by the Fifty-first Congress. In the salary list over six hundred offices have been abolished and $700,000 annually saved thereby, while the appropriations are S2B 835,889.70 less than those made at the last session of the preceding Congress and $50,555,491.78 less than those of the last session oj the Fiftyfirst Congress. In conclusion Mr. Vilas reviewed the history of the Republican party to show that It had long ago fulfilled its mission of usefulness and was now merely a party of opposition without any defined or controlling principle. It was willing to consort with the Populists of Alabama or the bigoted A. P. A. of Wisconsin in the desperation of its decaying life. In con? elusion.he urged the. convention ta present candidates for popular choice who would honor it by a faithful discharge of duty. “Let me pray you further,” he said, “when you return to your homes, carry everywhere to our friends the zeal which honest Democrats ough t to inspire. Then, as in recent years, your efforts will bring not only the triumphant joys of victory, but the deeper satisfaction of benefits conferred on our State and country by faithful citizenship, than which there is no inspiration nobler in a free man.”

IOWA’S SOLDIER’S MONUMENT.

The corner stone of which was laid at Des Moines, Sept. 6, will be a massive column 133 feet high. In its general appearance the monument will resemble the famous Siegesdenkmal, or monument of victory, which was placed in the Thierfrarten, Berlin, in commemoration of the ate Franco-Prussian war. On top of the shaft will stand a figure representing “Victory,” twenty-two feet high.

LI HUNG CHANG, The Bismarck of China.

The police, Thursday, located a remarkable “fence” at No. 386 West Fifteenth street, Chicago, and recovered several thousand dollars’ worth of stolen property. The place was fitted up with double floors, trap doors and secret closets and the goods found had been stored at various times for a year past. Six men and two women were captured and they belong. the police claim, to a notorious and well-organized band of pick-pockets and burglars.

THE MARKETS.

Sept 8, 1894. Indianapolis. GRAIN AND HAY. Wheat—49c: corn. 56c; oats, 32Xc; rye, 40c; hay, choice timothy, 89.50. LIVE STOCK. Cattle Shippers, 83.5004.60: stockera. 82.00(42.75; heifers. 81.50:43.25; cows, [email protected]; bulls, 81.75@3; milkers, 815.00(4 83.00. H0g5—84.01X46.40. Sheep—Bl.oo(43.oo. POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. (Prices Paid by Shippers.) PoULTRY-Hens, 7c perft; spring chickens, 7Xc; cocks, 3c; turkeys, toms,3c; per H>; hens, 5c per ib; ducks, 5c per tt>; geese, 84 per dbz. for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 13c. Butteb—Choice, 12@14c. Honey—lß(4 20c Feathers—Prime geese, 30@32c per lb} mixed duck, 20c per n>. Beeswax—2oc for yellow; 15c for dark. Wool—Medium unwashed, 12c; Cottswold and coarse combing. H(gil2c; tubwashed. 16(418c; burry and unmerchantable, s@locless. Hides—No. 1 G. S. hides. 3%c; No. 2 G. S. hides, 2J£c; Na 1 calf hides, 6Xc; No. 3 calf hides, sc. ' Chicago. Wheat—s4t<c; corn, 58Xc; oats, pork, 814.25; lard, 88.65. New York. Wheat— 58%e; corn, 6SXc; oats, 35c. Baltimore. Wheat—ss%c; corn, 59%c; oats, 36c. St. Louis. Wheat—soXc; corn. 55 oats, 38a Philadelphia. Wheat—s7c; corn, 65 ! <c; oats, 37a Minneapolis. Wheat—No. 1 hard, 58%c. Cincinnati. * Wheat—slJ<c; corn, 57c: oats, 31Xa Detroit. Wheat-t56Xc; corn 58c; oats, 33Xc. East Liberty. 80g5—[email protected].

ABOUT THE WAR.

More Or Less Reliable Information from the Orient. The Pacific liner Sikh, from Yokohama! arrived at Victoria, B. C., Sept. 9, bringing interesting advices from the war in the Orient, the principal points in the dispatch being as follows: “The reason given by the commander of the Japanese warship Nanlwa-Kan, why he fired on the Kow-Shing. seeing she was flying the British flag, Is now given for the first time and is certainly pertinent. “Because she was sailing under false colors; was carrying Chinese troops and had been sold to the Chinese government and fully paid for,” “Notwithstanding this explanation the same paper which gives it publicity announces that the sum of $750,000 has been agreed to by the Japanese government as reparation for the sinking of Captains Galworthy’s vessel and compensation to those dependent upon the Europeans lost with her. “It is almost impossible to get reliable war news anywhere in the East, even at Shanghai. This trip the steamer passed very close to the Foo Chow forts and saw the Chinese garrison drawn up in line. They were 4 all attired in flowing sack gowns of gaudy color and had on threecornered silk bats and made a curious spectacle. These forts are in charge of an Englishman, the son of a naval officer, and are said to be exceedingly strong. “One of the eighty-ton guns burst some time ago, killing several men. It is generally understood this occurred through ignorance in handling it. China is now hurrying an army of hundreds of thousands of men through northern China to Corea, but as they are subsisting on tho products of the country through which they pass, and most of it is mountainous, it is hard to say with what success they will meet. Most of the men enlisted and drafted into the Chinese army are coolies of the low order. “It is reported that Admiral Ting, commander of the Pet Yang squadron, has been degraded for cowardice and incapacity and that he has been deprived of the peacock,feather and ordered to leave the fleet and take a shore command. “The native papers say that LI Hung Chang is working to procure the mediation of England and Russia in the war with Japan. The Emperor and Dowager Empress are, it is said, furious at the suggestion and refuse to listen to it.” '

A ROYAL DEATHBED.

Demise of the Count of Parle at London. The Coant of Paris, grandson of Louis Phillippe, and the recognized head of the Bourbon Royalist party of France, died at Stowe House, near London, Sept. 8. Louis Phillippe Albert, Count of Paris, was born at Paris, Aug. 24,1838, and was educated by the celebrated Adolph Regnier. After the revolution, which- deprived Louis Phillippe of the throne, the Count of Paris and his brother, the Duke of Chartres, were by their mother taken to Germany, where they completed theii education. After traveling extensively throughout Europe, he took up his residence in England, and when the war of secession broke out in this country he joined the army of the North in the capacity of captain on the staff of Genera! McClellan, and figured in the campaign against Richmond in the siege of Yorktown, in the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks and in his retreat on the James river. He left service in 1862 and retired to England. For many years the Count of Paris has lived in comparative quiet in England, a greater part of the time near London, an exile from his native land. In 1890 the Count of Paris, attended by an elaborate retinue, visited the United States and was made the honored guest of the republic. His visit called forth unstinted encomiums of his gallant conduct during the civil war and his freely avowed sympathy for the United States. The Count and Countess of Paris had six children—two sons and four daughters, The eldest of the sons, Louis Phillippe Robert, Duke of Orleans, will be recognized by the Royalist party in France as the legitimate heir to the throne. He was born in England and is now In his twenty-sixth year.

A Shirt for Women.

Women will wear shirts from this time forth if they follow the fashion ol the "four hundred," which has already sounded the edict in Paris and London. The woman’s shirt is a pretty and delicate combination of female acquisition and masculine concession. It is mads with collar and cuff attachments of the latest pattern worn by gentlemen. The body is of fine muslin and the bosom of three or four ply linen, as the case may be. The collar and cuffs are also linen, of course. The garment is made open in front the entire length, the skirts

falling loosely to the hips. A gather! ing-string controls the waist and serves to bold the bosom in easy conformity to the personal contour of the wearer. The bosom is provided with worked eyelets for sluds, thus gratifying her purse or s passion for the display of diamonds oi other jewels. The bosom is not so long as that of a man’s shirt, only falling to tbe length of nine inches, but that measurement can, of course, vary with the styles of dress. The bosom of the shirt falls just low enough Io come into its place and to be held there by the corsajM.—Z’ray <.

A Sure Thing.

At a soiree musienle: "And now. darling, that we are at last alone in this retired corner, far iway from the guests, I can tell yo» how much I love you." ‘‘lmpossible, for mamma has just gone to the piano and everybody will oe rushing in here to get out of the .