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2 THE MONROE ADVERTISER. rORSYTH, GEORGIA. OFFICIAL ORGAH OF 80KR0E COtlSTT. BY McGINTY <t. CABANI8S. Statistics show that there are 132,000 ihurchcs, 02,000 minister', and 19,000, )00 members in the United States, I.ca ling British military authorities say that England's wjjr resources are not sufficient to with-tand attack from for ign foes. I here is a volunfeei regtuv t in Ken t cky that served in tljr civil war and was never in tered out. The members of it want pay from the day of I.'* :'s sur render to the present time. The census of 1870 shotve I that there were 25,000,000 books irt the libraries of *he United Stales, and it i- believed that even now there i not in the country a book for every in! a’titaiit. Mr, Fronde, the English historian, in n recent work asserts that the retrogres sion of Jamaica and other British |)OS sessions in the West Indies has he n .. „„ so rap,cl that the Government is seriously a ik, d t0 K ov «m these places by cominis sion. A scientist claims that the bituminous coal field known as the Pittsburg is ” practically inexhaustible accordin’ 7,000 to the exploration. There are 10 00 ( , , bushels . , of coal .... in the barges at Pittsburg awaiting transportation as soon astir rivers nro navigable to the; south ami westward. t • rme Warden Collins, of Connecticut, nues to the defence of owls and hawks bv saying that the examination of over '-'gi) specimens of these birds by mi-cro jrroves that they live on small birds, frogs, snakes, mice ami grasshop¬ pers. Thc “small birds” are mostly sparrows, and very few game birds a re eaten. Phe City of Liverpool is to be supplied with water from a reservoir in AVales, which is to be four and one-half miles long by a half-mile to a mile broad and eighty fe<'t Jeep. There will he three miles of pipe, each sixty-eight miles long, with filtering-beds and secondary reservoirs. The aqueduct alone will cost $15,000,000. Miss Minnie Freeman, thc heroic school (Oiicher of Myra Valley, Neb., who saved thirteen school children by her presence of mind in thc recent ‘blizzard,” has already been overwhelmed with offers of marriage. The New York Tribune that “tin* applicants for this vacant jio i tion must, regard her as' sure probf against family breezes. ” Mttch of the color blindness that is be¬ coming quite common is said to be caused by the use of tobacco, which, be¬ ing a narcotic, benumbs the nerves. Sometimes the victim loses siirht alto¬ gether. But is is noticeable, -ays the (iriijihi tlint the old smokers are the fastidious about the oo’ors which thc tabacconrsts give their cigars. -—_ The estimates of acreage ° product and value of corn, wheat and oats for each State and Territory have been issued by the statistician of tlit* Department of Agriculture. The area of corn harvested, acre’ excluding abandoned or worthless age, is 72,00.),000 acres. In round lium hors the product is 1,45(5,000,000 bushels, valued at $ 110,000, 000 . The area of wheat was 37,400,000; product, 450,000, 000 bushels; value. $300,000,000. The area of oats was nearly 33,000,000 acres: production, (559,000,000 bushels; value, $ 200 , 000 , 000 . Francis La Hesclio, of thc Omaha tiibe. who is employed in the Bureau of , .nun j. , „ ans . at^ ... a-migton, , . . the . is brother ol lnshta I heamba, and is three fourths, not full-blood or even. half breed, Indian, I a Flesehe was cdu cated at the mission school of an Indian rr iu ~r ............ clerk Gu*. Onevmliwiinri,/- On scteral occasions he has i,, acted , *>i ns interpreter between his people and government officers, and has al-o been sent on several missions to his iribc. An example of deterioration in values b Grown in the-ale of the Great East ern for less than $100.(03. The origin nal cot of thc vessel was three and a bait i w million •,.* dollar', • ,, / but sue was a gigan tic failure from the start. The building of this ship, lnwever. was of value in a limit in ea uships in the direction ol size. 8he has been of use also in the laying of the Atlantic <ab!( s While those ulm in r;i lo?t heav,i -t v 1,1 ,he j ve:it —<«• »re, they -p can console themselves with the fact that their loss was uot altogether in vain. ■Another Another hnnn-Mnt impo.uint stap , o i has i been placed at the mercy of cm* of thc pow erlul associations of capitalists known as "trusts.” The Great Sugar Trust, re i cut! v organized on the princink* ,J of the Puttier Trust, Ur.-n.U , nitu ecu aigt requeues ,n the l nited States seven in New A ork, four in Bos ton, and oue in St. 1 oub. Each re fin cry has put its entire capital stock into the Trust, taking certificates in payment a-’d * the or-mGaHon r ° ,nt.nk j /illian , ,ipi . a . P* 11 Gw da ’ .. ' u P ls iig ' *ou of the jiredu tion and price of sugar. Whenever j.reduction is too great for the demand, or whenever there is a search v of raw su-mr tertain of the re " r.nenes must _ 11C , shut , down, and not start scam until the market improves. THE M ONRO E ADVERTISER: F ORS YTH. GA., TUESDAY, AIARCH 20, 1888.—EIGHT PAGES GERMANY'S RULER. IN Till: SHADOW OF DEATH, FREDERICK PROCLAI MED. Tlir >>W llniprror on Hfrmn n *nl! tg a in — nWIjiuM **i , rvlrp« O' fr ilu* itr-iimn. of ll«" ln:p j;iti:>r. or William \ \Y W u' „ - y|^ipsiik: &T. -SNU ■//. I‘ m W AJ. * I 1* 4T g-Me. V* ; '(M ,__ im . _,.... ... , , _, , now Frederick III. is the eldest sou ot the late Emj.eror, and is in his 57th ye ar, having been born at Potsdam on October 18, 1830. He married Victoria Adelaide, princess royal of Great Britain, on Jan uarv 25, 1858, and they have seven chil : d|-(;n ' ot whoui Urince William, wlro lias | *> conspicuously during Ids fatli er s illness, is the; eldest, there being two j younger sons and four daughters.' The new emjteror has had a brilliant career, and is one of the strongest and most pop¬ ular men in Germany. It seems like; the veriest irony of fate that the imperial erow’ll should descend to him only when i Death stands ready with outstretched | hand to pluck it from his brow. Emperor Frederick III drove to the station at San Remo, accompanied by Empress Victoria to take a special train in waiting to convey him to Berlin. The gathered largest crowd ever seen in San Remo to witness his depaiture. The new emperor was enthusiastically cheered by the crowd, and lie repeatedly bowed his acknowledgments of their greetings. Emperor Frederick entered llie mil way cars without assistance, and then turned and assisted Empress Victoria to enter. The municipal authorities and a number of civillians were on the platform. King Humbert traveled from Rome to San Pier (J’Arena to meet Emperor Frederick. When tiie train reached the station, King Humbert entered the coach occupied by the emperor and embraced him. The scene at their meeting w r as a touching one. The emperor was voiceless owing to his disease, but ho wrote many notes, in one of which lie thanked the Italian parliament had for the honor and respect it paid Ids father and himself. The Empress Victoria translated to King j Humbert the signs made by the emperor j and conversed with the king in French, Thc emperor was suffering from fatigue, but otherwise was in his normal condi lion. His throat was closely luutlled, and he wore a hooded cap and heavy surtout. The silent parting between the two rulers was affecting. Accounts concerning the meeting between Emperor Frederick and King Humbert at San Pier d’Arena rep¬ resent King Humbert as being stricken by the ghastly aspect of the emperor, A lter the departure of the imperial train, King Humbert covered his face with his haudke chief, and said sc oral times: “He is ill, ah, very ill.” j All the membcis of thc ministry left Berlin In a sjiecial train to meet Em i peror Frederick as he returned from San Remo. "J lie special train conveying the 1 emperor and empress arrived at Munich. Their majesties met with a sympathetic \ reception at the station. The train ar¬ rived at the West End station, nearChar lottouburg, at midnight. Close to tin. ,;lbs il tent--haped pavilion, hung with bliU ‘ k <:1, ' lb > hud bet ‘ u erected, through which his majesty, on alighting from the train, passed direct to his carriage, which conveyed him to the. Charlottenburg sell loss. The carriages oil their way to lie castle were preceded by a detachment jf the guard corps. A company of the Second regiment of the guards marched into Charlottenburg, to mount guard at various points. The funeral services weie held over the remains of Emperor William in the mor¬ tuary chamber in the palace. The cham l/ 1 ' ' vt ‘ s profusely decorated with flowers. I he Dowager Empress Augusta, the grand duke and grand duchess of Baden, the crown prince and the crown princess Sweden, ., and , other , royal , personages | attended the sen ices. I he body of the I eniperor lav in the. same position which i I ' moment when the Empress Augusta held I , h;tlM i of her living consort.^Afrer the service, the late emperor's aide-de-eamps, Lieutenant-General You Lelindorff and Lieutenant-General Von AYaldersee. acted co/cli iu guards of honor at the dead monarch's The dead emneror’s bodv was K :noved to the cathedral at a late hour. it! : after Emperor Frederick had viewed The dead emperor's will directs that lie be buried in full uniform with all lib j decorations physicians ..non discovered* him U thc autoiwy calculus....... di-tiuet t’-u/s ' j The Cologne Gazette states that tlieczar j , f Rlls , ia , vill al „ m , lhc fmlcral o( . pmperor in person. The whole Russian army, by special order of the czar, will wear mourning for four week-. On the ■ will l>e prohibited! The St. Petersburg new spa juts agreed in expressing a wish that Emperor Frederick continue the friendly poliev of the deceased emperor towanf Ru-d;'. Ell U ur Fre derick. in his reply to p n .„- u t Carnot, alludes especially' to ttie marks of sympathy shown him bv the numerous French visitors at San Remo, and Wwni expresses F^.ud'c^uu.v the hope that the relations mav soon bo fnen ily. I his response was sent Riect from thc emperor without consult ing with Bismarck. The resent of Ba varia has received this message from Em |>eror Frederick: Tu thi> moment o dcepCS sonw - \ tru f? to • vo " rf f iend ' l^ 1 °■ nm d - /", h ; iD upon reheve me. ,he ’ To heavy this I 'un-e ; l.uithtud e lojionded: “I aui ieepiy move.: by your touching telegram, cxpi<-smy heartfelt sympathy J' 1 -' '!'Z un * ll 'T con,lnil: ' nce of our aillirui , menttsfiip. __ Thre Yor'fdiy .persons W/W killed in the street of Xe w duimg the month of Fehru ary by re-kies*driving of .-amages SOUTHERN GOSSIP. BOILED DOWS FACTS AND F.4.Y C[ES I ST E RES TING L T STA TED. Accidents oh I.and and on Sen -New Enter prises—Snicides--Heligioiis, Temperance and Social .Matters. C ol. L. 11. < ash died at his home in Chesterfield county. S. C.. of apoplexy. 11 i- death was announced some days ago, but 1,0 raliied aud lived on for s ” me tinie * - One of the out-buildings of the AV jl iiamson County, Tenn., ]K>or-hou.se was burned, and William Johnson and Dora Shannon, colored inmates, perished in the flame-. The Nashville, Tenn., Democrat pub lishes its initial number. It is a l’our page paper, and starts under favorable auspices. Dr. R. A. Halley is the man aging editor. " . ; !ut '“ head, ol L leveland, hio. are m Augusta, • a., prospecting i,>r a big brewery. Jr t:ie pre-odent of the • : ‘ i p ,st , in-wciy company m leva land. and he " ants ;t Southern annex. The crop report for March will be is sued in a few days by the Department of Agriculture of South Carolina. It will show that farm work is in a fair condi tion of progress. The crop of <tnall grain is in much better condition than has been genera 11 v believed. The private palace car, which is the property of Jay Gould, has gone to Fer ruuidina, Fla., to meet him, who is ex peeted to arrive from Gibraltar in his yacht, Atalauta. lie will travel to New York overland, and probably will -top in Maeon. <la. The jury in the case of George M. Bain, Jr., late cashier of the Exchange National Bank of Norfolk, Ya., which f died in 1884, brought in a verdict of •■guilty" against the accused on an in dictment charging him with making a false report to the Comptroller of the Currency. Four days ago, the wife of Aleck Johnson,a farmer, in Sumter county, S. C., gave birth to a chiid, and it was sup¬ posed that it was the only one, but the following day Mrs. Johnson became the mother of a second baby, and two days after, still another. The three babies were in a healthy condition, and they and their mother are all doing well. At Scotland Neck, N. C., there was an explosion o f a boiler in Gardner & Has sc 1 s machine -.mp. un an tie on \ t wo men m the shop, lender-on Purse. fireman, and John Scott, both colored. ! urse hrnl h.s leg broken and will prob ably die. Scott was badly scalded lire boiler was blown nearly out of sight. It fell back and crushed through the roof ol" the shop and lodged on the second q oor Great aid has been furnished to the ministers, in the religious revival at Au¬ gusta, Ga., by .Miss Gordon, the young lady evangelist from Nashville, Tenn. New facts show this young lady to be a most interesting character, and the way in which she is drawing the young ladies of Augusta about her proves it. Her voice is magnetic and magical, and she holds her audience by a strange, sweet spell. A switchman in the Louisville & Nash¬ ville Railroad yards heard weak cries for help coining from a box car loaded with hay. door He found broke three thc white seal, tramps and opening the among the bales of hay. The men xvere almost wild with hunger and thirst, and very weak. They said they boarded the car in Chicago five days ago, and had been without food and water on their long journey. The car repairers, coaeli cleaners and other laborers, to the number of 150, in flic Santa Fc shops at Argentine, Mo., refused to go to work. They have been in the habit of working on Sunday until about 3 o’clock in the afternoon and lay¬ ing off the rest of the day, while at the same time drawing a full day’s pay. The new master mechanic notified them that they would have to work the entire day, and the icsult was the walkout. Tlie United States Rolling Stock Com panv have taken charge of the works at Anniston, Ala., and have orders already for more than fifteen hundred cars to be made as soon as possible. subscription Twenty-five per cent, of the Anniston ot $150,000 was paid over, and Air. Hege noscli. the president of the company, stated at the meeting that lie had per fected arrangements for another Indus trial enterprise to be run in connection with their present immense plant, to work about live hundred additional bauds. A collision . occurred . at , the ,, junction . ot . the Laurens & Newberry and the Port Royal & AVestern Carolina Railroads at Laurens, 8. C.. between an engine of the way-freight, running from Laurens tc Newberry, and an engine of the H. Green- Ham ville Railroad. Engineer AY. mond< G f the Laurens & Newberry freight, had just arrived at the depot and started (>ut U) shiffc llis traiu . J u , t as Ham ^Vdl tx.... Sendiey „ ... a nnnorq was run over andklll Jjailroad, . ed b * a tnu ” Birmingham, on ^ Kansas City Ala. near Bend ley and John Terry, a young man tbe f “ c f™*?’ walkin S along the track of the Pratt . rail mines r ? ad ’ "here it runs parallel with the ! Kansas City road. They heard the train | Woaching from around a curve, and ! th( , h!uklD stepped .g * 011 tbe P. the ratt other “““"“J track, T over to tw enty paces in front of the engine, Bendley was instantly killed and Terry "as badiy injured. * " •V.Bmy. " £ * ~ \ Hobk\ am. his granary and stables . were bred, and lie lo-t m the hre all his mule-, evidently ztrX plunder his incendiaries was to ncai tb /‘ j?/'}' K ’ ,arne night store? Reidsxnle ... >ed. jnree m weie m i Logan Fuqua, a vlute man ho is -»°b ley s miller, has been arrested tor the At bur the “ 1D S’ granary and ” is a m piece J al1 of AA fallow entxvortl^ land that had just been tinned o\er. 4 re»h Hacks were ,ound over the fallow land “. ls alleged they fit the tracks or •'"« ■» 1 a capital cum . AFTER MOONSHINERS. Deputies Colquitt. Pitts and Oliver made a raid on the line of DeKalb and Etowah counties, in the -tate of Ala bama, and ran upon three big di-tiller ies owned bv Thomas Misell. Cain Noo gin and Fayette and Jim Southern. O..C >tili had lxen removed and the two re niaining were promptly destroyed, to gether with forty-one fermenting stands and about 5,000 gallons of beer. Henry Hicks. Bud Scotl and Jim Southey were captured and taken to Birmingham. NATIONAL CAPITAL.! INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT OUR | UNITED STATES’ OFFICIALS. Gnaaip About the White Ilomp -Arm v and Nnvy Matters—Our Relations With Other Countries and Nations. congressional. In the Senate, Mr. Evarts, bv request, : l 1Kailr ° tr ^ uc t ed 1 a ? ad deb *- sett ^ rhc tbe motion Central to j reIer the I resident s Message was taken j U P* atJ d Mr. Colquitt addressed the Sen- j -Mg Dolph addressed the Senate upon the same subject. Mr. Dawes pre seated a memorial of leading wool man ufacturers and growers, asking legislation to protect the wool interests... .On mo tion cf Mr. Stewart, of Georgia, the House took up the bill appropriating $120,000 for the enlargement of the public buildiug at Atlanta, Ga. The bill was passed. Under the call of states, a large number of bills were introduced and referred, among them the following: tion Relating to the tariff and internal taxa j^a n( j a R bill); for the loan of certain articles to the Columbus, O., ex pfcsition; to encourage the holding of a national industrial exposition of the colored race; providing for a commission to >f investigate trusts, and for the rejical the jirotective tariff on all industries, In the House the dependent pension bill was received from the Senate, and re¬ ferred to the committee on invalid pen sions. The day’s business was of no in terest to the general reader, being en tirely of a routine character—committee rejoorts, and the discussion of a billgrant ing lands in severalty to some western Indians, but no vote was reached. GOSSIP. The House committee on public lands decided to formulate a general bill pro riding town forfeiture of all unearned land grants. The Secretary of the Interior has re¬ quested thq Attorney-General to cause suit to be instituted to secure the cancellation of [intents issued on a number of culture entries in the Humbolt, Alabama district. A dozen red men from the Count D’Or eille, Badjddiver, Flambeau and Fon du Lac reservation were before the Senate Committee on Indian Traderships and de¬ scribed, through au interpreter, their grievances, s&tid 1{( . pre iv e O’Neill, chairman of t j ie p H | J0r Committee, X protested before thc House 0 mra ittee on Appropriations iust the g/oite amendment to the Ur -, nt Defifi^cy ? bill, striking out the dause lor the c lforcemeut 0 f the Eight Hour laW q u thc Government Printing ° '• I t he \ / . Legislature having lrguna pre¬ sented to Mount Vernon Avenue As¬ sociation a claim held by the State of Vir¬ ginia on the Government for $120,000, the association held a meeting to draw up a memorial to Congress asking for the pay¬ ment of the claim. The United States Department of Agri¬ culture says that the apparent proportion of cotton forwarded from plantations on the 1st of February, were as follows: Vir¬ ginia, 00 per cent; North Carolina, 04; South Carolina, 93; Georgia, 94; Florida, 87; iana, Alabama, 89 qjff| 92; 94; Mississippi, Arkansas, 90; 90; Louis¬ Tenn * furi csaecu $ and Indian Territory, ^ 41 average is 93 per cent. The Senate Committee on Agriculture resumed its hearing on the bill to protect the manufacture and sale of pure lard. Prof. Sharpless, of Boston, appeared, and at the request of Mr. Wilson, proceeded to compound au article out of twenty per cent of stearine, twenty-live per cent of cotton seed oil, forty per cent of pure lard and ten per cent of dead hogs’ grease. The experiment was made to show that refined lard manufacturers might use the grease of smothered and diseased hogs in the manufacture of the compound. RUN TO EARTH. A. B. Franklyn, a liquor dealer ol Pueblo, Col., who has been on thc look out for Tascott ever since it was an nouuced that thc murderer of Millionaire Snell was eu route AVes*, called to his assistance Officer Connors, and after hav ing him sign a paper to give him one half of the reward, told the officer that he had discovered Tascott, and wanted him arrested. Together, the two went to a lodging house on AA r est Fifth street, where the supposed murderer awakened was found sleeping soundly. He was and handcuffed and taken to the city jail, Thc P^oner somewhat resembles the description | of Tascott sent out by the Chica 0 dfetective8> but he has no gold filling in his fr-'uit teeth, and one of his upper teeth next to the eye-tooth was missing. Again lie is too dark for the description published, disguised but Franklyn and in¬ sisted that the man is that he is certainly Tascott. CONVICTS KILLED. on ‘ J .‘ tllut nine, tiom Hitmen,Ga. The | work . in progress at the time of the acci ; dent was the enlarging of a cut on the new , railroad. Dynamite was used to loosen , and dislodge huge blocks of dirt from j the side of the bank. Owing to some ; mistake m the cutting of the fuse, or to • some defect in the fuse itself, the ex j plosion occurred before the men were , fairly started. The explosion detached a the huge block of dirt which tumbled into who cut, completely burying four men. were afterwards taken out dead. Several other convicts were knocked down, and the sujierintendent and one of ,he 8" ar<is were ^ shock ' d - HORRID CRIME. An attempt was made to assassinate, umbia S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Bluff, who are both past seventy years of age. were attacked by two men. Buff was beaten unconscious with a club, and his wife was knocked down and fearfullv beaten. John Felton, a negro who lived on the place, had his throat cut and was killed, The murderers were intent on robbing Bluff of several hundred dollars in toll and money supposed to be in his house. h is Wiovod that «* uogro strangled with a rope in the efforts of the assassins to make him tell where the money was. After robbing the place, the murderers saturated the bedding and floor with kerosene oil, set the house on fire and fled. BOLD DEMAND The United States steamer Enterprise mounting six guns, has arrived at Tan the immediate Morocco, and the captain demands release of Moore, who is under American protection, and who is imprisoned at Rabat. He also demands satisfaction from the Moorish govern uent for the man’s illegal arrest. WORLD AT LARGE. PEN PICTURES PAINTED BY A CORPS OF ABLE ARTISTS. Wliat is Going on North, Ea*t mid West and Across the Water—The Coming Eu¬ ropean Storm. wife and chiid of Rudolph Speller lav, were Ohio asphyxiated bv natural gas at Find ‘Festivals in honored the silver weddiu of the prince and princess of Wales were held in all European capitals, T , v \ v 1 , , * '• a , , . ''j'' 1 ' ' lifted ? d o ~ P Cents n , b i v lbe fort r ^ but - the . u u demand. V m v \ completely , anesting ex P ort Hie employes of the Pan*Handle shops ^ Dennison. O., were treated to a sur P™ 50 wlieih 111 of them were presented vvbb tickets of indefinite -uspeusiou. The British bark Lonews. from Laun ceston. Australia, for London. England, with a cargo of wool, was wrecked near his Weymouth. The captain and eleven of crew were drowned. Mrs. Ellen Tupper, known as the ‘‘bee woman, and one of the most celebrated etomologists El in the world, died suddenly *t her Paso, Texas, where she was visiting the daughter. She was widely known in East and throughout Europe. A collision occurred between two jias senger trains on the Pennsylvania road, a few miles east of Altoona/ Pa. Two en¬ gineers, two firemen and a brakemun were reported killed. Five or six passen¬ gers were injured, but none fatally. The wreck is simply colossal. An Indian territory dispatch says, that a terrible accident occurred at Ivavanah, in the Choctaw nation. The boiler in Tucker's saw. mill exploded and killed a boy instantly, while ten men were injured so severely that their recovery is doubt¬ ful. William Patterson, the 15-year-old son ot James Patterson, the engineer, w as blown through the roof of the building, and his body torn into fragments, his head being found thirty feet away, while a portion of his body w as carried some distance in the other direction. A serious collision occurred on the Burlington «fc Missouri River Railroad, one ot the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy lines centering at Atchison." A through Denver passenger train was standing on the track at Humboldt, Neb., when a south-bound local passenger train from Lincoln, cab, with a Reading engineer in the dashed into the station at the rate of ten miles an hour. Fireman AY. B. Hill, of Lincoln, jumped as the engines came together and suffered dislocation of the right knee, and several others were seriously hurt. A fire broke out in the Methodist Uni¬ versity at Mitchell. Dakota, from the combustion of oily rags in the oil room. There faculty, were student's forty inmates, including the and servants. All but ten escaped without trouble. Four young dow’s; men jumped from the second story win¬ four others and a professor jumped from the third story, and another pro¬ fessor descended from the roof by a clothesline. Horton Richer, of North villc, Dak., received internal injuries and died in two hours. Prof. R. 11. Taylor’s skull was fractured, an arm broken and fie was injured internally and will proba¬ bly die. CHINESE TROUBLES. The Hong Kong Mail gives a descrip¬ tion of the earthquake in the province of Yunnan, and is indicative of frightful mortality. In the interior department of Chicng Chau, the disturbances were extremely violent, being continued at ir¬ regular intervals for four days, when they ceased entirely. The departmental city is said to have been reduced to a mass of ruins, scarcely a house escaping the dan¬ ger, and over five thousand persons have been killed by falling buildings. 'Jhe imperial commissioner who was especial¬ ly appointed to investigate the ioss of life in the Yellow river inundations,sends a rejDort to the emperor of China that the total number of persons drowned is over 100.000, and the number destitute is 1 BOO! 000. COTTON. Rail shipments during February have been quite free, but fall slightly behind the total for February of last year. Com¬ pared with the corresponding period in 188G, however, a very satisfactory in¬ crease is recorded. The month’s gross lias been 109,315 bales, against 113,050 bales in 1887 and 85,110 bales two years ’go. For the season to date, the total continues largely in excess of previous years. VIRGINIA MORMONS. Mormon elders have been discovered working in the remote rural districts of Botetourt county, A'a. They have made many converts, among them a wealthy and intelligent farmer, Mr. Ferguson, and it is expected a large number will emigrate to Utah. Many threats have been made against tlie elders, and they have been notified to leave or they will be lynched. POPE LEO SICK. The Pope has been slightly indisposed for some days. No serious symptoms have manifested themselves, but a cer lain degree or apprehension exists in con¬ sideration of his age and the lassitude emused by exertions lie was subjected to during the jubilee festivities. A POOR METHOD. W. L. Swihart, yard foreman at the fowder works at Pinole, Cal., attempted to destroy a discarded nitroglycerine can with an ax, when an explosion occurred, riously killing Swihart and a Chinaman, and se wounding two other Chinamen. GOULD AND SAGE. In the court of general sessions in New York. Recorder Smythe reserved his de¬ cision as to whether the Gould-Sage case should be again submitted to the grand jury. A Common Phrase Illustrated. 'K \ ,'h % It “You may begin,” said he, “I am all ears,” CLEVER WOMEN. DEVICES of POOR WOMEN IN WASHINGTON. ' Teaching Novices How to Shine in Soc iet y— A r ra n gi it g BriC-a Brae For t he Wealthy— Hired Chaperones. j The Washington Star says that there ; aie many women of reduced circum¬ stances in Washington who manage to : keep up ajipearances. They have all been reduced from some higher sphere. : They are the wives or daughters positions, of men who have been in Government in the Army or Navy, or perhaps in Con¬ gress. and have died leaving nothing for their families. Pome of those women so reduced have trod the highest walks of social eminence. Those of more com¬ mon place qualifications have surren¬ dered their social position and opened boarding There houses or gone ox-Representative into the Depart¬ ments. is an still alive here in Washington who has two daughters in one of the Depart¬ ments. Women of greater resources have con¬ trived earning means their of keeping living up appearances the and own at. same time. There are several who teach etiquette to such as are newly cast into the Washington whirl. They teach the wives and daughters of new statesmen ho v to shine. They take their hands and lead them through the dark jntssages and over the slippery places about the en¬ trance to Washington society. They give a benovolent assistance to rich ladies who would like to shine in Washington society, but have been unable to break through the thin shell to the inner circle. They supply taste and culture where their patrons have wealth only, and help them up the rugged way. They brush aside the thorns with a hand in a velvet glove. One lady, it is said, still keeps up the establishment whi h was the in¬ heritance of her more prosperous days, through the “consideration” ladies she receives for introducing into society and for society news she furnishes confidently to certain papers, To be invited to h r house is to secure the eutrt to society. It means recognition and other invita¬ tions. The com; ensation for such a ser¬ vice is a matter of delicacy, but it is managed by the lady so that the patron may feel under deep obligations, and not as if she was getting just others so much for the money. There are who, when not engaged in social activities themselves, are occupied in showing some lady how to arrange her parlors and re¬ ception curtains; room; how what to hang pictures this and the to put in room and what in that: how to ; rra lge bric-a brac on the mantels, in cabinets, and on the floor; what to put here, what there, and how the whole should be for bar mony and good where taste. Then they show their patron to stand and how to stand when receiving company, what to talk about and how to talk; or they will sho\v her how to give a dinner party, whom to invite, how many, how to dec¬ orate and arrange the table, what to put on it and in wliat order, how to dispose of the guests as to precedence,and all the rest of it. This matter of precedence puzzles some of the best of the new¬ comers, and they are glad t o find some one to relieve them of the responsibility. These fema’c professors of etiquette help them out of all such embarrassment. They bring out flic debutantes and help have the m to good matches, for bom:;, it is said, particular talents match-mak¬ branch ing, and devote themselves to that. This of service) is said to afford very lucrative employment to two or three amiable ladies of great tact. They bring young their people together and introduce “wards” into eligible society.' Another employment sought by ac¬ complished ladies of reduced circum¬ stances is that of chaperone for young people. A chaperone is a very imjaortant attachment for young people in AVashington society, and one it is not al¬ besides ways easy generally to get. It is embarrassing and inconvenient for ma¬ ma’s to have to sit in the corner or against the wall and nod, while their fair daugh¬ ters whirl in the waltz and tread the mystic mazes that lead to premature old age. Ail amiable chaperone, who will go with the girls to the theatre, to balls and parties, and receptions, is cheap at most any price, and can find plenty to do profitably. “Wanted.—A Of course they do not adver¬ tise: situation as chap erone. ” Nor do they ask Mrs. Penny harvest if she doesn’t want to hire a chaperone with long experience and gooi references. Not at all. It all comes about very naturally. The lady is so accom¬ modating and it Mrs. Fennyhar.est is sa grateful, that all comes to lie under¬ stood. Another occupation of fashionable ladies in reduced circumstances is that of reading to invalids, and entertaining them with ail the small talk of the day. All these means are resorted to by ladies who have by some misfortune been thrown on their own resources. tome perform these services openly with no pretense at concealment of their necessi :ies. Otliers manage to keep their occu ation a secret between themselves and •.hose they serve, each patron thinking ;hat she is the only one so favored. AVashington is a place for the cultiva ;ion of clever women, and they are found jving upon their sharp wits in all the walks of society. Many do a thriving ousiness in the “lobby.” The Length of Life Increasing. Statistics are very misleading, says a doctor in the (Hole-Democrat, and! think it is susceptible of proof that the average of longevity is getting higher al! the time. Epidemic diseases, which con¬ tribute so largely to the depopulation of thickly settled districts, are becoming less and less destrueti e every year—al most in exact ratio, I may say, to the in¬ crease in therapeutical knowledge. Look how yellow fever was kept down in Florida this past summer, under condi¬ tions equally as favorable to its spread as those which obtained at Memphis in 1878, when such fearful mortality pre¬ vailed, And, then, see what surgery has done. There isn't anything in the way of accident work that is not per¬ fectly understood by the experienced surgeon, and save, possibly, lesions of the brain injuries to the peritoneum, Even the latter has, time and again, been I succesfully treated by the prompt use of knife and needle. Surgery has been ie j duced, or maybe “raised ’ would sound | | better, and all to that the materia status medica of exact lacks science; is a j remedies better knowledge of the operation of ! upon different constitutions, I and that knowledge is rapidly being ac- 1 quired. The proportion of deaths to cases] medical ofj s : ckne-ss reported in all our meetings is growing smaller all the time, the same rule holding with the hospital reports. These are some of the reasons why I say the people of this age have passed the lowest point in their longevity record, and by the same token it can never get so low again until medi¬ cal which knowledge period becomes retrogressive, is a long way ahead, ac cording to my idea, HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. Pie Without F'ruit. When fruit is scarce, a good pie can be made of one c ij> of rich, sweet cream, sweetened and flavored to suit the taste; whip to a stiff froth with an egg-beater; if the cream is cold it will get stiff quicker. Line a pie plate withcru«t and bake; juit the cream into it: set in a cold place until you want to cat it. Small pieces of red jelly placed on the top ini provc its appearance. Fried Parsley for a Garnish. This is the cheapest of all garnishes, but it must be carefully prepared. Wash, j)i k and dry the parsley thoroughly, then jut it into a wire basket, and hold it in boiling fat for two minutes: then take, it out of the basket and dry it well bv placing it before the fire. Beef-drip ]>ing is the best frying medium for this purpose, and care should be taken to have it boiling hot when the parsley is put in. The Philosophy ol' Boiling. It is a mistake to suppose that a of 4 ’well-boiled” souji beef lias heated to 213 degrees throughout. T.ie heat penetrates so slowly, that a good si/.ed piece cold inside of beef may staying remain in compara¬ boiling tively after and if water for an hour or more, you actually measure the temperature, of the inner parts of the beef the moment it is taken out of the |>ot and surprised pronounced ‘‘well-done 44 you will Ik: to find that it seldom reaches over 170 de¬ grees. It was therefore cooked at a temperature considerably below tlit* boiling point. A Lecture on Con *e. It is a well-known fact that a better and more delic'ous coffee is made by pouring the boiling water the over thc ground coffee than by boiling coffee itself, as unfortunately is yet so often done. The boiling water that is poured over the coffee ceases to boil the instant it leaves the kettle in which it was hoik* 1. Through evaporation it is already some¬ what cooled on llie way to the coffee pot, and by further contact with other bod i-s the temperature is still further lower - 1 until it is evident that the temperatu-e in the coffee pot is several degrees la low the boiling point. The coffee is co sequently not made with boning but av ltd warm water. A Suggestion for Easy Cooking A writer in the New York Times says “A process in cooking that possesses 1 it.' advantage of considerable saving in la bor and fuel, and, furthermore, makes it impossible to scorch or burn anything. F as follows: The food is brought to bn.l and allowed to boil for a few minute;. The kettle is then removed from the (ire and carefully protected in a in at safe io as to prevent the heat from escaping. The food will then be cooked by its own heat, or, in other words, the temperature will for several hours remain high enough to produce the necessary changes in the victuals under treatment. Thc heat safe necessary for the fore going anybody, jrrocess can be easily constructed by and at a merely nominal cost. First get a common packing bo\ of a suitable size, cover the bottom with a layer of picked wool or cotton two or three inches thick, then from a piece of zinc or sheet iron make a hollow cylinder a little larger than the kettle used, place the cylinder in the box, and lilt the inter . val between the cylinder, . and the box with cotton or wool two or three inchr thick. A common pillow will answei for the lid, and the safe is ready for use. When the kettle is removed from thc fin care should be taken not to raise the lid, which should fit as closely as possihic, and when placed in tlie safe the pillow must be t icked well down all around. After remaining in the heat -afe for from two to four hours, according to circum¬ stances. the food will lie done, and y<> will be nstonishe 1 to find what a wcl cooked and toothsome dish you have prepared with so little trouble." Hay or cow hair, being cheaper, can be substituted for wool or cotton, but do not retain the heat quite as well, especially in apparatus of smaller size. The safe can, of course, be made to con¬ tain several vessels at one time, and. meat, potatoes, beaus, etc., can all be prepared at the same time. Potatoes, beans, rice, peas and likes can be placed in the safe as soon as they boil, but largo pieces of meat should be boil-.J for about half an hour so as to a]! penetrate them better.” Hints fo House l>ccorat i A pretty fancy forli. u: curtains is to drape them with narrow scarves or half handkerchiefs of their own material. Maiden-hair and pink roses are the accepted dinners decorations for the “pink’' and luncheons'now so prevalent. hope embroideries and rope fringes are stylish and costly for wall decorations, a bit a yard square or less that we re¬ cently handled being marked $135. Maiden-hair fern without any flowers is a very favorite decoration this winter, and should always be dipped in water just l.efore using, so as to glisten in the light. A decoration within the reach of almost any is a jar of grass and ox-eyed daises, draped about with a green scarf, and. though so simple, few more effective ones can be found. A narrow shelf about eight inches above the mantel board, with a row" of Japanese fans placed behind it as a border, serves admirably for bolding and displaying the smaller bits of bric-a-brac. painte A champagne 1 basket and pine ease!, some neutral tint and draped with plush or velveteen, or cretonne, make an a dm ruble holder for newspaper and periodicals. Have the pins of the easel long enough to hold the basket— whose lid should be fastened up with a bow matching or contrasting with the drapery. with .Avery but pretty little tray cover may be made linen, expense. Get butchers which ^ comes in tine quality at forty cents per yard, forty inches wide. Make the cover two inches longer each way than the tray it is to cover. Have dragons stamped in each corner, with n border of crescents between and a mono cram in. in the chain center. Embroider the uago 11 s st:tch—blue, brown, orange, red,and a little black leal Scotch unen flosses or flourishing thread. Hem¬ stitch all round, an ineli deep, and thee trim with some pretty crochet edge clone with the real Scotch Unen crochet thread, about No. 70. Mrs. Cleveland’s Tired Arm. “I should think your arm would be of paralyzed,’ the a AVashington corresjtondenl Ghle-D irtocr U ventured to say tc Mrs. Cleveland after one of the shake hand receptions at the AYhite House. “It is tired,” she rejtlied, “but it is, curiously enough, the left arm, not the right. General Grant was troubled in the same way—the arm that tired was the one not shaken. This mysterions puzzle can be left to the physiologists.” I here are 10,548 more men than women in Manitoba.