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It 19 now said that English syndicates
have spent $50,000,000 in buying up
profitable American properties.
The latest British annexation consist!
of Humphrey and Riersou Islands, in the
South Pacific. They form part of the
Manihiki group and lie north of Cook's
nd the Society Islands, and to the north
east of Samoa.
The advisability of forming a company
to build vessels at Charleston, S. C., to
engage in the coasting trade, is being
discussed in that city, where it is
claimed that all of the materials of con
struction arc as close to hand as they aro
in Maine.
It has often been reported that the
British army is largely composed of
undersized boys instead of stalwart men,
but the returns do not bear out these
statements. Of 202,761 men only 11,596
are under nineteen years of age, while
thirty-four per cent, aro over five feet
eight inches in height.
The managing director of a big tea
dealing firm in Loudon stated that lie
once saw a leading broker in that city
have sixty teas, ranging within one pen
ny per pound in value, weighed up in
duplicate, the 120 pots numbered and
mixed up, he then picking out the sixty
duplicates without a single mistake.
James Bryce, author of “The American
Commonwealth,” has been sued for libel
by A. Oakey Hall, once Mayor of New
York, for connecting him with the Tweed
ring. Both live in England. The com
plainant includes about tweuty pages of
the book, that being the space devoted
to an article containing the alleged libel.
Trained flogs for military purposes
have answered so well in Germany that
similar experiments Lave been made in
the Austrian army. Pointers,sheep dogs
and poodles are the best breeds, and the
dogs will carry messages and ammuni
tion, guard depots and perforin outpost
duty. One dog recently took a message
over a distance of eight miles in an hour
nd five minutes.
Sunday labor in France is by no means
so general as a few years ago. Visitors
to Paris cannot fail to notice how many
more ships are shut on Sunday after the
early morning and now the first step has
been taken toward Sunday rest on the
railways. The Paris-Lyons Railway Com
pany recently decided unanimously to
give their employes in the goods stations
a holiday, and intend to gradually intro
duce similar reforms into other branches
of the service. In all probability the
other lines will be obliged to follow suit.
Indeed, some of the Northern Railway
directors have already pronounced in
favor of Sunday rest.
The recent reports telegraphed from
Europe, in which the assertion was made
that the oil wells of the Caspian district
were rapidly drying up, is now pro
nounced a s.ock jobbing canard. The
statement was made with great positive
ness that the supply of oil was diminish
ing so rapidly that the Russian Govern
ment contemplated prohibiting its ex
port, and that the steamers which are
now using the oil exclusively for fuel
would not be able to do so much longer,
owing to the threatened high price. De
spite the positiveuess of the statements
they seemed to have no effect on Ameri
can prices, evidently because the Standard
Oil Company keeps thoroughly posted on
the real situation.
If an accurate description of the forest
fires which for two months have been
sweeping over Montana, Idaho and
Washington Territories could he written,
the New York Herald declares it would
make a story so thrilling and exciting as
to eclipse in interest and fascination the
most enchanting romance. The forest
fires have been so extensive, so terrible
and destructive that the best informed
pioneer looks at you with blank amaze
ment when you request him to place in
figures the value of the timber destroyed
or to give an estimate of the loss in the
Territories. When it is known that in
one day the fire swept through Montana
. over an area of 100 miles in length and
f eighty in width, and that for weeks the
flames have been doing similar work at
ifferent points in a country stretching
from the eastern slopes of the Rocky
Mountains to the waters of the Pacific,
some vague, indefinite idea of the great
destruction of ti.-ocr ia d otter property
may be gained. Where but recently
stood tall and stately pines aoW black
ened stumps and bald and ashen moun
tain fronts greet the disappointed eye.
The records of deaths in New York
from ill-insulated electric light wires
reached the startling total of twenty-one.
Miss Bruce of New York city has given
$50,000 to the astronomical observatory
of Harvard, to be devoted to the purchase
of a telescope for celestial photography.
Reporters in New York city on a re
cent Sunday took a census of the wor
shipers who attended service in the va
rious churches, and the result showed a
total of 164,526 persons, of whom 97,-
277 were women and 67,249 men. The
weather was unpleasant.
The Pekin Oazttte is quoted as illus
trating the vicissitudes of journalism in
China by the statement that nineteen
hundred of its editors nave been be
headed during the thousand years of its
existence. Perjury in affidavits of circu
lation is probably a capital offense out
there, observes the Washington Star.
Female telegraph clerks in Russia are
bitterly dissatisfied with their lot. Ac
cording to the rules of the service they
are not allowed to marry any one but a
telegraph official, so that they may re
place their husbands at the wire in case
of need. Accordingly the feminine em
ploye, who have fallen in love outside
the seivice are agitating for reform.
Menclik 11, the new King of Abys
sinia, is the son of a beggar woman who
took his father’s fancy. He is almost
coal black, short and dumpy. Unlike
his uncle, he is very friendly to Euro
peans, and wauts to introduce their arts
into his country. He has a remarkable
fondness for machinery and implements
of all sorts, and his greatent delight is
to examine their mechanism.
The live cattle trade between Nen
York and the British ports is booming.
Freights have gone up tremendously.
Last year cattle were shipped to Dept
ford at $7 per head, this year full car
goes are being sent out where the rate*
arc from $23 to $24 per capita. This
is much more profitable than carrying
emigrants. An emigrant pays $6 less and
is fed and cared for; while as to cattle
they are looked after by the owners.
The boom, however, cannot last much
longer, as more ships are being built, and
the New York Sun thinks it only a ques
tion of time when tonnage will outmeas
ure the cargoes of live stock.
The San Francisco Chronicle considers
that ‘‘the boldness of Chinese pirates iu
Tonquiu does not speak well for the
French administration. When these
wretches make raids on villages and at
tack even Europeans in junks, it is high
time the home Government should do
something to suppress the pest. It is a
singular ccinmentary on the spread of
good weapons that all tlie pirates iu the
Orient are armed with the best breech
loading rifles and know how to use them.
Time was when these fellows were dan
gerous only when at close quarters, be
cause their antique weapons were more
often fatal to themselves than to their
enemies. Now all this is changed and in
the Chinese seas as well as among the
South Sea islands, nothing satisfies the
native but the most improved rifle.”
New York is beginning to have a taste
of what San Francisco and Portland and
other Pacific coast cities have passed
through withiu the last twenty years, in
the upbuilding of a Chinese quarter,
where these people of a strange civiliza
tion, using a language unintelligible to
the eye and ear of our race, herd to
gether and defy Caucasian rule and in
fluence. Having once planted themselves
in a place in this way it is almost im
possible, declares the Washington Star,
to root them out. They remodel a neigh
borhood in their own fashion. White
people will not live among them, so that
property values and rentals thereabout are
wholly at the mercy of the Chinese
themselves; aud, wheu means have been
discovered of forcing them to move,
the whites will not inhabit the same
dwellings after them.
The burning of TalmageV Tabernacle
in Brooklyn has swept away a unique
church edifice. It had a larger seating
capacity than any other in America be
longing to a Protestant denomination.
Five thousand persons could be gathered
within its walls, all comfortably provided
with pew-room, all seeing the preacher
and able to hear his voice distinctly. Its
building marked a bold departure from
the once iron-bound rules of ecclesiastical
architecture, its design belonging to no
particular school, but having for its sole
end the adaption of the space to the needs
of a modern church service, in which the
sermon is a predominant feature, The
fire does not daunt Talmaga. He has
been burned out before; and the new
home of the Tabernacle society, when
built, will probably hhve all the excellent
qualities of the old one, with such ad
vantages added as an experience of several
years may suggest.
WASHINGTON, I). G.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDKNI
AND ms ADVISERS.
AFFOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTEaS
Or INTEREST I ROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Corporal Tanner and Colonel W. W.
Dudley, botli ex-commissioners of pen
s on, have formed a copartnership here
in the pension and claim business.
A commission of engineers has been
appointed by the secretary of war to re
port on the site of the pioposed bridge
across the Mississippi river at New Or
leans.
The attorney-general at Washington is
informed that the irial of the cases of
alleged frauds in Florida, at the last
presidential election,has already resulted
in three convictions.
Major Isaac Arnold has been ordered
from command of Fort Monroe arsenal,
Va., to command of Columbia arsenal,
Tenn.; Major J. R. McGinnis, from duty
at Rock Island arsenal to command Fort
Monroe arsenal.
Subpujuns have been issued for Mr.
Armour, Secretary Williams and other
persons connected with the Union slock
yards at Chicago to appear at Washing
ton before the United State’s senate’s
committee investigating the dressed beef
monopoly.
J. Edgar Engle, assistant chief of the
record division, George A. Bond, clerk,
Samuel B. Heasey, assistant chief of the
western division, and Wm. P. Davis,
assistant chief of the middle divisional!
of the pension office, have been asked to
resign. They were among those who
had their pensions re-rated.
The president, on Thursday,appointed
John 11. Devaux, of Georgia, to be col
lector of customs for the distriot of
Brunswick, Ga.; William G. Repos*,
postmaster at Wytheville.Va., vice Aiex.
8. Heller, removed; Thomas Clay Me
Dowell, of Kentucky, collector of inter
nal revenue lor the seventh district of
Kentucky,vice William Cassius Goodloc,
deceased.
Secretary Pioctor is endeavoring to
make such arrangements as will enable
hm to leaye Washington during the
Christmas holidays in company with
Gen. Cook and Capt. Pratt, Superintend
ent of the Carlisle Indiau school, for the
purpose of making a personal visit of
inspection to Mt. Vernon barracks, Ala
bama, where Geronimo and his hand of
Apache Indians are now imprisoned.
The secretary has been informed by the
surgeon of the barracks that the tribe is
unusually sickly this year, and that there
is especial difficulty found in prevent
ing the spread of tho tendency
to consumption that is chnrac
tiristic of the trine. He rouciveJ
a letter Saturday from Capt. Pratt who
argued strongly against the removal
of the Indians to a higher latitude or
altitude. The secretary hopes to find a
solution of the problem by a personal
scrutiny of the Condition of the barracks.
Dr. Valente, Braxilian minister, on
Saturday, received a cablegram from Rio
de Janeiro, stating that United States
Ninister Adams had establi-hedrelations
with the government now in the control
of affairs in that country. This informa
tion he communicated to the state de
partment, and it is reported that he
urged upon the secretary the expediency
of thiß government instructing Minister
Adams to complete the act of formal rec
oguiti n. While it is doubtless felt by
ths state department that the Republic
of the United States of Brazil has been
established upon a permanent basis, it is
probable that the act of formality recog
nizing it through our minister will be
postponed until there is an official head
or chief executive chosen in pursuance
of some regular method. A meeting of
the congress in Brazil has beeu called for
next mouth, when the new republic will
probably be launched with a complete
org mization. When this is accomplished
the question of formal recognition by
this government will probably not be
delayed.
The annual report of First Assistant
Postmaster General Clarkson shoMrs that
2,770 fourth-class posioftices were estab
lished during the last fiscal yiar, against
3,804 during the previous year. 1,147
p istolKces were discontinued duiiig the
same time, making the total number ol
< dices in operation on July 1, 1880, 58,-
909, of which number 2,683 were presi
dential offices. The whole number of
appointments of postmasters for the yeai
is 20,030, of which 8,854 were on ics
ignations and commissions expired, 7,-
853 on removals. 553 on the deaths of
postmasters, 2,770 on the establishment
of postotlices. The number of money
order offices in operation at the close of
the fiscal year was 8,583, increase of 472
fer the year. The number of money order
stations in operation July, 1889, was 144 ;
an increase of 14 over the previous year.
The number of postal note offices in
operation at the end of the year was 587.
The reports shows that June 30, 1889,
there were 401 tree delivery pcs’ offices
in operation, an increase of 41. In
about five other offices the free
delivery service has been established.
The aonual report of Second Assistant
Postmaster-General Whitfield shows the
numb t of star mail routes in operation
June 30, 1889, was 15,077, upon which
the total cost of the service was $5,177,-
105. Colonel Whitfield recommeuds the
appointment of a commissioner to in
vestigate and report, with a view to
make the carrying of the mail under the
star routj system equitable alike to the
government and the contractor, and re
lieve it, as far as posible, from the evils
and iniquities with which it is burdened.
Ai the end of the yar there were 128
sfeaintx at routig in operation at an an
nual rate of expenditure of $446,033.
Certain jor ons are busy at present
in tiac.ng t e gene 1 >gy of the first
Piesident among nil t! e nati ns of the
<arth. General Wa-hiugton is -arious
ly proved to have some of English,
French and Ita ian st ck, aud to-day a
gent eman writes to the New York Sun
to claim ji,ru as a full blooded Irishman,
bas ug his ciniu. upon the fact that the
names "L c-urge ’ and “Eawrenos" a o
the m-stcomm n names found among
Washington ads audants at the present
time, and that nobt-dy ever heard of a
Lawronci) 1. ailing from any country but
Ireland and County PoECommoo.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
TRADE HR VIEW FOR WEEK ENDING SAT
URDAY 2! D, BY DUN & CO.
U. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly report says:
The Brazil r- volution has hud surprising
ly little inll icnce in the markets as yet.
Coffee is only j higher for tie week, an i
the now j over,urn nr appears to be so
generally fustained that apprehension of
the closing o ports or interruption of
trade las almost ee.ised. Bitit is p -ssi
le that the mon y maikts were ineli
iectly affected to tome extent through
Europe, where m certaiuty continuis.
The bank of Englaud lost tor the
e-k 1,050,000 pounds. and the
bank of Franco 430,000 francs. Here
money has been scarce and
dull at tiims, tight at Philadelphia, and
decidedly close at Bonton. Reports re
garding the policy of ihe administration
about silver have beeu assiduously med
to create a feeling of distrust us to the
finttncial future, and in any case the near
approach of the first session of the new
congress would naturally have an unset
ting influen e with some. Under the
circumstances the money markets have
hten less dis:orbed thm might have
been apprehended.aud the volume of bus
iness has not been percepibly affected.
Clearings continue larger than a year ago;
at New York by 16 per cent, for last
week; Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago
by 4J per cent, and at all points outside
ol New York by 7J per cent. While tho
treasury has taken in for the week
$ 1,430,000 more than it has paid out.
Exports and imports for the month thus
tar both show an increase of about 13
per cent, but as exports exceeded im
ports by twenty-two and a half millions
in November last year, the comparison is
most satisfactory. The marketing of
crops, and the movement of money to
pay for them, have produced an easier
i-ituation at western and southern centers.
The great industries are making steady
progress, though the sale of steel rails ai
$35, reported last xveek, was of small
quantity, needed for renewals only, the
market is undoubtedly strong, and pig
and most forms of manufactured iron
and steel fully maintain previous quota
tions. Cotton manufacture has been
doing a steady business, with firm prices,
and as to its prosperity evidence is af
forded by dividend averaging 9.73 pet
cent, yearly on 83 Fall river mills.
Wheat has risen $ cent, with sales of 25,-
000,000 bushels, and oorn only $, with
sifies of 5,500,000 bushals. Cotton un
changed, with sales ot 408,000 bales.
The week’s receipt* exceed last year’s by
19,000, and exports exceed last year’s by
90,000 bales. Oats rose f cent and pork
products aro higher, while with sales ol
829,000 sacks coffee has held only J cent
of its advance. The general course of
prices his been upward, however, the
advance since I?rwmher Ist kdnir about
1$ per cent on all commodities. Ac
counts from various cities as to the state
of business are almost uniformly of a fa
vorable character recently observed, and
embrace some items of special interest.
At Chicago dressed beef receipts are
double those of last year, and of provis
ions more than double, while the dry
goods trade still quotes satisfactory re
sults, with payments'easy in the country.
The Minneapolis wheat market is very
active, and lumber cut is put at 275,000,-
000 feet. On the whole the outlook re
mains favorable, though for the present
monetary scarcity hns a depressing influ
ence upon some eastern points. Business
failures during the last seven days:
Number for the United States, 245; Can
ada, 82. total 277, as compared with 256
last week.
THE NEW PLANT
WHICH FRODUCB* COTTON SEED WITHOUT
THE LINT.
The new lintless cotton plant men
tioned in these columns some time ago,
is attracting considerable attention.
There seems to be no doubt about th'
existence of such a plant, as proof of ii
is exhibited in Charleston. Tnere were
received there Tuesday a box of bolls
raised in Sumter county all cont lining
cotton seed without a fibre of lint.
This new plant which was
tried in Spartanburg county,
will, it is claimed, produce from Buo to
400 bushels of cotton seed, without lint,
to the acre, The bolls are filled wi ll seed
which are perfectly clean and show uc
signs of lint. Every boll contains as
many seed ns it can hold, the bolls being
the size of the average cotton boll,aud ev
ety individual seed is as clean as a Boston
bean. The importance of this matter may
be understood when it is remembered
that there ate thousands of cotton oil
mills throughout the south, and when it
is added that the propi.gators of this new
coiton plant claim that at the pnsent
price of cotton seed, an acre of the dcw
plant will yield from 300 to 100 percent
more than an acre of cotton.
ORANGE INTERESTS.
ORANGE GROWERB’ UNION AND FI.ORIDi
FRUIT EXCHANGE CONSOLIDATED.
The board of directors of the Florida
Orange Growers’ union have been in ses
sion for two days at Ocala, and the -e
--sult is the consolidation of the Orange
Growers’ union and the Florida Fruit ex
change. The outcome of the consolida
tion will be to place nearly all
of the orange crop in the hands
of the exchange which has alrrady han
dled 6,000 boxes of oranges this season,
an inciease of 500 per cent, oyer the pre
vious year. The total orange crop ol
Florida this year is estimated at from
1,800,000 to 2,100,000 boxes. The ex
change, through its agencies in various
sections of the state, probably control at
least 1,500,060 boxes of this crop. This
consolidation murks anew era in market
ing Florida oranges and it is expected
that it will save growers at least sluo,-
000 this year.
BANK STATEMENT,
The following is a statement Of the
associated banks for the we.k ending
Saturday, the 23d:
Reserve increase $ 935,22f
Loans
bpecie increase.... 45 >,OOC
Legal tenders decrease 337,900
Deposits decrease 5,2u2 903
Circulation inemste B.OJO
Toe banks ndtv bold 81,628,500 in ex
cess of 25 per cent, rule.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE— ACCIDENTS, SratKßS,
IIBEB, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTHREST.
The governor-general of Cuba dis
claims that he in anyway aided the str.k
ing cigarmakers of Key West.
Mexican newspapers state that negrc
colonists will only be permitted to settle
in fever districts on the coast.
J. H. Rathbone. of Washington, foun
der of the order of Knights of Pythias,
is prostrated at a hotel in Lima, Ohio,
and is not expected to live. ,
Not including Alaska, Brazil is larger
in extent than the United States. It
possesses within its limits an area of
3,287,964 square miles, with a population
of 12,383,875.
The National Grange, in session at
Sacramento, Cal., on Wednesday passi and
a reto ution favoring the election of
United States senators direct by a vote
of the people. The Grange will meet
next year at Atlanta, Ga.
Judge Foster, of the United States
district court at Topeka, Kansas, ren
dered a decision in a criminal case Thurs
day, holding that “No Man’s Land” was
Indian oountry, and as such was part of
northern Texas, when the offense was
committed.
Anew combine of all the barb wire
mills of Illinois will be known as the
Federal Steel Company, with a capital of
$12,000,000. The present price of barb
wire, painted, is $3.10 in cur load lots,
but after January 1 the price will proba
bly go up to $3.50.
A dispatch from Kansas City says:
The north bound passenger train on the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad was
held up, Sunday night, at Pryor creek,
near Perry Station, I. T. The express
and mail car were robbed. The passen
gers were not molested. The amount
secured by the jobbers is not known.
Exports of specie from the ports of
New York last week amounted lo $503,-
124, of which $76,829 was gold and
$486,292 silver. All the silver went to
Europe and all the gold went to South
America. Imports of specie for the week
amounted to $208,074, of which $139,-
685 was in gold and $66,389 silver.
The United States consul at Colon re
ports that since work on the Panama ca
nal ceased, business at Colon has been
almost entirely prostrated. It some
times happens, he gays, that not a single
vessel is to be found in the harbor, a
thing heretofore unknown since 1860.
The Isthmus railroad, which, in 1888,
paid a dividend of per cent., will
this year pay only 9 per cent.
Iu uu vpcu letter to Charles Steward
Parnell, Miss Anna Carslake, of Trenton,
N. J., has taken direct issue with the
great Irish leader about his mother's con
dition. She tells him piainly that Mrs.
Parnell is penniless and in absolute want.
If he thinks otherwise he is in error.
Mrs. Carslake has been Mrs. Parnell’s
faithful friend, and was Fannie Parnell’s
schoolmate.
A revolt has occurred among the con
victs in Layolute prison at Tunis. The
prisoners succeeded in freeing them
selves from their- chains and in procuring
firearms and other weapons. They then
made a fierce attack upon the jailers
who were unable to quell the revolt,
and troops were summoned. When they
arrived at the jail a desperate fight took
place and many of the prisoners, and sol
diers were killed.
Arrangements have been in progress for
several days for the holding of meetings
at Klkenny and Waterford, Ireland, in
memory of the two men, Allen Larkin and
Gould, who were hanged for the killing
of Policeman Brett in Manchester in
1867. The government issued a procla
mation forbidding the holding of the
meetings. Projectors of the demonstra
tion, however, announce that they will
not abandon their plaits.
Fire broke out Sunday morning in
the wholesale grocery house of Jauney
& Andrews, on Market street, Philadel
phia. The fire is supposed to have or
iginated from spontaneous combustion.
The aggregate loss is estimated at nearly
a quarter of a million. Junncy & An
drews lose on the stock $100,030; in
sured for $131,000. The building,which
was six stories high, cost $90,000.
James McCuen, foreman of No. 4 tire
company, was caught by falling v.al.s
and killed.
It w r as reported Saturday that the firm
of Sanger ana Wells of New York, coffee
dealers, were unable to meet their obii
g itions. It is said that their liabilities
will be about $300,000, and their assets
merely nominal. The cause of the trouble
is said to be the investment of some
of the firm’s funds in a patent barrel fac
tory, the headquarters of which are in
Detroit. The firm has dealt principally
in Java coffee, and is an old establish
ment. A quarter of a century ago the
firm was known as Sanger, Birds &
Fisher. They controlled a large trade.
GREAT PRAIRIE FIRE.
DESTRUCTION OF CHOPS, FENCES AND
TREES —HEAVY LOSSES.
Passengers who arrived at Port Worth,
Tex., on the south-bound Fort Worth
and Denver train, Wednesday night, re
ported that a terrible prairie and forest
fire was raging for over ten miles along
the road, and back from the road foi
more than a mile. The fire caugat from
a locomotive, and a high wind from the
west blowing the flames, they soon lickc 1
np hav, corn, oats, fences," barns and
farm houses. Railroad men, farmers an i
stockmen worked diligently, but were
unable to arrest the spread of the flames.
Great trees are on fire, and the situation
is critical. The fire begins south ol
Rhone, in Wise county, aud ends near
Heiman, ten miles distant. Tho loss will
reach thousands of dollars.
POOR DIET.
“What do you live on down here, any.
way?” asked a hungry Northerner in
Florida of a native the other day.
“ Waal,” drawled the Floridian, “ in
the summer we live on fish and yams,
and in the winter we live on sick Tan
kees.”—[Bazar.
THE BRAZILIAN REPUBLIC.
WHAT THE NEW O VERNMENT WILL DO —
ORDER TO BK MAINTAINED.
The new government lias announced
that it wiii fiimiy maintain order. It is
preparing a circu ar to foreign govern
ments relative to the overthrow of the
empire, which will be telegraphed to
them through Brazilian tepreseutativee
abroad. Tno province of Bahia has sig
nified its adherence to the republic.
News from oilier provinces show that
they are also in favor of a republican form
of government. The governors named
by the provincial government are all
military men. The newly made repub
lic will allow the depisel emperor 800
contos dereis per annum during his life.
The five articles of the government de
cree are: First. A republic is pro
claimed. 8 cond. The provinces of
Brazil, united by federation, com
pose the United States of Brazil,
ihird. Each Stuto wi l form its own lo
cal government. Fourth. Each State
will send a representative to a Congress,
which will convene shortly, and the final
decision of which the Provisional Gov
ernment will await. Fifth. Meantime
Governors of States will adopt more
means to maintain order and protect citi
zens’ rights. The nation’s internal and ex
ternal relations will be represented mean
while by the Provisional Government.
HOW IT WAS ACCOMPLISHED.
The city awoke otf Friday to hear tha
Republic proclaimed. Gen. DaFonseca,
Senor Constant and others proceeded to
Petrolis in the morning and informed
the Emperor that he had been dethroned.
Dom Pedro received the deputation with
absolute compusuie. Gen. DaFonseca
said that Brazil had advanced lar enough
in the path of civilization to dispense
with monarchy. The country,
while grateful to the Emperoi
for his patriotic services, was firmly
resolved t > recognize only a Republic.
Dom Pedro igade a dignified reply. He
declined to abdicate, but said he would
yield to force. The Imperial family
were allowed one hour to prepare foi
their departure. Carriages, escorted by
soldiers, were waiting to take them to
the outer harbor, where a man-of-w*
was lying under steam. The captain
had been instructed to sail as soon as the
Imperial family had embarked. He had
received sealed orders instructing him
what route t*> take. It is supposed that
Lisbon is the destination of the vessel.
THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON.
The Brazilian minister received two
telegrams from Brazil, one from ths
minister of foreign affairs and the othei
from the minister of finance. They
were simply confirmatory of press re
ports of the establishment of a republi
can form of government, the departure
of Dom Pero and that everything was
quiet aua tranquil in i-v Republic. It
is understood to be the intention of
Brazilians in official capacity at Wash
ington to await the pleasure of the newly
organized government,
AN INSANE WOMAN
COMPELS HEII DAUGHTER TO JOIN HER
IN DRINKING POISON.
A ghastly affair occurred at Mosher
ville, Mich., Thtusday night, During
the absence of her husband, Mrs. Nathan
Strong tilled two tumblers with a solu
tion of paris green and handing one to
her daughter, Maude, a handsome girl of
eighteen, and taking the other herself,
she diank her own dose and forced
the girl, at the muzzle of a revolver,
to swallow the fatal draught.
All efforts to save the woman aDd her
daughter were unsuccessful, and Mrs.
Strong died at midnight in horrible
agony and Maude an hour later. Maude
insisted to the last that her mother
forced her to drink the poison and said
she did not want to die. She begged
piteously of her friends and doctor to
save her life. The insanity which led
to the awful act has been clearly marked
for about two weeks.
A TERRIFIC STORM
RAGING IN MONTANA—SERIOUS RAILROAD
WRECKS REPORTED.
A special from Missou'a, Mont, says:
A terrdic snow storm struck here about
five o’clock Friday morning, and is still
raging in all its fury. All trains
on the Northern Pacific road have
been blocked and two seiious wrecks
reported near Bonner, a town about
seven mites cast of here, on the banks of
Hell Gate river. Several trainmen were
injured and a special train containing
nhysicians and local railroad officials
have gone to tho scene of the wreck.
This is the third vyreck that has occurred
at that place during the past three weeks.
A later dispatch says: “Two more se
rious wrecks, in all probability more se
rious than the first mentioned, occurred
west of here. It is impossible to ascer
tain full particulars at this hour.”
A SHIP GOES DOWN
IKi A COLLISION —FIFTEEN LIVES SUP
POSED TO HAVE BEEN LOST.
The Old Dominion steamship Manhat
tan, which left New York for West
Point, Va., last Tuesday afternoon, with
thirty-five passenger- 1 , collided with the
schooner Agues Manning, from Bilti
more for New York, and went to the
bottom. At least fifteen lives are sup
posed to have been lost. The
first information of the disaster wat
given in an Associated Press dispatch
from New Loudon, at the company’s of
fice on Friday. The information received
pointed to the fact that probably over
twenty people have been lost. The
vessel’s crew * numbered twenty-seven.
The names of only a few of the crew are
known to the Old Dominion people.
The Manhattan was valued at $150,000,
and carried no insurance.
NO FASTER.
“I wish I c u’d put a little speed into
that horse of mine.”
“You feed him too much. It makes
him lazy.. Starve him for a week, aud •
note the difierence.”
“Starvehim? Humph! I tied it.
He can go without food for * w eek find
still be uo fae '.er!(Clii. ago La dger. -
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN TEE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT 13 UOISU OS OF
IMPORTANCE IS THE SOUTHERN STATES.
A fire at Bald winsville, N. Y., on
Wcdne-dfiv night caused a loss of $250,-
000. The flames originated in the Seneca
ho el, and the en'ire hotel block, with
two large warehouses adjoining, were
destroyed.
The valuable barn of TANARUS, O. Webster, st
Orchard Hill farm, Ky., was destroyed
by tire Suuday morning. Four noted
si allions were burned to death—Ev.nn
mond, Prairie Wilkes, Joe Larkin and
Weaglement. The loss is $75,003.
Arrangmen .s were made at Rich
mond, Va., Thursday to restore service
from Richmond to Lynchburg and the
southwest, over the Richmond and Uan
vilte and Norfolk and Western, via Buu
kerville. The schedule goes into effect
at once.
The Randolph county, West Virginia
capitalists purchased one hundred thous*
and acres of land, wh ch is occupied by
squatters, who have armed themselves to
resist eviction. One surveyor has aU
ready been killed, and serious trouble is
anticipated, as the settlers will fight. ,
A dispatch says that on Thuisday a
fenrful storm struck the plate and pulp
factory of S. H. Gray, at Newberne, N.
C., in which there were sixty hands,nnd
leveled it to the ground. One employe
was instantly killed, another mortally
wounded, and eight others injured.
Another meeting was held at the Mer
chants’ exchange at Nashville, Tenn., on
Saturday night in the interest of the
fund to save Jeffers m Divis’ home.
A committee was appointed to go ac
tively to work at ouee. A number of
subscriptious have already been made.
A number of gentlemen arrived at
Denver, Lol., on fcaturday ficm Reno
county, Kan., to locale government lands
in South Santa Fe for a colony of 200
Mennonites, who propose settling on the
line of the Atchison, I opeka and Santa
Fee road. It is the first colony of the
kind to locate in the territory.
William Carpenter and Whitfield Mur
rell were convicted at Edgefield, 8. C.,
Thursday, of the murdr of Preston
Younce in June last. The murder was
most brutal nnd unprovoked. The pris
oners were sentenced to tie hanged on
the third of next January. These are
the first white murderers convicted in
Edgefield county for forty years.
Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, on
Friday, acted upon the case of the five
Barnards, sentenced to hang for murdei
in Hancock county. The governor par
doned absolutely John, Jr., and Elijah
Barnard, commuted to live years in the
penitentiary the sentences of Uiiut anu
Anderson Barnard, and to ten years that
of old man John Barnard.
A special to the Nashville American
from Hopkinsville, Ky., siys: Informa
tion is r< ceived to the effect that Joseph
A. Smith, the man who killed W. F.
Williams, town marshal of Trenton, a
village on the Louisviile and Nashville
railroad, several miles south of th.s city,
two weeks ago, wi.s taken from jail at
Elkton, the county scat of Todd, Sunday
night, by a mob, and hanged to a tree in
the courthouse yard.
A meeting of stockholders of the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroad company was held at Rich
mond, Vu., on Wednesday. The report
showed the operations of the road foi
nine months ended June 30, 1889. In
come was $502,434; expenses of trans
portation $307,068; interest on bonds for
nine months $31,271. Dividends on
general stock for nine months $26,271,
net profit $137,823.
Governor Taylor has received petitions
from 3,000 prominent citizens in East
Tennessee and letters from a majority of
the supreme judges, requi sting him to
pardon or commute the sentence of death
passed on the five Barnard brothers who
killed Henley Sutton, in Hancock coun
ty last January. After a careful exami
nation of the record, the governor has
decided to commute the sentence of all,
and he may pardon some of the five.
DAMAGE CLAIMS.
BORDER COUNTIES OF PENNSYLVANIA DE
MAND FAY FOR CONFEDERATE INVASION.
Governor Beaver, Auditor General
McCuman, Attorney General Kirkpatrick
and several members of the Pennsylvania
legislature, who constitute a commission
to lay before congress the c’aims of the
border counties of the state for extraor
dinary losses incurred by confederate in
vasion during the late war, aud to de
mand their payment by the government,
met at Chambersburg on Wednesday to
organize and to consult with representa
tives of the border c unties. The claims
for the burning of Cnambersburg and tut
losses in the other counties aggregate
about $3,000,000. The state of Pennsyl
vania has made three separate appro
priations, amounting to siiUo,ooo, to
wards tho relief of the sulfertrs. It is
the intention of the c ommission, backed
by the united Pennsylvania delegation
in congress, to ask that the state be re
imbursed for its outlay, and that the
balance of the claims be paid.
A MORMON GROWL
THEIR MANNERS AND CUSTOMS EXPOSED
BY THE COURTS.
A dispatch from Salt Lake City, Utah,
says: The investigation in regard to the
endowment house oaths and teachings ol
the Mormon church was resumed in the
district court Saturday. James £. Tal
mage, priucipd of the Mormon college
in Salt Lake, testified that pupils of his
schools were taught that the revelation
tn regard to plural marriage was from
God;°that the constitution, when prop
erly administered, did not interfere with
auv revelations of God. Witness said he
believed polygamy was right aad the law
against it "unconstitutional, notwi h
standing the decision of the supreme
court ot the XJniied States. All pupils
were taught to obey the reveiatidu of
celestial mairiage. Witr.ess thought
jbout'One ia thirty < f his friends was a
polygamist, lie believed the president
of the church was divinely called and
would obey him.