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tub courani-flmerlcan. ~~ J SO ANNUM---IN’ ADVANCIC. RiTES OF ADVERT!*!!*". ii. i! moa I 6 raoi 1 var. <’ P t 12W< f s I"' 1 ' 7 *lO no 086 Inch. * *7 so 10 00 15 0# Two lnchaa, jo ooi 12 50 20 00 I 6 001 12 Co| 16 00 25 00 Foot •"o®**- , -.a |g txij 25 oft 40 00 Koartli oolumn. , j *Ol f J 4# co oo Half eolooo®' ; ()0 , s -, oof 000 100 00 °lisft , | BOtlMft tin r,V,.spor line for float Inner- Kor lona rtlmo. lower rHloa. 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.