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tion. for a lonfc~r time. Inner rat oh.
The United States Legation estimates
that at least 50,000 Americans visited
the Paris Exposition.
The Secretary of the National Prison
Association estimates that the census of
1890 ■will show . a prison population' of
about 100,000, an increase of about 30,
000 in ten Tears,
Eighty-two persons have been Killed
in the-United' Statfes during the past si.\
months by boiler explosions, mid fn fit
one case has any one been held legal h
responsible for the calamity.. This, re
marks the Detroit Free Press, ought tc
Encourage tin peddlers to run engines.
Wisconsin boasts a whole family ol
lawyers. The father, mother and eldest
laughter are established practitioners,
irhile the two younger daughters are pre
paring themselves to be admitted to the
bar by taking the law course at the State
University. The three girls are all midei
twenty-one, and are said to be possessed
of more than an ordinary share of gq#d
looks. J .
London is really going to imitate Paris
and become an intrenched city. Military
storehouses have already been built for
the troops, which might be used on its
southern line of defense; intrenchc I
camps are to be created, and one of them
is actually to be near the town of Dork
ing, the scene of the mythical battle.
The volunteer artillery is to be equipped
at once with more suitable guns. It
will, however, says the St. James'i
Gazette, be some time before the me
tropolis is impregnable.
The carelessness of the Mexican Gov
eminent in regard to ratyicy matters, the
New York Sun declares to be most rep
rehensible. “Our neighbor has permitted
herself to be robbed of #1,200,000 in
bonds. It appears that the robbery oc
curred in the fifth section of the Treasury
Department, at the head of which is Mr.
Enrique Abogodo. The. stolen bonds
were in two books, and it is stated they
were placed on the market in London,
where $920,000 were realized by theii
sale. There is some question as to
whether the bonds were signed, sealed,
dated and marked with the private mark
of the Treasury Department; but this
matters little, inasmuch as the robbers are
apparently capable of signing the name
of Secretary Dublan.”
During the Russian Czar’s receut visit
to Germany, extraordinary measures for
Iris safety were taken. No precautions
•eemed to satisfy • the Russian officials.
Count Schouvaloflf fortified the' Russian
Embassy at Berlin. Six Russian artizans,
•specially attached to the Urn’s retinue,
examined the walls, flooring and furniture
f the embassy and inserted grating bar
ting at the tops and. bottoms of the cbitn-
Wey*. Sentries were also stationed upon
the roof, apparently to prevent explosives
being thrown down the flues. The Ber
lin secret pffiice assisted the Russian de
tectives as far as the frontier. In ac
cordance with the Czar’s desire the rail
way bridges at Neustadt, Dirsehau and
Marienburg and all the streets of Dautzic
were guarded by troops. Until the mo
ment the Czar left Dantzic even the of
ficials were not allowed to know whether
he would board the imperial yacht Der
java or, make the journey by railroad.
When the train started for the froutier,
orders were telegraphed to put 50,000
Russian troop 6 in motion to protect the
lias-
A small herd of young buffaloes which
reached the Smithsonian Institution at
Washington recently is regarded by the
Government naturalists as a most precious
acquisition. The buffalo has had his day,
•nd, unless a few specimens are hereafter
bred by persons interested in his preser
'ation as the noblest specimen of our na
ive fauna, the race will soon become as
attinct as the American mastodon. Not
nany years ago, however, the noble uni-
Hal roamed tha plains in countless num
bers, and a frequent and picturesque sight
In the far West was an enormous caval
cade of buffaloes charging, over the
pimriesat tlieheeU of their shaggy leader.
Civilisation is even more fatal to the buf
falo than to the Indian. \Y ith the open
mg of the West by the railroads their
destruction began. Thousands of hunt
ers for whom the buffalo country was uow
accessible began to kill them off by
droves. So wanton was the carnage that
the species has well-nigh disappeared,
tnd a buffalo is now an unusual sight on
aay of the Western plains. Even the
specimens received at Washington were
not captured in their wild state, but were
bred at an army post from ani®#ls caught
by Indian* in iggg,
The hostility of Costa Rica toward the
construction of Nicaragua Canal has been
settled by arbitration, and work on the
canal is making rapid progress.
i—-ie- iLL-’-Jiai
The horror which Editor Stead, of the
Pall MoU Gazette , expresses at the idea of
anyone’s going into journalism for the
purpose of making money, is justified by
the opinion of the Washington Star by
the experinee of a great many persons
who try it.
Amelie Rives Chanler, the novelist, is
passionately fond of the violin. It is
said that “she will jump up in bed in
the middle of the night, seize her violin,
always at the head of the bed, and fiddle
away with surprising energy.” The
other day it was announced that Mr.
Chanler had gone to Central Africa.
Professor Thompson, of the geological
survey, who has been at work near Keno,
Nev., making surveys and maps for the
purpose of establishing reservoir sites for
the purposes of irrigation, is very en
thusiastic. regarding the work, and says
the result will exceed his most sanguine
expectations. He is confident that
through irrigation millions of acres of
arid lands on the Pacific coast can be re
claimed and made productive.
The popular belief thet ironclad men
of-war are an invention of the last half
of the nineteenth century is evidently not
founded upon fact. Divers have re
cently been at work in the harbor of
Trieste, Austria’s seaport, and have
brought up portions of the French
frigate which was wrecked seventy-eight
years ago. The wreck had sunk so
deeply in the sand as to be well preserved,
and it has been found that the hull was
of wood and was heavily plated with
iron.
Rice planters in the South are accus
tomed to burn their rice straw to get it
out of the way. We understand, says
the Manvfactunr s' Record, that recent
practical tests linve demonstrated that
this straw makes excellent paper mate
rial. One paper company has gone so
far as to order some 3000 or 4000 tons of
this straw to further experiment. Rice
straw may yet prove to be a cotton seed
in miniature. At any rate, the results of
these experiments will be watched with
interest.
The Yankees of Asia, as the Japs are
sometimes called, have been more tor
mented with the disastrous antics of tire
elements this year than even the Ameri
cans. Japan has had a series of earth
quake* and floods and a tidal wave has
added hundreds more to the thousands
already killed by falling mountains and
rivers pushed out of the place. The his
tory of this year is one of disaster all
over the globe. Almost no nation has
escaped, but Japan has suffered perhaps
more than any other when her area is
considered. There is a feeling of warm
friendship for Japan in the United States,
which makes Americans regret the cal
amities that have overtaken this inter
esting people.
W. W. McNair, famous for his daring
explorations, died recently in India. His
death was caused by overtaxing his
powers by mountain climbing, exposure
and lack of food while prosecuting sur
veys during the last two years in Af
ghanistan. By shaving his head and
staining his body, McNair, in the dis
guise of an Indian doctor, spent two
months exploring the sweet valley of
Katiustau. No European had ever man
aged before, to set foot there, on ac
count of hostility to the native tribes.
He found that the people there num
bered about 200,000, and were nearly
white in color. The women were very
beautiful. His disguise was peuetrated
before he completed his investigations,
and he was compelled to flee for his
life. With only two native assistants
he also explored the Asphan and His
arak valleys.
Victoria is an Australian colouy with
the size and the population of Kausas in
1880, or an area of 87,000 square, miles
and a population of 1,000,000. But in
stead of letting corporations build the
railroads and giying land away to get
them to do this, Victoria has kept its
land and built its own railroads. The
result is that this thriving little commun
ity of about 1,000.000 souls, or the popu
lation of Philadelphia, had last year an
income of $41,000,000, and of this sum
$16,500,000 was in the shape of profits
on the State railroads. Seven years ago
the income from the railroads was oulv
$9,000,000; in 18*6-7 it was *12,265.'-
000 and for the year just closed it has
grown up to nearly double the income of
seven years ago. aud, as no one can build
roads but the State, and the State is an
enterprising builder and a good manager,
the profits on the railroads will in time
pay all the expenses of the Government.
In addition, Victoria owns not only the
postoffice, as the people do here, but all
I the express and telegraph business, and
I the profit on these for this wise, thrifty
I little itate iut year ww $8,140,000
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS I BOM EVERYWKEBE—ACCIDENTS, STBtXtl,
lIBES, AND HAPFKMNUS OE INTEREST.
The government of Brazil has rc
ftdopted the old flag.
Martin Farquhnr Tupper, the author,
is dead; aged 79 years.
Thanksgiving day was generally ob
served throughout the country.
The Salvation Army headquarters in
London were burned Monday mg I ’*.
White’s drapery eatuLiisbment at Ai
de! shot, Enu., was burned Thursday.
Loss is £IOO,OOO.
There are 7,500 do.k.r.?’' n d lighter
men on a strike at Briitol, Eng. The
trade of ttie port is paralyzed.
One of tl c buildings of the Hartford,
Conn., carpet works was burned Friday.
Loss $180,000; insurance $175,000.
Anexplosun took place in a colliery
at Bochum, Prussia, Thursday, in which
fourteen persons were killed and four in
jured.
r l he ship Germanic is quarantine! at
Lewes, Del., on account of a death from
Asiatic cholera soon after she railed from
Cuba last July.
'the Duke of Cumberland will insti
tute suits in Frtneh c< urls to nullify the
will of the Duke of Brunswick on the
ground of imanity.
The Truth building, owned by Frank
Wilson, proprietor of Truth, at Toronto,
Canada, was gutted by fire Friday. Loss
estimated at $90,000.
The chamber of deputies at Rome,
Raly, on Saturday, voted urgency for
the consideration of the bill to abolish
anti-French differential duties.
The Portugese steamer Alegoas, with
ex-Emperor Dorn Pedro and his party on
boaid, arrive 1 at St. Vincent Saturday.
All members of the party are well.
In Salt Lake, Utah, Judge Anderson
has denied the application of those
Mormons 'who have taken endowment
oath for admission to citizenship.
King Leopold, of Belgium, has sent a
telegram to Henry M. Stanley, congrat
ulating him upon the completion of his
task, and inviting him to visit Brussels.
The strike among lie employes of the
Western Railroad company, at Paris,
France, lias ended by the men yielding
to the terms of the company. The
strikers resumed work.
An official statement by the assessors,
places the assessed valuation this year of
burned property at Lynn, Mass., at
$1 ,009,500, and the number of buildings
burned 1180.
While the collector of the Commercial
National bank was counting $2,800 in the
general office of the Germun-Amcrican
bank at Cleveland, 0., Saturday after
noon, a thief snatched $2,000 and es
caped.
The $5,000,000 world’s fair guarantee
fund at New York, was more than com
pleted Saturday, the grand total is now
$5,028,942. 'lhe watld’s fair committee
has decided t 6 continue to receive sub
scriptions.
Secretary Kremer, of the flood relic-f
commission, at Johnstown, Pa., practi
cally finished, in connection with the
local board of inquiry, the distribution
of $1,000,000 in Johnstown. The last
check left his offico Saturday.
Saturday morning three boilers, of a
nest of twenty-one, exploded with ter
rific force at breaker No. 4, at Joausville,
Pa., operated by J. C. llaydon & Cos.
Fireman George Peacock, aged twenty
five, was burned to a crisp. The build
ing is a total wreck.
Fire started in Keyport, N. J., Fri
dny morning in Leyrcr’s bakery, which
destroyed five bui,dings and caused a
loss of over $05,000. Jacob Leyrer was
burned to death, and Mrs. Leyrer and
Jacob Leyrer, Jr., were terribly burned,
aud may die.
The Chicago Times says that Maggie
Schreim r, who poured rcrosene oil on
her husband o;i June 25, 1888, aud then
set tire to it, burning him fatally, is
suing the order of Foie-ters for $2,000
interest and principle, on a death benefit
of SI,OOO, which she c'aims as ben
tficiary of the dead man’s estate.
President W. W. Young, who, with
Cashier John Hoerr, both of the Law
rence, Mas., hank, were charged with
emh zz ement and accepting money from
dead on he floor of his hovel at Potfcs
town, Pa., with a leather strap loosely
fastened around his neck. Some main
tain that it was suicide, while others say
that it is a c ise of foul play, though sui
cide is the generally accepted theory.
Until recently Ghana was aline specimen
of physical manhood. It is related that
inedayhe < ursod hs creator in a terri
ble mu ner when lie fe:l over, struck
dumb and paralyzed from head to foot.
He remained in this condition until his
death.
Arrangements have been made by ail
the coal operators of the Monougnheln
Valley, to close down their mines
indefinitely, ns the few works in
operation have demonstrated that the
demand of the miners can not be con
ceded, with the price of coal as low as it
is at present. The suspension will effect
5,000 men.
Exports of specie from the port of
New York for the week ended, Novem
ber 30th, amounted to $319,110,0f which
$8,047 was in gold, and $311,067 in sil
ver. All the silver and $2,300 in gold
went to Europe, and $5,257 in gold went
to South America. Imports of specie
for the week amounted to $193,605, of
which $109,485 was gold and $86,120
silver.
Thursday forenoon John Ghana, a
hopeless paralytic, aged 35, was found
depositors after the bank was insolvent,
surrendered himselt Thursday Dight and
gave bail tu the sum of $2,500 for hear
ing next Wednesday.
Fire broke out in the Deiav.m gas
house at Albany, N. Y., Saturdav
morning, and the flames, gaining head
way, communicated to the paper house
of Jacf-b Leonard <& Sod, and the Albany
Casket company. Both were a totid
loss. Several otfecr buildings were dam*
sjfcd, tad the loss will reach $73,000.
Subscribe for tbij paper.
CONDITION OF TRADE.
R. O. DUN * CO.’s REPORT FOB WEEK END
ING NOTF.MIIER 80.
R. G. Dun & Co.’S weekly review of
trade says: The two heavy fires, with
aggregate losses estimated at $15,000,000
or more, may have an influence upon
several branches of trade which cannot
yet be estimated. Prior to the Boston
lire the boot and shoe trade there had
been quite pHralized by the fire at Lynn,
and as to the leather trade a little ad
vance was anticipated, while in New
York it was by many expected that the
temporary withdrawal of the demand
would cause some fall in leather. The
Boston fire of Thursday destroyed heavy
stocks of goods, and will doubtless af
fect the demand. Rebuilding in both
cities will create a sudden demand for
materials and labor. Heavy concurrent
losses may shake some insurance compa
nies, and uffect the finances of fit ms
burned out. But general prosperity and
large accumulation of available capital
will probably render the influence of
these disasters comparatively narrow and
brief. In other respects the situation is
quite as encouraging as it has been for
some weeks past; the volume of business
is unsurpassed and pressure in money
iuatkets, though not ended at New
York, hag seemed to beabating elsewhere.
Reports from other sections are without
exception, favorable on the whole.
Western cities, without exception, find
trade good. Money is fairly active, but
nowhere stringent, at the western points
reporting, and the accounts tegardiug
collections are better than usual. Cotton
is unchanged, though receipts the past
week exceed last year’s by 10,000, and
exports by 49,000 bales, and sales have
been 378,000. Coffee has not moved,
thongh 290,000 bags have been sold. Su
gar is stronger with more active distribu
tion, but Spreckles again announces that
his war with the trust is to the death,
and his work is about to begin. The
shoe towns have all been shipping more
largoly than usual and the demand con
tinues exceptionally good, for the sea-
son in leather products generally with a
prospect of some increase because of tlie
Lynn fire. The great boom in iron abroad
with spe mative excitement rarly wit
nessed and rapid fluctuations in prices,
causes some apprehension, because expe
rience teaches that such rapid and ex
cited movements are usually followed by
ugly reactions. Unparalleled produc
tion in this country still continues and
other furnaces of production are
about to go into operation and yet
prices are firm at Philadelphia.
Though warrants have been quoted a
little lower at New York the demand for
manufacture! forms, continuing large at
full prices. There has been no important
change in fin mces, but merchandise ex
ports, though small for the week, have
been pearly eight per cent, larger than
last yea? for the month. The value ol
exports in October was not only greatei
than in any previous October, but hai
never been exceeded in any month, ex
cept slightly in one, December, 1879.
With an unprecedented excess of exporti
over imports, amounting to over 29.000,-
000 in that month, and another heavj
excess assured for November, the rate ol
foreign exchange has scarcely altered
for two w r eek. The reported decision
that treasury deposits with buuUs shall
be gradually withdrawn, 10 per cent, ol
them by the end of January, has been
expected, because these deposits when
made were in! ended to be only tempo
rary. nnd will give the treasurer am
pie time to put an equal amount into
clrcula ion in other ways. The treasur]
paid out during last week $1,200,00f
more than it had taken in, on l the rat*
for money has not changed. Businest
failures occurring throughout the coun
try last week number for the Unitec
St ties 210; Cmada, 39; to'al 246
against 277 I ist w< ok.
THE SILVER QUESTION.
SOME OF THE RESOLUTIONS fit ESENTED
BY THE CONVENTION.
The National Silver convention was
called to order by the chairman Wednes
day morning at at. Louis. Delegate
Morse, of Oolora io, introduced the 10l
lowing resolution: lb solved, That
Senators and Representatives in
he Congress of the United States
be aud are hereby lequested to es
tablish a unit for the coinage of silver
with the South American Slates that
shall make silver coin pass curi eat on pat
with gold in all the Ann ricas of the
western hemisphere, and that they also
be requested to open negotiations with
the Cougiess of all Americas now i t ses
sion in Washington for the building of a
railroad from the United States to and
through the States of South America.
After a lively di cession the resolution w as
referred to the committee on resolutions.
The following resolution offered by Mr.
Jacks, of California, was received with
cheers and referred under the rules:
Whereas, Wall street and eastern
bondholders are uow actually at work
striving to elect a speaker for the ap
proaching congress, whose record is en
tirely opposed io silver interests; and,
Whereas, Representatives in congress
should be the servants of the people; and
Whereas, This great convention shows
the unanimity of public opiuion in south
ern and western states and teiritories in
favor of more coinage of silver; therefore,
be it resolved, That western and southern
representatives in congress be requested
to support so ne friend of silver for the
speakership of the present bouse of rep
resentative aid that their failure to do
so will be the betrayal of the people,
warranting their political death.
NEWSPAPER BURNED OUT
AND TWENTY PERSONS SUPPOSED TO HAVE
LOST TllEtll LIVES.
The Tribune office, at Minneapolis,
Minn., wss burred Saturday night, and
it is expected that from ten to twenty
people lost their lives. Shortly after 11
o’clock a portion of the wall on Fourth
street fell, ana a lumber of person-are
believed to have bei n buried underneath.
Eight men, more or less injurtd, were
taken out of the ruins. Those known to
be dead are Harry Colwell and —Me
Cutcteon, printers m tha Tribune office.
They were killed l.y jump eg. There
were nearly one hundred pet sons eta
ployed on the seventh 3<?or where the fire
broke out.
WASHINGTON, D. <J.
MOVEMENTS OF TEE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OP INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
FIFTY FIRST CONGRESS.
The house of representatives of the
flftv-first congress w.is cilled to order
one minute after noon on Monday by
John B. Clark, clerk of tbe house in the
fiftieth congress. Roll call riiowel3;7
members present. Nominat on < fos
speaker were called for. Townsen !, ol
Illinois, nominated Reed, and McCreary,
of Kentucky, nominated Carlisle. Tell
?rs were appointed, aud on a viva voce
vote Mr. Reed received the full vote ot
the republican members, and was de
clared speaker. There was little or n<
exc'tement attending the opening of th>
fifty-first congress on the senate side o
the capitol. Public curiosity se med o
be largely transferred to the house side.
There were two bdls ready lor intro
duction in the Senate, but no oppor.uni
ty occurred to present i hem. One ot
these was the bill opposed by Senato
Chandler at the opening of the fit tie h
congress, making a regulation prescrib
ing the times,places and manner of hold
ing elections for representatives in Con
gress of the Unitea States within certain
States, and the other. Senator Sherman's
bid, introduced in the Senate last Ja u
arv, ‘‘to make and alter the regulation
astothe times, places and m inner of
holding elections for leprcs. ntatives in
Congress.”
Capitol notes.
It is estimated at the treasury depart
ment that tin re has been a decrease of
$4,000,000 in the public debt since No
vimber Ist.
The secretary of treasury has decided
to reduce the number of national bank
depositories and the amount of public
monies kept therewith.
The attorney-general at Washington is
informed that the trial of the cuses of
alleged frauds in Florida, at the las;
presidential election,has already resulted
in three convictions.
P, D, Armour, before the dressed beef
committee, denied the existence of a
combination to raise prices. He claimed
(hat the herding of immense numbers ol
cattle on the government lands, and
rushing them half grown into marke
depressed prices.
The Secretary of State is engage 1 i
negotiations for an international copy
right treaty with France. Count De-
Keratry has been at Washington some
time as a special representative of the
French republic, and voices the views of
literary men of that nation.
Senator Vest’s committee, which h i
been investigating the dressed beef busi
ness of the country for some months,
having visited the centers of that bu-i
ness, in the course of their inquiry, dur
ing the recess of congress, has resumed
the extmiuation of witnesses in the roon
of the senate committee on commerce.
The first thanksgiving day of tbe new
administration was generally' celebrated
in Washington. The president carried
out the letter of his thanksgiving proc
lamation by attending services at ttn
Church of the Covenant in the morning.
In the evening he ate an old-fashioned
Thanksgiving dinner at t he white house,
surrounded by members of his family.
Colonel Ems’, of the at my, the new
commissioner of public buildings ami
grounds, was the only guest,
The monthly weather crop bulletin is
sued by tbe signal office says: ‘“The
most prominent meteorological feature
of the mouth was the storm which mov
ed from Texas uoi theastwnrd to the
lakes and thence to the maritime prov
inces between the 20th and 29th; it wa>
accompanied by rain aud snow in Mis
sissippi and the Missouri valleys on tin
26th and 27th, with rain in the lake re
gion and New England on the 27th,
turidng into snow in the lake region on
the 28th. Snow was reported as far south
as Tennessee on the 28th. Violent gales
prevailed in the lake region and on tht-
New England coast on the 27th and
28th. The cold wave following in the
rear of this storm caused frosts and
freezing weather as far south a north
ern Florida, the minimum !em| culture-,
of thirty degrees being reported from
Jacksonville and Mobile and a right
fro.-t from New Orleans.”
The Postmaster-Generai, Mr. Wana
maker, has snumi’tod his final annual
report to the president of the adminis
tration of the postal and pertinent for the
year ending June 30, 1889. What is
needed first, he says, is a fourth assist mt
postmaster general to be in charge of
the railway mail, the foreign mail, the
money order office, the registry and sup
plies divisions, and the d< ad letter o:-
fice. He propo-es that the country be
divided into twenty six postal dis rict
for prornoti ng efficiency of the service,
each district in charge of a supervisor.
With tegatd to free delivery, it is recom
mended that all places of a populatio:.
not less than 5,000, or with a gros<
yearly revenue of $7,000, shall have the
benefit of the system. The po-tmaster-
general believes that penny postage must
come, as a matter of course, adding,
however: If introduced to-morrow, the
cu ting in had of postage would reduce
the revenue on letter postage by, proba
bly, $15,000,000. We are not ready fot
this while the present deficiency exists.
Penny postage should not require a tax
in some other form to utake up its
cost. Numerous reforms throughout the
mail service are earnestly demanded.
For the year the revenue has been
$56,148,014.92; totil and estimated ex
penditures, $63,751,871.68; a deficiency
in revenue of $7,003,856.76. The gross
revenue estimited for the year ending
June 30, 1890, is $60,618,830.87; amount
of appropriations, $67,727,891.52 —an
estimated deficiency of revenue to be
supplied from the general treasury ol
$7,109,060.65.
The fish a:e ge ting so firmer-ns
n-cuud t!i 3 decks at Port Tampa, Fla.,
that they jump cut of the \> a>r and
land on the wkaives. A king-fsd
weighing seventeen pounds was cap
tured by Captain George Waixer £>
that way.
4 tvill pay you to advertise with us.
JEFFERSON DAVIB DYING.
TIIE confederacy’s cheiftain slowly
PASSING AWAY.
A special dispatch from New Orleans
under date of Friday, says: Mr. Jeffer
son Davis’ condition has again become
critical —more critical than it has been at
uny time since his present attack, and
even the members of his family admit,
lor the first time, that the situa
tion is very discouraging, but still
cling to the hope that Mr.
Davis's wonderful vitality and recuper
ative powers will pull him through. He
show.-, however, no disposition to recup
erate, and this is regarded as far more
serious th in the bronchitis and fever from
which he has suffered. Mr. Davis has
taken no food except beef tea, for
two weeks, and that in such
small quantities as barely to keep the
patient alive. He has felt no desire for
food, and has taken what was offered
him under protest. And thus, while he
has been better one day than another,
and then worse again, he has been grow
ing weaker all the time, and has de
pended largely on stimulants for
strength. The bronchitis is now regarded
as simply a local complaint, from which
there is little to fear, but the dread is
that the long sickuess from which Mr.
Davis lat been suffering, the lack of
nourishment aid the fevers which have
visited him Irotn timi to tinv, may
produce meningitis or paralysis.
Mr. Davis is at tbe residence of Justice
Femur, of the State Supreme Court at
New Orleans, and is attended by that
gemleman’s family, Mrs. Davis and lov
ing relatives and friends i.nd Drs.
Chaille and Zickbam, two of New Or
leans’ leading physicians. His daughter,
Jibs Winnie Davis, left two months ago
on a trip through Europe for her health,
accompanied by apaity of friends. She.
is believed to be now at Paris. The res
idence of Mr. Davis is at Beauvoir, be
tween Biloxi and Ocean Springs, Miss.,
a beautiful place on the gulf coast. While
in New Orleans Mr. Davis was taken sick,
first with bronchitis, then with pneu
monia aud fever added, which, with loss
of sleep, his eighty-one yeais and natur
ally feeble constitution threatened to
terminate his life, as his little remaining
strength was rapidly departing. A fav
orable change then came for a few days
with better nights rest and abseuce of
fever. But strength returned very slow
ly. Two days ago he had a relapse
accompanied by fever and the old sym
toms of sickness and loss of sleep.
This is his condition at present.
I.ATER.
There was no change up to Monday in
Mr. Jefferson Davis’s condition. He still
continues to refuse nourishment and
grows weaker from day to day. Under
the present conditions the next two or
three days will determine his fate. Dr.
Beckham, oi e of Mr. Davis’s phyriciaus,
does not think he will ever recover
from his present attack.
BOSTON'S BLAZE.
A HURRICANE OF FLAME DEVASTATING
BLOCKS OF HANDSOME BUILDINGS.
Fire started shortly before 8 o’clock
Thur-day morning on the upper floor of
the six-story granite block. Nos. 69 to
87 Bedford street, Boston, Mass., owned
by Jordon, Marsh & Cos., and occupied
by the Bhoe and Leather exchange,
Brown Darrell & Cos., Woonsocket
Rubber company, Solomon, Hebert
& Rapp, John S. Fogg & Cos.,
and the branch office of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company on the
ground floor, and about fifty offices of
out-of-town boot and shoe and leather
manufacturers on the upper floor. The
fire evidently had complete possession of
the upper floors before it was discovered.
In a short lime the flames had leaped
across Bedford. Kingston and Columbus
streets, arid by 9:15 the handsome brown
stone Ames building, on the opposite
coiner of Bedford and Kingston street i,
was amass of fire. An half hour later
the rear of all the buildings on Chauncey
stieet, on either side of Bedford street,
w ere on fire, and the fire deparlment w as
apparently unable to cope with it. Out
of-town fire appar.itus were sent for and
there were probably seventy-five steam
ers surrounding the fire by noon, and by
the combined efforts of the vast
army of firemen and
the fire was finally subdued.
In a three o’clock extra thu Olobe gives
ihe following e-timaie of the loss: h< ss
on buddings destroy and, as per assessor’s
valuation, about $600,000; estimated
damages to other buildings, not destroyed
$2b0,000. A cnrelul estimate of the lots
on merchandise, $1,700,000. Total loss,
cartful estimate of an old assessor,
$2,550,000.
IHK BOUSED DISTRICT
begins at Columbia street on the east and
extends two blocks westward, along Bed
ford street toChauncey street on the east.
On the south side of Bedford street
the tire consumed the entire block
bounded by Bedford, Kingston, Es
sex and Columbia streets. Westward
of this, the entire block bounded by
Bedford, Kingston and Uhauncey stieets
and the llowe place, and westward of
these buildings, on Chauncey street,from
Bedfoi to Exeter place. There are
about ) firms burned out and 100
agents New York and western firms
have tl i headquarters destroyed. The
seventy-nine insurance companies known
to be interested, carry an aggregate in
surance of $2,600,000 on the burned
propelty. The total loss, according to
the latest conservative estimates, will
reach $4,000,000. Two firemen—Daniel
Buckley, unmarried, and Frank P.
Loker, who has a wife and child, are
missing and are supposed to have per
ished io the flames. A good many peo
ple were injured, several of them se
riously.
IN TROUBLE.
Judgments with executions were en
tered at Philadelphia Monday mi>rning
in common pleas court against the firm of
Lewis S. Cox & Cos., rttail dry goods,
ladies’ suitings, etc., 1220 Chestnut
street, and Lewis S. Cox individually,
for $185,000 on a judgment note dated
December 2, 1889, payable on demand io
George Victor, of Sew York, trustee fyr
number of creditors.
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It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac
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Save SSO by use of one bottle. Warran
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bowels, and wind colic By giving
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WHY IS IT
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My motfior nas naa a cougn ror twen
ty years, pneumonia leaving her with a
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of a physician and taking medicine alt
the hours of the day. This continued
until a year ago when I saw' your adver
tisement of Acker’s English Remedy for
consumption and procured a bottle, as
the tickling in her throat was unremit
ting and so irritating as to make talking
impracticable. She was so much re
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and we now buy by the ease, sho never
being without it. Sho has no physician
and takes no other medicines. She re
marked lately that if she had not pro
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We have recommended it to others, who
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one desiring further particulars will ad
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Very respectfully,
D. W. Simmons, P. M.,
jan3l-ly Cave Spring. Ga.
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This remedy, after thirty years’ trial,
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After an active practice of thirty years
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tiad9 and the sales are positively mar
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sure you get the genuine. We keep itp
M. F. Word, druggist. may7-ly
I desire to state voluntar'ly ardfor the
benefit of the public, that, having bee*
troubled with a severe bronchial
calty and a terrible cough for the past
two years, so that at times I felt almost
discouraged and even despaired of get
ting better, I have, through the use of
Dr. Acker’s English Remedy for con
sumption, been entirely cured, and can
not say too much in its favor. Judging
from its effects upen me,l consider it the
greatest remedy in the world for all
throat, bronchial and lung troubles.
jan3l-lv G. G. Leake,
Ceda r town, Ga.
For sale by J. R. Wikle A Cos.
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The Atlanta Trust and Banking Com
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Bartow county farm lands, at 6 andß per
cent., with reasonable commission.
Apply to Dououar Wikle,
tf Attorney at Law.
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