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the courant-flmerican. 1.50 FEB ANM•M.-IX ADVANCK. RATES Of ADVERTISING. I Imo. ! Sum "ids | 1 ynae, 0... X •* ••“! •JSSI’RS ThwTn^h I .* 1 *OO I" 001 12 50| 20 00 Ha?f ‘olamn ’! 11 oo 20 00 40 00! *0 00 On* coinm. 15 | 35 00| 60 oo] 100 Ofl Looal DOttnes t-en cents |ier line for (tint inser 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. A GOOD COUGH STRUT. There is nothing poronts should be so careful about as selecting a cough syrup. Beggs’ Chory Cough syrup costs no more than the cheap and inferior nos trums thrown on the market. The best is none too good, be sure and get Beggs' Cherry Cough syrup. We keep it on hand at all times. M. F. Word, Drug gist. mav7-ly BUCKLEN’S ARNICA BALYE. The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains; corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi tively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac tion, or money refunded. Prioe 25 cents per box. For sale by J. R. WikloA Cos., druggists. mchl7-ly English Spavin Liniment removes all hard, soft or calloused lumps and blem ishes from lion es. Blood spavin, curbs, splints, sweeny, ring-bone, stifles, sprains, ail swollen throats, coughs, eta. Save SSO by use of one bottle. Warran ted. Sold by M. F. Word, druggist, Cartersville.” , novl-ly ADVICE TO MOTHERS. Mrs. W’inslow’s Soothing Syrup, for children teething, is the prescription of one of the best female nurses and physicians in the United States, and has been used for forty years with never failing success by millions of mothers for their children. During the process of teething, its value is incalculable. It relieves the child from pain, cures dys entery and dyarrhcea, griping in the bowels, and wind colic By giving hoalth to the child it rests the mother. Price 25c. a bottle. auglfl-ly WHY IS IT That people linger along always com plaining about that continued tired feel-* ing? One bottle of Beggs’ Blood PurD tier and Blood Maker will entirely re move this feeling, give them a good ap petite and regulate digestion. For sale by M. F. Word. may7-ly My motfior nas naa a cougn ror twen ty years, pneumonia leaving her with a bronchial troublo. Two years ago, her lungs becoming involved, she became very much emaciated and lost all strength, being under regular treatment 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 lieved that another bottle was procured 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 curedit when shedid sho would be dead. We have recommended it to others, who always receive benefit from it. If any one desiring further particulars will ad dress mo with a stamp I will answer with pleasure, as I deem it the best medicine made. A trial only is neces sary to convince any one of its merits. Very respectfully, D. W. Simmons, P. M., jan3l-ly Cave Spring. Ga. For sale by J. R. Wikle <fc Cos. WHAT A FORTUNE Is a good healthy,pearly skin. Few are aware of the short time it takes for a disordered liver to cause blotches on the face, and a dark greasy skin. Ono bottle of Beggs’ Blood Purifier and Blood Ma ker will restore tlio organ to its natural and healthy state, and cleanse the blood of all impurities'. It is meeting with wonderful success. We guarantee every bottle. M. P, Word, druggist. mch7-ly CHILDBIRTH MADE EASY By a wonderfil medicine offered by us. This remedy, after thirty years’ trial, proves to be the panacea for woman’s sufferings. After an active practice of thirty years Madam Chavel’e began the use of this remedy, which sho calls Legacy to suf fering woman. Jt gives tone and vigor to the muscles enfeebled by long con tinued distention, and rei ie ves the gnaw ing, grinding pains always experienced by pregnant women, and when the hour of confinement arrives, the parts having been previously put in good condition by the use of this Legacy, the labor is of short durations, the pains neither so se vere nor so prostrating as usual, the womb is held in its proper position, which could not have existed without its use. Price SI.OO. feb2s-ly BEGGS’ CHKKItV COUGH SYRUP Is giving s; lendid satisfaction to the tiad9 and the sales are positively mar velous, which can be accounted for in no other way except that It is without doubt tho best on the market. Ask for and be 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. CHEAP MONEY. The Atlanta Trust and Banking Com pany' is prepared to negotiate loans oa Bartow county farm lands, at 6 andß per cent., with reasonable commission. Apply to Dououar Wikle, tf Attorney at Law. Prof. Loisette’s MEMORY DISCOVERY AND TRAINING METHOD the KtWbest misrepresentations by comp, .itors, and inapnaof Lan-aaajapUtarob iua of the fruit of his labors, (all of which demonrtrstetto undoubted etmerioritj and popularity of in 8 Machine), Prof.Yolaette'a Art of Never Forg-ttin* la to-day in both Hagispherea aa nuttoagjz iSpt’Vhj? Memory Culture. His Prospectus(tent poet free).tree opinions of peoela in all parte of the srlobji who hareact. naliy studied bis System by correspondence, showing that hip System is , an/v tcAt 6 %cing studied, not afttrhZ.i-ct: that any ioou can le Uurwdin. a mvtri/s rvaSnep, mtn&uattderiw cured, <tc. For Prospect lU, ftovg)-3m.