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The Democrat. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CLEM. C. MOORE. CRAWFOJiDVILLE, GEORGIA En'-red at the posto flics at Crswfordville, Oeoj-g.a, as second-class mail matter. f Tha British East African Company has taken steps to regulate elephant hunting In its domains, in order that the species may not be exterminated by hunters who shoot tho big beasts for ■port. Tho Now York Telegram de¬ clares that if tho United States had taken such steps in regard to tho buf¬ falo 10 or 20 years ago, that animal would not now be so nearly extinct. The old war-v<jfscl Hearsarge, that sunk tho private# Alabama oil Cher¬ bourg, France, on Juno 19th, 1804, will not bo broken up, as was first intended. It was roported that she could not bo repaired within tho statutory limit of cost to ] ut a woodon vessel in condi¬ tion for service, It has boon found, however, that the engines built for tho Nantaskct can be put ia for less than tho cost of repairs of tho Kearsarge's engines, and this will ho dono. Kho is now at (lie Portsmouth (N. H.) Navy yard. ♦ It is sni 1 that 1 000 , 000 persona aro now studying Volapuk. .Journals de¬ voted to tho propagation of tho “uni¬ versal language'’ are printed in all parts of Europe, some in America, and ono in Japan, edited by a Hollander, Tho latost addition to tho list is tho Van Kim Tung Him, published in China by a Chinese. This is a journalistic curi¬ osity. It consists of thirty pages, many of which nro specimen pages of a Chi¬ nese Volapuk lexicon, which is in tho courao of preparation, and which will coatain 10,000 words. Says a 8t. Lmis undertaker: “Tho daily death list in tho newspnpurs is consulted hy inoro pcoplo than thoso who have an idlo curiosity to know who is dead. During a camfaign candi¬ dates for office aro anxious to attond funoral* that aro iiablo to congregato mon of influence. A certain class of lawyers aro on tho lookout for damago suits. Tombstono doalors tako notes with a view to business tha futuro. Insurance agents mnke a memorandum to call upon tho surviving relatives in due time. Tho keeper* of tho boor **»’*.«• gaOsJo their orders according to tha outlook for tho day. Tho class who want free carriage ride* acan tho column atten¬ tively." Thoro was an oxcollcnt reason, it ap¬ pears to tho Now York Sun, for tho pluck and stubborn courago with which tho robolllous Berbers recently faced tho soldiers of tho Sultan of Morocco. Whon in bsttto array a lino of women atood behind tho tllo of warriors. Each woman was equipped with a paint brush and a pot of honna, tho plant in which all Oriental ladies dolight if thoy are addicted to pink finger nails, It wss tho purposo of thoso dauntloss fe¬ males to adorn with henna tho breast of •very man who turned his back to tho enemy and thus artistically blazon tho fact of his cowardice. No wonder tho Berbers fought like fury if they coqld not turn around without greatly in¬ creasing tho numbor of their eitomios. Avery entertaining old toad has been called up to euliveu the British public, lie was found some scores of yards un¬ der the earth's surface, embedded in clay. His limbs were perfectly limp, and he was stone blind, Tho local savants could not guess Us ago accurate¬ ly, but r ckoned it somewhere between 20,000 and 00,000 years. This toad was tired of living in the days before Adam got tired of living alone in li ion, and it is just possible ho heard the rain come down during the flood, Uofor tunntely other scientific men vow in tho London Times that the poor toad must have fallen down some crack in tho clay soil during a dry season, and be¬ come embedded when the rain caused tha toil to swell, But scientific men always take a delight In spoiling the stories of rival men of science. An Infant's Remarkable Luck. Officer Ymous, who patrols tho dis¬ trict west of the 1'oion Pacific shops, is an expert catcher, Yesterday aftcr soon, while pacing up Chicago street, near Twelfth, hi* attention was called to a volume of smoko pouring out tho upper window of 1217, and he started for the nearest signal Ik X As he was passing the bui.dmg ho sa something whit? come out of the 2 CP! storv window, and instinctive >• out his hands to catch it. lie s 5 ceded. It was a little two-month, i bv Its father, L. C Pcttifor had returned home, tided the gasoline stove tank, touched a match to the turner, when, ’ presto change, the stove exploded. His wife was frightened out of her wits, and caught up the baby and tired it irom tho window.— k Oainhs Herald. THE DEMOCRAT, GEORGIA. OUR POSTAL BUSINESS. ASM'A L COST OF Till: VSJTLD ST I TF.S COSTAL SERVICE. Thrv* Tlionennd Million I’icccs Moiled j«a*t Y>nr» The annual report of the Third Assistant Postman ter-treueral of the United Staten Postal . _ Her shows that the total cost of . the , vice for the last fiscal yerr, inclusive of amount earned by the subsidized railroad companies for mail transportation was *58,- 120,004. The postal and money order re ceipts amounted to *52, *19*5,176, leav ing a deficiency of $5,430,823. mainly, it ' This deficiency is owing is said, to the great extension of the free de livery service under a modification or the old law and the increase of the railway mail transportation. considerably The special delivery system the has grown since report of the previous y<u»r. matter "S . h “ Bll *!L" ^of /ear "registered transnOtte i .ium.g the was 13, »i77 PHI of special delivery matter thenumber Of piece, transmitted was 1,424,4.0 The total number of articles of the variouskimls of stamped paper emitted was 2,700,637,170, given, representing $50.630,331. Statistics are showing that m the cheapness of postage, the number <>f Post Offices, extent of mail routes, miles of service performed, postal revenue a n l postal expenditure, and number of letters and other pieces of mail matter transmitted in the mails the United State s is tmw conspicuously ahead of every ottwrna tion in the world. The siatistics of letteis, ete. transi.rtte I during the year whu'u are the follows 19.800,000 Jsstlers mailed.................1,5 372, ~0 *,000 Postal cards maileil............. Newspni limited...... iers and periodicals ......1,063,100,000 Pieces of third and fourth class matter...... ....... 372,900,000 Total______ ******** ‘ o ’ ooo *. ooo ant. refommtmdntionn That in some of the larger cities the pneumatic tulm or some equival nt uudergroun I system of transporting the mail*!* adopted; that, the present contract for letter-sheet envelopes bo' rescinded that nil postage stamps, stamped envelopes, and Other intuit b« stamped inufit'-tured paper issued by tho by Bureau the depart- of hn m graving and Printing; .that, as a substitute for the franking privilege, members of Congress have au annual allowance of money for the purchase of postage Htamps with which to pay post age on mieerbes and other official matter sent by mad,and that if the rate of (“'stage on let ™’d hrCongr^ n tCre a - S bS two classes of mail nil matter recognized, namely, letters and other matter now ronipro bended in the third and fourth classes, poe tagn on which shall be uniform at one cent for every two ounces, and newspapers and l“•ri(“lienls at the rate now fixed—ou 1 cent a pound. NEWbY GLEANINGS BUICIDE Is increasing in England. The Ixiuiaiana rice crop will be short The Constitution of Hervia is to be re vis«l There are 14,000,000 voters In the 11 “ ’ fin$K M T has 427 miles of street One of the Burgess yachts has won a race in Japan. Thk visible supply of oat« Is notably tho Tyr.'SS.e. of Paris clean. nnnum a M .... streets A canal will soon bo cut between the Black and Caspian Seas. W 01 ves are doing great damage * to the Ut. .fnch m Northern Montana T,„ "I Ml-oun “ .« »nl, a" 01 „,l,ml.of rov.l l.lmth.A W be sweeping all over Europe jus now. F.M IITEEN vessels hailing from Gloucester, Ma.-s , have been lost during the year. Nearly twenty thousand men have boon naturalized in New York City this yea.". Leprosy is said to have been transmitted te the Indians of British Columbia by tho Chinese. The area sown to winter wheat Middle and Western States is fully equal to last year. MontaNa’s population is estimated by the ., , nf , in nf u\i\Lu ' over last year. , T,u City of Louisville w.thin Ky Ae has purchased ti,. a pavk Of 300 acres miles of c it> HhI or s . The British Government will shortly s-k Parliament for $17000,000 for tlie purpose ol increasing the na>). I An American syndicate is forming in build- St. Petersburg. ita«m. for the purpose of ing railroads in Sil era. Mrs Hannah Starkey, of Youngstown, Ohio, aged Hi. has just died__She was born in County Cork. Ireland, in im. Over t«ohundred an l fifty gold and silver tu if- havo t o-’u toaMuiV'l Uu.»iv tu the de pnrtiuent of Ant oquU, Colombia. The exports of Chili for the first seven months of this vear were 87.0,1,1.ii.Hi in excess of those for the same period ia 1887. The German mUitarv budget contains an it Mn of yll Iiu for the biwi in.:, trainin'; »uui mamteti.inco of carrier pigt*ona It is estimated that the sum of C-> Hto.f A )1 i , •Lad 111 , bv e c T oil liets in New York LOVEKMUIS. w , lilt .. Of Mv« a ashng, T.,r, 1. i r - U. haasuoceeaed , , Professor_Nat v sf.kr mex " St Uodthaab wiUi hisfour .Norwegian The dismissal of Mr. Dronv. the American mnndtHi t - ^ - Shanghai, . POSTAL REPORTS. tUuua-ter The annual report of the Seooud A-si-tant Sows General ,f »h United States thad the mail servioe is in operation on near v 25 000 routea, covering nearly’■ *'.ikkl ' rel, TV- ext-en-.- 1 for the v«nr were i , C . . . , han < d , 1,0 ,\er ,h< l ..na vi -c The evi' ii-i-s for ,: \?„rT„^ooifa,uths-' he'sivei';- > He ,w“s 'n attention to the fa,t tha h, aaje,U » - *' 1 ^ them repaid wppp .i ■ lug' r '‘l vu H re ix>m menus the , ^Lutehment establisnuient of ot a a renairshop rejwu u, P h©re. lbo7."r7 77'7 T>- "C-* o'r7t. f £r» t of eight pw ft n. iL 11- r» "Tnemts v>'-| an.itekise to‘$l.M lW orders. as the man mum for international money MEWS SUMMAEJV. Eastern mid Middle Slaires. jdaaa., I Frank Turner, of Westfield, vbo was confined in the Springfield jail I awaking cide trial m on his a charge cell by of hanging. perjury, ebuiojiittedfeai- { ’ « Bv the falling of a mason's scaffol he Weed building at 8 tamford,Conn., ft. en were thrown to the ground, two being ‘I ad and three others severely injured. Fire in a paper house on the Five P<| s, Aew . York City, destroyed , property y» d at $300,000, and seven men were f 1 while escaping from the burning stp r The anarchists of New York,* 1 * and other cities observed the first * of the hanging their brethren at A '-ry of mgo tor causing the Haymarket riots, “laM itii la, perished in their burning dwellit er* non thirty-five Center, N. Y. Knorr *as -‘D unknown. years old. The origin! re is Boopi.br Jafhne, of New Yi *■ .ist fi niiih his term jn Hing. Thep e Court of the Cnited States has if , decisionon his application for decfriV a f habeas corpus, in which the Court for the Southern District </ N u affirmed. Aster traveling abroad for * Chi'ago, Ml has '- Carter returned HarH«w. toNewYoij e*-lj he steamship Alaska, Mrs. Sarah J. Robinsot, who to have been banged at Boston for the ; d " r of her brother, has had her sentenr im muted to imprisonment for life, i George Cooper, of Portland. Corn ur _ dered his wife as she lay asleep in her t Che crime was committed with an axe, the Sift being struck three fearful blows G tlw j head, Hf;N . IlY Betzkb> a German resir sui^ a {. Mlddl town ’Despondency Conn., committed l,y 1 hootj following «ro A Eire m Watsons marine stores, at lyn, do.Jars. caused a loss of over a quarter o: km South and West. i Allot *t 160 miners were at work in it 16 near Pittsburg, Kansas, when an exp. ,n occurred. All but two miners were 1 ! below the surface, and the enfcomW ab roS,s <’ llt $- 1,0111 in bullion r and % F.iiward Hall, one of the striking . ^ n gineers, was shot and instantly kit; at Creston, Iowa, by one of tho new eng- ra | named Charles Huston. The Jasper freight train crushed ti -■ B treH tlo at Birmingham, Ala, and * j tramrw who were stealing a ride, were Garble r~ | w a HvhumaKKR, Postmaster at citi/Jn | «... , v nrorniupnt vijly , whs shot mid killcsl by bis wife, who is self-ile- , .eventoen yean J oM. She did it in j - * . iui in the business pa rtW /.sa j randon \vis were burned causing a A numbk.u of disasters are reported which ast be -ho result of a heavy snow storm, twenty-i r-j : in the West and continued about hours. The storm Missouri raged furiously and Coioro throng U: ; Northern Kan-as, 1 impeding railway travel and interrupting communication. Capital News of has the lieeri Chickasaw received from Nation, Tishomingo, that G®v ernor Guy has been assassinated. PETER Howe, senior member of the bank ing firm of Howe & Son ml his wife, former aged seventy-te ' ter sixty nine, who li fre business ' h&jfb* lv m Three Morm .11 elders vho were pros mg in Marion County, Ala, were ^ m/itarred and'faatherol 1 The MoS mons tiezged for their lives and promised to leave at once, never to return. », JH^^SSSTi.’Z husband 1£SSSZ it mangled body of bar as wis drawn up from the wrecked mine ft Fronteuac, Kan. She was taken home 1 lu ‘ r children. Til* bodies of Eula Jones, a ehembernian, w'",",1:7 T«n-.v*h bltri,-L Five hundred acres of corn along tie Ohio river below Evansville, hid., are sut merged and the crop destroyed, owmg to recent heavy rains. Unknown men exploded dynamite under the Court House at Henrietta, Texas, and t was destroyed. - Washington. The report of Adjutant General Drue shows the entire force of the anny to bo 2,, non men. tht* The country well equipped, has increased wgant*^ froti militia of 1*N5. He to 1 UT. 0 .K) men since recon V»Us,nxe.xt oST&nWtW live to three from years, rkoi kst has been mad© by this Gov to Canada and Mexico borders to prevent chim . s „ froril cross i„g tneir into the United States. nwai party under charge of Lieutea \- orr j a „ill start on a scientific trip de term/ltdoiigilude tliromsi Mexico and Central America to ' by telegraph. . ., n t |> res ident and Mrs. Clevs' i.,., i „.oi ... ,c e Huur future home ia Wash* nill , ,1 <, lt •'inuiviB,' I'ldivt liable application for a writ of habeas rornus in the ease of David S. Terry of Cali w ]„, was convi -ted of contempt of , he and his court f„i .. \ iz’-iu - ens in which wife. Sarah Althea IM! Sharon toUi attak^t the officei*s of the court Thk The report report of of Commissioner Harmony, Chief Chief of of United United States Stale- Yards Yards and and Docks. Docks, shows that $ 12 t, 553 .s 5 ) was exjieiidiHl last last year. The The Naval Naval Asylum Asylum at at Uhiladeiphia Philadelphia tNwt cost ^ $60,(WO $GV ntflast last year, vear, and and the the estimated estimated coat cost Lie.sUwwi-ii.*«w next year a is jg placed at at #80,000. He recom J£SS52TZ,'ytKrS!S£5iS work all the United States fusion of at navy yards. The United States Treasury Department ^^ani' 'InM punawv'musT f»v a‘dutv^ ' twenty five per cent. - Foreign. sLuiftn vXli'^ckXIhe k tewn o? W^iln wt of Darfoor The threeSou- garrison re L killed ** '■ a, u.hd,<ts r-wtracke.1 andean , The The 8 Su.tan U tan of of AYadai AA adai fled neu ^ A house collajcvlon Titchfield street.Lon don. causing the death of six persons and the injury of twenty. London is again thrown into a terrible stale of excitement bv the AYhitechape! fiend who has murdered a woman named lizzie Flshw ^ maklBK tho n nth Tirtim c f his niania for V'utcherv. Unlike the committed previous atrocities, this ,wfui crime was within a building. ' The mutilation of the vic#m { rig htful than in the case of " l h ti.“'. „'" , .''i i ! r jsas^S An l , 51 . -» Tur s . , t JSS _ . -wateons and exciteu ent. £SS? f*S” IS" 'rZ SIS were drowned off the Merecomba The steamer Akai.a was wreaked off Yarnionth and seven lives lost. Two ship's boats marked Glasgow and seven bodies came ashore off the Cornish coast As attempt has been made to assassinate prince Ferdinand, the ruler of Bulgaria. The heavy rains of the past few days have ca sod floods in many distri ts of England. Lord Randolph Churchill has arraigns*! of ‘he Fszlish Government m the House "o* mons for scandals connected with the judiciary. German* guards on the eastern frontier ' -ween France and Germany have shot i.ree French sportsmen, killing one of * Rem. The Navy Department has ordered all *ork on the Saratoga at the Port-mouth ,\'avy Yard suspended, and, also, as far as [c ,s-’Lie, on the Portsmouth. The Saratoga ill be given to the State of Penusylvan— as a training ship. In consequence of the severe criticism of the police on their inability to capture the perpetrator of the Whitechapel atrocities, Sir Charles Warren, Chief of the Metropolitan resig police of London, has resigned, and h s nation has been accepted. A .niece of the dowager Empress has been chosen as consort for the Emperor of China. Captain T. H. Logan, commanding the United States troops at Fort Hancock, on the Rio Grande, some seventy miles below El Paso, Texas, has been arrested and thrown into prison by Mexican gendarmes who caught him while on a hunting expedition in Mexico. Many children perished in a fire which de stroyed a large amount of property in the vicinity of Viletta, Colombia. Conplaint has been made recently con rerning the condition of the St. Ambrose (Canada) city reservoir water. The authori ties emptied the water to discover th>- cause, and found the remains of eleven infants at the bottom of the tank. Political riots have occurred in Spain. Rioters assailed the carriage of Senor ( ano vas, the conservative leader, in Madrid, and injured his wi»e. * LABOR NOTES. The building season is over in most of the northern cities. Eighty-eight out of every hundred cigar makers in California are Chinamen. s-? A fine is assessed against all Chicago fore men who pay the wages of employes in sa loons °. f the country will hold „ NationaTunion * ' Menden ) ’ Conn ’’ to form * _ ., . ... , Chicago will soon have a new bottle fac' jSC of'handa ^ 0 a " d em P loyfa * a larg ® liUmDer ot Rands, The first annual convention of boiler in specters 1 and stationary engineers has just been held in Pittsburg. There is a growing tendency in all labor unions to formulate some regulation which for apprentices. The organized brass wooers of the United States anil Canada have adopted a resolution in favor or the eight-hour rule. T he total number of persons employed in rtvo-thirds .ookbinding in Philadelphia aggregates 2350, of whom are women. The labor societies of Pittsburg have raised over $2500 for the monumeut to be erected in memory of Thomas Armstrong, a noted labor leader. A new organization in labor is the Brother ,iood of Machinery Molders,recently started in Philadelphia. the There are now four b; ranches j order, - - 1 ^.» w - - sums ,.::^rbr white children. The Brotherhood of locomotive Engineers . Col.° October X !° OV Denver, 17 , lS 8 The grand officers were re-elected. Carpenters complain that they have been £?S5 no hope of finding work there. Eau Claire. Wis., has a co-operative dividend of store that recently declared a The iron furnaces of Ensley, Ala., a small town near Birmingham, are now said to be held at Indianapolis,was Secretary Delwarte of the Universal Federation of Glass-Work- 6 rs. Non-union carpenters are referred to in Denver as “bush-whackers,” in Pittsburg as Judy “jay.hawkers,” showHuen,” in Texas in California as “Punch-and- “travel and as ing chips. Montreal, Canada, has thirty boot and all shoe factories. Four thousand persons, over fourteen years of age, are meniand employed. \V ages average * 12 a week for $« for women. The female compodtors of Topeka, Kan., They ’ have alsf edabi,shed un^er the auspices Printer of the club, a magaziue entitled the Girl. The Grand Jury in Buffalo, N.Y\, indicted the Buffalo Street Kaitroad Company and tho East Side ltadroaii Company for viola tion of the law making it a misdemeanor to : exact from an employe more than ten hours’ labor in twelve consecutive hours. The Furniture Workers' International Union was organized in July, 1875, with nine local unions, having a total memb-rship H ) *- >ow the number of local unions has increased to twenty six and tha member ship to over five th >usmd in good stand lw 8 Mn- H sines, the iaiy agent of tho Maine labor bure m. is now engage.! in examining j into ^ th© j condition loljster of the working women establish- in mente le f an of in< the-eaboard ‘ an ‘ canning cities of the east She " ll a, ”° ' rislt the great factories on a like . mnsma.______ ' AN . w AWFUL ■ xin?TTT car SMASH. a cu — SI* Men Kilim V* Stupid mans Krror. a most disastrous wreck has occurred at Valley Falls, AA*. A’a., on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. A heavy freight tram had been sidetracked to let the Ughtnmg express from New Yoi*k to Chicago pa>s. but bv the mistake of an inexperienced brake hour temake Tfor'’losf collided time with dashel the s.and into the o|x*n switch and train. On the engine of the freight train pull wwexoe when engineer ^ and firemen, reatiy to ottt j a minute. fifteen car. and^immense engines were p. 1^1 up m a Six men «ere instantly killed and their bodies homblv mangled.' They were: Engi neer FMw ani De Were, of Wheeling: Engi neer William Clinton, of Wheeling: a po*tai cierk. two tramps, unknown, and "“*m found unrecognizable; John Shay, a nre man. and a brakeman named Jones, was terribly cut about tbehead and lace. The passenger train was a full ves’i buled one. but no pnsseng-rs were kilei. though and every one of them was bally shaken up ssj-^sy^.-Ts.Ta'ss ’"t—St. fppicht oar. onom.* ..O', * married. His head was cut off as though ^by.kmfe The lo^ to the company was JUAl.iAAi. LATEST NEWS. In the Vermont House of Representatives the bill granting to women the right of suf¬ frage was defeated by a vote of 192 to 35. Assistant Factory Inspector Franey, after investigating the fire in the Rochester (X _ T ) Steara Gauge W orks. where fort J Persons , lost fc their , . lives, reports that the fire ©scapes were not sufficient for the purpose and he hints that the company waa evading the law in employing women and boy 3 more than the ten hours spacified by law Charles Johnson, who killed a prison keeper while attempting to escape in Janu ary, 1887, has been hanged at Waterloo ’ N. Y John Keisep., a wealthy shoe merchant ol Pittsburg, shot himself through the heart. The cause of his suicide is unknown. Stephen Anthony has been murderel by his son-in-law, Solon Jenkins. Anthony re¬ fused to let Jenkins see his wife and children. Peter Shively, of Tordstown, Ohio, who is seventy-eight years old, deliberately killed his aged wife. The couple had been married for sixty years and had al ways lived paace ably. Mrs. Shively was eighty-three years old. Members of the murderous gang known as Bald Knobbers have lynched five men at Ozark, Mo., who as witnesses were instru¬ mental in having David Walker, the Bald Knobbers’ chief sentenced to be hung. Official returns from all but fifteen counties place the Republican plurality in Kansas at 82,000, making it the banner Re¬ publican State of the Union. A West Virginia construction train, car¬ rying seventy men, was wrecked by a drove of cattle rushing on the track. Nine men were seriously injured and one killed out¬ right. Fritz Anschlag, who was to have been executed at Los Angeles Cal., for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock at Garden Grove in January last, and who also confessed to the killing of JuliU3 Feugh, a neighbor in Butte county, in 1885, committed suicide two days before the execution by taking strych¬ nine. The new Swiss Minister, Alfred de Clap arede, has been presented to the President by Secretary Bayard. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, member of the British Parliament, and Miss Endicott, daughter of the United States Secretary of War, have been married in St. John’s Church, Washington, in the presence of a large and fashionable assembly,including the President and Mrs. Cleveland, and most of the members of the Cabinet and their families. An order has been issued from the War De¬ partment relieving General Schofield, at his own request,of the command of the Division the Atlantic, and appointing thereto Major-General Howard, now in California in of the Division of the Pacific. Genera Howard is the officer next in rank to Schofield,and will assume command Governor’s Island, New York, Thk p renc i, small arms factory at Chatell ^ Ul $ 200 , 000 . r Frene h Government has decided to send the captured ex-King of Annam to Algeria in perpetual exile. D Maximilian w,.»7p.pl«r of Bavaria who was . 1 * 1 ." . .go, I, dead. He was eighty years of age. The twenty-fifth anniversary of King p^rist'an's accession to the throne of Den much popular rejoicin,. FTfteen workmen in the Noyant quarries -,«-«» n~S •»— W Thk house ot Mrs. Frank Kneeht, ot ryilkesbarre 1 Penn., was burned while she ’ went out . , to get some mUfc n ilk Un On her ner return return tho woman saw her two c i < ren a in the flames and burn to death. a™ ^ General Assembly J of the Knights of Labor na ^ *» ita nua , session at In iianapolis, Ind. Reports were a read a snowing hn®in. * vast decline in the membership of the Or der 1 a3 well ^ an almost empty treasury. The Chickasaw Indians are on the . nointof pomeoi in inter-tribal war to determine who shall be GoVenK>r ° f the recently Nat f assassinated. P Iace f ?°' e ™ r Guy, who was Miss Belle Bridewell, a teacher in a ' . . w!!Tbv . , li-wh^Tshe to bullv StempS kicked m t ie 1 7 a to punish, that she died in a few minutes. Judge Wood ’ in Indianapolis, Ind., drew the attention . of the „ Fed , . , g , J f - reported conspiracy to influence voters on a large scale by the us> of money, and recom men dedan investigation. i — $10,000, shipped „ . to A PACKAGE containing Tacoma, AVashington Territory, by the Northern Pacific Express Company, has stolen bv one of the clerks, who has UC aed - ^ President Cleveland made the follow >“K appointment*: H Howard Ellis, of New Je^y, to to L m . W Sta^ Cons Con-nl J at at Rote Pot terdam, and Charles B. Trail, of Maryland, \ isssr Secretary of theUnited States Legat.on Illr s „ tt D , plrt „ n , bgen informed 0 f t t ie passage of a lxw by Ecuador allowing foreign vessels to enter t heir coasting trade. Thirty miners were killed by an explosion af fire damt) at DoU r. Belgium. The mysteno white Pacha in the Bahr .on-lit a tagal have overflowed their tonks flowing the surrounding country and doing exten ilTt . damage » . Douglas Pyxe, a note! and aggressive ^ of the Brltis h Parliammt, feU and drowned while saUing t «een Holvheai and Dublin. a chess match has been arranged between gteinitz, the champion of the world, and Tschigorin. the famous Kussian chammon. ** Winner of most of thirty games will get the 8tak ^ of f „ , w a si de. bes.d-s a special prize. The match is to be held in Havana, under the auspices of the club of that c j tT ^ginning 6 in the second week in next ' January ^sgjss«gjyrase h. m«d, bis firt, ap “ assisting Mr Hedges, ^ Tibborts has been agent o£ the Associate Ire* in Indian anolin PROMINENT PEOPLE. Bismarck is racked by gout Count Tolstoi is a clever mechanic Queen- Victoria is said to be suffering from gout. Judge Allen G. Thurman is seventy five years old. Lord Tennyson is said to suffer severely from the gout General Boulanger is quoted as saying that rest fatigues him. Jesse Grant is in the City of Mexico, where he has mining interests. Miss Julia Rhinelander possesses $30, 000,000 in New York real estate. RuskTN.'the art critic, is on a visit toVenice, the first he has made in twelve years. The condition of the mad millionaire, Robert Garrett, has improved very much. General and Mrs. Schofield have taken apartments in Washington for the winter. Lord Sackville will will soon visit Lord Stanley, the Governor General of Canada. The Earl of Lucan, who commanded the famous charge of tho Light Brigade at Bala klava, is dead. The Rev. Dr. William H. Scott, President¬ elect Harrison’s father-in-law, is a clerk in the Pension Office at Washington. The Prince of Wales has lost his skill as a marksman. He smokes ten cigars a day and many cigarettes, to the detriment of his nerves. Governor Blake, of Newfoundland, has been appointed Governor General of Queens¬ land, with a salary of $25,000 and enormous emoluments. Colonel John Hat, author of the Life of land Lincoln, Lake has purchased several acres of at Sunapee, N. H., where he will build a summer residence. Dr. David Hostetter, of Pittsburgh, who died a few days ago, left a fortune of from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000. His life insurance alone amounts to more than a third of a million. M rs.’Hap.rison, wife of the President-elect, is said to be an enthusiastic and successful china painter. She has her own kiln for fir¬ ing herself. her china and attends to all the details of it Mrs. Morton, wife of the Vice-President¬ elect, says she has done nothing but keep house and raise a family since she has been married, and that her life fulfills her idea of complete happiness. Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson, who pre¬ sided over the domestic affairs of the AV hite House during Buchanan’s administration, has taken possession of a house in Washing¬ ton and will spend the winter there. Mrs. Grover Cleveland is very fond of animals. Among her pets, besides many dogs of ail sizes and degree, color and de¬ scent, she has an Alderney ponies,"a cow, a Maltese cat, a pair of sorrel bird, a rabbit, and a fawn. Mrs. Humphrey Ward, author of “Rob¬ ert brother, Elsmere,” was born in Australia. Her Zealand. Theodore, Her is a schoolmaster in New sister was married a few years ago to Leonard Huxley, son of Pro¬ fessor Huxley. Thomas a. Edison still works as hard and as ginning industriously his as though he was just be¬ career, and any day he may be found at his bench at his shop in Orange, N. J., hard at work in his shirt sleeves, making with his own hands models he considers too delicate to trust to another. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, who has just married Miss Endicott, has an income of $150,000 He from his factories in Birmingham. has an elegant house in a fashionable part greenhouses of London, besides a mansion and fine years old, but at looks Birmingham. if he He is fifty than as were not more forty. -^SIC AL AND DRAMATIC San winter circus. The title of Augustin Daly’s new play is “The Undercurrent.” It is estimated that there are 60,009 ama¬ teur actors in America. A’erdt. the composer, has just entered his seventy-fiftf year in health and wealth. Richard Mansfield will play “Richard III.” before his London engagement ends. An effort is being made to bring Charles Gounod and Camille St.-Saens to this coun¬ try. Mr. H. C. Miner is in Europe, trying to arrange for the production of “Paul Kauvar” in London. Mrss Mary Anderson has opened her sea¬ son in New Y ork, at Palmer’s Theatre, in “A Winter s Tale.” William Crane, it is said, sold his inter est in “The Henrietta ’to Stuart Robson at 0maha recentiy _ Signor Leonhardt Sabatt, the new tenor of the Clara Louise Kellogg Opera Company, is a Swede by birth, A. M. Morini, of Paris, has invented a contrivance enabling children to use the pe dals of the piano forte. Louis James and Marie Wainwright have been winning extravagant praise from Cali fornia criticsand public. ac ^ wffipfo?u^HenryletMtff^HaX s£a” TT . Across London. the at the Royal Princess’s The atre, Sir Arthur Sullivan says the familiar son S’ The Lest Chord, realized little short fi f'HSZf E2— ' ^, Mmk. M Cottrell . having ithilde f is a. successful season in San Francisco, 'where she is playing in German comedy at the Baldwin lheatre. Theatrical competition is severe in San Francisco. One of the theatres there gives * g.^j e L f ° r -*-^g?Lg rtr * lt *° each pUr * cnaser or a reserxeu sea*. Arlie Latham, who plays circus the St. on Louis third base during the summer with Browns, is now an actor. He appears in tho falxe comedy ’ l ' ashlons - Marie Louise Paine, the young American pianist now in Venice, delights tha Venetian swells b}* picking a bvinjo w hile sailing in her gondola on trie Gran J Canal. Signor Perugini, the tenor, has signed with the Clara Louisa Kellogg Opera Com pany for a senes of special representations of • Faust,” “Carmen” and “Martha” a™ JS'Zf.SS', Europe the S, instead. “i will go to in spring Paris is excited over the announcement that Patti is to create the roll of Juliette at the GroSd°0^“ orchestra. GoS °hi^ir^iUrol!duct Ax old-time friend of the late Lester Wal lack thinks that there is a sort of grim pro Eugen IA Blair is to wed Robert Down ing, the athletic tragedian, of whose com P? n -V Blair ** * formerly the 1 -nimgjuvenUe wife Forrest Miss was of Robinson, one of the MadisonSqnare'slead- ^ ing men, Her Grief Too New. Servant (to widow recently bereaved) —“There’s an old clothes man at the door, mum, who wants to know have T ° -7°'KniTeripf . r,, r mf.nts to sell *7 u W mow .with a burst of grief)- u\h Ah, no, Bridget, not now, not now. Tell him to call a few days later.”— Ejrjch. , . f . 2Ra«sss«.!ssB British J^rllaTOont. ani'negotiator ^ ol the jngt°n for the purpose of marrying -Alias ^ Endicott, daughter of the Secretary of