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The Rockdale Banner. VOL. XI. million more women than fhere are a men in Germany bad driving of the Paris cabmen The the “Syndicat du Spo t has impelled oiler prize for competition Francais” to a in driving;_ than $500,000,000 worth of min More *1 from the mines of products came nation last year, according to the t hi3 sued. report just is Experiments in raising tobacco in south Australia have been highly sues ful, and the crop will hereafter re¬ Cl 1 '' attention.____ vive much About 500,000 persons hold Govern ment tobacco licenses, Fully 500,000 jo addition find employment in raising, handling and manufacturing it. Dr. Robert Morris, who recently died at La Grange, Ky., was one of the two poet laureates which Freemasonry has bad in all its history. Robert Bums was the first._ The late Paris census show3 six thou¬ sand nine hundred and fifteen Ameri¬ cans, fourteen thousand seven hundred ami one English, and thirty-five thou, sand seven hundred and eight Germans. According to London Trull, the mother of Germany’s new Empress would have married in 1852 the Em¬ peror Napoleon III. but for the opposi¬ tion of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort, to whom as Princess of Ilohen lohe-Langeuburg, she was closely re¬ lated. An estate situated in the business por¬ tion of the village of Port Chester, in the township of Rye, N. Y., valued at $15,000,000, and which was leased for 100 years, is about to revert to the heirs of its original owners, through the dis¬ covery of a record which has just come to light.__ The decline in value of hill town farms in Massachusetts is put by 1he Chicago Times at fifty per cent, during the last ten years. A well improved farm near Greenfield, valued at $7000, brought recently $3000 at a forced sale, The shrinkage in several town values has been from $300,000 to $800,000. One of the most remarkable mechani¬ cal changes of the clay, declares the Scientific American, is the setting aside of steel and the readoptiou of iron for some of the most important parts of lo¬ comotives on many railroads. It is only comparatively a few years since the change was made, on most roads, from, iron to steel. In the approaching evolutions of tho French fleet off Toulon, captive balloons are to be employed— a new idea in naval man : uvres. The apparatus s to be supplied from the armv aerostatic school at Chalais-Meudon, and will be sent to sea on board a pontoon, which ■will 1 e towed by one of the vessels of the squadron, and from it the ascents will be made. In 1869 there were in Moscow, Russia but five common schools, with an attend¬ ance of only 250. Ten years later the schools had multiplied to eighty and the pupils to more than 4009. Since then ihc numbers have doubled. In St. letersburg there were in 1876 only six¬ teen common schools, with 800 pupils. These numbers have since multiplied more than fifteenfold. Hie Philadelphia Drug, Oil and Paint Reporter ^ attributes the decline iu the price of quinine largely to the fact that the trees planted some thirty years ago the English and Holland Govern tteuts in India, Java, Ceylon, and else "^here, are beginning to markedly affect die market. The export of cultivated ark from these places is now enormous yearly increasing. The Railway Aye comments on the by mcomp ehensible .fear of invasion felt the English. Not only are they ne rvous at any mention of tunneling or bridging the channel between them I ranee,but the House of Commons as ^ sen seriously considering the ques , . 10a destroying the GOO yards of the imental tunnel which was bored Te or sin years ago! sc ‘ en rific school would be about the 1 -hing one would expect to find in in ir ' a ’ Cerituj bUt accordin the town g t( > Mr. Kennan, TeU n y, of Tiumen has ' quippe<i e school of this kind. It h a me< -hanical department, with a f 1 and en lG ne > lathes and tools of all S ’ a Apartment of physics,with fQ e =** > * ) * ratu8 mclu ding Ffi ’ even the Bell, D ’ ^ )c Thear telephones and the pk 0 nogmph, a complete and yery well . lib Chemical laboratory, a good ot * rt * nd CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1338. SENATE TARIFF BILL, A PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE FOR THE MILLS RILL INTRODUCED. Features of the Measure Presented by the ICepub lienn Senators, The majority of the Senate Finance Com¬ mittee have made a report proposing a sub. •titrte for the House bill, commonly known as the Mills bill. According to the estimates made by the committee the bill provides for a total reduction of about $75,000,000, made up approximately as follows: Sugar, $27,- 759,000; free list, $6,590,000; tobacco (in¬ ternal revenue), $24,500,000; alcohol in the arts, $7,000,000; other reductions in customs, $ 8 , 000 , 000 . The following are the additions to the free list: ’ sulphate Acorns, raw-, dried or undried. Baryta, Beeswax, of, or barytes unmanufactured. Books and pamphlets printed exclusively m Bands, languag s other than English. menting plaits, fiats, laces, etc., for orna¬ tured; bulbs hats; bristles, raw or unmanfac and bulbous roots, not edible; chiccory root, raw, dried or undried, but un ground. . Coal, stack or culm; coal tar, crude; curl¬ ing stone handles. roots, Currants, Zante or other dried; dandelion raw, dried or undried, but Unground; ~ggs and yolk. Feathers and, down of all kinds, crude and unmanufactured Jute, jute butts, manilla, ramie, sissal grass, sunn; all other textile grasses or fibrous substances unmanufactured or undressed; floor matting, known as Chinese matting. Grease ahd oils, such as are commonly used iu soap making or mine drawing, etc. Human hair, raw, uncleaned and not drawn; mineral waters, not specially enumer¬ ated; molasses, testing not above 56”; olive oil, for manufacturing or mechanical pur¬ poses; nut oil or oil of nuts; opium, crude or unmanufactured, Potash, crude for smoking. potash, hydrate; potash, carbonate; caustic or sulpliate nitrate of, Or saltpetre; potash, Rags, of; potash, chidrate of. all not enumerated; hemp seed; rape pentine, Sponges, hand, tar and pitch of wood, tur¬ The internal revenue section of the bill, so far as it relates to tobacco, provides that after the 1st of February, 1889, manufac¬ turers of cigars shall pay a special tax of $3 annually. The tax on cigars, cheroots, than and bn all cigarettes, weighing more three pounds per thousand, which shall be manu¬ factured or sold after that date, shall be $1.50 per thousand, and on cigarettes weighing less than three pounds to the thousand, 50 cents per thousand, and said tax shall be paid by the manufacturer, It repeals all laws re¬ stricting the disposition of tobacco by farmers and producers and all laws imposing and taxes on manufactured tobacco snuff, and the special taxes reqi uired by law in to be paid by manufacturers of and dealers leaf tobacco, dealers in manufac¬ tured tobacco, snuff and cigars, pedlers of tobacco, Of snuff and cigars and manufacturers snuff. It provides for a rebate on all original and unbroken packages held the by manufacturers or dealers at the timo re¬ peal goes into all effect (February i, 18$:)). It a so repeals laws limiting, restricting or regulating tion of the manufacture, sale or exporta¬ tobacco or snuff. Alcohol to be used in the industrial arts is relieved from the payment of an internal revenue tax. Provision is made for bonded alcohol warehouses, and safeguards are pro¬ vided against fraud. There is a prohibition against the use of any distilled liquors npon which the internal revenue tax has not leen paid in the manu¬ facture of tinctures, proprietary articles, alcoholic wineB, liquors, cordials, which bitters or other beverages. compounds, are used or sold Rs The duty on sugar is reduced about fifty per cent. The following is a synopsis of the princi¬ pal tariff changes made by the bill, with the old percentages set off against them pa¬ renthetically in the order of importance: AV ool and manufacturers of wool (the class¬ ification of wools is that of the present law). Wools of the first and second class and all hair of the alpaca, goat and other like ani¬ mals, 11 cents per pound (10 to 36 cents). Wools of the th ird class, exceeding in value 12 dents per pound, 6 cents per pound, AYoolen cloths, shawls and all manufact¬ ures of wool, not enumerated, valued at not pound, exceeding and 49 in cehts addition per thereto- pound, 35 cents per 35 per cent, ad valorem (35 cents and 35 and 40 per cent.). Abbve 40 cents and not exceeding 60 cents per pound, ad 35 cents per and pound and 35 40 per cent, valorem (:J5 40 cents and and 40 per cent.). Above 60 cents per pound, 40 cents Flannels, per pound blankets, and 40 hats, per cent, ad valued valorem. etc., at above 60 cents per pound, 40 cents per po und and 40 per cent, ad valorem, (24 and 35 per cent, and 35 cents and 40 per cent.). AVoirlin’s and children’s dress goods, Italian cloths, etc., made part of wool and valued at not exceeding 15 cents par square yard, 6 cents per square yard, 40 per cent, ad va¬ lorem (5 cents and 35 per cent.). Manufactured articles containing an ad¬ mixture of silk and in which silk is not the component material of chief value, and not otherwise provided, 11 cents per s ; uare yard; and, in addition thereto, 40 per centum ad valorem (5 cents and 35 per cent, and 7 cents and 40 per cent according to value), Provided that all goods of the character enumerated or described in this paragraph, weighing over four ounces per square yard, shall pay a duty of 40 cents per pound and 40 per cent, advalorem (35 cents and 40 per cent.) Women's and children’s dress goods, Italian cloths and composed wholly of wool, 11 cents per square yard and 40 per cent, ad valorem (10 cents and 25 per cent.). A11 such goods with selvages made wholly or in part of other materials, and all such goods in which threads marie wholly introduced or in part the of other materials have been for purpose of changing the classification for duty, 11 cents per square yard and and 40 per centum ad valorem (9 cents 40 per cent.). Provided, that all such goods weighing, over four ounces per square yard shall pay a duty of 40 cents per pound and 40 per cent, ad valorem. made, enumerated, all Clothing ready not goods made on knitting frames, and all pile fabrics, composed wholly or in part of wool made up or manufactured wholly or in part, 40 cents per pound and 45 per cent ad valorem (40 cents and 35 per cent.). Cloaks, dolmans, jackets, etc., excep t knit goods composed wholly or in part of wool, made up wholly or in part, 45 cents per pound and 45 per cent, ad valorem (45 cents and 40 per cent.) printing Endless belts or felts for paper or machines, 20 ceuts per pound and 30 per cent ad valorem (20 cents and 35 per cent). A New England man has beaten the green goods sawdust men at their own game. He got one of their circulars, and in reply asked for a sample of their goods. They sent him a genuine$1 bill and the gentleman of New England and stopped the correspondence then there. NEWS SUMMARY. Eastern and Middle States. Engineer Alfred Miller, of the steamer Eolus, died at Newport, R„ I.,on the steamer, from injuries received by a nitric acid ex¬ plosion. Miller was in the engine-room near by the and was compelled to breathe gases from acid. He stopped the engine and turned on the fire pumps before leaving his post, thus averting a dreadful disaster at the ex¬ pense of his own life. A further defalcation of $25,000 was dis covered in the accounts of absconder AVill iam R. Foster, Jr., with the Gratuity Fund of the New York Produce Exchange. Lewis Cobb, of Gloucester, Mass., about sixty-five Boston, years old, committed suicide, iu by throwing himself in front of a rheumatism, moving car. He had been suffering wit! There has been a light fall of snow in New The Hampshire, fall Pennsylvania and New York. was heaviest in the Mohawk Valley, where a storm raged for several hours. Michael Whalen, of Danville, Penn.,who has been in poor health for some time, cut his wife’s throat and then his own. The life¬ less bodies were found lying on the bed, and there was every indication that the woman had made a desperate struggle to escape the grasp of her maniac husband. The newly appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Persia, AYiar, Hadji Hos ein Ghooly Khan Motamed el has arrived in New York. His Ex¬ cellency, Kouli Khan, is the first Persian representative ever accredited to this coun¬ try, the United although there has been a treaty between States and Persia since December, 1856. The Kings County Oil AYorks, at B rook lyn, N. Y;, were damaged by fire to thi e ex tent of $50,00(1, and two workmen were burned to death by an explosion resulting therefrom. Henry Fitch, of Oxford, N. H., Demo¬ cratic candidate for State Senator, was killed by being thrown from his wagon. South and West. Senor Florence Luitz, a wealthy ranch man and an old Indian fighter, killed himself at his ranch near Seliora, Cal. Two workingmen were biirned to death in the fire which destroyed S. G. AYilkins & Co.’S furniture factory at Chicago. Patrick Dunn, a fireman on board the steamer San Marcos, plying between New York and Galveston, Texas, jumped over¬ board and was drowned while the vessel was entering the Gulf of Mexico, in order to escape* Engineer. the brutal treatment of the Chief The Sioux Commission, recently -P' turned pointed by AVashington. President Cleveland, have re¬ to The Indians decline to accept the terms of the treaty and surren¬ der their reservations: Starvation ahd cannibalism is reported among the Indians of the Northwest Terri¬ tory. ended The September wheat had corner been at forced Chicago after cash wheat up to $2 a bushel. The losses to the shorts were erormous. Serious damage is reported to the tobacco crop in Virginia by heavy frosts. A snow storm which lasted two hours occurred falls of in Mary and, and there wore irginia. light snow in Various portions of V Mrs. Louis Hildf.brandt, the handsome young wife of a well known resident of Wheeling, AY. Va., has died from the effect Of a pistol shot wound inflicted by her bus band in a fit of drunken anger. At Nuzums Mills, AV. Va., AVilliaan AViil iams knocked his wife down with a chair, the woman dying from the effects of the blow. AVilliams is eighty years old and his wife was seventy. Five men were killed at Helena, Montana, by the ditching of a freight train. Mr. Mills, author of the Tariff Reduction bill, was renominated for Waco, Congress Texas. by the Democratic Convention at John D. Copeston and John Perry Pearce, of Louisville, were drowned in the Ohio River while boating. A terrific storm raged along the Great Lakes. Five lives were lost and much damage done to shi] ping TiIe Traders’ Bank of Chicago has failed with liabilities of $1,000,090. There are over 450 eases epidemic of typhoid fever in Duluth, Minn., and the appears to be growing. There have been numerous deaths, of Beatrice, Mrs. George Poffenberger, Neb., strangled her two children with a strong cord, and then shot herself through the heart. She left a note for her husband saying she was afraid she was going crazy. Colonel J. J. Daniels, President of the Florida Sanitary Association, and one of the leading citizens of Jacksonville, Fla., is dead of yellow fever. A violent storm in the Ohio Valley Ky., was particularly severe around Owensboro, and Rock port, Ind., where three men were killed by lightning and many buildings were damaged by wind. Loss estimated at $50, 000 . ■Washington. Secretary Vilas has .ent an important Cherokee letter to the principal Chief of the Indian Nation, notifying him that any le? or contract tor grazing on the ‘ Ohero_ outlet” in the Indian Territory made by him or his nation will be illegal. The Senate has confirmed the JSSTffK Lambert Tree, of Illinois, to be ritory; Russia; George Davidson, of Minister to 8* SSSSS of Michigan, to be Minister to Belgium. Coinage at the United States mints during September aggregates 7,149,2SO pieces hav tog a total value of $0,000,73 ). Total gold coinage, $2,310,750; total silver coinage, $3 349,185. $12,257,026 during The nub’ie September, debt was reduced tS and $83,706,000 during the last three hree months month_ „ . . $31,69S,L4. e expenditures,? tmre.s W' , m , vr? • _ There have been forty-seven post offices raised to Presidential offices since October 1, with salaries ranging from $1000 to $1600. The treaty of the United States with Peru has been ratified. The President has nominated James Petti grew, State Treasurer of South Carolina, to Be Consul-General at Melbourne, Australia. Foreign. Heavy firing ba« taken place at Buskin: between the rebels and the British f <J. rce s. A deserter reports Seventeen that the rebeis suffered se verely. were killed by the ex plosion of one shell. 31. A'iette, French Minister of of Deputiei Agricul ture. reported to the Chamber that the grain harvest amounted to 278,000, 000 bushels. M !i> I’ aran Stevens, a famous anc wealth"v society leader of New York Europe city, hai ol been robbed while traveling to jewels worth $100,000. PiUHRssdP Geffiken, who is been arrested. A hurricane in the AVest Indies caused great damage to life and property. Four American vessels were wrecked oft TJurk’s Island, and a great many seamen perished. The mysterious fiend of London, who has a passion for murdering women in the most brutal manner, has added two more victims to his list, this making six females in all whom he has murdered and mutilated with great atrocity. Professor Gkffcken, who has been ar¬ rested for publishing extracts from the diary of the late German Emperor, claimB that he receive 1 permission from Emperor Frederick to publish them three months after his death. Senator James G. Ross, a ten-fold mil¬ lionaire, and Canada’s greatest speculator, has died in Quebec. Several arrests were made in London of persons suspected of connection with the Whitechapel murder mystery, and rewards amounting to $ 1000 were offered for the de¬ tection of the murderer. Over three hundred natives were killed in a battle with a force of natives led by British officers on the Gold Coast in Zanzibar, Africa. Six lives were lost in an explosion work¬ on board an iron mud-carrying steamer ing in the Panama Canal. THE LABOR WORLD. Girls are employed as shingle packers in the mills at Bay City, Mich. Great Britain mines 16,000,000 tons of Iron per year and imports 8,000,0 )9 tons. It is estimated that eight millions of um¬ brellas are made in this country annually. The Indianapolis Oar Works are turning cars out at the rate of twenty five per day. In the United States 640,000 and women 530,000 are iu employed in manufactories, laundries. Paterson, N. J., may he called the Lyons and of American, for it manufactures silk other fine goods. Sixty employers in the United Statics share in some measure their profits with their employers. the AYallace Gruei.i.e, assistant editor of Labor Signal, and a prominent Indiana labor man, is dead. Cowboys used to get $50 a month each and board. Now- $3.5 is a top figure, and the aver¬ age is $25 a month and board. Thirteen hundred men have been thrown out of work at Boston and Brooklyn by the feugar Trust closing refineries. Direct returns from producers show that the total value of building stone quarried $85,000,- in the United States during 1387 was DOO Twelve! hundred bolters England, employed have in the cotton mills at Bolton, system ot gone on a strike against a new weighing cotton. The hours of labor in England were twelve per day up to 1846, when thoy were reduced to eleven; and again reduced to ten in 1374, where they now stand. Five hundred convicts in the Kings for County (N, Y.) Penitentiary make shoes the Bay State Company, under a contract Which expires in M irch next. At Manistee, Mich., girls other feed the like planer,) work. in They the also hop-mills do the and sacking do at the dai-y salt works, and make from $1 to $1.2> a day. Trenton, N. j, has over $4,009,000 in¬ vested in potteries, and the army of work¬ men employed receive in the aggregate of $75,000 a week. The aggregate earnings of the employes are about $18.50 a week. Herman Stein, the New York shirt con¬ tractor who recently went before the Con¬ gressional Committee and stated that he had reduced the wages of his employes an 1 would do so again if he felt so inclined, 1ms kept his Word. The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners ttf America was founded in convention in Chicago, August 12, 1881. At first it had only 12 local unions and 2043 members. Now it has 481 local unions in over 445 cities and 53,000 enrolled members. There are 30 )0 women telegraph operators $W0 in England, earning anywhere from to $1000 a year. Tho telegraph being a branch of the civil service in competitive England, it examination is neces-iary for them to pass a before employment is given them. Most combination tools are so clumsy that carpenters have generally abandoned them as wasting time instead of saving it. One tool, however, of recent invention, is handy and simple, and likely to become of great service. It is a piece of steel or other mate¬ rial cut so as to form a square, mitre or tri square. capacity of Da The work of doubling tho at Now Albany, Pauw’s plate glass factory for two Ind., which has been in progress years, was entirely completed a few days since. The capacity of the works is 2,90),990 feet of plate glass, 301,090 boxes of window glass and 30,000 gross of fruit jars. In many establishments where the daintier and more artistic of the artisan trades are carried on—wood carving, scroll work, china decorating and the like —th- work is turns 1 over largely to women. ’he employers find that the sex generally have fine hands fitted for work requiring delicacy and fi .n i-ss, good artistic taste, and a fondne-. for the employment. PERSIA S MINISTER. The Oriental I resiaen Hunseif Before the new Persian Minister, Hadji Hossein President Kouli Kahn, Cleveland h. I—.y- by the feecre-ary o “ State. The Minister is very diminutive, d he win enjoy the reputation of being the 8horte8t in suture of any of the members G f the diplomatic corps, not accepting Mr. Mutsu, the Japanese representative. His costume was hidden by a heavy cashmere robe, which glistened with jewels and the various insignia of his Cleveland rank- entered . the .. When President proetrated himself before room the Persian com hjm Then followed a p rformance mon enoug h i n the Orient, but never be.ore witnessed here. Before a hand could be raised to prevent him, the Minister bumped bis head gravely three times against the noor, and then, as if satisfied that be hadMom tn properthing, hestraightema lima awaited t he .^^ nt L P ^;f p or a t; ef M a i, is trate an d the repre . ^Then’tbTOriental delivered r‘-eTitABv, His address was >f Minister’s tongue. At the conclusion low - and , re address the President bowed ! sponded. P ld , , f; n joW| tie Min " h tS, tl fi i^ ^knowledgment and the ister bowed bis acfcno. - t, 3 party separated. j „ _____ . . President Cleveland has appointed versity Professor Arthur J. Starejo’the T m of P an« Notre Expo Dame, sition as oM sment.fic • Fr. expert to^he —....IntAm-a i tiK. and i'itcraturp ol Fr.nc, I ! “ thorough. CONGRESSIONAL. Senate Proceedings. Chi¬ 185th Day. —The President signed the nese Exclusion bill and sent it to the Senate accompanied by a message. Senator Sher¬ man moved the reference of the message to the Committee on Foreign Relations, which was agreed to.... The bill foreiting unearned land grants of the Northern Pacific Railroad was favorably reported.... Mr. Halo offered a resolution calling upon the Secretary of War for information relative to the circular issued by General Bonet. 186th Day.—M r. Yoorhees, from the Li¬ brary Committee, reported favorably a bill for tlie purchase of the lifo size oil painting* of Abraham Lincoln by G. AY. F. Travis, at a cost not to exceed $15,000.... The Senate agreed to the conference report on the Defi¬ ciency Appropriation bill. 1ST Til Day.—T he substitute for the House Tariff bill was reported back; it reduces the revenues about $74,000,000.... The Senate re¬ sumed consideration of Mr. Hide’s resolu¬ tion calling on the Secretary of War for an explanation of General Benet’s circular as to discharges of certain employes in United States arsenals and armories. ISStii Day.—T he report of the Committee on Finance against the M ills bill and in sup¬ port of the substitute therefor was submitted. The minority report, together with a supple¬ mental report of Mr. Beck, were also given .... The Henet resolution was salaries adopted.... passed The bill to adjust Postmasters’ was .... Mr. Chandler’s resolution for an inquiry then into the recent Louisiana election was taken up, and Mr. Blair spoke upon it, and, in connection with it, argued in favor of his Educational bill. House Proceedings 023d Day. —Iu the House the report of the Stahlnecker Investigating Committee, which completely exonerates too Congressman, rest of was tho presented... .The Hodse spent the bills the day in consideration of private on calendar. 224th Day.— The President’s messago ac¬ companying his signature of the Chinese Ex¬ clusion bill was received by the House and referred to tho Committee on Foreign Af¬ fairs. .. .Thebill incorporating the Nicaragua Canal Company was discussal... .Resolu¬ tions against trusts were offered by Mr. Lan bam and others. Mr. Dunham’s measure urges that it hr declared that it “is the sense of the House” that the remainder of Was ses¬ sion should be devoted to legislation against “trusts.” House .passed the bill 225th Day.— Tho permitting settlers who have abandoned their homesteads to take up others... .The reauest of the Mexican National railroad to allow their freight to pass through the United States without examination or appraisal has IxiGii laws of 226th Day. —The bill to extend the the United States over tho Public Land Strip was discussed, but no action roicbeil... .The Deficie ncy bill was taken up and the aqueduct frauds discusse 1. A letter wasread from Major Lydecker stating that the de¬ fects thus far discovered could he remedied for $5060, while ten times that sum was reserved for that purpose. He also stated that the contractors were under heavy bonds to, make good any failure to satisfactorily complete the work. PK0MINENT PEOPLE. The King of Sweden is a historian. The Queen of Roumania lias become a pub lisher. The Prince of Wales intends joining the Odd Fellows. Evangelist Moody will spend the wintei in California. Mrs. Fred Grant loves the military, and still lives at AVest Point. George Bancroft, the historian, has just past his eighty-eighth birthday. The betrothal of the Czarevitch of Russia to Princess Maud of Wales is announced. Hit, Oliver Wendell Holmes has mad 0 more money as a surgeon than as an author Bishop Foster of the Methodist Episcopal only Church, was licensed to preach when fourteen. Thf. American Duchess of Marlborough has already distributed several large sums bo London hospitals. youngest Colonel F. C. Lister Kay is the regimental commander in the British service, being only thirty-six years old. Joseph Thompson, tho plucky African explorer, is only twenty seven years old, of medium height, but robust and wiry. Carl Schiirz lias been applied to by Houghton. Miffim & Co. to write a Life of Abraham Lincoln” for their American States¬ men series. Senator Sherman is reported five to have made $890,000 during the past years from investments in real estate on Columbia Heights in Washington. Frank E. Vistcrato, a well-known citizen of Salem, Mass., was, when a iad, on o of the 1200 Greeks that, under Marco Bozzaris,made the famous charge at Carponisi in August, 1823. Some one has discovered that dates for President this year Cleveland is the biggest, Harrison the shortest, I isk the hand¬ somest, Streeter the wealthiest and Holva Lockwood the sweetest. Yan Fhou Lee, a graduate of Yale, who married a New Haven lady, has been ap pointed to a position in tho Pacific Bank, all nan Francisco, Cal. He will attend to the business bis countrymen, the Chinese, have with the bank. The "‘silent Yon Moltke” isn’t at all silent at home. He is, on the contrary a charm¬ ing lively and amiable companion. He is verv fond of the wife of his nephew, w ho presides over his household, and of her chil fl ren He loves whist and roses, and ot these . variety flowers cultivates a great j OHJf L Porter, who designed and con s tructed the Merrimac the first ironclad ever built, and who thus changed completely the systemo f naval warefare, is now wieldm r a broadaxe He is an old in the man, navy almost yard eighty, at L° u^he but he is is colnl ^Ue<l to toil from early until late. ProbaB ly the richest world, college Professor professor E. in j^n-erica, if not in the is Salisbury, of Yale. He is a millionaire, fortune was made from investments i n Boston real estate. Professor Salisbury is &bout W3Ven , y yearg old, is a man of courtly (lem(ianori , m d has traveled over nearly the whole world. Ex-Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, ^ credited with having an income of *104 000 a year. Y'l’YTh Chiim of and JaMn and Mr. Low is thirty-nine years age, is -narr>ed married to to a a very v g brilliant and cultured woman. The Russia Government has offered a sub fidy of $65,000 annually to a private firm for a steamship line, to run between Russian Pacific ports and Corean, Japanese and Chinese ports, to be at the disposal of Russia in the event of war. | A rai l roa d to run ™ from Selma, Mineral Ala., ! h the ri , hest gdds in Alabama, is to i-»W».- be built in that State g, . -Kk NO. 33. NEWSY GLEANINGS. The hop crop in England is a failure. The yield of celery this fall is exceptionally large. They are putting an elevator in the Wash¬ ington Monument. Russia is talking of interfering in the Afghan disturbances. Associate Supreme Court Justice Stanley Matthews is convalescent. For the first six months of 1888 the English 957. railways killed 165 people and injured Ice skates are going to be cheap this winter, as several of the patents have just run out. A young couple who were married at Nar ragansett Pier, Mass., took their wodding trip in a balloon, King Kalakaiu, of Ilia Sandwich Islands, goes to Melbourne, Australia, next month to attend the Exposition. The bronze statue of the poet Longfellow> Portland, erected by his fellow townsmen of Me., has been unveiled. The South American skunk has been introduced into Australia with n view of exterminating the rabbit pest The Pope has closed his jubilee by celebra¬ ting high mass for the dead in St. Petor’s in the presence of III),000 people. Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, narrowly escaped being shot at the riflo practice of Austrian soldiers. The world’s pacing record of one mile for three-year-olds lias been beaten at Napa, Cal., by Gold Leaf. Time, 2:15. Two corporals of the French army have been arrested for offering Label rides and cartridges to the Italian government Floods are prevailing throughout Switz¬ erland, which have caused much damage suffered. to property. Railroads have especially John Richmond, the Irish member of Par¬ liament, has been convicted under the Crimes Act and sentencod to five months’ imprison¬ ment. The cabbage growers of Weston, Ohio, have formed a (rust, and will refuse to sell cabbages for less than live cents a head in the .field. The number of persons fined in the Gorman Empire in the lust fiscal year for evading the payment of imperial taxes and customs ex¬ ceeded 15,000. record of Thirty prizes is the unparalleled her first the English yacht Yarana for this, tho. season, which she closed by winning Channel race. Minister West, the English Envoy to this country, becomes Baron Sackville, in consequence of the death of his elder brother without issue. LATEST NEWS. FiTzainRONS & Crisp’s carriage factory at Trenton, N. J., has been destroyed by lire Causing a loss of $50,000, The Vermont Legislature convened at Montpelier and W. P. Dillingham was in¬ augurated as Governor. Frank Smith and Teddy AVeaver, two fishermen of Parlcertown, N. J., wer drowned while fishing. Ahram S. Hewitt hns been renominated for Mayor of New York City by a meeting of citizens, irrespective of parties, held iu Cooper Union. Ex-Alderman Arthur J. McQuade, of Ne,w York City, who was convicted as a boodler and sentenced to seven years’ im¬ prisonment in Sing Sing, lias been released on $20,000 bail pending a new trial. John B. Curtis, a rich hotel keeper of Salamanca, N. Y., shot and killed himself at the Grand Central Hotel, New York. Mel¬ ancholia, occasioned by the death of his wife, was the cause. 4 The New York ball team defeated the Chicago nino, by a score of 1 to 0, thus virtually winning the League championship for 1888. At Medina, Ohio, Mrs. Mary L, Garrett vvns convicted of the murder of her two im. becile stepdaughters, and, sentenced to hang on January 24,1880. Tint United States collector of customs a* San Francisco has given notice that no more return certificates will be issued to Chinamen. The damage by frost to tho tobacco cioj in the South Side section of Virginia is very great ami more than one fourth of the crop has been completely ruined, A CANOE, containing man aml their < igbteen-months child and Mrs. Phillips and her four children,was cap si zed at Frinceis Anne, Md, Mrs. Konne man with her babe in her arms sank in¬ stantly. Mrs. hillip’s two-months-old babe was borne from her arms, and went down together with her four-year-old child. BUSINESS FAILURES. The business failures occurring throughout the United States for the third quarter of the year completed amount in number to 2301, with liabilities of a trifle over $32,000, 000 The failures for the third quarter aggre^ate of 1887 numbered 1088, with liab» ingthe enormous sum ot *i 4,0JO,000 the number inis of shows for ISSN an increase m while the the failures of the quarter, 424, liabilities have decreased, as compared large with 1887 nearly #51,000,000. The aggre¬ gated liabilities in the 1887 quarter was due to speculative disasters, and it is probable failures that the liabilities of the legitimate this. were no greater last year than For tho nine months of 1888 the failures number 7550. with liabilities of over 009,000. as compared with 6850 failures and $128,000,000 of liabilities in tho same for period 18-8 of 18S7, showing that the failures were in number 700 more than last year, but with liabilities about 30 per cent. less. In the Dominion of Canada and INewfound land the failures for the three months just closed number 381, with liabilities of $11,6™, 009, as against 1108 failures and Ww 0 liabilities in the same quarter of “ the nine mouths of US8 ending with MR ternber 30, the Canadian failures . s( . 1256 with liabilities of $11,482,014,,as liabilities, « 1017, with $13,458,000 of same period of 1887. Thf. largest passenger engine fu fiia world has just been finished by th ' 5ork, ' , n p rov ;l Providence, R. I., for the 3 ew Jbe onvmg dence and Boston Pailroad- It takes wheels are six feet » three tons OP <oaltogettolf te,m -. . '.rrs was rejected