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Rockdale Banner. VOL. XI. are a bout 40,000 more men than inhere imen in Chicago. L e wool interest in Australia has ered severely from droughts. The - have died by millions. Never , ep F supply of wool shows a steady [eiess, the crease. rrm The largest market iu the world for purchase and l sale of mules is St. f, reaches $6,000,000 mis, where the trade rear- Atlanta comes next with a Lie of $2,000,000 I It is stated by the Commercial Adver that the fourth centenary of the ■scovery of America wilt be celebrated ft Genoa by the revival of an opera by ftorlacchi, entitled “Christofore Colom ft "composed in 1828. I By the naval manoeuvers just now fm Ihed in the Irish Sea, it appears that ■theaverage speed of even the best ships ■as much below the figure given ia any ftuthoritative naval work.” A Cunard ■earner ran by them as though they were ■nchored. • I The Mexicans are hard at work on the ftanks of the Rio Graude opposite El ■aso, Texas, building wing dams and lillow mattresses to prevent their ter¬ ritory Inrbulent from being washed away by the river. They have lost much |ii past years in this manner. I Somebody delving in the history of Kewburyport, Mass., has found, asserts [he New York Suit, 1 hat lumber was bee sent across the Atlantic Ocean in the form of a raft similar to that which re¬ cently arrived in the port of New Y ork from Jog_;ins, Nova Scotia. I There are 800,000 freight cars oft the larious railroad lines in this country, of ■which 60,000 are the property of the tenn-ylvania Central road. They range Bn value from $300, the cost of construct hnga flat car, to $1500, the amount tix [pended kor in building the average Tefrigera car. _ The Mikado of Japan has almost fin fished his new palace, which has taken pix years for its construction. There are [400 rooms in the building, and tho din¬ ing hall will seat 127 guests. The furni¬ ture of the State Department came Irom Germany, Not the least interesting ob¬ ject ju the palace is an American piano. Daniel A. P.udd, a young colored news¬ paper man who spoke at the Cincinnati meeting of the Catholic Young Men’s National Union, said, according to the New I ork Sun, that tho Humber o colored people in this country who are ‘‘practical Roman Catholics'’ is 200,000 at least. Several of them have been or¬ dained, and several bright young colored men are now studying for the priest¬ hood. The open executive sessions of the United States t enate on the Fisheries ■question were begun on the 28th of May last, and the question occupied the attention of the Senate to the almost total exclusion of other business through tw,nty-two sittings. No similar topic, declares the New York Tribune, in re¬ cent times has consumed so much time snd filled so many columns of the official ‘‘Record.’’ The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun says: “Louisiana has one parish which ought to contain a lot of very happy as Well as prosperous farmers. There is Rot a single mortgage on farm property of record in the parish. Few, if any, counties in Georgia can make such a showing, and probably every county in the western states has any number of farm mortgages. Sabine parish, La., is a model for the whole country.” The great Lick telescope in California promises wonderful discoveries in the skies. Professor Holden is very enthu¬ siastic over its revelations, and says that e has had views of the planets, the stars, the milky way and the nebulae that oo other astronomer ever before had. The telescope resolves the nebul.e ln Lyra into wreaths of “sun stutf” which are in the process of developing into solid bodies, and the observation of Jupiter promises to solve some of the curious questions about that planet. ihe Indian school at Carlisle, Penn., n the oldest pupil of any educational . institution in the United States. He is sixt y years of age. Crazy & .s his name, and he was once Chief of Crow Nation. He bold ^wrioraad was a *o learn an able ruler. He is anxious receLing ,^ e w '*y g °f white men and is instruction in blacksmith School. During the ........... winter he wili attend He is todhas more ref toed faee than often . is ■= Ik B. i, docile and R “ t00 » of •wilization before he dies. CONYERS. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1888. A MARINE HORROR. A FISHING SCIIOOMilt CUT IN TWO AND SUNK BY A STEAMElt. Twen y-Oiie Fishermen Drowned and Only W Four SaVcd. On the ea-tern edge of the Banks of New¬ foundland, at ten minutes to three o’clock, the other morning, the National Line steam¬ ship Queen from Liverpool bound for New York, cut down fchft FFPnch fishing schooner Madeleine, which had twenty-five hands i m board, all of whom but four were drowned. Captain Healey, of the Queen, was not on deck, and the bridge was in charge of Sec¬ ond Officer Jackson. The weather was a lit¬ tle hazy, and the steamer was going at about ten knots an hour, her usual speed being eleven knots. Officer Jackson says that he Saw the schooner ahead, showing only a white light, which he supposed was at her binnacle. As ho could see no side lights he supposed she was at anchor, and bjr keeping on his course Could easily tiiSar her. An instants after he heard two lyats on a fog-born from the schooner, signifying that she was on the port tack. The Queen's whis¬ tle was blown furiously, but it tfib iate to do anything, and the stBaiher crashed into the schooner angle. striking The her amidships, slightiv through on an the smaller big steamer crashed right without stopping the vessel,cutting Queen’s headway her in two, to ftny appreciable extent. Immediately there was considerable excitement oh the 'Queen, The people in their berths weri alarmed might by the crash, and were Afraid that they never see land again. Lydia Thompson and h’er theatrical troupe weri among tho 149 cabin pas engers oh .the Queen, and Miss Thompson said that ill were badly jseared. The ftxdteifitSnl; was soon allayed when it was round that the only damage Buffered foretopmast by the Queen was the loss of her and a trifling injury about hetf bow. The steamer was run ahead for a short distance for fear of the propeller being fouled by wreckage, aud then the engines were put at full speed backward. In four minutes the first boat was lowered, and two others were in tile water ft very short; time atterward, while the fourth boat was ready to lower in case Of necessity. Within ten minutes folif then were picked up. No others cOuin be seen. The Captain of the Schooner, trunk Dominick Roulet, was floating on a when rescued, and Jules Jaquet, Marion the second mate, Charles Meniger, and Solomon, the cook, were taken although out of the water. No one else was saved, the Queen lay to near where the collision took place for nearly four hours before proceed¬ ing on heb 'ddiirse for New York at 7 o’clock ih this hiorning. | The Madeleine was a two-masted fishing smack of 154 tons register. Every one on bpard was a native I of Ffahee, been except the colored cook, op even he had so long there, and Oft French smacks, that he knew so Other language. The Madeleine lia 1 been out for nearly six months, arid waspreparing to return homo when the collision occurred. LATEST NEWS, James B. 8«amN@e, the confidential cle-k »f the Dftiphin Manufacturing Company of Plainfield, N. J., has confessed that he has imbezzled the company’s funds to the »mount of nearly $10 010 during a period of lighteen in'oft’ths. He was arrested. Mary Griffin, an old inmate of the alms¬ house at Meriden, Conn., died after starving herself for fifty-five days, during which she took nothing but water. An amphitheatre was erected to assist in the big annual celebration of Quincy, 111. Scarcely had the show begun wl«n with a Brash the vftst structure 20 feet hi , i, 50 feet Wide and 7C0 feet long fell with a crash, burying 5000 in the debris. Over 500 people were injured, half of them seriously and one fatally. John J. O’Neil, of the Eighth District, St. Louis, has been renominated for Con¬ gress, The Chicago rioters and striking street car employes and the police came in conflict several times. Clubs were used with good effect upon the mob, which retaliated with stones. Several shots were fired, but none vv-'th fatal effect. Captain Aldrich was seri¬ ously hurt and a hundred people clubbed. Fully fifty policemen were struck with stones and other missiles, and fought their way through the infuriated mob with blood streaming down their faces and dripping from the ends of their clubs. A. S. Nesmith, of California, has been ap¬ pointed chief clerk of the Signal Service,the new office created by Congress. Judge Allen G. Thurman spoke for forty minutes before the United States L upreme Court in the famous telephone The President has vetoed the bill paying Laura E. Maddox for 4042 boxes of tobacco, valued at $74,000, furnished by her husband, H. A. Risley, an agent of the Government, at Norfolk, Va., in 1864. Chas. Winslow, Vice-Consul at Guerero, Mexico, has died of cholera The British forces in the Black Mountains have captured Seri and. burne 1 many vil la^es. The enemy is falling back to the In and will negotiate for peace. Seri will , be permanently .. occupied , by v,v tw, the R-irish B. it.sh, Emperor W illiam of Germany has terirti Tinted nat his visit to Austria. Before leaving he embraced , , and , hissed the fhn Fmneror Emperor Francis 1 rancis Joseph three time3, and t en emora e an kissed the King of Saxony and the Regent of Bavaria. An nhio-t unje.t LCS^O lMiiii I. junior (who has been dividing his sights at tention tention between between his his grammar grammar and ana s-grus of the window;—“31a, our old horse is a noun, isn’t he?” His mother—“Yes, my dear. Junior— “And the filly is a pronoun?” I»-‘ » win and when pa came home mst „„„ , heard him tel! the rt.ble.ho.T th.l Jfi * an '" A HEWS SUMMARY. Eastern and Middle States. Phiirp PALLEnoNT, the Italian who, iij .sold blood, murdered his brother on the even* swysAgh""- “ •* mander Behjamim Gleadell, com¬ o_ white Star steamer Germanic md commodore of the White Star fleet, died an the voyage from Liverpool. His body was brought to the port of New York. In Glendale, N. Y., William and John resting; Herrick, William’s brothers, wehfc giiiining. while charged and John gun was accidentally dis¬ was killed. Two of the horses in a chariot race at the Sussex County (N. J.) Fair became unman¬ ageable and plunged through the fence into the crowd of spectators, knocking down sev¬ eral of them and dangerously, perhaps fa* tally, old wounding three men. Grant Pellet, to citizen, was struck in the breast and knocked under the horses’ hoofs and killed. In the village of Oakfield, N. Y., Mrs. inent Joseph T, Moore, the young wife of a prom¬ She had citizen, shot herself herself through With the heart: dressed great card in Spdtlbfe white and laid upon a blanket on the floor of her bedroom when she fired the fata! shot. Her married life was unhappy. In a collision of trains near Oswego; N. Y:, one man was killed and six others badly hurt. Me Tammany Hall Democrats met in convention and nominated Hugh J. Grant, the present Sheriff, for Mayor of New York city. That faction of New York Democrats known as the Cotmty Democracy has homi hated Abram S. Hewitt fori Mayor Of New York city by ftcclftnlatiott. •losEni Smith, broker and politician, killed Plainfield; himself N, by J, iiihaliftg illuminating gas at ^H» collapse of a flooring at the laying of a corner stone of a Catholic Church in Read¬ ing, Penn., resulted in the serious in jury, of about a hundred persons, a number of then! being fatally hurt. , FKancis W. Williams, of New York, the senior member of the firm of Williams, Black & Co., brokers, who suspended pay¬ ment recently by reason of losses sustained through suicide tho Chicago at wheat corher, com¬ mitted the Grand Union Hotel, A wooden stable at the foot of East Thirty fourth street, New York, was consumed bj fire and two hostlers and twenty-six horses were smothered to death. At East Watertown, Mass., in a little pond, May Crafts, a young Woman about twenty years old, petite and pretty, deliber¬ ately drowned herself. George E. Leavenworth, night editor of died the Bridgeport, laudanum Conn., Morning News, alter taking with suicidal in¬ tent. He left a letter to his mother saying that he was tired of life. South ancl West. A section master named Williams, of Nor¬ folk, Va., told his gang to do certain work, which they did not do, and he spoke to them roughly. Three of the gang became exas¬ He perated and made for fired him with pickaxes. all drew his pistoi and six shots, killing three of his assailants; the 1'^ere ftaval is despatch great haste boat shown Dolphin in for preparing ac sea Mare Island, Cal., her presence in Callao being urgently demanded because General serious complications have arisen betweeii Caceres, the President of Peri), and the syndicate of New York business men who to© largely interested in railway enterprises in that country. About 1000 Chicago street car employes are on strike for higher wages, and three fourths of the people of the city are without transportation facilities. The police are constantly on duty to suppress rioting. Three trainmen were killei and six others injured by the collision of express and Railroad freight trains on the Baltimore and Ohio near Washington. The accident was due to the negligent'^ of the freight trainmen. A colored man named McCondon was shot and killed at Birmingham, Ala.,.by a party of four colored men, who took him to the woods and made way with him. N. B. Wade, of Knightstown, Ind,, mur¬ dered Ins wife and his aged mo;her, and af¬ ter taking a fatal dose of poison set fire to his reside'ice. - The three bodies were partially consumed in the flames. The Supreme Court of Utah has declared the Mormon Church corporation dissolved, and its property escheated to the United States Government. Justice of the Peace Lawrence and a friend named Lacy, who was drunk, visited the Anniston (A a.) Hot Blast office and de¬ manded a retraction of certain statements which Editor Edmunds refused. Then the shooting began, Lacy firing at EdmUndSj Chapman shooting him in the ariti. John and a plumber named Tipney were shot in the head. Their wounds were fatal. Neck, An explosion in a grist mill at Charity Va., killed George W. Dawley, the proprietor. J. R. North, a farmer with the near Rev. Independence, G. W. Kan., quarreled Methodist minister, and shot him Puckett, a fatally. yards, Schunemann’s packing been destroyed house in the by stock fire. Chicago, has Loss, $125,000. The employes of the Chicago West Side street railroads have gone on strike to assist their striking comrades of the North Side road, making 2000 men now engaged in the movement for higher wages. A fight occurred between people the strikers injured. and police, in which twenty were Washington. The President and Internal Revenue Com¬ missioner Miller have returned from their brief fishing excursion to the Upper Potomac. They caught a good string of bass. wish ngto^’mjentiy to arg^' a'' caf^beforc p be Supreme Court, spent several days with President Cleveland at his country seat, “Oak View,’’ near the Capital. The Senate has confirmed the following nominations: L. W. Crofoot and C. F. Templeton,to be Associate Justices of Dakota; E. D. Sinn, to be Collector cf Customs at Saluria, Texas: John H. Oberley, to be Com misgi0ner of lndian Affairs. Congress has passed the supplementary legislation thought to be necessary for the counting of the Presidential vote. Foreign. Emperor William of Germany and the Emperor of Austria have been on a five days’fleer-stalking trip, ——■ Two students ’ ■ —*---- who were in financial trouble by agreement shot each other dead in the street in a suburb of Vienna The troops of the Ameer of Ishak Afghanistan' Kahn have defeated the forces of at «5SS*diisf__________ Tashkurgan The town of Tiacohur, Mexico, has been floods. Over five tress. S.'SkTSEj! of Pekin, caused the death of hundreds c f natives, the destruction of many houses, and the rain oi the crops. rndettt sioffti at Nokejorie, iti Japan, 8000 houses were demolished, eighty-five v«e r?um 5a,000 era totally lost and 500 wrecked, and dependent persons wounded, injured, or made upon public assistance. TRSc British fnan-of-war Osprey has cap¬ l tured . off Mocha three dhows, having Oti board 204 slaves. The captains of the dhows md four of the slaves were killed before the slavers surrendered. The death is announced of Father Schleyer, the parish priest of Constance, France, and the inventor of the new language known as Yolapuk. Sir Anthony MusgrAvE, Governor of Queensland, is dead. CONGRESSIONAL, Senate Proceedings. the 1S9th Day.—T he House resolution for investigation of frauds in the building of the new Hale and aqueduct was The explained debate by the Senator Senate Tariff bill passed.... opened by Mr. Allison. on Mr. was Y' nRpp i'onliorl Bay.—T 19, )th he Senate took ftp arid dis¬ cussed the conference report on the General Deficiency Agreed tb,... bill. special The conference bill Was introduced report was A Chief-Justice granting to the widow Of Waite his salary for the remainder of this year... .Mr. Hiscoek spoke upon the Senate Tariff bill. 191st Day.— Mr. Hale submitted appointed the report inves¬ of the special committee to tigate tjie the Civil Service....The Senate Chief-Justice passed bill paying the family of White the balance of his year’s of Tennes¬ salary, ainounting to $8745.... Mr. Bate, see, made a speech on the tariff. Hons© Proceedings. of 228th Day.— for dredging The bill appropriating and improving a sum the Bn. money Clair ship reported fa¬ Flats canal was Action upori the vorably Senate fiffim committee.... Maritime Canal bill to charter the Company, of Nicaragua, was twice defeated .... A resolution for the appointment of a joint committee to investigate the Washing¬ The ton attention Aqueduct of the matter House was during: agreed thb rest to.... Of the day was taken up with the private calendar. 229th Day—T he bill giving to fruit brandy the privileges accorded other spirits, of three years’ bonded period in warehouses under gaugers and delivered storekeepers, tariff was passed. speech .... Mr. Wheeler a criticising the Senate favorably substitute......Mr. House Wheelef from reported Cbnimittee td Expenditures thb t the on bill in the Treasury $500,000 Department, establish ft appropriating for' yellow fever to refugees. camps Senate bill .... On motion of Mr. Turner the was passed, providing for. the disposal of tho Fort Wallace Military Reservation In Kan : sas....The following bills were introduced and preferred: By Mr. Breekenridge, author¬ the izing the construction of bridges across propriating Kentucky River; $200,000 bv Mr. Dougherty, infection ap¬ in to suppress the interstate commerce of the United States, passed, without 230th Day.— The House debate, a bill appropriating $50,000 Exclusion to en¬ force the provisions df the Chineie bill... The Senate Supplementary bill efifi cerning Mr. McRae Presidential called electors the bill was to passed.... indemnify certain arid up purchasers of overflowed States swamplands. No quorum was present and the measure Was withdrawn. appropriation 231st Day.— The last of the bills has been passed, the house having Deficiency agreed to th» conference report on the bill. Fillibustering tactics were then resorted to, and then the house adjourned for two days, AWFUL RAILROAD WRECK. Two Trains Collide With Fatal Ef¬ fect in Pennsylvania. A most appalling acc dent occurred be' tween 8 and 9 o’clock at night on the Lehigl Valley Railroad in Pennsylvania, at a point midway between White Haven aud 1’em: Haven Junction, near the little station known as Mud Run. There is not a worse spot on the line foi such an accident The track there runs close beside the Lehigh River, a steep embank Went sixty to sevOnty-live tracks to the feet river. high, running down from the One section of an excursion train return¬ ing from the Father Mathew celebration at Hazleton, Pena, crashed into another section. The cars piled in a shapeless The mass, one ail being stood upon its end. cars were crowded to the doors, many women and Children being among the passengers. The cars weire smashed to pieces and hurled from the track, rolling down the steep embank¬ ments. Several cars'of the forward section were telescoped and forty persons were killed out¬ right, and the total number of dead is injured. placed at about eighty, while 150 were Fortunately the river was low, or the ca e would have gone into the water, and ttf loss of life would have been still more ter ribie. Under Full Sail. ft f* i, • • i H //I J * /•» n "nwmm >; m V: j yH Vi !/ I ; . ' ! m 1 I 'ii r f i t I i t - --Bazar, PROMINENT PEOPLE. The Emperor of China is in his eighteenth year. Jay Gould says his health no longer wor¬ ries ninL Patti, the great singer, is writing her au¬ tobiography. The King of Portugal is a translator of Shakespeare. The Russian Czar is soon to make a visit to Jerusalem and its holy places, Lady Dudley, the famous English beauty, is as white as a pond lily. Mrs. Cleveland has been making use of her fall outing in the Adirondaeks. The Queen of Italy, whose teeth are fine, keeps an American demist always at court. | It is feared that the Mikado of Japan has contracted a pronounced habit of alcohol ism. T he King of Denmark will celebrate the twenty-fifth 15. anniversary of his reign on No- \ Vember R. Gunner, Once Emperor Maximillian’s aide; is now keeper of a news stand at Dal¬ las, Texas. Since he got back alive the Emperor of Brazil is receiving all Sorts of manifesta¬ tions Of the people’s joy. Aaron Huknb, of the Russian Imperial Guards, has married » daughter of ex-Min ister Lathrop, of Detroit. Robert J. Burdette, the humorist, has been licensed to preach by the Baptist Church, to which he belongs. Frank drifted Hatton, the ex-Fostmaster the Western Gen¬ eral, has into business as agent for a newly invented stove, General Boulanger has resumed his daily receptions in Paris, and the agitation in his behalf has been recOitimeneed. Father Schleyicr, the inventor of Volar puk, is dead. A fund for a monument to bis memory will be raised by his followers. Ex-GoV. Albert G. Porter, of Indiana, is a portly looking genUerriftn of.medium height,-with a well kept gray beard arid the air of a banker. Mr. Gladstone has recommenced his autumnal recreation of tree felling, lie pre¬ fers to ciit fifths, arid leaves the sycamores for younger hands. The German Emperor on his ri deS at;the army manoeuvres is accompanied by ri mounted soldier, carrying an imperial purple standard on a lance. It is said that Master Workman Fowderly, Of the K, Of L., who will lias for some time applica¬ past been studying law, soon make tion for admission to the bar. A PROMfftENT woman lawyer Of Ohio is Miss Florence Cronise, of Tiffin. She has been in active practice for fifteen years, aud has Secured a competence and a large list of clieiiti Jo General Joseph E. hUST-W, the ex Confederate leader, is living quietly at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco. He is the last of the officers of the Confederacy to bear the full rank of General. Congressman William Walter Phelps, pf New Jersey, has a fortune of $12,000,009, Which is invested about and equally bond3. in He real is estate large tod railroad of stocks a holder Washington real estate, Both in this country and iri Ufioab Britain the name of the great Irish leader Parnell is pronounced by many as though accented on the last syllable. The Call Mall Gazette instructs its readers to put the accent on the first syllable, Fame 11 B P. Hutchinson, the Chicago wheat manipulator, is averse to having allowed his photo¬ photo¬ graph taken and has never a grapher to point a camera at him. His son said a few days ago that he would give $1000 to get a photograph of his father, The richest man in the National House of Representatives is Congressman W. L. Scott, of Pennsylvania. His fortune is said to reach $40,000,000, the bulk of which was made from mines and railroads. Mr. Scott is also noted for being one of the best dressed men in Cfingr'esri LABOR NOTES. There are 280,000 women milliners. The annual output of our nail mills is 800,- 500 tons. About 200,000 women find employment as dressmakers. Striking cigarmakers in Havana are com¬ ing to the United States. Over 100,000 anthracite miners are em¬ ployed by six or seven men. Keokuk, Iowa, has adopted the eight hour rule for all its city employes. T. B. Barry has resigned from the general executive board of the Knights of Labor. Agitation has brought about tbo aboli¬ tion of contract prison labor ifi Minnesota. The Pittsburg glass factories have employ¬ re¬ sumed work, giving 7009 operatives ment. Kansas will-make a vigorous and per¬ sistent protest against convict labor in the mines. There are 200,000 arc lights in use in the United States, and 1,000,900 incandescent lamps. The biggest passenger engines used in this country are the long-legged flyers Of the ; Pennysylvania Road. A Pittsburg man has invented a nail ma chine which will do twice the work that pres ent marines accomplish and at $5 a ton less, A California company, with a capita! of $1,000,000, will establish a big iron plantnear Milford, Utah, that will employ about 2000 York, The has Hebrew requested Peddlers’ Mayor Union Hewitt of not New to j allow boys under sixteen to pursue the voca tion - rapid introduction of the electric light I The into Nortuwestem sawmills shows the pro gressive spirit of the lumbermen of this re gion. i Typographical Union No. 7, of New York, has engaged an instructor to teach its Son" 8 the teCbniCal P ° intS l “ En *‘ i3b COm ‘ have Stumm offered Bros., of Neuenkirchen, of $2./-0 for Germany the best a prize the mbalarlonof dust by means of preventing the workmen engaged m grinding clay. [ The Internationa) Brotherhood of Boiler Makers and iron ^Shipbuilders and Helpers , was formed at Chicago, with J une, 1880, and 3500. now has 34 branches a membership of An Allentown (Pena) firm has exhibi- 1 on tion the largest knife and fork ever ru mu- ! factored. Each Is ten feet long and each has an ivory handle. The cost of inanuf, cture : $1300. I The yard, pay which of the laborers reduced at the Brooklyn navy each class was becau-e twenty-five ; vents a day in of a reported deficiency of appropriation, ibe has been restored by an order of Le.retary of the Navy. The RussianWorkingmens Uniou of New * , York has succeeded in organizing its country men employed union. in furniture-making The Russian establish- j ments into a union will organize all its countrymen into trades unions and form a council of unions speaking only the Russian language. j NO. 34. NEWSY GLEANIN GHS Cholera prevails in the Philippine Isl¬ ands. The attempt to organize a grave-stone trust has failed. Four German frigates have been ordered off to Zanzibar. Minneapolis bakers fix the price of bread at seven cents a loaf. - There will be a national exhibition in Palermo, Italy, in 1891. The Canadian Government has ordered a survey of the St. Clair River. England and Italy have formed a mari¬ time alliance against France. Wisconsin cranberries have been dam¬ aged twenty-five per cent, by frost. Extensive opium smuggling across the Dakota border has been discovered. Emperor William's tour has aroused great enthusiasm throughout Germany. Tom King, the once famous English pugilr ist, who defeated Heenan and Mace, is dead. There is now no lumber in the Canadian market. All of next season’s cut has been sold. A shortage of $40,000 lias been found in the office of the Public Administrator of New Orleans. Poisoned candy is being sent around Canada by some unknown person through the mail. A Cunard steamer will Halifax shortly begin the monthly service between and West Indies. F. J, Rees, Chief of Police at Milwaukee, has been removed from office on charges of incompetency. The English Currency Commission has not been able to agree on the question of a bi metolic standard. Seattle, Washington Territory, halibut is ship ping large q uantities of fresh to Gloucester, M ass EThe amount of loss to creditors in Eng¬ land and Wales through bankruptcy last year was $35,574,525. King Otto, of Bavaria, is sinking very •v fast, and his fits of insanity are now more frequent and violent. A beauty show at Wiesbaden, the competitors, Germany, ends in a free light among the result of jealousy. Great destitution prevails in Dakota be¬ cause of the failure ot ibe wheat crop, and an ajlpfftl is made for aid. The court .bouse and jail at Sac City, Iowa, has burned. A prisoner named Charles Carson was burned to deaf ' 1 . Pasteur’s sheep method for preverit-toK tinea anthrax among and cattle has been eao Ceesfttlly in New South Wales. There are $402,000,000 in mortgages which on lands, lots and chattels in Illinois, of $142,000,000 arc in form mortgages. Cornell University has put up a new n building which will be devoted to the scien¬ tific breeding of bugs and other insects. The New York Bureau of Encumbrances and 269,727 lias removed 211 telegraph poles of that city. feet of wire from the streets Amehicanb have captured fifteen three diplomas^ bronze twenty-six gold, six Bilver and medals, at the Brussels International Expo¬ sition. A San Francisco jury estimates a man’* legs at *50,000. at least that is the verdict, given George Smith, whose logs were para¬ lyzed by i»n injury. twenty-two and fe¬ A young Woman of a male companion stopped and held up a Lon¬ don, England, laboring man and went through him thoroughly, SaMUel C. Pratt wrs Nev., parboiled he having in the baths at Hot Springs, A‘“ s ' Patti has concluded ft contract with a Brazilian impresario for next Reason in Buenos Avres for $0250 a night and a further contingent interest in the receipts. It is computed that this year’s corn would crop, fill if loaded for railroad make shipment, train that would 2 878 571 curs, and a reach 10,449 miles, or two-thirds of the way around the world. The British Government will pay $250,000 indemnity on account of the loss sustained thrmjgn the collision in tho River Tagus of the British ironclad Sultan with the french steamer Ville de Victoria, A GREAT WAR SKIP. The new steel government cruiser Balti¬ more has been successfully launched, b» tween showers, from the Cramps’ shipyard, in Kensington, Penn., in the presence of a great crowd of Philadelphians and many United States Government officials, f No cards of special invitat ion had been sent out by the Messrs. Cramps lor t>.’ n event, ex¬ cepting those sent to Washington, bn* *“« gates of the immense shipyard were thrown open to the public, *n<l notwithstanding tC« fuin thousands of people gathered to witness the novel sight. The cars containing the Wash ington visitors arrived at the arrived shipyard at JSen 1:4a p. M. Secretary Whitney from York a few minutes later, and with the Washington visitors was escorted to the platform erected on ft level with tbo extreme tip of the bow of the cruiser. Hundreds ol workmen were at once put to work driving th( , wedges and sawing tho timbers support j n „ vessel. out!’* from the At 2:25 cries of “Look null workmen gave notice that the huge was moving, and a moment later, as it graceiPOy slid away, Mrs. Wilson broke the champagne Crttle on the “d christened tho vesse lhe Ba timore. ‘tlftTouflo The cruiser slid slowly mi^tS Md ttoehrereandstouteof the and horns. Tbo and the blowing of whistles anchor g we re immediately gracefully dropped, and the Baltimore stood resting in tho Delaware river, vessel The Baltimore is the largest the yet constructed for what is known as new navy. Bhe is 335 feet long over all, her beam amidships is 18 48.5 feet, her mean draught is 19.5 feet, and her displacement is SnesTs 73<X?a?nature! diTgCd W.180 drire'to^toong ™^ “ will atthe of nineteen'toote masts, fitted “ “ military r H ho carry two J, tops, and her crew will consist She has a protective deck of thick steel plates,and under this,down below the water line, are placed the rudder and the steam steering gear. being intended for effec The new cru jser, will be armed tive service in time of war, with a main body of four eight-inch breech loading rifted guns in sponsons 18 feet above the water. There will also be a second battery of six rapid firing six-pounders, six Hotchkiss revolvingcannon, and four going guns. She will also carry rpeao winching tubes or F uns ' . The Baltimore can haff-f^S . Atlantic ^n ^ ” to *4u f daV? ! *nTa JJyTLL to tb a t of the great passenger * ccaraer5 ' ________ discovered in Helena, 5r~g5S _ tracts < wer# The Montana A,;ft bv workmen digging Chance a sewer. Gulch, 0 n ureat Last ii t panned out fifteen cents to the pan, ,