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THE WIDE WORLD. GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE CULLINGS Of Brief Items of Interest From Various Sources. Humors of Indian hostilities arc rife in Mexico. The Humiltion Rubber Company, of Trenton, N. J., is in tho hands of a rc ccivir. •Francis F. Emory, boots and shoes, 100 Pearl street, New York, made an assign¬ ment Monday. Liabilities estimated at $300,000. A cablegram of Sunday, from Rome, Italy, says: Cardinal Alimonda, arch¬ bishop of Turin, is dead, lie was born in 1818, and created cardinal in 1879. The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly review of the British grain trade, says that English wheats are fine and prices arc stationary. In foreign wheats the changes in value are fractional. At a meeting of the cabinet at Madrid, Spain, Saturday, the queen regent presid¬ ing, Premier Canovas del Castello an¬ nounced that a commercial convention with tiie United States had been con¬ cluded. A St. Petersburg, Russia, cablegram says: Lake Ilam, iu the government of Novergood, has been the scene o: a terri¬ ble hurricane. Nineteen timber vessel? were wrecked in the hurricane, and all their crews drowned. At a secret meeting held in Trenton, N. J., Thursday night, the Central rub¬ ber trust was dissolved by the action of the bination companies included composing tho principal it. The rubber com¬ firms of the country. A cablegram of Thursday from Rome, Italy, says: The Vatican denies the truth of the report of the pope’s intended meditation in the dispute between the Italian and United States governments iu regard to the New Orleans affair. A Now York dispatch says: Stuart Robson, who is now Union presenting theater “The Henrietta” at the Square on Thursday gave a benefit performance for the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York, and as a result nearly $4,000 was added to its charity fund. On Saturday, a cable legation message was re¬ ceived at the Llaytien at Paris announcing that a revolution had broken out at Port au Prince, Ilayti, and that a state of siege had been proclaimed at Port au Prince. A French ironclad has been sent to the scene of disturbance. Incorporation papers were were filed a 1 - Columbus. O., Monday for the consolr dated oatmeal company, with a capital *toek of $3,500,000. All the oatmeal mills of the country are thus brought mi'Uffnnirirrnr-nt with headquar¬ ters in Akron, Ohio. The incorporators lowered. say that prices will probably be The women of all St. Paul, Minn., Protestant churches began a concerted movement against Sunday amusements Thursday by circulating petitions on the street railways and in the business dis¬ tricts. Their first attack is upon Sunday theaters. These petitions will first be presented to the theater managers and then (o the mayor. A Marseilles cablegram of Sunday states that a steamer which has arrived there from the New Hebrides islands, in the south Pacific, brings advices to the effect that a state of anarchy occurred, prevails there. Numerous conflicts have in which GOO natives were killed. The bodies of the dead were eaten by the victors. Dr. John B. Hamilton, surgeon general of the marine hospital serviee, at Wash¬ ington, resigned that office Friday and accepted the position of professor patholo¬ of principles of surgeryand surgical gy in the Rush Medical college, Illinois. He will be succeeded as surgeon general by Surgeon Walter Wayman, of the marine hospital service, who has been his chief assistant for some time. The Presbyterian general assembly in session at Detroit, the Saturday, voted to meet next on Pacific coast, and by a rising vote Portland won by an over¬ whelming majority, which was" then made unanimous. It was voted that if the railroads do not, at least three months before the next assembly, make proper concessions, the permanent officers of tho assembly have the right to arrange for Kansas City. A . cablegram .. of , Thursday says: The French exhibition in Moscow, Russia, fiasco, has proved to be a complete French priests intending to visit the ex- the hibitionnre not allowed to cross frontier without fiist obtaining a months’ special permit, to secure which two ;timc is required. Novels by Maupassant, Lemouier and Sylvestre have: been confis cated, and visitors to the show are nar rowly wa.cbed by the police. A Washington dispatch of Thursday says: The court martial which tried Lieutenant Commander Bicknell on a charge of negligence in suffering two vessels of the navy, Galena aud Nina, to be stranded, has found Bicknell guilty, and sentenced him to suspension from retain the rank and duty for one year and to his present number in his grade during that period. The secretary of the navy has approved the action of the court, and has promulgated its action. A New York dispatch of Thursday eays: An interesting trade organization has been effected in the last two weeks among the southern plaid mills for the ostensible object of obtaining a uniform standard of production and a better rep¬ resentation of southern world. Thirty-five plaids in of the the markets of the forty-four southern plaid milLs have formed a stock company with a capital of $1,000,000 and power to increase. One of the most destructive firOs in the history of Los Angeles, Cal., occurred Monday. The fire s'nrtcd in a four-story frame apartment buildiug on and the corner of Seventh and ILill streets, before tin; engines could reach the spot the fire had gained such headway that it was im¬ possible to control it, and in less than half an hour the block was entirely de¬ stroyed. The total loss is about $100, 000, in which there is comparatively little insurance. A boiler in tho saw mill of P. E. Kramer, at Frankfort. Iud.. exploded ihursday afternoon. Frank Ed Hull, Kuutz engi¬ died neer, was instantly killed; in a few hours, and Glenn Swearinger was fatally injured and is dying. William Davis aud two sons of Engineer Hull are very dangerously injured. Harvey Hut¬ chinson aud Ben Keys are dangerously injured, and the engineer and fireman on a passing train were slightly injured by flying brick from the explosion. A New York dispatch of Friday gays: The announcement made recently that Colonel John A. Cockerill, late editor of The New York World, had formed a syndicate to start a new Democratic morning paper in New York City has been supplemented by a positive state¬ ment that the plant already of The been Commeicial purchased, Advertiser has and that the new company will take forpial possession at once. The price paid is not known to a certainty, but the new company will have a capitalization of $350,000. RTT^TNF*!? iJUailNEda REVIEW. PPVIPW Dun & Co.’s Report for the Past xir vrcciv. 00 u. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: It is astonishing how far monetary anxieties have passed from the minds of men, though gold exports have not yet ceased. The most powerful sus¬ taining influence is the continuance of the exceedingly favorable crop prospects. In some localities tributary to New Or¬ leans rain is needed for cotton and sugar, but winter wheat is now so far advanced in many states that a heavy yield is con sidered certain, and prospects for other grains are as bright as they well can be at this date. Wheat has fallen If cents at New York,corn 5 cents and oats 3f cents, while pork has.yielded 25 cents per bar¬ rel and lard an eighth. Exports of wheat already show a decided increase. Sugar is a shade lower for Muscovado raw and for granulated. In general, the prices of commodities have declined not far from 1 per cent for the week, and will further decline as the new crops draw near if no disaster comes. The end of the great coke strike does not yet bring lower prices, for it is announced that $1.20 will slid be charged, but twentv-three iron furnaces of Shenango and Mahoning valleys have decided to resume work at ooce, .ccorfiog demand to ,clc grams. There is abetter in eastern markets for bar and structural iron and plates. Cotton manufacture progresses have without caused change, especial and dullness eastern in failures the boot, shoe and leather trades, even for a dull season. At Philadelphia there is a general hesitation because of the state of the city’s finances. The only markets at which stringency is reported Savannah and Memphis, though money is firm at New Orleans and in strong demand at Minneapolis, and a lit¬ tle close at Cleveland and Detroit. But in general the supply at nearly all points is adequate for all legitimate business. Business failures corres]%iding ok tiie week number 219. For the week of last year the figure was 20« POLK ON THE rHETllRD T D PARfY. An Interesting Progressiv^®?mer. IjBLrial in the gan, The The North 1 'ro/jressiier, Carolii^^^Be Alliance published or¬ at Polk, Raleigh, National N. C., Al 1 CPttjmcd dent, by L. L. con¬ tains the following whaT^Rl The question, tile alliance do with the new ptfrty■? is }on the lips of tens of thousands of anxious people to-day. Well, it ought ui>t to take much wisdom to answer adopted that questfon. demands The new party has the alliance into its platform. Does anyone suppose intelli¬ gent alii mce men will vote against a party that adopts those demands, and in favor of a party that not only fails to adopt, but resists those have demands? The western alliance states already gone into the new party. Will not the neces s by for alliance unitv force the other alliance states to go into the new party als0? We see no way to prevent the new party from sweeping the country, except the simple one of cheerfully conceding to the people every one of their just de ma pds. If the atliancemen are to be blamed for giving in to the third party, , h en the hungry child can be blamed for going to some one whp can and will fur¬ n i s h him food . G cnt lemen of the old parties, if the timecomes when your ranks shall be broken, your leaders overthrown and your heritage taken from you, do not blame the alliance for your ruin. The people have represented petitioned by the and Farmers' begged Alli¬ and ance, pleaded and haughty pfayed minions for relief of all these years; and political power have spurned both them and their petitions and prayers. Do not blame them for your overthrow, but blame your own blind and miserable folly. A POLITE BOARDER. Landlady—Have some of this butter, Mr. Bordaire? Landlady—Ah, /kank you you. don t love butter i Mr. B—Well, 1 cannot say that i love that butter; but, mv dear madam, I assure JO» that i„ to. est respect. [Washington Star. npti K V tn I j TA K T I A 1 T I jIVI fi/T Al A O F' p. UM, l rv i_i ita /w xj I i_i Pi THE BROOKLV\ DIVINE’S SUN DA Yih6ER MON. Svimbct: “Two Gahlands.” Text: "I witl say to the north. Give up, and to the souiH, J£cep not hack ."— Isaiali xliii., 0. Just what my text meant by tho-north and south I cannot say, but in the United States the two words are so point blank in their meaning that no anS one can doubt. They mean more than last east west, for although between those two there have been riv<( alries and disturbing ambitions and infelici¬ ties and silver bills and World’s fair contro¬ versies, there have been between them no batteries unlimbered, no intrenchments dug, no long lines of sepulchral mounds thrown up. It has never been Massachusetts Four¬ teenth Regiment against Wisconsin Zouaves; it lias never been Virginia artil¬ lery against Mississippi distinct rifles. and East and west are words, sometimes may blood mean diversity They of interest, but there is no on them. can be pronounced without any intonation of wail¬ ing and death groan. But the north and the south are words that have been surcharged •with tragedies. They are the words clouds which had been sug¬ gest that for forty years gathering for a four years’ tempest which thirty years ago burst in a fury that shook this planet as it has never been shaken since it swung out at the first world building. I thank God that the words have lost some of the intensity which they multitude possessed of northern three de cades ago; that a vast people have moved south, and a vast multi¬ tude of southern people have moved north, by and there have been intermarriages the ten thousand, and northern colonels have married the daughters of southern captains, and Texas rangers have united for life with the daughters of Now York abolitionists, and their children are half northern aud half , southern But north and anWuth a^tog^tber patriotic. words that need are to be brought into still closer harmonization, 1 thought between that now, presidential when we are half way elec tions, and sectional animosities are at the lowest ebb; and now, our'chief just after a presidential who journey, chiefly when elected mag¬ istrates, been cordially was received the by south- the north, and has at now, just after two Memorial Days, one of them a month ago strewing flowers on south¬ ern graves, and the other yesterday strewing flowers on northern graves, it might be ap¬ propriate and useful for me to preach a ser¬ mon which would twist two garlands—one for the northern dead and the other for the southern dead—and have the two interlocked in a chain of Sowers that shall bind forever the two sections into one; and who knows but that this may bo the day when the prophecy ancients of the text fulfilled made in in regard regard to this the may be to country, and the north give up its prejudices and the south keep not back its confidence? “I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Keep not back.” But before I put these garlands on the graves I mean to put them this morning a little while on the brow's of the living men and women of the north and south who lost husbands and sons and brothers during the civil strife. There is nothing more soothing to a wound than a cool bandage, night and these dew. two garlands are cool from the What a morning that w’as on the banks of the Hudson and the Savannah when the son was to start for the war! What fatherly mothecty counsel! What tears! What ftSTSt. the knapsack, iSttS^WSTS the bundle that to bo or was exchanged for the knapsack! the steamboat The landing crowd around the depot or but lather and mother and sister And how lonely the house seemed after they chair went home, aud what the an awfully va cant there was at Christmas and Thanksgiving waiting table! And What after the battle, what for news! suspense till the long lists of the killed and wounded were made ou t! All along St. the Penobscot, and the Connecticut, aud the Lawrence, and the Ohio, and the Oregon, and the James, and the Albemarle, and the Alabama, and the Mississippi, and the Sacramento there were lamentation and mourning and great woe, Rachel weeping for her children, and refus ing to be comforted because they were not. The world has forgotten it, but father and mother havenot forgotten it. They may be now in tiie eighties or nineties, but it fresh is a fresh wound, and will always remain a wound. Have you realized the fact that our civil war pitched out upon tho farmfields of the north and the plantations of the south a multitude that no man can number, chil¬ dren Under without the fatherly advantages help which and protection? had of all we fatherly guidance, wliat a struggle life has been to the most of us! But what of the children, stood two their and five mother’s and ten Jap years with of age, who at great, round, wondering eyeS, hearing her read of those who perished in the Battle of the Wilderness, their fathers gone down among the dead who host? by such Comhj disaster young have men had and to women, make life, and I will your own way in put the garland on your young and imwrinkled brow. Yes, you have had your own Malvern Hill, aud j our own South Mountain, and your own Gettysburg all alqng I these twenty years. Come! And,, if cannot spare a whole'garJand for your brow, I will twist in your Jocks at least two flowers, one crim¬ son and one white, the crimson for the Strug gle of your life, which has almost amounted to carnage, ana the white for the victory you have gained. Before I put the two garlands I am twist¬ ing upon the northern and southern tombs, I detain the garlands a little while that I may put them upon the brow of the south’ livin'* soldiers and sailors of the north and while’ who, are now though at peace at variance and in for hearty a long loyalty to the United States government, and ready, if need be, to march shoulder to shoulder against any foreign passed" foe The twenty-six winters that have since the war, I think, have sufficiently cooled the hatreds that once burned northward and south¬ ward to allow* the remark that they who sides. fought in The that conflict were honest on both chaplains on both armies were honest in their prayers. Tho faces that went into battle, whether they marched tow¬ ard the Gulf of Mexici or marched toward the north star, were honest faces. It is too much to ask either side to believe that thos6 who came out from their homes, forsaking child, father and mother and wife and many of them never to return, were not in earnest when they put their life into awful exigency. Witness the hist scene at family prayers up among the Green mount¬ ains or down by the fields of cotton and sugar cane. Men do not sacrifice their all for fun. Men do not <*nt moldy bread or go without bread at all for fun. Men do not sleep unsheltered in equinoctial storms for and As chaplain of a Pennsylvania regiment, as a representative of the United States Christian Commission, I was for a while at fron k and in those hospitals at Hagers £T , pSi£”!5Sf'2f S? farm-houses were filled with wounded aud will twist two more garlands for northern and southern graves, and every springtime UIltll gome mnn or womau fvhoni 1 mav have cheered a little in the struggle of this life shall coma out and put a pansy or two on iny own grave. Hut if the. time should over come when this land shall he given over to sectional rancor and demagogism and north and south, or east and west shall forget what the good God built this nation for, and it shall halt on its high career of righteousness and liberty and peace, and be¬ come the agont of tyranny and wrong and oppression, I baptised thou in let infancy some young at these muu,..wb. altar- OUl have go out to Greenwood and -coop up my dust and scatter it to the four winds of heaven, Tor I do land not want to sleep, with sectionalism, and I will not sleep in a accursed or oppres¬ sion. And now I hand over the two garlands, both of which are wot with many tears— tears of wiu'owhood and orphauage and childlessness, tears of suffering and must tears of be gratitude; performed and symbol, as the there ceremony not being enough in flowers to cover all the graves, take the one garland to the tomb of some northern soldier who may distribution yesterday have the been omitted in the of sacra¬ ment of flowers, and the other garland to the tomb of some southern soldier who may a month ago have been omitted in the distri¬ bution of the sacramout of the flowers, and put both the wreaths gently down over tho hearts that have ceased to beat, God bless the two g: arlands! God save the United States of A marica] dying amid Federal? and Confederates, I forgot the horrors to ask on which side they fought, when with what little aid I could take them tor their suffering bodies, aud the mightier the aid I could pray for their souls, I passed days and months amid scenes that in my memory seem like a ghastly dream rather than a possible reality. When a New Orleans boy, unable to an¬ swer took my question the as to where he was hurt, out from folds of the only garment that had not been torn off him in the battle a blood, New Testament, marked with his own life and I saw the leaf turned down at the passage, “My peace I give unto You, not as the world giveth give I unto You,” it read just as though it had been a northern New Testament. And when I sat down and took from a South Carolinian dying in a barn at Boonesville his last message to his wife and mother and child, it sounded just like a mes¬ sage that a northern man dying far from home would send to his wife and mother and child. And when I picked up from the battle field of Antietam the fragment of a letter which I have somewhere yet, for the name and the address were torn off, I saw it was the words of a wife to her husband tellin<* him how the little child prayed for their father every night that he might not get hurt in the battle and might come home sound and come home well, but that if any¬ thing happened to them they might all meet again in the world where there are no part¬ ings, it read just as a northern wife would ■write to a husband away from home and in peril conveying the messages of little chil¬ dren. Oh, yes, they were honest on both sides. And those who lived to set home are living yet were just as honest, and ought they not for the suffering they endured have a coronal of some kind? But we must not detain tho - two garlands any longer from the pillows of those who for in a quarter of a century have been prostrate dreamless slumber, never oppressed bv summer heats or chilled by winter’s cold. Both garlands are fragrant. Both have in them the sunshine and the shower of this springtime. Him The colors of both were mixed by gold who mixed the and blue the of the sky, and the of the sunset, green of the grass, and the whiteness oi the snow crystal. And I do not care which you put over the northern grave and which over the southern grave. These ing in these august throngs gathered aisles this morn¬ pews and and corridors and galleries are insignificant compared with the this mightier throngs which of heaven who God mingle in service we render to and our country while we twist the two garlands. Hail blest! spirits Hail martyred multitudinous! Hail down spirits ones come from from the King’s palaces! How glad are we that you have come back again! Take this kiss of welcome and these garlands of remiu iscence, ye who languished in hospitals or went down under the thunders and the lightning bor of Murfreesboro Fredericksburg and and Corinth Cold Har- ant and Yorktown and above the clouds on Lookout Mountain. the Among the thousands south of for gatherings Decoration at north and at the Days I am conscious it that this which service is unique, and that is only one in there has been twisted two garlands, one for the grave of the northern dead aud the other for the grave of the sonthlrn dead. O Lord God o he Amenran Union, is it time that we bury forever our old grudges? My! My! Can we not be at peace on earth when this mo¬ ment in heaven dwell, in perfect love, Ulysses b. Grant and Robert E. Lee Will lam 1. Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, and tens of thousands of northern and southern men who, though they once looked askance at each other front the opposite banks of the Potomac and the Chickahominv and the James and the Tennessee, no-ware oh the same side of the river, keeping jubi¬ lee with some of those old angels who near nineteen centuries ago came down one Christmas night to chant over Bethlehem, Glory to God in the highest; on earth peace, good will to men!”' I have - been waiting for some years for soma ope else to twist the tyo' garlands the that love f tS-flay of God twist, and but, country no one I doing put it in hand, the my now niy to work, and-next spring about this time, if I am living and vvei), I SUDDEN DEATH Of Judge Breckinridge, of Mis¬ souri, While Speaking. While participating in a debate in the Presbyterian general assembly Detroit, of Michi¬ gan, in session at Thursday, Judge S. J. Breckinridge, of theological St. Louis, a member of the board on seminaries, and one of the most eminent lawyers in the South, suddenly fell to the floor sad expired. The Bill Dropped. A London cablegram says. The house of commons, Thursday, adopted informed a motion that the “house having been that the legislature of Newfoundlandlias declarindritit passed readiness a satisfactory act, to support a measure necessary to carry out the treaty obligations and awards of the arbitration commissioners, there was no necessity to proceed wiih the second reading of the Knutsford bill.” Third Party for Texas. A dispatch from Dallas, Tex., states that a meeting was held there Thursday to organize a third party in Texas. SCIE.NTIFIC SCRAPS. Tho grip is caused by dust carrying the germs into the throat and lungs. According to scientists, “eating too much starves tiie brain,” and eating too little starves the stomach. An electric expert snvs no light lias been found that will penetrate a fog better than an old oil lump. In the new Anglo-American tele¬ phone cable the four cores are wound around each other in a spiral or strand to obviate the effects of induction. So severe is tho climate of South America upon iron that before ties have shown signs of decay the llangea of the rails will be nearly eaten oil' by rust. An English inventor offers a system by which coal gas, compressed to one eighth its natural hulk can he carried about and utilized as an illuminant when desired. The best speed of a railroad train is only a little more than half the ve¬ locity of the golden eagle, the flight of which often attains to the rate of 140 miles an hour. The French chemists who somo months ago succeeded in making small rubies have now overcome all difficul¬ ties, and can make them of very much larger dimensions. A new theory in relation to tho moon has lately been advanced, to the effect that the lights and shadows of the moon are incompatible with the theory of its spherical shape, A report on electric lighting of trains in Germany leads lo the conclu¬ sion that such lighting must be inde¬ pendent of the locomotive, and that it must bo on the accumulator system. In armor-plate tests steel has gener¬ ally been found to compete more suc fully with compound armor when tiie plates were eighteen inches thick than when they were only twelve inches thick. Electric power has recently been depended upon in England for a sup¬ ply of phosphorus, with the results, both as to quality and material and cost of production, that were con¬ sidered to be eminently satisfactory. Flounders replenish the ocean at a very rapid rate. In a season one flounder produces many millions eggs, scattering them broadcast through the water. The solo produces I, 000,000 eggs, a plaice got less than 2,000,000, while a large turbot lias been credited with tiie deposition of II, 000,000 or 12,000,000 eggs. By comparison of records extending over a number of years, it Ins been concluded that the moon has au influ¬ ence in lowering the height of tho barometer in the months from Septem¬ ber to January, at tho time of full moon, and of raising it during the first quarter. No effect lias been per¬ ceived iu the other months. One of the late London inventions is the “silent call,” a device in connec¬ tion with electric lighting. Two lamps are suspended outside the building, one red and the other green, and by pressing a button in the entrance hall, cue or the other of the lamps can ba lighted at will. The red light sum mons a four-wheeler, and the green a hansom cab. Some writers in one or two of the .English papers have been again point¬ ing out the fallacy of the very com¬ mon idea that melted suoiv is an ideally pure water. The reverse oi this is true. So far from being pure, snow is, practically, a great purifier of the atmo sphe re from floating particles and noxious gases. These the flakes of snow imprison or absorb us they fall, aud, as a matter of course, when the snow melts it is loaded with this rubbish. When the Earth was Young. When the earth was very young, s&ys Dr. Ball, Astronomer Royal for Ireland, it went around so fast that the day was only three hours long. The earth was liquid then, and as it spun around and around at that fear¬ ful speed, and as the sun caused ever increasing tides upon its surface, it it last burst in two. The smaller part became the moon, which ha3 been going around the earth ever since at au increasing distance. The influence of the moon now rises tides on the earth, and, while there was any liquid to operate on in tiie moon, the |earth returned the compliment.— [St. Louis Republic.