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THE BLACKSHEAH TIMES. VOL. VI. The hostility of Costa Rica toward the construction of Nicaragua Canal has been settled by arbitration, and work on the canal is making rapid progress. The Secretary of the National Prison Association estimates that the census ol 1890 will show a prison population of shout 100,000, an increase of about SO, 000 in ten years. The volume of trade on the Great Lakes is increasing enormously. There will be built this winter thirty-five new vessels, with a tonnage of 66,000 tons and at a cost of $4,600,000, for next sea son’s business. The discussion of the advisability of colonizing Vermont and New Hampshire with Scandinavian immigrants has directed attention to the. fact that Maine made a successful venture of this kind twenty years ago. The horror which Editor Stead, of the Pall Mall Gazette, expresses at the idea of anyone’s going into jonrnalism for the purpose of making money, is justified by the opinion of the Washington Star by the expcrince of a great many persons who try it. Eighty-two persons have been killed in the United States during the past six months by boiler explosions, and iu nc one case has any one been held legally responsible for the calamity. This, re marks the Detroit Free Press, ought tc encourage tin peddlers to ruu engines. Amelie Rives Chanler, the novelist, is passionately fond of the violin. It it said that “she will jump up in bed in the middle of the night, seize her violin, always at the head of the bed, and fiddle away with surprising energy.” The other day it was announced that Mr. Chanler had gone to Central Africa. The popular belief thet ironclad men of-war are an invention of the last half of the nineteenth century is evidently not founded upon fact. Divers have re cently been at work in the harbor o Trieste, Austria’s seaport, and hav. brought Up portions of the Frenc.i frigate which was wrecked seventy-eight years ago. The wreck had sunk se deeply in the sand as to be well preserved, and it has been found that the hull was of wood and was heavily plated witu iron. Rice planters in the South are accus tomed to burn their rico straw' to get it out of the way. We understand, says the Manufacturers' Record, that recent practical tests have demonstrate this straw makes excellent paper mi.v rial. One paper company has gone so far as to order some 3000 or 4000 tons of this straw to further experiment. Rice straw may yet prove to be a cottonseed in njjaiature. At any late, the results of tbaseexperiments r will be watched with interest. The Yankees of Asia, as the Japs are sometimes called, have been more tor mented with the disastrous antics of the elements this year than even the Ameri cans. Japan has had a series of earth quakes and floods and a tidal wave has added hundreds more to the thousands already killed by falling mountains and rivers pushed out of the place. The his tory of this year is one of disaster all over the globe. Almost no nation has escaped, but Japan has suffered perhaps more than any other when her area is considered. There is a feeling of warm friendship for Japan in the United States, which makes Americans regret the cal amities that have overtaken this inter esting people. W. W. McNair, famous for his daring *»■ Aorations, died recently in India. His death was caused by overtaxing his powers by mountain climbing, exposure and lack of food while prosecuting sur . gbLZ. 8 By shaving hU head and staining his body, McNair, in the dis guise of an 'Indian doctor, spent two months exploring the sweet vallcv of ' _ Kafinstan. . No „ European nad , . ever man aged before to set foot there, on ac count of hostility to the native tribes. He found that the people there num bered about 200,000, and were nearly white in color. The women were very beautiful. His disguise was penetrated before he completed his investigations, and he was compelled to flee for his life. With only two native assistants he also explored the Asphan and His arak valleys. BLACKS HEAR, GA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER r>, 1889. ! GENERAL NEWS. I CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND INCITING EVENTS. SEWS FROM EVRavWERRE— ACOLDKfrs, STB1KEJ, FIRES, ASD UAPPESIltUS OF I.NTEKRST. The government of Brazil has re I adopter the oid flag. .' artiu Farquhnr Tupper, the author, is dead; aged 79 years. Thanksgiving day was generally ob served thioughout the country. A heavy snow storm prevails , m . the ,, midland counties of England. Whitt a drapery establi-hment at Al dershot, Luc., was burned lhur.-day. Loss is £100,000. There are 7,500 dockmen and lighter men ou a strike at Bri-tol, Eng. The trade of the port is paralyzed. One of the buildings of the Hartford, .'oun., carpet woiks was burned Friday. Loss $180,000; insurance $175,000. Frederick Douglas has arrived at ilayti, prtsented his credentials, and has cen tendered a reception by the presi ii nt. An explosion took place in a colliery at Bochum, Prussia, Thursday, in which fourteen persons were killed and four in jured. The Duko of Cumberland will insti tute suits in French c- urts to nullify the will of the Duke of Brunswick on the ground of insanity. The Truth building, owned by Frank Wilson, proprietor of Truth , at Toronto, Canada, was gutted by tire Friday. Loss esiimated at $9u,000. The chamber of deputies at Rome, Italy, on Saturday, voted urgency for the consideration of the bill to abolish anti-French difTrential duties. The Portugese steamer Alcgoa 9 , with • x-Emperor Dom Pedro and his party on uoard, nrr.ve i ot 8t. Vincent Saturday. All members of the party are well. In Sdt Lake, Utah, Judge Auderson has demccP the application of those ■ iVmons who have taken endowment oath lor admit-sion to citizenship. King Leopold, of Belgium, has sent a telegram t • Henry M. Stanley, congrat ulating him upon the completion of his task, and inviiing h m to v sit Brussels. The Ktnke among he employes of tlie Western Railroad company, ut Paris, France, has ended by ihe men yielding o ihe terms of tlie company. 'Ihe ■ttrikers resumed work. An Tyffleial sttiitemen'' by the assessors, places the assessed valuation this year of mrn<d properiy at Lynn, Miss., at rl,009,500, and the number of buildings urneu 330. The Andrew Jackson league, of Chi | cago, have taken measures to aid the ladi'-s of Nasiiville lieimit go as oc a tion in preserving the home of Andrew Fact son. While the collector of the C< mmr rr-ial National bank w as counting $2. &00 in the .eneral office of the Utrman-American >ank at C evehind, O., 8a ur ay aft r noon, a thief snatched $2,000 and es caped. The $5,000,000 world’s fair guarantee und at New York, was more than corn (( )p- • ^ ---.rday, the grand total is now 3. 'Ihe world’s fair committee ,—ded to continue to receive sub ^ ^ Secretary Krcmer, of the flood relief commis-ion, at Johnstown, Fa., practi caliy finished, in connection with the local board of inquiry, the distribution f ^■ <3U 0 -° 00 'Ihe last check , left, . his V ufhco Saturday. . Saturday morning three boilers, of a rific nest force of twenty-one, breaker No. exploded Joan-ville, with ter at 4. at Pa., operated by J. C. Haydon <fc Co, Fireman George Peacock, aged twenty five, was burned to a crisp. The build ing is a total wreck. A Leechburg, Pa., dispatch says thal estimates of conservative citizens place 'he loss byWiduesduy night’s fire at $150,000 to $175,000, with about $75,000 insurance. The fire is supposed to have originated from natural gas. The popu lation of Leechburg is about 3,500. Fire started in Keyport, N. J., Fri day morning in Leyrer’s bakery, which destroyed five buildings and caused a loss of over $C5,000. Jacob Leyrer was burned to death, and Mrs. Leyrer and Jacob Leyrer, Jr., were terribly burned, and may die. The Chicago Time* savs that Maggie Schn imr, who poured kerosene oil on her husband on June 25, 1888, and the D set fire to it, burning him fatally, is suing the < rder of Foie^ters for $2,000 interest and principle, on a death benefit of $1,000, which she claims as ben ficiary of the dead man’s estate. President W. W. Young, who, with Cashier John ilot-rr, both of the Law rence, Mass., bank, were charged with surrendered d^oroX^nf hmn-ie f Thursday wLonSl^ night and -ave bail in the sum of $2,500 forbear n ^ D ' S t Fire 1 broke the . _ Delavnn , out in gas h at AHrany N. Y , Saturday morning, and the names, g lntng he-d *ay, roiumunicaicd t*» the paper house ot Jac b Leonard & Son, and the Albany Ca-ket company. Both were a total :o-s. Several otker buildings were dam ; ge I, and the loss will reach $75,000. Corvillain. proprietor of the Ll--w cartridge fact- ry at Antwerp, which up in Septemt* r and knled to m ny people, not his engineer, have been eonvict<-a <>f liomi-ide by imprurteuce. Corvillain was s* ntc a d to four \rars and six m >mhs, and t:.e engineer to one year and one ni * th’s i« pris-mment, and to pay a fine of 2,500 fraces each. Arrangements have been ma le by i»> the co d operators of the .Von ngaliel Valley, to close down thjir mines md uniieiy, as the lew works .U operation have demonstrded that th< demaud of the miners can not b con cede, with the pr ce of coal as low as it is a' present. The suspension will effect 5,000 men. Ex iorts of specie from the port ot New York for tlie weekended, ltd,of .Nove w.iieli n b r 3dtk, amounted to $319 $8,047 was iu gold, and $31 in si ver. AH the silver an I $J.oOt> ui go d went to Euro e, and $5,257 in gold went _ . America. , , Imports . of . sp for the week.am. unted to $i9o 605 « w£eh $lo9,48n was gold and ^3,120 831 cr - Die day after Dom Pe Iro sailed from Rio Janeiro, the provisional ihe government Brazilian of Brazil telegraphed to minister, at Lisb m, directing him upon the ex-emperor's arrival to tend, r him a general reception. The Brazilian colony here regarded this nction as dictated by delicate consideration ou the part of tin provisional government toward Dom Pedro. Thursday 1 Hursctay forenoon torenoon Jouu Tohn Ghana L-nina, a a hopeless paralytic aged 35 was ound deaden the floor of his hovel at Potts town, I a., With a leather strap o isc y fastened around his neck. Somo 113 ,ln ' tain that it was suicide, whde others say that it is a case of foul play, thougu s mde is the generally accepted theory SiZ oneway lSS Th ho cursed his creator in a terri ble manner when he fed over, struck dumb and paralyzed from head to foot. Ho remaned iu tbb condition ua.il hi, aeatu ' JEFFERSON DAVIS DYING. TOE coNFEDEnACY’s cHiciFTA in si.owey passing away. -- A special dispatch from New Orleans under dote of Friday, says: Mr. Jeffer son Davis’ ci ndition has again become critical—more critical than it has been »t any time since his present at tuck, even the members of his fondly admit, tor the first time, that the Miua tioa 18 very discouraging, >u s Mr. i cling to the ho,.e that Davts’s wonderful vitality and ative powers \m!1 |>ul nin i iroug i. 1 shown, howcvi-r, no disposition arded to fur n c.np er te, und tins is reg as more serious th in the bronchitis and fuverf on which he has stiff-red. Mr. Duvi- has taken “nb food except beef tea, for two weeks, and that in such small qu intuies us barely to keep ihe patient alive. lie lms lelt no desir- for food, i.nd h a taken what was offered him ut dcr protest. And ihus, wliib- Le has been better one day than another, and then worse again, he has been grow ing weaker all the time, and its tie pe'nded largely bronchitis on is stimulants led for strength. The now legar as sm ,nlv a local complaint, from whu h there is little to fear, hut the diead is that the long s ckness front which Mi. Davis 1 at been suffering, the lack ol nourishment a el the feveis which hue vis v 81 ted him ,tc;n tim to tun , may produce , _ meningitis the resi^nce w of Jnsttc. , Mr. Imv.s is at n lennt-r, New Orleans, of the „nd State ts Supreme a tended ®P*J by r t that at gentleman’s family, Mrs. Davis eudluv mg relatives ami friends and * Cha.lle -- „ and , Ztcklmm, _. . . two , n of , f New v„ w Or- r leans’pleading: bhjs’cians I t^ i “Kh.^. Mt-s on a trip Winnie through Davis Europe M-two for rn- her J health J accompanied by upa.ty of tnends. Bee is believed to now at Pans. 1 he idenceof Mr. Davists at Bcuuvoi t tween Biloxi and Oc«-an Springs Mss a beautiful place on the guif 1 oast. While in New Orleans Mr. Davis was taken sick, first with broneh tis, then with peett monia and fever added, which, with loss of sleep, his eighty-one yea is and ally feeble constitution tlireatcne to terminate his life, as his liitle remaining strength was rapid y departing. A fav orable change then came for a few days with better nights rest and -de-cnce of fever. But strength returned very slow - lv. Two days ago he had a relapse accompanied by fever and tie: old sym toms of sickness and loss of sleep. This is his condition at pretent. TRAIN ROBBERS ARMED TO the teeth, CAPTURE an EN CINE, MAIL AND EXPRESS CAR. - A dispatch from Fort Worth, Texas, says: Sixteen mounted and heavily armed men boar :ed the south bound Santa Fe passenger train Tuesday night, at Ber wyn, a small station in the Chickastw nation, Indian territory, and cut the en gine and mail and express loose from the coaches. They then ran the train two miles and threw the fireman off the locomotive. Two miles . , on the engineer was SSS^eS? ^ robbers began en gi ne killed. Then the tn al t*ck on the express car. The guard and the messenger fired twenty shots but finallv gave in alter the ro bers had literally 'riddled the car. The money (to i en is between twenty and thirty thousand d liars. Th': passenters snd ma i were not mole-ted. Untied State* marshals are in pursuit of the robbers. FATAL EXPLQ8ION. An explosion of natural gas occurred it Dayton, Ohio, Tue«day morning at the r sidmee of Scott H wtho.ne, in tht western part of the city. The h-nme woe b own to atom-. Two ch ldren were killed, and Mr. Hawttiorne, his wife and father, received terrible injuries, which will probably *e*uit fatally. SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA RJOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. A CONDrxsKD ACCOCNT OK WUAT IS OOINO OS OK IMPORTANCIi IS TUK SOUTHSUS STATES. Granville „ V'uui', at Rugby, postmaster the charge enn., lias been arrested on ot r nmg letters. The Debardaleben Coal and Iron com pany, of Hjrmii gltatn, Ala., has increased the pay of miners, at Blue creek mines, from 40 to 42J cents per tou, commenc ing December 1st. gix e» » M dad with 878 neirroe. m»«d through p .j Anniston, AIm., on night. the Georgia ac tic ril j| road on Sunday Carolina, The negroes were from Nortli on their way to Mississippi. J“ *‘ l ‘ ° fiS Charles Cr cr ’ » piolmte x ,.esdav. She bequeathed her entire estate valued at about #11 ’ 000 ’ - 000, J. to her four children Tll .° oonimi.teo which has boon Hives- . 3 H a ln ff ^e affairs of the oflico of | ate A ]t Woodsou, city collector ol Richmond, Va have found a shortage iu his accounts of about $45,0U0. A furnace company with a dapital stock of $30,000, all held by loci! cupi talists, was organize I at Birmingham on Friday. The company wid build a on’e hundred tou furnace at once. A conflict between Ihe States of Vir ffi'iia and Maryland seems imminent in cons, quenco of the proclamation ol Governor Jackson Hug Hlaad throwing «.» open the .u Bishop Keener, of the Southern Meth odist church, at Columbia, S. O., ou Sat urday di-liveicd at: official utterance con demning the peculiar doctrine of “holi ness” which liua ninny adherents in both Northern and Southern churches. Peter Piiday McLaren of Can ids, purchased Du tho Doutha survey, contain j n! r 34,0h0 ueres, lying in Allcngheny county, Virginia, Irom Philadelphia p, ir tj t . s for $300 000. Tlie property has on it fine timber and valuable minerals, M(:Leod & Atu | orB((n to |, nC co ware ho u,emcn f of Louisville, firm Ky„ failed Wednesday. The con bisls of , )r> Ol , orgo W# Me Leal and Janl( . s A An( , er8 ,m, both of Versailles, assigned ali property belonging to ’ not suoje-ct J to homestead exetnp- * tion ' Sheffield, Ala., celebrated . , . , I hunks- . girtug Day by sending, by liver route to 8t. Louis, three hundred tons of pig iron. The shipment was the first iron ever sent l>v river. It was the virtual opening of the new route, and a math 1 of greai co sequence to Sheffield, and proportion 1 1-• Iy to tho entire mineral district of Alabama. A dispatch from Nashville, Tenn., says: Miss Emma Abbott sent for the secretary of the Ladies’ Hermitage Asso elation on Saturduv, and fter express ing her admiration of 1 I 10 churiicer ol Andrew Jackson, and wishing the ludiei success in their efforts to beautify and preserve ihe hermitage, slto p,esented them with a cheek for $100. N x , f 8r ,, .. ... W „ Va ,° n / ’ Wednesday, H , the Chesapeake and . Oh.c n railroad bridge crossing Gi.y.indoltc river, fell while a fret,lit tr-.in wat cros-tng n, precpitaimg thc entire train mto the river Lngin. cr R V. Free man was killed. Ihe rest of the crew had a mtr cu ous escape, sustulei.ig only slight hr u^sos. The wreck w 1.1 complete. The br.dge has been condemned for some time. A dispatch from Aspen, Col., on Wednesday says: The heaviest mow m years has fallen during the past three da „ Many snowslides have occurred. j^o loss of humau life is reported have yet, though several part es are known to btelJ in tho neighborhood of aiides. Two m ,. n were caught in Lincoln gulch and buri'd, toge hcr with their teun and wagon. The men were slightly injured, and the hoisis were killed. ALDERMEN SENT UP SEVERAL PROMINENT CITIZENS OK PITTS BL'RO, PA., WILL GO TO JAIL. Aldermen Callan, Dougherty arid Mamese, and Detectives Hairier, Doyle, Niigle and Binder, con viced of conspiracy to deiiaud in accepting bribes io settle illegal liquor selling w " r ? Fente “ cc .‘ 1 rid '? *? orni,, « \ Judge W hite of ,he criminal court of Pittsburg, la Cuban got three J*»r# the wo khouse, and Doug » y one year ,u ‘ s»x mon js in jai ,if,ran( jJH( ,,c de ictive ear g'- 1 ir(( ' * r< '^ J i,j workhouse, Nagle om- year »nd Bender six months in jail. The aldermen are all qnt e prominent and wealthy, snd always stood high in the commum y. I h- tr method was to hove tie detctivi s enter suit against unlicensed liqu r dealers and then settle the case fur a consideration without reporting the matter to tho court. LOGIC. Sma n jv, v fat tJ)e A{n „y-V\^ mumj m j iiave thf . off /round < J, d y id the House—Y»s, my bow. ('Dm m mutes after wards)—“Hire! VVhat are you doii.gin tiiat tree. I only - ■ i'l you could iiave those off tho rronnd.” “Well, the ones on the tree are off the ground, ain’t th-v t”—(Times, In Cashmere 30,000 shawls arc made yearly. It takes tiirce men a year to nish the material for one and a hall yards square. CONDITION OF TRADE. 1 CO.’s K. ( 1 . DUN a RETORTFOU •WEKSKND lNG NOVEMBER 30. , ( R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: The two heavy tires, with aggregate losses estimated a $15,OUO,QOu or more, may have an influence, upo several branches of trade which cannot y Ul ho estimatad. Prior to the Bostoi [ire d 10 hoot and shoo trade there bit been quite p-ruliscd by tho lire ut Lynn, and as to iho leaiher trade a little ad . vauee was anticipated, while in New York it wot) by many expected that the i temporary withdrawal of ihe dem uU w, uni cause some fall in leather. Tin Boston fire oi Thursday dost,overt heavy stocks of g oils, and will doubt ess ui ' feet the demand. Rebuilding in bon ciths wi.l cieate a sudden demand foi materials anil labor. Heavy concurrcn lo ' se '' llll *y sl| uko some ii surance eomp.i l '“ s . au,i l ,he <’ f «nU- But general pros,., rliy an. 1 accumulation ot available capital i ! will probauly duta-ters comparatively render tlie influence of ! these narrow ano brk . f . In (llhe r respects the s.tuaiion is | K.^J^nd quite * as encouraging the as volume it. has of boon Imsims lo. , nast • ZVy ta makes though not ended at Ne» | j York, has seemed to be sections abating elscwheie with, Reports trout other are ui exception, favorable ou the whole, I Western cities, without exception, flu. ,ratio good. Money is Ii.irly active, bn nowhere stringent, at the western p .im leiHiriing, und the accounts icgardi g eollections iirebetterthan i.KualLott.m | is uimhanged though receipts ti e p.s been 373 000. Coffee has not moved, though 200,000 bags have been sold, bit gar is stronger with more active dis'ribu lion, but Spreekles again announces that his war with the mist P to the death, and his work is about to begin. The shoe towns have all and been the shipping demand more largely than usual con tinues exceptionally good, for the wirti sea son in leather products generally a prospect ol some increase because Ol the Lynn (Iro. 'I lie great bm in iu iron abroad with spo (uuiiu (xcitent nt rnr y wit nessed ami rapid fluctuations in piios, causes some apprehension, rapid beeuu and .0 expe rience teaches i Imt such ex cited movements aro u- uuLy followed produc- by ugly react! ms. Unparalleled tion in litis country still contuiujss and other Iuniaces of large production are ab tit to go into operation and yet prices are linn ut Phil idelphi 1 . Though Wan ants hive been quoted a little lower at New York the demand fur manufactured forms, co .tinning large at full pricrf-i tin There lias but been merchandise no importunt change in nces, the week, have ex ports, though small for tbal been neatly eight per cent, larger value last yea: for tho month. The of exports in October wus not only greater than in any previous October, but has never been exceeded in any month, ex cpt slightly in one, December, 1879 With an unprecedented , . , excess of , cApoiis ovrrimpoi t-, amounting to over heavy 0,( V 000 it) that mouth and ■ unotli i assured for November, the r.to of ore.gn exchange has scarcely altereu for two wei k-. Iho reported decision shall that tie,*ury y deposits / with bunks b ,^ tl(]lllll J wi hdr .. iwn , n, p, r cent, of t!l , ", , of January, .R.p^ita has been J t Ihe8c when tll: w ,’ ru in cn(led tl) be only tempo rnry ,/ . lltld wi „ give t , l0 treasurer sm ‘ ti|II0 to l cqu;l | , in ,o..nt into i((m|a ion in , ltl , er V , U K . T , u: tre „. u y Lore during last week $1,200,000 than it had taken in, an I the rate for m „ ucy lltt , n „ t changed. Business tailuresoccurringtlirougliuuttheeonr,- for the United try last week number Btlt( . H 2 10; Canada, 39; total 246 n,/ain.-t ‘277 last, week THE SILVER QUE8TION. SOJ1K OF THE UESOLUTIONS 1*It EHKNTK1J MY'IIIE CONVENTION. : The National Silver convention was culled to order by the chairman Wednes day morning at Ht. Louis. Delegate Mor,e, of (J Wora lo, introduced the .ol j lowing resolution: and Jle-pre-ten Jbsolved, mtives That in Senators ihe Congress of tue United Stale* be and aie hereby leq nested to es ! tublish a unit for tlie coinage of silver witti the Sourti Anit-r can B'atcs thu shall make silver co n passcunent on |»o j with gold in ull the Am ricas ol tin j western hemisphere, anji that they aln be requesn d to open negotiations with the Confess of ali Ameiicas now in ses sion in Waihin^ton for the building ol « railroad from the United Stales to and through the htates oi So ith America After ahv«lv di cushion the nsolutUn referred to the committee on resolution* lollowm rwolui |o„ offered by Mr < Cit r. lorui a, wax rece.ved w.tl d f| d und( . r the ruU . 8 Where Wall s’reet and custert: bon th Oder* are now actually ut work btiiving to elect a t-pcaker for ihe up piOitCnlOg Cougrens, wnoae record is en tirely oppos' d to silver interests; an I, Wh reas, Ii- pre-entatives in congrt-s shoul'i be the »■ rvants of the people; and Whereas, This treat -onvention shows the un-inimi'yof public opinion in -outti ein and western states and territories to favor of mor. coinage of s Iver; therefore, i*. it reso ved, 'J h it we-tern and houtheru repre-entattvc-» iu c >ngr<-ss be r quested to supp -rt so-ne friend of silver for the gpeaker»h p of the present bouse of rep resentative at d that the-r fa lure to do bO * ill he the betrayal of the people, warraiitiii u tiieir j>o1uich 1 de*ith. Mi£.srk. Hh-uer a: biBinev, or Franklin, Pena., declined a ewah offer ol <36,000 fa-thv rugReat pries ever offered for an an tried t o ter. NO. 9. WASHINGTON, 0. C. MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT Aa\D HIS ADVISERS. APrOtSTMKNTS, DECISIONS, ASH OTHER. MATTERS OF 1STABCST FROM IHE NATIONAL CAPITAL. It is es'imaled at the treasury depart- of ment tbst there has teen n deer, nse J.4,000,000 in tho public debt since No vember 1st. The secretary of treasury has decided to reduce the number of mil on d bunk depositories an I the amount of public monies kept therewith. The attorney-general at Washington is iu tinned that ihe trial of tho cases of ulleged frauds in Florida, at tho lust presidential elu ti.,n,has already resulted in three convictions. Secretary Tracy lms made arrange mo .ta by which the navy is to i>. furn i hi d brown p. ismatic powder for large guns mi l tlie new smokeless powder for smaller arms. P. 1). Armour, before the drct'Sed beef comini toe, de toil the existence ot a c mbination t . r.i-e prices llocl dmed I hut tlie h. riling of nunem-e i mnbeis of cattio on tlie government lands, and rushing them i.ulf grown into market depress, d | rices. Tho Secretary of Stale is engage 1 in nem tint ous l. r an in ernu ion.n copy right treaty with France. Count De Keratry has been at Washington some time as a special re|iiesent.itivo of ihe French republic and voices the views of liierary men of that nation. Senator Vest’s committee, which has been investigating the dressed beet busi ness of the Country for some months, having visited the center- n that busi ness, in the course of their inqu rv, dur ing the items of congress, lias resumed Ihe ex. munition of wimes es in die room of the senate ■ ommitteo on commerce. A letter was read In the international American coufoioucu on Wulnesilay from LaFayeite Rodrigues Pereita, one of tho delegates from Brazil, announcing, witli regret, that he lelt. unable to con tinue (o act in delegate, owing to tho changed condition ol affaiis in bis coun try. Tho day was devoted to discussing tho proposed rules of procedure. Tho first thanksgiving day of tlie now administration vvn- gem rally eelcbr ted in Washington. Tho president cturied out ibe letter of Ids thanksgiving proc lamation by attending services morning. at the Church of die Covenant in toe In tlie evening lie ate an aid fashi inert Thanksgiving dinner at the white house, surr untied by members of his family. Colonel Ernst, ol the aimy, the new commissioner of public buildings anil grounds, wan the only guest. DOST ON’8 BLAZE. A UtJIllilCANK OK FI.AMD DKVASTATHTfl BLOCKS OK HANDSOME llUIl.DINOft. Fire sturted shortly before 8 o’clock Thur-day morning on tho upper floor of the six story granite block, Nos. 09 to 87 Bedford street, Boston, Mots., owned by Jordon, Marsh & Co,, and occupied by tlie Mine and Leather exchange, Biown Darrell & Co., Woonsocket Rubber company, Solomon, Hebert <& Rapp, John H. Fogg & Co., and tho brunch office of the West ern Union floor, Telegraph und Company offi. on the of ground uhout hlty es out-of-town boot and shoe and leather manu:artiirers on the ui per floor. The lire evidently had complete po-sos-ion of the upper floors before it was discovered. In a sli rt time the flume* hud leaped tier' es Bedford. Kingst- n and Columbus streets, and by 9:15 the handsome brown stone Antes building, on the opposite corner of Be ford and Kingston street 1 , wus a mass of flie. An half hour later the tear of all the buildings on Chauneey stiert, on cither side of Bedford street, . «ere on fire, and tin- fire department was apparently unable to cope with it. Out of-town fire apparatus were sent for and theie were prooably severity Hve steam ers surroui ding the fire by uoou, and by the combined efforts of the vast army of firemen and engines, the fire was finally subdued. In a three o’clock extra tlrv Ghlte gives he following c tima e of the loss: L ss on buildings destroy'd, a- per as-es-or’s valuation, aliout $690.00U; estiuia'ed damages to othr-r build mgs, not destroyed $2h0,G00. A eare ui estimate of the loss on merchand sc, $1 700 oOO. Total loss, Cir ful estimate of an od aasessor, $2,550,000. HIE BURNED DISTRICT bi gtnfl at (Jolumb a street on tlie east anc extends two blocks westward, along Bed fold street to Chauneey street on the e ist. On the south side of Bedford street the fire consumed the eutire block bounded by Bedford, Kings on, Es »ex and Columbia streets Westward of thi-, the entire block bounded bj Bedford, Kingston and Cbsumey stieets ai.d the Rowe place, and westward ol tbsse buildings, on Ch iuricey stieet,fronj Bedfor I to Exeter place. 'I here ar« ab >ut 200 firms burned out and 100 agents of New York and western firms have their headquarters destroyed. The seventy-nine insurance companies known in to be interested, carry an aggregate sursnee of $2,600,000 «n the burned propeity. ’Ihe t tai logs, according tc the latest conservative estimates, will resch $4,000,000. Two firemen —Daniel Buckley, unmarried, and Frank P. L ker, who has a wife and child, acs mi-sing and are supposed to have per ished in th flames. A good many peo ple were injured, several oi them se riously. ADVERTISE NOW.