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> 4 mm. - - rLLWOIB.1 WORDS BY fflBE. Latest News by Telef̂ fe from All Parts of the | jSvY World. ^ Gossip, Rallrosd Notes, Per­ sonal iMttm, and Ocearrealfl. ef Lesser Jiote. ? \. 4"i Utff DISPATCHES. 1; , • i 4 ltAILROADSMASH-UP. Itterd People Klllotl *ntl Wonrotf# !W i t . |ui Accident on tti« reumylvwili Rated. 'WHILE the fast train west on the Penn­ sylvania Railroad was ncaring Horse Shoe Bend, on Friday night, the wheel of a car OH a freight train going east burst, and the train crashed into two passenger coaches, killing instantly four men and injuring many others. The accident was the worst that has happened for years oft tfie Pennsylvania Uoad. The killed are as follows: Dal ti rauaro, son of ex-speaker GrSham, Allegheny, Pa.; J. H. Stanffer, of Lewisville, Ohio; Wymer Snyder, a one- legged man, of Shamokin, Pa.; John itorris. a newsboy, of East Liberty, Pa.; Frank MoCue, of New York. ; In Defense of the Southern RMWM>" , • F. B. STAHLMAN, Third Vice President Louisville and Nashville Railroad, appeared before the Interstate Commerce Commission Friday, to answer statements made by Commissioners Fink and Gault, of tbe Queen and Crescent Route. He said tint if there was any exception anywhere on this continent that called for relief under the fourth section, tbe whole Southern system of railroads was that exception. By an elaborate statement of rates Mr. Stahlman sought to remove what he called a mistaken impression, to the effect that Southern railro ids had de­ liberately gone to work to build np Alabama interests at the expense of other sections of the country. The rates were fair and equit­ able, and tbe people were satisfied with them. He was not aware of any necessity for relief in the matter of pig-iron rates at points on his own line, but he did desire relief on through traffic to New York. The Chairman suggested that such an order would ha futile unless other connecting lines joined. Mr. Stahlman replied that the Lake Erie and Western was so situated that it oould unite with his road on a $4 .ipto to New York without violating the law. Tbe BuiMM Situation. JL O. DCS A Co. in their weekly trade general improvement in BAST. , dispatoh says the propoeed of certain ex-bolders of i bonds in Holland against Sage, and others to *000,000 will be instituted sssary papers arrive from EtSMlH 0*Banex was presented to New York legislators In the Assembly Chamber at Albany Thursday, and in his speech said American sympathy greatly encour­ aged the advocates and promoters of the Irish dtotMh A POLITICAL friend of Dr. McGlynn is credited with saying to a New York re­ porter: "Dr. McGlynn positively will not go to Bona. He has made engagements to lecture for th rty~five days of tbe forty allotted to ,hip in which he must be in Borne. He has all along maintained that he never would go to Borne in disgrace, and he won't.. If it .was made possible for him to go as an American citiren, anxious to lav before the Pope the doctrine that the land belong" to the whole people, you could not hold him in. He'd be buying his ^passage ticket, with his trunks ready packed, and off in the next steamship. In am- other way his journey would be sui­ cide.* » fr y . V i f'jVfo'.-ft. T---: : :• WILLIAM ANTQBEAS, an amateur bal­ loonist, was .killed at Oskaloosa, Iowa. He had a hot-air balloon, about twenty by forty feet. When loosened it shot up with great rapidity about seven hundred feet, when a current carried the balloon a distance of three blocks when it took fire. Andreas was on a trapeze ten feet below the balloon, and was 6een to climb nearly to the mouth, as was supposed to attempt to put out the fire. Very soon, however, the balloon collapsed, and tbe doomed man fell upon the roof of a busi­ ness block near the public square. The body was crushed beyond recognition. The ascent had been lartrely sdvertised, and the streets were filled by thousands of people, mostly women and children. The sight was a horrible one, and occasioned intense excitement. Some ladies fainted, and many others had to be carried home. A ST. LOCIS dispatch gives an account of a gigantic scheme to consolidate all the cattle interests of the Northwest and form a company which shall control $15,000,000 worth of * cattle and grazing lands. It seems to have originated with the Wyom­ ing Stock Association, of Cheyenne, and it is the outgrowth of the combination of the smaller cattlemen into companies which has been going on for several years. This scheme has been formed for organizing tbe largest cattle com­ pany ever known, controlling hundreds of thousands of cattle, and ranges larger than many States. The failure of the Swan Bros, brought matters to a focus rather un­ expectedly. The plan is to unite the Wyo­ ming, Colorado, Eastern Utah, Western Nebraska, Southern Montana, and South­ ern Dakota oompanies into one gigantic .corporation, each absolutely surrendering April 000,000. The decline uted rather to the prevailing •haw to the interstate commerce act. Bail- road earnings are large and encouraging. Trade in most lines of merchandise is native. The business failures.during the week in the United States and Canada numbered 175, against 180 for the corre­ sponding week of last year. Presbyterians, fn Genera) Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America as- aembted at Philadelphia Friday, with 3,000 delegates, representing more than 100,000 oommunicanta, in attendance. The Pres­ byterian General Assembly at Omaha on Friday appointed a committee to confer with a similar oommittee, already appointed by tbe Southern Assembly at St. Lou's, upon the subject of the proposed re­ union between the Northern and Southern Churches. " HonfMe Herder In Ntaaeaota* ' JC188 LILLIE FIELD was found in a hog-pen near Fergus Falls, Minn., disem­ boweled, with her throat cut. A Scan­ dinavian hired man named Nels Olson Holung is supposed to be the murderer,* as tho gin wuleft alone with him eatljia Ike morning, and he is missingi -V ,>f Commerce. ' ' CATTLE were slow of sale at the Chicago ftock Yards Friday at unchanged prices. Hogs were active at slightly better prices, but 1,000 common swine were left unsold. Sheep wen scarce and higher. Latest mar­ ket quotations: NEW YORK. • 4M .Steed hio, ft ora- Brownlee oined the Gunu... •pes. Vtttv-I -Ko.lWhMs .. Mo. a Hed..... Conn--No. a..... gMS-Wbtte .- Wmm.--,Mew Mess XT CHICAGO, ffenu--Choie* toPrimeSUen Median Common. •oca--Shipping Grades... " Ifcoon--'Waiter Vtant WKBAT-MO. 8 Spring. Co**--Ko. •....rrr *.... OATS--No. g BCTTKB--Cboiea Creamery _ Hue Dairy CHKEBE--Full Cream, cheddara. Fall Cream, flats Sees--Freeh FOTITOM--Choice, new Voax-Meu _ • • MILWAUKEE. 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CifttlM--Prime 475 ?e4r ^60 4.25 6.00 8.76 S> 4.50 0 5.25 19 3.75 <4 85 £ .88)4 0 .28 O 6.00 d 4.75 A 4.50 m 5.50 @ 4.25 DION BOUCICAULT, the king of tbe Irish comedians, has been delighting the patrons 01 MoVioker's Theater, Chicago, during •ka areek, i^h his fine impersonation of •Ctand the Shaughraun." The present will be his last week, and will be a varied one. The critice of Chicago are lavish in their . praise of the great comedian's work. The jfetne says of Ms Conn: How delightfully the brogue tripg off his tsagnsl Warn rich the native, readyWit; how jgmwlslvo and ohiralrous his character; How 4fiiMO«Uy polite, how thoroughly Irish 1 He la JistOMteeSh of a boy tbat would be the spMt mm* fair. She lifa of every wake. We don't |W where the inspiration came from. All the 1 Lovers, tbe William Carletone, and the 1 Levers in the universe never could put life into this character that Boucicault It is as rieh and mellow as the best 1 the* ever escaped Queen's taxes, and I smoke itself. It deserves to as hoc Jencscn's Bto Van Winkle. Could r Tennessee Farmers' Association complain­ ing that the agricultural interests of East Tennessee are persistently discriminated against by the railroad companies, and praying for a fair trial of the interstate law for a period of time sufficient to deter­ mine whether or not its enforcement will prove beneficial or detrimental to the busi­ ness interests at large. individual hard and ranch, and receiving ount of Btock in return, ion has been recently t one of far less extent tion. Ok-layer of Canton, and, pick­ ing up a inches long, murdered Ul^^^Hytbiiis her in the throat and^^^^^^Hkr* she drove Mm to the di Salvation Army. Tixsebrtue of man,^ presented to the by Cofcmel William J. veiled Thurstay itathe p: multitude. General J. C. ant Governors?*Illinois, del tion, and a poem by Mrs. K Sherwood was read by Mm Bebecca Steed- man McCann, a niece of Gen. Steedman. WA^HINGTOK. ' ... . . --1^ • ATTOSNSY GENEBAL GAB£AND soys he doe# not want a seat on the Supreme bench, and would not accept it if tendered him... .The President has refused to par­ don James J. Stanley, of St. Louis, con­ victed of fraudulent registration. AN actual count of all the money in the United States Treasury incident to the transfer of that office from Mr. Jordan to Mr. Hyatt, and which will occupy two months, was commenced last week. THE parade of the various military or­ ganizations in camp at Washington was an unqualified success.- Tbe President re­ viewed the troops from a s'nnd in front of the White House. A couple of Southern companies dropped out of the procession because they were asked to march behind a colored company. ASSISTAHT SECRETABY MAYNABD, of the United States Treasury Department, has decided that the law allowing Indian effects to pass and repass the boundary l ues does not give the Indians tbe privilege of im­ porting ordinary merchandise, cattle, nones, etc., for sale, without payment of the legal taxes. THE President has gone to the Adiron- decks on a fishing expedition. He is ac­ companied by Mrs. Cleveland and Colonel and Mrs. Lamont. It is said that the party will be the guests of Gov, Hill at Albany on their return trip. L. W. KEID, of Virginia, has been ap­ pointed Assistant Register of the Treasury. ... .A Treasury order has been issued for the admission, free of duty, of articles im­ ported for the Industrial Exposition to be held at Minneapolis. POLITICS.^ GBOBGB WILLIAM CURTIS, in an ad­ dress upon the political situation before the Commonwealth Club, of New York, said that "the President, amid incalculable diffi­ culties, had been endeavoring to carry out his conviction upon the subject of civil- service reform," but that he "had met with enormous obstructions, and the most enor­ mous was the Democratic party itself." He predicted that the result of the election next year "would depend more upon the candidates than upon the party that nomin­ ated them." THE President has appointed Henry F. Downing, of New York, to be United States Consul at St. Paul de Loan da, Portugal, and Edward J. Hill, of North Carolina, to be United States Consul at Montevideo. INTERSTATE COMMERCE. PETITIONS were received by the Inter­ state Commission from the Mississippi Bailroad Commission and citizens of Cen­ tral City, Utah, protesting against the sus­ pension of section 4 of the law. Charges were preferred by the Alton Road against tbe Pennsylvania Company for violating the third section of the interstate com­ merce law in giving undue preferenoe and advantage to tbe Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Road in the interchange of passen­ gers at Chicago. The Rock Islsnd Road tiled similar charges against the New York Central and Hudson River line. An order was entered for Ihe companies against which the complaints were made to appear and make answer in ten days. ALEXAKDEB MCCLOUD, General Freight Agent of the/Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Company, made an argu­ ment before the Interstate Commission in support of the petition of that oompany to be relieved lrom tbe operation of the loni and short haul clause. He said the row . ;bad been forced by the law to relinquifh its grain trade for the reason that the short trunk lines crossing GENERAL. THB lease that Dennis O'Brien, the ten­ ant of Luggacurran, had with Lord Lans- jdowne has been made public at Montreal. ;^It provides that all improvements, no mat- ter by whom made, belong to the landlord. Animals and birds, the rotation of crops, are all enumerated as the landlord's prop­ erty, which the tenant has no right to use without his permission. Tbe tenant can only cultivate the most difficult and sterile part of the farm, and must not cut a twig without the landlord's consent. The ten- nut is also responsible for his sub-tenants. If the tenant fails in any one of the terms of the lease he becomes bankrupt, and all IT'S possessions pass to the landlord. MB. O'BBIEN'S health is worse than it has been since he received his injuries at Toronto, says a Hamilton dispatch of Wednesday. He is unable to leave his bed, and will be obliged to take a few days' rest at Niagara Falls. No arrests in con­ nection with tbe Hamilton outrage have been made. Mr. O'Brien positively denies that shots were fired from his carriage, as charged by the Hamilton Spectator. He apprehends further attempts upon his life when he returns to Montreal. DE LESSEPS is in fresh trouble. A Panama dispatch says that water has been struck in one of the largest, longest, and deepest cuts, far above the line of the canal work, and has washed from the side of the mountains into the cuts and filled them up. THE United States Brewers' Association, in session at Baltimore, appropriated $5,000 for the assistance of the brewers of Michigan, $5,000 for the brewers of Texas, and $3,000 for the brewers of Tennessee.the money to be used in defeating the efforts of the Prohibitionists in those States. The sum of $9,000 was also appropriated to the use of the Publication Committee. It agreed also to an assessment equal to one year's dues to enable the trustees to fight the temperance cause. These officers were elected: President, William A. Miles, of New York; Vice Presidents Henry Clausen, Jr., of New York, and T. J. Lef- ens, of Chicago; Treasurer, J. C. G. Hop- fel, of New York; Secretary, R. Katzen- meyer, of New York. George Ehret, of New York; Jacob CcnracI, of Philadelphia; Emil Schandern, of Milwaukee; and T. J. Lefens, of Qhicago are' among the Trus­ tees elected. A vigilance committee of twenty-five and an advisory committee of fifteen were also elected. St. Paul, Minn., was selected as the place of the next meet­ ing, and the convention adjourned. NORMAN J. COLHAN. the Commissioner of Agriculture, has issued a notice quaran­ tining Cook County, 111., under the provis­ ions of the United States Animal Industry bill, and forbidding the transportation of any cattle from the county unless in ac­ cordance with certain specified require­ ments. The Commissioner states that r.arantine has also been ordered of West­ chester, New York. Richmond, Kings, Queens, and Suffolk Counties, in New York, and Baltimore, Howard, Carroll, and Prince George's Counties, in Mary­ land. Pleuro-pMeumonia is said to prevail to a somewhat alarming extent in Scotland among neat cattle. Imports for the { res­ ent have been prohibited by tbe Treasury Department. FOREIGN. 1*PB strike of the Northumberland (Eng­ land) miners has ended, the men accepting the reduction in wages The condition of the Crown Prince of Germany causes great solicitude at Berlin.... Two more Irish priests, who were imprisoned for refusing to testify regarding the "plan of campaign," have been released unaer the decision of the Court of Appeals in the case of Father Keller. THE Paris theater known as the Opera Comique waa destroyed by fire Wednesday evening, and nineteen lives were lost. Forty-three received injuries more or less severe. A dispatch from Paris says: The iron curtain was lowered in front of the stafre, and this prevented the Are spreading im­ mediately to the auditorium and allowed tbe audience time to escape. Most of the casualties are due to nervousness. Many persons who were unable to trust themselves to walk the narrow ledge of the cornices around the build­ ing jumped off in terror. One woman coolly walked all around the cornice, while tbe flames were bursting above, until she reached the fire- escape. The victims are almost all singers. SMALL-POX is raging along the upper banks of the Amazon River in Brazil J. Joseph & Sons, merchants of Birming­ ham, England, have failed. Their liabili­ ties amount to £100,000... .The French anarchist Defuisseaux has been arrested at Maubeuge and conducted to Paris. THE Earl of Meath is dead... .Bismarck is a sufferer from muscular rheumatism. A conspiracy to overthrow the Sultan of Turkey has been unearthed Petro­ leum conduits near Batoum. Russia, some of which belonged to tbe Rothschilds, bava been destroyed with dynamite. Tbe out­ rage is not attributed to nihilists.... The Cabinet crisis in France continues, and bids fair to be prolonged indefinitely. M. de Freycinet has, it is said, found it impossible to form a ministry, and will a second time decline the task. It looks as if poor M. Grevy might be forced to fall back upon M. Clemeneean or General Boulanger, after all. THE number of lives lost by the burn­ ing of the Opera Comique greatly exceeds the previous estimates. M. Reveillon, in the Chamber of Deputies Thursday after­ noon, estimated that at least two hundred persons were killed and burned. A dis­ patch from Paris says: biquirlM for 1M persons who are rappoaed to have perished in tbe flames have been made by relatives and friends. The firemen have been working all dajr recovering bodies from the ruins. One group of twenty bodies was found di" mtm Tgim viM 'te W MAMtiii'ia tion. The sssfshslnw voaliwdt no -dfe. crimination or injwy *• ssinns or fta TSASS established by tnsakmes, andthaonly question was whether his road should he allowed t*» do part of tha basl> nese at these Msa or should ha enfiladed from it Mr. Green, representing theKioh- igan Central, gave notice that he had filed a complaint against the Chicago and Grand Trunk charging it with sailing thousand-mile tickets to commweialRev­ elers for $20, while the general public is required to-pay for the time ticketa $35, in violation of the interstate commaree law. As an order has already been made tat the appearance of the company complained against, Mr. Green deferred his argument until it should be represented. A PETITION: was received Thursday by the Interstate Commission from the East in a terribly mutilated condition. Tbe remains are principally those of'ballet-girls, choristers, machinist*. Five of the bodies of *ld< rly ladies, and one of la that of a child. The mains of three men and two women were found in the stage-box. whero the victims bad taken refuge from the flauies. It ban been estimated that many bodien lie buried in the debris in the upper Kalleriei*. whence escape exceedingly difficult. I,vin« together at the at tbe staircase lading to tho second story were found the bodies of eighteen la/lion, all to full dross, These 1 .dies all had escorts to tbe theater, but no remains of men were found aoywbere near wi^ere the women were burned to death. Hxty 1 olies were found floating in the cellar, which is flooded with water fo the de<. th of live feet Tho remains were terribly charred, uij were only recog­ nisable by means of trinkets. The waltn of the theater began falling tl:l* evening, arid the aeansbftir boaien had to abandoned for tl«p day. Tbe library attached to ti e theater wlU entirely destroyed, with ail ite con evt*. in eluding many valuable snore*. Hx titousand •oatnmes wera buruod in ti e wardrobe. Tb« mim v® for a Feloi BeoeiTed AXUK th» Black C*p & <• • Drawn. The Hanglaf Vndefifcltely Pastpaaed, " tfce Criminal OvcresaMr -irith Jay. ' m m [Savannah (Oa.) speoial.] The following are tho exeiting details of the saving of Laggett's life, for his death has not yet been compassed, though his neck has been in the hangman's nooae. William Clifton, his faithful attorney, reeeived on Wednesday night--or rather Thursday morning--telegrams from Gov- ernor Gordon infoiming him of Leggatfs respite for thirty days. ThSSe ha •started with for Tatuali County on Thursday afternoon. It was generally understood throughout the oounty that the executioh would take place in the forenoon of the next day. The sun was not two hours high when people began arriving in the town, some on foot, others on horseback, and many in the cracker carts. The scaffold had been erected in a field a quarter of a mile from the village. Thither the crowd moved, and steadily grew in numbers. Leggett was given breakfast at 7 o'clock, and shortly afterward a minister of the gospel was admitted to his cell. The con­ demned man talked of the murder of his wife, said that he was sorry for it, and ex­ pressed a hope for forgiveness. He had not received any intimation that a reprieve would be granted in his case, and he went about preparing to pay the penalty of his crime. At 10:30 he was handcuffed, and, surrounded by Deputy Sheriffs, was driven to the scaffold. Fully 1,5(KI people had collected there, and on immense crowd fol­ lowed JLeggett and his guurds from tbe town. Dozens of men and boys bad climbed up into the trees to get a better view. Hundreds more swarmed over the carts, stand ng up on the wheels, seats, anywhere and everywhere that a foothold offered. THE ULACK CAP. The jesting lulled as the prisoner as­ cended the scaffold, but still a low buss of excited comment arose from the throng. After a few miuntes of prayer and a short oonfession lrom the murderer the sheriff slipped the noose over Leggett's head, carefully, tightened the rope around his neck, and adjusted the knot. Then the black cap was put on and pulled down over the prisoner's face. He had walked up on the gallows with a firm step, and showed little sign of nervousness in his voice as ha sang and prayed. He did not falter when placed on tbe fatal trap, and held hif hands quietly behindehis back to have them tied together. His ankles were next bound tightly with a stout rope. Mr. Clifton was in his bed in Savannah when he received a telegram from Governor Gordon granting a respite. When the at­ torney left the train at Johnston's station, on the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway, he had forty-five miles to drive through a country not noted for its good roads. The breaking of a trace or an axle or anything happening to either of the horses, or any one of a hundred accidents, was liable to delay bim and prevent his reaching Riedsville before the trap was sprung. While Leggett was wataking through his cell window the first gleams of dawn bis faithful lawyer was urging a swift Stair of horses across the country at a gait hat oovered them with foam. The hours sped by with equal rapidity to the prison­ er and to the man who was hastening to save his life. IN TIME. The Sheriff had just turned to step down off the scaffold, preparatory to cutting the rope wbioh held the trap in tho floor, when Mr. Clifton pushed his way into the crowd and Bhouted: "Mr. Sheriff, I have here a message from Gov. Gordon, directed to you." "Come this way and let me see it imme­ diately," answeied back the Sheriff. For a moment not a whisper was uttered. Evegy one held his breath. The orawd divided and made way for the lawyer to pass to the foot of the gallows. The Sheriff glanced hastily at the telegram, and drop­ ped the hatchet which he held in his hand. "Go up on the scaffold, Clifton, and read to us!" cried a thousand voices. Tatnall is the attorney's native county. Everybody down there knows him, and there was not a man in the crowd who did not recognize his tall, broad form as he elbowed his way to the Sheriff. Many a time in his life had the lawyer heard the cry, "Take the stage," but never before under such circumstances, MB. CLIFTON EXPIIAJLTO. Taking ex-Senator Mattox by tha arm, Mr. Clifton stepped briskly upon the plat­ form, and without waiting for Leggett to be unbound read the dispatch from Gov­ ernor Gordon granting a respite for thirtv days. "Tuis is authentic," tbe speaker added, and he read another telegram ad­ dressed to himself, to the effect that a re­ prieve had been granted. He then read a lihird dispatch, inquiring if the first and seeond had been received. The telegrams had a magical effect upon the crowd. They yelled and shouted for Gordon and Clifton and pressed up close to the scatlold to con­ gratulate him. Leggett stood at first as though paralyz­ ed, being unable to believe what his ears heard. Then when it dawned upon him that he was not to die, he made frantic efforts to be released. The cap and noose were quickly removed, and he fell down on bis knees and poured out thanks to God and Ids attorney. His bonds wer3 cut and he was led away, declaring thai he loved his lawyer more than any one in the world. The scene was one not witnessed twice in a lifetime, except in the last act of some dramas on the mimic strage where a courier rushes on breathless from the wings and hands the heavy man in the play a pardon for the hero. The crowd was disappointed, but it seemed perfectly well satisfied that the affair had taken the turn it did. Mr. Clifton was a sort of hero, and in less than an hour petitions w< re be­ ing signed asking the Governor to com­ mute Leggett's sentence to imprisonment for life. Labor and Industrial Notes. The industrial developments in North­ ern Alabama, if written down, would read more like a Jules Verne novel than like facts. Advances of wages have been made in quite a number of small shops and fac­ tories throughout the State of New iork. The Texas State P'armers' Alliance Cot­ ton Congress has just appropriated $500,- 000 to boild a large cotton factory at Waco. The richest lead discovery of modern times, so goes the story, has been made in Franklin Coun«y, Missouri. The solid vein is eight feet high and six feet broad. In San Antonio, Toxas, there are seven assemblies of Kn.ghts. In Winnipeg, Man., there are six, and two or three more are forming. In the Ktute ot Maryland there are 154 ass mblies in good standing. At JionlentowB. N. J., one assembly has named itself the Bonaparte. At Denver, Col., the other day 3,000 persons listened to Mr. Powderly, and on the stage were the Govet nor of the State, the Maj or of tbe city, and the Catholic Bishop ot the dio­ cese. At Omaha Mr. Powderly declared that he would never again hold office as General Master Workman. A great many Knights are nspir.ng to the position at the head of the order, in anticipation of tbe vacancy to be made. The Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church warned its mem­ bers against joining the Knights. The Knights in Tennessee are taking active steps to form a Labor party, and Richard Trevelick has been engaged to stamp the State, Jesse Harper and some other Labor leaders have been working Kansas. In Missouri the Labor p«rty is Organized in several large towns. In Michi­ gan a large Labor party vote will be polled at the next election, if activity in orgsniea- " means anything. Robert Schilling and thejMd. A Stateooovcntfettwlllbeheld in,£itf*«« tf«t)y 4 to nbmi&ate Stete oS- ceia. Colambus is UM point, George wing of the Labor pa a convention fa Cincinnati on ttkssame day. • °"es< . . 1 ne,tt convention of the Olnrmakars' International Union will be held at New he labor agitations in Great Britain Sxa aasomina larger dimensions, particularly In mining, iron-working, and in the engineer­ ing trades. The coal minera in Northum- beiiand have been on strike aeveral months for 124 per cent, advance. The equivalent of $150,000 has been expended in benefits apon tha membership. Never before has there been so mnch agitation among Brit- iah workmen of all crafts with reference to emigration. .The leading- officers of the Farmers' Na­ tional Alliance are in correspondence with the leaders of the labor political move­ ment. ~ Several of the Western barbed wire fenoe manufacturer* are having a hard time of it. Two or three have failed, and seven or eight are in a tight place. Manufacturing capacity has been too greatly extended. The manufacturers of special machinery in several of the larger machinery center*, such as Providenoe in the East and Cbi-» cago in the West, are preparing to increase their shop capacity. A Pittsburg electrician has adopted tha half-holiday on Saturday, and will erect baths in his works for the use of employes, and will fit up a large library for evening reading. Some iron journals are talking about the approach of overproduction. They point out that the nail-making capacity is far in excess of th^ demand. Two or three cooperage journals speak either unfavor­ ably concerning the prospects for coopers. Several mechanical journals predict that skillful mechanical labor will be much scarcer during the next twelve months than it has been. A good many New England woolen-mills have been flooded with high water. Some Eastern textile-mills are running three to four hours overtime. New yarn-mills are being built at Fall River. A number of small strikes are constantly occurring among the spinners and weavers of the East. Quite a number of New England manufacturers are putting money into small houses for their employes. THE FOURTH OF JULf. i •--- s General Vaster Workman FowJerly't Timely Letter to the Knights *. * ; of Labor. To {SffcOfcAffr Whoever found, Greeting: For several years the practice ot ho'ding demonatrat ons and celebrations on the Fourth of July Eas been dying out. The old and the middle-aged are forgetting that on the fourth day ot July, 1J7C, a nation was born and a gov­ ernment was inaugurated which differed from the governments and nations of the earth, inas­ much as it was to be a nation and a government to be composed of the whole people, to be man­ aged and controlled by tbe whole people; and the intention was that those who served the people as public officers were to act for the whole people. Even while the Declaration of Independence was being read, the struggle for liberty--for free speech, tor a free people and a free country- was going oh. and It continned until liberty throughout tho length and breadth of tbe United Colonies was an established fact. for years tho citizens of the republic were accustomed to meet on each succeeding Fourth of July and celebrate the event which pro­ claimed a nation born. For years the doings of those who erected the proud strueturo on which our Government rests were told and retold in song and story. Each Fourth of July saw the citizens of the republic gathered together under one--and only one--fla?, on the village green or the city square, and, amid the booming of cannon and beating of drums, awakened memories of the "days that tried men's souls." The speaker of the day told how the power of a king gave way at the command of the peo­ ple. Or, if no speaker could be had, one of tbe celebrants read to the assembled multitude the Declaration at Independence. Old men among us ean recall such inoidents as these, but they are fast forgetting how it was done or what it was for, and the voung people are not taught to respect or celebrate the day. Saeh * condition of affairs is wrong and un­ patriotic. There is one portion of our country's popula­ tion that should never cease to remember that they, above all other*, should celebrate the fourth day of July and keep alive the memo­ ries which it recalls. Those who gain large for­ tunes, those who acquire lar^e tracts of land in the country, and who own blocks of buildings in our cities, are not the ones who celebrate, or care to celebrate, that day which gave to the world a nation whose strength lay in her com­ mon people. It belongs, therefore, to tho ones who have not gained the most and fared the best under our Government, to the common people, to kindle once more and keep forever alive the memories of the struggle which de­ throned the king in royal robes and enthroned the sovereign in homespun--which disc irded and spat upon the scepter of a monarch and honored and exalted the hammer and plow- handle of tbe man of toil. Two classes, representing diverse feelings; and interests, would nave the com moo people forget that we have a country or a flag. The monopo­ list and the anarchist care nothing for Ameri­ can liberty or institutions. The former, having accumulated an immense fortune, would hail with delight a king and a strong government, andl is hopeful of a change in that direction. The latter has either lost hope in our. institu­ tions'oe else knows nothing about them or their history# and would destroy both the good and the bM In them to make way for the rule of nobody and nothing. Monopoly and anarchy are twin evils. The latter, by attempting to overturn all law and order because some of our laws are not sroperly administered, would give to the former the pretext for the establishment of a strong Government. Monarchy before anarchy 1 would then be the cry. The watchword of "the peo­ ple should be: Neither monopoly nor aiuirchy »ball rule in this country--both must go.' Men who labor by hand or brain make up two-thirds of our voting population. Two-thirds of the voters can, if they «.rtf" honest, patriotic, and vigilant, vote good men into office, and good- men, if properly watched and assisted by the people, will make and enforoe good laws. It follows that, if there is anything wrong in tho affairs of Htate or nation, we, the people, are to blame, and «o have no right to grumble or threaten to break up the Government because of our own neglect. What, then, is our duty ? What is the duty of the Knights of Labor in particular? It is to study the piinciplcs ou which our Government is based aiia teach otfaera'wbat we have learned. I tbfetifor© recommend that en next Fourth of July the members of the order, where thero 1s an assembly in existence, hold demonstra­ tions aud ceiebratirns in honor of the birth of a people's government. If other societies intenl to celebrate, tho Knights can join in; if no other society will celebrate, then the Knights should celebrate by ail means. In localities where a puplic demon­ stration would cause some liberty-hating em­ ployer to discharge his workmen, I would ad­ vise that no risks be taken. Join in with other eiti/ens in getting up celebrations. Secure a apeak r to deliver a short address. If no speak­ er cau be had, secure a good reader to read the Declaration of Amoncau ludependence. In tho line of march and on your stauds and public places use only one flag--tbe stars and stripes. bLow to the world that no matter where the Knight of Labor citizen was born he respects and honors the United ittates Sag. bliow to the world that we are determined to And out what is wsong in our system of government, aud that we are equally as determined to right KUOU wroags as may exist, by peaceful, legitimate means. I desire, also, that tbe question of the restora­ tion of the people's lands to the care of tho peo­ ple l.e discussed. Pass resolution* declaring that tht> holding of from fifty to sixty millions of acres of the public domain by aliens ia sinful and un-American. Go further, and demand that tho alien landlord shall let go his hold. ]>UKN resolutions declaring that every aore of land acijulre l t>y lraud, perjury, or chicanery, is ait acre ktoluu, and demand that the thief be required to make restitution to the people. 1'B.BH resolutions never to take your eyes off the land until one good, plain, simple, honest law »hall govern the holding of land, whether the holder ba rich or poor, individual or cor­ poration. Make tbe laud lor the people, under the people's laws, tbe question of the day. It was not ivr air, sunshine or water uloue that our fathers fought; it WHS for the land, and we must hold this land fr< e from the shark and Speculator, whether native or alien. Tbi» is tut politico] question; it is a national, a patriotic ques'ion, and must be understood. I Jo not fear the taunts or rldicul J of any mail or set of men. Ix<t those who feel so disposed call our demonstrations "spread-eagle:Bin" or " Vaukee-Doodleism," if they choose. Give tbi'iu to undei stand that we ara in earnest, and that we prefer HI road-eagleism to indifference, I«t it be understood that we are determined that the wings of tbe ea«le HhaSl hrreafter spread over a nation of free men and women, who own tbe land we live in; that the win^s ef the eagle shall no longer spread over a single acre of land owned or controlled by an alien landlord or native rogue. Do not forget to celebrate in a becoming, dig­ nified manner tho one hundrt d and eleventh birthday of American iudependenoe, esjHicially si this year la tbe centennial anniversary of the formaUm of the Constitution under which we now live. T. V. POWDKHI,*. tisiMtKSl MiStfll WtiSiJttAXL xVT .v 's • -.Vf "' •* *(", V - V " Frecioni Metals Miaefl ia tke Uaited States--Report of the Director „ ̂ ef the Miat. - * • 151 (Washington speeiaLf. The report of the Dineter of fbe Hint oh tha production of the precious fa the United Sta'es for tho calendar jrsar 1886 is in press, and will soon bo ready for distribution. The Director estimates the production of tho United States to have been in 1886: Gold, $35,000,000; silver. $51,000,000. The valne of the silver in the above estimate is calculated at t)te coinage rale of silver in United States silver dollars--namely, $1.2939 per ounce fine. The production of sil­ ver was | 39,445,312 fine ounces of the commercial value, at the average price of silver during the year (namely, about *1 per fine ounoe), of $39,445,312. The pro­ duction of gold shows an increase over the prior year of $3,200,000. The production of silver is slightly less than ih 1885. A tabular statement shows that the produc­ tion of silver in Ihe United States has largely increased from 1880, when it was $39,200,000, to $51,COO,00(1 in 1886. The year's production of gold has approximated the maximum of t e last seven years, the product of 1880, which reached $36,000,- 000, agaiDst $35,000,CC0 in 188(5. Colorado maintains first rank as the H larpest producer of tbe precious metals in the United Slates, the value of its pioduo- lion of gold and silver Laving been over $20,010,100 during the last year. Cali­ fornia yields second place to Montana with a production of nearly $17,000,000, against $16,000,000 by the former. The produc­ tion of Nevada and New Mexico has de­ creased, while that of the other States has remained almost constant. Texas, for the first time, is added to the list of producing States, with a production of $200,000 in silver. The annual supply of silver from tbe mines of the world has largely in­ creased in the last fourteen years, the period covered by the marked decline in. the market price of silver, and haB doubled $ sinee 1872; that is, from $«2,e0v»,000 in that year to $124,000,000 in 1886. During the calendar year 1886 the changes in the price of silver were very * marked. Opening Jan. 2, 1886, at 46 15-16 pence per ounce, British standard, tbe fluctuations were slight until April, when commenced a rapid decline, which contin­ ued until July 31, when the price of silver reached 42 pence, remaining at that price until Aug. 10, when an advance took place which continued until Nov. 20, when the price reached 47 pence, but remained at that point only a short time. The closing quotation Dec. 31 was 46£ pence. The av­ erage price for the year was 45.374 pence, equivalent to 99.405 centj per ounce fine. Th6 price of silver at the present time is 43g. pence per ounce, British standard, equivalent to 95.6 cents per ounce fine. The value of the gold deposited at the mints of the United States during ihe cal­ endar year 188U was $79,057,818, of which over $21,000,000 consisted of foreign bullion and over $9,000,000 foreign coin. The deposits and purchases of silver amounted to $39,086,070. The coinage executed at the mints during the calendar year consisted of 63,739,966 pieces, of the face value of $61,375,418. The num­ ber of silver dollars coined was 31,423,886, on which the seigniorage was $7,095,361.34. The Director estimates the stock of coin in the United States Jan. 2, 1887, to have been, in round figures, gold, $560,000,u00; silver, $324,000,000; total, $884,000,000. In addition to the stock of coin, the Gov­ ernment owned cold and silver bullion in the mint awaiting coinage of the value of ?jld, $81,400,000; silver, $7,000,000; total. 88,400,000; a total of metallic stock on Jan. 1, 1887, of gold, $641,400,000; silver, $331,800,000; total, $973,200,000. The Director presents official figures to show that of the Btock of gold coin esti­ mated to have been in the United States the' first of the present year, there was in the Treasury of the United States and in the national and StAte banks and in circu­ lation on the Pacific slope $360,000,000, leaving $200,000,000 in the hands of the people and in the banks and savings insti­ tutions of the United States east of the Sierra Nevadas (other than national banks and the 849 State banks which reported to the Controller of the Currency). The stock and ownership of gold and silver coins in the United States, Jan. 1. 1887, are given as follows: United States Treasury, $186,901,494; national banks, $166,993,556; State and other banks and private individuals, $531,156,804; total, $885,051,854. The total 6tock of paper and metallic money in the United States-- the paper all either redeemable in coin or seourea by bonds redeemable in ooin-- amounted, Jan. 1, 1887, to $1,879,919,935. THE CROPS. Bain ta aome Localities, but Badly Needed as s Bale--injury from dUneh-Bngs. [Chicago special.] The following crop summary was com­ piled by the , Farmers' Review: Oar re­ ports again show that some localities have been favored with beneficial rains, but, as was the case at the date of our former re­ port, the majority of the counties IB all of tbe Western states, ex­ cept perhaps Missouri and Kentucky, need rain. Dakota is apparently in better condition as regards the crops than any State reporting. Thirteen coun­ ties in Illinois report an average condition in winter wheat of 90 per cent. Damage by chinch-bugs is reported in some coun­ ties, while rain is needed in others. Ten counties in Indiana report the condit on of winter wheat at an average of 85 per cent. The reports from the State are on tbe whole good. The weatber in Michigan still continues very dry. Pastures are Bbort from lack of of raiu. Twelve counties in Ohio report the average condition of winter wheat as low as 60 per cent. Eight counties in Wisconsin reprot an average condition of 85 per cent. Kain is badly needed. In Iowa the average condi­ tion of winter and spring wheat is 100 per cent, and prospects are good. Chinch- bugs are injuring the winter wheat in many Kansas counties, while others are from the insect. Wheat is in good condition in Ken­ tucky and rain plentiful. Spring wheat is in very fine condition in Minnesota. In Missouri eleven counties report tbe average condition of winter «heat at 91 per cent. Local rains have fallen in Nebraska during the past week, and wheat is in a lair condition. The reports from Dakota are highly sat­ isfactory, and prospects for heavy crops are good. The percentages of condition are beginning to show the effect') of con­ tinued dry weather, but local rains have fallen in many districts and conditions may consequently be expected to improve should th® rains continue. The hay crop will probably bd light in most of em States. . • . .. la Times of fese.v The energy of < hem'sts is now being largely directed to the development of improved methods of destruction, and in addition to the lately described "bellite" many new ex] losives are un­ der trial. Tbe French "melinite" is among them, and is said to be as much superior to nitro-glycerine as the latter is to common gunpowder. Its de­ structive effects are made especially terrible by the fact that bombs charged with it do not explode for some 1 ttle time after penetrating a wall or, other obstacle. In Germany a new shell contains two separately harmless sub­ stances, which are forced together by the striking of tbe bomb, and unite with an explosion. A - Berlin inventor has produced an explosive called "rub- urite," which is effective, but is dan to bandls^ and deteriorates. - -y a -- Tha ZUMt'lh* Br«fMonal GtttlMl Chicago 8tffl Weak in Ktoheî 1 Stieo t̂lieo Boon--Base-ball Humor* • stjfii (OHICAOO coKBEBPoroaroa.] The struggle for the championships of the two great base-ball organizationa con- tinnes with unabated interest, although in the National League the Detroit Club is winning its games from rival clubs so easily that it seems to be a foregone conclu­ sion that the Wolverines will take the pen­ nant, and that without any very strenuous effort. The same condition of affairs seems to exist in the association raoe, in which the St Louis Browns sre evidently so superior to competing teams that the winning place of the pennant in that orga­ nisation may be named at this writing with little likelihood of a mistake. The following tables will show tbe work of the teams in both organizations UD to Monday, May 23; T M HAOCTL . c - i - 1 ,' ,Vv:i /j uit. .. D e t r o i t . . . . * . . . Boston. Philadelphia New York..,. Pittsburgh Chicago Washington.......... Indianapolis.......... .. /' Gamoa lost - >i 1 e;i2 lojislis ASSOCIATION. St Louis Brooklyn 'Cincinnati Baltimore .. Louisville Athletic Cleveland METROPOLITAN...... Games lost.... 4 $ 0 -- , _ 8 Lg *a!S «!u » 12 10112 16 19 IS . HI So STII1I1 WEAK IN PITCHEK8. The Chicago club has improved but little, if any, in its playing during tbe past week* and all because of its unfortunate weak­ ness in the pitcher's box. When a ball team knows that it is weak in any one par­ ticular quarter it is going to funk. At least that 1B the case with the majority of ball clubs, and the Chicago team is no exception to the rule. Save npon tbe days when Clarkson pitches the boys take the field with little hope of winning. TALK OF CONSOLIDATION. It is rather significant tbnt at this time when the interest of base-ball lovers should be held down to the winning and losing of games in the fight for the pennant that the old question of consolidating the Amer­ ican Association and National League into One great organization should be given the prominence it is now enjoying. President Spalding still has the idea of one great League in mtnd, and never loses a chance to give it a push. He has been working hard of late with the various other club presidents to gain supporters for his plans. His idea now is to chop the Metro­ politans and Clevelands from the American Association, and the Indianapolis and Washington nines from the National League at the end of this season. Then the League and the Association will he consolidated under the title of the Ameri­ can League. The New Yorks, Philadel- phias, Athletics, Bosione, Brooklyns, and Baltimores will comprise the Eastern sec­ tion, and the Chicagos, Detroits, £t. Louis, Louisvilles, Cincinnatis, and Pittsburghs will form the Western division. The Western teams can make one trip East, and the Eastern clnbs can return the visit. Each nine could thus play six games with every other club in tbe League. It may be stated as a fact that several League clubs are strongly impressed with the practica­ bility of this plan, and will give it cordial assistance should there be any chance to carry it into effect. OTHER BUMOBS. It is a fact that the Athletic, the Cleve­ land, the Chicago and the Indianapolis clubs are all trying to purchase Pitcher Hudson's release from St. Louis, and have offered big figures for him, but Von der Ahe has declined them all. This fact, considering that he has three such splen­ did pitchers as Foutz, Carutbers and Kiug, strengthens the opinion wbich is be­ coming general in baseball circles here that this is the last season of the Browns in the Association if they again win the champi6nship, and that they are figuring to take the place of Indianapolis in that event next year, it is also apparent that the new scheme includes the supersed­ ing of Detroit by Cincinnati, the players of the Detroit Club to be taken charge of by the League when that town is forced to dtop out, the choice players to be distrib­ uted around to strengthen the weak clubs, and tbe balance to go to the best obtainable market. Quite a sensation is expected to develop under this head in a very short time. AXSON ON THB LOOKOUT. Captain Anson nor President Spalding has as yet succeeded in securing an additional pitcher, but that Anson is by no means idle or indifferent to the wants of the club may be presumed from the following dispatch fiom Washington: Captain Anson while here visited Bob Barr twice and endeavored to secure tho services of that crack twirler, who has been living in quiet retirement since last fall. Barr hesitated on account of his re­ cent illness, but Anson insisted, nnd it is Sirobable that the Washingtonian will in it ew days don a White Stocaing uniform. He is to receive $3,000 for the season, fur­ nished suits, and be exempt from reserve. He will be effective under die new rnles, as he pitched according to them in most of the games last season. * . Another dispatch says: Surprises will never cease. The latest rumor flying around in this neck of woods is that Presi­ dent Von der Ahe is trying to purchase tho interests of Mason and Simmons in the Athletic Club, of Philadelphia. Von der Ahe and Sharsig met at the recent meeting in CincinngK, and the St. Louis President told SharBlWthat he was ready to purchase the stock held by Mason and Simmons, and that he would pay the money right down. NOTES OF THE GAME. "Notwithstanding that Manager Buraham says there is no trouble in the Indianapolis club, something must be wrong when Denny refuses to coach when told to. From appearances it would seem that things were not all right, and that trouble is likely to break out at any moment.*-- New York Sun. The Boston Herald is of opinion 4hst "but one thing seems l.kely to keep the championship from Boston this year--the failure of the pitchers in its club. There is not the confidence in Badbourn that there used to be, and Stemmyer has not fully es» tablished himself among the best. Much will depend on what the younger pitoheie achieve." / President Young has appointed as sub­ stitute League umpires. Grace Petirce, in ^ew iork; Terrence Council, m Philadel­ phia; George Frank, in Detroit, and Dave Sullivan, in Chicago. Others will be ap­ pointed for the other cities, 'fhese men will not travel at all, but will be on hand to supply the vacancy caused by the absenco of the regular incumbent. The regular umpires will not remain longer than one week in a p!ace, and, if possible, net mors ttuatkm days. i.'X*:-