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. I>fc " " 1 i icnrg fgJlaindfalcr X VAN 8LYKE, Editor and PuMItNf. teHBNRT, I " I ItXltfOIS! BURKED BY HER BABY. DISASTROUS SWITZERLAND MOUNTAIN SLIDE. i VtaaqrlraaUk Miners Prtptrcd tut » Itrlka-PnMMdinfi In tit* Imiat* ud , loaM-tcwilnt: Fiilvm of ih« WMk-- ] Ihe Condition of Trade--Fmr LttM 1 Ml s Railroad ltrld(eb AGAINST THE EIGHT-HOUR LAW Samtor Morrill Dtc'ates It Will fit an Injury to Labor. 1st the House, on the 6tta, Messrs. Flower. Wilson, Vaux, nod others pitched Into World's Fair matters In a vicious way. They denounced the whole managerial ma­ chinery as extravagant, cumbersome and blundering, and attacked the constitution­ ality of any appropriation by Congress. Mr. V aux'a performance was so amusing that his time was extended two or three minutes. The old gentleman was In his quaintest mood. He told stories on General Jackson, cracked jokes at the ex­ pense of the Farmers' Alliance, and for fifteen minutes kept the House In uproarious laughter. Frse coinage Is believed to be killed by the decision of the Speaker that no amendment of existing laws can be ma.de in an appropriation bill. In the Senate Mr. Morrill made a speech in opposition to the eight-hour bill. He said tbat he was convinced that the eight-hour law of 18C8 was wrong, and that It would inflict upon the class it was specially in­ tended to benefit a grave and possibly an irreparable Injury. 1 be House passed the Senate bill amending the land forfeiture act of Sept. 29, 1893. BUSINESS STILL RUSHING. In Commodities Far In Eiun of v ' Laat Year's Record. * Dux & Co.'s review of tradefor the *Mt week says: t Though at ft higher level of prices, busi­ ness continues to exceed last year's on the t Whole, and is in character more healthy •i and conservative than usual. The dispo- > sltlon increases to count upon the future, tor this year at least, with confidence, but speculative tendencies are held in check by the conviction that consumers' demands may not prove quite equal to last year, on account of short crops. The average price* of commodities advanced nearly half of 1 per cent, for the past week, but the advance is almost exclu­ sively in products of which crops were short, Beports this week from all parts of the country indicate a fair volume of trade for the season, easy money, and collections . ..v generally fair, though at, a few Western points and in %the grocery trade at Phila­ delphia rather slow. A MOTHER CREMATED. ftrar-Year-Otd Girl Destroys Her Home and Cremates Her Mother. AT Guthrie, O. T.. Mrs. William . Odmes, after completing her domestic duties, laid down and went to sleep. Her 4-yearj-old daughter found a box of matches, and with them set fire to the window curtains and the clothes in the closet. When the mother awoke the whole room was ablaze. Iier clothing had caught fire, and she fell, wrapped in flames. Neighbors ran to her assistance, but were too late to save her life. She died in terrible agony. Her little daughter escaped severe in- Jury. %' Prepared for a Shrik*. "'V REPORTS from Scottdale, Pa., say the ' "Operators and miners are stfll far from * settlement of their wage difficulties. Every miner has been saving up his earn­ ings for months past in anticipation of a strike, and they say they can withstand a battle of several months without much want. The operators affirm that if they an compelled to fight they will do so with the full intention of winning at .-JMWr cost ; 7 otf the Sronch all the fo?tinnmy presented shows con- clusfvely that Fire-boss Win* Smith, who was one among the victims of the recent calamity, was derelict in his official duties, as ho was addicted to a liberal use of intoxicating liquors. The testi­ mony of many of the witnesses is to the effect that the mine was in a gaseous state. A FIRS in Wilers building oh Fifth street, Philadelphia, caused a loss of $35,000. During the torogross oti the fire four firemen wore lajurccU SARAH BERNHARDT, X^THE. actress, arrived at New York, ; ANOTHER terrlblo mine disaster oc­ curred in No. 3 colliery of the Susque­ hanna Coal Company at Grand Tunnel, near Wilkesbarre, Pa. The cajise was exactly similar to the horror at Janes- ville. In an abandoned part of the mine, which was closed, was a great body of water, held as if in a large tank. In the adjoining chamber a number of miners were at work blasting the coal. An unusually heavy charge was fired and so thinned the wall that the heavy volume of water broke it through and made a passage­ way for its rush as wide as the gangway itself. A scene of consternation ensued. Some of the miners were given warning and ran for their lives ahead of the rush­ ing flood. Three men, John Riner, Mike Shelunk and William Cragle, all married and men of family, did not hear the warning in time and were closed In their chambers. IN a prize-fight at Arehbald, Pa., a man named McReynolds was fatally in­ jured by Jeremiah Slattcry. AT Jeansvillo, Pa , water broken Into a mine and eighteen miners are known to have been drowned. _ - Bv an explosion of powder at the Hcil- son (Pa.) colliery, .John Dueeman, a miner, was killed, end two Huns were so badly injured that they will die. WITH the exception of Ewing and the men already under contract, nobody will be signed by the New York Base-Ball Club at a salary exceeding 93,000. ' tjewly made wife. Rest'* fcroihers in pursuit of the murdereira. NEWS ofV serious wreck on the Cot­ ton Belt Bailroad, six miles south of Clarendon, Ark., has been received. One report says nine people were killed. t®#SHilfi mm, I TH0II.IJNO NITlONAt FH THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. FnfKRAt, services over the remains Of the late Secretary of the Tressury, Wm. Windom, were held at the Church of the Covenant in Washington. Th<? vast con­ course comprised more officials of Presi­ dent Harrison's administration than have before gathered together in one edifice. The scene was impressive in Its solemn­ ity and awe-inspiring in Its simple grand­ eur. The passage of the cortege through the streets was witnessed by large crowds. Among those in attendance at the church were the President and Mrs. 'Harrison and other distinguished per­ sons. The body was interred at Bock Creek Cemetery. SENATOR HEARST is resting comfort­ ably at Washington. There is no change *o note in his condition. f / POLITICAL PORRIDQ§|T THE Kansas Alliance leaders are be­ ginning to talk of Senator-elect Peffer as the Alliance candidate lor the Presi­ dency in 1892. THE Nebraska. House passed resolu­ tions favoring the Paddock pure food bill, condemning the Conger lard bill, and favoring a deep-water harbor at Galveston. The bill providing that mortgages given on chattels for loans at usurious interest shall be void was de­ feated. THE Legislature at Pierre, S. D., bal­ loted for United States Senator without result, as follows: Moody, 39; Tripp, 24; Harden, 48; Melville, 18; Cross, 8. GREAT interest has been manifested in the Oklahoma elections. Canadian and Cleveland Counties have gone Demo­ cratic, and Payne has gone Alliance. The other counties are probably Repub­ lican by small majorities. MCHLPAN MURDERER,IM­ PRISONED FOR LIPB. ' ». Four Liv»s T^ist, , . THE Louisville and Nashville bridge, which is being erected across the Coo a River at Shelby, Ala., gave way under ; five cars loaded with rock. Thr.'e men were drowned and one killed by falling timbers. The calamity will set the work !^;»fcack about six weeks. * i J'd Som* of the FAiftir*". THE First Arkansas Valley Bank, at Wichita, Kan., suspended payment_tem­ porarily with liabilities of SI 25,000, and assets twice that amount. Business fail­ ures for the week number 2Oti, compared with 320 last week, and 321 in the cor- ' ™;M_f$sponding week of 181K). jf&, D-stmc'ivf F r • in It"s.-i'*"r THE bolt and nut manufacturing pi ant of J. Henry Sternbergli «fc Sou at Read­ ing, Pa, the largest of it* kind in Ameri- . ca,.was burned, entailing a.loss oiSl'.o,- ©00. Six hundred men are thrown out of employment. ' A in fw'Js^r'nn*' „ * AT Ruetti, in the Canton of G a-us, Switzerland, an avalanche swe;>t down V the mountainside, burying a party of twenty-two woodcutters. Three bodies h»ve been recovered. . O'flW t'ftroi'son^ifi. ^ THE Coroners verdict in the asylum ' * ^.se at Kalamazoo, Mich., recommends discharge of the attendant who is t % * responsible for Mi s. Ilarth's death on Ythe ground of gross carelessne.-s. Canadian Seallnr F'»®t. |V IT wa# reported that the Canadian sealing fleet in Behring Sea next season 1 would be double what it was last season. Ji j •; The British Government maintains strict % silence in the matter. ^ .. Charged with Robbery. PCtv„. w. G. HOWELLS, son of a prominent ,, " Jiflspouri attorney, was lodged in jail by .-tJ JJnited States officers, at St. Louis, Charged with robbing a stage in Colorado if' last August. New Orleans Carnival. MARDI GRAB has come once more and vA i . JJew Orleans has put on its festive garb. The decorations are general and superb, >and although the great rush of visitors It as hardly commenced, the principal if.,^streets are an ever-moving procession of '^tr&ngers, and life and gayety have taken the place of the usual quiet A Bad Moonshiner Caught. THE notorious moonshiner, Harvey Reynolds, was captured near Florence, Ala. He is the most noted moonshiner 4 In Alabama and Tennessee. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Sioux FAI.T.S, & D.. spccial: Six teams arrived here yesterday from Brookings, thirty miles north, with the outfit of the Ekh», a Norwegian paper of great influence in the State. A majority of the directors are violently opposed to Senator Pettigrew aud proposed to re­ move to his enemy's stronghold in Wa- tertown. Pettigrew's friends seized the paper in the night, loaded the plant on a truck and brought it here. THERE is wintry weather all over the Northwest In St Paul the mercury got down from 15 to 20 degrees below zero. The same report comes from all over the Northwest, thexhiometers gen­ erally recording below zero weather. Clear weather renders the cold more easily endurable. AT Springfield, Ohio,- a sensation was created by the alleged return to life of Mrs. George Tyree, who had been pro­ nounced dead. An undertaker was j summoned, but before his arrival the J lady sat up and said she had come back to be baptized, and insisted so strenu- I ously that a clergyman was called and the rite administered. Mrs Tyree is now better. AT Bloomville, Ohio, Henry Semp- sell, a business man, informed his wife that he felt he was going to die, and, after making all preparations for the journey to the undiscovered country, he passed quietly away. WHILE Albert Bateman and CHe Hawk­ ins were digging a well at Sandy, U. T., they were overcome by carbonic acid gas and fell to the bottom of the eighty-fodt shaft A man who started down to re­ cover the bodies was overcome and was unconscious when drawn to the surface. The bodies were recovered with grap­ pling hooks. H. H. CHENOT, a St Louis work-house guard, shot and killed Edward Burke. Burke escaped from the work-house where he was serving a year sentence for assault with attempt to kill. He was met by Chenot, who demanded him to surrender. Burke made a motion as if to draw a revolver, and Chenot fired, killing him. BURGLARS entered the residence of Banker Cowles at Clark's, Neb., and awakened Mr. and Mrs. Cowles. In the struggle which ensued Mrs. Cowles was killed and her husband knocked insen­ sible. The burglars then ransacked the house. A reward of 81,000 has been of­ fered for the murderers. NEAR Muskogee, I. T., a quarrel arose between Captain Mcintosh, of the Light Horsemen, and Bob Marshall, United States Indian policeman. The latter shot Mcintosh v'th a Winchester rifle, killing him instantly. ELMER CLARK, Superintendent of the Kansas City. Mo., Cable Railroad Com­ pany, was struck by a grip-car in a power-house and killed. W* H. CKAWFOUH was found guilty of murder, and his punishment was fixed at death at Decatur, 111., for killing Mrs. Colonel Mathias. IN Cleveland, Ohio, the New England block burned to the ground. Nearly 500 Italians, negroes and Turks lived under the roof. A CLEVER Chinaman, at San Fran­ cisco, has swindled the United States Government out of $30,000 revenue on an opium ship/nent The slick heathen is missing. IN a collision at Beach Oty, Ohio, a fire­ man was killed, a braklman was mor­ tally and two tramps were seriously hurt THE "heaven" of Scliweinfurth, the pretended Christ at Rock ford, Iil., was mortgaged for $12,000 to Chicago parties by the Weldon family,' dupes of Schwein- furth. ALL of the fishermen from Essexville, Mich., who were thought to be lost, have been heard from. Charles Shaffer, a fisherman who escaped, says that un­ questionably some others who were located at a place called the "Trout Grounds" lost their lives in attempting to get ashore^ FOREIGN GOSSIP. ROSIXE BLOCH, the prima donna, died in Paris. , AT Skopin, in the Government of Riazin, a hospital has been destroyed by fire. Fourteen patients were burned to death. IN Greece severe storms and cold weather continue to prevail, and numer­ ous accidents on land and sea are re­ ported. THE town of Joana, Java, was wrecked by an earthquake; twelve persons were killed and seventeen wounded. Districts in the west and middle of Java suffered severely from the shock. A LETTER from Shanghai gives the de­ tails of terrible floods and famine in Northern China. The Governor General of Li Hing Chang reports that the peo­ ple of Schuan suffered terribly by a flood which destroyed temples, bridges, and city walls in no less than ten dis­ tricts. In Won Chuan the loss of lifo will reach fully one thousand. Imme­ diately following the floods at Pel Chang a fire broke out and destroyed thirty- five houses. In three other places houses were burned to the number of 200. The suffering among the poor is something terrible. FRESH AND NEWSY. Canadian Parliament, It Is be­ lieved, will be dissolved at once. AN estimate sent to Congress by the Secretary of War to supply a deficiency in the Quartermaster's department tells the story of the cost of the Indian cam­ paign just closed. The round sum of 01,300,000 is asked for. ALL of the fishermen who were car­ ried off by the ice in Saginaw Bay aro believed to have reached land in safety. NEGOTIATIONS which have been pend­ ing for some time between this Govern­ ment and the Brazilian government have resulted in a treaty of reciprocity upon the basis of the McKinley bill. Under the agreement reached, American products, which are now almost excluded from that country, will be admitted upon reciprocal terms, and the provisions of the McKinley bill in reference to Bra­ zilian products, such as coffee, tea, sugar, and hides, become effective and these articles will go on the free list The agreement will go into force on Jan. 1 next THE Gloucester fishing schooner, Sena­ tor Morgan, was dashed ashore in a gale at Cow Bay, east of Halifax, N. S. The crew had a thrilling experience. THE Navy Department has ordered the Pensacola, which is stationed at Montevideo, to proceed to Chili, and the Baltimore, at Toulon, to proceed do the same coast. There are now no United States men-of-war in Chilian waters, and the recent troubles suggested the pro­ priety of having a naval force there for the protection of American citizens in case ot emergency. A BLEEPINQ-CAB on the through West­ bound express on the Canadian Pacific Railway was thrown from the track by axle at Schrciber, Ont. Nine passengers were in. the sleeping car, all of whom were more or less injured. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime $8.25 SUPERINTENDENT KEIGHLEY, of the Mammoth mine, was attacked and se­ verely injured by wives of victims of the recent disaster, who declared that he had murdered their husbands. A GIRL named Lena Marks, aged 19, was chloroformed and had her throat cut . in the yard of her father's bakery, at Marcy, New York. THE Mammoth Mine disaster at Scott- dale, Pa., has been investigated by a legislative committee. The evidence is principally of a sensational character;' SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. (&ACE GARLAND, an actress, who de­ serted her husband three months ago, committed suicide at Wheeling, W. Va. AT Palestine, Texas, Mayor Ward at­ tacked Sam Jones, the evangelist with a cane. Jones wrested the cane from the Mayor and give him a beating. By­ standers then separated the two. The Mayor was arrested, and his action was denounced at a mass meeting. "DR IGXACIO MARTINEZ, a political exile from Mexico, was assassinated by two mounted men at Laredo, Texas. AT Chattanooga, Tenn., J. A. Warder is in jail for the murder of hii son-in- law, Banker Fugette. MEN with a pack of bloodhounds are scouring about Cordele, Ga., after a negro who shot Marshal B. F. Morris who attempted to arrest him. AT Harrodsburg, Ky., while. George Best was on his way home with his bride he*%as overtaken by three men, who deliberately killed him before his HOGS--Shipping Grades SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 EYE--NO. 2 BUTTE IT--Choice Creamery. CHEESE--Full Cream, flats Ec.oa--Fresh POTATOES--Western, per bu R INDIANAPOLIS. CATTI-E--Shipping Hoos--Choice Light SHEEP--Common to Prime WHBAT--No. 2 Red. COKN--No. X While. OATU-NO. % White ST. LOUIS, CATTLS, noas. WHEAT--No. 8 Bad..., CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 BARLEY--Iowa. CINCINNATI. CATTLE. HoOH.,... ' SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 Mixed MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring CORN--No. 8 i OATS-- NO. 2 White. .\.. BYE--No. 1 BABLKY--No. it | DETROIT. CATTLE. Hoos SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White TOLEDO. WHEAT. /. Co RM--Cash • OATS-NO.2 White . BUFFALO. CATTLE--Good to Prime. Hoos--Medium and Heavy WHEAT--No. 1 Hard COBS--No. 2 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--Common to Prime Hoos--Light SHEEP--Medium to Good LAMBS NEW YORK. CATTLE...... Hoos. BHEV WHEAT--No. 3 Bed COBN--No. 2 OATS--Mixed Was Urn & 8.00 8.00 .98 .61 4A jn & .22 & .10J6® .20 <& .85 & ® 5.75 (<S 3.75 & 5.00 .9» 8.50 3.00 8.00 .98 .50 4.00 8.00 LOO .50 .45 .74 8.00 3.00 8.00 Justice AiKnialitsrwi In Quick Ovjmr-- XMeatla Guilty to the Horiibl* (rim* Mid Is Landed la Prison Withia For.y- fi»ur Hoar*. [Charlotte (Mich.) dispatch.] ? Russell C. Canfield, the Inhuman mur­ derer of little Nellie Griffin, escaped the lynchers' rope by pleading guilty and receiving the sentence of life imprison­ ment Less than twenty-four hours ago he was captured, and to-night he is in the State Penitentiary at Jackson. Justice has been swift in his case, but in the opinion of the enraged people here she has been far too merciful. Horri­ fied and maddened by the fearful crime of the monster, the people demanded blood, and had Canfield been still in the jail here this night would have been his last. It was his fear of mob vengeance that caused him to confess, and dread of the vigilantes' rope drove him to plead • guilty and seek safety behind the solid walls of -the State's prison. Sheriff Pollock saw tho prisoner in his cell this morning and told him of the danger he was in from the enraged people. He seemed to feel this by intuition, and seemed to bo willing to do anythinff to save his miserable neck. When the Sheriff asked him if he desired to plead guilty as he had confessed he replied, "Yes, I'll plead guilty to murdering the girl at anytime." The prosecuting at­ torney was seen and Judge Hooker notified. Early in the afternoon Canfield, the Sheriff and the prosecutor slipped quietly into the court-room by a side door, and tho charge was read to Can- field. His dull, sleepy eyes looked un­ easily at the windows as if fearing a bul­ let. He hardly understood the reading or t>he importance of the charge as it was read to him. When it was finished he was asked: "Do you plead guilty or not guilty?" UI am guilty," laid the wretch, and he shivered as if with an ague chill. Judgo Hooker then sen­ tenced nfm to imprisonment for life, and at once the Sheriff hustled him on a Michigan Central train, and he was taken to the State's prison to undergo his life­ long punishment. The story as told by the murderer and taken down is substantially this: Canfield went from Dimondale to Jonesville on Tuesday morning, Jan. 27, by rail, from the latter place going to Coldwater. After spending some time in this town, he visited the State School and had a talk with Super­ intendent Newkirk. He told the latter that he wanted to adopt a girl from the institution, saying he would provide a good home for her and alleging, as was true, that he was possessed of a com­ fortable property. He gave his name to the Superintendent as G. Hendershott, and finally made arrangements to take Nellie Griffin with him to his alleged home. In company with the girl he re­ turned to Jonesville and thence to Dimondale. After getting off the train at the latter place Canfield, with his victim, took the road leading to Mr. Harrison's farm. Before reaching it he struck off the traveled highway, going through several tracts of wood until he, with his charge, reached the piece of timber by the river where the body was found. They talked for a few moments and Nellie manifested great distress of mind and wept bitterly, begging Canfield to take her back to the institution at Coldwater. Turning a deaf ear to the girl's pleadings, Canfield struck her down and choked her to death. He then denuded her body of clothing, and, taking the corpse in his arms, threw it h^dlong into the river. The clothes he took to Harrison's farm and hid them under the floor of the cow stable. Canfield maintained stubbornly to the last that he had not abused his victim. When Canfield had signed this con­ fession of his guilt he was at once locked up and a guard placed over him. Sheriff Pollock, after taking precautions to guard the jail in .case of an attack, started for Harrison's farm, near Dimondale, to search for. the girl's clothes. Under the floor of the cow stable on Mr. Harrison's farm the clothes were found wrapped in a bundle. To the people who read Canfield's confession, his admissions concerning the crime seem incredible. Very nat­ urally the reader would picture him to be a bloodthirsty*looking villain, with brutality stamped on every feature, but this is not the ease. He is a mild-man-? nered, inoffensive-looking man of slen­ der build, and rather below the average height He says that he is 55 years old, and his appearance indicates this to be the truth. He has regular features, a lull beard, mild, honest-looking blue eyes, and is as far from lookinf the villain he acknowledges himself U. be as can be imagined. The Har­ rison family, for whom he drove a milk wagon daily to Lansing, refused to be­ lieve him guilty until his own confession forced them to admit it. They state that he was a quiet, unobtrusive man who never had much to say and did hi. work well. lie is understood to be fairly well fixed, and has an income from a small iarm that he rents, preferring to drive a milk wagon for Mr. Harrison rather than conduct1 his own farm and do his own cooking and housework. The other convicts in the penitentiary say they will knock him on the head when he gets to work. % SHOWING , YEAR 1890. eo» ™? .51}* .45 .72 .25 .21 .95 & 5.00 & 3.75 & 4.T5 m .98% ~ .51 .45)&<3 .40% .97 .52^® .47 & .98 @ .51 & .46 .74 @ .07}u& @ 5.50 «9 3.75 & L01 & .51 (OI .46 & .78 @ 4.50 & 4.00 & 5.50 .59% .48 .98 .52 •47% .75 .es% 8.00 @ 4.50 8.00 0 8.50 8.00 «« 4.75 .99 @ 1.00 .51. <$ .52 .47%@ .4*% too m 1.00% .52%® .59% . 4 . 4 7 % 4.00 # 5.25 li.ix) v<t 4.00 l.<)7%@ 1.08% .55 4.00 8.25 4.(0 4.00 4.00 3.25 4.00 1.10 .64 .50 .5ft @ 5.25 & 4.00 @ 5.50 & 6.60 0 5.50 & 4.00 & 5.7* 0 1.11 1 & Blectrlclty lit Making Boots and Shoes. The use of an electric micrometer has beenlmported into the manufacture of boots and shoes. The function of this device is the sorting of pieces of leather, according to their thickness, and their distribution in their respective recep­ tacles. So accurately is this performed that the pieces in the various receptacles hardly vary one-thousandth part of an inch in thickness. Besiaes the sorting of the pieces of leather, the machine automatically records tho number dis­ tributed. When the apparatus is in operation all that is required ot the at­ tendant is to put the taps in a trough­ like box. A follower is adjusted behind the taps, which keeps them in an up­ right position and maintains a constant pressure as they are fed from tho trough into two abutting flanges, tho taps in re­ turn being fed from the trough into tho micrometer fingers, which pass succes­ sively into position. The fingers, which are moved around by a ratchet move­ ment, pause a short time over the re­ ceptacle for taps, and when one of them reaches a bin in which the tap should be dropped, the inner extension of the finger touches an electric contract, hud tho tap falls from the jaws. The opera­ tion of the finger is made to actuate a connector which indicates the number of taps in every receptacle. A SUGGESTION has been made that oil might with advantage be used at the most exposed lighthouses to reduce the force of the waves. It is thought tlmt this end might be attained by placing, say, a couple of small steel buoys * in the most exposed direc­ tion at a distance from the lighthouse of some 150 feet. There should be a pul­ ley on the buoy and a slight rope, so that the bag or appliance for distribut­ ing the oil could be hauled in v. hen. re* quired. The method is mos t simple, j and can be tested without great ex-' pense. * ' ¥he imports and Kxporta of the United State* for the 1'sit Hear Best th« Rec­ ord--Onr Faying and Selling Amounts to Ovor a Billion amd a Half of Dollar*. The imports and exports of the year Just ended have been greater than those of any preceding year in the history of the country. Our buying and celling with other nations of the earth amount­ ed in round numbers to over a bi.lion and a half dollars. To be more ac­ curate, the Imports and the exports of the year 1890 amounted to $1,680,942,- 460. These figures relate to the imports and exports of merchandise, and do not include those of gold and silver. There is no year in the history of our country in which its imports and exports have been as great And what is more grati­ fying, the balance is on the right side of the ledger. Tho exports exceeded the imports by about $35,000,000. The ex­ ports for the twelve months In question were $857,023,677; the im­ ports were $833,318,782. There has only been one year In the his­ tory of our export trade In which the total exports were as great as those of 1890, and there has been no year in which the importations were as great as those of 1890. Curiously enough the figures just submitted by the Bureau of Statistics in regard to the importations do not show the marked increase for the last half of the year that was generally expected. Tho total imports for the last six months of the year are practically but one-half of tho total for tho year. Ex­ ports and imports of gold and silver do not show the marked change compared with former years that had been expect­ ed. The total exports of gold for the year were $24,000,000, against $50,000,000 in the preceding year, $34,000,0p0 1888, and $9,000,000 in 1887. The im­ ports of gold were 520,00^,000 for 1890, aiiainsl $12,000,000 in T8S9 and $10,000,- 000 in 189?. The etpOl'ts of silver for tho year were $26,000,000, against Si0,000,000 in 1889 and $29,000,000 in 1888. The imports of silver for the year 1890 were $22,000,000, against $19,000,000 in 1889, $16,000,000 in 1888, $16,500,000 in 1887. $17,000,000 in 1886, and $17,500,0:;0 in 1885. Cotton, breadstuff's, meats, and kero­ sene oil continuo to bs the chief of the articles exported by the United States. Cotton is still king. The exportations of cotton for the year were $230,000,000 in value, being a sum greater than that received for cotton in almost any other year of the history of our commerce. Brcadstuffs and meat and dairy products ran a closo race as to second place. The breadstuffs, including corn and corn-meal, wheat and wheat flour, amount to over $140,000,000 in the year. The provisions, including meat and dairy products, amounted to nearly $140,000,000. Of coal oil the total ex­ portations amounted in value to about. $45,000,000. Really tho provision list should, perhaps, take precedence over that of breadstuffs, for the exportation of live animals, mostly cattle, amounted to $35,000,000 in value and as a large proportion of these are sent abroad to be slaughtered, it is proper they should be added to the proportion which is given to provisions, as against breadstuffs, thus bringing that line of industry sec­ ond in the list of exportations in value. Iron and steel exportations are beginning to cut quite a figure in the total of our sales to other countries. They amounted last year to over $25,000,000 in value. The exportations of tobacco for the year amounted to something over $20,030,030. In the importations, sugar stood at the head of the list in value. The importa­ tions of sugar for the year amounted in round numbers to $300,000,000. Coffee stand next in the values of im­ portations, the total va'ue of coffee im­ ported during tho year being over $85,- 000,000, an increase of $25,000,000 over last year. Manufactures of iron and steel, including tin plates, amounted to $45,000,000, and flax hemp and jute, manufactured and unmanufactured, reached about the same total. Manu­ factures of silk amounted to over $40,- 000,000 in value. The unmanufactured silk was over $20,000,000 in falue. Tea seems to be losing its grip as a beverage, the total importations of tea being but $14,000,000, as against the figures on coffee indicated above. In spite of the fact that we grow most of the cotton of the world, and pride ourselves on having machinery that will do almost anything, the importations of manufactured cotton amounted to nearly $30,000,000. There is also the same remarkable state of affairs with reference to wool. The im­ portations of manufactured wool for the year amounted to over $55,000,000 and of unmanufactured wool to over $14,- 000,000. Great Britaincontinues to be our most important customer abroad. Of our corn Great Britain took $20,000,000 worth, against $5,000,000 by Germany and $2,500,000 by France. Of our wheat Great Britain and Ireland took $28,000,- 0C0 worth, against $4,000,000 by France and $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 by other European countries. Of flour Great Britain took $30,000,000, against less than $10,000*000 in all European coun­ tries. Tho West Indies took $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 worth, and Brazil about half that quantity. Of our cotton, Great Britain and Ire­ land took $130,000,C00 worth, Germany less than $40,000,000, Flrance a little over $1(1,000,000, and all other European countries $30,000,030. Of coal oil, Great Britain took about $8,000,000 worth, Germany nearly $10,000,000, Aus­ tralia about $5,000,000 and the British East Indies over $6,000,000. Of our bacon, Great Britain took $3,000,000 worth, and all other countries less than $4,000,000 worth. Of lard, Great Britain and Ireland took $10,000,000 worth, Ger­ many $8,000,0 K), France $3,000,000 and other European countries $6,000,000. •;<fc >f ' _ -What Is Being BOUM--Old At the Nation's Capital- Done by the Senate and Aattera Disposed Of and Mew Ones Con* sldered. IK the Senate, on the 31st, a number of bill were reported from committees and In­ troduced. Mr. Cullom presented the resolu­ tions of the House ol Representatives of IHlflofa instructing the Senators from that State to vote against the Lodge bill and for the free coinage bill. He said he regarded the resolutions in the nature of petitions and asked that they be filed In the records of the Senate. So ordered. Mr. Morrill ofTered a resolution for the appoint­ ment of a committee of seven Senators to Join the House In attending the funeral of Secretary Windom. The resolution was agreed to and Messrs. Morrill, Washburn, Allison, Harris, Payne and Gorman were appointed. The army appropriation bill was then taken up and passed. The House, on the same date, passed the military acad­ emy appropriation bill and immediately went into committee-of the whole ou the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. ON the 2d and 3d the Senate accomplished nothing of Importance. The fortification bill, contemplating coast defenses at Bos- Jon. New York, San Francisco, Hampton 'Roads, aud Washington, received some at­ tention, as did also a measure proposing an international conference upon the question of the slave trade and the trade in gun­ powder ands liquors in Africa. In both houses a bill was passed to amend section 108, Revised Statutes, so as to read: "Vacancies (in the Cabinet) occasioned by death or resignation shall not be tempor­ arily filled under the three preceding sec­ tions for a longer period than thirty days." (The present law limits the time to ten days, and the bill has special reference to the appointment of a successor of the late Secretary Windom.) The Senate bill was passed by the House (with an amendment striking out the appropriation clause) pro­ viding for the erection of a public building at fit. Paul, Minn., at a ccst of >800,000. IN the Senate, alnon£ the bills reported and placed on the calendar on the 4th were the following: Senate bill, to provide for the Inspection of vessels carrying export Cattle from the United States to foreign countries; Senate bill, to prevent adultera­ tions of food and drugs. Mr. Blair pre­ sented the credentials of his successor, Jacob H. Gallinger, and they were placed on file. After a short executive session the doors were reopened, and legislative business was resumed. In the House Mr. Dingley of Maine reported from the Silver Pool Com­ mittee a resolution discharging J. A. Oweri- by from the custody of the Sergeant-at- arms. Adopted. Mr. McKinley asked unanimous consent that during the remain­ der of the session the House shall meet at 11 o'clock a. m. Mr. Rogers of Arkansas objected. The House then went into execu­ tive committee of the whole on the diplo­ matic and consular appropriation bill. In the House, on the 5th, It was ordered that during the remainder of the session the hour of meeting shall be at 11 o'clock a. nj. - Mr. Boothman, of Ohio, reported a resolution for the printing of a digest of the election cases decided by the Fifty-first Congress, which was adopted,' and the House went into committee of the whole on the sundry civil appropriation bill. The Senate took up the pencion appropriation bill. It appropriates ..for pensions for tho year 8133,175,085; for fees and expenses of examining sur­ geons. $1,500,000; for salaries of eighteen pension agents, $72,000; for clerk hire, $300,000. The latter item is increased by an amendment of the Committee on Appro­ priations to $400,000. Another amendment reported from the committee strikes out the proviso limiting to $2 the compensation of a pension attorney, and inserts in lieu of it a proviso limiting such compensation to $5. There was a long discussion on the latter amendment. Personal Gossip. IT is claimed for W. H. Dobson of Havre do (irace, Md., that he has a rec­ ord of 520 ducks killed in one day. This feat, it is said, was performed in 1884. VICE-PBESIPEJTT MOKTOX is said to be spending more money in, the way of building and improvements in Washing­ ton than any other man in public life. CIIAUNCEY M. DEPEW says that over 8100,000,000 is spent in public dinners in New York annually. Then he takes a little pepsin and tries to look as if he en- Joyed life. THOMAS EDISOX. says that although in Italy he has the title of count, he pre­ fers that of "tho old man," by which he is better known among his employes at Menlo Park. THE private correspondence of the Prince of Wales is something eiformous. He is said to receive four times as many letters a day as does the President of the United States. SENATOR JONES has built a magnif­ icent villa at Santa Monica, in southern California, and Mrs. Jones is so charmed by her netf residence that she will not return to Washington. - - -®iipl#««rt Women to Moot. WOMEN who wear diamonds with cal­ ico dresses. SNEERING women, who snap at your clothes, your family, and your friends. WOMKX who talk baby talk to each »ther and kiss each other on all occa- lions. WOMEN who gossip, and who never (ail to tell you disagreeable, thing* said Walking; Fishes. It may seem absurd to speak of fishes as walking. The flying-fish is well known, but its flight looks much like swimming in the air. We naturally think of fishes as living all the time in water; as being incapable, in fact, of living anywhere else. But nature maintains no hard and fast lines of dis­ tinction between animal life which bo- longs on the land and that which bo- longs to the water. If we cau believe the accounts of naturalists and there are no grounds for doubting them-- there are fishes that traverse dry land and others that walk on the bottom of- the sea. It is reported that Dr. Francis Day, of India, has collected several instances of the migration of fishes by land from one piece of water to another. Layard once met some perch-like fishes travel­ ing along a hot and dusty gravel road at midday. Humboldt saw a species of dorus leaping over the dry ground, supported by its pectoral fins; and he was told of another specimen that had climbed a hillock over twenty feet in height. A French naturalist published in the "Transactions of the Linnttan Society of Normandy," 1842, an account of his observations on the ambulatory move­ ments of the gurnard at the bottom of the sea. He observed these move­ ments in one of the artificial sea-ponds or fishing-traps, surrounded by nets, on the shore of Normandy. He saw a score of gurnards close their fins against their sides like the wings of a fly in repose, and, without any movement of their tails, walk along the bottom by means of six free rays, three on each pectoral fin, which they placed successively on the ground. They moved r&pidly forward and backward, to the right and left, grop­ ing in all directions with these rays, as if in search of small crabs. Their great heads and bodies seemed to throw hardly any weight on the slender rays, or feet, being suspended in water, and having $jheir weight further diminished by their swimming bladders. When the naturalist moved in the water the fish swam away rapidly to the extremity of the pond; when he stood still they resumed their walking and came between his legs. On dissection the three anterior rays on each pectoral fin are found to be supported each with a strong muscular apparatus to direct its movements, apart from the muscles that are con­ nected with the smaller rays of the pectoral fin. Wise Sayings. A TRUE principle never dies. ACTIVITY is not always energy. EVERY man owes a debt to mankind. BE content with such things as ye have. BE the architect of your own for tuna THE present is the golden moment of life. Ix shoal water you know how deep it is. Oxi..Y very mean men always take the half cent. THE most liberal are oftener the most successful. HEALTH is too costly a blessing to be fooled away. LOYAI.TY to best convictions is an im­ portant duty. No BLESSING equals the possession of a stout heart A MAN of business is not always a businessman. DON'T start business and fast living at the same time. WHO waits for dead men's shoes may have to go barefoot HONESTY i i best polity, hut polity Mot always best honesty. * DIFFICULTIES are overcome by dili­ gence and assiduity. • Statement at Personal D*r«Mf an<t Providential Ksoape, The following story--which is attracting wide attention from the press--is so re­ markable that we cannot excuse ourselves If we do not lay it before our readers ear tire:, To the editor Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat! 8ia--On the first day of June, 1881, Z lay at my residence in this city surrounded ,by my friends and waiting for death. Heaven only knows the agony I then en­ dured, for words can never describe it. And yet, if a few years previous any on* had told me that I was tj be brought so low, and by so terrible a disease, I should have scoffed at the idea. I had always been uncommonly strong and healthy, and weighed over 200 pounds, ai d hardly knew, in my own experience, what pain or sick­ ness were. Very many people who will read this statement realize at times tbat they are unusually tired and cannot ac­ count for it. They feel dull pains in various parts of the body and do not under­ stand why. Or they are exceedingly hun­ gry one day and entirely without appetite the next. This was Just the way I felt when the relentless malady which had fastened itself upon me first began. Still I thought nothing of it; that probably I had taken a cold which would soon pass away. Shortly after this I noticed a heavy, and at times neuralgic, pain in one sida of my head, but as it would come one day and to© gone the next, I paid little attention to It. Then my stomach would get out of order and my food often failed to digest, causing at t.lsnes great lnconveuience. Yet, even as a physician, I did not think that these things meant) anything serious. 1 fancied I was suffering from malaria and doctored myself accordingly. But I got no better. I next noticed a peculiar color and odor about the fluids I was passing--also that there were large quantities one day and very little the next, and that a persistent froth and scum appeared on the surface,, and a sediment settled. And j el I did not realize my danger, for, indeed, seeing these symptoms continually, I finaUy became ac­ customed to them, and my suspicion waa wholly disarmed by the fact thut I had no pain in the affected organs er in their vicinity. Why I should have been so blind I Qjinnot understands I consulted tLc test medical skill in the' land. I visited all the fumed mineral springs in America, and traveled from Maine to California. Still I grow worse. No two physicians agreed as to my malady. '• One said I was troubled with spinal irrita­ tion; another, dyspepsia; another, heart disease; another, general debility; another, congestion of the base of the brain; and so on through along list of common diseases, the symptoms of many of which I really had. In this way several years passed, during which time I was steadily growing worse. My condition had really become pitiable. The slight symptoms I had at lirst experienced were developod into terri­ ble and constant disorders. My weight had been reduced from 207 to 130 pounds. My life was a burden to myself and friends. I could retain no food on my stomach, and lived wholly by injections. I was a living mas; of pain. My pulse was uncontrollable. In my agony I frequently fell to the floor and clutched the carpet, and prayed for death. Morphine had little or no effect in deadenlug the pain. For six days and nights I had the death-premonitory hic­ coughs constantly. My water was filled with tube-casts and albumen. I was strug­ gling with Bright's Disease of the kidneys in the last stages! While suffering thus I received a call from my pastor, the Rev. Dr. Foote, at that time rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of this city. I felt that it was our last In­ terview, but in the course of conversation Dr. Foote detailed to me the many remark­ able cures of cases like my own which had come under his observation. As a practicing physician and a graduate of the schools, I derided the idea of any medicine outside the regular channels being In the least ben­ eficial. So solicitous, however, was Dr. Foote, that I finally promised I wbuld waive- my prejudice. I began its use on the first day of June. 1881, ant} took it according to directions. At first it sickened me; but this I thought was a good sign for one in my de­ bilitated condition. I continued to take it; the sickening sensation departed, and I was finally able to retain food upon my stom­ ach. In a few days 1 noticed a decided change for the better, as also did my wife and friends. My hiccoughs ceased, and I experienced less pain than formerly. I was so rejoiced at this improved condition that, upon what I had believed but u few days before was my dying bed. I vowed, in the presence of my family and friends, should I recover, I would both publicly and private­ ly make known this remedy for the good of humanity, wherever and whenever I had an opportunity, and this letter is in fulfill­ ment of that vow. My improvement was constant from that time, and in less than three months I bad gained 36 pounds in flesh, became entirely free from pain, and I believe I owe my life and present condition wholly to Warner's Safe Cure, the remedy which I used. Since my recovery I have thoroughly re­ investigated the subject of kidney difficul­ ties and Bright's disease, aud the truths developed are astounding. I therefore state, deliberately, aud as a physician, that I believe more than one-tutif the death* which occur in America arc caused by Bright's disease of the kidneys. This may sound like a rash statement, but I am prepared to fully veri­ fy it. Bright's disease has no distinctive features of its own (indeed, it often de­ velops without any pain whatever in the kidneys or their vicinity), but has, the- symptoms of nearly every other common complaint. Hundreds of people die daily, whose burials are authorized by a physi­ cian's certilicate as occurring from "Heart Disease," "Apoplexy," "Paralysis," "Spinal Complaint," "Kheumatism," "Pneumonia," and other common complaints, when in reality it is Bright's disease of the kidneys. Few physicians, and fewer people, realize the extent of this disease or Its dangerous tyid insidious nature. It steals into the system like a thief, manifests^ Its presence if at all by the commonest symptoms and fastens itself in the constitution before the victim is aware of it. It is nearly as hered­ itary as consumption, quite as common and fully as fatal. Entire families, inheriting it from their ancestors, have died, and yet none of the number knew or realized the mysterious power which was removing them. Instead of common symptoms it often shows none whatever, but brings- death suddenly, from convulsions, apoplexy or heart disease. As one who has suffered, and knows by bitter experience what he says, 1 implore everyone who reads these words not to neglect the slightest symptoms- of kidney difficulty. No one can afford to hazard such cbances. I make the foregoing statements based upon facts which I can substantiate to the letter. The welfare of those who may pos­ sibly be sufferers such as I was, is an ample- inducement for me to take the step I have, and if can successfully warn otfcers fx>m the dangerous path in which I once walked, 1 am willing to endure all professional and personal consequences. 'J. B. HBHIOK, ROCHESTER, N. 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