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illC! 1 VAN SLYKT, Editor and PaMistar. . • - jLkturois. IMPROVING outlook. WHOLE8ALE AND RETAIL BU81* •' t.. ;v • NESS BETTER. , ; Men OT IW llittty , . freaw A Stubborn Brazilian Oomaor •-Ckttk In » Crash -- Dgtjr R«<l«ktna \ -Up -to Kansas. ^.,' „ „,.,, , /*. . . <r* .. For Holiday Trad*, •' iti d. DUN & Ca's weeklfrevieW 6f trade says: As the holidays draw near, all signs in- * dleato a large volume of business at the present, with growing confidence of ini- jMrovemcnt in the future, except in parts of the South, where the unusual accu- . aral&tfon of cotton and its low price liave a depressing influence. There is SK> lack of money in any part of the country. •Kcept .at some* Southern points, and tike mere fact that cotton now ac­ cumulated at a few ports and Interior towns represents fully $60,000,000 in •slue paid to planters at once explains the difficulty and suggest* that it is SO* permanent. It is a good sign also that collections are, on the whole. Improving, though alow at New Orleans and some Southern poInt . and only fair In some lines cities. Indian Desperadoes Captured. ^ AT Wachita, Kas., two United States Marshals brought in from the Creek Qtnntry three heavily armed Indians aimed Lesley, Scott and Caesar Jack, Members of the famous Captain Wiley band of desperadoes, which has terror­ ized that country for several months. The camp was surprised northeast of the Sac and Pox Agency, and after a | long chase and, desperate fight, in which | two men were wounded, these three were captured.41 J sw- " No Rebate on Grain. . AI.D. GAKKIN, of Kingston, had an in- \ terview with Hon. Mr. Abbott, the Cana­ dian Prime Minister, and asked him if it was the intention of the (Sovernment to give a rebate on Western grain trans- ahipped at Ogdensburg. The Premier replied that it was not, and the present f t position of the Government on the <iues- tiO& was a settled policy. * Loss of Crops in the Madras Distriifei:Mh Owixo to the drouth the crops have been lost over large areas in the Madras Presidency, whi h are devoted to the cultivation of various kinds of grain. Famine -prices for ccreals prevail in the districts of Arcot, Chingteput and Cud- dapah, and in the town of Ananatapoor, in the Bellery district . Grip Epidemic in Denver. I ' 3Pmc grip is epidemic in Denver. I* * Siade Its appearance with the first fall of snow three weeks ago. Since then the number of cases have been gradua'ly on the increase until there arc now 750 cases. Men are down with it OH the police force and lire department, and >;-:TPWWHI letter carriers. • N. J. Bishop O'tfarrell conducted the ceremonies, being assisted by his brother, Rev. William O'Farrell, Rev. Peter Jachetti and Kev. Father Fidelia, the prison chaplain. About sixty gnaw were present, an invitation includlj State and city officials, both Catholic and Prot >st&nt. The prisoner^ who wers to be confirmed were dressed for the occasion in whito shirty and dark trousers. All of the other Catholic prisoners were in attendance, clad in the striped uniform^aiid some of them with ball and chai ONE man W^KITLED and four others Injured mopeor loss seriously by a fall­ ing wall,Caused by an explosion during a fire in Lee, Hol'ard & Co.'s planing mill at Buffalo, Sf. Y. The fire was dis­ covered in the shaving-room, situated above the boiler room, and into which shavings are brought by suction through pipes. It was the dust in the shaving- room that exploded and caused the disaster. To add to the horror, there was a rush of escaping scalding steam pouring out of the debris. A large pipe crossing the passageway from the boiler room bear­ ing steam to other portions of the build­ ing was broken short off by tho falling wali, and allowed the steam to escape. Some of the victims were almost par­ boiled. Willing hands were quickly at work to rescue the imprisoned work­ men. It was found that five were caught in all. One was completely out of sight, while the others were burled ap to the breast. Cattle Trains Wrecked", ' TKS r&rs loaded with caffa wero ^wrecked at the crossing of the Santa Fe and Union Pacific tracks at Abilene, Kas. Two long trains crashed into each -other. One of tho brakemen was in­ jured fatally and ethers were wounded. :• o ' *V' '• Government finances. 3p- THE annual report of tha Secretary of the Treasury gives tho receipts for tho ftscal year ending June 30. 1891, as £458, #44,233, and the expenditures $421,304, 00, leaving a surplus of $37,23^762. M Fatai Explosion. " BY an explosion of hot metal a Lacy furnace, in Pittsburg, J, Mondette and Frank Gerrodo fatally and three others burned. $ Damaging Storm in Englan y, A GALE has already done * i t a o u n t o f d a m a g e n e a r Loi has been attended with a numl fatalities. • jvv.-,. > -* News in Brief, # VJKIHRTKEJC LA(JY postulants have tailed • from London for Houston, Texas, j. Govi:n.von Jlir.i,. of/New York, is con­ stantly at to; 'AKGUM election Appeals at Ax lia) I5uiJ ODO /rco detectives. York Senatorial rd in the Court of other day. Melbourne (Austra- t has embezzled #50,- the Institution. dred steerage passengers t the barge office in New icion of being contract la- e of the telegraph operators Uiern Pacifid is assuming se- portions. The Santa Fe may be EXIAM J. GIBBOXS, one of the fire- charged with burning the Dupont ings, at Wilmington, Del., has been 1 guilty. MR. GLADSTONE was entertained at breakfast the other day by the rural del­ egates to the National Liberal Federa­ tion Conference. XJNEASIXKSS is felt in shipping circles ta London over the resignat on of several ..',apor6of tho Lloyd's underwriters through . tecent sovcre losses. ; SKNIIOR POKTELLA, Governor of the State of Rio Janeiro, Brazil, has refused to resign, and the government will un­ seat him, if possible, and pioclaim mar *lal law. GKOKGE STABKEY and John Brown have been convicted of the murder of •x-State Senator Gillham at Alton, III., and sentenced to thirty years each in the pententiary. TIIE notorious' Billy McGlory'S dive, at Mew York, was raided by th6 police for the second time within a week. Sixteen prisoners were taken, among whom was lfcGlory himself. 'W. E PKXNINOTON, the tragedian, who is one of the immortalized "Six Hundred" cavalrymen who made the famous charge at Balaklava, has given Ids farewell performance at London. V A nkw volcanic island, 500 meters in length, has appeared southward of the Itland of I'antellaria, between Sicily Mid Africa, near the scene of the sAb jpaffiae upheaval of a few months ago. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. I Gk)HKX & GITTEI.SOX, clothing and junk dealers, Duluth, Minn, tried to defraud their creditors by shipping valuable goods to Marion, Ind., and then assign­ ing. The dry goods company had the car stopped at Superior, Wis., and re­ covered 94,000 worth of dry goods. NEAitLa Junta, Colo., Kit Carson Jr., a son of the famous'old scout of the same name, killed his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and then made good his escape. This is not the first shooting affair Carson has been implicated in, but If captured this time there is every rea­ son to believe that this will be his last TIIE body of John Tisdale, a stock "rustler," was brought to Buffalo, Wyo. He had been shot from ambush. The body of James Jones, a rancher, who was also suspected of stock stealing, was brought in. He had been murdered on the same road near where Tisdate was killed. Cowboys have organized a vigilance committer and will lynch the murderers if caught AT Evansville, Ind., James and Liilie Martin, aged 8 and 11 years; were kid­ naped by their mother as they were leaving school. The father, who is a well-known citizen, has gone to Louis­ ville to recover the children. He was divorcod from his wife a few years aero, and the court gave him the custody o the children. This is the third attem, she has made to abduct the children AT Cheyenne, Wyo., EeputjcJU. States Marshal F. M. Canto; arrested for the murder of information was filed by er, a Texas desperaa der an assumed nam ways borne a good rest is a surprise. the prosecutions W. Ci lrvine and! inent ranchmen, ia JAMES E. MOQRE, of the Louisiana State Lottery, was ar- resteijfliitiiitKce at 126 Washington cers were armed with a and after a long hunt lottery tickets hid in the ien the' officers found the ire saii he would havo to time, but in all the times he arrested they never before ickets in his possession, ling, one of Moore's helpers, arrested. t Louis, tho funeral of B. Will r, the young man who committed e for love of a married wbman, place, and the body was buriedjn vary Cemetery, but not in hallowed und. Father Zeigler, of St Malachi's hurch, was asked to perform the funeral rites over the remains in his church, but refused to allow the re­ mains to be taken into the church. He said: "I learned that the young man had committed suicide, and it was my plain duty to refuse the body. The rules of the church are clear, and all I had to do was to obey. I could not ad­ mit a suicide, and that was all there was to It" AT Elizabethtown, Ohio, the mother of the McDale family is past eighty and sleeps with her daughter. Groans from his mother's room called the son there to witness a blood-curdling sight During the night the daughter had been taken mortally ill, clasped her aged mother in her arms and pinioned her tightly. The horror of the situation caused the old lady to faint, and while thus uncon­ scious the daughter had died hugging the mother. The aged victim was held as if in a vise. It required the united strength of two men to remove the dead woman's arms and release the mother, who is so low from the shock and chok­ ing she received that it is scarcely prob­ able she can recover. • posit of 788^ for parts be on his AN idel of infli: from Mecli ical P bid been consumed. The losiea aad !n- •aranee were as follows: Bamberger. /Slroiig & Co., ioss $125,000, Insurance fMX^OOO; Bliss, Wilson & Co., loss $50,- OjWl Insuranto $10,000; Welles, Folk A Payne, loss $?r>,ooo, insurance unknown; Johatiboeke & Sons, loss ¥40,000, insur­ ance $35,000. It was with great diffi­ culty that the firemen prevented the flames from spreading further. A num­ ber of people were sleeDing in the upper room of tiie buildings, but all escaped. One fireman is missing and he may have been crushed by a falling wail. POLITICAL PORRIDOB. A. MEETING of the Executive Commit­ tee of the Democratic National Com­ mittee was held at tho Arlington Hotel, in Washington. The principal business done by the committee was the fixing of the time and place for the meeting of the full Kational Democratic Commit­ tee, which will determine the time and place for holding the Democratic Con­ vention of 1892. It took the committee bui a few minutes to agree upon January 21 next, at 12 o'clock, as to date and Washington as the place for the meet­ ing of the full committee. The meetings will be held at tho Arlington Hotel, where the recent meetings of the Re­ publican Committee were held. FOREIGN GOSSIP. THF. directors of the Bank of ̂ England reduced the bank's rate of discount from 4 to 3}£ per cent • Miss MARY TITKBESA OLIVIA CORX WAIXIS WEST, daughter of Colonel Corn- wallis West, M. P., of Ruthin Castle, Ruthin, and Mrs. Cornwallis West, a famous society beauty, was married at the historic Church of St, Margaret's, Westminister, to 1 rince Hans Heinrich of Pless. who is best known in London as a former Secretary of the German Embassy. THE German world of finance is startled by another crash among its mon­ eyed institutions, and by the discover, that another hitherto highly res, admired and envied" financier embezzling money for a In this latest rovclati Albert a prominent,! Prussian Silesia, bankrupt, and an exf^^^HMPfto his affairs shows a very p((HHHlrok for his creditors. He is said toWFvo embezzled over 2.000.QOQ„ marks. including one de- CAPTDJ BT CRISP. THK GEORGIAN CHOSEN roR THE SPEAKERSHIP. Sprinter De«id«d It-He Openly Displayed Hit Pique Against Mr. MlUt-Tkirtr lots Xtequlred--Knd ot the UoUtft E!«ltt Knwwa to History. < • '• Bow It WM DOB*. • * OmuiV. Omar, of Georgia Bp**" JAMM KBXUP, ot fMu»« ylmnia.. Clerk & 8 TODKB, of OMOT. BergSMIt-at-airm * C. H, Ton*!**, of Maw York Doorkeeper Xi. G. DAI/TON, ot Indiana Postmaster Charles F. Crisp, of Georgia, will be Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Fifty-second Congress. William las al- Ftbe ar- ^ backing also get ssse, prom- ^hicago agent stree sea; fo •ks. Albert has left .but he is believed to United States. >{/. txtent of the ravages irlin may be gathered which appears in the ihenschrift. This med- states that during the ire have been 40,000 cases in BeHin The death rate za 4s not high, but thirty of iported having resulted fatal- residents of Hamburg have be- iost panic stricken at the wide ice of the disease in that city, lidemlc In Hamburg is particular- 'Ulent in Its nature. The statistics show that during the past week deaths have been 280 above the forage. TUB London Court of Appeal has handed down a .decision In the matter of the Maybrick insurance case. The ac­ tion was brought by the brothers of Mr. Maybrick, the Liverpool merchant, for whose murder by poison Mrs. Florence Maybrick, his wif6, is now serving a life sentence. They sought to recover on a policy for 910,000 issued by the Mutual Beserve Fund Life Insurance Company on the life of the deceased. Mr. May­ brick made over this policy to his wife and she in turn made it over to her lawyer, Mr. Cleaver, to cover the cosls of defending her against the charge of murder. ̂ Tho Insurance com­ pany refused to pay the policy and ac­ tion was brought to compel it to do so, by the brothers of Mr. Maybrick, who were executors of his estate. The mas­ ter of the rolls in giving the verdict said that tho insurance company must pay the amount of insurance to the execu­ tors of Mr. Maybrick, holding that the policy was only payable to them and not to the wife's assignee. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. 8?;; v; THE bead of the New York bomt>- fhrower is still unidentified. AT Concord, N. H., Warden Colby B. Jbanded to Murderer Sawtclle the official ^ document from the Supreme Court Sn- forming him that his motion for a new trial had been dented. .Sawtelle read the paper and then said: "I hardly ex- »eeted this. Did you, Warden?" The Warden replied: "No, I did not." Saw- telie then asked to see his counsel. • SixTr-EiGHT Catholic convicts were at the State Prison In Trim- i ' "s . f "fp-': SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. THK news comes from Guerrero, Mexi­ co, that Col. Nueves Hernandez, who was arrested several days ago by order of General Garza, was killed about one hundred miles north of Monterey. Colonel Hernandez was in charge of a military escort, and, according to reports was ruthlessly murdered after he had been taken away from his friends. The govornment had become auspicious of him. He had been for several years stationed at Guerrero in command of the troops of that place, and was one of the most popular otlicers of the army. EDGEFIELD COCNTY, S. C., noted for the many murders and lynchlngs that have occurrod there during the last forty years, is mainta!ning its reputa­ tion. Recently Dick Lundy (colored) was shot to death in jail by a mob for the murder of James Ouzts, son of the Sheriff of fedgefield County. Young Ouzts was shot by Lundy at a sup­ per and died the day follow­ ing. The lynching occurred while the Sheriff was absent from the 1ail attend­ ing bis son's funeral. When the Gov­ ernor received the news that Lundy had been lynched, ho Immediately ordered a reward of $500 for tho principal lyncher and 8250 for the accessories, and in Btructed the State Solicitor to proceed to Edgefield and make a searching inves­ tigation of the ma'ter. AT Louisville, Ky., while the firemen were raking away the ruins of the Boone Paper Com patty's building there came the sound of a tetxific explosion in tho Bamberger, Strong & Co. building on the east of them. In an lnatant flames broke from every one of the four floors and through the roof. Fire must have been smoldering for several hours in the cellar, and when each of the four stories had become filled with heated air and smoke an explosion fbllowed and the building was one mass of flames. Before the fire could be extinguish­ ed the who'esale boot and shoe house of llamberscer, Strong & Co., together with the stoicks of Bliss, 1 > CENERA1* NOTES. - l¥.i| stated that the Archbishop of Canterbury will visit America next year and will make a tour through the United States and Canada. WHITBLAW REJIV the United States Minister to France, detailed the work of securing the withdrawal of the French prohibition against American pork. DISPATCHES received from Honduras say that the rebels in the country have cut the telegraph lines, and that they claim that the accessions to their rauks are steadily increasing. THE half sisters and heirs of the late Mrs. Stewart have divided their proper­ ty, worth between $4,000,010 and $5,- 000,000, between their nephews and heices, retalning,only a $10.0^0 annuity. TIIE International Game and Fish Commissioners' meeting, at Hamilton, Ont, went on record for prohibitory laws against the use of nets in the St Lawrence River, and for the establish­ ment of fish hatcheries. THE United States Supreme Conrt has postponed until the second Monday in January the hearing of the cases of Fielden and Schwab, the Chicago anar­ chists now imprisoned at Jollet, I1L, for complicity in the naymarket riot*. MARKET KUPOFTTS. Wilson «fc Co tions; We He; and , | f ' « A i £as# shing goods and i\o- «fc I'ayne, boots and eke 4 CHICAGO. CA ITIIB--Common to Prime i Hoos--Shipping Grades HBEKP--Fair tp Choice. * WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COKN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2.... KYIS--NO. 2 BUITEB--choice Creamery.!.... CHEESE--Full Cream, flats...... EGGB--Fresh POTAIOES--Car-loads, per bu!!!| INDIANAPOLIS. CATTM-Shipping Hoas--Choice Light SHEEP--Common to MIM wukat-no. i ued COBN--No. 1 White OATS-NO. 2 White b'i'. LOUlh. CAITLB Hoas...... i WHEAT - No. 2Bed CORK--No. s OATS--No. 2 BY*--NO. !S CINCINNATI.' CATTLE hoas but HP WHEAT -NO. 3 Bed Cons--No. 2 OATS-NO. S Ulxea DETROIT, CAITLI. Hoos Hum ,!,) WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBN - No. 2 Itellow. " OAIB--No. 2 White TOLEDO. WHKAT--New COKK-NO. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White " B** BUFFALOT" BBEF CATTLE .7 LIVEHOOS WHEAT-No. 1 Hard CORN - No. 2 MILWAUKKR. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring ...» co**_No. 3 : •••••••* Oats-No. 2 white 1'. Bt»--No. 1 * BARI,Ei--- No.*J.' ••••••» Poiuc--....'.'.'I'y/' CATn*.........*** VOBK- Hoos.... SHEEP... ** WHEAT--No. 2Bed". CORN--No. 2 OATS--(fixed Western........... BUTTKB--Croatn erv. I..,,...... SfcOO 4.99 fctO @ 5.00 & 4.00 & 4J69 <& .88 & .44 0.86 .W«(6» ,43 .33 J69 •67 llXW ANNUAL HE PORT OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL. On* Cent Postage Coming--Three Cent Telephone and Ten Cant Teteg-raph Mes­ sages--Pay of Fourth-class Officers. SPEAKER CRIB*. - M. Sprlhger, of JIHnois, brought about his nomination., Crisp was nominated on the thirtieth ballot of the caucus, the result being reached aftenthe following fashion: BALLOTS. P. • 4 <& to G *E a 3 s J 1 1 ' f ' •"C 0 s Q, 00 £ i 84 78 83 18 14 1 89 80 28 18 11 1 ... *%lfl > u * ...I .««T7... 03 t>7 20 18 1 05 80 20 18 4 1 05 89 20 18 4 1 BPIsStfa... 94 01 18 18 B 1 5»ghth : 04 91 IT 19 S 1 Ninth 05 91 IS 19 6 1 Tenth 94 9J 17 19 6 0 Eleventh............. 03 83 90 10 6 1 Twelfth.. 02 89 19 19 & 1 Thirteenth 04 01 16 80 8 1 Fourteenth 08 8' 17 * 19 6 1 Fifteenth 92 89 10 17 $ 1 Sixteenth 04 91 17 19 6 1 Seventeenth 04 91 19 17 S 1 Eighteenth 94 9i 17 ltt 5 1 Nineteenth. 94 91 17 19 6 1 Twentieth 92 90 17 17 5 1 Twenty-flrst.......... . 94 91 17 19 6 1 Twenty-second. 05 93 17 19 4 1 Twenty-third......... 100 94 18 17 0 1 Twenty-fourth....... 101 94 12 19 0 1 Twenty-flfth. 101 93 13 10 0 1 Twenty-sixth... 101 95 12 19 0 1 Twenty-seven t-h.... .. 1 1 05 13 19 0 1 Twenty-eighth 103 (6 8 19 0 i Twenty-ninth 104 94 8 18 0 1 Thirtieth lie 104 4 V 0 0 Necessary to choioe, 114. The nomination of Crisp was made unanimous on motion of J. D. Brown of Indiana. Immediately there were loud cries of "Crisp! Crisp!" And a commit­ tee was appointed to notify the success­ ful candidate of his se ection and escort him to the chair. Applause and i heers greeted the' gentleman from (Georgia, and aft r bowing his acknowledgments Mr. Crisp spoke as follows: "Representatives, I am profoundly grateful for this mark of your confidence and esteem. I p.edge myself here and now to devote whatever of Industry and ability I possess to the advancement of the real interests of the Democratic, party. I beg to say to you now as I speak to you my first words since I am your selection for Speaker, tbatniy elec­ tion means 140 step backward in tariff reform. "I beg to say to you that there is in our party to-dafe r® man who more earn­ estly believes in the Democratic doctrine of tariff reform than I do. After the long struggle through which we have passed, when Representatives are fa­ tigued, when other officers are to be nominated, it does not become me to consume your time. I beg to say, how­ ever, that during the progress of this canvass 1 have said no word respecting any individual whioji would at all justify him in having any harsh feeling of any kind against me. 1 have felt that it was a friendly struggle. I have felt that we were all Democrats, and I* have felt that whoever might be chosen Speaker, whenever this House meets and organizes wo stand asrne body, working and laboring for a common cause--the principles of tho Democratic party. "I thank you again for your confi­ dence and your kindness, and assure you that this whole contest has left in my bosom no unkind feeling toward any member of the House." *. BIOOBAPHT OF THE SPKAKftR. Charles Frederick Crisp was born in Sheffield, England, Juno 29, 1845, his parents being on a^European tour at the time. They returned to America the year of his birth, and went back to their old home in (Georgia. He was educated in the common schools of Macon and Savannah, and in May, 1861, he entered the Confederate army as Lieutenant in Company K, Tenth Virginia Infantry. He was taken prisoner of war May 12, 1864, and confined in Fort Delaware until June, 1865. Then he was re eased and went to Hve with his parents, who were residing at Ellaville, Schley Coun­ ty, Ga. Soon after ho removed to Americus and studied law, being ad­ mitted to the bar these in 1866, and go­ ing back to Ellaville to practice. He continued in private practice there until 1872, when he was appointed Solicitor General of the Southwestern Judicial Circuit, and was reappointed in 1873 for a term of four years. Ir. the same year he moved to Amcrfcus again and since then that town has been his home. June, 1877, Mr. Crisp was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of the Southwestern Ciicuit, and in 1878 elccto 1 to the same office by the General Assembly. He was re-elected Judge in 1880 for a term of four years, but re­ signed in 1882 to accept the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Third District. He was also President of the Democratic State Convention of 1883. Ho was clected to the Forty-eighth Congress and has teen returned body continuously ever since. OUR IRON HIGHWAYS. Interesting Statistics In the Report of DM Bureau of Hallway Statistics. The express companies pay to rail­ ways as renta s $20,207,Tll a year. They are in reality engaged in the busi­ ness of quick delivery of freight, and aa such should be amenable to control. Railway travel is the least safe in the States south of tho 1'otoinac and Ohio Rivers. Thus, in this territory an em­ ploye (skilled for each 241 men employ­ ed, and one trainman is killed for each 65 employed. Ono passenger is killed for each 838,555 passengers carried. The Increase in railway capital over the previous year is 5t444,2f>3,798. The proportion of capital represented by stocks Is 46.82 per cent. 'Jho amountof stocks ror mile is #28,322, and the amount of outstanding obligations, in­ cluding bonds, equipment, trust obliga­ tions, etc., is $28,262. The number of passengers carried during tho year was 492,430,805^ The aggregate number of miles traveled by all passengers was 11,847,785,617, an average journey of 24.06 miles per nas- setiger. Tho freight carried was 636,- 441,617 tons, the average carry per ton 'liaving been 118.74 mtlM. ^ Improvements Whleh HhonM Be Hide. In his annua! report Postmaster Gen­ eral Wanamake? says that, in spite of the fact that over $1,000,090 worth of lottery revenue has be^n lost during the past year, the postal deficit of S6.OOf.QOO is surely disappearing, provided the same rate of revenue and expenses obta ns on July 1, 1898. • It appears thataJl of the lottery mail ha* practically twin* driven from the mails, and tho fidelity of the depari.*neut In trying to enforce this almost unani­ mous wish of Congress is evident from the court records of prosecutions, in­ volving 202 cases in six months The Postmaster GeiJerai renews his recommendation for the division of the country into postal districts, and ad- dtices many reasons why the reform would be beneficial. He shows that tl.> county seat visitations have resulted in the submission of 2,100 reports out of a possible 2,800, and that the condition of 4A,qoo offices is covered. The following are the leading Items obtained by an ac­ tual compilation of oyer 38,000 of these reports: rf PostofltoM conveniently looated .33,910 Postof&oea Inconveniently 1 cated 007 Change of looatioa suggested. .<* 162 PostoAoes well-kept, clean, and orderly. .31,713 Postoffioes not well-kept, etc s,ifti Books-acooncta, and reports properly and promptly written up 81,lv7 Book*, etc., not properly and promptly Written up..... 0,381 Postoffloe a lounging place 1,*430 Postoffloe not a lounging plaoe 83,601 Offices havltig one or more walls arriving and departing every day (that Is, sup­ plied with daily mall servloe) 3.1,900 Notice of the lottery law was found posted.S-2,877 Lottery law was not posted 4,962 Patrons of the postoffloe satisfied with the service 86,267 Patrons of the poatoffice not satisfied with the service 1,060 Postmaster was found to understand the postal laws and regulations 39,573 Postmaster did not understand the postal laws and regulation < 4,814 Postmaster devotes all his time to the of­ fice.... 22,070 Postmastei does not devote all his time to the office 1^490 Postmaster -was found to be engaged In objectionable employment in connection with the postoffloe 106 Postmaster ims made obvious improve- - ments in the service of hie offloe 9,801 Postmaster bas not thus far made im­ provements in the service ot his efflae. ..23,997 Offices which could be discontinued and supplied from some other office ' 409 Number of offices rated i, or perfect 1,751 Number of offices rated 4, or excellent 8,490 Number of offices rated 8, or good..... ..14.7V7 Number of offices rated S, or fair ....... .. 8.MJ8 Number of offices rated 1, or poor 1,919 Tho Postmaster Goneral recommends the adaptation of the telephone, as well as the telegraph, to tho postal system. He says* "One cent letter postage, 3- cent telephone messages, and 10-cent telegraph messages are a.l near possi­ bilities under an enlightened and com­ pact iostal system, using the newest telegraphic inventions. The advantage of tying the rural postoOico by a tele­ phone wire requiring no operator to ttoe rai road station must be ob­ vious. It is not chimerical to ex­ pect a 3-cent telephone rate; the possibilities of cheapening the man­ agement of these new facilities are ^pry great. All account keeping could be abolished by use of stamps or 'nickel-in the-slot' attachments, collec­ tion boxes everywhere in the cities and many places in the country towns would receive telephone and telegraph mes­ sages, written on stamped cards like postal cards. Old soldiers and others could find employment as collectors, and frequent . collections would abolish the present expensive messonirer-boy system. For telegraphing only an operator is needed when business justifies it, other-, wise a telegraph message would be for­ warded by 'phone to the nearest tele­ graph station. "I have heretofore stated that 1-cent postage will be successfully demanded in time I believe that time is not tar off. It certainly ought not to be asked for so long as any deficit appears in the rev­ enues of the postal service, and here I wish to reiterate the further statement that, in my judgm< nt* it ought not to be asked for then until many improvements and extensions of the . service are pro­ vided f8r. It would not be just and fair to a service upon which every effort has been spent for two*years to make it self- sustaining, and which now promises to become so in the next fiscal year, to heap upon it, the instant the balance sheet becomes clear, a burden of mil­ lions, from which it could not recover for many years, and with the existence of which it would have to struggle yeal by year, and then often unsuccessfu ly( to obtain the appropriations absolutely required for its maintenance. "Clerks in postoSlices ougl^t to be fair­ ly paid; they ought not to be over­ worked; they ought to nave rooms In better buildings; letter-carriers ought not to be weighted down like pack- horses; railway postal clerks should be paid for the dangers they face daLy; the great majority of postollices ought "to be better equipped; a fourth-class post­ master who reco ves $100 a year cannot afford to pay 8200 for fitting his office with boxes; rural free delivery, consid­ ered to be a successful experiment, and about which there cannot be two opin­ ions as to the propriety'of its further extension, should bo wndely extended. These and other thing^mght to be done, but they can never bo consummated so long as a deficiency in the po tal rev­ enues stare* an appropriation commit­ tee in the face." "At the close of the last fiscal year there were 04,325* postoTces. At 44,263 of these the reie'pts which accrued were absorbed, or more than absorbed, by the postmasters1 pay. In other words, the comp nsation to 1 oitinastors includes all the receipts from more than two thirds of all the postoflices. Another large percentage of offices should be added to this number, where the compensation of the postmaster, the cost of mail messen­ ger service, and the allowance for sepa­ rating labor more than include the re­ ceipts. The number of postoflices that are conducted at a profit is therefore TflfJ MIMlL* . threw a boiPat Sage * ii4ii>*'jiii • HORRID ACFT* OF A MURDEROUS NEW YORK MANIAC. He Demands Twelve Hundred Thousand Dollars and Then Hurts aa Internal Maehtae, Killing Himself aad Aaother Man, and Wounding the MtlUonaira. r was Gotham stertM. A madman attempted the life of Rus­ sell Sage at the risk of destroying him­ self, the great office building at 78 Broadway, New York, and more than two hundred person who worked within its walls. Hiram D. Wilson, the maniac, whose weapon appears to have been a nitro glycerine bomb, accomplished his own death and the death of at least one other, inflicted}wounds upon his intend­ ed victim among them, and parti wrecked the building. He himself wa blown to pieces. Hiram D. Wilson has been known as a dangerous, unbalanced person for fourteen years. He has been in insane asylums several times, and has teen re leased each time straightway to threaten the life of some one about whom his un settled wits were busy. Bussell Sage, as has been often to d of him and othor millionaires, is constantly getting letters from cranks of all descriptions, demand ing great or small sums of money, and the demands are often accompanied by- threats. Within the last month he.has received four letters from one crank signing himself "J. Dt Walsh. • These letters have qot forth that Mr. Walsh wps on the eve of marriage with the widows of Alderman Monheimer and General Spinola, two of tho holders of the disputed Standard Gas stock. Mr. Walsh said that in order that this mar­ riage might be accomplished it was nec essary that he have $1,200,000. Ho said that Mr. Sa|e or Mr. Gould, or both, must furnish this money or take the con- aeouences. On the afternoon of the explosion a shabbily dressed man had entered the office of Mr. Sage just as the latter was preparing to leave his desk to go to lunchoon. The man had a package in his hand, and when Mr^age looked up the visitor held it above the millionaire's head. "What do you want?" asked Mr. Sage, noting a wild look in the face'of his visitor. "Russell Sage," responded the man, *1 want a million and a half dollars." Mr. Sage at once knew that the man was insane^ and rising from his chair, saia: "All right, I'll have to see about it and will let you know." "No, I want it now," said the man, motioning Mr. Sage to stop- "If I don't get it," he continued, raising his voice FO that people in the outer office could hear, "you will regret it. Will you give it to me?" "No," said Mr. Sa7«, quietly, "not now; tome after it some other time. Mr. Sage had hardly spoken when tha man raised the package he held in hta hand ahove his head and sayings "Here goe%" threw it to the floor, almost at thchfeet of the millionaire bi oker. There wa& instantly a tremendous explosion. When the relief party of police wont in o the room half an hour <ater they found the body of the man who threw the dynamite literally torn to pieces. The explosion took place in the outer office, where the man had backed from Mr. Sage's private office in his efforts to keep the millionaire from getting away. A clerk who was in the outer office says th ; man stood almost in the doorway be­ tween tho outer and inner offices when he threw the bomb. Just before he did so another man came into the outer of­ fice. The clerk thought he was a com­ panion of the first. He said nothing, but he eviaently knew the man who had demanded the money of Mr. Sage, for he nodded to him. The second man stood Within three feet of the man with the bomb, and when tho latter threw it to the floor he turned as if to run, but he only advanced a few feet when the ex? plosion occurred. His body was found stretched through a window leading from the outer office into a court, terri­ bly mangled. After the explosion, Mr. Sage, who tell to the floor of his office with n six feet of the man who had thrown the bomb, struggled to his feet and groped his way out into the passage. His head and lace were dripping with blood. He was almost unconscious. Two men car­ ried him down-stai;s and across Broad­ way to a drug store. Wilson, the lunatic who threw the bomb, was killed, as was also B, F. Norton, Kussell base's private secretary. Seven others were severely injured. • • . • -. ;••• . . .. • ' • Cv DOM PEDRO 18 DEAD. Gems of Thought. <1 COMPASSTON will cure more slns^lhan condemnation.--Henry Ward Beecher. THK necessity of circumstances proves friends and detects enemies. Epictetus. I'EDANTKV and tfte are as incon- slstent as gayety and melancholy.--Lav- tter. THERE has never been a mean man and at the same time virtuous.--Con­ fucius. ( NATTBB makes no vagabonds, the world makes us respectable.--Alexander Smith. To BE content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches. •-Cicero, OF all the paths which lead to a woman's heart, pity Is the straightest-- Beau«nont DEFENO me ,/rom my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.--Mar­ shal Villars. IF we can still love those who have made us suffer we love thom all the more.--Mrs. Jameson. EXPEHIENCE teaches that a weak memory is generally joined to a weak Judgment--Montaigne. THE novel in its best form I regard as the most powerful engine of civilization in vented. Brazil's Former Ruler Passes Away Sud­ denly I11 Paris. Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Bra?!', is dead In Paris. The disease with which the ox-Emperor was afflicted was dia­ betes It is said that tho last conscious words of Dom Pedro were an expression of his deep affection for Brazil and his regret that he could not go back there to die. His death will probably put an end forever to the attempts to revive the Brazilian Empire. Dom Pedro was born in 1826, and was only 5 years old .when, in 1831, his father, Dom Pedro I., abdicated in his favor and left Brazil. The boy was thus loft quito alon 3 in the world, and he felt himself still more iso ated when, at 10 years of acre, he hea.d of his father's death in Portugal. His education was begun by the ven­ erable Bishop of Chrysopolls, and by the famous Liberal leader, Andrada Sylva. who had been recalled from ex­ ile, where he was sent again by his un­ grateful party. D*!m l'edro, when 1 year old. lost his mother, Leopoldine, an- Austrian archduchess, and a sister of Marie Louise, tho second wife of Na­ poleon I. The knowleage of many languages was but a small part of the scholarly acquirements of the dead monarch, who was as much of a savant as of an Em­ peror, and he had been elected, not on account of h!s title but as a reward for his numerous scientific works, a member of the famous Institute of France and most of the European acad­ emies. The revolution in Brazil broke out on the 15th of November, 1889; two days later Dom Pedro was deposed, and forced to leave the country, since which time he has resided In Europe. Dom Pedro was tall, robust, and of splendid bearing; his hair and beard had grown whito prematurely. His blue eyes had a deep look, and his face, frank and open, inspired a jrreat sympathy at the first glance. He spoke easily, and listened with polite interest.. DOINGS Personal Paragraphs. BRET HAHTK'S English publishers last year paid him ftlMoa . - • MNE. I>E LKSSEPS is forty year* younger than her husband. SrR MOUKM, MACKENZIE thinks with Mr. Spurgeon that a clergyman can smoke a cigar "to the glory of God," if the cigar is good, without harm. IT is no longer good, form to call the emperor of 'Japan the mikado. He it now called kotei, and the Chinese em­ peror answers to tho title of bakudahan. IT is expected that Moncure D. Con­ way's "Life of Paine" will for the first time make public many interesting facto in the life of this great American of the founders' daya. - - r~ " .. ^ ... r j t w - s T i j s " v . MEASURES CON ACTED IBD iJPS AND IS AS tha Nation's Capital--Wha* Xm 3>oae hjr the Senate M " Matters Pispsssd Of aad Maw Oa«a CMS* entered. '•••" ThaXfaftteaat Solotl*. The Fifty-second Oonirress is a thing of life. It met a* 12 o'clock on the 7th, but almost immediately adjouyned. The o|d»x and more arlstmcratle twin, under tkem- Biding genius of the Vice President, becataa. a well-organtcel body at bttdft. People came from long distances to see it, and at an early hour of the moroliut the spectators on the terrace of the Capitol lookiiif down Pennsylvania avenue saw a lon(Hu Of worthy citizens, male and female, marching through the rain. The marchers cltmtfed the steepsteps, entered the building, clogged the corridors und stairways and pressed hard axaiost the doors. Such as chose the Sen­ ate were admitted at ten o'clock. Men and women, young, old, and tuiddleaged, Jumped over, fell over, and were pushed over the backs of the seats until the seats and aistes were packed as no one lu the House had ever seen them packed be­ fore. Such as were fortunate enough to secure tickets to the private gal­ lery fared better, but all were packed and none except the executive and diplo­ matic galleries, which were only partly filled, contained a fourth of those who craved admittance. When the hands of the clock over the main entrance to the house " Indicated the hour of 12 o'clock Clerk McPhersou rose and smiting the new- topped Speaker's desk with his gavel called the members to order. It took six jrood hearty raps to execute his order. Then when a hush was obtained he announced that the roll would be called. It took half an hour to do this, and throe hundred and twenty-six members answered to their namea .The work ot the Fifty-second Congress is now be stun. At the meeting on the 8th instk, Mr. Holm an. of Indiana, was the first man in the House to address the clerk presiding. McPiierson, and he moved that the bady proceed to the election of Speaker. The result is already known; Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, was chosen on the thirtieth ballot. The rest of the session was de­ voted to the usual work attendant upon the opening of Congress, swearing in the mem­ bers, assigning of seats, etc. Mr. Springer's motion, that the Speaker appoint commit­ tees on rules, accounts, enrolled bills, and mileage, and that the rules of the Fiftieth Congress be referred to the first committee, was adopted. The appointrnentof commit­ tees will be the first business attended to^ On tbe 9th, immediately after the read­ ing of the Sqnate journal, the annual mes­ sage of the President was laid before the Senate. It was read by Mr. McCook. its Secretary. The message was ordered to be laid on the table and printed, ana then the Senate adjourned until the 10th. In tho House, after the approval of the journal, Mr. Pruden delivered the Presi­ dent's message, which was Immediately read, referred to the committee ot the whole, and ordered printed. The House then adjourned until the 12th, with the understanding that a further adjournment Bhould be then taken until the 16th. On the 10th tho House was not in session. The Senate broke the record In tho way of measures introduced in a single day, there having been 612 bills and eight joint reso-* iutions presented. This is about 100 more than ever before introduced in cne day. Many of them were relics ef the last Con­ gress, while others are upbn entirely new subjects. Among these is a postal savings bill; one to establish a branch mint at Omaha; another to establish a gun factory on the Pacific coast; and one to establish a department of public health--the latter by Senator Sherman. .A " 1 >• ' v ' -if 1 K £ * VfXi 4 -A) f '.,4, % • • * )1 i , ̂ ̂ - tr"/1 * % -i VRiw&rM r T- "N?; '1 Oi' 'i V "J**" ' v«f'6 • 1 * ^ 'I *'5 - "4- f • 'i \ 'v * -'s ' OPINIONS OP THE PRESSI • j • i ^ Bsge'a Assassin. The only safe lunatics are tho?e who are under rigid restraint.--New .York Tribune. fiussell Sage has probably sold mora puts and calls than any other ten men in America, but it was a startling nov­ elty to have a dynamite ^bomb put at him immediately after a call for a mil­ lion dollars.--Cleveland Leader-Herald. If a suspicious stranger calls on you and demands $1,000,0Q0 lose no time In sitting down and writing a check for that amount. Jn tho light of recent events the Joar; al feels justified in of­ fering its readers this advice.--Indian­ apolis Journal. The attempt on the life of Bussell Sage in New York sh ws the necessity of the most rigid regulations with respect to tbe use of such explosives as dyna­ mite, with severe penalties to be visited upon persons found with such articles in their possession unless duly authorized. Electric Executions. The Iegislaturo aln ed to shock, not roast, itscriii ina's to death by electrici­ ty,--New York Commercial Advertiser. Is electrocution torture? This is the question, and science should be able to furnish the answer.--New York fie- corder. The exorut'ons by electricity are a monstrous scandaL No civilized com­ munity can permit such dreadful work to go on.--New York Times. Tho exceedingly brief treatment of tho event by the press generally must com­ mend itself to the cranky gentlemen who drew the law under wh'ch the execution was cone--Providence Telegram. Tho electrocution of the wife mur­ derer Loppy, at Sing ^ing, is pronounced a success by the attending physicians. Mr. Loppy's qpipion on the subject has» however, not been published.--St. Louia Globe-Democrat The Onion Upheld. It has been decldcd in Chicago that a school cannot be dismissed by the teacher because some of the scholars have eaten onions.--Phi.adelphia Call. •The place for tho onion-eater is la­ the solitude of the fields or the bed­ chamber with the windows well down.-- Philadelphia Inquirer. Miss Merrill, a fastidious school teach­ er in Chicago, is in trouble because sho insists upon sending boys home who eat onions before coming to school.--New York Commercial Advertiser. A Chicago teacher sent a Child homo from schools because his breath smelled of onions and the15 Superintendent, of Schools has reprimanded her for it Chi- , cago believes in a free dlot as weU' :i|l free schools.--Boston New, ; ^ • The Earthquake in Japan. Japan's home market for earthquakes seems to be overstocked, and judging by the destruction of life and property, the consumers pay the tax.---Cleveland Press. The recent earthquake in Japan will pass into history as one of the greatest catastrophes of tin cntury. Over 5,000 lives were lost, 43,000 houses to­ tally dest'Oyed and 158,000 persons ren­ dered homeless. Japan has frequently experienced seirmic disturbances, but none so disastrous as this one.--Qulncf Whig. The details of tho recent earthquake in Japan show that the disturbance was on a colossal scale and that the resulting catastrophe was full of horrors. To have who'.e cities overthrown and fire to follow and destroy what the earthquake left is a prosp?ct which must appall any people, even one accustomed to earth­ quakes of the ordinary pattern.--Wash­ ington fctar. ______ ' X'.,' The Jfew Congress. Congress presents as striking a in its personality a; in its partisanship. The number of new members is unprece­ dented.--Troy Press. The new Congress has a great deal of new material in its make-up~ there being 141 members who appear for the first time on the floor. --Lafayette Journal- $ Oi r-. /•; 1 -A , • 0 V- {' * ^ '< J i ' , 1 f l f i 'I .. r' ' : J . A' >'i , "a n a - - : . . . -'M:' r • ' - '1'. .r,. ' " t'". •' - V/* **