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HAI THE:'-! ITH IN UTM Dtttrored by i AnthanGoMlStmnii .Wreckage. v Work of the As communication bec&mes estab­ lished with that part of the South dev­ astated by the furious hurricane of Sunday and Monday, more complete details of the awful visitation are made known. Many places where the storm was most |evere are not reached by telegraph, and reports from these points are necessarily slow and inac­ curate. The cyclone flew through Port Royal, S. C., at the rate of 100 miles an hour, and was followed by a tidal wave that almost swept the town away. One hundred lives are said to have been lost here. At the time this is written Port Royal is completely out off from the outside world, as all the telegraph wires are down and the rail­ roads washed away. Even the people themselves have no idea of the extent of damage done. The messenger was unable to give the exact number of lives lost, but without overeat,imatinar says that oyer 100 persons were killed and drowned. He saw himself thirty dead bodies. Others are being recov­ ered, and many are still missing. The suffering and misery the storm has caused cannot be pictured nor the dam­ age to property be estimated.. Most of the drowned are negroes. The people of Beaufort and Port Royal were apprehensive in regard to the fate of St. Helena, a small island four miles from Beaufort. They were unable to hear a single word from there. There were twenty-five lives lost between Port Royal and Seabrook, a small station only four miles from the harbor, all of them negroes, who were Slantation hands. Houses were blown own and carried in every direction, and almost a tidal wave covered the town to a depth of ten and twelve feet. Only meager reports have been re­ ceived from other points near Beau­ fort, and it is feared that many more negroes have been killed. The Alma Cumming, a large beat loading at the Bee Island Chemical Works, was swept from its moorings and badly injured. The pilot boat Palmetto, tied up at Port Royal docks, W&s blown to pieces and finally sunk a few yards from Its moorings. Every house in Port Royal and Beaufort was seriously damaged. Uves Lost by Hundreds. A passenger train of the Atlantio Coast line reached Richmond, Va., from Charleston, S. C., having been de­ layed twenty-four hours by the storm. J. B. Beddinacauld, the Southern Ex­ press Company's messenger, who was in Charleston during the storm, says that the battle of wind and rain began with terrific force at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon and continued with­ out cessation until Monday morning at seven o'clock. While tne record of terror and ruih wrought by the great disaster of 1885 remains unbroken, Charleston stood in the track of this cyclone which has shaken the old city to her foundation stones. The total damage to property cannot be told for some days, and the loss of life is un­ known. Not fifty yards? space was left in the streets that did not contain debriB of all kinds--roofs of houses, signs, awnings, telegraph poles, etc., which were scattered in all directions during the storm. It is reported that five hundred persons have been drowned on the Sea Islands, but this report cannot be verified. The Sea Islands skirt the coasts of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Storm at Savannah. At Savannah, Ga., the storm, which had been predicted by the weather bureau for several days, began early in the afternoon and, according to a dis­ patch, increased from then on until it reached the climax between 11 and 12 o'olock at night, having lasted for eight hours. The storm and rain ceased for awhile in the afternoon. It began again with terrific force and the work of destruction reigned supreme and lasted until midnight, when the storm spent its fury. Au the wharves along the river front and ocean^ steamship companies and savannah, Florida ana Western Railroad wharves were under water. The city streets were impassa­ ble on account of debris and fallen 'trees, twisted roofs, masses of brick fences, and broken limbs and branches. It is difficult at the time this is writ­ ten to estimate the damage as the re­ sult of the storm, but it was very gen­ eral, and it is sate to say it will go up in the hundreds of thousands and per­ haps higher. Nearly if not quite all the property owners in the city have been damaged to some extent and some to the amount of thousands. Fourteen lives are known to be lost, and this will certainly be augmented when details come to hand. There are forty or fifty Other persons who are reported miss­ ing, and it is supposed, as nothing has been heard from them, that their bodies will be found later on. Twelve barks and barkentines which were an­ chored off quarantine station ware thrown high upon the island, and some of them were carried by the storm across the marshes into an island twen­ ty miles distant from the quarantine station. The ruin at quarantine is immeasur­ able. Nothing is standing where one of the finest stations of the South At­ lantic was twenty-four hours before, ex­ cept the doctor's house, and how this weathered the fearful gale is miracu­ lous. The wharves are gene, the new fumigating plant, which cost the city so much money, is in the bottom of the eea, and nine vessels which were wait­ ing there for release to go to the city are high and dry in the marsh, and no doubt will be total wrecks. The Cosnine was the only vessel which managed to keep afloat. It is re­ ported that eight of the crew of a ter­ rapin sloop which went ashore on the south end were drowned. All the bath houses are gone, the Knights of Pyth­ ias' club house was washed away, two of the cottages of the Cottage Club are also gone. The Ranch and Ram­ bler club nouses were wrecked and Che railroad track is cleaned out. The water swept with tremendous force •over the island, railroad tracks being carried from 300 to 500 feet. The people of Savannah and at Brunswick nad warning of the coming storm and took to flight. But for this the loss of life would have been ter­ rible. Whole rows of houses were wrecked and everything in the path of the wind went down. The known prop­ erty loss is already over $1,000,000. Havoc In the Bast. At Baltimore not since the big flood * of 1868 has such a deluge of water in­ vaded the city. The wind blew a gale all the afternoon, damaging all mova­ ble property. Mountainous seas were piled up and rolling in the basin. The waves spread over the wharves and flooded the streets and buildings adja^ cent. Men rowed around in boats from store to store in the lower part of the city carrying merchants and clerks to their places of business and removing valuable goods and books, The streets MMmhlM lflflwmis rsith&r York, Philadelphia, Boston and other cities suffered to a greater or lass Alnng flw flnnay T»^WI beach everything has beta swept away, and the roofs of many big buildings were carried for blocks. The storm seems to have had its ori­ gin in a cyclone arising in the Wast Indies ana f rom them swept along the Atlantic coast in a northeasterly direc­ tion for & distance of nearly L600 tniW RAIN FAIL8 TO FALL. Baft and Dry Weather Conttnoas la Xany Regions--Crop Condition*. Washington dispatches in speaking of the weather and crepe during the past week say that hot and dry weather continued in the Ohio valley, where the crops have been injured in many sec­ tions by continued drought. Frosts were reported in Wisconsin, which must have caused some damage. The weather was more favorable in the Northwest. Crops , were generally improved id the States to the west of the upper Mississippi, while the conditions were unfavorable in the States of the Ohio Valley and Tennes^ fee. In the Southern Rocky Mountain districts the season is reported as the most satisfactory for years, while in the Northers. Rocky Mountain districts the .ground is dry, crops need rain, and the ranges are in poor condition. , The week was dry throughout the oentral valleys, except in portions of Kansas and Nebraska. Over the greater por­ tion of the region named crops are much in need of rain, and especially from the lake region southward to the east Gulf coast. The West India hurricane which oassed inland from Florida to Northern New England caused great damage to growing crops in Eastern Georgia, South Carolina, and portions of North Carolina and Virginia. Generous rains occurred in North Dakota and portions of Minnesota, but the week was drier than usual from the Rocky Mountains westward to the Paoific coast. Alabama reports cotton picking getting along favorably, but the crops are in need ox showers. „ Northern Georgia reports that corn has been injured by droughts. COKN CHOP IS POOR. The Farmers' Review Gives the General Ontlook as IMsconrafftay. The Farme'rs' Review, which is gen­ erally recognized as authority in the matter of crop conditions, this week contains the following: Com--Since onr last report the condition of corn has oonthmed to deteriorate. Only one in nine of the correspondents In Illinois re­ port the crop In gooa condition. Two-ninths report fair. Over 60 per cent, of all the conn- ties report the outlook as very diHCOuraging. In Indiana there has been a great decline in condition, and in only a few counties will there be an average crop. In three-fourths of the comities the crop leu estimated at lees than 75 per cent, of tne normal, and in many cases falls below a half crop. In Ohio rmB? MOST COMPLETE COLLECTION EVER SHOWN. Ui Ml VMk Water jpirtw KMI AU Climes--Appliances Used t» Tfcelr Cap- tare and Preparation for Market--Ad- Arrangements for cent. rop. not one" correspondent reports a good prospect, In the Swtnu ' World's Fair correspondence: A department of the World's Fair that in all probability will lead to the establishment of aquaria in different parts of America Is that of fisher­ ies. Besides the live fish, which include specimens oi those that live in salt water, are complete collec­ tions of the imple­ ments used by all nations in catch­ i n g a n d c u r i n g them. Fishing Ouci coitus* has not received much attention at international exhi­ bitions. London had an exposition de- Voted entirely to fisheries nearly ten thstf of coursc, vrsss finer th#n the present display, but in Chi­ cago a very great deed has been done to illustrate the industry, and that, too, without any American precedents. Of all the foreign countries Canada sent the higfrest display. There are models of fish, stuffed fish, and fish- eattag birds. A seventy-pound salmon frsmQaeen Charlotte Sound, British Gotabhla, suggests a lot of possibili­ ties to the teller of fish stories. Bark and dugout canoes from the west coast of Canada tell the storv of the Indian angler, and a little model of his home ana its surroundings shows where he is when not on the water. A right whale and a shar)% well mounted, show other productions of the Dominion. New South Wales has a gteqf of Australian seals climbing over Nve r,ook% mm$ pictures of her fiah it In a tank for a SiaAolent of time it is drawn off and is i a filter in the cellar made of gravel and sand in strata, as in soil. This is to imhaart now, life to it, JThen it is pumped hack into a tank Teservoir over the tanks and used again. The water runs in snch a way as to become aerated again. For the use of big Mississlpi fish is an aquarium 72 feet long, 5 feet deep and 12 feet wide. It contains catfish, stur­ geon and pickerel. The lake fir.h, which include sturgeon, whitefish and bass, were gathered at the Put In Bay station on Lake Erie. The Atlantio fish w.ere collected at Wood's Holl, Mass. The government steamer Fish Hawk scoured the Southern waters for specimens. At the extreme end of the 1 i»'I 'i >; WAS ABIDE TO DEATH FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED ON THE BOSTON & ALBANY R. R. VMW or FCAOOOV, SHOWING WBAUB FBOO- asss. main Fisheries Building is the angling annex, devoted entirely to the consider- j ation of fishing as a pastime. There ! the sporting clubs, the gentlemen fish- | ing liars and the fly and rod cranks can J flock bv themselves amd argue it cut." j A New York sportsman's paper has a ' pavilion in which it exhibits yacht models and photographs having refer­ ence to the art of fishing. Outside of the annex is a reproduction, by the way, of Izaak Walton's fishing house, j In which there is an oil portrait of the old gentleman. | An interesting exhibit is that of the American Anglers. It includes fishing boats, tents and furniture. There is a display also of the flies, rods, reels and tackle and some young women engaged in tying flies on the hooks and making fishing lines. Pennsylvania makes, an the Scene of a Frtfihtfnl Accident--Thirty Person* Injdiid, Some F* tally™ Western Express, East Bound* Cr»sftif£- VhroTSgjh a Bridge. ^ Many Are Mangled« Tfce Chicago limited express train for Boston broke through a frail iron bridge on the Boston and Albany Rail­ road one and one-half miles east of Chester, Mass., and tour Wagner cars were crushed, killing at least fifteen persons, fatally injuring several others, while at least a score are badly hurt. The wreck is the worst ever known on the road. The bridge was being Jtrengthened for the big locomotives, ind the workmen who were putting on the plates were at dinner when the crash came. The locomotive passed over the structure^ but was smashed, the water-tank being thrown a long distance. The buffet, two sleepers and a dining* car were smashed to kindling when they struck the stream twenty feet below, but two day coaches and a smoker in the rear did not leave the track. There are a few houses in the vicini­ ty and a man driving by gave the alarm tnrough the village street. In a few minutes hundreds were on the scene. The shrielcs of the imprisoned were terrible, and scores of people looked on completely unnerved. Tne village people soc*n recovored from the shock and were hard at work. The hospital was a group of apple trees in an ad­ joining orchard, where scores were taken. Ox teams arrived with loads of straw, cushions, bedding, and food. The wounded were soon removed to houses and all that remained on the apple-strewn grounds were thirteen bodies covered with red blankets from an adjoining stable. The dead were ILLINOIS IN but about one-third report fair. In the oth­ ers the cordltion is from poor to very bad. Michigan reports s better ou'look, the condi­ tions being about evenly given at good, fair, poor. In Kentucky half of the correspond­ ents report fair and good, the others poor. Missouri has a good prospect for corn, the con­ dition being goo t in more than two-thirds of the counties. In Kansas 25 per cent, report good, 86 per cent, fair, the rest poor, Nebraska reports good in per cent, of the area, fair in §4 pes cent., poor In thi rest. Iowa will have a large crop, nearly all counties being report­ ed at fair, good and very good. The general condition is good in Wisconsin and Minnesota and fair in the Dakot&s. Potatoes--The average condition of the po­ tato croc 1B poor in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota. Wis­ consin and the Dakota*. It is nearly fair in Kentucky and Iowa; good in Missouri. Paatnrea^-Pastnres are In very bad shape In Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Kansas, lewa and Wisconsin. In Missouri, NebraeKa., Minnesota and the Dakotas the pastures axe still fair. N"EWBY DENIED A NEW TRIAL. THE FISHERIES BUILDING. i .'j .. ... , The Case Will Go to the Supreme Court of the United States. At Springfield, 111., Judge Allen over* ruled the motion for a new trial made by the defense in the celebrated Newby case. A motion for arrest of judgment was likewise overruled, and the court then sentenced the convicted man to two years at hard labor in the Chester penitentiary. An ap­ peal was allowed, and the case will thus go to the United States Supreme Court. Ex-Attorney General McCartney has been engaged to carry the case up. Pending the appeal the defendant will go to prison. He takes the outcome indifferently. Grand Army men are taking a deep interest in the case, and Department Commander Blodgett has authorized Fairfield Post to appeal to other posts for aid in raising a fund to defend Newby. Stole e Canal Boat. Sunday night thieves stole a canal boat on the Miami and Erie canal, which was tied up about thirty miles south of Toledo, Ohfo. They next caught a horse in a neighboring pas­ ture,, hitched him to the boat and hauled it to Defiance. Here the thieves broke into J. B. Weisenbdrg's elevator and stole about $650 worth of clover seed. This they loaded into the boat, and e start was then made for Toledo. After getting through three locks the robbers ran the boat into the Maumee River, hoping the current would carry them down. By this time the alarm had been given, and the men, being closely pursued, ran the boat into the bank, then escaped into Wood'County. The police have no clew to the rob* bars. _______________ Currencies Condensed. NEW YORK is expectiug a beer war, owing to the invasion of the territory by Western brewing firms. GRAIN bags to the number of 3,000,- 000 have arrived in San Francisco and the prices have gone down.s A SKULL has been excavated in Greece which is said to be that of Sophocles. This is disputed. FOUREEEN of the twenty-eight hat factories at Orange, N. J., are not in operation. About 2,000 persons are out of work. AN explosion in Louis Goodbub's gro­ cery store at St. Louis wrecked the building. Several persons narrowly escaped injury. JOHN DOSSETT, of Guthrie, O. T., has been found guilty of murder in the first degree in poisoning his rival for the hand of an Indian girl. CHARLES KEENER, who shot and killed John Hutt last April, was con­ victed of manslaughter at Akron, Ohio, and sentenced for ten years. JOHN HICKS, 88 years old, who ha* stolen horses in every State in the Union and spent forty-five years in penitentiaries, died at Hamilton. DR. JAMES H. WHITE, of St. Louis, has filed suit against the American Medical College, alleging it is doing business under an expired charter. IN attempting to cross the railroad track ahead of a freight train at Ana­ conda, Mont.. Jack Dougherty and Peter Hammill were run over and killed. AT Lexington5 Ky.t Matt Keeley and John Welch quarreled over a dice game. Welch plunged a dagger into Keeley's breast, Inflicting a mortal wound. THE Lewis Sharp Commission Com- panjs of St Louis, has filed snttsgainst vane© & B&nrett, of Chicago, for $2,478.68 ̂growing out of life Cmdahy -cl J and fish markets. The activity with which the Norwegians search the ocean is illustrated by their exhibit. Real fishing boats that savor of the hardy viking are there, bearing such nanres as Aafjord, A vend ale, Rahen, &id Tromsoe. As far north almost as Spitsbergen these sliarp-prowed crafts part tne waves, their masters on the hunt for cod and' seal. A model of a viking ship is here to show the little change of model that has been mad© in a thousand years. Norwegian stook fish and cod liver oil are here in large quantities. They give a sea flavor to the atmosphere, and you can almost see the fish jumping in tne nets and hear the boat's keel rubbing on the beach and the swash of the surf if you close your eyes foi a moment. All sorts of canned fish from old Norway are piled up, and there is a flshermans hut from Lofoden showing how two or three boats' crews bunk In a roughly built pine board box. Gloucester, Mass., which is not too proud to own up that its greatness is due to its fisheries, has staked out a lot of space in which it glories in the fact. It tells of the S»t and present condition of its indus-ies. A model of the town as it was one hundred years ago, with cob wharves and cheap little fish sheds, is shown, and then the tojvn proudly points to a model of a section of the town as it is to-day. How the wharves and the warehouses have grown! The very men who pace the piers in minia­ ture seem to have a sense of their in­ creased worth. Bound to Sight MaekereL A ship's topmast thirty feet high is shown and on the crosstree is a Glou­ cester fisherman eagerly looking out for a school of mackerel. Another model is that of a man at a wheel ready to point the chip's cutwater in the direction of those mackerel, in which­ ever point of the compass they are sighted. ' A fine model of a boat, with the men in it hauling in their herring nets, is in the pavilion of the Netherlands, and there are barrels of herring and pho­ tographs on screens of tne fishery work. Minnesota tends not only fish but fish-eating birds The only ma­ chinery in motion in the whole build­ ing is an apparatus shown by a Chicago man for cleaning fish. Bostonians for- sake their devotion to beans and illus­ trate their fish markets and the appli­ ances for catching the principal ingre­ dients for lobster salad, that strange dish for which the jaded midnight ap­ petite so often yearns. In the Govern­ ment annex the tanks are arranged in a circle, and within that is another KHTHAKCl TO FISHERIES BTTILDINO. nr THE nsBiam Bmona oirole, a very effective plan as it turns out. The design of the fishing schoon­ er Grampus, belonging to the Fish Commission, was tne work of Capt. Joseph W. Collins, and in command of that vessel he made many very inter­ esting cruises. The exhibition of salt-water fish and anemones is an experiment which a good many people who knew shook their heads about. At first the sea water was brought/to Chicago in car­ boys, such as are/used for the ship­ ment of acids, but this was found to be too expensive and tank cars were substituted. What Sea Water Costs. Sea water in Chicago is almost asex- Enaive m beer. The greatest care is ken to keep it from be'ing wasted. About 70,000 gallons of it are kept on ~ "Jitter a quantity of it has " aquarium exhibit. It has built a small hillafile down which trickles a stream. This runs through a flshway and into a pond on the floor. Around the pavil­ ion are tanks, the iron work of wMch is skillfully concealed, and the visitor has the effect produced on him that he is at the bottom of a laKe. the waters of which are kept away from him in the same way as those of the Red Sea were divided. Wisconsin also contrib­ utes some live fish, and both that State and Pennsylvania show small hatch­ eries in operation. Primitive boats and tackle used by the Indians of the Amazon and the more modern appli­ ances are in the exhibit from Brazil. They contrast strangely with the steel rods and the graceful flies of North America. I have sketched in a general way the most entertaining featurps of the Fish­ eries Building. Outside of these there are all sorts of exhibits with Latin names that are of absorbing interest to the specialist. He can flock by himself and devour the literary works many of them horribly mutilated-- heads crushed in, limbs torn, and ten were only recognizable by the olothing worn. The train was seven minutes late at Cbest^and the railroad hands say it was going at the rate of twenty miles an hour when it struck the first oi the two spans across the Westfield River. The locomotive seemed to leap across the bridge as the true&os collapsed and fell over to the south. The theory is that the blow of the locomotive as it struck the bridge from the curve sent it off its foundations into the river. A wrecking train was sent to the soene from Springfield at onoe with medical aid, and every attention was shown the passengers. The bridge had been built fifteen years, and was a two-span lattico 221 feet long. The train was one of the fastest expresses on the road, stopping onlv at Pittsfield from Albany to Springfield. It carries the largest engine and bost cars of any trair; running west of Springfield. ONE THOUSAND DEAD. A Supplementary AM to Bectmoneg j In. vented bv » Clever Frenchmen. The belief is growing that the method of identifying criminals by finger prints advocated by Francis Oalton must in time come into use 1 as an important and supplementary ! aid to bertillonage. This convenient term has been coined to express the principle of the French system, in­ vented and directed by Alphonse Bertillon, of so classifying anthrop­ ometric records that each can be sorted into its own natural group, just as each surname falls into its al­ phabetical place in a directory. Finger prints can be classified in a similar way. The test of the effici­ ency of the system lies, first, in the sureness with which different (in­ structed) persons assign the same in­ dex letters to the same set of print, however indifferently printed, and, secondly, in the degree to which the sets are differentiated by their classi­ fication. One of the most extraor­ dinary points about Mr. Galton's sys­ tem is the unique and remarkable ability afforded by the finger prints to the observer of determining, irre­ spectively of age and growth, whet her two clear impressions, taken at differ­ ent dates, were not made by the same finger. This depends not on tbe gen­ eral pattern of the print which is the bassis of classification, but upon the numerous forks and other details in the ridges that compose the patterns. Mr. Galton holds that no matter how early in life the first impression of a finger tip with fully formed mark­ ings may be taken, and how iate the second impression may be obtained, the similarity between them will not only be decipherable but unmistak­ able. Tne simplicity of the process of taking the impressions and the small equipment necessary are points very much in its favor. There is no undressing required, and nothing else of a humiliating character to be undergone during the brief act of making the prints. SOBER OR STARTLING, FALTHI FULLY NCOORDED. Physicians Tlnnofci Seowrged by terlons Vti«-DiMa« B«ne BM bn* •fwlltrton Itemed the Locfc-U*. oi aquatio zoologists and botanists. He can wrap himself up in maps toll­ ing all about geographical distribu­ tions of fish. Fishermen, if they want to know all about what there is in this building, must study algae (very sticky looking things with arms that wave ia the water), sponges, corals, polyps and jelly fish. Some of these forms of life so nearly border on the vegetable The List of Storm Victims In the Sonth Is Still Orowlng. Three hundred and ninety dead bedies have been found on the Islands about Beaufort and Port Roval, and the total number of dead will roach 1,000. Over $2,000,000 worth of prop­ erty has been wrecked near the same points. Both are the direct result of the storm which swept along the At­ lantic coast. Every one of the fifteen or twenty islands lying around Port Royal ana Beaufort is Bteaped in sor­ row. On every door knob there is a bunch of crape and upon every hillside there are fresh-made graves, some already filled, while others are await­ ing the bodies that will bo deposited in them just as soon as some one can be found to do the Christian act of shovel­ ing the dirt upon the coffin. The beeches, the undergrowth, trees and shrubbery, the marshes, and the inlets are turning up new dead bodies every time an investigation is made. Of the many disasters and devastations which have visited that section of the country none have been half as hor­ rible. As the waters recede and the people move deeper into the wreckage gathered by the storm, the ghastly pictures are uncovered. So frequent are the discoveries that the finding of a single body attracts no attention at all. It takes the discovery of a clump of at least half a dozen or more to induce the people to show any feeling whatever. It was around Beaufort and Port Royal that the death rate was the greatest, but in neither of the towns were many lives lost. Around the two towns there is a complete chain of isl­ ands, and it was upon these that the harvest of death was reaped. This section of the Atlantic coast has been prolific in storms that scattered death and destruction of property in their wake, but the weather-wise, the oldest citizens and the pilots, cannot recall anything equaling this last storm. The people are now suffering for food and that it is a little difficult for a Wex- negroes, who have been driven to pert to tell to what kingdom they "Zl should be assigned. But they have such a quiet, easy, Philadelphia way of taking life that they are a standing re­ proach to the superexcited Chieagoan. Then comes the grand array of worms that dwell under water, and that, spurned by the soaring fishes, get their revenge when they are put on the point of a hook and" used as bait. All rounding islands and the rice and cot* ton plantations, are starving. They are so destitute and so badly in need of something to eat that they have re­ sorted to fighting among themselves for food. Several were killed in a fight for provisions. Men, women and children stand in the streets pleading for something to eat.v The white peo-pomt oi a HOOK ana useu am Dan. AU , I "TV *T J I . t •_ the bait worms are exhibited, and the Ple P°rt ^al w leeches. Then are seen the reptiles, P°^er relieve the suffering, but their efforts alone cannot begin to bet­ ter affairs. The horrors of the devastation can Bcareely be imagined, and nothing can be extravagantly said of the wreck and ruins. That part of South Carolina is known as the black district and is al­ most entirely inhabited by negroes. SHERMAN ON SILVER. The Ohio Senator Spoeks on the Repeal Measure. After the routine morning business in the Senate, Thursday, the bill for the repeal of the Sherman act was taken up and Mr. Sher- man. of Ohio, proceed- to address the Senate. He said that if the re­ peal of the purchasing clauses of the act of July, 1890, were the only reason for the ex­ traordinary session, it would seem to him in- sufficient. It was, however, justified by JOHH SHKRMAN. THE existing financial stringency. On one thing, he said, Congress and the people agreed, ana that was that both gold and silver should be continued in mouiiouo ollUiUU3U umousu <mu mo 1106 88 money- Monometallism pure snares "for beguiling The""^1^8tor ,and simple hadi never-gained a foothold and the elusive sponge. The only 1x1 Lnited States. If Senators such as turtles, terrapin, lizards, sor- pents, frogs and nowts. Sense com­ promise ought to be effected with the United States Fish Commission , by which turtle, terrapin and frogs' legs are not classified with the reptiles. It is decidedly unpleasant to a man of taste. The aquatic birds, mammalia, such as otter, seals, whales and such like live things, are there in minute detail. 1 FUhy Literature. In the sea fishing and angling sec­ tions you can find, in addition to those more dramatic and readily discernible items that have been brought to your attention already, books on the history of fishing, its laws and its commerce, charters and seals of fishermen's guilds, fishery laws of different coun­ tries, including that of New Jersey Erohibiting shad from containing ones, reports of and literature of fishes, in which is comprehended some of the most deliberate lies ever told ' about size and weight and yarns about the acclimitization of fish. Then there are fishhooks, jigs and drails and gear until you get-tired of looking at it, nets and seines, weirs and pounds, knives and gaffs- The implements used in entrapping whales, seals, cod, mackerel, halibut, herring, haddock, menhaden, sword fish, bluefish and the only things not shown are pictures of sea serpents, the real bait that no fishing man will leave home without a bottle of„ and devices for catching "suckers." But these are caught everywhere most openly in Chicago, and would not be attractions at a place where an admis­ sion fee is charged. CKOOKED nails are alwavs an indica­ tion of pride, even t̂o haughtin--fc wanted cheap money and an advance in price, free coinage of silver, he said, was the way to do it; but they should not call it bimetallism. Mr. Sherman then proceeded to di-cuss the history of the act that bears his name. He was not in favor of the free coinage of silver, and regarded it as but another name for the monometallism of silver, and was only in favor of the purchase of silver for purpose* efnsoinuur. A SITE has been selected at Ham* mond, Ind., by the Aiexian Brothers, of Chicago, for the erection of a * branch of their hospital. The struct* ure will be of-stone and steel, and will •> cost $75,000. THE village calaboose at New Ber­ lin was fired recently, and Nichols* Auer and Henry Meyer have now been, arrested for the crime. Shortly before the destruction of the village bastUa Auer had been fined, and it is gap- posed he fired the building to keegk * from being locked within its walls. AT Lincoln the driving horses of Henry Ahrens, Jr., and C. W. Primm collided in the dark, while being driv­ en to light vehicles, holding six per­ sons. Primm's horse was struck In the breast by the shaft of Ahren*S buggy and dropped dead. Four ladies and the owners of the horses Mrs shocked and frightened by the cuUk Bion. ; • \ THT, Attorney General rendered ma ' adverse opinion on the question of al­ lowing the consolidation of the London Polyclinic and the Challonar Remedy Company, for the purpose of prescrib­ ing in the treatment of diseases, oil the ground that the licensing of a com­ pany to indulge in the practice of * learned profession would lead to & wholesale violation of the medlcali practice act of this State. ; ANOTHER fire at Lincoln has showii the need of better fire protection.; This time three more houses were? burned, making fifteen in the last six* months. All the fires have been off mysterious origin. The latest fire! originated in the barn of Judge E. D.j Blinn, President of the water-works' company, and in it two horses were? burned. The barns of B. P. Andrew! and Mrs. H. M. Steidley were alsat burned with their contents, making total loss of $3,500. ; GUY, 2:064, and Wisconsin King, 2:11,1 owned by Z. B. Sturtavaat, of Rook-i ford, two of the crack pacsce in M. EJ McHenry's string, are quartered at hisj training stables at Freeport. Guy hast a bad leg, and will pace no more this season. Wisconsin King has not start-' ed in a race this year, as Mr. KcHenry does not consider him in condition forj fast work. The horse has passed out of his care, and either George Eggle-i ston or George Brown will campaign: him the rest of the season. j AT a meeting of the bondsmen oft Postmaster Thompson, deoeased, OP Quincy, C. M. Gilmer, a Prohibition-' 1st, was appointed to take charge oil the postofflce until the President shall] appoint another Democrat. The fighti for postmaster has grown exciting! since the funeral of the late Postmaster! Thompson. Candidates for the offloa are James Montgomery, E. J. Thomp-j son, Cam Hearn, Edward Cleveland,I , James Richardson, T. J. Manning, W., ] E. Lembley, and Benjamin Lrnnmb.} Others are spoken of as entering th« race, and the fight promises to be* more spirited than that of last spring and winter. «•' PAKT second of the Auditor's insure ' ance report fcr the year ending Dec. 31*| Economy In China. Economy is goin/ to be the order of the day in China apparently, for the Empress of that enlightened country has celebrated her sixtieth birthday by issuing a manifesto en­ joining a ceneral restraint of extrava­ gance Her majesty has even pro­ hibited the customary gifts of silks and presents by the ministers. The best of a Chinese wardrobe is that it is accumulative. Fashion in the orient only affects color, and tbat but slightly; cut is a law as immuta­ ble as that of the Medes and Per­ sians. The periodical clearance which the variations of tbe mode render in­ evitable in the wardrobe of a western lady do not enter into the fashiona­ ble philosophy of a Chinese belle. The anguish one may endure, con­ scious of a sleeve of last year's pat­ tern or a skirt minus the latest plentitude, she is spared, and on the whole she is to be envied- In spite of uniformity of styfe her garments admit of far greater variation than ours in color and material. She can be a symphony in rustling blue in the morning, a moonbeam at tea time and a bird of paradise at|1892 hafl b,en i^ed fro* the Public neVeJr . ® vulgarity printer and shows the condition of life,, which the sober and sad-colored in- j f>e.«imit.v. an<i assAssmont. iiwuranM stantly fire off at their sisters who dare to give way now and then to the craving for color and brilliance. Possibilities of Liquid Oxygen. Professor Dewar, who has liquified oxygen- and air and succeeded in ex­ hibiting those interesting liquids to a roomful of spectators in England, has also shown that liquified oxygen is strongly magnetic. When he placed a quantity of it in a dish be. neath the poles or an electro magnet the oxygen rose out of the dish and formed itself into a liquid link con. necbing the magnetic poies. Then it began to boil until upon the cir­ cuit being broken it fell back into the dish like drops of water. Ifhen he experimented in a similar manner with liquified air it, too, rose from the dish and attached itself to the poles of the magnet, tbe nitrogen-- air is formed of oxygen and nitrogen --rising with the oxygen and show­ ing no tendency to separate from it. Cotton-wood, when dampened with liquified oxygen,*was immediately at­ tracted to and held by the magnet, and the liquid was even drawn out of the wool by the magnetic attrac­ tion and left deposited upon the polea It is evident that a new field of scientific wonders has been opened up by the recent experiments with liquified glasses. Kings Who Bnjr Freaks. The Prince of Baroda (Hindostan) a few months ago astonished the Brit­ ish residents by paying a barrel of rupees for a twelve-fingered man; but up to the middle of the eighteenth century no European potentate thought his household complete with­ out a full assortment of freaks, as we should call them. Besides a dozen dwarfs and giants, the Emperor Maximilian I. of Austria kept for purely ornamental purposes a fellow with a beard five feet long, and bushy enough to cover him like a shawl, if he wrapped it round bis waist The father of Frederick the Great had 108 giants on his pay-roll, most ot them too heavy for his cavalry, and too tall for the doors of an ordi- nary guard-house They cost him from £400 to £1,400 apiece; but King Stanislaus Lexzin- ski of Poland paid a larger sum for the French dwarf Bebe, a wrinkled- faced biped of 20 inches, and, if we may believe our chroniclers of that time weighing less than ten pounds. Why Turtles Cannot Bite. Very few people know that neither a turtle, a tortoise, nor a toad is pro­ vided with teeth. There is a general superstition that a turtle can bite off a man's finger, but tbe turtle can do nothing of the kind. Its jaws are very strong, and the horny membrane tbat runs round the jaw, where, in other animals, teeth are found, is so hard and tough that the turtle can crush the bon es of the hand to pulp, but as for biting off even a finger, the feat is, to the turtle, an impossi­ bility; . IT costs less to feed and care for one cowjthan it does for two; there­ fore every farmer who is keeping two cows and getting really but what one ,;Si got away About $2,000 of the stolen casualty, and assessment insurance at, that time. There were no withdraw­ als and no admissions of life companies during that year. The thirty-fourt companies reported held admitted as-' sets of $914,685,495, and their liabilities! were $798,1109,130. Their surplus notj including capital ttoek and tontine ao-t cumulations, $115,790,393; lnoOHto for! the year, $224,404,703; total expendi­ tures, $153,711,480. Their income e»i ceeded expenditures by $70,693,223. The amount received in premiums was $181,877,00», and the losses and claims paid aggregate $72,942,087. During 1892 21.35(5 life insurance policies other than industrial were issued, covering jiu 775 259 of insurance, snd 100,419 in­ dustrial policies covering $11,381,657 of insurance. During same period the citizens of this State paid $8,936,114 of premiums on life insurance policies other than industrial, and received $3,683,765 in payment of losses and claims. On industrial policies they paid $614,727 of premiums and received $174,742 in payment of losses and claims. " A SPECIAL agent of the American. Express Company arrived at Spring­ field from San Diego, Cal., with Will­ iam H. Whitman, the absconding cash­ ier of the company, in charge. Whitman with something like 96,00ft. money waa recovered. THE Illinois weather service reviews the crop situation of the State as fel­ lows; Corn generally has been seri­ ously damaged by continued drought, many fields oeing permanently injured, and many correspondents are of ths opinion that it will make only half a crop. The condition of this crop has been improved somewhat in the south­ ern division, where the rain was heav­ iest. A few correspondents report in­ jury from grasshoppers. Very little plowing for fall wheat has been done vet, owing to the dry and hard con­ dition of the ground. Thrashing of wheat and oats is almost completed. Some farmers are holding their wheat for better prioes. The average of oats eeems to be about thirty bushels per acre. Pastures are badly needing more rain, and farmers are still feeding Btock in some localities. Potatoes wiu give a light yield. Broom corn is being harvested. The fruit crop will be light In quantity and poor in Quality, except (rrapes. which are reported as being air. There has been little or no im­ provement in the condition of gardens. W. A. HUMPHREY, President of the Ninth District Missionary Convention, In session in the Saunemin Christian Church, opened the session with his annual address. Rev. J. P. Alsup. Mrs. Kate L. Brown, a returned missionary from India, and Rev. E. O. Sharpe de­ livered addresses. A HEAVY rain fell at Virginia FWr day morning. The rain, the first in six months, came too late to save the corn crop, and in consequence there will be only half a crop. The drought at Breeze was broken by a heavy rain. The corn will le greatly benefited, ana a good yield may be expected. EIGHT Alton young men were return- ing from a fishing trip, and when near the foot of Henry street the boat was overturned and all were thrown into the water. Julius Mook was drowned- His companions escaped. ^ LINCOLN is greatly stirred "P over the death of I'otor G. Clark, a pro®a~ inent and wealthy farmer. H* died from what was reported bj his physi­ cian to be congestion of the stomaoa. The relatives of Clar k a ked for an in­ quest. but the doctor insisted that none was necessary. An inquest was. how­ ever held. The experts who xofOm the autopsy reported finding indications of arsenical poisoning, t. lark and hfa wife had not lived • 1 A RL.iLrv, -MX . - j ^ SCi. * V MS