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.•< v^: J /..tv*., m 5"»m' ' * J. VAN SLYKE, E« Iter sad PaMMter. MoHENBT, ILLINOIS. ;I MB. HOLT, Linclon's Judge Advocate s Oeneral, still lives at Washington. He ;* is white-haired and bent with age, but | Lis eyes are as bright and hia mind as active as ever. H* lives much alone, drives out a great deal, and reads the V. classics. There is no truth in the story -, Chat he is a remorseful misanthrope. y r I, *' ' ' ^ A PAKTI-COLOBED baby is reported to f' * have been born recently at Aberdeen, £,{ Miss. Its father is a very black negro; %? mother a light mulatto. Half the |'f' - child's body is black; the other half ?£;! nearly white; the hair on one side of its head is kinky; on the other, light and > i =•• straight, while one eye is black and the 'p:A 5 other blue. * f.' * •' AN apparatus is advertised by which a person is enabled to breathe the air | ̂ C from without while sitting indoors in t;t "* warm room. It consists of a simple 'C, which i, * •: •«»£ mouth and nose tube, communicating through the win­ dow with the external air to one end of an attachment to fit over the is placed. The in y { ventor claims that, as tubercle 'V-, v' l>aciili are destroyed by a low tempera- ^W' l^ture, so pulmonary phthisis may be cured by breathing frosty air through £ ; this apparatus. F BAROX GrsTAV VON HEINE-GELDERN, the last of Heine's brothers, died re- |H|-centlv at Vienna, age 81 years. He H. left a fortune of $3,250,000. His title f* - nobility is said to have been granted " ^ return for liis giving up to ^ * the Australian Government certain un- * ^ published writings of his brother, * . which contained matter greatly com- | *>, - promising certain high functionaries at court. "The Old Baron," as he was I;'- ̂ called, was the founder and to the end iP,,,1.7; of his life editor of the Wiener Frem- ^gr^denblatt. ~ _• THE Rev. S. H. Fellows, of Norwich, " ' has a genuine old pitch-pipe used 100 2f' years ago in New England choirs and singing schools. It is a rectangular, IS^^ ^box, made of mahogany, Scinches long, 2f inches wide, and 1J inches thick. At one end is a little mouthpiece, and at the opposite end a slide, the size of the jj;. ,• interior of the box, which regulates the * pitch. Upon the edge of the slide are the letters of the scale, and by pulling p it out to" the desired letter and blowing ..on tho mouthpiece a mellow, JtutQjiflte .'note is produced. It has a range of . over an octave. ^ A LITTLE girl was shot in the hfead . recently at Brockwayville, Pa. The bullet actually penetrated the brain matter, and the brain oozed out the f aperture. Doctors also probed to the 1 A« depth of three inches in search for the ;f ^-'Vyball. For a time paralysis followed 'the rupture of the brain, but gradually y ' it wore away, and at last accounts the r,;' • ^child was in perfectly normal condition -""except the unhealed opening. The & . mental functions seem to be iu no way " "impaired, and no danger has resulted f/C., from inflammation. Such cases have fe,: ;l>een heard of before, but they are rare. r~ ' ? :-- ^ A USEFUL discovery is announced , , whereby tho faded ink on old parch- ""ments may be so restored as to render i - the writing perfectly legible. The pro- ^ . cess consists in moistening the paper with water and passing over the lines of writing with a brush, which has been wet in a solution of sulphide of ammo­ nia. The writing will immediately ap- y V ^ -pear quite dark in color, and this color, ' in the case of parchment, it will pre- , «erve. On paper, however, the color | ̂gradually fades again, though it may '£•l^Jibe restored at pleasure by the applica- t tion of the sulphide. The explanation of the chemical action of their subsist­ ence is very simple; the iron which en- . ters into the composition of the ink is transformed by reaction into the black eulphide. J ACCORDING to a Washington corre­ spondent the officers of the navy are • not particularly pleased with the .decision of the second comptroller, which holds that travel. between the United State and Alaska is foreign travel, and therefore that no mileage jCan be allowed for it. The officers •'think it but just that they should re­ ceive some consideration when going to Alaska, as ft is regarded as the most unpleasant' duty in the service. The : CFonrth Auditor, when the matter was called to his attention, decided that .travel from the United States to Alaska was simply as from one port of the (United States to another, and mileage « • icoitld therefore be recovered by any .jjofficer making the voyage under orders. His decision was, however, reversed. C-' A CURIOUS story comes from London. ' *Not many days since a man appeared at S f >tho Bank of England, perspiring under £?<* ithe weight of a heavy bag which he -threw upon the counter and asked to •' - have changed for gold. The bag con- tained exactly £100 worth of fourpenny bits of the year of 1838--all of the " .6,000 as bright and unworn as when ; * freshly issued ' from the mint. The I owner explained that the coins were a v legacy from his grandmother, who had just died, and who, having a passion for S' , fourpenny pieces, had procured the bagful at the bank half a century ago m, and hoarded them carefully until the <lay of her death. The legatee took his " £100 in gold and departed. Next morning he reappeared in a very ex- • cited state of mind and asked for the f fourpenny bits back, "for," said he, "I . am told that the jewelers will give a ^hilling apiece for them." Ho was i'. • y ^politely informed that the coins had been "distributed." -J: . ? ,v , WHEN Wilson Barrett arrives in a • city he goes to his hotel, and by the ; ; time he is comfortable the reporters , wrive. The reporters arrive in response |̂|to a letter sent to each paper, written like this: "Mr. Barrett will be pleased to see you or your representative to­ morrow at 4 p. m., at the ^Continental Hotel. I enclose an old interview with Mr. Barrett for the purpose of inform­ ing your representative, should you send one, as to the style of talk to be ex­ pected. " The fetter is signed by Mr. Barrett's private secretary. The re­ porter on hia arrival is generally sur­ prised to find representatives of all other papers on hand, and they are all brought before the great actor, who, looking most of the time at the ceiling, proceeds to give them his peculiar views of "Hamlet," being careful to explain that he is the great restorer of Shakes­ peare's "Hamlet," all other versions being mere mutilations of the original text During the audience refreshments are occasionally pawed around. ' THE Boston Herald quotes CtJl. Bob Ingersoll as saying: "The lawyer is merely a sort of intellectual strumpet. He is prepared to receive big fees and make the best of either side of any case. He is a sort of burglar in the realm of mentality. It is a fortunate thing for the lawyers that, whenever a man & created who has the peculiar faculty for legal acquirements and contro­ versy, at the same time enough fools spring into existence to give him a good living. It is illustrated in the story of the man who studied for the ministery and occupied the pulpit for a number of years without success, and then studied medicine and practiced this pro- Cession for a number of years without success, and then studied law, and en­ tering upon its practice made a fortune at it. He declared he had found men more willing to pay for having their own way than to be guaranteed their souls or to keep their bodies whole. My ideal of a lawyer is that great En­ glish attorney who, having accumulated a fortune of £1,000,000, left it all in a will to make a home for idiots, declar­ ing that he wanted to give it back to the people from whom he took it. I never want to know much about my clients. I never want to know whether they are guilty or not. I do not even care to know what they can prove. What I want to know is what the other fellow can prove. When I know that I am ready for business. " It is but just to observe that Col. Ingersoll must judge his brethren from-his own standpoint, and not from personal knowledge. THE American Millionaire, a monthly periodical intended for million­ aires only, has been started in New York. In other words, and in the uage of the editor, it is estimated as "tli© accepted organ of great wealth," and Hseeks a circulation only in the special field indicated by its title." That circulation cannot be large, for he estimates the number of millionaires in America at not more than 1,000, but the enterprising publisher is convinced that the quality of his subscription-list will make up for its' deficiency in quantity, for he assumes that all the millionaires will take their special organ, as a matter of course, and that whoever wishes to attract their attention to his wares or his projects will make use of its advertising columns. Accord­ ing to this notice the millionaires are a class by themselves, and each one is interested in every other to the extent that they suffer from the lack of a medium of communication between them, such as the grocers and liquor- dealers, for instance, are able to get in the papers provided in their especial interests. But the publisher has a philanthropic no less than a business purpose. The millionaires, he explains, are scattered all over a continent, and as there are few of them in a single community they must feel a sense of loneliness and a craving for companion­ ship with their own kind. The Ameri­ can Millionaire is therefore estab­ lished for the purpose of bringing those unfortunate beings into sympathetic re­ lationship with each other, so that their hearts may all beat as one, and every millionaire will have the moral support of knowing that he has a friend in every other millionaire, no matter how wide their geographical separation. If the theory of the publisher is sound, "the representatives of the money power of America would like to become better acquainted with one another," and they are all curious as to how each made his money aiid how he spends it, what sort of a house he lives in, whether he has a "summer retreat," what his "stock farm and other possessions are," and how his sons and daughters are getting on in the matrimonial way. Besides, they want to compare notes as to the proper use of wealth, and to discuss Invest­ ments and benefactions with each other. Coffee in England. The use of coffee appears to be rapidly declining in" England. The reduction of the duty to three-half-pence a pound has had no effect on consumption, and Commissioners of Customs report that in the year ending March 31,1886, some 314,000 pounds were consumed less than in the previous year. They attribute the decline to the comparative diffi­ culty which the poor find in making coffeo; but it is quite as likely that the true cause are the declining use of al­ cohol, and the cheapness of tea and sugar. The bulk of the people prefer tea to coffee whenever they are not de­ terred from the former by the price, the female vote, which counts in this instance for half, being all one way. If tea were ever to become really cheap--say 6 pence a pound--nothing else would be drank; and it would IMJ drank all day, cold as well as hot. The taste for it is becoming universal, and distinctly increases with the admixture of the Indian teas, which are rougher, and develop the special "teacy" flavor. It is a harmless luxury, for people who work at any rate; and though some­ thing must be taxed, it is to be re­ gretted that the treasury cannot spare a duty on what must now be regarded as food.--London Spectator. , », ' ***** "WILL your mother ever marry again?" he inquired. "Not with my approval," she answered; "such is my opinion, thus far, and not a step-father/" "WHAT makes the shoes go?" asks an exchange. W* bad always supposed it was the feet. IBCOKD OF THE 7E1B tafMtHt OcurrtKis «f a Twelve A Brief Synopsis of the Host No­ table Political, Social, Financial Happenings. Xeerologjr of 1886--Death s Busy Work , in the Ranks of the World's Distinguished People. , The Casualty Beoord--A Catalogue of Accidonts Involving Loss of Human Life. CHRONOLOGY. The World's noteworthy Soolal and Political Happenings In ' JANUARY. to a gynuUMtaixi at Bingtianiton, N. Y„ Wm. Dale swung 7-lb Indian clubs 4 hours 50 minutes. It) a bicycle contest at Minneapolis, Woodside covered 986 miles in £6 hours. Six hundred Arabs slain in battie with British forces neex Kosheli. The twenty-fifth anniversary of Kin- peror William's accession to Uie throne ol Prussia was fitly commemorated at Berlin on the 3d. It was estimated that 7,000 coal-miners of the Pittsburgh district, who had been on a four months' strike, lost in wages nearly j-2,000,- 000; operators suffered to a large amount by the prolonged suspension. Miss Sarah Althea Hill, of Sharon divorce notoriety, was married at Stockton, CaJ., to .ludge David S. Terrv, who killed Senator Broderick in a duel in 185'.». Austria spent $30,000,000 in arming her infantry with a new repeating rifle, the invention of, a railway engineeer. Prince Charles of Monaoo expelled the Jesuits from his petty domain because they printed a list of suicides at the Monte Carlo* gaming-ta­ bles. A blizzard swept over the KHBtern States on the 10th that was particularly severe : eight vessels wtre driven ashore at l'roviiic* town and Ururo, Mass.; snow fell to the depth of five feet in many places in Maine and Vermont, the title along Cape Cod was the highest known for years, and it was estimated that more damage was done on that part of the coast in forty- eight hours than for the previous decade. The Massachusetts Sui remo Court decided that the authorities could prohibit preaching on Boston Common. Six incnes of snow fell at Galveaton, Texas, on the l'2th, the greatest that had been witnessed in that vicinity since the foundation of the city in 1838; the mercury at Moretown, Vt, fell to 40 degrees be­ low zero. Charles Bradlaugh, the atheist, was permitted to take the oath and qualify as a member of the British Parliament at its open­ ing on the 12th. Four children who were sent to Paris from Newark, N. J., to be treated for hydrophobia by M. Pasteur, reached home Bafely and in good health. A Kussian ukase ordered the expulsion from that country of all persons not naturalized, numbering 100,000. Gold mine, yielding from $00 to $300 a ton, dis­ covered at Leaky, Texas. The tunnel between Liverpool and Birkenuead, under the Mersev, 1,230 yards long, and costing $.5,000,0 O. t was formally opened by the Prince of Wales on the 20th. Cincinnati theater manners a?reed to give no more Sunday performances. The Mis­ sissippi River was gorged with ice seventeen inches in thickness, from the mouth of the Illi­ nois to Ste. Genevieve--a distance of sixty-flve miles. FEBRUARY. The Ice Carnival was inaugurated at 81 Paal with imposing ceremonies, there was a proces­ sion of uniformed clubs, numbering 5,000 per­ sons, the city was thronged with visitors, and much enthusiasm prevailed. Mr, Gladstone visited Queen Victoria at Osborne, on the 1st, kissed her hand, and was commanded to f01311 a Cabinet. The great feat of telephoning a dis­ tance of '2,405 miles--the terminal points being Boulogne and St. Petersburg--was performed in Europe. Notices were posted in the cotton mills at New Bedford. Concord, Manchester, and Lowell of a general advance of 10 per cent, in wages. The Iowa Legislature passed a bill authorizing Mayors of cities to solemnise mar­ riage. " MARCH. . On the 1st inst., President Cleveland sent to the Senate a special message declining to fur­ nish unofficial documents relating to suspen­ sions from office, and claiming the right to de» stroy them. Owing to a threatened boycott, a St. Louis street-car line advunced wa^es of em­ ployes and reduced hours of labor. Owing to a strike of employes on Gould's Southwest lines of railroad, not a single car of freight crossed the St. Louis bridge for a week. The Iowa Sen­ ate passed a bill making drunkenness a mis­ demeanor punishable with severe penalties. Employes of the Gould system of railroads in the Southwest engaged in a strike which re­ sulted in bloodshed at East St. Louis, 111., six persons being killed by Deputy Sheriffs who were protecting railroad property; as usual, innocent parties suffered, one of the slain be­ ing a woman returning from a shopping expe­ dition. Tho King of Corea abolished slavery in his kingdom, where one-half the people n»/i hitherto been held in bondage. APRIL,. The steam-yacht Welcome arrived in Chicago on the 7th, with clearance papers diroct from Mobile, having made the trip via the Gulf of Mexico and tho Mississippi and Illinois Kivers. A number of the survivors of the steamer Sul­ tana horror held a reunion at Toledo, Ohio, on the 27th, the twenty-first anniversary of the event; near Memphis, on the morning of the 27th of April, 1865, the boilers of the vessel ex- ploaed, and 2,141 persons perished ; the ill-fated transport was loaded with released prisoners on their way home from Hock Island. John Dubois, of Dubois, Pa„ who, in consequence of illness, retired from business, Bold an estate valued at $15,000,000 to his nephew, John E. Dubois, lor $1. MAT, The role that few office-holders die and none resign |has its 'exceptions; Clay Noliloek re­ signed the Lieutenant Governorship of Louisi­ ana. On the 3d silver in London reached the lowest quotation in the history of the metal-- 45 15-10 pence per ounce. At "Chicago, 011 the evening of the 4th, a squad of policemen en­ deavored to disperse a meeting of anarchists and socialists, when a bomb was thrown among the officers of the law, whereupon they opened fire upon the incendiaries, the result being four­ teen deaths--eight of them policemen, the other six being rioters or innocent spectators ; about , seventy-five were wounded. The Governor of New York signed the bill permitting women to practice law in the Empire State. President Cleveland decided that officers of the army found incapacitated for active service by retiring ,, boards were not eligible for promotion. JUNE. The United Presbyterian General Assembly, in session at Hamilton, Ohio, settled a long­ standing fight by voting in favor of instrumental music in church worship. The Supreme Court of Indiana decided that a man accused of a capital offense cannot waive trial by jury. Frosts in Northern Dakota and Minnesota, the 7th, injured tho wheat crop 2> per cent. The Supreme Court of Arkansas affirmed a decision making the conducting of "bucket-shoos" a mis­ demeanor. Mr. Gladstone's home-rule bill de­ feated 011 second reading in the British House of Commons by a vote of H41 to 3H. Physicians examined King Ludwig of find reported h!m issjuje. Great cxcitement prevailed in Belfast, Ireland, over the defeat of Gladstone's home-rule bill, and the loyalists celebrated their victory by sack­ ing the public houses, pouring liquors into the gutters, and behaving in a iiotous manner gen­ erally ; the constabulary, who sought to pre­ serve order, were pelted with stones, and they in turn fired upon the rioters, the most daring of whom were factory girls; scores of lives were lost. The issue of secession was voted upon in Nova Scotia and resulted in the choice of 88 members of Parliament. 29 of whom favor­ ed annexation to the United States. The New York statute regarding imprisonment for debt was amended so as to release all debtor prison­ ers who have been incarcerated over six months. Providence, R. I., celebrated on the 23dinst. its 350th anniversary. JULY. On Sunday, the 11th, C. D. Graham, a Penn- sylvanian, uticceusfnlly "shot* the whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls, in a wooden barrel of his own contrivance. James Julior, of London, was placed in a lunatic asyhim for writing an offer of marriage to Queen Victoria and calling at Windsor Castlo for an answer. A bootblack named Brodie leaped from the Brooklyn bridge into the East River, 1'20 feet, and was taken from the water almost uninjured. The steamer Waesland, when two days out from Antwerp, struck a sleeping whale eighty feet long, which it cut nearly in two; the Bhip was backed to free itself from the carcasR. A resolution was passed in tho Spanish Chamber of Deputies pro­ viding that the Government free as soon as possible the remaining 20,000 slaves in Cuba. A balloon, fitted with a patent steering andpro- pelling apparatus, made a journey from Cner- bourg, France, to London in seven hours,. AUGUST. Snow fell in Now York and New Hampshire on the 3d. Rioting was epidemic in Belfast, Ireland, and in the pitched battles that ensued between the Orangemen and the Catholics the killed numbered scores and the wounded hun­ dreds. A Boston surgeon opened the abdomen of a patient, drew up and cut open his stomach, took therefrom a set of teeth which had lain there for a year, and sewed up the aperture with fine silk, the operation being completed in forty- five minutes. P. J. Scott, a fisherman, sought to achieve fame by swimming the whirlpool rapids of Niagara attired in a suit of oork; he made a "xnoiat, unpleasant MBSM" MMMU instead. On the 23d Mrs. Cleveland, stopping at the Saranac Inn, among the Adirondack*, touched the electric button that Mttbe ma­ chinery in motion at the Minneapolte ladnstrial Exposition. A foot-race at London, England, distance on* mil*, resulted in a victory for George over CummtiKS, in 4:12% the fastest time on record. Gov. Gray, of Indiana, offered a reward of $1,0 Hi far the conviction of anv per­ son engaged in lynching in that State. SEPTEMBER. A series of international races for the Ameri­ ca's eup took place over the New York Yacht Clnb's course betwfen the Yankee sloop Mav- nower and the English cutter Galatea, result­ ing in a decisive victory for the former. Prince Alexander signed the deed of abdicat:on and departed from Sofia, Bulgaria, on the 8th. Geronimo and other Apache Indians captured by the forces of Gen. Miles were placed in Fort Marion, at St. Augustine, Fla. Excavators at Pompeii discovered near the eastern gate a new street of tombs. OCTOBER. Snow fell at Cheboygan, Mich., on the 1st; nipping weather throughout the North­ west was reported. The stciamer Almetla made the run from Sydney to San Francisco in '23 (lays 6 hours 30 minutes--the best recorded time. Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania, addressed a latter to Attorney General Cassidy on the ac­ tion of the anthracite pool in advancing the price of coal, and requesting him to move against it in court. Numerous letters received during the month by tho Hvdrographie Office at Washington from the officers of steam and sail­ ing vessels bore testimony to the efficacy of ponring oil on the waters in storms, the billows being speedily reduced to long and heavy but harmless swells. The mercury rose to 80 degrees in the shade in London on the 5th, a temperature unknown in October for nearly half a century. J. Juvenet, of New Or­ leans. sent a bale of ramie to tho Cotton Ex­ change and a bale of jut© to tho Produce Ex­ change, with letters stating that they were the first bales of these products ever grown in the United States. A constant rainfall from a cloudless sky was reported from Dfew^p, Ga. NOVEMBER. * Lawrence M. Donavan, a New York pressman, leaped from the new suspension bridge at Niag­ ara on the 7th; he descended liJO feet in four seconds, and escaped without injury save the sl'Blit displacement of a rib. A meeting in Glas.ow, Scotlaud, resolved to erect a monu­ ment to Burns' "Highland Mary" on Castle Hill, at Dunoon. Lieut. Gen. Sheridan's rejiort showed that the standing army of tho country consists of 2,102 officers and 23,946 men. The Vermont Legislature passed a law requir­ ing all hotels and restaurants using oleomargarine for butt r to post up large signs of notification to that effect. A special train on the Canada Southern track, carrying tho Vanderbilt party to Chicago, cov­ ered 107 miles in 93 minutes. The Austrian Government issued an order prohibiting the playing of poker in its army. George Hazlett and Sadie Alien, 18 years old, went through the Niagara whirlpool and rapids in a torpedo- shaped barrel; they were in the rapids and whirlpool five minutes, ami were taken out of the eddy on the Canadian sido none the worse for their perilous trip. The president of the Marquette, Ontonagan and Portase Road was credited with saving the lives of twenty-four men shipwrecked off Marquette in a storm; he ordered the railway track cleared of trains, and appealed to the life-saving crew at Portage City to travel 110 miles with a special engine and car. at the greatest speed possible; the im­ periled sailors were taken from tho rocks in a terrible gale. For the month of November tax was paid on 4,490,174 pounds of oleomargarine in the United States bv thirty-four manu­ factories. ' DECEMBER. A bill providing for trial by jury was pre­ sented in the Spanish Chttmber of Deputies. restaurants using oleomarga­ rine on their tables without displaying the placard required by the law of Connecticut. The South experienced unusually severe winter weather during the first week of December; snow fell continuously for over sixty hours in North Caaolina and Virginia; at Asheville, N. C„ the snow was twenty-seven inches deep on a level. Under the decrees of the Plenary Coun­ cil at Baltimore, tho Catholio Arch­ bishop of Philadelphia prohibited balls for charitable purposes. The Alabama Senate passed a local-option law. On the waters of Niagara River, Alnlionso King walked one hundred yards in a huge pair of tin shoes of his own invention, 011 a Wager of 83,000. A railway collision iu Dayton, Ohio, sent a locomotive running wild through the city at tho rate of a mile a minute; it passed through the Union Depot at the highest known" rate of speed, and exhausted itself at a point on the track ten miles in tho country. A quarry of fine malachite, 150 feet iu thickness, was dis­ covered iu Georgia. No more large steamboats with costly cabins will be built toc. ttiA Mississippi trade. sented in the Spanish Chttml Theproprtetors of eight hotels in Hartford were arrested for u NECROLOGY. Man Renowned In Statesmanship, War, Literature, Mechanics, mnti the Learned Prefeaalona Swell the Death Roll. JANUARY. Contributions to the necrology of the initial month of 1886 were; J. B. Lippincott, the vet­ eran Philadelphia publisher. Dr. Robert Ramsay, a famous Masonic writer; in a Toronto hospital, aged 44. Gen. Hiram Hilliard, once Adjutant General of Illinois. N. M. Ludlow, the oldest actor in tho country, and for manv years associated with Sol Smith (deceased! in theatrical ventures ; at his home in St. Louis, aged 91. Nahum Capen, LL.l) , who was Post­ master at Boston under J uchauan, and who began the free delivery sv6tem. Hon. Benj. Conly. ex-Governor of Georgia. Col. Edward Richardson, President of tho late World's Ex­ position at New Orlenns. Lottie Griflin (col­ ored), who claimed to bu over I'JO vears, died at Hannibal, Mo., leaving a daughter, aged 80. Goo. E. l'omeroy, founder of the express system in the United States ; at Toledo, Ohio, aged 70. James Cutshaw, last of the old-time stage- drivors in Ohio; at Lancaster, aged 87. Miss Kate Bayard, eldest daughter of the Secretary of Mate, found dead in bed at Washington; heart disease. Marie Aucustine, colored, ended lier existence of 125 yoars at New Orleans. Rov. Henry Norman Hudson, eminent Shakspearean scholar, at Cambridge, Mass. At London, Joseph Mags, celebrated tonoi- opera singer. Dr. Thomas W. heene, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, fell dead in his seat after making a speech. Mrs. Anna Maria Greene, daughter-in-law of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary fame, breathed her last at New­ port, R. I., agod 102. Ex-U. S. Senator James T. Farley, of California. Congressman Jos. C. Rankin, Fifth Wisconsin District. Col. Ashbel Smith, a veteran of the Texas war of indepen­ dence, was buried with military honors at Austin, and his remains plaoed bo.side those of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. Coleman Free­ man, born a slave in Virginia; at Windsor, Ont., aged 121. Ex-Senator David R. Atchison, of Missouri, who in 18 9 was Acting 1'iesident of the United States for one day. Mrs. Bayard, wife of the Secretary of State, aged SL Ex- Governor Neill 8. Brown, of Tennessee, U. 8. Minister to Russia in 1850, aged 75. FEBRUARY. Death played sad havoc in the ranks of American men of war during the brief month of February, no less than three Major Generals answering the summons of the grim messenger --Winfleld Scott Hancock, David Hunter, and William It. Rowley. Hancock served with dis­ tinction iu the Mexican war, was second in command on the bloody field of Gettysburg, and in 1830 was the Democratic candid ate for Presi­ dent ; Hunter, also, was a veteran of the Mexican campaign, and presided over the military court that tried Mrs. Surratt;and ltowiey was the last surviving officer of Gen. Grant's staff. Other deaths for the month were : George T. Lanigan. a versatile genius--journalist, poet, author, and translator; at Philadelphia, from heart disease. George Lorillard, owner and breeder of l'arolo and other famous horses. Mrs. Sarah Leary, oldest person in Central Illinois; at Illiopolis, agea 106. John G. Thompson, ex-Sergeant-at- Arrns U. S. House of Representatives, at Seattle aged S3. George C. Bates, an eloquent lawyer, known in the chain of great cities from Sew York to San Francisco, at Denver, aged 71. Ex- Gov. Horatio Seymour, the venerable Sage of Deerfield, ended his eventful life at Ctica in his 76th year. Sarah Taylor (colored), at St. Catharines, Ont., aged 120 years 11 months and 8 days. In Philadelphia, from paralysis, John B. Gough, for forty years the leading orator in the cause of temperance; born in England in 1822. John Henry Payne, grandson of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, expired in New York, apparently in extreme penury; he was believed to be worth between ¥1,000,000 and $2,000,000, but only a few hundred dollars were found in the rags that covered him. W. 8. Meservey, at Salem, Mass., mem­ ber of the first party to cross the plains to Cali­ fornia, and ex-Governor of New Mexico, Gen. John 8. Cavender, one of the original Vree-State leaders in Missouri. MARCH. The wife of Senator J. R. Hawley, of Connec­ ticut, breathed her last at Washington, aged 55; deceased was a niece of Henry Ward Beecher, and served as a nurse in the hospitals of Vir­ ginia during the war. Other deaths during the month : Gen. H. M. Nagle \ veteran soluier and well-known viticulturist of Santa Clara, Cal.. aged 7.X Gen. John F. Miller, tonator from Cal­ ifornia. Mary Bleecker Seymour, relict of ex- Gov. Horatio Seymour, at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Roscoo Conkling, Utica, N. Y. Hon. J. B. t'haffee, ex-United States Senator from Colorado. #he wife of ex-Attorney General B. H.Brewster. Mrs. Mary Anagnos, daughter of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, noted for her labors in educating the blind. Ex-Gov. Michael Hahn of Louisiana. At Washington, the wife of George Bancroft, the historian. Ex-Gov. Wm. Irwin, of California. The venerable Earl of Chiches­ ter, an active promoter of charities Capt. James I. Waddell. ex-commander of the Con­ federate cruiser Shenandoah. Jarnos Mahoney, a centenarian, who served under Perry at the battle of Lake Erie, also a veteran of the Mexi­ can war and the war of the rebellion. Miss Abigail Bates at Scit^ate, Mass., aged 89; ono of two heroi»es who in the war of 1812 drove away the British from fc'cituate harbor by vig­ orously playing a fife and drum in the bushes. Dr. J. H. Kane, who participated in his brother's viving Bourbon family of France. James O'Donnell, the noted oarsman of New Orleans. AI'RIL f Donald MoLellaui, whose, grandfather was a follower of tha famons Hob l.ov. passed away at Detroit in indigent circumstances, aged LOO, Rt. Hon. W. E. Forster, ex-Chief S-ecretary for Ireland, ae< d ii'.i. ifiSu. John Welch, Minister to England under President Hayes' aiiniin stnit cm. Elbridge Gerry, member of t'oncress in 1818, and a prominent anti-slavery agitator; at Portland. Me., aged 73. Thaddeus Fairbanks, the scale inventor, xfho waS kniclited by the Emperor of Austria; at St. Johnsbury, Vt., aged 93. John H Noyes founder of the Oneida Community, at his home in Niagara Falls; born in 1^11, and was a cousin of ex-l>res!dent Hayes. Charles Mitchell, fath- r of Maggie Mitchell, the actress, at Troy, N. Y , aged 83. Mrs. Flla Hnrt, a pioneer of Sandusky, O., aged 10S. Fath. r Abram J. Ryan, the "poet-priest of the South," passed away at Louisville ; a native of Virginia, aged 46. The widow of Wende 1 Phillips, who had been an in* valid ever since her marriage, half a century ago, died in Boston. At Boston, H. H. Ricnard- son, famous architect MAY. . # Charles Franklin Robertson, Protestant Rris- copal Bishop of the Dioeesi of Missouri, died in St. Louis. Other eminent people who joined the innumerable caravan during tho flowery month were : David Fisher, ex-M. C„ into whoso arms John Quincv Adams fell when he was stricken with paralysis on the floor of the House. George H. Butler, nephew of Gen. B. F. Butler, form­ erly editor of >1 I'AVS ' Spirit. Gen. John L. Lewis, an historical character of New Orleans, who served as a courier for Gen. Jackson in 1813, aged 83. Vice Admiral Lynch, of the Chilian navy. Mrs. Alice Pendletoft. wife of the Amer­ ican Minister to Germany,'was killed iu Central Park, New York, by being thrown from her car­ riage. Arthur Quartlav, a noted American marine painter, ended his days in New York, Dr. Dio Lewis, author and hygienic reformer, uj his homo in Yonkers, N. Y.". aged 63. Stephen Pearl Andrews, the apostle of spiritualism; New York, aged 74. Leopold von Ranke, emi­ nent German historian, aged 91. Gen. Durbra Ward, one of the most noted Democrats of Ohio aped (>8. Gen. F. N. Ogden, who led the White League revolution agniust the Kellogg State Government at Now Orleans in 18?4. At St. Vital, Ont., Mrs. Riel, widow of the Canadian rebel. John Q. Bartlett, well-known American author, and for many years Secretary of State of Rhode Island, aged 80. ! caa offiesrs Wl nineteen soldien wet* killed by, a railway accident at Valdtvta. jMkfmt ruined the orange groves of Florida, and his visit to toe State was reported to bave caused, directly and indirectly, a loss of #30,000.000. FEBRUARY. Cold weather killed large numbers of fish in the Gu:f of Mexico JUNE. John Kelly, the renowned Tammany sachem and Democratic leadrr, was called hence on the 1st inst... aged 04. tJthor notable contributions to the list of depnrtures during the month were: Billy Emmett, a well-known minstrel and theatrical manage *, of Chicago. Col. Richard M. Hoe, of New York, inventor of the famous Hoe printinc-press--suddenly, at Florence, Italy. Ludwig, the de|x>sed insane King of Ba­ varia, suicided by drowning; Dr. Gudden, at­ tendant, lost his life in trying to save the de­ throned monarch. John J. Pressor, a famous hermit of Eastern Pennsylvania. Daniel Geerin, near Watertown, Wis., agod 10i). Edwin P. Whipple, American essayist and author -Bos­ ton, a?ed (18. Hon. Augustus Charles Hobart (Hobart Pasha, Marshal of the Turkish Kmpirei; an Englishman, son of the Earl of Buckingham­ shire. John Newman, one of the first white children born in that region, passed away in Sevier County, Tennessee, aged 117. Samuel Adams, a pioneer of California and a member of_the San Francisco vigilance committee in 1836. Moses A. Dow, founder of the Waverly Magazine, of Boston. Hon. David Davis, form­ erly Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, Senator from Illinois, and ex-oflflcio Vice President of the I'n i ted States; Blooming ton. III., aged 71. At Wiesbaden, the widow of Meyerbeer, at the age of 82. JULY. Col. Geo. B. Corkhill, who conducted the pros­ ecution of Guiteau, passed away at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, from hemorrhage of the stomach. Paul H. Havne, poet and litterateur, at Augusta, Ga. Cardinal Guibort, Archbishop of Paris. H. K. Hrown, tho sculptor, died at Newbursh, N. Y.; he was seventy-two years old, and modeled the first bronze statue ever cast in this country. Rear Admiral Worden. U. 8. N., tho hero of the famous victory of the ironclad Monitor over the rebel Merrimnc in 18»i2, died at Newport. R. L, aged 09 E Z. C. Judson. known to the story- reading publio as " Ned Runtime," who had earned S«0,000 per annum with his pen, died of heart disease at Stamford, New York, in his sixty-fifth year; he was a naval officer before the war of the rebellion, and carried twelve wounds received in battle or in duels. Hon. Wm. Hunter, Second Assistant Secretary of State, died at Washington, of old age and gen­ eral debility; ho was 81 years old, and had served continuously in the State Department fifty-one years, having been appointed by Pres­ ident Jackson. Hubert O. Thompson, a con­ spicuous leader of the New York County De­ mocracy, aged 37 yoars. Abbe Franz Liszt, the celebrated pianist and composer, 'at Baireuth, Germany, aged 7a. AUGUST. From the walks of statesmanship Samuel ,T. Tilden, ex-Governor of New York, was taken on the -itli. Other eminent persons who departed during the month were : Ex-Cocemor Johi' W. Stevenson, of Kentucky, who had been Senator and Representative in Congress; Dolores Fosta, widow of tho famous Mexican General, Bauta Anna; Mrs. Ann S. Stevens, well-known novel­ ist; at Newport, R, I., aged 74. Professor C. E. Stowe, formerly President of Andover Theological Seminary, and husband of the author of "Undo Tom's Cabin;" at Hartford, Conn., ased 81. Mrs. Murphy, of Chicago, at the advauced age of 108 years. Amos Adam* Law­ rence, prominent m> reliant and philanthropist of Boston. 1-iev. .lames C. Beecher, of Connecti­ cut, tho youngest brother of Hcury Ward Beecher, suicided at Elrnira, N. Y., on account of failing health; age, 59 years. SEPTEMBER. , Among the most notable cu'.ributiona to the necrology of le80 for September were: Gen. B. F. Cheatham, of Nashville, who played a con­ spicuous part in the bloody dtania of 1861-'o. Gep. Lloyd Aspinwall, of New York. George Validenhoff, actor and reader. As her B. Du- rnnd, an American painter of note. Andrew Lucas, born in slavery iu Tennessee, where ho was a servant of Gen Jackson, di' d at Brant- ford, Ont., at the supposed age of 128years. OCTOBER. ^aptain John Plunkett, one of the four survi­ vors of the battle of San Jacinto, died at Mata- Korda, Texas, aged 80 yoars. Other contribu­ tions to the necrology of October were : Hon. Austin F. Pike, U. S. Be mi tor from Now Hamp­ shire: ex-Senatir David Yulee, of Florida; James A. Grinstead, a ft nious Kentucky turf­ man ; Roar Admiral Kdward T. Nichols, U. S. N.; Meyer Karl Rothschild, head of the great Frank­ fort firm of bankers ; Mike McCoole. the pugil­ ist ; llacon Montgomery, once a Brigadier Gen­ eral in tho Union army; Col. Charles Whittle­ sey, of Cleveland, Ohio, geologist and scholar; Gen. J. A. Ullrich, commandant at i-trasburgoEf its capitulation; Gen. Sir H. T. Macpherson, commander of the British army of occupation in Bnrmah ; Baron Frederick Ferdinand von Heust, distinguished German statesman ; Mrs. Cornel a Stewart, widow of the lute Alexander T.Stew­ art, the New York millionaire merchant; Hon. Mason W. Tappan, Attornev General of New Hampshire; Hon. Walter If. Scates, ex-Cliief Justice Illinois Supreme Court; the Earl of Stratford--family name, George Stevens Byng. # ^ NOVEMBER. Fred Archer, the most celebrated jockey in the world, who rode the winning horse of "the Derby" five different times, committed suicide in London while in a delirium caused by typhoid fever. Other distinguished dead chronicled during November were : Rev. Wal­ ter Homo, the "father" of the Church of Scot­ land. at Edinburgh, in his 8i<t)a year. Ex- President Chester A. Arthur, Bright's disease ; aged 56. Ex-Governor John S. Phelps, of Mis­ souri, aged •'<). Hon. Charles Francis Adams, grandson of the second President of tlie Unitod States and son of the sixth President; at Bos­ ton, aged 79. Erastus Brooks, a veteran editor of New York, distinguished in journalism and politloa, aged 70. DECEMBER. Among distinguished people who passed from th« KtjuTA of life during D«c6!iib0!' were : Con- gressman Wm. T. Price, of the Eighth Wiscon­ sin District. John E. Owens, the veteran com­ edian, at his home in Baltimore; a native of England, aged 63. Isaac Lea, distinguished American naturalist; Philadelphia, aged 95. Representative Abraham Dowdney, of New York, whose taking off swelled the death-list of the Forty-ninth Congress to twelve. Ex-Gov. ChaB. M. Croswell, of Michigan. Gen. Wm. G. Harding, a famous turfman of Tennessee, aged 78. Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, one ot the fore­ most )<omologists of the United States ; Kox- bury, Mass., aged HO. James D. Wairen, pro­ prietor of the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, and a leader of the Republican party of tne State of New York. Et-Gov. Pitkin, of Colo­ rado. In Indian Territory, Mrs. Susanna War­ ren, bom a slave at St. Augustine in 17£0. Alden Goldsmith, famous trotting-horse breeder and trainer; Blooming Grove, N. Y., aged 00. CASUALTIES. arctio expedition. Hon. Hunt, of New York, who resigned his place as Justice of the U. 8. Snpreme Court in 1888. The Countess de Chambom, widow of -the lata head at the sur- Railway Disasters, Fire Horrors, Mine Exp.losions, and Other Ac­ cidents by Land and Watef. JANUARY. A bad beginning was m ule at Detroit, the new year being ushered in by a conflagration which laid an entire square in ashes; Terry & Co.'s mammoth seed house. White's Grand Theater, and the Wesson B!o*k were con­ sumed ; Fire Captain Filbin was killed by a falling wall; valuo of property destroyed, £2,000,000. Other notable di^a^ters of tlie initial month of 1&S6 were: Burning of the Soii^hem Hotel at New Orleans, formorly occupied by Gen. Banks as his headquarters; a musician perished. Two families, numbering seventeen persons, drowned near Peno, Chili, by the cap­ sizing of a boat. Seventy lives lost by wrecks in the Bay of Colon The steamer City of Nas­ sau, from Philadelphia to Jacksonville, Fla., was lost, with her crew of seventeen men. Damago by floods in the vicinity of Williams- port, Pa., amounted to $>,000,0 HI. Flames origin­ ating at Arnott's mill, at Philadelphia, spread over two blocks, destroying property valued at 81,00),000. Fifteen persons perished in a burn­ ing spinning mill at Aix-la-Chapell^, France. A storm which swept over Texas, lasting from 7th to lith, was without parallel in the history of the State in severity; the loss in cattle from the intense cold was immense. Eleven Mexi- MAHCH. Thirty-five persons wera burned to death or seriously injured by a fire in a flax-drying bousa at Oels, in Germany, Heavy snowfalls in Sile­ sia buried several villages ; five children were frozen to death while going to school. For the * seventh time the bobbin factory of Billington A Co., Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire. The Sandwich Islands were the scene" of terriblo volcanic and earthquake convulsion'. The weight of snow crushed the roof of a theater in the Japanese town of Heromal, killing or seri­ ously injuring 150 persons. A vessel was wrecked at Baku, Russia, by an explosion of petroleum, and the entire crew of thirteen per­ sons perished. APRIL. Floods In tbe Southern States were attended by considerable loss of life; 2> persons were drowned in Alabama; in the vicinity of Mont­ gomery the flood leached the hi -hest aiark ever Known, thousands of cattle and hogs being car­ ried away. A train on the Fitchburg Railroad jumped the track near West Peerfield, Mass., the cars tumbling down an embankment '.?00 feet in height, some of them falbng into the river; '20 persons were killed and 50 injured. The steamer Taoroa was wrecked off the coast of New Zealand, with the loss of 29 lives. Por­ tions of Centra! Minnesota were laid waste by a cyclone on the 14th that occusionedtl?e loss of 100 lives, twice as manv injured and three times that number of houses wrecked ; of a wedding party that assembled at Rice Station, Minn., the groom, minister, and eleven others were in­ stantly ki livi; about seventy lives were lost ati Sauk Rapids, St. Cloud, and Rice Station ; tho terrible power of the storm was evidenced btf the fact that the sign "Sauk Rapids, "on the Mani> toba (leiHit, and a casket of bofka were found in;;- Rice Station, fifteen miles distant; a suit of clothes wa3 carried sixty miles and a tombstond three miles. Tho Galician town of Stry was almost totally destroyed bv fire, 600houses be.' ing burned; <>8 charred bodies were taken from the ruins and 20 invalids died in the fields after . being rescued from the llames-- total number of deaths resulting from the conflagration, 128.- > MAY. ..Kansas City was struck by a cyclone on the llth, which caused the loss of twenty-five Jives;' A hurricane which swept across the central; portion of Spain killed.seventy-three personal in Ma Irid alone. A storm that was far-reach, ing in extent ravaged jiortions of Illinois, In­ diana, and Ohio 011 the l lth; sixty persons were killed and two millions of dollars' worth of property destroyed in the rich farming rsgioin of Central Ohio. Up to May 15, over one hun­ dred and seventy lives were "lost by tornadoes and cloud-bursts in the West. By the wreck of tho steamer Lydeemon m Australian waters seventy persons were drowned. Fire losses during May in the United States and'Canada aggregated 87,000,000-41,000,000 below the May average for years. JUNE. Terrible cloudbursts and hailstorms were re.f, ported from Thnringia, in Germany. Faming in Corea caused the death of M)) persons in w single city ; Corea had not had a good harvest in seven years, it was said. Many lives were lost by an earthquake, followed by a volcanic erup­ tion, at Tarawero, New Zealand. A hurricane, accompanied by torrents of rain, swept over Galveston, Texas, on the 14tli, flooding the lower section of the citv, and washing away two miles of the Gulf and Santa Fe Railroad; a shift of the wind saved the city from being in­ undated. -Fire nearly destroyed Vancouver, B. C.; a dozen persons perished in the fiamos, and the money losses reached SI,000,0JO. At Prague, Bohemia, a ferryboat capsized while crossing the river, throwing fifty persons into the water, over half of whom were drowned. Forty per­ sons petislied in a mine explosion at Rochamp, France. During June the fire losses in the United States and Canada aggregated 89,750,000, being 50 per cent, greater than the average loss­ es for June in several years. " JULY. Terrible sufferings from famine by the flaher^ men and natives of Labrador and Newfound* land wero reported by dispatches from St. John; cold and hunger did their work so effectually it| some districts that half the population wa4 swept away. By the burning of the theater at Tennovelly, British India, 100 Hindoos iost their lives. The July fire record in the Unitod State* and Canada showed a loss of property valued at $10,000,000-- '20 par cent, greater than the average loss for twenty years. AUGtHMT. ^*4^- -W At Eggleston, Minn., an elevator on th* G., II. & St. P. R K. was destroyed by fire; the heafe warped the railroad tracks and a passing freight train was derailed and burned; four unfortu­ nate tramps stoaling a ride were roasted alive in one of the cars. Ravages of cholera in Yoko­ hama and Tokio, Japan, were reported appal­ ling, deaths in the former city from the disease averaging about fifty a day; weather tbe hottest experienced there in fifteen years. Fierce for­ est fires raged in Central Wisconsin; bodies of horses, cows, and other animals were found along the roads over which the fire passed, and thousands of acres of grain were devastated; 700 families were rendered homeless, and prop­ erty losses exceeded $1,000,000. Near Erie, Pa., Mrs. Freider and her three daughters were drowned while doing the family washing in a creek ; the youngest fell into the stream, and the others were lost in the endeavor to rescue her. Forty lives were loBt by an explosion in the Woodend colliery, Lancashire, England. Two hundred lives were loBt by the burning of a steamer on the River Volga, in Russia. On the 21st Texas was visited by the moBt destruc­ tive storm ever known there; the wind at­ tained a velocity of 75 miles an hour, and continued lor eight hours; every town along the western Gulf coast suffered severe'y ; total loss was: 38 lives. $1,0 '0,000 to crops, S3.5>0,0 10 to urban property, and SI,000,000 to shipping. San Francisco was visited by a fire which laid waste acres in the business district; lot-s. $i,0,K),000. A loss of $5,00J.0.'0 was occa­ sioned at Mandala.v, Bnrmah, by the bursting of an embankment of the Irrawaddy River; .H),- OtO people wer," rendered homeless, while it was estimated 1,000 lives were lost. SEPTEMBER. By a collision of two trains at Silver Creek, N. Y„ a score of lives were lost. Japan advices reported OO.OOJ cholera cases IA that, country, of which 37,000 ended fatally. Hailstones six inches in circumference fell at Madison, Wis , 011 the 'Z'kl, breaking 10,0JO panes of glass, and denuding trees of leaves and twigs; in some instances iron roofs were rlddlt d. Between Sept. 10 and 26 there were 9. 0J new cases of cholera reported iu Jnpan, and 0,'2<X) deaths oc­ curred. Forty-five persons wero killed and six- tom injured by un explosion of fire-damp near Sclialke, Germany. Betwoen Aug. 28 and Sept 5, inclusive, 1:1,318 new cases of cholera were rejiorted in Japan, tho deaths numl ering 8,472; over 00 per cent, of those attacked died; the wells of Tokio were examined, and 74>» out of 1,177 were condemned as unfit for driukina pur­ poses. The September firo loss iu the United States and Canada was S»>, '00,O K), a slight de­ crease from the average September loss of pre­ vious year. In tho last year twenty-suven ves­ sels belonging to the Gloucester fishing fiaet were wrecked and 110 lives were lost. THE "WJZ4B) Aa Exciting Billiard C« ; Jae*b Setaefer aat Slosssc. The Little Dutchman Iefsati tlM» I , Mitt--* «ne Veqr Brilliaaft Flaying. Central Musie Hall was packed ftum gallery, Friday evening, with people assembled to witness the great match between George Slosaon, of! Jacob Echaefer, of St. Louis, the champions at the world, says Daily Nevm. Among the assembia(a < ladies, and the private boxes] display of elegant toilets. After * meats' delay Mr. John W. MeC Louis, stepped forward and i champions with a few timely speaker briefly announced the the game--cushion carroms, SII for 52,000 a side sod all the gat» *• men lost no time in getting zaady ; Both stripped off their coats m * dark knit jackets. A moment: banking for the lead. Schaefer eighth of an inch. In the eighth I made the largest run of the | nlng with the balls in the up. ner of the table, he rattled up the < surprising rate of Bpeed for * -- 1 mm inuwiag esMa, 1 ration ran through tbe 1 kept on counting. Vat* 1 little rattled, tot arts* 1 JACOB 8CHABRB. Some of his shots barely moved the batlLj yet they all went to the cushion in to make the count. Hia delicvey of prised even the most " murmur of admiration 1 auditorium as he 1 Siosson seemed a 1 singles and a miss or two he j With runs of 5,15, and 17 la : up a little, but in the eighteenth i knocked out 17 point* ana again. Tho 17 points made 100, while Slosson had 68 bat his side of the string. Th« hammering awav, and the 1 up about as fast as the result North 8ide car. gait at - OCTOBER. Up to Oct. 1 the aggregate fire waste in 1881 was $83,000,000, against ?71..W0,000 for the same period of 1885. Violent shocks of earthquake occurred in central Germany. Thirty-one earthquake shocks occurred at "Charleston, S. C., between Aug. 27 and Oct. 1. An explosion in a colliery near Wakefield, England, caused the loss of twenty-four lives. Every vilhige on the island of Niapu, one of the Friendlv group, was destroyed by an earthquake. By the ex­ plosion of the stoumer Mascotte, near Cape Gi­ rardeau, Mo., twenty lives were lost. The most disastrous gale since the war prevailed 011 the Gulf coaBt between New Orloaus and Galveston on the llth and 12th ; many people were driven from their homes, levees were demolished, and the rice and other crops were ruined. Over 900 ner»ons perished during & hurricane at Sabine Pass, Texas, on the 13th. NOVEMBER. The steamship Norman tore foundered off Pashima, Japan, and sixty lives were lost. A railway accident occurred at Listerton, France, by which nine persons were killed and twenty injured. Frimstein, Switzerland, was destroyed by fire, and a number of the inhabit­ ants perisht d in the flames. A gale that swept over the great lakes on the 18th was one of the most destructive experienced in years ; it was accompanied by numerous wrecks and great loss of life--the number of those who found a watery grave exceeding fifty, and the money loss to vessel-owners footing up a half million dollars; the value of the cargoes probably doubled that amount. A ship crowded with na­ tive laborers returning from Queensland. Aus­ tralia, foundered in the Pacific Ocean and 140 lives wero lost. Cincinnati had a 9700,000 fire, which consumed two large cloth­ ing houses. Forty-two men were burned by an explosion of fire-damp in the Con vi gham shaft of tho Delaware and Hudson Company, twelve of whom died ; two others were blown into a pit containing thirty f et of water and drowned. Flames swept awav three elevators at Duluth, with their contents of nearly a million bushels of grain, and resulted in the loss of three lives. The November fire losses in the United States and Canada were 810,00»,«-Oc--one-third greater than the November average since the great Boston fire. The fire loss in the United States for the eleveir months ending Novctuoor U0 was ;1'J5,000,000. DECEMBER. The ancient Church of St. Mary Magdalen, in London, with four warehouses on the same street, was destroyed by fire; loss, KH)0,000. Thirty men wero killed in a coal-mine explosion in Durham, England. During a cyclone near Algiers, the French stesmer Chandernagore, with 1,200 troops on board, foundered and all hands were lost. Forty-two lives were lost by a collision between two steamers in Australian waters. By the loss of a life-boat while endeav­ oring to relieve a distressed vessel at Southport, England, thirtjen men perished Great loss of life and property by floods was reported from India. The Missiusipi River steamboat J. M. White, running between Vieksbtirg aud New Orleans, was destroved by fire near Bayou Sara, La., and between fifty and sixty lives lost, prin­ cipally wi men and children. The whaling bark Atlantic was wrecked near San FnnoiM ̂ant twenty-seven lives were lost. OlOBOS KbOSSOV, Slosson would keep plodding ah was within hailing distance of 1 then the latter would wake np and go j along, leaving Slosson behind " game was not stupid, by any variety of shots were shown, even if I. „ did not move along very fast, and ttgtf Mjifc frequent bursts of applause when aigr 1 ing venture resulted in a count. At the forty-fifth inning the seen ' " Schaefer to ia# for Slosson. Thus game Shaefer bad shown himself of the two. His speoialty the balls near the rail and then, by nursing shots, knock out double figures every time. Slosson, on tbe other hit ponded more on open-table play, unable to take advantage of this which netted tho most points for his i _ In his eighty-first Inning Schaefer made a i of 37. During the spurt he ga«e the ftneet hibition of cushion-carrom playing that ever witnessed in public. Bis delicate I ' of the balls was perfectly marveknM. had been used to see cushion carroms J. hammer-and-tongs style were astoaneSd." The game at that time stood: Schaefer,US; Sloe- son, 259. ' Men who were friends of Slosson InofcaiT Uaa and even the friends of Schaefer uHMI hfltt. and said; "Poor George! The lite!* TTilliali--f is murdering him. He has played him to .a standstill." But they did not give Biased*evaiH for the nerve he really possessed. With etWfc **." opponent as Jacob Schaefer leading rain: ~ i points in such a game as cushion camxns ke settled down to work and astonished every CM* by his brilliant finish. As If by magic th*a|IMit: became the tortoise and the tortoise the In the face of Schaefer*s run R rattled up 22 points before he missed CB a cult single-cushion venture. From that time the game became exciting, as Slosson stei ~ 'gained on Schaefer, who seemed unable to even an ordinary game. For tweat innings he never once reached danM* He missed easy shots, made cues, played in bad luck, and i ened his backers in a most painfafi the meantime Slosson was playing mash bet­ ter than he had been doing during any part ot the game. After a dozen innings devoted to this 1 ing duel, Schaefer suddenly seemed to I and, as easy as if he were rattling peas p, he knocked out IS points, ilioeaoa folk with a goose-egg, while Schaefer added V 1 buttons to his string. Then Slosson palled self together for the last effort, and with a a brilliant shot he collected 17 points, even of which was worth a S10 bill to him fu that time. When he at last missed at th pcist, }"!'/• by the wiuui of • . Schaefer chafced his cue, set teeth, and then, marching up to table, he ran up the ten points needed to 1 game as easily as if Dotting ware aft When the winner soored bin five point Slosson tossed his cue aside aad 1 Schaefer warmly by the hand, and thai stant two or three hundred excited 1 forward and fell 011 the little Dutohmai him on the back, sheared far 1 cam- him out ot tbe hall ea thatr i ders, and would have suoeeeded friend rushed up and resetted hhni friend presented him with an 1 watch and chain of,Tiffany's make. is tbe score .* Schaefer--0.1, 0. 9, 0, 3, a. 48, 7, «, 0. 0^.0, 3,0,1. 0, 17, 0, 0, 0, 0.1. 0, % 0,0, M, 4, 0, 4, 3,0,0. 3,0, 1, 1, ti, l8, 9, 0,0,11. 12,1. 1,6,0, 1, 2. 6.0, 7, 1. 0, 15, 0, 11. 16, 2, 2, «, 0, 0, 36, 0^ 0, 0, 0, 0, ft, 36, 0. 0, 0, 0, 0. 0, 0. 9, 7, *0. 12, 37,1,1, 2, 7, 2, SL fll 0, 1. 3, 1, 0, 0,1, 0,1, 0, 8, 4, 3, 4. 1, 0,1, 4, 3,9. IS, 7,10-500. Slosson--1, 0, 0, 2, 3. rl, 2.1,1,1,1, 0, S, 15, IT, 4, 2, 0,12, 0, 0, 2. 0, 3,0, 0, 1,12, 0, 3,0, 3, 0,6, 0, 0, 3, 5. 0, 3, u. 1. 13, 0, 5, 3, 7,11, 9. 6,1.1, 0, 0, 1. li, 0, 1, 1, 0, 6. 3, 2, 1, 0, 1,17, 10, 2, 0, 3, 0, 0, 3, % 6, 3. 10, 0, 22, 1, 1, 2,15,0, 14,17, 0. 0. 10, 5, IS, % 10, 0, 6, 4, 1, 6,1, Ol, 6, 3, 9. 4, 0, 2. 0.17--4301. Schaefer--Average, 4 56-111; highest runs, 98L 37. «nd Sloesoc--Average, 3 lOO-UO; highest ramL ST, 17,38. * Christmas Fifty lean Sinee. -g Fifty years ago Christmas Day in KMT England was regarded as a Popish instilQ. tion, and the en ss a Popish symbol, of which ottr Puritan fathec* Such bigotry, it is pleasing to passed away, and now churche* ot, name adopt the symbol of th* keep Christmas, unless it 1m a those who have adopted the old! notions, and out eee ao bnt that which aaakes happy. Soeh1 (lay a day of ] md of insiractiMi 1 would rob H at lotk thus is net th* nUgbm t^Yaiobt (Con*.) this is net Bartford {