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HItRVITIES.
What kind of a color is llind man's
mft.Tid-BUs.
A pen mav he driven, but a pencil
does the best when it is lead.
Woman's sphere is the home; man's
sphere is the base ball. ,
Policemen belong to the arrestocracy,
Merchant Traveler.
Nht keys, as a rule,' have their hard
est work to do in the morning.
Sunday in New York is becoming
known as Thirst-day. TUl-Blts.
It will be a cold day when the North
Pole is discovered. Tid-Bils.
The New York politicians have made
up a slate. Mr. Cleveland is to be renomi
nated, Gov. Hill is to be Governor again
and then President for a couple of terms.
Do the New Y'ork politicians own the coun
try? Macon (Ga,) Telegraph, Bern.
Two Lives Wrecked by a. Comma. A
j-oung.man wrote thus to the object of his
affection: "I love you not for your fortune
it is a consideration . that could never in
fluence me in choosing a wife." Being un
familiar with the rules of punctuation, he
awkwardly inserted a full stop after the
words "I love you not," and the young la
dy in her grief, despair and outraged feel
ing, entered a convent, while her lover, af
ter waiting in vain for a reply to his letter,
became tne driver of a soda pop wagon.
Chicago ' Times.
. A lawyer friend tells me he advertised
for an office boy a few days ago, and as
usual got a big bundle of answers. He got
fairly well tired-reading the various credit
able things the young aspirants for the
place had to say of themselves, but finally
he struck a letter that really interested him.
It was written on a very much soiled and
crumpled piece of paper that had never
been very white, and ran about as follows:
"I'm 12 yers old. I hain't got no father
nor muther. I'm an orfan and I've got to
hustel. It betes hel how hard times is."
My legal friend read no more of the let
ters, but immediately sent for the writer
of this one and gave him the job. The ur
chin has settled down to "hustling" in
earnest, and doesn't complain any more
about the hard times. Chicago Mail.
How the Cigar Got its Name. The ori
gin of the word cigar is of some interest
and is not to be found in the ordinary dic
tionaries. The word, of course, is Spanish,
and Littre in his French dictionary says
that it is derived from cigarra, the Spanish
name for grasshopper. When the Span
iards first introduced tobacco into Spain
from the Island of Cuba, in the sixteenth
century, they cultivated the plant in their
gardens, which in Spanish are called cigar
rals. Each grew his tobacco in his cigar
oral and rolled it ur for smoking, as he had
learned from the Indians in the West Indies.
When one offered a smoke to a friend he
could say: "Es di mi cigarral" it is from
my garden. Soon the expression came to
be: "Este cigarro es de mi cigarral" this
cigar is from my garden. And from this
the word cigar spread over the world. The
. name cigarral for garden comes from cigar
ra, a grasshopper, that insect being very
common in Spain, and cigarral meaning
the place where the cigarra sings. In this
way the word cigar comes from cigarra, the
name of the insect, not because it resem
bles the body of the grasshopper, but be
cause it was grown in the place it frequents.
CJjicago Tribiuie.
Communicated.
THE RATS ARE. IX THE BARN.
The rats are in the barn,
Daddy;
A eatin' of the corn.
And who'd 'er thought it ov 'em
Daddy?
I never sence I was born!
Theni rats was once our speakers,
Daddy;
A tellin' us how to farm.
They presided at our meetin's,
, Daddy;
With a face as long's yer arm.
We run them rats for offis,
Daddy;
' And 'lected 'em too, by golly!
But they jine'd the farmers' clubs,
Daddy; -In"
order to git to Roily.
The old leadin rat of all,
Daddy;
Is deepest in the cheese.
P. stands for politicians,
Daddy;
As well as it does for peas.
And yet these are the rats,
Daddy;
We allowedto run our clubs.
Lawyers, editors, doctors, all
Why daddy!
The bottom's out of our tubs.
Chronic nasal catarrh positively cured
by Dr. Sage's Remedy.
VICTORIOUS VOLUNTEER
ADDS TWO MORE TO HER RECORD
! OF CONQUESTS.
She lereat the Scotch Thistle In Two
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Splendid Contests, and the Cnp TTIIl
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Remain Here for a Year Longer Thf y
Blast Come Here far Models.
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' New York, Sept. 28. Yesterday, the first
of the great international yacht races, broke
under unfavorable circumstances. At the
first streaks of dawn a few red tinted clouds
floated lazily in the sky, but soon a grayish
mist clouded them and the heavens took on
a somber leaden hue. The morning , breezes
were to light that the trees in Battery park
stood up straight, and not a leaf stirred. It
was a discouraging outlook for the yachts.
At 11:45 the Thistle began to stand in to
ward Bay Ridge, and the Volunteer's sails
partly filled. Shortly after 12 o'clock the
Electra blew her whistle and the starting line
was cleared. Before the preparatory start
THE VICTORS.
ing guns were fired the Thistle sailed past
the Electra with all sails set except balloon
jib and spinnaker. The Volunteer cruised
about! in a small space, and both yachts
created a great sensation. The fog, by 12:15,
had nearly disappeared, and the southerly
breezd grew stronger. The preparatory
starting gun was fired at 12:20. The start
ing gun was fired at 12:30 and both boats al
most immeaiately headed for the line. ! Both
carried mainsail, club topsail and three jibs.
The Thistle was slightly in the lead, but
there was not more than 200 feet between the
boats. The official starting time was: This
tle, 12:33:00; Volunteer, 12:34:58.
THE VANQUISHED.
Both yachts crossed the line on the port
tack, j The moment they were off th great
fleet of pleasure boats started after them,
followed later by tha Electra, which soon
overhauled the crowd. Then happened one
of the! most remarkable things ever seen in a
yacht raca in this harbor. The two yachts
went into the narrows with the Thistle sev
eral hundred feet ahead: of the Volunteer
and came out with the Volunteer a good
half mile ahead of the Thistle, the Volunteer
booming along at a great rate of speed,
while the Thistle was standing almost dead
still. In j- " :; . :i
f After a while the Thistle got more wind
COURSE FOR THE SECOND RACE.
and decreased the Volunteer's lead, and at 2
o'clock the Scotch boat was apparently hot
more than three-quarters of a mile behind,
.while at 2:15 not more than half a mile sepa
rated the two, although the Thistle was a
quarter of a mile to the leewartL At 2:30
the Volunteer was only three-eighths of a
.mile ahead. The wind ; was increasing, and
the Volunteer at 2:35 rounded the point of
the Hook and headed for the ligktship. Ax
minutes ahead of the Thistle. At 2:43 the
Volunteer was on the starboard tack outside
of the Hook, about a mile and a quarter
ahead of the Thistle, the latter then being
near the point qt the Hook. The wind, was
k fie?1 0
then blowing nine miles an hour, and the
Volunteer slowly increasing her lead until
3:45, ;whfn she rounded the lightship and
starts! homeward. The Thistle rounded the
lightship at 4:01.
From tbis point Lack to the starting line
the race was practically a walkover for the
Volunteer, and as she passed the Hook she
was greeted with deafening cheers from the
crowds lining the shore, and a similar recep
tion wis accorded to her from the thousands
of excursionists on the pleasure boats. At
buov 10 the Thistle was 16 minutes behind
the Volunteer, with the wind blowing twelve
miles an hour. The Volunteer presented a
magnificent spectacle as she came booming
op the bay, ith the triumphant procession
of boats behind her, each flying every shred
of bunting that could be bad. The Thistl
crossed the lin& with all sails set about 20
minutes behind the victor, the official finish
ing time being as follows: Volunteer, 5:25:30;
Thistle, 5:44:45
On j Thursday, the day set for the second
yacht contest, the fog was so heavy and the
wind so light that the race was postponed
until Friday. There was a collision at the
starting point between the steamer City of
Brockton and a tng. Six persons were
knocked overboard and one man had his leg
broken, but there were no fatalities.
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THE SECOND RACE
Decides Positively the Yankee
Sloop
I j i Superiority.
New York, Oct. L There was another
gloomy outlook for the yachts yesterday
morning, j The fog of Thursday, which had
never been entirely dissipated, continued to
Bhut out the view. There was a good wind,
however, which continued to freshen, chang
ing round to the south. At 9:30 o'clock a
heavy rain poured down, with tho accompani
ment of a twenty mile breeze off Sandy
Hook: At 10 o'clock the fog lif ted and re
vealed a couple of miles of clear water, and
half an hour later two more miles could be
seen, and the Thistle and Volunteer pro
ceeded to the starting point. The Electra,
with the regatta committee and a hundred
equally anxious yachtsmen on board, lolled
about surveying the scene. The wind at
this time being from the east determined the
course. It was twenty miles to windward,
and lay out to sea.
At 10:42 the starting gun was fired and
both yachts went over the line at a terrific
clip. The Thistle was to windward, but the
big white sloop from Boston was in the lead.
They were carrying main topsail, forestay
saiJ, jib and working topsails. As they
dashed off into the northeast no one could
say which was getting the better of it. . They
each seemed to be flying with the speed of
the wind, and it was all that some oi the
steamboats could do to keep the scudding
yachts in sight. The Volunteer was leaning
slightly more than the Scotchman, but each
was heeled a good deal. The wind was blow
ing twenty miles an hour, and it gave'signs
of holding out, and even of freshening. The
Volunteer bung on to the wind like a part of
it. She was sailing in its very teeth, and her
long bowsprit pointed perceptibly better than
that of her rival. Just behind and still to
windward the Thistle was cutting the water
like a knife, and so well were both yachts
sailing, and so slight the distance between
them, that the betting was about even.
At 2:35 the Yankee turned the stakeboat
on
the port tack amid deafening screams
from fifty vessels. The Thistle at this time
was a about mile off the stakeboat and on her
starboard tack. Seventeen minutes later she
turned the boat, and was greeted as the Vol
unteer bad been. When the Volunteer turnei
she immediately caught the wind, and went
flying! ahead. Unmistakably Fhe was in
creasing her lead. At 3:45 the Volunteer
was rushing along toward home with a free
sheet and foaming bow. Trie wind was
frtsLer, perhaps, than it had been at any
time during the day. Away back in the rear,
somewhere irt the neighborhood of two miles
and a' half, was the Thistle.
The ! winning" Vol ui seer rushed up amid
blasts upon blasts from steam whistles, and
crossed the line at 4:23:47. The E.ectra's gun
was fired and belched ut louder than it ever
did, while the Stars And Stripes were run up
above the Union Jack. The Volunteer eased
up a little, took in her balloon jib, and sailed
on her triumphant way to Bay Ridge. The
steamboats and excursionists waited and
watched for the beaten boat. She looked as
pretty and brave as she ever did, but that
was all. She crossed the finish line eleven
minutes behind the VIun.eer. She, too, get
cheers and toots of whistles, becaus3 she had
tried, and tried bravely. Mr. Ball and Capt
Barr were now convinced that Designer
Watson would have to get ideas on yacht
building from somewhere else than the Clyde.
The Thistle had been beaten in light winds
and in strong ones, too. Yesterday settled
conclusively tha question of superiority. The
raca had beea on the wind all the time, and
the Thistle had been clearly outsailed. She
is a good boat, was the popular verdict, but
not good enough to race with the Volunteer.
The following is the official time cf the race:
. r-,-;.K Actual Cor.
Start Finish. Tim Time.
Volunteer 1 10:40:5074 4:23:17 5:-U':5 i 5:4:.':3J4
Thistle ....10:10:.?: 4:35:2:: 3:V1:51 5:51:45
THE VETERANS ADJOURN.
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Judge Kae, of Minneapolis, the New
j Commander-in-Chief.
St. Louis, Oct, 1. The attempt yesterday
of Comrade Paul Vandervort, of Nebraska,
to pas a vote of censure on President Cleve
land for his veto of the dependent pension
bill, through the Grand Army encampment,
was a dismal failure. The committee to
whom the resolutions were referred reported
adversely, and it was evident, from the re
peated applause that interrupted the speech
of C. H. Grosvenor, of Ohio, in opposition
to the resolutions, that the veterans had no
intention to permit action disrespectful to
the head of the nation. -
It was 3 o'clock when the encampment re
assembled after" the adjournment for lunch,
and the election of officers was at once de
clared the order. Gens. Grier, of St. Louis;
Slocum, of New York; Warner, of Kansas
City; Judge Rae, of Minneapolis, and ex
Governor Anthony, of Kansas, we re placed
in nomination for the office of commander-in-chief,
but Gen. "Warner's withdrawal was
announced before the calling of the roll had
begun. Judge Rae was elected on the first
ballot, which was as follows: Rae, 234;
Slocum, 153; Anthony, C6; Grier, IS. Gen.
Sherman received one,vote, as did also Gen.
Warner. Rae was declared elected and es
corted to the rdatform by Anthony and
Grier. j -
As soon as tne storm or applause bad sub
side 1 Ju lge Rae made a neat little speech
thanking his comrades for the distinguished
honor conferred upon him. The rules were
then sup?nded and Nelson Cole, of Mis
souri, was elected senior vice commander.
Tle junior vice commander selected was
John C. Linahan, of New Hampshire. Gen.
Lawrence Dnohua was elected surgeon,
ami (Jen. and Rev. Edward Anderson chap-lain-in-chkf.
The officers of the encampment were in
stalled; and the twenty-first annual encamp
ment of the Grand Army of the Republic
was at an end.
MICHAEL DAVITT ARRIVES.
the Irish leader Looking WorM Than
When It In America.
New York, Oct. L Michael Davitt, the
Irish agitator, was the most distinguished
passenger brought over by the White Star
iteamer Britannic, which arrived at her
dock shortly after
8 o'clock yesterday
morning. Mr. Dav
itt was met by
friends at the
wharf and driven
off in a carriage.
He is at the Gilsey
house. All day long
?he kent aloof from
2 the public, and re
porters especially
;5A were given a wide
rffifA 'i berth. Soon after
' 'ir reacning ms noiei
Mr. Davitt war
closeted with Sec
MICHAEL. DAVITT.
retary Sutton, of the National league, whe
came here from Nebraska especially to con
sult with the Irish leader.
Mr. Davitt is looking rather worse than
when last in America. There are moro
threads of gray in his. hair and beard. His
face is thinner and paler, but his step is just
as quick and his eye as bright as ever. Ru
mors which came by cable while Mr. Davitt
was on the ocean announced that part at
least of his mission to this country is to undo
the mischief to the Irish National league
which had been done by William O'Brien's
quarrel with the United Labor people when
that gentleman was. in this city. A Cork
correspondent of The London Times stated
that this quarrel had caused a marked fall
ing off in American contributions to the
Irish parliamentary fund. Mr. Davitt was
asked if these rumors were true.
"They are Tory lies," said he. "I can't
waste time in denying all the Tories say.
But I don't want to be interviewed. I have
nothing to say now for the papers. I am
here entirely on private business. I will
make no speeches nor will I appear in public
anywhere. My health is not good now, and
I need a rest. There will be plenty of work
at home when I get back. I am going right
off to California. I will go home before
Oct 16, I think."
Mr. Davitt declared that nothing could
prevent the final success of the home rule
movement, though he has no fear of dyna
mite outrages.
The Uay State Convention.
Boston, Sept. 29. The Republican state
convention met in Tremont Temple yester-
terday, where Governor
Oliver Ames, Lieutenant
Governor J. Q. A. Brack
ett, Secretary of State II. B.
Pierce, Treasurer. Alanson
Beard and Auditor Charles
l?Myzrl!s R.. Ladd were renominated
by acclamation. An infor
mal ballot fdr attorney gen-
gov. ames. . eral showed Andrew J. Wat
erman to be tha favorite. His nomination
was made unanimous, and the convention
adjourned. .
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
By the j falling of a derrick at the Lemp
brewery, at St. Louis, Thursday, Daniel
Ohmers was killed, Ferdinand Neuman
fatally wounded and four others were seri
ously injured. The men fell sixty-fivo feet.
Five burglars were sentenced to the peni
tentiary at Princeton, Ind. One of them,
under the name of Charles Kelly, was dis
covered to be a woman, who had assumed
male attire to get along better.
Lyons, the murderer of Athlete Quinn, at
New York, has been sentenced to be hanged
Nov. 25.
George Harrington, arrested at Brockton,
Mass., on a charge of starting both fires at
Oak Grove seminary. Vassal boro, confesses
that he did it because he was put back in his
studies. . -
Judge Wakefield overruled the motion for
a new trial in Munchrath's case at Sioux
City and sentenced him to four years' im
prisonment in the penitentiary at Fort Mad
ison. Mr. Argo entered exceptions and gave
notice of an appeal. The court fixed Munch
rath's bail at $7,000. " v
The house of Louis Plerght, an aged bach
elor who lived near Dulutb, was burned. A
few whitened bones in the iuir; indicated
that Pierght lost his life. He was in town
Thursday and drew $l,t00 from the bank.
Two men were burned to death and an
other received injuries which may result fa
tally in alodging house fire at Detroit.
Financial reverses caused John W. Phillips,
general manager of the Kansas City Electric
Light company, to commit suicide by
shooting.
At the Blisj & Marshall coke works, Uaion
town, Pa., the large boiler and pumps were
blown to pieces by dynamite. Strikers are
accused.
Rev. Henry CI e mm ens, who had become
deranged, shot and killed himself at Cleve
land, Ohio. ;
Mrs. Susan Bell and her sister, Mrs. E. W.
Henderson, driving in a buggy near Colum
bus Friday evening, started to cross the rail
road track, when they were struck by the
engine and both instantly killed.
Edward Copeland, of Batavia, N. Y., GO
years old, was swindled out of $3,000 by
bunco men.
King Jaja, of Oporbo, by way of enforc
ing an order, beheaded 150 subjects as a
warning.
Frauds in Cincinnati's old board of public
works are5 daily being unearthed by the ex
pert who is overhauling the books.
John McNelly fell from a bridge at Roch
ester, N. Y., and was killed.
An organized band "of negro murderers,
known as the Dry Bayou an i Shell Mound
Masons, are being prosecuted at Greenwood,
Miss. i
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MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The stockholders of the Buffalo lascball
club hare decided to continue thi organiza
tion during livVi,
Mrs. Hendricks will not decorate ber bom
on the occasion of the president's visit to In
dianapolis. She. says the presidential visit
will revive sad memories.
Several French princes have purchased es
tates in Russia and intend to become citizens
of that country and enlist in its army.
Martin Ryerson's wilL probated at Chi
cago, disposes of an estate worth !$3,200,0u0.
The marriage of William Richmond and
Sadie Jameson at a fair in Youngstown, O.,
a week ago, turns out to be illegal, as the
clergyman had procured no license.
The Polish Roman Catholic convention at
Chicago adopted resolutions calling on Polish
Roman Catholics to discontinue; subscrip
tions to anarchic and socialistic papers, and
it was agreed that no one should belon j to
an anarchic or socialistic organization.
Chief Justice Ruger, of the court of ap
peals, has granted a temporary stay until
Oct. 6 of the execution of the sentence of
Jacob Sharp. The action on the part of
J udge Ruger keeps the prisoner out of state
prison until the Cth of October at least, with
the chance that the stay may be 1 continued
until the appeal of the case can be heard and
determined by the court of appeals.
Supposed traces of an extinct volcano have
been found at Mt. Lamentation,! near New
Britain, Conn.
Falguier and Antonin Mercer, of Paris, are
engaged in executing a statue of Gen. Lafay
ette for the United JStates goyernment.
The priza offered nt the Green county (N.
Y.) fair to the person who could harness and
unharness a horse the quickest has been won
in fifty-one seconds by Miss Maggie Johnson,
a farmer's daughter, who is as pretty as she
is agile. j
Ex-Governor Thomas M. Walier, consul
general at London, has arrived home on a
six weeks' leave of absence. j
Mr. Robert Garrett cables from Europe
that he has no intention of retiring from the
presidency of the Baltimore and j Ohio, and
that there will be no change in the telegraph
company. ,
From present indications the Knights of
Labor will re-elect Mr. Powderly at Minne
apolis. Vermont crops have suffered through lack
of rain.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor is dangerously ill
at Newport.
The great race between Patron and Jay-Eye-See
has been postponed until Oct. 15.
James G. Blaine is now in Paris. ' Thence
he will probably visit Berlin. j '
Canadian Knights of Labor have decided
upon a Dominion assembly, under the juris
diction of the general assembly.
Counterfeit dollars, made of a mixture of
glass and antimony are being extensively
circulated in .New York. j
Tbe steamer Santiago, arrived at Boston
from Hull, has on board the large bronzj
statue of Washington, which is destined for
Philadelphia.
Timber cutters near Akron, O., have found
several thousand dollars hidden in a hollow
tree by a misarly farmer who died several
years ago. '
District Attorney Martine, of New York,
will consent to let the stay of proceedings in
the Sharp case stand until the court of ap
peals makes a final decision, thus keeping the
old man away from Sing Sing for a month
or more. " t
A young woman of Lorain, O., after re
ceiving an electric shock has become prema
turely old in appearance, and feeble,
A family in Chicago engaged an-escaped
lunatic. as their cook, but 6he was secured
before she had done any mischief, f
A lady who died suddenly in Philadelphia
was found to have been a victim of tight
lacing. . !
The'reduction in the public debt for tbe
first three months of the current fiscal year
was $23,902,340. ;
Gen. Paine, owner of the Volunteer, was
banqueted by the New York Yacht club Sat
urday night. He will be tendered a reception
by citizens of Boston on Friday evening next.
A number of Jersey cattle, irregularly im
ported from the United States, were seized
by Canadian officials at Rock Island, Que.
Tbe Canadian fish commission will ship a
carload of live lobsters from the Atlantic to
the Pacific ocean, and an attempt will be
made to propogate them there, j.
German soldiers have taken possession of
the Samoan islands, despite treaty stipula
tions with the United States and England.
Serious complications are likely to arise.
Thomas A. Armstrong, editor of The Na
tional Labor Tribune, and at one time
Greenback-Labor candidate for governor of
Pennsylvania, died m Pittsburg Saturday
night, aged 45. j
The First National bank of Clayton, N. Y.f
capital $50,000, has been authorized to com
mence business. j
POLITICAL DOINGS.
The Burlington county, N. J., Republicans
hold their convention Saturday, pec 8. The
Democratic convention takes place Oct. 10.
The executive committee of the New York
Republican state committee arranged for
meetings in all leading towns of he state.
At the Progressive Labor party convention
J. Edwards Hall was nominated for secretary
cf state in place of John Swinton, who de
clined. I
Governor Hill has declined to meet Henry
George in joint debate on the tax question.
At Dunkirk, N. Y., Henry George made
the charge that votes are bought by tfc hun
dred in Elmira and Hudson at from $5 to 30.
The majority against Prohibition in Ten
nessee is from 10,000 to 12,000. jThe colored
vote went .largely against . the! amendment
and decided the result. !
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The Massachusetts Reform club passed a
resolution strongly indorsing President
Cleveland's support of Boston's collector and
po-tmaster. j
Hon. Beth Low refused to accept a noini
eation tendered him by citizen 4 of Brooklyn
as their candidate for mayor.
S. E. Shevitch, editor of the New York
Leader, has challenged Henry George to de
bate. . - s
The American IileyelLat VIn.
Loxdox, Oct 3. At Leicester, Saturday,
Woodside, tho , American bicyclist, beat
Howell, the English champion, in a tea mil
race, t.
THE MIXHKS OF ENGLAND
BETTER OFF THAN THEIR FEL-
"LOWS IN THIS COUNTRY.
How Mr. Morley's Saturday Mjht fiprcU
Is Received 3tgr. rrlco's !Ilon
Nearly Ended Germany and Kranc
for rear A Sunday Leasae Meeting.
Londox, Oct aL The agitation among the
miners has spread to Derbyshire. Tbe work
men in that district have just held a confer
ence, at which they dtxrided to etition for
the eight hour day and oth r improvements
in their lot. Socialistic ideas are said to bo
making rapid progress among the miners.
Heretofore they have been a surprisingly
conservative class; probably because, though
poorly paid, their work is tolerably constant.
Vhatever may be true of other classes of
laborers, there is no doubt that the English
miner is better off than his American fellow.
Tbe accounts of the condition of minors in
Pennsylvania, reprinted here from American
papers, have created surprise and have fur
nished rampant free traders with new argu
ments of more or less plausibility.
Even the Tories are obliged to admit that
Mr. John Morley's speech at Templecombo,
Saturday evening, was a brilliant effort.
The Tories are, in fact, just tut well pleased
as the Liberals over the manner in hich
Mr. Morley bandied Mr. Chamberlain. The
Birmingham politician is well-nigh an Ish
maelite among statesmen at present. He Is
paying the natural penalty of being "all
things by turn, and nothing long. Every
man's hand is against him. The passage in
Mr. Morley's speech which received most ap
proval, was that in which he declared that a
policy of blind, indiscriminate, blundering
force must fail, as it would not be permitted
by the justice-loving people of England.
There were 20,000 people present at the meet
ing, and they displayed much enthusiasm.
Mgn Persico, the papal envoy who has
been studying the politico-religious situa
tion in Ireland, will pay another day's vi-sit
to Dublin and then proceed to Rome to make
his report.
The peculiar situation along the -Franco-German
frontier can hardly fail to give oc
casion for more episodes Of an irritating
character, like the Kaufman and Schnaebeles
incidents, but the sensible attitude of the two
governments in these cases makes it almost
certain that no such flimsy pretext will be
allowed to give rise to hostilities. The gen
eral feeling in diplomatic circles has (een
greatly improved by the outcome of the re
cent frontier shooting affair. The probabil
ity of war during the regime of tbe preent
ministries is thought to be reduced to tho
minimum.
A mass meeting of 10,000 person? was held
yesterday on Tower Hill. The police seized
the placards and emblems of the assemblage,
and demanded the names of the promoters of
the meeting. Speeches were made from six
platforms, condemning the action of tha po
lice, and denouncing the government gener
ally. ' The whole affair was carried on in an
orderly manner.
Dublin, Oct. 3. Mayor Timothy Sullivan
will proceed in state to the police court on
Thursday, on tbe occasion of his trial for
publishing reports of tbe suppressed branches
of the League in bis paper. He will be fol
lowed by the corporation counsel and judges
in their robes.
Death In m Coal Mine.
Ashland, Pa., Oct. 3. Three men and
two boys were suffocated and nineteen others
overcome with gas Saturday afternoon in
the Bast colliery. Those killed were Fred
erick Outricb, aged 40; John Cochran, aged
82; John McDonald, aged 20; John Gulliam,
aged 17, and Frank Tully, aged 14. It is
feared that some of the thirteen others who
were overcomo by the gas will die. A pillar
in one of the gangways gave way, bringing
in with it a large amount of gas, which suffo
cated the workmen and rendered escape im
possible to those in the gangway. Other
men in the neighborhood heard the rush of
air and escaped. The mine belongs to the
Philadelphia and Reading coraany. The
damage to the colliery cannot bo estimated
yet. All the injured are doing well.
A Campaign Tragedy In Tennessee
Greenville, Tenn., Oct. 3. W. E. T.
Milburn, member of the legislature from
Greene county, shot and instantly killed a
young man named William Ward, a son of
Betsy Ward, of women's crusade fame, Sat
urday. The trouble grew cut of a jeecb
made by Milburn at Greenville a week ago,
in which he said that Betsy was a whisky
seller and jail bird; that another saloon
keeper was an ex-penitentiary convict
Young Ward took the remark as an insult
to his mother, and it is said threatened to
kill Milburn. Milburn armed himself and
waited for the attack, which came Saturday.
Ward called Milburn a liar, whereupon Mil
burn pulled his pistol, shooting Ward
through the left breast Milburn surrendered
himself.
An Unfortanat Valet.
Paris, Oct 3. At Berlin the following Is
given as the authority for the rumor that
there was to have been a meeting between
the czar and Kaiser William at Stettin.
When the czar was about to depart for
Copenhagen a young valet was instructed to
pack the imperial trunks. Among the effects
of the czar be discovered a uniform cf a
Prussian officer. Being much astonished at
this he spoke of it freely. This is said to
have given rise to the report of an intended
interview. Tbe unfortunate valet has just
been sent to Siberia for five years for his
indiscretion,
Rae Trouble Trouble la Mississippi.
Brookhavex, Miss., Oct S. A report
reached here yesterday that serious trouble
is brewing between the negroes and whites
about twenty miles southeast of this place,
near the line of Pike and Lawrence counties.
About 300 men of each color are said x be
under arms, and a collision is feared. - Sev
eral white men have left here with shotguns
for the scene of the trouble. No definite in
formation has been learned as - to the origin
of the trouble.
Serlona Kesalts of Ilazlns.
Prrrcraxri, Mass., Oct 3. George Cboab?,
son of Joseph IL Choate, the eminent New
York lawyer, is seriously ill from the effects
cf hazing, inflicted by the sophomores at
Williams college. He entered the freshmen
class last month. His brain is said to have,
been affected.