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Fisherman and ARMER. A. II. MITCHELL, Editor and Jiusiness Manager. Located in the Finest Fish, Truck and Farming Section in North Carolina. ESTABLISHED l.ssi;. SMtlC :aic: OI V S 1 . ." O irv ADVANCE, EDENTON, C, FKIDAY, JANUARY ID, 1894, NO. l'J. V. is Attorney at Law EDENTON, N. C. OOTCK ON KINO STREET, TWO E0O1U WKST OK MAIN. irfacttce In lue Superior Court of Chvwen t4 4lning counties, cod la the Supreme Court M .' lgh. tl ol)etlot pronptl made. DE. C. P. BOGERT, Surgeon & Mechanical EIKNTOrf, IV. C. FATIENTS VISITEIJ WITE REOUfiSTRJS ABD HOUSE, EDENTOH", N. C. J. L. ROGERSON, Prp. Tble cl5 lit) established hotel still offers f rat Jv nrmmodatjona to the traveling public TERMS REASONABLE. Hsraple roam for traveling ealeimen. and e yejxnces famished when desired. rKree fur at all trains sad steamers. First clans Bar attached. The Beat Imported r"d Iiomeittc Liquors always on hand. n. a. J. A. LlNDEB C. 6. 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Ii v.r.s writ;, n l.y aniaii who put a'l his mind, and time, and nam. y fn inakintt a suc ps of c)ii -k. n raismi; not as a pastime, ln'it as a l.usinrss-and If juiwlll j-rotit ly nis tirputy-flvo Jars" v.-rk, you cau nave in any Chieta annually, f,;: ' ,1 I. ,r'i iJ' n ! "Parsing Cliickcns." and mr;ke your Fowls earu uoU.-irs for you. The j.oint is, tu.-.t you mu.-t be able to Ueteet troubls in the 1'oultry Yard as stntn as it apiK-.'-rs, and know how to renipdv it. 'Mils book will teach you. it telis Imw to detect find cure disease; to feed for eirfrs and als-o for fatteiunp: whicn fowls to save for tireelii !j purposes; and everytalnK, indeed, you k:i!M d know on tbis subject to make it profitable. Sent postpaid for twenty-five cents in 3c. or 3c. Book Publishing House, 135 leosaro sr.. y. Y- Clty;. DENTIST. 9 WOOD A J.r. H ) "-K-V. IN 1 III WWW M ,1 i . 1 1 . i .I'-ii :i :' r1' ''I REV. DR. TALMAGE. tiik citonicriYv divivkvs sux DAY SKICMOXk Sulject: "The llrcart Queslion.' Tkxt : " )" Imrp the poor ahnnyn irilh 'on." Matthew ssvi., 11. W'lio sai.l th.it? Th.i Thrint tho tiovr nu nc.! ;inythin;,' during IT is earthly stav. llis f-raille aii.l His j:riv; wf-ro IfOrrovvmi. Kvery M'-T H Mo was from mvnr) ono flso's trr.o. Kvery !roi r.f wat.-r Ito dranW was from soivi one eis'iV, W"H. To jeiy If is pprson-il tax. which wax vry small, only Sl'-j Cfnt?, H.h:i 1 i p-rfortn a miraclo ati l m.iko A tish pay it. All the. hrlhts arpl depths and 'n-'hts and l.re.i.Hhs or poverty Christ meas ured in f!s enrthly exp"rienee. and frhfti :f- fi,iieq t sipnak of dHStitution Ifo rt!v.iy4 n.aks sympathetically, and What Jin said I heri is as true now "Ve have tlie poor al ways wit h yon " For ROOM years the hre.id question lias been I lie aetive and nhsorhin piostion. Witness the people erowdiiiu' up to Joseph's ftore hous" in Iv.'vpt. Witness the fain in in Sa maria and Jerusalem. Witness the 7000 hun '.tv people for whom Christ nulltiplied the, 'oaves. Witness tho tmeonnte.1 millions of Tieople now livini.', who, I holieVe, have tp-ver yet had one full m.-al of healthful ami nutritions foo l in ait tii-ir lives. Think of the :;.! ureat famines in England. Think ot the 25.no0.MiO pi mple under the hoof of hunger year hefore last in T.ussia. The fail ure of t ho Nile to overflow for seven years in the eh venth century left those regions depopulated. I'lairue of inse'ts in Enarland. 1'liitrneof rats in Madras Presidency. Plague of mice in Essex. Plague of loctists in China. T'iaifti of grasshoppers in Americi. Devas tation wrought l.y drought, t.y deluRe, by frost, by War. by hurricane, by earthquake, bv eomi'ts llvint,' too nc-irthe earth, by ehanKo in the inariaLrement of National finances, by baleful eauses innumer.ilile. I pro ce"d to k'lve you three or four reasons why mv text is markedly an 1 Kt";iph'-cally true in. this year 1WJ. Tho lirst reason we have always fho poor with tis is beeause of the perpetual overhaul inu: r the ti riff question, or, as I shall call it. the tarif'lic controversy. There is a nee 1 for such a word, and so I take tho responsi bility of manufacturing it. Theroare millions of people who are expecting that the present Coo-ress of the United States will do some thirty one way or t he other to end this dis cussion, but it will never end. When I was live years of ap;o, I remem ber hearing my father and his neigh bors in vehement discussion of this very question. If was hiyh tariff or low tariff or no tariff at ail. When your jjreat-trrandehild !i'-s at n.net v vears of aire, it will nrobablv be from over-exeri'on in iliscitssinir tho farm. Onthedav the world is destroved. there will be three men standing onthe post oftVe, stops one a htsr?i tariff man, .'inotlier a low tariff man. and the other a tree trade man each one red in the face fro:u ox -ited argument on this sub ject. Other questions may get quieted, tho Mormon quest ion. the silver question, the pension quest ion, the civil service question. All questions of annexation may come to peaceful settlement by the annexation of isl ands two weeks' voyage away and the heat of their volcanoes conveyed through pipes tinder the sea made useful in warming our continent, or anncxition of the moon, de thruning the ipi.-en of night, who is said to be dissolute, and bringing the lunar popula tions under t he inlluenee of our free institu tions : yea. all oth"r questions. National and Intern ition ii. may be settled, but th:3 traffic ques.iou i;ev. r. It will not only never be M-ttled. but it can never be moderately quiet for more thau three years at a time, each party getting into power taking ono of tho four years to fix it up. and then tho next tarty will lix it down. Our llnanees cannot get well because oi too many doctors. It is with, si.-k Nations as with sick in lividuals. Here is a man terribly disordered as to his body. A doctor is called in. an I he admin isters a febrifuge, a spoonful every hour. P.ut recovery is postponed, and the anxious friends call in another doctor, and he says : 'What this patient needs is bloodletting; now roll tip your sleeve !" .and tho lamet tlash.es. lii it still recovery is postponed, and a honp'op ithie doctor is called in. and ho administers some small pellets and says . "AH the patient wants is rest." Kecovt ry still postponed, the family say that .such small pellets cannot amount to much anyhow, and an allopathic doctor is called in. and he says, "What this patient wants is calomel and .jalap.1' Recovery still postponed, a hydropathic doctor is called in, and lie says : "What this patie-it wants is hot and cold baths, and he must have them right .away. Turn on the faucet and get ready tor the shower baths. ' Kecovery is still post poui'd. an electric do -tor is called in, an 1 he brings all the schools to bear upon the poor sufferer, .and the patient, after a brave struysrie for life, expires. Wh.it killed him? Too many doctors. And that is what is killing our National finances. My personal friends. Cleveland and Harrison and Carlisle and M dvinley and Sherman, as talented and lovely and splendid men as walk the earth, all goo I doctors, but their treatment of our languishing finances is so different that neither treatment has a full op portunity, and uuder the constant changes it is simply wonderful that tho Nation still lives. The tariff question will never be set tled because of the fact which I have never heard any ono recognise, but nevertheless the fact that high tariff is best for some people and free trale is best for others. This tariftic controversy keeps business struck through with uncertainty, aul that uncor rtiinty results tn poverty and wretchedness for a vast multitude of people. If the eternal gab on this question could have been fash ioned into loaves of bread, there would not be a hungry mtiu or woman or child on all the planet. To tho end of time, tho words of the text will be kept true by the t a riffle controversy "Yo have tho poor alwavs with you." Another cause of perpetual poverty is the cause alcoholic. The victim, does not last long. He soon crouches into the drunkard's grave. Cut what about his wife and chil dren? She takes in washing, when she can get it. or goes out working on small wages, because sorrow and privation have left her incapacitated to do a strong woman's work. The children are thin blooded and gaunt and pale and weak, standing around in cold rooms, or pitching pennies on tho street cor ner, and munching a slice of unbuttered bread when they can get it, sworn tit bypass ersby because they do not get out of tho way, kicked onward toward manhood or womanhood, for which they have no prep aration, except a depraved appetite and frail constitution, candidates for abn houso and penitentiary. Whatever other cause of poverty may tail, tho saloou may be depended on to furnish an ever in creasing throng of paupers. Oh, ye grog shops of Brooklyn and New York and of all the cities ; yo mouths of hell, when will yo cease to crauueh and devour? There is no danger of the liquor business failing. All other styles of business at times fail. Dry roods stores go under. Hardware stores go under. Grocery stores go under. Harness makers fail, druggists fail, bankers fail, butchers faU, bakers fail, confectioners fail, but tho liquor dealers n-'ver. It is the only secure business I know of. Why the per manence of the alcoholic trade? Because, in the first place, the men in that business, if tight up for money, only have to put into large quantities of water more strych nine and log wool and mix vomica and vit riol and other congenial concomitants for adulteration. One quart of the real genuine pandemoniac elixir will do to mix up with several gallons of milder damnation. B-side? that, these dealers can depend on an increase of demand on the part of their customers. The more of that stuff they drink, the thirst ier they are. Hard times, which stop other business, only increase that business.tor men go there to drown their troubles. They tako the spirits down to keep their spirits up. There is an inclined plane down which alco nonsm snaes its victims ctarer. cnamp.igne port, cognac, whisky, torn and jerry, sour mash, oil and down until it is a sort of mix ture of kerosene oil, turpentine, toadstools, swill, essence of the horse blankets and gen eral nnstiness. With its red sword of flim, that liquor power marshals its proces sion, and they move on in ranks long enough to girdle the earth, and the pro cession is headed by the nose blotched nerve shattered, rheum eyed, lip bloated, eoul scorched inebriates, followed by the women, who, though brought up in comfort able homes, now go limping past with aches and pains and pallor and hunger and. woe, followed by their children, barefoot, un combed, freezing, and with a wretchedness tf time an 1 eternity seemingly eompressd in their agonized features. ''Forward, march !" cries the liquor business to that army without banners. Keep that influence moving on, and you will have the poor al ways with yon. Import comes from one of tho cities. Were the majority of the inhabi tacnts afe out of work and dependent On fhaf ity. yet last year they sp"tit more in that city forrvl'n than they did for clothing and groceries. Another warranty that my text H1l prove true in the perpetual boverty Of the world 19 the wicked spirit Of improvidence. A vast num'er or people h.ivft such small incomes that they cannot lay by in savings bah k or life insurance one cent a year. It takes every farthing they can earn to spread the fable and clothe the family and educate the chil dren, and if you blame such people for im providence you enact a cruelty. On such a salary as many clerks and employes and many ministers of religion live, and on such wages as many workmen receive, they can not, in twenty years, lay up twenty cents. But you know and I know many who have eomp-'tent incomes, and could provide some what for the future, who live up to every dollar, and When they die their chil dren go to the poorhouse or on the st.eet. By the time the wife gets the husband buried, she is in debt to the under taker and gravedigger for that which she ctin never pay. While the man lived he had i.is wine parties and fairly stunk with tobacco, and then expired, leaving hi family upon the charities of tho world- Do not send for me to come and conduct the obsequies and read ovef such a carcass the beautiful litugy, "Blessei are the dead who tlie in the Lord," for, instead ofthat, I will turn over the loaves of the Bible to I Timothy v., 13. where it says : "If any pro vide not for b is own. and especially for those of his own house, he hath oenied the faith, and is worse than an infidel," or I will turn to Jeremiah xxii., 1.). where it says, "He shall be buried with the burial of an ass. drawn and cast forth beyond tho gates of Jerusalem." I cannot imagine any more unfair or meaner thing than for a man to get his sins pardoned at the hist minute, and then go to heaven, and live in a mansion, and go riding about in a golden chariot over the golden streets, while his wife and children, whom he might have provided for, are begging lor cold victuals at the basement door of an earthly city. It seems to me there ought to be a poorhouse somewhere on the outskirts of heaven, where those guilty of such im providence should be kept for awhile on thin soup and gristle instead of sitting down at the King's banquet. It is said that theehurch is a divine institution, and I believe it. Just as certainly are the savings banks and the life insurance companies divine institutions. As out of evil good otton coined so out of the doctrine of probabilities,calculated by Profes sor Hughes and Professor Pascal for games of chance, came the calculations ot the proba bilities of human life as used by life insur ance companies, and no business on eartti is more stabie or honorable, and no mightier mercy for the human race has been born since Christ was born. Bored beyond enduranco for my signature to papers of all sorts, there is one stylo of paper that I always sign ith a feeling of gladness and triumph, and that is a paper which the life insurance company requires from the clergyman after a decease, in his congregation, in order to the payment of the policy to the bereft household. I al ways write my name then so they can read it. I cannot help but say to myself: '(rood for that man to have looked after his wife and children after earthly departure. May ho have one of the best seats heaven !" Young man ! The day before or the day after you get married, go to a life insurance company of established reputation and got the medical examiner to put the stethoscope to your lungs and his ear close up to your heart with your vest off. and have signed, sealed and delivered to you a document that will, in the case ct your sud den departure, make for that lovely girl tho difference between a queen and a pauper. I have known men who have had an in eomo of $3000, -4000, i?5000 a year, who did not leave one farthing to tho surviving household. Now, that man's death is a de falcation, an outrage, a swindle. He did not die ; he absconded. There are 100,000 people in America to-day a-hungered through the sin of improvidence. '"But,'' say some, "my income is so small I cannot afford to pay the premium on a life insurance." Are you sure about that? If you are sure, then you have a right to depend on the promise in Jeremiah slix , 11, "Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust iu Me." But if you are able to, remem ber you have no right to ask God to do for your household that which you cau do ior them yourself. For the benefit of those young men excuse a practical personality. Beginning my life's work on the munillcent salary of f 800 a year and a parsonage, and when tho call was placed in my hands I did not know how in the world I would ever be able to spend that amount of money, and I remember indulg ing in a devout wish that I might not lie led into world liness and prodigality by such an overplus of resources, and at a time when articles of food and clothing were higher than they are now. I felt it a religious duty to get my life insured, and I presented my self at an office of one of the great compan ies, and I stool pale and nervous lest the medical examiner might have to declare that I had consumption and heart disease ami a half dozen mortal ail ments, but when I got tho document, which I have yet in full force. I felt a seust; of manliness and confidence and quietude and re-enforcement, which is a good thiug for any young mau to have. For the lack ol that feeling there are thousands of men to day in Greenwood and Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn who might as well have been alive and well and supporting their families. They got a little sick, anil they were so wor ried about what would become of their house holds in case of their demise that their agitations overcame the skill of tho physi cians, and they died for fear ot dying. I have lor many years been su3h an ardent advocate of life insurance, and my sermon on "The Crime of Not Insuring" has been so long used on both sides of the sea by tho chief life insurance companies that some people have supposed that I received monetary compensation for what I have said and written. Not a penny. I will give any man $ 100 for every penny 1 have received from any life insurance company. What I have said and written on the subject has re sulted from tho conviction that these insti tutions are a benediction to the human race. But, alas, for the widespread improvidence! Y'ou are now iu your charities helping to support the families of men who had more income than you now have, and you cau de pend on the improvidence of many for the truth of my text in all times and in all places, "Yo have tho poor always with you." Another fact that you may depend upon for perpetual poverty is the incapacity of many to achieve a livelihoo 1. You can go throtieh any community and find good peoplo with more than usual mental caliber, wtio never have been able to support themselves and their households. They are a mystery to us, and wo say, "I do not know what is the matter of them, but there is a screw loose somewhere." Some of these persons have more brain than thousands who make a splendid success. Some are too sanguine of temperament, and they see bargains where there are none. A common minnow is to them a gold fish, nnd a quail a fla mingo, and a blind mule, on a towpath a Bu cephalus. They buy when things are high est and fell when things are lowest. Soma one tells them oi city lots out West, where the foundiition of the first house has not 3-et been laid. They say. "What an opportun ity ! " and they put down the hard cash for an cruamented deed for ten lots undei water. They hear of a new silver mine opened in Nevada, and they say. "What a rhance !" find they take the little money they have in the savings bank and pay it out for as beautiful a certifi cate of mining stock as was ever printed, and the only thing they will ever get out of the investment is the aforesaid illuminated lithograph. They are always on the Terge of millionairedom and are sometimes worried as to whom they shall bequeath their excess of fortune. They invest in aerial machines or new inventions in perpetual motion, and they succeed in what mathematicians think impossible, the squaring ot a circle, for they do everything on the square and win the whole circle of disappointment. They are good honest, brilliant failures. They die- poor, and leavo nothing to their families Lm a model of some invention that would not work and whole portfolios of diagrams of things impossible. I cannot help but like them, because they are so cheerfnl with great expectations. But their children are a bequest te the bureau Of city "hatit ies. Others administer to the crop of the world's mis'orturie by being too unsuspecting; Honest themselves, they believe all others are honest. They are fleeced and scalped and vivisected by the Pharpers iri all styles ?f business arid cheated out ot everything betWeeii cradle and grave, and those two exceptions only because they have nothing to do iri buying either of them. Others are retained for misfortune by inopportune sickness. Just as that lawyer was to make the plea that Would have put him among the strong men of the profession; neu ralgia stung him. Just as that physi cian was to prove his skill in an epi demic, his own poor health imprisoned him. Just as that merchant must be at the store for some decisive and introductory bargain, he sits with a rheumatic joint on a pillow, the room redolent with liniment. What an overwhelming statistic Would be tbj story of men and Women and children impoverished by sicknesses I Then the cyclones. Then the Mississippi and Ohio freshets. Then tho Btopping of the factories. Then the eurculios among the peach trees. Then the insectilo devastation of potato patches and wheat fields. Then the epizootics among the horses, and the hollow horn among tbu herds. Then tho rain? that drown oat everything, and the droughts that burn up half a continent. Then the orange groves die under tho White teeth of the hoar frost. Then the coal strikes, and the iron strikes, and the mechanics' strikes, which all strike labor harderthan fheystrike capital. Then the yellow fever at Brunswick and Jacksonville and Shreveport. Then the cholera at the Narrows, threatening to land at New York. Then the Charleston earth quake. Then the Johnstown flood. Then hurricanes sweeping from Caribbean Sea to Newfoundland. Then there are the great monopolies that gulley the earth with their oppressions. Then there are the necessities of buying coal by the scuttle instead of the ton, and flour by the pound instead of the barrel, and so the injustices tire multiplied. In the wake of all these are overwhelming illustrations of tho truth of my text, ,Ye have the poor always with you." Kemember a fact that no one emphasizes a fact, nevertheless, upon which I want to put the weight of an eternity of tonnage that the best way of insuring yourself and your children and your grandchildren against poverty and all other troubles is by helping others. I am an agent of the oldest insurance company that was ever established. It is nearly 3000 years old. It has the ad vantage of all the other plans of insur ance whole life poiicy. . endowment, joint lifo and survivorship policies, ascending and descending scales of pre mium and tontine and it pays up while you live and it pays up after you are dead. Every cent you give in a Chris tian spirit to a poor man or woman, every shoe you give to a barefoot, every stick of wood or lump of coal you give to a tireless hearth, every drop of medicine you give to a poor invalid, every star of hope you make to shine over unfortunate maternity, every mitten you knit for cold fingers, is a pay ment on the premium of that policv. I hand about 500,000,000 policies to alt who will go forth and aid the unfortunate. There are on!' two or three lines in this policy of life insurance Ps. xli., 1, "Blessed is he that considcreth the poor ; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. " Other life insurance companies may fail, but this celestial life insurance company never. Tlw Lord God Almighty is at tha head of it. and all the angels of heaven are In its board of direction, and its assets ar all worlds, and all the charitable of earth and heaven are the beneficiaries. ;'But,'' says some one, "I do not like a tontine policy so wellj and that which you offer is more like a tontine and to be chiefly paid in this life." "Blessed is ho that considereth the poor ; tho Lord will deliver him in time of trouble." Well, if you prefer tho old fashioned policy of life insurance, which is not paid till after death, you can be ac commodated. That will be given you in the day of judgment and will be handed you by tho right hand, the pierced hand of our Lord Himself, and all you do in the right spirit for tho poor is payment on the pre mium of that lite insurance policy. I read you a paragraph ofthat policy : "Then .shall the King say unto them on His right hand, Come, yo blessed of My Father, for I was hungered, and ye gave Me meat ;I was thirs ty, and ye gave Me drink ; I was a stranger, and ye took Me in ; naked and ye clothed Me.' " In various colors of ink other life insur ance policies are written. This one I have just shown you is written in only one kind of ink, and that red ink, tho blood of the cross. Blessed be God, that is a paid up policy, paid for by the pangs of the Son of God, and all we add to it in the way ot our own good deeds will augment the sum of eternal felicities. Yes, the time will come when the banks of 'irgest capital stock will go down, and tho five insurance companies will all go down, and tho lifo insurance companies will all go down. In the last great earthquake all tho cities will be prostrated, and as a consequence all hank? will forever suspend payment. In the last conflagration the tiro insurance companies of the earth will fail, for how could they make appraisement of tho loss on a univers.il lire? Then all the inhabitants of the round world will surrender their mortal existence, and how could lifo insurance companies pay for depopulated hemispheres? But our celestial life insurance will not bo harmed by that continental wreck, or that hemispheric accident, or that planetary catastrophe. Blow it out like a candle the noonday sun' Tear it down like wornout upholstery the last sun set ! Toss it from God's linger like a dew drop from the anther ot a water lily the ocean ! Scatter them like thistledown before a schoolboy's breath tho world ! They will not disturb the omnipotence, or the com posure, or the sympathy, or the love of that Christ who said it once on earth, and will say it again in heaven to all those who have been helpful to the down-trodden, and the cold and the hungry, and the houseless, and the lost, "Inasmuch as ye did It to them, ye did to Me I" Postofllccs In the Country. The total number of postoflices in opera tion in the United States on January 1, 1894, was 6S,806. This is shown in astatement pre pared at the Postofflce Department showing the number of postoffices in the country by classes in effect January 1. The number of offices of the three presidential classes is 3424. There are 151 in the first-class, where the receipts are more than $40,000 ; 674 in the second-class, where receipts range from $8000 to $40,000, and 2599 in the third-class, where the receipts range from $ 1900to $8000. There are also 65.382 fourth-class offices, where appointments of postmasters are not made by the President, and where the com pensation of the postmasters for each of tho last four quarters of the year amounted to $250 and the receipts of 81900 or less. The recent raising ot forty-three fourth-class postofflees to the presidential class took ef fect January 1 and these are embraced in the statement. -. The YeTKes Observatory. I Tho Board of Directors of the University Ot Chicago has decided to locate the l'erkes Observatory at Geneva Lake, Wis. It was at first contemplated erecting the annex within the limits of the city of Chicago, on the uni versity grounds, close to the site o! the World's Fair, but in the opinion of eminent 6cientlsts, such a site would not have been a suitable one on account of the smoke. The Bite is the generous gift ot Mr. John John Bton, Jr., of Chicago, and is situated to the west of Williams Bay on the north side of the lake, and has an area of about fifty acres with a frontage to the lake of several hun dred feet. The telescope now in course of construction by Alvin Clark, of Cambridge, Mass., will be the largest in the world. Its discs will be forty-inch, or four inches larger than those of tho great Lick Observatory, and will be worked by electricity. Shears for Cutting Torpedo Nets. An Austrian has in vented powerful sheart for catting torpedo nets on war ships. Thi shear em attached to the head of the tor pedo and they gash the net without reducing the speed of the torpedo or exploding it. Th en ears are to do tested by Austrian naval ex- X pejta, ALL QUIET IN HONOLULU. MINISTEK WILLIS ASKS THE QUEEN'S KESTOEATION. lie Formally Demands tlie Hawaiian Government to Step Down-l'rfs-ident Hole Refused to Considei the Demand Tim Kx-Quecns Promise of Amnesty; The Canadian Pacific steamer Warrimoc arrivd at Victoria, British Columbia, bring ing Honolulu advices to January 1. She re ported that the most intense excitement pre vailed in Honolulu until the arrival of the United States revenue cutter Corwin. After t hat Minister Willis made his demand upon President Dole to surrender the Government to the Queen. The Provisional Government refused, find Minister Willis took no further step to enforce compliance with his order. The excitement then rapidly subsided, an-f for ii week iefore the sailing of tho Warri moo there was perfect tranquility. It wa? then thought that the crisis had passed. President Dole forced action on Unite.! States Minister Willis on December 13. send ing him this letter relative to his treating with the deposed Queen Liliuokalani : "Depaktmest cf FnKtiiiX Affairs. "December 13, 1S9J. i "Sir I am informed that you are in com munication with Liliuokalint. ex-Queen, with a view of re-establishing the monarchy iu the Hawaiian Islands, and of supporting her pretension to the sovereignty. Will you inform me if this report is true, or if yo l are acting in any way hostileto this Government: I fully appreciate tho fact that any such action upon your part, in view of your of ilci.il relations with the Government, would seem impossible, but as the informa tion has come to me from such sources that lam compelled to notice it, you will pardon me for pressing you for an immediate an swer. Accept the assurance of distinguished consideration, with which I have the houoi to be, sir, your most obedient humble ser vant, Saxfoki) B. Dole. "Minister of Foreign Affairs. "His Excellency. A. S. Willis, United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary." Minister Willis six days after replied as follows : "Honolulu Legation of thi "United States, December 19tb, 1893. "Sir I have tins honor to inform you that I have a communication from my Government which I desire to submit to the President and Ministers of your Government at any hour to-day. which it may please you to designate. With regard and sincere respect, I am, sir, your obedient servant, "Ai.bkkt S. Willis, "E. E. .V M. I'. U. S. A. "Hon. Sanfor.l Dole, Minister of Foreign Affairs." Iu response Minister Willis met President Dole, Minister of Finance M. Darwui, Minister of Interior J. A. King and Attorney. General W. O. Smith at the Foreign Office on December 19. Mr. Jones was present as stenographer. Mr. Willis said : "Mr. President and Gentlemen. Tho President of the United States has very much regretted the delay in the considera tion of the Hawaiian question, but it is un avoidable. So much of it as has occurred since my arrival has been due to certain conditions precedent, compliance with which was required beioro I was authorized to confer with you. "Tho President also regrets, as most assuredly do I, that any s-vreey should have surrounded tha interchange of view? between our two Governments. I may say this, however, that the secrecy thus far ob served has been iu tho interest aud for the safety of all your people. I need hardly promise that the Presi dent's action upon the Hawaiian question has been under tho diet. ites of honor and of duty ; it is now. and has been from tho be giiiuiug, absolutely free from prejudice and resentment, and entirely consistent with the long-established friendship and treaty ties which have so closely bound together our respective Governments. "The President deemed it his duty to with draw frOm the Senate the treaty of annexa tion, which had been signed by the Secretary of State and agents of your Government, nnd to despatch a trusty representative to Hawaii to impartially investigate the causes of your revolution and to ascertain and report the true situation in those islands. "This information was needed, the better to enable the President to discharge a deli, cate and important duty. Upou tho facts embodied in Mr. Blount's report, tho Presi dent has arrived at certain conclusions and determined upon a certain course of actioq which it becomes my duty to acquaint you with. i "The Provisional Government was not es tablished by the Hawaiian people nor with their consent, nor has it since existed with their consent. "The Queen refused to surrender hei powers to the Provisional Government until convinced that the Minister of the United States had recognized it as the de facto au thority and would support and defend it witb the military force of the United States, and that resistance would precipitate a bloody conflict with that force. "She was advised and assured by bet ministers and leaders of tho movement for the overthrow of her Government that if she surrendered under protest her case would afterward be lairly considered by the Presi dent of the United States. "The Queen finally yielded to tho armed forces of the Unite 1 states, then quartered in Honolulu, relying on the good laith and honor of the President, when informed oi what had occurred, to undo the action oi the Minister and reinstate her and the authority which she claimed as the constitutional sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands. "Alter a patient examination of Mr. Blount's reports, the President is satisfied that the movement against the Queen, if not instigated, was encouraged and supported by the representatives of this Government at Honolulu ; that they promised in advance to aid Ler enemies in tin effort to over throw the Hawaiian Government and set up by foree a new government in its" place. and that fhey ksp this promise by causing a detachment of troops to be landed from the Boston on the 16th of January, 1893, and by recogniz ing f.he Provisional Government the next day, when it was too feeble to defend itsell and the Constitutional Government was about to be successfully maintained against any threatening force, other than that of th.' United States, already landed. "The President has. therefore, determine! that he will not send ba'k to the Senate fo; its action thereon the treaty which he with drew from that body for further consider tion on March 9 last. "In view of these conclusions, I was in structed by tho President of the United States to take advantage of an early oppor tunity to inform the Queen of this .deter mination and of his views as to the re sponsibility of our Government. 'The President, however, feit that we, by our original interferem-', had incurred a responsibility to the whole Hawaiian com munity, and that it would not be just to put one party at the mercy o. the other. "I was, therefore, instructed at the same time to inform her that the President ex pected that she would pursue amagnantmou; course by granting full amnesty to all whe participated in the movement against her including persons who are or who have beenj officially or otherwise, connected with th Provisional Government, depriving them o? no right or privilege which they enjoyed be fore the revolution of last January, and that all obligations created by the Provisional Government in the course of administration Should be assumed. "In obedience to the command of the Presi dent, I have secured the Queen's agreement to this course, and I now deliver a writing, signed by her and duly attested, a copy of which I will leave with you. I will now read that writing. I will read from the originsil, leaving with you a certified copy. " 'I, Liliuokalani, in recognition of the high sense o' justice which has actuated the President of the United States, and de-siring to put aside all feeling of per sonal hatred or revenge and to do what is best for all the people of these islands, both native an I foreign born, do hereby and herein solemnly declare and pledge myselT that if reinstated as the constitutional sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands. I will Im mediately proclaim and declare uncondition ally and without reservation to every person who, directly or indirectly, participated ia the revolution of Januiry 17. 193, a full par don and amnesty for their offenss. with res toration Of all their rights, privileges an 1 immunities under the constitution and the law, which have been made in pursuance thereof and that I will forbid and prevent th adoption of any measure of proscription or punishment for what h.u been done in tho past by those setting up or supporting the Provisional Government. " 'I furthermore solemnly agroto accept the restoration under the constitution ex isting at the time of sa'd resolution, an i that I will abide by and fully execute that constitution with all the guarantee as to person? and property th' rein contained. " 't furthermore solemnly pledge mvslf aud my Government, if restored, to assume all the obligations created by the Provisional Government in the proper course of admin istration, including all expenditures for military or police services.- it being my pur pose, if restored, to assume the Government precisely as it existed on tho day when it was unlawfully overthrown. "Witness my hand, this 18th day of De cember. 1893. LlLllOKALAM. ' 'Attest, J. O. Carter.' "It becomes my further duty to advisi you, sir, the Executive of the Provisional Government, and your Ministers, of the President's determination of the question, which your action and that of the Queen devolved upon him, and that you ar expected to promptly relinquish to her herconstitution.il nutiuar ity ; and now. Mr. President, and gentlemen of the Provisional Government, with a deep and solemn sense of the gravity of the situa tion and with the earnest hope that your answer will be inspired by that high pa triotism which forgets all self-interests in the name an I by the authority of the United States of America. I submit to you the question : 'Are you willing to abide by the decision of the President?' "I will leave this with you, Mr. President, as your stenographer may not have go: every word, and it may help him. "i will also leave the certilie.i copy that I referred to, the agreement of the Queen." President Dole then said: "The Government will take the matter un der consideration and answer you as s jou as they are ready." Mr. Willis "Yes, sir : gentlemen, goo I day." With this the memorable interview en le 1. On December 19 the alarm was revived by the British Minister receiving permission from the Government to land marines from Her Majesty's ship Champion for the pro tection of British interests. C.iptain Itooke said that ho expect e I the Queen would bn restored by the American forces, and he desired to Ian I lifty marines. The Provisional (loverument has a force of men under arms, and the palace is strongly fortified. Houses are being searched for con cealed arms. HORNBLOWER REJECTED. Senate Judiciary Commit tee Reported Against Confirmation. A dispatch from Washington says : Tin Senate Committee on the Judiciary decided to recommend the rejection of the nomina tion of William B. Horublower to bo Associate Justice of the United State? Supreme Court. The action of the eommitteo was hastened by the President's desire to be relieved of the embarrassment of having the nomination hanging fire while the business of tho Su preme Court was delayed and confused for lack of a full bench to pass upon constitu tional questions. The members of the Judiciary Committee are Senators Pugh, Coke, George. Vilas, Hill and Lindsav, Democrat.1',, and Senators Hoar, Wilson, Teller, Piatt and Mitchell. Republicans. The vote on the nomination iu committee stood Y'eas Messrs. Vilas, Lindsay, Hoar, Piatt, and Wilson. Nays Messrs. Pugh, Coke, George, Hill. Mitchell, and Teller. Senators Lindsay and Teller was absent, but their votes were east by proxy. Thus only two Democratic committee members, out of a total of six, voted ia favor of tha President's nominee. Mr. Horublower, who is a distinguished New Y'ork lawyer, was lirst nominated for this office September 19 of last year. The nomination hung in tho Judiciary Commit tee without action. With the adjournment of the extra session the nomination lapsed, but was renewed by President Cleveland on the convening of Congress for tho regular session, December 5. 189'.. KILLED BY FRENCH TROOPS. Captain Liendy anil T wenty-six IJrit ish Soldiers Slain. A despatch from Sierra Leone, northwest coast of Africa, says: "Captain Lendy and Sergeant Liston of tho British army, to gether with twenty-six men of a West India regiment, have been killed at Wariua, in the interior. Details of the affair are very meagre. Captain Lendy had charge of the newly-organized frontier police, .and it is sur mised that at the time of tho mishap he was in command of a frontier expedition and the French mistook him and his men for the na tives, against whom they were then op 'rat ing." The expedition, consisting of 430 soldiers aud 120 of the frontier police, was under th" command of Captain Ellis. It started out three weeks ago to chastise the Sofas, who have been giving much trouble to British traders on tho coast near the French terri tory. The French authorities on tho frontier were notified of the despatch of the British expedition, as tho French troops also were engaged in punishing the marauding Sofas under Ahmay Samadoo, a powerful chief tain, whos-? territory extends behind both the French and English territories. The British wers operating against a por tion of the tribe which had been driven into the British sphere by a French force of Sene galese, commanded by French officers. The collision between the British and French forces is said to have teen due to the fact that tho French commander, nor ex pecting to find the British so far north, mis took them for Sofas and opened lire. A FATAL EXPLOSION. Four Men Killed and Three Build ings Illown to Pieces. An explosion that shook nearly every house in Kingston, N. Y., and in all direc tions within a radius of ten miles from Bif ton occurred at 7.55 o'clock, a. in. Tho ex plosion occurred in the works of the Laflin Band Tow.ler Mills, in tho building known as the dr3'ing rooms, where 650 kegs of powder exploded. This was a frame build ing, eighty by 100 feet, and was torn in thou sands of pieces. Gardiner Fredenburgh and Joseph Sounder were torn in shreds, and pieces of their bodies were picked up a quarterof a mile away. The concussion of the explosion in the drying room exploded 200 kegs of powder in tho Corning Mill. 200 feet away, and Michael Gibts was burned to a crisp in a second. Back of the drying room was a brick boiler house, tmd this was shattered in pieces, and George Kipp, the boss of tho powder makers, was crushed to death. Several other buildings were shaken and badiy damaged. In different places scattered near the works were three maga zines containing 18,000 kegs of powder, but fortunately the powder did not explode. None of the thirty employes besides those killed was injured. At Bosendale, three miles away, five plate glass fronts and hundreds of panes of glass were broken. The employment of ladies as bank clerks Is the latest inroad by ladies on man's field of labor. Female clerks are to be introduced Into the Bank of England. They are to be employed mainly in the department which deals with the issue and receipt of notes, and will not be on view to th noblie 'Itie loss oy nre in Boston last year ex ceeded that of any other city in the United States. The total In round numbers was 5,300,000, and all except about five per cent, of it fell upon the insurance companies THE WHITE CITY BURNED. WORLD'S FAIR STRUCTURES DESTROYED BY FIRE. It Started In the Casino and Followed the Peristyle to the Music Hull From There It Leaped to the Lib eral Arts and Manufactures liuild ings Kstlmate of Losses. Fire at tu: Worll's Fair 'ground in Ch! pac"i, a fciv nights ag b"-irov" 1 property to the amount of fl,."01,mi an I p.sil.ly more. The prpr estimate is hard to in.il.'. as the goods rt all loxed up in th Manu factures Buildiu.', where tho nnin losses oc curred. The Music Hall, p -r. style an I Casino were totally destroyed, causing i lo-..- of 30(1. 000. The damage to the Manufactures Building itself is put at f2r0.Md. but as the ,ru -turc is worthies' comparatively the lo i- ted felt. The losses in t he main fall upon ' hibitor from Germany, .lupin. F ranee, K.'i--htu 1, Belgium, Can a !a. Kussia. Switzer land Brazil. Denmark. Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey. T,to ..,s-s di vided ;iiuou; the various countries wen.' as follOW:. Germany. 100.000, Japan. 100.000; France, f 150.000 ; England. 30. 0 Ml : llel.-iu'ii, 25,000 ; Canada. 10.000; 1:u-m;i. .1i1.mm1 ; Switzerland, 15.00;); Brazil, lo.ooii; 1 m m irk, 5000; Spam, 10.Oi), Itaiv. iin.UiHi; Netherlands 500n , Turkey. 5'i:n ; M tun fact u rs' Buihlinr. 250.00 ) : p-riMyle, (' -sinoand Music Hall. M.000. There were about twelve thousand ease remaining in the Manufactures Building, and these were value. I ut .3 ) l each, making a total ot f 3,'i0f).0'M. The Japanese Ko.i Is in the strti-'tura were vain I M '.'. . thos: belonging t France- I.Ottd.oon, and those belonging to the Herman F npire and llavaria 150.01). On' V est imit ' of the. goo Js which were th pr. p-rty of ..Mier for eign Nations can be made. Very few of the foreign Governments escaped lo-.s. The tire in the Manufactures Building was burning fiercely in the galleries al.oya the French and li-lgian section, while two thousand men were i.unlv engage.! in getting picking cas"s containing valuable out of tho w.av. One life was lost and two mn w -r exhibits injure I during the tire. Probably no more magnificent yet terrify ing spectacle than this lire has ever be n witnessed this side of the Atlantic. It wa-J long after dark when belated p-op!-. return ing from work to their homes in t lie mt hern suburbs along the elevated road familiar to hundreds of thousands of World's Fair visitors, noticed constant ly enlarging col umns of tire aud smoke ascending skyward in the east. "The World's Fair is on Are." was the cry. The last half mile of the journey is direct ly east to th) Fair s that all view of the blazing pleasure, hous- of the world was shut off for a lime completely Directly past the scene of the frightful (Ire of the cold storage warelioti. where scores of firemen lost their lives during the Fair, hundreds of spectator-; hurried from the trains into the celebr at".i Court of Honor. There su blenly th'i co-iflagr it ion came into full view. Whirlwind o ' blazing embers wer e being carried from Wle end of the Court ol II inor farthest from tho Administration ! , ii'. ling, high (ivi't the mammoth r f --rt!; . Liberal Arts Building, tlei largest struct nr ; on earth. I'iie great golden statue of tho K-piu lic .-on hi be seen lifting le-r liberty capdeiUntly Aloft through the clouds of smok and Pa me. The fire had been burning lesa man nn hour when a thuu leroti crash of falling timber an 1 a tremendous t-hmit from th') .rowd announo.'.l the coll.-.pse of the peri style. moment later another terrific yell from the crow! told that the Libert! Aits Building had caught lire an I that the who.o Exposition was threatened. One of the ladders upon which was a group of firemen fell with tho columns, and one of the hero c Or:) lighters went down to death, while a number of others suflcicd in juries more or less severe. The sky was livid brilliant at this time with falling sparks, me w of which fell. away to the north, showering tiie rools of the Art Palac-, Women's Building and the various State structures with tire. The trains and stretears added momentarily thousands to the throngs of people, and but for the terri lvii" spectacle and tiie oanger to life and property it sceme 1 as if the greatest gala night of all at the World's Fair was on in all its glory . . , The fire started in the Casino, just east or the Agricultural Building and south of the peristyle. The Casino was quickly destroyed and the flames surged north on top of the peristyle and. dropping, made. a second lino of fire along the base of the column. The flames then sprang through the Music Hall. While the fire waburningtlicre was one of the most singular and fascinating sights of the night. Along the top of the peristyle vere scores of statues. The spectacle for those people fortunate enough to be on the moving sidewalk. iut cast of the peristyle, was more of a succession of gigantic hu nan beings plunging one after another, head long into the waters of the lake below. The origin of the tire is said to be revenge on tho part of .a couple of tramps. The solitary guard in the Music Hail saysi that just before the flames broke out In kicked two vagabonds out of the Mii'-ic Hall find told them to find quarters elsewhere. They left in the direction of the Casino and soon after the fire brokeout. and soon everything on the grounds was in terror imi contusion. Fred S. James, Chairman of the Insurance Committee of the World's Fair, who was a spectator, says of the goods in the Manufac tures and Liiteral Arts Buildings, that there is little or no insurance on them, as the com panies all canceled their policies 'it the closo of the Exposition. A week bf lore there were over 17,000 eases of goods still on tha grounds and the bulk of these wre in the Liberal Arts Building. It is saidthat almost the entire German exhibit is in the Liberal Arts Building, because of the inability of the commissioners to secure steamship capacity. At 9 o'clock, just after President Higm botham arrived on the ground?, the roof of the Manufactures Building Tell in. Mr. Higinbotham, when he sw this, said that the loss, even if the tire went no further, could not be less than 10.000. 000. as not only the Liberal Arts Building was burning, but the Casino and peristyle were gone an 1 trie Music Hall and Agricultural were also burn ing. KILLED FATHER, MOTHER. Young Saner Then Went to the Ham, Set It on Fire, and Shot Himself. The body of Bufus Saner, who killed his father and mother and then set fire to their house and barn, was foun 1 iu the half-destroyed barn tei-t day with a pistol at his side. Saner wa.s nn inveterate reader of cheap literature. He bad a quarrel with his mother about feeding chickens, and it is supposed his father reprimanded him. This made him angry, and at the first opportunity he took a double-barreled shotgun an 1 fired upon his mother through a window, killing her instantly. His father was attracted by the shot and came upon the scene, to be at tacked bvthe boy. A struggle followed, and the son finally killed the father by bating him over the head with a gun, breaking the Stock and bending the barrel. Kufus then ransacked the stand drawer, where he knew his father kept hi.s: money. Seeing that it would be impossible to escape, he dragged his father's ldy into the house, poured oil over both body's, and set tire to them. Throwing the pocketbooks on the flor, he went to the barn, set fire to it, and bO ji himself. It was Henry w. 1'alne, the eminent .Sos ton lawyer, who died tho other day, that made to a Chief Justice who interrupted his argument with the remark, "Mr. Paine, you know that this is not law," the quiet re ply, "it waa law until your Honor ttpeke," and proceeded complacently with his argument. LATER NEWS, Tnr Bank of WelNvUlo. N. V own" l by Sumner lkildwin and William Baldwin, close! its doors. The bunk w.i upp-ssl t lie 111 good financial !id.ti n Tltt: New Jersey Democratic Senators h.a,st iiy organised, and Pn-stl.-nt Admin re fused to ii. pt the credential of the Bepi.b. lican Senators- l.-. f, who had !eii .-. ru in i the I: 'publican r-tirej to t ST ate Commit -te-rooni nn I organ(r another s.n ' Governor Wert s- nt h ti.i . .:' to the Dem ocratic lolv. Tiik damage I y fire at the World - I'.nr, Chicago, i . -stimate 1 at fsnt.oo.) on build ings and S'j'.Hi.oo.) on txliil.it. The Ke.-.tueky l.ecisluture at Frankfort r.-el.s'tel William Liudsay to the I nlt. StHte. Senate. B .a strict part v vote t he II hi i omm r tee on I'.b- tioii decided to recommend House that ; ( on -rcss:,).an John ! o'N.cd be seated Com t n, !leenth Veoi-i t t -tri.-t, in place of Charles '. J.., the Kitting ii. ember, who is a Ic'puMieun. S UK r.un Caui 1st t. ep'ert.aiue! Presi dent and Mrs. Cleveland ut th" first of the Cabinet dinner in Wu-hiiigtoii. Italy's police are actively at wot k hunt ing down anarchists nil over the kingdom. It is stated thi. t they tune sei.e I mans import, ant document showing a widespread an archist conspiracy. Jamkn Dknton IUvi.i, h was nominate! by the Pennsylvania Democratic Convention ,t ll.irrlsburg as a candidate f..r Cong-esman-at -large. Tin: Kcpuhli-an Senator tit Trenton. N J., forced their w;.y into the Senate ( 'IiumiImt , a bill repealing tho racetrack law wa passed by both houses and sent to the Governor for his signiit ure. Tn Unix. in. F. Ilikiii. for t wenty-eiej.i years paying teller of the Consolidation National Bank, Philadelphia, Penii., was arrei.te.1 for stealing 17.000. and held for trial In the sum of i.i.tNK). He confessed that he had been robbing the bnk for twenty years. Tin: extra ses.-.ion of the Colorado Legisla ture met lit Denver; the Senate refuse I , print Governor Wiute's message, luteiellug to adjourn immediately. Al.MlllAI. )oNAI.P.M. N i.i i l, Faiukax. I'llllcl States Navy, die! at Hagerstown. Ml. D. A. Bakkii, cashier of the First National Bank, Norwalk. Ohio, for twenty-five years, committed suicide while .lesp. itiilent. Sei UK I'AHV Caiii.isi.i-; tirirod the Senate Finance Commit tee to take action looking to a bond issue. Till. President has nominated Stephen II, Slocum to be Collector at Newport, I!. I. Im.v is reported to be strengthening forti fications and massing t roops on her we-'teru borders in anticipation of w.ar with Franc,.. Bt ssi a sets apart nearly f I .i.OOO.immi morn for her navy thau lat year, an! ha about 10,000 onlrlbufed by America an! Eng land for her starving people w hich she does not know what to do with. Tltof. ill rioting h.'is been suppressed.lt 11 thought, iu Sicily, sympathetic demonstra tions have l.een made in widely sepanited parts of Italy. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. The Semite. 11th Da v. The public . n upe. oniy an hour, and an additional t' li miiiiit;i ill executive session closed Up the labor of the day. Mr. Hoar intro.lu I a resolu tion calling for information in regard to the salary paid to Mr. Blount us Commissioner to Hawaii. 1 5 1 ii Day. Mr. Hoar's resolution of in quiry as to Commissioner Blount 's salary wa' discussed and referred to the- Committee on Foreign Iielat ions. -M r. I lorn I. lower nom ination to the I'nited Stub's Supreme bench waa reported advere. 10th Day. ll was decided to take up tho bill forth.' repeal of the Federal Election law ns "unfinished business." Th" Ibmse bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treas ury to permit owners of cuttle an! horses transporting them into McaIc. to reimport them into the United States at tmytimo within twelve months from Us passage, was reported from the Committee on Finance, amende!, and pass-d. 17 i if I . v. Mr. Davis spok" if length on the Hawaiian situation. The bill lor tho repeal of tic Election law then came before the Senate as unfinished l.u -ine-.s. The House. 17 r Ji Day. Fruitless effort were made to obtain a quorum and take up the Turitt 1,111. many of the Democrats pros-tit refu lug to vote. No business w.a t r.i maet e I . IMtii Day. An attempt was made to pun an order limiting debut" on t he Wilson b 111, but no voting quorum could be obtained, many Democrats-joining tie- Bepubllc.ms by sittingsileiit in their sea's. 19tii Day. Mr. Hurler Introduce I a hill to maintain the solvency of the Treasury of the I' nited States.- -There not being enough Democratic vot-s to order the pr-vloua question on the resolution from tb Com mittee on Bules, under whl'-hthe Wilson bill would be considered until January 25, and then voted on. the day wa spent in filibustering, the Ilepublieuris refusing to vote and help make n quorum. 20th Day. Debate was begun on the Wil son bill, after the closure resolution had been amended, fixing th" date for a final vote on January 2-K Cliiiirm.au Wil.,u male tlie opening speech. 21mt Day. Mr. Wilson finished hi sp"'-h in support of theTariffbill, and Mr. Burrow apeuedthe atta'k in behalf of tbeBcpubli cans. Ho waa followed by Mr. lb-pkiti. At the evening session the deUit" was continued by Mr. Halneannd Mr. Woomcr. who opposed the bill, and by Mr. Pepdl.-ton, who argued in its support. General Curt i. closed the de bat" with an attack on th" bill. 22iDay. -Tli" tariff debut" wiis continued by Messrs. Johnson. Dalz-ll. Warn-r and Coomlis. Messrs Snodgr.iss, Mahou Curtis spoke lit the night session. DEATHS FROM COLD. Many Destitute Persons Commit Sui cide In Pari by Suffocation. A dispatch from Pari", France, says thnt many deaths have been cause 1 there by the extremely cold weather. A number of :'. in I very poor peoplo hav been frown to death in their miserable lodging. Other, des pairing of finding relief from their n'irT'-r-ings have killed themselves, and several destitute persons have boon picked up life less In the street. An old couple occupying a flat in the Bou levard Cliuefiv w.-r found dead in on" of their room. They had ignited n bru.ier ol charcoal and the furn-rs had kill"! th-m Many of the suicides Lave used thin meani of killing themaelvea. DEFEAT OF THE BRITISH. Seven of the Party Sent to Assam Killed by the Albors. Advices from Gowhitty, th- chief town ol tlie Province of Assam, have been receive L showing that the Abor tribesmen attacked, at Bamjur, on the northeast frontier of As aam, a British punitive expedition that ha I been sent against them. Seven of the British military police form ing the expedition were killed. JJM III I - ;
Fisherman & Farmer (Edenton, N.C.)
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