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Flags flying, rotesqne proces sions, email boys with smoke black ened faces and blistered fingers that mamma is tenderly binding, with in termittent scoldings that is the sort f a thing tho firecrackers bring to mind, for is it not an adjunct to the glorious Fourth which no patriotic young American would be without on that happy day? Niter, the principal ingredient of gunpowder, has always been found in great quantities in China, and the ancient records of that country prove that gunpowder was there manufac tured at a time when Europe was a howling wilderness except in the lit tle corner where Rome sat on her soven hills ere she had become the mighty empress of tho world. Fire works were the earliest form in which gunpowder was used, as oddly enough, its entertaining qualities were discov- THE FlKECTtAC'KEU IDOL. ered before its destructive powers. The show ers of sparks that fall from rockets have sparkled in Chinese skies from time immemorial. The fire cracker is said to be the earliest form of explosive, and was not so much in tended for boys to use in sport as for an article of heathen worship. In the mountains of Western China there is supposed to be a giant devil Of a brilliant red, at the sight of whom men grow faint with fear. A man who lived about 3000 rears aero by the name of Leedien found that the bang ing of firecrackers would frighten him away, hence Lieedien is the god of fire crackers. All tho red firecrackers are intended to be used to frighten away the red devil, while the green and vellow ones are ofierincrs to Leedien. a- From tho simple little firecracker was gradually evolved the destructive can non, which was used by the Chinese in their war with tho Mongols in A. D. 1232. It was introduced into Europe about 1540. Thus we owo to the Chineso tho iuvention of the most useful article of warfare in the world. Tho most interesting eights of Can ton are the tea factories and the fire cracker factories, and the most interest ing of tho two are the firecracker fac tories. These establishments can hardly bo called factories, if wo use the word in the sense of making by machinery, for all of the work is accomplished by hand, and they are, therefore, called by tho English rosidenfcs of that coun try "firecracker go-downs." On approaching the building one is not greeted with tho usual roar of furnaces and tho many and one noises that go to make up the din of a factory, but it is anything but a quiet place. At a distance it sounded like the riot of a furious mob compared with tho quiet about Canton, though Canton seemed noisy enough. For a milo around tho factory tho thousands of inhabitants are all em ployed in making firecrackers. As Boon as tho children are old enough to bo anything but babies they begin to work, and as soon as their mothers havo finished the housework they turn their hands to making firecrackers; but there is no confusion, for no one knows how to do but a very small part of tho immense amount of work re quired in turning out millions of these little explosives. One man, fur instance, makes fuses, another ciits them in length and another sorts them in sizes; one man makes the IXTEiaOR OF FACTORY. paper, another rolls tho crackers, while his neighbor fills the ends with clay. The paper man would not do the clay man's work, any more than the fusemaker would do the sorter's work, and every little firecracker be fore it reaches America has in its con struction passed through over sixty different pairs of hands. The go-down is divided into a dozen long sheds, with blue tiled roofs ; the laborers sit on littie stools at long bench-like tables. As soon as one man finishes his part of the work he passes it on to his neighbor, tho latter following his example when he has done his share, and thus it starts at one end of the table as a little paper and a fuse and comes out c-t the other end a finished firecracker. The next room I visited was devoted to braiding and wrapping the crackers, ji ' - " and the next to packing them for ship ment. They are packed in boxes much resembling tho common tea box and contain thirty packages. A box in this country brings 81.25, and after duty and shipment have been paid it is a wonder any profit is made at ail. The two proprietors of this estab lishment, which, by tho way, is called the "yat shing,"' showed mo into tho room where tho designer of labels sat at work. lie was an old man, with bamboo-bound spectacles, and sat at a desk drawing flowers, gnomes and dragons in all tho grotesqueuess of Chineso art. I had some of tho char acters on the labels translated. There were three large characters in tho center, and they conveyed the useful information of "thousand, blazing, halJ." What does it mean? It is a word picture and endeavors to convey the idea that their goods are of such a superior quality that they are likened unto a large hall or palace blazing with splendor. This is as good an ex planation as can be given. If you can catch the idea you havo the principle of tho Chinese language, but until you do you will never ho able to learn the language of the celestial empire. After the designer and ongravers have done their work tho blocks go to the printing room, where they are printed with hand presses, but such presses. If you would tako old Ben Franklin's press, break it to pieces and prop it up with rope and bamboo, you would have a fair sample of a Chinese press. They are clumsy, rickety-looking things, and look as if a breath of air would blow them over, yet it is wonderful what an amount of work can bo done with them in a day ; besides the Chinese do not want machinery. Ilumau labor is cheap for there is so much of it, therefore anything that will lesson labor is a curse to the country. A mandarin who introduced a silk machine in Amoy by doing so starved to death four hun dred families. We can better under stand the large population of this country when we learn that the pro vince of Nganhwui in China contains 31,108,200, while Kiang Su contains 38,843,500, altogether making 72,011, 700. Just think of it, two States in China contain over 7,000,000 more people than the whole United States. As pnper forms such an important part of the firecracker you can imag ine the making of it must be a large industry in Canton, and bo it is. How ever, the paper mills are anything but imposing structures. They are low, square buildings, with dirty, white washed sides, tho only pretty thing about them being the large, double tiled roofs with turned up corners. There are no more than 100 workmen iu each mill, for paper being mado DESIGXrNG DAEELS. more easily than firecrackers it does not need as many laborers. They are also men born to tho profession, men whose children will grow up to be paper makers after them. Every morn ing of their lives they wako up with the on3 endless routine before them and they eat and sleep, too, in tho great paper mill. The paper is made from tho bark of the koon chon tree, which is known in America under tli3 equally incomprehensible namo of "aralia paphyrifeoa, ground up with limo and then baked iu a kiln. When this is done the mass is hammered out in the form of long rolls and then cut up into slices, jnst as tho confectioner behind tho great glass window cuts up his long and yielding twist of molasses candy for tho amusement of a crowd of boys outside and the benefit of those who come in and buy. These pieces arc put into a curious little mortar and pounded together again with a little hammer that comes very near being worked by machinery, just as near as anything could in China, where thero are so many hands ready to work lor a miserable allowance of rice. At last these slices are mado into a mas3 again, and this time it comes out as soft as dough, which is placed in a large pot of water till it is completely dissolved, then with some thing very like a sieve they lift water from this pot, allowing it to run back again through the bottom, which is a fine net of bamboo thread, and there is always a thin white sediment left iu tho bottom of the sieve. Suddenly throwing the sieve upside down on the floor they dislodge the sediment, which falls in a thin white film. A thousand of these are left to lie one upon the other, then the whole is taken out in the sun to dry, and thus it becomes paper. The process is al ways the same all over China, but the ingredients differ in almost every factory. The common ingredients are bamboo, cotton, the tow of silk, bark and the leaves of many plants, the hair and even the intestines of animals. If you take the inner piece of brown paper on the wrapping of a pack of firecrackers and hold it to the light you will be able to soo some of the in gredients used in making paper. It is an easy thing to distinguish the firecrackers made in America from those of Chinese make. In the first place, the American crackers are never smalL They are rarely smaller than four and a half inches in length and have short cord fuses, while, on the other hand, the Chinese kind have paper fuses, are braided into packs and havo gilt labels. A fireworks firm in Chicago once tried to make small firecrackers by machinery, but after several fruitless attempts gave it up with a loss of several thousand dol lars. They could reproduce a pack of firecrackerb after the Chineso pat tern, the only trouble being that they would not explode. This is mainly J JXm becenfe no machine can bo manufac tured to roll the firecrackers and take the place of the gentle pressure dona with tho human hand. They invariably roll them too tight and thereby render them useless. The large American firecrackers al ways have a notice printed on theii side, "Do not hold in tho hand aftei PACKING FIRECRACKERS. lighting." Only an American boy would bo guilty of such a reckless thing. In China as soon an -a child lights a era cker he leaves it and does not run back and pick it up to see if the fuso is bu rned out. But in Ameri ca it is not so. The glorioua Fourth comes but once a year, and the small boy in his endeavor to have a good time rushes about and does some of the most venturesome things. If he would follow the Chinese example the oculists and surgeons would not do such a thriving business the day fol lowing tho celebration of Independ ence. Celebrating Inilenend'enco Day. Of tho day ou which our independ ence was declared John Adams said: "It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverauce by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be celebrated with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, belln, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever niore." These words, says Julia Ward Howe, show how comprehensive was the view which the old statesman took of a na tion's holiday. He desired that all classes and all ages should participate iu the joy expressed. The time which has elapsed since his memorable utter ance has brought nothing to diminish this joy. It has, however, brought into being a new society for which "pomp and parade, bells, guns and bonfires" are less available for good than pleasures of a more elevated character. We now desire a celebra tion which shall speak less to the bodily senses and more to the inner sense. This is because the historic de velopment of the race goes ever for ward. Abijah's Fourth ol July. AMJah Stone strolled off aloua While yet the morn was hazy ; The neighbors' boys mado such a nolso, They almost drove him crazy. "I lovo ray country wU," said he, "But think it is a sin, sir, To spoil July's sweet jublloo By making such a din, air !" So, iu a nook beside a broolt, Serenely sound uslwp, sir, Abij ih lay tho livehm-r day, Curled in a littlo heap, sir ; While in the town tiie brass-binds brayoJ, And cannon booma l like thunder, Until a very small boy mu le A most tremendous blunder, For, just at dark, he dropped a spark Where spark3 ara very worst, sir ; A blinding flash a frightful crash A powJer-kos: had burst, sir! Abijah found but scattered sbrois When he returned to town, sir, And people 9tan lina; on their head Where they had just come down, sir ! St. Nicholas. So Day for tho Sisters. "Mercy me! what is that noise?" cried old Mrs. Bonsai, as a huge cracker exploded beneath her window. "I don't know," said the innocent son and heir, who was responsible for the explosion, "unless it was sister Mary's bang you heard. " A Pinwhcel Sujrgestioa. "Well, Walter," said Walter's grandmother, after the fireworks had all been set off, "how did you enjoy tho pin wheels?" "They was awful nice," said Walter. "They looked just like a soda water fountain on fire." The Ilysieno ot Laughter. It has been aptly said that thoro is not the remotest corner of tho inlet of the minute blood vessels of tho hu man body that does not feed some wavelet from the convulsions occa sioned by good, hearty laughter. Tho life principle of the central man is shaken to its innermost depths, send ing new tides of life and strength to tho surface, thus materially tending to insure good health to the persons who indulge therein. The blood moves rapidly, and conveys a different im pression to all the organs of the body, as it visits them on that particular mystio journey when the man it laughing, from what it does at othei times. For this reason every good, hearty laugh, in which a person in dulges, tends to lengthen his life, con veying as it does new and distinct stimulus to the vital forces. Brook lyn Times. For the Safety of Letters. Letters patent have been taken out by a woman in Madison, N. J., for an improvement in envelopes. The in vention consists in printing a small device of any shape on the under side of the flap of the gummed envelope in a sensitive fluid, stable when dry, but which will run or spread on tho application of steam or moisture, thereby showing at once that the let ter has been tampered with. The Government has recently invited mens of detecting the unlawful open ing of sealed letters. Detroit Free Press. The dining-room of tho Campania, the Cunard steamer, is 100 by sixty four feet, and seats 430 persons. HUDSON EIVER BRIDGE. A Splendid Structure to Connect New York aud New .le-raey. The President's signature to the NVw York and New Jersey Bridge Company's bill pcr that dual concern In the way of proceeding with its project without further delay. The whole scheme has been uuder consideration lor years and both .ho New York and New NEW YORK Ain NEW JERSEY Jorsev Leslatures have passed acts creat ing commissions to locate tho bridge and its approaches. Tho bill provides for the sanction of tho Secretary of War, through his engineers, of the plans of the company. Tho present plans, as prepare 1 provisionally bv Engi neers Thomas C. Clarke and Charles IS. Brush, provide for a span of 2000 foot with a clear height above tho spring high tides of 150 feet. There will bo width enough for six tracks, and upon reaching the New York FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. The Senate. 130th Day. Tho consideration ot the Tariff bill was continued. Messrs. Lodge, Teller, Hoar and Piatt spoke In opposition to free wool. 131st Day. Several amendments to tho wool schedule of the Tariff bill were defeated by small majorities ; Messrs. Dolph, Carey and Proctor spoke against free wool, and Mr. Kylo In favor of It. 132n Day. The Senate disposed of tho woolen schedule and nearly all of the silk schedule of the Tariff bill. 133d Day. The last two schedules of tho Tariff bill proper were passed. During the discussion Mr. Hill, of New York, moved to place coal on the free list. It was defeated, only seven votes being cast for it. 134th Day. Rapid progress was mado with the free list of the Tariff bill, twenty pages being disposed of. The Finance Com mittee sustained its first defeat. It came at the close of the day's session, when there were more absentees on tho Democratic sldo of the chamber than was consistent with as sured victory on that side. The subject of It was quicksilver, which the committee had placed on the free list. On motion of Mr. Perkins, it was placed on the dutiable list at seven cents a pound. 135th Day. Mr. Jones moved that twenty six paragraphs of the Tariff measure as re ported from the Finance Committee be elimi nated, and In tho absence of objections this was agreed to. These twenty-six paragraphs comprisethe so-called administrative features of the Gorman compromise. Considera tion of the free list was finished. Mr. Allison introduced a joint resolution re questing the Presldont to negotiate a treaty with the Government of Great Britain pro viding that for a period of twenty-five years all differences or disputes between the Gov ernments of the two countries that cannot be adjusted by diplomatic moans shall bo referred to arbitration. The House. 150th Day. Thero was considerable dis order In tho debate on tho Indian Appropri ation bill. Mr. Johnson, of Indiana, as sailed Mr. Holmau, and came near to blows with Mr. Maddox, of Georgia. The bill was not disposed of. Tho House passed a de ficiency bill to provide money lor the pay ment of dismissed employes of tho printing office. 151st Day. The Indian Appropriation bill was considered all day. 152d Day. Tho provision of tho Indian Supply bill to remove the Indian supplies warehouse froai New York to Chicago was defeated. Tho bill was then passed. 153d Day. Consideration of the Hatch Antl-Optlons bill was begun. Tho Houso passed the joint resolution to extend tho appropriations of tho yoar ending J une 30 until the appropriation bills for the coming year are passed. 154tu Day. The Secretary of tho Interior was directed to sell at public auction 100,000 acres ot pine Ian 1 in tho Chippewa Reserva tion, Minn., and to surrender to the city of Newport, Ky., for park purposes, tho old site of the Newport Barracks. The day was chiefly spent in general debate on tho Hatch Anti-Option bill, spjecho3 against It being delivered by Messrs. Coombs and Al drich, aud a spaoch in its favor by Mr. Sib ley. 155th Day. The debate on tho Hatch Antl-Optlon bill was continued all day. SCOURGED BY FLAMES. Jersey City's Kxtensive Abattoir and Stock Yards Burned. Not in many rears has such a destructive fire occurred In Jersey Cily, N. J., as that which destroyed tho abattoir and cold stor ngo warehouse of the Central Stock Yard and Transit Company, at the foot of Sixth street on the Hudson Iliver. Tho total loss Is estimated as approaching close to f 2,000, 000. The structure destroyed covered an area of five acres. So rapidly did the fire spread that Watch man James McCarthy, who saw it and ran to give the alarm, heard the roar of tho hungry flames when he was three blocks away. Almost the entire plant of the company was built on piles. Hundreds of feet out into the river, and on the very edge ot tho artificial foundation, stood the building where the fire started. This was a gigantic affair. Its width on the river was 300 feet and it ran back 600 feet. More than 5000 sheep were destroyed by the flames. The plaintive cries of the poor animals were distressing. But their torture was not of long duration. The fire came with such a rush that everything seemed to go up like a flash. One of the pleasing incidents of the fire was the .-pleasing by some thoughtful indi vidual of a hundred or more sheep from a pen quite near the abattoir. The frightened animals did not wait for a leader, but in stinctively sought to get as far as possible from tho element which had destroyed their mates. In addition to the five thousand sheep which were destroyed there were 939 head of dressed sheep in the refrigerator and 739 head killed and ready for shipment to Eu rope. Besides this stock there was an im mense quantity of hidos, fat, tallow and oil for oleomargarine. The Stock Yards Company estimate their loss at about tl,500,000, consisting of build ings, slaughter house machinery, ice and re frigerating machinery, cattle boats and stock all totally destroyed. The PennsylvaniajRail road Company and the Berwlnd White Coal Company, loss to coal barge and trestle, nearly $ 100,000. The Central Stock Yard and Transit Com pany constructed their yards and buildings in January, 1874. 8ince that tune there havo been seven fires in rhe premises, but all were extinguished with comparative slight loss. The yard -ore red about Ave acres and was next to the largest of the small stockyards in the United States, the only larger one be ing that of Buffalo, N. Y. The principal stock haad 1 oil was sheep. Judos Ricks. In United States Circuit Court at Cleveland. Ohio, has rendered a de cision which practically declares the Ohio tax inquisition law unconstitutional. The decision enjoins the Treasurer from collect ing 1 600,000 in hack taxes from half a doren big estates. shore ot or near Seventy-first street n vl.i duet will tnke trains down to Thirty-Hhth ftrwer, on n line brtwet-n Eloventh nnd Twelfth avennoe, thence the viaduct will curve east nn I rnch a Rrnml dopot ll'lln tlie9paco from Thirty-seventh to Thirty-ninth streets, from Eighth ftvenua to Broadway. This station will bo 400 lot by 1300 feet in plan, and the drawings show a grand and roomy hotel facing ou Broadway for two blocks. Tho prado of tho two-niilc-lon"; viaduct BRIDGE ACROSS THE HUDSON. will be forty feet to the milo. Tho basomont of tho station will bo lofty in ceiling, owing to the slope of tho ground to Eighth avenue. It will bo utilized for trucks aud other land vehicles. In all fifteen pront rallrovl will ba conuected with the bridge an I Its approaches. The New l'ork ind New Jera-jy Bridge Oo:n pany..oxpRts to build tho bridge in four years after tha co npMion of tho prelimin aries, and tho oist Is edtitMtol at tlO.000, 000. WIMAN SENTENCED. To Serve Five- Years and Six Months in State Prison. ERASTTJ8 WIMAN. Erastus Wlman, the quondam philanthrop ist nnd millionaire of Stnten Island, convicted of forgery in the second degree, was sen tenced to five years and six months in State Prison, by Justice Ingraham. In the Court of Oyer nnd Terminer. Now York City. Good behavior will reduce his actual sentence to three years, oloven months, fifteen days. General Tracy and Lawyer Boardman, of Mr. Wiman's counsel, were in the room when tho prisoner and his sons entered, anil u whiaperod conversation between tho con victed man nnd his lawyers followed. As soon as the court officer had called the court to order, General Tracy arose and moved for a new trial. He said that his mo tion was based on throe grounds : First, that the court had mischarged tho jury j second, that the verdict was contrary to law, and, third, that tho verdict was contrary to the evidence. The motion was deniod, and General Tracy then argued for a light sentonce. He called attention to tho verdict of tho jury recommending the prisoner to the mercy of the court, and also to tho fact that Mr. Wimau had mado ns complete restitution as possible, by turning over not only his own pronery, but that of his wife, to the firm of 11. G. Duu tc Co. Lastly, General Tracy asked that Justice Ingraham consider Mr. Wiman's former good character, and also his family. At tho conclusion of General Tracy's speech the clerk of the court called : '"Erastus Wlman to tha bar." Mr. Wiman arose and tho clerk asked : "Havo you anything to say why tho sent tence of tho court should not bo lawfully passed upon you?" For answer Mr. Wlman shook his hoad. Justice Ingraham then addressed tho prisoner : "The duty I have to perform is extremely painful, and ono I would be glad to bo rid of. The law does not punish for vengeance. It is not to gratify B. G. Dun or his associ ates, but th" very existence of society requires that certain acts shall not bo committed. In this case there is not presented a single act of misdoing nnder some great temptation. For a long period you constantly appropri ated tho funds of your business associates, and after that committed forgery. Mr. Dun so trusted you that he did not examine your accounts, and you violated a trust as well as appropriating the money of others. Every word in your letters produced hero shows that you knew you Lad no right to take the money you did. Ou the other hand, tho jury have strongly recommended mercy, and I am always glad to have the assistance of tho jury in cases of this sort. I am also asked to consider your ago, your former good character and your family. I have taken all these things into consideration. The sentence ot the court Is that you be imprisoned for five years and six mouths In State Prison." At the conclusion of the sentence Mr. Wi man was taken back to the Tombs. PEARY RELIEF PARTY. The Oeparture of the Kxpeditlon for theArctlc Kerlon. The mombers of the auxiliary Peary party, who will go to North Greenland to bring back the Arctic explorer and his family as sociates, after their year in high latitudes, sailed from Brooklyn by the lied Cross steamer Fortia for Newfoundland. Tho six member of the pirty, under the charge of Henry G. Bryant, of Philadelphia, went aboard the vessel at Koblnson's stores. Tho only Brooklyn member of the party is Herbert L. Bridgman. a personal friend of Lieutenant Pear,-. His wife, Mr-. Helen Bartlett Bridgman, accompanies him as far as St. Johns, Newfoundland. From that point Mr. Bryant's party will proceed by tho mailing steamer Falcon to Ilowdoin Bay, North Greenland, where the Peary expedi tion passed the winter, whero Mrs. Peary and some other members of the party, it is ex pected, will be fotin I. The party is equipped with snowshoes, a whaleboat, sleeping-bags, ice-axes, aud other articles necdel for Arctic travel and comfort, an 1 the necessary weapons. SUNK BY AN ICEBERG. A Fishing Schooner and Twelve Lives Lost. The schooner Rose, of which Henry Gossn was master, bound from Spaniards' Bay, New Foundland, to Labrador, for the sum mer fishery, with crews numbering fifty-five persons on board, struck an Iceberg off Paxtrldge Point in a dense fog, and sank in ten minute. The iceberg being low and flat, forty-three per sons managed to climb upon It. The other twelve, eight men, two women and two boys, sank with the vessel. The survivors consisted of twenty-seven men, nine women and seven children. But for the accessibility of the Iceberg none of them would have been saved . Tne body of oaa woman was recovered. Soon afterward the crew of the Irene, which was passing; heard their cries, and took off the castaway. MANY MINERS KILLED FATAL EXPLOSION OF FIRE DAMP IN AUSTRIA. It Was Thought That Fully Two Hun dred Men Perished by the FIv Shocks A Rescue Party De voured by Fierce Flames Iav Thetic Scenes Witnessed. Five distinct explosions of firedamp oc curred in the coal mlues ot Count La risen at Karwln, Austrian Silesia, during tha night. Two hundred miners were killed and others entombed. The first explosion oc curred in one of the pits of the Franzlska mines at 10 o'clock. Of the large number of miners at work then 120 were killed. Al most Immediately aftnrw.trd there was an explosion In au adjoining pit. This was fol lowed by several others, the most serious be ing in the Johann mine, in which eighty men were killed. At 6 o'clock next morning a rescue party went dowa into one of th pits. Tho tin was spreading iu all directions, destroying the ventilator shafts. The rcue party were caught by the flames and perished. Lrg crowds of people, many of them tho wlvif children and other relatives of tho dead miners, congregated about tho entrance to the shafts. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the llro had not abated, and men were set to closing tho pits with brick work. It was then thought that all the bodies In tho mine had boou burned. Only twenty of the men injured by tho ex plosion were got out of tho mines. Several of them were dying when brought to the sur face. The rescue party which was lost con sisted of ten men. Count Larisch visited Karwin and superintended the efforts to savit the men aud extinguish tho lire. In 18s there was a Are In the same mines. It lasted eight days, and mining exnerts say that histlme it will continue to burn for at least r7uJt, LATER NEWS. A cLoronrRST washed away an entire Hold of growing grain In Puna Valley, Pennsyl vania. Ji'iioe John M. Chitmc committe 1 sub l lo at his resilience. In N-w Loudon, Conn., by tho use of a shotgun. Mr. Crump was ,Tu l ;o of the Common Pleas for Now Lon Ion Coun ty nud editor of the New London Day. Ho had been in failing health for several weeks. A storm raged with great fury in the suburbs of New York City ; James Curtis was killed by lightning at Weehnwken, others were knocked unconscious in other parts of New Jersey an 1 much damage was done to churches and buildings ot various kinds. James Flnuagan, a lineman, was killed near Bergen Field. He was up a tolo graph pole when lightning struck it. Five grooms and jockeys were hurt and nine of Mr. Itawley's raco horses killed inn railroad wreck at Stillmau Valley, HI. Los, over $10,1100. Admiral Erbex astonished tho Navy De partment by cabling that 10,000 will bo needod to repair the Chicago's boilers in Antwerp, although before tho warship Wt here they were guaranteed for eight tiu months. Secretary Herbert approved tho (lading of tho Columbia Court of Inquiry, which censure l Captain Sumner for not being on tho bridge when passing Bulkhead Shoals and for not slowing down. This closes the matter. The President returned from his trip down the bay and hold the usual Cabinet meeting. He was much benefited by the trip. The pnrty did no fishing, tho Maple being kept under way all tho time. Nkab San Todro, Mexico, two children were murdered for f 3, which they had got from a pawnbroker on household goods. The nine Yale athletes to compete against the Oxford men on July 14 left Nw York City for England on thestoamship New York. Vermont Republicans nominated S. A. Woodbury for Governor. Sidney Plitmmer, a colored man, beat a colored boy to death noar Berlin, N. J., threw the body into a creek and claimed that he had been drowned. California Republicans nominated M. M. Estee for Governor and declared for freo coinage of silver and woman suffrage. An incendiary llro in a coal mine at Low isburg, Ala., imprisoned lifty new miners. Four were instantly killed. The Senatorial sugar inquiry came to a halt for lack of witnesses. Pension Commissioner Lochren estimates a surplus of 25, 000, 000 oa account of pen sions for tho fiscal yoar. The Portuguese Minister, Senhor Thomas do Sonza Roza, who has represented bis country iu Washington sino December 20th, 188'.), presented his letters of recall to I'rwf deut Cleveland with tho usual formal courtesies. The steamer Nnth Abltey, of Swansea, has been waeckod off Nash Point, England. Tho captain nn 1 throe sailors were drownel. The Anti-Lords Conference at Leeds, England, called ou tho Government to in troduce a bill to deprive tho House of Peers of veto power. Ex-President Lorena, of tbo rebel gov ernment of Brazil, has ben executed by shooting. YOUNG PEOPLE DROWNED. Terrible Disaster to a Holiday Party in Samara, Russia. A dispatch from Samara, tho capital of the Russian Government of that nanae, says that while a party of youn? poople were re turning from a tete on the River Jek forty five were drowned by the sinking of the ferryboat which was carrying them acro3S the water. The boat was leaking nnl overcrowded, fully seventy people being ou board. Tae passengers, alarmed at the rapidly rising water within the ferryboat, beoam panic stricken, causing the boat to take in more water. When near Buulme the ferryboat sank, and then commenol & terrible straggle for life. The drowning people, few of whom could swim, clutchel frantically t each other in their efforts to keep themselves above water, but forty-live out of the seventy were drowned. THREE THIEVES LYNCHED. Farmers' Vengeance Wreaked Upon Horse Stealers in Kentucky. Seventy-five farmers of Mason County, Kentucky, hanged Archie, Burt and William Haines, colore 1, w'jo werj said to have been stealing horses nnd sheep. Two of the colored men lived at Gallipolls, Ohio. Later, it was reported, that the victims had been terrorizing the vicinity. They were seen stealing by several stockmen, who were compelled to movw ou at the muzzles of re volvers. This enraged the people of tho neighborhood, and tbey conelu led to organ ize a lynching mol, with the above result. I THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Haste and Middle States. Jamch 11. CABrr.NTKu was hangM at Mlf flinton. Penn., for the murder of his father, James J. Carpenter, at Port Royal on Doevnv ber 10, 1S93. Th latter was a blind buck ster. The immense bolter in Coaler . tv.'s saw mill at iVloy. penn., blew up. Fireman Joseph Picker and his little daughter went killed, the trill Wfut demolish boiler was thrown woventy rim fot. BrRot.Au cracked a sfo and gt away with 20,000 In Government IhmiIs, the property of tho Mtlltowu (Conn.) Congre K"tionnl Church. The Schenectady (S. Y.IK-tvlug Bank N short tlO.oeo. August Henke, ih tank's accountant, diapsartd ou tho dlHcovcry and has bya found dead. The great T-shaped building fronting nr F.lm, Pearl and Dunne tt ..,'( ,,w York City, occupied Chiefly ty Vernon A t.. thn Wholesale paper dealer, went up in flauuM nnd amoke. It was a $ 125.000 blw. At meeting of minor lit Pennsylvania a majority of tho men favored a wmb nient ou terms whleh werw prco.d. ERASTt-s Wiman, ex-partner of n, G. m A Co., was found guilty, at New York City, of forgery iu the ,(.kW.. Tho jury made a utrong recommendation to mercy. Under tho verdict he eoilld receive sen. tence of not lea thau five nor luore than tea years. Yai.e won the roilego baseball champion ship from Princeton at Kant em Park, lnok lyn. N. Y., by the score ot J to 5. Fivk noted burulnrs were nrresto t l.y Cen tral Office ino in New York City. They nil have ongcarHrs-.f crime and are aMis.. I of working the recent aeries of burglarbs iu New York ( ity and Brooklyn. Tur.coal strike hi Central Pennsylvania was tbvlared olf, as a rcmilt of lijstrief Presi dent Bradley's fiuifereueo with tho opera tors. Settlement was roaehod on the li.idis of forty cents per net and forty-live cents p r gross ton. Striking coal miners overpowered deputies nnd blew up a fan bouse with a txunb in Tarr Station, Penn. Tiik Cnlted States protoetcl cruiser Cin cinnati went Into commission at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn. The ceremonies attending the (unction were brief. Wai.tkhTiiini and John Kagan, of I. vim. Mass., itlsolieved their parents nnd Went swimming ; Nth were drowned. Kioiit persons were injured lit Kivcrs,,t Station, N. .?.. where n tram dashed Into a trolley car. The flagman w.is talking poll tics and freight cars oUiru-ted the engi -Ijecr'B View James 1'oiiHiiAV, an old resident of New York City, era.od by grief for his dead wit.., shot and killed his youngest hou, then Hew out his own brains. Central Pennsylvania coal operators re jected the compromise w hlch their conuiilt teemade with the miners t Altoona. A large number of miners in varioua districts resumed work. Goodwin ,y Swirr. Me tric railway pro ni'.ters of New York City, made nn nsic nient liabilities from 1 5Hi,ooi) to t7rii),xw). Bt'NnER Hili, l4v was celebrated In Bos ton, Mass., nnd Hartford, Conn. South and WYnt. Miners' conventions in a number or coal mining district voted to return to work on the basis of the Columlnis agreement, the blockade on coal-carrying roads in Ohio was broken. Governor Stone, of Mississippi, ,s pardoned ex-Treasurer W. I,. Hemingway, sentenced DoeeintMT 1, 1h:i, to live years ill tho penitentiary f,,r (allure to I urn over to bis successor in olllce t3i5,fil2.P.t. Aiu.ison Br.itiiY. of Frederick, M l., was killed and stripped or all bis clothing by a lightning bolt. The Alabama miners voted to continue, ou strike, two bridges w,.r blown up. Washington. Charles K. Sill, a former employe of the Carnegie Company, Instilled in regard to armor plate frauds before the investigating committee in Washington. President Cleveland, accompanied by Captain Evans and Dr. O Keilley, left Wash ington for a trip down Chesapeake Buy. Reports of several hundrel plates exam ined by the Chairman of the Armor Plate ln voHtlgatlng Committee showed that at least ninety per cent, of the platea ina In by Car negie were utnlertroatod. The Sugar Trust Investigating Committ-n nt Washington began thu examination of Senators. . Attorney-General Oi.np.y has ordered Stilts against the Central, Union and Kansas Pacific Railroads, to recover an aggregate of over 1 171 ,000,000. Senator Qi'ay admitted in his examination before the Senate Investigating Committee that be hnd speculated in sugar stock. Sena tor Ransom said bis won had speculate! In the stock mi'l Hi-mtor Vest said that Senator Gorman, Brlce and Smith insistixl ou grant ing tho Trust's demands in the bill. To all of tho twenty thousand and o l I money order postofll res in the I'ulte I States the l'ostoflbjo Department Is s"iillng tho new form of money order blanks. Senator Gorman was examined by tho Senate Investigation Committee. Commodore John W. Easiiy, United States Navy, died in Washington, aged "seventy, five years. He was an inspector of Govern nient gunboats during the late war, and sub sequent I y Locaaic a naval constructor. Foreign. A CAT-LEO nAM from Seoul, the capital ( Korea, reports that tho rebels havo in overcome and peace has boeti n-store I. TliA United States steamship Baltimore, ordered to Korea to protect Americans, is In Korean waters. Lorn Coleridge, Chief Justice of Eng land, Is dead. All opposition to the peaceful succeaalon ofAMul Aziz, in Morocco nptxMirs to have subsided nnd tho new Suit in has been peacefully proclaimed at Krz. Carlos Kzeta, the deposed president of Salvador, sent a request to President i;t, to Intercede at Washington for the refu m on board tho Bennington. Reports from Santa Anna, Brazil, in Ii eatod that a mob had possesion of tho city nnd was sicking it. Kichard Choker, ox-leader ot Tammany Hall, reached Que ristown, Ireland, on tlei Umbrla , he said ho hid gone abroad for bit health, an I would remain thero in leilnitely. More thau nvntfn hundred person? have perished at Hong Kon, China, of the plague and 80,000 of tho inhabitants hive fled from the city. Oranotkan, an outlaw chief, has ittackwd the British military (ost at Kuala- T-neUd In., India, and killed nine Sikhs, seizing the arms and ammunition, and plun leriug trad ing boats. The Wear Valley, in Hungary, has Ihh-ii iuundnt. Much damage has Isx-n done. There was a sharp conflict Ivtween students and troops at Naples, Italy; innny on loth Hides were wounded. Drought in the Province of Enfro Ilion, Argentina, has killed two hundred thousand head of cattle, ono hundred nnd llfty thou sand sheyip and twenty thousand horse, tho whole being valued at three millions in cur rency. The University of Cambridge-, England, has conferred thu degre of LL. D. on Cap tain Alfred T. Mahan, of the United Stales cruiser Chicago. Miss Clara Barton and the Rod Crosi staff have rlosod tho field of relief at Beau fort, S. C. TIih Sea Islands, with their population of 35.000, after nine months' of hard work, ar loft In a coo lition to saoDort themselves. The cyelone ot August. lH'JI, destroyed over 2000 lire, devastated 15.03J acres of lan'L.aad ruined 000 eabuus. As a result of the privileges extended ta Chinese exhibitors by Congress In connec tion with the Midwinter Fair, Ban Francisco, Cab, It is stated that fully 230 Chinese labor ers bare Rained admittance to tha country, tnd are doubtless now registered.
Fisherman & Farmer (Edenton, N.C.)
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