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"Unhappily married" are two words de scriptive of many a homestead. It needs no orthodox minister to prove to a badly mated pair that there is a hell. They are there now. Sometimes a prand and gracious woman will be thus incarcerated, and her life will be a crtt-.-iDxion, as was the case with Mrs. Sigour ney, the great poetess and the great eoul. Sometimes a consecrated man will bo nnitcc to a fury, as was John Wesley, or united to a yixem, as was John Milton. Sometimes, and ?;neral!y. both parties are to blame, and Thomas Carlyle was an intolerable 6cold,and his wi'e smoked and swore, and Froudo, the historian, pulled asido the curtain from the lifelong squabble at Craigenputtock and Five, Cheyne flow. Some say that for tho alleviation of all tbgo domestic disorders of which we hear easy divorce is a good prescription. God sometimes authorizes divorce as certainly as Ho authorizes marriage. I have iust as much regard for one lawfully divorced" as I have for ono lawfully married. But you know and I know that wholesale divorco is one of our National scourges. I am not surprised at this when 1 think of the influences whit.-h have been abroad militating against the mar riage relation. For many years the platforms of the coun try rang with talk about a free love millen nium. There were meetings of this kind held in the Cooper Institute, New York; 'Fremont Temple, Ecston, und all over the land. Rome of the women who were most promi nent in that movement have since been dis tinguished for git promiscuosity of affec tion. Popular thems for such occasions were the tyranny of man, tho oppression of the marriage relation, women's rights and the affinities. Frominent speakers were women with short curls and short dress, and vorv long tongue, everlastingly at war with God beeause they were created women, while on tho platform sat meek men with soft accent and cowed demeanor, apologetic for mascu linity, and holding tho parasol3 while the termagant orators went on preaching the doetriuo of free love. That campaign of about twenty years set more devils into tho marriago relation thun will be exorcised in the next fifty. Men and worsen went home from such meetings so permanently confused as to who were their wives and husbands that they never got out of their perplexity, and the criminal and the civil courts tried to disentangle tho "Iliad" of woes, and this one got alimony, and that one got a limited divorce, and this mother kept the ehildron on condition that the father could sometimes come and look at them, and these went into poorhouses, and those went into an insane asylum, and those went into dissolute public life, and all went to destruction. The mightiest war ever made against tho marriago institution was that free love campaign, sometimes under one name and sometimes under another. Another influence that has warred upon thu marriage relation has been polygamy in I'tah. That was a stereotyped caricature of the marriago relation and has poisoned the whole land. You might as well think that you can have an arm in a state of mortifica tion and yet the whole body not be sickened as to have these Terntorios polygamized and yet tho body of the Nation not feel the putre faction. Hear it, good men and women of America, that so long ago as 1862 a law was passed by Congress forbidding polygamy in the Territories and in all the places where they had jurisdiction. Twenty-four years passed along and five administrations before the first brielc was knocked from that for tress of libertinism. Every new President in his inaugural tickled that monster with the straw of con demnation, aud every Congress stultified il Eelf in proposing some plan that would not work. Folygany stood more intrenched, and more brazon, and more puissant, and more braggart, and more infernal. James liuchannan, a much abused man of his dy, did more for the extirpation of this villainy than most of tho subsequent administra tions. Mr. Buchanan sent out an army, and although it was halted In its work still he accomplished more than some of the admin istrations which did nothing but talk, talk, talk. At last, but not until it had poisoned generations, polygamy has received its death blow. Polygamy in Utah warred against the mar riage relation throughout the land. It was impossible to have such an awful sewer of iniquity sending up its miasma, which was wafted by the winds North, South, East and West, without ths whole land being affected by it. Another influence that has warred against the marriage relation in this country has been a pustulous literature, with its millions of sheets every week choked with stories of domestic wrongs and infidelities and massa cres and outrages, until it is a wonder to mo that there are any decencies or any common sense left on the subject of marriago. One half of the newsstands of all our cities reek ing with tho 111th. "Now," say some, "wo admit all these evils, and the only way to clear them out or correct them is by easy divorce." Well, be fore wo yield to that cry let us find out how easy it is now. I have looked over the laws of all the States, and I find that, while in some States it is easier than in others, in every State it is easy. Tho State of Illinois, through its Leg islature, recites a long list of proper causes for divorco and then closes up by giving to tho courts tho right to make the decree of divorco in any case where they deem it ex pedient. After that you are not surprised at the announcement that in one county of the State of Illinois, in one year, there were tv3 divorces. If you want to know how easy it is. you have only to look over the records of the s'tates. In tho city of San Francisco 333 divorces in one year, and in twenty years in New England 20.000. Is that not easy enough? If the same ratio continue the ratio of multiplied divorce and multiplied causes of divorce wo are not far from the time when our courts will have to set apart whole days for application, and all you will have to prove against a man will be that he left his newspaper in the middle of the floor, and all you will have to prove against a woman will lie that her husband's overcoat is buttonless. Causes of divorco double in a few years doubled in France, doubled in England and doubled in the United States. To show you how very easy it is I have to tell you that in Western Reserve, Ohio, the proportion of divorces to marriages celebrated is ono to eleven, in Rhode Island is one to thirteen, in Vermont one to fourteen. Is not that easy enough? I want you to notice that frequency of divorco alwavs goes along with the disso luteness of society. Rome for 500 years had not one ease of divorce. Those were her davs of glory and virtue. Then the reign oi vice began, and divorce became epidemic. If you want to kuow how rupidly the empire went down, ask Gibbon. What we want in this country and in ali lands is that divorce be made more and more and more difficult. Then peopio be fore thev enter that relation will be per suaded that there will probably be no escape from it exeept through the door of the sep ulcher. Then they will pause on the verge of that relation until they are fully satisfied t hat it is best, and that it is right, and that it is happiest. Then we shall have no more marriage in fun. Then men and women will not enter the relation with the idea it is only a trial trip, and if they do not like it they can get out at the first landing. Then this whole question will be taken out of the friv olous into the tremendous, and there will be no more joking about the blossoms in a bride's hair than about the cypress on a coffin. , , What we want is that the Congress f the United States change the National Constitu tion so that a law can be passed which shall ba uniform all over the country, and what shall be right in one State shall be right in all the States, and what is wrong in one State will be wrong in all the States. How is it now? If a party in the marriage relation gets dissatisfied, it is only necessary to move to another State to achieve libera tion from the domestic tie. and divorce is n a new marriage relation a member of the household who went off on a pleasure excur sion to Newport or a business excursion to effected so easy that theHrst one party kiioas of it is by seeing in the newspaper that Rev. r- Kmhnriw nn Mnrch 17. 18D5. introduce! Chieago. Married at the bride's house. No cards. There are States of the Union which practically put a premium upon the disin tegration of the man-lags relation, whil-J there are other States, like our own New York State, that had for a long time the pre-eminent idiocy of making marriage lawful at twelve and fourteen years of age. The Congress of the United States needs to move for a change of the National Constitu tion and to appoint a committee not made up of single gentlemen, but of men of fami lies, and their families In Washington who shall prepare a good, honest, righteous, com prehensive, uniform law that will control everything from Sandy Hook to the Golden Horn. That will put an end to broken ties in marriages. That will send divorce law yers into a decent business. That will set people agitated for tany years on the ques tion of how shall they get away from each other to planning how they can adjust them selves to the more or less unfavorable circum stances. More difficult divorce will put an estoppel to a great extent upon marriage a.s a finan cial speculation. There are men who go in to the relation just as they go into Wall street to purr-hase share". The female to be invited into the partnership of wedlock is utterly unattractive and in disposition a suppressed Vesuvius. Everybody know.? it but this mas culine candidate for matrimonial orders, through the commercial agency or through the county records, finds out how much estate is to be inherited, and he calculates it. He thinks out how long it will be before the old man will die, and whether he can stand the refractory temper until he does die, and then he enters the relation, for he says, "If I cannot stand it, then through the divorce laf I'll back out." That process is going on all tho time, and men enter the relation with out any moral principle, without any affec tion, and it is as much a matter of stock spec ulation as anything that transpired yesterday in Union ra'eifie-, Illinois Central or Dela ware and Lackawanna. Now, suppose a man understood, as he ought to nnderetand, that if he goes into that relation there is no possibility of his getting out, or no probability, he would bemoreslow to put his neck in the yoke. He would say to himself, "Rather than a Caribbean whirl wind with a wt le fleet of shipping in its arms give me a zephyr oft fields of sunshine and gardens cf peace." Rigorous divorce law will also hinder wo men from tho fatal mistake of marrying men to reform them. If a young man by twenty five years of age or thirty years of age have the habit of strong drink fixed on him, he is as certainly bound for a drunkard's grave as that a train starting out from Grand Central Depot at 8 o'clock to-morrow morning is bound for Albany. Tho train may not reach Albany, for it may be thrown off tho track. The young man may not reach a drunkard's grave, for something may throw him off the iron track of evil habit, but the probability is that the train that starts to-morrow morning at 8 o'clock for Albany will get there, and the probability is that tho young man who has the habit of strong drink fixed on him before twenty-five or thirty years of age will arrivo at a drunkard's grave. She k.now3 he drinks, although he tries to hide it by chew ing cloves. Everybody knows he drinks. Parents warn; neighbors and friends warn. She will marry him: she will reform him. I f she is unsuccessful in the experiment.why, then the divorce law will emancipate her be cause habitual drunkenness is a cause for di vorco in Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Con necticut and nearly all the States. So the poor thing goes to the altar of sacrifice. If you will show me the poverty struck streets in any city, I will show you the homes of the women who married men to reform them. In one ease out of 10,000 it may be a successful experiment. I never saw the successful ex periment. But have a rigorous divorce law, and that wom:m will say, "If I am affianced to that man, it is for life." A rigorous divorce law will also do much to hinder hasty aud inconsiderate mar riages. Under the impression that one can be easily released people enter the relation without inquiry and without reflection. Romance and impulse rule tho day. Per haps the only ground for the marriage com pact is that she likes his looks, and he ad mires the graceful way she passes around the ice cream at the picnic! It is all they know about each other. It is all the prepara tion for life. A woman that could not make a loaf of bread to save her life will swear to cherish and obey. A Christian will marry an athoist, and" that always makes con joined wretchedness, for if a man does not believe thre is a God he is neither to be trusted with a dollar nor with your lifelong happiness. Having read much about love in a cottage, people brought up in ease will go and starve in a hove!. By tho wreck cf 10,000 homes, by the holo caust of 10,000 sacrificed men and women, by tho hearthstone of tho family, which is the cornerstone of the State, and in the name of that God who hath set up the family institution, and who hath made tho break ing of the martial oath the most appalling of all perjuries, I implore the Congress of the United States to make some righteous, uniform law for all the States, and from ocean to ocean, on this subject of marrlag and divorce. Let me say to the hundreds of young peo ple in this house this afternoon, before you give your heart and hand in holy alliance use all cautions. Inquire outside as to habits, explore the disposition, scrutinize the taste, question the ancestry and find out the am bitions. Do not take the heroes and the heroines of cheap novels for a model. Do not put your lifetime happiness in tho keep ing of a man who has a reputation for being a little loose in morals or in the keeping of a woman who dresses fast. Remember that, while good looks are n kindly gift of God,' wrinkles or accident may despoil them. Re member that Byron was no more celebrated for his beauty than for his depravity. Re-, member that Absalom's hair was not more snlendid'than his habits were despicable. 1 Hear it, hear it! The only foundation for happy marriage that has ever been cr vcr will be is good character. Ask God whom you sho.il marry if you marry at all. A union formed in prayer will be a happy union, though sickness pale the cheek, and pc veity empty the bread tray, and death open the small graves, and all the path of life bo strewn with thorns from the marriage altar with its wedding march and orange blossoms clear on down to the last farewell at thai gate where Isaac and Rebecca, Abraham and Sarah. Adam and Eve parted. In tho "Farm ballads" our American poet puts into tho li-s of a repentant husband after a life of married perturbation thesesug gestive words: And when she dies I wish that she" would be laid by me. And lying together in siience perhaps we will agree. And if ever we meet in heaven I would not think it queer If we love each other better because we quar reled here. And let me say to those of you who are in happy married union avoid first quarrels; have no unexplained correspondence with former admirers: cultivate no suspicions; in a moment of bad temper do not rush out and tell the neighbors; do not let any of those gad-abc.its of society unload in your house their baggage of gab and tittle tattle: do not stand on your rights; learn how to apologize-; do not be so proud, or so stubborn, or so devilish that you will not make up. Re member that the 'worst domestic misfortunes and most scandalous divorce cases started from little infelicities. The whole piled up train of ten rail cars telescoped and smashed at the foot of an embankment 100 feet down came to that catastrophe by getting two or three inches off the track. Some of the great est domestic misfortunes and the wide re sounding divorce cases have started from little misunderstandings that were allowed to go on and go on until home and respectabilt ity and religion and immortal soul wen down in the crash, crash! And, feilow citizens as well as fellow Chris tians, let us have a divine rage against any thing that wars on tho marriage state. Blessed institution! Instead of two arms to fight the battle of life, four; instead of two eves to scrutinize the path of life, four; in stead of two shoulders to lift the burden of life, four. Twice the energy, twice the courage, twice the holy ambition, twice the probability of worldly success, twico the prospects of heaven. Into the matrimonial bower God fetches two souls. Outside that bower room for all contentions, and all bick erings, and all controversies, but inside the bower there is room for only one guest the angel of love. Let that angel stand at the lioral doorway of this Edenie bower with drawn sword to hew down the worst foe of that bower ea?y divorce. And for every paradise lost may there be a paradise re gained. And after we quit our homo here may we have a brighter home in heaven, at the windows of which this moment are fa miliar .faees watching for our arrival and wondering why so long we tarry. Killed ly an Icicle. At Hohenelbe. Bohemia, a man wa3 killed by au icicle falling from an eave and pene trating Lis brain. . OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS The State Department Never Had Sc Many Complications. THE MONROE DOCTRINE UPHELD. The Attention of the Whole World Con centrated on Washington and the Pos sibilities of Hostilities Between This Country and Several Transatlantic Na tions The Policy of Non-Interference. The extraordinary number and rapid sequence of foreign complications of a more or les-j serious nature which have suddenly come upon the State Department have pre cipitated a situation in which the United States Government has not been placed be fore for a great many yea's, and the opinion of foreign diplomatists in Washington is that the attention of all Europe has been, in a re markable short interval of time, transferred from international affairs and rumors of war in the Old World to the alleged possi bilities of hostile relations between this coun try and several of the European Nations. Even the Japanese-Ch incase war, which is still in progress, is believed to io in the way to a harmonious termination by the peace negotiations: and the attitude of tho United States Government with regard to its own interests, in opposition to the behavior of European Nations on this side of the world, is virtually absorbing attention across tho Dcean. The State Department has never, within the experience of men now living, had so many difficult foreign questions on its hands, or been interested in so many commotions in tho smaller republics of this continent. The dispute with Spain about the Allianca and the status of Cuba, quarrels with Great Britain about Bluofields and Alaska, are di rect commercial interests in the threatenei war of Mexico and Guatemala, the peculiar complication in the Venezuelan contention with British Guiana, the Salvador uprising, the Brazilian and Peruvian revolutions, the hostile position of Argentina and the rebellion in Colombia, all of which are of special con cern to thecommeroial and political relations of this country, have virtually concentrated the attention of the whole world on the State Department at Washington. The necessity of maintaining the policy of non-interference by European powers with North and South American affairs, common ly known as the "Monroe doctrine," by diplomacy, if possible, by force, if necessary, and the protection of our interests, particu larly in Bering Sea. against Canadian con tention, emphasize the complicated situation to an extraordinary degree. The Hawaiian muddie also, which was re garded as settled, is revived by Secretary Grcsham's demand for Minister Thurston's withdrawal. The outcome of any and all those matters cannot fail, in the long run, to redound to the credit and dignity of the United States; but meanwhile it i's feared that mistakes may occur, and tho immediate future is doubtful. OUR FOOD PRODUCTS ABROAD. The Exclusion of American Meats Also a Grave Problem. In addition to all ot these acute foreign complications which confront the State De partment, the administration has a very grave problem to deal with in the action of Germany and other European countries in excluding American food products. The President and Secretary Gresham are still very reluctant to adopt retaliatory tactics for the reaso that it would injuriously affect the foreign commerce of the United States and reduce the revenue from customs. They are being strongly pushed, however, to tako euch action by the farmers, meat packers and others interested in the exporting of farm products. Whether there wiil ultimate ly be a commercial war or not will depend, in large part, on the action of Germany. Advices just communicated to the State Department put a more hopeful asnect on the situation. The German Consuls are be ginning to make their influence felt with that Government, and the Department has reason to believe that there will be a reaction against the agrarian movement and that the ports of Germany will once more be opened to American meats and other products. Great Britain In South America. Despatches received at the State Depart ment at Washington from Ambassador Bay ard at London, in response to telegrams ask ing him to ascertain the attitude of Great Britain in case Nicaragua should refuse to pay tho indemnity demanded for tho ex pulsion of the British Consul, Mr. Hatch, in dicate that England will not seek to acquire American territory. The intimation has also come from the British Government of a dis position to submit the Venezuelan question to arbitration. Cabinet Meeting on the Subject. The Cabinet met at the White House and discussed the international complications, in cluding the Venezuelan and Nicaraguan situa tions and tho Allianca affair. In accordance with President Cleveland's views, it is said to have been decided that no decisive action shall bo taken at present in reference to any of the foreign complications. DEATH OF RICHARD VAUX. The Weil-Known Philadelphia Gentleman of the Old School Passes Away. Ex-Congressman Richard' Vaux, who had been ill of the grip at his home in Philadel phia. Penn., for several days, is dead. He was seventy-five years of age. Richard Vaux was born in Philadelphia in 1810. He came of old Quaker stock. For years he had been prominent there, ami was one of tho most eccentric m:n in that city. Mr. Taux was a gentleman of the old school "and a man of striking personal appearance. Onu of his marked peculiarities was that he has never worn an overcoat nor carried an um brella, no matter what the state of weather, and he always appeared on the street in patent leather pumps. While Secretary to Minister Stevenson at the Court of St. James's many years ago Hr. Vaux enjoyed the honor unusual to a citizen of a republic of being selected by Queen Vic toria to dance a quadrille with her. Mr. Vaux was Mayor of Philadelphia. Recorder (an office now abolished), and was elected to the Fifty-second Congress to finish the unex pired term of Samuel J. Randal!. Six Months for Mutilatin-j a Horse. In the Recorder's Court at Watertown, Joseph Theobold. who. ia a fit of anger, tore a balky horse's tongue out, was convict ed of misdemeanor, and a he wa marched off to jail the crowd gavj three cheers for the jury. Recorder Cobb gave him the max imum sentence of six months intheRehe ter Fenitoutiary and -f 00 fine. A Famous Kuil Fighter Gore;! to Death. Word has beeD received of the Tatai goring at Culliean. State of Sinaloa. of Ponciano Diaz, the most famous bull fighter in Mexico and impressario of the Bucarell bull ring, in the City of Mexico. He was gored in the groin and badly trampled. Dcnioterio Rodri guez, who was lately killed in a similar way at Duraago, was an old associate of Diaz. Twenty-ei;jht Fishermen Drowncl. Twenty-eight fisherman wars drowned during a storm on Lake Kuennerow. in roni merania, Germany. MASSACRED BY CHITRALI3. Lieutenant Ross and Forty-six Sikhs Sur rounded and Shot. News was received of the defeat of a Sikh company under Lieutenant Rds?. of the British Army, by Chitralis in India. Lieu tenant Ross and sixty Sikhs wore marching to reinforce the troups a: Rjshun. The na tives, who were behind breastworks near Karagh, fusilladed them an 1 foreei them to retreat. They followed the company closely ami eventually hemmed them in "on ail sides. There were about 1()0 natives, all firing steadily upon the Sikhs. Koss. forty-six Sikh soldiers, and eight camp followers were left dead oa the field. The rest of the force escaped- ' - THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washington Item. Ixcoirz tax returns are pouring into the otlco of the Commissioner of Internal Rev enue at such a rate as to make the income tax division a beehive of industry and activ ity. Clerks from other divisions have been detailed to assirt in the work of properly classifying tho returns. A party of Cheyenne and Arapahoe In dians, in full costume, were received by the President and made known to him that they would like a distribution of money paid for their lands. The President appointed Constantino Bucklev Kilgrove. of Texas, Judge of the United "States Court of the Southern District of the Indian Territory. Secretary Carlisle . appointed William Martin Aiken, of Cincinnati, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, to succeed Jere miah O'Rourke. A special meeting of the Cabinet was held to consider tho situation of affairs in Venezuela and Nicaragua. The President appointed Joseph R. Herod, of Indiana, to be Secretary of the Legation of the United Stctes to Japan. Ye Heuk Gik. the Korean Charge d'Af fairs, who has been confined to the Legation by serious iilness for the past three months, has been recalled by his Government at his own request. A delegation of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians called upon the Secretary of the In terior to pay their respects. They are the most notable Iudians that have visited Wash ington for some time. Amongthem are chiefs who participated in the Custer maasaere at the Little Big Horn and engaged in many other fights. The question whether diamond cutting is a new industry in the United States has been decided in the negative by Acting Secretary namlin, of the Treasury Department. There fore, Holland diamond cutters cannot come here under contract. The Ways and Means Committee recom mends that England, Russia and Japan be requested to co-operate with the United States in protecting the seals. President Cleveland decided the boun dary dispute between Brazil and Argentina in favor of Brazil. Foreign Notes. Toe British House of Commons has adopt ed a resolution to pay members. Peru's Provisional Government issued a manifesto promising to restore peace and order and institute reforms. The village of Bollara, Italy, was over whelmed by a landslip, extending over two thirds of a mile. Many were killed. Troops were summoned to help search the ruins for bodies. Drought and locusts have caused wide spread famine in Eastern Equatorial Africa. Villages have been depopulated and mission rchools and churches have been closed. Many natives are selling themselves and their children into slavery to obtain food. The Japanese fleet have taken possession of Fisher Island, one of the largest of tho Pesadore group, between Formosa and the mainland of China. The peace conference began at Shimonoseki, Japan. President IIvppolite, of Hayti, left Port au Prince with a large sum of money and troops and munitions of war. and took up a position where he would be better able to cope with the threatened rebellion. TnE Duchess of Leinster, the noted beauty and leader of London society, is dead. Li Hung Chang arrived in Japan to treat on behalf of China for peace. Several bands of Cuban rebels were de feated by the Spanisk forces. Peru's revolutionists carried their war faro right up to the doors of tho capital, Lima, whore a three days' battle was fought. In tho Verde mine, at Minis Prietas, Sonora, Mexico, four miners were killed and one fatally injured by an explosion of giant pow der. Nearly fifty thousand English boot and shoo operatives who objected to improved American machinery have been locked out. Before Queen Victoria left England for her. outing she made the Liberal and Tory leaders promise, it is said, that they would not break up the Government while she is gone. Domestic. TnE New Jersey Legislature took a rece3s 10 June 4, when it will meet to hear the re port of tho Voorhees Investigating Com mittee. The Oyer and Terminer Extraordinary Grand Jury brought in another batch of in dictments against New York police officials. A special freight train comprising twenty nine cars, all loaded with cotton goods eon signed to Shanghai, China, left Biddeford,Me. Wallace & Sons' brass works at Ansonia, Conn., have been bought for $1,000,000 by W. A. Clark, of Butte, Montana. Three children," all under three years, of Charles Ross, were left locked in their home at Springfield, Mo. The house caught lire and all the children were burned to death. At Buffalo, N. Y., Clarence Robinson was found guilty of murder in the second degree, and Sadio Robinson of manslaughter in the first degree ior the murder of Lawyer Mont gomery Gibbs. Clarence Robinson was sen tenced to life imprisonment and Sadie Robin son to twenty years. General Fhilip St. George Cooke, the oldest general officer in the United States Army, died a few days ago in Detroit. Mich. He was born near Leesburgh, Va.. June 13. 109. In 1827 he was graduated from West Point. Ten of the eleven New York City police of ficials indicted by the Extraordinary Grand Jury appeared bofore Justice Ingraham and pled not guilty to the indictments. The only absentee was ex-Wardman James Burns, who jumped his bail. The strike of about ten thousand men in the building trades in New York City was de clared off and tho new agreement between the bosses and tho men was signed. The settlement was brought about through the efforts of the New York Council of Concilia tion and Mediation. An eight-hour day will be granted on May 1. At Ntw Orleans. La., the Grand Jury which has been investigating the levee riots returned indictments, for murder against twenty-eight of the participants. In the Maine Senate, at Augusta, the Wo man's Suffrage biil. which had already passed the House, was rejected by a vote of 11 to 15. General Neal -Dow, "the father of Pro hibition," celebrated at Portland, Mo., his ninety-iirst birthday. He had many callers. A terrific simoon, filling tho air with sand, swept over Denison. Texas. Houses were unroofed, trees blown down, and a great deal of damage don". By the explosion of a sawmill boiler near Eight Mile Creek. Texas, six persons were killed and as many more maimed. The National Bank of Kansas City, Mo., failed to open its doors. Th assets are id .800.000. with liabilities of .yl,010,000. A. E. BcTLEn. Cashier of the Arlington (Mass.) National Bank and au Alderman, committed suicide by shooting. Mr. Butler was taken ill a few weeks before with grin and ha I been suffering mentally. John Kurtz, a saloon-keeper, and Anthony Ketehum. an insurance agent, were killed at a fire in New York City, and other tenants were rescued by heroic tirmen. Kurtz lost his life while bravely attempting to save his wife and children. The Populi.-t Convention of the Tenth Georgia Congress District met at Thomson, the home of Thomas E. Watson, and nomi nated him unanimously for Congress, to make the race in the special eleeton male necessary bv the resignation of Congresman Black. TnE Danish stsam-hiu Hrsa left Savan nah, Go., bound for Monrovia, Liberia, with 196 colored passengers, men, women and children, on board. Pp.esident-Brownson and Cashier Morgan, of the wrecked Chenango Valley Savings Bank, Binghamton, were arrested. While Frederick Marcott, the inventor o a patent rope fire-escape, and his cousin. George Marcott. aged twelve, were giving aa exhibition at Duluth, Minn., the rope broke, and they fell sixty feet. The boy was instautly kille'd. Marcott was fatally in jured. Pamhenoers from Cuba brought a report to Key West, Fla.. that the Spanish gunboat Arcedo fired on and sank an American schooner off Puerto del Palre, and that the erew of sixteen was lost. SPAIN'SCRUISERAWRECK & The Re'na Regents Foundered Near the Straits of Gibraltar. CREW OF 420 MEN ABOARD. The Missing Warship Found by a Sister Vessel Sunk to II er Topmasts Orer vhelmeil in a Storm Becausa of Hory Armament She Took Part In New York's Naval Celebration. The missing Spanish warship Reina Re gente has been found near the Straits of Gi braltar. The ship had sunk in deep water and lies submerged. No survivors were found by thoso who discovered the wreck, and it was believed that the entire crew, consisting of 420 men, was drowned. The Spanish cruiser Alfonso XII., which has been cruising in the Mediterranean in search of the missing warsnip found the Reina Regent at Rajo Accitunos, near Couil, where she had sunk. Only about eighteen Inches of her masts were visible above the sur face of the water. The Alfonso XII. after reporting the fact at Cadiz returned to the scene of the wreck with a companv of divers. The news brou ght by tho Alfonso XII. created a profound feel ing of sorrow throughout Spain. The Alfonso XII. has taken divers and div ing appliances for the purpose of removing the bodies from the sunken ship and examin ing the condition of the vessel with a view to ascertaining the possibilities of raising her. The Reina Regente, with a crew of 420 men on board, left Tangier for Cadiz on the afternoon of March 10. She should have made her destination by March 12. Until She was found a wreck nothing, however, was heard of her with tho exception of tha fact that on March 10 the British ship May fair sighted her, funnels and bridges gone, fighting her way against heavy seas. DESCRIPTION OF THE VESSEL. English-Built and One of the Fastest Cruisers Afloat. The Reina Regente was remarkable for her speed, and resembled the United States cruiser Charleston. Her dimensions were: Length on water line, 320 feet ; beam , 50 feet 7 inches; mean draught, 20 feet 4 inches; dis placement, C000 tons. Her battery consisted of four 9.45 inch guns, one on each side, forward of the su perstructure, and one on each side aft; six 4.72-inch guns in broadside, forward and after pair in sponsons, center pair in re cessed ports, and fourteen rapid fire and machine guns. Sho had five torpedo tubes. Her horse power on trial was 11, COO, and hct 6peod was 20.07 knots. Her protective deck was four and three-fourth inches thick on the slopes, her con ning tower five inches and her heavy gun shields throe inches. Her coal capacity was 1150 tons, and her radius of action about seven tnousand miles at ten knots. She had two smokestacks and two military masts, with armored tops. Of tho Reina Regente during her visit to New York during the naval celebration in 1893, the following was said: "Next to the Blake, themost efficient flagship of the many present will be t he Reina R-.gent: Spain's rei resentative. The Reina Regente is an Eng lish built cruiser, and, aside from the little torpedo boat dishing, tho Reina Regente will undoubtedly be the fastest war craft in New York Harbor. This vessel has made a speed of twenty-two knots aa hour, which, when taken into consideration that her dis placement is 5000 tons, is little short of uiarvolous." SPAIN WILLING TO SETTLE. Her Foreis1 Minister's Speech on the Al lianca Affair. The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs announced to Congress at Madrid that the United States had addressed to Spain a sourteous remonstrance in the ease of tho Al lianca, which was said to have been flrcd on bv a Spanish cruiser off the cast end of Cuba. "Deputies Yillanueva, Diaz and Moreu spoke at length concerning the American note. They insisted that, as tho Allianca was in Cuban waters, the commander of the Spanish cruiser acted within his rights. The Minister eventually promised that a full inquiry should be made into the incident and that the Government would not neglect to fulfill all the demands of justice. "It is true that Mr. Taylor, the American Minister, has claimed reparation from Spain on account of the firing on the Allianca," he said. "The United States at the same time presented a demand that American trade with Cuba should not bo interfered with, and expressed the hope that the Allianca affair would be equitably settled, since they considered the action of our cruiser a viola tion of international law. The Government has asked for full information on this sub ject and is willing to make a just settlement without infringement en interna) ional law or prejudice to tiie dignity of the Nation." Spain, according to a report current in Madrid just aftcrtho resignation of tho Cab inet, made a satisfactory answer to Secretary Gresham's demands iu connection with the Allianca affair. MINERS ENTOMBED. Two Score Killed by Fire Damp in Aus trian Silesia. An explosion of fire damp occurred in the Albrecht mine, at Troppau, Austrian Silesia. Eighty miners were taken out alive, but two hundred were left entombed. It was then estimated that fifty persons were killed. The disaster is attributed to the accidental explosion of a number of dynamite cartridge known to have been in the posses sion of a foreman. A later despatch from Troppau says that forty-three dead bodies were taken from the mine owned bv the late Archduke Albrecht. The Archduke Frederick lies ordered that an annual pension of IC'j florins be paid the widow of every victim, t':u first payment to bo made at once. THURSTON'S RECALL DESiRED. The Hawaiian Minister I'ersona Non Crat to the Administration. Secretary Gresham. according to a report current in Washington, demanded, according to the sa:no ret.ort, tho recall of Lorin A. Thurston, the "Hawaiian Minister to the United States. The l iter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hawaiian Republic announcing that Mr. Thurston i.- persona non grata to the Cleveland Administration was written on February 21. The charge again.-t the Mim.-tT is that he has been altogether too fr: in publicly criticising the policy of the Cleveland Ad ministration toward "Hawaii and of furnish ing prematurely for publication information treating Hawaiian affairs since the failure of the attetr.pt to restore Liliuokalani and dur ing the trial of the ex-Queen and her ac complices in the conspiracy to inaugurate a rc . olution. Secretary Gresham's letter demanding Minisii!rThr.rston"s recall gave full specifica tions of the charges against him, including newspaper publications said to have len in spired by him, and copies from official docu ments of the State Department, showing that the Minister had tabled too freely about matters which the Secretary thought werf still to be regarded as State Department secrets. Minister Thurston almitied that Secretary Gresham had risked for his recall. According to international law and custom the deauad must & granted. THE EEINA EEOENTE. WILLIAM M. SPRINGER SELECTED. Appointed Jude of the I'nltcd States Court In Indian Territory. The "President appointed Wiihum M. Springer, of Illinois, Judge cf the Untted States Court of the Northern District of Ia dian Territory. JffN WILLIAM M. SriUNOEil. Mr. Springer has been in public lifesi long that he "is well known throughout the United States. He attained his greatest prominence as Chairman of the Ways and Means Com mittee during the Fu'ty-Meeond Congress, and as a parliamentarian when Mr. Reed was Spcalcr of the House. He was born in Sullivan County, Indiana, May 30, l3t, went to Illinois when twelve years old, graduated from the Illinois State Uni versity at Blooiulngtou in IS.", and was admitted to the bur in lHi Mr. Springer's public carver began with bis selection as Secretary of the liliuols Constitutional t'onvi-mion in 102. In 1871-2 he was -i member of the state Legislature and was elected to the Forty fourth Congre.-s .as a Democrat. He served continuously us ti Member of Congress up to the 4th of March, but was defeated for re election in last November. He was a candi date for Speaker of the House several times. Mr. Springer is of genial personality, and never appeared on the floor jf the llouxo without a red carnation in the lapel of Ins coat. Mr. Springer's residence is in Spring field. FARMING ON VACANT LOTS. Deserving Poor to He Allowed to liaise Vegetables for Their Own I'se. The New York Charities Conference has docidod to turn vacant lots and waste ground in and around New York City into miniature farms for the poor. This scheme w.-ts started last year by the Mayor of Detroit, and as a result Detroit has had le s poverty during tho last winter than any other city in the Union. One-third of an acre will be dealt out, if the plan goes into effect, to eaeh family, and potatoes and s-eeds will be furnished free. Everyman will have to a: ten I to his own plot of ground, und may keep the produce towards supporting his family. It is esti mated that one-third of uu acre of good ground should supply five people with a liv ing. William Steinway has offered the. use of a 200-acre tract f land for the purpot-e; ex Mayor ifowitt has given a large f-eetion tit Inwood, and Columbia College offers pe.ven acres at Mornhigsldo Heights. When tho public becomes interested in the idea, thou sands of acres may bo donated. There tire several vacant lots in upper Fifth aveuuethat may be used. An additional advantage of tho scheme is that many persons who take it up may ac quire a taste for farming and may in future become self-supporting. The plan is not one to pauperize the poor, but to teach them to help themselves. The promoters of the plan hope to provide Fmnll plots for cultivation for three or four thousand of the city's most deserving poor. All that each man raises will be his own, and he wiil bo given all the help necessary to start. Potatoes, cabbages and beans are the vegetables to be grown on each plot. PEACE IN PERU. An Armisliec After n Thousand Dead and Dtiuyr Blocked the streets of Lima. Mr. McKenzie. the United States Min ister to Peru, telegraphed the Stuto De partment at Washington that alter threo days' fighting au nrmistico had been arranged between the insurgents and the Government troops, and that over a thousand dead and wounded were left lying in the streets of Lima. Later some sort of an agreement was reached by the belligerents, nud peace was restored. A Provisioual Government now seems to be in power. Under the terms of the agreement by which hostilities ceased. President Caccri-s surrendered the reins of Government and will retire to Aucon. S'-nor C'andatno is Pro visional President and also :i''ts as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Big Fire in Sioux City. The greatest fire in the history of Sioux City, Iowa, destroyed property to the value of $400,000. It started in a pile of rubbhh on the platform of the Western Transfer ami Implement Company's warehouse and in an hour the iron build ing, four stories high, und covering a quarter block of groun 1, with over $200, 000 worth of implements ami carriages, was a heap of ruins. The fire spread to the plant of the Sioux Citv Linseed Oil Company, and soon the big elevator, with 100.000 bushels of flax in it, was destroyed. Mummified Bodies in a Cave. John Bachelor discovered on the Dr. Ter ril farm, near Petersburg, Ky., a small cavern in which were four mummified human bodies. They were in a sitting posture, were small in stature and of dark complexion, and had been wrapped in bandages of some materia! resembling cloth, but which crum bled to pieces when ton died. They are tup posed to have belonged to a race which fire ceded tho red Indians. Largest Sturgeon Lver Caught. A sturgeon weighing 000 pounds war caught lately, in the Columbia River, Ore gon. Tills is one of the largest sturgeons over caught in that river, and as this fish brought eight '-efts a pound, the day's work netted the fi.-herman $72. Prominent People. Maat.tf.n M!iti:.vs, the Dutch novelist, is really named Mr. Van der Pootca Schwartz. Count Capkivi. the ex-Chancellor of Ger many, has decide! to spend an indefinite period abroad. Miles Crowley was at one time a stcv. -dor" on the (lah-i-.-i-m dock-;. He is now a Congr -sman fr r:i Texas. The Ru-sian Czar's coronation will take place laic in May at Mos :ovv. The S iltan of Turkey. Abdul Hamid, has never signed a death warrant. Bnv. Tuomas Dixon. Ji:.. ha.-, reigned his pastorate at New York City, stating that he desired great t freedom in his work. Eni'ERoa William, of Germany, is super intending in person the arrangements for opening the North Sea and Baitic ("anal. 3L Puvis IE Chavannes. the distinguished French artist, is to receive. $50,000 for deco rating one room iu the Boston public library. The Paris Municipal Council has de u'dei to bestow the name of the illustrious Pasteur on the street that lias hitherto been calle 1 Rue d'l'ln:. Senator Gmop.oi;, of Mississippi, will re tire at the close of his present term, when he will have completed eighteen years of ser vice in the Senate. Max Mclleu knows eighteen different lan guages to the extent of beng abis to speak or write in any one, and a considerable num ber ia ad Jition leas perfectly. SPAIN'S CABINET RESICNS. The Result of the Military Raids on News paper Office. The RoeTumen, a paper published In Mad rid, Spain, In an article on the Cubsa in.ur metier, charged the junior cffl-vrs of th Spanish army with a lack of enthusiasm an I an In lispsoitlcn to goto Cu!a tviu.o ef thn danger to which th-'y would lo expose, ther. Resenting this i:r.tutt;;.n, a party of thirty-live officer ral hl tho oftW of that taper, smashing deoke and otherwL-o tia:nagir.( the premise. Th Globe commented severely upon th action of the Offlcers.an.l protc.stvi against thrireon duct, whereupon ettty officers visited tho o' f.ce of th GIoIm) and n.r. ! an attack up. ti tho staff of that pape-. Iu the mcle- the city e liter and two .sul crd'r. ito were b.t ilv f:i jure.i and tb ofll.'e was completely wrve 1. Tho crowd of oT.l.'ers nud their pympnth izors increased every Minute until it reached tho nnmlier ot 4W, and all attempt to prt veat their backing the oitl-e wer futile. Later they made another visit to tho office of the llesumon, but the Captain-Genera1, who bad in tho meantime Wn numnnmed, persuaded them to disperse. At a meeting held in thec.ming th Madri 1 editors resolved to notify tho Govemmer.t that they would scpend tho publication t a!l tho City newspa;'rs unie.-s they nhould revel vo guarantees of tin safety of taeir hvc and property. During th final council of tho S.-igasta Cabinet a committee of of,le,ri went to tho eouncil room and asked for the Premier. They demanded that be .suj t ress t!.o p. .u men, which had published ref'-c -tiicm upon tho courage Of the ottl 'ers' corps, and pn- ftoso to Parliament severely repressive pn-s ttws. Tho Tre-mier declined to niako any su -h concessions. He report"' I th officers' d. -tuand.s to the Council, ind, after a brief dis cussion, th- Ministers d-vidivl to resign. Tic upset was due primarily to th ill feeling roused between the civll'and military author ities by the. military raids on thrt newspaper ofllcos. The present colonial complications also added to tho dilncultiojt of tho Ministry. THE PRESIDENT RETURNS. He Approves of Mr. (irriliam'i Conrse In the Allianca Affair. President Cleveland returned to Washing ton after Ills eleven days of recreation on the water. As he stepped down thfl gangplank from the Violet to the wharf ho looked halo and hearty, and smiled broadly when some body in the crowd shouted: "Bring out tho ducks." There was a glow of health ujou his chocks which was not there when he left Washington on March 5, tho il.iy after Con gress had adjourned. The President was aecnmpnnted by his com panions on tho trip, Dr. O'll -illy, of the Army, Ids physician; Commander Wilde, Unip.l States Navy. thcNaviil Secretary of tho Light house Board, and Commander Latnberton. Unitod States Navy, the Lighthouse Inspec tor of tho Fifth Inspection District. Enough game was brought back to send hampers to all the Cabinet officers In town, to Mr. Thurber and to the hotnci of the Pres ident's companions, riot to t-p. ak of a plenti ful supply for tho White. IP. uo table. Most of tho sport was ha t in Pamlico Sound, and tho President ba-rged a fair share. President Cleveland and Secretary Gresham had a long talk nt the White. House immedi ately after his return from his outing on the subject of the demand made upon itpaln to apologize for tie-a. t ion oft he S unlsh gu lib- .at in firing upon the A Hi an vi. Tic S retary took With liiinall the papers in tliec.-ne, Including tho affidavit of Captain ( 'r sman, wit h accom panying map, aud a copy of the divspn'.-U sent to Minister Taylor nt Madrid. Tho President road ail the papers ecrefully, and according t the statement of a State Depart ment official, who afterward tallted with tho Secretary, tun President cordially endorsed tho terms and wutimeut of Mr. Gresham's demand upon Spain for an apology. LI HUNG CHANG'S MISSION. Four Point I'pon Which ('bin i' Fc-v e Envoy v Jinipowei-ed to Negotiate. Official a Ivies have been received ntating that tho powers of Viceroy LI Hung Chang' the Chinese Pence Commissioner to Japan, are to ncgotiato upon four points: 1. The Independence of Korea. 2. A money in demnity. 3. Cession of territory. 4. Tho readjustment of treaty rela tions between tho two countries III logurd to commercial relations, extra-territorial juris diction and other matters previously cover--1 by treaties, wbi'di havo ben terminated by tho war. Li Hung Chang s eredentfulH u ad simply "to negotiate," but l.o is clothed . it li full powers for this purpose. Tho Japanese Government alr-a-ly !n .v t what credentials have b en give.i by the Cu--nse Government to I.I Hung (.'hang. Tie. . credentials are correct la form an 1 accept able to Japan. Marshal Prince Ivomaf.su has been ordered to proceed at oico to the front ai Commander-in-Chief of nil the Japanese armies. Count Matsukata has been appointed Minis ter of Finance to replace Mr. Watannbo, who has been made Minister of Roads, Hallways and Telegraphs. Count Kuroibi, wli.-v) portfolio lias been given to Mr. Walunribc, ha been named President of the Privy Coun cil. A DAD FIRE IN TOLEDO. Wall of n Itound House Falls and Many Firemen Hurled In the. Debris. Tho round bouse of tho Wabash Railroad In Toledo, Ohio, was burned, Tho fire caused tho loss of three lives und Injuries to nine persons, of whom oji'j probably wits fatally hurt. The property damage Is be tween $75,000 and $100,000, The list of the dea l is as follows: R. II. Bohlman, fifty-six, painter; sUull crushed; Internally Injured. John ji iwen, eighteen, a spectator; nkull cru-'ic I ; internally injured. J. J. Prefdon, thirty-five, car in.-spo.-tor; back broken and skull e; u bed. The walls of the building were rorifcl derd to be secure, and the brave fire lighters pressed ciose in towurd the building, the more effectively to combat the Hprea.li;ig flames. Suddenly the southeant wall, weakened bv the desf ni'-tlori of tho frame supports that connected it with tic root, fell out and buried a number of firemen under a Leap of smoking deb-i-. The round house was C',:r.pl"tey -r. -f.-e.), and tho six engines More 1 thorn W':r: r- n dcred practically useless. SPANISH TRGCPS DEFEATED. They Retreat, LmvIii;' T1i-t Hundred Killed and M ounded. The steamship Olivette nr. ire I at Port Tampa, Fla., from Cuba, bringing n --.s of a battle betwe.-.- th? ir.surgent.s aril G v rn ment troop.-, in v::i th tl.o l:.tt--r wre '::.-pebr-d to r"tr'-':'. Gcn r.-.i M : r,-;t 20'j0 troop-, n'.'n '. ")") Govoruui-nt lro'-ps under e jmmand of General i ii '. , v.-no were on tlcir war '.-':ii .'idle p.aha to J: -.yamo. T!e -,! ,ag -.-n'-;.t l.i.-t'-. i t wo l:'.u:." it';d t'.i" Govern-inr-.-.t troo' : v. - eo::.; .db; 1 tr retreat Hit the town of l;,i -i ;-. w.tii a Ivs of .ill a kllied and woti'.id-d. TI. iartr-; -t.t-.' Jo. s t.s reported to i. iv-j be'.:i . ,i l.iau sev u'y killed and wounded. Drowned by a Waterspout. Thirty mi!?. from Gadsden, Al t., rc-i. tho C josa River, a v. at -r ; out burst, flooding valley for th;-e miles and doing itnrr en-? da:nag. Many houses fb-aled from their foundations a i l n ue'i b ,n m was drowned. Ja-ob Alvcrson, farmer, his wit) and five-year-old wn all lo.-t tieur lives. Three men who were cutting timber in th-j valley wero thought to have perished. Children Killed by Whisky. The two children of Patrick J. Knoud, of Tuxedo Park, N. J., a boy aged five and a girl aged three, found a botti ) f their fa ther's whisky and drank free! of it. R .-t'i bocame intoxicated, an I the hit!-' girl, at tempting to go down f trurs, i' .l headlong, killing hcreeif. William Haver.-, of Norwabi, Conn., a brakeman. placed a b dti of rh.swy on th. dining room tabl e JI. s-m J i'n cs, n-- I five, and his little daughter Marguerite. a"0d four, were up before t:c others I.-.U morning aud drank a large 'p.'ui.uly of l.i contents. The boy died and no hopes wero entertained tor the little girl.
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