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t-.-Q '. V'.- " f- "" immMiM, 1 1 "' 11 1 1 -1 - - - . - 11 '. " 1 I : C 4 v . AN UNKNOWN CONTINENT. THE ANTARCTIC WOSLD AND ITS MYSTERIES. Some of tbe Features Which Are . Already Known of the Great Re j fiion Aboat the South Pole. As before long aa expedition may be ysent to explore tha antarctic world, the following, from Good Words aptly de scribe the character of the region: "The ice-bound character of these seas is due to the absence of any brisk surface cur ; rente. In the arctic regions the Gulf j Stream makes its general influence felt i far and wide, breaking-up the ice and i producing a constant circulation. It is ! tue we.have very scanty and imperfect f data of the oceanic circulation in the antarctic seas. , "Speaking in very general terms, and ! apart from theories, One thing is certain : There is a very steady northerly and easterly drift-current proceeding from the pole in the direction of New Zealand and Cape Horn, which is esti mated to flow at the rate of from twenty to, thirty-five miles a day ; on striking the coast of South '"America this current bifurcates, the stronger arm proceeding north and washing, the shores of Chili "and Peru reducing the, temperatures of countries), the weaker continuing ast aricUnoctn pa3ttape Horn, lhe course taken by an iceberg is ultimately east by north, and its rate of travel is about sixteen miles a day, except- in the locality of Cape -Horn, where icebergs take a more northerly course up to lati tude forty degrees south, when they re sume their easterly direction and reduce their rate of travel. The bergs, on being detached from the place of their forma tion, are floated away at a rate not ex ceeding three-quarters of a mile anhour. Carried first to the westward and sub sequently to the north and east, they are-met iwith, the first season after their separation, about seventy miles north of the barrier This fact seems to prove the existence of what is known as the antarctic drift current, whicn flows to ward the north. "The beautiful displays of the aura australis have been noted by all an tarctic voyagers. They differ from the same phenomenon in the arctic regions, in the length of the. vertical beams being greater, their appearances and" disap pearances being more frequent and sud den resembling flashes of light and from their being often quite colorless. Lieutenant "Wilkes, who witnessed one very beautiful display, thus describes it: 'It exceeded anything of the kind I had heretofore witnessed ; its activity was in conceivable, darting from the zenith to the horizon in all directions, in the most brilliant coruscations; rays, proceeding as if from a point In the zenith, flashed in brilliant penciling? of light, like lparks of electric fluid in vacuo, and re appeared again to vanish, forming themselves into one body, like an um brella or fan, shut up; again emerging to flit across the sky with tha rapidity so light, they showed all the prismatic .colors at once, or in quick succession. So remarkable were the phenomena that even our sailors were constantly ex claiming in udmiration of its brilliancy. The best position in which to view it was Dy lyin; flat upon the deck and looking up.' "lne ves:etatle kingdom, under such unfavorable physical conditions, has no icuieoeuittHves iu auiurcuc Janus, xcerc are enormous quantities of diatoms, . mi croscopic , plants belonging to many genera and species, which afford the chief food supply for the marine animals. ; 'Tho marine animals prey one upon the I other, according to their position in the I scale ot creation, all being eveatually ; nourisneu oy.iue minute lmusonai or- : ganisms filling the ocean in such incon ceivable numoers. On the ice and in the water are innumerable seals. Three species were observed by Ross, and they ' varied considerably in their size and coloring. Their colors ranged from a dark gray, beautifully marbled with spots and stripes of a much darker hue, to almost uniform white. The largest in size, which were much less numerous than the smaller species, were armed with f ormidible tusks by which, and from the shape of their head, they re sembled the polar bear; and they "are equally dangerous animals to approach. The largest killed by the expedition un der Ross weighed 850 pounds, and yielded sixteen gallons of oil; it was nearly twelve feet long and six feet in circumference, and its stomach was found to contain twenty-eight pounds offish. The middle sized seal, called the see leopard from the markings on its fur, as well as the white antarctic seal, are so tame that they may be approached and killed with impunity. "Then there are sea lions and sea ele phants which have been seen in great numbers south of the Horn. The sea lions of the female sex fiercely protect their young, the males endeavoring to intimidate intruders by their roars of lusty deSance. The gashes seen on them . bear evidence of savage encounters among themselves. Of the marine pro duce, however the most important to our fisheries is the whale. Whales have been seen by all antarctic - voyagers, though their numbers have more recently been greatly diminished by the activity rf tho wlinlinw vocaola Thnirnrp almost exclusively of the fin-back species and oMofW h.iinf thn nonV nrfo-x. Pnmo nf those seen by Hoss, espfcially to the J 8aS J powerand the wear and tear south of the Falklands, wire of enormous! of machinery.! : The only other electric size, and sometimes so tamo that they j crape 1;DOW 13 ia an Ingush foundry. did not even get.out of the way of the j Soldipr rantPPn ship's keel. Grampuses are also' to be j " lue ol(liei canteen, met with. Penguins abound on sea and i The canteen is- a sort of soldier's clab, land, their crv frequently being heard ' a place where ;he-can go for amusement, above the storm at places as remote as and where he can find a book or game 10v) miles from any known shore; they j to entertain him, or a luncheon to re are very large birds, varying in weight ! fresh him. , It has been established in from sixty to seventy -five pounds and I the EDgliaharmy for a number of years, they feed chiefly off the crustaceous ani- ; and has. worked successfully, and. for mals. On being opened, from two to i four orffive years thcre'have been can te'n pounds of pebbles have frequently i teens -at? a number of posts in our own been dislodged from the stomach. White country. .They are no longer an experi petrels, which frequent the pack and I mentr but they have hitherto been run thu3 give warning on the approach of ! very carelessly and without any definite any large body of ice, stormy petrels, and syste'm, and the recent order was framed blue petrels are found in great numbers: Mgive them a better. official basis. The and sooty albatrosses, Cape pigeons, skua ' canteen; ought to take the place ,.0f the gull3 and other oceanic birds are also met ! post-trader's . store, which is a nuisance wun in cons-iderable numbers. In fact, . at any post. The post-trader is not sup sea and air are full of life. ; ' posed to sell anv alcoholic drinks, but it the most interestiD2 v. natural v Trspv,t and characterfstif. features oi the antarctic reeions.Thp - voyager, on leaving the temperate, ' zone to penetrate into the frozen waters of the far south, would require toffave a very considerable knowledge of naviga tion amoDg ice as his chief .'eipment, and in order to make any length of i there he would need a vessel of more than ordinary strength, capable of with standing an occasional nip' ; from the battering rams of the dangerous floes, v What is the life history of these float ing ice islands and icebergs? They are all shed from thej, parent icecap, that .surrounds the pole. Extremes of frost and the gradual projection of the. icecup into the sea are the causes of their dis ruption. Here, f Or centuries perhaps, the great icecap grows and moves like a liviDg thing. Each season a fresh layer of snow 13 added to its thickness, which the rays of the sun convert into ice morv or less solid. Slowly the huge cumbrous mass moves over the lower lying lands and (through the valleys toward the sea, grinding under its enor mous weight rocks and boulders, which, from the cohesive nature of ice, it some times gathers up and conveys along with it; and this debris is eventually de posited on the sea bottom. "The coloring of the bergs is magnifi cent. The general mass closely resem bles loaf sugar ; the caves, and crevices are of the deepest and purest azure blue; at night they emit a luminous glow, and there arc reasons to believe that many are to a certain extent phos phorescent. Like ;he bergs of the arctic eeas they are bounded by perpendicular clii?s on .all sidesj Some of them are more than two miles and some as many as four miles nn! circumference, while bergs four miles In diameter have also been seen. They ot aboat 17.1 feed 'JO per cent.' of their volume being sub nerged." SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. s x elctspar has been successfully imi. tated by two European scientists. - j ! The electric traveling crane in 5Iihn0r : apous nas a capacity oi iwenxy tons;T In many localities in the Alp3 slates j are quarried into ,the tertiary formation; ; An electric car line to the top of Mis- j sionary Kidge in Tennessee is proposed. mree nun area mues an -nour is tne proposed .speed (for the electric postal railroad of the future. The new electrical signal apparatus for ships' use is said to be a perfect marvel of mechanical ingenuity. Lieutenant Patten, United States army, is said to have' devised a promising method for synchronous telegraphy. A powerful hammer is used in Eng- landtoperated by a mildly explosive mix ture of common coal gas ami atmospheric air. . j ,'. Simplicity and accuracy are the chief characteristics of the popular new engine room eiectricai leiegrapu m rmgusu men- of-war. ' J It has been calculated that not less than 20,000.000 i of meteors each large enough to be visible as a "shooting star," enter our atmospnere daily." . inree classes ot men nave been re quired for the accomplishment of sci .entific tnumphs-the investigators or dis coverers, teachers and popularizcrs. Of the total area of California" about one-third is susceptible of sufficient cul tivation to sustain a moderately dense population without the aid of irriga tion. . Professor Max Muller hold? that, ac cording to the I strict rules of positive philosophy, we have no right to assert or ; deny anything With reference to tho so- cuweu uunu oi animais. Dr. Le Baron' an eminent physician of J? ranee, says tnat such a thing as a per son having a snake or lizard in his stomach was never known and never will be. All such cases have been imacinarv. The plate rollng mill at the St. Jacques works, cf Chattillon Coramentry, in F ranee, has cylinders 32S feet in diame ter and nineteen feet long, with a total weight of 55,000 pounds each. They are soon to be made capable of rolling fagots five feet thick and ingots weigh ing more than 110,000 pounds. ! A new and ingenious scheme for sink-: ing a shaft through sand, silt, and wet, ; siusny grounds, and excavating it like j rock has been successfully tried in Bel- gium. Large iron tubes are sunk in the j sand or mud about three feet apart, and m inese tuoes smaller tubes are inserted, through which circulates a cool solution of magnesium) chloride. The sand is frozen for a distance of three feet around the tubes. It resembles rock, is hard and compact, and can be excavated in the same manner aSj rock. It is possible that the process can also be used to advan tage, in the digging of foundations where water and sand are sources ;of trouble, or-for cutting tunnels under the beds of rivers. . ' Age wt electric crane ever built in the united States has just been Iniro- auced in the foundrv of E. P Allis & yo., oi Milwaukee, Wis. It is a pon derous affair, weighing thirty tons, and is capable of lifting and carrying to any part of the foundry, with ease, a weight of twenty-five tons. The crane is a bridgelike affair, suspended on tracks built on each side of the foundry, near the ceiling. It is provided with three electric motors. One moves the crane from one end of the loundry to the other, another moves the carriage with which tho crane is provided from one side of the foundry to the other, and the other iucs the lifting . machinerv. ltsiadvan- tage per the ordinary .power tra cage, which it resembles somewhat traveling is a 1 is -.inrlonhtefl v true that nreat nnsntities nf snph art? sold dailv under thfi name of .wine or beer, which are allowed. At ' the canteen nothing but light wine or i beer can be1; sold, and ho gambling can i be. carried on in any form. In this wav ! it is hoped to root out a little of the evil ; in the army. Wa!7ihgt?n Star. ' PtANCHES), LOPPED HER THERE AND EVER WHERE. KEW ESTERPKISES-!-: VEXESTS OF BELTGIOUS BODIES AFFaAjYS, MISHAPS, ETC. ESDUS- TRIAL ITEMS 50 AtiABJUIA. Policeman John Manning, went to ar rest, a negro named Vanny :- Jones on;, a warrant on Sunday.'-When. Manning' said : "Sandy, I want y on," the negw replied, "No you dotf tQ seized a Win-.' Chester rifle and .sho iAIanning dead. Sandy fired through Hl t door at three:, other policemen outsideand then dashed off to liberty. i ' T William Dallas, a yoiing colored man, employed at the Sloss JFunices at "Bir mingham, on TJiursday,5v f all into one oi the furnaces, and was buried to ashes' in a few moments.. He wa doing some work at the top of the furnace, when he suddenly lost Lis balance ud ' fell in backwards. He had only thfce to uttei a despairing shriek. " ! A fight to the death, in a dark room occurred at Blocton on Thursday night, between two miners named Jim Brown and Fayette Davis, in which the former was killed. The two men roomed to. gether and quarreled about a loaf o! bread. Thev commenced fishtincr and overturned the lamp, which was extinT guisnea. Aiteir a long ngm lavis suc ceeded in drawing his pistol and shoot ing Brown dead. Davis escaped. ;- About. eight Weeks ago, the body of J. W. Meadows, a railroad man. was found , about two miles from Birmingham. Sev eral parties were arrested for the crime but no evidencje against them being ob tained, they were released. On Thurs day, four negroes were arrested, and it is believed enough evidence has been secur 3d to convict tjhem .cf the murder. Their aames are Lawrence Johnson, Henry Joe, Lindsy Malachy and Gilbert Lowe. Upon the person 'of one of them was found the watch and scarf pin of the murdered man and .a number of pictures and photographsl which he was known to have had in ht pockets. AKiANSAS. Hon. C. R la'eckenriage, congrress- man-elect from the 2nd district, visited Little-Rock on Thursday'to confer with the governor about the efforts being made to catch the Clayton murderers. The congressman told the governor to let him know when he needed ; funds, to speak as often as he needed money, for all -he needec and he i(Breckenridge),' would undertake to go over the 2nd dis trict and raise as many thousands of dol lars as was needed, to exhaust all human efforts to bring the guilty tojustice. FLORIDA. Fred Douglas, the well-known colored orator, was tt e guest of the colored peo ple at Jacksonville on Thursday. - A procession numbering five hundred, in eluding the military companies, escorted him from the station to the Sub-Tropical Exposition, where he delivered a short address, congratulating the colored peo ple of Floridja upon their progress since Emancipation. Ex-President Cleveland and party ar rived at Jacksonville on Thursday by the Plant steamer, from Enterprise, which stopped enro Lite at Orange Grove and the winter residence of H. B. Plant," at Fort Gates. An informal breakfast wai given them. No speeches or toasts were offered. Th s breakfast over, the party took carriages aud visited the Sub-Trop-; ical. "I ma ic-a prediction,". taid'Mr. Cleveland, "and it is this: Jacksonville is destined to be. one of the finest cities in the Sout i, and next year you will have a trerxeudous influx of Noithefn visitors, for ! very one who comes here goes away w th regret," and I assure yoti that I only wish I could linger longer.7 geVugia. '' Joshua Burt z ard W. C, Houston, of Atlanta, have been arrested on a charge to liberate Keveire. tne Store Mountain murderer. They have carried on aiji employment bureau in At lanta for some time; -' x Blain. from Mc- Intosh countv. ieii irom a " j - o - - . raft at the iWpelflTT TTorn roundmer." near Darien, ,i lu.vj ; y V A HtJro'h'i Tlfl was drowned, being washed under .the mass of huge, timbers, upon which he was ! standing at time ie accidentally lost his equilibrium. A chase and duel with pistols occured in Augusta,i between a negro fugitive and a policeman. Tom Joues was one of the hands . employed by Contractor Redmond in his work on the canal after the break in the embankment last tall. One Sunday, at Redmond's camp, near the canal, some of the men became in volved in a row, and Tom Johnson shot one of his fallow-workmen, and succeed ed in making his escape. Policeman Holly heard of Johnson's j resence in Harrisbunrj a suburb, and went to arrest him on Sunday. When Johns-on saw tha poiiceman about to arrest him, he drew his pistol ind . fired. Policeman Holly fired in, his turn, but did not wound Johnson. LOUISIANA. Confederate Memorial Day in !Xew Orleans, was celebrated with great pomp on Saturday. At the foot of the Lee monument Mis Winnie Davis, . the daughter qjf the Confederacy, and Mist MilU-red LCe, greeted the veterans, and received the floral tributes dedicated tc the great dorumander of the Confederate armies. , SOUTH CAROLINA. At YorkVille on Thursday, Charles Colston, John C. Feaster, and Charles McMenus, all colored, were tried for the murder of W. C. Abernathy, white. Colton and Feaster were convicted and McManus was acquitted. The Jenkins Rifles are on guaru at the jail, but lynch ing is not feared, as the people are satis fied with the verdict. ; ; . . - i ? : west Virginia. ; At Charleston, a snow storm prevailed. A heavy snow is reported from the moun tains accompanied by thunder and light ning. It promises to be the deepest of the Winter.. ..i ' . . ... " TEJf T " A law and order. meeting took action in the-naatter of, the jso-called - White Caps i c Knoblick and Cygnet, - who wardtforeign born, workinginen to eave the tjounty, was captured by gangs LTrondfeose two towns. The gangs iecteu -OLUrs ana aeciareu againsi pui 4ihing he-lawlessness existing in : St. I'rancis county. Shortly after midnight a terrific explosion occurred in front of Gen. McCormick's residence, the shock jarring all the houses in the neighbor hoodf All outsiders at ! the meeting carried dynamite in sticks in their pock ets.; iThe general is ongf the leaders of the movement against tSeVfaite Caps. There ia a white woman, Mr Mary Layele living four mites from : C6?r.e, who inline next, wDl'be H4 yearsT 51d., The , extensive grist xkiill of . W. H. .Thorn, jiear Littleton, . was completely destroejd by fire on Suoday night. It is thought to be the work of an ducen- IGovemor Fowle has, Yssued a death warrant for.lhe execution of Eli Ward, a negra buglar, at Jacksdn, iTorthamp'on county, May 30. Wardi;set fire to the jail recent and is now in jail atrllniifax. His "execution will be public an l will be the fourth during the present year. Clfas. M. Dudley," a white man, was instantlv killed on Thutsdav at . Wil mington, on board the old bark Albados. A colored man, John Johnson, had his thigh crushed. The accident was caused by the falling of the ship's mninyard from a height of thirty fettto the deck. On Thursday night the planing mills belonging to John M. Wilson, atWil son's Mills, together with a large .ware house adjoining, were burned. The Richmond and Danvill depot was also destroyed. The main line of track was so warped that trains could not pass un til it was repaired. The loss on the mill amounted to about $25,000. James' -Wallace went into the mill during flie fire for his tools and was burned to death. j . Details were received on Sunday in Raleigh, concerning the remarkable c se of the cutting off of the ears of a lad, name,d Curtis, in Haywood county. It appears that Palmer, who committed the crime, was engaged in illicit distilling, and having reason to suppose that young Curtis had reported him, made a threat that he would carry Curtis's ears in his pocket. Meeting Curtis Saturday night, Palmer knocked him down, and whiltt his victim was insensible cut his ears off close to his head -. '-u v! TENNESSEE. " Sheriff Greenlee, of Granger county, was shot and instantly Skilled while at tempting to arrest John Woltbargen, an escaped convict from the penitentiary. In a collision of tvo freight trains, two miles South of Nashville, on the Decatur division of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad,, . oiu Thursday, M. L. Eby and.' Earnest fC. Greenj both brakeman, were intantlkilled, and Al bert Fin ck had his , back0 broken. The trains were running at about twenty-five miles an hour at the time of the acci dent. .fAni adjacent curve prevented the engineers seeing each other till it was too late. . " . ' - ' ' The citizen of EastJ Kasnvifle were both surprised and indignant on awaken ing Sunday moaning to find a railroad track laid . across First street. Some week's sincc,stveralmanufacturers, whose plants are located along the river front, petitioued ! the Louisville & Nashville Railway Company to extend a spur from the-main line down to the river, so they might load and unload cars right at their warehoused To this proposition the rail road people acceded, with the condition that the rijht of " way be secured from the c ty. The citizens objected but the common council granted the request. One of the boldest schemes for robbing the county treasury has just been un earthed at Miirfreesboro, by Attorney General Moses Priest. Ia looking over the cost of maintaining the county, his attention was attracted to the fact that costs had been allowed to over 800 cases for burying paupers during the last year. These figures being somewhat large for a county of less than 20,000 in habitants, he began an investigation with the result, that not one-tenth of that number of actual paupers had died dur ing the year. One woman, according to the books had been buried three times, and is yet alive and well, in the town ot piunreesporo, ( THE FARMERS MEETi "Millions for cotton baggingnot ont cent for jute." That is to be the farm ers' shibboleth in Georgia for the coming campaign. By almost unanimous and a very enthusiastic vote, the 'Farmers' Alliance of Georgia, representing 80,000 farmers, in session at Atlanta, Ga., on Thursday, resolved that they would use cotton bacrginff for the baling of tneir cotton and would not use iute under anv circumstance. It is said that three- fourths of the delegates came from their countv alliances instructed to vote for cotton baajrtnc: under any and all circum- stances, i While this obstructed impar tial consideration, it gives enthusiasm nrifl fcirnt'Rf ness to the movement. The sizs of the bale will remain unchanged. An attempt was made to reduce the bale to 250 pounds, so that lighter osnaburg would would hold it, but this was not done. Such a change woull nave re quired a chancre of presses, " compresses, and a large amount of farm machinery, which the Alliance did not think best to undertake. 15 is tne old size bale in a new style dress that has been determined on. And now it is a question of endur ance and courage between the farmers and their plunderers. , - HE OBSERVED IT. Representatives of every C ;iety inj New York city, were Catholic so- CietV irii-ew ior cuv, wcruurtsscuiBm . M m-ieting held oa Tnursday night to ton- sider what part the Catholic citizens should take in the Washington Centen nial Celebration. Judge Daily said that there were many reasons why Catholics "should honor the memory of Washing ton. He never failed to ' observe St. Patrick's day in the time of the Revolu tion, anJ on ths day the British evacu ated Boston. . "St., Patrick" was the watchword given to the army. GllEAT :, WORLD OUTSIDE. EPITOME' OF, M OS T; ' IN TERES T- V" ING MA TTERS.1. ' ' OBSAT XABOB - AGITATIOX SrEIXa " STOBMS DEATHS OF PBOMIJTEST PEOPli ACCIDENTS. , FIBES, SHCrBES, ETC . - V - The cruiserj Charleston at San Fran cisco, Cal.,..is almost ready for sea. . . Forty houses were unroofed in Balti more, Hd.", on Wednesday by a storm. , ' Bridgeton,.N. J. j was visited by a Se vere cyclone - on Wednesday; houses aud windows being blown down. ; Xenia. Ohio, is excited over the at tempt of a mob of negroes to lynch Sher- man jacKsou, wno stabbed r rauK i.aw rence to death at a dance. '' By completed , returns of , the , Rhode. Island election. the Senate" stands: ' Re publican, 2 1; Democrats. 11; with four to be elected. The House stands : 23 Republicans, 37 Democrats ; 12 yet to be elected; ( ' . Advices received at Brussels, Belgium,' from Stanley. FallJ state that the Arabs who have arrived there, report .that Henry M. Stanley and Emm Pasha we re heard from in February, They were then marching towards Zanzibar with several thousand men, women -and children. They had 6,000 tusks of ivory.. . i- i The British man-of-war Calliope, .which escaped possible destruction in Apia Bay during the ravages of the cy clone by being able' to t put- to sea has f arrived at . Sydnev, New South Wales' She reports leaving. Sanioa on the'21st of March, and that the United States man-of-war Nipsic had been floated off of the beach, the natives lending material as sistancej , . Polie'e Lieut. John M. Haines, of Chi cago. III., was held to the grand jury in bonds of $3,000 by Judge Altegeld on Thursday, on a charge preferred by Law yer Frank H. Collier, who identified the lieutenant positively as , one of the two men who lured Collier, of the La Salle club, by a bogus telephone message one night during the recent political excite ment, and sand-bagged him in the dark. The recent hurricane in the South Pacific ocean Swept over 1,200 geograph ical miles, embracing in its track the Hervey and Society groups of, islands. The American ship. Red Cross, from New South Wales, for San Francisco, was driven ashore at Baratonga and wrecked. The crew was saved. The American ship, Ada Owen, was wrecked at Ouara. Her crew was saved. Wreck age from the British' ship Suakim, from New South Wales; for San Francisco, was seen at Aitutaki. No doubt the crew perished. . - A hurricane started on Tuesday in Aberdeen, Dakota, and continued all day. Roofs were blown off the Park Place hotel and other buildings. The storm in several places had the added terror of fire.. Yankton, Dak., reports that Volin,J a station on the Northwestern Road, was burned. A thousand tons of hay were burned, arid all the barns in the place. The fire invaded the large attle corral and forty .Or fifty cattle were D:.aiy jyurnea, tne rest; breaking tnrougn the . enclosure- and cscarrinsr. The de struction was caused by a prairie fire. The French Chamber of Derjuties. bv a, vote of 306 to 236, rejected the Senate's proposal, to prosecute summarily all papers guilty of libelling government officials. M'. Cocarde says that . Gen. Boulanger being warned Tuesday that the fjOvernment was wrenarincr for a coup, arranged so that he would not fall into the government's hands and left the city. The police are mystified. " The general,'- adds Cocarde, "will appear when duty requires him. It is our im pression tuat he has hidden temporarily, perhaps in Brussels.'.' In the Reichstasr, on - Wednesday, the naval secretary, referring to the loss of the German warships in the recent hur ricane at Apia, Samoa, said that the re port of the German officer in command there did not show that the lives or prop erty of Europeans were endangered and he was sure that the British warship Caliope would not have left Samoa if the position had been criucal. He an nounced 'tnat the s government intended to replace the wrecked German vessels as soon as possible, a the United States vernment was about to send three cruisers to take the place of the Ameri can warships that had been lost- . UNIQUE THEFT. Moiles .Brothers, of Detour, Mich. , who are largely engaged in lumbering ia that vicinity, have packed up their goods to leave for Canada. Hard & Hornistein, of Buffalo, N. Y held a mortgage of $45,000 on the mill of the firm and it was due in a few days. Recently, the tug Dowlmg, towing two vessels frgm Sagi naw, lauded at Detour after a five day?s rough trip, presumably for a cargo of lumber, but at night a hundred men, concealed in the boat, came ashore and began removing the machinery of the mill and movable -Dropertv on board. All was loaded except the boiler, and work men began tearing down the mill. The sheriff received notice to stop operations at any cost, but no authority was sent. Telephone and telegraph wires were cut in three places. ... All was loaded by midnight, and the tug vessels were oa their way to Spanish river, Canad:;, where the firm has lately purchas' d a site, before legal papers could be pro cured to slop mm. ; , WHIPPED THE FIGHT, After a vigorous fiyht in Oskaioosa, fichi Kansas, the female candidates lor city offices won the day by sweeping msjon- lies. At Cottoiwood Falls,. Kaiuas, hc ladies were also triumphant, Mrs. Minnie Morgan being elected mayor with all the members of the council of Tiei sex. The contest for the mayoralty, at Leavenworth lay between D. R. Anthony, Republican, and L. U. Hacker, Demo crat. 1 Susan B. Anthony, sister ofthe Republican candidate, worked hercicallj for him. but Hacker was elected by about . 2.500 maiority. Nearly . 4,000 women voted during the dav. most oi them casting their ballots for Hacked. - SAVANNAHS MISFORTUNE. About 7 o'clock on Saturday niaht. i Lfire broke out fn the show window of D1 "Ht Hdgah's dry -goods" stored x?orner-oCJ Btbtighton nd Barnard streets; in- Savan v nau,-;Ga.wliiieJ a: man was lighing.; ga .jet,;U A, i. moment plater thefire had run to almost every part ofi the" building, land thote in'itliad barely time to escape with iheir lives. ,; The fire eoznmunicated tb the -crockery store of Jas H. Douglas &lCo.,. immediately east of Hogan's, and it was all ablaze in a jiffy. The high wind prevailing "con triLuted tot spread ' the' flames,' and there Was no posabilit v -of checking it. ' The fire then, jumped 4q the. iour-story brick, building known as Odd Fellows' Hall, It was .totally tles troyed. It represents a loss of $125,000. "Among its occupants" was , the Young Men'a Christian Association and several storekeepers on the. ground floor.. , .The air , was, filled with spark?, one "of whicb lodged on the steeple of the Independent Presbyterian Church, 'borner Bull and - South-Broad streets, four or five blocks from the starting point of the fire, Th church was totally destroyed, as was also .its handsome Brick Sunday School bujld ing, and four or five contiguous dwell ings.' The city bus only four fira engines, and as all were needed , in the business part of. the city no. atrempt was made to' fight the fire at the church. The loss of tue church, chapel and ' contents was $200,000 At . midnight the fire was under control. .The fire swept away all the structures on the east side of Whitta ker street, between ' York and? South Broad. It also swept along the - north side of South Broad from Whittaker.east to within one house of Bull 'street, the structure left standing being - a ; large brick residence owned by Dr. Dave Hopps, which covers a' site which the gdvernmeiit r once 4 endeavored "J tc buy as a location for the United States court' .and , , postoffice buildings. Broughton street, the main shopping street, was swept from a middle point io the southern block, between Whittakei and Barnard, for over a hundred yards West, crossing Barnard. State street is swept from Whittaker to Barnard, and across Barna rd half way to Jefferson, a distance of nearly 200 yards. Goinp south, the building next to the Whitfield was destroyed, then Hanley's blind and sash factory, and the- Guard's arsenal. Next comes York street. This was swept for nearly two blocks from a point 100 feet west of Bull. The entire block west of Bull on South Broad street on the north side, is destroyed, except Dr. Hopp's residence, Opposite is the block on which the Presbyterian church is ; situated. The parsonage was saved. Hull street is south of South ' Broad. ' The' Sunday-School building and Captain Flannery's resi dence and one other on the west,are ruins. The fire was unique in its jumps, and in its selection of the city's choicest archi tecture. From Hogan's building to the Presbyterian church, is a quarter of a mile. The flames overleaping all inter vening buildings, seized Upon the his toric structure, so that little wooden j houses right alongside the flames were J in . several instances entirely ignored, i Beginning with a tall building, the j sparks selected edifices of equal alti tude, the strong wind preventing theu descent. The shower of sparks fell in great flakes in the southeastern part of the city, a mile distant. The falling oi the walls of. the arsenal, and other - tall erections, created the sound of tremend ous explosions. The loss was first re ported at $1,500,000, but later, the losses were definitely ascertained to be within $750,000. The insurance is $500,000. TELEGRAPHIC, Cashier B. P. Pratt, cashier of the Aronka, Minn., bank, . has taken "a vaca tion to Canada, with about $50,000 of of bank's money to defray expenses. The heaviest mow storm of the season prevailed at Pittsburg, Pa. on Saturday. The snow fall is about eight inches, but in the. mountains the railroad men report from eighteen inches to. two feet. , Two passenger trains, each drawn by two engines, collided on lhe Santa Fe Railroad, at Trinidad, Col. The four engines were piled in a heap, and one of the express cars telescoped. An un known man was killed, and another is missing. , ,r V The extensive ax, shovel and saw fac tories of Hubbard & Co., m Pittsburg, Pa., were burned on Sunday, entailing a loss of $500,000. The firm employed 250 men. who will be thrown out of em ployment pending the re-building of the plant, which will be done at once. Ex-Governor Porter, of Indianapolis, Ind., recently appointed minister to Ita- ly, is quite ill at his residence, and his ohvsician will not permit anvone. except members of his family, to see him Three days ago he. took a long walk, and when he returned, his fett were so swol len that be could hardly remove his shoes. The next morning the skin began to peel off and grrat and continuous pain followed. - The Secretary of the Navy, B. F. Tracy, inspected the harbor of Philadel phia, Pa.. Knd alter wt.rd visited, the League Island navy yard. As the tug neared it, a pull of wnite smoice rose f rdnx the bow of. the dynamite cruiser, Vesuvius and followed; by a loud report. The officers upon the new cruiser were s imting tne oecretary oi me Navv with the dynamite guns, the first salute of tho kind ever given, first regular firing of the gui and the the cruiser. Emweror Uliaro, of Germany, has written Admiral Goeltz, chief of the ad miralty, expressing confidence that the recent disaster at oamoa win cot rctaru the development cf the navy. He keeps the admiralty busily engaged m supply ing him witrr- reports, detailing the con struction and . condition of every war ship. . Since "the; English Parliament voted the addition of 70 ships to the navy, his ma jest j 'a attention centers ex- clusively upon admiralty attairs. - ine emperor freely expresses the determina tion to make Germany a naval power of the first rank. ' - COTTON. The increase in amount in sight as compared with last year, i3 62,299 the increase ai compared with 1886 bales, 1886-87 is 447,983 bales, and the increase over 1883 S0 is 494,201 bales. PBTBfiEgfiOEi B. tuts 14t I. i The three orficra- menUohed i-likely to': succeed Ad jtl-Gen. - DrUm' "-sof the . army are'Cols. John C. KelfohyfWilliira . D. Whipple and: Chauhcfey teKeeTr.: Col. JCelton, however asthe rsmkin gf colonel ol the porps, Is consldeif edflbst -likely to sebure. the" coveted osiU6nV . i -The President made the foilQwirigL7ap pomtmetsr.EbenSRattl of .Maine to be; appraiser jrmeicnandise . in. the district of Portland and -'Tatmoulb -Maine; George C. Sturgisi of West Vix- ginia, to be attorney of he. UnitediStatea for the district of West Virginia. , .... . . : i A, heavy snow, wind, and :rain , stqrm prevailed in Washington Ion Saturday.; The rain, which began fal ling- torn e ihnq before daylight ? att.a&out'ff rVQlck changed to snow, aud;s' front nbt.iour until after dark, -the -aitwas-dense with great akes driven before' a strong north Wind.:" 4 ' -:T'-f KMirsi , The immediate "relatives of ' trrosewho : lost thcir.lives in the great' storm rinvSa moa, will be entitled to - pasjqES.,uner . the genetal law The peniiqa , js $6 tperi month for a seaman's widpwahd.f 2jpen month for each dhild ilndfer -(f ;yea"rjf of age. ' Congress will probably- alsJii pais a' special act makingrimlmrBtjticp.t foj(he ellects and baggage of officers ancjroeif v -lost in the wrecks. - This was done in the case of the" Huron, which went down on - the Hatteras ' coast about' nflftfeeo ryeara - ago. ,:vV aw The Aen delegates, .that, aie .3to -ijerv United., (States uit .theIn" Conference " to' be hela . at - resent the ternational Washington this Fall,' will have plenty : of interesting imd importaht wotkitaAlo' The nations Represented i will. i;eiitho United States, Mexico, ,the jQentrl 4and South American RepublicsJ'llav.U. San Domingo and Braeil. The confrAtces was suggested by Mr. Blaine in lS8tr and among the "subjects "will be propo sals for the establishment of internation al arbitration, uniform coinage, weights and. measures, customs and tariffs, and ' plans for the more frequent and conven ient .interchange of commerce. The Washington anniversary of the American Tract Society was celebrated in the Church of the Convent at Wash ington on Sunday. Justice Strong pre- sided. .Rev. Dr. Sherer, secretary, read an extract of the year's operations, show ing the total receipts (one agency being estimated) at $290, 000 ;the expenditures a. little short of that sum. About 150 new publications wereadded. .Printing done m New York m 30 languages, and abroad in 150 languages or dialects. Donations and l2gacie8, about $75,000. Over forty five million pages of tracts were distrib uted gratuitously. About 200 colporteurs are. employed, and over. $10,000 abroad in cash and publications. "FATAL DISEASE, sen; The terrible mortality of Rio Janerio," Brazil continues. Rio appears to be rap idly progressing toward the condition. of a pest house, and the" . deaths aver age 150 a day. The epidemic is no longer yellow fever, which disease, indeed, i rapidly declining, but an uncomprc hended malady, termed there perniciou attack," which strikes ,down its victims, almost wholly males, "tucSvfT" proves fatal within a few hours' jn age or condition is exempt. Brazilians are as liable as the most recent immi grant, and on one day forty-five persons perished from it, yellow." fever contrib uting the comparatively, small contin gent, of twenty-four to the day's m.,r "tality. '': .'; ." .'. THE CHINESE IDEA. Won Kwang Pei, formerly of. the Chi nese embassy to Washington, is advo cating in China, the expulsion of every American in the service of China, as a reprisal for the exclusion of Chiuxmen from America. In a memorial tid-iress on the subject, he. refers with exempt to the American navy, which he declares would be powerless in nn aggressive movement, and ould eatily Le hipped iy the Chines-e inr.ciads. THRE ATENED SHOOTING. The mayor of Leicester, England, le ceived an anonymous letter warning him that a plot had been arranged to thoot the prince of Wales when he attended the race meeting, therel Though lhe authorities placed but little credence in the statement of the writer ol the letter. they took every precaution to insure the safety of bis royal highness. ' Hare njid Honnth. . . Kext to f oot-ballr the most important imusement or shall I say work? at Bngby is hare-and-hounds. Every boy " js obliged to go on these runs just as he js obliged to play foot-ball, unless, ol course, his physician has forbidden him k take this exercise. ; There are whaf -ire called "house" runs and "big side" runs, or those in which the whole school is represented. Ia the former, ths smaller boys are helped by the older5, so that they have an easy enough time but on the, latter "every man for jhini self is the rule of the day. The runi are necessarily made every year over the same ground, and in whichever di rection the boys go, they must crosi "plowed field or green meadows, with jheep scattering to every side; the must leap over hedges and brooks, mount little hills and jump ditches. AnijJ fortunate they are, indeed, if the sun chines and the grass is dry and th roads hard: ,f or, in rainy England, in the winter and early spring, the chancel are that rain or fog will add to the triali of a run. . : Tiresome as the runs are,' tho boyg find- real pleasure in them. There 15, for example, all the pride of coming in first, of gaining a reputation as ii" run ner, or of being appointed the "holdej of the bags." These are the bags io which the "hares' carry their paper, oi scent, and are looked upon as syrat bols of authority. Elizabeth Rolini trenneii, in ot. j. whvuis ... t , mm