Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1890, Page 10

et 10 i ™ ss ¢ ; THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1890—-SIXTEEN PAGES. PORTERS AXD THEIR LOADS. Tmmense loads are carried on their heads by the porters. Six men will pick up a piano, sct iton their heads and jog off with it, keeping Perfect step and carrying their necks erect under what looks like crushing burden. Chairs—piles of them—marble-top wardrobes, all sorts of heavy things are set on their heads and generally there are only two men toa loud. It makes one’s neck ache to Ee ther, so the dress i ways warm weather. so in thin cotton elothes and. they seem to en; life and be a jolly set, but I suppose it is be- i Cleanly City, Too—Peculiarities of Its ume only the bods survive, as lon told that Horse Car System —Street Vendors and How death rate among infants ix from 70 to 80 ‘They Cry Their Wares--The Policeman's | Pet cent, but that once one reaches thirty years of age one is rally certain of long’ life. ‘War Whoop and What it Means. Wiaea. aoe uses , public buildings, especially the eustom house and post office on Bpecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. the First of March atrect. Rio Jaxeimo, November 10. ‘The honses are pretty because they always have a garden filled with blooming plants and LUXE AS USDULATING, curving ribbon of te jewels between the emerald green of palms, and anything would look pretty in euch ‘mire them. the forest-covered mountains and the deep 8 setting, otherwise I did not, adi Z The rootas are good sized and furniture made diue waters of the bay lies the city of Rio de Janeiro. Snrely never bad a city so lovely a from the Sine natural woods is much used and site before: the glorious sweep of magnificent very handsome. ee VALUABLE INVESTIGATIONS mountains around ite bay with farther | Comd@ucted by the Chemist of the Bureau of ranges showing behind them until the pipe-like Animal Industry. peaks of the organ range show blue and shadowy in the fur Everywhere that your eye turn you are on the bize buy or ashore, a lovely picture of mountains, forest, bine waters and gieaming white houses | —— THILE the investigations and discoveries greets you. And the forests that cover |W these mountains? They are ideal, not only of Dr. Koch in Berlin have been attract- ing the greatest atten! NOTES FROM BRAZIL. Beautiful Situation of Its Capital City, Rio de Janeiro, LOVELY SCENERY ABOUNDS. DR. ¥. SCHWEINITZ REACHES THE SAME RESULTS IN REGARD TO THE BACTERIA OF HOG CHOLERA AND SWINE PLAGUE 48 DR. KOCH IM THE MATTER: OF THE TUBEECULAR BACILLI. Tieh coloring, but also because of their acces: bility; because ore can walk about m them, | in this evjoy the trees, lowers, ferns and numberless | vestigations that are largely in te name diree- | strange growths as wellas those that are famil-| tion. Dr. Koch has been to work on the tu- iar to usand bring a ir ws | berevlar bacillus that makes so much trouble ence | inthe human family, while in this city Dr. le before us. | E. A. v. Schweinitz has been making a study of ¢ always longed | the clase of bacteria that causes the two dis- Nir | eases--iiog cholera aud swine plague. Each | F te, its *ppears to have been miecessful, though. of | tinent. No where | course, it takes time to demonstrate the entire | Town of moun- | success of such scientific discoveries. ra reel AN EVIL OF GREAT MAGNITUDZ. ashore war spent in the | Hog cholera is an evil of tremendous magni- large fine theater of Dom Pedro HL listening to | tude and does probably more harm to the farmers of the country than any kindred ill. | y has been devoting himself to in- and t t when warmes and drea of found the i'eai r that Hamlet given by an excelient Italian dramatic twoupe. | The statistics in the matter show that this dread CLEANLINESS OF THE CITY. bai uses a lows to farmers of the United Twas snrprivcsi at the cleanliness of the ity, # from $10,000,000 to $25,600,000 every | wn | Sar. Itis clear enough tha any one who ean place an obstruction in the way of such an epi- demic has not worked in vain. ; For along time past the bureau of animal industry in the Agricultural Department has been hard at work at the problem and Dr. V. Schweinitz, the chemist of the burean, hus at last succeeded in hunting down a preventive for the disease. The success of the discovery is ap- | parently assured. ie has | been studying the It may not be properly sewered, but it is clean i are wide. All| I paved with good sidewalks, and there jeut street car service. There rs—the opens ones, | | d appointed, in which one and must have shoes The second-class or bare- “hare closed, have # tariff of 5 These ears run on regular For over six months ra germ, and to a STAR ow the rails Inid down in the | reporter, who found in his laboratory at The horses and mules are good and | the department recently, he spoke very hope- enough of them to «raw the cars, so | fully of the probable results of his discovery. it is not necessary for the drivers to beat them and the company does not allow the men to beshigeasmaiyaen 6 601 does not allo en to} . * have whips. Crowding ia not allowed and |, “The work of Drs. Salmon and Smith,” said is full it will not stop for any one. | he. “was the pioneer work in preventive inocu- laas is a kind of open ear mounted | lation with other than some form of the germ Is and they all seem to start from | of the disease itself, and this recent work was, the iarge market down on the wharves at one | of course, under the advice and direction of fide of the Fraea da Marinhas. They have a | Dr. Salmon as head of the bureau of animal mation whick ix announced on a little | industry. Withont the careful bacteriological board which the conductor hangs on to the | study of hog cholera, which has beer made by root before starting. They also seem to have | the bureau of animal industry, this work would regular routes, but leave them at the request | have been impossible. From a scientific of any passenger. These carry the lowest | stundpoint our investigution has proved classes, chietly slaves aud street vendors with | very successful, though it ix tooearly, perhaps, therr heavy packages or baskets. of its practical working. ‘The cholera These street vendors are been located and studied, and here | ana I suppose the street trattic grew up when | in these little bottles you see its opposite, the women were so strictly confined to their | cholera preventive houses, an now these peddlers are almost en-| In the two bottles were a number of white | tirely depended upon for household supplies. at might have been any one ofa it is quits the proper thing to hang out of things, but that Dr. V. Schweinitz window or lean over the ed characterized ax poisons, one an alkaloid and ail the afterroon to watch the passers-by. We her an albm Continuing, he ex- took to is most kindly, and as strangers took « ere and how they were de- certaiz amount of latitude and spent nearly ail day on our balconies, enjoying the soft, warm the view of Corcovado mountain and life m streets. of your balecny HOW CHOLERA GERMS ARE OBTAINED. “The first thing to do, you must nnderstand, procure the cholera germ. This is taken STREET vEDORS. ‘ from the liver or spleen of a hog that has died When merchandise is carried in baskets they | of tlie disease. ‘The point of plutinum wire is | are hung by ropes to either end of a pole and | touched to the diseased portion a number | the pole balanced on one shoulder. Meat ix car- | of these microscopic germs ure attached to the | nied either in these or on a shallow tray, fish in | Wite. Then these germs are placed upon gela~ baskets and vegetabien the ame. The different | tine ina glass tube. This gelatine, of course, sized fish are put in different sized baskets and | has first to be sterilized or freed from all or- | these aze piled on top of one another in two | Stic life. This is done by heating to the boil- | ides before being attached to the pole. ‘The | iS point or higher. The gelatine tube is then | fish are in the tov basket. and T often |Pkced in the incubator, that is, an oven that | watched # vendor separate his baskets until he | ©20 be kept at the constant temperature reached the bottom one, where the fish were | the germs generate and increase #0 rapidly searcely more than minnows, to sell some to an | that before long they form quite a considera- ald man who had a shop opposite to our hotel | ble star-shaped substance in the gelatine and bought fres fish every morning for | “bY means of the wire a few of the his two peteats. It was great fun to watch | #Té transferred and placed in a quantity of beef him do his morning "marketing. Such | broth that has likewise been sterilized. This is | S fase ashe and the vendor would make over | Kept at a temperature of about 125 degrees the purchase of a bunch of turnips. « few red | aul the germsfecd on the broth and increase, peppers or some tiny tomators. They would | * that the liquid that was quite clear at firwt argue, quarrel scream and pull the contents {Seon becomes clouded with them. ‘Their | Of the baskets all about. He would run dawn | Presence and feeding there make two thing the man had and the man praise | Poisons that you saw. "The germs are removed, ~ a. bargain woul] be | the liquid filtered and by means of chemical struck and the money, which seldom amounted | ‘ids the two poisons are removed. EITHER POISON A PREVENTIV. “Either one of these is a preventive of the dis eane, and the same is true of the swine-plague and its two poisons that have been treated and studied in the same way. Either one of the poisons is dissolved in water and a very «mall quantity of the weak solution is in- jected under the skin of the animal by means of an ordinary hypodermic syringe, An animal so inoculated ix proof aguinst the disease and will not be affected by it. For example, a number of disease germs were injected into guinea pigs, some of which had been inoculated and the remainder of which | had not. Of the latter every one died in eight or nine days, while of those that were treated not one wus affected by the germs in the least. ‘The same experiment is now Deing tried in the case of hogs, and the results so far have been highly satisfactory.” “Can the same method be red in;the case of other diseases?” asked the reporter all probability every germ disease can be treated in the same general way. Each one, of course, must be studied separately, the proper germ found, the right sort of nutriment pro- ded for them to increase upon, as in the case of the broth and the cholera germs, and the poisons must be chemically removed. But, as I say, Lean see no reason why this may not be successfully done in the case of all germ dis- spent quite ax muck Caiekens are earri are pigeons, while turkeys are driven in droves by one or two boys, armed with light bamboo PEDDLERS’ PECULIAR CRIES. Each peddler has his own peculiar ery, so that one could teli what was being carried past Without going to the window. There is the tin man, who strikes an iron spoon against a small tin basin as he walke, and the soap mam, who Taps the side of a box that he carries on his head with « stick and calls ow, “Soap! Soap!” ‘The dry goods men have their wares in «mall tin trunks that are painted bright colors. times they carry three and even four of them on their backs, bending almest double beneath the weight. If well to do they have a dave t carry their trun! rat least used to— and walk shea of him, calling attention by slapping a jointed yad stick together at every step. Cobblers zo about ard cellect shoes that | need mending, stringing them all on . piece of twine, and after a few days they bring them back in good order. SEGHOES AND CONFECTIONERY. Negroes pass along with trays balanced on their heads which are filled with candy done up in tissue paper of different colors. This eandy is male i in private houses —often bythe ladies — | eases.” and negroes must b bael i os + ra mount of money for wach proce old. “What. NEW PUBLICATIONS. er they make ‘over that they are allowed to retain. It is generally in the form of yellow ‘wansparent bails that have no especial flavor and are warrazted to last a long whil>, as biting them is impossible. These bails ars el) the eundy one can get in the city exeege Atda im- ported French candied fruits. Instead of milk wagons cows are aver about the streets, each cow having a muzzlud calf tied to her tail and # bell tied to her neck. ‘This latter announces ber ‘approach brings the servants to the doors and gufés with bowls or pitchers, and one little French baby, that lived near us, always came out to see his cow and guy good morning to her. Sippers which are far too narrow and about bali the leugth of the foot take the place of shoss with the lower and middle classes. | There is no beel pisce, and consequently at every step the heel of the slipper taps the side- walk, ond this nolee, while sltgut, iso conte. Bou that (a marks it and it soon becomes | THE DOMINION OF DARKNESS: A Drama in fi ot 4 we Ac IY Con MSTOL Chicago = — iliar sounds that one grows ac- Charice Hi. Sergel & Co. licagu: “ ON THE HEIGHTS OF HIMALAY. By A. Van THR POLICEMAN'S WAR WHOOP. . ret Asa startling jon, at times, there comes eo Taio ro an unearthly yell from the policeman on guard THE ELIXIR, AND OTHER TALES. By Grora . ‘Transiated from the German By Mrs. |. Authorized, Edition. ttaberger & Co. Washing: An Old Virginia Plantation RGAKET J. PRESTON, author of Randoph '& Cor Washing . Rand Ballantyne & Son. bs a THE HONORABLE MISS. A Story of fashioned Town. By L. T. My. “A Girl of the People.” ete. Auth tion. New York: Uuited States Book Co. WORMWOOD: A Drama of Paris. By MARIE CORELLI, author of “Komance of Two Worlds,” Authorized Edition. New York: Slates Book Co. WORK WHILE YE HAVE THE LIGHT: A Tale of the Early Christians. By Connt Leo ToLsTo.. Chieago: les H. Sergel & Co. 2 Ane Win. n Old- athor of nee iM. IN DEATH VALLEY. The Experience of One Exploring Party in the Desert = - THE FURNACELIKE HEAT. Personal Recollections of One of the Mem- bers of the Wheeler Expedition—Charac- teristics of the Valley—How It Got Its Grue- some Name. Written for The Evening Star. REVIOUS to the year 1871 the area now designated as “Death valley” was a verit- able terra incognita. No reliable information had yet been recetved from any source respect- ing the physical characteristics of the southern portion of the ‘“Great American Desert” of the school geographies of our boyhood days. Fre- mont, on his return from California in 1844, followed the Spanish trail. which was the then existing route between Salt Lake and Los An- geles. This trail passes acroun the lower por- tion of Death valley, but the name is not men- tioncd by him in his report. He gives as his belief that the great interior basin covered an area of at least “four or flye hundred miles ” and refers in his journal to springs | of water as much as sixty miles apart. For the pu of obtaining official infor- mation respecting the condition and resources of southeastern California, southern Nevada and Arizona, the War Department fitted ont in 1869 a topographic expedition, which was placed under the command of Maj. (then lieu: tenant) George M. Wheeler, United States en- gineer corps. It was not untill May, 1871, how- ever, that the exploration of the desert country was attempted, and it was late in Angust be- fore Camp Independence and Owen's lake were left behind, when the column moved eastward across Ganamint Desert. It was with considerable diftienlty that guides were found who could be relied upon as possessing a knowledge of the country across which they were to direct us. Two only could be found, and both of these men subsequently perished from want of water within the bor- ders of the valley. During our stay at Camp Independence, and while prosecuting inquiries a8 to our future course, many old prospectors and miners who called ‘upon us gave moet disheartening ac- counts of Death valley. | According to general belief it was a great infind dried-up sea, sur- by inaccessible cliffs and. vertical walls of rock, with but a single trail leading down into the desert, which was anywhere from 100 to 600 feet below seu level. Should any one : nd into this urea of desolation and lose his trail death would inevitably follow, Water and vegetation there were none, and the temperature was so high that the dried and shriveled carcaxses of animals and the bodies of human beings were to be found at frequent inter- vals and indestructible by ordinary decomposi- tion. It was. on account of such reports that guides were difficult to secure. AN DIMENSE DRIED-UP LAKE BED. It may be well to state at this juncture that Death valley is an immense dried-up lake bed, the lowest depression, as determined by ob- servations at_nameroys barometric stations, being 110 feet below the level of the sea. ‘The valley lies in the dircetion of the oblique boundary line roparating California, from Nevada and lies almost due east of Owen's lake, is bounded on the west by the Telescope range of mountains and on the east by the Funeral and Armagora mountains. It is about miles in length by an average width of from 25 to 30 miles, the southern extremity merging into the northern extension — of ‘the Mojave desert. while the northern ter- minates in broad, arid washes, ending in the Grapevine and Gold mountains, as well as flanking their western foothills. ‘The surface of the valley consists mainly of hard crusts of salt and mud, intermingled with other ealine ingredients, such as soda, borax, lime and potasea: at frequent places there are preserved inet solidified waves as if at their formation and preservation there had been a strong xouth wind. Numerous places occur where crusts of salt and mad cover hollow cay: «1 others again where such crusts have’ broken and fallen in. exposing holes and depressions caused by drying and contraction of the ooze under- neath. Such localities are dangerous for a careless rider, particularly so when mounted on a discontented government mule. Death valley was traverred by parties of the expedition at four different poifts, but I shall confine myself only to. the divieton of which . Wheeler was himself in command, and to ich 1 was attached. ‘THE VIZW FROM THE. HEIGHTS. Upon arriving at the summit of the Teleseope range we beheld at our feet, from an ulti- tude of about 3,600 feet, an immense white and glistening basin, the opposite border of which was lost in the haze of the dazzling heat, but which could be apparently determined by the broken irregular outline of the grayieh-b ¢ Funeral mountain mouths of numerous canons le ing out into the desert from the range upon which we stood could be observed immense em- bankments of sand, gravel and boulders, result- ing from the erosion of frequent cloud bursts, while farther away could be traced with vivid distinctness the meandering courses of earthy coloring matter ‘obtained from the banks of earth und sa dried-up. venous system, tl being toward the southeast in the direc a supposed marsh. ‘The eastern border of the valley was sharply defined about twenty-five miles below Wa huge promontory, beyond which the desert became broader and stretched farther away to the east. Half way down the mountain side we went into camp, filling our canteens with coffee for the morrow’s trial. Water becomes nauseat- ing, i njurious, when the mi and from past experience we recognized the fact that coffee was not only more grateful to the taste, but less was required to obtain the same beneficial resulte. THREADING THE DESERT PATHS. Upon leaving camp on the following morning the party struck across the desert in a north- east direction’ in search of Furnace creek, while my hospital steward and I went southward to a point almost due east of Telescope Peuk, there ascertain altitude, temperature, &e., and to note any physical peculiarities of the region that might be of interest. 9 o'clock we reached a desirable point, a small pond of tol- erably fresh water, the shores of witich were ed tule tushes and in the immediate inity of which was a clump of mesquite bushes, upon which we hung blankets to pro- duee suflicient shade to protect the instru- ments. Ant hills were not uncommon about the ond, but the only signs of there having been ife waa found in & few bleached gopher skulls quantities of partly devoure e black Deetles and afew dead ants. The hills were covered with the dry husks of mesquite beans, upon which these insects had subsixted. ‘At 10 o'clock the thermometer regintered 118 degrees, and from 12 o'clock until 3 in the afternoon the temperature was 120 degrees in the shade. About midday the steward exposed to the direct rays of the sun one of the instru- ments, when the mercury rose rapidly to 160 degrees, at which it was deemed advisable to place the instrument under cover to avoid pos- sible fracture. At4 o'clock the sun was hid- den by the lowering summit of Telescope Peak, but the hot blast of the desert continued to come from the south. On account of the ex- treme dryness of the atmosphere the kin be- came harsh and dry, the perspigation being insensible, and we were constantly obliged to RHYMES ATWEEN-TIMES. By ‘Tnowas Mac- onteide the station. At first we tock itfor the | KELLAR. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, announcement of s discovered murder, but it ——see- Proved to be a simple request to be relieved—a Rather Cutt! cal statement that his time was up and he ging up and down with a beavy Afew moments after the ded another policeman would swunter out, take « musket from the rack near the door and take the place of number one. A different scream turned the guard out when any cabinet officer passed. The cabinet officers were always to be told by two mounted order- lies that followed the carriage of each oue. Mules are quite as much used as horses: they quite nice and seem to have fully as mach spirit, if one may judge by the number Of runaways. If one wishes to call the attéMion of any one iz the street ora waiter in a restaurant Makes «long, low, himing noise, which seems tosttract attention much more quickly than our balloo. would hardly think of going to a tin- | smith ot home for s trunk, but that is what one must do here and they zive you a very gorgeous article for your money. Asa rule the tin is! left tnsite and all the artist's atten- = wen to the outside. The favorite shades bedy are roxe pink and pale blue: . “ a bunch of flowers or « lndnape ebvers bali | _ Herr Eul (tobarber)—“Bay, couldn't you ‘the lid and each of the tour sites is similarly | Tun the clipper over your conversation, decorated. “Tt makes conepicucus, lugwage, t | Garis es say the least, and as the tranks are Hasban-t requires s great number aud the sight | “Good-bye.” Hi for be fami to the railroad station, their | shopping)—“Good-bve again, dear.” | Wite— bodies inside and the trunks outside, is me. Good-bye, my own darling. Be (quite astonishing. bome early. Once gore, lo ye.” pull down the brims of our hats to keep off as much of the farnace-like heat as possible. Upon returning to the canon, where we parted from our companions in the morning, it was almost dark, and we could. barely detect the trail formed by the pack train. We were ignorant of the location of Furnace creek, but headed across the desert to the deepest and broadest canon visit aa we had reason to believe that there wé would find water, if not the entire 2 9 o'clock’ it Trast 4g the tagecity of ons" taimeale, whos ust to the sagacity of our wi followed the trail with their noses to the ground: as « dog trails game. | We frequentl alighted, however, to strike matches to see we could still observe traces of a trail, in many places was entirely invisible. 4 BOT NIGHT. At midnight the temperature stood at 109 de- grees aud at 4 in the mornitig 107 degrees. At this hour we unsaddled, tied our their saddles and la ley on its disastrous journey, SEAS cock aia eta s ‘w e “show them ecroes the desert.” DECEIVED BY A MIRAGE. ‘The distance across the valley at that point over the distance they beheld the common illu- sionary effects of a mirage. They sw groves of cot green meadows and every his way. ‘Twelve miles a day in the ordinary distance to be made under favorable circumstances in that portion of the country, and the animals bed now gone two dave without water. We can readily imagine, therefore, that their speed was greatly reduced by suffering and weak- ness.” ‘Three of the arty, who were mounted on horses, started out in advance to investigate, but ed ai where the imaginary groves ought to be they beheld nothing but another wide stretch of desert and beyond it the desolate foothills of the Telescope ranj They pushed forward, however, and finally entered on the dry grass indicated moisture, at least of the year. Following up this canon we found more grass and brush, and ultimately a small stream of water coming down from the mountain summit. ‘On account of the approach of night and the wornont condition of their horses they were compelled to wait until the next morning be- fore attempting to return to the train. In the meantime the oxen had given out and perished one by one, while the people compos- ing the party were unable to push forward on foot, not having the means of transportation nor the inclination to desert the dead and dying. What length of time had clapsed_be- fore the three mounted comrades were enabled to find and rejoin the caravan it is impossible to learn, but it is known that not one of the party was found alive, and until oulya few Years ago the wagon tires and other odds and ends of the = were still visible op- posite the mouth Cottonwood canon and ubout twelve miles north of the trail made by our own party, A GOLD story. ‘The three horsemen returned to the canon, and it is related that one of them, Capt. Doughty, found native gold in such abundance that he put a gold sight upon his rifle, from which circumstance the locality was given the name of the “Gun-sight ledge.” This, like many other tales of bree gold mine: balm — m of many a fruitless Prospecting trip, and mar- velous stories were afloat at thetime of our visit. Maj. Wheeler made a personal inspection of the locality, but found only silver-bearin rock, which, at that time of high freight an: higher labor, would not bave paid for the trouble, but would now return a handsome in- come on judicious investment and working. In conclusion, I may add that since 1871 borax and probably soda works have been es- tablished in Death valley, and it is no longer the dreaded region it was once considered. W. J. Horrman, M. Surgeon and — A SET BACK FOR PARNELL. At Mallow, County Cork, He is Nearly Mobbed. Special to the New York Herald. Conk, Dec. 11.—Parnell’s start ona wave of audacious effrontery may carry the day at the beginning, but it cannot last in Ireland. Par- nell’s apparent succesa is a flash in the pan. His reception in Dublin last night was to be eg- pected. The publicans are for Parnell—-the priests for the patriots The publicans with the unthinking, and particularly among the young, may make aloud noise and much show—they did last night; still they are only a small pro- portion of the population of Dublin, though euded by the lord mayor. McCorthy's supporters are quiet. They are yet without headquarters and un organ, but will soon have both. Foracouple of weeks or perhaps more Parnell will have his own way. He met with a terrible check today. His jour- ney tS Cork was intended to be a triumphal march. His reception last night looked much better on paper than otherwive, The people at it were not representative, It is easy to raise a crowd in Dubiin, and money was no object. Having recaptured United Jreland Parnell took the train for Cork. About a hundred people at the station cheered him ‘und wanted a speech, and hetpoke a few words. The train was very slow—traveled at the rate of thirty miles an hour and stopped at every station, apparently in order to give the surrounding -ountry a chance to gather and cheer. Parnell’s lieuten- ants were always on hand and called for three cheers. The gatherings were very small until ‘Thurles was reached. There the crowd waa about a hundred. Thurles is the residence of Archbishop Croke, ‘NO PRIESTS VISIBLE. Herctofore whenever Parnell has made a tour his reception was always in charge of the priest. Nota single priest was seen at any station to- day. At Limerick Junction a crowd of about two hundred met the train, every man armed with a stick. The crowd was eveuly divided and it looked like war, but nobody was hurt. Great prepurations had been made for his reception in Mallow. ‘This is William O'Brien's constituency and the reception will not soon be forgotton by Parnell. At the head of the procession was a lurge portrait of O'Brien and the inscription Brien Forever!” Five hundred people were on the platform. When the train drew up there were terrific cheers for O'Brien and Dillon and territie groans for Parnell. An address was presented by the town commissioners and people of Mallow to Mr. Parnell. PLAIN WORDS FOR PARNELI. They begged him to listen “to a few out- spoken word Some of these were, “Your audacious claim to be the leader of the Irish mace we spurn with infinite disgust.” The ad- dress referred to his seizure of Uniled Jre- landas with utrageons tyranny, and wound up a notice that the people of Mallow would ght him to the death. ‘The address having been read the people cheered O'Brien and Dillon ith terrific energy. One man called out: “Ab, you ruffian! You did what Balfour would not do.” This was followed by awful groans for Par- nell and a rush for the carriage in which h Attempts were made to pull him out of the car- iage, and would have succeeded but for the interference of those him, assisted by some outsiders. ‘The train left Mallow amid a storm of groans. ———___~ee———___ IT CREATED A SENSATION, A Judges’ Reason For Not Hanging » Mur- derer on Fridey. Tudge Elliott created a sensation in court at Pine Bluff, Ark.,on Thursday. ‘The case of Chas, Seward, convicted of murder in the first degree, was before him ona motion for a new trial. Sew- ard was a prominent farmer of Desha county and killed a neighbor over a year ago. Judge Elliott reviewed the case and then gave a de- cision overruling the motion for a new trial, sentencing the prisoner tobe hanged on Thury- day, January 29. After passing sentence he said that he saw from the apparent surprise of the people in the court room that an explanation was in order, and then in a few words he stated he never had and never would sentence man to be executed on a Friday, because on that day Jesus Christ was crucified, and he would not insult the memory of the founder of Christianity by sentencing ‘a murderer to be hanged on the day upon which the Son of God sacrificed his life for humanity's sake. The Kivals, From Life. Lydia—“Oh! “Algernon Sydney, for my A.S.—“Hush, not « word; wait around der corner till I knock der stufin’ out o' him, an’ den we'll go to Delmonico’s together !” sseroroalsia toad He Won't Whip It. From the Chicago Post. Mra. A.—“Docs your husband believe in cor- poral punishment in the houschold?”’ He's Aeoas shoring ping the childrens bat ‘ha thinks the dust should got out of the carpet by morel LIBERTY RISES AGAIN. She Finds a New Pereh in the National Museum. PUTTING TOGETHER THE FEAGMENTS OF SCULPTOR CRAWFORD'S MODEL—HOW THE coLossaL FIG- ‘URE WILL LOOK—REAPPEARNCE IX THE WORLD AFTER THIRTY YEARS OF SECLUSION. HAVE LAIN buried for more than thirty years and then to step out into the fall Might of publicity and to take a proud position in the sight of all men is by no means acom- mon occtrrence. Yet it does happen some- times, as any one who hasbeen in the National Museum any day this week can testify. Right in the very center of that great building is to be seen asmall band of workmen busily en- gaged in putting ups curious-looking struct- ure of badly broken . They are not throngh with the tark yet, but the plaster pile is beginning to take the form and shape of colossal worhan, who stands nearly twenty feet tn height. This figure is the plaster model ‘of ‘Thomas Crawford's statue of “Armed Liberty” that surmounts the dome of the Capitol and looks so patiently out in the direction of the rising sun. After lying hidden away in a dark and gloomy vault in the lower part of the Capitol for over three decades Liberty has evi- dently taken into her head to follow the ex- ample of her sister Truth in rising again end has chosen for the scene of her ascension the center of the fountain in the museum, where she will henceforth stand to be seer of ull men. She has not risen as high above the common lane of every-day humanity as did the bronze Kure, and now atl coxy see her stately lines and generous propyrtions without straining their eyes or calling a telescope into service. FRAGMENTS OF FALLEN GREATNESS. When Crawford, the sculptor, completed the model for this famous statue, Armed Liberty, the Goddess of Liberty or America Personified, it was in his studio in Rome, and the plaster figure was shipped to this country in sections. 0 task of casting it in bronze was assigned to Clark Mills, and Crawford himself did not live to sec the completed work. After the bronze figuré was made the usefulness of the plaster model was thought to be a thing of the pastand she was ignominionsly stowed a in solitude and apparently forgotten, until a few days ago, when the many fragments, large and small, into which in the course of time she had fallen were loaded into oe and trans- ported to the museum, there to be put together once more =e object of art and historic inter- est. This work of repairing the statue has fallen to the lot of Mr. Theodore Mills, a son of the elder it and he ——— to have it all com- pleted wi month. ‘The pieces of the model in their present con- dition form a curious collection and none but a shilled artist could ever hope to put them in again. fragments lie scattered upon the floor around the fountain, though most of them are hidden from the public gaze in a neighboring cotner behind several large e: hibition casos. This work room of Mr. Mill that can hardly be dignified by the name of & studio, presents a curious spectacle. Off to one side lies the great hollow-eyed head of the god- des, but, alas, how falle: 1@ nose ix gone, shattered completely, while on either side of her head are to be seen two great spikes, that once upon a time held fast ears. She ix deat now to all criticisms that may be on her present state, and the face, although imposing and dignified to a degree, wears an expression of inexpressible eadness and mute appeal that ill becomes so majestic, w Sgure. mide the head lies the scalp, with its flowing headdress, und near by isa band that clasps the hilt of'the sword. “Here is a portion of the drapery, there a part of an arm, while yonder lies the great shield, several inches thick, but now broken into many pieces. It might be a sad sight, perhaps, tow moralist, this figure of a woman fallen from her high estate, but to the busy workman it means simply a lot of pieces of a statue that are to be put together that it may be just as good as new. THE STATUE AS IT LOOKS Now. fn the center of the fountain bas been built a brick pedestal corresponding in size and ehape to the crest of the dome upon which the bronze figure stands. Upon this pieco after piece of the plaster model have been laid and riveted and plastered in place, so that now the figure has risen to about the line of the waist. From the roof of the building are hung a number of ropes and pulleys that are used to hoist the larger pieces into position. Lieut. Bowles of the navy, who is at present stationed at the museum, has interested himself in this part of the work and bas been of great assistance in rigging the tackle and giving practical advice. en the statue is in place all the missing por- tions are to be replaced and the cracke and de- fects remedied, so that the figure may be per- fect in all respects. The pedestal is to be plas- over. ‘The water will be allowed to run into the f 2 once more and the old fa~ Millar gold the feet of be put back to play around fountain fish will the goddess. fected to his fhe grou that the, Puryean ep was the emblem’ of emancipated slaves, freedmen and not freemen. The story was started at the time and las since received quite neral credence that at his suggestion a bead. frees of long tobacco leaves was substituted. This cherished idea is evidently a mistake and must now be given up, for smeagle’s head. from whi ion of gracefal eagle's of other doubts as to the details in the physi- cal make-up of the celestial bronze have also been cleared up in the closer inspection of the original that has been made possible in this way. ir. Mills has been grently assisted in his work of restoration by a photograph of the figure on the dome that was taken some time ago by Mr. T.W. Siniliie, the photographer at minseum, ‘This photograph looks as though ithad been taken from some point very near to the statue and one very natarall it was done. In reality it was taken from the eastern wall of the new library building, nearly a quarter of a mile away. It was taken with am ordinary camera to which was fastened an ingenious telescopic device designed by Prof. 8. P. Langley for use in photographing celes- tial bodies or objects at a great distance. This is quite a new system and the photograph was taken as. an experiment some time agoand be- fore it was known of what service it woold be in helping to put the fallen goddess herself back upon her feet once more. ee CAPITOL GLEANINGS. The Rallot Box Investication—Postal Tele- graph—Other Matters of Interest. The House ballot-box committee, which dur- ing the last session eximined Gov. Foraker and number of other well-known Obieans, held a meeting yesterday for the purpose of closing up the matter. It was almost time to adjourn when @ quorum was secured, so no action was taken and another meeting will be held on Mon- day. ‘To LIMIT THE FEE TO ‘The House committee on invalid pensions | has agreed to report favorably a bill amend- ment existing law so as to limit to $2 the fee allowed an agent or attorney in the u- tion of an sppicetion for increase 7 heer om on account of increase of disabilit : imum fee now allowed by law for such serv is $10. ‘TRE PROPOSED POSTAL TELEGRAPH. Representative Evans, the chairman of the subcommittee of the House post office commit- tee having charge of postal telegraph matters, yesterday made an effort to have the question considered in fulleommittee. Before the matter contd be neted upon, however, the hour of 12 “clock arrived and the committee adourne Mr. Evans says he is anxious, in justice to all parties concerned, to have some positive action taken by the cominittee aud the matter dis- posed of. EXTENDING TRE BONDED PERIOD. In the House yesterday Representative Flower CX. ¥.) introduced for reference a joint resolu- tion directing the Secretary of the Treasury to extend the bonded period for goods in bond in custom houses from February 1 until July 1, TO REVIVE THE GRADE OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL. The House military affairs committee yexter- day ordered favorable report on a bill to revive ade of lientenant general of the arm, REASE TRE PAY OF LETTER CARRIEKS. Theodore C. Dennis and Chariea W. Morton, representing the National Letter Carriers’ As- sociation of the United States, escorted by Congressmen. Lawler of Tlinois and Quinn of New York, appeared before the House committee on post offices and post roads yesterday and presented the request of the ion for the passage of a law increasing to #1,200 the maximum salary of carriery in large cities, The committce took the matter under advisernent. PRAYER BY REY. D. J. M' MILLAN. Chapiain Butler did not deliver the opening prayer in the Senate today. He transferred that duty to a guest of hix—the Rey. D. J. Me- Millan. D.D., of New York, one of the secretaries the chairman of the sub- committee of the joint committee on immigra- tion, which went to the Pacific coast last month to investigate the subject of the en- forcement of the existing laws restrict- ing Chinese immigration, returned to the city Thursday evening in advance of the other members of the committee. Speaking of the investigations of the subcommittee yesterday Mr. Squire said: “The committee took a great deal of valu- able testimony on the Chinese question. We learned that there was a great deal of smu; gling of Chinamen and opium over the north- ern border. ‘the testimony seemed to show that this was due to de- fects not in the law, but in the administration of the law. In other words, there is not a sufficient force of men patrolling the northern border and the archipelago by wi the Chinese find admittance on the water &i With an inereese in this force I think the present law will be sufficient to ac- complish ull that is intended.” STRANGE HAPP Ouce He Was a Ne‘er-Do-Well—Now He is Elected to Congress. Judge Payson was talking with a Sra re- porter the other day about some of the aston- ishing things of the last election. “A few years ago,” he said, “there lived on a place of forty acres, adjoining that of rine at Pontiac, a man who known thronghout that part of the country asa nc'er-do-well, Thongh bis farm was hardly larger than a truck garden, it was more than he could attend to. He planted his crops in the spring, let the weeds grow up in the summer and there was nothing to harvest in the fall. In the morning, at noon or at night, whenever there were any loungers about the corner store, he was among them. Shiftless and slow at all other things, he was a lib talker. He would tell yarns and talk about the problems of capital and labor. though be took no active interest in either. While he was discussing these problems at the store his wife was busy stufling old hats and odd articles of discarded clothing in the windows to keep the cold wind away. “In due time a mortgage was foreclosed and his forty acres went at sheriff's sale. Gathering up his family and the few goods and chattels remaining to him, he moved on and was soon forgotten by his’ former neighbors. He tock up his home in Nebraska and resumed his old habit of lounging about and talking ab@ut ea) tal and labor. ‘The present member of Cor gress from the district within whose borders he took up his residence was elected by a majority of about 6,00). When the formality of nomi- nating a man to run against him this fall was gone through with, there was no one who wanted the honor of being beaten by him. ‘They did not have time to spare for a hopeless canvass. But my ex-neighbor had the time, so they gave the nomination to him. Thus found himself with official warrant for talking labor and capit@. His voice was strong and he was in hiselement. The 4th of November came and the men in that district cast their votes. When those votes were counted it was found that my ex-neighbor had been elected to Con- gress by a majority of over 10,000. He had made a gain of about 16,000 votes.” The Production of the Great Oratorios. To the Editor of The Evening Star: ‘The Choral Society, by its very satisfactory ren- dition of Handel's great masterpiece, has entitled itself to the thanks of all appreciative lovers of music in the nation’s capital. It hus been a deplorable lack, as regards musical enjoyment and education, that so many years have passed since the last performance of one of the great oratorios. Would it not be well for the society to determine that henceforth Washington, like most other large cities, shall have tunity, at least once a year, of Me The Creation, Eli Judas, lens or Israel in Egypt, with perhaps now and then Hayden's Seasons or Mozart's Twelfth or Hayden's Third Mase? ‘The music of the ages seems to have culmi- nated and found expression in these wonderful productions just as did art inw few of the masterpieces of the Grecian age, and the pres- ent generation cannot afford to neglect them in its provisions for securing musical recreation and culture. LW.C. —_-— ‘The B. and 0. Strike The Baltimore and Ohio railroad strike has apparently ended. Full day and night crews are at work in the Glenwood, Pa., yards. All freight is being handled without dificulty and Superintendent Holbrook said yesterday after- noon he thought the road will e: further embarrassment that quarter. work in other yards. prockten av RES en eee Arrests? Great do you take me for? Ihave no Tt is as much as I can do to arrests, clews.”. ly wonders how | THE WEEK IN NEW YORK. Various Things That Gothamites Are Talk- ing About. THR “WORLD” BUILDING AND ITs OWNER—THE GREAT BAZARS AND THEIR GROWTH—HOW TWO RICH MEN LEFT THEIR MONET—ONE RLEVATED RAILROAD CASUALTY AND ITS LESSON. Correspondence of The Evening Star New York, December 10. This has been another anxious week among the merchante. Each day has brought a sheaf | of failures, and we look at the papers with much that eame nervous dread with which we turn to the death colamn when we know that a | friend is lying in a dangerous condition of a dis- | ease. Thave had occasion to cull the real opin- ions of many leading merchants during the week, and a feeling certainly prevails that the worst is over. Money is very scarce and high and credit is shaken; nevertheless, there is a disposition to go! ahead a ing. the savings bunk» and the safe depoait com- pany’s vaults, by those who have lost their faith kind generally. But the collections all through the business honses are rather better than usual, and the holiday trade, now fairly | launched, is tilling a thousand tills with nimble sixpencea, THE “WORLD's” noveRWARMING. ! “The republic is opportunity.” ‘This famous | utterance kept raaning through my mind | Wednesday night as I wandered from story to | | story in the lofty and magnificent building of | the New York World, opened that for | the reception of ite friends and guests. It | |seemed almost impossibie that twenty-seven | years owner of this tajestic strneture had landed on these shores a poor, friendless stranger, ignorant of the lan- Runge of the ‘country, and entirely Without'resources except those that were latent in his fertile bi of the World spent more than © y Hall Park, because he had not the ney to buy even the humblest lodgings. story of this man’s career has been often Th told and is familiar to the American people, but its romance comes out more strikingly than ever as we gaze upon what is unquestionably, in some respects, the most imposing and the most world. he very ius had paper night tossing on the '¥ ocean, unable to see the very newspaper Was publishing. too shattered in health to ad the strain even of the happiness which the at reception on shore would have brought him. In self-defense he bad suiled for England that very morning, and was spending the mem- orable evening not amid the music and feasting and congratulations, but a weary seeker alter the health that seems to elude all his patience and the finest surgical #kill in the world. THE OCTOPUS BAZAAR. The tendency of the dry goods trade toward immense department stores is becoming more and more marked and the Bon Marche and other great French bazaars, which were the originals of this fashion, are quite outstripped by ‘heir giant rivals on this side of the wate ly newspaper building in th thought also intruded that, of fate, the man whore this structure and the great n i inhabite it was th In this city the best known of these compr hensive establishments are those tl fe it stre squares along 6th avenue, though there ns of others scattered through the avenues and wide streets. All these are bus; prosperous and growing centers of Simpson, Crawford & Simpson have just pur- chased the rest of the square on which their store stands, and will occupy the entire block. O'Neill's is right beside it, also filling a whole square, and Altman, on the other si strives in vain to acquire the few lots that pro- vent his having the same extent of territor: A few steps further is Ehrich’s huge buildin and just around the corner are Stern's, 1 Boutillier’s and some others, while a little low are the busy hives of ‘Macy: Hearn and the other 14th street shops, each’ big enough, one would think, to supply the wants of Dry goods’ authorities say that iminense supplies of goods of every variety ere always the property of the sellers, but that whole lines of stock are often in their hands by manufacturers to be sold | on commission. By this means the manu- facturer gets his goods to market and the me: chant adds another to the rapidly swelling list of departments. In one well-known store a bnyer counted sixty-nine departments and could think of few occt # that were not 1. except, it might be, some ince: nt ones hike butchers, blacksmiths, or u dertakers. At this season of the year one fc ture that might be added with propriety would bean umbulance serviee to carry home the exhausted women who faint in the crush, for the holiday shopping is well under way and every shop is a seething mass of femininity, into which one enters with terror and from which one emerges with thanksgiving. TWO RICH MEN'S WILLS. The old saying, “There's nothing like leather,” seems to be freshly proved since the death of D. B. Fayerweather, whose prince fortune, or rather his princely disposition of isfor the moment the talk of the town, “Mr, Fayerweather was the typical self-made man, who begun bis career as the bound boy of a Connecticut farmer, passed through various tudes asa tin peddler and shoemaker and 1 leaving millions enongh to astonish ¢ w York. It has been a good while sinc y king gave New Yo he man was 80 qu n hin life that tho 1 1 pant, no one ever supposed hi be anything more and his name was never in- ciuled among the frequent lists of the town's millionaires, and yet when he dies he hind him, berides an ample provision for his heirs and’ $100,000 to various hospitals, over 2.000.009 to a number of colleges, none of which had the slightest reason to expect such a gratifying little Christmas remembrance as $100,100 or so from 2 millionaire who was not even an alumnus. Yale puts in her thumb and gets a pretty good plum of $300,000, the only gift that is hampered by the slightest condi- fion that one-third. is to go to her: Sheficld titic school—but Yale is big and rich and | Jaccustomed to luxuries. But what rejoi ing will there be among col- sat this graceful little surpri ‘ow Wesleyan, Lincoln and Hampton unive sities will exuit in their hundred thousand and Marietta, Adelbert, Wabash and Park col leges in their fifty thousands, not to endow new chairs or unheard-of subjects to perpetu- ate the giver's name, but simply, us the children | suy, to spend as they please. Even the gifts, though, are not more surprising than the fact that the heirs have no intention of contesting the will, but quietly consent to let their owner do ax he choove with his own millions. Almost simultaneously with this astonishing document appears the last will and testament of August Belmont. The rick banker lived in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. His town and country houses, his furniture and eq were ali that taste'and money could supply. His perfectly appointed four-in-hand was one of the sights of the town. His Bouguereaux, Troyons, Geromes and Daubignys were rather openly counted upon as probable uisitions by the Metr ten Museu “Fat the time came — he bad to’ part with all bis splen- dors except a handsome black silk velvet coffin with silver mountings, which he could take into the ground with him. But, like good many other men of many millions who have gone over to the majority recently, he came just 2x near as he could to taking ‘his money with him—that is, he left it all in his own family and not one dollar to charity or to advance any good and noble cause. Even the pictures stay in unbroken ranks in the family gallery, and the walls of the Metropolitan are hed by one canvas. Evidently these determined nobody shall be glad ASPHALT ECCENTRICITIES IN NEW YORK. One of the quaint feetures of life in New York town is the everlasting filth in the streets. ‘asphalt pavement. But now comes the ques- tion of keeping them clean, and this question fair to be solved in what is traly a New fashion. of any help from the city the residents are hiring laborers to attend to the needs of the sirect and now ‘the asphalt com; lave went a ition to roperty owners notifying them that for €1.50 Per month for each lot they will u to ep the street in front of their premises in each owner of a house | court imposed a noted. the ~p nine. and the train special reason why it shoul! not occur every evening at every station in the 6 o'clock rush. Hexay KR. Euuor coe THE BRATILIAN REPUBLIC. but the distonce was too shart ‘ashed over the 1aan's body, 5 It Will Not Last Long at Its Present Rate of Extravaganece. Special Correspondeave of The Evenine Star Rito Jaweimo, Now. 12. ‘There is no yellow fever yet at Rio, reports to the contrary notwithstanding. The first con- gress of thitalleged repnblic convenes on the 15th inst. and preparations are tn progress for @ mighty celebration, to be continued several days. The new republic will not last long sey five years at the utmost—unless a miracle befalls it. The government scems to have gone actually rary and continnes to hand out comcosion after concession and appropriation after appropriation to whocver asks for one, utterly oblivions of a Mmit, although within the last month there has been sppropriated more then twenty times as mach money as the OUNtTY iw A grand crash will come .aud if poor old Dom Pedro were orrow 1 think the country would wel- come hin. Argentine Republic is even worse off, having becn “boomed to death, ite army completely demoralized and ened by Chili: ex. eat euch a rat every 0 8. dollars the ban tine pape w ty anmerous, hord pent we ' to Rocurs ¥ shiplonds One ur in these coaztries has aught us to appre ate the United States of the north as never before os — TO OVERCOME OnsncTioNs, ve a Hearing to Friends of nd West Washington Traction The District Commissioners gave a second hearing yesterday afternoon to Messrs. A.M. Bliss, M. I. Weller, Hon. Geo, 8. Boutwell and ex-Mayor Bervett on the question of the con- ed railroad from the intersection of pta and Pennsylvania avenues over the new Eastern Branch bridge, with its ramifica- tions through the city. The Commimioners Teported adversely on this bill at the last nes- sion of Congress on accouyt of the objection raised as to the proposed route. The profected and West Waxhin the bill anther pending in Congress. Ex-Congressman A. M. Bliss explained the object of the bill . that as matters «and enact now stood be dad not think there ob . ux those were not residence tion still he woul . suggestion Mr. Bliss line of the proposed route on a The Commieioners will then take the matter under consideration. —_ THE COURTS, Yesterday.—Fai submitted. Crncerr Count — Judge Montgomery. Lawrence Boggs and otbers agt. William F. Downey: jury respited. Washington Gax Light Company agt. A. S. Hollingskead; motion for new trial. Equrry Covnr agt. Gordon; rest able December 16, 1890, grai Frievy: divorce granted. Tu J. Darlington appointed trastee Puonaty. Covrt—Judgr Bradiry. Yesterday—Fxtate of Ju yenvent to will filed. “Extate of W. N. Waters: collector authorized tw sell options. Extate of John Lyons; Julia Lyons appointed adi bond £300. Extate of Cadnius M. Wile K. Wilcox do.; bond $700. in re chi ; Alice P. Franklin fardian: bond €1.200. heeve; will filed. Estate Estate of Sarak F. « etters testa £2,000. Tn ri appointed guardian; Gertrnde 8. Seaver et al bond £2,000. Estate of $ 2. C. Muelier appointed administratraa; bond $2,200. Estate of Coombs Groenwell; petition for probate of will and letters testamentary sinciatlppaiainn Wille, The will of the late Anna Pliza Reeve has been filed. After disposing of her Bible and hymn book she leaves her estate to her sister, Lucy Emma Nevins. In the case of the will of the late Jane Low- rie a caveat has been tiled by a grandson rate ing the question us to whether the execution ‘was not procured by undue inilucnee. sei hn-a Elections of Officers. Phil Sheridan Post, No. 14, GAR, of ite meeting last evening elected the following af- ficers for the ensuing year: Bost commander, T. D. Yeager; senior vice commander, W. W. Fierce; junior vice commander, E. C. Spotford; . J. K. Hayes; chaplain, Allen P. W. Bonney; offi- guard, J.C. Loy delegates to de . Robb and H eCracken and H. J. ¢ annual election of te ensuing 9 , ; . Schwartz, vieo regent: H. Hirsch, Key. L. Stern, chaplain; tary; A. Brann, col 8. Kaufmon,wardem; C. Heilbrun, sentry. New Jerusalem Lodge, No. 9, F.A.A-M., has dl ts for the ensning year as follows: ac. s. part . EM At the i on, rep. Masonic board of relief; E. H. Chamberlin, delegate to St. John's Mite Association; Harri- son Dingman, alternate: proxies to’ Grand Lodge, Bros. Past Masters Wm. G. Henderson, Wm. E. Dennison and A. H. Fiegenbaum. set at Fined for Keeping Uniteensed Bar. Ta the Police Court Messrs. Roop & Nopper, proprietors of the Globe Theater, were placed on trial yesterday afternoon charged with eeping an unlicensed bar. Mr. Ikoup was we- quitted. Mr. Nopper was convicted aud the of £105. An appeal was | -— Handsome and More Prosperous Than Ever. From the Sunday Herald. ‘Tax Evesixc Stax looks handsomer and more Prosperous than ever in its increased size and neat, new dress of type. It merits its wonder- ful success, and repays the generous patronage which the readers and advertisers of Washing- ton give it by printing one of the best evening uewspapers in the United States. minal weds <= ‘snete - A Mississippi Kiver Boat Sunk. The Anchor Sine steamer City of Baton Rouge, running between New Orleans aud Bt. Louis, sank yesterday afternoon at Hermitage, about 150 miles above New Urivens. struck aenag and sank beneath the muddy waters of the Mississippi in less than fifteen miuutes, ber cabin and hurricane roof part ing from her hull, which broke in two. Two deck passengers and eight cabiu were drowned. She Dobseomnnentan sie will prove a total She war built by the Howards in 1881, valued at €150,000 and was uninsured. penineninteiglipiartinenitiacee ‘The Young Minister's Christmas at Lonely- ville, NJ. From Judge. ; ‘HE WANTED axD EE GOT ‘Two tons of coal, A Wisc sstin violet A raise in his salary, Adepnnens cash box, A pair of new suspeud- A banneret with “Merry